Without Love and "Mr. Sycamore" Start Gala Guild Season
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
"Without Love" and "Mr. Sycamore" Start Gala Guild Season This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr. Shipley reviews each play on its opening night over WEVD at 11:50 p. m. "ROSALINDA" ...
...Trotti also wrote the screen play from the original story by Melville Grossman...
...Miss, Hepburn completed "Keeper of the Flame" in which she will be co-starred with Spencer Tracy, and Mr...
...NEW BILLS AT ALKE The RKO Albee, Brooklyn, has a new show—its first in three weeks—"Orchestra Wives," comedy with music...
...Musical Com-' edy-Book by Walter Kerr and •Leo Brady...
...Dorothy Sarnoff, as the flitter-mouse of the title ("bat" is too eerie a word, though the jail roof shows its wings), flits into our .hearts...
...Berry-ville, Arkansas hard hit by deadly twister, 37 dead, hospitals crowded as damage runs high...
...Lode wick Vroom presents the New Opera Company at the 44th Street Theatre...
...Shubert and Olsen and Johnson in association with Krakeur and Schmidlapp...
...Who did such a swell job en tbe Milton Berle radio show...
...Broke all opening date records at the Roseland...
...U. S. asks for foreign pictures...
...Shipley reviews each play on its opening night over WEVD at 11:50 p. m. "ROSALINDA" ("Die Fledermaus"), Operetta...
...WALTER HUSTON and Ann Harding have been assigned the roles of Mr...
...Music and lyrics by Ann Ronell...
...BROADWAY ECHOES ' By Don McClouo This Week's Heroes: The Courageous Stalingrad Defenders...
...MEATLESS Tuesdays a boon to seafood places, so says boniface Arthur Ganger, who has just opened the "Skipper's Corner...
...When Philip Barry's comedy...
...a pertly mischievous pal to Hal Leroy...
...Carole Landis and Virginia ci...
...EMBASSY NEWSREELS FEATURE RUSSIAN SUCCESSES The Russians holding in the Caucasus headlines the new program at all Embassy Newsreel Theatres...
...A big cast—I've just touched the top— • has brought it in vigorous style to Broadway...
...The second act slumps a lot, in movement and in comedy...
...DOUBLE QPBHJMQ FOR THEATRE GUILD Next week will be a memorable one for New York's theatre annals...
...The boys return there next week...
...V . . . V . . . V . . . l^ATHARINE CORNELL has chosen Jose Ferrer for the featured *~ role of Baron Tusenbach in her new production of Anton Chekhov's "The Three Sisters...
...THE community of Lidice...
...It starts off with ah "all-out bugle call" that'shows a lively end lovely chorus, with numbers, staged by Robert Alton, that continue deft...
...3) Will the I8-I» year old draft, if passed, be just for training or actual fighting...
...In person Sonny Dunham and his orchestra replaces Gene Krupa and his band for tbe third week...
...The current stage show headlines Jane Froman and Dave ApoUon...
...U'TORS m Geo...
...On Leave for Love," "You've Got It All" and other will be sung widely —and there's a truly comic grotesque dance by the Bhyth-¦maires and Joe E. Marks as Japs, after their song "Who Is General Staff...
...Filmed in Technicolor, the new picture stars Gene Tierney, Preston Foster and John Sutton...
...Nugeint directed "The Crystall Ball" starring Paulette Goddard arid Ray Milland...
...Miss Curtis says she won't sell it to pictures until it has been produced on B'way...
...and the humor is carried along by the rest of the cast, all in the excellent voice it is*-* surprise as well as a pleasure to hear so fully sustained...
...Sycariipre" direct from a fresh screen triumph opposite Paul Muni in "The Commandos Strike at Dawn...
...Viola, at the rums...
...American adaptation by Gottfried Reinhardt and John MeehanHJr...
...the hated hangman, is featured in Para's victory short, "We Refuse to Die...
...O«th Miss Hepburn and Mr...
...where his maid and his wife (discreetly masked) are also present: so that unknowingly he flirts with his wife, and they fall in love all oyer again—is trifling but deft and full of amusing situations...
...Stalin, Leader" by Winston Churchill is the title of the newest issue of "Your Ringside Seat" at all Embassy Newsreel Theatres...
...JOAN EDWARDS, the hit parader...
...Anna Neagle portrays the trail-blazing heroine aviatnx, and Robert Newton her sweetheart, husband and rival flyer, Jim Mollison...
...Courageous Soviet soldiers make successful crossing of Volga under hellish fire from Nazi dive bombers...
...News of tbe Nation...
...Will make his debut in his famed comedian father's next Columbia picture "From Soup to Nuts...
...Orchestra conducted by Erich Wolfgang Korn-gold...
...That disguised wooing of husband and wife, for instance, here but an episode in...
...For a long run there ought to be goodly crowds calling "Count MeJn...
...Chungking, once bombed mercilessly by Japs, rebuilding under protection of U. S. and Chinese air power...
...and her maid Adele (Virginia MaeWatters) is a lively and frolicsome lass...
...Whitey's Jiverdeers...
...SHIRLEY ROSS, the lovely cinema eyeful...
