THE THEATRE GUILD'S NEW HIT- "OKLAHOMA"
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
THE THEATRE GUILD'S NEW HIT- "OKLAHOMA" This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr. Shipley reviews each play on its opening night ewer WEVD at 11:50 p. m. WELCOME TERRITORY! "OKLAHOMA !"...
...The Roxy stage presentation with Chico Marx and his new Orchestra, and Marion Hutton and "Something Mew far fee Beys" Plays )00 Times Michael Todd's "Something for the Bon" with Ethel Merman and Allen Jenkins played its 100th performance last Saturday matinee...
...Frisco, Hello" The new 20th Century-Fox Technicolor musical, "Hello, Frisco, Hello", remains for a third week at the Roxy Theatre...
...The Heart of a Nation" Has World Premiere at Abbey Theatre "The Heart of a Nation", the new Paul Graetz production which was the last film to be made in France, had its world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Broadway and 51st Street, last Wednesday evening April 7. The premiere was under the joint sposcrship of the Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies and the Fighting French Relief Committee, and the proceeds of the occasion will go to the American Red Cross...
...show French" soldiers going home from Nazi concentration camps in exchange for French labor...
...A cowboy loves a girl who, because she loves him, pretends not to...
...James Ellison...
...a treat of a show...
...News from Overseas: Captured German films...
...Negotiations for his screen appearance have just been completed between Jack H. Skit-ball, who will produce the picture, and Leo Spitz, one of the leading figures in the film industry, on the one hand...
...Allen...
...The dancing, for a most pleasant change, is composed by an artist: Agues de Mille is not only a choreographer of distinction (witness her "Three Virgins and a Devjil" at the Bsllet Theatre), but possessed of a lively sense of humor...
...50th St.: "The Fighting Engineers" and "Pigs in Polka...
...Celeste Holm squeaks "I Cain't Say No" so that the audience is redoubled with laughter...
...Dances by Agnes As Mitte...
...troops entrain in famous "40 & 8's" and are rushed to the front in Tunisia...
...The music carries alohf the wholesome merriment, and the-lyrics are deftly humorous or daintily refreshing...
...Directed by Rouben .Mamonliaii...
...Hen then draws such a moving picture of Jud's funeral and the mourning that almost he persuades Jud to the deed: he nasi the farm hand weeping and moaning the chorus of "Pore JudT Most of the -play is in far cheiqrier mood...
...Featuring in support are Nancy Coleman, Walter Huston and Judith And" ¦i-son and Ruth Gordon, all prominent players of stage and screen...
...On stage, the Strand will present Jan Savitt, his orchestra and revue, and as Added Attraction, Ethel Waters, International Singing Star...
...The first two 4ette\s, as the last song tells, spelljghe verdict: Oklahoma OK...
...As Special Added Attraction, the In Person Show will feature the Berry Bros, dancing stars of stage and screen, and Bob Dupont, That Funny Juggler...
...Curly drives out the villainous worker, marriea the charming girl, and settles down on the farm...
...a Disney cartoon...
...Pigs in Polka," a Merrie Melodie color cartoon...
...At both theatres the new accompanying feature is "Dixie Dugan," a first-run introducing Lofe Andrews to screen fans...
...46th St.: "The Fighting Engineers...
...Bob Hope-Lamour Comedy Holds at Palace-Albee Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamoar continue a second hilarious week at the Palace and Albee Theatres in Samuel Goldwyn's "They Got Me Covered...
...Benny Rabin of -- • Greenwich Village Inn Benny Rubin, stage and screen star, makes his 1943 bow to New York's night life next Monday, April 12, at the Greenwich Village Inn...
...Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan head the distinguished cast...
...Settings by Lemuel Avers...
...THE THEATRE GUILD'S NEW HIT- "OKLAHOMA" This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr...
...Music Hall Holds Film With capacity audiences continuing, "Keeper of the Flame...
...From the first sound of...
...Presented by The Theatre Guild at the St...
...Mew Russian Films—All World Mews—of Embassy Newsreel Theatres Latest films just received from the Russian battle front headline the new program of one hour world-wide news events this week at all Embassy Nrwsreol Theatres...
