AMUSEMENTS
AMUSEMENTS The Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley BMCN The Actors' Theatre revival at Ibsen's "The Wild Duck." at the 49th Street, is a quietly sincere presentation that recaptures an the...
...U. S. Senator: Coleman, Soc., 9,764...
...And the Actors' Theatre presents a most stimulating performance of this Ibsen play...
...The fire house band played as Baer finished, and the crowd enjoyed a handshaking bee, with sandwiches and pop corn on the side...
...H. New England Boosters Rival Southern Industries "Not A Union Label" Is Slogan of Manufacturing Interests — Tic- Up With Utility Gang TJOSTON—(FP)—While southern chamben of commerce are boosting communities of cheap, union-less labor as s paradise for employers...
...and the directing, especially of the witch scenes and the Macduff-Macbeth combat, makes lively and effective stir...
...The FarmerLabor sheriff, county attorney, treasurer and all other officials were defeated except the recorder who had no opposition and the public administrator...
...And what quirk of the tongue makes William Faraum (out of thirteen years of the silent cinema 1) pronounce "indissolubly" with a heavy stress on a long "u"I In spite of the players, however, "Macbeth" retains much of Its power...
...IN BRIEF With Owen Davis' new comedy "Tonight at 12," established at the Hudson Theatre, Herman Shumlln now announces that Donald Davis, son of the author, will become associated with him in its presentation, ss well as in the production of future plays...
...At a fire house meeting in honor of Intl...
...Yet the moon stiU watches, high over their love...
...Such a person as Charles Ruggles ensures laughter...
...Manufacturers' Association, Cheney told them how he resisted the "Attractive and very tempting offers" of southern communities if he would move his entire plant to the south...
...she moves too quickly along the sordid way her persons take her...
...Interstate purchases or sales of electricity can thus be regulated by the states immediately Interested, but no authority outside of New England can Interfere...
...Maugham brings out the confession of the so-calltd "murderer" quietly, not melodramatically as in other murder plays...
...The individual department is helpless in attempting to Improve conditions by Itself...
...The acting of Clare Eames as Nurse Wayland is powerful...
...Nurse Wayland for five years has been tending to the wants of Maurice Tabret, who was made invalid by an airplane accident...
...Young Love" meantime laughs along ways that will be tried...
...It owns big mills in Columbia and Lyman, S. C. Its former treasurer, Edwin Pamham Greene, still a director of the company, is now devoting all his time to his own engineering corporation, Lockwood, Greene and Co...
...Judse, Court of Appeals: Wilcox, Soc, 10.083...
...the lines of Shakespere come forth with loud emphasis upon the adjectives, and significant pauses before the vital nouns...
...but their lesson has not sufficiently entered the playwright's consciousness, for her chief fault seems to be, not—we withdraw the term—hesitancy, but precipitation...
...Woman in love makes a picture of her hero...
...though it is, on the whole, redeemed by sound acting, especially by Eric Dressier, whose work shows a sympathetic capturing of the part...
...simple lines mark the courtyard of the murderous deed...
...Brill, WP, 317...
...The George C. Tyler season of "famous masterpieces" opens this year, at the Knickerbocker, with Shakespere'S 'Macbeth", and Garden Craig deaignments...
...Hamilton At Albany Forum ALBANY, N. Y.—The Albany Peoples Forum has been organized on a strictly non-sectarian basis...
...The hostile majorities were about 500 out of 3,000 votes cast...
...It Is rather a play woven around the oftdiscussed problem of love in the spiritual or love in the physical, and above all as to whether the murdered man would be happier in death not knowing of his wife's Infidelity, or whether, as represented by Nurse Wayland, the flame would still be hovering close to those on earth and know, and be pained by their misdeeds...
...Reynolds, SLP, 265...
...Tabret himself is Incapable of sexual love...
...Tickets may be had from Samuel Abramsky, 1628—50th St., Brooklyn, or from the office of Pioneer Youth, 45 As tor place, phone Stuyvesant 7865...
