Ebb Tide on Broadway: News and Notes
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Ebb Tide on Broadway: News and Notes By Joseph T. Shipley This Week on the Stage CHAOTIC OPERA. "FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS." Text by Gertrude Stein. Music by Virgil Thompson. ...
...AT RKO THEATRES RKO Manhattan, Bronx m Westchester neighborhood home this week combine "Wagons M at Night," starring Humphry Bogart...
...In piano solo, these same works are thin, dull, and lacking in vitality...
...Joan Benett and Georf Sanders head the cast...
...rather, in the Esperanto vocabulary of contemporary music...
...MAJOR MOVIE "MAJOR BARBARA...
...Midway down the series came-a group of Spanish (South American) songs and dances, with Juan Martinez and Antonita as the dancing team, Sophia Nova singing, and Jeronimo Villarino with both voice and guifaf...
...the souls hard to saje are the souls of the well-to-do...
...Alexander Smallcns conducting...
...His Hagiographa: Three Biblical Narratives, performed with fervor and understanding by the Coolidge Quartet and Irene Jacobi (Victor, $3.00...
...and Radio City, and the Embassy Broad St...
...and Broadway, the Embassy 72nd St...
...He falls harder than a parachutist for Madeleine Carroll, glamorous volunteer chauffeur to- a British Foreign Office official.t Billv Gilbert, sneezy oversired comedian, plays the part of a Mr...
...3, the Violin Concerto and the Fifth Symphony...
...Caught in the conflict of cross-purposes, between the Salvation Army majbr and her father, the millionaire munitions manufacturer, is more than-the usual Shavian supply of hard common sense and keen observation of life's facts...
...Eddie Albert and im Leslie head hrs supporting cut "MAM HUNT" AT THE MB "Man .Hunt...
...is current on the Radio City Music Hall screen...
...Similarly, Gertrude Stein's picture of chaos should be clear...
...Sjbu Sidney...
...You'll find both bombs and firecrackers — entertainment and explosive thought—in "Major Barbara...
...singing sure: Jack Benny's radio propria Sound on Disc By Ralph de Toledano After one has said that the lied is one of the most difficult of the song forms, that Lotte Lehmann stands as one of its foremost exponents, and that she is in most particulars excellent in the new Brahms Recital album (Columbia, $4.00), it seems to me the subject is closed...
...The Handel-Harty Water Music, the "Jupiter" Symphony of Mozart, and Strauss' "¦Don Juan" complete the program...
...CAFE CONCERTS AT -\ MODERN MUSEUM The Wednesday evening" series of "Coffee Concerts" at the Museum of Modern, Art wa» one'^oJL the most popular ever in its auditorium, overflowing throughout...
...Valkna Delores De Leon anii> the er chestras of Froilan Maya m Juanito Sanabria...
...Frederick Jacobi falls into the category of disturbed Romantics who have inherited "modern" music...
...Artur Rodzinski will conduct an all-Tschaikovsky program with Artur Rubinstein as soloist consisting of "Romeo and Juliet," the Fifth Symphony, and the Piano Concerto in B flat minor...
...STRIKE NEWS AND WORLD EVENTS ON EMBASSY SCREENS The- recentf...
...Remembering Gertrude Stein's early studies in echolalia, it would be easy to connect her recent works with the sound-patterns of the insane...
...ANNA NEAGLE IN "SUNNY" OPENS AT MUSIC HALL With some of Jerome Kern's most beloved music, the romantic musical comedy, "Sunny," starring Anna Neagle...
...Miss Stein's work is like a lamppost in a mist...
...What the world needs is what Goethe cried, for on his death-bed: "More light...
...based on 4 novel, "Rogue Male" by Geofij Household, is the new 2&th0a tury-Fox film opening at k Roxy Theatre today...
...If lieder are your meat, you'll ibe delighted by these records, their faithful recording and noise-free surfaces...
...1 Britain holds the Modem Museum through the summer, with films and paintings of the nation at war...
...For intelligent handling of an intelligent and eternal theme— the battle of God and the devils —by all means go and see "Major Barbara...
...As a matter of fact, just for a good time go and see "Major Barbara...
...Walter h geon...
...A feature of the film is the preface, in which the 85-year-old Shaw talks to America...
...Arthur Lehman, and Countess Mercati...
