NEWS AND COMMENT OF THE THEATRE
News And Comment oi- the Iheatre T#%e Movies Music THE WEEK ON THE STAGE By Joseph T. Shipley ROMANCE Hi LIFE rria Qm startling theme of "Many Waters," Monckton Hoffe's play at Kaztne...
...Holmes Herbert, Kenned Thompson, Fred Kohler and muj others...
...her mother is an author...
...real life inrudes, 'aad (Johnny having looked at the fairy...
...Ann Harding plays opposite Mr...
...The Drinkeien "Abraham Lincoln" is to bs x3k vived this season by WtThaqiBaS ris...
...It was taken from a Mat} by Darryl Frances Zanuck sag Harvey Gates...
...Malsie Darrell and Robert Douglas, too, have an effective Between the presentation of the Idea that most lives are dull, and the unanimous agreement of the four onstage that so they are, we watch the lives of the two "ordi-' aery" folk, and observe the way 1 in which excitement and passion j have colored them...
...This Is the thesis Henry Delauney, play-producer, dssesope to the writer who visits hfaa...
...Lloyd Bacon a> rected...
...in New York and on tour...
...The plot, however, Involving the Miranda - Marie - Odile-like daughter, is drawn through obvious development...
...Feuchtwanger* s 'Power* Opens New Home of the Yiddish Art Theatre Widespread curiosity has attended the choice of Maurice Schwartz for the opening production in the home of his Yiddish Art Theatre, formerly Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theatre, at Twenty-eighth 3treet and Broadway...
...He has spent the summer resting, arranging his new songs and supervising the making of new costumes...
...Margaret Aysr Barnes and Edward Sheldon, however, have in the play provided what does not come so often in Ufa—a fairy godmother, in the person of Jane Cowl...
...The wattes then signs a contract to do the Met of thing the producer behstas the public wants—something far enough removed from their hen Uvea to seem attractive...
...In the first act, the ripened Madamoiselle Bourra is crooning to her doll, or admiring the brawny arms of the gardener...
...It will be followed by "Pinocchio," in which both marionettes and actors appear...
...Fiske in 'Ladies of the Jury' at Erlanger's Mrs...
...Chenkin, who was received with general acclaim at the time of his appearance last year, will soon inaugurate a series of Sunday evening concert-recitals under the sponsorship of Stagecraft Guild, Inc., the date and theatre to be announced later...
...Caligari") and Wilhelm Dieterle, who appeared in the initial performance of "The Weavers," staged by Max Reinhardt at the Grosses Schauspielhaus in Berlin in 1921...
...numbers, new ones and several «M favorites...
...I, for one, found opera interferes with one as an actress and it was a question of either endeavoring to be a great singer or a great actress and I chose the latter...
...Jolson's songs iaclak "Why Can't You," "Little Pal," "Used to You," "Seventh Heares...
...While the irony of the coming of the lad's parole on the day when he has made it Impossible is perhaps too neatly arranged, the play lacks the softening elements Galsworthy often adds, and is a cold, indeed a hard picture of what comes, almost without any responsibility on his part, to a man who "gets the bad breaks...
...20 will feature Ruggiero Ricci, 8 year old violinist, who was received with a great ovation when he appeared in San Francisco last November...
...Before winter is well on us, Chicago and London will both be crowding to see the subway member of this year's murder series...
...He further promises to give New York its first real Hollywood opening—exceeding in excitement even the sensational premiere of 'Bulldog Drummond" at the Apollo last May...
...Constance Talmadge in 'Venus* Held at Carnegie Constance Talmadge's latest picture "Venus," which is having its American Premiere at the Little Carnegie Playhouse, will enter its second week this Saturday...
...and, at the cost off what she deems a demeaning marriage (that really means happiness to the daughter) all is kept well...
...Caiman...
...Naturally I am not conceited enough to say that I have already reached my goal...
...Anyone interested in prison conditions...
...The play has been staged by Harrison Gray Fiske...
...Fiske in a repertory of old and new playe...
...He will play the Mendelsohn Concerto, a work that taxes the ability of the most seasoned virtuosi, and that should test the young prodigy's powers to the full...
