AMUSEMENTS
Amusements The Week On Stage "STRANGE INTERLUDE" By Joseph T. Shipley T^UOENE O'NEILL'S play in nine acta, **' "Strange Interlude." at the John Golden Theatre, Is a unique experience, not to...
...George Sidney and J. Farreli MacDonald play the title roles respectively, while Vera Gordon and Kate Price play the roles of Mrs...
...Instead, therefore, of an interesting triangle with a real, a pretended, and a ghost father, we are offered the further spectacle of a doctor whose career is ruined, wrapped in bitter, fading amours his child shall spy, and unknowing hate this intruder in the family...
...This habit Arliss fostered when be first went on the stage and was an "extra man" at the Elephant and Castle Stock Company to London...
...but he is so off-handedly natural as to be musingly entertaining...
...on the stage, manner and tone mark this extended use of the "aside...
...the study, granting each event, is psychologically profound...
...She will play Baltimore the week of Feb...
...Crawford at the stage console...
...Hoboken Blues," by Michcael Gold, directed by Edward Massey, opened at the New Playwrights Theatre on Friday evening...
...Their story, furthermore, can be carried along as a briefer play would not allow, more suggestive of the continuity and complexity of life...
...the play lengthens beyond usual size because the author, not the story, wills it...
...Inheritors" opened at the Civic Repertory Theatre last last season...
...but more violently beats upon her the discovery that to her manager, ber mother, her husband, she is not God's messenger, but Mammon's agent...
...Ruth Cborpenning, James Kelly, William Challfle, and about thirty others...
...the latter with Mary Lewie (first appearance this season) and Messrs...
...Maurer's short talk, the only one given, was made when he failed to hear Hoverter declare that be would accept the nomination...
...Oftentimes this halo" t was annoying to the Itaotog people of the company who found 'bis minor player building up such a maintain oi intricate detail that the attention Of the audience wogld bo attracted to him...
...District No...
...it is not essential...
...Scandal breaks, as in the" tabloids, over the head of the simply sincere and sincerely simple-Bethany...
...Harry Allen Ely...
...To restore her husband's self-confidence, she consents, using tor the- cold purpose a friendly physician...
...The ppy is directed by James Light, with settings by Oleon Throckmorton...
...Besides the free lectures, given on 39 nights, free courses were given in public speaking, in the English language and fundamentals of athletics...
...Nor Is he content to study the wife in this situation...
...He demonstrates It too...
...Serafin win conduct...
...A long run is predicted for this feature...
...That is What Is haopenlar at the Rivoli...
...and which binds him in close ties with the woman of this all...
...He selects ahd cbnthfrtw characteristics of people he has seen, whether in the Fiske's production of Ibsen's "Rosmersbjofan" was ta outer-oapoatfaooo, awMsaer...
...2Dth at Henry Miller's Theatre...
...There is, indeed, a fourth man, whose mother-complex has given him the feminine intuition which probably is the cause of his novels' suceeding...
...sober and unromantlc British Musewm is directly restwnaHar tor soma ef the Tirid, romantic stage impersonattons ef George Arliss, star in Wtathrop Ames* production of William Shakespeare's "The MWhant of Venice," in the Bcnadhurst Theatre...
...There Is room for fuller development of more characters...
...The doctor -is as selenitic in his approach as Casanova administering the "ar>ph...
...Hasnelmans will conduct...
...Hence the dinner...
...The scene is laid in California of the Gold Rush days...
...Yearly income went over the $43,000 mark and expenditures to about $37,000, leaving net little more than $6,000...
...August Claessens has given yooman service to the Socialist Party...
...but, unlike Casanova, the man stays by...
...As an antidote against the doctored teaching in many of the schools and in many out-of-school clubs, groups of this kind should grow throughout the country...
...1, comprising the city, 'Jesse George and Andrew P. Bower...
...Eugene O'Neill often opens chambers of profound emotion, where one hopes to find the basic forces of man's living strain through simple, tremendous conflict...
...will make her first appearance in "Our Betters" In Wilmington...
