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 HAPPY HOMX T3E proverbial resemblance be- tween father and «on is the theme of George...
...Around the WorUV* All-Talking Prem.ere At Cameo Theatre "Around the World Via Gral Zeppelin," a talking picture record of the epochal flight of Commander Hugo Eckner with twenty passengers and a crew of forty, a presentation by the Hearst newspapers ta association with MetroGoldwyn-Mayer, will be shown at the RKO Cameo Theatre for its world premiere engagement, commencing Saturday, November 2nd...
...Broadway Scandals" Now At The Geo...
...Ira Hards staged the play...
...The great interest in things Russian fostered by revolution and Chauve Souris and Moscow Art Theatre and Theatre Studio and other importations, mainly by Morris Gest, have brought to this country a suggestion of the possibilities that lie still unearthed in the fields of Russian art and music...
...And, if advanced reporta are to be considered, "The Last Performance" will rank mmnrifr pr...
...Among those in the supporting cast are Helen Baxter, George Barbier, Dorothea Chard, William Jeffrey and Thomas Gillen...
...I realize," she explained, "that a monotony ta costume and setting has the danger of being dulling to the audience...
...There are good reasons, of course, why concert artists are concentrating attention lately on the 'prop' for their recitals, as well as upon their artistic qualifications," she said...
...There is to be a free exhibition of the Dalcroze Eurythmics today (Saturday) at 2.30, in the Wanamaker auditorium, where the general principles of the system, and its results, may be observed...
...Requel Meller ta "Nocturne," a short film made by the distinguished star ta Paris last season, will also be shown on the same program for the first time ia America, ^Middle Watch" Author Discusses Farce "Two ingredients go to make for a successful farce...
...These are well handled especially by James Cagney and Jean Blondell as mother's pet and Ids social error of a wife—afford the best laughs of the play...
...T.ssl^J porting cast is headed by taidsal table Ann Pennington, 4a* luxe, and possessor of %kl ravishing pair of knees a, »J lea...
...the Mark Strand taaaa in conjunction with the heal picture, presents a more \iM scope titled "People Born ham vember" featuring Zanxtmtr, aa dia's foremost astrologer etc am you all about yourself...
...Claude Colbert, International Star Claudette Colbert, who plays the leading role in "See Naples and Die," Elmer Rice's extravagant comedy, is well qualified for this virtually "international" part...
...The second series of "Secrets of Nature" will be shown instead...
...Schwartz several years ago...
...At the 55th St...
...Dalcroze Eurythmics The various theories of education that have resulted ta so many experimental schools ta the last decade, are all based, fundamentally, on the principle of self-expression...
...The idea of the play belongs to Stephen King-Hall, a navy man all his life...
...I Jumped at the idea immediately, put women into it, eliminated all the technical jokes known to seamen, and the result was The Middle Watch' as London and New York are seeing it...
...we had hoped he might stimulate OS more deeply as well...
...Those interested in the above concerts can send their names in for circulars to the office of the People's Symphony Concerts, 32 Union Square...
...New Comedy Rhearsal At Yiddish AH Theatre For his second production of the twelth season of the Yiddish Art Theatre, Maurice Schwartz begins rehearsals today of "Angels On Earth," a fantastic comedy by Chune Gottesfeld, author of several comedies, one of which, "When Does He Die," was produced by Mr...
...Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, U, S. N., Lady Drummond Hay, the only woman passenger, and President Hoover are heard, describing the flight, or commenting on it...
...Not only will the operas be sung in Russian by an all Russian cast and chorus, but all the scenery, costumes, and properties, will come from the hands of Russian designers and craftsmen now resident in this country...
...We see ants that cut parasols from palm leaves, weird fishes and crustaceans, the Sacred Baboon in bis rocky lair, nature's tiny tragedies, culminating in the fierce undersea battle between a lobster and an actopus...
...This series includes a further bewildering array of unusual scenes of nature ta her various moods...
...There are four real Paris taxi horns for use in the taxi theme...
...Lou Tellegen Opens . In "Cortez" At the . Mansfield Monday Lou Tellegen will return to the legitimate stage, after an absence of a year and a half, ta "Cortez," a modern comedy drama by Leroy Clemens and Ralph Murphy, which will be presented by Jack Linder at the Mansfield Theatre, Monday evening, November 4th...
