The Season's Bargain: " Louisiana Purchase "

SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.

The Season's Bargain: " Louisiana Purchase " By Joseph T. Shipley. This Week on the Stage "SENATOR" MOORE'S INVESTIGATION •'LOUISIANA PURCHASE." B. G. de Sylva presents a new musical; music...

...Supplementing Mr...
...Pedro de Cordoba, Scotty Beckett and Mary Lou Harrington...
...Leisser was a leader in the art life of the Pittsburgh region...
...At the time of the founding of the Pittsburgh branch of the Social Democratic Federation, Mr...
...The picture is being distributed by Garrison Films, Inc...
...Leisser was the guest of honor, and his portrait of Debs occupied a place upon the stage during the meeting...
...If there is such a place as New Orleans, it's purely coincidental...
...KANSAS CITY POLICE MUST QUIT UNIONS KANSAS CITY, Mo—An edict of Kansas City Police Chief L. B. Reed thjis week ordered all policemen to> give up membership in any unions to which they were affiliated...
...h Lloyd Bacon directed the picture i and Ann Sothern, Humphrey Bogart, Donald Crisp, Ralph Bellamy and Allen Jenkins head the large supporting cast...
...RAYMOND.GRAM SWING ON EMBASSY SCREEN Raymond Gram Swing, America's foremost news commentator, appears exclusively on the screens of the Embassy Newsreel Theatres...
...Morrie Ryskind At the Imperial...
...The officers, who were elected at the National Convention recently held in New York City, are, Mrs...
...And fortunately the general dances are not left to the ballet-master, so that the modern numbers—several to the scorch-tones of the Martin quartet—are also graceful and lively, colorful with the zest we associate with New Orleans...
...And they do...
...Around the comic effects, much else is heaped for your delight...
...MY FAVORITE WIFE" HELD OVER AT THE MUSIC HALL "My Favorite Wife," co-starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, is being continued for a second week on the screen of the Radio City Music Hall...
...Rates, which are lower this year, range from $8.50 per week for one person to #28.00 for a family of four...
...And Senator Loganberry, of New Hampshire, is down to get the thieves...
...He gets several into his room, is engaged to another, and marries at last...
...Book by...
...which retains not only the original melodies but new music by Joseph McCarthy and Harry Tierney, librettist and composer, respectively, of the stage success...
...Anna Neagle plays the title role, and Ray illand is co-starred as s New York playboy who falls in love with the little Irish shop girl who almost overnight becomes the toast of New York society...
...Sextraordinary assistance is jmpplied by Madame Bordelaise^T'Bawdy'' for short) Bordoni not"'to mention Carol Bruce and April Ames, all of1 whom manage to tangle the Senator's tale...
...Leon Harris, chairman of the Executive Board...
...Opposite this retiring comic of underexpression, the dynamic surge of William Gaxton pulls no paunches, hits the audience in the belly-laugh for the gong...
...Scenery and clever curtains by Tom Lee make background to this new members of the company of stellar musicals...
...Well, we won't guarantee that "purely...
...Roland Young Alsn Marshall, May Robson, Billie Burke and Arthur Treacher arc prominent in this film version of "Irene...
...Then things get started...
...The supporting cast includes George Ernest, Robert Lowery, Lionel Royce, Sig Rumann, Ludwig Stossel, Christian Rub, Torben Meyer, Egon Brecher, Eleanor Wesselhoeft, Michael Visaro'ff and Greta Meyer...
...With his retiring incompetence, Victor Moore constantly tumbles you into laughter...
...Local Wins Appeal to Higher Court The United States Supreme Court has agreed to review a decision by the Illinois Supreme Court prohibiting the Hairdressers and Cosmetologist Union (AFL) from picketing the Rose W. Swing beauty shop...
...MEN AND DUST" AT NEW YORK THEATRE "Men and Dust," the Lee Dick, Inc., production dealing with the "streets of walking death" (silicosis) area of Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, has been booked for its first run at the New York Theatre, Times Square and 42nd Street for a week beginning June 6th...
...Martin Leisser Dies, Pittsburgh Social Democrat PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Martin B. Leisser, a famous artist and painter of one of the most inspiring portraits of Eugene V. Debs, died here this week...
...While the original injunction was issued byone Circuit Court judge and later dissolved by another it was subsequently reinstated by the Appellate Court and upheld by the highest state judical body...
...And sex, in the person of Marina Van Linden (Vera Zorina to you) comes to trap the supposedly sexless Senator...
...Senator Oliver P. Loganberry (what does the P. stand for...
...The state and city federation of the A.F.ofL...
...BROTHER ORCHID" OPENS AT THE STRAND Edward G. Robinson's latest starring picture for Warner Bros., "Brother Orchid", opens to-day at the Strand Theatre...
...Spite of it all, Jim Taylor wriggles out of his clutches...
...His dead-pan innocence is surprisingly expressive...
...To him goes the credit for the founding of the art school of the Carnegie Institute of Technology...
...But stop...
...Arthur Rosenberg;treasurer...
...he is a sort of Jimmie Savo grown older —a sadder if not a wiser man...
...Reservations should be sent to A. L. Phillips, Route 1, Walled Lake, Mich...
...THEATRES "Irene," the new film musical, is now on the screens of most of the RKO theatres throughout Greater New York and vicinity...
...Vera Zorina's dances are, as usual, a joy to behold...
...They refused to recognize the union and contended that "The best bread in the world" could be sold without the union laibel and under open shop conditions...
...The order referred to workmen's organizations in which officers still held membership...
...The invasion of Holland has rallied much support to General Smuts' policy among Nationalists who had hitherto favored neutrality...
...Rose Rashmir, vice presidents...
...Four Sons" is written around the turbulent changes of a flaming continent which affect the lives of each of four sons...
