AMUSEMENTS
AMUSEMENTS The Week On Slap Revolution Her el By Joseph T. Shipley B#j»E31 rushing * review directly tote " the hands of the editor, I frequently dispense with a carbon copy. This...
...Charles Defeney apd Sue Carrol are the children of the Cohens and Kellys, while Gertude Aster is Paulette, the Parisian vampire...
...morning after Its gala premiere, sponsored by Joseph M. Schenck in association with Morris Gest, it has been held up,as an example 61 what is best and most beautiful in motion pictures...
...He is the mysterious Blaster mind of the Compovctoco, that secret band of desperadoes who kidnap and mutilate the children of the-rich...
...The theme is timely...
...Auspices, Socialist Party...
...April 13th the Tollefson Trio...
...In a recent news story from Hollywood it was told how Dolores del Rio, bad come to the parting of the ways with her husband, Jaime Marttaee Del Rio...
...N. J. g-gmirea Forum CO* apd W. C. Branch...
...Not all great, but varied plays, and from scene-shifting (mainly with curtain up, in pitch darkness) to actor-thning fully displaying a hand that...
...The screen play ft adapted from the story by Howard Irving Young.' The premiere of...
...and Environment" Auspices, Y. M * ,Y...
...Cohen and Mrs...
...The change was announced following the sudden Illness of Mass Mencken which will necessitate her...
...Chairman: Louis Waldman, New York Attorney...
...Bier husband a wealthy Mexican land owner Just before the contract was ligneeU bad taken an apartment In New York and transferred therf such business interests in regard to bis targe real estate holding* a* require bis attention...
...6th, 8.30 p.m.—Esther Friedman...
...tor while the actual moments of combat are presented, they are flung sharply upon us, without the inevitable casual growth we like to behold- In the 'place of this we have excited, .end often effective, talk, and curious yet valid use of symbol...
...Greeted by ananimous critical acclaim the...
...Today, with democracy (whatever in practise that may mean) apparently seating each of us, together with all the rest, on a Joint throne, it seems even wilder to preach that a tide will sween the "kings" away...
...In Brief Violet Hemtog and not Helen Mencken as originally announced, win have the role of Mrs...
...William Beandtoe...
...Cohan and Mr...
...Modern Culture Fellowship...
...Save for the pieces by Tol" Stoi, the curtain-raiser sMd the present * production, no two seek the audience in thl same manner—no two employ the same methods...
...8. P. , Thursday...
...Dusolina Glannlni wffl appear as .solo* 1st with the New York Symphony at its 50th anniversary concert on Feb...
...The Continental players more frenquently have training in this field, as the French company that played "L'Enfant Prodigue*' several seasons ago clearly indicated, and as the rhythmic grace of their best acting implies...
...3rd, 8.30 pm—Marios Hanaome...
...the very popular presentation of "Der Lebende Leichnam...
...his acting stirs <wtgtUf!smcjerity and a polish that bold where, mors startling displays lack fundamental fin...
...Room 403, Peoples House, ? Bast ldttrstreet Auspices, 3-5-10 AD...
...7, 8,45 pm...
...Notice that every Play Is of a different period and a dlf- Cerent mood...
...the hero, therefore, is converted at first glance tn the red cause (at first of course, his conversion is rather to the fair preacher of that cause, who ought to haye many, converts, and whose name X ¦shall be glad to mention next week, with duq praise, if sane one at the New Playwrtants wIS send me another program) I do not know whether it is this general agreement that is leading Lawson to put too early 8 draft on the stage, whether he indeed intends what he is offering, or whether the insidious result of ease of production (whatever he writes is virtually sure of being put on, I fancy, by i the group) leads him to be content with ¦too Uttle...
...Max Rein hard...
...In the smaller theatre, the ultra-modern psychological study worked through no radical but sound stage-craft to a close that was unbalanced as drama but ocmsumrnst* as staging...
