AMUSEMENTS
A MUSEMENTS The Week On Stage by Joseph T. Shipley ON OUB, PAGES—AND STAGES . VT. HAT with Mac Coleman ' "going' ferockxts" about the theatre on a neighbor page, and Paul Sifton...
...131 E. nth street The Agenda iindudes: Election of an Executive Council...
...The topics covered were the post office and banks, recognition of Soviet Russia by the United States ar'd the implications of Hoover's "good-will" trip to South America...
...an idea is his who says it best— i bemuse then it is...
...This thought I may develop ut some time, with examples (my survey of the American drama, in these columns two years ago, touched on a number...
...Bernie at his of4 free, 745 Seventh Ave...
...The Roman idea of free "bread and circuses," used perversely bj the' Caesars to keep the populace eontent, a not tar from sound...
...are vain, aJnd playwrights parasites, strike me as a little naive...
...Election of a Board of Directors...
...27 and 28, the St...
...So far as art is con- cemed...
...All are invited to attend, listen and discuss...
...The Joint Council of the Furriers Union has voted to affiliate with the Union Health Center...
...Paul Whiteman's crowded cones* schedule has forced the postponement to the starting of his first special movietone production, entitled, "The King of Jazz," from Feb...
...rather, watch it, for each of the three versions is the body of one act of the play...
...report of the General Director...
...1 A. M." This see-PS a full, intere«t'->g bill, for wh?t promises to be o-e of the most interesting of cinema houses...
...then it grows melodramatic, with a theory that women are the cause of all ill, with the sudden coming of the faithless one who had been the landowner's ruin, with the heave of the tramp's avenging axe...
...Not many.do, even |then!> ¦•- " j "Machinal" might have befti written ! by the Authors' Society of America...
...S. Glencairn" are those who attend the performance Friday, Feb...
...and two of the present group are rather studies than struggles...
...TWO IN CONTRAST I The latest presentation of Eva Le Galllenne's Civic Repertory Theatre consists of Tcheckov's "On the High Road" and the Qulnteros' "The Lady from Alfaqueque," txro plays that by contrast offer balanced ration...
...and Charlie Cha-lin's old music-hall movie...
...Boom Boom...
...The women are less prominent, less developed in their poverty and need...
...Two newspaper reporters, one English and one American, seated in a cafe in the "Canal Zone," expose their ideas as to the crime...
...She has Just returned from a tour w.th "In Abraham's Bosom," S which she was the featured actress...
...In addition to the net earnings, street lights, lights in the city hall, the armory or the 116th held artillery, the Bartow general hospital, the municipal auditorium, the clubhouse at the municipal golf course, the diamond ball court and the new shuffle board courts, and light and power for 24 hours a day, the year around at the munllcpal disposal r-'snt...
...Discussion will follow the I talk...
...from official pictures In the English Military Archives on one of the greatest ofTensives in the late fray "over there...
...Rosita," with the late Holbrook Blinn...
...he smiles with sweet tolerance and only , gentle teasing at Us wife's many indiscretions, to permitting anyone who comes from Alfamieque (pronounced Alfakaykay) to impose upon her...
...Tickets, from $1 to $2.50, are on sale at the Rand School ard the Party office...
...Brance^ 6. i Harken, Musicians...
...Saturday, Sunday and Monday, Jan...
...George Playhouse will present "The Somme," Britain's paclflstic war film produce...
...featuring Frank Mclntyre and Jenette MacDonald, on Monday everi-g, January 28th, at the Casino Theatre...
...Being an American Journalist, the first theorizer naturally develops the triangle explanation...
...But It is pleasant to notice the not very harmful folly of another...
...I "On the High Road" is a most effect- 1 ive picture of wretches seeking shelter from a storm, huddled to a cellar whose owner calls It an inn...
...The Lady from Alfaqueque" is a delightful comedy, satirizing the woman who allows her sentimental attachment to her native town to" overcome her judgment of humans, Don Paseaal to a very friendly soul (excellently caught by Donald Cameron...
...The speaker's long preparation assures an informative and interesting evening...
