AMUSEMENTS
AMUSEMENTS The Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley LOVE AND FEAR Lucille LaVerne, at the theatre now named for her. Is presenting once more that soundest of southern studies. Lulu Vollmer's...
...Shane and Una O'Neill, children of Mr...
...the polish glistens and catches our eye—when, for example, it is after Maurice 'phones his confession that he learns the man arrested In his place has established an alibi...
...Harpo s silence Is still more fraught with fun...
...Its purpose Is fiankly to stimulate action...
...Reginald Denny has completed his latest Universal picture "Clear The Deck" and has started on another titled "His Lucky Day...
...a growing Intensity through the stillness tightens In the throat, until the return of the young man breaks the string, leaving an aged woman to give her faithful husband as great a share as she can of the happiness he doubtless deserves...
...and Mrs...
...We trust that those who want a thorough examination by an expert in his iuie, will heed our advice and find out 'he status of their own health—before it is too late...
...The Command Performance" is, in good earnest, a mulberry romance of royal families and daring lowly hero whose courage and merit lift him to th< princess of his dreams...
...the world is democratic, for his end...
...gone by, all but writes itself...
...The mechanics of the play are...
...but it is as laugh-cure for melancholy that the wise cracks of "Animal Crackers," and the unspoken wise plays, make us know that Broadway marks the Marx Brothers as its own...
...The Rain Song," made famous by Bert Williams, is the contribution of Forbes Randolph's Kentucky Jubilee Choir to the Roxy Theatre this week...
...Comrade Hahl was born in Finland In 1879...
...Already in Finland he had been a member of the Social democratic party and on arrival in this country he Joined the Finnish socialist movement here and became an enthusiastic worker...
...Between the acts, one may wonder at this tour de force, which uses only two players and a telephone...
...November 10...
...she turns from the empty dream to devote herself to her husband...
...loving her husband— than to corner the flour of last year...
...In 1903 he emigrated to America where he lived the remainder of his life...
...M. Eva Le GaUienne snnormcei that Improvisations in June" will be raawedt* the active list at the Civic Theatre...
...The death of comrade Hahl removed from the ranks of the Finnish socialist and labor movement an outstanding figure who for more than a quarter of a century, by both pen and voice espoused and taught the Ideals and principles of socialism...
...John Wenger...
...Moissl s company Is still playing to capacity business in the German capital and will continue to play until it embarks on the New Amsterdam for New York...
...From the alove it will be seen that both departments ot Vt...
...The humor of Orouchc depends heavily upon the Incongruous the sudden combination of ideas that have no common relevancy...
...Ruth Shepley, last seen on Broadway Ir $he revival of "Within torn Law" at the* Coa&jopolitan Theatre last season, tm smart \to HteJB" JBSSSS rat* in "The Squealer," the melodrama by Mark Under which Jack Llnder will present at the Forrest Theatre next Monday evening, she wll play opposite Reed Brown, recently in "The Big Pond...
...It aims to clarify the outlines of Socialism for the American reader in such a way that he may see its immediate and permanent Importance as a political Issue...
...and Mrs...
...The readers of The New leader are urged to take advantage of this important additional clinic and have themselves examined at once...
...and greed and submissive desire sre ghosts behind them...
...the fact that the American point of v'ew will be adhered to, "and rnly such foreign developments will be touched upon as are important to the comprehension of SocialIsm in the Untied States...
...Union Health Center are forging ahead...
...will give a second song-cycle at the Yiddish Art Theatre next Monday evening, November 12 th...
...Though th» author is definitely a supporter of Socialism, she reaches her decision only after a careful study of other remedies proposed to cure the Ills resulting from Capitalism Her book is a complete statement of an engrossing subject written by an author exceptionally equipped for an authoritative presentation...
...The author states so definitely the aims and purposes of the book, and the approach to the subject, that the temptation to quote her exact words cannot be resisted...
...The Dental Dept...
...Marie-Louise is an -artistic" woman, which means a woman of sense and s-neitivlty, shut in a small French town, where her father, her husband (and we can picture her son) lead the matter-of-fact lives of owners of a large factory that makes nails...
