AMUSEMENTS
Amusements DRAMA On the Cross *"he Immoral Thief Gives a Sidelight on the Crucifixion at Hampden's IN "The Immortal Thief," Tom Barry ha* atrlvea for a theme of great scope, one at "Which a...
...Monday, - Holy eke...
...ValoAia Vasteff...
...The combat of the lion tamer and the English lord for the fair creature, and her own exploits...
...MUSIC Hetropolitan Opera Season To Open with 'La Vestale' 9\ BNERAL Man»s*r GiuUo GattlVff Cesaxsa of th* Metropolltsti Opera, announces that but ninefiptb season will begin Monday ev«mto, November 1st.- with Spontini's Wtyestale...
...aMusic Notes> > Next week the philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction .'of . Willem Mangel berg, wiH make a tour, ef tha following cities:' Sunday, Providence...
...The main figure ot this fdrama Is Christ, and any attempt to interest us in the minor characters can be of hut passing power...
...Eva Le Gall leans haa obtained., the rights to "Invitation au Voyage," by J. J. Bernard, translated by Winifred Katxta, for production by the Civic Repertory, Theatre at the T*th Street Theatre...
...Elliott's...
...New Tork Symphony Orchestra under', the direction of Walter Damroech St its opening concert ta Carnegie JBAU on October 2...
...Wednesday, Pitts fie Id...
...t Thf decoration and stage lighting of the plays vytU have a symbolic value, and -it la the Intention to ^perform the plays continuously, .with Just one stags setting and ..very little alteration between the acts and'scenes...
...A flat (Schubert), Waldsteln sonata...
...Telley...
...jjjbm season in Philadelphia will beBntf Tuesday evening, November Id, S|t Puoelnl's "Tosea," with J*rlt*a, Sltineul and scotti...
...Mhrsic Flute) rn Otrsun, with *fi*B*> h'w mlse-en-scene' by Serge OrMJgn...
...meemisoileu Opera t**oatpany...
...r ¦ ¦' ¦ ¦ * '. <•-,<• ¦ » At the Stamford Theatre Mary H. Kirkpatrlck present* -Spring .Magic" the musical comedy written.and directed by .Rachel Crethers with 'a muahmt •cere fcarMugu Felt...
...Many ef the items have been Imported from Vienna...
...Brooklyn, • no same evening, Donizetti* "Lucia i a^UAwnennoor'' will be given, with HBjy, Glgll...
...Tacoh Zsyds win give a violin reCitsl Tburcday evening st Town Hall Ths Pblladelpbia Orchestra will play ths first of its ten New Totfk concerts on Tuesday nUrht at Carnrsi* Hail...
...C. XL Plaak apl atartha Mason...
...With Katharine Cornell in the leading rose, will play an engagement of one week et the^Bronx Opera Bouse, beginning...
...In 'the embrace of des Adrets (who represents the froth of love, the idle trifling in the groves and vahu of pleasure), love Is transmuted into a shallow, heedless creature, that only through valley of tears can win back toward wisdom...
...Brum Wtaston...
...Pour years...
...Schmitt's work with lectures by well-known authorities, which will be given every morning* during the festival' week...
...m the Academy of Music...
...t)f intensive preparations have b*en already devdted' to the festival, and -the German Shapeapea.rU Society has formed a committee te supplement...
...March It...
...Moments of the play, which is throughout given most intelligent directing and sympathetic performance, rise to valid heights...
...debut this Sunday with a concert in Syracuse...
...Throughout the play the Thief Is surrounded by a stream of unchecked sentimentality...
...T ' r .*-• t\ * In the east of "Naked," by PteendeBo, which Angustm 'Duikssi is preduring...
...Take a broomstick—call one end top, the other bottom...
...Amusements DRAMA On the Cross *"he Immoral Thief Gives a Sidelight on the Crucifixion at Hampden's IN "The Immortal Thief," Tom Barry ha* atrlvea for a theme of great scope, one at "Which a leas sturdy man would quail...
...James Frisklh, English pianist...
...The first of these is rooted In the nature of his story: it la that, all the while that we are watching and listening to this thief and...
