'Pins and Needles" Moves to the Windsor, Reduces Prices
'Pins and Needles" Moves to the Windsor, Reduces Prices By Joseph T. Shipley This Week on the Stage RefuGee Whiz! 'FROM VIESSA." Revue in two acts. By the Refugee Artists Group. At the Music...
...Euryanthe" Overture, Weber...
...July 2. Alexander Smallens, Conductor...
...YOUNG MR...
...Outdoor Overture...
...Man About the supporting cast, Paramount's Town," opened yesterday at the New York Paramount Theatre...
...In addition, the Senate Military Committee is considering bills which would regulate private military forces and ban drills by groups wearing the uniforms of foreign countries...
...Algernon Lee speaks on "The Senate Revolt: An Unholy Alliance," over WEVD, Friday, June 30, 10:30 p. m. Harry Kavesh speaks on July 14...
...Power, is the scren feature beginning its World Premiere today at the Roxy Theatre...
...a new Universal mystery-comedy with Joy Hodges, Michael Whalen...
...5 in C. minor...
...i henceforth, will be to give the • people a Broadway hit at movie : prices...
...The dances have been staged by G. Snyder...
...Donations are solicited and will be received in Room 505, 7 E. 15th St...
...Second Fiddle" features a new musical score by Irving Berlin including the song "I Poured My Heart Into a Song," "When Winter Comes," "An Old Fashioned Tune Always Is New," "I'm Sorry for Myself," "Song of the Metronome" and what is expected to be a new ballroom dance craze, "Back to Back...
...The Debs Branch (formerly the Lower East and West Side Branches) will hold a picnic and outing at Tibbetts Brook Park on Sunday, July 16...
...MAN ABOUT TOWN" OPENS AT THE PARAMOUNT With Jack Benny providing cpmedty, Dorothy Lamour turning on the romance, Edward Arnold in an important role, and Binnie Barnes, Phil Harris, Betty Grable, "Rochester" and Matty Malneck and his orchestra numbered emang comedy with music...
...Violin Concerto in G minor...
...The occasion for Schaffer's speech was the news that Labor Stage was instituting a new price scale for "Pins and Needles 1939" on its removal to the Windsor Theatre, where it went last Monday evening, June 26 after a nineteen months run' -at Labor Stage...
...But it is the gay and quick comeback of these folk that catches the spirit...
...California The program for the S.D.F state convention, to be held July 8 and...
...Cartoon...
...For further details call B. or write to 7 East 15th St...
...In addition, the picture offers twenty—count 'em—Petty Girls, chosen by the famed artist, George Petty, to bring his conception of lovely feminity to the screen...
...Symphony No...
...The people are conducting a stayaway - strike which is no less effective be...
...Entr'acte of Act 2. "Gwendoline...
...Charles Friedman supervised the routine...
...July 4. Fourth of July P r o g r a m. Alexander Smallens, Conductor...
...Brown has assembled a starstudded cast in support of the featured artists in the persons of Dixie Dunbar, Jackie Heller, Lois January, Phil Silvers, Ralph Riggs, Mark Plant, Lew Hearn, Almira Sessions, Ralph Holmes, Charles Althoff, Helene Standish, Ruth Rathbun, 50 Ravishing Corn-Fed Beauties, The Minute Men From Lexington, and Al Goodman and his orchestra...
...Sport, "Inside Baseball...
...They Asked For It...
...i The people go to the theatre only 5 were the prices arc comparable to - the movies, which the people fj...
...The principal speaker will be Paul Levi, former member of the German Reichstag and prominent in the Social Democratic Party of Germany...
...and 60th St...
...The people go to the shows pot > on by the F.T.P...
...Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver and Arleen Whelan share top billing with Fonda in this John Ford production...
...Mutiny Ain't Nice" (Popeye...
...CONGRESS TO PASS STRICT ANTI-ESPIONAGE LAWS WASHINGTON, D. C. — Stiff penalties against all foreign spies in the U. S. will be meted out under new bills which have been passed by the House anil are virtually assured of passagein the Senate...
...In addition to Sonja Henie and Tyrone Power, the cast of "Second Fiddle" includes Rudy Vallee, Edna May Oliver, Mary Healy^Lyle Talbot, Alan Dinehart, the Brian Sisters, Stewart Reburn, Spencer Charters, Charles Brokaw, Leyland Hodgson, A. S. Byron and John Hiestand...
...26, to Bear Mountain...
...Brains...
...A new Fanchon and Marco presentation headlining Stan Kavanagh and featuring the Gae Foster Girls, also starts today on the Roxy stage...
...The City Central Committee meets Wednesday, June 5, 8:30 p. m., at 7 East 15th St...
...One such measure increases the jail term for espionage from two to ten years...
...Schaffer said in conclusion, "We'll blaze the way for the theatre again...
...Cartoon, "Bars and Stripes Forever...
