The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 26, 1927, Page 11

peter ot. ¥ © Sa ee Symposiwn on Working Class Drama Sunday This Sunday afternoon at the 52nd Street Theatre, the hume of the New Playwrights Theatre, a symposium will be held by a group of writers, dramatists, eritics, actors and direc- tors, on “What Is Working Class Drama.” The speakers so far an- nounced who will take part are: John Howard Lawson, author of “Loud Speaker,” and one of the directors of the New Playwrights group, Mos- saiye Olgin, Joseph Wood Krutch, dvamatie critic of the Nation; Helen Westley, of the Theatre Guild; Elea- nor Wylie, “novelist and poet; and Romney Brent, leading actor of “Loud Speaker.” The audience will be permitted to take part in the dis- cussion from the floor. The meeting will start at 8:30 and the admission is free, | Broadway Briefs The Jitney Players—that itinerant organization of young actors and ac- tresses who roam about New England and Long Island summer resorts with their Ford trucks, announce that Richard Boleslavsky, of the Ameri- can Laboratory Theatre, has been en- gaged to direct their plays. “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” ~ by Anita Loos and John Emerson, will come to the Bronx Opera House for the week beginning Monday. June Walker continues in the role of the . little blonde gold digger, Lorelei Lee, Geoffrey Kerr, Percy Ames, Mrs. Jacques Martin, Adrian Rosley and Georges Romain are other players in the cast. William A. Brady, Jr. and Dwight Deere Wiman, in association with J. H. Del Bondio, have a new mystery melodrama by Leigh Hutty “The House of Shadows,” which they in- tend producing some time in -April. Oscar Wilde’s cnchodyy “The Im- portance of Being Earnest” is shortly toibe produced in musical form by P. T. Rossiter, Robert Hood Bow- ers has written the music and Fran- cis De Witt the lyries, For its first Shakespearean pro- duction of the season, the Repertory Theatre of Boston is offering “Mac- beth.” The tragedy is now in its third week, The cast of Michael Gold’s “Fies- ta,” now being’ rehearsed by Robert Milton for the New Playwrights’ Theatre, and scheduled to open April 6, will include Thomas Chalmers, Hortense Alden, Brandon Peters, Manart Kippen, Albert Perry, Mabel Montgomery and Peggy Allenby. ASTOR—“The Big Parade.” BROADWAY—Charley Chaplin, Harry Langdon and Will Rogers in ae comedies, ; Bustace’s “Thru ff a,film diary of jf Ae CeOE in Fire Brigade,” with }} Charles Ray, May McAvoy and one Holmes. HAN—“The Rough Riders.” | COLONY "White Flannels,” with Louise Dresser, Jason Robards and Virginia Browne Faire. ste” Haines = in. Prevost in “The Night rrison Ford. ey see for Men,” starring Esther Ralsto: RIALTO — “Metropolis,” ‘Germanys newest film sensation. Slide.” _M: TVOLI—"Old Ironsides,” with Wal- lace Beery, Geo: Bancroft, Char- les Farrel ye r Ralston ROXY—"“Wolt's things” by ‘Arthur , Ww Continues in her role of the little ‘gold digger in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” opening at the Bronx Opera House, Monday, A new play by Edward Knoblock and George Rosener, “Speak Easy,” will be put into rehearsal by William B. Friendlander next week. Chamberlain Brown is planning to produce two plays in April. The plays are “The Tightwad,” by Robert Keith, and ‘The Song Bird,” by Fred- eric and Fanny Hatton. |——Sereen Notes—=| “Beethoven,” a Viennese niotion picture is being presented in honor of the Beethoven centenary, this week, in the Wanamaker Auditorium, un- der the auspices of the Austria Amer- _ lea Society. \ Dolores Del Rio, the young Mexi- can actress who is playing Charmaine in the screei. version of “What Price Glory?” at the Sam H. Harris Thea- tre, has been assigned by Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer to the leading part in “The Trail of ’98,” by Robert W. Service, which is being screened by Clarence Brown in Colorado. Herbert Brenon’s latest picture” “The Telephone Girl,” will be shown \ at the Paramount Theatre n@t week. Madge Bellamy, May Allison, Hol- brook Blinn and Lawrence Gray, play the leading roles. ° The Duncan sisters have begun work on “Topsy and Eva,” their first . motion picture, in California. Universal has booked “Potemkin” the Russians revolutionary film, re- cently shown on Broadway, for its theatres in San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit and. Pittsburg. . The Little Theatre, an art cinema house in Washington, will open with this Am- kino production on April 6. “Potem- kin” will get a second showing in New York City when it is shown at the M. & S. Commodore on Second Avenue, April 3. To obtain the panoramie effect of the spectacular sea scenes in the pro- duction of “Old Ironsides” at the Rivoli Theatre, the screen is auto- matically magnified three times its normal size, through the use, for the first time of Magnascope, an in- vention of Lorenzo del Riccio, of Am- sterdam, N. Y., who spent seven” years in perfecting this innovation. Artistic films seem to be taboo in the hinterland, judging by a report from Albany, where a manager was compelled to withdraw “Faust,” -be- oon his patrons complained it was foo “high-brow.” He replaced’ the picture with another, called “Ankles Preferred.” “Faust”. which was shown here at the Capitol Theatre was considered one