AMUSEMENTS
Amusements The Week On Stage "Babbitt Billions" By Joseph T. Shipley HPHE expense to which the Theatre Guild has gone In its present production of Eugene O'Neill's "Marco Millions",...
...the Rivoli Orchestra...
...All these objections rise more sharply in the presentation, for to balance them there is little save the philosophy of the Chinese, enunciated most effectively by Baliol Holloway, and especially by Dudley Digges, who raises bis role of adviser to the Kaan to pre-eminence...
...By a rule of the...
...Youth and Universal's junior stars come to the Colony Theatre beginning Saturday, January 14th...
...It shows realistically the misery suffered by those left behind in war time...
...In Movies Additional interest will be given the musical program at...
...The final scene, changed to give America its happy ending, disturbs the bal' ance of the story, but is more than justified by the superb work of Sokoloff, who reveals an ability to capture the essence of the part, and makes us feel that dne first part of the play should have been the story of the drunken old Judge, ex-' plaining and rising to the Climax of his fantastic trial-scene...
...Hermann Thimig, the joliy Pransl of "Peripherie", becomes the irrepressible servant in the complicated love comedy of Eighteenth Century Italy...
...Alfred Blunvrn, the Viennese pianist, it no longer miwinlil wish the Boon Conservatoryof Music of CThlcago, havmg reune^nshed that post last Summ-t to order to give Ms entire tbne to eonsort work here and abroad...
...I'm sick of dese here war ptlchers" said one embryo Quinn Martin as the theatre let out...
...The settings and costumes, designed by Lee Simonson, are clear indication as to why Broadway producers turned from the drama...
...As for the Olsh—if she ever gets another stating moment in any photoplay shell just chew her knuckle right off...
...George Lewis, of "The Collegians" fame, shares honors with Miss Nixon...
...But Eugene O'Neill, despite his desire te "do justice" to the Polo legend, is apparently too indignant at the commercial concerns of our day to be fair to "Marco Millions...
...15) the concert in Mecca Auditorium will be directed by Bene PbUain...
...and the usual Jesse Crawford Organ Concert with Mrs...
...Roxq Induced this disttogukhed team of denser to make ttetr Kit Kat Club to London and the PoUies Bergere, Paris...
...They do everything from breaking the hearts Of the village maidens to fighting a duet...
...Kenneth Mackowan, formerly Director of the Provincetown Playhouse and the Greenwich Village Theatre and Actors' Theatre has joined with Robert Rockmore, who was associated with James Light and Cleo Throckmorton to the production of "The Stairs" and identified with the Provincetown Playhouse in the revival of "in Abraham's Bosom", In a theatrical partnership for the production of "These Modern Women" and other1 plays.- The author ot the play...
...So many admirers of Laurette Taylor will no doubt be surprised to learn that she has a daughter old enough to make her debut -on the stage in a grown-up part...
...With her as Tristan wfll sing Mr...
...The Dove," with Norma Talmadge and Noah Beery, will continue next week at the Rialto, where it will be succeeded by Bmil Jennings to "The Last Command.'' Wallace Beery and Raymond Batten ha "Wife Savers", will be the screen attraction at the Paramount next week...
...His comrades think first that he is joking, then that he is running humor into a bore...
...Bada, D'Angelo and Oabor...
...Ih brief The Civic Repertory Theatre has presented its first American play of the season, a first play by an unknown author, Wafler Ferris, who adapted it from a Saturday Evening Feat Story by Mary Beaton Vorae...
...Bobnen the King Marke...
...Perhaps—but the realistic presentation of the misery of civilians makes this picture worth seeing even if you have had your fill of war pictures...
...This will be the first time Oabrliowitach has conducted one of the regular New York orchestras...
...Lawrence Langner, was one of the founders of the Washington Square Players and is now a member of the Board of Managers of the Theatre Guild...
...Anita Loos' famous, story...
...wfll open at the RivoU Theatre on Saturday,, Jan...
...The Shakespeare revival has attracted so much attention that Mr...
...Sets are by Ahne Bernstein...