...The scenery is by Walter Jagemann and the costumes designed by Frances Feist and executed bv Veronica...
...Louis St., Los Angeles, includes a banquet Saturday evening, same place...
...Going Places...
...Party Sunday, Oct...
...Sunday and Monday, July 1-3...
...Schaffer chose the subject, "The Crisis In The Theatre...
...Cartton: "The Ugly Duckling" (Disney...
...July 1-4—Pete Smith, "Heroes at Leisure...
...Feature...
...Reading, Pa...
...Trans-Lux, Madison Ave...
...NEW YORK CITY The Annual Excursion of Local New York will be held Saturday, Aug...
...Pygmalion...
...Beethoven...
...Beatrice Kaufman ushered them on...
...Stadium Concerts Program Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra Sunday...
...A hearty welcome to our friends "From Vienna...
...Puis and Needles 1939" is the longest running musical revue ever to play Broadway, having set a new record only recently...
...WEVD, interested in the announcement that seats for the hit showwould be available for as low as 40 Cents for matinees and 55 Cents evenings, asked him to talk on theatre prices...
...Another measure would authorize an inquiry into espionage and sabotage in the United States...
...Dod Study, "Man's Greatest Friend...
...None of the war-torn sense of respair is in their playing, but a light-spirited and delicate touch of the true comic, the graceful dancer, the aware member of a civilized troupe presenting material for a civilized audience...
...The Central Branch, Brooklyn, meets Thursday, July 6. Meeting place to be announced by mail...
...Symphony in D minor, Franck...
...Chabrier...
...Saturday through Tuesday, July 1-4—Comedy, "A Small Town Idol" (Ben Turpin...
...All branches are urged to reserve this date and cooperate...
...Isabel Jewell, William Lundigan and Lyle Talbot, accompanies the hither-to untold story of Abraham Lincoln at the Palare...
...Send material, new or old, clothing, household goods, bric-abrac, or anythng saleable...
...leading into "The Star-Spangled Banner...
...It sm> passed "Irene," which held the crown for "20 years, or since 191ft Produced by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Unko, and acted by its members, "Pins and Needles 1939" got a brand new set of excellent notices in April The critics came to see the new edition then and went away raving about the show even more than they did originally...
...3 in F major...
...Ravel...
...Monday, July 3. Alexander Smallens, Conductor...
...Branches Do Not Now Exist May Obtain Information, Charter Blanks, Membership Applications, Etc...
...Louis Schaffer of Labor Stage Makes Plea for Lower Prices in Theatre A plea for low prices in the theatre was made by Louis Schaffer, Labor Stage executive director, in a radio talk on "The Crisis In The Theatre" over Station WEVD on Wednesday evening, June 21...
...Broadway was an afterthought— stimulated by many friends...
...Fanfare by Arcady Dubensky...
...July 5-7— Travel, "The Miracle of Salt Lake...
...Nocturnes: Nuages and Fetes, Debussy...
...Through the Looking Glass" Suite...
...Slow-moving to American taste as one or two of the skits may be, the majority of the offerings are lively or lovely, as the case may be...
...La Valse...
...Let the new motto be: Make the theatre available to all," he pled...
...Wednesday through Friday...
...He pointed out the Brooks Atkinson, of the Times made this s point in a recent Sunday article...
...Trans-Lux, Madison Ave...
...Prologue, William Schumann...
...At Trans-Lux Trans-Lux, Broadway and 49th St...
...and 85th St.—Saturday...
...Chabrier...
...screen and radio double-talk comedian...
...Travel, "Land of Inca Memories...
...Two weeks longer in point of duration and comprises fifty-four instead of forty-four outstanding motion pictures, each one of which has won one or more and in some cases most of the world's coveted screen awards...
...Lew Brown's New Musical "Yokel Boy" to Open Thursday, July 6 Lew Brown announces the premiere performance of his newmusical comedy, "'Yokel Boy," to take place on Thursday evening, July 6, at the Majestic Theatre, featuring Buddy Ebsen and Judy uanova...
...Confessions of a Nazi Spy...
...SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION AT WORK Readers in Localities in Which S.D.F...
...ROXY OFFERS IRVING BERLIN'S NEW MUSICAL "SECOND FIDDLE" Irving Berlin's "Second Fiddle," the new Darryl F. Zanuck production starring Sonja Henie and Tyrone...
...August Claessens will speak on July 8 and 9. On Saturday, July 8, 2 p. nr., he will conduct a class on "Socialists and the Trade Union Movement," at the Socialist Park, Sinking Spring...
...The screenplay by Harry Tugend was based on a story by George Bradshaw and is an interesting dramatic tale of Hollywood's search for a girl to play the heroine in the screening of a best selling novel...
...In the east are John Garfield, Priscilla Lane, Fay Bainter, Claude Rains, Donald Crisp, Gale Page, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Jeffrey Lynn, Frank McHugh, May Robson and Dick Foran...