of the finest films sent us from Germany. METROPOLITAN OPERA “Mignon” will open the week of the Metropolitan Opera, Monday evening with, Mmes. Bori, Talley and Messrs. Gigli and Whitehill. Other operas next week: “Die Meistersinger,” Wednesday afternoon with Mueller, Howard and Kirchhoff, Bohnen. “Faust,” Wednesday evening with Mario, Dalossy and Tokatyan, Chali- apin. “Aida,” Muellar, Branzell and Fullin, Basiola. “Boris Godunoff,” special. matinee Friday with Dalossy, Hunter and Tokatyan, Chaliapin. “Gioconda,” Friday evening with Peralta, Claussen and Gigli, DeLacca: “The King’s Henchman,” Saturday matinee with Easton, Aleock and Chamlee, Tibbett. “Siegfried,”, Saturday night with Larsen-Todsen, Telva and Lauben- thal, Whitehill. | With the Orchestras NEW YORK SYMPHONY Walter Damrosch will give a con- cert performance of . “Gotterdam- merun” at Carnegie Hall next Friday evening, with Florence Austral, Ru- dolf Laubenthal, Frederick Baer, Frederick Patton, Gitla. Erstinn, Claribel Banks and Viola _ as soloists. The program will consist yee por- tions of Act 1, including the duet of Brunhilde and »Siegfried and Sieg- fried’s Rhine Journey and the entire third act, including Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens, Siegfried’s story of his life, Siegfried’s funeral music and _Brunhilde’s Immolation and the End of the Gods. Next Sunday afternoon in Mecca Auditorium, Damrosch will give the folowing program: Symphony in D-minor, Cesar Franck; Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis, Vaughan Williams; Catalonia (A Spanish Rhapsody), Albeniz; March Slav, Tschaikowsky. For his two last concerts of the season, and also his last concerts as regular conductor of the New York Symphony, April 8 and 10, Damrosch will present Beethoven’s Ninth Sym- phony, with a chorus of 250 men and women, supplemented by 75 members of the Schola Cantorum. PHILHARMONIC The BSrakian* Requiem will be played by the Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Wilhelm Furt- waengler next Thursday evening and Friday afternoon, A third perform- ance will be given at the final con- cert of the season on Sunday after- noon, April 3, at the Meiropolitan Opera House. The Choral Symphony Society of New York, consisting of 225 voices will assist. This Sunday afternoon the Philhar- monic appears at the Brooklyn Acad- emy of Music. Ernest Schelling will be the soloist in his own Suite Fan- tastique. Strauss’ Don Juan and the Cesar Franck Symphony complete the program, The last Students’ Concert of the season, next Saturday night, at Car- negie Hall has scheduled the Braun- fels Don Juan; Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration and the Beethoven Fifth Symphony. Mr. Furtwaengler sails on April 7. ===Music Note=== Mischa Levitzki, making his fare- well appearance for New York in Carnegie Hall next Tuesday evening, will include in his program Bach’s Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, Schu- mann’s Etudes Symphoniques, a group of Chopin, a Rhapsody by Liszt and new compositions by Chas- ins and Buzzi-Peccia, . Harry Glickman, violinist, winner of the Paris Cénservatory of Musie = fi Thursday evening with, | MISCHA LEVITZKI Will give his piano recital Tues- day night at Carnegie Hall, his fare- well appearance for two years, first prize, appears in recital at Aeolian Hall next Friday, His pro- gram will include a Mozart concerto and Tartini’s “Devil's Trill.” Efrem Zimbalist will give his fare- well New York recital before leav- ing for a tour of the Orient, on Mon- day evening at Carnegie Hall. Mortimer Wilson’s Suite. “Music and Calories” will have its first per- formance at the last concert of the Chamber Symphony Orchestra, Max Jacobs conductor, at Aeolian Hall this Sunday evening. Benno Moisewitsch will give his piano recital at Aeolian Hall this afternoon. A frée symphony concert, David Mannes conducting, will be given this evening. at the Metropolitan Art Museum. The program will include Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, move- ment from a string quartet and “Coriolanus” overture, and excerpts from Wagner's “Parsifal.” MUSIC AND CON CERTS PHILHARMONIC FURTWAEN GLER, Conductor Last Pair of Thurs. and Fri, Concerts CARNEGIE HALL Thurs. Ev., Mar. 31, at 8:30 Fri, Aft., April 1, at 2:30 with Choral Symphony Society of New York (225. voices) Soloists: Elisabeth Rethberg, Soprane Fraser Gange, Baritone The Brahms Requiem will be given again on Sunday Afternoon, Apri! 2, at the METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE. Carnegie Hall, Sat. Eve., April 2. #¢ 8:30 LAST STUDENTS’ CONCERT Braunfels—Strauss—Reethoven Arthur Judson, Mer. (Ste inway Piand) Concert weg. Arthur nnounces CARNEOHE HALL Mon, Eve. Mar. 28, at 8:30 ZIMBALIST Farewell Recital for Two Years Tickets at Box Office $1.10 to $32.30, (Victor Records) (Steinway Piano.) CARNEGIE HALL April 4—6-—6, Eves. at 9:30 Matinee Wed., April 6, at 2:30 TH ST. DENIS aren DENISHAWN DANCERS Only New Yerk Performances of Season Seats Tbe to $3.30, NOW on Sale, at Carnegie Hall Box Office CARNEGIE HALL Bs Tues, Eve. March 20 PIANO RECITAL LEVITZKI FAREWELL APPERARA FOR TWO YEAans” Concert Fv Mang Mayer, Inc, Judson Awontan Wabi eri, eve: April 1. LIN RBECIT. HARRY GLICKMAN Concert Met. Dan’l’ Mayer Ine, Steinway Piano % }