AMUSEMENTS
AMUSEMENTS The Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley rm YOUTH, I'M JOT! AT the Civic Repertory Theatre, Eva Le Oaluenne Is proving that youth and joy do not depend on years, but are heart-flung...
...Even this encouragement has...
...LOUIS—(FP)—The order of Railroad Telegraphers announces an increase of 1.62c per hour obtained by mediation on the Westernj Pacific bringing the average wage to 68.96c per hour...
...That Ferguson Family...
...No, not such do we need just now...
...Blum's twelfth production, opening "cold...
...The local sections, and the State Sections would then result in a National Women's Section of the Socialist Party (a voice from a sceptic) "and then what...
...Morris Plan used to give employes a day's outing once a year...
...Away with them, then...
...Carroll himself...
...Helen Menken is the lady of greatest concern ta this play, from the native she loves, father of her child, she goes through a succession of white hands, wherein war and the various stages of heroism and cowardice are held, to the sad end of a submissive life...
...This section to hare the necessary number of officers...
...And Eva herself, to all whose hearts have set a glow around Maude, is the biggest surprise and treat of all...
...Originally announced f«" wei>ks...
...Has the Socialist Party been cognizant of this constantly growing, constantly developing power among the women of the country...
...Maude Adams (since her name is graven in memory) lived longer applause, to restore Tinkerbell, than these unfalried times will grant...
...We must get the women to take part ta the building of it...
...The native Annamlte name for woman Is "Congal," which is also the name of the play by Harry Hervey and Carleton HUdretb, now at the Sam H. Harris Theatre...
...Men find themselves thrown out of work, to be replaced by girls...
...The party paid for the expense of the- general campaign, why stop at the women's juncture...
...Yet, In those days (1912) we had more women members In the Party than we have at present...
...The vast majority of them are ta some sort of an organization...
...the romantic Venetian ****B steal comedy with Leon Errol...
...I visited him, and we discussed the difficulties in organizing women into trade unions, how much they would mean to the movement, etc...
...of late, been woefully neglected...
...Fine woods were used for panelling the walls, deep rugs cushion the floor...
...But employment sharks get the gravy on furnishing the loan sharks with workers...
...Morris Plan achieves cooperation thru competition, jealousy, suspicion and fear...
...I.e., the organizing of local women's movements...
...They have influence...
...Poems, glorification of loyalty and hard work, and social items comprise its efforts on behalf of workers...
...Only "Porgy" of recent years has, in another mood, anything like the same spell...
...Considering that erstwhile members of the Socialist Party, radical labor leaders and revolutionary intellectuals followed the black star of Tammany Hall, the vote cast for the Socialist Party is ta itself a sufficient indication that we have a foundation on which to build anew...
...The ex-army officer bosses stood at attention, with watches in hand...
...Morris Plan Employes Underpaid Pious Loan Agency Stresses Discipline — Profits Soar While Wages Stay Down By Harvey O'Connor EMPLOYES of the Morris Plan Bank, *-J fall to share their firm's vast prosperity...
...use methods that will attract, rather than repel, new elements...
...out of the tug-of-war between children and comforter, the play puns its power...
...Money...
...Time was, when the party encouraged women to participate in all its councils...
...and «"¦**"¦ sloned him to write the book of etta...
...stimulate interest among the women who are already in the party and advise them ta their undertakings...
...The play is a story of French occupation...
...In 10 offices In New York City, this firm employes nearly a thousand workers...
...Indeed, Townsend Martin shows that he has learned when to stop an act...
...When the two minutes were up, employes were told to get busy...
...The Central Section to see that these do not conflict with the constitution of the Party...
...And so to bed...
...In fact, I think we have done better than we had a right to hope for...
...We want EFFICIENT builders, ! certainly—but we don't want the kind of I efficiency that turns into mere complacency, that sees the practical side of our movement only, and looks upon the dreamers of our movement as a sentimental lot who must be* tolerated but who are by no means desirable...
...Fearing accident claims, the company called off the picnics...
...Ex-army officers are ideal bosses In Morris Plan offices...
...But two of the busses collided on one occasion, injuring several workers...
...We will take New York City for purposes of illustration: To begin with, we would have all women party members enrolled Into a women...
