AMUSEMENTS
AMUSEMENTS The Week On Stage RAREST FRUIT By Joseph T. Shipley A T long last the American theatre has found some one both appreciative and bold enough to produce Anton Tchekov's masterpiece,...
...The technical derice that ensures this realization of the persons is rather labeling than realization, but this manner of indication is aised to a fine art...
...the question remains whethei Mew York as yet deserves it...
...The effect he obtained in this scene of the operetta was so successful that Roxy immediately enlisted him for work on the Anniversary Week program...
...Meader, Tedesco, Paltrinieri, Gustafson, Cehanovsky...
...Arrangements will be completed by Universal this week for the purchase of the screen rights to "Sutter's Gold," the i dramatic story of the California gold[ rush days written by Blaise Candrars...
...Sgener, and Parlsette and Messrs...
...She Is not afraid to look and act otherwise than pretty, and her pictures should please a vast multitude of picture fans who are beginning to believe that pictures will soon be written instead of photographed...
...Meader...
...Hersholt will portray General Johann Augustus Sutter, the European adventurer whose colorful career reached Its climax with the discovery of gold on the West Coast When Reginald Denny...
...Pola is one actress who has not succumbed as yet to the habit of the wisecracking title writers who try to make every picture a comedy...
...Bodanzky will conduct...
...Pinza, Malatesta...
...Sydney and Miss Ellis are seriously considering this opportunity to take to London The Shrew" play which, in ite 31st week in New York has broken all Shakespearean production records...
...One horee in Hollywood does, and how...
...Bori...
...This technique, therefore, abandons the rapid sweep of body about the strge...
...Arliss, himse'f of course...
...A-huntlng We Will Go" at the Paramount this week when the curtain goes up on Prank Cambria's "Oallopln' On", a stage production in conjunction with the Paramount stage band...
...There is nothing beyond this...
...Montedoro has until recently been the art director for the Echuberts...
...it is expected...
...Walter Hampden win make his revival of Shakespeare's "King Henry V at Hampden's Theatre neat Thursday evening, March is, presenting the history within settings designed by Claude Bragdon...
...Toe dancing . . . why not dance on the palms of the hands...
...Bodanzky will conduct...
...AMUSEMENTS The Week On Stage RAREST FRUIT By Joseph T. Shipley A T long last the American theatre has found some one both appreciative and bold enough to produce Anton Tchekov's masterpiece, "The Cherry Orchard", now running, under the production of James B. Pagan and Lee Shubert, for special matinees at the Bijou Theatre...
...The story will be used as a starring vehicle for Jean Hersholt, Unlversal's character ace...
...Hasselmans will conduct...
...Bellezza will conduct...
...Hasselmans will conduct...
...It has taker eighteen years for this play to react New York...
...D'Angelo, Gabor and Wolfe...
...The invitation waa extended to them by Lean at- Lyons, teasee of Wyndbam*s Theatre . Mr...
...Paltrinieri...
...the "Yes, Mamma" trick of Oscar Wilde's minor figures becomes the repetition and variation of an apt motif...
...Although she has a beautiful body and knows the curvings of grace, although her individua talent is high, too often., in those mo.c meats that seek to interpret tlvij asTamiris and her fellows siiiik...
...the wicket single lens...
...Basil Sydney and Mary Ellis and the Gasrrick Players have been invited to bring their modern dress "Taming ox the Shrew" to London...
...Considering only those types of the dance which make no effort to convey a definite story, one could have distinguished, before the modernists, two main methods, which may be called the fluid, or lyric, and the plastic, or dramatic, style...
...For fv.-h of these types of dancing has Its own moods to develop...
...a!so npor...
...Denny's answer is that aviation is no longer a hobby but strictly a business proposition the same as the automo-"^ ralbrail train...
...Kappel (first time here as Leonore...
...Bohnm, Schutzendorf...
...Laubenthal...
...But ca: b. in its way, is timeless...
...Bloch and Gabor...
...who will complete the season In Movies S. L. Rothafel has engaged a special costume designer for the Anniversary °rogram at the Roxy Theatre next w°ek...
...Among the numbers to be rendered are "Introspection", "Cambodian Roadside Play", and "Sublimation...
...Pfcla returns to the Paramount Satur- j day in her dramatic' vehicle...
...Thus, there are lines when different actions are going m at the same time...
...Its story —its whole structure—seems incidental to the apparently haphazard grouping ind presentation of the folic about the household of Madame Ranevsky...
...The Se- ¦ cret Hour...
...Mueller, Telva and Fleischer and Messrs...
...Laubenthal...
...Montedoro's creations for next weekig bill are a llvlrg Birthday Cake and a Living Cathedral representing a living picturizaUon of the First Anniversary of the Cathedral of the Motion Picture...
...Johnson...
...Dors ha announces that a repertoire bill of old and new dances will be presented at the Theatre of the Dance, 116 West 65th street, every Saturday evening in March—curtain to rise at 8:40...
...Rather, it seems, the concern of the artist should be to express himself, not any hypothetical -spirit of his race," as he thinks he feels it or comprehends it...
