March 9, 1922
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THE STRAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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“THE MISTRESS OF THE WORLD”
A Series of Four Paramount Pictures with MIA MAY
First Episode Beginning Sunday, Mar. 5.
“THE DRAGON’S CLAW”
RIVOLI CONCERT ORCHESTRA
Frederick Stahlberg and Emanuel Baer conducting FAMOUS RIALTO ORCHESTRA Hugo Riesenfeld and Joseph Littau conducting
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Broadway at 44th St.
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Ernest Lubitsch’s Production
“THE LOVES of PHARAOH”
With Emil Jannings, Paul Wegener, Dagny Servaes
A Paramount Picture
The Capitol.
The musical feature here last week that ranked in importance with a fine musical reading of the “Tannhäuser” overture by Erno Rappee and his orchestra, was a young-pianist, Lilly Kovacs, who played the Hungarian fantasy of Liszt. She showed considerable talent, and at times played some brilliant passages. This is her American debut. The program further stated that she had played with many of the great European conductors. The big audience of last Friday night greeted her with spontaneous applause.
Two little dance numbers and a solo formed the divertissement. Gambrella danced a Chopin number, and Ouman-sky and Niles a mazurka. The third number was “The End of a Perfect Day,” by William Robyn, tenor. Beside the organ number, which usually concludes the program, the last musical feature was a solo for the tuba, by Luca Del Negro, a member of the Capitol orchestra.
The . feature picture was “Grand Larceny,” a not overly interesting film.	May Johnson.
Hempel’s Last New York Recital
Frieda Hempel, the famous soprano, will give her fourth and last recital for this season at Carnegie Hall on the evening of Tuesday, March 21. Miss Hempel will be assisted by Coenraad V. Bos, pianist, and Louis P. Fritze flutist.	__________
Maria Ivogiin Coming Again Next Season
Maria Ivogiin is coming back to America next season under the management of the International Concert Direction, Inc., Milton Diamond, president.
Musical Comedy-Drama-Motion Pictures
cidedly modern and thoroughly effective. A Goldwyn sport review, the Mark Strand topical review and Larry Semon’s latest comedy, “The Saw Mill,” were the remaining cinema numbers on a program which closed with the organ solo played by Percy J. Starnes, Mus. Doc,, and Ralph S. Brainard.
The Rivoli.
Music for the eyes, compositions in abstract forms and light, as developed by Thomas Wilfred, a young Dane, again fascinated large audiences at the Rivoli last week. This instrument, upon which the inventor spent about seventeen years, proved such an attraction during the week of February 19 that Hugo Riesenfeld decided to hold it over for a longer run.
The inventor contends that he has added a third dimension to the screen—depth. Heretofore, it has been possible to show only two dimensions, height and width. But
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through the use of light filtered through prisms, he has made it possible to see one form through another, a feat never accomplished by other instruments based upon the projection of light. One of the unique features of the instrument is that it does not use artificial creations of color, such as colored lantern slides or other transparent or translucent subterfuges, but draws its colors direct from the spectrum through the use of prisms and special lenses.
The “console” or keyboard of the instrument is fitted with wheels instead of keys such as are used on the piano or organ. In this way the artist can create one hundred different gradations of light on one “key” alone. With thirty different “keys,” each able to create one hundred gradations, Wilfred has at his command no less than 3,000 “color notes” to his scale, and millions of combinations. With such an infinite “scale” the young inventor feels that there is nothing which he cannot create on the screen in color and form. He has evolved what he calls “dialogues” between different forms, sometimes in mere black and white, at other times with colors. A strange form seems to evolve out of nothing, take on a definite shape, to be flanked gradually on each side by other forms evolved apparently out of ether.
For the remainder of the program it was comedy week. The orchestra played in its usual fine style the Von Suppe "Pique DameVictorina Krigher put the necessary fire into a Russian dance by K. D. Kael; Larry Semon provoked rounds of laughter in “The Sawmill,” and “The Dancing Doll,” a Fleischer Out-of-the-Inkwell cartoon, also caused much_ amusement. An especially interesting portion of the Rivoli Pictorial last week was the part showing some remarkable X Ray pictures of the human anatomy. The feature picture was Wallace Reid in “The World’s Champion.”
Openings eor the Week.
“Madeleine of the Movies,” the Gaiety.
“Broken Branches,” Thirty-ninth Street.
“Stamboul,” at the Century.
“Back to Methuselah,” second episode, Garrick.
“The First Man,” Neighborhood Play House.
“Bavu.”
The newest of the local theaters, the Earl Carroll, was opened a few days ago. It proved to be one of the handsomest among the flock that have been completed this season. The decorations are beautiful and in excellent taste. The entire tone is complete harmony. One of the most notable features is the excellent lighting arrangement, dimming the back of the house 'and concentrating the light on the stage, before it is finally turned out. There is also an overhead bridge, that, when the theater is completed, will perhaps give the Earl Carroll Theater the most perfect and best equipped lighting apparatus of any of the local theaters. The stage is a huge affair, and the possibilities are unlimited in getting effects for large or small productions.
Mr. Carroll opened his house with a play in three acts, “Bavu,” written by himself. As far as the production is concerned, it has been most carefully worked out. There is only one setting and it is unusually effective. As for the play itself, there is not an awful lot of originality about it, and Mr. Carroll has employed many melodramatic effects which are questionable as to their value. Mr. Carroll engaged a good •cast. Henry Herbert, that excellent actor, as Bavu, carried the entire production, and it was unfortunate that the part called for his death early in the third act, because from that moment the play dragged to a flat end. Helen Freeman, as Annia, had a rather good part, but it did not appear to be a particularly sympathetic one. Charles Wray Wallace and Maud Eburne had plenty of work to do and did it fairly well. The popularity of “Bavu” is questionable, and in a very few days its fate is determined. It is possible that Mr. Carroll intended that it should stay only a short time, until his plans are more definite.
The Rialto.
An unusually good picture was that featured at the Rialto !ast week. Adapted from the novel “Perpetua," the picture, “Love’s Boomerang,” with Ann Forrest and David Powell in the leading roles, proved to be of the sort which lives up to expectations. Preceding the picture, in which a delightful circus figures largely, Marjorie Peterson did a charming “Pierrot” dance, proving herself a clever student of the art of pantomime. In connection with the production of “Carmen,” with Farrar in the title role which was recently presented at the Rialto, it was interesting to see the burlesque which marked the Charlie Chaplin revival of this work. There was a special ■music accompaniment from the Bizet work and immediately preceding it Edoardo Albano, baritone, gave a spirited rendition of the Toreador aria. With Hugo Riesenfeld and Joseph Littau conducting, the Rialto Orchestra gave a fine performance of Verdi’s “Sicilian Vespers” as the opening number on the program, which, of course, included the Rialto Magazine, and which proved thoroughly satisfying from all points of view.
The Strand.
There were selections from “Tannhäuser” to open the program at the Strand last week, the work being played by the Strand Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Carl Edouarde with all the finesse which has become a characteristic attribute of this organization. Constance Talmadge, in “Polly of the Follies,” was the feature, the vocal prologue thereto being sung by Richard Bold, tenor, and Ethel Best, soprano. There were special scenic effects, chief among which was a dazzling star. In keeping, too, was the “Star Song” in which the two voices were blended with singularly fine effect. Another delightful feature was the group of folk dances performed by Tartakof’s Russian dancers, in gay costumes and with a background de-
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