AMUSEMENTS
Amusments The Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley MAKE UP YOOt MIND Sarcey. the French critic having more time and money than critics today, used to leave every play be saw. after the first...
...Carl Laemmle, Jr., associate producer with the Universal Pictures Corporation, was responsible for the production...
...ta the face of the Pulitzer Prize...
...yes—the great moment when the foster soother pleads for her wards, and that other great moment in which the wards do not choose to leave...
...after the first act...
...a bad one, buy yourself a couple of tickets for "Journey's End," at Henry Miller's, and see that it has its redeemipg strength...
...Walter O'Keefe, well known song writer and night club entertainer, who will ibe remembered for the book and lyrics ; of the racent Broadway musical hit, i "Just a Minute," and Bobby Dolan, j youthful musical genius, who with | O'Keefe wrote the new musical comedy "Up and At "Em," have been brought 1 from New York to the Pathe studio to ; write incidental music and comedy numbers for "Treasure Girt...
...But here, the children have their wealth either way...
...I had to battle my way to a seat through a crowd of over 1,000 women besieging the theatre In the hope of catching a glimpse of Colman, who watched the film from a box...
...BUlie Dove In "Careers...
...Treasure Girl...
...at 8.30 o'clock, a* the following timely question: "Was** effect win the coming into "power of t*P* British Labor Party have on the .poBtaial...
...but attempted kidnapping, efforts to obtain legal control, an of course, frustrated...
...Feeling that the city was too cramping for his style, Roy D'Arcy left New York ta a flurry, grabbing a macklnaw at a store in spite of the fact that the clerk protested it might not be his size, rushing into an army and navy store and asking for a pair of flannel "romance killer" pajamas, as he termed it...
...This remarkable artist was first 'cellist at the Capitol for a period of over six years and his impeccable techniqus, sound musicianship and breadth and beauty of tone, are well known in music and radio fields...
...Massachusetts has killed the law that was to have modified censorship...
...Today, the critic compresses this process into s single night, building the play from the first set...
...The play, we remember, gives opportunity for some good effects...
...Trying this look ahead on 'Decision...
...If members of a jury had to read an entire book, or listen to somebody else reading it, hardly a book would be what the headline writers' call "Banned.' * * * "Or this from the Evening Telegram af New York of April 2, 1929—the afternoon in which I am writing: 'Federal Judge Gibson, of Pittsburgh, has handed down a decision which is reminiscent of the worst days of English judicial tyranny...
...playwrights, has been signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to write original stories for talking picture production...
...Censorship Joker in Tariff Bill Denounced BALTIMORE— (FP) —Members of the faculty of Johns Hopkins University arc taking a leading part in the fight begun by American scholars and friends of civil Liberty, against the censorship joker contained In Sec...
...Scarcely however, went home, or to a lonely tab;, at his favorite cafe...
...And a cell...
...The only answer is counter-organisation, by those who still know enough of freedom to value it...
...the proper defence...
...the official motion picture of the Soviet expedition, depicting in actual and authentic detail the polar drama which recently held the world, is to be featured at the Momart Theatre beginning Saturday, June 8. The film consisting of seven reels, tells ta graphic form all that took place from the moment that the chunky Soviet icebreaker left Leningrad until she picked up every living survivor of the illfated Italia and nosed her way back through hazardous ice-floes to Leningrad...
...Robert Wiene...
...That today we- are faced with one of trie most fanatical "and dangerous forms' of censorship that ever existed, because the'effect of all such activity is to reduce ail human intelligence to one level—and that level about that of a low-grade (not even a high-grade) moron...
...Theatre...
...They include that vague class known as 'mothers', as if motherhood were a function that of itself guaranteed brains, constructive intelligence, even statecraft...
...WILLIAM LEA...
...There is the clause which forbids the bringing of books, papers, pictures,, etc., into this country if they suggest dangerous or seditious thought...
...Remember how apple refused wealth to cling to Silas Marner...
...Ira Gershwin wrote the lyrics for his brother's music...
