AMUSEMENTS
AMUSEMENTS DRAMA Plays of Satire and Protest By Henry Noel Brailsford NOTHING that Ernst Toller writes can fail to interest Socialist readers. But In "Brokenlirow" (a translation of...
...Then was the much-cherished copy of "Joseph and His Brethren" produced, and the suggestion made that the play should be performed by the young men of the church...
...The village grocer also took part...
...Brooklyn...
...hymns tn" honor of the Moon God-written out In tba time of Rlm-sVa, King of Larsa, twenty-one centuries eaten Christ, These are the moat Important tablets which excavations have yet brought to light and their discovery was a fitting finale to ajsuccessf ul senson...
...Newport Drama Festival Opens Next Tuesday THE Casino Theatre In Newport, R. I., will reopen next Tuesday under the dlreotidn of Francis Carpenter, actor, with What Is termed by Shesgreen and Vroom, New Tork representatives, as "The Initial Season of the Newport Dramatic Festival...
...It Is skillful., happy work from first to last, as well Invented as it is well written, and It should be even more moving on the stage- than it is pleasant to read...
...Helen Mayon last night replaced Margaret Landls in the ro!e of Irene Adams in "One ot the Family," at the Eltinge Theatre...
...Granted that war malms men, granted that poverty drives men to degrading employments—In order to realize this, must we be forced to dwell on a case so disgusting tn Its physical horror that one cannot visualize it without nausea...
...His claim to distinction is thus defined: "As a creative contributor ot new and moving forms to one of the oldest of arts, as the first American playwright to receive both wide and serious recognition upon the stage of Europe...
...But In "Brokenlirow" (a translation of "Hinkemann," fay Vera Mendel...
...The play was a success...
...Spyro Melas, A. Mook and Lanoir, assistant International secretaries...
...and a new play, from the French...
...Laagiey is a Member of thfeJ viola section ot the Philharmonic arid a composer ot aev.Val elaborate waltzes which have been played during previous summers...
...Jacob was a miner, Judah and Reuben were Iron workers, and Joseph was a pattern maker...
...In the cast are Frances Blair...
...his lines rewritten from the original...
...His wife tries In vain to heal him with her affection...
...After the week In Broqklyn, the play will be presentr-1 in Stamford nnd New London for half a week each...
...Quite a number ot them are Sunday school teachers, and when the Idea was conceived to purchase a harmoniun...
...Borodin's "Prince Igor" and the Cesar Franck symphony...
...Candida" and "You Never Can Tell" have been chosen to represent Saint Bernard, and "Dear Brutus...
...Moussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain...
...f The English Singers, of London wi» appear ha America next season tW twenty-two weeks and have been booked for seventy-five concerts durf tog that period...
...Tuesday: Overture to the "Bartered Bride," Smetana...
...In Toller's prose there^ls no such relief...
...Pictures, Inc...
...who has played with the company since Us formation, will appear In all of the productions...
...it seems by accident, upsets a lamp and causes the death of a half-witted child...
...R. Jukes was revered by the folk of Lower' Gomel, and a copy of the drama was the £>iized possession ot an old Methodist...
...but they, at least, gave up beauty in the music of their, language...
...And It happened tn this way...
...The translation deserves high praise...
...The productions will be In the following' order: "Hamlet" tn modern dress...
...Several plays by A. A. Milne, including "Mr...
...Getting Married...
...Robert Warwick* Katherine Alexander, Blanche Yurka, J. M. Kerrigan and, Robert Loraine...
...The miners of Lower Gornal are for the most part Primitive Methodists...
...i, Monday: AIl-Russlan program...
...phony...
...A small o?d-fashloned shop Is being ruined by the competition of a great store...
...Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler, distinguished musician and composer, was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Music...
...English Miner* Go In ' Far Native Drama LOWER GORNAL, a little unobtrusive village la South ' Staffordshire, has for rsnfuilee been one of the "butt**" vtUagea^oC tha country, like Gotham and Cbowbent, Tradition says that it eras at Go-mat1 that the Inhabitants placed a pig upon.the wall to see the band go by...
...fears him, shrinks from him, still loves him—and yields to another man...
...The Idea found favor, and after much labor each member of the cast had...
...A vigorous young soldier has been unsexed by a chance bullet in the war...
...Somehow, one does not care as much as one ought to do...
...Has she a morbid conscience which blames her without reason, or did she really yield to a criminal impulse...
...But that Is neither here nor there...
...First Symphony la D. Gustav Mahler;, and "Mountain Vistas," Op...
...is one of the most tense end skillful tragic sketches ever written in this short compass, subtle and unusual in Its psychology and deft in its use of slight hints to produce a great emotional effect...
