AMUSEMENTS
AMUSEMENTS T^ROM the sacred sanctum of A. E ?/bods. Inc., comes toe news that the season of 1KS-S0 wul be a busy one for them, among; the man; promising plays en the Woods list is -Soarlet...
...There la a deliberatenesa in Ben-Ami's delivery, (part of bis struggle to overcome accentual difficulties) that at times makes his performance a little alow...
...Before that time—of course —ha is reformed and ready to marry her instead...
...Shubert to Continue Light Opera at J Olson's The series of light opera revivals ?y Jolson's Musical Comedy Company at Jolson's Theatre will be attended throughout, the remainder 3f the season, it was announced yesterday, and eight musical works will be selected to make up the balance of the schedule...
...An added attraction for the second week will be the first showing of Jules Bledsoe's flhn recording of his popular song...
...The same program Includes "Othello...
...YOUNG SINNERS...
...Hallelujah" Popular Priced at the Capitol For the week beginning Friday, December 13th, the Capitol Theatre will present, for the first time at popular prices...
...an adaptation by Edward Child* Carpenter from the German of Paul Frank...
...This association begins immediately and during the coming season they will make eight or nine* presentations among the first to be the following: Mrs...
...IVew Productions Michael Kalleaser, who has formerly produced his own plays, has changed his policy and bought a new play by Charles Sherman entitled "The Bridge o' Sighs...
...Any time you find nothing but bad eggs at Gray's try the box office of a hit for balcony seats...
...The play was written by Philip Dunning and George Abbott The motion picture rights were purchased from the producer...
...In his first scene, for instance, one watching him while the gypsies sing observes how the music is every part of him, how it holds him listening, sways him when he puts dowh his wine-glass, explains much of the sort of man he is...
...Two of the productions added to the schedule of the current season are the work of Victor Herbert, who has been represented so far by four productions...
...Florence Dudley and Ruby McCoy complete the distinguished east...
...The speeches were interspersed by International songs...
...which as a part of their program a year ago .was so successful that they were asked to give a special performance for the Birch-Wathen School (at the Heckscher Theatre) and also to journey to Newark as guests of Bamberger's and entertain the Junior Leagues of Newark, the Oranges,1 and Elizabeth...
...Sidney Franklin, who also directed Norma Shearer in "The Actress" and v ho last filmed Greta Garbo in "Wild Orchitis" also directs Miss Shearer in this p-oduction...
...Negro spirituals as well as modern syncopated numbers play an important part In the unfolding of the story, which Is said to be Intensely dramatic in nature, dealin gwfth a young Negro who becomes a traveling evangelist to attempted expiation for an accidental killing...
...It will be reviewed next week...
...the plcturizaUon of Shakespeare's drama, produced in Germany under the direction of Diraitri Buchowetzky...
...The Eva Le Gallienne production is a sound one: credit to Miss Le Galhenne for a proper spirit, that knows how to subordinate itself for the general good, and to Jacob Ben-Ami, who not only made the translation here used, but directed the play and performs in the chief part, as Fedya...
...Meistersinger" was produced by Phoebus Films, Berlin, under the direction of Ludwig Berger, who also made the Ufa pictures "Cinderella" and the "Waltz Dream...
...Meistersinger" Premiere At 55th Street Theatre "Meistersinger", the German film version of Richard Wagner's world famous opera, is to open for an extended run at the 55th Street Playbouse beginning next Saturday, December 14th...
...The film was directed by Paul Stein, a recruit from the Continental directors*, ranks...
...George Davis, Leads Fen ton, Betty Francisco, Sdytne Fiynn...
...Marian Lord...
...The Reception to Vienna All the other arrivals had the same experience, whether they came by rail or by road...
...The Swedish Socialist Youth sent 340, some of whom had to travel a greater distance before leaving Swedish soil than the distance measured from the southernmost part of Sweden to Rome...
...At the last meeting * new member* were initiated, making altogether an'addition of about rUUeaasd members since the membership dwj started There are two team* on m. drive, each headed by s captain, asfl when the drive closes, which h w» first week in September, the losing «** wm entertain the winning one wEag nttie party...
...The Stroll" Then the march on the Ring Itself began...
...The other actors in the cast are Julius Falkenstein as Beckmesser, Max Guelstorf as Pogner, Veit Harlan as David and Hans Waasnan...
...Filmkourier, the German film paper, rates' "Meistersinger" as the best work turned put by Berger, who is now working in Hollywood on the Dennis King special "The Vagabond King" for Paramount...
...Fairbanks...
...George Playhouse will present "The Loves of Casanova," a photoplay of romantic episodes in the life of Oiacomo Casanova made abroad...
...Morton Downey is the singing stable-boy who woos the fine llady with his golden voice...
...On Friday Vienna wag Indeed to the hands of toe Socialist Youth of Europe...
...The supporting feature is The Donovan Affair"— starring Jack Holt adapted from the amous mystery play...
...The streets were lined with enthusiastic spectators...
...Poor as a Church Mouse," a play which Elmer Harris has adapted from the Oerman...
...Yasha Bunchuk, conducting the Capitol Grand Orchestra, will present "Around the World in Nine Minutes", an original compilation of Mr...
...So the earnest physician and the Academy's lawyer are left with the women they love...
...The production of this film marks the achievement of a long cherished ambition on the part of Mr...
