AMUSEMENTS
AMUSEMENTS The Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley WHICH SIDE IS JAIL? YY/'ITH Grover Burgess doing sensitive work as Red Adams, and a stirring if crude production, "Singing...
...It is foolish...
...The destinies of the Roxy Balle* Omp have now been placed In the hands of a woman...
...at the P"nd School, j I Dorsha and Her Dancers will present a l-j-.ts of new dances...
...Only the Socialist Party has presented a program on these matters and only this is the Socialist Party in any reasonable position to say: "I told you so,' regarding the past and to offer hope for the future...
...Nor am I putting forth any discriminating, unfounded criticisms...
...The New York Times, the Herald-Tribune and other papers have devoted much space to our plans...
...Let me be more specific...
...Hylan's announced candidacy will do the city no i "positive good...
...In 1929 Tammany will j have a flght all over the city...
...and test lor o.~e hour...
...Red Adams' days are no excep- j tlon and the flght against prison torture that his memories help him make is moving indeed...
...Yipsel Christmas Dance In cooperation with the Socialist Party, the Yipsels of Greater New York will hold i 1 ("!*>-ist","s '"nr...
...Besides o'ner circles, the entire membership of the Newark circle was present...
...and interestingly permits us to hear the thoughts of the hero, which we would have had to be psychoanalysts to guess...
...And, with the spirit of the audience the night I saw the play, and with the many 1 special nights coming, a bold directorship would have that audience leave the theatre in final rallying song...
...His statements show a bad lack of knowledge or...
...8. L. Rothafel announcsi as* ' he has appointed Florence Raft* ss bu« I let mistress, following the proraotfcc » j Leon Leonidoff as production asawasj...
...It was the worst piece of criticism that I have read In a long time...
...Yipsels who are going to attend the theatre benefit of th...
...Bo...
...and Mrs...
...With an excellent cast and effective production, "A Play Without a Name" is a novel and stimulating drama...
...He Is trying to justify his conscience for not doing the thln«s for the Y. P. S. L. that he feels he ought to do...
...Peggy Wood gives a delightful presentation of the wife, in a relationship where a sense of humor plays, as a light on polished wood, over the surface of love...
...No Mayor In recent years has a worse record than our Prince of Wisecrackers...
...No administration In recent years has been Involved In so many scandals," Thomas declared...
...The benefit will be for three performances, the dates being Dec...
...Miss Rogge...
...As Louis P. Goldberg, our director, stated...
...A REAL BRAIN TTAvTNG in mind various ways In which my own (one-act) play, set within the brain, has been produced, I was prepared to be very critical of Austin Strong's "A Play Without a Name," at the Booth, two scenes of which occur inside the hero's brain...
...Station "D," New York...
...The circles as a whole are good at heart 1 and well-meaning...
...This does not mean that we need reject alliances of the proper sort...
...Harry Welch, Walter Donahue, Marcella Swanson, the Four Nightingales, Eight Lightning Dancers and a special chorus known as the Jack Donahue-Boyle Girls...
...I will dispense with the customary intermissions between acts when it opens aoj Instead will be enacted conOnuouur aes without stoppage, except for rapid ebsoft* es of scene, from first curtain to last, Mf Steele hastens to qualify his tMmmt by asserting that this departure is mm Primarily because the action of "Bjssal Unguarded" demands such tre*«a)«a*J and not solely because of the value of tat idea as a theatrical Innovation...
...SOL RIVTN...
...the Russian Symphonic Choir will appear In the second concert of the Artists' Recitals under the auspices of the People's Symphony Concerts at the Washington Irving High School, 16th Street and Irving Place...
...The new dwelling house law on which Republican and Democratic politicians and real estate speculators seem i to be agreeing, gives legal whitewash to | the continuance of our disgraceful old i law tenements and encourages the reducj tlon of New York to a city of barracks...
...The Fifth Avenue Playhouse program is inviting...
...Circle in Bridgeport A splendid branch of the Young Peoples Socialist League has been organized In Bridgeport, Conn., with 20 charter members...
...The charge that the Walker administration is "sparring for time to And a scapegoat, and mix the whitewash" in the Rothstein murder case in order to suppress "uncomfortable revelations concerning the relations between this dead king of the underworld, the police department and high-placed Tammany leaders" was made Saturday by Thomas...
...On Friday nisht...
...Yipsels will get special rates for these three performances...
...i It may Interest some to know that after headlining in vaudeville for the past . two years, Frances "Peaches'" Browning Is to become a star In a legitimate play on Broadway...