...Although an extensive personnel department Is maintained at headquarters, its attention Is centered on efficiency and speed-up...
...O, Woman...
...I do not know...
...Messengers, entrusted with sums as high as 130,000, get $60 a month...
...By Pauline M. Newman HPHE campaign is over...
...This used to happen in the older serious tales just ta time to save a married life from going on the rocks of abandonment or divorce...
...And so the firm can't afford to come through on its promise, employes are told...
...Thus "Angela," at the Ambassador, is a very charming piece of work, especially as the title role Is entrusted to Jeanette MacDonald, the most graceful and gracious of musical comedy heroines...
...There is a truth in life and a truth ta the theatre, which may or may not coincide...
...Busses would take them out into the country...
...They are voters...
...Blyth Daly Is more of the surface, yet carries her moments well...
...As long as it will remain indifferent toward this vital issue, so much more difficult will be the task of building a strong organization...
...Office men hold on to their Jobs, fearing the Morris Plan personnel policy of fining their $25-$30 jobs with girls at $20...
...The following may be considered as a basis for a plan by which ta arouse interest In women both, In the party and those without...
...Her every movement is a delight to watch...
...This much is certain...
...riasSJ¦ Brice and Lionel Atwlll that «srl OB- ¦ roll now has In rehearsal, vu not ""tjl ten by Mr...
...no more winning a Wendy than Josephine Hutchinson, surely her never-never boys romped no more naturally...
...In "The Lady Lies," John Meehan's play at the Little Theatre, the situation is complicated by the presence, already, of several legitimate children, for whom the father, successful In other respects, wishes to provide a mother respectably to take the place of one long gone...
...Girls complain that factory and office laws are broken by Morris Plan—but they complain among themselves...
...as Eddie Le Vinson observed...
...adjust our mission to new conditions in new localities...
...The Biter Bitten What the Elizabethans called crossbiting is the blackmailing device at the core of "A Most Immoral Lady," Alice Brady's new vehicle at the Cort...
...Of course, the National Women's Committee might have done this very thing...
...Pracally it has Ignored its significance entirely...
...It should not* prove to be such a difficult task once we overcome the Indifference and a sort of cynicism that prevails at present among our members whenever the question of organising women is mentioned...
...This attitude should be changed—if our party is to grow...
...who keeps busy polishing cuspidors and brass railings In the outer offices, has no orders to clean up the washrooms...
...Build We Must—But How...
...Whether or not wobbiies really stag as the players ta "Singing Jailbirds," there are few moments of song ta the theatre as effective and as dramatically urgent and true, as the close of Act I ta this drama, when plucky spirits shout their songs until lack of air makes the prison "tank" a heap of unconscious rebels...
...To explain this trick in words our time can understand would be to lessen the force of the climax of Act I, so I shall refrain— pointing out, however, that the act subsides very neatly to a quiet close...
...A National Women's Section...
...The mere attempt to do so would more than jus"i our effort...
...The floor man...
...Vam/9 M Hall, jean Dixon and Fred Sumner, JJJ "Floretta...
...Sunday school boys and girls are preferred...
...Psychanalysis of "Peter Pan" has often tempted us, but never when Its spell is over the boards, and especially not while we are being won from old allegiance by the compelling presentation the play is now receiving...
...Several In the audience remarked that the company did not stag as true wobbiies would...
...The play works smoothly through the difficulties the situation opens...
...Times have changed...
...They do not make the desired impression...
...They are no longer onlookers...
...I Mcanwhila "Macbeth" enters on Mavm day the fourth week of its extended ea«4JJl gagement here at the Knickerbodara" Theatre...
...It is more immaterial, even, than the ludicrous remark of the Times reviewer of the play, to the effect that such things do not happen ta these days, ten years after the war to make the world safe for-what is the latest endangered spot...
...Die Walkure," Jan...
...The others are fired...
...The kind of structure, to put up Is a question which must receive our very serious consideration, if we are to forge ahead...
...Stevenson used to say when he came on a passage that was most outrageously untrue ta the story, he suspected that it was a direct transcript from life...
...The fact that Upton Sinclair has sent the Times a letter giving details to show how fatuously uninformed is the "reviewer" who said labor is not exploited today ta no way alters the sense of dramatic truth that comes to those who watch his group of singing Jailbirds...
