AMUSEMENTS
A musements The Week On Stage Some New Offerings By Joseph T. Shipley flLBERT MILLER has performed a v yi rice to art and to all lovers of theyCrama, in bringing to this country tjej greatest...
...yet each of the loutish buffoons is in a different way an unerring winner of our mirth...
...the Denishawn School in Pantomimic Interpretations...
...This costume which was made for the famous matador...
...Joseph Seigeti, Hungarian violinist win be the second in this course...
...The piece is now in rehearsal under the direction of' Arthur Hurley, and it ie announced to open in New York early to January...
...There are other plays, most unfortunatel, that are just as bad...
...Edward McHugh, Martin Burt In and others...
...Socialists, trade unionists, capitalists and miscreants tn general are always found in some conspiracy to "betray" the masses...
...It will not surprise us If a 'translation is brought out in Moscow and served to the Russians as an "authoritative" history of the American working people...
...OigM...
...Rosamond Pinchot is a snore stately Helena...
...Since its opening presentation at the Wamer Theatre in this city, "The Jess Singer" has been running along to capacity audiences...
...One of the features selected to nave Vltapbone sequences Is "Tenderloin," In which Dolores CosteUo is to be the star, and the other Is Charles Klein's very successful play, "The Lien and The Mouse," which is to have a star cast...
...Lauri-Volnt...
...Paths and stairs lead from level to level, rising and falling In curved patterns...
...Reinhardt gives the play somewhat the mood of opera...
...Ptoav Malatesta, Ananian, Paltrinieri...
...Feb 24th William Durieux, violin cellist...
...Faust" will be the "popular" Saturday night opera with Mmes Alda...
...Communists to the first role and everybody else tn the second...
...It will be interesting, to observe .whether.any lave&Ugation of the charges made above Is undertaken by the publishers...
...Easton, Stuckgold, Fleischer, Bonetti, Manski and Howard, Parisette, Falco and Wells and Messrs...
...At any rate, the author of this rev tea...
...Nothing whatever...
...There are other plays that are bad in such a way as to became funny, burlesques (even though unconscious) of the type to which they pretend to belong...
...Norma" will have Its second performance on Thursday evening with limes...
...These concerts have been Organized to make it possible for teachers, students and workers to hear the best music at prices within reach of all...
...Alexander Moissl and Lili Darvas, as Ring and Queen of the fairies, convey the sense of the prettily unreal...
...Ludlkar, MacPherson, Bada...
...in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", no full-blooded drama, but a spectacle and pageant of fairyland and an equally make-believe Athens...
...Communist virtue is thwarted time after time aad yet readers are told that the Communist movement Is acquiring "leadership" m spite of all "betrayals...
...Bondanzky will conduct...
...The jasstmaas are as colorful, and the act.10* as stynasd as the tswing...
...What of the quasi-f reedom of those slaves who were permitted to hire themselves out to others and keep the surplus earnings received above an agreed amount .to be given the owner...
...Israel Symphony tor Orchestra, sopranos, altos and bass—Bloch...
...It Is significant that this section of the book is not documented with references so that we can check what is left out in many important matters...
...5. Introduction and March from the Golden Cockerel—Rlmsy-Korsakoff...
...Madam Huffman is the musical leader of (his club under whose aegis a short musical program is given followed by an opportunity" tor members and visitors to express themselves to whatever form of art they follow...
...20th by Lenora Sparkes...
...The work of Richard Botestavsky has already set this group of players far above the ordinary "professional school" performers...
...Alegrias Torero", which will be one of the numbers In his Spanish dance recital with Carols...
...D'Angelo and ReechlHsn Mr...
...The second scene of the play Is disclosed at the rising of a wing shaped trapdoor to the front of the stage...
...Hans and Hihti Thimig make the moat of then* mock-heroic parts...
...P. I. Bills, American baritone, and Mr...
...Jeanne Hackett and Carl Shaw, featured...
...Laurl-Volpl, Baslola, Rothier and Cefaanovsky...
...What of the uphill workers on unfertile land, with few or no slaves, preserving household Industry and waging a continuous struggle with the landed magnates tor governing power...
...The setting provided for the play is a colorful, artificial garden, witn a nacsJground to which segmen&d drop»*6hange color with the mood of the action...
...On the more formal steps in the front center of this sweep, Theseus, Duke of Athens, """a^"* court, the high candles of his attendants moving out of darkness until the nail is alight...
...Another result of the success of "The Jass Singer" Is the decision of Warner Bros, to use Vltapbone to several of the big pictures hlch they now have under way in Hollywood...
...Martinelii, Scotti, Tedesco, Reschllian...