...Jed Harris, for the record breaking sum of $396,000 after the play had established a record run in New York and with road companies throughout this country and abroad...
...u Anajeto Ow Earth" at Yiddish Art Theatre "Angels On Earth," a fantastic comedy by Chune Gotteefeld, the second new production of the twelfth season of tie Yiddish Art Theatre, now at Twenty-eighth street, and Broadway, had its premiere on Tuesday evening, December 10th...
...The ships were a sight to gladden the heart of any Socialist, resplendent as they were with red flags and eager young faces...
...Hot on his trail, rather, on the trail of experience, is Constance Sinclair, not yet eighteen but determined to know the meaning of love...
...ters of the book and report a synepB of it . . A short time ago the group cow...
...On the Heldenplatx, before the old Palace of the Haps burg Emperors, they mnitil thesnaalvsa with theii leaders up in front of them on the Imperial Balcony, looking towards the building where the diplomats of the Austrian Empire In 1914 decided upon the war which developed into the world war...
...can I olay...
...Oie Man Trouble...
...George Saturday and Sunday...
...Constance Bennett as tat wife is provided with an ideal vehicle for characteristic poise, beaa* ty and charm...
...The Finns actually managed to send 100: the Swiss, 80...
...Hawk Island** Is Cast Thomas •rnp»trV1r announces the following cast for Howard Irving Young's new play "Hawk Island" which went into rehearsal Monday, August 13: Guy Standing, Jr., Mary Fowler, Elaine Temple...
...Elsie Janis Supervises Elsie Janis, American musical comedy and vaudeville star, has been signed to a contract by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation "to contribute material...
...The one which the writer attended was held in the sag Concert Han of Vienna, and seemed to him s model of what a Socialist entertainment of an artistic kind should be...
...Among the fields open to human quackery and sham, medicine is far from least...
...how 5,633 British ships were sunk: 140 days of hell at Verdun where goo boo men were killed and 40,000,000 shea* ware Bred in one battle, "Last of Mr...
...Otto Bauer: and from the Socialist Youth International, its Chairman, Heinz...
...I do not see why Mr...
...The Last of Mrs...
...The Ring Is the series of streets where, in the days -when Imperial Austria allowed of no demonstrations, some 100,000 Viennese workmen would on occasion go for a stroll, to the dieomfiture of the police...
...He is a millionaire—incidentally, he recognizes with bitterness that he is a wastrel, a misbegotten spawn of bis father's plundering ways— when after exploiting workers into a fortune for himself old Sinclair was careless enough to beget a child upon his young wife, spoiling his fun and her figure...
...Self-seeking men are perhaps more savagely intent than pleeaure-seeking women...
...Opens at the Btinge Theatre to September...
...This implies that the company will continue not only throughout this season, but will be a fixture at Jolson's Theatre next year...
...The Latitude of Love...
...He gathers more courage •amen it grows necessary...
...Bunchuk's, as an overture...
...by Dion Titheredge...
...In the picture one see the sasasaiaatioa of Archduke Francis Ferdinand which started a war which cost s33S.000.ooo.ooo...
...Metro-Goldwyn -Mayer's popular and beautiful young star, has one of the beet roles of her career in "The Last of Mrs...
...Gillette finally expressed himself as willing to accept Mr...
...It is headed by Daniel L Haynes, long known to the legitimate stage, and lately heard in "Show Boat...
...r.ame by Mabel Wagnals, which also will be done In October...
...even when she robs his home...
...Gillette to Tour William Gillette, under the direction of A. L. Erlanger and George C. Tyler, will make a farewell tour in his most notable success, "Sherlock Holmes," beginning on November 18 at Ford's Theatre, Baltimore...
...IOW THEY COME HURRYING...
...rights to "Deferred Payment...
...Salta Mortale," which Herman Bernstem is adapting from the original of James LeBurreU...
...The story of "Hallelujah" is a simple one, designed to bring out to as large an extent as possible, the peculiarities and charms of the people with whom it deals...
...Other Fealmes Besides the demonstration a number of Informal talks were given by Austrian Socialists on Red Vienna and their own work to the Socialist Movement...
...Bale Ferguson will be leaind, and ciaudette Colbert may be to the cast...
...The entire supporting cast is of exceptional calibre...
...Jr., now general manager of the Univer*aH Studios, had entire charge of the production...
...Hitchcock will open in this piece at one of Mr...
...Madeline Seymour, Finch Smiles, Maude Turner and George K. Arthur...
...also Aita Remilly as the gypsy Maaba has not the wild abandon we expect...
...Sweet Land of Liberty," a drama by Philip Dunning, author of "Broadway" and "Night Hostess...
...every country that boasts of a sound reproducing apparatus, regardless of language...
...One continuous stream of boys and girls, dressed to every colour of the rainbow, blue predominating, marched through, red flags flying from the buildings and from the procession...
...and from one representative of each nationality there, in his own language...
...Cheyney" is the attraction, the management has deemed it advisable to hold this feature film for a second week...
...Tyler has been negotiating with Mr...
...Hocus Focus," adapted from the German of Kurt Goets by B. Harrison Orkow...
...Connolly and Swanstrom To Continue Producing Bobby Connolly and Arthur Swanetrom, producers of "Sons O' Guns", the Jack Donahue show now playing at the Imperial Theatre announce that after the gratifying success of "Sons O' Guns", they will continue producing...
