AMUSEMENTS
Amusement D R A M A In the Russian Theatres I788IAN newspapers and maga". wer* sines advertise a riot of historjj*^ ical and biographical plays that Makes Americans' enthusiasm...
...Was he just one of the ¦thew men who had intelligence enough Rol make his characters act so like ^tttintn beings that even the stiff and fstilted -English ot Mr...
...I was moved by the magnificent ensemble acting and high£jy Intelligent performance of" tnfi" "'Actor's .company...
...that In whic hthe daughter of Indra, shrouded In a cavern with her body darkly silhouetted against the whir...
...The cosmopolitan character of the audience at the Port Saint Martin Is an indication of "Cyrano's" wide appeal...
...DRAMA TOM POWER It the new Captain BlunltchU in "Arm* and the Man...
...One of the Family" will move from the Klaw Monday night, taking up new quarters at the Eltinge Theatre...
...The libretto deals with the Pugachcv revolt, in tbe reign of Catherine II...
...course, there are new- plays, a few, hot out of the oven, whose scenes are not laid in the past of barbaric Ryssia or that are not reminiscence or projection ot the social revolutionary straggle either in Russia or Europe...
...At the death of her father, Magda gives a cry that springs from deepwelling emotion: "Why did I ever leave home...
...Butte, "Puicin411a," Stravinsky...
...my Emily Stevens add\ another to her jsgemarhablf performances in her char-i i. acterisation of tbe restless, feline, 'utterly bored wife ot .the professor...
...The inevitable tragedy follows his discovery that she has not trod pie strict line of ihlddle-class vlrjjje, and that she refuses to marry tbe scoundrel who is ready now tor profit by her celebrity and "make amends...
...Hbw Strong Are Home Ties...
...Gethsemane...
...Tbe Grand Dramatic Theatre of Leningrad, continues the Moscow correspondent of the "Christian Science Monitor" advertises a play called "The Bavolt...
...They act ijgjiwmai;, they act real because they are" Mteal...
...by Mozart...
...The Shaw comedp has passed t'U f50th performance at the Carrick...
...12** ** » "matinee on Friday with gg...
...The complete program for the concert Is as follows: Bymphfao* No...
...Every word, every "tptpnattop...
...j Walter Jaaseen ^conducted the vor-" chest ra for the incidental music which he has composed for John Golden'i production rat Mare Connelly's comedy...
...An^ •ther play with the same title ,"1905,"f made up of folklore and propaganda "materials, runs at the Readers Theatre In Moscow...
...Mueller...
...Cyrano de Bergerac" in - Paris—Hampden to Revive It Here February 15 FROM Paris comes word that "Cyrano de Bergerac" haa re, turned to its stage birth-place and met with a reception hardly less enthusiastic than that which marked Its first appearance twenty-eight years ago...
...Hayes...
...BourBiW Me««rs...
...The score is based entirely on folksongs and-'dances current among the people about the peasant revolts of the eighteenth century...
...The play deals with the • Struggles of the enthusiastic young members of an agricultural commune With the peasants around them, who cling stubbornly to the old ways and .will not accept the young zealots as prophets, much leas as friends, 'The Importance of this play," says one of the critics...
...Frank Conroy as the lawyer friend of the family, and the willing third angle to a family triangle, is very good...
...W. M. F. THE NEW PLAYS MONDAY (THE BEATEN TRACK...
...Elystad is beautiful", distracted and most manifestly ? kind ot a woman who would inspire a man like Lovborg dowrite his masterpiece...
...NEW YOflK SYMPHONY Roland Hayes will be the soloist at the concert of tie New Tort Symphony...
...Magda" Revived m a'Strong Performance by Bertha Kalich at 49th Street Theatre THE revival of Budermann'a "Home," or 'Magda," as it is called in translation, gives Bertha Kalich her best part of recent years, and brings another attitude to the several current dramas that work the contrast between the artist and his fellow-men as material for the stage...
...Hedda Gabler" was first produced Just 35 years ago this month, long before the jargon of a science most of its devotees cannot understand *.was ever heard...
