Impressario Hurok Offers Gala Music and Dance Season
Impressario Hurok Offers Gala Music and Dance Season By Joseph T. Shipley This Week on the Stage MUCH MAGIC "SIM SAL A BIM." Fifty Mysteries by Dante. At the Morosco. The current quick...
...Niemoeller, and the cast also includes Nova Pilbeam, Seymour Hicks, Marius Goring and Hay Petrie...
...and one to Irving Berlin for his song "God Bless America...
...The journey will carry the Broadway company (the same except for new costumes) into Canada and all across the United States...
...leading" roles in "Gondoliers...
...14 at the 51st Street Theatre for a gala three-weeks' season, during which it will present five new productions as well as its colorful repertoire of classic and spectacle ballets...
...More news of this later...
...The March of Time's new release has message of unusual importance for every Americin...
...4, the first New York performance by the Washington National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hans Kindler, with a soloist to be announced later...
...The March of Time shows, Puerto Rica is today the keystone in the Caribbean arch of U. S. Navy bases which when finished will extend from Florida to the coast of South America...
...Also in the realm of dance will be Argentinita and her Spanish Ensemble who will go directly on tour under Mr...
...The company of sixty-five dancers and the symphony orchestra include Leonide Massine, Alicia Markova, Alexandra Danilova, Mia Slavenska, Nathalie Krassovska, Igor Youskevitch, Andre Eglevsky, Roland Guerard, Marc Platoff ,• and many others whose names are familiar to New York's audiences...
...The remaining seven are scheduled as follows: Oct...
...She has prepared new program material and enlarged her company, and will appear in Manhattan some time during the winter.v Returning to this country from a tour of South America during which he gave more than sixty concerts, Artur Rubinstein will play in Carnegie Hall and also entrain for a circuit of the nation to continue his musical conquest via the piano...
...THE SEA HAWK" HEADS RKO FILM BILLS "The Sea Hawk," with Errol Flynn in the title role, shares RKO Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester Theatre screens with Elsa Maxwell's "Public Deb...
...In December, 1935, Niemoeller war arrested by the Gestapo, for preaching a sermon in which he opposed "Nazification" of the Protestant, church...
...He is allowed to see his wife twice a month, the visit being conducted through a heavy screen, in the presence of a warden...
...Pointing to the future, The March of Time discloses that any German blow at the West Indies may be directed first at France'i possessions such as Martinique and French Guiana...
...In 1933 Hitler came into full power, and after destroying parliamentary forms of government, the labor unions and other democratic forums, he turned his attention to the churches...
...The Toad has seen only one of the numbers now touring, "Sunday in the Park" from the first "Pins and Needles...
...Among the Decent productions for which Miss...
...Long-Awaited "Pastor Hall" Opens Today at Globe Theatre—Film Has Forword by Mrs...
...3, Marian Anderson...
...the Don Cossack Chorus, which opens the series at Carnegie Hall...
...1 But the really surprising elements of his art are not the thing| he takes out of hats and boxesf but the things he puts in and iiever takes out—because they jfisappear...
...Those disappearing tricks certainly had us both astounded and baffled...
...To balance this...
...BRIGHAM YOUNG" OPENS AT THE ROXY Darryl F. Zanuck's production of "Brigham Young—Frontiersman," by Louis Bromfield, is the screen feature beginning today at the Roxy Theatre...
...Eleanor Roosevelt When Hitler cracked the whip against the established churches in Germany, one man refused to bow to him and in so doing became the living symbol of religious resistance to Nazi aggression...
...I'm not, sure of the taste of his final siepisode, "Three Cheers for Unci* Sam," but there's no question, it's in the current vogue— and Yankee Doodle Dante is a Dand|r...
...Of these military assets...
...Jan Kiepura, the noted Polish tenor of opera, concert and films, and a new young tenor, William Home, who has already made his mark in New York and on the West Coast...
...Tyrone Power is starred with Linda Darnell and Dean Jagger, the latter in the role of Brigjham Young, heading the cast of featured players...
...The memory of the Great Herrmann, of Harry Kellar and Howard Thurston—an H in every name!—does not suffer at his nimble hands...
...HELLZAPOPPIN' BIRTHDAY Next Thursday "Hellzapoppin" —it's a pippin!—celebrates its second birthday...
...Most startling of the revelations in the film is its story of the notorious French Penal Colony at Cayenne, French Guiana, and Devil's Island where rumor has it that Hitler plans to establish his first base on American soil...
...Hurok's management after several years, will also be busy this year fulfilling the extensive engagements which that impresario has arranged for the famous violinist...
