May Day Parades-World News Graphically Shown at Embassy
May Day Parades-World News Graphically Shown at Embassy Gay Laughter and Good Dancing Keep You "On Your Toes"! DANCE ALONG "ON YOUR TOES." Music by Richard Rodger*, Lyrics ...
...Winterset' is their kind of play...
...Revival of "Smart Money" and First Run of "Desert Gold" at Brooklyn Strand Edward G. . (*'tittle Caesar") Robinson and James ("Public Enemy") Cagney, two of the screen's popular stars, are seen in a re-issue of "Smart Money" this week at the Brooklyn Strand Theatre as part of the double feature program...
...Act II culminates in a modem ballet, "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue"—in which, travesty as it may be, Ray Bolger and T a mar a Geva do seme dancing that some of the famous troupes that have visited us well might envy.|1 Of both good dancing and keen satire, then, there is aplenty...
...Indeed, there should be a new dealt But the Guild's "Idiot's Delight" is a -romping relic of romantic swagger-drama, caught into a savage satire on life today...
...Others in the cast of "Smart Money" are Boris Karloff...
...Idiot's Delight...
...When she first came to this country she played various Ibsen heroines, speaking then in her native Russian...
...The danef has been taken seriously for several seasons in Near York, so it is high time for a good satire on the dance as an art...
...The Anderson drama is now completing a tour which has included, or will include, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, Cleveland, Toronto, Columbus, Youngstown, Buffalo...
...Alving...
...As a result of Guthrie McClintic's long-cherished plan to offer Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset," recent winner of the Drama Critics Circle's first annual award, at popular prices in New York, a scale ranging from 50c to $2 will prevail when the play comes to the Martin Beck Theatre for a twoweek engagement on June 1st...
...The usual Showboat Revue is being eliminated this year and in its place the company has arranged to feature the popular Julie Wintz and his orchestra...
...With a consummate cast, a superb set, sure direction, and a swift, kaleidoscopic play, the Guild in its closing play of the season once more proves the proverb that the last's the best of all the game...
...Alving...
...She believes in low prices in the theatre when conditions make it possible...
...the high-hat plutocratic song "Too Good for'the Average Man...
...And when be identifies her as the circus trouper who had spent a iaveiy night with him when their shows were playing the same town in the Middle West...
...They have gone clear to the Pacific Coast, playing in a dozen states and over thirty different cities, and have been received everywhere with an enthusiasm which duplicated the New York ! success...
...The WPA extension class (in music) at Knickerbocker University...
...If thia play is really the "Idiot's Delight," the only retort is: Aren't we all...
...For the American is less troubled by the threatened bombing reprisal than by his failure to recall where he had " seen that "princess" before...
...One may see the exciting Kentucky Derby with Clem McCarthy describing Brevity's unfortunate fall to his knees, and the thrilling finish in which Bold Venture won by a nose...
...At the star's own request, the entire orchestra has been priced at $1.50 and the balcony at 50 cents and $1, plus tax...
...She learned English quickly and played "A Doll's House," "Hedda Gabler," "The Wild Duck," etc...
...the leading lady, was beyond her range by reason of youth...
...the "international" 'working - man (most effectively played by Richard Whorf) discovers he is,a patriot at heart...
...Loot play of the Theatre Guild season...
...But aa used in the drama, the title words- refer to the game of solitaire, to that endless game in which one cheats- oneself yet never wins—to that wide-spread game of solitaire, with humans for cards, at which God plays in heaven...
...Guy Kibbee plays opposite Shirley in the title role...
...and when, her rejected passport keeping her at the hotel from which all flee, the American comes back and embraces her beneath the bombs of the air-raid (bombs bursting in ' air...
...There are also scenes of the actual rescue by U. S. Coast Guardsmen of the freighter rammed and sunk in a Nantucket fog...
...3e*M leading critics declared that Maa...
...Throughout the run of 'Winterset'," says Mr...
...Rochester, Detroit and Pittsburgh...
...The new program now showing is a typical example of how one can express one's feelings during the performance...
...All of these subjects will receive reactions of approval and disapproval according to one's convictions...
...J. T,S...
...as a sort of Russian Greta Garbo...
...Madame Nazimova feels that "Ghosts" is a play which I should be seen by everyone and wants to make it available to all classes of theatregoers...
...Accordingly, she ap- , peared in the play at the dramatic festival at Ann Arbor, in a pro"Mr...
...Shirley Temple on Palace Screen in "Captain January" Shirley Temple opens at the R.K.O...
