Love Emily Dickinson Theme Play
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Masterpiece of Stagecraft by Max Reinhardt) F si iva I Pro due t ion of CI s IC PI y Stimulates Dr me In Chi c ago. y Ch rl s Collins. .\ ~ TIF.I. lIAHD'J"S 1<tagin~ "r M I rl sum m I'I' •'i::11l's ra hlch III annroachinz th enrl of Its /;lay ~t t.hc Aurll- t,>rll1m. thpnter, haa }1rPn a. milch d d tlrnulus 10 111" Chiengo sta~I'. hll '\VA aro nnrlcr its .pell WI' ma y !II) o '11"1. we arc hn.vlnc all trnnor- t 'It (II' mn.t lc f' a on. lL rcfr"shes I!'!", to IIlt!ll11Sof h"I'" a n-l sweep", 1l1\' fJ t o· t h h,d 1 h "f thr-a t rica l " ,I I Il I], Ti,e fact r'ra t tl Is flllll'rb spectr1.('l~ ( me to u f rom Cu llf'ot; ia rutcrost s n I cnlv, For bcncrntionR Ch ica.go las ucen looking' lawn I'd l'ew York as th'l ource of our pla.vgolng' supply, hut 110W tho c ty find'! It~e]( no loriz cr /1];1 10 CO'l11tupo n the fecundity and I) I or tho 1 roadwav impresarios. For cumrilc tty of rem ons, whlch have h n discuss d so a t n that the sub- jr t Is worn thrcndharc, Broadway has l"t us dow n painfully and, perhaps, pt' 111 ncntlv. H Chicago is to have a theatrical !If9' and if our playgoers nrc not to perish In the jungle of (' nr-n a siio s, wo must either create 1 for 0 u-sctvcs a job at whlch we " In to he di.S'raccfully illrpl-~or Olin I It 0111. ill or t ho New Yo 'I, .j lm, h irh has solel i18 lirn on "the 10,,,1 " tor II. ne~~ 0 film ri hi s. eliforni a R cu r of Stage. r canno att for t:hi<a;:l) 10 h"· eo III " a, "producIng center." 'I'hat , II pparcutly, Is 11. matter rcquirtng many lifetimes of patlcnce. Therefore I observe with enthu Iasm this mani- rostauon of energy that comes from ('allfornia, and rejoice over the fact 1 hat tho west coast ls not completely obsessed by tho motion picture In- du try. 1 ni 0 hope that reports of the crowds v hlch have been pouring' Into the Audltorlum th ater for tho last tr-n 1 I hls to wltn 8 this magnltlccnt show ro nroadlng an epidemic of jaundico among- the Broadway pro- ducr rs. ! '1 H the.·o v York Theater Guild take to bit lug' ils fingernails fnriously so much the better. Max Itcinhardt is giving us a Shal csncarcan production on the res- t lvnl , alo such as has attracted swarms o( tour sts every summer to his acttvttlo ln Salzburg, in tho Aus- trt.m Tyrol. It is in direct contrast to the mlnlaturc Shakespeare with which the Old Globe Ill: ycrs have. won our ltffectlon. It employs all the theater arts scene d ! n, dancing, panto- mime, a certain degree of pageantry, and orchestral music-In addition to the direct acting of the characters; and It blends those clem nts Into a beautiful en ernble with perfect unity of effect. Drama Returns to Magnificence. As a festival play the performance moves at a leisurely pace, seeking for every legitimate embeliishment of Sha.kcspca ro'a fantastic tale. It is a full bodied show, giving the complete text, and also the entire score of Mendelssohn's enchanting' incidental music, which comes to its climax in tl 0 great wedding march that has summoned millions of couples to the matrimonial altar. When compared with this ample poe t lc entertainment, the typical alcirnpy play from Broadway, opening at 8:45 and clostng at 10:45, dealing wIth a small group of humdrum folks, sccma like a sandwich beside a ban- quet. In his "Midsummer Night's Dr 'am" Reinhardt restores the drama to its old status of magntilccnce. He also opens wido tho gateways of the imagination. I have seen better Shakespearean acting than this performance contains, but I have never seen a finer Shakc- sncaroan production. The visual ap- peal In " A Midsummer .•Tight's Dream" is all Important, and Rein- hardt h s lvcn the play its perteet envll'onm' nt. 11is brilliant sta~e di· NEW IN CHICAGO E D\VARD SHELDOX, authorof "Romance," which Playgoers, Inc.,is presenting in the Black- slone theater with Eugonic Leon- tovich in the leading- role, wrote five successrul plays before he was twenty- seven years old. 