...The memorial was unveiled at the annual meeting of the Johnston Flood Correspondents' Association, which re-elected Charles Edward Russell its president...
...No South African with Dutch sympathies can forgive Germany's ruthless behavior to Holland, 2. E. Russell Heads 'Flood Correspondents" A plaque dedicated to the newspaper men who reported the first Johnston flood disaster of May 31, 1S89, paid for by the pennies of the Johnston school children, was unveiled this week...
...Featured in the cast are Don Ameche, Eugenie Leontovich, Mary Beth Hughes and Alan Curtis...
...Few would have thought in those days that one of the Boer leaders in a guerrilla war would one day be the Prime Minister of a British dominion able to offer hospitality to a Queen of Holland driven out of her country by an enemy who respects none of the civilized customs...
...The music is fresh, the songs both clever and sprightly—"Outside of That, I Love You," "Latins Know How," contradicting the notion that "Latins are lousy lovers...
...For most of his ninety-five years Mr...
...Anne Morris, corresponding secretary...
...and 9th St., on Monday, June 10th...
...is in the nincompoop tradition of Vice-President Throttlebottom and Public Enemy No...
...Fools Fall in Love," and more...
...ORT'S NEW OFFICERS The Women's American Ort will hold the installation of its newlyelected national officers at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, 5th Ave...
...The Senator's hopes as a dark horse seem doomed...
...at two o'clock...
...Fortunately for New Orleans, "Sex Marches On," as one of Irving Berlin's snappy songs reminds us...
...This Week on the Stage "SENATOR" MOORE'S INVESTIGATION •'LOUISIANA PURCHASE...
...music and: lyrics by Irving Berlin...
...His incisive analyses of events has brought him the largest following of any newscaster on the air...
...considering this labor injunction a restriction of the right of freedom of speech and assembly guaranteed by the U. S. Constitution, had Daniel Carmell and Walter F. Dodd, their attorneys, appeal the case to the U. S. Supreme Court...
...The camp has been enlarged and has aicommodations for those wishing to live in their own trailers or those preferring to rough it in tents...
...Mrs...
...her natural grace enhanced by deft choreography...
...his investigation is a failure...
...Those sturdy standbys, William Gaxton and Victor Moore cavort with the lovely Vera Zorina, abetted and assisted by Irene Bordoni, a sweet lass called Carol Bruce and a lively crew more, in the mellowest merry-making of several seasons...
...For comedy comeliness, music and dance, for all that fills a flush evening of theatrical fun, you can't do better than get in on "Louisiana Purcha...
...The Bakers Local is hopeful that present negotiations with the large Continental Baking Company, manufacturers of Wonder Bread and Hostess Cakes, will also result in a favorable union agreement...
...Smuts Invites Dutch Queen LONDON.—An interesting sidelight on the propaganda about "imperialist war" and "colonial suppression" is the recent offer by General Smuts inviting the Queen of Holland to South Africa, along with his remark that forty years ago the Dutch Government gave asylum to Dutch-born President Kruger of the Boer Republic...
...Mid-West Co-op Camp To Open June 75th Circle Pines Center located near Hastings, Michigan will <be ready to greet its many members and friends of the Co-operative movement in the Middle West on Saturday, Jue 15th...
...Union Signs 'Silvercup' Bread By M. V. HALUSHKA (Chicago Bureau of The , New Leader) Back in 1921, during the Chicago bakers strike, the Gordon Baking Co., bakers of the famous "Silvercup" bread entered the Chicago field...
...Florence R. Dolowitz, Mrs...
...Chicago A.F.L...
...Ruth Ereund, recording secretary, and Mrs...
...Based on the Collier's>"Magasine story by Richard Connell, the new film is a comedy-drama along the lines ; of "A Slight Case of Murder...
...M. D. K. Bremner, and Mrs...
...ROW OFFERS NEW FILM VERSION OF "FOUR SONS" "Four Sons," produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, is the screen feature beginning today at the Rpxy Theatre...
...Fannie Schofield, financial secretary...
...The hit at the Imperial gives "Louisiana Purchase" a new meaning, in a stir of excellent fooling centered upon a Senatorial investigation of corrupt dealings...
...The two popular stars are assisted by Randolph Scott and Gail, Patrick in important roles and a cast which includes Donald MacBride, Granville Bates, Ann Shoemaker, Hugh O'Connell...
...A special Fanchon and Marco presentation headlining Tommy Wonder and Nsdine Gae, two dancing stars of the recent stage success "Two for the Show," also starts today on the Roxy stage...
...The plot is not nearly as funny as Victor Moore...
...Emily Rosenstein, Mrs...
...The Palace presentation of the Anna Neagle-Ray Milland stirrer is augmented b ythe first Broadway showing of Warner Baxter, Andrea Leeds and Lynn Bari in "Earthbound...
...Fannie B. Shluger, Mrs...
...There is a moment's uneasiness at the start, ^ken the play's attorney assures the producer they'll all be sued as soon as it opens—but there's a way out: announce that all the characters are purely fictitious...
...This painting, which is greatly admired by all who see it, is now on exhibition in the Meyer London Labor Library of the Rand School...
...There was no question of a "policemen's union" raised...
...Mrs...
...Isabelle Tropp-Gresser, president...
...Swing and the 43 newsclips, the Embassy also presents selected short subjects...
...IRENE" FILM MUSICAL AT R.K.O...
...Several months ago the Chicago Bakers Local with the help of the general office of the Bakery and Confectionery Worker's International Union started an organizational drive which resulted in securing union recognition for the two hundred employees of the Gordon Baking Co...
...There is still Jersey City...
...Because Louisiana has been sold out by its police, its politicians, its president of the state university...

Vol. 23 • June 1940 • No. 23


 
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