S. Hurok's "Salzburg Opera Guild"-A Treat for Music Lovers
S. Hurok's "Salzburg Opera Guild"-A Treat for Music Lovers NIGHT IN NEW YORK With ROY GOLIARD THE Theatre Guild and its neighbor, the Madison Square Garden, have started their fall seasons.....
...The remainder of the cast takes in Harry Bratsburg, Bert Conway, Charles Crisp, Howard , da Silva, Michael Gordon, Carl Maiden, John O'Malley, Charles Niemayer, Alan Wolf son and Martin Rifct...
...Downtown Jewish Branch Jtpst...
...5, at Queens County L*b»r Lyceum...
...tickets are now being sold months far in advance, and the demand for theatre parties is inordinately vast...
...and goes out into the Revolution, to die for the people...
...the pathetic yet prophetic revolutionary: why couldn't Ben Hecht make up his mind...
...And poor Aleck—he spends some time pitying himself —is one of those lone liberals that never find truth all in a single camp, thus never can give themselves for what they value most...
...Esther Frttf man will start class for Wettest* Committee on November H. Brooklyn All branches will hole* meeUft* shortly after Election cSf jf& activities...
...Some of the celebrities who have wended their way to the Yiddish Art Theatre—since its opening five weeks ago—include Paul Muni, WilProves One of the Most Yiddish Art History lie and Eugene Howard, Fritz Lang, William Dieterle, Joseph Schildkraut, Sam H. Grisman, Anthony Brown, Clifford Odets, Luise Rainer, and Harold Clurman...
...Thursday, Nov...
...Aveijue...
...Anna Neagle, chosen for her expert portrayal of historical roles in "Nell Gwyn" and "Peg of Old Drury," appears in the title role and for the first time brings to the screen a study of Britain's famous ruler, while co-starred with her will be Anton Walbrook appearing as the Prince Consort, Albert...
...S. Hurok to Present the Widely Heralded Salzburg Opera Guild at the 44th St Theatre, Nov...
...Washington Heights Br.: Ma*t Thursday, Nov...
...The Brothers Ashkenazi" Successful Plays in 1 Never since the roseate days ol "The Dybbuk" and "Yoshe Kalb" has the Yiddish Art Theatre enjoyed such a stirring and outstanding success as the current Maurice Schwartz production of "The Brothers Ashkenazi...
...Five operas of varying length, and composed in four different periods from the 17th century to the 20th, will be offered in their original tongues, and all with the exception of one work have never before seen professional production in this country...
...Admission 50...
...6, at the 44th St...
...the bewildered liberal...
...4. at 384 Aaeeaea Avenue...
...be presented by S. Hurok in a repertory engagement lasting one week, which will introduce the first contemporary effort to emphasize the vital arts of the theatre in the operatic field...
...SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION NEWS News and Activities of State Blanches Tnrcnrghoef the United States and the National Office in Washington, D. C, at #f 4 AJbe* Building...
...Wharton...
...Also featured in the cast are H. B. Warner as Lord Melbourne and Walter Rilla as Prince Ernest, older brother of Albert...
...Last Saturday a steer did trampie a man to death...
...Monteverdi's "The Coronation of Poppea," based upon a story of Nero's amorous exploits and adapted -by Ernst Krenek...
...The minor players, Evelyn Varden in particular, as the frank, middleaged countess, and Walter N. Greaza as the American reporter compact of cynicism and gin and overerusted but not dead ideals, also do excellent work...
...if anything, too understanding...
...Only when his feminine entanglements draw together does Aleck —frightened at having to face reality—flame with a song for Zamiano, and run to die for freedom...
...Toby Woods' Swing Band will provide the dance music...
...Women's Committee: Classes at Rahd School, Mondays at 1:30, at 3 p. m. Instructor, Esther Friedman...
...she thinks he is writing his next novel...
