AMUSEMENTS
Amusements This Week on Stage By Joseph T. Shipley A SOVIET DRAMA ALTHOUGH "The First Law", by Dmitry Bchlegov, has already come and gone, hailed as it was as the first Soviet play to be...
...At the Apollo theatre a singing short starring Tito and a two-reel film entitled "Booklovers" starring Santley and his wife...
...To the full, as it may be beheld by anyone walking along it...
...a veteran player of the Berlin State Theatre, and Rudolph Meinert, member of Max Rheinhard's theatres...
...The Revelers," famous Victor recording and National Broadcasting radio artists are featured ta "Something New In Music...
...Please accept congratulations on a beautiful and spectacular production," Laurence Stallings telegraphed Mr...
...Ads* expects to realize one of his early as...
...wealthy Englishman of the Idle class, is—equally of course—a coward and a cad, when put to the test...
...Three short subjects, produced by him were on display at prominent picture palaces...
...Baclanova Is presented In vaudeville by Harry Weber and her vehicle is Arthur Schnitiler's "The Farewell Supper...
...no more than in our own pieces that make the cowboy a hero and the Mexican (naturally...
...niece of Oliver Morosco, has been added to the cast of "The Tired Business Man," which Regent Productions are opening at the Windsor Theatre, ill the Bronx, next Monday...
...but falls to...
...The Adding Machine"' was one of our best expressionistic dramas: "Cock Robin" (with Philip Barry) indubitably the neatest of our mystery plays...
...Gladden James, Marion Byron, Gertrude Howard, Jed Pouty, William Holden and August Tollaire...
...Roland Wests all-talking melodrama, in which Chester Morris has the chief role, begins the fifth week of its run at the 44th Street theatre on Monday, May 6. Praised by critics and the public, the picture has increased its business during the progress of its engagement, and there are months before it...
...The bays go to the Bayes Theatre, fer "Skidding...
...Lewis James, tenor...
...Warner Bros, announces there will be no silent print of "The Desert Song...
...The Chicago company of "Follow Thru...
...Elmer Harris's comedy "Two Merry Wives" Is coming to the Fulton Theatre on Monday, it is another of the pieces about Hollywood, but is said to reveal more about the Innards of the place than moat of the plays we have been privileged to witness, of the highly delightful life of the motion picture colony...
...starring the Four Marx Brothers, will have Its [ ssjgjd tmanlaa at the ^jltir" Thflatrti Hvman Adler** Plans For two years the delightful coo** "Skidding" has been playing on Broa#way...
...the villain...
...Her logical mind finrtK the rationalising protest: Arent they Just trying to get what I have...
...The co-operative group offering Chekov's "The Sea Gun," directed by Leo Bulgakov, now at the Comedy Theatre, is planning to continue its work, and is seeking new plays for next season...
...FILMS: Silent and Sound "His Captive Woman" with Milton Sills and Dorothy Mackaill, starring in a First National Vitaphone talking picture, which Just a week ago completed its twoa-day run on Broadway, will begin its first popular price engagement at The Mark Strand Theatre, staring Saturday...
...Amusements This Week on Stage By Joseph T. Shipley A SOVIET DRAMA ALTHOUGH "The First Law", by Dmitry Bchlegov, has already come and gone, hailed as it was as the first Soviet play to be shown here In English, it deserves a measure of attention...
...after a successful New England tour, back for one more week at Hampden's theatre next week...
...as by now you know, the Pulitzer Prize play of the year...
...Bess Meredyth has prepared the continuity for this production...
...His Captive Woman...
...Warner Bros, announce that their great Vitaphone spectacle "Noah's Ark...
...The film is based on the lives of the eleven Prussian oQots who followed flensa) Schlll In his revolt against Napoleon and presents an authentic love story in a historical background...
...but Rice has a way of working independent of moods and modes, gathering his materials into a form they find for themselves, and coming through to a glovelike fitting...
...The Last Days of Pompeii," "Quo Vadis" (without Janntogsv, "Anthony and Cleopatra" and etc., belong...
...taken s keen inter**' In his plan and are helping him to WJJ this venture a success...
