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DRAMA Chtitigky to Have + Theatre Guild THB Chicago Theatre Guild, "la something. new . end something ambrUbua, Its sponsors claim they hero watched tho Little 'Theatre gapvement and found...

...Willie was standing with large and - reluctant feet where the brook and...
...While the play lacks single, intense development, it is a bold experiment In expresslonlstlc fields in its form aad its shift from life to dream...
...Cyril Kelghtley, Charles F. Gordon and Mary...
...Sunday's program includes tares symphonies: Symphony No...
...Smm Tiikihssf . HtnTebtae...
...Many, ot Sudermann's plays have found favor in this country, especially "The Flrels of St...
...months ago after three years spent abroad making' pictures and also appear lag on tbe 'stage...
...bis hatred of tee eg musing rich and the nobles, but Ms war seavg as, outside his window, the Scotch march on* te fight fer Bktgland agxJnet Prance, The two ether phtya are directed more pointedly at Mfe today...
...However, the subjects he handles are of interest, and the suggested disorganisation of a family has possibilities...
...Music Notes * The String wood Ensemble at Its second subscription concert in Aeolian Hall Tuesday evening, will present a quartet by Boceheriai, a clarinet quintet by Roger, a new Rhapsody by Freed for piano, clarinet end string quartet, and a piano quartet by Mozart...
...NeUson reed about and came in contact with during hia days with Tbe Freeinan...
...Military March (Algerian Suite), Saint-SSens...
...But no ofie- who saw Gregory Kelley add...
...PHILHARMONIC . Arturo Toscanini win lead the Phttharmonic orchestra this Sunday afternoon** Ceraegis Hall In the fallowing program: Schubert* Symphony tn B minor, ("Unfinished...
...Besides presenting .those novelties the exhibition, which will beTtnown as the International Theatre Exposition, will show seventy models of European sets and thirty American models, tracing the changes in stage decoration over the last, thirty years...
...Lily Ksrr, Waiter Ayera, Ben -leggart, Ruth Abbott, npfly fhemblor...
...Befere considering them, however, I want te glance tor a moment at a book about the theatre, ^ "The/Future of the Theatre" fa the enticing title Bonamy Dobree gives bis booklet*, but it turns out to be a trip to the year 9100 on Wens' Time-Machine, and a description of what tbe author think* a theatre map be like la that year—a thin disguise, ot cowan, for criticism of our present stage...
...Genesis, the Negro servant, and Richard Keene la a handsome WHUe and Edythe Baker an attractive Lola...
...wag brio print: nbses wkermswse nsade a stage soecesa...
...Florence Ames tt Co...
...Beloussoff will play the Suite in G major, and Mme...
...He believes th» can never be attained by a subsidised institution...
...le Tew de Passe-pease.'* "feta Pepulalra de la Bertaine qrasae...
...Deris Wn^koae aad Larry Woods...
...But If you want amusement without worrying about the' mayhem committed upon a supremely One piece of work, "Hello Lola" will So...
...7 in A by Beethoven...
...Tlbbert...
...this phrase, with its first "it" instead ot "whether...
...seems a blend of aU Mr...
...Rimzky-KorsekoSt Overture...
...the young flappers are Jusfc a bunch of chorus girls, and the man-of-all-work is made a lowcomedy character with songs and stories that are—pardon the pun— shady...
...or neve, diaa heeestH...
...His new stage vehicle...
...Rieti, "Sonata...
...eaej^aT* 9%tk%1^^^W where fi slang wflt hetp tt aaare then thought...
...and at a time when the almost plotless "What-Price Gtoryr* or "Outside Looking in"* naake strong stage material It would be inters* ting to see what life there is ta this play...
...other acts...
...Adeste Fideies...
...Francis NeUsonl, In "The Day Before Commencement," attempts a' theme Shaw might have-handled, but that ta tbe only point ot resemblance...
...He ¦ toured the British Isles tn a short play by William Archer...
...Jean B» Hymer aad Le Bay nam an s. tSta authors, created a dress* Vfnk realistie taoldente, the neriue...
...Left Poulsbneff will give a second recital at the Town Han Tuesday night...
...S2.se 1 BiiXpoB-rtm...
...Leslie Carter...
...Johns./ - . In the east supporting Peggy Hopkins Joyce are Eerie Williams...
