Stadium Concerts to Give Good Music Free to Service Men
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Stadium Concerts to Give Good Music Free to Service Men By Joseph T. Shipley. This Week on the Stage FOREIGN WILES* "NATIVE SON." By Paul Green and Richard Wright, from the latters novel. ...
...One of the Saroyan innovations was a series of performances to which he invited the general public without charge, a precedent-breaking move which left experienced producers aghast...
...Matt Sedgewick, manager of the Jerome Cascades, further announces that first-aid classes will also be held again this summer at the Bronx tank with Bill Friedman supervising...
...Scenic Innovations to Play Part in Open-Air Opera Season The evening of June 22nd will not only inaugurate a season of 12 Sunday performances o{ opera in the open but, according to the management of the Triboro Stadium Civic Opera, will introduce several novelties in production...
...Richard Wright, who wrote "Native Son," may have been moved by a pious desire to improve the Negro's lot...
...The truth is, of course, that Bigger is not representative...
...Indeed, the lawyer cries out that the parents of the dead girl are partly responsible for her murder, because they profit by the system into which the poor Negro that killed her was born...
...But Richard Wright is wrong...
...j With the appearance the confusion ends, for, unique though they are, these boys offer far more than mere freak eye appeal...
...It's called 'The Magic Carpet," and presents something entirely new in funny amusement park devices...
...Fort Totten, Staten...
...At the same time, Mrs, Charles S. Guggenheimer, Chairman of the Stadium Concerts, announces that to the list of major soloists already announced for the summer has been added the name of Mischa Elman who will play the Tchaikovsky Concerto on Monday evening, June 30, the night Eu-genejjoossens makes his Stadium debut as conductor...
...the extreme has come into its own...
...Gene and Don Beverly,' co-Ieadcrs and vocalists of this amazing musical aggregation, are so very much alike-that in competition with 300 pairs of twins they were recently selected as the "most identical...
...Goossens' ten concerts he will have two other soloists: .John Corigliano, summer concertmaster of the Philharmonic-Symphony who will play the Bruch G minor Concerto on Thursday evening, July 3, and Josef Hofman who will be heard in the Chopin E minor Concerte on Monday, Jury 7. This will be Mr...
...May Robson...
...This entertainment will be -presented every Wednesday night, and will be under the direction *f Larry Rosenthal...
...We make a spectacle of insanity and murder for public mirth...
...its dramatic form, is a blow to the harmonious adjustment of our mu*-~ tual problems...
...Love's Old Sweet Song" followed, and now we have "The Beautiful People...
...This compilation of-contem-porary history is at the Embassy 46th St...
...ried out when they are sung anc acted in front of painted cannj drops or weak wood wings, which are subject to flapping when attacked by the slightest breast...
...There are slides, moving walls—and best of all—a thrilling ride on a magic carpet...
...The first, "My Heart's in the Highlands," offered three years ago, established him as one of the most imaginative and exciting playwrights in America...
...In six short weeks, his latest comedy, "The Beautiful People," playing at the Lyceum Theatre in New York City, has paid back its production cost and is on the way to earning several hundred per cent on its investment...
...Also on the screen, Tex Mc-Cray, famed news commentator who recently flew to London and back, discusses the Battle of the Mediterranean...
...Each one is an accomplished musician, and they work together in a smooth fashion...
...The young man from San Francisco whose plays are among the prize winners and whose short stories are in the collections of America's best tales, has demonstrated to the old-timers that a playwright can turn producer— and make money...
...We prate of, democracy, he shouts...
...even his own people cannot endure him...
...outdoor operatic performanc« should 'be spectacular in mtan and cannot be successfully «r...
...and Radio City and the Embassy Broad St., Newark...
...It is a theatrical record...
...the second, "The Time of Your Life," won Both the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, the only time in theatrical history that one play has carried off both • honors...
...Crude violence cries for sympathy, and wins applause...
...As soon as Bigger is arrested, however, he becomes a martyr...
