The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1927, Page 12

“HIGH Take a Little Smile for Thy Stomach’s Sake T the Earl Carroll’s Wallack’s The- atre is one of those plays, “High Gear,” which for many people take the place of the now forbidden wine. They go, see, hear, laugh heartily, and there- fore digest the holiday dinner well. One should criticize not from an artistic stand- point, but from a physiological. “High Gear” is not, as its name would seem to sug- gest, either an in- dustrial play nor yet about auto- Booth It is about a movie-mad Siurley mobiles. wife whose imagination is always several blocks ahead of her slow-go- ing husband’s, It has the usual mis- taken identity plot, same as Shakes- speare used, only now the fabricants of farce have grown cynical. They no longer describe the mistake in identity to resemblance of feature or mere chance, but to deliberate lying by the heroine. This heroine, has been writing the usual uncle some falsehoods about her affluent circumstances, (the petit bourgeois notion of “keeping up ap- pearances” carried a little too far) when he comes to visit and forgive the husband who eloped with his niece; they are afraid to tell him that said husband is only a shipping clerk in a butter and egg house, instead of own- ing the business. The husband is impressed as butler, to put up a front, and then, when necessary to produce a husband, a physician who is nabbed by chance is brot in to act the part. The laughs center around such in- cidents as the attempt of the pseudo- husband to taik like a “secretary to the hens,” and the antics of a cop who steals all his host’s cigars while delivering a pensive lecture on the disappointing propensity of the ma- jority of mankind for “staylin.” And of course the confusion about the bed rooms. Besides a little punch at the police department, Larry E. Johnson, au- thor, has it in for California. Uncle and heroine are born there. But in- stead of haling from some of the properly Spanish named California towns, he has them come out of “Bob’s Corners.” Which I take to be a slam at the old pioneer village of Dutch Corners, name lately changed for real estate purposes to “Ducor.” Well, anyway it’s that kind of a play. It won’t hurt you. The men are good actors; those of the women who are not, are easy to look upon. Shirley Booth, as the “high geared” wife of the shipping clerk, is both. dV Be Basil Sydney Gives Out Plan of the Garrick Playérs ITH the announcement of the Gar- rick players headed by Basil Sydney and Mary Ellis reopening the Gar- rick Theatre on October 24 with Shakespeare’s “The Taming Of the Shrew,” in modern dress, there now comes, in the nature of an interview from Mr. Sydney, some news regard- ing their future policy. “The aim of the theatre, ality." said Mr. Sydney, “will be to try and establish some newer and more! original American and foreign plays, by giving them a justice of cast and | scenery they could not so easily get) in a larger house on account of the | high rental which prohibits the pro- | duction of a costlier imaginative play | from an unknown playwright with | the genius of an O’Neill unless he} had the name of an O'Neill. “Even the name of such a popular authoress as Maurine Watkins has GEAR” EVA LE GALLIENNE. Director and principal player in the Civic Repertory Theatre’s production of “The Good Hope,” which will open Tuesday night at the Fourteenth Street Theatre. not been enough up to now to warrant a protluction for her adaptation from the Italian of ‘Death Takes a Holi- day.’ . This was.a play she completed along with ‘The Devil’s Diary’ after her ‘Chicago’ was produced. Both of these new plays, being of a different calibre than ‘Chicago’ and ‘Revelry’ and therefore out of the reckoning of most producers, the Garrick Players intend doing as speedily as’ possible. “Tt is also to be hoped that the long wait an author like O’Neill went through for the promise of a produc- tion of a play like ‘Lazarus Laughed’ can also be forestalled by an organi- zation such as ours with a first-class theatre, scenery and cast.” The association of Basil Sydney and Mary Ellis in this newly-announced venture of theirs at the Garrick start- ing with “The Taming of the Shrew” in modern dress is a logical one, Sydney scored last season with his “Hamlet” in modern \ dress.” The Desert rt Song with Robt. Halliday & Eddie Buzzell 11th Month 62nd St, and Central Park Century West. Evenings at 8:30. Mats. Wed. and Sat., 2:30. W. Fox presents the Motion Picture S U N R I S E sae by W. MURNAU By HERMANN SUDERMANN Symphonic Movietone Accompaniment Thea., 42d St., W. of B'way Times Sq. TWICE DAILY, 2:30-8:30 St. Th W. of B’ E 8:30 49th ** sats’ Wed. & Sat. 2:30. SYNTHETIC SIN A New Play by FREDERIC & ANNIE HATTON With a Stellar Cast. LITTLE | HELEN MacKELLAR nvos. 8:30, |& RALPH MORGAN Eves. 8:30. . | in 1 ‘Romancing *Round’ ed. CAMEO si (285 eta EK OWLy’ dosef Von Sternberg ® ete , CHILLING. iN A FIERY ROMANCE OF rey f «a wiv CLIVE BROOK — ON THE STAGE — FLO MEYERS « BON JOHNS GIRLS JEANIE ~ KEMPER © BAYARD : OTHER KEITH-ALBEE ACTS AER SR RT re, TS eA RRR RBS Nh Spe Ro SET TTR ER eh als SR 7B OR ls Se hea Te A TUESDAY EVENING, October 18th THE CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE OPENS FOR THE SEASON The Play—“The Good Hope” The Author—Heijermans The Director—Eva Le Gallienne THE CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE 105 WEST 14th STREET PHONE CHELSEA 0054 The Pe ee ee The Program Week Oct. 18- 22 | “THE GOOD HOoOPE’—Tu o ey S The Program Week Oct. 24-29 “CRADLE SONG”—Mon., Wed. Mat. Wed. Mat., Thur., “CRADLE SONG’—Wed., Sat. “GOOD HOPH”—Tues., Wed. Mat. ! if The Seal | “THREE SISTERS” — Thurs., “LA. LOCANDIERA’—Fri, of a Sat. © 7g — Fine Play © OF TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR ALL PERFORMANCES oro ee Peerecrce “Thrilling story. Superb play. Enthusiastically received.” ‘ —Times. “A personal triumph for Mr. Hampden.”’—Kve. World. “One of most exciting arrivals of season.”—World. WALTER in Henrik AN ENEMY HAMPDEN &: or THE PEOPLE Eves. ee 8:30 sharp. Mats. Wed. Sat. 2:30 sharp. a ah B’way at 62 St. Columbus 3073 HAMPDEN’S THEATRE I A Theatre Guild Production sees oooorrrr@ PORGY A FOLK PLAY BY DUBOSE AND DOROTHY HEYWARD GUILD THEA. “est 524 St. Evs. 8:30. Mats. Thurs. & Sat. 2:30 . = eeo oo wooed: —-———— , & 19 OY HD EE) AE AEE _ ED 0 1D OED OEE 1D OED VEST NATIONAL {ist_ST._W. of B'WAY Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2:30 A. H. Woods Presents The TRIAL of MARY DUGAN with ANN HARDING and REX CHERRYMAN By BAYARD VEILLER D0 ED Thea., 49th St. Ambassador West of B’way Evs, 8:30. Mat. 2;30. Mats, Wed.& Sat. A. H. Woods Presents - MATRIMONIAL. BED with JOHN T. MURRAY Also May Vokes Lee Patrick Kenneth Hill Lennox Paule Clay Clement ae) DOS 8 aoe) S sctneetestetieetieteetietiemeiete teeter | UNITED ACTORS, Inc. present The LADDER by J. FRANK DAVIS CORT THEATRE 8:30. Mats. Eves. Wed. & Sat. 48th STREET, EAST OF B’WAY The NewPlaywrights 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 sige waa 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 J John Howard Lawson. The DAILY WORKER has “purchased a epecial block of tickets. EP AD CED POLS ND) ED) SD 0A NP) AD ED) OF a IR) OR) DO AD