Madison Square Garden Offers 3 Week-End Concert (The Week on the Stage)
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Madison Square Garden Offers 3 Week-End Concerts The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley The Season's Slow Start Theatrical producers seem (to judge by some of the plays they offer) in muny...
...Bring 'Km Back Alive" will remain for one week only...
...Vic» tor Herbert night, Saturday, Sept...
...Tuesday, Faust...
...Jezebel" with Tallulah Bankhead Due Sept...
...and a oneact musical novelty with Leon Belasco and his orchestra in "The Name Is Familiar...
...ductors with the widest popular appeal...
...there is a jail-break...
...There are a number of Negro players in the drama and a double double quartet of Negroes has been engaged to sing the spirituals heard in the production...
...It's a most artificial piece, with characters jolted about for the sake of a paltry plot...
...8, with John Charles Thomas as soloist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and chorus, Cesae Sodero, conductor...
...We have no drama, no "music under the1 stars', merely the orchestras, the soloists and the con...
...Sunday evening, 11 Trovatorc...
...Department and in charge of the Missing Persons Bureau, will be presented at the Strand Theatre, following the engagement there of "Goodbye Again...
...On the stage this week the Fox features Viviun Janis, "blues" singer featured by Ben Bernie on his radio hour...
...9, with Harold Sanford, intimate friend and music associate of the beloved composer, conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Virginia Rea and John Fogarty, solo» ists...
...As an added screen feature the Fox is showing Dave ("Big Boy") Hutton, Aimee's man, telling "My Side of the Story...
...IB, and "Carmen" on Saturday night, Sept...
...C. Sodero to Conduct Pop...
...The short is a prelude to Hutton's appearance in person on the Fox stage next week...
...This has been proven by the respouse to the Hippodrome operas, "In these concerts we are .sponsoring," continued Colonel KilpaU rick, "we are presenting what we feel is the music the people want to hear...
...Bring 'Em Back Alive" Revived at Cameo .-.-"Bring 'Km Hack Alive," the Frank Buck wild animal picture that scored so sensationally last year, will be presented again, stinting today, at the Cameo Theatre...
...Friday, Faust...
...Popular Price Concerts Start Today Madison Square Garden's experi* ment in the field of culture and fine art should meet with city-wide a p. proval and success, said Colonel John Reed Kilpatrick, president of Madison Square Garden Corporation, today after examining reports of advance ticket sales for the three concerts it is sponsoring Sept...
...The schedule is as follows: Monday, La Traviata...
...Preston Foster appears in the title role and the supporting cast includes Zita Johann, Joan Marsh, Clifford Jones, June Vlasek, Frank Sheridan, Lita Chevret, Douglas Dumbrille and Douglas Cosgrove...
...Other operas scheduled to date are "Rigoletto" on Friday night, Sept...
...Saturday evening, Cavalleria Rusticana and l'agliacci...
...They are waiting to see what the "new deal" will luing the theatre, or rather, the public that attends and ,suppoits the theatre...
...Take "Crucible," for instance—still (at I write, but perhaps not when you read) at the Forrest...
...Madison Square Garden Offers 3 Week-End Concerts The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley The Season's Slow Start Theatrical producers seem (to judge by some of the plays they offer) in muny ways naive...
...all new Radio Scandals, are the chief attractions of the new screen and stage program now at the original Roxy Theatre...
...The operas will be conducted by Maeatros Giuseppe Bamboschek and Alberto Baccolini, the latter recently arrived from Italy...
...also "Shuffle Off to Buffalo," an animated cartoon...
...Cesare Sodero, known as the first operatic conductor of the air, will direct a season of popular priced opera with eminent soloists and an orchestra of sixty-five men taken mostly from the musicians of the Metropolitan Opera Company at Mecca Auditorium, starting with a performance of "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Pagliacci" on Thursday night, Sept...
...25 Guthrie McClintic will present Tallulah Bankhead in Owen Davis' new drama, "Jezebel," for the first time in New York in the Martin Beck Theatre on Monday night, September 25th...
...Pitts—Summerville Comedy at Fox Brooklyn—Varied Stage Bill The Fox Brooklyn Theatre this week swings back into its 10-unit stage show programs, plus a firstrun feature picture and short features on the screen...
...Wednesday, Cavalleria Rusticana and l'agliacci...
...10, with Dana Suesse, 21-year-old composerpianist, as guest soloist...
...On the same program is a variety of Vitaphone shorts in which appear Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle in a two-act comedy, "How've You Bean...
...but none of them is simple enough to rush in this season with a lrtng list of expensive dramas...
...Bureau of Missing Persons" Due at the Strand "Bureau of Missing Persons," a screen play based on "Missing Men," the book by Captain John H. Ayers of the New York Police "Captured" with Leslie Howard at B'klyn Strand Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Paul Lukas share the leading honors in "Captured," the new Warner film at the Brooklyn Strand Theatre...
...Jay Mills, new Fox master of ceremonies, holds over and helps put the Fox Rhythm Girls and the Blue Ribbon Hand through their respective paces...
...Fall Season of Opera Opens Monday at the Hipp Grand opera at the Hippodrome by the Chicago Opera Company, under the direction of Maestro Alfredo Sulmaggi, goes into its first "regular" week Monday evening...
...Unfortunately, most of them are...
...We have scaled our prices down to as low a level as we could for the three concerts, Opera night, Friday, Sept...
...Or they are beginning, these first few tentative weeks, with inexpensive plays that can, without too great loss, be quickly withdrawn...
...The film features a cast including Bette Davis, Lewis Stone, in the role of a large city's Missing Persons Bureau head, Glenda Farrell, Pat O'Brien, "Man Who Dared" on Roxy Screen...
...But on the stage is a snarling Communist...
...Currently, the Fox is presenting as its film fare the new Slim Summervillc-ZaSu Pitts co-starring comedy, "Her First Mate...
...Thursday, La Traviata...
...The Fanchon and Marco stage show includes the Andrini Bros., Kay Fayre, Don Pierson, Fred Morrit, Al Norman, Jewel Morris, Bob Ripa, Dave Schooler and his band and the Gae Foster Girls...
...If we may judge by these preliminary off Clings, however, the season will have a goodly sprinkling of plays dealing with life around, or at least glancing at social problems...
...and the best part of the plily is the series of little vignettes of prisoners and visitors in the jail...
...Robert Wallsten has been engaged as leading man for Miss Bankhead...
...Radio's newest girl harmony trio, billed as the 3 Honeys, are also on the bill, as are Violet, Ray and Norman, Hunter and Pcrcival, and Fields, Smith and Fields...
...the "Wight," king of racketeers, moves along the boards...
...and Paul Whiteman conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, augmented by his own orchestra, Sunday, Sept...
...Nick Kenney, Others in Stage Revue "The Man Who Dared," the new Fox film based on the life of the late Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago, and the return engagement of Nick Kenny, radio columrfist, with his...
...Perhaps, as the season moves along, the quality of the^e studies will improve, and we'll have some plays really worth writing about-and worth seeing...
...The great mass of New Yorkers are inherently lovers of good music," said Colonel Kilpatrick...
...8, !> and 10 in its sports arena...
...Price Opera at Mecca Aud...
...Saturday (matinee), Hansel and Gretel (in English...
...Frederick Worlock, Cora Witherspoon, Frances Bates, Leo Curley, Joseph Cotten and Gage Clarke are in the cast...
Vol. 16 • September 1933 • No. 11