...Herman Kobbe of Nassau was the speaker...
...Toward Macbeth, moreover, she sets with tugs, at the sleeve, admonitory glances, prohibitory frowns, like an ambitious mother who had had to take her difficult child into society...
...Fort-Whlteman, WP, 283...
...He said that Birmingham conditions are far in advance of those in Cincinnati which he described ss one of the worst cities in the United States, ss far as the treatment of its employes is concerned...
...Incompetent men with the right political backing became captains in a year...
...Attorney General: Karlin, Soc., 10,312...
...Those, in addition to Hubert Dmco end Beryl Morcor, previously announced, comprise the cast of this romantic comedy which has Its locale is tht Swiss Alos and comes to New York tb» week of Christmas...
...New England may succeed in selling itself...
...MOTHERHOOD...
...While the Socialist vote practically doubled as compared to two years ago, the Social-Labor and Workers Communist Parties polled about the same and in some cases less votes than two years ago...
...When a Republican city administration was elected the Democratic fire fighters went out and the Republican firemen lost their Jobs if a Democratic crowd came in...
...ON FIRE "When the candle is blown out where does the flame go...
...Fersecvttm in Fslmd WARSAW—The local court of Brcenberg has condemned the independent socialist Zacharjeriewlcs to two years imprisonment because the Public Prosecutor found that his speeches showed communist tendendsa This sentence was passed in spits of the tact that the accused, as a HorssHst, protested strongly against the suggestion that he was disscmlnstlng nranrrmnlst views...
...Hers is the love of the Puritan that teaches abstinence from all that is pleasurable, the love that is content with the opportunity to serve...
...They cannot boast as southern openshoppers do...
...has been selected by the Messrs...
...while Tom Douglass, as the groom, cannot go through his test with the obliging matron, but paces the sands all night, picturing his wife and her instructor...
...But if it be not contrasted with the several unusual "strikes" of the past two seasons, "Rainbow" win suffice for an evening's stir...
...President Rose of the city commission, who carries a card in the brotherhood of railway trainmen, and another commissioner took part in the speaking, the local firemen kldlng them about the tussles for wages Increases that would come up aagln...
...49th, Schnabel, 2,669...
...The Mayor of Albany is included among speakers already scheduled by the Forum...
...In Nurse Wayland we find the spiritual love for the sick man...
...and "Rio Rita" turning than sway in Chicago, Ziegfeld has much to be thankful for on Thanksgiving Day...
...State Senators, 48th dist., De Sio, 3,192...
...It is in a mood of quaintly gathered charm that "The Jealous Moon" proceeds with Its telling of life's frequent tale...
...Pres...
...and young love works, as it ever shall, to such ends as await it...
...For local offices the Socialist vote was as follows: District Attorney, Taylor, 10,076...
...Theatre 1929...
...Silver, SLP, 341...
...Assoc...
...No union organizer has ever yet succeeded in getting a toe-hold in the town of So...
...But New England manufacturers will not keep their financial Interests within the boundaries of six states...
...when she lives with him and comes to know him, Instead of seeing that her ideal was a dream, she grieves at the change in her husband, and longs for the hero-lover she once "knew...
...BUT NOT SLOWLY.: At the Comedy, Caroline Prancke's "Exceeding Small" makes a brave effort at beauty, in a sincere if hesitant study of the downtrodden of a great city...
...The invalid is found dead one morning...
...young Ekdal too complacent a self-deceiver...
...The contributors to the first issue will be Alexander Bakshy, v. P. Calverton...
...This seventh, lncidentailly, is played by Junior Durkin, with some of the best juvenile histrionic detail and naturalness recent years have granted to the theatre...
...The Cheney Brothers Cheney Bros, is one of the largest antiunion textile mills in New England...
...Kamp, William Gropper, Louis LosowsE ind others...
...ELECTION ENDS FARMER-LABOR CONTROL OF MONTANA COUNTY PLENTY WOOD, Mont...
