The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 17, 1927, Page 6

Page Six \ THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1927 Woll Speaks Before Open Shoppers of | Civic Federation Sitting with Archibald E. Steven- son, radical baiter of Lusk Commit- | tee fame, and Ralph M. Easley, chair- man of the executive council of the National Civic Federation, equally a professional patriot, Matthew M. Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, had turned on him the spotlight of attention at the recent annual convention of the N tional Civic Federation, at Hotel Bilt- more, Woll, the acting president of this anti-labor organization, in a talk at- tacked the attempt of the Interbor ough Rapid Transit Company to se- cure an injunction preventing the or- | ganization of the traction workers. “If this attempt succeeds,” Woll stated, “it will stamp the entire American Federation of Labor as an illegal conspira The fifth vice president of the fed- eration made what was construed as tion of Labor policy speech following as it did a} similarly worded speech by Hugh Frayne, New York State organizer of the Federation. Woll predicted that a protest against the injustice of the courts would soon arise which would affect the entire social, political and industrial order. Thus far, it is pointed out, the F. of L. executive council generally have failed to carry into effect its challenges and promises. James T. Shotwell, director of the division of economics and history of the Carnegie Foundation, urged that the United States co-operate with Europe in various peace maneuvers. Representatives of various milita otganizations were in the program | and at times the meeting seemed to be a fountain of war anda. Archibald E. Stevenson, his raids on radical org un- der the Lusk , attacked pacifists and urged military preparedne Various local and _ international unions including the United Mine Workers, have provisions in their by- laws preventing their members from | belonging to the National Civie Fed- eration. tion of Robert E. Sherwocd’s Love Nest,” onening next Thursday at the Comedy. The New Plays | “LOS ANGELES,” a tale of Hol- lywood, by Max Marcin and Donald Ogden Stewart, will open Monday ét the Hudson Theatre. The cast includes Alan Brooks, Alison Skip- worth, Frances Dale, Harold Ver- milyea, Jane Oaker, Mary Robin- son and G. Davison Clark. “PLAYING THE GAME” a new play by Bruce Reynolds, at the Ritz Theatre, Monday night. “JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK,” by Gean O’Casey, will be presented by the Irish Players at the Gallo | Theatre Monday night. “DANTON’S TOD,” by George Buchner, will be Max Reinhardt’s Hhird production opening Tuesday December 19th, at the Century Theatre. The large cast is headed by Paul Hartmann and includes: Lili Dravas, Dagny Servaes, Wlad- mir Sckoloff, and Hans Thimig. “SPRING SONG,” a drama by Virginia Farmer, Tuesday night at [the Bayes Theatre. “THE LOVE NEST,” a satirical comedy by Robert E. Sherwood, i be pr nted Thursday night the Actor-Mana; at the dy Theatre, The cast will in- | : June Walker, Clyde Guy Phillips, Paula True- , Mare Loebell and Albert Car- i. “PARADISE,” by William Hurl- but, Friday night at the Forty- eighth Street Theatre. “WHAT DO WE KNOW,” a new play by Olga Petrova, at Wallack’s 3) £ Max Reinhardt Talks on the Tendencies in the Theatre Some artists have an exuberant per- sonality, which expresses itself in their conversation and in their daily life as well 2s in their work. Others Schubert Centenary Planned for Vienna HE coming year will be notable in| Austria for numerous festivals | | ALISON SKIPWORTH connected with the Schubert cen-| | tenary. The principal celebration will | | % begin on June 3 next, and nearly all| the Vienna music associations taking @ are silent, and part: appear to be in-| At the little town of Modling, south articulate except | of Vienna, the performance of a through they “Singspiel” (a kind of operetta), by brush, the pencil, | Schubert, is planned. At the Fair| the pen, the| Palace an exhibition under the name | piana, or what- of “Schubert and German song” will | ever is the tool of give some idea of his life