The Drama of Pitted Powers
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
The Drama of Pitted Powers By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Man* firil effoits to und« island the un i verse led h im 10 see, beh md I he facea » i (ones of Natun, gods whom by sacrifice *' ' player * muil...
...not the weak of body or if mind, but the weak of will, the pusil Ian nil.u- the unconimaitding as playi like MAmbush" indicate...
...Broadway Briefs "Exiles," by Jamas Joyce, will b* the next production at the Neighborhood Playhouse, opening on Thursday night, February 19...
...the oithodon Jew still wears his hat indoors, and the New York Public Lib raiy will not admit a man in his shirt i sleeves Hy a similar process, the I power once sought as a means of subduing the hostile forces that held man down was now desired for its own sake...
...A girl in the Rayder store says jazz means "life" to her, and lets it go at that...
...Avo Bon.barger and Betsy Ayres, in the prologue, assisted by the Capitol Male Quartet...
...When you don't know what to do, sink to the floor...
...he has the part of an innocent and wealthy musician, a composer of genius but of absolutely no experience in life...
...Modern drama has removed that ' per-i.nifu-ation...
...The kick wasn't there when he took another turn down the aame old pier with Helen Sears, but he knew he would rather conduct a jazz band in New York to earn a living for himself and Edith than manage a Rayder store in Zanesville, Ohio...
...Pietro Capodiferro Rossini's "Stabat Mater...
...The success of this comedy has made it necessary t o transfer It to the new theatre, which has a capacity of 1,530 seats...
...And four years later he was sure of only two things...
...Man has now a further reason for struggling: if he do not wield, he must yield, to powei...
...Three or four times the author makes Babe try to explain that a new musical Messiah is seeking to be born through the wailing travail of brass and catgut...
...and wriggled down the Atlantic City pier with Helen Sears squirming against hia pleated bosom...
...Rollo Peters is no more unfortunate in the role assigned to him...
...Hut contrasted with Nature all man kind is weak...
...The now thostro has a ltadlnm-1"" orehestrs, the rear rows being sharply elevated...
...In ihis fan h ion the mind v* its ra*t in the mould uf power it indeed n did n»l ii«e from the beaut already get...
...packed with dance floor patter and flapper cuss words...
...Persons whose Station iendeied their | day* pleasantly secure atrove for power | solely in oider that they might dis play that power, even more power for i ever greater display, on the blood 1 clotted treadmill of fame, i A subtle yet vital transition is thus I affected...
...whoever translated the play from the German Is unnamed) or those who Beek modern psychology in his lines have overlooked: before one can see and know there is still another prequisite—one must have a sincere desire to learn...
...Reginald Barker directed "The Great Divide...
...Rod La Rocque, Vera Reynolds, Lillian Rich, Warner Baxter, Theodore Kosloff and Julia Fnye, havo the principal roles...
...But the petrifying effect of habit and meanwhile produced a revolution in the human attitude...
...however, and of i he medicine man, th* Conception spread that the performance of certain rites, or even tlie knowledge of a god's intimate name, gave puwei over that god, subjected him to I he mortal'*- bidding...
...The story Is adapted from Wallace Irwin's novel...
...The play might have stayed there too...
...Such fia;uiea may mHke interesting studies in fiction, but only when, aa in "Hamlet," they are less contender...
...the first allies he sought against the gods were greater gods...
...The Depths" The Problem* of a Lost Girl Who Wants To Find Hertelf "It in becoming clear that thf old platitude* can no longer lie maintained, and that if we with to improve <>»r morals we must first improve our knowledge...
...He puts the part up where it will stick, and he will continue to be in demand among producers looking for that kind of talent...
...Oscar Bradley, English conductor, alternates with Hans Liune in directing the orchestra of the operetta...
...William Vaughn Moody's pl.iy wa.i produced by Henry Miller some years back...
...1 hit much advertised and widespread "inferiority complex" is merely man's personal acceptance of this significance, with a failure to apply it to his equally impotent neighbors...
