Page
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1932.
Stage Gleanings From Broadway
Irving Berlin Plans
A New Show.:
New York:
Irving Berlin, one heara, la pre paring a musical piece for produe- tion late next season. One of the few safe bets in this business is that its producer will be Sam H. liaris. Incidentally, "Face the -Music" will go on tour in the Fall with its original cast if the union, taking the times and current trends into consideration, will con- sent to a reduction in the number
Olympic Art Show Not Impressive
Athletic Paintings And Sculptors Work
AMERICA PREDOMINATES
THE CHINA
One Man's Art Show
MAIL.
SHARP CENSURE FOR FILM ART.
Marx Brothers' Film Lacks Laughs.
CHEVALIER'S OFFENSIVE
"New York,
Much store is set by the motion
дв
Los Angeles. During the Olympic Games the Los Angeles Artists Council, which consists of representatives from most of the southern California art organizations, staged a California Artists Olympic Fiesta, designed picture producers on the audience to place the typical art of this responses at previews of films held region in view of outland visitors in theatres near Hollywood while and the local public.
pictures are. in their final stages of Among the most successful exhib-making and it is still possible to re- ita of the flesta was the one-man model scenes that do not go show of Mr. Millard Sheets's paint- well with the spectators as expect- ings, one to each display window, ed. A valuable device, undoubted- ut the J, W. Robinson store. The is the preview; eo valuable that Los Angeles (By Mall).' concludes: "The nobleat joy of. be- respect shown the pictures through we sometimes wonder if the pro- of stage hunda deemed necessary The exhibition which Leila Ing is to strive," and on all sides the careful designing of each disducers are using it to its full pos- If they are not, it is the soulptors catch the strain of play marked a new step here in the jaibilities. Mechlin of the American Federa- the hurdier and the sprinter. The union of art and commerce, and because some of them lack a full "Dangerous Corner;" Mr. Moses's
showmanship -production of Mr. Priestley's play, Arts organised at the Los Greeks were agreed that potential epitomized the real aim of the Art understanding of
last where the general public is con-l will not get under way as soon as Angeles Museum, as a sort of side bodily movement, not intense ac- lats Fiesta, which, founded
year, is to be an annual affair.
cerned. expected. It turns out that Mr.jshow for the Olympic Games, was tion, was proper to sculpture. Colin Keith-Johnston, who will notable principally for its size and
„for the road,"
[By Arthur Miller.]
But the slow-motion picture has have the lending role, is still sub-cosmopolitan character. Thirty-shown us repose even in rapid ac ject to Equity's regulations con- one countries were represented in tion-and that brings us back to cerning alien netors. Having ap-ifteen large galleries by 1,145 ex-Mahonri Young's eight pieces of peared For Mr. Moses in "The hibits, divided is follows: Four sculpture, one small painting and Warrior's Husband," he won't be hundred and two painting, 332 many drawings. Mr. Young finds able to act here again until Novem-pieces of sculpture, 291 drawings, the true-balance which exists even ber. As you may or may not posters and prints, and 120-archi- in a knock-out. George Bellows's remember, special permission had tectural items, these last being near-by "Stag at Sharkey's" seems.. to be obtained from Equity in plans, renderings and photographe by comparison, to be mostly paint order that Mr. Keith-Johnston of stadia, gymnasia, swimming and fury. could participate in "The Warrior's flanks and other athletic buildings. Husband,"
iden, at that.
It is
Eakins deserved better treat-
The
He
AN AMERICAN EXPERIMENT.
Charles L. Fox Had Small Success.
NOW HE IS RECOGNIZED,
астеед,
St.
Our doubts in this matter have been increased by two recently re-| leased pictures, "Horse Feathers" and "Love Me Tonight," In the [former the Four Marx Brothers are largely amusing 80 long as they stick to the nonsensical fooling that is their entertainment special- ty. But when they descend to me. chanical vulgaritles they are dull and boring to a considerable part of the audience-that part of any assembly that expects to find Of these exhibits 725 are from ment than he got here. Each of
cleverness in an entertainment. A Play For London. the United States, either through his three deep, dark pictures was
For many years there worked in "Love Me To-night," with M. Mau- "Stepping Sisters" will soon be invitation of the Olympic Fine flanked by bright flat ones.
Maine
an artist who sought to rice Chevalier, is marred by some done in London, probably under Arts Committee or the several re-public will say, "I don't like that evolve in individual style that was of the most offensive speach that another title, by Jack Waller. The gional juries of admission. The dark brown stuff." The painter play, according to the cables, is responsibility of organising the whe realises that most painters do quite apart from the current of has been heard from the
painting expression as manifested and will so disgust many persons being "adapted into English." exhibition was undertaken by the not even begin to paint will come in the academic tradition. Seldom of taste that they will refrain from Which might not be auch a bad American Federation of Arts, back to his "Turning Stake Boat" did he make sales, but that dis- recommending it to their friends, The Olympic committees of the and "The Oarsmen," lose himself turbed him not at all. For him although it is directed by Mr. Rou possible that, besides several nations in most cases us for an hour in that rich, slowly only one thing was needfulto ben Mamoulian-with-an-individual- Francis Lederer, Fay Compton and sembled the European groups. spreading light, go home, burn a paint the thing as he saw it. His feeling for cinema style that is so several other members of the The show, on the whole, is lot of canvases and commence name was Charles Lewis Fox- greatly needed if the filma are ever original London company of inept, and is saved from complete anew. There was a painter..
