News and Notes of Broadway---Movies-Theatres-Music
News and Notes of Broadway---Movies—Theatres—Music NOVEL STAGE SHOW AT MUSIC HALL Turning Radio City Music Hall outside in, Florence Rogge brings the back of the house to the front in her...
...As Woody himself says...
...Cartoon (Disney) : "The Moth and t h e Flame...
...News and Notes of Broadway---Movies—Theatres—Music NOVEL STAGE SHOW AT MUSIC HALL Turning Radio City Music Hall outside in, Florence Rogge brings the back of the house to the front in her current reyB8"rii*tt«n* Shadows," and transplants...
...This sounds like nothing of special import : Miss St...
...We go to the movies, they cry (and I'm inclined to grant them t h a t ! ) to forget our troubles, and get away from thoughts of the world...
...through r e a r i n g sixty, she still is a gashing girl...
...Nor do we fight for economic security merely to be free to make more money...
...These young "Tom J o a d s " have come to sing "thinking songs...
...And if we who live through troubled years are to preserve any measure of the civilization we want for our children, we too must find it—despite the pressure of all our burdens—in the pursuit of the a r t s . It is therefore most encouraging to see, in many places round about, persons engaged in, and more persons enjoying, the arts...
...v ' . Complete with stage doorman, rehearsal notices, call boy end a dressing room elevator which carries performers down on stage, this unusual scene enables Music Hall audiences to become, "stagedoor Johnnies" without leaving their seats in the theater...
...There Is Still Dancing Persons a r e a p t to cry, in these critical days, t h a t the theatre, the a r t s , are an escape from life...
...They are not "dancing on the brink of the abyss...
...Having, in addition to her long study, a rich and sane personality cf her own...
...they are (not deliberately but by their true absorption) proving that human life holds things worth fighting for...
...Saturday through Tuesday, Aug...
...Novelty: "The Threads of a Nation...
...What is the goal of all our social struggle^, our economic fights, our wars...
...the Music Hall stagedoor to the stage itself...
...I t marks—for La Meri and Ruth St...
...Originally scheduled for one week, "McGinty" went over the top for one of t h e biggest summer grosses in the Paramount's history...
...La Meri will seo» present a solo Spanish series...
...Since they are never quite the same, they can never improve...
...Newsreels—Short Subjets...
...24-27: Comedy: "A-Plumbing We •Will Go" (Three Stooges...
...La Meri...
...Rhythm on the River," with Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, Basil Rathbone, Oscar Levant and "Wingy" Mannone, held back a week by the success of "McGinty," will open at the Paramaunt next Wednesday...
...And being c uitUllT the same, in choreography sai external technique, it cat «*• tinuously grow both to outer perfection and to inner underitSMing and soul...
...Denis and La Meri presented, at the 92nd St...
...Denis has shown that she can inspire and hold a wide following...
...Cartoon (Disney) : "The Riveter".' Wednesday through Friday, Aug 28-30: Novelty: "What's Your I.Q...
...Cartoon: "The Chewin' Bruin...
...Before the Music Hell footlights ballerinas descend on a specially built elevator car, a counterpart of the one they use four times daily backstage in the jaunt from their dressing rooms to the wings...
...With the charm, as well as the naivete, such a girl can have...
...wisely and richly, ku studied the dances of the east— in the east...
...Novelty: "Information Please" (Ruth Gordon...
...Sport: "Action on Ice...
...Cartoon: "Ants In The Plants...
...TRANS-LUX PROGRAMS Trans-Lux, Broadway and 49 St...
...The soundness «i the work of La Meri should make the two an even stronger sai more valid influence in the dance Incidentally...
...in another field, one of the arguments against contraception...
...Oakies"Woody Guthrie Comes to Jimmy Dwyer's Woody Guthrie, gaunt young Oakie, who calls himself the "dustiest of the Dust Bowlers," and his traveling mate, Siseo Houston, come to Jimrr.ie Dwyer's Sawdust Trail-Monday night, August 26, to tell New York, in dry twangy tones, accompanied by a battered guitar, all about the Migratory Worker...
