AMUSEMENTS
AMUSEMENTS Laundry Workers Fight Bosses and Police Brutality The Laundry Drivers' Union, Loeal ISO, has declared a strike against the Manhattan and Bronx Laundry Owners Association, and...
...She will be assisted by a roupe of real Samoans in this spectacle...
...art Miss Le Gallienne's courageous venture promises...
...BOX MAKERS (Continued from Page 1) The Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley MARCH MADNESS Tt is only in the spring of life that one is lunatic enough to value starlight and the mutual pulsing of two hearts beyond the fluctuations of the market and the power of gold—which buys ail things...
...Nat Ross has been selected to direct Lake in both of these produptions for which the continuities are now in preparation...
...plestonsaurs, pterodactyle...
...AMUSEMENTS Laundry Workers Fight Bosses and Police Brutality The Laundry Drivers' Union, Loeal ISO, has declared a strike against the Manhattan and Bronx Laundry Owners Association, and despite vicious police tactics, is determined to carry the fight through to victory...
...At 9:45 Tuesday evening, Horace G. Knowles...
...The play is fantastic and makes symbolic use of its characters...
...Little, needs to be said to those of our comrades who have followed the epic making British Labor Movement about the place that Brailsford holds there...
...MULTIPLIED MYSTERY Another of the season's mystery plays throws forth its shuddering thrills under the menacing name of "The Clutching Claw", at the Forrest Theatre...
...BaPesss will conduct...
...Carmen" as a special matinee on Friday with Mmea...
...Ian Mill who despairs because he has found nothing beyond purchase...
...Though ill for some time prior to her death, she always maintained a keen interest in Socialist and labor developments...
...It might be parenthetically recorded—and she...
...Bori...
...Pollard, it will be remembered, directed the original "The Tobecs and Kellys," the great popularity ¦>f which convinced Universal that a series should be made, the first one be'ng "The Cohens and Kellys in Paris", •vhlch recently played at the Colony Theatre...
...Hartford and Boston...
...The activities of the anion have forced the laundry owners to band together In an effort to defeat the workers' demands for better conditions, The association is composed of owners of five plants, namely...
...suggests, the comedy unfolded as a satire on the machine age, a subject which hr received the attention of the Continental expressionists, and such men as Elmer Rice and Eugene O'Nell (in "The Hair...
...The Boxy Orchestra, Ballet Corps, the Buxyette* and the chorus srv niu Used...
...Bellezza will conduct...
...Scheff smiles for a while in the play...
...Other operas of the nineteenth week win be: "Siegfried'' as a matinee on Wednesday—the fourth of the Wagner Cycle— wtth Mmea Rakowska, BranzeB and Fleischer and Messrs...
...Laubenthal...
...Evelyn Brent s again the third party in the trio, md responsible for most of the trouble...
...It is certain that the three speakers will add a great deal and throw more light on the subject than was possible at the New Leader Banquet where, the speakers were limited in time...
...Bodanzky will conduct...
...against the genuine life of the young, with their urgent vitality: "Is the world alive...
...In October Arliss will open a-io'h-r s-vson ir> The Merchant Of Y—l"*" which wlT -ake him to the pacific Ccact...
...The concert at Carnegie Hall is certain to be rich in musical values...
...the state...
...Art in this land—outside of Broadway commercial ventures, which are too often business not art— depends upon the donations of the richSeveral efforts are being made to bring the theatre to its proper supporters, the pubUc Eva Le Gallienne's hope is to secure 200,000 "members" at $1 eachmembership meaning that one shares in a great popular, artistic, movement, and members being entitled to reductions that make some seats no more than 29c In the days of Greece's greatest artistic flowering, citizens who could not afford to attend the theatre bad their admission paid by...
...Max Mohr's play, which had over two thousand performances in Germany, does not, however, employ the expresslonistlc method...
...The New Leader expresses the feelings of the Socialists of New York in extending to Comrade Mikol our heartfelt condolences...
...Talley, Telva, Palco and Egener and Messrs...
...There is the usual unnecessary attempt to explain the offstage shots, the mysterious tappings and oddments that come at strained moments to give the audience chills, that serve a purpose and should be forgotten—not "explained"—thereafter...
