NEWS AND COMMENT OF THE THEATRE
ews And Comment of the Theatre The Stage The Movies M u s ic WEEK ON THE STAGE By Joseph T. Shipley MAM PROPOSES ARTHUR HOPKINS' first offering of the season, "The Commodore Marries." by...
...Bailey, before she suffered * paralytic stroke four yen-^ ago...
...Alan Crosland directed...
...Then the attorney, talking to Mrs...
...Sept...
...Olga Lee...
...The various witnesses who are summoned from the cabaret to testify for the prosecution mix mild humor (Shakespeare taught the trick) with the grimmer moments of the play's progression: and it must be said that many in the audience were often deeply moved...
...This is high tribute to Claire Luce, and to Elsie Ferguson...
...By public demand "Our Modern Maidens," starring Joan Crawford and featuring an all-star cast including Rod La Rocque...
...Radiant Productions, Inc...
...for Mr...
...Incest, in ancient Egypt, was not only tolerated, it was required of the royal family, to preserve the royal blood In its purity...
...wbi* crippled her right srrn and right »f*> I gave frequent cencer,:- in Aeolian *3* ] Carnegie Halls...
...the picturization of Max Brod's romantic novel, will be held over for a second week beginning next Saturday...
...15, 16 and 17 Is "Alibi", an all-talking drama of the underworld which has been acclaimed by all' the critics as one of the finest talkies ever made...
...Following the run of "Three Loves...
...Whereas most motion pictures taper off in crowd drawing, "The Four Feathers" built up after the first few weeks of its opening in June...
...Friday evening and Saturday matmee, "The Sea Gull...
...a moving and sensational drama, with Lars Hansen and Dita Mario doing some unusually fine acting in the cast, and "Leatherneck...
...This film was produced in the Terra studios of Berlin under the personal supervision of the author and the direction of Kurt Bernhard, now a prominent UFA director...
...As the Commodore, though his roaring (until the final urge) proves gentle as a dove, Walter Huston handles the part with an interesting mixture of bewilderment and blu'ter...
...and delight, sole occupant of the male mind...
...To preserve this, she kills the man she thinks Is her father...
...The following extract^ from his letter received this week: "At last I got to Manchuli and Immediately went to Japanese Consulate to inquire...
...Pressure of new bookings, however, makes it necessary to close the j picture at the height of its success...
...Anita Page, Eddie Nugent...
...The feature for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday...
...A Laurel and Hardy comedy, a Disney cartoon and a Ufa short subject will complete the program...
...Sumner Gard, Walter F. Scott...
...She tr a student «* 1 Alexander Lambert...
...When last seen, he carried a gold handled cane, white gloves, pink spats, gardenia a la Gr'over Whalen, and was about tc enter a shop to sip his afternoon tea...
...Marie Bailey, a well known terncert pianist, often heard in recitals s* this city, died early Sept 9th of cea* bral hemorrhage at Rivercrest SanleV rium...
...Lee Moran and many others, including a chorus of 100 beauties...
...The Gallo Theatre, on 54th Street, just West of Broadway, a modern theatre equipped with every device for good theatre, has been taken over by Radiant reductions, Inc., on a long' term contract...
...The i™ig*nj» of an expectant mother must be satisfied...
...But, Andre returns blinded from a German prison camp...
...Charles Halton, Henry O'Neill...
...On the same program stays Charlie Chaplin in "The Bank" and the UFA shortfllm "Lacquer and Pearls...
...The sailor antics are amusing, doubly so because of their land setting...
...and surely the feelings of a disappointed woman cannot be further hurt by withdrawing all the things sen- claimed while they (at least, surely he) thought the child was coming...
...and the power of Elsie Ferguson, first as prospering woman lawyer, then as aching mother, gives the evening most of its worth though even in her best moments the maudlin sentimentality of the dialogue threatens to overcome Iier personal appeal...
...George Playhouse The St...
...Marianne, a French girl, pledges herself to wait for the return of Andre, the village schoolmaster when he leaves for the front...
...In passing its twelfth week "The Four Feathers" shows greater box-office I strength than at any time during its ; run and...
...To do her "bit," Marianne adopts five war orphans and lavishes a mother's care upon them...
...Marianne," has its premiere at the Mayan Theatre, it is reported, will prove to be one of the most diverting sound comedies yet made...
...Sept...
...There he and his crew live as in a male Eden: but somebody gave God the idea of creating Eve...
