AMUSEMENTS
AMUSEMENTS Some Plays for Parasites By Paul Sifton ! IT is possible that what I have to say about plays for parasites will be woefully lacking In good taste. It may be necessary to name...
...In 1926...
...After this election he spent consider ble time investigating the banking problem end wrote a book on the dictatorship of banking, called, "Revolution by Reason...
...the Holy Sinner'' was Droduced in Germany with a cast ol Russian actors...
...mostly, the consensus cf opinion among the people who went to the newer plays was that Ibsen was deen and you never could be sure what he was driving at and Shaw was so clever that you couldn't help laughing, even when he was being very daring and paradoxical...
...The parasites preferred the answers which were no answers...
...R. PanWri...
...They had faith .These women Should have tea scsneone to represent them at the snniverauy/ was a grave error on the part of mm ship to overlg>k that (A voice from where) "Protest as much as you wa who cares...
...Ths M ture Second Chamber will in conasqUBBsl include only three women depunss, taw Social Democrats and one Ooassrvattsfl as against seven Social-Deuwcrshl jgM two Conservatives in the last 1 siltssisSj This setback forms part of the si*sal which the Social-Democratic Psrtf fiM fered as a whole, involving ths 10*11 fifteen seats...
...Why shouldn't they...
...Indeed, who cares...
...Hamlet was a liberal...
...I will not give a complete list of the subjects on which Mr...
...A Meeting of the Faithful Few By Pauline M. Newman C" VERY movement has its faithful few...
...We attended the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the United, Hebrew Trades recently...
...The talk was not of this or that thought evoked by the action, net nf Oris character^ revelation or grown...
...It wJB wirtaif songs by Moxart, Blmstry-KssaafeagL Tssiislkowsky sad Deems Tartar...
...This discussion of emus and Hamlet and Hoover and the state of the nation as rr.ee sured by its revc.cr.c: fjr gocd tas.e lcadc me—siiall I say logiealiy— I back to what I started to talk about, the ! Theatre...
...soprano, wfD prejsent a varied program in her radial this I Saturday evening, January It...
...Loe Strachey, editor of "The Socialist Review" of England this Saturday, Jan 12th, afternoon when he will speak at the Rand School on "Inside of the British Labor Party...
...The American theatre was misbegotten in a welter of good taste more than a hundred years ago, shortly after the popularity of the "Beggar's Opera" died out...
...The familiar episodes of the drama run their course, with a summoning of interest as unfailing as intense...
...This break with the past which many of the sons of the old Tories have made show the great social ferment which is at work in England today In the Fall of 192* he contested the Aston Division of Birmingham and in spite of the Zinoviev letter and the Red scare he reduced the conservative majority from 4.000 to 2.000...
...various subjects...
...Whether It be the humor of the baker's rhyming recipe, the gallant defiance of the ballade while dueling, the ironic strain of the love that ascends the balcony—a situation I more potent than Rcm;o's...
...If they copied or stole from the rebels down in the Village, they disguised and cheapened the imitation almost beyond recognition...
...When Belasco came East with his dog collar and his sets so real you could smell tlie roses on the wall at the back of the stage, they didn't object because he had the good taste to keep the familiar dummies of the drama for his characters...
...I may add right here that Miss Tol- ] lefson ought to get more cooperation of' women Socialists who can manage to write a speech and deliver it over the radio...
...Other well-known stars will also take part in the performance which will start at 12 midnight...
...Sinclair...
...The Cum.r.les were in the very best taste of the times...
...The Week on Stage By Joseph T. Shipley WHIPPED CREAM TAEUGHTFUL—delicious—pastry, this latest offering of the Theatre Guild, to the delicate taste of its patrons 1 From the Hungarian of S11-Vara, it moves its way along with r bines tone brilliance, with no lingering or recurrent value, but with all the sparkle and bright display of holiday celebration...
...at the En| gtneerlng Auditorium, 39 W»s« XMk Street, | in New York Ctty...
...Good tis* is restlly the height of bad taste...
...Rialto Theatre is giving Dion Boucicault's-j "After Dark or...
...theatrical time has turned back 60 years...
...January 22nd, at the Lafayette Theatre...
