Elisabeth Bergner Scores in "The Two Mrs. Carrolls
Elisabeth Bergner Scores in "The Two Mrs. Carrolls This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mx. Shipley review. «ttk pl«r tn tie H»lM eight over WEVD at 11:5» p. ¦. WIVIS FOB RIDDANCE "THE...
...The second visit of Elisabeth Bergner shows this wholly delightful actress (whose filmed Rosalind was ss fetching...
...But the fast pace of melodrama got loet in the moan-time, and the rest of the cast formed a rather pallid background against Miss Bergnere versatility...
...which shows how four buddies get together to hold high the reputation of a comrade just killed in action...
...The next attraction will be M-G-M's technicolor musical comedy, "Du Barry Was a Lady.n% "BOMBARDIER" OPENS AT PALACE WITH FIRST-RUN RRO Radio's air-drama "Bombardier" is now at the RK0 Palace, accompanied by the first New York showing ef "Gals, Inc.," new Universal comedy starring Leon Errol, Marriet Hilliard and Grace McDonald...
...The result hi that the mood and the manner do not mix, and the play never really comes to lite...
...It's inspiring...
...Staged bp Reginald Denkam...
...72nd St—"Mighty Niagara," a Fitzpetriek traveltelk, and* Y*n ke* Doodle Mouse," a color cartoon...
...A Tb^th^VrnTy ajvatce^ic^Stoning^today^at an^nsn^asy Newsreel Theatres...
...But our sympathy wells for Private Keith Da vies, who probably would hove liked to beat.& but had to sing a song written by Mrs...
...Being the fixe "prize-winner* of\ the soldiers' one-act plapwriting contest...
...Monmouth, exhibiting the woes of the rookies —until Gertrude Lawrence picki one as her Camp Sweetheart...
...Based on the story of the Norden Bombsight and how our bombardiers are trained in its use, "Bombardier" stars Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott and Anne Shirley...
...Presented bp the Second Service Command, U.S.A...
...Jess Stacy, Hymie Shertxer, Benny Goodman's Famous Sextet and Lee Costeldo...
...find — comes out in these fiv« plays, and makes them a gals evening...
...Then, the frail, sick patient...
...And this—with the tomfoolery that men together alway...
...BARRACK-ROOM FLAYS "THE ARMY PLAY BY PLAY...
...On its opening day the combination played to 26.200 persons, only 300 less than attended the opening day of "China" and Horry James and band in person, which set a new opening day record...
...By any standards they are good entertainment...
...It waa Gertrude Lawrence opening night...
...Intended for presentation at army camps, their showing on Broadway gives us civilians a chance to know at first hand what these soldiers think of one another...
...It's real...
...once again hailed by jubilant crowds...
...Jules Munshin did some clever song burlesquing...
...It's exhilarating...
...a creature as Shakespeare could here wished) in s play that sends not shivers but eurdlings along your ¦pine...
...Following selected short subjects are also being shown: 42nd St.—"Glimpses ef Ontario," a Fitspatrick traveltelk in technicolor...
...It is more humorously pressed home by Meitelbaum, in "Mail Call...
...In "First Cousins" a loyal American, one of four prisoners on a small German submarine, finds that his first cousin is the Nasi commander...
...Americans and Canadians are hammering at the tost defenses of Messina...
...Army Mascot," a Disney cartoon...
...and John Golden...
...Then bewildered, indignant, suspicious, horrified, afraid, as the man's diabolic scheme gathers in her consciousness...
...It is expected that another 112,000 will attend the seventh week, and possibly a similar figure during the eighth...
...General Montgomery directs the occupation of Syracuse...
...Carrons' Hs far from the play she needs, to make the theatre truly alive with her presence and her gifts...
...there were two good toe-dancers...
...CARBOLLS...
...And when it's over, we think mighty well of them...
...She is at first the overbubbling, happy wife...
...ggjjj high-spirited romantic rnssudi | being held over at Sadie (to Music Hall for a fourth vest The musical extravagance, "Gag Russe," on the Music Hail atejs produced by Leon Leonidog, tal...
...General Drum, and another by Woodrow Wilson...
...Between the, plays, Camp Up-tonites presented specialties...
...Presented bp Robert Bend and Paul dinner...