...IstoBnnT v&an...
...How can one teU tf the acting la good It one does not know the name ot the performers...
...Campbell-Duncan Is quoted aa saying that Chicago should have ep independent producing body to sup" phr tt with plays upon which the regular commercialised, theatre would not venture, similar to the theatres already existing" in New Tork...
...for hia characters have neither great wit nor much reality...
...river meet, .and every girl threw him into an agony of hysteria and ¦ excitement...
...It is not subsidised and claims to be free ffcom social entaaglemcnta...
...The actors, dancers, comedians and ukulele players cavort around more or less pleasantly, but none of them deserve particular mention...
...Bolca" Symphony: Roger-Ducaase, "Sarabands" (1st time...
...exciting and aa stimulating a guide as one can desire • Tbe present ^point is that Mr...
...Liandowska the Italian Concerto for harpsichord...
...The Ruhslan neater...
...character drawings photographically real...
...Thursday,, with, Mary Webut), Eandt and Johnson, ^^sna dene BeftV Friday evening, Wm Aids, Daloasy and Glgil...
...Sudermann—Author of 1VI«*2cIa' TUB name of Hermann Suder. mann will always be cherished by lovers of dramatic literature as to the pathfinder of naturalism, In the realm of' Teutonic playwrlting: ^ his position among the greatest dramatists of our time has never been questioned: his reasoning has at all times been found to be basically' sound...
...Magda" will be.psesented by Bertha Kalich at tbe Mextae saUset Tncatrt Tuesday evesingt Sessue Hayakawa oh Legitimate Stage IN HIS new stage Play...
...brlnger...
...these wbieh are oat written for the Stags first, but primarily aa poems or thesee, and Oiosa which bene ultimately tor slas* presentation, bet Ond a publisher befave.tk«y persuade a producer...
...Broadvay Briefs "May Flowers" is m Its final fortnight at the Forrest Theatra...
...Incidentally there is peppy-dancing, a lot of bare, dimpled knees, some rough horse-play and a couple'of vaudeville speciafties .that seemed to amuse the audience mightily...
...Florence Bead Is new rehearsing "The Shanghai Gesture" under the leadership of Guthrie McCHntic Miss Reed has been engaged by A H. Woods for the part recently tried out in this John Colton drama by Mrs...
...The Wedding Seng...
...The.story, la engrossing...
...Her program will include twe Bach Chorals, the Liszt- Sonata in B minor, a Chopin group, and of contemporary works Omsteln'e "^Thlnatown," and her own "Cradle Song" tend "Dance of a Puppet...
...one in D major, and in addition Mr...
...Tbe occidental story centers abodt Richard Cavendish, an Enattshmaja...
...a comedy Negro man-of-all-work, ana a complement of adolescent boys antrglrls...
...4fae tensrlt...
...California Straight Ahead...
...CampbellDuncan' said* the working-capital has been supplied in the form of dues £rom e limited sustaining membership...
...Tbe book Is not wen written, and its attack la aeademi,c end puerile, rather than alert and understanding...
...scenee of moving dramatic action...
...Beta succeed ta nuking the characters real...
...Duncan...
...Magda,"' or "Heimat* as if was known in German, became the reigning dramatic sensation of the world with every actress of note clamoring for an opportunity to play the picturesque heroine...
...But it makes one point that interestingly stresses Upton Sinclair's recent charge against literature...
...baa -bean added to <W| eacfi of "The Student Prtnos" at sjs| tsihasaadriT Thee tie DRAMA MUSIC TAe Bartered Bride" Revival Mary Lewis* Metropolitan Debut GENERAL, MANAGER GtULJO GATTI-CASAZEA will 'presstrt his revival of the Bo¦arnlan composer Frlederich Smetaaa's Bomlc opera, "Die Verkaufte Braut" (The Bartered Bride"), hook by K. Sabine, which has .not been heard at Pur Metropolitan Opera since Thursday evening...
...Rita Nolan...
...Jptter operas next week...
...Saturday afternoon, with *y-Caret, Telva and Chamlee, De EggJufrc,*' Saturday evening, for the gw of the Preach Hospital, wtth WfJUorgana end Martlaelli, Sb> seppe Verdi, which occurred January 37,-1901, the composer's Requiem Mass will be given this Sunday at the Metropolitan, with Mmes...
