AMUSEMENTS
Amusements D R A M A Whenever It Gets You "the right age to marry" wins double demonstration at the 49th street MOLIERES story of the bourgeois gentleman can be rewritten for every...
...It Is a play of terror, In the purest sennas tragic...
...Selwyn Scott Mathilda Baring, Jenny- Dicker son...
...Coneerte in A Minor, **»»j*r.n...
...Jay C. Flippen, bow appearing in "Hello Lola," has already been assigned to the famous role of Uncle Tom, which is to be devoid of Its well-known ^pathos In the musical version...
...In the execution of—this plan the Actors' Theatre is enlisting the aid' of schools, clubs, societies and organisations which will assist the theatrical group In the distribution of membership cards to those entitled to the "privilege...
...J. T. 8. A special "Princess Flavla" edition •OSthe "Prisoner of-jZenda,'' Anthony Hope's popular stofyTwlii be published this month by Harcourt, Brace & Co...
...Seherse la B flat miner, Chopin...
...of narrow greed and sudden flashes of intuitive insight Is characteristic of the Slav peasant whom I also know from my native Bohemia...
...Glamour," by Hugh S. Stange, will be produced- by A. H. Woods next season...
...Little by little Dion can no longer endure It...
...igtie method Of construction...
...Uncle Tom" in Music Form Planned by Shuberts And now we will have our good old friend Uncle Tom as a hero of a musical play...
...Brown la so devoted to the mad, erratic, lovable Dion -that bo- gladly gives htm work...
...They regarded it as a deep disgrace, to the race of which they were proud, and kept It secret hiding it in a hovel on the estate, until it grew to maturity...
...Lester Alden...
...On one occasion the expedition coiyited ISO elephants gathered round a water hole...
...Three Aces, and Baggert and Sheldon in "Enjoying Themselves...
...Actors' Theatre Special Prices For Students and Workers The Actors' Theatre, beginning with this Monday, will Institute a plan whereby all students of the drams., art, music etc., as wen as workers who are interested in worthwhile plays, may avail themselves of first and second balcony tickets at the Comedy Theatre on Monday nights at a Sat rate of SO cents for each ticket The regular scale for these seats Is $1.10 and $2.76...
...pilly Lytsil and Tom Fent, Irene Rieprdo, th* aharactsr aamsdl' enns, has gssambied * group *f lyric n*rr*tivaa labelled "Whoa, PJgliacel," arranged by J«* Toung...
...1 PHILHARMONIC ¦^tsr M»Uh*rmonic Orehaatra, -under Hastes ef Wtlhelm FurtwaenfJer, *k** th* following ~ program this Pj*aT Mtarpaen at Carnegie Hall: ; JUpr, "Ob*ron'> Overture...
...Ob...
...I knew the scene well...
...f Lee PaUieon will at his pigno rsei'tai *t Aeolian Hall next Friday evening play two Reapighi compositions, the Schumann ICreialerlana, a group ef Griffee, Bex and Spwerhy and Chopin's funeral march Sonata...
...gt*»"Obarprj.-' Music Notes Pablo Casals, cellist, will give his final recital of the season Monday evening at Town Hell.' Grace Christie, with the assistane* of JSdwin Strawbrldge aad th* Max Barr quintet, will repeat her dance program at the Booth Theatre this Sunday evening...
...a play written In collaboration with Bertram Block, has been accepted by Guthrie McCUntic for production...
...Goat Song" was built, Werfel told the Berlin representative of the Guild, around a newspaper item...
...These immense herds were filmed...
...Georges Barre Little Symphony an* Ensemble will giv* the flrat of their threi concerts at th* Henry Miller Thagtr* this Sunday night...
...In a Serbian village a monster was born to a rich peasant family...
...Besd, Reed, Rustle, SibeliusPslmgrsn...
...with Claiborne MSB began its third month at the mm Theatre last Monday...
...times wage war upon the spirit of this group...
...A movement which might have inflamed all Germany remains in the minds and hearts of a few who cherish it against better days to come...
