AMUSEMENTS
Amusements The Week On Stage "Babbitt Billions" CLASSICS AND BEINHAKDT One goes to the Cosmopolitan Una week with smiles from Herman Thlmig'i work in the "Servant of Two Masters", still...
...Cock Robin" hi the excellent name of the play, in double sense...
...the popular English melodrama, which Gilbert Miller is presenting at tbe Empire Theatre, passed its hundredth performance on Saturday Bight, Jan...
...She is not gifted with plasticity of face, nor Is her body swift to suggest her moods...
...For soon the mood shifts to a tease awareness of murder, and a suspicion that involves every character...
...Incidentally, the announcement to the audience, by Beatrice Herford, is a high spot In the humor of the early part of the play...
...There .was a large audience, including Greenwich Villagers and people from other -parts of New York and from Mlt of town...
...MUSIC Dusollna Glanninl, assisted by Frank La Forge, will make her last appearance in this city for an entire year, when she gives her song recital in Carnegie Hail on Wednesday evening, Feb...
...The picture was directed by Josef von Sternberg...
...The Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Woman's Peace Society, the Geba Fellowship Club, and a group raising funds for impoverished artists of Berlin will see "The Prisoner" this week...
...ism seen shosen to augsseat the *Tt—dj large cast for rjnlversftl's picture of the • stage play -We Americans.- wntsb * now in Its third .week of production...
...George Sidney wfll play the Issittng rata Beryl tdoroer, George Lew*, Fabry Rath MiUer...
...Kosloff...
...The Browning-Goodrich play, which Mr...
...was a fast fellow-with the ladies...
...THE CHALLENGE A London dramatic critic, a few years sgo, resigned from the p...
...j. for which he was working because he felt that the years of theatre-going had made him Incapable of responding freshly to the plays...
...Without a dissenting voice, critics have nailed his performance sit the Broedhurst Theatre as a consummate piece of artistry...
...Porgy" continues its uninterrupted run at the Republic Theatre...
...The Merchant of Venice" moves like a vital, modern drama...
...Robinson (Robin for short...
...This mystery play is extraordinary in several respects...
...Jan rdngs dees snjsaaatsssahbjr splendid characterisation of a Russian general and tt then torn from his riches and might by the revolutionists...
...To go without having seen the Hey ward play thise dsys is enough to excite popular pity...
...the nonchalance with which, as be walked through a door, he tossed a plate o< fruit right over where in real life a ceiling would be—and ire know that he caught it offstage—the complete buffoonery of his work win long remain...
...her ^father, reading a letter at night, holds it so that the lamp-light illumines the bottom of the paper...
...for not only do we ask throughout the piece, who killed him, but Mr...
...The direction, to our surprise, shows signs of carelessness, of reliance on the audience to overlook details in the stress of emotion: Luise, for instance, writes a lengthy letter with two dips of the pen...
...30, when it moves to the Lyceum Theatre to make way for Pauline Lord in '"Salvation...
...Helene Thlmig blends the suave, graceful, intellectual tfiay that marks the acting in- the French classics with the more violent emotion of the Teutons...
...On the stage at the Paramount win be Paul Oscard's production, "Dancing Feet...
...1. Stefan Sopkin, assisted by Emanuel Bay, will give his only recital of the season at Town Hall on Saturday afternoon, Jan...
...but her tender firmness is a strength undented, and her emotion glows through the Intelligence of her conception as healthy blood through fair skin...
...Tickets can he obtained by getting in touch with Pioneer Youth office, 3 W. 16th...
...Schiller's Kabale und Liebc", is mainly the actors' play...
...Heralded as the sequel to "Beau Oasts," this picture was scheduled for a long run an Broadway, but the release of "Blondes" and Emil Jennings's latest "The Last Command," forced this picture into the Paramount, where a weekly policy Is maintained, regardless of the merits of the production...
...While getting casting production ready, Walter Hampden will play "Caponsacchi" again for a limited engagement...
...Johnsrud will share the platform this afternoon with General Garibaldi at a meeting of the Church and Drama Association at Garden City...
...Miss Le Gallienne's work as director gives greater fife to Walter Ferris' "The First Stone", than its familiar technloue ana oia-nsvored aiaiog mignt otnerwise lend it...
...Lorelei Lee...
