Katharine Cornell's New Play Makes Potent Plea For Peace
Katharine Cornell's New Play Makes Potent Plea For Peace The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley THE GLORY IS IN LIVING "FLOWERS OF THE FOREST," by John van Drvden. Katharine ¦ Cornell at...
...This stage presentation not only includes his N.B.C...
...Katharine Cornell's inevitable rightness is met brilliantly by Margalo Gillmore as the sister who sees her patriotic (and divine) duty...
...the venerable English vicar and his, pious wife uttering words about the enemy that were then on everybody's lips, but seem today either ludicrous or blaspheming...
...Black Fury" comes to the-screen of the Strand exactly as it was produced by Firs t National, the New York Board of Censors having passed it without any elimination...
...yet they were spoken and felt by otherwise kindly, otherwise good, quite normal folk...
...Black Fury" Has Long Awaited Opening at the Strand "Black Fury," starring Paul Muni with 5 supporting cast of thirty-five principals and hundreds of extras and bit-players, is now in its world premiere showing at the Strand Theatre...
...Orchestra but an- aggregation of talented boys and girls who make Meroff go at highspeed to rate top-billing...
...and the disillusioned doggedness two years later...
...But—as the young consumptive in "Flowers of the Forest" passionately cries, in all the fervor of an eager soul straining through a disease-doomed body —it's only when we say...
...a startling new squadron of sixty free running horses in extraordinary maneuvers...
...The glory is in living" cry the passionate few...
...it's only when we set no monument* to its heroes or pctni to its glory, that lasting peace may come...
...It seems so unreal as to be laughable...
...We see thejjoet afire with the«glory that has spread its wings Over the'days...
...Hut how many, seeing that, shall refuse to heed the many tones of the trumpet of war...
...The supporting cast in "Black Fury" is the largest ever employed at tl.e First'National sivdios ai.d includes Karen Merley, William Gargan, Barton MacLane...
...That "traitor" of 1914 died fighting...
...and we watch the intensity with which the loyal daughter of her land breaks her engagement because her soldier boy is so lukewarm n a patriot (she uses the term "traitor") as to suggest that the enemy soldiers are also having a tough time...
...On the stages, in the rings and the aerial labyrinth are hundreds | of new acts, including scores of ^ European troupes new to America, f among them the famous aerial I'Buemrangs, the Walkmirs, the ' Polis, the Romeos, the Anialeks, ! the Masehinos-, the Annettas, the I Nelletas, the Oemenatis, the WilI los, the Rooneys and the TorrenceDolores...
...original sources «f "Black Fury" were "Jan Voikamk," a story by Judge M. A. Mutmnmns...
...Quite an idea, dsn't you think...
...Hear Ye...
...The huge performi ance is literally studded with sensation-, with breath-taking thrillers, : with acts beautiful and with truly uproarious animal and clown i troupes...
...RKO has aded Benny Meroff and his big musical revue to the program...
...This ' new series of cartoons is being ! produced by the use of a new color I process remarkable for its fidelity, i and will soon be shown at the theatre...
...bat that it's wrong, that it's as evil as disease...
...yet it is all so piteously, so damnably true...
...Selmer Jackson, Egon Brecher, June Ebberling, Edith Fellows, Pedro Regan, and still others...
...Miss Forbes has charge of the children that at-1 tend the cartoon program and specializes in birthday parties...
...who whirls on tiptoe on a flying trapeze...
...No sane person could really have meant, could really have said, such things...
...The film has been banned completely in Chicago, and cannot be shown, so far at least, in the'State of Maryland...
...Katharine ¦ Cornell at the Martin Beck...
...Gillette, who leaps from the dome of the b'v/ top to a trapeze far below and on to an incredible finale...
...the Comets, flying-return aerial marvels, and Hugo and Mario Zacchini, the human j projectiles, fired in the same instant from a giant repeating cannon across the vast upper reaches of the Garden...
...who has just ended a most successful run at the Radio City Music Hall, will be the outstanding number on the program...
...Hear Ye...
...the famous Pallenberg Bears...