...They don't know that It occupies a loft extending a city block...
...Fay Bainter's natural air, and John Halllday's tense torment, help to create this effect, as the story of love, sadistic lust, and murder is unfolded...
...The atmosphere of these folk it is Impossible to wrap around a review...
...This play, out of the life of the North Carolina Mountains, pictures with quiet sincerity and simple truth a part and people of this land that, until the war awoke us to their existence, when they were called to arms, were virtually unknown and unknowing...
...Justified The influence of jealousy, as leading to "crimes of passion," has often been shown in the drama...
...Olympla" ii the same thing, laughing at itself—like Arnold Bennett's "Pretty Lady," which became a genuine best seller through tbi delicacy with which It burlesqued the best seller...
...which will shortly go Into production with Laura LaPlante In the star role...
...Bad teeth interfere with the proper chewing of food and with your digestion...
...What might have been a genuinely tragic study of two creatures under great stress, is burnished into a shiny melodrama, theatrically stirring, excellently presented, and—in its order—quite worth while...
...yet this is quite enough From Oroucho, who never stops talking to Harpo, who never talks, the fun these men make leaves no room for other thing: than laughter...
...it Is loving them all that*matters...
...If anything, too neat...
...The entire cast plays with a freshness and ease that certainly make further singling out Impossible, and gives a worthy rendering to one of our richest truly native plays...
...At the age of nine he began his life as a worker as a shepherd...
...Isa Kremer, the famous ballsdist...
...Something of the mood of a Pirandello play hangs, like an overripe, ominous fruit beyond mortal tasting, upon "The Pinal Balance...
...for it renders a service In the educative field by furnishing a text that answers the questions of many thousands of reaiers That there is a need for such a service is evident In Dr...
...He was at work on a sequel to a novel that was published last winter in which the history of the Finnish labor movement tn America served as a background when his untimely death prevented him from completing it...
...The specialists are rig men in their own particular fields...
...La Loeandlers am "The Master Builder...
...when the dominance of this spirit In her conquers the cold In the heart of the sheriff, the timidity in the soul of the deserter...
...Teeth become bad from neglect...
...Emily Graham and more—David Plnskl carries over a strong and strange effect...
...Union Health Center Adds New Clinic The Union Health Center will add new clinics beginning early in October...
...IN BRIEF The reading of "Lazarus Laughed" at the Provlncetown Playhouse has been postponed from the 11th to the 18th of November...
...He developed into an able lecturer and writer who possessed a thoroughness, keen satire and humor...
...The satire in the play is deftly managed, with acid portraiture...
...The program for Saturday Includes "Two Slattern* and a King" by Edna St Vincent Mil lay...
...Cobum have had acceptances of their Invitation from the Honorable S. S. Young, Chinese Consul-Goeral in New York and from Mr...
...The children of Mr...
...it is no fault of bis that MarieLouise needs wider field and fuller stimulation...
...Eugene O'Neill, will be the guests of honor at the performance of Remo Bufano's Marionettes at the Provlncetown Playhouse on Saturday morning...
...where lives and the emotions that stir them are simple and stark...
...It was written about 25 years ago by wm Hanoi Cook, the Negro composer...
...Miss Le GaUienne, who casts herself wisely, has once more chosen a role In which her Intelligent playing, approaching the emotions rather by way of the mind, fits the character and bodies it forth...
...She says "The aim of this book Is scientific, in that it strives to deai with facts objectively, avoiding emotional and partisan bias...
...The body was buried in Forest Hill cemetery Wednesday, October 31...
...extends an invitation to union men and women to take advantage of its enlarged facilities...
...It Is probably a matter of general knowledge that a book of this kind is the type of book for which the Vanguard Press has become known...
...And so are the people interested in that Institut.-on...
...At the premiere of "The Yellow Jacket" next Thursday evening at Cobum Theatre, will be several nigh officials of the Chinese Republic, according te so announcement by Charles D. Cobum...
