Author of "Pal Joey": Novelist Into Playwright
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Author of "Pal Joey": Novelist Into Playwright By Joseph T. Shipley This Week on the Stale Stadium Concerts Start The Lewisohn Stadium has swung to a brilliant start, in the first week of the...
...THe Roxy stage presentation, "Parade of Youth," also remains for a third week...
...Also, on Monday, with Hugh Ross handling the baton, an evening that held some 14,000 under the spell of the Schola Cantorum and the Eva Jessye Choir, vwith Paul Robeson as solo songster...
...and indeed the concerts there this season are starting out with a high leval of good material and special numbers...
...Jean Muir and Sanford If...
...M. S. Caiman, Bela Low, Dr...
...Author of "Pal Joey": Novelist Into Playwright By Joseph T. Shipley This Week on the Stale Stadium Concerts Start The Lewisohn Stadium has swung to a brilliant start, in the first week of the summer concert season up at City College...
...Both he and his wife...
...The management will play host daily at the cocktail hour to their permanent guests and their friends...
...The latter is a sample of social problem intrusion into art...
...Molly, have been in the Socialist movement all their lives...
...Berlin was attended by more than 300 representatives of trade unions, fraternal and socialist organizations...
...MARINE ROOM OF ADELON IN LONG BEACH OPENS The Hotel Adelon, of Long Beach, Long Island, one of the finest shore hotels on the Eastern Seaboard, announces the opening of the new luxurious Marine Room today, Saturday evening, June 28...
...With Abbott on the coast, and Rodgers and Hart working at their respective pianos and typewriters in New York, John O'Hara buckled down to the task of writing a play about his man Joey and Joey's mice, which is the latter's complimentary term for pretty girls...
...Others in the cast include Georj-ette Harvey, Alfred Ryder, fcjd Brown, Jr...
...Selected by Mrs...
...Among those who spoke were: B. Lilienbloom, Morris Ber-man, Alexander Kahn, Algernon Lee, Judge Jacob Panken, Dr...
...Chips" in "Good-bye Mr...
...Morris Bein was a quietj and unassuming character, an intelligent and good-natured (individual...
...A crowd of 24,000 hailed conductor Rodzinski's fiery handling of the iPhil harmonic on opening night, and the brillu.it work of Artur Rubinstein as piano soloist...
...and Broadway, 50th St...
...Russia is supposed to be an enigma, but the newsreels on view this week on the Embassy screens —at 46th St...
...Priscilla Lane in the title role, is how at the RKO Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester Theatres...
...All this was new and exciting to O'Hara and completely dissipated his reputation for Irish procrastination...
...Sergius In-german, Joseph Leventhal, Hed-wig Wachenheim, Herman Volk...
...again an evening of enthusiasm...
...As the popularity of the articles grew, so too did the personality v>f Pal Joey, until O'Hara felt the urge to make him three dimensional...
...One emerges from the theatre with the scene of the flat Ukraine wheat fields vivid in mind—with the clash of Nazi and Communist troops clear against the panoramo presented by the newsreels filling in the background of contemporary history on the march...
...The occasion was Dr...
...Louis Panken, August Claessens and others spoke at the services...
...There can be few more pleasant places to spend an evening than under the stars at the Stadium...
...Rodgers and Hart worked with them, plotting the spots where their tuneful numbers would break into the continuity...
...RUSSIA AT WAR...
...Starting a special pre-release engagement well in advance of its national showing, the film presents Miss Garson in a role which is expected to add measurably to the stature attained by the star as "Mrs...
...The associate feature is "Devil Dogs of the Air" and presents James Cagney and Pat O'Brien in this grand comedy-drama of the aviation corps, of the U. S. Marines...
...He's a heel already, we'll make him the first hero of his kind," returned Rodgers...
...This is no "inside" stuff —but it is human stuff...
...The featured cast of the picture is topped by Thomas Mitchell, Eddie Albert, John Qualen, George Tobias and Aline MacMahon.^ "Out of the Fog," directed by Anatole Litvak, is based on Irwin Shaw's stage hit, "The Gentle People...
...Radio City, 72nd St...
...Simon Berlin and Mrs...
...Silverberg, Matthew M; Levy, Julia Primoff, William E. Bohn, Eli Rosenblatt, Dr...
...For George Abbott, its producer and director, and Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, creators of its music and lyrics, declare, affirm, and loudly proclaim their only purpose in doing the play is to provide entertainment as hilarious and joyful as their joint talents can concoct...
...Bob and Dorothy are assisted by Lynne Overman and Eddie Bracken...
