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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1934 1 23 'Wonder Bar' Has Brooklyn Premiere Stage and Screen Reverting to Type Theater News The Screen Reverting to Type By MARTIN 'Wonder With Al Jolson Heading an All-Star Cast, lias Its First Brooklyn Presentation at the Strand Theater I 'smm. RETURNING IN GILBERT SULLIVAN OPERETTA Left: Hizi Koyke, who will be teen in a revival of 'The Mi-kado' which will he presented at the. Majentie Theater (Manhattan) beginning next Monday evening. By ART ARTHUR TRAILS Another day has gone the lonely path Along the emptiness that marks the course. Another chapter of an Aftermath To add its reckoning of deep Remorse.

Bewilderment impels and sets the pace To heavy footsteps, tired of the strain, And hollow laughter never can efface The poignant memories that now remain. So I must ploy the dark, uncharted way To dim forgetfulness and vanished hope. The wounds are healed by dawning of the day, But flaming scars decree that I must grope! The trails are long; perhaps the wheeling blue Will guide my anxious steps again to you! LEONARD LYONS. A stogie preview performance of "Wonder Bar" wasn't considered enough for Last night, at the Brooklyn Strand, this newest of the Warner Brothers' musical films was presented before three separate audiences who couldn't wait for this morning's first regular showing of Al Jolson's latest and most successful picture. "Wonder Bar" Is, of course, the screen edition of the play of the same name in which Mr.

Jolson starred on Broadway several years agor The star once more is seen in the role of Al Wonder, proprietor of the internationally famous "Wonder Bar" in Montmartre. An exuberant APPLAUSE The highlights and delights of the week are: The bright red and yellow circus wagons rumbling down Broadway on their Vay to Madison Square Garden for the opening of "The Big Top." (Hey, Pop I Pink lemonade, lions 'n' tigers 'n' everything Regan warbling "Don't Say Goodnight" on that Kay FrSiicls-Louella Parsons program from the Coast yestiddy. Jimmie liurante's cocktail party at Leon and Eddie's t'other afternoon. (Imagine the Schnozzola at a cocktail party! Him, wit' royalty in da blood!) the same Durante's "Hollywood Casanova" article in Esquire in which he asserts, "Every day is Durante Day in Times Square with women tramplln'. each other to get a kind woid from me, or a lift of me classical Jhi Right Claudia Morgan in which the Group The- and energetic master of ceremonies, ajay ytaw ill wmi-i bu cmjcuu ail cvc-'v nlng.

Mr. Jolson, In addition to singing his songs and amusing his patrons with his jokes and his comic characterizations, becomes involved In a series of dramatic events in "Wonder Bar." The dancing girl whom he loves prefers to squander her affection upon her worthless partner, who in turn, plans to desert her and run off with a rich man's wife. And then, one night, as they are doing a Gaucho dance, Inez stabs her faithless lover through the heart, and it is the ever-devoted Al Wonder who covers up the crime and later causes it to appear that the dead man had died in an automobile which had plunged over a cliff. But "Wonder Bar" Is designed more for gaiety and melody than for drama. Like most of the Warner Brothers' preceding musical productions, this one features several elaborate spectacles conceived by Busby Berkeley.

There is an imaginative number called "Goin' to Heaven on a Mule" In which Mr. Jolson, in blackface, sings of going to a Southern Negro's conception of heaven astride an old Missouri mule. This incident, in which St. Peter, the Archangel Gabriel and all the other inmates within the pearly gates are portrayed in blackface, is reminiscent of "The Green Pastures" and is tremendously amusing. There is another elaborate episode in which the magnificent effect of a couple of hundred dancing girls and boys Is heightened by the use of a maze of mirrors.