...The Peoples Institute The People's Institute announces that its series of lectures at Cooper Union will continue to commence at ft p. m. on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Fridays...
...P. E. B**" •Oh, Rev...
...He has announced his intention of negotiating with George Bernard Shaw for the motion picture rights to three of his plays...
...rarely does he choose the words, does he attain the poetic diction, (b achieve the simple sublimity of elemental growth and pain...
...Reports Year of Achievments , The annual reports of various committees and suborganizations affiliated With the Finnish Workers' Educational Association, 2056 5th avenue...
...Since all art Involves selection, the degree is a matter of other considerations than merit...
...There was no contest for nomination...
...It was then proven that New York's audience for the best to music was an inexhaustible oner This year, Mr...
...The casting for W. Somerset Maughham's "Our Betters...
...Expenditures included the salaries to lecturers, musical and athletic instructors and the director of dramatics...
...Miss Galli and Mr...
...Through the early years of that child lies the theme of a play, In the conflict within the wife, of the dream-father and the actual father...
...Siegfried"—first time this ipcmiltayv»9rl5faifry sW lfa3E& The nopplar Sunday afternoon' concert* Data* given al the Century Theatre under the direction of 8. Hurok are, in a way...
...WHO SHALL BE SAVED...
...at the John Golden Theatre, Is a unique experience, not to be missed by those interested in the drama and a profound study, which should be seen by all who enjoy the presentation of rounded character portraits...
...The way this lad grows in the image of the dead hero works its curious effect upon the parents both...
...Cohen and Mrs...
...1301 Boston Road...
...i. at this atom amettoa the crtnniantton of the Tenants' League win be cce^nfcj* by Capt...
...The cast includes Barbara Bulgakov, Eduard Franz, Harold John-srud...
...The chairman chosen is Alison Buroughs, of Jamaica...
...Jesse Crawford will render the organ concert aslsted by Mrs...
...Neil Cornell, Walter Beck, and John Kldridge...
...The subject— "The Phenomenon of 'Greatness—is it a Personal Quality or Does it Depend on the Social Economic and Political Age into Which the Individual Happens to Be Born...
...she is the more demanding in her love, opposing his engagement...
...The restaurant owned by the association did a business of over $60,000 and the billiard room to the same buildtog close to $9,ooo...
...he reduces the drama from Its universal aspect to a particular problem by giving the living husband insane forebears, so that the needed baby must not come...
...City Councilman James H. Maurer in urging Hoverter to accept the nomination, said he considered it a strategic move, and said he believed the Socialists have a good chance of landing this office...
...patient...
...2, Ellwood W. LerBer, Gouglersville...
...Hurok made many years ago...
...The other plays are "Man and Super-Man," and "Pygmalion...
...Pelleas et Melisande" on Friday evening with Mmes...
...District-No.'4,-Paul C. Horine, Laureldale...
...Settings are by Willlain Gaskin...
...However, the series conducted at the Muhlenberg Branch Library on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, have been moved forward in point of time and how commence at 8:30 p. m. sharp...
...It is further—we mention here to be free to discuss the play—an excellen production, with Lynn Fontanne especially poignant in a part that moves through many years and many emotional crislses...
...The animated song cartoon by Max Fleischer based on the melody "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly...
...To present life fully, in action, is of course Impossible...
...Charles Delaney...
...Josef Cherhiavsky...
...Dinner to Claessens To Be Given Feb...
...Helen Ware overacts a bit as the play progresses, but her early moments have just the right mixture of motherly and moneyed solicitude...
...This Sunday, Feb...
...Rothier and Ananian...
...District No...
...Ford Sterling is the tough buyer, and Gertrude Olmsted is the girl...
...He is principally interested in "Cashel Byron's Profession," which he has always regarded as an ideal role for himself...
...here the conventions of the arts are called in question...
...The full ticket nominated is: Legislature, District No...
...During the recent year numerous Finns, who still consider themselves New Yorkers, have sojourned in the homeland...
...His ideas urge, his phrases fall behind...
