AMUSEMENTS
Amusements DRAMA The Drama of America By Joseph T. Shipley IV. Between Conflicts The plays contained in the second volume ot Montrose J. Moses* collection of "Representative Plays...
...The featured members of the cast include Charles Buggies, Frank Mclntyre and-Luehv Gear...
...A test film specially shown in Berlin covers a wide range of lighting conditions, both artificial and natural as well aa in various colors, aB of which were reproduced with remarkable accuracy...
...These few minutes of "plain American talking" are fairly Indicative of Cohan's portrayal of Main Street's mind and make-up...
...Potemkin" is the name of the armored cruiser in the former Imperial Russian fleet, which mutinied just previous to the Soviet Revolution...
...the surgeon pronounces it edible...
...WEDNESDAY "QUEEN HIGH," a musical comedy, win open at the Ambassador Theatre Wednesday night...
...The program for Sunday, night opens with Mozart's Symphony in...
...Color fringes, which are the bugaboo of all systems where filters are used, are unknown in Prof...
...Brooklyn, next Me* day evening, end a week later at M Lonpacre Thsstrs here...
...these are worthless as literary products...
...Heide has built a machine which automatically stains alternate frames of the negative film red and yellow...
...who "made a good thing out of It," accordingly, comes along...
...The drama...
...Flora Sheffield ha* been engagsd.SJ William Harris, Jr, for "Sour Orspssl tbe comedy by Vincent Lawrence, seal ring Alios Brady...
...September 13...
...Jr., and includes Joseph XHg ow, Ruth Don{ sjsay...
...Yet the interest ta the type is so strong that these plays needed their Adam Trueman and their John Unit to ensure success...
...This was opened with "The Magic Pinter overture, played by tbe Phhharmonic Orchestra under Frank BchaTk...
...The line waa begun* that reaches down to Islo Heft...
...Into rehearsal early next month...
...II Trovatore...
...the exsherlft asks...
...Paul Robeson, who created the leading role in Eugene O'Neills "All God's Chillun...
...A review of, ths contnryand-a-qubrtor*a...
...Cat and Mabel" will be a musical comedy based on a story by H. C. Wttwer...
...The picture wpuld be equally pitiful, and no leas Interesting...
...But upon order, even...
...but is intended as the false reasoning of a deluded imagination...
...The latter description is true "of "Potemkin...
...There are those that pretend to literary merit, closet drama...
...there are over a dosen acting versions extant of "Uncle Tom's Cabin...
...SHE COULDN'T SAT (NO," a farce by B. M. Kaye...
...Between Conflicts The plays contained in the second volume ot Montrose J. Moses* collection of "Representative Plays by 'American .'Dramatists" (E...
...an Increase of 25 cents a day for apprentices and a continuance of...
...Robert T. Haloes and Phoebe Foster play the leading roles...
...A. as...
...oeepB which w~I open ta Chicago Labor W| thf nibir npanlni to Phbdesap* SSl The Shnfaart Btvtom Ttomtip**Wopen Monday night wtto -1 1 - i m&m '-¦ •^ovJalmrr toe night Ufa WtM Phfltp- Pausing end GeorpsH wiB bp presented by,Jed hah Oroshy Oeige at tbe Br jaUlisi wPffl tre Thursday...
...The play will probably open in November, following Mr...
...The remaining three concerts will be conducted by Will*no van Hoogstraten, Who directed five weeks of the season in all...
...The festive performances lasted ' several days, beginning with "The Circus Princess," by Palman, conducted by the composer...
...Judging from the simplicity of the new method and the excellence of...
...Beethcvea follows,' with twenty performances, Tehaikevsky with sixteen, Brahms with thirteen, and nUehard Strauss with eleven...
...The last night, Tuesday, will have a Request Program which will be...
...It is quite natural that in his superficial treatment of Main Street Cohan should fan altogether to see the resemblance to it in the Big Town...
...of all the literary arts, was least - progressive...
...It can be plainly Seen that the food Is Infested with maggots...
...The Winged Messenger," the settings and costumes of whjch have been designed by Woodman Thompson, win open here Oct A Its cast will include Frits Leiber, Arthur Host, ' Charles Rlcfaman, H. Croker-Rlns and others...
...Miethe of the Polytechnical University here herald the sew process as one ot the greatest advances In photo-chemical research in a decade...
...Heide's system...
...1§ Unseen Jeinsm's isiwoi **Tta>-VSJW bond King...
...the entire membership to hear the results of the negotiations which will be continued up to Labor Days when tbe present agreement expires...
...But.do .they Are...
