AMUSEMENTS
AMUSEMENTS The Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley TP HE magic which Relnhardt wrapped 4 about "A Midsummer Nighi\p«eam'' Is revivified and reabsorbed in his production of "Jederman", the...
...Alda and Alcock and Messrs...
...This vivid drama of the French Revolution is the most elaborate of Reinhardt's spectacular productions...
...at the Qentury Theatre, there are more than 100 actors with speaking parts...
...only Good Works (a wretched cripple) and Faith rise to accompany him...
...Other scholarships in other subjects will be announced from time to time during the season...
...It is in the manifestations of character that the pow^r of the play developes...
...Sat., December nth, at eleven o'clock This is designed as a special performance for children and students...
...the freshly Informal performances of the Irish Players, especially of Arthur Sinclair, give life to It and heighten its effect...
...A special theatre party for the children of the city's Institutions will be given at the Warner Theatre on the morning of the 18th Inst, when the youngsters will see and hear Al Jolson In "The Jazz Singer...
...Rosa Ponselle, Lerch and Flexer and Messrs...
...The Lone Eagle", a drama of the World War In the air, is the feature attraction at the Colony Theatre beginning Saturday, December 17th...
...After two seasons in New York City, Wlnthrop Ames' Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company will begin a transcontinental tour In the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia on January 9. Willlatm A. Brady, Jr...
...Jagel, Kirchhoff, Danlse and Mayr will sing...
...Wladimir Sokoloff, the young Russian artist seen as Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and also doubles as Death and The Devil In "Jedermann:" and Hans Thimlg, the youngest of Thimigs who played Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and who this week is the "goose stepping" Messenger of "Jedermann...
...L'Africana" will be the Saturday matinee opera with Mmes...
...His program for the coming concert consists, of numbers by Mozart...
...The power of Moi&si, his mobile face and obedient voice, are further elements of the impression, that continues the validity and the beauty of the Relnhardt presentations...
...however, worth while seeing what Hamsun has to offer In the drama, and we are grateful to the American Laboratory Theatre, which has done so much of solid merit, for having, given us...
...The entire bill as now unfolded at the Warner Theatre will be given for the children, all of whom are to hear Vitaphone for the first time...
...Meader, Tedesco, Cehanovsky, Gabor, Wolfe, D'Angelo and Gustafson...
...Serafin will conduct...
...Its worst fault is the extreme obviousness of the development of the plot...
...Rethberg and Matzenauer and Messrs...
...Bonflgllo will dance and Mr...
...In keeping with the literary dignity of the original authorship of his forthcoming production of Alfred Neumann's "The Patriot", Gilbert Miller announces that he has .obtained the services, as translator and adapter, of the celebrated English playwright-critic, Ashley Dukes...
...Gigli, Scotti, Didur, Tedesco, Picco, Altglass, Bada...
...and in his most satiric portraits, in these figures, that most roused the resentment of indignant Irish audiences, there is ar underlying loyalty and kindness, flie woman who represents the viewpoint of Catholics, sputtering forth ^her biblical quotations in places and moments when they sound more like blasphemy, the woman who is scorned and vilified by all her neighbors, proves to have a tender and warm heart for the needy...
...Gigli, Danise, Plnza, Ludikar, Bada, Altglass, Ananlan and Reschlllan...
...The price of admission is $1.00 for the course of concerts given at the Washington Irving High School by the People's Symphony Concerts...
...Bodanzky will conduct...
...t "La Julve" on Friday evening with Mmes...
...Everyman, as you probably know, is summoned during the thoughtless hours of his selfish pleasure-seeking, to go that journey which every man must take...
...and an effective setting helps please the eye...
...This Is Szigeti's third appearance with the People's Symphony Concerts...
...For the play begins with a picture of life in the home of an Irish bricklayer, later Commandant in the Irish Citizen Army and martyr for the cause of Irish freedom...
...23rd at 8:30 at the Washington Irving High School...
...and Dwight Deere Wlman have bought a new play by Robert Emmet Sherwood entitled, "The Queen's Husband," which they will put Into rehearsal immediately...
...Kirchoff, Whitehill, Meader, Altglass...
...Morgana, Manski, Mario, Howard and Telva and Messrs...
...there is little about the play that one cannot tell at the end of the first few minutes of action...
...To connoisseurs of the theatre this should be a guaranty of an English version comparable to that which has won widespread success throughout Central European stages, for Dukes is already known in this country as "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife" for Granville Barker in 1915 and as author of "The Man With a Load of Mischief...