...The various intricacies of the old-style comedy of plot and subplot give nun many opportunities, in which be revels ss pan torn must (with a glorious pudding scene...
...The sale price is understood to have been $40,000, with a contract clause waiving the necessity of any definite length of run...
...Amusements The Week On Stage "Babbitt Billions" By Joseph T. Shipley HPHE expense to which the Theatre Guild has gone In its present production of Eugene O'Neill's "Marco Millions", indicates that the organization has accumulated some of the coin once Marco sought...
...Stefan Sopkm, head of the violin departojsari of Mince Cuwervatoto 0 at the ntono, •***^,B*e...
...That feeling is something on which to build a hope of future peace...
...Oesip OabrfiovrUaeh...
...Because of this delay In her arrival, the plays in the Reinhardt repertory in which she plays important roles have been reserved until the end of the season...
...Pritri Rideway, as Mltstz Wikelman, the wife left behind who was forced to go on the streets so that her child wouldn't starve, gave a realistic performance...
...in Tolstoi's "It Is to Blame for Everything'', the somewhat neglected Moissi is given opportunity...
...the Roxy Theatre next week by the appearance of Fowler and Tamara, the toternational dance stars, who have just returned to this country after two years of exceptionally successful engagements in London, Paris and the Riviera...
...so in "Marco Millions" he does not honestly balance the Oriental with the Westerner, but pictures the Great Kaan and his adviser as all that man should be, and the three Polos as all that man should rise from...
...The Ibsen play will be given next, week on Monday, Tuesday and Saturday evenings and Saturday matinee...
...Walter Hampden has decided to withdraw Henrik Ibsen's comedy "An Enemy of the People" from the stage of his theatre on Saturday night of next week at which time it will have been played by him and his company«120 performances —an Ibsen record in this city...
...Emily Flufroy, Chester Conklin and Trials Priganse...
...MarttoeUl, Bssiola and Wdife...
...Tomorrow (Sunday, Jan...
...Paramount Stage Band...
...Ernest Hutcheson will join Guy Maier and Lee Pattison at their Carnegie Hall recital on Jan...
...with Walter Gieseking as assisting artist...
...among the stats announced, but she has been unavoidably detained in Berlin Of the success of Gerhardt Hauptmann's "Dorothea Angermann", in which she portrays the leading role...
...Others in the east Include Alice White as "Dorothy," Ford Sterling as "Mr...
...These dances wul include their fantousjtango and ether original dam e totormetathsw...
...These Modem Women" will bring together three men who have been extensively associated with the independent producing theatres of New York...
...Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," with Rath Taytor to to* part of "Lorelei...
...Favorites from Martha" will be the contribution by...
...16 In Schiller's "Kabale TJnd Libbe" In one of the roles for which she is famous...
...24 will introduce a new version of Eugene Coosens Suite Op...
...It was to this play that Francine Larrimore made her first great success and started on the road to stardom...
...as dancer, acrobat, and general buffoon...
...Bgon Breaker plays the role ef her husband, while Josephine Hutchinson and Charles McCarthy are cast as her children...
...finally a lunatic, drunken "judge" hears the case, in a lonely slumsection under a rumbling El, and sentences him to be true to the prostitute for whom he had killed...
...The story is based on Florens Ziegfeid's "Louie XXV", by Arthur Wlmperls, and was acenarised by Tom t. Oeraghty and Grover Jones...
...Laubenthal...
...Friday and Saturday nights and Saturday matinee of this Week will be devoted to "Hamlet...
...This week the drama and the (still masterly) settings and direction are subordinate, in 001010010 "A Servant of Two Masters", to the actind...
...Marco Millions," even in' the reading, weakens its dramatic Intensity by the travelogue method of the first act—which in the performance seems little mare than scenery studded with "wise-cracks" —by the emphasis on philosophy Instead of growth (contemplation Instead of physical or mental stress), and by a tipping of the scales which the sly finger of the dramatist arranges...
...Her program will range from Liszt and Tschaikowsky to the Spanish dances of de Falls...
