Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-23 | Page 19 | The Broadway Stage

T THE BROADWAY i W STAGE TAGE Q I By G G. G D D. D SEYMOUR OUR NEW YORK into nto the private rhale life liCe of ate ah Uncle Toms Tom's Toms Cabin trou troupe e stranded In Kansas the dressing room of a boxing champion cham cham- pion and the city room of a a. MornIn morning Morn Morn- In ing newspaper New l' York th alre audiences were permitted to r ron on successive nights when these new shows s opened Eva E the FIlth Fifths by Kenyon Nicholson by Edward Paramore Jr Hyatt Iatt Daab aM George Abb Abbott U and Gentlemen of the 1 Press 1058 b by Vard Morehouse l brought to Broadway a triumvirate ot of plays playa among which the critics critic found a great reat deal of oC amiable en en and Rt at least one probable hit hit- John Golden r ot of the comedy drama ot of the Tom shows Is fond of digits The They served him well veil in In the titles of Seventh Wise Fools lols heaven Iea Three Two Girls Wanted and Four Walls ValIe sponsored to his hia profit In seasons past lIe deemed the thc charm worth trying agaIn In Eva the I truth In which NichOlson has told an engaging story of Hattie And nl Oriole fourth and fIfth respectively respectiVelY re- re of the lI Hartley family to tot t play lay Little Eva With Claiborne Foster as Hartley Bartley the play trips brightly through the humorous vicissitudes of the trouper It r resorts sorts neither to profundity nor profanity thus hel helping to make a a. balanced ration ra- ra theatrical fare Uon tion of a B allons allon's which promised d plenty ot of both GUILD PLAYS ON ROAD The Th Theatre Guild after ten successful successful suc- suc years ot of prodUcing drama In New York Is taking to the road this season The group which Is the sponsor of such currently successful Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way plays as the negro play Porgy and Eugene O Strange Interlude Is sending Its pride and jO joy the Theatre Guild CulM Acting company to six cities cities- Cleveland Boston Philadelphia hla Baltimore Pittsburg and Chicago In the company are alo Alfred Lunt Fontanne Henry Ernest Cossart Cosat Earl Larmore Mar Margalo gale galo Gillmore Philip Leigh Eliot Cabot Morris Carnovsky Claude Rains Whitford Cane lanc and others who J have ve Won their spurs on the Now ew York stage The include The Guardsman Guards Guards- man by Ferene Molnar Arms and nd the tho Man by George Bernard Shaw Marcos larco's Millions 1 by ONeill O'Neill And nd the same saIne modernized version erslon ot of Den Ben Jonson's Vol none h New York has been since last s Spring Tito Th tour whist which bean Se 10 0 fit at Cleveland l last t until the latter or of January this unit Is ab absent ent two other integers of the acting com com- pang will be N New NewYork w York schedule Judith Dudley DI ss s listen Helen Ch Chandle andler George Mort G hul eul Douglass ery Tom Powers Glenn Anders and lichen Westley are among the vav- vav ers era left leet In addition to these activities the guild Is out it cans calls the Ul Repertory company compan for a tour which will react to the tho Pacific coast and back This season will be the thes s second ond for fOt the groan which will present Sh Shaws Shaw's The Doctors Doctor's Dilemma John Ferguson son hy by St. St John vine Es-vine The Tho ond Man b by S. S N. N Lehrman and Ned Mccobb's DI Daughter h by Sid Rift hey In this are aro Elizabeth Risdon Robert Peg 1 Elwin Maxwell and andorne some orne eight others 1 orgy will m conclude Us its long I I though Interrupted New l' York run tun i on Be tem r U 21 moving first to Brooklyn and then to the road In April It Will be taken to London and later to the continent Before Defore Its Mst cast Is the v will return to the tho United States and tour to the coast THE BUSY MR ABBOTT George Abbott who shared In the authorship or of COQuette the tho lichen Helen vehicle ot of last season which Is still JUIl playing on Broadway had hada a 0 stake In two or of Urn the weeks week s ola O ot of the Press which he directed and Ringside which he directed and helped to write Jt It Is not often that a director has three e plays running simultaneously and nd even more does doeR he find his hili name on h two o theatre are oro- crams In a 0 we week k His sue sue- cess has h s brought hIm a 0 mints eat asa ns as h. h motion picture director which Is expected C to take helm t to Hollywood soon after rt the l first r rc of tita var I ENTER THE TREADMILL The Tho employment or of treadmills upon which are mounted moving scenery makes Good G od hov Dov the newest musical comedy of at Arthur to see eo Not only do the sets and cutouts move UpOn oth other r treadmills the characters charac- charac lerR walk and the result ill is a a. the the- so 10 thoroughly mas- mas that It looks simple and easy euy into two acts H hu has d crowded d three thirty scenes which follow Collo In delirious Iu succession eulon If the boOk Ja is ordinary enough nou and the tunes not notable the steady panorama I is given I en life lite and humor by Eddie Buzzell the thA faced dour Charles orth Butterworth Berah and his harmonica band and I the becoming Barbara e ettY I and Helen hIelen Kane Inne a a. newcomer to I mu musical comedy with Ith n. n tal talent nt for to do bub deo bub bub melo- melo dl dies COMEDY AND FANTASY Heavy Traffic bY Arthur Richman Rich man the new vehicle or of Mary Mar Boland Doland Do- Do I land Is a a. smart emart comedY of wantonness wantonness wanton wanton- ness In metropOlItan society winch bas hils as other assets the suave SUa A A. E. E and Reginald Mason Malon Critics round found parts of It a a. b bit t hea heaN but its 11 undercurrent swift and so- so In The Phantom Lover Gustave Blum presented a fantasy seemed to a a. first night audience to lick hack the of at I como off oCt touch to Quite Some blamed it to the too bl bluffly nY American Amerl- Amerl can translation of Geo GeOrg I Kaisers Kaiser's play some Ome to a not Q quite credIble development ot Of the plot and some Bome to the fact that Romney B Brent nt In Inthe Inthe the plays play only comedy roll role was too runny funny to hermit fantasy to endure en en- I dUte dure on the same st stage e. e