AMUSEMENTS
Amusements The Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley BAD-BOOM FABCE "Stepping Out." by admer Ham*, is on for Uk summer st the Fulton. , You remember the story of the bof*. rho told his friend...
...This came to my mind when, ifter the first act...
...It grows the ashlon, these days, to have author-directors...
...The new and all-satisfactory God Is still a myth, and O'Neill Is not trying to nor is anyone else, anywhere near the solution to the quest for a new Deity...
...to make that play the ongest running In the city!—is rehearing for immediate production "The Son if • Lucretia Borgia," written and being llrected by Edward Eisner...
...Last Saturday the strikers held a large, mass meeting In Webster Hall which wa* addressed by William Karlin...
...Tom Rlcketts...
...Among important Importations and revivals...
...So here one white man is yellow...
...Stepping Out" is a typical product of ur present society, quite attuned to the ecreational needs of the ambitious midDe class...
...In no part of the film does she seem to be working for an emotional effect...
...She dramatizes neither the situation nor her method of presenting It to the audience...
...Is Deng played by the Russian Countess Olga Dlovona...
...These projects Indicate the vast scope of the producer's plans, for wholly new ventures...
...and lyrics by Newman Levy...
...He will offer one performance of "Judith Did It," by Sally Kemper, at the Bayes Theatre, for a special matinee, if the critics like it, Mr...
...Woman and the Tertium Quid disport themselves...
...This makes the third one of Chekov's great plays recently presented in New York, and affords a view of the dramatist in a play more centrally formed, perhaps, than most of his others, teh Lim 3,000 Iron Workers Fight For More Pay And Fewer Hours With 3,000 of the 4,000 workers in the architectural, iron ud brons industry in New York out on strike, and owners of some shops pleading for strikers to return, the Architectural, Iron and Bronx Workers Union is carrying the fight for an increase in wages of $4 per week...
...Many of the sequences were taken on location in the South...
...It s a vital and highly spiced Continetal story of four lone wolves who refuse to run with the pack—four persons who live, love and solve the problems of their happiness in their own way by refusing to follow modern conventions...
...Preogrezhenskaya lets the life she preents speak for Itself...
...Summer Melodrama At the Palace recently, the Norman Thomas group of singers and dancers brought their entertainment...
...While It will be long before the simple beauty of the Morocco number in the Paris Issue, the red and white capes of the Chester Hale girls and _ their manoeuvers, will fade from mind, long too probably, before they will be matched, the present numbers rise and rouse effectively...
...that of H. R. H. The Prince of Wales, and Edmund Loewe, that of Ricards...
...K»nce the preoccupation of the R>is«lans with cutting, or "montage...
...tht attorney for the union...
...an old Mary Pickford two-reeler of some 15 years ago and other features...
...along about June it grows hotter...
...The Broadway Melody," current capacity attraction at the As tor Theatre, appears to have scored as decisive a hit In London as over here...
...they have also altered fashions in designs of sets against which Man...
...an English-bom favorite of European films...
...Moissi is using the original German script of "The Royal Box," which was made known in this country originally by Charles Coghian...
...k schemer of those days—but who In hose days was not?—is Donna Negi...
...The Tired Business Man...
...Preobrezhenskaya In this film strikes out on her own...
...She merely records her facts...
...directed also by Reinhardt, a Burmese ballet, and a very modem musical comedy with Russian leanings, book by Montague Glass, score by Dmitri (composer for and husband of Albertina Rasch...
...following a preview by studio executives of the picture...
...that makes its way along a second year, is trying a novel method of testing a play...
...There are three feminine roles n the play, and each is of quite a diff•rent type of Italian lady of the poison>us period, when any drink might mean 1 funeral, and any handshake a last Farewell...
...The leading woman, as has been announced, will be the well known film actress, Camilla Horn...
...The cast includes Ruth Weyher...
...and is lady-in-waiting to Lucretia...
...In the supporting cast are Audrey Ferris...
