Pins and Needles Sees Labor Stage Through Its First Year
"Pins and Needles" Sees Labor Stage Through Its First Year "PINS And NEEDLES" STICKS AROUND In the course of the hardest year (in musical comedy, as in other forms of matrimony—yes, the...
...Cissie Loftus gives brilliant impersonations of famous stars...
...The script -itself, however, has changed very little—only sixteen .variations in the year...
...Jean Renoir's picture...
...For further New Theatre Nights, the League is sponsoring two special showings of "The Cradle Will Rock," for those unfortunates who may have missed the Blitzstein opus when it was presented by the Mercury Theatre for sixteen weeks last season...
...Here is no panoply of war's glories, nor even a gruesome display of the horrors of modern warfare...
...met the Governor of Minnesota, the Governor's wife of Pennsylvania (she came down by plane...
...AT RKO THEATRES...
...Completely unmoral—as the French may be—but also keenly intelligent, as the French are, at their best...
...if there is any sentimentalizing in "Grand Illusion," indeed, it lies i n making everyone so good a soul...
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...Jean Renoir has directed the picture with simple directness, drawing out of Pierre Fresnay, Eric von Stroheim and the others of a small but excellent cast vivid performance, which help make "Grand Illusion" a feature film of any year...
...But through the very simplicity of the story of these prisoners of the World War...
...The road company was given' Jane Addams medals at Hull House, Chicago...
...Ifs a Small World" is said to be a fast-moving musical revue, which pokes fun at notables in the world of politics and the arts...
...Success has kept the cast keyed up...
...The Little Carnegie — Welcome back to fine foreign films...
...On an original outlay of fl2^K)0, it has grossed $549,00 (to Nov...
...PRESS TIME" TO OPEN NEW THEATRE LEAGUE'S SEASON AT LABOR STAGE What happens in a typical American small town when...
...Sunday nights at the Vanderbilt...
...Julien DuVivier directed...
...The cast (being all...
...Helen Hayes, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Font?nne, Martha Graham and Toscanini jostle shoulder to shoulder wit*h George Bernard Shaw, Whistler's Mother, Alexander Woolcott, and Mrs...
...the Committee for Catholic Refugees from Germany, and the American Friends Service Committee...
...Schenck...
...PYGMALION" PREMIERE FOR GERMAN REFUGEES The night before the opening of "Pygmalion" at popular prices at the Astor Theatre, scheduled for Thursday, December 1, there will be a special preview perform??e by invitation from Mr...
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...Topical changes...
...He and Charles Friedman, who directed the show, have since done "Sing Out the News...
...Samuel Hoffenstein and Walter Reisch wrote the screen play from the original story by Gottfried Rein hardt...
...The house was packed for six months before Louis Scbaeffer, Executive Director of Labor Stage, stuck r'Pins and Needles" among the daily ads...
...The Little Carnegie turns us to Thanksgiving with "Ballerina," a must for all who like either good dancing or good pictures...
...We see the old European aristocracy carrying on its traditions as it dies...
...TNE YALE PUPPETEERS AT LABOR STAGE SUNDAY The Yale Puppeteers will move their topical new musical revue, "It's a Small World" to LaborStage Sunday night at nine for its second Broadway showing...
...John L. Lewis is on hand to represent labor and sing a ditty or two...
...A fine combination, Deanna Durbin in "That Certain Age" and "A Man to Remember" with Anne Shirley and Edward Ellis comprist the double feature bill at the Palace and other RKO Manhattan...
...now just tell you to be sure to go...
...but this again heightens the impressive effect...
...The second year sees Labor Stage swinging vigorously along—and the satiric points in "Pins and Needles'' are as ¦> sharp as ever...
...Earlier this month the revue had its premiere at the Lyceum Theatre...
...At the Filmarte...
...Clair's "The Ghost Goes West...
...The original music of Johann Strauss II, with lyries by Oscar Hammerstein, are already extremely populra in cafes, theatres and on the air...
...you remember, eager amateurs right out of the I.L.G.W.U.—though now they split dues with Actors Equity) rehearse almost a year before the run...
...And with not the slightest idea of what was coming...
...And Rome played the piano for the show for three months, hoping for a job with a band...
...Brown takes healthy, satiric pokes at Hitler and Mussolini, whom he teams in a sister act, and also at Emperor Hirohito...
...THE great waltz" in mm rmkWRM at IH?CAJ?tQWrHEATRE The overwhelming and captivating dance music that united a nation and gave it the will to- over-, throw * tyranny, is the background against which "The Great Walts," MGM's elaborate and huge musicai spectacle-romance is filmed...
...Pins and Needles" Sees Labor Stage Through Its First Year "PINS And NEEDLES" STICKS AROUND In the course of the hardest year (in musical comedy, as in other forms of matrimony—yes, the cast is wedded to the theatre!—the first year is the hardest)" "Pins and Needles" managed to do a lot of unorthodox things...
...Forman Brown has performed the triple task of writing music, lyrics and sketches for the show, and not the least part are the fifty amazing portrait puppets, which were conceived and built by Harry Burnett...
...Add her sketches to the impersonations, and this one woman gaily crowds the stage...
...the American Committee for Christian German Refugees...
...THE IRREPRESSIBLE CISSIE LOFTUS "IMPRESSIONS AND IMPERSONATIONS...
...Query: Is Hollywood calling...
...Hugh Herbert, Lionel Atwill, Al Shean, Minna Gombel!, Herman Bing and Henry Hull are other notables in the largest cast of principals in many months...