...DISTINGUISHED ACTING STRANGELY FOR the Guild, the two chief performers (Sylvia Sidney and Leslie Banks) are allable to do Justice to their roles: but Joseph Buloff makes the revolutionary leader a truly tragi-comic creation, a miner masterpiece of dignity and pa thos...
...Being a tender-hearted fellow, Aleck keeps on telling Lola his wife is getting a divorce, and keeps on writing his wife that he loves her dearly...
...Comrades dfcg have worked so hard in their respective districts xwiH reae* acquaintances, swap experiences and enjoy a pleasant evenjuit The Rand School Chorus will * sing and a short musical program will precede the dance...
...Tickets are now being mailed and on sale...
...From the opera houses and theatres on the continent, Mr...
...New York County German Branch: Meets Friday, Nov...
...Familiar Group names among those who take featured roles include Roman Bohnen, Phoebe Brand, Morris Carnovsky, Lee J. Cobb, Jules Garfield, Ella Kazan, Robert Lewis and Art Smith...
...Wretched is he that can see every side of a question, for he can espouse none...
...The box office sale of tickets, to use a Hollywoodism, is terrific, if not phenomenal...
...for at the Guild there's the same* performance—same shootings and Killings—every night, while across t!ie way you never . know which "bronk" (as the program calls them) will trample its thrown rider, or which bull will give its would-be conqueror a bum steer...
...you can stand on the corner and take your choice...
...with a twisted smiling wrung from us at the end of simple, honest endeavor...
...proftaing us so rich tn ottering has deprived them all of adequate display...
...Frances Farmer of the films will be appearing for the first time with the Group and the first time on a New York stage when she takes the leading feminine role opposite Luther Adtery who plays the title character...
...TOO MANY HEROES" TO OPEN ON BROADWAY NOVEMBER 15th Carly Wharton announces that she has chosen Monday evening, November 15th, as the definite date for the premiere of "Too Many Heroes," the new Dore Schary play, instead of the 16th as previously scheduled...
...HURT HO OHtS FEELINGS TO THE revolution in Ecuador comes Aleck with Lola, on an illicit honeymoon...
...roax Csanfrf All branches in the county *ip meet shortly after ElecS on and sf...
...LIBERALISM GETS THE BLAME ALECK TALKS a lot about himself, as cowards often do...
...12, at 243 E. 84th St...
...THE GUILD'S PROFFER "TO QUITO AND BACK" ip what Ben Hecht calls his play, opening i the ' 20th season at the Guild...
...Nov...
...The works to be shown during the eight New York performances, the sequence of which will be announced later, are Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte...
...6th On Saturday evening...
...and two modern French works, both in one act, "Le Pauvre Matelot" by Darius Milhaud with libretto by Jean Cocteau, and Jacques Ibert's "Angelique" with text by Nino...
...Forest and Putnam Aves...
...The coward's triangle...
...THE PERFECT SPECIMEN" Off STRAND SCREEN Co-starring Errol Frynn and Joan Blondell, Warner Bros.' roman tic comedy, The' Perfect Specimen," is cxrrrentry being presented at the Strand Theatre...
...The play, moreover, is attracking, not unlike "Yoshe Kalb," nonYiddish playgoers, who, though not fully understanding the Yiddish tongue, decipher great beauty and worldly meaning in the adroit characterization of the people who reside and thrive in Lody, Poland...
...A« * BEN TROVATO " BEN HECHT .finds an ingenious opening scene, and his dialogue is frequently brightened with aphor-^ isms, stinging lines or homely truths well expressed, that can be detached and advantageously remembered...
...It will be the sixteenth pay the Group hah produced and the fifth play by Odets...
...AT FOX BROOKLYN "Alcatraz Island," Warner Bros.' melodrama, opens today at the Fabian Fox Brooklyn Theatre with "This Way Please," a comedy with music, ^^^"^T^r^^3^^^ This Thursday evening (November 4th), at the Belasco Theatre, the Group Theatre will present "Golden Bopr," a new play by Clifford Odets, as the first production of its seventh season...
