DRAMA: Drama Closest to Life
DRAMA Drama Closest to Life Says Lord Dunsany AT * recent meeting '. the Dublin Literaiy Society, Lnid Duneany (luthor of "A Night »t An Inn" snd* "The Qfneen « Nrcklaes") gave a reading from...
...DRAMA Drama Closest to Life Says Lord Dunsany AT * recent meeting '. the Dublin Literaiy Society, Lnid Duneany (luthor of "A Night »t An Inn" snd* "The Qfneen « Nrcklaes") gave a reading from h.s book "The King of tlfand i Daughter" and went on to dn-cues modern drama...
...It is a Metro-Gold wyn-Maytr picture and was directed by Edmund Golding, the author of "Dancing Mothers...
...Tht production optnt out-of-town September SI, eoming to New York October 5. Orvillt Harrold, ' formerly of tht Metropolitan Opera Company, will assume tht principal role, and his daughter, Pattl Harrold, will play ont of tht leading parti...
...II Cento dslls Vote" ("Ths Song of Lite"), "Ttrtts Rsquin" end "Scsmplo" ("Remnant...
...Flske, Chaunrey Olcott, Thomas A. Wise and Janaps.T...
...Condemning what was called the realism of the present day stage, ht •aid it waa invariably aaiociattd with what wai drab in human nature and with peas mum...
...Joe Byron Totten'and Earl Simmons, a ntw producing Arm, will present "Love's Calf," a drama with musie by Jo* Byron Totttn and Arthur Bergh, tht latter contributing the scare: Gal ina Koppernark will head the east...
...The program of .vaudeville will include: "Al'l Here," presented by C. B. Msddock...
...William A. Grew will dramatise "Sandalwood," the Fulton Ouraler story which will be produced the coming •taion...
...Miss James is the iamt actress who used to delight New York in little girl parts, and the same wistful charm she had a quarter of a century ago ia manifest in her playing of her part here...
...Powers in the ltading rolts, which toured all last winter, is nbw playing on th* Psriftc Cosst and will bt continued sll through the coming sssson...
...While in London, Mr...
...TM adsptstion has betn mad* by Jay atajp aed imrtlm...
...will b* featured ia the production hereafter The operetta he* passed its 300th ptrformsnct SI Jolion i...
...Prohack," by Mr...
...Prohack," to be Done by Tyler—Caecho-Slovakian Operetta Coming in September George C. Tyler recently 'returned from Europe bringing with him three new plays snd plans for an active teaion...
...He believed they overlapped Both depended on rhythm...
...He, likewise, sings and acts well...
...Macart, the ce-anthor of the original east, will be in the play...
...Thursday to Sunday—Ned Norworth and Company...
...Glenn Hunter will be starred this staaon in three plays...
...Thursday to Sundsy—Al snd Barry Klein...
...Elliabeth Bellairs and Mr...
...Pauline Starke and 1 Conrad Nagtl are featured in leading roles...
...This li her first msnsgtrlsl vtnture...
...Tyltr tngaged Ian Hunter to play Charles Surface in the production of "Th* School for Scandal," which he will make this season...
...I-ighf is converted into «l*Ctr!cal intensity or electrical modulations broadcast ovsr a wave length'of JW« metres, end in tht laboratory Sonverted tack into light values...
...other acts...
...a _ • Th* revival of "Faust,*' planned by John E. Kellard in association with Georgt Backer) is announced to open in Columbus, Ohio, September 17...
...New photoplay...
...Bromberg, a former ehoir boy, will alio be remembtrtd for his work with tht Stuart Walker Company aad for tht staging of plays of tht Celtic revival, including several by Sy-ige and Ytats, Tht' role of "Captain Jinks" in the I musical version of the • Clyde Fitch I comedy to bt produced by Schwab and Mandel will be in the hands of J. Harold Murray...
...Lnid Dunaany, continues th* correspondent in the Christian Science Monitor, said he had diacoverad that if a writer wriles anything worth reading and eventually gets a reputation, that reputation travel* round the world, in order to reach his own neighborhood...
...Ths ntw edition of tht "Greenwich Villsgt Follies" will bt created snd directed J>y Hsspsrd Short...
...Vaudeville Theatres 9 B. S. MOSS' BROADWAY The Broadway Theatre, beginning Monday, will have the first New York presentation of a new film, "Fighting the Planus...
...Mitt Rschel Crothers snnouneet thst she will produce "The Book of Charm," a new pley by John Kirkpatrick, tht first week in September...
...The artist waa one who oheerved life with the shrewdest eye...
...A word must be said for Mist Millie James as the tired, worn-out, washed-out old maid, teacher who ultimately inherited tht school and turned the tables on the principal who had bullied her for years...
...Kellard will play ^e title role...
...Ntw photoplay...
...Romaine and Castle...
...But the real- hero of the occasion it Seymour Felix who staged the dances—such dancing...
