Ruth Draper to Open a Holiday Engagement at Times Hall
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Ruth Draper to Open a Holiday Engagement at Times Hall This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr. Shipley reviews each play on its opening night over WEVD st 11:50 p. m. Mellow...
...You'll find a pattern both locally true and universally applicable woven into a lively drama, if you go to "The Great Big Doorstep" and walk right in...
...ALBEE Direct from Radio City Music Hall to the RKO Aloee, Brooklyn, comes "Once Upon a. Honeymoon" co-starring Ginger Rogers and Cary Grant...
...Carla Lehmann co-stars with Greene, and they are supported by Donald Stewart, Betty Stock-field, Charles Heslop, Sidney King and Basil Radford...
...Around this hokum, there is an office crowded with real figures...
...In the one yeaf of its existence the American Theatre Wing has established staged dwor canteens hi New York...
...Walter Forde directed the picture from the screen play by Brock Williams, Gordon Wellesley and Edward Dryhurst...
...The coming Christmas week schedule provides for sixteen performances by Miss Draper, with programs changing every other day to permit a review of her complete repertory of character sketches...
...and the shoddy in this criminal lawyer, the impatient, intolerant, unscrupulous climber, and, also the impulsively charitable, kind, and eager barrister...
...famous international stage and screen star, will represent Norway on the Nations Committee for United Nations Week to be celebrated January 14th through 20th in more than 16.000 theatres throughout the country...
...Sharing honors with him in "Road to Morocco" are Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour...
...Jack Gilford, comedy sensation of "Meet the People" and "Count Me In...
...A little honest cussing has been deleted from their March of Time film "We Are the Marines...
...She watches the boy go off to drive a truck, the eldest girl leave for • 5-and-10-cent job...
...They point out that if the Hays office looks out the window when a wee bit of honest cussing goes on in Noel Cowards "In Which We Serve" why can't they de the same for "We Are the Marines...
...the old secretary who's there because the firm- acquired her with the furniture and would have to dissolve tibe Simon and Hedesco partnership to sweep her away...
...PLYING PORTRESS" AT N. Y. STRAND "Flying Fortress...
...At the Royale Theatre...
...RECORD "Road to Morocco," in its sixth week, ties a record registered by-only one other picture in the 16-year history of the New York Paramount...
...BROADWAY ECHOES By Don McCloud DRAMA DEPT...
...Presented and staged by Harmon...
...The new stage revue headlining Hal Le Roy, Mary Healy and Mary Raye and Naldi, also remains for a second and final week starting Wednesday...
...New Faces...
...ON the average Pearl Harbor week at the New York Strand Zeb Epstein reports that five of radio's top announce's sold $75,000.00 worth of bonds . . . The five announcers were: Martin, Block, Bill Bems, George Hogan, Ben Grauer...
...S. cruiser overtakes two Jap patrol boats—sink same—and rescue Jap prisoners...
...Sharing honors with him in "Road to Morocco" are Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, The "in person" show headed by Woody Herman and his orchestra with Hazel Scott as an extra added attraction also remains for a sixth week...
...R.K.O...
...Jennie Moscowitz makes vivid (among many good parts) the role of Simon's old-fashioned mother, who knows her boy is the world's best...
...After a decade human nature hasn't changed enough to disturb the portraits in Elmer Rice's "Councellor-at-Law...
...Columbia's ace director who recently completed "City Without Men" featuring Linda Darnell...
...Shipley reviews each play on its opening night over WEVD st 11:50 p. m. Mellow Mississippi Moon "THE ORE AT BIO DOORSTEP...
...These will include the revival of "Vive la France" with timely interpolations...
...Road to Morocco" in its sixth week ties a record registered by only one other picture in the sixteen year history of the New York Paramount...
...and Jack Sheehan literally stops the show, as the process-server who serves to uncover the Baird's love-nest...
...Skippers Corner" and "Ham 'n Eggs...
...It remains eminent theatre: a combination of realism of background and melodrama of plot, that gives Paul Muni a richly rewarding role...
...The previous attraction to play six weeks was "Holiday Inn...
...and Ralph Edwards . . . Well done me lads . . . SIDNEY SALKOW...
...Warner Bros.' flying drama filmed at Europe's flying fronts, is at the New-York Strand Theatre...