...Manchester, which is entirely owned by the silk company...
...Tht New York opening of •'Whoopee" is test Tuesday...
...In fact, the trite phrases Just fit the play, for it is a good musical comedy of its usual sort—which means that many better have recently been seen...
...Florence Reed cannot forget her days in melodrama...
...Poyntas, WP, 265...
...In "The Wild Duck," however, there remains the power of present application, of Ibsen's questioning of his own ideals, of the picture of the shallow happiness of self-delusion, and the tragic consequence* of shallow-minded imposition of even the highest Ideals...
...Thomas Polls 10,118 Votes in Erie County (By a Now LeaSer C»rr—faSeat) BUFFALO, N. Y.—The Erie County Board of Elections has completed the canvass of the votes cast at the last election...
...Rainbow" Is another elaborate musical comedy, of eighty years ago...
...She has surrendered to the natural love offered by Colin, Maurice's younger brother, and is about to have a child by him...
...TIDAL...
...Baer, local speakers proudly told of their gains...
...Only after cold winters of desolatloin does man learn that the tree renews its blossoms because its single trunk is firmly rooted in one soilAll of this is but Pierrot's dream, between afternoon and evening puppetshow, while Columbine is having dinner with wine, companions by the owner of the show...
...When I joined the Kansas City, Mo...
...First class firemen get $160 a month— they were paid only $95 in 1918...
...He pledged himself not to move, but to build up in New England the same favorable conditions now existing south of the Potomac...
...the dramatist whose works linger does not preach, he presents...
...but the surprise of beauty, which is always recognition ss well...
...Young firemen of today with the 2p la toon system have 11 tie idea of the wretched conditions of a few years ago when firemen put hi 24 hours a day," said President Baer...
...6 election by a. fusion of Republicans and Democrats...
...Guy Robertson, co-star of "White Lilacs...
...He described the active lobby it maintains in legislatures over the land...
...two pairs of central stairways circle up around the apron of a palace chamber, or the battlements...
...Battlstoni, 3,798...
...The thesis of the play is borrowed from the remark about the mills of the gods...
...Avoiding the intervention of the federal government which woutd necessarily have operated from Washington," the power companies "offered" to accept state regulation, the Council explains...
...Governor: Waldman, Soc., 9,849...
...The The golden rule: "Do unto others ss ye would that they do unto you," seems to a new generation an Inadequate guide to conduct...
...the Workers Communist Party conducted an active campaign, mostly directed- against the Socialist Party...
...The characters are well chosen...
...The two chief figures of the play live their day or two of glory in love, until they find that the pressure of life, as the city demands that they live, leaves them overburdened, and the coming of the wolf to the door makes them shut the window (lest love fly out) and turn on the gas...
...Pierrot and Columbia come to life, to symbolize the eternallly renewed tragic-comedy of love's misunderstanding and (often, but not here) too late discovery of truest love...
...The dialogue, anxious to mirror the speech of Thoid Avenue, Noo Yawk, sometimes achieves neither argot nor English...
...The interwoven travestied spell of Hamlet is delightful and Marlon Evensen (female despite the "o") is a true find as Ophelia...
...Meeting in his own Cheney-town with 20 others of the Conn...
...Members of Assembly, 1st dist., Cardaro, 958...
...Learning from southern advertisers who have enticed industries to the south by promising cheaper power service, the Council first lined up the General Electric, ew England Power and other utility companies operating in New England...
...For electrical companies are in the early stages of the same form of development which has characterized the growth of railroads from many minor companies into large systems...
...Against the nurse's love is that of Maurice's young wife, Stella, who has stayed by his side during all the years of his helplessness...
...It is unfortunate that the excellent settings and costumes clothe so fleshleas a performance...
...Pioneer Youth Benefit...
...which opens out of town la New Rochelle, December 13th Already engaged for the cast are Clark Gable, who gave an outstanding performance in "Machinal...
...Mass...
...4th, Russo, 1,324...
