NEWS AND COMMENT OF THE THEATRE
News And Comment of the Theatre The Stage The Movies Music THE WEEK ON THE STAGE By Joseph T. Shipley REVOLUTION EN MEXICO t VNTC expects to find s masssga m any "work of that Inveterate...
...Their principal number, "Dance Away the Night," a modernised version of the Viennese waits, promises to succeed the "Merry Widow" waits in popularity...
...ROYAL KNICKERBOCKER OPENS TONIGHT When the Royal Knickerbocker...
...It is expected that during the course of their picture operations they will discover new talent that can be used on the stage as well as in the talkies...
...Miss Chatterton has the title role made famous by Sarah Bernhardt and other great tragediennes...
...OLD SWEETHEARTS At Jolson's Theatre, the revival of Victor Herbert's "Sweethearts" brings back a tuneful and amusing comic opera that was a vague, pleasant memory, and now proves how much more rapidly the world is moving than a score of years t—i...
...Here the play has Its moat spontaneous moments...
...It was a full five years before "The Living Corpse" had a hearing on our own stage, and then in German at the Irving Piece Theatre In the winter of 1916...
...They expect to produce each year at least two super features, these talking pictures to be made at the Long Island Studio of Paramount and distributed by Paramount, to be known as Schwab and Mandel productions...
...George Arliss will make his first appearance in a talking role on the screen at Warner Bros...
...A blase bachelor, to put more seat Into his dun house party, concocts a murder and confesses his guilt, planning to reveal the hoax at breakfast...
...converted, be comes home to raise his peons from their low estate to a partnership in the farm— centering his hopes for them in his fair ward, Guadalupe, who Is to learn, and to educate her kind...
...These plans will not in any way curtail their activities as legitimate producers...
...In addition to Mary Fowler, Elaine Temple and Clark Gable, who ARE mentioned In the program's "Who's Who," a word of appreciation goes to Henry O'Neill for his patient portrayal of the husband of an Impossibly irritating wife...
...Inauguration of officers and dancing will be the featured events of the evening...
...In this latest ef tort to debunk the American scene...
...Is highly ¦t...
...The alleged Idealism of the average law school product is personified by Walter Regan, who has a hard Job to make his role convincing...
...Theatre Wednesday evening, October 2nd, when Warner Bros, announce the premiere of their Vitaphone produtiocn of "Disraeli...
...civic repertory tickets Now sold at totcn hall For some time the Civic Repertory Theatre has been seeking an appropriate place in the theatrical district, in which to install box office service, to save patrons a trip downtown to purchase tickets, in addition to the ride to see the plays...
...His Lucky Day" another hilarious Reginald Denny comedy, and "The River of Romance" (adapted from Booth Tarkington's romantic story of the gallant South, "Magnolia") featuring Buddy Rogers, make up the program for Monday and Tuesday, September 30 and October 1. The double feature program for Wednesday and Thursday, October a. and 3 Includes, "Masquerade" a comedy adapted from Louis Joseph Vance's novel "The Brass Bowl" and "The Red Dance" a drama with Charles FarreU and Dolores Del Rio...
...The Last of Mrs...
...Tha poetic soul as opposed to the crass, materialistic mind Is the subject of tha evening movement, with nothing more original that a father millionaire and a son who Is determined to make restitution for that father's crimes...
...The practical Joke becomes a rather serious matter for the bachelor, whose confession has been accepted...
...Florence Arliss again plays opposite her husband as Lady Beaconsfield...
...The Cherry Orchard...
...Dewey to Preside at Russell—Durant Debate "Is Modern Education a Failure...
...The principal players are Norma Tenia, star of Ztegfeld's "Show Boat," and J. Harold Murray, a luminary of that producer's "Rio Hit...
...The sketches are, for the most part, amateurish or obvious, though it must be admitted the audience was sympathetic...
...Tet "Sweethearts" pleases...
