Buck Benny Rides Again Proyes Laugh Hit at Paramount
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
"Buck Benny Rides Again" Proyes Laugh Hit at Paramount by Joseph T. Shipley This Week on the Stage SUMMER AT THE STADIUM : It's not very far off now, ^o jane 20, when Rudolf Serkin in t?» Brahms...
...directors in Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri...
...Mark Sandrich, who also megaphoned "Man About Town," displays the same sagacious tojjch in handling the material of "Buck Benny Rides Again" for an abundance of ingratiating comedy...
...It was a stroke of genius to locate Jack Benny's newest opus in the wide open spaces, in the face of the comedian's known aversion to horses and fresh air...
...And then, just as he is about to be counted out of her favor, a hilarious climax situation provides that opportunity that lights her spark of love...
...The annual Gershwin memorial concert again falls on July 11...
...1, with : Altor Rodzinski conducting, opens "tie summer season at the City College Stadium...
...It is accompanied by "Ma...
...And Lily Pons, who drew a record audience at the Stadium last summer, will again sing while her husband, : Andre Kostelanetz, conducts...
...Two musical numbers especially recommend themselves to your attention...
...he comes from tie Jfrankfurt Opera House by way at Palestine...
...Men and Dust" was voted one of the three best shorts of the month by the Review Board of "Good Housekeeping Magazine," and has 1 revived.endorsements from the National Tuberculosis Association, Ideational Film Institute, and aaiy health, housing and trade awn organizations...
...THE FIGHT FOR LIFE" WINS HIGH CRITICAL AND PUBLIC ACCLAIM When Pare Lorentz made "The Plow That Broke the Plains" and "The River," he pictured the effects of wind and water erosin on the people of the Great Plain and the Mississippi Valley...
...The film showing and Conference will be held at the Connor Hotel, Joplin...
...SSkesh Movie Premiere Set far U. S. Labor Department Conference In Tri~State Mining Area "Men and Dust," a recently produced movie-short depicting j?e in the silicosis and tuberculosis stricken zinc and lead mining area of -Kansas, Missouri, jnd Oklahoma, will have its world premiere on April 23, at Jopljn, Missouri, under the auspices of a Ixi-State Conference initiated by the United States Department "of Labor, Garrison Film Distributers, Inc.,- announced...
...he participates in runaways, fist fights and robberies, all to no avail...
...There's a mad sort of plot underlying the antics in "Buck Benny Rides Again...
...In the land of the dude ranches, "REBECCA" BREAKS RECORD AT MUSIC MALL Equalling the Radio City Music Hall's all-time attendance records ,set by "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," David O. Selz-nick's production of "Rebecca" has become the only photoplay made with living actors ever to play five weeks at the big theatre...
...A. Sayer (Uj S. Bureau of Mines), representatives of the U. S. Dept...
...The picturization of the Daphne du Maurier novel, which co-stars Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier, began its fifth week Thursday, April 25...
...The title of this lyrical rodeo fun is "Buck Benny Rides Again...
...Cameron (Chief Engineer of Industrial Division), Dr...
...of Labor), Dr...
...While Ellen Drew, Virginia Dale, Lillian Cornell and the Abbott Dancers ably and ap-pealingly represent the feminine contingent...
...Practically the entire crew of Benny's radio program have turned up for his adventures among the dude ranches and the overstuffed cactus...
...JACK BENNY IN WACKY WESTERN A saga of the sagebrush that's more wacky than wild galloped happily into the Paramount Theatre last night to reveal Jack Benny, the kilocycle kid, as the only cowboy in the world with a valet—and the valet none other than the inimitable Rochester...
...Alice Hamilton (Dept...
...Andy Devine, Phil Harris, Deftnis Day are all present and excellent in their specialties...
...Our hero, in love up to the eyebrows with Ellen Drew, drags his gang out to the primitive West in a vain effort to impress this little lady with his virility...
...After the Brahms cycle comes a welcome series of six performances by the American Ballet, which crowded the Center "Theatre last year...
...He's Making ?yes at Me," a new Universal production combining music, ro-¦umce and comedy...
...The film, s Lee Dick Inc., Production, was photographed by Sheldon Diek, former photographer for the Farm Security Administration, and is based on a published study by the Tri-'State Survey Committee, Inc...
...and other organizations...
...Secretary of Labor Frances L. Perkins and representatives of other Federal agencies will tour the stricken area depicted in the fflm, in the forenoon prior to the opening of the Conference which will be attended by V. A. Zimmer (Chief of the Bureau of Labor Standards), Dr...
...Missouri, and the public showing and mass meeting at Picher, Oklahoma...
...he will be followed by {fcnaUens, Kurtz, Freccia, Weis*-nann and Steinberg...
...these come June 27 and 28, July 15, 10, and August 1 and 2. The opera "Carmen" will be sung on July 29 and 30...
...Say It Over and Over Again" and the western parody "My Kind of Country," that Benny so ably vocalizes...
...It ends, too early, on August 14...
...His new film, "The Fight for Life," which is now in its ninth week at the Belmont Theatre on West 48th St., which has won critical and public acclaim* dramatizes a heroic battle against another kind of erosin—human erosin—deep in the slums of a great city...
...Chief of the Children's Bureau), Wm...
...AT THE PALACE "Virginia City" starring Errol l^nn, Miriam Hopkins and Randolph Scott is the new featured attraction at the Palace...
...Martha Eliot: (Ass't...
...Buck Benny Rides Again" Proyes Laugh Hit at Paramount by Joseph T. Shipley This Week on the Stage SUMMER AT THE STADIUM : It's not very far off now, ^o jane 20, when Rudolf Serkin in t?» Brahms Concerto No...
...of Health, ?. S. Office of Indian Affairs, 0. S. Housing Authority, W.P.A...
...Rochester under a ten-gallon hat is another sight to see...
...Put "Buck Benny" on your must list as a spring pick-me-up...
...Locations scenes for the picture were filmed in the actual places indicated: the operating room of a well known maternity hospital, the Chicago Maternity Center, and the slum houses where the patients lived...
...The Stadium series is one of the best reasons for staying in New York in the early summer...
...The last is lie only conductor new to Stadium isdiences...
...This is the first of ten concerts that Rodzinski of tie Cleveland Orchestra will con-dnct...
...NEW SHOW AT ROXY Ha] Roach's production of "One Million B. C," is the screen feature beginning today at the Roxy Theatre...
...The music, which forms an integral part of the film, was contributed by the well known pianisl and composer, Louis Gruenberg In order to accommodate the large numbers of people who art interested in bettering social conditions, especially as they affect health and maternal welfare, the Belmont Theatre is offering special group rates for trade union...
...The Fight for Life" is based on the maternal welfare chapters in Paul de Kruif's best-seller of the same name...
Vol. 23 • April 1940 • No. 17