...the leading actress of Europe, sailed today for New York on the Majestic, to rejoin the Reinhardt company...
...whs took men Eke Grant took Richmond, win prove saost diverting...
...It is difficult to believe that traders who could venture as far as Marco and his father and uncle can have been so devoid, if not of poetry, at least of imagination...
...Gieseking wfll play Schumann's Concerto in A minor tor piano with orchestra...
...The Stringwood Ensemble at Town Hall on Jan...
...Profiteers, exemplified by the hero's father, come in for a caustic tonguelashing...
...In the preliminary forecast of the Max Reinhardt New York Season she wa...
...Mack Swain...
...The Universal Pictures Corporation will moke a special production from Cosmo Hamilton's play "Scandal", produced here several years ago...
...Polly Moran as Barusks, the faithful servant, is a good comedienne...
...Her name is Marguerite and she is scheduled to make her Broadway debutf during the week of January 23*when she will be sen in Robert Emmet Sherwood's new play "The ©ueen's* Husband" which is now in rehearsal with Roland Young in the leading role...
...Guild, no play by any of the Board of Manage;-* can be produced by' that organization...
...Bodansky will conduct Feeder Chaliapto wfll rejoin the Company at a special matinee of "Faust" on Friday with Mme* Aide, Falco and Dalessy and Messrs...
...Crystal Heme is to be featured in a play by Lawrence Langner called "These Modem Women", which goes into rehearsal this week...
...Alma Kroger and Harry Sothern have minor soles...
...wiU direct the play...
...With* painful detail—all excellently directed—one is shown the rations line, a group of undernourished women all-frantically fighting for one vacancy as washerwoman, One sees the faithful family servant of Professor Arndt and his daughter stirring a soup that looks like mud, saying "there's no strength in this soup...
...27 in a performance ot the Bach triple concerto In D minor...
...This is Marian Nixon's first starring role after several years playing featured roles in Universal productions...
...George Fawcett makes a crusty profiteer with sentimental moments...
...You know one couldn't help feeling it would be an excellent thing7 to do' to some loud-mAutfied stayat-home/ patriots...
...it is impossible to conceive of men so unable to recognize when they are the butts and when boon-fellows, as rising to any sort of financial success...
...On Jan...
...It* is an adaptation of the play by the same name by Caesar Dunn which played here two seasons ago...
...Decidedly a worth while moving picture...
...Eiaman...
...Beery Is the biscuit, maker for that section of the American, Army staticrmrtt to the village, and Hat ton is a second lieutenant in his outfit...
...These Modem Women" will open in New York fearly In* February...
...The first will be at Carnegie Ball Friday evening (January 20) and the second at Mecca Auditorium Sunday afternoon (January XI...
...Hampden wul present it four times next week, beginning .with the Wednesday matinee...
...ANN ELIAS...
...So let us hope she maintains her customary calm that is, one suspects, the calm of Shakespeare's Still lake that has nothing in it...
...There is a humorous scene in the trenches between Austrian and Russian soldiers about ten feet away from each other in which the men, exchanging cigarettes for bully beef, realise they are fellow human beings despite the barrier of language...
...As in "All God's Chillun Got Wings" O'Neill does not present a clear race problem, but gives each main character another conflict...
...He will give his second piano recital at Town Hall on February 3d and wfll sail immediately thereafter for T<sadon< where he plays on Fetouary 17th...
...There's sadistic thrill of Joy when a parrot who has been shouting "Hurray for the glory of War" is seised by this maid servant in a fit of temper and put info the soup to make it strong...
...with Nick Schenck reported to have made the purchase personally...
...Excess Bsggage," the backstage vaudeville show written by Jack McGowan, current at the Bits, New York, has been bought by Metro-Goldwn-Mayer...
...Crawford at the console...
...Unfortunately, there is further cause...
...Helen* Thimig, who is generally ranked abroad as...
...She will make her first New York anoearance at the Cosmopolitan Theatre on Jan...
...Also, it inaugurates a series that run rather, to action than to wide display...
