The Avengers Thrills Capacity Audiences at the Rivoli Theatre
"The Avengers" Thrills Capacity Audiences at the Rivoli Theatre ? AR AMOUNT'S NEW FKM ? STIRR1N9 tPIC OF FREE MEN The plight of the underdog, the nun fighting against unconscionable odds, always...
...TED (is everybody happy) Lewis is the...
...For as Tallulah says "I ?? with it and...
...and Mrs...
...Such a story is Paramountfs "The Avengers," which has its American premiere at the Ri voli Theatre...
...It is interesting to note, betimes, that while Antrobus delights in Sabina's brevity of costume and levity of spirit, he rouses in shocked fury when his own daughter conies the lively lovely lass...
...t figure ii oat so what chance have you got" . ". . This Dept...
...And, from the old Muses seeking shelter (of all places...
...Taking its cue from the unceasing efforts of the subjugated but not conquered people of Norway, "The Avengers" unfolds a fascinating stqry of the cooperation between the Norwegian "underground" and the British armed serviees to oust the Germans and "Quislings...
...as Corbett-and Alevis Smith...
...Film scenarists, being"fellow-roen," respond to the urge to overthrow the oppressor...
...General Montgomery's British Sth Army, sparked by American tanks, guns and planes, lay down a murderous hail of shell fire as British Tommies attack and wipe out Rommers tnfarrtry...
...The Roxy stage presentation with Raymond Scott and his Jump Quintet and Jack Durant also hold a third week beginning-Wednesday...
...In the fast mc...
...he comes home to a sorry peace...
...ultimate;triumph whether it be a problem of lo$al, national or global import...
...SPRINGTIME" HOLDS AT THE ROXY "Springtime in the Rockies,"' successful 20th Century-Fox Technicolor musical, remains for a third week at the Roxy Theatre...
...We humans may be escaping failure by the skin of our teeth...
...The Russian War Relief Committee of the Columbia University for war relief offer a concert series through the generosity of the Coolidge Quartet and Muriel Kerr on November 28th . . . And Roslyn Tureck oa January 23rd...
...While the heroic Commandos'* raids were being filmed, the BEF was actua-ally raiding the northern port Narvek and some of4he veterans of this engagements appeared later in the film...
...Directed by Leo Mc Carey, the same director who made "My Favorite Wife," "The Awful Truth," and "Love Affair," the novel comedy-romance is played against the melodramatic background of Europe at the outbreak of the present war...
...BROTHER I thought I had seen everything until ? saw an ad in.a paper for a female Santa Claus . ? ."Man'power sure wu«t he getting scarce . . . THE National Orchestral Association '. . . Long a training field, for the big leading orchestras .Has several openings now for playing members of its'" training orchestra . . . It's looking especially for young musicians . Apply 1 ft West 57th St...
...U. S. Army Air Corps joins R.A.F...
...In spite of restrictions, he not only assembled the largest English movie cast of this war but also managed to erect the largest set...
...ROAD TO MOROCCO IN RECORD RUN "Road to Morocco" continues to set s record-breaking pace at the New "York •Paramount...
...Already "Road to Morocco" has set a new opening day record, a new week-end record, and new first and second week records...
...It's all very entertaining, as Mr...
...There was, you remember, Lilith—Sabina in the play: she is man's lure toward pleasure...
...On top of his symbolism, the author, having looked, around a bit, has set surrealism...
...his name used to be Cain...
...To this effect, the swiftly movable settings of Albert Johnson contribute valiantly...
...Also on the stage is.the Gaudsmith Bros.' "K'nine Festivities", and as the Special Added Attraction, Dean Murphy "America's Newest Star...
...Opera has opened its boxes free to service men...
...Directed by Elia Kazan...
...Betty Grable, John Payne, Carmen Miranda, Cesar Romero and Harry James and his Music Makers head the cast...
...Hugh Williams, seen on the New York stage in "Journey's End," and on the screen in "David Copperfield," "Sorrell & Son," "The Amateur Gentlemen" and "Rome Express," and Griffith Jones, who played in "Escape Me Never" and "A Yank at Oxford...
...4»entleptan Jim" Starts its story in San Francisco of the l$80's where society met the other half as it gathered to watch the legally-banned fighting matches...
...they are also Adam and Eve, and man and woman at sundry other stages of human growth...
...There sa—s to be general agreement, at the end, that it is...
...but Fredric March and Florence Eld ridge, ?? Mr...
...Casablanca" is a timely story of behind-the-scenes intrigue in the French Moroccan city that is so much in the headlines today, and is one of the Warner studio's most ambitious undertakings of the season...
...These preserved make it worth while to struggle on...
...When this is a movie, well talk of Oscar, too...
...Attractive programs usher in the Thanksgiving holidays at RKO Theatres this week...
...or "That's the worst line I've ever had to say...
...when she refuses to phty a certain scene because she has a friend in the audience it might . hurt—so they just tell us what is supposed to happen, and the play goes on: we might reason the Sabina represents emotion, whicb is always kicking up the traces, always unpredictable...
...Wilder's play will have a much easier time...
