Saroyan Means Us: "The Beautiful People"
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Saroyan Means Us: "The Beautiful People" By Joseph T. Shipley This Week on the Stage HERE WE ARE HELD "THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE." Produced,- directed and written by William Saroyan. At the Lyceum....
...The Beautiful People" are you and I and plain Jane and the man on relief and Ginger Rogers and any one else you please— except mice...
...Waldo E. Stephens, professor of international law at Columbia University...
...In the News...
...What .more, what less, can a man do, "for his body's and' his soul's well-being...
...But his film\ "Object Lesson" does suggest, and fruitfully explores, new avenues of stimulation and beauty in the motion pictrre...
...Baffling to those with preconceived ideas of what a play should be, tenderly and play- • fully, with whimsy and humor, "The Beautiful People" is a purple patch on a dun season...
...The remaining eight were merely interested in learning to read music and perform upon some instrument...
...In addition, the Special Attraction will be Victor McLaglen, who is coming direct from Hollywood to star in a specially, written script prepared for him by several Hollywood screen writers...
...The sponsors include Mrs...
...Harrft, chairman, and Mrs...
...Tucker features with his orchestra, Amy Ar-nell, vocalist, Kerwin Somerville, Donald Brown, Alan Holmes and The Voices Three...
...All this week, for example...
...The boy writes a novel...
...You see, Agnes and her brothers, and the father from whom their blessings flow, are living on a pension check that comes to them every month...
...WORKMEN'S CIRCLE CONCERT AT TOWN HALL . The afternoon of May-11th ia the., occasion far the flr*t_Tbwn Hall Concert of a Mandolin Orchestra sponsored by a fraternal organization...
...Palisades Park Attracting Masses— Saltwater Pool, Other Features Added Though most amusement parks in the Fast have yet to open, Palisades Amusement Park, on the Jersey side of the Hudson, opposite the 125th Street ferry, enters its third week of the season this week-end...
...Gilbert has arranged for Adolph Dehn, noted artist, to design a series of special settings for the shows...
...art""always seems absurd when a worth-while play comes along...
...Radio City and 50th St...
...Humphrey Bogart stars in the film oppisite Sylvia Sidney with Eddie Albert and Joan Leslie handling the other top roles...
...Governor and Mrs.» Herbert H. Lehman, Mr...
...Hamp and his band play for the free show every afternoon and evening, as well as for free dancing nightly at the park Casino...
...by its very being, it changes us...
...Bracken's role marks the most important he has had in screen comedies since his "Our Gang" days...
...Frank-lin D. Roosevelt...
...The vice-president has come to check up on the pension...
...Today, the Workmen's Circle Mandolin Orchestra claims seventy performers, including among them college students, stenographers, garment workers, housewives, bookkeepers, civil service employees, and others...
...Young does not suggest...
...All have been taught to play by their conductor, Lujgi Paparello, who came to this country after the turn of the century with nothing but a mandolin and an intense Jove for music...
...But the point is that if you love them and have faith in them, even the mouse-men will begin to respect themselves, and rise to the realm of humanity...
...The original group was fourteen in number, six of whom had some -acquaintance with music and the mandolin...
...featuring Marty May and Jack Powell, also remains for a second week...
...Edward { Gresser, Women's ORT president The luncheon will also nuuk the sixtieth anniversary of OBT, which today, conducts trade and farm schools and industrial .wort-shops for the refugees and other Jews in Argentina and eight European countries — Germany, France, German-Poland, Switzerland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rn...
...The head was by itself, on the earth...
...The Jersey playground is said to have had tremendous crowds ever since it swung open its gates on Saturday, April 26th last, and on last Saturday and Sunday in particular, record-breaking attendance records were created...
...Gradually, as the episodes of inanimate exchange sweep by, you come to see how beauty and wisdom—the fruits of man's love and culture, the promise of man's ideals, crumble and are swept away in the unending tides of time: To what renewal, Mr...
...Minerva?—a sword flicks into the earth nearby...
...Also on the program are the latest world-wide news events...
...I might have said, even mice—for Agnes in the(play takes the best care of the many mice in their old house on the San Francisco hill...
...George Backer, Eddie Cantor and others...
...New-features are being added to the elaborate free play area...
...At the last, the boy writes another book, of two word's—but they sum up the saving attitude of humankind: MY BROTHER...
...But consider: a tree spreads its roots wide into the earth, and its foliage lifts toward, heaven...
...SueiJ a work is Saroyan's new vats at the Lyceum, "The Beautiful People...
...what the lesson is, remains for the spectators to find out...
...Hie Joint Embassy Theatres are at 46th Street an<J Broadwaiy, 72nd St...
...and Broad St., Newark, N. J. The rally at which Willkie spoke attracted a crowd upwards of 110.000 persons, one of the greatest outpourings in recent years for a political purpose...
...His topic will be "World Jewry and the Present Struggle...
...Leon Harris, luncheon chairman...
...Organized by the Workmen's Circle in the Fall of 1938, this musical group is ready to claim public recognition...
...and Broadway...
...Tickets may be purchased at the Information Booth at Palisades where the four mid-ways meet...
...MUSfC HALL HOLDS BILL • Ernst Lubitsch's comedy hit "That Uncertain Feeling" and Puccini's beloved opera "Madame Butterfly" are being held for a second week at Radio City Music Hall...
...Then it is immediately clear that the best propaganda for a richer, truer, nobler^fe is the best art...
...RKO MOTHER'S DAY GIFT TICKETS ON SALE An orchid to Mother in the form of an RKO Gift Ticket Book can be had at all RKO Theatres throughout the Metropolitan area...