...WiUlan: Elliott, returning to the stage after an absence of several years, might make a good thing of it If he had something more Important to do than standlne around gaping while the curtains ring, down, . - - E. L. Viennese Theatre Holds Its 125th Anniversary THE birthplace of the most famous of the Viennese operettas, toe |r-Theater an dor Wien, Vienna, haa Just celebrated its one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary...
...But what ' is accepted in the early plays, and only in excess caught into stage villains, becomes later, especially in the hands of woman playwrights, subject for direct satire...
...and Eduardo Papania, the tenor who will sing • the premiere of "Piccolo Marat," will arrive oa the steamship "Duilio" next week...
...THURSDAY TF I KCAS SUCH," a new comedy by William Anthony McGuire, will open .next Thursday night at the Mansfield Theatre...
...its climax la a rapid-fire and forceful arraignment of Main street's traditional- sordid - ness at which no city dwejler will hesitate to vociferate his indignant approval...
...The flkna.- run- double the ordinary speed, requiring thirty-two expostures per second Instead of sixteen...
...Neither on the camera nor on the projector are screens or filters used...
...The results produced portray perfect coloring, even to a sharp definition between Shades of the same colors near the short ray end of the spostrum...
...its* remaining operas scheduled for td'apenlng week are: Tuesday, TflS": Wednesday evening, "RigoSP| Thursday, "Carmen...
...In fact, it has been declared a picture way ahead of its time...
...Prof...
...woods Tuesday night at the Rllji Theatre, Ludwig Satx and Robert Leonard , play the chief roles...
...but satire is not deep enough, in the drama of the period, to hold today...
...In this case It is aimed at painting the fiancee, whom Bancroft has neVer met, in the role of an adventuress...
...a "My Oeuntry" wffl bo trsnsfsrrelfj Labor Day from Cbanin's Forty-stab Street Theatre, where' it is new ptop bur, to toe National...
...Prof...
...Bancroft, "three* times sheriff of South Bend...
...The value of a wedding with a foreign title is already disputed...
...That brings the break...
...Ames' . production of •White Wings," by Philip Barry...
...The Yankee type in literature became "more subtle as the years advanced, and similar types for other localities began to arise...
...Mascagni, with his wife...
...Friday, *jftp Bo heme...
...The Home Towner*" Is the...
...To such a state has fallen the royalty of pre-Volstead days...
...Another general meeting of the union has been called for Friday at midnight, at the same place, to discuss any later' developments...
...The other type of play that found frequent production waa that which presented the aspirations of Amer^ tea's wealthier bourgeoisie—every rich person in the United States wan % nouveau He he—to social prominence, their'pretensions to social importance, and ' therefore their insistence on convent...
...With an ordinary camera and a monochromatic film specialty treated by tho Heide process, a film showing every shads'of tone from the' top to the bottom of the spectrum is obtained which can be projected with an ordinary projector...
...Some ot the plays are incited in the idle hours of a noted jurist, to bestow upon posterity the pleasont efflorescence of his gifted pen...
...Black Boy" will play out of town before coming to Broadway early In September...
...The sailors aboard toe boat refused to eat the rotten meat provided them by the government...
...Increase of 10 cents an hour for rehearsals...
...There is no trace of humor and understanding concerning these folk...
...Pietro MasoJBfc the Italian composer, will conint the opening performance of his ikropera, "Cavalleria Rusticana," to ¦ 'followed as is the custom by nfjegliacei...
...No one is touted over the other...
...Samuel Goldfarb, president of the union, said there probably would be other meetings of...
...Whether it will be publicly shown in this country is problematical...
...and toe cast will include Jm Hardtop, Crane Wilbur and Lome tojfi hern...
...to be his best nttunt-' P. -H...
...During the -season 1926, a complete symphony was included on "forty-four of the fltjty-six programs, fifteen works by American composers were played, and thirty-three numbers were new to Stadium audiences...
...The complaining sailors are ordered shot and a squad of marines level their rifles at them...
...Baker In "Chicago," by Manrtao Watolns...
...For Monday Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in C minor arid Rlmsky-Korsakoffs "Scheherazade" are -scheduled...
...featuring Florence Moore, will open at the Booth Theatre Tuesday night...
...The third surveyed the development ef the, modem eperetoa^sgf^ New Color Movie Film Perfected A PROCESS for producing movies in natural colors without greater expense or more trouble than In black and white effects has been perfected by a German photo-chemist...