...The supporting cast includes Roy Atwill, George Baxter, Eddie Nelson, Archie Leach, Frances Dewey, Al Gold, Laurette Adams...
...Lee and J. J. Shubert announce formal opening of the new Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 4 7th,Street...
...The Yellow Jacket" will conclude its present run on December 15 but will be kept In the repertory of the Cobum Theatre...
...The remainder of the play, by making active before us the fancies of Red Adams In solitary confinement, gives pictures of the life that leads men into the I. W. W. "Solidarity" in a quality man comes to desire through sepa- j rate needs...
...Seats for the opening next Monday of the new $2,000,000 Wilson Theatre n Detroit were auctioned off at tbe Bookj Cadillac Hotel for charity Monday nxa The first play on the monster 40 by itfoot stage, with a proscenium opening 41 feet wide and 20 feet high, will be Ziegfeld's "Rosalie" starring Marilyn Miner with Jack Donahue...
...Tammany will have a flght all over the city...
...15, "Mechanics of the Brain" will be revived...
...A French novel, otherwise insignificant, the name ot which I have forgotten, contains the transfiguring phrase: "If sinners scorch in h~" Christ is beside them suffering there.'* This philosophy, the only 103...
...If, as I hope, condiUons permit Morris Hillqult to accept the Mayoralty nomination we want to give him, we shall be In a position not merely or chiefly to build our own party, but greatly to serve our city...
...Coburn's opening Tuesday Decsay ber 25...
...The play traces his "spree," to cover thoughts of failure...
...FalstafT," a comedy by James Plalsted Webber, based on Shakespeare's ' Immortal character, with music by Porter Steele and lyrics by Brian Hooker, wiU be the next production of Mr...
...I am not writing paeans on Circle 2 or other circles...
...He says that conditions were the same at the time that he was a member hi the Y. P. S. L. But what did he do to change them...
...A Play Without a Name" ranks with the great dramas at least In this respect, that its appeal is to the mature...
...The second brain-scene during his lovemaking carries the action forward, revealing that the Influence of John's wife has not been In vain . . . Though events shortly after, and the effective close, leave each member of the audience to estimate the damage according to his own intellectual level...
...It Is because he Is true to his role...
...In 1929...
...Hugo Gellert...
...YY/'ITH Grover Burgess doing sensitive work as Red Adams, and a stirring if crude production, "Singing Jailbirds" receives its first New York presentation, by The New Playwright (keen of social vision) at the Provincetown Playhouse (bold in experimentation...
...Meetings are well attended with an increase 1 in membership at every...
...Her program will -*-*-t ?f p'^ht o. rp...
...This certainly should be one of the largest city meetings In many years...
...The presence in the cast of Kenneth McKenna made me expect something at least intelligent— i nor was I mistaken: "A Play Without...
...Ex-Mayor Hylan's announced candidacy, coupled with a strong Republican flght, will mean that Tammany will have far from a walkover...
...HUlquit Suggested for Mayor Thomas called for a progressive political movement which would seek to oust Tammany from power in the city...
...who Is the yountwtllsb"" j on Broadway holding so lmporauu^ Post, received her early training sassy Roxy's tutelage...
...In "Boston," Upton Sinclair presents details of what's rotten in places nearer then Denmark: in the earlier "Singing Jailbirds," he symbolizes the spirit that may make the world afresh...
...while his wife, who, as every woman knows, has spurred him on, prepares the jubilee for his real success...
...He assailed ex-Mayor Hylan, declaring that the Queens sewer and the Health Department scandals had their inception i under his administration...
...No Mayor j In recent years has a worse record on the fulfillment of promises which he carelessly threw about in 1925 than our Prince of Wisecrackers...
...At the next meeting of the N. E. C. of the Socialist Party the matter of adequate finance will be brought to the attention of that body...
...17, for painting and redecorauda and to give the "Good News" compaaj a rest after nearly a year and a half d continuous playing...
...j Washington Heights Organised The newly formed circle in Washing- ' ton Heights meets every Sunday evening at the Party Headquarters, 600 West 181st street, Mandel Freed, formerly of the Harlem Circle, is their chairman...
...12, at the Playhouse, Wilmington...
...Meetings are held every Sat urday evening at the headquarters of the Workman's Circle, Newflekl Building...
...The play is Upton Sinclair's "Singing Jailbirds...
...Shubert have In rehearsal, "Make Boom Boom," a new musical comedy featuring Frank Mclntyre and Ann Seymour, which opens Wednesday night, Dec...
