AMUSEMENTS
AMUSEMENTS The Week On Stage FREUD UNSUSPECTING By Joseph T.* Shipley..... 1 ATJRKTTS TAYLOR'S new vehicle, "The Furies'', st the Shubert Theatre, does a curious half-turn in the last act...
...Their wages are from $12 to $14 a week...
...Bellezza will conduct both operas...
...The Legion of the Condemned" Is an 'viation picture, but different from Wings", though made by the same dieetor, William Wellman...
...Ryan and Falco and Messrs...
...Luis Alberni, who plays an importan role in "The Silent House" at the Mo rosco Theatre, Is translating the work of the newer Spanish playwrights fo...
...Fleischer, Ryan, Parisette, Falco, ¦ Alcock, Wells and Flexer and Messrs...
...200 Colored Women In Forefront of Strike of Laundry Workers The saying that women are hard to organize, especially colored women, does not hold true in the case of the colored workers in the steam laundries of New York City...
...what with these players in the given story, '"-a good time is had by all...
...Bodanzky conducting...
...Every union interested Is urged to send three delegates, for whom there will be a registration fee of $1 each...
...These will be given on Thursday and Friday afternoons...
...Following her return she went through a long course of apprenticeship in various theatres, alowtj winning critical recognition and rising not without dlfflrulttea, to a position oi supremacy in the World of Spanish act•tag...
...Serafin conducting...
...To Sir Basil Winterton...
...In the third act 'omroy (Taylor Holmes) is panic-strictn when Pansy reveals herself as a budling Tiger Lily who chatters fluently ibout Freud and cross npUenation and ieclares herself for Teddy Ferguson, the virile nephew...
...Die Meisterslnger" on Thursday afternoon, the sixth of...
...Plnza, ReschWan and Paltrlnieri singing and Misses Galll and DeLeporte and Messrs...
...D'Angelo...
...Bat we.just- knew he wouldn't have the heart to kin June Walker—especially behind the scenes...
...Wolfe...
...Bada...
...The device ttaal,f hv enough to insure comedy of situation even though Ma opportunities are slighted...
...The chairmen will be Joseph P. Ryan, president of the Central Trades and Labor Council, and John Sullivan, president of the State Federation of Labor...
...Lillian La Tonge will Interpret a "Dance rf the Flame" with a living one-candle tfrthday cake as a background, and Prances Mann and Frederick Carpentier will contribute a specialty dance number...
...Gu3tafion, Ananian...
...Other operas of the week will be: Puccini's "La Rondlne", Monday evening with Mmes...
...To these, idr...
...He has given and will give his best efforts to the organization even .hough he will not be our chairman...
...Will Confer* on Unemployment .Injunctions Will Also fie Discussed At Conference Next Week-end T TNEMPLOYMENT and the menace of injunctions will be discussed at a week-end conference conducted by the Central Trades and Labor Council of Greater New York and vicinity on March 24-25 at the Washington Irving High School, 40 Irving Place...
...then they are as unquestioned as the pony ballet...
...Jagel, Plnza...
...They are obliged to work In rooms filled with steam, which is highly injurious to their health...
...Gustafson...
...Diaz...
...All this sentiment rives Madame Es telle, Pomroy's interor decorator and friend In-deed, a pain n the neck...
...V. O, K. C. B., . K. C. O. M., K W., there comes, after an adult life of reckless sowing, the strange whim.to reunite his children under his single roof...
...Unknown to this union a group of men, unauthorized by the Paper Box Makers Union, made separate agreements with the _ employers...
...The Merchant of Venice" ends Its eight-we*ek season m New York on 'Saturday and begins Its spring tour In Washington on Monday night...
...In the mean time, the middle-aged °omroy is up to the neck in love with Tansy Hf.wthome...
...With her husband she was present for the last time at the Casa del Pueblo In Madrid In April 1925, when they attended an anniversary of the Madrid Socialist Youth, and presented a red flag to the group...
...Before that, it bad been one act of'bright comedy, and one act of mystery-melodrama...
...conductor 'f the Madrid Symphony Orchestra, will -ssume the direction of the New York "ymphony Orchestra following Oscar Med's final concert in Mecca Audltoritm tomorrow afternoon (Sunday, Mar...
...Tokatyan, Ludikar, Malatesta, Wolfe, Picco, Paltrlnieri and Altglass, Mr...
...The returning aside, in fact, is much like its grandfather, whom the well-made playwrights hooted off the stage...
...Wellman mows his stuff when It comes to aerial ghting and has made another 'natural' i this production...