...Jc Los Angeles the heroine Is given opportunity to appear to the films and thereby the vaudeville act she is doing is bscken up and her hneband...
...but it is # richly conceived and smoothly Apish od performance, revealing much of Sbakev peare'a beauty and power on the stage...
...Helen Tbimig bat a poise and a power that make us leap with her emotion...
...Dane's Defense" with which the Chamberlain Brown Artists will open their repertory season at the Cosmopolitan Theatre, Feb...
...New York City, and is open to members of the League and their invited guests...
...Arnold KortT, known here of old, proved that his years on the American stage had .not...
...Monday...
...98 Avenue C. Auspices 8. P. g-B12 AD...
...they escape the suggestion of artificiality to the greatest degree...
...Thursday, Feb...
...Kelly respectively...
...LIVELY PANTOMIME The art of pantomime is largely uncultivated in America...
...Yet the forecast Is being made...
...The Wednesday evening meetings will be the first of the series of "Political Follies of 1938" at which some of the big Issues of the presidential campaign will be discussed...
...Vera Gordon and Kate Price are Mrs...
...Sunday...
...Miss Collier played the role of the Duchesse de Surrennes in the London production of "Our Betters" for over two years...
...Vocation (Dumbbells to every social group...
...But I feel that the most promising of our dramatists—and I do not i except Eugene O'Neill—is wandering from'tfie path of thoroughly thought-out CTsfwsnanship...
...Subject: "Genius, HevedKy...
...but in revenge Launcelpt Gobbo (always, entertaining) has business, what with his blind father taking his long hair for a beard, and with his two water jugs symbolising conscience and the fiend—"conscience" falls into the well!—wins a new vitality...
...because of the arrangements for Relnhardt's continuing...
...the soloist will be heard to Rachmaninoff's Concerto No...
...The staging, by Winthrop Ames, Is very well done, a baste back allowing a speedy rhythm of performance that sweeps the audience along, with force and fervor well mingled...
...On and after Saturday, Feb...
...but within that mood good pantomime seem natural...
...The production Is being devised by Claude Bregdon...
...First of a series of four lectures on "Loves Coming of Age...
...The President of the chapter is Professor Leroy Bowman, of Columbia and the Secretary Mine Welsenberg...
...The meeting will be held at the home of Mrs...
...23., 8:15 p.m...
...10, 8 30 pa—Speaker, Drr Mortimer J. Adler...
...Chairman: Karl N. Llewellyn, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia...
...Cohan and Mr...
...Rennlngton Hall, 214 E. 2nd street Auspices Socialist Party...
...Mary Grey, wno has the role of Mrs...
...29, 8:15 pjn...
...W. Hebrew Association of W12i*J£ burg...
...NEW 8E3BBEE t Tuesday, Feb...
...Thursday, Feb...
...Ms» Hemipg, who baa been on tour, was last seen to New York in another revival, "The Jest," la which she played opposite Basil Sydney...
...This emotional approach seems completely denied by the intefiectual mood of fata own playing...
...3*tb William Durieux, cellist...
...The following meeting...
...The hand raised to knock before he recall, that his house Is empty, the toeak-dpwp to court so that Ad tonic cap raise bhn and Urn Jew cast off the besgtog bend...
...Attorney for the American Federation of Labor to the Recent Injunction Proceedings Instituted by the LRT...
...The Roxy Theatre which boasts the finest hospital of Us ktod la too world, Since the opening of the theatre last March to the dose of the year over 500 patients won treated...
...Lakewood...
...3rd, 9 pm.—J...
...ANOTHER MERCHANT The George Arllss presentation of "The Merchant of Venice," .at the Broadhurst, is an...
...Mortimer J. Adler...
...Subject: "Oentoj geredig and Environment/ Schoharie ManaW...
...East Side Socialist Center, 204 Bast Broadway...
...Tremopt Educational Forum...
...Damrosch to 1878...