and work, | ir trade. : also illustrating his period by means | It may surprise of pictures, ete. In July the Festival many to be told that Max Rein- |hardv t.iongs to the latter ¢ gory, for he is a scholar and a critic | |as well as a stage producer of genius. He may not have any great wealth jot original ideas; but he is student with a real fund of knowl- | edge, and he is then an executive art- jist with an unerring and absolutely Ja | conscientious adherence to whatever style he has for the time being adopted. Reinhardt is a small, clean shaven man, his curly hair neatly back f: yeady eyes evidently taking quiet no- during the interview of what was | Here was not only the c |personality of the Salzburg Festive whose dramatic side he has made even more important than the Mozart per- formances that the festival was orig- rst of all | brushed | m his forehead, and his rather | of German Singers wil] be opened by |a concert in the Prater gardens, when | a chorus of 35,000 is to sing. On July} 22 a festival procession of 125,000} persons will take place, culminating | in a ceremony of homage at the his- | toric square, “Burgplatz.” In commemoration of Schubert’s only public concert, on March 26, 1828, the Society of the Friends of Musie will give an exact repetition of |the programme performed on that | day. - “Los Angeles,” a new comedy on [ With the Orchestras Hollywood opening Monday night Will play an important part in ( | at the Hudson Theatre. IW YORK SYMPHUNY | che stage tends to resume its advance into the audience. that are new to New York audiences appear on the pro- | tor, no longer merged into the picture,| gram for tomorrow afternoon’s con- mes three dimensions instead of | cert of the New York Symphony Or- the painted backgrounds in front | chestra in Mecea Auditorium. Fritz As the stage advances, and the ac- two, Fill- |} oe te paDushee eo ihe poe ne of which he was merely-a silhouette, jchief personality, certainly of the! when he did not fade into them alto- |German-speaking theatre and per-| | gether, become more and more inap- The scenery must Saaumne | of the whole world | s ago the s' es of the theatre propriate, Twenty y hree dimensions as well as the actor. vere actors and act Now th It must no longer be merely a con- are producers. t expl stantly changing flat surface. It | much in the evolution of dramatic art. | must be a solid thing. The real bal- | Position of the Producer. “|eony from which in Shakespeare’s i ri jtime Juliet called to Romeo must be | The position of the producer was! yea] baleony once more. The ar- jone of the first subjects of the con- | chitectural stage, erected as a stand- | versation, and it is interesting to note | ing thing, with varying levels, must that Reinhardt regards him as a pro-| take the place of the flat stage with visional or rather a transitional figure| 4 succession of different painted in theatrical development. The ideal | packgrounds. state of things would be one in which the author should perhaps be an ac- vor, as Shakespeare and Moliere were, lout should at least be sufficiently a {man of the theatre to produce his plays. The fact that Shakespeare is said to have The Drama of Ideas. | It is not merely a matter of ad- | vancing the stage and altering the na- ture of the setting. The whole con- ception of a stage-land irretrievably been an indiiferent actor. ae from audienceland must, while Moliere was undoubtedly a|Réinhardt believes, be abolished. very good one, does not affect the | Everything must be done, not only to bring the actor into close touch with his audience, but to persuade the audi- ence that, instead of being distant spectators, they are an integral part of the performance itself.