...The film which Robert Z. Leonard directed from an original story for the screen by Dale Van Every, concerns a French peasant girl who falls in love with an A. E. F. doughboy on his way home after the armistice...
...Lawrence Gray plays the male lead opposite Miss Davies...
...sgfsny Waters" Is itself far fBoogh away from our lives to eosm to Justify Delauney's claim...
...Dagny Servaes (of "Peter the Great...
...In translating his version of "Power" from Feuchtwanger's own original German play manuscript, Mr...
...but which is always pardoned) the husband runs off afer the fairy godmother, who turns out, after all to be Princess to his Charming...
...Counting the lumps of sugar, managing her family with a shrewdness and shrewishness that keep the husband fluttering and the daughter shriveled into herself, Madame Bourra is a feminine M. Grandet...
...Billy at Colleges Bister Sue married to a poor, struggling, fellow...
...World Series Rodeo Comes to the Garden The fourth annual World Series Rodeo, coming to Madison Square Garden, October 24 to November 1, will bring a large number of contestants for its many cash prizes...
...but it really doesn't...
...In the city, or has been brought to the city in her maiden years, when she must look deep into her heart and ask herself what her feelings are in regard to a certain young man...
...Of course," admits Miss Gerald, "it does sound strange and unusual for one to forsake opera for the stage—opera being held in such high esteem—yet this Is precisely what I have done because I loved acting far better than I did singing...
...She still has, all her own, and inimitable, one of the richest voices in our generation onstage, of which she is in full command...
...Miss Dorrance has a series of soprano numbers that should interestly reveal the powers of her voice, and the Basso cantante of the Prince, who toured the world with Melba in 1923, will have Tschaikowsky and Rubinstein and some Russian folksongs, as well as other numbers, melodious...
...JEane Cowl can make me believe tn any fairy tale...
...Hans von Twardowsky (of "Dr...
...The poised beauty of the Greeks may therein have its secret...
...Dudley Digges and Louts Wolheim have character roles...
...Miss Howe, her manager Richard Copley announces, is the daughter of M. A. De Wolfe Howe, Pulitzer Prize Biographer...
...Which—remember Cupid and Psyche!—is unforgivable...
...Venus" was the last picture Miss Talmadge made before announcing her retirement from the screen...
...Wesley Ruggles directed the picture...
...This fairy godmother knows how—the job is not easy, at that!—to steal off the bedhead into a fairyland where he leans how to be a man instead of a moaej-machine...
...and the old standby "Julius Caesar's Circus," ; will conclude the season, with the I puppet performance of a Shake...
...ConductorlessSymphonyPIays The first concert of the season of vthe Conductorless Symphony Orchestra will be offered at Carnegie Hall, on October 26...
...After the run of "Ladies of the Jury," Messrs...
...Ronald "colman'e first talking picture to follow "Bulldog Drummond," will have its world premiere at the Selwyn theatre on Monday evening, November 4 th, Samuel Goldwyn announced yesterday...
...VTE DIE PROVENCE Eva Le Gailier.ne, in "Mile Bourrat," dramatized by Claud Anet from one of his own short stories, has brought to the Civic Repertory stage a picture from Balzac...
...in the second act, three months later, this maid fresh from the convent is complaining of nausea and—when her mother breaks into realization of the fact—thanks God that he has heard her prayers and is sending her a baby...
...Schwartz has included several scenes from the novel which were not in the original play...
...Schwartz announced that his first production of the twelfth season of his theatre wil be Lion Feuchtwanger"s "Power" ('Jew Suss...
...Chenkin to Give Song Series Victor Chenkin, singer of international character songs, has just returned to New York on the Samaria, after a summer in Paris and on the Mediterranean coast, bringing with him several new numbers to be added to his season's repertory...
...An all star cast of German players interprets the various roles in Hauptmann's tumultuous drama...
...and younger sister Mary learning how to shake cocktails (and, we can hat hope, to shake too ardent pettare...
...FAIRY GODMOTHER Too well we all know the family in which the "head," the husband end father, is a machine grinding cart money to satisfy the needs of the demanding horde...
...Jt is scheduled to open at the Eltinge Theatre on Monday evening, October 21st, and is set for an indefinite run...
