AMUSEMENTS
AMUSEMENTS The Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley SHAUSrEAKE TO USims :? TT IS common gossip that "The Mer-ry Wives of Windsor" was written because Queen Elizabeth bad expressed a desire to see...
...March 23, 9 p. m. Speaker, Augrist Claessens...
...BROOKLYN Friday...
...Priestly Morrison, who was responsible for the splendid direction of Mr...
...trade in this city...
...Harry Wander, Treasurer...
...Gigli, Tokatyan, Ludikar, Picco, Wolfe and Paltxinieri, Mr...
...the prison scene that follows holds its ground...
...Alcock, Howard and Falco and Messrs...
...The conditions contingent with the presentation of the medal provide that Rothafel perpetuate the medal as an annual award which he is to present each year to the individual responsible for the greatest achievement in the motion picture industry throughout the world...
...This has brought with it uncertainty of...
...In 1917 when the U. S. entered the war, the so-called prosperity was in full swing and people wl\p never worked In the clothing industry'found employment and earned a living...
...This union Is the oldest local union in the clothing industry...
...Fideuo" also for the last time this season, on Saturday afternoon with Mmes Kappel and Fleischer and Messrs...
...Discussion will follow the lecture...
...The Health Center is ready to do its part toward its own members, and is therefore advising those interested to come and talk it over with Dr...
...Tremont Forum Lecture The Tremont Educational Forum, 4215 Third Avenue, near Tremont Avenue, announces a lecture for this Friday evening, March 23rd, by L E Schlechter on: "Are We Going Forward or Backwards...
...Nicholson's first success, "The Barker", will stage this new piece...
...except that in "Veils" they cannot come together, for both parts are played by one actress—Bus Shelley, who reveals a swift versatility, without emotional depth...
...two nights and a day, Is to my mind the finest bit of dramatic work that Broadway has seen this year...
...Beginning the middle of this month and lasting till the middle of April, members of organized labor who are or may be suspected of tuberculosis are invited to come into the Health Center and be examined...
...Greetings to the entire members and the officers of local 50 on their 35th anniversary...
...Klrchhoff...
...full for his hand, that gives "The Merry Wives" a certain thinness, despite the gay coloring and swift joy of the present revival at the Knickerbocker...
...He was presented with two gifts and in responding to the addresses be urged renewed activity in the Socialist movement and declared it to be the hope of the world...
...In this administration was Brother Gold-shall...
...its Invitation dress rehearsal on the The production of "Hedd.x Gabk-r" bad morning of March 20th, with Eva Le Gallienne in the title role...
...Yet that prison scene might have been presented without the prologue, and been equally interesting...
...No financial assistance is solicited...
...FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 1STH...
...He has acted In 13 plays by this famous, English author...
...Comrade Murphy was surrounded with his family...
...Under different conditions, this significant event would have been worthy of a re-union or a celebration at which all of the twenty-five thousand patients could have come and joined in praise of the Dental Clinic...
...The night club of the first act with Its crowded episodes, and the last scene in the death house, lacked a bit in sustained technique for sense stirring...
...Tremont Educational Forum, 421S Third avenue...
...Tickets 75c For sale at all branches and City Office...
...Subject: "Current Events...
...March 23...
...Bellez-za conducting...
...Sunday, March 25, 8:30 p. m. Speak-sr...
...Finnish Socialist Chorus and a skit by Samuel A. De Witt, McAllster Cote-man, August Claessens and the Yipsels...
...Charles L. Wagner announces that be has engaged Dorothea Chard, lately seen in "Mirrors", for the leading feminine role in his forthcoming production of Kenyon Nicholson's new comedy, "Babes In The Wood", in which Owen "Davis, Jr...
...Not aU Henrietta Crosman's graceful stir, all Mrs...
...Auspices, Socialist Party, 23rd A. D. Branch...
...Bronx Labor Lyceum Conference Called For Friday, March 30th The Socialists and advanced sections of workers in the Bronx are determined .that the borough must have a home of its own,—a Labor Lyceum...
