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20 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 1937 A Calendar for the Week The Lively Arts A Tlieaters WPA Opera 'THE ROMANCE OF A ROBOT" and "LA SERVA PADRONA." Theater of Music. Monday. Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday evenings. FEDERAL ART PROJECT GALLERY (7 38th St.) Exhibition of recent fin prints by 4o artists of the Graphic Arta division of the WPA Federal Project.

Through April 27. Also, at 6 E. 39th Exhibit of WPA sculpture. Including stone reliefs, terra ootta. wood, plaster and alabaster.

FERARGIL (83 B. 57th) Paintings br Lloyd Parson and water colors by Bars Miller. To May 2. FIFTEEN (37 W. 57th) Paintings by Harriet Blackstone.

To May 8. FOLKS ART CENTER (673 5th Avl? Exhibit of Canadian folk art. To April 3a. KARL FREUND ARTS, INC. (50 57th) WPA Music some new songs.

On the same prosrm at the Brooklyn Paramount: 'Racketeers in Exile," with George Bancroft. THE ETERNAL MASK" fAstor. Flatbush. Interesting study in abnormal psychology, about a young doctor who goes tm-pararily mad believing he has killed a patient. German dialogue, English titles.

'THE GOOD EARTH" Astor Sober and painstaking adaptation of the Pearl Buck novel, at its best in Its purely descriptive passages. Miss Buck's readers will probably enjoy all of it, for It's a faithful and fairly inclusive resume of the book. With Paul Muni and Luise Rainer. "THE GOOD OLD SOAK" (Capitol) With Wallace Beery. "THE HOUSE OP SECRETS" (Brooklyn Strand) Mystery melodrama, with Sidney Blackmer.

On the same program: "Girl Loves Boy," with Eric Linden and Cecilia Parker. 'THE WAVE" (Filmarte) Pro-labor Mexican film which fails to full justice to Its theme despite some fine and sensitive photography by Paul Strand. The native Mexicans are good native types but rather stolid under the scrutiny of the movie camera. "THUNDER IN THE CITY" fNew Criterion) With Edward C. Robinson.

"TOP OF THE TOWN" (Albeei Another 4 adventure in glorified vaudeville. Gertrude reset. Hugh Herbert. Mischa Auer and others make it easy and amusing entertainment. On the same program: "Quality Street," a midly whimsical piece from Sir James Barrte.

with lots of bombazines, tresses and Kutherine Hepburn. "WAKE UP AND LIVE" Roxy Variety show, with Walter Winchell, Ben Ber-nie and Alice Faye. BEHIND RED LIGHTS" Lite in a house of ill fame. "J3ABES IN ARMS" (Shubert) A pleasant Hodiers Hart musical peopled wltij likeable youngsters. BOY MEETS GIRL" Cort Theater) A year old and still a funny satli on Hollywood.

BROTHER RAT" (BHtmore Theater) Pun id a military academy. CANDIDA" (Empire) Miss Cornell la Stiaw's comedy. "CURTAIN CALL" (Golden) Drama based an the life of Duse. Ara Gerald In the lead. DEAD END" (Belasco) Theater) Realistic melodrama with a moral.

"EXCURSION" (Vanderbilt) Fantastic comedy about a Coney Island steamboat that coes co sea. Whitford Kane IM the skipper. "FREDERIKA" (Imperial) Lavish musical comedy based on the life of Goethe. HAVING WONDERFUL TIME" (Lyceum) Summer camp comedy by Arthur Kober. HIGH TOR" Martin Beck A fine Hudson River fantasy involving: ghosts and gangsters by Maxwell Anderson.

HITCH YOUR WAGON" 48th St.) Uneven but frequently lunny larce libelling a 'ell known movie actor. Good acttrm helps it a lot KING RICHARD II" St. James) One of the best Shakespearean revivals in years. Superlative work by every one concerned. MISS QUIS" (Henry Miller) Pesey Wwd hflps out a play about a Southern town which is written for good scenes rather than a good comedy.

