AMUSEMENTS
AMUSEMENTS 23 Expulsions Stir Up Ifcow in Stenos' Union A CTION of toe executive Committee of the Bookkeeper!', Stenographers' end Accountants' Union in expelling 23 members of the union on...
...directly affiliated with the A. F. L., strikes must be approved by the Executive...
...20 meeting should be condemned and corrected...
...BranceU, Corona, Bonetti, Ryan, Parlsette, Egener, Palco and Flexer and Messrs, Martlnell, Schutxendorf, Pinza, Tedeaco...
...We are Indeed not expected to sympathae with anybody, nor is there spare time tor the slow sentiment of pity...
...He Is, of Course, the object of the Imprecations of his wife—and the exhortations of the' Reverend Rosewater, revivalist...
...an original story by Lewis Allen Brown and Alan Croeland, which Universal has just purchased...
...All that sort of thing is dished up for the epicures in Vincent Talentini's "continental cocktall'*, "Pariaiana...
...Frederick and Fanny Hatton have written an original story for Denny titled "The Man Disturber...
...Philadelphia...
...The masting wttl we given under the auspices of the Mew York Chapter...
...Hoboken Blues" Uvea, in terms of a group of Negroes in Harlem, the conflict between two attitudes toward life that are'the core of our age's unrest...
...Harold Hecht, Florence House, Donald Hartman and Frances Wilson...
...Mueller...
...Monday...
...It interprets and makes steer the problem of living, simple or complex...
...Gladys Lehman has completed "His First Case...
...The Week On Stage HEVEN IN JERSEY By Joseph T. Shipley rpHENew Playwrights are Improving hi * genaml stage management, in eating and in scenic skill, to judge by the porfoanuuace they are giving of Mtabael Quid's "Betaken Biies...
...the totter with Mmes...
...Doctor Knock" was directed by Richard Bolealavsky and the cast Includes: Robert H. Gordon, Herbert V. GeUendre...
...The "rumor", as well as the "denial" seems to have originated from a publicity office...
...the need of his family, and ifao , struggle of hk%» assnflpg save for them bids him refuse to go off with the "banjo angel", add a poignancy to the mood and a vitality to Bam that enrich the part and the play- It is meet xmtribution to the irony and the truth of the drama that the drunkard philosopher and the misfit beauty-lover are the two whose attitude is most likely to redeem the bartered soul ot man...
...Kostoff, BartSt, Bonflgho, Swee, Barona and Casanova dancing and Mr...
...Beaton, ClaUssen...
...K is lew and order that must be upheld...
...It is raised above that type of asaatsur offering, not In mood, but in •drill of writing, sureness of points driven heme, and tempo of-production...
...David DeTasoo wis present bis latest production...
...Basel Mason, Lawrence Bolton, George Brett and George Price were to our mind moat effective, but Individuals merged to create a whole performance that no one interested in either the best of our drama (as distinguished from the Broadway success) and the best of our living (as distinguished from the eager quest, and the loose employment,' of wealth) can afford to go without seeing, hoboken Blues" looks through Harlem'to accuse the world \J) HOT FANNING Those two sons to "Desire Under the Elms", who started off to Californlay, were met on the journey by the John Howard Lawson mood that conceived ''Processional'', and helped the framing of Michael Swift's "Hot Pan," which riots its travesty over the boards of the Provincetown Playhouse...
...In 1928, Sam has discovered his Eden and returns to take his family there- He find* the Reverend and the former undertaker operating rival cabarets, the latter just dismissing Sam's wife, the former arranging to marry Sam's daughter...
...Children of the Sun" will be the title of Alexander Markey's recently announced picture for Universal...
...Madonna Imperia" and **Ooq d*Or" on Friday evening...
...The calm righteousness with which the Americans dispossess the Mexican settler would make us sympahtlze too much with elm...