'I'ho fifth waa "Ro· marice," vhich turned out to lJe an international hit. Sheldon was born in Chicago and lived here up to the time he cnrolled at Harvard. Atthe university, he tool, a course in dramatic litera ture and playwriting' from Prof. George Pierce Baker. During his senior year he saw an advertisment of a New York play broker, and he sent hera rection has placed the worldofOberon and 'Titania before your eyes and made it no trouble at all for you to believe in fairies. Reinh rdt's American Future. After the Chicago engagement the company will transplant the preserved oak and pine trees of itsenchanted grove to other cities-Milwaukee, St. Louis, etc.-to complete its demon- stration that "the road" has not abandoned the classic drama. Eventu- ally it will end its travels in the Rockefeller Centertheater, New York, as a successor to "The Great Waltz." Reinhardt's American career, so happily beg-un with "A Midsummer Night's Dream," will have new chap- ters before many months have passed. He now has a contract with the War- ner Brothers for motion picture work, but he has noidea of becoming absorbed into thecinema trade. He Is already planning for anotherlarge scale production, whichmay bestaged this spring' or reserved fornext sum- mer's California Iest.ival. Thiswill be a drama on biblIcalthemes by F'rariz \Verfel, eminent in central Europe and already known inthis country through the Theater Guild's staging of his "Goat Song." The play has an elaborate score by Kurt Weil and calls for simultaneous acting on four or five stage levels. Lunt-F ontanne; Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne will begin rehersals for NoelCoward's ••Point Vala ine " this wcek. Theplay will open Christmas night in Boa- ton. TOMORROW man uscrtpt he had written as part of his class work. Is was •• Salvation Nell," and it reached Broadway with Mrs. Fiske in the leading role. In his next play, fj 'I'he ~ib'ger," he dealt wlth the southern Negro prob- Iern. 11i.'third venture, ••'l'he Boss," dealt with ci vic politics. In •• The High Road," he developed awoman's character from girlhoodtomiddle life. "Ttornancc," his fifth play, telling- a romantic love story, brought stardom to Doris Keanein In13. Miss Leontovich's company includes Pierre Wa.tk.in s,Isabel Baring, Phil Huston, Tyrone Power J'r., Ludmilla Teretzka, and others. The premiere will take place tomorrow night. WIE SOLES-HEELS ~ Durable quality oak leather half soles and rubber heels attached to any size shoes. Workmanship and materials are all guaranteed. We Dye Shoes Any Color We Lengthen d iden Sho to Fit C lVieboldt's Basements-Also Balconv atMilwaukee Ave. / ECOeO ORLOS fOi' \VASHI~G SPEED set bynew Ip. ii Il o 4iJlll.aI1t to.II( , '\'A5Ii A See how the new world record for washing SPEEDis established by the Spiralator-new EASY Washer invention that actually washes clothes 50% FASTERin the same size tub, with the same cunount of hot water and soap required by former m thods. And most remarkable of all- see how the speedy Spiralator washes even MORE GENTLYthan old slow methods. 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Cho- reographer and de- signer of the four members of the pro- gram, she will be the principal dancer in three of them. Tragic Love 11 Brittle Heaven" Shows Helen Hunt Jackson's Husband as Her Wooer. By Burns Mantlo. E\\' YORK.-[Special.]-Xobodj' knows. tho ug h a good many have wasted time wondering, how t hos.e who have gone on spend their time in hcaven. Evcry- body has come to accepthell as a place or definite reg lrnerrta.tion, but heavenlydiversions arc less certain. Has Emily Dickinson, poet, for in- stance, been concerned about the Ia.irly persistcnt cfforts of p la ywrig h Ls and others to chai-t explanations of her earthly love life? Ha s she brought the subject up [or discussion in meet- ings or the society for reunited lovers'? Or has shesimply let the matter pass" A few years ago Susan Glaspcll, laking theDickinson legend in hand, wrote "AliHon's lIousc" and won a Pulttze r prize with it as drama, though she left lhe matter of 1\11ss Dick insona love life stillobscure. This week we have a drama called "Brittle Hca ven" in which Vincent York and F'rcderick J. Pohl, wor-king with abtograpbtcal novelby Juseph- inePollitt [Mi-s, Pohl], called ••Emily Dickinson." seek toshow that tho Thanksgiving is the one dayon which your dinner is all important. Sump- tuous Thanksgiving Dinner will be served from noon to 9 P. M. at $1.50 in the Boulevard Room (Margaret Conrad Concert Orchestra), The Continental Room (Dancing after 7 P. M.) and the Oak Room. T MICHIGAN BLVD. RESERVATIONS AT 7TH WABASH STREET .4 .400 THE PALMER HOUSE PRE ENT This Gala Show "THE AUTUMN every evening in the REVUE" EMPIRE ROO First Show 7:30 P. M. Sharp STAN KAVANAGH Dinner $2.50 ROY CROPPER NO COVER CHARGh TOMMY MARTIN Min!mum Charges Dtnner$2.50 DOROTHY AND DAVE FITZGIBBONS Supper $2.00 HARRY AND DOROTIIY DIXON (Sat .