...AT R.K.O...
...1* production was directed by Sin-ford Meisner and the scenery it-signed by Paul Morrison...
...The former is on the Star Spangled Theatre and the latter on Strouse's "Invisible Theatre...
...Abbott and O'Hara, in which they laid out the outline of the story...
...Gladney herself for the part, Miss Garson appears in' the dramatic and heart-touching story as a woman who devoted her life to finding homes for babies...
...The "in person" show headed by Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians also remains a second week...
...Strouse's rise has been rapid recently in the radio field...
...300 Laborites Fete Dr...
...Combination The fact that John CHara's novels and short stories are considered by critics to belong to modern "Americana" in no way implies that "Pal Joey," his musical comedy hit at the Barry-more Theatre, with Vivienne Segal and Gene Kelly in leading roles, is highbrow...
...Among the organizations represented were the Social Democratic Federation, the Workmen's Circle, The Jewish Daily Forward, the New Leader, the Rand School, the Jewish Socialist VerbandT, the International Ladies Garment Workers, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and many other unions...
...per will present Ferrer anc m-actress wife Uta Hagen q tlx comedy success by Elliott Ntfwt and James Thurber as the tint bill of their twelve week maw...
...Berlin's seventieth birthday...
...Ruth Nelson, Art Smith and Peggy Meyer...
...Pal Joey," according to those three experienced laugh provokers, is a unique product of Broadway, a perfect character around which to weave a musical comedy...
...The all-Tschaikowsky program drew tremendous applause...
...ON ALL EMBASSY NEWSREEL SCREENS There's a standard newspaper "gag" in this war that diplomats take week-ends in the country, and Hitler takes countries over the week-ends...
...Naturally he had to amplify other characters among Joey's pals, but this was not too- hard because O'Hara knows his night clubs and their habitues, as well as the less Bohemian classes, as he proved when he first emerged as an author of note with his novels "Appointment in Samarra" and "Butterfield 8." With several commitments to publishers and motion pictuTgv companies, O'Hara is at present writing in Hollywood...
...Again the encores were the special treat, when to the spirituals that show him at his best, the singer added "01' Man River," "Scandalize My Name," and "Water Boy...
...Far from it and quite the contrary...
...A glance ahead shows Mischa Elman next Monday, and Josef Hofmann the Monday after...
...Heel did you say...
...The in person show features Will Bradley, and his orchestra, Terry Allen, Lynn Gardner, Virginia Austin, Jane Froman and Danny Kaye...
...Chips," and Elizabeth Bennett in "Pride and Prejudice...
...Against a background -of running-wild tanks, comedy warfare, parachute drops and catchy new tunes, the film promises to be an even funnier show than the last comedy hit starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby...
...but the most effective playing was in Rubirtstein's generous encores, four pieces—a Chopin Waltz and Nocturne, "Der Falla's "Ritual Dance" and Villa-Lobos' "Pol-ichinelle"—that swept the audience on to their feet...
...The remainder of the week, with Smallens conducting, gave opportunity to hear Albert Spalding in a Beethoven concerto for violin and orchestra...
...and Broadv^ay, and Broad St., Newark — help the theatergoer dramatize in his mind the jumbling, confusing picture given by the flash headlines of the daily papers: Here we see the growth of the Red Army, the tank maneuvers, the colossal marches in Kremlin Square, the parachute troops—there is an insight into the man who is the Red Army soldier...
...Did I hear you right" asked O'Hara...
...Dancing and entertainment will be offered nightly, and corsages for the ladies will be a permanent feature...
...but such items should be kept for group indignation meetings, not gi ven at concerts where one hopes for enjoyment...
...But his present success as bock writer for a musical comedy is so exciting that he will return -soon to do another with music and lyrics by the unbeatable team of Rodgers and Hart...
...MAN HUNT" HOLDS AT ROXY FOR THIRD WEEK "Man Hunt," the 20th Century-Fox screen version of Geoffrey Household's popular novel,"Rogue Majg...
...He is charming yet bawdy, romantic yet hard-boiled, a glamorous night club entertainer who pursues attractive girls as avidly as he goes after jobs...
...Berlin on 70th Birthday On Thursday evening, June 19th, a dinner in honor of Dr...
...The main songs of the evening were the Coronation Scene from "Boris Godounoff" and "Ballad for Americans," rendered with great spirit by Paul Robeson and the large chorus...
...And paying the check in a hurry, he rushed O'Hara over to George Abbott's office to develop the idea there...
