Hangmen Also Die-Potent, Timely Film at Capitol Theatre
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
"Hangmen Also Die"—Potent, Timely Film at Capitol Theatre 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 Ballet—an...
...but flighty Aphrodite makes Paris bounce...
...The technical finish of "Swan Lake", the charm and grace of "Princes...
...The stage show includes the far-famed and beloved "Glory Jf Easter" pageant as well as a bright and fast-moving spectacle keyed to the tempo of today...
...also remains for a fourth week...
...it "plays to the public" with jesting and jive, but it's another full score of fun in the ballet repertoire...
...Milton Berle keeps berling over with fun...
...While several film companies were struggling with the idea ot bringing' this historic incident to the screen, Arnold Pressburger who understands what the story really means- quietly started production...
...General MacArthur's men score a thrilling triumph, completely wiping out 22 Jap ships and 16.000 enemy soldiers...
...AM (M girlies are there irMheir dlovy show girls who've plenty mmk showing...
...JAP WAR MATERIAL AT MUSEUM Coneurenjly with the Press Photographers photo-exhibit, the Museum of Science and Industry, . R.C.A...
...In costumes colorful of nroperly scanty, they give us plenty to scan...
...Otto Kruger and H. B. Warner...
...new 20th Cer.tury-Fox Technicolor musical starring Alice Faye...
...The stage show presents Ethel Waters, celebrated international singing star of stage, screen and radio, as the Special Added Attraction...
...And with the aid of John ("The Last Mile") Wex-ley, Fritz Lang and Berthold Brecht...
...HITLER'S CHILDREN" That sensational film, "Hitler's Children," is now at the RKO Palace Theatre together with the first-run Hal Roach feature comedy, "Taxi, Mister," with William Bendix and Grace Bradley...
...are here for our joy once more...
...Presented for the tenth consecutive year, and already witnessed by more than three million persons, the "Glory of Easter" is again being staged in response to thousands of requests from New York theatre-goers and visitors who have come to regard the beautiful pageant as a traditional part of their Easter holiday observances,- Inspired by the miracle plays of Europe, and produced by Leon Leonidoff, it is unique in the annals of the American theater, and has been acclaimed as one of the most outstanding productions ever attempted in any theater here or abroad...
...Music by Ray Henderson...
...In the midst of the Vi-King's music, these songsters-sprout a clown in harmony...
...Hundreds had paid for the deed with their lives...
...Shipley reviews each play on its opening night over WEVD at 11:50 p. m. The Ballet—an Easter Delight at the Metropolitan TOM BALLET THEATRE...
...Sons O* Tun" has had to run for other shelter, for after some four years of Olsen and Johnson taaafaslari the Winter Garden has come back to its more serious htaTteess of housing that "national ¦smWathta glorifying the American girl," the Ziegfeld Follies...
...The Jansley's truly notable tumbling grows complicated when the fellow lying fiat with his feet high in air finds Milton Berle standing on top...
...Shubert (in association vith Alfred Bloom-inydalc and Lou Walters) 'at the Winter Garden...
...wove the authenticated facts into a screen version...
...Among the novelties the first offering, "Helen of Troy", is a rem...
...Among the articles on view is a 20 mm Japanese automatic cannon, an aircraft machine gun, the partly- burned- flying suit of a Japanese pilot whose plane was brought down...
...This pair should team together...
...Priscilla Lane and Rochester and "Chetniks," the story of the fighting Yugoslac guerrillas with Philip Dorn, Anna Sten...
...Along with the Japanese material a considerable quantity of Australian war equipment is shown...
...Aurora", the tumbling fan of "Bluebird": the variety and surge and beauty of the familiar number...
...Frisco, Hello...
...He knows Czechoslovakia...
...Hangmen Also Die"—Potent, Timely Film at Capitol Theatre This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr...
...Building, Rockefeller Center, is showing an impressive collection of Japanese war equipment...
...Gam-chewing Hermes uses the golden apple like a rubber ball...
...These sensational pictures were taken from an Australian plane by Aussie cameramen...
...In addition, the "In Person" show also features the Berry Bros...
...Jack Cole has made a sad mistake with his current choreography, especially the so-called "Hindu Serenade...
...He told the Czechoslovakian Government-in-Exile about his projected plan A complete dossier of official secret Czechoslovakian records was made available...
...Hon Massey is a most attractive songstress, but the sentimental songs are the weakest element in the show...
...To the thousands of loyal Czechs, the answer was already known...
...starring Bonita Granville and Tim Holt in the roles of the two young people in Nazi Germany who dare to defy Hitler, lias been smashing box-office records in every city it has played to date...
...At' the RKO Albee Theatre "The Meanest Man In the World...
...Altogether, the I'ood old Follies, familiar in their outlines but fresh in details, have come gaily back to the eager throng of Broadway...
...Featuring six song hits by Cole Porter, including the nation's favorite "Something To Shout About" also offers such well known stars as Jack, Oakie, William Gaxton, Cafe Society's talented swing pianist, Hazel Scott and Teddy Wilson and his band, Cobina Wright, Jr., Music Hall's Gala Two-Part Easter Stage Show Now on View Eagerly awaited by thousands of New Yorkers and visitors, the Radio City Music Hall's famous Easter holiday program opened Thursday...
...American and Australian Air Forces wreck utter destruction on Jap Armada trying to land reinforcements for their New Guinea garrisons...
...Hitler's Children...
...Pre-tented by S. Hurok for the Spring Seasesi at the Metropolitan Opera House...