...when she declares that there is no danger where there is no fear...
...Though it was well known among the Finnish comrades that Comrade Hahl had not been In good health during the past few years the news of his death came as a complete surprise...
...On the one string...
...Bad teeth sre also the source of many Infections ind the cause of rheumatism, neuritis, leart and other diseases...
...It is, therefore, encouraging to let the readers of The New Leader know that a new clinic for the treatment of diabetes, kidrey trouble, goitre, obesity or overweight, malnutrition or undernourishment will begin on October 2nd, and will be held every Tuesday evening from 5 to 6.30 P. M. at 131 East 17th street...
...Of the last type is "Jealousy," Eugene Walter's well-made adaptation from the French of Louis Vemeull, now at Marine Elliott's...
...Louise Closser Hale, aa the modern-- Aunt Emma—today, it is more likely to be the aunt—manages to evoke considerable laughter...
...Comrade Oscar Tokoi, former Finnish Socialist premier, delivered the funeral address at the bier of the deceased comrade...
...He has done his best...
...Hughan is interested in the post-war developments of Socialism both here and abroad, but she emphasize...
...Kenneth Macgowan will also be present...
...The maniac Moneylender mutters "Mine" to the Wife's echoing "Yes...
...It is, therefore, a great privilege for our working men and women to get the services of these professional men and women for so low a fee...
...Outside of a comely and well trained chorus, nothing more matters...
...s_Pf7 by Max Mohr, translated by Busan Beta and Cecil Lewis, one of the Japertsnt additions to the repertory tn P*"*"™ street last season, is the fifth P™**0of previous seasons to be conttmug ¦ this season's schedule alorsrJide T» Would-Be Gentlemen," TTnriuaoe « Voyage" and "The Cherry Previous old favorites which areiesn presented on an average of at issaom a week include "The Cradle smg, "Hedds Oabler...
...The difficult task of balancing our sympathies so that we watch these petty pripcelets with Interest, yet are ready to accept their ultimate fall, is well handled, the superb acting of Laura Hope Crews rising far abovi an exceptionally good cast, as the conflict of mother-love and pride of place torment her, until the author remember...
...What more natural —especially If you covet a young wife who ignores you...
...of her desire the play plucks quietly, but it is her heart-string that throbs...
...Finn Socialists Lose Pioneer In Moses Hahl (By A Nrw Vmtm CwrafNtnl) Pitchburg, Mass.—Moses Hahl, well known Socialist lecturer and author, died October 27 at the Bur bank Hospital here • Tlctlm of cancer...
...where Widow Cage I, asked the name of the village three miles away, knows only that it is called "Town": where It is still the Yanks the boys go off to fight...
...But I suppose Paris is like that...
...Young returned last week from Geneva where he represented his Government at the League of Nations...
...This coating, which gives the drama a preternatural ease of flow, prevents us from accepting the characters quite as real...
...After the performance guests and audience will go backstage to see the marionettes...
...There are still a number of men and women of the labor movement who think that this department is opelated on a small seal...
...It Is not until the Idea comes to the Merchant that selling the old flour at an exorbitant rate is a more tedious (and less lasting) way of getting rich than to allow everyone else to go insane, then despoil the town, that he gives of the new bread to his wife and their equally avaricious partner...
...1$, vita Adolph Zukor, president of Parsnomt Pamous-Laaky, and Sam Kant, prssmnt of Publlx Theatres, as the honor feats...
...Rarely without cause (in drama), it may, by pressing upon the suspect, produce Its own justification...
...Do Not Neglect Foar Teeth...
...Their private office fees range from $10 00 to $25.00 a visit...
...It makes no pretense, however, to a passionless pursuit of passionless information...
...Sometimes it is roused by villainy, as when Othello slays his virtuous wife...
...Art Director, executes his first designs at the Roxy...
...That is the keynote of "What is Socialism...
...Saturday evening...
...The players are all subdued, yet Ria Mooney as the younger sister is lively enough, and the men are quite natural, so that attention is properly centered upon despair and the dreaming of the Imprisoned wife...