...Men, women and children are using the Dental and Medical Departments more so than had been anticipated...
...report of the Director of Publicity and Education and election of various committees...
...1st, the benelt for the City Committee of the Socialist Party...
...The Union Health Center has weathered the storm With the opening of its Goors to organized labor in general, it is offering labor that which it always needed —a health institution of its own...
...Let's all try to be there...
...Critics...
...His topic will be "The Machine—a Promise or a Menae...
...Scripts should be sent to Mr...
...The wonder is...
...League representative on the Executive Committee of the New York City Socialist Action Committee...
...the peasant lad whom the tramp overrides: the miserly landlord: all the male figures are sketched with broad yet powerful strokes, to vivid limning...
...secretary, Eva Kanoff...
...Michael Lake of Cornell has been engaged by the Union Health Center to take charge of Its Gastro-Intestlna] Clinic This Clinic will be held every Tuesday at 5 pm...
...P!agi*ris*n is a concern of com! mere*, not of art...
...In this world, where most persons are para| sites, or hope to be, or wish they could be, where shall we find the greatest I fawning before successful parasites, the ! chief upholding of bourgeois virtues, the most glorious triumph of middle-class ideals—If not in the field of entertainment ? • Pleasant stimulation, agreeable relaxation, must move along approved I lines, leading to the ultimate victory of the hero—who sits watching...
...27, at 7.30, the League entertainment and dance will be held at at Rand School, 7 East 15th St...
...a Ukrainian Sovkino production that his been hailed to Europe...
...12, a group cf me~^ers from tl»2 "Arista" tformerly the list New York Circle) presented a on?-act play, "The Cobbler's Den," at the Willtamsourg I Educational Alliance, at the 28th anni-1 versary celebration, of W. "C...
...The Shuberte announce the presentation of their latest musical comedy...
...L. Afros will address the new Hobok^n Circle, meeting at 110 Grand St, on Aims and Ideals of the YCL...
...8. Glenealm" lack the developing power of O'Neill's later work, they show his sensitivity, his se| lectlveness, and his sense of dramatic reality, already mature...
...The Moon of the Caribbees," though it ends with a stabbing, is a picture of a carouse on the deck of the tramp steamer...
...Health Center Group To Meet January 25th The Annual Meeting of the Union Health Center will take place Friday, Jan...
...All requests for his services should be sent to the League Educational Director, care of the City Office, Comrade Umansky has been chosen as thfl...
...What matters is, not who or how many were deswn on for ideas or technique, I but how eood the finished play turns ou1 to be...
...and "Bound East for Cardiff" is scarcely more than the musings of a man on the point of death...
...His kind is not absent among the frequenters of New York's own Grub Street Club...
...Commencing January 28th, Comrade Prank Manning will be available for leetores before Yipsel groups...
...Not all of the early plays of O'Neill are true dramas in the sense of their pulsing with conflict...
...the caddish young officer was attempting to renew his relations with the faithful and protesting wife when friend husband fatally entered...
...Henry Pruchter will lecture on "Your Future and Mine" at the Bronx Center, 1168 Boston Road, Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock Ott Sunday night, Jan...
...And labor is glad to make use of the facilities the Health Center has...
...On Wednesday, Jan...
...The authors pick the third as the true one: but it is the priv- ilege of the playgoer to prefer one of the ! other versions of the crime...
...Operation of the plant cost an aggregate of $66,900, leaving a net income of $51,605, to be applied to any municipal purpose, including replacements, extensions or other betterments...
...Is also mainly Interested in character...
...there is a deep poignancy in the shame of the crew at having uncovered Smitty's shame...
...25th, at 12 o'clock, at the Medical Dept...
...The awaited Film Arts Cinema at 52 West Eleh'h Street., is announced to ooen Friday...
...William A Brady, Jr., and Dwight Deere Wtmsn anrou-ce that, in association with Tom Weather'y, they will soon orese-t a new revue of the l-timate type...
...Being true to the English tradition, the second Journalist makes the love affair between the lady and the Lieutenant an old affair, long predating the marriage...
...In the moments of intimate revelation that come in crowded places...