...Sensitive to moods himself, he tries to fathom the mood of millions, and to carry through a musical approach to it The human voice, the organ, the orchestra, and the bring magic of bis own word pictures,—these are the human Instruments with which he works to achieve the heights of his goal...
...Borl, Keener and Palco and Messrs...
...When the minister cries out that the Lord •«—r-rrw the •oppression of the thief, an exerted BUhor bawls "I agree with Html" Humor that probably Sounds flat on the printed page takes color and fire with the mood of the playing, the absurd page takes color and flrs with the mood of the pJaytae, the absurd retewahtng of the costumes and the manners of the tbne...
...Mignon" on Thursday evening with Mmes...
...The theatre is full of surprises and not the least of these is the sigh of a Launcelot Oobbo making one of the outstanding acting successes of the season on Broadway...
...e must know their reactions...
...The union officials protested against this strike vote...
...D'Angelo, Pinza, PaKrtnleri and Reschlllan staging and Misses Gam, DeLeporte and Messrs...
...COCKTAIL—WITH CHERRY Good Americans* If it he but to release their repressions—no longer need wait till they die to go to Paris...
...perhaps out of regard for bis name the present author refers to it as "Money...
...The boy made his debut as a "super" with the Theatre Guild and attracted attention in two of the Guild's Oarrlck Gaieties and as the latter of the title roles of Bernard Shaw's "Androcles and the Lion...
...These charge that many of those expelled are not Communists and not "trouble-makers" but in fact, among the most active of the members...
...The actual reason for the expulsions is the interpretation of the fact that those who voted for the strike at the January meeting were of the 'undesirable element...
...The Rialto Theatre has sent out a complete denial of an connection in the present visit of Anastasia to this country...
...Bonfiglio win dance and Mr...
...I doubt it...
...Winston Dancis, one of the most active members of the Young Peoples' Socialist League and the Socialist Party hi the Bronx, has asked the New Leader to publish the following, which, he feels, is representative of a considerable portion of the membership of the union...
...Whkehin...
...William Leeds, is to be used as a publicity and promotion stunt for "The Last Command," the EmII Jennings picture now playing at the Rialto Theatre...
...February 39, at 8:18 at the home of Mrs...
...then comas another crashing m us aside or sb> rapier (or crack of pop pistol as another minor fallal) to repay.the alert attention...
...It I Were Rich," a story by Max Ma rein, was purchased a year ago for Denny's use and is now being adapted by Beatrice Van...
...and although each is shaded by the individuality of the writer, the mood running through them is one...
...Those poor farmers in the West who are running around in flivvers without i tires looking for work can now appreciate the millionaires who have retired 'on what these workers produced but did not get...
...Rotbafel must, in a degree, deS;nd upon what .bis audience tells him...
...TaUey and Dalessy and Messrs...
...At the January meeting, the members voted 23 to 14 for a strike of the 78 employes of the Amalgamated Bank I if Rubin was not reinstated in three days...
...he does not give bis hearers an advance outline of bis intentions...
...Next Sunday at 8.30 there will be a general symposium on the current production, Michael Gold's "Hoboken Blues...
...A program featuring five great ciUos of music—London...
...Stelnberger said that no Robert's Rules of Order is going to disrupt this union and that those in power would use methods which did not appeal to tbem in order to expel these undesirables and that when the union was cleared of this element, then democratic and legal procedure would be observed...
...Other operas of the eighteenth week will be: "Le Prop he te" on Wednesday evening with Mmes...
...There was also a skit the whole point of which was the laugh to be won from reterm for an Illegitimate child is solemnly applied to its object...
...Oiiphani To Talk On Courts tor tjbe JLI.D...
...the former with Mmes...
...In 1903, the end of the era of horse-cars, Sam Pickens is hunting a job...
...An unusual feature deals with the experiences at EDls Island of the woman portrayed by Margaret Mann, and her subsequent wanorflngi in New York, MUSIC "Traviata" will open the eighteenth week of the Metropolitan Opera Season Monday evening with Mmes...
