Much Discussed "Pastor HaH" to Open at Globe September 21
Much Discussed "Pastor HaH" to Open at Globe September 21 This Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley GRIM MEDICINE "JUPITER LAUGHS." By Dr. A. J. Cronin. At the^Biltmore. Doctors in a...
...THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER REPLACEMENT Muriel Hutchinson has been engaged by Sam H. Harris to replace Carol Goodner as the glamorous actress, beginning Monday evening, in the Hart-Kaufman comedy hit "The Man Who Came to Dinner," now in its eleventh month at the Music Box Theatre...
...At the Playhouse...
...There certainly is no shortage of laughsmiths in "Young People" either...
...Add to this the hatred of old established medical men for experimentation, and the ever resurging conflict of religion and science, and the material for many tense dramas is at hand...
...It adds interest too to the 'pin j poll' being conducted in the Embassy Theatres to determine the relative popularity of the Democratic and G. O. P. candidates among newsreel patrons—people usually of the class more sensitive to daily political occurences...
...We are permitted to see people as thgy walk, and talk naturally...
...co-starring Ginger Rogers and Ronald Colman for the first time on the screen, is being held for a second week at the Radio City Music Hall...
...In one month alone, 80,614 persons enrolled irt the plan, and figures gathered from 41 states indicate that placement is proceeding rapidly...
...Put into the waste-basket, ^not onto the stage, a half dozen such plays, and we pnay have a worthy work from hisij hands...
...Those nervous troubles not due to money worries are probably traceable to sex...
...Pastor Hall" has Wilfred Lawson and Nova Pilbeam in the starring roles...
...Already military roads are being construSed and a highway is being planned which will link the United States to Alaska, through Canada...
...doubting...
...The speech, while political, has historic importance, for here was a statement of Presidental policy on the eve of the long awaited battle which will decide the course of Europe—and America for many generations to come...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt, wife of the President, considered "Pastor Hall" one of the most important and most powerful films to have been produced recently, the First Lady became a motion picture actress for the first time in her manyfaceted career...
...The President's speech at the union convention is his opening gun of the Democratic Party's campaign...
...Charlotte Greenwood and the newly married Arleen Whelan sharing the mirthmakmg honors with Shirley Temple...
...Roosevelt made her film debut by appearing in a prologue to the picture which was written by Robert E. Sherwood, famous playwright...
...Grace George certainly makes it seem real...
...Cronin therefore provides his medicos with feminine complexes in the shape of a matron, the head's wife, and a lady doctor who intends to be a missionary...
...When she dies, somehow the scientist begins tqij doubt the validity of his...
...The newsreel as a method of screen reportage is a singular instrument of democracy...
...The picture is based on the life of the tlev...
...Despite neat turns of incidental dialogue, Dr...
...The cast has the proper tone of grimness for the desperate roles...
...Cronin has...
...the "Theatre Guild, in association with Eddie Dowling, will present William Saroyan's comedy, "The Time of Your Life," at the Guild Theatre for a limited engagement of two weeks...
...Doctors in a sanatorium for nervous disorders: , there's room for a drama...
...bit there is valid irony when t»e cynical, bitter, atheistical » research neurologist falls in love wfth the girl who is going to ChinM, in her parent's path, as a rWoctor-missionary...
...eome from his practice to novel-writing...
...Cunningly conceived and tightly woven, this strange story of a kind lady who becomes prey to a grisly band of kidnappers has a weird fascination...
...By Edward Chodorov, ffom the novel by Hugh Walptle...
...September 23...
...This coattraction at RKO Theatres features Jack Oakie...
...Despite the play's inefficiencies, the mind dwells upon its idea...
...Army in Alaska Spurs Growth Of Industry (Continued from Page Two) transportation, living and production costs...
...Roosevelt says: ". . . the story of 'Pastor Hal!,' of his undying faith, his unconquerable courage —is the story of all men who love freedom and justice so deeply that they are prepared to live eternally for their convictions . ." CHICAGO POLICE BAN "PASTOR HALL" The Police Censor Board of Chicago has banned the showing of "Pastor Hall," the anti-Nazi film, being exhibited in this country by James Roosevelt...
...BERT WHEELER IN PLAY Bert Wheeler, film and stage comedian, will appear in person at the Adams Theatre, Newark, before leaving on a western vaudeville tour...
...Defense Training Schools Place 3,000 More than 3,000 men have already been placed in jobs as a result of the vocational education national defense program, U. S. Commissioner of Education...
...Properly handled, here is rewarding substaince...
...Kieanor Roosevelt...
...Lewis Milestone directed...
...boasts of a cast of very capable funsters, among them being Allan Jones, Martha Rave, Joe Penner, Rosemary Lane, Charles Butterworth and Eric Blore...
...Martin XiemoeHer...
...As the conflict mounts, the complications increase because the leading Storm Trooper has fallen in love with the Pastor's daughter, thus making her a pawn in the gripping - struggle which ensues...
...In fact, the audience' response, in sighs and gasps and final applause, shows it is caught right back into the ripe mood for melodrama...
...Roosevelt James Roosevelt knew that be had a truly great screen property in "Pastor Hall" when he decided to 1 present this stirring and dramatic motion picture of life in Nazi Germany to movie audiences...
...i One of thetf eeriest and most thrilling melodramas of five years ago has come back and again, with the deft land sensitive playing of Grace George, bids fair to be one of the eeriest and most thrilling melodramas of the season...
...HIRED WIFE" AT KOXf Universal Pictures' comedyromance, "Hired Wife," featuring Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne...
...when the villains reveal their purpose, she holds the fortress of her soul...
...Cronin has placed his figures too obviously in their parts...
