The Lunts Score in "The Pirate" at the Martin Beck Theatre
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
The Lunts Score in "The Pirate" at the Martin Beck Theatre This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY m Mr. Shipley reviews each play on its opening night over WEVD at 11:50 p. m. BUBBLES AND...
...One might add, who cares?—for the gaiety and color and swing of this comedy hold its charm, not any serious taking of its story...
...Is spending a week at a mechanical school taking a course in riveting . . . No...
...Staged by Robert B. Sinclair...
...Katherine Hepburn seems to belong (though apparently not even Arthur Hopkins, who restaged the play this fall, has had courage to tell her to forget her mannerisms and try to act...
...the .pirate goes off to be hanged...
...Presented by The Theatre Guild at the St...
...At the Longacre...
...The B:r.fr Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy La-mour film, in its fourth w-eek...
...The drama of conflict, however, does not build into a full play...
...Behrman hasn't given them something richer to produce and perform...
...The directors have staged it with timing that clicks its effects...
...CCF 21% (against 10...
...drew an attendance of 148.000 in its third week, as against 147,000 in its second week...
...Featured with Glen Gray are Kenny Sargeant...
...says Bucquet . HOLIDAY INN, Flushing's new dining and dancing rendezvous, a "click...
...The film shows American and British troops pouring in to reinforce invasion troops and the Allied power grown...
...Father Adams, always against war, has joined the service — severely jolting his married (and pregnant) daughter, who had held his pacifist ideas...
...Edna Best is quite natural as the busy lookout but loving wife...
...But Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne are at their gleaming best...
...gives gold to charity, but hides his jeweled booty even from his wife...
...According to a recent Gallup Poll political survey the CCF has gained over twice the number of supporters it had in January of this year, and almost three times the number who voted in the 1940 federal elections...
...DENNIS MOORE has joined Monogram's "Range Busters...
...And Mr...
...The other daughter is about to accept her soldier boy by phone, but gets as far as asking him if he wants some more cookies when the raid interrupts all calls...
...Springtime in the Rockies...
...There's old Miss Higgins, whose dog McTavish digs up the Nazi coat...
...Among the other figures, Audrey Christie does a likable piece as the saucy secretary, and the usual Theatre Guild competency spreads a patina over the whole...
...The player makes love to the lady...
...America's Newest Star...
...But we are asked to, believe that the young man wno enters this" loveless marriage is a brilliant economist and seer whose epistolary forecasts the President spends hours reading, and, again unfortunately, neither Philip Barry's writing nor Elliott Nugent's acting can carry us that far...
...has been assigned to teach Warner Baxter the samba for his role ii the same picture...
...Staged by John Cromwell...
...The characters are real enough folk, too, especially the minor figures...
...GLEN &RAY ORCHESTRA HELD AT N. Y. STRAND Glen Gray and his Case Lom« Orchestra hold a second week at the New York St land Theatre...
...MARRIAGE COMES THROUGH "WITHOUT LOVE...
...and if we accept it as incredible and* try to take it on that basis...
...All are hard and realistic * books—ideas that march and become action—ideas that toughen and lead a nation of Victory...
...she maneuvers to get both her husband and the jewelry...
...the strolling player pretends he's the pirate...
...the settings (by Lemuel Ayers) combine color and speed of action, with touches of amusement, as in that "couvre-jeu" behind which Alfred Lunt "walks" the tightrope...
...colorful gterisss scamper which will be delighting audiences as long as the Laati choose to play it...
...V .. . MOVIE CHIT CHAT . . . Sydney Greenstreet's great performance in Warner Bros "Casablanca" at the Hollywood has won him stardom . . . The "Fat Man" deserves it . . . MELVYN DOUGLAS will star in Columbia's "Sahara...
...We have in this, at best, none of Mr...
...John Payne, Carmen Miranda...
...the pirate himself has repented...
...the Lunts (and the ¦ large cast more) surge and swirl in a bright performance...
...ROAD TO MOROCCO" IN FOURTH WEEK "Road to Morocco," accomplished the unusual feat of drawing more patronage in the third week of its Paramount engagement than it did in the second week...