...The Night DueC Will Open {^00 Mantfield Theatre The Mansfield Theatre, New York's newest playhouse, will open its doors Monday, February j!6, with Marjorie Rarabeau In "The Night Duel," a new play by Daniel Rubin...
...It is by Ralph Spence...
...Recent productions of T*he Theatre* Guild and The Provincetown Playhouse approach from various angles tile theme Sudermann handles In "Magda," the problem of the adjustment of the artist to his environment Sudermann directly opposes a provincial bourgeois society and a woman who haa risen from its conventions and prejudices to a sincere, full life as an artist...
...Pwho is so absorbed In his scholarship Jr-'that he doesn't see what is going on t'Mder his nose...
...The Manifesto" and The Revolutionary Outbreak...
...A new Stay in the Ukrainian Btngoage by 'Mulish, "Communists on the Steppes," '4m billed at the Dramatic Theatre of Kharkov...
...Bosh...
...Both physiology and psychology today teach us that pleasure is the natural accompaniment of proper functioning...
...To,0*nlnJ wlu be *iv8n |^^*SW«rmonlc Orchestra this Hy "iiat and Sunday efterKBwCtnwgU Hall...
...of her flexible voice, every gesture, every Impatient motion of her eloquent limbs carries a world of meaning...
...Basil Rath bone, . • Alison Skipwortb, Susanna Bennett and George Thorpe are in the • ,T*CLTJ BELLE...
...J2**«i...
...Jeanne Laval, contralto...
...miming events that occurred in...
...Sam Bernard, George Jessell, Harry Cooper, Louis Mann, William Oollier and the Four Marx Brothers abd their company...
...The Leningrad Opera bills new productions of "DonJuan" and "Kidnapped From the Serall...
...Noted Artists at Jetvish Theatrical Guild Benefit Sunday Many stage and concert celebrities will take part in U...
...days in the town...
...FRANKLIN Monday to Wednesday—Volga Singers, Trahan A Wallace, Boreo Ensemble, other acts...
...The soloists will be Ruth -Rodger*,' Marjorto Nash', sopranos...
...The description of the play ^Sounds absurd, for it is "made uuj .largely of quotations from Lenin and Gorky...
...No single American event in years occupied the space in the Russian press...
...he is much like any of a hundred men we might know...
...P^t^fla Gabler" a Triumph Victors* Theatre Players Give Glorious Performance of Ibsen at Comedy Theatre THE production of Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" by the Actor's Theatre company at the Comedy Theatre ''eat 41st street is a triumph.- It is a triumph in which there is glory enough • tor all...
...The program includes songs by Haydn, Bach* Bishop...
...Eg*nsr and Messrs...
...The first showing of "The Midnight Limited," a melodrama of the railroads, will be shown next week, beginning Monday...
...Louis Calhera as Lovborg is wistful)and convincing...
...It is recalled that its'original premiere of twenty-eight years ago produced a reaction considered unique even for the impressionable French audiences, the applause prolonging the performance until long after midnight...
...Demroech will conduct the eh ones of 1(100 male voices...
...Le Maire will be aided—by Joe Phillips in "The Osteopath...
...Mn>e...
...All this does not mean that the old classics are not being given, nor that a steady fare of Shaw plays and Straus operas are not to be had...
...Spence has also contributed to the films, having written some of Harold Lloyd's hits...
...THE JAT WALKER," a play of American life by Olga PrinUIau...
...Loney Haskell and others...
...Galli-Curci, Branfad Xandt and Messrs...
...E^Wygiaents' Concert thla SatBJ^g#rWin constitute the folibfc Overture to "Earyan¦B^SgJEg Symphony No...
...Charles Bryant is the producer...
...Three Negro spirituals, Mr...
...W. L. Broadt»av Briefs Richard Herndon's production of "Up the Line," the Harvard prize play by Henry Fisk Carlton .which was announced to open here next Monday evening, will extend its out-of-town engagement for several weeks before coming here...
...rill move next Week*to the Mazine EUlott...
...Jeanetto Vreeland...