...The Communists always turn up at the right moment to "unmask" the miscreants but the latter always succeed in getting away with their crimes...
...To cover expenses the small fee of 25c...
...It is over the border of Mexico...
...It has passed already its 100th presentation aad gauging its appeal by means of its advance sale the picture looks good for several months to come...
...There was an early nervousness that made Francis Burk (Claudio) talk too loud for his opening moments...
...The acting meets all the demands of the play...
...There are some plays one can watch, bad as they may be, with the .pleasant exercise of rebuilding them in one's mind: "Tia Juana" provides little stimutous fox this construction...
...Others of the large cast give competent performances, so that the engaging conception is carried well across, and another Shakespearan production helps make the season worth while...
...Now, at the Century Theatre, they are playing Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Praam...
...By Chester De Vonde with the ftmgndiT^g hand of Kilbourn Gordon, it seems a play with which a lot more might have been done —and should have...
...But the play, in addition to these elements of the spectacle, calls for consummate miming...
...From 10.30 to 12 everyone dances...
...Have Series of Pleasing Concerts A series of charming concerts to be held on Monday evenings throughout the season at the Provtncetown Playhouse is announced by the Angel us Allied Arts Club, of which the impresario, Madem Minnie Huffman, is manager...
...Ma la testa, D'Angelo and Wolfe...
...Maria Solveg ie a delightfully capricious Hermia...
...Erne* Aapee and the Rosy Symphony Orchestra of no win play "Marche Slav" and the adagio km the "Symphony PathetlqueT "The Jam Singer" wfll be presented next Tuesday night at the Garrick Theatre, to Chicago, where, on account of Al Jolson's popularity, it is confidently expected to have a long run...
...Louis V. Quince rolled well as Dogberry...
...Mayr, Schutzecdorf, Tedesco, Gustafson, Meader, Bada, Altglass and Wolfe...
...All that we know from this book Is that there was a slavery in the South and every schoolgirl learns this at a tender aae...
...The opening concert and the entire series promise to be moat delightful events...
...MUSIC On Friday, November 25th, Nina Taraaova, will open the Artists' course In a costume recital for the People's Symphony Concerts at the Washington Irving School, 16th street and Irving place...
...With him have come the companies of several German theatres, an array of stars no other visiting1 company has assembled, together with equipment, and plans that make the short visit they promise crammed with splendid creations...
...the other play moves back and fcth...
...Blanch Tancock as Beatrice, Indeed was completely in command of her moods...
...the dances of the fairies, die searches and quarrels of the lovers, the gambols and unending mischief of Puck, flow from level to level, in front of the dim towering of trees, out of the mists of the woodland night...
...An Amerlcaa-Ukranlan concert wffi open the series of Monday evening concerts on December 5th...
...What of the white mechanics and skilled workers, their relation to the unskilled, and the vagabonds of the towns...
...March 23d weU renowned pianist Elly Ney, and on April 3d...
...is ebasead tor these Sunday evening meetings...
...Rosa Ponselle, Bourskaya and Falco and Messrs...
...this becomes the slant roof of an attic, to which the Joiner, carpenter, weaver, bellows• mender, tinker, and tailor climb by a ladder to plan their rehearsal of the tragic" comical "Pyramus and Thlsbe...
...The metador's costume used by Rudolph Valentino in the picture, "Blood and Sand", will be worn by Carlos de Vega In the bull fight dance...
...Wakefield and Egener and Messrs...
...Der Koeenlcavaller" win oe tne Saturday matinee opera with Mmes...
...Those who have attended the genial gatherings of the Greenwich Village Social Club at SJO every Sunday evening at Madam Tea Oman's spacious studio, 139 Macdougal street, know there is a real pleasure to store for music lovers to New York...
...Romeo et Juliette" on Friday evening with Mmes...
...Porza del Destine" will open the fifth week of the Metropolitan Opera Season Monday evening with Mints...
...Certainly not...
...4. La DamoiseUe Elue— Debussy...
...In short, the book Is worthless...
...It Is true that Shakespere in German, at least to English ears, loses much of the poetry, much of the richness of sound, of the lines...
...Horace Brltt,.the cellist, who recently returned from Spain, will play at Town Hall on the afternoon of November 30 th and will be assisted by Edith de Lee to a sonata by Handel, a sonata by Beethoven and works by Schmann, Lalo, Debussy, Saint-Saens and Glaeounow...
...There Was Slavery in the South...
...The performance recognises that Shakespeare has given us...
...And So to Bed", the comedy about Samuel Pepys now at the Shuhert Theatre will be transferred next Monday, Nov...