...In executives' offices, valuable oil paintings .were hung...
...Theoretically perhaps...
...What we have to say about "Staging Jailbirds" above was written bafm tbetx nom azrtvad...
...legal department where Morris Plan puts the screws on unfortunate borrowers — get $10,000 to $60,000 a year...
...graceful of body and lilting of voice, Eva Le Oalilenne lifts a carefree gladness, with the breath of a wlatfulness more elusive than Peter's shadow, to a triumph of youthful beauty...
...During the campaign just past—the most interesting one since 1912—the National Women's Committee is responsible for a few leaflets dealing with questions concerning women...
...Since "Jude the Obscure," it has more frequently come to be the device by which matrimony is induced In a hesitant or otherwise reluctant gentleman...
...This job is waiting to be done...
...Therefore, the brunt of the for the book of "FloretU" will raw tern fall upon the shoulders of CharBm *¦ ¦ drews...
...but that Is all modernism seems to have done...
...To get the $15 to $25 jobs, they must be well dressed, have a high school education ta addition to business training and offer the best of references...
...18, and "Die Gotterdammerung," Jan...
...The chief article is one In which Alfred Lunt attacks the current practice of make-up—wigs, facial disguise, etc.—as making it easier for a mediocre player to suggest a role, and denying the excellent actor the opportunity for revelation to which he is entitled...
...A Royal Family" Only in musical comedy could one be expected to smile at hearing, or to say with an air of conviction that it's really more pleasant to live as a peasant than as an aristocrat...
...But how are we going to build It seems to me that just as""we must substitute new methods for old, so must we be willing to change our whole concept as to what constitutes a strong organization...
...The Order enrolled 493 new members ta October...
...Judy wields the stick aa w»s«.iiy M beThoae Ploaears af Freedom There is a censor down at the freethinking, free-speaking, free-acting New Playwrights' Theatre...
...He could assuredly have found nothing better to do...
...Contracts must be signed in which the employe ? promises to stay a stated jJeriodt to divulge nothing that might concern the company...
...Wobbiies' Songs One of the items at the crowded and colorful New Masses Ball last week was the staging of the Wobbly songs from "Staging Jailbirds," by the cast of that play, coming over after performance, from the Provincetovm Theatre...
...Moreover, since those days women have achieved the franchise...
...AT the Civic Repertory Theatre, Eva Le Oaluenne Is proving that youth and joy do not depend on years, but are heart-flung eternally where the spirit wings...
...TELEGRAPHERS IMPROVE CONTRACTS ST...
...Theirs would be the responsibility to call conferences, and provide only during a campaign but all year around distribution...
...Oh Saturday night, Dec...
...Naturally, this person is lass desirous of withdrawing than she might morally be expected to be...
...The Theatre Guild and other groups probably can surpass this record but no individual producers...
...8t» ¦ has already placed In rehearsal "JSt ¦ Pinal Fling," by James Forbes...
...Furthermore, the kind of builders we shall employ, merits the attention of those who desire to see a strong and healthy organization...
...Playing For Our Day The current number of the Theatre Guild Magazine, recently enlarged, and entrusted to the editorship of Hiram Motherwell, with Luclan Bembard as art director, contains a number of excellent articles...
...Men' and women who are ready to go out into new fields...
...Many an incident of actual occurrence is too fantastic, too unusual, too something or other, to be fit material for presentation as art, unless most carefully surrounded with planned circumstance to give it a semblance of artistic reality...
...Employes have been waiting for more than a year for expected wage increases...
...It, the plot of it and the locale for" ¦ was his idea, but he told all to OiaJWajJ Andrews, remembt'.-ed as the co-aaa*XB| of "Ladies' Night in a Turkish Batt "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife...
...which will have its premiere ta New York about Christmas time is Mr...
...But when you pronounce the word, "proletcult" you have to cross yourself and bow three times in the direction of the Kremlin...
...Anne Herendeen, ta "Look Pleasant, Ladles," analyses the "age-old inconclusive wrestling match of the ^exes" to show how slightly It has progressed "beyond the Punch and Judy stage...
...the possibility of reaching them with our subject .matter...
