AMUSEMENTS

Amusements -:- -:- DRAMA -:- -:John Galsworthy's Plays By C. E. M. Joad I CURIOUS minda have wondered from time to time why we -ohtain such pleasure from heme made miserable. That people...

...There were still companies touring the country In "The Black Crook" every season thirtyyears ago...
...Smith...
...Ho must •ft on with It, he must get on...
...This latest seaside "playground is the third largest at Coney Island, and represents an investment of 13,000,000...
...Smith has the original script with all stage directions, costume designs, etc...
...Besides the innumerable speeches in which Russians delight on such occasions, the Jubilee Involved special productions of individual acts from the various plays In the theatre's repertory...
...The art of tragedy has the effect of drawing off accumulations of pity and fear, by providing a natural vent for these emotions . in the spectacle of the...
...The revue will start its road'tour in Philadelphia in September...
...Sham, Barrie and Milne Plays .On College Players' Program ¦ Shaw and Barrie plays will be presented' by the Washington Square College Players of New York Unlverslty In their .fifth summer season at tbe New York University Playhouse...
...And he sneered as he did it...
...Flint Is a hard, cruel beast...
...Marie Sundelius,- of" tbe Metropolitan Opera Company, and Folke Anderson, tenor of the Royal...
...The cSst at the "Ceoljsl -Park Theatre'* Is competent eaosjjp IsgfI lass jsjy to thraw the J>ur, den gpospdyisiblllt* upon- the author, so Us* w» may Judge fairly why the play^Sfc seldom performed...
...The peasants also show an appreciation for comic films...
...There were several addresses...
...John Dos Passos, novelist...
...is slowly beginning to penetrate the Russian villages...
...Wednesday evening, "The Masked Ball...
...Kongo" ia a play that cannot help but remind you of "White Cargo...
...The run of "The Romantic Young Lady" at the Neighborhood Playhouse bss -been extended to include . next . week, and the production will not dose until Sunday,- June eThe Actors' Equity Association held its thirteenth annual meeting Tuesday afternoon In the grand ballroom of the Hotel Astor...
...Tuesday evening, "Traviata...
...He is undisputed master in his sphere...
...and for the suffering which Inevitably ensues we can feel pity...
...Volvllle, Richard Ceough and Ollva Agar will be In the company...
...others...
...what doesn't happen...
...Pirn Passes By," "The Dover Road" and "Belinda...
...Music Notes Dusollna Glannini will be one of the soloists at the Evanston festival next week...
...For in all ages men have flocked to see tragedy: tragedy according to the Greeks was the noblest of the arts, and among' Shakespeare's plays tbe tragedies are deservedly accounted tbe greatest, with Hamlet, containing six murders and one lunatic's suicide, heading the list.' The best and most plausible account of tbe matter comes from the philosopher Aristotle...
...The singers include Anne Blum, Violet Horner, Stella Marchetti, Gladys Ma the w, Agnes Robinson, Annette Royak, Anna Judson, Giuseppina La Puma, Martha Melis, Bcttino Capelli, Charles Hart, Armando Marblni, Vincent Nola, Julian Olivet, Deslderlon Pezzettl, A. Calamandtie, L. Gutleres, lago Doris, P. Mareo, Giorgio Puliti...
...Very extensive plans were worked out in connection with this Jubilee, and a large committee, including representatives of other theatres, literary publications, trade unions and Other public organizations, was organized under the presidency of the veteran German revolutionist, Clara Zetkla, to make all preparations for the occasion...
...Workers' Theatre Croup to Present Labor Plays An organization for the production of plays revolutionary In character was formed last week at tbe first meeting of what Is to be known as the Workers' Drama League, which was held in the league's theatre...
...But mere suffering is not' in itself tragic...
...we must for the sake of the reputation of the species And some explanation of -the popularity of tragedy on the stage...
...One got the wife and shortly after' she gave birth to a daughter, and to reward him for his kindness, he planted a good swift kick ia th% lower part of the spine of the other, thereby paralysing his legs...
