The People's Art
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
The People's Art By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY DRAMA doci not truly exist until there is a performance; this presupposes tn audience. All the othei arte may be enjoyed in isolation, may indeed—with the...
...hurry, then, snd see it before It Is too late, Tho cast is large, and to ^mention individual actors is neither easy nor advisable, for all do their even part in a good presentation, which Mordecal Gorelick's setting* enhance...
...The dram* was the return of God to the people...
...Tho characters are, If separately anslyied, all false, because they arc all exaggerated in one wuy or another by thi satirical intention and by th* mood of th* particular episode of th* play...
...that's what becomes of a man who can swallow coin...
...Stillman will be remembered as the director of "Cobra," "The Wonderful Visit," "Jane Clegg," "Heartbreak House," and as the he«d of the Beech-wood Players in Scarborough...
...It has in lighter mood brought relief from the problems of life...
...Just as churches today, with lectures and "socials," with game-rooms and radios, are endeavoring to maintain their loosening hold, so in the Middle Ages prieata found it necessary with float and pageantry and miracle*, play to strive for the wandering attention of the people...
...So fully have th* people turned to the drama for re-aponae to their queations, for satiafac-tioft of their needs, that it has been suggested that the future spiritual massages of mankind will And utter-*nc* through the theatre, and the dram*, which aprang from religion for tha delight of man, will herald and renew religion for the fuller expression of man...
...Not th* lenst evidence of the value of the play Is th* fact that several loyal Americans ware so outraged by It* treason to all that they fail one hundred par cent upright and decent, that they wire round from th* Amcricsn complacency to th* foreign Indecorum of a hiss . . . Co ¦«• "Processional" and cheer J. T. S. Norma Talmadge in Martin Brown's "The Lady," at the Colony - .», Norma Talmadge's latest photoplay, "The Lady," will be on view at the Colony Theatre, beginning Sunday...
...The incidental sat,ire of the play thrusts through more American hypocricy and dishonesty than con be detailed...
...in every land the people felt a wider and wider breach of interests and needs between them and their "fathers in God...
...Other plays announced for the remainder of the season are "Nocturne," a dramatisation by Mr...
...every play presupposes a public...
...Still-man of the novel by Frank Swinner-ton, to be produced for special matinees during the run of "Th* Small Timers...
...The Love Song" is reported to be the first of a aeriea of light operas which will make the Century Theatre their home for some years to come...
...Seldom has there been • s msny fine voices in a single production...
...Roger Imhoff, assisted by Coreeno snd Company, will appear in "The Peat House," a comedy satire...
...This attitude will unquestionably tell against the play itself...
...That'* enough to make any actor want te r*tire...
...but csch character reveal* a troth that Is wide and deep, concerning one phase of social snd industrial conditions In this glorious land of th* free and easy capitalist, concerning that life through which we are all driven by tremendous Industrial forces we hsvc not yet lesrned to organise snd control...
...the plot, ostensibly based on incidents in Offenbach's life, carries th* interest along to the end...
...they were festivals of the village gods, the gods of the fields and the harvest...
...Max Martin's "Silence" Is due to open in London in February, with Godfrey TetrU, th* English stsr recently seen her* in "The Fake," in th* role new being played at th* National Theatre by H. B. Warner...
...The Lady" was adapted from the stage play by Martin Brown...
...There is no other reason for the vagueness with which writers have spoken of the play, or have damned it on technical puints they have not understood...
...Tha ecclesiastical services, the Bible, •in read and spoken in Latin...
...God seemed to have withdrawn from the common people into a mysterious esoteric commuaiestion reaerved for his favored ones, the nobility and the clergy...
...Lawson, in catching conditions, has also captured the spirit of the age, and, with a continuous under-domlnance of jasz, sweeps the same story through various moods: farce, burlesque, sentimental melodrama—but always satire...
...Of course it's bflnk...
...on tour, Maud* will quit...
