Stadium Concerts Inagurate Fifteenth Season Tuesday
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Stadium Concerts Inaugurate Fifteenth Season Tuesday The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley DEFT PLATITUDE "THAT'S GRATITUDE" By Frank Craven ll'tih Taylor Holmes and J. C. Nugent At the...
...In the first case the buyer saves $8.00 over the price of buying the tickets singly and in the latter instance $4.00...
...The Stadium Concerts will be broadcast from Station WABC and the coast-to-coast network of the Columbia Broadcasting System every Saturday night and from 8:30 to 9:30 P.M...
...How worth while tho plays this public chooses may be, remains to be demonstrated...
...More confusion...
...and sale of tickets was suspended at 10.30 A.M...
...They will vote on the play after they have seen It...
...The Man From Yesterday" will also be shown at the Brooklyn Paramount...
...A book of twenty-eight tickets on the concrete structure is $10...
...every Sunday night...
...New Morals for Old" And Laurel and Hardy Comedy at the Capitol "New Morals for Old"—filmlzation of the John Van Druten London and New York stage success, "After AIL" will be shown on the Capitol Theatre's screen for the week beginning today...
...The police arrive and more evidence is found...
...An extra added screen attrac tlon will be Laurel and Hardy li their latest and moat hllarloui , comedy, "Any Old Port...
...As during previous years the concerts will begin at 8:30 promptprices of twenty-five cents, fifty cents and one dollar...
...The Great W.P.A.P...
...Warren Hymer, Lyle Talbot, Andre Luguet, Cecil Cunningham and John Marston complete the cast...
...Mystery Thursday, June 30, at 8 P.M...
...Courteney Terrett adapted the novel to the screen with William A. Wellman directing...
...Rubinoff this time ippeara as conductor in an over:ure that Is part of the stage resile...
...I_ "Lore Is a Racket** at Brooklyn Strand "Love Is A Racket" starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr...
...The conflicting evidence at times points to Nobbs and Fleming alternately—or, did' the control board operator fire the shots...
...Commencing Wednesday, Barbara Stanwyck In "So Big," Edna Ferber's Pulitzer prize winning novel of American womanhood, heads the double feature bill...
...presented In an original revue, are Study Vallee with his Connecticut Yankees, Willie and Eugene Howard, Ethel Merman and Ray Bolder...
...In the jungle background of the marquee roam some twenty jungle animals, reproduced to life size...
...and Tom's own change of heart as Bob lingers on, make the effective convolutions of the story...
...The story Is taken from Cleo Lucas' novel "I, Jerry, Take Thee, Joan," which ran in serial installments in papers all over the country...
...Mayfair Holds Over 'Bring *Em Back Alive* Those who are seeking optimistic news in the motion picture industry well welcome the announcement from Radio that "Bring 'Em Back Alive," the Frank Buck picture at the Mayfair Theatre, has set a new record for that house...
...This is a drama of modern family life which depicts the conflict between older and younger generations—and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has provided an excellent cast to portray the characters...
...Stadium Concerts Inaugurate Fifteenth Season Tuesday The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley DEFT PLATITUDE "THAT'S GRATITUDE" By Frank Craven ll'tih Taylor Holmes and J. C. Nugent At the Waldorf...
...A number of special events nave been scheduled for the summer...
...On August 9 and 10, Albertlna Rasch will present a ballet program...
...An announcer, Burton Scherer, is killed whilst at the microphone...
...Most any evening or early morning or the hillside roads of Hollywood the Young M-G-M player can be seen striding along...
...All good fortune be with It* Sylvia Sidney, Frederic March Co-Star in Film At R. K. O. Theatres "Merrily We Go To Hell," a drama depleting reckless modern youth, featuring Sylvia Sidney and Frederic March is the current attraction at the RKO 81st street, Jefferson, Flushing and other Manhattan and Bronx playhouses...
