Chinese Drama in Gay Blossom at tpe Booth
Chinese Drama in Gay Blossom at tpe Booth The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley DISTILLED WATERS t "LADY PRECIOUS STREAM." c By S. I. Hsiung. At the Booth. There ere certain exotic...
...Sunday evenings (and matinees the 10th and 13th...
...But we're unfortunately aware what will happen...
...The SRO sign indicate that Ruth Draper's art has an appreciative audience...
...The orchid, 1 even the gardenia, calls for special c wear...
...From these three East Side Jewesses, Ruth Draper turns, as searchingly to reveal an English Lady opening a bazaar, ir the varied types, native and tourist, that visit an Italian church...
...And all the devious devices and curious conventions of the Chinese stage, from visible (but theoretically un- j seen) property-men to invisible (put theoretically seen) warriors' steeds, are always a delight...
...19, Efreir Zimbalist will give his only Nev fork recital of the season...
...THEATRE P AR,TIES...
...Porter Hall and Joseph Sawyer, The screen play was made by Charles Kenyon and Delmer Daves...
...The Theatre Union Studio, whiel s made up of actors who hav< \ppeared in this theatre's prouctions, and other professions layers, is presenting the progran nder the general direction o^ 'ylvia Fenningston, head of the tudio...
...hilarious picturization of the story >y Ben Hecht and Charles Mac Arthur, is the new film attractior t the popular price Astor Theatre Walter Connolly is starred in 'Soak the Rich" with Mary Taylor 'deb" film actress, and John Howird as the romantic leads and \lice Duer Miller, the novelist :aking a fling at playacting...
...These include a play celled 'Class of '29' which deals realistically with unemployment and the handling of relief...
...The Widow From Monte Carlo" on Brooklyn Strand Screen "The Widow From Monte Carlo," with Warren William, Dolores Del Rio and Louise Fazenda featured heads the double feature program his week at the Brooklyn Strand Theatre...
...Picturing, theatrically, the progress of light from the candlelight and gaslight eras to the miracle...
...From /Jacob Baker, Assistant Administrator, W.P.A., to Hallie Flanagan, national heed of the 1 F.T^pT: /*This will direct that no issue ' of the Living S'ewspaper contain Shy representation of the head or one of the ministers or the cabinet elf a foreign state unless such representation shall have been approved in advance by the Department of State...
...Anc ^n Wednesday evening, March 11 he series will close with a join' ippearance of Harold Bauer an< he Manhattan String Quartet More and more the Endowment 1 -oncerts are events to look forward to...
...Genevieve Tobin, Charles Grapewin, Dick Foran...
...Alone, she fills, the stage...
...There is no substitute for Ruth Draper...
...Or one of the idty's tragic problems, personal yet persuasive, is lit with a touch of beauty over its sordineas, in "Three Generations in a Domestic Relations Court...
...So has this exquisite- « iower of the East been dipped « « t e Sfe alien stream, to soak up j joss for Broadway...
...And the tale is a simple, traditional, sweet and moving story...
...t teidominates, and helps make ' *Ledy Precious Stream" a not = wholly pure, yet a precious stream • of Orient beauty on our Western t ELMER RICE RESIGNS . ' I —'•—;— / < Seme of the implications, • of the ' resignation of Elme^^-Rice...
...DANCING AT THE GUILD - < Those that missed Harold Kreutzberg at the Guild Theatre last Sunday evening will have a chance to ^see him in his second dance recital this Sunday...
...In addition to the world premiere of "The Petrified Forest," an unusual event is now taking place on the Music Hall's stage...
...Baker has already eaSed off one Federal Theatre Project play in Chicago, because in the opinion of Mayor Kelly it was uncomplimentary to the Administration and to the Democratic Party...
...EXCELLENT MISS DRAPER Ruth Draper in character sketches...
...Baker is merely trying to raise a smoke-screen to conceal the real issue...
...c Patrick's Day...
...performed by electric light today "The March of Light" recalls th...
...Howard in the same role he played in the legitimate version...
...Sunday evenings, Feb...
...That issue clearly is free speech...
...Leslie Howard and Betty Davis in "Petrified Forest" on Music Hall Screen—"Progress of lAght" Spectacle on St a a re Reunited since their memorable performance in "Of Human Bondage," Leslie Howard and Bette Davis appear in "The Petrified Forest," Warner Brothers' picturization of the Broadway stage hit, at the Radio City Music Hall this week...
...In the face of that stern necessity, the fostering of the arts, the rehabilitation of unemployed professional constitutional guarantees of freedom of expression go by the boards...
...It is not easily imagined from other theatrical fare...
...4 'Soak the Rich," New Hecht MacArftiur Rim, Opens at Popular Priced Aster "Soak the Rich," Paramount...
...none interested in the dance will want to be away...
...Paul Peters, co-author of 'Stevedore," and Jerome Moross vho wrote much of the music for 'Parade," presented last year by "he Theatre Guild...
...16th, when the first Theatre Union Benefit will be given at the Civic Repertory Theatre, with wellcrown actors and groups in new 5lays, skits, songs, and other maerial by such writers as John Vexley, author of "Last Mile" ami 'They Shall Not Die...
...director...
...There ere certain exotic flowers i that show to best advantage only i when the setting is delicately at- i tuned to the blossom...
...Baker some of the other productions which were being planned...
...Two New Films at Fox Two new flms are occupying the screen at the Fabian Fox Brooklyn Theatre this week...