...It is, therefore, almost natural for the National Women's Committee to find Itself alone, as it were —no support, no encouragement from women ta the various localities...
...Sometimes, in fiction as in life, a woman, has tried to maintain her hold on a man by informing him, at the psychological moment, that she is about to become a mother...
...While Morris Plan profits soar, Morris Plan wages go down...
...The leadership of our party—being all of the male species, have placed the emphasis on the male vote, male membership, male speakers and male writers...
...Lynn Fontanne, who Is starting with her husband for their trip with the Guild's road company when Nicholas Murray found them discussing the matter, plays her part In the article by appearing In two photographs, one ta traveling suit, another ta which the cover of a sugar bowl and a napkin convert her Into Queen Victoria . . . the only other alterations, being those which come from understanding of the character and complete control of facial muscles...
...To me the basis upon which it is organized is all wrong...
...Those seeking jobs come from the private employment agencies, after having coughed up—in advance—one to two weeks' pay...
...It might have arranged mass meetings, conferences, sent out organizers, in short It might have stirred up interest among women everywhere...
...They have power...
...Truth is indeed stranger than fiction...
...Branch heads send messengers to headquarters on high executives' birthdays to see how much other branch heads are investing in flowers...
...The particulars of that meeting are published elsewhere in this IN BRIEF Walter Hampden finally has decided that his next offering at Hampden's Theatre will be an elaborate revival of his greatest success...
...every grown-up will have a gap he will not know how to fill, until be falls under its spell...
...If it lives, It must grow, expand, change...
...Those who have always recognized in her an actress of intellectual power and depth, now watch an unsuspected emotional flowering...
...A broken lounge/ covered with dust and a washbasin decrepit with age constitute the furnishings of the washroom...
...Bromberg is perhaps a trifle large to become canine...
...However, the company's publicity department, in charge of window displays, advertising and public good will, publishes an "employes' paper," the Planet...
...For, of course, all works to a happier end than earlier seems impending...
...Oustav Blum believes he has established a record as an individual producer for opening plays on Broadway technically described as "cold" (without previous out-of-town try-out...
...In spite of Egon Brecher—the Civic Repertory's chief mistake—the pirate scenes, are Jolly roger indeed...
...Every child, when grown, will have legitimate complaint against a parent who permits it to miss this performance of "Peter Pan...
...In fact the only letup in recent months was the two minutes granted employes on Armistice Day...
...For no one has the nerve to tell state inspectors or the boss that dirty washrooms are objectionable...
...Beneath her superficial banter are a poise and calm self-possession that no practice can bring, that bespeak dignity and breeding...
...Personally I feel satisfied that we can, if we but will, arouse once again the faith, the hope and the love we...
...We have received from The New Playwrights a note urgently reprimanding us for our review of "Singing Jailbirds...
...Pretense is Victorian and whiskers are sentimental...
...These would be charged with the power of establishing similar sections In each borough...
...Refusing to curtail in any tray the massive and eooch-makir.sr set tines from the designs of Gordon Craig for hit pr»- ¦ iuctlon of -Macbeth," George C. TyarB has abandoned his plani for a tem ¦ through the regular theatres when be...
...However, with all due respect to the Individual members of that Committee, it did but little to Justify its existence...
...We can no longer agitate, nor organize from a prescribed formula...
...1 can hear some of our National Executive Committee Members say: (or am I flattering myself with the belief that they will read this...
...The Boston Elevated Railway, which last year granted the 6-day week, has agreed to 1 week vacation with pay, retaining the average wage of 97.8c per hour...
...I remember him rising and standing in front of me, he said: "Our Socialist Party will remain only fifty per cent strong until we get the women to share our dreams and our aspirations...
...Why divide this work from the work of the party...
...Lunt's challenge ends: "Wen, how about it...
...The evening cycle will be, in each case, one day later...
...Oh, yes, Colombia—to make the world safe for bananas...
...In other movements, such as the trade union movement, we do not form a national organization until we have a sufficient number of locals first...
...17, at 11:30 P. M., the St...
...The branch executive who fails to send flowers falls under official displeasure and puts himself in line to enlist ta the army of the unemployed...
...Suppose, then, that this plan should be accepted and put into operation by the women of the party in Philadelphia, Boston, New Jersey, Connecticut, and other States...
