The Drama of God and Man
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
DRAMA The Drama of God and Man By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Sine* dram* sprang from religion, it* tret theme it God; tinee it rote at the call of tk* people, ite dm impute* it to coordinate tk* wayt...
...Cheaper to Marry" and "H...
...M. F. Martin Brown's "Cobra" At Bronx Opera House Martin Brown't gripping pity, "Cobra," comes to thi Bronx Opera House, beginning Monday night, for • week...
...hi wants that tuit...
...The Bluebird," the Russia Rerul.now nt the Frolic Theatre, presented * chtnge of bill Thursday night...
...Modern social theory htt eubttituted, for the pertonal plotting of devil aad the vengeance or companion of a pertonal god, the countless fiende of factory and mill, the compulsion of capitalittie organization, grinding out their millions of dollars, grinding down their millions of men...
...slay...
...M. S. Pinafore" Head Capitol Program "Cheaper to Marry," a screen venion of Samuel Shipman'i drama, will bi at thi Capitol Theatre next Wlik...
...They lit it dinner, whithir hi kid lured them unsuspecting...
...Hi organ it handled by John Print with a skill that ditplayi every advantage of the superb instrument...
...Everything about the place combines to make an effective background for the presentation...
...Thi story it oni of an English nobleman who marries a variety girl...
...the wife (it seems) hopes to bring the sun up is t gentlemen...
...thie hopeful or anguished questing...
...PALACE May Irwin, Harry Richman, Yvettl Rugel, Eddie Elkina and Hii Orcheitra, with Muriel Do Forrest and B*e Jackson, Wilton Slitari, Shura Rulowa and her Ballet Rune, and Jay C. Fllpptn...
...Barrymore a play that it worthy of his fine art...
...John Atkinion, Arthur Lehman, S. L. Kothafel, Frank Gillmore ind George M. Cohtn...
...Fanny Brici, Ann Pennington, the Four Marx Brothers, Orville and Patti Harrold, Avon Comedy Four, Bin Bernie and his Hotel Roosevelt Orcheitra, Gladys Rice, Belle Baker, Houdini tnd Ctntor Joseph Rosenblatt head thi entertainers...
...Frank Moulan will pity "Dick D*»d-E...
...Thi greatness of the tragedy is measured by the cheapness of thi incidint...
...the more serious drama of today picture...
...Hit wife, Irene Fenwick, is excellent ¦¦ Juni.__W...
...Was there poison in the coffee...
...Richard Hirndon hai engaged Florence Mason for thi lending roll in * new play (yet unnamed), by Jamil Fuller, which hi will present it special matineei at the Cort Thntn, Tut** dty, February 10...
...tinee it rote at the call of tk* people, ite dm impute* it to coordinate tk* wayt of God and man When stilt predominantly re ligioui, tha theatre preeenti the diaattroui retulti of man'i vain struggle against the will *f hit godt, enecting solemn warning...
...Thi entertainment has been arranged by Eddie Ctntor, who will alio act at Master of Ceremonies...
...Rockwell, thi Sirattoi, thi Merediths, thi Colleano Family, and th* Hippodrome dancing girl...
...She is stranded by fata in a Marseilles English bar, where, during the World War many yean later, fati gives her an opportunity to sacrifice herself for the ion ¦hi haa long lost light of tnd to prove that her ion hit become t gentlemen because his mother is a lady...
...Yel in tha Christian drama tha fundamental conflict ia one with the Gre*k, for that which i* men's unforgivable yielding—whether the Prometheus or to Satan—it hit acceptance of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, hit launching forth on that far daring quett the ultimate goal of which it to mtk* man tke equal of God, matter of the mysteries of the universe, crtttor tnd dieposer of lift...
...Yet the drtma drive* a battering-ram againtt the wall that ban ue from truth...
...mad youth of today...
...the most intellectual presentation of tha conflict accepts "Satan" to embody the mind of man, and "God" to repreaent the truth all men teek...
...Throwing off her cloak of make.believe respectability, aha turns on the poor fellow with a torrent of vulgar abuse, letting him know that she wai using him only to git money out of him to ipend with Montgomery...
...Broadway Briefs The Garret Players, a little theatre group, will give two more performtncii of three one-ict playt this Friday «nd Saturday evenings, it their playhouse, 31 V/ist 8th street...
...In hi* room, Willi* splat on him tnd bulliloses him into promising to share th* awag fifty-fifty with him...
...M. S. Pinafore," Gilbert and Sullivan opera, a thirty-minute presentation, divided into, two semes, with ¦n interlude, * "Sailor Dane*" by Dorli Nilet and the ballet...
...wt find In their words or actions retion for impeding ivery oni of them, including th* butler tnd the maid...
...Isabel" it t gins of absinthe under a green parasol, on the bitch tt Monaco...
...Barrymore It Bernie Kaplan, a cheap little Bronxite who hain't any higher ambition than to own one of those suite that has two pain of pants, and that ha has been unable to buy to date...
...Marcalll Coreene and Company...