...stands m3I closest approach to the gaunt 21 homely, but simple and stahml man of the people, the Praam...
...Here something goes wrong With the whimsy...
...Digges the dialogue...
...mr**", for morals are not the ditact concern of the stage, which grows boring when it seeks to preach Fortunately, "Many • Waters" flows wtth the current of two meresting figures, well presented and well acted, toward the Ocean, therefore, of satisfaction...
...Paul Wegener (of "The Golem...
...The tendency of Ellis and other moderns, carrying into serious thought Oscar Wilde's paradox that "life strives to be art," to live as though living were a fine art—and is it not the greatest of the arts?—is fostered and developed ^-stematically in the American Institute of Dalcroze Eurythmics, which has inaugurated work in rhythm that pervades all phases of the activity of child and adolescent, and is being introduced into many institutions of youth education...
...Later tliese two roles will be reversed by these two players, in accordance with the custom of alternating roles which the Yiddish Art Theatre follows in keeping with the policy of the great European repertory companies...
...Bufano returns from a tour of Europe and Africa, where a Guggenheim Fellowship sent him to study puppet nationalities...
...The new season of the New York school has opened, and is well worth dropping in to see...
...He will present a program composed of his new, numbers and last season's sue-' cessea Marion Davies' First AllTalkie at Capitol Theatre Marion Davies in "Marianne," a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film and the star's first "all-talking, all-singing feature production, comes to the Capitol on Friday (October 18th...
...The entire cast, indeed, has the smooth way that betokens good actors, well directed, in a play they like—which, this time at least, is sign that many audiences will like it too...
...Texas, Montana, Wyoming, Kansas, and other states are represented by these undaunted women, several of whom are married, incidentally, and are rearing little cowgirls and cowboys of their own...
...Subway Express9 Starts Long Distance Trips Two additional companies of "Subway Express," Edward A. Blatt announces, are being gathered, to take the mystery play by Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison to places where the New York subway may seem even more romantic than to those who use it daily...
...Ashley Dukes' dramatization of "Power," a hit of the new season in London, has been made, on the contrary, from the novel...
...Helen Howe in Recitals A series of monologues will be offered at the Little Theatre in January, by Helen Howe, following a tour that runs from Cambridge, Mass...
...But it is matter for regret that the study of such a figure of French country life, of the hard creatures thrust from dry soil, should not have better story as basis for its true development...
...Tad Lucas, Bea Kiraan, Brida Miller, Grace Runyan, Florence Randolph, and Mabel Strickland, are among the many whose stunts have kept spectators breathless in previous contests...
...The picture of this woman, the way in which she preserves the prestige of her husband's family narde, at bitter price to her daughter, is a grim study...
...The settings of Albert R. Johnson strengthen the sense of impending power the jail bends over us and the acting of Russell Hardie as the boy whom fate has caught, and of Arthur Byron as State's attorney and later Warden, is as grim and as intense as the play...
...William Harris has soundly directed and produced a powerful study of the forces that lead to the movement of the legal code, and** the criminal code that stirs within the walls of the prison...
...Thereafter, the mater familias takes it upon herself to save the family reputation...
...Grant that she has tricks, mannerisms, if you Will: that little upward turn of the face, the fingers drawing you toward her...
...Drinkwater's PowerfJI 'Abraham Lincoln' t»H Revived at the FdnjB Just as those who knew Lkat...
...tM Al Jolson at the Strom...
...For some seasons, too, Jane Cowl has been fortunate in having beside her Guy Standing, whose twinkling ease is done justice in this play...
...sperean comedy...
...In it will be heard seven women musicians, five with violin and two viola, who have passed the rigorous tests of the orchestra, and have been admitted as regular members of the conductorless symphony group on an equal basis with the men...
...these have all their demands to make, and Daddy exists to meet them...
...they take two ordinary folk OBItog to lease Delauney their cottage as fflustrationa, and all four agree that one writer's notion of BH«»T ia foolish fancy...
...The point: ¦earns to be that we do not recognces what wonderfully interesting Uvea we lead...