...Drinkvreter present B 00 tour...
...Broadway Babies*' at the Strand "Broadway Babies," starring Alice White in her first 100 per cent All-Talking, singing and dancing production which was presented on Broadway at two dollars top, will be shown for the first time at popular prices at the Mark Strand Theatre beginning Friday...
...The Arrival The writer of this article travelled as an' ordinary tourist from Berlin to Passau on the Austrian border to take part in the commencement of the Invasion of Vienna...
...from including 80 from the "Bund...
...the Belgians, 80...
...It also opens tiny windows to the hearts of a wmldlywise little group of chorines to show what is back of their gold-digging, their brassy epnfljlence and theft hold attire, flu , AL...
...Edwin Ellis, Edward Wocd ;i...
...finishing with a torchlight procession through the city to the Town Hall...
...The Third Day," by John Van Druten...
...For hours the march went on between lines of the population, singing and cheering, until the last boy had passed and cheered the Standard of the Socialist Youth International and the representatives of International Socialism standing there to erest the deleeates and re voter with them...
...sum of collective work standing behleli the mere possibility of organizing sap like those in Vienna would, for a descrgjf, tion...
...Netc Warner Brothers' Theatre Opens Dec...
...matinee idol George Barraud and Herbert Bunston...
...Walter F. Scott, Audrey $erls, f. R. Grange* sod Mary Parren...
...The Morosco Theatre...
...The {day opens ingeniously, •Showing the rostrum of the "American Academy for the Advancement of Science and Art," while the Academy is discussing the membership application of Dr...
...But nothing could surpass the reception by Red Vienna...
...This play has a cast of fifty people...
...a study of the new Manhattan...
...When those associations were organized, I had so many friends among the managers as well as among the actors, that I did not wish to ally myself with either side...
...She victimizes the "elite" of British society in which she moves, through the cooperation of her burglaring butler, but it is only when she steals a priceless necklace from her hostess at a house party that her nefarious activities are discovered and the story brought to a startoelv dramatic climax...
...August ItBB the Y. P. 8. L. as a whole will assist In the various booths and cam mine* which win conduct the Socialist fitasf Picnic...
...This time massed before the Town Hall...
...Co-starring in the prcducUesi are Edmund Lowe who shared lithe recent success of "The Cock- J Eyed World" and Constance Bennett...
...Frederick Warlock...
...Kallesser will bring "The Bridge o' Sighs" into New York sometime in February...
...It also is the current attraction at the Brooklyn Strand Theatre, where, as in New York, it has been piling up box office grosses larger than any since "The Singing Fool...
...Miss Betty Lawford plays opposite him and the supporting cast consists of Colin Keith-Johnston, Halliwell Hobbes, J. M. Kerrigan, Edward McNamara, Richard Taber, Edward O'Connor, Mary Murray, Mackenzie Ward and Sonia Karlov...
...Fighting for the Fatherland*' At the Mom art Theatre Considered a blasting article against war, "Fighting for the Fatherland" is playing a second unprecedented week at the Intimate Momart Theatre on Nevins street...
...The screen story was adapted from the stage play of the aunt name written by Edwin Burke sag produced by Patterson McNutt...
...The film gives more intimate glimpses of more wild animate in native haunts than any preceding effort...
...The interesting fact about bits of this sort, for the readers of this paper, is that the seats upstairs are for purposes of music and spectacle, as valid as those down below with the moneyed who pour out $6.60 a seat plus whatever the speculators can command, while the balcony seats are available at the box office, and at the good old prices that make one think one never heard of Wall street...
...Erlengers theatres in Chicago early in September...
...This will be produced in October...
...and Donald Ogden Stewart...
...Wheeler Dryden has his one moment...
...Vidor and his staff of assistants came East at this time, scouring Chicago...
...Ports Milwaukee As one of the new featans to be carried out at each meeting to ** reeding and giving a report of the WJBknown book '"Struggle for Existssckf by Mills...
...Tyler that the Council had done something it has never done before and is probably not at all likely to do again...
...There were songs and cheering as if no days of the kind had happened before...
...of the story of the sam...
...The Neighborhood Playhouse has always been interested and active in collecting and translating to stage terms the spirit of folk-lore, and for this Basque scene Kurt Schindler has collected the most significant of the Basque songs...
...Items on the Weeds Bet include: "Scarlet Pages," by Samuel Shlpman and John B. Hymar...
...Vidor, and the advent of dialogue pictures offered him a far better opportunity to gratify it, for "Hallelujah" has been produced with a cast composed entirely of negroes...
...Personally...
...The plot ia terse, moving, romantic and unusual...
...Journey's End"* for Chicago The Chicago company of "Journey's End" Is in rehearsal at Henry Miller's Theatre...
...and Nina Mae McKinney, formerly featured with the "Blackbirds of 1928...
...This is the first time that this all-color talking, singing and dancing production has been shown at popular prices...
...Brooklyn...
...Announcement of the engagement of Miss Janis was made by Jessie L. Lasky, first vice-president in charge of production, who refused to divulge the title or plans for the picture although he hinted that it will be "a super-talking, singing and dancing production with every star and leading feature player under contract to Paramount in East and West Coast studios taking part...
...Next morning at it again...
