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INNEW YORKThe Theatric*! Producer Often Has a (of his valuable materials. Toafh life—Hii • Expauea Keep Kifht on After HI* Show Is Closed.NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Among the many odd and Incongruous twists of Broadway is one which causes a producer to keep on 'shelling out'* long after a theatrical production has flopped. laid an egg, or what you will. !Thus a theater man may have tossed all but his shirt Into . a stage failure, only to be faced with the prospect or having to pay the freightage to Cain’s warehouse and then pay storage rental until such time as someone comes along and tniya it or It la re-Jiggered for use in another show.But the fate of stage equipment brought over from Europe Is even odder. Due to the customs regulations the scenery, *t*ge Bets, coatmnes and all the rest are allowed to come In onCy on a run or the play arrangement. It is agreed that oiice the settings have served their purpose, they will cither be re-shipped or destroyed.Well, you can scarcely Imagine a man who already has dropped a heavy sum paying the cartage bnck to Paris or London once his show has folded up.So it is no uncommon thing to wander bnck stage and observe the customs orncew tearing down the scenery and hurling valuable furniture into a broken heap. After a lime, you’ll sco a few of the flunkies carrying the batered tilts out to the nearest vacant lot. and tonchiug a match to it. Whistling n popular air, the stage liunds walk away.There goes $50001 Or maybe 10, or even morel And toe poor producer li03 to foot the bill for the cremationWhatever the wtsenheimera may say about the death of the silent drama, It is not likely to become extinct In Man-! hattan for some time. Whereas the little theaters devoted to the drama have been crumpling up, the little theater^ devoted to the cinema have been growing. There are, at the moment, « at least liBdf ‘ a dozen important' little1 • playhouse® of this sort scattered about the city. They have refused thus far to install sound devices and pack their doom many times a day by taking the jwpular old films out and reviving them for the fans who have not yet succumbed to the cdlluJolcl notse*.These theaters, by the way, were rebels back In the day of ellent films. They were the only places in America where the experiments and effort* of the European makers could bo found. Some of the finest pictures to be made since toe movies were born have been turned down by the Broadway screen palaces, and have never been shown, to the public at largo.It whs in the Little Carnegie, for Instance, that The Passion of Joan of Arc*’ was introduced. And a more beautiful lllni lias never been displayed in this land. Yet it never saw generalrelease. The Carnegie, by the way, is tucked away in the upper Fifties and offers ping pong sets, bridge tables and a dance floor to those waiting a chance for seats, or others who weary of watching the pictures.The Fifty-Fifth Street, toe Cinema Guild Theater in Greenwich Visage, the Little Fifth Avenue and the Cameo are four others which comb the world for llio most interesting efforte of the cameraman's art. These are seldom routine pictures and they are not al-way particularly Interesting or evenhave to look twice to know regular value, is ft great deal the price we are asking. I is gold decorated.Sorry, No Mull or Phonewhem gooEAYETTE TITLEgood fllms—but they generally have some artistic or original quality. It was thanks to them XhsCt a percentage of the public W83 able to see “Potemp-kin, and 'Six Days That Shook the World.” and 'The End of St, Peters* burg and scores of tho new Russian, German, French, Swedish Rnd British films.GILBERT SWAN.(Copyright, 1030,-NEA Service, Inc.)Correction* to Errorkriau(1) One of the galls is miwlng fromtoe windmill. (2) The boy’s'name is i Alfred, os indicated by toe signature; on the drawing board ,and It Is spelled -: bicorreelly In tho girl's .conversation !| lt;3 Tho camel Is an Arabian drum*-1 j dary, which has one hump, lnstcad.pl;. i a Bactrlan camel, which has two humps. (4) The letter E is missing frnm the alphabet on too drawing board. (61 The scrambled word te TUMBLERS.
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Daily News Standard
Uniontown, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Jan 16, 1930
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