...And Robert Alton has arranged some neat if not too novel routines.for their dancing...
...But now, out of Hollywood, comes a theme as powerful and as provocative as tomorrow's headlines—only it happened in the near yesterdays that shook the earth-Trie film is Arnold Pressburg-er's "Hangmen Also Die," a story about the slaying of Hitler's arch executioner, Reinhard Heydrich, which is now being shown at the Capitol Theatre...
...and Bil and Cora Baird step as lively a tap dance ar, ever a puppet has pranced...
...Presented by Messrs...
...Raimu and hots Jouvet are starred in the tht which was the last picture ana* in France before the German occupation and which had t» hi smuggled out of France ta jsa> vent its destruction by the Gestapo...
...No one ever llieughf it worthy of being filmed lor the entertainment of theatre audiences...
...The bask idea suggested by this slaying was clear enough...
...and lively chorines who step with pep and sing with zing...
...Who had killed, this monster of the Nazis...
...To crowded houses the welcome ballet is again displaying its powers...
...SOMETHING TO SHOUT ABOUT" STAYS AT CRITERION %regory Ratoff's musical production, "Something To Shout About," starring Janet Blair and DonAmeche continues for a second week at L&ew's Criterion Theatre...
...Paul Graetz produced the picture and Julien Duvivier, who is now in Hollywood, directed, Charles Boyer is seen and beard as the narrator...
...Heydrich was felled by an avenger's bullet in the streets of Prague in June...
...her saga of Carmen in the soot-suit version of the uproar (which it Among the skits that hit is the absurdly <true "Counter-Attack" by Charles Sherman and Harry Young...
...and Ar-c thur Treacher as (of course) the* Bntler has a surprisingly colorful variety of particularly feminine panties pinned to his posteriors...
...Headliners dot the evening...
...He is a Czech citizen...
...Out of a cluster of she: p on the hillside leaps a Terpsicho-rean Tarzan, as the gods approach...
...John Shep-perd and Virginia Gilmore are now being shown...
...Lang was enthusiastic...
...For six months, Fritz Lang, the master of suspense, exerted all his efforts and energies upon it...
...April 15, with a big two-part stage show in the popular tradition that has made the great sbowbouse the annual Easter entertainment focal point in the metropolitan show area...
...Their three cats also catapult the audience, into laughter...
...One of them had committed the act, an act of honor...
...SPRING FOLLIES s "ZIEGFELP FOLLIES...
...John Payne and Jack Oakie, remains for a fourth week at the Roxy Theatre...
...lE ele Morgan...
...FIRST PICTURES OF 'BATTLE OF BISMARCK SEA AT ALL EMABSSY THEATRES First pictures just received of the Battle of Bismarck Sea are being shown in the new program this week et all Embassy News-reel Theatres...
...The screen attraction is the Warner Bros, thrilling story of Fighting Norway, "Edge of Darkness," starring Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan...
...Hollywood immediately started buzzing with plans...
...Lyrics by Jack Yellen...
...He knew many of the details of the assassination from authentic underground sources...
...in flames and the Japanese version of the kind of rubber life raft used by the Captain Rickenbacker when his plane came down in the Pacific...
...Other members of the cast of this stirring screen drama include Kent Smith...
...War News From Overseas: German operations halted in Russia as Spring thaws turn fighting zone into a sea of mud-motorized units hog down, and the vaunted Nazi blitz becomes deadlocked with nature...
...comedy starring Jack Benny...
...either in direct play with the audience, or when he joins with one of the performing troupes...
...THE HEART OF A NAYKHT HELD OYER AT ABBEY "The Heart of a Nation" is h> ing held over for a second walk at the new Abbey Theatre...
...The drier, slyer efforts of Arthur Treacher are a good foil to the breezy manners of Hilton...
...The Roxy stage presentation headlining Chico Marx and his new orchestra and Marion Hutton with The Modernaires...
...The Easter screen attraction is "Flight for Freedom" starring Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray...
...There is, by way of recompense, rich fun in the comic or satiric songs, romp-ishly handled by Sue Ryan: her story of the fellows with "contacts" and "connections...
...Heydrich's Death, Theme of Underground Film The death of an assassin hasn't always been tee best choice of material for screen efforts...
...But they had no regrets, it was an honor to die for their country...
...STRAND HOLDS FINE SCREEN AND STAGE SHOW The New York Strand will hold its "In Person" show featuring Jan Savitt and his orchestra for a 2nd week starting today, April 16th...
...thVjhonologue "Merchant of Venison ; and the semi-private lives Noel Coward version of "Lbves-a-Poppin...
...In this, plants grow while you watch, balloons in the- aisle come in handy...
...The choreography might have been more imaginative...
...Based on the best selling novel, "Education For Death" by Gregor Zie--jner...
...but Dean Murphy (the fellow Eleonore calls to the White House,-to imitate his imitations of her) captures the crowd...
...AT RKO PALACE ROXY MUSICAL 4th WEEK "Hello...
...Devised and staged by John Murray Anderson...
...Menelaus is a sort of Unhappy Hooligan, but Vera Zorina as Helen, though arch in her actions, is chaste in her dancing style, a colder note of beauty in a romping farce...
...t Arranged by Davis Ufhine and Antal Do rati to music by Offenbach, it carries the legend, from Paris' bestowing the golden apple upon Aphrodite to the carrying off of "La belle He-lene...
...Also included is a slogan covered battle flag from the body of a slain Japanese officer at Guadalcanal...
Vol. 26 • April 1943 • No. 16
