NEWS AND COMMENT OF THE THEATRE
News And Comment of the Theatre The Stage The Movies Music THE WEEK ON THE STAGE By Joseph T. Shipley TAKE THE CHANNEL ROAD" J^OT being one of those embittered "high-brow" critics...
...Then there comes the first of this season's offerings from the Miller office: Otis Skinner in "A Hundred Years Old...
...News And Comment of the Theatre The Stage The Movies Music THE WEEK ON THE STAGE By Joseph T. Shipley TAKE THE CHANNEL ROAD" J^OT being one of those embittered "high-brow" critics who must clip the wings of their erudite and beauteous fancies for the pedestrian stir of the bourgeois press, toning their taste to the tabloids, I can shout gladly that The Channel Road" is a delight, a tasty tidbit, a precious morsel...
...Fortunately for its growth, it is provided with William Faversham as the King...
...Close on it3 trail there opened "Candle Light," with the insouciant Gertrude Lawrence and the deft Leslie Howard, she robustly graceful, he putting himself across so gently you are surprised at the strength of the lingering impression...
...Officer has composed innumerable songs, an orchestral overture, and a string quartet...
...How much nicer to be governed by a clean well-bred fellow whose ancestors taught him how to wear a uniform so that he seems delightful to dance with.' Back, therefore, with the King of Constantia-Felix, alls well with the world...
...There are the expected references to other temporarily or permanently dethroned monarchs, and some conversation about a country called America, whose inhabitants are so sure they can rule themselves that they never bother to do it, leaving the task to messy, soiled-fingered folk called politicians...
...Harlem" was directed by Chester Erskin, responsible for the staging of "Subway Express...
...This, for various reasons, Including a hatred of the enemy, she will not do...
...Such is the case in Constantia-Felix, a land the very name of which means something if you translate it correctly...
...He has just finished a sextette for flute and strings...
...Arthur Hopkins has shown his excellent taste, and his courage, in once more presenting a play that may prove too deft and too uncompromising for the general public For, alas, the Plymouth Theatre is not likely long to bold this play which Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman have wrought into good drama out of Maupassant's "Boule de Suif...
...Marrow expects to make the production practically the same as the one presented at the Provincetown Playhouse in 1926, and at the Mayfair Theatre, under the auspices of the Intimate Opera Company, in 1927...
...Stringwood Ensemble, March 21...
...Tou remember Maupassant's story...
...In the Open Fields Herbert L. Fields, author of "Hit the Deck," "Peggy Ann," "Hello Daddy" and "Connecticut Yankee," has finished his new musical show/'Fifty Million Frenchmen," at his summer estate in Chappaqua...
...The latter may be played in New York during the coming season...
...The series includes: Musical Art Quarte.t Nov...
...H. E. Talbott of Dayton, O., is giving an invitation musicale for them in Steinway Hall on the afternoon of November 1th...
...The American tour will be under the management of Richard Copely...
...WHERE ROYALTY BELONGS On the stage of the Longacre Theatre "Her Friend the Prince," a farce by A. E. Thomas and Harrison Rhodes, pictures those pleasing climes we have heard of in "Graustark," and all the other petty dukedoms of dreamland, where all despots are benevolent, and where .the people would rather be ruled than have the fuss of fuming and muddled democracy...
...With "Subway Express" at the Liberty Theatre and "Harlem" at the Eltinge, Mr...
...Governor of Alexandria: Mr...
...He will open with two recitals at Carnegie Hall, on the evenings of November 5 and 10, his first performances since his triumphs in London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna...
...The Duke of Connaught...
...The other solo parts, Euridyce and Eros, have not yet been definitely set...
...Go and see...
...Tollefsen Trio, Feb...
...Beyond that, the play recognizes no conventional morality, forces two perfectly respectable ladies to be introduced to a.prostitute, to accept her as their social equal: nay, it suggests that even a prostitute may be a decent woman, and goes on to show that this one is the most decent woman of the crowd...
...Charge d'Affairs of the United States in Kgypl...
...Isle of Lost Ships" At the Strand Theatre Bestowed with the most outstanding love romance, an unusual plot never before filmed, and an all-star cast headed by Virginia Valli, Jason Robards and Noah Beery, "The Isle of Lost Ships," a First National Vitaphone alltalking picture, will be offered as the screen attraction at the Mark Strand theatre during the week beginning Friday, October 25th...
...and the lines throughout carry on the story and reveal the characters with a deft and unsparing band, only occasionally heavy...
...which presents a character whose long living has brought tolerant wisdom, and surrounds him with a lively and varied group of interesting and well-presented figures — a play without a strong- climatic plot, but working through sound portraiture to valid theatre...
...but the play, without sentimentalizing, finds ingenious way of paying back the conventional four...
...They try to bribe the woman to yield to the Prussian...
