AMUSEMENTS
AMUSMENTS THE STAGE THE SCREEN The Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley wry lainlsliiairnf of the ^ best sort comesover the footlights of the Booth Theatre these days, in "Bird m Bend.'' by...
...What more could a man ask...
...A new comedy by Elmer Harris will come to Broadway at the same time as Dow ling's singing and talking picture, "The Rainbow Man...
...Cter^e^Protortan^Ca^hohe sua eae of a haaaau faarfiy—not merely amof «m etaao* or^crwad-^ad^ijwand * Myites, eervtoe weT hT*^U8aoco^ yawkeBaed**2a* n^>a*t ^i"**iih^|i^ii'j tTm\mmm\»^^mm\9nmˆ^Su i^mec he jMM^a^IJkdL These tomes can't • sb?^««BSV^ social injustice...
...Cleveland Socialists Pick Slate SUtmg Dm Wat lie Made to Eleet Wfflcrt to City « Council OLavil^'^^Ua^ab.1 sout as» tuumt...
...XrT^ffi was a apeeeh delivered by *Oene Deba that was ur^?'waa\wakenedtfrom> thJTaalh ^"estotoaaw...
...AU members of the League are invited to attend A Youth Rally otl-Saturday...
...Noah's Ark" keeps increasing in popularity...
...Hews Bulletin tell of University of Wisconsin Liberal Club amvement to liberate Mooney and Billings...
...XTWtih 'the announced approach of the vdOB8 of "Strange Interlude," "Skidding" will have the longest run among the current non-musical plays...
...The nun consisting cf seven rests, tens in graphic form all that t-ok place from the moment that the chunky Soviet icebreaker left Leningrad until she picked up every living survivor of the ill-fated Italia and noted her way back through hazardous ice-floes to Leningrad...
...My answer—to those who understand—is that I have found the ™*«"'"g of life...
...Cecil B. DeMUle's "Godless Girl" said to be one of the most perfect -^.^plTt of sound aad dialogue films continues at the Cameo Theatre...
...April 19, at the clubrooas...
...Maybe ypu^remember .reading some of my efforts in The New Leader or elsewhere, on the picket bhe with workers, on the soup line with them, ateeping hi workers homes and sharing their rations with them...
...It was eeneraDy accepted that I would follow the r«Wlaid Wt for -my kind...
...Society win ant be an exception and hence it is the doty ot every member to easee to ties meeting and stay there aaembership book, as any one holding insurance ht the Society to at the same tkee a member of it and entitled to attend seal psTttehwh, at the meeting...
...The play, then, is not the thing in this case...
...Join the Knighta of Cahaehea the local Catholic ISw-c...
...She Was known as an expressionistlc dancer before she became Hampden's leading woman...
...George Playhouse, Brooklyn Height's own Little Ctauma, features both "Spies," Fritz Lang's production of Thea von Harbou's remarkable thriller and "The Rescue," Joseph Conrad's tale of the Seven Seas, starring Ronald Colman and Lily Damita supporting...
...Otis Harlan and others...
...Thto W - A familiar question to me...
...but making father recognise that times have changed is as...
...I understand what it means to be of service to humanity...
...Accustom me by merciful degrees'' for instance, Giovanni's exclamation when be first hears Paolo's name connected with his wife's begins exalted passion...
...By a not often recorded yet psychologically sound twist, it is the man of lower rank who insists on observing class distinctions, the toaugeota not the axiatocra...
...The thrill of having thousands of workers can me "Frank...
...iiiMMiirt...
...The agony, of having them expect so much of me...
...But marry her, once legally, once—later spiritually, he doubly does...
...My feeble attempts to write fat words about their struggle...
...he is proceeding with the production both of legitimate plays and of talking movies...
...Fslconetti, who enacts the role of Joan, and from the Societe Generate des Films, producers, congratulating it on the film's phenomenal success...
...It is attracting crowds at the Winter Garden...
...Little of the familiar play need be said, save that its form, blank verse, reminds one of its aspirations — and affects the actors...
...The Fassnacht family, who have had parts in the play since 1180, play the Ctaristus and the Judas, Mary, Mary Magdalene...
