Rodgers-Harfs 'On Your Toes' Becomes Town's Musical Smash
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Rodgers—Harfs 'On Your Toes' Becomes Town's Musical Smash The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley ¦ ANNIE'S FLAMING ROSE "PRE-HONEYMOOS" By Alford Van Ronkel and Anne SickoU. At the...
...How's the call...
...Rodgers and Mr...
...Blum Pledges Strong Effort To Save Peace maintained if the British Government is prepared to maintain them...
...Collective security eaf so gaaisatien depends foassnas-tally upon the co-ope rati— at the French and British seat* erodes...
...Ins horse is hoarse...
...But now, when there is supposed to be only one class, the working class, as Stalin assures us, and when Socialism is supposed to be victorious throughout the country, Stalin says to Mr...
...With this in hand they approached an executive oi the aforementioned film company which had under contract a famous male dancing star and suggested that "On Your Toes" might act as a suitable and unusual vehicle for the young man...
...E. C. Hospital Workers Strike More than a hundred maintenance workers of the Polyclinic Hospital arc on strike as a protest against an attempt to impose a second 10 per cent wage cut...
...It's sure got me, kid»" he would remark...
...and although it may be sex-sight meant, tSejr" ire proffered only sex-suggestion...
...FEDERAL ONE-ACTERS Three One-Act Plays: "The Miser" —adapted from Moliere...
...that are even extravagant in Hollywood...
...Others in the cast are Lionel Atwill and Rod laRocque...
...It may be recorded in passing that few and only minor changes were made in the general idea of the book as it was originally outlined in the synopsis...
...Why general elections...
...he rasftsi "to save all that it is still passible to save ef internstamsl law...
...The victory of my party comes at a moment vital for peace, for democracy, and for civilization," said M. Blum...
...London, Moscow and Paris must collaborate with the other States of League and assume the response bilities arising from it...
...In this artia* we have merely tried to expose lfc real truth about the new Soviet "democracy," which naive peask in Europe and America are at-clined to swallow as signifying a return to democracy, to political and intellectual liberty in Soviet Russia...
...Then will come Edward G. Robinson's newest pitcure, "Bullets or Ballots," recently completed on the Coast, with Joan Blondell in the leading feminine I part and a large supporting cast...
...The dapper little fellow would-shake his head—it got to be a sort of ritual—and take a long pull on his cigar...
...It was he who sent it to Dwight Deere Wiman who has been turning hand-springs ever since he read it...
...His propaganda needs a prop...
...The real questionnaire from all the States of Europe, largt asi small alike, must consist of tat vital Question—'Are you willing U disarm with us?' • "If Germany refuses to answer this question, and if she will net participate in our work of disarmament, then we must make s convention in her absence...
...What Mr...
...Pala...
...Cagney in "Taxi" at Strand The revival of "Taxi," one of the most successful of all James Cagney's starring ^vehicles, is now at the Strand Theatre...
...Show Boat," one of the perennials of the American theatre, will add to its glamorous reputation and beging its second week on the word's largest screen...
...The diminutive Mr...
...This is the twenty-ninth consecutive week of the production, which opened November 2nd -with a one-night stand in Princeton...
...We must be frank with each other and face our problems together...
...But now Stalin feels himself j sufficiently secure in his power that he no longer needs this pious i falsehood...
...Gory Cooper in "Mr...
...and as the twenty-millionth person to visit the great playhouse purchases a ticket from the box office...
...Hart read the synopsis and Mr...
...It's not only the postman that always rings twice...
...In addition to Irene Dunne as "Magnolia" and Allan Jones as "Ravenal," the cast of the Edna Ferber romantic drama of Mississippi riverboat life includes Helen Morgan, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Westley, Queenie Smith, Sammy White, Donald Cook...
...The Great Catherine," by Geo...
...Ghosts" Engagement Extended One Week • The return engagement of Nasimova in "Ghosts," originally planned for two weeks only at-'the Golden Theatre, has been extended at least one additional week until May 30...
...Shaw's play carries aiong well enough, with many of its sharp satiric blows well pounded...
...Despite the restrictions to be imposed, the people may find a way of expressing themselves against Stalls, however unimportant the questions submitted to their vote may bs...