...Russian Revolution Film "Potemkin" in This City AMERICAN motion picture producers of the .daring kind, and even German film manufacturers who think they have put about all the realism into a film that Is possible, still have something to learn from the Russians, whose picture, "Potemkin," a film ot a Russian revolution, ia in this country waiting only until a theatre can be secured for its showing...
...hasty bashings of the hack...
...The film was censored in Warsaw, Berlin and refused a showing in England...
...On that dBS Florence Besd in "The Sliensbsi ojp tare" ta scheduled to reopen, at fjl former house...
...Alia Nasimova will return next season to "Katerima," by Leonid Andreyev, translated bp Herman Bernstein...
...Lowell Sherman waT-SI starr 3d...
...The plays written, save for a very few, fall into two opposite types...
...An the operations are as simple as the work of tinting and toning now done In movie laboratories...
...Several new artists, in•Bjjjig three Italian singers of note, •jSbed hurt week" on the steamship ""*** Biancamano...
...Stadium Concert "Season Closes Next Tuesday THE ninth season of Stadium concerts closes, after eight weeks of nightly programs, on Tuesday...
...f- ¦', •' TUESDAY '. ""POTASH ft PERLM UTTER, DETECTIVES," a comedy by Montague Glass and Jules Eckert Goodman, will be presented by AH...
...About eighteen years age tad first play from Prof...
...if So-andso's "Sam Batch" made a hit, someone else wrote a "Sam Patch, Lawyer," still another brought a "Sam Patch in France," and the favorite waa carried as far as the pubUc would bear him...
...Sour Grapes" opPaj at the Msjewrtc...
...Dow Clark and Mildred McLeod...
...All of the disgust and terror is faithfully projected...
...Scenes ot dramafto and musical developments ta vVhrana • ataoe Mosartfs time followed...
...Nell and Beatrice Bllnn...
...The pictures are true enough...
...Lowell's "Bigelow Papers,' Bret Harte's creations, are more refined cousins of the earlier attempts at delineation ot American character...
...the ^present scale for all other-employes...
...It will go...
...play, and it seems to be assured of a goodly share of public patronage at the Hudson Theatre...
...Bateman's "Self," art full-of local and Immediate allusions and criticisms...
...THE DONOVAN AFFAIR," a new play by Owen Davis, will be presented by Albert Lewis at the Pulton Theatre Monday night...
...The first play to be purchased opt of the' Tale dramatic workshop et Prof...
...There is no star' in "•Potemkin...
...The American came into his own as subject for dramatic study...
...T*»will be the last time that the organisation will appear in •AOmtary Theatre, for the 1927 sea•*i they expect to be housed in their •ffrSsllo opera house, which is being ¦t£j*b the site between Broadway •^RBghfh avenue...
...There was another conference for Wednesday with1 schedules with the union's committee and the 'Labor Committee for the managers...
...But, after the first few drinks and exchange of sallies, the storm breaks...
...It was also produeed to Lena«i tstat...
...These -were "SnMs Conati and Gino Lulll, barlJgd end Zsmaels Voltolini, new dra•ffP* tenor...
...It mays be' -opposed by some on the grounds that It is nothing but "propaganda . in favor of the working1 masses and by others that it is too blood-curdling ^and vivid...
...Others In the caet Include r Henry Stephenson, John Mlltern, Tom Wise, Eric Dressier, William B. Mack, Mary Home Morrison, Nell...
...C major, the "Jupiter Symphony,".After the intermission Tchaikovsky's "Frjtncesca da...
...P. Button A Co...
...Friedlander also announced that, ,110 had signed Bennie Leonard, the lightweight champion, to act tbe role of\a prizefighter in a later production, to be called "Cain and Mabel...
...out 400 meters of film per hour with a total operation cost of one-tenth of a cent per meter...
...was Wagner, with thirty-nine operatic excerpts played in the course of the summer...
...Yet, after Sinclair Lewis, Woodward and others of the school, we have a right to expect something more...
...James Light, director of the Provincetown Playhouse, will stage the new opus...
...Escape" opened last Thursday night in London...
...go ahead," Arnold replies...
...Everybody, from the insignificant supernumerary up to the important characters, belong in the film...
...At Monday's meeting of the union's negotiating committee and the committee for the managers the union re, quested that the theatrical managers submit a more substantial offer...
...Only in Vienna, where the Socialists are in power, was the picture shown, giving crowded showings amid enthusiastic appreciation...
...Ernil Wolff-Helde, who has labored many years on a theory which is a departure from the methods generally Used...
...Copyright did not protect a character...
...Another excellent piece of acting is that ot his wife by Georgia Calne...
