Morris Gest Returns to Broadway with 'Lady Precious Stream'
Morris Gest Returns to Broadway with 'Lady Precious Stream' The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley MID.SEASON MUTTERINGS Last week gave us a «metter of plays that don't matter; before...
...Milton expressed the hope that his poems would find fit • audience, though few...
...before the spring fever of the drama there is time to look st the evening's stage and draw from it what comfort one can...
...fox Brooklyn Oilers Two First Km Flln» The Faban Fox Brooklyn Theatre is now presenting two first-run films, "Dangerous Intrigue" with Ralph...
...He studied with both, modern and ballet schools, chief among them were Ella Daga nova, Hanya Holm and Martha Graham...
...Culture can be used to construct a strong labor movement...
...Leon Errai, Andy Devine, Betty Burgess, Johnny Downs, Eddie Duchin and his orchestra and many other popular players...
...Opposite her will be Bramwell Fletcher in the role of Hsieh Ping Kuci, the gardener who wins the hand of Lady Precious Stream...
...The auditorium and the entire building has been leased and modernized for the cultural groups...
...A long season cannot be a continuous glitter of stars, of jewel-plays...
...This organization, originally booked as a special Christmas holiday attraction with "The Bride Comes Home," helped roll up such a tremendous attendance record that they are currently being held over in conjunction with the screen showing of "Rose of the Rancho...
...but Cl?mence Dane tonight drags the devil into the action...
...At least, little Penny sings a song ?f devils-prey, and Jordan prays...
...Paramount to CeaHsmc Stage Shows The New York Paramount Theatre today announced that it is definitely back on the stage entertainment standard...
...Coarse by...
...DUBiNSKY DEDICATES CULTURAL CENTER ADRIVE to advance workers' culture was initiated by the Educational Department of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union at the dedication of its stage studios in the building of the Princess Theatre in New York City last week...
...Jane Wyatt as a reporter, and James Gleason j as Foster's police partner...
...there must be a spread between of paste...
...Inspired by an Edgar Allen Poe narrative, "The Premature Burial," the story recounts the fiendish plot of Dr...
...Bellamy, Gloria Shea and Joan Perry, and "Hitch Hike Lady" featuring Alison Skipworth and a strong east...
...SamueHBoldwyn, "Strike Me Pink," Is now in its»»world premiere at the Radio City Music Hsu...
...Professor Karapetoff, wellknown as an active Socialist, will discuss Power and the Future of Society.^ Changes in the production and transportation of power are forc-j ing a veritable revolution upon the American people...
...Jerome Andrews is a well-known concert dancer, who appeared in several Broadway productions as soloist...
...In conjunction with the showing of that film, Hal Kemp and his orchestra will appear in person with the Yacht Club Boys.' New Thriller at Rialte Eric von Stroheim, notorious villain of the screen, is starred ia the latest screen horror drama, "The Crime of Dr...
...Farce and musical comedy, tired businessman mockery, we may put in this class...
...STORY FORTUME "GRANITE...
...Flay New ia Rehearsal With Helen Chandler, Br am well Fletcher, Others Morris Gest announces that ha has placed in rehearsal the play from the Chinese, "Lady Precious Stream," which he acquired last summer in London, where it is still running at the Little Theatre, having recently passed its 450th performance...
...Add to these the bouncing "Scan dak," "Jubilee," and the deft "May Wine"—an unusually good bit of a musical without chorus, and with' a bow perforce of grace to Bee Lillie in "At Some Abroad," turn to the serious shows...
...George B. Seitz directed...
...V Julius Hochman...
...Madge Evans, as the daughter of a grocery store owner trapped in the vicious circle, has her most alluring role...
...Night of January 16," the thrill (by contrast) of an American courtroom and (in novelty) of twelve from the audience as jury...
...At the Yanderbilt...
...Tnrillar and Musical an Brooklyn Strand Screen The well-known American detective story, "The Leavenworth Case," with Donald Cook, Norman Foster and Jean Rouverol, heads the double feature program this week at the Brooklyn Strand Theatre...
...Dangerous" and We're Only Human" at Palace "We're Only Human," the new RKO Radio Picture opening at the Palace today on the same bill with Bette Davis in "Dangerous," tells the story of a braggart's soulracking struggle against tortuous fear—with love as the fortifying element...
