Daily News from New York, New York • 77

DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, MAY IS, 1935 33 THEATRE NOTES 25 N. J. COPS' REBULSE PUTSCH OF 2,500 NAZIS Bruckner's "Races" Seen, But Not Heard At Hecksher Theatre By BURNS MANTLE. It is wise, I think, to warn the playing members of the Forum Theatre, who have just given three performance" of the Ferdinand Bruckner drama, "Races," at the Theatre, that they should be extremely careful about falling into a habit common to many players. Plays, and particularly plays Storm troopers of the Friends New Germany tried twice yesterday to crash the locked gate of Ukrainian Park, Linden, N.

and were twice repelled by twenty-five Linden policemen shoving against the gate from the inside. Failing in their attack, the storm troopers and 2,500 other pro-Nazis got into buses and private automobiles and drove to Singers' Grove, Springfield, where they drank beer, ate frankfurters and listened to a concert by the Stahlhelm- band. Previously, at the request of Nazis in Jersey, New York and Philadelphia, Mayor Myles Mc- KIN15T -FUt Manus of Linden had issued a permit for a gathering in Ukrainian Park. Discovery that a Jewish War Veterans picnic permit had been granted for a nearby plot, McManus revoked both permits to avoid disorder. The Nazis threatened to celebrate in the park anyway, so McManus ordered his police to keep them out.

2 DIE IN RAIL WRECK Eufaula, May 12 O. C. Gates, engineer, of Macoa. and a colored fireman were killtd near here when a Central of Georgia combination passenger and freight train left the tracks. RTH SK ASON i uri -CM PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY COSDICTORS KLEMPERER TOSCANINI LANGE Tbe following series of Concerts will be given: AH at Carnegie Hall 111 Aod Thursday- Rsenisirs 1.1 Afid FrMar Afterrirvoss 10 Kreat Tkarawas Krraiars, 13 Eras Friday Aftrrawows 1 (saw tWurdae Eveninr ttawrats' 1 Ksesi Sataiwaa- Etealmz All Saturday Seriea specially priced for Students Iw OaM ft mafia AfteraSfMs 1 Rsew NnnrWy 1 Smb.

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A't. Stsinu-gu Piawa I ff 'if mm, iiifMTjj T-l ANDERSON MENKEN 'Ok OfDJmiD EMPIRE m84s importance and- timely interest, are written not only to be acted but to be heard. I sat throusrh two acts of Friday Eight's performance of "Races" and I give the Porumites my word tnat 1 did not hear more than a third of what was said on the staje. And I tried two locations one In a row near the back of the theatre and one in the sixth row. It was not that the players mumbled.

They merely dropped their voices, or had not been taught to speak lines as they must be spoken to be understood. Happily I could read the Bruckner play at home. It was published some months ago by Alfred Knopf. Otherwise I should have had little idea of its better values. Guild Was Right.

This is the drama that the Theatre Guild thought in the Spring of 1934 to produce as its contribution to the protest against the Nazi inquisition in Germany. It was tried in Philadelphia, with Earle Larimore and Mady Christians playing the leads, and found, I suspect, a little too partisan in its statements and somewhat too diffuse in its drama to serve properly the interests of the Guild subscribers. It was written in the white heat an intense racial resentment immediately following the Nazi revolution, and produced less than a year after the first reports of that unhappy uprising. It relates, with a more intelligent restraint than most Nazi protests, the story of a gentle German medical student's effort to readjust his life to the call of a blood patriotism he could not rationalize. For two years he had lived with a German Jewess with whom he was deeply in love and whose superior mentality he greatly respected.

Her teaching and her love were forever getting in the way his biased reasoning. He finally was taken as a traitor to the Nazi cause because of the aid he gave her in her escape to Switzerland. Argumentative' Drama. The play's weakness as drama for neutral aliens is traceable not to much to its normal racial bias as to its author's determination to fill in every pause with arguments for the cause. A strengthening factor for sympathetic audiences, but a handicap to the drama as drama.

The Forum players include sev- ral professionals. Van Heflin, who started the season as a fair-haired boy in "The Bride of Torozko," after understudying "Dynamite" Jones in "Sailor Be- i ware" for a year, plays the lead. An earnest student of drama. Mr. Heflin, but one of the diction offenders.