...often called the playboy of the air...
...America aids Brazil in convoying troops through dangerous waters...
...denied a published statement that her play had been purchased by 20th Century Fox...
...claiaw that a panhandler stopped her yesterday and whispered: "GimsM a nickel and 111 tell YOU where to get a cup of coffee...
...But through the absurd complications of this typically Viennese romantic plot, the music carries us with charm and humor—at times Erich Korngold turns from his conducting to play piano- for a number or so, as when the Prince—who attends his own party because the other places are all closed—patter-songs a greeting to his guests...
...Both could use more material than is given them, but the mellow wondering Papa over whom the rest-of the family rush is a real creation...
...Glenn Miller and bis Orchestra are featured in'"Orcheetra Wives" which star's Ann Rutherford, George Montgomery, Cesar Romero, Lynn Bari...
...Directed by Felix Brentano...
...The story of the slapped wooer who goes to jail (in mistake for the husband), while the husband goes on a final spree, to the ball of Prince Orlofsky...
...a play rich in situations, is the whole theme of Molnar's "The Guardsman," that lifted Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne...
...And- to make the occasion all tbe more auspicious, The Guild will present a second play during the same week when Ketti Fling's comedy, "Mr...
...and Janet Blair in tbe leading roles, continues for a-third wfeek at the Radio City Musk: Hall...
...The Blair Sisters...
...Czecho-Slovakia, the town Hitler destroyed in retaliation for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich...
...18 to 19 year old youths rush to join' armed forces...
...A lot of persons have worked together on "Count Me In"—but the audience agrees...
...Questions answered this week by Mr...
...At the Barrymore Theatre...
...HOW time flies...
...The film states that Winston Churchill, brilliant character analyst, has painted a vivid wotd portrait of Josef Stalin...
...lovely Maxine of the haunting voice...
...The All-Girl Orchestra features Evelyn, the country's foremost female violinist...
...Ann Ronell, who's done the lilting music and good words —she's on she right track, though still a journey to go-^went down from Radcliffe to the Catholic University in Washington, where with Walter Kerr and Leo Brady she built "Count Me In...
...Sons o' Fun" puppeteers, will play their fourth engagement at the Rainbow Room...
...Sycamore," comes to the Guild Theatre on Friday evening...
...Benny has just caught his second wind and is going like a house afire...
...Produced by the Messrs...
...JACK PEARL used to sign his name and then add in parenthesis, "The World's Greatest Liar...
...JOHNNY LONG and his ORK...
...and Mrs...
...Theatre parties have been booked through December...
...Ralph Herbert, a last-minute entry as the husband, does a good job...
...The screen feature is the Warner Bros, comedy, "George Washington Slept Here," starring Jack Benny and Ann Sheridan...
...version by Max Reinhardt...
...1 mnre "EILEEN" IN 3rd WEEK AT THE MUSIC HAU Following another capacity week-end at the big playhouse, Columbia's comedy hit...
...Anthony, Allyn and Hodge, satiric dance team...
...She is to star in "Her Heart in Her Throat...
...LORETTA YOUNG will sooa be busy on the Paramount lot...
...Jeanette is in the throes of a concert tear which i^Bfeep her busy for some time to come...
...intricate dancing but working into rhythmic patterns easy to follow...
...Harry Langdon...
...V. Kaltenborn, ace screen journalist and war news analyst, also headlines the new program appearing in the latest release of his popular weekly series "Kaltenborn edits the News...
...but the color and the lively dancing help sustain its fan...
...This story of) how all the family is in the war, except Papa — until Papa comes through to rap the Jap wu;h a map—makes a lively and cojorful mixture...
...Catherine, and her golden trumpet...
...music by Johann Sirauas...
...MACDONALD, beantifnl sieging star of stage aal ** scfVC . . . Ia town to give her current picture "Cairo" the one*, over IBb Capitol...
...Witiiout Love," opens ait the St...
...Kaltenborn are (1) If the United Nations defeated Germany, do you think Japan would stop fighting...
...THE "Kom Kobblers" who are going great guns at Rogers Corners will take time out Monday night to entertain the boys at the Stage Door Canteen...
...Here is another singer who was supposed to be all «ashed-up...
...James Theatre' on Tuesday evening, it will mark the twenty-fifth consecutive season for Tbe Theatre Guild...
...The comedy is in the deft hands of Charles ,'Butterworth and LuelLa Gear...
...She feels sure she has a hit and doesn't want to sell short...
...MORTON DOWNEY is being held over at the Savoy-Plaza's Cafe Lounge...
...Abbofls^roductions used to be pat out with him because be would disappear from the theatre as soon as a show had been successfully launched...
...THE ROXY KEEPS "THUNDER BIRDS" "Thunder Birds," the 20th Century-Fox stirring story of the soldiers of the air, is in its second week at the Roxy Theatre...
...Featured with Miss Hepburn is Elliott Nugent...
...My Sister Eileen,"" with Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne...
...M. Cohan tunes attracting plenty of customers at the Greenwich Village Inn...
...and Rosa Linda and Ruth, at the grand pianos...
