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 O Tim Ib Thy Flight! MY FIRST memory of Balderston ia through his one-act "Morality...
...Bumpsted has carried beneath her, a mere clerk In a dry goods store...
...Excellent, too, are the domestic moments, the scenes of home life in the small town, as we have seen them lived—and thank God for that past tense...
...2—Hariemik" "Pavana—Spain, 16th Century", "Antique—in the English Manner" "The Inquisition Virgin" "Piano Music No...
...But we own ourselves captivated by this pearl from Arthur Kober, and are letting too much of it slip through...
...This effect, together with the validity of the settings, makes the play a scenic novelty...
...After one of the songs, without meaning, for it waa but "Oi—oi" continuous, you could see him reach • for the lump of sugar land sip his tea, self-satisfied and happy—without any suggestion of these save in his voice...
...Merrily and at unhurried but smoothly running pace the action progresses through the many scenes, with tuneful accompaniment of Strauss' music, and with swirling of many dancers, including the ever pleasing and wellmatched Cheater Hale girls...
...Paul Fejoa, for a third and final week beginning this Saturday, November 16th Members of the Society of American Magicians who witnessed this unusual film at an Invitation performance have declared that the various magic tricks used by Conrad Veidt in his portrayal of Erik the Great, the revenge-seeking magician in this motion picture, have been presented with true fidelity...
...Neatly it is suggested that while Peter is in the eighteenth century, bis body is occupied by that ancestor whose place his spirit takes...
...Th* plot ia laid in modem New York and concerns the romance of a young elevator boy and a chambermaid...
...But this does not matter, in the face of the portrait of Mr...
...You have passed a bank of violets, and front a shady grove...
...Their struggle to find for themselves a place in the sun, their difficulties, and the manner in which their dreams are misinterpreted, form the ideas upon which a delightful love story has been woven...
...I am told, had a hand in "Dracula," tbe story of the man who lived five hundred years, by drinking human blood...
...dave bader returns with interesting news Dave Bader, who recently returned from a tour of the European countries with Carl Laemmle, president of Universal Pictures Corp., brings back some interesting news about Erich Maria Remarque, author of "All Quiet On the Western Front," which Universal is to produce as a big special...
...but we know, we more wisely know, that Peter has achieved one of those impossible transferences of time the new knowledge makes so tempting...
...His knowledge of the theatre is authenticated by a vast background of experience in all the many phases of the stage...
...The kindly but meek— his name's indeed the word for him!—long-suffering man who is yet strong to endure beyond what others think most reasonable endurance, is captured in every word, every gesture and wacial shift...
...In making "The Love Parade," Paramount launched a raid on the French musical comedy stage, on Broadway, on tbe musical and literary world and on Hollywood...
...he looks at them, through them—The Duchess of Devonshire startles to the discovery—as though they were all dead...
...Tea wise among my readers will ear him at least once, — * - - —-„ Richard Barthetmes In "Young Nowheres" At the Strand Theatre PJcbard Barthelmess hi "Young Nowheres," his latest all-dialogue First National and Vltaphone picture, which has just completed its successful Broadway premier at two dollar prices, win begin its popular price performance at the Strand Theatre oa Friday...
...Laemmle was so impressed with his modest and mumiinhnf character, that he gave him the sobriquet of a "Literary Lindberg...
...You can no longer see the violets...
...As a matter of fact it is so much like a real subway car that many people think it is one...
...Grant Withers plays opposite Miss Costello and the other featured players in the cast are James Kirk wood, George Fawcett, David Torrence and Olive TelL "Hearts in Exile," adapted by Harvey Gates from the wellknown play written by John Oxenham, and directed by Michael Curtiz, is a story of how revolutionary trends changed the lives of three persona, and indirectly caused the death of one condemned to Siberia...
...One girl (of course) is eld by love to seek to understand...
...These are the only appearances Miss Enters will make in New York this season...