...the attempt to display thoughts as well as words has continued, through such devices as setting the drama within the brain or employing shifting masks, to the novelist's modern technique of running conversation and thought in one continuous stream...
...Many voters do not stop to figure how much it costs to vote for capitalist parties but this big Sum will help them to foot up the total...
...Gustafsoh, Altglass, D'Angelo, Plcco...
...The extent and treatment of the play suggest comparison with the novel...
...Following his present New York engagement in the Broadhurst Theater, he will make a brief tour of the large* clues on the Atlantic coastboard this spring...
...The cast includes: George Bratt, Lawrence Bolton, Jane Barry, Hazel Nason, Herbert Bergman, Sheba Strunsky, Mona Lewis and others...
...In Brief The complete cast which win open in "Inheritors" by Susan Glaspell at the Civic Repertory Theatre tonight (Saturday) evening includes Josephine Hutchinson, who plays the leading role, Donald Cameron, Paul Leysaac, Charles McCarthy...
...Harry AS* Ely, Victor C. Caspar...
...12, one or the most ambitious programs of the season ,wtll be presented, '-when a com-' pany led by the famous Johanna Gadski and Paul Althouse, of the Metropolitan Opera Company, will present Richard Wagner's "Die Walkuere" in concert form...
...Other operas next week at the Metropolitan will be: "Tannhauser" as a matinee on Wednesday—first of the afternoon Wagner Cycle—with Mmes...
...The seven senses of man outvie the evocatory wealth of sight and sound, of printed or spoken word...
...They wfll begin promptly at 8:30 p. m. Admission 25 cents...
...13th and open in New York on Feb...
...Wlntbrop Ames announces that George Arliss will act Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice" all next season...
...In addition to Constance Collier, who is being featured as the Duchesse de Surenned, the role which she created in London and played with sensational success for over two yearn, the cast includes Lilian Kemble Cooper, Madge Evans, Reginald Bach, Edward...
...Gabor and Wolfe...
...Delaware...
...Strange Interlude," to illustrate by the present instance, is the story of a girl who, her soldier sweetheart killed at the front, becomes in agony a general warbride, until her neurosis—we are assured -•-can be corrected only if she rear her own children...
...Gabor, Vajda, Mf"l"»'', Cehanovsky, Ananian and Wolfe...
...This does not content Eugene O'Neill...
...Next October he will begin a long tour .of the Pacific Coast in .the Shakespearean play...
...13,-3 P. M, at Bush Memorial A M. %. Titon Church, 58 West 138th Street, N. has been called by the Tenants' League and is to be held under the auspices of the Community Progressive Painters' Union...
...given some years ago by The Washington Square Players...
...The February Forum will be held Monday evening, February 20th, at 7:30, at 3 W. I6tn street...
...William Beaudine directed the picture from the story by Joseph Franklin Poland the adaptation by Alfred Cohn...
...Richard Dix will be back at the Paramount in "Sporting Goods" Saturday, February nth...
...her mother-in-law bids her find a healthy man to give her a child...
...Hot Pan," a comedy by Michael Swift, a new playwright, opens on February 15th at the Province town Playhouse...
...In film circles there were many arguments last week as to how long, and what business, "Sadie Thompson" would do at the Rivoli, but very few, if any, expected to see the records go smashing at this theatre When it is understood that ".Underworld" broke the record at the Rlvoll...
...The Cohens and KeUys in Paris," the Universal laugh hit now at the Colony Theatre, will be held over for a second week...
...Ina Clatae...
...E. O. Lindeman wfll toad discussion at the next Forum...
...Lecturers were all members of the Socialist Party and obtained through the Finnish Federation of the Socialist Party Locals...
...But the actors are a deal more, and a treat...
...George M. Cohan's "The Baby Cyclone," now to its twenty-second week, will be moved to another theatre...
...the woman becomes as amorous as Casanova...
...13th A testimonial dinner will be given to August Claeeaens, Secretary of Local New York, in Beethoven' Hall, 210 East 5th street, Monday, February 13...