...On Dec...
...In Philadelphia the picture is now being seen at the Fox Locust Theatre and seems to have become a settled fixture to that city for a considerable time to come...
...followed on Jan...
...What is valuable is pilfered from other writers...
...The Taming of the Shrew", which has characters that some.what resemble those to "Much Ado 'About Nothing", is wholly to one spirit...
...announces the presentation In Brooklyn on December 5th of a new comedy-drama by Bruce Reynolds entitled "Playing the Game...
...The opportunity presented herewith to hear the world's greatest [artists for $1.00 is without parallel In musical history, and would not be made possible without the financial support of patrons of music who make up the large annual deficit...
...This the large cast wholeheartedly provides...
...On the other hand "no reputable publisher would coninue the circulation of the book upon proof that it contains the gross absurdities and errors I have pointed out in this review...
...Nothing...
...here a runway, there a sudden drop...
...is confident that his criticisms of the book win stand the test any important committee of reliable historians may subject them In Brief The Robert Bruntea studios have been awarded the contract to construct the scenery for "The New Moon" while the Bergman Studios will paint the settings The designs for this Schsrab aad Mandel operetta are by Donald Penult gar...
...Her program will again Include many new works, among them by Rosellini, Mariottl, Davleo, Frontlni and one by the youthful composer, Rinaldi, who is only fifteen years of age...
...Mendelssohn's music mellows the play, as interlude, as accompaniment to the ..fyt-v dancing, sometimes as under* ¦jgpT ' words...
...The general color effect of the costume, which weighs forty pounds...
...Paltrinieri, Picco and Ananian...
...A musements The Week On Stage Some New Offerings By Joseph T. Shipley flLBERT MILLER has performed a v yi rice to art and to all lovers of theyCrama, in bringing to this country tjej greatest living man of the theatre, jpSS-thne actor, now producer, designer •nd director...
...Can we understand their servitude by merely lumping all together as slaves...
...Juan Bellamonte, whose career ended recently on the horns of a bull in the arena at Barcelona, was purchased from Bellamonte for $5000 by Gilbert Miner who bought it, and a number of other Spanish costumes, for Paramount for use In the plcturlzatlon of the Blasco-Ibanez novel...
...28th to the Sam H. Harris Theatre, and on the same evening "Harry Delmar's Revels" will open at the Shubert...
...Mile Bonlta Bazar, coloratura soprano, whose voice has won for her the name of "Solevaka" or "The Ukrainian nightingale", win make her debut to New York on that occasion supported by Mr...
...OVER THE BORDER At the Bijou, for a brief spell, there Is playing "Tia Juana", that after a long time touring the country was at last thought ready for Broadway...
...What of the thousands of free Negroes, the freed Negroes under white guardianship, the Negroes who became owners of slaves and the relation of household and field slaves to each other...
...Pendennls Productions, Inc...
...Bazar win appear In the true costume of her country...
...The company Includes: Irene Homer,•Harry Neville, Caroline Newcombe, A. J. Herbert...
...Bofiantky will conduct...
...Instructor of scenic cons traction and design at Prof...
...What of the patrol and pass system, the regulations regarding trading-with slaves, their gathering together in churches and social gatherings, the fugitives and their relation to the underground railroad, and the life of refugees to the North and in Canada...
...Here we find the world divided Into saints and sinners...
...Mario, Datossy and Wakefield and Messrs...
...Lausenthai, Whltehill, Mayr, Meader, Bloch, Gabor and Wolfe...
...Didur...
...Rosa Ponselle, Telva and Bgener and Messrs...
...BeBessa will conduct...
...Bellezza will conduct...
...The clowns have their full moments...
...there were larking the easy assumption of ease that mark the experienced hand, be poise of the technically perfected: yet to no sense was the acting stamped with the amateur...
...it Is also over the bonier between good and bad craftsmanship...
...So THIS Is History (Continued From Page Five) ences to slaves and the slave trade as well as the poor whites, but no comprehension of the relations between various types of workers in this region and the evolution of their status from the colonial period to the Civil War...
...Other operas next week the fifth of the season will be' "Tannhauser" will have its first performance this season on Wednesday eventog with Mmes...
...The great stage of the Century Theatre becomes a vast circular winding that lifts toward a narrower pillared opening beyond which, in ultimate space, shines a single stag...
...Baker's Workshop at Yale University...
...Prank Pay, Bert Lahr, Hugh Cameron...
...On the whole swirl of the variant stage, the forest scenes _aove swiftly...
...This Is a new revue with Winnie Lightner...
...sometimes he leaps from one mood to another to the stogie play...
