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SUM Theaters THE Household PAGE 10. SECTION 2 THE SUN, BALTIMORE, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1930 The Local Stage Makes An Effort At Revival Outlook For The Season Is Improving III I ii Cook Shines Again In His New Vehicle pne And Dandy Gives Comedian Opportunity To Display Versatility Number Of Attractions iiiltl Promised By Managers Indicates A Possible Renewed Interest And Grotesque Humor 'As A Business Man He Plays With Merit Given XI Devises Many Varia Chance To Overcome Strong Opposition Of Radio And Movies tions Along The Usual Road Of Progress rllon that "the road" ia THAT usser dead, whic ich has come to a Br ROBERT F. SISK chronic wail with men of the theater, New 1'obk. is no truer than the rejoinder which l-nHE first of the new seasons pops forth now and then am', which is shows which can be unreservedly recommended is the Joe Cook vehicle, that if the road in dead the managers 1 musical extravaganza knowu as Fine and Dandy. Cook ranks with euch superb fellows as Ed AYynn, the Marx Brothers and Jolson, and when you have named them you have enum erated the aristocracy of our musical show stage.

iillljp pililfciMiN Mil il MUjWIHIilM'l havo killed it. Give the road a chance and it will revive even now, say the more hopeful fellows. Hope that this method is being tried by a desperate group of producers can be found in an examination of the preliminary list of attractions which aro scheduled to wend their way over that hhiiio road this seuson. Baltimore's prospects, it appears, are better than usual, if we may believe the announcements of the local managers. BALTIMORE'S WAY Baltimore has been iu the habit of turning out more or less lu reasonable numbers when the attraction really wns an attraction and not simply some- With Mr.

Cook in Fine and Dandy Is the reliable Dave Chasen, who has been at Cook's side since the Vanities days and who now emerges as an emergency man named Whiffiington while Cook plays the role of Joe Bquibb, a workman in the Fordyce Tool and Drop Forge plant. Mr. Cook, it seems, wanders in lute with huge box about the same size as those from which the late lamented Houdini would escape. It is his lunch. HIS EXPLANATION thing projected from the other side of the footlights.

Witness the Theater Guild. But when the attraction Is just another show, Baltimore tunes lu or goes to the movies. In vears past tho early weeks of the season here have been marked by what the theater men refer to as "turkeys" galore, Baltimoreans haven't been so starved for flesh-and-blood attractions His boss berates him for his lateness and at once be goes into a recital of his old days in Evansville, when he took lessons on the bull-fiddle. It is one of those involved explanations which wander far afield and become so involved that whatever point is made is ludicrous. When Mr.

Cook docs tart work it seems that bis machine that they'd part with money to see JANE BBAMLEY CLAIBORNE FOSTER thesa sad specimens. Hence the fact that tven such a play as Apron Strings, a. pleasant and well done piece, is more apt than not to meet with vast empty accomplishes these ends (a) it cracks spaces. rated as little less than sensational The curse of the early weeks has through the machinations of the vil been strong. But with next week at VARIETY PROMISED IN when he appeared in New York laBt lain, and it is up to Cook, who hired least, when Fred Stone and his pretty nuts (b) it deflates balloons (C) it blows up paper bags which are immediately busted one should say burst here, but bust carries the idea better rubs the back with brushes year, will come to tne lijric.

mcai music lovers, who heard the Iberiau daughters will be at Ford's and Jane Cowl will regale ua with play by 1930-31 MUSIC SEASON them for the afternoon, to replace them. This he does with many new feats, which include ladder juggling, exponent of piano virtuosity in the and (e) presents ft patented device Wilbur Daniel Steele and another by Mr. Shakeapearc, things ought to look metropolis, claim to hnve been awcu bv his prowess, so that bis appear brighter. ance should evoke much curious in the juggling of flaming torches (a splendid effect, by the way, as done on a darkened stage) and sonje diffi Series Of Symphony Concerts By Philadelphia And "GOOD OLD PAYS" Item un have a touch of what some Blind Mice, With All-Woman Cast Of 22, To Be Offered At Ford's, While The Maryland Will Present Everybody's Secret cult lifts and risky work sucn as we people quaintly call the good old days, New York Orchestras And Visits By Noted Individuals Will Feature The Winter better acrobats show us. And it is during these moments, terest.

