AMUSEMENTS
Amusements The Theatre Guild Grows By Joseph T. Shipley rwtt m tba spring of 1918 that tba Washington Square Player*, graduating frcta then- aeries of eavs act plays, put on Ions; trousers...
...bore the program note that every action and every character is seen ss through the eyes of the chief character—giving us the first American example of monodrama...
...Elmer Rice, to the Adding Machine," shows as the granted hereafter, a magnified version of what waa "hell on earth," or "just heaven...
...His portrayal of "a gentleman of the period" Is extraordinarily fine...
...What C. Stafford Dickens' comedy lacks in genuineness is fully compensated for by a cast exceedingly well-chosen...
...Veloz and Yo-' lands, premier Ball Room Dancers, who were last seen in...
...FILMS: Silent and Sound In the days of the Csar there were two penalties in Russia: the hangman's noose and exile to Siberia...
...tn "Hot Chocolates" he appears ta several skits of has own writing and even though buriesque and radio occupy much of bis talent he prefers to be hailed as a coneodiaa In all his travels as a colored performer be has never been totally broke, has never been dismissed from any job and has found time tb read every biography he could as;, his hands on...
...remembered for his brilliant direction of the Cfa film, ''Peers of Destiny," distributed here by Paramount, supervised the making of this film...
...Even the Guild Theatre is a composite echo of the decorous decorations of the homes of renaissance robber-barons, whose peeudotypee throng its halls today...
...Constance Bennett in "Clothes...
...It is to be hoped tost Dr...
...Bddie Green, whose chief distinction at the moment is that he wrote the sketch "Big Business,** a satire on fixing a prise fight in "Hot Chocolates...
...But before he can carry out his Intention...
...they are women...
...However, they are brought in chains to Church and when one of their number breaks down and the leader of the politicals, Berts, denounces the new warden—Ostrobeylo orders a general flogging in the prison of all politicals...
...as juvenile, Arthur Campbell, as leading comedian, Bobby Jarvis and as leading comedienne...
...Freddie One often comes in contact with simple and ultra-gullfble bachelors, but not often one quite so simple and vacantlooking as the Freddie created by C Stafford Dickens in his comedy by that name now at the Lyceum...
...A Question And An Answer I dislike to be misunderstood...
...The political prisoners, through their leader, nya Berts, demand humane treatment but are laughed at by the warden who orders them to be placed together with the criminal prisoners'' "In Old Siberia,' at the Cameo, deals with these incidents...
...save that as the chief character was a muddung...
...Rockwell and Odette Myrtil at the 44th Street Theatre...
...The report quotes cases of hourly earnings as low as 15 groscben (about a penny) and of hours of work amounting to 19 hours out of the 34...
...Fans attending /theatres soreeniag silent pictures will be able to see big stars like Ina Claire, William Boyd, Ann Harding and Constance Bennett in new features as well as the big Pa the specials with all-star easts...
...although tt gave the world premieres of three Shaw plays ("Heartbreak Bouse," "Back To Methusaleh," and "Saint Joan"), its classical revivals include only "Faust'' and "Vcdpone"—both in new versions—and "Peer Gynt...
...OB HB" contrary, it win hinder it...
...Ineffectual, well-meaning clerk, his eyes were much like those of most of us...
...The Grand Parade," a minstrel love story and "A Woman Afraid," an all-star mystery melodrama...
...The Wild Heart of Africa...
...No other country in the world has a similar organisation...
...More vigorous examples of the type the Oufld supplied in Kaiser's "From Morn to Midnight'' and Tollers "Man and the masses...
...The political prisoners go on a hunger strike and when reported to the new warden, he orders them to go to Church...
...and enough of others, to cover thirty-one performances, Jacinto Benavente'a "Bends of Interest'* The play was staged by Philip Moeller...
...It win open July 29th at the^Jerden Pier Theatre, Atlantic City, and in Boston at the Majestic Theatre, August 13th...
...Claudel's "The Tidings Brought To Mary," much more successfully than...
...The playwright has a personal interestin the blind, her husband having lost his eyesight several years ago...