...Cast, direction, settings—and text of the play—go to make up a treat for playgoers' that will not soon be forgotten...
...State way Hall Tuesday evening...
...The presy entation has one advantage over the reading: it affords tbe scenic pleasure of some excellent moments...
...In the company are FYank McCormack, Clifford Dempsey, Betty Weston, Robert Strange, Frederick Truesdell, Arthur Beaston, Harry Hermson, Augustus Minton, Joseph Guthrie, Harry A. Ward, George Spelvin and Doan Borup...
...The conflict of ideas is dramatized, not in the argument < f the characters, but in the action of the two groups animated by vastly dlfferfent ideologies-" i; The nnniversary day of the 1905 •ehsvolution was celebrated at the Revoabttonary Theatre in Moscow by a play sailed "1905" by Naslmovitch, an historical revile in three parts, entitled *9th of January...
...her purification through Are and hei* return to the kingdom above, with her final recognition that the poet alone of men is able to lift clear at times of tbe mire and rise to challenge or reproach or approach understanding of the gods...
...Galll-Curcl...
...Anna Pltmu will appear as soloist of the Associated Glee Clubs of America in their concert on February t, at toe Seventy-first Regiment Armory...
...Anna Q. Nilsson and Lionel Barry inure In "The Splendid Road...
...Telve and Messrs np1...
...what *** st- Petersburg, flying the'imperial eagle, and ls\>ow Leningrad, flying the red flag, with its hammer and sickle: A new opera by Pastehenke called "The Bagle Revolt" has been produced at the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theatre...
...Was Ibsen a seer...
...Beneath this surface, however, the two standards of living are seething...
...This is tbe initial offering .of the Playgoers, an association ot a number of friends at the theatre...
...it is a point ot view we will not take toward life...
...the musical comedy comedian, who recently left the cast of "Sweetheart Time," will return to vaudeville Monday at Moss' Broadway Theatre...
...If every there was a person ' boiling over with suppressed desires, There we have it...
...Dudley Dlgges is Professor George Teaman, bland, self-centered, so absorbed in hls*Vork that whtn Hedda, in her last despairing, bored gesture shoots herself he is not so much shocked as utterly astonished as to the reason for her act...
...fjjiSii '- * - Hfl"1 Bartered Bride" will open ™* fifteenth Wetit of the MetBjjff* topelitan Maaon , Monday jlgJ>l*JUs Mme...
...Debussy, Three Symphonic Sketches, "La Mer...
...Dlgges for his lnspiringly in-telligent direction...
...Furtwaengler'e first appearance •f the season will take place Thursday night at Carnegie Hall, where he will conduct the Brahms Symphony* No...
...Martucci (a) Noeturno, (b) Novellette...
...Frieda Rem pel will give her sons...
...Miss Kalich holds the stage with power, and deapite the ratJter theatrical way in which ajithor preoares' her entrance—she does not come, on until the second act, and then with as much fanfare as in "Enter Madame"— she wears a manner that makes her part true and sympathetic...
...Accident of concert tours brings Magda to her home 'town for a music festival...
...she, too, has a struggle before consenting to stay with the family tor her' few...
...the select families of the town pay their respects to the famous singer — and discover the, daughter whom Colonel Schwartx had long ago disowned i. - - y After a struggle against his pride, the.father accepts his daughter...
...j^P •»b*r of Seville," Thursday ^PjlwJta Mm...
...will be presented Tuesday night by David Belasco at the Belasco ¦ Theatre...
...Demian Bedny, Trotsky and others," but people attend it, and In Moscow, as elsewhere, the empty house • j* supposed to be drama's one worst |L- The Second Studio of...
...All in all the production is one of the finest things we hare ever had...
...for Emily Stevens and Dudley | Dlgges 'and Patricia Collinge for Superb performances in the...
...Or was he just Out of the very few men whose mind ,.>ou'.d peer into the human soul and ¦yjnderstand.it...
...Darn Bed do*, tenot, and Louis Graveure, baritone...
...Provost are -the stars...
...Duel De Kerekjarto...