...And Ali Hakim (Joseph Buloff) adds to the fun as the itinersnt peddler, who desperately dodges matrimony...
...it's a sort of fresh-water version of Jenne's "in 27 languages she couldn't say no" from "The Lady In the Dark"—less salt, but therefore it's more pleasant to drink it in...
...Betty Garde as Aunt Eller, Alfred Drake as Curly, Joan Roberts as Laurey, and Howard da Silva as Jud, head a jolly cast in what you may have gathered is...
...The opening frolic, the picnic party, the wedding...
...Curly" Alfred Drake's voice breaking in on Aunt Eller's churning, before the mellow-Tom-Bentbn backdrop of Oklahoma farm and field, to the final cowboy send-off after the wedding, "Oklahoma" is a sheer delight...
...costarring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn for^he first time since "Woman of the Year," is being held over at Radio City Music Hall for a fourth week...
...She is (quite properly) afraid rf the farm hand, her aunt^ helper...
...Donald's Snow Fight...
...Following selected short subjects are also showing: 42nd St.: "The Fighting Engineers," a two-reel technicolor short...
...Her ballet of Laurey's dream is effective enough to become a concert number...
...Happy Go Lucky" Stays On at the Paramount "Happy Go Lucky" is now- in .its third week at the New York Paramount Theatre...
...Huge crowds of weeping women and children greet their returning loved ones...
...he escapes one girl only to fall into the net of another, because he looked at her in the moonlight along the barrel of her father's shot gun...
...opening song, sets the mood for'the light-hearted lilt of .the whole evening...
...The musical, entirely in Technicolor, co-stars Mary Martin, Dick Powell, Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton and Rnfe Vallee...
...Curly goes detrn to the gloomy, grimy smoke house where Jud bunks, looks at the!women pictured on the walls, at the hooks in the ceiling, and remarks—oh so pleasant and casual!—"What a fine place to hang yourself...
...Edge mi Darkness" On Strand Screen— Savitt on Stage ' "Edge of Darkness", the Warner Bros, film based on the popular novel of the same name by William Woods, will be the new-screen offering at the Strand starring today...
...and Walter Bat-cheler, in behalf of Mr...
...The earnest psych-ologyal study that Lynn Riggs (in "Green Grow the Lilacs") set in Indian Territory about 1902 has beentxansformed into a fresh and lively, frolicsome and lovely musical...
...Charlotte Greenwood and Charlie Ruggles play, the supoprting leads in this 20th Centur-Fox comedy...
...Even out of the sexually expressed and ominous Jud Fry rich humor is exacted...
...Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammer-stein 2d...
...Also holding over fori third week is the in person show headed by Les Brown and h» orchestra, Gil Lamb and the Kia* Sisters...
...Boxy Hole's "Hello...
...Starred in "The Heart of a Nation" a^e Michele Morgan, Raimu, Louis Jcuvet, Suzy Prim, Lucien Nat and Renee de Villers, with Charles Boyer acting as a commentator...
...The musical, rated as one of the biggest hits is recent years, has seats on sale for the next sixteen weeks...
...OKLAHOMA !" Music by Richard Rodgers...
...72nd St.: "Strange Empire," a Magic Carpet Travelog in Technicolor...
...The production was directed by Julien Duvivier, from the screen play by Duvivier, Charles Spaak and Marcel Ach-ard...
...Other commitments, including a headline engagement at Loews State Theatre beginning April 22, and completion of the book of a play based on his long, colorful career, will limit his Greenwich Village Inn engagement to only ten days...
...A special mail order department has been established by the' management of the Alvin Theatre to make ticket, reservations for out-of-town customers...
...and her other moments (as with "Many a Mew Day") spin the chorus, tease the players, and travesty the mood, witheay and colorful overtones of mischief...
...The noted radio comedian will soon leave the airways long enough to assume the starring role in a film that is now being specially written for him...
...Oh, what a beautiful morning...
...Prod Allen to Be Star ot Now Film Production Fred Allen goes before the motion picture cameras again, it was announced today...
...James Thettfre...
Vol. 26 • April 1943 • No. 15
