News and Notes of Broadway---Movies-Theatres-Music
News and Notes of Broadway---Movies—Theatres—Music Stokowski to Conduct All-American Youth Orchestra at Stadium The Philharmonic - Symphony will give way to the ail-American Youth Orchestra...
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...The film, a pictjttistiiai«fh successful Rachel Fids tMfd, i being held over for a third week...
...and Polovetsian Dances from "Prince Igor," Borodin...
...Lahr found the road to Broadway a trifle more difficult...
...Paul L. Hoefier during his latest expedition into the wilds of the Congo, will open for an extended run on Saturday, July 27th...
...at the Globe Theatre...
...Tables seating eight are $24.00...
...will conduct his young organization in its only New York concert before sailing on a good-will tour of South America...
...That Lahr can give voice to melody and Miss Merman utterance to comic situation is something playgoers are just beginning to appreciate with increasing joy...
...One of the many examples to prove the truth of this assertion is simply evidenced in their execution of a song simply titled "Friendship...
...Intermezzo delle Rose,- Pick-Mangiagalli...
...Uruguay...
...earthquake plants that forecast all volcanic disasters...
...Tuesday brings a straight symphonic program under Kurtz: Mozart's Overture to- "Escape From the Seraglio," the "Italian" Symphony of Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky's "Francesca da Rimini," Zador's arrangement of Schubert's "Bee," the Bartok-Weiner Danse Romaine...
...2. On Wednesday Efrem Kurtz conducts an all-Russian program including the Overture to Borodin's "Prince Igor," Stravinsky's Divertimento from "Le' Baiser de la Fee," the "Coq 6"Or" Suite of Rimsky-Korsakoff, Introduction to "Khovantchina" of Moussorgsky, Polka and Danse Russe of Shostakovich, Vatae from Tchaikovsky's Serenade,r t»ha "^^Itt*^ "Volga Song ot &&jW&;r*oi: the 1812 Overture of Tchaikovsky...
...The French pianist, Robert Casadeus, is soloist under Kurtz Monday night in the Mozart Piano Concerto in A and the Liszt Piano Concerto No...
...Introduction from "The Fair at Sorochinsk," Moussorgsky...
...a killer lion raying amok in the doctor's camp...
...Directly after the Second ¦' program, on Friday midnight, the conductor and his orchestra sail for their good-will tcrur of Latin America on the S-S...
...2. The program^ also includes the Weber Overture 'r to "Oberon',, .the first Stadium^ performance of Ernest Bloch's* "In the Night," two movements | from Walton's "Facade" and the^ first New York performance of"* "The Auto-Ride" from the ballet suite, "The Machine Man" by Eugene Zador...
...F. C. Harrington, WPA Commissioner, announced that the Work Projects Administration expects to have from 500,000 to 000,000 jobless employed on national defense projects by Fall...
...The songstress, on the other hand, was discovered the year before singing at a church festival -an Long Island City...
...ROXY HOLDS "MARYLAND^" Darryl F. Zanuck's Technicolor production of "Maryland," will remain for a second and final week at the Roxy Theatre starting today...
...half-brute, halfhuman, who leap from trees to kill...
...Once he got the opportunity, however, he made good from^the first sentence he uttered, and has been steadily making good to increased prestige ever since...
...A limited number of reserved seats on the field are priced at $3.00 each...
...the seldom A* graphed cheetah m dose* baby dick-dick, sUkt ts%i lion's jaws: antelopes and ten billion "IiiimM" deadlier than diving lt*gJ_j|( are some of the higMStaa't . amazing jungle nkftSc MUSIC H4LL MO**'* THIS, AND HEJttttlQI On top of an fcMtaa mil for a Fourth of'^s% (MM| This, and Heavan^aftar^Hfl ring Bette Davis sad ChS Boyer, is establishing satiS July roco,-ds in its^atttt m3 at the Rndio GA^Mtit M where more, than 300,000 tajS arc expected to have seen ifc film in the two-weeknUsi ing Wednesday night...
...is now at the Palace in conjunction with "Cross CountryRomance...
...f rem Kurtz conducts the opening program of the week of tomorrow, Sunday, July 21st, in the following works: Overture to "Donna Diana," Reznicek...
