AMUSEMENTS
Amusements The Week On Stage A COLORFUL ALMANAC WITH the opening of John Murray Anderson's "Almanac'' to large and highly enthusiastic audiences at Brianger's Theatre in 44th street, a high...
...that we venture to predict that it will have, not only a long life on Broadway, but that it will prove popular throughout the country...
...t *8»1 circle is being formed Both badly m need of experienced...
...Mass., Room B. CLEVELAND YIPSELS At an enthusiastic meeting of the Yipsels of Cleveland, it was unanimously decided the membership would put themselves at, the disposal of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in case of a strike...
...All Emergency Committee for Strikers' Relief...
...Next week we will hold a party in honor of the twenty-seventh birthday of Comrade Frank J. Manning at the home of Comrade Hy...
...He heard* something about the machine . . . the machine was Invented to give us more leisure so as to enable us to enjoy music, art...
...Metro-GoldwynMayer's all-talking, all-singing, all-dancing production of backstage life...
...the rollers keep rolling, the type and bed keep banging and the fly wheel keeps humming Its dull monotone...
...He must live the part...
...Levey signed contracts with the author Kyra Markham for "Family Ties" which will be directed by Albert H. Zlnk...
...and many reviews of similar report...
...Amusements The Week On Stage A COLORFUL ALMANAC WITH the opening of John Murray Anderson's "Almanac'' to large and highly enthusiastic audiences at Brianger's Theatre in 44th street, a high standard for revues has been set for the season...
...ETC...
...The work of T. E. Lawrence, the mysterious British figure who brought about the Arab revolt against Turkey is also revealed for the first time...
...At the St...
...New Orleans is embroiled over a street railway strike...
...The Broadway background has also been utilized to Introduce many dancing ensembles...
...New York City News Tag Day for the Southern Textile Strikers netted abayt 8175 A second Tag Day is being planned for late September...
...A program of talking and silent novelties...
...Robert Harrison...
...AUGUST ZtTsL.^Sr J WASHINGTON A VENUE...
...Eleanor Shaler sings some songs in the manner of the nineties, among them a pean of praise to the goldenrod, America's flower, the chorus to the beat of sneezes...
...See to it that the members in your circle send In their blanks at oree since all entries must fee ia ai least oats week before the day of the meet stat.** Is the last dav for the receipt blanks...
...The economic views of Thomas E. Mitten, of "Mitten-Dan" fame, are the theories which "Great Scott" seeks to infuse in the can factory in a Maine town, according to the play...
...a Socialist meeting...
...The lineup of well known players in its allsta rcast includes Lois Wilson H. B. Warner...
...A Request—Young Ladies Note From Massachusetts comes the following appeal...
...his chest expands, his heart thrills...
...E. L. ''Great Scott" To Deal With Labor The stage has engrossed itself with the ftei 11 ai tint topics of sex...
...M BXMEMBEB THE soljk "S DANCE...
...August 24 and 25...
...Conway Tearle returns in the masculine lead...
...Rehearsals for "The 8on of Lucretk* Borgia" by Edward Eisner, under Mr...
...August 26th and 27th...
...Here are seen three riveters at work in front of a background of steel and stone...
...u. R." and perhaps a few others have, in recent yean, been subjectively immersed in the problem of labor, and all of the late Aaron Hoffman's plays as well as those of Montague Glass had a stream of the capital-labor current running through than...
...Rube Goldberg...
...was shown on the screen at the Capitol for the first time at popular prices...
...LILLIAN S. KAPLAN EDITOR Published Every Week by The New Leader for the Young Peoples Socialist LeagaS A Machine RAPP — rapp — boom — rapp — rapp —boom: put in — pull out...
...An author about to start a novel, dealing with the modern girl's conflict with Socialism and Parents, is anxious to make -the acquaintance of a Jewish girl who believes in Socialism (she is to be the main character in the novel*, so that be might portray her true to her creed...