...The play, as has been pointed out noyes In a casual manner that leaver, :very person apparently moving independently ; at times conversation crosses, natead ol responding...
...This will be the .first showing of "The Gaucho" at popular prices In any theitre...
...Fleischer and Messrs...
...Deliberate efforts to capture the spirit of a period, on the other iand, tend, as the Work of Tamiris shows, to'stress external'manifestations of its moods, to carry them to the accent of caricature, to do the work of the spectators' imaginatior^ and leave little for their fancy's play...
...Marco Montedoro, noted for the originality of his creations both in Eujoje and in America, designed the cosumes for the garden scene in this week's production of "The Gay Musketeer...
...During the morning there will be a rehearsal of the forthcoming production, "Hedda Gabler" making it a complete Ibsen day...
...Is one of the most famou of monocle-wearers, but Murray Kinncll, who acts Bassanio, and Sydney Booth, who plays Salarino...
...and the presentation of extremes to the eye clips the wings of fancy...
...Johnson, Tibbett, Gustafson, D'Angelo, Meadjr, Altglass, Bloch, Picco, Marshall, Gabor, Cehanovsky, Vajda, Ananlan and Wolfe...
...Mueller, Kappel, Sranzell...
...beauty of the falling, and of the fallen, snow...
...DELIBERATE DANCING...
...Thus, if Laokoon sighs, the imagination can hear him shriek...
...each person moves with the Individuality, with the separateness of aim that makes the stir most natural...
...We must not forget the age we live in...
...Bellezza will conduct...
...Reschilian, Picco and Ananian...
...In the whole course of an emotion there is no moment which possess this advantage so little as its highest...
...The Tales of Hoffman" will be given for the last time this season on Thursday evening with Mmes...
...The animal star is said to receive more mall than any other fourfooted actor—or actress—In the film colony...
...Bodanzky will conduct...
...Morgana, Lewis icd Mario, Howard Wakefield and Messrs...
...He has yet to receive a "mash" note, however.—What mare wlfl speak first...
...a French novelist, and translated Into English by Henry Longan Stuart...
...The longer we gave, the more our imagination adds, the more we must believe we see...
...In this document, several pronouncements lead to general problems ol the dance...
...Goetterdammerung" will be given for the last time this season as a matinee in Friday—the fifth of the Wagner Cycle—with Mmes...
...Rex, King of Wild Horses...
...In Brief Three members of George Arl'ss' company In "The Merchant of Wni.cc", now In the Broadhurst Theatre...
...As the only theatre in town now offering any Ibsen play, the Civic Repertory Theatre will in connection with the Ibsen Centenary, celebrate the anniversary of his birth, March 30th, by presenting two of his plays...
...Malatesta, Paltrinieri, Picco, Reschilian and Ananlan...
...for the slower and often still assembling of the human body into arrangements of its plastic curves, suggesting by s -ulptured lines its soberer beauty...
...He is also prominently represented in the most recent editions of "Artists and Models" and "The Greenwich Village Follies...
...Other operas of the twentieth week will be: "The icing's Henchman" will .open the week on Monday evening With Mmes...
...Gigli, Scottl...
...The first of these, of which Pavlova's work is a good example, strives by grace of continuous flow to suggest its mood, to present surging aspects of bei auty...
...Talley and Dalossy and Messrs...
...Does a film horse receive fan mall...
...Gigli, Rothler, D'Angelo...
...Corona and Fiexer and Messrs...
...Such a manifesto has oeen Issued by Tamiris, whose latest iance recital featured a group of American "moods" drawn from athletics, the prize ring, the circus, and the general cluster of civilzation in the Twentieth Century...
...Tannhauser" will be given for the ast time as the "popular" Saturday night pera with Mmes...
...Combined with the poetry of the diction, and a dialogue hat reveals the inner self in a manner Sugene O'Neill strives for and falls far >hort of in "Strange Interlude", the ef'ect of this character portrayal is to infuse into the play a sense that It ises out of a background of culture, cf elsure, not ease of material circumstance, but calm of soul and clearness of understanding that rise above the outward disintegration and collapse...
...In thr Hollywood film colony Denny has always been known as one of l-s greatest air enthusiasts, but even bis tlossrt friends thought be was carrying his fad a step too far in going into it on a wholesale basis...
...Tosca" as a special matinee on Tuesday with Mmes...
...Eva Le Galllenne will play Hilda WanTel at the matinee performance of "The Master Builder" and Ella Rentheim in 'John Gabriel Borkman" at the evening performance...
...The Cherry Orchard" is at once too subtle and too casual in its growth to please the great theatrejolng public...
...and the Integraion of these Into an organic unity is a problem of direction that is skillfull* handled...
...New Yorfe City, wear monocles...
...Furthermore, every character is caught n a portrait that brings it completely x> life in the mind...
...following similar positions with the Folies Bergere and the Moulin Rouge in Paris...
...the grace, the gaiety, 'the depth, the passion, of is sweep or surge needs no lnterpretaion to any age...
...It either hears him merely moaning, or sees him already dead...
