Fallen Sparrow Inaugurates New RKO Palace Policy
"Fallen Sparrow" Inaugurates New RKO Palace Policy This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr. Shipley reviews each pUy on its sousnlag night ever WEVD at 11:50 p. m. GALA AND GAY "THK...
...Then there's the name song of the play: it is plessing, it could be popular...
...Helena are rescued...
...Music by Franz Lehar...
...Shipley reviews each pUy on its sousnlag night ever WEVD at 11:50 p. m. GALA AND GAY "THK MERRY[WIDOW...
...But Marta is not only a singer...
...and Marta Eggerth as the merry widow whose fortune i he must wed to save his State, we are sssured of good voices, mellow and resounding...
...The chorus (flouting about in dreamy dance, with excel 1 ent costumes by Wal Ur Florell) keaps them good company...
...With Jsn Kiepura as the heir apparent of Marsovia...
...Valley of Blossoms...
...Yankee Doodle Mouse" color cartoon...
...Gene Kelly...
...If moon-faced M. C. Balieff could bring his innocent guile back to earth, and specifically back to the Royale Theatre, his smooth sense of showmanship would convert this production into a smash hit, for showmanship is the one element it lacks for s smack-'em-down revue...
...On screen, the Strand continues with Warner Bros...
...Den Ameehe, and Charles Coburn, remains for a second week ss the feature screen attraction at the Boxy Theatre...
...film* to Follow Ti i in i if i 1 el si t 11 hi i • .'Tk...
...Prelate pledges Church's cooperation in maintaining order...
...present Fred Asthire aad Joan Leslie in the musical "The Sky's the Limit...
...Out of s dim bat golden memory of childhood, still (lost the strains of "The Merry Widow...
...Her companions—just faces, with...
...Zero Meesnl, and Tommy Dorsey with his orchestra to enliven the proceedings...
...Lucky,'* RKO's romantic picture starring Cary Grant, is being held over on the screen of Radio City Mask Hall for a fifth week...
...The Capitol theatre is now presenting the film with a huge "Stars /?n Person" show, featuring Hor' ace Heidt, and his Musical Knights, featuring Frankie Carle, STRAffD SHOW HELD for pwru ma Carmen Cavallaro, the pianist maestro, and his orchestra' continue for s 5th and final week st the New York Strand starting today...
...The latter also has some lively and engaging dancing...
...AT MUSIC HALL 4 "Mr...
...The Constant Nympth...
...The ensemble singing, men snd women together, is delightful, ia the harvest scene, in the group of gypsy songs, in the "Wedding in Ukraine...
...No dance to the tune, no grouped chorus, no play, no showmanship...
...The Merry Widow" will have many merry audiences, throughout the new season...
...Magic Carpet Travelog m technicolor...
...Featnref/um Goodman and his tubulin E* Bay Dorey Carol Kay, mm Stacy, Hymie Shertser, Btwy Goodman's Famous Sextet tW Lee Coataldo...
...Take Kstinke, for .instance...
...Petite Gwen Da vies will appear with Sherwood and his band as vocalist st Palisades Psrk...
...But, take it in itself, there's plenty more...
...From the graceful glide • to the catchy can-can, he keeps the girls in attractive tarns, with little novelties that catch the eye and the fancy...
...nSTtWeftVatm\Kty atFDwWrnZ a f i*c Fallen Sparrow," the Palace wfl...
...Then comes "Behind the Rising Sun" from James R. Young's amazing book exposing the Japs even mare frankly than "Hitier's Children" bared .the shame of the Nazis...
...It needs some one to make it into a dress...
...72nd St...
...Kay Kaiser in "Around the World," and Frank Sinatra in "Higher and Higher.'' ftOXY HOLDS "HEAVEN CAM WAIT" Ernst Lubitseh's production of "Heaven Can Wait," filmed in technicolor and starring Gene Tiemey...
...The GorutosfpE, tap dancers, and Jack MasgX comedian, who is the extra mem attraction complete the in ptrtw...
...In addition the In Person show features CapeUa and Patricia, dance stars, and Richard Buckley A Co...
...Recovered, he seeks out bis enera^w^Mcw Ya^ he sees of refugees with whom Us former fiancee is amusing herself...
...PALISADES DfVFRTfSFMf NTS Offering something new in syncopation, Bobby . Sherwood and his orchestra will play a three day's engagement at Palisades Amusement Park, N. J., this Friday, Saturday and Sunday (August 20th...
...Directed by Felix Brentano...
...Presented by Yolanda Mero-lrion in the New Opera Company Production, At the Majestic Theatre...
...Canada: Churchill arrives in Quebec where he will confer with President Roosevelt to plan • for victory in Nazi Europe...
...Nothing is helped over...
...Sports in the News: Gander Hagg, Sweden's star distance runner bids goodbye to TJ...
...aad the graceful Labor Roudenko, whose first let polka is a delight . . . not to mention her arch can-can...
...This may be all right for a pleasant evening at home, or even a concert...
...In the...
...Story of Private Smith who went to Officer's Training School...
...Messins: Retreating Nazis in the battle of Sicily dynamite roads as they fall back . . . U. S. engineers rebuild them as Allied Ocpopo arinnpea on enemy...
...There is excellent material here —by the yard...
...46th St...
