Finland's Fight Grows Grimly Real at the Alvin
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Finland's Fight Grows Grimly Real at the Alvin By Joseph T. Shipley , This Week on Hie Stage TWHIGHT DESCENDS "THERE SHALL BE NO NIG H T," by Robert E. Sherwood. At the Alvin. Perhaps we can...
...But the play-does not stop there...
...Belarsky has become known to audiences across America since Dr...
...All this, as I say, is the background of' ideas in a play that lives—that > makes us l;ve — through Finland's fatal days...
...Then, that section was rushing preparations against the menace of the Soviets...
...New Pins and Needles" will go on tour just as - it is—with the same cast, the same sets and the same costumes it has been using at tiie Windsor Theatre for these many months...
...in the meantime we must" unite against his insanity or die...
...BERTRAND RUSSELL-STEPHEN WISE...
...Returning to the Hawaiian Room, which they left along with Kinney four months ago after a continuous run of 22 months, are the popular high falsetto singer, George Kainapau, and Leiraomi Woodd and Leila nia Iaea, tw° of the original Aloha Maids...
...Where...
...My Son, My Son...
...According to this play, it was the Nazi drivie that dictated the Russian march.—I was talking today with a man who spent some time, two years ago, in the north of Norway...
...1) The brute has been unleashed, in a drive of ruthless force for world domination...
...JLt has been before audiences here, m one edition or another, sijce November 27, 1937...
...Three ideas emerge from the tense movement of the drama...
...Johnny Apollo" costarring Tyrone Power and Dorothy Lamour completes the double feature program at the Palace...
...F. S. Harris, president of Brigham- Young University, invited him in 1930 to head the voice department of the Utah school...
...Certainly Denmark and Norway have made it grimly real...
...It builds the perfect propaganda: the fear, the rebuke, the ideal...
...New Pin* and Needles," the LLjG.W^U...
...The original production, down to the last extra, will go out^witii "New Pins and Needles...
...he provides the ideal...
...And it is this degeneration that is making its urge across the world...
...Perhaps we can call Robert Sheswbods' "There Shall Be No Night" the truth about Finland...
...Hitler belongs in the madhouse...
...but in this moment "There Shall Be No Night" stands as an echo of rich wondering souls, searching^ for that exalted life man is all but prepared to live, dragged by furious unchained forces back to brute struggle for life...
...which i based on Howard Spring's dra matic novel, has Madeleine Car roll, Briane Aherne, Louis Hay-ward and Henry Hull in its l&d ing roles...
...First the fear, then the rebuke...
...The screen version of one bes1 selling novel follows another wit Edward Small's production o "My Son, My SonH', now in it long-delayed showing at the Radi City Music Hall, replacing th record-run "Rebecca...
...In the last ten years the baiio has sung with the Chicago Cftk Opera, the San Francisco Opem, and the American Opera of Los Angeles, and has concertised throughout the country, appearing also in Carnegie Hall...
...For—and it has happened often before, but now for the first time in modem days—a nation is on the march to world dominion.—A far-fetched dream, you say...
...1 New York probably wont seem the same while "New Pins and Needles" is out...
...If your eyes are not clouded with tears, you're a cooler man than I am...
...Hitler is already saying that he needs no fleet, because after this war hell have England's...
...JOHNNY APOLLO" HEADS FILM BILL AT PALACE "An Angel From Texas" based on George S. Kaufman's popular comedy "The Butter And Egg Man" is now in its first Broadway showing at the RKO Palace...
...2) No country is too far for its reach...
...Claire Trevor and John Wayne, stars of "Stagecoach,'' and Walter Pidgeon, head the cast of players...
...This may be Finland's, England's, conception of our present stand...
...Culminating a 14,000 mile personal appearance tour of the Hawaiian Islands and the western states, Kinney brought with him a new male vocalist, three new hula dancers, more than 25 new songs—many of which Ray has written himself— and several new dance numbers...
...Through the eyes of an American radio commentator in Finland, and the Nobel prize-winning physician^ whom he visits (who has an American wife, from New Bedford) we watch as closely as though we were tuned in on a current-broadcast...
...Sidor Belarsky, former leading basso of the Leningrad State Opera, will present an all-Tschai-kowsky program on Sunday evening, May 12th, at Town Hall, in commemoration of the centenary of the composer's birth...
...We showed that onee—when we used our original company for our first road tour in 1938—and we'll show it again...
...As this doctor and his son go to die in the valiant but vain fight, the one in a Ski Battalion, the other as army doctor but in the last desperate hold taking up a gun, we watch the triumph of long-prepared brute force' over the eleventh-hour rally of force to meet it...
...His infiltrations into South America show at least that the hand is testing its grasp...