...Richard Copley to Manage The Morgan Girls The Morgan Trio, piano, violin and harp, will return to this country from France at the end of this month and will remain until spring to play a number of engagements, in the East and Middle West...
...each part is presented by a player sympathetic and sure...
...Bernard MaM the brother of Herbert Besa another youngster in th* payBess Winston is the nalfej Jackie Winston, the third an of the juvenile trio Ota*] tions are the three Paabyl there (Edward, William est thonyt...
...though the play about it requires the most deft and solicitous rendering to give it value...
...Widecombe Fair" At Little Carnegie "Widecombe Fair," one of the most popular of Eden PhiUpotts' Dartmoor novels, baa been made into a motion picture of the same title, and will have its American premiere at the Little Carnegie Playhouse on October 26th...
...This increases the fsanyi nections of the character- fel way Express...
...Three New PUmJB...
...The remainder of the cast is made up of the chorus, which is now being assembled, and the ballet which is under the direction of Elsa Findlay...
...May they long continue helping to lift the average of Broadway...
...If so, it is balanced by a sane word on patriotism...
...Mimeographed copies of his illustrations are distributed among the pupils, and they are required to read and sing these examples, pointing out certain errors in harmonic structure purposely included...
...This is the play which ran at the Apollo and then the Times Square Theatre last season for fourteen weeks...
...Albert Margolies to a Sail For led Albert Margolies, MSbcat rector of publicity of tb) 1 theatre, will sail for the Mai ranean countries next laa...
...The Old World Trio, Dec...
...Just to what extent credit for Gilbert Miller's plays must be passed partly to Thomas Van Dycke for clever press-agentry, we know not, but there is no doubt his work comes in support of excellent plays...
...A Chicago company of "Harlem" was running at the same time, and lingered there for only one week less than the New York run...
...bad plays cannot be lengthily protracted ("Abie's Irish Rose" was a good play for its level of theatregoer'), but many a good play has gone down too quickly...
...Widecombe Fair" is one of Mr...
...Can such an offense to- good taste be tolerated...
...Here ends Maupassant's tale...
...Ghost Parade' to Open At the Lyric, Oct...
...Gilbert Miller Keeps It Up There should be time for a word, these days, to point out the high level of effective entertainment which Gilbert Miller is continuing to maintain, following the tradition of the Empire Theatre offices for the best of theatrical productions...
...the Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles...
...Course of Chamber Concerts For Workers and Students The Auxiliary Club of the People's Symphony Concerts announces for the season of 1929-30 a series of six chamber music concerts on Friday evenings at the Washington Irving High School...
...Sebastian Mann win mLJ ter Barbier as the thW Winston replaces Marie <5£ as Mrs...
...Those interested in the above concerts can send their names in for circular to the office of the People's Symphony Concerts, 32 Union i Square...
...As in the previous productions, the producer has omitted the opera comique ending which Gluck wrote for it, and has retained the tragic denouement of the original legend...
...Stuart Casey, Joan Blaine, Catherine Proctor, Oswald Marshall and Donald Blakewell...
...27: The Stradivarius Quartet, Jan...
...The acting deserves more comment than the space here enthusiasm has left...
...Leona Roberts, Egon Brecher and J. Edward Bromberg are in the cast...
...A coach-load of refugees, despite passports, ia stopped by a Prussian officer, who will let them proceed only when Madeline Rousaet—professional prostitute—yields herself to him...
...Among the distinguished personages who have listened to their music the following are included: The Kings of Denmark and Sweden...
...The trio comprised of Miss Marguerite Morgan, pianist, Miss Frances Morgan, violinist and Miss Virginia Morgan, harpist, have met with considerable success abroad, where they have been playing for several years past...
...Irving place and 16th street...
...and Ara Gerald and Katherine Kohler second his efforts to make the evening pleasant, though the best they do cannot give it other consequence...
...Alberto Simeoni will conduct...
...October 28th, on the "Manna Comillas...
...This production, the mighiest sea special of the year, was adapted for the screen from the novel by Crittendon Marriott and was directed by Irvin Willatt...
...he will therefore remain at Chappaqua all year round driving into town daily when he is rehearsing...
...Fields finds that it is much easier to write in the country than in the city where he has written in the past...
...Widecombe Fair" has a distinguished English cast which includes Wyndam Standing, who has been featured in many American films, Marguerite Allep and William Freshman, New Music Courses Harvey Officer, musical lecturer and critic, has adopted a novel method of illustrating his talks on Plainsong and Gregorian harmony to classes of the American Institute of Dalcroze Eurythmics, No...
...The current company is a combination of the New York and Chicago companies...
...Consider no more than what he has onstage at this moment...
...Wolf, ana j2 Schwartz replaces Cbnajtel man, Jr., as one of the taaaj dren...
...Paul Boepple...
...And unless those who are willing to look life straight in the eye flock to the enjoyment they will find, the very merits of the piece, rendering it too honest for the bourgeois theatre-goer, will carry it off...