...JOSE FERRER IN "TMf MALE ANIMAL" OPfHi AT THE COUNTY TfJUft Jose Ferrer will doff the ajf mantilla and cigar of "Charier:, Aunt," for the, first tiraej, year when he opens the saw at the County Theatre, Sufcv N. Y., on Monday night, JuwS in "The Male Animal...
...He was a leading member...
...v IRVING ST ROUSES RISE RAPID IN RADIO Former publicity agent Irving Strouse has two radio shows on to-morrow (June 29...
...Abbott, Roger* and Hart Prove Successful...
...All rhythm has some effect on us...
...For Rodgers and Hart and George Abbott have formed a habit of doing musicals together...
...His shows have been played by Eva Le Gallienne, Richard Waring, Beverly Roberts, Patsy O'Shea, Edward Trevor, Lionel Stander, SOB HOPE IN NEW ARMY LIFE FILM AT PARAMOUNT Loaded with Bob Hope gags, "Caught in the 'Draft" is the featured attraction at the N. Y. Paramount Theatre this week...
...Filled with a wealth of brand new Army gags, delivered in the inimitable Hope fashion, the story describes a rookie's life in the Army...
...Under the chairmanship of August Claessens short messages of felicitation were given by a large number of friends and colleagues...
...There were numerous conferences between...
...of the Workmen's Circle, was influential in Local 1 of the Waiters' Union, A goodly number of representatives of various organizations attended the funeral services last Monday...
...Morris Beln, Active SDFer, Unionist, Dies The sudden death of Morris Bein last Saturday has taken from the Social Democratic Federation one of its most active and loyal members...
...begins its third and final _.week today at the Roxy Theatre...
...Rodgers, always avidly on the search for material about which to weave his songs, was inspired...
...Despite our caviling at this one number, the Stadium crowd hailed it...
...A trip to the Embassy News-reel theatres this week will give you valuable added ammunition for the inevitable war arguments with your friends...
...At that time they were in the midst of collecting fancy returns from "Too Many Girls" and Abbott was ready to depart for Hollywood to turn it into a screen musical, they had nothing on the agenda for the coming—season...
...Bob plays the part of the recruit and Dorothy Lamour is the beaut...
...Before Abbott went west, the deal was set...
...She is seen in a portrayal of the dramatic real-life role of Mrs...
...George Abbott has already signed contracts to do this one in the early fall...
...THEATRES "Million Dollar Baby" with...
...Over a couple of highballs in a New York bistro one day last summer, author O'Hara asked his friend, Dick Rodgers, well-known composer of musical comedy scores such as "I Married an Angel," "Higher and Higher," "Connecticut Yankee," "The Boys from Syracuse" and "Too Many Girls," what to do about Joey...
...Road to Zanzibar...
...If composers want a really good poem on the theme, let them seek Ridgeley Torrence' "Blackbird...
...Make him the hero of a musical comedy," he said...
...This "poor man's Bing Crosby" originated in a series of fictional letters which O'Hara wrote for the New Yorker magazine...
...Morris Bein was active in the Socialist Party in Harlem during the great campaigns that resulted in the elections of August Claessens and Maurice Caiman to the Assembly and the Board of Aldermen...
...On WJZ he has written a script for Fran-cine Larrimore and Donald Cook, called "A Great Journey," and on WINS he has Irene Delroy in his "Stranger in Town...
...MUSIC HALL OFFERS "BLOSSOMS IN THE DUST" With Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon in the starring noles, M-G-M's Technicolor production of "Blossoms in the Dust" is now having its world premiere showing at the Radio City Music Hall...
...Additional facility for hotel guests is the recently constructed terraced roof for sun bathers, this in conjunction with the many and varied comforts so notable for this hostelry...
...Edna Gladney of Fort Worth, founder of the Texas Children's Home and Aid Society and celebrated child welfare worker...
...Last Sunday saw Hitler on the march once more —this time the stunning reversal of policy, a march to the East...
...Before that, be took our breath with "Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen," a splendid "Prayer," "Balm In Gilead," and the amusing "It Ain't Necessarily So," from Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess...
...STRAND HOLDS "OUT OF THE FOG" A SECOND WEEK "Out of the- Fog," Warner Bros.' new film starring Ida Lu-pino and John Garfield, is being held over for a second week at the Strand Theatre starting today...
...and the chorus presentation of "And They Lynched Him on a Tree...
...The present poem is neither poetry nor good music nor their combination into art, but a piece that seeks to appeal through the subject plus a crude rhythm...
Vol. 24 • June 1941 • No. 26
