Dragon Seed Breaks Record at Music Hall
"Dragon Seed" Breaks Record at Music Hall Katharine Hepburn in Pearl Buck Story Continues Its Record-Breaking Run Continuing to breok oil- boi office record* ia tho history of Radio City Music...
...Marguerite Roberts snd Jane Murfin prepared the...
...PARAMOUNT HOLDS STURGES FILM "Hail the Conquering Hero," latest Preston Sturge* laugh hit, stays for a second week ht the Paramount Theatre...
...Edwin Strife, baritone, and George Young...
...screen play...
...It was produced by Pandro S. Berman and directed by Jack Conway and Harold 8. Bucqutt...
...The film presents Eddie Bracken in his first solo-starring effort...
...Accompanying "Dragon Seed'' is Leonidoff's "Sky High," an elaborate stage revue, featuring the seventeen-year eld ballet star, Katbryny Lee, in a ballet spectacle with seventy dancers, and introducing a new marching song, "Were On Oar Way," by Richrad Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, in a dramatic invasion scene by the Music Hall Glee Club...
...Dragon Seed" Breaks Record at Music Hall Katharine Hepburn in Pearl Buck Story Continues Its Record-Breaking Run Continuing to breok oil- boi office record* ia tho history of Radio City Music HalL Metro Gold-wyn - Mayor's outsUading hit, "Dragon Sod," starring Katharine Hepburn, continues for s Afth week at the big playhouse...
...With Mr...
...The show also presents the Music Hall Rocket tes aa living orchids ia a unique precision routine, while among the guea tartista are Wslly West, comedian...
...For the overture th* Music Hall Symphony On nestra, under the direction of Erno Rupee, plays selections from Gounod* "Faust...
...and Second Ave., for the !»««-*» season, and in association with Joseph Green will establish there a aew producing organisation, the New Jewish Folk Theatre ( which fa) also the new nam* of the playhouse), designed to present firstclass plays ia Yiddish, to keep alive the best of the -J*wi*h theatre...
...Gram, who i* teenager of the Irving Plat* Theatre and haa produced several independent Ainu, he will predact I oev* other play at tha New Jswun Folk Theatre this aeaaon...
...J4COf If N AMI LOOKS 4HI40 TO MfW $f 4SOM Jacob Ben-Ami announced today that h e has leased th* former Yiddish Art Thestre, at Twelfth St...
...Th* first play to be presented by tho New Jewish Folk Theatre is "The Miracle of the Warsaw Ghetto," by H. Levick, aathor of "The Golem," and "Shop," produced by Ben-Ami ia 19Z7 at the Irving Place TheeQre...
...This latest work ia baaed on th* actual happenings in Warsaw of April, lsil, which attracted wide-spread attention in the pre...
...The star's first picture in more than a year, the hit also numbers in its huge cast such players Walter Huston, Aline Mac Mahon, Akim TamirotT, Turban Bey, Hurd Hatfield, Agnes Moore-head, Robert Bice, Prances Raf-ferty, J. Carrol Naish, Henry Travers, Robert Lewis and Jacqueline de Wit...
...Others in the cast include Ella Raines, William Demarest and Raymond Walburn...
...Ben-Ami will stage the play...
...Held over for a second week also is the in person show headed by Vaughn Monroe and his orchestra, featuring Bobby Rickey and Marilyn Duke, Gil Maison, Jane Slator, and Gene Sheldon as the extra added attraction...
...The picturisatioB of Pearl S. Buck's widely-read novel, "Dragon Seed" presents Miss Hepbuhn at the indomitable farm girl, Jade, in a dramatic story of modern China...
Vol. 27 • August 1944 • No. 34
