Yippy! Here Comes the Circus-Greatest Show on Earth
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Yippy! Here Comes the Circus—Greatest Show on Earth 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. THUNDER AND...
...Adolph Bolm will make his first appearance in over two decades as the Blackamoor, a role which he created and danced with Nijinsky and Kar-savina...
...national campaign chairman of United Nations Week, observed in more than 10,000 motion picture theatres, January 14th thru 20th...
...But it's a little hard to see why it is brought to life...
...These sensational pictures show the start of the great German offensive against Stalingrad in the summer of 1942...
...These will be "El Pano Moruno" ("The Stained Cloth...
...Joseph E. Davies, former ambassador to Russia and chairman of the board, accepted the check from Edward L. Alper-son...
...A policy of guest appearances by artists outside the Ballet Theatre company will be employed this spring for the first time with three dancers and a conductor on the list...
...A gigantic Russian offensive launched against the Axis flanks encircles the Nazis...
...Abo, why then omit the visiting ghosts...
...who are running the shew in person, hava gaaa aB but in assembling a performance that the public will long remember...
...Argentinita, Spanish dancer, will appear opposite Leonide Massine as the Miller's Wife in deFalla's "Three-Cornered Hat" as well as in "Capriceio Espagnol...
...Advance tidings have it that Robert, Aubrey and Mrs...
...Agnes de Mille will make several appearances in her production of "Three Virgins and a Devil...
...A comedy, "Helen of Troy," is based upon Offenbach's "La Belle Helene" and decor and costumes have been provided by Marcel Vertes, designer of "Bluebeard...
...Chiang Kai-shek speaking in Chicago pleads for the principle of "Live and Let Live...
...Staffed by George Coltlouris...
...Morion Anderson Sines Now Songs at Metropolitan Opera Hone April 11th Following her practice of introducing something new at her New York appearances, Marian Anderson will sing a new group of songs at her first concert at the Metropolitan Opera House on April 11th...
...Richard, being a villain with no redeeming traits and but the slightest breath oi psychological justification for his misdeeds, is a man difficult to make not sympathetic but even credible...
...Many of the new acts have been fitted into the speedy routines as the rehearsals progressed...
...The revivals to be seen include George Balanchine's "Apollon Musagete," originally produced for Serge Diaghileff in 1928...
...Richard gives way to Buckingham (weH performed by Philip Bour-neuf), the one human figure of dramatic moment and movement in the play...
...Another new work to be seen is "Helen of Troy...
...The engagement will be devoted exclusively to the Ballet Theatre now concluding a five month's tour of major cities from coast to coast Listed for its world premiere is Antony Tudor's most ambitious undertaking, a ballet version of the Shakespearian classic "Romeo and Juliet which has been in preparation for nearly a year...
...Impresario Hurok Offers Ballet Theatre for Spring Season S. Hurok's spring season of ballet is now being held at the Metropolitan Opera House for the better part of four weeks, from April 1 to May 2, when two new productions and a number of revivals will be introduced and five guest artists will participate in the schedule of twenty-nine performances...
...Miss Anderson's concert that Sunday at 3 p. m. will be her first afternoon recital here and will culminate her eighth consecutive American tour...
...Prior to its opening in New York, "The Pirate" spent ten weeks on tour...
...Another prominent guest artist will be Igor Stravinsky who will conduct the performances of his . ballet "Petrouchka...
...Cancion" and "Jota,' all by Manuel de Falla...
...Robert Ringling, Aubrey Ringling, John Murray Andaman...
...The battle for Stalingrad ends in utter misery for the Axis...
...but for that reason it is hard to understand why he omits the Duchess of York, mother of Richard and his brothers that die, and third of the brooding or howling women that stand like Furies over an ancient battlefield, to claw down vengeance on the despoiler's head...
...The gory end of the Wars of the Roses is the matter of this grisly melodrama...
...LAST WEEKS FOR "THE PIRATE" The Playwrights' Company announced yesterday that S. N. Behrman's "The Pirate," starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, is entering the last five weeks of its engagement at the Martin Beck Theatre, terminating on May 1st a successful run which began last November 25th...
...An Elizabethan stage setting has been fashioned by Eugene Ber-man who also designed the costumes...
...Massine's "Boutique Fantasque," recently re-titled "The Fantastic Toyshop," "Three-Cornered Hat" "Capriceio Espagnol" and Antony Tudor's "Judgment of Paris...
...The musical score has been arranged by Arital Dorati upon a number of pieces by the English composer Frederick Delias...
