Radio City Music Hall Offers"The Young in Heart"
Radio City Music Hall Offers"The Young in Heart" The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley PIETER HITLER •KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY." Book arvd lyrics by Maxwell Anderson. Music...
...MGM sent a production unit to Denham, England, to film "Tin...
...Formerly he was a ieature writer for Thg World...
...Music by Kurt Weill...
...1st, at the Hudson Theatre, Juhen Chaqueneau presented "Waltz fat I Goose Step," « #iay by Oliver H. P. Garrett...
...When he was twelve years old his paintings were publicly exhibited...
...Miss Goddard appears as a pretty London secretary, with whom the heiress-seeking Fairbanks eventually fails in love...
...nor...
...Madame Butterfly" and "Hansel and Gretel...
...The cast includes Leo Chalzel, Harold Johnsrud, Mariana Fiory, John Boruff, Barrie Wanless, John Harweod, Maurice Manson, Henry Sherwood, Palmer Ward, Marjorie Dalton, Charles Furcolowe, Howard Fischer, France Bendtsen and Walter Davis...
...Robert Donat, the British actor, has the role of young Dr...
...genial, jolly show, made a true musical comedy by the display of one pair of beautiful legs—even if five skirts must be tugged off a reluctant maid to reveal them...
...Eily Malyon, Irvin S. Cobb, Walter IKingsford, Margaret Early, Tom 1 Ricketts, Lawrence Grant, and Lio! nel Pape...
...A 'deft and delightful company makes pleasant stir (after a "Mikado" opening) through lively episodes, and adds to the crackajack swing of such songs as "There's Nowhere to Go But Up"—when you've touched rock-bottom...
...Some of those that he appeared in included "The Purple Road," "Nobody Home," and "Love O'Mike...
...It serves also as a reunion with Cole Porter, since Clifton Webb's first appearance on Broadway was in Porter's first, a musical entitled "See America First...
...Minnie Dupree...
...Oliver H. P. Garrett, the author, has written the scenarios for such feature pictures as "Hurricane...
...Anderson injects much excellent satire...
...At the Ethel Barrymore...
...In the supporting cast are Richarc Carlson...
...The World Is Ours," an all industry short made by nine studios and featuring ?2 leading stars makes its first Greater New Yorf appearance on this same program "cissie" loftus to continue sunday NIGHT series indefinitely Due to the success of Cissie Loftus' first Sunday night concert at the Vanderbilt Theatre, Martin Jones, who, in association with Judson O'Donnell and Clay Shaw, is presenting Miss Loftus, has decided to continue the series indefinitely...
...It is being released by United Artists...
...Lucille Watson, Henry Stephenson...
...late of the Bengal Lancers, is portrayed by Roland Young, while the part of his chatterbox wife is filled by Billie Burke...
...and the rousing "How Can You Tell an American...
...From the chorus he soon went into roles irr "La Boheme...
...You Never Know" marks Webb's return to a Broadway musical for the first time after a self-imposed exile of three years...
...the clever consorting o: "The Scars" produced by Cupid and by Mars: the defiance to the City Council in "Young People Think About Love...
...Because of its favorable critical reception, Miss Loftus has decided to retain her satirical impersonation of Libby Holman as a permanent feature of her program, along with such contemporaries as Fannie Brice...
...Rosalind Russell has the most im portant role of her career as Chris tine...
...Farewell to Arms" and "Night Flight," and he has also been a contributor to leading magazines...
...It remained for Webb to score his first outstanding success in "Sally" with Marilyn Miller...
...As a child Webb displayed a marked aptitude for dancing and his mother packed him off to a local Peru (Ind...
...He was immediately signed and for the next four years played in all the Twain classics...
...mu VIDOR'S FUM PRODUCTION OF THE CITADEL OPENS AT THE CAPITAL "The Citadel," one of the mosttalked of books of the century, comes to the screen in an important Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...Tickets for Miss Loftus' Sunday night "Impressions and Impersonations'" dated through December are now on sate at the Vanderbilt Theatre...