...Gov...
...considerable >ead way and his marriage to the pure ou-g thing about to be consumaated...
...Accustomed to having his whims Indulged, Sir Basil detaches his young attorney from otherwise pressing affairs,: and sends him to Manchester, to Florence, and to New York, in quest of his children...
...Bamboschek conducting...
...Gigll...
...under the original schedule, were forced to give twelve performances 'weekly...
...The cities to be visited hi addition to Boaton are Hartford, New Haven, Philadelphia, Bsltlmode, Washington, Toronto and Montreal...
...The "furies' summoned to give the play a strong title are those demons of modern psychopathology which have turned so many a mind from its proper course that we must not be surprised they have done the same to a play...
...On Sunday afternoon George Soule of the New Republic and the Labor Bureau, Inc., and Prof...
...This is -absolutely without the authority of the Paper Box Makers Union...
...If the District Attorney's rubber neck ers refrain from slipping''the noose over "The Great Nocker," we predict a lonr run, for it is a comedy that appeals b those whose "necking" needs nothint above the neck, and to.,|hose who spor Windsor neckties...
...It is further noted that under the terms of the agreement signed today only employers belonging to the Independent Paper Box Manufacturers Association are included...
...any what once was design Is now desire, what was intention, wish...
...Kosloff...
...More than one third of the affected shops had already signed with the Paper Box Makers Union and there was every reason to suppose that a complete settlement would have been accomplished within a day or two...
...Waldman To Discuss Injunctions 8ef«f e Summer School Students There will be a conference of the Bryn Mawr and Barnard Summer School students on Sunday, March 18th, at 218 Madison avenue (corner 38th street...
...Hebrew Du tellers Union • Thanks Ltaiis Grabel . For Years of Service The Hebrew Butcher Workers Union at a special general meeting March 2nd, adopted a resolution by unanimous vote 'thanking ex-president Comrade Louis Grabel for the faithful and unselfish service which he rendered the Butchers Union for six years as its chairman...
...Central Traces...
...The icture is scheduled for a long' run at he Rial to Theatre...
...Rothler...
...Congressman Nathan D. Permian, counsel for the Amalgamated Street and Electric Railway Employes...
...Rothafel has added Renoff and Renova, the former a guest artist of the Chicago Opera Company, and the latter premiere danseuse with the Metropolitan Opera Company, who have been specially engaged for an adagio dance...
...Nonetheless, the (play weakens toward the end...
...no hours are mentioned in the present agreement...
...The story is taken from the play which was a success here and abroad The movie has been made into a modern thriller of Montmarte night life with gorgeous settings at Monte Carlo...
...Faust" as a special performance Tuesday evening with Mmes...
...Johnson, Baslola, Tibbett and Tedesco...
...28 of aDonna Maria Ouerreo not only closes the greatest career on the contemporary Spanish stage, but removes a personality who was in a quite unusual degree beloved by the working-class of her country...
...The first session at 10:30 A. M., will discuss ''Unemployment...
...After her marriage in 1896 with the celebrated actor de Mendoza, and the gradual consolidation of her fame, Maria Guerrero gave frequent evidence of a desire to make her art accessible to the people, giving to that end many performances at the Workers' Centres In Madrid and the Provinces...
...Grace George declined the leading role...
...Lewis, Dalossy and Howard and Messrs...
...They are scheduled for Thursday afternoon (March 22) In Carnegie all, Saturday afternoon (March 24) in Brooklyn, Sunday afternoon (March 25) in Mecca Auditorium, Friday evening (March 30) In Carnegie ¦ sll and Sunday afternoon (April 1) in 1 Mecca Auditorium...
...Due to family trouble, be was unable 'to ac•ept the nomination at the last election...
...Moore (first time as Lauretta), Howard...
...Discussion leadeib will include A. J. Muste, dean of Brookwood Labor College...
...The history of the play is one of the many tales of curious turn-overs along the theatre-lanes...
...Hugh Frayne, general organizer of the A. F. of L., will preside...
...Arthur Pomroy, millionaire movie promoter and lady-killer, spends a lot of 'tone burying his philanderous past, afcer he falls more or less seriously in love Tlth the young and Innocent Pansy, daughter of an (Antoinette Corns tock member of the Censorship Board...
...t, IN BRIEF John Meeban has b»— - rVnsf-i b Chamberlain Brov/h to dl*-v tho firth coming production of "A i*dy for < Night," the first new ptey to bn giveby the Chamberlain Brcvn A*".is?-> s the Cosmopolitan Theatre...