...Season Opens With Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo S. Hurok, distinguished impresario of musical and dance attractions, will open the 1940-41 season in October with the openf ing of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and with the first event of the Hurok Carnegie Hall Seriefc...
...He »kes us behind the scenes, onlj^to fool us more roundly...
...The latter;—the fourth consecutive series in as many years, terminates its subscription sale next Saturday, after which all tickets will be placed on public sale at regular prices for individual events...
...which^will be 'the Lyric Operi Company's opening bill, will l|s played by Walter Tibbetts, Frank Kierman, Janet Webb, Miriam Bentley, Pa'ul Reed, Catherine...
...As a submarine commander during the first World War, Niemoeller received the Iron Cross for heroism...
...Sentenced to seven months imprisonment, he was technically released on the ground that his time served cancelled his sentence...
...Barry Wood, the singing star .of the popular C.B.S...
...31, a performance of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo at the 51st Street Theatre...
...Not a single person who was ever in a motion picture before appears,in "The Ramparts We Watch," the entire cast of 1,400, of whom 73 have important speaking parts, having been chosen from among the townspeople of New London, Conn., where much of the material was filmed, or from among persons who resembled the real characters portrayed...
...He handles his helpers, his stooges, and the spectators withjla friendly offhand patter that Scarries us from trick to trick ?ivith continuing expectancy...
...The Metropolitan, though built for the diamond horseshoe crowd, lives for the music lovers...
...Following its stay in this city, the troupe will go on tour, to be replaced at the same theatre by the Original -Ballet Russe of Col...
...Evfn though the scenery and properties change, there is of course a basic similarity in all theses tricks...
...Martin Niemoeller, the Lutheran pastor, whose experiences are told in the motion picture, "Pastor Hall," James Roosevelt's first film presentation now being shown at the - Globe Theatre...
...March of Time on Caribbean Defense Opens at Embassy Newsreel Theatre In its latest issue, "Gateways to Panama," now showing at the Embassy, Broadway at 46th St., The March of Time has gone behind the scenes of America's Caribbean defense system to present with headline timeliness the vital story of the island' approaches to the Panama Canal, key to all U. S. defenses...
...Wilfrid Lawson, one of the screen's ablest actors, portrays the character modeled after the Rev...
...They are allowed to exchange two letters a month...
...France, and Holland, the future status of which is a matter of deep concern to the U. S. Although the islands are still under the protection of the British Fleet's strong West Indies Squadron, the U. S. may someday have to assume full responsibility for keeping aggressor nations from gaining a foothold in the Caribbean, especially now that France and Holland are under the Nazi yoke...
...MUSIC IS THRIVING The National Committee for Music Appreciation, at its annual dinner at the Waldorf this week, announced the great success of its revival campaign for music...
...Sorel has arranged the dancS routines were "Two Bouquets?' for Marc Connelly, "Pins and ^Needles," and "Jeremiah" for tie Theatre Guild...
...He is forbidden to discuss politics or the church...
...But we could add a few morejjpersons on whom he could try b|s vanishing act...
...She will sing in Carnegie Hall on Oct...
...Not until February, 1938, was Niemoeller brought to trial, and then behind closed doors, despite the demand of the churches for an open hearing...
...Among the festivities planned are a parade of birthday cakes up Broadway that afternoon, and a visit to the show that evening by Mayor LaGuardia and 100 other mayors...
...The greatest figures of the musical world were present, as a plaque was awarded George A. Sloan for his work in building the Metropolitan Opera Fund...
...And Berlin's song, from the lips of the city all-high-school chorus, sounded surprisingly well...
...That man was the Rev...
...are the Caribbean colonies of Great Brftain...
...The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, which appears on this series, will open on Oct...
...The first of eight leading events on the Hurok Carnegie Hall Series will be that of the Original Don Cossack Chorus, under the direction of Serge Jaroff...
...LABOR STAGE ACTIVE "New Pins and Needles," the Labor Stage stand-by, is now in Philadelphia on the start of a forty week tour...
...Already there are signs of unrest among the thousands of convicts and exconvicts who constitute the most dangerous, ready-made Fifth Column in the Americas...
...Featured with Flynn are Brenda Marshall (as his Spanish light o'love), Claude Rains, Alan Hale, Flora Robson, Donald Crisp, William Lundigan, Henry Daniell, and Una O'Connor, with a supporting cast of thousands...
...It's been years since Broadway had a full length magic show, and we've been waiting for one like Dante's...
...Hurok's auspices beginning in November...