...Here is one good play...
...Two types of unions existed in the Buttonhole Makers' Industry...
...The second act...
...employment;, piece work, home work and marks, other evils...
...Workmen's Circle and Socialist Party branches and other progressive organizations are in. vited to send representatives to the con• ference...
...Friday, March 23, 8:30 p. m. Speaker, A. L Shiplacoff...
...It is hoped that representatives of our many local unions will take part in the deliberations...
...Speakers: Jacob Panken, B. C. Vladoek, WUHam Karlin, A. I. Sbiplacoff and- Louis Waldman, Chairman, Algernon Lee...
...One day last week, Harry Oreen, a member of local 22 of the I. L. G. W. U, became the center of attention...
...De-Luca, Ludikar, Tedesco, Bada, Picco, Rescrillan, Cehanovsky, Gabor, Malates-ta and Ananian, Mr...
...Benjamin M. Anderson, economist of the Chase National Bank...
...In its development it follows the device familiar to an readers of the dear old Henty books, of giving one soene to one main figure, and the next scene to the other...
...Though a small local of only four hundred members, it has been progressive, and militant, and one that larger organizations can follow with profit...
...The production at the Knickerbocker is quick and colorful...
...platinum and gold branches of the...
...Workmen's circle branches have taken the initiative in a movement which prom, ises to bring a Labor Lyceum to this working-class section of the city before long...
...Something in the nature of a world's record was achieved at the Civic Repertory1 Theatre on Ibsen's Centenary, Tuesday, March 20Ui, when three of his plays were done in one day...
...AMUSEMENTS The Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley SHAUSrEAKE TO USims :? TT IS common gossip that "The Mer-ry Wives of Windsor" was written because Queen Elizabeth bad expressed a desire to see Sir John Palstaff in love...
...Aline Bernstein, scenic designer for the Neighborhood playhouse, is doing the sets for the Civic Repertory Theatre's revival of "Hedda Gaoler" which will open at that theatre Monday cvemm, March 26...
...The Buttonhole Makers were unemployed...
...Subject: "Are We Going Forward or Backwards.' ' Aus-Dices...
...2 P. M.—Cooper Union Mas* Meeting, Subject "Unemployment, the Seven Ceat Fare aad the Traction Muddle...
...Subject: "Presidential Campaign and the Socialist Party.' Rockaway Mansion...
...The dinner marked the culmination of the first year of operation of the Roxy Theatre during which period all previous records for attendance and receipts were surpassed...
...Boris Godunoff" on Thursday eve-iii:g with Mr...
...The Medical Department was so before and will be so again when utilized to a greater extent...
...n»*bing of the same process breaks the mood, here, with Sir John...
...SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 14TH, 8:30 P. M.—Finnish Socialist Halt...
...Tristan und Isolde"—the last of the Wagner Cycle—on ThursdEy afternoon with Mmes...
...Bori, Fleischer...
...IN BRIEF Lawrence Hanray, who plays three roles in the Winthrop Ames' production of John GalAwort'ay s "Escape" in which Leslie Howard is featured, is a OtiNworthy speciilis...
...Speakers of National Prominence—Musical *Pnrgram Carmen Reuben, Soprano...
...Working conditions of the various shops in this city have reached a point where the unemployed problem has become a serious one as the result of the development of the machine process In making jewelry...
...Artists: Madam Dorsha and her troupe...
...Solomon Deutsch, violinist and Schiller's Orchestra...
...Kappel and 3rar«zell and Messrs...
...Meader, Altglass and Gabor, Mr...
...Czar Ivan The Terrible is another great photo play produced in Soviet Russia by the Moscow Art Players headed by the incomparable Leonidoff, nmn^pow^TaT-^^ Jewelers Called To Mass Meeting Next Thursday A mass meeting for all jewelers, setters, engravers, polishers, tool and die makers, press hands and all other workers employed in the Jewelry trade will be held on Thursday, March 29th, 1928 at 7 P.M...