A cast of well known players appears with Mr. Jolson in "Wonder Bar." Dolores Del Rio is Inez, the beautiful dancing girl in Al Wonder's cabaret whose faithless part Music of By EDWARD is in in a as la Al an be we know 50 people we could invite whose laughter would fill the ether. They've got to laugh they owe us INSURANCE AGAINST BREAKAGE Ah Love, be true to me and kind And cause me not to sorrow. Be constant, Love, nor be inclined To leave me on the morrow. Remember I'm a gentle maid Averse to wrath and fury.

So Love, be true or I'm afraid You'll spill it to a Jury. MILDRED G. BURSTEIN. 'FOR HUMANITY'S SAKE' Further bravos and a couple of Bravo for the news that the President is speeding action for a return of the airmail service to private operation; the news that the Saxon Sisters will be on the air with Lennie Hayton next Saturday (you ought to hear them do "Who" at the Casino de Paree); the news that business Is picking up at the Follies box office and that the road tour may be postponed for a while prolonged boos at the morons who rioted at Lilyan Tash-man's funeral and the cur who looted the Unknown Soldier's Tomb AMUSEMENTS BROOKLYN A Performance of Parsifal at the Metropolitan; Slneckgold and Salmond in Recital If Is unfortunate for the Metropolitan that-the last impression of the season should be, for many of us, that of the "Parsifal" given last night for the benefit of the Music School of the Henry Street Settlement. There Is, one feels, a certain inappropriateness in reviewing any "Par V-WITH LOEW'S "Al- VA IDEVTLLE TODAY Ifirw'l of Kind; Cop.

Family: otht LOtW BA1RIDGL. Tid Av. Burn. Ruggln.e of Kind. Gorv and W.rmr;Mtu I nr OEW PERFECT TALKING SCREENS TODAY THIS S1DE 0F and Alio In Wonderland inrw'i Lor JASiikLn "nd Saratosa THIS 0F HVEN: Alk.

In Wonderland Bv4L 8I" Klnd; R. Nostrand-P Itside Mim Fana'a Baby stolen; and Marriage en Approval I.OKWS KA.MEO. P'LayVotrand ALLEN W. C. FIELDS LOEWS CONEY Surf-Stillwel CHAS.

RIT.GI.ES MARY ROLAND LOEW'S ORIENTAL, 86th St. -18th Av, anl ALISON SKII'WORTH LOEW'S ALPINE. 69th and Fifth "s'- OF A KIND" LOEW'S BEDFORD. Bedtord-Bergen "nd "THE MYSTERY LINER" DICKSTEIN he makes his Parisian cabaret a 'Wonder Bar' A Warner Brothers picture based on the play by Oeza Herczcg, Karl Farkas and Robert Katscher; directed by Lloyd Bacon and prevented at the Brooklyn Strand. THE CAST Liane Kay Francis Tommy Dick Powell Al Wonder Al Jolson Inez.

Dolores Del Rio Harry Ricardo Cortez Hal Le Roy Hal Le Roy Simpson Guy Klbbee Mrs. Simpson Rulh Donnelly Pratt Hugh Herbert Mrs. Pratt Louise Pazenda Mitzi Fifl DOrsay Claire Merna Kennedy Riohard Henry O'Neill Capl. Von Ferrlng. Barrat Mr.

Rcnaud Henry Kolker ner is played by Ricardo Cortez. Kay Francis is the rich man's wife, the one who was going to run away with the fascinating Mr. Cortez. And Dick Powell, without whom no Warner musical would be complete, the handsome leader of the band the Wonder Bar. For comedy relief there are Guy.

Kibbee and Hugh Herbert, who, with their shrewish wives (Louise Fazenda and Ruth Donnelly are the thrill-hunting tourists from Schenectady. And Hal Le Roy appears as himself a tap dancer of amazing agility. In "Wonder Bar" you' will hear, addition to "Goin' to Heaven on Mule," such engaging numbers "Don't Say Good Night," "Vive France," "Why Do I Dream Those Dreams?" and "Wonder Bar," all credited to Harry Warren and Dubin. Sung by Mr. Jolson and Mr.