...si, t tub TftiAi...
...The opera haa been •ynslcally "prepared and will be conducted by Artur Bodanfcky...
...Bay (mnxea, George Fitsgerald...
...Burns dc Kane...
...geh)tto...
...young wife...
...at the Central Theatre underwent many changes in the cast last Mondajg...
...Owen Moore, Gladys . Brockwell, Bernard 'Randall, Gladys Hulette, Bull luontana,' Sammy Cohen,- Lilyan Taahjnan and Paulette JDevusX Tbe picture was directed by Marshall Neilan...
...gj-TK...
...l in F "Braadenkurg" by Bach...
...BssMeb...
...Jay C. Plippen la not altogether half-bad as...
...t Reginald Denny in "California Straight Aehad...
...Evsel Beloussoff, cellist, and Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist, will give an evening of Bach at Aeolian Hall Wednesday evening, when they .will play the Sonata in G major and the the program will include the following: Beethoven...
...Constructivism calls for a stage setting in three dimensions, departing as far as possible from the "back-drop school" of staging...
...FRANKLIN Monday to Wednesday--Jones *V Rhea...
...Performance Tuesday evening, with g*»*» Wakefield sad —Martlnem, £"*tomeo at Juliette...
...Bransell and Taucher, White*m ['*The Jewels of the Madonna,'* spank...
...House Monday night attar a- can of eight months on Bnuadwajr...
...Although Sinclair offers a definition of propaganda much wider than Scott NBaring's, one which would include every act and word of a man's life as propaganda for ths things that man believes in, his attitude is probably the more nearly correct...
...stravinekJ, Bsamrpta "Petrouchka" ghitta...
...rssssses, Cal, m ujtlen$a af~ %%P SomdkS Seam -y ,. AH ikenx Opera Hatm The love dranu^"aloneae<tJmf*-«rth Seae," which eesose te tbe Breeat Opera...
...steenfllaa...
...Da Sabata, Contemplative Poem...
...I - * Helens Lanvln...
...mezzo soprano, will give her recital in Aeolian Hall Monday night...
...gj.se...
...L'Art Nouveau...
...The play, .under the name of "Tosblwara" rah three years In Berlin and...
...other acts...
...Peggy Hopkins 7o$ce in HpP, First Film Pic® at Colon)) 'Peggy Hopkins, Joyce In her first motion picture, "The Skyrocket," opens this Sunday,' with the termination of tbe two weeks' run of "California Straight Ahead...
...Micha, Gustav temtsendorf...
...Carl •VWegel...
...at Aeolian Hall Monday atternoonV: Tbe International Composers* Guild will give their second concert this Sunday night at Aeolian Hall, under the conductorship of Eugene Gooasens...
...The Thursday and Friday prograau in Carnegie Hall will -include: Concerto No...
...A gentleman bls\ed on tbe program as - Ben Franklin is pretty rotten as one of the elders...
...man nmncs of tbm THBArrnm ae fXJMsrM CTedsr ssd Tomorrow Seriatl nvttoa...
...We are what, we do, and our mere living— then how much more our spiritual'record, in our writing!—is an example gad therefore unconscious propaganda . . . and perhaps the only fundamental way of* teaching...
...presented here at the Irving Place Theatre—with Leo Dltrlchatein making his initial "bow to the American public in a very minor role His next play", "Sodom's Ernie," was not so great a success, but In 1881 his next play, "Magda," electrified the theatregoing world with its magnificent workmanlike construction...
...patriotic He enboeee for bta eksm...
...m Ethel Leginska, ptag let-coin poserconductor, at Aeolian Hall, on Sunday afternoon...
...and fte obviousness, characterises tbe bonk...
...Mtetj...
...January 31, will give her only piano recital of the current season...
...Joe Jackson...
...The cast embraces Mary Ann »nru ler...
...Gethsemsnl...
...GaUerini A Sisters...
...Overture, "The Magic Flute," Mozart: Larghetto from Second Symphony, Beethoven: Scherzo, from Fourth Symphony, Tchaikovsky: First Movement from Concerto, Boccherini...
...The Jumble ot millionaires and college presidents and ward politicians and conscientious objectors, of clear understanding aad culture beside utter ignorance ta one ntmny...
