AMUSEMENTS
Amusements A Pessimistic Play TOLLER'S "HOFPLA" Bract Toller, the German dramatist and radical, recently bad a new play, "Hoppla." presented in London. Of the play "Benn" wrote in the British...
...yet in them ia the ring of a sincerity which often compels attention, and deserves the interest of those who See the the evils of life in vivid colon...
...Members want to know more about the todasUisl question state things are happening so dose to home...
...Hearts in Dixie...
...Furthermore, with the assistance of same of the younger members of the permanent company, the Apprentice Group wfll choose plays, rehearse them, and present them before an audience of the older members of the company and invited guests...
...play and picture, has been skrhed by jeeantoto adapt the German book fee the screen and prepare the dialogue an it- He left New York leatnkjht far UWveraal city...
...A series of informal talks and conferences win also be given ta the course of the year by the leading members of the tp...
...Conway Tearle, Lowell Sherman...
...imTakassns...
...P. W. Smedlsy, the BJnafanttam League of women Voters' president, attended the National Wesson's Trade Union League convention in Washington...
...They will also establish a permanent office on the coast for future productions...
...Three sections are blacked out and light concentrated on the remaining section, in which the action takes place for the time being...
...The world had left him behind, and also he had left himself behind This seems to be the lesson of the play: that between the upper s&d nether millstones of Fascism or Social Democracy (to him they ars> synonymous) and Communism the body of idealism and hurnanltarianism wfll be crushed...
...Umvertal's uygkkrtira- exterWoveTtsveral^rosks e^ K was only by dint of great presents from Mr...
...The outstanding feature of this program of expansion calls for removal to the Garrick Theatre in West 35th" street with the opening of the fifteenth year next fall...
...The four plays in the volume employ somewhat melodramatic situations and suited language to enforce their points...
...starring Jannings and Conrad Veldt, both of which were loudly acclaimed at various "little theatre showings" in this country...
...Two musical shows to be announced later win round out the producer's year...
...This Education CenEnittee broadcasts League actvitias oaee a week...
...Fu MaasW "all QUEST^^TBaT., B^JWytt...
...Directed by Herbert Brenon, the story shows Cheney as a clown, making his great sacrifice for the happiness of the woman he loves...
...BROADWAY NIGHTS Past and zippy is the Shubert offering...
...This piece will be ready for opening by August 1. The second play on the Levey program wfll be "Yearning...
...It ks remarkable as an attempt to throw off the shackles with which the stage is bound, as an en dearer to . o'er leap the Fourth Wan...
...The pint can bs secured at wholesale cost to lets of 50 or more from the Philadelphia League at 939 Chestnut street, Room 310...
...Girls, girls and girls...
...Schwab and Mandel can now can itself an toternatlonar producing firm, having permanent affiliations in London...
...the BiraUngham League's secretary, and Mrs...
...Estelle Brody and John Stuart head an exceptional cast...
...Except for Informal courses in fencing and dancing, the work of ths new Apprentice Group wfll consist in close association with and uhtsi ration of the regular activities of the permanent company, such as attendance at rehearsals and participation ta the ensemble of the larger productions...
...The film reveals how Johann Strauss finally succeeded in recelvihg musical instruction, his sensational success in Vienna with his first waits, "Wine, Love and Son" which is the theme song of the film): his ul-fated love affairs and his emergence as the world's greatest composer of dance music...
...Emmita Casonova, MozeUe gtapp...
...Wood, and known as "The Radio Widow...
...Thousands of little pins depicting s spinning wheel, bearing the slogan "Organise the South," will bs sold all ovet the country at not less than twenty-five cents a piece...
...The children already at the camp had planned games and festivities to welcome them...
...In the supporting cast are William Courtenay...
...director, has chosen "The Tale of the Pie and the Tart...
...or Who'U Have the Children...
...The Mysterious Dr...
...One of the first ! thtoat he wtS do upon reaching the other seat wtfi be to make a survey of sound ptetkkithm conditions m Germany in orate- to dtttrmlne whether tt wfll be best to predate the picture there...