Powell, danced to by Miss Del Rio, Mr. Cortez and Busby Berkeley's renowned chorus of beauties, they help to make "Wonder Bar'1 entertainment which shouldn't missed. the Day CUSH1NG 'PARSIFAL' Music drama in three acts, by Richard Wagner. Performed at the I Metropolitan Opera House last i night. The Cast Arnlortas Frledrich Schorr I Tlturel James Wolfe Lturnemanz Ludwig Holmann rMrsifal Lauritz Melchlor Klingsor Gustav Schuetzendorf Kundry Frida Lelclcr "A voice Doris Doe FWst Knight of the Orall Angelo Bada Second Knight of the Grail Louis Angelo Helen Gleason Philine Falco Wlndheim Max Altglass First Esquire Second Esquire Third Fourth Esquire.

Solo Groups: Queena Mario Irra Petlna Rose Bampton Group I Editha Fleischer Graup II Phradie wells Doris Doe And a chorus of 24 other flower maidens, the Brotherhood of the Knights of the Grail, esquires' and boys. Conductor Artur Bodanzkv Chorus Master Giullo Settl Stace Director Wilhelm Von Wymetal Jr. the chief singers (who, with the occasional inclusion of Mr. Bo-danzky, have alone been responsible during this and past seasons for the considerable distinction Metropolitan performances have occasionally achieved), such a performance could only occur in the absence of any sense of artistic obligation or integrity behind the scenes. These comments may strike as severe those who last evening were aware of the efforts of individual singers, admirable artists to whom Metropolitan conditions must be vary discouraging; they are no less than earned by an organization capable of the indifference to the ordinary decencies of production and performance that this "Parsifal" manifested in all its other details.

Stueckgold and Salmond In Joint Recital Grete Stueckgold, soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, and Felix Salmond, 'cellist gave a Joint recital last night at the Town Hall, the occasion marking the last of a series of concerts for the benefit of the Town Hall Endowment Fund. Mme. Stueckgold was called in at the last moment to replace Elisabeth Rethberg, who was unable to appear on account of illness. Incidentally, Mrs. Rethberg has been engaged to replace Maria Jeritzs, whose change of plans for the season prevented her filling the engagement.

The appearance of Mme. Stueckgold was cause for rejoicing, whatever regrets there may have been at the absence of her distinguished colleagues. She, sang classic airs Tony Sarg's Marionettes will be presented for children at Carnegie Hall beginning this Saturday the casts of "Sailor Beware" and of "The Perfumed Lady" will ba the guests of Ed Small this evening at Small's Paradise in Harlem. Nathan and Rose Goldberg and Isidore and Hannah Hollander will be co-starred in "All in a Lifetime," Jewish comedy-drama by Harry Kalmanowich opening at the Yiddish Art Theater on Saturday night. Josephine Royle, John McClosky, tenor, and Bud MacFarland, dancer, and John Sacco.

pianist, will entertain this evening at the Actors' Dinner Club. of war A lusty banzai for the following trivia: The reopening of the Mayfair Yacht niiib scheduled for this Saturday; ihe new edition of the Waldorf-Astoria iKir Sok (Dodd, Mead) the lineup of notables scheduled to attend the ball given by the Jewish War Veterans of the Hnited States at the Hotel Lissmore on April 28. and that organization's habit oU putting a sticker on each of its letters "For Humanity's sake don't buy German THUMBS LP AND DOWN A thumb of the nose at Ruth Chatterton for last week snapping at newspapermen and vigorously denying that she and George Brent were "ever separating" then the very next week admitting that the "boys" were a caption writers who head photos of Francis Lederer, the Czech star, with the outworn pun: "Czech and Double at too shrill sopranos who yodel love lyrics of the "Thee and Me" at the absurd antics of Nila Cram Cook, whd tells reporters she is "Nyx. the ancient goddess, who personified Night and Chaos and Day and and at that Los Angeles district attorney, who is making a political issue out of the case of Julius Tannen's son because Katharine Cornell appealed in his But a final wave of the hat and cheer for: Dorothy Fox's "Frustration" dance number in "New Faces" Malone's WOR "Cranky Crocodile" program. Polly Moran's snapper, "I have played chambermaid parts so long that lately I started answering the advertisements in the Sunday papers!" THE WELL REMEMBERED TOUCH I'd know It still no matter where You found me, dead or live; Thre was about you such an air When you were borrowing a "five." M.