...Mr...
...KNUT HAMSUN, PLAYWRIGHT The American Laboratory Theatre has now produced the first play by Knut Hamsun to be offered In English in this country, "At the Gate of the Kingdom...
...The beauty and the power of "The Plough and the Stars", by Sean O'Casey, the first production of the Irish Players at the Hudson, grew Into evidence out of its opening stir and homelike bickering...
...Barbara 'Sent and Raymond Keane play the featured roles...
...The uniformed staff of house attendants displayed the effects of their military training, imparting to the Governor's reception all the pomp and circumstance of an official visit...
...The Tales of Hoffmann" will be the popular Saturday night (Christmas Eve) opera with Mmes...
...The Relnhardt method, so far as we have seen it, is adapted to large theatres and great audiences...
...AMUSEMENTS The Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley TP HE magic which Relnhardt wrapped 4 about "A Midsummer Nighi\p«eam'' Is revivified and reabsorbed in his production of "Jederman", the second of his presentations at the Century, the German version, elaborated by Von Hoffmansthal, of the old English morality •"Everyman...
...The buffooning of the merry devil Sokoloff is an engaging counterpoint of the main theme, aljd its burlesquerie adds to its force...
...O'Casey looks upon these Irish with a deep pity that in no way dims 01 warps his vision...
...It has been found necessary to set the hour of the presentation at 10:00 o'clock In order Chat the children may be returned to their Institutional homes in time for lunch...
...The players make good efforts to Infuse life Into the somewhat stereotyped drama...
...Ananlan and Reschilian...
...Such is the simple story...
...Misses Galli, Friedenthal and Mr...
...Hasselmans will conduct...
...Lauri-Volpi, Pinza and Paltrinieri...
...Mmes...
...Paltrinieri and Wolfe...
...Jeritsa, Wakefield, Bonetti, Ryan and Parisette and Messrs...
...there is a spaciousness, a breadth of gesture, a dellberateness of tempo, that to an intimate audience would give the effect of obviousness and tedium: In these plays, and in this theatre, the result is a solemnity and grandeur that befits the place and the theme...
...The situation Is complicated by the unnecessary jealousy of the wife;, her constant suspicion, while it leads, perhaps, to her own ultimate running off, is a distraction from the main purpose of the drama...
...he shows, rather, wi$r, pitiless eyes true conditions and types that in themselves are pitiable...
...struggle of youth to remain true to its conviction, against all the forces of life—the opinions of the settled majority, money, love, life itself—that bend It toward compromise or full betrayal...
...In this home we watch the quarrels that, apparently without end or purpose, disturb the peace Of the household...
...The whole affair, which is to be distinctly non sectarian, is being sponsored by Warner Bros, in association with Judge Samuel D. Levy, who for years has presided over the Children's Court, and Edwin M. Hydeman...
...gradually out of the various oppositions rises a sense of underlying differences that grow more evident, more striking, more fundamental, until they move toward the multifold tragedy of the end...
...The veriest disbeliever, the most thorough atheist, must be impressed by this call...
...He is also associate editor of Theatre Arts Monthly, published here...
...The club believes that at the present time many fine talents are lost to the world because of financial handicaps and it is mairins...
...The members of the permanent' Civic Repertory Company are appearing in this production...
...Other principal parts will be played by Lili Darvas, who was seen as Titania in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and who is now playing Faith in "Jedermann...
...Bodanzky will conduct both operas...
...r The picture of the efforts of the Irish to win their independence lies under the more definite sketch of these characters, as the boiling crater of a volcano lies dark and powerful beneath the smoke and lava of the eruption...
...Flelsches, Sabanieova, Manski, Wakefield, Alcock, Wakefield and Ryan and Mr...
...Tartini, Bach, Paganini and Strawinsky...
...Rosa Ponselle, Corona, Fleischer, Atwood and Alcock and Messrs...
...The entire cast numbers 150...
...Schutzendorf...
...Dagny Servaes, who was Hippolyta In the Shakespearean fantasy and who is Paramour in "Jedermann" and who Is known abroad as a popular film star as well as a dramatic actress...
...Serafin will conduct...
...Tokatyan, DeLuca, Rothler, Paltribierl...
...Violanta" and "Haensel und Gretel" I on Thursday evening the former with Angelas Allied % Arts Club Otters Free Scholarships The Angelas Allied Arts Club...
...Applicants are requested to phone Spring 0551 for information...
