AMUSEMENTS
Amusements The Week On Stage Galsworthy's "Escape"; "Immoral Isabella" By Joseph T. Shipley GET OUT OP YOURSELF (If Yen Can) Pirandello would have made a psychological melodrama, as "Four...
...Arundale had a conspicuous part in the Indian Labor Movement...
...and despite dull moments it succeeds in being often bright, besides fulfilling the important purpose of getting us to laugh at what too many others show as mere sentimental mush-pots...
...The "Journey** is divided as follows: "Moscow", "River Volga, The Caucasus, The Crimea", "Leningrad...
...SanTiakofTs program at the Century Thfcatre Sunday afternoon will include arte* tvssn,^Sfe" of the Csar", "Berts jandooaofT" "The Demon", "Faust", and "Menhistofeles...
...Dunsany can revel in...
...She couldn't, she said...
...4 at 8:15 p.m...
...but the poise of the acting and the smoothness of the swift production make the presentation one that an who have been bored with Shakespeare should see, and discover that the old boy has still the verve and...
...On the program fortext week Jel* Boheme, fUgcsetto, Madame Butterfly, Faust, La Tnrttate, Martha, and Aids, In the Loew's Theatres Loew's Avenne B The week's attractions at Loew's Avenue B win include Buster Keaton to "CcOtfe", and a pkftartsatkw of "The Elegy", with Tyrone Power and Gladys Brockwen, Saturday...
...Should the candidates fail to appear, others will speak inc'uding B. Charney Vladeck...
...Marquis' request...
...when carpet sweeper and revolver move across the stage...
...20th...
...you egged him on...
...24th...
...agues...
...Afto on sale at Macy's and wanamaker's...
...For ten weeks Mr...
...It was a gate perftuiuance of "Boris Godounoff" in the presence of the Cxar., Chaliapin bad been scheduled for stellar honors, but before the rue of the curtain an argument developed between Mm and Wapriw at...
...Mutual Aid League * Holds Ball on Nov...
...13th...
...And Frances Starr revels as the queen who is fond of explorers, and (as Jurgen would have it) lends herself to the study of geography...
...the «her aspects ol n\ooernlty the saWiw-afloMs aft also sought and shown...
...ttes^b»pne^ which was to be tne second production on its program The play, scheduled to go Into rehearsal Monday, wm now be the tMM production of the season...
...Underworld" to run at the time of release date...
...Tickets purchased in advance, $1.50...
...Mall orders to People' Symphony Concerts, 32 Union Square (Stuyvesant 968*7...
...Sid Lewis, eccentric comedian, Alex Santos Revue, Murray and Maddox, Kay and Rose and Lady Alice's Pets will be among those at Loew's Delancey...
...Mrs...
...when kodak and flash photo and moving-picture appear...
...Ncrmandy,-Brittany...
...There is, because of the meager pressure of that inevitable finger, little distraction from the excellent performance of Leslie Howard, and the swift excitement of the effort of Matt Denant to escape from prison, only to discover that he is most firmly captured by bunsstf...
...There is Dunsany of the far-off gods ot jade...
...What one cannot escape, according to the play's etmCTusiQ", Is one's own better nature...
...bounces that due to uiunuuUon enacul...
...West of Broadway...
...A young lawyer is much the wiser, II a bit gloomier, as a result of having viewed "The Spider" at the Music Box the other day...
...there is a jade of England, and there is a man who is less one human than a living composite portrait of the English middle classes...
...Hyman Neraser, Chairman of the Campaign Committee and others...
...He is vitally interested in labor development and problems everywhere...
...That is, hi most cases others are first on the stage, and the entry of the escaping convict wakens their problem or lights up their natures...
...Paris by Night—the Pyrenues, The French ainu" Although the famous traveler obtained credentials that were supposed to carry him on his ten thoasaud mile journey through Russia, in a reasonably comfortable way, it developed into almost a daily battle with the secret service, and each mile seemed fraught with greater obstacles...
...Despite the fact that Louis Wolhelm is reported as having his face manicured, he can never live down the laughs at the Rtvoll at the one he now has...
...varying from rich farce to sentimental comedy, so that the mood pussies at times...
...The tost half of the week Adolphe Menjou In "A Gentleman of Paris" will be shown at both theatres...
