The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 12, 1927, Page 12

The Peep-Show ji is Doomed Faragoh, author of “Pinwheel,” wants more life, less black magic in theatre Francis Edwards Faragoh was born in Hungary and came to the United States when he was 14. He has written many short stories and reviewed plays for Pearson’s under the editorship of Frank Harris. His play “Pinwheel” at the Neighborhood Playhouse is a dynamic sketch of New York “in which New York plays all the parts.” Mr. Faragoh is one of the five directors of the New Playwrights Theatre on 52nd street. By FRANCIS EDWARDS FARAGOH. ‘HIS, which they tell you is theatre, is old. Too old, Old theatre for old people. You don’t belong in it, and it does not belong to you. Perhaps it is dead. Possibly it died so long ago that all memory of its death has passed out of our minds— and the mummy is being taken for the real thing. The stinking corpse is always being dressed in new clothes. and palmed. off on you for your nickels or dimes. Let’s forget about it! After all, it is nothing but a stage, a painted plat- form with painted dummies moving on it. What have we—you and I, who are one—got to do with with some- thing that is not ours, not of us, not because of us? The new theatre is coming. Help us build it. We don’t know what it will look like, what it will sound like, we have not yet found the voice for it. But we know that, this theatre is going to be young and virile and mighty and life, The peep-show, portraying with delicate movement and hushed sound the lives of people whose lives are never important, is going. That stingy little space which they say is the stage, is disappearing. No more cur- tains. No more tricks. No more black magic. No more incense and lecherous music. Of course we need new plays as well. And new actors. Above aii. new audiences, Although even the word “audience” is wrong. The new theatre must unite all of us. You, the audience, shall act the parts. And this theatre demands writers who are able to give voice to multi- tudes, who are able to show not puny individuals but masses, who will work not through your intellect but through the emotions. Writers who are not artists but workers—they are the ones we need. Poets who are not com- mentators but participants. Let’s, clean out the theatre. We don’t want paper drawing-rooms, we don’t want gilded altars, nor velvet curtains, nor the false-face of phan- tasy. The new theatre must not merely show and explain, but do. The real thing must come to the stage and the counterfeit must go—which means that you'll have to stand up and play your own life for us—and let us play it with you. . And bring your machines into the theatre. Your hammers and electric wires—every pulsation, rhythm, hun- ger, color and sound of your work. When you get into the theatre, raise : a “ALL BLAH” Gropper snaps Seth Kendall as the candidate for governor in John Howard Lawson’s “Loud Speaker” at the 52nd Street Theatre broad- casting what he thinks of the American government, your voice, Don’t come on tiptoes, don’t whisper, don’t feel that you’re a guest. - Hell—the place is yours. You are expected to do the work. Let’s hear you sing! The theatre is not a temple, not a lecture-room, not the rich man’s parlor. The man who “wrote” the “play” is not a divine genius, unerring and sacred and di- vinely inspired. The actors are just so many dummies. Why are you so timid, then? Why so awed in the presence of your brothers, who should remain your brothers even on the other side of the footlights? Come to the playhouse and bring your own theatre with you! Act your own play! Speak your own words! Join in the singing—that’s the only way you'll ever have theatre! Mary Nash, under the direction of William A. Brady, willbe presented at the Bronx Opera House, begin- ning Monday night, in a drama of the tropics; “Birds of Passage”, prior to its Broadway opening. This play of the South Sea Island is from the pen of Martin Brown. The New Plays . MONDAY “THE MYSTERY SHIP,” a mystery play by Edgar M. Sdicsitnes and Milton Silver, will open Monday night at the Garrick Theatre, presented by Gustay Blum. The cast includes: Marian Swayne, Elizabeth Irving, Wallace Erskine, Sherling Oliver, Joseph R. Garry, Leighton Meehan, Arthur C. Morris, Ellis Me- Clellan, George D. Winn and Robert J. Lance. “MENACE,” a drama of the Orient, by Arthur M. Briliant, will be ushered in Monday night at the 49th Street Theatre. Jack Rose- leigh, Pauline MacLean, Eve Casanova, Tom Reynolds, Maud Durand and Wryley Birch head the cast. the producer. James E. Kenny is TUESDAY “THAT FRENCH LADY,” a comedy by Samuel Shloess, and Neil Twomey starring Louis Mann and Clara Lipman, will be. pre- sented at the Ritz Theatre Tuesday night. Brandon Tynan, Robert Williams, Marie Reichardt, Mary Loane, Marian Stokes and Jean La Motte are the other a in this new Jones and Green production. waa 466 Grand St. Dry” ok 716 Nejc Ahorhoad hisinc every Eve. (except Mon.), Mat. Sat. “PINWHEEL” play of New York, by “The weaesieee of Pantomime, Ballet, The result is an unusually impude nt surprising.”——Joseph Wood Krutch, Parody, Francis Edwards Faragoh. Satire and Jazz. are invoked. and noisy carnival—something always The Nation. 52nd Street, GUILD THEATRE Now in Its 5th Month THE LADDER By J. FRANK DAVIS Thea., 50th Street, WALDORF | East of Broadway. Eve, 8:30,. Mats. Wed. & Sat. The Theatre Guild Acting Cor ompuny in THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV West of Broadway. 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Eves. 60c-Ag B @, W44eR WA\ Read The Daily Worker Every Day ‘pe BROADWAY BRIEFS Charles Hopkins has no less than four plays that he expects to pro- duce next season, The most impor- tant on the list is by A. A, Milne, ll remembered for his “The Dover ”” and called “The Ivory Door.” The other plays listed are: “A Hen Upon a Steeple” by-a young Eng- een Joan Temple; “Man-Fac- WALLACK’S West 42nd __ Street. Evenings 8:30. » Mats. Tues., Wed., Thurs, and Sat. What Anne Brought Home _A New Comedy Drama Bronx Opera House gteeh, ra Ave! Pop. Prices, Mat. Wea, po ag Rosalie Stewart oe tg “DAISY MAYME” sinning Monday, “Birds of Passage” tory,” by Daniel L. James nd “Maid Errant,” by a ee Housum, Maurice Schwartz j is now ing at the Yiddish Art rhea new play called “Human Dust,” de- scribed as “an expressionistic com- edy founded on the jazz era.“ Ossip Dymow, the author of “The Bronx Express,” is responsible for the opus. eee : f ’ a |