...Kathe Leichter, has had information collected for the Chamber concerning the Bring and working conditions of a thousand Viennese heme workers, the results of which have been published in a clear and readable pamphlet, which can be bad from "Arbeit uod Wlrtechaft," Ebendortorstreaae 1, Vienna L This pamphlet ron tains, elong with a quantity of highly relevant and instructive figures, a number of descriptive passages, to reading which one feels as though one were earried back 30—50 years, and which one would put dpwn aa the exaggerations of imscTupulous sensation-mongers, were they not unfortunately based on an official enquiry...
...He has been doing nicely over here in plays like "The Awful Truth...
...An average of Over 100 performances per play marks the decade...
...Berts is seen by the night watchman who finds him awake when everyone in prison is supposed to be In bed...
...An appeal is to be taken from the decision of the Appellate Division...
...Held over for a second week will be Dave Apollon and his orchestra who really brings to the variety stage a most unusual and Interesting act of foreign songs and dances...
...There can be no denying that the Guild has experimented...
...while the following season Lawaon's best play "Processional,'' sparingly with an emotional and intellectual intensity surpassed only (in similar studies In our drama) by e.e...
...Vera Neilson makes a radiant Queenie Mellish, but it is Hubert Druce, as the ne'er-do-well father of Queenie, who Is the hit of the evening...
...But sixteen of MS OS productions are of plays by Americans...
...Md., boy who began in the world Of the theatre as a magfetan at church festivals...
...The study can be obtained from the above mentioned Bureau, at 134 B. 38th Street City...
...His best trick was getting his share of the receipts from the colored boy who acted aa* his manager...
...This new production has a list of comedians who keep things humming from curtain rise to curtain fall...
...A flood of steel and blood Is the device used for carrying the same characters back into the days of Noah and the biblical flood of water...
...The name of the Guild is enough...
...Quality guaranteed...
...Sailor's Holiday...
...Wings Over Europe" presented an allmale cast, wtth a most unusual theme...
...There are other industries where home work still prevails...
...The Boston company of "Follow Thru," which will begin its last week of rehearsals Monday, will contain as ingenue, Beth Meakins...
...Raymond Walbum...
...read by women Party members and workers...
...that there sat women who can fill public office as wet as some of our men who are continually nominated, but these women have no* been called to service...
...1st "Noah's Ark" the Warner Bros...
...Tuesday and Wednesday, July 29th, 30th and 31st Sharon linn...
...Zeppelin...
...Saratoga," and "Rich People...
...I do not want to see woass* nominated for anything just be3...
...In -Back to mottoasatefa" Shaw refrains from paatorteg heaven—though he had shown hell to "Man and Superman"—but he deee carry us "As Far As 'Thought Can beach...
...Ann Harding in "This Thing Called Love," William Boyd In "Painted Desert," (aU color), "His First Command...
...Blanche Bow...
...Thousands of Russians suffered there...
...Capek's very successful "R...
...The Guild can take a piece of froth, a foam-crust lighter than sugar and white of egg—like this season's "Caprice," for example—and adorn it with deftness of acting and delicacy of touch in setting and direction that would make it the choicest tidbit from the most exclusive caterer for the richest table...
...and among its delightful characterisations is that made by Helen Westley...
...Perhaps we may gain what we have so long been seeking through this appeal...
...WerfePs "goat Seng," Evreinov's "The Cbtaf Thing," Pirandello's "blglll TOO Are—If Ton Think You are" ere other tolas In isa lis To match the three nights it took to present "Back to Methusaleh" comes the supper-interval at the nineact "Staauge interlude" of Eugene O'Neill, who—taken at the Guild after bis name bad been made known by the Provlncetown Playhouse—has had three plays given by the Guild to two seasons, the latest being the prophetic "Dynamo...
...at the Polo Grounds, 155th street and tth avenue, is scheduled to begin at 9 o'clock sharp...
...By the excellence of Us presentations, by the variety of its offerings, tt has greatly raised the standards of drama in New York, and therefore in America...
...Steamboat WUBe," an animated sottad tsrtoou, and a Charlie Chase comedy complete this ¦ program...
