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FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1930.

NEGRO CULTURE IN AMERICA

VOGUE IN THE THEATRES: NOW COMING INTO HIS OWN

____INTERESTING WORK

cluded in the party, which number-

PROBLEM PLAYS

Overcrowding & Birth-

Control In Berlin

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The outstanding success season.

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TOO HIGH-HANDED

PIRANDELLO"

British Production In Five Years To Write A

Berlin

Novel

Pirandello's. new play, "0 Problema of Germany's home

The new Wa Ye of natural-di Uno o dl" Nessuno" ("To politics are being thrashed out in

lam which

overwhelming One or to No One"), was given for her theatres. Unemployment and

the literary and theatrical world the first time at Turin and won an The other day two of my New overcrowding, the horrors of ledgers

The Chinese Press reports that in Germany is responsible for the immediate success. York friends who had sponsored a in a period of housing shortage, of Dr. Hau Wei-tsun, President of the only adverse criticisma levelled at with one of those startling pro- The plot deals young negro singer were entertain-old people ccupying their beds too asked Mr. Hau Moh, Commissioner This is the ambitious first produc-psychological, in which Pirandello

Shanghai Provisional Court, has the new talking-film, "Atlantic:"|blems, ed by him one evening in Harlem, long, and unwanted babies in

half-physiological, half- the negro quarter of the city, too-full world, are the themes of of Foreign Affairs, to suggest to tion of British International Pic delights because, according to him, writes

Harold Butcher in the the most important native German the American Consul-General that tures, working in conjunction with they represent life as it really is. "Daily Herald," London. I was in-productions of this winter's theatre. H. E. Stevens, Senior Consul's the German Sued Film Company, In this case we have two friends, Deputy and American Consular and doubly important to Berlin be- Carla Sanna and Tito Morena, who ed about a dozen, all of whom, save of what is popularly known as the official at the Court, should be with cause of the persistent struggle set up house with ons

drawn from the Court at the being carried on against the Ameri-quiel, good-tempered, economical, "birth-control_play" ("Cyankall"), These negroes were men who

earliest possible time. Mr. Stevens can talkie" invasion. which Alled crowded honses were doing interesting work. One at the Leasing Theatre, may beyond his powers, interfered with Raymond's "The Berg" and as she is a ut to become a mother, and

is said to have, illegally, and be which is a dramatisation of Ernest both.

"Atlantic," and apparently equally devoted way An editor,

'uddenly she discovers that Laurence Brown, a musician, who responsible for more managers put the Judge in the Andersen, Meyer close a copy of the "Titanic" disaster the situation changes. has appeared before the King at ng on serious social dramas first & Co. v. Chen Tse-shuen ease. The as relatives of the victims are like the child 7 Buckingham Palace. Another was

Commis-ly to bear without public protest, a singer. And so on. The conver-

sioner of Foreign Affairs in this has doubled the talking parts with sation was vivid and alive. There

connection says:-

German actors and actresses with Fraudulent Means were alert minds around that table,

so much success that the "Atlantic" the minds of men who enjoyed the

"According to the report sub for German audiences becomes an discussion of abstract ideas as well and expressionism as dead as door-mitted by Judge Chiu Yu. chief nails. The young people throw judge of the Criminal Division of

fontirely German boat. And after dinner our coloured host themselves into canals, the old pray the Court, Mr. Stevens, Senior Cos directed towards preoccupation with { nesalon of the child with a grim

The only complaints made are and his friends gave us a musical for death to deliver them. "Stem-laul's Deputy, sat with Judge Chiu | the affairs of the first-class evening in a tastefully furnished Delbruder." which may be popularly Jon December 12 in the case in

three, were black.

Another was

as the news and events of the day.

apartment nearby.

Dark Background But dark against this pleasant background comes

an occasional story of a lynching. "Negra, 19, Lynched by Tennessee Mob" you rent in the Fress. And you learn

of a crowd of 2,000 men storming

a gaol to seize the negro accused

of attacking a white woman, and

you read

ers

watching

tried out in the publie performances letter addressed to the of dramatic students.

But the fact remains that a period of the purest realiam appears to have returned, with Impressionism

it

means,

When the case came up

warrant

Woman→→→

Whose

to

is

child must belong either "to one or According to law, a

to no one," and Carlo and Tito decide, after much discussion, that It shall be handed over to an institu- tion as the child of no one. The baby is born and the mother dies. The two men then fight for the pos

pas determination which threatens to translated as "On the Dole," by which Andersen, Meyer & Co. sued Bengers. Accustomed to Russian destroy their friendship. Finally Richard Duchinsky, at the Renaisa- Chen Tse-shuen on a charge of ob- pictures, Berliners want to know the question is settled by the offer of ance Theatre, has a magnificent taining

imminent fear of death a neighbour, who has just lost her money by fraudulent how the

affected the crew, There must own baby, to adopt that of Maline. scene, in which the head of the family, an

Another out-of-work carpenter for hearing on that day, accused have been wild scenes in the engine.