...the play then carries the one oat of, the other into, the nunnery...
...It was at this period that Murphy became a Socialist and joined) the 8. L. P. Murphy is old in years but young in spirit and his friends and comrades join in the tribute paid by those who attended the dinner in his honor...
...This indicates that the union was an important factor in the clothing industry even thirty five years ago...
...THE SOCIALIST CALENDAR SUNDAY, MARCH 25TH...
...Master Builder" was presented in the afternoon,' while "John Gabriel Bor'cman" was given at the evening performance...
...Comrade Murphy came from Ireland 45 years ago and immediately joined the Furniture Workers' Union, then affiliated with the K. of L. He Was active' in District 49 of the K. of L. where Daniel DeLeon of the S. L. P. later became a conspicuous figure In the agitation for Socialism...
...Joseph Spielman, Secretary...
...Easton, and Flexer and Messrs, Jagel, Scctti, Malatesta, Bada, D'Angelo, Pic--o and Reschilian, Mr...
...The famous wash-basket scene boils with merriment, and Palstaff is another knight of the rueful countenance when it is over...
...those episodes which keep the audience concerned do It without reference to a story that is, in itself, trite, and in the telling, obvious...
...The award, to be known as the Roxy Medal, was presented to Roxy by the organization of the theatre in recognition of his achievement in the conception erection and direction of the Roxy Theatre, the greatest single enterprise in the history of the amusement world...
...The opening, in the convent office is quick to catch the attention...
...Fiske's robust vigor and keen enjoyment, could carry us three times through the flouting of Palstaff with unflagging zest...
...The ultimate purpose ofr/£he union Is the complete elimination W these, evils from the trade and the esfehHahlng of stable conditions in the trade and shops throughout the city...
...Belszsa conducting...
...Brother B. Goldshall treats them in a series of articles in "Portschrit...
...Buttonhole Union Observes 35th Birthday rjiHE Buttonhole Makers' Union, Local 10...
...he made the man so real to us that we looked upon him with human sympathy, with fellow-feeling for so natural a scamp...
...at Bryant Hall, 725 Sixth Ave., New York City...
...Bodanzky conducting...
...Socialist Party, Coney Islam Branch...
...Falco and Wells and Messrs...
...in which wa are transported Into the sanctum sanctorum of a Jury room where .twelve men have been debating the conviction of a man for murder through...
...Tomorrow's program in Mecca Auditorium (Mar...
...Greetings I "The New York Locals of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union A. F. of L., have for the last fifteen years maintained a Union Health Center, which gives health, medical and dental assistance, examinations and treatment to their members...
...I might have kept the shooting in the third act off-stage and perhaps heightened the emotional tenseness of the jail scene and the fruitless break for liberty...
...George Price, Director of the Health Center...
...SUNDAY, APRIL 15TH, 5:8*) P. M.—National Convention Banquet of 1000 people...
...Frank Moulan presided as Master of Ceremonies and over 800 persons, representing the staff and employees and their guests, attended...
...A dinner was arranged and among those who spoke were Jacob Panken, Norman Thomas, Esther Friedman, Leon Rosser Land, August Claessens, Morris Herman, Sarah Volo-violc and Marie MacDonald...
...The subject of Dr...
...30) and Sunday afternoon (April 1) in Mecca Auditorium...
...Mmes...
...When these small contractors came into the union they attempted to use the union to further their own individual interests...
...695 Rockaway avenue...
...The two elements fought each other so long until they merged and the association bosses became members of the union...
...Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 211 Sackman street...
...Twin sisters have become criminal and convent-girl...
...Whitehill, Bohnen, Afcadtr...
...Bodanzky conducting...
...of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, will celebrate its thirty-fifth anniversary with a concert and banquet which will take place March 24th at Park Palace, 110th street and 5th avenue...
...Alcock, Flexer, Ryan, Parisette...
...tt was the first timo since the days of the Greeks, Sopho-iies, Aeschylus that three of the works of one man were given at the same theatre, by the same company on one day...
