We All Must Sing "Love's Old Sweet Song"
We All Must Sing "Love's Old Sweet Song" By Joseph T. Shipley This Week on the Stage OKIE-DOKIE "LOVE'S OLD SWEET SONG?' By William Saroyan, At the Plymouth. The mixed reception of...
...TORRID ZONF* OPENS Al THE STRAND "Torrid Zone," the new Warner Bros, picture ¦ starring James Cagney, Ann Sheridan and Pat O'Brien, opens at the Strand Theatre today...
...His Okie character, the migratory worker with fourteen children, seems to spend most of his life in that position...
...Espe- 1 cial novelties to note is a twelve I foot Judasone of the Holy Satur- j day effigies of the religious days f —and the costumes that will be I invisibly suspended as though I worn by the spirits of their Mex- f ican owners...
...The Theatre Guild is presenting it, in association with Eddie j Dcwling, who directed it in association with the author...
...is and Edward Small production and was directed by Charles Viddr...
...her the academy award, have been teamed together in Columbia's latesf film, John Galsworthy's "21 Days Together" which wiH open at the Rivoli Theatre on Wednesday,, May 22...
...Ideas flow to ideas—by the swiftest channels, as they might occur to a man ! lying down in a clover field, under fleecy clouds in a late May sky, chewing a blate of long spring grass...
...My Son, My Son...
...MEXICO AT MODER N MUSEUM Open nightly until 10, the Museum of Modern Art swings into . its most elaborate exhibition: Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art...
...William Keighley, who directed "The Fighting 69th," was in charge of "Torrid Zone," and Andy Devipe, Helen Vinson, Jerome Cowan and George Tobias head the supporting cast...
...And there is at least one point where you arid he can meet, : can be on common ground...
...Love's Old Sweet Song" is the first native surrealistic drama...
...Chicago Labor Legion Post to Honor Green CHICAGO—The Chicago Labor Post 745 of the American Legion will honor William Green, president of the AFL, John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, and Patrick Sullivan, president of the Chicago and Cook County Building and Construction Trades Council, at an Americanism meeting Friday, June 7, at 8 p. m., in the Chicago Coliseum, 1513 So...
...The humdrum events of the workaday world—its troubles as well as its woes—are to him symbols to be set in patterns...
...you lean ' never really meet him—exjcept at infinity, which is a long cway off...
...based on Howard Spring's famous book and starring Madeleine Carroll, Brian Aherne and Louis Hayward, has scored a solid hit at the Radio City Music Hall and is now in its second week at that theatre...
...t The exhibition, which will last 1 until September, will be marked I in the first fortnight by a series I music, arranged (and three of I them conducted) by the famous i of special concerts of Mexican | Mexican composer, Carlos Chavez...
...And your tone implies that there's no meaner way of taking life than lying down...
...You exclaim "You're .not going to take that lying down, <krfe you...
...The mixed reception of "Love's Old Sweet Song," William Sarbyan's latest and most skylarking opus, was to be expected...
...The March of Time shows, America's youngsters are today receiving greater opportunities for the recreation, guidance and fallow, ship so necessary to the makjg* of good citizens...
...Despite fake, in spite of disillusion...
...A full inventory of what youth wants t and needs today, what yeuth is thinking and doing, and the countless small details that make up the composite picture of American Youth, the film shows, has been compiled during the past five years by the American Youth Commission, a privately-endowed, non-governmental organization in Washington...
...A new edition of the Roxy News and Pictorial Review completes the new Roxy program...
...Wabash Av...
...Written for the screen by William Anthony ^cGuire, the new film recreates the live and loves of Lillian Russell, known as one of the most beautiful women in America...
...MY SON...
...At once he is only half as important, half as imposing...
...MUSIC HALL HOLDS "MY SON...
...I Saroyan knows that lying down is a mighty pleasant way to take life...
...The angle between you and Jhim is at once reduced to 90...
...What matters is that his work is very much alive...
...WPA Toy Shops Start Work tor Poor Kids The underprivileged kids are going to get some toys next Christmas...
...For already the WPA toy shop at 475 Tenth Ave., has begun production of playthings to be stored in the summer and to be distributed by the Dept...
...j'The threat has been taken out of him...
...v . OLIVIER-LEIGH DUE AT THE RIVOLI Laurence Olivier, who portrayed "Heathcliff in "Withering Heights," whoich was,-selected by the New York film critics' circle, as the outstanding film of laurel to hfs wreath of success by 1939, and who added another his performance in "Rebecca," and Vivien Leigh,- whose per-, f ormnnce as "Scarlett CHara" in "Gone With the Wind" won...
...Saroyan is hard for most persons;to grasp, for his work is our first native surrealist writing to be widely displayed...
...That means also that you are parallel to the other fellow...
...The first are plural...
...And if both of you 'lie down, it's love...
...J ' Let's change the word charlatan to playboy...
...There are troubles—but there is love...