...Mary Plckford returns to Broadway at the Rial to Theatre In "My Best Girl", a picture such as Mary made when all tbe world called bar sweetheart...
...MUSIC Leff zthtriakoff, world-renowned Russian Opera star, will make his American concert debut under the banner of Hurok Attractions, Inc...
...is such a play as a high school My might write...
...George Fredericks and Company, Rodero and Maley, Walsh and Clark, Booth and Nina, Burnett and Dillon and Baggott and Sheldon will round the program at Loew's Delancey Street...
...m a momentary rage told the famous basso be need not appear In the role...
...Paxtoh Hibben, author of the "Biography of Henry Ward Beecher" will speak on "Henry Ward Beecher...
...Loew's Commodore and Ddaneey Pete Negri in "A Woman.On Trial" will be the nun offering at Loew's Commodore and Delancey Street Theatres Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, of next week...
...Hall and Dexter in a skit "Oh Red", Elsie Pilcer, sister of Harry's, Oaby Desly's old partner, and Dudley Douglas in a dance" series, Charles and Lillian Gerard and the Three Blanks are among those at Loew's Commodore...
...She had agreed that her husband was to see the second half of the show, and...
...Sigmund Romberg has submitted to Schwab and Mandel his completed score for "The New Moon", an operetta which the young producers wifl place In rehearsal within the next two weeks...
...Tbe book k the work of Frank Mandel and Oscar Hsmmerstein Snd...
...Edwin Hafties ToHefsonTrt* Stx Frt Eve...
...j. o. Blystone Is the director...
...10th...
...Later be was nominated aS Labor's representative at Geneva In connection with the League of Nations...
...The Chaseaus...
...The play, whfeb opens in Chicago...
...An erroneus report about Walter Hampden's activities has been spread by an article pnbUshed In a theatrical weekly...
...n Public School No...
...Two Arabian Knights" with Louis Wolhelm and William Boyd will continue at the Rivoll Theatre for an Indefinite run...
...Slbtrtakoff...
...Lea Mispresses", which is now occupying the screen will terminate its run on Monday, October 31st...
...And she's just as sweet and just as young in "My Best Girl" as she ever was...
...when ln1 stead of the stalwart steed that the Christopher Sly of Gender's French company hailed as "Spark Plug...
...They can be obtained from the League at 70 Fifth • avenue, New York City...
...There is a valiant cfforOTB make all this seem effective on the stage...
...the colored comedians, Meyers and Nolan and the Maxellos completing the bill...
...Dee...
...The amusement that rises from quaint savor of olden days is thereby lost, but the speed and spurring of today is the contrary gain...
...And Matt Denant makes the discovery during the extended Course of an attempt at physical escape from a prison where he has, through an sn**"«**»' killing, been confined...
...Both series $3...
...The unknown and un found Orient...
...The Indians, wjy*^"g their "native tongue", talk by repeating telephone exchanges...
...Nina Tarasova Joseph Siiceti EHy Ney Denbhawn School Lenora Sparkes WMeat Ooriau Washington Irving H. S., Irving Place & 18th St...
...The League is supported by workers of all shades of opinion for mutual helpfulness and aid...
...Shanghai Bound" Is a thriller, and as such came-too soon after...
...After a prologue showing how guiltless of intent the gentleman Is, and a brief view of him on the prison farm, the play moves through a series of swift episodes along the course of Matt De mint's flight Each of them works by the diagonal method of giving the main attention to other figures.than the one of our real concern...
...then there are longer baits of mixed surprise and hilarious ttcapttvity...
...Isabella plans a biography to be entitled "Us...
...lsth...
...The attendance at the Roxy Theatre has passed the 4,000,000 mark since its opening last March...
...Enough...
...A Mrs...
...At this moment a legal Sir Galahad sprung to her aWL He denouoeed the attempt to keep the lady patron to her seat...
...tn this picture he should be convinced that his face is funny for most of the laughs come when he simply looks at the audience...
...The picture has set back three times, but next Saturday Richard will reach "Shanghai" after all bis adventures in the muddy Yaagate River, take the girl in his arms, don a hero's uniform, and everything win be serene at the Paramount...