...Ames, almost as brief, said: "If you dont like this play...
...The action taken by the Executive 'Committee of the Union is manifestly unfair to the expelled members and to the best interests of the union...
...and the softer fawny in the handling of the Mexican and hat nUstress...
...Several members protest'ed this ruling, but were ruled out of order by the President and no appeal from his ruling was allowed...
...Brent, born In SantiUo, Mexico, was at the age of Ave taken to Paris by his father, then Mexican Ambassador to France...
...Bodanaky wfll conduct...
...At moments la aet three there creeps a sense of sameness over the stir...
...Lux )a Mar (twnpaarauua Barbara Bulgakov) who kress htm and want* to see hhn hanged —until the bmenrejatf that merges heaven and earth' and holds the future...
...After the most brazen appropriation ha the name of Country, when the tables are turned...
...Mmes...
...Gigli, DeLuea, Ananian, Plcco, Resehinan and Paltrinieri...
...Miss Galli and Mr...
...altglass...
...Every Sunday afternoon, from 2 to 3, Roxy grasps the hand of his ever-growing radio audience and takes it for a "stroll...
...AEglass, Reschlllan and Ananian...
...In a talk, Pres...
...action dramatic (if that's the right term...
...The reason given was that he had violated rules and business usages of the •wank and made other serious errors In his work...
...the principals rising above the usual level of their work and of the New Playwrights...
...It is the intention of the expelled members to appeal to the American Federation of Labor for re-tostatement...
...Ill give you another...
...AMUSEMENTS 23 Expulsions Stir Up Ifcow in Stenos' Union A CTION of toe executive Committee of the Bookkeeper!', Stenographers' end Accountants' Union in expelling 23 members of the union on charges of being Communists and "trouble-makers...
...Babbitt visiting the metropolis would laugh along the evening with "Parisian*"—and probably wait at the stage door after the show...
...Processional" more seriously and on larger canvas paints the life we.have come to...
...Karl N. Llewellyn, amuctats Professor of Law, CcJumeaa, win act as chairman Ah the members and friends ef the League are In met Gteorgs Arhss' spring tour in Wlnthrop Amee* production of "The Merchant of Venice" probably will Include Boston...
...ORIENTAL REVENGE Lord Duneany, in his blood curdling play of Jewel* stolen from an Eastern Ood...
...At the meeting of February 20 held at 3 West 16th street at 6:45 p.m., the expelled members were not permitted to enter in order to appeal to the mem.bership...
...About a year ago, the Executive Committee was given power to expel members who are of the above class...
...88 to the Belaseo Theatre...
...Rudolf Laubenthai and *raedaSi Baer at aasjattng arttsU, Symposium on Russia At the Rand School On Mondav, Mar...
...Claudette Colbert has been signed up for the role of Aggie Lynch to the allstar revival of "Within the Law," the third repertory offering of the Chambertin Brown artists...
...nor a there an escape into iiatuaai igtlity in the picture of their son and daughter keeping clean of the flapper flippancy ef the new age, serious in purpose and resolve...
...The Last Command" is a story of the crumbling regime of the late Czar, as exemplified in the role of the Csar's cousin, the part played by Km 11 Jennings...
...But if the old thrillers that stirred the last generation amuse us hi revival today, it needs but slight shifting of devices, a mere turn of the technical screw, to tighten our Interest once mere, and hold it tense...
...action...
...it is rather a sophisticated development of the ten-twent'-thirty cent thrillers of our youth, when the hero led a group of rescuing firemen to make a human chain, a bridge on which the heroine could ran from one building to another...
...Since the Bookkeepers are a Federal Union...
...League far Tiwkmtilal Deaaocraoy...
...When Wlnthrop Ames opened his Little Theatre in New York with John Galsworthy's "The Pigeon," the author, called before the curtain, said "Thank you...