...The plans, as outlined by Michael Gold, editor of New Masses, include a burlesque revue for summer presentation, which is planned to be revolutionary In character, and six programs of one-act plays, which will be given during the fall and winter...
...Alexander Arkatov, formerly associated with the Proletariat Theatre in Russia, is directing the rehearsals...
...Winifred Lenihan will be the director...
...BoUo't "Neront" Chen in * Buenos Aires with Cast of 5V Arrigo Bolto's opera, "Nerone," had its aew world premiere In the C**a Opera House, Bneaos Aires, on Mesaday night, opening the opera, eonsssv It wss hailed by critics ss the meat stupendous ever given In Buenos Airs*, having a east of toe...
...for July For the month of July a stock company at the Beechwood Theatre...
...he held, is • creature of many emotions of which pity and fear are perhaps the two strongest...
...But that men and women should pay money to witness scenes of horror . upon the stage, and should seek their - entertainment In the struggles and misfortunes of decent folk, is a circumstance so curious that unless wo are to accept the cynics' blunt assertion .'that all men are cruel at heart and take a simple and unaffected pleasure In Buffering as sucb...
...The repertory for the week of May 30 will be as follows: Monday matinee, "Faust...
...and' the "HJMbhy worked out through their Hre* is profound, and as valid as in - tfce playwright's earlier and more balanced productions...
...His symbolism Is no longer 'SSbcrdinate to the truths of life, but grows Into phantasmagoria beyond reality...
...The chief characters being such as we can respect...
...the leading tenor role of Lionet in the opera "Shanewis'' this summer at-the Hollywood Bowl in California...
...The Patsy," at tha Booth, with Ckdborne Faster In the leading rota, wM" cejebrate Its one hundred and sevsWb...
...Rafaelo Dlag will sins...
...The 1,000 bath houses will be open in Tune...
...There are scenes when the blacks attack the store and Flint beats them off with his voodooism that fairly take your breath away...
...The Good Fellow," at Ashury Park...
...His tour will take him,to the Pacific Coast...
...The Black Crook" was first presented at Niblo's Garden In 18S0...
...acrobatic powers by its actors...
...Julia Clausscn and Mme...
...will use this play agsln next year...
...Tes, by Go.d...
...J. T. 8. Music "Rigoletto" to Open Opera Season at Starlight Park THE opera season ot fourteen weeks at Starlight Amusement Park in East 177th street will open this Saturday evening with "Rlgoletto...
...Kate Lawson will be scenic designer and general technical director...
...That people take a pride In their own misfortune, find satisfaction In their own touchiness anl relief tn a pood cry...
...Brock Pemberton has accepted a play by J. Frank Davis entitled' "The Ladder...
...Sholom Aleichem, widow of the Jewish dramatist...
...Kregg doesn't know "•who he is...
...Tom and Annie gaze into each other's eyes.and love, and Tom is the first to defy the terrible Flint...
...Alexander Gray...
...i «* Guy Mater sailed for Europe on May 26, end expects to bring- some, two-piano novelties for the MaierPaulson combination...
...We find ourselves at the opening of the play In the store kept by Mr...
...Alice Sit by the .Fire...
...Indeed, profess to discover profound causes, generally of an unmentionable character, .for these manifestations...
...The scenery will be constructed and painted on the premises...
...Davis is a writer ot fiction Uving in Ban Antonio, Texas...
...All the great Galsworthy plays present conflict, and suffering arises from conflict, in such a way that, although you can understand why the characters acted as they did, sympathize with their motives, and pity their sufferings, only a Pharisee could blame...
...fifth performance Saturday uisllaah ————— a...
...Kregi, is lured to Flint's place, and there the two men face each other and Flint tells him who he Is...
...Opera, of Stockholm...
...The theatre, which seats 2.000, has been remodeled, redecorated and refurnished...
...The play is revolutionary in the manner of Its presentation and Its technique...
...snd Mtrhua Lax...
