40 Little Mothers Will Open at the 55th Street Playhouse
"40 Little Mothers" Will Open at the 55th Street Playhouse The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley " BEDLAM-BELDAM JUMEL "GREAT LADY,- by Earl Crooker, Lowell Brentano, and Frederick Loewe....
...V • •/ • Oar Bronx organization is making good progress...
...Union labels are increasing in number in just the proportion that business is growing in volume...
...The Hew Loader If you want to give a friend a good Christmas gift so that he or she will think of you all year, don't forget a subscription to our official organ, The New Leader...
...at the Albee with "Just Around the Corner" and "While New York Sleeps...
...Women's Afternoon Classes at 1:30 o'clock: Monday, Rand School, 7 East 15th St., Algernon Lee speaks on "The Foreign Policy of the United States...
...Minnesota Minnesota Social Democrats who are active in the Farmer-Labor Party of that state welcome the action of its State Central Committee in advising locals and affiliates that members of the Communist Party and "such other persons as advocate the overthrow of government by force" must be expelled immediately...
...Menesha Skulnik and a fine cast of artists in a new Jewish musical comedy...
...Their dormant maternal instincts are collectively awakened...
...Branches Do Not Now Exist May Obtain Information, Charter Blanks, Membership Applications, Etc...
...PAULINE KONER TO CWCE DANCE RECITAL JAN...
...Not only has George M. Rhodes been President for some years of the Federated Trades Council (AFL) but Harry Alexander has been elected Vice-President of the Berks County Council of Industrial Unions(CIO...
...While the...
...but always the Dales were captains—not general far behind the line«, tut captains in front action against the foe...
...seeks to reduce rather, than accentuate the AFL-CIO division...
...In telling why he must sell, old Dale gives the best dramatic expression of the individualist view-applied to the American political arl industrial ''landscape...
...Installation party of the B. C. Vladeck Branch on Christmas Eve, Dec...
...17, card party and social—county affair—at 1301 Boston Road...
...Algernon Lee presided and Dr...
...But Hollywood, which is credited with such an important influence on the young mind, seems content to employ its engaging array of youthful talent in only three kinds of school story: the annual glorification of military and naval academies, as exemplified in the current "Brother Rat'f and "Duke of West Point...
...Theatre Benefit for Local New York, 8.D.F., Thursday, Dec...
...I took a gentle old lady, who hmd been instrumental in having Mew York City take over Jumel Mansion as an historical museum, to see the current 'biography with music" of Madame Jumel...
...I Tullio Carminati end Shepperd Strudwick bear the burden of this wench on her careening career...
...The few moments when the action drags into lecture are held interesting by the intensity of the concerns, an dthe increased pliability and color of Rice's dialogue...
...NfW YORK CITY The general membership meeting Wednesday of last week in the Dabs Auditorium was well attended...
...The two hundred acres and home are being bought by a Nazi "recreation" group...
...Richard Carlson, Tom Brown and Alan Curtis portraying the leading roles of plebes enrolled in the United States Military Academy, is the new feature photoplay at the Radio City Music Hall this week...
...Branch: Saturday, Dec...
...Social Democrats in Reading are active in both organizations...
...Clothing, stationery, lingerie, antiques, toys, books and other useful articles—new or used—will be welcomed...
...Based on the life of the great Johann Strauss, this musical production highlights the immortal waltz melodies that set Vienna to dancing in three-quarter time...
...Thursday, Midwood, in the home of Mrs...
...24, at 241 S. 4th St., Brooklyn...
...In addition to the four young leading men, the cast of "The Duke of West Point" includes Joan Fontaine, Charles D. Brown, Marjorie Gateson, Emma Dunn, Kenneth Harlan and Jed Pwntv maintain his point egehut humanitarian social riew «f younger folk—and the steaY minder of oar tenuis thnaml ancestors—th*t thi OBskgtjtl is the old man'»>deeth...
...Miss Koner has ^ist returned from Russia, where she enjoyed the distinction of being the first foreign dancer since Isadora Duncan to have been officially invited by the Soviet Government to tour the country and teach the modern dance at the Leningrad Institute of Physical Culture...
...The Women's Committee of the S.D.F...
...Tuesday, Amalgamated Houses, .Bronx...
...At the Cort...
...The City Executive Committee will prepare proposals to be submitted to this meeting...
...Most of the action in "40 Little Mothers" is laid in a fashionable irirls' finishing school near Paris, where a group of 'teen-aged girls share with their bachelor professor n secretly bringing up a foundling baby...
...SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION AT WORK Readers in Localities in Which S.D.F...
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...Note these events: Saturday evening, Dec...
...Song snd dance add to the color of the evening, with a colorbul ballet as Eliza dreams...
...I don't know how many will be inspired by this play to visit Jumel Mansion...