...Narrentanz" (The Mad Dance) and "Moloch" (The Merry Martyr...
...Paced by the necessity of | extensive and costly alterations in the old home in Macdougal street if the group were to continue its work there another season, the directors and stock- j holders of The Experimental Theatres...
...Seven Milwaukee industrial girls are attending the annual Summer School for Workers to Industry at the University of Wisconsin, and the Milwaukee League gave them a happy good-bye dinner at the Young Women's Christian Association...
...Plans are under way for a regional etafersaee next October...
...Then art ta Oermtaf two million more women than men: thaw women do net wish to suppress task natural instincts nor is there say reseat why they should, and steps must then . tore bs taken to secure their legal rkjkk and those of their children...
...rate, his attempt to carry on concurrent streams of action and to pursue concurrent psychological trends is very praiseworthy...
...FC MANCHT" Sax Rohmer's stories of Dr...
...Laemmle, that his represtaaaUsat hi Germany Snaky won oat The prise paid establishes a record for semen zk/hfsm the Old Werkt ' janes* a possibility that the picture wtt hs natds to Germany...
...are "Where East is East" with Lon Cheney...
...Caligari," and his brother, Conrad Wiene, famous in Germany as a cinema technician, were collaborators in the production of "Strauss, the Walts King," a film dramatisation of the early struggle and amours of the Viennese musical genius, which wfll be seen at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse for the first time beginning this Saturday...
...During the recent miners' strike to Western Pennsylvania aad Onto, the Philadelphia Women's Trade Union League, with the help of cooperating organizations such as local unions, Young Women's Christian Association groups, snd others, sold many thousand pins in the shape of a miner's cap and lamp with the inscription "Miners' Relief.1' turning over the proceeds to the United Mine workers of America, The campaign to raise a large emergency chest for organisation aad strike relief in the south, through the sals of tiny spinning wheel pins, is to be conducted on a nation-wide seals...
...Mm liu] wmm Bsnuied WiflHWOTON (FP)—Announcement la made by tbe Woman's Bureau, u. S. Department of Labor, that the major of Defies, Tex...
...The armation kt oompUcated by the sound and dialogue- angle of the production, which roprtswatt a vast outlay in jntenBatton oasts if tt should bs necessary tor Universal to taatp a big sound studio abroad...
...The New Bedford League's president, Mat...
...Applicants for m—bership In this Apprenuee Oiwp art invited to WM—acate with Ute Helen IWtmann, vtoeprjsiderrt of the Ottte Repertory Theatre, who wm nie tbatr apprtrattans and sumomb them for aodttmns wttgh will ha oondnrtsd by Mte I* OeBienne the last week in August sad the first weak In September...
...In the theatre scenes he is a comedian, in grotesque antics, acrobatic tricks, and lilting laughs—then, in the dramatic scene be, hind the curtain he plumbs the very depths of human misery...
...3), John M. Landherg endeavors to attack various social evik aa he sees them...
...This sign ef taV iderity oa the part of male members ef the Party at much a success at aa taewartsamts* un sssus vorkert wkntt tatltety...
...that today numerically greater mutes of workers have not % ghost of a chance in a legal combat with correspondingly large aggregations of dollars—are facts that most people are aware of...
...July 30th...
...who made "The Cabinet of Dr...
...OOlgari" and Dostoievsky's "Crime and Punishment," is also the director of "The Power of Darkness," but in this last achievement1 he has departed from his accustomed method of employing distorted scenic backgrounds by using normal backgrounds, Count Leo L. Tolstoy, the author's son, has given his endorsement and stated that the film is a faithful translation of his father's work The same program Includes a revival i showing of "Chang...
...Harry Tig he, Nayan Pearce, Dorothy Daw, Edward Tamblyn, Helen Carrington...
...Y., on Saturday and Sunday, July 30 and 31...
...He came back to a world in which the man of action (formerly Monarchist, new Social-Democrat) rode rough-shod over the dreamer...