...last Tuesday, the first day on which this social gesture was instituted, over 1,500 ' cups were served...
...Mikol shared with her husband an active part in the radical movement of this country...
...It is charged that this was done in order to prevent Miss Reich from organizing picket lines in front of the struck plants...
...The officers appear to be taking orders from Samuel Makarovsky, president of the association...
...Mueller, Claussen and Wells and Messrs...
...At 9:46 the same evening...
...It follows the elaborate musical and stage proportions of the special presentation*, given in recent weeks...
...Fritz...
...Ins chure and -Constance Collier (In the part she played in London) and the others of high society play with a certainty that preserves the rich satire of the play, and makes it ss valid—If not as pointed to individuals today as in its first performance...
...Miss Taylor is said to have a role calling not only for1 those touches of comedy for which sfif Is famous, but also demanding the simulation of poignant deep-seated anguish...
...Thomas and Hillquit Will Speak on Russia and Socialism Those who have attended the most interesting and exciting New Leader Banquet where Maurer and Thomas, Stolberg, Lee, and Hillqult, locked boms on one of the most vital questions facing the radical movement of the world, "Our attitude toward Russia," have in store for them another treat...
...It is of a type not so jpopular In this sophisticated town, a burlesque extravaganza, a far-flung travesty of physicians' methods, which runs nonetheless with a riotous foolery that cannot but win laughter...
...The Motion Picture Theatre Owners of Texas have designated Laura LaPlaate's latest picture "Finders Keepers" to .receive the Blue Ribbon Award for the month of February...
...The location of the action, in a town that has stood aside from progress, where radio has not penetrated (if indeed the victrola yet exists...
...Her supporting company Includes A. E Anson, John Cumberland, Estclle Winwood, Ian MacLaren, Frederick Worlock and Greta Kemble Cooper...
...March 17...
...but Robert Warwick as Sherlock Holmes and Frank Keenan as old Professor Moriarty, the Napoleon of crime, are all any one brought upon Co nan Doyle would desire...
...M. Posner is the conductor of the choir...
...THREE REVIVALS Butler Davenport has moved his production of "The Passing of the Third Floor Back," by Jerome K. Jerome, to Wallack's Theatre, where his cast struggles valiantly with the aging lines of that good old member of the days of "The Stranger in the House" and "The Return of Peter Grimm...
...John Eldridge, Donald Cameron, Sayre Crawley, J. Edward Bromberg and Walter Beck...
...will be seen ta these citlrs...
...They cannot keep us from continuing this strike," Viola declared...
...This makes us wonder why he is so much more intelligent than the detective, who thinks the polysyllables "Gordon" utters are some foreign tongue...
...Improvisations in June" a comedy from the German of Max Mqhr, translated by Susan Behn and Cecil Lewiwas presented, as the fou^'-h production if the season at the Civic Repertory Theatre for the first time last Sunday night, rhe occasion was a benefit for the Actor's Fund...
...The program will be as follows: Sonata for cello and violin, Lucien Kirsch and Ivor Karman, Kodaly...
...Mystery audiences wait to hear no more...
...The affair has been organized by the 23rd assembly district branch of the Socialist Party and the Brownsville Labor Lyceum...
...Gigli, Tokatyan, Ludlkar, Malatest* Wolfe, Plcco, Paltrinieri and Altglass...
...Harry Pollard, director of special productions for Universal, has requested the direction of the next Cohen and Kelly lic'ure to be titled "The Cohens and Kellys In Turkey...
...Sadie Reich of the Women's Trade Union League, who has been taking an active part in the strike, was held in the 104th street police station Wednesday morning for one hour without excuse or reason given...
...New York City...
...hwill begin his spring tour in the Shakespeare comedy in the Shubert-Belss'c Theatre, Washington, D. C. The oEhe?ities to be visited are Philadelphia...
...Mrs...
...Olga who refuses to sell herself for proffered gold...
...Those who come will receive more than their money's worth...
...John Tuerk is the producer...
...Peg^y Sfoxl will continue as Portia and the Vcw York cas...
...There is the usual reward of the successful detective, In the shape of a fair damsel whom, curiously enough, he had seen once before, and even then aided and loved...