...From France, land of "La Maternelle," that educational and socially important document of rare human appeal, has come a new director, whose Rims have been highly praised by continental critics for their interpretation of the adolescent soul...
...Sharing the screen is "Flight to Fame," aviation drama with Charles Farrell and Jacqueline Wells...
...A gaudy and bawdy play it is, with Norma Terris and Helen Ford and Irene Bordoni leading the Wicked progress of the women -across two continents, as when Napoleon tangles his fate in the ambitions of the lively lass Who knows no lassitude—though *wfde her latitude (and free her attitude...
...SCREEN SHOWS "Ferdinand the Bull," Walt Disney's SiHy Symphony of a peace-loving young bull, is an addition to the programs of RKO Theatres...
...THE FILMS AND SCHOOL LIFE * —.—¦*-*»» • Despite its swarm of child stars, Hollywood films have shied rather consistently away from stories of school life, that is, as seen through youth's own eyes, and pot as faultily and incompletely understtod by adults...
...Special plans to be worked out for the general meeting and "supperette" to be held Jan...
...Louis Hendin spoke, analyzing the results of the recent nation-wide elections, the situation in New York and problems confronting the A.L.P...
...As our heritage and tradition stand by us in the crises of our life, so Elmer Riee has Dale's ancestors come to counsel him...
...Grandfather Dale, no longer hale, is planning to sell his hunrred-year-old shoe factory, and the broad New England acres of his home...
...Tickets $1.50...
...Moguy, who a few months ago :ompleted "Prison Without Bars," low running simultaneously in London with the English Korda-remade version, has joined a select company of such specialists in :hild psychology as Jean Benoit-Levy of "La Maternelle," Duvivier Df "Poil de Garotte," and Marcel Pagnol of "Merlusse...
...10 are now on sale at the City Office, 7 East 15th St., and at all branches...
...Each time she sails the ocean under different sheets, and returns to America more of a romp than ever...
...The dances incorporating her impressions of the Russian scheme, entitled "Sailors' Holiday," "Lullaby to a Future Hero," and "Harvest Festival" are based on authentic Soviet folk sojjgs in arrangements by Harvey Brown, Miss Koner's accompanist, and John Coleman...
...Third production of the Playwrights' Company...
...Madeleine Robinson, a pretty newcomer...
...18, 10:30 a. m., at 190 Belmont Ave., Newark...
...Moguy's young players all were under 16, and were taken directly from Paris schools...
...hk nerW goes crying for the patent ia«k cure-alls the Russian nffia 'scribe, nor spends its hssa • anti-Nazi howling—but tquakJ into excellent theatre a fWu J entation of democracy's ifcsk, J| large cast (several are mU ffwl to theatre-goers), 0-xJer ts* «J I native direction of t* satkir...
...I Without exception, the antics of ] the young people involved have been imagined by adults, and are designed to appeal to adult audi-ences...
...Monday, Dee...
...Sunday, Dec...
...DUKE OF WEST POINT" AT THE MIUSIC HALL "The Duke of West Point," with Louis Hayward...
...and 18-month-old Little Philippe, an engaging photogenic prodigy, head the cast...
...Here, in a setting both representative aad timely, the roost crucial problem of the time achieves dramatic expression...
...but I am sere that Jumel Mansion will make history seem more alive because of the human color and warmth and mischief of "Great Lady...
...8 A group of dance impressions of Soviet Russia will be featured on .he program at the Guild Theatre Sunday evening, January 8th, marking the return to the New York stage of Pauline Koner, young American dancer, remembered for her interest-compelling work with Michio Ito, Nimura and Straw-bridge as well as several successful solo recitals hereabouts...
...Aad what we beheld was the riotous rollicking career of a frank adventuress, who trips and firps aad flops her way from a Rhode Island ordinary (as taverns then won called) to the extraordinary role of wife of the wealthiest liquor importer before the Gold Rush...
...Money for this purpose may be forwarded to the Social Democratic Federation, 814 Albee Building...
...Reading, Pa...
...and at the RKO Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester neighborhood houses with "Little Tough Guys in Society" and "Hard to Get...
...have seemed unnatural and precocious...
...It is, I repeat, re" -eating * k a play that neither asseSsi the best of ail poss...
...29, at the Public Theatre, 3rd St...
...TheHext membership meeting is on Wednesday, 3pa*% in the Debs Auditorium...
...Likewise included on Miss Koner's program will be dance protests against present-day conditions in Spain and China and the slums of New York...
...Tickets at 55 and 85 cents and SI...
...by Addressing: Natl ^ffice, S.D.F., 814 Albee Bldg, Wash...
...The Great Waltz," co-starring Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravet and Miliza Korjus, is the screen entertainment...