...When - they address him, Bigger trembles...
...From the ballet theatre* he brought to the legitimate stage Eugene Loring, one of America's outstanding choreographers as well as a dancer, and entrusted him with the leading male role...
...KAISER'S CAREER IN REVIEW ON ALL EMBASSY SCREENS 'Digging into its musty files, the newsreels showing at the Embassy screens have pieced together a fascinating visual story of the career of Wilhelm IL, Kaiser of Germany from...
...In a violent speech which the Judge somehow does not interrupt, the Communist l»wyer-cries that only when those downtrodden millions rise and use their power, will justice reign...
...He is no such thing...
...he follows the Communist false pattern of oppression, not the true pattern of the self-respecting, hard working, clear thinking Negro who is rising to his proper place in the American fellowship...
...Mobley Lushanya, lovely (km-kee-American...
...For ours is a ruthless age...
...to the others, too young to remember, it makes vivid the stories and events detailed in the high school and college history texts...
...Loring's success was an overnight triumph...
...But William Saroyan proceeded on the theory that a producer had no right to charge for seats until a play was in perfect shape...
...Native Son," in...
...he is afraid everything he does will be turned against him...
...POOL NEWS A weekly series of amateur nights will be staged at' the Jerome Cascades swimming pool, 168 St...
...He has found an actor for the main role whose powerful performance carries the audience along...
...Her co-singers will be Sydnsy Eaynet, Carmela Ponselle and Mortyt Thomas...
...but our words are a mockery , while such conditions endure...
...The press, for the main part, was superlatively enthusiastic— six members of the Drama Critics' Circle selected "The Beautiful People" as the best play of the season.—and the theatre-going public agreed with the critics to the extent of supporting the play in such numbers that the production was paid for in six weeks...
...Island...
...Stalin's nomination for the annual Lenin Literary Prize is the Orson Welles-John Houseman production of "Native Son...
...What led Bigger to kill was this bumptious conceit of the Communist woman...
...But to sow discord is what the Communists want...
...At the St...
...The first time she met the Negro, without seeking to understand him she "proved" her fellow-feeling by stroking his cheek, rubbing against his binky hair, insisting that he eat with her...
...Indeed, by every trick of ingenious directing, Orson Welles tries to keep us from thinking, to rouse and sweep us in s 'single surge., oi emotion...
...No less than four well known theatrical producers .sought to buy a share in the.show, but William Saroyan turned down all offers...
...Bewildered by all this outburst, Bigger sits at the table...
...The Beautiful People" is the fourth of Saroyan's theatrical creations to reach Broadway...
...A line "that's left many a poor fish dangling...
...Palisades Park Continues to Attract With Novelties and Free Features One of the most novel bapds in the country today will be presented at Palisades Amusement Park, N. J., for a full week, starting Saturday, June 7th, when the Beverly Twins and their all-twin orchestra are presented for the free show and free dancing...
...When royalties from the eminently successful "The Time of Your Life" came pouring in he decided to use the money in backing his own plays and announced the current comedy...
...He'll never make money that way," they said...
...A new attraction made its debut at Palisades last week-end, making the 66th feature of the Jersey fun center...
...and Broadway,'the EmbassyoOth St...
...The enterprise did not appeal to the bankers...
...CONCERTS ON SATURDAY 1MB c II MO ay TO MF CB?f TO SOUMERS AND SAILORS good music for the Army and Navy this summer...
...The play makes an appeal for fair play for the Negro...
...Then the end gets lost in the meanness...
...The free performances continued until the playwright-producer felt that his comedy was ready for paid .audiences...
...I refer to the Communists' complete disregard of other points of view...
...This will be the violinist's third Stadium engagement...
...They eat— and drink—together...
...Bjsdinny...
...As a counterbalance, he is a bully with Negroes...
...For the leading lady, he searched the byways until he found Betsy Blair, who is being hailed as the discovery of the season...