...Their Device was so immediate and so complete a success that it burst its bonds of piety, overloaded its doctrinal purpoaes, and—to the puritanical—fell into the handa of the enemy of the church...
...But Sadie is rsaelved to bear her child...
...he is an American of the old stock, beaten down by conditions, easily influenced by the philosophical Psinski, who is the district organizer...
...The mention of "mother'' is invariably the signal for a hallowed pause, with hats doffed and reverent contemplation...
...Odette Myrtil, Harrison Brock-bank, Allan Prior, as Offenbach, Zells Russell, Evelyn Herbert, and John Moore, are but a few in the cast of this operetta of the Second Empire...
...John D. M. Priest...
...The origin of drama indicates with equal clarity its essentially popular nature...
...The Dancers" is s picturizution Of the stsge play, with Alma Rubena, George O'Brien and Madge Bellamy In tha principal rolea...
...Vaudeville Theatres B. S. MOSS* BROADWAY Moss' Broadway Theatre, beginning Monday, will have "The Dancers," aa the screen attraction, ' and ' Venlta Gould, -Whiting and Burt, and Roger Imhoff as the headliners on tha vaudeville bill...
...The reporter, who stands ready to mock at anything Berious and finds his delight in whatever increases the sensational nature of the items he con report, epitomises the attitude of soclaty in general...
...Psinski retorts...
...Everything's Bunk...
...a pedal atudy by Pietro Yon, afd "By the Waters of th...
...Alexis Kosloff has staged the ballet, which has Isabella Rodriguez as one of its shining lights...
...The Art Theatre New Group Plan Season At Punch and Judy The Art Theatre, a new producing group, under the general direction of Henry Stillman, will open its first season at the Punch and Judy Theatre on January 27 with the presentation of "The Small Timers," by Knowles En-trikln...
...The newsboy who swallows the coin he is accused of stealing says defiantly that in ten years he will be a Senator...
...And now it looks as if h* hss t finger in th* cross-word puitle pie...
...The music, largely drawn from the works of Offenbach and woven together by Edward Kenneke, who also supplies some music of his own, is mors than planning...
...When hs 1* finished with hi* present engagement in "Aren't We All...
...In truer mood the drama has been the great mod* of expreaaion for the thoughts that through the ages have surged in the people...
...Drama is therefore the most public, the most popular, of the arts Within the scope of the theatre, it is true, many different types of appeal are to be found, and the Bowery Burlesque may not draw tht audience that attended the three ldng nights it took to preaent Shaw's "Back to Methuselah...
...An Operetta of Rare Charm "The Love Song," Score by Offenbach and Kenneke, at the Century In "The Love Song," which the Shu-herts are presenting at tha Century Theatre, the theatregoers of the city have a new operetta of rare charm...
...E. L. Russian Orchestra and Harp Ensemble at the Capitol On Sunday "Excuse Me" will be the^llm at-j traction at the Capitol Theatre begin-' ning Sunday...
...I am going te quit in my prime, an undefeated champion, and leav* th* pub-lie a memory of Cyril Maude—an able artist...
...Classical drama was born of the people, snd never laft its birthplace...
...Th* play is located in a West Virginia coal town during a strike...
...Norma Shearer and Conrad Nagel appear as the lovers...
...Th* Dunce Boy," by Lulu Vollmer...
...two plays by Raymond Hill and Howard Southgate, and * poetic impressionistic drama by Saul Michaels...
...He inspires filthy plsya that become hits...
...a ballet, Schubert's "Marche Militaire," and "Semi-ramidc," by Rossini, as the orrture...
...The Ku Klux Klan, in addition to the usual Idiocies, revr/als Cohen and a darkie masquerading for safe'y under its disquise...
...The early Greek ceremonies out of which drama sprang were not the formal rites of the established church of ths Government...