...but he is always playing little pranks on the man who sneered, like poisoning the wells for tha benefit of an expedition and arranging it so that it is reported that Kregg did It Oh...
...Klngsland had been in Kregg's place, where he was brutally beaten, and there he saw how the Man Who Sneered beat and mutilated his Negroes...
...Palmer's "Law and Outlaw" wax figure show and a Belgian Congo Village showing, among other freaks, two "Monkey Men" never seen in this country before, according to Prof...
...The Greenwich • Village Follies will dose Its engagement at the Shubert this Saturday night...
...Maia seeking safety jB the valley, Irene and Rubek Mtag to their death upon the heights, bat because of the complexities of its bsWgbt and tbe aberrations of its •nabob...
...It is good for- us to fear the ghost of Hamlet's father, and to com passionate tbe madness of 'Lear, because we are thereby drained of the moody humors that would otherwise Intrude themselves Into our own lives...
...AH the settings and the stage, «aa- - chinery for tbe spectacular aBinak were brought from La Seals f/JteV House in Milan, Italy, where It waf-: produced fair the first tune May V 1224...
...Formlcbi was BlBisa j Magnus,, prophet of debased roaghS*, and Claudia Muzto...
...A are Man o - Fertile impersonated fsK Roman emperor, Nero, as he did If Milan...
...Seventeen" and "The Charm School...
...X," by Joseph SzebehyeL It wBl be adapted from the Hungarian for...
...Emll Boreo, Edwin Lawrence...
...e e • e DRAMA x f*en's Last Play "When'We Dead Awaken Inf&qbenlly Revived, Opens at Central Park Theatre IN''a transformed Studio Just below Manhattan's largest patch of green, Messrs, Warren and Weir are presenting Hemik Ibsen's "When We Dead Awaken...
...100 Washington Square...
...It Is about white men and beat and hate and lust]| passions and a beautiful though loose native lady clad tastefully in a couple of breast...
...Watson in "The Importance of Being Earnest" at the Rim Theatre Olio week...
...Alexander Arkotov, a theatrical director from Russia: Hugo Oellert and Nathan Fine...
...Sunday afternoon and evening operatic concerts will be given...
...Saturday evening, "Lucia...
...Bernard Dudley Irving Edwards and Olc-i Smirnova and Nicholas Trlpo'lltoff from the Concert Mavol, Paris...
...Shubert are sponsoring in association with Albert de Courvllle, the Knglish producer, will open in the Imperial Theatre on Monday, June 7. "The Merry World" had its, prenTiere in New Haven on Thursday, and will play next week in Newark- The cast includes Morris Harvey, Grace Hayes, Donald Calthrop...
...with Sidney Tpler in tbe leading role...
...soprano of "Prlnoacs Flavian have been added to the list of principals at "The Merry World...
...The municipality of JJUeaee Aires, after a long controversy 'recently, authorized the broadcasting of all performances at tbe Colon Opera, House, which Is operated by the) m.ialrlpolliy...
...Flint—"Dead Legs" Flint he is called ;—in the middle of the Congo Jungle...
...The first -fllay planned will be a play called "Strike...
...He has won power over the natives by mastering various voodoo rites and holding them over the savages...
...fall presentation...
...The entire performance was broadcast by radio...
...a'merry fellow Is this Flint...
...by Newman Levy...
...When We Dead Awaken," sewever interesting in performance, *!H probably continue to be more ef•sJtrre in tbe reading...
...As compensation for these "bourgeois" stage accessories, it lays extraordinary stress on tbe development of...
...He will grow nervous' and fearful...
...Laurette Taylor signed this week with A. II...
...Edward Lebegdtt will direct the orchestra and a chorus largely selected from the Metropolitan and San Carlo opera companies...
...This rules out villains and scoundrels^ who belong to melodrama rather than tragedy...
...Gold were Louis Lozlwlck...
...Tneplay, written about a year before the aging dramatist's death, was prepared 'with such labor and such psesxassto-agitation, so spasmodically sat* so feverishly, that those around bah Were almost alarmed...
