AMUSEMENTS
Amusements The Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley NON- EUCLIDIAN LIFE pomedy at once cultured and caustic "^", light with laughter and deep with human significance, plays rapidly across the...
...The artist, looking upon the world, awry that is the practical man's abiding and selfJustified reality, sees that his esthetic standards cannot apply, knows that in the world around him consistency, conviction, principles are.easily managed attitudes when personal^ Interest drives, and that by his own conduct and implicit ideals the practical world is a bungle and a mess...
...Rosa PonseUe, Telva and Egener and Messrs...
...Die Walkuere" on Wednesday evening with Mmes...
...The picture was directed by Emory Johnson from a story by Emllle Johnson...
...It is therefore possible to announce that immediately after the opening of "The Love Nest" active preparations will begin for the production of "Maya", the play by Simon Gantillon which had so sensational a run at the Champs Elysee Studio Theatre in Paris last year...
...Be will play Brahms Concerto in D minor for piano with orchestra...
...For, as the figures in Wied's play exhibit, it Is his power **j self-delusion that damns the man itie is limited by his own deJft...
...When Ames was organizing his Gilbert and Sullivan company he engaged Barclay at the suggestion of Deems Taylor...
...Amusements The Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley NON- EUCLIDIAN LIFE pomedy at once cultured and caustic "^", light with laughter and deep with human significance, plays rapidly across the stage of the Civic Repertory Thej atre, in Oustav Wied's "Twice Two ^ Are Five...
...Miss Parrar win first be beard is ansa's Dream from "Lohengrin" and then in a group of songs—"Im Troibhans", "Schmensen" and •Traeume...
...Bo much for the play...
...The Civic Rep Co...
...The repertoire In detail is as follows: "Norma" on, Mltnday "evening wtth Mmes...
...What makes the artist also makes his pain...
...Miss Le Oalhenne who asssplres to a 100.000 membership has visions of repertory at 25-36-50 instead of the $1.85 now charged...
...Bees and butterflies, they are more pleasantly watched than grasped...
...It is known that the leading player in the rep movement turned down $1,200 a week from Bam Harris and is said to be earning about one-sixth that amount In a movement to firmly establish the repertory theatre...
...the play should run a wMM oq an rough umiilkataasin alone...
...Tbs/third of Max Hsinhardt's productions in the current New York season of repertory will be presented Monday, Dec...
...S. A. D. In Brief Civic Repertory Theatre Co'» membership at II a head now totals 8.000 with Eva Le OaUlenne's venture now practically self-supporting and but little endowment from Otto H. Kahn, Oerard Dahl or the original backers...
...Another performance of "Norma", the return after a long absence of lime...
...Norman Kerry and Pauline Stark have been selected by Edward Laemmle for the leading roles in his production of "Fallen Angels" for Universal...
...Aids" as a special matinee on Wednesday wtth Mmes...
...Leona Roberts suggests Helen Westley, but the other performers, whether, like Ruth Wilton and Josephine Hutchinson, the "fairy prince" John Eldridge, and Harry Sothem the author, they have individualized roles, or like Paul Leysac and Harold Moulton, they have types to caricature, do original work that meets the none too easy demands of the play, and blends with the movement of the drama Itself to make "Twice7 Two Are Five" a thoroughly enjoyable even> lng...
...The mood in which Margaret Anglin performs achieves a solemn beauty that recalls the religious origin of the drama, and creates an impression rare in the theatre...
...Ladies Must Dress" Is the title of the feature photoplay to be offered at the Roxy Theatre beginning tomorrow, Sunday...
...the Industrial world and the nearer petty grafting, where those who came over two months before now prey upon the "greenhorns...
...s. , . l ~ ' otrt of this dim silence, in atmosphere most eloquent of the rising mood, grows that performance of Sophocles' "Electra" which Margaret Anglin acts and directs at the Gallo Theatre...
...To Paul Abel, the author in the play, the world is a comic spectacle, and through his eyes we see it richly colored with sad humor...