...Receipts for the first week were 55 per cent more than during any previous week in the theatre's history, althugh two weeks is the maximum length to date of a picture's engagement at the New Empire, "The Broadway Melody," it is believed, will remain for several month*.______ Nina Mae MCKenney, seventeen yearOld colored girl who was signed for King Vldor's new picture, "Hallelujah...
...Meanwhile, the other plans of Morris 3est list twelve major projects, about which we shall have more to say...
...pupil of Max Reinhardt and seen here already In UFA'S Freudian picture "Secrets of a Soul," Louis Lerch, one of the screen idols of Germany, and Miles Manders...
...In the clarity of Its outline, the evenness of it* unfolding, the continuity and liveliness of its background, it a squires a characteristic and unique quality—the atmosphere and unity of a poem...
...The Russians, such as Eisenstein and Pudovkin, on the contrary, stress not so much the situation and the actual experience of their characters, as the form In which they present these on the screen...
...and I said you rere...
...A cast heavy with good performers has st its peak Ted Healy (fun-maker in chief...
...There are colorful dance numbers, also, in .vhlch other groups take part, as in "Fans...
...Lent Stengel, that of Lady Robert: William F. Schoeller...
...With these folk, whose money apparently quickly acquired) had rought no breeding, no culture, no way rt spending leisure—who therefore well -epresent the many in this land—the ilay frivols...
...but the level of fun is on the whole higher, the general effects more elaborately achieved, and the evening therefore more generally entertaining...
...With a remarkable detachment which borders almost on self-effacement...
...There is usuaily an exception to prove the rule...
...Is on a par with the Interpretations often placed by the Supreme Court on Congressional Laws...
...The Village of Sin" reveals a characteristic difference both from the typical Hollywood picture and the typical Russian picture...
...But If this is a drawback...
...At least, it has won this year's Pulitzer Prise...
...It deals with two middle-aged ouplea In Hollywood, one of whom has rut down their help to seven, "to econmlze," though economy seems otherwise ar from their minds...
...Arthur Rankin...
...The Continental Idea of love affairs as opposed by American conventions is exemplified in a new UFA production "The Doctor's Women...
...of Balieff's "ChauveSourls," and of the play drawn from Dickens' "Pickwick...
...rho told his friend how he had deFended him: "Frank said you weren't It to sleep with a pig...
...one of the best known actors on the English speaking stage during the later years of his activity...
...a pantomime by von Hoffmsnnsthal...
...To one familiar with Russians and Russia, the title inevitably suggests the famous peasant women, "bahby," by Malyavin—those gorgeous creatures in flaming reds and blues who in an orgy of movement, spreading their immense aprons, look as if they were the earth herself rising, mounting up, to take shape in their rugged yet intoxicating beauty...
...Not a rhymed poem of measured lines, nor the lyrical poem in prose (like thst Griffith masterpiece, "Broken Blossoms") but a poem in free verse, descriptive and factual, devoid of lyrical sentimentality and dramatic emphasis, flexible in it* form and natural In its movement, and because of all that, because of its being a poem, throbbing with a life of its own, the life of its continuous and characteristic rhythm...
...FILMS: Silent and Sound "A PHOTOGRAPHIC POEM" By Alexander Bakahy ti^pHE VILLAGE OF SIN," the film ¦a...
...Lucretia herself, that sweet devil of he early and violent renaissance...
...But this is as far as the resemblance goes...
...With commendable Independence...
...Here's a chance to see something wirth while...
...Lee Moran and others...
...The name of the film, therefore, prepares one to expect something very colorful in apoearance...
...railroads have found a good sign to put in front of the Shubert Theatre these da75: "St ip...
...There is as little relation to Venice here ,as In the predecessors of this spectacle, there was to Paris or to Spam...
...romantic in spirit, fantastic in implications...
...It should run at east through the summer...
...In some ways the new departure of such achievements in William Cameron Menzie's sets for "Bulldog Drummond" resembles the technique of "The Cabinet of Dr...
...in winch Ralph Graves Is seen and heard in the masculine lead, will begin its engagement at The Mark Strand theatre beginning Saturday...