...It's too silly, ot course, but even sophisticated audiences hold the sides of their seats and positively gasp for breath as the battle between the two terrible men goes on...
...In the first place, the people presented In the tragedy must be such as we can pity without loss of self-respect...
...Hilda Spong has succeeded Lucille...
...Cesar...
...and the pleasure we obtain from the spectacle of tragedy on the stage is akin In character to that.'which attends the extraction of a thorn In the flesh or an aching tooth...
...Amusement shonners will find several other good bargains \ In the Amusement Department Store, while overhead speeds the new "Bobs Coaster" ride, which takes In nearly $300 an hour...
...Among those who spoke at the meeting beside Mr...
...sufferings of...
...John Howard Lawson, playwright...
...A H. Woods announces the purchase of a mystery comedy...
...Scarborough...
...Lucia Coryira, Spanish dancer of "Artists and Models...
...The soloists- will be Mine...
...The original, play, with minor changer, will constitute the libretto...
...will be (formed with the twenty-one members of tbe sewior class In the Theatre Guild School of Acting...
...N. J...
...The Merry World" Opens At Imperial Theatre June 7 "The Merry World," the revue which the Messrs...
...has purchased from A. H. Woods a play entitled "Lonely Wives," which he intends to present here late In August with himself In the leading role...
...The Black Crook" to Be Revived by Two Groups There will be two rival revivals of the old extravaganza, "The Black Crook," next season, one of them by the' new Art Theatres combine, and the other by James P. Beury...
...This ride is new in Coney Island this summer...
...The shows Include "shadow movies...
...Neroue,'* which will be seen la Bow York next fall, was well received *» a typical Bret night audience...
...here, there is to...
...they must, thst is' to say...
...There Is Doctor Tom Kingsland, wanted tn England for murder...
...Espartero Palazzl, Paolo Quintlna and Nino Ruisa...
...It follows that the conflict which Is of' the essence of tragedy cannot be between good and evil...
...which he will give an outof-town -tryout ¦ next iA»*hii tn...
...Two new numbers have been placed in the "Garrick Gaieties," a song of circus life by Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers...
...It Is said that the peasants show little liking for foreign pictures, .unless they show scenes of farm life...
...and the huge building houses all sorts of shows...
...There Is also an attraction known as the Glass House or Crystal Maze...
...Dwlght Deere Wlman has purchased a play by Knowles Entriken...
...And th this play Walter Huston, who is worthy of the best dramatic writing in the world, gives a performance that literally lifts you out ot your seal and that at the end* sends you home wildly cheering...
...While only the larger villages can maintain theatres of their own, there are 400 traveling cinemas .which go about from village to village with thelr productions...
...on Monday.evening...
...Ba-opnfllct In Professor Rubek, cenhpted in his relations with Maiaaand bWAJholds the attention...
...It is this •ansa Of strain, this -tumultuous out. potfsjagY that sheds upon the play ths He glimmer that has led some u ssfteet that Ibsen's talents had alrMdy^faJled'him...
...Werner Janssen is 'doing -the' music for It and Gordon Johnson the .lyrics...
...a man being seasick is merely squalid and arouses disgust...
...for the stellar role la Jacques Deval's new plsy "The CsjdAoard Lover...
...William S...
...Five performances- will be given of each play on Thursday...
...We have little Annie, of course, sweetheart of a hundred men and forced into prostitution by Flint and pure and clean despite her losthsome calling...
...George Arllss, who has played two seasons In John Galsworthy's "Old English...
...of the Mcuapi* hn Opera Company, sang the *T0*%JH Astoria, priestess...
...It was said that this will be the first workers' theatre In America...
...be sneered...
...Thus the noble character, dragged this way and that by conflicting pulls, is the stock figure of tragedy...
...which is behrg Wyngate for offering here early In the falL Leslie Howard has been engaged to play opposite Miss Taylor...