...The Socialist Party will not "reject alliances of the proper sort," he declared, referring to the coming campaign...
...Socialist Party at the Provincetown Playhouse are requested to get their tickets through the City Office...
...Lacking the j unity of 'The End of St...
...Thomas said...
...One can only explain Mayor Walker's ultimatums and i withdrawals of them, the curious actions ' of the Police Department with their j strange mixture of avowed knowledge and professed ignorance and District Attorney Banton's refusal to push the inspection of Rothstein's files, on the theory that Tammany was sparring for time to | find a scapegoat and to mix the whlteI wash, "In this situation Hylan's avowed candidacy will probably make trouble for the Tiger...
...It is a drama for an all: m?.!= cast, and promises a deal of exclte| ment...
...But any member of Circle 2 can Inform him of the fart that the organizer has been heard to express the Idea, many times, of having a small, but Interested audience...
...That is why each one must serve as chairman, and also apper on the educational program...
...But he does not know that every meeting since Election Day has begun before eight o'clock and that the educational programs lasted from nine to almost eleven...
...They are not common to Y. P. S. L. circles only...
...Frank Manning of the Boston Yipsels also spoke to the Newark Yipsels...
...i "Even if the Supreme Court should re\ verse the lower courts in the seven-cent j fare case the city administration has a i record of doing not one constructive thing i to make possible a unified operation at a five-cent fare...
...Kenneth McKenna matches her skill, and if he lacks the fire of Katherine Wilson as the spreer...
...the good ones, such as I have just mentioned, call on us for a conscious shift of mood...
...It can do no positive good to the other...
...His criticism was senseless, hasty, shallow and inaccurate...
...8he was one of its principal dancers at the Roxy Tkeun) » year ago, and since then her aetnssw have been largely confined to tbe tant Canadian theatres...
...In the field of housing it has done nothing worth while...
...Every single point that Comrade Asherowitz attacks is being driven out of the circle meetings...
...It would be far better, in the former case, to abstain from criticizing altogether...
...Frank Manning of Boston also spoke...
...And Thoreau is echoed in the song that is the urging mood of "Singing Jailbirds": "Remember you're outside for us While we're in here for you...
...the rothstein mess "Meanwhile the Rothstein case threatj ens the new Tammany with worse revi elatlons than at any time since the Van ' Wyck administration...
...This "first chapter in Behaviorism" is one of "the most illuminating of films in an unfamiliar field...
...In normal times when | there is no question of peace or war mu[ nicipal government touches our lives j more closely than even the state or fed'eral government...
...j a Name" is a drama for the intellectually mature...
...His endorsement of the Brooklyn-New York electric merger helped to fasten on the city a new monopoly with thirty-two millions of extra dividends...
...Every point that he believes ought to be present is present...
...Newark Circle Receives Charter The Newark Circle has received its charter from the hands of Morris Novlk, chairman of the N. E. C. After the ceremony was completed he addressed the members of the new circle...
...But if the utilization of his mental faculties tells a member that Socialism cannot cure this world of its ills, we are also satisfied, in that we made him exercise his mind...
...i "We New Yorkers legitimately have a i special interest in our own situaUon," Mr...
...AU branch and other activities will be suspended...
...Owing to a lack of finance, it will be impossible to hold a national convention at the proper time...
...It is possible that j Tammany with its notorious control over \ the police and over most of our judicial j system in New York County can manage ! to find a scapegoat and suppress uncomi fortable revelations concerning the rela; tions between this dead king of the un' derworld, the Police Department and high i placed Tammany leaders...
...seldom does he recognize Its advantages philosophically until personal conditions have made him feel the want of it...
...Only delegates from the Sastern seaboard were present...
...Circle Two Replies It has always been said that it is easy to criticize destructively, but not so easy, constructively...
...Have I spoken of i "Ten Days That Shook the World," still holding the new (and most Inviting) LltI tie Carnegie Playhouse...
...Comrade Asherowitz knows that he is forcing himself to make a qualifyirg statement to satisfy his equanimity...
...It has to be a movement of men and women convinced that the machinery of government in New York City must and can be used positively for the benefit of the people in matters of education, housing, transit, etc...
...What I have written is true not only of Circle 2 but of almost every circle, if i not every ore, In New York City...
...With the exception of the two New York members of the N. E. O, Fields and Switkes, the entire N. E. C. present at the meeting in the morning spoke to the assemblage In the afternoon...
