Marco Polo Heads Easter Show at The Music Hall
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
"Marco Polo" Heads Easter Show at The Music Hall The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley STIlAga^Wff -THE SEA GULL." By Anton Chekhov. Stark Young's translation. Sixth play of the 20th...
...Headed by Maxie Rosenbloom, the ex-battlers ; include Fidel La Barba, Phil Bloom, Johnny Shepherd, Art Lasky, Joe I Glick, Pete De Grasse, Mickey Mc-Avoy, Barney O'Toole, Harry Burns, Jimmy Dundee, Frankie Dolan and Billy Coe...
...3...
...MOTO'S gamble' on FILM BILL at palace Cauliflower alley is well represented in "Mr...
...Alfred Lunt has been too long the swashbuckling, domineering fiicher of love, the pirate, master man, to quiet into the nuances of this role...
...For over a year the Actors' Repertory Company has been quietly searching for another play it could present to theatregoers who have demonstrated their interest in worth-while efforts...
...la deck on committee TO HONOR ACTOR Councilman B. Charney Vladeck is chairman of a committee to honor Lazar Freed, well known Yiddish actor, upon his return to the Yiddish stage after an absence of two years...
...Lsm M. Lewis speaks on The Muwxa of the S.D.F...
...KINGS COUNTY Williamsburgh Branch...
...LaGuardia and HerbeR Morrison, distinguished British I* bor Party leader now visiting tat United States...
...Other luminaries who are expected are Luigi Antonini, State Chairman...
...Assemblyman net- addressed our meeting "BW Thursday...
...3rd A. D. First edition of *j new paper, The Pioneer," ii< the press...
...and the actress' old brother, regretting his pious years...
...Arid although mother turned from the man she loved at the family's call, daughter in her turn gets her -truly loved...
...Meeting Monday, April 11, at 7 E. 15th St...
...An all-star shot has been arranged and a fine dsae band has been secured...
...and "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod," a new Disney Silly Symphony cartoon in technicolor...
...Meeting Tues., April 12, at 7 E. 15th St...
...Butcher has contributed to several British newspapers, including the London Daily Herald, the Northern Daily Telegraph, and the Yorkshire Evening Post...
...J* Am...
...NEW YORK COUNTY A vigorous "Save the East Si<W drive has been launched by the IS* bor Party of New York County,* is announced by Harry Green'Mn County Chairman...
...The cue-monies were conducted by Count}, Executive...
...Louis B. se2| were guests of honor...
...Countilnm Quill and Secretary Abe Tads spoke...
...OVWNS COUNTY- . Corona Ctab...
...Discusskro <* employment Insurance" FrMjgj April 8, in club rooms, 102-dJ "fa Back of the union shorter hours, higher wsges, MP beOW working conditions...
...musical revue which has been packing them in at Labor Stage...
...This is the first convention to be held since the adoption of the 'revised rules of the party...
...April 13, 8:30 pM...
...nCX Ebenstein, entertainment...
...And about them, older, are the futile folk: the prosy schoolmaster whom Masha marries as a drug to drown her love tt the boy...
...F., 814 Albee Bldg., Washington, D. C, at the rate of 500 for $4.50...
...There ell plenty of entertainment smd goal fellowship...
...and the Labor Pare members feel sure that they hill provided a program that will dan* their neighbors and fellow Labof Party members throughout tat city...
...living folks are moving on, yet the ghosts direct their ways...
...Sam Schwartz is company manager...
...Austin Lewis, prominent labor attorney, w-ill lecture oh current events at Druid's Temple, 44 Page St., near Market, Monday evenings, April 18, May 2 and 16, and June 6. Admission is free...
...814 Albee Bide-WaaaJfcjl Housisq feefiriere ^^j - T1 INTEREST in the S.D.F: nation-wide drive for decent ho*M is on the upgrade...
...Carry the message of Social Democracy to your trade union and other friends...
...Other cities that the road company of "Pins and Needles" will play are Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburgh and Boston...