...For bitterly Antrobus recognizes that in wartime, men want a better . world...
...in pounding foe...
...he'll dig 'cm up for you...
...There are hundreds of Norwegian refugees rescued from the Lofoten Islands by British Commandos, who recreate their real life roles as extras in scenes of Norwegian villages...
...Kipling similarly allowed, but, as he queried, is it art...
...When Sabina stops acting to say to the audience "I hope you know what all this is about...
...the voices ofMhe family, home...
...In person the Paramount continues to present Woody Herman and his band Pat Henning, the Acromaniacs and Hasel Scott...
...Their daughter goes to school...
...HONEYMOON" IN THIRD WEEK Held over for the Thanksgiving Day holiday period, the Ginger Rogers...
...Mjfj...
...Fred MacMurray...
...Antrobus...
...This ingeniously contrived telescoping of time points out that we humans have always won survival by "the skin of our teeth," and have often wondered whether it was worth going on...
...Settings by Albert Johnson...
...In addition to Ralph Richardson, best remembered for has work in "The Citadel" and "Fom Feathers," there is lovely Tpeborah Kerr, starred in "Major Barbara...
...TKe new comedy by Thornton Wilder...
...Brooklyn, and at the Palace and RKO Manhattan...
...Antrobus sends a telegram that he'll be late, he has just invented the wheel...
...Yankee Weapon: The Tommy Gun" is the latest release of "Your Ringside Seat" shown in the tiew program of world-wide news evscts at all Embassy Newsreel Theatres...
...headliner at Loew's State this week . . . WHEN the "Rio-bqrnbaT opens next week it will use a nage girl instead of a page boj . .' . Because of the war time scarcity of males . . . M.G.M.'s "Above Suspicion" will be a thriller with a thrilling cast that includes Joan Crawford...
...A store do things the way people at war do them, not as actors...
...but the alphabet is only partially developed...
...I don't...
...TWLLLLAH BANKHEAD starts of Thornton Wildere "The Skin * of Our Teeth" by telling the audience not to try to understand what it is all about...
...With most stars engaged in the war effort, securing players for film work was no easy chore, and when the Navy finally consented to release Ralph Richardson from his post of Lieutenant Commander of the Fleet Air Arm, the company worked during his week's furlough without a haft...
...and another dozen stars and personalities, is at the Aibee...
...GENTLEMAN JIM" AT NEW YORK STRAND "Gentleman Jim," Warner Bros.' filmiiation of the life of James J, Corbett, is the ?- Y. Strand Theatre's attraction, starring Er-rol...
...In reality a large part of the company had tasted war in their private lives...
...LORETTA YOUNG to do a newsreel for the GoVerntnint...
...It is a big production with a cast headed by Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid...
...Highlighting the picture are the climatic scenes of the James J. Corbett-John L. Sullivan championship bout...
...Their son Henry has a slingshot...
...BROADWAY ECHOES By Don McCloud This Weeks Heroes: The North African Axis Busters...
...and Mrs., give a warm performance...
...Hers is the second act...
...This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr...
...Among the neighbors—who seek shelter from the advancing ice—are Homer, Moses, and the Muses...
...Act III is the era of the second force, man's fearful need of power...
...As Sabina, Tatlulah Bankhead gives a rousoing performance, half-bawdy, half-sweet, and wholly likable...
...Edward G Robinson...
...The "Tommy Gun," a hard hitting gun whose rate of fire, 7...
...But this is not all...
...and the voices stored in his books...
...Thjs was for scenes of Oslo Harbor, and it is pretty near the real thing, covering several acres and holding 45,000 gallons of "sea...
...j The cast of "The Avengers" is composed of players who are well known to American audiences...
...The "In Person" attraction is Glen Gray and his Casa Loma Orchestra "featuring Kenny Sergeant, Pee Wee Hunt and the Le Bruo Sisters...
...THE Met...
...Rochester...
...AT HOLLYWOOD "Casablanca," Warner Bros, new screen drama, has its world premiere at the Hollywood Theatre...
...For his Mr...
...V. Kaltenborn, ace screen journalist and war news analyst, headlines the new program appearing in the newest issue of his popular weekJi" series "Kaltenborn Edits the News...
...Grim war has gripped mankind...
...Trm African desert becomes graveyard of Nazi hopes...
...it begins with a convention of the Order of Mammals, subdivision Humans, at Atlantic City...
...Shipley reviews each play on its opening night over WEVD at 11:5« p. m. MAN MARCHES ON "THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH...
...If playwrights , can be wild, he'll show them Thornton is Wilder...
...The characters, of course, are symbols, Without subtle individualization...
...V . . . V . . . V . . . EORGE JESSEL, another star who has been bitten by the writing bug . . . George has signed a contract With Random House to do his autobiography . . . BROCK PEMBERTON'S "Janic" will make a swell" radio serial . . . MICHAEL TODD the "Star and .Garter1' tod has signed Betty Garett for a principal role in "Some-rtil^"*lIW,fth>''B*ys*:trre new Cole Porter show which will star Ethel Merman and'Allan Jenkins...