...The Baltimore Sun commented on the play as follows: "Hawk Island" turned out to be a clever play, well knit in spite of its newness, and calculated to carry connoisseurs of fictitioHs murder through its three acts with little or no abatement of the high degree of interest aroused by the opening scene...
...Mrs Bailey *•** played often at the Rand School sad other Socialist centers...
...All this, and more, with correct court atmosphere, gathers ferce in the play...
...Henry Kotani...
...In the court scene, the various witnesses rise out of the audience, seme of them speaking from the orchestra before they go upon the stage: anyone addressing the Imaginary jury turns to the audience —which by these devices is swept into the swing of the play, as though directly sharing...
...Thursday, "The Master Builder...
...On With the Show" In Color and Sound At the Strand "On With The Show," Warner Bros.* first 100 per cent natural color talking, staging, dancing Vltaphone picture, begins Its first popular price performance at the Mark strand theatre beginning Friday...
...On With The Show" chiefly centers about a small Jersey town where the prospective Brcadway musical show is doing a hideaway...
...William Bakewell, Wheeler Oakman, Harry Bribbon...
...on Friday and Saturday, Sept...
...So it is quite a while before the Commodore resumes command Despite the heartiness of the play, it does not wholly recapture the full-bloooVed old *gnffn«h roast-beef flavor...
...but the outspoken stormy boisterousness of Fielding and Smollett...
...109 West 87th street, and burial was In Ma**t Hebron Cemetery...
...Popular Price Season At Gallo Theatre Dramatic Productions, in one of Broadway's best equipped theatres with a competent cast of players and with original plays, at the revolutionary price of admission ranging from 50c to $2.00, is the latest news on the theatrical horizon...
...This picture which was made by Emolka Films in Germany, has brought to America Fritz Kortner's characterization of Paul, the Mad Czar of Russia considered by many critics as surpassing that of Emil Jannings in "The Patriot...
...for the evening performance...
...provided that it meets with popular approval, to be removed to another playhouse, and later sent on tour to other cities...
...the Chester Hale's Military Steppers, and a galaxy of superlative entertainers...
...With permits from both American and Japanese Consulates the Chinese refused to allow hm to proceed to Manchuli unless the American Consul would guarantee his camera equipment for nonmilltary use and it took him two days to move it out of Harbin...
...This is an Interesting musical extravaganza for which Mr...
...The cast includes Clark Gable...
...Lillian Singer, and a brotSer Arthur Rosenberg, uhc is a member •* the New Leader board of dlreett"* Funeral services were conducted Wednesday In the chapel, a: No...
...Noted Pianist...
...with Eva Le Galllenne for the first time as the Marquise...
...Hawk Island" Monday mi At Longacre Thomas Kiipatrick announces that "Hawk Island...
...This play, therefore, iglves us mild memories of recent tabloid sensations, in its approach to incest, in the startling identification of a foundling child—even in the matter of the constitutional right of a person tried for murder to be present throughout the trial, as touched on down Gastonia way...
...He would feel all at sea, that is...
...Private Stagg falls in love with Marianne and she returns his affection...
...Is a subsidiary of the National Chain Theatres Corp., which Is the first corporation organized in a plan to establish similar theatres in the Key Cities of the United States where these plays will be shown at popular prices, as low as $1.00 for the best seats...
...by Kate Parsons, carries us back to the days when good old England was still a brawny, brawly land, when one did not apologize for a public belch, when matters of digestion, or the progress of a pregnancy, were subject for open discussion and frequent humor...
...It draws its inspiration from the latter* "Peregrine Pickle...
...In the landlubbers' world...
...It takes us...
...Indeed, we want to know more of that past of his, and how he came to ship for this curious cruise...
...Passes A«*7 Mrs...
...War Without Fighting in Marion Davies' New Film War in its sunniest aspect wJl be revealed when Marlon Daviess first sound and dialogue production...
...according to the management . of the Criterion could easily run on into the new year...
...N. R. Cregan...
...The Four Feathers," is on the last lap of its run at the Criterion Theatre...
...J. Winston Fowlkes, noted specialist, who by a special effort bad the producer completely recovered in record time...
...The engaging plot around which so many comedy situations have been woven is simple...
...BEHIND THE TABLOID "Scarlet Pages," the new "American drama" by Samuel Shipman and John B. Hymer, at the Morosco Theatre, seeks to go behind such a story as might cover the front of a tabloid, and to draw the power of its human situation into the theatre...
...i Mrs...
...Mason, who has just cried out that the dead man was not really the girl's father, reproaches her for behaving as though she were In a theatre and not In a court-room...
...Miss Davies...