...Escape" opened here on October 26 and will have played five months In the Booth Theatre, totaling 176 performances...
...Mueller and Howard and Messrs...
...MUSIC "Mozart's 'Cost fan Tutte'," last of Mr...
...Yet there" is something akin to funeral directing in that sexcesarre comedy by Elmer Harris at the Ambassador...
...Playwrights have been so carefully heeding and famous admonition ' embodied hi the book 'Vow's Your Second Act...
...Eugene O'Neill is indirectly responsible for a few car-loads of poor attempts at good tricks—all tricks are poor the second and the third time...
...A similar number of men, most of whom were employed as drivers, also walked out on strike...
...Corrine Griffith's first United Artists release, "The Garden of Eden," will open at the Paramount Theatre next Saturday...
...Together the couple did much to rhise the relatively low social status of acting in Spain, and helped to found and maintain a trade union for the profession...
...The translation of the Civic Repertory hcatre's forthcoming production of ¦£c£da Gabler", by Henrik Ibsen has H?n made by Julie Le Gallienne, the 'ell known journalist, mother of Eva .e Gallienne, and Paul Leyssac, prominent member of the Civic Repertory "h*atre*s permanent company and ranslator of much of Hans Christian 'Vnderson's work...
...IF WISHES WERE STALLIONS "The Bachelor Father," by E. C. Carpenter, now at the Belasco—and probably for' a long time—is a play about what most men might dream of in the odd moments when the pressure of our Industrial civilization prompts them to disregard their social consicence (If such things be, any longer) and to soar as young Lotharios or Don Juans, multimillionaires strewing caresses and children about the globe...
...Laurette Taylor comes on late, but keeps the stage stirring while she plays...
...Spencer Miller, Jr., of the Workers Education Bureau: and A. Lefkowitz, chairman of the C. T. L. C.'s educational committee...
...that at tunas they grow careless with the third...
...Oliver in "As »u Like It" reveals his nature and his interests no less than Harvey Bell Smith In 'The Furies...
...Alberni Is a student 0' rte Spanish theatre and his first experience as an actor was In Barcelona ir the dramas of great Spanish playwrights i James B. Pagan's .production of "The Cherry Orchard" In English will have but two weekly matinees at the Bijou Theatre beginning next "week...
...The schedule has been cut frorr four performances to two in order tc relieve the strain on the members of the cast, all but two of them "who are now playing in other attraction and who...
...Lewis and Messrs...
...DeLuca and Ludikar...
...Stravinsky's L'Oiseau de Peu and Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe...
...John Murray Anderson's See Saw" will x the stage attraction at the Paramount next week, a novel melange of leautiful Foster girls, talent and the Paramount stsge band with Manny Baer, back with the stick...
...The ¦Jaucho" opened to record business a reek ago and Is scheduled for a four"eek-run at Broadway's popular movg picture theatre...
...the hitter with Mmes...
...Much of the power that once drove this play into record runs has seeped from between the lines as the years drove on...
...Oabor...
...Chabllee, ' DeLuca, Challanln and D'Angelo...
...The strike was the result of the sudden discharge of the president of the Laundry Workers' Union...
...It still may serve...
...Later 't turns out that this moral mentor is nothing but sensuouship bored...
...ind Second avenue, has been rehearsing a new comedy entitled "American Chassidlm," which he will offer as hjs next production this Friday evening, March 16...
...It has been written by Chuhe Gotesfeld, author of last season's successful musical comedy, "Mamele", in which Molly Picon starred for many months...
...All union members in New York and vicinity are invited to attend, but only accredited delegates may speak from the floor...
...The Paresi "union" also gave up the demand for legal holidays off and time and a half overtime...
...The picture Is presented by Walter Morosco, and Lowell Sherman, Louise Dresser and Charles Ray are in the cast...
...Picture the heterogenous lot an tonaginative playwright could put together by this simple device;, add the surprise and opportunity for cross-play and by-word when three young folk, two young women and a promising young man, discover that one man, stranger to all three, is their father...
...The highest they can hope to earn is $15 a week...
...Cehanovsky, Bada, Bloch...
...the Wagner Cycle—with Mmes...
...covering most of the best dramatic productions of modern Spain...
...One of the valid recent appearance*" of the monologue, however, is that with which John Cumberland and Zoe Aklns open "The Furies"—well devised by the playwright, excellently handled by the actor...
...This Union has carried on for more than two weeks a strike In which 1600 men and women fought without a single break, for recognition of their union and a moderate basic wage and work week...
