NEWS AND COMMENT OF THE THEATRE
News And Comment of the Theatre The Stage The Movie* Music THE WEEK ON THE STAGE By Joseph T. Shipley DfTEBNATIONAL RELATIONS 4;C= Nspto *°* Dte" Em*r IUee': comedy at the Vsnderbilt,...
...attempting a lesser thing than O'Neill, he has more fully attained his object...
...While English pruf.ery is perhaps overlaid In contrast to l:-.!iaa frank joy in life, and Russian Cr-aisnt, exsangulnous lust, amid overtones of Rumanian revolution, and while It is the surface of life alone that engages the attention, "See Naples and Die" combines a verbal wit with humor of sltuatlton...
...lucky accidents enable the grim Inspector (well played, incientafiy, by Edward Ellis, who has had many such roles) to leap blank barriers to his conclusion...
...George Patrons of the St George Playhouse wui witness the revival of several of the finest all-talking productions this week...
...The Duncan Dancers At Carnegie Hall A doeen of the Duncan Dancers, under the direction of Irma, are again in this country, and start their tour for this season at Carnegie Hall, with four concerts, Oct...
...8, will be the artistry of Helene Adler, lyric soprano, who made a vivid impression as Oilda in "Rigoietto" during the Company's tour last year...
...A Russian comedy, "When Moscow Laughs" wui be shown on the same program...
...There la no death for Isadora Duncan...
...The cast of "The Weavers" Includes some of Germany's foremost stage and screen artists—Paul Wegener (of "The Golem"), Wilhelm Dieterle (star Ufa player), Theodore Loos (of "Metropolis...
...Such f-.t names as HJordis, Lutoa, Hugo, I"Tsunae, Stephen, Jan, Basil, and Arjtrlo, suggest the mixture that makes tli...
...and was adapted for the screen by J. Grubb Alexander...
...Globe Theatre...
...Hubert Bath and Harry Strafford and rendered by the British International Symphony Orchestra under the direction of the renowned British .conductor, John Reynders, furnishes the musical background of the picture...
...It was adapted to)the audible screen from the play of tbe same name by Charles Bennett...
...American Premiere of the Revolutionary Play, "The Weavers" at 55th Street Gerhart Hauptmarm's world-famous revolutionary drama, 'The Weavers," the most Impetuous of this great German dramatist's works, has finally reached the screen under the direction of Friedrich Zelnick, and wui nave Its American premiere at the 59th St...
...In satire, in melodrama, in light comedy, he has been equally sure, content so far to portray the surface of his creatures, rather than to search the depths of human souls...
...The sparks emanate chiefly from Nanette, whose family's wealth has given her assurance snd . enough education for easy talk, and whose century has combined with this an outspoken indifference to tact, and a sometimes picturesque slang...
...Not content, Indeed, with the mere killing, the two young college men invite their victim's father to dine with them, and serve the meal on tbe casket In which they have deposited the body...
...Star of Bengal" Shines More Brightly Miss Helena Shlpman has been added to the cast of "The Star of Bengal," at the Lyric Hoboken...
...The New York performances begin a tour that goes south to Havana, north to Montreal, and west to the Coast Eva Le Gallienne has written a tribute to Isadora Duncan, the sentiments of which, snd the deep emotional attraction evidenced, win be shared by an who have had the privilege of seeing Isadora herself...
...Joan of Arc" Returns To Little Carnegie "The Passion of Joan of Arc," universally hailed ss one of the greatest of silent films, and a definite contribution to the genuine art of the cinema, to again at the Little Carnegie Playhouse, tor the coming week...
...Eugene O'Neal excels in character analysis, in the probing of human nature and the exhibition of souls tortured by repressions forcing outlet...
...and proves by Its sustained comedy that not all our smart plays come from Hungary, Elmer Rice has taken a long stride toward high comedy, e % ' MUKDEK FOR FTJN - Ip "Rope's End," st the Theatre Masque, Patrick Hamilton takes an idea from De Quincey's essay of Murder, as a Pine Art, and pictures two young men, like Leopold and* Loeb, who seek the thrill of murder for Its own sake...