...This is an attempt to copy the moving camera, but, unfortunately, the continual shifting leads to distraction and to a sense of artificiality...
...If we have made a similar observation before we win add that it is furious...
...recently of "Boom Boom," and Andrew Maple...
...At the time Hale was studying singing in New York, and earning his expenses by appearing on the stage in that city...
...This has been attempted by dividing the stage, vertically, into four sections...
...Alan Hale would have been an opera singer instead of a Aim player had it not been for a careless property man...
...as an effort to kinematise the stage and thus to imbue it with vitality...
...Inc...
...Atlantic City for a two weeks' engagement prior to opening at the AppoUo Theatre in the Windy City...
...Robert Wiene...
...If Broadway Nights is a musical comedy, it has succeeded in achieving the ideal of the manufacturers of that form of diversion, vis, an absence of plot: as a revue, it's a vaudeville bfll, with the trained seals and, chasers among the missing with a few burlesque stunts which bear the stamp of having been on an eighteen day diet...
...Por the second production of the Children's Playhouse M. Jagendorf...
...Then as the action shifts from one section to another the light follows the action from section to section...
...Long not only will sing in the show but wfll again present his fantastic dance leaps which brought him personal notice in "Manhattan Mary," and in "She's My Baby...
...There win be several features of interest to fathers and mothers...
...starring Em 11 Jannings, and 'Three Wax Works...
...Aurelia Le Beau, and its Wee-president, Miss Sarah Burgess, attended the conference on New EngJandd Textile Industry Problems, held at Harvard University Graduate School ef Business Administration under the auspices of the Csrabrtdge League of Women Voters...
...In addition, a short film has been introduced as a commentary on the general political events taking place prior to the drama proper...
...This is the second office they wfll have opened this year, the other being in Chicago which wfll soon have productions of "The Mew Moon" and "Follow Thru...
...The campaign win be conducted ta close cooperation with the national office of the United Textile Workers Union...
...the comedy meller which has been playing at the 49th Street Theatre since May 27, wul enter its third month by shifting to the Belmont on 48th Street, where the intimacy which the play requires can be obtained...
...About the same time, Levey will also offer a third play by Edward Eisner "Pity the Rich" and "His Best Bet" by Mary K. Brookes...
...SOCIAL DRAMAS I in "Social Dramas...
...Delia samoiloff...
...Before departing for a long vacation ta Connecticut yesterday, Miss Le Galileane announced that the Civic Repertory win discontinue the Student Group which tt has conducted for the past three tea sons and in its piece wfll create an Apprentice Group limited.to twenty-five members between the ages of fifteen and twentyfive years...
...Paris, Australia as well as New York...
...The first wfll be "Evidence" and the second wul be "A Woman's Game," the title of which is subject to change...
...The elder Strauss, broken in health and cynical of the plaudits ef the world, had urged Johann to enter the petty officialdom of Vienna, because "although the salary isn't very high, you are sure of getting it every week...
...Conferences and negotiations with Mr...
...the UniverxaTstedtx Plant, to confer with the tetnpaayvpreaaet^oapartt as the first step to fan...
...The camp Ulnesje has rehearsed agleottoM...
...Like Miss Samoiloff, Mist Van Gilder has also enjoyed her European successes, both in Austria and Italy, staging the leading .German and Italian roles...
...of rights between legitimate aad lUspttmatt children...
...Local unions wcentaft auxiliaries, clubs, summer conferences, state and national conventions, oatmdttsts of interested organizations, are urged to place their orders early...
...Gertrude Wood, contralto, will be the featured guest artist with Major Edward Bowes' Capitol radio "Family" next Sunday evening (July 31st...
...The outstanding feature of ths New Apprentice Group is that membership tn it wfll be free, whereas tuition waa charged for membership ta the Student Group...
...THE MYSTERIOUS DR...
...The idea of introducing the cinema in this way is a good one, but, unfortunately, the film itself is rather a poor one, tending too much to repetition both of conception and of movement...