...The Coconuts" is the title of the new musical show which Irving Berlin and George S. Kaufman are wrjting as a vehicle for the Four Marx Brothers...
...and a play by a young English writer...
...The other dsy, s little group of Government officials snd scicnttsti sst.in the laboratory of Mr...
...Tht Shubtrts production of "Ri-quttte," the new Oscar Straust operetta, will have the following players: Vivltnnt Segal, Stanley Laplno, Mar-jorie Oattton, Alexander Gray, George Schiller, Walter Armin, Walter Ware, Edward Baste and Evelyn Darbillt...
...Of course, thsre was a tchool full of girls, and a particular girl...
...Nagel plays the part of tht law- j less mountain boy...
...The Charm School" wasOhe story of whst happened to a fashionable girls' school when its founder died leaving no will and it fell into the hands of a handsome young fellow, her only turviving relative...
...Th* difference between dialogue and drama, h* declared, wn the inference bttwten br.cks and architecture...
...There was no material to make drama except human emotions...
...Baasl Will bs seen here will be "Picggla" ("Bain"), "La Moglis Dt Clsudlo" ("Claudia's Wif*"), "On* Cos* *dl Csrns" ("A Thing of Flssh"), "Anivr La Signers" ("Eater Madame"), "Msg-da," "Pats Morgans...
...Basil Dtan, tha London producer, will stags the play . The Tyler-Ford production of "The Rivali," • with Mn...
...Amse with Velma...
...Bromberg has been engaged alio for work upon a play, aa yet unnamed, to be produced this fall by Messrs...
...Jay C. Flippen is a very funny Negro...
...The difficulty of the stagt today wai that too many financiers wtrt attracted to it...
...Ariose second is Roy Roy ston, the man in the case whose light-" hearted gayety struggles with his dignity as head of the school...
...Miss Starke is his j sweetheart...
...The world was tht betttr for tht grtat artiatt who had added to it* beauty...
...the ban sing, has an infectious smile, 'and dancet with gay abandon and she Is ont nun drtd ptr cent a joy to look at and listen to...
...Drama was a difficult thing to define, bat it was one of th* moat valuable of th* arti for giving them an opportunity •f regarding the court* of life from any other viewpoint than thtir own and enabling them to draw wisdom from other than their own experience, It teemed to him there was tomt-thing tktremely dost to lift in all tnt arts, and perhaps cloacat of all in drama...
...Gui Kahn and Bay Eagen are responsible for the lyrics...
...Tha adaptation wai made by Derrick Wulff, and William Ortmann Composed the mutic...
...Will snd Gladys Ahem, and othtr acts...
...othtr acts...
...I hereby vota that "June Days" wins by a big margin...
...The plays, in which Mme...
...a » Broadway Briefs Al Jolson will have Edythe Baker at his leading woman in "Big Boy," when the show opsns at ths 44th Street Theatre, August 24...
...Bennett and Edward Knobloek...
...Sam H. Harris will place the pie.ee into reheartal in August, and is due at the Music Box Theatrt early in September...
...J. Fred Coots' mutic it— well, reminiscent...
...Jenkins, who has been sustained.'Vy the courts ss ths inventor of th* moving picture projector which...
...I have brought b*ck with me," he ¦aid, "three ntw playi—one tntitltd, 'Any Woman Would,'.by Macdonsld Hatting* (tht author of 'Tht New Sin'), a dramatisation of Arnold Ben-nttt't »tory, 'Mr...
...Pttce Harbor," a comedy by William H. Macart and Ethelynne Bradford, played in Boston last sea aon, will be seen on Broadway during October...
...Sup-Up" was conceived for the at a ire by Lula Vollmer, with Lucille I T,a Verrr* playing the part of "Ma" ] Cagle, the same role she interprete la i tht pieturisation...
...Alma, Rubens aad Percy Marmont in "A Woman's Faith...
...In London tht stage waa suffering because art has betn handed over to them...
...The rest of the cast ia adequate...
...The cast includes William Haines, Dorothy Devort, Sheldon Lewis and Charles Murray...
...h WMMtytHetjri Street," "Babbitt" and "Arrowsmith," has signed a contract with ths Famous Plsyars-Lssky Corporstion, to writs th* scenario of "New York," s spectacular film which Is to bs produesd in connection with ths celebration sf ths city's Howard Mirth and Use Mtrv'enga, who pley the leading ret** in "The Student Prine...
...The adaptation is by Harry B. Smith...
...Tht machine thit dots this is a small affair, snd ttslfy transported by on* m*K snd needs Simply to be connected with any ordinary radio receiving let...
...2eV She will give eleven psrfomenees in New York, end will then meke a brief tour of the lsrgsr Eastern cities, returning to Rome in January...
...REGENT Monday to Wednesday—Mil ton Berlo...
...other acts...
