AMUSEMENTS
Amusement The Week On Stage BERNARD SHAW'S DILEMMA By Joseph T. Shipley Mft&EKE is considerable wonder In 11b|WL era! circles, all over the world, as lo how to Interpret the latest...
...he plot of the play—plot in a Shaw ier/l—hinges upon the decision Dr...
...Jagel...
...Ruffo his first appearance this season), Dldur...
...The test is simple...
...The doctor lets the eenlus die because he loves that genius' wife...
...Picco, Gabor, Cefaanovsky, Reschilian, Mala testa and Ananlan...
...REVELATION The swift revue being an amalgamation of vaudeville features with patter of practical Jokes, and larger tableaux than vaudeville can venture, it is to be expected that a cast carried largely over from vaudeville could fill the evening hours of a revue...
...The Chester Rale dancing girls acceptable punctuate the stage with their balanced gyrations, and the briefly acted wise-cracks are up to standard, some of them, indeed, adding an extra measure of surprise...
...Emillo de Gogorza will appear as assisting artist at the concert of the New York Symphony Orchestra in Mecca Auditorium Sunday afternoon, December 4. On Friday evening (December 9) the program will open with three movements from gustav Hoist's Symphonic Suite "The Planets...
...The criminal moves on, despite the eforts of the few honest members of the police force, by virtue of the influence he ran sway...
...Mario...
...The problem for the Shavian disciples, to their master's disputatious plays, is to decide just which of the splerdldly maintained ideas are really Bernard Shaw's...
...Fleischer, Manski, Wakefield, Alcock and Ryan and Mr...
...There is, you may be sure, the measure and physical extent of feminity essential to ensure the success of a revue...
...Those who are set ahead by the help of a little drag here, or pull there, have less to worry them...
...Through the efforts made to solve the problem, we have the bases of the common code of morals brought into serious question —and, as usual in life, the issue determined by- wholly Irrelevant considerations...
...Lewis Stone has been selected for the leading role m "The Freedom of the Press" which George Melford will direct fur Universal...
...Hampden's intention of appearing in "Hamlet" and "A New Way to Pay Old Debts...
...Lauri-Volpi, Basiola, Plnza, Paltrlnleri and Gabor...
...A GREAT BACKET The Ambassador Theatre has just housed "The Racket", to which Bartlett Oormack, picturing conditions to the :rime belt of Chicago, lays wide open for vigorous display the control exercised by politics In the operation and the apprehension of criminals...
...The settings, especially the studio, give appropriate background to the mood...
...Al Conn of the play by Max Biegel Which ran at the El tinge Theatre here last season...
...Josephine Hutchinson, highly praised for her work to "Cradle Song" has been cast tor the role of her daughter, and Charles McCarthy, the Civic Repertory Theatre's find this year, as her son...
...DeLuca, Pinza, Tedesco and Paltrlnleri...
...Martinelli, Danise...
...Pick him out, then the sailing is clear...
...Lohengrin" on Thursday evening with Mmes...
...the latter with Mme...
...After your hard struggle to get success, it's just as hard to keep the fire going...
...This Schwab and Mandel musical play is scheduled to succeed "The Desert Song" at the Imperial Theatre shortly after the holidays...
...Gexonte, Adamo Dldur...
...The Stringwood Ensemble, at Its January recital at Town Hall, will introduce a new quartet by Tanelew and a new book by Stillman for piano, clarinet, violin and viola...
...Miss Titheradge, one of the best known actresses on the London stage, made her last Amassasn appearance in "A Butterfly on the Wheel...
...The Freedom ot the Press" is an original story by Peter B. Kyns...
...or to let him die and save a humdrum old physician who, according to the same standards, is a very good old soul...
...Educational Activities In The Rand School The English courses at the Rand School of Social Science, 7 East 15th stret, New York, organized to meet the needs of the foreign-born worker, will continue as follows: Grade Al meets at 7 P. M., and A2 at 8:30 P. m., Tupsdays and Thursdays...
...Perhaps because Shaw has made'him less a man than a vehicle .for Ideas...
...It is true that Mr...
...Serafin will conduct...
...Hampden announces as his next Ibsen production the poetic play "The Pretenders" which has not been performed to New York to a great many years...
...Perhaps because our own standards of morality are also shaken by the questioning and probing of the evening...
...A Sergeant, Vincenzo Reschilian: A Lamp-Lighter, Giordano Paltrinieti...