...Montgomery in a love scene of lurid torridity...
...But on* day he passes th* cashier's cage and atti that It It open...
...Was it Smith himself...
...and E. F. Goldman manegea the orchestra—which rises into tight tnd falls tt need—with harmonizing skill...
...Bernie I* a messenger in a bank, with no prospects of promotion...
...Mile...
...Percy M arm not, Jacqueline Saunden and Virginia Lee Corbin support Mrs...
...He seel •Q envelope on a ihelf marked "50," ahd before he knows what happened he haa it In hi* shoe...
...Which wis guilty...
...Ha ia anxious to get tueh a tuit because he aspires to tttnd in well with Juno Knight, a cheap ictrei* in a cheap .Bronx theatre, who repraienta everything bttutiful and unattainable to him...
...The plot is thtt of a wifi who is in lovi with two men it a tlmi —with some measure of justification, beeauae she loved an unknown reicuer whom har huiband impersonated . . . until the actual mtn arrived to claim hit reward...
...Baied on A. H. Woods' play by the stmi name, it develops the opportunities afforded by tha drama into tn appealing ploy...
...wielding the baton tt 9:80 e.irh evening ¦-* l j Clara Eamn Ins been compelled to withdraw from th* cut of "Candida" at the 48th Strait Theetre, became of illness...
...Through blind forcet, blind men lath or grope their way in search of light...
...And he earns just enough to pay hit htlf of th* rent Of a cheap hall bedroom that he shares with Willie Riley, and to buy cheap cloth...
...Nixon and Sam, and other acts...
...Then w* discover that thin is torn* reason why every on* of those present might be th* guilty perion...
...with S. L. Rothafi...
...And tht inevitable bucket shoppers git $20,000 from him, too...
...Jewish Theatrical Guild First Annual Dinner This Sunday Night Th* (irst annual dinner, danea and entertainment of the Jewish Theatrical Guild of America will take place at thi Hotel Commodore, Sunday evening...
...Since drama presents its ideas objectively, through moving figures, the new conception may still employ the old imagery...
...Harry Fox heads the vuudeville, with Rbger lmln.tr...
...Bernie "makes" June, but she turns out to b« * cheap little grafter who has a man on the aide...
...Modern dram* throughout itt history, from th* early morality play to tuck modern ctunterparti tt "The Servant in th* House," by Charles Rtnn Kennedy, and "The Wonderful Visit," by St...
...J. T. S. 1JLEA1RES Vaudeville Theatres MOSS' BROADWAY The screen feature at the Broadway Theatre, beginning Monday, will1 include Mrs...
...The situation has grown more and mora tense...
...The last of these is thi story of t woman at whose party some ringi are stolen...
...Wallace Rrld in "Broken Laws," the story of the jaw...
...Raymond Hitchcock, in "The Sap" will be the attraction at the ShubertRiviera Theatre, Monday...
...Gtmblrilli will' bi seen in in arrangement of Victor Herbert's "Air de Ballet...
...She ieit a "good thing" In Hemic, however, and It pitying him for ill he ii worth...
...Thi guests of honor will include, *mong othert, Auguitui Thomas, Colonel Walter Scott, Pedro de Cordobt, Jacob Adler, Joseph L. Buttenweiier, Rev...
...The play goea through thi dilemma which the scientific husband perceives but cannot break out of, until th* fair Isabel (played by the gracioui Margaret Lawrence) properly goei out into the garden to reward her rescuer...
...Barrie'i play I* of thi* tort, iave thtt Sam Smith I* trying to find out which of th* com* pany it was that, two year* ago at Monte Carlo, had murdered hli brothir...
...The flrit ii a threeact comedy with the slightest of themea, yet with t sophistication and a wit tbat eonitantly bubble out just In time to save the play from growing boreiome...
...Tha Lady," featuring Norma Talmadge, is an emptional film, after th* rollicking itir of Douglas Fairbanks...
...But he will let Bernie give him presents and keep him it a companion In a new flat on Central Park West...
...Seldom htt New York eeen such a remarkabla eharaeteritttion...
...The musical program will be headed by "H...
...The cast includea Ralph Morgan, Minnie Combell, Walter Gilbert, Walter Horton, Clara Moons and Jianne De Me...
...The cut li headrd by l.ewii 8. Stone with Piullttl Duval in the leading feminine role...
...is a cocktail, for an appetizer, with th* rest of the mill left out...
...John...
...Th* crash comes whin Bernie finds June In the arms of Mr...
...W. L. "Hnsird Short's Ritz Revue," recently it the Ritz Theatre, comes to the Winter Gtrden for a week'i engagement, beginning Monday evening, and will continue during the enforced tbaence of Al Jolaon In "Big Boy," whleh returns Februtry 9. Delightful Fare "Isabel" and Barrier 'Shall We Join the Ladies?' Now at Empire Theatre Charles Frohman present...
...The lomewhat sentimental ntture of the itory tt outlined la loftened by the careful handling of the picture, which movet tensely tnd powerfully to iti well-wrought clou...
