Out for a High Time? "Higher and Higher"
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Out for a High Time? "Higher and Higher" By Joseph T. Shipley This Week on the Stage CLEAN FUN ON EHOAOWAY "HIGHER AND HIGHER.'1 Music by- Richard Rodgers. Lyrics by Lorenz Hart. Booh by...
...Supplementing this short will •be the latest new.- events of the world...
...1941," conceived by Bartal, is, the blending of a popular tune with its suggested action and gives a crystal-clear portrait of a song's leitmotif...
...At the Shubert...
...The blend of attraction makes a merry evening with "Higher and Higher...
...but for those who do not seek in the theatre these days...
...IREHE DUNNE AND CAMY GRANT IN "Mr FAVORITE WIFE" AT MUSIC HALL Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, reunited for-the fiist time since their success in "The Awful Truth," can now be seen on the screen of the Radio City "Music Hall jn Leo McaCrey*s new comedy romance, "My Favorite Wife-** ' A-streamlined story of sophisticates involved in modern marital entanglements, "My Favorite Wife" was directed by Garson Kanin, who in the p*ast year has risen to the top ranks of Hollywood directors...
...Not a -very profound work, it is difficult to gauge the ensemble's potentialities in this instance...
...Higher and Higher" By Joseph T. Shipley This Week on the Stage CLEAN FUN ON EHOAOWAY "HIGHER AND HIGHER.'1 Music by- Richard Rodgers...
...There is more delight when the evening goes frankly spoofy—or spooky—as in the haunted room, where the trained seal gets in some excellent digs, on Jack Haley's posterior...
...Keeping its low prices, but moving to the-Windsor Theatre, the revue has run through three editions, and by closing time will have reached 1101 performances, the all-time musical high...
...Still keeps you in...
...Closes June 22...
...for the lure of the country has caught all the cast, and on June 22 "Pins and Needles" closes, to prepare for a late summer tour...
...There is ^Cootie" Williams and his trumpet, Otto'Hardwicke and Barney Bigard with their saxes, and Sonny Greer at the' tympani...
...Subsidized by their government, they have . circumvented restrictions so successfully that they now have a firm foothold in Philippine business and commerce, and Japanese merchants today control 35 percent of all retail trade in the islands...
...The story...
...And instead of marrying money, the dishwashing debutante takes love—and opens a night club...
...At the Hudson...
...Mood Indigo is certainly one of Ellington's best...
...Fear of Japanese aggression has led to the establishment of a new political faction which is now anxiously seeking abandonment of the "complete independence" plan in favor of 'dominion status' under the U. S. and permanent protection under the American flag...
...JENO BARTEL'S NEWEST MUSIC CREATJON "1947" Roy Moulton, managing director of the Hotel Piccadilly, announces the premiere performance of "1941," newest contribution to modern dance music, will be staged by Jeno Bartal and his orchestra on June 1st in the Georgian Room of the hostelry...
...With the world itself in wrack if not ruin, these soul-tearings may seem too personal for wide significance...
...nobody suspected...
...Booh by Gladys Hurlbut and Joshua Logan...
...gifted Negro pianist, composer and dance orchestra leader, for his superb interpretation of his own swing classic, Mood Indigo...
...Ellington presides modestly but with talent at the piano...
...MELODRAMA PROBES "GREY FARM...
...Oscar Homolka — who played roles in Berlin from "The Emperor Jones" to "Pygmalion," and whose London debut was opposite Flora Robson of "Ladies In Retirement" -— makes his initial Broadway appearance as the father in "Grey Farm," whose invested Oedipus complex and sinister brooding leads him to the dire deeds that dye the play with blood...
...the least suspected is guilty...
...Although by no means all the opportunities for fun in this situation are seized, it leads to much amusement...
...The islands already do an annual domestic business of half a billion dollars—in addition to a foreign trade of 250 million—and flourishing Philippine industries have consistently maintained a profitable surplus of exports over imports...
...Sufficient grounds: a millionaire family that has lost its millions, but has a daughter...
...NEW HOLIDAY SNOWS AT R.K.O...
...But you'll have to make it soon...
...And given here...
...Problems Facing" Philippines Today Shown in New March of Time at Embassy Newsreel The new problems facing the U-S.-owned Philippine Islands as a result of mounting war fever in the world today are pictured on the screen of the Embassy Newsreel Theatre jn a new and absorbing March of Time entitled "The Philippines: 1898-1946...