...Opera Stars int— Talking Films ONE of the most recent of the scientific developments which will revolutionize the exhibition of motion pictures In small theatres In little towns has just been announced as having been perfected...
...Margaret Knapp Waller, Frank Marshall...
...It Is harder to make up opes mind about the poignant and introspective tragedy of the Dutch dramatist Herjermans, which Christopher St...
...The harmonium was bought, and the players were so satisfied with their histrionic capabilities that they aspired to greater things...
...Washington Sq...
...Artists of the Metropolitan Opera Company will be utilized In the synchronization, according to a contract signed last week with the Metropolitan for the privilege of engaging singers to take part In the Vltaphone experiments...
...Tombe under the ruins of dwelltag heusea were discovered...
...This Is violent, contorted art, the "wilful search after ugliness of a poet who is allowing his rage against war to darken and distort' his mind...
...Voices of the Metropolitan will be available to the smallest of film theatres booking the pictures made with the synchronization process following the contract to obtain them for engagements...
...Dating from the period of the Larsa kings, about 2,000 B. C large, solidly constructed In burnt brick...
...He was known by some people as "'the poet of the millions," and he wrote a Biblical drama entitled "Joseph and His Brethren:" Very little was heard of the play, but the Rev...
...Tchaikovsky's "Franceses dl Rimini" and . Rlxneky • Korsakoff's ("Scheherazade...
...Broadtvap Briefs "Pyramids," by Samuel Rusk in Golding, which was seen at Werba's Brooklyn Theatre last week, will open in Manhattan in August...
...Richard Ceough will appear asiMorell, Crampton and the Bishop of Chelsea in the Shavian plays', and as Dearth and Colonel Grey in the Barrie productions...
...The comitlete program follows: Sunday: Wsgner'e "Flying Dutchman" overture...
...There are scenes In which Brokenbrow, now more than half mad, is made to fell the callousness of his worker-comrades, and life in a series of blinding hints and revelations stabs him with Its cruelty...
...with words by Theodore Goodwin and music by Arthur Schwartz...
...Frances Kelly and Mara and Mel Tyler...
...The Devil's Disciple," "Enter, Madame," "Arips and the Man," "The RomanUc Young Lady," ailew play, to be a'nncfinced...
...Some of the work of this new American playwright ia merely clever, with a sort of immature, undergraduate, highbrow smartness...
...unable to find honest work, is induced by a showman to exhibit himself as a strong man who sucks the blood of living rats and mice—though we had met him in the first act In an agony of anger over the sufferings of a blinded goldfinch...
...One Man's Woman" last night celebrated its fiftieth performance at, the ,«th Street Theatre...
...and the "Pathetic" Symphony of Tchaikovsky...
...LEW BRICE One of the featured player* in Richard Herndorit new revue, "Americana," which opens al the Belmont July 19...
...Large audiences have been attracted, and success follows every performance...
...Williarr A. Brady...
...In the faU...
...i f Eugene O'Neill and-Mrs...
...The piece, which was written by Jack Conway and Kusell, will open in Long Branch about July 12...
...Frank McDonald...
...By this system it is possible to synchronise the motion pictures with the reproduced sound, and have that sound perfectly natural...
...to lead the singing, an entertainment was suggested to raise the money...
...She accuses herself in the end of deliberate crime, and one is not.quite sure what the author really means...
...Music Festival, the week beginning July -17, singing the soprano solo parti, in the Crsatkni the Messiah, and two operatic eon*, i certs...
...Overture, Nocturne end Sche-ras from Mendelssohn's "Midsummer Night's Dream...
...Nevertheless, "Joseph and His Brethren" which Is written in rhyming verse, gained some national notoriety, for the late Sir Herbert Tree saw its merit and produced it at His Majesty's Theatre...
...The new year at the Theatre Guild School of Acting began Tuesday, July s. Over 1)00 atudents are entered far the preliminary month...
...Tbey were fairly large and unusually well preserved and bore religious texts and...
...Ernest Glendlnning, Blyth Daly, MaUde CSranger, Fred Graham and John Rovold...
...The Vitaphone Company has the Manhattan Opera House under lease for one year to prepare films with the synchronization device, photographing sound upon the film, making it possible for even the smallest theatre to have a 60-piece orchestra, provided the experiment Is practical and well done...
...the Bell Telephone Laboratories, the American Telephone & Telegraph Company and the Western Electric Company, Who have been working upon this system for the Warner Bros...
...Princess Wenonah, a full-blodSed Mohawk Indian, born at the toot of the Adirondacks, the grandchild of Chief Eagle Feather, and great, great grandchild of Chief Thunder Cloud, famous in the Indian and Revolutionary Wars, is appearing in Modern Miracles at Luna Park, Her husband...
...The tortured man sees in Prlapus the only god of civilized mankind...