...fcTjjds thee I have made a carbon copy I j „ . Max Retohardt The fact that the Bernhardt company has lingered another week—and that this .critic paid for standing room on his second trip to "D*r Lebende Leicbnam" —may he taken to Justify a few more words in regard to the productions...
...Helen H. Flncke, 143 Bast 88th street...
...authors, Miss Collier has written two plays, "The Rat" to collaboration with Ivor Norvello produced In London in 1934, and "Downhill" in 1926...
...Excess lUggage" and A Hollywood Tangle It may be a trite statement but facts often bear out the truth of fiction, as wines* the case here cited to connection with Jack McOowans play "Excess Baggage...
...Auspices, Socialist Par* Ity7s:rd AJJ...
...New York City...
...Subject: "How I Became a Socialist" 1187 Boston Road, near 187th street...
...Zt teams me quito sad" . Mian Del Rio bad Just signed t three year contract...
...Subject: "The Origin of the Family...
...going south...
...v • Friday, Feb...
...6-8-12th A.D...
...March 18th the Stripgwood Ensemble...
...and one must place oneself Into a fit mood before it starts, or one will inevitably be bored...
...The husband.left the always "luxurious" Hollywood home and went to New York because be no longer wished to be known as 'Mr...
...Further information can be obtained from the League for Industrial Democracy, 70 Fifth avenue...
...11 ajn„ Judge Jacob Panken...
...Political Follies of 1928" Subject of L.I.D.-Winter Series The New York Chapter of the League for Industrial Democracy begin* its consecutive winter program next Wednesday evening, Feb...
...Tuesday...
...Poof sopor of Government, Columbia University...
...Subject: "The Theatre and Art...
...10th...
...This is not quite a true picture, because there were Voltaire and his like, a small, often exiled group, crying of the revolution—that came...
...James B. Pagan, London producer apd tuthor of "And So To Bed," will venture forth as ap independent New York manager late next month with the first production In English in this country of "The Cherry Orchard," the comedy by Ai.-ton Tchekov which 'z considered the masterpiece of the great Russian dramatist The production will parallel that staged by Mr...
...and Mrs...
...Subject: "The Mind Under the Microscope—Brass Instrument Psychology...
...15, 8:15 p.m., "Bigger and Wealthier Elections," or "Cleanlaf Out the Poll* Under the 'Mew Tammany'-" Speaker: Jacob Penken, formerly Municipal Court Justice, N. Y. City...
...There is some good pantomimic play, also, when the friends' df> the sculptor seek to woo him forth to pleasure...
...The simple story (ail' pantomimes, though they may be subtly symbolical, must in their surface tale be simple) is bulk to display both types of pantomimic work, the solo and duet dancing, with the emphasis on the movement of the individuals, and the group dancing, dependent upon the color and surge Qf the ensemble...
...9th, 8:30 pjn.—Abraham Epstein...
...while not' unerring—and...
...The comedy team of Mr...
...Dane to the sseival of "Mrs...
...of which she was one of the co...
...The play is less single of purpose then the production, for Lawson insists at times on pausing to emphasize ether themes of great significance—such as the woes poor harlots know—without weaving them into one weft with the major motif...
...There bans been several great personal triumpJis during this run...
...the vary erpflctabty of the IBS saw of grief and Joy ee Tubal gives' hi* new*—these as elan...
...Run through the list "of .offerings: "A Midsummer Night's "Drawn," "The Death of Dan ton," "Everyman" (in modern adaptation), "Periphery," "Love and Intrigue," "The Servant of Two Masters," the one-actor in 'It Is To Blame For Everything," and The Living Corpse...
...Indications of sctlng that Is guided by a keen Intelligence...
...Subject: "Socialism...
...Barkflphedro la a difficult and Important character in this production...
...Indeed,' the staging is exceU^qt • throughout...
...has revealed to as his Incomparable voice, his suns control, Bokplpff, in one character part aftor another, has carried the stage away from any., one she around when he began...
