Ibsen's 'Ghosts' Given MemorablePresentation by Nazimova
Ibsen's 'Ghosts' Given MemorablePresentation by Nazimova The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley SOVIET THEATRE The Russian stage today is unquestionably the most vigorous in the world....
...Perhaps three main causes contribute to thiB eagerness of the Russians for their theatre...
...in Russia, where one is virtually guaranteed a job while thus "playing" in the theatre, where this art is properly recognised and provided for, it is no wonder that recruits throng eagerly to the field-) Outside of the propaganda shows, the theatre as a living art has in Russia a fertile field, through the combination of the new and wide enthusiasm with the old patient study and lasting devotion...
...This is the task of the director...
...Comedy cartoons, news reels and miscellany round out the Fox program...
...For this, as needs repetition only for those that have neither seen r o r read the drama, is no^outdated picture of the sins ot~the fathers, visited upon the sons, especially in connection with inherited, incurable diseases...
...For Adams hats m union-made AND labor unions* are famous FOR their support OT union-made products...
...he does not leek at life realistically...
...See how quickly crowds gather on s city street, to watch a riveter at work, or two boys— or two dogs—fighting...
...Robert Barrat, Craig Reynolds, and G. P. Huntley, Jr...
...some of the other featured principals are Beverly Roberts, Joseph King, Eric Blore, Winifred Shaw...
...statement that "our country is not dramatically minded...
...Bat in Russia three elements smmmtne to give the theatre a great lift...
...There are, first, the propaganda uses of the theatre, the drama as education in Soviet ways and Soviet theories and ideals...
...Sons o' Guns" is based on the famous musical comedy of several seasons ago...
...ducted by Erno Rapee . Adams Hats, Union Mode fed Popular Priced Not only are Adams hata THE most widely sold hats throagbjet the United States, but there axe plenty of good reasons why THER are...
...The second featur^ picture on the Fox screen is the "Girl From Mandalay," with a cast headed by Conrad Nagel, Kay Linaker, Donald Cook, and Esther Ralston...
...They are to be found ON heads that ARC famed throughont the world of the silver screen, TAT stage and other fields of argue endeavor but they are also TO b found on the heads of Ameriai workingmen...
...I do not for a moment accept Morris Houghton...
...Big Brown Eyes" Heads Film Bill at Brooklyn Strand " B i g Brown Eyes," with Joan Bennett playing the part of a manicurist who turns columnist, and Cary Grant, in the role of Joan's detective sweetheart, heads the double feature program this week at the Brooklyn Strand Theatre...
...They arc made in a variety of styles, shapes and colors...
...Nazimova as theNmother gives one of the most effective performances in her distinguished career (which includes the role of the eager maid in the play where now she is the wretched matron...
...may soar towards the skies, bet Adams hats keep...
...Human Cargo," which deals with the Government's battle against alien immigrant smuggling rings, is based on Kathleen Shepard's novel, " I Will Be Faithful...
...12.75) Norris Houghton describes the production methods of the Soviet theatre today...
...t takes even leas than that to draw a crowd: any husky-throat who stands on a box beside an American flag can get his audience...
...inspired with a moving interpretation of the play...
...First, of course, is the official government promotion of the theatre...
...faith with tm buyer and there is no rise in price...
...And—whether it be' Melerhold at his theatre, Tairov at the Kamerny, Vakhtangov (who builds on Stanislavski), *r bis cBserple Zahkava, or whom you wffl—tSe director must snd does take control, and has an unequalled freedom...
...pany...
...this country can think of the enthusiasm only rf it multiplies the crowds st the Federal Theatre Projects such as "Triple A Plowed Under" or the Harlem "Macbeth...
...Ibsen was in his day the champion m the fight against sham, the effort to face life courageehsly and honestly, t-> look upon reality and cut clean iYom the bonds of convention and polite pretense...
...At RKO Aibee "The First Baby," a new Fox picture, opens at the RKO Albee Theatre today, with Johnny Downs and Shirley Deane in the leading roles...
...Opens at the Strand The world premiere of Joe E. Brown's new Warner Bros, starring picture, "Sons o' Guns," took place last Wednesday evening at the Strand Theatre, with many celebrities of stage, screen and radio in attendance...
...Stage design Ls a weaker allied art, and when we came to playwrighting, we have reached the low point of the Moscow theatre...
...It does not hunger for spectacles to feed its soul, as Stanislavsky claims the Russian nation does...
...It is at once a joy and a patriotic duty to go to the theatre, and to encourage others to go...
...This generally admitted fact leads us to concentrate attention on the directors...
...everybody likes a spectacle, a parade, a show...
...For the main purpose of every director is to bring out the content, the meaning, the basic theme, the fundamental significance, of the play—not always, perhaps, as its author intended, but as the drama holds thought for the Soviet world today...
...In "Moscow Rehearsals" (Harcourt Brace...
...The average man...
...GHOSTS" RETURN "GHOSTS...
...Seats are engaged months in advance, every performance is sold in full...
