The Russian Stage
The Russian Stage THE Russian stage drama, opera, and ballet) ia ao well known to lovers of Runs,an art that it will be sufficient to say that it has weathered the atorm of the Revolution and...
...They have none of them received any other training than that offered by the Trade Union optional art schools...
...Engaged" Gilbert's Irrepressible Burlesque Should be Made Permanent At the 52nd Street Theatre) W. 8. Gilbert is, we have said and we say again and again, irrepressible, inimitable, superb...
...The same with my playa, everything ia in the acting...
...During the last five or six years Guitry has appeared chiefly in plays written by his gifted son, Sacha, present-day idol of the theatrical world of Paris, "The Little Moliere...
...Ace Brigode and His Fourteen Virginians, will head the stage productions...
...Years ago th* "revues" further uptown lost their character, and became nothing but costly girly-girly shows...
...I am free to leave Russia, but yet I am glad to itay...
...Kormerly I hated touring the provinces...
...A worker, however, on presentation of hia certificate, obtains a reduction according to his category...
...These three act and sing and romp with the abandon of children—and the finish of superb professionals...
...The present performance routine will be discontinued on that date and in its place Bernie will establish jazzband specialties and stage innovations...
...money is spurned and accepted, wealth despised and coveted, love given singly and shared: the foolery is unendingly delightful...
...Itae Eleanor BaO and Brother: King and Bentty...
...We mustn't forget Mr...
...Vaudeville Theatres J' B. 3. MOSS' BROADWAY B. S. Moss' Broadway Theatre, Illginning Monday, will Include among the Keith-Albee acts Tom Howard «nd Company with Joy Lyons...
...But beyond any concern of immediate satire, there is a general freshness and wholeaomeness in the mere delight of laughter evoked by the play, a medicine for the apirit...
...The production marks the return to the screen of Beverly Bayne after an absence of several years...
...One figure stands out even beyond the splendid calibre of the others...
...Most of them, however, enter aa children and receive a general education as well aa specializing in dramatic art or dancing as th* case may he...
...The actor of many betrayed husbands feared a triangle would ruin his whole life and kept Jeanne Desclos in seclusion for several years at hia villa...
...A Glorious Revue 'Grand Street Follies' Present Intelligent and Sophisticated Fun at the Neighborhood "The Grand Street Follies" are here again, which nieana that anyone who wants intelligent, civilized, sophisticated fun can rejoice...
...PALACE Gua Edwards and Company...
...Arthur Engel joined the cast of "Is Zat So...
...Such plays are usually staged without scenery, or only with the merest indication such aa used in the oldfashioned harlequinade which u>ed to i follow every children's pantomime...
...much indeed is in the lyrira Rrian Hooker had chosen...
...Riesenfeld, for years, past,(-has been the sponsor of new™ ideas in motion-picture presentation, having been the originator of symphonic orchestral picture accompaniment and the inventor of Classical Jazz...
...i. T. 8. Modern Jazz Policy at Rivoli Theatre Outstanding among recent movie announcements is the one just made by Hugo Riesenfeld concerning the change of policy at the Rivoli Theatre to take place July 12 when Ben Bernie and his Band will introduce an entirely original plan of entertainment...
...Buddy Doyle...
...Among the women three stand out— fflly Lubell, Paula Trueman and Dorothy Sanda...
...Less often than is usual ia serious satire introduced...
...The group of gay and apparently, irresponsible men and women who have made th* Neighborhood Playhouse in the heart of the Ghetto a Mecca for discriminating playgoers are at it again, and this year they have produced the best of their series...
...Each woman meets the Great Lover in a room of the New England farmhouse made famous by O'Neill's play, and when Amy aska him if hi* love-making interferes with his work, he declares "This Is my work...
...They Knew What They Wanted Under (he Films" ia as nearly a perfect burlesque as I have ever seen...
...Mnss-stupidity is well flayed in these lines...
...Guardsman, in which Lynn Fontanne ia both actress and wife, and Alfred Lunt actor and husband...
...The new audience .s composed of working men and women in dark rlothing, who are there to see the performance and not thair friends...
