Embassy Newsreel Film Features Dramatic 'Convoy to Russia'
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Embassy Newsreel Film Features Dramatic 'Convoy to Russia' This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr. Shipley reviews each opening night of a play on WEVD at 11:50 p. m. "BEAT THE BAND."...
...British woman General sees WAACS parade...
...JOHNNY LONG and his orchestra doing their bit for Uncle Sam...
...We are producing planes that are the hardest hitting and which will give us the mightiest air power on earth...
...Navy' heoes honored at Pearl Harbor...
...Book by George Marion, Jr., and George Abbott...
...In one of the grandest love stories the screen has ever told, Miss Davis rises to the greatest heights of her entire dramatic career...
...On this anniversary of the criminal Nazi assault against peace-loving nations everywhere, we stress again our close ties with those numerous German underground fighters who have continued their fight for freedom against Nazi tyranny...
...he will appear in the picture with Eddie Cantor as straight man in the sequence...
...t the "Star and Garter" intermission they are selling her latest chiller thriller "Mother Finds a Body...
...SIDNEY STONE, the belligerent Patsy of "Three Men on a Horse...
...To date the mobil- . ization of the United States is not fully completed...
...of the Russian-discussion girl vs...
...Those millions of soldiers who are fighting for a durable peace are marching with you...
...has done so w«Q that he is to be featured along with William Lynn...
...He cannot win against the tremendous industrial power of the United States...
...JACK BENNY to do another picture for Warners, Ann Sheridan will be his leading lady, the lucky dog...
...Claude Rains, as the psychiatrist called in to help Carlotta find the road to happiness, gives a fine performance...
...Spectacular forest fire sequences were made in Montana and Oregon...
...or by eradicating whole towns and murdering . their civilian populations...
...In the countries now occupied by Hitler the murderous Gestapo today is wading in blood...
...Gene Krupa and his band, which appeared for the fifth week of "The Major and the Minor," holds over the headline in person, feature with the new screen attraction...
...At the iuth Street Theatre...
...A newcomer to Broadway, Susan Miller, carries a big share of these with good voice and engaging charm...
...Eagles Nest" is the title of the latest issue of "Your Ringside Seat," showing in the new program of latest world-wide news events at all Embassy Newsreel Theatres...
...Carl Baggee, wife of a young Navy flier...
...But her population of 132 millions, her abundant natural resources and her enormous power of industrial production are being organized for the final combat...
...Don't wait till all your homes and workshops are totally destroyed...
...Settings by Samuel Leve...
...Likewise Great Britain, the British Dominions and Russia have not yet ftilly developed the potentialities of their combined efforts...
...Lyrics by George Marion, Jr...
...DAVIS PICTURE, PLAYS HOLLYWOOD "Now, Voyager" is Bette Davis' newest picture, in which she is co-starred with Paul Henreid, who will be remembered for his roles in "Night Train" and "Joan of Paris...
...V. Kaltenborn, ace screen journalist and war news analyst, ahm headlines 'die new program appearing in the latest release of his popular weekly, series "Kaltenborn Edits the News...
...Eugene Pallette, Lyase Overman and Regis Toomey...
...MICHAEL TODD moving right into the B'way picture with a vengeance...
...You must learn the truth about the criminal and disastrous leadership in Germany...
...BROADWAY ECHOES By Den McCloud This .Week's Heroes: The Occupied Countries' Revolteers...
...up to you tostop the slaughter by rising agiihst your own suppressors, by fraternising with the oppressed and enslaved peoples of Europe...
...the Persian-diversion guy...
...we shall have more of her...
...his fiancee, his employers (whose sons he's hit in the eye) and the heiress chase him, and his brother chases all the- other girls, from penthouse terrace to tent to hotel boiler-room, which brings by the back-door to heaven...
...SPEAKING of musicians, the new draft law U going to take heavy toll of all these young chorus boys...
...There is no chance for Hitler to win the war...
...I'm Physical, You're Cultured" is a comic strip (it doesnt quite come to that...
...They will form their own armies of fighters for freedom...
...That final victory will be won by the Allied Nations...
...OCT of town reports en the Theatre Guild's "Without Love...
...Since August first they have sold more than $3,000,000 in bonds and stamps...
...Dances by David Lichine...
...star of "Couat Me In," staring a halibut in the face at the Cafe Louis XIV while Marthe Raye gobbles lamb chops at the next table...
...or by wholesale killings of intelligentsia groups...
...For a quarrelsome band leader has gotten tangled with a sweet young heiress from Pan-America...
