News and Notes of a Busy Broadway Theatre
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
News and Notes of a Busy Broadway Theatre By Joseph T. Shipley This Week on the Stage JOURNEY WITHOUT END "JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM." By Maxwell Anderson. A Playwrights Production at the...
...if you have a friend or relative whom you think would qualify, show him or her the coupon and urge them to enter...
...Thins, without a single modern reference, Anderson's play is most timely, because its lesson is timeless...
...over C.B.S...
...Now, at the census time, the Jewish king was using ambitious priests and conniving Romans in further bloody search of the fated Messiah—while trampling: down the freedom of the people...
...PALACE OFFERS BIG DOUBLE FEATURE BILL John Barryraore returns to Broadway today when "The Great Profile" in which he plays the title role, opens at the RKO Palace on a double feature' program that includes "Brigham Young - Frontiersman" starring Tyrone Power", Linda Darnell and Dean J agger...
...The rich tradition of the old Academy is carried on with this series of musical and cultural contests and the 47 nationalities living in harmony in New York are expected to help make the series a success...
...MUSIC HALL HOLDS FILM Attracting crowds at Radio City Music Hall, RKO-Radkri screen version of Sidney Howard's Pulitzer Prize play, "Tesj Knew What They Wanted,'' eo-starring Carole Lombard, lad Charles Laughton, is now la to second week at the Radio CHj Music Hall...
...The timing and direction • of Elmer Rice, and the harmonious, imaginative scenery and lighting by Jo Mielziner, combine to press home the dignity and power of this drama...
...Five ?years earlier, Herod, King of the Jews, had killed every male child...
...The period in which we watch young Jesus is turbulent and tense...
...The film tells the story of Rockne's life from his boyhood in Norway to his tragic death in a crash in Kansas...
...26 — Concert at Princeton...
...born in Bethlehem.—Save for t^ie flight into Egypt, which bore away the new-born holy babe...
...Thursday evening, Oct...
...Much* of the picture was photographed on location at Notre Dame University...
...Men and women and boys and girls of all races and nationalities are to engage in this competition as a demonstration of the peace and amity in which they live with their neighbors, possible only in a democracy such as ours...
...1, Kalinnikow...
...Brigands in the hills are spawn of the holy rebellion of Jacob, bloodily beaten down by the Romans...
...Four famous football coaches— Amos Alonzo Stagg, Glenn S. (Pop) Warner, Howard Jones and Bill Spaulding—also appear in "Knute Rockne—All American...
...Ishmael (rousingly performed by Arnold Moss) and Jeshua (Jesus) are less persons than embodiment of a spirit...
...27, at 3 (Broadcast 3 to 4:30 E.S.T...
...Academy of Music Sponsors All Nations Dance-Music Contest to Prove Harmony of Melting Pot Celebrating its 88th ¦ anniversary, the Academy of Music on East 14th St...
...Symphony in G minor, No...
...Readers are urged to fill in the coupon and send it to this paper at once, in order to qualify for the first elimination trials which take place in the rehearsal hall of the Academy on Monday, Oct...
...Gale Page appears as Mrs...
...Con-eerto in E fiat for two pianos, Mozart...
...A people remains free, Jesus searchingly observes, until forced to render unto Caesar that which it owes to God...
...KNUTE ROCK*?' FILM AT THE STRAND , Warner Bros.' picturization of the , career of "America's most colorful football coach, "Knute Rockne— All American,'' starring Pat O'Brien^ will have its first showing at the 'Strand Theatre starting today...
...News and Notes of a Busy Broadway Theatre By Joseph T. Shipley This Week on the Stage JOURNEY WITHOUT END "JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM...
...20, at 3 (Broadcast 3 to 4:30 E.S.T...
...25, at 2:30...
...Robert Buekner wrote the original screen play based upon the private papers of Mrs...
...In the case of the Messiah, scapegoat of the world, it brings a doom only divinity can bear...
...coast-to-coast hook-up)— Overture to "Enryanthe," Weber...
...Overture, "Carneval," Dvorak...
...A Playwrights Production at the National...
...7 in A major, Beethoven...
...Rockne, Ronald Reagan plays the immortal George Gipp, and Donald Crisp, Albert Basse rman and Owen Davis, Jr., play other important roles...
...All the players save one rise to their roles...
...Simply and directly, with power and insight that built essential drama, Maxwell Anderson tells the story of the Passover trip of the twelve-year-old Jesus, when on the brink of manhood he becomes aware of" his divine and doomed mission...
...But the awakening to wisdom is another .thing...
