DRAMA
-:- -:- DRAMA -:- -:How IsPower Won?' Church and State in Mexico Symbolize Universal Struggle at the Guild Theatre THE problems of society, of the basic impulses of government and control,...
...Egon Brecher...
...Robins...
...They have only impatience, scorn and ultimate abandonment for its • rood alms, "clean washed from heaven...
...BatagM Werrenrath will give hii ¦ons recital at Carnegie Man Sunday afternoon, Oct...
...March |*ad...
...Bernard Oeko, second Louis Kaufman, viola, and JSHt Romaet-Rosanoft, violoncello, "Wfive ther first of a series of three nettata Aeolian HaH...
...Many of the company are new to Broadway...
...to his plea for good-will they retort, "Good-will Is bad politics...
...two Bach |Sers, air on the G string- and fpette in B; Andante from Symphony Jp Minor, by Haydn: Valae Lente mt Piazicato from "Sylvia," by Hei philharmonic ttKTlXXBM MENGELBKRG will fy present a new American work if " at the Philharmonic concert...
...Beatrice Plnkham win give a piano reoital in Aeolian Hall...
...Daisy iiayme," by Georse Kelly...
...Baskolnikeff...
...the s«jdent, Is * radical, burns...
...Rich and Conway Tearle In the leading roles...
...which was scheduled for this Thursday evening...
...Scot, as this will be his'first visit since making- his "three years' tour of the world.' '. ' -' William Morris announces a , novel program for the oomedlaijrywlth* several new songs suo<;os»rully tried out in London...
...y Jacinto Benevep'te, with Eva Le GaTlienne in the leading role of Imperii...
...The English Singers of London will make their appearance at Town Hall this Sunday afternoon, presenting a programme of motets, madrigals and folk-songs of Elizabethan music...
...as Alexander Vershlmtn and Sayre Crawley 'as the army doctor.' 'Three Sisters" wiU also be presented, at 'the Wednesday matinee...
...bomber from "Manon" and another ik "Laklne...
...The performance which the acting ^company of the Theatre Guild gives to this turmoil of Ideas blown in the furnace of character Is, as expected, in keeping with the majesty and dignity and power of the theme...
...Beatrice Terry plays-the part of Olgsa> Rose Hobext wilt be seen as Irina, Egon Brecher...
...Marlyn...
...to his remarks on peace they cry, "Action la the only morality...
...Walter Hampden will present his second play of the season next Tuesday evening at Hampden's Theatre...
...The Messrs...
...a group by Chopin...
...Then the student ' comes la ¦ coatat;t with a poor girl, striving to rear, two younger sisters, the victim of lecherous men, beaten toward starvation and ruin by an unfeeling beast, and in bis horror and- flaming righteous wrath the student kills the scoundrel...
...and neither will you, unless you are growing rasher with ad- | v&ncing years...
...My Official...
...The principal players are Amelia Bingham, Effle Shannon, Julia Hout, Glaudette Colbert...
...as I have evidently got her alive sefiebow, you will have some trouble in "persuading- they world that I went thej wrong way to' work...
...Tuesday evening Miss Le GalUenne win appear as *Masha" in "Three Sisters'* by Tchekov...
...It Is true that the author seta his forces on display, rather than opposing totem in actual conflict...
...Is strong and into dramatisation -as "The Humble" fair Laurenoa Irving at the Greenwleh Village Theatre...
...Krugsr aW lladg...
...Margot Kelly, Marion Kirby, Frieda Inescourt, Elmer Grandin, Frank Green, Irving Mitchell, Malcolm Fassett, Edward Favor, Mrs...
...Others in the cast lanjfwje M^fftjUA Herbert qiark/ Joseph AHen, Lue^, Moera and John Dlggs-V •^sdTTfcat "OV' 5urt o^Awiiitack's ibejtfbrV wiU-bn^fW lottowJng atBroadway Briefs /nek Beany, one "of the principals In the...
...as the Archbishop, Arnold Daly, Margalo Gillmore, and the many others were a cast that gave every opportunity for the emphasis the <play requires...
...Th*' Ladder...
...Albertina Ranch's "Dance Romance," Eddie and Morton Beck, Racine and Ray, assisted by Fred Lloyd...
...For this kindly man succumbs to the leader who is not good, but right, knowing that right is the) ultimate good...
...life wtH move onward through equality and love...
...Originally pro-, duced in Dublin, with success, if^was later transferred to London, where It ran for more than a'season...
...who r#i-jri»j bchtiminn'a concerto in Jk...
