BRIDLING THE BRIDE
Bridling the Bride "THE BRIDE," MYSTERY-COMEDY WITH PEGGY WOOD, AT THE 39TH STREET THEATRE Th* great mystery plays of previous aeasons touched the pinnacle of their particalar twak la the...
...with Morton Downey...
...The hen«« performance will take plara MondirHELEN SHIPMAN in "Paradiee Alley," Carle Carl-ton't mum'c ehow tvhieh mdvee >• Joleon'e .Wth Street Theatre, Monday night...
...Infinity of possible combinations has prevented a ¦Imllar exhaustion in comedy...
...Others in the cast include Vera Lavrova (Baroness Michael Royce Garrett), Edythe Baker...
...the musicsl version of i. Hartley Manners' "Pag O' My Heart," will move Monday night from Jolson's 51th Street Theatre te the Imperial Theatre...
...The set-tlnga and coatumes, especially in the "blue hour" before dawn, and in the dream of Ruaalan Belles, are beautifully conceived...
...Hell Bent Per Heaven"—The Pulitzer Prize Play of the season, will he Ihe following attraction...
...Perhaps loo soon the audience, always suspicious, catches her signalling from the window ; auch a pretty creature so atepped in crime...
...The play will house at the Bilniont, Monday night...
...This is the last production of the season...
...Then the Inapiration came: a dashing dancer, delightful mualc, and the trick is turned...
...Thay attempt merely to wipe pleasantly away hours thst might otherwise he dully spent...
...With a whoop and a yell, It starts its twenty-second season Saturday...
...Featured in the cast is Harry Fox, and includes Gloria Foy, Jay and Jane Velie, Charles Crafts, Jack Haley, Rose Rolando, Charles Hill, Elise Bonwit, Roberto Medrano...
...lyrics by Harold Atteridge and Tot Seymour...
...Hazel Dawn, Charles King and Johnny JWoley are the featured players...
...For ha would devote himself in parity and Mclnsion to sanctity and pious work, bat aha in her mortal iealonsy begrudged the goddess the flesh and ths fleahly powers of the man, and with tha soft seduction of her maiden flesh aha worked upon the desires of th* yoath, weakened by his clos* and arduous toil, and she won him from the aplritaal love of the goddess to a love that waa born of a flaming kiss...
...Retpfrmber the "plot" of Peg...
...She was a dear sweet play, and a million or more theatre-goers fell in love with her...
...Book and lyrics by Will B Johnstone;'with music by his brother, Tom Johnstone...
...Hans Maeller, of Vienna, which ahe will add te her repertory and present for the Rest tlma In this country In Boston on Jaae I. The proceed, of the JOOth performance of Rostand's...
...Pltu'ir MY DREAMS...
...and this after all Is the test of a lively art...
...A favorite dleh of my childhood was "blind pie...
...The Music Master" may come to mind, but why trouble to compare one play of this kind with another...
...Bridling the Bride "THE BRIDE," MYSTERY-COMEDY WITH PEGGY WOOD, AT THE 39TH STREET THEATRE Th* great mystery plays of previous aeasons touched the pinnacle of their particalar twak la the dramatic range...
...THE GRAND STREET FOLLIES," al the Neighborhood Playhouse Tuesday night...
...Now that the dramatic aeaann practically has ended, the ao-called lively art* again spring Into prominence, and ' although Luna Park never haa been, classified as a lively art by Ita garrulous exponents...
...but Wu-Chen cornea to love Zara wholly, he cries his abandonment of th* goddess—and lol the goddess rewards them my granting the secret of the cloth of flame...
...NOTES The New York debut of Mistinfuett, tn "Innocent Kjes'at Ihe Winter den, Monday, will be aiffnajizetl by the appearance In thr musicians' pit of the two composers of "Innocent Kjes," Blgmund Itomhrru and .Iran Schwartr.' Mr...
...These cousins have at the same moment lost their fortnne, so they must take her in for the money ahe brings...
