AMUSEMENTS
AMUSEMENT -:- -:d r A M A -:- -:STANLEY L4JPIN0 The noted London comedian, it featured in "Naughty RiqueUe," the new Oscar Strom operetta, vrhich opened Monday night at the...
...With the exception of "La Toee*" on Friday...
...Saturday matinee, "Tale* of HefiV man," with Mmes...
...Produced In 1893, the author took it seriously enough in 1918 to revise it tor publication...
...The Eternal Thief-4 new play by Tom Barry, will be Walter Hampden'* first productlan of .the season, opening at Mr...
...Shubert in association with A. H. Woods In October at the Century,Theatre, is the first American playwright to have had a play produced at the historic Drury Lane Theatre in London...
...Shubert will begin active preparation, for their neat musical play...
...The chief electrician, - who has hitherto WCrked from the stage, will by this arrangement work from this hidden booth, watching the light effects ap the play progresses, observing them from the viewpoint of the, %udlERIC BLORE Che* a splendid performance as the amusing traveler' at...
...Neighborhood Playhouse win begin its thirteenth season In Its delightful little theatre on Grand Street on October 7. with "The Lion Tamer," a satiric play from the French of Alfred'Savoir...
...Lorraine Frpst, Fleming Ward, Robert Montgomery, Jean Arden and Carolyn Humphreys...
...Thursday, "La Form del Dastma," with Mmes...
...Vnn Lane and Veronica are other acta, -The photoplay feature wyi be Harold Lloyd in his latest laugh picture, "For Heaven's' Sake...
...for the Neighborhood Playhouse, it does not mean any change in policy...
...Alice ZeppllU, grand opera soprano...
...Roche...
...This famous theatre was reopened, in ItXl with Mr...
...Oh yea, in his introduction and...
...At mteaaVtf easned+wmck opens]a week's emwumnemlat the Bronx Opera House aaamanar tforiaW after which the attraction goes • to Chicago...
...The locale is Boston and there are three acta...
...Th* operas for the week: "' *y Monday, "1st Giocond...
...Oaofrei...
...The playa ot yesterday are most likely to be the hits of the season, for theystrike for the raw-boned, crude emotions that maturity baa added to but not destroyed...
...To my mind a good play must have a tremendous uplift In thought and purpose...
...Golden s Theatre to Have New Stage Lighting Effects John Golden"s new 58th street theatre, now building, will be Installed with a new method ot stage lighting...
...The new ballet, headed...
...with Mffie...
...to clinch the "happy ending...
...The permanent - company, some of whom have been with the Playhouse ever since the beginning, includes Albert Carroll...
...The forthcoming private recital by Da mi a. the French lyric tragedienne, will take piece a week from Sunday night at the Forty-ninth Street Theatre...
...T- .1...
...TafUrp, Lolli, Mange 111Tuesday...
...He's a weak villain, too...
...Messrs...
...by Vechalav Sweboda...
...And always and in any case with a result to the good...
...Oaofrst, Interrante...
...Odall Careno, dramatic soprano...
...The two-fisted, or, even better, the two-pistoled he-man is put on exhibition in a host of Western plays, of which "In Mlzzoura" is a better-thanaverage specimen...
...Jay C. Fllppen...
...The two artists are: Gladys Axazan, former Metropolitan' Opera Company soprano, singing the title role ia "Tosca," and' Tina Paggl, coloratura, who will, sing Monday night in "La qiaeonda" aad Tuesday night tn, "be traviata-t v...
...id his play Mr...
...The balcony price and the subscription rates in both orchestra and balcony remain the...
...Robert MdLaughlln, whoa* dramaspectacle, "The Pearl ef Great Price," is being produced by the Messrs...
...will present a group of songs...
...Morris...
...There may he a.great deal of headshaking and nose-tilting at Martin Flavin's- venture in the~fi*ld of moneymaking successes...
...Jacobo and Glade...
...Dave Kramer and Jack Boyle...
...also bedrooms...
...not fit to be an honest man's wife...
...either Ann Nichols' ia on the intellectual level of "Abie's Irish Rose," or she has deliberately written down to that level...
...Hampderf a theatre on Thurg...
...Katie, the Deneer," which ran for *wn years at Daly's Theatre, Leudon- The play Is by Frederick • Lonsdale...
...The most frequent variant of the theme et sea la that'm'' which the1 roue tempts add almost betrays the onaztapeotlng and Innocent heroine, only to be foiled at the end...
...The equally obvious theme of sex, which has been more persistent on the-film, is of course the mainspring of most dramatic action, and in the plays of yesterday is especially dominant...