...Hearts of Oak" is aburst with pent-up love...
...Among Sacha'* plays that Lucien aeted in were "Pasteur," "Le Mari, La Femme et l'Amant," "Mon Pere Avait Raison" and "Le Grand Due...
...Then there is Junius Matthews, who ia a good second among the men...
...Th* rest of the stage and the auditorium are completely blacked out...
...Most of them still work their six-hour day in the factory...
...The photoplay will be Reginald D«n' ny in "I'll Show You the Town...
...Allen, Taylor anil Huston, l»d Joe Marks and Company...
...Engaged" is a burlesque that comes as close to 1025 as it did to 1877, and your skin could come no closer to your body...
...The orchestra ensemble, as it will appear on July 12, will consist of twelve musicians...
...Pries'*** Four, and other acta...
...The high spot of the performance ia a gala production of the grand opera, "L'Irlandesa Rosa Dell' Abie," and in grand opera accents we hear the story of "Abie's Irish Rose" sung, the orchestra plays something in which you can distinguish alternately the Hatikvah and an Irish jig...
...JEFFERSON " ,, Monday to Wednesday—Jerry «nl Her Baby Grands...
...and Mrs...
...Murray and Lever*, other acts...
...A good psychological turn Is given the situation of the unfortunately involved Cheviot Hill when his evil genius sings to him: Alas for the sheep who Is black or bay When all of th* rest are the same shade of gray...
...The dress of the characters are also mere indication?, such as the sword for an officer, a rifle for a private...
...The one self-supporting theatre in Leningrad is quite th* most interesting result of the optional art schools mentioned above...
...BennT Rubin with May Usher...
...And so the "Follies" begins with a committee meeting in which A. Summer Winters, professional reformer, sets out to eliminate sex from the stage...
...And finally, a wonderful scene in a Negro cabaret as spirited as anything on the stage this year...
...The highest talent in acting and elocution ia, therefore, essential...
...For they know they are right 'When they call it white— And they'll teach you the same as they taught him...
...Others include Donald Keith, Arthur Edmund Cai+w, Mary McAIllltsr, Hull, McCollough, Ned A. Sparks and Winter Hall...
...She was asked how she liked playing to the new audiences, who held no expensive bouquets of (lowers, who could pur chase no jewels and give no promise of champagne suppers...
...Fiske, Chauncey Olcott, Thomas A. Wise and Jam*s T. Powers, "The Pink Elephant," a three-act comedy by William Podmore, will be produced ia July by Nark Bryon...
...Sha replied, "It is, of course, entirely different, but I think it is more real...
...The Russian Stage THE Russian stage drama, opera, and ballet) ia ao well known to lovers of Runs,an art that it will be sufficient to say that it has weathered the atorm of the Revolution and remains intart...
...Most of the old favorites have disappeared or gone abroad, but new talent is not larking...
...any artist serving the State is liable to be called upon to serve in the provinces and so provide the provincial public with exhibitions of the best talent in the land...
...The settings and costumes were quite in the burlesque tone, and the dances, arranged by Carroll Weller, were delightfully comic, without sacrificing grace...
...They are highly critical, and usually less demonstrative than the old Russian audience...
...Meyerhold himself described this form of staging very aptly...
...Profiting by her lonely hours she wrote the play "L'Heurc Esquise" and acted in it herself...
...These are all under Government management or sub-let to local authorities...
...In the present threeact skit, Brian Hooker haa played musician and lyricist so skillfully aa to mnke us conscioua of no gap...
...The Neighborhood Players have taken up the task that the "revues" should have been undertaking and are giving us a series of such intelligent, such amusing and such biting satires that they have already become an important institution...
...These are but the high spots of a glorious revue, but we mustn't forget "Ameiicana," in which Lillian Gigh and Gloria Swanson show off, the one her brand new husband and the other the dramatic critic who ia so interested in her...
...Why, the attempt at censorship...
...Edward Goodman is to be congratulated on another excellent ensemble, with a splendid cast...
...Guit,ry obtained a divorce three yeara ago, accusing "an unnamed foreign musician...
...wonderful Parisian frocks and glittering jewels of their womenfolk, have disappeared from the auditorium...