...A theatre benefit performance of Upton Sinclair's "Singing Jailbirds" at the New Playwrights Theatre will be sponsored by the Brooklyn Parents Oroup of Pioneer Youth, Friday night, December 7th...
...The locale of "The Right Angle" is an army post in the Panama Canal Zone...
...Courage", as Tom Barry calls his play at the Rita, seems to be what a person would require to enter upon parenthood, after beholding the play...
...After "The Jass Singer", Samson Raphaelson has turned his eyes on a moot problem of modern life, in "Young Love", which now displays the charms of Dorothy Gish at the Masque...
...Barrett H Clark...
...Except possibly outside of marriage...
...So also the Pacific Mills of Lawrence...
...There was no civil service...
...Congress, 40th dist...
...alias Kloti Throwing Co...
...at the 49th Street, is a quietly sincere presentation that recaptures an the power of the piece...
...But Charles Cheney does not limit hii financial Investments to his home town...
...These wards epitomize "The Sacred Flame," W. Somerset Maugham's new play at Henry Miller's Theatre...
...42nd...
...Tony Sarg'g ingenious marionettes, including an effective orchestra, give way to the friendly though detached Guy Standing, to the fervent Philip Merlvale, to Jane Cowl, whose calmest word bears deep undertones of emotion, and to their able companions...
...Next Sunday Dr...
...it passes its acts along the road to California, in the gold rush...
...The play Itself, as time passes, discloses that the slight overemphasis the boldness of his theme (in its time) Imposed upon Ibsen, made his figures less Individuals than types, symbols of an attitude...
...Foster, WP., 231...
...FP — The Farmer-Labor control of Sheridan County, dating from 1920, was wiped out tn the Nov...
...With a Uttle more digestion beforehand, there could have been here an Intensely powerful study...
...Before marriage (Was it Balzac who first tells the tale, for modern sophistication...
...Mary Jerrold's portrayal of Mother Tabret is calm, sure, unaffected...
...Bernard Steele, producer, yesterday placed in rehearsal "The Right Angle," a play by Len D. Holllster and Lester Lonergan...
...It will be devotes mainly to discussions of the "experimental and revolutionary theatre" and the nature of current dramatic criticism...
...For of the six youngsters whom Mary mothers, the only decent one, the only one with true love for her, with thoughtfulness and consideration, is the seventh, born out of wedlock (though legitimatized, of course, at the curtain's falling...
...Lieut-Gov.: Hahn, So.,, 10,270...
...This brings another member of the Davis family into active participation with the veteran playwrights new hit, for Owen Davis, Jr., a younger son, is playing the Juvenile leading rale in "Tonight at 12...
...Washington, last, eight, to a record-breaking attendance...
...POT OF GOLD...
...Its first meeting was held at Van Vechten Hall, Albany, last Sunday afternoon...
...41st, Heisler, 3,075...
...which owns mills in 6 states, including several in Maryland Virginia and West Virginia...
...The recreation industry of New England must be especially encouraged, the Council' asserts...
...Meeting at Portland, Me., the New England Council adopted a 3-year sales-plan, to cost $900,000, to put the six northeastern states once more on the map...
...The magazine win be edited by Barnard Smith...
...While memory of Helen Chandler win not down, Linda Watklns' interpretation of Hedvlg conveys the love and the wondering of the child...
...Recreation Encouraged "Close alliance between power producing companies may confidently be expected," the report indicates...
...Blanche Yurka, as Gina, again shows her ability to sink her personality wholly in her pert, so that something deeper than mere action and voice of her becomes the servant-wife...
...Dunne, WP, 252...
...2nd, Salzman, 1,392 ; 3rd, Neeb, 1,035...
...In fact, one would scarcely class "The Sacred Flame" as a drama of murder...
...For the first time in Newark ticket* were priced at a $4.40 scale...
...a new theatrical magssine, will make its first appearance on December 1st, according to sn annooneercent issued by the New Playwright* Theatre, the publishers...