...SANABRIA AND WEINER WRITE NEW RHUMBA Juanito Sanabria, the orchestra leader, and Ed Weiner, the press agent for the Havana-Madrid, have written a song titled "Havana-Madrid...
...Saroyan Means Us: "The Beautiful People" By Joseph T. Shipley This Week on the Stage HERE WE ARE HELD "THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE...
...Playing prominent featured comedy roles are Eddie Bracken and Billy Gilbert...
...1>ie problem of "propaganda vs...
...The word "Object" in the title indicates that there are no living things (except trees) in the picture...
...Their father has given these children little, but enough: a sample faith in their fellows, and love...
...The Roxy stage presentation...
...While a more experienced director might have speeded the pace now and then, Mr...
...SURREALIST FILM Introduced by Lowell Thomas, who confessed that he khew nothing about it but liked the producer, Christopher Young's surrealist film "Object Lesson" flashed on the screen in preview...
...REACHING FOR THE SUN" AT PARAMOUNT Bringing together Joel McCrea and Ellen Drew for the first time as a romantic starring team, Par-amount's new comedy with thrills, "Reaching for the Sun," is the new film attraction at the N. Y. Paramount Theatre...
...NEW SHOWS AT RKO First-runs will be on RKO screens this week with the Albee, Brooklyn, presenting two on one program, namely, "They Met in Argentina," RKO Radio's gay romance with six new Rodgers and Hart numbers, and colorful glimpses of Argentine life, and "The Cowboy and the Blonde," 20th Century-Fox's action comedy co-featuring Mary Beth Hughes and George Montgomery...
...The opening day, which will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Hotel Champlain, will be marked by gala festivities and a Military Ball, attended by officers from the Plattsburg army camp three miles from the hotel...
...it consists of one word: TREE...
...And from far-off New York they hear their brother's playing, until he is with them again in their sunset home...
...As you watch a goddess' head— Venus...
...Johnny Hamp and his orchestra—long a favorite with the college set—is the free attraction, continuing through Sunday, May 11th...
...He's dead, but it keeps on coming, and they accept God's manna: The vice-president increases the amount, . and Father Hog an blesses* the family...
...It's in the name of the man that lived there before them...
...Thus when Agnes is sick, the mice gather flowers, and with them spell her name on the floor...
...Simply and poetically, Saroyan has given us another spell of beauty...
...Frankenthaller, chairman of the Greater New York ORT campaign...
...Saroyan has picked a concordant cast, which shares, and carries over, the mood and movement of "The Beautiful People...
...In addition to appearing on the screen, Bracken is featured in person as an extra added attraction with the show headed by Al-vino Rey and his band, and including the King Sisters, Skeets Herfurt, Dick Morgan, Jack Leonard, Chick and Lee, and The Duf-fins...
...The mammoth salt water pool at Palisades Park will open for the season on May 29th...
...But stranger things happen than that, as we see when the vice-president blows his penny whistle in memory of Mexico...
...The appearance of Rosemarie Brancato, coloratura soprano, as guest artist on this program, will be her first at Town Hall...
...In Person Show Tommy Tucker and His Pot 0'-Gold Orchestra head the stage show at the Strand...
...The tune is a rhumba, and the opinion of Tin Pan Alley is that it will soon be a "Hit Parade" tune...
...The work of a**, without preaching, just is...
...The newsreel shots show the dramatic scenes of the indoor Garden rally as well as the huge crowds which filled the surrounding streets...
...This practical, yet sentimental present which RKO places on sale prior to and during the Christmas and Easter Seasons is now being offered as a Mother's Day gift...
...HOTEL CHAMPLAIN OPENS FOR SEASON The Hotel Champlain at Bluff Point on Lake Champlain will open for the summer season on June 20, 1941, it was announced by Edgar V. M. Gilbert, managing director...
...Screen fa.is will remember his performers in The Aldrich Family in "Life With Henry" and "Too Many Girls...
...Wendell Willkie's Plea for Convoys at Freedom Rally on Embassy Screens The dramatic speech by Wendell Willkie, recent Presidential candidate, at the Freedom Rally at Madison Square Garden, Wednesday, May 7 is seen and heard on the Embassy Newsreel Screens this week...
...Also on the stage show are the Del Rios, novelty dance trio...
...From rocks and statues (or fragments thereof) peering at odd angles from tumble-down houses, balanced against tennis rackets and high hats—with background of sky or sea or forest—it is surprising how lively and interesting a film can grow...
...WAGONS ROLL AT NIGHT AND TOM Mr" TUCKER BAND OPEN TODAY AT STRAND "The Wagons Roll at Night," Warner Bros.' saga of circus life, will have its Broadway premiere at the Strarfl Theatre today...
...SIR NORMAN ANGELL HEADS SPEAKERS' UST AT ORT'S DONOR LUNCHEON Sir Norman Angell, English economist and\ Nobel Prize winner, will be th|= chief speaker at the annjual donor luncheon of Women's American ORT Wednesday, May 14, at the Astor Hotel, according to announcement by Mrs...
...Other speakers will include Lady Marley, former Judge Dorothy Kenyon, Dr...
...Credit for these early season crowds are attributed to the fact that the Palisades Park management this summer is presenting "name" attractions daily prior to the Decoration Day holidays, which is an innovation...
...ROXT HOLDS MUSICAL The 20th Century-Fox musical starring Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, John Payne and Cesar Romero, is now in its second week at the Roxy Theatre...
...Among the attractions at the Hotel Champlain this year will be special summer shows, featuring such star* as Danny Kaye, Paul Draper, Sheila Barrett, Georges and Jalna and Hildegarde...
...mania, and Great Britain...
...and Mrs...
...Season lockers are now available for the Palisades Pool at a new low rate...
Vol. 24 • May 1941 • No. 19