...4215 Third avenue,' near Tremont avenue...
...Brew ts vine Labor Lyceum...
...Reinhardt has revealed his)powers fully...and in every mods, in every technique, has maintained bis initial triumph...
...Kntaht in "And So To Bed," will be seen in the part she created in the London production of "The Cherry Orchard,'' that of Madsme Ranevsky, the central character...
...Auspices, S. P. 16th A.D...
...The readers of this paper should avail themselves to hear these concerts at this bargain rate...
...with a discussion of the Farm Situation led by Benjamin C. March, director of the Farmem' National Council and presided over by Algernon Lee, Educational Director of the Rand School of Social Science...
...This main theme Is the countecply of wealth and revolution...
...10 at the Washington Irving High School, 16th street and Irving ptaoe the People's Symphony concerts offer a course of three Chamber concerts and three Artists' Recitals...
...last, the picture of Russian life that includes s Russian Sidney Carton...
...Mosamore Kendall and Gilbert Miller have engaged the distinguished English actress Constance Collier to be the featured member of- the cast of their forthcoming revival of Somerset Maugham's comedy, "Our Betters," in which Ina Claire is to star...
...The stage Is apparently crowded with furniture—of the greenorchid artist type—yet there is no sense of interruption in the flow of the dancing, even in its most excited sweeps...
...Olcria gwanson to "Sadie Thompson" will take place op Friday night at the Rivoil Theatre, at nine o'clock...
...Subject: "Ignorance, Its Nature and Bans...
...The first concert Mr...
...The star of the season is no visible stage-presence, but the man behind the scenes, the conceiving mind...
...Lecture Calendar Sunday, February 5th...
...First of a series of lectures oh the Methods of Psychology...
...4th, the picture will be shown at popular prices...
...And in the group scenes especially, the Laboratory Theatre company is to be praised, pot merely for having attempted, but for having achieved, good, pantomime...
...Henry V." Is practically unknown to the present generation of playgoers in America...
...319 Sackman street auspices, S. P. 23rd A. D. Br...
...Anne Schmidt ss the bride, and Donald Hartman, as the groom, show perhaps most understanding of pantomime,, among the Individual dancers...
...8 at 8:15 p.m...
...The concert will be a public observance of the fiftieth anniversary of the orchestra, which was founded by Dr...
...Kelly and their uproarious adventures in Paris will be presented at the Colony Theatre beginning today under the title of "The Cohens and Bettys in Paris.' George Sidney and J. Parretl MacDonald' play the roles of Mr...
...Harling's "Napoloon" will be construct' ad to a similar manner to his "Joan of Am," touching upon the highlights in the life of the Emperor and designed to utilize the orchestral, choral, ballet and stage and scenic features of the Roxy organisation The composer is at present engaged in gathering the necessary material from Ludwtg's "Napoleon" and other biographical data...
...w? have pointed out what we thought were flaws, in the various plays—is without ap iota of doubt the surest and the richest in the creation of power gad beauty op the stage today...
...Drums of Love" which has been acclaimed as the beat picture D. W. Griffith has ever made enters its third week at the Liberty Theatre...
...Course tickets can be purchased aSJhe cdfice of the People's Symphony Conferts, 33 Union Square...
...now a whirlpool in a corner catches the eye, now a great wave wells across the stage, now the tide ebbs swiftly back, before the potent Canute-wrath of the disappointed groom...
...3. 8JO pjn—Dr...
...at the New Playwrights Theatre on Commerce Street...
...There is perhaps too much oneness of thought among the "new playwrights...
...Chairman: Solon Deleon, Editor of the "American Labor Year Book'* Wednesday, Feb...
...Brandon Hurst has completed the role of Barkflphedro, the Jester, in Paul Lent's production of Victor Hugo's classic, "The Man Who Laughs,'' for Universal...