...the discussion *» "al Stuart Chases Men and Mecnin»*»j circle meets on Thursday eT*n"**I 8.30 p.m...
...Yipsek and all who understand this society in which we live, to spread our ideals of Socialism in action and in conversation...
...etc...
...William Blakewell...
...At the Capitol Direct from its six months' triumph at the Astor Theatre...
...radicals, and laboritea ess at dorse: J THEREFORE BE IT KXSOLVW°t we...
...I May Be Wrong" is the outstanding song of the "Almanac" which is sure to contribute at least three or four epdaring dance numbers to the eomNd leas a combination of wits than Peter Amo...
...29 and 30...
...MISSION IS 75c...
...Vitaphone special...
...A city-wide tag day for the Gastonia and Marion strikers will be held within the next week in which all the comrades will participate and expect the aid of a few sympathetic organizations...
...as the program calls it, "A Bevuslcal Comedy...
...Perhaps the high spot in his appearances —which are all too few—is his song with Trixie Frigsnza...
...The dance works itself into a real tense and realistic ferver as a giant factory wheel grinds its inexorable way...
...Street Girl" is another picture of backstage life, but told in so fine a way...
...I May Be Wrong...
...Trixie Friganza is pleasantly amusing...
...Starring credit is divided between twelve principals...
...Lancashire...
...George Playhouse is showing a revival of "The White Sister," the film in which Lillian Gish gives one of the tenderest and most poignant characterizations ever given on the screen, on Saturday and Sunday...
...women and children struck because of an announced cut in wages of 12 4 per cent...
...Fred Wr.r'ng and his Fennsylvanians...
...First mention goes to Reginald Marsh for his full-stage-size cartoon illustrating the horrors of liquor...
...Nor have enough entry blanks been received by the City Office...
...My most difficult problem " said Mr...
...plays the leading role in th,s production...
...will "do their stuff" on Monday and Tuesday...
...Including one of the Mickey Mouse serial of sound cartoon, sompiote the preltSweet Land of Liberty'* Cast Is Completed A. L. Erlanger and George C. Tyler have completed the company which will appear in Philip Cunning's new play...
...whose beauty deserves better than to be clad in stiff male clothes all through two long acts...
...In Calcutta 120,, 000 men quit their looms and threw forty per cent of the business here into idleness by refusing to operate on a sixtyhour week schedule, threatened to be put into operation...
...Then there is a setting by Peter Amo for a sketch by Noel Coward in which the "Whoops" sisters, no less, come to life...
...I From Circle «. Jrs...
...After several years of absence from the screen...
...t hopes that MTM L. A. will succeed in its worthy FJjH of forming a Labor Party and »**j"| in the present day labor awjaateaj progressive spirit which shall dla**wj inclination towards reactionary eta* cies...
...This Thursday the Yipsels distributed literature, at noon, in front of the Fisher Body Co...
...Brenon what he wants in "Grischa" beomes from now on one of the leading topics in Hollywood...
...At first, these arms, attached to a body that would seem petrified but for the shifting of the weight from one foot to another, revolt...
...meeting at ¦ Tompkins avenue...
...Anita Page and Bessie Love, and includes besides the three principals Jed Prouty...
...With visions of t*e sale of movie rights and the prestige accruing from the sale of these rights to the producer of such motion picture masterpieces as "Peter Pan...
...as a title, the first play to hit the boards this year in New York—on Labor Day—will concern labor versus capital with no names of labor leaders or capitalists being mentioned, as is usually done to attract boxoffice habitues...
...Many submitted as high as two score...
...Ruth Taylor, who made her movie debut as the 'Lorelei' in the movie version of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...
...Albert Gran...
...Now he is thinking of a meeting he passed on the street last night...
...fj BOUGHT TOCB Ttra^T**»*J| CAN GET IT AT THE fwg.gi AMD do TOt a but ^JjFfim MO PIES...