...Bernard Shaw seems to have reached the stage at which the general reading public is catching up with him No longer a lonely leader of lost causes, he has a wide following that accept lu> ideas with the same unquestioning faith that their grandfathers gave to the Bible...
...Of these plays, few nave been more relentless, more direct, more penetrating, than '.The Racket...
...Harry Delmar's Revels", at the Shubert, shows the effect of Intelligent consideration of the possibilities of such an entertainment.' The general director and his wife, Jeanne Hackett, are present rather to spirit, for Delmar must be given credit for an excellent gathering, and Jeanne Hackett for some original effective costumes...
...The Doctor's Dilemma", now at the Theatre Guild, indicates another curious question time has a way of posing...
...Bellezaa conducting "Turandot" on Friday evening with Mmes...
...Eva Le jGallienne will act the role of a middle aged woman...
...Ignaz Friedman will be the soloist...
...Later on to the season a new work by Hoist, specially commissioned by the Symphony Society, will be given Its world premiere...
...Lucilla de Vescovl, lyric soprano, will give her second recital at the John Golden Theatre on Sunday evening, December 11th, dividing her program between modern Italian, classical and folk songs...
...As long as the character presents ideas which seem reasonable and true to you, he is obviously speaking with the wisdom of the Master...
...On the 28th of the month she will appear with the Schola Cantoram at Carnegie Hall, singing, the part of Marguerite in Berlioz's Orsjdatkm of Faust...
...A Captain, Paolo Ananlan, "Andrea Chenier" will open the week next Monday evening with Mines...
...Murderer 1 Not a soul thinks so...
...Yet the general public, at the death ol Anatole France, hailed him still a« Master...
...The Pretenders" will not interfere with Mr...
...indeed, It Is the honest officer •"ho finds himself handicapped at every urn...
...And in a deep sea number where Jelly fish wriggle shout, Walters and Ellis do a, dance that we wouldn't believe, except that we remember it is possible to make easier movements In water than In air...
...The Racket" stirs up enough noise to wake any really live body of citizens to a new distribution of political power...
...Gigli...
...Lerch and Egener and messrs...
...When a man knows an institution is so bad as to be ridiculous, it requires only a change of mood to bring him to re- . form...
...Lescaut, Antonio Scotti: Des Grienx, Benlamtoo Gigli...
...Cormack kills bis crook at the end, so that the public is satisfied: but it is a deus ex machina, a hand from without, that wreaks proper vengeance, not the finger of the Ipw...
...It is described as a tribute to the "'independent attitude" of editors throughout the country and is based upon a theme of great topical Interest...
...Bodanzky will conduct...
...Cehanovsky and Paltrinier...
...Lucia di Lammermoor" will be next week's "popular" Saturday night opera with Mmes...
...The man who was given Prance's chair in the Academy, in hit speech of acceptance (which custom demands to be a eulogy of his predecessor) was very careful to avoid the issue...
...His notions, many ot them, are becoming universal, which is one step this sld> of the platitude, which is one step short of denial...
...This same program will be repeated at the Sunday afternoon concert to Mecca Auditorium, December 11...
...In Brief...
...When Anatole Prance died, the young artists, successors of those who had hailed him as "Master", banded and wrote a pamphlet, issued on the very day of his funeral, railing upon the writer, his style, and his ideas...
...the acting—particularly that of Dudley Digges, who makes Sir Patrick most alive of the group—is 01 .the Guild's usual excellence...
...A few of them, such as "Limbs of the Law", disappoint many ' by not referring to the lower extremities of feminine humans, but thrust more effectively at other social problems now recognized as fit food for Jesting...
...Jeritza and Flexer and Messrs...
...first sec tons B, C and D. meet at 7 P. M. and the second sections meet at 8:30 P. M.on Mondays and Wednesdays...
...The adaptation and continuity are now being prepared by Faith Thomas...
...In addition to the English courses, the following Is the program for next week: "The Story of World Literature," by John Macy, Monday, at 8:30 P. M. "The Psychology of Personality," by Joseph M. Osman, Tuesday at 7 P. m. and 8:30 P. M. "These Ten Years," by Morris Hillquit, Tuesday, at 8.30 P. m. "The Story of Religion," by Alexander A. Goldenweiser, Wednesday at 8:30 P. m. "The Case for Socialism," by Esther Friedman, Thursday at 8:30 P. M. "The Story of Human Work," by Alexander A. Goldenweiser, Friday, at 8:30 P. M. "The Ascent of Man," by Samuel C. Schmucker, Friday, at 7:30...
