Broadway's New Thriller---"Murder Without Crime**
Broadway's New Thriller---"Murder Without Crime** This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr. Shipley reviews each pliy on its opening night over WEVU nt 11:50 p. m. . MURDER WILL...
...It's not a bad English thriller, in its quiet but intense way...
...6, following an out-of-town tryout at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven performances before arriving at the Forrest Theatre...
...SATAN'S GOT LOOSf "RUN LITTLE CHILLUN...
...The play is a neatly set pattern of conflict...
...Stephen's wife, whom he loves, 'phones that she is ending their separation—while his mistress fl there...
...Bein and Frederick Fox, the noted scenic designer, who is Creating the settings for the play...
...On the basis of first day attendance, the management foresees at least an engagement of three weeks, and possibly four if Heidt can be prevailed upon to withdraw from tentative engagements elsewhere...
...And Bretaigne Windust as director again shows that he is one of the deftest and smoothest our stage now knows...
...Fox's debut as a Broadway producer...
...Act I starts in the preacher's home, shifts to the cross-roads...
...Presented by Lets Cooper in association until Meyer Davis and George Jtssel...
...ABE LYMAM AMD BAUD ON STRAND STAGS—"WATCH ON RHINE" ON SCREEN As a climax to a highly successful country-wide theatre tour, Abe Lyman brings his famous Californians to the N.Y...
...tonight...
...LATIN-AMERICAN TRIBUTE TO IE MELA AT BEACON As a tribute to Mexico and Central America en their Independence Day anniversary, The Good Neighbors Center of New York, located at 310 Riverside Drive, will hold a rally and "fiesta" on Tuesday evhning, September 14, on the stage ef Skouras' Beacon Theatre, Broadway and 74th Street, at 8 p. m. sharp...
...Spivy of Spivy's Roof, snd model agency head, Harry Conover...
...As a special attraction, the stage show presents Jerry Lester, CBS new comedy sensation who has just received Movieland Magazine's award for "1943's outstanding comedian...
...Act II starts in the sinner's home, moves to the cross-roads, aad ends in the salvation arrival meeting at the Baptist Church...
...China and Russia...
...Also on the stage show are the comedy novelty duo, Bobhy Lane and Edna Ward...
...Miss Curie, besides being an s*«nt Frtnch patriot, can properly...
...Because of her family background, Miss Curie found, on her survey of the worlds battle-fronts, that she was well known wherever she went, not alone as a biographer and writer but as the daughter of Mme...
...With one...
...popular tinging star...
...Anthony Brown is directing, and costumes are by Perry Watkins...
...Russell Patterson, internationally famous artist...
...Featured with Donahue and his band during their stay at the Jersey resort will be charming Penny Piper as vocalist...
...President Roosevelt and Britain's Prime Mi nisteT Winston Churchill with Anthony Eden and the Generals of the United Nations meet to draft plans for new blows against the Axis...
...The plot is woven unobtrusively into the scene...
...America.'' A host of stlehilliee w9f appear w person especially for the occasion, many ef wham wit act at judges at tonights contest...
...Only accredited hostesses from soldier, sailor and seamen canteens in New York will compete...
...The program will consist of brief messages by Mexican, Central and North American dignitaries and entertainment will be supplied by the top-notch luminaries of stage, screen, opera and radio...
...In Africa Eve Curie talked just behind the hattie lines to men of the United Nations command...
...The cast now includes James Barton, Frances Williams, Smith & Dale, Buddy Clark, Jerre McMahcn...
...MANY" AND VARIED FEATURES AT PALISADES PARK Palisades Amosemeat'park...
...Henry Daniell...
...Strand to Head tne stage show starting today...
...She describes life on the bsttlef rents and also on the equally important front where tools of war, the weapons of freedom, are being forged...
...CINDERELLA OP THE CAMTEEMS" One of New York's numerous Canteen hostesses will be named "Cinderella of the Canteens...
...Land of Fame" is being produced by Mr...
...The accompanying screen feature is the Warner Bros, dramatic triumph, "Watch on the Rhine" starring Bette Davis and Paul Lukae...