...Selwyn and "Other Men's Wive*" Usually the press agent* pass along such stereotyped stuff that the small portion of it which is legitimate news must be unearthed from the garlands of grandeur— the grain of interest from the bushel of chaff...
...Bnmpsted, in which Martin Flavin as author and Donald Meek as actor effect a perfect collaboration, with the creation as fine a character part as seasons have seen, in the type...
...The jail scene affords some excellent comedy from the person of Solly Ward as the jailer, in ofttimes 'old but still successful play...
...But in is rendering of the Jewish Chassldic and Folk songs, in the Ukrainian and the gypsy groups, the movement of the man, his spirit and voice, play in complete control of mood and matter, and give exceeding delight to those even who know not a word of the songs' meaning...
...Love Parade" Brings Chevalier to Criterion Leaders in each of their fields of artistic endeavor were assembled by Paramount for the production of "The Love Parade," Paramount's widely heralded musical romance which will have its world premiere before a distinguished audience at the Criterion Theatre on Tuesday evening...
...MY FIRST memory of Balderston ia through his one-act "Morality Play for the Leisure Classes," wherein, as a disciple of Bernard Shaw, he pictured a man in the next world, bored through eons of doing as he pleased, gradually so overcome with everlasting ennui that just for a change be asks his attendant spirit to take him to hell—whereupon the guardian cries: "Why, where do you think...
...add to her repertoire ten new compositions in dance form which have not been seen in New York These - are: " Tie a Pity She's a---" "High Life" "Carnival" "Odalisque No...
...VICTOR CHUNK IN SINGS I want to find space for at least a word in regard to the character songs Victor Chenkin is 6ffering, for the next six Sundays, or so, at the Times Square Theatre...
...The set can be moved a half dozen inches either way and this gives the effect of the stop and start jerk that every subway rider is familiar with...
...He is Edgar Selwyn, who is currently offering Walter Hackett's comedy, "Other Men's Wives," at the Times Square Theatre with Claiborne Foster in the featured role...
...The story of the piece is also deft, involving a sentenced husband, a swift wooer summoned from the wife's side to defend her honor by taking the husband's place in jail, and a grand ball at which the wife turns the tables on hubby . . . and a prince learns how to laugh...
...through Peter's eyes she views the future...
...this new group represents an Increase which she periodically make...
...So in the ideal (infinite) eye —God's, if you insist—all time exists together...
...she learns (and believes) his stiry, but she knows they can never really unite...
...Ein fesbj Bsrf*va composed uring* the Lebasgjfl od, probably for the Refwaatafl feat October 31, 1780, spasm larly brilliant festival eekhad the bicentenary of the *nh*e4| the Augsburg Confession...
...When Peter Standiah, with his modern scientific knowledge, goes Into the eighteenth century, it is no uncouth Yankee at King Arthur's court that we behold...
...The program of th* series changes with each Sunday, and if indications of the first evening have meaning, there are many who will hear Victor Chenkin for every one of his eight recitals...
...Laemmle and Bader spent four days with the popular author, and here hi what Dave has to say: "Erich Remarque ia one of the most difficult men to Interview or meet, but we found him to be modest and likable...
...The man is of course an immediate success in London society, as the wealthy American from the new nation...
...he is not so happy in the group of nineteenth century "sentimental songs," for example, or even in the Italian group, as in those whereof the spirit is natively familiar...
...He seems to know what is to come...
...She moves to a premature yet probably happy wedding in a way that helps did regain his dominance (gain, I should say, for he'd nevr had it...
...Other Men's Wives," by the way, is at the Times Square Theatre.' "Those sweet-voiced ,miniesingers of the theatre known aa press agents have warbled tender chants about the person who cracks the whip,—namely, the producer...
...U1 The programme wSl *ahufl two cantatas and til|i WfSiaM played by Lynnweed Ibsa-fJ The cantatas are a sab) w*&aj9 by Elisabeth Rethberg, WM HCrze Schwimmt isa Bba*^a the choral cantata, 'Btetesbh-I ist unser Gott," In vM Ssfl Wety's chorus trside* ff Bkjl Wohllebe will take past- efafl following soloists: Miss Raaffl Marion Telva, Pan...