...soprano: Lydta Van Gilder, memo soprano...
...And an his gags are taken from actual happenings...
...Baps1 daily by your own people whom you expect to know where you stand on certain issues...
...Peter Voss plays the role of Edward Whymper, the first man to conquer this mountain...
...Zero when alive...
...Rouben Mamoulian...
...And the fact that the few of to are trying to make our men comrssBP wake up to the realization that unless «t organise the women tor Socialism we Sffj doomed to failure, does not mean that, nominating incapable women for pe*ej* office win help the situation...
...a special with cast headed by William Boyd, Ann Harding and Robert Armstrong...
...Our poverty in able woaaea is tremendous...
...He loves to laugh and to eat ice cream...
...The lot to commit suicide falls to one of the younger prisoners...
...To give the fan patrons of these theatres the popular Pa the stars in their new pictures, silent editions of twenty-one of the thirty attractions for 1939-30 will be issued...
...we can try...
...The screen version of Thornton Wilder's beautiful story, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey, will be shown at the St Gearge Playhouse on Saturday and Bunday...
...Freddie is associated with the Gommery household only because his friend, George, is too engrossed in his affaires d amour to take care of the business matters of the estate...
...While here he will watch Jack Haley in "Follow Thru," that being the role assigned to him in the English production which opens at the new Dominion Theatre, London, in September...
...The leader, Berts, out of pity, maintains that only his death will arouse the country and decides to take his own life instead of the one who drew the marked slip of paper...
...But when the sixth day comes, the provision for 78 hours of legal overtime makes it possible for him to add one and one half hours regularly throughout the year to the four and one half hours contemplated as a short day...
...So of the Guild it may be said that what has made it succeed is not these varied experiments, but the substantial stratum of bourgeois earnestness and attention to details of appearance, to surface finishing, to "show"—in a sense of the term "theatrical" that demands the quotation marks...
...Sue Carol and Lola Lane, head of a chorus of two hundred In this song and dance bit...
...It is different, in several respects, from the municipal theatres of various European countries...
...the party get to a point where « wsj concentrate its efforts in securing g* interests, the participation...
...Never again win he play in London unless he is assured of clear weather...
...It is deer that the Guild programs have been rich wtth experimentation...
...The Women in Industry Bureau of the Labor Department has recently published a study on "home work in the men's clothing industry" where much home work exists...
...Matinees Wednesday and Saturday...
...Chief of its veteran actors, and one of the most toteStgent of our players today, ts Dudley Dteges...
...Others in the cast include John Phllbrick...
...and the fun of the stage...
...Daryl Francis Zanuek wrote the story and Michael Curtis directed...
...Tonight's open-air production of the opera "Aide...
...Incidentally, furnished a name for the species that is the destined end of a large portion of humanity under capitalism, according to the drift of time and the tendency of philosophical and economic speculation, unless some change drives man free...
...tenor...
...to the days when man becomes usttiainus, andy-the hatchlings live for three years or so on romance and rudimentals before they change into "anctanta," content to contemplate the eternal toasts of the spheres...
...War and Women...
...Freddie runs off with the irresistible Queenie...
...Fred Sumner, and Gertrude Mudge...
...In desperation, the political prisoners decide that one of their number must commit suicide in order to attract the country's attention to their plight and the terrible conditions existing...
...The politicians have never before gone to Church and all the little prison society is agog with' excitement over the deliberation whether the political prisoners will comply with the order of the new warden...
...London traffic was tied up and Walbum was hinging to a lamp post bargaining with a street urchin to carry a lantern to lead the way to the boat...
...nor can we fail to admit they are often desirable additions to other qualities, some of which the Guild also manifests in sufficient measure to make it the most successful—and in sustained standard of direction and performance one of the best—of the theatrical organisations of the world...
...It is a most elaborate production and moves along rapidly as every good revue should do...
...G. H. At The Palace Those who are habitues of the ace of music halls are in for an unusually fine program of favorites commencing this Saturday...
...Parachute" and "The Racketeer" featuring Robert Armstrong and Carol Lombard...
