II, Theaterstücke 5, Liebelei. Schauspiel in drei Akten, Seite 2023

Liebeler
5.—
box 13/8
at Der Josefstadt Theater
By Anita Grannis
VIENNA, Oct. 17.—Ferene Meinar’s
Istest çomeng, Die Fee,“ which Gilbert
####ter soon will present in New Tork
under the title of The Good Fairy.“
has repeated its Berlin success here in
Mag Reinhardt’s Theate. in Der Josef¬
stadt. 1# production, staged by Dr.
Stelan Hock, one c. Reinhardt's biest
regisseurs (some of whose work New
Fork saw ## the Reinhardt seasor at
the Century Theater in 1927), was en¬
thuslastically receivid here. As the
Lttie movie“ usher who fancies she
brings peopie gund luck, Paula Wessely
gave an imaginative performance of the
role which Grete Mosheim created in
Berlin. A flawles: sob of ensemble act¬
ling was done by a ast which includen
Hugo Thimig, Richard Romanowsky,
Herbert Hubner and Attila Hoerbiger.
Owing to its immediate and com¬
plete success, Die Fee“ wil! monor olise
Ithe malor part of the playing schedule
at the Theater in Der Josefstadt for the
present. However, A. A. Milne's Mi¬
chael and Mary,“ which is called“ Big¬
amie“ here and which has been popular
with Vienna audiences for several
months, will be presented for occasional
performances alternating with Die
Fee.“
Later in the season an ##teresting
series of preductlons is planned for the
Theater in Der Josefstadt. Among them
Tare the first German production öf Lau¬
rei#t Dolllet’s Parisian comedy success,
Bourrachon“ Tales From the Vienna
Woods,“ a comedy by Oedon Horvath;
Savolr's“ The Royal Palr,“ Black Cher¬
ries, a drama by Alexander Kunyadi:
Donald Ogden Stewart's Rebound.“
Lengyel's Angel,“ Vickt Zaum's Pari¬
ser Platz 13“ and Ladislaus Fodor’s
Roulette.“ In honor of Arthur Schnitz¬
ler’s seventieth birthday, Flirtation“
("Ligbelef*) and The Distant Land“
(Das weite Land*) will be presented
here this season. Reinhardt has also
acqulrec Gerhardt Hauptmann's new
play,for Vienna and for Berlin produs¬
tion. He plans personally to stage here
during the first part of the season
Tweifth Night“ and Shaw'sSt
Joan.“
The latest solution of the widely dis¬
cussed problem of economy for Vienna’s
government-subsidized theaters is that
both the Burgtheater and the Vienna
State Opera will adopt a playing sched¬
ule of four nights a week each. The
Burgtheater will be open on Wednes¬
days, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays:
the Opera, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
Saturdays and Sundays. Through this
expedient it is hoped to concentrate
audiences and to avold the necessity
for closing the Burgtheater entlrely—a
step which for a time was considered
seriously.
It is reported here that, except for
the opera singers Alfred Piccaver and
Maria Nemeth, the personnel of the
state theaters has agreed to the pro¬
posed salary cut, which will also be
shared by the directors, Clemens
Krauss, of the Vienna State Opera, and
Anton Wildgans, of the Burgti.##ater.
Two Berlin auccesses of last year
which are now playing here, and which
soon will be presented in New York, are
Fritz von Unruh's Phaea,“ at the
Deutsches Volkstheater, and Karl Zuck¬
mayer's The Captain of Kopenick,“ at
the Burgtheater.
Max Pallenberg soon will open a
guest engagement here at the Raimund
Theater in Fasek's“Schweijk.“