Heavenly Express Brings John Garfield Back to Broadway
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
"Heavenly Express" Brings John Garfield Back to Broadway By Joseph T. Shipley This Week on the Stage HOtOES TO HIAVEN 'HEAVENLY EXPRESS." By Albert . &t tie National. ¦jZuy.;-a -...
...Not the least of his children ire the "Boes, the hoboes whose Tature keeps them too forever wandering...
...this one carries him out of himself, gives him a 'chance to show his mettle—and he responds...
...A third-rater like Respighi will be found on concert and rsrlin nrotn-ams Rpjisnn nftpr Qpn- ' son...
...Topping the cast are Ellen Drew, Robert Paige and Judith Barrett, assisted by John Miljan...
...He added, however, that arrangements had been made with Selznick that regardless of business during the sixth week of "Rebecca," the sixth week would bethe last, and that "My Son, My Son!," the filmization of another best-selling novel, definitely will open on Thursday, May 9. "ST4R DUST" AT ROXY Darryl F. Zanuck's production, "Star Dust," with Linda Darnell in the leading role, is the screen feature beginning today at the Roxy Theatre...
...LA BOKEME: Mon...
...By Sylvia, Regan...
...Herbert H. Lehmar Mayor Ficre'do H. LaGuarcia Hon...
...E< g...
...Although the Pureell suite would have been improved if it had adhered to the small orchestra of the composer's time (1658-1695), still Lucien Cailliet's scoring for the modern orchestra is done with consummate skill and a scrupulous regard for musical propriety...
...Many City and State officials have been invited to attend...
...On May 7th the convention will-devote itself to round-table discussions of organizational problems and of the tasks facing the .Women's American ORT in it share of the program of help ing refugees and others througl the rehabilitation and traininj courses offered in ORT vocatipna and agricultural schools...
...the son is killed in the war—and the gold star mother shakes President Harding's hand: "They tell me now he was a crook, but I can't believe it...
...Mav i...
...The terms of the agreement includes a contract covering editorial employees, re-employment of over 100 of the active Guild members that were -on strike, and payment of some $24,000 in back salary...
...and Victor Olander of the A.F.L...
...Mav » All...
...It concerns women confined by adamant walls of steel and stone, women fighting for a break and daring to make one, women lost in the heart-searing anonymity of prison...
...Joseph Buloff makes a truly comic but genuine portrait of the boarder...
...The present OR.T program en visages assistance to 12.000 refu gees and war victims through re training for emigration, in addi tion to maintaining its regala schools and program...
...At the Longacre...
...regicna director of the National Labo Relations Board, is chairman c the Committee of Sponsors...
...PRIMROSE PATH" AT PALACE AND ALK...
...CENTER THEA...
...another daughter grows into a money-seeking shrew, and the third develops a loving but unfaithful tin-pan-alley spouse...
...Kings ALP Holds Victory Ball Friday, May 3 The victory of the Liberal and Labor Committee of the American Labor Party in the recent spring primaries, will be celebrated Friday night, Maty 3, at the 3rd Annual Ball of the American Labor Party, Kings County, at the St...
...Paul Blanshard, chairman of the recent Liberal and Labor Committee of the American Labor Party, state officers and delegations from Up-state counties are turning the Kings Couty affair into a State-wide celebration...
...i -¦ * » * If all this sounds splenetic, it is occasioned by the appearance this month' of selections from Pureell's Dido and Aeneas (Victor, two records, $4.50...
...For-some- time now there have been rumors of a new and startling development in swing...
...4!>h ^* «* *»» SAN CARLO OPERA Ciimpanv of 200 & Corp* de BaHat II EVENINGS A YD 2 SAT...
...LA T RAVI ATA : Veo...
...Sat Erg...
...Two well-known and popular old-time tunes are introduced by a couple of old-timers, "Ida" by Eddie Leonard and "Rings on My Fingers" by Blanche Ring...
...In addition to the pictures of the war in Norway and the Raymond Gray Swing feature, the Embassy Theatre is offering newsreels of 42 important events...
...Frank M. Kir.gdo: and George" Backer will also b among the speakers...
...Rose Gisnet, national president of the Women's American ORT, will open the meeting...