...Tripping with trepidation the boards behind the lights, a company of workers from the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, organized by Louis Schaffer as "Labor Stage," came forth on Nov...
...From the annual butler's ball they incorporate, using the new scullery wench as the debutante daughter, launched upon an unsuspecting society...
...With sets by S. Syfjola and Robert H. Gordon directing, this play will probably be first on the promising schedule...
...Beyond that, much more is expected...
...But the film also shows how Philippine independence is already seriously threatened by Japan's current expansion program in the South Pacific...
...For this is the opportunity of the servants...
...Reiss— Market 2-8350...
...Jack Haley is warrant for the second, in "Higher ,and Higher" at the Shubert...
...It is full, rounded and complete as a work of art...
...Saturday night dinner and lodging—three delicious meals on Sunday with sports, games, boating, entertainment par excellence thrown in for good measure constitute the program...
...everybody suspected^ Act III The Revelation...
...The latter, however, accompanies Bromfield's novel with a first-run, "Tear Gas Squad," a Warner Brothers' police drama featuring Gloria Dickson, Dennis Morgan and (John Payne...
...new edition in Fait With a skit on Bertrand Russell and the City Fathers who guard their citizen children from foreign deviltry, "Pins and Needles" is keeping up to date...
...Frequent and effective use is made (as briefly in "The Green Pastures") of a rolling road across the stage...
...Chartered bus leaves Dr...
...In the meanwhile, there is still time to see the current "Pins and Needles...
...But whether or not the Philippines are destined to achieve the independence they have so long sought, March of Time's film proves that they are at least preparing for it...
...Max Aronoff's solo flights on the viola, however, are outstanding...
...On the whole, the group's performance is • tight, sound and musicianly...
...Among dramas of all sorts, only three have had longer uninterrupted runs: "Tobacco Road," "Abie's The entire cast, costumes, scenery, and all, will set out on August 1 forsa nation-wide tour, bringing the show intact to the country—though European conditions may soon make a skit or two obsolete...
...By Hector Bolitho and Terence Rattigan...
...McCarey is the producer who was responsible for the two star's former smash success in "The Awful Truth...
...Also on the fall plans of Labor Stage is a drama "Altgeld of Illinois," by Melvin Levy, a work about the governor who peaked a liberal career by pardoning the Haymarket martyrs...
...that is, out of the eyes of the audience, but into the protagonist's mind...
...Mechanically, the album has a high level of volume which sometimes deprives the piano of its full range...
...His rich tonal texture, his • colorful poly-timbres,, his integrated orchestration, and the free and rhapsodic flow of his melodies, usually based upon the blues and spirituals of his people, have caused him to be ranked as one of our truly representative American musicians...
...Bella and Sam • Spewaek wrote the new screen play...
...You remember: Act I The Crime...
...A constant source of concern to Filipinos and American*,, alike...
...On the whole, the performance ranges from good to only fair...
...For further particulars phone or address Dr...
...T.) and returns Sunday night after evening meal...
...The songs in the play, handled by coloratura Marta Eggert as the debutante, and' Shirley Ross (very engagingly) as the chief maid, are pleasant additions to the spring sounds, with a fewchoice satiric bits like "Disgustingly Rich" and "Lovely Day for a Murder...
...Valiantly supported by Evelyn Varken, John Cromwell, Adrienne Morrison and more, Oscar Homolka gives a grim portrait of a soul racked with internal torment...
...Act II The Investigation...
...Honegger strove to translate into his music a visual impression and a physical sensation...
...The coupling on this disc is Solitude, another of the Ellington masterpieces, and everything that has been said of Mood Indigo may, in all truth, be said about this composition also...
...The performance of the Mass is under the direction of Karl McDonald, who conducts the University of Pennsylvania Chorus and the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...Newark School of Social Science Outing Dr...
...St., announces a training course in preparation for the coming State examination for factory inspector, to start Tuesday, June 4th, 6:30 p. m. The requirements for this position, which pays $1680 to $3000 per annum, is either high school graduation and.four years of factory or mercantile experience or one year of high school and seven years of factory or mercantile experience...
...THEATRES The holiday week-end shows at RKO Theatres, showing currently, seems like worthy film-fare...
...The old formula is seldom tried any more...
...She can be the glamour debutante of the year, sell her name to advertise countless worthless products, and marry money right back into the family...
...It has taken the mist out of the mystery...
...This will be taken care of, however, in the November schedule of the new "Pins and Needles,' which Harold J. Rome and Joseph Schrank are already whipping into sketches...
