Art and hntertainment
Aithar, JOHN HOWARD JAW SON
Art and hntertainment By JOHN HOWARD JAW SON Aithar »f "ProcessionaP' the •piMtxg vf "frocestionql much critic* hoi -.n -. In |»rc&J A* A«/.f (i 01/ opiHiuna ett'i (if ...
...The cast will include sixty dancers, actors and singers, among them: Albert Carroll, Blanche Talmud, Lily Lube!!, Martin Wolfaon, Paula Trucman, George Heller, Anne Schmidt, Msrc Loebell, Florence Levine, Harold Minjer, Polaire Weismann, Otto Iluli-cius, Allen Glenn and Philip Mann...
...Bsrrie tells us definitely to keep our eyes shut...
...Ruth Chatterton, enchanting him with har gypsy ways, is a dancing, lively lass...
...Broadway Brieft Rehearsals of the Rlngling Brotlierl and Barnum and Bailey combined Circus were in progress all yesterday l» Madison Square Garden, preparatory ts the dress rehearsal tomorrow night and the formal opening this Saturday afternoon...
...Earl Carroll will transfer "Whit* Cargo" from the Comedy to the Thirty* ninth Si red' Theatre, Menday night, when the 000th performance will bs celebrated...
...There is delight in wstching the devices by which Babbie lays bsre -the nsive self-importance of the twrnty-one-year-old minister, making him remember that while he is a msn of God, he is also a niah...
...Vr ¦ high fell Olid semen l A genl r ¦ ¦ = writ ing lo the I ' - ' i Sun 10 express hi* views on censorship statei with interesting finality that "true ail la essentially aest set ical " It ii my own feeling that thia whole d 1 still ct ion a bout art is meretricious and atupid in the theatre The oiily( po&sible difference between a good play and a bad play is thai the former Is more deeply and vividly entertaining At first tbought thin sounds absurdly like a truism...
...Barrie's Bubble "The Little Minister," With Ruth Chatterton, At the Globe Theatre Gypsy l*dy Babbie, calling herself a bubble, aplly characterises "The Utile i Minister...
...Not a very profound secret, but merely the author's humble desire to entertain, and his Arm conviction thst entertainment is the only thing thst matters in the theatre...
...famed lady from Dubuque could take offense...
...Perry Colt, a high-minded and brilliant physician, has been treating her -presumably for syphilis...
...The settings and costumes have been designed by Aline Bernstein...
...But in her middle ground Ruth Chat tuton plays delightfully and lightlj slung, tenderly strumming strings ol our hearts that Bsrrie finds, with sym pathetic staging and beautiful back grounds snd fair sweet msiden anc blundering and sll the charm snd ad venture and success of Bsrrie's fsvoriti hunting ground, Never-Never Land...
...Dorii Nilef will be teen in an interpretatloi of the ."Persian Dance," from Mous torsgtky'i ballet, "Khovanchtehina...
...What is Art * A g.eat many p< ¦ i - are spending a gieai deal of \wluable time, trying lo diaw the line...
...The Night Howk" gives us a vivid insight into her psst profession, leaving nothing tn the imagination, but so restrained is the playwright that not even th...
...Mamie Buck is a burned out prostitute, just about resdy for the scrap heap...
...Succeeding audiences have gradually found them-selvea in the secret of "Processional...
...Eleanor Boardman play the leading role...
...W. M. F. ! Neighborhood Playhouse Third Subscription Bill, Open* Tuesday Night Tuesdsv evening, the third hill of the subscription season will be presented t fit The Neighborhood Playhouse—a j double bill of dance dramas...
...Yet 111 its full meaning I feel auie that it is not generally admitted...
...And, ss in all good fanv stories, we see eatable and the Little Minister living happily ever after—as long as we keep oar eyes shut...
...The management...
...In the last scene of "Sooner and Later," Thomas Wilfred's Clavilux, or color organ, will be used for the first time in any theatrical production...
...Ihe intellectual theatre should have nothing to do with what j ate aptly termed stomach-laughs It is ! I apparent thst "Professional" provoke*1 certain . • of thin anatomical var-] fifty, The conclusion is obvious II is not mi And perhaps that is just ss j Kl Ii 1 have wild en a jaxx play for no I moie solemn reason than that }uu Strikes me as being popular, slimula-mg and full of lively force, and because , in Shilie < vhtn't own words, 'it tickles I }Our spine " 1 his la the only conlribu j jtion 1 can offer to the discussion now be ng carried on a* to whether jaaz ! is an art...
...This bill s scheduled for a limited engagement only...
...Maisie knows no other wsy nfnnaking a living, and she is too old to try another new...
...Iduret'e Taylor in "Pierrot the Prod-i|al" mil give her final performance Tuesday afleraeon, at the «»th S»r*** Theatre...