...Forbsteto 1 was for years one of the leading orchesI tral conductors in America and boasts a ! large following on the Pacific Coast...
...The Chester Hale Dancers, we are glad to see, are coming along...
...She leaves...
...It will be long before we forget their Moroccan number In that night in Paris...
...About Joseph Santley Last week was Joseph Santley's week on Broadway...
...and "Street Scene'' as sound a showing of American city life as our playwrights have yet produced...
...King...
...Barrie's "Shall We Join the Ladies...
...Henry Woodbouse...
...No one has used the story of a girl ta war time ta such an arresting manner...
...The result is evident in the deserved success of "Street Scene...
...musical comedy and revue favorites, assisted by Brother Den, in a comedy, musical, dancing and roping oddity called "Spinning Romance...
...It Is scheduled j for general release late in the summer., Charles King and Bessie Love two of the principals ta "The Broadway Melody.'* which is now ta its fourth capacity month at the As tor Theatre, have been ; given leads ta "Road Show," new MetroI Goldwyn-Mayer all-talktag -production I with a musical setting...
...On their rare visits to these parts, the Kentucky Jubilee Singers should Purely be heard...
...The playlet which the group offers, as framework for one group of songs, suggests the dug-out of "Journey's End", and does not collapse at the comparison...
...without the hectic over-stir of that melodrama...
...In these negro songs, the results Indicate a quite conscious, as it is a most satisfying, balancing of pitch and rhythm...
...This piece is a study of Maine coast life, with the heroine walking out into the rata to meet the ghost of her lover...
...It is the story of a factory family, a slow-moving but tense study of the life of a scab, whose wife hates him but stands by, whose son detests his every act...
...Madwhne MacMebos for the part of Julie, played here by Marie Callahan...
...Plays and Players 4T Henry Miller's "Journey's End" continues the most vivid drama of life in the war zone since "What Price Glory...
...At The Palace Theatre John Charles Thomas, the distinguished American baritone, widely known in this country as a concert artist and in j Europe as an opera star, is making his debut In Radio-Keith-Orpheum vaudeI ville this week at the Palace...
...Vladimir knows that words are vain in any such discussion...
...now i ta its third capacity month at the Winter Garden, will be prereleased on June 15th ' ta time for summer showing In the bigger towns which have not already, or are not now, roadshowing It...
...Eleven who were Loyal" a German film, is to have its first American presentation at the 55th street Playhouse beginning next Saturday...
...The death of Henry makes Ollan ViacBmsTs "wife," and they dwell in happy love—until the ice breaks...
...Appearing with these two popular stars "are George Pawcett, Frank Reicher, Sidney Bracey...
...Lawson has been spoiled, of late seasons, by having a playhouse and little group, financed by a benevolent capitalist, befriending radical expression ta a kindly tolerant way, where whatever Lawson put forth might be produced...
...she forgets by dropping dead...
...Part of the pr«*" of this venture win be contributed to"" Jewish College and educational t*'"' tions as well as the College of Payrs*Mr...
...It is of the variety of the old short story "The Lady or the Tiger": when suspicion has been laid upon every person In the room, the play ends...
...Schwab and Mandel continue to give evidence of unceasing activity...
...Rice, without an easy avenue to production, with indeed a most difficult time for such a veteran (was not "On Trial" a record breaker fifteen years ago...
...Two prizes of $200 are awarded for the best productions, and two of a aim liar size for the best unpublished plays...
...a Charlie Bowers Comedy and other features...
...Alibi...
...It is to this era that such super-spectacles as...
...Here comes along a simple, inexpensive, intelligent and entertaining piece, and stands them rows deep behind the orchestra seats...
...Many professional golf stars, we are told, have been applying for the leading role...
...American plavwrights are Invited to send their work to Walter Abel, at the Comedy...
...Will and Gladys Ab-arn...
...Wilfred Glenn, bass and Frank Black, planlst-composer-conductor, make up this popular quintet...
...Another headline attraction is Baclanova, "Siren of the screen," who has come direct from Hollywood to New York to make her debut...
...The result Is that he, like O'Neill, has been sending out his plays before they are composed, writing them before they are constructed...