...Robert Stolz, who conducted the 1905 premiere of "The Merry Widow" in Vienna, has arranged the music and wields the baton for this production: snd Felix Brentano has capped the triumphs of the New Opera Company by his treating these works as theatre pieces rather than operas, so that the dramatic values combine with the musical to make them all-around entertainment, tops of its kind...
...The humor of the evening, enlivened by a book that brings it up to date, is carried on the sly shoulders of Melville Cooper as Popoff, the determined prime minister of Marsovia, who must arrange the match, bat cannot control even hie own wife, His Plan 73, however, almost works...
...Lieutenant Smith...
...The combination.ataai for a third week...
...Other special RKO Radio pictures scheduled for premiere performances at the famous RKO Palace aw "The Iron Major" with Pat O'Brien playing the title role —that of Major 'Frank Cavanaugh, two-fisted World War hero and famous football coach...
...it fades in the theatre...
...Perhaps the highlights of the comedy is the male septet that sings a song the progrsm calls "The Women," more affectionately . remembered as "6iris, girls, girls" . . . and the seven men burlesque - a female chorus in a 'way that has the uproarious audience calling them back for more and more...
...Conductor...
...They win headline the free stage show, giving two performances each day, and will also play for free dancing each evening at the Park Casino...
...Lyrics by Adrian Root...
...lieutenant Smith" spi "Shipyard Symphony" a?r cartoon...
...this production has bettered our expectations...
...the rest of their figures painted on the wall, like yourself when you poet in a Coney 'Island photographer's gsllery—cry oat for her hand ia marriage, and she dsnces her own little declaration of independence: as charming a comic piece as one has seen in s long time—for lees than a minute and s half...
...42nd St...
...At the Royale Theatre...
...It hss gaiety, and excellent song, and (except for one stiff ballet number) excellent dancing, at well as good fun...
...The surprise success of "Rosalinda" prepared us to expect .something good...
...MELODY AND FUN BaliefTs "Chauve-Souris of 1943...
...lets MCE IT" AND GOO DM AW IN THUD WEEK AT N. Y. PARAMOWt "Let*s Face It," co-starring Bsf Hope and Betty Hutbw, w sere* and the in person show hansel by Benny Goodman and his archest ra have rolled up Us* Jhuw est second week's box-oAVe HW in the history of the Paranwex Theatre...
...Rags Ragiand...
...Nor must we forget "The Wooden Soldiers"—though it cried for a following group not 19th century brat op to date (instead of the realistic march song supposed to cap it...
...jajay^'" QLTfKC AT EMBASSY ^aikgl War Hews: Kale Galf: American warships defeat the Jape ia night clash, north of Monde . . . survivors of torpedoed cruiser U.S.S...
...One fellow has a solo vaudeville number—Simeon Karavaeff —combining Russian dancing aad tap with a coy patter, that goes over by itself...
...With Laraine Day in the feminine lead, the gag, witty film has played to capacity audiences .W* it, CAPITOL HAS "DO f4ftIY WAS A LADY" Packed with lie* Coat Porter tunes and new comedy, "Da Berry Was A lady" comes back to Broadway, this time ea MGM's technicolor musical, with Lucille Baft, Bed Skelton...
...glow of that recollection, all the revivals this reviewer has seen were dull—until the present New Opera Company production, which can...
...starring Charles Boyer and Joan Fontaine...
...snd indeed on its own is a gay and gals presentation, rich in all the aspects of comic opera...
...it needs a consummate showman to whip these into continuous fiow and surging theatre...
...Presented by Leon Greanin...
...21st and 22nd...
...Also, he brings for the special ballet numbers some persons that will he watched again and again: the couple Milada Mladova and Chris Volkeff...
...Robert Stolz...
...50th St- "Lieutenant Smith" and "The Aristocrat," Merrit MuV edy cartoon...
...jjj^™^ Franco in the Iabnaa^oeg^ BnST bou^'H^FT t*h«erBrisu»da...
...The Cossack chorus burlesque (even without the feeble 4F "fun") is boisterously funny...
...Choreography by George Balanchine...
...By making bard-boiled lire to three women, he narrows tie suspects, pad then sets a temp, al- * roost getting killed himself as he uncovers the chief agent of Hitler...
...she is a;romping and mischievous spirit, snd her set-to's with Kiepura (who is her husband all the time offstage, as he is to become when the final curtain falls onstage)) . are lively with good acting as well ss splendid soap...
...he refuses to tel sad silliness to escape with the aid of a friend, who is eapfdered...
...As Extra Added Attractions the Strand presents the nation's foremost singing duo, Connie Haines and Perry Como...
...but one girl sings it once, the orchestra plays the chorus once more (half drowned in applause), and that's all...
...This is a dancing play (remembered by many that have never seen it, for "The Merry Widow Waltz"), and George Balanchine has surpassed himself in the variety and charm of his arrangements...
...Running of annual Hambletonian Classic...
...S. track fans...
...stand in rich comparison with the memory...
...Palermo: Cardinal Lavitxano and General Pattern confer...
...New book by Sidney Sheldon and Ben Roberts...
...of Firet-RunJcJCO RaX This week the RKO Palace beRK O^^T *Pi cni...
...This is America...
Vol. 26 • August 1943 • No. 34