...Sharon Ximm la ambitious, end -joins -the long caravan of female seekers after'fame and fortune on the motion picture trail...
...rather than a possible conjunction...
...Symphony No...
...an understanding mother and an un-understanding father...
...January tStb...
...it's only tbe empty shell of the play that laid bare the quivering soul of the 17-year-old boy who was struggling with the awakening of' love...
...Buggies was last featured la "Battling Battler" and "White Collars...
...starring Reginald Penny, at B. 8..Moss' Colony Theatre...
...Bat only when the people have their own theatre will Upton Sinclair be likely to find production...
...Tbe aim of flke draiaui...
...The visitor* from Wiesbaden is to be here for tan weeks, conducting twenty-Six concerts...
...en Monday at the Shubert TheadSa...
...JFh* first production put en by the Guild will be Shaw's "The Man of Destiny," and CNeill's The Rope," eg' the theatre In Pythian Temple...
...Tristan- und Isolde, with Larsenjfcdsen...
...levee Land...
...no weak spots in Its basic fabric, no false notes in its logical analysis of social conditions, no tawdry sentimentality tn its visualisation...
...He will conduct again the two concerts in Carnegie Hall Thursday afternoon and Friday evening...
...J-nacla Kallses...
...With this colorful mart aa - the locale, two love stories ate unfolded . wbich • set forth la striking contrast the different Ideals .and standards of the Bast and West...
...The program will be repeated in the same auditorium on Saturday afternoon...
...attempts to apply tbe theory ot Mammonart by a study of O. Henry in prison...
...W. M. F. Stage Scenery Exhibit Next Month o 1 • AN exhibition of new tendencies in theatrical scenery, to be participated in by the Theatre Guild, the Provincetown Playhouse, the Greenwhich Village Theatre and the Neighborhood Playhouse, Is announced to open at 6( Fifth Avenue on Feb...
...Lett trice Jew In "Tbe Wedding Song...
...Reginald Denny in "California Straight Ahead," . --• Some Printed Plays By Joseph T. Shipley rthetoersanatfe days PU&$ at * least three serta find thee...
...Is about William Sylvanua Baxter, Jr...
...Reginald Denny in his latest comedy...
...Rcsplghi, "Sylvan Dletles...
...The Leva City," is a translation of the Chinese word "Fa-lu-kai," which designates that district to the...
...Marlon as Ford...
...Bernhardt, Dose, MOdJeska, Nethecsole, pi presenting France, -Italy, Poland and ^England, all striving for the laurel wSeath of popularity, and now Bertha kalioh hag essayed tbe role...
...Applesauce," the Barrr Swai'ing comedy, wtth Allan Dtaebart, w«Y be ths following attraction...
...are the other featurea on the vaudeville bill...
...Ts Bat So...
...Wednesday, giJBi Beri, Delaunols and fjagli...
...Mr- Hayakawa returned to America but a few...
...at wbieh are «W scribed ta the novels est Swnejhit Menghsm, Frederic o*Briaa aad Jack London...
...Piece bynoheme...
...raneo sesriair...
...Came then into his Indiana home town Lola 'Pratt, accompanied ' by .-Floplt, her fussy and diminutive pup, and an Inexhaustible line of "baby-talk...
...I THE DAT BEFORE OOsUrBBSCxasxan...
...others...
...J*nse!, Qeorge Meader...
...Tbe revue goes em to Beaten and tfcee: to Phlkdeiphls...
...both esttttateetanxa, the one bT betng OVaV'^te^WWte ts*# 'Otis'(V UJ%f a^ertaesB...
...others...
...he cast follows: Kr us china...
...Easton and Alcock and Messrs.-Glgll and Maraones and the entire opera chorus and orchestra...
...The actors appear at various levels, not merely on the stage floor, The "mechanical theatre," an innovation from France, replaces living actors with marionettes that act to words megaphoned- from behind the scenes...
...aa interesting a survey of literature as one.can hope to find, so absorbing that beside it the much heralded "Story of the World's Literature" reads like an incomplete telephone directory...
...Tbe stage direction la in the hands of Wllhelm ¦tW^ymetaX The scenery has been Assigned and painted by Joseph Novak...
...KatHlnka, Marion Telva...
