Siminov's Play Slated for Guild Theatre on Tuesday Evening
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Siminov's Play Slated for Guild Theatre on Tuesday Evening This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr. Shipley reviews each play on its opening night over WEVD at 11:50 p. m. The Russian...
...Staged by Guthrie ,jfarifart...
...The Chekhov talk of a near fulfillment but stresses the barren present...
...Perhaps the actor's task is to lift this fog, to shake off this spiritual dust...
...It is th...
...and Martha Scott conveys the difficult, loving yet weak spirit of Mara with tender truth...
...Eric Dressier as the simple, b—brewed brother...
...V. . . V . . . V...
...The talk of a better world in a few generations we feel as despair shouting at a wall...
...the two colored maids, and the two tots (R...
...iHfSIC MALL IMJL HOL99 Z*ji WVtK Always the highlight of New York's holiday season entertainment, Radio City's far-famed Christmas program is in its second week...
...The doctor has shriveled to years of dawdling aad drink...
...Shipley reviews each play on its opening night over WEVD at 11:50 p. m. The Russian Sadness "THB JNUZBB SISTEJtS...
...True artist that she is, she has chosen no piece for a single star, but a play that gives rich opportunity in various roles, which all are richly filled...
...These values remain pathetic, not tragic Instead of the exaltation, the sense of man's spiritual power that stands defiant of ruin and death, there drifts from this Russian drama slow breath of depression, of human detritus, of defeat...
...Featured in the theater's great three-part holiday program are the world-premiere of "Random Harvest," co-starring Greer Carson and Ronald Colman.and the theater's .celebrated annual two-part stage show...
...the man they loved is long dead...
...Qnite a record fee one nmtmmm...
...Gus Edwards, and is hoping for old theatre programs or placards on his work . . . And this column is hoping everyone will have a Cheerful Christmas...
...Opera House for the first time since she was invalided in'1941...
...but the better Chekhov's "The Three Sisters" is played, the more it seems a depressing picture of society's decay...
...But ia- the acting, not only is each character made real, but each is given good chance to unburden his inmost heart...
...Opera colleagues John Brownlee, Lily Pons, Grace Moore, Lawrence Tibbett and Lauritz Melchior are sponsoring the affair...
...When she awakes (in storm that destroys the willow) her younger sister has a grandson...
...Leonard Gau-tier's "Bricklayers", Shayne and Armstrong, Dave Ma 11 en and Albert Gifford as well as the Music Hall Rockettes, Corps de Ballet, Glee Club and Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Erno Rapee...
...and we learn that "to him that hath, shall be given" is a double tale...
...As the army doctor, Edmund Gwenn enriches the portrait with a humanity underlying the indifference of the outer man...
...latest Soviet film importation to arrive in this country, has its American premiere at th.e Stanley Theatre...
...Moscow, the center and symbol of the cultured life they never again will share...
...Dennis King as the Colonel...
...Featured performers in the two great stage spectacles include: Selma Kaye...
...Directed JDonald BlackvoelL At the idsor Theatre...
...It is the life story of show business from the 1881's until today...
...Judith Anderson as the elder sister, and Gertrude Muagrove as the younger, infuse their roles with living reality, while Ruth Gordon puts an almost fiendish force into the driving will of the small-town Philistine mind...
...The record-breaking "Road to Morocco," according to Robert M. Weitzman, managing director, will have played to close to a million persons when it concludes its run December 29th...
...mm fact Ira taps . . . No other praaaear baa been able to a—shall Hda feet . . . KATHARINE CORNELL delighting her followers with The Three Sisters...
...Crouse aad Howard Lindsay are the latest B'way stars to be signed by Sol Lesser to play themselves ia the canteen sequence ef "Stage Doer Canteen...
...Yapkee Doodle Dandy" tells the story of America's greatest showman — George M. Cohan...
...New Guinea: War materials are flown in by plane, while reinforcements aid our troops in crushing Japs...
...Katharine Cornell, as Maaha, combines a weary endurance of untold boredom with a restrained exuberance of fresh joy she knows all along cannot last...
...Also In Person, the stage show features Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra with Bob Eberly...
...Mas ha—the middle sister—has married the head teacher, a nice enough fellow: he watches with forgiveness her love for the colonel, but a dishwater mind with monotonous drip...
...While we're cleaning up the Nazis, why don't we give China a chance to clean up on the Japs...
