Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea Co-star at Rivoli Theatre
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea Co-star at Rivoli Theatre This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr. Shipley reviews each play on its opening night ever WEVD at 11:50 p. m. MOSCOW...
...If a play pictures a foreigner talking in a tongue strange to h im, native to all the rest, by all means have an accent...
...Tracing a mainly historical process, the scenes (like those in Shakespeare's histories) have rather an epic than a dramatic flow—not helped by the fact that Dan James' long speeches are pedestrian prose...
...then pray that, if he must be taken, the Little Father should be sure to spare Comrade Stalin, because he has work to do...
...In the big cast are: Captain Heyer and his trained horse' Melissa Mason, acrobate dancer...
...it is both absurd and disturbing to have them all speak broken English...
...Thank You Billy Mitchell, Thank Yon Bernard Baruch," is the title of the newest issue of "Tour Ringside Seat" at all Embassy News reel Theatres...
...Baruch said that the only way to conserve tires was by gasoline rationing...
...IF they hadn't hit stardom . . . CHARLES CORRELL, of Amos 'n' Andy, could still be holding down his job as a stenographer . . . PATTI ANDREWS of the Andrews Sisters would probably be working in a bakery . . . She always had a yen for baking until her sisters got her into show business . . . HANK LADD...
...The Pisoator productions, thus far, have'been full of flaw*—and full of provocative ideas and staging suggestions...
...John Loder, Madeleine LeBeau...
...The program will include several items new in this precinct...
...Pictorial Record of Jap Infamy: A lucky bomb hit downs smoke stack of U.S.S...
...Also held over for a second week is the Music Hall's spectacular stage revue...
...80 heavy Navy planes destroyed...
...Jack Carson, Alan Hale...
...Broadway's directors could do worse than watch with keen eye the stagings down on 12th Street...
...The new Sturges picture, which in addition to co-starring Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea, features Rudy Vallee and Mary Astor, tells the story of Claudette and Joel, who have been married for five years and are flat broke...
...Their predictions prove that America needs more prophets like the two courageous men...
...and the Rockettes, Corps de Ballet, Glee Club and Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Erno Rapee...
...97 Army planes blasted to bits at Hickman field...
...MINIVER" is the woman of the year .. . That's the verdict ef Bed Book lagaiiae whack will present ttn silver cap for 1942 to all those who bad a band in fashioning this great drama . . . The American Theatre Wing is boning to have its Merchant Seaman's Club open in time for Santa to come down the chimney . . . THOSE gorgeous Norway spruce trees which as* visiting Rockefeller Plaza for the Christmas holidays win have a tot of tail tales to tell their saplings when they return to then-Long Island home after the holidays . . . BROCK PEMBERTON in mulling over Howard St, John's new comedy "Achilles Was* Heel" . . . Howard is playing an important role in Brock's hit shew •Janie" . . . LOOKS like Michael Teed will have half ef Hollywood in "Something for the Beys" before he gets finished castings . . . Latest recruit is Jed Prooty . . . FLORIA VESTOFF...
...The work of Salvage begins, air replacements stream in, battleships and othes naval units reconditioned, join the fight to crush Japs in the Far East...
...Arizona, exploded forward magazine — battleships Tennessee, West Virginia, and capital ship Maryland on fire...
...They would not speak their own tongue with a foreign accent...
...By Dan James...
...Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea Co-star at Rivoli Theatre This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr...
...Wings and the Woman," the story of a girl who defied convention and lived the thrills few women ever know, is the accompanying film...
...Shipley reviews each play on its opening night ever WEVD at 11:50 p. m. MOSCOW MARCH "WINTER SOLDIERS...
...AST AIRE AND HAYWORTH REMAIN AT MUSIC HALL The Radio City Music Hall's gay musical film hit, "You Were Never Lovelier," starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth, is in its second week at the big playhouse Thursday...
...BRAMWELL FLETCHER, who appears as Ronald Coleman's business ssatstosst in "Baadoai Harvest* has shMstoi ha the Army . . . VAN HEFLIN, the star find ef the year whom yoaTl cheer in "Tennessee Johnson-is another who has changed his civilian clothes for the Army's olive drab . . . "MBS...
...bat that question of accent is a troubling one...
...But the acting is sound, the direction and settings (H...
...studied to be a CPA but her uncle Gus Edwards said she couldn't get the theatre out of her blood . . . Paul Hartman was a truck driver but his wife Grade didn't like staying home alone, so they teamed np together as the dancing Hartman's . . . GINNY SIMMS studied to be a music teacher but got into the theatre when she took a job as usherette one summer . . . MEYER DAVIS used to be a cub reporter until the M. E. said as a reporter he would make a good bandleader . . . _t...
...Happy-Go-Lucky" produced by Leon Leoni-doff...
...The "in person" show, headed by Glen Gray, and the Casa Loma Orchestra, with Dean Murphy as a special added-^attraction, also holds over...
...The second attraction, "The Devil With Hitler" is a hilarious satire against the Axis leaders...
...Nicholas Daks and Marie Grimaldi, dancers...
...Damage to air-crafts at Ford Island...
...Anna Neagle plays "the woman...
...AHfcoagh the play (by an American) takes the German troops from Yugoslavia through Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland to Russia, it is the Russian practice that dominates...
...RITA HATWOJtTH who hi' ui si ¦<¦¦»* with Fred Astair* at «h* Itssae XaBht -Ye* Were Never InftdVor* ¦ In town far s short hoaVfcy and JBta never bashed tovsJbnrT...
...Over a year ago Mr...
...U.S.S...
...this is a cheap service, even for the German figures (often found, of course, especially in motion pictures and cinema house stage shows) but the Yugolavs and Czechs and Poles in "Winter Soldiers" are shown as heroes, dying for / their country while speaking its language like foreigners...