...Eisner's direction, will be resumed on September 9. "Gold Diggers of B'way" At Winter Garden Friday Among the screen events of the woek is the world premiere of Warner Bros...
...Yearning," an adaptation by Jessie Ernst and Max Simon from the German "Heart Hunger" by Fritz Stein, has a cast of only four for which George McQuarrie, Romalne Callendar...
...ATHLETIC DIRECTORS . . NOTE: Athletic Meet taxes place on September 8th...
...wrote Brenon to agents and publishers...
...Lionel Adams, Joan Wenning, Geraldine Wood, William Waldron, George Conner, Helen Mack and Tom McElbaney...
...Lilyan Tashman...
...Just which of the stars in Hollywood or along Broadway can give Mr...
...Jason F.obards...
...S. E...
...Hermann Lieb, Robert Lynn...
...John Sharkey...
...On Monday, Mr...
...They sent over a litUe circular containing brief excerpts from reviewers on "The Case of Sergeant Grisha " Mr...
...The boy who plays this lead must have the profoundest understanding of dramatic values...
...The cast will include Ann Forrest, Ralph Theodore, George Barbier...
...From the roots of a desolate and drooping tree labelled whisky, wine, gin and beer, stem branches ticketed with all the three-score vices Wayne B. Wheeler and Ttlaraip Cannon have been able to think up...
...He must incarnate in himself all the sufferings, the privations, the longings, the heart-aches, the agonies of the private soldier around whom the tides and currents of war flowed without knowing what it's all about...
...Gods of the lightning...
...This is the flrfl of the big pictures from R. K. O...
...Anyone, and evervone...
...and WHEREAS: the C P. LA has eetajjej Youth as an inseparable part of tat 81 ganization: and j WHEREAS: the C. P L A bas » df...
...Georee The St...
...William Green, Ramsay MacDonald, John D. Rockefeller...
...Johnny Arthur...
...Rehearsals will start Monday under the direction of Francis M. Verdi...
...Elsa Ryan...
...Goldberg has graphically presented the housing situation with his design of a two-room Park avenue apartment, and his sign advertising them for rent: "One room...
...m Bensonhurst . . , thanks to the aa...
...where the young workers seemed to be quite interested in our announcements...
...literature, to help us establish a commonwealth for the brotherhood of man...
...at 8 o clock...
...Organization Education Solidarity FREE YOUTH Young Pe»ple*i Socialist Leant 21 Eeaex Strait Boston, Mass...
...Sorreil and Son...
...ment of principles which it 1*'*tS all class-conscious and consckwtioa Jj erals...
...Gold Diggers of Broadway," an all-natural-color production which will go on view at the Winter Garden next Friday evening (August 30th l. Based on the David Belasoo stage success, "The Gold Diggers'" by Avery Hop wood, the original play has been greatly elaborated by Warner Bros, who have added to it a score of special majsic composed by Al Dubln and Joe Bur*e...
...farce and broad comedy, with hardly a shrug In the dawcamn of labor...
...Everybody should wait for the oncoming annual Yipsel dance sometime in October...
...The machine is now running faster than ever—suddenly he realizes how little he knows, how incapable he is of expressing himself...
...ABE wisot8ky...
...James Keane, Thomas Coffin Cooke...
...It is against this background that Savo sings another entertaining song...
...Fish, 12702 Oakland avenue...
...his chest swells...
...The Subwav Murder'' Edward A. Blatt announces the change of title of his forthcoming production "Murder in the Subway" to 'The Subway Murder.'.' This is tha_play by Eva K. Flinr and Martha Madison, which is now in rehearsal, under the direction of Chester Erskin...
...it will be remembered, contributed the music to the first all-natural-color Vitaphone production, "On With the Show...
...more or less, in a quick semi-swimming motion...
...The notable cast is headed by Charles King...
...Neely Edward and Arrnand Kaliz...
...The words are not in Coward's beet vein, but the Initiation into the intricacies of the "Whoops" sisters famous livery is quite revealing...