...the music is valid, and Florenz Ames frequently funny...
...He cut out of an advertisement solicited from "The New Leader" to the theatre's program the sacred word, "proletcult" which means in good Communist jargon, "culture of the proletarian," or "proletarian culture" or however...
...This substratum of solid character permits the actress to do the most reckless, most "Immoral" things with Impunity, with no loss of sympathy ta the beholders...
...section of the Socialist Party...
...We hope that on his appearance in the new Guild Play, ta January, Alfred Lunt (with Lynn Fontaine) will take this challenge up...
...Baseball teams and glee clubs for the higher employes carry, the firm's name before the public...
...Instead, he is nsjad...
...e**5S- I Hamilton, John Cumberland...
...Plays of the hot-sands, white cargo variety too often depend on atmosphere for their effects, or rely on the exotic surroundings to draw attention from defects in workmanship...
...Rosalie Stewart, remembered for tbj ¦ productions of "The Show-Off" "Craig's Wile,'' is getting Into aeOsi ¦ again, shortly after the new year...
...One is quoted at $138,000 a year...
...and seats are on *•*¦ now throughout the holiday period...
...Employes handling money, from the messenger up to the tellers, are covered by heavy bonds...
...The form of organization in the different boroughs to be the same as that of the central section...
...Is the stage a living art, or Isn't it...
...But the settings are such as convey a pleasant sense of authenticity, the company, especially Maurice Burke, good support for the difficult yet well done work of Helen Menken...
...we discover that when whites "occupy" far-off lands, their chief "occupation" is the native woman...
...New Rochelle, on December 13, 14 and 15...
...or is It Mr...
...but surely she had...
...It seems to me, then, that the men and women who are to qualify, should possess the sort of thing ta them which Is best expressed ta the following lines from Schiller: "Every one builds his own pyramid, even if he cannot achieve the spire...
...The play itself provides a plot from the old "A Royal Family," that ends by showing us the loved intruder is the man the princess has to marry for reasons of state (my machine almost mistyped "for reasons of stage...
...Her performance is sprightly, is joyous...
...But, to do this we must have the" whole-hearted cooperation of the party leadership...
...For in the last analysis, it will depend largely upon those who will be sent out to build, to turn out the kind of a party that will meet the needs of present day conditions...
...Jan...
...his final curtain comes at just the right moment, two smiles earlier .than the usual closing kiss...
...Wagner's Nibelungen Ring will be offered complete by the German Grand Opera Company, "exactly as at Beyrouth," ta two cycles at the Manhattan Opera House next month...
...Why not meet the swiftest generation the world has yet seen with an equal directness of- appeal...
...We must have men and women who are aware of what the job implies, but who are, nevertheless, willing to undertake the work...
...We began the other way round...
...How Gentlemen...
...provide literature—not message...
...It must experiment—it must quicken to the life of Its day...
...meet new people...
...Have we not a National Women's Committee...
...Successful branch heads keep their jobs and get promotion by cutting wages and costs...
...But, our desire to find them may bring the needed candidates to our very door...
...It was this sort of inaction that has convinced me of the necessity to formulate some plan by which the leadership and the rank and file of the party would be willing to accept and help carry it out...
...Cyrano de Bergerac," which he will present Christmas night...
...Lest the N. P.'a rush Into an attack on us for suppressing their letter, we hasten to assure them that we shall print their comment and our response "in the charitable spirit of the pre-Christmas Issue next week...
...so that in last moment resignation that fair lady finds her joy...
...There have been exceptions, now and then, to be sure, but on the whole the reaching out after the women has been relegated to play a very small part ta the affairs of the organization...
...Punch, at least, is chastened...
...ating with Chambers of Commerce ud ¦ other civic bodies for the prawatatjai ¦ of "Macbeth" intact, with Lyn Harts* fl Florence Reed, William Famum and Be-¦ sll Gill in their original roles, ta latat ¦ public auditoriums after the manner «* ¦ the showing- of Max Relnhardt's proto- ¦ tion of "The Miracle," by Morris Oat ¦ from coast to coast...
...The looks of all of them, and the contents of some of them are old, both in style and ta thought...
