NEWS AND COMMENT OF THE THEATRE
News And Comment of the Theatre of '*tlMS Theatre The Stage The Movies Music THE WEEK ON THE STAGE By Joseph T. Shipley THEATRE GUILD'S FIRST A T the Guild Theatre, the season has "...
...regaining an enfoldment as the '¦> and the wonder of Josel, whose tarns good fairy for an evening t-> prove ogre after ail . . . but a bad ogre at that Whereby 1-ro little parties, instead of one, '. most delectable tiifles of the . ; the acting that lightly lifts the I. I e-;l;iald Owen as the Prince, bein...
...li38 As a special added a:traction, thevaal mart will offer Nina Tarasova, asaa> operatic star, in Russian songs, fSaenal by a cathedral choir...
...Having a number of truth-straining moments to make us accept, the play builds carefully...
...All the little infuriating and ridiculous things we do in trains were duly observed and catalogued and put into function...
...Leslie Howard it is who holds the match, as the "lady of high rank" turns to the valet she believes is a prince, and the valet welcomes his one great opportunity to knew a real lady's love...
...It would be a difficult and elaborate job, but such problems were their particular delight and the results would reveal their enthusiasm...
...A persistent demand for seats attesting the appreciation of Bronx and Manhattan music levers, has made it possible to charge S2 instead of the original $3 top...
...It was a direct contradiction of the static kind of background demanded in legitimate entertainments...
...It is better to sit back and watch Gertrude Lawrence, to chuckle over the adventure of Marie—knowing what will happen to her finery when the fairy clock strikes twelve . . . and also that, on this of all nights, the Prince and his visitor will not "Ring once foi the valet . . . and twice for the maid...
...It was absurd to want to produce a play which would include such a setting...
...Every cottage and hut had its hand loom and in the production of cloth every* it ember of the family contributed...
...George Playhouse The St...
...Perhaps this thought explains the benevolence of Papa Juan, the calm, poised philosophy of his later days, and the strength of his Influence around him...
...Will Rogers9 First All Talking Film at Roxy The Roxy Theatre on Friday will present Will Rogers, famous humorist, in his first tatting film effort, "They Had to See Paris," a new Fox Movietone alldialogue comedy drama...
...The background of "iii» \._ .vs" is laid in Germany in the forties...
...While not sure—what living man can be?—that the hand of a divine Providence reaches down to earth, he still can'find frequent occasion, despite much sorrow and misery, to discuss an inner light, that bids him say: "If this isn't God's work, it's good enough to be...
...It was impossible, evsryons insisted, to portray a subway car on the stage...
...RIFE YEARS At the Lyceum, the wise theatergoer has the opportunity of seeing Otis Skinner in the Granvilie-Barker's rich-worded adaptation of "A Hundred Years Old," by the Quint*ro brothers Not a play at all, in tbe sense of a story of a struggle moving through an ordered plot to a climax, this picture of a centennarian, and some of his descendants— even unto the third and fourth generation—sparkles with a living naturalness of incident and portraiture throughout...
...She created the role of Mabel Barcaldine...
...Samuel has written several well known books, among them "I...
...15 and 16 includes "The Fall of Eve...
...During the war he served as a liaison officer with the Indian...
...Among those who fill the hours before Papa Juan's hundredth birthday are favored ones and more distant kin, rich and poor, simple and proud...
...It features Gilda Gray, Anna May Wang, and Jameson Thomas...
...Bernard Shaw once emphasised, is that we die before we grow up...
...The sweated slaves goaded beyound endurance, the raristers wallowing in wealth, the ruthlessness of the foremen and overseers, the shooting down of the workers by the military forces—all this is pictured by a superb cast...
...I never had any such illusion, but I know many ambitious, and some of them talented, girls, who think being an actress is a sinecure...
...Our dearest dreams gang agley eve c:_*n aa not...
...Impossible...
...Perhaps in the years to come we too shall have an American Hauptmann who will truthfully dramatize the lives and struggles of the textile slaves of this country...
...His subject Friday will bo "What Happened in Palestine...
...While the light ihat guides him, and gives point to his forward way, may seem trivial, it is basic to humankind, being one with the life-force, the impulse to renewal...
...ttaaiaafl contrasting characters show the faaas Leonidoff's talent...
...12 and 13...
...the feminine lead in "Many Waters...
...Marda Vanne, Urges Study For Stage Career Marda Vanne, who enjoys a featured role with Ernest Truex in Monckton Hoffe's "Many Waters," now playing at the Maxine Elliott Theatre, believes that one must prepare for a career on the stage very much after the manner one prepares far a professional career in medicine, law, dentistry, or engineering...
...between them the play takes fire —not the sweeping flame of grim tragedy, but the sparkle and fizz at Roman candles, or evening champagne...
...The production is in no sense a travel plctur.e but is Homer Croy's highly successful novel of the same name adapted to the screen by no less a member of the drama than Owen Davis...