...Both of these sects combined polled less than 500 votes in the County...
...These episodes are touched upon with a delicacy of line that in no way detracts from the piquancy of the situation...
...5th, Powers, 1,478...
...The Intl...
...For long familiar in plate and printed word, the sketches of Gordon Craig grow fun bodied on the large stage...
...He win sing the role of Petrucbkv It Is the first time in the history of the theatre that a Shakespearean play W planned with music, lyrics, modern costumes and dances...
...But by bringing together the power interests of the six states, organizing an agricultural league and adopting a New England label—not a union label—for all products, the super-boosters are on the mark, ready set for the race...
...This company is profiting from the erection of giant rayon plants in the south...
...James Rennie plays, most willingly, the part of the husband who is to enlighten Dorothy Gish...
...Promotion was by political pull...
...When she returns...
...BIRMINGHAM...
...the lyrics are lively and the chorus colorful...
...Otherwise, the villain so swiftly pursues Janet Beecher, changing his aspect in every act, that her brood is driven from mother to aunt, and back to mother' when neighbor millionaire falls in love with young Junior, dying Just in time to leave him funds to pay the mortgage...
...Lyn Harding makes a bulky Macbeth, but also overplays his part, though beside Florence Reed he seems moderate enough...
...as we grow better acquainted with these persons, more accustomed to the subtleties of the "new" psychology, we find that they lack the rounded development we expect in the full-bodied beings of highest art...
...Perhaps it would be sounder to suggest that, while these characters have cloaks of individuality, Ibsen Insists on their holding these cloaks wide open, to display the heart, the core-quality beneath...
...Bickwheat, SLP, 320...
...or a few angles and dull colors build the mood of Lady Macbeth...
...New England manufacturers are not to be outdone...
...Kuhn, SLP, 346...
...Strangely enough, the treacle—no, it is wrong to call strange the success of something that has so often pleased—the combination of humor and sentimentality proves once more moving to the audience, and "Courage" evidently amply entertains...
...Overstresslng one aspect of a figure la the method of caricature...
...Ihls will interfere in no way with Mr...
...The advance sale totalled over »*o.ooc...
...Erie County portion only—Niagara County vote not included...
...Shubert to s't rra serson i*» a "uti'-el version of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew...
...Competent firemen with no political friends might remain in the ranks all their lives...
...Fire Fighters' Union Jacks Up Wages in Ala...
...State Senator Charles E. Taylor of the Farmer-Labor group calls It a clean defeat, attributing it to the long tenure of office which gradually crystallized all opposition groups into the fusion ticket...
...De Lee, SLP, 333...
...Of the men, whose work was all competent, the group of Act I being well individualized...
...Not a labor union in any manufacturing industry of the state...
...Robertson's remaining with "White Lilacs," which Is to stay at Jolson's Theatre for the balance of this season...
...Pierrot is soon ready to greet the audience for the evening's showing...
...Maurice's mother understands the wretchedness of her daughter-in-law and fully sympathizes...
...Ziegfeld is vastly pleased that Cantor Is so popular In "Whoopee" that in Pittsburgh, Newark and Washington the houses have been sold out before the opening night With Marilyn Miller and Jack Donobue >lx> breaking records on tour in "Rosalie...
...will not suffer even if New England industries die...
...Comptroller: Roth, Soc., 10,087...
...The Socialist-Labor Party conducted no local campaign and so far as it is known has no local organization...
...department as a substittue fireman I got only $2 for a 24hour day...
...Do-as-you-would-be-doneby is too much the self-righteous snob To suggest "Do unto every man as he desires," or "Leave every man free to do for himself" would be to substitute Channtng Pollock, let us say, for Ibsen...
...It is said that the corporation even owns the district high school and rents tt to the town for $1 a year...
...The official canvass of the three radical parties totals as follows: President: Thomas, Soc, 10,118...
...Man tn love, on his side, finds continuance breeding monotony, and like a tree, would have new blossoms every spring...