...Romance in F sharp, Schumann...
...Mpxart...
...Bachau* will give his Anal piano recital this Sunday afternoon at Aeolian Hall...
...fjoraa-i* Austral, dramatis soprano, *f> bj the soloist at th* concert in ltw*iAu*itorium this Sunday after* Sep, The program: raaVePi '< "kohsncrin," ptsthoven...
...Broadway Briefs "The Eskimo," a satirical play by Gene Markey and Samuel Hoffsnstein, has been purchased by A. H. Woods...
...But with penetratingly poetic vision, he sees the eternally tragic position of mankind...
...Margaret repairs to William Brown'a office, there to plead for a job for Dion...
...The engagement will open with a matinee on Washington's Birthday...
...Walter opus 89, Brahms...
...militaristic-, intellectual spirit...
...all men are pitiable...
...Tell r the front Even more disastrously did the...
...Impulse and accident govern 'every path, and Intelligence, that terrible attribute of man, is asked to stand unshaken before the brutal drama of the elements...
...He has abandoned th* episodic manner fer a mors r*»l...
...epr Waber...
...Both love Marxaret, but Margaret loves Dion and la a tender love scene gives herself to him...
...Amusements D R A M A Whenever It Gets You "the right age to marry" wins double demonstration at the 49th street MOLIERES story of the bourgeois gentleman can be rewritten for every generation—the .picture of the newly rich man who sets out pretentiously to mingle with "high society," and gets what he deserves...
...The young painter, Franz Marc, whose picture, the Tower of the Blue Horses, Is the pearl of the Krbnprinzen Gallerie in Berlin, and...
...Aad wbea be la shot, Cybel proudly erect give* th* police hi* name...
...L* TemSaa 4a Couptrin, Ravel...
...The book win be illustrated with ¦ scenes from the operetta, now at the Shubert Theatre...
...That first bodk, like all his subsequent verses, dramas, and novels, not only revealed a rich poetic talent, a brilliant fantasy and a remarkable way of giving* new color to common, work-a-day used up words, but It revealed a definite ethos, and philosophy of life, which was to give Werfel the spiritual leadership of a true poet of the time...
...Jm Isursd^y ana Friday program •iewltt**: Osaeart* Gregg* fie...
...a light which war, and even worse, the six years of "peace" have, unhappily, almost quenched...
...Out of this stflet...
...The few who attain it are thus, .by the very years of their labor, frustrated, destroyed in that fundamental right to play and to loy that should be the heritage of every human being...
...In some peculiar fashion the author draws a lesson from this more consoling to the dupes of the system...
...rich and poor, the wise and thelbcast-llke...
...Her company Includes Henry Stephenson, Warburton Gamble...
...Beethoven...
...As in England, some of the most promising of this youth fell In the war...
...as » Katherina Grspehk* Will giv* h*r piano recital at Aeolian Hall this Friday evening...
...Baeh: Sonata opus III In C miner...
...FranzWerfel and 'Goat Song' IX producing "Bocksgesang" ("Goat Song"), the Theatre Guild introduces to the American stage the "man who may well be called t*e representative poet of a new youth in Germany...
...The Great God Brown" Eugene O'Neill's New Play a Gripping Study of Man at $he Greenwich Village UGENE O'NEILL has given us a wl play of rare beauty and su¦*-** preme insight Into" the human soul in "The Great God Brown," bis newest play that is now at the Greenwich V 11lsge Theatre...
...To such a watcher the .tragedy Is lesa in the flre that brings Ramsden back to bis work or the foolish desire he had to ape society, than In the fact that long labor has taken away from him any knowledge ot how to play...
...vainly, hoping to achieve this goal of final freedom...
...The valor and Idealism which characterized it in all its many rnanisfestations gave way to cynicism and love of sensation, and Adolph Hitler, the Fascist, won disciples from Werfel and George...