...Have we mentioned that George Houston is to carry > on ta the lead of "The New Moon" at the Imperial, while Robert Hall...
...At the Hubert Harrison Memorial* Church, 149 West 136th Street, Ctom--***^ Ethelred Brown, minister, and W. Ar* Domingo win lead a discussion on Sunday evening...
...Redskin,"' a film in technicolor, starring Richard Dix, and "Sajenko" make up the program for Monday and Tuesday...
...Free speech, free publication and communication of thought, is the basis not only of democracy (in all its proper forms) but of any progress other than mechanical, mankind may hope to achieve...
...New York correspondent of the London Daily News, cabled to his paper 3ftcr the opening of "Bulldog DrumTicnd" al the ApoHo Theatre...
...In Miss Tucker's support are George Duryea, I .lis Lee, Audrey Ferris...
...But it is a bad defeat, nevertheless...
...Tapolczyani committed no overt act, he merely entertained certain views.' * * * "Well-meaning citizens, as you see (or maybe not) but all Intent on one thing —the possibility if not always the probability of stopping something, or at least interfering with it, or re-arranging it according to their notions of how or what should be, and at the same time getting their names in the paper or drawing a salary or getting some sort of a title attached to themselves...
...Tapolczyani argued that he had always upheld the laws and Constitution of his adopted country and that he is opposed to change by revolution when constituted means are at hand...
...day goes to Scotland to settle that estate...
...Incidentally, the cast of "Bird In Hand" spent the birthday of John Drinkwater by sending him a cable and celebrating at Coney Island, which most of this English company found quite novel...
...Richard Boleslavsky, famous New York stage director, • will be responsible for the dances and :ensembles...
...The picture, as adapted for the screen by Forrest Halsey, follows the novel faithfully and gives Miss Griffith an opportunity to play a Hungarian peasant girl for the first time ta her varied career...
...Last week a rare issue of Rabelais, on its way to an internationally known collector, waa stapled by some petty customs off)rials, too ignorant to know that the book is on public sale in any shop of the city to which be refused it admittance...
...The Little Show" is also on the market, although the Music Bos is not a very large theatre...
...who directed the aforementioned success, has done the same for "The Tired Business Man," by Lyle Weaver Hall, which has come from a Brooklyn try-out to the Waldorf Theatre...
...She is replaced by Hilda Manners...
...If your fancy is on another sort of entertainment, where music and dancing dally with humor and taste...
...The Manhattan Symphony la a co-operative group of 100 expert musicians who share the profits...
...The film was made in London and in the Tyrol mountains, and has had a great success throughout Europe...
...A larger house—but none too large for its quality—shelters "The Grand Street Follies" at the Booth, th- impersonations of Albert Carroll...
...305 of the Hawley tariff bill...
...The women members of these organizations are usually women suffering from a tremendous Weltschmerz...
...They seem, there, indeec', to have screwed their "Courage" to the sticking point...
...adapted from Samuel Ornitz's thrilling story "Tong War," featuring Wallace Beery and Florence Vidor, and "Children of the Ritz...
...His Late Excellency," which is to have its first American presentation at the 55th Street Playhouse beginning Saturday...
...His destination wss Camp Taminent, ta the Blue Hills of Forest Park, Pa., where he suddenly decided to write his act which opens ta two weeks at the Palace...
...They brought suit in equity charging that Tapolczyani had obtained his citizenship by fraud, since he could not honestly take an oath to uphold the Constitution...
...the beauty, the Chevalier Bros, -and BUly and Elsa Newell wiU complete the program of favorites...
...The theatre was, crowded with stage and film stars, and Colman was given an almost delirious reception—an unusual thing in New York, where audiences are colder than in London...
...It Is a highly dramatic story of paternal love, featuring Jack Holt in the leading role, in which he adds another distinctive characterization to his recent triumphs in "Submarine and "The Donovan Affair...
...Cleopatra," "Lee Sylphides," "Prince Igor," and many ether effective pieces, which the company , wifi present next falL . The English company of "Follow Thru," Schwab and MandeL announce, has secured Ada May, who win be the only featured American player ta the London cast...