...Among the long list of names "credited" for "Rainbow", now at the Oallo Theatre, is that of Laurence 8tailings Lengthy consideration leads us to conclude that the remnant of the old 8tailings in the show is the remark that one likes to be a soldier because of the pride and the protection the uniform confers...
...SHAKESPEU—CRAIG...
...With a heavier hand than seems often advisable, yet with many deft touches, the playwright essays a theme born out of wedlock, a la mode...
...held several hall meetings with their candidates and other speakers, passed out thousands of leaflets, had a downtown headquarters and yet for every office contested the Communists polled less votes than the SocialLabor candidates...
...This play business alone brought over $400,000,000 into New England treasuries last year, and by Judicious promotion can easily be expanded to pay over $500,000,000...
...This is the international president's first visit to the southern fire houses...
...James H. Hamilton, State Industrial Commissioner, will talk on the "Department of Labor and the Industrial Life of the State...
...In the late Greek, the lesson was learned by Daphnis, for Chloe,) it seems to the, modern mind, in this particular case, a good idea to see what the novelty of wedded existenece involves...
...H. Pants...
...Kathryn March win be seen in support of Elsie Ferguson, star of The last Lover...
...7 th, Dawson, 2,666 and 8th, Joyce, 1,517...
...Civil service has been strengthened, pensions improved...
...He is director of one of the biggest New York banks...
...One of the big open-shop manufacturers Interested in the sales-plan is Charles Cheney of Cheney Bros., slllk manufacturers...
...as it is, "Exceeding Small" is an Interesting attempt in the right direction...
...The surge and flow of love is the theme of "The Jealous Moon", partly by and largely with Jane Cowl, at the Majestic...
...He has Interests in the powerful General Silk Corp...
...Lester Lonergsa, who directed "The Road to Rome," 'Tht Command to Love" and the current Tla Pan Alley": Philip Wood, late of The American Tragedy" and Raymond Branley, recently seen in "The Barker...
...Ala.—(FP)—Birmingham city firemen have almost doubled their wages since they Joined the Intl...
...Fire Fighters' union is the chief force in improving the conditions of the heroes of the smoke, declared Baer...
...Gina is just a little too tolerant in her love, Werle a polite villain, but too unrelievedly black despite his polish...
...Fire Fighters union in 1918...
...The doctor Is ready to issue his death certificate when Nurse Wayland objects and Insists that Tabret had not died of natural causes . . . that he had been poisoned...
...A composer and lyricist have been commissioned to make the adaptation, settings In the modern manner wiU be designed by Watson Bsrrstt, Eddie Cantor in "Whoopee" opened at the National Theatre...
...Rexln, Soc., 10,003...
...Not only they, however, suffer from malnutrition: the play as well needs fuller develomnent...
...against a deep sky the slight arch of a roadway toward the audience, down upon the witch-wrltben heath...
...Oregers too unintelligently caught by "the claims of the ideal...
...Supreme Court Judges, 8th Judicial Dist.: Meyer, Soc., 10,713...
...Minor, WP, 258...
...YOUNG LOVE AND OLDER...
...save in the necessarily subdued sleepwalking scene, Miss Reed declaims her part ss though she had learned about Lady Macbeth from the heroine of "Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model...
...Manchester, Conn...
...50th, Oregorczyk, 4.347...
...Norman Thomas is credited with polling 10,118 votes as compared with the Panken vote for Governor in 1926 of 5,731...
...Corregan, SLP, 291...
...Last week at Newark "Whoopee" grossed $47,000, which is $7,0000 more than ever before taken in across the river...
...Ralph Boeder ss Oregers Werle seemed most natural...
...Despite the,, pretentious designation, there is ao startling surprise tn the setting...
...The city carries every fireman on s $1,000 life Insurance policy with an additional $1,000 for death by accident on the Job...
...Roth, 2,920...
...6th, Kleine, 251...
Vol. 7 • December 1928 • No. 50
