AMUSEMENTS
Amusments -:- -:- DRAMA -:- -:The Drama of America By Joseph T. Shipley jfjOnTEt Montryse J. Momi Km ¦Jjsji, In thr** volumes, published by aster. Button a Co. (*3 eaeh), th* j£,«dnilr*bl«...
...In its Indignation "Ponteach" strikes a truer note than the other play...
...Tchklkovaky...
...This is the first time that MGuitry has consented to go to the United...
...the field of iJtfc trams, there will be presented a ?sieMa of Algernon Blackwood's "Tho Tneb ef Pan" and '"The Siren of ¦yrstoOe,'1 a ballet mechartique...
...its beginnings, then, our native kpm...
...Refusal of th* People** Symphony Orchestra aireetora to arrange better pay for th* moalrtsn members, coupled with th* papular demand for symphony concerts which necessitates an organisation on a more extendv* seals, ha* led to th* forming of a new orchestra, to be known as the Boston Philharmonic, with Ethel Yoginska, oomposer and pianist, as permanent conductor...
...van Hoogstraten will take up the baton again during the slxttr and eighth weeks of'the season".* An" all-Russian program and an aU-W*ga*r program are scheduled for the first two night* of th* Cleveland Orchestra leader'* visit...
...it Henri Fevritr Completes His New Opera The completion of a nosr opera...
...He has written It Tor the study...
...t** : sketches are being staged by **M(Ps Judels end the dances by Sey•ner Felix, under the personal direc'aaot J. J. Shubert...
...Andante Cantab lie, Tchaikovsky: 1812 Over fore, Tchaikovsky...
...The next will be "A Match for Three.*' a comedy of native domestic entaglements with a highly farcical twist...
...a stage adaptation by Owen Davis' of Homer Cray's best seller...
...Wednesday: Introduction and March from "Coq d*Or," Rim sky-Korsakoff...
...Aajosg the revivals will be Anteftsffs "The Beautiful Sabine Woass.'' which the Neighborhood group hftlsgpial to America In 1010...
...Joseph M- Koebler wiU present Pauline Fellman's play, "Washington Heights," -during the week . of- - August s. "Help Wanted—Female," a comedy by Gladys B. Unger, staged by WlnCbell Smith, was offered at the Playhouse, Mamaroneck, last Thursday evening...
...It needed a commander-in-chief to say'that "Damaged Goods" was good propaganda before it could be produced...
...5 in E minor, Rachmaninoff...
...7 " ~ ' "* ™ ' Th* musical cmnody in which Phlnp Goodman win present Bobby Clark and Paul McCuUough will bo called "Fly-by-NlghU...
...The program" of th* week: Sunday: Etna Kleins NachtmusSr* Mozart...
...Theatre Monday fw$E Messrs...
...Beethoven;' Bin Heldenlsben...
...Wagner...
...Sssnsfderstions, that any nervsr0* m*d* indicate* but one phase ef * eerfiplleatod culture and whirl of lamrhe...
...WwCANA," a satirical revue by J- P. MdEvoy will be presented by f Richard Herndon at th* Belmont Theatre Monday nightanee of the Russian Symphonic Choir and solo, artists...
...English Actors Driven to America WHAT is wrong with the theatre tn England...
...Society—the comfortable ¦Mk class and auch aristocracy as fpl-oilonles could muster—sent it* am to be educated abroad, followed fgbjh fashions, aped Its master...
...In several 35m to appear In thee* columns, M'ew4**s many of th* play* included hiw» volume*, with particular eonsbpjratlnn *f the manner in wnioh they jajkot or Influence their time, it jsjjiri |* borne in mind, while reading...
...lag rhythms of modern Jasx with dancing...
...Jack Osterman, Jack Pearl, Jjjtess Terria, Barnett Parker, Harry "•Hll...
...John ? Dryden win make th* adaptation...
...The doctrines of the Nazarene belong to the world...
...The action, concerned wttb a fend between women, 1* said to'be vary dramatic...
...20 with the possibility that the French players will appear also in Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago...
