Glamour and Gaiety in Revival of "The Vagabond King"
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Glamour and Gaiety in Revival of "The Vagabond King" This Week on Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr. Shipley reviews each play on its opening night over WEVD at 11:50 p. m. POET-ROYAL THB VAGABOND...
...The stir end pageantry of the tavern and court scenes...
...The nobles of the feudal system—roused to a national consciousness a generation before, by Joan of Arc and the flinging forth of the English —were nonetheless indifferent to the wretchedness of the people...
...Jack and Irving Rosenthal, operators of Palisades Park, announce the engagement of one of the greatest high thrill acts in the country starting Monday, July 12...
...Fritz Karsen, who had been one of the most outstanding educators in the Weimar Republic, presented a well though-out program for the re-education of the German people, especially the German Youth...
...42nd St: March of Time, "Show Business at War," "Gay Bio," a pine" and a cartoon, "Super Rabbitt" 50th St: March of Time, "Show Buisismss atliar,'* ."^to «o," a travelogue aad "Dumb Hounded...
...Book and Lyrics by George Marion, Jr...
...Like the cast for Carmen" on Jury 16 and 16, the singers are ail from the Metropolitan Opera: Violetta...
...Louis d'An-gelo...
...Some of the songs are good, even funny—thatsatire on "The Ladies Who Sing With the Band...
...And ftw "Ifeue Vblkszeitung," a- conference was held in the Rand School, New York City" on July 3 and 4, where the post-war problems of Germany were discussed by German Social Democrats and trade unionists...
...S. Marines land with supplies otf Funafuti Island—transport planes land oil and tight field artillery for the defense of the island...
...Theatre attaches declare that many who never before have bam able to afford tickets te on** her performances, are wildly enthusiastic over her...
...Alfred Braun-thal, research director Of the United Hatters Union, developed a program of economic reconstruction, based on the nationalisation of heavy industries and the expropriation of the large landowners...
...The keynote address was delivered by Dr...
...The glamor and surging music of "The Vagabond King" bare not tad eel with the score of years since first Broadway cheered Its colorful score and brilliant pane-ply...
...Book and lyrics by Brian Hooker and Russell Janney...
...There are spells of relief...
...a cartoon...
...Betty Grable, George Montgomery and Cesar Romero are starred in "Coney Island," which also features a cast including ¦ Charles Winninger, Phil Silvers, Matt Briggs, Paul Hurst, Frank i Orth, Phyllis Kennedy, Carmen D'Antor.io...
...Revived by Russell Janney...
...ftlVQU THEATRE RROADCAS TOW "FOR WHOM THE SELL TOLLS" For the twenty second broadcast in the "Poetry and Musk" series, Montague Salmon, managing director of the Rivoli Theatre...
...Annina, Lucille Browning...
...The Samuel Goldwyn presentation...
...Oh yes, the costumes...
...But only for the tea*, .of the Armed Forces...
...Hedwig •Wachenbeim, who was one of the leading social workers of Germany," submitted a survey of the measures to be taken for immediate relief and rehabilitation...
...Conductor, Alexander Smal-lens...
...The dying days of the Middle Ages were a time of turbulence and contrast In France, far example, one "Louis Donothing" sat upon the throne...
...can rely Upon when the fight fbr American participation in post-war politics will begin...
...German Socialists Map Program By GERH4RT N. SEGER Organized by the German branch of the Social Democratic Fw4eration, the German Labor Delegation in U.S.A...
...The film is complete with twelve songs, six new ones and six old favorites...
...The conference, .adopted a resolution calling upon the German people to rise in rebellion against the Hui regime, and at the same tune appealing to the United Nations not to stand in the way if such a German revolution would develop...
...The conference, its intellectual and political results, its discussions and addresses were a vivid testimony df the fact that German Social Democrats Still live up to their tradition: they are idealists because they believe in a better form of human society, but they are' also realists because they know what social, economic and political forces must he mobilized to achieve the loftiest social aims of mankind...
...Another resolution expressed toe profound indignation about the crimes of Hitler in overrunning peaceful European countries, from Austria to Soviet Russia...
...Vanni Montana spoke for the Italian Socialists, Dr...
...The following short subjects are sdeo included as the -now program...
...The principal speaker was Congressman Howard J. McMurray (Democrat, Wisconsin), who proved to be one of the members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House we...
...It it of Villon and these troubled days that "The Vagabond King" sustains the spirit By a trick of fate and the whim of a shrewd though superstitious king, the beggar-poet - thief-murderer - genius is made monarch for a day...