...Young Nowheres" gives these two players wistfully appealing roles in a story that is human as life...
...Th* plan ia to distribute the ten new compositions through the three performances...
...manhattan symphony concert The third concert of the present series of the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra will take place on Sunday evening, November 24th, at Mecca Auditorium commencing at 9 p. m. The soloist for this concert will be the Princess Alexander Troubetskoi (Dagmara Renlna) who win sing the aria "Letter Scene" from Tschaikovaky'a Eugene Onegin...
...nor can you see aKrhat you are coming to: your future...
...Important supporting role* are played by Bert Roach,, Anders Randolph, Raymond Turner, Jocelyn Lee and others...
...Barthelmess, star of such sincere and masterly performances as "Broken Blossoms," "The Enchanted Cottage," "The Patent Leather Kid,'* "Weary River" and "The Drag," gives one of his greatest characterisations In "Young Nowheres...
...He is, according to these literary choir boys, God's chosen pet, endowed with supreme wisdom, an uncanny sagacity and a Judgment never failing: "There is, however, one Broadway manager who belies this description...
...The floor of the car is a platform that is laid on tracks and underneath the platform are forty aluminum casters, ball bearing, that move the car by means of a lever operated by a stage hand...
...Both have won great honors In their respective fields of endeavor, and both are still the same unchanging, unassuming and modest men they were prior to their change of fortune...
...Deftly the dramatist makes clear the point in relativity on which our acceptance of his idea depends— better than the films that once elaborately made Einstein pictorial...
...and the untimely entrance of the wonderful Armstrong serves but to make things cosier still...
...The good taste of Gilbert Miller and the excellent theatre work oi Leslie Howard bring "Berkeley Square" to the Lyceum, where MiHoward, Margalo GUlmore and ethers give the polished performance it deserves to this unique ¦tory of a love across time...
...Maybe it will take no new Faust, or further Einstein, to show that the word impossible is one the scientists are discarding, to have the miracle of "Berkeley Square" become new ages' commonplace as it is the new season's fascinating suggestion...
...4" "Plethora" "Delsarte—With a Not Too Classical Nod to the Greeks" Miss Enters numbers 56 compositions in her repertoire...
...49 The organ works ar*t JJhfl from the Fifth Trio*hasbM major, and Chorale and UfBt M iations on the Chorale, '"O an du frommer Gott" TiH The Cantata sung byananB berg was written by Bam eafl his first year as KenBMsjjH at Weimar...
...hearts in exile with dolores costello at colony Dolores Costello adds to her list of roles that of a Russian peasant girl In her latest Warner Bros...
...Imagine yourself in a boat, the hero suggests, sailing a winding stream...
...It is within a few feet as long...
...The entire Interior of the famous Cathedral of the Holy Message in Moscow was reproduced to film "Hearts in Exile" and eighty singers were employed to sing the Russian hymns during the wedding ceremony scene...
...It is the arrangement of devices that in "Subway Express" puts a real earful of travelers, with all the stir, the bumps, the stations, the stops, the alightings and loadings, of the dear old subway, onto the stage...
...Balderston has also...
...It is no ordinary Stage aet that holds these fifty-five people, for their numbers and combined weight would even tax a real subway car...
...Wen Dave, well wait and hope...
...In truth, only Sue play within the memory of this critic has before employed the revolving stage in motion before Lhe eyes of the audience, as the characters move from one scene to another the rooms moving with them...
...Hence this stage set must be solid and look like the real thing...
...all-talking Vltaphone picture "Hearts in Exile," now at tbe Colony Theatre...
...I feel that there is a measure of unevenness in the performance...
...Miss Enters will be accompanied in, her programs by Madeleine Marshall, who has played for her during the past three years...
