Artef Players Stage 7-Day Revival of "200,000"
Artef Players Stage 7-Day Revival of "200,000" In the Acid of tnaK,'*^! lish hav. P. G. Wodehcuse, Call «UU holcf c& Tor IWA IB cock, the American elssM |9 Twain, bat 1—'r' n f^M tafl over...
...famous formula NOT BEING ABLE, like the king and father of the gods, to command success, the Guild achieves the current hit by turning from dramas of sober but somewhat social significance to a sure-fire recipe of long standing...
...Sports events present 1927 Gridiron review...
...The talented director in this csji | is Benno Schneider, who it sen...
...Dance International, all this month at Rockefeller Centre...
...Then Jupiter, being god, does more...
...Canada...
...Many and many a woman—no doubt—has lain with her husband, eagerly thinking of another man...
...But in the meantime this deification of his swashbuckling sex piracies adds one more merry mischief to the randy romp of "Amphityron 38...
...In addition to the 46 news event* is an interesting short, "Gessf, Places," with Lowell Tsssssa showing scenes from Ireland sal the ancient craft ef growing sal and weaving delicate linen Canadian Labor Fights Anti-CLO...
...A seven-day revMKS "200,000 on December 7, *.Jm1 13...
...ft » thwefort not as a presentation of a Maatt on the world, or s stsay sf char-acter under stress, that one gest St the Artef these nights...
...shoeless football team from Virginia...
...It does not, however, include battle scenes or mass ^effects, as one might expect rhfough this combination of circumstances, but instead unfolds a simple tale of human emotions, conflicts and adjustments in the stark setting of an ancient Moorish fortress...
...Meanwhile exactly 152 arfSBit)-tions to date, trade unions, brotherhoods, etc., arranged benefits It Artef for its first production *i-m season, "The Outlaw," also dirsaa by Schneider...
...And out of her joyous ease,—gods will do as they please—comes hero Hercules: mildly Zeus thundered...
...and at the end, Jupiter gives Alkmena the kiss of forgetfulness...
...record storm batters tho Northwest coast, causing thousands of dollars of damage...
...AT ANY rate, a good time was had by all...
...remembered for his work on "The Last Mile...
...guild gilding OVER THIS Freudian froth is thrown the mantle of the Theatre Guild production...
...In last spring's motion picture version, by the way, the faithful wife is left unravished of the god...
...auto strike in Osteon, the reactionary politicians sgrS" last Msy that a huge vote nay-swing to the C.C.F...
...14 and 16 at Artef *vB theatre on West 63rd Street *Jft bring back the cast in their eflHBj parts...
...Motiow' pictures bring exotic movements from all quarters of the world: pictures, books, talks in addition to two scheduled dance programs at the Centre Theatre, will make this a month to be remembered in the records of the dance...
...The 4-H chooses health winner...
...And the audience takes it—with a roar...
...Beyond ft W*" ence in names there is no is*sjs«r tinction...
...Every day this month...
...The New Leader's draman* eriat wrote: "The 200,090 rubles * poor tailor wins in a lottery begins i situation we have bad Bjgsjt ti»ait before (e.g., Molierea^HSbii Gentirhomme'), but the afarta ef the tailor to ape gentility fcconw props for stylistic pantotnaneteat is freshly comic sad laHjUish varied from earlier presssia^ssi of the play...
...We shall call Alfred Lunt an actor when we see hint carry off a different role...
...The cast, which calls for only two women players, includes Rose Hobart...
...International Dance exhibition at Rockefeller Centre...
...and Sydney Greenstreet makes the minor role of the trumpeter a major comicality, with almost the flavor of a Dogberry or a Bottom...
...And would you call faithful s wife that has lain with another man, all the time happily thinking, she is with her husband...
...The new program now showing I at the Newsreel Theatre, 46th St...
