Mercury Scores Again With "Heartbreak House"
Mercury Scores Again With "Heartbrpak House'1 The Week on the Stage By Jofeph T. Shipley' HEAftTMEAK WORLD "HEARTBREAK HOVSE,"Jby George Bernard Shaw. A Mercury Theatre Production. Twenty...
...The audience enthusiastically applauded the tribute Dr...
...Under the capable and imaginative Blanche Talmud and her assistants, I watched the various age-groups in general rhythmic exercise— pleasantly free from any attempt to impose awareness in the guise of social impulse in the dance...
...The State Committee will meet in Passaic, May 15, at 10:30 a. m., at the Workmen's Circle Hall, 50 Howe Ave...
...18th A. 1...
...2nd A. D. Club—Thrce-D«y bzaar - May 5, fi, 7—in headqoirtm...
...12tj North St...
...Each branch was assigned its quota and the fund will be raised by appeals and social affairs...
...last Tuesday...
...Arrangements for a mass meeting...
...Saturdav...
...Our public is our only judge and censor...
...George Weinstock, Stuyvesant High School...
...Hffl Groenberg, Paul .T...
...and the I* nomic Recession...
...World's Fair auto cavalcade starts to 48 states, and the yacht "Yankee' returns after 30,000-mile trip...
...Savoy Ms^JJ Algernon Lee, Elias Tartan, tu E. Bohn, S. Romualdi diatc&s "kt Social Democrats View the WoriJ Situation...
...Meeting Friday...
...The purpose of the Conference m to determine whether the • incorporation of Current Events can humanize and enliven religious school teaching...
...Tay Garnett, producer of the film, also directed the picture...
...Orson Welles not only has directed the play, at a smart and pricking pace, but gives a brilliant, biting performance as the old seafarer who hangs on the borderline of wisdom and dotage, freedom for the daring fight that is true living and lapse into the slavery of soothing dreams on the comfortable cars to...
...W. French Githens, President of The Newsreel Theatres, Inc., "we are pleased to say that a steadily increasing number of people have acquired the Newsreel Theatre habit...
...ROXY OFFERS "FOUR MEN AND A PRAYER" "Four Men and a Prayer," Darryl F. Zanuck's film version of the widely read Cosmopolitan Magazine novel by David dearth, is the screen attraction beginning today at the Roxy Theatre...
...4th A. D. Club.—Symposium or...
...Dr...
...Now up on 46th Street it goes on training boys and girls, young men and women, in dance and speech technique, in choral and solo work...
...Assisting Miss Dunne and young Fairbanks is a cast that includes Alice Brady, Guy Ribbee, Jean Dixon, Eric Blore, Lucille Ball, and Warren Hymer...
...A bronze plaque, honoring the memory of Shiplacoff, will be unveiled at 'a ceremony to be held on the play site, formerly called the Sackman playground, during this month or June...
...Our program of an hour's sparkling entertainment, featuring the best travel pictures, and selected shorts, fits the time and entertainment needs of- a vast element of our population, particularly the busy man and woman to whom time means money...
...by Addressing: Nat'l Office, S.D.F..814 Albee Bldg„ Wash1)7 riE Social L)cmocratic Federation, through its Coaim^ ," j $h f'ublic Affairs, issued a statement in support <j{ <M ; movement to obtain to ting rights tor District oi CulmX residents, as follows: "The Social Democratic Federation with its National Office at the center of our government, but representing thousands throughout the country, welcomes the rapidly growing movement to extend voting rights to District of Columbia residents...
...9ta A * headquarters, 3810—14th Ave»«" have a dance in the Half Meon s* tel...
...Branches Do Not Now Hi May Obtain Information...
...A succession of delightfully human scenes show the budding grace of the girl, her joy in life, as innocently she grows, and grows in love of a sophisticated and calculating banker—until the gripping climax (which would make A compelling stage scene)—when her father, as healwaiter, stands outside the restaurant private room, where the banker i's dining and wining the unsuspecting Tania...
...death...
...May 6: KipWay Club...
...administrator of the colonies, manager of industry: each seems a futile blunderer—and all are most music-minded when any sweet siren sings...
...Irving Airman, "Ts»tion for Social Control...