...Eddie Cantor Mil make hi* debut as a producer this summer...
...rHim*UrS>fL In the new second edition of "A Night in Paris," which the Shuherts will present at the 44th Street Theatret on Monday, night "Americana" Opens at Belmont Monday Night In presenting j. p. McEvoyi "Americana...
...Egmont" Overture...
...The question is prompted by the decision of Mr...
...Once he was a Nationalist...
...The first of the comedies will be "They Had to See Paris...
...Tltheredge's views came, too, from Mr...
...Her associate* ar* Ralph Bunker, as th* young husband...
...Betty Compton, Bunshin* Jarmon, Dorothy Deeder...
...Daughters, of Music" by Dan Tot hero, the author of "Wild Birds...
...Oyra...
...Q*ohi*tia taster aims dar Bmaltona...
...Hatrac.k" on Program Of Jones and Green IN addition to the eighth annual version of the "Greenwich VHlage Follies," which will be presented here In November, A L. Jones aad Morris Green announce that they have tour comedies and four, drama...
...the basic music of America including that of many periods and th* oxclt...
...victory .BaRV* Bcheillng...
...The entire action of the play takes place in the living room of the newly marfied's cottage on Long Ielsuid...
...Bud Be Sylva, Arthur Sen warts' and Theodore...
...he declared...
...he declared, "that our actor* and actresses are being driven to the United States...
...Arthur Bourcbler was in entire agreement wtth Mr...
...Astoria P*rki-t:»* p. xo.-July flg, Aug...
...have to say, It Is worth listening to...
...everything American...
...Good Friday Spell, Transformation Seen* aad Gloria cation from "Far* slfai," Wagner...
...States, although several producers have sought to engage him...
...Wagner...
...A special "Greenwich vuiag* Follies...
...Beurehler, "that many of our stage people are being compelled to migrate to America, where, at any rate, they do get a reasonable amount ef freedom...
...The play achieves a measure of rough humor and rugged characterisation...
...with highly remlatooeat musical numbers, go to make up a dismal evening among th* first offerings of th* now sssabn...
...Oletta," by Henri FevTier, i nniniienr ot "Monn» Vanna," ban aroused much Interest In Paris...
...less concerned with * form, its blank vers* Is more slipshod, less correct but less strained, farther on th* way to 'the...
...Tito O'Connor, JSck Kelley...
...an Indian study of "P on teach," by Robert Roger*, who is himself bit-' ter known for his border exploits and hi* gallantry a* major la th* British army during"- the Revolution...
...tsnnhsns*r** Overture, Wagner...
...T* senseless, lifeless...
...The Damascus crisis la past...
...the revolt of the inhabitants be 175...
...There are to be new •"•io* and numbers by Harold At^"tsg*, dlffdrd Grey...
...16 a. m.—Jury «. Aug...
...Dsybreak wad Siegfried's Rhine Journey from "Goetterdaemmersaig,- W«gn*r...
...The new work wtQ probably bare its premiere next see son at Nice...
...t :-: MUSIC :-: Sokoloff to Wield Baton Wednesday'at Stadium NIKOLAI SOKOLOFF Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra will lead the Philharmonic player* at the Stadium for one week beginning next Wednesday...
...They are Kath**JUy...
...Straus...
...is transmogrified into "Te figure stones...
...Th* - production to-stogea under- tto*-dlroctlon'0f an**" Dlaehart...
...A feature ef the production, however, is Hugo Freys Troubadours, with Irwin Abrams conducting...
...Images of men...
...It is a syncopated smyposlum of satirical . sketches exuding tomfoolery...
...Broadway Briefs Harold Shubert, who plsys Abie to "Abie's Irish Rose," has been Celled to his home" in Council Bluffs, Ia...
...One of the chief reason* why English actors ar* being driven to America is th* failure of th* censorship to function reasonably...
...There can be no doubt, unfortunately...
...Charles K- Gordon has engaged Jack Hatsgrd tor the leading eemedy role in "a Regular -Girl,"' th* musical comedy by Wiiiiam Carey Duncan...