...the Colony Theatre for the week"tssasjiiing Saturday, December 10, is "Shield of Honor," a Universal melodrsmw/featuring Nell Hamilon, Dorothy Qulhrer and Ralph Lewis...
...sex, and its use for financial aid in this economic struggle where the immigrant finds himself so soon and so quickly involved...
...Bodansky win conduct...
...An unusual attraction will be a "$350,000 Fashion Show" mriinjing 50 mannlkins and the Roxy Ballet Corps...
...has an overhead of about $6,000 a Week at the 14th St...
...the practical man is unaware of any need of adjustment...
...no swift urge of suspense toward an unknown goal...
...and Jupiter, the Braayet of Joist* Miss Parrar will make her first appearance wtth the orchestra since her return to the concert stage at the eoncerts of the New York Symphony ta Carnegie Hall...
...Ernest Boyd has made the translation .and Aline Bernstein is now designing the sets and costumes...
...But it mcy be indicated that the artist often misunderstands himself and his neighbor, the practical man...
...Dusolina Olannlnl...
...The Spider" Is almost certain to mystify you which, as is weU known, few mystery plays do...
...The 14th St...
...Miss DeLeporte will dance and Mr...
...AS THEY PASS I happened in on '"The Centuries...
...Maurice Schwartz is now presenting ,Sholom Aleichun's "Oolddiggers" at his Jewish Art Theatre, 2nd Avenue . and 12th Street, on Friday nights, Saturday and Sunday afternoons and evenings...
...I may at least, therefore, claim to have clear vision of the drama...
...It is the sort of play one would rather go to see again than write | about, for the deft dialog (translation I from the Danish by Ernest Boyd and HoUei -Kqppel) evades the scientific pin, as the implications dart away from the net of our words...
...Frank Shannon made for a fairly good policeman, and Miss Beryl Mercer as Dan's mother' was the saving grace In the few moments of rib-tickling that the play afforded...
...Her skillful trilling explains and Justifies richly her title of "Ukrainian nightingale...
...Friedman will be the soloist Sunday In Mecca Auditorium...
...11th...
...All this is a lengthy and perhaps heavily developed notion for this light play to carry...
...The singing quality of her own voice, the responsive words of the chorus, and the harmonious groups that it assumes, the draping costumes and elaborate gestures, an combine to suggest a superhuman grandeur, a majesty that is not lnhibitive of but heightens pity, a performance that reveals the power of Greek tragedy at its best...
...It will be "The Servant of Two Masters...
...There is less beauty In the writing than in Basshe's "Earth", but plenty of noise and power, and much genuine charactercatching in the portraits of the denizens of the immigrant lodging house and the East Side...
...George Sidney will have the leading role in Universalis picture "We Americans", production on which will start this week under the direction of Edward Sloman and the supervision of Carl Laemmle, Jr...
...Of course Dan the cop loves her and the child and tries to force the pugilist to marry his betrayed sweetheart so as to give the child s name...
...Danton's Death," is now announced for the week of December 19th...
...In Movies The feature attraction at...
...The program win be all Wagner...
...But Basshe's play, weak as propaganda...
...John Dos Passes has effectively arranged the boxes and levels of the stage, so that the scene can shift, as swift as fancy, from synagogue to sweat-shop, from strikers' office to politician's dive...
...and puckers to bitterness when a man watches himself (as Paul Abel does) yielding to the pull of the current...
...Basshe, as a proper propagandist, makes his workers win their strike, finding his tragedy in the breakdown of the religious spirit and in the sufferings it the older generation...
...We cannot weigh by numbers...
...Two flaring torches stream up the palace stairs...
...If the i Irish Catholics of this city can nay for (he entertahjgnent...
...Serafln will conduct...
...to the artist each moment of it is anguish (unless in the continuance, as Pope proclaims, he grow accustomed, sloughing off the sensitivity of the artist...
...The company begins its first transcontinental tour, in the Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia, on January 9. It was In this, the oldest theater In America, that Ames first produced" The Green Goddess" with George Arliss...
...we watch the characters move ^unsuspecting to their fated doom...