Maria Jeritza, the colorful prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera, will come again after an absence of several seasons. Any appearance of hers in good for a debate, ber audiences being always divided. Her recent assumption of the role of Sulomc in Snn Francisco uppniK fn have been a momentous occa when Cook has Bpent so much of the as when the Academy of Music, the Auditorium and Ford'a Grand Opera House all were offering first-rate stellar attractions right off the Broad ovoninir olnwnine as but few can announced the plot is to be developed Br HELEN S. TAYLOR ALTIMORE theater goers will clown, that we realize some of his music event this fall will ocimr on have the npportuity 'this week of 'HE time to open the 1930-31! in that light and sophisticated manner that has come (o be recognized as way griddle metropolitan runs were great versatility. Wednesday evening.

October 8, at r-pi called "the fruit and flower getter." This instrument is ft boxer's glove, released from a strong spring, and a blow from it will land you in the hospital, so Cook explains, and get you fruit and flowers. A TELEPHONE IDYLL Mr. Cook becomes the general manager of this plant and moves into a grand office. lie has three phones on his desk and when one rings he blindfolds himself and chooses it. Installed as the head man, we find that Mr.

Cook is prone to giving his employes five picnics every two weeks and that he is proud when the output falls off 72 per cent. A chart illustrates this, and its lines indicate such things as This Firm's Output Last Year, Republican Territory, Scarsdale Town-hin. Tonv's speakeasy, Harvard's Ball sitting in judgment upon two plays music box is almost at hand and not so long then pretty much week after week. 8 vrhpn the Comninsky Trio, a typically Continental. sion.

Unfortunately, she will not pre though the treasures inside may not be Shows like Fine and JUanay nave gone far toward making a great drawing card of Cook. My first recollection rf him was in vadueville with his On the other hand, Blind Mice is a On the list of attraction provided for taken out. except one by one, as tne sent her version in the Last due to a bnn upon the opera at the Metropoli sroup of Russian artists, will play at Cndoa Hall, 118 WPEt Franklin street, under auspices of the Bach Club. time comes, to raise the lid a little and play of the American scene, with types that hnve not as yet been subjected to the crucible culled Broadway, two plays that, judged by sponsorship, by authorship, and by their casts, should be worthwhile. us by the two remaining legitimate theaters are to be found Death Takea A Holiday, which knocked New York one-man vaudeville show act, and he tan.

look in reveals numerous things in that will have the charm of familiar The personnel of the group includes Men then, some twelve years ity, although the fact that it is a pro a aintpr and two brothers, Sarah Com- store to satisfy both the sensation hunters and the conservatives. TIBBETT SI AY BK IIKA1ID It. is reasonably certain that Law hoadliner. In that time he has off its pedestal last ncason; The Green duction with nn entirely feminine pinsky, pianist: Manuel Compinsky, These premieres are Blind Mice, become twice as entertaining and each cast, and has been staged, by a woman, year he adds new things to his reper- very modern, very feminine, very First in importance come the two series of symphony concerts by the Philadelphia and New York Philharmonic violinist, and Alex Compinsky, cellist. They rome of musical parents and have rence Tibhett, who has probably the largest following of any individual ainirer.

will be heard later on, as will Pastures, in which Mare Connelly sua-denly grew up as an artist: Topaze, which is playing pretty much all over the world; Strictly Dishonorable, ft Winifred Lenihan, stamps it as one studied with eminent teachers, includ of the novelties of the theater. The nroduction which backs op Orchestras, which will be opened by John Charles Thomas, who is to ap and the Opposition's Output Last American, at Ford's, and Everybody's Secret, adapted from the Hungarian by Frederic and Fanny Hatton, and said to be rich in those qualities that farce that act the metropolis to Grace George in The First A FEMININE PLAY This play, which may be considered pear in joint recital with Grace Jloore, the vounz soprano of the Metropolitan. the latter organization on October when Erich Kleiber, general mUBic di Cook is first rate in all respects. It has been put on by Lewis Gensler, the composer turned producer within the nast few seasons, and Morris Green, ing Leopold Auer, Felix Salmond and Emile Sauret. The trio is well-known in England, where it has appeared before royalty, and on the Continent Mrs.