...Eddie Phillips and Fay Holderness have also been selected for important parts...
...Damrosch will remain as guest conductor of the orchestra until March 4, conducting thirteen .concerts...
...This work was inspired by Thomas Hardy's "Return of the Native...
...But the efforts cf a prominent actress a few years ago, in a pantomime revival, may be taken as typical of the ungainly appearance, of most of our performers—end the Ignorance of our producers—when they try what is really another stage mode...
...tricks, which have been carried very successfully into the movies...
...Dolores Dei Rto" In the interview Miss Del Rto used, almost verbatim, the, words used by Jack MCGowan to "Excess Baggage...
...Vladimir Bocowit...
...Edwin Hughes in a two piano recital, Fab...
...Vote the Old Parties straight" or "Is There a Place for a • Third ae Labor Party in America...
...Maria Solveg Is a bussable wench, whatever she plays...
...Emil Jennings hi "The Last Command" will continue at the Rialto Theatre next week This picture has broken all previous records held by the Rialto Theatre, which includes the record on "Variety,,' "For Heaven's Sake," and "We're in the Navy Now," which formerly held the records for the bouse...
...and here at the new Playwrights' theater, Lawson has given the flrdhvatia prophecy, if not convincingness, s. measure of beauty and force...
...Friday, Feb 10th, 830 p.m—MartuJ Hanaome...
...Leopold Damrosch to Carnegie Ball Friday evening (Feb...
...4315 Thud avenue, near Tremont avenue...
...It was Dickens, In "The Tele of Two Cities," who "reminded the industrial lords of his generation that in Prance in 1776 the wardens of the "state preserves of loaves and fishes'' were sure that things in general were Seed and settled forever, that no one ventured over to suggest that a change might come...
...Glenn Tryon and Barbara Rent will play the leading roles to Paul Pajo's first American picture for Universal titled '•Lonesome...
...Let the Trusts Own Our Power and Coal...
...21* JSaekmsn street...
...Auspices, Socialist Party, Branch Seven...
...from Wafi Street through England, Prance, Thibet, China, all over the map, the race for oil runs its vain course ahead -of—then overtaken by—the vanguard of the proletarian revolution...
...She has not been in America, except for her brief appearance this season In Philip Barry's wiiohn," since her portrayal of the Duchess of Towers in "Peter Ibbetson," in which she co-starred with John Barrymore...
...effective presentation, especially for the staging, and for the light it sheds on a problem recently raised by George Arllss...
...18th AD...
...who will direct Dalversal's Bdaptatipn of Aaron Hoffpien't popular play "Give god Take," has 86* lected George Sidney and George Lewis for principal soles...
...7th, 9 pjn.—Edward F. Oassidy...
...Walter Hampden has placed In rehearsal Shakespeare's "King Henry V" in which drama he will appear at Hampden's Theatre following his current limited revival of his last year's success, "Oaponsacchl...
...But this trip is nonetheless a one-man triumph...
...the 18th Century Italian comedy was as gaily delightful- as merrypiaking can be...
...We do not quarrel There never will be a divorce...
...Executive Director cf the L. I. D. Tom Ttopett, lecturer in Economics, Brookwood Labor Collge...
...all of which will be held at Mrs...
...as acrobat retires...
...My spirits any low because of my husband'' said Man Dal Rto, "not that he does not love ma or that there is spottier raau...
...Courting American Labor," or "How Can the Evils of court Inunctions be Eliminated-" Speaker: Herman OUphant Protestor of Law, Columbia Law School...
...In addition to "Peter BJbetson...
...seem pertinent to John Howard Lawson's new play, "The International...
...March 23rd, EUy Ney, the famous pianist...
...10 and will sail the same night on the Berengaria for Europe where she will remain for the entire year, appearing |p concerts, opera and festivals throughout the continent.- " The world premiere of Oustev Hoist's 'Egdon Health" composed especially for he Symphony Society of New York is scheduled for next Sunday's concert in Mecca Auditorium (Feb...