...He volunteered his services tor this event because of his great sympathy with and interest in the workers languishing in jail and the thousands of orphans- of the Asturias Commune, postponing his pending trip to Los Angeles in order to be in New York on April 13th and participate in the Solidarity Ball program...
...Mothers may leave their children with her at the theatre while they shop or lunch with friends...
...The acting is ef the finest this season has flowered...
...It s not this, however, in the bold sense of a sermon...
...Amerika...
...he saw the truth, but went nonetheless to do his "horrid duty...
...Iscudero and Others at Solidarity Ball Tonight Vicente Eseudero, the famous Spanish interpretiVe dancer, together with Carmita and the famous guitarist Villarino, will appear at the Solidarity Ball to be held Saturday night, April 13, at the Hotel Delano, 108 West 43rd Street...
...The bolder, hardier, more glorious duty of refusing to fight he could not attain...
...for it clearly limns the natures of several souls, and* their struggles wtth life (the war...
...Twenty years later, what is the picture...
...the Wallendas, world celebrated daredevils on the dome-high tight wires, in breathtaking new feats...
...for many more than those killed in it, absorbed life), and in an almost eerie movement the drama moves toward— though it can no more than suggest—a spiritual justification of living...
...This lad's earnestness sets the woman thinking, and in Act II we watch the olden scenes, the idealistic hatred of 1914...
...and Burgess Meredith and Moffat Johnston stand but slightly above more sterling performers than we have space to mention, in a vivid play that brings home the futility and the pity, yet the sure result of war, its only calculable consequence: "The Flowers of the i Forest, that fought aye the foremost, the prime of our land, lie cauld in the clay...
...It is the ones who refuse to believe the spiritual lie, it is the ones who still see clearly in time of war, that are abnormal...
...a Saharan novelty caravan of aero- > batic camels and Arabs...
...not merely that war is unwise, futile...
...Everyone's a pacifist—while there is peace...
...Vicente Escuedero...
...The Big Show—Mingling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey combined— | is mecca for thousands daily at Madison Square Garden, and never ; so far has it offered a more excit; ing program...
...Mary Elizabeth Forbes, "Thirty Years in the Theatre," is now Mickey Mouse's leading lady at the Bijou...
...Although the objections to war sre entirely on the ground of its horror and its spiritual debasement, without any reference to the greed and rampant grasping of commercialism behind, the wars,, "Flowers of Forest" is a stirring plea for peace...
...luiiy Marshall, J. Carroll Naish, Willard Robertson, Vince Barnett, John Qualen...
...Shirley Temole or Alb.e Screen—New Stage Revue Shirley Temple, the five-year-old screen miracle who was unknown a little over a year ago, and who now ranks among filmdom's ten outstanding personalities, co-starring with Lionel Barrymore at the RKO Albee Theatre in "The Little Colonel...
...Miss Forbes was John I Drew's lead in "Trelawney of j the Wells" and spent four years • with Belasco's company of the I "Boomerang...
...the famous Loyal-Repenskis, the renowned RiefTenachs and 1 the great Walters, troupes of bareback riding stars...
...Black Fury" deals with a controversial subject, that of miners and mine operators in a private war and strike of their own...
...Other preeminent features are Mile...
...It is the first time, so far as is known, that a motion picture producer in America has dealt to such an extent with labor - conditions and strife and has been hailed by prevtewers as one of 1935's most likely winners of the Award of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences...
...Bijou Theatre Continues Successful Run With all Animated Cartoon Programs The Bijou Theatre, which is running an all-animated comic I cartoon program, had a preview of Burt Gillette's latest "Rainbow | Parade" colored cartoon entitled . "Spinning Mice" yesterday...
...Labor and Socialist groups, as well as sympathizers with the aims of the committee to raise funds to help the thousands of victims of the eler"co-fascist reaction in Spain, are agog with excitement and praise lor the program which has been arranged for the occasion...
...And even the fineness in the poet and his fiancee is smashed in the ugly juggernaut of war...
...The film was directed by Michael Curtiz from the screen play by Abem Fiftkel and Cu) Erk-k.-vn...
...The Biggest Show on Earth Pays Its Annual Visit to the Big Town Again all New York thrills to the circus...
Vol. 18 • April 1935 • No. 15