...j etc...
...The film records the progress made ta colonization of the vast virgin lands to the Ukraine...
...kidding the public in sasy start...
...Ronald Colman's first 100 per cent dialog picture, is the latest United Artists talking picture hit...
...K is a story of a dancer who is told that if she dance again she will die...
...Walter Woolf (who deserves the double o) and Helen Gilliland, are maintaining a fast pace of musical romancing...
...My heartiest congratulations upon the success you will surely have...
...To those who are not acquaints j with its producer, let us present Mr...
...The landward movement of the Jews of Russia is revealed to a motion picture, "The Jewish Colonization of Soviet Russia...
...Leopold von Ledpbour...
...Vladimir, escaping from a reactionary city to help the revolutionists, is a fine chap, Russian hi his roughness, of course, but every inch a hero...
...Then why should I give up to share their empty desire for it...
...now being formed, wul run at the Garden Pier Theatre in Atlantic City on Its way to Windy-town...
...We permit ourselves the pardonable reflection that over a year ago, ta a little volume on "The Art of Eugene O'Neill" (University of Washington Press, $.65...
...Eleven who were Loyal" stars the American film actress Mary Nolan, the cast also includes Grete Reinhald, "Germany's Queen of Beauty" and a wellknown Eu-opean film actress...
...Other features on the Palace program include Joe Wilton and Rex Weber presenting a fast line of comedy under the title of "Mr...
...a typical young Englishman of the upper class—secretary to her millionaire father—comes to earry her back...
...This mission is to bring to all people the greatest drama of history in its highest ethics...
...Having always taken a PJ* interest ta Jewish literature, Mr...
...veteran actor and direct...
...The play Itself is not so poor a piece as its one week run might make us think: it seems to have been considerably botched In the translation—bring the second play of the season Herman Bernstein has similarly handled...
...On the same program witl be a scenic "Roaming over Andian Byways...
...Can a girl bred in luxury love with the understanding and the depth such sacrifice demands...
...and Vladimir knows that she Is lost, that the days of her love have been a vain and brief taste of the fredom of the spirit her life has made her incapable of hnMiwg...
...and producer of many Broadway SSf* cesses...
...A Night ta Venice," the third of the Shuberts' big nights, opens at 'he Shubert Theatre next Tuesday, with a long large cast, headed by Ted Healy, Ann Seymour, the Dodge Twins, etc...
...but first she must go bid her father goodbye, tell him what she is doing, and kiss him one last time...
...For Ollan's wealthy father has sent a reBsf parly on her trail...
...The sincerity of the play, and the earnestness of the acting, remind us that there is a group out in Sunnlyslde from whom the friends of labor may expect much, as it ripens and thrives...
...love, love of the individual of of the suffering people, is the only argument...
...Maxlne Flnsterwald's play "The Severed Cord," presented by the Sunnyslde Players, of Sunnyside, Long Island, (the community which our assistant editor graces), is the most interesting of the prize winners...
...At the Music Box, "The Little Show" has made such a big hit that other producers are considering just how those things happen without the lavish expenditure usually connected with musical comedies and revues...
...Leo Forbsteta's many years of musical experience have gone into the musical ! score of "The Squall," the sensational I First Natlonal-Vitaphone recently com! pleted at the Burbank Studios...
...EUiott Shaw, baritone...
...The End of the Dance", by Hudson Strode, presented by the Little Theatre of Anniston, Alabama, was one of the two unpublished plays to win...
...Therefore," they continue, "we ask those who are opposed to our presentation not to judge it until they have seen it, for we believe that they will then come to understand the sincerity of our group and will appreciate to fuU the spirit and the motive of it...
...but it seems too close a part of the characters' growth to be so superficial I am led to conclude, then, that ta "The First Law" at least, there is offered by a Soviet dramatist a frank and honest study of a fundamental phase of - the relationship between the newly rising people and the classes that have been at the top...
...considering those In the current theatre who were moot likely to carry the achievement and experimentation of O'Neill to fuller expression of this country in the theatre, we named John Howard Lawson and Elmer Rice...