...Week of Exceptional Pictures at St...
...12th...
...She has played with Jean Lowell on several occasions before, particularly in stock at New Orleans, where Joan, we gather, spent her hours off ship...
...Fired with tbe seal of youth, Hauptmann attacked the landed gentry and factory-owners of 19th Century Germany, contrasting the progress of machines with the unhappy lot of the weavers and flaying the ''system" which wss responsible for It...
...those who have seen It hardly need to be told helen© adler In "rigeletto'* One of tbe attractions, among several of which the Cosmopolitan Opera Association win offer during its season of twenty weeks at tbe Bronx Opera House beginning Oct...
...ALL ABOARD...
...The husband played by William Courtenay, is an Singitth barrister and circumstantial "evidence" to him to Indisputable...
...Few who were reached by her personality and her art wui dissent from the closing words of Miss Le Galileene: "That kind of life cannot die...
...all-talking Vltaphone pleturisation of the phenomenally successful stage play of some years ago, "Divorce Evidence," by J. Du MaePherson, will be presented at tbe Mark Strand Theatre on Friday, October sth...
...FsJconettt...
...Blackmail" at Selwyn Theatre, October 4th Friday evening, October 4th, win serve ss the occasion of the American premiere presentation of "Blackmail", the first alltalking motion picture feature production to be made in Great Britain...
...tbe still chess players who at H"t make a momentous move...
...of s subway trip, doors opening, lights, trains, stations speeding by, passengers hurrying on and off, holding the door for a friend, being Jolted, diving for a seat...
...Sometimes a noise In the audience, elsewhere annoying, comes to be part of the entertainment: before this play had gone far, there was considerable (and recurring) amusement In the spontaneous (and loud) remarks of two naive girls: "I bet he's gonna do it...
...The director of the film to Cart Dreyer, and the star, whose work alone, without considering the novel technique of the film, would make It an outstanding picture, to Mile...
...The picture, acclaimed by the press and public of Great Britain as one of the finest examples of the perfect talking picture yet produced either in this country or England, was directed by Alfred Hitchcock...
...but to anyone who has visited a European "pension," or acquired enough current culture to consider "The New Yorker" light, might reading, the comedy to a contlnuous*r1pple of entertainment...
...It closes with a novelty In regard to the dead man, but less unusual in this it has to manufacture Its road to the criminal...
...The gentlemen named have put the subway on the stage, with a remarkable capture (all, thank God, but the noise...
...The reproduction alone is almost worth a subway ride to the theatre to see...
...The spirit and essence of her prophetic vision win become a part of tbe race itself...
...are different because she danced...
...Now she'll get it...
...As with the radio surlier this season, however, so here the subway serves as a novelty, excellently handled, to carry the story on...
...Those who saw her dance and had eyes to see...
...Beany clever touches add to this picture of life in an Italian boarding house, where nationalities mingle like the varieties of moth in a summer garden...
...It to, to put it mildly, a good small town play—story with acting to match...
...Playhouse beginning Saturday, October 5th...
...Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe and Dorothy Burgess are the featured players in this production...
...The Valiant," the second feature booked on the revival programs, win be presented on Sunday and Monday, October 6 and 7. Paul Muni, who plays the lead in this picture, creates a beautiful and moving character...
...In the columns of he yellow daily, should be obliged to *.ie an evening at "The Love Expert," .ustav Blum's production of John Kirkia trick's play at Waiiack's Theatre...
...Our one disappointment...
...Looping the Loop," a UFA picture featuring Werner" Kraus to the supporting feature on this program...
...Georg John (of "The Last Laugh") and Dlgny Servaes (of "Peter the Great...
...Those who have missed this picture will do well to remedy the oversight...
...Apparently even Christopher Morle}*s intelligentsia public needs a label: "This is a travesty—now you can laugh...
...And ;erve them right...
...PAGE BEATRICE FAIRFAX...