...Laidler Challenges His Opponents To Debate Him On Issues The last big public school meeting in the WlUiamsburgh campaign will be held Friday evening, Nov...
...And I wonder whether Ihe critics who made that comment about the play at Bijou are not themselves rsvoollng the lack of humor of an adwSscent...
...Buster Heaton in "College" and Tyrone Power and Gladys BrockweU to a flan version of "The Elegy" will be on Saturday's Sunday's and Monday's programs at Loew's Canal...
...Her Power and Purpose," at Carnegie HaU, oh Wednesday evening, Nov...
...The plot through which this thesis treads its way, however, is neither the old unreal Dunsany enough, nor yet convincing enough as life, to he valid document for what is so definitely a thesis drama...
...Ushers asked her to remain...
...N*pravnlk...
...though it Is expected that "Sorrel and Son" will follow this United Artists' comedy into the U. A. theatre...
...The Theatre will make a new departure from Its policy up to date to tbe production of a cunt us comedy from the QsPash at Oust** Wied called "2X...
...SHAKESPEARE UP-TO-DATE Under the new name of The Oarrick players, Basil Sydney and Mary Ellis Barry along the experiment of producing Shakespeare in modern clothes by following the tragedy of "Hamlet" with the farce of "The Taming of the Shrew...
...Paxton Hibben on "Henry ward Beecher" at Bronx Free Fellowship What promises to be one of the most interesting forum meetings .of the season will take place at the, Hropx Free Fellowshop, 130f 'Boston Road, Sunday evening...
...23rd: Apr...
...If the attendance averages as well for the rest of the year, the mark should approach 1,000,000 for the first twelve months of this newest and largest of motion picture theatres...
...The Doctor's Dilemma" will open to New York on November list...
...Sunday and Moaday...
...Antony DtBlasi, candidate for State Senate...
...Their performance, Indeed, removes the venture from the class of "experiments", for it is at once evident that Shakespeare will burst the confines of any Clothing, carrying us beyond concern with what the actors wear, by line and situation, by character and humor and high poetry...
...Concerts...
...Newman fought bis way through Soviet Russia and be is brlngi&{ us the first itneensored pictures and Storks that have oeen allowed to come to the outside world since the Csaristlc days...
...50 between Roebling and Drlggs streets...
...When Columbus, after he breaks the egg to prove that a round' earth can stand, "implf,1*" of the treatment he is receiving, the queen says "What do you want...
...we find a ttinky automobile...
...The story opens in the five and ten, where Mary is a stock girl, and from that time an humor and tears follow one another across the screen until Mary falls weeping into the arms ot Charles Rogers, who has been ready to receive her for some time—too ready in fact for Mary's pride...
...Immoral Isabella" By Joseph T. Shipley GET OUT OP YOURSELF (If Yen Can) Pirandello would have made a psychological melodrama, as "Four Walls" makes a problem play, out of the theme which John Oalsworthy, in "Escape", at the Booth, uses for a character sketch In Prologue and nine Episodes...
...the deluded drunkard is, saptoar, deliberately restrained...
...The final print of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" having been received from the Coast by the Universal Pictures Corporation, announcement is made that it will have 'ts premiere at tbe Central Theatre on Friday, November 4th...
...Monday night for to trap weak engagement, wffl play the Auditorium Theatre, palthnere, j«w the week of November 14...
...though It is hard to see why the reflection should be limited by the adtoeOve "better...
...t Vernon Andrade's jazz orchestra win play all evening...
...In Movies "Pajamas", with Olive Borden, a William Fox picture, win replace "The Main Event" at the Roxy Theatre Saturday, November 5th...
...The baby grands, stars of stage and screen, Jane and Katharine Lee will be the headMners at Loew's Commodore, with "Rainbow Revelry" a musical revue, Rucker and Perrin...
...In Brief mta t afctf Hjpiitiiij Tbsatrf* van...
...Same years ago Philip Moeller did a Uglily entertaining series of travesties...
...He has just come from a labor convention in India at which he was made honorary head of the country's largest labor union...
...A Story is told of how Siblriekoff unwflUagry stale ChaUapin's murals upon one DOoaston...
...Now Lord Dunsany, in "If", at the Little Theatre, sets out with the thesis that, however trivial might seem the change, if—but what an if!—one had the power to go hack and make that one slight alteration, the whole of one's life would be immeasurably changed...
