Well-Seasoned Play In Guild's "End of Summer"
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Well-Seasoned Play In Guild's "End of Summer" The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley IN FOR A FALL *END OF SUMMER." By S. N. Behrman. Fifth Theatre Guild play of the season, at the...
...WIFIE WINS -CP-RESPONDENT UNKNOWN' by Mildred Harris and Harold Goldman, At the Ritz...
...The grim struggles of O'Neill's "Welded," wherein author-husband and actress-wife can live neither together nor apart, are far from the lightness of this play...
...Thus, before it reached London, the play had achieved a widespread popularity among the people of whom Greenwood had written, the unemployed and the industrial workingclass of the stricken northern manufacturing towns...
...It is thus a wide though not very deep spread of our lives that the Guild presents, in its usual flawless production...
...Gable-Loy-Harlew mm Capitol Screen Uniting Clerk Gable, Myrna Loy and Jean Harlow for the first time, "Wife vs...
...the psychoanalyst who knows (almost) all about everybody, who refuses Leonie's proffer of a sanatorium and postpones acceptance of her proffer of herself...
...Most interesting is the lighting effect in which the two aisles are paths of light and the remainder of the theatre is lighted by reflection from the aisle carpets...
...Reginald Bach, the Londen producer and director of "Love on the Dole," also directed the American production...
...Political groups in America should be particularly interested in comparing these pictures with recent best sellers on Russia, such as Walter Duranty's "I Write as I Please" and A. L. Strong's "I Change Worlds...
...Cast from actors with little or no London experience the play ran for a year in the provinces, its fame seeping slowly into the fashionable theatre centers of London...
...Soviet Russia's Second Five-Year-Plan and "Stakhanovism" in "March of Time" Issue at Embassy Newsreel First Newsreel Theatre in Newark Now Open i Julien Bryan's extraordinary pictures show today's scene to be far different from the original conceptions of Soviet Russia as it was announced to the world...
...though his rornantico-readrstic hero and his idealistic-romantic heroine are bent on living life squarely...
...Rath Page Ballets to Make New York Debut March 1 The Ruth...
...Laurel and Hardy at Fox Brooklyn in "Bohemian Girl" Lovers of fun should come to the Fabian Fox Brooklyn Theatre this week, where Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy disport themselves in the M-G-M picture "The Bohemian Girl," based on Ralfe's famous opera...
...The choreography is by Ruth Page, ballet director and premiere danseuse of the Chicago Opera Company, who will also dance the principal roles in the forthcoming productions...
...Speed Production" being the state's new watchword...
...Also included in this issue of The March of Time are two very interesting episodes...
...The Embassy Newsreel Theatre has opened a counterpart in Newark, N. J., 800 Broad St...
...Hartman's Discovery" tells the story of thirtyfive years of laboratory research with the climax at the recent meeting in the Grand Ballroom of the New York hotel where 3,200 dentists received free copies of a marvelous formula to prevent pain...
...During the time the drama toured the provinces over 800,000 Englishmen saw it, an unusual feat for a provincial theatre and an unknown play by an unknown playwright...
...The players are Eleanore Whitney, Tom Keene and Dicke Moore...
...A program of four ballets will be offered, one of them by the young American composer Aaron Copland, entitled "Hear Ye...
...There are also special hard-of-hearing devices so that deaf people may enjoy the hour's newsreel program...
...Hear Ye...
...And love her they do— even though the author has assembled a motley crew of worshipers, and equipped them all with an ulterior motive, her fair fortune in addition to her fair self...
...but among the minor figures the work of Martin Wolf son as lawyer and friend is genuinely human...
...A Bach Chaconne and the Conus concerto will follow in succeeding sections...
...Depicting in imaginative style the New York of a hundred years from now, the revue features Esther Junger, the modern dancer...
...and mother is left at the end preparing to finance the radical's magazine, a periodical that if it succeeds will destroy her millions...
...The story takes place in rhythmic, racy Harlem and is really a supersensation...
...thereafter the general picture narrows to the activity of the "three women" of the title...
...Harry Losee and Fred Taggart, dancers...
...Gay gossip, in a mixed household, with serious shafts of life through a millionaire's doorways, is the melange of Mr...
...mother has never had a thing to do but indulge herself—and Ina Claire makes us ali as willing as those onstage to love her...
...The London audiences were shocked into recognition of the terrible poverty and hunger existing in the stricken northern towns...
...It is hardly necessary to urge that all those who are interested in seeing educational news films should visit this most modern and unique theatre and see an hour's presentation at ks best every week...
