Pirates of Penzance Follows in Chartock's G. & S. Season
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
"Pirates of Penzance" Follows in Chartock's G. & S. Season The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley REPORTERS ARE WORKERS TOO "Power of the Press," by Richard Rahman. "America,...
...Here, SoudsfiS worked in association with mS dancers as Pavlowa, KarsafZ Fokine and Nijinsky...
...executive secretary of the Theatre Union, has written a pamphlet on "Audience Organization," on aspects of get-ing an established audience for social theatres...
...In the cast will be Mercedes Ferrara, Dudley Barry, Frances Turner, Robert Bruce, Frank Armstrong, Marie Perrm;-Irene Britt and Edward Parker...
...It is a real pleasure to see Wfl-, liam Danforth again play the rota of the Mifcado himself with all tint pomp and dignity of his office betrayed now and then by a couple of sly winks...
...Sutter's Gold...
...With private ownership, it is free—to the capitalist who can afford to spend millions to cover his...
...Give Us This Night" S Brooklyn Stroud "Give Us This Night," aJX sical romance co-starring Glsflji Swarthout, America's LsdyHK Melody, and Jan Kiepurs, Europri well-known singing star, iaanirii its first Brooklyn showing at |fc Strand Theatre as parfe ef tin double feature program...
...The play alternately evokes indignation and laughter, for—though it seeks -no profound analysis—it shows the reporter as human—all-too-human, but at the same time catches him in tiie process of awakening to his place in the workaday world...
...Gaynor-Taylor Film Stays Second Week at Capital Popularity of Janet Gaynor and Robert Taylor in "Small Town Girl" started off with such vigor at the Capitol Theatre that it will be held for a second week...
...The architects and engineers who planned the Schenley Tower are now confident they have the formula for the glass skyscraper and dwelling house of the future...
...Another episode in the novel extravaganza will be performed by the dancing Rockettes, dressed in humorous Penquin costumes...
...Unfortunately, we have come to look upon what is thus printed as "news...
...According to figures obtained from the Transit Commission of New York City, about 78 million persons entered the I.R.T...
...Audience Organhtation" by Margaret Lark in Margaret Larkin...
...Marco Monedoro, Itaiian designer, created the costumes for the spectacle, one of the mdsTlinusual episodes of which will be the Ballet Scene from Gounod's "Faust," with the entire Music Hall Corps de Ballet appearing with the theatre's Symphony Orchestra of seventy-five...
...The Mark of Merit," a star emblematic of the Schenley Products Co., distillers who will own the tower, will be fixed at its pinnacle...
...Guaranteeing, maintaining, fortifying the freedom of the-press does pet mean, as many think, assuring the public of honest, undistorted news...
...v Leon Leonidoff, who made a trip to Europe to study the possibilities of projected scenery in the theatres of the Continent last year, produced the spectacle...
...The Witness Ch/ir" is adapted from the story of the same name which ran in the August, 1935, issue of Cosmopolitan magazine...
...None of the dictatorships has shown signs of freedom for minority opinion or adverse views...
...and the color of the feature columns and the editorials...
...Aad this is- the only source of information about the current happenings in the world...
...Liberty and justice for all...
...Germany, Italy, Russia show that this, too, is a danger...
...its single setting is by the Jensen Studios...
...Alfred Kreymborg complained to me, "They've propagandized it...
...With all the papers directed by a ruling body, there is danger that only the policies favored by that body will be put forward, only the' "news" favorable to those in power will find print...
...A second, and more fundamental, problem can be glimpsed beyond the immediate economic - concerns of the newsmen...
...Starting next Monday evening, "The Mikado" will be succeeded by "The Pirate* of Penzance," in which such Savoyard favorites aa William Danforth, Frank Moulan, Vers Ross, 'Herbert Waterous, Roy Cropper, Vivian Hart, Beam Dickens and Frances Baviello will be seen in the principal rotes...
...Bitter Stream," the current Theatre Union production, had some 130 such bookings before the opening of the play...
...Miss Larkin was one of- the organizers of...
...Schenley Tower" ia Process of Construction.—First All-Glass Building Upward of 100,000,000 persons each year pass or come within view of the site of the old Rialto The*' atre at Times Square in New York City, where the "world's largest spectacular"—the 'Schenley Tower' —is being erected on the first all-glass building in the world...