...And tho^e as well, to whom the "modern'-, dances seem often distorted and warped, or at best floundering, will find harbor of, delight Vith the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe...
...Abner D. Klipstein...
...Gertrude Lawrence, Lynn Fontanne, Robert Morley and Ethel Barrymore...
...Thousands of book reviewers and readers say it has taken its place alongside such modern classics as "Of Human Bondage...
...Based on I. A. R. Wylie's Saturday Evening Post story "The Gay Banditti," "The Young in Heart" tells the story oZ the lovable Carleton Family who live by their wits, charm and talent for poker, and their efforts to chisel their way from the Riviera to London...
...Webb was soon called for musical comedy and the revue stage on Broadway...
...Walter Huston i» too merry beneath his frown, however, for us quite to believe in him as a Dutch Mussolini...
...The heao" of the family, who poses as "Colonel" Carleton...
...He studied art with two of America's foremost painters...
...I "The Young in Heart" screen I play was written by Paul Osborn i and Charles Bennett...
...William Chase and Robert Hemi...
...One need not be what the initiate call a "balletomane" to appreciate the fundamental grace and frequent power of these dances, and the variety «f entertainment the large company affords...
...When Clifton became too old for child parts and too youthful appearing for the more adult roles, he temporarily retired from the stage to resume his studies...
...With a new and strengthened company not even threats of duels could break, with a gala collection of new ballets in lively choreography — some superbly classical, some coruscatingly modern—Mr...
...The One Indispensable Man...
...Webb returned to the theatre via the chorus of the Boston Opera Company...
...Settings are the interior of a cabin plane used as The Leader's flying office and the apartment of Count von Laid: in the city...
...PHILHARMONIC TALKS John Barbirolli, conductor of the Philharmonic, in a most pleasant and informative talk at trie BaiMzon-Plaza last Tuesday, opened tat lecture series of the Philharmonk Symphony League...
...A new issue of the Roxy News and Pictorial Review completes the new programi CLIFTON WEBB RETURNS TO MUSICAL COMEDY IN "YOU NEVER KNOT A past master in the art of characterization, a versatile dancer, famous for his suave manner in putting across a sophisticated song is Clifton Webb, co-starred with Libby Holman and Lupe Valez in the Cole Porter musical, "You Never Know" at the Winter Garden...
...In the Porter musical, Webb has ample opportunity to demonstrate his various talents...
...The series is off to a good start for music-levers...
...There the Welsh ano British settings of the book we: photographed and moviegoers w:I see the mining district of Blaenell scene of the story's most dramatic incidents, depicted in large and realistic scale...
...The argument that Dictator Pieter succumbs beneath is that he's an expert, with efficient graft and corruption, whereas in democracy the leaders are stupid, with clumsy graft and corruption, so that the public has more of a chance...
...production when it has its premiere at the Capitol Theatre today...
...A new Fanchon and Marco revue, headlining" 'Richard "Bad" Skelton, also starts today on the Roxy stage...
...Selzrick...
...the irresistible picture of every administration's silent distributor of pork and patronage...
...There has alwayseemed to me a cheap catering to easy laughs in handling a foreign language as here...
...Rex Han isc.i and Cecil Parker are featured at the head of the large supporting cast of "The Citadel," which has more than 100 speaking narts...
...government itself is "group protection at monopoly prices...
...marx BROS...
...Confirming a hint furnished by the title, the play is announced as portraying what goes on when a dictator and his little clique take over power in a great nation...
...Denny, the brilliant, though disillusioned young surgeon cf the mining district, is brought to the screen by Ralph Richardson, while, Emlyn Williams, the man who wrote and acted in the sta^e version of "Night Must Fall," makes his screen debut as the official of the miners' union...
...A. J. Cronin's romantic novel about a school teacher and young doctor received the plaudits of the world, and is still first on America's best-selling lists in many places...
...a revue in which Mr...
...Citadel...