...and Lovey Lee, whose attractive Jorm is diaplayed with lively grace...
...Lew Fields command,* the attention every moment he is* on the atage...
...Squire, * nldfi nnd Company, and Hazel I ri ,b> nnd Company "III he the vaudeville featurea...
...I'aychologlcally the transformation might have been true, as a guard, a cloak against this stranger she had married for her father's sake...
...Vet here is Tegg'y Wood, a drserling brtde-to-he, coming through the roof-door Into the household of two rich brothers, and soon commanding the inexperienced men and establishing herself for the night...
...familiar things in far-off places seem strangely new...
...Jlut her sweetness was just a wee bit cloying, despite the broguy Irish of her smile...
...she needed a daah of something elae to make her truly adorable...
...KEEP KOOL," a musical revue by Paul Gerard Smith, with melodies by Jack Fr,o«t, to be presented by E. K. Nadel at the Morosro WpirfCsday night...
...Stftart Olivier haa not Bought to reach the In-accessible In either climb...
...In which Walter Hampden li •«»*' red...
...Harry Will* bout.^wMI be shown...
...The old story of s man's temptation and fall, and subsequent resurrection through the love of the temptreaa I* I graciously colored snd made repalat-able by the oriental setting...
...J. T. S. Vaudeville Theatres PALACE Ted Lewis and Band...
...G. P. Huntley packs into his part the concentrated humor of a dozen intentionally and unlnten...
...Bchwarfi the piano...
...then the country coualn proves to be the genuine A-l beautiful dear lassie, and goes to the wealthy neighboring lord as his bride—while the cousin's money la miraculously restored...
...ROBERT WARWICK as the husband it one of the features of Samuel Shipman's "Cheaper to Marry...
...The cast Includes H*rry Myers, Louise Faaentls and Eva Novak...
...For a play, successful but doubtful materlaRffffr a musical comedy, a delightful basis...
...Cheney Brothers having invented a new ailk cloth, overlaid with 22 carat gold, the old legend can be revived, and th* story of the devoted weaver ¦nfoldri...
...How will ahe repentT la there to ift a sermon...
...Less asual It the flnal torn: she Is sngry when he hss given her hot his body, loving the goddess with his soul...
...Chieftain Caupollcan, Claude and Marion, Joe Home and l.ou Gaut, the Arnaut Brothers, the Hagenheck Performing Lions, the Hippodrome dancers, Pathe New* and Aesop'a F»-hies...
...Of the play itself not so much can be said...
...The main problem la rather, how to get rid of the brldeT I'ut her out...
...they usually succeed fairly well...
...The firat act...
...Stan Stanley, Lew Cooper, Austen and...
...In the development after the honeymoon: the daughter returns from abroad entirely changed...
...on Wednesday *«*nlng, will give two midnight performances on Thursdays null Saturdays Instead of usual afternoon performances, i Peg Returns "PEG O' MY DREAMS...
...The second event of importance was the news that Jan* Cowl had begun rehearsals or "Die Flamme...
...Hound the Town," Ihe ncn roue which romea to the Century lloof...
...Cyrano de Berg*'-ac...
...it is likely that tha comic Moant Bvcnat will remain forever unacaled...
...The real of the cast is sufficiently sprightly to maintain the standard...
...Creations...
...HELEN MENKEN in Auntin Strong's drama "Seventh Heaven," now in its taut week* ut the Booth...
...Probably, any way, a drama of this sort will deceive only those who are already 'blind...
...J. T. S. OLGA PETROVAr in hrr nu n piny "The Hurricane" al the Bronx O^irra Houec...
...Samuels and LaPrade pot In their plot...
...Forever Burning "THE FLAME OF LOVE...
...Willie Rolls and Paul Nolan & Company...
...Among the moro.perlous events of the week were the announcements hy Gilbert Miller that he would present Ferenc Molnar1*, "Roman Phast," and Erneat Vadja's, "High CT" next sesson...
...Betty Weston pulls an ordinary part out of the rut by the hauteur of her Anal appearance, after the beneficient aix montha' honeymoon in Europe...