...The "Bird in Hand" golf team includes Herbert Lomas, Ivor Barnard...
...Sig...
...DECISION" SHIFTS TO BELMONT "Decision...
...It deals with two renegades and their attempt to get a fat meal without honest work...
...Miss Wood first appeared over the air six years ago, with her husband, in the first sketch ever to be presented over the radio...
...His latest role is that of s gob in "Sailor's Holiday...
...When the historian of the future speaks of dancing, some one will be sure to have the Three Kings tn mind and exclaim, "There were dancers in those days...
...Dancers, acrobats,' music and jazz, a Sock of comedians, acres of colorful sets and more girls...
...It is called "What's Wrong Now," and has been adapted for the screen by Herman G. Weinberg...
...Through the courtesy of M-G-M the monotomy of endurance flying will be relieved...
...The Mysterious Dr...
...Fu Manchu" ia one of the first of these productions...
...ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN » GERMANY In Germany the Social SemMrsk have brought ia a proposal to antes the civil code so as to establish equals...
...Saturday and Sunday, July 19th, 20th and 21st...
...that powerful corporations exercise an ' indisputable, tyrannical sway over governmental agencies, executive, legislative and Judicial...
...maternity wttnae, ratification of the Washington Convention (st the present tans no legal systts of sickness insurance exists sad stake nlty provision for women workers sad tke wives of workers is left entirely to private charity or voluntary private bam anct...
...Otssre Sodero, director ef the National Broadcasting company's opera activities, will conduct ths Aids performance...
...women of industry snd business benefit by tht laws that have been enacted for their protection...
...Later the soprano went to the Royal Opera, Rome, there sharing honors with Messrs...
...Count Leo Tolstoy's "The Power of Darkness," enacted by Moscow Art-Theatre Artiste, win be shown at the 55 th Street Playhouse beginning next Saturday...
...Fu Manchu have been beet sellers for years and now Paramount has utilized the facilities of the aU-talking screen to make this character live in one of his most exciting adventures...
...the provincial, and Era Berg, tfae Communist, were excellent...
...and tbe heads of the theatre's different ilenai I awn ill, tn order to give theee young paopla a dear idea of the ratpoaatbUltiei and the opportunity 1a the profession they have chosen...
...Robert Wiene, director of "The Cabinet of Dr...
...Other musical comedy favorites in "The Street Singer" include Jane Alden...
...Helen Everett Melklejohn, head of the advisory board of the Summer School, made the address of the evening, and them were present 13 industrial girls who had attended former sessions of the Summer School/ ALABAMA Tfae Trades Council of Birmingham, Alabama aad our Birmingham Women's Trade Union L segue compose a Labor Education Committee, sad am preparing plans tor organisation work...
...FILMS: Silent and Sound Warner Bros, win star Pauline Frederick in two all-talking Vitaphone productions on their program of 35 specials for 1939-30...
...They are most enthusiastic about their 1939-30 product, stating that their coming pictures far surpass anything which the company has offered in past years...
...The first imported film with dialogue "Kitty" will be seen and heard at the 1 St George Playhouse, this week-end, Friday...
...LtSmnue saSs far Europe next Wednesday aboard the ss...
...which wss presented with marked success at the Theatre Guild in New York...
...the vivid and1 thrilling film conception of men's fight...
...Alec B. Francis, Clarissa Selwynne and others...
...Bast, and of ths West, depends greatly on the orftsusaSon of tht thousands of southern mill workers to each a basic industry as textiles...
...the comedy at the Mia ueuo theatre, have formed a golf teem with Mary Hartley Mfiburn, who Steps the barmaid, as mascot, and are putting in an hours away from the theatre getting ready for a match with their compatriots in "Journey's End...
...Broadway Nights," at the Fortyfourth Street Theatre...
...The salvation of ths workers of the North...
...JShJestic...
...As Hale yelled to bis "soldiers" the smoke seared bis throat so badly that be lost his voice - entirety...
