The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 24, 1927, Page 12

Love on the Dissecting Table Sex Relationships in Theory and in Reality at Little Theatre Matinees r “Lovers and Enemies” by er ~~ Artzybasheff, the matinee au- diences will have an opportunity of} enjoying an excellent treatment of the | eternally interesting love theme by a! talented cast in the Little Theatre where the “The Grand Street Follies” | hold forth nightly. The tragi-comedy | is translated into English by Madame Strindberg. Nicolai Ivanovich, an old professor would rather discuss 1 abstract subject than eat sunflowers, while the equally old but not equally garral- ous Serge Karnovich, army physician, had some definite ideas on the foundations of the love emotion. “A disturbance of the inner secretions” was Karnovich’s explanation of the mystery, but the audience was not left completely at the mercy of a pair of word-juggling philosophers. Half a dozen live subjects were trotted out to test the philosophers’ theories to the great sorrow and pain of the philosophers, because it appears in real life as well as on the stage that the particular emotion called love bestows as weighty a sock-on the philosopher as it does on the dock- walloper or the hill-hilly. Let us see what happened on the stage. Professor Ivanovich thot he was burdened with a fussy wife who made the dust fly around him for three de- cades. She pestered him thru sheer devotion. But he cried like a child in a forest when she died and between sobs admitted that he often wished she died, feeling that she was in the way of his ambition. His. anaemic daughter Valentina was married to a husky person who went by the} name of Peter and the doctor’s quiet ascetic son Pavel was the spouse of a dashing, sensuous woman by the name of Irina. The doctor’s daughter Valeria seemed to Peter to be the girl he was waiting for, but when he is forced to choose between the new flame and the old one, he is undecided, but he | puts enough business into his. love- making to make Valeria happy, so she stages a dance on the veranda of the Ivanovich home to express her joy. While she is dancing to the great delight of Peter, Valentina takes a shot at her, an incident which is taken in good part by all concerned. Indeed had Valentina pulled the trig- ger on a Chicago husband a jury! could not have treated her with more consideration. To give the philosophical duo’s theories wider scope a dashing lieu- tenant in the Imperial Guards, notices that Pavel is quite satisfactory to Trina as a human being but rather in- different as a husband. So he de- cides to supply the deficiency and lays siege to her affections and after a gallant resistance she surrendered unconditionally, which fact came to the ken of Pavel thru the good of- fices of his sister, who did not relish the idea of having a cuckold in the family. This about covers the com- plications. Peter is torn between his passion for Valeria, the sprightly one and his More -seasoned, more tender and memory-filled love for his lawful wife. In fact it appears that Peter, RALPH MORGAN a \? . » eo ents / anne i a A it ik he ane UNITED ACTORS, Inc. present The LADDE by J. FRANK DAVIS 48th STREET CORT THEATRE gasr or pway Special Summer Prices—Best Seats, $2.20 (No performances Saturday) oT o | Star "Round” a} of “Romancing comedy by Conrad Westervelt, open- ing next Wednesday night at the; Little Theatre. | O20 0D) OD OEE CCIE EE AP OED 0) ED EDO 7 ‘Se yet when Valeria called to say good- | bye to him, much to the lawful’s| wife’s chagrin, fickle Peter, embraces | her and in half a dozen ways con- vinced Valeria and the audience that he was not a one woman’s man. “Every man is capable of loving a thousand women” blurted the physi-| cian to his daughter. There was no shaking of heads in the audience. The fiery Irina returns from a clandestine tryst with the lieutenant and implores Pavel’s forgiveness} which is granted after a discreet period of suspense and the audience left, probably taking stock of its own past and wondering how. close the play they had just seen came to real life and perhaps thinking how futile it is to seek a solution of the relation- ship