AMUSEMENTS
Amusement The Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley HATBED IS AKIN TO LOVE TT is not pity, but hatred, that is akin to love. The latest demonstration of this is in "The Love Duel." by Llli...
...who made the picture himself in the UFA studios near Berlin, with the assistance of six cameramen, took four years to turn out the finished film...
...Eventually she recalls the old adage that "a little child shall lead them"—though indeed the lion has already taken a seat beside the lamb...
...Heading its distinguished roster of players are John Boes, Cariotta King and Louise Fazenda...
...The film was widely acclaimed to England and Germany where it had a long run...
...Meanwhile "The New Moon" shines at the Drury Lane in London as well as at the Imperial in New York...
...April 27th end 28th...
...But the chief value of the play, beyond these incidental thoughts, lies in its moments of nonsense, in the deft handling of the intelligent banter of congenial, cultured folk...
...The picture was made by Paramount...
...Barton at the Palace After a successful venture into legitimate acting in the famous part of "Skid" in "Burlesque...
...Hill Players are still presenting F. Scottr Flfcsgerald's "\be Vegetable or From President to Postman...
...Krassin" is the feature picture at the ¦ St...
...CABBAGE-HEAD At the Cherry Lane Theatre, perhaps, the Lenox...
...a piece commended on the program for "the similarity between any recent newspaper files and Mr...
...just published by Brentano, on the Sixth Authors' night, this Sunday, the 28th...
...Man creates a god in the image of his magnified self, then tries to grow into the likeness of his deity...
...Falconnett as Joan of Arc...
...T and impartial enforcement of ""j^ Prominent and responsible citizens w»y take part in the discussion wlnca follow the address...
...MYSTIFYING MYSTERY By combining Robert Louis Stevenson's "Suicide Club" and "The Rajah's Diamond," Hugh A. Anderson and' George Bamman concocted a play called "Mystery Square...
...Fannie Brice and Dorothy Knapp have been lured from the cast of "Fioretta" by the talkies...
...The film traces the story of the great '.over from his first amours in France, thru' his amusing sojourn in Russia at the Court of Catherine II...
...28tn stent, of the topic: Police and CivJhae* to effective co-operation for th...
...FEATHER IN THE WIND "She Got What She Wanted," by Geo...
...and "Freedom of the Press," featuring Lewis Stone...
...Little Pal...
...so swiftly are his childhood desires forerun, so completely are his whims anticipated and satisfied, that before the word Is spoken the wish is fulfilled...
...Morris Gest brings the Freiburg Passion Play to the Hippodrome Monday...
...One woman in our audience burst into hysterical sobbing at one point to the-final scene, and many others probably had to use a lot of self-control to keep from following her example...
...was produced by Roland West for Joseph M. Schenck...
...The excellent individual work of Mile...
...and "The Rainbow Man," song hits of the picture...
...If for no other reason, no to see "Show Eoat" for the beauty of the scenic effects of the old boat sailing down the Mississippi by moonlight, and above all for the rendition of some of, the old Southern songs by the negro singers...
...Rather he...
...auditor of the firm, has started for Italy: and Evelyn Herbert, prima dona, visited the Architectural Exhibit at Grand Central Palace...
...Bonsels...
...While not universally applicable, this method promises—and Carl Dreyer's hands has already attained—some exceptional results...
...Adverse comment means no more to this daft, smooth play than smiles to a courtesan, or handshakes to a Tammany politician...
...Another howl from Hollywood comes from the mass of extras who realize that with the onrush of "talkies," the making of big, spectacular films requiring many players, is at an end...
...the pictures are less the telling of a story already known, or told to titles...
...Eddie Dowling, star of "The Rainbow Man...
...A play from the Russian of Dmitry Schlegov, on its way to New York via Atlantic City, is variously known as "Red Russia" and "The First Law...
...reduced to white soace with occasional lines of arched hallwavs and buttressed walls...
...For with the advent of talking pictures and the perceptible lack of talent to grace these new productions, the stage has...
...POLICE ANTS LAW ENFORCEMENT" Ethelred Brown, Pastor of the Buawj...
...The stars who have been trained in pantomime must make way for the newer stars who possess linguistic ability and clear speaking voices...
...Apache's Revenge" will be shown in conjunction with th...
...Beginning with the sweet anodyne that riches do not mean happiness, that the wealthy may lead sterile lives, it soon makes a different division of mankind...
...New Film echnique The appearance, in the little cinemas of New York, of two pictures directed by Carl Dreyer, and the promise of a third, invites examination of his new technique...
...the St George offers Emil Jannings in "Sins of the Father" and Reginald Denny in "Red Hot Speed...