...The previous record, held by "Frankenstein," was broken on the opening day when the lines started in front of the box-office before 9 A.M...
...They are seeking a large body, some five thousand, of participating members of the Commonwealth Theatre...
...fc_._ "Schubert*s FruehlingsTraum** at the Europa...
...and only if at least f>0% of the first half-week's audiences, and at least two-thirds of the audiences of the second half-week, vote for the continuance of the play, will It be given public presentation...
...In disgust, he has the connecting door unlocked and gives the sick man first aid (whiskey) to quiet him...
...director...
...Several times during the day it was necessary to suspend the sale of seats...
...Witbin and without the family, the variations of the single theme of gratefulness for real or imaginary obligations are neatly played...
...The stage show was devised and proiuced by Boris Petrbff...
...That's Gratitude" runs along/with an unfailingly amusing driv/S to its core of qejious truth...
...Studio...
...and featuring Ann Dvorak, Lee Tracy and Frances Dee, opens at the Brooklyn Strand Theatre today...
...Robert Young, who recently scored an outstanding hit in "The Wet Parade" has the leading male role—with Margaret Perry, star of the Broadway production, making her ecreer debut in her original role...
...has preceded him by a few seconds...
...Van Hoogstraten to Conduct Philharmonic ' Symphony Orchestra The fifteenth season of summer symphonic music at the Lewisohn Stadium of the College of the City of New York will open Tuesday evening under the baton of Wlllem van Hoogstraten...
...A book of twenty-eight field tickets cost $20...
...The theme song used throughout "the production Is the immortal Schubert "Serenade...
...Maxwell, Is one with the two men In getting every\ wriggle of fun out of the part...
...Jesse Crawford ire also in the presentation...
...Maureen O'Sullivan has taken up long distance hiking as one ol her favorite aids to beauty...
...Here, at least is one honest effort to seek freshness and vitality for the Broadway Theatre...
...There will be two special dance programs...
...There's a saying as true as old: "What's he dislike me for...
...At the Colonial...
...As in the past the tables on the field of the Stadium are reserved up until 8:25 P.M...
...I never did him any favors...
...ClaudeUe Colbert and Clive Brook at the Paramount...
...The growing Intimacy of the men over their cups is hilariously fun, though perhaps Taylor Holmes (Grant) grows tipsy too easily for a traveling showman...
...Fleming la found to have a gun, but be partly exonerates himself...
...for those who have bought in advance at least six field tickets for one concert...
...But among the early members of the Commonwealth The'ftre are listed a large proportion of actors, authors, and others who indicate that the level of taste will probably be high...
...At any rate, he turns up at the Maxwell home, and stays and stays...
...To these members, and not to the public, at least four plays a year are to be shown...
...van Hoogstraten, starting his eleventh consecutive year as conductor, will direct the first four weeks of the season...
...Included in the cast are the Bines dancers...
...Karl Joeken, star-tenor of the Berlin State Opera, and Gretl Thelmer, well-known from "Zwel Herzen," play the parts of Franz Schubert and Oountell Maria Esterhasy...
...And another mystery—where is Perry Charles, W.P.A.P...
...As in "Blossom Time," the Schubert of this German musical film is pictured as a sensitive romanticist, often touched by love, but never able to hold It...
...Albert Coates, who has been heard at the Stadium the past four summers, will again wield the baton for the last four weeks...
...R. Vallee Heads the Stage Show ClaudeUe Colbert and, Clive" Brook In "The Man From Yesterday," one of the strangest love stories ever brought to the screen, and five of the stars of George White's latest "Scandals," presented In an original revue will be the attraction at the'New York Paramount Theatre starting today...
...To add to the realism of the scene, the actual jungle sounds from the picture are amplified from the theatre to the marquee and add their contribution to Broadway's cacophony...