...Why dent you start your paper tomorrow...
...Without these, the press is not free...
...This is, in truth, the case with many, if not most, of the papers in the cities of the land...
...bat what if a dyed-in-the-wool conservative paper is served by a staff of reporters ail radicals...
...The "professional" aloofness (from which teachers, by the way of unions and guilds, have long departed) is now falling from the newspaperman as well...
...jR M. Charlock presents "The Mir had...
...At*m Wmjftetki Theatre...
...to issue a "news"-paper may—etithin the limits of litel—print what he pleases...
...Here, ait least, the minority groups have the same (or some-whet the same) freedom to own then- papers and to emphasise the events they deem significant and to press their own points, urging lines of conduct...
...hut each owner is free to do as he likes in .his own paper...
...His distinguished career in the theatre began in Paris when Diaghileff revolted against the Russian Imperial Ballet sal inaugurated a season of his em ballet in Paris...
...They may unite far shorter hours and higher •rages...
...Aaa Hording in 'The Witness Clftir" Hands Him Rill art r Pease* em...
...And as long as papers are privately owned, freedom at the press means no other thing: not the full, unbiased, non-partisan truth...
...Meantime, it presses upon that much mentioned, and usually misunderstood problem, the "freedom of the press...
...all the public has to do is listen and read...
...But how about writing what their owners went them to...
...subways—which have four approaches-to the Times Square stations under the building—during the calendar year 1985...
...Elbabeth Sleeps Oaf" to Open April 20th J. Emerson Smythe will present at the Comedy Theatre on Monday evening, April 20, a comedy by Leslie Howard entitled "Elisabeth Sleeps Out...
...Soudeikine, one of the best known designers in the contemporary theatre, who has designed the productions of "The Flying Dutchman" and "Sadko" for the Metropolitan Opera Company, has been working on the projected scenery to be used in the Music Hall production for the past eight months...
...Stored by FnmkMouian...
...America, -America," by Alfred Kreymbor...
...An ideal toward which the play moves on— however we may disagree as to the road America must take...
...Bordering the lettering will be a single row of the same tubing...
...Ths second feature is "Too Many Parems" with Frances Farmer, Geam Ernest, Billy Lee and 'SSI Matthews...
...Its answer will shake the ownership' at the press...
...such aS cians as Stravinsky, RavsfS DeBussy, and such scenic «ljS as Benois, Roerich and |S Soudeikine executed the setts* for Nijinsky's most famouslSfl "L'Apres Midi d'un Faun,"2 after numerous successes with A ballet, he was brought to Amsria by Morris Gest in connertioatZ Balteff's "Chauvre Souris...
...Each owner is free to do as he pleases...
...onslaught upon further fortunes, or who can stoop to pander, in tabloid traffic with ignorance, greed, and lust, to the undeveloped tastes of the least educated ele--meats in a wide-spread country...
...An interesting experiment in theatrical history and one which may have an effect in revolutionizing American scenic methods, the scenery will be projected from a booth at the rear of the Music Hall stage, installed when the theatre was constructed with, the perfection of projected scenery in mind...
...How shall these newsmen' serve Mammon and save their souls...
...Written by W. 8.p3bert, asmpsejd 4g~-Ag»*»w Smllivan...
...Bat it's herd to see how his grim picture ef this "sweet lend of liberty" can help bat serve to stir indignation, pity, resolve...
...Frank Moulan as -Ko-Ko, Lord High Executioner of Titipu trips about in las own inimitable way until the request for encores becomes irresistible...
...Hearst's policies, presenting the facts he suppresses, laying stress on what he ignores...
...Is the remedy government ownership and control...
...Ton, of course, have equal freedom to get oat your own paper, attacking Mr...
...H costumes and settings create*^ sensation in this country, and aha he again met Pavlowa here, hSm the settings for her ballets, |H Fairy Doll," "Coppellia," tti "Russian Dance...
...Richard Rahman's play, two scenes of which were presented at last week's benefit, is labeled "largely fictitious,'' but the label is the largest fiction...
...The scenery, in which Soudeikine will use many of the vari-hued, vivid colors which have made him famous in the theatre, will be projected on a framed screen at the rear of the Music Hall's deep stage...
...Running a close second for honors on the Capitol screen, the Bob Bench-ley 20-minute entertainment, "How to Behave," is also causing excitement among the patrons...