...But father appears, and gives no opportunity for the development...
...These are the "news" to which the pictures are "editorials:" instead of carrying on the events of the action, the film shows the feeling* of the those involved...
...But it is always the one most concerned who is most blind...
...H. Plays and Players "Sacco and Vanzetti," by Erich Muhsam, has just been produced to Berlin...
...Here a woman whose early marriage has left her unhappy, and a man whose early philandering has left him ignorant of love—"a woman every man loves, and a man who loves every woman" — seek eacn to destroy the other's fascinating power, to make that other feel love's deepest pain...
...The usually elaborate program will surround the picture...
...Says Mr...
...indeed, the levelheaded girl so takes him in hand that in time he might even begin to deserve the directorship in his father's firm to which the subservient company elects him...
...Pattl Harrold, remembered as the star of "Irene...
...views the hourly exodus of stage talent to the "talkies" as the finest thing that could have happened to either the motion picture industry or theatre at the present time...
...The Broadway Melody" began its eleventh week of capacity business at the actor Theatre '"•untJts" TrTttaVahlrn a new record for the run of an all-talking picture on Boadway...
...he frankly J tells no tale...
...Its initial Broadway engagement will take place at Warner Brothers Theatre where it will play two performances daily for an indefinite period...
...this contributes to a concentration on th» single face — for...
...has taken the transfer as an opportunity for tightening its structure...
...are hardly worth the copying—among them the figures of the tabloid comicstrips...
...Impudent, selfish, line: and we watch the wrung features of...
...Yet the sense of reality Eddie In this play gives us, what with Franklin Ardelrs facial capture of the role, indicates that there is growing up in this land a comic-strip strata (singular indeed...
...149 W. 1»K Street, will lead a discussion at that paw» at 8:30 o'clock Sunday Evening...
...It is "The Apaches Revenge...
...Unfortunately, this process is not confined to gods...
...May 1 and 2. "Fazll...
...Rather, he tells the story by means of his titles.which ore...
...The story describes the adventures of the bee Maya and is told in first person...
...Fewer, however, know that the needle's eye was the postern gate of the eastern walled town, a low entrance arched over, so that a camel could go through only by kneeling...
...and we read her reply...
...Magnolia, rather than return to her mother penniless, takes to the stage, is overwhelmingly successful and is acclaimed almost over-night...
...In truth, he Is the apotheosis of pampered wealth...
...What the writer of this genial comparison overlooks is that the homespun variety of spitter is a good shot...
...Madame X" comes to the Sam H. Harris Theatre April 24...
...Thus the produce...
...Amusement The Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley HATBED IS AKIN TO LOVE TT is not pity, but hatred, that is akin to love...
...Many of the scenes are in natural colors...
...James Barton returns to the Palace Theatre next week where he is certain to live up to his reputation as one of the most gifted of American comedians...
...Albert Carroll, and a dozen more known names, to the Booth...
...Keep us...
...Dowling and Mr...
...Miriam Hopkins, Elliot Cabot, and a half-dozen more seamless in their parts—of that finished perfection the Theatre Guild now seldom fails to attain, it is sheer inconsequent delight...
...Louis Calhern...
...Dowltog's little "pal...
...This slow movement may be part of the picture's charm, but even a lover of pathos cannot tolerate tears and sighs prolonged endlessly...
...It is probable that Frankle Darro, the child actor, who scored as Mr...
...composer of the score, will attend the Boston College Alumni of New York dinner ay the Hotel Woodstock Saturday...
...Sigmund Romberg, the composer, and Laurence Schwab, one of the producers, are on their way back to New York...
...It brims with wisecracks...
...with Greta Nissen and Charles Farrell...
...Alibi" continues to be one of the greatest of the attractions on the motion picture bill-boards...
...for what will become of society as it runs today if the new generation stops running after money...
...the 'talkies' seems to have thrown show kaeW ness into a cofiffttton of affairs txjfdjrtng on hysteria...
...Also on the Palace bill wO be Claiborne Foster, star of many recent dramas and comedies...
...Quite frankly putting aside the story appeal of the movies, (which many critics feel is overemphasized to most films), Mr...
...Given the presentation —setting, direction and playing of Helen Westley, Henry Travers...
...Christina" continues its successful run at the Times Square Theatre...
...Frances White, and Art Landray and his jazz orchestra...
...Upon his arrival in New York, Emil Jannings will be greeted with the spectacle of having one of his worst pictures screened here...
...Monday and Tuesday, April 29 and 30...
...Everywhere there li^xBCerv tatoty...
...world premiere of "The Betrayal," a British film staring Ellssa Landi...