...Frankly, I find lieder completely artificial as musical expression...
...is most appropriate, however, to our day...
...Merle Oberon, dennie Mo>-gan and Rita Hayworth...
...Heard -once and fleetingly over the raclk), his compositions have seemed to 'bear substance and an original use of certain jaza devices...
...Ti: Bogart vehicle is a drama d reckless men and women u presents its star in the role <rfi tough and impregnable bow wis rules with a rod of iron...
...England also gave us some bases, but she'd have been glad to give us those, just out of friendship, Shaw declares...
...Beginning, with "polite" or concert-hall swing, it worked its, way through Gertrude Stein to a cloe-ing jam-session, that must have set the rug-cutters- to gnashing their toes...
...My only appreciation of it can come at _ . —_ hearing a beautiful voice well used—and in this case the artistry is truly superlative...
...Especially effective was the (dancing, Martinez winning acclaim with the speed and variety of his foot-patterns...
...All of the tables have been gone for the opening for about a month but seats in the reserved section are still available at $1.50 each...
...Presented by Louise Crane for one performance (oratorio) at Town Hall...
...On the Isle of Man, for example, or the west coast of Ireland...
...Die Mainacht, Erlau.be mir, etc...
...our southern neighbors, through more "Coffee Concerts...
...Virgil Thompson's music plays ironically about the successive scenes—sometimes as though he were poking fun at Miss Stein...
...He was an attorney for many of the leading trades unions in New York...
...in the midst of a warring world, the revival in oratorio forms seems a tribute to nothingness...
...Ebb Tide on Broadway: News and Notes By Joseph T. Shipley This Week on the Stage CHAOTIC OPERA...
...Film produced by Gabriel Pascal from the play by Bernard Shaw...
...Clever orchestration has hidden the paucity of truly creative talent in Morton Gould...
...in Newark...
...The devil can bribe them too...
...And Major Barbara' and her husband start to learn the armament business...
...In fact, she'd like to give us a few more...
...Shaw refuses to promise not to be bombed before his talk is over...
...Alexander Smallens' will conduct the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th concerts, of the season...
...Fred MacMurray plays the part of an American aviator who ferries bombers across the Atlantic to the RAF...
...The North American plant, producing 10 planes a day, stopped production when local organizers called an outlaw strike...
...Las Adeiitaa...
...settled North American Aviation strike which placed so prominently in the news is featured this week on the four Embassy Newsreel screens...
...On the Music Hall stage Russell Markert is presenting a new spectacle titled "Band Box Revue...
...In the growth of civilization, which are the more important...
...Wynn Murray, blonde singing star of the current Musical Hall stage revue, is held over for the new show and heads a cast whkh includes The Revners, Selma Kaye, Raymond Wilbert, The Travelers, the Music Hall Rockettes, O^rps, de Ballet...
...And she is the one that is- converted...
...If she is (as many think) kidding the public, it's a sorry jest...
...The remainder of the field seats are, as always, $1.00 and the upper tiers are priced at 50 cents and 25 cents...
...Cemetery Ceremony Honors Meyer London On Sunday, June 8, representatives of the progressive trade-union movement, and Jewish labor fraternal bodies paid their annual respects to Meyer London, leading Labor and Socialist spokesman, whose untimely death occured in 1026...
...The gathering ^ was at his tombstone in the Workmen's Circle cemetery...
...Milton Berle heads the in person show, which also features Vincent Lopez and his orchestra, with Anne Barrett, Sonny Skyler, Ben Yost's Variety 8, The Jans-leys, and as an extra added attraction Joan Merrill...
...Except that half the world has gone crazy...
...but he himself—in the intellectual world — has touched off a lot of dynamite...
...Her opera "Four Saints in Three Acts" may therefore represent a mood of mankind today...
...While the play puts^fhis in terms of the Salvation Army and God, it is clear all around us as a basic problem of the spirit...
...you bribe them with bread and butter...
...is1 Hebrew: its thematic material does not even have the Ashkenazi Hebraicism of Bloch but is...
...he represented the 14th Congressional district in the House for several terms, and was one of the two Socialist Congressman ever elected...
...but with the rich, he's already had his licks...
...Morton Goud at tkte- Piano (Decca, $3.50) is apt commentary on the theory that cleverness plus classical training plus superficial jazz mannerisms can create music of more than glancing interest...