...John Clymer is now making an adaptation of this fast moving farce...
...Galsworthy evidently dM not mind this remark, for he always has seat Ames his plays as soon as he wrote tbem...
...Bade...
...The illegal and undemocratic manner of conducting the Feb...
...Letters do come to him...
...Washington, Baltimore, Buffalo, Toronto, Montreal aad Hartford...
...Gala, DeLeporte and Mr...
...the pursuer is not the god himself but a villain descended from that god, a very villain, for he has long held In his power the fair daughter of the partner of the man who stole the gem With these ingredients, a potent mixture has been prepared for New York's lovers of melodrama...
...It is, for example, the first play In which the present reviewer has been privileged to behold a young woman wearing Eve's adornments to the waist, not a mere pasturing grace, but an actual part of the dramatic (if that's the right term...
...While the chorus provided for the cabaret and other dancing scenes may lack the pulchltrude of Ziegfeid's, the sychronization of Chester Hale's, it is probably the most Intelligent group of chorus girls now playing...
...The Silent Bouse" is not really a mystery, for we learn too soon who the villains are...
...Galsworthy's latest drama, "Escape," produced by Ames, reaches its 150th performance in the Booth Theatre, New York, on March 2. At the New Playwrights Theatre on Commerce street, the Sunday night drama discussions are continuing...
...Bori...
...If you have seeu the play—or read it in The American Caravan—you are invited to came and express your opinion: if not, you are invited to come anyway...
...Those expelled Included almost every member of the Organization Committee, headed by Miss Sally Green, which had directed the campaign to organize the office workers of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co...
...That vote seems to have been ill-advised, but, to expel, without trial, active and sincere trade-unionists can only result in dual unionism...
...makes bis chief characters the gang of thieves that stole the stone, and works to the proper vengeance of the God...
...is baaed on a story by lss L A. R. Wylie, and is said by those who have seen it to be filled with very human details of domestic life which will reach Into every home...
...Jane Barry, in several numbers, gave it good reason io disport...
...Bonnglto will dance and Mr...
...Jagel, Ptoza, Wolfe, Bada, Paltrtrrieri, DAngelo and Plcco...
...janes Remain*' satrlcal comedy "Doetor Knock'' opened at the Laboratory Theatre Friday...
...the factory and the subway ditch are beyond bis power of sticking...
...Lercfa, Alcoek and Guilford and Messrs...
...Mueller...
...He claims it was due to his union activities as shop chairman of the bank employes and on the executive committee of the B. S. St A. U. The union officials tried to have the bank -reinstate Rubin, but were unsuccessful...
...Olive May has a sweet voice, and Horace Kola can dance...
...now swathing the mtelltgonns of suSlonin at their theatre on Commerce street la one sense the play serves to separata the aheap from the suets...
...Miss Colbert has barely bad time to rest from her last efforts in "La Grihga" before beginning rehearsals tor "Within the Law" to which she acts as the associate of Mary Turner, played by Miss Violet Hemtog...
...the poetry and power of Us spiritual swobs are effected through a story that, viewed merely as a surface tale, seems incoherent and wild: in the light of the deeper conflict it glows with flu that at laements Is as the harsh beltowa-bJast of the forge and at times the eerie flare ef the Northern Lights...
...Next October he will begin a tour ka the rtliaai saeari esawady to the Pactflc coast that wfll include aQ the Important cities of the country...
...the addition of Thomas and Hffls"* * the Program a fine audience is assspw for this symposium...
...Hasnelmaas win conduct...
...The picture, which win have a special musical setting prepared S. Erno Rapee...
...Hasselmans win eonduct...
...They claimed that the vote was not binding due to the fact that no advance notice of a proposed strike call was sent the members, and that a 2-3 vote as required was not secured...
...Wells and Parlsette and Messrs...
...The charges against these members are that they are Communists...
...Helen Bssnhh Pincke, 149 East 89th street...