...Over a hundred parent* and guardians whom children are enrolled for the summer or for part of the summer hare been invited to visit the camp...
...Lauri Volpe aad Straeeiari...
...The two features for Wednesday and Thursday...
...eMreotors...
...It cannot truthfully be said that he has succeeded—perhaps that is impossible...
...Levey has arranged for all of these productions to be done in talking pictures- for road showing, and an announcement ss to the talkie tie-up wfll he forthcoming at a later date...
...What many do not realise, and what puxsle so intelligent person, are the inexplicable, child-like, idiotic reverence, utter humility and resignation to their sad lot with which the hypnotised poorer classes regard the criminal activities of the all-devouring corporate beast that inspires swe, instead of resentment, in those against whom the moneyed combines sin so often...
...Fu Manchu," first read the story in 1919 and since that time has negotiated with three different motion picture companies to produce the story...
...Miss Frederick is now at work on ' Evidence" under the direction of John Adolfi...
...Birinski's best known picture In this country was "Variety," which first brought Etnil Jannings and Lya De Putti to the attention of American audiences...
...soprano, from the Chicago Civic perm Company, wfll be heard in the title part...
...July 22 and 33...
...Incidentally this Is one of what Paramount terms its "new show world" productions...
...Members of the administrative committee will be there to meet and welcome the parents...
...Later his speaking voice earns back, but the Pathe actor has not been ante to sing since that time...
...This committee includes Thomas J. Curtis, Maude Schwarts, A. J. ICuste...
...Leo Birinski, young German writer who has been responsible for several of the most striking and artistic European motion pictures and plays of the last five years, has been signed by Pathe to write original stories and dialogue tea' its new program of talking pictures...
...The acting of Gravely Edwards, Beatrix T*hit»aw»iJ and Robert Newton was very good...
...As to the play itself, one mighT almost say that Toller has carved it, physically, out of himself...
...The story is a kind that might have been written by the first "tramp poet...
...OPEN AIR GRAND OPERA Singers ef distinction to the grand opera world win be heard in the leading roles when the big, open-air production of Verdi's four-act opera "Aids" is staged at the Polo Grounds, lStth street sad Eighth avenue, on Saturday evening, JuV 37th...
...This play has a cast of only four, and Renlta Randolph and Bert West have already been engaged for rehearsal to begin August 1. "The Past Set" also written and to be directed by Edward Eisner will be ready for an early fan opening...
...Leslie Benson, the well known English comedian is sailing for New York soon to see "Follow Thru" in which he will play the Jack Harley part when it opens at the New Dominion Theatre, London...
...Marvene Dawn...
...All tickets win be favored at the Belmont...
...but, at an...
...His foreword to "Politicians," for example, states: "That Big Buaktess Is wedded to and controls politics, with afl that the term implies...
...These two Hew Bedford nuanbtre were shis to contribute to the dkcustVsa d their first-hand experiences in the Be* Bedford mills aad ta the long strike tt the 31,000 textile operatives.—From U§ and Labor Bulletin...
...MILWAUKEE WOMEN DEBATE The Milwaukee Women's Trade Union Leasaek riot president, Mke SSL Hoehsteto, met Mke Mabel Vernon, of the National Women's Party, ta debate on "Do...
...Out of several uptown theatres considered during these negotiations, the Garrick was chosen because It is a plant complete with offices, work shops and room for the storage of scenery, which will serve until the possible construction of the group's own theatre at some future date...
...Sva A. Prank, Pannia M Oohn, Solomon PUlin, Henry T. Hunt, Andrew J. Kennedy, Evelyn Preston, Rose Schneiderman and Harry Rnbensteta...
...The film was made by the William Fox Corporation in their German studios, whence came such earlier films as "Berlin, the Symphony of a Big City," and "Madame Wants No Children:** To those who know the master composer only through his waltzes, it win come as a surprise to learn that his father, who also was a famous musician, fought bitterly against his son's desire to study music...
...Later he was released and came back to a changed world...
