State Subsidies for Theatres in Ireland
State Subsidies for Theatres in Ireland IN an annual outlay of twenty six i million*, ?H50 (about $4,260} may be ¦* no more (ban a drop in the ocean, yet Mr Hlythe'a announcement of a grant of thia...
...Man or Devil" Barrymore's Fine Characterization of Grasping Miser at the Broadhurst -1— Lionel Barry more adds another notable portrait to his gallery of characterizations in Jerome K. Jerome's new play, "Man or Devil," now show ing at the Broadhurst Theatre...
...by Oscar Wilde, continues for nnoflier fortnight...
...Willie Howard and the other members of "Sky High," at the Winter Garden, celebrated the 100th performance Tuesday night...
...The Man Without a Conscience," a new Warner Bros, production, will have its first New York showing at the Broadway Theatre...
...Vera Marsh and Betty Chapin...
...The play was I well presented with draperies, costumes, etc., brought here from the London production...
...An enlarged beech apace aad more lockers have been added...
...A. Robins...
...Playwrights and actors contributed as much as professional politicians to create the new national consciousness which gave Sinn Fein its opportunity...
...The Diverted Village," an operetta, and Leon T. Levy, will be the next attraction ai the Triangle Theatre...
...The old skinflint offers her ten guilders—knowing it is worth several hundred—and tells her to come again the next day to complete the deal...
...A special prologue, "Roxy's Gang In Montmartre," designed by Clark Robinson, will be a replica of the Apache den in the picture...
...Alice Fred nun and J. T. Green are directors of the venture and decided to begin operations by staging a tercentenary celebration^ of John Fletcher...
...They all act splendidly...
...Bobby Randall...
...Nicholas has heard so many people make uncomplimentary remarks about his soul that he is willing to*take a chance on the stranger's drink...
...Parisian Nights," which comes to the Capitol on Sunday, is the rehabilitation Of a Paris Apache...
...Clair Hayfield, Thomas Chabjicrs, Philip Leigh, Joseph Macauley, Edward Rigby, John Brewer...
...Pen me and Connolly would bav• fought in 1916 even if there had been no dramatic movement, but it in questionable whether the fruits of their sacrifice would have been garnered so swiftly had not the playwrights done their part in preparing the ground Nowadays the eyes of the world are not fixed upon the Abbey aa they were when Synge was making dramatic history upon ita rtage and writers like W H Yeats, Lady Gregory, and Lord Dunsany were busy with all kinds of revolutionary experiments...
...The grant will be all the more welcome as a counterblast to the campaign now afoot to force the Free State authorities to regulate art and literature by a series of censorships and prohibitions...
...And then the little child of the necklace comes, eager to take up her place with the | man who had been so sweet to her...
...Les Grohs...
...Shubert, Monday nighty presented at the Detroit Opera House "June Days," with Elirabeth Hlnes, Roy Royiton and Jay Fllppeu blading the can of players...
...Emil Forst is responsible for the tale, which was adapted for the screen by Fred Kennedy My-ton...
...Jack Haley and Helyu Eby Rock...
...Caroline Andrews, Nell La Mance, Douglas Stan-bury, Miriam Steelman and William Robyn will take part...
...Jan becomes grasping and Nicholas mellows into a sweet-naturcd old gentleman, benevolent and philanthropic...
...This musicsl version of "Th* Charm School" will play a week io Dttrolt before, opening in Chicago...
...PALACE Clark and McCullough and Company...
...There follows a scene outside the church where the brave townsmen, much like our own Klansmen might be expected to do, gather to hiss and jeer Strangway as he pusses on his way home...
...It is one of his finest characterizations...
...Others in the cast are Alice Vishpr...
...Hut the net gain remain, slight...
...she demands, as a special favor, that he do not institute divorce proceedings against her...
...Broadway Briefs Recent changes in the cast of "White Collars," at the Sam H. Harris Theatre, include Dorothy Hall, Marie Curtis by Kathleen Kirkwood, Hugh S. Hamil and James Bradbury, Jr...
...View Molenar is a hard, cruel, grasping woman of th* -town, a woman of Nicholas' own heart, and the two plan to marry and together squeeze and fleece their townspeople...
...othora...
...Not to be outdone by the South, the Belfast Parliament decided last week to establish a Civil List under which pensions may be granted to men and women who have done good work for literature and art in the Six Counties...
...Jane Green...
...While the theatre may have lost something of ita international importance, it hat acquired not a little of the solidarity of a national institution Perhaps the best proof of its vitality is that no single school has succeeded in establishing a complete supremacy...
...It is too early yet to be optimistic about the possibilities of Gaelic drama, but at least it is something that a start ahould have been made...
...The national drama which Mr Yeats aspired to create by a poetic reshaping of the Gaelic legends has nothing in common with Sean O'Casey's boisterous transcriptions of Dublin slum life which have been the Abbey's greatest popular success...