...The Little Carnegie Playhouse presents the American premiere of "Loves of Casanova...
...It also won the Pulitzer prize as the best story for the year 1927...
...By pretending to be pregnant several times, she finally effects it with a man gentlemanly enough "to do the honorable thing by our Mamie...
...Earl Carrol] himself, by the way, is active again...
...Joseph Santley...
...He does not see in the transfer of I activities of well-known stage stars to the screen "the demise of the theatre" as one pessimistic theatre manager observed...
...Conflict.'* by Warren F. Lawrence, just moved to the Vanderbilt...
...Fitzgerald's text, and to such an extent that one is bound, providing one hold certain opinions, to speat of "The Vegetable" as a burlesque anc a parody of the entire contemporary American scene...
...Come by most devious and amusing ways into contact with a fresh spirit Susi...
...The Vegetable" seems to have been a burlesque and a parody written by a clever highschool sophomore, who forgot to destroy it...
...This talking film is now in production under the direction of William Wyler...
...Managing Director Samuel Baron has arranged for the appearance of David Karsner...
...and, with a pretty heroine (Galina Kopernak), who is ready to try any man once (somewhat like Jurgen) to find the soul of love— what pretty young thing would not put herself in Mahnya's place, what jazz young man would not admire...
...and Jimmy Hanley...
...the tortured Joan: or we turn for a mdjpent to see the clowns entertaining the* populace outside...
...Eddie Buzzell and Louise Brown continue to demonstrate that "Lady Fingers" are still a popular delicacy...
...of our mechanized and frantically rushing civilxation...
...Waldemar Manse Is' extremely popular novel, will be held over* for * second week at the 55th Street Hayhause beginning next Saturday...
...which, though seriously produced originally, will be shown beginning this Saturday as a burlesque melodrama...
...Discerning motion picture-goers are eagerw awaiting the premiere x>f Maurice Chevefier in "The Innocents of Paris...
...Hollywood, the barriers will be somewhat let down for the talent of which New York seems to have a more than abundant supply...
...Also to be shown In Mary Astor in "The Romance of the Underworld" and a Charlie Chase comedy...
...The background of the pictures is largely suDpressed...
...And'too many of the "heroes" of the jazz age...
...There is a new scene added to' the third act and three more players contribute to tSe evening's excitement...
...The Rainbow Man" attracted capacity audiences at the Selwyn immediately...
...What chiefly shocks Edward Seton, multimillionaire, is the discovery that his daughter's lover, just as he's> making the first pouring of profits on a new financial pile, intends not to continue but to stop and look around to see what life is like, to make his own acquaintance...
...tods bJriweH face W face with a condition which he never before knew—and which he feels spells his doom...
...While close-ups play a large oart in his technique, they are a result of his intention, rather than his direct olm...
...BY KNEELING Most persons know the passage referred to in "The Camel Through the Needle's Eye...
...So Alik teams through labor that a little practice makes it not too difficult to kneel...
...Four openings are listed for next week, so far...
...Dreyer tells the story, all that is necessary, to his headlines, the titles...
...An invitation has been forwarded to Jannings to attend a private showing of the film upon his arrival...
...On the same night "The Little Show" wakens the Music Box...
...Ethel Barry - more'3 latest vehicle at her theatre...
...or "Janntogs Uber Alles...
...Wednesday "The Grand Street Follies" bring Dorothy Sands...
...most of the time, there is but one face on the screen...
...Alik is a rich man's son...
...sees it as a happy, oaten for the thousands of aspirants-to oeveted theatrical honors, who go/'WfWTrr"'fluest of a "Broadway" break...
...Indeed, such satire as it may have contained in the far-off original, is sweetened with a handshake and a smile, as the play bids have a forgetful good time, and let th#/camels kneel...
...The New York opening of "The Desert Song" is anounced for May 1st...
...A. A. Milne proves in "Meet the Prince" that his whimsicality can please adults as well as children...
...This is the Ctoeroman production which was filmed in France and Italy under the direction of Alexander Volkoff...
...This includes nearly everybody...
...Mima" has passed its 150th performance at the Belasco Theatre, breaking box office records on the way...
...Another column of program-praise of the play- says "it is as native as a long spit...
...Both succeed...
...Wednesday and Thursday...
...In another day anc another age "The Vegetable" might be spoken of as a fine piece of satirical fantasy...
...William Kelsey...
...At the Lyceum...
...by Llli Hatvany...
...Dreyer aceerts th...
...On Tuesday, "Congratulations," a comedy by Morgan Wallace, comes to the National, with Henry Hull...
...showing both satisfied and dissatisfied among the moneyed...
...Incidentally...