...Rush Hour in Hongkong" (Chasine), "Intermezzo," C major (Brahms...
...wHl giv* his annual recital at Aeolien H*U Monddy esfaing...
...series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music...
...very "energetic, and full of enthusiasm ta, bta ipaaaapoxa...
...The body onaqner* mors frequently, aad ta more obvious fashion...
...In this battle of body aad soul (there ore a dozen dual phrases to suggest the opposition) th* author points out many interesting encounters...
...Duacan...
...Thursday, Boston...
...Artur Bodsnsky will conOOwlB tbe principal roles will be 1 *bjpy Rathberg...
...Isobel Blsom, Frederick ' Perry and Diantha Pattison in the leading roles...
...Richard Crooks, tenor, will Include the Iel lowing numbers in his program at Carnegie Ball next Thursday evening: •S**>lUlde" (Beethoven), "Sea*-, rsataneP., tBssmhati...
...with Marls Jeritsa ia- ths UUe Tbe opera will bs prepared and MBM by Mftttro TulUo Serstn...
...A Night la Peris," Wrhtch has been...
...Leaving back from the Bible story of the thief who, crucified next to Christ, was promised Immortality by the dying Jesus, Barry starts to build up a drama of the life' and the death of that thief...
...the Forty-fourth Street Theatre sigtantng Monday evening...
...The allegory comes freely through the pores of the play like the honest .sweat all healthy things exude...
...Bochum has a population of about 160,000...
...The series includes...
...The Green Hat," In novel form, made an Instantaneous hit with, the reading public...
...Alberto Baivi, hsrpist, will make bis Brst recital appearance her* In four rear* st Tewn HSU next Friday •*•*Bins...
...Instead of separating the opposite*, there has been merely a multiplication...
...to dramatise the story, and ths play wss bought and staged by A. H. Woods, playing on Broadway for a year...
...but never is there the slightest pause in the merry movement of th* story, for the sake of laboring the symbolism...
...Budetah...
...per operas of tho first week will .tojpe Wolf-Ferrsri's "The Jewels of ¦Sg Madonna" snd von Flo tow's JPJJJsV" whieh will hs given for th* - fpf iweiio Puccini's posthumous threej^opexa "Tursndot" will hav* its IS BOrfonntnce st ths Metropolitan fsepecisi non-subscription prrform4M en Tuesday evening...
...The outcry of the woman who lbved the thief Is a strong argument...
...the result Is hardly'pleasant to consider, mat oaty...
...j«mrfWvii of Verdi's "Ia Forsa Oil BP*" •»« Montomosst's "L'Am*r* Mb* Bf.** will take place during I^gfenih of December and the reijNf leethoyen's "Ftdello" during Pjlpt half of January...
...In the true Puritans (not the inhibited* shadows of men, who hate all who are enjoying what they have rejected, but such persons as the medieval ascetics, tag kindly hermits) and In the race that Bernard Shaw pictures at the end of "Back, to," Methuselah," the mind haa triumphed...
...Ptoptes Symphony Concerts For Wotketi and Students The 'rteople's^ Symphony Concerts win again give a'eertes or six artists'" recitals for' Workers and students at the Washington • Irving I High - School, 16th stsoet...
...Northampton...
...L. Katharine Cornell in "The Green Hat" at the B. O. H. 4 "The Green Hat," the Michael Arlen love story...
...wfll be Mr...
...The play that has made the greatest impression on the miners hi "Richard II...
...Hugh Buckler, Irene Purcell and Carl Anthony...
...John Adair...
...Barry, perhaps, recognised this, and in his effort to counteract the force of the idea ol Christ, was snared into his second Weakness, the preparing for Christianty...
...Alas, In challenge only...
...At first this'takes the form of lamenting his origin in'a cruel and evil'father, so that In the son the Semons and gods are waging stupenbus warfare...
...Tied Together...
...The events ot the story are equally ready for the exhibition of his prejfesus Christian spirit...
...caught physically by the power ot the lion tamer, she never ceases to- hate him, and to seek freedom...
...riva ner^recltal la SteiqweyH^ Fru...
...It is Just that, remoteness...
...and, that he has gone down is less his fault than the inevitable outcome of his choice and his line of attack...
