Keep Off The Grass ... a Funny and Fast Shubert Musical
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
"Keep Off The Grass" ... a Funny and Fast Shubert Musical By Joseph T. Shipley This Week on the Stage COME INTO MY GARDEN "KEEP OFF THE GRASS"; Music by James McHugh; Lyrics by Al thibin. ...
...At the Museum of Modern Art the -worit a! Mexican peoples, from pre-Span-ish times to our own, is displayed in the fullest range the Mmeam has gathered...
...COMEDY AT THE ROXY "The Doctor .Takes a Wife", Columbia's newest comedy - romance with Loretta Young and Ray Milland in the starring roles, is the screen feature beginning today at the Roxy Theatre...
...The opening week offers "variety and -wealth of programs...
...Incidentally, that ought to settle the Bacon heresy...
...t When he comes out as a tree doctor, it's . funny for five minutes—even if, at the end, the beech free gives birth to a son of a beech...
...Chips," directed...
...by America's foremost cuuuM tator Raymond Gram Swing f» vides a concise analysis of tin rapid moving events...
...Titer Chase*- who is mainly confined to miner bits, does.-ironic pieces such as...
...There are a number of good songs that stir through the evening, from "This Is Spring"' and "Crazy As a Loon" to "I'm in the Mood...
...suggesting that old picture, "The Height I of Boredom," a woman little moved by amour...
...Add Jane Pro-man for the song and dance, and a score more makers of music and merriment, and you'll have trouble to "keep off the grass...
...Our Town," Thornton Wilder's distinguished Pulitzer Prize play, can now be seen in screen form at the Radio City Music Hall June 13...
...then he bursts -into one of his unearthly snorts...
...Sketches by Mart Lewis, S. Jay Kaufman and others...
...Gibbs...
...And we may winder whether, in the ages to coat there will be equal treasure left of ours...
...At the Persian erhihHioii, among other items, is the only portrait made from life of tat great Tamerlane, Mongol monarch, hero of many legends aid Marlowe's "mighty line...
...20, Of the Stadium concerts, featuring Rudolf Serkin at the piano in a Haydn program, with Artur Rod-zinski conducting the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra...
...Fay Bain-ter and Thomas Mitchell as Mrs...
...Martha Scott, who created the role on the stage, as Emily Webb...
...W. G. Van Schmus, managing director, announced today...
...For a swift recovery from that one, you need the lively feet of Ray Bolger, who is ever ready with a swift patter of tapping dance...
...MEXICO—PERSIA Across the ages, two land* aw now, in New York, offering a eon...
...PARIS BOMBING SOW AT EMBASSY ,, Graphic scenes of the bombraf of Paris and full picturei of the vita) Battle of France aie being shown this week on theBauassy screen...
...On Monday, June 24 Paul Rob-, eson with fifty voices of Schola Canto rum and forty-five voices of the Negro Wen' Talbert Choir, will sing the already famous "Ballad for Americans," as well as "Ol* Man River" and a group of spirituals...
...Artur Rodzinski will conduct the other numbers, including the premiere of "And They Lynched Him on a Tree," by Katherine Garrison Chapin and William Grant Still, in which the soloist will be the Negro contralto, Louise Burge, making her New York debut...
...These are well danced also, though the talents of Jose -Limon are not given full scope 'hj the ballet choreography ' of Balanchine...
...In its cast are Frank Craven as the narrator...
...FILM VERSION OF "OUR TOWN" AT MUSIC HALL Said to be one of the year's most important and unusual photoplays...
...Tbe accompanying commas...
...At the Broadhuret...
...But of course the crown of .the evening is the comedy...
...Designers of costumes, jewelry and hats are studying at both exhibits, although for the put two years Persian motifs haw grown increasingly manifest in American women's wear, tat apart from any tips the lite may glean, there is a comforting bath in beauty and'peace in the* art-treasures of other culttre than out own...
...and Editor Webb, and Stuart Erwin, Phillip Wood, Doro Merande, Ruth Toby, Spencer Charters and Douglas Gardiner...
...The comedy-begins-with .six hoboes, who do two clever bits, as cabbies, then on "The Old Park" Bench...
...Durante himself is at.his rant-, ing best...
...Beulah Bondi and Guy Kibbee as Mrs...
...He looks over the ridge of his facial promontory,- with that sty glance which takes you in on bis secret...
...There is an uneven spread of entertainment, but it is enough for a picnic, if you don't take seriously the sign "Keep Off the Grass...
...A new Fanchon and Marco stage show headlining Nick Lucas, and Raul and Eva Reyes, also starts today at the Roxy...
...Sam Wood, who was responsible for "Goodbye, Mr...
...William Cameron Menzies, the artist who designed production for "Gone with the Wind," has served in a similar capacity for "Our Town," making 1,200 sketches for the camera to reproduce, and an original musical score was composed by Aaron Copland...
...William Hold en as George Gibbs...
...STADIUM CONCERTS MAW CROWD The reserved seats are virtually gone for...
...Among the less known names, the silent mincing or squeaking "tones, of Maude Davis make another tone in the varied comics of the evening...
...The evenings of June 27 and 28 will show the Ballet Theatre at the Stadium, with "Les Sylph-ides," "Peter and Wolf" and "Voices of Spring...
...Two blocks away, at 1 East 11 St, "Six Thousand Years of per-sian Art" makes a history of a civilization and a siuiiptawa feast to eye and spirit At loth places, the best collections hare contributed to make a magnificent, showing...
...The regular showing of M*v clips and shorts round bot tke program...
...and Dr...
...opening night, TbiMday...
...In the offing are Hofmann on Monday, July 1, in the Beethoven "Emperor" concert—and the rest of an unusually promising season...
...Jimmy Durante's latest extravaganza is a bouquet of nonsense yclept "Keep Off the Grass," in which the crack-skull antics of our noisy nonsense number 1 are balanced by the slim smiling spurts of Ray Bolger and the sly slant-wise nonchalance of Ilka Chase (in her first musical comedy role...
...spectus of their art...
...Ballad for Americans," words by John Latouche, music by Earl Robinson, will be directed by Mark Warnow, who conducted it at its premiere last November...
...The liveliest of the bits is that which combines her with Durante rin a 7 swift scramble called "Shakespeare's-a-Poppin," that mixes Romeo and vaudeville with Juliet and Hamlet till the old bard bursts from his grave...
...After an all-French night on Friday, Albert Spalding will be soloist on Saturday, June 22...
...Durante's proboscis is a God-given mud-speaker for his laughter...
...These vivid scenes — ¦ »p-proach of the Nazi plants, aw fleeing of refugees, the besokdf-fense being prepared Sf tt» French people—are shown h i gripping manner...
Vol. 23 • June 1940 • No. 24
