Stirring May Day News Reels at All Trans-Lux Theatres
Stirring May Day News Reels at All Trans-Lux Theatres The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley MILK OF HUMAN UNKINDNESS "SOMETHING GA Y." By Adelaide Heilbron. At the Moroteo. The deft ways...
...Tat leading feminine roles are played by Margaret Lindsay and Am Dvorak...
...but you can't exactly call that fame...
...Alter considering, and trying, several possibilities, they finally grow tangled in the toils of their own plotting, and Monica leaves her husband pleasantly expecting her instant return, while she runs off forever with Jay Cochran...
...Harlem Express," Colored Revue, on Albee Staqe — "$10 Raise" on Screen "Harlem Express," said to be one of the fastest and merriest of colored musical revues, with a passenger list of not less than fifty of Broadway's well-known sepia entertainers, including Jimmy Lunceford and his famous radio orchestra on board, pull into the RKO-Albee today for a week's stay...
...and the entertainment of the evening comes largely from listening to good actors as they dangle delicate situations and trifle with verbal quiddities...
...The meeting was addressed by Leo Krzycki , National Chairman of the Socialist Party...
...Bridgeport Holds Big May Day Celebration BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—May Day was celebrated at the Workmen's Circle Hall on Wednesday with a mass meeting sponsored jointly by the Socialist Party, the Workmen's Circle, the Bakers' and Corjfec-^ tioners' Union, and the Young Circle League...
...Speakers were Devere Allen, State Secretary Arnold E. Freese, and Mayor Jasper McLevy...
...Not to be Taken Too Seriously...
...Swell-Head," Baseball Comedy, at Fox Brooklyn "Swell-Head," a baseball comedy produced by Columbia Pictures, is now on the screen at Fabian's Fox Brooklyn Theatre in its world premiere showing...
...And yet there is I one young playwright who has managed to be quite successful I writing .of something he doesn't know...
...Until last October, Mr...
...a South America animal short, "Jungle Antics," and a "Boston Tea Party" John B. Kennedy "See America First" subject...
...In addition, Frank C. Walker tells how that five billion dollars of relief money will be spent as New York's director of home relief...
...Local 19 has jurisdiction over the largest shops in Cleveland, shops which are chains of national concerns end it is expected to fight for full control of the union over the men employed...
...Entertainment and dancing were enjoyed later in the evening...
...Herb Williams in stuff and nonsense about his trick piano...
...Stone...
...This is Lawrence Riley, who i is responsible for the comedy hit, ! "Personal Appearance...
...In fact, it wasn't my original idea to write the play I did...
...Then we remembered that* Lawrence Riley has establishes himself as one of tl)e leading humorists among playwrights, at we decided not to take his advka too seriouslsy...
...The recommendation was adopted without one negative vote...
...Coupled to this hot-cha darktown flyer is Peter B. Kyne's screen comedy, "$10 Raise," with Karen Morley, Edward Everett Horton, Berton Churchill and Alan Dinehart...
...It needed a splash of coke —and that splash of color turaaf out to be Miss Carole Arden wS her malapropisms...
...between them they manage to make interesting figures they themselves (though by indirection) call puppets...
...A trifling gadabout comedy, mainly of verbal plays and pleasant performance, of value for that...
...He had sold stories to the pulp magazines with fair regu! larity...
...The large hall of the Workmen's Center was so crowded that many workers were unable to get into the ball...
...Henry B. Harris has resigned as a director of the PlayersGroup to become Executive Director of The Playshop, a newly formed theatrical organization...
...If my new play "Cardboard Castle.' meets with the same success as 'Personal Appearance,' I assure you I shall probably spend the rest of my life writing of things I know nothing about...
...Hugh Sinclair, who carries the brunt of Tallulah's platting—and eventually carries of the lady herself—is noted for his smooth, natural performances...
...I suppose," he said, "that I am one of the very few writers who take time out from their own work to give help to struggling young authors...
...Bakers Prepare to Strike The agreement of Local 19 of the Bakers' and Confectionery Workers' International will expire Jane 30, and some opposition from the major shops is expected when i———i...
...Like most writers, he wanted to do a play, so he sat down and wrote one...