...all sorts of unlikely figures stop' In their nefarious ways tp cry out at his triumph over the evil in him...
...Borne 2,000 tnvttatlons have been - sent' out/ Dprlng the run of the Werfel play, "Jam-ex and Maximilian...
...the son of Ood was ever sinless, phe repeats after one of the disciple...
...Friday, New London...
...They like the Falstaff ptty* less because, 'perhaps, they see so .much realistic Ufe about them...
...The construction of the play Is stalwart enough, on One Shakespearean principles...
...Benno Moitefwitsch's .piano recital this Saturday afternoon will offer the following program: "Impromptu...
...with the Lgaaan cast at...
...Such is the effort in which—tn the depicting of which—Tom Barry has also made valiant but unavailing- effort...
...Tyro fallings, beyond the inability to make the language rise to its summons, draw Barry down in his gallant effort...
...This though Savoir develops aa applied to man, by showing in conflict the two sides of man'a nature, brawn and brain, mind and matter, flesh and spirit...
...the Dancer," hy Fwsdsiltih Uonsdai...
...Oseadatl,.Jkwmr H*U, g^^.^y«^,.PBS Wakm...
...CorneHua- Van, VHet,- 'cellist...
...There is the *ound of ringing blank verse in the moments of high emotion, - such words as no man would speak, yet lifted and rounded to the mood—therefore true...
...The play will open .bars Nov...
...For Arabella is a circus lady herself, and has some experience and skill in tsmlng fretful steeds...
...them are episodes- themselves fertile with laughter...
...V- : A work new to New Tork by the French composer, Jhjjftjues Ibert, will be played by the...
...There la no * university near it, and it contains only two classes of inhabitants, the workmen In the mines and factories and...
...Reutfa- wffl *4y* his' isifM gta^^ Friday •,Mtsraoaa at Frederick* Lonsdale's "JZatj**\* Cowing to 44th Street Tkeemre Th* Shuberta are pi*nning "t* nr** pent the English musical .*u*f*s*i "Katja...
...with results equally unpleasant ta contemplate...
...The whole cycle of the Histories from "king John"' to "Henry .vrfl...
...Heater Nichols and Albert Hubrer win #ive* Jdmt piano rscital Saturday afternoon, October is, at Toons HilC' Qrace Hofhelmer wJU appear In piano recital at Town Hafl Tuesday nldht...
...Then the allegory: '- So-called, opposttes in life are...
...Le Rove...
...there are in other moments the more colloquial strains of common speech, even the current coin .of slang passing among the lesser figures...
...Per PtataT (Btraden...
...selves for dominance...
...Its wide vogue literally forced Arlen...
...Doris Nil**, dancer, assisted by Cornelia Nile* and an orchestra under Louis Horst, will make her concert debut in Carnegie Hall Tuesday evening, October IS...
...In Gregolre be pictures the Slavs mind, that ultimately kisss* the hand that strikes it: the lion tamer recognises only this spirit, saying that the progress is 'We fear, we obey, we serve," and implying "we love...
...Absence of body to love leads elsewhere to excess...
...Broad Q>ap Briefs Walter Hampden will- give *¦ special matinee of his new play, "The Immortal t Thief," at Hampden's Theatre next Monday Afternoon, tor...
...It has a salty savor...
...Saturday'"New Haven...
...Because of these neat arrangements, the play never achieves that high flow of passion which such a theme must win to, to prevail...
...her beating of the lions that refused to eat her husband, her thirty-six-hour bedrock with the aphrodisiac king...
...Monday...
...The tragedy of...
...In the cast are Antoinette Perry, Vernon Steele...
...S. Schmitt,-* theatre manager, or " "intendant," as he is called, Who is considered one of the very best and most gifted producers ta Germany, A very enterprising man...
...by Deem* Taylor, will premiere duriaf ths month of Music Notes Mfcltotelan Sj-mphonic Choir, un¦Bp direction of Basil* Kibslchich 2Slp»oncert tbl* Sunday afterpoor »!»bin Hall ¦preeoat a V-Wkb of IKdSngs by H TschesMr OretchWt Arch - gkt...