...Walter Brooks will direct th* production, watch win open out of toon ta* latter part of August* 'The Blonde Sinner' Season Makes False Getaway with Weak Farce at the Cdrt theatre What t* described as "a smart t fares" with music in three acta by Loon Do Cost*, "th* Blond* Sinner...
...Hypocrisy, hysteria and humbug seem to be the keynote of so-called British drama today.** Vulgarity, he explained, was allowed to creep into shows...
...Bourchier pointed out that a play which showed the miners, for Instance, ln an unfavorable light wouM b* passed, but if a duke ware ridiculed it would be banned...
...It would bo nearly impossible to relate dearly and concisely the plot of this "farce...
...4 and Aug...
...Is net tc be measured by the length of their run when they are first produced, bur by the number of years they live ln the alcoves of literature and among revival organisation...
...Tbt first theatrical performers in llgln were traveling .'players from fjgjgnd...
...To the Revolution is to be expected—and it Is as I expected—that th* early colonial ^tfame should show the same doaSjsVtce on the English as marked ttftSenioo...
...Lew Biice, Roy Atwall and Eddie Elkins' Orchestra as chief dispensers of the fun will be assisted by Harlette Burke, Lillian Ring...
...The poet's passion for history, and his preoccupation with ethical and moral problems, are once more revealed ln this religious drama...
...Laidoff...
...is a by-product of th* English •Jatre, Itself then at its lowest ebb...
...Elizabeth Morgan...
...Prejoa* ia <3 and Schsrs...
...In the year between the printing and the playing of "The Prince of Parthia" appeared "the first American problem play...
...but when play* with a real purpose ware written, such as, for instance, "Damaged Goods," they were promptly banned...
...Peggy O'Neil, Gay NeU...
...Bin* Donub* Waltz, Strauss...
...At a. ap*ei*i porform*nc» of th* y«rdl iWqulooa, to ho i-tvoet at Phil*- 1 dolpbia, AagMMt «, a* a' part of tho Sooaui-ContexfflJol eorfeTarotlon, Trod Pottos wU4 alns tho baritone solo porta, THE coming week at tho Lewisohn Stadium 1* marked by tho temporary farewell of Wfllem van Hoegstraten aad th* return of Nikolai Bokolott am gu**t conductor of th* Stadium Concert* for th* weekbeginning Wednesday night...
...Xald Mar key, as his baby-doU simpering wife...
...X, Brahms...
...Esmond Rostand's immortal ¦ drama, "Cyrano d* Bergerac...
...Ruth Gillette, singer, has beep added to the east of "The Merry World Revue...
...Xath*2* Oalllmore, the Sparrow, Annie Marietta O'Brien attd the ^**||ae Heffmann Girls...
...Brleux, Pirandello...
...The score is by Con Conrgd and Henry Souvaine, with special music numbers by George Gershwin, James Hanley, Walter Donaldson, Ira Gershwin, Gus Kahn...
...It Is worthy of note as an early protest against the exploitation of the true owners of the land...
...T~fAklw*b«n from "Biegfrled...
...aad wn) present a dramatization, now being made, on Broadway early to 'September...
...Evelyn Bennett, Marion Dale, Tom Burton, Edgar Gardiner, Arthur Upson, Wgyn* Kobnb, M. Chart** Palaxsi, Xouls Laser in...
...Th* new orchestra, th* jnembers of Whlck win be drawn .from fh* eld so*, will have more tban .10* musician...
...The lyrics ar* by Irving Caesar and music by Stephen Jon** and Harold Or lob...
...end a company of sixteen, - tor an eight weeks' season ln New York...
...Although the •ft* of the Forty-tour Street Theatre hJtach larger than that of the Casino *» Wru, the original flivor of th* Jsrisiia revue is to bo.retained In <W atnr edition...
...tfiiltlsinliia...
...Among the ~*fr»"* of lyric productions will be *•» Burmese Fve" and "Th* Arab *f*Usia...
...s . t |*.j (~ ¦ Thursdayi frrduf* to Act I. "Lohengrin...
...These f*lrwtri of Cromwell s*w no more •Tub...