...The organization will not produce plays for public performance but will show them to audiences of producers, managers, and critics...
...Many producers have shown an interest in the plans of the group and will have The Playshop work on the scripts which they own and are hesitant to produce because of the great expense of a tryout engagement...
...The 34-item news program is full of liberal newsreel news, including Father Coughlin opening his campaign at Detroit, Huey Long splitting openly with the Democratic Party and announcing his intent to start a third party for the next presidential campaign, General Johnson making a dramatic defense for the NRA, and Pope Pius giving his message of peace to the world...
...I had planned Jfj write a mystery story with a tourist home as s setting...
...otherwise have passed the play-reader, will now be shown to critics and managers to be adjudged and passed on...
...But above all...
...Elmer Wessel of Albany, N. Y., the only living charter member, was specially invited by President Whitney to attend...
...The deft ways of Tallulah Bankhead have plenty of opportunity for display in this play of balanced wits and witticisms...
...Glimpses of the Irish Free State demonstration on their nation's anniversary are also included...
...Pictures of Parade and Other i oaay ot irans-bux The news reel programs at all Trans-Lux Theatres, beginning Friday, Msy 3rd, for a full week at the Broadway and 49th Street house, and beginning Saturday at all Trans-Lax houses in New York City, Brooklyn and Philadelphia, leads off with pictures of the May Day parade in New York City which was one-quarter million strong and the biggest in history...
...That sounded like good ¦ common sense...
...and he plots Tallulah's (Monica's) problem for her...
...Abe Lyman will present his new "Waltz Time Revue," which features the Saxon Sisters, Trainor Brothers, Rose Blaine, The Musketeers, Lyman's Californians and, as an extra added attraction, Mitzi Mayi'air...
...Lloyd Nolan, Russell Hopton, Regis Toomey, Edward Pawley, William Harrigan...
...The union is, however, preparing for the fight...
...The assembly was addressed by Leo Krzycki, Ben Parker representing Local Cuyahoga County Socialist Party, and Sidney Yellen...
...The second feature on the program is "Hold, 'em, Yale," Damon Runyon's comedy of five Broadway wise-guys who go collegiate and help defend the Yale goal posts, with Patricia Ellis, Larry Crabbe, Andy Devine, Warren Hymer, William Frawley and Geo...
...5,000 delegates ^and visitors are expected to attend the 26th convention of* the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen in Cleveland on May 13, in Public Music Hall, which will last about 2 weeks...
...Advice to Playwrights...
...Write about the things you jknow...
...The May Day celebration under the auspices of the City Committee at ' the Workmen's Circle was a tremendous success...
...Thus many plays would not...
...Sanford plans to put the 4th edition of the "Showboat Revue" into rehearsal within a week and the premiere performance will take place on Saturday evening, June 1. RAILWAY TRAINMEN MEET IN CLEVELAND ¦y Sidney Yellen Spenal to The New Leader CLEVELAND...
...Members of the State Executive Committee were guests of the local...
...1 had nevar been to Hollywood...
...Acknowledged to be one of the foremost prestidigitateurs in the world, he is introducing nightly for Leon and Eddie patrons his "Symphony in Smoke," which is winning for him the acclaim of press and public alike...
...Speakers were Frank R. Crosswaith of New York and Senator Audubon J. Secor and City Clerk Fred D. Schwartzkopf...
...Jolson), occupies the Capitol's screen this week...
...I hope soaw day to go there...
...The 35th annual banquet of the Socialist Party was held Saturday, April 27, at St...
...A prominent novelist, who began his writing career in the Village and has refused to move away from it, told us recently that one of the trials of nearly every wellknown writer was the frequent requests he receives from other people to read their manucripts...
...write about the things you know...
...Two New Films at Brooklyn Strand "The Florentine Dagger," a thrilling and baffling mystery melodrama, is at the Brooklyn Strand Theatre as part of the double feature program...
...The Brotherhood has received 19,072 new applications for membership within the last year and is celebrating the restoration of the prevailing wages which were cut 20 per cent during the depression...
...It was "Personal i Appearance...
...This is hod he says : he did it: The story of the play concerns : itself with the adventures of i Carole Arden, a glamorous and beautiful motion picture actress ' ! on a personal appearance tour...