...Each time she repeats a dance, it comes out jot with frills from her (homer charming) individual whims, hit the same...
...T. Shipley...
...her "Black and Gold Sari" as delightful...
...Science: "Mechanix Illustrated...
...roguish, ku always been original...
...Strangely, the occasion proved truly momentous...
...2427: March of Time: "The Dutch East Indies...
...What we a r e fighting for...
...Many of our heatknown dancers today acknowtodfe debt to her...
...La Meri makes of her oriental aeacmg both a revelation and a delight...
...This is...
...Ruth St...
...Y.M.HA., a series of oriental dances...
...A new edition of the Roxy j News and Pictorial Review round I out the screen program...
...The popularity of the newsreel theatres somewhat contradicts this point...
...Some people seem to think we do...
...Ruth St...
...Saturday through Tuesday, Aug...
...Newsreels—-Short Subjects...
...Denis have joined forces —what we may roughly call the union of wisdom and spontaneity, science and a r t . Ruth St...
...To watch her will remind us fhat countries today bowed beneath iron despots have been, and yet may be again, homes of the 4oarishing of art and man's high hopes...
...A fuller life, a richer civilization, is measured by i t s culture, its arts...
...Featured in this stagedoor scene with the Music Hall Corps de Ballet is George Tapps, popular Broadway dance star THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT" HEADS FILM BILL AT RKO With the showing of "They Drive By Night" with George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart and "Anne of Windy Poplars" with Anne Shirley, at the RKO Theatres in Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester, including the Palace, RKO inaugurates i t s F a l l Parade of New Season's Hits...
...on every front, is the opportunity of every one for a fuller life...
...28-30: Sport: "Wrestling Follies...
...These thoughts came to me while watching, last wei k. a significar, r new step in the interpretation of the Orient to America...
...but they are confusing the means with the end...
...Other productions in the ambitious array lined up for early presentation at these RKO playhouses a r e , "All This and Heaven Too" with Bette Davis .and Charles Boyer, and "The Boys From Syracuse" with Allan Jones, Martha Raye, Irene Hervey and Rosemary Lane...
...RHYTHM ON THE RIVER" NEXT AT THE PARAMOUN Although "The Great McGinty," now in its second week at the New York Paramount Theatre, is playing to capacity daily, the picture, because of previous booking commitments, will close its engagement there next Tuesday...
...Travel: "The Valley" (Alaska...
...Ruth St...
...I A new Fanchon and Marco i variety show, presenting Major I Bowes' All-Star Radio Graduates, j also begins today on the Roxy | stage...
...Deriis calls her oriental dances romantic, which mesas she does them as .she pleases...
...Wednesday through Friday, Aug...
...Her "Peacock" today is as taav boyant as twenty years ago...
...but there is a more fundamental reason too often overlooked4 We t u rn to t h e a r t s , not to escape from life, but because they are t h e p a r t of life most worth while...
...She will have her good days, ltd her off days, but no steady grqnrln...
...Trans-Lux, Madison and 60 St...
...Surely we do not go to war just to ensure peace...
...Denis, though sometime...
...This all sounds like an out-oftheordinary bit of entertainment for a night spot, but Jimmie Dwyer feels that he is presenting two unusual personalities to the night club world...
...It is for a r t , not money, not food: freedom to grow in wisdom and in art — that the forces against Fascism ultimately stand...
...Denis' role in the dance world has long been esiablished, and I am one of the lets adulant of her admirer...
...These songs are about my folks, and my relatives, about a million of them, that got hit by t h e drouth, the dust, and t he wind, the banker and the landlord and the police all a t the same time, and it was these things all added up that caused us to pack our wives and children into our Tittle r a t t l e t r ap jallopies and light out down the highway in every direction mostly to California...
...SHIRLEY TEMPLES NEW FILM AT ROXY "Young People," new 20th CenturyFox comedy, starring Shirley Temple, Jack Oakie and Charlotte Greenwood, is the feature [ picture starting today at the i Roxy Theatre...
Vol. 23 • August 1940 • No. 34