• Sun. and Holidays A8BOTT INTERNATIONAL DANCERS -Supper $2.50) TED WEEMS' MUSIC JOHANN STRAUSS in Person and aComlliete f' [ [ I SP'"~~:::=:bb'" •.,..,.. LAST DAY TODAY! o B Hotel 10 A. M. to 10 P. M. 200 exhibits of collection hob- bies, including stamps, coins, antiques, Indian relics, fire- arms, manuscripts, books, au- tographs, glass and china, prints, curios, furniture, fine arts, paintings, antique jew- elry, rarities, and all material ] ~ for collectors. Lr Ad:iSSiO: 25«: ,~ MAKE YOUR RESERVATIO SNO FOR THANKSGIVING For Reservations Phone Longbeach 2210, JACK HUFF, Mgr. Advertise In I the Tribune of Emily Dickinson Is Theme Play poet's true love was the husband of her best friend, and he, the Maj. Ed- wardI-Iunt, who married the lady afterward known as Helen Hunt Jackson, author of mother's favorite love story, -, Rarnona ." Civil War Prevented Poet from Eloping. It is the contention or interested ,Illrties that Miss Dickinson could not have indited as many beautiful love poems as she wrote to imaginary lovers only. One group insists that she was deeplyenamored ora mi n is- tel' of the gospel, Dr. Charles Wads- worth of Philadelphia. Another in- sists that she really had severallove affairs more or less hidden from pry- in," New England neighbors. The Poll itt-Pohl.Ynr-je trio offer's cvt- dcnce that it was Maj. Hunt who caused the Dick inson heartto beat; that he fellin leve withher by read. ing' herletters to his wife; thatHelen Hunt became extremely jealous; that Emily thereupon declared she was pre- pared to sacrifice everything- fora future with Ma], Hunt, and might have done '0 if the majorhad not been killed during a civil war assign. ment before the happy solution of the triangle co uld be attained. Dorothy Gish is playing the Emily Dickinson role in ••Brittle Heaven," presenting the poetin her early twenties and making her a gentle, witty, saddened, attractive lady who speaks a little stiltedly, frequently in lines lifted from the Dickinson poems. This puts both the Gish girls to work on Broadway,as Lillian is playing a young harlot in "Within the Gates." AlbertVanDekker, the handsome young' man you may recall as the count in •• Grand Hotel," is the Maj. Hunt, and Edith Atwaterthe Helen. It is a pleasant little drama, but it makes this particular Dicklnsonlove affair fairly commonplace and un- important. Which, as said, makes me wonder just what the late Miss Dickinson may be thinking of it, if anything. Wondertng about Emily,too, reminds me ofan old heaven story that some one revivedlast week. This one con- cernsa quarrel betweenSt. Peter and Satan over certain breaks in the wall separating their domains. Several lost souls had escaped intoheaven awl St.Peterwas irritated. The breaks, said he, wouldhave to be fixed and Satanhadbetter see to it. Satan only laughed. "In that case Ishall be compelled to sueyou!" firmly announced St. Peter. II Sue TIle?" roared Satan. <l Sue me'?And where would you get a law- yer? H Irish Players Open with "Plough and the Stars." The Irish came on Monday, and hav- CHICAGO'S GREATEST THEATRICAL EVENT TODAY .... Box office opens 10 A. M. Last Sunday Matinee and Evening Performance of RI world famous spectacle A Midsummer Night's Dr am" "I have not seen anything on anystage more beautiful." -r-Christopher M orley AUDITORIUM THEATRE Prices: Evening, 83c, $1.10, $1.65, $2.20, $2.75, $3.30 Matinees, 83c,$1.10, $1.65, $2.20, $2.75 "GREATER THAN 'THE MIRACLE' " -Lloyd Lewis, Daily News NINO MARTINI Leudtue Tenor. Metropolitan Opera ROSALIND KAPLAN Pianist, First appearance inChicago since 1000 tickets S3c. 51.10. Sl.tl5. h er- EuropeanSuccesses others $3.