...His story is told in this issue...
...So effective was the human message the play spoke, and so real its portrait of life on the dole in Lancashire that a member of the House of Commons, Sir Samuel, was led, during a discussion in Parliament on the Dole system and unemployment, to hold up Greenwood's play as an example of what the actual conditions were among the English workingclass...
...the Corps de Ballet, Rockettes, Glee Club and Symphony Orchestra...
...The subject of this first symposium is "Why Labor Theatre...
...The acting (with several stars of earlier famous firms) splendidly adds to one of the most effective of Russian cinema presentations...
...a courtroom drama dealing with a night club murder...
...No longer need the dentist's drill be an instrument of torture, but instead one whose bite is as harmless as its buzz...
...The theatre has been described as the most attractive, comfortable and intimate yet to be seen...
...It is most interesting to see this Negro character in action...
...The history behind the production of "Love on the Dole" is unusual...
...There dance about this Leonie Frothingham (accent on the first syllable, not the last) three she is drawn to in turn...
...It was designed by Architect John Eberson who has incorporated several unusual features...
...Alas, too late he sees that he hasn't quite understood Leonie's daughter...
...The English press hailed the play as one of the finest dramas England had seen in recent years...
...The American company includes two members of the original English cast, Wendy Hiller, a native of Lancashire who scored an outstanding triumph as the Sally Hardcastle of the play, and Alexander Grandison, the young brother and son of the Hardcastle family...
...but he leaves Paula's flighty mother to her volatile emotions end remarries...
...The cofeature is "Timothy's Quest," based cn the novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin which has been a favorite with two generations of readers...
...Astoire-Rogers in Second Week at Music Hail Establishing new box office records, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the screen's dancing favorites, are now in their second week at the Radio Cfty Music Hall in RKO-Radio's "Follow the Fleet...
...Their slum childhood, the increasing wretchedness of the workers' families, the gathering voices of protest—strikes and Co—ark brutality that leaves many orphans—the runaway waifs that •Boar to be the army of the Revolution: the plotting and the deeds are glimpsed, are typified in the lives of these girls and the lad that grows up with them...
...Papa is good-natured though conservative...
...It will be held Sunday evening, March 1, at 8 o'clock, in the Stage Studios (formerly Princess Theatre), at 106 West 39th St., New York City...
...near Market...
...But it's in the competent hands of James Rennie, with the shyly tart Ilka Chase as the wife to whom co-respondent Peggy Conklin turns him back...
...Behrman's latest play...
...Samuel Alexander Mudd...
...it seems so satisfying at the moment, yet so soon leaves one hungry once more...
...The acting and the dialogue make "End of Summer" a play intelligent people will enjoy while beholding—and after, wonder why (like chopsuey...
...Amkino presentation at the Cameo...
...In contrast to Tom Powers' trenchant handling of this role, Osgood Perkins is almost too suave as...
...But then, friend husband writes not dramas hat economic treatises, and receives an invitation to the White Bouse...
...The picture of the family life of the workers before desperation drives them to rise and overthrow the old order, is vivid and piteous, with touches of humor enlivening the squalid days...
...Ip addition the usual hour of News Events featuring important Asia are in interesting contrast happenings of the past week, foreign subjects from Europe and with those in America...
...The new Music Hall stage show, "2036," a futuristic fantasy staged by Russell Markert, also is held over...
...RUSSIAN WOMEN FILMED AS HELPING BRING THE REVOLUTION STRENGTH AND BEAUTY "THREE WOMEN...
...Jo Miehtiner has done' the settings...
...So he cancels his trip to Ekirope (on which he was to take nhe intellectual loss that reviewed his stuff in the New Republic—intellectual yet not without body), abandons his vision of flight with Vie butterfly co-respondent—a fetching creature, though we'd have liked more warmth of body...
...Sound and picture projection are of the latest design and nearly perfect...
...S. M. Hartman has caused the greatest controversy in dental history with his invention of this dental solution...
...When it was decided that "Love on the Dole" should play in London, a feeling existed that a play so grimly realistic and so little to the average taste of the average fashionable West End audience in London would stand little chance of success on the boards at the capital...
...Beatrice Joyce, soprano...
...and it must have been hard for Kenneth MacKenna to resist taking the role of the authorhusband, for it's a part he could handle delectahly...
...In his humble home on the Donbas steppes, March of Time shows Stakhanov visited by representatives of the world press...
...1" and he leads his flock in worship with shrill shreeks and sounds...