...Boro Park Labor Lyceum, 42nd street and 14th avenue...
...These two, in an sJlsgsd attempt to break their striking comrades, concluded a separate agreement with the employers for drivers only...
...Huntington Hall, 214 East 2nd street...
...Lecture Calendar NEW YORK Sunday, March 25, 11 a. m. Sneaker, Judge Jacob Panken...
...This lasted until the period between 1916 and 1918...
...What we wish is the support of labor unions in the City in maintaining and developing this first example of a cooperative health organization...
...They have shown workers in the Industry the need for a strong union...
...Samuel Orr was Toastmaster...
...Mary A. Gates, Soprano...
...Auspices, Socialist Party, 6-8-12th A. D. . Monday, March 26, 9 p. m. Speaker...
...The old administration could not cope with the situation and as a result a new administration came into office in 1918...
...2518 Mermaid avewae...
...Of course it was not an overnight affair—it took . time and they are still continuing to build up the organization...
...Bronx Socialists Honor "Pat" Murphy Socialists and friends of Patrick J. Murphy met last Thursday nigfst in Ambassador Hall, the Bronx, In recognition of the many years of service given by comrade Murphy to the Labor and Socialist movement...
...To those who direct the Dental Department these figures are significant indeed...
...Records of its existence date back as far as 1893...
...Subject: "Current Events...
...Bellezza conducting...
...Make reservations for the banquet AT ONCE...
...A campaign to examine all those suspected of having this disease is carried on by the T. B. Association of New York...
...Write, phone or call at the City Office...
...Plumbers Cktb Aids Miners The East New York Plumbers Social Club Inc., of 357 Ro.kaway Ave., Brooklyn, has been gathering old clothes for the miners and has shipped it to the Brownsville Labor Lyceum for delivery...
...What caused the excitement, and to some a thrill, was a number— just a little ticket bearing the figure— 25,000...
...Brother B. Gold-shall, business agent of the union states that a fight occurred between the Knights of Labor and the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance for the control of the Buttonhole Makers' Union...
...However, our facilities are much greater than we need or can utilize for our own members...
...The acting of the large cast, however, was so well balanced as to successfully hide some of the material defects in this otherwise splendidly handled play...
...Park Palace, 110th Street and Fifth Avenue...
...Please send one representative of your organization with credentials |o this conference, which will be held at the Unlpn Health Center, 131 Bast 17th street, on Friday, March 30th, at 2 p. m. "Fraemally yours, Morris Sigman, President I. L. G. W. U...
...These health, medical and dental services have proved themselves very valuable to the members...
...The members of the union very often struck against these contractors...
...Subject: "Capita Punishment in the Light of Repent Executions...
...Aus oices...
...This is T. B. Month...
...Da lossy, 3ordon, Bourskaya, Waxeneld, and Parisette and Messrs...
...Reception to National Convention Delegates...
...Tosca" Just this season will the popular Saturday night opera with Mmes...
...Paltrinieri, Picco, D'Angelo, Reschilian, Cehanovsky, and Ana-nian, Mr...
...The lecture will start at 8:30 sharp, and will be followed by questions and discussions from the floor...
...Chamlee, Rothler, Bada, Tedesco...
...One was a union of workers and the other an association of contractors...
...The members are proud of their officers and of their union...
...Anderson's address next Monday night will be: "Modern Social Radicalism...
...Chaliapln...
...Opening of tbe National Convention...
...It is interesting enough for those of you who can to cut a radio period and hustle down to the 49th Street Theatre and get the kick I got out of what rarely ever gets to Broadway these days, an honest-to-goodness play on a real problem...
...8 PA-Manhattan Opera House...
...The Dental Department is practically self-paying...
...Gipli...
...The guests of honor on the dais included the directors of the Will-leak Eas> aegoaleonnn, George W. McClelland, representing the National Broadcasting Company, and other notables in the world of music and the theatre...