...Girl Overboard" with Mary Philbin and Fred Mackaye win complete the program for Tuesday and Wednesday, October 8 and 9. "The Love Trap" a comedy drama with Neil Hamilton and Laura T* Plante and "Mother Knows Best" wui be shown on Thursday and Friday, October 10 and 11...
...The third feature to be revived is "Thru Different Eyes," an * interesting psychological study...
...and Claudette Colbert brings to the role a fresh naturalness that enhances its movement...
...At the Liberty Theatre they give you death, these murderous days, done by strange fashion In a "Subway Express...
...Dear Lucy Evans, middle-aged American tody from—to it Akron?—Ohio, typifies the tourist...
...This naive level of absorption indicates that, while Able and the Irish are missing, those who liked that famous combination will enJoy "The Love'Expert...
...It is tbe love story of a detective from Scotland Yard ane^ bis sweetheart who kills a man in defense of her honor...
...but an occasional pun out of pain is his sole reach to humor, and his usual Inability to construct a full-length play leads him to complications and piled complexities and distortions...
...On Friday and Saturday, October 5 and 6, "The Fox Movietone Follies," one of the gayest all-talking, dancing and singing features will be presented...
...Elmer Rice, on the other band, in various moods and types of play, has shown himself a consistent builder, a craftsman competent, and an "exterior decorator" of unusual dexterity...
...the sudlence, that to, knows what has happened, to awsre all along of the situation and watches the thread tightening around the necks of the two bravadoes—for their deed, once done, twists back into their consciousness, If not their conscience, to ultimate self-betrayal...
...zSM artisans from Mexico to aeeUTSv^^H details, and other person tevsrsa^aajj represented tn the final piJ*** to be displayed...
...Filmed In s manner closely resembling "Potemkin," "The Weavers" has been received in Europe as a satire picture of our own times...
...Waterloo" Brooklyn Premiere at Momart Heralded as the outstanding motion picture of the season In Germany, "Waterloo", depicting the downfall of Napoleon from the Anglo-Prussian standpoint, has its premiere Brooklyn showing at the Momart, "Brooklyn's Little Art Theatre...
...On Trial" showed an ease of construction taat, suavely persuasive, permits the playwright now to disregard considerations of play-bull ding, closing with accidental solutions (as In the present comedy), knowing they will be accepted for other merits...
...However, it takes a poet to trace the tangle...
...Not even the presence of a celebrated authoress and ex-sailor should be allowed to curb the spirit of fun in the face of the old-time exaggerate turbulence—even though the program calls it a "new" play...
...All those who have ever written eager or anguished notes to those heart-healers who ten when snd whom to marry, and '-aw not to go astray...
...demonstration that Elmer Rice I f- moat versatile of our Important playt '-hts...
...See Naples and Die" may, as Nanette says "of the Prince, bear caviar to the general...
...The Selwyn Theatre has been acquired for the showing of England's first 100% audible effort...
...N "Blackmail" was produced and recorded st Els tree, London, by British International Pictures, Ltd., and Is being presented in this country under the auspices of the Bono Art—World Wide Pictures, Inc., sponsors of Eddie Dowling's "The Rainbow Man" recently seen at the Selwyn Theatre, and James Cruse's "The Great Gabbo" now showing at the...
...6th and 7th, and matinee and evening of Oct...
...A complete musical score, prepared by the Messrs...
...written by Eva Key Flint snd Martha Madison, but set moving by Cirker and Robblns...
...The cast of "Blackmail", recrusbd largely from the legitimate stage of London, to headed by Donald Calthrop, Army Ondra and John Longdon...
...as well as the moat skilled in his craft...
...and has appeared as soloist with the New York Philharmonic and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras...
...Rio Rita" at Earl cs*gj| Radio Pictures' all-talking, **jbm extravagansa, "Rio Rita", sdsphu*^m the Ziegfeld stage success, corns* at awajj day b> the Earl Carroll *Ihsawa,^jb The'producers, adding up <aP1<*jb that has gone Into the various the production, estimate that atabbj years of intensive effort, on tht shh camera men, extras, stars (oh, stars were hard at work...