...An •miunal reaponee to thto natternery itoUilMBl would be very productive of...
...Circle Two Jm...
...starred...
...Jeanne Eagels, vacationing from the stage, is having her day and nights at the Criterion where the Paramount talkie, "The Letter," is attracting its share of the public...
...Bird ht Hand" is a study ht class consciousness, aad the breaking dbwn ot barriers of caste inpost-war England...
...Hew York City, when oflcers and »'*ef the greatest bmaamnre that attempt to secure* control of the Society far pertisaa purposes may he overweebnThat such an attempt may be made h not aa tomeanUBty and it becomes the cut;- of those who can grasp the Tital s gmT.-anra east the dangers to the welfare and fatnre ef thai Society which interne aaeaber to ttds haportant meetThe eipiiinmr ef the peat two years gllamw h aacassary as Che only safeguard even nfacu ssdy a small minority, to dnnsmate aad capture control of organisations ht wfaicfa they hold membership...
...on Friday evening...
...The play has faults...
...Maw stadenta may stffl enter...
...might make the deed of Jerry and young Sesaly less remote and therefore less heinous in the mother's eyes...
...AB day1* kmg I worked rith a group of automatons—white colar slaves who knew nothing about the aeasaag ef ate...
...44wat/HAT "da you get out of it...
...who draws the fane...
...AMUSMENTS THE STAGE THE SCREEN The Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley wry lainlsliiairnf of the ^ best sort comesover the footlights of the Booth Theatre these days, in "Bird m Bend.'' by Aim Bttnkwater...
...But the ptey gives Mary Ellis a chance • to marry a new lover, or either of two former husbands—to all three of whom she is already legally married: Basil Sydney will have to exhibit quite some versatility to match that offstage...
...The United Artists made this picture from the stage play, "Night-stick...
...invariably they turn to anticlimax...
...More lengtUjy...
...1-t "Fremont Educational Forum The Tremont EcUicaUonaJ Forum, conducted by the Seventh A. D. of the Socialist Party, Bronx, announces J. Blake Eggsn...
...And, at the end, as I have hinted, you may still build that cathedral in Spain—if your heart desire...
...and a Von Hofmannsthal pantomime, all directed by Max Relnhardt ' Eddie Dowling makes the first combinatiou announcement...
...CIRCLE FOUR, BROOKLYN, held a meeting on Friday, April 12, 8 .'30 P. M_ at 19344 63rd street, Benaonhurat Comrade Dmansky addressed the group on "Organisation.'* The circle is planning a hike for Sunday, April 14...
...They have stirred' this problem, and a few more, without forcing the watcher's sympathy too strongly in any direction, yet with wit, and with keen observation Justly recorded...
...hard as to convince j a fundamental** that Jonah swallowed the whale...
...Instead of a respectable cteil—limited to "my kind"—I am a free and untrammeted radical...
...Pa and Ma Jordan are complete to the extent of caricature, for the loll eaptnre of these types in life seems exaggeration onstage...
...First National production at the Central Theatre...
...The theatre has received cablegrams from Carl Dreyer, the director: Mile...
...one of Hoovers ragged The awaatton baa raised certain Tli ii aglilitoiaiy ardBd-^Por the Barj "zm retting cot"oTrt.*that la...
...AH interested in learning more about this group and Joining it should oammnntoate with Raglan George, care of Frank Croaswalth, 2311 7th avenue...
...They win be shown Saturday and Sunday, April 13...
...The cast for the occastion will number more than 350 performers...
...take your own choice of several that the play equally allows: it to a\lde ploughing of its field, and runs deep furrows...
...These afternoons and evenings at the Forty-fourth Street theatre...
...rather, the production...
...e» eaeaatoaee immediately with the more lliayaitenl antl unquestionably, more arstonoa teak of organising and edueatina to a much gruater extent, both ourselves and the vast numbers of youth...
...Land will speak on Youth and the Radical Movement...
...Aside from these incidental spurs to ^tumgh* the play—especially as directed by the author prods vigorously that spot along the ribs where humor wakes response...
...almost Justifies its name in the ticket-line throng at the Fulton every night...