...Russia, and a protege of Glazounofi, the famous Russian composer...
...What is the answer...
...She sings seven new "hot"' songs composed for her by Jack Yellen and Milton Ager...
...Ferdie Grofe...
...It is not a well known fact that the Globe Theatre is the only playhouse in the country equipped with a movable roof...
...The theme song of the picture is .entitled 'Tm Doing What I'm Doing for Love...
...Mr...
...There is no nonsense in the idea that a noncensorship society is needed in the land...
...which will be Universal's next production...
...We need expect no tract on how money makes men moral, suddenly recognizing their duties to the erstwhile forgotten babes...
...Among'Morris Gest's plans, ss we have already hinted, is the organization at a Russian-American ballet...
...It was directed by Paul Pejos with Glenn Tryon in the role of the "hoofer...
...Sil-Vara, author of "Caprice...
...The new Bill provided that the entire book, had to be considered...
...public win answer in equally certain tone...
...the next performance, and stayed for the entire play—checking up his imagined version with the author's, watching lor variations and their Justification, testing and improving his own imagination and judgment while analyzing the playwright's...
...Ala.— i FP I —Mobile unionists hope—to "come back to near w*r»j time strength, says Pres...
...He has assumed the right to punish a man for what he thinks...
...comes to this country with the advance reports to be "the best German-made comedy film since "The Waltz Dream...
...Texas Gulnan has opened her new Show Place, which gives two performances nightly of her famous cabarabians making whatever they call whoopee out on Long Island...
...Miss Griffith has recently completed Molnar's "Prisoners" as her next First National-Vitaphone release...
...The patrons of the Globe Theatre, where Universale "Broadway" is now packing them ta, received a surprise, even before the picture had commenced, when, after taking their seats, they looked overhead and found the blue sky and stars their only roof...
...But what of it...
...Paul Whiteman's high-priced trio...
...One would think that such a record would bring it down stairs, but it remains the highest as well as the longest running play in the city...
...He was a pupil of the Imperial Conservatory at Pctrogfad...
...Mickey McBan...
...June 8th...
...is on again at Wallack's, where one learns again—and again—that the wildest way 'round is not the surest way home...
...Sil-Vara's career presents a widely diversified background...
...June 8th and 9th...
...The new UFA production...
...And Helen Carrington is carrying the Edfth Campbell role of "Follow Thru," here at Caanin's 46th Street...
...Merna Kennedy and Evelyn Brent in the principal feminine roles...
...Canary Cottage" and "Steppin' Out...
...Hadley, Julia Claussen In Concert This Sunday With Henry Hadley conducting, the first program of the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra for the season 1929-30, will be given Sunday night (June 9) at the New York Coliseum, adjoining Starlight Park, East 177th Street, the Bronx...
...That is, if you can get tickets, in spite of the heat...
...Marion Gering...
...The repertory of the bStlet company wil...
...Margaret Wycherly continues walking in her sleep in "The Jade God,'' the mystery play at the Cort...
...which was barred at the same time, later appeared on the screen with another title...
...Yaslia Bunchuk...
...Lloyd Bacon directed the production from a story written for her use by Leslie S. Barrows and adapted by C. Graham Baker...
...LABOR PARTY AND BRITISH WEST INDIANS...
...director of "The Cabinet of Dr...
...Does that in any way restrain or reduce extra and harmful and even bulldozing censorship of every form and description...
...Bee Morosco, was bumped into by a sheriff the other day, and has had to withdraw temporarily from the play...
...Also there are 'Daughters' of the Revolution who have long forgotten the cause for which their ancestors fought.'' * * * The article continues, with brief mention of earlier censorships in history, to point out how, in the motion picture field, this obscene censorship is most dangerously encroaching...
...It deals with the "chronique scandaleuse" of a small and phantastic country ta Europe and was prepared and directed by two UFA veteran directors...
...If you're In a somewhat lighter mood, do the same for "Bird in Hand," at the Morosco, and laugh your way through an evening of Intelligent recreation...
