The Theater Need For True Character in Performance
A critic praises actors who inhabit roles over self, citing Jane Cowl as Melisande and Juliet, and Alfred Brunning and McKay Morris on stage. The piece argues the art improves when performers throw ego aside, embracing master playwrights like Duse, Shaw, Shakespeare, Booth, Salvi, Bernhardt, and others, urging broader support for high drama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garrick
McKay Morris
Alfred Brunning
South
Washington
Metropolitan orchestra and Powers elephants headline theater bill
Hobby Folsom opens with popular song stylings backed by the Metropolitan orchestra directed by Jack Denny. Powers' dancing elephants Jennie Roxie Lena and Julia, trained by George Powers, perform amid war barber and baseball scenes. Jack Benny blends fiddle with patter, Fleurette Jeoffrie sings coloratura, and Chain and Archer perform Not Now with other acts including Aesop's Fables Topics of the Day and the Pathe News Weekly frame the bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alere
Hobby Folsom
Keith
Metropolitan Orchestra
Jack Denny
Miss Folsom
Mr. Benny
Powers
Lena
Jennie
Roxie
Julia
George Powers
Lewis and Gordon
Mme. Basson and Company
Howard Emmett Rogers
Constance A. Robinson
Lowden Adams
Chain and Archer
Jack Benny
Soma
Fleurette Jeoffrie
Balasi
Nathane
Sally
Aesop
Pathe News
Ballets Suedois to stage week at Garrick December 10
The Swedish company Ballets Suedois arrives at Shubert Garrick for a week starting Monday December 10 under Richard Herndon after acclaimed runs in Europe. Highlight opening night ballet Within the Quota features music by Cole Porter. The company includes Jean Porin and Mahon Strandin with a full symphony orchestra, touring from Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Century Theater
New York
Richard Herndon
Shubert-Garrick Theater
Axel F. Wallenberg
United States
Lawrence Townsend
Washington
Les Ballets Suedols
Cole Porter
Mx. Porter
Paris
Linda Lee
Rolf da Mare
Len Ballets Specials
America
Theatre Des Champs- Eilysees
Faris Jean Poriln
Mile Mahon
Chuckles at Gayety Promises British Bomber Burlesque
Dance, song, and costume filled revue "Chuckles" opens at Gayety this week. The show previously toured London and Oxford Music Hall, featuring Chiff Bragdon and Cool Coo Morrissey with Elaine Beaslee leading the London Oxford Girls. Other principals include Pat Kearney, the Stealing Saxo Four, and Emet Baker. Performe rs promise elaborate scenery and novel character turns by Henri Permane with a Four Pashas vaudeville interlude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Bedin
Chuckles
Oxford Music Hall
London
Chiff Bragdon
Cool Coo
Morrisey
Bragdon
Elaine Beaslee
London Oxford Girls
Pat Kearney
Saxo Four
Emet Baker
Henri Permane
Permane
Miss Beaslea
Motoring Through Italy at National Theater
Burton Holmes presents his travelogue Motoring Through Italy at the National Theater this afternoon and again at 3 30 this evening. The illustrated program guides viewers beyond typical tourist routes to Italy’s hill cities Orgiete Assisi Perugia San Giml pano Siena and highlights the Palio in Siena and Dante’s tomb in Ravenna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burton Holmes
Italy
Orgiete
Assisi
Perugia
San Gimlpano
Siena
Republic of
San Mariro
Ravenna
Dante
Mr. Holmes
Burton Helmes
National Theater
Stage listings and show names on today’s bill
National and Strand present Burton Holmes Motoring Through Italy and Master Gabriel Captain Kiddo. Gayvety features Jean Bedini Chuckies. Keith's offers Bobby Folsom with Jack Denny and his Metropolitan Orchestra. Belasco stages William Faversham in A Lesson in Love. Cosmos highlights Juvenile Frivolities of 1924. Tomorrow adds Lenore Ulric in RIEL.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burton Holmes
Italy
Gayvyety
Jean Bedini
Tomorrow National
Lenore Ulric
Riel
Keith
Bobby Folsom
Jack Denny
Metropolitan Orchestra
Powers’ Elephants
Belasco
William Faversham
Cosmos
Capital Players Open Season With Follies Plan