...We must enrich oweeaaes by getting back those old atandbje...
...playing at the Waldorf Theatre, is arranging to have the members of the various associations for the blind attend the Wednesday matinee, July 34, as her guests...
...Marcella Albani plays the female lead...
...Lunia Nestor and ballet of 38 will furnish the incidental dances, and Giuseppe Bambcochek win conduct uouiee carter, author and one of the cast of "Bedfellows...
...Raymond Walbum makes a credible Freddie...
...by Arthur Richman...
...nd the seetrtbution of the women irside...
...but I do want to...
...Ben-Ami, Komiaarjevsky, Frank Retaher, Emanuel Reicher, in addition to Phiip Moeller and Dudley Digges, but— alongside the wilder efforts of the New Playwrights, and the seat for the new of 'the Provtncetowd Players, the Theatre Gufld has prtoented a number of plays that to themselves are experimental, radical in one way or another...
...He is put in solitary confinement...
...Vitaphone Talking production wtth Dolores Costello in the stellar role after completing Its two dollar engagement on Broadway, will be presented for the first time at popular prices at the Mark Strand...
...Everything becomes still at the warden's birthday party...
...While ft is true that home work hi America has declined to a very great extent with-the rise of the trade union movement we are by no means rid of it entirely...
...At tots moment however, we are dreadfully busy, and must let it rest for a while...
...That "Dark Cloud of Joy," Bill Robinson, who appeared in Blackbirds for one year on Broadway,' returns once more to the Palace to do his tap dancing which has put him in a class by himself...
...One of these days we shall list them for the information of our readers...
...One of the best among the new musical shows to town tt •'Broadway Nights," the musical comedy revue featuring Dr...
...A telegram arrives...
...Clearly the Guild alms neither at emphasising native talent nor at preserving the great classics, • . • a What then, is the activating purpose behind the Guild...
...Bernard lewey, producer of "Bedfellows," now running at the Waldorf Theatre, announces that rehearsals will start Monday, July 29, on "Madness.'.' previously announced under the title ¦Yearning," with Henlta Randolph, who has just returned from a month In Halifax, and Bert West, in the leading roles, and Edward Eisner directing...
...Ruth Tester, Billy Mclntyre, Evelyn Kindler, James TJolly...
...Stroud Twins, at the head of a large cast of boys and girls will contribute their share of youth and laughter...
...The provisions of the law for the protection of home worten are not observed, since the boast workers are not sufficiently organised a* Insist on their observance and beeatot the individual worker, under the pressors of necessity and for fear of loosing ever this wretchedly paid work, does not site*, herself to think of the law, or even sosmits to exploitation in complete ignorance of the law...
...a story of Tin Pan Alley...
...Kilpatiick to play one of the leading roles in his forthcoming production of "Hawk Island," by Howard Irving Young...
...The Fox Movietone Follies," ts the feature on the sound program, Monday...
...Edited by P&uline ma Xittwnuuk concerning woman A Departement of News and views movement bsaaat.^gj a^^^bw.^^ k i^W f^^^^^^^\^M ^^^^^^ '.'V ^gj^^^sg week "in order to" give them a half holiday on the sixth day...
...My eta swer was then, and is now,-empbstieaSf no* I am not for that kind of "eqasi rights...
...The Plot, "Two Glorious LovWSf wBff loved for aU Eternity" Is a modern Bar* story which culminates to the destruction of a French Village and the imprisoning of the principal characters under the buildings destroyed by war...
...The fog was at its worst...
...Giuseppe Radaelll...
...cases of families consisting of several members sharing with strangers of either sex a single room, in which they wort cook, eat and sleep...
...Take My Advice...
...R." Introduced the Robots to the land, and made us familiar, on the stage, with a type growing more common throughout this and other countries...
...July 37...
...July 27th and 28th...
...To which of Its directors these qualities are due we need not guess...
...The old warden is dismissed and in his place is placed one Ostrobeylo, who promptly becomes the terror of everyone who is unfortunate enough to be classified as a political prisoner...