...Walter Hampden brings his vigorous "Cyrano de Bergerac...
...The comedy performances are just about the hlghwater mark in war pictures...
...The disillusioned wife accepts his invitation to dance a tango and forget...
...Brothers," at the 48th Street Theatre, that "romantic melodrama' with Bert Lytell, is giving an extra chance to playgoers with a special matinee for the Acttos' Fund next Friday, May 24...
...SPIRITUALS The Kentucky Jubilee Singers, at Maxtas Elliott's Theatre, despite their amusing physical range from tiny tenor to giant bass, are unquestionably a surpassing organization of negro spiirtual singers...
...No director has been announced...
...of the true fellowship with the downtrodden her upreared fortune has made her unable to maintain...
...By*, man Adler...
...The play is by Lyle Weaver Hall...
...Recent investigators claim that the half-tones and quarter-tones and curious intervals we sophisticated moderns praise in primitive music, are really produced through Inability to strike the proper tone or time...
...was shown on the same program with "Coquette...
...Ollan says she will go with Vladimir...
...At WaUack's Theatre, "She Got What She Wanted" continues to prove that a bird in the hand is not worth the look before you leap...
...May 18th...
...The Fassnacht family, responsible for the form, and for the continuance of "The Pession Play," which Morris Gest has brought to the Hippodrome, have issued a statement in which they express surprise and regret at the religious antagonism the play has aroused...
...James.Melton, second tenor...
...Bulldog Drummond...
...The story is beautifully told and the.execution of the battle scenes is nothing short of amazing...
...For their acting of this, the Forest Hills (Long Island) Players were awarded the BeIasco Cup...
...There is Indeed a street seen In this play...
...we wait with anticipation, judging from past performances, for one of next season's hits...
...Two of the Wednesday plays, and two of the Friday offerings, captured the four prises, and were repeated at matinee and evening performances Saturday...
...With "Kif Tebbi," and two other films now in production by the Adla Company of Rome, the Fascist Government hopes to retrieve the position it held to motion pictures prior to the war...
...Tin play puts to the test, by marooning Henry and his fiancee Ollan Stevens In a Siberian hut whence they cannot escape till the ice cracks, and where Vladimir also seeks shelter...
...He has been conductor at Warner Brothers Theatre In Hoilywod and other leading haatt IB Las A&ctk...
...They feel that their presentation is in fulfilment of a mission...
...which the Fifth Avenue Playhouse will present this Saturday to conjunction with the American premiere of "Kif Tebbi...
...Henry Meyers Is writing the lyrics for a new musical comedy to be called "Stand By...
...Not knowing the original, I can but wonder whether the end, Ollan's return to her upper sphere, was devised by the adapter to make a middle class American happy ending...
...Ollan's respect and love of Vladimir have won her to a sympathy with fast cause, with his people, among whom she would follow him: all her yean of breeding and generations of genteel ancestors rebel against the life she would have led...
...Adler is the sole possessor St jm last play bv 6 Ansky, author "S "Dybbuk," and he plan* to prods...
...STREET SEEN "Street Scene," by Elmer Rice, now crowding the Playhouse, Is...
...The theme of the play is not the revolution, although the action is laid ta the first days of the Bolshevik uprising: "The First Law", save for two minor characters, is a stark play of personality, of dramatic conflict reduced to sharpest terms...
...And—to come to an end—all players engaged by Schwab and Mandel are being given contracts which forbit their appearing in cabarets, grill rooms, the talkies, or other puolic entertainments, while playing in an E. Si, M. show...
...Crimea, the plains of White Russia and the Blro-Bidjan basin, where more than 200.000 Jews have settled within the past few years under grants from the Soviet Union for the purpose of farming...
...based on the novel "Changeling" was adapted for the screen by Carey Wilson and directed by George Fltzmaurice, to whose merit are two recent successes, "Lilac Time" and "The Barker...
...America...
...When the new season opens Mr...
...King Vidor and Laurence Stalllngz, the gentlemen who were responsible for direction and story of "The Big Parade," are to agreement about the merits of "She Goes to War," Henry King's picturizatlon of the Rupert Hughes novel...
