AMUSEMENTS
Amusements The Week On Stage By joseph T. shipley GRAND STREET FOLLICLES JT Is at the Booth Theatre, as usual of recent years, that Agnes Morgan's idea of how to be sexy and smart parades...
...salvemini will -debate on fascism What promises to be a timely Intellectual encounter, will take place Sunday, I May 26, 3 P.M., at the Irving Plaza, 15th : Street and Irving Place, when Prof...
...At the Palace, this coming week, the greatest of the early film children will appear in person, Jackie Csogan...
...Since "Cyrano de Bergerac" came from the pen of Edmond Rostand twenty-seven years ago...
...James Cagney is chief of the dancing contingent, with swift and graceful work...
...The new' Earl Carroll "Vanities" will have genuine modern dances, if the trainers are effective...
...The First Law," at the Theatre 1 Masque, is hailed as the first play to reach Broadway out of Soviet Russia...
...The adaptation of current and older operas into all-talking and all-singing pictures will next occupy the attention of producer, Mr...
...It is the snake (apparently active a i generation before Satan himself) that first, of course, mentions sex, desiring a mate Just a little different from itself...
...i Joseph Santley, who recently completed the direction of an all-singing short film starring Tito Schipa, noted concert and operatic stage star for the Paramount Pictures Corporation, believes that the advent of the "talkies" and the simultaneous drafting of operatic talent to grace these productions, will be largely instrumental in influencing the operatic tastes of the nation in the future...
...The leading actor, Leonid Snegoff, appears in English for the first time, having performed In French, German, and Jewish...
...that the Apollo box office is now taking i orders four weeks in advance...
...means nothing else than ] wise-cracking...
...Paul Revere's Ride we have elsewhere seen transposed into a sexplolt...
...a screen conception of this musical piece, an Oswald cartoon and other features...
...It has a special meaning i for the man who finds It incumbent on himself to advise in card games...
...Ethel Waters will present "some songs you have home on your records...
...Colman's "Bulldog Drunmond...
...Individual bits of sound entertainment, these follies, but lacking the unity or the speed of dramas or revues that hold in memory...
...He served as a deputy to the Italian Parliament on several Legislatures and Is recognized as a scholar of | political sciences...
...There are several interpolated song numbers...
...So runs the tale...
...Regis Toomey, Puniell Pratt, Harry Stubbs, and Eleanor Griffith...
...The songs and choruses heard from the screen are applauded as warmly at every performance as though j the singers were on the stage In person...
...There are several other chief attractions on the bill...
...not only sex but mathematics are alien to it—does it not multiply by subdivision...
...Two stars of the dance, Reynold Tillls...
...Shean and Miss Canter are appearing In an uproarious one-act farce comedy entitled "Business Is Business," by William K. Wells...
...The Wrestler", a comedy by Jack Larric, author of "Easy Mark" of a few seasons ago, is likely to be his next production...
...This is also Mr...
...Congratulations," at the National Theatre, boasts an author frank enough in his egocentric way to give his own name to the hero...
...Five Broadway stage players without any'screen experience were cast by Roland West to the principal roles of "Alibi," all-talking musical melodrama at the 44th Street Theatre in New York...
...It will be mounted in two scenes...
...Colman's first venture in the speakies, and he comes out uncommonly well...
...they reward such truth-telling with the post...
...He is a political1 exile, having fled Italy three years ago, when he was arrested and persecuted as the responsible author if the underground paper, "Non Mollare" (dont give in) which was published clandestinely by the students of the'University of Florence...
...here prohibition re- j ceives a few deft Jabs in passing...
...With seats on sale four weeks ahead and the biggest advance tale In the history of Warner Brothers Theatre, It may now be taken for settled that, the first Warner Brothers Vltaphone operetta...
...The film was directed by Joseph Santley, who with Robert Florey is also responsible for the filming of "Cocoanuts," a Paramount special production in music and dialog, starring the Four Marx Broth-ers...
...Another headline attraction Is Al Shean, of "Mr...
...Quite aside from this show, I'd like some day to see a good drama built from the psychology and social history of a prostitute...
...Henry Bull is the hero, Morgan Wallace (same name ss, the author, note...
...And—which is not of so normal course—the familiar theme comes oft pretty well In the handling...
...We are assured that the name, Morgan Wallace, is his own...
...There has been much conflict over what the term ! means, but as one who used it before j Heywood Broun publicly discovered ft, i "kibitzing...