...WEDNESDAY HOUND THE TOWN," a new intimate revue, al the Century Roof Wednesday evening...
...th* maiden, hired to betray the man, falls In lova with him...
...The Marx Brothers are featured...
...Musical lomedy by J. Hartley Manners from His Play, "Peg O' My Heart," at the Imperial "Peg O' My Heart" wag really horn to be a musical comedy...
...Aim* Bernstein designed the setting and the contumes and Albert Carroll arranged the dances...
...will |0 to the construction of • monument to the French author In "I* native city of Marseilles...
...A notable point of the production is the debut of Heywood Broun as an actor...
...B. S. MOSS' BROADWAY B. S. Moms' Broadway", beginning Monday, will show the farce comedy "Listen Lester," a picturizatlon 01 the play...
...Marry her themaelres...
...ahe should attract all her old friends and win many new ones...
...HIPPODROME "International Week"—S...
...Mr...
...he succeeds In every detail of her midnight plot...
...In the company heading the cast are Lily.Lubell, Albert Carroll, Blanche Talmud, John F. Roche, Dan HValkei...
...vealed in advance...
...LOEW'S PALACE "Leah Kleschna" will be the screen feature at i/oew's I'slace Monday...
...Hurricane" comes to the Bronx Opera House beginning Monday, after a run at the Frolir Theatre on Broadway.-Madame Olga Petrova holds the triple distinction of being author, director and star...
...Romberg will play a violin and Mr...
...WILLIAM LEA...
...Miller also said he would present a new Schnltsler play next season...
...All the old stands with their ballyhoo men, pink lemonade and ' growling franks will be there again, and In addition, Luna's P. A. asaurea this column, the "world's greatest thriller" In the shape of a new ffller coaster, dubbed "The Mile High Chaser" will await first nighter'a to aend shivers down their spines and make their stomachs ajt queerly...
...bat by Join, ing together two leaser peaks he haa piled Pellon on Oaaa and created a aun-shlny new mountain of hie own...
...A wealthy uncle flies, leaving all his fortune to a poor niece, on condltloil that she leave her father and go to live with fashionable cousins...
...hia moments of silence are as valuable as those j.n which he talks, for the bend of hia'shoulders, the turn of his wriats, Ihe angry quivering of his hotly anil arms, are eloquent...
...News of a nearby robbery dors not rouse their suspicions, deapitr the SIOOiUM in rubies the younger bachelor his...
...and Incidentally shows two wakening bachelors (and a delighted audience) that not all women talk loo much, yet that it may not be aa eaay aa one (the man) hopea lo bridle the bride, f J. T. S. THE NEW PLAYS MONDAY "I'LL SAY SHE IS/' ¦ musical comedy, at the Casino, Monday night, by James P. Beury...
...Almost aa old la the twist...
...Aline Mac Mahon...
...The Flame) a play by Dr...
...The Flame of Love" Is always atrange, always familiar, always desirous and desired—always flaming and always dying out...
...Is scheduled the last pari of the week...
...all later attempts ran th* riak of fall-lag Rat as plateaus...
...Altered through a net of sweet devotion, and produce an unexciting but enjoyable play...
...tionally funny Englishmen...
...Elinor Glyn's "Three Weeks," with Aileeit I'rlngle and Conrad ftfcgel...
...Lowls, and Hither acts...
...Flf ly Miles from Brnsdway," Colonel Frnl Lindsay, Mme...
...So we have the usual tale, with new trimmings: of the poor girl who marriea money to give her dear parent a happy old age—then finds that she loves her husband after all...
...The songs »re clever and catchy^ There is no doubt that...
...AT THE EMPIRE With the mouth of 'three thousand years tha goddess Hi-l.lng telle her ancient story, her tale of the weaver maiden who loved and waited In vain, until the Are of hai passion burned Into the cloth, and the "Flame" cloth consumed the maiden-goddess, Itself consumed and lost—until one in devotion to 81-Llnc might win her favor and tha secret of the cloth of flame...