...he may, as often Meierhold, plan his plays as symphonies or sonatas, he may stylhse as he will...
...so that still another measure of prestige grows from attendance...
...From this all else springs...
...Neither tradition, as in France, nor convention (pocketbook conservatism), as in Austria, limits his experiments...
...Nazimova and her excellent company have come back to the city for a return engagement of the ever poignant tragedy of failure to meet reality, Ibsen's "Ghosts...
...erven in capitalistic countries there are many aspirants...
...Deeds Goes to Town...
...By Henrik Ibsen...
...Through this use of the stage, the theatre has come into the lives of millions who before had never seen a show, has wakened them to a source of entertainment, novel and delightful, that is at the same time officially stamped as loyal activity...
...With Irene Dunne as "Magnolia" and Allan Jones as "Ravenal," this newest version of the Edna Ferber romantic drama of Mississippi River boat life comes t o the Music Hall screen with a cast of distinguished players, including, in addition to Miss Dunne and Jones, Helen Morgan, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Westley, Queenie Smith, Donald Cook, Sammy White and some 3,500 others...
...The entire competent company is lifted to heights that make this a memorable presentation of one of Ibsen's greatest dramas...
...the Rocksbm Corps de Ballet anc the MOSK Hall Symphony Orchestra, eon...
...The leading feminine role opposite Brown is played by Joan Blondell...
...Other thflg...
...what matters is how they are welded into a unified company, imbued with a single spirit and common concept...
...E. Brown and Joan Blonde...
...Nor, furthermore, is working in die theatre itself unattractive...
...Deeds Goes to Town" The Frank Capra production for Columbia Pictures...
...His plays he draws often from the past, but they grow tonehed with a now satiric purpose or sociai significance, as the collective attitude modifies the presentation...
...starring Gary Cooper, with Jean Arthur and a stellar supporting east, is being held over for a second week at the Fabian Fox Brooklyn Theatre...
...every land has them...
...The good news comes tna Messrs...
...atmospheric prologue to "Show Boat," which Leon Leonidoff staged WITH THE great Music Hall em...
...He seems little conscious of the background from which these have grown, but he draws what seems a faithful, as it is a fascinating, picture of current performance...
...Bud Roth and I.ustigtkit they are stiil available at theume old' price of S2.P...
...Behind the various surface methods, which he lets us see in detail, Mr...
...On the Music Hall stage, accompanying this screen event, is ar...
...It is titled Trocad*m,» and pictures the famous Chicago cafe at the turn of the ewiH| The entire stage and choral thjfe, WAYS of the theatre are TUMM into a replica of the Troesssjn, and featured in the prodaejk*, which Marco Monteocrc and Wsb Van costumed, and Nirska, tb* fe> temational dance star, doing'ha 1 spectacular butterfly '-TnberjJBnV ert Weede...
...in truth, is too dramatically minded...
...The second feature is " L i t tle Red Sehoolhouse," a story of sullen, rebellious youth behind the grim, gray walls of the Reform School Fox Brooklyn Holds Over Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur in "Mr...
...baritone...
...Human Cargo" in Eastern Premiere at Palace—"Champagne Charlie" 2ND Feature "Human Cargo," new 20th CenturyFox, romantic drama with Claire Trevor, Brian Donlevy, Alan Dinehart, Ralph Morgan and Rita Cansino has its first New York showing at the RKO Palace Theatre, starting today on a proI gram that includes "Champagne i Charlie" with Paul Cavanaugh, Helen Wood and Herbert Mundin...
...At the Golden...
...Probably a great part of their popularity is due to the gratvtsbe of fignt a n d sporting fans who have listened coastlan times to the Adams broadcasts of the leading sporting events ot the country...
...Along this line, there may also be mentioned the fact that, while the possibility of attending the theatre is now open to all, tickets are often the coveted reward of faithful work...
...always he has an assured and eager audience, always a ready and eager company...
...Houghton some-' I what understresses this basic inj tention...
...It is the wife's inability (after the priest she loved had sent her penitent back) to leave her husband, and her lifework given to keep his name clear, that brings the disaster tumbling upon her and her innocent son Oswald...
...This is nonsense...
...but his book is (thanks to kindly officials in Russia, a Guggenheim fellowship from here, and a keen eye and vivid pen of his own) the most graphic account we yet have of the Moscow playhouses and the art of the theatre in Russia today...
...Ami they can support Adams hats not oah> because they arc union-made, bat : also because- they know them to be fine hats...
...The great strength of the Soviet tfceatre lies in its scto.rs snd its regisseors...
...Good actors are less significant...
...not merely government subsidy or support, but active official encouragement and constant furtherance...
...Son* o' Guns", With Jos...
...Show Boat" New Film Version of Kero-Haamcam Mtakal Oats, at Radio City Music Hall—Irene Dam Paol Robeson Others in Big Cast "Show Boat," Universale film production of the Jerome KernOscar Hammerstein II musical success, is now in its premiere showing at the Radio City Music Hall...
Vol. 19 • May 1936 • No. 20