G. B. AMUSEMENTS BROOKLYN "MAJESTIC p'-Bkn-i ii M.m. in it r.m., JG, ue LAST 2 DAYS R.w WAR FILMS "ROAD TO RUIN" com. Marcn 31 lltnll-l iHitii.j.iiuifirn I Onictwn "COME ON On Sage EAHL CHRROll BEAUTY PARADE I Kay Francis Al Jolson Dick Powell 'WONDER BAR" SHOWING TODAY SrCTIOM "LONfl LOST FATHER" and "Th Crotby Caie" "dOOOBYE L0c" ua -Tiauulerlni Herd" I IIMIB1IH sifal" in the terms of a performance, but one has, in the present instance, no choice; the listener was seldom conscious, last evening, of the work; he was, unhappily, conscious at every moment performance, which obtruded itself opaquely between ears and eyes and music and drama which were the proper object of their contemplation.

This Is the last thing that a performance ought to do; logic leads to the conclusion that i ASS'i0W. till S''W )mm HalUail JA gi -VTTT i jJaaV III I Screen-Spencer I 1 in a glass, Russian style, during ballet intermissions at the St. James Theater (the glass comes In a metal holder so you don't toast your fingers trying to drink the tea, for which bravo) that Don Marquis tribute to the Saturday Review of Literature on page three of the current American Spec Spring fashion promenade arranged by Susan at the Eagle' Home Guild last Monday and offering styles from Abraham Straus, Loeser's, Nainm's, Martin's and Lane Bryant's. eyeful who modeled the cocktail-dinner dress of Patou blue (said the gay old dog, leaping in the air and cracking his and R. T.

Wombat's April Golden Book quatrain about the current trend in biographies, thus: "With perfect heroes, grand and lonely, Biographers no more will traffic. They're out of style; you'll find them only In volumes autobiographic." WALD TO WARNERS Banzai, bravo and bravissimo for: The news that Jerry Wald hops a Coast-bound rattler Monday to spend another three months on the Warner Brothers writing that "Funny Bunny Land," Walt Disney Silly Symphony at Radio City this week (it's the one we previewed last week and raved about) Benny's remark. "Wintry days remind me of my wife, Mary Livingstone, because both rarely agree with me Spanish dishes at the Clinton Restaurant, new Brooklyn restaurant at 22 Lennie Hayton and Jimmie Cannon cavorting about the town's spots and billing themselves as "The Nothing Up," at the RKO Albee, with Sid Silvers as the gentleman jockey! Bishop's nutshell note on the poorhouse fire trap situation: "Were fire to break out in any of those buildings, the inmates would be in the same predicament as an ant in a the comment of the Marx Brothers when ordered by their sponsor to perform before a studio audience despite their personal objections: "If it's laughs they want heard on the air, AMUSEMENTS MANHATTAN MAX GORDON presents ROBERTA JEROME KRRN and OTTO HAKBACH NEW AMSTERDAM W.47S1. Ev.S:40.Mti.2:30 Evs. $1 to S3.

Matt. Sat-, 50t 1 11.50 COI'RTNKV KliRR Present SAILOR, BEWARE! The Uproarious Naval Comedv t'YCEUM 4.i E. of B't. Evs. :4 Matinees Thursday and Satprday at 3:40 Dwtght Dnera Wftnitn and Tom Wratherly preterit HE LOVES ME NOT The Season's Comedy Smash Hit by HOWARD LINDSAY Adapted from Edward Hope's novel 4(iTH ST.