...Shirley Warde does the essential lying to the neatly discomfited William Boyd, while the remainder of the cast casts about, rather successfully, for enlivening movement to the evening's stir...
...Knowing the condition of our organization, I did not expect the impossible, hence I am not disappointed...
...In most cases, where social questions are concerned, they do not even act as Individuals, but as a unit...
...Others— chiefly In the...
...Button who makes sausages...
...They are no longer scattered tadllvduals...
...Alice Brady acts as one who is possibly "most immoral," but is surely a lady...
...Speedup is administered by experts who know how to keep a girl busy 60 minutes of the hour on her tabulating machine...
...how many women's organizations are there that are friendly to our platform and our principles...
...The results, • for me at least, are enc6uraging...
...all once had for the Socialist Party and through it for mankind, as outlined above was accepted by a meetNote:—Since this was written, the plan, tag of women held at the Rand .School en Dec...
...production of the Shakespearean traawjr I concludes Its engagement at the Kniefctr- ¦ bocker Theatre...
...who have not been caught in the stream of self-satisfaction, cynicism and Indifference...
...This: Theirs would be the task to make a survey of our material at hand, by this I mean to find out how many women there are ta our party all over the country...
...They understand discipline, know how to keep clerks on the job and stand for no foolishness...
...Have we such men and women in our party...
...The meetings of these sections are to be held on nights other than those on which branch meettags are held so as not to interfere with party meetings and party activity...
...George Playhouse win present a pre-vlew of the German film, "The Life of Beethoven," with Frits Kortner In the title role...
...Women's Organizations...
...Siegfried," Jan...
...amid the pleasing elements of "Congal," It is well not to examine the play Itself too closely...
...This course of conduct, however, would involve the relinquishment of an association with a less respectable woman who has consoled the widower through seven shifting years...
...truth of that remark I shall not try to dispute...
...Girls employed several years find themselves Jobless on the streets, to make place for business college graduates willing to start at $15 to $20 a week...
...We need men and women who are not dls-Ulusioned, who have not lost hope nor faith in the need for a better, saner and just world...
...the others competently carry an ingenious idea to clever fulfilment...
...Oh, it could indulge ta so many activities which would bring new life ta, and a re-newed hope for our whole movement...
...They can be reached as a group...
...Steele in which to make improvements, if any, before he sends the play to the Shubert Theatre in New Haven for December 24, 25 and 26 and subsequently to Parson's Theatre ta Hartford for December 27, 28 and 29...
...The other characters are musical comedy types that always serve as sufficiently amusing foils, from the Queen Mother to the King she dominates, from the Chief of Police to Mr...
...perhaps I should not find fault with the Women's Committee...
...Once, while on tour for the International Ladles Garment Workers Union, I found myself in the home town of our Comrade Debs...
...The National Woman's Committee...
...The afternoon cycle will present "Das Rheingold...
...But Morris Plan recently took over new headquarters offices uptown...
...In the swanky uptown headquarters, big executives get fancy pay...
...but never has there been such a captivating crocodile, never have the the scenery and the costumes so adorned an effective performance...
...We have...
...The first try-out engagement of "House Unguarded," the play by Len D. Hollister and Lester Lonergan, which Bernard Steele is producing, took place at the New Rochelle Theatre...
...The advertisement in its uncensored shape read, "The New Leader, Clean of Mencken Ism, Dilettantism, Proletcult and other Forms of Sophisticated Hoopla...
...Sausage who makes buttons...
...THE WOMAN SOCIALIST A department of news and views of particular .interest to the women of the Socialist Movement...
...But Angela is satisfied to maintain her court position merely allowing the gentleman such freedom ta love-making as he had praised among the peasants—who probably are as strict as those at court (If anywhere...
...Every reference Is checked, not only by Morris Plan but by the bonding company, which employs detectives to check up on the would-be employe's past, his family connections and his opinions—if any...
...The presence of Chester Hale girls ensures good group dancing...
...it will be on view here trmsaaffi Saturday...
...Each section to use its own methods In securing women members, and carry on Its educational work...
...Thereafter "House Unguarded" will be brought to New York, opening during the week of December 31...
...An Intervening week will be allowed by Bar...
Vol. 7 • December 1928 • No. 52