...will take the name role at the Earl Carroll...
...the picturization of...
...the Universal star whose talking pictures are now being shown at two theatre on Broadway, "Show Beat" at the Globe Theatre and "Scandal" at the Colony Tehatre...
...it has effective openings and curtains...
...That is...
...At the Royale Theatre you may secure a card that licenses you as official Kibitzer for the year 1929, with full authority to talk during any golf, pinochle, or other game or perhans quiet entertainment...
...in his j film, like the news columns of a daily i paper, the pictures themselves corres! ponding to the editorials (and perhaps, at moments, to the comics...
...O. E Goebel and George W. Weeks are planning the second Dowling picture for Broadway release in September...
...there, fore, grown to manhood practically dumb...
...G.'H...
...It is being shown twice daily at the 44th Street Theatre...
...The words indicate what has been said: Joan at her trial is asked a question: then we watch the faces of the judges, down their long cruel...
...in the showtog at the Little Carnegie Playhouse, should not lead us to overlook that the method by which she is so fully revealed is the director's, and is new...
...George Playhouse for this Saturday and Sunday...
...author of "Andrew Jackson, the Gentle Savage...
...carries too far her playing, too lengthily holds to her game...
...The lady has a longer course, as Ethel Barrymore's gathering intensity makes us poignantly aware...
...Alik has had-no need to speak...
...He likewise sees in the hegira of stage stars to the silver screen at this time the strange and mysterious workings of the hand of fate...
...This showing « the faces of those concerned, usually bat one on the screen at a time, or paustng now and then to show what is happeniacin the world around—the street entertainers as Joan moves toward the stakewhile the actual movement of the story is entrusted to the titles, makes pcasB* an entirely different treatment cf the pU...
...Clifton Webb is prominent among its performers...
...THE appearance of "The Passion of Joan of Arc" at the Little Cemegle Playhouse, which announces another picture directed by Carl Th...
...the latter name...
...man emulates his heroes...
...The Adventures of Maya...
...He feels that with the withdrawal of our stage stars to...
...SEASON-END HINTS I While the season is drawing to a close, there is still time to see Philip Barry's "Holiday" at the Plymouth Theatre, and to enyjoy a comedy for the intelligent...
...Saturday's Children" in play form was presented on Broadway two years ago and had a consecutive run of nine months...
...Rceener, at Wallach's, is a play that will be enjoyed by philosophers and fools...
...found when he had a brief notoriety, it was published no one knows why, and now produced for reasons I'll leave to your guessing...
...and he is negotiating with Marion Talley to star to the forthcoming "Vanities...
...Latest choice holds to...
...It takes some sort of gnome or elfin sprite to devise so- delightfully nonsensical a situation as Basil Sydney and Mary Ellis have to work out...
...But to hold "certain opinions" is a sign of callow youth...
...as you might say, eating out of their hand...
...Henry Stephenson, and Ferdinand Oottschalk make a well remembered and effective ground around the intense Miss Barrymore, who must "play," in the offstage sense, over an aching heart: Dorothy Hall affords a contrast about as great as possible, in the part of Baby, the sweet young thing who knows nothing but that while a man's heart (which we may ignore) is in his stomach, a woman's has a somewhat lower seat...
...Leonore Ulric holds the unique record of over 1,700 performances to the one theatre...
...The Yiddish Art Theatre, closing on May 4 its most successful season in New York, plans a tour of the principal cities along the Atlantic and in the Middle West, "The Little Show," opening at the Music Box next Tuesday night, brings to that pleasant playhouse an "intimate musical revue" which promises entertainment for the relaxed yet intelligent...
...Carl Dreyer shows that it can duce excellent results...
...of male hero, blandly and blindly self-confident, so thick-skinned as to be impervious to scorn, completely unaware there can be ideals and ambitions beyond his material and fleshly ends...
...The woman, it seems to me...
...Corrine Griffith, starred in the picturization cf Maxwell Anderson's comedydrama "Saturday's Children,'' in which she makes her talking debut, will be the feature picture at The House of Talkies...
...On the same program is also a new Visugraph'.c production "Reporting the News," depicting the world-wide news gathering activities and modern methods of news dissemination of the United Press-Association: a short technicolor prodbctlon "The Czarina's Secret" with Olga Baclanova: a Charlie Bower's comedy and , other features...
...Harlem" moves down a door to the Times Square Theatre Monday night...
...Their mutual satisfaction results...
...Gavin Muir does some fine acting as the adventurous Prince FlorizeL —G...
...Harrison Memorial Church...
...i With the successful launching of "The Rainbow Man," Eddie Dow ling's first alltalking, all-stnging picture at the Selwyn Theatre...