...My Gypsy Charmer," the theme song of "The Squall," was especially composed and written In tempo with the chief character, a gypsy girl, to the daring version of the stage play...
...Eleanor Boardman and John Holland have the chief roles...
...Without actually standing by...
...The Apollo Theatre could have been sold out five times over for the opening night...
...On the 25th of the month his first fun length production, "The Cocoanuts...
...This double-quartet achieves the most effective' harmony I have ever heard, in this type of singing...
...AM" Is now sponsoring a Judean Drama OoM for next season, to be organized skafj the same lines as the Theatre Guild...
...produced by Santley...
...Meanwhile, at Chanln 48th Street Theatre, the play has passed its 150th performance to New York...
...and The Three Sailors, Bert Jason, Bob Rcbson and Harry Blue, in a comedy athletic novelty-entitled "RIGHT...
...Is growing to a strong middle?—with the finish still out of sight along the summer heat-ways...
...The element of propaganda enters—and this surprised many—very slightly Into the drama...
...Vitaphone exhibitors can set immediate playdates for "The Desert Song" which was listed by Warner Bros, for release on May 11th...
...As to "The New Moon," at the Imperial: Gus Shy of the company will stage the annual show of the Princeton Triangle Club Club once more...
...Robert Halliday...
...This will be the last opportunity for some time, for seeing this colorful drama, to sterling performance...
...The picture was adapted from the novel "The Eleven SchiU Officers" by Max Jungke and directed by Rudolph Metaert for the Internation Film A. G. IFA of Berlin...
...The contrast between the two men leads Ollan, capable and honorable,, in the crisis, to dsspha Henry, and to fan in love with Vladimir...
...whose husband is to write a great opera...
...the leading man, has inherited an estate to Scotland, and will take off the month of July to see what it looks like—or is that his version of the grand mother's funeral stoi-y...
...Unmistakably you have shown us a phase of the world war never before touched upon...
...is perhaps a melodrama mystery rather than a tragic piece...
...has been forced to keep his work toned to a fuller degree of thought-out workmanship...
...In contrast to "Cabiria.*' the Fifth Avenue Playhouse will present for a week beginning today the American premiere of "Kif Tebbi," the first of the new school of Italian cinema art...
...The story is that of a specialty dancer to love with a matinee lqol who appears to be unawade of her existence...
...The picture is superbly directed," King Vidor wired Henry King, who is now in New York...
...The technique of the drama is the "slice of life" development made popular by the Russians...
...Ivy Sawyer, were featured along with "Bulldog Drummond...
...The scenery for the traveling group is being prepared by the Bergman Studios, which are getting it ready for Boston also...
...bitions...
...The production was directed by Roy Del Ruth and features an all-star east assisted by a chorus of two hundred singers...
...Then the true struggle of the play begins, equally universal and of more present Interest...
...Bee Morosco...
...Thomas I has won tm exalted njsjoa in (he flato Pi musical art through his talent, ability, training and experience...
...The Chicago company of "The New Motm" has engaged...
...The Red Robe," now at Jolson's Theatre, is entertaining a larger crowd...
...At the RivoU, a two reel singing film called "Then and Now...
...He takes «¦» means of thanking all those who given him assistance, and win *PP**25 any further interest...
...The other unpublished play to win a prize was Dana Burnett's tragedy "Rain", produced by the Guild Play Shop of Denver...
...Cabiria...
...ONE-ACT WINNERS All of last week the little theatres of the land gave their best offerings at the Waldorf Theatre, in the annual Belaaco Cup Tourney...
...Tragedies held the upper hand, in all four instances...
...adv...
...plans to produce plays by Jewish UtsrW masters and translate them into «*' English language, thus giving the wontat large the opportunity to see the «"*» works that the Jewish race is so pjassj Mr...
...All reviewers praised the production, and the advance sale is the largest ever recorded on any picture on Broadway...
...The picture will be released to a Vitaphone version only, since the producers feel that every film patron will want to hear the music and singing which is an integral part of this first Vitaphone operetta...
...Adler claims that many prominesj Jewish people hav...
Vol. 8 • May 1929 • No. 18