...Your cooperation is necessary...
...of living on velvet...
...Deems Taylor...
...After all, they couldn't risk offending the orchestra seats and those in the balcony who dreamed of sitting in the orchestra next year, or when they got married, or when that little deal went through...
...For the theatre Is suffering from an epidemic of good taste, and new lies close to the point of death...
...It could be praised, taken for granted, but it could not be analyzed, debated and...
...Neufeld...
...Timidly, the theatre offered some answers...
...O ye&Ub , tl mag la (If you but could), Rimsky. Korsakoff...
...Caligari...
...Until recently...
...audi reveals him again, as we know him, rich in resources of dignity and depth, agile...
...What made them -to, what made them fall in love, marry, covet o-iier mens wives and vice versa, why they took to drink and why, finally, with riclies, all these tears...
...I have had my troubles but now I am happy and, satisfied...
...Janet Gaynor and George O'Brien have the principal roles, and the supporting cast includes Margaret Livingston...
...it is not the heroine who is rolled off the track, after being hurled from the den of iniquity in front of the onrushing train...
...When Hamlet came home from Wittenberg to Denmark he found everything being carried on in perfect good taste, the came sort of good taste that was evident almost everywhere in the United States ten dayi after the murder of Sacco and Vanzettl by the best people cf Massachusetts and the Nation...
...The dealer never gave his characters an honest shuffle— but once in a great while the actor did it for him...
...Ralph Sipperly, Jane Win ton, Arthur Housman and Eddie Boland...
...he told the story badly, and...
...shou', and toss our coins to the players...
...hints that the United States was God's gift to an ungrateful, stupid, blankety blank and you-knowwhat world...
...Strachey took part in this struggle in the Birmingham area...
...Thi^ss...
...He has, it l-i true, dropped revere...
...when they, went to the theatre they meant business...
...What was it he said: There's something rotten in the stats of Denmark...
...got * * * We Protest We protest, even though no one cares whether we do or not...
...as Jcseph Jefferson did with Rip Van Winkle...
...perhaps, St...
...In pleased attention...
...I could mention a hundred without any difficulty, women who spoke, women who organised, women who wrote, women who did the work for which there was no glory and no recognition, but went on doing it because they be tiered...
...maudlin cowardice of the one auu tlie ialse;iess cf the other...
...bloodhounds, villains and Little Eva were always what they seemed...
...made a real thing...
...President Ccoiidge has been the national modal of good teste, twins said nothing positive .about anything except live quail, pig iron, paint brurh handles...
...It may be necessary to name names—the Shuberu, the Theatre Guild, Jed Harris, the N e w Playwrights Theatre, Sophie Tread we 11, Eugene O'Neill, Charming Pollack, and...
...i Save that the sophi: ticated actor reminded us it was not 1868, but 1929, by scornfully tcss:ng the pennies back into the audience...
...women, burz-saws...
...the American theatre waa a half-way houie between the saloon and the bawdy house, with th...
...Renato Renee, Victor Uutchora...
...Honest Workingman, Kindhearted Employer, Dishonest Employer, Brave Soldier, Spirit of Democracy, Tyranny, and so on...
...Every play was a itacked deck of cards...
...Strachey became editor...
...Since then, and until Shaw and the early 0*NeDl...
...They preferred to hear a ham bellowing the hallowed lines of Shakespeare, to contemplate Frankle Bailey's figure and revel in ths »«"t»1*»'"g ambiguities ol Anna Held's revolving eyes...
...We should be thankful for so much...
...Like the emu, he can, when greatly provoked, utter sounds...
...In my box I alone there were four women who have given years of service to the labor movement on the East Side...
...It rallied the miners all through the 192G lock-out...
...All the bourgeois parM had formed an electoral alliance in ofSM to prevent the Social-Democrats S» <j the majority in the Second Clumber 'M| weapon was too disreputable for ths hsaa geois electoral block, which had a*P| disposal 90 percent of the press, ts MB In millions of posters and leaflets ssoSPl cast throughout the country the WPBl Democrats were represented ss a assasg rate collection of highly dangerous Jaefl nationalists...
...Were I yon j Star, Fay Foster...
...peraaltes or...