...Alfred Lunt, after a long list of roles of \the cocksure, overweening, domineering daredevil sort, achieves the apotheosis of such a character: he becomes the very divinity of lady-killers, whom nothing human—and i feminine — enn escape: in true \ earnest of his foolery he assumes ! the god, affects to nod, and seems } to shake the spheres...
...More comment as the events draw on...
...Based on the internationally famous antiwar novel by JaroslST Haass, will have its American premiers es Dec...
...This will be Mr...
...William Wyfcr and Srs« Toller were among those was gm rapturous over the play* sad the production...
...Drive in Ontario TORONTO, Ontario...
...And the audience, in on the secret of the god, smiles a superior smile— and continues, no doubt, on its terrene level, to model itself upon the ; example of the gods—in whose image, or vice versa, we are fear- | fully and delightfully made.— (At I least, we are sure that Alkmena...
...The other settings, while a bit pale beside the sun-burst conception of that first scene, are pleasantly suggestive of the legended tale...
...The "38" comes like salvarsan's "606 : that many times has the Btory of Zeus' coming to woo Alkmena been retold...
...J. Hammond Dailey...
...The daughter^ ga?T the sewing machine itself, assent part of the sweep sf the swft flowing action, until the tailor swindled of his wealth, k hast k his little shop...
...and the scenic design.' of course, has been done by Mr...
...direeUr eat do when he lets his fancy fhast free...
...skiing at Sun Valley, Idaho, and from Australia the battle between s man and a shark...
...fortunate forgetting BUT...
...Harold Moffet and Abner Biberman are others in the cast...
...That cloud perch of the peeking gods is unparalled for self-mocking fantasy...
...sidered by many as ens Of S outstanding theatre dhwe'sBjiya America...
...the current play leaves no doubt as to the divine paternity of the soon-to-be-born Hercules...
...Mark SchweU, whs stats to adaptation, wHI stse wgafrpi play NIGHT IN THE NEW YORK WITH ROY GOLIARD THE Theatre Guild has blossomed forth with a happy hit "Amphitryon 38" carries over from the "Trfehcb of jean Girandoux, trrrough the deft dialogue of S. N. Behrman...
...Hers not to wonder where, hers bat to do, and bear (both of them blundered...
...Alkmena's doubts are greater still, for she is never quite sure what she has done...
...Radio City is alive with the dance of our times...
...Congress studies the President's car for booni in low-cost housing, and Senator Wagner of New York tells of the bill's benefits...
...Peeping Toms some men some time may be...
...They exchange Olympian wisecracks about earthly femininity as Mercury (for the smitten god has modestly assumed mortal eyes) mischievously watches Alkmena's intimate moments with General Amphitryon, her husband...
...Richard Whorf is Mercury, which is all we need say for that part...
...demonstration in Jersey City, N...
...J., which was broken up by the police and several arrested...
...21st...
...Geddes' second offering as a producer since his tremendously successful "Dead End" opened at the Belasco, back in 1935...
...and Broadway, New York, features the C.I.O...
...Patronize unionized American inDANCE INTERNATIONAL The graceful and splendidly costumed dances of Arthur Mahoney and Thalia Mara, at the Guild last Sunday, made fit prelude (though not part of the official program) to the twentieth century exhibition...
...Siege" is by Irwin Shaw, the young author of the highly acclaimed "Bury the Dead," and it sets its story against the background of the present war in Spain...
...The staging is being done by Chester Erskine...
...William Edmunds...
...Leading roles will be tsK by C. Brisaman as Shimele okwsest, the tailor, and M. Goldsteia sal S. Levine as the two ardent saMaa...
...candidates...
...But never so exquisitely perched ae the king of the gods and his son Mercury, who when the play opens lie gorgeously outstretched upon a cloud, looking down at Alkmena...
...f » * * FALSELY TRUE ALKMENA WAS a faithful spouse, if ever there was one...
...Lynn Fontanne has always that slightly nasal, high-pitched voice that seems to hide a query beneath every statement: in this case, thoroughly coyicordant with the role of the true yet false wife...