...Their two frankly fortune-hunting children are played by Miss Gaynor and young Fairbanks...
...GAYNOR, FAIRBANKS, JR., AND GODDARD OPEN IN NEW SELZNICK FILM David O. Selznick's "The Young, in Heart," starring Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks, Jt., and Paulette Goddard, is the new film feature at the Radio City Music Hall this week...
...With more than I have mentioned of side-shots at today, Anderson starts with an Hiterrupted hanging and the wise men of Gotham to show us how New York was first made safe for democracy...
...waltz in goose step" opens ax the hudson On Tuesday' evening, Nov...
...Even through the mellow eyes of Washington Irving, Maxwell Anderson sees a would-be dictator in Silver-peg Pete, who tries to lord it over New Amsterdam, in •'Knickerbocker Holiday...
...in truth, can we quite believe in Anderson's musical comedy— clever as parts of it are, excellent as are at least five of his lyrics...
...Consider, too, what the new quality, the distinguishing feature, of the new national type— the.American—turns out to be: an inability to take orders...
...Mary Boland saw the song and dance man and enlisted him for the legitimate theatre in her next play, "Meet the Wife...
...IN "ROOM service" at palace The Palace is now presenting the Marx Brothers in "Room Service" and Jane Withers in her newest picture, "Always in Trouble...
...dancing school The loose-jointed youngster was discovered by the manager for a traveling "Huckelberry Finn" company...
...Some of the thoughts, on the other hand, seem less inlaid than overlaid...
...Manson with whose struggles, romance an-) experience "The Citadel" deals...
...Richard Wallace directed the film for Mr...
...In chronological order came leading roles in "Three's a Crowd," with Libby Holman, "Flying Colors" and "As Thousands Cheer...
...He also studied voice and music with Victor Maurel...
...But it's 'a...
...manna duuuts mew film at the Roxr Deanna Durbin's latest starring prdouction, "That Certain Age, is the feature screen attraction, beginning today, at the Roxy Theatre...
...Hurok's bringing of this ballet group to our theatre is growing to be an annual joy and true delectation...
...Francis of Assisi" is perhaps best of tho new offerings, thoagh the entire gamut of dancing taste (including humor and satire, though never so relentless as in the Jooss Ballet) is ranged through in* their numbers, from a Strauss waltz to an apache movement...
...Democracy is "government by amateurs...
...King Vidor, who chooses his pictures carefully, eagerly accepted the important as signment of directing 'The Citadel...
...The Town Council, with its Vanderbilt, Roosevelt, Van Rensselaer...
...The film marks the first appearance of Miss Goddard in a speaking role and her first part since her debut opposite Charlie Chaplin in "Modern Times...
...that sweeps applause...
...In simplicity of arrangement and grace of performance, the "St...
...The sheer power of the story is said to have been faithfully transferred to the screen by Director King Vidor, with Robert Donat and Rosalind Russell as the stars...
...It is- staged by Arthur Hopkins, settings are designed by Norris Houghton, and the featured actor is Henry Oscar, recently arrived from London to make his American debut in this play...
...FIRST DANCING First honors in dancing, for the season, go to the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, who have again adorned the Metropolitan before its operas...
...We are told this in an excellent song— but the scene of the play is New Amsterdam: they had evidently never met the Irish...
...His discussion of the history and the psesent problems of the conductor, enlivened with personal anecfetes...
...quickened the audience's understanding of the role played by u» man the smallest part cf who* task is to wave a baton at operas and recitals...
...Radio City Music Hall Offers"The Young in Heart" The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley PIETER HITLER •KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY...
...Webb impersonated everyone from Mahatma "Gandhi to John D. Rockefeller, Sr...
...De Peyster, Van Cortlandt, probably spoke good enough Dutch: why translate them (when all others speak our tongue with ease) into a stumbling Pennsylvania Dutch accent, like later clowns ? The added humor is by no means enough to justify the distortion...
Vol. 21 • November 1938 • No. 45