...it spreads a bit thin in the middle, and Btr Am wood (perhaps needed en England) seems here an intruder at the end...
...What Do You Get Oe* of It...
...I was talking the other day with a man whose most vivid memory of his youthful theatre-going was the dare-devil slipping off to see "The Bladk Crook...
...In "Meet the Prince...
...any cop win ten you where...
...Preparations are now under way at the Roxy for the presentation in orchestral and fiance form of Rimsky-Korsakoffs "Scheherazade" in its entirety...
...For Monday and Tuesday, April IS and 16...
...it continues To this idea-and both grandeur and passion fly...
...The sympathetic slater and her doctor-husband leave the newly married couple at the mercy of the other relatives, when they have intelligence enough to know the peak of distaste is at band...
...ttw gym...
...The St...
...In the evening I mixed K-my kind" at the Cathode fustian...
...WINSTON DAN CIS EDITOR ^ftstasiaeal Every Week by The Blew Leader for the Yeans...
...The chief entertainment—and value— of the play to incidental to the story, in the contrasted characters who stop for the night, or who lire at "The Bird in Hand**- fain...
...with Esther Ralston, James Hall and Fred Kohter, and Douglas MacLean in "The Carnation Kid" Wednesday and Thursday, April 17 and 18...
...The Divine Lady" is a First National production, and is being shown twice daily at the Warner Brothers Theatre...
...Center aebeato will represent the party ht the fourth dtoA gigantic picnic is Bkernrd for Hay 9t at watch the settee aasBBBSaa win Worker's Fire Insurance Co...
...Christina" is being hailed as Janet Gaynor's greatest accomplishment...
...The new picture, which had been heralded as a triumphant achievement at a Hollywood preview several week* was* directed by Bayard Velller, author of the stage play, "The Trial of Marv Dugan...
...ftth Marion Kertry and John J. Nttes...
...At the tost meeting of the Executive Committee, Abe Wtootsky was elected chairman of the Organization Committee, Winston Dancis, chairman of the Educational Committee, and Ben Kantor athletto director...
...Later, they nominated me for Congress end about 7,000 of them voted far me as a Socialist...
...A Ylpsel circle to being organized ht West Harlem...
...Of this, praise can be lavish...
...The group was not destroyed, but fostered by the new government...
...Jessie Ralph, too, as blind Angela, plays effective moments, in a production that gives the play its full desert of sound acting, and thereby reveals it the adolescent romantic melodrama—such as Tennyson' "Launcelot and Elaine" — that it is...
...Besides petitioning Governor Young of California, they an organising a national, stadenta . naiiiiilllii Sidney preafdeutof the club...
...Bbtmx...
...343 Bast S4th street...
...By the bast sort of entertainment, X mean that which pleases and lttwrototei while being watched, aad osnthsasf to stimulate when the playing is over...
...This will be supplemented by the Rox--chorus of 75 voices, the Thirtytwo Roxyettes and thi Roxy Symphony Orchestra of 110...
...i The Actor-Managers have put into rehearsal the seventh edition of the institution known as "The Grand Street Polite*," with Albert Carroll and Dorothy Sands, borrow 3d from Shubert, and (the first time the group has fallen...
...For the new generation, the line Is no more real than the equator...
...Thrilling court room scenes, love-nest murder, and a star in *i*—ling decollete are but a few of the highlights of "His Captive Woman...
...The United Artists made thla one too...
...This is expected to be one of .the most ambitious spectacles ever to be staged at this theatre...
...FACING-BOTH-WATS ¦MAN'S ESTATE," by Beatrice Blackmar aad Bruce Gould, the new Theatre Guild offering, at the Biltmore Theatre," is a study of Main street dreams and frustrations...
...John, and the Blind Woman miracuously healed...
...production of "Book Lovers," a one-reel version of the SBSE aad dance set they enacted over big thus vaudeville until the "talkies" «t« htm as a director...
...B. Y.^Tbto circle baa 5n^l»*Stiwi by-tows are in probes *^j^^^**^J^*^^^^>e Meettow plans and activities win be discussed and Crttictoed Admission win be by membership dues book...