...The associate feature at the Palace is a blight comedy of newspaper life, '"You Can't Escape Forever" co-star-rmg George Brent and Brenda Marshall, while the Albee shows 'Strictly in the Groove," a firstrun musical comedy with Leon Errol, Shemp Howard, Grace McDonald and Ozzie Nelson and his orchestra, as its second feature...
...B*WAY has its first fern, cafe operator-mistress of ceremonies since the days of Texas Guinan in the person of Louise Reid, of Louise's Monte Carlo . . . THE Riobamba which opened last »ight . . . This new south American "Oasis" seems to have what it takes...
...Claudette believes she could be more of a help in advancing her husband's business career if she were a lister jto_ him...
...Carmen Amaya (above), the gypsy flamenco fire-bomb and her troupe of ten dancers, singers and musicians, pause in their first transcontinental trek to be presented at Carnegie Hall by S. Hurok on Sunday, Dec...
...In 1925 General Mitchell was discharged from the Army for daring to tell the American people that a huge air force was needed for front-line defense...
...BROADWAY ECHOES By Don McCloud v___v . . y...
...It seemed ona* «ne the native Americana in the pay (except in the Russian parts) were' talking in foreign strains...
...He.dpesn't agree, but she walks out on him and goes to Palm Beach for a divorce...
...HOUSES "The Navy Comes Through," stirring saga of the commandos of the sea, featuring Pat O'Brien and George Murphy, is current at the RKO Palace and RKO Albee, Brooklyn...
...Sometimes a foreign accent is used as a means of drawing ridicule upon the user...
...V . . . V . . . V . . . ORETA GARBO in a dimmed corner of the Greenwich Village Inn enjoying Benny Fields warbling of "White Christmas" . . . BRIAN AHERNE and his charming wife, Joan Fontaine, joining in the community singing at Jimmie Dwyer's Sawdust Trail...
...The RKO Brooklyn and Queens neighborhood theatres present Jack Benny arid Ann Sheridan co-starred in the riotous comedy "George Washington Slept He*e...
...three destroyers hit...
...It is true that at least 20 of the large east-had, their theatre training in Europe (one wonders who are studying at Piscator's theatre school...
...RKO Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester Theatres are showing "Thunder Birds," Technicolor action romance discharging a bomb-rack's worth of excitement and thrills, and starring Gene Tierney, with Preston Foster...
...they speak English only by an accepted convention so that the audience can understand...
...The film tells the story of two great Americans...
...1941, battling ever more desperately against the steady persistence of the underground sabotage and guerilla opposition that delays the advance and spells its doom...
...Oklahoma capsized...
...Presented by Erwin Piseater at the Studio theatre of n» New School for Social Research...
...Not only does she arrive there—still with no money—but enroute picks up ' the richest man in the world plus all his, worldly possessions...
...How she gets there is a trick of the director's...
...H. 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.' GALA BILLS AT R.K.O...
...Ivan Petrov, baritone...
...Other players in the cast include William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Sig Arno (the screen's character comedian), Robert Dudley, Robert Warwick, Jimmy Conlin, and others...
...Ward Bond and Dorothy Vaughan are featured in the film story based on the life of James J. Corbett...
...Featurettes on the program consist of selected short subjects, the very latest newsreels, and other novelties...
...Has been engaged for the new musical "The Merchant of Venice" which is slated to hit the stem the early part of next year...
...of the beautiful legs and twinkling toes who is thrilling the customers at Club 51...
...In vivid pageantry, with its moveiout speeded by the well-applied mechanical .powers of a revolving center stage and two side stages, -Winter .Soldiers" shows the German Headquarters staff near Moscow, in Nov...
...PEARL HARBOR ATTACK SHOWING AT EMBASSY Exclusive dramatic pictures taken during the Jap sneak raid of December 7th, 1941, can now be shown and are released in full by the U. S. Navy, portraying the terrific damage to Pearl Harbor...
...And all interested in the theatre will find much cause for thought and scope for argument...
...ROAD TO MOROCCO IN FIFTH BIG WEEK "Road to Morocco," in its fifth week at the New York Paramount becomes the fifth film in the sixteeen year history of the theatre to play five consecutive weeks...
...But here all these characters are, supposedly speaking their native languages...
...Papa, brother and sisters Amaya will also participate in the proceedings...
...for example, is it the playwright's or the peasant's naivete that link fin the peasant, taking oat his ikon after 20 years, start to tell the Lord the history of those two decades...
...Bert Wheeler's partner, is a double for Thomas E. Dewey and would have been a lawyer if his ma and pa had had their way about it . . . JOAN EDWARDS, of "Your Hit Parade...
...The troupe includes Antonio Triana, famous male flamenco dancer, and Sabicas, the guitarist...
...Directed by Shepemd Taube...
...STURGES' COMEDY DELIGHTS PATRONS Preston St urges' newest production, "The Palm Beach Story," has a special pre-release engagement at the Rivoli Theatre...
...A. Condell) excellent, so that interest is held, and the mind plays over many questions...
...In addition to the Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour screen attraction the Paramount continues its in person show featuring Woody Herman and his band, Pat Henning and Hazel Scott...
...Even outside the play, in summoning the critics at the end of the first week's rani) And is it mere coincidence that the Russian roles are freest from foreign accent...
...GENTLEMAN JIM" HOLDS AT N. Y. STRAND "Gentleman Jim," Warner Bros.' new picture starring Errol Flynn and Alexis Smith, is held over for a third week at the Strand Theatre...
...first great modern heavyweight boxing champion...
...13th, in an evening of blood-stirring entertainment for susceptible New-Yorkers...
Vol. 25 • December 1942 • No. 50