...Crane Wilbur and Louis Calhern are the featured players...
...T*a**air ito lafc} m,-m**Bo*>* of Ttbcrjas C*e**r asm ca*Masr-a5la^sM''t^fL~ •'¦ ;\..Broadway Briefs "Happy-Go-Lucky," A. L. Erlanger'e new musical comedy production, had its first presentation Monday night at the Colonial Theatre, Boston...
...Not Herbert," a sensational drama, will be the following attraction...
...Flavin's present offering might be classed" as a hotel-room farce, in most coses - the hotejl rooms being...
...Ian Maclaren, John...
...The Ghost Train," nob> in its fourth week at the Eltinge theatre...
...Maria ,1" urteva aad Pedro Rubin, will be presented during each of the operas...
...Interrante, Monger...
...hours of door-slamming and furious word fencing interspersed with a number'of unexpected laughs—which Is something that does not usually come witfi these complication plays...
...ROY ATWILL It rusujMiMe for much of the-enterimminent in "Amerieehot...
...will include two artists not heard during th* week Just closed...
...a movie etar...
...AMUSEMENT -:- -:d r A M A -:- -:STANLEY L4JPIN0 The noted London comedian, it featured in "Naughty RiqueUe," the new Oscar Strom operetta, vrhich opened Monday night at the Cosmopolitan...
...Moses gives three samples of the plays of yesterday: "In Mlzzoura," by Thomas...
...Then, to justify, .the hero's ' throwing her...
...zc* \£v ¦" Although the adoption ofneepeHoiro last spring was a new step...
...Really, the play is a mixture of themes...
...such plays are the normal diet for persons physically adult, but childish in mental and moral development...
...Sept...
...Eddie Clayton, and Frank...
...Even Walter himself Is a bit surprised at his boldnes in picturing a prostitute, for he adds, after his remarks about uplift: " 'The Easiest Way' has none of this...
...These coercions are lees fashionable among grown-up playgoers, but they flourished when New York was more interested in society, where arranged matches are expected, by the* outside...
...The first, it will be remembered, was a tense and gripP&br""-study" of Tnheritea insanity...
...There follows' two...
...There ia not a character in . the play really worth while, with the exception of the old agent...
...One of the novel features of the season's program will be the inclusion-in the lyric bill ofV Ifth- Century .Cornmedia dell' Arte, - done in an English, version of' the original text and with the music of the period...
...My Country," now playing at the Forrest Theatre.ewlU end Its engagement here thin Saturday evening, GRANT MITCHELL Star of "Om of .ta* FstrnTn...
...After a fortnight there it comes to the Liberty Theatre, opening on Monday evening, September 27, Winthrop Ames started rehearsals of Philip Barry'a new play, "White Wings...
...Tests on the stage of the new theatre have proven that the light beams emit no harsh outlines or edges, completely dissipate shadows and are very likely to render unnecessary the use of make-up...
...Mongelil and the had**' . Bomar Cramer, pianist, a pap*Vd( Josef Lbevlnne aad a fellow of th* Milliard Foundation fer two psff...
...Leo Beers and Florentine Gosnova...
...DoGavirla...
...They are "devilishly clever," perhaps...
...The Winter Garden Sunday night concerto will be resumed for the mason this Sunday...
...CarvL Wednesday, "Faust," wija* -Maesa...
...Tlsen's Orchestra...
...Salori, ktapana...
...Harry Rente 11 and' Helen Gould: Maatin and Richarda' Revue, with Wilton Crawley...
...for instead of having his oath rammed down bis throat by the militant hero, he fades out when th* bold heroine calls his bluff...
...ot the new theatre, spent some 'months in Europe and from the methods used abroad evolved this new lighting system- - A novel feature ot the plan Is a booth hidden In the body et the balcony...
...acme...
...and after that, amuse...
...In "The Moth and the Flame," produced just after a period of national financial stress (1898), and again (1908) Just after a panic, the villain is not quit* of the "Marry me or TO, tear up the child" variety...
...There was a time when the ten-twenty-thirty melodrama ran riot and the author of 'Convict 999" was called the Augustus Thomas of melodrama, the author of "Jennie, the Sewing Machine Girl" waa called the Clyde jFttch of melodrama...
...What I am trying to do is to reflects life of all kinds as I see it...
...a ..new American play" by Francis Edward Faragoh...
...Conati, MongeSX . Friday , "La Tosca...
...A second variant of the sex - play is achieved by reversing the engine, to show an honest man aaved from the lures of a.wicked woman...
...This...
...The alternative to this is that the author himself is...
...This will - be followed with a repertoire of dramatic and lyric productions, including the fol1 owing;, -."Pinwheel...