...Tbe Merry Macs, Bob Evans and the Lane Brothers remain over in the stage show...
...Lyric by Paul Kerby...
...As to premieres: "Without Love" brings Katharine Hepburn back to the stage for the first time since her tremendously successful "The Philadelphia Story," also written by Philip Barry...
...Nugent have only recently returned from Hollywood...
...The setting is a sort of lace candy-box atmosphere, and establishes the mood for the performance...
...Among his ancestors Aunt Carrie makes a wild spinster (Eugene O'Neill's "Diffrent" sets the pattern), and among the living, Mary Healy carries some winning songs...
...and Melissa Mason, as gracefully gawky a girl as ever held two sailors asunder—a job she has to do with hand and foot...
...Co-featured with Mr.'Erwin is Lillian Gish, wjbo comes to "Mr...
...Highland Fling" author...
...FOREST RANGERS" HOLD AT PARAMOUNT ' . "The Forest Rangers" is in its third and final week at the New York Paramount Theatre...
...Morton's domestic tribulations having been finally settled, has put an extra zing to his sweet singing...
...Edwin Steffe, baritone...
...The.Rockettes, Music Hall Choral Ensemble, and the Symphony Orchestra, directed by Erno Rapee, complete the big cist...
...Joseph Davies in Warner Bros.' "Mission to Moscow...
...But don't judge tbe comedy by this specimen...
...Jr, eight years old...
...and "Wings and the Woman," powerful dramatic story of the first lady of the air —Amy Johnson...
...BROCK PEMBERTON'S "Janie" in for a run...
...These two productions, both under the supervision of Lawrence Lahgner and Theresa Hjel-burn, are an auspicious beginning to what promises to be The Theatre Guild's most successful season since the organization was founded...
...June Preisser...
...For in addition to next week's premieres the schedule for Guild subscribers for the balance of the season is a most exciting one...
...Bat, in the case of "Beat the Band" the...
...ALEX YOKEL'S revival of "Three Men On a Horse-died in the stretch...
...but the several changes—as in the ballroom, which is at first intimate, then widens for the grand ball dancing, then becomes a diningroom—are deftly and unobtrusively managed, with the expertness that marks the whole production...
...On its great stage the Music Hall is also hnfrling over for a third week its spectacular stage revue, "Contracts," produced by Leon Leonidoff...
...i ! The humor runs rippling down to the minor figures, such as the tipsy jailer: one drink of Slivovitz makes him another man—then, of course, the other man must also have a drink...
...Thunder Birds," produced for the screen by Lamar Trotti, was filmed at the famed United States Thunderbird and Falcon Fields in Arizona...
...In the cast are: Selina Kaye, soprano...
...Tbe Theatre Guild has never before set down tiro premieres for the same week, Vat never before has The Guild had a twenty-fifth anniversary...
...The ??-American Glee Club...
...Churchill says that it is fortunate for Russia to have this rugged, war chief at the helm in her boor of peril...
...In the title role is Stuart Erwin, famous Hollywood comedian, who will be seen in person on Broadway for the first time, when he appears as the small-town postman with extraordinary ideas...
...With a lively lilt of its gay music and carefree, amusing plot, "Die Fledermaus" comes as "Rosalinda," in a bright English version, to' bring Broadway its daintiest delight of the season...
...While we're, speaking of dancing, there are also Gower and Jeanne, whose ballet-ballroom technique is swift and effective...
...WALTON AND O'ROURKE...
...Heading the supporting players of "Without Love" is Audrey Christie, who appeared in the play during its sensationally successful twelve-week tour last Spring...
...Beatrice Howell...
...BEVTfr FIELDS' cavalcade or Irring Berlin and Geo...
...It Gave up after twenty-eight performances...
...and Jean Guelis and Norma Gentner, soloists with the '.Music Hall Corps de Ballet...
...Jack says he couldn't be a champ with Hitler around...
...Save for tbe choreography for the charming ballet and for Jose Limon, one of our best male dancers, there is no moment of flaw in this movement of grace and humor and charm...
...MIKE TODD., busy as a bee rounding up people for his forthcoming "Something for the Boys"____MARGARET CURTISs...
...02) Is it not true that the Malthusian theory still holds and that another war is inevitable because of over population in some countries...
...Is delighting audiences at Loew'g State this week...
...Now its changed to "The World's Second Greatest Liar...
...Sycamore" is a modern comedy by Ketti Frings, author of the best seller, "Hold Back the Dawn...
...are beginnin ft to be put out with him because he will not disappear, George is doing s lot of rewriting and the cast has been in far plenty of researaals...
...In music, in gay swirl, in light and laughing rouse, "Rosalinda" has all the ingredients for a tbp-of-the-worid evening...
...SPITALNY AND GIRLS REMAIN AT N. Y. STRAND The Hour of Charm, presented by Phil Spitalny with the All-Girl Orchestra, is in its 2nd weekb engagement at the N. Y. Strand Theatre...
...both have fresh and lyrical ?-oiees it is a joy to hear...
...COUNT ME IN...
...Hal Leroy steps through the evening with ease and charm...
Vol. 25 • November 1942 • No. 45