...Bee 4: Manx,"the Polish pianist, Jan...
...Strangely enough, this inevitable duality of att life is th* theme of the second of those two enjoyable plays that are tangled together so cleverly that you can see either to the exclusion of the other, yet knew that both are there...
...pramlere took place te Philadelphia, lent week...
...e • Marcel la Boeseler...
...often no more than two phases of ths same thing, distinct yet inseparable...
...Arabella ta a type ef* the free mind...
...Gilbert aad Sum van's -fahmthe" at the Plymouth* Theatre celebrated its Math performance Monday night...
...and Marguerite D'Alveres, the famous Peruvian contralto, on April 2. vPnyhers and students may secure club subscriptions to six concerts for f 1 at' the office ot the People's Symphony Concerts, as Union square...
...you now have twp tops and two bottoms...
...mini stars of the gospel...
...She wins it with the help of Lonsdale, but, as be represents idea, the knows not how to hold the love be draws...
...K~$+&£ The cast iricludes AUan Price, IAhas Da vies, jack - Sheehaa...
...Madam Sokohriry Fried, Russian pianist...
...Then it shifts, and becomes a paean of wonder at the change In him...
...Msttm-aasaitthuwerf-AahIrsWjCmma...
...The orchestra wfil appear at Carnegie HaH Thursday evening and Friday afternoon, October 2* and J...
...and It in no way bothers those who prefer merely to watch the rippling muscles of the . comedy...
...human lite rises largely from the efforts of these two...
...Th* truth is that neither ever Wholly conquers, but that each mmn play aa sqnsTly important, if not always an equal prominent part, ta a rounded existence...
...A. H. Woods has put Into rehearsal a now play by William Hurlbut, "Hymn to Venus," with ttobort Warwick...
...aa Suns'* ptay shews, tt^ humans ema^tajta the byplays ef tha atmglstrlmt whtab tahd color" and flavor- aad sslfiinm to Ufe, are gone...
...Osesr" Ptaama...
...w...
...Josef Ssigetl, the Hungarian violinist...
...is to be given in the Whitsuntide week next spring—and- given on- a large scale...
...py American opera...
...Lsubentbgl, - frlpiiiudor?: Bender and Whitehlll...
...This new play, "The Ladder," was recently'tried out in the suburbs...
...Pwaww» tag...
...hp»m...
...It brings further Joy of pleasant speculation to those who like to think...
...jnaMbWy has been designed sod L M< by Joseph Urban...
...his companions and their foes, we are awaiting, we are thinking about, the central figure that shall take Its place upon the ultimate triple cross...
...The Patsy," with...
...1st...
...That Savoir Indicates this Is shown hy the return, after the death of Lord Lonsdale, representing intelligence, of a son who- is exactly the same person as the father...
...near Irving place...
...first * thaaj "Three Fairy T*lm"*<MeeHn*rh'"iauproenptu"j (Faare), -and a uiamm'-**) Cbe-pta...
...Claiborne Foster, which played at the Booth Theatre last season, will be the following attraction...
...Sunday, October, 24, the Philharmonic opens) Us...
...there are two persons ready to die, so that be can substitute himself, twice, in their Stead—with lesser 'figures to receive qtber token of his goodness...
...MBNtcy,-' jl SWltroup Kttiii, g-tforsaBSd Borodin, and a folk song WM Sustign, Cxech and Slavic P1 WtU as two English Sengsjpe^lnkham -yrVi make bar WHjt in AeoiiaW...
...ta ant tha' great dramas continuously performed...
...October 23...
...Feb...
...Mafgasiite Phmw...
...There Is no good unless there is bad...
...LvovBBEfLorS...
...cut them apart...
...install a.museum in the lounge of the theatre an Interesting eotleetlon' of Maximilians...
...J. Frank Davis is the author of this latest opus, which will open next Thursday night At the Mansfield Theatre...
...Philadelphia, ¦«prh« SMte" out eon* to Bow taak...
...Th*Apasrican...
...The pure comedy, to start: This is a delightfully risque running merriment over a woman who has been browbeaten into marriage with the lion-tamer who came into her father's circus, and the way in which she ultimately pays him back—and the few other men who seek her...