...Presented by John Golden...
...Complete programs will be announced shortly...
...has been sworn in as a first lieutenant in the U. S. Marines . . METRO has finally named Joan Crawford's latest starring vehicle "Reunion in France...
...Bing Crosby starred in both films...
...The previous attraction to play six weeks was "Holiday Inn...
...The cast is headed by Richard Greene, former Hollywood star, and now in the British armed forces, who was given special permission to make this picture...
...ED WYNN has signed up to star in Peter Ansa's new musical which gees into rehearsal the first part of next 0 month .. . Wynn is aiwsjs »uulciie asset to ¦rsemway . . . ZASU PITTS Opens in her new p*Ur in Detroit next week aud then to Chicago for a run it is called "Her First Murder" . . . "STARS ON ICE" will give a midnight performance on New Year's eve at the Center Theatre . . . RONALD GRAHAM, handsome "By Jupiter" juvenile . . . Selected by Russell gage girls as the man they'd like to be caught in a blackout with...
...She circled the room a couple of times and when she set near the stage door she made a bee line for it . . . Yes, Rita caught her train . . . VERA ZORIN'A...
...Add to the director's the names of Dorothy Gish and Louis Cal-hern heading the cast, and expectations were high for "The Great Bit Doorstep...
...RESTAURATEUR Arthur Ganger, operator of the "Bird in Hand...
...at any rate, his secretary will not mourn...
...She-has since been occupied with a United States and Canadian tour during which she entertained members of the armed forces under British and Free French relief suspices...
...That he loses his society wife perhaps but frees, him-to do more for society...
...It's a sort of mellower one-half "Tobacco Road" and-one-half Cinderella...
...Buna Front—latest films from the New Guinea front as American and Australian troops overcome Jap resistance...
...Jerry Wald and his orchestra head the "In Person" stage show featuring lovely Anita Boyer, songstress...
...THE ftOXf BILL HOLDS 2nd WEEK "Life Begins at 8:30," new 20th Century-Fox comedy drama starring Monty Woolley and Ida Ln-pino, remains for a second and final week at the Roxy Theatre...
...attack on Russia, to at least accept peace in the West, leaving Germany free to strike in the East...
...The object of this was to induce England, if not to actually participate with Germany in ar...
...What Happened to Hess," an exclusive inside story by Waverly Root, guest commentator of this week's issue of "Your Ringside Seat," is showing at all Embassy Newsreel Theatres...
...It is being sponsored by the Motion Picture War Activities Committee . . . V . . . V . . . V . . . RJIOVIE DEPT...
...Flying Fortress" treats of modern warfare in the skies— American eagles piloting American planes six miles above Nazi-land and dropping two-ton "block busters" on German objectives...
...And- what attorney has not a abjsay^euftev of his career, ex-poeakSJ of whfch would have him disbarred...
...BARRISTER DOUBLE-BARRED "COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW...
...and Oat step leads us with glad surprise to a Mississippi treat...
...Nothing pretentious, but good theatrical fare, rounded and constant entertainment, in "Councellor-at-Law...
...Let Wool worth mould your character...
...After a very quiet week B*way wfll come to life with five new plays . . . Here is the list at this writing...
...ROAD TO MOROCCO" TIES PARA...
...the father is a drifter, but mother end the kids work hard, and happiness conies.home...
...Versatile Artist Has Large Repertoire Ruth Draper, mistress of the monologue, will open a special 10-day holiday engagement at Times Hall (formerly, the Little...
...The 'phone girl, making dates— especially one with the doctor, as a result of the others...
...Theatre) the evening of December 26, it was announced by S. Hurok today...
...Three Sisters...
...To tab* he responds with a vibrant performance, catching the geduhie...
...But a despair to live with, as {tea...
...Altogether, this great big doorstep which they have to find a house to match is not, in its measure, unlike the stepping-stones of our own ideals, for which we have to find a world...
...Washington and Philadelphia with many more cities to follow . . . Sneaking of the Stage Door Canteen . . . Kit a Hay worth who entertained the boys there last week took the place by storm . . . Rita had a train to catch but the beys simply wouldn't let her go . . . Soon Rite being a gal who knows her way around formed a conga line with the boys...
...Glenda Fsrrell, Doris Dul-ley and Michael Duane...