...gr image to Mt...
...But who are the most competent, to guide t Financier, artist...
...Hectic activity far mslkl...
...WATERING THE SEED Some of the almost forgotten theatre groups, so far as Broadway is concerned, are quietly continuing to do valid work for the stage...
...NEW YORK COUHTY . , *9th and 11th A. D. CWii-*^ V'ladeck and Langdon Post 'P** on "Housing" Wednesday, M«f B at Community Church, 1WJ 9 and Broadway...
...Githens, "news as it comes to us, no matter how controversial, we have made a host of friends who detest censorship above all things in a >ree country...
...j Jamaica Town Hall *2hJ?iI with several hundred mefltf*™^ the A.L.P...
...voted to the gathering of material Assemblyman N. M. Minkoff wi speak on the A.L.P.-in the Lef»lature...
...Meetings Fridav...
...There is sound work and good talent here...
...flan* fa dedication of Shiplacoff pJaeai« Sackman St...
...t* American Labor Movement...
...and Labor in the US" International Club...
...R^S^J^ were adopted supporting jLTS velt recovery program aBC^ma reapportionment of electoiy^ tricts in the county...
...We find our newsreel patrons essentially fair and tremendously interested in the momentous events going on throughout the world...
...dsbt will commence an eight w«fa study in preparation for campaign speeches and meetings...
...We cannot always see on the screen only the side we approve...
...Vera Hillquit, 270 West End Ave . Lower East Side.—Meeting Monday, May 9th, at 7 E. 15...
...CONFERENCE OF RELIGIOUS SCHOOL TEACHERS SUNDAY "The Current Scene—Its Value to the Curriculum" will be the general theme of the 18th Conference of the Metropolitan Religious School Taechers, held under the auspices of the Union of...
...John L. Tildsley, Former Associate Superintendent, Board of Education...
...cess...
...enterttinSJ lasted until daybreak...
...Also are pictures of William Green, John Lewis and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce President giving their views on President Roosevelt's five billion dollar spending plan...
...The change is made to permit members attend memorial services in honor of the late Irving Fischer at 2 p, m. \ - i The drive to raise tbe quota of $1,000 for the National Office and Local New York fund was indorsed by the City Central Committee at its meeting last Wednesday...
...Charter Banks, Membership \pplic*ttoQ fee...
...Her coy gaiety is at its best, in her last French picture before her Hollywood change, directed by V. Tourjansky, who had first found her promise for the screen...
...Githens concluded, "our theajtres were started on the theory of a public forum where the newsreels could be shown impartially, and the audience can express its approval or disapproval...
...California Local Los Angeles will celebrate May Day on Saturday...
...A. I. Shiplacoft* Br.—N«xt meeting, Tuesday, May 17...
...Thursday, May 12th, 7:00 "Community Backgrounds of Juvenile Delinquency...
...SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION AT WORK...
...INSTALLATION DINNER TO HONOR SHIPLACOFF The A. I. Shiplacoff (formerly the Brownsville) Branch of the Social Democratic Federation will hold an installation dinner Saturday, May 21, at the Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 291 Sackman St., Brooklyn...
...Readers in Localities in Which S.D.F...
...BRONX COUNTY First Anniversary Celebration of Bronx County headquarters at 1301 Boston Road, Saturday, May Zi East Bronx Branch.—Mertinr m Monday, May 9th...
...the humiliation of a man who has recently been "put in his place" by the financier...
...Strawberry Festival Sf Card Partv...
...Meeting Snndsv, Msy 8: Ba» Psrk Club...
...RAND SCHOOL LECTURES Monday, May 9th, 8:15 "Peace Education in Connection With Foreign Language Studies...
...iation banquet May 21...
...representatives will nfmk...
...The presentation and the play renew the delight and the stimulus of a truly effective evening in the theatre...
...55th Street Playhouse...
...Sg| Addresses were made W Arnoni, Secretary < hapman...
...What we need, the captain thunders, is navigation...
...East Flalbush Club...
...Boat Ride...
...Ohio Local Cleveland, in addition to its quota in the L'njam Congress and Housing Drive, has appointed a committee to interview local agencies interested in low-cost housing, aiming to obtain representation at their local conferences...