...Despite the program note regarding Jesus' rustic "Galilean accent," however, Anderson's prose • would be more effective without Sidney Lumet's carrying over of end sounds, as in "get tup," "went tout" for "get up," "went out"—which, in the last act, was followed by an intonation still heard among Jesus' race today...
...Concerto for two pianos and orchestra, Babin...
...Friday afternoon, Oct...
...The new Roxy stage show features Petch and Deauville, the Gae Foster Girls, Paul Ash with the...
...coast-to-coast hook-up)—Soloists: Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin, pianists.—Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro," Mozart...
...Soloists: Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin, pianists...
...but the symbol is potent, and human indeed is the struggle in the boy before he relinquishes himself to his mission...
...Love is an early feeling we all know—though from some scared souls it passes...
...nor does the impossibility of finding an adequate Jesus destroy the pathos of the-part...
...A gala premiere of the first magnitude, with celebrities from all walks of life attending, including the famous comedian himr self, "The Great Dictator" got off to a rousing start and should continue at both theatres for a long and successful run...
...Anderson's knowledge of human nature has ripened...
...Roxy Theatre Orchestra, and other new acts...
...The divine within the man (from David's seed) must rise in wisdom and courage, to redeem the world...
...over C.B.S...
...On Thursday, Oct 24, the Music Hall will present wyn's new action drama "Iht Westerner...
...The film was directed by Lloyd Bacon...
...It-shows—despite its plot,: it does not preach but through the action lets us draw th* thought—that only through the^spirit can man's final conquest come...
...Saturday evening, Oct...
...A new edition of the Roxy News and Pictorial Review completes the new program...
...And we wonder, pondering Maxwell Anderson's drama, how many times on his upward way man will find it necessary to repeat that Journey to Jerusalem— that, and a later uphill journey with a cross...
...Rockne and the reports of Rockne's intimate associates and frineds...
...Philharmonic-Symphony Programs John BarbtroUi, Conductor Sunday afternoon, -Oct...
...seven years before...
...supporting Chaplin is a galaxy of artists perfectly cast including Jack Oakie, who nearly steals the show, Paulette Goddard, Reginald Gardiner, Billy Gilbert, Henry Daniell, Maurice Mosco-vitch, Emma Dunn any] others too numerous to mention-Chaplin, who plays a dual role in the film as the Dictator and as the Jewish barber who bears such a striking resemblance to the dictator, talks in this film, and is also responsible for its story and direction...
...So, if you are talented and wish to enter, nil in the coupon...
...Symphony in C major, Bizet...
...d realism of psychology, the fears of the half-crazy Herod, the calculation of the high-priest Hanan, the fierce loyalty of Ishmael, the reasoned hesitation of Joseph to reveal, his thoughts to Jesus, "the heart-warm hesitancy of Mirian— and the tender, courageous heart of young Jesus...
...Figure after figure—Herod, Joseph, Shadrach, Miriam—comes to life and is known...
...This same combination will also be presented in -all RKO Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester neighborhood theatres, and will hold over a second week at the Albee, Brooklyn._ "DOWN ARGENTINE WAY-OPENS AT THE ROXY "Down Argentine Way," the 20th Cenimry-Fox musical romance, is the new screen feature at the Roxy Theatre this week...
...and Irving Place, announces that it is conducting an all nations music, dance and talent contest festival among the international elements contained in the great melting pot of the races that is New York...
...It brings a sad and heavy...
...Sunday afternoon, Oct...
...5 in E minor, Tchaikovsky...
...Scene of many gala events in the years of its existence, the Academy is preparing to outdo them all in this festive competition, which begins on Tuesday, Oct...
...These are, of course, but flecks on the surface of a profound and poignant play...
...In the subtlety and surety of his probing— both the sudden flashes of insight and the longer revelation— and in the simplicity and purity of language, "Journey to Jerusalem" is his most rewarding play...
...Joi"-"-»v to 'e-rusalem" shows us, with a combined poetry of pxestn...
...Charlie Chaplin in "The Great Dictator" Opens at Astor and Capitol Theatres At long last, "The Great Dictator," Charlie Chaplin's long awaited and much discussed social satire, had its world premiere showing last Tuesday night at both the Astor and Capitol Theatres...
...Symphony No...
...14, at 7 p. m. Folk dancers, jitterbugs and group dancers as well as instru-ments&ts and vocalists are askedHJo compete for the grand prizesl offered in the finals...
...Filmed in Technicolor, the new film stars Don Ameche, Betty Grable and Carmen Miranda...
...Symphony No...
...burden...
...24, at 8:45...
Vol. 23 • October 1940 • No. 42