...God ; bless them...
...5) The Lament of Ia.i the Proud...
...HO-HO - HOBOKEN Not far across the river-Mndeed, surprisingly near...
...In May 1928 all England was shaken by the General Strike...
...Uptown, the Shuberts, Frohman and Erlanger were busily engaged in finding new names for the three sides of the love triangle...
...Grass" and "Easy St;en," tli...
...Mrs...
...Chaining I Pollock, that sincere but tiresome tinpot , Messiah of the theatre, recently staged t^his- great moral tract all over again at ' tremendous expense and with the latest mechanical innovations in his play, "Mr...
...Neither Maid, Wife, NotWidow" to thunderous audiences...
...Women on WEVD Miss Tollefson has arranged for a series of talks by women covering various subjects including "Women in Politics...
...Erotica...
...Thpy developed a tremendous taste, in the first twenty years of this century, for the prevarication in three acts that the rich really have a heluva time and the poor have everything but money...
...Pesnia gaetaca (Gaetana Song) ifrom "The Rose and the Cross'), Gniesin...
...L'Ane Blanc, Hue...
...In short they are the ones without whom no movement could succeed...
...based chiefly on the sensuosity and degeneracy of the crafty charlatan...
...Some of the parasites even went so far as to become disgusted with the system which enabled them to buy orchestra seats...
...Cilbert and Sullivan was all right and very amusing and anyway, all the ridiculous characters in the pieces were foreigners and that was fair enough...
...Down in the orchestra and up in the gallery alike, sat men and women who believed in a religion of parasitism, a religion of "getting ahead...
...Blackbirds" in Midnight Show For Porters Union For the benefit of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a midnight chow in which the entire cast of the principals of Lew Leslie's 'Blackbirds" will take part, win be given Tuesday evening...
...moustache, and eternal cigar, even if the hero must wait for the evil one's loppedoff ear to betray him...
...And the Socialist Party is no exception to this rule...
...Jessie Lloyd, who recently retumed from Russia, will speak on "Conditions in Russia" next Sunday...
...of Walter Hampden...
...They are the boneand sinew...
...Coolidge has had the good taste to say nothing, but if somebody in the privacy of his apartment should mutter Daugherty, Denby, Fall, Forbes...
...in body and spirit, sensitive to the sur- j face and the core of his character's being...
...Socialist speakers for her afternoons.' However, I would suggest that she get...
...In one act they packed more truth that Clyde Fitch had in all his neat jobs of play carpentering...
...As soon as the new enrolment books come out the members of the Women's Section will get busy tabulating information regarding each voted for use in the coming campaign...
...the most novel effects ever seen on the stage...
...Hilda Claessans, Mrs...
...The Swedish Elections...
...For Lynn Pbntanae, with scarcely more than street makeup, displayed a power of bodily control, of facial and corporal disposition, that is intimately revelatory of the moment's mood, that catches the little fluctuations of the gaiety or more sober concern (though really never quite sober, or quite concerned 11 and makes them real for'us...
...As the son of the late John St...
...There is no reason why these plans should not be carried through if the women want them...
...The;- behcvevl as everyone pretended real people behaved...
...Is itj just ior a lark, or it by our close con-} nection with the crudities of our fathers j that we so eagerly hiss, and stamp, an...
...as they pre.'cr to tc called, ladies and sentleaoen...
...They supply the enthusiasm...
...John Ervine and Charley Ross...
...And Alfred Lant outdoes himself in keeping pace with her...
...a new film study of the erotic monk who heM the power of Russia in the pa'xn of his hand...
...The Messenger...
...In the cast are Mar...
...And then for the remainder of the play he proceeded to do prE.cdc?lly nothing...
...Ticietr, raising in price from $1 to $2, may be obtained at the theatre and at the office of the unjan, 239 West 136th street...
...At this Forum, questions of Interest to women will be discussed, the leader to be one with a thorough knowledge of the subject to be dealt with...
...As part of its campatgaja mis-representation and IntimidstiflWi j| bourgeois block made particular ass «H bill to modify the death duties latBsasM by the Social-Democrats In the fcaiHB liament and which was iiuiuKialt^ an attempt on the part of ths JfssJ Democrats to confiscate pstvste P**|—9 By this means they suceeded to flflWIj ing masses of simple people aadKffX ticular many women among the pragssl less classes, into, voting for the WB vatives...
