AMUSEMENTS
Amusements [The [Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley WOMEN IN DRAMA WTALKIKO to tbe Knickerbocker The" atre witb my friend Dr. Jsgendorf, authority on women and children's theatres, I...
...God the Mother" had not yet come into style...
...The leading man and players for one or two principal roles are still unsigned...
...Golden Dawn" was one of tbe most successful tight operas of recent years...
...There are few great feminine tragic figures, and these—Lady Macbeth and Medea, for instance—seem to bare divested themselves of the usual qualities of their sex...
...The Constant Nymph" win be retained for a second week...
...yet "At the Edge of the World" has few actual war scenes, exploits no particular war, nor identifies any particular nation, and the theme is definitely anti-war...
...One of the most important scenes,—that of the actor's dressing room—has emerged from the rehearsal stage and win be 'shot and fastened" this week...
...One dollar is the top figure...
...Dixie Dugan, the Show Girl, wui be played by Ruby Keeler, while others of the cast are Clayton, Jackson and Durante, etc., etc., and Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra...
...Major Edward Bowes asked Roxy for his release, and Roxy's answer was that he loved Ynsha too much to stand in the way of .this great opportunity, and he graciously stepped aside, thus allowing Yasha to make his debut as a conductor...
...Merna Kennedy, also a star of ."Broadway," wiU have the leading role...
...At the Edge of the World," which is to have its first American presentation at the 55th Street Playhouse, beginning next Saturday, June 15th...
...and other notable stage successes...
...Clifton Webb is the first name on the program...
...Sunday...
...P. L. ocas led tbe way by reminding us of Virgil's remark -variously and eternally changing women...
...Cyril Keightiey, who was seen in "The Green Goddess," "Shanghai Gesture...
...Then look at Fred Allen: dense ss a white dwarf star, if you consider his face tn repose...
...Neither win a silent version be prepared of "The Desert Song", the first Vitaphone operetta...
...rueck...
...both German screen sssd-aBMa celebrities...
...conductor of the Capitol Grand Orchestra, replacing David Mendoza...
...Two directors will work on this picture...
...Becky Sharp" is the exception that proves the rule: although Langdon MBchesVs version of Thackeray's "Vanity Pair" b feeble beside its original and not over-exciting stage-craft, it peasants the tragedy of a woman, of a truly womanly woman moving downward by feminine devices...
...we trust that he- takes it gracefully...
...the distinguished light opera star who recently finished a long season at the Shubsrt Theatre...
...Wednesday and Thursday, June 19th and 30th, Rex Ingram's latest picture, "Three Passions," with Alice Terry, Ivan Petrovitch and Claire Eames, and "Battling Butler," with Buster Keaton, win be presented...
...The Little Carnegie Playhouse announces that the first week-end's receipts for "Tbe Constant Nymph" broke aU previous box-office records except that of "The Passion of Joan of Arc" at that theatre...
...His latest is "My Jimmy," which will be inserted into the play...
...Hamilton Mac Fadden, and Spencer Bennet, the famous Pathe serial director who arrived in New York on Wednesday, being specially called from the coast in order to direct certain mystery sequences in the picture, a field in which he shines...
...But one could name, as effective after its kind, almost every number on the program—and naming them, declaring that they are good, somehow lamentably fails to convey their spirit, to produce ! their effect...
...Tbe score wUl be rendered in the Vita phone production by the Vitapbone Symphony Orchestra...
...After the meet tag the various teams will have their prac' tice...
...Napoleon...
...Next Thursday...
...de Machado, Brazilian Minister of Finance, Mr...
...bat its title sounds alluring...
...For this, you must go see "The Little Show...
...Continental critics have described this film as "the first war film based on a real Idea...
...Globe Theatre, has commenced production on "Barnum Was Right," an adaptation of the popular play that ran at the Frazee Theatre here several years ago...
...Tbe radical and progressive youth movement in the vicinity of New York has been for some time sadly in need of an athletic organization for its young men and women...