...THE GREAT WALTZ" AND STAGE SHOW AT STATE Tim and Irene, radio comics, divide honors with Barney Rapp and his New Englanders, popular musical crew of radio repown, in the pre-holiday entertainment being offered at Loew's State Theatre this week...
...He is Leonfde Moguy, director sf "40 Little Mothers'MLeMioche) which has its American premiere at the 55th Street Playhouse on Friday, December 23, under auspices of the Child Adoption Committee, to whose fund for orphans will go proceeds from the benefit preview...
...Rise is very deft in catching the atmosphere of the various genera tions: these two, the Revolutionary raptain, the compatriot of Karl Schurz (who came to America after the unsuccessful German "revolution", if 1848, and volunteered for the Civil War), and the voung Dale who died in 1917...
...is conducting a rummage sale for the benefit of refugees from the European dictatorships...
...GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN REFUGEES JN these days when the number of victims of Hitlerism are sharply increasing, the National Office notes the growing desire of our members and friends to help...
...Ballet are part of the musical comedies, this season...
...Washington, D. C, and will be disbursed through the Labor and Socialist International...
...Monday, Dec...
...ThiTZ the others free to turn W Nazis, and hold the forfS best of America...
...the zany cycle of "college" stories which have served as vehicles for Biag Crosby, Joe Penner, and Gracie Allen...
...Harriet Beecher Stowe is there and, farther back, Moll Flanders who repented of her whorish ways...
...18, 8:30 p. m., Upper East Bronx Branch, August Claessens speaks on "Lessons From the Recent Elections," 767 Allerton Ave...
...We know that both will do their utmos't to make for a united organized labor movement...
...FEEDIE THE BULL" ADDED TO R.K.O...
...Students of child psychology as1 seen through the eyes of the cira-era have had to turn their atten- | tion farther afield...
...At the Majettic...
...and a rallying summon to ? "American Landeca^e...
...At any rate, the children...
...The factory will be bought by the trust—and closed...
...Dictators certainly have understood this, and have appropriated rising generations from the cradle up, and superimposed military and social obligations on family and scholarly ambitions...
...The new propaganda—for democracy—is vividly dramatized m Elmer Rice's new play, that spreads from the local problems of "Street Scene" today to all the ages of the "American Landscape...
...At the Palace it is included with "Comet Over Broadway" and "Hard to Get...
...Through pa-:ience and wide latitude in giving heir natural dialogue free play as bheir scenes were made, the director formed them into an acting rroup of considerable power...
...Other activities will be considered and applications for membership acted upon...
...But the younger folk in the family, even though tangled in personal complications, do not see how old Dale can thus betray all his ancestors have stood for and fought for...
...Lucien Baroux, one of the French's screen's most noted comics...
...Clarpn Gull to Keep The 'American Landsea RADICAL PATRIOTISM "AMERICAN LANDSCAPE," by Elmer Rice...
...The subject of child environment and education should be a passionately interesting theme, for it is bound up with the future of man himself...
...31, at 6416 Bay Parkway, Brooklyn...
...New Jersey The State 4Committee meets on Sunday, Dec...
...km I give the play wjirosl|ig TB making it both a ?alid SKte...
...As Gi-nJfather Dale fought in 1898, eve:-, major U. S. war is represented...
...19, 9 p. m., William E. Bohn and Julia Primoff speak on "America and the Munich Pact" at the Amalgamated Cooperative Houses, Assembly Hall, under the auspices of the S.D.F...
...As all classes will conclude their first term on International Affairs thi6 week, each session will celebrate with] a tea party...
...It is time that democracy had its day...
...and the seasonal crop of football film-, such as the recent "Hold/ That Co-ed...
...I suppose the point of the play is that Susie O'Grady aad any great lady are sisters under the skin (except that the lady wears more expeasive skin...
...31, New Year's Eve party at County Headquarters, 1301 Boston Road...
...Wednesday, Bensonhurst class, at 6416 Bay Parkway, Brooklyn...
...and S>Second Ave...
...Contact Sam Smilowitz for reservations...
...Polikoff, 1641 East 9th St., BrookU— A. .L___1 _ _i ____„,___;___ Esther Friedman speaks on "Forces That Make for War and Peace...
...In truth, so well does the old man AT FOX BROOKLYN "Exposed" with Glenda Farrell and Otto Kruger heads the new double feature program opening at the Fabian Fox Brooklyn Theatre today...
...Another meeting will be called within a month to continue the discussion...
...Bensonhurst Branch will hold a New Year's Eve banquet and frolic Saturday, Dec...
...Send your bundles to 7 East 15th St., Room 5Q5, Manhattan, or to the store, 5205 Third Ave., Brooklyn...
...19, 8:30 p. m., joint meeting of the Lower and Upper West Bronx Branches at the Burn-side Manor, Burnside and Harrison Ave*., at which Executive Secretary August Claessens will be present...
Vol. 21 • December 1938 • No. 51
