Unusual Features to Mark Luna Park's Opening on May 29
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Unusual Features to Mark Luna Park's Opening on May 29 By Joseph T. Shipley. This Week on the Stage YOUNG FOLKS' CARES "THE HAPPY DAYS." By Claude-Andre Puyet, adapted by Zoe Akins. Presented by...
...ganza when it celebrates its first--- ----- - - full year's run at the Imperial Theatre on Wednesday...
...Lawrence River, an emotional tempest in the form of —an aviator...
...Three girls' hearts flutter and all but fail...
...Yet, for all the moaning and weeping over their loved one from the skies, these days of youth are indeed "The Happy Days...
...Dennis Morgan, making his first stage appearance in New-York, is a discovery of Mary Garden, who heard him in opera and recommended him to Hollywood friends...
...But on the way up, they occasionally run into storms such as bring the old trees tumbling, but which the saplings bend under, to rise again unscathed...
...Current scenes and interviews with relatives of those on the ship bring the reel up to date...
...Miss Shelley won over ninety-five per cent of the votes cast...
...Free vaudeville shows will be presented at Riverside Cascades each week-end throughout the summer, starting Decoration Day...
...THEATRES Marlene Dietrich in "The Flame of New Orleans" and "The Man Who Lost Himself," co-starring Brian Aherne and Kay Francia, move into all RKO Greater New York and Westchester neighborhood theatres today...
...This last one and the first boy are in the puppy-love stage...
...The midgets will be hosts and hostesses to all patrons, and children will be invited to join in their activities...
...STRAND'S NEW FILM "Affectionately Yours," the new-screen comedy in which Merle Oberon, Dennis Morgan and Rita Hayworth are starring under the Warner Bros, banner, will have its Broadway premiere at the Strand Theatre today...
...two boys writhe in calf-jea,lousy, until lo— the plane is repaired, and the airman flies away...
...Youth will be served...
...How soon will he be forgotten...
...She will spend July and August at her summer home on Martha's Vineyard before beginning a limited tour with the Bernard Shaw comedy early in September...
...Matt Sedgewick has been appointed manager of the Bronx branch for the tenth consecutive season...
...The Midget Village i"-t rne of one hundred new shows, exhibitions and rides o...
...Luna will have New-York's only permanent circus because it is the only private park with a permit to exhibit elephants...
...Also on the program are all world-wide news events...
...and in Brooklyn and Queens, the presentation af "The Great Lie" and "The Cow...
...There is charm in the behavior of these youngsters, also much of the naive and a sprinkling of the ridiculous...
...and a water show for the Jerome Cascades, 168th Street and Jerome Avenue, the Bronx...
...and in their counterplay Joan Tetzel makes good beholding...
...FOUR SAINTS ON BROADWAY This is not a mystery movie, but the less comprehensible Gertrude Stein opera "Four Saints in three Acts"—which really has a prelude and four acts—coming again with the lyrics by Gertrude Stein, to confuse or delight the ear...
...Vera Zorina, Victor Moore and Irene Bordoni top a cast of seventy-five which includes also-Patricia Ellis, Nick Long, Jr., Edward H. Robins, April Ames, Ralph Riggs, Ray Mayer and Robert Pitkin...
...Francine and Marianne, and their brother Bernard, are being visited by distant relatives and old friends...
...Also on the program is a feature documentary made by Tex McCrary, ace newspaper reporter who flew to England recently upon a bomber, and whose reports have appeared in the Daily Mirror...
...Bathing, however, won't begin until the day before Decoration Day...
...Here is a comedy, like the young hearts, not yet tangled in the hatreds of the world...
...FeatHred with Al Kavelin and his orchestra at Palisades Park will be vivacious Vivian Blaine...
...Probably less than a score of shows in the musical division in the last two decades have managed to hurdle this high-water mark in consecutive performances, four hundred and twenty-two, specifically...
...New attractions have been added to the free play area, with 25 sideline games being available to season locker-holders at no extra cost...
...The forty-acre amusement area will also feature three night clubs —one of South American motif, another of Barbary Coast atmosphere, and a third in the Gay '90's period...
...Palisades Amusement Attract Masses With The free attraction at Palisades Amusement Park, on the Jersey side of the Hudson, opposite the t Park Continues to Fun, New Features 125th Street Ferry this week-end, Saturday and Sunday, May 24th and 25th, will be Al Kavelin and his "Cascading Chords" orchestra...