...That is to say, the attempts of the Bradley millionaire to mingle with- Brighton society reveal his ignorance, on the Slapstick level of humor, and his business recalls him to a proper sense of Proportion, - in rather melodramatic fashion...
...Although he is still In his thirties...
...A Night In Paris" and its bouse, | new Casino de Paris, celebrate dl fiftieth performance Wednesday add - « -J George C, Tyler'a producSoar*' "Close Quarters," by A. E. TbjSBJj will spend a week at Werba's sk**) lyn.theatre starting Monday...
...Ibsen's "Hedda Babler" is tho current play...
...ft, Brnst PMkl "Till Ku!*nspi«g*r* Merry bWb," Itrsuia...
...With then- masks off the -two...
...A daring concept, a . beautiful concept, -and a supremely beautiful product...
...The'Shuberta have announced the presentation early next fall of a new musical comedy based on the story of "Uncle Tom's Cabin...
...In "The Great God Brown" piAc-' tically all the characters, wej.r mitlrs...
...Sonata in B minor...
...He is in no sense whatever a preacher...
...William A. Brown In a rising young architect son of a man who had built up a contracting business with Mr...
...he is far too great an artist for that...
...The play ihould be enjoyed without the folly of accepting-Its underlying philosophy...
...Venita Gould la "Impressions...
...J2J» Tbres Hungarian D»nces...
...Jsoid.," Wagnsr...
...It is also a challenge to the romantic...
...a creature halt beast, half man...
...etra.ua*, "Th...
...Many work, and work...
...Polonaise-Fhentasia, Three Mazurkas, and Three Studies by Chopin, Polonaise in E major, Llest...
...Frank Dobson in "The Love Doctor," with Nina Perm...
...William A. Brown is so forthright and blunt and unimaginative that for the better part of the slay he wears no mask...
...After his lyric .poetry came poetic drama, among which "Bocksgesang" written in 1920, was his third play...
...Werfel sprang Into prominence fifteen years ago, with tbe publication rf>f his first volume of verses...
...the unbreachable gulf between man's aspirations and nature's realities...
...wg* Mack aaw^Dorothy Appleby :-: MUSIC :-: With the Orchestras j wlW YORK SYMPHONY j A saw work by Ernst Krenek...
...The -expedition lived for several weeks among the bushmen of Kalahari aad found them the most primitive race in the world, eating roots,, snakes aad vermin...
...But not before she has been, terrifiel by...
...but lacking that the second best gift Is the gift soon to die...
...2»«Jaaie N*chtmug|k...
...Werfel belonged to, and wrote for, In 'those early days, the most promising youth which Germany ever had...
...and Otto v tun him-"If...
...whose memoirs are as revealing of th...
...The only sense in the' universe is the sense which man gives it by courage and self-sacrifice...
...There is an esesntial tragedy in the world . . . a break...
...lectured Monday nighal fore tbe Writers' Club of Col'iisM*] "Th* Technique of Collaborate...
...to the end...
...After he has spent his life earning time to enjoy himself, winning through steady toil without vacation or holiday for thirtythree years a large measure of financial Independence, the man has made himself wholly unfit for the freedom he has won...
...and that child phenomenon...
...While In the desert the expedition heard of a lost ancient African tribe Inhabiting a coastal strip between Wei via Bay'aad Cueae River, a country impregnable from the west by a rocky coast south by the Atlantic, whBe a desert 1*0 miles wide proach of other bushmen...
...Nina Wulfs, Stadium auditions winner of 199F, will give a violin recital at Aeolian Hall Tuesday evening...
...The PlytAUagro m «i era to from ff^swetpbanyi Biset, "ThsJPre.¦ft...
...The world Into which mankind is born is mad...
...Glory Hallelujah...
...He Is an artist bat la his heart ha believes that.hla work Is not St to compete with the great artists, and he destroys It There are three children aad to- them he ever keeps on hla mask...
...young Misrnli: composer, i» th* hlib light * (M program which Otto Klempsrer ¦ ttaring *e*t week...