...I dropped in the other day, for example, on the School of the Theatre of "The Neighborhood Playhouse," that for years drew thousands down to Grand Street for excellent work in the theatre...
...Brighton Belts.Assemblyman Brenner i<*eh8irmn of a drive for a vocational actual for the neighborhood and s moderi building to replace-the old »tsm house in Brighton Beach...
...Labor Party Newt ( *-J—« BRONX COUNTY County Campaign Traminr Qsm...
...Julius B. Mailer, Co-author, "Studies in Deceit...
...Theodore Huebner, Asst...
...J. P. Morgan quizzed in the Whitney probe...
...Hi 6th A. D. Club is holding and party at its headquartet*^ Avenue B, this Saturday «gfl May 7. Admission is 25 ets...
...Ka-t Flatbsst Ch* got out the first issue of its ndfV bgrhood paper...
...The 11th *,J* club opened its second k**~9*jL ters at 2150—8th Avenue...
...Meeting Wednesday...
...gentleman, bounder...
...A large delegation of reemten selected by the Bronx A.L.P...
...Tuesdav...
...2nd A. D3117 Coney Island Ave...
...NEW YORK COUNTY Upper West Side Branch...
...Edward PollaclCof** Transport Workers Union *r**^j his union and the C.I.O...
...Tickets for the dinner are priced at $1.25 per person and may be obtained from Minne Weisberg, 10 Hegeman Ave., Brooklyn (Dickens 2-1930), or Sam Kantor, Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 219 Sackman St., Brooklyn (Dickens 2-3237...
...m QUEENS COUNTY Steinwav Club...
...especially Mady Christians and Phyllis Joyce as the two provocative daughters, Erskine Sanford as the meek Mazzini Dunn, bewildered lover of freedom, Vincent Price as the handsome Hector, and George Coulouris as Boss Mangan, whose blustering mask of self-confidence the night at Heartbreak House, tears to shreds...
...In showing without fear or favor," continued Mr...
...t'armel cemttCT for a joint Meyer London ana A.L Shiplacoff commemoration ir...
...So long as the public prints, radio and screen adhere to a fearless policy of this kind, Americans can feel confident of avoiding the pitfalls that have led to dictatorships of the Old World...
...while the seniors presented "Everyman...
...at 9:40 p. m., after each sesim...
...August Claessens and otheri will speak...
...I. A. Schwartz, Tilden High School.—Mr...
...Bernard Feinman...
...Nathan Chanm...
...Dr...
...May 1, the Jewish Socialist Verbend held an additional celebration in their own headquarters...
...Then, with surprising effectiveness, the little ones recited and danced "The Pied Piper...
...Director, Study of Community Backgrounds for State Board of Regents...
...Illinois Local Chicago has an active and aggressive finance committee at work to raise its quota of the financial sinews to carry on the Housing Drive...
...Ludwig greeted j* opening of the Italian end) hs* quarters on Fountain and P™* Ave...
...18th A. D- W Utiea Ave...
...With beautiful and lively settings, a pleasing story that gathers to one of the screen's most touching climaxes, and two stars of the first magnitude (despite the seemingly inevitable slow movement and episodic flow—as* contrasted with our smooth continuity —of the French films), there is power that commands, there is charm that delights, there is an emotional appeal that bids you go to see "Dark Eyes...
...playground tna yy...
...In addition to the 48 world-wide news events is a scientific color reel, "Popular Science," showing latest inventions...
...In entering our fourth year of operations," said Mr...
...On following Monday* otke A.L.P...
...Rugby Club...
...All branches and allied organizations are urged not to arrange any outing or affair for Saturday, Julv 23, the date of the Local New York S.D.F...
...UBrighton Beach Club...
...House Warming ^¦'"J^f May 14th...
...Perhaps the true rulers of the world are the daughter of Eve...
...Msv IS: Br***' Title-East New York Club, 848 after Ave...
...9th A. D„ 4509 Utrecht Ave...
...But they want the facts—the whole story—and not only the parts someone else thinks they should see...
...Coney Island, Friday, May «* 22nd A. D., headquarters, *» Sutter Ave...
...The latter is perhaps duie to the heartening: letter George H. Goebel sent Dr...