...A Hungarian prtmsdonna, Irene Palasty, also makes her-American screen debut in the production, Schwab and Mandel Join With Paramount Schwab and Mandel, the producers of "The New Moon'- and "Follow Thru," and of numerous successes in the past, announce that they have come to an agreement with Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation whereby they will be associates in motion picture production...
...With the proclaiming of the Independence of that country came the first opportunity to study it with the aid of the filmcamera...
...An through the play the foxy old face of Ben Franklin peers down intently upon the scene as if reminding his brotherloving descendants that honesty may once have been the best policy...
...WUl Durant at Mecca Temple, Sunday evening, Oct...
...Millard Thmas and his Synco-Symphony Orchestra, a new colored orchestra which has arrived in New York via Montreal win furnish music for ths Royal Knickerbocker in both syncopated and symphonic strains...
...Gladys Baxter has a sprightly way about her that catches the fancy...
...In "A Strong Man's House," at the Ambassador...
...George Playhouse is treating its patrons to another gala program this week-end...
...Cape Cod Ponies," however, cannot match that speed...
...Dramatic Moments" In New York, what was not old stuff, was easily guessed with the first words...
...This melodrama by Alexander Bisson, was produced in Paris on December 15th, 1908, at the Porte Saint Martin Theatre and was adapted to the English stage by John Raphaelson...
...Howard Lang as the old man does t good piece of work...
...t»t loomed large and Important at the very end as she took a long, lingering bow...
...Peter Joray makes an excellent copy of Queen victoria, but the taste of Ids episodes (bird-droppings from Aristophanes) la questionable...
...Shades of Pound and Frankfurter...
...Featured in the three rooms of the club will be the original King Cole pictures that formerly graced the walls behind the bar at the old hotel...
...composer of "The Chocolate Soldier," who founded this new work on the play by Leopold Jaoobson and Bruno Hardt-Warden...
...Don Enrique, owner of a Msadcan estate, has been away fighting for a few years...
...but the offer of Robert E. Ely, of the Town Hall, has been accepted, and a direct telephone line installed, so that tickets may now be secured at the Town Hall (if not sold out) for any of the Civic Repertory performances at the 14th Street Theatre...
...the Country Store had better stuff, and those who doubt the "piano by aeroplane" may be told that down Hyannis way the electric refrigerator people claim that their enormous Ice-boxes come from Boston In twenty-four minutes, by aeroplane...
...Arliss in "Disraeli" At the Warner Bros...
...Betty has her own way of slipping the idea along...
...Many quaint customs and ceremonies are depicted—the feist and war dances, the quaint old carved timber dwellings and heirlooms preserved by the Maoris, numerous rites, product of a strange dying race whose past history has been a mixture of cannibalism, dignity and culture...
...First Screen Operetta at Roxy "Married to Hollywood...
...The Living Corpse" will be the third production for this year and the sixth Russian play to be offered at the Fourteenth street theatre following in the footsteps of "The Sisters...
...Anthony Bushell, and Michael Viasaroff...
...though it is possible that they may decide to film one or more of their past successes...
...This philosophy, of course, is subordinated to and covered by the dramatic story, Enrique's discovery that love of tha Joys of life, that lusty Indulgence and sex, play also their great part In the lives of those not wholly dedicated to holy freedom...
...perhaps most of them (like this less enraptured reviewer) spent their vacation on the Cape...
...Madame X" was adapted as a talking film by WUlard Mack...
...28th...
...Be exhibits not the determined freedom of one who says, of set purpose, that he win not be repressed...
...Its world premiere was In 1911 at the Moscow Art Theatre...
...The first act leaves one cold, unsympathetic and not the least disturbed by either the dialogue or the histrionic ability of the players...
...Hale, under the personal lapervision of Louis K- Sidney...
...Bourrat," already announced for October 7th...
...September 27, 28 and 29...