...The swift changes of scene in the first act, as a rolling backdrop sided the transfer from revival meeting to saloon, are good preparation for the extravagant transport ef Sam's delirium as he hovers between life wd death...
...Paris, Rome, Vienna and New York win be piuuited by Wei/ ter Damroach at the Thursday afternoon and Friday evening (March 1 and 2) concerts of the New York Symphony OrT...
...Sometime during the period between the January and February membership meetings, these office workers received registered notice of disassociation from the Union, with no reasons cited...
...Hyan and Palco aarf Messrs...
...The very large oast was well handled and responsive...
...at the Edith Totten Theatre, without the trouble and the shielding of the French._ "Parislana" presents ss much vulgarity and as little clothing as one may hope tor these days, if one is In the habit of hoping for those items...
...Ernst Laemmle will direct "Why Announce Your Marriage...
...Prof...
...The Bachelor Father.'* a new comedy by Edward Chflda Carpenter, with June Walker, G. Aubrey Smith and Geoffrey Kerr, on Tuesday evening, Feb...
...Serafin win conduct...
...Ames has declined more dramas by Galsworthy than he has produced...
...newest Fox Mm special, opened at the Gaiety Theatre Monday night, Feb...
...Miss Colbert, one of the most popular of the younger stars, plays the role originally created by Florence Nash when the Bayard Veiller drama was presented to New York to 1912...
...D*Angelo and Ananian...
...be needs a job where there Is place for music and for joy...
...Shakespeare's clowns and Oobbo, Jr., in particular, have with the r—tag centuries become somewhat tedious on the stage, however interesting and amusing they remain in the study...
...The trouble began when the Amalgamated Bank gave notice during December to one of its clerks, Harry Rubin, of his discharge on December 31, 1927...
...The germs of our present society (pardon me, as the sneaker has to explain), not the breeders of disease, but the seeds of What is humorously referred to as our social order are exhibited in spring planting season, with a humor that respects neither dosUine nor deed—nor detty— in its burlesque tomfoolery and penetrating attack...
...Baautosehek conducting...
...Die Walkure" as a matinee on Thursday—the third of the Wagner Cycle— with Mmes...
...Dancis said: "At the February meeting of the B. S. St A. U., Local 12646 A. F. L., Business Agent Ernest Bohm reported on the action of the Executive Committee in expelling 23 members...
...However, in this Instance, no trial was ever given to these members...
...In Movies Since the recent publicity hoax staged in Central Park for the promotion of a night club dancer, a report has been circulated that the visit of Princess Anaatasia who Is in New York as a protegee of Mrs...
...Yet, Romney Brent in the Arliss-Ames production of "The Merchant of Venice" has made the younger Gobbo such a vivid and comic fellow that his performance promises to set a new tradition for the role...
...What such emigrants from the U. 8. A. seek Is summed up in the sort of show where you can see almost as much of the Parisiennes as you desire, and listen to stories that (without understanding enough of the slang to recognise their vulgarity) you can guess are naughty...
...He does not announce the itinerary...
...Hidden funds that mutt be redeemed within four days, secret passages, poison gases, deaf mutes at the back of potent fiends, trap doors that open on guns that at once go off, secret compartments that reveal sudden death: these combine with, the suave performance of Clarke Sflvernafl and the pretty bewilderment aad hsjpasasnam of Helen Chandler (who Justifies much heavier demands on her powers than this play makes) and with a generally effective company, weB directed, to keep the audience in constant flow from gasps and held brtath of excitement to sighs and drawn breath of relief...
...At the February meeting, President Emerich Stelnberger claimed that the Executive Committee's action in expelling Communists, their sympathizers and trouble makers was not subject to review by the membership- at the regular month,hj meetings...
...March 5th, at 8^8 aav BraUsford Is one of the best lafaaiai men on Russia In the British Batlf* movement and bis views are of paiff* lar Interest to American workers...