...When it ran here for two months, at the 44th Street Theatre, this writer heard it several times with delight...
...Such a gale descends upon five young folk on an island in the St...
...There will be a giant ballroom holding two thousand dancing couples and it will feature a name-band policy to be inaugurated by Raymond Scott's orchestra...
...The second in the trio of hits produced by DeSylva—-"DuBarry was a Lady" came first and the current "Panama Hattie" last— "Louisiana Purchase" is decorated by a galaxy of stars unmatched in the musical comedy firmament in recent theatrical history...
...An additional '$100,000 was garnered during the pre-Broadway test in New Haven, Washington and Philadelphia...
...William Gaxton...
...but often the writing does not rise above the material...
...Do, the Rock Me Bug, the Tilter Whirl, the Zip Bop and the Swooper Dooper...
...This is sometimes quite funny, as in the sleeping habits of Bernard, who lies in a sweater, and sweats, and smells...
...IRENE DUNNE AND CART GRANT AT THE MUSIC HALL IN "PENNY SERENADE" One of the screen's most popular co-starring teams, Irene . jjunne and' Cary Grant, are to be seen on the screen of the Radio City Music Hall this week .in "Penny Serenade...
...Palisades Park polo is the only natatorium in the country that offers free vaudeville daily...
...Hal Sherman, the eccentric comedy dancing star, recently featured in "Hellz-a-Poppin...
...CHANGE IN CAST IN "THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA" Colin Keith-Johnston will, play Sir Colenso Ridgeon in Katharine Cornell's production of "The Doctor's Dilemma" when Raymond Massey leaves for Hollywood next %month...
...The popularity of the show, of course, is best evidenced by the receipts, which will total approximately $1,650,000...
...Whereupon in exasperation the two young girls invent an aviator-sweetheart, in whom nobody believes until he drops from heaven...
...The beloved music of the ace song-writing team will be used as background for the spectacular scenes of the revue, which will be titled "Words and Music...
...Both Cascades pools will feature free dancing this summer, according to Mack Rose, managing director of the chain...
...but Marianne makes her feelings for Oliver so obvious that the older boy takes her for granted, acts as though he has no inclination toward her...
...There will be a cast of eighty skaters, singers, dancers, comedians and show girls...
...ter spectacles in the world's largest saft-water swimming pool, and shark fighters in the tank that was used for Dali's "Twenty-Thousand Legs Under the Sea" at last year's World's Fair...
...CASCADES POOL TO OPEN MAY 24th The city's only swimming pool chain, which is the twin Cascades pools, will re-open for the season on Saturday, May 24th...
...A record-number of season lockers have been rented for the mammoth salt water swimming pool at Palisades, which opens on Thursday, May 29th, next...
...Morgan, elevated to starring rank with this film, is coming East from Hollywood to make personal ap-pearances during the run of the picture...
...Pioneer Women For Palestine To Meet May 27-28 The New York Clubs of the Pioneer Women's Organization will meet in Conference on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 27 and 28, at Hotel Claridge, 44th St., near Broadway, New York CitffHarry Berger Dies in New Jersey Harry Berger, active in the labor and Socialist movement for more than 40 years, died recently at his home in Belleville, N. J...
...Other features will include a theatre for the presentation of musical revues and summer-theatre productions, wa...
...The two stars, acclaimed for their performances together in such previous hit films as "The Awful Truth:', and "My Favorite Wife," are presented in a new love story- based on the popular McCall's Magazine novel written by Martha Cheavens and directed and produced by George Stevens...
...w World's' Fajr that will serve to rejuvenate all Coney Island this summer...
...Feature of the Zamzam headlines was the group of 24 young Americans who volunteered for the British Ambulance corps to serve with de Gaulle...
...Special ceremonies have been planned to mark the aquatic inaugural, consisting of a swim meet for the Riverside Cascades plunge, 134th Street and the Drive...
...The training these men received is shown eloquently on the screen, as is the dramatic leavetaking and departure of the ship some months ago...
...A new variety presentation, featuring Captain John' Tibor and his Musical Seals, also starts today on the Roxy stage...
...It will now be presented, sn oratorio form, at Town Hall on May 27, with the original cast re-assembled, and the premiere conductor, Alexander Smallens, conducting a 20-piece orchestra — and probably NEW DIETRICH FILM ~~ AT R.K.O...
...She will offer various vocals with the band...
...On the Music Hall stage, Leon Leonidoff is presenting a new music and dance spectacle suggested by the hit tunes of Richard Redgers and Lorenz Hart...