...News And Comment of the Theatre The Stage The Movies Music THE WEEK ON THE STAGE By Joseph T. Shipley REVOLUTION EN MEXICO t VNTC expects to find s masssga m any "work of that Inveterate proletarian...
...THE OCEAN ROLLS •* the Bijou, the "Cape Cod Follies" '•» thsir bid for New York attention, " the less they say...
...We were to them not only foreigners but also 'Kafirs,' infidels, whom a pious Mohammedan may not admit to bis home, with whom he may not eat at the same table, before whom he may not disclose his mode of living, etc...
...J. H. Tolstoy's "Living Corpse" With Ben- Ami as Fedya at Civic Repertory Theatre Eva Le Oamenno announced _ yesterday that she wffl add Tolstoy's "The Living Corpse" with Jacob Ben-Ami as Fedya to the Hot of plays to be produced this season by TSp* Civic Repertory Theatre...
...One good lyric there is, the natural "Cranberry Plckln'" song, and ateexel fairly good tones, especially "Clutching at Shadows...
...reminding us that Candida stays with her husband because she knows that her poet, too, is the stronger being...
...On the High Road...
...the settings are effective, Virginia Tenable makes the men's desire of her plausible, and Mike Gold gives free rein to his pleasure of play with sex...
...AN ISLAND MURDER Howard Irving Young has made murder natural in "Hawk Island," presented by Thomas KIlpatrick at the Longacre...
...In order to modernise the thematic music of the operetta, several compositions have been contributed by Dave Stamper, popular American song-writer, with lyrics provided by Harlan Thompson...
...comic work of Richard Powell, "? his facial control...
...The decorations of the Royal Room and King Cole Room will be by Faigle, especially imported-'from Vienna to decorate what once was the glory of the Hotel Knickerbocker...
...In 'A Strong Man's House," Janet and the others take more time to recognise that a ooneern for things other than money, a leek of interest in the underhand tricks and what are politely caned political measures by which it Is hoarded end guarded, do not necessarily imply a mollycoddle nature, may indeed accompany strength of character...
...His Royal Room win be in blue, grey and silver in the modernistic manner, showing the latest European effects...
...Playhouse beginning Saturday, Sept...
...In Afghanistan we met with an obstacle peculiar to that country: The extreme religious fanaticism of the population and Its distrust of strangers...
...Maori Film at 55th Street "The Romance of Hine-Moa," the Maori film produced by Gustave Pauli in New Zealand from an old Maori legend and enacted by a cast entirely composed of natives, will have its American premisre at the 55th St...
...Dorothy TJeweflyn hu many of the charms of youth, but would probably have been bettor had she, too, hen silent—or at least not sliighsi...
...We had to learn everything anew...
...Which gives the lad a sounder philosophy than such a youth might be expected to have...
...At the Capitol Joseph Santley and Ivy Sawyer (Mrs...
...One of the guests discovers the hoax, and with sufficient, reason to desire the death of the supposed victim, actually does commit the murder...
...It Is always more difficult to make documentary films abroad than at home...
...Before we accustomed ourselves to this bewildering variety and began making out what was what, we had already covered hundreds of miles...
...These pictures are incorporated in the settings of the new King Cole Room...
...Hard to Get' at the Strand Dorothy Marram In 'Hard to Get," her latest all talking picture with Charles Delaney as her leading man, win be presented at the Mark Strand Theatre beginning Friday...
...Hard to Get" was directed by William Beaudtne from the story by Edna Ferber...
...Ruth Chatterton, Lewis Stone and Raymond Hackett head the cast of notable players assembled for the production...
...One of the very attractive things about the play is Lita Torgerson, who plays a small part...
...The Civic Repertory Interpretation of Tolstoy's play will be from the literal translation, using the literal title...
...In the screen version Mrs...
...and the rest of the cast carries on effectively, to —ake "A Strong Man's House" better "¦>-n Its story...
...The population of Afghanistan consists of many tribes speaking many languages...