...That's a significant fact, he declared, meaning that people are just not going to the theatre...
...A four hour sail up and down the Hudson River on the steamer Claremont, an afternoon at Bear Mountain Park will offer every recreational facility...
...They have not allowed Hitler and exile to get them down...
...That't f why they go to the Federal Tke- atre "Projects productions, he de: clared...
...The Women's Committee will conduct another Rummage Sale in the Fall...
...The Amalgamated Cooperative Houses Branch will hold a picnic on a lot near the houses on Sunday, July 9. Details later...
...Scheduled to unfold in the same theatre in lower Fifth Avenue between the dates of July 1 and September 11, the Second International Film Festival surpasses its history making predecessor in three respects...
...Bruch: Doan Juan...
...LINCOLN" AT PALACE THEATRE "Young Mr...
...at 126 N. St...
...Deems Taylor...
...Lincoln," the story of the backwoods lawyer who wrestled with the boys, fell in love and told jokes, with Henry Fonda in the title role is the principal attraction at the Palace, Albee and RKO neighborhood theatres this week...
...The price, 50 cents, insures not only a good dinner but comradeship and the privilege of hearing a noted refugee speaker...
...In fact, they gathered, originally, to continue their lives as in Vienna...
...Only the F.T.P., among theatre producers, gives the people . a chance, through its low prices • to express their love of thetheatre...
...Saturday through Tuesday...
...by Addressing: Nat'l Office, S.D.F.,814 Albee Bldg., Wash...
...Trans-Lux, Lexington Ave...
...Donald Denslager and Irene Sharaff helped with the settings and the costumes...
...Mark Sandrich directed...
...cause it is not formally orgaau**," i he said...
...To show how badly the theatre needed a fundamental reorientation, Schaffer pointed out that only 17 out of 118 shows produced last season could be considered hits or near hits, according to the story in Variety, the theatrical trade paper...
...Wednesday through Friday, July 5-7— Novelty, "Air Waves...
...Symphony No...
...He buttressed this by showing that every season since 1929 has come up with fewer plays than the year immediately preceding...
...SECOND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Based on the revolutionary idea of a progrem planned months in advance, which made the First International Film Festival a welcome innovation last summer, the complete program of the Second International Film Festival was announced yesterday by the management of the Fifth Avenue Playhouse...
...At the Music Box...
...Aaron Copland...
...Joyeuse Marche...
...Cartoon, "Magician Mickey" (Disney...
...29, Maurice "Schwartz's new play, "Esterka...
...The next day he will be one of the speakers at the Berks County Socialst PartyPicnic...
...The acting of Paul Lindenberg and of Katherine Mattern, the excellent work of Itta Roden as "The Little Ballerina," are high spots...
...Strauss...
...t "quent in good times or bad...
...Dinner will be Flohr at the City Office, AL 4-26p0, served...
...Women's Committee announces a Theatre...
...because it doesn't ' cost them very much...
...Medieval Armor...
...All friends of the S.D.F...
...Tickets are $1 per adult, children up to 12 years 50 cents, and can be obtained at City Office, .7 E. loth St., and at all branches...
...are welcome...
...Pins and Needles 1939" polk...
...and the general public ought to help with continuing attendance...
...There are many reasons for seeing "From Vienna...
...STRAND THEATRE HOLDS "DAUGHTERS" AND SAMMY RATE AND BAND The Strand Theatre continues for a second week with "Daughters Courageous," bringing together again the original "Four Daughters" cast, on the screen ,and Sammy Kaye and his swing band making a personal appearance...
...The reason for this attitide, he i claimed, could be traced to the high prices the theatre charges...
...Adventure, "Recording Modern Science...
...Jack plays an American theatrical impressario who, while reading a show in London, showers attention on a Lady of the English nobility in order to arouse jealousy in the heart of a member of his troupe...
...The music and lyrics are by Lew Brown, Charlie Tobias and Sam H. Stept...
...Soloist: Joan Field, violinist...
...They don't . even care whether the shows m ¦ question have received goad l notices...
...Not the least of them is the value, as sheer entertainment, of the performance these refugees give...
...and 52nd St.—Thursday through Monday, Juns 29-July 3. Feature...
...Arguing that the theatre is -in a state of decline because it has paid too much attention to the socalled carriage trade instead of thinking in terms of the subway trade, Schaffer called for an immediate reorientation...
...Sport, "Athletic Oddities...
...Tuesday...
...Chorus of 200 pupils of High School of Music and Art...
...In person the Paramount is presenting Gene Krupa and his Swing Band, the Andrews Sisters, and Cliff Nazarro...
...And a number of skits—one showing the adventures of a foreigner learning English (that might be the experience of any of this troupe), several showing how housewives and business men work better to music—are quick with laughs...
Vol. 22 • July 1939 • No. 26