...as into what seem...
...The marionettes perform err - Saturday morning at eleven, and there are guests of honor every week...
...Then I saw through "Olympla," which continues the tradition of the Empire Theatre, of showing good plays...
...The music contributed by Irving Aronson's players reiterates one piece, "Let's Do It," that captures the town with its listing of an who do . . . including the Scandinavian...
...there Is more power In what It seems to repress, as though the play were damned and only the narrowest of sluices open, than in what it actually iells or shows...
...In "Parts," by Martin Brown, at the Music Box, the formula is somewhat depress...
...C. T. Feng, the Vice-Consul...
...So the bread of health turns, after he has denied It to others, to wormwood in the mouth of the Merchant...
...Hughan s own words at the beginning of her book when she says, "The publication of the Social Science Outlines by the Vanguard Press gives an opportunity to supply to some extent the need still left by college courses, and to present to the general -tader the facts undlmmed by the smoke of controversy and In a form convenient for comparison...
...but timing the performance there is no lapse of Interest, for such thoughts to Intrude...
...Only it is naughty of "Olympia'i hero to take so much physical satisfaction in his revenge, leaving her a pleasant memory all stained with a bitter end...
...TOO SINGLE PURPOSE In "The Final Balance...
...Nonsense verse has been fairly clever in recent musical comedy: the last decade has shown our nearest approaches to the high level set by the still unequaled Gilbert and Sullivan...
...Lionel Ferrend has been engaged as general stage manager by the New Playwright Theatre for the production of Upton Sinclair's "Singing Jailbirds...
...the one fault In the direction—trivial as It may seem—is, to me at least, the absurdly unsuitable binding of the volume MarieLouise refers to as Baudelaire...
...Considering the conditions of the last three months, the heat, and the general slowing up of work verywhere...
...ngly repeated...
...More frequently, whether it rise from incidents observed or, springing from an intuitive suspicion, it later discovers the cause, jealousy is the consequence of frailty or infidelity...
...The acting of Lucille LaVerne as the Widow Cagel is as natural as though she were a mountain woman, living her stern days in the philosophy silence and sorrow have granted...
...By the absurdity of his story and the repressed intensity of his mood—excellently sustained ay E. J. Ballantine as the Merchant.'by William Franklin, Mary Michael...
...After shifting around in various odd Jobs he learned the machinist trade and worked at the trade for 12 years...
...Little OM Paris Little Old New York, of the Eighties, when Aunt Emma or Uncle Ezra—In those days, mainly Uncle E.—pulled traces from the backwater ditches of the farm regions, to spy upon the brimstone edges of the great wicked city, spun familiar lure...
...Beginning October first, the fee for all special clinics will oe $1 50 Instead of $1.00...
...Socialism stimulated In him on insatiable hunger for learning as has been the case of all those who have embraced the Ideals of Socialism...
...Watching the Clouds Go By" is one of the lyrics that the sentimental moments make effective...
...and Arthur Margstson does some deft acting...
...he is such an adept thief that he steals even the poor millionaire's birthmark...
...Who Zoo...
...Lulu Vollmer's "Sun Up...
...Visit the Dental Department today Do not wait for tomorrow...
...The Dental i> partment is extending an invitation to all union men and women to come and vi&'t the Dental Department —Located at 222 Po'jrth avenue, comer 18th street...
...The dinner is In appreciation of the art Brooklyn-Paramount Theatre at Unmount Square, Platbush and DtKafe avenues, which opens Nov...
...The fascination of New York, its liquor, lights of love, and other dear damned devices, hilarious outlet of inhibited countryman: the scenario of the uproarious farce of a day now (thanks be...
...Throughout the country in Finnish socialist circles the death of comrade Hahl is mourned...
...In a dream the Merchant has learned that this year's crop of flour will turn all who taste it insane...
...More than a score of years he served as lecturer for the Finnish Federation travelling from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast carrying enlightenment to the workers...
...worthy of place among these approaches is the Marx Bros.' song: "We're Four of the Three Musketeers...