NAUGHTY NAUGHT" (American Music Hail) A play about Yale at the turn of the century PENNY WISE" (Morosco Kenneth Mac-Kcnna, Irene Purcell and Linda Watkina in a marual comedy. Quite funny. THE AMAZING DR. CLITTERHOU3E" (Hudson) Cednc Hardwlcke In an entertaining crook play. THE ETERNAL ROAD" (Manhattan Opera Houie) A colossal Biblical spectacle, directed by Max Bernhardt, from a script by Franze Werlel.

with music by Kurt Weill THE SHOW IS ON" (Winter Garden) Miss Lilhe and Mr. Lahr at theur best a handsome musical revue. THE WOMEN" (Barry more) A sharp and funny play about the fair sex, with 40 women in the cast. TOBACCO ROAD" (Forrest Theater) Three years old and still popular. TOVARICH" (Plymouth Theater) Successful mixture of light comedy and old-Iashioned sentimentality.

"VICTORIA REGINA" (Broadhurst Theater- One of last season's most satisfying plays. YES. MY DARLING DAUGHTER" (Playhouse; First-rate weekend comedy, with Lucile Watson. Peggy Conklin and Violet Heming. YOU CANT TAKE IT WITH YOU" Theater) The cratiest.

jollies. 1 plays now on view. TODAY FEDERAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Howard Barlow conducting. Federal Theater of Music.

Evening. NEW YORK STATE SYMPHONY BAND. American Museum of Natural Hlstury. 2:30 rxm- HUDSON CONCERT BAND. Bronx County Building.

Afternoon. MANHATTAN CONCERT BAND. Brooklyn Museum. 4 p.m. MONDAY GREENWICH CONCERT ORCHESTRA.

Educational Alliance. 8:15 p.m. TUESDAY GRAMERCY CHAMBER TRIO. P. 8.

25. Bronx. Evening. LENOX THEATER TRIO. Seaman's House, Y.

M. C. A. 6:45 m. NEGRO ART SINGERS.

P. S. 148. Brooklyn. Evening.

WEDNESDAY COMPOSERS FORUM LABORATORY. Compositions by Paolo Gallica and God- dard Lieberson. Theater of Music. MANHATTAN CONCERT BAND. American Museum of Natural History.

2:30 p.m. POLK LORE GROUP. 110th Street Y. W. H.

A Evening. ORPHEUS GROUP. Labor Temple. Eve! ning. THURSDAY NEW YORK STATE SYMPHONIC BAND.

Brooklyn Museum. Afternoon. LENOX CHAMBER TRIO. Y. M.

C. 180 W. 135tb St. 7:30 p.m. CONCERTO OF THE MASTERS.

Mldtown Community Center. Evening. THE RECITALISTS. BowerT Mission. 7 p.m.

FRIDAY FEDERAL MUSIC PROJECT CHAMBER ORCHESTRA. Samuel Gardner conducting. Theater of Music. Evening. So-lotcts: Sascha Jacobsen.

violin; Marie Roemaet-Rosanoff. cello. and Harry Kauaman, piano. The program: Bach Sinlonia in flat: Nardlni Violin Concerto in minor: Miaskovsky Serneata In flat; Beethoven Triple Concerto in c. MANHATTAN CONCERT BAND.

Bronx County Buiiding. Evening. GRAMERCY CHAMBER TRIO Hamilton Fish Park Public Library. Evening. AMERICAN INDIAN LORE GROUP.

8t. Barnabas House. 7:30 p.m. MUSIC MASTERS. Mldtown Community Center.

Evening. SATURDAY LENOX CHAMBER TRIO. Brooklyn Navy Y. M. C.

A. 7.15 rn. Music In Brooklyn TIESDAY EVENING APOLLO CLUB OF BROOKLYN. AJfred Boyce conducting. Susanne Fischer, soprano, soloist.

Spring concert. EUGENE EVENTOVE. violinist. Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. The program: Vitaii-Auer -Chaconne: Mendelssohn Minor Concerto Op.

