NEWS AND COMMENT OF THE THEATRE
News And Comment of the Theatre The Stage The Movies Music Provincetown Progress By Joseph T. Shipley rZ completion of the first decade of the work of the Theatre Guild brings to mind the...
...Among the tremendous crowds who have patiently watted admission to the Roxy were seen some of New York's most celebrated residents...
...The Conquest of the Holy Land" reveals the entire campaign of AUenby In the East, which resulted In the capture i of Palestine from Moslem control...
...he wanted to act...
...Walter Huston win have the leading role, and he win be supported by Charles D. Brown, Bda Heinemann, Ethel Intrepidl, Eva Williams, Harry A. Huguenot, Liszle RscheUe, Lida Kane, Joseph A. Donohue, Jack Byrne, Leslie Hunt, Caryl Otnin, James MacDonald, W. Gardon Craig, Setfert C. Pyle, K. Nambu and others...
...At the 5th Avenue Theatre in deference to many hundreds interested in the present revolt in Palestine, the Fifth Avenue Playhouse wfll play a return engagement of the motion picture, "The Conquest of the Holy Land" for seven days beginning this Saturday...
...Charlie Chaplin's "The Champion" is also revived for the first time In many years...
...James Oppenhelm, Maxwell Bodenhehn, and Mary Caroline Da vies...
...The series includes: Nina Taraaova, Russian Folk Songs in costume, Oct 18th...
...The same program includes "The Light of India," a technicolor film, revealing many of the highlights attendant upon the Sepoy Rebellion in India...
...serious treatments of the Negro, In the theatre, was first accorded here...
...This production, as previously announced, will be an ironic romance with setting laid in Mexico, entitled "Fiesta...
...harper isn't at au timid about his ¦ acting...
...1. Warner Baxter and Lots Moran are the featured players In this picture...
...whirl at it, and so did Robert BencbJey...
...In this adaptation of the play by Harriet Ford and J. O'Hlggins, Mr...
...No thought of high remuneration, therefore, has attracted the workers In the several fields of the theatre who have come with their love and .their talent to the group...
...On the same program, they are reviving that charming Russian comedy, "Three Comrades and One Invention...
...2. Violet Hemlng and A. I. Anson have the featured roles supported by Verree Teasdale, Leonard Mudie, Derek Glynne, Montague Shaw, Clifford Walker, Edward Fielding, Reginald Sheffield, G. P. Huntley, Jr., Ruth Rickaby, Basil Hanbury, Robert Bunce Williams, 8a...
...The Provincetown Playhouse Is not only the most fruitful, but the first of the New York experimental theatres...
...It is estimated that weU over a million patrons wul have seen the picture before it terminates its engagement at the Roxy...
...On Monday and Tuesday, Sept...
...Throughout its being, the Provincetown Playhouse has not deviated from its policy of considering the play rather than the audience—as a result of which it has given its audience more than any other producer in American theatrical history...
...EUy Ney, Pianiste, Jan...
...rat Lahlrl and Lota, and Frank DeSilva...
...Mayor Walker, recently entertained ; a party as did Adolpb Ochs, publisher of the New York Times...
...later he appeared in the theatre guud production of "The tidings brought to mary," a drama by paul clandel, and when phlup Loeb went on tour with "peer gynt," Harper became assistant stage manager of "Tidings...
...and now—he's an actor...
...The work of Eugene O'NeUl, alone, would almost Justify this statement...
...then he joined the advertising staff of the brooklyn Standardunion, later turning to editorial and publicity work...
...The city's favorite son...
...Through the plays O'NeUl and Paul Green, the Negro was introduced to the stage as a subject for something other than travesty or burlesque, or old Uncle Tom sentimentality...
...white is one of the best known character actors in england, and mr...
...having been one of the great fraternity, he perhaps has his reasons...
...white and haslam are due in this country about the end of august to start rehearsing...
...another london hit which is scheduled for american presentation this coming season...
...he was 17, the "baby" of the company, when he joined a company headed by chauncey olcott in "the Voice of mcconnell," a dramatization of the life of john mccormack...
...Once a Dramatic Editor Was "Great Scott" journalists, even dramatic editors and I critics, seldom turn to the actual stage, i to be sure, Heywood Broun had his...
...Bernard NedeU, who created the role of the "hoofer" in the London presentation of "Broadway," heads the supporting cast, which Includes *mn Jay aad ChiU Boucher...
...Pierre Loving (Just back from five years in France, by the way, with a bag of manuscripts), sad John Reed...