...Perhaps Diaz, the shrewd and sturdy general, was close to the heart of all social philosophy when he analyzed the failure of Maximilian and he said: "He came with an idea...
...Instead of more cautious...
...he should have come with joy...
...from the newest musical offerings "KatX'vrtOch opened Monday night at the 44th Street Theatre...
...A full understanding of the play and a renewal- of the pleasure and stimulation it supplies calls for the reading, as maay will wish to read, of the acting version in excellent translation by Ruth Langner...
...The fundamental fallacy—or one—in the theory of Maximilian is that the benevolent despot may have his moments of weakness, of lapse from kindliness...
...have for...
...to dramatize her, to florlfy her, vilify her and diagnose her...
...Basil Sydney brings- an- Intelligence and power to the part of-the student that Mary Bills contrasts with a quiet "emotion, * deep simplicity -as the...
...implies superiority - and tends toward bate...
...girl...
...rBelen LoweB, Guthrie McCHnUc and Kwneth'M*ca*»smnV ; at Al Jolson-s Theatre, wlU sod its ensTisjsiininl on October openinsr the toliowteav Monday in PhMdelphia...
...She's My Daisy...
...There Is apmebbdy...
...Shubert will present "The Pearl of Great Price," by Robert McLaughlin, at the Century Theatre, Monday night, November 1. "The Pearl of Great Price" will be presented as a drama-spectacle...
...Macdowell...
...Mtsa, Foster, Is seen...
...The production has bean staged by J. C. Huffman...
...five numbers by Anton Webern and the Maurice Ravel Quartet...
...Sir Harry will be accompanied by a -company of imported and American- entertainers...
...The leaders of the Mexican people, in terms that are curiously familiar these recent years, terms that recur in every uprising of the people to mock those whose memory stretches to the last, cry that the reign of the capitalist class, of the power of wealth and of clergy, is at an end...
...As In other seasons...
...jBftber numbers include Symphony jBm'hk D, foUbwed .by Cortot...
...Alan -Birmingham, Leena Roberts...
...There is more than the usual'Interest-In the famous singing...
...to the eon of his sensitive nature b£ the hesgahty of .men sold the stupidity, lusts «nd sornlfinesa i>T'society...
...pardesty Johnson, for his song- res|W at Stelnway Hall Tuesday evetm, has selected a group by Robert SJHe, Henry Puree]], Grieg-, Henri Dusjb, Richard Strauss, Elgar (2), and Mrard Horsman...
...Sidney Sllber, pianist, will give hit debut recital at the Town Hall Tuesday aftern6on...
...and she has beaten them all...
...This-will be the first time this play has been given'In English in New' York...
...One such moment of pride: leads' to his signing the murderous order against the Mexican ' patriots...
...Sunday- afternoon :'at the Mnxlrie KUiott win...
...Bonis, the girl, who has come to Raskolnikoff and 1 found him the one-well of sympathy- in her misfortunes, learns of his deed from him, arid turns away in terror...
...tad sea** of v^^^mr^^^y^ tun mmm^ee^e^^JnmVVini'0ije Wt»nd u» bsV*J4trin*Uc*oa.«-l*t him who is without-, sta -east the' first stone...
...Is the ruler a country should have...
...jfcg and Wasn«r's "The UAsterjE program will be repeated at rf opening concert In Mecca AudltStm Sunday afternoon, October SI...
...tatalkovsky's Fifth Symphony will hi played at the opening concert of ftp Philharmonic Brooklyn series this Malay afternoon at the Academy of SJMe...
...The symposium of !>Vo* Loves Us...
...sic Notes |»l de Baun, soprano, at Aeolian |p Sunday afternoon, October 24, will all her program with songs by ¦art, Schubert, Blech, Bach, Staub...
...I have deliberately abstained from learning in this matter, so that I might the easier get into Joan's skin, and not Into that of her'historians...
...two numbers by [•Jar: "Brklonlar," Schubert-Usst: "La WSpawella...
...he Bashes to recegniso that we who judge are thereby Judged, that the evil man Is equally a victim, that love alone can'ultimately win order and' beauty and happiness for the world, and freely, he...
...Joan of: Arc...
...The merit of the performers In no small measure, contributes to .the effect of the stirring play...
...The Mongadors, Fred Kinsley, and "Toytown...
...The Ring and the Book...
...taniily, a' bit of > madcap and a tilt i of Ciadewffla...
...the Church Insists that the teachers in the schools of Mexico be chosen from the monks...
...The program includes the j£p.ce of the Gods Into Valhalla, ajgWagner's "Rhelagold...