...Betty Barr, by Just wanting about the stage, made ws feel that "those Puritans" were not an the solemn-faced psahn-hrtonmg good folk some used to think them...
...The Living Corpse" has become recognised as one of the few classics evolved In the modern theatre...
...27th) and will be seen at this theatre for the first time at popular prices, is the first feature to be directed by Lionel Barrymore...
...The effect of the murder is made more gruesome by the distant shrills of ship sirens, the constant warning clang of life-buoys, and the dim, far reaching search light from a ship...
...his quartet "Pilgrims of Love" 'i three others, of course—obviously "r, but otherwise a Gilbert and SrUivan moment...
...the more they isl The few excellent numbers, in•'—i, are- virtually silent...
...To an this the younger brother makes pleasant opposition, declaring that he win continue to be the old drinking, HTlIng, whoring type of master as long as the peons permit...
...Marine Rambeau, niece of Marjorle Ram beau, famous stage star, and the members of the east of 'School Day Frolics," who make their first appearance on the screen In the first of a series of 12 Kiddle Trouper feature ttee, win make a personal appearance on the stage of the Mark Strand Theatre on Saturday at four o'clock in the afternoon and eight o'clock this evening...
...George The St...
...Mary Nash, despite the unique if not impossible mixture she presents, makes her role live...
...Then Peggy mils, herself amusing m monologue, makes the piano even more eloquently talk...
...8. John Park found bis materials In the goings-on In the law office of a couple of Philadelphia lawyers...
...that their revolution Bust come from their own determination to rise...
...There Is, for Instance, the brief but deft moment of Bobby Fulton and his puppets, of which more would have been pleasant...
...Warner-First National - Stanley Club Dance Thursday, October *rd, win more than mark another milestone in the history of the Warner-First National-Stanley Club...
...This production, however, was a free adaptation and was entitled "Redemption...
...The senior member of the firm of Bradshaw and Crawford, played by Jack Motte, Is the oily, scheming racketeer who uses green law school graduates as window dressing...
...G. H. PHILADELPHIA LAWYER "Philadelphia" has come to the Mansfield Theatre...
...Lester Van makes this strength appear in his playtog...
...Both of these pictures are classed among this year's best productions...
...It win open In mid-November following the first American presentation of Claude Anet's "Mile...
...The best answer, of course, is to subscribe for the season...
...John Dewey will preside...
...Disraeli" was the work of Louis Napoleon Parker, who wrote it particularly for Mr...
...In addition to the King Cole Room, there will be a Brass Rail and Tap Room and a Royal Room finished in modernistic manner...
...Santley) well-known musical comedy favorites, whose last appearance In a musical play was In "Just Fancy," win appear at the Capitol Theatre, beginning Friday (September 27th) in the new Chester Hale 8tage revue "Flower Follies," which has been conceived and | staged by Mr...
...The second act is redeeming in both respects, while the third act disappoints not because of its lack of hair-raising exploits, but because one is dropped from the heights of gripping emotion to the shallowness of the Inevitable happy ending...
...The first American presentation In English was made by Arthur Hopkins at the Plymouth Theatre In October of 1918 with John Ban y mure in the title role...
...Katerlna," and "The See Gull...
...American and English film-expeditions several times attempted to penetrate into Afghanistan, but invariably met with refusal on the part of the Afghan government...
...Arliss' use...
...TRUE STRENGTH ATHEME that lends itself to trite handling has been lifted above the ordinary by the writing of Lee Wilson Dodd, and the acting of Mary Nash...
...New York's newest restaurant and night club at Broadway and 42nd, street, opens tonight, it will return the glories of the old Hotel Knickerbocker to the night life of New York...
...The members of the cast will be introduced by Capt...
...Cheyney," a gay, sophisticated comedy in which Norma Shearer and Basil Rathbone are featured, and "Siberia," a drama of Old Russia, are the two features for Friday, Saturday and Sunday...
