AMUSEMENTS
AMUSEMENTS The Socialist verband Opens Campaign Anew intensive Campaign Activity to Be Matched With Educational Drive This Winter rpHE activities of the Jewish Socialist * Verband for the...
...Not even the promise of doughnuts and coffee by the Salvation...
...Louts...
...Milwaukee, Wis., Dec...
...Washington and Baltimore, sfter which they will return direct to Bessie...
...selected, for musical elattty^stajJjH stage presence, mental »^*JS a* sonality...
...Sunday, Nov...
...But not even consummate acting, these speed-spun days, would make us patient when verbosity tries to pinch-hit for dramatic action— and strikes out...
...Subject...
...starring Richard A^^^jaW Carroll The stage showjrOl m OambarelH...
...The party organ...
...JJ recorded, like the piano...
...But all over the country, members of the Verband were actively participating in every campaign feature...
...31st...
...Comrade Rogoff, who is a scholar In American history and an ardent Socialist, has purposed it to be a work for the intellectual Jewish worker...
...their first two-reel alldialogue comedy...
...His career parallels, if it does not help determine, the theatrical developments of a full generation...
...Syracuse, N. Y., Jan...
...and take his sweetheart out of this vile environment...
...Perhaps the crudities of two generations ago...
...Cleveland, Ohio, Dec 30th, 31st...
...In our later day we find Mis...
...Erie, Pa., Jan...
...Standing out of the group of stereotyped persons ta the play te the obvious but more individual and Interesting maid, played by Viola Frayne so as to bring out her distinct attractiveness...
...Youngs town, Ohio, Jan...
...The German Jokes ring true, however, to Boboken...
...the violence of action is still, ss the program says, "melodrama of the days when the villain was a villain and the hero has a heart of gold...
...1st and 3nd...
...StrBke Speakers Invade ABen A Markets MINNEAPOLIS —(FP)— Speakers for the locked out' hosiery workers of the Allen A plant at Kenosha...
...In order to bring the issues of the campaign as clearly as passible before' the Jewish workers, it published several leaflets and distributed them In thousands among the branches and Jewish workers in genersl...
...But the words Just Quoted, while they give the essence of the play, carry no hint of the liveliness of its dialogue, of the hard blows dealt and parried in the battle of wits, of the swift movement (after the opening expoeltoh), and of the irrepressible high spirits of Shaw...
...country...
...8:30 p. m. August Claeasens...
...Running the acts through the decades to 1960 effectively bids us keep in mind how little of stupidity and greed the passing years will slough...
...noted <^cf-,^L^ji oehtly left the stage to train mo Oamby-Hale girUlor J^f^JTS wfll appear ta person^with J^Mj...
...B. Eotwlnick contributed "The Biographies of Norman Thomas and James Maurer," published immediately sfter the flrct leaflet...
...Let us hope a director is found who will bring' out the best In players and play, as this group has done before...
...The committee of 60 of the Workmen's Circle branches was practically initiated by members of the Verband...
...25th, 2tth...
...The reckless sponWiaHtj that once achieved the "divine dishpan theism" of The Haunted Bookshop...
...THROUGH FIRE Bowery melodrama in its most vivid yellows has come back in "The Squealer," at the Forrest, to prove by its instant popularity—if "Abie's Irish Rose" has left any need for proof—how little the theatrical public has changed from the colorful days of the ten-twenty-thirty theatre...
...Albany, N. Y., Jan...
...12th, 13th, 14th...
...Our comtadee in Europe are already working on the history...
...Current Events," Savoy Mansion...
...In this he preached much the gospel that the possessors of swollen fortunes should use that money In improving the conditions of life for the working classes...
...with Otto MaUeaon as Napoleon, Prank Reicher as the barber, Helen Ware as his wife, and Philippe De Lacy, the achlld screen prodigy, as his son...
...Deacon Donee Festival Attraetjbeg WMo attention „ The Duncan Dance Festival., which te to open at the Manhattan Opera House on Dec...
...810 West 104th Street...
...In ''Tonight at 12," now at the Hudson, he has combined two of the successful patterns of the seasons, a love tangle, and a mystery...
...3rd, 4th...
...His tour Is as follows: Miami, Fto-, Nov...
...AMUSEMENTS The Socialist verband Opens Campaign Anew intensive Campaign Activity to Be Matched With Educational Drive This Winter rpHE activities of the Jewish Socialist * Verband for the last three or four months were devoted to campaign work...