...Out of the shrewd' web spun by the acute and crafty magistrate, whose record for confessions is unsurpassed, the student staggers...
...Rose HpbaJrt, J. Ssyre Crawley...
...I'm llookhV for a Bonnie Lass Tae Love Me," 'The'.'Boss- o' th' Hoose" and "Susie Maclean...
...rings with* a profound reality...
...Bora of royal family, wrapped in imperial traditions, the Emperor Maximilian comes from Hapsburg to Mexico with the best of Intentions—"I want, with all my kindness, to help the world"—but with a philosophy imposed upon him by his birth and breeding, the idea that good can be set upon a people from above, that a kindly monarch, a benevolent despot...
...In Barry, Conners' comedy, whi* played at the Booth altfof last season...
...This man, with his genuine, though shallow, ideals...
...Tuesday ev» adng...
...Monday evening...
...lv»n for snbsesjbars of the Actors) Theatre this...
...fas atuslcal Art Quartet, a new enjdjBo consisting of Sascha Jacobsen, ¦*$- vktuhist...
...The Immortal Thief," playing at Hampden's Theatre, will continue In the Mil with "Caponsacchl," to be followed later by Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People...
...I have been more wary...
...gCaraegie Hall on Tburaday evening |g Friday afternoon...
...Hampden presented this play on tour several seasons ago under the title of "The Ring of Truth...
...Hales Wt-^y, J^t^Yili'ialMa,' J. C. Nugent...
...The photoplay attraction will toe tne first showing of...
...In complete disregard of his aims and ideals they maneuvre about him for the advantage of their personal or party schemes...
...cast of "The *veat Temptations...
...Brock Pem,berton's production...
...The struggle 'for freedom Is fought, not on the battlefield, but in the school...
...Felix Salmond, the English 'cellist will present his only New Tork recita at Town Hall Tuesday evening...
...Thin Sunday's prograsn win Include acta...
...Judgment...
...Walt" ing for Me" and other ohi favorites will be...
...puts on the mask of liberal Ideas when it approaches America...
...The film feature next week, is "The Midnight Lovers," with Lewis Stone and Anna Q. Nil Is on...
...another keept him a voluntary marcher toward hit death...
...17 and twelve studies of Chopin, Fred Shade, sixteen-year-old violinist, will make his debut Wednesday afternoon at Aeolian HalL Harriet van Emden will appear in song recital next Saturday evening at Aeolian Hall...
...wfU open this Friday evenin* at the Mansfield Theatre...
...Do not the white teachers fn China.now-find employment through the missionary societies...
...NovemberiM, the first performance thhr season of The Master Builder," by Ibsen, with Miss L» tlsTlienne as "Hilda," wtt'^SlrW...
...n. Toseba Seidel...
...Toto, the clown...
...you can only reconcile them," they wave the bloody sword...
...I simply arranged what I found there for the stage, relying on Joan .to pun, me - through, which she dM.: . "Of course, I shall read whatever yon write with interest, and you can hardly suppose that.-after forty years of controversy, I am turning thinskinned...
...Brown...
...already published in the $1 Guild Series- by Simon and Schuster...
...Who Shall Judge...
...to his cry, "You cannot kill opposites...
...Paul'Layssac, Ruth Wilton, Beatrice de Neergaard, Sydney Machat and Hardie Albright...
...Wife," with Irene...
...This drama, which may seem,to end, in Che telling, In sentimental platitudes, in lirt anB on the stage...
...gives himself...
...Mengelberg will conduct the naming Philharmonic Students" Conaiit of the season, the program lnoWis Bloch's "Israel" Symphony, BMrard Hanson's "Pan and the rjjsjt," nr fl Tchaikovsky's March Slav...
...Other works on the program u» tie B flat Symphony of J. C. Bach, Btasat's "Pan and the Priest," and nab.ezcerpta from Berlios's "DamaaftWnt Faust...
...Several other new works representing the young French school and a a amber of Spanish ajgnkroiurht hack by Demrosoh from...
...but their successive presentation wins to drama in the study of the dominant characters — Maximilian...
...She goes to-her simple devotion, her fundamental faith, for advice, and out of her pondering and weeping comes to the conclusion that Raskolnlkoff must ' give himself up, must atone by confessing, must admit his guilt to save the two accused...
...and Juarez, never seen on the stage, the even, Implacable spirit of right, moving to that final triumph which must come...
...He-hits-publiahed an Article.on...
...Other acts Include: Frank Davis and Lathi Darnell, Jimmy Lyons, Frank Dobeon and Company and Watts and Hawley...