~0. 5~~.73 SPpo'!;'!rp~N'Eii ~,~O'j,1Hhrri~~. ~fg~: 2~:r¥6-MON. EVE., DEC. 3 Auditorium Theatre Box Office Open TOMORROvV .. THE DANCE SERIES . presenting from among the greatest international artists LA ARGENTINA only appenrnnce in Chicago SAT. EVE, DEC. 8 • MONTE CARLO BALLET RUSSE in PremierPerformance ofStravinsky's "FireBird" FRIDAY EVE., DEC. 28 DORIS HUMPHREY CHARLES WEIDMAN and Group of Dancers FRIDAY EVE., JAN. 18 CLOTILDE and ALEXANDRE SAKHAROFF FRIDAY EVE" FEB. 22 AUDITORIUM THEATRE Anspices : The Bohemians of Chicazo.Manazernen t : Grace Denton. Subscription. Now at 1:30.) Auditorium Bldg. $14, $!J.OO,$7.70, $5.50. $4.40, $3.85, $2,75. No Matinee INights, $1.10 I. Wednesday $3.30. Tax Inc. This We..ek~.I.O~$2.~ DDROTtJlY ETHE.L o WATE--- in 1:71i£, ~ ~--CHA5.COlLlN5,TRIBUNE. I ItO ONE WILL BE SEATED DURING TIlE BRIEF PROLOGUE Pl4YGOERS. INC., prcsentJ: EUGENIE EVE'S(EXCEPT SUN.) 55~-$J.I0-$1.65"$2.20 MATS. WED. and SAT. 55¢ •..$1.10•..$1.65 of ing a manager with a sense of news values they began their season with Sean O'Casey's "The Plough and the Stars." O'Casey, as you know, has been much in the local prints the last sev- eral weeks. His" 'Vithin the Gates." which some likcd and some found ob- scure and unsatisfying, stands, by ;,is own conresslon, as the type of elrama. to which his disgust with 1'i3 own realistic plays has driven him. O'Casey, whose early success wa, builded on a firm roundauon of real- ism, now finds the realistic pluy t.he hilliest sort of play the theater VIS to offer. He would rededicate the theater to a drama of symbols en t ir Iy, "There can never be any act u. lit y on a stage," says O'Casey, "except an actuality that is unnccessr ry and utterly out of place. An actor rcpre- sen ti rur a cavalier may come on the stage mounted on a real horse, but the horse will always look ridiculous. • 'I'ho closer we approach to real life the further we move away from the drama. There is a deeper life than the life we see and hear with the open ear and the open eye, and this is the life important and the life ever. lasting." Which has a fine ring' of Idcalrsrn as well as a good bit of common sense In reasoning. But the public that has been brought up in a theater devoted tonarrative plays and nurtured on realism is still fairly mystified by the O'Casey application of symbols. CHICAGO'S GREATEST OPERA SEAS Mon.• 1\0'. ':(j-VHIE~GHI with Maria Jcrttzn, La Munce, Schiffcl()r. Baromco anti Ja~cl. Weber cou- ducts. TueQ ••• ·ov. :~"-C. lDlJ':N wi 11 Llildn Burke, Cue Glade. ::-'fal' ,"C'l'Y Mnx- walt, AdaPa~g'i and DUllC n, Van Grove COlH]Uct:--. wea.. No\'. 2S-t),,\LO:\Il~ with .Jcrit Sharucva. .1'c:cl auf! '~o,'i"cr. \';:11' Grove conducts. l'AGIJL\tt'[, it.b Lucia Diann, Pane-Gusset-, Mor~I1;. F'ioretla and Cavadore, l{oPIJ con- ducts. Sat. Mat .• Dec. l-I\L\nA"U~ III 'l''l't;!' FLY with Mason, Ornstein, PrI~.;cri() and Bentoncltt. Papi conducts. Evening-AIDA with LaM:lIH'c. )~llrJce, Jag-el and 1-fOI'clli. weber conducts. nIoll.• nee. a-H.:\l,O:',lJl~ with Jerit,.'Z"1. Jag-ci. Royer and Sharnovu. \ all Grove conducts. 'I'ues .. nee. ,,- :'\If\I,,'J'UA with Edil'l Mason, Mav Barron (df.'lJul I. DUI tour-Itt and Hoyer. Pani conduc-ts. weu.. Dee. G-~;OR~J.:\-Sn{'dl~l t:rll1ni Centeuarv, with Della Bann i (Amr-r- tea» debut ). COP Glade. Jagel an.I GUIdi. Papi conducts. Fri.. lJCl". "-SPI~(;TAI~ AI~L HAI~J ..• II~'1'. conducted by Huth Pace. Sat :\1,,( Dec. ll-'I'ANl'lJAr~EI; wi til ~·Lotte·'Lehman. Coe Glade, Schiffelcr, Althouse. DrhrskJ-. weber conducts. E"·C~1~~~h(;J~~Ur)(~IV~1~~~1~v0i.thJ,:i~~~r?~CI~~id },lordli. l>ani conducts. (CASTSUBJECT TO CI;ANGE) NOV. 30-SPECIAL ALL-BALLET PRO·RAM Ruth Pagc nr('~cnts 1.''"0 wo Id nre- micrcs-GOLD STANDARD and )IEAR YE I HEAR YE! Also two revrvars-c- nOLERO and LA GUIABLASSE. Con- ductors Ganz and KOPD. Chicago Grand Opera Company Paul Lonaone, Artistic Director Priccs-50c to 5-1.00. THX Exempt. 20 N. Wacker Drive Tel. 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Transcript of Love Emily Dickinson Theme Play
Masterpiece ofStagecraft byMax Reinhardt)F si iva I Pro due t ion of
CI s IC PI y StimulatesDr me In Chi c ago.