...the first and last, brothers and well-known as actor and as designer—have ventured into the production field with a slowStarting but engaging comedy (partly by the sister of another producer...
...Labor Play Associates Labor Play Associates announces Elmer Rice, Albert Maltz, Elia Kazan and William Sehack as the speakers of the first of its series of symposia to be held on the theatre...
...also on the program is^'It Had to Happen," a comedy romance with George Raft...
...and altogether "Co-respondent Unknown" is enjoyably deft...
...Tmm "Prisoner of Shark Island" Heads Albee Film Program Today the RKO Albee begins the presentation of "The Prisoner of Shark Island," in which Warner Baxter portrays America's tragic martyr, Dr...
...and like a tame husband goes to Washington with the wife whom, after all, he roves...
...Robert Landrum, tenor...
...Just what the author takes seriously it is hard to discern...
...Through their Red Cross work we get some effective scenes of rescue work, particuiarly as the train comes to the battlefield, then dashes through the town the Whites have taken...
...singled out for Russia's man-of-the-year is an illiterate coal miner, Alexei Stakhanov...
...Plucked from the pages oi' history, "The Prisoner of Shark Island," it is said, tells the authentic story of the stormy era following the CiyjL^Tar...
...America of the Sonato in A major, cpus 3, by David Monrad Johansen...
...Through the lives of three women the story of the Russian Revolution is revealed...
...The screen adaptation of the successful Faith Baldwin novel presents the modern "perfect triangle" — conflict of a husband (Clark Gable) caught between the loves of two women, his wife (Myrna Loy), whom he adores, and his secretary (Jean Harlow), whom he respects...
...The fourth and concluding portion of the program will be composed of four number* of a less formal nature...
...Also on the program is the Columbia production, "You May Be Next," with Ann Sothern, Lloyd Nolan and Douglas Dumbrille, which tells the story of an attempt by crooks to muscle in on radio, and how the G-men, army operatives and navy intelligence officers disperse the mob...
...and the staunch girl follows him to the big, cold city, so that he may have her soft shoulder to lean on as he starves...
...Written by Walter Greenwood from his experiences and life among the workers of the northern English industrial towns that have subsisted mainly upon relief during the crisis, "Love on the Dole" was originally produced by the Manchester Repertory Theare, a semi-professional theatre in the English provinces whose audiences are to a great extent drawn directly from the workingclass strata of the North England population...
...But opening night at the Garrick Theatre in the dreaded West End dispelled all doubts...
...Paul Maui and 'Raft Head Palace Film Features In "The Story of Louis Pasteur" at the RKO Palace this week, Paul Muni is cast as the great French scientist who historians credit with revolutionising the theory of medicine and giving many added years Of life to the average human...
...and who solaces himself for Leonie's closing purse by a syndicate contract for sentimental reminiscences of dear old dad...
...The other interesting episode is about Father Divine...
...MacKenna, Mayer and Mielainer...
...W. F. Githers...
...A tense Russian, who grimly hates bis famous father (surely not Tolstoi...
...Love on the Dole" Has Unusual History In "Love on the Dole," the dramatizaion done by Ronald Gow and Walter Greenwood from Greenwood's novel about unemployment in England of the same name, now at the Shubert Theatre, Americans have an opportunity of seeing an English social play that has rocked London for the past two years...
...The presence of Ilka Chase always ensures me a pleasant evening...
...Page Ballets, for several years1 the regular ballet organization of the Chicago Grand Opera Company, will come to New York on March 1st to begin an engagement at the Adekohi Theatre of limited duration...
...It is now the first newsreel theatre in New Jersey, with a seating capacity of 400...
...There is genuine pathos (with hardly a dry eye in die bouse) through the gathering of the mothers and sisters as the revolution begins to shape itself...
...This remarkable subject is the feature of the latest issue of The March of Time now showing at the Embassy Newsreel Theatre...
...The inwoven love story gives us other flashes, including some of great natural beauty, the countryside in snow...
...The boy will have none of her money, lest it give him an advantage over the other jobless young men of our unemployed era...
...His followers gather at his headquarters, "Heaven No...
...Secretary" opens at the Capitol Theatre today...
...George Baft in"It Had to Happen" is the second feature...
...Two New Him Features at Brooklyn Strand "Murder at Glen Athol," Norman Lippincott's successful Crime Club novel of a G-man who meets his toughest assignment, with John Miljan and Irene Ware in the leading roles, heads the double featur« program this week at the Brooklyn Strand Theatre...
...Fifth Theatre Guild play of the season, at the Guild...
Vol. 19 • February 1936 • No. 9