...Karl and Anna," for example, calls for the longer plausibility of novel development...
...Martha Graham and group of dancers, April 11...
...The child Is to be given full and free opportunity to move ta the rhythm of its own nature, werkiffg along lines that stir from it, not that are impressed upon it from without...
...its development is at any point expected...
...The scenery will be designed by Yasha Antchutin, who recently attracted attention for the settings for the bal%t "Scheherazade," at the Hollywood Bowl...
...others, that seem susceptible of treatment in only one of these mediums...
...so, despite the fact that it was first a play, does "Jew Suss," Lion Freuchtwanger's "Power," the first offering of the Yiddish Art Theatre in its new home...
...Stella Adler, Bertha Gersten, and Blna Abramowitch also will be included in the cast...
...One is an original central idea and the other is i novel setting...
...How, ta other words, is the child to be permitted to reveal—how is the child to be given power to reveal, its personality...
...But, as yet, I haven't quite made up my mind to it...
...The acting, while in general on the more highly pitched key of the Yiddish stage, is excellent, Samuel Goldenburg as Suss making neat foil for Maurice Schwartz as the TJuke of Wurttemberg, Mark Schweid as the crafty poetaster and secretary having good fun with his part, and the various women soundly interpreting their parts...
...Reheursals for "The Shoestring Revue" are now under way at the Lyric Theatre, Hoboken...
...THE QUEST OF POWER There are some themes that may suitably be presented either on stage or in the form of a novel...
...a genuine asa3 Hula '~1 Apropos of the month ft jfl vember...
...String-wood Ensemble, March 21...
...As drama, the place moves slowly, and is chronicle rather than single action working to a climax...
...is now at the George M. Cohan Theatre...
...Eckner himself, Lieut...
...Total the pep of the proceedhgj jMB is Ann Pennington, the UUtS who has made a big rfeehaa for herself because she HiretM lot about dancing...
...M. Cohan Theatre Columbia's first big musical attraction "Broadway Scandals," starring Sally O'Neil, Jack Egan and Carmel Myers in a colorful story of the stage and two-a-day...
...Sibelius' Swan sf Tuenella, a Bach-Albert Prelade, and the Fugue in G Minor...
...Tollefsen Trio, Feb...
...Reeds to echo the aoain theme in a minor wailing, the play is a pleasant comedy...
...The Manhattan Symphony Society is based on the idea of supplying the best music at populai prices and offers special rates tc students...
...Louis Bromberg designed the settings...
...William H. Turner, Anders Randolf, Sam DeGrsase and George Irving...
...jj first all-talking and stsaaen phone production r&E Happy...
...Only Night" at National Michael Micnalesko, romantic Jewish stage idol, who made his American debut at the Downtown National Theatre almost fifteen years ago, returned to that playhouse last evening ta "The Onlv Night," a tuneful, Yiddish operetta...
...Chamber Concerts For Workers me 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...
...Save that he presses this a little too heavily upon us, providing a boarder at Mrs...
...The Old World Trio, Dec...
...How are they to be given rein, so that they may move the child along the ways that are in harmony with its inner being...
...Other players seea a ajj inent roles are Afiee Ik* m Swayne Gordon, iAwrena'ejfl Otto Hoffman and PuraeS |3 Directed by Archie L HssTs screen story was prepare...
...Ian Hay, co-author with Stephen King-Hall of the rollicking romance of the navy, now at the runes Square Theatre, thus summed up one of the secrets of far:ical playwriting...
...The remainder of the program, conducted by Henry Hadley, ineludes the Kalinikoff Symphony •To...
...Or that reason we may view it Rfth profit, too...
...A Parisian by birth, she is now rated one of the favorites among young American actresses...
...where the fanious old "Black Crook' was received last season...
...News And Comment of the Theatre The Stage The Movies Music THE WEEK ON THE STAGE By Joseph T. Shipley HAPPY HOMX T3E proverbial resemblance be- tween father and «on is the theme of George Kelly's "Maggie the Magnificent," at the Cort Theatre—only the son is a daughter...
...Insects, birds and animals move through the scene slaying, mating, foraging for food...