...A YCL R?dio Period At those wishing to part:etp«te in the program to be broadcasted over WEVD every other Thursday under the auspices of the YCL are asked to comr-i'^'-ete with the di-rctor of the .Young Circle league, 175 E. Broadway,' New York City...
...organization education solidarity FREE YOUTH Young People's Socialist League 21 Essex Street, Boston, Mass...
...New York City...
...These two newspaper c o mrades of mine, with their surprised and sudden cry that critics...
...Then comes the Lieutenant himself, and we learn the truth...
...29, J...
...I The Junior Young Circle League has decided to organize an orchestra of Juniors...
...NEW BRUNSWICK CIRCLE MEETING At the last meeting of this group, a general discussion was held...
...but at the last cne sees that the fool and her folly are even as the ox and his skin...
...Only a detailed study of the dally papers of a period to likely to yield so good an idea of its habits, its moral standards, its concerns, as Its plays will afford—and the plays, through production, make it five before us...
...PLAY UNGUARDED At tbe Little Theatre, in "House Unguarded," Len D. Hollister and Lester Lonergan have tried to work out three theories as to the cause of the Colonel's death...
...The average wage paid in the boot and shoe industry in 1928 was 53c an hour or $26.02 for a week of 49.1 hours...
...the tramp who has been in this world almost 35 years and never robbed the post...
...Lee Shubert has forr-ed a combination of two of the most gifted young artists of the day, Albert Carroll and Carola Goya, and will present them in a unique entertainment for nine performances weekly at the Theatre Masque beginning next Sunday night...
...Following their social meeting of last Sunday night, at which tney all greatly enjoyed themselves due to the entertaining efforts of practice lly every comrade...
...report of the Director of the Dental Department...
...23, a general discussion was held on Bellamy's "Looking Backward...
...The drunkard who once wis a landowner...
...to t*>« value of approximately $15,000 a year, are supplied without direct cost to the taxpayers, according to City Manager Childs...
...AN'TI - MILITARIST RESOLUTION Comrade Switkes, chairman of the Greater New York Y. P. 8. L., Resolutions Committee, has sent a letter to the Board of Education protesting against the proposed installation of a Junior R O. T. C. Unit to Jamai-a High School...
...Reminding one somewhat of the second act of "The Lower Depths," It spends its time in casual conversation, in sudden, swiftly dying dispute...
...This Sunday evening, January 27, at the headquarters, 219 Sackman Street, Comrade Louis P. Goldberg, our director and past candidate for tbe Assembly, to going to lecture on the "Economic Interpretation of History...
...The Vanguards meet at the Jersey City Labor Lyceum, 851 York St., every second and fourth Wednesday...
...While the plays in "S...
...But there is perhaps a new thrill for murder mystery lovers...
...Also on the program are "The Fall of the House of Ussher...
...TN NEW BRUNSWICK The New Brunswick Seniors are preparing for their fifth anniversary on March 1. The "Loud Speaker," quarterly publication, will be issued on that date...
...based on Poe's story, and hailed as "the greatest advance In the progress of the motion picture as an art since "The Cebinet of Dr...
...an a-^cie-t Russian fairy tale in color...
...Paul Sifton is overconcemed with individualist property distinctions...
...to June...
...What of it...
...at 131 East 17th street...
...A general membership meeting of the YCL^wUl be held Sunday, Feb 10...
...Nancy Carrion of "The Red Robe...
...Florida City Earns Big Profit on City Power Plant • Bv e-W«w Leader Correspondent) BARTOF, Fla.—For the 12 months ending Oct...
...Meanwhile employment in the Industry has been shrinking...
...meanwhile, I must be content to repeat that, next to life itself, the drama gives the greatest scope for understanding of our day...
...S. GLENCAHLV Eugene O'Neill, at his best In plays of the soil or _the sea, is represented in .the present Province town Playhouse revival, by four of his early one-act pieces, concerned with the crew of the "8...
...Neither do the above figures Include the water used for irrigation purposes from city mains on the golf course, cn a number of small parks throughout the city, nor for water used In fighting fires in the city...