...I am taller than my parents...
...Barbara O'Neil makes the demanding sister less hateful than pitiable—but real...
...ature play, of sincere and aspect, has again come upon- the Broadway stage...
...bis drunken revelation is a peak of the pathetic...
...THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE" ADAPTED BY ODETS The Theatre Guild's production of "The Russian People" will have its Broadway premiere on Tuesday evening, at the Guild Theatre, as the fourth play on the current Theatre Guild subscription season in New York...
...Heading a oast of over twenty-five players are such stellar personalities as Leon Amos, Luther Adler, Victor Varconi, Elisabeth Fraser, Efeonora Mendelssohn and E. A. Krumschmidt...
...is directing "The Russian People.'' The entire production of "The Russian People" is under the supervision of Lawrence Langner and Theresa Hettum...
...The others ware: "Lightnin," "Ike First Tear" and "Seventh Heaven...
...And so for the rest, until the soldiers leave, and the town settles bask (with the three sisters) to be land under seasons of snow...
...This sounds—and is—serious...
...The play is Chekhov's grim picture of the dry rot of Russian society, shown through the decay of three sisters stranded, by the dead of their general father, in a Russian provincial town, and vainly yearning for their return to Moscow...
...The film is to be predated for the American Theatre Wing War Service . . . MARJORIE LAWRENCE, Australian soprano, will sing on the stage ef the Met...
...By Anton Chekhov...
...The film stated China has millions of fighting men who are just as anxious to kill Japs as we are, all they lack is war material...
...Y. . . V . . . V . . . *?*HE Duke and Dutchess of Windsor after having taken a slant at * Warner Bros.' "Yankee Doodle Dandy" while visiting Florida thought it was "quite a bit of alright...
...And when the man comes into their lives, the demanding one's threat of suicide drives Mara into a retreat that lasts tor 40 years of complete mental lapse...
...In addition, the stage show presents Billy Rayes, Broadway musical comedy star...
...H. -V...
...Katharine Cornell has brought another of her flawless revivals to the Broadway Christmas time...
...The play is by no means free from structural flaws, the chief of Which rise from its attempt to press a climatic pattern of tense drama on a chronicle-play spread of time...
...SPECTACULAR SHOTS AT THE EMBASSY Spectacular action pictures from inside Stalingrad headline the program at all Embassy Newsreel Theatres...
...And it tells that story-through the songs and plays that he wrote—his vaudeville and legitimate stage career...
...Kaltenborn, ace screen journalist and war news analyst, headlines the new show appearing in the newest issue of his popular weekly series, "Kaltenborn Edits the News...
...BROCK PEMBERTON'S "Janie" data* alright . . . Extra mats...
...but the play presents it through dramatic story, with lighter side touches, as in the aunt (Cora Witherspoon) whose words would -wither an edelweiss...
...RECORD "Road to Morocco" sets a new all time record at the New Paramount today (Wednesday) when, it entered its seventh and final week...
...the old man (Edward Pawley) who is a most unrepentant immoralist...
...Produced by Black-well and Curtis, in...
...fourth play predated bp ttMea m> pan...
...One—for whom an apple-tree was planted at birth—is accustomed to taking...
...There toere giants in those days": most human thoughts put Eden in the past—or in the far, far distand future...
...For Bessie had the body of the man both loved, had the body of this earth...
...Will he in order next week .. . THOSE are spiffy pest cards the Stage Door Canteen is dissribating to visiting servicemen . . . They are four-color reproductions of original drawings by Barney Tebey depicting activities in the Canteen . . . MAX GORDON'S dollar tap venture with "My Sister Eileen" at the B'way Theatre has clicked in a teg way .. . ILKA CHASE, Dorothy Stirknev Basse...
...Harold Clurman, who has directed so many of Odet's own plays in the past...
...at a concert ha tribute to her courageous spirit on Sunday evening . . . Her Met...
...Only outside the drama through history's bath of blood—has promise worked its fearful way...
...Siminov's Play Slated for Guild Theatre on Tuesday Evening This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr...
...She is no single diamond in a golden ring, but the central jewel in a studded coronet...
...But it is a pleasure to find good acting not thrown away on drivel and dearth, but flowing in a play that aims high and hits near the center of the target...