...Isidore Held, Edward A. Relkin, Leon Hoffman, and Jack Carash...
...9th A. D, Club Rooms, 45MJOf* Utrecht Ave...
...Toby Wood's Swing Orchestra will play the dance music...
...affair is the annual Bronx County Ball...
...some -Worthwhile observations on the subject may have slipped through...
...S.D.F...
...But, of course, most of the Scribner readers do not pore over the columns of this paper...
...Judge Jacob Panken, Elias Tartak, Hedwig Wachenheiro...
...Meetm* Tuesday, April 12...
...6th A. D. Mass meeting in P S. 105, Cruger and Brady Am...
...This is a yearly reunion of hundreds of Bronx Socialists and their friends...
...East Bronx Branch meets Mas...
...membership-at-large is constantly on the increase...
...all 163rd St...
...The screen play is based on a recent Saturday Evening Post story by A. H. Z. Carr...
...NEW YORK COUNTY East Side Branch...
...The sets are by S. Syrjala, the choreography by Benjamin Zemach, and the special dance routines by Adele Jerome...
...back—in order to attack all proletarian critics...
...California San Francisco...
...J. Hovde, Director of the Pittsburgh Department of Public Welfare...
...ACTORS REPERTORY COMPANY TO APPEAR IN "WASHINGTON JITTERS" "Washington Jitters," a satire on political bureaucracy, will be presented Monday evening, April 18, at the Guild* Theatre, under the joint management of the Actors' Repertory Company and the Theatre Guild...
...Assemblyman Nathaniel a. Minkoff, and Girard J. Muccipum and Isidore Nagler...
...A sorry company, to the roots revealed...
...NEW YORK CITY The next important S.D.F...
...Wednesday," s3 13, at 241 South 4th St., Rvsdfw Beesoahnrst Branch...
...A fine concert is being arranged...
...Directed by Max Ophuis and photographed by Eugene Schufftan, the firm effectively employs many tricks and camera devices...
...The Glory of Easter," religious spectacle, always one of the most important events on New' York's theatrical calendar, is being1 presented for the fifth time this year...
...Upper West Side Branch...
...Jaceh ttjjL der, toastmaster, introduced Wi Karlin, Louis B. London, Aug«t Claessens and others for brief addresses...
...Bring your friends...
...MEMBERS-AT-LARGE The S.D.F...
...is s more appropriate phrase than to make the fourth word "Shakespeare," as English royalty once did...
...The City Planning Commissioai attempt to have the East Side # toned into a high-class, expensive residential area will not help *P city," said Mr...
...Connecticut The Socialist Party will hoia a State Convention in the Obeh Grotto Hall, 1211 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport, Saturday, April 9. The convention will convene at 40 a.m...
...Steamer: Bear Mountain...
...Quill will report on work...
...Speakers, Assemblyman • x. Minkoff, Couneil-men S. Ninl...
...1st A. D. Splendid turnout tt installation ceremonies held S headquarters, 715 E. 138th St Assemblyman Minkoff...
...Alex Rose) State Exsct-tive Secretary...
...the observant but casus' doctor, jealously loved by the steward's wife...
...And perhaps it is not immodest to suggest that through those years (maybe by accident, or error...
...Starting out in 1935 with Sunday night performances of such one-act plavs as "Hymn to the Rising Sun," "On to Such Glory," and "Private Hicks," the company solidified during the run of "Let Freedom Ring" and has remained a unit ever, since...
...Reservation 85 cents...
...Order from National Office, S.D...
...LFONFDOFF'S •the GLORY Of easter' again stage presentation *• Headed by the premiere showing of Samuel Goldwyn's "The Adventures of Marco Polo," starring Gary Cooper, the Radio City Music Hall's big Easter show is comprised of a four-part program: The film, a romantic spectacle based on tbe fabled life of the 13th Century adventurer, shares the attention of the Music Hall's holiday audience with "The Glory of Easter," the famous "Kamenoi Ostrow" cathedral scene which has become an annual tradition at the playhouse...
