The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 19, 1927, Page 6

a Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOV. 19, 1927 SNAPSHOTS | Cet ALES By EDWIN ROLFE. | ——— = = eee | ARL is on picket duty. Walking up | Powroreroreoorooce= A Theatre Guild Production and down in front of the huge tex- } tile mill with his banner over shoulder, he whistles a tune to him- | self. It is no ordinary tune, but an improvisation of many songs with Saas “Artists and Models” s” At which he has become familiar during ; = ike—“The International,” “The | Pretty Girl ‘Solidarity Forever.” And ce in a while he breaks out with Ste of the things one can find at/ 3 ’s My Baby. the Winter Garden where “Artists | The three biggest /and Models” is now playing include: , granting the ma-|dancing girls, gorgeous costumes, his fellow stril high-spirited jazz, vaudevillian} confident that his mill] humor, Ted Lewis, brilliant lighting, | on. And he will back |absurd skits revealing Music Thru | to work, | at he has played a@ part in winning the strike. And Carl is thinking of Hannah. and how the Ages, ancient gags, nimble-foot- | ed exhibition dancing, and intimate and heart-breaking songs about Home, happy she will be when she learns}!ove, Mother, and Dear Old Broad- that the strike won. way. But in £ the varicolored ar- Ingenuity is the prime character- ray of t a istic of all these lavish and expensive hummi mind, revues. With high- of his duty an appear in the pressure musical competitjon on Broadway the Brothers Shubert | have not been lag- gard in their duty their gay and clients who | the succes- showings of s luxurious per- with devout regularity. re, the Nordic counter- art of Fanny Brice, does some ex- lent burlesque stuff which, if pre- | sented in the arty domains of the | heatre Guild would undoubtedly be | bed as" brilliant satire. Ted of the tilted plug hat, trailed on of his faithful and rau-| provides the up- to- | sterical jazz numbers, iolins, screeching trom- tumultuous banjc Pearl, the German comedian, much of the lusty humor of | the turn | th ning. Some of the w: however, are pretty terrible. “T am sorry * remarks never los s picket. to jovial attend own. bodily | attain that | cracks, | you have become his friend. ” replied Pearl. “Of course pyoo know what a don’t you?” suggests his fri a | have seen | begin to hasten af-} ter + what has hap-| 7 pened. er, they | ure,” retorts the witty German Carl, lying | ¢° median, “the water comes from the with blood |S!" “huge gashes on his} Of course some of the epigrams g from’ the corners | and nose. And above ng him on the head and tands a brute of | s-buttoned uni- axe better than this one, and besides jthe expression on Pearl’s face and |his curious gait make up for the in- eptitude of some of his observations a on Life. | barely audible Jack Osterman, Broadway mono-| e officer? Y2liogist, is facile and likeable despite and his relentless Furthermore, he is 1dge who recently automobile could jday afternoon at Carnegie Hall. W and Light At The ‘Winter Garden Has s, Anyway GEORGE BER) ARD SHAW Author of “The Doctor which will open Monday Guild Theatre, is Theatre Guild. ( With the Orchestras 1 ——<——<<$<_<_<<<————_—_ PHILE ic Dilemma,” ight at the presented by the Beatrice Hane the British cel- list, will introduce the Delius Con- certo to New York when she appears as soloist with the Philharmonic Or- chestra, Wednesday evening and Fri- il- lem Mengelberg will conduct; other jnumbers on the program are Haydn Symphony in E flat, Debussy’s Iberia | and tique. The Debussy and Stravinsky works Stravinsky’s Scherzo ‘Fantas- -|will be repeated at the fourth stu- concert next Saturday night dents’ at Carnegie Hall. Dunn’s Overture | on Negro Themes and D’Indy’s sym- phony variations, “Istar” will com- plete the program. This Sunday's concert at Carnegie Hall will have Rudolph Ganz as the soloist, playing the Liszt piano con- certo in E flat. The remaining num- bers are the Beethoven Overture to “Leonore” Suite, Rudolf Mengelberg’s Scherzo Sinfonico, and Goldmark’s Negro Rhapsody. Next Sunday the orchestra r too energetic and accom- on $7,500 a year has Over 100 Winter Garden girls are, uppose, an item that ought not be| ced toward the end of this kind | f a discussion. These “models” are | at least from where I was sitting) | remely attractive and alluring. re hereby duly given honor- nention. At any rate, after three hours of kind of entertainment