...More credit, as to most revues, lingers for the dancing...
...Are they sincere but deluded, the grand old man being played upon in his aging...
...It has been purchased by Universal and win be placed to production ushortly...
...Edmundo, Alflo Tedesco: A Ballet-Master, Angelo Bada...
...KirchhofT...
...A Musician, Merle Alcock...
...Serafin will Cuauuci...
...circles, all over the world, as lo how to Interpret the latest pronounce'barotb of Bernard Shaw, In regard to Italy...
...The theme of the story is the freedom of the modern American girl to contrast with the conventionalities surrounding the Europeans...
...John Cromwell as the Police Captain does a good Job, but the star work of the performance is undeniably that of Edward G. Robinson, formerly the most Intelligent actor of the Guild, now equally responsive to his more melodramatic role...
...By following this *knple method, you may not only enjoy the play (which you will do anyway), but some' away from the theatre with a pleasant sense of your own and Shaw's intelligence...
...a*_ The Civic Repertdry Theatre announces that the third production of its season, a play called "The First Stone", a first effort by a writer hitherto unknown to Broadway, Walter Ferris, goes into rehearsal tomorrow under the direction of Eva Le Galllenne...
...Bodanzky conducting...
...While no date has been set for the presentation, preliminary work is already under way and Claude Bragdon has made drawings for the setting which will be quite elaborate...
...Watt a minute: sometimes this mouthpiece speaks as the echo of Shaw's own spirit, but perhaps you detect him, at other moments, speaking with the vitality and the reality his own character demands, perhaps even inconsistently with the author's potions...
...The New Moon" goes Into rehearsal today with the following cast: Robert Halliday, Ruth Thomas, William Wayne, William ONeel, Margaret Irving...
...for Paul Revere confesses the true reason for his ride...
...Miss Bennett, carried on by the momentum of her hit, was naturally disconcerted to End her next few roles failed to give her a chance to second the impression she made to the "Stella""part...
...Tosca" w^ll be given next Tuesday evening at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with Mmes...
...The play will open in January...
...as soon as he utters opinions which disagree with your knowledge, which are manifestly erroneous, he Is naturally speaking merely as an individual figure in the play...
...Easton, Dalossy, Howard and Wakefield and Messrs...
...There is a chorus of 4* men and 40 women Alfred Goodman is the musical director...
...There have been many plays, of late, showing the "seamy side", as our sentimental friends call it, of life today...
...so many hat if we may accept their number, the possibility of their presentation, the realism of their treatment, and the wrrmth if their welcome, as symbols of condlions today, the garments to which our oclety is wrapped are made almost enirely out of seams...
...Tedesco, Bada...
...Carela Goya and Carlos de Vega will give another recital of Spanish dances at Hampden's Theatre next Sunday evening (Dec...
...Ernest Costart mgv also be mentioned, with a manitf jr- f'--1, is a perfect replica of doctors .• have known...
...After several changes of contract, she signed with TlfTany-Stahl, and now, acOOrdtng to advance reports, Miss Bennetthas scored another triumph to "Wild Geese", the picturization of Martha Ostenso's prize novel, which goes Into the Roxy Theatre Saturday, December third...
...The play is a drama in three acts adapted from a Saturday Evening Post story by Mary Heaton Vorse, touching on a most interesting problem to the life of an ordinary, everyday type of family to a New England small town...
...These movements will Include "Mrs" and "Jupiter the Bringer of Jollity...
...Pour Famous Horsemen", recal- i ling the Oarrlck Gaieties' "Three Musreteers", must annoy Mayor Thompson, of Chicago, if ever the revue reaches his burg...
...Bellezza will conduct...
...An Inn-Keeper, Millo Picco...
...Bellezza will conduct...
...Carl Shaw dees some acrobatfjat lhai fre most iBFfffrt layfMt there teems to be po •dm to the Impossible fasts with the fact that some dancer will come along an> perform with grace and skill...
...i » Gilbert Miller today received a cable from England which concluded negotiations for the engagement of Madge Titheradge to appear to his forthcoming production of "The Patriot", the drama by Alfred Neumann, dealing with the life and assassination of Czar Paul of Russia...