...Raymond Sovey has equipped the play with a solid English setting — especially the "ugly ottomen" to hold the corpse...
...By J. Lee Thompson...
...aa Sulamsi's passion lures Jim from, his' wife and church, until in God's lightning wrath she dies...
...Since this character is on...
...Starring John Garfield and Maureen O'Hara with Martha O'DriseoU and Patricia Morison, "The Fallen Sparrow" is baaed on a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes which follows the tracking down of a murderer...
...Bein, who, it will be recalled, wrote "Little OS' Boy," "Let Freedom Ring," and "Heavenly Express," ia to stage the production, which is to be presented in three acta and ten scenes and calls for a cast of fifty...
...The plot is simple...
...during a contest to be held next Tuesday (24) at the Merchant Marine Canteen conducted by Spivy at the Hotel Sheraton, 37th and Lexington, at 9 p. m. 100 of the girls who have been dancing the soles off their feet to keep servicemen happy while in New York, will be gifted with 100 pairs of white satin dance shoes, a largess from the founders of the "U-Tell-Em" Club snd its sponsors, Eleanor Wells and Lilyan Astaire...
...and the- dances will be staged by Truly McGee...
...November 10, 1941, Miss Curie left New York City on her .daring 40,000 mile trip, visiting Libya in North Africa, Syria, "DU BARRY"' STAY'S ON AT THE CAPITOL Ano'ther attendance record exploded in the Capitol Theatre last Thursday, when MGM's technicolor musical comedy, "Du BarryWas a Lady," with Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, Virginia O'Brien and Tommy Dorsey, and the "Stars in Person" show headed by Horace Heidt, topped the opening day receipts of "Stage Door Canteen," which totted up an 8-week engagement...
...QUEBEC ALLIED WAR COUNCIL FILMS HEADLINE EMBASSY PROGRAM BOORS Iff THE WAR A MEW EMBASSY FEATURE Pictures of the Allied War Council in Quebec, Canada, headline the new program this week at all Embassy Newsreel Theatres...
...America" beauty contest on the stage of the open aft amphitheatre, fronting the Hudson River...
...The Hall Johnson Choir comes to town—and goes to town—in this revival of its leader's musical play, "Run Little Chillun...
...NEW FEATURE As an extra added attraction of the new program the Embassy Theatres offer "Books in the War" with Eve Curie and Quincy Howe...
...Frankie Connors, Irish tenor and Jack Mariow...
...five days before opening the excellent director (of this and other plays), Bretaigne Windust, stepped into the role—and at the premiere he had a huskier throat than a doctor would relish...
...Friday, August 27th) with this staging of the sixth annual "Mrs...
...the stage virtually the whole .time — the slay is a psychological study of guilt and fear playing, within him—and as usually only one other person is with him, you?;»n see under what a burden the pi ly limped along...
...Johnny McGee and his band will appear at Palisades Park on Saturday for one day only, playing for the free show and also for free dancing at the Park Casino...
...The lass chosen as "Miss Cinderella" will also receive an exquisite, especially designed gown made by Kathryn Kuhn...
...Mr.^ Howe, noted war analyst for Columbia Broadcasting System, interviews Eve Curie, author of the book "Journey Among Warriors," a . vivid and vital story of her journey among warriors of the Allied .Nations...
...Land of Fame" in Rehearsal Premiere at Belasco Theatre, Sept 21 "Land of Fame," the new drama by Albert and Mary Bein, enters into rehearsal today at the Belasco Theatre, where it will have its premiere on Tuesday evening, Sept 21...
...Given a recovery to that throat, and there's a hold in this play that in psychical as well as physical aspects recalls "Rope's End," and should bring to the theatre those that like the Grand Guignoi and the torture school of tense drama...
...Incidentally, this marks Mr...
...but the melodrama' is overacted (especially by tho three women at the start of Act II...
...LUBITiCH FILM STAYS TH/RD WEEI AT BOXY Ernst Lobitach's "Heaven Can Wait," continues for a third week at the Roxy Theatre...
...dressmaker of many stars, plus other rewards...
...of those twists whereby the supposed crime isn't really committed, and the real crime slips up on you with the final curtain, and the horrible hair-raising sense that' it all could have been avoided...