...MUSIC Anna Robenne, the Russian dancer, assisted by Anatole Viltzak of the Olagghilev Ballet and with Nicolas Kopelkine at the piano, will give a varied dance program at the 48th Street Theatre on Sunday evening, January 22d...
...Karin Branzetl the Swedish contralto rejoins the company to the role ef Brangaene while Mr...
...Peripherie" displayed him as a master of the close and realistic, as well as the remote, the fantastic, the ideal...
...Hasseimans will conduct...
...Alfred T.unt seems to feel the basic illogic of his role, for he Infuses into his portrayal of Marco Polo, a measure of imaginative swagger and of poetic hesitancy that rings truer to the man as we conceive him, though counter to (arid curiously jarring with) every word the author gives to him or about him...
...Finally, it is most unlikely that an author will make theatrically true the picture of an Oriental Princess failing to acquaint a Westerner of her love...
...Ralph Forbes, the hero, is wooden—as why are all American heroes...
...Others in the cast will be Messrs...
...but Moissi as the tramp gives more power to the play than Its author, with a' sensitive and highly responsive performance...
...Frank Currier, as Professor Arndt, stoned in his classroom for talking of internationalism during the war, gives a typical absent-minded professor characterization...
...in a highly amusing comedy-drama titled "The Fourflusher...
...Donald Cameron Is her lover...
...V THE WAR AGAIN They are fighting the war over again at the As tor Theatre where the screen version of Charming PUack's play "The Enemy", is being run...
...Robert Mamoulian, who has staged "Porgy" and "Marco Millions" for the Theatre Guild...
...second Of Che tore guest conductors gtotototofl to direct the New York Symphony Orchestra this season, will make his two appearances this week...
...The Prologue, it should be mentioned, is very well done, as Indeed, from the point of view of picture and philosophy, is the entire play...
...K» first pcrformance this season, wlfl open the twelfth week of toe Metropolitan Opeto season Monday night -when) Oenerai Manager GatU-Casassa Will present a new German Wagnerian soprano in, the person of Mme...
...There is a poignant moment when the hero, although bred in the Austrian military tradition, is in a blue funk at the thought of killing men lie doesn't know...
...Eva Le GalUenne (firected the play in which she also plays the leading part...
...On the stage will be Jack Partington's production, "Havana", with Lou Kosloif and the...
...Langer's "Peripherie" is a most interesting conception of a man who, having successfully avoided arrest for a murder he did not intend, becomes burdened with an overwhelming desire to talk, a need of confession...
...The action all takes place in a small village on the FrancoSwiss border...
...the police-sergeant reads him the record of the case to prove he's crazy...
...Gertude Kappel from the Munich Opera and Vienna State Opera...
...Clair directed, and Anita Loos and John (Emerson scenarlsed the story...
...Oagny Servaes, who gives a splendid performance in "Peripherie", is here with equal grace, but less prominence than the merry maid Maria Solvey...
...Malcolm St...
...Foe those who have read the book, we can say that the picture is, equally funny, and tor those who haven t, the story, of the world's meet famous gekl-digger...
...It has been made available by the composer also for two violins and piano ana this version will have Its first performance by the Strjagwoods...
...23, she and Alexander Moissi will play in Tolstoi's "Der Lebende Leichnam" (The Living Corpse;, to, which John Barry-more starred in an English version called "Redemption" ji 1918...
...BEINHAKDT'S REALISM At the Cosmopolitan the current Bernhardt performances reveal the power of 'the director turned to works of more Intimate scope and smaller canvas...
...Henry Baron will present John Galsworthy's play "The Silver Box" at the Morosco Theatre beginning Tuesday, Jan...
...17, with a cast headed by James Dale, Isobel Etoob and Halnwell Hobbes...
...The play sorts oddly with the main show of the bill, what with Tolstoi's sense of the Importance of morals...
...Tristan und Isolde...
...Schorr Will be the Kurvenal and Mr...
...Meader...
...The salesman is quick to see when he is being laughed at, and he knows that his dignity is essential to his sales...
...6. Although originally written for flute, violin and piano...
Vol. 7 • January 1928 • No. 4