...I will not deny that there are also some faults...
...Thomas Sounds Call For City Campaign...
...Join aesthetic circle, men, women...
...At the New Mas-es Costume Ball i (Webster Hall, Dec...
...IN BRIEF Movies Continue The pre-holiday rush of plays leaves little space for comment on motion pictures, but I want to spare a little for the little cinema houses...
...j the name of Morris Hillqult was put j forward by Thomas as the leader of a j Socialist progressive campaign for the Mayoralty...
...Louis Lozowick and Will Gropper have decorated the hall, 3^d every radical you do or don't know will probably be there...
...On all sides it is said that the election will present the greatest Socialist opportunity ever seen in the city...
...Circle 2 endeavors to train each one of its members to have poise and selfdepend ability...
...refined, congenial, intelligent membership make worth-while friends...
...U. P. As official erman war ps*** 1 "Behind the German Lines," syu^s" 1 ized...
...Circle 2 Is primarily Interested in teaching young people to think...
...He or his friends are obviously bargaining with someone...
...Circles Interested in Increasing their treasuries are urged to vt ii to>'~h et ¦— the Executive Secretary, Room 505, 7 East loth street...
...The Chanin 46th Street Theatre vo close for the week beginning liondij, Dec...
...Comrades Parker and Sjrala of Massachusetts, and Comrades Field and Switkes of New York, attended the meeting...
...The week of Dec...
...But is there any organization without its faults...
...For three days, Saturday, Sunday and Monday...
...After that the regular dancing wlU com- i i..e.ice...
...The play presents one day in the life of a competent, sensitive man, afflicted with the frequent accompaniment of sensitivity, an inability to thrust himself forward, that seems akin to fear...
...Weekly meeting musicale...
...He deplores the fact that Circle 2 is seeking a large rollbook rather than an Interested membership...
...The Messrs...
...opened at the Rial to Theatre w cember 1. , _ Organisation Education Solidarity FREE JACK WASSERMAN YOUTH EDITOR Tseng reepkri Socialist League, tl Essex Street, Boston, Mass...
...On such burning issues i as housing and transit the admlntstrai tion's record Is a bad Joke...
...12 a CALL for the beginning of the most ¦* *¦ vigorous city campaign the Socialists of New York have ever waged was sounded last Saturday by Norman Thomas, speaking to an audience that crowded the Debs Auditorium In the Peoples House...
...He must make this statement to support his bilious and spiteful contention as to the worthlessness of the circle...
...housing, transit and the Rothstein case...
...The week after, "Gow, the Head Hunter," promises excitement of which there Is foretaste In this week's "The Isle of Vanishing Men," a native study of a new Guinea dying race of cannibals...
...Morris HUlquit will be among the speakers...
...The chief trouble with a play of this sort is that it appeals only to those who are initially sympathetic...
...The National Executive Committee of the Young Peoples Socialist League met at 11 a.m...
...19, 20, 21...
...No administration in recent years has been involved in so many scandals which on the most»favorable showing it failed to prevent or to adejquately punish...
...Thomas said, but would do some negative good by dividing "the opposition to a constructive movement...
...Party Meeting Dec...
...The meeting was one that was conducted during a period of stress for the circle, a period of national elections and reorganizations, a period during which the circle was Interested more In party election activities than tn educational programs...
...And this is what Comrade Asherowitz did in reference to Circle 2 of Brooklyn...
...xipsels will receive special rates for themselves and their friends...
...Let me apply this same adage to the letter of Comrade Asherowitz in last week's edition of The New Leader...
...Of course, we would prefer them to become Socialist Party members later...
...Send stamped envelope...
...It will be followed by "Un! easy Money, the Adventures of a Bank Note...
...I can write several pages upon their advantages...
...More imaginative direction would help the play...
...Most plays—even excellent ones, such as "Peter Pan" and "The YeUow Jacket," of current performance—set us back along the path of our cultural growth...
...However, reports sljow that circles are springing up in states where there never were any before...
...west of Broadway, Monday, Dec...
...That constructive movement cannot be a mere vague good government movement headed by some respectable Republican of the type of Emory Buckner...
...it is a play one can enjoy : without dropping to the level of the adolescent or the child...
...Assuming that Hylan was ah honest Mayor, he was a very stupid one...
...Think of a person placing all his views and opinions on what he saw and heard at one meeting...
...Also on the current program is a German sound film, "The Bohemian Dancer," a pleasantly developed piece to which the Strauss waltzes make smooth background...