W. of B'vray. LA. 4-1219 1 1 MMInoea Wed. rno 8:40 1 10 Rlt 5U 10 Ernest Truex slxth b'' Naiishtv Comedy Hit SING AND WHISTLE FORREST THEATRE.

40th Street. West of Broadway. Eveninrs Pop. Mat. Wed.

and to fi LAI'REM RIVERS Inr nreents The PURSUIT of HAPPINESS AVON Theater, ti W. nt B'wy. CHi. 4-7860 Evj. :15.

II to S2.S0. Today A 75e.J2 EXTRA MATINEE EASTER MONDAY THE SHATTERED LAMP A new play by Llle Reade ith GUY BATES POST. EFFIE SHANNON MAXINE ELLIOTT'S B'way Evenlnm Matinees Wed. and Sat. MAX GORDON presents r.LADYS ADRIAWE RAYMOND COOPER ALLEN MASSEY THE SHINING HOUR A New Play by KEITH WINTER BOOTH THEATRE W.

45 St. Evrs. 8:40 Matinees Thursday and Saturday EXJI RM A TIN EEJII A APRIL HE WIND and THE RAIN FRANK LAWTON and ROSE HOBART "I en.ioyed it Immemelv." lliirjanii RITZ.W. IHth. Ev.8:tn.

Mats. Wed. Sat. EXTB AM ATI EE ASTER MONDAY TIIF THEATRE oresents I0HN WEXIFV'8 slay They shall not die ROYALE 45th W. ol Eva.

Matinees TODAY and SATI'RDAY. 2:50 HII.L in TOBACCO ROAD A Hi- niuixi.js.'ij Based on Ersklne Caldwell's Novel 48th ST. THEATER. E. of R'wav.

Evs. Matinees WED. and Me to i SEATS ON SALE 8 WEEKS IN ADVANCE MATINEES EASTER WEEK YELLOW JACK A play of burnlnv evelti.mi.nr MARTIN BECK theatre. 45 W. ot fth Ave Evirs.

8:30. Next Matinee Saturday, (iOOD BALCONY SEATS AT SI AND S2 ZIEGFEL13 FOLLIES ltn FANNIE RICE. WILLIE A Flir.FNF unwAon curne-TT SHALL. JANE FRnMAU pitairu onuruiu VILMA BUDDY EBSEN, DON ROSS, OU- vtn WK EFIELO.CHERRYi JUNE PREISSER WINTER GARDEN. B'sjayand 50th.

Evgs. 8:30 Matinees Thursday and Saturday nr. 2:30 txtra MAT. EASTER MONDAY and German Lieder with the beauty of voice, the charm and gracious-ness of manner, and the fine musicianship that she has displayed in previous recitals this season and last. The florid music of Handel's "Oh Had I Jubal's Lyre," Haydn's "With Verdure Clad," Mozart's "Allalujah." and Mahler's "Wer hat dies Liedel erdacht" as accomplished with an ease and spontaneity that might be envied by miny coloratura sopranos.

Her phrasing was uniformly artistic and intelligently molded to fit the text, which good enunciating always made' Intelligible. A Schubert group comprised 'Fruehlingsglaube," "Gretchen am Spinnrade," delivered with dramatic intensity and moving pathos; "Die Post," and "Wohin," with "Der Musensohn" as an encore. Fine breadth of phrase and tonal beauty made Brahms a distinguished performance. Wolfs "Ihr Jungen Leute," Mahler's "Wer hat dies Liedel and Strauss' "Schlagende Herzen" completed the list. With Mr.

