The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 8, 1927, Page 12

LAE fo) “Romancing ’Round” at Little Theatre With Helen MacKellar Is Entertaining HERE’S a little bit of Hokum in Enrique: Fernandes Arbos of the! them all, else they would never | Madrid Symphony Orchestra who is | brazen their way on to Broadway.|to come here this season as guest} Pree eeco eee. An Ibsen play without gloom!! An Ibsen play with thrills!! An Ibsen comedy !! WALTER HAMPDEN : HAMPDEN’S THEATRE oe ee ee B'way Columbus 3073 AN ENEMY 2 OF THE PEOPLE at 62°St. Eves. at 8:30 sharp. Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2:30 sharp. There is a good deal of hokum injconductor of the New York Sym-}—— “Romancing ’Round” and those who} Phony Orchestra, will bring with him} go to the theatre for|a@ number of new works of the modern | intellectual stimula-|Spanish school, His programs will) tion instead of for|be Spanish in character and will in-| pure and simple clude compositions by Hallfter, de amusement may} Falla, Corelli, Espla and Turina. wish they had been : e elsewhere, unless they have an eye for the type of plump _ pulcritude that is offered for public consideration by Helen MacKel- lar, the upper and nether extremities | ef the show. Miss MacKellar is aided in her ordeal by. a clever dispenser of gags, in the person of Theodore Westman, who impersonates James Dade of the U. S. Navy. Gag-making is said to be one of the most remunerative by- products of the theatre business and a good gag-shooter is as indispensable to a modern comedy as a cup and cane to a blind panhandler. It appears that Conrad Westervelt, the author of the play had seen his} gaglegger and Miss MacKellar before he started work on the play. For the benefit of the voluptuous blonde, Mr. Westervelt had Neena Dobson, the heroine, born in poor circumstances and of a poorer father, poor in morals as well as wordly goods. To make! Helen MacKellar JANET GAYNOR In “Seventh Heaven,” which will be seen on the Cameo Theatre screen | beginning today. ==—=Music Note=== UNITED ACTORS, Inc. present The LADDER CORT THEATRE 48th STREET EAST OF B’WAY Special Summer Prices—Best Seats,. $2.20 (No performances Saturday) OO at ed eed es eh eet eet A Ce i | The NewPlaywrights Theatre “The Theatre Insurgent” Announces a season of producti THE by PAUL THE ONLY HOME FOR, LABOR PLAYS IN AMERICA ons dramatizing the class war! OPENING OCTOBER 19 with BELT An industrial play with an acetylene flame SIFTON. Other plays to be selected from matters worse this disagreeable par- end fell downstairs and injured his back which gave him another excuse PHILHARMONIC Willem Mengelberg will conduct 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. for dodging a job. r i His daughter Neena was obliged to|the opening concert of the Phil- put on her best bib and ‘tucker and|harmonic Orchestra next Thursday only got as far as 33rd and Broad- evening, at Carnegie Hall. The same way when a big-hearted pedestrian | Program will be repeated on Friday accosted her and for three years she|@fternoon. He will conduct through upheld the family financially while|the concert of Sunday, January 8. upholding her honor. Nobody could| Arturo Toscanini will make his first doubt this after one look at the de-| appearance on January 26 and will lightful Miss Kellar. direct from that time until the end of But Neena’s soul became uplifted the season. In the interval between by her paramour’s philosophy so|Mr. Mengelberg and Mr. Toscanini, much so that she left his room and|Sir Thomas Beecham and Bernardino board and got a job in a restaurant| Molinari will appear as guest con- which is partly owned by her rascally | ductors. : father. There she meets and becomes|. For his opening program Mr. Men- smitten by a sailor. One thing fol-|&elberg has chosen the Beethoven lows another as things usually do Second Symphony, Vivaldi’s Concerto until her discarded bread and butter,| Grosso in A minor, Concerto for wind egged on by her greedy parent dies instruments and orchestra of Vittorio of heart disease in the restaurant| Rieti, and a novelty which will be an- while pressig her to return to his} ounced shortly. nest. Her sailor sweetheart happened BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY to be present when the big-hearted rich man’s heart thumped its last,} The Beethoven Symphony Orches-! but he was not tried on a murder] tra, (Georges Zaslawsky conductor, will | charge, but for failure to arrive at| give its opening concert of the season his ship in time with a chronometer. at Carnegie