...The Workmen's Circle choir will be remembered by the thousands who attended the first Debs Memorial meeting in Madison Square Garden and other labor and Socialist demonstrations, as a finely trained group of voices who know how to sing the workers' songs with feeling and discrimination...
...The intriguing title of the play provco to be somewhat misleading, instead of the romantic love-tale which the tltl...
...Tuesday, March 6, at 5:20 p. m...
...Arliss pos!tivery;>rill end his New York season on Siturdsy light March 10, and on Monday...
...returns to the Paramount next 'aturday In his first starring vehicle, The Showdown...
...The Russian Symphonic Choir, with Basilie Kibalchich at is head, will give the kind of choral program for which it has become familiar, at its final recital of the season in Town Hall on Saturday evening...
...Many strikers have been beaten by uniformed police and plalnclothesmen who have been Identified as Industrial Squad men, according to Joseph P. Viola, member of the district council of the laundry workers' union...
...Egon Brecher plays the principle, role, as Zappe, the improvisator...
...The enterprising S. L. Rotbafel has added another feature to the Roxy Theatre which Is calculated to still further contribute to the comfort and convenience of Its patrons...
...Chamlee, DeLuca, Pinza, Tedesco...
...Oros, the wife of one of the executives of the Beech-Nut Company, presides as hostess...
...Chamlee, Scottt, Tedesco, Plcco, Mala testa and Ananian...
...Bellezza will conduct...
...The brand coffee used is Beech-Nut and Mrs...
...The picture was directed by Victor Scher.zingcr...
...For Samuel Mill to believe his son crazy, however, while we see young Ian as a most intelligent and sensitive individual, calls for a more fantastic treatment of the millionaire...
...At Henry Miller's, "Our Betters", by Somerset Maugham, brings again to our stage this sharp comedy of that brilliant writer...
...Jagel, DeLuca, Rothler, Patton and Tedesco...
...Jeritza, Mario, Alcock and Ryan and Messrs...
...Bodansky will conduct...
...The fifth of a series of concerts of modern music will be given at the New School for Social Research on Friday evening, March 9, at 8:30...
...The program will include choral arrangements of compositions by Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakoff and Levitzki, as well as original choral works by Gretchanlnoff and others...
...Jack Partington's production will car¦y you away to Hawaii and the South Seas next week at the Paramount, but t will not be a Hawaii that can be recognized, for with stage license, be has -nade it more weird, more fascinating, Cor entertaining purposes...
...The play is more successful than the police investigator...
...Max Mohr takes them too seriously...
...Other important parts are taken by Josephine Hutchinson, known for her work in "Cradle Song" and 'The First Stone...
...Sufficient has been said to Indicate that "The Clutching Claw" is a regular mystery paly...
...Johnson, puinj^ Bada, D'Angelo, Plcco and Cehanovsky...
...Klrchoff, WhitehiU, Rothler, Schutsendorf, Meader, Bloch, Bada, Altglass, Paltrinieri, Gabor, D'Angelo, Cehanovsky...
...There is a nominal admission charge for the school felt that it was necessary In order to meet the expense of Mr...
...Bonfiglio will dance and Mr...
...The remainder of the cast, which Includes Julia Hoyt and Vivian Martin, contributes to make th|a the —of a series well worth taking in...
...While it may be nobler to aim high and fall, success, even on a lower level, is more entertaining: and the new play at the Civic Repertory Theatre has stretches of flagging concern...
...Brailsford and incidentally to help raise a little money for the school...
...Gloria Swanson must be enjoying the popular run of her "Sadie Thompson," which has been so successful at the Rlvoli It will continue at that theatre until March 10th, at which time Douglas Fairbanks In "The Gauche/' wul open for the first time at popular prices...
...For many years, Mrs...
...Without any explanation given...
...Admission, including wardrobe, will be 73 cents...
...Ralph Morgan is the sure and steady newspaper man who reaches far beyond the puny efforts of the police—until at the end we discover that he is himself no more than a national policeman—a federal dope hunter...
...The settings and costumes were designed by Aline Bernstein: Eva Le GalUenne is inaugurating a campaign for a theatre subsidized by the people...
...Madeleine Z. Doty, author of a number of books, will talk on "Women's International Work for Peace...