...Also on the Embassy screens are the latest war scenes as well as short subjects...
...Briefly, the story of "Pastor Hall" centers about a clergyman in the small German town of Altdorf who dares to oppose the Nazi regime...
...But when the bank clerk comes through, and all is breaking clear at the close, the audience—with this critic— gives a rousing handclap for the "Kind Lady...
...Lucky Partners," the Music Hall's ' current success, is a sophisticated modern romance based on Sacha Guitry's amusing story, "Bonne Chance...
...The picture, which is based on1 an original story by Ernst Toller, will have its New York premiere at the Globe Theatre Saturday, September 21...
...Thus a new market for goods, and a profitable outlet for idle funds awaits the confidence of businessmen...
...Thus the only industries which have been developed, and which offer employment, are mining and fisheries...
...The newsreel shots of ! Roosevelt, now at the Embassy j Newsreel Theatres, as well as j those of Mr...
...That material, unfortunately, is not cut to shape a moving play...
...Willkie which will be ! shown on the occasion of the I major Republican rallies provide j an acute visual comparison for i the voter...
...you watch the odd collection of creatures that settle down on* the old lady and almost settle her—and you wonder, with an unaccustomed shiver, whether such things can really be...
...The prologue to the film, written by Robert E. Sherwood, is narrated by Mrs...
...It was directed by Roy Boulting...
...The story thus reaches a climax filled with thrills and drama and the picture ends on a note of high-pitched excitement...
...It is also the first time in theatre annals that a play has received both of the coveted awards...
...John Studebaker, announced this week...
...She carries just the tone of lonely old-maidenhood, half-trusting, half-fearful of life...
...There is,usually a longer discipline for the drama...
...THEATRES Thursday (September 12th) marked the beginning of "Happiness Week" in RKO Theatrw throughout Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester...
...And there is one moment, when they close physically in around the kindly old soul, and she realizes that she is a prisoner in her own bome, that tears the sob-strings in the audience...
...Filmed from the screenplay by Leslie Arliss, Anna Reiner and Haworth BromleyyMPastor Hall" has a starring cast which includes Wilfred Lawson, Nova Pilbeam, Seymour Hicks, Marius Goring and Hay Petrie...
...For they kidnap her, not by spiriting her away, but by moving in on her her...
...Yet the old girl has spirit...
...Virginia Bruce and Robert Benchley, is the film attraction starting today at the Roxy Theatre...
...for there is a basic theme worth while, and the author got off to a good start, ^ie had to ten us too - much about his character's background...
...The patients we do not see, but the wife of one human guinea pig helps on the action...
...That Alaska ' is a potentially valuable market for American businessmen, is indicated by the fact that she consumed S 44.000,000 worth of domestic goods last year...
...Boys From Syracuse" based on the stage musical comedy that kept Broadway audiences in a high state of glee for 235 performances...
...In this prologue, Mrs...
...It will be followed on Thursday, September 19, by the entirely new and different type of feature motion picture, "The Ramparts We Watch," produced by the March of Time and introducing a revolutionary technique in realistic film-making...
...This return of "The Time of Your Life" will be the first and only New York appearance of the play since it won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Critics' Circle Award last Spring...
...Phrasing it melodramatically, she will not sign the papers...
...Perhaps, just before the lights die down in the Epilogue, her voice takes too rhythmic a tone...
...In spite of threats against himself and against his beautiful daughter Pastor Hall remains firm in his beliefs and fearlessly refuses to accept the pagan pressure of the new German order...
...The new Fanchon and Marco presentation headlining Shirley Ross, also starts today on the Koxy stage...
...Powerful Anti-Nazi Film ' Has Foreword by Mrs...
...they stand for something, thus do not become real...
...HAPPINESS WEEK , *. AT R.K.O...
...23 On Monday evening...
...former German naval officer now in a concentration camp...
...With *Boy» From Syracuse" and "Young People," two pictures definitely on the laugh side of the ledger, to provide the entertainment at these RKO houses, the appellition is well chosen...
...She is afraid she will be taken in—and always is...
...of training in defense industries to men and boys between the ages of 18 and 60...
...Motion I picture 'reporting' is 'staged...
...THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE" REOPENS SEPT...
...pre-employment courses in such specific, skills as welding and riveting, and supplementary courses that aid workers on the job in improving their skills...
...If the population increases sufficiently, the resources of the country can be developed into profitable industries, and provide the U. S. with many products, such as wood, paper, fur and leather which till now we have had to import from Europe and Asia...
...The direction does not make them any less wooden, despite the good work of Reginald Mason as the understanding old physician, of Edith Meiser as the over-earnest matron, and of Alexander Knox as the man torn between science and love...
...Roosevelt Speech on Embassy's Screen Interesting Example of Screen Reportage The speed, service and magic of the newsreel as a pictorial medium of flash news is vividly demonstrated at the Embassy Newsreel Theatres this week, as patrons sit comfortably the day after President Roosevelt's speech, made at the Teamsters Convention in Washington, is shown on the screen in New York...
...j photographs are posed, or if in- ! formal Jose the sense of move- ! ment which screen animation j gives...
...With more Alaskans, and more prosperity, this market would undoubtedly increase...
...kind, and then ashamed of her impulses...
...EERIE MELODRAMA "KIND LAD...
...Because Mrs...
...MUSIC HALL HOLDS "LUCKY PARTNERS" Established as a comedy hit, "Lucky Partners...
...The need of maintaining an army in Alaska, and a larger population to service it, and the possibility that trade with Europe will be ended after the present war, plus the need of refugees to resettle and reconstruct their lives, all indicate that the time is near for Alaska's in. dustrial development...
...The program offers two type...
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