...The director, F. Zelnick, now in Hollywood, considers this film his masterpiece, and has appended Hauptmann's own dedication of the drama to his father on the film, after Hauptmann acknowledged Zelnick's faithful transcription of his tumultous drama 'Evidence', World Premiere at The Strand Theatre The world premiere showing of Pauline Frederick in "Evidence," a Warner Bros...
...The story of "Blackmail" as reproduced and recorded for the talking films follows the Bennett play in every particular...
...News And Comment of the Theatre The Stage The Movie* Music THE WEEK ON THE STAGE By Joseph T. Shipley DfTEBNATIONAL RELATIONS 4;C= Nspto *°* Dte" Em*r IUee': comedy at the Vsnderbilt, continue...
...and the like...
...John Howard Lswson is silent, after sad lapse from brilliant promise...
...Indeed, to in what that supposedly emancipate poet does after" he has detected the crime, and forced a confession...
...she probably once was a school teacher...
...these make her the center of animation for the play...
...The world to different because she lived...
...Miss Frederick, famous emotional actress of stage and screen to aided by a superb east including William Courts nay, LoweU Sherman, Conway Tearle, Alex B. Francis, Myraa Loy, Freddie Burke Frederick, Madeline Seymour, Ivan Simpson, Lionel Belmore and many other screen favorites...
...For the melodramatic movement, the "save my husband or I'll drown the child" explosions, are precisely of the sort that crowded houses laugh at nightly across the street in "After Dark, or Neither Maid, Wife, nor Widow...
...The picture was directed by John G. Adolf...
...After playing opposite Irene Castle, Elsie Ferguson, Geraldine Farrar, wd others on the screen, he moved over to the legitimate stage, ranging In his fflHatlons from Anna Held to "Express-L3 Willie", and now, Thompson Bulla nan's sea-and-ihore piece across the rinv Hudson...
...It to a story of the wrecking of a happy home because a husband's faith was not stronger than his doubts...
...It opens wen, with an apparently obvious crime that the first act curtain suddenly makes doubly mysterious (as once in "Cock-Robin...
...Tbe thrills of the play are added to by a touch of the dramatic irony of the Greek tragic style...
...The final disclosure Is not the result of a gradual and natural unfolding of the clues...
...In order to lend a touch of authenticity to the production...
...The passing coachman, atop en invisible carriage, is useful, but less tt than...
...Miss Adler was a recent prise winner ta the contests of the National Federation of Music Clubs...
...MORE FOOLERY Tbe trouble with "Star of Bengal," Thompson Buchanan's play at the Hoboken Lyric, is not that the actors forget once or twice and call Joan Lowell "Joan" Instead of "Jerry," but that the audience insists on taking It seriously...
...William Carleton, the rugged old seacaptain of the play, has done the reverse English, in coming from tatties to the stage...
...For there the "love xpert" Is shown to be no better than Mrs...
...has sung leading rotas with the American Opera Company snd tbe San Carlo Opera Company...
...In tbe meantime, although the crime to solved In advance, the play gains from the fact that the audience shares the criminal's knowledge, and becomes a psychological study Instead of a mere mystery thriller...
...Ex-detective Sergeant Bishop, late of Scotland Yard, was employed by Director Hitchcock to supervise the scenes dealing with the Scotland Yard activities in the picture...
...Evidence" made a profound Impression on the' English and American audiences when it was first produced some years ago and it still offers a powerful argument against snap Justice based on circumstantial evidence...
...Tamara wui again be the soloist In a Russian group...
...moments full...
...The large cast includes Lola Lane, Sue Carol and Stepin Petchit...
...MacCarthy, or any other of your gossipy neighbors...
...Not quite as much can be said for the mystery murder...
...The scenario ta the work of Joseph Belteil, whose book on Joan makes her live with a wholly modern flavor...
Vol. 9 • October 1929 • No. 9