...Shubert will present I .* new edition of "A Night In Xi.^sTarls'-^tJi* second of the series -# the Forty-fourth Street Theatre •fet Monday night...
...ven the seem lotly friendly priest proves double-dealing and lascivious...
...use ofv pros*, as It Is m farther % on^ the way to ltfe ena^tou'th,*" **** " mQektiful Sabine Women" *fg)t Neighborhood Playhouse "W.SOM the Neighborhood Playhouse B. comes the first tentative annpuncement of plays from which sfmssason's offerings will be selected...
...Becau** Hauptmann is' a genuine dramatist...
...As usual, the season.will close with spew "Grand Street Follies" produea*i A Nigh bt Paris" Opens «* *fth St...
...Briefly, a newly married couple take a bungalow la__Jb* country for tho summer and rant out their two spare bedrooms to two couples who happen along without knowing anything about them, so that th* audience Is assured tram the very start that both couples are not "e* represented," aad the trouble and complications of the play win result from their being in the bou salt is too bad to see as good a musical comedy artist as Mar J oris Gttsson wasted to a production of this sort...
...In this lies th* whole drama: the separation ef Old Testament Christianity from Pauline Christianity...
...opened last week under th* sponsoring of Must comedies, lac at tho Cert Theatre...
...Caucasian Skdch...
...The play'will be presented at Stamford and Atlantic City prior to its Broadway debut...
...Legend*, Th* Enchanted Lake...
...by Thomas Qcdtrsy...
...The fourth will be « dramatisation of "The Real Mr...
...which appear* to have been suggested or translated from * typical French offering of that variety with th* usual opening and shutting of doors by wrong poopl* aad wrong wives aad wrong husbanda going Into wrong bedrooms with endiees sad stupid repetition...
...Wagner...
...July 25, Aug 4 and Aug...
...The *J**"*V' "The Little Clay Cart" aad •pksspa's "The Critic...
...Agreement with Mr...
...fresh *MJd*mmn*r Night'* Dream...
...Sacr* du Prtetomp*, Stravinsky...
...The season will open on Dec...
...and might wall be f*o*d by tipTittt idea, if sufficient search tsMSf th* plsys of the tint* be made o7*tnir** «• Yet, all th* plays preifStod m tbs collection indicate ton*s**in is kasratur* or Ufa that have )jH 1*sW18j imprint and judgments B0$jjBf**,4 on them, while perh*pt stt universal, ar* nonetheless sssissisflstia of th* day* out of which ta* sVsmas rose...
...scheduled for production next season...
...hi* n*m* Is balanced with that ef Vardanes as Brutus' Is hsld against th* triumphant Roman's...
...Questioned by the London Dally Herald recently, Mr...
...L'Aprss Midi d'ua Faun, Debussy...
...It is In tlx short acts...
...This will be presented by arrangement with Crosby Oalge...
...because of" sickness...
...Th* new set**»*»* by Watson Barrett, all of th* favorites of the original ***a)wiq be retained...
...Glinka...
...Muasen...
...It 1* called ."Paul Among the Jews...
...Is th* first prtefsg tragedy written by an Amerle>*YAgd fa* ef th* two plays writsJrjjrflHoWteah*' performed' in" the country b*fer* tho RavOlutio...
...Indeed, as many of the colstilt* were descendants of religious sgspaers and followers of the severer net*, the -playhouse had a continual tiros* U tor existence, and early in th* leselutlon performances were forbid - eta by th* Colonial Congress...
...The Swamp Angel," ar melodrama...
...Finally, when he Is «sk*d to deny th* Messiah, Paul turns away from his own people...
...But it will command attest ion, Just as any play by Shaw...
...Arsaces rescues on* brother much a* Orlando docs Oliver: he saves another mush as Cacslus, Caesar...
...HELEN HAYES Che* an mterestmg portrayal of Maggie WySa » Borne** clever corned* 'Wh$t' £v*ry Woman A Dramatist Who Has Something to Say FtVE European theatrical manager* have bought the stage rights to Gerhard Hauptmann's latest play without even reading the script...