...It is interesting to recall bow timid, even of limb-lifting, not to mention lnsinuendos, was that first Follies down on Grand Street, of which this is the sex-released successor...
...Cabiria" was produced in 1911 by the Milano Film Company cf Italy from a story by Gabriel D'Annunzio...
...Albert Carroll, somewhat ostentatious In his first entrance, as Lucifer, appears with great success as Beatrice T,1111c (as Encyclopedia Brit tan - nica), Constance Collier, as Mme de Pompadour), Queen Elizabeth (herself), Harpo of the Four Marx Brothers—excellent silence!—Fannie Brice, and Gertrude Lawrence ("interest on the English debt...
...The cast of principals further includes Harold Van Duzee, Ethel Louise Wright and Douglas Stanbury...
...A tent-show, a stag smoker at which the easy ladies are as usual, a father and son (made vivid, and almost real, by Frank G. Bond and Norman Foster), the son a local lad who loves the loose quean, are the ingredients of this tear-strong drama of the tent...
...The Marmelns, Ted Shawn, Tamiris, and Senia Gluck are among those being sought to direct the steppers...
...More than passing Interest attaches to the rich revival of "Bulldog Drum- j mond" In film form at the Apollo The- > atre, In West 42nd Street...
...Previously, he had been organizing-director of a little theatre group trying vainly to give the town good drama—which often means the substitution of frank, stark handling of sex (which is most obviously in defiance of good taste) for the Insinuations and display of musical comedies (which, everybody knows, are quite proper...
...Its author, Dmitry Schelgov, Is a well known lecturer and writer in the Soviet Republic...
...This film, after months of search, has been located and will be presented at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse for one week beginning this Saturday...
...a Paramount all-singing, all-talking, all-dancing two-reel subject, starring Joseph Santley and Ivy Sawyer, has been booked in the Apollo Theatre by Samuel Goldwyn as the surrounding film fare to "Bulldog Drummond...
...On the Journey, Billy McLaurin and James Thompson offer good comedy, perhaps better than their lines...
...The Desert Song" Is In for a summer run...
...The legions | who saw and liked the play have found i that the picture fully comes up to all their demands...
...Nonetheless, who would not have so charming a mayor as Henry Hunt The effort to make the audience part of the play, however it may grow pallid on the printed page, is legitimate theatrical maneuvering, and the burlesque intent of "The Morning-Evening'' in the entr'-acte of "The Beggar on Horseback" has bad many successors, some, as at this performance, aiming with less foolery to win the audience...
...The book is credited to Louis Isquith, the lyrics to Perry Bradford...
...but the amoeba most plaintively laments its lot...
...The Kid" will introduce his father to the playgoers of the city...
...South of Siam...
...S. L. Rothafel and his staff are preparing a tabloid production of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, "The Gondoliers," as the principal feature of the music program surrounding the Fox all-talking picture, "The | Valiant," which begins Saturday...
...Booklovers...
...Kibitzer," running with great success i at the Roy ale Theatre is a comedy with < many original twists, lots of fine acting and a story some shades above the usually t^t" vehicle that carries most comedies we can think of...
...and Geraldine La Rue, are appearing In a pleasing terpslchorean 1 conceit called "Beneath the Apple Tree...
...In the leading role is Maciste, the giant...
...Ditto," they whisper, for "The New Moon" at Chanin's 46th Street...
...A film which gives one a vivid idea of life in Moscow, the Red Capital, is to be shown for the first time In America at the Film Guild Cinema commencing this Saturday, May 11...
...Salvemini will take i the negative side of the subject...
...not the colder economic attitude of "Mrs...
...The Little Carnegie Playhouse announces that the "Loves of Casanova" will be retained for a third and last week...
...May 11...
...CAMILLE A "side-show of life" entitled "Carnival...
...The AB.C...
...Salvemini knows the fascist situ- ¦ atlon thoroughly, having been an avowed opponent of the Black Shirts Dictator...
...Salvemini, who at the time was teaching history In that same university, was forced to resign and finally to leave the country to escape further fascist persecution...
...plays and players The Freiburg Passion Play, at the Hip- 1 podrome, which originally took seven days to present, has been considerably ; shortened...
...Admirers of Gilbert and Sullivan will find a source of Interest at the Roxy i Theatre next week...
...Kibitzing" is an ancient art...
...Of course the golden-hearted girl hides the past from the boy, and of course he discovers it...
