Counsellor-at-Law, Re-opens at the Royale on Tuesday Eve.
"Counsellor-at-Law", Re-opens at the Royale on Tuesday Eve. MUNI RETURNS TO GOLDEN The opening of Paul Muni in "CounseHor-at-Law" at the Roy-ale Theatre on Tuesday evening will celebrate a doable...
...Telling the .simple story of a Leningrad boy and girl who, refuse to let war blight their happiness, the film moves from a peacetime setting to the shell-torn battlefields of Russia's Northern front...
...Tossy Spivakovsky, Cleveland violinist, will be heard in New York in his first solo recital at Carnegie Hall, Monday evening at 8:40...
...HUROK NOTES Friday, Nov...
...Saturday it set a new record for a single day, playing to 24,750 persona, topping the previous one day attendance high of 23,850 recorded by "Holliday Inn...
...ALFRED LUNT and bynn Fontanne art the latest great American theatre stars to be signed by Sol Lesser for his film "Stage Door Canteen...
...Sycamore" off its chest . . . They mill pet ist* rehearsal Clifford Odets acting version of Konstantin Simon««"» drama "The Russian -People...
...The goose is certainly hanging high for Max...
...Other leading- players of the cast are Alexander Clark, Joseph Pev-ney, Clara Lahgsner, Jack Shee-han and Betty Kelley...
...COLUMBia PICTURES will release the Freddie Bartholomey starrer "Junior Army" nationally on Nov...
...with costumes in a tasteful blend, a swirl of color and charm...
...Betty Grable, John Payne, Carmen Miranda, Cesar Romero and Harry James and his Music Makers head the cast...
...New shows in RKO neighborhood houses are as follows: In Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester, "Iceland" and "Seven Miles From Alcatraz" augmented by "Private Smith of the U.S.A.," and in Brooklyn and Queens, "Orchestra Wives" featuring Glenn Miller and his Orchestra, and "Girl Tribute" co-starring Joan Bennett and Don Ameche...
...Dennis King...
...Star Spangled Rhythm...
...In his acting as well, though the impish note never left his style, and he could always lilt over the top of a play to meet the audience, there was a deepening and enrichment of the spirit, that showed in his performance of the father in "Ah, Wilderness" and betokened a basic quality in the man...
...The guest commentator for this concert which is the second of a series of six will be Lee Simonson, whose topic will be "Mozart and the Stage...
...McARTHUR SLAPS JAPS AT EMBASSY Colonel Rickenbacker found alive after 24 days on a raft...
...GALA BILLS AT R.K.O...
...Sunday was the third biggest in the history of the theatre...
...SPRINGTIME" STAYS AT THE ROXY The new successful 20th Century - Fox Technicolor musical, "Springtime in the Rockiesj," remains for a second week at the Roxy Theatre...
...not the element of sex—not by any means woman, who enlivens and brightens the stage—but the increasing bad taste and vulgarity with which physical aspects of anatomy are assumed to be in themselves sources of laughter (and of course, profits...
...Ann Thomas (the famous secretary on many radio programs, his telephone operator, and Sam Bonnell, his partner...
...In other words . . . No hits— no ru:is—no errors . . . V . . . V . . . V .. . MOVING DEPARTMENT . . . Veronica Lake who never sang in '•"public . . . Had to croon in "I Wanted Wings...
...WALTON AND O'ROURKE, the "Sons o' Fun" stars, are making puppet images of their xsay bosses, Olsen and Johnson____MICHAEL TODD'S press reps, rasa breathlessly to the fore with this "stop press" announcement . . . "This has been a miraculous week for "Star and Garter...
...amount Theatre doors open at 8 A. M. daily, so great is the 'Road to Morocco" business...
...Comedy hops about with the easily bribed • Jacksort (Paul Breed), the American's horse trainer, and the lively lass who delivers millinery by day, Gabrielle (Anozia Kuzak) but goes about by night (with Jackson) to the Comte's parties...
...U. S. Fleet socks Japs in 6 day battle...
...At the Broadway Theatre...
...In the early revues, as Yankee Doodle Dandy, he...
...Raymond Massey and Julius Bishop . . . N. Y. STRAND SHOW REMAINS 4th WEEK Phil Spitalny and the all Girl Orchestra holds for a 4th week at the New York Strand with the screen feature "Goorge Washington Slept Here...
...HOUSES The RKO Albee, Brooklyn, holds over "Iceland," starring Sonja Henie and featuring John Payne, Jack Oakie and Sammy Kaye and his orchestra, and "Seven Miles From Alcatraz" through next Monday...
...He resented its bawdry...
...McKay Morris, Tom Powers and Eric Dressier...
...This event will be the second bf a series of three which began in October...
...Directed by Felix Brentano...
...JOHNNY LONG and His Ore...
...MASHENKA" AT STANLEY "Mashenka," a love story of war-time Russia, strongly reminiscent of "Girl From Leningrad," has its American premiere at the Stanley Theatre...