...and the settings are devised to be at once suitable and quickly changed...
...Talking, singing, joking, to strange and varying tongues, these Bavarians, Rhinelanders, and Berlin boys took complete control of the little town, disturbing the sleep of Its citizens in the early morning hours...
...I shall present the matter to the Council at once...
...Otis Harlan...
...Cheyney...
...A new play for Florence Reed...
...Gavin Muir Royal Beal and John William...
...The story was written by Mr...
...dealing with the most interesting street of the world, takes the lid off the theatrical soardteg bouse, one of America's great wiysteriea, snd gives a birds eye view of its interior and of the working of the minds arid beating of the hearts of its interesting occupants...
...It offers sa asusual treatment of the marital at-' pertences of a South American ss> gineer and a young business warn an...
...estabhEhing headquarters to Memphis, in the swampland farther south and in the cotton fields...
...Also (to doubly justify our title) the younger generations come ever rushing, with Ul their fibres quickened, all their lenses alert in a swift and blase ivorld, for experience, for all but chiefly that most unknown and most alluring, sex experience...
...The age old solution of low is solved hi a purely business manner until the inevitable triangle ev troduces its attendant i omnlata tions...
...A special cast will be engaged and the tour will be handled in the same way as Mr...
...King Vldor's sensational photoplay, "Hallelujah...
...The coloring Of eighteenth century costumes and ball rooms are said to make this picture a marvel of stirring hues...
...This pby has been successfully running in Brssfi, for the past season...
...and their policy will be to produce one musical show a year...
...Manxman" at Little Carnegie Sir Hall Caine's tale of English life, "The Manxman", will be shown in its motion picture adaptation on the screen of The Little Carnegie Playhouse, starting this Saturday, December 14 th...
...After selecting his principal players Vidor took his cast an location In the South...
...Basil Rath bone, matinee idol, was entrusted with the role of the nobleman and makes his debut on the talking screen In this picture...
...Vidor himself and the cast personally selected...
...Acoustically, the house is the most perfect yet to be constructed for the new era in film entertainment "Gold Diggers of Broadway" Continues at Strand "Gold Diggers of Broadway" held over for a second week, may start a new Strand policy of long run attractions even before schedule...
...For years the director of The Big Parade" had planned to make an epic story of Negro life, based on a story written by himself...
...Gillette's long and distinguished service to the American theatre, any and all rules of Equity which might interfere with his appearance on the stage shall be suspended...
...Houseparty, a play by Kenneth Britton and Roy Hargrave, which will be given its first performance at the Playhouse in Great Neck, L. I., on August 31, coming to the Knickerbocker Theatre here on September 33...
...By Elmer Harris...
...The combination of a Shakccpeare play that is known and studied throughout the civilteed world and the international popularity of the two stars is responsible for this decision, according to United Artists Corporation It is added that the visual action of this slapstick comedy about a wilful maid and a go-getter Is such that dialogue is accessory to plot movement...
...Altogether, the perofrmance adds to the list of creditable presentations of the Civic Repertory, and places in their series another worthwhile play...
...The "stroll" of July 14 this year was more than discomforting—tt was overwhelming...
...This is the second of Mr...
...Night Club" has a cast which includes Fannie Brice, Pat Rooney...
...To the patriotic Basque bis* dances and songs are sacred "This Thing Called Lore* «*| At the Roxy Theatn _- V jj "This Thing Called Love", Patai^ all-talking picture, comes to tat Roxy Theatre on Friday, Decembn 13...
...millions die In the campaigns of the Marne and Argoane...
...Eva Le Gallienne herself making her few minutes rise to importance by excellent playing...
...Juno Walker, Minnie Dupree, Tamara Geva...
...The colored sequences are hand made by hundreds of women and children in France...
...a dramatization by Catherine Chisholm Cushing...
...Feelings just nee, to reach boiling point in such an stave*nhffp...
...Cheyney'* Move* to Capitol Theatre Norma Shearer...
...Seitz, from the Socialist Youth International speaker...
...Luck in Love" at Colony The Colony Theatre presentation for the week beginning Friday, December 13th, will be "Lucky in Love" featuring Morton Downey...
...A. J. Herbert, Joseph Oranby, Charles Hal ton, Otgfi Lee, Henry O'Neill, Sumner Gard...
...It had voted unanimously that "to view of Mr...
...Martin Johnson, the famous explorers, during their four years in the jungles of Africa, is to be shown at the 55th Street Playhouse beginning next Saturday...
...Rudolf Bamberger, the architect, has reconstructed Nurenberg with the famous Sebaldus Church, the outstanding example of Gothic architecture, and all the old houses and buildings in one of the mo'st elaborate studio sets ever erected for a German film...
...Ciaudette Colbert In "See ISaple* and Die'' Ciaudette Colbert has been engaged for the leading role in Earner Rice's comedy...
...ber of Equity—nor Fidelity, either...
...whether he belongs to Equity or not...
...Latest and therefore in some respects swiftest of the plays in which ever younger lads and lassies rush toward knowledge of achat was carefully concealed, in their grandmothers', even in their mothers' days, until those ladies were carefully married and stowed permanently into respectability, flares "Young Sinners...
...the Bulgarians, 70: the Roumanians, 30...
...m ¦rOISSI sad John Barrymore J\j\ have ' made sufficiently known and memorable the story of Tolstoi's play, "The Living: Corpse...