...Judah, Allen Stewart, Kathleen Killcoyne, Wm...
...1," which features Brenda Joyce, supported by George Murphy, Mischa Auer, Charlie Ruggles, Ralph Bellamy and Franklin Pangborn...
...The film, described by its producers as a "new kind of feature picture," tells in dramatic sequence the story of America's entry into the first World War by revealing how a typical New England community met and solved the problems of the impact of war during the historic years of 1914-18...
...More than once— especially when he has a body floating in air, pulls away the cloth and: there's nobody there...
...Pointing out how essential to the security of the Western Hemisphere is the control of the islands which form the Caribbean gateway to the Canal, the film pictures the far-reaching U. S. defense program in this strategic area...
...What he takes oat of a hat, and the washes knots ropes, cuts them, then makes them whole, or loops metal rings by just pushing them together: these are old tricks, thougjb just as bewildering as ever...
...Hurok's other stellar attractions incuude the American tenor, Jan Peerce...
...20th as well as on the Hurok Series later in the seasonL Mischa Elman, who returned to Mr...
...But on leaving the jail he was seized by secret police, taken to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp and placed in solitary confinement...
...That's one we'll be waiting to see in the next New York edition...
...24, the twopiano team of Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff, and March 10, a joint recital by Jan Peerce, American tenor, and Lina Pagliughi, coloratura soprano, who first appeared in Carnegie Hall last winter and won acclaim...
...W. de Basil...
...Geery, Marjbrie King and James Pease...
...He is scheduled to appear with the Philharmonic Symphony Society in late falL ' Marian Anderson will return from her country retreat after resting through the summer and embark on another.of her fabulous concert tours, during which she will visit more than seventyfive cities to sing more than that number of concerts...
...Elman will long be remembered for this past summer's exhibition at the Lewisohn Stadhim, where more than 16,000 people clamored for encores and refused to leave until ¦satisfied...
...The new project of the committee places before the ^public books of phonograph records of the leading operas, at cost ($1.75 plus tax...
...comes a number Broadway has not seen, "The Pluto Boys," by Harold J. Rome...
...Something isn't where* you think it is, and turns up v&iere you don't expect it...
...25, John Charles Thomas, popular native baritone...
...With the adoption of a hemisphere defense program this summer at the Havana conference of American nations and with U. S. negotiations for British N«ul bases in the West Indies under way...
...15, Fritz Kreisler, famed violinist...
...When Lawson was assigned the role of Pastor Hall he immediately began a study of every scrap of information he could pbtain on Rev...
...RAMPARTS WE WATCH" OPENS AT MUSIC HALL "The Ramparts We Watch," the initial full-length production of the March of Time, is now in its New York film premiere at the Radio City Music Hall...
...we gave a sigh, thinking "if only that had been Hitler...
...But jthe recurrences are saved from ^monotony by Dante's suave staged manner and good showmanship...
...It shows how the nation is spending $353,000,000 to make the Panama Canal and its approaches invincible and how present U. S. bases in the Caribbean—at Guantanamo Bay, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands—are being strengthened and new ones constructed...
...The saga of a Robin Hood of the seas, "The Sea Hawk" presents Flynn as the daring captain of a buccaneer ship riding the danger-swept waters of the Spanish Main, fighting through enemy ambushes in the Panama jungles, attacking the grand Armada, and battling the tyranny that shackles men to the chains of bondage...
...Labor Stage, chief immediate attention goes to "I Hear America Singing" the pageant scheduled for Madison Square Garden Oct...
...The motion picture, "Pastor Hall," is based on a play by the late Ernest Toller and has a foreword by Mrs...
...Roosevelt...
...Niemoeller, who was the pastor of a suburban parish...
...radio program, "Your Hit Parade," headlines the Fanchon and Marco presentation on the Roxy stage, also starting today...
...They will be released one a week for twelve weeks, starting this Saturday with *. ..____„ FELICIA SOREL HANDLES CHOREOGRAPHY FOR "THE GONDOLIERS" Felpcia Sorel will be the choreographic director for Joseph S. Daltry's Lyric Opera Company whici' begins a season of Gilbert and Sullivan repertoire at the 44th Street Theatre on Monday evening, September 30...
...Equal in strategic importance, the film graphically points out...
...The current quick mixture of sleight of hand and mystery magic that Harry Jansen ("Dante") flicks every evening (including Sundays) at the Morosco, sets him in the great tradition...
...Among the New York plans of the I.L.q.W.U...
Vol. 23 • September 1940 • No. 38