...Vivian Martin will follow Helen Hayes in the role of Dinah in "Quarantine,'' at Henry Miller's Theatre, when Miss Hayes beeoraea Cleopatra In The Guild's production of "Caesar and Clio-patra...
...Comes then Welter, the doctor's younger brother, whom he loves like a son...
...and "Pilgrims of Love," fror "Sweethearts," sung by Frank Mnulai and Capitol Male Quartette...
...Hell-Seat f*r Heasea...
...no one dare open his eyes lest he break the spell of fairyland, snd sll things become real and twisted snd ugly again...
...Hayes, a | patient...
...The play is brilliantly acted...
...the past of any vian...
...Five months later we lee Maisie as a beautiful young flapper, enjoying life to the full—but she can't keep a job, because wherever she goes men insist upon making love to her...
...Whithorne's music for "Sooner" is ultra-modern...
...The j Legend of the Dance," is a medieval interlude by Agnes Morgan, with music hy Lily Hyland...
...Gombarelli...
...It ia a during play, one of those that attracted the unfavorable attention of the morons in public office who nought !¦> "purify" it...
...they har* revolted against a reduction in th* price of cloth, have flung a clod of dirt in the face of their English overlord, and are waiting now to oppose the advancing redcoats...
...But Maisie swears that se will go straight if he will only give her back her wasted bloera...
...But it is not s suggestive plsy, and those who are looking for a "kick" had better look elsewhere And most of all, it tackles a nightly important social problem...
...The Youngest," recently seen ai th* Gaiety, with Henry Hull and Geneviev* Tohin, will come to the Bronx, April 6 "TheNight Hank" Mary Newcomb Doet Exceptional Work in Daring Play at Bijou Mai v Newcomb, playing the part of a i ejuveiiated Ijady of the Evening, runa away with all the honors in "The Night Hawk...
...Iiow-evei, took ita stand with the Province-toWn players ami refused to change a line or a situation...
...Knthleen' I.owry is beautiful snd effi-ci(nt ss the doctor's nurse and Margaret Lee is good ss Mrs...
...nothing but a whimsy could develop under the evennig eky George W. Harris has provided for the act...
...trademark has ; come In he handled about so indis j erianinately that it ceases to have a meaning at all Apply it, for instance, j to the gfeatesl American comedian, AI Jolson, in "Big Boy" Tell the woildj thet his blackface characterisation j i symbolizes the upward struggle of the j Negro, ending in a great horse race in ; which the color line is passed...
...she tiptoes into his heart and ours...
...Coming to Barrie in the sentimental mood he request!, within the field of his whimsy he is a consummate srtist...
...Those who want lessons should limit themselves to attending lectures and leave the the itie to its eternal function- to project feeling, laughter, excitement across the footlights...
...Muslcslly these two pieces represent the opposite in composition, for the medieval interlude is clsssic, while Mr...
...At this point Barrie converts the study of labor conditions in Scot-Isnd into a fantasties...
...J. T. S. "The Gingham Girl," With Eddie Buzzell, At Bronx Opera Houst The musicsl comedy, "The (iinghanr Girl," with Eddie Buzzell heading thi cast, comes to the Bronx Opera House for a week, beginning Monday night Tho book is hy Daniel Kusell, music bj Albert Von Tllzer and iyrics by Neville Flesson...
...Dana Desbore has succeeded Teddie ] Gerird la "The Stt" at th* Colonial' Theatre...
...man-hunting ways...
...for the Psovlncetown Playhouse, to open about Apr,I I. listener Hughes is thi author of the Pulitser prise play...
...Gcmbarellle and Douglas Stan bury...
...Ait honor to them for their courage "Night Hawk" is no* s cheap attempt to exploit the sup-pi se.l commercial possibilities of smut...
...Ralph Forbes plays the part somewhat, hesitantly, for all Gavin's talk of his masterful ways...
...Th i! is a country from which one must no look too closely on our own, for thi vision grows poignantly clear, and tin e*yes water, and the head turns quickl...
...Just Like a Doll,' by Mile...
...But her eyes light on a medical journal on tiie doctor's desk where she sees sn article on the Steinsch operation for rejuvenation, tiagerly reading it, she begs the doctor to purform it on her, but the doctor refuses because he* says that he will only snake a new prostitute to let loose on the world...
...Those to whom the memory of Maude Adams is a warm sunshine will find the present performance with-<ui sufficient suggestion of depth on the one hand, and without enough escape into pure faery on the other...
...tale of a lass of th* English nobility who masquerades as a gypsy, befriends the workers, twists around her finger their devoted and beloved little minister, and finally marries him...