...Sixty new members were taken into the branch, total membership being now 386, while paid-up members are 237...
...Clearly, O'Neill is experimenting, not In terms of drama, but outside the convention of his day...
...The Universal star himself is the author of this new farce-comedy, directed by Fred Newmeyer...
...Manifestly, only the existence of such an organization as The Theatre Guild would permit the production of a play as lengthy as "Strange Interlude...
...Jeritsa, Morgana, Alcock and Ryan and Messrs...
...Grass," the Cooper-Shoedsack opus, is a stark portrayal of the struggle of a nomadic Persian tribe for existence...
...Moana," produced by Flaherty with a cast of native South Sea Islanders, depicts life of these tropical dwellers in the vivid fashion of his earner firm of Eskimo life, "Nanook of the North...
...If not the grace of Rosalind, the wiles of Celimene...
...and she carries as ever a suggestion of pathos that impregnates the part and lifts it beyond the individual rale to a shadowing of universal beauty...
...Bohnen (first time this season, as Tonlo), Tibbett and Tedesco...
...Therefore it seemed an Incident of importance when 55 Of them, between the age of 16 and 20, met last Monday night at Pioneer Youth headquarters to engage for two and oae-half hours in heated discussion...
...Johnson, Tibbett, Meader, Bloch...
...The popularity of this comedy riot justifies the faith of the producers in making a sequel to the original "The Cohens and Kellys," which has entertained millions throughout the country...
...He is seeking to wrest the form ef his concept...
...Johnson, Pinsa (first time as Escamillo), (D'Angelo, Bada, Cehanovsky and Picco...
...and that play which isolates a situation so as to bare a soul may be more poignant than that which moves through several episodes of varying revealment...
...Sayre Crawley, Leona Roberts, Mary Ward, Ruth Wilton, Oahlee Hubbard...
...Datossy and Howard and Messrs...
...These lectures will be given on consecuuvs Friday evenings, beginning February 17th...
...Ethelred Brown...
...The King's Henchman" on Wednesday evening with Mmes...
...Beginning at once, the theatre will open its doors at eleven instead of twelve-thirty...
...Carmen" win be given Monday evening with Mmes...
...Mb* A Elizabeth Hendrickson...
...Their contributions showed an acute awareness of the working class struggle, bet their best mental quality was opeu-mtodednsss...
...Bort...
...The scene is laid to the Harlem of the nineties and of today...
...Bebn Banning, Frank Poree, Rev...
...Though be had no lines to speak, he would model his part on tbo sams kind of a person he had found in life...
...Robert P. Ross...
...Hurok presented a number of the world's greatest artists at popular priced concerts in HlppodxonM...
...The length of the play (which starts for evening performance at 5: J0> affords advantages...
...the fulfillment .of plans tor...
...S. E Grata...
...These thought provoking topics should draw a large crowd to the Fellowship...
...Hasfteltnans will conduct...
...On the Stage, "Btepe and Steppers" produced by Jack Partington, will be featured with Gene Rodemich' and the Paramount Stage Band...
...All tenants of Greater New york cowflafly invited, admlsston iree...
...Esther Friedman To Lecture On Marriage Esther Friedman will give four lectures on "Evolution of Marriage and the Family" at the Bronx Free Fenowship...
...Bellezza 'Will conduct both operas...
...Congressman from the Berks-Lehigh district, Howard MacDonough, Ninth ward...
...A fast moving comedy takes posession of the screen of the Roxy Theatre next week with Reginald Denny's newest production, "That's My Daddy...
...Save for a few swift lunges of phrase, and some clever,—If superficial—pertness: "You know what God thinks of the Unitarians...
...to which Ioa Claire is being starred by Messmore Kendan in association with Gilbert Miller, is now completed, and rehearsals under the direction of Reginald Bach are well under way...
...The Paramount overture will be "Faust Miniatures", staged by Paul Oscard...
...the play is little more than this outline...
...The printed page of the novel (probably of the play, as well) employs Italics to indicate the second sphere...
...Kirchboff, Schorr, Bohnen, Altglass, Bioch...