...Now I feel that I am doing something creative when I travel 1,000 miles to show the people my interpretation of a ballet...
...T(he serond week's attraction will be "Candida...
...The reconstruction of the auditorium of the Earl Carroll Theatre will establish intimacy between the orchestra and the stage, with certain seats actually being on the stage...
...They are not exclusively served by local talent...
...This form of post-revolution dramatic production is much in vogue, and has been brought to the highest form of perfection by Meyerhotd in Moscow...
...Btit we must mention the names of a few—with honornble mention for the whole cast...
...In this connection it may be of interest to repeat a conversation with a dancer famous in the t'zarist days...
...Thus a worker may obtain a seat in the gallery at the opera for a sum amounting to 2'id...
...The Russian equivalent of Raimafathers "Old Bill" ia a constant character...
...Frank Mnyo, Pauline Garno, Bryant Washburn, and Carmeilta Geraghity appear in support of Miss Bayne...
...The present Rivoli picture policy will remain unchanged...
...Miriam Steep and Richnrd Ceough head the company...
...Reginald Denny ia supported by Marias Nixon, Edward Kimball, I.ilyan TH»-1 man and Hnyden JStevemon...
...I "Vanities," Scheduled for July 6 At Earl Carroll Theatre The new "Karl Carroll Vanities," edition of •1925-1926, will open at the Earl Carroll Theatre, Monday*, July 6, The production will be a departure from the present form of muscial show or revue...
...He is Schildkraut, Lynn Fontanne, Paylowa and Florence Mills, th* Negro singer and dancer...
...Now I realize that it is only my art and talent that can make them call m« before the curtain until I dance again...
...At Meyerhold's Theatre only wooden scenes on ball-bearing rollers are used t* indicate the acenery...
...Miss Lubell and Mist Treeman as Lillian Gish and Gloria Swanson are a perfect scream...
...Norman Kerry and Virj giaia Valli,|n "The Price of Pleasure...
...Gilbert has, of course, given rich cloth for the embroidery of the performers...
...The cast ia headed by Julius Tannen, master of ceremonies...
...Rosamond Whiteside brings to the performance a sweetness of voice, a clarity of delivery, and a personal charm that would capture the audience were the play itself hut shoddy...
...Harold Atteridge, represented in the revue by a number of skits, has written several scenes for Mr...
...The attention of the audience is held the whole time, the effects are extraordinarily realistic, and the cost of production is fractional...
...Each reader imagines a different picture, but it is always one that please* him and is in sympathy with the, story as he reads it...
...What was the outstanding fact of the theatrical season just past...
...Each actor and actress plays his at*l her part at the proper time and in the proper spirit...
...Dramatic schools and dancing colleges are now under Government control...
...Lucien Guitry Noted French Actor, Foremost Figure on the Continent, Passes Away LUCIEN GUITRY, on* of the most noted actors In France, and fathei of Sacha Guitry, died in Paris on June 1, after a short illness, aged 6B years...
...theatre have hitherto been confined to what are termed Revolution plays...
...Tables and chairs have replaced several rows of orchestra seats, designated as "Ringside Seats...
...The productions 1.1 iln...
...W. M. F. "Passionate Youth," and Ace Brigode and Virginians, At Moss" Colony Theatre "Passionate Youth," is the principal photoplay booked for B. S. Moss' Colony Theatre, beginning Sunday...
...Robey «nd Gould...
...There are no footlights, but a strong lime light is thrown on the actor while speaking, or on whom the audience's attention should be fixed at the time...
...Other plays jn which Guitry won great popularity were "Samson," "Le Voleur," "L'Emigre," "Servir" and "Kismet...
...I think I dance better now although I am older...
...You can't go wrong...
...Lady Sen Mel Hurst and Vogt...
...Joseph Schildkraut as Benvenuto Cellini makes iolent love to Angela, to Amy, to Aloma and Tondeleyo, to Carla of "The Harem'' and to Helen Hayes as Cleopatra...
...For thirty years he has been famous as an actor, author and director...
...The gay uniforms of the ruling class, th...
...The old operas and ballets are still played to crowded audiences...