...they say, brings to her first talking picture the same zest, sprightliness, and sense of humor which have distinguished her silent films...
...Nora (Claire Luce) is made a cabaret girl, but she is not a loose lady, though she does make extra money by giving the "suckers" at Hell-Bound Cabaret "everything but" her body...
...13 and 14...
...Marianne" was filmed at the MetroGoldwyn-Mayer studios in both sound and silent versions...
...Long Island, where she had beea...
...Civic Repertory Theatre Opens New Season With Tchekov's "The Sea Gull...
...Luke's Hospital, and was there operated upon for double mastoids by Dr...
...When the play was about to have Its first rehearsal, Kiipatrick was taken to St...
...Sam Hardy...
...His itinerary took him to Germany France, and half a dozen other European countries, where, to use his owr words, he went purely on a pleasuri trip...
...and Frances Kaln...
...Elaine Temple...
...Eleanor Boardman'i latest screen triumph "She Goes to War" will be shown on Wednesday and Thudsday...
...18 and 19...
...Four Feathers Flying Despite the fact that it is still playing to capacity at practically every performance...
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...Kiipatrick, producer of the forthcoming "Hawk Island", this week saw his own production for the first time In Baltimore, where it is now having its preliminary presentation...
...The cast Is headed by Fritz Kortner, who plays also in "The Spy of Madame Pompadour," Marlene Deitrich...
...well, all they can do is detain me—I know they would not shoot me...
...They claim that to let me film the sold- iers is like giving information to the Russians and absolutely prohibit me from carrying a camera near them...
...The play is staged by its author, with technical direction by Walter F. Scott...
...And the Vasha Bunchuk to Conduct Symphonic Arrangement Of "Singing in the Rain" Beginning Friday (September 13th) Yasha Bunchuk will conduct the Capitol Grand Orchestra in a new overture 'Singing in the Rain...
...Mrs Bailey...
...The only thing I could do was to take a chance and shoot anyway and if they did catch me...
...Hatchways, though given too much talking (what with his occasional sermons, as on prohibition), is shrewdly effective...
...Josephine Dunn, Albert Gran, and others, remains for a second week...
...Madame Pompadour Held Over at Little Carnegie Playhouse The Spy of Madame Pompadcur, which made its American Premiere at the Little Carnegie Theatre last Saturday will remain at that house for a second week...
...It is curious, the play's movement makes us think, how, though they change slowly, morals may change roundabout...
...confined four years...
...I took my interpreter to the Chinese Army Headquarters and applied for permit to photograph soldiers In the field, but 'nothing doing' as usual...
...Several weeks : ago a special Saturday 11:30 P. M. showing was added to the regular schedule...
...Mary Fowler...
...This type of conduct—along with another smiled on through the glory that was Greece—is now deemed so hideous a crime that Nora, in the play, would rather go to the chair than reveal her father's incestuous desire, that the district attorney calls it the foulest of sins—and that the playwrights themselves are afraid of the public's distaste, and make it turn out not to be Incest after all...
...Boyd and Alan Hale...
...was fifty-two, the former Marie Rosea., berg, was bom in New York City, ** was a resident of Atlantic City years...
...The Would-Be Gentleman...
...the 55th Street Playhouse will present the American Premiere of "A Royal Scandal" with Werner Krauss, adapted from Sternhelms successful play "Die i Hose" and said to be the best German made comedy and film satire...
...Friend of Party...
...Robert Z Leonard directed both versions of the story...
...Shipman has a nose for news, and, while that means m»'"t a lot of putrid material, there is always a chance that out of the dunghill will blossom the rose...
...The years of the war pass slowly and Marianne hears nothing of her sweetheart's whereabouts...
...surely Miss Pickle, though she pulls Trunnion out of the brine, gets him Into a mess Doctor Dill only makes more sour...
...Joe E. Brown, Louise Fazenda, Arthur Lake, Sally O'NeU, Ethel Waters...
...they will present "Homecoming...
...They informed me that the Chinese authorities would not allow any photographing in the city...
...Commodore Trunnion lives at sea on shore...
...Paramount Sound News cameraman from Tokio, is on the job in Manchuria with the Chinese-Russian situation apparently "well In hand...
...Joseph Granby, A. J. Herbert...
...Mrs...
...2.00 for the best orchestra seats and $1.00 for the best balcony seats...
...This corporation Is organized for the purpose of producing original dramatic plays...
...Paramount News Gets Russo-Chinese War Scenes Notwithstanding every obstacle that the Chinese War Lords could throw In his way...