...The portion of these two qualities possessed by "The Tired Business Man" makes us think it may equal the record of "Skidding" or,—who knows dear old Anne Nichols' Abie...
...New York City...
...Anthony McGulre, who did the book from J. P. McBvoy's novel...
...AU those wishing to participate can secure bus ride free ticket to Brunswick and return by communicating with Comrade O. Valenti, at Nuovo Mondo, 81 Bast Tenth street...
...We want everyone who Is interested to appear...
...Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein and, the latter recently signed by Warner Bros., to write exclusively for their screen productions, wrote the book, while Emmerich Kalman and Mcrbert Stothart composed the music...
...8. L. Rothafel's stage program surrounding the William Fox production, "The One Woman Idea," beginning at the Roxy Theatre on Saturday, has for its principal number a tabloid version of Verdi's "Aida," in which the entire Roxy ensemble contribute their talents to the highlights of the famous opera...
...Address all communications te : Meyer London Athletic Association, cart of Jewish Daily Forward, 175 E. Broadway...
...Allison Sklpwith, who appeared in "The Torchbearers" and "The Swan...
...The playhouse is making an appeal to the gambling spirit of its patrons, on its program for Monday and Tuesday, June 17th and 18th...
...la ting precedent by continuing along as a popular favorite for some time after the prize award was announced...
...1929, 8 p. »¦ | sharp, the New Bork Soccer Team will meet at the Forward Building...
...and Mackenzie Ward, who had an important role in "Lucky in Love...
...Wtihebn Dieterle siilkBiitsBBjW...
...Henry Hadley directs Sunday evenings at the New York Coliseum, next door to Starlight Park...
...Plans are being elaborated to have large buses leave from New York, Harlem, Bronx, Brooklyn and from various localities in New Jersey...
...The Man Who Reads the Ads,'' and also the man who, when he discovers his wife in another man's arms, falls to find a Murad—sweep serosa our advertised existence, which is further hilariously tangled in the soon-to-be-famous commercial theme story (adaptable to any firm) entitled "Kammacher, Schlemmer...
...They have been recorded for the phonograph company by Nat Shilkret and his orchestra...
...Next Sunday's program includes Liszt, Wagner and Tschaikowsky, as weU as an overture by Hadley...
...June 15ttv at 3 o'clock in the Forward Building, there will be a meeting to organise a baseball team which shall represent the Meyer London Athletic Association...
...William deMUle's first production for Metro-Ooldwyn-Mayer...
...Noah Beery and Lee Moran are the only members of Mr...
...the Universal talking, singing and dancing picture now showing at the Globe Theatre...
...But a measure of intelligence Is sometimes thankfully received...
...Adam's Apple" opens at the Princess this week...
...Patsy Ruth Miller and Arthur Rankin have the romantic leads and the remainder of the cast reads like a veritable "Who is Who ta Comedy on the Screen...
...The special songs in "Broadway" were written by Con Conrad, Archie Gottler and Sidney Mitchell, and are published by De.Sylva, Brown & Henderson...
...Speaking of drama today as tbe interplay less of action than, of character, one is reminded of Pope's dictum (and are not Popes Infallible...
...Titles of the other song hits Include "Broadway," "The Chicken or the Egg," "Hot Footln' It" and "Bounce a Little Bail at Your Baby...
...James Nonis is back In the cast of "Skidding," well in its second year at the Bayes, and showing few signs of Justifying its title...
...He stars with a melodrama, "Hawk Island," by Howard I. Young, who once wrote "Not Herbert...
...Sets by Urban...
...The original has spent the rest of his descendants' lives blaming it on Eve...
...At the Little, Franclne Lsrrimore continues to carry along a play with a genuine hot weather title, although It lingers from colder days...
...Several soccer teams were formed...
...Emlle Natan, director of the French Pathe Company, and Mr...
...Glenn Tryou, who plays the "hoofer" In Universale 'Broadway...