...was chosen by the youngsters themselves...
...Debs and Lenin were among their choices of humanitarian' - leaders...
...Finnish Socialist Center in N.Y...
...Jeritza, Telva, and Fleischer and Messrs...
...This monthly Forum wfll be a regular wintef activity of Pioneer Youth...
...Reginald Denny, Universal star, will arrive here on or about March 5th on his way to England...
...The following spMyf1 will address this meeting: Judge Jacob Panken, Capt...
...who h Organizer of the Negro Tenants' Lef$w» of the 13th, 19th and 21st A. D., Bun»»jJ of Manhattan...
...No small part of the hilarious and complicated plot centers around the child-star, Jane La Verne...
...the leader of the popular Colonians orchestra, will continue with his special arrangements of classical jazz numbers...
...In conjunction with these films, the Playhouse win also present "Twang," a short film debunking wild game hunting in Africa...
...Aruos worked in the printing and pubhabtog shop of his father near the British Museum...
...Strange Interlude" hi a play one shrould not miss, an example at once of the analytic power and the synthetic impotence of "the greatest American playwright...
...A new song will be Introduced titled "It's Wonderful How the Cohens and Kellyls Get Along...
...Hurok has met the demand of Una —fltonee with a regular series of concerts and musical presentations on Sunday afternoons at the Century Theatre...
...They wfll soon be workers' am} voters...
...These Forum members are graduating out of the children's group and wfll form a new group of older members, betwixt the children's and the adult groups...
...The intention of this rati ing is to rally Negro tenants to agitate for extension of Hie rent laws and also to organise to dern and decent and sanitary apartment*, It' is intended that j£Ee Negro tenants win advocate that Negho painters have the preference in pasting and decorating apartments" In "their own neighborhood...
...3, David B. Kline, Centcrport...
...Bodanzky will conduct...
...and by such a lead that everyone was astonished—a record held previously .by "Bloojl and Sand", and that "Sorrell and Son", took second place to "Underworld", then you can understand what it means for...
...Even if all the* events, impulses, ideas, emotions, of a character's growth could fit into a volume or an evening, much of the conglomerate progression would burst through the harmonizing form we seek In art, or elude the* stunted fingers of our phrasing...
...This will continue for the run of the picture...
...E Reading Socialists Open Fight to Win State Senate Seat (By a New Leader Correspondent) READING, Pa.—Wirham C. Hover' ter, defeated at the election in November for city treasurer, was nominated by acclamation for state senator at a Socialist caucus last week in the Labor Lyceum...
...Baston, Flexer and Falco and Messrs...
...Easton, Alcock, Flexer, Bonetti, Ryan, Teener and Paris - ette and Messrs...
...How George The supposedly statt...
...New York City, reveals that the asociation has had an active year and fared very weU...
...Others in the cast are Barbara Kent, Lillian Rich, Tom O'Brien, Armand Kallz, Mathilde Brundage and Art Currier...
...Kelly, like fish out of water, in Paris...
...The • subject, "Superior People," led them far afield into politics, medicine, science and the arts...
...Cohen and Mr...
...Bonflglio will dance and Mr...
...Because of the real father's presence, the son is drawn close to his mother's husband, estranged from her...
...the transit Bill The New York tnterborough Rotten Transit Company is out for a grab of two cents on each fare which wfll bring in an annual rake-off of about $20,000,000...
...Tokatyan and Basiola...
...By all means, Pauline Lord.' "Salvation," which Sidney Howard and Charles Mac Arthur have worked together, and Arthur Hopkins is presenting at the Empire, proves to be another of the season's shipment of evangelists...
...Prom the veiled figures of "Overtones...
...Loving her hero still, she marries his male idolater and by him becomes pregnant...
...MUSIC "Cavalleria Rusticaha" and "Pagllacci" will be given as a holiday matinee Monday at the Metropolitan Opera House, the forrrfer with Mmes...
...Kelly...
...In "Strange Interlude" four persons are revealed with insight, sympathy, and a degree of completeness...