...Based on Blossom Time "Schubert's "Fruehlingstraum" (Schubert's Dream of Spring), the German musical film romance current at the Europa, Is to the German screen what "Blossom Time" is to the light opera stage, for it finds its inspiration in Franz Schubert's life and famous tunes, both of which give a gay and often German film...
...A minute > later, John Fleming of the Picadilly Players enters one door, and George Nobbs of W.P.A.P...
...The marquee of the Mayfair represents the largest simulated jungle ever built...
...The idea, while not quite the same as that of the London Stage Society, might well result In the appearance of as worth while plays as the English group has sponsored...
...When' ¦lie awakens, Thomas Maxwell In-1 alsts that Bob has saved his life, and must visit him and his family...
...It is a timely story of vacation romances and their pitfalls...
...The five stars of "Scandals...
...Finally a telephone call which reveals .. . but tune in and find oul for yourself who killed Burton Scherer...
...In case of rain concerts are held in the Great Hall of the College of the City of New York...
...Based on the novel of the same name by Rlan James, "Love Is A Racket" concerns the troubles of a Broadway columnist who finds that knowing the things columnists should know Is neither the healthiest nor the most romantic of situations...
...There's no other room available: finally...
...It Is In the older roles that we see the best acting, for M»ida Reade, as the wise but at times helpless Mrs...
...VOTE FOR YOUR PLAY /The Commonwealth Theatre (60 East 42nd Street) gave such a pleasant entertainment the other night at the Chanln, that it would be easy to speak well of the venture, even were It not an Interesting and promising Idea In our axiil theatre world...
...The program, which will inaugurate an eight weeks' session of nightly performances, will begin with the Beethoven Fifth Symphony followed by Wagner's "Melsterslnger" Prelude, the Nocturne and Scherzo from Mendelssohn's "Midsummer Night's Dream," the Johann Strauss Waltz "Voices of Spring," and the Liszt First Hungarian Rhapsody...
...Vladimir Rosing, Romney Brent and Deems Taylor, as instigators of the scheme, constitute the playselection committee...
...In addition to the principal players, the cast includes eleven of Hollywood's shapeliest girls...
...In the course of the evening Adolph Lewisohn, Chairman of the Stadium Concerts, will deliver his annual address...
...Robert Grant, hearing groans in the hotel room next to his, tries to have his room changed so he can sleep...
...Wednesday, "The Strange Love of MoUy Louvaln," co-starring Ann Dvorak and Lee Tracy, begins a three day engagement at the RKO neighborhood theatres of Manhattan and the Bronx...
...Adrianne Allen and Skeets Gallagher play important parts In this Dorothy Arzner directed picture...
...Three or four engagements and two marriages indicate that love is far from missing in the comedy;, but our attention is rather with the older folks...
...Three shots are heard—three people are present...
...and through a week the members will have an opportunity to behold performances...
...The members are thus part producers, and part critics, as well as mere audience...
...Sinners In the Sun," with Carole Lombard and Chester Morris Is the current screen attraction at the Colonial Theatre...
...The various members of the Maxwell household, In their reactions to- their father and his guest...
...and Mrs...
...Broadway is also Indebted to RKO Radio for a new spectacle...
...The idea is one that may well result in a series of plays that come nearer to what the public (at any rate, that particular public) wants...
...The unusual cast contains such names as Guy Klbbee, Richard Cromwell, Leslie Fenton, Evalyn Knapp and Frank McHugh...
...As always, the orchestra will be that of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, with Hans Lange as assistant conductor...
...On July 13 and 14 Irma Duncan and her Isadora Duncan Dancers will appear...
...Music lovers will also have the opportunity this summer of buying books of tickets at reduced prices...
...Before.police arrive, another body is discovered In the projection room, next to the W.P.A.P...
...which is touched with constant humor in Frank Craven's play, as entertaining today in revival as In the original run a few seasons ago...
...They include elephants, rhinos, tigers, bears, gorillas, apes, pythons and pannatural movements...
Vol. 13 • June 1932 • No. 26