Fraser, St. John Ervine's hit, and rector of the Berlin Staatsoper, will of A newcomer of the grnui toprani is Tear. As the evening goes on air. Cook goes to the golf course and makes bole-in-one with ft shovel-shaped club. DVSY CADDY as the firHt production of importance at Ford's this season, has as its back we have learned to recognize as the smartly Continential, at the Maryland.

A Dishonored Lady, Ivatnenne uor-nell's big success. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Claire Clairbert, a young Belgian coloratura who is attracting favorable who used to do the Greenwich Village ground one of those combination club ficiate as guest-conductor. Herr Juet-ber is the latest of the foreign invaders in the symphony field, and though a There are six. nicked at random, Follies. Thev are apparently men witn comment.

She will sing here on Novem houses and boarding room establmu will give its usual quota of concerts at the Lyric, wth Gustav Strube con SUCCESS ISJ El'HOPK The latter production is being made Mr. Chasen, the ever-faithful TVhif- ideas and some daring, for they ven- and there are other real attractions Maude Adams is returning much vounger man than any ot nis not- ments catering exclusively to women. Airninst this highly novel and unusual hv Joseph M. Gaites and the author fington, is the caddy and he appears In a mnnstrOUS Ulster, equipped on the contemporaries he occupies a place tu re here a first act set which Js tne most thorouehly constructivist piece of to the stage, for instance, and she will is Attila von Orbok. According to re ducting.

The regular recital course of twenty concerts will be given as usual at the Peabody and several artists new tn local music-lovers here, as well as in the German capital analogous to that lining to carry ft great number of setting the playwrights have placed their twenty-two protagonists. The scenery seen this side of Moscow on of Toscanini in Italy, having been ap- Tn Inter moment Mr. took port it has been one of the outstanding successes of the important Conti ber 10 at the Lyric. In the realm of the dance Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Gcorgi, the two Germun dancers who have justly earned the reputation of presenting a subtle and unusual form of their art, will be seen in a full-length program. Ted Sbawn, minus the sinuous Rutb.

will come during October, accompanied nnintpd to his present responsible ana visit us. George M. Cohen will give us a week of Cohan repertoire. Mrs. Flske is to be seen.

Leonore Ulric is booked for Baltimore. Leslie Howard will be any of the regular Btages, and a machine ballet which is thrilling, hand rules of these places are so stringent one or two unusual instrumental fea nental cities. The American produc important position in the music world that men are never permitted to enter some and, as musical shows go, high tures, are promised. enters in an outboard motorboat drawn by two horses and their young colt. In the rear is Mr.

Chasen, in ear-muffs and an 1800 bathing suit, on an Then Mr. Cook and the at the age of 33, an almost unprece Walter Hampden in Cyrano oe brow stuff. above a certain floor. The action of this play occurs above the reception tion is staged by Stanley Logan, r.ng-lish director and actor, who, it will be remembered, was responsible for To- BOSTOX IYMFHOHV dented honor. Bergerac Ethel Barrymore Nazimova.

It remains to be said that the show WON APPROVAL Nntnhle among the individual of floor, so that, as has been said, there is as clean as a whistle. And it paze, a Broadway hit last season. horses make up quartet and sing Tn six vears. Kleiber has won the NINE OTHERS There are nine more, for some of ferings in the orchestral line will be by a large group of his Denishawn dancers. This will be the first time this In the cast are Edward Craiidall, whizzes along with a provocative pace which never allows for a let down.

nnrmalified approval of both the con the lone concert by the Boston Sym is not the slightest glimpse of a man during the entire entertainment. However, there is no lack of ro these stars are worthy of attention Th maior moment, however, Is noted pair have not teamed since their Hugh Miller, C. H. Croker-King, Anthony Kemble Conner. Theodore St.

phony next February. The fiftieth anniversary of this organization will Many more nice things could be said servative and modernist factions of his audiences, and whatever he now has to when Mr. Cook's new machine ap mance in the drama, which, by the ahont it. but vou have perhaps guessed John, Herbert Standing, William Ker and a hearing pretty much regardless of their vehicles. That is, their vehicles are built usually on their own marriage a number of years ago.