...when the devil stalks forth on hut second death-dealing venture, it Is the audience that laughs...
...Granite" might have proved the stony ground of their struggle, in realistic tension...
...we may say that the audience this season can find—though fewer plays than in several years are...
...s Ethel Merman, favorite songstress of the Broadway stage, is featured opposite the comedian...
...Pamell" also tilts love and politics out of the past, while Nazimova's poignant production of "Ghosts" proves its basic hold is universal—equal searing in a contemporary phase revealed in *'The Children's Hour...
...plot of the play, will be Helen Chandler, now appearing in the role of Jane Bennet in "Pride and Prejudice" at the Plymouth Theatre...
...Gay and tuneful entertainment was provided by small sections of the orchestra and mandolin groups...
...Last season he was choreographer and solo dancer at Camp Tamiment, Tamiment, Pennsylvania...
...S. I. Hsiung, the eminent Chinese playwright, producer and translator, who adapted it from a .Chinese classic which has been current on the Chinese stage for many centuries...
...As this play broke in fury over the Sacco-Vanzetti judicial murder, so "Winterset" in beauty and power points its grim aftermath...
...Each one will discuss the technological developments in his own work and the social and economic changes which these developments are inevitably bringing about...
...although some measure of social satire slips into the best ¦of them—if not into "Three Men On a Horse," still racing along from but season, surely in "Boy Meets Girl," the best of this year's umbilical teasers...
...But the devil remembers...
...By Cl?mence Dane...
...Socialist branches are especially invited to send members to the opening lecture, which will be given by Professor- Vladimir Karapetoff, head of the School of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University and Consulting Engineer of the General Electrical Company...
...The control of this basic element in industry is now one of the burning questions pf the day—especially to Socialists...
...Joseph Calleia and J. Farrell MacDonald are among the favorite players in the cast...
...The new policy will not affect the schedule of first run picture presentations...
...The sisters, Silver Stream and Golden Stream, will be played by Marcella Abels and Helen Kim, while Wei, the Tiger General, will be played by Ditmar Poppem...
...On the stage of the Music Hall, Leon LeonidorT presents a new revue for which settings will be designed by Albert Johnson, entitled "Winter Cruise," Costumes for the revue are by Marco Montedoro...
...Opening of the studios and rehearsal rooms culminates months' of preparatory work organizing choruses, orchestras, dance and dramatic groups and an intra-union athletic league, under the auspices of the Educational Department headed by Louis Schaffer and Fannia M. Conn...
...At opposite poles are two not yet named: the circus-pole and the slapstick with "Jumbo," Billy Rose's rhodomontade of gargantuan spectacular phases...
...This is the first attempt by a large international union to house and foster its cultural and recreational activities under its own roof...
...H. B. Harris, are rehearsing one-act plays for presentation soon at the Rand Playhouse...
...Admission charge will be 50 cents for all seats, and tickets are available at the Rand Schok...
...Thriller at Capitol The "numbers" racket of New Tork, and the shocking ramifications of the racketeers who control this allegedly billion dollar suckerindustry, provide the plot for Martin Mooney's "Exclusive Story," which MGM has fashioned into the Capitol Theatre's new entertainment starting today...
...Jordan's brother has come, also, bring breath of joy to the island...
...Crespi," now at the New Rialto Theatre...
...At the Rand Playhouse The Rand Playhouse, cultural division of the Rand School, 7 E. 15th St., New York City, will present Joan Woodruff and Jerome Andrews in a program of dances Saturday evening, Jan...
...The second feature is "Cotona do," a twinkling musical with...
...Trade unions in America must take cognizance of the workingman's desire for a social outlet and supersede the employer as the source for after-hours recreation, President David Dubinsky of the I.L.G.W.U...
...Cosmopolitan's latest production for First National release, "Ceiling j&sre,'-' in which James Cagney and Pat O'Brien are co-starred for the fourth time, opens at the Strand Theatre today...
...Tobacco Road," with its grim picture of a casual dead-end of life, stretches on through its third season...
...The Madison String Trio will also appear in a brief chamber music recital...
...The roles of the parents, Wang Yun and Madam Wang, have been entrusted to Harry Meotayer and Molly Pearson...
...Pride and Prejudice" captures beauty and spil» of a century ago, as "First Lady1' peels them in Washington today, and...