...The Playshop is the answer to many requests of dra; matic lovers for a theatrical jury j to render opinions on plays and players before the theatregoing public is asked to pay admission to a theatre...
...4th Edition of "Showboat Revue" Aboard the "luc ceseer" Due Juae 18th Bob!>y Sanford, the young Broadway producer who has made a new vogue in summer entertainment by the presentation of his "Showboat Revue," announces that he has completed negotiations with James A. Kenyon, of the Hudson River Day Line, to present the 4th edition of his famous revue aboard the floating theatre, "Buccaneer...
...George's Hall, Stratford Ave., with 400 in attendance...
...The Workmen's Circle choir of 75 voices sang...
...She simply walked off with the play...
...The Playshop's operation is unique in New York's theatrical history...
...Wallace Ford, Barbara Kent, Sammy Cohen and Mike Donlin are featured in the cast...
...One of the main questions will be the reduction of the hours' of work and miles run, which will give employment to more than 12,000 men...
...The result has been so successful that I am now writing a playabout Palm Beach...
...not a contribution to our social studies on the stage, but a pleasant evening's anodyne...
...The cast is headed by Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods, C. Aubrey Smith and Robert Barrat...
...But when I wrote the dUH Lawrence Riley insists, "I had as' such person in mind...
...Featured in support of the stars are the inimitable Helen Morgan, Patsy Kelly, Glenda Farrell and Benny Rubin, and a talented supporting east ineludes Sharon Lynne,, Barton Mac Lane, Phil Regan, Gordon Westcott and Joyce Compter...
...The Playshop prefers actors and actresses who are not yet prominent on the Broadway stage...
...Sanford also announces that in order to comply with the hundreds of requests received from Showboat patrons during the past three summers for periodic changes in the revue so that they may make several trips to this floating theatre during the summer season, he Is -formulating plans whereby he will present a complete now show —with new costumes, new principals and new songs—^very three weekss...
...The ladies' auxiliary of the Brotherhood will hold their- convention at the same time...
...The critic and public will also be spared productions not worthy of a public performance...
...Among the masculine players who appear either as "6 Men" or as public enemies are Robert Armstrong, Barton Ms«l.ane...
...The short subjects include a color cartoon, "Sunshine Makers...
...The man Monica has married (after a quarrel with Jay) is having an affair with the cute widow Julia: how shall Monica win him back...
...A Unique Theatrical Organization Is Formed Mrs...
...enough...
...i the new agreement is presented this month...
...A large supporting cast appeart with Cagney in "G Men...
...When asked what, in the way of general advice, he dispensed to these would-be authors, the novelist said: "I have one stock answer...
...E. W. James Coqney is "G Men" at Strond Theatre The world premiere of Jams* Cagney's latest starring picture for First National, "G Men" wines is also the first of the new ejahr of films about the work of tat United States Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation ,wu held at the Strand Theatre hot Wednesday morning...
...Al Jolsoa-Ruby faster on Capitol Screen "Go Into Your Dance," Warner Brothers' spectacle with music— co-starring Al Jolson and Ruby Keelef' (Mrs...
...The problem is simple...
...The Playshop will be limited in membership to thirty including its business staff...
...The Playshop will present and rehearse its plays at a theatre to be chosen during the week...
...Readings will be given and scripts read upon application, by mail only, to The Playshop* temporary headquarters at 4 East 53rd Street, New York, N. Y. Paul Duke's "Symphony in Smoke" a Success Paul Duke, the man with the million dollar hands, is completing his twentieth week at Leon and Eddie's...
...JSit down and write and write and' write,' I tell them...
...press agent faf foreign car in tow...
...The contract calls for closed union shops and it seems the big manufacturers will get an acute attack of indigestion when they read the new agreement...
...I do not in the least mind having people send me their stories and novels to criticise, but if you were to publish the fact in your paper, I should be deluged with more requests than I could possibly handle...
...Riley was a comparatively unknown ' writer...
...There are fifteen places to be filled...
...Thai that seemed not quite origins...
...For Hugh (Jay onstage) is a playwright...
...The large membership responded in the best union spirit when the executive committee recommended a tax'for a strike fund...
Vol. 18 • May 1935 • No. 18