one has the feeling of having dined on an nd eggs for|extra-large portion of confetti. ¢ logical, the | Sender Garlin, ho were be- Penzance,” seen it season, will be restored to NEW YORE polic pertory of the Gilbert and Sul- eled’ ci : ! Ce at the Royale The- will be sung made again middle-aged Thursday, “Iolanthe” on Mon. Maivation A: It is report- | j and “The Mikado” at all other ed that the doubt which | mances, to believe doubt believed x the cop. RANDOLPH ILLIAM HEARST’S | | " ey r sien st Mexico is not j MUSIC AND turning out to be the kind of a baby Tts father ected. The general re- |! action to the ure of Mexican sympathy for raguan anti- | eeelists is: what the devil of it? The New Plays “THE DOC’ TOR'S George Bernard Shaw, w be sented by the Theatre Guild at the Guild Theatre Monday night. In the | east are Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, | Baliol Hollov Dudley Digges, Helen Westley, Earle Larimore, Henry Trav- | ers, Ernest Cossart, Philip Leigh, | Morris Carnovsky, Phyllis Sie and Charles Romano. “PEOPLE DON’T DO SUCH} THINGS” by Edgar M. Schoenberg | and Lyon Mearson will be presented | by Jones and Green at Forty-eighth | Street Theatre Monday. Lynn Over- | man, Stanley Logan, Florence Johns | and Helen Baxter head the cast. “FUNNY FACE” a musical play will open the Alvin, a new playhouse | nd Street, Tuesday night. George | hwin wrote the music, Fred ompsen and Paul Gerard Smith, the | book, and Ira Gershwin contributed | {PHILHARMONIC MENGELBERG, conauctor Carnegie Hall, Sun. Aft, N Soloist: RUDOLPH G BEETHOV Carnegie Hall, Fourth Arthur Juds: The Idinical a of New York KURT SCHINDLER, Mus. Dir. Seven Introducing AND HIS COMPOSE: <2 the lyrics. The chief players are Fred |] SOLOISTS: Mari and Adele Astaire, William Kent, Vic- usete s tor Moore and Allen Kearns. “THE RACKET,” Bartlett Cor- mack’s melodrama opens at the Am- bassador Theatre, Tuesday evening. The chief players are John Cromwell, Marion Coakley, Edward G, Robinson, Norman Foster and Romaine Callen- der. “TAKE THE AIR” Gene Buck’s musical comedy opens at the Waldorf Theatre, Tuesday. Will Mahoney and Trimi head a large cast of featured players. lowska, Benn: abeth Rethberg, Tito Segovii Each program features a special phase, fde or period in m J Tickets at Box Office Mr. Schlusnus uses Steinw Knabe is the official pti orum. BAN, ; GRAND OPERA GALLO’ This Aft. age thipa, Piano of the Plus Tax). | Andres plays its second subscription concert | at the Bore Academy of Music. NEW YORK SOMOS At the concert of eh New York {Symphony Orchestra in Mecca Audi- torium today Paul Kochanski again appear as soloist. Fritz B: will 4 XVI} and Airs, transcribed | Two Slavonic Dances, cone: ca Ay gram: §S mphony in C-Minor, Adolf Busch; Concerto No. 7, Mozart; Sym- piece Franck. phonic Cesar from “Redemption,” | CONCERTS | Se | | u rv the | Direction of 2A AUDITORIUM, Sun. Aft ceca box office open (1 as i, tomorrow }|_ Sonor PAUL KOCHANSKI vy ak and Aj | Dan Tickets at Symphon Mali, 11 | George Engels, 3 VoORAK, way Piano deork ¢ |John Golden Theater ey ae ‘| Two programs of Songs of Italy by Lucilla de Concert Mgt. Dan’'l Mayer, Stainway Piano, Inc, torium — 29 W, 39 Piano Re atte HILSBERG Inc. | PRIDAY WASHINGT: TARASOVA te 18 In first concert of Peoples’ Artists’ Recitals seri including concert st DOL) LAR. Six concert rtists on th iption les’ most ze, noted by subs il orders 32 oO Knabe Piano No. 3 Grieg’s Peer Gynt Yehudi Menuhin, ten year old boy nist, will appear as soloist at the ts Friday evening in Carnegie | Hall and next Senay. afternoon in The complete pro- FRITZ BU bi » at 3 oe MAX RE e ‘ seni weg 5 ried ee jof the musical life in Russia is the Two Slav- Steinway t. VESCOVI | brilliancy. m= and 'USICAL LIFE in the Soviet Union pe" is still very intensive, not only because of the musical talent of the |Russians, but also because of their great love of music. Music for them jis not a diversion, but life’s daily | necessity. Thus reports Alexandre | Borowsky, noted pianist, in Musical America, following his recent tour - |through Soviet Russia. The artist notes that the audiences | which attend the concerts have com- pletely changed since the time of the revolution. Youth for the most part dominates the new concertgoers, which welcome eagerly every new musical feature. If, on one hand, this public lacks competence, because of small experience, on the other hand it is free from any misleading