...Cast opposite Miss Davis is Paul Henreid who gave suoh a fine performance in "Joan of Paris...
...Clair, presents the spirit of the victim in the role of a friendly ghost wit ha knack for being humorous...
...MARK HELLINGER bitten by the stage bug, although he is the producer of Warner Bros.' all-star musical "Thank Your Lucky Stars...
...And the jive-song jitters sing "You can bet your life it's No good for Heifitz...
...He wrote: "I like this Army life...
...Now, Voyager" is at the Hollywood Theatre for a continuous popular price run...
...Of this musical comedy, there, is no doubt about the first element: "Beat the Band" is musical from the surge of its opening chorus to the last lively bar of the finale...
...Lynne Rob erts, George Holmes, Raymond Welburn, Dorothy Peterson and J. Carrol Naish are featured ia this original John Larkin screen-' Play...
...United we will abolish the Nazi terror regime...
...Teddy Hart and Horace MacMahon...
...Directed by George Ab'bott...
...The "Song of Two Islands," "Keep It Casual" combine tricky rhymes and soft sentiment ("a dot on a sea of monotonous blue...
...f EORGE ABBOTTS latest musical "Beat the Band" gay, colorfel ^* and fast...
...producer of the hit comedy "Janie," has just returned from Washing, ton where he has been supervising affairs of the new stage door canteen there...
...Army trains sled dogs for northern fronts...
...HENRY JEROME a solid hit at tile new Pelham Heath Inn, where his augmented orchestra now features Charley Karroll and Kay Carlton...
...The lyric?—equipped with lively tunes—are the sort that will hum their way through the season...
...It all started as a gag, but it was so good they kept it in...
...Others in person include the Lane Brothers and Bob Evans...
...Lieut...
...We affirm our solidarity with you...
...The so-called "New Order" can never be achieved by shooting innocent hostages...
...BOXY THEATRE ' HOLDS HE NIE Sonja Henie's newest 20th Century-Fox starring film, "Iceland," will hold for a second and final week at the Roxy Theatre...
...It's so nice to lie in bed every morning until five-thirty...
...But the Nazis cannot win this war...
...Don't wait till all Germany is a heap of ruins...
...Let's pull together to liberate Germany and all humanity from Hitlerism...
...Single battles do not mean a thing...
...It is the first major feature to have complete co-operation of the U. S. Forest Service...
...at 8:45 p. m., to benefit the French and American War Work of the Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies...
...He is to do Cole Porter's musical "Something for the Boys" which will feature Ethel Merman...
...with the band on the stage—and they sure "Beat the Band"—you can sense the jitterbugs of the land ripping the rugs in a surge of swing and bounce-'em-boy dancing...
...Together we shall fight and win a lasting peace for all nations...
...The earlier "America Loves a Band" is sung in blues, in sweet, in hot rhythm...
...It comes to the St...
...A gala reserved seat premiere of "The Moon and Sixpence" will be held prior to the regular run on Tuesday, October 27...
...They brought misery, destruction and -bloodshed...
...The war may last another year, or even some years...
...It is...
...features Katharine Hepburn and Elliott Nugent, are sensational...
...MAN IH TRUNK" AT THE PALACE "The Man in the Trunk," new 20th Century-Fox merry murder mystery, has, its first New YorV showing at the RKO Palace Theatre, sharing the screen with "Desperate Journey" co-starring Errol Flynn and Ronaly Reagan...
...Bound for Soviet under heavy guard, the largest Allied convoy is attacked by German warplanes and submarines...
...is in town taking a gander at the stage door canteen before designing set* for Sei Leaser's film based on the famous servicemen's rendezvous...
...This new melodrama, directed by Malcolm St...
...Ia other words, it has plenty of steam on tie beam...
...Oh, hum, I wonder what the poor people are doing...
...The Merry Macs, of screen and radio, are billed as an extra added attraction...
...We ask you to become active in this bur common fight...
...News of the Nation: Flood waters menace Capital...
...WHILE on the stage door canteen subject Brock Pemberton...
...The new "Show Time" stage presentation headlining Stan Kavanagh and Fred and Elaine Barry» also holds a second and final week Wednesday on the Roxy stage...
...James Theatre on November loth...
...Many representatives of democratic Germany— we among them — were forced to flee...
...Mary Lou Cook and the Lieut, were married just before the Merry Macs left Hollywood on their current personal appearance tour...
...Sonja Henie co-stars with John Payne in "Iceland," in which Sammy ? aye and his "Swing and Sway" Orchestra make their screen debut...
...THE Merry Macs at the Paramount Theatre are introducing their new "Blend Girl" as Mrs...