Virginia Stevens, who has played Shakespeare with Fritz Leiber, in "Dangerous Corner" and Riddle Me This," is a soft blonde Jewess. The most distinct member of the cast was William Stein as the sneering rtosion. saui isash, play- i mg the important role of Siegel- i It was decided yesterday to continue the engagement of "To See Ourselves" at the Ethel Barry- more Theatre indefinitely, duo i M'Y iu a suu(ien in- i crease in at- i- I i tendance. S-VA The St. Louis Cardinals, -including Dizzy and Daffy Dean, will atteno Tuesday nighfs performance of "The Great Waltz" at the Center Theatre.

Constance Cumircngs Benn W. Levy, director of "Accent on Youth" at the Plymouth, and husband of Constance Cum- mings, the star, arrives on the lie de France Tuesday. Herman Shumlin has sold the French rights to "The Children's Hour" to Louis Jouvet, for September production in Paris. H. Potter, co-producer of "Kind Lady," flies to Hollyw-ood today to work for Paramount.

Vinton Freedley has announce? a special Decoration Day performance of "Anything Goes" at the Alvin. Earl Carroll's "Sketcn Book," relieved of labor complications, is to be produced May 21 in Philadelphia. The first performance of "Them's Reporters," by Philip Reeback, has been moved back to the week of May 27 "Kind Lady" has been using a thirty-one letter trailer advertisement attached to air planes. Viola Frayne, Matthew Smith. Len Doyle, Ruth Holden, Harold de Becker, Marcel Rousseau and Marjorie Dalton have been engaged for "Weather Permitting." scheduled for production May 23 at the Masque.

Motion picture concerns are reported bidding for the rights to "The Hook-Up," which makes fun of radio's commercial, programs. Samuel French announces the publication of "Petticoat Fever" in book form today. Marie Burke of "The Great Waltz" will be a luncheon guest of the Delphian Society Tuesday at the Hotel Barclay Helen Hoerle has written a biography of Freddie Bartholomew, aged 12, who played the boy David in "David Copperfield." ACTORS' KITCHEN TO ADD "BRUNCH" The Actors' Kitchen and Lounge has voted to add a breakfast and luncheon combination to its activities at the Union Methodist Episcopal Church beginning Mondav, May 13, from 10:30 A. M. to 1 P.

M. Five thousand 30-cent dinners have been served, 1,200 free, since April 2. A scene fram "The Bishop Misbehaves" will be broadcast at 6 o'clock Monday night over WJZ for the Stage Relief Fund. Elinor Ames' leaflet Voir Culture la ynn for the) Senw rIf-Bllrrrflinel. st pel envelope- to MeiM InformeatioR BRreno.

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The Forum did its own settings, which are serviceable and the di rection was by Saul Morris. YIDDISH ROAD SHOWS FEATURED With the regular Yiddish the atre season ended, local' playhouses continue to feature road attractions prior to closing for Summer. On the local list for this week are "That's Love," at the Brook lyn Hopkinson; the New York Art Troupe in "Parnose, at the Brooklyn Lyric, and the "Singing Poet in "Two Hearts," at the Bronx Art, all of which open Wednesday night and continue through the week-end. Friday night "On Seventh Ave nue" arrives at the McKinley The atre in the Bronx for a brief stay, while the Yiddish Folks Theatre becomes a movie house until the Fall. The Artef Flayers Collective will end their sixth repertory season at the Artef Theatre on May 26.

Until then they will continue with "Aristocrats" and "Recruits," which schedule is being interrupt ed tonight for the Theatre Troupe presentation of three one-act plays in LngJish by Alexander Borodulia COMPETITION The Harlem players, starting their second wek in "Sailor Be ware" at the Lafayette Theatre tonight, are to have competition the week tf June 1, when princi pals from th. ci lginal cast of The Green Pastures" will present Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty" at the Rockland Palace, 155th St. and Eighth Ave. FOR THE FUND A special performance Sam- son haphaelson "Accent on Youth" will re given Tuesday afternoon at the Plymouth, and ifi i rie a ri i if i 11 niif st -1 i Majine Elliott's Theatre on Friday afternoon. ADULT GIRLS anal WOMTM Imrm KlnM- Ffajre daneinff antj bwiy haiMiogr.

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