...Hlanlsloff and Co., and, Dann and Scott are among Ihe vaudeville offerings...
...It will no doubt afford hundreds much pleasure...
...Vannessi, Lew Hearn, Earl Leslie, Frances Williams, Ted Doner, Marjory Leacb., Charles Howard and Frank Dobnon...
...The official fight pictures of the Bartley Madden vs...
...Ably after her, tripped the frolicsome Albertlna Vitak...
...Tuesday and Wednesday, under Ihe lille of "The Moral Sinnei...
...hut this M contradicted by the fact that he seems, after all, lo be fairly decent, and by her really coming to love hint...
...The music is by Lily Hyland, the book by Agnes Morgan...
...on th* happy daya when It waa served we beheld a deep round dish, covered high with a chocolate-coated meringue, lart-aweet, delicioaa —hit what was beneath that covering waa never th* same, and nevar revealed in advance...
...but a cynic ahould not go lo such a play...
...she has clothed herself In expensive gowns and in a polish of speech and disdain of manner that startle the simple old father...
...Olga Petrova in "Hurricane" at the Bronx Opera House...
...The amount of trlfth to life In auch a play might give a cynic subject matter for railing at the theatre, and at the world...
...S. Leviathan Orchestra...
...The Keith Vaudeville programs will Include Ben Meroff and his orchestra, Frank and Milto Brltton, Jack McLal-len and Sarah...
...Battling Bultler...
...Jules Jordan does another excellent piece of character work as a shyster lawyer, finding ways of taking credit for everything that comes out successful...
...TUESDAY •INNOCENT EYES," will serve to introduce Mistinguett (from the Casino De Paris), and Maturing Cecil Lean and Cleo Mayfield, will be presented by the Messrs Shuberts at the Winter Garden on Tuesday evening The book is by Harold Atteridge', music by Sigmund Romberg and Jean Schwartz...
...the comedy was genuinely sparkling, and Ihr mystery—never re...
...The Melody Man" suggqpts a new wrinkle, however...
...Billy Shone and Ed...
...Fritzi SchelT, Avon Comedy Four, Williama and Wolfus, Beatrice Herfqrd, l-ockstt and Page...
...Calliope Charissi and her ten dancing children, Will Ms honey...
...Peg has found her proper sphere...
...I.eorge Chooa' musical comedy al the Times Hquare, will score its ,'IOOIh conscculive performance on Saturday nlghl...
...Special visiting Gus Edward*' atars at every performance...
...RudlnofT, Wlnehlll and Bristol, Ed...
...With tha month of three thousand years tha goddess Aphrodite tells her ancint ^story, her tale of the holy man wooed teaqt his chaste love of the gods by a moH^L maldeh's deslre...
...The truth is that the author troubled about psychological veracity no* more than the audience, which likea tha play well enough aa it is...
...RIVERSIDE Gus Edwards' Protege Week—Gus Edwards' Annual 8ong Revue, Seed and Austin, Olga Cook and Eric Zardo, Willie Solar, Hazel Johnaon and Doris Walker, the Three Arnauta...
...The same adjective must work hard to describe "Peg" Ruianne Keene, who has a poise of chin and a sparkle In her smile,^Lsnrelte Taylor's more wistful vivaciousness might have put to good use...
...Messrs...
...Yet aha does not repent...
...Mellow Comedy LEW FIELDS IN "THE MELODY MAN," AT THE RITZ 'Ihr elements of the good old aenti-mental comedy are properly aeasoned with pert remarks and lively humor...
...In the office of a music publishing company, ia by far Ihe breeziest: although it oozes its fair share of the sentimentality, it also gives Ham White an opportunity to put over aome excellent vaudeville...
...Peggy Wood brings the sweelneat, laabel Irving'a tongue ia appealingly tart, the dear Innocence of the two rich bachelors (of Ferdinand (.ollmhalk specially) Kin I delicious...
Vol. 1 • May 1924 • No. 18