problem play by smashes up his furniture in order was absent and the attorney for room long before the men were per Pirandello, "Come tu mi vuol," will to have something to do in putting accused handed in to the Court amitted to dress themselves and loin shortly be produced in Turin by the plenty otherwise for the idol hands his client was unable to be present and makes be as smooth and polite ing woman in Pirandello's D together again. Satan finds telegram from Ningpo saying that those waiting for death on the up- Company of Marta Abba, the clever per deck. Will the pictures Eng-young actress who, after being let to do. In "People Like You and on account of illness. The Court Me" ("Menschen wie Du then hanging bim. Again, fch"), at

und then ordered the accused to appear and well-behaved as the comedies company for several years, has now the Deutsches Volks within one week, or a

ahe exports ? Such questions find entered into management on her of 6,000 Farm- Theatre, by fred Unger, whole would be issued for his arrest. At a yet no answer. But it seems own. The Idea of "Come tu mi

mur-house full negro derer being burned alive, hav-shown, whose tragedies range to request the Ningpo District to show a

of unfortunate people the same time the Court decided certain that this English attempt vuo!" ("As you wish me") is taken shipwreck in polite from the famous Bruneri-Cannella ing anticipated his death by tor-from the forging of passports for Court to find out whether or not society, albeit with a ture. There are dark passages in

German case of undecided Identity which those whose nationalities "Rope and Faggot," Walter White's changed with the map of Europe,

were the accused was really ill.

director (Herr Dupont), has set has bean puzzling the legal world in "At this juncture, Mr. Stevens, other producers thinking about the Italy for the last three years and to the darker sides of a bright without the permission of the possibilities of the sea for sound still continues to do so. ing's "Black America," in which healer"), the author of "Revolt in made certain remarks and ordered and more drama.

night-lo. In "Schoolboys" ("Pen-Judgo with whom he was sitting, films filled with terror, less talking. "Lazarus," which has already presents the negro "not as A

been performed in England, is a Reformatory" and "Poison Gaa the police to arrest accused as soon In an attempt to solve this very about to be produced in the United 'social problem, but as an oppress Over Berlin" touches on the evils as he arrived in Shanghai and not real problem of plays auitable for States under the management of

The tragic aspect of the negro's of strict parenthood and erotic and to release him without first obtain talking films the Ufa has engaged Charles Hopkins. life in the States must not be lost

ing the permission of the American a number of well-known dramatista Pirandello is now at work on sight of. But to-day the emphasis

At such a moment the produc- Consular Official, Mr. Stevens to co-operate with authors of the "G Dei della Montagna," his tion of "America's must be placed on his progress. In

Faust," further remarked that the instruc- more dynamic school in dramatising thirty-seventh play, and, he says, New York he still has social dis. "America's Parsifal," as Eugene tions given by the Judge could not their old works and producing new probably his Inst. He is also advantages, but he lives in com O'Neill's "Strange Interludes" has be enforced without his consent. ones, belleving that the results engaged in revising a new and com- fortable flats (when he can afford been verally hailed in Germany, Judge Chiu then declared that all will be better than any attempt to plete edition of his works, and when strikes almost old-fashioned cases in Chinese law courts should adapt plays already written. Thus that is done he intends to retire to the expensive rents). He wears

It succeeds the short run be dealt with in accordance with Emil Jannings will play the hero some remote country-place in Italy good clothes. He mingles freely note. with whites in public places. Hoof "Journay's End" at the Deutsches Chinese laws and that the judge has In Heinrich Mann's story, "Pro- to write his novel, "Adam and Eve,” is, in short,

the right to direct the proceedings fessor Unrath," in a version special-which, being "of vast proportions, needs no explaining without the consent of Senior Con-ly made for eye and ear by Karl will, he expects, take him at least citizen. True; many of the Harlem negroes have to stage a dancing in Berlin; what shocked parts of sul's Deputy. Mr. Stevens, Judge Vollmoeller, author of "The five years to finish."

a Chiu continued, bad, therefore, act-] Miracle," and therefore versed in- and "rent party" on a Saturday America in this long story of night to raise money to pay the woman's life from girlhood toed in an illegal manner when he spectacular forms of production, landlord. But the coloured man la widowhood is rendered, if not new ordered the police to arrest, and and Karl Zuckmayer, the most not the only one who has difficulty at least noble, by the performance detain the accused without the popular playwright and wittiest judge's permission. Judge Chlu dialogue writer of the younger gen- in paying New York rents, although of Elizabeth Bergner.

biography of Judge Lynch. Thera are facis that burn in Scott Near-

ed race."

has seen

A

cnurotic" youth.

self-respecting

Kunsteerhaus.