Salmond playing 'cello obbligati, the singer added as final encores Tchaikovsky's "Nur Wer die Sehnsucht kennt" and the "Ombra mai fu" from Handel's "Xerxes." The refined and aristocratic art of Mr. Salmond has long been known to local concert-goers, and his contributions last night gave added interest to a program of notable distinction. They included Handel's Sonata in minor; Faure's "Elegie" and a Nocturne by Abram Chasins, Ravel's 'Piece en forme de Habanera," and Glazounoff's "Serenade Espagnole." There were also several encores, including Saint-Saens's "The Swan" and other favorite pieces which were warmly applauded. Announcement was made that there would be eight concerts In the Town Hall Endowment Fund series next year, between 8 and March 23, The artists engaged are John Charles Thomas, the Don Cossack Russian Male Chorus, Yehudi Menuhin, the Philadelnhia String Sinfonietta, Lotts Lehmann, Ruth Slencynski, Harold Bauer and Nathan Milstein in a joint recital, and Walter Giese-king. R.

e. B. Begging in Turkey Good Paying Job Istanbul (JP) An up-and-coming Istanbul beggar san gain in an hour more than an Instanbul factory hand makes In a day. A reporter of a local daily, disguised himself as one of the beggars so touching to Moslem Turkish hearts that all efforts- of the Kemalist government to end alms-giving have failed. Begging for three weeks on Galata Bridge and in mosque court-yards, he averaged 98 cents an hour.

Turkish factory workers average 75 cents a day. GUEST PREACHER The Rt. Rev. George Ashton Oldham, Bishop of Albany, who will preach the three-hour Passion service beginning at noon on Good Friday at St. Ann's Episcopal Church, Clinton and Livingston Sts.

Bishop Oldham is a former rector of St. Ann's and has been prominent through his membership in the Foreign Policy Association in movements for international peace. T0y "COMING OUT IJilX PARTY" rAliTOS tlTTie SACHS S. a. BENNY ROSS OttiTS PRE.

I I) FEATURE? TONIGHT VIEW, ah PIhs Compl.t. SUco Show ft KO "GEORGE WHITE'S AltftAA! SCANDALS" nlUCV J-DUOr VALLEE AlrCE FAYE A Hot Bklyo Daranta-Cawn Waits PhmeTRvjoool Shaver FEATURE FILMS BAY RIDC.R I tpontor- ing at the Cort Theater, Fox Company Announces Five Screen Debutantes The Fox Film Corporation has announced: five of Its new players Alice Faye, Pat Paterson, Claire Trevor, Rosemary Ames and Drue Leyton, as screen debutantes for 1934. This selection of the five from a contract list of 90 players indicates Fox officials' belief that stardom will subsequently descend on each of the quintet. Fox's independent selection comes this year as a result of the Wampas decision to nominate and select Baby stars only from among those players not under contract to studios. All of the five girls named have appeared in Fox productions.

Alice Faye was brought to Hollywood to appear in a secondary role opposite Rudy Vallee in "George White's Scandals." Pat Paterson, known to British audiences for her radio, stage and screen work, was brought to America by Winneld Sheehan and has appeared with Spencer Tracy and John Boles in "Bot toms Up." Complete Film Here Florence and Arthur Lake, popular young Hollywood and stage performers, completed work yesterday at the Brooklyn Vitaphone studio in a two-reel musical short entitled "Glad to Boat You." Supporting the Lakes in this comedy are such well known Broadway performers as Dorothy Dare, Don Tomkins, Wel-don Heyburn and Pat West. "Glad to Beat You," which was directed by Roy Mack, will be released in Vitaphone's series of "Broadway Brevities." New Hindu Messiah Uses Novel Publicity Delhi W) Modern publicity methods are being used by an Indian claiming to be the "Messiah" or "Mehdi" in announcing his advent in Delhi. Discarding the ritual usually associated with such claimants, the man furthers his propaganda by traveling through the bazaars in a motorcar, while at his headquarters his- followers use telephones to spread his messages to the public. The claimant to spiritual sanction made his living formerly by pro ducing calicraohic curiosities. His specialty was writing verses from the Koran on grains of rice.

First Boys in. Decade Born in Village Munich, Germany IP) The birth of twin boys to the wife of a local farmer has heartened the villagers of Kohlhunden, Bavaria. For ten years only girls had been born in the village, and it seemed as if family names were doomed. The 150 inhabitants of Kohlhunden now hope that the spell has been broken. AMUSEMENTS MANHATTAN RADIO CITY MUSIC HAll NATION Op.n 11:30 A.