...How long it might stay is another matter, but before it can sneak oft*, the final curtain falls...
...The film tells the story of Hess' flight to England...
...Dorothy Gish somehow keeps a sweetness in this woman, despite the years of desperate hardship and strain, thf'bfcw after blow to her faith in the bubbles of the Commodore's promises, the drudgery of household affairs in a hovel half-fallen (it collapses at the end) and too small for her steadily growing brood...
...WARNER BROS, announce that Ann Harding, long away from the Hollywood picture, will be sensational in "Mission to Moscow...
...By Frances Goodrich and Albert Hacket, from, the novel by E. P. O'Donnell...
...Among the others that crowd this busy office with their many concerns, Joseph Pevney has a vehement moment as the Communist bearding the legal lion, in his den...
...Lasky doesn't mind . . . AMERICAN Theatre Wing notes...
...His whistling abdomen saves him, or his anger, or his faith in his generous brother, who tosses the funnies to the youngsters as his boat glides by...
...This romantic comedy of love on the run which takes Ginger and Cary from one Najzi blitzed country to another, is accompanied at the Albee by "Time to Kill," first-run Michael Shayne mystery with Lloyd Nolan and Heather Angel...
...March of Time a little peeved at the Hays office...
...Ruth Draper to Open a Holiday Engagement at Times Hall This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr...
...Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester neighborhoods present Pat O'Brien, George Murphy and Jane Wyatt in "The Navy Comes Through," exciting drama of navy men and the merchant marine, and George Brent co-starred with Brenda Marshall in "You Can't Escape Forever," bright comedy of newspaper life...
...ROGERS AND GRANT AT R.K.O...
...First to inaugurate special menus for defense workers in that vicinity . . MOST novel New Year's Eve affair will be the swimming session at the Hotel Paris foT service men and their femme...
...Other favorites, "Three Women and Mr-Clifford" and "A Class in Soul Culture," will reappear after many years absence...
...and yearns to hold her family home...
...A recognizable figure in the courts of New York...
...Shumlin...
...AMAZING BATTLE SCENES AT EMBASSY Startling scenes from the Global War battle fronts headline the program of one hour World Wide News Events at all Embassy Newsreel Theatres...
...But even the girl destined to be a Sister of Mercy (as Jay Geffen's bouncing portrayal Shows) spreads gayer wings...
...not a liar but a dreamer, and happy in his always resurging dreams...
...Amazing pictures made under fire show the great drive ol Britain's 8th Army in Libya— British Tommies attack Nazi-held positions through a terrific barrage of artillery fire—German General Thoma, Rommel's second in command, captured with hordes of prisoners...
...Herman Shumlin has directed with a fine sense of balancing effects, drawing rich color out of the play's possibilities, and making a genuine contribution to our drama of native folk-themes...
...The Lime Trio presenting "The Golywog" and Betty-Jane Smith, musical comedy starlet...
...At the Moscow Theatre...
...Crochet knows...
...he has moved his large cast with speed and even flow, and a good sense of contrasting effects...
...These folk are Cajuns—Arcadians, sprang from old Evangeline's exiled clan—but the Commodore is too cagy for...
...companions . . . Sort of swimming the old year away as it were...
...Somewhere in the Pacific—U...
...Bing Crosby starred rn both films...
...In addition...
...Miss Draper's solo plays' were on view here exactly una year ago when she shared honors with her nephew-dancer Paul Draper...
...I'll take lngris Bergman far mine if Mel...
...work to catch up on him...
...Written and directed by Elmer Bias...
...So who can east the ftraf atenaut George Simon, when he jgets fhi goods on Mayflower BafrW and' keeps himself double-barred against Such a catastrophe to his brilliant career...
...r^auVj^aV' "Cry Havoc...
...And Louis Cathern makes the Commodore a real and likable human: a ne'er-do-well, but also a ne'er-do-ill, just one of God's easy-going sons, always ready with the bright thought, lacking only the drive to make it come true...
...The in person show, headed by Woody Herman and his orchestra with Hazel Scott as an extra added attraction, also remains for a sixth week...
...aad -Doodle Dandy" . . . Se next week threatens to he a busy sad I bene successful one...
...Rice knows the theatre, both as author and as director...
Vol. 25 • December 1942 • No. 51