...Van Ronkel's f idea . . • finishing touches, but not from a finishing school, her damosels...
...The engagement, arrangedxi}y the Strand management and Warner Bros, in compliance with many requests from the_ public, is limited to one week only...
...This time she has (one may guess) put the finishing tenches (with double-edged tools...
...Jisarmament will bind the nations jgether...
...We have decided to act and to lead the way...
...Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen and Rosalind Russell, is cui'rent at the R.K.O...
...This truth is bonne J# stand out in ever bolder relief wit the passing of time...
...on Mr...
...Well, why don't the workers in plants and factories chose other, better members of the Soviets ? Let there be new elections to the Soviets...
...Still selling out brother," Aaron Helwitz, the treasurer, would reply and .there would be smug satisfaction in the oily unctiousness of his voice...
...Hospital Employees' Union of the International Building Service Employees' Union, include porter?, maids, crderlies...
...We, at any rate, shall not hold back and wait for others to take the first step...
...You will see that France's new Government will lack neither confidence nor courage...
...Stalin's Admission This was the contention of the Communists when the various old classes had not yet been destroyed in Russia and when there was no "Socialism" as yet...
...Platforms ia| programs will be excluded, for they will always be Communist, Stalinist platforms and programs...
...The only thing the voters will be called upon to say will be whether they are to have Stepan or Iran-build the local bath house...
...The workers, who arc affiliated with Local 171...
...Because we want to give the Soviet citizens complete liberty to vote for whomever they please, for whomever they wish to entrust with the defense of their interests...
...Each state suspects | its neighbor of double-dealing...
...And woe to naive Soviet cftiians who would utilize the contests between Stepan and ^van for an* political purposes, for challenging Stalin's policy...
...The "Effective Whin" w But this is precisely what Suka will not permit...
...Soviet elections (by raising of hands...
...Hart was still unconvinced...
...ists had come to power too hvte to save Abyssinia from invasion am" conquest, must now be done...
...When they had finished he professed sanctimonious sympathy for the poor deluded boys...
...The nearest rivals of "Abie's Irish Rose" are "The Children's Hour" ant) "Tobacco Road...
...Tat elections will have nothing to A* with questions of democracy, af political and intellectual liberty...
...Lec Shubert took an option on it five minutes after he had finished the script and Ray Bolger signed a contract to appear • in it with equal alacrity...
...Hereafter Greet Britain mar rely folly open France to seaport the collective action of tfc» League of Nations...
...The States of Europe mast be brought together again in sincere co-operation...
...Not once have you provided him an opportunity to appear in a high hat...
...Swift manages this with his Yahoos, but Basshe cannot turn his "snickers" iato drama...
...Now that their offspring has been running to full capacity since it opened on April 11th and seems destined to continue that pace throughout the summer the truth can be told about the hectic days when it was in the making...
...Candidates wflj be put forward only with the permission of the Communist Ptrtj...
...The reader will recall how often the Communists tried to justify these open elections by saying that Russia was a "proletarian country" in which the workers had no one to fear any longer, and that for this reason secret elections were unnecessary...
...For of course Miss Nichols' audience (like the bubble-dancer in her play) requires a ring—preferably, two rings—before the honeymoon...
...Stalin himself has now come to realize that general, secret elections (by ballot) offer to the population a better means of control over administration than open...
...This can be done only on a basis of disarmament...
...With the aid of attendants they tried •their reflexes and submitted to IQ tests with better than average results...
...The Music Hall was opened December 27, 1932...
...My outfit wouldn't touch your story with a ten-foot pole...
...Hattie McDaniels and some 3,000 others...
...Yen can bet your brass nickels on Hiss Nichols, fair idol of the gallery gods...
...We have the courage of our convictions...
...Reverting to the subject of t*» I talo-Abyssinian war, the cortf spondent asked M. Blum what, is view of the fact that the Social...
...Campaigns will revolve s e 1 e ly around individuals...
...Only Abie doesn't see—in this case it's Joe and Ken and Joe again...
...One 'is by- s certain "George B. Shaw.' Meniere's is offered without anj indication that it was a full-length play in the original—though in its adaptation, with farce technique, a deal of pantomime, and a shuts fbr the characters to slide down, it 'is the evenings high spot of entertainment...