A. WILD CARGO with FRANK BUCK IN PHSON Feature at 12:00. 2:21, 5:03, 7:53. 10:14 pf MUSIC HALL tABTE TAC SMOW Eatrei Wolt Oiinvy't "FUNNY lime BUNNIES" ROXY CI.AIRG DUNN TREVOR "HOLD THAT GIRL" 71 Avt. unit 50th St.

25 All Setts JSCAMPS WESLEY EDDY to2P.M In Gala New Stage nevue Preview Tonlte, "Countess of Monte Cristo" 471 UMES CARNEY In "JIMMY THE GENT" New tornado ol mirth!" 'CATHERINE THE 6RE AT rit Clark and McCulIough Coming to the Albee Bobby Clark and Carl McCulIough have been booked for a personal appearance at the RKO Albee Theater the week of April 6. The popular comedians are on a brief vaudeville tour before resuming their movie work for RKO Radio Pictures. At the Albee Clark and McCulIough will include among their' famous characterizations "The Senators" and "Three Cheers for the Red, White and ilue." Coletta Ryan will accompany them. Coming to Majestic "Forgotten Men," thrilling chronicle of the World War, will be shown for the last time at the local Majestic Theater tomorrow. Its successor, for an engagement of one week only, will be "The Road to Ruin," a romantic drama of modern youth, that will have Its Initial Brooklyn presentation on Saturday.

"The Road to Ruin," concerned with the problems of modern youth, tells the story of a girl who is "sacrificed to false modesty." The leading personalities in the picture are Helen Foster, Nell O'Day, Glen Boles, Paul Page, Virginia True Boardman and Richard Tucker. AMUSEMENTS MANHATTAN THE THEATRE GUILD present! EUGENE O'NEILL'S Comedy AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN GUILD 02d W. of y. Evs.

8:50 Mallnces Today, Sat, and Monday. 2:211 ALL THE KING'S HORSES MUSICAL COMEDY IT AHlt AliuMp IMPERIAL W. 45 St. Ems. Mats.

SEATS FOUR WEEKS IN ADVANCE marilyn MILLER "WEBB HELEN BR0DERICK AS THOUSANDS CHEER ETHEL WATERS MUSIC BOX W. 45 St. Eva. 8:30 Matinees Thursday and Saturday at 2:30 HOLIDAY MATINEE EASTER MONDAY EDDIE DOWLING'S Bit Comedv Hit MONTH BIG HEARTED HERBERT Funniest Show In Town a pap MATiwrrc next a vi uiniittiiiij WEEK i APR. APR.

4 APR. APR. Prires: SI, $1.50, Si. plus tax BILTMORE THEATRE. 4, VY.

of way Evira. 8:40. Matinees Wed. and Sat. at 3:40 MAX GORDON presents WALTER HUSTON In SINCLAIR LEWIS' nODSWORTH Dramatized by SIDNEY HOWARD SHUBERT, W.

44th St. F.vgs. 8:40 Sharp 400 SEATS AT SI. 10 Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. VrMON, SAT.

OPENING NEXT MON. NIGHT i.niirFit Four saints 3 acts EMPIRE THEA. way. 40th St. SEATS NOW The GROUP THEATRE, in association with D.

A. DORAN presents GENTLEWOMAN A new play oy John Hoicartt CORT W. 48 St. Ew. 8:50.

Mati. Wed. 4 Sat. THE THEATRE GUILD presents MAXWELL ANDERSON'S new play MARY OF SCOTLAND HELEN Pmi.IP HET.FN With HAYES MERIVAI.E MENKEN ALVIN Bid W. of B'wt.

Evs. 8:20 Matinees Today, Sat. and Monday. 2:20 MEN IN WHITE Errs. 80o to S2.50 'Adorned with the mott beguiling acting the town aftordi." Times.