between the sexes by laws, rules and regulations, and what a travesty on virtue this marriage system is that binds two incompatible individuals to each other for life with a divorce svit the only avenue of escape, and that a costly luxury. Intelligence is written all over the piece and Leo N. Bulgakov, as Ivano- | vich, Eva Condon as his wife and} Joanna Roos as Irina perform bril- liantly. The others do as well as they are permitted by their roles. It should be popular when it gets out of its trial matinee swaddling clothes and on to the boards, not as a mere guest but as the star boarder. “Lovers and Enemies” will not be relished by the morons that chuckle over a typical America risque play. —T. J. O'Flaherty. G (4) 0 EE UD 0D TES EE) PED) OLA) ED EID |) EDD “Potemkin” the sensational Russian film, is being held over for a second week at the Cameo Theatre. A great number of the audience have indicated {that they are seeing “Potemkin” for ithe second, and some for the third time. On the same program is a short filin titled “An Alpine §.0.S.,” | which is a drama enacted in the Alps. tho an honest fellow is quite capable of loving the two like a gentleman provided the delicate affair could be engineered without giving pain to the parties of the first, second and third parts. Indeed the learned doctor, furious beeause his daughter looked like the scapegoat in the piece, dis- turbed Valeria when he suggested that Peter would jump at the proposi- tion that she be his mistress on the Q.T. As if afraid that the doctor knew what he was talking about, Valeria kept the proposition a secret. In the, end Valeria makes a tem- porary exit and Peter seems to be happy again, having fallen at his Also a comedy, Lloyd Hamilton in “At Ease.” A new film version of the Carmen story comes to the Roxy Theatre to- day in the Fox feature, “Loves of Carmen,” and which is based on the original novel of Prosper Merimee, not on the more familiar Bizet opera, b ie ro give their dance recital at the Guild Theatre tomorrow night. Alyce Fraser, soprano, will give her | gram will include dances by Debussy, song recital at Town Hall Monday|Bach, W. C. Handy and George wife’s knees in abject repentance. And®evening, October 3rd. Gershwin. 1 LE ALSO EY ES ARCH ELE) LG SE AEDT ARI My The New Playwrights Theatre “The Theatre Insurgent” THE ONLY HOME FOR LABOR PLAYS IN AMERICA Announces a season of productions dramatizing the class war! OPENING OCTOBER 19 with THE BELT An industrial play with an acetylene flame by PAUL SIFTON. Other plays to be selected from SINGING JAILBIRDS, by Upton Sinclair THE CENTURIES, by Em Jo Basshe HOBOKEN BLUES, By Michael Gold PICNIC, by Francis Edwards Faragoh AIRWAYS, INC., by John Dos Passos and a play by John Howard Lawson. By special arrangement for the benefit of The DAILY WORKER. eee ame a a ea ee EAD TE) DD) DED 0 ED ED) ARLE ED) ED) AT EDS MAE ELE OD A) CAD A) ED) EE) FV) SE) LD DO GEO SE Py [Te ‘Temptress A Motion Picture by V. BLASCO IBANEZ Revival of Charlie Chaplin’s “THE CHAMPION” The funniest of his productions : 3 i | ! WALDORF THEATRE, 50th St, East of 7th Ave. | SUNDAY, October 2, 1927 Admission 65c. MUSIC BY MOSCOW TRIO. Major part of house bought by DAILY WORKER and FREIHEIT. J RS Kin ‘ of the year — «y: eve. sun. N Traly- brilliant- Vibtaut—Stirring~scraes @ Fikn “rts Guitd Presentation. pe torgr treet ed -MONDa.z’ SyRCS T OF THE PRESS. If “For sheer in- ’ terest and dra- i ma beats the Snyder case all hollow.” ACTS --Alan Dale, plea See REE ee BL pe | tte te aaye pee. Little Theatre © GRAND cM | 4th St. Ww. of Bway STREET EVS, 8:30. MATINEE SATURDAY ONLY, 2:30 FOLLIES “Potemkin” will shortly be followed y Emil Jannings in “Husbands or iThe title role will be ordained by|LOVers?” supported by Conrad Veidt The Desert Song Dolores Del Rio, with Victor Mc-|224 Elizabeth Bergner. Laglon, in the role of the Toreador and the part of Dan Jose played by Don Alvarado. with Robt. Halliday & Eddie Buzzeill Month llth AS. 89 St. & B’way. Evs. 8.30 C INO Mats, Wed. and Sat. 2.30 —-THEATRE GUILD ACTING CO. The SECOND MAN ILD Thea., W. 52 St. Evs. 8:30 GU Mats. Thurs. & Sat., 2:30 Senia Gluck and Felicia Sorel will The pro- %