...The proceeds of this showing will go to four relief organizations for efugees from Germany: The Amercan Jewish Joint Distribution Committee...
...In "Four Angels of Peace" Hitler gets new lyrics, Eden becomes Chamberlain...
...Brown has been hailed is "the Cole Porter of puppetry...
...The play swung into its stride without wide svertising...
...The play will be the first New Theatre production of the season, under the auspices^of the New Theatre League, that organization that has introduced such important plays as "Waiting for Lefty," "The Cradle Will Rock," "Bury the Dead," and "Plant in the Sun" to our contemporary theatre It is the work of two new young authors, J. Brookman and S. Coles, and promises to be as exciting an addition to the repertory of labor theatre as past discoveries of the New Theatre League have been...
...Roosevelt is fondly presented dashing from city to city in a sketch titled...
...It is the only play ever to give a "command performance" in the White House, for the President...
...My Day...
...The film is now at the Capitol Theatre in its world premiere presentation...
...The romantic life story of Johann Strauss, gay and revolutionary young composer, whose deathless "Viennese waltzes inspired the whole world to love instead of to hate, is portrayed by Fern and Gr a vet and Luise Rainer, aided by MGM's new blonde singing beauty, Miliza'Korjus...
...For the mid-week came the Walter Huston "Abraham Lincoln" and Ren...
...We expeet to say more of this film later...
...An excellent last-minute place to turn to, sure of good fare...
...QUIET SURGE OF WAR'S VICTIMS "GRAND ILLUSION...
...The highest wage is $50 a week, to Al Eben (II Duee...
...Then Harold J. Rome came along to laugh at all thats wrong with the world—and "Pins and Needles" has sewed up the traffic on 39th Street...
...You'd hardly realize how clever they are, were it not for her new scheme...
...And here are a few facts to stick in your pin-cushion...
...The "Cradle" will be GOOD MOVIES The Waldorf—Up on 50th St., the Waldorf is developing its policy of revivals into an excellent chance to catch up on those good films you have missed...
...and the direct and moving beauty of the film, comes an even greater sense of the futility and waste of war than the grandiose pictures carried...
...Rome wasn't built in a day, but over night Rome found himself famous...
...Fifth Avenue Playhouse — The English titles by John Erskine retain much more of the French flavor than most such aids, and make even the English-speaking audience at Sacha Guitry's "The Story of a Cheat" feel its special savor...
...newspaper decides to fake sides with striking steel workers in defiance of the Manufacturers' Association is the subject of the labor theatre's first full-length comedy melodrama, "Press Time," which will be presented this Sunday afternoon at 2:45 p. m. at the Labor Stage theatre, 106 W. 39th St...
...These same two features will continue a second week at the RKO Albee while the other RKO Theatres in Brooklyn and Queens offer "The Sisters" with Bette Davis and Errol Flynn, and "Breaking the Ice" with Bobby Breen...
...NEW STAGE SHOW Gary Cooper and Merle ObeTon in "The Cowboy and the Lady," Samuel Goldwyrr"s first film of the new season, heads the gala threepart holiday program at the Radio City Music Hall this week...
...Instead of resting on the points r they've scored, they go on and on | studying...
...The only other production of Labor Stage was Wexley's "Steel," which stayed with the good of leftist earnest propaganda...
...GARY COOPER AND MERLE OflERON ON MUSIC HALL SCREEN...
...Last weekend Robert Montgomery in "Night Must Fall"—a picture that first showed his full power—shared the screen .with "Topper," as intelligent a film as Hollywood has released in several seasons...
...Their new show finds the Yale Puppeteers, who are unique in that they are the only marionette troupe in this country playing exclusively for adults, presenting a cast that would dazzle even wie most hardened of Broadway producers...
...Second sight confirms the first impression: from program notes (including Lillian Nadel's excellent survey of war in the movies) to incidental music, this film has a simplicity and power that repeat their electric thrill...
...Each Sunday (last week it was Libby Holman) she has a real star on the stage, then immediately Cissie mimics that star's performance, to show you how much more fun it is when the sly mockery is added...
...On the screen the feature film is supplemented by the premiere showing of Walt Disney's special short subject release, "Ferdinand the Bull," a cartoon based on Munro Leaf's best-seller which follows the spirit of the original illustrations by ' Robert Lawson: and on the great stage by Leon Leonidoff's holiday extravaganza, "Four Seasons," with settings by the celebrated Russian designer Sergei Soudeikine...
...The play has already bad the longest run of any show at the Princess (as Labor Stage theatre was called)—inciuding Pirandello, Anderson, O'Neill, Shaw, and Ibsen works...
...We know that never again will enemy aviators, for an instance, be treated with the courtesy shewn in the World War...
...This story of a man who succeeds only when he cheats and, try though he may to be honest, finds life tricking him at every turn, marks another highlight in a season of brilliant films from abroad...
...Harkness' panda...
...Cecilia Loftus...
...He is the co-author of Joe Cook's next musical, "Buggy Ride" with Don Herold, the humorist...
...Bronx and Westchester Theatres this week...
...But then, that's to be expected of a labor group— even though they stage a labor of love...
...got the keys of the city from the Mayor of San Francisco, and in Los Angeles a treat from Al Jolson—and Gypsy Rose Lee...
...we see the shadow of the human race, caught in the grip of circumstance—as, grimly, today...
Vol. 21 • November 1938 • No. 48