64; selections by Wleniawski. Samrnartini-EIman, Even-tove, Chaminade-Kreisler. Brahms-Hoch-stein Fibtch. Achron. Sarsate.

THE PACKER CHORAL. Carlyle Duncan conducting. The Chapel of the Institute, 170 Joraiemon St Brooklyn. 8:15 p.m. v-l Orchestras Galleries MONDAY EVENING ORCHESTRETTE CLASSIQUE.

Frederlque Petrides conducting. Carnegie Chamber Music Hall. The program: Leopold Mo-jiart major Symphony; Bach major Violin Concerto; Julia Smith Episode Suite for Small Orchestra; Henry Huss Allegretto Scherzando; Foote Suite tn W. A. Mozart E-flat Symphony No.

39. WEDNESDAY EVENING JUTLLARD SCHOOL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA. Edgar Schenkman conducting. Concert Hali of the Juiiiard School. The urogram.

Vivaidi minor Concerto for 4 vioiina and strine orchestra; Schubert 5th Symphony Whithorne Saturday's Enul Koehler Introduction and Scherzo from a Suite for Chamber Orchestra: Bloch 4 Episodes lor Chamber Orchestra. FRIDAY EVENING ORCHESTRA OP THE 7NSTITUTE OF MUSICAL ART. Wiilem Willeke conducting JuLl.ard Concert Hail. The program Wanner Prelude to "Meis tor-singer" Gluck "Divimtes du Lily Kurtz, soprano; Gried ConvertO in A minor Op. 16; Rtmsky-Korsakof Schharazade.

wuol nu geese in paintings and sculpture. To May 20. RENE GIMPEL 2 E. 57th) Paintings br Van Dongen. GRAND CENTRAL GALLERIES (15 Vanderbilt Ave.) Color wood blocks by Glenn and Treeva Wheete: to May a.

Also, water colors by Spencer Nichols: to April 30. GRANT STUDIOS (110 Remsen St 1- Ex-hibit by members of the Brooklyn Society of Artists. ARTHUR H. HARLOW (620 5th Ave I Paintings and etchings by Carl Rimziui Through April. INTERNATIONAL BUILDING (Rockefeller Center) First regional exhibit of tha American Artists Convtress: paintings, sculpture and graphic arts.

FREDERICK KEPPEL (71 E. 57th) Etchings and drawings by Andrew Butler. KLEEMANN (38 E. 57th) First annual exhibit of American Artists' Drawing. To May 1.

KRAUSHAAR (730 5th Ave.) Painting and sculpture by Harrlette G. Milter To May 8. JOHN LEVY (1 E. 57th) Pictures of old Spanish gardens by Rafaelo S. Yago.

JULIEN LEVY 1602 Madison Ave tm Paintings by Paul Strecker. LIVING AMERICAN ART (55 5th Ave I "Forty-Eight American Pictures at tha Year." To May 9. LILIENFELD (21 E. 57th St.) Group ot works by modern French artists Tc Arjril 29. MACBETH (11 E.

57th) Memorial exhibit of work by Alexander Shilling. PIERRE MATISSE (51 E. 57th St Pastels, water colors and drawings, from Van Gogh to Miro. To May 1. GUY MAYER (41 E.

57th) Prints and drawings by Edmund Blampied. and Chinese porcelains. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM (5th Ave at 86th St.) Contemporary American silver. To May 23. Prints and drawing of architecture.

To April 30. Egyptians acquisitions. 1935-36. MIDTOWN (605 Madison Ave.) Water colors by Eugenie Schein, MILCH (108 W. 57th St.) Water colora by John Whorf.

To April 30 MONTROSS (785 5th Ave. Seventh annual exhibition by an American PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY 129 36th St.) Bookbindings by MarteuertL Duprez Lahey. To May 8. nsueriw MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORIC (5th Ave. at 104th) Paintings and prints on the theme, "Dining in Old New- MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (11 53d) Opening Wednesday: Exhibit of i5o facsimiles of prehistoric rock pictures.