...A cheap little tgagedy of a cheap little mm...
...Good Film Play at the Colony Martin Brown's'The Lady' With Norma Talmadge, Tense and Powerful Th* Colony Theatre, without pretention, it excellently fitted to give excellent film entertainment...
...The O'Connor Sisteri...
...Barrymore it perfect in the part...
...And to add to the joy of th* occasion, Leon Gordon, who gtvt ut "White Cargo," ha* given Mr...
...Barrie'i play, announced at first ai a one act pity, then aa an unfinished drama, it perhaps tha first ctrrying into tha theatre of the technique Of mch unsolved mystery tales as "Tha Lady or the Tiger," "A Dilemma," and "A Hundred in the Dark...
...The itory ii by Adele Rojera St...
...he gulps a trembling draught as the curtain falls...
...3 "Silence," Max Marcln'i melodrama now at th* National Theatre, op*"** at th* Queen's Theatre In London, Weanisdiy night, with Godfrey T*** heading the cast...
...Tho agitated Smith ii left alone...
...Bernie it unable to keep from boasting about hit money, and he invent...
...The play* ar* "Winter," translated from the Jewish by Sliolom Asch (author of "Godt of Vengeance...
...The Chrittitn drama thus bears, implicitly on a tecondtry theme, which toen mtniftited ittelf in the dramas of Luciter—notahly in th* Fault tele, the atory of man and th* tempter who would lure him from the divine way...
...Anathema" uiet the bodiei end wetlth of men as a decoy, in the hope of sharing the secret of life, tht knowledge mtn will never—for it grows with hit growing—wholly gtin...
...Shall wi ever know...
...Bernie it in constant fear that he will be arrested, but tht cashier of th* bank It accused of th* crime and it teat to jtil for ten years for it...
...and cheaper food...
...Willi* it living a fait lift, eating, booting, playing tht races...
...HIPPODROME Eddie Leontrd, Houdini, Mary Haynes, Jem Bedini, Dr...
...Willi* will not aecapt a etnt from Bernie...
...Shall We Join the Ladies...
...Thi ovtrtiir* will bi Elgsr'i "Pomp tnd Circumstance...
...The greatest dramatic themes of this stage are embodied in Prometheui of the Graakt and Jesus of the Christians: the one receiving the wrath of tuperhuman gode when their power ia stolen for tha ute of men, the other betring the gift of ttlvttion from a boundlen, bountiful God when hit powers havt keen stolen for, the misuse of man...
...a mixed but delightful far* at the Empire Theatre, in Curt Goets' "Isabel" (adapted by Arthur Richman) and Jamei M. Btrrie't thort story play, "Shall W* Join the Ladies...
...a Action that his grandmother died and left it to him...
...Save that mention should be made again or th* pleaaant Margaret Lawrenee, and alio of Edna May Oliver, whose Aunt Olivia was a eort of aristocratic Helen Westley, and of Lyonel Watti, A. P. Kay* (an excellent butler and a good Sam Smith) and Lealie Howard, all of whom added to the pleasure of a pleasant performance...
...Norma Talmadge, whose roll carries through many years, hat in opportunity for dramatic portrayal of many imotions, and ahi shows herself to great advantage, handling the years of thi old woman with tenderness and sympathy...
...Elixabith Patterion will play I'roierpine in Shaw'e brilliant comedy...
...He wants to make t good showing in June's eyes...
...he gives her up for a flashy creature of "his claai...
...But to th* horror of both of them, It ia not |80 bat $50,000, and they haven't th* nerve to return th* money...
...Tha earliest phases of this opposition present mtn at tht blind or unwilling victim of * tempter, e demi god or fallen angel or fiend I that twiata man to hit tcrvica in III war oa deity...
...Three Hearts and a Ring," by Thomas Kiernan, and "Stilt* mate," by Milcom La Pradi...
...Grown more eontciout of himtelf, mtn stretches t htnd toward the rudder of th* vessel on which he nils...
...Thus th* drama of God and man grows Inevitably to be a conflict between them...
...John Ervme and H. G. Welle, haa pictured tha coming of the tempter or the redeemer to draw tk* tupport of puppet Mao by leadiag ttringt, a devious way to endt that ire not hie own...
...ihe gathera the guests at table, aad announce!, turning out tha lights, that aha will call in tha police when ihe haa eounted on* hundred...
...J. Ha/odl Murray in "China Roil,* it the Martin Beck Theatre, introduci* a new song last night entitled "*J Minchurian Qunn...
...Th* doctrin* of free will it man'a declaration of independence of God and demon...
...Reid...
...a woman outside thrieki...
...Othir aeti include "Let's Dance," a dancing act...
...The Piker" Lionel Barrymore Returns In Leon Cordon's Play at the Eltinge Lionel Barrymore it luptrb at tha sniveling, cowardly little Yid in Leon Leon Gordon's new play, "Tht Piker," now showing tt tht Kiting* Theatre...
Vol. 2 • January 1925 • No. 5
