Raymond Gram Swing Exclusive at Embassy Newsreel

SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.

Raymond Gram Swing Exclusive at Embassy Newsreel By Joseph T. Shipley: This Week on the Stage COLUMNIST CAUGHT "SEPARATE ROOMS." By Joseph Carole and Alan Dinehart, in collaboration with...

...It turns out that he isn't, I mean it isn't, that is to say, she isn't...
...It should delight the mo, tion picture fans...
...those to whom he is but a name may now behold the achievement of one of the most romantic figures in our films...
...On the first three week-day performances some 3,128 Fair employees came, saw and seemed pleased...
...David Shier, Chicago secretary of the Workmen's Circle...
...In the theatre it is usually foiled...
...To stop at the end of every line of blank verse, to press home every line, is to assume that the poet didn't carryout his job, and to try to do it for him...
...He served in .this capacity under the Soviet Government for two years...
...The acrobatics of Roberts and Farley...
...I Main setting for the colorfd story of "Typhoon" is a smaK island in the Dutch East Inthei pearling grounds...
...Emma Goldman was buried in Waldheim cemetery near the ] Haymarket martyrs...
...A group of young writers and composers are busily engaged preparing the material to .be used in the Unity revues...
...By Joseph Carole and Alan Dinehart, in collaboration with Alex Gottlieb and Edmund Joseph...
...burial...
...SHAKESPEARE TURNS "ROMEO AND JULIET...
...is Ray Milland...
...Sam Locke, sketch writer...
...Shakespeare needs no such help...
...Komisarjevsky, .Miss Houston and Paul Belanger, professional pianist...
...Negotiations are now being carried out...
...It's all a mistake:—you remember, she had merely taken a sleeping potion ; Romeo misunderstood...
...AliceTfiajL...
...ERA'S END...
...Having a radio audience of approximately twelve million people, Raymond Gram Swing enjoys the largest audience of any war commentator...
...For six more weeks or...
...From the number of authors attached to "Separate Rooms," we guess that (as at Hollywood and on the radio) a special crew was hired to write the wise cracks that snap their way through this matriomonial merry-making at the Mansfield...
...Hjs first London production was Borodin's "Prince Igor," which was presented at Convent Garden...
...Swing has accomplished this in a manner which has won the overwhelming approval of our patrons...
...DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS' CAREER For the first time in film history (I believe) the entire film career of a star is being set before the public, in the Douglas Fairbanks revival at the Museum of Modern Art...
...His...
...So it's time for the trick Hardy lifted into the classics with "Jude the Obscure"—life has known it often...
...Rose Pesotta of the ILGWU, and a representative of the Free Society Group, the- local anarchist' club which arranged for the...
...After serving an apprenticeship in architecture and scenic design he made his debut with his first production in his sister's theatre, the Komisarjevsky...
...Out of the movies come Laurence Olivier and Vivian Leigh, to the embodied stage of the three dimensions, waking us with the tragic feud of the Montagues and the Capulets, the old sad story of what Vivian calls Rom-ay-o and his fourteen-year old bride whom he joins in death...
...Co-starring with the lovely English actres...
...new contract with the Newsreel Theater, Inc., gives it exclusive sales rights to this popular newsreel feature...
...Russian Bank," by Mr...
...indeed, this production is lavish with Shakespeare's puns and double-meanings...
...The Music Hall also presents a novel stage revue, prdouced by Russell Markert and titled the "Southernaires...
...it just can't be helped...
...But movie fans, no doubt, like it laid on with a trowel...
...Lynne Overran and J. Carrol Naish are feature...
...Beautiful and talented Belita, the English skating star, performs with a grace and agility that is breath-taking...
...In this country he has directed "The Lucky...
...Our managers report that numerous patrons ask when the subject will be shown and then come in to see that alone...
...The other showings are devoted to whole films, including "Manhattan Madness" 1916, "The Nut": 192r, "The Three Musketeers" 1921, "The Thief of Bagdad" 1923, "Around the World in Eighty Minutes" 1931,—and more in between...
...The series, to be repeated seven times, begins with one program that spans Fairbank's whole career, with reels from various pictures, ranging from "The Lamb" 1915 to "The Taming of the Shrew" 1930...
...there's no immediate call to be Renovated...
...In addition to this timely and interesting feature ,the Newsreel Theater naturally show up-to-theminute war films from Europe along with selected short subjects...
...Perhaps, therefore, it is appropriate that this should be a high school performance...
...Of do I praise it too highly...
...Authentic gypsy love songs, drinking ditties and patriotic airs have been translated for the production by Mr...
...Giffens...