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY (5th Av-at 4d' Graphic art by Charles Shannon. To April 30 Exhibit entitle! "Spot Use of Drawings." To April 30 Also, lithographs by Fantln-Latoux Also' One Hundred Prints ot the Past" Hunl Uai s'" rom the library's coliec- NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH artists' 12th, -work by unemAoyel KARL NIERENDORF (20 W. 53d Paint rngs. water colors and drawings by Lyonel Feinlnger. To May 9 FEN BRUSH CLUB (16 E.

10th) Painting and sculpture by Flora Belle Cruii PROGRESSIVE ARTS (428 W. 57th Paint May 10 Person Thorate. RAYMOND RAYMOND (40 52d -R productions of sketches by Manet. Renoir Degas, Pissarro. Van Gogh.

Cezanne" Rodin and others. REHN (683 5th pastels by Peggy Bacon. a REINHARDT (730 5th Ave .) Portraits by Charl SCHAEFFER i61 E. 57th St.l Four Mint ings bv Rembrandt. Including th discovered "Juno." newiy SCHNEIDER 1485 Madison Ave.) Picture by English artists.

To April 30 SPORTING GALLERY (38 E. 52dl Water coiors. drawings and sketches by Gordon MARIE STERNER (9 E. 57th) 3culptur. by Alice Morgan Wright.

TRICKER (19 W. 57th St.) bw Irene Racz To May 1. by UNDER. WOOD UNDERWOOD (31a exhibition of advertising art. ot UPTOWN (249 Wast End Ave.) Gdjuq show of water colors.

To Mav 7 VALENTINE (19 E. 64th) Drawings h. Picasso. To May 1. "rawing by EN DOME 1364 W.

57th St.) Oils Charles Rogers; paintimts o( car birds and flowers by Fuji Nakamijo. HUDSON D. WALKER (38 E. 57th St I Lithographs, etchings and drawings by Kathe Koliwitz. To May 1.

WALKER (108 E. 57th St. Sculpture and drawings bv Emily Miles. WESTERMANN (24 W. 48th OiLs water coiors and drawings by Lovli Corinth.

German artist. To May 21. WEYHE (794 Lesiirglon Ave.) An'l-war sculptures by Anita Wechsler. To May L. WHITNEY MUSFUM OF AMERICAN ART (10 8th) Retrospective exhibition of drawings and small sculptures by Gaston Lachatse.

To May 7. WILDENSTEIN (19 E. 64th) Paintlnj i By A. Muller-Ury. To May 4.

WOMEN'S CITY CLUB OF NEW YORK (20 W. 51stl Drawings by Albert Sterner; group show of sculpture. To April 30. TAMANAKA (680 5th Ave.) Art object of th ching dynasty. WPA Productions -DR.

FACSTUS" fMaxlne Elliott) A flna production of Marlowe's verse tragedy. "POWER (Rltz New Living newspaper histjry oi electricity in the United PROFESSOR MAMLOCKfc (Daly's! A drama about present -dny Germany by tiie of Sailors of Caiarro." THE SHOW OFF" (Lafayette) Negro version of George Kelly's farce. "THE SUN AND Modern treatment of a Biblical legend. ACKERMANN (50 E. 57th) Mlnlatura wax portraits by Ethel Frances Mundy.

To May 15. A. C. A. GALLERY (52 W.

8th) Paintings by Iver Rose. AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS iBroauway at 155th St. I Sculpture by Anne Hvatt Huntington. To May 2. AMERICAN ART ASSOCLVI ION-ANDERSON GALLERIES 130 E.

57thi Modern paintings and drawings. Degas bronzes, modern etchings, drypoints, from the estate of the late Cornelius J. Sullivan, to be dispersed at public sale on Thursday and Friday evenings and Saturday afternoon. April 29 and 30, and May 1. Also.

200 engravings and etchings from the portfolios of three private collectors, to be sold at auction on Wednesday evening, April 28. English and American first editions from the collection of the late Joseph J. McCann. to be sold on Thursday evening and Friday afternoon. April 29 and 30.