...the members also saw herds of wild cattle numbering 15.000 head, leaving tbe dense forests in the daytime to esssrpe the pest of flies, returning at night time...
...When they are acting like their real selves they hold them In their hands...
...he> told me, when we spoke together about the production in America...
...the family la starving...
...Is facing tbe police aad blda a tender farewell to Cybel, Who bad followed baa to hla home...
...M"A* Psrfldo," Bssthovsn...
...All the sardonic humor, all the anguish of a Chained Dionysus Dion pours Into the cathedrals, jails, the courthouses and the State capltols that he designs for Brown, who gets credit for them', as jwell as much money...
...DRAMA VaudsMlU The«trss MOSS' BROADWAY B. S. Moss' Broadway Theatre, beginning Mou<i»y will prasMit a varied comedy stag* pr*' gram, f saturlag Iran* Ricardo...
...Jfapp, Concerto for Orchestra, ?W.«M**ikovgky, Symphony Pa* CONCERT HPS* elwtj jn ef Ernest Schal* jJ^^^hUharmenic Orehsstr* wJU J^P** third concert this Saturday WS *t eleven, and repeated at PtPj^oJsek |q tbe afternoon...
...who plays th* part of the Spanish Ambassador in "Brin* ess* Fi*via" at the Shubert Theatre, will give * song recital this Sunday evening at Staiaway Hall, under th* augpi&S of th* Metropolitan Music League...
...0*H*at I* growiao Movies of Primitive Man on Way Here FROM Capetown, South Africa come* a report that new light upon one of the darkest parts oi Africa has been flung by the return of the Capetown-Denver African expedition, which penetrated the heart -of the Kalahari desert and the Kaoko veldt...
...the lovely, dreaming Idealist with his mask off and has compelled him perforce to replace It on his - face, where It remains for her...
...he, too...
...and pfsrtin Breenesi Frank Keenan in "The War Within," dramatized by Wlllard Mack from the original idea by Joseph Jackson: Th* Original Cansinos, Klisa and Edusrdo, assisted by Senorlta C*rmen Alpngo...
...Home again, the police rush In to apprehend the murderer of William Brown...
...pianist, at Aeolian Hadl, Wednesday afternoon, will play th* following program: Fantasia in C miner...
...Charles Waldron, Josephine Royle, Louise Muldener, Sybil Carliele, Albert Hecht...
...J, will b* plavod JftsgJJtw Tork Symphony Orchestra ?t ta* Thursday afternoon end Frj•Sjeming concerts in Carnegie li«ll...
...But in a spirit of mockery he debates each building to Silenius, the mocking companion to Dionysus, the" half-god who told the tabled King Midaa that the greatest gift . for ail mankind would have been never to have been born...
...j Usst...
...And to stress -this Idea, the contrasting picture of a ¦man whf> has had sense enough to flthlnk orTbnTMoy in life, and cared more for happiness^ than accumulated wealth...
...IP IHaabe" Walts...
...great and low...
...H»-"B»J»er" WalU...
...Tho contrast between the tender dreaming Dion aad the mocking, laughing, jeering man b* presents himself th be...
...Werfel's work Is a direct challenge to the neoNietzschean...
...William, without hla mask...
...arid Mrs...
...Movies were taken of the natives and also of herds of big gameproving the Kaoko veldt the richest game country in the world...
...Samuel Pushkin, violinist, give* his reeiu.1 at Carnegie Hal) Wednesday BVSBlngJoseph Callei...
...a challenge to the standards, ideals and attitudes of the immediate past To this youth belonged Stefan George, a number of young painters, including the young Kojoschka, who were breaking away from the impressionism of their predecessors and trying to paint the heart in things, instead oT the light upon them...
...Adela Verne...
...But meanwhile Dion is enjoying the tender favors of Cybel, an understanding daughter of Joy...
...Bertha Kalich in "hiagio* At Bronx Opera'House Bertha Kalich as the heroine of Hermann Sudermann s dramatic masterpiece, "Magda" will be at the' Bronx Opera House for the week commencing Monday...