...To the French, to the clergy L (after he refuses to abandon Juares's liberal policy) he is both a cat's-paw and a scapegoat, a tool and a victim...
...Al\ Irish Players in "Autunui Fire" at the Klatv John L. Shine well present his allIrish players in /T...
...Lfew Reed and Paul Le Vere, Arthur Bryson and Strappy Jones, and The Aurora Troupe...
...and "Hungarian RhapHr, No...
...the" spirit alone will triumph in the end...
...Mkelai Orleff, Russian pianist, WIS •Ohkhis debut here at Aeolian Hall Mat Thursday evening...
...Others in the cast are Beatrice Terry...
...revived...
...William Favesham, Florence Pendleton, John Nicholson, Marcella Swanson, Richard Temple, Millie James, Helen Tucker...
...by Usst...
...October 22d...
...Murray's new play, "Autumn Fire...
...Mr...
...The Mexicans sneer at him, declaring that' all royalty (have we not nearer Instance...
...I took the only documents that are of-the smallest value—the report of the process and that of the rehabilitation...
...hia vanity is touched when his idealism is not recognized or Is rebuffed...
...J. T. 8. "The Paisy" at Bronx Opera House Monday "The Patsy," produced by Richard Herndon and staged by Allah Dine-' hart, comes to the Bronx Opera .House, fop'oner week, com- [ mepcing ' Monday, wfth Clsiboroe Foster as the sfar...
...The production was staged-by George Vivian, ...» Civic Repertory Players Oppt Monday at iheH4th St...
...ra master of carsssoni»> at the Winter Gavden's Sunday night aosjeerts...
...Maximilian himself has a great weakness...
...Henry T. Finck, dean of American music critics, wbo^dled recently in Maine, had Just passed upon the last page proofs of his autobiography, The Golden Ago ofTaTttsleV' which his publishers, Funk and Wagnails, will issue this month...
...theatre The-opening prodnetlon of the Ciyic Repertory Theatre's schedule 'of' ten plays, which begins...
...It Is "Caponsacchl," a play bey Arthur Goodrich and Rose A. Palmer, baaed upon Robert Browning's dramatic narrative poem...
...writers have tried to explain her and to account for her...
...Alfred Limt, whom the Guild is over-stressing, was a bit too indecisive for his part as Maximilian, but Edward G. Robinson as Diaz, Clare Eames as the Empress, Dudley Dlgges (splendid Dudley Dlgges...
...Is beset with every sort of enemy, especially among those who seem most friendly...
...jj—ytbi» eummer will have a.place 23fcr programs...
...Ignas Friedman wfcl glvo » plane recital neat Saturday afternoon at Aeolian Hall, when he will play the baeh-uast tfentaala, ami fogs in q minor, Schumann's Fhent*A«le tron Op...
...and Man ns forebear not meYeSy to' punish, but also to Judge...
...Splendid Performance of Searching Drama at, the Crcenvnch Village IW1 ,term not in the Mm...
...not understand her...
...the people henceforth shall take their rightful place...
...But "there comes a time In the life of every Idealist when he can or does commit murder...
...George Bernard Shaw apparently thinks It not necessary...
...he tells Professor Char lee Sarolea in a letter recently made public . in "The English Review" that he did...
...Boss He Stewart SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23,1926 Page 9 :-: music :-: Damrosch to Lead Opening Concert Next Friday jaitalter OAJOtOaCH ttdtt* hf New Tork Symphony ereheiw tra will make their tat apjun of the Mm m Carnegie Sattt Friday evening...
...The compaar* includes Josephine Hun...
...Lots of...
...Shaw SHOULD a playwright understand his subject before launching out...
...he senses the depths of her love tor him and of bes faith in the God that Is good that la within us an...
...Is announced to open at The Playhouse Moaday night...
...The League of Composers, at their first concert next Thursday evening at Town Hall, will present the ProVolte Quartet, Messrs...
...The assistins *ftlat wlH be Alfred CortoC The opening- program will have a nnr work, a suite, de ballet, "t<as RancontM*,* by Jacques Ibert, a rmmt French composer...
...PALACE Anna Case, concert star...
...Marie Cahill, with Robert Farley...
...Does .not Mexico today, fifty years after the time of Juarez, have again to fight the olden battle...
...which will alternate with the other two plays...
...Vaudeville Theatres MOSS' BROADWAY Elizabeth Brice, the musical comedy star, with Frank Kessler and His Music Weavers, will be the vaudeville headline, beginning Monday, at B. S. Moss' Broadway...
...Friday evening, and Saturday matinee...