...the Fifth Avenue Playhouse will hold over for a second week its current fiim...
...has directed it...
...Brenon, "'is to find the right man for Grischa...
...to be attained only through organizing and educating the workers...
...to hate himself...
...and are still on strike, because the police regulations force them into submission at every turn...
...Cleveland...
...will have its Rrst New York presentation a* the Lltle Carnegie Playhouse commencing thL Saturday, August 24...
...At the Strand The firs...
...The honors rest between Jimmy Savo and the artists who made the some thirty settings...
...The Red Sword" with Marion Nixon and William Collier, Jr., will also be presented on the same program...
...The United States is becoming Involved in a network of revived labor consciousness...
...The "solid" South is becoming solidly ensooned in textile difficulties...
...Everybody is invited to attend, and bring his friends This Sunday...
...an all talking film of college life directed by George Archeinbaud...
...M'.tchinai...
...18 baths...
...with half an hour for lunch and the hauling to and from the machine of the paper as the only relaxations of the tedious work on the machine that snaps and bangs, always ready to crush a finger, perhaps a hand without a moment's notice or hesitation...
...The Broadway Melody...
...Great Scott," which comes to the Forty-ninth Street Theater Labor Day...
...now he catches a flyer...
...There, a half million men...
...in "Syncopation...
...Other companies which will go into rehearsal Include "Mother 8teps In" by George Speulding...
...The Gamblers," in New York City will take place on August 24th at the Mark Strand Theatre...
...But this season, with sex and the younger generation being the first gooffs of the season from the forts of William A. Brady and David Belasco, it is safe to assume that capital and labor will have hard sailing in the theater...
...produced by Armenkino of Soviet Russia...
...and if they can follow this with more of the same calibre, there is no reason to believe why this producing organization should not be one of the big guns in the lndustrst At the Little Carnegie "College Coquette...
...With "Great Scott...
...which he is to do for RKO Productions, Inc...
...put in —pull out...
...Roumanian miners in the power station in Bucharest suffered two hundred wounded and sixteen deaths rather than give in to the officials who ordered those who were picketing the station to move on...
...Renita Randolph and Bert West have been signed...
...Kenneth Thompson...
...Ptease write to the following address, and tell about yourself: O. C. F Kumum...
...showing of Warner Bros, production...
...J. J. Hyland...
...Mary Young, whose latest of many Broadway successes was in "Dancing Mothers'' has been signed for the leading role...
...Henry Ford and such names will be ignored in behalf of Delancey Scott, in the play, who theorizes and finally puts his theories Into practice in a tin can factory operated by the father of his best girl...
...I Can't Remember the Words" is another good song...
...Brenon noted that Robert Littell of the New York Evening Post acclaimed it as "of heroic stature, with its head in the clouds of human destiny, with the mysterious richness and texture of life itself...
...Therefore, it is the duty of us...
...however, they are gradually tamed to register each piece of paper with the guides of the machine, and the automatic counter counts—1-2-3...
...August 23rd...
...Murray Andersons "Almanac" has hilarious humor, original and superlative settings, graceful dancing, vivid pantomime and a score of other things that combine to make an impressive musical revue, or...
...much discussed and read novel by Arnold Zweig...
...Paul Gerard Smith...
...I want something with soul and heart and emotion and yet with a tremendous sweep and scope...
...45,000...
...the members of Circle 8. *""j the YPSL herebv give our fill** aj heartiest support to this movement^""] BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED ***»¦" express our ferver...
...Edward Dillon...
...He sees himself making fiery speeches, leading hosts of workers, cheering and singing...
...Thus we may get the youth . . . both worker and student...
...The rivet is a human-one...
...Charlotte, who is tossed to and fro with breath-taking agility...
...Friday...
...New Number for the Almanac Myrio, Charlotte Ayers, Karrells and Rasche are introducing a new number in the finale of the first act of "Murray Ariderson s Almanac" at the Erlanger theatre...
...A snowbau...