...Is the man who has been a prophet for one generation, the voice calling in the wilderness, doomed to be a back number for the next, the dead stump of a tree once notched to blaze the trail...
...The Theatre Guild gives the play lb usual polished presentation...
...Schutzendorf, Mr...
...Are they, as those who have always mistrusted believe, the expressions of a man who MUST be the centre of attention, even if he contradict h's own pet theories to stay there...
...that is, the mouthpiece of the author...
...Jagel, Scotti, Mala testa, Palfrinieri, Reschilian, Picco and Ananian mr...
...Whitehall, Mayr and Marshall...
...It ran in serla, form first In the Pictorial Review, and was published in book form by Dodd, Mead and Company...
...Walter Hampden is so well pleased with the fine reception the public has given "An Enemy of the People" that Ibsen Is to take a regular place to his repertory alongside Shakespeare...
...Let me picture the usual method^ One character Is usually the "philosopher" of the play...
...Stuckgold and Matzenauer and Messrs...
...Until a new generation :ums the leaf...
...but Frank Fay keeps swift upon her trial, and Bert Labr has genuine fun frothing out of him, especially when he tries to sing his little song...
...News reporters, fresh and eager ¦or the "beat" that will win them recognition and promotion, esger to right civic wrong, see the inside of affairs, grow callous and bitter, but must learn to play the game to earn a living...
...Most of the newspaper men to any large city are rebels at heart, the rest are colorblind (and the color is golden...
...Picco and Altglass...
...Esther Howard, Marie Callahan, Lyle Evans., Ferris Hartman, Joseph Weber and Alan Joslyn...
...The role that looks to the emotional star as her best yet is that of Amelia ?are, the brow-beaten wife of a northern Minnesota farmer...
...Rosa Ponselle, Telva and Falco and Messrs...
...The story of the play is one that tows increasingly familiar to those who ntelligently follow the news of the day...
...4) repeating the numbers which were most liked at their debut and adding others from their extensive Iberian repertoire...
...nothing coulr be more decorously smooth than a Guile performance...
...Horrible fellow...
...In Movies Edeaid Smjuiau bee commenced work i on /'We Americans," an adaptation by...
...Rebels in Contemporary Literature, by N. Brylllon Fag In, Saturday, at 2 P. M. j...
...Haensel und Gretel" and "Pagiiacci" as a special matinee on Friday: the former with Mmes...
...Lauri-Volpi, DcLuca, Tedesco, Bada, Ludikar...
...and "Harry Delmar's Revels" is one of the better of the kind...
...Bellezza will conduct...
...Attwood and Messrs...
...Amusement The Week On Stage BERNARD SHAW'S DILEMMA By Joseph T. Shipley Mft&EKE is considerable wonder In 11b|WL era...
...Lynn Fontanne and 'red Lunt continue to surprise with ,v performances, though the latter be,'s to have moments of reminiscent „ying...
...Winnie Lightner, of course, stands well to front of a good field, with vigorous song and merriment...
...The mother of five children, one of them Illegitimate, is forced to bold her children to the wicked father's yoke under his threats of disclosure and consequent ruination of the Illegitimate son...
...Reginald Denny has completed a second dory for himself titled "Passing the Buck...
...Sir) I .dgeon has to make, either to save the life of a genius who is, according to the doctor's standards, a rascal...
...George Lewis will play the principal role...
...Jeritza, Vettori, Parisette and Flexer and Messrs...
...MUSIC The Metropolitan's ••revival" of Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" will take place on Saturday afternoon, December 10th, with the following cast: Manon, Frances Alda...
...Wild Geese" won fot Martha Ostenso $13,500 as the best novel by an American author...
...You Can't Win," the slogan that Was popular before our police stopped advertising, and which someone has since borrowed as a booktitle, applies, at is Well known among those concerned, only to those who start at scratch...
...He will be heard In Brahms Concerto in D minor for piano with orchestra...
...It is, then, difficult to discover any one who will object to the .once startling ideas put forward in "The Doctor's Dilemma...
...This lament was heard not so long ago from none other than Belle Bennett, who caused a sensation in film circles for her work in, •¦Stella Dallas...
...once lamented wax actor who won fame to a single role...
...Dusolina Giannini will sing at the Roxy Symphony Concert on Sunday morning, December 4th...
...1 Other operas of the sixth week will be: "II Trovatore" on Wednesday evening with Mines...
Vol. 4 • December 1927 • No. 24