...His allies in Queens County weren't honest at all and it was under his Health Department that the milk scandals had their origin...
...of that love which is to win the world, is brought from the next into the present life In the thought of Debs, that, while no man is in prison, no man is free...
...Morris Novick, the chairman, Louis Rablnowitz, the National director...
...Does Comrade Asherowitz think that young people can te eJ"cated bv having knowledge thrown at them...
...Earnest work will be outlined for the beginning of the city drive...
...The first brain-scene retraces events we have just watched, John's discovery of his apparent failure, the coming of "Billiklns" as spree-companion...
...the many "Broadway" dramas hold their audiences, unaware, on lower than the mature level...
...ruption...
...He is not in earnest...
...The theatre will reopen Christmas night for the last he* weeks of "Good News," which win hi followed during the week of January 1, by Schwab and Madel's new musical comedy, "Follow Thru...
...when Miss Barrymore will be seen In "The Kingdom i of od," by the Spanish playwright, G. Martinez Sierra and adapted by Helen and H. Granvllle-Barker...
...Arrangements have been completed between her and Jack Linder, producer of "The Squealer," the melodrama at the Forrest Theatre, whereby 1 sfle will enter that play within a few days...
...AU comrades' are urged to be present and to make sure that the new members of their branch attend...
...Can you think of such a period belnf* chosen as a representative one...
...7.) the dancing to j the Vernon Andrade Renaissance Orchj estra will be interrupted by the singing of I. W. W. songs from "Singing Jailbirds," by *he cast of the Upton Sinclair play...
...8, 9 and 10, the St...
...these subjects...
...Fiihts between factions will be duly reported...
...George Playhouse will present the Moscow Art Theatre Players' film version of "Crime and Punishment...
...In concluding, let me I suggest that Comrade Asherowitz and j any others who doubt my words would do very well if they paid a visit to our circle at any of its meetings...
...It does mean that the initiative is ours...
...The press of the city has been quick to appreciate the Importance of an active Socialist campaign In the city next year...
...The new Theatre Guild play, "Wings Over Europe," by Robert Nichols and ''aurice Brown, onenlng Monday at the Martin Beck, deals with the problem I ¦ ' of world peace...
...Tbe new jatlet mistress' first task at the Boay week has been the staging of the *•»¦* elements in the divertissement* an» "Tableaux Napoleon," surroondtar all-talking screen program...
...The Rothstein case threatens "the new Tammany with worse revelations than at any time since the Van Wyck administration," Thomas asserted...
...This young organisation but a few weeks old promises to become an important adjunct to the local Socialist Party...
...To such, "Singing Jailbirds" is a vivid picture of the fate of a fighter for labor, with a rousj ing first act, of genuine vigor, as the I prisoners, dropping from lack of air in ! the steam-bathed "tank" of the prison, shout out their songs until the breath fails them...
...They will be greatly enlightened...
...Petersburg," it , equals it in power of single episode and i in skill of photography, and should not 1 be missed...
...He has greatly modified his old stand for municipal operation of transit which he now favors only as a last resort...
...Bold as he is in another's behalf, John ventures little for himself, and on the morning we watch, seems to have failed...
...Acton who go aa I the road will be glad to learn that there are fourteen dressing rooms for principals and six for ensembles, all uisil" and with the latest conveniences As a sort of "priority right'* class is the exclusive use of the idea, Bernard Steele makes the advance anrtouneecaeBt that "House Unguarded,'* tbe SoTattf : Lonergan play which he is ptwlucliS...
...Our worthy Comrade maintains that the meetings begin too late and that the business part takes too long...
...The Messrs...
...Published Every Week By The New Leader for the Yonng Peoples Socialist League General League Meeeting The general meeting of the New York League was well attended, more than two hundred Yipsels being present...
...The only good that Hylan will do is to divide the opposition to a constructive movement...
...August Claessens, secretary of the New York Party, issued a call on Monday for all members of the party to attend a city-wide membership meeting on Wednesday evening, December 12th, in the Rand School...
...One person should not ha ntliainnl ilitliiusii ot any Y. P. S. L. Circle...
...the Walker administration was r.ssiiled by Thomas on the score of corpersonal 1 interested IN life'S FINER JOYS...
...the final meeting of friends in Red's vision, for example (this is Harry Kemp's suggestion), would group more effectively if placed as though in a jungle, and only when Red broke down, crying for his eyes, his echo coming forward for his spirit to carry on...
Vol. 7 • December 1928 • No. 51