...I want the biggest story of the humble man that has been published in the past half century...
...In the Village by the Sea...
...12702 Oakneld avenue...
...Brenon read and sighed disconsolately...
...England, was recently the scene of one of the bitterest struggles in history...
...that the New York Times declared it to be "a tremendous parable of the clash between right and wrong . . . a true catharsis of pity and terror": that Guthbert Wright of the Sun wrote: '"Superlatives quite fail me when I come to this noble, original and war-scarred masterpiece": that Frederick Van Der Water of the New York Evening Post stated: "the author has an almost divine ability in character creation...
...Winnie Lightner...
...There will be romance, of course, but that doesn't high ten the difficulties for me...
...The role ptayed by Ina Claire in the original version is essayed by Nancy Welford in the Vitaphone adaptation...
...His quest appeared futile...
...He is a rich comic, a graceful shuffle dancer, and droll singer...
...The proletarian motif creeps into the shew in its most vivid dance number, "Metropolis...
...Pish...
...Brenon, In Hollywood, Begins Search For " Grischa " Star Herbert Brenon arrived in Hollywood today, announcing that he had tackled the hardest job in his career as a motion picture pro-iuer with his acquisition of "The Case of Sergeant Grischa...
...a play by Doty Hobart, previously titled "Sex Starved" The cast includes Jane Meredith...
...There is a beautifully costumed pantomime of Oscar Wilde's "The Young King," which comes off better than everhody expects...
...There is always room for a bit of it...
...There is plenty of material for plays dealing with labor...
...Thursday and Friday, August 28...
...Catchy tunes for individual numbers and chorus singing comprise the score written by Al Dubin and Joe Burke who...
...The Shanghai Document," an interesting, historical picture of China, will be shown on the sime program...
...Bancroft's latest film success, will be shown, together with "Square Shoulders...
...These men make jute goods and suffered eight deaths and twenty Injured men rather than give in to the police...
...Costarred with her are William Collier, Jr., Jebyna Ralston and John Holland...
...Mary Doran, Eddie Kane, J. Emmet Beck, Marshall Ruth and Drew Demarest...
...Here the standard love duet is burlesqued by prefacing every profession of undying devotion with the fear that "I may be wrong...
...the feeder keeps his eyes fast on the guides: the counter has reached sixtycrack, a double bagger, he's tearing 'round first base toward second, there's cheering on all sides, his name is on everyone's lips...
...Larry Ceballos...
...35 Court street, Boston...
...Joseph Woodburn and Robert Steele...
...Brenon and forthwith sent for the volume which had already achieved a half million sale, read it and decided a was the story he wanted...
...It is sung by Billie Gerber...
...Ronald Jeans...
...Robert Lord has written the scenario for "Gold D*ggers of Broadway," anil Roy Del Ruth who made the first Vitaphone musical production...
...Izzy Wright" by Stephen Chaplin will be directed by the author with Milton Wallace, remembered from his long engagement ta "Abie's Irish Rose" appearing in the title role and a cast including George Gilday, Gertrude Mudge, Natasha Kessler...
...Dorothy Blackburn...
...h\1aj*J...
...The Viking Press submitted no books...
...Barry Ruskin and Wynn have combined to write tbe sketches and draw the scenery...
...Convinced that the big picture plays of today must be founded on character rather than plot and that the world is avid for insight into the vivid personal e-periences of humble life, Herbert Brenon announced with dramatic suddenness some weeks ago that he was looking for a 'big' story...
...The Power of Evil...
...No mese matinee' idol will do...
...We would like to know the activities of other Yipset circles, and would appreciate it if secretaries from other cities wouM communicate with our secretary...
...Brooklyn, oatta SJ following resolution: ] WHEREAS: the Conference for ProtW"sive Labor Action is an orgsnlssiaa K Independent political labor action BJ instrument by which the wotmasj can make known its demands u » at* instead of as individuals: and * , J WHEREAS: the C. P L A. has iketal its statement of principles that B k ¦ organization which would measure aya the Socialist standards...