...He has cancelled the citizenship of John Tapolczyani, of Harmony, Pa„ who was born in Hungary and naturalized in 1920...
...On Wednesday and Thursday, June 12th and 13th...
...Dorothy Revier is cast as the adventuress...
...i Shubert's next musical offering win be "Broadway Nights"—and we fancy It wiU have many of them...
...on the contrary, the list Is so tons we hesitate to start it—save that we must mention the Chester Hale Girls...
...After all, Elmer Rice deserves that award...
...the famous boy actor who stole acting lienors in "Sorrell and ¦on.'' "Peter Pan...
...the program will consist of "Chinatown Nights...
...to Russian dancers...
...Viennese newspaper...
...June »th...
...off west to Chicago...
...It opens at Werba's Flatbush Theatre June 17th...
...Progress was beaten, but only after a deuce set...
...After a brief lapse, because of illness of the star, "She Got What She Wanted...
...The concerts are forerunners to a popular movement to place good music before the public at popular prices...
...Here was a poor girl, who had never made herself the legal guardian of her dead sister's children, and who, after keeping them for ten years, finds her relatives suddenly eager to take the two children—and the fortune just left them...
...That smile through the tears feeling, for those who grow moist in warm weather, is provided br J;#ri»t Bcechcr and Junior Durkta, in "Courage," at the Ritz...
...And with what result...
...With colorful scenes laid m' Paris and the fashionable summer colonies on i Long Island, the story-revolve* about the human interest drama of a man torn between his love for his .second wife and his devotion to his son...
...coupled with the desire to boss someone...
...and recognized as one of the leading contemporary Continent...
...Sophie appears as an entertainer in a high-class night club and thus has a role in keeping with her work on the stage...
...The Constant Nymph...
...Th<> Return of Peter OrtBxaV' aad many other successes, is east to the featured juvenile rote, and .carries a formidable share *of the emotional burden of the story...
...The concert Is the first of two such concerts, the second to be given Sunday, June IS...
...But unfortunately"—as Dreiser continues— "the higher types of Intelligence prefer to busy themselves with more important work than censorship...
...FILMS: Silent and Sound Sophie Tucker, "red hot mama" of vaudeville, made her motion picture debut Tuesday night ta a Warner Bros...
...Out on the Merrick Road, Long Island...
...and Wheeler Oakman also speaks his part as a successful menace...
...companion...
...Rockwell and Odette Myrtil head the east, and any other names do not matter so much after those...
...It seercs to be taking some time before the jade god grows jaded—thanks to a summery spirit in New York audiences...
...Although several of Ferenc Molnar's famous plays have found their way to the screen, Corinne Griffith is the first star to bring one of the distinguished Hungarian playwright's novels to the silver sheet...
...And—oh...
...Girl movie fans are making more fuss over oolman's voice than they did about Valentino's profile," R. J. Cruikshank...
...After becoming a citizen Tapolczyani wrote to a brother in Hungary, saying he was a Communist in principle, and in favor of the Soviet form of government...
...The Rescue Ship...
...Thar port of Alabama, leading into the Gutt of Mexico, was a real union town, like SaV attle...
...Caligan" and Lilt Damita, one of the most beautiful women on the screen, are represented in the new feature at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse beginning this Saturday...
...produced by the famous impressicnislic director with the flaming Lili Damita as the star...
...Many may be detected doing the same thine on Broadway, preferring a night chib or the movies...
...When his funds were exhausted he obtained a job in the Hotel Cecil, writing short stories in his spare time...
...Whenever you feel that the present season in the theatre has been (for officially the season has closed...
...John E. Wl»r« Stanley of the central labor body...
...Milton, the pride of the puritans, spoke with perennial validity on the question of the freedom of the press...
...Ernst Licho and Wilhelm Tiele from the German stage hit by Rudolf Prosbor...
...Street Scene," at the Playhouse, is another of those plays that continue to sell out, in spite of the weather, the stock market and the danger that we workers shall contrcf the government ta England...
...Vanessi...
...The letter was intercepted by Hungarian censors and turned over to United States authorities...