...Jacksonville, Pla., Nov...
...Comrade afetman visited the near cities of the South and New Jersey...
...It Is now publishing a "History of the United States" in five volumes, written by Harry Rogoff...
...27, and continue until January 8. under the direction of 8. Httrok...
...The Verband is emphasizing the importance of members ¦ purchasing dues stamps...
...Buffalo, N. Y., Jan...
...T/hs successful work of the committee and the thousands of dollars transmitted to the National Campaign Committee was aided by our members or branches...
...BUtOOaXTN Friday...
...The combining of the hrterlcr aae^ mospberic type of auditorium » ew»g£ innovation which can be Ioundjn bo <*atre in the world...
...Here we have a list of characters drawn entirely from the underworld—save for the few policeman and the two society girls drawn tato the slums for the white slave traffic—here w ¦ behold the machinations of Chinatown Charlie (No, that was his name thirty years ago...
...The purpose of this trip was to organize and consolidate the talking picture program of the Universal...
...Anapteati ¦ualalhi Party, 33-33 A. D. Branch...
...Of course, as everyone knows, it to the one nobody (therefore everybody) suspects who te really guilty...
...The branches will be notified in due time of the meetings for their cities...
...U*-*^ suggestion of the rococo •ff^jSgi has been studiously only an tmpreosion of tumvm, magnificence amidst sober aphuow m antiquity...
...The Brc<*bm^Wes*»» boasts of fifty-one uuioyaOcr»» uwstre building and •3^u*LSTte 5 be claimed by no other theatre a uw WMost etrfklnr among them h» »gS of movable murals oWatosdfroliiipaw lux or color organ which, ?r*™"L a keyboard like an organjWJJU^e-J stead of music...
...Harry Rotoff...
...Despite a rather slovenly reading, E. J. Bel lan tine and Reading Ignores Military Holiday READING, Pa.—(FP)—Only the W. C. T. U. and Boy Scouts turned out to help whip up the flames of militarism as the American Legion paraded down Reading's main street on Armistice Day...
...the latest lint: in toe Wsfnatlonal chain of do hixeChoatreiownai and operated by the Pnbite Tbsoga Corporation, throws its doors open te on public at noon todar...
...Pollowing the Manhattan appears ties the Duncan Dancers will play brief engagements in Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia...
...Universal has made it a rule to buy material for production which had, first, splendid moving picture qualities...
...gJf^epWO color and gracefully citoI...
...The idea of a dominant mother's determining the course of the family history might well be presented again, these days wherein we call Alvln's love a "mother fixation...
...Asmy could induce school children to participate in the commemoration of war...
...of Winifred T.lnlhan, whose severe cold does not mar her earnestness as Major Barbara: of Elliot Cabot's delightful interpretation of the professor of Greek who becomes the manufacturer of munitions—of the entire excellent cast, that makes this revival of "Major Barbara" a theatrical tid-bit for the Intelligent playgoer...
...18th, 20th...
...16th, 17th...
...Subject: "Thaw United States," 2j it Mermaid Avenue...
...The Verband carried through a very extensive tour with P. Dembltzer, who addressed meetings all through the Bast and Middle West...
...Auspices Workmen's...
...OPAQUE The Lenox HID Players, now at the Cherry Lane Playhouse, have enthusiasm and—this being their twelfth season—perseverance, that betoken geunlne Interest in the theatre...
...But not of much...
...Illuminated by a J3» ing cokes ranging from °\*tljzk aw sunllght to a soft mocoiig...
...On Oct...
...Nashville, Teun...
...27th and 28th...
...we see the reasons for suspecting each one of them . . and that Is all...
...llth...
...Auspices: Workmen's Circle and Socialist PfirVy of Bensonhurst...
...This reading, however, leaves unanswered the fundamental question "Lazarus Laughs'* raises: can its stage direction be translated into action...
...second, sound and dialogue qualities...
...Surely we ought to have the chance to see...
...Becky Sharp said that any woman could be virtuous on five thousand pounds a/ear...
...The news magazine wfll consist entirely cf Movietone News items, presenting sight and sound reproduction of the outstanding news of the day...
...Mb., Dec...
...3rd and 4th...
...Their chief present need seems to be good direction...
...The program which is now outlined by Mr...