...Roea Low On Staging Song Elaborate settings, striking and numerous costumes and other theatrical advices, which are having an Increasing vogue in the staging of concerts, are not what Rosa Low, the well-known lyric soprano, cares for either in the role of audience or when she herhelf gives a performance...
...the care in staging and the skill in acting seem an expenditure in excess.of the possible results...
...Miss Colbert's role calls upon her to speak English of course, but also briefly in French and Italian which she does with the fluency of one educated on the continent...
...Theatre "Pandora's Box," the film based on Frank Wedekind's dramas, "Earth Spirit" and "The Box of Pandora" has been rejected by the Motion Picture Division and will not be shown at the 65th Street Playhouse the week beginning Saturday, November 2nd as announced...
...In the supporting cast are Betty and Jacob Jacobs, Ella Ziebel, Bella Meisel, and many more...
...Conrad Veidt, of "Caligari" fame and Mary Philbin, former Griffith star, portray the starring role*, supported by Leslie Fenton and Fred Mack aye...
...The younger generation, fortanately, in this play at least, is not amy wise enough to recognize that the man is a fortune-hunter, but awing enough to wish to save Lolly from his designs...
...Her last appearance was in the serious O'Neil tragedy "Dynamo" under the Woods banner...
...it tp*—— the depth of sound social study by a heightening of the parts until some of them seem caricature...
...It is here that the value of the Dalcroze Bystem lies...
...ly Lewis has played seven...
...Others in the cast are Gustaf Partos...
...Laura, therefore, and her boy Jeff, before they embark on a honeymoon of their own, arrange—with the helpful finger of fate—to have uolly provided for...
...CATCHING ITS PUBLIC "Lolly," the first production of Che New York Theatre Assembly, at its theatre on 39th street, is exactly the sort of play that should appeal to the sort of person Mr...
...all engagements on the Strsat aa a few years ago and, is very jS lar with the audiences...
...Since both are 30t easy of attainment, farce be:omea the most difficult type of >lay to prepare for the stage...
...Ted Lewis In B$j Talkie at the l-fl Ted Lewis, the Bisk* an...
...But what are these rhythms of the natural child...
...Gottesfeld's comedy which will probably have its premiere late in November, will see both Maurice Schwartz and Samuel Goldenburg ta prominent roles...
...Paul Fejos, whose first production "The Last Moment" brought him from obscurity to an immediate place as one of the greatest directors of the season, wielded the megaphone on this production...
...Every detail of the trip is visual and audible, from the start at Lakehurst, N. J., across the Atlantic to Land's End, England, tc Friedrichshafen, over Siberia and Russia, across the vast Pacific, and then over the Golden Gate, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and back again to New York...
...The musical production, which is by Alexander Olshanetsky, A. Blum, and Jacob Jacobs, provides MichaJesko with a colorful, romantic role in which he scored heavily...
...The Stradivarius Quartet, Jan...
...will make hataeal picture debut at the MsA'aaal theatre on Friday...
...George Kelly entertains us delightfully...
...Gottesfeld, who is connected with the Jewish Daily Forward, is widely known as a humorist...
...In fact, for my concerts this year I may depart from my usual custom and wear a Roumanian costume for my group of folk-songs...
...the more serious meaning mother and the daughter determined to hold bar personality unsoiled...
...Walter Greenougfa, Director of the A numbly, is seeking to interest...
...Also, the father ia long dead, and what is left for us to watch ft* the difference between this daughter (her artist father's girl) and the rest of her family...
...But these outside attributes of a concert as far as I am concerned, distract me from the main business of the affair—which is good music...
...It must be remembered, however, that my two rules still sold good, for The Middle Watch' has a good central theme and the setting is novel indeed...
...4 at Town Hall, herself clings to the unadorned stage and simplicity ta dress...
...FejOS' best...
...One dial early sequences of the paaa shows Ann ta the dance ttutssal her famous...
...The play will only be given Friday, Saturday and Sunday, while the balance of the week will be made up of repertory plays, in which Mlchalesko wiil also be starred...
...An old flame, who indeed once burned right through Lolly, comes along to provide the final celebration with its fireworks...
...Fortunate contact with wealth permits Maggie free movement, and the prospect of matrimony points to its pleasant continuance...
...Moving leisurely along, the play is well acted, with Mary Young well handling a hard because obvious part, which she manages to make more personal than the author...