...For while it may be amusing, in each Instance, to watch how pride or passion, or mere desire for ease, leads a man to violate his deepest convictions...
...BRASS BUTTONS AND A LITTLE HIBERNIAN ROSE "* 8 A* hardboiled expert in the finesse of dramatics,I could not help but snicker a bit here and there at the technical crudity of Brass Buttons, a drama by John Hunter Booth at the Bijou...
...Others in important -rates are Nigel Barrie, Claire MacDowell, Thelma Todd, David Klrby and Fred Esmelton...
...GREEK TRAGEDY The vast darkness of unbroken night...
...There is suggestion of mare problems than any one play can develop: the struggle between the two generations, those that come here mature, and those that grow in the new environment...
...Arrangements have also been effected which Insure the Comedy Theatre as the home of the organization during that period...
...We are lifted on a calmer but richer welling ¦ of beauty, to spiritual heights...
...house has been grossing between $6,900 and $7,000, topping last season's intake...
...In the interval between the closing of "If" and the rehearsals of Robert Emmet Sherwood's "The Love Nest", which opens at the Comedy Theatre on December 22nd, The Actor-Managers have become legally incorporated, and have concluded plans for a producing program which will carry them through the remainder of the season...
...Thursday afternoon (Doc 15) and Friday evening (Dee...
...Compromise, .In the practical world, is unescapable...
...Laubenthal, White hill and Mayr...
...MUSIC Oeraldine Parrar and Ignaz Friedman win appear as assisting artists at the concerts of the New York Symphony Orchestra this week...
...The critics are raving about the play and Us production, and we know personally, that a real treat is in store for anyone who can go and see It...
...Sarafln will conduct...
...The Russian Symphonic, Cheer wSl give s program at the Engineering Auditorium on Saturday evening, January 7th, for the benefit of the American WaMensian Aid Society...
...Well, the struggle goes on like that until everybody Is almost suspected of being father to the child including Minnie Schuht, the landlord's daughter who has her matrimonial digits clawed for "Honest Dan the Cop...
...John Barclay of the Wlnthrop Ames Gilbert and Sullivan Opera company made his debut as a dumb actor in a pantomlne by A. A. Milne in London...
...She did convincingly well in a wholly flat play...
...Twilight shades the dark toward dawn...
...The one element of modernity in the play Is the girl's refusal to acknowledge the suspected roughneck of a villain as thev father of her child...
...The action has begun...
...The Angelus Allied Arts Club opened its concert season most felicitously at the Provincetown Theatre on Monday, Dec...
...for the story of "The Centuries" reads as the old proverb: "The more things change, the more they are the same...
...On a recent visit to New York Sloman took scenes of types and living conditions of immigrants, their arrival in this country and the manner in which they became citizens...
...No thne for Us action, however, is Indicated on the program, and I am in doubt as to whether the scenes represent the days of ISS7 or 1927 or 2057...
...Which Is right...
...Venus, the Bringer of Peace: Mercury, the Winged messenger...
...When next that city saw him he was singing leading roles with Sir Thomas Boer ham's grand opera company...
...It is the power to understand, to smile—even though he must submit—that saves the artist...
...To recognize Kid Dickson the quasi-criminal as her partner in illicit love would blast the future of her blameless child...
...The third production will be "Flipote", by Jules Lemaltre, to be followed In the spring) by the (annual "Grand Street Follies", for which, incidentally, another name will have to be found...
...They're all out of step but Jim", is the fond mother's view of the universe...
...the spectacle becomes less entertaining when viewed from the standpoint of human progress...
...Two follow...
...Percy Grainger, the famous com poser and pianist, will be the soloist st the Sunday morning concert, at 11:80 Sunday, Dec...
...Mile Bazar was particularly entrancing in her Ukrainian folksongs...
...Of course the girl learns tS love Dan, and wants to go the straight and narrow...
...Truth— ind effectiveness—bear less obvious front...
...A shaft of deeper dark across the sky tells of a human habitation...
...He came to America to appear with the important symphony orchestras of this' country...