...Included in the cast are Eflie Shannon, James Rennie, Ralph Morehouse and Tonio Selwart...
...Nothing in journalism is more hazardous than attempting to interpret and forecast coming events in the war in -Eifrope...
...One," "Tidings Brought to Mary," "Peer Gynt," the latter for the Theatre Guild...
...even when the actress has all the temperament of a Duse and the beauty of a—Glenda Faijfell...
...After all, it's easy, these' days, to pick a wedlock...
...Raymond Johnson, also, is rumptious as the silly servant, Peter...
...One especially would like to see it done some time during early fall...
...her bawdy lines are effective...
...Spencer K. Binyon, SDF secretary and manager of the Consumers Cooperative Alliance, will speak on "Cooperation at Home and Abroad" at a public meeting of Local One, Workers Security Foundation, on Monday evening, June 3, at 1717 North Fairfield Ave...
...He is the author of several books on the theatre, including "Theatrical Preludes," "The Costumes of the Theatre," "The Actor and the Theory of Komisarjevsky," and "Myself and the Theatre...
...and others in the supporting cast are Roland Young, Billie Burke, May Robson, Arthur Treacher, Alan Marshall, Isabel Jewell, Doris Nolan and Marsha Hunt...
...In person the Paramount presents Tony Martin, singing star of screen and radio, Charlie Bar-, net and his orchestra, and si as' extra added attraction, Danny Kaye, popular night dub comedian...
...At the Mansfield...
...For this is the story of a hardboiled columnist whose brother: writes a play and marries his: leading lady...
...Nor does the motion picture sort of line-delivery (I presume it's the way poetry is handled by screen artists) beseem the theatre...
...New versions of "Dark Eyes," the Internationale, and extracts from Tschaikowsky's "Pique Dam" are among songs featured...
...with them in supporting roles...
...During his stay in Russia Komisarjevsky produced twenty operas, and presented the works of Shakespeare, Moliere and Shaw...
...James Theatre When Theodore Komisarjevsky' en-trusted leading dramatic roles in "Russian Bank" to Josephine Houston arid Jeanne Palmer, musical stars, he \iras practising what he had preached to some two hundred students in a Russian dramatic school...
...The same, unfortunately, is true of Laurence Olivier...
...B. F. UNITY HOUSE OPENS SEASON ON MAY 26 Unity House, famous summer home of the ILGWU, situated at Forest Park, Pennsylvania, opens its door to the public on May 26...
...There is no admission charge to the meeting...
...ANNA NEAGLE IN "IRENE" OPENS AT MUSIC HALL A new Anna Neagle...
...He directed at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-on-Avon for a number of years, and was actively engaged as a producer and director in London...
...Those who spoke at the services were Jacob Siegel, editor of Forward...
...Alfred A. Taxin, "manager of Unity House, announces that the entertainment this year, under the direction of Nat Lichtman, promises to be highly diverting and entirely original...
...ifs the "respectable" variation of the old badger game...
...The subjects by Mr...
...For it looks as though Dan Cupid still has a toehold on the wedding train...
...And good use is made of the fountain in the Verona square...
...Esther Junger, one of our better dancers, will do the choreography...
...In these perilous times it must prove reassuring indeed that its tradition of hospitality and of friendliness still prevails...
...But actors who have long been on the screen should try to observe that the fist flicker of the films calls for other gestures, other timing— than the rounded movement of the stage...
...so in eight-day sets, the entire film activity of this most popular star is surveyed...
...The Workers Security Federation is an organiation of unemployed and WPA workers which was organized after the-Workers Alliance became CP-controlled...
...singing and dancing to the famous melodies of the celebrated stage hit, "Irene," can now be seen at the Radio City Music Hall in Herbert Wilcox' film version of the romantic musical comedy...
...Lyle Talbot, aa the playwrighthusband, makes a good foil for Alan Dinehart, who (as the columnist ( is determined to shield his brother from the evil effects of an emotional urge towards matrimony, x But the columnists's secretary, being like most tough babies in fiction—Including the columist, has a tender heart...
...Those who remember Douglas Fairbanks will have a chance (afternoons at 4; Sundays at 2 and 4)"to renew the olden thrill...
...Now let him try, like his brother, to keep "Separate Rooms...
...Chicago Services Held For Emma Goldman • Scores of radicals of every shade attended the funeral services of Emma Goldman, who died in Toronto, Canada, at the age of 70...
...but he loves her anyway, so they might as well take the fatal plunge...
...Don Ameche...
...James Theatre...
...That's the way of men of the theatre, from Moliere to Odets...
...Soon after he organized his own dramatic school, and operated six theatres, as well as the Imperial and State Theatres in Moscow from 1910 to 1919...