...Pack Up Your Troubles"' is * mad mixture of an expectant father and German saboteurs Two are more serious...
...and the Arnaut brothers play violin while doing acrobatics, amazingly...
...ttk pl«r tn tie H»lM eight over WEVD at 11:5» p. ¦. WIVIS FOB RIDDANCE "THE TrTO Jf/tS...
...Only it's a path on which many others than the victims have been loet Elisabeth Bergner is given a chance te ahow a variety of patterns in her acting...
...Also the Condos Bros, and Jack Marshall, comedian, who is the extra added attraction...
...A me near airborne troops come in after tough fighting beyond the linos...
...Proceeds to Army Emergency Relief...
...j MUSIC HALL SHOW HELD OVER Continuing to play to tntht siastic capacity audiences,, Oil Grant in "Mr...
...But to see her is to glimpse what a great play might bring from a grant actress...
...LUMTSCH'S "HEAVHI 'CAN WAIT" AT ROhW >4 Ernest Lubitech's latest eon, edy, "Heaven Can Wait," anssj in Technicolor, is the new aortas1 attraction at the Roxy Thssto this week...
...Co-starred with Hope in "Let's Face It" is Betty Button...
...It is a murder melodrama (of the style now popular in "Angel Street" — the husband* intention caught and...
...At the Booth Theatre...
...Comedy dominates the evening "Where E'er We Go," the firs) skit, is an evening in the barracks, just soldiers waiting to go Played by a group from Camp Wood, they make it amusingly real, from the boy with the beol of feminine addresses to the fellow that must have $10 for th< furlough he isn't going to get "Button Your Lips" brings t group from Ft...
...Appearing in person with Goodman and his orchestra are Ray Do rev-Carol Kay...
...A WINNER AT CAPITAL As the Capitol Theatre prepare* next Thursday to launch its seventh week of extended engagement for "Stage Doer Canteen" and its "Stars in Person" show featuring Phil Spitalny*s All-Girl Orchestra, the insiisgsiasiit announces that ¦heady approximately 792,000 patrons have attended the IPS performances given in the past six weeks...
...Indeed, so genuine is her playing that when she half-swallows, then seeks to regurgitate, the poison, women around felt queasy in the thought...
...60th St.—"People of Russia," s miniature, and "Yankee Doodle Mouse," a color cartoon...
...This- will give a grand total of 1,066,000 attendance during the eight week run, which will end, despite capacity business, on account of previous contractual commitments for new shows...
...In all these parts, she has a genuine, appeal...
...Bp Martin Vale...
...The new Roxy stage sbswfsjj tures Velos and Yolande, JtTt) Colonna and Ilona Maasey...
...Here are the Army boys — our sons and brothers," fathers and sweethearts — flung together into a new life, with dangers and discomforts (the latter looming large) but also with a deepened sense of cooperation and of the true worth of democracy...
...Lucky...
...46th St.—"Glimpses of Ontario," a Fitspatrick traveltelk...
...Oh* the coast the British 8th Army on its invasion mission undergoes a stiff enemy sir attack Army streams inland heading for Rossolim and A vote...
...LETS PACE IT- STAYS > AT PARAMOUNT—BENNY GOODMAN ON STAGE, With Bob Hope in "Let's Face It" on the screen and Benny Goodman and his orchestra in person, the N. Y. Paramount Theatre on opening day (last Wednesday) rang up its second highest attendance figure...
...For these were written, as well as directed and acted,, by the soldiers...
...it will be another star the night you see it—in person...
...hence, whan he is through with a woman (be marries them, paints them, discards them), rather than.face scenes, quarreling, divorce publicity, he takes the easier path of poison...
...Set on the golden shone of the South of France—in a content-' porary timelessnesa that sees no war, out with the artist husband finds beauty in death, in all things, if you look lor it—the play pictures an artist who loves beauty so much he cannot' face the ugly...
...There is a thrill in these plays not derived even from "This Is the Army...
...stopped bo-fore the crime) done with attempt at psychological insight and English drawing room eauserie...
...The study of suspicions and resolve is especially interesting to those of mixed descent in out many-peopled nation...
...Oa the way to Catania, they sweep through tin streets of Franco-forto...
...At the Martin Beck...
Vol. 26 • August 1943 • No. 33