...The small east (besides Windust, Frances Tannebill as the glamour girl...
...At the Hudson Theatre...
...Global Wan Newt: All-out Allied air attack on Europe batters Nazi held cities, one after another, as many as 3,000 planes are attacking in a single day...
...PALACE HOLDS "THE FALLEN SPARROW RKO's Radio's, drama of mystery and intrigue, "The Fallen Sparrow" is being held over for a second week at the RKO Palace Theatre...
...He Tell ill...
...Invitations for admission may be obtained free of charge by writing to the Good Neighbors Center for your requests, and enclosing a self-addressed stamped envelope...
...This melodrama of psychological and probing mystery is the first in a series of new pictures coming to the Palace, which now joins the ranks of the popular first-run Broadway theatres...
...For beauty of singing (that choir is organ-toned) and a blending of your emotions with the simpler but whelming tides of childlike faith, run little chillun to the Hudson Theatre...
...First is the Pilgrim gathering, which starts as a pious whiterobed procession, and.works vividly to a scantily-clad pagan dance of joy in/nature...
...This four character semiMurder, semi-mystery teasermight have had another story if the main actor were well...
...and ends in the "Pilgrim's" orgy in the woods...
...Sicily: Heavy artillery, night and day pounds Axis positions, towns are captured and many prisoners taken as the war in Sicily ends...
...Some 100 wedded beauties will compete for th« coveted title of lira...
...The Roxy stage presentation headlining Veloz and Tolanda, Jerry Colonna and I Ion a Masaey, also remains for a third week...
...Bl'.lie Worth, Elaine Miller, Tommy Gleason and his Royal Guards, and John Kirby and his orchestra...
...The California as feature Rose Blane, songstress...
...There, as on other fronts throughout the vast battleground of this war, she learned to know the soldiers and civilians who are in the forefront of this fight...
...but the dozen spirituals, aad the surge and flow of Negro feelings through It all, raise it to a pitch of absorption unusual in any days...
...THE MAN GOES WEST Broadway celebrities and their press agents are busy in throes of allegedly humorous, good - will composition this week preparing pre-paid "want-ads" at 6-cents-aword, to be published in the Lassen (Calif...
...Viola Keats) works well together...
...Many of the want-ads pledge to contribute to a return railroad ticket if he ever changes his mind, and wants to return to Broadway...
...Various prizes are being offered, outstanding of which is a fur jacket, especially designed by I. J. Fox whieh will he presented to the woman crowned "Mrs America of 1943" tonight...
...County "Advocate" weekly paper to be taken over September 1 by the friendly Ted Friend, who resigns soon as one of the N. Y. Mirror's columnistsFriend is fulfilliijg the dream of every newspaperman, by "getting away from it alT*and running his own small-town paper...
...be termed a citizen of the world...
...BRIGHT UGTS" TO OPEN HERE LAilOR DAY Alexander H. Cohen announced that "Bright Lights," the new musical revue by Norman Anthony and Charles Sherman, will have its local premiere at the Forrest Theatre on Monday, Sept...
...The Cinderella of the Canteens" contest will be judged by illustrator Russell Patterson, the night club owner-hesdliner...
...the big moments are the two meetings...
...On Sunday, Al Donahue and his famous orchestra will begin a ten day's engagement...
...Book smd Music by Rail Johnson...
...Shipley reviews each pliy on its opening night over WEVU nt 11:50 p. m. . MURDER WILL IN "MURDER WITHOUT CRIME...
...The latter objects, with consequences that are exploited to the full by Matthew, Stephen's acquaintance and landlord, who lives downstairs...
...The play, through which winds a love theme, has for its background the heroic stand by a band of Greek Guerillas against the Nazi invaders of their country...
...violin soloist...
...and Walter Thornton, noted mannequin authority...
...These who will definitely be present include Dick Haymea...
...Curie, the discoverer of radium...
...Presented by Del Bondio, Windust, and Weatherly...
...But the second, the revival meeting at the Hope Baptist- Church, is a genuine and unique theatrical experience...
Vol. 26 • August 1943 • No. 35