...were no Lope at hand to remind Don Armkno his seizure from the Indian h but being turned upon him...
...The call of the old plantation is In his heart...
...Serafin conducting...
...aauclimax pries ridiculously on aetti-clhnas: "Was it for this," exclaims a devoted citizen, "that our fathers wrested this land from the bands of a foreign king...
...Council of that body...
...Laubenthral...
...He will shortly embark for an island in the Southern Pacific accompanied only by an assistant, a cameraman and a continuity clerk...
...Communist sympathizers, or trouble makers...
...Pour Sans...
...Just in time to escape both the clutching flames and the grasping hands of the Oriental villains...
...chestra In Carnegie Hall...
...5 Interest hi Soviet Russia and tts •nation to the Socialist movement of tbJ world has become an Important tqpjs *» discussion in recent weeks and the Rand School of Social Science has airaafel a symposium on this topic with an array of notable speakers...
...Here Markey, himself a scientific explorer, cameraman and author, plans to film a romantic and dramatic story of the Maoris...
...Hot Pan" more joyously and in smaller field shows its beginning, to the mixture of cultural pretense and coarseness, of pious sentiment and selfish action, in the saves justification of clutching greed, the swift absndeniiMeit of a bone hi the mouth for the bigger one in the water, that bring the miners of Hot Pan cloao to the majors—the majority—of America today...
...In melodrama, R would be a safe rule that all Orientals are vOnans, were it no tthat—as here— one of them has had his life saved in youth by a friend of the hero, and is therefore devoted to, and the means of saving, the party...
...28) he wfll repeat the concert version of "Tristan and Isolde" at Mecca Auditorium, with Rachel Morton...
...for the play whirls its extra vaganaa concerts m suave and swift awncdaaon...
...Three stories are now in preparation for Reginald Denny at the Universal studios and will be to readiness for him to commence - work upon his return from his proposed trip to England...
...No sketch of the play or its theme can touch upon all angbs ot its vision, nor Indicate the variety ef tta qbaafrlrsl affects...
...Prof issue ¦¦¦nil OUphant, Preacaear of Law at OBhaaate Law School, will be the principal sneaker at the New York Chapter sawjpnskem on "Court-tog American Labor" to be bawl oa Wednesday...
...Msmskt Bourskaya, Telva, Vet tori, Alcock, Flexer...
...The fact that Ram reaches, and for twentyflve years dwells in, his paradise, as the result of an undeserved crack in the skull dealt him by a Hoboken cop, but adds to the Irony of the theme...
...Toeoorrew (Sunday, Feb...
...Norman Thomas Of j*j League for Industrial Democracy, $°* Morris Hillquit will participate In ***** postum in the Rand School ef ewS*> Science, 7 East 15th street, New i>* City...
...This la the sett of entsrtatamant one sen lasagdne a group of intelligent observers of things as they era, gathering together and presenting In -p*****-*inrnw Witty...
...Tickets may hi attained at the Band School...
...From all walks of life, comes the passion to understand through music...
...The general public has grown faster and more frantic in its unchanging quest: "Gold" it is called around the way in "Hot Pah...
...Guess which one...
...Bonn en and Oustafson...
...Miss Page will dance and Mr...
...Oigli...
...Henry Noel Btajk' ford, former Editor of The New Lb**" of London...
...has aroused much criticism on the part of members of the union...
...Re-exatnlne aS that you nave in school or church or in any bosk, *** dismiss whatever insults your ewa aw* "-Watt Whitman...
...In "The Silent Bouse," at the Morosco, the emphasis has shifted: the thief is killed so that an innocent nephew may be hero...
...Rothier, Cehanovsky, Pattrtaiert...
...Only the meat Imaginative of those who read ''Hoboken Blues" hi the American Caravan might have foreseen its liveliness on the stage...
Vol. 7 • February 1928 • No. 10