...Billy Gilbert...
...Even though he elicited laughs from the toughest audience in show business, burlesque, producers were afraid to gamble on his ability to make legitimate playgoers laugh...
...Prior to this, of course, Lahr had convulsed audiences for years in burlesque...
...Leopold StokowskL directing, the AU-American^Yonth, Orchestra in Ms first Whr "tiark:' concerts, will appear at the Stadium on Thursday and Friday evenings...
...4j Brahms...
...Perpetnum Mobile, Paganini...
...Tickets ' in the stands will be 50 cts...
...That Lahr is one of the theatre's top flight clowns and Miss Merman one of the real stars of song has been established beyond cavil...
...The Fanchon and Marco stage presentation, featuring Franklyn D-Amore and Jeanne Brideson, will also be held for the holdover week...
...Never heretofore called upon to blend their talents in a single song and dance carnival, the duo nonetheless has managed to* reach a degree of comic perfection seldom achieved in the Broadway pastures...
...There are sub-human monsters, stalking their prey...
...on the field, 82.00...
...GLOBE THEATRE OFFERS JUNGLE FILM "LEOPARD MEN OF AFRICA" ' The New York Premiere of "Leopard Men of Africa," an unusual jungle thriller, made by the famous explorer Dr...
...By one of the quirks of showbusiness, both stellar luminaries got their start in the legitimate about the same time, Lahr in "Hold Everything" and Miss Merman in "Girl Crazy...
...appearing at the Stadium for;thfe «rst time...
...Leopard Men of America" is said to be one of most exciting films e.vcr to come nut of tiie African jungle, e x p o s i n g the Congo's secret, that of notorious "Leopard Men...
...FOUR SONS" HEADS FILM BILL AT THE PALACE "Cross Country Romance...
...DuBarry Was A Lady," incidentally, finds both Bert Lahr and Ethel Merman in their finest fettle...
...Four Sons" with Eugenie Leontovich playing the dramatic role of a mother whose sons are torn from her arms, Don Ameche...
...and$1.00...
...News and Notes of Broadway---Movies—Theatres—Music Stokowski to Conduct All-American Youth Orchestra at Stadium The Philharmonic - Symphony will give way to the ail-American Youth Orchestra next Thursday and Friday nights when* Leopold Stokowski...
...A percentage of the receipts of both performance will go to war refugee relief...
...In this new merry romantic mix-up, RKO Radio cast Hedda Hopper...
...At each of the concerts a different program will be presented...
...Teamwork Brings Success to Bert Lahr and Ethel Merman in "Du Barry Was a Lady" The success of R- G. DeSylva's musical, "DuBarry Was A Lady," which is now in its ninth month at the 46th Street Theatre, is due in a great measure to the perfect teamwork of its stars, Bert Lahr and Ethel Merman...
...The projects include military barracks, airports, armories, garages, utilities and other facilities intimately connected with the defense program...
...WPA Workers Mobilized For Defense Projects WASHINGTON, D. C.-^Col...
...A discerning agent chanced to hear her, snatched her from the routine job of stenography and began shouting her ability from the housetops until Vinton Freedley decided to risk a contract...
...P. Huntley, Berton Churchilband Tom Dugan in the leading supporting roles...
...dealing in sprightly fashion with the hectic coast-to-coast adventures of a penniless doctor who can't rid himself of a beautiful trailerstowaway, brings Gene Raymond and Wendy Barrie to the Palace this week...
...tribal virgin.- and jungle gals in weird rituals...
...From the pen of the imaginatively versatile Cole Porter, who authored the entire score of "DuBarry Was A Lady," the lyrics afford both Bert Lahr and Ethel Merman full scope for the merry antics that illustrate the sentiments of an inspired bit of looney poetry...
...and Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No...
...Alan Curtis, George Ernest and Robert Lowery appearing as the sons, and Mary Beth Hughes in the romantic lead opposite Ameche...
...Symphony No...
...Harrington said that during the past five years more than $346,000,000 has been spent by the WPA on direct national defense projects, plus many more millions expended on roads, streets and public buildings which have increased defense facilities...
Vol. 23 • July 1940 • No. 29