y Ch rl s Collins..\ ~ TIF.I. lIAHD'J"S 1<tagin~ "r
M I rl sum m I' I' • 'i::11l'sr a hlch III annroachinz
th enrl of Its /;lay ~t t.hc Aurll-t,>rll1m. thpnter, haa }1rPn a. milch
d d tlrnulus 10 111" Chiengo sta~I'.hll '\VA aro nnrlcr its .pell WI' ma y!II) o '11"1. we arc hn.vlnc all trnnor-
t 'It (II' mn.t lc f' a on. lL rcfr"shesI!'!", to IIlt!ll11S of h"I'" a n-l sweep", 1l1\'fJ t o· t h h, d 1 h "f thr-a t rica l" ,I I Il I],Ti,e fact r'ra t tl Is flllll'rb spectr1.('l~
( me to u f rom Cu llf'ot; ia rutcrost sn I cnlv, For bcncrntionR Ch ica.golas ucen looking' lawn I'd l'ew York asth'l ource of our pla.vgolng' supply,hut 110W tho c ty find'! It~e]( no loriz cr/1];1 10 CO'l11tupo n the fecundity andI) I or tho 1 roadwav impresarios. Forcumrilc tty of rem ons, whlch have
h n discuss d so a t n that the sub-jr t Is worn thrcndharc, Broadway hasl"t us dow n painfully and, perhaps,pt' 111 ncntlv. H Chicago is to have atheatrical !If9' and if our playgoersnrc not to perish In the jungle of(' nr-n a siio s, wo must either create1 for 0 u-sctvcs a job at whlch we" In to he di.S'raccfully illrpl-~or Olin IIt 0111. ill or t ho New Yo 'I, .j l m ,h ir h has solel i18 lirn on "the 10,,,1 "
tor II. ne~~ 0 film ri hi s.
eliforni aR cu r of Stage.r canno att for t:hi<a;:l) 10 h"·
e o III " a, "producIng center." 'I'hat ,II pparcutly, Is 11. matter rcquirtngmany lifetimes of patlcnce. ThereforeI observe with enthu Iasm this mani-rostauon of energy that comes from('allfornia, and rejoice over the fact1hat tho west coast ls not completelyobsessed by tho motion picture In-du try.1 ni 0 hope that reports of the
crowds v hlch have been pouring' Intothe Audltorlum th ater for tho lasttr-n 1 I hls to wltn 8 this magnltlccntshow ro nroadlng an epidemic ofjaundico among- the Broadway pro-ducr rs. ! '1 H the.·o v York TheaterGuild take to bit lug' ils fingernailsfnriously so much the better.Max Itcinhardt is giving us a
Shal csncarcan production on the res-t lvn l , alo such as has attractedswarms o( tour sts every summer tohis acttvttlo ln Salzburg, in tho Aus-trt.m Tyrol. It is in direct contrast tothe mlnlaturc Shakespeare with whichthe Old Globe Ill: ycrs have. won ourltffectlon. It employs all the theaterarts scene d ! n, dancing, panto-mime, a certain degree of pageantry,and orchestral music-In addition tothe direct acting of the characters;and It blends those clem nts Into abeautiful en ernble with perfect unityof effect.
Drama Returnsto Magnificence.As a festival play the performance
moves at a leisurely pace, seeking forevery legitimate embeliishment ofSha.kcspca ro'a fantastic tale. It is afull bodied show, giving the completetext, and also the entire score ofMendelssohn's enchanting' incidentalmusic, which comes to its climax intl 0 great wedding march that hassummoned millions of couples to thematrimonial altar.When compared with this ample
poe t lc entertainment, the typicalalcirnpy play from Broadway, openingat 8:45 and clostng at 10:45, dealingwIth a small group of humdrum folks,sccma like a sandwich beside a ban-quet. In his "Midsummer Night'sDr 'am" Reinhardt restores the dramato its old status of magntilccnce. Healso opens wi do tho gateways of theimagination.I have seen better Shakespearean
acting than this performance contains,but I have never seen a finer Sha kc-sncaroan production. The visual ap-peal In " A Midsummer .•Tight'sDream" is all Important, and Rein-hardt h s lvcn the play its perteetenvll'onm' nt. 11is brilliant sta~e di·
NEW IN CHICAGO
E D\VARD SHELDOX, author of"Romance," which Playgoers,Inc., is presenting in the Black-slone theater with Eugonic Leon-
tovich in the leading- role, wrote fivesuccessrul plays before he was twenty-seven years old. 'I'ho fifth waa "Ro·marice," vhich turned out to lJe aninternational hit.Sheldon was born in Chicago and
lived here up to the time he cnrolledat Harvard. At the university, hetool, a course in dramatic litera tureand playwriting' from Prof. GeorgePierce Baker. During his senior yearhe saw an advertisment of a NewYork play broker, and he sent her a
rection has placed the world of Oberonand 'Titania before your eyes andmade it no trouble at all for you tobelieve in fairies.
