Cheryl Crawford's New Musical 'One Touch of Venus' Due Oct.7
Cheryl Crawford's New Musical 'One Touch of Venus' Due Oct.7 Producer of "Porgy and Bess" to Offer Lavish and Ambitious Venture Cheryl Crawford will present her new Trrasic comedy, "One Touch...
...Bein and Fredtrisa Fox...
...Caesar has been preparing- "My...
...Paula Laurence and Teddy Hart are the featured players...
...Shipley reviews each play aa Ms opening night ova* WEY D at 11:50 p. m. MY DEAR CAESAR...
...Dancers-of the Ballet Theatre who will appear include Markovs, Dolin...
...Nays Grecia and Norman Rose, guerrillas all, who defy the threats of the Nazis in "Land of Fame," th enew play about the invasion of Greece which comes to the Belasco Theatre on Tuesday e*e> ning, September 21...
...The decorations and costumes are by Mstislav Doboujinsky...
...upon the services of the top ' radio personalities, among' them -Ralph Edwards, Martin Block, Bud Hulick, Ted Husing and iijfOjp.eU Thomas...
...Katharine Dunham, in a tropical revue ranging from primitive . rituals in Melanesia to boogie-woogie, will begin a two weeks' run at the Martin Beck Theatre this Sunday evening under S. Hurok"s auspices...
...loa Grouer, Announctr, Sells «¦,000 Im War Bonds ia I It Minufes of Strand In eighteen thrilling minutes ; on the stage of the N. Y. Strand, ' Ben Grauer, NBC's top announcer inaagernting the opening of the ; Third War Bond Drive, sold to ? an enthusiastic audience, $36,500 ' in War Bonds...
...Ethel Sbutto lends some support to Willie Howard...
...Presented by Irving Caesar...
...She is a welcome comer to our shores...
...Members of Miss Dunham's company include Roger Ohardieno, Tommy Gomez, Laveme French, Lucille Ellis, Lavinia Williams, Syvilla Fort, Claude Marchant, Lenwood Morris, Vanoye Aikens, Andre Drew, Lewa one Ingram, Maria Montiere and Ramona Erwin...
...Cheryl Crawford's New Musical 'One Touch of Venus' Due Oct.7 Producer of "Porgy and Bess" to Offer Lavish and Ambitious Venture Cheryl Crawford will present her new Trrasic comedy, "One Touch of Venus,'* for its first performance Friday evening...
...Motion Picture in Technicolor...
...he walks, stops, looks, listens, and you laugh...
...HANDEL...
...Cibber...
...A feW of the songs hit humorous levels — "Rhumbs Jake...
...While the off-handed snobbery of Frederick .(a Prince of Wales who never became king) is shown, the senseless cruelty of his henchman and the cynical indifference of the go-getter Lord Chesterfield, yesman to royalty, there is no real conflict: they too readily have their way...
...Also continued on the great stage is tbe mammoth, modernday "Minstrel.Show," produced by Russell Markert with settings by Nat Karson...
...The new Massine ballet is "Mademoiselle Angot" with music by Alexander Charles Lecocq, set in Paris of the Offenbach period...
...With Handel's music played by the London Philharmonic...
...Designs for the decorations and costumes are by the Motleys...
...The season will introduce new works by three choreographers— Leonide Massine, David Lichine and Agnes de Mille—and will continue the policy of appearances by guest artists Vera Zorina, Argehtinita, and Miss de Mine...
...Performances will be given every evening, including Sundays, with matinees on Saturdav and simdnw "SO PPOUDlr WE HAIL" SECOND WEEK AT MUSIC HALL , With capacity audiences greeting it as New York's newest film hit...
...It will reach Broadway Thursday evening...
...Miss Zorina will appear at the Met between takes" of film soon to enter production in Hollywood...
...For Willie brings his boyish ways to wag at "My Dear Public," and there is wide and instant public response...
...Songs by Irving Caesar, Sam Lerner and Gerald Marks...
...There is goodly measure of his music during the course of the film, played by the London Philharmonic, and much of it sung by Elizabeth Allan as Mrs...
...The results were so gratifying . that the Strand has decided to...
...Willie is a natural jape...
...This is Miss Crawford's second presentation of "Porgy and Bess" on the Main Stem, the first opening being at the Majestic Theatre hi January, 1P42, where it played to packed houses for nine months...
...Book by Irving Caesar and Charles GotteefeOr...
...but most of the voices are not equal to the demands made upon them...
...The picture might be described as a psychological pageant...
...various music by Paquita Anderson, Harl MacDonald and Mead Lux Lewis among others, and Albert Arkus conducting the orchestra...
...One of the few sensible acts of the English king George III was to rise and remain standing for the hallelujah chorus, a tradition observed ever since...
...It has decor and costumes by John Pratt...
...VAUGHN MONROE AND BAND HEAD STAGE SHOW AT PARAMOUNT ' - Vaughn Monroe and his orerestra are the headline in person attraction in conjunction with the screen showing of "A Lady Takes . a Chance," starring Jean Arthur end John Wayne, at the Paramount Theatre-this week...
...Quietly moving, but intense in the inner life of the mild but courageous composer, "The Great Mr...
...a satiric comedy which Agnes de Mille has choreographed upon music by Gluck, arranged by Paul Nordoff...
...Cheryl Crawford brought "Porgy ????????," the George GershwinDuBoeesHeyWard folk opera, back to Broadway last Monday evening for a limited three weeks' engagement at the 44th Street Theatre...
...MY DEAR PUBLICS A Revusical Store...