...Siegfried Marck, of Chicago, who advocated a democratic humanism and who gave a very thorough picture of the fight against Nazism tn the Weimar Republic .as well as abroad...
...In fact, given a clever play,, we have here the makings of an excellent show...
...for his sake, she tries to pretend that her fashionable brothel is a finishing school...
...Shipley reviews each play on its opening night over WEVD at 11:50 p. m. POET-ROYAL THB VAGABOND KING...
...Music by Th<*nas"Fats" Waller...
...Invasion," abb "Royal Araby...
...Karsen's program of reeducation was .also accepted by the conference in a special resolution, and so was Grzesinski's program of political reconstruction, Braun-thal's program of economic changes) A ufhaeuser's proposal to revive the trade unions, and Hedwig Wachenheim's suggestions for post-war relief...
...William Karlin and Dr...
...The picture will be- s gin a twice daily reserved seat I engagement at the RiVoli on July 15...
...C4AMEM" CAST FOR JULY T5 AND 7« ANNOUNCED The complete cast is assembled for Travffcft...
...That afternoon, "Miss Victory," the only young lady in the world being shot out of a cannon will appear as the free act attraction playing daily at 4 p. m. and again at 8 p. m. PARAMOUNT MOLDS "DIXIE"—ANDREWS SISTERS ON STAGE , - •' In the role of Dsn Emmett, the original minstrel man, Bing Crosby remains on the Paramount screen in "Dixie...
...46$ St: "First Broadway showing of file March of Time...
...Paul Kari for the Hungarian Social Democrats, Victor Tschernoff tor the Russian Social Revolutionaries, Siegfried Taub for the German Social Democrats of Czechoslovakia...
...With them appear Mitchell Ayres and his band, the Carr Brothers and Tim Herbert...
...El Mag-nifico (that's a matador...
...but it makes a gay and gallant musical...
...In one of those taverns, a genius caroused, the first great poet of France, Francois Villon...
...turned over the fifteen minute period from 12 to 12:15 noon last ¦ ¦Sunday, July 4, to Paramount, Pictures, who presented a "For ' Whom the Bell Tolls" program, ? at the sam* time celebrating Independence Day with appropriate ceremonies...
...Siegfried Aufhaeuser, giving a vivid description of tiie underground movement in Germany, emphasized that the first step after the war must be the restoration of the labor unions so that labor esn engage itself in the economic and political reconstruction of Germany...
...CONEY ISLAND" REMAINS 4th M/EEK AT ROXY The 20th Century-Fox Technicolor musical, "Coney Island," continues for a fourth week: at < the Roxy Theatre...
...In person the Paramount holds for a third week the nation's top singing trio, the Andrews Sisters...
...BOB CHESTER AMD MS ORCHESTRA—OTHER EVENTS AT PALISADES Bob Chester and his orchestra will play at Palisades Amusement Park, N. J., this Saturday and Sunday, July 10 and 11, appearing as the headline attraction for the free stage presentation and as the guest band for free dancing at the Park Casino...
...And among the people, disease, poverty, crime stirred up a feverish desire for the Joys of life fed in the taverns and the brothels, spun for a moment's glow of wine, woman, and song— snapped with a quick dagger into the dark...
...Baron, George Cehanovsky...
...DT...
...The dancing is good, and the girls are as lovely a collection as any schoolmistress might dream of gathering in her seminary...
...A musical comedy presented by and with Richard Kollmar...
...that piece "This so nice, it must be illegal...
...considering the necessary steps to uproot Nazism as well as the steps to be taken after the armistice period is ended and German labor will take a hand in shaping the destiny of Germany...
...the variety and rouse of the songs— drinking songs, fighting songs, love songs, even solemn songs: Te Deum chanted in procession before the crucial fight—survive even a mediocre production,-and bring to another theatrical generation the glamor and gaiety of "The Vagabond King...
...By way of drunken reminiscence in a New York bar we fly to Martinique...
...Dorothy La-mour shares starring honors with America's Modern Minstrel...
...Bidu Sayao...
...Spitfire,'' starring Leslie Howard, who produced and directed the film, and David Niven, supported by a cast of distinguished players, is the current Rivoli screen fare...
...W. E. Bohn brought greetings in behalf of the Social Democratic Federation and The New Leader...
...And a night...
...It's all by a golden haze different from the real Fiance in the poems of the real Francois...
...2nd St.: March of Tune, "Show Business at vrar,'* and a cartoon...
...While occasionally garish, as in a red and green mixture, they are also occasionally lovely, as in a white flowing dress "of the chorus, with deep-chocolate-gloved arms and lighter, legs, the boys in deep chocolate trousers and lighter jackets...