Reinh rdt'sAmerican Future.After the Chicago engagement the
company will transplant the preservedoak and pine trees of its enchantedgrove to other cities-Milwaukee, St.Louis, etc.-to complete its demon-stration that "the road" has notabandoned the classic drama. Eventu-ally it will end its travels in theRockefeller Center theater, New York,as a successor to "The Great Waltz."Reinhardt's American career, so
happily beg-un with "A MidsummerNight's Dream," will have new chap-ters before many months have passed.He now has a contract with the War-ner Brothers for motion picturework, but he has no idea of becomingabsorbed into the cinema trade. HeIs already planning for another largescale production, which may be stagedthis spring' or reserved for next sum-mer's California Iest.ival. This will bea drama on biblIcal themes by F'rariz\Verfel, eminent in central Europeand already known in this countrythrough the Theater Guild's stagingof his "Goat Song." The play hasan elaborate score by Kurt Weil andcalls for simultaneous acting on fouror five stage levels.
Lunt-F ontanne;Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne will
begin rehersals for Noel Coward's••Point Vala ine " this wcek. The playwill open Christmas night in Boa-ton.
TOMORROWman uscrtpt he had written as part ofhis class work. Is was ••SalvationNell," and it reached Broadway withMrs. Fiske in the leading role.In his next play, fj 'I'he ~ib'ger," he
dealt wlth the southern Negro prob-Iern. 11i.' third venture, ••'l'he Boss,"dealt with ci vic politics. In ••TheHigh Road," he developed a woman'scharacter from girlhood to middle life."Ttornancc," his fifth play, telling- aromantic love story, brought stardomto Doris Keane in In13.Miss Leontovich's company includes
Pierre Wa.tk.ins, Isabel Baring, PhilHuston, Tyrone Power J'r., LudmillaTeretzka, and others. The premierewill take place tomorrow night.
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Ruth Page, brilliantsoloist of the dancoand ballet directorof the Chicago GrandOpera company, willpresent a ballet pro-gram at the CivicOp ra house on Fri-day night as one ofthe opera company'sspecial nights. Cho-reographer and de-signer of the fourmembers of the pro-gram, she will bethe principal dancerin three of them.
Tragic Love11 Brittle Heaven" ShowsHelen Hunt Jackson'sHusband as Her Wooer.
By Burns Mantlo.E\\' YORK.-[Special.]-Xobodj'knows. tho ug h a good manyhave wasted time wondering,how thos.e who have gone on
spend their time in hcaven. Evcry-body has come to accept hell as aplace or definite reg lrnerrta.tion, butheavenly diversions arc less certain.Has Emily Dickinson, poet, for in-
stance, been concerned about the
Ia.irly persistcnt cfforts of p la ywrig h Ls
and others to chai-t explanations ofher earthly love life? Ha s she broughtthe subject up [or discussion in meet-ings or the society for reunited lovers'?Or has she simply let the matter pass"A few years ago Susan Glaspcll,
laking the Dickinson legend in hand,wrote "AliHon's lIousc" and won a
Pulttze r prize with it as drama,though she left lhe matter of 1\11ssDick insona love life still obscure.This week we have a drama called
"Brittle Hca ven" in which VincentYork and F'rcderick J. Pohl, wor-kingwith a btograpbtcal novel by Juseph-ine Pollitt [Mi-s, Pohl], called ••EmilyDickinson." seek to show that tho
Thanksgiving is the one dayon whichyour dinner is all important. Sump-tuous Thanksgiving Dinner will beserved from noon to 9 P. M. at$1.50 in the Boulevard Room(Margaret Conrad Concert Orchestra),The Continental Room (Dancingafter 7 P. M.) and the Oak Room.
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of Emily Dickinson Is Theme Playpoet's true love was the husband ofher best friend, and he, the Maj. Ed-
ward I-Iunt, who married the ladyafterward known as Helen HuntJackson, author of mother's favoritelove story, -, Rarnona ."