...Leonide Massine is listed as a guest artist...
...A third new work is "TallyHo...
...Revivals: of "Slavonika," which has been restaged by Yura Lazovsky, and the "Pas de Deux" from "The Nutcracker Suite" have also been scheduled, as well as favorites of last year, "Romeo and Julie(," "Helen of Troy," "Apollo," "Aleko," and others...
...With Monroe and his orchestra are: Ziggy Talent, the Murphy Sisters and PhyHis Lynne...
...At the bbth Street Playhouse...
...Some of the 18th century street cries of England are also pleasantly sung, and add to the engaging background the color photography well catches...
...At the clone of that ran, the company went on a transcontinental tour which lasted nine months more...
...as richly endowed with beauty as she is with melodious tone...
...Elia Kasan, gifted young director, now represented on Broadway by the Politzer Prize winning "The Skin of Our Teeth", and the distinguished production of "Harriet" starring Helen Hayna, both of which he directed, is ia charge of the stagi ? g. The cast is headed by lovely Mary Martin, Kenny Baker, who is making his stage debut, and John Boles, who letuiae to the theatre after many successful year* in Hollywood...
...This we sort o' watch two plays at a time...
...is song "If yon want a deal with Russia" has 'em howling...
...October 7. ami the 44th Street Theatre wiQ be its home...
...The engagement wiQ last four weeks, through November 7th...
...A new Roxy stage revue headlining Carole Landis, glamorous 20th Century-Fox star, Paul Draper, famous dancer, and Jerry Wold and his orchestra, accompanies the film...
...HOLY MATRIMONY" AND NEW STAGE SHOW OPEN AT THE ROXr "Holy Matrimony," starring Monty Wooiley and Gracie Fields, is the new screen attraction at the Roxy this week...
...Eirero Kurtz arranged the score from an assortment of Lecocq"-5 operettas, and Richard Mohaupt provided the orchestrations...
...Dear Public" for his dear public, he should have lined up a better cast, and shined up his material, to work with Willie Howard...
...Miss Crawford's hut production seen m Boston was the eminently successful "Porgy and Biss," the George Gershwin folk opera which played nine months on Broadway, another nine months en the road, and is now in its limited three weeks revival at the 44th Street Theatre...
...But once in a while you remember he's still a boy...
...There is a story to this revue— of a zipper king lured to become an angel—he backs a so-called genius in a musical on Broadway...
...Now, after a brief holiday, the wonderful "Summertime," "It Ain't Necessarily So," "I Got Plenty ©'Nothing5* and: the great Porgy classics will be heard in New York...
...but back to Willie Hcward...
...Alexander Smallens, the distinguished American conductor wb was the original musical director lor "Porgy and Bess," is again on the podium...
...September 17, in Boston at ehe Shubert Theatre where it will remain for a week and a half...
...The play is by Albert sal Mary Bein and is being 2 duced by Mr...
...This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr...
...Until I mentioned hrra just now, how many knew that George III had an heir—apparent named Frederick—as weil as a more weighty later Victoria...
...Caesar owes a lot to Willie Howard...
...David Lichine has devised a Russian spectacle for the Ballet Theatre's season, "Fair at Sorochinsk," from the opera of the same name by Moussorgsky, with costumes and scenery by Nicholas Remisoff...
...One good one would have sufficed...
...The choreography is by Miss Dunham...
...And Handel, in success or poverty, just goes on writing hie music, and his music triumphs...
...Handel" makes a film you will be glad to have seen...
...So Proudly We Hail," Paramount's stirring romantic drama co-starring Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard and Vero.nica Lake, stays for a second week at Radio City Music Hall...
...Laing, Tudor, Semenoff, High-tower, Karnilova, Janet Reed, Alicia Alonso, Robbing, Romanoff,'Reed, Kidd and Kriza...
...Chase, ????, Lazovsky...
...and Georgie Tapps, though his personality does not ooze charm, has some good dance routines ? la Paul Draper...
...In the six or seven years Mr...
...Usually he has 'em howling...
...Etta Moten is his Bees, and Avon Long continues as the wily . "Sportin' Life...
...Handel" "THE GREAT MR...
...Miss Dunham's theatrical jaunt through torrid zones will be accompanied by a rhythm orchestra of 16 musicians, West Indian , drummers, boogie-woogie pianists, a singing chorus and her own dance company...
...The reopening of the 56th Street Playhouse brings from London the technicolor story oi' five years of straggle in the life of the composer Handel, culminating in the first ^performance of "The Messiah" in London, just two hundred years ago...
...Beatrice de Neergard...
...Others in person are Bob Evans and Dorothy Keller...
...Eglevsky...
...FALL SEASON OF BALLET THEATRE OPENS AT "MET" OCTOBER 10 S. Hurok has announced that the fall season of tbe Ballet Theatre will open at the Metropolitan Opera House on October 10th, a Sunday evening...
...At the 49th Street Theatre...
...Jokes, they say, are for parlor, bedroom, or bath...
...aad "Our Private Love Song" will win the Sinatra girl...
...The production, which makes its first appearance on Broadway, toured in the Northwest last spring...
...Willie could have more of the first two, and sometimes needs the last...
...for only three weeks before starting on a second nation-wide tour, opening in Boston on October 4th for two weeks...
...Color and Music Frame "The Great Mr...
...Yet who has not heard Handel's music, especially the rich majesty and divine love of the Messiah...
...Todd Duncan again has the role of Porgy, which he created...
...The rest of tbe evening is a different tale...
Vol. 26 • September 1943 • No. 38