...Josef von Sternberg's production of Samuel OrniU's story, "The Case of ena Smith...
...eonnrlhwanic ticked eat of the city council during the ear reaction far refotal to neip rote reads from the ctty treasury to beta the pteearssttea ef the ear...
...Morris Gest intends to use the Hippodrome for production of Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld," for a revival of "The Miracle...
...4215 Third i.venue, near Tranent avenue...
...It has made me bigger and better for the next battle...
...FRANK J. MANNING...
...And if it be the fashion, in this positive world, to sneer at Mr...
...They talk...
...Faeing-Both-Wsys, tot it be suggested that spiritually Janus to the true pattern of the artist—as of the God...
...Our genial commissioner is thinking of Installing green and red traffic lights in the theatre lobby...
...aortal wens . civil service, aad I li I t.liM> machinery...
...SYRACUSE...
...NEWARK, W. J—James M Ruey, 8ochutot candidate for City Qonmdanontr, spoke before the local circle at S3 2"2h«.05?n*5 mTTaoe- frtday...
...Not only he and Philip Mertvate, who have been Jane Cowl's companions for some seasons now, play about her with warm sympathy and well restrained but suggested passion: but Kathertnc Emmet almost takes honors away from the star, by her superb rendering of a widow's childless yean worn to sterile bitterness...
...directed by Coanade Aronawtts, meets Wednesday at S P. M at the headquarewa...
...The end of the play, which echoes of the father's life, in the days dad had dreamed of being a lawyer, much more than the conventionally "happy ending" of O'Neill's "Anna Christie" justifies the program claim "that Pirandello would doubtless call a tragedy for some a comedy for others.'* Save that there are moments when the play seems a bit too sleeklly brushed in order to show that hesitant grain...
...more deeply rooted in the racial, the primal, urging* are likely to be more teceaafuL than-the tater-grown drwuna of her not always nawntisl other at i. Man may have come first in Eden: bat that book was written by sameaBae authors, creating a male god...
...wsu add to her program an impersonation of Noel Coward from "This Year of Grace," and of Ruth Draper damr her famous sociological picture, "Three ygSyffi* m the Court of Damatie FILMS: Silent and Sound when°he°*ad'i5» w»^l4^wyer...
...There are sweeps of good verse in the play...
...It Is an adaptation of the Edna Ferber novel of the same name with which la combined the songs of Plorenz Zlegfeld musical production...
...Tickets may be secured at 45 As tor Place...
...Corinne Griffith Victor Varconi, H. B. Warner are the sterling trio who make "The Divine Lady" one of.the most interesting movies in town...
...Bh gkillii 111 aa American question and one that I ¦n—tlinrs find bard to answer BhaactaBy when h to asked by a hard-bahaa) aiaiiiiiaii...
...The fault, dear Brutus, m not in our stars...
...Sponsoring organisations are the Y. P. S. L, Fellowship of Reconciliation...
...Meets April 12th wwraebarc Pbe ftiiari r, r! wffl he held thla Friday...
...at the Lyceum, Basil Sydney and Mary Ellis, having the same relationship offstage, ought to be quite adept in the presentation...
...The Russian Royal Choir, which was founded in 1840 by Prince Dknitry Agreneva-Stovtonsky, and has survived the revolution, win give a concert in native costume, at Carnegie Hall on April 19...
...author of "Psychology of Love...
...Joseph S-Mldkraut...
...to the play, which ran for a full season on Broadway and is now being played here and abroad by eighteen road companies...
...In order that the Movietone -'cturizaUon of "Showboat," coming to the Globe Theatre, Wednesday evening of April IT, will enioy .the finest recordln- and amplification possible, the present movietone apparatus at the Globe Theatre is being carefully overhauled and completely rewired...
...Peoples Socialist Leape -ws1at B# TOO « OOT OF BT 1 : ¦ GET 'OUT OF It...
...The Freiburg Passion Play, as revised in 1264, directed by David Belasco and brought over by Morris Gest, win be presented at the Hirjpodrome on April 29...
...Brooklyn, dtooaoaed the first chapter of "The Chapter of Waste" by Stuart Chase and Current Events, at their meeting on April 12...