...Hallelujah99 World Premier Next Tuesday tiT JALLELUJAH," King Victor's ail11 talking and singing production for Metro-OoWwyn-Mayer in which the entire cast Js ooBsposed of Negro players, will have its world premiere at the Embassy Theatre, New York, on Tuesday evening, Aug...
...Tyler said he would find out what could be done about it and called on Secretary Dullzell of Equity...
...At the Capitol Owing to the vast crowds who have clamored for admission to the Ce.pitol Theatre this past week, where Norma Shearer in a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer alltalking production...
...224 Stark street...
...Each production is scheduled for two weeks, -which adds another sixteen weeks to the season and takes the series of revivals up to the end of April...
...Fourth from the Right," which Fred Ballard has adapted from the German...
...The ambition of the doctor, his desire to be officially recognised as respectable, carries him away from the lovelife he has been successfully framing, into a course he cannot so deftly control...
...As "Mrs...
...The culmination of this demonstration for Peace and Socialism was reached as the Standard of th Youth International was hoisted on the balcony of the Imperial Palace to the strains of the "International" sung by the tens of thousands present...
...but the other characters are presented truly...
...Collender, hypnotist...
...Flake will be presented in an extensive repertory of corn*die* and dramas both here and on tour...
...Many of the shots, that take only a few minutes to show on the screen, necessitated hours and even days of waiting on the part of the Johnsons...
...of the man Fedya who, recognizing- his 'unfitness for the world as we know it, the complicated mechanistic world of today, la yet too sensitve to bend to the sordid acts necessary to rid his wife of bis encumbrance, aad prefers to clear her way by ending bis life...
...As I began by saying, each new picture of this sort ventures a little farther, testing the elasticity of the censor's fancy...
...The balance of the cast Includes Hedda Hopper, Cyril Chadwick, Moon Carroll...
...Organization Education Solidarity FREE YOUTH Young People's Socialist League 21 Essex Street, Boston, Mass...
...This is a piece by Fred Ballard, author of "Young America," "Believe Me, Xantippe" and other successes, tt will open at the Avon Theatre on or about October 14...
...but he knows the law and will not touch her until she is of age...
...Just as Sarah Bernhardt's French...
...A soswaaittee has been appointed w revise the constitution for the MttwsasBj group of Young People's Socialist I^SfH and it will meet tt& week to brjWBI work.- . News And Comment of the Theatre The Stage The Movies Music ¦¦ . -. ¦ i-y -Mil...
...a noteworthy all-talking screen adaptation of Frederick Lonsdale's famous stage play, which is current at the Capitol...
...LILLIAN S. KAPLAN EDITOR Published Every Week by The New Leader for the Young Peoples Socialist League Red Vienna's Welcome A Description of the Youth International a year the national sections of the fi- Socialist Youth International have been preparing their members for the Vienna Youth days of the 11th to 14th July...
...The adaptation was made by Edward T. Lowe...
...Hearts to Dixie" Monday and Tuesday, August 19 and 30...
...Unfortunately, another wretch, seeking subsistence in ejma callous world, sees opportunity for blackmail in the fact that Fedya did not actually die, but disappeared so that, officially, he is a corpse...
...A new play by Louis Vemeufi, author of "Jealousy.'' "Happy New Tear," adapted from the German by Edith Ellis...
...Josephine Hutchinson cannot convince us she quite belongs in tins atmosphere, but makes a brave endeavor...
...The enonooav...
...The Grand Hotel...
...During the night of the 10th some 1.300 arrived by various trains, to be shipped at 5 a.m...
...a delegation of fourteen Y. P. 8. L'e.aV* tended the Socialist Picnic held at BlSPj green Park, Sheboygan...
...Ralph Nairn...
...Playing the male lead is Charles D-laney who scored a big hit in Miss White's last picture "Show Otrt" Others who appear in the picture sre Tom Dugan, Fred Kohler, Salty BDers, Marion Byron...
...Mary and Doug Make "Taming of the Shretc" Mary and Doug will be heard in 'The Taming of the Shrew," Shakespeare's glorious comedy, in...
...The demand for seats continues so great that officials of Warner Bros...
...Sunday, August llta...
...A. P. Kayo, Cyril Keigfatley and Robert Vivian...
...by the late C. M. S. McLellan...
...The story of this new work by Noel Coward has to do with a beautiful girl belonging to the aristocracy of England, a philandering music-master and a cabaret star...
...August 17...
...This was also directed by Robert Florey, who contributes his "Skyscraper Symphony...
...The procession seemed to bring the whole population of the town with it Never before had Vienna seen anything like it...
...The young players who have by reason of their training and annual appearances in the holiday time, a skill far beyond their years, will give the dance pantomime, "La Boutique Fantasque" (The Magic Shop) with the Respighi-Rossini music...
...This k the first time this production has been ottered at lT'il" prices...
...Life is Real," by Elmer Rice, author of "Street 80*00...
...The Y. P. S. L. of B> wukee announced their presence by stj* tog the cheers and yells of the orgSSP sation and a cheer for Wm...
...The machinery was not «T these days alone, nor had the populstlsj, of Vienna turned Socialist and hahvHT just for the occasion...
...so the role which Miss Colbert will be called upon to play will mark s new type of part for her...