...They will doubtless rejoice to see Laurence Olivier and Vivian Leigh, in many more feature films...
...All this in the lovely terrace room which boasts of its excellent cuisine and smart appointments...
...ADVENTURE FILM, AT PARAMOUNT Teamed for the first time ? films, Dorothy Lamour and Rot ert Preston supply the romance in Paramount's Technicolor Soutfc Seas adventure film, "Typhoon...
...this time the actress and the secretary get together, and it works: the columnist once was drunk beyond memory...
...Curtiss Reese of Abraham Lincoln Center...
...Komisarjevsky and Stuart Mims, was opened last night at St...
...NEW PLAY BY SELENA ROY LB Selma Royle, the stage and radio star, has written, a new play called "Era's End," which has attracted the attention of several Broadway managers...
...The orchestra, under the baton of Charles Dee, will provide diversified music nightly...
...Called "Thanks for My Wife" when incorporated in Hollywood and when played in Chicago, "Separate Rooms" brings Alan Dinehart and Lyle Talbot from the movies, as a pair of writing brothers in a Manhattan penthouse, along -with Glenda Farrell as the double star (of the play, and in the play) and others from film-bind, including Mozelle Britton as "Girl Friday" and final feminine catch...
...The new lyrics are not'merely approximations of the original Russian, but have been carefully contrived to preserve the exact meaning...
...But bebold, after two and a1 half ads and two and- a half double 'meanings, comes the double-dealing...
...LILLIAN RUSSELL' HOLDS OVER AT ROXT i Darryl F. Zanuck's producBm of "Lillian Russell" remains far a second week beginning today at the Roxy Theatre...
...Up-to-the-Minute War Films Added to New Program Raymond Gram Swing, America's distinguished war commentator, has just signed with the Embassy Newsreel Theater for an extended series of his popular weekly subjects in these houses, according to W. French Giffens, •President of the Newsreel Theater, Inc...
...Among this group are to be found such well-known names as Al Moss, young Negro composer...
...Juliet, you remember, is fourteen—high school age...
...Komisarjevsky was born in Venice of Polish descent, and was educated at the Imperial Institute of Architecture and the University of Petfograd in Germany...
...LIVING MAGAZINE COVERS" POPULAR Jack Sheridan's "Living Magazine Covers" show at the Fair seems just as popular with employees as it is with visitors...
...ICE SKATING SHOW A HIT AT NEW YORKER The new ice show at the New Yorker has an appeal and beauty superior to any of its predecessors in the hotel's roost attractive terrace room...
...Binyon to Speak At Unemployed Federation By M. V. HALUSHKA From The New Leader "Chicago Bureau...
...current at the New York Parsmount Theatre...
...Raymond Gram Swing Exclusive at Embassy Newsreel By Joseph T. Shipley: This Week on the Stage COLUMNIST CAUGHT "SEPARATE ROOMS...
...Which is perhaps the proper fate of the cojumnist...
...Alex North Richard Diamond and Alfred Hayes, lyricist...
...The cast includes among others, such familiar names as Mervyn Nelson, Sherle Hart, Laura Duncan, Jane Hoffman, Sidney Stark, Kathleen O'Brien, Elizabeth Lynn and John Berry...
...There are some elements in the production that" are effective...
...to give Father Hymen a chance...
...Ernestine Stodelle, who creates her own dance routines, and who has appeared throughout Europe on tour, will stage the dances...
...A summer treat especially at this time, and worth going to at all times...
...Henry Fonda ssl Edward Arnold head the cast of stars in the new 20th CenturyFox filmFanchon and Marco's stage presentation, produced especially for the program with "Liffisi Russell" also remains for a second week starting, today...
...At the 51st Street...
...In "Russian Bank" he has an opportunity to test out his pet t theory, and to mold the three branches into one fused whole...
...Unity House is owned by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and operates on a non-profit basis...
...behold, he is going to be the anythingbut-proud father of' his secretary's baby...
...Her last visit to Chicago was in 1930 when she lectured here on her experiences in Soviet Russia...
...she persuades her W.W...
...By William Shakespeare...
...Dame May Whitty, for example, puts character into the role of Juliet's Nurse...
...Farther than this, one feels it would stretch verity too much, to go...
...yet in his weekly newsreel subjects, exclusively for oar theaters, Mr...
...the ice ballet, and in fact the entire show is more than pleasant to the eye...
...Swing have been so well received in our theatres that we have arranged to continue them indefinitely," said Mr...
...She most bitterly denounced the'SSvietdictetorsFip.--------Komisarjevsky Practices What He Preaches in "Russian Bank," New Play at St...
...Komisarjevsky taught drama, music and ballet, putting his pupils through all three phases with the thought in mind that a thorough actor should have knowledge of music and the dance...
...TYPHOON...

Vol. 23 • May 1940 • No. 21


 
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