...Finland just started the Scandinavian charge...
...But it was the Nazi fang that struck...
...Town Hall, and with the Los Angeles and Detroit Symphony" Orchestral...
...There are caustic references to high jinks at Manhattan cocktail parties, to boom times at Miami Beach, while guns are booming toward Helsinki...
...Both sides make it an interesting discussion...
...BUBLE MABX TO CONDUCT NEW YORK ORCHESTRA Burle Marx, Brazilian composer and conductor, whose works were recently performed by tile New York Philharmonic - Symphony Orchestra and the Schola Can-torium, appears as guest-conductor of the New York City Symphony Orchestra at 8.45 p. m. Sunday (May 12) in Carnegie Hall...
...but ambitions are created by- the events...
...There will be no compromise in this respect," Louis Schaffer, "New Pins and.Needles" manager said today, "we at Labor Stage don't believe in treating the road as a poor relation...
...In the supporting cas are Laraine Day, Josephine Hut chinson, Sophie Stewart, Bmci Lester and Berenda Henderson Charles Vidor directed and the screen play was adapted by Le nore Coffee...
...It's almost a landmark by now...
...all sane peoples must unite in the fight against this menace...
...Various other selected short subjects, the latest war news throu the facilities of News of the Day and Paramount News complete the program...
...HNS AHD NEEDLES" TO CLOSE JUNE 21—'LANS LONG rout Because of the insistent demand from .the.-read...
...From these implications rises the second idea of the play...
...The first is the Nazi drive, as preached by the German ambassador...
...The Black Plague, once wiped out one third of the population of sthe civilized world...
...For this play, which is more like a slice of life—a brave and bloody bit of Finland's hopeless fighting —than a drama, points the "Beast of Berlin" as tile great force of destruction in the world today...
...This is no play...
...The tour starts August 1 in the straw hat theatres near New York and will continue for forty weeks...
...To America, which is safe for a while, since it seems to have learned to mind its own shrinking business...
...He tells the research doctor to flee, while yet there is time...
...Put Alfred Lunt and- Lynn Fontanne at the head of a comparable cast (including Richard Whorf as the American commentator) and every rouse of feeling is pressed from Sherwood's lines...
...AT THE ROXY "Dark Command," adapted to the screen from the W. R. Burnett novel, is the screen Attraction beginning today at the Roxy Theatre...
...FILM MB ATE AT CRITERION Included on the program with "Women Without Names" at Loew's Criterion, Theatre this week, is an exclusive short subject of interest to all ages...
...the future may consider it a social document of curious interest...
...But mankind, for the first, time truly mature, will rise again...
...For constantly the references to the United States, reminding us . of our great traditions, declare that we are fuddling idly by while Europe burns...
...And Canada...
...Stephen S. Wise, who express their own views in answer to the timely topical question, "Is Modern Morality a Failure...
...It will cover the country from coast to coast...
...MY SON...
...Eddie Albert, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris, Jane .Wyman, Ronald Reagan and Ruth Terry who comprise 'practically the same cast of funsters who played in "Brother Rat" und "Brother-Rat And a Baby" are in the new Warner Brother picture...
...Noel Coward, in America on leave from the British army, is said to have remarked, on seeing this play, that he could take the first boat back.—It is doing his work...
...musical revue at the )Windsor Theatre, will break off its New York.run - ¦ on June 29 to go on'tour...
...The short is a debate between the Right Honorable Bertrand Russell and Dr...
...On what front next...
...How many- will fall in the path of this raving insanity...
...3) Man'is conquering the germ disease...
...of» town...
...The Merry- Macs, singing stars of Fred Allen's radio program, headline the new Fanchon and Marco stage presentation...
...This is the sixth popular-priced concert of the "famous conductor" series sponsored by Mayor LaGuardia and the New York City WPA Music Project...
...MUSIC HALL'S NEW FILM IS "MY SON...
...but ^proportionately the degenerative diseases are gaining ground...
...Indeed, we wonder at Sweden...
...In fact, he has won the Nobel Prise (in the play) for his work...
...neuroses, insanity, degeneration of the mind...
...There is mention of Pilate "washing his hands...
...It will "return in November in a. xuiyi edition...
...Here is where the doctor comes in...
...RAY KINNEY RETURNS TO HAWAIIAN ROOM The Hawaiian Room at the Hotel Lexington was the scene of a festive homecoming celebration for Ray Kinney, his orchestra and his entertainers, last Thursday-night (May 9) when Ray introduced his elaborate new show to New York...
...film of John Galsworthy's "Jl Days Together," which is to have its premiere at the Revoli Theatre on Wednesday, May 16th...
...Cancer, degeneration of the body...
Vol. 23 • May 1940 • No. 19
