This Week on the Stage
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
By Joseph T. Shipley This Week on the Stage MUSICAL MEETS THE MOOD "HIGHER and H I G H E R." Duright Deere Wiman presents the Rodgers and Hart musical comedy. At the Shubert. Just as "There...
...Besides Jones and Miss Hervey, "The Boys From Syracuse" features Joe Penner, Rosemary Lane, Martha Raye and Charles Butterworth...
...excit-'ing waterfront comedy with Lynn Bari and Lloyd Nolan, makes its - debut at the Palace on a bill that will include "My Love Came Back," co-starring Olivia DeHa-villand and Jeffrey Lynn...
...Contributing to the big business rung up is the personal appearance of Allan Jones and Irene Hervey, stars of the film...
...And it comes at the right time for a cool and pleasant evening in the midst of the city heat...
...The details are elsewhere on this page — the pleasure is at the Stadium...
...tion of Jane Austen's celebrated romantic novel "Pride and Preju...
...Walk With Music...
...There are sorrier thoughts when you go to the foreign region...
...MUSIC HALL PRESENTS "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE" With Greer Garson and Laar...
...Their efforts to apprehend a gang of crooks into whose clutches Miss Barfs sister has fallen, affords the entertainment...
...Two of the shows in this section that charge give you more than . ample return for your admission...
...Pier IS...
...dice" will arrive on the screen of the Radio City Musk Ball Thursday, August 8th...
...THE FAIR IS STILL HERE...
...Both new productions are from the 20th Century Fox studio...
...But all over the exhibit area there are nooks of interest and corners of concern...
...on the screen with a notable cast "Pride and Prejudice," u a film, has been based on the dramatization by Helen Jerome whica was produced as a Broadwayplaj by Max Gordon and had a highly successful run at the Mask Bol during the season of 193M& The screen play was prepared by Aldous Huxley and Jane Mnifii and produced by Hunt Strombenj...
...dance team recently-featured in .the Broadway musical...
...The new Fanchon and Marco presentation featuring Johnny Woods...
...Mary Beth Hugrhes, Evelyn Yen- i able, Dana Andrews and Chris- ! Pin Martin are prominent in the 1 cast...
...Pier 13" is the story of a police officer with a beat along the waterfront, and his sweetheart who conducts a coffee shop near the docks...
...Supporting Henry Fonda in the 20th Century Fox film are Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper, Henry Hull, John Carradine, J. Edward Bromberg, Donald Meek, Eddie Collins and George Barbier...
...Sam Hellman wrote the original screen play and Fritz Lang directed...
...Song and da%ce and gay humor make up the evenings merriment...
...Alice Dudley and Kenneth Bostock...
...That section labeled Budd, for instance, at the far end of the transportation area, shows some excellent work in alloys, as well as luxury trains...
...The seal, of course, steals the act, even though there are moments when it behaves like a goose...
...This is a season for release in the theatre—the world is so full of a number of things...
...Just as "There Shall Be No Night" is closing for the Summer, "Higher and Higher" reopens for the Fall...
...ence Olivier heading a distin-guished cast, M-G-M's picturiu...
...This year concerts were canceled "when it rained, instead of being played in the hot hall of the College...
...One of oar greatest blessings —one of the greatest inspirations to all America—young and old alike—" The voice of Harvey D. Gibson will soon loud-speak from a corps of trucks, telling all the east there are just a few months to see the World's Fair...
...BOYS FROM SYRACUSE-HELD AT PARAMOUNT "The Boys From Syracuse," which in its first week at the New York Paramount, ran a close second to the theatre's all-time summer record-holder, "The Ghost Breakers" starts a second week at that theatre...
...Appearing with them in person are Xavier Cugat and his band and Ray Bolger...
...Also featured in the Roxy stage show, in addition to Johnny Woods and Dudley and Kenneth Bostock...
...It was there last year, but did not have this meaning...
...Playing opposite each other foj the first time in films, Miss Gar-son and Olivier—the respeetitt stars of "Goodbye Mr...
...and Marie Naish( risen from understudy to replace Marta Eggert) helps along in a comely comic way...
...The amusing story in whica Miss Austen poked gentle fun at the haughty society of the early nineteenth century by telling tat tale of the five unwedded Sennet sisters and their fluttery nwthert frantic efforts to get them propi erly married off...
...PALACE SHOWS FIRST RUN FILM THIS WEEK First-runs will be on tap at both 'the Palace and Albee Theatres this week...
...Chips" and "Rebecca" — will be picking hi where they left off five yean igt when the two were reigning favo» rites of the London stage...
...The Return of Frank James" is filmed in Technicolor and is the story of Frank James' determination to avenge the cowardly murder of his brother, Jesse, who was shot in the back by the Ford brothers...
...It blends laujrhs with thrills and features Joan Valerie and Dousrlas Fowley in the supporting leads...
...is on the Roxy stage...
...Of the seven plays left on Broadway (not counting "Tobacco Road," which has its final puff next week) four are musicals...
...Framed by a crooked judge and hunted by a hundred enemies, the Cisco Kid, gay cabaliero...
...STADIUM CLOSING The opportunity to hear the \ Philharmonic City College Stadium concerts is in its last week...
...These are such a boon to music lovers through the summer that for their sake as well as your own you should get up there for the final concerts...
...And in the song season, there is fun mounting "Higher and Higher...
...Standing guard outside Sweden, at the Fair, is a ereat wooden horse...
...The first two announced for September are also musicals...
...Meantime, you still have your daily chance to win a free auto...
...The Masterpieces of Art show human nature at its highest, the Gardens On Parade show nature at its loveliest- And from their restful beauty you can ,jo (without charge) to the livelier beauty of fashions being draped on lining mode's...
...will be recreate...
...The final concerts hold some special treats: Templeton the blind pianist in a Rachmaninoff concerto, Zimbalist in an all-Sibelius program...
...At the Albee "Lucky Cisco Kid," with Cesar Romero in the title role, will have its first New-York presentation...
...You've all seen— or must see—such standbys as the General Motors Futurama, the exciting House of Magic and man-made lightning...
...October i 28 is dismantling day—the least * welcome day at Flushing mead- t ows...
...Glass works can be varied with the daredevil driving at the Fisk tires (all free), and the Federal art project gives frequent exhibitions of artists actually at work...
...And outside the ,restaurant that daintily serves Swedish smorgasbord, where the pool is wavily reflected in the fine ware of Swedish glass, stands a significant figure...
...Sad —but heartening...
...still has time for lovely senoritas and romance in "Lucky Cisco Kid...
...It is always a joy to look at Shirley Ross, to watch and listen to the antics of Jack Haley—and to think of the cold regions out of which somebody snared that seal...
...Ard of course there's much more that you've missed on your earlier visits...
...One might say, especially in those moments:, This light and likely story of Minnie the charmaid who becomes the debutante (incorporated) so as to restore a failing fortune, is equipped with unfailing ^tunes by the old reliable firm of-Bodgers and Hart...
...The bravery of the Czecho-Slovakian building— maintained by friends of the former nation—stands as an affirmation of human dignity gand a challenge to all oppression...
...And you'd be surprised how many rainy evenings cut off the Stadium income...
...RETURN OF FRANK JAMES-NEW FEATURE AT ROXY Darrji F. Zanuck's production, "The Return of Frank James," again starring Henry Fonda in the role of Frank James, is the screen feature at the Roxy Theatre this week...
...are the Sylvia Foursome, Ben Yost's New Yorkers, the Gae Foster Girls and* Paul Ash with the Roxy Theatre Orchestra...
Vol. 23 • August 1940 • No. 32