Last but certainly not least will be the visit on December 3 of Fritz Kreis- be celebrated on the tenth and eleventh nftVr his public is awaited witn en way, was written from Miss Caspary's pears. He is on one aide ot the stage l.Tinir a eiant saxophone. He signals shaw. Arthur Bnrrv. James Dunn, tbnsiasm.

While this will be his first by this time that it is, so far, the show of the season and since it is also the novel, Music the Street. In the play of next month, when the original program with which the concerts were Littler. Wells Richardson. Ro ler, the peer of violinists, without whom an ape which drops a cocoanut on the pxciirsion to North America, he baa on plane, which means a high one. Tha Theater Guild's subscription she uses the telephone as a symbol v.A nf man who swats anotner wun man Arnoldnff, Jane Bramley, Lillian Ilrennnrd.

Gertrude Maitland. Mar- a number of occasions directed the fine the men who play auch important inaugurated in Symphony Hall in Boston, will be eiven. directed by Sir show of the past few seasons, nothing of its kind is likely to offer it even mild competition. list of six plays' has not been men Wehall bat. This fellow hits the orchestra at Buenos Aires, where he parts in the lives of these woinen and no music season would be complete.

Artists may come and go, but Kreis-ler's place in the sun remains secure. Numerous other attractions will be cella Swanson, Peggy Conklin, Louise George Henschel, who conducted that man next him and that worthy draws is held in high esteem. Fans and consequently really have an important Bateman and Isabel Atwill. inaugural concert. Sir George is at nrpapnt nn hia way from Encrland end part in the development of the plot his bow and lets fly an arrow at tne rmmers of a man who works ft steam Leningrad also know him, so that Mr Kleiber will come highly recom Marks Her Fiftieth added as the season progrpsses.

and the The story told in Blind Mice is that contents of the music box hold out shovel. This last, receiving whatever f'OVTIXEXTAL COSIEPY Everybody's Secret is described as a dramatic narrative concerning the adventures, both political and roman Year As Actress mended. of a girl who goes to Chicago with large promise. it is that the arrow Drings The balance of the concerts by the will be the orchestra's guest of honor during bis stay. Two noted singing organizations are scheduled to be beard the Russian $10.

two new dresses, an extra pair puts his shovel into operation and lifts Minnie Rayner Br Kan Her Career New Yorkers will take place on the oi shoes and a naive faith in the power tic, of a particularly attractive young Strictly Dishonorable following dates: December 17, Janu of love. In the girls home to which she Svmnhonic Choir, which will be here a load of a sues. THE Sl'BTLE SIGNAL woman who begins her career as a clerk in a bank in a small city of ary 28 and March 11. Two of these, oes. and which does not admit work In England In 1880 Minnie Ravner.

who has an impor dnrinr the taut wppk of October, and Companies On Tour the second and fourth, will be directed At the proper moment these ashes ing women who earn over $23 a week. Central Europe, that delightful lo the Don Cossack Russian Male Chorus, otherwise known as the Singing Horse by Arturo Toscanini, who is held by California Trwape Reopens For she meets various types, and it is said fall upon the eager Mr. Chasen and tant role in Symphony In Two Flats, with Ivor Novello. at the Shubert The manr to be the Peer among orchestra that in drawing these types Miss men of the Steppes. tioned.

Nor have other hits lor example, the Donney version of Lysis-trata and It's ft Wise Child, to offer a startling contrast been considered, nor the musical shows. We'll get Sons o' Guns, and Strike Up the Band: Carroll's Sketch Book; Stepping Sisters, Marilyn Miller's vehicle; Sweet Adeline, Joe Cook's Fine and Dandy and a dosen more, to say nothing of the productions less known now which will get into the bit class. some; ARE OLD Some of the are old, as ft radio-crazed nation considers age three months, or even six; perhaps a whole season. But they're first class. Doubtless the usual "turkeys" will appear, and these will act managerial minds to dreaming bad dreams and having black spots before the eyes, just as they always have.

r.nt there ia more rround than usual his reception of tne subtle signal mime him to strike two ding-dings on fteaaoa Mfnnrapnll After I.r-Off cality that has provided so much romance since the days of the picturesque Prisoner of Zenda. However, while the current produc loaders, while the third will be left to The former already has ft following Caspary and Miss Lenihan, who is co ater. New York, is celebrating her fif Ttomanlino Molinarf. with an addi author as well as director, has made tieth year on the stage. Miss Kayner Dnrinff he coming season Brock here, but the latter group is among the new entertainers listed.

