Ethan Frome: Thunderbolt of Truth in Winter Sky
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
"Ethan Frome": Thunderbolt of Truth in Winter Sky The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley GRIMMEST TRIANGLE : «e^re»a^*^^a<fsi«i o«^» »»tiUa She eeht, grim settings w^JBaaaefefStTi...
...bat his wife Zeeny is oven more sharp-eyed than sick...
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...4, at Carnegie Hall, when there will be presented for the first time in America the first Russian national weak that was ever written, Glinka's opera, "A Life for the Czar...
...On the same program will also be presented Moussorgsky's cantata, "Joshua," and a new musical melodrama by Igor Stravinsky...
...This brilliant Russian program, which wiQ be one of the outstanding musical events in New York, will be presented by the famous Schola Cantorum, which, it is said," has done mere than any e^H musical organisation to maha^H music of Russia known tMH American public...
...The Totem pole dances were staged by Chester Hale...
...Harrigan," with Ricardo Cortea, Kay Linaker, John Eldredge and Mary Astor in the featured roles, and "It's a Great Life" with Joe Morrison, Paul Kelly, Rosalind Keith and Charles "Chic" Sale are the two features at the Brooklyn Strand Theatre this week...
...4th A gala concert of Russian music of a remarhehk character wi 11 be given on Tuesday evening, Feb...
...Brooklyn Strand Otters Two New Film Features "The Murder of Dr...
...Veil Stroheim in Thriller at Fox Brooklyn— Daneinej Lady' Second Feature Two widely diversified pictures, a thriller with Eric Von Stroheim, "The Crime of Doctor C res pi," and a musical drama with Fred Astaire, Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, "Dancing Lady," are presented on tile screen at the Fabian Fox Brooklyn Theatre this week...
...The coming of Zanobia's eeeata Mattie brightens &i«Mtat Jsf^aahan...
...Ethan Frome": Thunderbolt of Truth in Winter Sky The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley GRIMMEST TRIANGLE : «e^re»a^*^^a<fsi«i o«^» »»tiUa She eeht, grim settings w^JBaaaefefStTi sissjliitrinBgks IlsSsJ^h.i^mfVi the chief figures of^ith Wharton's tfev nrlkr Frowns front the house "WtwW ^e^Mel teVM Hit, WlMtstf softeiB >iihi aSx «taet rf Cekfthe ^atla'tist deileet of drudgery to Wei hi* Rant has confined Ethaa 1*1 jets, and his wife's complaining liM^eaeaehriasis, her unending ail-**0*t and ahsey* unhelpful but costly remedies, make further inroads "upon his endurance and scanty earnings...
...With "Next Time We Love" on its screen, tike Musk Hall is pre sen ting a new stage spectacle de vised by Russell Markert, entitled "The Scrap Book...
...Harrigan" is based oa the story by Mignon G. Eberhart's story of the same "It's a Great Life," the second feature, is the first motion picture drama baaed on the government's COG Camps...
...Gala Concert of Russian Musk---Chorus of f|9 Schoia Cantorum at Carnegie Hall, Feb...
...h* Maroarst Sullovan Is "Next Time We Lowe" at Music Hatl t** n I « _ f* 111 C4ea#sae Cbau VVIwi I all «J 1*1 *J*T «#nw W Margaret Sulla van in "Next Time We Love," Universale pic-turisatiOn of Ursula Parrott's novel, "Bay Goodbye Again," is on the screen of the Radio City Music Hall this week...
...There will baa chorus of 260 professional staaSeai and the entire New York P*%5 harmonic Symphony Orchestra...
...Two ia the Dark' Opens at Palace...
...While time will not permit fhe giving of fhe entire opera, the most important excerpts from it will he presented, including the overture and Acts "IV and V,-including the famous bass aria, "The Last Dawn," the trio, quartet and some of the best-known choruses, such as the ,renowned wedding chorus, the Siavsya chorus, etc...
...Allan Jones, who made his screen debut in "A Night at the...
...John Auer wrote the story and directed the picture...
...This is the fourth time in Miss 8ullavan's brief cinematic career that her photoplays have had their world premieres at the Music Hall...
...for his interpretation of "Boris" hi "Boris Goudonoff...
...Eric von Stroheim, notorious villain of the screen, is starred in the latest thrill picture, "The Crime of Doctor Crespi," based on an Edgar Allen Poe story, "The Premature Burial...