...Alexander Moissi has entered the fourth week of production of "The Royal Box...
...The Province town Players are truly the one experimental theater left this city, and unquestionably one of the most fruitful sources of our theatrical art...
...Sweet or satiric sex continues in such moments as "Or what Have You," "What Every Little Girl Should Know," and "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan...
...This Is as it should be...
...The second feature on this program is "The Duke Steps Out," with William Haines, Joan Crawford, and Karl Dane...
...and Aristotle's more friendly remark that "even a woman may be good...
...An unusual and powerful story of what happened tn and around an old windmill, engulfed tn the tide of war, ls told In the new UFA production...
...Yasha Bunchuk, who Is famed for his supreme artistry as a cellist, made bis debut last Saturday as...
...comes next week to the Capitol...
...The two songs are "Sing a Little Love Song," and "HIWin' the Ceiling...
...next year, remember to buy pour ticket early for the Players' oneweek revival...
...Next Saturday afternoon...
...Bernard Levey announces that the farce comedy, "Bedfellows," by Louise Carter, and directed by the lady, will reach Broadway the last week of this month, after a rest and reparation incident rpon an out-of-town tour...
...naughty but nice, perhaps, and that sort of thing, don't you know, as my uncle's second butler used to say on odd Thursdays...
...Miss Tucker is winning the same public favor through her singing upon the screen as she does when she appears In person...
...Sir William Gowers, governing of the Uganda Protectorate, granted the unusual request of the film adventures after careful consideration of aU phases of the trip...
...Victor Herbert, Casals, and others...
...Played by the orchestra, the choral elements win be provided by the Roxy Chorus of 75 voices...
...The initial response was splendid...
...He was heard for six years as first cellist of the Capitol Grand Orchestra and for the last two years appeared at the Roxy...
...David Leonard, who was with George Arliss in "The Merchant of Venice...
...Players already signed include Betty Lawford...
...Warner Bros, announce that their natural color, singing and talking Vitaphone picture, "On With the Show," now playing the New York Winter Garden, will be released only in its Vitaphone form...
...The filming of the picture has been running according to schedule, and should be finished within a fortnight...
...marks not only the first appearance of a one hundred per cent talking comedy on the audible screen—a vehicle entirely different in subject from the current offerings of melodramas, mysteries sad musical eomeqUes—but also the debut of a number of important players as talking stars...
...Jsgendorf, authority on women and children's theatres, I was borne into a discussion of women's part in plays...
...at Henry Mfller's...
...Albertina Rasch is doing the ballet work and Bobby ConnaUy the other dances...
...one of the screen's best known comedy directors, handled the megaphone on "The Fall of Eve...
...He ls the fourth of that group at the Booth to be borrowed by others...
...Jerome Bonaparte, Mrs...
...From 5:15 to 6 this Sunday over WOR the Province town Playhouse win broadcast a program...
...The Murchlson Falls section is notorious as a breeding place for the most virulent form of African sleeping sickness, but it ls also famous for its abundance of wild life and its luxurious tropical backgrounds...
...The Tired Business Man" has settled down for the summer at the Waldorf, completing its arrangements to hold the theater for that time, and for a cooling systemLawrence C. O'Brien and Isobel Vernon, both of them In Bernard Levey's company at the Waldorf, are to appear In "Tropical Nips," selected talkie presentations of the day's doings...
...Helen Lynd of the high voice and the nlemn Romney Brent, should also be featured...
...under tbe direction of Bryan Foy...
...Guggenheim...
...A supporting committee has been organised in Greenwich Village to bring members and other support to the Provincetown Players, in their venture at the Uarrtck Theater In the fall...
...Woolf his left for HoUywocd to begin work on the picture, advance preparations on which have been under way for some time...
...Plays and Players ETHEL BARRYMORE, after a trip to j attend her daughter's graduation From the convent that for three generations has sheltered the girls of the family, ls back at her theater in "The Love Duel," which she Is soon to take on the road, where she win alternate It with her sarlier success of the season...