...The New Soviet Constitution Soviets were valuable and desirable instruments for normal periods it would not be necessary to introduce the general, secret franchise, as Stalin now proposes to do...
...IsrfMed and •oanced Around, Now liaejest Hit in Town Every day for a week after "On Your Toes" opened a dapper little Hollywood scout with a agar a tilt in the near-centre of his mouth lounged into the lobby of the Imperial Theatre where that musical is playing and sidled up to the box-office window...
...By the same token, "Pre-Honeymoon" is tUe ABC of sexeitement...
...A falsehood deliberately created in order that the Communists might : continue to maintain their dic-I tatorehip over Russia through the Soviets, without the consent and against *he will of the workers and peasants...
...exploded to Rodgers...
...Shubert, engaged last winter in all the details of producing the "Follies," knew that he would not have sufficient time foj- the production of "On Toes" this season...
...He'll tell us soon enough if we're crazy...
...Under Two Flogs" at Palace "Under Two Flags," featuring Ronald Colman...
...His play may have been written earlier, but haif-a-dezen recent productions, from 'JBury the .Dead" to "1935," make its weakness the more transparent...
...Stalin told the A**, ican journalist...
...I just can't make it add up...
...Rodgers outlined his idea for the musical score...
...In one afternoon Wiman bought it, secured the capable Worthington Miner to direct it, dispatched it to Luella Gear and Tamara Geva and twenty-four hours later had their names on contracts...
...We shall carry out in office what we believed to be true out 'of office...
...Thus it is evident that she owes Ken a kiss, or a thimble...
...Deeds Cootlamos a* Fox Brooklyn *__ The Frank Capra-Columbia pic-tare, "Mr, Deeds Goes to Town," starring Gary Cooper with Jean Arthur, stays on for a third week at the Fabian Fox Brooklyn Theatre starting today...
...Mr...
...from the hinterland...
...He is one of the numerous company of "wise" ones who had learned the idea for the book of "On Your Toes" and, predicted its dire disaster long before the prolific Rodgers and Hart had ever so much as scribbled a word or a note of it...
...At the Experimental Theatre (announced as "formally Daly'^"l three plays are briefly offered...
...certain Hollywopd official what is known as "pause...
...The League of Nations has failed to save Abyssinia...
...The executive listened attentively while Mr...
...Its two years progression is now more or less public knowledge...
...We do not know, of course, hew the population will make use«( the proposed new electoral sytan...
...Without such liberty there can be no progress toward socialism...
...If Miss Nichols' five-year plan for dramatizing the Hibernian-Semitic tug-of-love be characterized in terms of the present Administration Alphabet, we might call it the ABC of sentimentality...
...Snickering Horses," by Emjo Basshe...
...You're suggesting this show for Mr...
...but it needs a better production to prevent a final fall like a dud...
...But the wealthy Senator Dexter wakes up to find he has ringed two maidens, and he must be ambitexterous indeed, or they will wring his neck...
...The second feature, is "Burning Gold," with William Boyd and Judith Allen...
...and there will be three honeymoons after all...
...Howard: "Why are we going to make the elections secret...
...he added with vehemence, "and you've overlooked the thing most essential for his pictures...
...The second picture on the double bill ia "The Girl From Mandalay," with Conrad Nagel, Kay Linaker, Donald Cook and Esther Ralston...
...In fact, the dapper gentleman in question represents one of the largest motion picture companies on the West Coast which turned down the Rodgers and Hart idea as it was aborning...
...It may further be recorded that the success of "On Your Toes" has given a "Till We Meet Again" Heads Film Bill at Brooklyn Strand "Till We Meet Again," with Herbert* Marshall and Gertrude Michael sharing the leading honors, heads the double feature program this week at the Brooklyn Strand Theatre...
...The new play of the three tries a horse-laugh at civilization...
...For it is his own company which is now bidding with competitive companies for the screen rights at figure...
...Well call up George Abbott...
...Stalin says now that some administrative organs function poorly...
...Abbott, back in New York, told them on the telephone that day is not in the official records but the fact,that that astute showman collaborated with them in the detailed writing of the book is proof enough of the value of the Rodgers-Hart idea...