...Charles Laughton may star in this film...
...MUNI RETURNS TO GOLDEN The opening of Paul Muni in "CounseHor-at-Law" at the Roy-ale Theatre on Tuesday evening will celebrate a doable reunion...
...Navy's foremost authorities on submarines has been assigned as technical adviser for Warner's "Action in the Atlantic" starring Humphrey Bogart...
...BROADWAY ECHOES By Don McCloud This Week's Heroes: The Gallant Guadalcanal Jap Busters...
...And the deadliest poison he will peddle among us to stir up distrust of the British by the use of malicious lies whispered by his agents in this country...
...It opens on Tuesday evening...
...One Frenchman disguises himself as a Parisian guide, the other as a South American horse-owner...
...his "J unior Miss" has paaaei its first year on B'way...
...encouraged by the success-of "La Vie Parisienne" will continue . . . Their next offering will be Tschaikowsky's "The Queen of Spades...
...Dancing, from oriental swaying about a sheik from Araby to one of the liveliest can-cans, adds...
...Hutchinson only pretends to be a goose...
...no marriages, divorces: or engagements...
...As far back as living theatrical memory holds, George M. Cohan was contributing to the wholesome gaiety of the nation...
...In person the Paramount will continue Woody Herman and his Orchester, Pat Henning, the Acromaniacs and Hazel Scott...
...As playwright and producer, he continued with zest and good spirits, through "Seven Keys to Baldpate," a comic mystery, to the deeper tone that entered his later works...
...Chiefly, George M. Cohan was a democrat A superb showman, born in and living through the theatre, he believed in it as a way of entertainment but also enrichment of the people...
...Their traps are not for his money-^they are as rich as he—but for his famous race-horse, Heigho "Sivcr Lining...
...The record Sunday is held by "My Favorite Blonde," established on an Easter Sunday...
...In the first place, it will marie the appearance once more of America's greatest character actor in the most famous stage, role of his carreer, that of the exuberant self-made attorney of Ebner Rice's unforgettable play...
...While in the Max Gordon dept...
...Back-Biting the British Helps Hitler to Divide Us" is the title of the newest release of "Your Ringside Seat" to be shown in the new program of latest world wide news events at all Embassy N'ewsreel Theatres...
...People of Chile demand country break with Axis and join United Nations...
...He was the most versatile of our light-stage folk...
...Coming handsomely along in its merry stride, the New Opera Company gives us a production of "La Vie Parisienne" that continues to excel its first season's offerings, and to present a continuously gay and colorful delight...
...Thus he objected to, he fought, two opposite aspects of the current theatre...
...Comic Opera by Jacques Offenbach...
...The lightness, the movement of music and song, are carried by these three men, the daughter, and Metella, an actress in love with the "Portuguese...
...Shipley reviews each play on its opening night over WEVD at 11:50 p. m. THE GRAND OLD MAN ftThis column would be remiss in its respect for the theatre were it to omit a word on the passing of George M. Cohan...
...to the evening...
...ROAD TO MOROCCO" BREAKING PARA...
...pvRAMA NOTES . . . Katharine Cornell has selected the Ethel '¦'Barrystore Theatre for her new production of Anton...
...This Week on the Stage fy JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr...
...As previously Antonio Triana will partner her as well as appear in solo, with Sabicas strumming the guitar...
...Rickenbacker headlines the new program beginning at all Embassy Newsreel Theatres...
...Produced with the swifter stage technique of drama (rather than the deliberative pace of opera), with heat little turns of comic effect...
...RANDOM HARVEST" should rank as one of the best ten pictures of the year...
...But though this fellow only pretends to speak Portuguese, he finds that Mr...
...NOW that the Theatre Guild has gotten "Without Love" and "Mh...
...This Gun For Hire" and now with Dorothy Lamour and Paulette Goddard in Paramount...
...The film, produced by the Moscow Film Studio, is released in the United States by Artkino Pictures...
...PHIL SPITALNY and His Hour of Charm All Girl Orchestra who are in their fourth week at the New York Strand are celebrating their seventh year of Sunday night b'casting for General Electric . . . Quite a record, Phil...
...MARIA PALMER who scored such a B'way hit in "The Moon Is Down" has been engaged by Warner Bros, for their forthcoming picture...
...DAMON RUNYON'S delightful characters, who have kept Americans amused for many years, will run rampant on the screen once again when "The Snatching of Bookie Bob" is brought to the screen by Metro...
...He loses his daughter, but he keeps his horse...
...Carmen Amaya and her incendiary Flamenco troupe are scheduled for Carnegie Hall on Sunday evening December 13...
...Presented by The New Opera Company...
...26th . . . PHILIP WARREN one of the U.S...
...Prominent among this supporting company will be Jennie Mosco-witz, who played the mother to Mr...
...27 at 8:45, Frank Black and the NBC String Symphony will make their second appearance at Carnegie Hall...
...will,do a picture early in December for Universal with the Andrews Sisters...