...I love you...
...A special tavern scene, in which Moissi ls given an opportunity to sing, was completed on Sunday...
...All soccer fans are welcome...
...Incidentally, Blaine Cordner, of the Booth Theater pleasantries, "The Grand Street Follies," will be in the cast of "Show Girl...
...Paula True man is in the hands of A. H Woods, and the destinies of Albert Carroll and Dorothy Sands lie with tbe Shuberts...
...But then the Bible was written by men—inspired, we are told, by a male God...
...Woolf's supporting east thus far engaged...
...Mrs...
...well remembered as "Donald Westhoff...
...The Tiller Girls st Home...
...By now we were standing st the Knickerbocker, waiting for the curtain to rise on "Becky Sharp...
...that of an agile, nonchalant performer, whose ease and grace and a certain chipper frankness, make him delightful...
...Arthur Ripley and Edward Adamson have prepared tbe dialogue and adaptation of "Barnum Was Right," retaining the amusing lines of Philip Bartholomae and Hutchenson Boyd, the playwrights...
...Frank R. Strayer...
...June 16...
...Rehearsals have begun on the William Harlbut melodramatic mystery stage success, "On the Stairs," at the Pa the Sound Studios in New York...
...It will be made as a 100% natural color, talking, singing and dancing production...
...Amusements [The [Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley WOMEN IN DRAMA WTALKIKO to tbe Knickerbocker The" atre witb my friend Dr...
...Except, that Is, the program Indication that the play begins in late summer at 3 put, where after the curtain rises on darkest night...
...a delightful dance farce...
...They promise a "Surprise Program," but keep the feature secret...
...Eastern Vitaphone studios...
...In the face of all these authoritative opinions, it ls not surprising to discover that serious drama—tragedy at least—ls largely masculine...
...George Playhouse, presents, -¦¦ in its double feature program for Saturday and Sunday, June 15th and 16th, "Moulin Rouge," produced by E. A. Du Pont, director of "Variety...
...On the other side of the coin, however, a different design is pressed: in almost every tragedy the fate of the hero, his decisions, his actions, his end, is linked in if not determined by a women...
...Except for the grandiose dramas of Marlowe almost alone, the play builds its hero out of Its heroine...
...Vitaphone talking and singing production, continues to be the attraction at the Warner Bros...
...Tbe cast win contain some fifty players...
...Por the present we are Interested in young men who Uve In WUllamsburgh and the I East Side...
...The producer of "Decision" at the 49th Street heater...
...Alfred Kuttnor, Horace Liveright...
...Leon Rosser Land's address at the 8 o'clock Fellowship Service at the weekly meeting of the Bronx Free Fellowship at Azure Masonic Temple, 1591 Boston road, near East l?2nd street on Sunday evening, June 16...
...It was directed by Karl Gruno whose latest screen opus was 'Waterloo...
...Recognizing this necessity a tentative call was issued for Um organization of such an association, to be known as tbe Meyer London Athletic Association...
...What do these folk do...
...Among his activities, the same Bernard Levey continues the work on "The Son of Lucretla Borgia...
...that "most women bare no character at an...
...have been spending Sundays getting acquainted with New York's possibilities as a summer resort...
...According to a cable just received from Nairobi, where temporary headquarters for the cinema company was established three weeks ago...
...Gertrude Astor, Jed Prouty, Fred Kelsey and Hank Mann, an of whom have won their fanshare of fame as creators of laughs...
...The all-English casts of "Bird in Hand" at the Morosco, and "Journey's End...
...At the Playhouse the Pulitzer Prise 'nay...
...Robert Sterling, is also a song writer of repute...
...The production will be mounted against special settings by Clark Robinson, with special costume designs by Marco Montedoro...
...He has now assumed charge of the Capitol Grand Orchestra and of the "Fantily" Radio Orchestra as well...
...Woolf an •opportunity to demonstrate to the motion picture publio tbe quality and range of his voice...