...Guilford...
...Most of them work in the mangling and folding departments...
...Douglas Fairbanks as "The Oaucho" ; gcing over big on its Prst run at popuxt prices, at the Rivoli Theatre...
...James B. Carson's interpretation of Cohen, the movie maggot, was grossly exaggerated...
...Paresi has demanded that drivers now working for employers net affiliated with the Association, who have already signed agreements with the .Paper Box Makers Union leave their work...
...Enrique Fernandez Arbos...
...Everybody...
...Fried's program today will Include Brahms Symphony No...
...The Roxy Orchestra of 110 musicians, all the members of Roxy's "gang", the Ballet Corps, the Roayetts, the Chorus and the Ensemble, to which 100 new members have leen added, will participate...
...They are fired at the slightest pretense...
...8...
...Their hours are from 7 a. m. .to 7 p. m. and sometimes longer, without any pay for overtime...
...and Prof...
...On Saturday afternoon and evening, injunctions will be discussed by Matthew WoII, vice president of the A. F. of L...
...At times, too, in a manner quickly caught, various of the characters speak to themselves out loud...
...and the author instead of trusting in royalties, sold the play outright 1 As sheer melodrama the piece is more adapted to the movie-audience than to the theatre-goers of today, but as a thrill to tyros, or as reminiscence to oldsters...
...Msider...
...But the doddering play-boy has '. collegiate nephew who discovers that ''ansy knows her wild oats, and the tringle is complete...
...Altglass and Paltriniert Mr...
...The tour will end on May 26...
...Arbos will remain as guest conductor Until the close of the season April 1, conducting five concerts...
...Thomas I. Perkensen of Columbia University...
...1 in C minor...
...Sreduction here...
...Over 200 of them have been out on strike during the last three weeks for the recognition of the Laundry Workers' Union and so far not one has backed out...
...The strikers are directed in their picketing and demonstration by the able Miss Sadie Reisch of the League...
...D'Angelo, Picco and Paltrlnieri...
...Constance Collier witnessed the matinee yesterday of "The Merchant of Venice" which George Arliss and Peggy Wood are acting in 4he Broadhurst Theatre...
...Horace Taylor of the economics department, Columbia University, will discuss unemployment...
...The Legion f the Condemned" has a great love stoy, Is made up of strong characters, and exciting and romantic enough to hold s audience from start to finish...
...To date the employers have refused to negotiate with the union...
...Her versatlWy enabled her to represent womeh of ah toeer and to attempt ah categories- df drama: -it ii wgfc^-yJaB ffwhis saw appeand «as-aasrsanay~©oaopeahensive...
...Gatti-Casazza's promised "revivals" of this season, will be given next Saturday .' -moon with Mnv;= KnsMn, Bou and I'e->cher and Mesr.rs...
...The New York Woman's Trade Union League Is aiding the strikers morally as well as financially...
...A Great Spanish Actress and the People TTTHE death at Madrid on Jan...
...This includes only about 80 of the 200 shops In the metropolitan district...
...The Paresi agreement provides for a 130 minimum Instead of the 132 demanded by this union...
...In this affection they reciprocated the exceptional sympathy for popular endeavour which tpe bete actress displayed throughout 'her life...
...Most of these women are married and have one or more depend-, ents...
...It Is interesting to note that of the three males Zoe Aklns takes any tune about, one is a vainglorious fool, one a cowardly scamp, and one an Insane murderer...
...Bartut, Bonrlglio, Swee, Barone and Casanova dancing and Mr...
...Talley, Guilford and Alcock and Messrs...
...i The dialogue la - rsnWta with wise cracks that grow irritating at times Mr...
...The second session at 2:30 P. M, will be led by Louis Waldman, on "The Injunction.;' ¦ These meetings are open to all who are Interested...
...Paper Box Umen Denounces Separate Peace by Drivers tot following statement has been issued by the Paper Box Makers Union of Greater New York, 640 Broadway: "The agreement Under which a section of the striking paper box drivers returned to work today is outside the authority or knowledge of the Paper Box Makers Union...
...Fay Wray end Gary 'coper have stellar parts In the prouction...
...Frieda In escort will continue as leading woman -in "Escape...
...Bodanzky will conduct...
...IN MOVIES One -of the outstanding numbers of he Anniversary Week program --at the ^lioxy Theatre next week will be a Revue called "ello...
...Bori...