...Harry W. Laidler...
...Louis Waldman, Charles Krvtn, probably: Morris Blumenreich, candidate for Assembly...
...He offered to defend her without fee...
...the vigor of youth...
...His first appearance wm be at' the Century Theatre, Sunday afternoon, November 6th...
...There is a clever initial idea, from which the play journeys far...
...4 The annual Rainbow Ball of the League for Mutual Aid, which has come to be known as a carnival of joy, will be held this year at Arlington HaU, Friday evening, NoV...
...Clara Bow in "Hulda" with Clive Brook, Thursday and Friday...
...But surprises come quickly...
...she will never forget the "nights of Columbus...
...The directing seems occasionally to change its key...
...who during the past five years has been applauded to all the capitals of Europe, shared with Chaliapin the leading basse opera roles in the imperial Opera in Moscow and St...
...Preceding tbe forum at % o'clock, Leon Land, leader of the Fellowship, will speak on "Shall Education and Art be .the jpocgnfl» «t i Politicians ?" Music by Geacv-ift^ and Zttflgo Katrfsaaa Admission* xlNte...
...Always, however, the skillful dramatist ensures proper emphasis by having the decision of Matt Denant and the episode...
...Modern clothes pass quickly from conscious thought to the background...
...Socialist candidate for Alderman, has challenged the Democratic and Republican candidates to be present and debate the Issues of the campaign...
...This wiB mark the Theatre Guild's first trip into Baltimore...
...though the play gives many more...
...There is a graceful dancer (Lily Lubell) and a good scimitar dance (of Moussorgsky music) ; there is the usually mute and always mysterious Oriental of melodrama ; there are color and mood working toward the effect Dunsany so well secures in his short pieces...
...Galsworthy's usual little finger on the scale is leu heavy than usual this time...
...It is good to see the Prologue retained, although not so much is made of Christopher Sly, during the acts, as could have been...
...except two ladies, one a romantic child, the other an idealist whose sister is overpious...
...but when the radio Is turned on there is a longer gasp...
...4. The proceeds of the affair to go to the support of the League's activities...
...In the cast with Richard Dix, are Mary Brian, Charles Byer, George Irving, Jocelyn Lee, Tom Maguire, Frank Chew, Tom dubbins, Arthur Hoyt, Tetsu Kotnai The picture was directed by Luther Reed, who was for two years drUlmaster in tbe Chinese Army, and who is laminar with the river pirates on the Yangste...
...At one ef the recent performances, a young lady rose to go just as tfcbj announcement was being made...
...DOING IT OVER Some years ago Barrie put forth in "Dear Brutus" his notion that, rf all those who look back and wish they could have another chance at life were given that chance, they would proceed to do precisely the same thing they did the first time...
...David Mannes Lets Out't Mr...
...she was oh her way out to let him have her seat...
...For, after an initial surprise, It dawns upon the watcher that the play Is a travesty, a satire on the vogue of historical romantic comedies such as "The Road to Rome", and the efforts of college-professor-best-seller-novellsts t o pan myth and history...
...George Sydney Arundale, noted educator and political leader in India, and an active promoter of the Indian labor movement, will lecture on "America...
...this is Urthe effact that Mr...
...The Interim of four days will be used to prepare the Central for the presentation- under the direction of Hugo Rieseofeld...
...The picture Is based on a story by William Conselman telling of the romance of a very modern girl...
...be drops his "h's" and the Pause of his thick cigars all over the stage: Petruchio's maid is dWsJUSTy foreign extraction (which gives Maria Ouspenskaya opportunity for moments of good miming) it he tailor is characteristically Jewish—nm as Shakespeare, but as the East Side, knows the Jew...
...and took an active part In labor work...
...Richard Dix, in "Shanghai Bound", opens at the Paramount Theatre Saturday, November Sth...
...E. M. Newman To Talk on Russia E. M. Newman, the noted lecturer and traveler is due her...
...Ms slight over-emphasis consists in the ¦sere ihsdfr^g "accident" that every character of the English upper classes naturally attempts to shelter the escaping prisoner, who is himself a gentleman, While every farmer or middle class cititen would immediately give him up...
