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Looking to the coming season which opens Oct. 27, the report continued cheerily: Thirty-three singers have signed contracts. Mary McCormic, brought to stardom under Chicago's "Our Mary" Garden, will return. New artists will be Sopranos Lotte Lehmann, Maria Rajdl, Contralto Sonia Sharnova, Tenor Oscar Colcaire, Baritones Rudolph Bockelman, Eduard Habich, John Charles Thomas...
...Guild cities. Among plays to be offered are: Caprice, Major Barbara, Pygmalion, Wings Over Europe, R. U. R., Strange Interlude, Marco Millions, Volpone. A rotational system among the actors will assure each circuit city of the best Guild talent.* No matter what players tread the Guild's stage, stardom is avoided. Names are not posted in lights outside the theatre or in large type in the programs. There are no solo bows, no bows at all until the end of the play, when the entire cast ap pears. Emphasis is on the play, with known and unknown actors striving...
...related on the stage by means of episodic scenes. The girl is beautifully played by an actress new to the Manhattan stage, Zita Johann, whom the expert Arthur Hopkins has discovered among the ranks of road players and raised, as he raised Barbara Stanwyck and Pauline Lord, to stardom. George Stillwell plays the woman's husband with a touch of burlesque that throws the role out of drawing with the true characters opposed to it. The sets, designed by Robert Edmond Jones, are changed against a cyclorama...
...First Baptist choir for the snapping footlights of Manhattan. George M. Cohan, alert actor-producer-play-wright, gave her audience & advice. The advice was to go into musical comedy. There, a Southern drawl, an arch manner and a pure voice carried her to the top of the musical stardom, to join the All-American Grand Opera Company in France. Now her cycle returns to Manhattan...
...Sorrows of Satan (Adolphe Menjou). David Wark Griffith, director of The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, the man who guided to stardom Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Carol Dempster, the man generally hailed as the "old master" of the cinema, has attempted the sublime. The first few minutes of The Sorrows of Satan do suggest a Miltonic vastness, but shortly thereafter the film settles down to a good little "heart interest" story about love in the tenements. Here, midst Dickens-like poverty and squalor, a pathetic romance almost blossoms into a wedding (Carol Dempster, Ricardo...