...At last the members agreed unanimously on the merits of "Washington Jitters...
...The affair will be held in Burnside Manor, Burnside and Harrison Ave., on Saturday, April 23, 6:30 p.m...
...hot Director Robert Milton, with Lynn Fontanne and Alfred famVMaiw'"«I%e Sea Gull" so lively a flier that one almost sees sunshine through the Russian gloom...
...by some 200 members...
...Make your contributions for Loyalist Spain through the S.D.F...
...Proceeds to The New Leader and the Social Democratic Federation...
...Comparison with "Topper" is inevitable...
...There is, of course, high comedy in this portrait of the aging actress who lords it over those.around her, who condescends — but so affectionately!—to her son, whose one interest (and even thst not long sustained) rests in herself...
...now you don't...
...Letm Rosner speaks on The Work » the I legislature" Friday, AnsiLA in Club Rooms, 424 W. 23rd St 13th A. D. Dance and Sag" Evening Friday, April 22, in mm> rooms, 438 W. 125th St...
...I Brow, secretary, organization...
...8, at 3117 HSemy Island Ave...
...KINGS COUNTY 2nd A. D„ Brighton Oak Aug*** Claessens speaks or...
...3 ™ BRONX COUNTY...
...by Addressing: Natl 0«ce...
...And Lynn Fontanne makes us aware of every flick of mood and manner, hi Irina who once was a star...
...Hedwig Wachenheim's name was left out of last week's story as one of the speakers at the Women's Day Celebration...
...BOOBOISIE CRITICISM Theye are certain critics that have achieved a wide reputation largely by assuming their own value, by referring as of matter of course to works few others have read—and for the most part deserving of the neglect—and by writing with something between a cold sneer and bland condescension of their fellow-critics...
...pins—needles" road company opens april 18th in philadelphia Philadelphia will be the first out-of-town city to see "Pins and Needles," the I.L.G.W.U...
...Secretary Abe Tuviaf Cooneilmen Ninfo and Qe!6 torn' Assemblyman Muccigrosso addressed the meeting...
...Hereafter, meetings will 'be hehiji neighborhood halls...
...and Mrs...
...Petition-cany, utging the City Planning Cometh-sion to revise its East Side reaming plan will be distributed M 50,000 tenants in the ares sjt 50,000 "Save the East Side" leaflets are being printed, be *ta*X The clubs of the area affected 0} the rezoning plan have organhm to push the drive, and a coaiuiitMl composed of representatives of W 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th A. Si will direct the activity...
...All comrades must get busy and hustle in ads for the Journal and push ticket sale...
...Mickey's Circus," a footlight fantasy inspired by the beloved Wait Disney animated cartoon creations in which all of his famous characters are brought to life...
...h. butcher to speak at rand school FORUM Harold Butcher, British foreign correspondent and editor of The Foreign Press, will speak on "British Foreign Policy" before the Rand School Forum on Saturday, April 9, at 2:30 p. m. He will discuss the position,- of England and the United States in the present European crisis...
...jb Meyer London Branch...
...he captures it, then of a sudden is declaiming, striking too blatant s pbse* Still it is comedy...
...Arthur Lessack did the vocal work...
...The Rand School Women's afternoon*'classes will wind up their season with a luncheon Monday, May 2, at 12:30 a.m., at the C and L Restaurant, 2131 Broadway, near 74th St...
...I New Jersey State Committee meets Sunday, April 17, 10:30 a.m., at f/90 Belmont Ave., New-ark...
...It has added to its record Albert Bein's anti-war play, "Bury the Dead," and E. P. Oonkle's drama of the American farmers in Alaska, "200 Were Chosen...
...Au'pMB 6th A. D. Center and Van JCest Clubs...
...Rush anything and everything that is salable...
...jabor Party new] BRONX COUNYY5 i The Bronx Count} Ball will fat held next Saturday night at Hum Point Palace, Southern Blvd...
...The* sad Stuff, Chekhov...
...It will elect a State Central Committee of two representatives from each Senatorial District, a state chairman, a vice-chairman, a secretary and a treasure...