...Hampden was Induced to undertake the staging of "Out of the Sea" through his personal friendship for ran Marquis—and for no other reason...
...Ricardo Cortes and Eugenia Gilbert in "By Whose Hand", Thursday and Friday...
...BMngwwd KnseasMe Fliswlfy Qatt Mr...
...Popular prase* ass* eaceOenit casts are drawing lange orowajs nightly...
...The dialogue is in no way (save for the usual omissions) changed from the original text, but the whole flavor of the farce is brought up to date...
...Julian Hall and His Broadway Bats, a band of 12...
...16th...
...Pcla Negri in "A Woman On Trial", a Charley Chase comedy on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the ninth episode of "Blake of Scotland Yards" in the afternoon as an added feature...
...A WISE EGG I nave heard It said that "Immoral tmisBn...
...Rev...
...Arundale of India To Give Lecture Here The Rt...
...29th...
...Soviet Russia and Republican France" Is the title of the series of five Traveltalks to be given fit the Brooklyn Academy of Music on the Ave consecutive Wednesday evenings, beginning November 16th...
...The success of "An Bhernv of the People", which halted his rehearsals of "Hamlet" and "A New Yay to Pay old Debts", made It possible for him to respond to Mr...
...the OeJea Thenars, on MM stsset...
...she conductor, whose word wee law...
...Tranto, for Instancy, the servant who is disguised as his young master, is a cockney Englishman...
...Petersburg...
...It took consMeraMe whispered explanations before ell parties concerned i salsa J what it was all about...
...I MUSIC | pi '.iacssxx_xxaaooog_xtt »1 CHAMBER MUSIC »1 Six Pri...
...Tuesday and Wednesday Pola Negri in "A Woman On Trial" with,Arnold Kent, will be shown...
...In 1918 be became President of the Madras Labor Union, with a membership of many thousands...
...is of that company, though it is from the band of Law ton Campbell...
...At the door, $2.00...
...shortly With additional proof of his energy and enterprise...
...Patrons of the Rainbow Ball include Abraham Baroff, Max Danish, Louis Budens, Frank Crosswaith, Joseph Schlossberg, Morris Hlllquit and others prominent in the labor, Socialist and liberal movements...
...Supporting Miss Borden are Lawrence Gray, Jerry Mfiey and John J. Clark...
...The mere mention of a few bits of Lottody shows the purely burlesque nature of the piece...
...1 for subscription to EACH i series of six concerts...
...Satire, romance, philosophy: Dunsany tries to mix these in about equal proportions, and the result is a play that, while at times colorful and entertaining, cannot find single hold upon the audience...
...The San Carlo Opera Company is enjoying a most successful season at...
...He is nor enjoying one Of the greatest successes of his career In "An Enemy of the Pfcjpte* at his own theatre, and when that has run its course he will appear there In another play— and then another and another...
...Hampden has not the slightest intention of ceasing to produce for himself, or to act In his own productions, he assures us...
...SsMrkkkaff pas pressed into service at hah* an hoars notice, and morally covered himsflf wish glory, ate was commanded to appear In the Royal Box, and the Came rlssprti Ms hand and thanked trim lor the great pleasure his performance had given hiss...
...Hampden's having consented to stage Don Marquis1 play "Out of the Sea", for George C. Tyler is but his flrst step toward giving up his own work as actormanager to become stage director tor various other managers...
...Dec...
...There comes a moment somewhere In the first act .of this thrilling mystery, where everyone tn tbe audience is instructed that they are held as material wllnmssi to a dark deed of murder which Pas been committed on the stage...
...Concerts...
...This comedy despite its great success m Oermany and Austria played in the usual smy, wm be played at the Otrie Repertory Theatre in an rvrsni mental fashion The settings wui be done by tmtt hitherto unknown on the Sew York stage, and for the first time Eva Le Oaflienae wtn not direct a Chic Repertory production...
...the ring the hero gives her she nicknames "Columbus Circle...
...Poky", in which, by the way, Helen Westley had one of her earliest great moments, and "Helena's Husband" remain in memory...
...30th...
...The queen puffs at an Indian pipe, and announces "Not a dough In a shipload...
Vol. 4 • November 1927 • No. 20