thoughts, and its judging is not influenced by any professional criticisms. During the interpretation the pub- lic is rather sober, but if the artists jare liked, the audience will not let {them leave the stage and, without , {any consideration of time, is willing and ready to hear them to any length. and powerful music, glaring in colors. | Therefore Beethoven, | kofieft are, for example, among the most beloved and appreciated. In spite of the poverty of the in- | habitants, the price of seats is higher | than in France or Germany. | example, they charge between forty jcents and two dollars for a place. | Passes or free cards are unknown in ithe Soviet Republic. Opera Carries On. The opera theaters give }premieres every season. heals this year were probably {“The Love of Three Oranges” by Prokofieff (in Moscow) and “The Jump over the Shadow” by Krenek. The ballet in Moscow and Leningrad still flourishes, as under the old régime. Charkow, the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic, possesses jalso an opera house and symphonic lorchestra. In Kieff, a new orchestra. | without conductor, the second in Rus- | sia, has been established. | All the symphonic concerts are sub- | scribed for. The recitals of foreign soloists secure mostly a full house. Mr. Borovsky, for example, gave four recitals in Moscow during two months, and each time played before | 2000 people. He gave thirty-four concerts, during his two and one-half months’ tour, and played in ning towns: in Moscow, Leningrad, onan kow, Kieff, Odessa, Rostoff, Baku, | Tiflis and Erivan. Moscow and Leningrad still possess several The most in- | organizations are the Moscow Persim- | fans, which gives about forty concerts during the season, and the “Gosfil” | Orche stra in Leningrad, which gives |also several symphonic concerts ing the last three years many first pertsbusch and Oscar Fried, The or- chestras possess also several gifted Russian conductors. ne Some foreign virtuosos come to Russia, but not so often as conductors. Russia has some very eminent solo- ists, for example, Igoumnoff, Sofro- nicky, Oborin and Ginsbourg, pianists. ,| After a complete isolation of Rus- |sian music life from abroad during | seven consecutive years (1917-1924), the Soviets began in 1924 to invite \foreign artists for concert tours in the U. S. S. Republie. These artists were, during the first years, ex- clusively foreigners. It was only in the first months of this year that two Russian artists were invited to come from abroad—Serge Prokofieff, ¥ |ithe composer and Mr. Borovsky, pianist. The latter has been invited to make another tour of Russia in 1928, { Orchestra Without Conductor. | One of the most original features Moscow orchestra which plays with- This orchestra has existed for five |years and has ninety musicians. The ) |pick of the orchestra is composed of | the best instrumentalists of the previ- ous Koussevitzky orchestra. Such an orchestra, without a con- ductor, needs a much greater number jof rehearsals than the usual ensemble, | because every member has to know we | not only his part, but the whole mu- ni | si cal piece in detail. . Otherwise he lrisks failure in his task during ae | interpretation. jorchestra really hear the music they late interpreting, instead of follow- jing the conductor’s baton and count- jing, machine-like, the measures at 1OOL | pauses! The tonal effect of the Ledibiadean! Orchestra is/usually very good, re- ymphony | ports Mr. Borovsky, who was a solo- S list with it, but it sometimes lacks in He is convinced that in a few years this orchestra will create its repertory, which will be unsur- passed by any other conducted or- of the Alaskan wilds, will be Nor. man Kerry’s next starring vehicle a‘ | Universal City. {by Irvin Willat. / 2 “The Michigan Kid,” a Rex story |chestra. Modern Creative Tendencies. The creative power of Russian t Tt will be directed|composers is a very intensive one. The new compositions are well print- The present public prefers emotional | their splendid opera-orchestras. Other | Russia’s Musical Life Shows Renewed Vitality Liszt and Pro- | — . Dur- | Series of seven subscription concerts class foreign conductors have gone to | noms Taylor will introduce the Russia, among them Bruno Walter, | musical program with a talk on | Otto Klemperer, Pierre Monteux. | “Heine and His Composers” and Hermann Abendroth, Hans Knap-/ tYeinrich Schlusnus, the German bari- WILLEM MENGELBERG 'PORGY MOVES MONDAY TO REPUBLIC THEATRE ' BY DUBOSE END GOmniE HEYWARD + i GUILD THEA. West 52d St.. Evs. 8:40 H ? MATINEE TODAY 2:40 ‘ ' as} “Thrilling story. Superb play. Enthusiastically received.” —Times. “A personal triumph for Mr. Hampden.”