Because his pictures did not sell to return to their estate of pictures "Autumn Crocus may be brought mediocrity by the two rowing pic-| Mrs. Helen Willa-Moody, tu Broadway to net the play...tures and one boxing seene by
Stefan Hirsch played a joke on Casao Bay
readily there exists in this city on in motion.
now a comprehensive Eric Blore will go on
Wills. tour in Thomas. Eakins, the boxing sculp-California's Helen
collection of his compositions. "Springtime for Henry" in the role ture by Mahenri Young, and the painted her on the court, burles Housed in the building at 41 Gray played here so amusingly by Nigel young athletes modelled by R. Tait queing her own style of drawing Street, where he made his home Bruce.... Mr. Brady has drop- Mackenzie.
She had her revenge, however: and studio for so long, are three ped the Ivor Novello piece, 'Party,"} The Olympic Games were revise For Hirach's one picture she had rooms filled with his pictures. from his production schedule. The ed in 1896 and the real develop-twelve.
But what about all these for they can be shown together per- There they are to remain until reason is that Metro-Goldwyn-ment of field athletics is a matter: Mayer has already purchased the of the last twenty years. Photo-eign countries? Do not they offer manently in some museum.
Not much. Either film rights and may do the picture graphers have followed athletes something?
one who has recently seen the col- 'immediately.
They could the good painters do not paint lection it seems not impossible have given us a better lot of pic-sports or the Olympic committees that it shall one day find a perma- tures than these painters, for. the do not know art. One gets monent home in some building de- latter divide themselves into two ments; Rudolf Belling and Con-signed as a setting for the pro- the illustrators who destantia Starck among the German ducts of this original creative ar pict sports because of popular in-sculptora; Uruguay'e single exhibi- tiat. A partial recognition of this terest and the studio artists who, tor, Pedro Figari, who paints the sort came soon after the painter's more accustomed to analyzing eggs life of his own land as a glorious passing, when his comprehensive and bottles, are not genuinely con-ly coloured poetic vision. scious of the sports they 80 There were Manno, the. Hun- BUT UNDER PROTEST.
signally fall to interpret..
garian sculptor; Alfons Karny, The Greek Tradition.
the Pole, and, among the painters, Leontine Sagun cannot get away The sculptors come off better. Eigil Schwab of Sweden, Hildn from. "Madchen in Uniform Shu Their art deals solely with the Roberts and Leo Whelan of Ire- produced it originally as a play in figure and stems from the Greek land. The English are a solemn Portland, of old seafaring stock
But not much lot, but the Poles, Czechs and Ita After his early education in the Germany, then directed the nim athletic tradition. version, and now-almost under three-dimensional art results, and lians throw the stuff on with total public schools he started upon the One can say little for study of architecture as a profes- protest she is rehearsing the this is probably because-weswor- abandon. adoptation (made by Barbara Burn-ship, not sport as a contributing the French exhibits; perhaps this sion. After a year at the Massa ham) which will be presented un-cultural agent, but "the joy of is the kind of art official France chusetts Institute of Technology. der the title of "Children in Uni- effort." Charles Wharton Stork really likes.
"CHILDREN IN UNIFORM.
►
Leontine Sagan Back
To "Old Love."
form" at the Duchess, writes G.W. Bishop in the London Times, There
is the added interest, however, of
with avid cameras.
groups:
working with an English company, MISS PICKFORD PLANS
NEW PICTURE.
GARY COOPER CHOSEN AS LEADING MAN.
CHAPLIN WRITES HIS MEMOIRS,
Well-known Magazine Buys Rights.
and she seemed very pleased withị the cast when I talked to her the other day. Jessica Tandy is to play the schoolgirl who forms an affection, for the form mistress (Joyce Bland), and finally commits suicide, and Cathleen Nesbitt will] appear as the head-mistress, a re- When Mary Pickford left New A portrait of Charlie Chaplin, as lentless disciplinarian.
York recently for Hollywood her author is now available. He has
قديم 4
To
atudies of the varieties of mush- room native to Maine became a
valued, part of the collections of the school of botany of Columbia University.