...he began his wage-earning career as a bank-runner...
...monday (labor day) night, in "great scott...
...I Among other places of wide religious interest are the Via Dolorosa, Jaffa and i Hebron...
...At the Roxy "The Cock-Eyed World," the aU-dialogue sequel to "What Price Glory," now in Its fourth record-breaking week at the Roxy Theatre, has .already been seen and heard by more than 750,000 persons, a record which is unprecedented In the history of motion picture entertainment...
...Eras Rubinstein, Hungarian Violinist, Nov...
...The author has been known for over fifteen years for his stimulating works on the contemporary theatre, such as "The Case of American Drama," "The Insurgent Theatre," "Playwrights of the New American Theatre" and his anthologies, "Chief Contemporary Dramatists...
...In Provincetown on Cape Cod (where I am now writing...
...Is also depicted...
...At the Colony "Broadway," the Universal movietone version of the famous stage play, is being held over for a third week at the Colony Theatre, where it played last week, at popular prices, breaking all previous box office receipts for that house...
...Joseph H. Graham staged the play...
...by Pierre Loving, gave opportunity for some of the best staging, with its shadows on the dome of the sky, that New York has seen...
...Strindberg's "Dream Play," Gozzi's "Princess Turandot," Egri's "Rapid Transit," Virgil Geddes' sensitive and promising "The Earth Between," and the brilliant and provocative "him," by E. E. dimming*, are further evidence of the wide range and full and free experimentation that has marked the work of the group...
...Strindberg's "Spook Sonata," another weird but powerful play, was followed by the dramatic arrangement of "The Ancient Mariner...
...Peoples Symphony Concerts Announce Artist's Recitals The People's Symphony Concerts wul again give s series of six artists' recitals for students, workers, teachers, artists and professionals at the Washington Irving High School, 18th street, near Irving place...
...As a consequence, more vital work has come from the Provincetown^Playhorjse than from any other group, of any else or status, in this country...
...Faust," and the New Playwrights' performance of Upton Sinclair's "Singing Jailbirds...
...Supposed Desires...
...S4W3-HS of Nature' Held Ore* at 55th St...
...He thought he had attained his life's objective when he became dramatic critic for the brooklyn Dally Citizen...
...The point is that the Provincetown Playhouse has not been commercial, has remained a Uttle theatre, in the gest sense of that term: a place existing because some folks love the theatre, and are seeking beaaty along its ways...
...Edna...
...The experimentalist, being a rebel, is most successful when he does not attain what the middle-class world calls success...
...20th...
...George Cram Cook was the director and lnspiritor of the early seasons...
...The Neighborhood Playhouse has ceased work after twelve years...
...An this listing would mean Uttle, were It not for another, the vital aspect of the Provincetown Playhouse...
...7th: Dorsha, Paul Hayes and Group, Dancers, Mar...
...one of his publicity accounts was charming Pollock when the latter produced his own "mr...
...At the Strand "The Argyle Case," starring Thomas Meighan, one of the most absorbing detective plays in the history of the American stage, win reach the screen as a Warner Bros...
...Mieczyslaw Munz, Polish pianist, Feb...
...Playhouse "Secrets of, Nature," a UFA production...
...The Provincetown Season s Plans From the offices of Oliver Sayler comes a neatly drawn report that James Light, director, and Eleanor Fitzgerald, business manager, of the Provincetown Playhouse, have decided on the first two plays to be given during the coming season in their new home - at the Garrick Theatre...
...Only by remaining | Uttle, can a Uttle theatre really do big i things...
...31 and Sept...
...The group welcomed, as guests, the Arthur Davison Flcke "Mr...
...The New Playwrights, active and experimental, lasted three seasons, which is the present life-length of the still growing Civic Repertory Theatre...
...Halsey Stewart, I prominent financier...
...An wen-wishers of the theatre hope that the work which the Provincetown Playhouse has so effectively and so fruitfully carried on, win in their new home continue to grow...
...Write for subscription blanks to the office of the People's Symphony Concerts, 32 Union Square...
...the new comedy which L. a. safian is bringing to the forty-ninth street theatre, he will play the title role, that of delancey ("great") scott, the college graduate who attempts to infuse Utopian theories into the town factory, and finds himself thrown out on his anatomy...
...Is to be held over for a second week at the froth Street Playhouse beginning next Saturday, August 34th...
...100% all-talking Vitaphone production at the Mark Strand Theatre, beginning Friday...