...More than 1,600,000 persons have already witnessed the pageant, produced by Leon Leonidoff, and it is being repeated this year at the request of hundreds of patrons from all over the country* whro expect to be in New York for the holiday season...
...i"women are like that" opens at the strand With Kay Francis and Pat O'Brien as its co-stars, "Women Are Like That," a new romantic comedy flying the Warner Bros, house flag, will open at the Strand Theatre this morning...
...This acting company will be remembered as one which has received considerable acclaim during the past three years for its productions of fine dramas...
...Karlin, A. ©rialow and others discussed the "Moscow Trials...
...Due to the revised party rules a large number of .towns will be represented...
...Involving 42 scenes and 53 characters, it includes the entire active membership of the company and several associates from the outside...
...Moto's Gamble," the new Peter Lorre starring murder mystery at the RKO Palace and j the Albee this week...
...The performance is scheduled to take place at the Public Theatre on Second Avenue on Wednesday, April 20th, at 2:30 in the afternoon, n Among those active on the committee are Maurice Schwartz, Jacob ¦ Ben-Ami, Rubin Guskin, Jacob Mestel, William Roland, Dr...
...At the 55fft Street Playhouse...
...Thus George Jean Nathan, in the April Scrib-ner's, pats Louis Schaffer on the...
...jezebel' and 'mr...
...L'jj...
...Tickets are 55 cents...
...It will receive S «jg circulation in the district...
...Financial contributions to help the drive should be sent to the National Office, S.D.F., SI4 Albee Bldg., Washington, D. C. LITERATURE Our latest leaflet, "Mission of the Social Democratic Federation,* is selling fast...
...A road company opens there for an indefinite stay on April l&th...
...The ghosts take care of that...
...In addition to his work as editor of The Foreign Press, Mr...
...A new Fanchon and Marco production, "Today's Idea of Yesterday," headlining William Hall of motion picture fame, also is on the- Roxy stage jthis week...
...and his sweetheart, whom the lure of the stage and tbe spell of Trigorin hear rashly Off...
...GHOSTS GET ACROSS "THE TENDER ENEMY..' Film from the play by A. P. Antoine...
...The road company, made up of ladies' garment workers like the original I.L.G.W.U...
...It would only increase the alreadf bad slum conditions in these sections, and give the landlord* » chance to raise the rents...
...Irina's son, never taken seriously at home until his success outside comes too late to sustain him...
...In "The Tender Enemy" the emphasis is reversed...
...in the living world...
...IN OLD CHICAGO" OPENS at the roxy "In Old Chicago," Darryl F. Zanuck's special production, starring Tyrone Power, Alice Faye and Don Ameche, is the featured 'screen attraction this week at tbe Roxy Theatre...
...The East Side must be •**» for the low-cost bousing projete which are now being pmumt-There is no other way out...
...these are sound lives distorted, spun awry...
...players, was directed by Robert Gordon, formerly in the Eva LeGallienne troupe...
...Tenth Anniversary Cm ebration, Saturday, April 80...
...and Mr...
...While tke drive has been on tor bm§ short period, large-scale public conferences are alreadyassttfljjl in a number of widely separated cities...
...Watch for details...
...Dues 25 cents per month...
...It is a novel presentation of the theme, ingenious, well done, entertaining...
...A Georgia comrade writes: "I think the pamphlet is well written, and its clear, simple language is what we need...
...The Ainu f Organised Labor and the AUX Friday, April...
...Wednesday...
...The play is being staged by Walter Hart, and the settings have been designed by Lawrence L. Goldwasser...
...Director of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority, and Dr...
...There is comedy,- too, in the wistful, would-be blase author, Trjjgorin, who would rather Ash than write: poor thing, his Muse tdtenerits him till he lifts the lien!—aa Irina torments him with her too demanding love, when he would rather loiter, take what Kfe sprouts along his path...
...SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION AT WORK Readers in Localities in Which S.D.F Branches Do Not Now Rife May Obtain Information, Charter Blanks, Membership AppUcatimj^ Etc...