...he has faced the third degree, as gruesome/ a spell as one can well imagine, and come out wrung but defiant, unconfassed...
...Harry Lauder Back Again Monday Night at the Century Harry Lauder's American tour opens at the Century Monday night, where hev'will ~ remain but one week...
...Walter Hampden to Present "CaponsacchT Tuesday Eve...
...Bp rest of the program includes tilth's "Israel" Symphony, the Moaart pbwjor violin concerto, played by Mr...
...Few-move seaiehl— -devnlepea—ia~of these ideas and...
...jfi Srst of the season's Symphony Sotrt* for Children will be held sjkday morning, October 10 la CargS Hall...
...Says G. B. Si: . "I do not profess to understand Joan of Arc...
...They include Julie Hartley -Milburn, Una O'Connor, Caroline Morrison, Lloyd Neal, Felix Irwin, Molly * Hartley-Milburn and .'George Pughe...
...Saturday Night" will be repeated on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings...
...Then he faces the calm faith of Sonia...
...Yet it requires no more than the passing of the Most Reverend Archbishop to reveal these republicans, these free ! souls, groveling, kissing a garment's • hem...
...what matter if his body be free...
...Of an excellent cast.'building an (unblemished whole, Sydney -Greenstreet as the examining magistrate Imposes himself...
...Monday evening with "Saturday Night...
...Or, as the Archbishop puts It, "You cannot' feed these simple people with ' democratic fdlditortals...
...The settings, by Livingston Piatt are perhaps a little less sordid than one expects of Russian "humble" folk, but they1 sink unobtrusively into the effect of as deeply appealing a play as the season-has tiros far granted...
...1; Arthur Honegger, "Paques a New Tork," with Mine Hager, soprano...
...a Riddle, .....Says Bernard...
...the fullvisioned idealist, with the inevitable weaknesses of idealism, working to his unavoidable doom...
...The Pearl of Great Price" At Century Theatre Nov...
...the naase erf> nitigie—¦ why may not an individual, for purposes he deems righteous, with ecjnal Justice set death wRhin his hanss...
...The problems pointed in this drams of Franz Werfel's reach to the bottom of society, and shake it in its deeps...
...Renee Robert and Jay Velle, featuring Violet Bache and Luise Blackburn...
...A. Onnou, L Halleux A. Prevost and R. Maas, In the following- program: Be la Bartok, Quartet No...
...John Garrett Underbill made 'the translation...
...Rita Delmar and Marie Delys...
...War has never settled anything but the personal question of the lives of Its victims...
...next Saturday evening- at Carnegie SdL Mr...
...sjfttl, and Tchaikovsky's March Slav...
...the c»naequences_oJ their sincere embodiment can" be found than, "Crime and Punishment," of the tortured- Dostoievsky...
...But I warn you that I have, no theory about Joan, and understand' her no more than I understand myself...
...When a man's soul is subject...
...Evans...
...DRAMA -:- -:How IsPower Won?' Church and State in Mexico Symbolize Universal Struggle at the Guild Theatre THE problems of society, of the basic impulses of government and control, raised in Werfel's play, "Juarez and Maximilian," at the Guild Theatre, are so basic, and so wide In their implications, that no thoughtful person should miss their stimulation...
...for, although ho wrote "Saint Joan...
...Alma...
...violinist, win appear tn recital this Saturday afternoon" at Carnegie HalL Paul KochansKt violinist, next Saturday afternoon, at Carnegie Hall, will play two Bach compositions, BelartlnJ Moaart and Godowsky selections and three novelties...
...It Is a "Poem" ft violin and orchestra by Tempteton Itang, with Joseph Ssig-ett as soloist...
...Jessie BnaWB Hbmer B. aim...
...ag"- Patricia, the younger daughter of, the Harrington...
...for a mumbled blessing...
...prhe Johanson, Swedish pianist, •jter debut recital at Aeolian- Han Sjlneaday evening, plays this pro* aiiu: Two sonatas Pastorale, by sgmoven...
...speakersHelen Arthur of tan Nejghboriiood, Psiyhonae, Edward Goodman...
...HIPPODROME Harry M. Snodgrass, Ann Codee, with Frank Orth...
...Its weapons .are more Insidious than the prick ' of swords, the tearing gash of bullets, the smother of gas...
...It requires ten scenes and a cast of 200, with a ballet of forty, which will be headed by Alexis Kosloff...
...the-riga*.** haaalcide, arguing that if the state, for Us "righteous" purposes.^ pW \ take* jw> and yearly sacrifice tboasBjcds ofTives of'laborers in...
Vol. 3 • October 1926 • No. 41