...Tahlly Wooliey...
...Dream Pantomime, Humperdlnck...
...Lees parasitic, sturdier growths were fortunately also flourishing...
...People Don't Do Such Things," the comic romance of a male flirt, is by Lyon Mearson and Edward M. Scboeaberg...
...There is more scope ln America because there ar* mere firstdiss theatres and the audience* have a wider appreciation of every kind of play...
...The Hlgh<ff by Schmldt-B6nn, one of the fsjfcamaining German playwrights ssJBwn to America...
...t-.M p. m.—July 25, July 27(5:16 p. m.) Aug- 1 and AugvS, Linden Park, 5:15 p. m.—Aug...
...Th* Fount*ins of Rams...
...Poem of Ecstasy," storiabio: Symphony No...
...the phrase, "Te blocks, ye stones, ye worse than senseless things...
...Miss'Leghjit* bad been Securing subscriptions with Which It was hoped to * place the old .organization oa a sound basis, but when the directors turned a deaf ear to her requests regarding treatment of the members, she severed connection with it...
...Symphony No...
...I do not wonder," said Mr...
...The play Is now doing big business in London...
...of tho whites, not one but Is ignoble, treacherous...
...During his abscence 8hubert's role win be played by Ahthony Stanford...
...His messsge, of course, will command attention according to what It is...
...4 and Aug...
...film, which was shown at Moss* colony last year, will be presented at B. S. Moss' New Tork theatres Monday, Tuesday and Horace Li veriest will present -neat season Christopher Marlowe's "All for Lovo...
...a short story' from th* pon of William Johnston...
...1L ' ' King Park...
...Philip Charig...
...Sacha Cuitry, Noted French Actor, Coming in December A cable from Paris states that A. H. Woods ha* engaged the noted French playwright and actor, Sacha Guitry...
...n. Highland Park...
...3 eaeh), th* j£,«dnilr*bl« collection of "Rcprc.Jtestiv* Ploy* by American DramajC that ha* yat appeared, or, for JJosrlier playwright*, need ever be 10a**, it I* my purpose...
...than the great Commoner hlmagf the value of the drama as a social tsr** wherein, a* w* shall observe, its •Atrsats war* th* wiser, j...
...O'Neill or Werfel commands attention...
...of life along the Louisiana levee* by Samuel Sbipmea aad Kenneth Perkins,, and a dramatic version of "Hatrack," the Herbert Anbury story which aroused so much discussion when published in the ''American Mercury...
...Park Commissioner Butler of Queens announced yesterday th* following pork concert* for July aad AugustForest Park, 5:16 p. m.—July IS...
...Respighl...
...tho pianist, wfll *pp*T at the Smqui-Conteantel Exposition to F«la4*Tpht* Jrrry 2* In Saint-SaenaG totee*- etas arte with tho Philadelphia...
...George 8. Xaafman wm dramatis* "Nine Baby" from th* Milt Grose stories which Crosby Gate* aad Jod Harris win pnoant pant se***n, Kaufman wtV also stag* a play far Galg* •ntitlsd -Th* Good Fenow," which was written by Herman J. MankWwtc...
...Class distinctions, too, entered into the matter...
...Arllne Gardiner, Georgie Ingram...
...Friday: Leonor* QrsrVuso No...
...He who was Saul re-enters Jerusalem, as Paul...
...aad his - -actress wife, Yvonne Prlntemps...
...Ruth Stevens, a husky-voiced blond, as one of the "wives" that rent a room: Clif Hecklnger, as her husband, and a few others go to make up a cast that must bp ashamed to voice some of the stale lines that fall to their lot...
...Godfrey must have been steeped especially In "Julius C****r" and "As You Like It," for while he win* non* of th* former** Are, nene of tho hitter's charm, he te quite faithful to their external fashioning...
...The one Indian whose villainy disturbs the action Is motivated by no mean purpose, but by the more manly impulse to revenge...