—Eve. World. “One of most exciting arrivals of season.”—World. WALTER | in Henrik AN ENEMY Ib. i HAMPDEN 2: og THE PEOPLE HAMPDEN’S THEATRE byy33 sere || Bree Se UNRSP: earn. The brilliant conductér of the Phil- harmonic who will direct the four concerts of the orchestra next week. ed by the governmental editions. In opposition to the modern European composers, who begin to be more and more conservative and simple in their works, and who appreciate not only Bach and Scarlatti, but even} - Ye , MATS. WED and SAT. by Miles nes wall RICHARD BIRD JOAN MACLEAN « ANN ANDREWS. Rossini and Gounod—young Russian | composers are inclined to the most | atonal music, to the complete free- | dom of form and to the breaking of melodieal line. They are influenced chiefly by Skriabin in his last works and by Prokofieff. What will come of this interesting bacchanalia of sound is difficult to say at present. But the interest in new music is a great one in present- day Russia, which corresponds to the general interest shown by the masses to all new features of life. =—=Screen No te | UNITED ACTORS, Inc. present The LADDER by J. FRANK DAVIS LYRIC THEATRE? STREET, WEST OF B’WAY Eves. 8:30, Mats. Wed. & Sat. Lucilla de Vescovi, soprano, will give her first program of Italian songs this Sunday evening, at the Golden Theatre. The program will include first performances of works | by Violone, Tedesco, Pratella, Davico, Panizza, Lualdi and DeCecco. Ignace Hillsberg, pianist, gives his recital at the Engineering Auditorium Monday evening. The program in- cludes, Vivaldi concerto, Variations and Fugue by Paderowski, a group of impromptus by Tansman, a new group of Preludes by ChaSsins, waltzes by | | Brahms and Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz. | * Heine evening. will open the | by the Musical Forum of New York tomorrow night at the Guild Theatre. tone, will be the soloist. The pro- gram will include: four Schubert Schumann’s “Dichterliebe”; “Lorelei”; Sinding’s “Ein Strauss’ “Schlechtez Wét- ter”; and three songs from a newly published collection of recently found Hugo Wolf music. Nina Tarasova will appear in re- ecital Friday evening, November 25, at Washington Irving High School under the auspices of People’s Sym- phony Concerts. The concert is given especially for workers and students. Her programme will include a group of Russian songs, French Folk songs and Russian Folklores. Ongeborg Wank, contralto, will gNe a recital, Tuesday evening at Town Hall. Laura Tappen Safford, contralto gives her song program Sunday out a conductor, called “Persimfans.” In this way the members of this. - afternoon at the Guild Theatre. Chanin’s W. 45 § Royale. Mts. Wed.,Sat, | All Performances Except Monday Winthrop Ames “ ” Gilbert & Sullivan Mikado way! OLANTHB" me | Opera Co. tn |__ Mon. Eves. ‘Ro 45 St, W. of B'way Eves, 8:40 OTH Matinecs Wed, & Sat. at 2:40 | Winthrop Ames szni ESCAPE Jokn Galsworthy's with Leslie Howard AAI e Thea, 05 W. 35th. Hv. 8:30 GARRICK wate’ thurs. @ sat, 2:30 New Play BASIL SYDNEY and MARY ELLIS with Garrick Players in the Modern TAMING of the SHREW biway, 4681 Mats. Wed. @ Sat, FULTON Wm. Fox presents the “Motion Picture S U N R I S EB politi by ‘WwW. MURNAU By HERMANN SUDERMANN Symphonic Movietone Accompaniment ‘Thea., 42a St, W. of B'way Times Sq. pwitw batLy, 2:30-8:30 basicly r 138 E. 27th ag near Lexington Ave. Evenings 8:15. GILBERT MILLER Presents MAX REINHARDT’S Incomparable production of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Acted under the personal supervision of Professor Reinhardt by the companies from the Deutsches Theater, Berlin, and the Josefstadt Theatre, Vienna. With symphony orchestra, corps de ballet, and the specially designed scenery and cos- tumes and lighting effects. Evenings 8:00. Mats, Fri. & Sat. 2:00, Prices Evs. $5 to $1. Mats. $3 to $1. 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The Mulberry Bush with James Rennie & Claudette Colber} Bibby ’eok MORDOCK & COMPANY ~ DAVENPORT THEATRE _ Mat. Sat. Phone Madison Sq. 2051 “HAMLET” with BUTLER DAVENPORT and an Excellent Cast. 2:15, The Desert Song with Robt. Hatloae & Eddie Busxzell ond Year IMPERIAL “3? Svenings ao Mats. Wed. and Sat. 2230, a