...Victor is to be congratulated on giving us the only available complete recording of the Mozart Requiem Mass <ten records, $12...
...Reiss' office, 188 Springfield Ave., Newark, June 15 at 1:15 p. m. (D.S...
...The Fanchon and Marco stage presentation accompanying the screen feature will also remain for a third week starting today...
...Cost at Camp Tamiment $5...
...The album offers fifty minutes of music which, unfortunately, is somewhat spotty in musical excellence...
...As this record costs but -50 cents (Columbia), there is no reason why it should not find its way into the collections of all swing enthusiasts...
...The course at the Rand Educational Institute will include a thorough review of labor/fend social legislation, factory codes and instruction in safety appliances...
...Ann Sheridan starred in Louis Bromfield's "It All Came True" is the principal attraction at all RKO Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester Theatres including the Palace...
...ROXY HOLDS "ULLIAN RUSSELL" THIRD WEEK Darryl F. Zanuk's film version of "Lillian Russell" remains for a third and final week beginning today at the Roxy Theatre...
...Louis ^Reiss, Secretary of the Newark, N. J., School of Social Science, a branch of the Rand School of New York City, an-nounces the third annual outing of the school, June 15-16, at Camp Tamiment...
...It- took the town by storm...
...The March of Time reveals, has been the steady economic penetration of the islands by Japanese immigrants...
...It was inspired by the compositions of the French composer, Arthur Honegger, in particular, his Pacific 231...
...The instructors have had years of experience in the administration of labor codes and in factory inspection...
...merely comic relief from life, there is vivid probing of a breaking mind in "Grey Farm...
...But the girl is in Iceland...
...You couldn't keep a better date than to go see this mixture of tropical music and topical satire...
...Above all, costumes, decorations and dance arrangements are colorful, zestful, in good taste...
...Rand School To Give Factory Inspector Course The Rand Educational Institute, 7 East 15...
...The names Rodgers and Hart guarantee the first...
...Incidentally, no one else of the family appears in: the play...
...27, 1937, .with the first revue of the workers, by the workers, ;for the workers...
...The unity of his style, the sensitive, aching expression of fundamental emotion in tone, might well be envied by the machine-made "composers'' now turned out by the conservatories...
...Ivy Anderson, Ellington's vocalist, is restrained and quietly effective...
...Although the Philippine Assembly has just passed a new Immigration Bill that will reduce Japanese immigration from about 2,000 to 500 annually, The March of Times shows, many people in Manila today believe that a Japanese "Fifth Column"—an advance guard for occupation of the Philippines — is already at work laying the foundation for eventual absorption of the islands into the Japanese Empire...
...Smetana's h i g hi y emotional Quartet in E Minor, which the composer chose to call From My Life (Columbia, $6), is the medium by means of which the Curtis String Quartet makes its Columbia debut...
...A musical comedy calls first for good music and a good'comedian...
...stitches...
...Roundtrip on bus $2.50...
...But there is something about the dynamic quality of the work itself which, uncritical though this may sound, transcends mere interpretation...
...In addition to Miss Dunne and the popular Grant, leading roles are played by Gail Patrick and Randolph Scott with a supporting cast including Donald MacBride, Granville Bates, Ann Shoemaker, Hugh O'Oonnell, Pedro de Cordoba, Seotty Beckett and Mary Lou Harrington...
...This routine is replaced by a variety of devices, most of them emphasizing the mental torture that either leads to the crime or brings about the criminal's self-betrayal...
...The melodrama at the Hudson, "Grey Farm," is a good example of the way the new psychology has affected the mystery...
...All 'the Ellington virtuosi are here...
...On The Turn Table WE LEAD this week-with a tribute to Duke Ellington...
...Although Ellington has turned out as many purely commercial recordings as the next popular composer and band leader, some of his work is of genuine and special musical significance...
...You may be stuck on it, but you surely won't get stuck...
...The film shows how the 19 million people of the Philippines are preparing today to undertake their new responsibilities as a free and independent nation in 1946, when the U. S. is scheduled to withdraw from the islands...
...The requirements of the story, in truth, impede the flow a little, as in the night club doorway scene, to show the corporation has made good...
...PINS AND NEEDLES" "PINS AND NEEDLES...
...In the belief that this new music idea is a year ahead of its time, aBrtal named it simply . . . "1941...
Vol. 23 • June 1940 • No. 22