...HIPPODROME Anna Braile and Andre Pallo and Tugoeiav Royal Orchestra...
...Harrison Wiseman and Willy Pogany...
...sycr...
...a .new lyric bill, and revival* .of "The .Little Clay "Cart" and "The Dyltttk," Tke Grand Street rdnies" wllVas usual, top off .the season...
...Ann Harding...
...Mongelil...
...Messrs...
...T»furo, Conati, Cervl aad ballet diver-1 tiise merit...
...Society, in the sense of the pride in the family, tre, in having descended from a thief#sent out to Virginia or an intolerant nuisance run to Connecticut, has been supplanted by the more easy group who remember dot forebears but Wall Street bears and fortunes...
...Except in'the display of a! large order bf technical skill, "Children ot the Moon?- and . "JBervioe for Two" have nothing in common...
...Others in the cast include Florence CDenishawn, Pauline Mason, Gordon Dooley, Martha Morton, Al Sexton, Kate Smith, Adeline Seamon...
...Escobar, Saroys* Messrs...
...87th...
...The Drama of Ameriea By Joseph T. Shipley VI—The Plays of Yesterday YESTERDAY, today, and tomorrow are all present on our stage...
...Installed therein are chemically pure sheet nlumlnum reflectors, their surfaces so treated as te give over pa percent -oi...
...his merely threatens to expose the father's criminal gambling" himself into . bankruptcy it the daughter dares to withdraw from the wedding...
...J. P. MeGrant Mitchell in "One of the Family" At Bronx Opera House "One Of the Family,'* the comedy which played on Broadway last season, and in which Grant Mitchell is starred, comes to the...
...with Jpbyn* Ralston...
...At {C Hall will be assisted by a company Including...
...such a child...
...Modest fellow...
...he must show that the villain is not such a-bafi feircev, and that the girl'Is fundaniehtcUy weak, anyhow...
...To approach even in some slight way the Increased cost of operating repertoire, the box office price of orchestra seats has been raised from 82 to $2.25...
...Plots at this elemental crudity, of the eaaniy virtue* so proudly, and baldly triumphant, have virtually disappeared even from the feature films of the cinema...
...Broad comedy and melodrama, then, are the plays of yesterday...
...A H. Woods will present Lowell Sherman in a play hitherto called "A Woman Disputed Among Men," but with a now uncertain title, at the Forrest Theatre, Monday evening, Sept...
...Toy - town...
...La Travtotaz" (erlt# Mzns* TJzm^ffsaad and jff asm in Mm— Tafare, eosati...
...Lillian Devi**,who created- the title role at- London, and Dennis Hoeg, BIANCA SAROYA One of the principal song birds in the San Carlo Opera Company now at the Century theatre...
...The Moth and the Flame," by Fitch, and "The Easiest Way," by Eugene Walter...
...Wo should say that "Service, for Two," as a bedroom farce, ranks pretty high...
...Dorothy Sands, Blanche Talmud and Paula Trueman...
...Lennie...
...Mile...
...If there is, none of -it'was evident at the performance in the ] Gaiety - Theatre . of *fService .for, Two," Mr...
...the-reflection of perfect mirrors...
...Flavin's new comedy...
...The pl*y cpmea at a period (of mental growth) In which New York still believes the legend of the pioneer West, but uneducated sheriffs (Abe Lincolna in the bud) spare the criminal, even aid bis escape, for the sake of the welleducated heroine, who rewards the sacrifice with her hand—and as a wedding-gift fate sends a fortune...
...the Albert ina Ranch Ballet...
...that Is scheduled to open here Tuesday evening, October 12...
...HeGavirla, Lull...
...And Walter...
...Lloyd, Genevieve Blair aid Helen Ardell...
...ha XUelarea Vaudeville Theatres PALACE Willard Mack ta "Kick In," with a big cast...
...The rest, at ' best, are not a particular adornment to society, and the strength of the play Ilea In Its true portrayal of the sordid type of life which It expressed...
...Untrametled Art...
...Is perhaps more daring...
...In the cast In addition to Grant Mitchell and Louise Glosser Hale are Leila Frost, Edward Donnelly, Beulah Bondi...
...MUSIC :-: San Carlo to Present Two New Artists Next Week THE second week of the San Carl* Opera Company's engagement at the Century, announced by Fortune Galle...
...Aids,'* vdf*> Mmes...
...Charles O'DonneU . and Ethel - Blair...
...The Ravages of Commercialism" score another victory - over...
...The play is the work of Kenneth Webb, -and is presented by John Tuerk...
...To write, first,-plays that will interest and mean something...