...for the touches of theatrical effec11 win Ms (such as the manner in Whkh the charwoman signs the atarriage certificate) are suffilihaitly British to pass in America, Where a similar mood of native da,tea, such as "First Mortgage," aisfthj last three nights...
...then charity and other philanthropic aoacems, such as bridge parties, take up her hours...
...Bach is the situation in which John R. Weatherby finds himself, at the Booth Theatre, when "Jenny" comes along...
...Playing her entire role in Trench and dialect dialogue, the vivacious comedienne negotiates an exceptionally difficult characterization and rinds time to sing, dance and mimic in the lighter momenta of the picture...
...In selecting a play related to one of the most noteworthy international successes in world fiction of recent years, Mr...
...News And Comment oi- the Iheatre T#%e Movies Music THE WEEK ON THE STAGE By Joseph T. Shipley ROMANCE Hi LIFE rria Qm startling theme of "Many Waters," Monckton Hoffe's play at Kaztne Elliott's Theatre, that romance lies hidden in the Bees of all of us, that what we call humdrum Is matter-of-fact simply became we have not applied to it our fancy...
...who came nearest to living m^jB the ideals of a democracy sj ¦*] know them...
...The cast includes Kahtf Nixon...
...In the role of a songwrtta and radio entertainer the one at only Al has a chance to sing rata...
...Erlanger and Tyler announce, they will present Mrs...
...Balancing this, fortunately, is a more smiling plot...
...Mrs...
...Far from it, but I believe that if one does the kind of work one loves there is greater opportunity to reach greatness than if one pursues a career that is but mildly interesting to a particular person...
...Schwartz has made use of Feuchtwanger's own drama of the same title which, it may not be generally known, antedated the novel in composition by several years...
...And what shall the ladydo if the answer comes frankly back: "Strictly Dishonorable...
...then sends him home to work the magic on his family...
...Fiske, who is appearing this season under the banner of A. L. Erlanger and George C. Tyler, has been enthusiastically received in the comedy, on the brief preliminary tour...
...George John (of "The Last Laugh...
...Jr., who sponsored the «amJ nal production: opening at il Forrest Theatre on Monday Wl ning...
...Theodore Loos (of "Metropolis...
...Ara Gerald Tells Why She Deserted Opera Asserting that singing interferes with good acting, Ara Gerald, who is appearing in support of William Faversham in "Her Friend the King," at the Longacre Theatre, tells why she deserted a promising career on the operatic stage for the stage as an actress...
...a Al Jolson in "Say It Wia Songs," his most recent all-talkha, and singing Vitaphone producce* with little Davey Lee in the prs> cipal lead, will be shown foe fji first time at popular prices at tfc Mark Strand theatre beginnse Friday...
...Before the year Is over, another company will carry the "Subway Express' to startle the staid" city of Boston, where Mr...
...Among the 125 or more "top hands" who will make their bid for glory and for cash prizes, there will be 25 or SO cowgirls...
...Blatt's company of "Harlem" is still performing...
...Alfaring even in melancholy, for the sadness hi such as they cannot fcaow (and usually, In romance, tana to sunshine...
...The opening bill will include, gathering power from Bufano's recent observations, The Tinderbox" and "The Fox and the Grapes...
...Fiske will begin an engagement at Erlanger's Theatre on Monday next, in "Ladies of the Jury," a new comedy by Fred Ballard, author of the well-remembered "Believe Me, Xantippe," and "Young America...
...HOW SQUEALERS DIE The recent headlines of the suicide of a "squealer" in a midwestern jail might almost seem publicity for "The Criminal Code," Martin Flavin's strong drama at the National...
...Back In Your Own Backyard," "I'm Ka-Razy For You," "Jag One Sweet Kiss" and many other popular numbers...
...feel that the St...
...The cowboys and cowgirls who take part receive no salary, are not hired by the rodeo, but appear as contestants In the many battles with bronchos that are scheduled, competing with daredevil riding tricks for the various prizes...
...While this is her first national tour, Miss Howe has appeared in the Ruth Draper sort of thing before many audiences here, and in France and England...
...If her feelings are strong enough, she must then wonder as to his inclination: not that he lacks feeling, usually, or has failed to show it...