...but with the Irascible old hart played by C. Aubrey Smith, the shy young Italian (who must have a passionate affair an *rfng out her voice) of Adrians Deri, the smooth yet ardent young attorney of Geoffrey Kerr, and the pert young compound of slang and complete frankness that rparkl— In June Walker (whose part hi the play, at least, is as truly of this town as is our mayor...
...Five men, 'under the leadership of Joe Paresi, met with the bosses while they pretended to be working with this union...
...Madonna Imperia" and "Coq d'Or" oh Thursday evening, the former with Mmes...
...AMUSEMENTS The Week On Stage FREUD UNSUSPECTING By Joseph T.* Shipley...
...L»d For a Night" wfll follow "Within Th Law" now at the Cosmopolitan...
...WITHIN THE LAW" Chamberlain Brown, who sends his permanent company" on tour next week while he tries a new show at the Cosmopolitan, Is this fortnight reviving Bayard VeiUer's "Within the Law...
...Born at Madrid in 186a, of humble parentage, Maria Guerrero made her debut oh the stage of the capital in 1885, being at once wen-received by the public: subsequently she spent some time in Paris to study under Soquelin and Sarah Bernhardt...
...Bellezza conducting...
...William A. Brady, after trying it out in Chicago, soM tt chew to the new firm of Selwyn & Co...
...Its chief InteresWoday is that it gives theatre-goers a chance to observe how the drama has " Improved" since Jane Cowl's first great triumph...
...Be makes...
...The working people of Madrid, who, in numbers almost without precedent on such an occasion, thronged the streets of the city as mourners at Maria Guerrero's funeral, are preparing to commemorate her name in connection arttb a 3copkv* theatre there...
...Hawthorne Is her name, and she is the thorn in the side of Pomroy's partner Adolph Cohen, a movie producer...
...The production has shown a consistent profit and might continue through the spring, but as Leslie Howard's contract with Ames ends June 1, the producer has decided to send the play on tour now, rather That to sacrifice the benefits of a tour of cities where Galsworthy's name has a proven drawing power...
...1 ATJRKTTS TAYLOR'S new vehicle, "The Furies'', st the Shubert Theatre, does a curious half-turn in the last act and becomes a study, in abnormal psychology...
...Alfred E. Smith and Mayor James J. Walker, have been invited to attend the conference...
...Of the other sex, she has fewer harsh things to say...
...Gianni Schiechi" and "Pagliacci" on Wednesday evening, the former with Mmes...
...She had particularly close as^clatforis with the work of the dramatist Jose Echegaray...
...Klrchhoff, Whitehill, Schuteendorf, Meader...
...but Laurette Taylor ensures sympathy for any part...
...Hasselmans conducting...
...Maurice Schwartz, America's outhanding Yiddish actor, and director of he Yiddish Art Theatre on 12th St...
...The story was wrlt~n by John Monk Saunders, who also .Tote the story "Wings", but don't get "he idea that they are anything alike, excpt for the sensational air fighting and aredevlltry of its flyers...
...Nat mi Schafer and Dorothy SUckney Tor h! forthcoming revival of Harry W«*Tstt*" artbble's slightly pie-eyed satire, "M^rcl Hares," in which Richard Bird will b featured...
...Malatesta, Ananian, Palltrinleri and Reschiliah the latter With Mme...
...The afternoon sessions will be held at 2:30 and the evening session at 8 o'clock...
...THE GREAT KECSXK At first blufeh (and there are many) we suspected "The Great Sleeker" tc be a sort of EmXDudwigian drama of the great mortician, William Necker...
...D'Angelo...
...Charles L. Wagner annou-»crs thhe has engaged Josephine Hull...
...Rvan and tiffanv ana mmni Tokatyan, DeLuca, Plnzjt, Gabor, D'Aneelo...
...Nicholson, of course, will be remembered as the author of "The Barker,'* and coauthor with Samuel Behfman df "Love la Like That.'* Owen Davis, Jr., who scarfed so solidly as Chris in the Cbicago^oompaoy of "The Barker", WiU be Wauahtop Ames announced yesterday that his production of John Galsworthy's "-Escape" will end its Mew York run in the Booth Theatre an Saturday night, March 24, and beam a tour of the east the following Monday night In the Plymouth Theatre, Boston...
...Charles L. Wagner announces that he has accepted for immediate production a new comedy by Kenyan Nicholson entitled, "Babes In The Wood" Mr...
...The union wishes publicly to thank Grabel through the press...
...The conditions under which these women labor remind one of the days of the sweatshop...
...This union demanded a 46 hour week with arbitration In six months...
...Wolfe...
Vol. 7 • March 1928 • No. 13