...moments, even, which move toward the grand...
...TJBbBto Lottos, who has a recital at ¦aejBthel Barrymore Theatre, April 14...
...Seven yean ago I was a rather respectable clerk hi a railroad office...
...and as for the father, it to enough to state that the role to entrusted to Dudley DJgges...
...I am free...
...but, excellently acted by the English company, and directed with intelligence and humor, "Bird in Band" to worth a good deal more than an ordinary picking of two in the Broadway MB...
...A dramatist (not to mention poet) would have surged on to a climatic peak...
...Bun-Dog Drummond," adapted from the stage-play of the same name...
...M.-O.-M.s new dialogue smrrh, "The Trial of Mary Dugan," had its New York premiere tost Thursday evening before a distinguished and enthusiastic first night Embassy Theatre audience...
...In structure ai.d method of narration the all-dialogue film adheres cto.!i...
...IN BRIEF "Conflict," they say...
...Agenda Club, Young People Zlon, Bronx Free Fellowship, Pioneer Youth and the World Youth Alliance...
...until we are toft to wonder whether Jerry marries the girt because he truly loves her, or because he to at heart relieved of the perilous path, because there to ode wide river he fears to cross, and that wide river to Jerry Jordan...
...my humble rervtoe to She ftoctoifat Movement...
...No more superstition...
...The symphonic Fox Movietone picture is drawing well-deserved crowds twice dally at the Gaiety...
...Or again, if something so obvious as the variation in moral standards with the passing periods does not bold yon, there Is the more fundamental problem of the relationship between the sexes, the eternal struggle between the man, whose lusty ways-are individual, and the woman, who breathes-what we may can the purpose of the race, the impulse of the lifeforce...
...Skidding," at the Bayes, began quietly, buTTbe ripples of its laughter have spread...
...Sanftoy is now wotting on the continuity for "Book Lovers.'* "Krassin...
...The production of thto picture win also serve aa the debut in pictures for Mtos Sawyer, whose grace aad charm has embellished many a musical comedy fat the past...
...Ramon Navarro in "The Flying Fleet...
...This great opus of love, featuring the alluring Doloroes Costello, is a Warner Brothers Vltapbone talking production...
...Mary Ptokford, the traditional beloved of the American public, is appearing in "Coquette" at the Rlvoli Our Mary talks wtnsomely...
...The officers of the League hare pass elected for the i saving year...
...April 20, at S P. KL, at 1501 Boston road, near 174th street, ronx...
...Eternally the high quest of man to held to be the practical, the homebuilding call of woman...
...It's along Broadway...
...Be win nan in reseat gWjȣ5 bare rocked The ether tear rsndjdetat are weDUaWdWriet to Beat* BTsBman, secretary of the toeal, and for years ehajrwaui at a local at the Carpenters union and new suniaiy at the Wtilaiaul skdt and of the Workmen...
...Representatives of each organization will give three-minute talks about the same...
...The exchange of fire between Beverley and Oodolphin, K.C., on the merits of the Conservative and the tabor Parties, to prise argument (as I shall remind you when I quote it from the printed play), and there is choice irony in"filaraquet's narration of the.way behas lived on the Conservative Party's promises a promise to enough, and the mistake of the Labor Party to mat it expects to fulfil any promhes it may make...
...The current fawuea1 crf'the^'New' Student SUd the LID...
...Thla production has long been an ambition of David Belasco...
...but Drinkwater raises It beyond \tbto theme to a study of various and Ndirerse types of human beings...
...8 so o'clock...
...Roland West directed...
...Twice dally, and three times on Sunday is the program...
...Showboat" is a Universal picture, presented by- Carl Laemmle...
...the mam thought of the play may be the notion that one generation can not hope to understand another: the cleavage of the parents from the child (most manifest when the older generation to alien) even in native families widens to an unbridgeable gap...
...All zs: invited to attend, and bring some Iricutts SmUdmrky FREE YOUTH Younr, FeopteX Socialist league' 21 Eaaex Street, Beaton, Mesa...
...The whole town's talking about "Alibi" which also does a bit of talking for itself...
