"Roberta" Robes the Evening with Gay Tunes and Gowns
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
"Roberta" Robes the Evening with Gay Tunes and Gowns The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley GAIETY AND GOWNS "ROIiERTA"—A musical comedy from the novel by Alice Dutr Miller. Mutic by...
...The purpose of the school is the development of a national ballet, corresponding to the famous Russion Ballet, but essentially American in character, saluting the talents of American artists, dealing with typically American themes, creating an American tradition...
...Ill be hard to handle...
...Judging by the throng at Tibbett's recital, tickets should be bought early...
...and the Vienna Singing Boys come, for the third of the season's series, on the 20th...
...gets in the eyes"— are attuned to the sentimental story...
...On tho screen, the Palace will show H G. Well's fantastic "The Invisible Man," with Gloria Stuart, Claude Rains, and William Hsrrigan...
...Blank appeared at the Bolchoi Theatre, Moscow, and in the Monte Carlo Ballet and Les Ballets IMS...
...The musical comedy of recent seasons has fallen into two large groups: satirical, and sentimental...
...Mutic by Jerome Kern...
...The faculty of the School of tha American Ballet will include M. Balanchine, Pierre Vladimlrov, Kyra Blank, and Dorothie Littlefield...
...Palace Offer* "Invisible Man...
...Tho names of Kern and Harbach are assurance of music of the latter sort, of a pleasantly moving musical comedy with plenty of color and charm, if not dash...
...Book and Lyrict by Otto Harbach...
...An accompanying attraction on the bill with the distinguished English film will be Walt Disney's classic, "Three Little Pigs"—the original English version...
...Each has produced effective entertainment...
...Vladimirov was Pavlova's partner on several international tours...
...while the satirical piece is likely to speed with the almost feverish rush of our time, there are many who enjoy a tuneful evening without the hurry...
...Even Lyda Roberti becomes more undulant and insinuous (accent on the "sin") as when, in bridal garb, she sing...
...a H. F. Joe E. Brown at the Strand Joe E. Brown's latest First National starring picture, "Son of a Sailor," at the Strand Theatre has Jean Muir and The!ma Todd in supporting roles...
...Mile...
...there is also a scheming American mother—who, of course, cannot keep our hero from his designer (not designing...
...The story itself csrries a football hero from his home town to Paris, where his great aunt (dainty Fay Templeton) leaves him and her chief designer Stephanie her fashion shop...
...Read Norman Thomas' comment under "Timely Topic*" ia this issue aad remember that "Peace oa Earth" fa a awell show—one of the beat en Broadway today—aa well as aa important anti-war play that no Socialist or sympathiser can afford to miss...
...The film was directed by Lloyd Bacon from the story by Al Cohn and Paul Garrard Smith...
...Meanwhile, aur readers are urged to note that it is a vivid, stirring, dramatic, appealing spectacle, gripping the imagination aad rousing the emotion,* despite the fact that it may be called a "propaganda play" by the bourgeois critics...
...Peace oa Earth," the new anti-war play that opened Wednesday at the Civic Repertory Theatre, will he reviewed in detail next week...
...and the songs of Tamara—especially the deft «When the heart's on Are, amok...
...Bert Lown on Stage BeMfeLown returns to the stage —and vaudeville—today when he opens with his radio and recording orchestra at the Palace Tehatre...
...Next on the program is the dance recital of Angna Enters, scheduled for the Hall next Tuesday evening...
...It's a Great Play...
...School of the UsasHran BaJUt To Open Soon The School of the American Ballet under the direct ian of Georges Balanchine, maitre de ballet for Diaghilev's Ballets Busses, the Monte Carlo Ballet, and Los Ballets 1983, will inaugurate its first season early in December at 687 Madison Avenue...
...Miss Littlefleld has given numerous concert recitals in Philadelphia...
...In addition to the quietly winning personality of Tamara as Stephanie, mention should bo made of Bob Hope, whose performance as croonerleader of the college boys' orchestra does much to give the musical comedy its comedy...
...Town HaD Series Beginning with the effective and pleasing baritone of Lawrence Tibbett, the Town Hall Endowment Series promises this year to mrpass itself...
...Tho Private Lite of Henry VIII" at Little Carnegie For a limited engagement "The Private Life of Henry VIII" with Charles Laughton will be the feature attraction at Leo Brecher's Little Carnegie Playhouse...
...princess, in another charlotte russe of pleasing charm...
...The young music master and his boys will be seen in the headline position...
...At the New Amsterdam...
...Of course there is a fashion show, with elaborate and beautiful "gowns by Roberta...
Vol. 16 • December 1933 • No. 23