...Metropolitan Opera soprano...
...Hasselmans will conduct...
...DeLuca...
...Is gold, and it is embroidered with rubies and pearls Bellamonte had worn it but In one bull fight when he sold it to Mr...
...The program Is as follows: 1. Overture to the Magic Flue—Mozart...
...She is wen known and esteemed throughout the West for her personality as wen as her voice...
...Nothing, probably, is more boring (especially when one has read and seen the play several times) than a half-baked performance of Shakespeare...
...Lucllla de Vescovl will give her second program devoted to Songs of Italy on Sunday evening, the 27th, at the John Golden Theatre...
...Later it passed Into possession of the Brooks Costume Company who consented to let De Vega wear it to this recital...
...What of the enslaved Negroes...
...But to "A Midsummer Night's Dream", the words are the least element of the pageant...
...Nlkolsu Sokoloff...
...Her program consists of Russian and French Folk songs...
...The tricks of movement about tot stage, the artful manner to which the characters are placed, or flit about, or peer from behind pillar and post, tree and window, make the several eavesdropping episodes variably engaging, create a sense of grace and gaiety that accord with the liquid lines of this .quite lyrical drama...
...In Movies comes to the Rosy Theatre next week as taw JeBluJtiil picture of an excellent isaiima The atgb bght of the Bunday laojnlim pongassa win be the famous Japanese operatic star, ¦ Tamaki Mlura, soprano...
...Madcap Puck himself, to watch the dances and bear the music, to alone an eloouent evening...
...3. La Procession del Roclo—Turina...
...He has arranged a varied program which will Include works of a dozen composers ranging from Bach to Griff ea...
...Serafln will conduct...
...23rd...
...Harold Morris, the American pianist, will give his first recital of the season in Town Hall on the evening of December 8th...
...Of the excellent antics of this group Otto Wallburg makes the most merriment, having the rdfe of Bottom...
...This, shifting of key, which calls for a change to rhythm and to acting, is well handled and—being dlfflci-lt to maintain—establishes the worth of the perftermsnce...
...The favor showered on the picture has given Vltapbone an Immense boost, for the Warners, who control it, announce that since the presentation of "The Jam Stager" demands for the Installation of the synchronizing instrument have been coming In great numbers from ail quarters of the country...
...Martlnem, Danlse...
...and Joaquin Souther achieved genuine pathos in the best acted moment of the play, which he 'Leonato) believes his daughter ltas been a wanton...
...Goya at Hampden's Theatre next Sunday night (Nov...
...Tosca" as a special matinee on Friday with Mmes Jeritsa and Flexer "and Messrs...
...Shakespeare, in his comedies, usually offers the Intelligent producer the alternative of treating the play as a romantic comedy or as a farce...
...To watch the dancmg' 3fo> i . -own and across the rhythmic stage, the quiet fairy trees that sheltered the sleeping Titania, the romping elfin maidens of her train, the sprite, the fiat fairy who revels with Puck, and irrepressible...
...Miller...
...Max Reinhardt...
...the current production continues their sane and* sincere, understanding creations...
...Mr, Hasselmans will conduct...
...That best is unsurpassed In the theatre today...
...Myron Timkiwich, Ukranlan violinist and composer, Mile...
...conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra which win give a concert In Carnegie Hall, Tuesday evening, December 6. has announced that his program will be of a symphonicchoral nature...
...the production extracts fuH measure of whimsy and fantasy and beauty from the play...
...Wladimir Sokoloff as Puck realizes fully all that one may picture of the part...
...Jeritza, Fleischer and Telva and Messrs...
...The second half of the book is largely devoted to the Communist movement In the United States and what is left out is of more importance than what is put to...
...In many ways this is a good opening selection: it Is likely to be most familiar of all the repertoire to American audience...
...Pinza and Paltrinieri...
...It has no single star, but gives ample opportunity to a large number of performers, and as spectacle rather than drama it makes least tax on those who do not understand German, and showsBetohardt's work at its best...
...In performances ,of non-Broadway groups, especially when a practiced director has guided the scenic work and ordered the tempo, we naturally expect to find the acting the weakest element of the production...
...The Women's University Glee Club of New York will assist and the soloists will be Marie Montana, soprano, and Nikola Zan, baritone...
...MORE SHAKESPEARE The American Laboratory Theatre, working on the diminutive stage of a one-time brewery at 323 East 54th St., perforce presents a "Much Ado About Nothing" that is wholly different In style and general execution from the Shakesperean performances now on Broadway —yet to its own way is fresh and vital...
Vol. 4 • November 1927 • No. 23