...In the meantime one girl dies on her wedding eve in the Triangle fire...
...see a great traveler rod, who sends his train to take hem to the hobo paradise...
...inl'tovrc h- s Viernet-e Ballet: Sot...
...In addition to the feature picture, an exclusive short subject has been booked that will have its only New York showing at Loew's Criterion...
...With a blending of playful and iminous fantasy, and the realism of a boarding house—a blend admirably captured'in the- set-riitgs of Boris Aroso»—the dram* moveaywith the tremendous travel oi the heavenly express, - to the last-aouEs of cid- Betsy -Graham...
...with Sidney Toler, Marjorie Weaver and Lione...
...George Hotel, Brooklyn...
...Fannie B. Shluger, co-chairman of the convention committee, the evening of May 6th will be in the form of an open meeting at which the speakers will be Senator James M. Mead, Manhattan Borough President Stanley M. Isaacs, Dr...
...George Jessel and others will be among those entertaining...
...But n the playful moods of the messenger from the hereafter, we jo back beyond such grimmer ?eralds as the recent Mr...
...E->g...
...As the city wastrel pictures a god of the police nagi8trate's court, so the...
...Stephen S. Wise, on the question, "Is Modern Morality A Failure...
...It opens when the boy is preparing his "barmitzpha," and closes with an echo of this at the grandson's thirteenth year...
...Newspaper Guild Wins Strike Against Hearst The 17-months-old strike against the Hearst Chicago Herald-American by the Chicago Newspaper Guild reached a settlement this week with a complete victory for the Guild...
...May 11...
...The picture tells how a young couple find enduring love only to have it shattered when the girl's ex-husband, a thief, murders a detective...
...It is a debate between Mr...
...Raymond Gram Swing is also on the Embassy _:_:_ ___ • _ ____1 ¦ ___1___• . -T screen, in a grapnic analysis ox "War in Europe...
...The Shaw clarinet is, as always, full, rounded and exceedingly melodic...
...the other, of course, is Byrd), Pureell ranks as one of thergreatest- talents in all music...
...Bertrand Russell and Dr...
...Shaw, however, is a long way from having made an innovation...
...Mav 14...
...CAVAL-LEKIA & PACLIACCI: Thura...
...That gives "Morning Star" a few more tears and less laughter...
...Dorothy Thompson, MissrFar.ni Hurst, Hor?g*Caro!ine O'Day am many others...
...aided in bringing about the settlement...
...She is tenderly played by Aline MacMahon...
...jZuy.;-a - ticket at -once--- for-•rJeat«nry Expresir...
...With "Primrose Path.'' the Palace introduces the- newest of the Charlie Chan murder mysteries...
...MAKTKA (1» Eritrljsrt...
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...Sylvia Regan has provided the cast with many such opportunities of revealing the blended pathos and bathos of East Side ways...
...train lands and train-riders (outside he:seats...
...So at the end Ma Felderman marries her faithful boarder...
...One of the two greatest English composers...
...For her solo, Miss Jean renders "Little Grey Home in the West...
...Sir Thomas achieves a touch almost as light and sparkling as Toscanini's recording with the New York Philharmonic several years ago...
...Primrose Path...
...Ifs a >lap-happy hobo scrappy dream >f death as it comes to the hoboes, ind the mother of all the hoboes >f onr great out-of-doors...
...Meet the Sun Half Way," "I Haven't Time to Be a Millionaire,'' "Pessimistic Character" are the three numbers sung in a duet by-Bing and little Gloria Jean, who made her debut in pictures in "The Underpup...
...B. F. SHERIDAN'S "LIVING "MAGAZINE COVERS" '< AT WORLD'S FAIl Jack Sheridan, one cf America': foremost artists, will one agaii present his "Living Magszini Covers'' s h o w, featuring th< world's . most beautiful artists models.;at the New York World': Fair of 1940...
...SONGS GALORE IN NEW CROSBY FILM AT KfVOLf Bing Crosby's newest starring vehicle, "If I Had My Way...
...Harry Carey, -also out .of the movies^ pmys the eternal engineer, deeply' shaken by the close passage o? that fateful train...