...Before 8 a.m...
...a beach party which proved to WW1 success in ail ways...
...Arm Pennington, Bobbe Arnst...
...ST* The organization of the whole evxay would take an article to be anything Wo, adeouate...
...TerehUght Procession On the Saturday a series of sports contests were carried out...
...The story was by Katherine Brusch and tt was directed by Robert Florey...
...Little Carnegie Hold* Double Program Over "Night Club" and "Pusher-ln-theFace," Paramount talking pictures, which comprise the Little Carnegie Playhouse's first audible feature, will be held over for a second week, commencing Saturday, August IT...
...from Poland...
...Lucky in Love", written by Gene Markey and directed by Kenneth Webb, concerns the love of an Irish stable-boy for an Irish Lady, and the cruelty of the caste system which kept them apart...
...Phoebe Foster...
...The new play promises to reveal a type of comedy formerly unemployed at the Yiddish Art Theatre...
...The regular showings of midnight picture occur nightly at 11:30...
...The railway stations were engulfed by tile working masses out to welcome their young comrades from other countries...
...It is planned to begin rehearsals September Snd with the Broadway opening set for Monday, October 7th...
...Vorrlnck...
...For this he hates the father whose money has made him an exhausted roue' at twenty...
...30: and the Serbs and Russians 6 each...
...Fixke in a new play temporarily entitled "The Mixed Jury...
...London snd New York have both set the seal of approval on' "Bird In Hand," which is to continue here indefinitely, while two companies selected by Mr...
...On the same program is revived Chaplin's "A Night In the Show...
...said Mr...
...THERE'S LOTS OF IT...
...The theatre is located at Broad*way and Seventy-fifth street, in the Hotel Beacon and has more than 3,000 seats...
...THE WEEK ON THE STAGE By Jogcph T. Shipley REDEMPTION TH£ UVISG CORPSE" by L. N. Tolstoi...
...and in "The Humbug*' a society Svengali makes merry with a number of lovely Trilbies, until his own hypnotism gats him (as it were) on the hip...
...This intensely dramatic crosa-section of New York night life recently dosed at the Globe Theatre where tt played to capacity at tzfiO admtmton Glenn Try on...
...August 17 and IP...
...She was last seen with the Theatre Guild in Eugene ONeUl's "Dynamo...
...ERLANGBR has made an ar• rangement with George C. Tyler by which they will be associated in the future in 'he production of plays...
...Just as "See Naples snd Die" is the first comedy from the pen of Mr...
...Gillette for nearly a year...
...At each meeting a different comrade volunteers to read several chap...
...The writer experieneed the sensation of a street car, in which he was riding, nearly toppling over, so great was the mass of people...
...From Holland 500 came, and from Denmark 150...
...The membership drive wmco — under way for several months is bJaBv ing good results...
...The feature players, in addition to Miss Shearer, are Basil Rathbone...
...KayJStrozzidor's good Work as the hypnotized wife...
...all talking, singing drama of the South features Step in Fetchit, the colored porter of "Movietone Follies...
...the St...
...There were two Frenchmen, two Americans, and two Italians...
...next day on river steamers down the Danube to Vienna...
...play concerns two men and a votnar, and will be presented at the Davenport Theatre early to September...
...Herbert Bunston appears as "Lord Elton," a role which he played in the stage production: Hedda Hopper, on oldtime screen favorite, Cyril Chadwick, Moon Carroll...
...Extension of the season was decided on, it was announced, because of the wide spread public interest In the revivals and the excellent business for every offering thus far...
...Vidor was born tn the Southland and spent his boyhood and youth there, so that he was familiar with Negro life and traditions, and considered that this race offered splendid subjectmatter for dramatic treatment...
...but soon one la swept by the richness of his playing into full acceptance of his Interpretation of the role...
...To What Red Hell," by Percy Robinson...
...H Besj was the speaker for the afternoon «*t an attendance of about five buuBST people was there...
...24 The new Beacon Theatre, Warner Brothers' latest and most modern de luxe talking picture playhouse, will be formally opened on Christmas eve (Tuesday evening), December 24th with appropriate ceremonies...
...Hans Sachs, the cobbler-poet of Nurenberg, is played contrary to literary tradition without beard by Rudolf Rittner, veteran German actor of the stage and screen...
...how Von Hmdenburg captured 50.000 Russians in on- day: both sides of the great kettle in the snow of the Vosges Moantains...
...The day's trip was a triumphant procession through the country...
...The score to so melodious aa to take a permanent, place in the memory...
...The comrades of Sheboygan eert rather pleased with the result and wow»» of their picnic...
...Gotteef eld's plays to be added to the repertory of the Yiddish Art Theatre, the first, "American Chassidim," having been produced by Maurice Schwartz two seasons ago at his -former home in Second avenue...
...See Naples and Die," which will be produced shortly by Lewis E. Gensler...
...After a thorough canvass the principal roles were entrusted to Daniel Haynes, the stage actor and singer Nina Mae McKinney, sixteen-yearold singer who had been appearing to "Blackbirds": Harry Gray, Virginia Splvy, William Fountaine and Fannie Bene DeKnight...
...now a UFA director...
...Herns Kennedy and Evelyn Brent play the featured roles in "Broadway.'* Thomas Jackson and Paul Pisiail play the same roles in the pictore .that they played upon the stage...