...It is...
...and "Yankee Point" mixes comedy and drama in its picture of life near a lookout against the Nazis...
...Elizabeth Patterson does an ex>-cellent job as another New England character, old Miz who gets the misery to get attention— until the emergency...
...TIE PLAYRIGHTS* CO...
...In this time of stress and Counterpoised compulsion, he has written neither a propaganda war-play, nor an escape drama to rest our minds with lighter things...
...also hold a fourth and final week...
...Casablanca shows signs of fighting, its harbor is cluttered by smashed French warships...
...A new com-¦ rdy by Philip Baiyry...
...French populace plainly express their feeling of hate...
...Barry's specific choice of a plot, unfbrtundteTy,'rings in these times (here again there was a danger...
...Shipley reviews each play on its opening night over WEVD at 11:50 p. m. BUBBLES AND BUCCANEERS "THE PIRATE" by S. J»% Behrman...
...Pee Wee Hunt and the LeBrun listers Also on the stage are the Gaudsmith Bros and as the Special "In ???-son" attraction the Strand » presenting Dear...
...Canada Goes Lett /CANADA'S socialist party, the Canadian Com-^ monwealth Federation, has made striking gains up North, as the majority of the people tire of the half-hearted efforts of the government towards an all-out war program...
...The opening week set a new all-time high for the Paramount with 165.000 admissions...
...The Paramount continues for a fourth week its in person attractions of Woody Herman ar.d his band, Pat Henning, the Acro-maniacs and Hazel Scott...
...Presented by the Playwright's Company and The Theatre Gmld...
...From their Wisconsin farm, and after the stern seasons of "There Shall Be No Night," they have come for a neon escapade...
...The screen feature is the Warner Bros, comedy-drama "Gentleman Jim" starring Errol Flynn and Alexis Smith...
...There is something artificial in the story of a couple that decides to get married "Without Love"—one having lost, by death, a perfect love...
...Betty Grable...
...have hit their stride early this season...
...The Playwrights and The Guild may be trusted to provide a bang-up production...
...Captured Axis Armistice Commission taken away...
...S. Marine Hymn Should Be Called the Japs Funeral March...
...who will dance with Ginger Rogers m Para-mount's "Lady in the Dark...
...Don McGoud This Week's Heroes: The Gallant Russian Defenders...
...they have scored agsJs by offering in conjunction with the Theatre Guild "The Pirate" which return Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne to the B'way picture . . . The Lunts are always good news to theatregoers, but particularly so at this time as they have choeen a gay...
...has forsakes, his bride for Uncle Sam . . . Dave is the sixth member of the "Eileen" Co...
...At the Martin Beck Theatre...
...POINT THE WAY "YANKEE POINT" by Gladys Hurlbut...
...the other having wakened through a sour disillusion—because they get along well, and separate are lonely.And, granting that initial situation, there is something less than unexpected in the fact that at the end of the play the two are deeply in love...
...occupa-tioii4>f* North Africa headline the new program of ???-hour worldwide news events at all Embassy News reel Theatres...
...but its theme is drawn from the abiding values of individual human relationships, the elemental and eternal way of a man with a woman...
...Barry's fantasy ("White Wings") nor of his social probing ("Hotel Universe," "Animal Kingdom") but the occasion for some brittle brilliance and tricky trifling...
...The likelihood of such attack is a bit less, now, than when Gladys Hurbut began her play—time has a way of hurrying past "timely" themes—but spies dropped on the coast have been actual, and are still quite possible...
...it's too bad Mr...
...IN front of me is an item on Back lasjsj regarding his bond-selling tour . . . Little did he know...
...it is an all-male cast . . . . . . EDWARD G. ROBINSON, just back from a London town trip...
...the play glitters too, but it's paste...
...23% (against 30...
...THE Demarcos have returned to the B'way hit "Show Time" after time out for Tony's illness . . . Sally spent the lay-off period teaching servicemen to dance at the canteen . . GRACE HARTMAN says...
...It's a pretty set Robert Edmond Jones has devised for it all to show-within...
...Sister Eileen," who married Butler a fortnight ago...
...Murphy...