...It was stated yesterday that toe officials expect to learn by toe end Of this week whether or not there la to be a. genera^ strike to the It* indePaul Robeson to Star in Jim Tally's "Black Boy" Horace Uverigbt begins rehearsals of "Black Boy" today...
...The only really great poet produced in those years— Poe, was an exotic growth, not of the soil homely...
...The author haa been quoted to England .aa declaring that this is bis tost play...
...Movie Operators Come to an Understanding vrith Managers Officials of the Moving Picture Machine Operators' Union yesterday stated that, following their agreement with the Vaudeville Managers' Association, covering 204 houses of the Keith, Loew, Proctor and Moss circuits, they-are doing their utmost to betas about an agreement with 160 Independent flbn houses in tbe city...
...Baker's workshop, then at Harvard, was purchased and una den sd here Ths play was Edward TJbsWon's "Salvation Nan...
...Sure...
...Bancroft mistrusts Arnold's fiancee...
...THE NEW PLAYS MONDAY, "TH* ADORABLE LIAR," by Roy Briant and Harry Durant, opens at the Forty-ninth Street Theatre Monday, presented by Edgar Selwyn, with Dorothy Burmese in the title role...
...the resultn, the Heide method promises to solve ths difficulties of this interesting and useful field of motion picture photography...
...for like a match applied to.- tinder, mutiny flares up and the officers of the "Fo-temkln*' are butchered...
...Arnold can' stand it all until his "best friend" refers to the girl as a "saloon-keeper's daughter...
...With the influence of this drama, we enter a new era...
...George IS...
...Winthrop 'Ames to Present John Galsworthy's "Escape" John Galsworthy's latest play, "Escape," was announced for production here yesterday by Winthrop Ames...
...the contrast between city pretension and wealth, and homespun simplicity, begins to be stressed...
...Managers' Offer Turned Down by Stage Union Local 1 of the Theatrical Protective Union unanimously, rejected the counter proposal submitted by the Inters national Theatrical Managers'Association at its secret- meeting held last* Sunday at Bryant Hall, it was learned yesterday...
...It has the kind ot raw, direct comedy that most audiences grow -hilarious about...
...The Shelf," which Is the work of Dorrance Davis, will have Frances Starr In its .leading role and Arthur Byron in the principal male role...
...society had developed sufficiently to give rise to question...
...One might as well read the home-town papers account of the Elk's weekly session...
...Nichols also announces be win produce "Mission Mary" in New Turk to the fall Michael KaUesser, author and producer a...
...The scenes following' are stark .and cruel, almost as lite...
...William B. Friedlander Has Three Plays Scheduled William B. Friedlander, who Is becoming an independent producer this season, announced yesterday that his first production, "The Shelf," would open at the Morosco Theatre on Monday night, Sept...
...There will be only Saturday ¦stteeMenrmg the season here...
...The play hi original form was presented here, by toe Moscow Art Theatre...
...The emtriean premiere of Mascagni's •most opera, "II Piccolo Marat," will ehte during the second week, the •ant onto to be announced later...
...Fifty-third and "lj"-f*arfh streets, and which opens jnTOttary...
...Saturday matinee, JSnbrna, Butterfly," and Saturday ¦fjfaint...
...Included in ¦ the cast are Ralph Kellard, Helen Spring, Frank Beaston, Walter Jones, Cheater Clute, Joseph Dalley, Louis Haines, John Regan and Paul Porter...
...Nicholas YeUenti designed the settings...
...After mild objections on the part of the crew the surgeon examines the meat...
...For the period was...
...Even the historical plays, of Brutus, the tyrannicide, or Sertoriua the patriot, or Tortesa the usurer, stress the outward manifestation ot the right, and the author of "Fashionable Follies" considers it necessary to state, in a footnote to one of the villain's remarks, that "this ia not written by tbe author as -a maxim of truth...
...Boothe, Gleason and Truex to Present Three Next Season "The Challenge of Youth," a play by Ashley Miller, will be the first production of the season by the firm of Boothe, Gleason A Truex...
...All the'.drama of these fifty years, Indeed, is of interest purely as history...
...Vic" Arnold, successful broker, Is about to be married...
...these, are worthless aa acting plays...
...Ralph W. Long, general manager for the Shuberts and Chairman of the Labor Committee for the managers, said yesterday that the union rejected the following proposals:' An increase of 10 per cent for "grips," clear era and operators...
...Experts such aa Prof...
...One play, ta more straightforward , attack, was more successful and more influential than the body of these paler products...