Charles Lewis Fox was born in
a
however, he decided to become painter. Then followed six years of study in Faris under Bonnat and Cabanel, and a period of ap-¡ prenticeship in the Gobelin Ate- liers, where he studied the master tapestry makers' methods of de- sign and color:
The style of Mr. For's teachers definitely marked his painting at the beginning. "The Gleaner," painted in Holland in 1885, might be designated as "of the school of Mauve,” so much is it in the tra dition of the peasant figure at the
The play is in ten scenes, set in plans for the *picture she finished the first half of a volume head of & long path that stretches room, the Common-room, the Dorting into -the realma of de- of memoirs, about 25,000 words, straight away through an avenue
the Entrance Hall, the Sewing expects to make were get.
composition in the Dutch vein of humble country life, shows a girl resting on a bed of rushes in a shed, the while a kindly farmer's wife, who has 'clianced to enter,
mitory, and other parts of a girls' finite facts. Frank Borzage will be and has submitted it to Willa of slender trees, the whole being school. The German play was based the directar, which means that the Roberts, managing editor of The keyed to warm tones of gray. “The on Baroncos Hatvany's "Gestern film will not get under way until Woman's Home Companion, which Street Musician," a story-telling and Heute," said to be a faithful Mr. Borzage's "A Farewell to picture of life in a Prasaian high Arms," which he is now making will blish it serially. school for girls.
for Paramount, has been complet- **** book is not exactly an The new Drury Lane operetta, ed. "Wild Violeta," which is to be pro-i Gary Cooper, who has the mascu-"but is a summary of the high hovers over her benevolently. The
autobiography," Miss Roberts says, duced by Hassard Short, 1s, I am line lead in the Hemingway story, told, to strike an entirely new note, will be Miss Pickford's leading lights of Mr. Chaplin's career. It hints of symbolism that had been and now that the "Cavalcade" man.. Frances Marion wrote the la very well written, although the creeping into his style become evi- scenery has been taken away the film for Miss Pickford and it Is author insists that he is an unlet-dent in "The Path of a City Work- revolving stage can be installed, still without a titio. Another, terad man. The first half of the ing 'Man," showing figures toiling October 25 has been named as the agreeable angle of the Mary Pick-book Includes some very striking up the rough face of a quarry, and provisional date for the produc- ford situation is that this forth- Incidents involving such figures as others arrived at a quieter pastor- tion, and the rehearsals will begin coming picture, is unlikely to be Einstein, Lady Astor, the Prince of al life among the homesteads on the shortly. There are excellent parts her last. There is a second pro-Wales, Ramsay MacDonald, Briand, plateau at the top. for Joan Cadoll and Morton Selten, duction in the offing.
and among the other members of the company are Charlotte Green-
wood, an American actress who
has played in several of Hassard Short's productions; John Garrick, an English actor who is better in Hollywood than here; Jerry Ver-
no, Esmond Knight, Muriel Ange...
Jus, and Adele Dixon.
FOR SALE.
TESTED FLOWER & VEGETABLE
SEEDS. !
the Prince of. Monaco; Bernard Shaw, Lloyd George and others. The only motion picture star men- tloned in the book is "Martens Dietrich.
Last night the 200th performance Indications point to a heavy demand the author. In several canes he of "Casanova" took place at the for Seeds this Season. To be sure of gotting every variety you wish we
Coliseum. When 4. looked in the suggest that you order to-day. other evening I found that the pro- duction had been considerably im- proved, and there is now much more
GRACA & CO
humour. A third big library, deal Dealers in Garden Seeds Postage has been made for the play, which | Stamps, Postcands, Toys, Etc...
Ná. 10, WYNDHAM STREET, is certainly one of the greatest: P.O. Box No. 620, KONG KONG. spectacles ever seen in London.""
"Mr. Chaplin has a memory like a filling cabinet. Nothing escapes him. We have had some remark- able evidences of this in connec tion with the typist's copy aant to
noted the omission of commas or punctuation marks which had been altered. Like Bernard Shaw, he insists on typographical "exactitude and he objects to the slightest alteration of the original text! Like Gene Tunney, he won't have any professional help in his writ
ing."
AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY
bir
"A. EL CROOK, Q.B.E., M.A. W. KAY, MAR
W. L." HANDYSIDE, M.A., B.Sc, PRICE $1.00.
NOW ON SALE AT THE PUBLISHERS.
The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd. China Mall Offcas.
SEND YOUR
PARCELS
X'MAS
before the big rush.
KOMOR & KOMOR
Art & Curio Experts,
Chater Road.
York Building,
will help you to select a lovely present of
ART
ORIENTAL
always unusual and pleasing to your friends at home,
Prices are ranging from 50 cents upwards.
WE PACK, SHIP OR POST YOUR PURCHASES!
XMAS CARDS.
CHILDREN'S GIFT BOOKS AND ANNUALS.
LATEST NOVELS AND MAGAZINES
LENDING LIBRARY. containing all new novels and modern literature.
D'AGUILAR ST. 'Phone
THE EXCELSIOR CO. Hong Kong Hotel 24250.
MAN LOONG. PRESERVED GINGER MANUFACTURERS.
NEW SEASON PRESERVED GINGER Best Quality Prompt attention to Exporters. Qfice: 2, Dundas Street, Kowloon. Tel. 57088. Factory:-2, Godown, Praya, Dondes Street, Mengkok.
ANCHOR"
NEW ZEALAND
A
60
ANCHOR
NEW TEALAND
SUPERFINE
BUTTER
QUALITY
'The World's Best
May now be had from All Compradore Stores. LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.(Distributors).
BUTTER
splendid cigarette
THREE CASTLES
CIGARETTES
„PARKUME
Three Castles"
Cigarettes
FAMOUS FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS
609
This`adversivement le lonend by the Bridaldatavista Taksoon Co. (Châu 134,