...More than a year was required to mak£ this film and two persons were killed during the shooting...
...At the derrick Theatre they offered, to a hundred-and-a-half subseribcn...
...Meanwhile "aaahush...
...This T^t is to remain in New York indefinitely while a second company is being rehearsed abroad by its author to tour the principal cities of this country and Canada...
...Porgy" an all-negro cast in a play that surged accordant to its story, and gave perceptible meaning to the term rhythm in drama—and has been the most successful of all the Guild productions...
...Bird to Hand," John Drtnkwater's delightful comedy of English country folk, wtth almost four months of delighted audiences to its credit continues on its way at the Morocco Theatre, where it is on the top wave of success...
...Red Hot Rhythm...
...who had been active in various capacities (Including author, of those hilarious farces "Helena's Husband," and "Poky"—in which we shall never forget Helen Westleys anguished cry of 'Why, i ask you...
...Because I laugh so easily everyone tells me jokes," he says...
...indeed, the main purpose of some of these seems to be the preservation of the nation's bast drama . . . although, in several of the German theatres, there is a repertory alternation of elaesteal drama and new experimental plays...
...If I Was Rich," and recently to "The Great Necker...
...who plays "Freddy" at the Lyceum Theatre, claims that he is the only American actor lost in a London tog...
...Distress Among Boons Workers The research worker in charge of studies on women's work at the Vienna Chamber of Labour, Comrade Dr...
...The all-star cast Includes Ernest Torrence, Lil Damita, Raquel Torres and Henry B. Walthall...
...But as the Guild grew...
...The Menace of Home Work The following appeared in to/ International Women's Supplement...
...The foremost roles will be rang by Delia Samoiloff...
...When you buy our products you are sure of the very best...
...Oh, Yeah," featuring Robert Armstrong and James Oleason...
...He is visiting New York as the guest of Max Dreyfus, president of Harms, inc., the mask...
...plays and players Leslie Henson, the well-known British comedian, arrived yesterday on the Homeric...
...However, notwithstanding the high walls of the prisons, a political prisoner manages to escape...
...For what does tt ¦stand...
...outstanding German film actually produced on the famous Alpine peak, will be the feature attraction at the Little Carnegie Playhouse beginning Saturday, July 27...
...First, in that these are subsidised, while the Guild has baSt op Its own generous support, which guarantees any production at least a six-weeks' run...
...Thus both the eight hour day and the Saturday half holiday have escaped us again...
...The programs of the Paris official theatres, and of the various German bouses, moreover, show a greater number of revivals of the classics...
...The Fight for Matter horn...
...cummintf* "him"—drove a high-power light aortas and into American civilisation...
...The management announce* that the huge stage wfll bs so handled that there will be no vexatious waifs'between the acts, and the opera should close about 11:30...
...The twenty-one Pa the features which will be shown to the public in both silent and dialogue-singing-musical editions during 1939-30 follow: Ina Claire tn "Negligee...
...It happened just prior to the "Show Off" company's departure for America...
...3 think they can be gotten back...
...Oopeeu...
...to Mr...
...we:) need them...
...Arnold Franck...
...Scandal," a society drama with Laura LaPtante and "Stairs of Sand," from Zane Grey's novel, wtth Wallace Beery, Jean Arthur and Chester Conklln are on the program for one day only, Thursday, Aug...
...Chas...
...it is safe to assume that the Washington Square Players started just for the love of the playing, the glamf...
...At this time, at the warden's quarters, the prison society is celebrating the new warden's birthday...
...The play...
...This comrade was coming tote the Rand Book Store when he saw ast and fired the following question: "WooJe you nominate a woman for pubHe'oflet just because she is s woman...
...Clifford McLaglen, brother ot Victor McLaglen, is starred with Voss...
...In the prison joy reigns...
...Mile...
...However, there is no certainty of it...
...another of the exciting and authentic pictures taken in the African jungles, is the supporting feature on this program...
...Miss Costello the Mary of the modern, story, ta the Miriam of the flood sequences, while Travis, acted by Noah Beery, the lustful Russian officer in the war sequences, becomes King Nephilim who commands the sacrifice of the Virgin Miriam to the idol Jaghut...