AMERICAN FINE ARTS BUILDING (215 W. 57lhi Fifty-first annual exhibition of the Architectural League of New York. ARGENT (42 W. 57th) Water colors by Films Hippodrome Opera THIS EVENING "CAVAT.I ERIA RUSTIC ANA" and "PAO- LIACCI." with Mmes. Ptlia.

Bruno. Ippoiito and Helal and Messrs Power. Moile. Radaflh D'Amico and Angelmi. Couductor.

Bamboschk. FRIDAY EVENING "AIDA with Mmes Cato and Powers a ad Messrs. Cozzi Zorin arid Conductor, MugnaL TUESDAY EVENING CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OP AMERICA, ilth Avenue Galieries oi the Grand Centr.i; Ar' Galleries. Chamber works by Chadwiclc. Porter.

Foster, Parker. carpenter. Ives and Harris. ALUMN: RECEPTION. Institute oi Musical Art WEDNESDAY EVENINO RAY LEV oianlst.

Town Hall. Tiie program: Bach Chormatic Fantasy and Brahms Sonata In On. 5: Bt'eiho-. en Sonata Ou. 90: lir performances of compositioaa by Rescho'ky, Litsky and Belanger.

FRIDAY EVENINO VICTOR CHENKIN. sins.ng actor. Mecca concert lor Supporters ot Arrtr-Nazi Seamen. Choral Concerts THIS AFTERNOON THE BRANSCOMBE CHORAL. Gena Brans-combe The Plaza Ballroom.

Pi ogram includes "Marquesan Is If3" by Dunn; "Sea I-airie-," by Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, and new arrangements of works Or Huso Wolf and Stravinsky, THIS EVENING THE ACADEMY SINGERS.

O. GrendT coi.ciurniti. Town Hall. Chorals by Bach. Tchaikovsky, di Lasso, etc.

THE DESSOF CHOIRS. Pa'il Borpple con-d-K't -n. Hall. Program old and new secular chora! music. WEDNESDAY EVENING DOWNTOWN OI EE CLUB Channing cond Winifred Cecil.

00-prauo, soloist. Hali. Dancers A FAMILY AFFAIR" RiaU0 Homely and domestic humor, with Lionel Birrymire at the head oi the household. For the fami.y circle. 1 STAR IS BORN" 'Music Hali) With Jati-H Qaynor.

Fredric March and Aioipb Menjou. "BEETHOVEN CONCERTO" (Cameo) Aiout the youngsters of the U. S. S. K.

Slight, but eujoyable. DER JAEGER VON FALL" (86th Street Gir den German liim. With English Ulea. "HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT" (Loew'i ipo.it an i An active, good-loosing, romantic movie, with about the bit talea that Ho.Ly ood money can buy. Arthur, Charles Bover and Colin Clue are the principal On the same program: "Breer-H'nt.

William Gargan and W--n-iy Bur e. "lUSi HORIZON'' Globe' Slick and ti in.iwn? version oi ir.es Hi i Lou n- more ul its adventure j--j'i'-ac-'i tiiAn in attemp's to reil-i' Mr Hi.tor. A e.xriL'.y p.tta:s.e With Rind Jane and Edward Ev-i-c H'ji ton. 1'iVK I ROM A STRANGER" thf ac. Ji i.ir.-c Vc-p' may lenew ver sion R.ttMbone 111 ui ir.i, A' K.ED WOMAN" is .1 s'ory ui rac Lip a.

hird s-' i l.u- is some eiiii'uu by Betti" D.i a-u! Camera' ---nnd for of thf5e rei-s yo'X ill prob.ibiv E.iu.:d'J Ci.ir.nelii atid Humphrey Bo-g BAMVETSOMM A ADOLF" A i'J'iiiy at Music Swedish romantic cjinedv. Last performances today. BII.ENr BARRIERS' Fox There's miri' than artion this ti-3 about th" of the Ca-lid-Jria Pacific. Wi'h Richard Arien arid Antoinr p. C-'llier.