...The plays, it was stated, would be new and modern in technique and would deal particularly with the worker and his problems...
...He stem te head the beating of dark phdons over his head...
...Saturday matinee.- "Rigoletto...
...W. M. F. The cornerstone of the Yiddish Art Theatre, which Will be housed in the new Louis N. Jaffe Art Theatre Building at Twelfth street^ and Second avenue, was laid last Sunday afternoon by Mrs...
...Both men have changed their names* of course, and the other fellow, who does work for his government not far away is known as Kregg...
...sascha, jaeobsert will hold summer master classes In New Tork and West Hartford, Conn., on the principles of the late Franz Kneiael...
...Lulu Vollmer's "Sun Up" is being made into a grand opera and is under consideration by the Metropolitan for next season...
...The play deals with three generations of Middle Westerners He will produce tbe play In the fall with Mr...
...but it has its differences...
...Ruasell Mack, who leaves the cast of "Square Crooks...
...Manklewlcz...
...And Walter Huston comes through with flying colors—a great actor and a gallant gentleman...
...With whichever course he takes we can feel sympathy...
...The Meierhold Theatre prides Itself on being an organization which has expressed the ideals of the revolution in dramatic art...
...Broadway Briefs A revival of Eugene O'Neill's "The Emperor Jones," with .Charles Gilpin and the original company, will be presented In June by Faul Kay...
...it closes the series that had begun with "The Ulster Builder...
...a fun-house, s modern carrousel, Dr...
...Brewer...
...If he spares his uncle ho betrays his father's memory...
...Flint arranges to allow the two lovers to escape...
...Miss Watson sails for France this week...
...Friday evening, "Faust...
...tbe sight of torture on the stage is merely repulsive and arouses horror...
...The motion picture, continues the Moscow correspondent of the "Christian Science Monitor...
...Stella Marohetti will appear in the role, ot Gilda, Julian Oliver will be the Duke, and Giorgio Pulitl the Jester...
...tes and a breech clout, all located In the central part of Africa where men are swine and where life is one damn thing after another, the quest for Ivory and rubber so that beautiful ladles may wear ornaments and that we poor civilised fish might ride on rubber tires and keep the wet out...
...Miriam Steep, Edwlnns...
...From this explanation two consequences follow...
...Kregg Is forced to shoot himself...
...The play is subtitled "A Dramatic Epilogue...
...June 21...
...Allez-up," and a sketch entitled "Washington and the Spy...
...A large orchestra, conducted by Howard Barlow, will play ' Swedish compositions and the chorus ot 500 voices, directed by Ernst Frahcke of Worcester will sing Swedish songs...
...They enjoy pictures illustrating the application of new methods in agriculture, and performances based on events in the Russian civil war are also quite popular...
...Brady...
...Sunday and Monday...
...ftfapite its overbalanced symbolism, "*10ien We Dead Awaken" is moving...
...In "Justice," so great is the pity aroused by the sight of the clerk Falder sentenced to prison for forgery, pacing his solitary cell like a caged animal, that the spectators are brought to overlook his offense against society...
...But it abandons the principles of dramatio construction to •which Ibsen had hitherto rigidly adhered...
...Theatre Guild School Planning Stock Co...
...who wHl open his show at the Walnut, Philadelphia, during the sesqui-centennlal...
...prepare Mr...
...being gathered from the Melodrama with A Punch "Kongo" at.the Bdtmore h a Gripping Plop of WUd Life in Africa AMELODRAMA that hasn't a single merit to It, and pet is one of the moot gripping plays of the year Is this "Kongo," Chaster De Vonde's snd K11 bourn Gordon's play of wUd life In Central Africa that Is being shown in the Messrs...
...It is melodrama of the most obvious kind, but what melodrama...
...Fanny's First Play...
...N. Y...
...It must rather be between two sets of obligations, both recognised by the tragic character as binding to some extent, but nevertheless incompatible...
...They are the eleven boys and nine girls who have survived the eliminations of the term which started last October...