...Mahler's First Symphony tn D. Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" Suite :,nd Liszt's "Les Preludes...
...There' was found against tho< wall of a room a collection of nearly sixty day tablets which had obviously been stored in a jar, whose fragments lay with them...
...Strauss' "Death and Transfiguration," the "Unfinished Symphony" of Schubert,' and Beethoven's "Leonare" overture No...
...Robert de Flers has been appointed first president, with Senator Morello (Italian), Eduardo Marquina (Spanish), and Dr...
...But Oornal today stands vindicated...
...Its producers, Wallace & Martins, are also announced to present a comedy, "Why Work...
...Andante" from a symphony by 'Roy Harris, a young composer from Oklahoma...
...College Players To Present Shan> and Barrie TWENTY of the permanent members of the Washington Square College Players of New York University will open their fifth summer season at the New York University Playhouse, 100 Washington Square, in a Shaw pnd Barrie repertory, under the direction of Randolph* Somerville...
...It was decided to hold the next convention of dramatic authors and composers at Rome next May, before the decennial meeting for the revision of the Berne convention concerning copyright, The British delegates in Paris were Arthur Pinero, M. Somerset Maugham, W. B. Maxwell, G. Herbert Thring, with the American delegates' John Emerson and Cosmo Hamilton...
...Friday...
...where the palaces and temples of Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Assyrians stood, the London "Times" reports...
...International Union of Authors Meet in Paris FOLLOWING the congress of playwrights in Paris last month, it has been arranged .to create an International federation embracing the various authors' societies of the world...
...But was it accident...
...But today the cast consists entirely of miners, who, leaving the pits coal-begrimed In the early evening, disport upon the stage at night in the flowing robes of Biblical tradition...
...Two are really successful and hilarious comedies, which should be even funnier on the stage than they are In print— "Woman's Honor" and '"Suppressed Desires'—the latter an Irresistible but by no means' extravagant skit upon psycho-analysis...
...Edwinna Colville...
...The cast of "Coal Oil Jennie," the comedy by Frank Craven which A. L. Erlanger will produce at Werba's Brooklyn Theatre Monday evening, July 19...
...Plm Passes By," "Belinda" and "The Dover Road," are also in the company's repertory...
...Isle of Death...
...Daniel Kusell will present a prizefight comedy, entitled "The Push Over...
...Stravinsky's ""Petrouchka...
...and "Alice Slt-by-the-FIre" for Sir James...
...The new number Is entitled "A Chat With You...
...It is a depressing theme rendered interesting only by the skill with which the characters in this humble interior are drawn...
...a varied cast...
...5«, by Allen Lincoln Langley...
...Dukes has written a model of what a romantic comedy should be...
...Mrs...
...The> Joint expedition of the British Museum and the University ot* Pennsylvania recently reported theee among some valuable results of their winter's work, concluded in March...
...there Is the poignant poem of Catullus on the same theme...
...Carpenter made his stage debut In "He Who Gets Slapped...
...Lon-' don...
...He comes home to his wife, and his misery and degradation are on the verge of driving her mad...
...Minnie Maddern Fiske was awarded one of Ihree honorary degrees at the 48th annual commencement of Smith College, receiving the degree of Matter of Arts...
...M U S I C Russian Program and Three Novelties at the Stadium mHREE novelties will be played by I the Philharmonic Orchestra, Willem van Hoogstraten conducting, at the Stadium concerts next week: "Andante," by Roy Harris...
...It has asserted itself in a manner that haa caused-ita name-to ring throughout the Black Country...
...with G. Pat Collins in the prinCipal role...
...Jr., will stage the productions, and Livingston Piatt will be technical director...
...Fireworks," Stravinsky: Symphony Mo...
...The developments are the result' of research In...
...Rimsky-Korsakoff s "Russian Easter...
...The play is ia prose, but It opens with some most njfusical verses...
...Thursday: Wagner's "Lohengrin" prelude, the "Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla," the rWaldweben" and the prelude and "Love-Death** from ''Tristan" and, Brahma' Third 8ym...
...At any rate, it has cast a halo upon the village which has completely eclipsed the fame of the pig on the wall...
...The first synchronized film to be done by the Vltaphone people is expected to be "Don Juan," the John Barrymore picture, produced by Warner Brothers, and which will open July 22 at the Warner Theatre for a special run...
...7. Beethoven...
...The Man with a Load of' Mischief...
...Over twenty authors and composers' unions will be grouped under the confederation thus formed, the headquarters being fixed in Paris, with French official language for correspondence...
...includes Leo Donnelly, Adora Andrews...
...By the device the movies are made so-called "talking movies," giving the smalltown theatre owners and any other not using orchestras and' stage attractions something to go with their films...