...John," >*The Joy of Living,** "JJosee"*"Morftnri," "John the Baptist" and "The Heron's Feathers...
...Came then Billy's complete surrende.* and 'several weeks of adventures whose ludlcrousness are modified by their pathos.' There is the kid sister who hears all, sees fill add tells sill...
...ta playing Ship Hurley, the prise figbtari Ms wtm...
...Th« liovo City...
...9 in C, Miner by Haydn, Symphony in C "Jupiter", by Mozart and Symphony No...
...bee the part...
...who has had- wide experience in the tnanagcufent and prodnction of his., own professional companies...
...Thursday to Sunday—Bobby Randall in two big acts...
...The American translation- has been extensively revised by Stuart Walker, who "staged the 'present'production...
...Chinees .cttico gtven ever to traffic In Jtonjen and opium...
...Seventeen...
...In tracing the various influences that have stirred writers, therefore, Upton . Stnclslr is conducting a survey and a criticism of .both the men and their times...
...In Parte be acted in a skefch at the Casino, ds Paris...
...ahlsus te sMsapbTti feeling...
...Evekje...
...new . end something ambrUbua, Its sponsors claim they hero watched tho Little 'Theatre gapvement and found that It ii not camblnlng its activities...
...i' i Vernon Williams,, tenor, win make his debut In recital Teuaday afternoon la Aeolian Han...
...1t is organised as a non-profit-sharing body...
...Ann Lemeau and Elsie Young in "A Gabby Gabiest," written for them by Carl McCullough...
...Tne.Guiht plana for a denflnite goat It hopes to have a theatre ot Its own to be operated on a piufeesliHiel basis., It tlhi to enter Into competition with legitimate loop gjeyhbnsea, To accomplish this'the Qufld intends' to create a trust fund out bf the.proceeds from .Interesting«plays dona throughout the eity| by the best nen-professional players...
...At Carnegie Hall next Saturday evening, tbe seventh Student's Concert Y'll be conducted by Toscanini, also a special concert •on...
...The "book" of "Hello Lola" Is "Jaszed up," Sister Jane being supplied with a chorus of short-skirted, bare-legged crcnles who burst into high-pitched song and energetic dance at the slightest provocation...
...variously Jcnown as Willie te his family and Slllybllly to bis friends...
...Gay Parse" begins tbe last weak...
...of the nurse...
...The exposition will try to treat every phase of the modern theatre The European models will represent Russia, Germany, England, France,-Sweden, Holland, Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia...
...With the Orchestras NEW YORK SYMPHONY Otto Klemperer will make his first appearance aa conductor of the New Tork Symphpny Orchestra at, Mecca Auditorium this Sunday afternoon...
...Dobree sees the theatre of the future as one that consciously does nothing but stimulate certain emotions for the partleamw ggiBseu ml fanes «t*wac 'Sw watt s» ths theatres iijaaitiilf tertnW eeat tact thcp^vekVbe okessd^ aetsnVet ,1ef*BssW MoT tsJen^eaesJ^aBseeKeJ...
...with Leatrice Joy and Robert Ames, Thursday to Sunday—Bill Robinson...
...Sudermann, stepping Into the front rank of modern dramatists with his first play, "Die Ehre," which achieved an Instantaneous triumph-when pro-t dueed at the Leasing Theatre, Berlin, in 1889, and...
...Who has been'estranged" from hie...
...Portals...
...tbe beauty of - ,"Seventoea.** Booth . -Tarkington'a tenderly" beautiful play of ado]esce*S5e** ta_hrtV in the musical comedy concoction called "Hello Lola" that \ was made of it by Dorothy Donnelly to music by William B. Kernell "and that la .nour on exhibition at the Sitings Theatre, Tbe words are there, the incidents, .the characters...
...it was a solldlx bunt, sanely vitalised story that -gripped the suditor with the surety of e vise...
...MaesneM'a ^trial of JesesTt and Drisdcstater's rBebert Bnrns^t are ku-geiy pbetlc efforts (ta the second ease the poetry hi tbe ebawacter's own) te teterpret the hves of these much discussed ngwree...
...C by Beethoven, and Julta "PnJclneUa" by Stravinsky...
