George Abbott Scores With His Hit Comedy '"Kiss and Tell
George Abbott Scores With His Hit Comedy '"Kiss and TelP This Week on the Stage ¦ ¦ ; · By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr. Shipley reviews each play ? its opening night ???? WEVD at 11:50 p. m. Catch...
...The Pringles tingle at having a hero in the family, and Mrs...
...as the play opens, she's about to run away with one, being stopped only by her wise old ma—who's managed for some years to enjoy the benefit of matrimony without benefit of clergy...
...and all the Duprees fall for him...
...They would die on their feet...
...BROADWAY ECHOES IllliraillllWIIIIlllllfflllillllllffllllllllllffllll By ?3...
...The other two being "Random Harvest" sal "Blossoms in the Dust...
...Long Island, and dreams of trips far, far away...
...Eddie Albert, Patsy Kelly...
...and Park Ave., 46th St and Broadway, and 72nd St...
...THE Kidottfan, Zany Musical Nitwits who scored so heavily on the Bing Ctmjb air show, are wowing the customers nightly at the Hickory Bean, . . . FRANK LIBUSE*S fan-making in Omen and Johnson's "San o' Fan" is now sheer dynamite...
...timely war drama, after 15 weeks on Broadway is current at RKO Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester neighborhood theatres, accompanied by "At the Front in North Africa," the -authentic and official Technicolor film record- of Our Forces' invasion of Algiers, Bone and Te-bourka...
...Hence an innocent soldier and another neighbor's bay get tangled into the situation—until...
...Played by Tommy Lewis with an offhanded complacency and boyish assurance, he's a major aspect of the evening's fun...
...His son has been awarded a* D.F.C____ V. . .—V...
...Colonel Carlson, with his second in command Lt...
...After tbe battle our subs return to their home base at Pearl Harbor with many Jap trophies...
...Dick Powell...
...The extra added attraction is The King Sisters, singing stars recently seen and heaid with Alvino Rev and his orchestra...
...and as the W boy Bancroft Binks...
...Then comes Ban Binks...
...Casablanca...
...George JcaM Ella Logan...
...modated to the little stage of as Provinfetown Playhouse, Stsaaa Meisner has by sympathetit # rection brought out the saaat qualities of the play...
...Dreamt tat faith are the seeds of our sovag —sterile, save with the fertflbasj of labor and love...
...Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken...
...make the substance of Ben Simkhoviteh's play...
...But we can and are crippling Hitler's industrial power...
...lout...
...Lenny shoots down three enemy planes and patches up the quarrel...
...50th St.: "At the Front in North Africa" and "Pluto, Jr...
...Allen Jenkins...
...ing themselves at the stage door mornings the signature...
...Hence Lieutenant Lenny Archer has to marry Mildred in utmost secrecy, and when the baby announces its imminence, Corliss—who plays guard at the doctor's—is spied, and takes the blame...
...Jessie Royce Landig makes Mrs...
...He warned bluntly that the German Army was prepared to "take the necessary means...
...Tallulah Bankhead...
...On its great stag*, the Music Hall is also continuing the thrilling spectacle, "Victory Fleet...
...Ziegfeld Follies" and "Oklahoma," both shows as* been cleaning ap while tuning ap on tbe road...
...Sweet souls among the honest poor, a la Saroyan...
...GE0AGI SANDERS and Marguerite Chapman to co-star in Columbia's *B pointment in Berlin...
...qeanst from the Fred Allen radio show, have been signed for pix, . ·., They will appear in "Jam Session...
...V _V _V Revolt in Haute Savoie (Continued from Page Two) cliffs overlooking the mountain roads leading to positions they had dug for their stand...
...A cynic nufkt say it's all a lot o' crap...
...Rudy Vallee and Sir Lancelot and his Calypso songs...
...The Anaa ican Actors Company are deaf a worthy job._ -j...
...He told Maestro Morton Gould, "I love to go walking in the put and see the sun beating down on all the people...
...the Lord and pass the ammaa-tton" is in the same mood, ?? set in terms of the just libaab souls of the land...
...remain through the day hoping to catch a glimpse of glamoar §aa Jane Wyman, Irene Manning and Ina Ray Hutton and coaaslm Jerry Lester...
...Ii a set that is effectively...
...By F. Hugh Herbert...
...Some utwMJtW on their knees...