...featuring Alan Hale...
...The last play of the tooth'meson...
...I would suggest that those interested send for the pamphlet and get the facts more fully described...
...Not only has it entrusted the direction of performances to foreign experimenters, or to native lovers of the theatre...
...The tenth year of the Theatre Guild's activity closes with a body of subscribers totalling over JO ,000 in New Tork, and about as many more in the stz eStea of the touring season—with four more ctttes to be added, and a successful trip to London capptog it all...
...While Gommery spends a lot of his time philandering with Queenie Mellish, a charming actress who is anxious to settle down to a quiet home life, his wife is making feverish attempts to win the unsuspecting Freddie...
...W. Hamp, the :Well known radion personality will contribute twenty minutes to the bill, to be followed by an elaborate revue in which Sanchon and Marco will grace the Palace stage...
...There ts lots of excellent dancing and the scenic numbers ere gorgeous...
...m< I repeat...
...Prantisek Langert "The Camel Through the Needle's Bye," was both adapted and staged by Philip Moeller...
...Letchter's report will be very widajr...
...The point however, is...
...Dickens, in addition to writing and staging the play takes the part of George Gommery, who resides on his estate in Surrey with his thin-lipped, constantly nagging wife...
...The story of this film Is based on the successful effort to reach the peak of the Matterhorn...
...Pasquale Amato, baritone, and Silvio Serf, basso...
...It has been said that every genius Is 35% charlatan,, and it is the charlatan in him that makes him a success...
...Among the plays offered during the Quad's seasons, several stand out in memory, as radical in form or purport Mower's "liaom," first of the plays to carry us to the next world, showed just the sort of police magistrate God the street wastrel LOlom had been told would watt to punish him, just the sort too many expect sal sometimes fear...
...Morris Goat's more elaborate offerings, recreated the religious spirit ot the middle-ages...
...trousers and become the Theatre Guild...
...The warden, under the Impression that it Is another congratulation, reads it aloud and discloses that a revolutionary committee is coming to liberate the political prisoners...
...some of them have not attended vm* branch meetings regularly—and the wear knows that it takes a lot of courage s«d< win power to sit through s siasep meeting...
...Mary Fowler, whose last appearance on Broadway was to Bide Dudley's "Borrowed Love," has been engaged by Thos...
...Pleasure Bound will present some new numbers to an audience that expects much from them...
...publishers...
...and if such should not prove to be the case, our long standing conviction of the need for shorter working hours must move us again to battle for what we will this time strive to make a "fool proof" taw...
...Crashing Through," and "Officer O'Brien...
...Through a series of unnatural circumstances made almost believable by excellent acting...
...The politicals break out of their cells and frantically search for their leader, who in solitary confinement is just about to carry out his determination to die when his comrades joyously acquaint him of the fact that they are all free...
...as those who are still on the "utt-~iSi the party, can make to our m3v*»*ej|| That is all—for the present...
...The Theatre Guild is unique...
...it bad to have something more definite, to-offer its audience-members...
...In other words, the Guild has mixed with Its genuine love of the theatre, with its good taste and occasional daring, a good measure of middle-class taste, of middle-class concern for correctness, for excellence of finish, for manner as opposed to matter...
...Others have not been seta*: of late, therefore do not nominate thenPersonalty I think that those are hat the women who should be drafted toas* tor office, and encouraged by being sr*2 a place in the councils of the party...
...Alfred Lunt and his wife lynn Pontanne are of their younger beet, ta companies invariably as polished as a private's buttons on Inspection day...
...Pa the, presenting It* Silver Anniversary Season array of feature pictures, is not overlooking the fact that a large proportion of the theatres throughout the country are still unwired for the showing of talking, singing and musical productions...
...The Big Shot," a special by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur...
...little of this sort can be said of the Theatre Guild...
...is a Baltimore...
...The Sophomore," "Play Boy," and "Hot and Bothered," featuring Eddie QuiBan...
Vol. 8 • July 1929 • No. 28