...Those who wert giving tht worst kind of drama wtrt largely cynics...
...It is light snd gay and frothy and doesn't impose too much Of a tax upon the brain nor dott it intuit the Intelligence, and it gives you Just a rtal good time...
...M. F. Louis Bromberg to Design For "The Red Knight" Louis Bromberg, scenic artist, who stsged the Jewish Art Thealte productions of "Th* Idle Inn," "Green Fields," "Lonely Lives" and "The Dumb Mes-liah," will design the scenes for Ed-mond McKcnna's comedy, "Tha Red Knight," scheduled for fsll production...
...f\nd consequently complications, and of cour.se a will, turned up after a while leaving tht school to a particular teacher, and tht handsomt youth and hit ideas on charm wert ousted...
...Joe E. Brown will furnish the laughs...
...All the great artists added to the heauty of the world and brightened life...
...0. P. Pntnsn, Iae., is publishing the story of "h Zet So T, ths comedy St Chsnin's 4«th Street Tseetre...
...other acts...
...FRANKLIN , Monday to Wedntidty—Carpar and O'Neil...
...Tht grtatest works of art had betn tht moat natural...
...Jackie Taylor and his Rue De La Paix Band will be a specie...
...Jenkins expects to plett tht machine on th* market tor commercial use within * year...
...Etsi Look Hoy...
...Sam Colt snd Issth Monro hsvs been sdded to the csst of the musical "Captain Jinks," opening at ths Martin Beck theatre On Labor Day...
...Nowadays th* show had captured the ¦tag* to th* exclusion of drama...
...Drama must be true to life...
...Mitt Hints ;i btautiful...
...Roy-ston is*an engaging looking young man who dances nimbly and energetically...
...It's the livest, lftheit, peppiest, eaaiest-to-look-at chorut on Broadway...
...The Coming Season Walter Hampden to Open Season with "Hamlet"— Arnold Bennett Story, "Mr...
...Brass* JFrfnsY title' sol* player at "The Fall Guy," ha* been appointed director of th* Filson Dramatic School, t (tag* twining institution for young ehildrea/i...
...Miller's story and play and movie, but that hardly matters...
...His own writings wert read in AmeViea and Japan, and will eventually come to Dublin...
...Abbott and Harris...
...mei i ii M»l - '......« >•» .; Maria Bazzi, Italian Actress, . To Appear in Repertoire '***^Ms*-^fcptjjje^ Maris Basel, .well-known Italian sotrsss, will begin en *Bgef*nMsjibj Italian repertoire et ths Manhattan 11 pern Hone on Sal 11 relay night, Sept...
...He disbelieved that what was called realism waa the ultimate truth of mankind...
...feature...
...Arm will sponsor an operetta baiedVttpon Harold MrGrath's novel, "Arm> and tht Woman," the adaptation being made by Totttn with music by Bergh and Vincent Valentin...
...Lulu Vollmer's "Sun-Up," With Lucille La Verne, Coming to Capitol, Sunday "Sun-Up," recently seen on Broadway, comes to the Capitol Theatre, Sunday...
...C. Francii Jenkins in Washington, and on the scrSen saw » windmill turning many miles away...
...Elixsbeth Hmea plays the part of Elite Benedetti, ont of the pupils...
...A play might be made of the most beautiful thing, either in prose or poetry...
...The text of tht librettist, Cyrus Woods, wanders a bit from Mrs...
...Movies By Radio ——— Moving pictures by radio it tht latest scientific irejrvel...
...He did not know what line divided poetry and prose...
...1 "Spring and Autumn," the new' Oierho - Slovakian optretta, will be tponsortd by Carl Reed...
...The book is amusing and carriet tht interest throughput...
...He had the notion that girlt need charm more than mathematict and Latin, and he converted his heritage into t Charm School...
...W...
...Tha Little American," by Caetsr Dunn, will be produced by Dowling and Anhalt in September...
...A Womaa's Faith," with Percy Marmont and Alma Subsns...
...Other players include i George K- Arthur, Arthur Rankin, Sam 1 De Grasse, Edward Connelly and Bain- ] ard Beckwith...
...Joe Morris snd Winn Shsw...
...The picture was directed by Reeves Eaion...
...June Days" is the fourth incarnation of the story, there having been a movie end "legit" version between the novtl and the musical comedy, ¦ Havirlg read tht novel and seen the play and movit...
...Si sow -used by every clnems, hsi been working, for yesrs on his latest invention...
...It must he the et-¦ enrt of life and aurpris* must be there...
...Gay and Frothy "June Days" Opens Up Musical Comedy Season At the Astor Theatre "JanSwDayi," the musical vtrtion of Alice Duer Miller's "Charm School," fuanithes a perfe*} entertainment for thtte August nighti...
...Bragdon and Morri*s*y...
Vol. 2 • August 1925 • No. 33