...Sally O'Neil, Jack Egan and Carmel Myers head an all-star cast which Includes Tom O'Brien, J. Barney Sherry, John Hyams, Charles Wilson, Doris Dawson and Gordon Elliot...
...Irving place and 16th street...
...1 in G Minor...
...With its training of the body so that it is responsible to the will, so that it naturally and therefore gracefully portrays the mood of the mind,' and with the practice in improvisation, in original rhythmic movement of dance and of sound, the Dalcronxe system of Eurythmics (the Greek prefix "eu" means beautiful) gives opportunity for the spirit of the child, or of the adult who is held to the restraints of job and the hustling confusion of city life, to find calm and ease and beauty...
...The Last Performance," which will have its American Premiere at The Little Carnegie Playhouse this Saturday, November 2nd, is •aid to reveal the most advanced use of camera angles to interpret the tense mood of this decidedly Unusual Universal production...
...Hoboken Keeps Us On Tiptoe Proving further that they don't consider an audience bad-mannered that joins vociferously in the fun of a performance, Christopher Morley and Cleon Throckmorton, producers of "After Dark,' which is still running at Hoboken's Old Rialto Theatre, yesterday announced that they are preparing a new show in which the audience will be expected to take a very large part...
...but its lines-,are true to the social level and life that it depicts—as the constant gasps of recognition from our many neighbors in evening clothes attested...
...Fanny Heaslip Lea the author, presents the problem of the middleaged woman with time on her hands (children grown), and an iBCreasing desire to pluck the traits of life before she is too old end weary to lift up her arms to the branches where they hang inviting...
...In fact, says Director Sanford E. Stanton, tnere will be so many surprises ta the forthcoming "Shoestring Revue" that the spectators will respond enthusiastically of their own accord without any preconceived notions as to >-ow an audience should act...
...Isejaaa...
...Not only the sounds of the crowds and the bands in New York, Tokio, Friedrichshafen and Los Angeles, and the roar of the motors, but also the voices of Dr...
...The two chief male roles are being alternated by Schwartz and Goldenburg, which is an exercise and a test worthy of the high quality and freshness usually associated with the Yiddish Art Theatre...
...Unnsual Film at Little Carnegie Concldered a step forward in motion picture production...
...The series includes: Musical Art Quartet, Nov...
...It was originally produced for navy men and made such a genuine success that KingHall came to see me about it for professional presentation...
...The settings for this production will be de signed by Boris Aronson and incidental music arranged by George Tueller...
...Of course," continued Hay, "it sounds somewaht egotistical to make such a statement and then go right ahead by^ saying I had successfully collaborated on a farce...
...Tragedian of Jazz, stsnh...
...What Lolly finds is a gigolo...
...tiershwin With Manhattan Symphony at The Mecca Temple The second concert of the seanan's series of the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra will take place at Mecca Temple Auditorium on Sunday evening, November 10th at 9 p. m., with George Gershwin as guest conductor for the playing of his most recent composition, "An American in Parish Tpia work, performed last season "By the Philharmonic Orchestra and at the Stadium, marks the effort of the composer —to spite of its "foreign" setting —to establish a musical art genBine American themes and musical motifs...
...Russian Art Grand Opera in the Spring It is announced by Max Panteleieff, Russian baritone, that he has organized the Russian Art Grand Opera Company, which will begin its tour of the country ta Boston, early ta January...
...In this instance the setting is of equal Importance with the story for it is laid on a cruiser of the British Navy, a most unusual farce since It Involves women who remain aboardship throughout the night...
...The conductors for the first season will be Yevgeny Plotnikoff, of the Imperial Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, and Yevgeny Fuerst, formerly of the Washington, D. C. Opera Company...
...Miss Low, who gives her first New York recital of the season Dec...
...kl seph Jackson and James Altai The culmination of tai aa shows him just as he is is rata an outstanding vaudevfflt taaal appearing with his owe banana type of music that has atranj elevate him to the topmok aa of variety performers...
...Hiving portrayed every type of appealing American girlhood, in "See Naples and Die" she is the most typical of them all—an ultra-sophisticated, yet sentimentally romantic daughter of the rich traveling in Europe...
Vol. 9 • November 1929 • No. 13