...The present leaders promised you paradise on earth...
...It is the final victory which counts...
...These crimes against humanity must be stopped...
...SOVfET BOUND SHIPS FIGHT FOR LIFE ? First pictures of huge United Nations convoy getting through "Hell's Corner" on the Murmansk Arctic Circle Route and Wendell Willkie in China headline the new program at all Embassy News-reel Theatres...
...COLUMBIA'S "America sings with Kate Smith" is currently playing at the Roxy where "Iceland" is featured...
...The day will come, when the enslaved people of Europe, too, will rise against Nazi terror...
...Today a worldwide alliance of freedom loving nations is fighting against the Nazi tyranny...
...GIPSY ROSE LEE gets the boys coming and going...
...Music by Johnny Green...
...When hundreds of thousands of the best German men and women were imprisoned, tortured and murdered because of their belief in freedom and social progress...
...Beat the Band" has all the deft signs of the unerring Abbott touch...
...At least political fence mending doesn't consume any essential war materials—or does it"____CHARLES BUTTERWORTH...
...Make yourselves free again by abolishing Nazi despotism...
...Yon remember Spring, 1?33, when the Nazis started their terror against the German people...
...JAMES (Tobacco Road) BARTON brightening up the Great Dim way...
...The day will come, when the dictatorship of the Nazi monsters will tumble to pieces...
...but the words should by no means be neglected...
...Don't let yourselves be fooled by Goebbels's stories of victorious battles on the various fronts...
...Jim is knocking 'em dead at Loew's State...
...Jack Whiting, with his perennial smile, plays the band leader, Damon Dillingham...
...FOREST RANGERS'1 AT THE PARAMOUNT "The Forest Rangers," co-starring Fred MacMurray, Pau-lette Goddard and' Susan Hay-ward, has taken over the New York Paramount screen...
...the barrel-shaped Rom ? Vincent gets the laughs as his Pythias, but our main attention goes to the songs and dances...
...The film, entirely in technicolor, was shot practically entirely outdoors...
...What with Juanita Juarez from points south, and "Johnny 2x4" Leonard Sues with the trumpet, the pace, especially in the second act, grows so swift in colorful costume and swirling dance that you scarcely notice the lack of the second element of a musical comedy...
...He's the fellow who designed sets for "Star and1 Garter," "Lady in the Dark" and "Banjo Eyes...
...Remember, your own fight against Nazi dictatorship will be strengthened by the advance of the democratic armies fighting for freedom...
...The appeal, sent on the anniversary of the war, is being smuggled into Germany, and showered down into industrial areas by the R.A.F.I September 1 marks three years, since Adolf Hitler plunged Germany and the world into the war...
...The role of the mother is played with superb realism by Gladys Cooper, famous actress of the London stage, and Ilka Chase is grand as Carlotta's sister-in-law...
...Up with the larks and down through the agents" is the opening song of the theatrical job hunters, and, while we may suspect their larks don't rise on wings, we have to recognize that they have (from Samuel Leve) delightful places to play...
...MIRIAM LA VELLK, the dancing starlet being eyed by Vincent Freedley for his forthcoming musical...
...HARRY HORNER, well-known scenic de-signer...
...DHIL BAKER, the "Take It or Leave It" quizmaster, just got a * letter from his milkman who was drafted...
...We feel it our duty to talk to you today...
...The cast includes Albert Dekker...
...J There should be more of Eunice Healey, that pert and personable dancer, who wings through pieces from ballet (David Lichine would do this: an amusing burlesque of "Afternoon of a Faun" called "Afternoon of a Phony") "on past tap until "Steam is on the beam" and the hot pipes are glowing...
...Wendell Willkie is shown inspecting fighting men and defenses of our Far East ally, and meeting the Chiang Kai-sheks...
...GRACIE HARTMAN offers this $64 puzzle...
...Since 1933 freedom has been banned from Germany...
...This film, a story of the Lockheed Plane, is only one of a hundred accounts of how Yankee industry is meeting the challenge of Hitler and Hirohito...
...MOON AND SIXPENCE" SLATED FOR ftlVOU "The Moon . and Sixpence," adapted from W. Somerset Maugham's famous best seller, starring George Sanders and Herbert Marshall, will make its continuous popular price debut « at the Rivoli Theatre at 9:30 a. m., Wednesday, October 28, following the run of "Wake Island...
...1-——»i Anti-Nazis Send Appeal to Reich [We print here a significant document, an appeal by German democrats here calling on German workers to revolt...
Vol. 25 • October 1942 • No. 43