...Russian Symphonic Choir, Twenty Voices In costume, Dec...
...Cleon Throckmorton began his designing there, and Stark Young, James Light, Robert TCrirmnrt Jones, Michio I tow, and Leo Bulgakov (on the English stage) are among those who had thenfirst opportunities as directors...
...2 and 3, the synchronized version of John Barrymore*s latest picture, "Eternal Love," win be shown together with UFA's comedy drama, "Thou Shalt Not Steal...
...The revival of mrs...
...An active membership campaign, and the new location, however, promise no change In the policy of the group...
...that deft satire on the psychoanalysis, and three other one-act plays, Inaugurated the offerings of the Provincetown Players...
...A revival of one of the most beautiful pictures ever produced, "White Shadows in the South Seas," is the feature for the program on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept...
...haslam is at present appearing in "the matriarch...
...Laura Wilck to Produce "Thunder in the Air" laura D. wilck, who sponsored "flight" last season, has acquired the american rights to "thunder in the air," an unusual drama which has had considerable success in england and paris...
...Susan OlaepeU's "Inheritors" (now in Eva LeGaUienne's repertory) is one of the soundest studies of American growth, from the sturdy pioneer to the smug respectables—and the leaven of rebellion: her play "The Verge," a weired and potent piece of portraiture...
...Soldiers and Women" At Ritz Monday Night Lew Cantor win present "Soldiers and Women," a new drama by Paul Hervey Fox and George Til ton, at the Rita Theatre, Monday evening, Sept...
...In the coming season, the Provincetown Playhouse win journey out of the Village, to the Garrick Theatre, which before It saw the work of the Guild and of the French experimentalists under Copeau...
...Three Loves" ("Stasha's Affairs"), the screen version of Max Brod's latest novel, produced by the Terra Studios in Berlin, is going to open for an Indefinite run at the 55th Street Playhouse following "The Secrets of Nature" beginning Saturday, September 7th...
...thunder in the air" has received considerable praise from the english press, and sir james m. barrie was also highly outspoken in acclaiming it...
...Babe Ruth, Earl Carroll, Clive Brook, Sophie Tucker and scores of stage and screen stars attended last week...
...The film is replete with scenes of Palestine taken at practically the same places where the present conflict between j the Jews and the Arabs has been most i severe...
...so, too, is youthful Ray Harper...
...But all the time, gnawing at his good resolutions, was that hankering for the stage...
...This the Provincetown Play: house has helped to demonstrate: may it profit by its own lesson, and at the Gari rick Theatre preserve its sound Ideals, j Good luck...
...You win find the solution to this thrilling mystery at the St...
...moneypenny...
...17th...
...May they always find enough money to carry out their plans, but always be near enough the financial verge to keep clean of heart and lithe of spirit...
...At the Little Carnegie Percy Marmonfs first British-made film, "The SUrer King," a modern version of Henry Arthur Jones's play of the same name, will be presented for the first time In America at the Little Carnegie Playhouse commencing this Saturday, August 31...
...Others appearing in "The Argyle Case," are Leila Lee, John Darrow, Zasu Pitts, Bert Roach, Wilbur Mack, Douglas Oerrard, Alona Marlowe, J. Qulnn, Lew Harvey and Raymond Gallagher...
...Elmer Clifton directed this dramatic production with Betty Boyd, Bhogwan Singh and Harold Goodwin in the cast...
...the latter with some success...
...The next year, the group ventured to Macdougal Street, In Greenwich Village in New York City: Floyd Dell, Alfred Kreymborg, and Harry Kemp appear on the list of playwrights...
...Subscription to the above six concerts will be 81...
...The fourth week-end of the film's engagement attracted more than 55,000 persons to the Roxy...
...The place of poetry in the theatre today Is maintained by several of their best productions, as the "Aria da Capo," of Edna Miliay...
...The Walling Wall, around which I Jews from every part of the world are j perpetually gathered...
...The next year added, among other names...
...It was directed by Howard Bretherton...
...The Theatre Guild, with one decade gone can scarcely be called a true continuance of the Washington Square Players...
...as a matter of fact, he cut prep school in brooklyn to go on the stage...
...George "Behind That Curtain" is the solution to a crime that was almost perfect...
...But they are the exceptions...
...the author is robins millar, editor of the evening news of glasgow, and the american premiere is set for friday, september 27th, at hempstead...
...In this feature UFA cameramen have gathered intimate scenes from the hidden lives at animals, birds and insects...