...A few of our burlesque players (in...
...Numerous others we haye no space to mention linger in mind, .and the general effect of the production ts that of an unexcelled band of performers...
...n - BRONX -} Friday...
...Caricature obtrudes once, in the Prince of Morocco...
...Speaker: Arthur W. MacMahon...
...Subject: "Old Age Pensions...
...Sunday...
...Be Wires, me, be writes ue, he telephones me trom New Yotx, but be does not want to come back He says he must new Uwnspe Important for his own sake...
...Subject "Current EvenU...
...Subject: "Ignorance in Relation to Age, Sex...
...Lili Darvas (unfortunately ill on our second try at the Tolstoi drama) is a quieter but balanced performer...
...Kelly...
...3, 8.30 p.m.—August CI lessen...
...Recently George Arllss stated that an actor must "live" his part...
...This first New York snowing of "Sadie Thompson" Is given under the auspices of Tends College Rebuilding Fund...
...This heedlessness now gives me the opportunity of reconstructing, two weeks later, in (he cahjn of distant reflection, such comments as sQO...
...The screen attraction at the Paramount Theatre neat Weak wig be Coheen | Moore to "Her Wild Oat" a First National picture dh-ected by Marshal Net* ,lan...
...The present production hi more faithful to the text than that of Gemier, in French, a few years ago...
...The none-too-large stage is banked with stairs and levels, so that the movement is on several planes, and despite the numerous players and the frequent speed of their concerted charges remains uncrowded, graceful, a harmonious blend of color and shifting form...
...been ae harmful...
...Race...
...In the second of these types, "The Bridal Veil" is a complete success...
...Yet "Lawson Is Intensely interesting, even hi his Incompletely successful ventures.' ' "The International," equipped wtfhCI Jbskle setting that lends itself excerferaly to being office, mountainside, or palace' chamber, city street or brothel ante-roem, moves with a rapid rhythm and |t gmyping of symbols that accentuate Its revolutionary implications and prophecies...
...Perhaps Arllss Is correct in declaring that great acting should be emotion, for this presenasttosf' (toss not achieve that ultimate stirring "The Merchant of Venice" can effect...
...The first and third acts, concentrating more on Individuals, are not so fully satisfactory, as we are watching graceful and sincere players, but not mature,, rounded artists...
...ftth, 4 pjn.—Bstber Friedman...
...On Feb, 33 and 36 he will give a conoerat .performance of portions of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde with soloists including Rachel Morton, prima donna soprano of the British National Opera Company...
...and April 88th, the Denishawn school in a pantomimic interpretation...
...Barling is the composer of the operas, "A Light From St Agnes" and "Deep River": likewise the lyric pageant "Joan of Arc," which was presented at the Roxy a few weeks ago as the most ambitious musical and dramatic offering ever seen in a motion picture theatre...
...Subject: "The Origin of thf Family," 7316 30th avenue...
...Wednesday...
...The Tchekov play will be presented at a series of special matinees on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays at the Bijou Theatre...
...Subject: "Behtehnens...
...Moles...
...Industries" Speaker: Harry W. Lawler...
...Auspices, Soctett* Party...
...6th, 8 30 pm.—Louis P. O-td w...
...Reinhardt season, arranged by Gilbert Miller, will probably remain a unique experience for those who were wise enough to take advantage of its offerings...
...The whole of the second act, the celebration at the bride's house, is a swirl and a surge of rhythmic color...
...L. Afros, Subject: "The Sanity of Socialism...
...l-2nd AD...
...Monday, Feb...
...Pagan first in Oxford and...
...Friday...
...The woman is successful, the man becomes, aa he expresses it excess baggage, and by reason of this their love match reaches a dramatic climax...
...In ' 1913 the English star, Lewis Waller, one of whose most popular roles in London was King Henry, appeared hi the play for two weeks at Augustus Daly's Theatre...