...Boom of the Civic League...
...Nobody Joined the parade and only a few looked on...
...w naV The general style of tbetheetre» seaj, lan renaissance...
...Kalb Aves...
...in brief Carl Laemmle has Just announced a five million dollar program of sound pictures at Universal City...
...The color oe% subdued tjurnt-orango...
...The current bill ta Boboken, "Broadway", sweeps its swift way across the stage, the Rialto players carrying the lines through the rapid action that maintains the mood of the play, one of the biggest of recent hits, calls for and sustains...
...a balanced chorus, at the Provincetown Playhouse last Sunday, made its power manifest...
...saved at the end by a trick of the friend who reveals himself as a detective yet...
...Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan...
...In "The Bath Between...
...Hoover, Smith and Their Platforms" was the first published, written by Harry Rogoff...
...64th Street and 30th Avenue...
...21st...
...The new Brooklyn-Paramountj*** Paramount Square, riatoush £?jz...
...6th, 8th...
...With this laughter, Lazarus must subdue armies, bend Caesars to bis Joy...
...and some fun manages to creep In...
...Birmingham, Ala., Doc...
...curiously te not one, they go, leaving the yellow fiend— what else?—to the finishing touches of the fair beauty whom he has carried off for the foul uses of his customers—until the hand of God, intervening, brings down His Judgment ta the form of the Sen Francisco earthquake...
...when Shaw was more vehement and controversial...
...Laemmle will cost the Universal Futures Corporation wen over five minion dollars...
...Williamsburg Mansion, 297 South 6th street...
...Carnegie, who made a speech in which he assured his hearers that be had been assured by the scripture that we' should always have the poor with us and that It is upon the evil of poverty that virtue springs . . . Shaw once published a tract called Socialism for Millionaires...
...But this "last seacoast of Bohemia" needs more picturesque Jetsam...
...9th, 10th and 11th...
...And Walter Walden's settings of the modernistic home, and especially of the poverty-stricken garret-corner of Act TV, make the most of the material and the mood...
...That we view life "as in a glass, darkly...
...Like Rebecca in "Ivanhoe," we feel that she te really a better match for the hero than the sweet heroine, if only social taboos did not prevent her becoming his wife...
...He will visit practically every city in the country...
...Louis and Ohio towns, where some of the company's best markets are found...
...We feci that it is important for ail our members and the Jewish workers at large to read this history...
...Uhdershaft are gently pooh-poohed as being devices to content the "workers so that they may be plundered...
...Dor Wecker, publishes from time to time report* of activities of the brances and wants these reports to become a special feature of Der Wecker...
...Comrade Kentrpwtts visited all New England...
...25 our party organ, "Der Wecker," appeared in a special campaign edition and was distributed in large number throughout the country...
...Incidentally, the hero te played by the son of the author, with an engaging sincerity...
...phasize the tepreosl^ « SB"- % The resulting effect Is thai¦<*j"'*ju lofty arbor In which the ««S avars* warmth of an Italian rsnatemnce J"""^ Is freshened by the cool huw of outdoors...
...Napoleon's Barber," tba principal feature, is a Movietone presentation of the play by Arthur Caesar, which George Bernard Shaw declared to be the finest short play ta the English language...
...wsatPail The opening picture of jg^-qspX Paramount Theatre * ****^pae* tall...
...The comedy element of the program is supplied by Clark and McCuIlough, popular stars of the revue stage...
...The Verband Is now preparing to publish a monumental History of the Jewish Labor Movement the world over, that is...
...7th and, 8th,- .Memphis, Tenn, Dee...
...23, 11:30 a. nr...
...win a depraved emperor's debauched mistress to fling herself ta purer love tato the names that burn Lazarus to the final death bis laughter stm denies...
...Comrade Chanln is now In Europe making all necessary arrangements with the European committee for the completion of their work...
...m tgfleThe new theatre, termaaar«»w-: era, "the ultimate to theatrejsmatr *" luxury," represents the accamateWd * pTrierTee acquired ta bttTidtol j*" «f*» Ewo theatre*, both in this country abroad, to which the leXeet¦*™r*Z and developfnents ta *rtand^ been added...
...37, f p. m. August CTaetsens Subject, •"These United States...
...Henry Murtagh wfll as organtet of the theatre...
...The production was directed by John Ford, and ««rn'<*** bte first venture tato the field of talkies...