...Helen Joy...
...and a cast that includes ail its stars, the Civic Repertory Theatre opens its new season Monday nght...
...Bailey...
...Bunchuk has complied a score of rhythmic and melodious themes which have been combined and symphonlcally arranged by Tony Gale, pianist of the "Capitolians...
...Shipman to go wrong in the method of approach to the audience, but he employs two types of appeal that counteract one another...
...Hawk Island" and Producer Doing Well Thos...
...September 14th...
...How Marianne's entangled romance is finally solved is one of the dramatic moments of the new dialogue screen play...
...During the torrid days of July and August Its box-office i strength was such that on several weeki ends it topped all previous week-end attendances at the Criterion...
...in order to feel at home, he makes his house a ship...
...Douglas Fairbanks, Jr...
...A Charlie Chase comedy and "Bits of Africa" an educational short are on the same program...
...and Charles D. Brown, as Mr...
...new members of the present company, will have important roles, in addition to Eva Le Galllenne, Josephine Hutchinson...
...We are at once reminded that the footlights remain between US and this bullying attorney—who like all dear district attorneys (and burglars when they cease aburgling) is a kindly fellow when not on duty, and doubtless loves his mother as much as most men...
...and Saturday evening...
...George Playhouse splits its program for this week-end...
...The high officers did not want their coolie soldiers, who wore all sorts of uniforms, filmed and shown...
...The range of prices will be...
...a sister...
...which is the featured musical number of the "Hollywood Revue," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's all star, all-talking, all-singing, all-dancing film production...
...The play has an "angel," who has been furnishing the money because he wishes to win favor with Sally O'Neil who acts as check girl...
...a new discovery of German films, and Uno Hennlng...
...The cast includes such screen stars as Betty Compson...
...Be sure to mention that you saw the advertiser's ad In The New Leader...
...She leaves one daughter...
...It goes, perhaps, behind several stories of recent days...
...a comedy with Wm...
...During the run of "The Spy of Madame Pompadour" there is on display in the gallery a collection of rare XYTlth Century textiles and brocades, through the courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
...Marie Maddern and Jacob Ben Ami...
...The Commodore Marries" is as unsual as it is entertaining...
...Gorgeous costumes and settings are seen in their own brilliant coloring, while the tinting makes the players all but living...
...Three Loves" Held Over 55th Street Playhouse "Three Loves...
...He is unsuccessful, because Sally is ardently loved by Jimmy, the head usher, who believes that she should be the star cf the show Instead of Nita, the dancer, played by Miss Compson...
...Tuesday night "Cradle Song" will he revived, and repeated Wednesday matinee...
...The stage revue "Rhapsody in Red, White and Blue" which has been devised and staged by Chester Hale under the personal supervision of Louis K. Sidney, features Walt Roesner as Master of Ceremonies and director of the stage band "The Capitolians...
...At the end of the war a detachment of Americans are temporarily billeted on her farm...
...that evening "The Sea Gull" again...
...of courage and confusion in the face of life, that makes the character genuinely touching, the man more human than his story...
...We should not have expected so practiced a theatre man as Mr...
...The woman she does not know is her mother, defends her...
...Jack Crimmins Returns Jack Crimmins, of the Shubert and Capehart Carey offices, has just returned to the States from an eight weeks' torn of the continent, whence he brought back among other things what we of hoi poloi call continental savoir faire...
...On With Tne Show" was adapted for the screen by Robert Lord from a story by Humphrey Pearson...
...The Gallo Theatre is an unusually large playhouse having approximately 800 seats on the orchestra floor and a balcony with 600 seats...
...yet it is a refreshingly frank variation from the usual «m irking attitude toward sex...
...The reviews of the preliminary showings out of town have been extremely good, with indications for a long run in New York...
...and the assumption that carnal satisfaction Is the supreme desire...
...in truth, to the field of the early English novel, not the suggestive sentimentality o 1 Richardson...
...It Is the intention of Radiant Productions, Inc., to produce twelve dramatic plays during the coming season, starting on or about the first week of October, each play to run for three weeks at the Oallo Theatre, and...
...Egon Brecher, and others of the regulars...
...The Paramount picturizatson of A. E. W. Mason's novel of British wars in the African Sudan, which this week starts Its thirteenth week at the Criterion, will end its engagement the latter part of September...
...the new and exciting play of mirth and murder by oward Irving Young, opens this Monday at the Longacre Theatre...
...Many philosophers, indeed, identify woman and the serpent...
Vol. 9 • September 1929 • No. 6