...Caligari" in the weird effects of which construction as well as photography played an Important part...
...Dolores Costello in her most., recent Warner Bros...
...M. S. Caiman of Wew York City makes the following Interesting remarks: "To Interpret CNelll'i 'Dynamo,' especially what the author seeks to convey in the third act...
...women's dresses together with the grouping betray unmistakably the Influence of the famous painter...
...Is seen and heard...
...Now, at the Forrest, a certain Jim O'Neill almost matches the name of our editor...
...There is a pretense of story about Jhe beginning of the revue...
...There is nothing of Malyavin's "glorification of the Russian Bahba" In the film made by Preobrezhenskay...
...The Court, quite often, gives the law an interpretation Congress never had intended said law to convey...
...Dale Fuller...
...Hallelujah" Is an all-dialogue photoplay, with a cast made up entirely of Negroes, and including the Dixie Jubilee Singers and a large number of extras...
...This became evident when the Jackson shop and the Tiffany shop tent telegrams to their workers pleading war them to return...
...producer of "Skidding...
...William Kelsey, general auditor of the firm, is hurrying home m the Majestic, to count up what has x>me in during his five weeks away...
...The actual film is none of these things, and the fact, it will be admitted, is rather to its credit than otherwise...
...Many of these strikers will be brought into the union as a result of the strike which began on May 15...
...Morris Gest will bring over the Festival Company from Stratford-onAvon, with the Shakespeare festivities, will present Moissi in an English "Hamlet," the Moscow Art Theatre in another tour, with new plays, and long tours of the Freiburg Passion Play, of "The Miracle, of "Mima...
...In the first few days of the struggle 50 strikers were arrested and balled out by the union...
...Adler will present it for a run...
...But need it be assumed that all theatregoers pack away their intelligence with their winter furs...
...Morris Gest...
...husband of the somewhat Infamous Lucretia Borgia...
...Truly a magnificent scope...
...That Malyavin's canvases were one of the sources of inspiration in the making of this film Is evident in some of the shots In which the decorative treatment of the...
...The whole spirit of the picture Is different...
...Brooklyn Vitaphone studios, with the celebrated German actor, Alexander Moissi...
...If I may be permitted to 'guess' at the author's meaning, Reuben's worshipping the new God Dynamo in the third act...
...which is to have its first American presentation at the 55th Street Playhouse begnnng next Saturday, June 1st...
...Look, ar.d Listen" and you will be safe in your choice for 1he evening...
...The Doctors Women" was actually taken in Paris and directed by Gustav Molander from a story by the well-known novelist Paul Merzbach...
...Schwab and Mandel seem to be as busy is ever...
...Talking pictures have not only played the cat and the banjo with acting, writing and directing of films...
...Uncle Vanya" is having special matinees these Tuesdays and Fridays, at the Mrosoco...
...The demand for a wage Increase is made for all the strikers and also for the extension of the 44-hour work week to the 1,800 men outside of the union...
...And lack Buchanan has been looking over .he "Follow Thru" company at Chanln'i 48th Street Theatre, with a view to Handling the Jack Haley role in London, tvy Tresmond will play the Irene Delroy role over there, and Ada May may take the Zelma O'Neal part...
...Jobyna Howland and Grace La Rue...
...such a one is always good sauce for the native frying pan—and, no matter how much they want him out of the way, his killing Is excuse for the high revenge...
...Albert Gran...
...with a gesture typical of his wholehearted, wide-sweeping ways, has cut the prices for The Passion Play In half...
...Beginning Monday, there will be 1500 seats available at 50 cents, and a 11.50 top will mark the theatre...
...Is not intended to be taken symbolically, but rather to pot-tray a state of mind common to all fanatics—a state of paranoia or monomania, if you please...
...Four new members have been added to the cast of "The Royal Box...
...Thl* reverses the usual form of postponement...
...And in this...
...slaved by Mary Hanover Moore...
...Hyman Adler...
...On the first day of the Strike 3,000 workers responded in 150 shops and the number soon Increased to 3.000...
...in the pivotal role...