...10th...
...5 th and 6th...
...Despite the flying flags and the blaring horns it was a drab affair...
...Chicago, HI., Dec...
...We consider it the most important work of of its kind in Yiddish...
...Hurok through the courtesy of the Russian Minister of Art and Education, win be limited to ate weeks only...
...If it be possible to find aa actor who can sway an audience to such belief in his laughter, "Lasarue Laughs" is probably the greatest play yet written by an American...
...All branches are urged to send in their reports, and enable the branches to keep In touch with one another...
...For "The Dark Mirror" to stand up at ail under the burden of its directing, is a sign of some merit...
...i ¦O-ROBOKXN Over at Christopher Morley's Rialto Theatre, his so-called international hilarity, "Pleased To Meet You," captured the gossipy punster at his average...
...The Amerlcant our of Miss DUneac and company, which was arranged try Mr...
...Special posters were printed for New York with tiie portraits of Comrades Waldman and McAllster Coleman...
...l«th, 16th...
...Ever since the industry gave Its attention to sound pictures, universal has been quietly but Indus trio ussy purchasing new material which had the maximum of sound possibilities, signing up acton and actresses with stage experience and with voices which register well ta movietone tests and buying up the dialogue rights to productions already held...
...Auspices, Socialist Party, 4-14 A D. Br...
...Very good as far as it goes, except that in "Major...
...today he's Frisco Charlie) and the other villainous dope-peddlers against the man who wants to go straleht...
...In the present piece, Davis has a woman whose husband te unfaithful gather at her home the three women she suspects (but therefore we do not...
...in "Major Barbara," Shaw suggests that poverty Is an even greater...
...Tampa, Pla., Nov...
...Auspices of Socialist Party, 4-14 A. D. Branch...
...His tour was discontinued because of illness...
...ta* staging and acting, are, replaced by a smoothness of direction and performance...
...Utlca, N. Y., Jan...
...The Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley SHAW iiVSTAJOR BARBARA" la the Socialist 1,1 Shaw presenting the problem of economic determinism., * The actual doctrine that money and virtue walk band Li band is not new...
...The cast te a distinguished one...
...Branches in these cities are expected to else*, committees to help him in the work...
...It was essential to come before the Jewish workers with a direct appeal for our cause...
...24th...
...8:30 p. m. August Claeasens...
...Atlanta, Oa., Nov.29th, 30th, Dee...
...The president of Universal Pictures Corporation made a hurried trip to the coast last week...
...Strangely enough, this is not entirely unlike the cry of the Workers of today...
...The <^t^f*L...
...Barbara" the various Improvement associations' of Mr...
...In "Erewhon," Butler pictures disease as the only crime...
...As advertising the Verband...
...Block will make an extensive tour for the purpose of selling the history, Including the cities mentioned below...
...then the play goes on...
...Telling of the discharge of union knitters they urge union shoppers to patronise union stocking firms and to contribute to the relief of the 300 men and women who have been locked -out since February...
...As the Chinese den of Iniquity goes up ta fierce flames, the final curtain goes down...
...But thi report shows that the seasonal September to October advance was less than a year ago and that the total amount distributed in wages actually declined 2.1 per cent to a level slightly below that of October 1027...
...Lazarus must laugh "a laugh so fun of a complete acceptance of life, a profound assertion of Joy in living, so devoid of all setf-consciousness or fear, that it te like a great bird song triumphant tn depths of sky, proud and powerful, infectious with love, casting on the listener a. enthralling spell...
...18th, 19th...
...The National Executive Committee is preparing a very extensive organization tour for S Levitas...
...TEACUP LOVE How much the American theatre is Owen Davis, it te perhaps too late to discover...
...With the campaign at an end the Verband turns to its normal work...
...Chattanooga, Tena., Dec...
...A number of the productions scheduled will be made with movietone negative only, though the great majority of them wlU be carried ta the Universal Exchanges with two negatives, one with sound and one without...
...te attracting so much attention . that ta all probability the closing date of the huge affair will have to be extended aa asmmmodato an of the local dance patrons who desire to attend a complete wrist of the four different programs which arc to be given in rotation...
...Wis., are invading Minneapolis, St...
...Laaarus Laughs" is the most sustained drama Eugene O'Neill has composed...
