2,000 Garment Workers Ready For Big Walkout
A Horse-Racy Comedy Clicks To Open the Season The Theatre Guild Plans Its Most Ambitious Season—"If ThP Be Treason9' Opens Monday at the Music Box—Lunt and Fontanne in "The Taming of the Shrew,"...
...Aa a matter of fact, n mora pebble wouldn't stand • chance of remain big unmolested anywhere near a Guild director these days...
...Probably the most difficult task thus far has been the organizing of tile east, director, technicians ' and scenic designer for "Porgy and Bess," the folk opera with score by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Mr...
...Paths of GloryMuch Heralded and Long Awaited Peace Play, Opens Arthur Houkin* Season at the Plymouth Theatre Next Thursday Evening In New York the theatre will take it upon itself to voice an eloquent plea against war when "Paths of Glory* is established next Thursday evening as a Broadway attraction at the Plymouth Theatre...
...It will be notable in more ways then one...
...For "Porgy and Bess" came Rouben Mamoulia-n from the Coast and for "Love Is Not so Simple" the Guild selected one of its own members, Philip Mealier...
...years ago in another Guild comedy "Biography" will have the leading role in "Love Is Not so Simple," while Philip Moeller will direct it...
...The Taming of the Shrew" ia ; to be the second play of the Guild's season...
...He spent most of this time living in the south and studying the native spirituals...
...It was a long and arduous task, but proved very successful...
...And also the Guild's initial Shakespearean production...
...McKay Morris will play the role of the President of the United States...
...Early this spring he walked into the Guild offices and deposited the completed scon...
...At the 4Sth St Wholesale slaughter, before the play starts, tares into wholesale laughter after the curtain rises, in this wide comedy of the folks that visot Saratoga that one month of the Tear which is eonseereted to swiftJ horses...
...The play will arrive Monday at the Music Box Theatre...
...For its remaining two plays the Guild has a large list to select from: "Daughters of Atreus" by Robert Turney...
...For "If This Be Treason" and "The Taming of the Shrew" the Guild obtained Harry Wagstafi* Bribble...
...The Trojan Women and "Agamemnon'' translated by Edith Hamilton, author of "The Greek Way...
...Ifs a poor robbery that makes no thief rich, anal Marco gains s son-in-law in the same stroke that retrieves his fortune...
...If This Be Treason" deals with a peaee theme and eras tried out tins summer at Lawrence Langner's Country Playhouse, Westport, Conn., with great success...
...Tha Postman Always Rings Twice," aa adaptation from the novel of tie same name by James Cain...
...The Guild alao holds options on new playa bj Eugene O'Neill, John Wexley aad Maxwell Anderson...
...The King of a* Mountains" by Martin Find...
...For its fourth production the Guild will present "Love It Not so Simple,*' a play from the Hungarian of Tjtdislas Fodor, translated by Julian Leigh...
...Thanks first to Humphrey Cobb's fine novel, second to Sidney Howard's adapting...
...Supporting him will be a east of ' sixty including Armina Marshall, Hunter Gardner, Leo Curley and Charles Bryant...
...Situation and dialogue are rich in recurring laughter, and one who had spent summers at Saratoga will vouch for the accuracy of the setting, and the reckless mood...
...J.T.S...
...In the cast of "Paths of Glory are William Harrigan, Jack Roseleigh, Cyril Scott, Lee Baker Myron McCormick, Jerome Cowan George Tobias, Roland Drew, Harold Moffet, Richard Ross,, Edgai Barrier, Nicholas Harlow, Rannej Compton, Leonard Penn, Jack Daniels, Roger Quinlan, Herschel Cropper, David Leonard, Bernard Kisner, Norman Stuart, Carl Frank, Jack Davis, Guy Repp, Edward J, Ballantine, Dick Purcell...
...Sidney Howard, fascinated b> the penetrating force of Humphrej Cobb, taken with the picture ol the insane logic of war which he has so long felt but has never be fore-been able to put concretelj onto paper dropped a play whkr he was writing and was only halfway through, in order to rust "Paths of Glory" onto the stage where it belongs...
...Their first venture with Shakespeare...
...Ina Claire who scored a tremendous success two...
...Although the new season is hardly under way, the Guild has announced its first four productions...
...Heyward...
...The initial production of the Guild's eighteenth subscription seasen in New York will be "If This Be Treason'' by Rev...
...Perry Ivins, Jack Bonn, Milo Boulton, Ben Kranz, Arthur Marlowe, Wardell Jennings, Philip Robinson, Paul Stein, George Smith, John Seager, Sanford Bickart, Clem WQenchick, Jerry Sloane, George Ryan, Benedict MacQuarrie, Paul Alberts, Stephen Crane, Bernard Fabrizio, Robert Adams, Ted Erwin and Ann Dere...
...George Gershwin has been working on this play for two years...
...A Horse-Racy Comedy Clicks To Open the Season The Theatre Guild Plans Its Most Ambitious Season—"If ThP Be Treason9' Opens Monday at the Music Box—Lunt and Fontanne in "The Taming of the Shrew," and "Porgy and Bess" Definitely Set The Theatre-Guild is leaving no stone unturned to make this season one of its greatest since its inception in 1919...
...A Slight Case of Murder" should do sway with a big case of the blues...
...Altogether, as a season's openes...
...Bares aad Allen on Brooklyn Strand Serosa Sseoed Rim Is "Hoosier Schoolmaster" George Burns and Gracie Allen, well-known of stage, screen and radio in "Here Comes Cookie,'' share honors with Norman Foster and Charlotte Henry in "The Hoosier Schoolmaster," now being shown at the Brooklyn Strand Theatre...
...Res living the importance of having a first-rate director fur each of its plays, the Guild spent many weeks rounding up suitable men for these assignments...
...First it will have j the Lents in the leading roles...
...Bootleggers, reformed into brewers, society men turned state's police, .beauty and several varieties of beast (from orphanage boy to a guy that consoles a sick man by singing to him, long distance, from Saratoga to Los Angeles}, not to mention the unseen careaesea sprinkled on neighbors' perches and gathered again, gpice the Journey of the big fellow who needs only a' paltry $460,000 to keep his head above the approaching tidal wave...
...Activities have reached such a pitch in West Fifty-second Street, the high soprano in "Porgy and Bess1* have all they can do to keep up with production advancements...
...Lunt, of course, win play Petruchio and Miss Fontanne, Katherine...
...It will also have a scheme of production especially devised by the Lunts who wish it to be made known thai they have not deviated in any way from the original text...
...When the smoke had cleared away the Guild had obtained the services of three of the theatre's greatest directors...
...letters in Lights' "by Denis Johnston and "Something to Live for" by George O'Neill...
...seal and, third, to Arthur Hopkins* .willingness to mount so elaborate a production so early in the season, "Paths of Glory" presents itself upon the theatre's horizon as the first important editorial comment within the theatre's powerful confines this season...
...J. H, SARATOGA CHIPS "A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER" by Damon Runyon and Howard Lmdtay...
...John Haynes Holmes and Reginald Lawrence...
Vol. 18 • September 1935 • No. 38