...Made in England, with the cooperation of the British War Office and the Norwegian Government-in-Exile, the picture approaches the task of movie-making in war time with a realism born of experience...
...Charles Boyer (above...
...The long arm of coincidence enveloped the production...
...starts ?? with saying you can't afford to miss this delirious, delightful, serious satire, for it is bound to be the most discussed play since George M. Cohan's "The Vagabond" for a detailed account of this intriguing play read Joseph Shipley's review...
...Tales of Manhattan'' with Ginger Hogers...
...he as a mixture of ideals and luxuriant lapses, easy-going on himself but strict with his children...
...she a dominating, even shrewish power, herself dominated by the compulsion to see that her children survive...
...Anthropos) are not only residents of Excelsior, New Jersey, today...
...Adam and Eva would have easy going, it seems, were it not for two other persons—two basic forces caught in human form...
...The Avengers" Thrills Capacity Audiences at the Rivoli Theatre ? AR AMOUNT'S NEW FKM ? STIRR1N9 tPIC OF FREE MEN The plight of the underdog, the nun fighting against unconscionable odds, always has held a fascination for his fellow-men...
...A number of boxes inclading one of the Juilliard School of Mjbsic and ttaj$ seat box of the Opers Guild sre thus available . A nice gesture, ses we . . . WHILE in the Music Dept...
...SPECTACULAR PICTURES AT EMBASSY THEATRES Spectacular films of victorious drive by 8th Army crushing German Afrika Korps headline the new progTam of world-wide news events at all Embassy Newsreel Theatres...
...In its first two weeks the Crosby Hope Lament film played to 312,000 pojMpirs, stopping by more than 6,00ft the two week figure of "Holiday Inn...
...m peacetime, merely a more comfortable world...
...But whether basically relevant or merely Wilder on a surrealist parade, it's theatrically effective...
...Sabina is carrying Adam-Antrobus away from Eve, when along comes the great flood and they all take to the Ark...
...Rita Hay-worth, Henry Fonda...
...Thornton Wilder has built this composite photograph of mankind into a play at once provocative and entertaining...
...Grant hit, "Once Upon a Honeymoon," is in its third and final week at the Radio City Music Hall...
...When the wall that the maid is dusting lifts up off the stage and disappears, we might say that's to symbolise the fact that nature doesn't come in such neat little packages as science would tie...
...He has decided to dali with eccentric things, and goes saroyan all over the stage...
...ing world of today it has fallen to the motion pictures to tell the story of the tittle man, his aspirations and...
...She alternates, down the ages, as man's mistress and his slave...
...But when, at the start of Act III, we're told seven players have ptomaine poisoning, and we must wait while Tsllulah's maid and the head usher learn their roles, the telescoping of time, of real and stage life, becomes more of a jumble than a symbol...
...At the Plymouth Theatre...
...Director Raoui Walsh, Wamer Bros.uage megger of action films, handled the picture...
...But, while he was fighting, three things were in his mind: the voices of the people...
...The War Office made available a large number of members of famous Commando regiments to play a real life role for the camera...
...in New Jersey, to the boardwalk at Atlantic City where Florence Reed (in a small but sterling role) as the fortune teller reminds us the future is easier to see than the past—the past each discolors and discovers through his own desires—the boardwalk where fleshly lure and threat of flood contend, ! Elia Kazan has woven an integrated cast into a smoothly flowing unity...
...Bronx and Westchester neighborhood houses To match the brilliance of its stars, the producers of "Tales ol Manhattan" enlisted the services of nine of Hollywood's finest writers...
...Presented by Michael Myerberq...
...Dinosaur and mammoth play in their back yard...
...BRIAN AHERNE will star in Columbia's forth-emitfnj;_*ApBointinent in Berlin" . . . WARNER BROS, are re'"teaming Aftn" Sheridan and Dennis Morgan . . . BENNY FIELDS who Clicked so heavily at the Greenwich Village Inn is being held over for another six weeks . . . ANOTHER Benny who is making good is Rennj" Goodman, he was offered eight weeks at the Paramount Theatre but could only take four as he is dated for the Palladium in Hollywood . . . Universal, which built Deanna Durbin, Abbott and Costello, The Andrew Sisters and Harry James to screen stardom, is now offering fancy contracts to dancers Paul and Grace Hartman . . . PHIL BAKER'S topper on "Take It Or Leave It" . . "Hitler says he has 200,000 soldiers around Moscow right now . . . And if you don't believe it...
...Basil Rathbonc, Reginald Owen and Conrad Veidt . . . HERE is another dandy name Combo * :t-"^DbtS<h3*tAnour, Dick Powell and Victor Moore in Paramount's...
...rounds a minute, has multiplied by miffions the fire power of the soldiers of the United Nations and is the only ail-American weapon used by our Allies on all fronts...
...In his new play, Thornton Wilder has taken our town not only by storm but by flood and returning flow of the ice age...
...Gentleman Jim" is the spirited account of the exciting 188Cs and the famous Gay Nineties...
...only its highlights have been indicated here...
Vol. 25 • November 1942 • No. 48