...Those who cannot attend bat who are desirous of cooperating with us will please communicate so , that we can keep in touch with each other...
...Nuovo Mondo win give (free of charge) all those who want to participate in the picnic a free ticket to North Brunswick and return...
...Among the most noted cellists to have attained distinction as conductors are Toscanini, the master of all leaders...
...Robert Warwick and SyMa Sidney bead the cast of "Nice Women" at the Longacre...
...17S tost I Broadway...
...Hubert Druce will have the role of Lorenzo, a courtier of-the time...
...The Divine Voice of Discontent'' will be the topic of Rev...
...Among those who attended the premiere of this film were Monta Bell, Robert Floroy, Boris Petroff, Alexander Bakshy...
...now at the...
...It includes Ford Sterling...
...The Idle Rich...
...10 a. m., the Brans soccer and tennis teams wiU meet at the Marble HiB Tennis Courts, 2MtiJ I street and Broadwsy...
...who played opposite Morton Downey in 'Lucky In Love...
...This is "what every woman knows...
...Sam Kingston, who has been associated with Florenz Ziegfeld for twenty-five years, is seriously ill at the Presbyterian Hospital...
...dancing, Socialist and Antifascist propaganda and other equally interesting features...
...New York, In the operetta, "The Red Robe," has been signed by Warner Brothers to make a Vitaphone production for their 1929-30 program...
...Direction is by Wm...
...The girls' tennis team and the ; Bronx soccer team Invite aU young mea and women who are Interested in tbsat f sports to come to their meeting snd join I the organization, or If unable to come, I to communicate with the Meyer London | A. C. 175 East Broadway, Room 601...
...Walter Woolf...
...In tbe supporting cast are George Duryea, Lila Lee, Audrey Ferris, Mahlon Hamilton and John T. Murray...
...It will Include brief talks, as well as O'Neill's one-act play, 'Where the Cross Is Made," which the playwright once referred to as "an experiment in treating the audience as Insane...
...But by sure and Intelligent directing, good-spirited cooperation, and excellent acting, they achieve a total effect that long remains a pleasant memory, like tbe savor of old-world wine...
...at the Warner Bria...
...earner Blot's "Street Scene," st ska...
...Thomas Kilpatriek, who has been managing for Patterson McNutt, is dashing out on his own, for the fall season...
...Good time by the audience...
...After Dark," at the old Rlalto across the water is scheduled to carry along through the hot days...
...Lloyd Bacon directed "Honky Tonk," in which Miss Tucker sings seven new songs composed for her by Jack Yellen and Milton Ager...
...A good play may have impossible situations and fanciful characters, so long only as these are consistent, within the limits of their own establishing...
...deft with his tongue in swift and elusive word, in pointed pun or pungent point—and as expressive with his wrinkling face ss one of those soft rubber heads the fingers squeeze into contortions...
...Max Schrock, who played the role of "Nosferatu," Imre Raday...
...set in the Roman days before Carthage, is tbe reductio ad absurdum of the debunking tale that makes history contemporary, if indeed Krsklne and his ilk have not by now proved their own travesty...
...Comment on this play we reserve for next week...
...June 20...
...T. B. BL WaJking past the door that bears the inscription "Through these portals pass the most beautiful girls In the world," I looked vainly for a bathroom beauty, as I proceeded to the Waldorf Theatre, where Lyle Weaver Hall's "The Tired Business Man" is being played—Perhaps, I muse with double regret, tf I had waited longer * • . • Por, except for the moderately good performance of Harlan Briggs (who is probably over-praised because of his relative superiority to others In the cast) I found nothing new to stir me...
...Golden Dawn," the immensely successful operetta produced last season by Arthur Hammerstein, has bsen selected as the vehicle in which th: singer will make his Vitaphons debut...
...Viola Phllo, soprano, and Harold Van Duzee, tenor, win be heard In the leading vocal roles...
...It's much simpler to see than to teU...