Capital Players announce the opening of Capital Follies a two night season December 10 and 11 at Immaculate Conception theater. The program lists multiple one act plays with named performers including Gladys Burnett Florence Lloyd Eddie Beckett Philip Girard and others plus a Kiddies Review featuring several young talents and a long roster of performers and the director Miss Alice Grismond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Campbell
Capital Players
Capital Follies
Immaculate Conception Theater
Gladys Burnett
Florence Lloyd
Eddie Beckett
Philip Girard
Mary McGuire
Emily Considine
Mary Vaccara
Lenora
Hill
William Fletcher
Kiddies Review
Kate I. Buscall
James Mulroe
Eddie L Deckett
Lenora B Will
Tacie Luckett
Interior Department
Lenah J. Talbott
Florence A Lloyd
Richard F. O'Donoghue
Alice Grismond
Dirsotrass
Pianist DePachmann to Give Recital Tomorrow at Poli's Theater
Vladimir DePachmann, famed Chopin interpreter, appears in a recital tomorrow afternoon at Poli's Theater at 4 30 under Mrs. Wilson Greene management. The concert signals his farewell American tour, with a program featuring Beethoven Sonata Pathetique, Chopin pieces, Mendelssohn Song Without Words, Schumann Novellette, Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 8, among others. Few seats remain at Mrs. Wilson Greene's Concert Bureau Droop's Thirteenth and G streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vledimir DePachmann
Poli’s
Wilsom Greene
America
DePachmann
Torm
Beethoven
Chopin
Mendelssohn
Schumann
Liszt
Duse Showed a World of Emotions in Gesture
The October Equity magazine praises actress Sarah Bernhardt? No, it lauds Eleonora Duse. It notes her December 20 Polls Theatre performance in Spettri Ghosts by Ibsen under Morris Gest. Row calls Duse a living gesture, a vibration from the soul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Equity
Actors Equity Association
Whonora Duse
A. William Row
Polls Theater
Henrik Ibsen
Morris Gest
Duse
Rodin
Hera
Jolson the Great to Sign New Shubert Contract
Jolson, star of Bombo and a box office sensation, travels in a $12 000 car gifted by the Shuberts as he eyes a revised stage deal. He earns over 250 000 annually from canned entertainment and will negotiate a fresh contract near Jane with many managers courting him. The Shuberts are favored to secure the deal as Jolson heads to the Shubert-Rerano next week with a new budget of songs and up to date numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al Jolson
Shubert
Jane
Shuberts
Jolson
Washington
Beatrice Audley Love Scene Thrills London and New York
Capt Briquet declares passion and refuses marriage causing a dramatic separation. Beatrice renounces all for true love as audiences hail the scene. The play shifts to family efforts to restore Beatrice to Sir Nevile Moreton and proper conduct while Briquet reveals his true inclinations. Cast includes Gilda Leary and Hugh Buckley with Faversham directing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capt. Briquet
London
New York
Beatrice
Sir Neevile Moreton
Capt
Briquet
Gilda Leary
Beatrice Audley
Hugh Buckley
Sir Nevile Moreton
Mr. Faversham
Lilliputian Actor and Late Frolic Star at Strand
A week long program at the Strand theater features Master Gabriel the 33 inch Lilliputian leading a vaudeville bill with Dorothy Webb and George Mack in support, plus Bob La Galle from the Midnight Frolic on Broadway. The program includes Goldie and Beattie, Lil-Man Faulkner, and film sequences starring Gladys Walton in The Wild Party with a $100,000 libel suit plot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strand Theater
Maater Gabriel
Buster Brown
Jack Lalt
Kida
Gabriel
England
France
Strand
Price Field
Dorothy Webb
George Mack
Bob la Galle
Murray Rubens
Redford and Madden i
Goldie
Beattie
Lil- Man Faulkner
Gladys Waiton
Miss Walton
Robert Ellis
Freeman Wood
Dorothy de Grey
Lewis Sargent
Eather Ralston
Kate Lester
Joseph W. Gir
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Urapptoachadip
Aid Eo Muazeld
Objective
Jane Cowl
Melisande
Janet o@1
Juliet
Romeo
William
Ballets Suedois
Gonpig Oe Beatty
Holmes
Cosmos Theater
Sammy Krevoft
Mordkin
Mandell Sisters
Dorothy Herskind
Miacahua
Laureetta Rhodes
Ruth Watson
Neville Cleeson
Harry L. Webb
Arthur Hill
Marie Quinnell
Earl Bronson
Irene Renee
Gloria Swanson
Allen Dwan
H. B. Warner
Norris
Jolson the Great
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