...Under the nationalisation* scheme every provincial town now has its national opera house and other theatres...
...The new setting is more sombre...
...Everything is in the writing...
...Lowry...
...There is nothing like it elsewhere, continues the report of the British Trades Union delegation...
...The price of seats in most theatres ia about the same as in Czarist days...
...The company is headed by Mrs...
...L'Aiglon" was one of the productions in which Guitry and Bernhardt appeared together for many years...
...The role of Flambeau in "L'Aiglon," a great favorite of Coquelin's, was also a favorite of Guitry's...
...Engaged" restores youth to th* soul...
...or a stall for under a shilling...
...Ted and Betty Healy, Kathryn Ray, Oscar Lorraine, Bobby Folsom, Marjorie Peterson, Jack Norton, Adele Neff, Dave Chasen, Fel icia Sorel, and Harold Yates...
...Put'this light-handed gentleman beside th* liquid-throated Sullivan, and a combination unique in the history of art was the result...
...His creation of the role of the rooster in Rostand's "Chanticleer" ii considered his greatest stage work...
...Heibert Wl • Hams, Ed...
...Then* plays, mostly written by workers, depict various phasea of the Revolution, and are a moat cur i >us mixture of tragedy and humor...
...You do not require illustrations to a novel...
...Bradley and Hennessey with Joe Mnnn ssd the Greenwich Villnge Models...
...the gem itself is unspoiled, but the setting haa changed...
...I certainly love my art more...
...at Chanin's 46th Street Theatre...
...Lucien Guitry has played in London and.South America with great success Several times In recent years Amesicnn managers have announced that he'and and ton and daughter-in-law were coming to New York, but they never did ao.__ , Jean Ford, Hugh Ford's actress dstlghter, hss gone to California to join the company appearing there In the Tyler-Ford production of "The nivnls...
...With th* exception of one theatre in Leningrad, all are run at a loss and receive a subsidy from the State to make up the deficit...
...The direction is by Dallas Fitzgerald...
...Thursday to Sunday-Richard B*rthelmess with Beasle Lova In W* Fire...
...Washington Square Players To Produce Shaw Plays Operating as a repertory stork company, the Washington Square Players of New York University, directed by Randolph Somerville, will begin their third summer season at the University Playhouse, on July B, with a revival of Shaw's "You Never Can Tell...
...The story ia the work of J. Grub Alexander...
...The Boomerang," From the Comedy by Winchell Smith And Victor Mapes, at Capitol "The Boomerang," a picturization of the Jinvitl Belaaco stage production by Winchell Smith and Victor Mape9, will be presented at the Capitol next week...
...Albert Carroll is, of course, the bright, particular star...
...The whole play ia worked at the apeed of a cinema film, and in this manner there is no limit to the number of scenes which can he gone through in one art...
...A fourth figure to b* considered with these three la Lucien's second wife, Jeanne Deaclos, a very beautiful woman, much younger than he...
...This theatre is entirely run and managed by the industrial workers themselves...
...young workers from the factory pri schools are one source from which pupils are encouraged...
...The general atmosphere of the story and the most sketchy description will conjure up in your imagination the scene on whirh the events are laid...
...The large cast appearing in "Artists and Models,' which opened at the Winter Garden, Wednesday night, has had an addition in jiflly B. Van...
...Petersburg, his wife, th* actress, Yvonne Printemps, and Guitry pere, form a remarkable theatrical trinity...
...Put "The Grand Street Follies" at the head of your list...
...This comedy ran more than BOO times on the New York stage...
...save for a few allusions to novelties the entire book might have been the work of the Victorian, and the music, save for a slightly greater tendency than Sullivan shows toward definite stanzas-andchorus arrangement, definite popular aong technique, was altogether acceptable as of the period and the mood...
...Heading the cast i« Anita Stewart in the role of the nurse and Bert Lytell as the young doctor...
...Few aspects of amorous play, of the dalliance familiar to us all in the genteel and romantic comedy of any year, are left untouched by kindly laughter...
...This young man, who was born In 1885, durI his father's residence in St...
Vol. 2 • June 1925 • No. 26