...Leonidoff In/Wm 'Seeds of Freedom At TheMomtM Leonidoff, famous Russian fliafaleM remembered as "Czar Ivan the teats will be seen in "Seeds of rrriihsi/^2 will have its Brooklyn premier* sthKBsi at the Momart Theatre, starting prkav Oct...
...The theme of the play, with the underpattern of other war-unions, suggests the more detailed development of the novel...
...after three years in a Russian prison, this German soldier can still feed tobacco to his guards...
...general director of the Cosmopolitan Opera Association now producing weelriy operas in the Bronx Opera House, announces a reduction in prices...
...Noel Coward saw her in a few plays and then cast her to play the role of Marion in support of Jane Cow...
...we never have time really to grow mature...
...Miss Vanne was born in South Africa and early showed an aptitude for the theatre...
...The chief difficulty with the human race...
...The acting of the whole company, indeed, smoothly maintains the play's even yet spirited flow...
...is bing revived for one day, Monday, Oct...
...The love of Anna and Karl seems then "predestined...
...a 100% talkie, with Patsy Ruth Miller in the leading role, and "Tbe Great White North" an authentic motion picture of a recent Polar expedition...
...In the title role, Otis Skinner breathes the gentleness of a spirit that has seen much of life, and out of its many moods has found calm wisdom that is happiness...
...A silent picture...
...Blatt had been by the whole idea of the production...
...11th...
...Bronx Opera Prices Less Armand Bagarory...
...In my estimation, it takes mere real work to graduate into a professional actress than one has to go through in an endeavor tc become a doctor or a barrister...
...It was going to be an actual car with all the details necessary for the execution of the complicated plot...
...is the supporting feature on the program...
...The picture, "Piccadilly" from the original play by Arnold Bennett, was directed by E. A. DuPont, who made "Variety...
...Maurice Gleixe directed, and a cast of the continent's acting talent, play the roles in this ultra-sophisticated story of a beautiful and titled lady into whose life came one great love and many adventures...
...Change the names, locale and period and we have Gas torus and other textile centers of the South...
...With the introduction of machinery, the workers broke out in blind, revolt against the machines and the bosses...
...A musical revue "Words and Music" with Lois Moran, Tom Patricola and David Percy and "Come Across," a society drama, will make up the program for Th vrday and Friday, Oct...
...Alias Jimmy Valentine," the famous crook picture featuring William Hai-.cs...
...Blockade" with Anna Q. Nilsson...
...From village to village they marched, singing their rude songs of revolt, fighting, pillaging, burning and destroying...
...For several years prior to the war he acted as correspondent for a prominent French newspaper in various parts of the world—England, Russia, Germany and Sweden...
...Mr...
...Lest our readers think that we are too serious, we want to add that the comedy, "The Two Tars" shown at the 55th Theatre is the creamiest farce seen in many a day...
...A Subway Car On The Stage...
...It is our opinion that movie goers who are only Interested in the best that the films offer, will be spreading the news that one of the greatest dramas cf all t:r--\ r--y now be seen at the 55th Street Cinema...
...Maurice Dekobra, its author, was born in Paris in 1885...
...Perhaps, if we could have seen more of the years of Karl and Richard, we should feel more convinced of it all...
...in cn two secrets, has a good time, and malees us feci that it's genuine— though his rumpling of Marie might have had more of a plebeian thoroughness...
...he is just as awl gentle and pathetic in the teat at |3 rabbi as he is overbearing, aejraaas relentless and cruel in the part at2| governor...
...Cirker and Rcbbins, responsible for the setting in "Zeppelin" last year, seemed as unperturbed by the assignment as Mr...
...11) at 815 p. m. He went to Palestine to study conditions there and was there during the uprising...
...Those who declare that the movies are operated by those who pull the strings of the god of things as they are, should see "The Weavers...
...We stayed to see it twice and Just as we decided to marathon it, the midnight bells tolled or rather, the lights of the theatre were extinguished...
...All the forces of the state and religion were used against them...
...HARLEQUINADE "Choose neither women nor linen by candle-light...
...Possibly the play has a moral: it may be interpreted as showing that like seeks like, or blood will tell, or other doomed doctrine...
...Ire...
...In order to make the hold this man takes upon Anna seem natural, the author has the husband, through those long, lonely years in prison, talk incessantly about his wife, until she grows more real to the sensitive Karl, more truly seen in her true nature, in her little home, than ever the good-natured and loving, but unimaginative Richard had known her...
...It can be seen currently at the RKO Cameo Theatre where its premiere American run begins on Saturday...
...Weaving was the worst of the sweated industries andwehen machinery further submerged the workers, they broke out in blind revolt against the machines and the bosses...
...She migrated to America to study the art of the theatre at the American Academy of Dramatic Art and was about to assume her first important role in New York when the Armistice was signed...