...U. S. Youth Film in March of Time Is** Featured at Embassy Newsreel Theati* The story behind the lives and problems of .America's 21 million young men and wdmen now going out to make, a place, for themselves in the world is now being shown on the screen of the Embassy Newsreel Theatre, Broadway and 46th St., in a new and particularly entertairting issue of The March of Time entitled "America's Youth—1940...
...In a fashion analogous to the | other arts represented, the music I will range from the primitive 1 native strains, through the Span- f ish period, into the twentieth cen- I tury...
...1 On every- floor, hanging from the % ceilings, and overflowing into the | sculpture garnds, the work will | range from the earliest pre-Span- | ish culture to the pottery and 1 painting of our own time...
...of Welfare next Santa Claus day...
...venture that, is Hollywood, a flu Palace's other feature...
...Saroyan's method is, then, to...
...but the second is singular—and singularly persistent through all our years...
...But all can feel its vigor, its buoyancy, its charm...
...You can never really tget together...
...the Roxy Theatre beginning today...
...I Consider the angles involved...
...And it Vis performed with tenderness by -Jessie Royce Landis, with gusto •by Walter Huston, with delight by the entire crowded and assorted cast...
...And ultimate...
...The newest service of the WPA Toy Shop is to set up play centers in six Child Health stations in Queens...
...Despite his being the first dramatist oae of whose plays has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Critics Circle award, opinion is divided as to whether he is a charlatan or a genius...
...For love alone can redeem the world...
...Since it began operation in August 1938, the shop has produced and distributed 580,429 toys, all made from scrap, surplus and unreclaimed material...
...My Son, My Son...
...Lenore Coffee adapted the widelyread novel to the screen...
...Saroyan is] a playboy in the world of art...
...PALACE OFFERS NEW DOUBLE BILL *W Merle Oberon and Geotge Brent co-starred, and PatOTfrito, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Binne Bstnes and Frank McHugh heading the supporting cast, "Till K Meet Again" moves today to the Palace Theatre...
...The Museum will be show- f yet had, of the spirit of our j ing us the fullest capture we have j neighbor republic as revealed in 1 her fine ars throughout her his- j tory...
...each symbol is a surface, is therefore in itself of no importance, being significant only as it embodies and brings home life's deeper values...
...The film, which presents a thorough survey of the education, business and social lives of all groups among the nation's young people today, shows typical "case histories" in each group and pictures the wirk of- the American Youth Commission, the National Youth Administration, and other public and private oi> ganizations...
...You see what advantage is gained, for social intercourse and the welfare of nations, if just one of the two is lying down...
...Linda Bamdl'i newest film "Star Dust,'' inspired by the song of the same nine and telling the story of the ti...
...It may aslo be remembered that most successful geniuses are 25% charlatan, and it is the charlatan in them that accounts for the success...
...I ;But suppose you are lying -down...
...take the facts of life—poor mi: gratory workers, messenger boys, houses on fire—and use them as a cosmic juggler might set the planets tossing...
...Supplementing this musiol short, the Embassy shows up to the minute news from war ton Europe...
...Supporting the stars in the dramatic film are such well-known players as Henry Hull, Laraine Day, Josephine Hutchinson, Sophie Stewart, Bruce Lester...
...The film is a story of the tropical plantation country in Latin America...
...Green, Fitzpatrick, and Sullivan will receive Legion Americanism awards...
...but it brings an old, a universal message mankind must learn to heed...
...The message has been called along- the centuries, but drowned by the cries of fear and greed...
...if your head's on a pillow, to 85 for less...
...You make to each other an angle of 180...
...You know the old challenge, the ' taunt to lift a man out of inactivity, to get him to do what you want...
...Life," the j only play to win both the Pulitzer : Prize and *be Critics' Circle award...
...I have written before of "My : Heart's in the Highlands," and of "The Time of Your...
...Brenda Henderson and Lionel Belmore...
...With the government extending its youth- program, and with countless private organizations attacking the youth problem on a scale greater than ever before...
...Love's Old Sweet Song" is Saroyan at his flamboyant best...
...ALICE FAYE AS LILLIAN RUSSELL AT THE ROXY Darryl F. Zanuck's production of "Lillian Russell" with Alice Faye in the title role and co-starring Don Ameche, Henry Fonda and Edward Arnold, will have its New York premiere aj...
...there's always a little space for suspicion, fear, hostility to come between...
...21i Days Together" is from an orignial " story by John Galsworthy and was transcribed for the screen by Basil' Dean who also directed the picture...
...Which is "the basis and single theme of Saroyan's dramas...
...These have been distributed to hospitals, orphanages and day nurseries for the children's use...
...If you stand when some one approaches you, you are in a direct line of opposition, like two bricks about to be clapped...
...A new Fanchon and Marco presentation starting today on the Roxy stage headlines Lucille Page...
Vol. 23 • May 1940 • No. 20