...The encroachments of the selferected censors are gradual, effected as each opportunity opens, by a watchful, well organized group...
...It is an adaptation of the stage play "The Butterfly on the Wheel...
...and was adapted to the screen by Forrest Halsey, which ta turn was directed by John Francis Dillon for First National-Vitaphone Pictures...
...Although congratulations are in order, we refrain from making any pun about throwing Rice after the company...
...Bands' and 'clubs' and 'societies' and 'daughters' of this or 'sons' of that or 'mothers' of the other thing—the sole purpose of which Is the protection and guidance of public manners and morals...
...Tacoma and other northern stop" building cities, in 1B19...
...Pro toft' against the censorship scheme was broadcast through the press from Washington by the National Popular Government League...
...the new conductor of the Capitol Grand Orchestra, will be the featured artist with' Major Bowes' Capitol radio "Family" on Sunday evening 'June 9thI as conductor of the orchestras over the air...
...Carl Henries play at the 49th Street Theatre, what could one figure...
...Those who are starting abroad wfll have the opportunity to see her in August, when "Follow Thru" opens the new Dominion Theatre...
...Others of cinematic note who appear In the picture are Thelma Todd...
...But what can a prime minister's resignation do...
...Basil Dean's film adaptation of Margaret Kennedy's best seller novel, had its American premiere Friday evening at the Little Carnegie Playhouse under the auspices of the Clubfellow Magazine...
...The King of Jazz...
...The critic then went to...
...in ; charge of sound production for Pathe, will personally supervise the filming...
...A Scene From "Father and Son" "Father ar.d^Son," Columbia's latest special production, synchronized with dialogue and musical accompaniment, will take possession of the screen at the Embassy Theatre on June 3. when it opens as a two-a-day offering for an extended engagement...
...UNIONS REVIVING IN MOBILE MOBILE...
...June 10th and 11th...
...Skidding...
...Born in Vienna, the son of a prominent Austrian surgeon, he decided at the age of 18 that he did not wish to take up medicine and left Vienna for London with a patrimony of 100 pounds...
...Joe Prisco...
...The present law says that a book may be removed from sale if a single passage in it is interpreted as obscene...
...In other words, one cannot fall to foresee every event of this play, and that great modern contribution to the drama—essential in ephemeral plays: surprise, is wholly lacking...
...Cruiksfaank continued: "It looks as if this picture will make Colman the most popular of all movie stars...
...The Longacre, by the way, is dressing up with a new •'mushroom"' cooling device, so that you can get as excited as you please about the play without growing overheated...
...Julia Claussen will appear as soloist, staging the "Love Death" from "Tristan...
...The London Film Weekly, through its readers, selected this picture as ihe most outstanding British picture of 1928...
...This will be directed by Michel Foklne, but win not be limited, as in Fokine's first activity for Gest...
...George Playhouse has arranged another of its gala programs for Saturday and Sunday...
...SilVara was engaged as London correspondent...
...Dorothy Sands and Paula Trueman continue as the high poin'.~, cf this presentation, fortunately, they are so numerous as to s?cm almost uninterrupted...
...George Gershwins sensationally successful musical comedy operetta, has been purchased by Pa the ! and plans for its immediate production ! as the companys first musical feature are now under way...
...in the ten minutes allowed for actor's rest before Act Two...
...Robert Warwick and Sylvia Sidney head the cast of "Nice Women," which is opening at the Majestic, Brooklyn, for a week, prior to its June 10th arrival at the Longacre on Broadway...
...For somehow the title of motion pictures, and their stories, came to be considered as an "industry," and thus ruled out of the constitutional provision for 'free speech": and now by extension the censors, who lay their bans in advance instead (like all other laws) of pantsrting violations, are laying claim, to a similar fight with the talking pictures...
...At the Palace This Week Helen Kane will headline at the ace of music halls for a second week...
...her first ailtalking picture in which Antonio Moreno and Noah Beery appear in the supporttag leads, wiU be presented as the screen attraction at the Mark Strand theatre beginning Saturday...
...at the Bayes, has wellnigh touched its '450th performance...