...B. B. plays and players LEVEY'S TEN PRODUCTIONS Bernard Levey, producer of "Bedfellows," by Louise Carter, now running at the Waldorf theatre yesterday announced his further plans for the season...
...Pioneer Youth Event* For Week-End at Camp A (pedal week-end for parents will be held at Pioneer Youth Camp, Rlfton, If...
...OUTCBT SOCIALISTS ON MATERRITT The election programme paahsbsd kr the Executive Committee of the Defeat Social-Democratic Party in view of the Impending Party Congress contains US touowtog claims for women "Perfestkg of social msuraace...
...The first tour days of the enuring "Laugh, Clown, Laugh," acclaimed as the greatest achievement, of this star's career...
...Broadway Nights," with its pep, color, wen trained and sprightly chorus, provides a good evening's entertainment...
...published by the i author at Kleins Park, Pa...
...A large number have written that they will attend...
...In those days screen effects were a matter of experimentation and the property man used Injurious chemicals to produce smoke in some battle scenes...
...He wrote more than a score of highly successful German pictures, included among them being "The Tragedy of Love...
...Podi Brown, Kay Norwood...
...This is an old medieval farce attributed originally to Francois Villon...
...Garrick Theatre, which wfll be renamed 'The Province town Playhouse in the Garrick Theatre...
...Rober Sterling, producer, announces...
...Two of Italy's best-known opera stars— Guiseppe Radaelli, tenor, and Silvio Seri, basso, both with enviable record at the Royal Opera, Rome, and La Scale, Mtlano, have been engaged to sing the respective roles of Radames and Ramus, and are now enroot* to New York on the liner Roma, The eminent Paaquale Amato, who held sway over aU baritones at the Metropolitan for several years, wfll be heard to the character of Amenasro...
...t^nmff"iii tsl dent or that corapezrysanmtocea...
...Schwab and Mandel announce that they wfll produce "FoHow Thru" and "The New Moon" in association with Homer Curran in San Francisco and Lot Angeles...
...Robert van Roson, scene designer for the Province town Playhouse, the New Playwright's theatre, and Morris Schwartz's Yiddish Theatre, wfll do the sets and direct...
...In the discussion what took place on this subject the SsakV...
...Fu Manchu...
...Lupe Velez and Est*lie Taylor and "House of Horrors" a comedy mystery with Chester Conklin and Louise Fazenda...
...It was written and composed by Mr...
...The entire proceeds from the sale of the pins win be turned over to the United Textile Workers of America...
...With the perfectin- of the talking picture...
...While the program does not attempt to classify the nature of the entertainment, it does make one forget the heat...
...He was a Revolutionary, fought at the barricades...
...under the baton of Otao Marinusst Lydia Van Gilder, also a former member of the Chicago company where tht sang for two seasons, win be heard in the role of Amnerix in the Verdi pageant...
...In the cast are Lillian Bond...
...civic repertory plana for apprentice system Although the third season ef the Civic Repertory Theatre was completed only a week ago with the conclusion of a spring tour of a fortnight in Philadelphia and three weeks to Boston, Eva Le Gellie nne, its founder sad director, is already laying definite plans for the resumption of its activity on the home stage in Fourteenth street next fall...
...With this equipment they win entertain themselves by pre-viewing 'Dynamite.' Other pictures win be booked into the 'flying theatre' as they are needed by the fliers...
...King, King and King are tap dancers...
...Miss Seymour has invited as many members of the company ss wish to Join to attend sessions twice weekly at her downtown apartment...
...Charles Mauosell...
...which win be presented at the Riatto theatre, starting Saturday, July 20th, takes the crafty, oriental revenger through a series of gripping events...
...This concert wfll be broadcast through the courtesy of the National Broadcasting Company over their network of stations...
...A new production unit has been formed in New York under the name of "Excentric Films" to be devoted towards the production of short subjects for exclusive release through the Little theatres here and abroad...
...Nick Long, Jr., who has often been called the Douglas Fairbanks of musical comedy, has been given an important role in "The Street Singer," the forthcoming musical comedy in which Guy Robertson, Queenie Smith, Harry K. Morton and Andrew Tombs are starred...