...George MseCjuarrht Joined tbe exef ol "Oped House" at tbe Criterion The* a'tre Monday night, replactng BanuaSE Wallace, ¦ Jeyne Waxeroua, who up to new tM beau known on the operatic stage a* Jayne Herbert...
...Others la the cast are to be MoKay Morris...
...Harry C. Bannister...
...his deductions upon the results' of certain social evasions end transgressions are accurately defined and his...
...therefore I will simply state that feaf of the third type lie on my desk...
...The oriental story centers about Tse-sht a beautiful girl of "Fa-lu-kai" and her keeper, C/hang La...
...Eva Gauthler will give a second concert of "Four Centuries of Sons...
...and he la an...
...Stethhur a^ara than this stjee turn ot the plays before ma...
...a year and a halt In Vienna...
...This last work hag not been heard in New Tork...
...Mary BBen Haalsy...
...In conjunction with the photoplay, a new production, titled "The Palm Beach Revue," will be offered on the stage, • "Hello Lola" At the Eltinge Pore&jf OpmeUp _ Revamp* Booth TarkMgton\*Sty4ndcen Into Mudcai ComeJhp Farm, VERT Mttta -of...
...Frances Arms, J. Francis •Dooloy and Corinne Sales Nelson Snow and Charles Columbus, assisted by Cynthia MacVae and Morton, in a new presentation by Irene Franklin and Jerry Jarnlgan, "Like This, Like That...
...JEsria, Maria Mueller...
...net some earpreseten of the poet's feeding of ctass...
...Still...
...Her skyrocket rise from extra girl to star, then her precipitation Into bankruptcy through her extravagances, and back to the man she gave up for shallow ambition, are all graphically told in...
...this Cosmopolitan, serial of'HollyWood from tbe pen ot Adela Rogers St...
...tteftf assaaned...
...The soloists include: Madame Resplghl, Alfredo Casella, Flprence Mills, and Ottorino Resplghi...
...Aa a conventional musical comedy, It's £ust about so-so...
...KesaL Michael Bohnen...
...Haas, Rudolph lanbenthal...
...Monday evening February 1, at Carnegie HalL PHILHARMONIC CHILDREN'S CONCERTS Ernest Scheilitis begins his third season as conductor of the Philharmonic Children's Concerts this Saturday morning at Aeolian Hall...
...Tommasini, Paesaggi Toscani a(lst time): Wagner, Prelude and Finale from "Tristan und Isolde...
...The program: Goossens, "Pastorale and Harlequinade...
...Max Bloch...
...Ruth Gordon in their heartbreaking-rendering of the parts will ever be satisfied with a merely adequate performance...
...Agnes, Phradle Wells...
...Vaudeville Theatres MOSS* BROADWAY Charles Haggles, the comedian, who made his vaudeville debut Just recently, will bead the program at Moss' Broadway next week 'in a farce called "Wives, Etc" Mr...
...Esmeralda, Ionise Hunter: Muff, Arnold Gabor...
...The cfllef novelties will be models of the so-called "construetlvist" scenery, now coming Into fashion in Russia and Germany, and the "mechanical theatre...
...Buggies...
...Richard Tabor, eo~ au« thor of she eemedy...
...i_The director of the group, is H. Campbell-Duncan...
...97b* -aethee, Hane Beottweta, ****P*toPto^1*9- nute thamet and sets them forth in...
...will bo the screen attraction next week, moving* here from the Colony Theatre after a stay of two weks...
...JEFFERSON Monday to Wednesday—Willie Solar...
...In my late attempt to indicate that the fundamental point of Upton Sinclair's "Mammoaart" is a mere truism, namely, that all writing ot a time must i record or rebel against tbe point of view of that time, I tailed to do Justice to tbe book itaelft...
...Meet phtywrights are unlikely to admit tag* their niece ta of the ascend sort...
...One of the, ramHy" moved to tke sOaw Theatre Wednesday night...
...tbe dramatist has not done Justice to bis tkemoy* Sinclair, in "BUI Porter...
...Sessue Hayakawa . commences an engagement at the' Little Theatre,- Monday evening...
...Hets Meier use, the fighter's manager, and Sammie Green, a. prcfeeeibnal fighter, feQowe Jack Penry, who alee waa a peefesslensl...

Vol. 3 • January 1926 • No. 2


 
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