...Let Jis Be Uay" ls advice everyone might well take, and a play everyone might well take i^m^ FILMS: Silent and Sound "-pHE St...
...Mare swiftly, indeed, being unencumbered with freight—substituting talent...
...Frederick and Fanny Hatton...
...The first American travel expedition ever granted permission to penetrate the Murchlson Falls region of the Uganda Protectorate, will be the motion picture unit filming "Trader Horn," in native African locations of the book...
...by Edward Eisner— again author directed...
...Meanwhile Ronald Hammond, stage manager of "Bird in Hand," has completed the invention of a series of stage devices for simplifying the manner of producing sounds offstage—and making more real such things as rain, wind, thunder, aeroplane and automobile motors...
...i Basil Dean, producer of "The Constant, Nymph," also attended, B. P. A. Italian Socialist Daily To Hold Picnic Giving Participants Free Ride A big outdoor affair has been arranged by Nuovo Mondo, Italian Socialist Party daily, for Sunday, June 30th, in North Brunswick, N. J. The picnic wiU havej an attractive program—sports, music...
...Her personality "gets across" on the screen as wen as does Al Jolson's, according to many of the newspaper reviewers, and she promises to be an important addition to cinema stars of tbe future...
...New arrangements of the famous "Aida" ballets will be presented by the Ballet Corps and the Thirty-two Roxyettes...
...I had to stand the . other night...
...Among non-dramatic players must be listed the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra, which Dr...
...equally notd as playwrights and scenarists, wrote* tbe dialogue...
...Music is by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn...
...But "Six Little Sinners from the Sexy Sixties" is clever satire, from the driver of the brewery truck, who has become a swell chauffeur, to the artist turned gigolo...
...The Victor Company, in its weekly supplement of victrola records for the week of June 14th, will put out discs of two of the song hits from "Broadway...
...BIG TIME The Little Show" is a large percentage ef Broadway's entertainment these days...
...Bunehuck received the greatest ovation ever offered to any leader in a motion picture theatre...
...Theatre...
...Pathe, president of that company...
...For the week-end of June 21st, 22nd and 23rd, "The Adventures of Maya," will be shown...
...Plorens Ziegfeld's musical gomedy, "Show Girl," has had its cast chosen, and is rapidly rounding into shape for Its opening at the Zlegfeld Theater...
...Its songs win afford Mr...
...The annual one-week all-star revivals of the Players' Club are always worth watching—one is tempted to say, if only because they afford tbe one opportunity of soeing that inimitable comedian James T. Powers...
...K„ On the same program is a Laurel and Hary comedy, a UFA short film and other -The FaD of Oahsathtaa setae* oil-talking special, brought to the screen with dialogue, incidental music and sound, effects, opens for an extended* engagement as a road-show production at tbe Embassy Theatre, New York, on Jute W. As a rollicking comedy of marital mixups and tribulations, "The Fall of Eve...
...It fa hard to believe for example, that a fortnight's rehearsals sufficed to bring the smoothness and grace of the crowded and complex ballroom scene before the battle of Waterloo...
...But the author ceems to know little more of human nature than of the hours of the day, judging by the persons he teBs us live in Topeka, Kansas...
...It wiU be directed by Del Lord...
...Musical program by Genevieve and Zelma Kaufman...
...Was It after hearing what' the group if ministers who attended "Tbe Black Crook" on Parsons' Night had to say that the play closed over there in Hoboken...
...The cast consists of many of the best-known German stars, including Brigitt Helm, star of "Metropolis...
...At the Music* Box, this sprightly and swift revue, "lyrics mostly by Howard Diets, music mostly by Arthur Schwartz," ripples along as merrily in its simplicity, with its fourteen fair and fine-figured dancers of the chorus, as the most elaborate presentation boasting ten times that number...
...Sophie Tucker's first motion picture, "Hanky Tonk," a Warner Bros...
Vol. 8 • June 1929 • No. 22