Civil War PreventedPoet from Eloping.It is the contention or interested
,Illrties that Miss Dickinson could nothave indited as many beautiful lovepoems as she wrote to imaginarylovers only. One group insists thatshe was deeply enamored or a mi n is-tel' of the gospel, Dr. Charles Wads-worth of Philadelphia. Another in-sists that she really had several loveaffairs more or less hidden from pry-in," New England neighbors.The Poll itt-Pohl.Ynr-je trio offer's cvt-
dcnce that it was Maj. Hunt whocaused the Dick inson heart to beat;that he fell in leve with her by read.ing' her letters to his wife; that HelenHunt became extremely jealous; thatEmily thereupon declared she was pre-pared to sacrifice everything- for afuture with Ma], Hunt, and mighthave done '0 if the major had notbeen killed during a civil war assign.ment before the happy solution of thetriangle could be attained.Dorothy Gish is playing the Emily
Dickinson role in ••Brittle Heaven,"presenting the poet in her earlytwenties and making her a gentle,
witty, saddened, attractive lady whospeaks a little stiltedly, frequently inlines lifted from the Dickinson poems.This puts both the Gish girls to workon Broadway, as Lillian is playing ayoung harlot in "Within the Gates."Albert Van Dekker, the handsome
young' man you may recall as thecount in ••Grand Hotel," is the Maj.Hunt, and Edith Atwater the Helen.It is a pleasant little drama, but itmakes this particular Dicklnson loveaffair fairly commonplace and un-important.Which, as said, makes me wonder
just what the late Miss Dickinsonmay be thinking of it, if anything.Wondertng about Emily, too, remindsme of an old heaven story that someone revived last week. This one con-cerns a quarrel between St. Peter andSatan over certain breaks in the wallseparating their domains. Severallost souls had escaped into heaven awlSt. Peter was irritated. The breaks,said he, would have to be fixed andSatan had better see to it. Satan onlylaughed."In that case I shall be compelled
to sue you!" firmly announced St.Peter.
II Sue TIle?" roared Satan. <l Sueme'? And where would you get a law-yer? H
Irish Players Open with"Plough and the Stars."The Irish came on Monday, and hav-
CHICAGO'S GREATEST THEATRICAL EVENTTODAY .... Box office opens 10 A. M.
Last Sunday Matinee and Evening Performance of
R Iworld famous spectacle
A Midsummer Night's Dr am""I have not seen anything on any stage more beautiful."
-r-Christopher M orley
AUDITORIUM THEATREPrices: Evening, 83c, $1.10, $1.65, $2.20, $2.75, $3.30
Matinees, 83c, $1.10, $1.65, $2.20, $2.75
"GREATER THAN 'THE MIRACLE' "-Lloyd Lewis, Daily News
NINO MARTINILeudtue Tenor. Metropolitan Opera
ROSALIND KAPLANPianist, First appearance in Chicago since 1000 tickets S3c. 51.10. Sl.tl5.
her- European Successes others $3.~0. 5~~.73SPpo'!;'!rp~N'Eii ~,~O'j,1Hhrri~~.~fg~:2~:r¥6-MON. EVE., DEC. 3
Auditorium TheatreBox Office Open
TOMORROvV
.. THE DANCE SERIES .presenting from among the greatest international artists
LA ARGENTINAonly appenrnnce in ChicagoSAT. EVE, DEC. 8
•MONTE CARLO
BALLET RUSSEin Premier Performance of Stravinsky's
"Fire Bird"FRIDAY EVE., DEC. 28
DORIS HUMPHREYCHARLES WEIDMANand Group of DancersFRIDAY EVE., JAN. 18
CLOTILDE and ALEXANDRE
SAKHAROFFFRIDAY EVE" FEB. 22
AUDITORIUM THEATREAnspices : The Bohemians of Chicazo. Manazernen t : Grace Denton. Subscription.Now at 1:30.)Auditorium Bldg. $14, $!J.OO,$7.70, $5.50. $4.40, $3.85, $2,75.
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EVE'S(EXCEPT SUN.) 55~-$J.I0-$1.65"$2.20MATS. WED. and SAT. 55¢ •..$1.10•..$1.65
ofing a manager with a sense of newsvalues they began their season withSean O'Casey's "The Plough and theStars."O'Casey, as you know, has been
much in the local prints the last sev-eral weeks. His" 'Vithin the Gates."which some likcd and some found ob-scure and unsatisfying, stands, by ;,isown conresslon, as the type of elrama.to which his disgust with 1'i3 ownrealistic plays has driven him.O'Casey, whose early success wa,
builded on a firm roundauon of real-ism, now finds the realistic pluy t.hehilliest sort of play the theater VISto offer. He would rededicate thetheater to a drama of symbols en t ir Iy,"There can never be any act u. lity
on a stage," says O'Casey, "except anactuality that is unnccessr ry andutterly out of place. An actor rcpre-sen ti rur a cavalier may come on thestage mounted on a real horse, butthe horse will always look ridiculous.
