The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 7, 1927, Page 11

a Pe HHH OH ODODE EOE OMSL OOO OD } On the Screen ewe ee wwe oe or ee & oe oo oe “Vive Days in Paris,” a French , eomedy film starring Nicholas Rim- | sky, the Russian screen star, will be presented at the Times Square | Theatre for one day only, tomorrow | (Sunday), under the direction of the | Equitable Film Company of Paris. | This is the premiere American show- | ing of the film. This picture has been | showing in Paris, Londen and Vienna | because of its novel comedy. “Annie Laurie,” Metro-Goldwyn- | Mayer’s new picture from an original story by Josephine Lovett, with Lillian Gish in the title role, will begin an engagement at the Embassy Theatre, next Wednesday evening. Norman Kerry, Hobart Bosworth, David Tor- rence, Creighton Hale, and Frank | Currier are in the supporting cast. Colleen Moore’s newest film now in production is “Nanghty But Nice,” adopted by Carey Wilsen from Lewis | Allen Browne’s “The Bigamist.” Sup- | porting Miss Moore are Donald Reed, | Claude Gillingwater and Kathryn Me- | Guire. Constance Talmadge’s next pieture | for First National wil! be “Breakfast tefore Sunrise,” Richard Barthelmess is planning his | next. appearance with “The Patent | Leather Kid,” prepared by Winifred | Dunn from Rupert Hughes’ story. Gertrude Atherton’s novel “The Crystal Cup” will be adapted ‘for the screen by Garrett Fort for First Na- | tional. Fort is responsible for the | recent. adaptation of “White Gold.” | * Alice Paton, soprano, will make her | debut at Town Hall Monday evening, in a diversified program of Italian, French, German and English songs, including the aria from “Lucrezia Borgia.” Emanuel Zetlin, violinist, and Frank Sheridan, pianist will appear in joint recital Sunday afternoon at Town Hall. The program ineludes three Sonatas; the D Minor, Op. 108 by Brahms; B-flat Major (Kochel No. 378), Mozart; B Minor, Respighi. R. F. Quinn, hawitone, will give his song recital next Tuesday night at | Town Hall. EDMUND LOWE in the Quirt version of “What Price Glory” at the Sam H. Harris theatre. As Sergeant sereen Clemens Krauss, conductor and di- rector of the municipal opera at Frankfurt-am-Main, will come here as guest conduetor of the New York Symphony Orchestra in the latter part of next season. Mr. Krauss will con- duct the Symphony during March, fol- lowing Fritz Busch, Ossip Gabrilo- witsch and Walter Damrosch. ~— Anna Duncan will give a second dance recital en Sunday evening, May 22 at the Guild Theatre. Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia orchestra, has been granted a leave of absence for the season of 1927-1928. The Beethoven Symphony Orches- tra, beginning next fall, will give'a series of seven subscription concerts with soloists on three Wednesday and four Friday evenings. The New York Symphony Society is making plans to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary next season. Leopold Damrosch directed the first coneert of the orchestra in Steinway Hall on Fourteenth Street, fifty years ago. Snapshot of President Gerardo Machado of Cuba, left, being welcomed to Chicago by “Big Bill” Thompson, mayor, CUBAN PRESIDENT MEETS BILL | Paul Green Writer of American Folk-Plays “In Abraham's was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for 1926, is caHed a “Trail-breaker in the literature of the South” by Frederick Koch, the founder of the Carolina Playmakers a little theatre group whose fame has spread some distance from Carolina, where the organization first produced Paul Green’s folk plays. author HE of T; josom,” which The young instructor of philosophy in the University of North Carolina, was born on a farm in Harnett County in Eastern Carolina, “He is as much a part of North Carolina” continues Mr. Koch, “as the soil from which he springs. His plays are as indigenous as the pine tree to his sand-hills. Like the tree his roots strike deep. And from the raw materials of the land he draws forth the life itself in au- thentic folk-plays. His first play produced by our Carolina Playmakers, ‘The Last of the Lowries,’ a roman- tic tragedy of the Croatan outlaws of Robeson County, was drawn from materials familiar to him since his earliest childhood. The play stirred the audience strangely. Here was a sound artist—a new playwright of tragic power and poctic impulse.” A man of imagination, with a strong yearning