...Other operas next week will be: "La Rondine" on Wednesday evening with Mmes...
...The location and manner of achievement is not limited and may embrace any type of activity connected with motion pictures in any part of the world...
...The causes were numerous and they could not be explained in detail here...
...The new administration found $2.50 in the treasury and $$1,000.00 debts, and most of the members unemployed I The new officers had three problems to solve, (1) to see that the union comprised workers exclusively and not bosses, (2) to place the workers in the shops where military work was being done, (3) and to meet the financial deficit...
...All are welcome...
...Subject: "The Socialist Movement in the United States...
...Serafin conducting...
...He did hot know it, but those in charge of the work did...
...Ethelred Brown...
...This mass meeting will be held under the auspices of the International Jewelry Workers' Union, Local No...
...Grand Concert and Dance...
...The convent v-yard was copied from one of those Christmas post-cards that sparkle with ground glass, but some of the scenes more effectively supported the surface story...
...For Harry Green is the twenty-fifth thousand patient whom the Dental Department treated during the ten years of its existence...
...Prominent speakers will address the meeting and a large crowd is expected to attend...
...George M. Price, M. D., Director...
...The host of other performers, from page to apothecary, from Parson to lively Ann Page, is thoroughly competent, and any sense of meager substance not repaid in poetry and romping must be laid to the author, or to the change in taste ¦since Shakespeare's time...
...There are, in the growth of the drama through its eleven episodes, several that wear a surface effectiveness...
...James Oneal...
...Subject: "Socialism...
...Anderson was Professor of Economics at Columbia University from 1911 to 1913 and at Harvard University from 1913 to 1918...
...Cutters and setters up are holding meetings Mondays at the same address Union Health Center Calls Conference of All N. Y. Unions *T*<HE following Conference call has been sent to organized labor of the city...
...s a n MUSIC "L'Amore del Tre Re", last time this season, will open the last week but two of the Metropolitan Opera Season Monday evening with Mmes...
...Senor Arbos will continue his guest conductorship of the New York Symphony Orchestra next week with Hei-fetz appearing as assisting artist at the Friday evening concert in Carnegie Hall (Mar...
...The result was a constant struggle within the union between these two factions...
...Let us hope you will not only fight on the economical field, but on the political and for the emancipation of the working class everywhere...
...Parisette, Bonetti and Flexer and Messrs...
...It is In the form of a ten inch silver placque, modeled by Jukio Kilenyi, bearing a likeness of Roxy and the following legend, "Awarded to S. L. Rothafel for the greatest achievement in the moving picture world during the year 1927...
...A conference has been . called for Friday evening, March 30th, at 8:30 p. m., at 1581 Boston Road, the headquarters of the Workmen's Circle and the Socialist Center...
...Auspices, Socialist Party, 18th A D. Branch...
...We have therefore decided to offer the use of our medical and dental facilities to all organized labor and are calling a conference of labor unions in the city to present to them our proposal of converting our Health Center into a Health Center for Organized Labor...
...I hate to butt in here with the plot and episodical narrative...
...P. Dodd Ackerman has been commissioned to design the setting...
...1 and will mark the beginning of an organization campaign having as its objective a thorough organisation of all jewelry workers employed in the...
...A. Weil...
...Punishing Capital Punishment For once in a year of jaded nights 1 sat through an evening and felt thoroughly compensated for the expenditure of time and interest...
...The dinner was followed by dancing...
...Congratulations are due the Dental Department and the directors...
...The English street is admirably executed with appropriate aocosnpanirnerav...
...Laubenthal...
...They had a committee for calling and settling strikes and to look after the general interests of the workers...
...96 Avenue C. Auspices, Socialist Party, 6-8-12th A. D. BRONX Friday, March 23, 8:30 p. m. Speaker, L. E. Schlechter...
...his final treatment seems, therefore, more the pitiful discomfiture of an aging man being reminded of bis age, than the roll irking rebuff of a rascal that It seemed to Shakespeare's colder blooded tunes...