...but the root of the production is weak, and the flowering cannot be hearty...
...Rosa Ponselle, Telva and Egener and Messrs...
...this offer as a concrete contribution to the workers who hold music at heart...
...Bambochek will conduct...
...These, however, suffice to take him safely past the devil to the waiting angels at death's —and heaven's—door...
...The final selection of aspirants will be based on an actual public test at a wellknown New York theatre...
...It is...
...Paul Hartmann, who created the role In Europe will play "Danton...
...The Plough and the Stars" (hVe "Juno and the Paycock", as we saw a few seasons ago,) is a play'that depends upon the actors...
...Viscount and Viscountess Wlllingdon...
...Hasselman will conduct...
...In Movies Beryl Mercer, who opened this week in a play called "Brass Buttons", now at the Bijou Theatre, will leave shortly for Universal City to play the role of the mother In "We Americans", under the direction of Edward Sloman and the supervision of Carl Laemmle, Jr...
...Last Monday S. L. Rothafel entertained at luncheon In his private suite of offices at the theatre...
...Roxy conducted the Governor-General and his wife through a tour of the "cathedral of the motion picture...
...Lohengrin" will open.the eighth week' of the Metropolitan Opera Season Monday evening with Mmes...
...These concerts are attended by students, workers, and professional 'musicians who cannot afford to pay the high prices charged at the regular concerts given by well known artists...
...George Arliss will make his first appearance as Shy lock in William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" under the direction of Wlnthrop Ames on January 9- in the Shubert Theater, New Haven, Conn: His New York season will begin on Monday night, January 10...
...and in truth—while Hamsun Is a figure worth watching in any expression—this at least of his dramatic efforts is in need of considerable tightening...
...Serafin will conduct...
...The modernistic settings were originated by Gladys Calthrop...
...The Civic Repertory Theatre announcec that Aline Bernstein, who was formerly with the Neighborhood Playhouse, has fbeen selected to design the settings for its next production, "The First Stone", by Walter Ferris...
...Other operas of the eighth week will be: "Norma" as a special matinee on Wednesday with Mmes...
...The theme is one of fairly frequent occurrence, though of permanent validity: the...
...it is therefore in the skill of the acting that much of Its success resides...
...The shaft of light that cuts the cold of dark, the solemn voices that echo over vast space, calling Everyman to his doom across eternity, deepen the emotions of those who come to .watch an expert man of the ^theatre, into forgetfulness of their wise intent ani into profound mood of the play and its period...
...Since Jed Harris has denied that "The Royal Family" is about the Barrymores and Shumlin and Straeger have denied that "The Celebrity" is about Gene Tunney, Schwab and Mandel deny that their forthcoming musical romance, "The New Moon" Is about astrononjy, or that "Good News" is a picture of campus life at Harvard University...
...Martinelll, Rothler, Tedesco, PI ceo, Wolfe, Ananlan and Gustafson...
...On his final way he seeks companionship...
...Elena Rakowska (debut) and Fleischer and Messrs...
...yet there are elements of charm and amusement in the details of the play...
...Szigetl has shown a great interest in these concerts...
...this opportunity to judge for ourselves of'his drama on the stage...
...In Brief In the cast of Max Reinhardt's production of "Danton's Tod" which follows the current "Jedermann" on the program next Monday, Dec...
...U» Macdougai street, Greenwich Village, Mew York City, announces that several scholarships m voice, piano and elooutton will be awarded to worthy applies nta This club has inaugurated a plan for bringing out unknown talent which deserves eminence in the musical and elocutionary arts but is not in a position to pay the high fees usually required for such training...
...The Irish Players are an experience not to be missed...
...MUSIC Joseph Szigetl has prepared an interesting program for his concert Frldaj evening Dec...
...Lauri-Volpl...
...At next Sunday night's "Opera Concert" for the benefit of the Metropolitan Opera Emergency Fund, Mmes...
...Manon Lescaut" on Wednesday evening with Mmes...
...the latter with Mmes...
...The Governor-General of Canada Is the latest addition to the roster of national and international celebrities who have come to pay personal homage to the architectural and artistic achievements of the Roxy Theatre...
...The Civic Repertory Theatre announces that this season's opening performance of "Twelfth Night" will begin this morning...
...Laubenthal, Whitehill, Mayr and Tlbbett...
...Of this, Relnhardt makes an experience that again recalls the religious ecstasy of which drama rose...
...Afjter viewing the performance...
Vol. 4 • December 1927 • No. 26