...MILLION DOLLAR BABY" OPENS TODAY AT STRAND The new Warner Bros, romantic comedy, "Million Dollar Baby," starring Pr^scilla Lane, Jeffrey Lynn and Ronald Reagan, will have its Broadway premiere at the Strand Theatre starting today...
...With money in his pocket he could afford to be independent, end he had several ideas he desired to put into operation without restraint...
...Instead of there being millions like him, there's hot one in a milliok of his kind...
...What wonder that, when he has carried the drunken girl upstairs, he is afraid of being caught in a white girl's bedroom that to hush her drunken voice he smothers her to death...
...Information about the concerts will be distributed by the Stadium through cooperation with the Women's Division of the United Sejo^^e.JOrganizations which will post programs at Fort Dix, New Jersey...
...He has grown in a morbid ' fear and hatred of whites...
...be exemplifies no problem...
...Sam Wood directed both pictures...
...Three women pianists have been engaged, Ania Dorf-mann, Ray Lev, and Veronica Mimoso...
...he is so far from a typical case as to be unique...
...The distaff side is also well represented on the soloist list this summer...
...and Broadway, the Embassy 72nd St...
...Production by Orson Welles...
...MUSIC HALL HOLDS BILL "^Hsrving played to 81,353 persons over the Decoration Day weekend, "Penny Serenade," co-starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, has established itself as one of the season's cinema hits and will continue for a third week at the Radio City Music Hall...
...But actually it is unfair all the way through...
...The screen history traces the rise of the Kaiser, the expanding military strength, tJie outbreak of war, the triumphs and defeats—the final pictures of an old man puttering at Doom, growing embittered at seeing a lance corporal advance farther than the old Imperial house...
...In addition to presenting Broadway playgoers with a delightful comedy, William Saroyan has enhanced the theatrical season with two "finds" which have received nationwide acclaim...
...By that reasoning, we should pity > every kidnapper and blame the parents...
...But no, again...
...And oddly enough ,the authors, careful as they have been to present Communism in a glowing light, have really exposed one of its chief flaws...
...Every Saturday and Sunday night- during the S tadiu m Co n c e rts' .. eight- week Sf« son service men . in anilom will be admitted free to the field saatiiai "Ufaa...
...The whole play is as unreal as Communist blessings, as false as Hitler's word...
...under the label of liberalism get innocents to play your game: the end justifies the means...
...I do not mean the obviousness of the propaganda...
...Under the cover of that applause, the Communist slips in the poisoned dagger of his plea...
...The unique investiture, which should result, will be in accord with the ideas of Maurice Frank, general manager of the Triboro Stadium Civic Opera, who believes thi...
...Jones" at the RKO Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester Theatres this week, champions the...
...If so, we'll have none of them...
...Some emotional response springs from the very violence, the swearing, shouting, shooting, shaking the stage...
...Last summer the young playwright, imbued with the idea ..of producing his own plays, approached the Chase National Bank, requesting a loan of $15,-000 to be used lor theatrical production...
...BLOOD AND SAND" HOLDS THIRD WEEK The 20th Century-Fox Technicolor production of "Blood and Sand" begins its third week today atlhe Roxy Theatre, Tyrone Power is starred as Juan in this new film version of Vicente Blasco Ibanez' famous novel, with Rita Hayworth and Linda Darnell featured...
...Relying on the night's sky as a natural black-out, in 1 inverse ratio to custom in indoor stage presentation, the outdoor performance of Verdi's "Aida," the opera chosen to initiate the schedule at Triboro Stadium, Randall's Island, will be marked by the following nuances in stagecraft: Paradoxically, instead of a curtain rising and lights coming up...
...There are the usual world-wide news events...
...The screen play of the new picture was written by Casey Robinson, Richard Macaulay and Jerry Wald from a story by Leonard Spigelgass...
...A corps of woodsmen are now cutting down and gathering the trees to be used in carrying out the design and specifications of Harold Lane, director of the New York School of Floral Designing, who is a member of the opera company's technical staff...