...Democratic Deputy, Tout PfuU, delivers* a moving speech in defence of ths iBsptimate children and drew attention tt the abnormally high mortality smsac, such children, and to the aprjelltag distress higher criminal statistics assent them as compared with children hem it wedlock...
...baa Issued an order dismissing all married women from city lobe "unless there be specially mitigating ctrcumstanoea...
...There is no let up...
...The 55th Street Playhouse has made arrangements to sponsor the first New York presentation of the forthcoming Ex centric productions...
...dmsrtrtn, Oerman and kugnth eomperdm were competing...
...Por the last half of the week Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) the feature attraction will be a revival of that beautifully told story "The Walts Dream" a UFA production with a noted foreign cast...
...edited by pauline m. newman CONCERNING WOMAN A eesartsMstt ef sett ¦at Hews «t iiiiiiske tgweett...
...One of them was a drama called "Fighting Reverend Watts" in which Hale played George Washington...
...Paramount saw the possibilities tn this le*t-movtng story and oast Olaatt as Dr...
...July 30th...
...Warner O land, who plays the title-role in Parsmount's all-talking picturbmUon of "The Mysterious Dr...
...a translation from the German success "Hungry Heart" by Frits Stein...
...Thus far the following show girls have taken advantage of the offer made by Miss Seymour, who has been called by many critics the 'Yvette GuUbert of America'1...
...The following telegram was received yesterday (Thursday) at the Eastern offices of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's picture...
...Miss Ssmoiloff's debut with the Chicago organisation, in the character of Santuata (CavaQeria Rusttcana), is a matter of interesting opera history to the Windy City...
...One-eighth of afl the cfafidrts born to Germany are illegitimate, On proportion to Catholic Bavaria being st high as 15.8...
...the singing, dancing and talking picture of the South is the feature for the talkie program on Monday and Tuesday...
...while Toller's character studies of Plckel...
...He was offered parts tn two motion pictures, then being made in a Brooklyn studio...
...ANN SEYMOUR STARTS CLASS Ann Seymour, featured with Ted Healy in "A Night in Venice" at the Shubert Theatre, has organized a class in diction for girls in the chorus of the show who aspire to do more than dance or act as show girls...
...Chang" ; was produced by Ernest B. Scboedsack j and Merian C. Cooper, whose first screen venture was "Grass" and whose latest: "The Four Feathers" is now shown at j the Criterion...
...The picture was made in England and has been adapted from Warwick Deeping's popular novel "Kitty...
...It is a very keen and balanced study of political evolution, and of the changes in outlook and habit that such development brings about...
...Roddy Hughes...
...Broadway Nights" is fast...
...for life in the Siamese jungles...
...On Tuesday morning, July it, fifteen Pioneer Youth club children who will be in the city all summer were taken by boat for a free excursion of several days at the camp...
...Furnace Troubles" with Robert Benchley, a dialogue comedy, a Charlie Chaplin comedy and a Ufa novelty are on the same program...
...M-G-M arc lights are Illuminating the Culver City field nightly and 'Hollywood Revue' records are being broadcast by a sound department recording truck to the thousands on the flying field waiting for the air heroes to come down...
...Of the play "Benn" wrote in the British New Leader: "Toller's "Hoppla' at the Gate Theater Is remarkable in many respects...
...She seems to be preserving her French accent and is not content to merely play tricks with the violin...
...BIRD IN HAND" Six members of the English company eg "Bird In Hand...
...When refueling the plane we will lower a small projection machine, a window shade screen, a print of 'Dynamite' and a storage battery...
...The Chicago company of "Follow Thru" opened recently at the Garden Pier Theatre...
...The Belle of Samoa," a musical comedy, with Lois Moran and Clark & McCuUougb, and a revival of "Killing the Killer" complete this program...
...Doctor Rockwell has a great line of guff that sounds like a mixture of the spiels of the street corner medicine faker and the meaningless phrases of the writer on a success pep magazine...