...In "Chinese O'Neill—as in "The Green Goddess" —there is an cbjecticnable male white man who must be gotten out of the way so that our hero and heroine can wed...
...which the Dodge sisters, back from Paris, rise through in blue above a coral pink circling swirl of plumes...
...not a jody!—above twelve, to understand, one nay look in vain...
...a comedy-drama by Carl Kenkle...
...Chicago offices are opening, for ;he two companies of "Follow Tru" and 'The New Moon...
...It alms to combine sex suggestion with marital cynicism, therery permitting double release to the married spectators: they can spend their iwn dissatisfaction with a humdrum married state, by sharing the play's »ld cuts at such half-living: and they am enjoy their sex-urgings In the esapades (within and without the mar-tage "bond") of the two men and two somen here...
...But whether you use your eyes or your ears, th...
...Reuben Is perfectly sane on other matters, but in momentarily anticipating the revelation of the new God in electricity, he Is portrayed as a victim suffering from a mental obsession, the result of a fanatical consecration to his studies and research...
...Stepping 3ut...
...For one lota of serious jurpose, one inkling of intelligence, for inything requiring a mind—oh...
...and such things as social problems...
...Flying, it must be remembered, at least in a dream, is a symbol Freud has carefully labeled: the word "drama" has been derived from "Dream...
...For this is one of those deafening if not deft dramas in which machine guns alternate with shrieks as the chief source of high tension;* wherein all the villains are yellow, and all the good folks are white...
...Nice Women" (the grown up nize babies, we wonder...
...Malyavin's orgiastic self-abandon has given place to the suber...
...Too late for comment this week appears "Decision...
...and the present play tries to justify the etymology...
...Vitaphone all-talkinSspicture "The Glad Rag Doll...
...Or perhaps we should look for the crown up nize babies in "Cripples," a new day by Luther Yantls (or whoever—is aiding behind that name), which has by now opened at the Belmont, a few days ahead of earlier announcements...
...Andre Beranger...
...They are all suffering from a mental obsession or monomania...
...But sex and summer are natural cor.ipanijns: in the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to love...
...Bernard Levey, press reprsntativs of 'Skidding"—and he must have done a mighty good job...
...The drama of her characters—and no situation could be more poignant than that in which the fether of the the family forces openly his daughter-in-law to become his mistress and has a child by her while his son and the girl's husband Is away at war— this dramatic conflict is never torn from its background, is never psychologically isolated from the life of the other village folk...
...a pair of high fliers make their way to Venice by boat, while an eager warld awaits them in the air...
...Anyone bringing a copy of the victrola record "Belle of New York" to the Morose o Theatre, will get good return to the form of a pair of tickets to Drlnkwater's success "Bird In Hand...
...Plays and Players T* MTCHAKL KALLE8TKR, producer of JV| "Rockbound" sod other Broadway - """plays, has on Its way to the big avenue his new piece entitled—and why not?—"Bed and Board...
...The poorer couple las an estate of a million and a half to Li vide...
...But, in wholesale application and constant stylixaiion, these new necessities of the Hollywood designers represent one of the most radical advances in American and world picture technique since the beginning of the business...
...TOE DOCTOR LOOKS AT THE DBAMA In a letter suggested by our article TJyncanolatry," in connection with Eurene O'Neill's "Dynamo," produced by die Theatre Guild, Dr...
...Rumor, that dame with as many ears as a field of com, hath it that O'Neill is revising the play...
...By which he implies that this is a serious play...
...Nero, they tell, was always harping on that subject...
...while playing in the musical production...
...On the same program will be a color scenic "Bal-The Unknown...
...Wlnfred Seagram, late leading man 'or Ina Claire...
...Miss McKenney is now visiting relatives In New York...
...as it is known in Russia, which, in their eyes, assumes the position of principal factor of dramatic appeal...
...A good look at an excellent sample of the new order may be taken when "Bulldog Drummond," Ronald Colman's first all-talking picture...
...The Glad Rag Doll" is an original scren story by Harvey Oates...