...The screen adaptation of "Disraeli" was made by Julian Josephson and its direction was by Alfred E. Green...
...Against an exotic background of tropical flora and fauna, the film tells the old love story of Hine-Moa, maiden of the village and the son of the chief tan...
...But he raised the audience to a high pitch of moral excitement as he turned toward his diploma, his faith in equity and Justice shattered, and lamented, "You're an wrong, Harvard, you're aU wrong...
...and setting, chorus, and music add to the evening's memoried mood...
...It did not take us long to realise how unreliable were most of the pre-revolutionlst books and maps dealing with that country...
...Siberia" at the St...
...but' ths lyrics might have been Improved by a high school versifier...
...on the battle-field he has met the spirit of Tolstoi (In books, of course, and in a disciple's ardor...
...For, despite the delight of lndl- '-"1 numbers, and the rising to a -tic finale, in each act, stronger -i most musical comedies today, the " movement of the piece Is slower, "-'-urely than our post-war mood -rmit...
...The scene of the party is on a rock Island Just large enough to hold the one dwelling, twenty miles off the New England shore...
...John Noble, the director...
...will be debated by Bertrand Russell and Dr...
...This obviousness of its prngissjiliiu detracts from what might have been otherwise a pleasing disguise, in terms of the drama, of a revolutionary philosophy...
...Prominent In the support are David Torrence, Joan Bennett, Doris Lloyd...
...but the fresh delight of one who Just Is not Unfortunately, the other needs of the play, and the disposition of the author, sat his oppositions too starkly, so that the black and the white stand forth, and five minutes after the curtain's rise, one knows every stage of the play's course to the close...
...the first Viennese operetta to be expressly written for the screen, is now being shown at the Roxy Theatre...
...Although American msgaalnea and newspapers printed numberless articles concerning Tolstoy's drama...
...These pictures will be original ideas written and produced for the screen as in the past Schwab and Mandel have written and produced for the stage...
...Mike Gold, and in "Fiesta," which the Provlneetown group has brought to the Garrick Theatre, It Is not far to seek...
...The aTnanca between this hard-boiled nurse and tha money, the frankness of bar movements and speech, the directness of her being, and the playing of Mary Nash hi the role, make the play rise above the type...
...Afghanistan* at the Cameo, Filmed by Vladimir Yerofeyev -It Is only ten years since Europeans obtained access to Afghanistan...
...At first It was difficult for us to get our bearings in the motley mixture of types, costumes and dialects...
...School Day Frolics" wfil be shown as a specially added attraction to the feature picture "Hard to Get" with Dorothy Mackalll...
...In conjunction with the showing of "The Romance of Hine-Moa," Miss Irma Caron, danseuse and foremost exponent of Maori songs and dances, will appear in an atmospheric prologue to the film...
...The poet proves the stronger In the end...
...The entire score Is from the pen of Oscar Straus...
...Appearing in the picture opposite Miss Mackalll and Delaney are Jimmy Finlayson, Louise Fasenda, Jack Oakie, Edmund Burns, Clarissa Selwynne and others...
...Nor are the other characters, the lawyer friend and valiant supporter of the idealistic sad, asd the double-barreled villains, less typical—save for the nurse who guards the millionaire until he dies, and then takes on the task of correcting his son's too spiritual outlook on the world...
...Dizzy's" wife...
...They win hold their first Inaugural Meeting and Dance in the Butterfly Room of the Hotel Pennsylvania...
...Madame X" at Capitol "Madame X," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's screen version of the popular stage melodrama, which comes to the Capitol on Friday ( Sept...
...Thus our expedition," says* Vladimir Yerofeyev, says Vladimir, "had before it the task of rendering the first film-account of that "mysterious land.' "Our efforts to map out a definite plan of work preliminary to our departure, resulted In little success...
Vol. 9 • September 1929 • No. 8