...Thirteen women esauatl were standing as candidates, though ssfl two of these had safe seats...
...Knowing how many women have helped to build the present U. H. T. it wss a shock to us to find that there was not one woman representative on the platform...
...But it is getting ' a bit tiresome to have celebrations of one, organization or another and see the men take all the glory for themselves...
...They wanted to see John Drew go through the conventional drill of a gentleman...
...The coasplete program fellows: . (1) Sento nel core...
...The werd was getting around that mar...
...But...
...Get busy...
...Going bici a bit...
...of the "Socialist Review" the official monthly organ of the Independent Labor Party which he still edits...
...Neither is the activity bf our women comrades going to be limited to New York Citv...
...The theatre catered to parasites, partly because the parasites bought she best seats in the house, but chiefly because there was no one else to eater te...
...this in the home of the Chamberlains and the stronghold of protection...
...Hoover wears a collar, while the emu does not, is considered quite a feat...
...In June of that year Strachey started a weekly cawapaper...
...in the second place, because he put on in spots such disgustingly accurate cartoers of modern business that ! the richest parasites, who are the only | ones who can buy seats in the orchestra nowadays, decided that it would neither j be amusing ncr worthwhile to look at themselves on the Stage...
...speaking of Pollock and "Mr...
...The few who were there—Mrs...
...It served the same purpose as the boxing rule against hitting below the belt...
...This magazine wjis founded after the War by Ramsay McDonald who was its first editor...
...fa The election may be described panic election...
...the women of the Socialist Movement...
...Sunrise" at Boxy Nezt Week "Sunrise" comes to the Roxy Theatre on Saturday for its first presentation at popular prices...
...for an evening's mood, is the emotional depth and intellectual height, of many of our fellow citiaens...
...Scarlatti Hon plu os fieri (fxosn "la Clemenza di Tito"), MosarL (2) Aria: An, tors' e lui (from "La Traviata"), Verdi...
...though of less poetia handling;—whether it be gaiety or ! sadness, the audience is carried along, is swept through almost the gamut of feel-1 ings, as it watcher a colorful performance, sparkling with bright spangles, fit setting' for the central jewel of the leading work...
...discussion of it on the stage...
...too filled up with the so-called equalrights advocates—It is a waste of time ' a"-i whatever it is that makes £he radio...
...i On th* basis of these figures thMfE ! Second Chamber will consist of: jMH ' cial-Democrats * Communlnts...
...in touch with more of the trade union women and others who are doing worth- j while work and not let the program get...
...This "heroic comedy," which only the twilight of sentimentality holds from the imminent | night of true tragic depth, which-sweeps] from a bombastic hyperbole to a tender pathos—gives the actor opportunity for a most varied exhibition of his powers...
...I mention only four...
...Democracy was a polite fiction...
...Ivan Golovin TTikolai Pudulin and Grigory B. Batumkin...
...Seventh avenue and 131st street, New York City...
...They discourage the sceptics...
...The theatre was peopled behind the footlights with absurd pasteboard figures labelled Hero, Villain, Kind Father, Harsh Father, Heroine, Temptress, Mother, Little Sunshine...
...We know the villain by his high hat...
...They wanted to see Augustus Thomas pull the rabbit out cf the hat in a different way...
...Doheny and Mr...
...The pattern is slightly varied...
...Its treatment of the Rasputin theme is a novel one...
...I feel like a ship that has been tossed about in stormy seas and j rolled by high waves...
...Sifton will conclude his article next week with some observations on the little theatre movement, Eugene O'Neill art" the current offerings of the Broadway stage...
...R. Panken will speak the following j Sunday...
...4) Of(nle vpletai tzvetov (Bring to me ; no fragrant blossoms), GUere...
...This, considering the generally known fact that Mr...
...Hoover, who has successfully said nothing on practically the same subjects, promises to carry out the Coolidge policies...
...A committee has been appointed with power to arrange for a theatre par-*., I ty...
