RIGG'S GOOD FOLK-Drama at the Guild
RIGG'S GOOD FOLK-Drama at the Guild The Stage The Movies Music The Week On The Stage By Joseph T. Shipley GOOD GUILD "GREEN GROW THE LILACS." By Lynn Riggs. At the Guild. After...
...Bringing the dramatic struggleof the Allied navies against thU-boat menace to the speakinscreen for the first time, ThSeas Beneath," directed by JohFord, is a genuine document onaval warfare...
...an English drama with an almost unanimously English cast, has been heralded with enthusiasm by theatregoers...
...Kitrnet" With SktnnerAt the Brooklyn Strand"Kismet" moves Thursday nightfrom the New York" Strand Theatre to the Brooklyn Strand...
...What the firstprogram—for the week's dancesvary nightly—makes emphatic, is' that the best our time is producing In the dance, at least the most immediately exciting, is exactlywhat is most exciting In present day literature: the destructive, the satiric...
...THE DANCE—FORM AND SATIRE / HE DANCE REPERTORY THEATRE (Martha Graham, DorisHumphrey, Agnes de Uille, Tamiris, Charles, Weidman...
...What with•the Guild production, and the playing of Helen Westley and JuneWalker, there is no denying boththe comic navorousness and the emotional power of the presentation...
...Generally applauded for his exercisein lassitude in the role of Sir Ivor Cream in "Serena Blandish" twoyears ago, Mr...
...June Walker brings to her part a merry wistfulness, a blending joy in life and longing for richer oppor tunlty, that deepen the girl of the plains to greater significance...
...A London stage first felt his tread when he appeared in a small rolein "Kismet...
...After a meteoric rise in England, Daniel came to America forthe first time in 1920 to play withEthel Barrymore in "Declasse," and the following year with herbrother, John, in "Claire de Lune...
...and astory interwoven to carry the folk along...
...Whitey" Robertsin "Laugh, Town, Laugh...
...Broadway's great white waymoves to the Fox stage in Fanchon at Marco's "New Yorker" Ideas which features Bobbie Callahan A Warren Jackson, Broadways playboys...
...Helen Westley, with her strident selfassertion, that is but the slap on the shoulder of friendship, gives:ne more of her sure characteriza;ons...
...Overcomeby the urge for travel, Mr...
...Marjo rie Burke, the personality girl...
...A "Revolutionary March" was the work of a group of Tarn iris' dancers...
...and the Sunkist Beauties...
...At the Craig...
...Thedeath comes amidst the "shivaree," the wedding-hazing that givesJeeter his chance to light the haystacks...
...The Seas Beneath" on the screen...
...His return to this country In the forthcoming production of "HeatWave...
...Tanqueray...
...Green Grow the Lilacs" '.3 a splendid production of a good play...
...The loudest and longest applause came for the graceful and def* work of Agnes de Mills, who, in motifs that were closest to the old lyrical forms, gave little, satirical dance-pictures...
...The plot is adequate to the needs of the play, for its merit lies in the earth idiom of the speech, inthe rollicking turbulence of the party, in the naturalness of the peddler's coming and sales, in the breath of the plains, just beforecowboys were stopped by barbedwire, and far pasturage cut into farms...
...After a poorly produced sadotherwise abortive play in otherhands, Lynn Riggs has joined withthe Theatre Guild in the creationof a colorful and moving patternof Indian Territory...
...This interestingly poised and stirred a grouping of whites and red—recalling the more sweeping grace of the Isadora Duncan "Marche Militaire...
...Green Grow the Lilacs," Insofaras it tells a story, deals with asex-starved hired man, in therough west, before Indian Territory became part of Oklahoma, when all things were unsure and swift in change who tries to wlha girl by threats, seeks fiery vengeance when she weds another, falls on his knife, and dies...
...Daniel has retainedthe interest of theatregoing publics in England and this country...
...Now sheintroduces some new numbers andat the request of the audience acquiesces with a couple of old favorites...
...The farmers, the cowboys, the country girls, are selected with the usual Guild certainty in casting (as also Franchot Tone for Curly and Richard Hale for the villiain'a role...
...Aromantic drama of old Bagdad, itstars Otis Skinner and featuresLoretta Young, David Manners, Mary Duncan and Sidney Blackmer...
...butlightly free of the satire thatseems the more important aspectof the dance of the time...
...Some Facts AboutHenryDaniel, Who Returns toB'way in "Heat Wave" When the curtain rises on thefirst performance in New York ofRoland Pertwee's new drama, "Heat Wave," at the Fulton Theatre on Tuesday evening, -February 17, Henry Daniel will be seenin the role of George March...
...In two of these, she had ?he assistance of the lithe Warren Leonard...
...Dorothy Bartesh, talented butbeautiful...
...There is a virtue of its own, however, in the less lyric but emphatic pressed poise of the "RevolutionaryMarch," indicative of good things to expect from the work of thisdancer...
...and a final act is wrungfrom Curley's arrest—on the technical charge of murder—so thatbefore the hearing he may not hold his bride...
...and FanchoA Marco's "New Yorker" Idea...
...After one grows accustomed to the speech of the section, it flows with a lyrical qualitybeneath the dramatic tension...
...The incomparable Belle Baker, although long a favorite on stage, screen and over the radio, is seenin her greatest glory in vaudeville, where she won her fame...
...Daniel in 1926 ventured to Australia to appear with Judith Anderson in "Cobra...
...Fox B'klyn Has Big Bil'Sea* Beneath'' PictureBelle Baker on StagThe Fox Brooklyn Theatre's program this week is made up of fouequally diverting parts — BellBaker hi person...
...Phyllis DuBarry, prettytap artist...
...RIGG'S GOOD FOLK-Drama at the Guild The Stage The Movies Music The Week On The Stage By Joseph T. Shipley GOOD GUILD "GREEN GROW THE LILACS...
...and the folk-songs, whetherin the scenes or in the interludes, quite catch a natural air...
...The two tendencies of the modern dance, toward pantomimic recapture of actual events, aad toward abstract (mathematical) form, are Illustrated in the work of the Dance Repertory Theatre, the first season of which, last year, made Its return a matter of pleasant anticipation...
...Abdullah," and in a revival of SomersetMaugham's "Caroline...
...There is excellent capture of the atmosphere—with folk-song interludes...
...Charles Weidman closed the program with a very graceful mimicryof a strolling player and mountebank, quite entertaining...
...Decided to sea what he could find in the world, he toured India, Ceylon and Egypt until his funds had reached the vanishing point, when he returned to London to appear in "Meet the Wife' and "Whispering Wires...
...and a symbolic, rather vague "Dances of Women" that seemed to be reaching to profound implications...
...In 1923 he was Daniel Farr In"The Laughing Lady" with EthelBarrymore and the next seasonwith that same star in "The Last of Mrs...
...Originally it had a e, the Hollywood Theatre...
...The Concert Group of Doris Humphrey did effective work In less precise pieces, an opening "March" which was rather a group of women waving to the passing soldiers1...
...He then retuijied to London to appear in as1 American importation, MartinBrown's "Cobra," "Mr...
...itis, one feels, not merely good theatre but a good play...
Vol. 3 • February 1931 • No. 7