- So you must abolish the curtain. You must bring the characters through the audi- ence on to the stage whenever you can. You must decorate the audi- torium, or part of it, in sympathy with the decoration of the stage. | Both knew the theatre; and as hey knew it and its ways, they could }aot only put their plays upon the stage, but could alter them and allow them to grow in rehearsal, according to the circumstances of their theatre land, above all, the personalities of |cheir actors. It came to the same |ching that Moliere wrote for his own personality, and Shakespeare for that }of Burbage. Both built up their Yr, adu even in, the theatre. Of course, the picture stage will continue to exist, says Reinhardt, for the production of the plays of the few great authors who have happened to write for it; but it is not the stage of If the producer is necessary today, ays Reinhardt, to bridge the gulf be- -ween the authors and their actors, it | 1s really because the authors do not} - Gainie andi be cine fon muah know their business. They write eir ages : RO ae oreo They write their} stage that the authors of the future piays in the solitude of the study— will do their work that is a phrase which Reinhardt used ; several tint They leave it to the; Nor does Reinhardt see a long life producer to translate those plays into | for what, thirty years ago, people trical expression, whereas they | Sed to call the social drama, or for 10t only ought to be capable of doing that other drama which, fifteen years | che translation themselves, but should | people used to call the drama of |compose and adapt and modify their | The genius of an Ibsen and the plays in such sympathy with the thea- | tre that no translation is necessary. ideas, ntellectual power of a iil keep upon the stage the plays | which each has written in the one Authors might begin, he manner and the other; but it is in Bernard Shaw | lanus, Busch will conduct and Edward John- son will be the soloist. The new com- positions are “Ronda Burlesk” by Kurt Striegler and “Suite Capresa” | by Theodore Stearns. The balance of the program follows: Lohengrin Nar- rative “In Fernem Land” from “Loh- engrin,” Wagner; Werbegesang and Freislied from “Die-Meistersinger,” Wagner; Siegfriend’s Rhine Journey from “Gotterdammerung,” Wagner; Overture “Tannhauser,” Wagner. The Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of William Mengelberg, will give a concert at Metropolitan Opera House tomorrow afternoon, with Scip- ione Guidi, violinist and Cornelius Van Vliet, ’cellist, as soloists. The pro- gram: Smetana, Overture to “The Bartered Bride”; Brahms, Concerto for violin and ’cello; Tschaikowsky, “Pathetic” Symphony. Monday evening, at Carnegie Hall the Philharmonic will give a special concert for the benefit of the pension Symphony Society of New York and the following soloists, Harriet Van Barzin, will assist in the orchestra in the following program: Ernest Schel- ling’s, Tone-Poem, “Morocco”; Hein- rich Kaminski’s, “Magnificent” and Zoltan Kodaly’s “Psalmus Hungari- cus.” BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY The Beethoven Symphony Orches ira, Georges Zaslawsky conductor, wil give the third concert in Carnegie Hall, on Wednesday evening, with the pianist, Ignaz Friedman, as the solo- ist. The program: Overture, “Corio- Beethoven; Symphony No. 4, F Minor, Tschaikowsky; Concerto, B Minor, Tschaikowsky; “My Country” (A Scenic Fantasy), Mortimer Wil- idding themselves of the fallacy that it is beneath their dignity to write plays for the special talents of par-| |tiewiar actors. That is just how they | snouid write pla: but te do so tie, | must understand acting. neither of these directions that dram- tie art is tending. | It was not surprising to near Rein \hardt say this, for pernaps his great-, + ic.ure presentations at the Broad- lest talent as a producer is his power,|wey Theatre beginning Monday will |not only of adapting himseif to ‘cir-|include: Charles Chaplin, “A Dog's |cumstances, but of exploiting to the | Life’; Snookums in his latest, ‘““New- jfullest extent the accidents not only |lywed’s Imagination,” and Harold |of the temperaments of his actors but | Lloyd in “From Hand to Mouth.” {of the surroundings of his ge. | Now, what is this stage, whose evo-| p. | lution the modern author must follow | show 1 for which he must write? To say at iL, ;duced by Warner Brothers. that he must follow it is the right) a picturization | word, for it is now growing independ- 3 |ently of him, and he lags behind until aa tet bar SA ee aslo oe is cateliiy/up ead teen posres bo lGormetl Nagel and Myrna Loy portray : é |the principal roles. Not