...Panken To Address Bronx Forum This Friday Evening Judge Jacob Panken, for ten years a Justice of the Municipal Court, will address the Tremont Educational Forum, \t its club-rooms, 4215 Third avenue, near Tremont avenue, Bronx, this Friday, March 2d, at 8:30 sharp, on: "The Philosophy of Law...
...Sands' husband is murdered early in the evening—off-stage...
...there should be balanced the mechanical existence of the money-mad (the more truly mad, in this Insane world) in more puppet-like presentation...
...Our men and women feel certain of victory...
...The htmars m the cast will be' the moderns who find themselves as a result of an unusual cat n of circumstances, in a region of prehistoric animal and plant life...
...Lillie Mikol Dies in New York Mrs...
...Death came after two weeks serious illness from aggravated sinus malady...
...Jose Santiago and Maria Sampson...
...Several soloists and the mandolin orchestra will assist the choir...
...Theatre on Sunday evening, March IS, instead of the 4th as originally announced...
...Harry W. Laidler, Industrial Tissual soy wfJI talk on "Developments in Socialist Thought...
...It is called "The Gay Musketeer" and has been arranged in four scenes with music by Maurice Baron and lyrics by Channon Collinge...
...It is with the gold-lovers, indeed, that the drama falls...
...Serafin will conduct "Madam Butterfly" on Wednesday evening with Mmea...
...All are invited...
...gives the humor an older flavor that requires the excellent buffoonery of costume and scenic design the Theatre contributes, and the general validity of the acting, to make it the worth while product it grows, through these united arts of the theatre, quite to be...
...Lillie Mikol, wife of David Mikol associate director of the Rand School of Social Science, passed away this week in Mount Sinai Hospital...
...A corps of sensational fencers have been specially engaged...
...In Brief a fter an absence of two years Laurette Baylor returns to the New York stage Monday night when she will be seen at he Shubert Theatre in "The Furies" a ~iew play by Zee Akins...
...Misses Page and HaTlktny and Mr...
...Die Melstersinger" on Thursday evening with Mines...
...In Movies George Bancroft, the star of "Undervorld...
...Mueller, Tel va, Dalossy and Wakefield and Messrs...
...Robenne will be assisted by two male partners, Anatole Viltzak and Pierre Vladimiroff and the program will Include solo dances, as well as duets and trios...
...Harry W. Laidler On VEYD Thursday...
...Fleischer, Alcock, Flexer, Ryan, Parisette, Falco and Wells and Messrs...
...Serafin will conduct...
...Clark Robinson, art director, is designing sets covering the important scenes in the famous story...
...Rigoletto" on Friday evening with Mmes...
...Bal timore, Buffalo, Toronto, Montreal...
...She was finally released...
...Colorlight Ball In Brownsville Tonight The Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 229 Sackman street, will be the scene of one of the most colorful social and Socialistic affairs of the season Saturday evening, March 3rd, when the Educational Center will be given a colorlight ban...
...certainly the public needs the leaven of...
...The employers are making every effort through the police to intimidate our people, but they will not succeed...
...At 9:45 Saturday night, a talk on public ownership by Carl D. Thompson, will be broadcast Mrs...
...Eva Le GalUenne staged the play and played a minor role...
...Symposium on Russia Sunday in Brooklyn A four-sided symposium on "Socialism and Soviet Russia" will be held Sunday night, March 4th, at the Educational Alliance, 76 Throop avenue, Brooklyn...
...The play deals with the manner in which a young son of an American multimillionaire is cured of his madness While on tt sojourn in Switzerland...
...It is likely that the- settings will be reproduced following the carboniferous period of the earth's antediluvian existence, because of the beautiful scenery and effects which can be obtained, with its giant ferns and other magnified plant life...
...PHYSICIAN'S FARCE Tn rollicking translation by Granville Barker, Jules Romatns' "Doctor Knock", which has been running for several years in Parks now starts on its lengthy course at The American laboratory Theatre...
...Ten years ago, perhaps, there was more resentment, more sharpness of feeling, in England, about the wealthy Americans who idled their '"superiority" over' the English, reversing In their aaauclal strength Lowell's early obserra ttons about a feeling of mndesrswitrm in foreigners on these shares...