...With strong trade-union njapart in the urban districts and freaiat farm support in the ratal *¦* C.C.F...
...gave it a prohto tion which met with lnstaataaaei popularity Fannie Bnce, Florene Eldridge...
...though matron, was made...
...Norman Bel Geddes comes back to Broadway Wednesday evening, December 8th, when "Siege" opens at the Longacre Theatre...
...call her a faithful wife...
...200^01*'«"jm haps one ef his most famous aa most amusing plays...
...But Jupiter (so the play calls him) had an advantage no man ever possessed...
...Norman Bel Geddes to Present Irwin Shaw's New Pity, "Siege," Wednesday at the Longacre Theatre...
...who was last seen on Broadway in "The Wind and the Rain," and Zamah Cunningham...
...problem for CASUISTS NO MEDIEVAL churchman but would love to argue the question that now arises...
...in 1936...
...Kiddies cheer circus in Central Park...
...Frederic March, J*a Hsr ris, Moss Hart, Ben Hecht, Luhni Hellman...
...Vet te en-joy what a talented...
...which quite clears her mind and her conscience...
...Berman uses...
...Not even when, thinking her husband is the threatening god, she sends him in to Led a, who is still dreaming of her swan...
...He comes down to earth, and assumes the form of the husband...
...in Ontario is puttbjfSP * stiff battle against the lestnoaery forces arrayed against JtrfKj before is the his^sg^ejt- Jf* provinces has it been sswaajfejast the Liberal and Conserlawlft***" ties represent the same eisjsists, have the same outlook, eaelOj*" pected to do—and leave esj^spe— the same things...
...Sex to the right of her, sex to the left of her, Alkmena wondered...
...And the Guild is on its way to better days...
...Arthur Kober, Herssn Shutnlin...
...Hunter Gardner...
...Beginning last Tuesday with Ruth St...
...The incidental music and dsaaU are by Ben Yomen and BenjasttB Zemach, respectively...
...Hercules" is the name Mr...
...Artef Players Stage 7-Day Revival of "200,000" In the Acid of tnaK...
...6-day bike race at MadisoigpBquare Garden...
...scenes taken in Telephone Company, and private collection of Russian Czar's jewels on display...
...P. G. Wodehcuse, Call «UU holcf c& Tor IWA IB cock, the American elssM |9 Twain, bat 1—'r' n f^M tafl over ran—net walk—tst jEehsfl to hear the dettghtlul njplf|"| Sholem Aleichem...
...From stately English 16th Century dances and courtly French display, the couple swung through gypsy abandon to the strut and "Lindy Hop" of our own day...
...Spurred by financial interests tSSt fear the rise of the Canadian CsaV monwealth Federation, the Leber Party of Canada, secret pl*» «• under way In the pTtWtaca iftTb-ronto for a merging of the Liberal and Conservative parties...
...Sheldon Leonard...
...with complete disregard of aught save audience—value, he leaps from Roman names to Greek...
...Amphitryon 38" is a succession of delicate (though mainly indelicate) ti tills -tions down the corridors of sex...
...Realizing that Premier Hepburn hsd roused the opposition of sf organized labor by his aUitafe a» the C.I.O...
...Woald you...
...FIXED STARS THE LUNTS raise ever the same questions above the excellent appropriateness of their playing...
...Denis (American prime mover in the modern dance revival), the Rainbow Room provides soloists and troupes of dancers...
...Navy's parachute students "graduate" in leaps from blimp training ships...
...The play is in lb final two weeks, after which "Tie Good Soldier Schweik," s satire it two acts and eighteen teases...
...Geddes...
...Labor News, War News, Housing, dtW Timely-Subjects on AH Newsreel Screens...
...President Roosevelt catches first fish on vacation trip following recent illness, and Vice-President Garner bags 125-pound deer 6n vacation trip...
Vol. 20 • December 1937 • No. 49