...Brink if "On Borrowed Time" and the :aptain of "Outward Bound," to he capricious young Peer Gynt...
...CARMEN ; Sat...
...Atwill...
...REBECCA" BREAKS MUSIC HALL RECORDS NOW IN 6th WEEK Breaking all Radio City Music Hall records and becoming the only photoplay ever to play six weeks at the theatre in its seven-year history, "Rebecca," David O. Selznick's production of the best-selling Daphne du Maurier novel, began its sixth week Thursday, May 2. In announcing the unprecedented holdover engagement, W. G. Van Schmus, Music Hall managing director, apologized for having announced the fifth week of "Rebecca" as the final one, but pointed out that since the fifth week's business exceeded that of the fourth, there was no alternative...
...On the Trurn Table QNE hears much these days abeut "restraint of trade...
...The play opens under I trestle somewhere in Arizona, vhere three hoboes huddle around . i winter-fire...
...the dramatic story of the right girl from the wrong side cf town, with Ginger Rogers in a very different rol* from anything she has ever played, is now at both the Palace and Albee Theatres...
...MADAME BUTTERFLY...
...There is a touch of the after-vorld as in "Liliom," in Bein's lew fantasy...
...The Women's ORT Looks Ahead— To Continue Helping Refugees— Holds First Annual Convention Delegates from forty chapters will attend the first annual convention of the Women's American ORT at the Hotel Astor on May 6-7-8...
...April Played the Fiddle" is sung by Bing Crosby and the Six Hits and a Miss, who at the present time are featured with the Bob Hope radio show...
...SEATS NOW ON SALE ORCHESTRA HM S1.5...
...but as a picture of a Jewish family on New York's East Side from the time of the Triangle fire to the early depression days, it provides a colorful movement The play centers around the efforts of a Jewish widow to keep her family of three daughters and one son thriving...
...Corn mittees will report...
...Those who enjoyed the chief rival to the perennial "Tobacco Road" will find Sylvia Regan's offering at the Longacre an "Abie's Irish Rose" with Erin omitted...
...He is on the vay to Granny Graham, who has 'ed every hobo come from any and...
...With Joei McCrea co-starred, Ginger strikes a brand-new note in this film version of the Broadway success by playing the part of a friendless and bewildered daughter cf a wayward mother and a broken-down father, whose yearning for a decent life if misunderstood by her family...
...he begins on the lift of the 3reat Vagabond, the Eternal Sobo (call him God or Jehovah), who -moves on and on through space, , and if his wanderings itopped, the world would crumble...
...Florence R. Dolowitz, chairman, and Mrs...
...Pu)bert F. Wagner...
...Jacob Greenberg, Associate Superintendent of Schools in Ne'w York City, and Edgar Salinger...
...Leon Harris is chairman o the Lunchean Committee, an Mrs...
...LOHENGRIN : Fri...
...M»v ;e...
...Ma Felderman, it hardly need be said, is played by Molly Picon, in her first English role...
...Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise...
...According to Mrs...
...But among the .crowding trainmen . and hoboes, the richest creation is Rocky Mountain Red, as Philip Loeb makes him live, in one of the-most vivid of his roles...
...But Americans like Charles Griffes even though safely dead, are boycotted into obscurity by a musical camarilla as influential as any trust in the land...
...Mar 1», FAi'ST: S«i...
...and Jeanne Greene is the liveliest of three assorted daughters...
...But how about restraint of art, particularly in the realm of music...
...Mar 12...
...sisting of Arthur William Brown Neysa McMein, John La Gatta Bradshaw Crandall, Dear...
...Yet, he is so rarely heard that not one record buyer in a thousand is even aware of his name...
...Still ¦ in a pro-British frame of mind, we recommend Sir Thomas Beeeham's version of the "Haffner" Symphony in D Major (K.385) to all record enthusiasts of small means (Columbia, three records, $4.50...
...To state that she knows the type would be superfluous...
...Mar 16...
...Players, scenic designer and composer have all, in truth, responded to the stimulation of this play, as imaginative and playful a piece as seasons have afforded...
...MATINEES THURS., MAY 9: RIOOLETTO with V . t Bruno: Rarner, Petroff Fri...