...January 23rd . . . ALAN COURTNEY opens with a hilarious, eyebrow-raising stunt, "You're the Witness," at Louise's Monte Carlo early in January . . . JANE FROMAN scoring heavily at the Riobama . . . Movie scouts are giving her the double 00 . . . WHAT the stars want for Christmas . . . Giuny Simms will settle for a phone at her San Fernando ranch . . . Priorities has forced Mr...
...the other—whose birth tree is a willow—always yields...
...The American acting version of "The Russian People" which The Guild is presenting, is the work of Clifford Odets...
...by Carey Longmire is the latest release of "Your Ringside Seat" at all Embassy Newsreel Theatres...
...Thrilling scenes of heroic defense of Volga industrial city by hard bitten Russian veterans turn back Nazi assault...
...BROADWAY ECHOES By Don McCfeud |OHN OOUMsOT Thenar ban pnasei the W>tb ¦ n4nemmn.l mark...
...Helen O'Connell and Buddy Schutz...
...Mighty city becomes a fighting front...
...American troops from all the fighting fronts send Christmas greetings to the folks at home...
...nay Ginny . . . MORTON GOULD is abeggin' for a package of harp strings . . . Norte have been made during the past year . . . Looks like your harpist will have to leam to play drums, Mort . . . JOAN EDWARDS is collecting all memorabilia (brother, there is a word) regarding her uncle...
...AS THE TWIG IS KMT "The Willo-w and I." By John Patrick...
...Yet through her sister's child, in whom the father lives again, Mara discovers some things she has never lost...
...ROAD TO MOROCCO" BREAKS PARA...
...PreoenJod by and with Katharine Cornell...
...It promises to be a gala event...
...Bell to say nay...
...News from the World Battle Fronts...
...And this production of "The Three Sisters" is very well played indeed...
...Not only the Prozorov girls are bored, eaten away, by the deadly dulness of the small town days...
...my sons ace taller than I; but who expects the aggrandize-msetirto continue...
...New landings of United Nation forces in North Africa graphically pictured—plenty of action in eve-dence as our boys take over city...
...The film, produced by the Vas-siliev Brothers, of "Chapayev" fame, is a dramatic portrayal of the 1918 campaign...
...Amazing Soviet Army battling from house to house among charred ruins and wreckage of blasted buildings, refuse to relinquish city to German hordes...
...BOB WILLS, Columbia's cowboy star and radio maestro . . . Has hung up his boots and saddle . . . Uncle Sam has given him the nod . . . TOM NEAL who was scheduled to support Edward G. Robinson in "Destroyer" has been switched to play the male lead opposite Jinx Falkenburg . . . Nice switching if you can get it . . . BOB CROSBY is breaking up his band to do a single in the movies . , , JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON touted Bob Evans, the ventriloquist, for the Ziegfeid Follies . . . Harry Kaaffnaan, the producer, liked Bob but not his dummy . . . Now Bob is wondering if he could borrow Charlie MacCarthy . . . DUKE ELLINGTON and his orchestra have gone a long, long way . . . The Duke and his Gang will be at Carnegie Hall on Saturday Eve...
...At the Ethel Barrymore Theatre...
...association with David Merrick...
...Davis Williams and Alec Englander) that from the kitchen side and the parlor side lighten the evening...
...Ibsen shows how to bring the past into the present...
...In the sixteen year history of the Paramount the Crosby, Hope, Lamour film is the first to play seven consecutive weeks...
...yet she is unhappy, bitter, lonely— having little within...
...How About China...
...YANKEE DOODLE DANDY" VISITS N. Y. STRAND The year's most spectacular musical extravaganza, "Yankee Doodle Dandy", began its popular priced engagement at the N. Y. Strand...
...NEW PICTURE AT THE STANLEY "Fortress on the Volga...
...and Mara in her late reawakening finds that her love has response of tenderness and love, that hers is the true fulfillment...
...that saark...
...Alexander Knox as the drifting baron: one could go through the entire east with words of a performance that brings into a"well-woven unity the values of Chekhov's drama...
...Only one other film played six weeks, that being "Holiday Inn," which also had Bing Crosby as a star...
...The girls'brother, entangled into marriage with a bossy small-town-minded girl, shrinks to the crumpled paper level of a dusty town-councillor...
...Patrick has presented, in "The Willow .and I," a contrasted struggle of two sisters...
Vol. 25 • December 1942 • No. 52