...The music —speeded in an arrangement by Antal Dorati—is sprightly as the company is mellow-voiced— which in in high measure...
...Although she is a recent graduate of the Moscow Cinema Institute, whose appearance in "Mashenka" marks her first major part, she has been hailed as a discovery by Soviet and British critics...
...On Tuesday the Albee will open with "Tales of Manhattan" and "The Undying Monster," a first-run, melodrama with James Ellison, Heather Angel and John Howard...
...Revolted at this tendency, he was contrarywise disturbed at the over-intellectualization of the theatre...
...The current Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour film also set an opening attendance record last Wednesday...
...Laughter, loving, living—but wholesome laughter, clean loving, right living: it is in these realms that George M. Cohan saw the theatre serving, and that he himself was a devoted and distinguished servant of the people, in whom he rejoiced, and of the land he loved...
...This is another work that needs but to be seen (and heard) , to be enjoyed...
...V...
...WHEN this item reaches the newsstands Max Gordon't "My Sister Eileen" will have played S00 performances . . . "Eileen" moves to a new hoaae on Monday which will be the Ritz Theatre...
...Mission to Moscow" PARAMOUNT'S Bob Weitman has ordered the Pa...
...with excellent singers and lovely rollicking songs, "La Vie Parisienne" makes as merry a mqrsel as the most fastidious playgoer might desire...
...A new stage presentation;headlining Raymond and his iJump Quintet and Jack Durant, also remains for a second week...
...wrote lyrics and music and comedy...
...PARIS ONCE WAS* GAY "La Vie Parisienrie...
...Spivakovsky hails from Russia and was recently heard via the airwaives as soloist with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra...
...lant battle the Russians put up in the defense of Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad...
...And in the second place, it will mark the return of Paul Moni to the management of John Golden, under whose sponsorship he first came to stardom "Counsellor-at-Law," one of Elmer Rice's greatest successes, has always been regarded as Muni's character-portrayal, i · It was his performance in this play that led to his being called to Hollywood for pictures...
...The tortuous obscurities of O'Neill (though much in him Cohan welcomed), the would-be profundities or slantindicular visions of ?. E. Cummings and more— in current season, of Paroyan: such theatrical pabulum he would have put back in the refrigerator, for the plain fare on which the common men can feed...
...Nippon Navy losses heavy in ships and men...
...RECORDS "Road to Morocco," the New-York Paramount Theatre's sixteenth anniversary attraction continues to set new records...
...The film states that Hitler will try every trick at his command to divide the United Nations against each other...
...Briefly, it is a tale of an American millionaire two Parisians are laying for...
...Like "Girl From Stalingrad," "Mashenka" will introduce a striking actress, Valentina Kara-vayeva, to American audiences...
...Olive Deerlng, his secretary...
...English version by Felix Brentano and Louis Verneiiil, "with additional dialogue by Frank TarlofT and Leo Rifkin...
...Because "Counsellor-at-Law" is a panorama of the Counselor's busy office activities, it has a large cast of thirty-five people...
...Joan Wetmore, who will be his wife...
...CARELESS CINDERELLA" is the final title for Lana Turner's new starring vehicle...
...The Three Sisters" . . . Mies Cornell will be supportedsbv sock star players as Judith Anderson...
...Simonov who as a war correspondent covered the Russian front bases his drama on the g»l...
...The second concert in the Mozart Concerto series will be presented at 8:45 this Tufsday: evening, at Town Hall' by Clarence Adler, pianist, and Leon Barzin conducting the members of the National Orchestral Association Alumni with a program consisting of the ? Flat Major Concerto K271 and the A Major Concerto K414...
...In its first full week, ending last Tuesday "Road to Morocco" played to 165,000 persons, according to Managing Director Robert M. Weitman, topping by more than 4,000 the first week attendance figures of "Holiday Inn...
...Gertrude Musgreve, Alexander Knox...
...Inspiring statement by Mrs...
...Book by Meilhac and Halevy...
...V. Kaltenborn, ace screen journalist and war news analyst, also headlines the new program appearing in the latest issue of his popular weekly series "Kaltenborn Edits the News...
...Edmund Gwenn, Roth Gorden...
...The opening is elated for Dec 21st...
...News of the War: Mac Arthur's men close in on Japs as American troops are flown in to strengthen Australians...
...Co-featured with Miss Kar-avayeva is Mikhail Kuznetzov as Alyosha Soloviev...
...THE New Opera Co...
...Lyries by Marion Farquhar...
...Muni's Counsellor in the first production...
...Springtime in the Rockies," filmed amid the beauties of Canada's Lake Louise, in addition to the stars, features a cast: headed by Charlotte Greenwood, Edward Everett Horton, Frank) Orth, Jackie Gleason, Harry Hayden and Chick Chandler...
...Aussies who have fought so gallantly, and pushed the enemy back to sea, greet reinforcements from home...
...New York's Fire Department has been ordered to stand by for a 3-alarm call...
Vol. 25 • November 1942 • No. 47