...The big shops, especially in the bronz section of the industry, are Ued up and the ranks of the employer* are breaking...
...We may .1st them now: a Russian-America ballet under Foklne, "Orpheus" under Reinhardt...
...The Village of Sin" may also be said to have the quality of its defects...
...which is now in rehearsal at Warner Bros...
...Sinner Seasoning The proper sort of entertainment for summer, (except for those who reserve that more leisured time for their heavy reading) is now being presented at the Shubert Theatre, under the name of "A Night In Venice...
...is a play by William A Grew (which strengthens our suspicions) which L Lawrence Weber will affer at the Majestic (Brooklyn) next Monday, June 3. Robert Warwick and Sylvia Sidney head the cast...
...The Hippodrome Is thus being opened to all who truly wish to feel the religious power of this old miracle play...
...has the earmarks of a summer's lit...
...I asked how It could insult what t presumed was non-existent in Us aullence...
...This Is, however, the only and remot" connection between "Chinese O'Neill," by Captcln Cushing Donneu...
...The membership of the union is about 1,300 which have had the union shop and the 44-hour week and a scale of wages ranging from $40 to $50 per week...
...The Reliance Bronx Works also sent letters to iU employ* apologizing for arrests that had beer made and declaring that if the worsen had informed the company it would hawhad the arrested men released...
...Hollywood's method In building ud an emotional appeal is based primarily on dramatizing the situation bv isolating and stressing the reactions of Individual characters...
...Apparently the usual amount, and the usual turns, of villainy, do not suffice Captain Cushing Donnell: for, as they expect to kill all the white folks—save, of course, the ladle*—without much trouble, the Chinese decide to burn up their own city for a little extra display of high spirits...
...Is to have the role of Duke Alphonso...
...scenarized by C. Graham Baker and directed by Michael Curtis, director of "Noah's Ark...
...Ann Seymour, the Dodge Sisters, the Havel Brothers, and the Chester Hale girls...
...Marion Lessing has been selected for the part of Ebbo...
...Baptists and other dogmatists who accept the old and the New Testaments at the face value, mentally on this one subject the Jehovah, are on a par with Reuben, the modem searcher for the new God...
...Blackbirds," has been given a new contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...Incidentally, the good arce acting of Herbert Corthell is run dose by the two women...
...though kindly, observation...
...at the 49th Street Theatre...
...Several were beaten up and oat member was taken to the hospital wito a broken head...
...my companion said be play was an insult to the intellirence...
...now shoving at the Little Carnegie Playhouse, is known in Russia as "Ryazanskiye Bahby" ("The Peasant Women of Ryazan...
...a comedy irama dealing with rival newspaper pubIshers, opens at the Waldorf Theatre Monday, fresh from triumphs in Brooklyn...
...The MertoGoldwyn-Mayer singing-talknig-danctng picture attracted more than 115,000 persons to the New Empire Theatre during the first week of its run at that 5006seat playhouse...
...Maude Turner Gordon...
...Self-sacrifice and unexpected money combine to tangle Margaret Barnstead Edward Martin, and several others in the activities of the play...
...In an enthutisstie speech Karlin urged the strikers to stand firm...
...Others in the cast of this first play to be filmed In a foreign language Includes Elsa Ersi, William Gade, Siegfried Roumann, Albert Van Dekker and Lew Hearn...
...This being the initial assumpion of "Stepping Out...
...The record Is used In the play, and the theatre copyis wearing out...
...Barbara Chambers collaborated with the producer in the writing of this comedy, Michael KaDaser is also at work on 1 new drama, called "Moulding Destinies.' WhBe we venture to think it win have another name, by the time it reaches Broadway, we eta do no more than mention the author's hope to duplicate the ¦ueef of "Street Scene...
...Frances Dumas, whose family * responsible (in fiction) for many a stirring tale, sings the theme song the ilay...
...Inevitably her picture loses something in dramatic suspense, In the intensity of its emotional appeal...
...Claude Gilllngwater, Tom Kennedy...
Vol. 8 • June 1929 • No. 20