...Fuller Leaves for France Former Gov...
...Mrs...
...Christmas trees and George Washington...
...Win Hays, the pope of Hollywood, it will be aU right by me...
...bat of the war In Which Alfred Lunt broks mischief through the corners of his eyes, the little tug at her tie that marked Lynn Pontanne's perking...
...John Reed...
...forces, men...
...J. Orr, Miss Eleanor Levin son and the writer—discussed and de-ided unon plans which if carried out will awaken the hearts and minds of every Socialist woman in the city...
...But witch murders, and the tabloids that exploit them, teach us that what we throw ourselves back to...
...One of the things which is being planned, for instance, is a Woman's Forum...
...He had an Infallible nose for good taste, but he didn't quite know what to do about it...
...It reached a'circulation of over 100,000 copies weekly...
...Where and when this Forum will be held has not yet been decided...
...r&chey has resigned its editorship...
...Fuller of Massachusetts has left New York for France under an assumed name...
...about fifteen years ¦ ago the old Washington Square Players I and the Provincetown Playhouse gave | the American Theatre about the only ! real plays it has ever had...
...AH have faults, all have done much...
...Philip Moeller, EdTard Goodman raiU Eugene O'Neill wrote and produced something new — one-act plays that put real people, many-sided people on a stage, let them behave as they would—or almost that...
...The evening's hearty laughter leaves a, sober after-thought...
...state chairman Panken is to confer with the women comrades up-State on activity in their own localities...
...Stockholm—The Social-Democrat wanB en of Sweden entered the electJoa esasl paign for the House of Rcpiuiuiltllna which took, place middle of SeptemsS* full of hope...
...3) Claire de Lone, Faure...
...I think Miss Tollefson is up against' a hard proposition in securing women...
...S-i These few are usually the life of the movement...
...The Miner" as the official organ of the Miners Federation of Great Britain...
...2J | als and Peoples Party...
...Those who are fortunate to possess radios had better "listen i in...
...New York Socialists will have, an opportunity to hear John St...
...1 Ho, Mr...
...Coolidge's...
...Rasputin, The Holr Sinner" At Fifth Avenue Playhouse Following ths ensagemer.t nf "The Cabinet of Dr...
...Mary Dewson on a "Fair Wage Plan...
...Thssf li face were the only two elected...
...so that their final curtain, in which there are several moments, important to the play's mood, with no word spoken, is as likely as anything the season has to offer In final words, to keep the audience seated till the last...
...When Strachey joined the Labor Party he created almost as big a star in England as had been created by the son of Stanley Baldwin and the daughter and Hcn-in^latr of Lord Curson...
...had at least three dimensions and that women didn't have wings folded under their Eliirtwaisti * * * Parasites, finding themselves more or lees secure!;- established in business, real estate, banking, manufacturing and the so-called professions of law, medicine and j teaching, developed a new interest in themselves...
...he said...
...Mone;*penny," which flopped with a | quickness that fct most encouraging...
...The people out In front, sitting in the orchestra chairs, and up in the balconies and the gallery- believed in these dummies on the stage...
...It has now become the officii Trade Union paper of the Miners Federation of Great Britain but Mr...
...Mr...
...We cntid make it an excellent medium of reaching the intelligent woman with a worth-while message...
...Meanwhile Borough meetings are to be called, and a general meeting of all women party members win be held shortly...
...But I am sure you will agree that what, is known as good taste is usually a conspiracy of lying tiler.ee arcon...
...It Is boned that the «e»bership as a whole will cooperate with the women's section in making this undertaking the success it deserves- I think the above is sufficient to convince everybody that the women members of the party are on the job...
...There Is a plot, something about a wife and a mistress, neither of them quite that, but one a mother of the sen Counselor Von Schardt has not seen in the sixteen years since-his birth, the other the woman he might have married if other arrangements had not been equally agreeable and more convenient...
...The gallery loo'aed at toe orchestra and the orchestra looked at the boxes and each went home with new determination to get a better seat next time...
...Parrel...
...The film, which is conceded to be on* of the most important events in the history of motion pictures, was directed by F. W. Murnau from the story by Hermann Sudermann, as his first American effort...