For Isolation. | by stage is certainly not, in Rein- pees opinion, the stage behind a jpicture frame, which was developed |) during the latter part of the | | sighteenth and in the nineteenth c Theatre beginning today will | “The Girl From Chicago,” pro- | Soviet Film Commi: sky is writing the scenario of “The | Last Dictator” for the newly founded | Soviet-German production ar Lunarchar company, | This is |! of Arthur Somers | | | son. Music Notes=== Kochanski will give his violin re- |cital this afternoon at Carnegie Hall, playing the following numbers: Son- ho wili give a group of dances at The DAILY WORKER Fourth Anniversary Celebration at Mecca Temple January 13. ta D Minor, Brahms; Pavane and 3lues by Ravel; Complainte Anda- louse, Cesar Espejo; Dance du Feu, E. de Falla; Trille du Diable, Tartini; Nocturne, Lili Boulanger; Rigaudon, Rameau; Valtz, Brahms; Campanella, Paganini-Kochanski. Pasquale Sannino will present the following program at his recital in Town Hall Monday evening: Sonata in A major, J. S. Bach; Symphonie Espagnole, Lalo; On Wings of Song, Mendelssohn-Achron; Caprice XIII, Paganini-Kreisler; Stimmungen, Jo- seph Achron; Perpetuum mobile, 0. Novacek; Le Streghe (The Witch’s Dance), Paganini. Joseph Szigeti will give a concert on Friday evening, December 23, at the Washington Irving High School. This is Szigeti’s third appearance with the People’s Symphony Concerts. His program consists of numbers by Mozart, Tartini, Bach, Paganini and Strawinsky. Emma Roberts, contralto, will ap- pear in song recital Wednesday eve- ning, December 28, at Town Hall. The Kedroff Quartet is making its fund of the orchestra. The Choral |°¢™ber 27. Emden, Richard Crooks and Leon|New Rochelle on January 3 with his American debut in Town Hall Satur- day evening, January 7. The Malkin Trio appear in recital at Town Hall Tuesday evening, De- Paderewski’s tour, which begins in recital in the High School Auditorium, will take the pianist from coast to coast. Ignaz Friedman will give his only New York recital of the season on | January 14 at Carnegie Hall. Ingeborg Torrup will give a recital of expressionistic dances at the Bijou Theatre this Sunday night. Florence Easton, famous soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, has been en- gaged for the coricert of The DAILY WORKER to be given in Meéca Audi- torium on January 13. Besides her operatic activities, Miss Easton is busy’ this season filling various con- cert engagements. The annual performance of Handel’s dlessiah” will be given by the sratorio Society, Monday Evening, Jecember 26, at Carnegie Hall. The soloists are: Ruth Rogers, Dorma Lee, Arthur Hackett-Granville and Her- bert Gould. | PHIEHER MONIC MENGELBERG, Conductor METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE Afternoon, at 4 A—BRAHMS KY Pension Fund in co-operation with THE PRO-MUSICA SOCIETY, Inc. ury. That isolation within a pictur | Derufa. Scenes will be taken in Ger- |frame is not the form which the | 4?y- stage took the beginnings of the | otis mete modern theatre, and still less in the} The next revival to come to the 55th | Those heatres of Greece and Rome. re theatres made by tors for a and the instinct of the acte: s Reinhardt, is to have the pul round him as much as he can. So the | stage of Shakespeare, like that of the Greeks, advanced into the middle of | the audience, with the result that the actor had his listeners to right and left of him as well as in front. If it Street Cinema, is Cecil B. |The Whispering Chorus,” day. DeMille’s or ” “Grandma’s Boy,” a Harold Lloyd comedy will be shown at Moss’ Cameo this Saturday. Mildred Harris is in the cast. Theatre Friday night, with the au- thor as the star. “CASTE,” by Cosmo Hamilton, Friday night at the Mansfield Theatre with Vivian Martin, Reg- inald Mason, Winifred Kingston, Albert Bruning and Hilda Spong. Charles Bryant, who plays in “And So to Bed” at the Sam H. Harris Theatre, has acquired the film rights receded behind the frame during the eighteenth century, it is because there | were no great dramatists and few) great actors during that time, and|‘o “The Masks of Erwin Reiner,” a possession of the theatre was taken | novel by