...I, SAID THE FLY An expectant audience was amply rewarded at the 48th Street Theatre, by the smoothest and most polished mystery play of years, from the fine fingers of Phulip Barry and Elmer Rice...
...The play is a tragedy of late adolescence, showing Wyn Hayward, who has escaped the meshes of calflove, caught in the years Just after, when the disease is s>> much more dangerous, by an actress who is also what the Englitu...
...Tbe Last Command is expected to ran for tea or twelve weeks at the RJaBo...
...THEY CALL IT LOVE 1 An array of interesting -names clusters about the presentation of /'Diversion", at the 4Bth Street Theatre, for Rollo Peters designed the settings, and Jane Cowl st Aired the piece, which was wr-tton by .lohn Van Druten, author of "Young Woolay...
...i George Arliss's portrayal of Shylock in Shakesoeare's masterpiece seems to be one of the sensations of the dramatic season...
...28, when he will present a new sonata by Slavcnsky, the Vleuxtemps concerto in D minor and two groups of shorter numbers...
...The scenery is appropriate to the period, but of no greater distinction than many a manager can present...
...The actresses in tie cant giv«* the mpression of hav';uf gone too far ?u their quest of an English tone...
...Novel in its picture of the children, and in the environment where the single standard of sex life is suddenly maintained, the play wins its chief merit by the sincerity of presentation and performance, that lift it into rich validity...
...The Sunday evening contests for free scholarships to piano, voice and elocution offered by this cultural centre at 139 Macdougal street, off Washington Square, have attracted many who are ambitious and talented...
...Arils'* hand...
...22 and 29...
...Interference" will continue at the Empire until Jan...
...One of our New York reviewers of plays, whose increasing search for cleverness, whose yawns in print, indicate that he is doing his best to offset the boredom of the job he keeps for livelihood, remarks, In connection with "The First Stone" at the Civic Repertory Theatre, that Eva Le Galllenne can do everything In the theatre but act...
...Three Benefit Shows of "The Prisoner" To Aid Rubs Politicals The Relief Society for- Socialist Prisoners and Exiles on Soviet Russia has arranged for three performances of "The Prisoner," the Bernhard play at the Provincetown Playhouse, 133 MacDougal street, the proceeds of which will go to aid needy Russian Socialists in jail and in exile...
...The contest was so exceedingly goOd last Sunday that the following leading contestants were selected as leaders of their groups: Misses Jennie Sharf and Hazel Essex as sopranos, Miss Irene Davis and Mr...
...Amusements The Week On Stage "Babbitt Billions" CLASSICS AND BEINHAKDT One goes to the Cosmopolitan Una week with smiles from Herman Thlmig'i work in the "Servant of Two Masters", still rippling along the lips...
...tbe melodies for the latter, Nilson has had the aid of Michel Barrey, assistant technical director of the production, who served in the Russian army and got his training to the military school founded by Tsar Paul...
...Although the judging from trio number of requests for reservation, the gala opening week will arrived to date...
...the little blonde golddigger in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," will continue to entertain the throngs at the Rlvoli while Ruth Taylor, who plays the part of Lorelei, has been entertaining at tbe Savoy Plaza where she has been meeting some of the best people...
...The others of the cast present no surprises, Sokoloff again carrying away his moments, and the week's offering revealing another facet of the most effective organization that has yet visited our shores...
...Evelyn Brent is in tbe east of "Beau Babreur," and this nuts her name on two theatres In one block during the same week...
...In Mr...
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...The incidental music which Nilson has composed for "The Patriot" consists of several songs in the style of 1800 when Paul I was tsar of Russia, and several military songs sung by Paul's soldiers offstage...
...This week's offering...
...Msrco Millions," the hotly debated O'Neill play, is alternations with Shaw's "The Doctor's Dilemna...
...The mantle ot the Angehis Allied Arts Club has fallen on the shoulders of the Greenwich Village Social Club, both now being merged in one very active organization under tbe inspired and inspiring guidance of Madam Minnie Huffman...
...The Society invites all who are in sympathy with Its purposes to attend these performances which will be given on the evenings of January 25, 26 and 27...
...It Is hoped that the groups will soon be sompleted so that the contest man continue rapidly to Its climax...
...Beau Sabreau" will open at the Paramount next Saturday, Jan...
...In orchestrating...
...It is in the measure of lis sucdess in making Wyn appealing that Van Druten holds us to the sordid tale...