...a new play by Edward Sheldon and Charles Mac Arthur...
...her journey through the world, to see misery everywhere, even at the core oL,happlness...
...This much everyone gathers, and, interpreting "poet" in the wide sense of feeling, understanding man, everyone accepts...
...This Sunday afternoon Mr...
...Ho will maintain his selfrespect and understanding, rising beyond both the stupid self-assertion of the Henley, "I am the captain of my soul...
...y^WBttjr night's concert will be yy.bwiaflt of the opera EmerBg"- Mme...
...Moscow $krt Theatre commemorates tbe i twentieth anniversary Qf.tne 1905 upheaval with a play called "Petersburg...
...which deals with a Whit" Guard conspiracy in which the former ptssrist officer Liperkovsky and the Revolutionary Ruzayev figure...
...Ibsen ||gives us human beings and it really I doesn't matter if they don't say "So's Btyeur old man," and make wise cracks Bethout the Volstead act...
...The despairing Strindberg cries again and again, "Man is to be pitied...
...by J. O. Francis, will be presented by Gustav Blum Monday night at the Frolic Theatre...
...Walter Hampden will revive "Cyrano de Bergerac" during the week of February 15 at Hampden's Theatre...
...at Aeolian Halt Grace Christie, the originator of the Bubble dance and the exponent of Bemto mask character dances, will give a dance recital at the'Booth Theatre on the afternoon of Feb...
...The Gorilla" Returns to The Bronx Opera House m "The Gorilla," the satire on the mystery play craze, which played on Broadway, Chicago, Boston, London, Bar is and Berlin, will return for another week beginning Monday night to the Bronx Opera House, presented by the original cast...
...Save for some spots where the Idea is given effective dialog, is trite and somewhat baring...
...Yet we know that this outburst is not her deepest and most permanent feeling, for her child and her career, and the wealth of her being, are ultimately the highest value she knows...
...LaurlJgJeeVs of th« Madonna," WedjjP*.evening with Mm«» Jaritaa...
...PORT V LONDON," by George W. Oliver, will be offered by W. Herbert '. Adams at Daly's 6 Jrd Street Theatre Tuesday night...
...Archer's translation does not prevent them from - being the most gloriously alive people "We have on the stage today...
...Alma Rubens and X>-"i«-Stone in, "Fins Clothes/' "The Dream Play" Slrindberg's Drama Is a Philosophical Outpouring at the Provincetonm Playhouse f I "iHAT...
...on a stormy sea beyond, stretches In supplication^ to her father-god...
...recital Tuesday evening at Carnegie Hall...
...He died before the psuedo-lntelligentia began' to play With suppressed desires and inferiority complexes...
...The Right Age to Marry," wyh Mr...
...Kalich's revival of "Magda," now...
...at the Elliott, will be transferred to the 49th Street Theatre...
...of Indra's daughter come to dwell among men, to learn of their ways and to help by sharing their burdens...
...Aria, "81 Mostra la sort...
...Stravinsky, excerpts from "Petrouchka...
...Vaudeville Theatres MOSS' BROADWAY George Le Maire...
...Ten Dollars' a Lesson," a new sketch by Herman Tim berg, with Herman Berrens and Mile Fin...
...Cafe Madrid," a Spanish revue.'and "other vaudeville acts hre on tbe program...
...Raymond Koch, a baritone from Chicago, will make his debut on Tuesday afternoon ftt Aeolian Hall...
...Screen," a five-kopek graphic magazine with a hundred thousand,circulatIon' attained .in leas _ than a year...
...The program win be repeated Friday afternoon...
...and no courageous man desires pity, despite the burdens which the world may heap upon bim...
...Bgctoila," Friday evening Vita ¦"^Uftea-Todsen, Bransell and ^Hr ****** er> Schorr...
...for the Actor's •^theatre for their courage in giving ¦Us this production...
...The performance of Mendelssohn's "Elijah" by the Ofctorio Society, under the direction of Albert Stoassei, In' Carnegie Hall next Kriday evening will mark th« -fiftmtti anniversary of the first performance of this oratorio By that society...