...bard on its heels came the dark surge of the classical tragedy...
...or "A Discussion of too Next Steps In Social Control to the Electrical and Coa...
...At If SIC -Walter Damrosch will make his first appearance as guest conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra at a memorial concert to his father, Dr...
...and he keeps the clown-like alternation of Antonio's losses and Jessica's extravagance In the mouth of Tubal, Shylock's friendly, where Gemier strengthened the drama, to modern taste, by making the remarks come'in turn from a kindly Jew and a taunting Christian...
...then the rushing power of the rev* luUonary drama, tumultous until calm of it* despairing close...
...The play is an interesting drajna$ie lecture, rather than a conflict worked ..out op the stage...
...First of a series of lectures on "A gociotogical View of Igne-1 ranee," Brownsville Labor Lyceum, J" -Sackman street Auspices, Socialist Party, 23rd AD...
...then in London, where it ran for six months...
...The opening Is postponed to the 6th...
...Hollywood Gardens, 896 Prospect avenue: Auspictj...
...There are only a few season tickets toft for the above mentioned course...
...Subject: "How the Body Works—The Methods of Physiology" Tremopt Educational Forum...
...Fincke's home, will be as follows: Wednesday, Fab...
...Auspices, Socialist Party, .Central Branch...
...March 7. 8:16 an "America Ueber Alles", or "What Can We Do to Chock Our Imperialistic Ventures...
...Hermans Thimlg, in "The Servant cf Tw04Waw*," displayed the greatest allaround buffooning of this generation...
...Broadway, Rodney and S 8th BP...
...Pantomime is of course artificial...
...3 in D minor...
...Speaker: Norman Thomas, Executive Director, L. I. D. Chairmen: Lewis Gannett of the Nation, and correspondent at Pan-American Congress at Havana...
...Auspices, Socialist Party...
...g* Ctaeesens...
...formerly Ettai atonal Director of the Illinois Mine Workers...
...but Arllss In preferring his own treatment ignored the added values of combining the Morocco scene with that of Aregon (which Arllss merely omits...
...The initial sum tor these six concerts is 11.00 for students and workers...
...Wednesday, March 14, 8:18 pjn...
...trskntlon hailing probably from ancient Greece) employ some of its more farcies...
...Friday...
...Chairman: McAllster Coleman, writer...
...In Movies Inspired by the current biographical literature on Napoleon, 8. L. Rothaf el has commissioned w. Pranks Barling, American composer, to write a music-drama on the life of the "little Corporal" for early presentation at the Roxy Theatre...
...Louis Bromberg...
...Rudolf LaobenWal of the Metropolitan Opera Company and Frederick Baer...
...Starting Friday evening, Feb...
...lg St Marks avenue...
...9th, 8.30 p.m.—AugU** CBaessecs...
...The last American production of the drama was made bare by Richard Mansfield at the old Garden Theatre nearly thirty years ago...
...Branch Seven...
...he drops the curtain when Shytock goes into his house after Jessica's elopment, when Gemier had a triumph of torment that helped explain the Jew's cruelty...
...The graceful fancy, the .ethereal beauty of the Shakespeare eomI edy was succeeded by the more solemn "beauty sod poignant appeal of the morality...
...The play concerns people connected with -ssnaB time" vaudeville...
...Ia "mam Baggage" the two lovers find a way Opt of their problem and, since it is a dash ef mutual business interests which has separated these two i Interesting and prominent people there is always the chance that they, will, eventually, according to the 1938 model, flad a way to common ground...
...6, 9.00 pjn...
...It is therefore both courageous and wise of The American Laboratory Theatre to experiment with the pantomime, and In Arthur Schniteler's "The Bridal Veil" (light fancy of an idle hour) they have chosen a piece that gives opportunity lor' interesting variety...
...v—r BROOKLYN Friday...
Vol. 7 • February 1928 • No. 7