...the Union Health Center has done well...
...Into this town, and from It to Argentine, drifts a young man who becomes the object and the avenue of Marie's long dream...
...and Mrs...
...Irene Bordonl stars, with stout determination to drive home her effects...
...The nostalgia of Baudelaire is summoned as symbol of Marie's desire...
...It was prepared under the auspices of the • National Office of the Socialist Party and is offered by the publishers as the authoritative permanent hand-book for party worker...
...Cable advices from Berlin just received by Morris Gest from Max Relnhardt have necessitated the postponement of the engagement of Alexander Moissl in Max Relnhardt's production of Tolstoy's "Redemption" for two weeks only at the Century Theatre from Sunday evening, November 18, to Monday evening, November 19...
...the first of the Province town Playhouse offerings this season, David Plnskl takes a ludrlcrous tale as the basis of his allegory, to point the lesson that who so seeketh with sufficiently single heart shall fine?—and be rewarded in proportion to the value of that which he deslreth...
...Animal Crackers" is the title under which the Marx Brothers display their known and agile tomfoolery, at the FortyFourth Street Theatre...
...only a full-length novel could make It as real as it seems there on the stage before us...
...He is the author of numerous books in the field of economics, drama, poetry, and novels...
...Slightly increased rates for special clinics will be Inaugurated...
...Movie stars and celebrities will be present at a dinner tendered In the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Club*by its board of directors Tuesday, Nov...
...Dr...
...Last year's win restore their sanity...
...The outlook for the winter is hopeful...
...We are, however, snobs enough to enjoy both the spectacle of nobles as trotting, and their fall . . . An Inconsequential but very entertaining play...
...Try the Devil's Dictionary: Opportunity, a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment...
...when feud-law yields, not to threats, which make It the more bttterly determined, but to love...
...Ian Keith has been signed by the Universal Pictures Corporation for the leading role in "The Haunted Lady...
...Into this out-of-the-way and richly revealed atmosphere, as simple a conflict moves through tragic depths to the sunup of a higher recognition, when Widow Cagel, whose father, husband and son have been taken by the "law," discovers that It Is not only her own son she must love...
...Cinderella," and "Julius Caesar's Circus...
...Just remember this and do not delay action Let the Dental Department of vhe Union Health Center solve your teeth problem...
...Tonight at 12," the new Owen Davis play which Herman Shumlln is presenting is definitely set to open at the Hudson Theatre on Tuesday November 13...
...Stocking Royalty At first I thought Sidney Howard was pulling Molner's leg...
...holding It by a brooding expectancy above the inconsequentlality it nears...
...No Matter Where The woman who is ready to take the first train out, no matter where it's going, is poignantly pictured in Jean-Jacques Bernard's "L"Invitation au Voyage," sympathetically presented by Eva Le Gallienne at the Civic Repertory Theatre...
...Comrade Hahl served as editor of a number of Finnish socialist newspapers and magazines both In Canada and the United Stotes...
...Three ailments—if not cared for in time—arc apt to cause the persons concerned, a great deal of trouble...
...The Dental Department is open daily from 10 A. M. till 7 P. M. Saturdays till 5 P. M. Sundays closed...
...an Intelligent discussion he injects a comment upon Al Smith's candidacy, oi introduces himself five times within three minutes to the philanthropist to whom he is talking...
...with Its 24 chrir units, x-ray department, nurses, hygienic and clerical staff, etc., it is a sight not so soon to be forgotten—especially when we remember that it is the only one of its kind owned and controlled by organized labor...
...when the death of her son has its resurrection In the freshened lives of those around...
...A New Book on Socialism Issued JJR Jessie Wtilace Hughiin, so well qualified by Inclination and experience to write about Socialism, has completed a book, WHAT IS SOCIALISM?, to be published by the Vanguard Press about the middle of October...
...But when they're all out of step but this Jim-dandy schemer, he discovers that the best thing left for him to do is—to hang himself...
...the surge of the action makes its valid hold...
Vol. 7 • November 1928 • No. 47