...Varled Song Progrets By Ray Potter Miller This Saturday Night i Bay Porter ifflbxr...
...1 }.foneypenny...
...apl dav the men leaders in aU is |i Ml Win will wake up and find thattbere l many who do care—and then . • • ¦ let us get there first...
...The loct-out of the miners continued for many months after the General Strike ended...
...I thought of this the other day, when I sat listening to the members of the Executive Board of the New^ York Women's Section of 'he 8oc<alist P-»rty...
...Because the popular ssntunents about Democracy and the dignity of man had no real meaning for the audiences, they wanted no...
...THE WOMAN SOCIALIST A department of «mw» and views of particular interest to...
...who have, I know, given more freely of themselves, their energy and their health as weC ss their ability than a good many of those who occupied a place of honor on the platform...
...In Mr...
...I can't get too cheered up over its failure because I have a feeling j that it failed, not because of its revela- : lion of the unhappy lives that hide behind the cliffs of Park avenue, but because, in the first piaee...
...Along came Ibsen and Shaw and the more intelligent of the parasites welcomed them with money deposited at the box office...
...The program of action is neither Impossible, nor too imposing...
...Otchevo (Why), Tgebaikowsky...
...The desire of the mother to give her son a proper environment for his maturing years brings her into the Counselor's household again, and the son discovers more about life in the ten days he is .there, than teacher could have taught him in a......But, even during the second entr'acia, 1 discovered IB conversation that the play Is one at those toae reverse the old saying: it wsa furgottm feoogfa not gone...
...Ivan Bodny...
...It will be presented with the Pox Movietone symphonic accompaniment of its original engagement, as scored by S. L. Rothafel and Erno Rapee, and recorded by the Roxy Symphony Orchestra under the latter's direction...
...S Griff es...
...But in order to carry our plans to K successful conclusion, funds are needed It is the old story which is ever new fot rus...
...RasDutin...
...So Ftartndo e fedele...
...27 Peasant 78 Conservative...
...When the author, for the sake of the plot, had to put his characters Into a questionable position temporarily, he permitted them to preserve their innate good taste bygoing a half-tum to the footlights and whispering the real dope to the audience...
...as Rasputin...
...La Pesca deU'Aneilo, Pizzetti...
...Mac Donald, Bodll Rosing...
...Killing ths Killer...
...by our active comrade, Eleanor Levinson: Evelyn and Jessie Wallace Hug ham on Socialism...
...Here Susan Glaspell...
...FOND HERO Certainly the most popular, and probably the best, of Walter Hampden's roles these many years, comes back in* "Cyrano de Bergerac, at this theatre...
...current bill at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse, a new Russo-German film will have its American premiere...
...Chris Morley's Old...
...Furthermore, to my knowledge, there is no Woman's Forum in this city...
...His silence before and after his election shows that his capacity for good taste is almost equal to Mr...
...Hoover's case, the sound is almost always identified as "Socialism...
...Piper, Pearl Curran...
...On what crude fare our forebears fed...
...Other women are to speak on...
...The place for every' woman is in the section...
...They had become less sensitive about the moral, political and economic fictions which have made our country what it is today...
...TTcboay was saying anything...
...B»rtha Orr...
...It is "Rasputin, the Holy Sinner...
...Loe Strachey, former conservative editor and proprietor of the most important conservative review in Britain, the (London) "Spectator" and the cousin of Lytton Strachey, author of •Queen Victoria" and "Elizabeth and Es' sex" it seemed fore-ordained that he follow the rest of his family into the conservative party...
...They inspire the indifferent...
...In those days, black was black and white was white outside and inside the theatre and anything with a trace of red was a flaming scarlet...
...Out of the Village rebellion the American theatre got three things, the Little Theatre, Eugene O'Neill and the Theatre Guild...
...Maternity Benefit, Health Insurance, Old Age Pensions, Unemployment Insurance, Child Labor, Minimum Wage Laws, the shorter work week, prohibition of night work for women—these, and similar subjects are still an unexplored field for most of our members, and the adventure in this field of knowledge should be sufficiently alluring to insure a whole-hearted Interest in the succes of such an experiment...
Vol. 7 • January 1928 • No. 56
