Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Star of Bengal. Novelist-Essayist Christopher Morley has already produced two oldtime dramas (After Dark, The Black Crook) on the dismal Jersey shores just across the Hudson River from Manhattan. Since their ancient modes seemed absurd to modern playgoers, these Hoboken theatricals became a fad. Audiences which were always rowdy, however fashionable, hissed the villains, cheered the heroes. Mr. Morley's latest attempt to make money exploits Joan Lowell, touted literary hoax-mistress (The Cradle of the Deep). It is a maritime melodrama, written by her husband, which permits her to maneuver in the shrouds and employ the nautical...
...solution is ingenious, will appeal to those who like a blend of mystery and mechanics. The technically expert setting shows the interior of one of Manhattan's Interborough Rapid Transit cars which whizzes past lights and stations. Co-Playwrights Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison have contrived an exciting addition to the season's many slaughters...
Russians like sad stories, like the music of Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky. Hence in Russia, Pique-Dame is popular. Hence in Manhattan, last week, many a Russian went to the season's first performance by the Fine Arts Opera Company.* There Russian singers, singing in Russian, under the skilled baton of the Russian Jacques Samossoud found high favor. It mattered little to the Russian listeners that the opera is episodic and disjointed, lacking in theatrical unity; that Lisa's soprano (Eugenia Erminia Erganova) had a metallic edge and that Tenor Herman (Dimitri Criona) had to wheeze through a cold...
...sombre, curving melodies were there, cleverly orchestrated. The performance as a whole was creditable and contralto Anna Meitschik was the Countess. She, a native of St. Petersburg, made her reputation in Europe with this role, sang it in Manhattan 19 years ago at the U. S. premiére given at the Metropolitan Opera. Then her voice was so big and deep that she could even sing baritone airs, had done so once in Russia, as pinch-hitter for the hero in Rubinstein's Demon. Last week her countess was again a fearsome, palsied old hag in shawls...
...indefinite program will probably include Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin, Rubinstein's Demon and Rimsky-Korsakov's Bride of the Tsar. The Manhattan engagement ends Dec. 28 whereupon a tour will be taken through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New England and into Canada...