...Ho*] Coward...
...vaudeville and revue favorite, has another prominent place in the line-up and so has Nick Lucas, "'the crooning troubadour" of radio and stage fame...
...It must be a good book...
...two of the principals in "Street Girl," the all talking Radio Pictures musical production current at the Apollo Theatre, have brought forth1 much praise from the critics and the public for their unusual fine performances...
...He must visualize in his person the helplessness, the hopelessness and the resignation of the individual who went to battle at the command of gold lace and military pomp, the pawn of emperor and king, the sacrifice to the Moloch of war...
...Beau Geste" and "Lummox" agents and publishers submitted some various hundreds of novels...
...Jerry Rice, James La Curts, Frank Manning and Peter Donald...
...Taxicab drivers struck in Warsaw the other day...
...Repeating their rebelliousness in 1918...
...Jimmy Savo is seen all too rarely hereabouts...
...The first of these to go into rehearsal will be "Every Wednesday...
...to revolt against this abominable society, and not against himself, for it is this revolt against self which is the cause of so many suicides, on the part of youeg and old, and other unnecessary misery...
...a thousand times a day...
...The picture is an all-talking Vitaphone transcription of Charles Klein's play directed for the screen by Michael Curtiz...
...The music was written by Milton Ager and Henry Sullivan...
...Frank Campeau, Pauline Garon and George Fawcett...
...Elaine Arden, Harry C. Keenan...
...The Desert Song...
...Thunderbolt," Geo...
...Poicer of Evil" to Be Held Second Week in conjunction with the American premiere of "The Conquest of the Holy Land...
...of the Seniors of Bensonhurst...
...It is considered the most vividly portrayed drama of backstage life to reach the screen, with all its glamour, tinsel and clatter for which life behind the scenes is famous, reproduced in truthful and vivid manner from the original story by Edmund Gouiding...
...IT jj»c-5...
...for THE BENEFIT SmJM UNITED SOCIALIST DSTfl...
...Bernard Levey Has 6 Plays Under Way Bernard Levey, who earlier announced a production program of tan pears and two musical shows, now makes tho more definite announcement that six ef his companies are asar nihkrt...
...The Yipsels are ready to serve on the picket line, help collect funds and aid in clerical work...
...in his enthusiasm he unconsciously speeds the machine further...
...Helen Foster Gertrude Short...
...at 167 Boston Roae...
...Wilton Lackays, Jr., Joseph Crehan...
...A storm of revolt rises within Him, he begins to hate the boss, to hate the machine, the whole world . . . and above all...
...And thus he is the hero of a thousand and one fancies until he becomes conscious that he can't keep up with the machine, and so slows down, gets a new load of paper, and starts over again...
...Reginald Marsh...
...August 25...
...Betty Com peon and Johnny Harron...
...Heading the cast is Burr Caruth, whose most recent Broadway appearance was a year's engagement in "Skidding...
...87S.0O0: No rooms, no baths...
...3 Circle 1. Bronx . . on AutestJa a discussion on the MaterialistJf*°ljj Ution of History will take v**Jm September 5th...
...Sweet Land of Liberty...
...said Mr...
...The Conquest,of the Holy Land" reveals General Allenby's campaign in the East which resulted in the recapture of the Biblical lands...
...celebrated stage impresario, has directed the dance presentations which are executed by a chorus of one hundred of Hollywood's most beautiful girls...
...9 neighborhood is invited to st*a**J meetings, and iom The Junkwawan Monday evenings the Seniors aa f*H needsy evenings, at 7316—30th mmm Brooklyn...
...Others featured are Ann Pennington...
...For Wednesday...
...Not every circle has sent in the dollar entry fee...
...7 9 UBDAY...
...Other factories and industrial centers will soon be propagandised...
...S. E. two blocks south of Kinsman Road...
Vol. 9 • August 1929 • No. 3