...Americana," vhich opens at the Belmont Theatre Monday night Franz Werfefs Nen> Play "Pout Among the Jews" Franz Worleh whose play, "Goat Song," was done here by the Theatre Guild, and another play, "Juares and Maximilian," is planned for production next season by the same organization, has Just completed another play, to be published shortly...
...This wjli'-lllustrates the literary level of the Co-' lonial drama that was content to draw Its sap from England...
...His tragedy, printed In London, is nonetheless a frank exposition of conditions from crown representatives to tradesmen, busy betraying the Indian's trust The rugged sincerity of the Redskin (somewhat idealized, one fears) is shown in contrast to the money-mad whites...
...Shubert Monday night at th* *4t» Str**t Theatre...
...New scenes and t btoteriai will be introduced...
...Prelude to Act HI and Shepherd's Melody from "Tristan aad Isolde," Wagner...
...Basil Dean, th* producer, who has recently returned from a visit to Russia and has attested to the healthy state of the theatre there...
...The Squall," by Jean Bart, a drama pivoting about the amour* of a Spanlab gypsy...
...a stupid hook by Edwin Van...
...DionTltheradge, th* actor-manager, to go to America, becau** he "finds it impossible to make a living ln Groat Britain-" "America ia calling to our stage people," he states, "end this country is losing many of its beet...
...S*oo*d edition, will be offered by the Messrs...
...As its title implies, ''Americana" satirizes...
...will make hi* Am*rl» A**01 ln Aeolian Hall on October concert devoted entirely to B*of* eosapositions, with th* assistTHE NEW PLAYS MONDAY I mORT IN PARIS...
...Tuesday": "RomOo ' *h8 JulietOverture...
...Tirhsrad ge...
...The drama is in four scenss aad takes place la CorsVc* during...
...tader Gretchaninoff, th* Rus[^^•¦P^eer...
...Emily Lorraine, Therese Kelly, Leila MeGulre, Joyce Booth and Grace Mead...
...Th* Bin* .TteasTho Walla, Strauss...
...GEORGIA INGRAM Principal dancer in the new Richard Herndon revue...
...at the Belmont Theatre Monday night, Richard Herndon altos to give a unique type of entertainment...
...Goodwin...
...He doesn't write plays to order'.' He doesn't pander to current susceptibilities of the crowd HO writes because he has some thing vital to say—something that he feels deeply aad that urges him to write...
...Theugh Godfrey* work was commanded by hi* contemporaries, Benjamin Franktin, for example, subscribing for a dozen copies of tho book, tho blank vers* Is stilted and frequently strained in its efforts to be correct, th* plot 1* really melodramatic, aad th* mo*d senile Khakeepeftre...
...The success of these plays mereover...
...The salary of the noted couple Is reported at $25,000 a week...
...Mtoeha Lsrrttoki...
...S, Beethoven...
...Monday: Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture...
...J. Fred Coots, ' Bawl* Rubens and Slgmuad Romberg...
...Why...
...featuring the veteran minstrels, Mdntyr* and Heath, will tour, the South aad West, and th* seventh edition, lately seen at th* Schubert, will visit Philadelphia, Chicago and the principal el tie...
...It is probable that the Gultrys win be seen here In "Mozart," their biggest success of the past season...
...The piece, which win open te the fall, to by Guy Bolton, Bert Kahnar and Harry Baby...
...Now he sees that the, cause of Israel is lest...
...Tke Prlaee of Parthia...
...No matter what a dramatist like Hauptmann may...
...pubbshed In 17(6, and performed tw* years later...
...He ha* acquired the dramatic rights 'to David Freeman'* novel "MendeU Marantz...
...Symphony to D minor, Cssssr Frandc . ?. * - f i f- - Saturday: Symphony "From th* New World," Dvorak...
...4P"-( tbe list la "Pinwheel," by fijpts Edwards Faragoh...
...Ethel Legm&ka to Organize New Boston Symphony Orch...
...Ippontoff-lvsaow...
...The scenery is by John Held...
...Magic Fire Seen* from "WaXkur*," Wagner: Overture to "Flying Dutchman...
...Music-Notes...
Vol. 3 • July 1926 • No. 28