...After considerable coaxing, the management has revealed the way in which the trick is turned, and the fifty-five people of "Subway Express" are carried on their adventurous-journey...
...The first time was In "Out of the Ruins...
...While it has not the uproarious ex-, utterance that makes the best of the sort irresistible, "A Wonderful Night" gives that to its heroine, and at least a most pleasure night to those who watch its way...
...they are in the past...
...and for thirty years husband and daughters hear of her mistake and of the great catch she might have had, in the person of Chester Armstrong, the genial giant success of the town, who went away aa a youth to make his fortune...
...For the second times these two players, Barthelmess and Nixon appear together...
...Moreover, Dave wishes it to be emphatically understood that "All Quiet On the Western Front" is to be made into the outstanding picture of all time...
...The changed standards In morals, in very cleaniness, are effectively suggested though the, eyes of the twentieth century stranger...
...But a man In a plane can see at once the violets, the grove, and the things ahead as yet unknown to you: your past, present and future, are all one to him...
...It is therefore not surprising to discover that his latest creation this time a full length play of his own...
...AithasB/9 Fraser Gauge...
...Marion Nixon plays opposite Barthelmess in this- screen romance based on the mage sine story by L A. R. Wylie...
...carries Mr...
...When he returns, to reject his sweetheart of today* cherishing •very the memory of the one he can never really touch—those in the play have the right to regard him an insane...
...Balderston on further ventures through time...
...Much more sensitive, psychologically searching, in this study...
...How the Stage Builds a Subway Every night the packed Liberty Theatre empties to the tune of the question: "How do they do it...
...BROKEN SPIRITS . In "Broken Dishes," at the Bits Theatre, Martin Flavin, who makes fair bid to have three hits an the stage this season, turns away from the strong prison searching of "The Criminal Code" to the small-town domestic tragedy of many lives...
...The expose of several of the more famous magical stunts, notably the sword trick, has also created considerable comment, while the unusual camera* technique of Dr...
...Fejoe In the direction of this film helps maintain the gripping and eery qualities of "The Last Performance...
...Tbe story waa adapted to the screen by Bradley King and directed by Frank Lloyd...
...The picture, said to be the most elaborate modern extravaganza that has yet been created for the screen, reveals Maurice Chevalier, the noted French star, in a role more suited to his style of entertainment than his first picture, "Innocents of Paris.' "the last performance" held over for third week Acclaimed by press and public, it has been decided by the management of The Little Carnegie Playhouse to hold over "The Last Performance," the Universal production starring Conrad Veidt and Mary Philbin and directed by Dr...
...but soon disquietude sits upon those near to him;.they sense something beyond them in the man...
...The second and third are to take place on December Oat and 8th...
...at 4 o'al*Ck affl ca Auditorium...
...Henry Hadley will conduct the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra of one hundred musicians...
...Friends of Mlata Give Bach Prams] The first Bach progaaajl the Fr.cnds of Mask: U*) fts] will be conducted by nfjgHfl danzky, Sunday aftemeaVj vember 17th...
...There is a consistent plot, working through the rebellion of Elaine, youngest daughter who refuses to be an old maid, like her sisters whom the mother has persuaded to wait for a real man...
...Their love trangresses time...
...While in Berlin, Mr...
...With the aid of a revolving stage—virtually the only on* in America—there is swift succession of scenes...
...The noise of escaping air heard in the real subway when the doors are opened or shut is simulated on the stage by a property man Angna Enters to Present Ten New Compositions When Angna Enters, under the direction of tba Actor-Managers, presents the first of three Sunday evening concerts at th* Booth Theatre on November 34th, aba wffl...
...But "Broken Dishes" as a reminder proves a delight...
...ONE WONDERFUL NIGHT At the Majestic Theatre, the Shuberts have brought over an elaborate and beautiful production of Johann Strauss' "Die Fledermaus," known here as "A Wonderful Night...
Vol. 9 • November 1929 • No. 15