...Janet Geynor is starred to this Pox Production...
...Dreyer...
...The New Moon" producers seem to travel about as consistently as old Luna herself...
...ture...
...the title of FranUsek Lancer's play, presented in adaptation and direction by Philip Moeller by the Theatre Guild...
...FILMS: Silent and Sound At the Globe Theatre, one may lose oneself any afternoon or evening in a maze of Southern atmosphere...
...has started production on her next picture titled "Evidence...
...Magnolia elopes with the leading man, Gaylord Ravenal (Joseph Schlldkraut i. Ravenal, true to Parthenia Hawk's predictions squanders Magnolia's "fortune gambling in Chicago...
...Carl Laemmle's movietone production of Edna Ferber stories, "Show Boat" is sweet and our Southerners drawl their conversation...
...the Mark Strand theatre, for the week beginning Saturday...
...The acting contingent that has long held sway out there, feel that with the popularity of dialogue films, and with the subsequent signing of theatrical talent to fill the many important roles in the pictures now being made, that their period of usefulness is at an end...
...it presents persons no wiser than these in the audience, actively caught to such a quest for "life"—romance, adventure—as that audience desires...
...For the most part, like the usual Edna Ferba stories, "Show Boat" is sweet and sentimental...
...Donovan's Affairs" will be the feature attraction at the Roxy Theatre, beginning this Sunday...
...for probably every fool thinks he is a bit of a philosopher, and every philosopher knows he is a bit of a fool...
...Thus, Hollywood, like Broadway, views the talking picture as a mechanical device which may write finis upon its activities...
...At the Liberty...
...which opens this Friday at the' Criterion Theatre...
...Laura La Plante...
...will be seen to the second Sona-Art all-talkie...
...long after word and attitude have told the audience he is truly devoted, she thinks him still no more than waiting the chance to assert his power...
...The heroine of "The Adventures of Maya" is a little bee, the leading man a clumsy, but grateful beetle, and the villains a spider and a swarm of great hornets...
...Messrs...
...recruited from the legitimate stage by the Paramount Pictures Corporation to direct the Four Marx Brothers in the "talkie" version of "The Cocoanuts...
...culminating in his return to Italy, his escape from the Leads and ending in a riotous Venetian carnival...
...Little Magnolia (Laura La Plante) blossoms into womanhood on her father's, or possibly one should say mother's show boat, since Parthenia Ann Hawks dominates the family...
...April"" 27fh...
...If young men really act that way (as this lad, the one miscast figure in the play, cannot convince us they do) multimillionaires ought to be worried...
...In Hollywood there is also a howl...
...He has...
...stepped into the spotlight as the one source of supply of dependanble ,"talkie,, talent...
...who wears her poverty as the scarf around the shoulders of her independence, the young man offers her what at the moment she desires...
...Santley: "The advent of...
...Hanley will entertain the diners with "Sleepy Valley...
...What impresses the more contemplative among the audience is not the surface theme of the play—that woman knows not what she wants until she's given It up—but the evidence it offers of the truth of the statement that life imitates art...
...Along the Broadway sector, those identified with the management and production of plays, contend that nearly all of the talent formerly available for the dramatic stage, has been garnered at fabulous salaries under long term contracts by the motion picture producers...
...yet a swift second act curtain leaves paterfamilias gasping to discover a woman— a kept woman—politely defiant...
...Those who enjoyed "Abie's Irish Rose" will laugh their sides off at "She Got What She Wanted...
...view that the narrative aspect of the film has been over-emphasized, that the story is not the picture's main aspect...
...and the present showing of the same directors "The Witch Woman" at the Fifth Avenue, invites a consideration of his method...
...After a ejection Is asked Jean, for example, the picture runs the long line of judges, showing each face as she struggles with the question, and its often insulting unpoca*, tions—until it lights with her dectstcp...
...Alit...
...which Murray Phillips is presenting at the Longacre Theatre..The dialogue of the play hardly does justice to Stevenson's stories, but there are sufficient veiled happenings and moments of suspense that compensate...
...Press reports state that the drama, which consists largely of material taken directly from court testimony, was well received, and is likely to play a strong part to the current campaign in Germany against capital punishment...
...The result is that the story is gathered by the way, and in the mind is drawn to the feelings it involves, so that the emotional intensity of the film is deepened beyond the achievement of most films...
...Go take a "Holiday...
...He is writing a theme song for Warner Brothers' production of "So Long Letty," his first musical composition since the "Vanities" of 1924...
...So successful has the picture been, that tickets are now selling fully eight weeks in advance...
Vol. 8 • April 1929 • No. 15