...Wlnthrop Ames announces that the original six-week engagement of George Arliss in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" in the Broadhurst Theatre bar been extended...
...He has been in Russia, has been in close touch with developments in that land and is considered a first-rate scholar...
...There are strikes in progress against all except the last named firm...
...Ivor Karman and Lucien Kirsch, Ravel...
...Patton, Ananian and Reschillan...
...Without any great necessity for the revival, it is a mild pleasure, for those who like their mysticism dramatised, to see the play return...
...Others pictures in this series now :n the course of preparation Include "The Sohers and Kellys In H°nywood," "The Cohens and Kellys in Jail," "The Cohens ind Kellys in Darkest Africa" and 'The Cohens and Kellys in Jerusalem...
...Aida" will be the "popular" Saturday night opera with Mmes...
...March 4, at Carnegie Hall, Seventh avenue and 55th street...
...Warned not to "interrogate" the prisoner—who ever uses that word in conversation, anyway?—the detective says "No...
...The pictures are provisionally titled "Nayy Blue," an original story by Earl Snell and "Sup Ahoy" written by John Clymer and Nat Ross...
...Brailsford...
...Preliminary announcements set forth that the new play is concerned with "the eventful happenings of a single night in the life of Fin Sands, a brilliant New York society woman...
...When Paramount started o make the picture it was scheduled as 'Honkeytonk", but for various reasons his was changed to "The Showdown...
...Universal announces the forthcoming production of a chapter play titled "Terrors of the Unknown" which wul feature in addition to the regular characters, an aggregation of dinosaurs, ictunyosaa...
...Phil Lynch and his famous jazs artists have been engaged to supply the music...
...Miss Gain and Mr...
...Volunteer workers'are desired for the coming campaign...
...Especially in the moments when the stage is completely lark, and the faithful maid is attempting to summon the spirit of her murdered master, moments leading to shrieks and a struggle in darkness that end with the maid's murder, is there a tension in the tightly held audience...
...these are drawn with unedrs tan ding, with a gracious touch of romance, with dialog that often leaps to poetry...
...Behnew, Meader, Bloch, Oehnovsky...
...One of the ":nest features of "Hula Blues" will be he tiger dance by Drena Beach, late of "Padlocks...
...pe") in this country...
...The excellent opening situation, of the dying princess brusquely swept aside for the millionaire who has purchased her old castle, would rise to more potent heights if the money'man's doctor and secretary were drawn with more skill...
...pieces for violin and piano, Ivor Karman and Oscar Zlegler, Webern...
...Wolfe and Gabor...
...The second of a series of three lectures on "Peace Problems" will be given Thursday evening, March 8th, at 9:15 p. m., when J. Russell Smith of Columbia University will talk on "Geography and the Higher Education...
...The strikers are fighting hard despite the police brutality...
...s can be easily seen from the title, the Picture is the final decisive battle between two strong men, and strange to .ay, Fred Kohler, who opposed Bancroft ji "Underworld", does battle with him igain in this production...
...Greater theatre-craft, so as to make these dead souls walks in machine-like bodies as they utter their automatic responses to the stimulus of gold, would have, corrected the discord in Max Mohr's play, that now prevent Eva La Gallienne's company, despite excellent coordination and individual acting, from achieving more than occasional beauty...
...He and his troupe are too "real" to think Ian really a case for medical care...
...Civic Repertory Theatre, Fourteenth street aid Sixth avesb> MUSIC "The Bartered Bride" will open the nineteenth week of the Metropolitan Opera Season Monday, evening with Mmea...
...Coffee is now being served daily m the Grand Lounge Room...
...The speakers will be Abraham I. Shiplacoff, C. Cantorowitz, editor of "The Wecker," and J. Viliatzer, a Russian Social-Democrat...
...Laubenthal, Schorr, Scbutsendorf, GustaXson and Bloch...
...Bnnnglio win dance and Mr...
...Emil Jannings in "The Last Command" will continue at the Rialto Theatre, but will be replaced in a few weeks with "The Legion of the Condemned...
...At least, Samuel Mill, American millionaire, thinks his sod crazy for the lad's discontent—in picturing which, through "Improvisations in June" Max Mohr misses a great play...