...KIMINI-FIMINT The good old tale of Franceses da Rimini, and her unwilling love for her husband's younger brother, presented in brief tragic mentiori by Dante, has been the source of several dramas, and of unending delight to adolescents, especially in the sentimental version, "Paolo and Prancesca," by Stephen Phillips, which Jane Cowl is presenting at the Forrest Theatre...
...now in press, in a lecture on "Sex in Civilisation...
...It was directed by Harry Pollard, and stars Laura LaPlante...
...For this event the Roxy ballet cor—s will be augmented to 100 dancers...
...Vital performances of the other parts, such as one always expects of the Guild, give them also their full opportunity...
...i Ingeborg TDrrup, Roxane to Hampden's Cyrano, will give a dance recital at Hampden's Theatre the afternoon of 'April IS...
...A social evening win fospw- Free tickets of admission may be, secured at the general League meeting on April 13...
...Yet Ehaabeth Patterson makes the mother thoroughly alive...
...every iota of its implications to dotted...
...Pioneer Youth is conducting a fifth anniversary parly, as a benefit for its summer camp for children ot Union workers, by buying out the Roy ale Theatre, for the evening performance of "Kibitzer," on May Day...
...the all-talking musical, "The Broadway Melody...
...That same sister, furthermore, by a prevision of kindly fate, lived out of wedlock with the doctor for* a time, so that her revelation of this fact...
...April la, ¦* «•» P M. A psychology etoss...
...B was only after ^tte^auU'rlt r^to Jew...
...Duplicating in melodramatic guise the smashing success of...
...April Btb, at I PJBL ht the main haB of the abor Temple...
...Paul Whiteman will lead his symphonic ias orchestra, composed of thirt" pieces in a special musical program on the opening night of this picture presentation at the Globe Theatre...
...After that, he plans a musical comedy, and another picture, which he avfll both write and play...
...Its daring, to these who see it at the Boboken Lyric Theatre today, comes rather from the present than from the absence of clothes...
...The Passion of Joan of Arc," Carl Dreyer's great film on the last eight hours of the Maid of Orleans, is being held over for a third week at the Little Carnegie Playhouse...
...This film broke all house records its first, wek's run and started its second week ahead of the mark set by the opening picture, "Ten Days That Shook the World...
...A half-doaen of the former follies win wear, and James Cagney...
...who staged th|ir dances tost year, will have a prom„ The Yld-iah Art Theatre is drawing fcs season to a dose by active weeks, Sreconting a wide choice of plays from as repertory...
...It might be construed as an offering in rebuttal of Gray's nne about the "mute, inglorious Mil tons,- seggestlng that a Button makes himself beard, that if a man fail to achieve hto youthful ambition, it is not hto environment, but hto own weakness, that holds him down...
...I cannot remember such another apen of free, full laughter as comes at moments through the second act, and surges with its' ending...
...If we esaape this tangle ef suggested phJkeophtes to look at the play itself, we dtoeover In "Man's Estate"—first, an excellent picture of Main Street parents...
...to Dunwoodle or Hunters Island We will meet at the Nevins street station at S:S0 A. aC promptly...
...The Rescue Sup," the official motion picture of the Soviet expedition, depicting in actual and authentic detail the polar drama which recently held the attention of the world, la to be the feature at the Fifth Street Playhouse beginning Saturday, April is...
...Many plays—several especially of late— have shown the Inteligent playfulness of husband and wife...
...The forthcoming , production win be the first of a series of outstanding contributions to American dance and musical interpretations...
...Having occasionally berated the "fanpartial Galsworthy" for taking sides, I should hate to have you think that the "modern" In me to impatient with the present authors for permitting us to picture a home and family as worthy of being even placed in the halanoa against a career...
...We wish that Guy Standing would not can our attention to the verse, in his opening speech, by a heavy stress on the "u" of "indissoluble...
...The theme...
...The esaate to loaktac- for a ptey to produce...
...for her needs...
...There will .be a cast of 1,000, a chorus of 400, and a large orchestra...
...Milton 8Uto aad Dorothy Meckel] are in the star rotes...
...And I am trying to bring the hght to others...
Vol. 8 • April 1929 • No. 13