...A year ago she felt that the time was ripe...
...Her audiences invariably number a large percentage of young people, many of them students, whose means naturally are limited...
...By Robert E. Sherwood...
...y Nazimova in Ibsen's "Ghosts" Opens Monday at tk Golden...
...English honeymooners look askance at tile French munitions king with his Russian "princess...
...It has come...
...Her success emboldened off B bring the piece to Broadway, fbl opening night here was said b> hardened first nighters to haw been the most enthusiastic fjm had ever attended...
...In addition to the subjects of controversial character are sports subjects and spot news events from all parte of the world giving the program1 an international or cosmopolitan flavor...
...In quick order come stories of Hitler's 47th birthday Celebration with a parade of military might in Berlin, the Italian army marching on Addis Ababa, the "Dry*" National Convention at Niagara Falls, and the March of Time which includes an excellent subject on the rapid growth of The Veterans of Future Wars...
...duction which she nBelf diradsl Last fall she took the play oatB road for what she considerei > brief experimental tour, appjaj...
...The House of a Thousand Candles," with Phillips Holmes, Mae Clarke, Irving Richer and Rosita Moreno, is the accompanying attraction...
...Noel Francis, Evalyn Knapp and Rafcf Harolde...
...Winfc acting as host and impresario...
...Fannie Brice, in her number "Rewolt," galumphs gaily over the eccentric efforts of the ran - of - the - revolution modern dancer;, and here in "On Your Toes" the ballet, both old and new, comes in for its merry mumming...
...Book by them and George Abbott...
...James Meehan serves as toastm aster...
...She also played "Ghosts" but in those days the part she played was the lesser role of Regina...
...King Edward reviewing the Coldstream Guards, President Cardenas of Mexico honoring a National Holiday, the flight of the Hindenburg from Germany to America, and some 40 other news items complete this interesting and educational program...
...It will be 'with regret that he puts the gallant and lovable character aside, but there are several other great roles that he wishes to add tj his repertoire during the next few years: King Lear, for instance, and Coriolanus, and he has in mind a new spectacular production of "Othello...
...The program will include various grosp | games and,novelties, Mr...
...It will probably not make money i at these prices but it's only for tv/o weeks and .1 consider it well worth doing...
...Guthrie McClintic to Bring Back "Winterset" June 1st Maxwell Anderson Play to Open at the Martin Beck Theatre at Popular Prices...
...The only person who, save for a bitter undercurrent, flows unpolluted by the soil of the times is the American showman, traveling to Geneva with his six blonde chorines...
...end the German doctor, who had* fled the- Nazi fMUhps to study his rats apd cure fipear for humanity, decides that humanity's not worth saving and he might as well return and breed microbes to put in Hitler's bombs...
...SHUFFLE THE CARDS "IDIOT'S DELIGHT...
...In Italy, at the border of Switzerland and Austria, the outbreak of the next war entraps a curious group...
...First of all there are May Day parades from New York, Philadelphia and a gigantic May Day demonstration from Mexico City...
...A number of labor leaders headed by William Green, president of the A. F. of L., and George Meany, president of the State Federation, have signified their intention of being present...
...Deeds Goes to Town" Opens at Fox Brooklyn "Mr...
...This was announced last week by Ryan, president of the Central Trades and Labor Council, and head of the association...
...The climax of Act I is the "Princesse Zenobia" ballet, a classics] work gorgeously burlesked...
...we forget the working-1 man's backsliding and grim death, the German's death-bugs, the Frenchman's cannon and shells, and we see eternal love defying all dangers, romantic rapture beneath falling skiefc—ourself die eternal hero, embracing the eternal heroine...
...The Guild has scored again...
...In addition the evening's entertainment will include well-known troubadors, who will wander about the boat, and also singing quartets, serenaders and popular radio stars...
...When the star closes this season on May 16th, he will have acted the great nosed Gascon Swashbuckler — poet, philosopher and lover — just a few less than one thousand times, and to gross receipts of nearly two and a half million dollars, a record that has riot been equaled by any other actor or actress in any play in America in the 20th century...
...Intelligent' citizens generally respond to these controversial subjects, and in this manner create a new public opinion in theatres throughout the country...
...And every little disease-germ, in Sherwood's feeling phrase, gives the Nazi salute...
...At the Shubert...
...Palace, starting today, in "Captain January," adapted from the beloved tale by Laura E. Richards...
