Show Politics Aids lids Art I Max Mix Reinhardt Rinhardt He H. plant plans l lof of the th arts aril in n Hollywood Film Leaders rs Plan Nan Notable Drama S School 01 HOLLYWOOD March 24 UP PI- PI PIA A great festival of at the arts In southern south sout ern cnn California patterned along the lines of ot the Salzburg celebration Is 13 being planned for foI this year by motion picture leaders Sponsors envision from dr dramatic political developments of rece recent t weeks In central Europe the chance M to attract Professor Protessor Max Reinhardt as M the primary figure Arturo Tos- Tos canini Bruno Watter Walter and others who either are exiled or have voluntarily voluntarily voluntarily vol vol- vol- vol bid farewell to the mid mid- European area Part of ot the enterprise in which Reinhardt already has s joined will willbe willbe willbe be the establishment of ot a school schol of the theater music and allied arts Notables Sought Among those mentioned to head the various departments are Feodor Chaliapin Adolph Bolm Boim William DIeterle Karl Freund Erich Wolfgang Wolfgang Wolf Wolf- gang Korngold Constance Collier Dr Paul Green Isaac Van Grove Margaret Matzenauer Basil Rathbone Rathbone Rath- Rath bone Nicolai Vladimir Lenore Ulric and Kurt Reinhardt said the school would aim to give practical experience to the graduates in actual theatrical presentations and Md in performances of ot concerts and operas Because of ot p poll political o I I t tic I c a I 1 developments abroad Reinhardt himself will concentrate his future activities largely In the United States The time is ripe for the creation creation creation crea crea- tion of at an artistic theater which by the high order of ot its productions productions would become the center of the theatrical art he said today Hollywood Art Center Thanks to the production of at motion motion motion mo mo- tion pictures there Is ts no city where one can find so many actors of ot high caliber as Hollywood By the same token more and more writers musicians musi musi- clans claM singers directors and teachers teach teach- ers are attracted hereIt hereIt here It is clearly seen that their creations creations creations crea crea- rise consistently to higher artis artistic ar at- tic levels The general influx of talent to Hollywood is in great part responsible for the disintegration of at the theater elsewhere The audience audience audience audi audi- ence here is alert and fresh and is not so overworked or blase as M those in the very large cities clUe where where- the theater lives on sporadic sensational sensational sensa sensa- productions Reinhardt produced Midsummer Nights Night's Dream three years ears ago in inthe inthe inthe the Hollywood bowl Unlike the motion motion motion mo mo- tion picture produced later it was wasa a financial as well as artistic sac sac- cess and out of the production emerged such previously unknown players player as Olivia de Havilland John Lodge Evelyn Venable and others |