...and the type that has "made good," has made money and bought its way to power...
...Change the setting from France, 1870, to America in the next war, and the two most unpleasant men SB the piece are typical of the greater part of American manhood: the type that is of family, has the proper connections...
...The men force their women to meet the prostitute, to be pleasant to her...
...There is "Journey's End.'" holding full from last season, the best of the war plays, and in quality of acting and smooth progression, in sharpness of characterization, perhaps still the best the year has yet produced...
...Paul Robeson Returns Paul Robeson, negro baritone, will arrive in America next week, for his first American concert tour in two years...
...Clarence Derwent is featured in the play and others in the cast include Ann Johnson...
...Lomas, British Consul at Cairo and Lady Boot...
...The balance of the cast includes Clarissa Selwynne, Robert O'Connor, Harry Cording, Margaret Fielding, Katherine Ward, Robert Homas, Jack Ackroyd and many other screen personalities...
...K. Gordon's production of Hadley Waters' "Ghost Parade" in association with H. T. Curley, will open in New X0I"k instead of Chicago as originally planned, going to the Lyric Theatre, Monday night, Oct...
...but the next morning, when the coach is ready to depart, the whole party is respectably completely unable to see Madeleine when she greets them...
...Cosmopolitan Opera Arm and Bagarozy, director of the Cosmopolitan Opera Associates, will reopen his season of weekly opera with "Alda" in the America Theatre, 150th 'treet and Melrose avenue, the Bronx, Saturday evening, November 2. The company has been reorganized, new principals have been engaged, and chorus and orchestra have been thoroughly rehearsed...
...He is a former conductor of the Union Chorale and Frohsin of Lausanne and the Liederkranz of Geneva...
...The Count aad the merchant must go on, for they and their wives are carrying their wealth out of the country...
...The only reason they do not offer, the merchant his wife, the count his sister, is probably that the Prussian would not want them...
...and the Duchess of Argyle: Viscount Lascelles...
...Margolies a* to be away for about ax w during which time, he baa really appreciate the woeea the old world, take a goo] i and gather material for bosk intends writing...
...But the sister is Jealous of Madeleine, and the wife la willing to take her place...
...9 East 59th street...
...and Charlotte Web and Sidney Salkow, who ta ther and son...
...director of the Institute, who attended the International Festival of Dalcroze Eurythmics in Geneva this summer, will teach rhythm and improvisation in the music department of Columbia University this winter...
...Blatt's two productions will be playing directly adjoining each other in 42nd street...
...France will soon have to pay a great indemnity...
...Prince and Princess Nicholas of Greece: Princess He'.ene of Russia, Hussein Sabry Pasha...
...and the fMmtng- critics have hurried to condescend to the play that is marked for failure...
...Martha Graham and group of dancers, April 11...
...PhiUpotts' delightful love stories, a tale in homespun of fortune and happiness lost and won which unfolds itself against the soft background of the country side surrounding Dartmoor...
...Bon Voysp...
...Provincetoum Playhouse Revives Gluck's Orpheus Gluck's "Orpheus," which Macklin Marrow produced for the Provincetown Playhouse in the spring of 1926, will be revived for one week, beginning Sunday evening, October 27, at the Garrick Theatre, preceding the opening of the second subscription play of the 192930 season, "Winter Bound" by Thomas H. Dickinson, on Thursday, November 7. Richard Hale, who sang the leading role in the previous production, will again be Orpheus...
...Harlem" Reopened at Eltinge At the Eltinge Theatre, Edward A. Blatt has opened "Harlem," the drama of the black belt by William Jourdan Rapp and Wallace Thurman, for an Indefinite return engagement...
...28th...
...Their tours have carried them into Egypt, where they gave a series of concerts in the Spring of 1928...
...Why Is the play distasteful...
...There may seem a bit of preaching against war...
...Inheritors"' at The Civic Repertory The sound drama and searching criticism of American life by Susan Glaspell, "Inheritors," which was first produced by Eva Le Gallienne during the course of the initial season of the Civic Repertory Theatre in Fourteenth street, will have its season's first performance this evening, October 26th, Josephine Hutchinson, Donald Cameron...
...they go separately to the officer, offering gold for personal self-conduct, content to leave the other as hostage...
...Subway 2>J Three new players «fj*| tonight in the case of "asasS press," the mystery aak which Edward A. Blatt bS ing at the Liberty Taenbaj...
...Plays, however good, succeed for other reasons, at times, than merit...
...Winthrop Winship...
...28 Through a sudden switch in booking, Chas...
...Walter Beck...
...Fine voices are not rare among his race, but full control and subtle modulation are not as common as raw quality: and Paul Robeson, already a classic among his kind, has a power of placing and of delicate shiftings and holds that make film unusual among even unusual singers...
Vol. 9 • October 1929 • No. 12