RIIOADHUKST 44 W. of B'way Matinees Wednesday and Saturday, EXTRA MATINEE EASTER MONDAY CHARIFS DILLINGHAM rntnti NEW FACES Conceived A directed by LEONARD SILLMAN FULTON W. 4llth St. I.On. 8-88J8 Seats S5e to $3.

.10. Evt. 8:30. Matt. Wed.

2:30 tyO MORE LADIES New York's Smartest Comedy, wnh MELVYN DOUGLAS LUCn.E WATSON W.alB'y. Eva.8:30:Mati.2:49 Bale. I -S2. Matt. Wed.

1 .50 EXTRA POP, MAT. EASTER MONDAY Fortway, 68th-Ft. Hamilton and Hith Water: What's Your Rarket- Stanley. Filth Ave. and 75th of Kin's Tnd Midshipman Tack BEDFORD SECTION MU.

PMlton atlilld Throoo A. As Husbands Go and Easy (o Love National 720 Washington Av. Cro.s-Countrv Cruise and I Was Spy Retent. Fu ton St. and Bedford Beloved and Blind Adventure PT avov.

Bedford Av. and Lincoln Loat Father and Orient Express BOROUGH HALL AND DOWNTOWN SECTION DllttS-eVl'T'toltSi'0" ft. St. Ger Playhouse. OPlneanDlei iZZZZX T.Tk'nTo, nV Terminal.

Fourth Av. and Dean Hi. Nellie and Flamlnr GolH Tlr.ll. Fulton St. and Mvrt, Av Gir.

WithoutaRnTm FUmin, Gold; BRIGHTON BEACH SECTION BlJK5i00 St5 AV St -Massacs-r and Chanee at Heaven Sheettshead.Sheensh rl Rnv.Unnrhn an -r this particular performance was a bad one. I It was. No appeals to logic, indeed, are required for the demonstration of this. One need only recall that one heard and saw: A performance of the orchestral score by an orchestra bent, apparently, on demonstrating its incompetence under a conductor whose tempi, especially In the first and third acts, suggested that not a page of music but the dial of a watch met his eye whenever it fell upon his stand, reminding him constantly of the necessity of concluding the perform ance before 12 (lest the Metropoli- I tan be obliged to pay for overtime), and who, with the odds thus against him at the start, could summon no interest to his task a Parsifal (Mr. Melchior) and a Kundry (Mine, Leider), neither of whom was in voice; a Gurnemanz (Mr.

Hof-mann) whom, while he sang well obeying, that is, the rhythmic and intervallic patterns' of his notes-brought neither imagination nor sympathy to the delineation of a part for which these qualities are the first requirements a performance offering no evidence of rehearsal of other than the most casual and conscienceless sort under the direction of the stage manager a performance in which, as far as dramatic action was concerned, no one appeared to have much of an idea of what to do, still less of when to do It. Some of these disappointments, suffered with commendable patience by the audience, were attributable, of course, to chance and accident: That neither Mr. Melchior nor Mme. Leider was in the vein, for example; or that Mr, Hofmann, earnest and able singer though he is, should prove himself something less than the artist his, role called for. Others resulted, however, from causes well within the control of the Metropolitan.

One is tired of calling attention to them, but, though the Metropolitan is unwilling to acknowledge the fact, they are distinctly relevant to the disrepute into which the opera house has fallen among the discriminating Cwho number a larger proportion of its actual and potential public than it is willing to concede) and the not unrelated circumstance that opera audiences have been and are steadily decreasing, while the deficits mount to new and catastrophic heights. What performance on the order of that given last evening indicates is the absence at the Metropolitan of any sense of nature of the service which an opera company and house exist to perform for the art est the lyric drama and the public devoted to It, as well as any even elementary pride In their function 3 It does understand it. Shabby, ei-drilled, Indifferently executed by every one concerned In it except I Ocean Pky. nr. Brlehton L.

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