Show PERCY AMMONDS AMMOND'S NEW YORK TORK April Those ID-Those 19 These I I aro lugubrious e evenings at the tho Gar rick Gar rick where hero the tho Theater Guild has hIlS entered upon a n of discon disconsolate solata reflection A little haps pC In the tiro rata Iota Mor Mor- Morgana Morgans Morgana gana gans It now turns to tl the tho sack anch sackcloth cloth and ashes of or Man and nd the Masses Maces as a measure o of atone atonement ment The Tho repentance seems to toha o halo o been too severe e oven even n for Sor iho Guild audience sinco on tho the opening night there thero ero lIons of patient ri Man Alan and the Masses Ma oa Is un- un undoubtedly un undoubtedly doubt a d 1 Y Ye the most a solemn o I ems dram draIns a or o the iho season Through seven soven sav e n acts of lamentation and breast breast benting It complains about tho planet R a ell known Imperfections ond and at the tho theand end and leaves things just a ai they thoy wore It Is 18 tho iho work cork of Ernest Toiler Toller a German communist and Its translation Is s b by Louis Louts Un Un terme cr the tho American poet poet Tho best best- of Its features Is la the tho by Lea manner manlier of its production I Simonson the Guild s principal painter Mr Simonson un- un unleashed un an leashed among tho abnormal spot spot- spotlights spotlights lights backgrounds and nd goes gocs on an exciting spree of ex ca c expressions and anil has the time of his life It ll was Air SImonson who oho tired by the iho pIa play s spI pI In lu Germany persuaded persuaded ed the Theatre Guild that tt Ie It 1 r ugh to be bo performed In the iho U e S A Herr Toller Toiler In Man ra and the Lasses ea Is la a sad cad rather than a 0 objector 1 oo 0 over er to 10 l o sorry Of oi tire he be suspects wistfully that St It ItIs Stis Itis Is not worth worm shattering to bits hils and putting together again Though an ardent disciple of change ho I doubts even oven the iho advisability of Revolution as es an instrument of to- to reform re reform form War ar Is an error Peace leAce nn an 1 t-e t e state a a II smug ta a deuce daver the church is le a cynic built on the lite evil that men do Tho The SUCk St change E Is hell with the devils all present Hard work like ilkI tho iho multiplication tables is Ib t vexatious and starvation Is still atilt worse Strikes alo futile and the tho Individual and the iho Mass Alas get along together with Ith sll the amicability of a couple ot of Worried panthers At Af the end of Man Afan and end tho Mass s s IIo en- en entirely en cn entirely disappears In tho the role cola of Woman nroman Blanche Yurka Turks symbolizing Ten Ton Tenderness and Understanding and Pity and Sacrifice and many of or tho I iother other roaches a sorry tint h Repudiated of her nobilities by Marriage Government Revolt Capital and Labor she finds rinds herself In III dire clr cir circumstances They Thoy shoot heras her heras heras as th tb curtain f falls lla l I ear that Herr roller Toller and Mr Simonson lire are a n bit unjust in their cruel of ot tho iho Stock Ex- Ex Exchange Ex Exchange change chango Even Lyen the tho bankers ers and brokers must moat have hove a n few fete human Money Aloney rn as m have said sniff doesn't carp care who owns ld IV It Yet riches though In- In Inglorious In Inglorious glorious cannot be altogether des des- destitute des dea destitute o of merit Tho The Simon Toiler son Simon son eon Ir representation e D re s of a bo bourse bouro t thard use Is hard lIard of ot hoart heart If not foil malicious of bitter anathema and sod Imprecation tion Satanic S In hideous false faces races swing riving the scaly hoc hor tors of their folded tails In fn bone bane baneful ful jigs around a war market war tick tick- ticker ticker er They ore are made mado up as ae ghouls vultures vultures tures tuns 11 gila monsters go gorillas rillas buzzards and other othe- othe predatory Cl ad of the human race Tho favorite h noises are aro battle battlo tho cannons rote roar the tho rattle of dying soldiers the tho jazz of tho iho machine guns the sobs and the dirges I may bo wrong in my belle belief that the tho Market Is not an 8 bad as 08 It U t Is to painted by the iho honest Toiler Toller and Simonson In their cruel protest against the tho stocks and bonds I myself suffered Lot In n a Sermon Irom the iho Mount ono one expects a II squarer deal for tor e even eton en the most Industrious of the iho sinners Air Mr Jacob Ben BenAmi BenAmi I BenI Ami by hy the way wy I Is r r I A W R W when the a e as spirit o of red I redI and angry Revolution he ho flaunts his hie I vI Id scarlet scarf against the I sable background of or tan Man and the tho Masses Debs Dobs Foster Fost Bill Hev- Hev ners and other c o against so caSed ch civilization might bo more effective 0 It tt they wel were e dressed up In pretty by Air Simonson and the Theater Guild Last week weak however was nos not without Its restful Bolton an ann ana K Kern Korn rn got together again In an musing amusing toy called Sitting Pretty me tun no of or hoer sappy Cinderella fables saved from sheer imbecility by tho tinkle of Us its tunes the superiority of its ts verse erse and an on occasional joke loko 01 or two Miss I Smith is in it Il rather rathor suc- suc sue and so Indeed 1 it h FrankI Frank McIntyre re one of oP the tho most Ion prof- pi oft dent I cleat of the tho abd abdominal comedians I 1 |