• 'I'ho closer we approach to reallife the further we move away fromthe drama. There is a deeper lifethan the life we see and hear with theopen ear and the open eye, and this isthe life important and the life ever.lasting."Which has a fine ring' of Idcalrsrn
as well as a good bit of common senseIn reasoning. But the public that hasbeen brought up in a theater devotedto narrative plays and nurtured onrealism is still fairly mystified by theO'Casey application of symbols.
CHICAGO'S GREATESTOPERA SEAS
Mon .• 1\0'. ':(j-VHIE~GHI withMaria Jcrttzn, La Munce, Schiffcl()r.Baromco anti Ja~cl. Weber cou-ducts.
TueQ ••• ·ov. :~"-C. lDlJ':N wi 11 LlildnBurke, Cue Glade. ::-'fal' ,"C'l'Y Mn x-walt, AdaPa~g'i and DUllC n, VanGrove COlH]Uct:--.
wea.. No\'. 2S-t),,\LO:\Il~ with .JcritSharucva. .1' c:cl auf! '~o,'i"cr. \';:11'
Grove conducts. l'AGIJL\tt'[, it.bLucia Diann, Pane-Gusset-, Mor~I1;.F'ioretla and Cavadore, l{oPIJ con-ducts.
Sat. Mat .• Dec. l-I\L\nA"U~ III 'l''l't;!'FLY with Mason, Ornstein, PrI~.;cri()and Bentoncltt. Papi conducts.
Evening-AIDA with LaM:lIH'c. )~llrJce,Jag-el and 1-fOI'clli. weber conducts.
nIoll.• nee. a-H.:\l,O:',lJl~ with Jerit,.'Z"1.Jag-ci. Royer and Sharnovu. \ allGrove conducts.
'I'ues .. nee. ,,- :'\If\I,,'J'UA with Edil'lMason, Mav Barron (df.'lJul I. DUItour-Itt and Hoyer. Pani conduc-ts.
weu.. Dee. G-~;OR~J.:\-Sn{'dl~l t:rll1niCenteuarv, with Della Bann i (Amr-r-tea» debut ) . COP Glade. Jagel an.IGUIdi. Papi conducts.
Fri.. lJCl". "-SPI~(;TAI~ AI~L HAI~J..•II~'1'.conducted by Hu th Pace.
Sat :\1,,( Dec. ll-'I'ANl'lJAr~EI; wi til~ ·Lotte·'Lehman. Coe Glade, Schiffelcr,
Althouse. DrhrskJ-. weber conducts.
E"·C~1~~~h(;J~~Ur)(~IV~1~~~1~v0i.thJ,:i~~~r?~CI~~id},lordli. l>ani conducts.
(CAST SUBJECT TO CI;ANGE)
NOV. 30-SPECIALALL-BALLET PRO·RAM
Ruth Pagc nr('~cnts 1.''"0 wo Id nre-micrcs-GOLD STANDARD and )IEARYE I HEAR YE! Also two revrvars-c-nOLERO and LA GUIABLASSE. Con-ductors Ganz and KOPD.
Chicago Grand Opera CompanyPaul Lonaone, Artistic Director
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BER'THA 01.'1' \N 'OUNCESORCHESTRA TODAY at 3 :3iJ
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CHICAGO SYMPHONYORCHESTRA Frederick Stock
ConductorSOLOISTS THIS WEEK:
TUESDAY THUR. EVE'GA'1' 2:15 FRI. AFT'N
Benno Moiseiwitsch IMae Doclling SchmidtJ}i~~{;~~_:~~~\~n lvg"~l~I ~~~~~~6l~SO~~Iu~~n~~b~~lise); Symphony No. p11('u:s"; Tnl1lJ".l Con..ro ¥orMbj~~b~)g.c(>3~Ihe~t~hin?: S~~~~h~lI~;D :Minor. 1'0. :.!. D Minor.
"POP." CONCERT SAT. EVE. (25c to 60c)
HARRY ZELZERl'reFenls
Grace MooreIn Person
tho Lovely StHt' ofOpera-Col1ecrt-Cinema-Radioin a Pro;:;-ram of tionp:R and Arias
Only Appearance in Chicag-o This Season
ORCHESTRA HALLSunday Afternoon, Dcc. 9, at 3 :30
Ticli:ets: $2.75. $~.20. 5loG3. Sl.10. ~3C'.
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