...T«lu an* idukenthal, Behnen...
...the play...
...other acts...
...Although present day' critics are more restrained than those who saw the original opening they point out that few care to challenge Emile Fauget's declaration that "Cyrano" la the "greatest dramatic poem of the last fifty years...
...Pastoral.'* Beethoven...
...1, in C ItfSAbeta, Contemplative i Poem...
...Orchestra, in Mecca Auditorium this Sunday afternocW He « will sing a group of spiritual* and sin aria by Mozart Klemperer will perform Beetho ven- a Pastoral Symphony and Stravinsky's Suite "Pulclnella...
...The house is named in honor of Richard Mansfield...
...It has a seating capacity of 1.125, and its architectural scheme is Spanish...
...Martlnelll, Denis...
...Shatter...
...The Merchant of Venice" will close next Saturday night...
...The va., rious acts will be introduced by Bertha HBjMch, Robert Warwick, Wilton Lackave, Mary Nash, Grant Mitchell, Florence Reed...
...Three will be built on Forty-'ocrth and: Forty-fifth streets, hot we Broadway and Btghth MUSIC #N» of the MaHonna" vith «* Metropolitan on Wed...
...Vladimir Droxdqff, Russian pianist and composer, will give a recital this Sunday evening at Aeolian Hall...
...Whltehill, Pullta, yHr** Hardenes will sing...
...Boasted that the first pictures of Dar)row, Malone, Bryan and Scopes to arrive by ahplane from Germany appeared in their weekly...
...and Mrs- Coburn as its stars, opened Monday In Atlantic City...
...Gaston Glass, Wanda Hawley and Richard, Holt are featured in - the cast...
...Feb...
...was plctorialty as be>teffiful as any dramatic moment we have seen...
...i, Beethoven's, "Egmont" overture, "Bine kletne Nachtmuaik," by Jfcaart, and Wagner's "Meisterslnger" Prelude...
...Trade-union papers, peasant papers, alike, carried news stories, leaders and feuilletons on the subject, and one school teachers'^ union even raised a. purse^of chervonetz to send to the Scopesdefense fund, and were only deterred by an American visitor who assured^them that many prominent Americans had anonymously contributed plenty to the fund already...
...for Mr...
...Jean Coqueiin, M. Francen and Mile...
...phantasmagorical product I s of the days when one is not -™" sure whether August Strlndberg was Mad or merely maddened by the horror of the world that ate its way like slow poison into bis being, "The Dream Play," has been given fullest opportunity to reveal Its deep significance by the sympathetic handling* at the Provincetown Playhouse...
...She is sw*et, tem*er and devoted...
...Those who will take part Include George M.ltohan...
...opens ' at the Kmw Theatre Monday night, presented by Benjamin F. Witbeck- The cast includes Mary Daniels, Curtis Cooksey and Janet Adair...
...Patricia Collinge as Mrs...
...Mr...
...Amusement D R A M A In the Russian Theatres I788IAN newspapers and maga". wer* sines advertise a riot of historjj*^ ical and biographical plays that Makes Americans' enthusiasm for Spading up Americana seem a mild interest in their personal past...
...i Bmilio de Gogorta will Sing at both the Young People's Coneert in Carnegie Hall next Saturday afternoon (February II) and the Sunday afternoon concert in Mecca Auditorium (February j...
...Bosh...
...The Philharmonic String Qoartet, consisting of Scipione Ouldl, first violin: ArihwTiicbstein, second violin: Leon E. Barsin...
...Tha Mansfield and Biltmore ilisali ss are the first of six houses .being built by the Chanln company...
...But if ever there was Sa psychoanalytical study of a human being...
...To both of which declarations the sensible man of today is likely to cry...
...the dictatorial father, accustomed to being obeyed, to arranging everything for his wom«« folk, cannot keep from probing Into his daughter's paft...
...ChamlM, DeLuca...
...banlaa...
...The remainder of the cast is well able to maintain the illusion, and keep to the fore the essential conflict of...
...TUESDAY...
...main part...