...General, direct, equal and secret elections will serve as an effective whip in the hands of the popsh...
...Where other ties have failed...
...It has been said that France's lack of courage and lack of confidence was largely responsible for the failure of the Disarmament Conference...
...but she uses a whisky bottle on the Senator, and only a milk bottle (quart, not baby...
...A Disarmament Convention must be made...
...Hart retired in haste to the Brown Derby in search of their sanity...
...Then, as the smoke drifted lazily in the air, he would find voice...
...Those who put Shaw and Moliere on the same program must have felt that the audience would require comic relief...
...There seems to be some doubt now in both their minds as to which one of those cynical observers realized that such an undertaking would produce an entertainment which has been hailed far and wide as the epitome of metropolitan sophistication, a show which is so urban in its implications that some of the skeptical ones still wonder at its ready acceptance by visitor...
...Germany must be summoned to participate in its making, for Germany's rearma-'ment, was just as serious as her occupation of the demilitarized zone...
...It is tragic that we have come too late to prevent the Italian conquest of Abyssinia, but if the past was not in our hands, the future is...
...They will very sow be made to feel the "effectba whip" of the Cheka...
...Mad am a Nazi mo va has been anxious to take a vacation, but due to the large demand for seats she has agreed to postpone her holiday...
...Co-operation Necessary "It is essential...
...The First Baby...
...kitchen workers, firemen, nuiwes and nurses' aides...
...He now admits freely that general, direct, secret elections are better than'Soviet elections, that they are more conducive to the promotion of ef fibest administration...
...Two years ago when Rodgers and Hart were in Hollywood turning out "hit" songs for Chevalier, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Durante and a various assortment of warblers and crooners, they conceived the idea of a musical comedy satirizing the ballet...
...Questions of local, technical si-ministration, affecting the lives HI 170,000.000 human beings, when submitted to their vote, nay not be without importance...
...The splendid crystallization of the international spirit that took place last September seems to have dissolved...
...But this remains to be seen...
...Or^ have times changed...
...tion against bad organs of aamfcv* tstration...
...You're tops as song writers," said the armchair official gallantly, "but you'd better leave the idea for a book to older hands...
...France is suspicious of Great Britain about Germany: Great j Britain is suspicious of France | about Italy...
...Which reveals clearly that ; the legend of the Soviet workers "who had no one to fear any longer" was a brazen falsehood, a falsehood with which the Communists deceived the entire world...
...However, once the idea had germinated and seeped through their respective minds they sat down and wrote a synopsis of the book —a synopsis which the records show is as detailed as the average finished script...
...We now discover, therefore, that for 18 years, deprived of the secret ballot, the Soviet citizens did not have complete liberty to vote for whomever they pleased and to elect those who had their confidence...
...Otfc the future will tell...
...If there's such a thing as a sane and theatre-wise person in this business, he's it...
...We Shall Act" "We must recreate it...
...The general eketions he promises to introduce in local administration by the end sf this year will be devoid of any political character...
...B. Shaw...
...The League of Nations must be firmly re-established and revitalized...
...It must be as equitable a convention as if Germany had beef present at its drawing up...
...20,000,000th Patron of Music Hall to See "Show Boot"— Musical Film in 2nd Week The Radio City Music Hall's iwentieth millionth patron will this week buy a ticket to see and hear "Show Boat...
...For^variety, one cracks his bead with a' bottle...
...with Dixie Dunbar, Johnny Downs and Shirley Deane, is the associate feature...
...At the Lyceum...
...It will be a tragedy if Great Britain seems to be abandoniaf these great causes just st tat moment when France is preparing to support them with aO bat power...
...Satire on toilet...
...The author of "Abie's Irish Rose" is with us once again, to demonstrate the capacity of the New Turk audience to take its hokum raw...
...I'll tell you what we'll do," he...
...he'd ask...
...True very true ! But Suiia woaR have ottered a still greater trait if he had admitted that the very same electoral system, bases spaa the liberty to chose be twees rsri-ous political tendencies, wantf M an "effective whip™ agaisst the bad national administration ii Mosctow...
...on Ken...
Vol. 19 • May 1936 • No. 21