...This is an adaptation by Charles Logue of Arthurs Somers Roche's serial...
...5th, with an Ukrainian concert at which Mile...
...theatre...
...It ends with the usual embrace close up between Dan and the girl his erring but Irish Route Moore...
...Stuckgold, Homer and Ryan and Messrs...
...Fritz Busch will .open the program with four movements from Oustav Hoist's symphonic mute, "The Planets",—Mars, the Brlnger of War...
...There * is, in Greek drama, no Intrusion of vulgar curiosity...
...12th...
...For this picture of the life of the immigrants whirls rapidly from house to haunt, showing their early hopes of America.—and that stone which they receive...
...If you are one of the few who have not seen this enthralling mystery, and if you like that kind of a plav, our advice is to make haste...
...we see the precipice toward which the torrent » drives...
...I want to record how tret a genuine appreciation for the splendid acting of Miss Muriel Ktrkland as the poor unfortunate betrayed orphan and unmarried mother...
...The Spider** will be on view at the Music Box for but one more week...
...Jeritza, Easton, Matsenauer, Telva, Wakefield, Vettori, Howard, Hanski, Bourskaya, Wells and Parisette and Mess re...
...For with deft caricature and swift dialog the evening moves across pleasing decorations, borne by skilful acting...
...Louise Homer who will sing the role of Amneris in a splendid matinee of "Alda" and the season's first "Die Walkuere", will be among the features of next week the seventh of the season at the Metropolitan Opera House...
...MarUnelU, Ruffo, Pinsa, MacPherson and Paltrinieri...
...The tentative one is "So This is New York...
...As a result of her activity, rep activities throughout...the country have increased...
...The play begins like a picture of domestic intranqullity, but it is really, In theme, a contrast of values...
...All in all...
...every once In a jvhile it seems to stop and say "Now it's time 'or another speech by labor...
...Barclay appears in the title role of "The Mikado", as the Pirate King in "The Pirates of Penzance" and as the Earl of Mount*rarat in "Iolanthe...
...Why Jbtr was left out- stlB pussies me...
...The practical man, on the contrary, does not in the least understand the artist, and is probably saved for his service to the practical world by his inability to see himself...
...i A form looms upon the way...
...The practical world, of course, can easily and with the conviction that is boon of immeasurable superiority in numbers, retort upon the artist that his is the astigmatism, the warped view, that any schoolboy—much more the practical man!—can make his numbers tally, and that the artist has only himself to blame if his two, squared, makes Ave...
...Bonita Bazar, coloratura soprano, P. I. Ellis, baritone, and Myron Timkiwich, violinist and composer, charmed their enthusiastic audience...
...Unfortunately, tie does not seem to have Joined his play neatly...
...who sings next week with the Philadelphia Orchestra and during Christmas week with the Schola Cantorujn, win give her only New York recital of the season at Carnegie Hall on February first, a few days before sailing for Europe for a year's concert and operatic activities...
...Madam Minnie Huffman, impresario and leader of the Greenwich Village Social Club, which meets Sunday evenings at 139 Macdougal street, proved herself a sympathetic and talented accompanist...
...and the wider implications of the struggle with tabor...
...The convincing husband hunter, an honest Dan of a cop, a misled orphan girl flopping into the river to hide her shame forever, a prizefighter villain, suspected father of the unborn babe, the babe born in the cop's home right at the start, a swell little mother for the cop, and the good Father Sullivan," comforter and ranter and drinker of bootleg Stout all combine in making for an old time heart-wringer...
...Lauri-Volpl, Pima and Paltrinieri...
...Is vital and strong as a study of immigrant struggle...
...Em Jo Basshe's play at the New Playwrights, on the night of .Oj, window Cleaners' Benefit...
...Attuned to the full rhythm of the Greek tragedy, the actors move with the majesty of the mood j toward the ultimate fulfilment...
...We Americans" is an adaptation by ai Conn of the play by Max Siege 1 which ran at the El tinge Theatre test season...
...The play of the French revolution...
...With a better play she would have risen to classic heights...
Vol. 4 • December 1927 • No. 25