...V. Kaltenborn, ace screen journalist and war news analyst, headlines the new program appearing in the latest release of his popular weekly series, "Kaltenborn Edits the News...
...Barry has chosen a hard and courageous road...
...Schuster of Simon-Schuster, .. one of America's great book pub-i Ushers, lists 10 front-line books which are fighting effectively in this total war against Hitler and Japan...
...What do you mean "shoaUf Gracie...
...The New England coast, as well as that near our own Manhattan Isle, is being guarded these days against the threat of invasion by sea or sky...
...and there's old Uncle Pete, whose gun won't go off, but who won't go off to shelter himself while there are furriners on his native soil...
...Ed is not going to work in a shipyard . . . He is getting ready for his new picture "Destroyer...
...As the strolling mountebank, Alfred Lunt swaggers with a self-confident braggadoccio, a lightness of foot and a M. Beaucaire lightness of heart, that lilt him even over the tightrope into milady's chamber and her heart...
...her own wiles are a study in the battle of the sexes...
...Front Line Books" by M. Lincoln Schuster is the title of the newest issue of "Your Ringside Seat" shown in the new program...
...DIRECTOR Lloyd Bacon has engaged Donald Douglas for an important role in "Action in the North Atlantic" which stars-Humphrey Bogart .. LORETTA YOUNG and Brian Aherne to co-star in "A Night to Remember...
...the chow is good and the show- is swell . . . With Don Baker and his musicians, Gayle Gaylord and Paris Reed keeping the customers well satisfied . . . DON LOPER...
...It's a tale of a mountebank and a reformed buccaneer...
...Cesar Romero and Harry James and his Music Makers head the cast...
...INVASION PICTURES AT THE EMBASSY · Latest pictures of U.S...
...Presented by Edward Choate and Marie Louise El-kins...
...But Lynn Foncanne is no simple conquest...
...John Cromwell makes Bob Adams a shade too ideal a figure...
...The Lunts on a romp continue their comedy tradition of the love duel in S. N. Behrman's escape to the West Indies and the early 19th century, "The Pirate...
...but it is not because of these times) with a somewhat hollow sound...
...SPRINGTIME" REMAINS AT ROXY THEATRE The successful 20th Century-Fox Technicolor musical...
...and the ninth employee of Max Gordon to eater the armed forces . . . The other three were in the cast of "Junior Miss" . . . BERT WHEELER and Hank Ladd have another job when "Priorities" closes on the road . . . They will go overneas to play for Camp Shows...
...The world events-are a background in his play...
...Mark" a definite hit...
...HERE is a note that will interest Jeanette MacDonald . . . Harold Bucquet, now in London directing "Sabotage Agent," writes that he recently spent an evening with Gene Raymond, the singer's husband, now serving with the American Air Forces abroad . . . "Gene looks great...
...With "The Eve of St...
...Of those who had political preferences, 39% were marked as liberal (in January 55...
...BROADWAY ECHOES By...
...holds over for a fourth and final week at the Roxy Theatre...
...The Roxy stage presentation featuring Raymond Scott and his Jump Quintet, and Jack Durant...
...For its twenty-fifth anniversary season, The Theatre Guild starts off with two plays in a week, the first of them a new comedy by Philip Barry...
...Staged by Alfred Lunt and John John C. Wilson...
...James Theatre...
...Units of Britain's first army and American soldiers are welcomed in Algiers, natives give V for Victory salute...
...or any oar else for that matter, what terrible fate was in store for him at thst appalling Boston catastrophe . . . DAVID PARDOLL of...
...the play has thus enough realitv to keep its hold...
...reenforcements are sought in the domestic concerns of the lookout family...
...The jewels are probably genuine...
...There are many moments that lift the play, but on the whole "Yankee Point" doesn't quite press home...
...And in that final mesmerism scene, who knows whether she reveals that her husband is the pirate, deliberately to get rid of him, or because she is hypnotized and must speak sooth...
...But the title "Without Love," expressing the initial feeling of the characters, comes dangerously close to the final feeling of the audience...
...The I...
...Conservatives...
Vol. 25 • December 1942 • No. 49