...pieces for 'cello and piano, Lucien Kirsch and Otscar Ziegler, Webern...
...diplodoci and other historic monsters...
...I'll only ask him a few questions...
...Gustation, Ananian and Wolfe...
...L. Rotbafel will again utilise the musical <and dramatic properties of his organization in an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' novel, "The Three Musketeers", at the Roxy Theatre beginning today...
...This picture of a doctor converting a healthful countryside into a widespread sanitarium is intensely amusing in the contemplation, though it wears rather thin as days move by outside the theatre...
...finds herself in a web of suspicion as a result...
...March 12...
...Questions and discussions will follow the lecture...
...The postponed dance recital of Anna Robenne will take place at the 48th St...
...trio (piano, violin and cello), Oscar Ziegler...
...This picture was takn from "Wildcat," an oil story by Houson Branch...
...Nicolas Kopelkine will again be heard in piano solo6 and the dancers will be accompanied by an instrumctal ensemble...
...Saturday, night, March 10th, at 911 p. m., Mrs lister dnlemsa, aaahdsts editor of the New leader, win muanCsst his* weekly talk on currents events from the labor point of view...
...former member of the United States diplomatic service, will talk on "Saving Nicaragua...
...The cast of principals includes Henry Thompson, Nicholas Vastheff, Douglas Stan bury, J. Parker Coombs...
...Two Universal productions are in prospect for Arthur Lare...
...Easton, Bourskaya and Wefts and Messrs...
...Muller and Wakefield and Messrs...
...Workmen's Circle Choir At Carnegie Hall, March 4 The Workmen's Circle choir will give a concert this Sunday evening...
...The very alight plot is made a medium for some very satiric scenes directed against the present civilization as a machine era weighed down by its worship of money...
...this recital, the third of the current season, Mme...
...He was editor of the official organ of the Independent Labor Party, the New Leader, and is by all odds one of the best informed men on the subject...
...Tompkinov, the "free" man who values money only for the freedom it gives, scorning and escaping its spiderpower, who kills the Princess that she may join her prince...
...The Rand School of Social Science, feeling -that there is need for a composed and scholarly discussion, invites the readers of the New Leader to a meeting to be held on Monday, March S, in the Debs Auditorium, 7 East 15th Street, at 8:30 p. m Henry Noel Brailsford, Morris Hillquit and Norman Thomas will speak at a symposium on the subject of "Soviet Russian and World Socialism...
...At the Cosmopolitan Theatre the second of Chamber lain Brown's all-star revivals assemblies an excellent cast tor the first of the crook plays, William Gillette's reliable "Sherlock Holmes...
...This means that in the judgment of its screen committee, who view all new films for the organization, that this Universal picture which comes to the Colony Theatre Saturday is recommended as the best picture entertainment for the whole family...
...Giants, Oak, Liberty, Pruse and Phoenix...
...Other Labor Features I2TATION W E V D, operated by the ^ Debs Memorial Radio Fund, 31 Union Bquare, New York City, announces a number of features for the week beginning Monday, March 5, of particular Interest to labor and progressive-minded citizens...
...It is unnecessary to tell readers of the New Leader or radicals in New York about Morris Hillquit and Norman Thomas, two of the outstanding leaders of the American Socialist Movement...
...The social point of view, in the interpretation of law, and its application, as a guide, will be stressed by the speaker, and his general observations, illustrated by his rich experience on the bench and at the bar...
...T/he funeral was held Sunday last...
...Hasselmans will conduct...
...Anyone With five spare minutes (or more) a day, and a desire to see.good art flourish, may help by applying at the...
...The service is free to patrons and is continuous between the hours of 3.00 to 10.00 p.m...
...The United States is virtually the only country whose government does not, to some extent, officially support a national theatre...
...and a greater pleasure to behold so earnest a fighter for the theatre as Butler Davenport mOve over the few blocks to Broadway...
...Miss DeLeporte will dance and Mr...
...The movement of the evening is still swift, and many a play of the sort, written long since, must bow to this prime and pride of the type...
...La Rondine" will have its American premiere on Saturday afternoon with Mmes...
Vol. 7 • March 1928 • No. 11