...Leslie Howard, as has been said, matches the candle of Gertrude Lawrence...
...Gabriele Simeon: will conduct...
...She went to England instead and there made her mark in a series of plays...
...This drama of lives twisted by the war is given the usual sympathetic presentation the Guild affords us, v-itli Alice Brady intense as Anna, Otto Krucer a potent Karl, and Frank Conrcy as the less subtle husband, Richard...
...Friday evening will be his first appearance since his return to this country...
...It was something that belonged in the movies...
...14th...
...Without emphasis, we want to say that readers of THE NEW LEADER cannot afford to miss "The Weavers...
...All the rights and privileges were on his side and a wage barely reaching the subsistence point was the loot of the village weavers...
...The Weavers At 55th Street Powerful Film Drama Old time theatre goers still retain a strong impression of the dramatic performance of Hauptman's "The Weavers," given in this city a decade ago...
...M. Samuel Speak* 6t Unity Maurice Samuel, famous author, WHO baa Just returned from, a four months' visit to Palestine, will speak at Unity Synagogue, of which Henry A. Schorr is rabbi, 130 Wast 79th street, Friday (Oct...
...The trouble with the average young girl seeking a stage carrer is that she imagines all one has to do is to express the desire,' and presto, she emerges a full fledged actress...
...The next generation is equally caught in vivid character sketches, though the acting of Mary Arbenx, Hardie Albright, and especially Mary Howard gives added life to these young ones, who are to carry on for Papa Juan...
...But Edward A. Blatt, clutching the manuscript of "Subway Express," in avid hands, loudly assured the authors...
...a three act comedy by the Spanish author, Jacinto Benavente...
...Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison, that a moving subway car was going to be presented on a stage and it would be neither the fragmentary pictorial effect of "Bronx Express" nor the impressionistic scenery of Elmer Rice's "The Subway...
...Best Seller In France Now A Cinema at Cameo Maurice Dekobra's romance "The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars" has been accorded an elaborate production abroad where it was possible to achieve realism by visiting actual locales...
...Piccadilly" at the St...
...British, and American armies, and was made a knight of the Legion of Honor...
...17 and 18...
...The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars" as a book has sold hundreds of thousands of copies in fifteen languages...
...Emotionally and morally we remain children: intellectually, we may achieve adolescence...
...for, despite the earnestness of the author, and the sincere and sound efforts of the players, the drama lacks one—but an essential—of the qualities an audience demands: it fails to convince...
...Sparing no expense or effort upon the lavish reproduction of sets, the foreign studios offer "The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars" as one of their finest efforts...
...the Jew," "You Gentiles," "The Outsider" and "Whatever Gods...
...Karl's kindness to the guards at the prison camp, and the supervisor's cruelty, are emphasize* to rv.a :e his escape plausible—though one wonders how...
...for London and was hailed as one of England's outstanding younar actresses...
...George Playhouse has an English picture on its program for Saturday and Sunday, Oct...
...As striking as the old man's attitude, however, is that of Dona FUomena, who interprets every deed, however kindly, through the jealous eyes of over-proud poverty...
...In this picture, LeonMofJ^jh trays a dual role—that of ail oBaasa] rabbi and a Csarist governor...
...to bring as "CandleLight" to the Empire Theatre, for Gertrude Lawrence to shine...
...but they seldom make c...
...Walter Hampden will begin his season at Hampden's Theatre on Monday evening next, October 14, in "The Bonds of Interest...
...A protest from them, spelled the blacklist and starvation...
...He has lectured at tbe University of Berlin, motored through all the countries of Europe, shot big game in Africa, and explored the Nile in a canoe...
...News And Comment of the Theatre of '*tlMS Theatre The Stage The Movies Music THE WEEK ON THE STAGE By Joseph T. Shipley THEATRE GUILD'S FIRST A T the Guild Theatre, the season has " opened with Leonhard Frank's "Karl ar.d Anna...
...From a London boudoir to a Russian dungeon, it will be remembered, the story moves, and its unfolding proceeds also upon the French Riviera as well as in a Scotch castle...
...Neatly this proverb gives title to the pleasant whimsy P. G. Wodehouse has wrought from the German of Siegfried Geyer...
...Wages v7are set by the boss, who was a combination of feudal lord and capitalist...
...At least, it should seem so, for they protest it is, and great ado is made as to the difference between their union and the war alliances of other wives of soldiers...
...The story is developed around the rise of a typical middlewest American to sudden wealth through the activities of an oil gusher, and provides Will Rogers with a natural vehicle for the easy type of humor he has made known throughout the world...
...Verdi's opera "H Trovatore" with Louise Taylor, soprano, will be offered Saturday .night, Oct...
...So, one is tempted to say, Papa Juan was given life...
...The program for Tuesday and Wednesday, Cct...
Vol. 9 • October 1929 • No. 10