...Alfred Little...
...Ollvor and Olson...
...Jerome's own memorable "Passing of the Third Floor Back," give this talented actor an excellent opportunity to show his art, and he avails himself of it to the .full...
...Jack Kraft am*Elsie Lamont, uml Bartium and, Saxton...
...Willnrd Louis, Irene Rich and June Marlowe head the cast which includes John Patrick and Robc-t Agnew...
...Salome...
...The present organization has a different policy, aiming to present classics of Elizabethian and Restoration drama as commercial ventures open to the general public...
...In addition to the subsidy for Anglo lush drama a sum of inMi Cab out -V1...
...and Synge's insistence that salvation was to be found in the cabins of Aran and Wicklow h*as not deterred Lennox Kobinsori from hunting for gold in suburban Rath-mines...
...250> is also allocated to the Gaelic Theatre, founded by a group of amateurs who, dunnf the last eighteen months, have been presenting plays in Irish to Dublin audiences...
...This will be done In oratorio form, a new type' of presentation for the motion picture theatre...
...There is much consternation in the village over the change in the two men's characters, and Christina feels she cannot marry the man who is so grasping...
...State Subsidies for Theatres in Ireland IN an annual outlay of twenty six i million*, ?H50 (about $4,260} may be ¦* no more (ban a drop in the ocean, yet Mr Hlythe'a announcement of a grant of thia amount to the Abbey Theatre was oi.c of tne pleasant features of the Free State Budget iSinn rem continues he arlicle in the Mam heater Guardian — ia perhaps, the only n vol itionary movement which included am > g I its departments a Mm istry of Fine Arts...
...Lorraine Sisters with Roy Sheldon and Billy Taylor...
...McKay Morris as ¦ Captain Jan is full-blooded and resonant, as he always is, giving a splendid performance...
...The Firebrand" reached it" SPj performance at the Morosco Th»»|l*l Tuesday evening...
...This thentre has been evolved from the Phoenix Society, a well-known London dramatic group, who have put on many interesting plays which otherwise would have not seen the light of production...
...Cornelius Roddy has been engaged to take the place of the late JJbhn Webster In the cast of "The Poor Nut," at Henry Miller's Theatre...
...His final words to her pre overheard by a town gossip, this time, for a wonder, of the male sex...
...Harry Carroll...
...The financial resources" of the theatre were never strong, and of late years, as a result of what we have all politely agreed in Ireland to dismiss as "the troubles," it has been impossible to make ends meet...
...The Hernie Kaplan and the Prussian officer of earlier this season is^now a grasping, miserly, faint-hearted old Dutchman of the early seventeenth century doing business in his home in Zandam...
...During the day, a sweet little girl enters with a necklace...
...Georgina Tilden is a beautiful and convincing child, and Ruth Findlay is sweet and appealing as Christina...
...A" Bit 0' Love" concerns Itself with the lot of Michael Strangway , a preacher, who loses the love of his wife to an eariler lover of hers...
...At the end, Nicholas takes pity on Christina and drinks again with Jan, restoring to him his former sweetness, and resumes his old character...
...Mel Klee...
...Strangway enters the inn while the ringleader of the malicious gossipcrs has reached the height of brutality in speaking of Mrs...
...Johnny Dooley...
...The little girl comes in and the old man gives her much money, tells her of the real value of the necklace—and urges her whenever she is in trouble to call on him...
...The English version was made by Lawrence Binyon 'and Kedar Nath Das Gupta...
...Yet it is from this very mob that there emerges one whom Strangway has befriended to sway him from his attempt at suicide...
...FRANKLIN Monday to Wednesday—Al Tuckar and Band...
...Everything Galsworthy put into his new play has been Wrung out...
...Nicholas Synders' handmaiden Is Christina, an orphan whom ho has trapped into working for him for practically nothing...
...Thursday to Sunday—Miss I'atricolu...
...Parisian Nights" and "II Trovatore" in Oratorio Form at the Capitol Many thrills arc in this new picture directed by Al Santell...
...The settings are superb...
...If objectionable things are to be driven out, it can only be by providing something better with which to replace them, and in strengthening the Abbey the Government has taken a long step in this direction...
...Then comes the mysterious stranger, a peddler who gives the old man a bottle of wine with the information that if drunk with another man the souls of the two men would change from one b*>dy to the other...
...W. M. F. Renaissance Theatre Opens In London LAST Sunday the Art production of the newly organized Renaissance Theatre whs given...
...To single out any member of the cast for special mention would be unfair...
...Barrymore is perfect in the part j of the man who is flint-hearted and ¦ human by turns...
...Though torn by doubt, Strangway cannot resist the fervor of her appeal and he tells her she is free to go...