...The contractors were never recognized by the workers...
...This was chiefly due to the nature of the work being done—the military work which came with the war and resulting in the installation of new machines that displaced all kinds of people...
...To labor unions in the City of New York...
...and membership applications from inside workers have been flooding the union headquarters at 640 Broadway...
...It is the only play of Shakespeare's that pictures his contemporary England, and so far as we know—the only one that owes Us plot to no deft borrowing...
...Price — $2.00 per person...
...Andrea Chanier", last time, on Fri-dey evening with Mmes Eastern...
...General Manager I. L. G. W. U...
...Chose Bank Economist To Discuss Radicalism The Forum of the Brooklyn Jewish Center, 667-691 Eastern Parkway, will have as speaker Monday eve., March 26th, Dr...
...They did their utmost for localv 50...
...25) will be a repetition of that given by Senor Arbos Thursday...
...Solomon Deutsch, violinist...
...Some t tickets are .still available...
...Speakers: Morris Hill quit, Norman Thomas, Mayor Daniel I loan of Milwaukee, Mayor J. Henry Stump of Reading, Congressman Victor L. Berger, William H. Henry, National Secretary, and others...
...During the ten years the administration did remarkable work...
...Friday...
...At the Cameo, "Csar Ivan The Terrible" continues for the third capacity week...
...Its executive committee in those days functioned properly...
...After the formation of the Buttonhole Makers' Union...
...IN MOVIES A perpetuating medal award for the motion picture industry was created recently at a dinner at the Hotel Plaza given by the Boxy Theatre Organization in honor of its director, S. L. Rothird...
...will be featured...
...Bori...
...It must, however, represent the outstanding contribution in the motion picture Industry for the year...
...Twenty-five thousand men women and children came to this—their own institution:—to be cared for...
...8:30 p. m. Speaker, Jos...
...Serann will conduct...
...This was indeed no easy job to tackle, but Goldshall, with the co-operation of - the active spirits and the members have made a splendid job of it...
...Their attempt, however, has bad an effect opposite to that intended...
...UNPEUJCt> At the Forraet Theatre a "new play" by Irving Kaye Davis indicates the motives that lead to "Veils...
...Killers . . .a drama by L. E. Biseh and Howard Merlin, staged by Howard Mer-llng at the 49th street Theatre, exceptionally well acted, and with a Vitamin P ingredient for any humanist to whom crime, our jury system, and our whole crazy-quilt pattern of law and punishment is an abomination...
...Whitehill, Bohnen, Schutz-endorf...
...Julius Hoch-man...
...Abraham Baron, Secretary I. L. O. W. U...
...Joseph Breslau, Chairman Union Health Center...
...PAPER BOX WORKERS RALLY TO UNION The movement toward a strong...
...We have turned Shylock from a buffo a victim...
...eanso 11 da ted union in the Paper Box Industry is going forward rapidly in spite of the desertion of the union by drivers under the leadership of Joe Pares*, and Paul Dsutaofa...
...Bloch, D'Angelo and Gabor, Mr...
...WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH S8TH.—Republic Theatre-Benefit Performance "Porgy...
...Johnson, Tlbbett, Pinza, Bada end Paltrinl-eri, Mr...
...The round box workers wu> meet at the Union headquarters on Wednesday evening to discuss ways and means of increasing the present membership in their branch of the trade...
...George and Max Price, foi their splendid achievement It is due to their tireless spirit and courage, that the Union Health Center is weatherinc the storm...
...Perhaps it is the fact that it contains no plot ready-fbrmed...
...Perhaps, however, it was the excellent performance of Otis Skinner that spoiled the fun...
...The wordless moments, such as the Hgh""g of the street lamps and the dropping off to sleep of the boy who seeks shelter on a porch, show a sense of harmony, of stage management and design, that adds considerably to the effectiveness of the production, and reflects credit upon Harrison Piske, the director...
...And what is more real and recurrent these days than murder, legal and private...
Vol. 7 • March 1928 • No. 14