Dr. Freud

a negro vogue,

AA

the white man has advantage.... This season's Shaw play, "The then ordered the police to execute eration. With Eric Pommer as The past season in the theatre Apple Cart" has the advantage of the order given by him in accord-producer, this picture should show Lew Reinhardt as producer, and Wor-ance with the Rendition Agree the world what Germany can do Leslie's Blackbirds revue made an ner Krauss as the King, a render-ment, and not that given by Mr. when national thoroughness is enormous hit, Porgy, a Theatre ing ever so faintly reminiscent of Stevens. The Court then retired. directed to a new end, which, as yet, Guild production, which London King Edward the Seventh as a man

Illegal Acts

is beset with problems.

saw last summer, had a long run in his prime. The conclusive. "In accordance with the lows, here. Harlem helped us to under. German verdiet on "The Apple the right to direct legal proceedings stand life in New York's black Cart" is that in epite of flashes of in court lies with the chief' judge." belt. And the negro can always genius Shaw might have been Judge Hau continues, "Mr. Stevens, UNLUCKY PRINCESS claim

a deal of credit for the boring if Reinhardt hnd not ex-who has been sitting in the Provi- popularity of jazz, which still con-pended all his energies on bringing sional Court for some time past, tinues, despite aundry sigra that out the dramatic high lights of the must understand Chinese laws and suggest a slightly waning interest, dialogue by a careful drilling of his pay attention to the orders of the court. Unfortunately, he has look

thirty-seven cltice in

nineteen States, and culled forth messages

such

men as Sir Gilbert Murray and Sinclair Lowis. The Associa tion reminds the negro of his con. stitutional rights, helps him to achieve them, and fights for him when he is wronged.

Jacob Epstein, modernist sculp- tor, carving a bust of Paul Robe. son, the famous negro Inger-

actors.

It is re-

STANDARD TIMES

Sunrise And Sunset In Colony

The Story Of Princess Ida Sulkovsky

a month.

Negro Progress The recent twentieth conference The frankly low-browed preferjed down upon the judge and made, of the National Association for the

Eward Carpenter's "Bachelor certain uncalled-for remarks andi Budapest, Mrs. Kunovsky, a Advancement of Coloured People Father" to every other import this issued orders to the municipal grey-haired worn-faced. Viennese brought together delegates from season. Independent of stars, pro- police without the Judge's permis charwoman, who earns two Aus-

ducers, or advertisement this la sion. voted a glorious comedy.

"Mr. Stevens, who has committed trian "schillings" a time for wash- illegal acts in the Court on many ceeded in obtaining a. altuation ad ing down shop floors, has just auc- of praise and congratulation from ported a great box office success.

Joccasions, has now again interfer-|

red with the Judge in excess of his maid-of-all-work to a bourgeoia powers. In the Wan Hua Slik family at a wage of thirty schillings Factory v. tho Kuang Yuan Co. (a

Several decades ago. Prince Joseph foreign firm) case, which was re- cently heard by the Appeal Court, Maria Sulkovsky, rich Austrian Mr. Stevens retired from the court aristocrat, aroused the antagonism room without giving proper reasons, of his relations by marrying an thus disturbing order in court. Hoperetta singer from the Karl again acted in the Court beyond theatre. His mode of life and Sunrise and Sunset in Hong his powers when a case in which a extravagance was such that his in "Show Boat," and now about to kong for 'December (Standard time Hungarian was charged with negli relatives succeeded in having him make a talkie (and more friends) of the 120th Meridian, East of gently driving a motor car was re shut up in a sanatorium (from -negro authora like Walter Greenwich), are as follow:→ cently heard by the Court. White, Dubols, and Erie Walroad, and a coloured Chicago painter, Archibald Motley, receiving Gug- genhelm Foundation scholarship setting them free for a year of un- interrupted study-Roland Hayés ainging himself into the hearts of concert lovers all the world over these are the signs of negro Btc- ceas to-day. A long, long leap from the days of "Uncle Tom's Cabin,"

Paul Robeson captivating London

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"In connection with all these Brussels), and in appointing a p.cases, protests have been lodged guardian to control his estates. As 7.04 5.51 with the Senior Consul and a con- the Prince owned six thousand 7.04 5.52

tinuance of these illegal acts by acres of land in Bankota, near the 7.04 5.58 Mr. Stovens in court can no longer Hungarian town of Arad, the 7.04. 5.54

be tolerated. The Senior Consul is, guardian chosen was a certain Dr. therefore, earnestly requested to Sandor Taganyl, a lawyer of Arad, withdraw Mr. Stevens from the and later a member of Parliament. court at the earliest possible time Princess Ida, Prince. Butkovaky's Bo as to uphold China's Judicial daughter, grew up in the charge of righti."

her mother, the two women boing Strong Protés! Lodged kept extremely short of means by Shanghat, Dec. 22. Dr. Tagany, and being forced to Pursuant to request from the raise money from time to time, by Shanghai Provisioral Court, the selling valuate objects from the Provincial Bureau of Foreign Prince's astle in Austria.When 6.015 [Affairs has lodged a strong protest Princess Ida came of age the be 6.02 with the local American Consul, câine the bride of Dr. Tagank), General against unwarranted at who now assigned to her one mil- 6.03 "|tion of Mr. Stevens, American Con. lion gulden in cash and the siz 6.04 suler Deputy, in illegally Interfer, thousand acres near Arad from her 8.04ing with the Beach in the case of father

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