...in several ways, indeed, the novel anticipates (and excels) the form O'Neill has ventured...
...the strain of granting an these fortuities, which in a novel could be clothed in extended and extenuating atmosphere, reduces the drama to a tour de force, true in the details of Its character-growth, yet essentially false...
...His deration to -the movement has been an lnaptr<ation to many and many comrades believed that it was high' time to arrsrsje a family party to show their appreciaQeri of his work...
...Perhaps it is this inability to capture the quietly momentous, the simply significant, that pricks O'Neill subtly to poison his themes with biased presentation, or darkly to pile complication on complexity, what he cannot win by purity seeking through sophistication...
...Negro Tenants Call Meeting for Sunday A mass meeting Sunday, Feb...
...Par a number of years, Mr...
...Pioneer Youth Forum, Reveals Youngsters Who Know How to Think For Themselves Youngsters to these Jaak days seem to have emotional rattler than' mental, and personal rather than social, interests...
...All nominations were made by acclamation, and the caucus lasted only about 15 minutes...
...The novelist's also, is the privilege of extending his study without limit of time...
...If not Cordelia's love, Medea's hate...
...dress and action a picture of a man he had encountered in the British Museum, his SyTvanus Heythorp to "OW Engnsh" was a a—sjoatta piteure of two old men be used to watxb at the Museum...
...Johnson, WhitehlU...
...After ail, industrial inequalities are glaring enough so that all your young people have to do is to think straight.* These youngsters couM think oh their feet, and if they ore a representative (roup of the children of labor Union members, the labor unions are getag to have'workers that win win respect for their honesty of rnlnking wherever they present their cause...
...state committee, Edwin Yoe, Eighth ward, and Edgar Frost, Tenth ward...
...The association gave to its members, their friends and casual visitors 43 dramatic entertainments, 63 dances, and 11 concerts...
...Martinelll...
...In this production Dix plays the part of a salesman who has in invented a new cloth for sport clothes...
...He haunted the Museum to ocserve tne cnxmcsERnsev ex tub suaiise dregs of humanity that hovered about the plArtiss"Bgoe.tto mfgU^ninto boots for his insphSvtloa nt ip>tWrff bis roles...
...None of this added material in inevitably bound with the initial theme...
...In Movies The work of three master realists of the screen—Robert Flaherty, Marian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Shoedsack—will occupy the program at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse for the week beginning Saturday, February 11, When "Moana of the South Seas" and "Gam" will be presented...
...Fall and Doheny Thrive Perhaps you haven't noticed it but the Fall-Doheny oil thefts are now many years old and these gentlemen are still enjoying nice dinners out of jail while Sacco and Vanzetti have been in their graves since August...
...Osgood Perkins,and Pauline Lord both remind us of themselves in other parts...
...Em 11 Jannlngs in "The Last Command" will start on the third week of its run at the Rial to Theatre Saturday...
...more silently but with still greater power strikes upon these financiers the news of Bethany's conversion: her change from saver to seeker, her wonder—no longer word—of Christ...
...Though Arliss df**"— to rHscitsa Shylock it is interesting as indicative of his thorough methods of preparing his characterizations that he visited the Ghetto in New York ORy several tunes, studying types of Jews, partkrularly the elder generation which Is not much changed by contact with American life as is the younger generation...
...Sue Carroll, Gertrude' As tor and Gino Gorrado complete the cast...
...at 6 p. m. A number of comrades have been involved to a conspiracy for a number of weeks in making arrangements for the affair but through underground channels Information' reached Claessens and the dinner Is now public property...
...He Was more interested in the stage than in the shop...
...Crandall, and Frederick Truesdell...
...the total attendances ran to 23,681...
...he Will sleep In no Procrustean bed...
...Is another novelty that has met with popular appeal...
...The subject of the first lecture win be, "Origin of the Family...
...Sadie Thompson" to break tne present record by $5,000...
...As a young nam...
...An additional morning performance has been made necessary by the demand to see the antics of Mr...
Vol. 7 • February 1928 • No. 8