...Archer bows to a better archer (Dan Cupid) when she finds that her imminent grandchild is legitimate after all...
...as an incentive ta ?*, tory gardeners, wfl hold "fairs" this Summer in its tkeaom throughout the nation at which amateur farmers and farmerea* cast compete far war beads to be offered growers of prise crop*, CHARLES BOTER, Janet Blair, Paulette Gedhard, Markee ftetrsa and George Raft are the first film stars announced for the Holly caravan of stars which will cross tbe conntry to appear at the rrtu Red Cross show at Madison Square Garden the night of April ah...
...The "playboy" claims the world as his domicile, but is going to Newark because there is the world's largest crap-game...
...held Island of Makin readline the new program at an Embassy Newrsreel Theatres...
...and Kate Smith...
...m.: Algernon Lee, "The Menace of Club* 274 'ESSasssww^.Y.C...
...That, of course, is little brother...
...For Corliss Archer (scarce fifteen) and Mildred Pringle (not quite eighteen), instead of selling lace comforters create a sensation by selling other kinds of comfits, namely kisses...
...In the latter Miss Garson was ska co-starred with Walter Pidgeon...
...22nd Ar D. Sutter Avenue Ciub of the A.L.L., 97r5utter Ave., Brooklyn...
...At the Bi It more Theatre...
...Only "absenteeism" marred the Nazi production record .. for this week, a handful of ab- -sentees were still holding "out on the heights of tbe Haute Savoie...
...Still the German manhuniees pressed on...
...Hand-grenades were thrown in Lyon, snipers snapped through the streets of Paris, explosions demolished general staff centers...
...Jaae Wyman, Jimmy Darante, Helen H^-Ray'Bolger, Milton Berle...
...Presented by the American Actor's Company...
...Each day, almost two thousand Frenchmen reported for work in German industrial centers...
...Meanwhile, trainloads of French workers, huddling at the point of the bayonet, were leaving Paris each day for Nazi assignments...
...HOUSES "Casablanca...
...Although little Corliss Archer is a bit too silly for her age (or her predicament would not have developed), there have been few plays in which next door families have been so amusingly captured bi their friendship, gossips, squabbles, and making amends...
...JIMMY DURANTE got his first «an of Spring fever during rehearsals of the Cresta Bianca Carnival...
...Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn in MGM's thrilling romantic drama...
...Kiss and Tell" ought to run until that baby is ready for teething...
...B^AYf be much gayer next week with the entrance of t»o highly team] musicals...
...Kaltenborn says, "We cannot win tbe war against the Nazis by air action alone...
...FLAME" HOLDING AT MUSIC HALL Acclaimed by capacity Radio City Music Hall audiences for two of the outstanding performances of their careers...
...Half simpleton, half symbol...
...JAP HELD ISLAND RAIDED BY NAVY Pictures just released by the Navy Department of tie XL'S...
...The play has a pleasant, boat-like quality, that leaves tat ea> ning mellow...
...QffiKT SIMMS, who is billed as "The Sweetheart of Uncle Sam's Ataet Forces," says she loves so many «ervicemen that it's really rate iv...
...an action-filled episode in the day of a convoy, produced by Leonidoff with settings by Bruno Maine...
...Max Baer and a number of other fun-makers...
...Story of how Canada and the U.S...
...There's a large and lively cast, all contributing to the merriment...
...The Archers blame it on tbe older girl, and the families are not speaking...
...In the Pringle family, he's a sort of quiz kid at home...
...As masses of reinforcements are being thrown into the mountains, German Labor Commissioner Fritz Sauckel informed the Vichy government that the Nazis | were still waiting for the quota of 250,000 workers which had been premised...
...STARS of the New York area scheduled to appear iachjde u> Pons, Martha Raye...
...Five hit tunes, plus a couple of catchy extras, is the score for Para-mount's newest musicomedy, in Technicolor, with Mary' Martin...
...CASABLANCA-AT R.K.O...
...of the pickle we're all in...
...Tliito, Jr.," a Disney cartoon...
...Underground saboteurs have destroyed locomotives, blown up bridges, ambushed leading Nazi officials...
...has hn ?, jackpot again with "Kiss and ???," aa uproarious come* ^ is destined to convalse audiences fee tbe next few years, com« »¦» income taxes or meat shortages...
...HUMANITY'S DICE-GAME "THE PLAY'BOY OF NEWARK...