They have been widely praised wherever they the triangle. This is repeated and Mr. Chasen is next doused with tin scraps. Once more it is done and he is doused an unusual contribution to dramatic made her debut at the Hammersmith tional interest of the appearance of tne Russian pianist, Nicolal Orloff, who is Pemberton's production of Strictly Dishonorable will be represented by at Palace nf Varieties. London.

Septem writing. tion is reported to be as romantic as the now almost forgotten Anthony Hope opus, of generation or two an acolyte at the shrine of modernism have been heard. There will also be with flour. And then, as the scene ber 24, 1880. She is the widow of Fred least two touring- companies, in addi in music fades, we see the triumphant Mr.

Cook The cast is headed by Claiborne Foster, who appeared in Other Men's Wives, Applesauce, The Patsy, Eva ago, it is said to present a story rich erick Jacques, the English comedian, other choral attractions added to the list later. tion to the original production now in The first two concerts by the Phila lighted like ft Christmas tree, bowing who died in 1'Jlo. its fiftieth week at the Avon I heater, in those qualities of scandal anddar-inr with, which for Instance, the pub delphia Orchestra on November 5 and Mr. Novpllo and the entire cast for euch honors as should accrue to a tha Fifth and other plays, and she FADER EW SKI TO PLAT Amonr the Individual artists, whose of Svmnhonr In Two Flats, as well lic mind has endowed the "high per man who puts these dream-like devices will supported by a large cast December 10 will be directed by Ktnltnwakf. the season being di appearances are always welcome, will Into tanrible form.

as mnnT other English actors now in New York. The California company, which closed August 2 in Vancouver after fifteen weeks in eoat cities, reopened September 14 in Minneapolis with the same cast intact. TO PLAY SISTER'S ROLE vided with Ossip Gabrilovitch, who will be Ignace Taderewski, the Polish Into a picnic scene comes the advent sonages' of a certain Middle Europe country, the adventures of whose kinr have been providing the public New York, gave Miss Rayner a dinner Antoinette Giroux, sister of Ger- at the Aleonauin Wednesday meat pianist whose illness last year made the cancellation of his concert season this fall for hope that the theater In nt Mr. Cook as the acrobat and agile athlete. In Rain or Shine, as Ton may have the last two, on January Zl ana February 18.

At the last concert, Jascha lleifetz. eminent yiolinist, will She received over 200 cablegrams of prints with much material mr tne limine uv "i 1. 1 All, at the Morosco Theater, has ar- Baltimore can compete with the mo- nt 1 I necesssry. Rachmaninon. win rnurn eonrratulations from London.

last few months. remember, Mr. Cook and his retinne i- i. inn picture on some reasonable bas be the soloist No hint as to programs The players include Flobelle Fair-hanks, niece of Douglas Fairbanks; Lino Manzoni, young Italian l-sding man; Lee Baker, charaHer actor; ROSfAXCK DEVELOPS Among a great many others, Miss Itavner ha appeared in the following imitated the Iskabashi Trio of Jspa-ti Here he and his eang take the is ret forthcoming As mar be surmiwd. it is the early in the new year, these two being the pianists listed in the individual concert series, who are seasonal favorite here.

rivea lr'iia smu vi j- i role in the touring company of Prince and perhaps even with the radio. At Bibesco's comedy, in which Kathleen least the managers seen, willing to Lowry will have the Violet Hcming prove that if the road is dead wasn In the spring the operas will be here, plays: Zaza, With Mrs. Lewis Waller, young bank clerk who finds herself place of the Giersdorf Brothers, four Ralph Lot ke, G'orge Meeker, formerly though, of course, these programs, too of tbp film Jerome Daly, Guido AIpx- they who killed it. The fiport of Kings, Hay I ever, 1 he Rose and the Ring. The Rotters, The involved in a romantic intrigue with a person of very high rank, and it is On November it.

Joe Itiirbi, the n. are indefinite at present inaenniie at prrwm. part. Germans, whose accents are, respectively, Italian, Irish, Cockney and Dutch. Thy become intoxicated will be r'ally the first formal Spanish Piinit, whose playing was ander and John Koi.b.

Scarlet Lady, The Joker..