...Roosevelt reviews newest WAVES at Smith College Campus...
...Zorina...
...OPENS ANNUAL RUN At MADISON SQUARE GARDEN APBIL 9th In a few days the long railroad trains of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus will be loaded in the Sarasota, Florida, winter quarters fer the run to New York, where the first 1943 performance will be given in Madison Square Garden Friday night April 9th...
...The Big Show band, with Merle Evans conducting, has been rehearsing with the 800 noted performers, and those who know declare The Greatest Show on Earth this spring will reach a new high in circus history...
...Home Front News: M me...
...Richard of Gloucester, distorted of body and soul, after having brought victory to the house of York by slaying the Lancastrian, Henry VI, in his mad ambition kills his brothers, George of Clarence, Edward IV— not to mention his wife (widow of Henry's son), the two young princes in the tower, and a score of nobles more—before Henry of Richmond (son of a Lancaster, later marrying a York), kills Richard, unites the feuding houses, and as Henry VII brings the peace and prosperity of the Tu-dors to England...
...One might imagine the Japanese presenting this picture of England by an Englishman, as part of their current propaganda...
...ftOXf HOLDS MUSICAL "Hello, Frisco, Hello," new 20th Century-Fox Technicolor musical starring Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie and Lynn Ban, is being held for a second week at the Roxy Theatre...
...Shipley reviews each play on its opening night over WEVD at 11:50 p. m. THUNDER AND BLOOD RICHARD III...
...Complet-ing the Spanish section will be Varona's "Punta Guajiro" and "The Funeral of King Nago" by Taveres, both performed previously...
...For that reason he borrows from the last act ef "King Henry VI" the scene fn which Gloucester murders Henry...
...Groups by Handel, Schubert and Negro Spirituals round out the program...
...musical comedy and firm star, and erstwhile member of the Ballet Russe, will dance the title role in "Helen of Troy" and other ballets...
...7,625,000 Check to President's War kattet Control Board At a luncheon in Washington on Tuesday officials of the War Activities Committee, Motion Picture Industry, tendered a check for $1,625,000 to the President's War Relief Control Board, which will be allotted to the United Nations for the relief of their war-stricken...
...It was in this Tudor peace that Shakespeare began to write...
...It will be interesting to observe the Catholic University presentation, in Washington, D. C, of Victoria Kuhn's "The King Is Dead," which pictures Richard in as much more understandably human...
...The new Roxy stage show headlining Chico Manr and his new orchestra, and Marion Button and The Modernaires, also remains for a second week...
...After a bitter struggle the Germans surrender...
...begun by the late Michel Fokine and completed by David Lichine...
...From an airbase outside the city of Stalingrad, deadly Stuka dive bombers take off and like birds of destruction swoop low over Soviet positions blasting the Red Army with heavy bombs...
...Rehearsals have bean going on in winter quarters for weeks, with 100 girls training for aerial ballet and the ground pageants...
...Here Comes the Circus—Greatest Show on Earth This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr...
...The Russian composer conducted this work when the Ballet Theatre performed in San Francisco and Los Angeles last month...
...Presented by Theatre , Productions at the Forrest Theatre...
...Macbeth might give us a sample of George Coulouris'range...
...Vender Barbette, Carlton Winckler and other experts have been directing activities...
...George Coulouris prefers rather to emphasize the heavy horror thai hangs over England...
...Of this grand total, the amount of (384,247.92 came from the New York Metropolitan Exchange Area which is under the co-chairmanship of Sam Rinzler, Fred Schwartz, Harry Lowenstein and Don Jaycocks...
...The costumes tor the great feature spectacles are, ft is said, far more beautiful than ever before, while many new top-flight acts will add to the exciting appeal of the star studded program...
...Auto workers are soldiers for a few days, but find factory work much easier...
...A ranting role, without inner conflict, the gnash of character and the actor's test^a part for a melodrama star of the '90's, not for a player of today...
...Charles Ringling...
...By William Shakexpeare...
...Russian War Films at Embassy Newsreel Theatres Official Russian army war films and captured German pictures tefling the most dramatic story of the war headline the new program this week at all Embassy Newsreel Theatres...
...Thousands of Axis troops are eapYured, many high ranking German officers taken, including Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus...
...We know that it all happened, comfortably, five centuries back...
...Alicia Markova and Hugh Laing will perform the title roles in this ballet, the first performance of which will take place on April 6th...
Vol. 26 • April 1943 • No. 14