...The only trouble is that all three girls fall in love with him...
...Miss Cornell will continue her run at the Shubert Theatre into June...
...Bonanova, Victor Kilian, Michael Morris, Charles Stevens, Ann Todd, Cora Sue Collins, Russell Hicks, Maurice Cass and Rex Downing...
...The Jersey playground has been open for the past three weeks, with all the rides and attractions in operation...
...As an extra added attraction, the Paramount if presenting Beatrice Kay...
...Then, of course, everyone is sure this man is the beloved...
...They will play fpr the free show in the open-air amphitheatre, and also for free dancing on both nights in the park Casino...
...boy and the Blonde" at Keith's Flushing, Richmond Hill, the Kenmore, Dyker and Tilyou Theatres...
...Singer'* Midget Village, Ice Show, etc., Ready for Public The original Singer's Midgets have been signed to operate their own midget village tins summer at the Luna Park "World's Fair of 1941...
...A completely new ride area has been constructed with such jive-sounding rides as the Why...
...Oliver and his sister Pernette...
...the future is theirs...
...In Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester it replaces the current showings if "Meet John Doe" and "They Met in Argentina...
...It will ,be the largest midget production ever presented in this country and will feature a diversified troupe of seventy tiny people...
...It will be an expensive musical production on ice with skating and dance routines staged by Catherine Littlefield and music composed by Irvin Graham...
...He was signed for singing roles, but later turned to dramatic work and struck his full stride with his recent appearance in "Kitty Foyle...
...The village will be complete in every detail and will offer continuous entertainment ranging from sports events to theatrical presentations...
...MA NTED WINGS" ON PARAMOUNT SCREEN-MONROE IN PERSON i Vaughn Monroe and his ar-chestra are making their first Broadway theatre appearance this week at the New York Paramount Theatre in conjunction with the first popular price engagement of "I Wanted Wings.'' Featured in person with Monroe are Marylin Duke and Ziggy Talent...
...Others in the cast of important players include Nazimova, Anthony Quinn, J. Carrol Naish, John Carradine, Lynn Bari, Laird Cregar, Vicente Gomez, Pedro de Cordoba, For-tunio...
...saucy soubrette singing star of radio...
...It is called "Kickonga," and in honor of its world's debut at Palisades, a new dance step with the same title will be introduced...
...Filmed in Technicolor, "Blood and Sand" features Linda Darnell and Rita Hayworth as Tyrone Power's leading ladies...
...Louisiana Purchase" Achieves Year's Run on Broadway May 28th "Louisiana Purchase," Buddy Buddy DeSylva expects to keep DeSylva's merry musical satire "Louisiana Purchase" running in on love and politics in a Southern New York through the summer, state—score by Irving Berlin and when it will take to the road in libretto by Morrie Ryskind—at- a long tour covering practically tains a goal only infrequently evrry important city in the reached by a Broadway extrava- country...
...Albert Johnson, who produced the American Jub'lee at last year's New York World's Fair, has just begun rehearsals at the Center Theatre for his "Stars On Ice" extravaganza that will be housed at Luna Park...
...QUEEN OF TIN PAN ALLEY Gladys Shelley, who is as» lovely as her name, has been nominated 1941 Queen of Tin- Pan Alley in a poll just conducted by-Hotel Forrest boniface Ray Potter among five hundred musicians representing every type oj' orchestra...
...shares headline honors...
...Potter, who doublfs as host to local and_ visiting musicians in the hostelry's Musicians Club, questioned these musicians over a period of four weeks: who, he asked, is, in your opinion, this year's fremost feminine songwriter...
...Presented by Raphael and Robert Hakim at Henry Miller's...
...Diana Barrymore plays the role of young Marianne with something of the fervor of her mother, Michael Strange...
...All on Zamzam Saved, McCreary's Feature on Embassy Screens The screen newsreels, ever enterprising, ever eager to show the spot news, while assembling the background of events to make the news intelligible, this week trace the history of the men who made the headlines on the Zamzam, when it was suspected that it -; would be sunk...
...Kavelin, who is the composer of the hit song "I Give You My Word," will introduce an entirely new ditty during his engagement at the Jersey playground...
...BLOOD AND SAND" OPENS AT THE ROXY Vicente Blasco Ibanez' famous novel, "Blood and- Sand," with Tyrone Power as Juan, is the new screen feature at the Roxy Theatre this week...
Vol. 24 • May 1941 • No. 21