...Among other plays, in which he has been seen is "Hamlet...
...There are things In the Elizabethan playwrights as cruel as this...
...In modern dress...
...Carpenter plans a season of eight or nine weeks, with a change of bill every week...
...The theatre, built by the late Stanford White in an exclusive part of Newport, has been closed for twenty years...
...In some quarters It is thought the new vltaphone device will completely revolutionize presentations and musical accompaniment for films...
...The Illustrations by^Georg Gross are, like the play itself, powerful and unbearably ugly...
...h.e play violates psycho-' logical proJ^atjUJty in an unpardonably arbitrary \t^ft/, Nothing will ever convince me that the humane and sensitive creature whom we meet in the first act, and again in the latter part of the play, ever could have sunk, even If he were out of work, to t. . bestial degradation of the man who sucked the throats of living rats...
...Alda" is announced for next Saturday night, and "Traviata" tor Sunday night at Starlight Park In tan Bronx, Ancient Hymns of the Assyrians Found in Or TEXTS that were sung to musM are among the discoveries recently made in the ruins of Ur...
...Over seventy years ago there lived in West Bromwich a Methodist minister named the Rev...
...Chief White Cloud, also a Mohawk Indian, who was born In Saratoga Springs ir^ 1879, is appearing with the Princess...
...She pities him...
...Is it worthy of a great artist, as Toller is, to seek out illustrations of the cruelty oft war and capitalist society so extreme that they seem to be rather glimpses of an Insane nightmare than pictures of life...
...He has token the legendary figure of Tyl Rjulensplegel as his hero and trans-, ferred him to the period of the Dutch struggle against Spanish tyranny...
...The Neighborhood Drama Guild will present three one-act plays Sunday afternoon at the Community House, 20th and Cropaey Avenues...
...j Originally there wai...
...Musk Notes ' Grace Kerne wiU be soloist at th* Conneaut Lake, Pa...
...One of the two serious pieces ("The Outside'') is for me wholly unintelligible In its symbolism...
...Wednesday: Sibelius' "Flnlandia...
...Sonia...
...Bare Fads" Opens Next Tuesday at Triangle Theatre "Nineteen Twenty-Six Bare Facts...
...albestJaa- Beach, who will make a short tour at the bead of her Amerlean Ballet beginning next January, arm have a company of thirty dancern...
...Fiske Receive Honorary Degrees Eugene O'Neill, author of "The Emperor Jones," "Desire Under the Elms," and "The Great God Brown...
...The sketches are by Stewart Ham)] and the musical arrangements by Walter Krebbs...
...London...
...The're are thrilling adventures and a graceful love story, with the sharp biting acid of tragedy in the prologue...
...After these plays of protest and satire, it is a relief to turn to "The Song of Drums" (Benn, London...
...One feels that his horror at the cruelty of war and the brutality of our social system have preyed upon his mind, until his protest inflicts an intolerable wound...
...Jed Harris" production of "Broadway," by Phillip Dunning and George Abbott, opened Monday night In Atlantic City...
...Joseph and His Brethren" would now appear to be the especial property of Lower Gomel...
...Tyl becomes an Incarnation of the national spirit, elusive, unconquerable, a Pioneer in rousing and leading the resistance of the people...
...Richard Herhdon has a new number for J. P. McEvoy's hodge-podge of satire comedy, "Americana," which will open with a special midnight performance at the Belmont Theatre, July 19...
...Another feature will be the all - Russian program on Monday and "the WagnerBrahms program on Thursday...
...Matthew, the shopkeeper, and Sonia, his daughter, meet their troubles with reckless idealism and stubborn probity...
...Rachmaninoff...
...Saturday: Allen Lincoln Langley's Mountain Vistas...
...The play is the work of a powerful but gloomy talent...
...Fulda (German), as vice-presidents: Edmond Gulraud (French) secretary, ZifTerer...
...Richard Jukes...
...The company Includes Basil Sydney, Mary Ellis...
...Benn...
...Flight of the Bumble Bee," Rimsky-Koraakoff...
...I There t* a medley of one-act plays - of very various quality In Susan Glaspell's collection ("Trifles" and other Plays...
...Nonesuch Press...
...received the degree of Doctor of Literature at the 226th annual commencement at Yale University two weeks ago...
...a revue, wilt open with a midnight show next Tuesday night at the Triangle Theatre In Greenwich Village...
...But the other, "Trifles...
...Miriam Steep, who has been Identified with the company for the last eeven years, will return for the title roles In "Alice Sit-by.-the-FIre" and "Candida...
...John has translated, "The Rising Sun" (Labour Publishing Co...
...she kills herself In despair, and the play ends in hopeless hofcror...
Vol. 3 • July 1926 • No. 26