...Shaw's "Candida" comes to the Shu-bert-Riviera Theatre next Monday: The Messrs...
...Frank Cel...
...Cbnlln and tilasi...
...He fleeces, swindles, defrauds and in various ways trims his neighbors...
...Patterson M.-Nutt, producer of the play, has been playing tha part recently...
...Roy Cochrane, Elaine Temple, Kathleen Middlcton, Helen Bergovoy, Neville Wcstman, Carol Chase...
...Eugene O'Neill's much discussed "Di-sire Un,der the Elms" will move ft»a the Earl Carroll Theatre to the Oeotf* M. Cohan Theatre Monday, this rosrk' the sixth month on Broadway—ritW a record for an O'Neill play...
...The play, which is a variation of Mr...
...Up the Ladder," with Forrest Stanley end Virginia Valll...
...In a moment of rage, Strangway pitches the slanderer through a glass door...
...The show was well received and is «n excellent beginning for the Renaissance Theatre...
...Ernest Rowan Beryl Mercer, Alf Helton, St...
...Jan appears eager to make some settlement in connection with his ship , and Christina who loves him...
...other acts...
...Like ail institutions of the kind, the Abbey has no lack of hostile critics, but even they cannot dispute that it performs one function of a national theatre by giving dramatic ejjiression to the main tides of opinion that sweep Irish life into new channels, whatever view they may take of the artistic value of some of these expressions...
...Advtntuca," by Jack London, with Wallace Beery and l'suiinc Starke...
...A Bit O' Love" Actors' Theatre Presents Galsworthy's New Play At 48th Street Theatre The Actors' Theatre hai given Galsworthy's "A Bit 0' Love" an excellent mounting st the 48th .Street Theatre...
...The one thing that stands out in "A Bit 0' I.ove" is this poignant picture of Strangway, poet and idealist, lover of his unworthy parishioners, plsced in relief against a background of the jeering, unkind, unintelligent mob...
...The ordeal is too much and the preacher seeks suicide as the way out...
...who pass one after another before him agking for a loan or for a few guilders or florins on a picture or a petticoat or a necklace...
...This allowance to the Abbey Theatre is the first indication that the Free Mate recognizes in practice, as Dail Kireann did in theory, that the nation as an organized entity owes a duty to the art...
...The best scenes follow...
...It is doubtful whether the new subsidy is sufficient to do more thsn mitigate financial difficulties, but at least it is a recognition of work done for the nation of which all concerned with1 the theatre may well be proud...
...She de-manes her freedom as her right...
...The incident forms the subject of raucua and ribald comment...
...Gam-barelli, prima ballerina and the ballet mistress, will be seen in the Vslse from "Coppelia...
...Luna Park opens its swimming pool Saturday...
...Under the conditions pievailing in 11*19, Count Plunkett, ti> whom the portfolio was given, found himself in possession of a sinecure, as Hail M m aim's object in creating the office was merely to score a point on paper by emphasizing the difference of its outlook from that of DubMn Castle...
...The rest of the cast is excellent and convincing...
...The cast is the usually proficient one that distinguishes their previous productions...
...Other numbers on the musical program will be selections from "II Trovatore...
...Strangway snd her prescher husband...
...In lending a helping hand to the Abbey, the Free State is merely making a long-delayed return for benefits received...
...also Milt...
...Herhert Ransom...
...i.or piuduccd '.ho play brilliantly, getting line variety, color and life...
...Ibsen', "Rosmersholm," which was to have clostd Saturday night at the 12nd Street Theatre, will continue until June II Vaudeville Theatres MOSS' BROADWAY The Broadway Theatre, beginning Monday, will have a vaudeville bill headed by Etldie Conrad, in a comedy "L'Episode Peculiaiic," with Charlotte iukI Girls...
...The Maid's Tragedy," by Beaumont and Fletcher, is not the best exampli of those authors' work, but provided interesting entertainment...
...0. P. Heggie and Chrystal Hernc play the leads...
...E, L. Lenox Hill Players Enact "Sakuntala" for League of Neighbors One of India's greatest plays, "Sakuntala," written about 400 A. D. by the epoet, Knlidasa, was presented by the Lenox Hill Players, Wednesday night, for the benefit of the Fellowship of Faiths, at the International House Auditorium, under the auspices of the League of Neighbors and the Union of East and West...
...In the village inn, Strangway's freeing of his wife is repeated and enlarged upon...
...Mar-telf's Manikins, and Kate and Wiley...
...Lo and behold...
...And so his roul metys and he becomes i as he was, a lovable old codger ready I to begin life anew...
...If rivalry between the two Irish Governments, which at one time threatened to degenerate into a competition in armaments, can be kept upon the intellectual plane, partition may be found to have its compensations as well as its drawbacks...
Vol. 2 • May 1925 • No. 22