for beauty, the ‘glamor and adventure of old tales find colorful expression in his plays. And there is a lyrie note, too, in- trinsie in Green’s dramatic writing— as in the weird strains of the pirate chantey of Bloody Ed in the “Black- beard” play, and in the strange music of the white lady at the spinet in “The Old Man of Edenton.” None the less is this true of his starkly realis- tic drama—a drama of repressed yearnings and of bitter revolt. The twilight singing of the fieldhands in the bleak tragedy of the tenant-farm preacher in “The Lord’s Will,” and the songs of the young folks enjoyin’ themselves on Christmas Eve in “Old Wash Lucas,” translate the ‘neglected lives of the drab scene to the serene rhythm of art. Paul Green is profoundly interested in the creation of a Negro theatre, He is one of the foremost workers in this field today. ‘Such plays as “White Dresses,” “Sam Tucker,” “The End of the Row,” “The Hot Iron,” “The No ’Count Boy” and “In Abra- ham’s Bosom,” have made a distinc- tive contribution to our contemporary drama. They reveal an almost un- canny insight into the charaeter of the negro and a rare feeling for the imagery and the melody of his race life, Proletarian Art Theatre To Give Benefit Tonight The Proletarian Art Theatre will hold a great Festival for the benefit of the Imprisoned Cloakmakers and Furriers at the Labor Temple, 14th Street and Second Avenue, tonight at 8 P. M. There will be recitations by A. Winogradive and Rubin Wandoff, well known artists of the Irving Place Theatre. The presentation of “The Simpleton,” a special recitation by Baruch Lomed; Folk Songs by Mary Ginsberg; “The Awakening of China,” by M. Malkin, and other numbers, H. M. Wicks, editor of The DAILY WORKER, will deliver a special ad- dress. Uncle Sam (Liptzin) the Frei- heit humorist will be chairman. Tickets at 60 cents can be obtained at the office of the Joint Defense Committee, 41 Union Square, Room 714, also at the Freiheit. Gilbert and Sullivan @ans will be pleased to hear that Robert Milton is ' planning to produce “Patience” about May 16, with Vivian Hart in the title role. . ey a } SNS CAE PN spasieainiedbianeats sessment ath ica iacnieiaratig ceca SYLVLA FIELD In “Broadway,” the Jed Harris hit now in its ninth month at the Broad- hurst theatre. Theatre Guild to Do O’Neill’s Newest Play The Theatre Guild has acquired Eugene O’Neill’s “Marco Millions” and will produce the play next sea- son. Negotiations have been carried on with O’Neill, who is now in Ber- muda, “Marco Millions” is that much diseussed play which every important Broadway manager has hed in his possession from time to time, buat which they all relinquished because of what they considered the excessive cost of production. The version which the Guild has acquired has been re- vised by the author from his original drafts. The play deals with the life and times of Marco Polo, and as O'Neill expresses it in the foreword to a pub- lished version issued by Boni & Liv- eright, is “an attempt to render poetic justice to one long famous as a traveler, unjustly world-renowned as a liar but sadly unrecognized by posterity in his true eminence as a man and citizen—-Marco Polo’ of Venice.” The title may be explained by Mareo’s devoted passion to the ac- quisition of money, a passion which grew and grew until he, too, could be counted as a possessor of millions. This is the first play of O'Neill's which has been published prior the stage production. The Guild is planning to stage it in a most am bitious fashion. Two of his plays were revived this season, “Beyond the Horizon” and “Emperor Jones,” but this will be the first for some time. new play a “In Abraham’s. Bosom,” the Pul- itzer prize play, will fe-open at the Provincetown Playhouse tomorréw evening. Frank Wilson, who was in the previous presentation, will hed: the cast. “A La Carte,” Rosalie Stewart's mid-summer revue, will come hete sometime in August. In addition to sketches by George Kelly, the show will imelude Lyrics and music ly Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers, Mabel and Karl Kreck and Norma Gregg. The cast will include Roy Fant, Harriet. Hoctor, Chic Yorke, tose King and William Holbrook. William A. Brady has a new farce, “Uppercuts,” by N. C. Towler and C. W. Bell, which he will try out next month, Bell is the author of “Parlor, Bedroom and Bath” and other farées popular some seasons back.