...Nick Lucas, ."the Crooning Troubador" of the Brunswick Records...
...Boss Wyse, in "A F»mi)y Revus...
...a play ot terror and pity, .built on big lines: the outward action illustrative of profound universal conflicts...
...Reginald Denny, in hU latest comedy, "What Happensd to Jones," which spent a fortnight at B. S. Mos*' Colony, will move downtown to the Broad' way Theatre to be shown as the feature screen sttractfon...
...Anthony, a brilliant though uneducated fellow...
...With unique Sims of their travels, the.expedition sails for America by the first available boat...
...Werfel has made his drama...
...St*** evening apd Prtday attar* ^SCgmtgla Hail: aSS* Ovtrtura, "The Corsair...
...Houdinl" the noted magician, will be the following attraction...
...boy of twenty...
...the solution the eternal tragic solution <ot salvation through vicarious suffering...
...In his novel, "Verdi," which has been published in America, he makes his position c{ear when he takes up the cudgels against .Wagner and the romantic spirit, in defense of Verdi, and 'humanism...
...The chief element of Interest in the play, to one whose Ideas on social levels and tho Impudence of a mare worker-millionaire trying,to enter society, sure less weighted than, his thoughts of social equity, lies in a point the author does not stress...
...pronounce one of the seven- clicks comprising tha bushman language...
...Song, Through oeorgi*Weber...
...he dresses in Dion's clothes and assumes his mask and takes oyer Dion's home and his wife, -tittle by little Dion's soul creeps into his and...
...Florence Pendleton and Emily Bolleau...
...Finally, the revelation caused a social upheaval in the village...
...K**k...
...Bess Wyse...
...George Abbott and John Weaver, authors of "Love ,B*J Leave 'Em...
...Tbe committee rejects the plan because It hasn't that warmth, that beauty that D'lon had been wont to^put into his designs Taking it borne to Margaret aa he wears Dion's mask, be works upon it and makes it what the committee seeks...
...The fate of man is from nature out tragic, according to Werfel...
...the author does not try to prove it T he assumes It, he takes for granted the essential Tightness of' his point of view, and thus in insidious fashion drives deeper beneath theMinsuspecting akin the virus of the capitalistic poit eon...
...Tears 'later we and Dion aad Margaret living In poverty, their funds from the proceeds of Dion's sale ef bis share of the business to William dissipated la - five years of delightful living'In Europe...
...Marion Nixon, Otis Harlan, £*su Pitt* and other screen feveritos are seen in th* supporting company...
...Jr., la assisted by his parents, Mr...
...After living with ths natives for six weeks, the expedition found themselves unable to...
...when they present to the world a fals ¦? and fraudulent character they place the mask over their faces snd speak in the character they want the world to know them as...
...wX Hofmann will appear *s soloist...
...Symphony No, 4 la E JBhw, Brahms...
...he wrote in the preface to one of his earliest dramatic works, an adaptation ot tbe "Trojan Women" of Euripides...
...spirit of this youth as are his pictures, did not survive the war...
...Dion Is the artist, the dreamer, they genius...
...t Intr»ct» from "Rosamunde...
...Jfurray Qordo* and B*n Piere...
...And of these, few, Werfel Is easily one of the most significant WerfOl's work, all of It, is in the service of humanity...
...Hatcher Hughe* presided...
...Bach...
...The ex- 1 pedition suggests that, an attempt should be made to penetrate their country, to study what should be the most ancient African tribe...
...As a man of letters...
...Otto Braun, from whose letters and d^ary a veritable light exudes...
...speak supplies just Uie note of beauty, of mad laughter to the designs that pass through Brown's hands...
...a crusade of youth into the inner meaning of life...
...Werfel uses many forms...
...After the acceptance of a design for a great cathedral that Dion had made Into a grinning temple of Silenius Dion goes off to celebrate...
...Maltby has brought such a study down to the pitch ot our day in "The ^Right Age to Marry," which Mr...
...Helen Mennif...