...The Passion of Joan of Arc" is on the program, together with "The Great White North...
...Mme...
...After several of these stories had been accepted by the Neue Freue Press...
...CENSORSHIP In the current issue of the Theatre Guild Magazine, Theodore Dreiser, following Morris L. Ernst in the preceding number, begins an article on censorship, "The Meddlesome Decade,'' with these remarks: It at a little hard to believe, in a day and age that saw such a farce as the Scopes trial in Tennessee, that the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States contains a provision that "Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech.' Or that Benjamin Franklin once said: "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.' Of course, such liberty of speech—which is construed to include writing and publication—does not necessarily entitle anyone to abuse that privilege any more than anyone is entitled to the abuse of any other privilege...
...Mahlon Hamilton and John T. Murray...
...with liis cigar, will be another cf the headHners...
...Does it...
...Why he chose this location no one is at all certain, but he arrived at camptlate last night and seemed to be in good spirits...
...The play, incidentally, satirizes Grover Whalen, which leads us to wonder whether that is why the star...
...Many American companies had planned to make this picture but gave up the hope after Will Haws banned the story...
...Plays and Players rpHE stage version of "An American i. Tragedy" is being staged ta Cleveland by George Grcenberg, who has done similar work fcr the Theatre Guild, Marjorie Rambeau, and others...
...Wild Birds," which is to have another and well-deserved chance on Broadway tby way of Brooklyn, which grows a popular try-out spot) is having settings by Cleon Throckmorton...
...Frederick and Fanny Hatton prepared the dialogue...
...But unless a fight in some form is presently staged, the high thinking they prefer to do will either remain private or lead directly to the main entrance of a court room...
...in-lud"Coq d Or," "Sheherezade...
...This is a -warning to those who want to see the show, to buy well in advance...
...Mabel Poulton, English actress, plays the much sought after role of "Tessa" and Ivor Novello does the best work of his career interpreting "Lewis Dodd...
...Benjamin Glazer...
...They hate to stop and fight...
...The Green Hat...
...Carmel Myers, Robert Prazer, Holmes Herbert, Sojin, Robert Schable and Andre de Segurola...
...William A. Setter directed and Ian Keith played opposite the star...
...At the Momart Theatre "Krassin...
...All states have obscenity laws of one kind and another, aad the police have the general power of regulating or suppressing what might be harmful to the community...
...Wolfe Gilbert, librettist: Marian Wayne, song hit writer, are at Universal City ready for a busy season of composition, arrangement and song presentation in connection with Paul Whiteman talking, singing and jazz music...
...Ronald Cohnan, the British fun star, has won the greatest personal triumph that the talking films have brought to any actor...
...For Dr...
...The St...
...and economic life of British West toiUsasu in Particular and AU Oppressed Ore"**" in General...
...It can be removed in half a minute's time on clear warm nights and can be replaced with equal rapidity should the weather shew signs of changing...
...The picture could have been produced here under another title, but Miss Kennedy insisted on the use of the original title...
...At the end of the play, the "half-wit" hero (of course, beneath his simple guise, the shrewdest of them all) asks the dear heroine: "what is your decision...
...with Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall...
...Halone Chadwick is heard in her first talking role on the screen...
...There his mind dwelt upon the act he had seen, and in considerable detail, he wrote the rest of the play...
...The production was directed by Erie C Kenton from the story by Elmer 'Harris, author of such successful plays as "The Great Necker...
...Vitaphone singing and talking picture, "Honky Tonk," at the Warner Bros...
...Frequently, parts of the film dialogue were inaudible because of the laughter and applause of the audience...
...Broadway" is a dialogue adaptation of the play of that name which enjoyed a long run here...
...Careers" is a story based on the German stage play "Karriere" by Rosenhayne and Schirokrauer...
...But the indur^ trial depression of '21 hit the unless* haid...
...Which does not mean that other effective names are absent...
...If you think so, read the following from the New York World (April 1, 1929...
...The film is "A Scandal in Paris...
Vol. 8 • June 1929 • No. 21