...JOT OF UYIN&1 ?P§NS AT THE MUSIC HALL > —%_—4 1\~ Irene Ddmtd dnB Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., in "Joy of Living," an RKO-Radio Picture comedy with Jerome Kern music, can how be seen qn the screen of the Radio City Music Hall...
...Am...
...New Jersey The state dinner on May Day at Newark far exceeded expectations in attendance and financial donations...
...A new Fanchon and Marco stage show headlining Loretta Lee will also start' on the Roxy stage today...
...T» A.L.P...
...But so long as the films are fairly presented and uncensored, the patron is satisfied, for he feels thoroughly capable oi forming his own opinion...
...American Hebrew Congregations on May 8th, at 2:30 P. M., at Mt...
...Eugene Jackson, Tilden High School.— Dr...
...Twenty years have made even mere applicable to the world today the piercing shafts of thought, barbed with wit or irony, that drive in Shaw's "Heartbreak House...
...Jm^ 22nd A. D., Jewish Br.—Baiunat Saturday, May 7. at 905 DumAj Ave...
...NEW OWNERS TO OPEN SOUTH MOUNTAIN MANOR Announcement was made this week of the acquisition of magnificent South Mountain Manor in Wernersville, Pa., by the management of the Fleetwood Hotel on Biscayne Bay in Miami Beach, Florida...
...Among the recent distinctions accorded the film was its selection by LIFE magazine as "The Movie of the Week," an unprecedented occurrence in the case of a foreign film...
...Neboh Temple, 130 West 79th St, New York City...
...Frank Mouse...
...Leo Mtltzer, National Secretary, delivered a timely speech, establishing a friendly relationship between the naticnal and state officials...
...The Manor is scheduled to be opened on Thursday, May 12, with a program of gayety and joviality...
...Amaigmated Cooperative Bom— — 10th Anniversary CeiebraS held last Saturday was a huge^J...
...We take no sides, play no favorites and ignore all protests tending to restrict our independent policy of showing any film released by a recognized American producer...
...AsseiAlJ** Frank Monaco...
...Joseph Slsvn, "Socialized Medicine...
...Reiss paid this faithful comrade now living in Florida...
...Speakers: &Wcilman S. Ninfo, Esther FrieAsss...
...on Tuesday, May 10th, in the home of Mrs...
...Any way you look at it, this world, to most of us, is "Heartbreak House...
...MAiLLY AND MACDONALD SPEAK ON WEVO MAY 6 Bertha H. Mailly and Marie B. MacDonald will speak over Station WEVD Friday, May 6, at 8:45 P. M., on "How An Idea Is Born...
...A touching story, sincerely and charmingly played, makes the current good fare at the 55th Street Playhouse...
...August Claessens...
...LIFE DANCES ON" STAYS ON AT BELMONT The Belmont Theatre announces that starting today, Saturday, its current French film success, "Life Dances Oh" (Un Carnet de Bal) will enter its seventh continuous week at that theatre...
...The fact that the feminine prevails in the battle between the sexes does not mean that culture and civilization are thereby advanced...
...Health Needs of the' People.* Tuesday, May 10, in headqusrtm, 1301 Boston Road...
...Julius Orber «P* on Labor in Politics...
...May 14ti leper Mh A. 1).—Headquartov 390 Bedford Ave...
...1-1 V 0. R^*J 38-05 Broadway, Max Saget.f^g man...
...Midtown Cutters Branch...
...1401 Jerome Ave...
...Loretta Young and Richhrd' Greene, the new star discovery, share stellar honors...
...Eugene Lyons, author and columnist, will speak on "The Moscow Trials" Wednesday, May 25, in a midtown hotel ballroom, to be announced next week...
...reporters receive Pulitzer prizes...
...the next group performed BenetVWhip-poor-will" —the country violin contest, and the story of Ruth amid the alien corn...
...Daily concerts, dancing and entertainment will play an important part, according to Managing Director Berman, in contributing to the joy and happiness of the guests.—(Adv...
...KINGS COUNTY Bensonhnrst Br.—Mass' nwtb Friday, May 13th...