...One is the' midsummer carnival, which will call forth all of tbe talents of the children —many of wtmm are quite talented, musically, dramatically, etc...
...The fourth on the list is "Little Tin God" by Joe Martin, to be followed by "Beyond Human Power" by Marion Gering, Milton Wallace of "Abie's Irish Rose" win appear in "The Match Maker" by Paul Clark, which Levey will do around Thanksgiving time...
...Yfkh the purchase ef the book's aetata Tkffats hy UniTeratO, was the result of 'tokens!, rivalry among motion picture pro* sntett...
...His "scientific" lecture in which he proves that the eating of popcorn results in dandruff and his chattering comment on the pantomlne stunt with the gags that would not get by in Boston if placed between the covers of a book, ia funning that goes across big...
...Warren Hull, William Wayne, Olive Olsen...
...Toller realises, and has endeavored to otci tome the limitations of the stage...
...This was held early ta June under the auspices of the Zonta Club, and the reports indicate that Mke Hochsteta made a case hard to deny to favor of industrial laws...
...Odette Myrtil carols as bUthsomely as of yore...
...Birinski is also the author of eight successful European stage plays, including "RaspQtin...
...dtortkrteh ^UtS^mm»t?tSS^& '"-~t* - ^' r' cexj...
...the legal title undr which the j group has operated for several seasons, ¦ have decided to take advantage of the j generous offer of Otto H. Kahn to- finance a subscription and fund campaign, > postulated on removal to a larger stage i and auditorium...
...Universal already owns a big producing studio in Berlin...
...His first production will be "The Son of Lucretla Borgia," a romantic drama with music by Edward Eisner, who wfll stage the play...
...Cooperating is the Women to Industry rmrrmWee of the League of Women Voters which has grown numerically at fan as to interest...
...Kahn and Lee Shubert have resulted in the choice of the...
...Tbe following day, Sunday, talks on the methods and purposes of Pioneer Youth will be given by Joshua Tleher-man and W. Walter Ludwig...
...Her vocal studies began in her babyhood, when she learned to sing and croon popular ballads and children's songs, in which she specializes to this day...
...PROVINCETOWN PLAYHOUSE TO REMOVE TO GARRICK THEATRE unoer a reorganized Board of Directors, the Province town Playhouse announced last night through James Light, Director, and M. Eleanor Fitzgerald, business manager, detailed plans for an expansion of its activities and for a subscription and endowment campaign to begin immediately...
...The first production, now under way, is a two reel satirical comedv from a story by La Jos Egri, Hungarian playwright and author of "Rapid Transit," the expressionistic drama produced by the Province town Players recently...
...Mke Mollie Dowd...
...Thomas Tracey, David Thursby and Peggy O'Neal...
...iraprevtment of marriage lajkittion with special regard for the tataus* of married Women...
...She started her musical career at the early age of nine and has since been a headliner on the vaudeville stage ever since that age...
...was captured and Imprisoned...
...Charles Hickman and Mary Hartley MUburn...
...The original experimental policy and purpose of the organization, to which it has clung throughout its existence, will in no way be al-1 tered by the extended scope of these plans...
...July 24th and 25th...
...Mary Harrison is now understudying the prima donna role in "The New Moon" at the Imperial Theatre...
...the wsssaa et, Um taker amsHsi 'Organize the South" Pin 4unique campaign is being launched by the Philadelphia Women's 'Trade Union League, starting July 1st, to provide a 960,000 fund for organisation and reflet work among the southern testae workers...
...play has been written and directed by one of the boys, costumes hare been made and refreshments planned...
...Boston, Philadelphia, Chiesgo, San frjaosgg and Lot Angela...
...Dynamite,' directed by Cecil B. De Mule, win have its world preview in the air under unusual circumstances when Loren W. MendeU and R. B. Reinhart view the silent version of the picture in the cabin of their plane on the endurance < flight which has already broken all world records...
Vol. 8 • July 1929 • No. 27