...Miss Irma Duncan, adopted daughttr of the late Isadora, who inherited tnIsadora Duncan School of Moscow, wiE arrive in New York on December IS, accompanied by twenty-five prise graduate' of her famous Institution...
...The above is a report of direct activities in the campaign...
...It is a difficult matter to report ill thi details but the Verband has summer!sed the more important features...
...Mho Inns wX be both the featured star and the art's* tic director of the big festival...
...Macon, Oa...
...Schenectady, N. Y„ Jan...
...In "Shall We Join The Ladies,'' a few see sons ago, Berrie presented a man whose brother bad been murdered, who gathers tato one room all those who might have reason to desire bte brother's death...
...tor of ceremonies st the tojatW jntm win preside over a haxwl-ptefcsa—-js stage band, each n^^^JXTsavaV carefully "cfaort-oaalyaad...
...3:30 p. m. B. C. Vladeck...
...22nd, 23rd...
...36th...
...Pteyer ran, $ S.1 2tts£?&*sstt in the form of three uuiaw" »in color that move...
...The History of the Jewish Labor Movement In European countries, will then record the organization cf the Bund thirty years ego and the formation of the Jewish Labor movement in this country...
...20,000 stickers with portraits of Thomas and Maurer were made and we distributed them throughout the...
...14th, 15th...
...From feature to newsreel it will consist entirely of ellFox-Movietone dialogue productions...
...Be gives his readers the most elementary facts about American history and at the same time he Interprets to his readers the political meaning of each event...
...Lecture calender ¦ NEW YOB* v Tuesday, Nov...
...Henry Westerlund of Chicago, sends in another sub and planks down an extra dollar as a contribution...
...Ajf^j^%£i» is suspended from the eefflf* TT^ decorated in sky^oo^r^nd tho^-^,, scoured panels at th* "*j£j+ keM tre form secondary waltawWcn...
...Indianapolis,, ind., Dec...
...Circle and Socialist Party, Coney IslandFriday...
...It urges that branches during November and December make a special campaign for dues stamps...
...Colonel Sellers it was who said that every man bad his price...
...atpV Paul Ash wfll be the portaa^^ j...
...More Interesting dramas are listed for the Lenox Hill season...
...deserves iteration...
...himself veering with, or directing, the currente of its flow...
...12th, 13th...
...7th, 8th, 8th...
...Subject, "The Restriction of immigration...
...To address the Jewish workers at meetings and to try to enlist them was an important feature of our work...
...Nor do they tell of the excellence of the performance, with Helen Westley and Dudley Diggs, both in roles unusual for them, and each superb...
...Illinois Employment Still Lags in Many Industries, CHICAGO (FP) — Industrial employment in Illinois gained slightly in October, reaching a level of 2.4 per cent ahead of a year ago, according to the monthly report of the State Department of Labor...
...23rd, 24th: Flint, Mich., Dec.'asth...
...Two weeks before election day the members were distributing another leaflet, "How Should Progressives Vote," .also written by Rogoff...
...Sunday, Nov...
...30th...
...The Duncan performances hare win at given with the support of a full syapoonic orchestra and the opening progrew in each city win be one that was sawdally selected for American presentetka by the late Isadora Just previous to tat untimely passing tn Paris...
...subject, "The Outlook for a Labor Party in America...
...McPheraon of Lea A"r*lM associating the twain in her speeches before th« faithful of her tabernacle...
...assess...
...that reveals Itself at times, as ta the recent remark that Pitkin's "Twilight of the American Mind" should have for subtitle "Oo-getterdammerung", te quite missing, in this tale of a monomaniac who does so well as guide to the fish-monger president of niyria that no one will let him go with the M. P. who wants to take him back to the asylum...
...O'NEILL'S BEST I If it can be played...
...22nd...
...and the play itself, while trivial, does what it wants to do, well...
...These words, In the program for the Theatre Guild's revival of "Major Barbara," convey much of the.message of the play—for the play was written in 1905...
...AaVTaEdng Program at Boxy S L. Rothafel te sponsoring an important event in current motion picture activities ta presenting the first all-talking screen program to be beard or seen at the Roxy Theatre next 'week...
...It Is hoped to begin the new year with a good standing, membership...
...Rochester, N. Y., Jan...
...But there was one dissenter—the Scotch Mr...
...Williamsburg Mansion, 297 South 5th Street...
Vol. 7 • November 1928 • No. 49