...Melodrama, even, should today avoid the obvious inevitabilities—the approaching motherhood, the false friend—or at least strive to slip them in with the spparent naturalness by which Walsworthy so often deludes his audiences...
...The Little Clay Cart" at the Neighborhood will/ end Its run on Sunday night, February 1G...
...They are bully good arts, too...
...Cooper Hawley has been engaged as understudy of Allan Prior In the role of Jacques Offenbach In "Tho Love Song," at the Century Theatre...
...To make this play thrive and live long, two things are needed...
...Brandon Thomas' farco "Charley's Aunt," was seen for the first time on tho London stage on December 21, 1892, nnd ran for 1,480 nights, a new record for the English or any stage...
...She and Babe are "living" together in a peppy lockstep to the tune of a street piano when a real Rayder appears and drives life back into the cash register...
...Syd Chaplin, Impersonating the title...
...yet all this time it is employing the old tricks in the old way...
...His health Is now in good order...
...at the end it flings her irretrievably out of the window...
...Drama takes on a new significance, with the kindly "god from the machine" or any god - for gotten, depicting the struggle of the pitted powers of man against man...
...by James Gleason and Richard Faber, now current at the 39th Street Theatre, will be moved here...
...remains a mystery when the curtain falls...
...role, la a brother of Charlie...
...j...
...Therefore, he finds that fate has brought them together...
...The play ends without letting us know whether there is room on Manhattan for another jazz virtuoso, but everybody in the house is glad to take a chance with Babe and get away from the stain store merchants...
...this surplus power, beyond the needs of safety and comfort, is exerted not over Nature, but over men, who must be made to uphold and to behold the display, to appreciate, to fear, the power...
...Caroline Andrews, coloratura soprano, and Douglas Stan-bury, the duets from "Pagliacci...
...I Kor that reason the Jew.- ch 1 led their god, Adonoi, by ttie p-.et.dun> in Jehovah...
...Vaughan Moody's "The Great Divide," At the Capitol, Sunday "Tho Great Divide," translated to the screen, will be presented at the Capitol Theatre, Sunday...
...The Drama of Pitted Powers By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Man* firil effoits to und« island the un i verse led h im 10 see, beh md I he facea » i (ones of Natun, gods whom by sacrifice *' ' player * muil placate With the (rrowth of the piitsily clini...
...The best comedy scene is of a dinner given to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of one of trre Rayders...
...In keeping with the bewildered look he wears throughout the piny is his confinement of the girl to an attic room, for fear of the neighbors...
...than the battle giound of mightier disputants, will the drama find place for their tormented indecision...
...The Swan," with Eva LeGallienne, will be at tho Shubert-Riviers Theatre next week...
...At another time, she acts like— and speaks of herself as—a woman in whom desire and the lusts of life are so strong that in any, environment she would have "gone wrong...
...But, why is jazz...
...A. A. Kline makes an effort in four acts to supply the answer in his play at the II u d s n n Theatre...
...The good drama in it should be put on the stage, and not kept out of sight in the wings, as at present...
...Walter Hampden's performance of "Othello" en Monday night will be a benefit la all of Eastern Association on Indian Affairs...
...By sheer accident ho meets Anna the day his symphonic theme comes to hiin...
...Without aid, therefore, man felt his struggles vain...
...we find her at one moment represented as an unfortunate whose orphaned state and lewd stepmother led her in ignorance into evil ways...
...So will their elders...
...It is a post-Babbitt episode, and so thick with satire that the galleries can't miss it...
...The vaudeville indue: Al Lydell and Carclton Macy, Newhoff and Phelps, Clnire Vincent A Co., Sully A Thomas, Irving Edwjrds and others...
...Charley's Aunt" With Syd Chaplin At the Colony, Sunday "Charley's Aunt," with Syd Chapljq, is the next attraction at Moss' Colony Theatre, beginning Sunday night...
...The Depths" goes to the room of a prostitute for its opening color...
...But Havclock Kills took for granted one element the author (Hans Mueller...