...She likes New York, and has found so many wonderful places to buy things...
...Warble rn Wffttsms snd Bdstn Mai busts...
...feelingly call a, ia: t While tbe piav treads the crust ot melodrama, it ri3es in its catching of the character of Wyn, who gives the author considerable difficulty as i weak-willed lad that, must be made ^tractive...
...Josephine Dunn...
...Owing to the Illness of Lou Kosloff, Al Mitchell will Conduct the stage band...
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...Without any of the ordinary "devices for stirring fear and horror, without the supernatural or the merely melodramatic (though of course the murdered man is a "vile seducer"), the play achieves its gripping power and—with the deftest direction (credit Guthrie McClintic) of acres of mystery plays—moves to a conclusion that Is again unique...
...It Is one of those dramas wherein the villain forces the heroine to write a compromising letter, whereupon the hero takes—and gives her—poison, whereafter she tells him of his terrible mistake, wherefore.they die in one another's arms...
...Interference...
...Emil JeniungB In "The Last Command* returns to Broadway, opening st the Rlahx> Theatre on Saturday, Jan...
...This play seems to be piling up a record as a benefit vehicle, having sixteen booked to date!, In Brief Taking advantage of his simultaneous 'sponsorship of Max Reinhardt's season in New York and his own production of Alfred Neumann's "The Patriot," Gilbert Miller announces that he has been fortunate enough to persuade Finer Nilson, of Reinhardt's staff, to compose special music for "The Patriot/' Musical adviser to Reinhardt for over two decades, this young Swedish artist has composed original scores for over s dozen of Reinhardt's productions, one of his most recent having been that for Hugo von Hofm arms that's "Everyman," beard at the Century several weeks ago...
...Featured on the program are "Introspection," "sublimation" and Finale of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony...
...We assert* cans" *as written by Max Siegel aad played s season here at the Htlnge Theatre...
...the men, especially Guy Standing, as Wyn's father, Leo S. Carroll as his brother, and Richard Bird as Wyn, do excellent work, in a play that with their finished performance fills a wellspent evening...
...Harold Johnrud, who is playing his first New York-part in tfce title role of "The Prisoner" at the Provincetown Playhouse, nndsXhimself much In demand as a speaker at church meetings snd organizations furthering the cause of peace...
...Hampden presented 272 times last season, will open on Monday after next, Jan...
...The Theatre of the Dance under the direction of Dorsba will continue to present Us program on two additional Sunday evenings, Jan...
...The ecstasy with which he spanked that "Padding...
...Admission is 25 rents, and dancing follows the contest...
...In Movies "Simba," the famous Martin Johnson African expedition picture and the first picture to play in the Earl Carroll Theatre, has broken all picture and theatrical advance sale records...
...Piotieer Youth Holds Theatre Party Monday This is to remind you that if you go Monday night, January 23rd, to see John Galsworthy's play, "Escape", at the Booth Theatre, you will see a performance you mould not miss and also put some money into the treasury of Pioneer Youth...
...Meanwhile, at the Guild Theatre In West 52nd street...
...Paramount has given farmings a marvelous supporting cast, one which might bo termed all-star, Including Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Nicholas Soussanln and Michael Vlsaroff...
...Mitchell has made quite a hit with Paramount fans during the past week—he was borrowed from New Haven during the illness of Ms...
...It will be used to give some scholarships to strikers' children and also to build an infirmary...
...King as pianists, and Miss Mildred Davis as elocutionist...
...But the acting gives us a chance to see the German manner with the classics...
...An even larger audience fe expected this Sunday...
...In the first place, it combines modernity with Eighteenth Century England, for—as we discover after several tense minutes —the opening duet hi part of a rehearsal by the Cape Valley Utile Theatre...
...The adsawsttsa was prepared by Al Conn- The names Of ttsase connected wWh the piotars testify as title...
...LIU Darvas grows more polished with her part...
...23, and will be presented during the following four weeks...
...lohn Boles, Albert Gran, Daisy Belmore, Bddie Philhps and Michael Vlsaroff are slaying important roles under the direcaon of Edward Btoman and the super* rision of Carl Laemnde...
...We should trads a half-doaen of the "'actresses" that critic wants for Miss Le OaUlsnne's performance on the stage...
Vol. 7 • January 1928 • No. 5