...It is a grisly story, and in its movement the second husband (Jordan's brother) traces tile trail of the first...
...And out of the sea in answer the devil comes, In the guise of an escaped convict...
...He is a teacher of modern dance at the Radio City Music Hall, and also taught for Albertina Basch...
...Gladys Hansen has been cast for ties role of the Western Princess...
...and m her glad, over-eager desire of him, to clutch the happiness he proffers takes the devil's aid to her husband's death...
...the Corps de Ballet, Glee Glub and Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Emo Rapee...
...Stuart Irwin as the reporter who launches the expose...
...Other members of the company, as well as th...
...Lundy Island, a mass of stone no larger than one farm, twenty mrles off England, is a hell-haven for wrecked mariners, and a hallspot for Judith, whom her husband Jogden balds there, long against her wilL Out of food sold at jewel prices to spent fishing boats, out of wracks in the making of which his lights play no small part, Jordan is growing rich, while Judith grows sullen...
...the excellently acted "Victoria '"Re-"gina" shows that a queen, is I a woman, too...
...The Experimental Players, under the direction of Mrs...
...Engineers At Rand School The course will consist' of seven lectures by seven engineers all well-known in their fields...
...and Maxwell Anderson's sequel to "Gods of the Lightning...
...7 E. 15th St...
...Preston Foster is cast as a hard-boiled cop...
...Only Clemonce Dane hasn't made'her melodrama and her mysticism jell...
...Opening date and theatre will be announced shortly...
...In the title role of Lady Precious Stream, whose courtship and romance forms the...
...The two property men, characteristic features of the Chinese theatre and drama, will be played by Norman Stewart and Jesse Wayne, and Joan Adrian will appear in the role of a maid...
...The union must provide satisfaction in every phase of its workers' fives, social as well as economic, and I am proud that the International has taken the initiative in this drive...
...Paradise Lost" makes emphatic the tag-end of our social "system," as Norman Bel Geddes' symphonic presentation of "Dead-End" suggests how such things come to be, boys' natural impulses growing to gangster deeds...
...For a swing.to melodrama, "Libel" gives us a stir of the British best...
...The sea tells no tales...
...and in the cast are the Rockettes...
...The production is being staged and the company directed by Dr...
...Eddie Cantor is "Strike Me 0 V fink" at Music Flail Eddie Cantora new musical comedy for...
...told some three hundred representatives of local unions jammed into the largest studio...
...He gives us what we pray to him for, and when we have it he laughs at our dismay...
...chairman of the Joint Board of the Dressmakers and the Educational Committee, struck the celebration's keynote when he said that this department's work stresses the ultimate goal of the International, that music and culture have their place in workers' struggles...
...Live shows, supplement to all screen attractions, has been definitely decided upon as the Paramount program policy following the successful engagement of Glen Gray and his Casa Lorna Orchestra...
...Ceiling Zero" is the film transcription of last season's, stage drama Of aviation by Lieutenant-Commander Frank Wead...
...Too bad, for Cl?mence Dane has done many a good thing in novel and play, and has here something that might have been moulded to eerie power, had not the devil interfered...
...Short subjects, news reels and" cartoons round out an interesting program...
...playwright also wrote the scenario of the firm, which was I directed by Howard Hawks, foremost Hollywood director of action and aviation dramas, a 3j»e ''Ceiling Zero" all-star cast includes, in addition to Cagney and O'Brien, June Travis, Martha Tibbetts, Stuart Erwin, Craig Reynolds, Robert Light, Isabel Jewell, Henry Wadsworth, Edward Gargan, Gary- Owen, Carlyle Moore, Jr., James Bush, Pat West, Richard Purcell, Barton MacLane, Addison Richards and Matilda Coment...
...Crespi to bury alive an unfortunate victim, who by a trick of medicine is made to appear dead, but in reality alive...
...Following the engagement of "Rose of the Rancho," the Paramount will present the screen musical "Collegiate," with Jack Oakie, Joe Penner and Frances Langford...
...Thus Brooklyn fans are seeing two first-rtm pictures before they ?re- shown in other parts of the country...
...on the boards—fit dramas for every mood...
...Franchot Tone, as the fighting prosecuting attorney...
Vol. 19 • January 1936 • No. 3