...This development holds the fancy less than the mere picture, excellently portrayed In setting and in acting, of the huddling misery of the storm-blown night...
...After a time, however, the play begins to move...
...Only in "The Long Voyage Home" does plot become prominent, though even here it is the Ironic contrast between Olson's desire and his fate that make the drama's tension...
...At a recent election the folio wins were chosen: Chairman, Abe Westerman...
...vice-president, Bessie Shalier...
...NEW YORK CITY ACTIVITIES The Bronx Boro Committee will have Comrade Jaeger soeik at its next meeting, on January 27th, at 4 p. m., at 1167 Boston Road...
...here they can see the victim shot three times in the course of one evening, and a different solution of; fered each time...
...1. The lrltlal bill will feature "Two Days...
...not that there are so few, but that there are so many playwrights who are coming to see straight, to lock at the facts of life and try to express them truly, in terms of the drama...
...treasurer, Harry Kanoff...
...And this on the lowest water, power and light rates in cities of Bartow's class in the state...
...Lionel -J...
...The greatest of these impositions is that of Felipe, really from her home town, yet otherwise an absolute impostor...
...3. Glencaim...
...Shoe Workers Average $26.02 a Week, U. S. Says Prosperity which has provided generous profits for the big shoe corporations has been profitless so far as tbe boot and shoe workers are concerned, according to a U. 8. department of labor report on wages and hours in the industry in 1928...
...27.—Every member and friend of the YCL will come to the Rand School to dance that a suffering fellowmember may live...
...His contentions are that such a group would be practically no physical benefit to the students and that it would be an undesirable element in their mental training...
...At their meeting to be held on Sunday, January 27th, at 8.30 p. m., Morton Salzberg will speak on 1 "F?t:ism...
...Boot and shoe workers have never completely recovered from the sharp deflation of the depression years 1921-22...
...HAT with Mac Coleman ' "going' ferockxts" about the theatre on a neighbor page, and Paul Sifton with vehement words pushing me out of my own place, here, I think I'd be.ter bob up again, with a few impertinences...
...Juniors Perform for Workmen's Circle On Jan...
...Their wages have advanced scarcely 0.5% In the last 2 years...
...most effectively, ev- eryboriy's...
...On Tuesday, Jan...
...Incidentally, fifty cents and one dollar and a quarter are the respective prices...
...2nd and 3rd, it is urged that tickets be disposed of and receipts be sent into the office from which obtained...
...Indeed, the entire company maintains the mood...
...Circle Two of Brooklyn is returning to its fine educational programs...
...For a few months the YCL has been seething with relief activity in behalf of a member of the Bronx Circle, _ TN JERSEY CITY Under the leadership of Jacob S. Grohman the Vanguards (Senior Circle 12 of Jersey City) are earning an enviable reputation for constructive work and for social consciousness...
...also "Life and Love," a film In which h-nis or>1y are seen...
...They are busy rehearsing "Social Balance," and working on a magazine...
...or even another drama...
...I CIRCLE SIX MANHATTAN ' I Frank Crasswaith, the prominent Negro journalist and lecturer, will discuss the problems of War, Standardization, and Social Control, in a general discussion of Youth and the Future, tomorrow ! at 8 p. m., at 62 East 160th Street...
...secretary...
...The New York Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, at its last meeting, discussed the advantages of affiliation with the Union Health Center...
...The Actors' Theatre revival of Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler...
...C«wr»l"g Events J. L. Afros will le:ture at a meeting of the Chums Circle at 190 McKibben St., Broo'ilyn, Friday night, January 25, on "Fairy Tales of 1929...
...For those who need no such assurance, the husband is at hand as chief delight...
...ENTERTAINMENT AND DANCE Sundy, Jan...
...Ernst Lubitschs first American fil-n...
...It will, however, be presented for eight performances a week...
...for the official verdict of suicide Is scoffed at...
...Tbe cost of medical care for the wage earners has always been a great problem The Health Center is trying to help find a solution...
...starring Blanche Yurka, will have its premiere at the 4^th Street Theatre Thursday night...
...Also...