...On Wednesday evening, Feb...
...Howard and Miss Davis are Humphrey Bogart, who also played the part of the desperate gangster on the stage...
...Her deft monojogues combine with her sensitive and subtle portrayals to evoke, for each character she presents, that person's nature, her idiosyncrasies, her world-outlook.' Others unseen are also made known: "Three Women and Mr Clifford," for example, gives us not only the secretary, the wife, and the mistress, but the man himself...
...In short, we are confronted here not only with an evidence of the growth of fascism which always uses censorship as one of its most effective weapons, but with the resolute determina-tion of the Democratic Party to be re-elected at all costs...
...and a second issue of the Living Vfewopaper on the situation in the lloulhein States, touching on such vital subjects as lynching, discrimination against the Negroes, and the plight of the sharecroppers (in other words, hitting the Democratic Party where k lives...
...And there's no sense growing incensed at censorship...
...Other theatre groups and ndividuals are taking part...
...A cast of more than three hundred singers, danc ers, musicians and artists take part in the pageant, for which Albert Johnson designed the settings an<' Marco Montedoro the costumes...
...Will you please confirm the receipt of this direction and the further fact that the performance of 'Ethiopia' will not be given with the present script...
...In view of the impracticability of getting advance approval in sufficient time to give timeliness to the performances of the Living Seutpaper, it seems to me that it ia necessary that there •Ot be included any representation* of such persons...
...at Civic Rep...
...And the "pep- } pfag up," the wise-cracks and the t aeff-eoaserous laughing at its own i simplicity, conflict with the charm- $ tag naivete that still (fortunately...
...Adapted from Robert E. Sherwood's play, one of the stage successes of last season, the photoplay presents Mr...
...16 A "theatre night" of unusual interest and importance will take place Sunday evening, Feb...
...c "Wiil r i t f B s s how white car- f nations are pot in green liquid to f •Oak up the green color for St...
...To mention Ruth Draper to anyone that has seen her is to bring a flood of recollections...
...as 1 regional director -tf the Federal • Rlmatre Project,' were pressed in last week's issue...
...If it's on the subject Elmer Rice mentions, we wait with interest to see what censorship does with a true picture of conditions in the South...
...Anything Goes" on Screen at N. Y. Paramount "Anything Goes," the Paramount presentation of the musical comedy which was such a pronounced- success on Broadway, is current at the New York Paramount this week...
...Chinese Drama in Gay Blossom at tpe Booth The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley DISTILLED WATERS t "LADY PRECIOUS STREAM...
...These pictures are being introduced to Brooklyn fans for the first time...
...They are "Dangerous Waters," with Jack Holt, Robert Armstrong and Grace Bradley, and "The Lone Wolf Returns," with Melvyn Douglas, Gail Patrick and Tala Birell...
...George iklar, co-author of "Peace on ~larth...
...Or a tense' scene, wrung with emotion, comes to life before us, as the wreck in the'wintry West...
...Elmer Bice, in resigning: "The implied charge that a carefully documented factual presentation of public events could conceivably affect our international relations ia absurd on its face and doubly ludicrous to anyone who has read tile script or seen a rehearsal of the production...
...Morris Watson, directly in charge of the Living Newspaper, declares he will see what happens to the issue on domestic news, now being made ready...
...TOWN HALL SERIES The Sixth Town Hall Endowment Series, which has been an outstanding success, will move oward an effective climax...
...what must be destroyed is the disease...
...These outspoken words are the well-considered utterance of a man in a position to know how one angle of censorship has pricked...
...Heralding the opening in Rockefeller Center of the new home of the New York Museum of Science and Industry, the theatre is presenting "The March of Light," a spectacle depicting the progress of light through the ages...
...The film was directed by Archie Mayo, and supporting Mr...
...33 and March 1, Martha Graham and her group will perform...
...The Guild Theatre is the home of good dancing these days, for after Kreutsberg, the best of modern dancers among the men, America's most effective woman among the modern dancers, is to give two -ecitals...
...And the flowers of Chinese 1 drama will likewise droop without i the most considerate transplanting, r "Lady Precious Stream," a deli- 1 cate flower (that recalls Benrimo's i delightful "The Yellow Jacket"), c is presented before a beautiful c spring of blossoms, in gorgeous t costumes created by Mei Lan- t Fang, with a cheery "honorable $ reader" ia the person of Mai-Mai i Sse, and its hero and heroine that captivating couple, Bramwell c Fletcher and Helen Chandler...
...pioneer days of the American theatre, and several historic milestones in the development of light seen in spectacular fashion Theatre Union to Offer Unusual Theatre Walr...
...But excerpts from tile correspondence are iliu- < Bd nating...
...Tickets are 50 cents to $1.50 and nay be had at the Civic Repertory Theatre box office, the Workers' bookshop, the Rand School Bookhop, and the Drama Bookshop at .8 West 52nd St...
...The co-feature is "MoonMght on the Prairie," with Dick Foran...
...Her art, of a sort apart, has rare pleasure in store for newcomers...
...it's just a symptom of the system...
...Lione Stander, Ilka Chase and Percy Kilbride are prominently cast, 'rleeht and MacArthur are listed is the producers, as well as the authors, and Leon Shamroy as the...
...The Fox program includes cartoons for the youngsters, news reels and additional short subjects...
...The final decision to censor the Living Newspaper did not come until after I had outlined to Mr...
Vol. 19 • February 1936 • No. 6