...At The Palace New York's celebrated night club entertainers and comedy stars* Lou Clayton, Eddie Jackson and Jimmy Durante, are returning to the Palace this week to play a final vaudeville engagement before they start rehearsing for a forthcoming Broadway musical show...
...The impersonations lift the rather haphazard movement of the Follies Into moments of delight...
...So successful has been the success of i Mr...
...and Al Shean (once with Gallagher) is paired with Miss Lynn Canter of the "Greenwich Village Follies" in a farce strangely entitled "Business is Business...
...The Handing of the Pilgrim Fathers" reminds us of the trading proclivities of most—If not of the first—of those who have come to this land of the free...
...Santley believes, viewing the transition as a move which will benefit movie-goers and opera lovers at the same time...
...They are supported by Maryon Vadie's Syncopated Dancing Six, with Rachel Bonstine at the piano...
...It is also playing the Mark Strand in Brooklyn...
...this, and Caesar's invasion of Britain (as set to music by Noel Coward) remind us that women exist for love, and reveal the sorry fate of the sex when faced with the oldest of Roman traditions: the rape of the Sabine Women...
...the work of Cora La Redd, also, might be mai'e more of than in the present parading...
...Lawrence Shubert Lawrence, with "Congratulations" moving at the National, is planning ahead...
...ship from its origin...
...But along comes Troy, Lenore Ulric ss Helen (Dorothy Sands...
...These mad-mldnight-tm-dlwn merrymakers from the Club Rendezvous have much new drollery, Insane clowning, delightful buffoonery and patternless humor, with several new hilarious songs and dances...
...Schwab and Mandel announce that the threatened Invasion of the "talkies" has given them no difficulties In the selec- 1 Hon of casts for their two traveling com- i panics of "Follow Thru...
...John Boles and Carlotta King, in the romantic leads, are the singers whose efforts are received with such cordiality, ¦ Others in the all-star cast are Louise j Fazenda, Johnny Arthur, Edward Martlnj del, John Miljan, Otto Hoffman and i Marie Wells, Myrna Loy, Robert E. Guzi man and Del Elliott...
...These negroes are swift hoofers...
...or—as before the Wooden j Horse of Troy—amusing satire, shifting from classical to Jazz movements as John Ersklne shifted from reverent teaching to sex-sly flctloning...
...In addition to his three years as leading man with the First 8tudio of the Moscow Art Theatre...
...When such reputable operatic artists as Tito Schipa, Beniamino Glgll, Michael Bohnen and John McCorrnlck are not hesitant in signing for talking pictures, Mr...
...Cablria," the forerunner of such spectacles as "The Birth of a Nation," "Intolerance," and etc., is to be revived...
...On the same bill will be "Rachmaninoff's Prelude...
...Shean" fame, and Miss Lynn Canter, prima donna of many musical revues...
...Gaetano Salvemini will debate on "Has Fascism Benefited Italy...
...Roxy has engaged Frank Moulan, veteran of Gllbertlan repertory...
...with Percy Winner, editorial staff writer of the New York Evening Post The debate has been arranged by the Rand School of Social Science...
...the work of Wm...
...whose honesty wins him an election...
...This unique Sovkino film commences with dawn in the Soviet metropolis and introduces us to a variety of the types of workers...
...The miniature Holy City is thronged with spectators before the opening hour, and the drama is drawing larger crowds than expected...
...R. Doyle, is at the Forrest Theatre...
...The success of the picture, now in its third week, has brought offers to all of them, and the end of this week will find four of the five acting in their second talking picture roles in Hollywood...
...it has had world-wide publicity, and the theatre-loving public of this country has reason to remember It for two of America's great actors, Richard Mansfield, and at a more recent date Walter Hampden...
...Here we find the old story of the girl who has taken the downward path to pleasure (or is it economic pressure that drives her to sell her body...
...Its length, after the first performance here, was shortened so that it opens at 8.15 and close at 11.20...
...Gallagher and Mr...
...Including the "Greenwich Village Follies...
...FILMS: Silent and Sound "Cyrano de Bergerac," the screen version of Edmond Rostand's famous dramatic romance...
...Prof...
...One interruption, a different sort of stepping, is a novelty in the shape of a boxing match between two women "champions...
...At times the applause is so vigorous as to "stop the show," In the language of the theatrical producer...
...but there was a new line in Fannie Brice's singing: was it a remnant of English in the tongue that added the "h" in "The men pulled at the oars"?— in the song that ended "Tell me, what did Delaware, When Georgle came across...
