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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1932.
Art and Drama.
Shavian Satires Invade Canada
Dramatist's Brilliant Works Seen Afar
A LASTING POPULARITY
London, strength and vibrant quality of his voice and the brilliant flow of lively thoughts.
George Bernard Shaw, despite his seventy-six years, has lost none of his popularity and his plays are plays have bored. critica, there ne is evinced by the startling num- more truth in them than in all the ber of Shaw productions that are other plays he has seen these past
* several sonsons. being produced here this acason. Plays and treatises on social pro- Incidentally, Canada is to see a blems age as new problems arise to large number of Shaw plays this vanquish their predecessors.
And even though his two latest
still as vital as his earlier efforts seems to one who anended, them
THE CHINA MAIL.
ENGLISH DANCERS GO Barrymore Trio Starred
TO DENMARK.
British Ballet On
The Continent..
MAKING HISTORY..
In Tale Of Rasputin
Hollywood. Isers, scarlet faced cloake of black!
Out of the land of make-believe cloth and astrakhar hats. is coming a drama of the Russian The first efforts of Ethel Barry- court before the days of Commun-more before a camera are going ism. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is film-very well. Make-up tents showed London-A company of English|ing "Rasputin," starring for the Ethel at her best with little but Voice tests show- dancers called for Copenhagen re-first time the three Barrymores to- street make-up.
gether. Apparently the appearance ed that a richness was needed to cently and the event is interesting of the Barrymore brothers in the vary her tendency toward mono- for at least two reasons. It was same fim has led directors to add tone, but she has worked hard and the first time that an organised re-the third member of the family to it is now recording gratifyingly.
the cast of this latest M.-G.-M. pro- John and Lionel as Yousupoff presentative British ballet has
duction.
and Rasputin were not needed in been seen on the Continent, and
It is a departure from the gen- the scenes described, but mesting never before, I believe, says G. Weral trend of pictures that have Lionel in his get-up as the mad Bishop in the "Sunday Times," been produced here during the past, monk who helped to bring Russia to has a foreign company taken pon-year. Extravagant scenes are com- disaster is enough to supply night-
|mare for years. session of the Royal Theatre stage. ing back.
There have often been guest per- Scenes rich in costume details: formers, but they have always ap-all its ezaristic grandeur with hun- and revealing the Russian court in eared with the Danish players.dreds of extras attired in gorgeous The visit fa due almost entirely to court dress provide the setting for
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Adeline Gence, who has devoted "Rasputin," which gives promise of most of her time during the last being one of the year's "four star"
pictures. few years to the development of In
So beautiful are the scenes that: year. One English company al.such plays, treatises and private operatic dancing in this country.the set is the gathering place for correspondence. Shaw, however, The other day Mme. Genee told me many notables of the film capital, ready has completed arrangements wrote such universal thoughts that that she had been hoping for a who come to admire and go away for its Canadian tour, featuring they remain alive, sparkling and long time to take a company to impressed. Shaw's plays, while others are to bristling
Recently when the royal proces- Was it twenty-five years ago that Copenhagen, which for over a hun- follow. Up to now the Dominion
sion commemorating the three- he wrote this? "No fascinating dred years has been one of the hundredth saniversary of the Ro- has steered clear of "Shaw's heavy woman ever wants to emancipate great European centres of ballet. manoff dynasty was being filmed Antire," as one eritic has it.
hur sex. Her object is to gather At last the appropriate moment Marlo Dressler came to visit her It is interesting to watch the power into the bads of man, be
Paul has arrived, and on a Saturday friend, Ethel Barrymore. she knows she can govern ever-growing popularity of the cause
Bern, famous director himself, was him. She is no more jealous of his night the dancers made their first there watching his friend, Charles playwright, who for nearly half a nominal supremacy than he him- appearance, The Prince of Wales Brabin, direct century made little headway with self is jealous of the speed of his was present. On Monday they ap bis plays. Some of them lay un motor car."
It doesn't sound a bit outmoded, peared with the Danish Ballet, and Palace with the royal family and acted, except for a few times, for a
Successful Paradox.
the whole court diplomata and am- on Sunday and Wednesday the en-!
bassadors from every country, mov. quarter of a century.
Nor could anything be more In- tire programmes at the Royal ing from the huge reception hall to Now, still keen of mind (keenor terpretive of Shaw's personal phi- Theatre were given by the English the private chapel of the palace to than most persons at their primo), losophy than this except? "I shall company.
receive the blessing of the Metro- George Bernard Shaw is the weal-not be reasonable. The reasonable
Phyllie Bedells and Ninette de polltan, chief priest of the Ortho- dox Church. A chorus of 150 thiest playwright in the world. men adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in Valols are among the principal voices sang the Russian church ri- More, he is the most popular philo- trying to adapt the world to him- dancers, and when we met I was tual. sopher of the age. His latest plays helf. Therefore, all progress de-able to assure them that they were Ethel Barrymore as the Czarina may be termed bad, his views that pends on the unreasonable man."
going to one of the pleasantest was superb in ivory valvet plenti- Shaw has tried to make himself
Scenes were laid in the Winter
Russia is a Garden of Eden may be a paradox. He has ondeavored to and most hospitable citles in fully embroidered in allver with a
pooh-poobed, his polemica against parents, taking themselves too ser- fourly may seem mere repetitions,
still the audience remains.
diamond studded tiara on her head. make it appear that he battles mo- Europe. Other members of the The Czar, played by Ralph Mor- rality, whereas he has been one of company include Alicia Markova, gan, was also superb in his uni the greatest generals in the battle Ruth French, Harold Turner, and form, blue trousers striped in for morality that modern times have seen.
He is no unbeliever. Anton Dolin. The corps de ballet scarlet with fur-trimmed, military cloak hanging from his shoulders. He merely has atripped the false is taken chiefly from the Old Vic, The four little princesses who in and me. Genee is so grateful to life met with such a sad fate were front the soul.
Professional morality has been Miss Baylis for her help that she shown walking in their court dress- to him the worst of immoralities. is thinking of giving a big galales of pink and blue satin with Ask your friends it Shaw is mar-performance in London -in ald. of rules of lace and with diadems radio recently remark upon the ried. llo is, but how few know it the Old Vic-Sadler's Wells funds. and long veils. The Czarevich,
Can Critica Be Right? Critics speak of Shaw as being in his "second childhood," . Yet per- sons who have heard him over the
played by nine-your-old Tad Alex- ander, was, most engaging, taking part in the processton with a shy smile for everybody.
The title "Czar of All the Rug- sias" becomes meaningful when one views the bewildering variety of "Russians," some looking almost Chinese with their Mongol features and Oriental costumes; others in severe black with knee-length trou-
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