...Be wire if i i roundrtrrp ticket, tor there are ¦ ;tili things to enjoy in thiB world ncluding such plays as the new fantasy by Albert Bein...
...Wallace Morgan ana several ethers...
...Mi» II...
...If I Had My Way" is featured as a solo by Bing himself...
...The theme of the convention will be "A Trade Is the Refugee's Passport," based on the ORT program of assisting war victims and refugees through retraining and mechanical trades and agriculture...
...Look out, say the forecasters, for the new Artie Shaw orchestra with fiddles, oboes and whatnot...
...May ii, IL TROVATORE...
...There's gusto and the breath of life in "Heavenly Express...
...Harold J. Stone, who finally turns up in a picture, next to Stalin, creates a vivid radical...
...For all his wanderers, God sends it length a special train, the leavenly express...
...Ray Edmundson of the C.I.O...
...A splendid reading of this rather short but unforgettable masterpiece among the symphonies...
...rhere is more than a touch of dm in John Garfield's whimsied icting and far-off, touching longs...
...Louise Beavers, Fay Helm, Esther Dale, Marjorie Main, Mae Busch and other well-known players...
...Mar Ife...
...Among the sponsors are Mr< Franklin D. P.ooseveit, Governc and Mrs...
...The annual $10 Donor Luncheo: will bring the convention, to close on May S. Over 1.50O women are expected to attend Mrs...
...How about the virtual boycott which certain orchestra leaders maintain against American and English composers, living and dead...
...F«-e...
...CARMEN...
...on the way he stops to give i one-way trip to her hobo son...
...Bertrand Russell and Stephen §. Wis« Debate "Morality" on Criterion Screen Loew's Criterion Theatre's current attraction) MGM's "Two Girls On Broadway" starring Lana Turner, Joan Blondell and George Murphy, will be followed on Thursday, May 9, by Para-mount's "Women Without Names...
...The Embassy introduces a new feature this week in its "War-A-Gram...
...Two weeks ago the' National Labor Relations Board had ruled in favor of the Newspaper Guild...
...she brings it to life with a thousand little tricks that touch home, of simple humor or simple pathos...
...Thf show, which was one of the midway's most popular attractions during the 1P39 Fair, will reopen with an entirely new performance on Saturday...
...MORNING STAR OF ZION "MORNING STAR...
...A: T oes...
...The models, twelvt in number, were selected by i jury cf well-known artists cor...
...This album is highly recommended to those who are glutted with the customary program fare...
...Always an intelligent performer, Loeb's earlier parts have been too much' of"¦ a piece...
...Shaw's first release since his blast against the jitterbugs arrived the other day, autographed in the maestro's own hand "for press representatives only...
...To" them comes the 3verland Kid, a youngster dead tbout nineteen years, now ad-ranee ticket puncher for the leavenly express...
...Bight out of pure science, Albert Bein draws his pure fantasy...
...balccvy mic a "Re ? tkX...
...which co-stars Gloria Jean and -Charles Winninger, will have its premiere today, Saturday, May 4th, at the Rivoli Theatre...
...Elinore M. Herrick...
...A new Fancheon and Marco "in person" show, headlining Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, the comedy stars of Kate Smith's radio program, also starts today on the Roxy stage...
...In this Universal -production, eight new songs are featured...
...This is to report that Adios, Mariquita ..Linda (with Frenesi as a coupling) is only fair South American music dressed up with an occasional hot lick to make the swing trade...
...Accused and convicted of the murder, their chances for lasting happiness look slim until the girl takes matters into her own hands, breaks out to pin the guilt on her ex-husband...
...iZ.Ot NO mezz...
...Cornwall, Gilbert Bundv, McLe?anc Barclay, W. T. Bends...
...Embassy Newsreel Theatre Features Scenes of Air, Land and Sea Battles in Norway Actual .Venes of battle on land and sea and in the air between the Nazis and the Allies in Norway are being shown this week at the Embassy Newsreel Theatre, B'dway and 46th St...
...Other selected subjects, the latest war news through News of the Day and Paramount will also be shown...
Vol. 23 • May 1940 • No. 18