...Panteilena...
...Bated on Justin Huntly McCarthy's "If J Were King...
...Friedrich Stampfer finally discussed the revival of the labor and Socialist International...
...Most of the humor of the evening plays around these misunderstandings...
...Gaston, John Dudley...
...North Pacific: U. S. troops drive Japs from Attu, a barren island far out in the Aleutian chain— only 11 of the 2.000 Nips escaped with their lives—our casualties very light General Mac' Arthur malms preparations for big push in South Pacific—U...
...Phil Spita...
...Albert Grze-sinski dealt with the political reconstruction of a German Republic...
...The all-technicolor film also features Marjorie Reynolds, Billy de Wolfe...
...Super Rabbitt...
...RECORD-CROWDS AT MUSIC HALL—MILL HELD OVER All Fourth of July holiday records in the ten-year history of Radio City Music Hall, where "The Youngest Profession," starring Virginia WeidVer and Edward Arnold, and the stage production, "Man About Town," produced by Leonidoff, is playing, were broken in the four-day period ending Sunday night, G. S. Eyssell, managing director of the big theatre, announced today...
...LATER TO RISE "EARLY TO BED" (A Fasry-T'ale for Grown-ups...
...At the Shubert Theatre...
...This is the piece "cleaned up" for Boston...
...New Guinea, U. S. airmen compile brilliant record in shooting down Japs...
...SrX&fi DOOR CAHTH*> STAYS AT CAPITOL Although for years she 4s* ,? fused fabulous sums to star Tt movies, when Katharine CoraM succumbed at last, she gj M gratia...
...about the indescribable barbarism of the Jewish persecution ; another resolution expressed 'the most heartfelt- thanks to the Jewish Labor Committee aad the American Federation of Labor (for which Abraham Bluestein addressed the delegates) for their splendid and generous assistance in saving hundreds of men and women after the fall of France...
...Featured with Chester and his orchestra win he lovely Betty Bradley as vocalist...
...Which wffi ' presented on Monday and Tuesday evenings, July 19 and 20...
...Alfredo, Jan Peerce...
...There a former scnool-t sa cner maintains another sort (quite another sort...
...Alexander Sved...
...On Saturday night aa international rally was* held...
...Music by Rudolf Friml...
...Hal K. Dawson, Andrew Tombes, Ruth Gillette and '. Bert Hanlon...
...The entire stage and screen program is being held over for a third week...
...7ms land is mint AT RK.O THEATRES "This Land Is Mine" with Charles Laughton, Maureet O'Hara and George Sanders, sal "Jitterbugs," a Laurel aad Hank comedy, are the attractions st RKO Manhattan...
...Flora...
...The finishing touch arrives when a team from the Pan-American Good will Games is parked hi the annex of the "girls' school"—todiacover they're supping on different broth...
...And in that apace, be frees France from threatening Burgundy, and wins a royal lady...
...cables and letters ware received from the 'British Labor Party, the Austrian Social Democrats, and the Trade Union international...
...of institution for young women...
...Germont...
...Lynne Overman, Raymond Wal-burn and Eddie Foy, Jr...
...Junkers...
...the bull Is called El Solitario, because he likes to be alone in the arena) arrives, fat poverty...
...It marks the first time Hollywood has undertaken to reproduce the kind of entertainment that thrilled America in the 1860*8...
...The gala Roxy stage show also starts a fourth week...
...ny^s "Hour of Charm" AL'-ChS Orchestra, offers the "start a person" part of the show...
...HeT3 . pe* ranee in "Stage -Door c2 teen," now in its third weak A the Capitol Theatre, with 47 ettj famous stars and six noted nr3 bands, is one of the' most 4$ cussed events in movie histor...
...Bronx aaf Westchester neighborhood tat atres this week...
...One of the last of the large scale romantic operettas, it is also one of the best...
...And anything sung by the Negro quintet, the vivacious Jeni LeGon, and the four men Harold Cromer, Maurice Ellis, David Bethea, and especially Bob Howard in all sixes (large) and colors of costume...
...blasted by history's greatest air assanlt, is reduced to ruins—liberated civilians fed by invading troops...
...hut in its essentials it remains but bed-room stuff...
...Maxine Stellman...
...in his days of glory, he had played with the worshipping school teacher...
...Ballet staged by Alexis Dolinoff...
...SBFSSS1*' Latest pictures from the battie-fxontaiaf the global war headline the new program this weak at all Embassy Ncwsreel Theatres...
...Doctor...
...Stage Director, Herbert Graf...
Vol. 26 • July 1943 • No. 28