...The atory reads on through the coming of the army forces, the rising of the Ku Klux K!an, the violation of Sadie Cohen—who determines to rear the miner's child—to the settlement of the strike by * bland high-hatted individual who marches around uttering his shibboleth "Law snd Order" in a frightened voice, hoping that the words will save him...
...One of the leaders haa been arrested...
...The operetta haa been produced an a lavish scale...
...Minnc-i tonka," by Dr...
...and while he announces the friendly settlement to the miners he whispers to the sheriff to see that the marked men are killed in their beds that night...
...Cyril Maude Will Retire from Stag Noted English Actor "to Quit In His Prim*" CYRIL MAUDE, following the example of Leo Ditriehsteln, Is going te retlr* from th* stag...
...In more sober aspect has probed life's ultimate problems...
...He says: "Th* greatest mistake an actor makes I* to wait until th* publie tires of him...
...With "The Student Prince" at the Jol-son, and tho operetta based on Schubert's life and music two years ago, the Shuberts have opened vistas of more beautiful light operas of which "The Love Song" will always be remembered as a standard...
...Tho film is based on Rupert Hughes' farce, seen on Broadway some seasons back...
...A Social Drama of Significance ''Processional" Cuts Through Social Hypocricy at the Carrick In "Processional," by John Howard Lawson, The Theatre Guild presents the most entertaining condemnation that the present capitalistic society has ever fared...
...All the othei arte may be enjoyed in isolation, may indeed—with the partial excep-tion of architecture — be kept from the common ear of eye...
...the play progresses clearly and continuously, offering a definite dramatic atory, and at the same time s picture of industrisl and social conditions that is strong, undeniable, true...
...God invsntsd th* theatre, but th* devil is trying ta ruin it...
...The musical program will Include Offenbach's "Orpheus" by tho Colony orchestra under the direction of Nahan Franko Goldman...
...but drama, like vrattr, seeks its level...
...With the end of the strike, Psinski makes a speech of hope, proclaiming that in the years to come the child within Sadie Cohen may sec the day of industrial justice—to which the superior and amused "middle-class" reporter from New York cries "Bunk...
...iPALACE Eva Tanguay, Robert Emmett Ke*ne ¦nd Claire Whitney, Ev* Puck anil Sam White, Fred Berrena ind Lor* Foster, Wanxer and ' Palmer, Edward Stanisloff ¦nd tirade, The Five Hirottas, Mankin, ¦ nd others...
...Drama grew out of the church, we are told — though shrewd psychologists wonder whether man did not dance first and worship after, did not carve the image before a* soorea is as a god...
...Modern drama rose from the medieval church as bait to win the people...
...But there is delight rather than difficulty in following the shifting play of mood and moment, in catching beneath the whole a pathetic hopelessness that again is defied by the instinct of the woman who will bear the man to come...
...it is too strong an Indictment for the public to watch complacently...
...Greek drams remained true te tha spirit ef its growth, s festivity of the people, who were eager spectators at the great contests where favorite playwrights produced their masterpieces for popular spprobation...
...HIPPODROME Iloudini, Sara and Nellie Kouns, "A Night In Spain," Jim McWIIIiama, Ad-ler, Wall and Herman, Jack Joyce's, Horses, the Glsrsdorf Sisters, Lahr and Mercedes, th* Duponts, and tha Hippodrome B*)JM...
...Other numbers include Mae-Quarrie Harp Ensemble, directed by Miss Marie MacQuarrie...
...Other acts Include, John Drake and Lester Gilbert, Anna Wilcox and Slater, and other acts...
...The musical program will include the ' Russian String Quintet, of the Russian Eagle, in "A Bit of Transplanted Russia...
...as the Negro snys, "Anyone's eligible who owns a sheet...
...Frederick Brindley, tenor, will aing Burleigh's "Little Mother of Mine...
...The excuse for confusion lies in the fact that Mr...
...W* may, therefore, expect to find that all man's Important spiritual and social problems have been envisaged, in many aspects and moods, in the drama...
Vol. 2 • January 1925 • No. 4