...and of course she dies to save him from such ruinous folly...
...Santley is convinced that it will not be long before all the world-renowned operatic and concert vocalists will have succumbed to the lure of the cinema micraphone...
...Amusements The Week On Stage By joseph T. shipley GRAND STREET FOLLICLES JT Is at the Booth Theatre, as usual of recent years, that Agnes Morgan's idea of how to be sexy and smart parades under the name of th« Grand Street Follies...
...There is sufficient validity in the present devices to hold for the two hours you watch: the audience seemed quite ready, as it left, to cry to the author and producer "Congratulations...
...The evening carries us from Harlem down South, and by way of a carnival back to a Harlem night club...
...and a, sentimental farewell bow toward the Waldorf shows many former celebrities, marked by an outward resemblance that testifies to excellent makeup...
...an elaborate play of the Orient, which the Shuberts have . opened In Wilmington and Philadelphia, on Its way to Broadway, features Arthur Byron, Mildred Mitchell (brought to star¦ dom directly from Montreal stock company playing) and a cast of sixty includ- . ing native musicians and dancers...
...It includes our life in its laughter, and carries us along...
...Jazztime Jongleurs, this and nothing else, nothing more—but swift and swirling steppers, are the worth while offering of "Messin' Round...
...The last section of "Moscow Today" is the various executive sections of the Soviet Republic conducting its official life behind the Kremlin...
...of course he persists In loving her and In his determination that they shall wed...
...An exhibition has been arransed of Rockwell Kent's original drawings for the privately printed limited edition of Casanova's Memoirs, which have been loaned for this exhibition through the courtesy of the New Arts Circle, J. B. Neumann, director...
...The picture, recently completed at the Paramount Studios at Astoria, Long Island, is an adaptation of the tabloid musical comedy of the same name produced by the celebrated team of Santley 1 and Sawyer for many years on the vaudeville stage...
...LIFE LAUGHS in a mirror At the National Theatre, Morgan Wallace's new comedy "Congratulations" tries the trick of' laughing at Itself, that has proved so popular In the revivals of old meHowdramas...
...The Flood (as handled by Herbert Hoover) is the next stop along . the lanes of history...
...Let me hastily add that some of the best impersonations of recent ye&rs, with Albert Carroll and Dorothy Sands heading a good cast, make the evening more merry than such insistence might otherwise be...
...Warren Hull ! has been chosen for the Juvenile lead In . Chicago, and the producers expect as good casts on jthe road as still crowding the Imperial in New York...
...prof...
...Being of our time, however...
...He goes about telling his public to vote for the other fellow, as he is not prepared for the responsibilities of office...
...The Singing Fool," the Al Jolson stellar production which had such a long run at the Winter Garden and was then transferred to the Sam H. Harris Theatre, is the attraction this week at the Mark Strand Theatre...
...To begin with there is i Roald Colman, most capable of screen artlsts>4n__ttle star role...
...Pierre Magnler, the distinguished French actor, who plays the title role Is a member of the Comedle Francaise and has played the part many times in the theatres of France and Canada...
...Dorothy Bands, Paula Trueman, and Marc Loebell contribute other sound representations...
...Edward O. Robinson Is doing a wonderful job in educating that small section of the non-Jewish public of New York City In the niceties of "kibitzing...
...Ethel Waters, former star of "Africana" and other, colored musical shows, is offering some of her past successes and several new numbers that appear to be as great...
...A "spinning romance" by Will and Gladys Ahem, and other acts, add to the Palace' usual full program...
...of Traffic" shows our deaz^Commissloner aiming to control the wheels of the world...
...By all means aee "wjbitaer...
...The story has been filmed amid the original locations of France and Italy where Cyrano lived, fought and died, with an all-French cast...
...The Cocoanuts" incidentally Is shortly to reach a Broadway Theatre...
...Warren's Profession," but a genuine study of a real person, or of a group, so as to make their backgrounds and motives and wavs of livins- clear dusky dancers There Is little pause in the fast stepping that runs through the evening of "Messin' Around," at the Hudson Theatre...
...They are Chester Morris...
...but these have little use beside the music of Jimmy Johnson, which Is kept busy, and keeps the dancers busy, almost without stop...
...Is to be the feature picture at the 55th Street Playhouse beginning Saturday, May 11...
...and who finds the man she truly loves—too late to do anything for him but die...
Vol. 8 • May 1929 • No. 17