On the same program The Crime Nobody Saw." wt'ti Lew Ayres. VWINO HIGH. SWING LOW" 'Mew York and Brooklyn Paramoutn Remember Here it Is again, with Croie Lombard, Fred AlacMuirrar and Rosa Nessler: paintings by Nell Choate Jones: pastel portraits by Dorria W. Pritchard. To May 8.

AN AMERICAN PLACE (509 Madison Ave.) Recent oils by Marsden Hartley. ARDEN (460 Park Ave.) Portrait heads by Wheeler Williams. Through April. ARTISTS GALLERY 33 W. 8th) Water colors and tempera paintings by H.

O. Hofmann. To Aoril 30 BABCOCK (38 E. 57 th Pastels and water colors by John Costigan. Robert Phihpp.

Robert Brackman, Julius Delbos, Eugene Hiegins. Sol Wilson and the late George Pearse Ennls. BIGNOU (32 E. 57th St group of Post-impreasionist mas: erpieces by Cezanne, Gauftuiu. Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec and Seurat.

To April 30. BOVER (G9 E. 57tln Paintmas -by Elishe-mius. BROOKLYN MUSEUM 'Eastern Parkway) The Crowinshieid col.ectlon of African Art. French paintings from the museum collection on view in the special exhibition galleries.

BROOKLYN SAVINGS BANK 1300 Fulton St i ellth annual exhibition of the Brooklyn and Long Island Painters and Sculptors 7o Aurll 28. CLUBHOUSE (334 '2 w. 24th Annual of the Society of Illustrators. CONTEMPORARY ARTS 141 54th St.) Paintings by Ma Schnitzler. To Mav 1.

DECORATORS PICTURE GALLERY 1554 Madison Ave.) Palntintrs by well known American artists, shown In suitable Interiors: also, murals by Annot. To Mav 22. DELPHIC STUDIOS 1724 5th Ave.) Water colors bv Harry V. Law. DOWNTOWN (113 W.

l.lth St .) Exhibit entitled children In American Folk Art." To May 1. ENGLISH BOOK SHOP (64 Sothl Animal studies by Domenloo Morteiilto, Through April FAR GALLERY (21 E. 61st Facsimile reproductions of color drawings or 1' Kecitalu THIS EVENING NEW DANCE LEAGUE Miriam Ler. J.irv ljjy, Blanche Evans. Malveria B.il Matotis and Lily Mehiman.

Sr James Theater. I.IIJ-MN SHAPERO and Group. Guild -RIS NOVIKOFF and his Ba.ler H-'ckhf-r 1 heater. Exhibition "'Television Art TI ESDAY EVENING rvVDI SCHOOP BALLET. i eiirfasenienr.

at the Lonnacre Dealer. D.in.'e comedy Blonde SATURDAY AFTERNOON EN.UISH FOLK DANCE FESTIVAL. Seven' Keaiinent Armory. THIS EVfr.MNG FRANCES SHAPIRO The E1ura- tioi.ai Th- Braism Li Sonata up 10H. Bar-h -Itom tiie fcl Son a for WienuwsKi I) m.nor Concerto Op 22.

selryions itj Ahrou, "INTIME ART ISTIC SOIREE" The Plaza. MONDAY EVENING GENT A ROB: NOR. pianist, and LOPIS BAII.LY. Join; by Sn.ifiile. Braiim.s.

Hn Hmdfiiiit h. Wseiirr and JMEfa FP.ISKIN. Concert Ha. I of tiie Juiiiard School. The prrxrain: Hondo itt Op.

51 N- 2, -nata Op. lOti. Schumann Da vid.bunri-ler. HINDEMrTH Iectj re-recital. Greenwich ilouse Muotc Schjoi.

AiHorictin liallet Tt f.SD W-WEDNESDAY EVENINGS "APOLIADN XIUSAC.rrTB." "THE CARD PAitl Y. l.E BALSER )E LA FEE thtJ oalle's Uor will cotidjct tbs PliUtlldwuic-SyaipUauy OrtUetr. i.

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