...Tbe play was adapted by Paul Potter from a French script et Bmne Fibre, based on Babme'a *lp| BabonlBsnsn," 2 . « "A Woman, Disputed Among afatjj was placed to rehearsal Monday fi A. H. Woods...
...The book la "an adaptation by B. G. De Syiva and Laurence Schwab of Edward Peple'a farce, "A Pair of Sizes, and the music is by Lewis E. Genslar...
...SERVICE FOR TWO," a new comedy by Martin Flavin, opens Monday night at the Gaiety Theatre under the management of A. L Erianger...
...Broadway Briefs M. J. Nicholas wm soon present "Black Velvet," a play by Wlllard Robertson, author of "The Sea Woman" and "Big Game...
...ettlstonoo of toe famous, opera bouse was toe chief-attraction...
...The cast includes Hugh Wakefield, Marion Coakley, Grace Griawold and Florence Fail...
...play after play with little but growing sublety portrayed "the native son...
...After "The Shelf Jdr...
...Rimini," Debussey's Two Dances for Orchestra, Sarabands and Danse, orchestrated by Ravel, and Wagner's Ride of the Walkuere will be played...
...cover the period between the War of 1(12 and the Civ" War, which is marked by the growth of a nation geographically ~ across a continent, financially into world repute, but not at ail artistically...
...There then proceeds a flow of "Amerlcanese," which...
...A Play for the Home Town Trade George M. Cohan's "Home Tomer*" Ofieri a Good Picture of Main Street MAIN STREET may now definitely be accepted as an American ( institution...
...The most popular composer, judging by the) number of performances credited . to him...
...Forty-eighth Street Theatre, announces that this fall he wfll present a sister play to his current connivance, called "Any Man's Woman...
...It appears, consists of an outburst ot crude vulgarities...
...As their second offering the firm will stage "The Sweet Buy and Buy," by Louise Bascom Barrett and Helena Smith-Dayton and wHl later produce 'Wings," by Ashley Miller and Zelda Sears...
...There is nothing glossed over...
...will be the star of this comedy drama by Jhn Tully (author of "Outside Looking In"), and Frank Daxey, author ot "Peter Weston...
...WUek...
...Can I talk American...
...Officers expressed the belief that an amicable agreement would soon be reached...
...announced Monday...
...And there are those that are written only to "be acted, quick preparations for the stage...
...Friedlander win produce "The Winged Messenger," the 'scenes of which are laid In France in the fourteenth century...
...Mowatt's "Fashion," and more particularly Mrs...
...Each machine Is capable of turning...
...Others —"acquaint the critio that the construction of Moll Pitcher occupied but two or three days"—are the...
...Bancroft Is portrayed by Robert McWade In a manner that deserves nothing but admiration for hia sterling abilities...
...one of actors rather than...
...of playwrights, and the stars were creators of types...
...The review weevln three sections, toe second betas'composed of arias from operettas written before topj...
...Chas...
...niece win be done by Sam H. Harris and Laura, T...
...He fears she and her family are actuated by selfish interests, with a particular eye on Arnold's money...
...Cohan has written a play about it...
...and R. R. Riskln are the.producers...
...Eliminating playwrights and dramatic critics, are not city folk as gullible, as mistrustful and as narrow as the despised country feUow-American...
...HeU Bent tor Heaven," "The Show-Off," and toe great variety of American studies ot the stage today...
...The next rentals of J. P. Mcsbdl anther of "Americana," wttl be aabaj colored revue, "Hallelujah, Got afjm for wbtah'-Cevarruhtas wffi do tos mm ting* and -costumes...
...September IA Wfek \: William Hodge win make hfafl way appearance ta The /udgs Sbnhari.flbe ta««r popt.asfthfl MUSIC Mascagni To Open San Carlo Opera Season Sept 13 R'DRTTJNE GALLO announces the b. list of operas to be presented at j the Century Theatre when the at Curio Opera Company opens their eJkuU season, beginning Monday spaing...
...propriety, on good form...
...new eetohrattas WaBJj year at toe Caetee Theatre, wot hp*, two spectal companies this fan...
...After development, the same as that used for black and white negatives, ordinary prints are made .'which are tinted and toned according to another Heide process...
...He summons his1 boyhood small-town chum, "the best fellow in the world...
...The cast is , beaded by Joe Laurie...
...It is by John Hunter Booth...
...Fashion," recently revived, proved entertaining...
...One Man's Woman," now.at toe...
...Otis Skinner will, return neat season in a revival of "The Honor of toe Family," his success of twenty years ago, which was originally produced bp the Frohmana...
...He feels he must speak out...
Vol. 3 • August 1926 • No. 33