...Marco Polo" Heads Easter Show at The Music Hall The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley STIlAga^Wff -THE SEA GULL...
...The two stars have the support of an -unusually large cast that includes Ralph...
...She delivered a brilliant address...
...The Theatre Guild has given "The Sea Gull" a production of rare quality, speedier than the Le Gallienne offering of 1925, but thereby gaining in the contrasted power that makes this drama, concocted of life's queer blend of lights and shadings, as baffling and as moving as life itself...
...A banquet will be held in the evening in the same hall...
...would mean the eviction of * thousands who live there not These people would have no P'** to go, and would eventually m forced to find homes in the remitting low-rent areas...
...it is full of comedy rising from the intrusion of spirits (now you see them...
...M«rt than 6*0 members and friendTst tended the installation 11 rfnmim and banquet last Sunday iewS hoven Hall...
...That being no easy task these days, over 700 scripts were read and rejected...
...Judge Matthew 1. Levy, County Chairman...
...The Chestnut is the "house in which the revue will be given...
...Among gthose who have accepted **~ speaking engagements at the conferences are ' Catherine Bauer 1 of the United States Housing Authority, Ernest J. Bonn...
...Given three ghosts whose lives . had centered around the same woman, come together at 'the engagement party of her daughter...
...Bring bundles to store or 7 E. 15th St., New York...
...Meyer Loadm Mr...
...Special talk by Abe Simon of Passaic on "What Are the Prospects for a Labor Party in New Jersey...
...Forbes, Herbert Rawlinson, Melville Cooper, Grant Mitchell, Gordon Oliver, i Thurston Hall, Georgia Caine and William Hopper...
...4th A. D. Installation of sew ficers held last Friday and attend...
...For the attitude he learnedly pronounces is an echo of what this column has been stating for years...
...WOMEN'S COMMITTEE Rummage Sale new going on at 5418 Third Ave., B'klyn...
...They have, he de-clares^invariably cried for propaganda plays, not recognizing that a smile is more potent than a brickbat...
...Lower West Side Branch...
...day, April 11, at County Real, quarters, 1301 Boston Road, Amalgamated Cooperative Home Branch...
...In that film, the main action is in the effect of the ghosts upon the living...
...Sahara* Ninfo...
...These areas are already c*ij...
...Around (tele two, the tragedy takes beffi With sincere and sensitive fervor or restraint, as the play moves them, Richard Whorf and' Uta Hagen enact the tragedy of the next generation...
...Nathan—if he has ever deigned to read it—can comfortably ignore it and still pose as an expert on the opinions of social thinkers...
...Nathan's researches have probably gone little farther than an occasional occasional glance at the New Masses, with an ear lent to popular rumor...
...The supporting film attraction of the Paldfce is "Jezebel" with Bette Davis...
...Greenberg...
...while the daughter's engagement gives place and purpose to- the ghosts, the main interest is in the retelling of their lives with the mother1—who proved a "tender enemy" to all three...
...Over a hundred members and friends crowded the home of Comrades Warshow last Monday to hear Eugene Lyons...
...Invitations have been sent tt Mayor...
...Committee channel are Morris Lehman, women...
...If you live in a locality where there~is no branch, affiliate through the National Office, S.D.F., 814 Albee Bldg., Washington, D. C, as a member-at-large...
...SPANISH LOYALIST FUND The National Office is still receiving contribution for the relief of Loyalist Spain and transmitting the same through reliable and reputable channels...
...Sixth play of the 20th teaton of The Theatre QuikL At the Shubert...
...Tickets and letters announcing details of the May Day state dinner at Newark are being mailed this week...
...crowded, and it would is a* **# solve the housing problems of mt city to intensify this overcrowding...
...Place to bet* nounced by mail...
...Local New York Boat Ride, Saturday, July 28...
...Living folks walk right through them, disturbed only if a gate opens or a champagne cork pops without human handling...
Vol. 21 • April 1938 • No. 15