...Flavin received hot a little ass's tande from the blithe Mr...
...Thomas' cleverly accounts for the-fortune, but none the less there If is...
...Messrs...
...Now that the movies have at least removed the pain of dialog from that type of play (comparable to the penny dreadfuls schoolboys hide inside their grammars), we recognise thst the authors honored in the comparison are themselves melodramattsts...
...Marion Harris, in song recital, assisted by Billy Griffith...
...The difference is one of maturity, not of time nor' of technique...
...It la rather devilishly clever, but a great work it certainly Is not...
...Otto Hulicius, Marc Loebell, Lity Lubell...
...The Lockfords, with Paul...
...photoplay, "Alimony Only," with Lestrleo Joy.' 1 MOSS' * B ROADWAY The vaudeville program next week at B. 8- Moss' Broadway Theatre will feature-Bobby Folaom and AE K. Hall * Co., late feature of the "Vanities...
...E. z "Honeymoon Lane" with Eddie Doivling, Opens Monday at Knickerbocker A L. Erlanger will open the season at tire Knickerbocker Theatre next Monday with Eddie Dowllng in his new musical comedy...
...Jacepo...
...This new piece is in a prologue and two acts,' with book, lyric end music by Eddie Dowllng and James Hanley, and staged by Edgar MacGregor...
...with Mmes, Gladys Axman, Besuner...
...Two Zangwill Plays to Be Presented on Yiddish Stage Joseph Kessler, of Kessler'* McKlnley Square Theatre, yesterday - announced upon his return from Europe that he has bought two plays of -the late'larael Zangwlll to 4e.pi#duced in the Resaler** McKinley Square Theatre during the season ' Mr* Kessler bought also a number .ot French plays which Win be translated into'Yiddish*: ': The Messrs...
...it wa* once assumed ' by gentleman dramatists that every woman was a lady—unless they kept her in whispers, and offsttge...
...but^they are patched, are deliberately concocted, j?or • the consumption of mental and moral children...
...Saroya gad Seb*Ikarl Messrs...
...McLaughlin's play "Decameron Nights...
...Remembering that the - farce deals With a beautiful movie star, engaged to a British peer, who proceeds to take an...
...Intellectuals takes French leave . of sea, psychoanalysis and suppressions and makes a flank attack on the box office ft has been the wont of the devotees of The New Drama to shake their collective heads in cynical sorrow...
...Some peculiar sense of guilt it may be that makes the authors protest their righteous endeavor: Fitch...
...Bronx Opera House, Monday night, for a week's engagement...
...and The Brforda...
...This"confusion, combined with admissions in the words of the anthers, indicates the genesis of the Plays .of yesterday...
...A highbrow can, in the proper mood, be entertained by "Abie's Irish Rose," "The Bat," or "The Whip...
...Since 1915 the theatre has shaped its course with a vjew to developing...
...Ill make hi* debut in AeoUaa-JfJ October 18th.' ..'am Tk* Russian Symphonic Choir vaPy th* leadership of Resile lUHlijP *da begin Us now season st AsdaM* RhR October lTfh...
...Service lor Two" A Bedroom Farce Martin Flavins Latest Efort at the Gaiety Theatre Light Entertainment WHEN one of our sad' young...
...Hugh Wakefield as the unhappy Englishman whose burden it is to keep Americana amused by persistent dignity in a storm of crude horseplay...
...Sareya and 8cha lk er...
...The week will also see the repetition of "Atda," presented on Saturday night...
...a^ permanent company and the- experiment* of the past few seasons -have con vlrroed '-the directors that the organisation- la now ready -for a full season's, venturer Th* schedule permits a preliminary ran of from two to three and a half weeks for each production before it -alternates each week thereafter with a second bill...
...Jack Handy...
...Miss Marion Coakley ably = carried her role of...
...Saturday evetztng...
...And the great success of such plays shows how many of our adult men and women, voters in this government of and supposedly by and for the people, have, never grown out of childhood...
...Lion Tamer'' to Open Neighborhood Season T3E...
...Harry ¦Graham and Jean Gilbert...
...In charge of the lighting and decorating...
...apartment adjoining one occupied by "the same'peer'and'his bride,' It can be realized that there are opportunities a-plenty for complications...
...Honeymoon Lane," which has already been received, with acclaim in Atlantic City and Philadelphia...
...Walter pictures hia heroine forced by the deliberate planning of his' villain, into a poverty out of which she escapes by becoming hia mistress...
...If you are willing to park yout high-brow inclinations for the few hours ot its duration you can have a lot it hearty laughs...
Vol. 3 • September 1926 • No. 36