...The history of the past two thousand years makes the point of the Roman's remark that there will never be many who will act as their official leader and savior, and God has bidden them- and showed them...
...eanlse and Pinza...
...of "Bh*ard' II," that unfortunate and- rather weak king, who has impressed them,, aad the tinge of sentimentality In the play, as well as a certain supers^ndance ot poetic diction...
...a brief' to ' - ta...
...at the Oufld Theatre, the Theatre Guild wis...
...Tuesday...
...and by the lion-tamer's remark that if he diss (as th* lord hopes) be wttl be succeeded by other lion tamers...
...with Rosa Ponselle, Mar¦TTt Matxenauer, Giacomo LeuriWpi, Giuseppe DeLuca, Esio pins* ¦kot) in ths cast...
...Dorothy vThaS •or...
...Op 58 (Beethoven), two ballads by Chopin, 'Toccata" (Ravel), "Flirtation In a Chinese Garden...
...the proprietors of the mines and works...
...Out of the never-ending conflict of these two aspects of Ufe he weaves his drama...
...i "Ood Lova* Us," by J. P. McEvoy win -open- Monday night:at Maxine...
...but the son of'man mm--t.rise.frDm the filth of evil and the >quicksand ef lustt A valiant fight, but eternally lost—rever to be fought again, and thus not wholly lost, but ever tailing, and ever urging up...
...Street Theatre, will be transferred Monday In- Joison's Theatre...
...The King's ¦psnsn...
...Many editions of the book were published In this country and England...
...ataria Patataa, Dennis Moey...
...soprano of th...
...Bochum has, however, in Dr...
...s Miecxysiaw Muna, Polish ptaajm, wffi, play tha following program at Carfisgie Ran next- Friday evening, Sctobw p: SU sonatas (Seartattl), "TMtaisJe" ip C major (B^umann), ¦Msuast" " (tabnnekl...
...M*non" (Maamast...
...It la a ballet,/'Laii Rencontrea," Alfred Oortet win assist as pianist m Cindy's "Seng ef a Freach Mountaineer...
...and (with the.aid ot Claude Bragden) a setting that a moment before was the outside of a catacomb becomes the inside of a wealthy widow's garden, yhe theme, and the grandiose sweep of amotion it calls ' upon, are . also Shakespearean...
...Hgiiu* ths first week at tho MetroIntiu, Oatti-Csssgx* will present bis EAajal-at Mozart* "Die ajauberflote...
...The festival is to be given in Just this part of th* country, in the midst of a population which .1* not aa a whole literary in the academic sense of the word, and not in one of ths university or metropolitan cities...
...Dambi the French lyric tragedienne,'recently brought to this country by the Shuberts, will be'an Imported addition to the production...
...November Jg...
...Hail Friday JBJgf-Wteber...
...Two Plays in One Excellent Double-Barreled Theatre at The Neiik(^nn HE HON TAMER," by AlI fred Savour, eursSsnly presented and scted S* the first bill of the repertory company at th* Neighborhood Playhouse, deserve* two reviews, because tt 1* two plays ta one...
...Woodman Thompson has provided the settings...
...Nina Taraspva, Russian fOBc songs -ta - costume...
...tay evening...
...Shakespearean also Is the swift movement of scene, without indication of time, wherever the play demands...
...Thus the - meaning of the play is carried through its acts...
...Marlus Budnos" In the play...
...StaW TBiu**u" (Schumann), ^Xlebeefeler" (Weingsi lamk -HetatSche AuBcrdmung" (St?«nes), "Les acerta" (Chauason...
...Brock Pemberton Will Present "The Ladder" Next Thursday Now that "Loose Ankles" Is settled for a long run at the Blltmore, Brock Pemberton is turning to another production...
...d. T. S. Miners Go In for Shakespeare ATTPICAL industrial center in Europe, the mining -town ot Bo- chum, In Weetphalfa, a place one might have supposed to be devout of literary and spiritual culture, has arranged to give, next spring, a Shakespeare festival on a scale that will appeal not only to scholars all over Germany, but also to visitors from England and America...
...Nev...
Vol. 3 • October 1926 • No. 40