Jacob Wasserman which thus by opera and ballet, to both of which | far has not been translated into Eng- the picture stage was/suitable. Now| lish. This novel preceded the cele- that the dramatic side of the theatre| brated ‘“World’s Illusion,” by the is once more, gaining the upper hand. pre autho~ | . opening to- | | | Mengelberg and Schelling, Conducting | Assis CARNEG Soloist: 3 NDY—BAKH LING Arthur Judson, Migr. (Steinway) GUILD THEATRE W. 53d St. N. AE'T., DE at B20 SOPRANO | MABE GARRISON (Steinway Piano) TOWN HALL, Mon. Eve. Dee, 19, at 8:15 PASQUALE vio} ST SANNINO Haensel & Jones Mgt. (Mason & Hamlin Piano) | Music and Concerts Night, at 8:30 | of t N.Y. Symphony Under the “RP RITZ BUSCH Direction of MECCA AUDITORIUM Sunday Aft, Dee, 18, at 3 Box Office opens 11 M. Tomorrow EDWARD the Metropolitan Opera Company. JRURT STRIPE Kondo Burlesic (first time in WAGNER, Lo- hengrin’s N ae PUORE sit } st time in Excerpts from M Gotterdammerur Tann- FRIDAY EVENING MBER WASHING'TON IRVING HIGH SCHOOL v 1, an JOSEPH SZIGETI VIOLINIST In second c ert of People: eB” Symphony Artists’ Recitals series. including ee noted concert stage, by subs DOLLAR. “tail orders Peoples phony Concerts, 32 Union Square and at door night of concert, | Winthrop Ame 3 GILBERT Max Reinhardt’s Season Opening Tuesday Evening at 8:00 Sharp “DANTON’S TOD” By GEORGE BUCHNER MIL ER Presents at the CENTURY icatre Mats. Friday & Saturday venings at 8:00 at 2:00-—$3.50 to $1.00 ‘ 00 to $1.00 LAST TWO PERFORMANCES “JEDERMANN” (EVERY LEN) L Matinee Today at 2:20—Hvening S <The Theatre Guild Presents ———————} FORGY A FOLK PLAY BY DUBOSE AND DOROTHY HEYWARD REPUBLIC THEA Matin West 42nd St Wed. and 8:40 2:40 Sat., THEATRE GUILD ACTING CO. in BERNARD SHAW’S COMEDY THE Doctor’s Dilemma GUILD THEATRE 5st tina st. Mais. Thurs, Evs. 8: a and Sat., H ay R Ril ST. Swett vo BAYA MATS. WED. AH: WOODS presents The TRIAL % REDUCTION ON ALL TICKETS BOUGHT THRU DAILY WORKER OFFICE, 108 E. 14th STREET. “THE CENTURIES” By Em Jo Basshe The Fall and Rise of the East Side Masses A Beautiful and Thrilling Play at The New Playwrights Theatre 40 Commerce Street Special Benefit Performance for the Actors ‘ of the Theatre this SUNDAY. Support America’s only group of class-conscious Worker-Actors! A New Playwrights Production GRAND CONCERT Given by the Co-operative of Coney Island and Brighton SUNDAY, NOON, DECEMBER 18 at PITIEN TEMPLE, 21st St., Coney Island. Among the artists will be the*talented FLORENCE STERN, who will give a violin recital, accompanied by SHAFER. Comrades WATTENBERG and SALTZMAN will speak. Workers’ Thea., 65 W. GARRICK wats” thurs ee” $29 | BASIL SYDNEY and MARY with Garrick Players in ne Lie TAMING of the SHREW Chanin's Majestic Th., 44th, W. of B'y Evenings 8:30, Mats, Wed. and Sat. Thrilling Music Play of the Golden West SLOVE CALL The Desert Song with Leonard Ceciy and Eddi 2nd Year . he LHRA,, 45 3t-W.of B’ IMPERIAL civenings 8:30 Mats. Wed. aud Sat,, 2:8 LAWALESw * with MUNL WISaNPR: John Goiden ~Th..W.6s Ms Wed.&Sai < ~~, |Henry ; Mille vail epi! Fabel Nacmecs Wed. & Sat. at 2:49] Grant Mitchell ™ RO TCKING 5 REEL ZASU PITTS in. ‘SUNLIGHT’ eee AT KOMe MONDAY "WAL ae. ssi HAROL LD \¥ so HAND Ate 4 THE STAGE ND ON cs GREAT Pig ALBEE KOMEDY Sit BOOTH > Geo, M. Co! Winthrop Ames ‘American a John Gainer seny “TSCAPE | HE BABY CYCLON t. Royale. Mts.Wed.. at xcept Mon, & Thurs. “Mikado” Onl ‘LOLAN THE” PIRATES OF Euneenon Chanin’s We St Performance: Gilbert ivan Opera Mon ‘churs t Wea. “Mats. play, “Mirrors,” will open at Parsons Theatre, Hartford, on Christmas Day prior to the metropolitan showing. The cast includes Hale Hamilton, The new Milton Herbert Gropper | —_— Another recruit to the’ legitimate: from the ranks of the silent drama is Charles Ray, who will make hig | Broadway debut -in--a’ play called: \“Phoenix.” It is a comedy written by “The Dove,” Norma Talmadge’s lat- the actor himself and will be spon THEMERR, . ALONES with GEORGE M. COHAN Marie Nordstrom, Sylvia Sidney, Patricia Barclay, Raymond Guion and Albert Hackett. , est film, will be shown at the Rialto | | sored by Joseph Shea and Chambers, Theatre beginning Christmas eve. Lat Brown, OS Brera EROS