...Cyrena Van Gordon, mesxo- contralto of the Chicago Opera Ojmpanr, wffl give a recital this Sunday afternoon at Aeolian Hall...
...But the play itself...
...The drama is not word drama...
...Lenore Ulric and Henry Hull head the cast...
...viola, and OSwaldo Msxiuechl, will the first" of two recitals at...
...The Wisddm Tooth," which opened in Hartford Monday night...
...JPwe**ra» next week: jjwlhaa" a* a *peeial performSfeTtosaay evening with Mmea...
...Wagner, Prelude and Finale from "Tristan and Isolde...
...Walter and Emil^ Walters...
...ROstrand's famous play is being presented again at the Port Saint Martin Theatre, where it was produced originally...
...Bellini, Marx, Strauss, Hugo Wolf, and .a drdup of Polk songs...
...THE RIGHT TO KILL," translated from the Russian of Leo TJrvantsov by Herman, Bernstein, will open at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse Monday night...
...IS . Old Henrik never heard of psycho'ianalysis, of course...
...Pat Rooney and Marion Bent in "The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady" will be the following attraction...
...Remo Dufano, marionette producer, is giving a program of three short plays on Saturday at the Lawren Theatre Studio, 51 Wast nth street...
...But the psychology of Strindberg, his personal problems in life, have colored "The Dream' Play" so as to make it of little value other than historical, as one of the plays that early—and Jerkily, faultily—pointed the way to the modern art of the theatre...
...entertainment for the benefit of the Jewish Theatrical Guild at the Manhattan Opera House this Sunday nighj...
...Mosart, Mr...
...Co-ordinating with the Playgoers is the MacGregor-Kllborn Corporation, under whose direction "tbe Playgoer productions are being hanThe new playhouse is on the south side of Forty-seventh street, between Seventh and Bighth avenues, and* Is Immediately opposite the Biltmore, recently opened by the same company...
...He is a perfect picture of the character that undoubtedly Ibsen had in mind when he wrote the...
...Toscanini'a Farewell Concert, the pros-ram .will include: Mosart Symphony In D major...
...Witness: "The MonJicy Trial," to be staged by the Second Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre, with scene laid in Dayton, tTenn., and tempo, if one may ventures an advance notice, not unlike the Jazz of Lawson's "Processional.'j« ".The MonkeyTVial" as Soviet drama ¦will have a topical interest, if one may judge from the excitement caused in Russia by the Tennessee trial...
...BKJGhasaiee...
...The main idea is clear enough...
...Hello, Lola," now at the Eltinge...
...LSa*fce Orchestra* ^ptLHARMONIC l«'SL*?m'*rt* und*r tn* dlree¦ bast...
...The Korsch Theatre in Moscow announces a play called "Azev," dealing with the exploits >of the most famous of spies and agents provocateur...
...and the condescending Impertinence of the Anatole France Irony and pity, to a simple, embracing fellowfeeling for all mankind...
...Vis that the hero is not one parson, but a group...
...Even this fellow, however, is portrayed sympathetically...
...his tortured body proclaims that "Afl pleasure is sin...
...But in . the presentation throughout, Sudermann holds a delicate balance of sympathy, presenting neither the artist as wholly right nor the family, but studying the essential and inevitable conflict between the forces that lead to social order, to "puritan" restraint and conventional regularity, afiS those that send man forth in paganfreedom to seek fulness and Joy of lifeN J. T. S, Mudc Note...
...And lastly, and ^-mainly for grim old Henrik Ibsen who 'gave us this deathless masterpiece of human souls...
...Do»ey Whittiagton, pianist will give his only local recital thla season Tuesday evening it Aeolian Hall...
...But aft seems at length pleasantly arranged...
...soprano, will give her annual recital Monday evening...
...But the philosophy behind the play is not merely drummed Incessantly, and on the whole, tritely into our ears...
...Hayes...
...Thursday to Sunday—Dooley and Sales...
...BMW Messrs...
...In a word, that the "right-minded" of the dream play abuse: "Bosh...
Vol. 3 • February 1926 • No. 4