...Coburn make pleasant at the Forty-ninth Street Theatre...
...With hla* mask on hla face he roars into Bill*- Brown'a home and mocks him...
...Thomas Mitchell, who baa the principal male role In "The Wisdom .Tooth," has become a playwright...
...W(rv«*s," J*hn Howard Uwsen'S Third opi|s, n'ow In rehearsal under the direction of Robert Peel Noble, Is * distinct departure from the style ef his previous works, "Processional" and "Roger Bloomer...
...Bat money is needed...
...Mountain Trolls at Their Evening Play...
...Spanish Romance, Scbumanq-Tauslg...
...But there is a sense of good humor, an easy capture of the Lancashire attitude, that make the play gracious, while Hilda Spong adds the extravagant touch, Charles McNaughton the ludicrous, and the two Coburns the mingling of pathos and satire...
...Erghmg, PJPsay No...
...Th* ¦ work, fJieejt* Grosso No...
...little by little Brown feels that his love for Margaret Is consuming him...
...Tjjjisy evening at the Waldorf*gjt (wsmbership concert...
...In the end nothing survives except personal character," might have been written by Werr fel' instead of by Whitman...
...The whole "expressionist" movement, which was moving toward its crest when he appeared upon the scene, was a kind of renaissance of the spirit...
...i* made an object of pity, almost an ¦ Imbecile...
...sm i s Crosby dais* announces that u0m 8. Kaufman's Th* Butter an* ¦ Msa" has been published la boobdl aad win be Issued next weak by M A Lireright | Eugene O'Neill has under coasdSJ fdoa aa offer from the Famous to screen oae ot bis own plays e*m act as director of the productlofvj -Square Crooks" will be prsaSa| by George Miller and Mike OoMBJ tbe middle of next month...
...This, I repeat, Is not made part of the conflict of the play...
...Prelude and Final* from wetHl and...
...These probably unconscious drives, by those so victimised by the lure of wealth and the doctrines that drape It, are the more effective in that they come slipping slyly in, on the train of O play that-being well performed and adapted to present-day tastes, is likely * win a warm reception...
...PALACE Hassard Short presents Charlotte Gre*wwse« i* "M*r *4»rwi*« Bpth't Xorm* affteheil...
...that he should— instead of finding holidays during his long years of work—have stuck to his toll without the final release he took, have plugged along as foolishly the remainder of his days as he had up to his forty-flfth birthday...
...igm *BJn« Klein* Nschtmuslk...
...Broadway Briefs Richard Herndon's product!** 1 "Th* Patsy...
...ThaSj include* Elsie Ferguson, MssSSfl Lawrence, Wallace Eddinger...
...free...
...Indian Pip**, and the Prelude in F sharp, Marlon Bauer...
...an original sin, wherein all participate and from which the understanding soul suffers most...
...T was a soldier In Serbia during the war, and the strange combination of selfishness and mysticifc.n...
...when Ramsden finds dissatisfaction with his new life, the moral drawn in "the speech of the play is that true happiness is In the job...
...The program will include: French Suit* in G m*Jor...
...J, 0...
...O'Neill has created s-jrnethlrg that I believe will live...
...HI* nam* la Man...
...Employing a new technique, so far as I know original with himself...
...In his office, where they think Dion has been discharged, assumes a mask, ^e works on plans for a State capitol...
...Ross Wyse, jr...
...What Happened to Jones" is the photoplay version of th* stage plgy ef the asm* nam* by G*org* Breadburat...
...Margaret Is prostrate, embracing tha mask of bar beloved Dion...
...and Mrs...
...taking the mask from his face he sobs out the sorrows of his life and he dies at his friend's feet With Margaret at the doer Billy I drags the body into the garden, where .he buriee...
...SSI McRae, Effie Shannon, .Geoffrey Bj and Frederick Worlock...
...Murray Gordon and Beq pierce will offer a collection of songs and stories...
...air, "Ocean iBt Mighty Monster...
Vol. 3 • February 1926 • No. 6