...The others were "Only Yesterday," Which brought the star to the attention of the film-going public...
...It was tkiaJH ganization which first gave JL^LX certs of Russian folk musk hi York, and under its late ajHH conductor, Kurt Schindler, was ? first to present Rimsky-KorsakoR...
...This time, Jeanette MacDonald aad Nelson Eddy sing the important roles created on the stag* by Dennis King and Mary Ellis...
...Little Man, What Now...
...Additional lyrics were written by Gus Kahn...
...Prominent in the supporting east is Dwight Frye who was co-starred in a'Dracula" and "Frankenstein...
...Sadko'' to an American audMJHl Nina Koshets made, her AmeflKS debut with the Schola Cantorum hi a memorable concert of Raaej^B folk music, as did also Ivan IveS| zoff when he sang the great aapH in "Khovantchina...
...With a grim speed the play cannot .reproduce, Edith Wharton's stor* carries the loving pair to the balked suicide, the WmL'tfr, slumps Mattie, jMsgjeaa cripple, for a score of ipse*hOWees in the hovel of the Promee* iTljr a curious reversal, Wttm hstie irony," hating Ethan, ape atabcMta...
...and -The Good Pairy.* In "Next Time We Love," which originally appeared as a magazine serial under the title, "Say Goodbye Again," Miss Sulla ran has as her leading men James Stewart and Say Milland, while others in her support are Grant Mitchell, Charles Fallon, Anna de Metrio, Robert MeWade, Florence Roberts, Ronnie Cosbey, end Christian Rub...
...Marie" on C emit el Screen With Jeanette Maelanc^ of*rJe^^^^^^^^^^ September 1924, and spread around the world, comes back starting today, magnified manifold oq the Capitol Theatre screen...
...ChieOy, it is enacted by a' We-ahat pea* into it every drop jjE/lheaaa pathos, without any WjmM overacting, with a quiet aetarahieat...
...Next TaeafJH night the Schola Cantorum ajflB have aa soloists such weU4nu]31 Russian favorites as Anna UjB kaya, soprano, who was the heaefifl of Shostakovich's opera, "?3H Macbeth of Mzensk," when it aW| given in New York last spdfBS and also the well-known RaoaGP basso, Max Panteleieff...
...Captain Blood' Holds Over, Second Fee tare "Two in the Dark," with Margot Grahame and Walter Abel headlined, makes its New York debut at the RKO Palace today on the same bill with "Captain Blood," the Rafael Sabatini pirate thriller, which holds over a second week...
...The Murder of Dr...
...Pauline Lord is at tt^eaeeUent beat in those subdued SnndViiiM^a CMn>1>m'ina' and her Mfr^mUd- veheaasat words than from a quiet expectancy that ¦NMMe> Bath Gordon, appealing matt iajjattiljiji the poor relative ¦ef^eei***, jeJatthMj eager to be Hked, who lingers in the sunny ¦eater of wakening love, and stays Mtfk ethaejed ctemhllng ef kmg Msessy makes Ethan's a desperate mUgmm ear a peach of joy, for such crumbs of joy as one weald ¦CeVttesr freely to snorw-CasUght swallows, but life withholds^ from miirailm*1^ in^hca^on^oT^he Ule, W is a ?aeaii^rtt.'trBta...
...upon -Zeeny, who afp jroarn gentle and kind, even I e*ea% to meat the new burden, ¦at If the play cannot attain the XTSere, aa grimly stripped ot ¦phMrfu** ef decoration, and it j apOarts in steady growth to gaunt j |*mMr...
...RKO Radio produced "Two in the Dark," a mystery drama by Gelett Burgess,i which presents Margot in the role of a destitute show girl drawn, first by sympathy and then by love, to an amnesia victim, played by Abel, about whom the tentacles of suspicion squeeze tighter and tighter until he is almost convinced himself that he committed a brutal murder...
...The latter presentation is by special request of audiences...
...renown...
...Opera," also has an important role...
...W. S. Van Dyke directed the screen version of "Rose Marie," from the screen play written by Alice Doer Miller, Albert Beckett, and Francis Goodrich, who kept the operetta,in its entirety, aad only made such necessary amplifications from the Otto Harbach-Oscar Hammerstein story as were required by camera technique...
Vol. 19 • February 1936 • No. 5