...Opens Saturday Afternoon With "Is Zat Sof The new playhouse, under the direction of the Messrs...
...Better face death at the mouth of a slide trombone than grow old and suffocate in a dry-goods box...
...H. "The Golden Bed," By Wallace Irwin, At Most9 Broadway "The Golden Bed," Cecil B., De Mi lie's drama of love, will be the screen attraction at Moss' Broadway, beginning Monthly...
...Eric Dressier is what a critic may term a "wow" aa the jazz babe...
...Shubert, to OS known as Chanin's 46th Street Theatre, will open this Saturday matinee...
...it flings her to the floor toward the climax of every act, in sorry or angry desperation...
...Dorsha and her dancers will be the added attraction at this Saturday night's dance at the Debs Auditorium...
...Julia Glass will play Rubinstein's concerto in D Minor...
...And stage director Forbes ought to make the action jell better—and not end the performance on the limpest note in the whole refrain...
...The picture of Anna is confused...
...Marcia Byron, as Edith Rayder, does excellent work with the hard parts of a role that is not so much as the author leaves it...
...This mixed conception interferes with Jane Cowl's interpretation of the part, and perhaps accounts for the recourse to hysterics in every act, as being the easiest way eut...
...The capacity of the orchestra Is nnosually targe, being ISO aeeta...
...All lovers of the saxophone and syncopated footwork will like them...
...As a picture of social conditions, the play seems hardly to fit either Germany or New York, though some effort seems to have been made to Americanize the adaptation...
...Al Jolson, after two weeks In Florida, resumes his run at the Winter Garden Monday night, In "Big Boy...
...he visits her for the first time the day it is accepted...
...Everybody ia mad at everybody else, and the Babe is a bee in a bottle who gets banged every time he tries to buzz...
...Anita Booth makes an attractive figure as Helen Sears, and Malcolm Duncan is fine as the rising prince of merchandise...
...A. Baldwin Sloane, composer of the music of "China Rose," now at the Martin Beck Theatre, has completed the scores of two other musical comedies, scheduled for spring production...
...As one side usually triumphed- the drama is seldom a draw th* idea that gods wen invincibl* I suun disappeared, *e find deani-god*, i giants, 1,'iaily human heroes, setting themMl.es in apportion tu the forces of Nature, pcrsonitied, of course, a* 'gods...
...Jane Cowl and Rollo Peters plead from the stage, snd the producing power of Selwyn and Klauber urges the theme...
...and it was first setn in New York on October 1, 1893...
...Alice Terry and Conway Tearle head the players...
...the drama is t he present at ion of elabii nig eneigjes J he weakling is thus out of place in the t heat le...
...Babe" Harrison thought he knew what jazz was when he cried "Come to your sandwich, white meat...
...Six soloists will contribute to the musical program...
...i( often comes about that a practice entered into consciously, fur a definite recognized purpose, grows into a i;te the leason for which has been forgotten or lemoved Thus the habit of ealng fish once a week, urged in t ho M iddle Ages an an economic 1 necessity, giew into a religious regula-j lion, the Catholic days of "abstinence...
...Early Greek drama presents alliance of men with gods against other such combinations...
...In order to guide we must first see snd know " With this quotation from Havelork Ellis the program of "The Depths," at the Broadhurst Theatre, bids for the serious attention nf the playgoer...
...W. L. Wm...
...He wasn't so sure he knew when he married Edith, a daughter of the chain-store Itayder family...
...Out of Step" Jazz Comedy by Kline, Searches for Secret Cause of Modern Dance Fever Why is jaii...
...He links it up with the World War and the gooseflesh down his legs...
...Louis Mann In "Milgrim'i Progress" will bo transferred from tho Longacr* te the Itth Street Theatre, Monday Chanin's 46th St...
...The comedy, 'Is Zat So...
...Ths picturlzation was made by Al Christie at his Hollywood studio...
...it shouts her profession loudly across the stage...
Vol. 2 • February 1925 • No. 6