...the tremendous German "March to Paris": the sinking of the Loattanta...
...Plans are being made to establish Jolson's Theatre as The Comic Opera Theatre of America...
...Nobody represented British Socialist Youth...
...f»aT*t*awJ« «*» «sr£b a success, sad the reader may begin to doubt of B* critical faculties ef the writer, -re* things must be borne tn mind, bnwtvrr...
...Ideas and talent and to supervise production" of an unusual feature now in preparation at studios In Hollywood...
...Following her appearance in this play Mrs...
...Pusher-in-the-Face" Is from an F. Scott Fitzgerald story and is enacted by Lester Allen, Estelle Taylor, Raymond Hitchcock and Carrol McComas...
...In general, the group S'B* ereestngly active and attendance at- Wf regular meetings Is quite reputable...
...Fk-ta Fesd, Arthur Bauaman...
...the streets had completely changed to aspect...
...The Jury of Fate...
...The three to come are "Babes in Toyland," "The Wizard of the Nile" and "The Red Mill...
...Xmas Bufano Plays During Christmas Week there will be special children's performances of Remo Bufano's marionettes under the auspices of the Province town Playhouse at the Garrick Theatre...
...Eleanor Terry, iter: Atwell and George Christie sre la 114 ca?t...
...which is Checho-Slovakia, 2,300...
...require a review of the devclafr, men: of International Socialist Youth fir, self, even as these days were an apt dovvw onstration of what this Youth ess...
...From this balcony loud speakers carried to the multitude short speeches from the organizing secretary...
...very well constructed play it It, aad good acting supports it John Haliiday makes his life-work . too obvious with his ever twitching fingers, but is otherwise, the polished, unctuous, self-satisfied "would-be gentleman...
...Eleanora Dose's Italian and Alexander Motssi's German have been heard throughout the world in classics of drama, so will the English of Miss Pickford and Mr...
...from the Red Mayor...
...Never before had the hardened Old Socialist organizers seen anythtoa like it...
...Broadway Babies," is adapted from Jay Gelzer's theatrical story "Broadway Musketeers," and was directed by Mervyn Le Roy...
...a as* three-act drsma written by Jose Ssnfia...
...Bitter-Sweet" Bargain Balcony A new experience in the theatre awaits those theatre-goers who see "Bitter Sweet," the superb operette which Florenz Zlegfeld and Arch Selwyn are now presenting at the Ziegfeld Theatre ia New York...
...Ambassador' Theatre...
...Jealousy," the two-character play, on tour...
...Davenport Gets Brazil Success Butler Davenport has acquired to...
...Other favorites to be reviewed are "The Firefly," "The Chocolate Soldier," "The Prince of Pilsen," "The Lilac Domino," "The Dollar Princess," "The Quaker Girl," "The Spring Maid," and "Maytime...
...On Friday night eight balls had been taken for the festivities, but they could not accommodate half the attendance...
...One company of "The Trial of Mary Dugan" on tour...
...Rice, now widely celebrated as the author of "Street Scene...
...Robert TClia...
...James Whale, who staged and directed the London and New York productions of the play, will act in a similar capacity for the new company...
...On every side the boats were greeted with cheers and songs by the working population, and there were grounded fears that the youngsters would be hoarse and played out before starting to real earnest In Vienna Itself...
...Kanitz...
...Metropolitan Theatres are debating the advisability of keeping it in for a third week...
...Tyler's proposition, "but," said he...
...AMtd," a play by Michael Morton from a story by Agatha Christie...
...Henry.* well...
...1513 Richer* St...
...Gillette shouldn't play if he wants to...
...Madeline Seymour, Pinch Smiles...
...McGowan Skit In the "Almoner"' Jack MeGowan, one known to Breadway as an actor, and now gaining ttm w a playwright, has contributed s at-tch entitled "The Age In Which We V\f in "Murray Anderson's Almanac" at E • langer's Theatre...
...I am not a mem"Casanova,4' "Dixie*' ' At The St...
...Gustav Froenlich, lately seen here in Erich Pommer's Ufa Film "Homecoming" plays the part of Walter von Stolzing...
...A few days later Mr...
...From Germany came 15.000...
...The Dixie Jubilee Singers were engaged for the production of "Hallelujah," and Irving Berlin contributed two special musical numbers, 'The End of the Road" and "Swanee Shuffle...
...Little Latvia sent 20: Palestine...
...Mr...
...The production is a smart and witty comedydrama and is built around the adventures of a beautiful London "Raffles" end a member of the nobility who loves her...
...Paul Harvey and Hale Hamilton hi the coat...
...The Humbug.9 By Max Mar*bt...
...Scotland Yard," by Denison Chit author of "The Woman Disputed,'' opens at the Sam H Harris and the cast includes Paul Cavaaegh (English actor...
...Bledsoe was one of Zbrfield's stars in "Show Boat...
...The Rosebush of a Thousand Years...
...My feelings are still the same...
...Several months were spent here before the entire contingent journeyed out to the coast to complete the picture st the Culver City studio...
...and the rest of the cast in more routine parts help make "The Humbug" sound entertainment...
...a. S. - Milvvaebee TFSL The Milwaukee Group of the Young, Peoples Socialist League held their 4»* annual election of officers at one of ti* recent meetings...
...Broadway" was directed by Paul Fejos and Carl Taemmlr...