...MERVYN, LER0Y ka taken over the direction of Metro's "Maoame Curie" following fie withdrawal of Albert Lewin...
...and Broadway...
...McCloud ?1??:?1?11?111111??????| GEORGE ABBOTT, the miracle man of the the.tr...
...R.K.O...
...That bubble is also pricked...
...This week's issue of "Your Ringside Seat" presents "Analysis of R.A.F...
...new RKO Radio Pictures' baseball comedy featuring Lupe Velez...
...Hitler's industries needed men, and the S.S...
...HI, Lo...
...HAPPY GO LUCKY" AT PARAMOUNT "Happy Go Lucky" replaces "Hitler's Children" as the screen attraction at the New York Paramount Theatre...
...Y. Strand has become the autograph hounds paradise, per...
...He's going to build an ark, in which they can travel dreamward...
...George Abbott's keen eye for comedy, and his deft band with comedy, have again given Broadway a hit, in the family-and-neighbor-with-growing-children antics of "Kiss and Tell...
...Friday, April 2. 8:30 p. m.: August Ciaessens, "Abraham Lincoln—His Life and Humor...
...Sam Dupree feeds his chickens near the railroad tracks at Huntington...
...ouch...
...By Ben K. Simkho-riteh...
...Archer a delightful creation, fall of natural touches (in which the Abbott direction may also be felt...
...His wife takes in boarders, mainly employees of tbe pickle works (perhaps that's a symbol too...
...Bombings" by ?. V. Kaltenborn, noted war news commentator, in the new program at 'the Embassy News reel Theatres, 42nd St...
...Because in that days, where else can you see so much meat cooking...
...72nd Street: "At the Front in North Africa" and "Village Smithy," a Disney cartoon...
...But—he gives them back their money, and somehow their dreams seem nearer to coming true...
...Dwight MatM makes simple Sam...
...But the dragnet mobilization of all men between the ages of 21 and 35 continued...
...He knows all the answers—even before tbe questions are put...
...have pooled interests...
...Other help is said to have come from the air, and planes over the Savoie regions in recent nights were believed to be Allied craft attempting to drop provisions and weapons...
...THE Hartmans are booked a the Roxy next month...
...Maasey, Jack Haley...
...It is pleasant, too, to find that the war can fit in as a background flaw, instead of turning the stage into a lecture-platform...
...in addition to its RKO neighborhood theatre presentations, is in its 16th week on Broadway, playing at the Palace in conjunction with "Ladies' Day...
...He gets persons into pickles by trying to help them out...
...46th St.: "The New Canada," latest issue of March of Time...
...It all began at the Red Cross Bazaar...
...Under a protective barrage from U. S. Subs deck guns, marines in robber invasion boats land on the Island and drive Japs inland...
...Fred Wanng's Glee Cab Hazel Scott...
...WEVD at 11:50 p. m. Catch a Soldier "KISS AND TELL...
...fi . EVENTS Friday, April 2"U3b~p...
...Bobbv Clark...
...Following selected short subjects are also showing: 42nd St.: "At the Front in North Africa," official War Department pictures filmed in Technicolor of the American invasion of North Africa...
...At the Prorinceto-um Playhouse...
...Cannonading from nearby anti-aircraft batteries shooting at the planes has been reported...
...Donna Keath, though et» emphatic at first, grows aasjnV ing as his wife...
...Raid on the Jap...
...Walter Pidgeon and Greer Geam will be starred...
...Keeper of/ the Flame," holds over at the theatre for a second week...
...This will be the third association of Lerer sal Miss Garson...
...The biggest nuisance in any family has not yet been mentioned...
...be acts as amateur engineer to the train of events, and just avoids* complete wreckage...
...Once "cornered," the performers are askei a sign everything from-sailors' hats to "Saddle" shoes...
...We can undermine German morale with mass bombings, so let's go all-out for the development of air power...
...It would be truer to say the boarders take in Sam's wife...
...In person the Paramount presents Les Brown and his orchestra "and Gil Lamb comedy star of "The Fleet's In" and Star Spangled Rhythm...
...were ordered to all risks...
...Presented and directed by George Abbott...
...Colonel James U. S. 'Marines in an attack on Makin Island...
...Russell (Jahns carries well a role that MOV to cry out for Walter Huston...
...Jack and the Dame, pop...
Vol. 26 • March 1943 • No. 13