...Pour years earlier, at the Improvised Wharf Theatre...
...Special dances and original musical score were prepared to make "Broadway" the peer of productions...
...Including "Murder in the Insect World," "Nature's Jest," "Man Eating Fish," "Plants That Slay," and "Killing the Killer," the second week win feature also "Deep-Sea Life" and "Fishes in Love...
...Directed by Paul Fejos and made under the personal supervision of Carl Laemmle, Jr., this story of two Broadway' "hoofers'* features the most spectacular cabaret scene ever filmed...
...great" scott is no stranger to the stage...
...At the St...
...The Playhouse has never been at any great distance from financial difficulties: the success of a play has meant, not profits, but so much more to be used for good drama...
...Their quest has been, not programs that would please, bat plays and productions that would prove worth while, that would be valuable additions to the frultfulness of the theatre, or at least, experiments testing the powers and resources and possibilities of the stage...
...Walter Hasenclever's "Beyond," by Congreve's "Love for Love...
...and "The Stick-Up...
...It also , presents the various forces which joined i In the campaign...
...and, for their first English appearances, Barbara Bulgakov and Rudolph SchUdkraut...
...Mowatt's "Fashion" began the vogue, in 1924, of which another group has reaped a Hoboken harvest...
...the second year was marked, in addition to another piece by Susan Glaspell, by the production of "Bound East for Cardiff" and •Thirst," by Eugene O'Neill...
...Restless Youth," with Ralph Forbes and Marcellne Day completes this program...
...George Playhouse on Saturday and Sunday, Aug...
...Vincent Malay's work was shown the following season, which marked the establishment of the Provincetown Playhouse, at 133 Macdougal street, * * * Pi mil that time, the list of dramatists whose work was first presented by the Provincetown group grows increasingly rich...
...Even setting htm aside, however, the body of original and sound experimental work accomplished by the group is astounding, aad beyond description in a single article...
...While Eugene O'Neill is the outstanding figure among American dramatists thus far hi our theatrical history, several of the older and larger commercial bouses could make Imposing lists of authors who have begun under their banner...
...Thomas Jackson and Paul Porcasi re-create for the screen the roles they played in the stage version...
...The film was directed by T. Hayes Hunter, whose recent fli™, "The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel," was shown several weeks ago at the Little Carnegie...
...Latterly ward morehouse and Donald Ogden 1 stewart have done likewise...
...After the Shuberts complete extensive renovations, the group win take charge of the Garrick on Labor Day, and the season's first production win be made some time during the third week in September...
...In its new home, to the mast | fertile American playhouse...
...In addition to the various subjects of the first week...
...Meighan plays the part of a Master Detective...
...The second of the season's five plays to be definitely agreed upon by the new board of directors was assured of production a few days ago when contracts were signed for a drama entitled "Winter Bound" by Thomas h. Dickinson...
...Among the actors, now wen-known who began with the Provincetown Players, or with them had their first important parts, are Mary BUls, X. J. Bellantlne, Remo Buffano (now abroad studying European puppets, on a well-deserved Guggenheim Fellowship), Charles Oil pin, Charles Ellis, Ann Harding (whom the "talkies" have taken), Rosaline Fuller, Paul Robeson, Walter Abel, Frank Wilson, Walter Huston, Jules Bledsoe, Louis Wolhetm...
...he's very much that way, however, about the situation in which he will find himself monday night—that of facing a formidable array of dramatic critics...
...Glenn Tryon, Merna Kennedy and Evelyn Brent are the featured players of "Broadway...
...how he eventually finds himself, and proves his theories, is developed by the play...
...we select but a few for mention: E. B. Cummin gw, Theodore Dreiser, Paul Green, Lawrence Langner, Edmund Wilson...
...the cast will include j. fisher white and robert haslam, both of whom have contributed to the london success of this play...
...the Provincetown Players, instead of following the fashion they had set, moved on to new experiments...
...Arthur Hopkins will make his first production of the season on Wednesday evening, September 4th, when he win present "The Commodore Marries," a comedy drama by Kate Parsons, at the Plymouth...
...News And Comment of the Theatre The Stage The Movies Music Provincetown Progress By Joseph T. Shipley rZ completion of the first decade of the work of the Theatre Guild brings to mind the fact that it Is ten years since the Provincetown Playhouse, the most significant little theatre In the world, moved Into its present quarters...
...29th...
Vol. 9 • August 1929 • No. 4
