Youth in Strong Drama Waning: "Tomorrow the World"
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Youth in Strong Drama Waning: "Tomorrow the World" This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr. Shipley reviews each play on its opening night over WEVD st 11:50 p. m. "TOMORROW THE WORLD."...
...but the figures are made human through the excellent acting of Richard Bellamy as the professor, of Shirley Booth as his fiancee, principal of the progressive school, and of Dorothy Sands as his sister...
...Youth in Strong Drama Waning: "Tomorrow the World" This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr...
...Michael Frame, mid - western professor of chemistry, is offering shelter to young Emil Bruckner, whose Nobel-prize-winning father had ten years before been snuffed out by the Nazis...
...Staged by Elliott Nugent...
...Unleashing a devastating barrage of high explosive shells they soon reduce Nazi pill box-fortifications to battered ruins...
...Pitt" starring Robert Donat aijd Phyllis Calvert with John Mills and Robert Morley...
...And the effect is a foreboding, and the stark loom, in dramatic terms, of a heart-breaking problem that "tomorrow the world" must for its own sake solve...
...MEW ROXY STAGE SNOW An all-new stage shew a*n|af by Tomthy Tucker and nh fia...
...At first, expecting cruelty, he is open, defiant...
...Hitler's Children" at RKO Theatres "Hitler's Children," the powerful picture based on Gregor Ziem-er's best-selling story, "Education for Death" which has been attracting huge audiences wherever it has been shown, is now at the RKO Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester Theatres together with "Ladies' Day," a comedy about baseball players and their, wives, with Eddie Albert, Lupe'JJIlez...
...American troops under thp command of General Patton push out of Maknassy, clearing roads ef enemy mines...
...Otto Kruger, H. B. Warner, Erford Gage and Hans Conned head the large supporting cast...
...Elliott Nugent's direction is on the whole effective...
...At the Ethel Barry-more Theatre...
...And there is almost horrible truth in the surge of his reactions in the new land...
...Then, interpreting kindness as "softness" and stupidity, he becomes sly, plays one cunningly against another, pretends to be changing the better to achieve his ends...
...Presented by Theron Bamberger...
...Joyce Van* Patten (Nancy Nugent plays the role on alternate nights) makes the professor's daughter a most believable girl...
...A word, too, must be said for Edit Arnrold, vivid as the refugee maid...
...As the young Nazi, SkipDy Homeier, turns his theatrical debut into a major victory: throughout his long role, from the nastiness of his first offensive through the no less nasty cunning and brutality to the breakdown at the close, he gives a coherent and convincing performance...
...Sensational films officially released by the Air .Corps, Signal Corps and newsreeis ofSthe fighting in North Africa headline the new program this week at all Embassy Newsreel Theatres...
...it gathers pace and drives home the effect...
...The latest Bud Abbot and Lou Costello comedy, "It Ain't Hay" based on a story by-Damon Runyon will be accompanied by the timely drama, "The Young Mr...
...Even then—as a buzzing audience is well aware, the individual kindness, understanding, love,, that can be lavished on one boy brought here serve but too plainly to bring into boldface the enormous problem that awaits the United Nations in Naziland...
...Huge Russian tanks take the lead as the drive starts—Nazis are outflanked and retreat...
...The boy arrives—a Nazi through and through, who believes his father was a coward and traitor, who is trying to atone by doing his best for the Fuehrer...
...Following the current successful run of "Hitler's Children" and "Taxi, Mister" a new show moves into the RKO Palace Theatre on Thursday...
...The adult parts in the play are somewhat artificially arranged, to balance the conflict in the plot...
...It is only after he nearly kills the professor's little daughter that first signs of a true change begin to glimmer in the Nazi-trained lad...
...The film heads a gala Easter Holiday program...
...By James Gow and Arnand aVL'sseait...
...Patsy Kelly and Max BaerT ' Starring Bonita Granville, Tim Holt and Kent Smith, "Hitler's Children" also is at the RKO Albee Theatre, Brooklyn...
...ehestra with Amy Arnefl aai , Doe Brown, and other favorites, and the final Broadway shassh ance of Victor Borge make the stage program at the Baty Theatre...
...American B-26 and Giant Consolidated Liberator bombers, with Britain's 8th Army Artillery Units open the attack...
...On the Russian Front: Soviet spring offensive gets under way...
...Through a breach in Axis positions...
...Indian Ghurka Troops stream through to mop up what is left of German forts...
...there's good psychology in writing the part and fresh naturalness in the playing...
...But'the triumph of the acting—it is really their play—must go to the children...
...A lone Nazi Junkers 88 Bomber attacks U. S. supply column and is met with a withering blast of anti-aircraft fire and beats a hasty retreat with smoke pouring from his tail...
...The grimmest of post-war problems-—how to handle, how to reeducate, the 20,000,000 young Germans brought up with no ideas, no ideals, but those of the Nazis— , is given strong dramatic treatment in "Tomorrow the World...
...Generals Alexander and Montgomery's direct frootal^aacault on Rommell's Mareth Line of defease...
...BATTLE OF TUNISIA— , KALTENBORN—AND ALL MEWS AT EMBASSY THE AS...
...For indeed what comes to Michael Frame in one twelve-year-old boy, tomorrow the world must face in unhappy wholesale...
...Thrilling pictures of Red planes strafing Axis column withdrawing along a road losses in men and equipment...
...Accompanying this' stirring drama is a new comedy,about those merry McGuerins from Brooklyn, "Taxi, Mister" with William Bendix, Grace Bradley and Joe Sawyer...
...CHINA" AMD HARRY JAMES IM PERSON EASTER HOLIDAY SHOW AT PARAMOUNT "China," co-starring Alan Ladd and Loretta Young, had its world premiere engagement at the New York Paramount last Wednesday...
Vol. 26 • April 1943 • No. 17