Hall, Wednesday evening. _ The last act cleared up everything/Mme. Luella Melius will be the solo- nicely and the only casualties are the ist. The program: Egmont Overture, wicked father and the dead. phil- Beethoven; Symphonie fantastique, anderer. Neena married her jolly| Berlioz; Cortege macabre, Copland: sailor and the divers other males that Polonaise, from “Mignon,” Thomias; ‘were in love with her swallowed their | Bell Song, from “Lakme,” Delibes, and Carneval Overture, Dvorak. regret and went their ways. Besides Miss MacKellar and the} _ champion gag-shooter, others who| Richard Crooks will be heard in re- deserve honorable mention are Sally cital at Carnegie Hall, Wednesday Orton, the hard-boiled cutie, who pre- evening, October 26. fers a captain to a gob, all other! things being equal and Charles Ritchie, as the Lieutenant takes his love-making rebuffs without a whim- per. If the playwright is trying to prove anything, he managed to do it with- out attracting my attention. —T. J. O'F. Socrate Barozzi, Roumanian violin- ist, will give his local recital in the Town Hall, Wednesday afternoon, October 26. . ‘Jose Echaniz, Cuban pianist, will make his first appearance of the sea- son at Town Hall, Sunday afternoon, October 16. The program of Dance Moods by Tamiris at the Little Theatre this| Augusta Lenska, contralto of the Sunday evening, will include interpre-| Chicago Opera will give a recital at tations of Debussy, Berger, Paladilhe,|Town Hall, Saturday afternoon, Calleja, Scott, Satie, Powell, Gershwin | October 15. and a dance without music entitled “The Queen Walks in the Garden.” The script for Emil Jannings’s next picture, “Hitting for Heaven,” Finlay Campbell, Canadian bass-|has been translated into three lan- baritone, at his debut recital in Town| guages from the English, German for Hall, Tuesday evening, will sing a|Jannings himself, Swedish for Maur- group of early Italian compositions |itz Stiller, the director, and Russian ‘and also French, Russian, Scotch and|for Olga Baklanova, who is in the English songs. east. The DAILY WORKER has. purchased a special block of tickets. 20D OD EO EMD): LOT SIO AEE OGD AP FEA) LD OLE) SEDO I ART The LADDER. | POPULAR PRICES. Best seats | $2.20. CORT THEATRE, 48th St. | E, of B'way. Eves, 8:30. Mati- nees Wed. and Sat. at 2:30. i H Theatre, 41 St. W. of B’way! National Fys'8:30. Mis Wed.GSat.2:30 “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller, with ANN HARDING—REX CHERRYMAN The Desert Song with Robt. Halliday & Eddie Buxzell 3] ‘ ilth Month y 9 St. & Bway. Evs. 8.30 CASINO Mats: Wed. and Sat. 2.30 Carnegie Hall, Wed. Eve., Oct. 12, 8:30 Beethoven Symphony ORCHESTRA GEORGES ZASLAWSKY, Con- Soloist: LUELLA MELIUS, Soprano Symphonie fantastique, Berlioz; Eg- mont, Beethoven; Carneval, Dvorak; Cortege Macabre, Copland (first. per- formance). Mgt. Haensel & Jones. O——--- $1 CHAMBER MUSIC $1 Six Fri. Eve. Concerts, Nov. 18th; Dec. 9th; Jan. 7th; Feb. 10th; Mar. 16th; Apr. 18th. Flonzaley Quartet Letz Quartet Stringwood Ensemble Mr. & Mrs. David Mannes Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Hughes Tollefsen Trio $1 ARTISTS’ RECITALS $1 Six Fri. Eve. Concerts, Nov. 25th; Dec. 23rd; Jan. 20th; Feb. 24th; Mar. 23rd; Apr. 20th, ie Joseph Szigeti Denishawn School Willem Durieux Washington Irving H. S., Irving Place & 16th St. $1 for subscription to EACH series of six concerts, Both series $2, Mail orders to People’s Symphony Concerts, 32 Union Square (Stuyvesant 9687). Also on sale at Nina Tarasova Elly Ney Lenora Sparkes Macy’s and Wanamaker’s, The music program at the Roxy will include: Irving Aaronson and his Commanders who have been just re- turned from Paris after.a two years engagement. Doris Niles will appear in an Indian Ballet, the 13th Rhapsody of Liszt and “The Ballet of the Stars” are other features. ese nas “For sheer in- terest and dra- ma beats the Snyder case all hollow.” —Alan Dale, “American” j MENGELBERG, Conductor OPENING CONCERTS Carnegie Hall, Thurs. Eve., Oct. 13, at 8:30.—Friday Aft., Oct. 14, at 2:30 Vivaldi—Ferroud—Beethoven—Rieti Carnegie Hall, Sat. Eve., Oct. 15, 8:30 Students’ Carnegie Hall, Sun. Aft., Oct. 16, 3:00 TCHAIKOVSKY—VIVALDI—RIETI Arthur Judson, Mgr. Steinway Piano. TT THEATRE, ul LE W. of B’way. Mats. Wed. & Sat. Romancing ’Round with Helen MackKellar & Ralph Morgan West 44th St., Eve's 8:30 W. Fox presents the Motion Picture - SUNRISE wv 'w'ncrwav By HERMANN SUDERMANN Symphonic Movietone Accompaniment a , Thea, 42d St., W. of B'way Times Sq. pwrtr DAILY, 2:30-8:30 *, A Ree RAT RR AARNTES | pe mE SEpseemtoae,