...Paul Csonka, general manager, who founded the Salzburg company in 1934 "as a reaction against conventionalized production methods which divorced music from theatri<ml art in most standard opera companies," was supported by Toscanini, Klemperer and Stefan Zweig toward these ends, and Ernst Krenek, the German composer who wrote "Jonny spielt auf," will appear in New York as conductor of one of the works in- the repertoire, Monteverdi's "Coronation of Poppea," which he instrumentalized and adapted...
...range for activities for the seasta Amalgamated Cooperative ?3 es Branch: Social, Card Party a* Get-together, Saturday, Nov, jTp 8:30 p. m., in Shifre's Tea Hbos 3975 Sedgwick Ave...
...And maybe, if you go the right evening, you'll see the world's champion horse shoe pitcher make all four ringers while his pal rests his chin on the stake...
...17, and plan an Educational Program and other'activities for the season...
...The change in opening date was made out of courtesy to the Theatre Guild, with which Mrs...
...There is* nKffe variety at the Garden...
...Rodeo and revolution roar upon Eighth...
...And maybe, like us, you'll meet a cowboy you know on the homeward subway, and discover that Rivington, N. D., means Near Delancy...
...It is a drama in which love, revolution, characters in crisis, and the plight of the libera...
...TT*HE first reunion of Social Democrats right arret Election will be held in the Debs Auditorium, 7 East 15th St., on Thanksgiving: Eve, Wednesday, November 24...
...Two seasons ago, the Salzburg Opera Guild* was invited to appear during the Festival period in Salzburg — singular deviation in the policy of the Festival authorities — and newspaper reports declared that their performances outshone the programmed events...
...are generously interifthig^fccL Any one of Mr...
...Classes in Bensonhurst on Wednesday, 1 p. m., at 6416 Bay Parkway...
...City Central Committee meeting postponed to Wednesday, Nov...
...Csonka obtained a cast of principals who were equipped vocally 'and theatrically for the rigors of tile repertory method, assembling his company in country retreats in the Tyrol, where four to six months were spent rehearsing each production...
...Wharton was formerly associated, and which must bring "Madame Bovary" from its out-of-town tryout on the day earlier selected by Mrs...
...German Branch: MURs Frtssy...
...Recently, the troupe appeared with success in a season embracing their whole repertoire at the Stadt Theatre in Vienna...
...4, at fW f...
...Hecht's three problems would nave made a vivid play...
...VICTORIA THE GREAT" AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL "Victoria the Great," the Herbert Wilcox' picturization, of the reign of Britain's longest ruling monarch, is now on the screen of the Radio City Music Hall...
...He has left his wife behind...
...when it was given at the Metropolitan Opera...
...a comic opera not seen here since 1928...
...Topics: "Women Through the Ages," and Public Speaking and Parliamentary Law...
...When the two women are about to meet, tenderhearted Aleck, rather than face them, leaves Lola a sweet, sweet letter (doubtless he sent his wife one, two...
...The works have been directed by Eugen SchulzBreiden, formerly a director in Vienna and Berlin theatres and of numerous European films, with the avowed purpose of eliminating the star-system and its resultant disadvantages and of developing the art of theatrical ensemble...
...10, 8:30 p. m. The City Executive Committee will meet Wednesday, Nov...
...Broadway...
...But he is brave and understanding...
...The Matrimonial Market" "La Cambiale di Matrimonio"), which was the first opera ever written by Rossini...
...But he seems to take the sham liberalism of his hero, ' and the equal sham of its final urge to direct action, as seriously as he takes the genuine simplicity—not too heavily touched with a Latin sentimentality—of the one real figure he has created: Zamiano...
...Theatre, the widely heralded Salzburg Opera Guild wil...
Vol. 20 • October 1937 • No. 44