...Stirring songs and a number of clever entertainers will make revel for you at the hunting club with a background found only m merry old EngTMlist cmaOaar f» g^.tir inother week at the Rialto Theatre, after which "The Legion of the Condemned," i thrilling story of air combat will take its place...
...For if the dancer is correct in her statement that "a new civilisation always creates new forms in art," why must the Individual be so concerned...
...His designs for the last Beaux Arts Ball called forth columns of favorable comment...
...Universal fares comedy star, returned recently from a brief vacation in England, be brought with him three of the latest type Sopwith sBnipes airplanes, purchased direct from the British Air Ministry...
...Mignon" on Friday evening with Mmes...
...Deluca, Rothler...
...Others In the cast will be Mme...
...Boheme" will be the Saturday matnee with Mmes...
...Easton, Alcock, Bonetti, Flexer, Ryan...
...Universale famous equine player, doesn't have to take a back seat to any human player when the letters from admirers are counted...
...Serafin will conduct...
...Telva, sJcock and Gabor...
...The Gaucho" is scheduled to run for four weeks at the United Artists cinema palace...
...The second technique, manifest in the later work of Isadora Duncan, recognizes that while gestures and movements are continuous, flowing-unbroken from grace to grace, the eye tends to break them into successive postures, into statuelike, held harmonies of form...
...Douglas Fairbanks as "The Gaucho" will open at the Rivoli Theatre next Sunday, where "Sadie Thompson" has been holding over in her orgy of dampness...
...What", it was argued, "could a person do with more than one plane...
...Horses, Horses, Horses" "Oallopln' On" to the sound of the horn and the merry voices of the hunt...
...While some of the acting lack: -he polish claimed for the Moscow Art Theatre In its performance of the play "t must be admitted that the present offering is much more comprehensible— leepite the fact that the translation at times leaves us with the surety thai rchekov had found truer poetry—and he playing is always competent and occasionally distinguished...
...Miss Leweck will dance ind Mrs...
...Kinnell is ar Englishman, and Booth is an Ameri-p.n the son of the famous actress, Agnes Booth, and nephew to Edwin Booth...
...Fried will make two appearances a; -uest conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra, Friday evening, (Marcr 6) in Carnegie Hall and Sunday afterloon (March 19) in Mecca Auditorium -le will be followed by Enrique Fernan I 'cz Arbos of the Madrid Symphony Or i hestra...
...MUSIC Beethoven's "Fldelie" will be added to the Metropolitan Opera Season's repertoire by General Manager Gattl-Casizza next Wednesday evening with Mme...
...Moore and Guilford md Messrs...
...yet the whole shapes into a meticulous and tightly snared inevitability—even to the sheer 'accident" that leaves the old servant locked behind...
...With Maurice Ravel conducting his nal concert in Mecca Auditorium tonjrrow (Sunday, March 11) the baton f the New York Symphony Orchestra ill pass on to Oscar Fried, former conuctor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra »h guest conductor last fall at La Scala...
...IN these self-conscious days, when lntrospection and auto-analysis absorb .he unrreative hours of the artist, when lis creation itself Is less the spontaneous low of rhythmic feeling than the deliberate order of a sought design, it is to >p expected that the dancer, as well, vill seek expression after a theory wrung from the time...
...rokatyan, Ludikar...
...The Cherry Orchard" is a picture of he disintegration of the landed aristocracy (of Russia, but It might be In many ether lands, so far as the social shift s concerned) before the advance of an industrial age and a triumphant bourgeolse risen from the peasants...
...if he express himself truly and well (which two words mean one thing), he will nonetheless find himself inextricably entangled In the race-slpliit and the Zeitgeist...
...Even aside from the fact that a later paragraph warns that " a dancer must create his own reality, independent of the reality we live in," the quoted assurance seems strange...
...The birdlike - flutter possible to toe-dancing Is one of its legitimate effects, for it is aiming at no actuality of daily movements, but at the creation of harmonious rhythms of form...
...The Secret Hour" was directed by Rowland V. Lee and runs through 7,194 feet of emotional love and Negri tragedy...
...Tib>ett, Ludikar, Wolfe, Altglass, Bloch and Jabor...
...Art is International, but the artist is a product of a nationality and his principal duty to himself is to express the spirit of his race...
...Schorr...
...xvavel will repeat tomorrow the proram given in Carnegie Hall Friday eve.ing — consisting entirely of his own /orks with the exception of two Deussy dances which Ravel orchestrated Jamuel Dushkln will be the soloist, play:ig "Tzigane...
...but if he shrieks, it can neither rise a step higher nor descend a step below this representation, without seeing him in a condition which, as it will be more endurable, become less Interesting...
...stage...
...Bada snd Ananlan...
...This will be the first new production of this drama in New York since Richard Mansfield offered his at the jld Garden Theatre nearly thirty years ago...
...Scotti...
...Fleischer, Wells, Masskl...
...but If there is not a wideawake, eager group, ready to welcome this play, then the future of the theatre in America is not what I should like to hope...
Vol. 7 • March 1928 • No. 12