...All of which, it is pointed out, should indicate the new spectacular will be located most advantageously for its sponsors...
...This is a question most of them at present can no more than ask...
...Albee Ann Harding's latest starring picture, "The Witness Chair," drama of a murder trial, - has its premiere showing at the RKO Palace and Albee Theatres today...
...and with the aid of Pop-eyed sailors and Goofy girlies and other so-called comic strip between lurid bits of gossip and exciting murder trials and floods the news he'll choose, to inculcate a pliant social attitude, a submissive social will— at the most, not defiance in the face of misery and injustice, but bewilderment, and a waiting to be told how to vote, what to do...
...How about the selection ef news— what is "fit to print...
...Quite the contrary...
...for Heywbod Broun (Howard Brown on the stage) and the strike situation are as direct from life as the author's skill can draw them...
...he begins to see that he, too, is a worker, aad can best protect his interests through organization...
...Two New Features at the Fox Brooklyn Th two new films at the Fabian Fox Brooklyn -Theatre this week are "The House of a Thousand Candles," a mystery film with an international spy plot, with Phillips Holmes, Mae Clarke and Irving Pichel, and "Laughing Irish Eyes," a sinking: romance of the Enteral Isle and New York City, with Phil Regan, Walter C. Kelly, Evelyn Knapp and Ray Walker...
...The play has been staged by Preston dark...
...That's "freedom of the jacess...
...the Theatre Union, and helped establish its system of audience management, which has as an important factor advance bookings of "theatre-parties" to organizations...
...the story of Cali-forniaV gold rush of 1849 with Edward Arnold in the lead, is the second feature at the Palace and "Murder on a Bridle Path" with James Glcason and Helen Brode-rick will accompany the new picture at the Albee...
...Presented at the Civic Repertory as a benefit for the Milwaukee newspaperman striking against Hearst...
...Since this includes only passengers entering the subways at that point, conservative estimates are that more than 100 million persons have occasion to visit the immediate vicinity of the Schenley Tower site each year...
...Rohman puts, in the mouth of a reporter, good words for the City Editor of the old Call (forerunner of The New Leader...
...Walter Abel, who appeared with the blonde star in "The Lady Consents," has the male lead...
...The Schenley Tower, an eighty-foot structure made entirely' of crystal glass and sitting on top of a three-story building of radical modern architecture — also tiled with glass — has been hailed by science editors as the forerunner of whole cities of glass...
...Leon Leonidoff, in describing the innovation, said that the use of projected scenery will allow whole settings to change in full view of the audience—the setting changing as the action on stage changes, or adjusting'itself to the mood or manner of a musical movement or dance number...
...Truly, there is much to see beneath the surface of the "Power of the Press...
...Soudeikine first came to the attention of American theatre-goers with his work in the original "Chauvre Souris," famous European revue...
...The tower will form a triangular column on each side of which will be the word "Schenley" in vertical letters, each four and a half feet high, lighted with doable tube red neon...
...Equally, of course, this is true of radio "news" broadcasts, and of "news" reels for the screen...
...On the Music Hall scresfc % Frank Capra's newest photnjke for Columbia Pictures, "MrT&ssk Goes to Town," with Gary Canaan <i Jean Arthur...
...Hearst is guaranteed freedom to select such news as he wishen, color it as he pleases, have editorials written and stories invented to suggest whatever conclusions he wishes the public to form, to urge whatever actions he : wishes tike public to take...
...It means that Mr...
...Radio City Music Hall Offers First American Presentation of Projected Scenery-Will Have Revolutionizing Effect on Scenic Methods Frank Capra's New Film on Screen With Gary Qfl and Jean Arthur By Fred Lynch Projected scenery, designed by the noted Russian artist, Sergei Soudeikine, will be used for an entire production for the first time in an American theatre at the Radio City Music Hall starting today...
...It means that anyone who wishes (and has the money...
...and B. M.T...
...The MHcado," which opened another season of Gilbert and Sullivan for Mew York theati tgfcii Jot, the Majestic *haitre» j<| minds us that, these apeieUas are a; charming and delightful as when,4iiy 'first stained Victorian England in the nineties of the last century...
...Pirates of Penzance" Follows in Chartock's G. & S. Season The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley REPORTERS ARE WORKERS TOO "Power of the Press," by Richard Rahman...
Vol. 19 • April 1936 • No. 16