...In this day and age, after over 160 years of 'government of, for and by the people' it is absurd to think that residents at the very heart of our Republic have no more voice in our government, either local or national, than the peoples of the non-democratic nations...
...We call upon Ull our members throughout the Nation to write or telegraph their Congressmen and Senators urging that they support the movement to grant to residents of Washington the same voting rights which they themselves enjoy...
...THE NEWSREEL THEATRES: A VITAL FORCE FOR DEMOCRACY A Talk with W. F. Githens, President of The Newsreel Theatres, Inc...
...It is natural for all Americans to have likes and dislikes on foreign issues as well as domestic controversies...
...The acting of Harry Baur throughout the play is of a surpassingly natural quality...
...e ititrate Henry Soffer sndtJossg maw Charles Belous...
...Louis ReifT, Simoj Btjfc Carl O. Parsons, August ClaetaSa and others spoke...
...April -30, with the Workmen's Circle and the Your.,r Circle League...
...August Claessens will gf»t taning in public speaking...
...The cka will meet Mondays, beginning Miv 9, at the County Headquarters, Ifi East Tremont Ave., at 8:8<> p. a. sharp...
...KINGS COUNTY 2nd A. D...
...In so far as the movies are concerned," Mr...
...Louis St...
...The A.L P. in Albany...
...Wishing to spare his daughter the poverty her mother had endured, Ivan becomes a headwaiter, without letting Tania know of it...
...The Beaces...
...May 10th, 6:15 "Education as the Growing of Thoughtful Men...
...ter Ave...
...Alexander Berman, noted hotel executive, will be managing director of the hotel...
...On the following evening...
...Featured at the Newsreel Theatres this week are the pictures showing Norman Thomas charging kidnapping, in spite of Mayor Hague's decree that "Thomas shall not speak in Jersey City...
...And the girl whom we- watch through the charm of her adolescence is portrayed by Simone Simon...
...18th A. D. 1077 Clarkson Ave...
...16th A. D„ 258 OH Highway...
...Scintillating through Orson Welles' production at the Mercury Theatre, the motley gathering at the home of Captain Shotover, who sold his soul to the devil in Zanzibar, while they seem at first to be delivering themselves of angry or flippant remarks about politeness and money and sex, actually buifd their ways and words into a basic criticism of a drifting World on a stormy ocean of hidden rocks and mines...
...Reiss...
...Adolph Warshow will lead p discussion on "The Basis for Unity with the S.P...
...the surprise, concern, despair of a lonely father over his one child—all these wring him to a wretchedness that tears at our hearts and tears in our eyes, and lifts * the tale above its sentimentality to truer heights of feeling...
...Vice-Chairs* Carl O. Pai sons, has obtained I WPA Art Exhibit, to be on eh play throughout the month...
...DARK EYES 5PARKLE "DARK EYES" ("Oteki Tschornia"), French film, set in Russia, with English titles...
...J. B. Schwidel, Meyer Leiwstein, C. P. Kramer...
...The club » sues a paper, "American Lfte Pioneer...
...at 1M1 nZS Road...
...The first hour will W fc...
...Judge Levy gave a constructive talk on the program of a Labor Party...
...world is growing into "Heartbreak House...
...but in those tragic moments he rises to heights that inevitably recall the best of Emil Jannings: the tact of the astute headwaiter...
...While such groups exist, we need not fear that Hollywood will destroy the valid art of the theatre...
...who came to Wltne**?^ ceremony of 22 clubs "^IH their charters...
...sUttt Paris, "the A.L.P...
...This is a condition which should be immediately remedied...
...but is this any more hopeful a portent...
...Director of Foreign Languages, Board of Education.—Mr...
...At a time when the totalitarian spectre of Black, Brown and Red dictatorship makes for fear, uncertainty and confusion, it would be both a fitting gesture and a recognition, of the efficacy of democratic methods, that the humiliation and political enfeeblement of the people of the district, should be speedily removed, by their early enfranchisement...
...The dinner will celebrate the renaming of the group and will also be in honor of the A. I. Shiplacoff playground for children...
...Kern and 9* uel M. Blinken spoke at the OK ing meeting...
...About him the other players thrust and parry with deft foils...
...at M45 S...
Vol. 21 • May 1938 • No. 19