...In broad, comic strokes, it will reveal the experiences of two angels visiting this earth and of those on earth removed to the lower realms, where all is one round of pleasure...
...coming to the Liberty Theatre, tn this city, on October 7. "Trevelyan's Ghosts," a farce by Dvight Taylor, a son of Laurette Taylor...
...achieve...
...First, the weather was beautiful, am second, the whole working-class P°P*J" tion in Vienna was taking part and pakting its heart and soul into everytwaf, that was arranged...
...and Mrs...
...Maude Turner and George K. Arthur are also in this remarkable cast...
...New York and parts of the South for native types for the photoplay...
...promising plays en the Woods list is -Soarlet Pafes," in which Bade Ferguson will appear on or about Bspt sill rr ith...
...George Barraud plays the thieving butler...
...The Tiger in Men...
...Bands played as the trains drew into the platforms...
...Broadway" Open* at Colony Theatre "Broadway," U reversal's movietone adaptation of the popular stage play, opened at the Colony Theatre for a continuous run beginning Saturday...
...Raymond Hitchcock in "Your Uncle Dudley" a comedy by Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson, who wrote "Tommy" a couple of seasons ago...
...She takes the place of the hired girl who was to have been Gene's fhief source of amusement at bis Adirondack camp...
...Dullzen...
...The 8Ute Trooper," by Crane Wilbur and H. H. Van Loan...
...and the new secretary is Conusor Hilda Kmlth...
...It is of fireproof construction and is equipped with every modern appliance for the successful presentation of Warner Brothers and First National Vitaphone productions...
...Expectations ran high, and the Socialist Youth of Vienna had prepared for an influx of 13,000 visitors...
...Active production on "Hallelujah," which lias been a year under way, was begun last summer...
...Tyler's productions of "Trelawny of 'The Wells'," "Diplpmacy" and other famous plays)Mr...
...The most striking moments were the crossing and re-crossing of the river when the torches were mirrored in the water, and when the interminable ribbon of torches began to approach the old Town Hall, illuminated as it was by a number of searchlights...
...This will open at the Nixon Theatre, Pittsburgh, on Sep-.ember 30...
...a South American Spaniard...
...Sunday...
...This play has belonged to the Woods' office several years and has been held, presumably for Lowell Sherman...
...Cheyney," Miss Shearer has an unusual opportunity to shew her talent...
...r,ogi...
...Ivan Moejouklne tn the title role makes love to women selected as the most beautiful In the country...
...Gene is but twenty, yet he has tasted every sensation that a bachelor of forty, with wealth and knowledge of what to seek in sybaritic delight, might be expected to have tickled his jaded skin withal...
...800, not yet a member of the International...
...A The film deals with an ultramodern marriage...
...They play another large musical show for next fall...
...Juniors of the Neighborhood Playhouse in Xmas Plays Two casta are now rehearsing for the annual holiday matinees of the Junior Players of the , Neighborhood Playhouse which will be given this Christmas season for the first time in the Broadway district, that is at the Booth Theatre, at 3 p.m., Friday, December 27, Sunday, December 29, Monday, December SO, and on Tuesday, December 31, and at 11 a_m., Saturday, December 28...
...opening Monday, December 23rd...
...Fifth Month of "Bird in Hand" John Drinkwater's charming comedy, "Bird In Hand" is enjoying unusual popularity at the Moroeco Tbaatre and the fifth month on Ha New York engagement finds it among the biggest hits in town...
...The youngsters had the chance to hear the Secretary of the Labor and Socialist International, Friedrich Alder: from the LF.T.U., Citrine: from the Austrian Social Democratic Party...
...Our new organise* » Comrade Rudolph Ploetz...
...So the entertainments were repeated on the Saturday afternoon...
...Eva is portrayed by the young Reinhard star Maria Solveg, one of the German players who visited New York with Max Reinhard's company last year...
...Eva Le GaUienne'i Civic Repertory Theatre...
...But the facts far surpassed the expectations...
...Originally planned for ten weeks, the season is now in its twelfth week, with "The Merry Widow" the current attraction, while rehearsals are under way for an elaborate presentation of "Babes in royland...
...As heretofore, the scale of S3 will prevail for the best seats...
...The cast includes Reginald Mason, Richard Bird, Lionel Pape...
...Bufano is reviving-one of ms most popular programs: Cinderella and Orlando Furioso...
...On the heels of one success a iozen of its kind come hurrying 'or the laurels...
...Simba" and "Othrllo" At the 55th Street Theatre "Simba," the motion picture ¦eecord made by Mr...
...Dullzen wrote to Mr...
...Sidney Franklin directed the screen adaptation of Frederick Lonsdale's famous stage play...
...To this end they have established offices in the Hammerstein Theatre Building with Thomas Botkln as general manager and Milton Raison aa general press representative...
...The new picture is said to be a striking departure from anything yet attempted tn the cinema field, not only because of the theme and cast, but because of the treatment accorded the material by Vidor...
...Bodu Rosing, Joeelya Lee, Maurice Black and Louis Natbeeux "Broadway Babies...
...adapted by Arthur Richman from the novel, "Jerome," by Maurice Bedel...
...The .gypsy singers, while perhaps better dressed than they might be, are colorful and tuneful...
Vol. 9 • August 1929 • No. 2