...His reasons for bidding adieu to his most popular role are two: the financial hazard of carrying so big end expensive a production over the country has increased fifty per cent since his first tour in "Cyrano," and he feels that a thousand performances in one role is enough for any actor...
...William Lyon Paths said it w.as the finest productiet5 "Ghosts" he had ever seen anf 4. dared that Nazimova was bote than Duse in this play...
...Madame Nazimova and the company supporting her left New York February 1 while playing to nearly capacity business, compelled to depart in order to fill out-of-town bookings...
...During the last week of the run here so many persons desiring the less expensive seats were turned away that Madame Nazimova herself decided to play at the unusual ; scale of $1.50 top on her return...
...tunity to Those Unable to See It Earlier in Set** Acclaimed as Magnificent Performance., Nazimova, whose performance of Ibsen's "Ghosts" created a sensation in this city last winter, will return for a two .weeks engagement on Monday, May 11, at the Golden Theater...
...ing in Boston, Philadelphia ansf, few other cities for five weda...
...Hampden's limited engagement at the New Amsterdam Theatre closes in ! another week...
...Winterset,' more than any play I have ever produced, attracted these people, and I think that anything the theatre can do to bring into the playhouses the literate supermovie audiences is worth trying...
...Music by Richard Rodger*, Lyrics by Lorenz Hart...
...Controversial issues and world events are presented in such a manner that the people who see and hear these subjects can express, in part, their views by the manner in which they receive these subjects...
...Limited Return Engagement Presents Opp...
...This means that at the end of this season one of the finest artistic combinations and also one of the greatest popular attractions in the history of the American theatre I will be no more...
...There wesfB curtain calls...
...With that bright ray Bolger carrying the comedy, and lion's share of the dancing, you are constantly kept, if not on your toes, surely on the edge of your scat...
...Deeds Goes to Town,*' the Frank Capra production starring ' Gary Cooper, with Jean Arthur, mond Walburn, is the current film attraction at the Fabian Fox Brooklyn Theatre...
...Areni we all...
...The affair is expected to attract about 1,700 persons...
...mova was truly "great," and sal said that under her dirteasi "Ghosts" was "no longer a daant but a plsy...
...For many years Nazimova dreamed of doing Mrs...
...The second feature is "Desert Gold," a Zane Grey story, with Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Marsha Hunt and Tom Keene...
...Dinner to Joseph P. Ryan The annual dance of the Joseph P. Ryan Association takes place tonight (Saturday) at the Hotel Commodore...
...not to mention the hoofing, the tomfoolery, the songs, and the incidental story...
...At the Imperial...
...Night after night I saw them turned away from the box ofhce,'Voung people who were clearly students, and older people^ of a type that the theatre needs very badly—not wellto-do, but intelligent, and bringing a definite viewpoint to the theatre...
...Embassy Newsreel Theatre the New Public Forum « - By W. Fren eh Gi the ns Reminiscent of the old public forum is the new type pabUe fpN tun as seen' in the audience reactions to world problems at the Newsreel Theatre, in Newark, New Jersey...
...the sure-fire sentimentality of "The Heart Is Quicker Than the Eye" and "Glad to Be Unhappy": these the effective hands (not to mention legs...
...Joe Louis and Max Schmeling training for their comnig battle in June...
...Hudson River Day Line's New I Entertainment Plan The Hudson River Day Line yesterday announced a new entertainment plan for summer evenings aboard Day Line steamers during the coming season...
...Alia Nazimova was known for many years as the foremost interpreter of Ibsen in this country...
...Farewell to Walter Hampden's "Cyrano de Berqerac" Walter Hampden is saying farewell to "Cyrano de Bergerac...
...There is no doubt that much of the audiences' delight rises from watching 'their old friend Alfred Lunt dance and sing* with the blondine lassies—as from beholding Lynn Fontanne...
...It is cause for congratulation on the part of local j theatregoers that they are having this final opportunity to see this renowned performance...
...McClintic, "there were never enough seats to be had at the lower prices...
...Burgess Meredith will play the leading role in the New York engagement, Lee Baker the role of the judge, and Eva Langbord, who replaced Margo several times during the run of the play, will have the role of Mariamne...
...of the stars we have named, with Luella Gear and Doris Carson giving gay help, make "On Your Toes" rich in laughter, quick: in rhythm, deservedly a spring hit that should dance on until the fall...
...the Italian waiter, who was Austrian till the Treaty of Versailles made him a foreigner, is called to arms...
Vol. 19 • May 1936 • No. 19