...Fort Slocum, New Rochelle...
...During Mr...
...the blinders of light focused on the audience will be shut off, when the conductor first raises his baton, and the attendants will •view a forest of natural wood in place of simulating scenery by way of upstage decor...
...But the moment Bigger gets a job as a chauffeur, his wealthy boss's daughter insists on hobnobbing with him...
...He played there in 1936 and 1938...
...The Riverside Cascades pool, 134th Stret and Riverside Drive, will stage a series of comedy diving events every Sunday in its separate pool, which is the only one of its kind the East...
...WILLIAM SAROYAN DOES IT AGAIN •WiHiam'Saroyan" has' done it again...
...Just as she mishandles Bigger, the play itself misuses the Negro It shows a violent murderer, then cries he is typical...
...In more than mass brutality we have returned to the Middle Ages...
...There is absent even the conventional pattern of rape...
...Nazism makes a glory of savage slaughter...
...We are told to sympathize with this murderer with these millions...
...Giuseppe Bameoshekwill conduct...
...It is his first fling at .play producing...
...Million Dollar Baby" is in the same light-hearted vein as last season's "My Love Came Back," which was also directed by Bernhardt...
...The more friendly she acts, the more scared the poor negro...
...New York department store salesgirl in a manner, not unlike Ginger Rogers' portrayal of the white collar office girl in "Kitty Foyle...
...Hofjriann's fourth consecutive Stadium appearance...
...Even the old and established producers are now willing to admit that "The Beautiful People" has demonstrated that William Saroyan is as successful as a producer as he has been as a playwright...
...He is such an extreme and wretched figure from the first, there is so little .chance of his escape, that our sympathy goes out to him, as it might to a fly in a spider's ' tangles...
...James...
...is scheduled to essay the role of Aida...
...The first concert open to men in the camps around New York will be Saturday, ajghiv June 21, when an all-Beethoven program will haire an American conductor and an American soloist — Alexander SrnaHens-*1 a'n3 Albert Spalding...
...We do not stop to reflect that the fly carries twenty-seven diseases, or that Bigger is a dangerous criminal type...
...As if that wasn't enough, the band itself consists of seven pairs of identical twins...
...She is friendly not for his sake—he is scared to death—but because it's the Party line...
...We are told that he saw his father killed b ywhite .-men...
...Communism makes treachery a public policy: change your name, conceal your membership...
...Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, and at the Brooklyn Navy Yard...
...1890 until the defeat of the first Reich in 1918...
...JEAN ARTHUR GLORIFIES SALESGIRLS IN COMEDY AT R.K.Oi THEATRES Jean Arthur in "The Devil and Miss...
...It represents Bigger Thomas as symbol of his suffering race...
...The Kaiser Wilhelm newsreel shots will bring back nostalgic reminiscences for some...
...Lee Patrick and Helen Westley have the principal supporting roles in the film, -which was directed by Curtis Bernhardt...
...This Week on the Stage FOREIGN WILES* "NATIVE SON...
...we ought all by now be shuddering at the shadow of a murder lurking at our door...
...He kills her, not in hatred, but by accident, out of sheer funk...
...Rookies on Parade," a comedy-with-music depicting _ army life and featuring Bob Crosby, Ruth Terry, Gertrude Niesen and Bid-die Foy, Jr., accompanies "The Devil and Miss Jones" at RKO Theatres...
...This is supposed to be a realistic play...
...Saroyan waited...
...For even when people see through a thing, if it's repeated often enough it tends to sway them...
...Three motion picture companies are persistent in their endeavors to lure her to Hollywood...
...Fort Hancock, Governor's Island...
...and Jerome Ave., Bronx, this summer, for the sixth consecutive year...
...The Communist lawyer proclaims that Bigger's fear and hate and consequent crime are not an isolated phenomen:—no, there are "millions" like him...
Vol. 24 • June 1941 • No. 23