...born, perhaps, to be a teardrop, but I caught by a fickle April wind and ear- { riid to the land of ths smiling fairies, j The opening seen* shows a determined group of Scotch wearers...
...on the trained elephants...
...will offer Rimaky-Kor sakoff's "Capriccio Eipagnole...
...The Provincetpwnert announce a new play by Hatcher Hughes, "Itumt...
...She is declared cured, but the doctor warns her to quit the old life because she won't last two years in it...
...In tact, one of the chief objects of my study and the I 1 source of my method h«.s been the work of that it 1 »t in gin shed American expressionist, (Jenrge M Cohan • I expressionis...
...Art and hntertainment By JOHN HOWARD JAW SON Aithar »f "ProcessionaP' the •piMtxg vf "frocestionql much critic* hoi -.n -. In |»rc&J A* A«/.f (i 01/ opiHiuna ett'i (if iAe «>mi »1 u^p<t ' -un ¦> - , ¦ or ¦ . | ;i/ gtajifted 7/iC 4c alt with the industrial conflict til u " r*f 1 ,, ¦¦ KiwivfO t«H'ri TJtf foltv i*a 1* fie avihor a fmeuotd i« po-l 10 fiie C uv ,¦¦¦'•¦>*>¦•'-i TKtMMt* BfH < 1 /¦t^HIS censorship question has I egi raised the old ugi p 1 <<b lem...
...The music will be played by a small orchestra under the direction of Howard Barlow...
...The climax comes when the doctor lerrns of the affair and is convinced thst sheg^as slipped back into her old guld-diggrhg...
...Walter knows nothing of her past, seeing in her only a sweet and lively girl...
...1 am frequently accused of * * p» e» jsiotiiMii It astonial.es me to find ray self tagged with thin convenient but inappropriate label, because 1 believf j Uiat 1 am traveling in the exactly op- j [posits direction...
...Sooner and Later," the second part of the bill, is a dance satire in three scenes, by Irene Lewisohn, with music by Emerson Whithorne...
...A bright, rainbowad bubble...
...Mathcw Bets...
...but perhaps he is meant to be one of these men whom women guide, which is, as Barrie elsewhrre points out, whst every si'min knows...
...Other players tnclud Matt Moore, William Russell an...
...If this function spreads to the Little Theatre movement, people will atop playing in whispers against draperies and shout to bring...
...A stream of vaudeville jokes, a succession of rrude end contrasting incidents to me these things are good, fresh, stimulating...
...The story is adapted from th novel, "The Summons," by Katherln Newlin Burt...
...The orchestra, under the direction o David Mendoza...
...If AI Jolson were to play 01 hello to j June Walker'i Desdemona nn doubt Shakespeare would suddenly cease tn be a rhetorical exeicise and become a pulsing, living entertainment- As a mallei of fact the present season -has been particularly significant because it has proved that great classics of the stage, Shsw and Ibsen, can be and are gigantically entertaining...
...I "The Way Of* Girl," by /Catherine Newlin Burt, At Capitol, Sunday Robert G. Vlgnola's Metro-Goldwyn Mayer production, "The Way of Girl," comes to the Capitol Theatn Sunday...
...But he isn't rich—he is only a bank clerk, snd he helps himself to the bank's money to keep her gi.ir.g...
...The doctor tells her that she needs to be married ami that es a married woman her past will be ss private a matter as...
...snicker...
...It is s frsnk plsy, and very little is left to the imsginstion...
...The art attitude, is still heavily with us late and soon There aio many theatregoers who firmly believe that the measure of a play's real value is the measure of its dullness and solemnity It is still an open question whether Heibeit Spencer or P. T. Bernum shell be the patron saint of the theatre...
...I hsve been embarrassed a number of timee by being asked to explain the esoteric sign 1 fir mi a of the play...
...Hut the old intellectual notion still persists that an artistic play must teach a solemn lesson...
...away, bark to its hopes and its dream ing...
...the play by Roland Oliver at the Bijou...
...The aesthetes shske their needs and wsg their lingers, for the theory persists that art should not provoke laughl ter, or at most only a subtle and sa tinea...
...Byron Beasly is excellent ss the doctor, and Leonard Doyle is a fine, lovable, manly younger brother...
...Of course we knew from th* first moment thst this change is coming...
...Walter and Maisie fall violently in love, and pretending that he is a rich banker, she allows him to establish her in a flat and buy her expensive clothes, promising to | marry him...
...When "Processional" first opened at the Garrick, many persons in the audience, believing no doubt that "true art ia essentially aesthetical," were hot on the trail of higher meanings...
...Roxy's Gang," the company o broadcasting artists of the Capito) will be featured by S. L. Rothafel a the principal musical event next weeV 'Schon Rosmarln," will be danced b Mile...
Vol. 2 • March 1925 • No. 13