...bo decent people, even noble people...
...Crosby Gaige will try out a new comedy by George S. Kaufman and Herman J...
...suggestion of religious powers we any not comprehend, but supposedly teal, happenings that are impossible...
...entitled "Seed of tbe Brute...
...It seems that there were a couple of fellows many years ago and one of them had a wife the other coveted...
...Herman Bernstein, playwright and author, was chairman...
...Amusement Department Store Open at Coney Island Coney Island's newest show palace, the "Amusement Department Store," will be officially opened today at Stillwell avenue and the Bowery and running nearly to the boardwalk...
...Gus Shy, Deszo Retter, Dorothy Whitmore...
...but sensible people are content to ascribe them to the oldness/of human nature...
...Thereupon the one ran away from the woman and left her with the baby daughter and went in for government work In the Congo, while the other swore a solemn oath that he would revenge himself...
...The Girl With the Green Eyes...
...and its plays, which are mostly attempts at revolutionary propaganda and satire, are enlivened by a large amount of tumbling...
...It has introduced a decidedly novel theatrical technique, doing away with curtain, footlights, elaborate costumes and stage settings...
...Chan in'i beautiful BUtmore Theatre...
...About 150 people attended the meeting...
...when subsequently be throws himself out of the window rather than return to prison, you feel only a burning indignation against the soulless cruelty of tbe law.' This is the play which is saM' so to have affected a home secretary that on arrival at Whitehall the following morning he Immediately set to work to modify the regulations governing solitary confinement...
...In "The Master Builder'.' and . "Little Eyolf," as William Archer has : indicated, the treatment even of the ' supernatural is held within the bounds of the seemingly real...
...So Hamlet Is torn between loyalty to his father's ghost and his natural horror of committing murder...
...are undeniable facts which are too common to excite wonder...
...Psychologists...
...Mdnday evening, "Lucia...
...scenic artist...
...Jumping and general horseplay on tbe part of the players...
...HoUee on May 30 and 31...
...Meier hold Theatre, Has 5th Anniversary THE Meierhold Theatre, of Moscow, celebrated the fifth anniversary of its establishment with a three-day Jubilee...
...64 Washington Square South...
...outlet they will Inundate bla whole being...
...Florence Reed In "The Shanghai Gesture" moves from the Martin Beck Theatre to the Shubert Theatre on Monday night...
...The Country Cousin,"* "The Playboy of tbe Western World,"* Trelawney of the Wells...
...producer of the original show-, to stage their productions...
...English producer...
...The springs of pity snd fear are continually welling within, him, and unless they are provided with an...
...Shaw's "Getting Married,"^ "Candida" and "Ycnj Never Can Tell," and Barries "Dear Brutus" and "Alice Sit-by-the-Fire" are plnnned for production by Randolph Somerville, the director, as well as several comedies by A. A. Milne, Including "Mr...
...They will present four plays to be chosen from "Lillom...
...his life will be darkened with baseless apprehensions, and an excess of compassion will cause him to feel everybody's toothaches, as though they were his...
...If be murders his uncle he offends against the moral law and strikes at his mother...
...Woods, in association with Charles Krohman...
...The Strand Theatre at' Far Rockaway opened last week under the management of B. S. Moss with a gala performance of vaudeville, motion pictures and music...
...Both have been In negotiation with Joe Smith, son of the late George *V...
...I have devoted this much space to an account of Aristotle's theory because it seems to me to receive its most perfect exemplification In the plays . of Galsworthy...
...In addition to the election of new officers and-eighteen councillors, reports were majie by officers of the association...
...Here were a lovely set of characters all set for something to happen.' And gosh...
...In the greatest tragedies the moral stature of the chief sufferers Is something above the ordinary...
...Music Notes The American Union of Swedish Singers will hold two concerts at the Metropolitan Opera...
...Thursday evening,'"The Barber of Seville...
...Friday, Saturday...
...A subscription audience If...

Vol. 3 • May 1926 • No. 20


 
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