...Yet the sea comes alive in these sailors: their hatred and love of the sea, their life on it and In "sailortown,"* which is an they attain of the shore for which they yearn...
...An Installation banquet was held by Circle Six, Brooklyn on January 20th at their headquarters, I67 Tompkins Ave...
...T"h?t Ferguson Family" h?s moved from the Garrick Theatre to the Bijou Theatre...
...The Circle meets at 53-58 New St., New Brunswick, N. J. An Example of W. C. Co-operation The Lincoln (English speaking) Branch 650 of the W. C, is taking an active interest in the new Intermediate Circle which meets Fridays at the Brownsville Labor Lyceum...
...It will be known as "The Little Show," aid wi'l be an elaboration of the Sunday ni^ht "Divertissements" recently presented at the Selwyn Theatre...
...it the Sruv,ert Theatre, has b»en chosen Miss United States for the Internatioral Beauty Co" test, and will compete throughout the country against the foreign Venuses who r -rived c-re from Europe last month...
...in brief Among those who will enjoy "S...
...The Circle recently decided to aid the Jersey City Socialist Party branch in raising a fund to fight for the passage of the compensation and old age pension bills...
...vice-chairman, Morris Ziperstein...
...The discovery of his false representations seems, for a time, the agency of the dear lady's cure...
...With "Cafe de D»nse," their first theatrical venture established at the Forrest Theatre, Ben Bernie and Phil Bai-p- announce their plan to extend their activities as producers and they are 1 now seeking to produce a musical ccav edy...
...Every one In the audience must be able to soothe I himself, to lose himself, in the main figure...
...What did they expect...
...In the Zone," though the action stirs more vigorously with war-fears and suspicion...
...The production is reviewed In this issue of The New LlatJer...
...The mating of "this special picture win require from six woelts to two months' work at Universal City for the jazz king and his bant, Inez Clough has been engaged by Bt» ward A. Blatt for one of the principal roles in "Black Belt.'' the dramattoatlsa of colored life in F-rlem by VTUUsst Jourdan Rapp and ./allace Tbunnaa, Miss Clough will play the role of at Williams...
...31, the Bartow municipal light, power and- water plant earned to actual cash collected, $118,505...
...Junior Circle 8 Elects The "Marco" Circle, meeting at the Band School Saturdays, at fi P. Bk elected the following officers: President, Rae Wolovitz...
...All are invited to come to the meeting which will start at 7:80 p. m. sharp...
...Young Circle News (the young circle clubs have been formed by the workmen's circl, provide children of its members an opportunity for social and intellectual contacts in an atmosphere sympathetic to the ideals of the labor movement...
...the saintly father who is about to die, yet expects to reach Odessa and the Holy Land...
...Caligarl...
...the old Colonel's young wife is In love with a handsome Lieutenant, who has to kill the husband when that person has the bad taste to enter unexpectedly...
...Stander, Yank of the crew, does good work tn the earlier episodes...
...In the part of Smitty, he also acts effectively, though the high spot of general performance is in the final episode...
...Or the poet, who is an impostor with a philosophy...
...and a pleasing sense of one's own superiority is thus lmbrewed by the play...
...E. J. Ballantine has directed the plays with sympathy and power, so as to produce a true effect of naturalness...
...What to important about the theatre Is that, of all art farms, it most immediately reflects its sge...
...Dorothy Tepper and treasurer, Dorothy Turkel...
...Published Every ' -k By The New Leader for the Young Peoples Socialist League Inter-State Conference Dance and Dinner Tickets In connection with the Inter-State Conference dance and dinner to be held at Newark, N. J., on Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, Feb...
...Unfortunately, in their concern with the various plots, the authors forgot to watch the play closely enough to give it character, or genuine characters...
...Detaftoa" sUiiUPHfCRREtrt *wifi "be ma3sr later...
...Who would think a dramatic critic of any importance, if he didn't anjnounce it himself...
...In addition to the local talent, the new officers were "toasted" by representatives from other circles...
...Those playing a musical instrument are asked to communicate with Jack Blitt, 548 Dumont Ave., Brooklyn...
Vol. 8 • January 1929 • No. 2