...Gaudens shei in Lincoln Park, C&caga/u catches the spirit of the BsjhaH president, his dignity and khsk> ness (though some New YeJthgfl are provincial enough to tsWsiJI Gutzon Borglum bust more ^ | manly natural I; so "tjtU ¦ alert j play "Abraham Lincoln," (whaml any local rivalries...
...Wife, who must keep up with the Joneses, gives her valuable services (five minutes a day) telling the servants When- she will not be home...
...New Season of Dalcroze Eurythmics Opens From the doctrine of Heraclitus, that "all things flow," down to the principle enunciated in Havelock Ellis's "The Dance of Life," the idea has been stirring that rhythm is Bomewher fundamentally implanted in the harmonies of human conduct...
...we mean, Jenny Valentine...
...That's why the play is such a hit...
...he reports that his brightest hopes for the marionettes center in America...
...Mrs...
...Miss Dorrance and Prince Obolensky Recital A joint recital by Nyra Dorrance and Prince Obolensky is scheduled for this Sunday evening at Carnegia Hall...
...to California and back...
...At the premiere, the role of Jew Suss will be entrusted to Samuel Goldenburg, the latest notable recruit to the acting company, while Mr...
...Her recital in ?#w York has led critics to expect much of her work...
...Blatt's other success, "Subway Express...
...Bufano's Puppets Again With the Provincetown The - pleasing performances which Remo Bufano gave with his marionettes, last year, under the auspices of the Provincetown Playhouse, will be repeated this season, Saturday mornings at eleven, beginning November 16, at the Garrick theatre—where Michael Gold's "Fiesta" continues as the regular offering of the Experimental Theatre...
...The 100 musicians of the Manhattan Symphony, conducted by Henry Hadley, will play the Tschaikowsky Fourth Symphony, as well as works of Charles Frank Gilbert...
...Prodigy at First Concert of Manhattan Symphony The first concert of the new season of the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra, which will take place at Mecca Temple on Sunday evening, Octo...
...And the turns of humor that light across her countenance rinnle into a pleasant stream along the evening...
...Murder on the Second Floor" will vacate the Eltinge this Saturday evening and "Harlem" will be directly adjoining Mr...
...Ronald Coleman Is 'Condemned* to the Selwyn Theatre "Condemned...
...This is the picturization of Blair Niles' story of the notorious penal colony in French Guiana, dramatized and adapted to the screen by Sidney Howard...
...The Frog Prince" and "Jack and the Beanstalk" are listed for January...
...Schwartz himself, will undertake the role of the Duke...
...Say It With Songs" leads saw urally to a whole selection al songs...
...but the question is: What are his intentions...
...in the effect of the whole system of punishment, on the souls of those—as prisoners or, equally victims, as guards —who are caught in its toils, will have an evening of vital thought at the National Theatre...
...And the fairy tale leaves us, of course, with . . . happy ever after...
...Harlem" Comes Back Edward A. Blatt announces the return to New York of "Harlem," the drama of the black belt by William Jourdan .Rapp and Wallace Thurman which ran first at the Apollo and then at the Times Square Theatre for fourteen weeks last season...
...certainly nowhere else has life achieved such restful yet stimulating movement, and nowhere else has art so largely been part of the living...
...A-ier' — n composer who died in 1928...
...Wearers' Again at 55th Street Theatre Having broken all box-office and attendance records with the second week of "The Weavers," the 55th Street Playhouse will retain the film transcription of Gerhart Hauptmann'3 revolutionary drama for a third week...
...The program notes incidentally, are prepared by John Erskine...
...The first semi-private performance was given on Thursday, and the first public performance on Friday, Oct...
...Strictly Dishonorable" Hit There comes a time in the affairs of every young girl who has been "brought up," as they used to say...
...A United Artists Picture, It was made abroad and presents Miss Talmadge in a dramatic role instead of a comedy part similar to those in which she gained fame...
...The Engtam play, however, holds the inerSSt, sot through a connected end ¦JhwaQi plot, but through the very deftness of these character touches aad htts of personal Illumination —to Which Ernest Truex and Hands Vanne contribute considerably, by the naturalness of their work...
Vol. 9 • October 1929 • No. 11