...the film version presses its points home...
...After a half-dozen playings, I find my liking of it growing—and this speaks well for its durability...
...Four Saints in Three Acts" is a decadent momento of expatriate Americans dancing on the brink of a volcano...
...Pierpont Morgan Hamilton, Vice-Chairman, will be, present the first,sight as will Vice-Chairmen Mrs...
...Its program, the Books of Job, Ruth and Joshua...
...In short, it is good music, though not innovating or great...
...Industrial history was made after pleas by CIO leaders and mediation officials had failed when President Roosevelt called out the Army to_take oyer,, ^ NEW HAVANA-MADRID SHOW SOON TO OPEN The new Havana-Madrid siw, which is schedued for the thitc week in June, will be constrain to represent all of LatnMinak The numbers will include uas of the song and dance of i? South America and the Vasts, dies as it is possible to get n a fast-moving, one-hour t>nk...
...Concerts will be given every night through August 13, at 8.30 p. m. The orchestra is that of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York...
...Car Tapia...
...It is bad art, however, for a novelist to draw a bore and...
...PopopSpppoulos, prorietor of a Greek restaurant...
...But she fights through to a new realization: it is easy to save souls in hungry bodies...
...also starting today, beta-lines Dennis Day...
...Among the ten Brahms songs included are Sonntag, Auf dent Kirchhofe, O liebliche Wan-gen...
...Henry Mar-tyn Alexander, Mrs...
...This vital phase of the national defense problem is on view at the Embassy 46th St...
...and Broadway, the Embassy 50th St...
...Meyer London's funeral in 4926 brought out the largest crowd New York's east side has ever seen.- The pilgrimage to Meyer London's grave has become an annual event...
...When played as an opera, with illuminating sets, the work was an exciting experiment for those with time on their minds...
...is sensitive, full of rich harmonies, yet often diffuse and lacking in profoundly...
...make his picture boring...
...which boasts of tfeni stars...
...On Friday night Alexander Smallens return's to the Stadium for his eighth conseautive season...
...ONE NIGHT IN LISBON" OPENS AT PARAMOUNT Starring the screen's new popular team, Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray, Edward H. Griffith, producer-director, has turned out- a comedy story of Europe's last gay city, "One Night in Lisbon," which is current at the New York Paramount Theatre...
...On his program are two novelties, the first American concert performance of Arthur Benjamin's "Cotillon" and the first New York concert performance of Aaron Copland's Suite from his ballet, "Billy the Kid...
...Major Barbara" has not been played here in some time...
...The new- Roxy stage •pram tion...
...I use the quotes because their modernity exists mainly in idiom...
...but we hope that in the Fall we shall pleasantly renew acquaintance _with...
...England sends us his old plays...
...The phonograph record has betrayed this so-called successor to Gershwin, revealing the slight-ness ofl his melodic sense and his inability to develop a theme...
...They make a warming drink...
...The Salvation Army lassie scorns her father's work...
...Meyer'London was one of the leaders of the Jewish people of the East Side...
...Patricia Morison, Billie Burke, Dame May Whitty, Edmund Gwenn, Reginald Derny and Marcel Dalio complete the cast...
...Charles S. Guggenheimer, Chairman, and Mrs...
...but, though lively and individually effective, its movements fail to build into a concordant structure...
...We've given England our old destroyers, he says...
...with "Affectioaitr Yours...
...if she is serious, it's an idle gesture...
...Glee Club, and Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Erno Rapee...
...Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia and Sam A. Lewisohn, Honorary Chairman of the Stadium Concerts, will both speak...
...On Saturday night Albert Spalding is soloist under Alexander Smallens in an all-Beethoven program consisting of the "Leonore" Overture No...
...Rodzinski will direct only the opening night...
...The "Flamenco FoUies," «. rently at the Havana-M«dij( features Rosita Ortega...
...Stadium Concerts to Begin 24th Year Thursday With the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra playing "The Star Spangled Banner" the Stadium Concerts will open its 24th season Thursday night at the Lewisohn Stadium of the College of the City of New York...
...tion...
...but he promises tp visit her shelter if she in return will visit his munitions plant...
...Men in uniform will be admitted to the concerts free every -Saturday and Sunday...
Vol. 24 • June 1941 • No. 24
