Eve of St. Mark to Give Command Performance at Washington
"Eve of St. Mark" to Give Command Performance at Washington ANDERSON PLAT TO IE HONORED The committee for the Washington celebration for the .President's birthday has selected Maxwell Anderson's...
...mg the period, profits of these corporations rose to $7.4 billion, an increase of $4.5 billion, or over 150...
...de Liagre will direct his own production, as is his custom...
...study classifies the 1753 corporations into 50 industrial groups on the basis of predominant pre-war activity...
...ROOSEVELT REPORT AT THE EMBASSY President Roosevelt's address to the 78th Congress headlines the new program at all Embassy Ncwsree...
...Presumably, then, it presents them as they see themselves...
...The setting will be by Watson Barrett...
...In 1940, 24 war contractors hit that mark...
...V . . . DHILLIP BLOOM has stopped assisting Jean Dalrymple in her * publicity office . . . Phil is now assisting his Uncle Sam . . BRETAIGNE WINDUST, director of "Life With ???»»," "Arsenic and Old Lace" and the recently closed "Strip for Action," has jumped to Cincinnati to rehearse June Walker in the role of Vinnie . . . iShe replaces Margalo Gillmore in the touring company of "Life With Father" . . . THE New Opera Co...
...And Volume IV is entitled "Corporate Profits in the First Six Months of 1942...
...The boys on Bataan didn't get time-and-a-half," is the familiar Tory argument...
...Subcontractors were selected from two OPM studies...
...The winner selected by a committee of jndges including Jimmy Dorsey...
...The greatest gains were in the durable goods industries where every group but one showed at least a doubling of profits between 1939 and 1941...
...The play's picture being ideal, they do not talk about themselves, but each is in a golden glow about the others...
...And in 1941, 69 war contractors got that croix-de-guerre—with palms...
...The dramatic film success has bettered e attendance marks set last summer by "Mrs...
...V...
...only, to an American, it seems strange to talk so"much about "motherland" (why not "fatherland," Mr...
...Odets...
...Miniver" during the first 25 days of its record run of 10 weeks...
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...He was twice in succession, in 1936 and 1937, recipient of the award of the New York Drama Critics' Circle, for "Winterset" and "High Tor" respectively...
...For each of the 50 groups," the study reveals, "profits before income taxes expanded over the two-year period...
...Perhaps they do—and there is a place for such emotions...
...The extent of that profit is revealed as follows: "For the 100 major prime contractors, 1941 profits before income taxes totalled $3 billion;, for the 100 random subcontractors they amounted to $231 million...
...and noble spirits...
...Flame of New Orleans," with Marlene Dietrich, and three Topper pictures...
...Despite increased taxes, nine-tenths of the companies reported higher returns on invested capital in 1941 than in 1939...
...This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHtPLET Mr...
...swimming an almost frozen stream to bring news...
...A War Job for Congress...
...Proceeds from these special benefit per>-formances are turned over to the infantile paralysis foundation at Warm Springs, Ga...
...The film tells Congress it has a war job to do...
...BROADWAY ECHOES > By Don McQoud A LOT of the boys around town figured that Michael (boy wonder) Todd was just a fiaah in the pan . . . They weren't convinced »hea he clicked with "Star and Garter," they said he get a larky break . . . Bet, brother, they can't laugh off "Something for the Boys'* . .. . For here is a meeseal that is tens in all departments and will probably be selling ticket« when the Second World War armistice u being signed . . . Hassard Short, Cole Porter, Dorothy and Herbert Fields harve banded together and given Ethel Merman and a hand-picked east a sparkling vehicle which they get every oasjfce of speed oat of . . . CLIFFORD ODETS will be one of the principal speakers at a symposium dealing with the Theatre Guilds...
...Theatre on Sunday afternoon...
...These 1941 profits were 3% times average earnings in the years 1936-'39 for the prima contractors and slightly less for the subcontractors...
...In person stage show, headed by Jn^nrny Dorsey and his orchestra, featuring Bob Eberly, Helen CPCenhell, Buddy Schutz and Billy Ray es...
...Volume II is "Profits of 200 Important War Contractors, 1939-1941...
...Of the 200 war contractors selected for study, 100 are prime contractors and 100 are subcontractors...
...Jan 31st . . . MICHAEL CURTIZ...
...river-bank under fire...
...The Russian temperament, thus beheld, is quite different from our own...
...Part two is "Profits of Consolidated Corporations and War Subsidiaries, 1939-1941...
...Shipley reviews each play on its opening night ever WEYD at 11:50 p. m. In a Dramatic Mirror "THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE...
...Mark" for the President's birthday performance is for Mr...
...An additional 15% was scattered among 42 companies engaged in shipbuilding or the manufacture of industrial machinery, railway equipment, auto parts and accessories and chemicals...
...Africa—General Eisenhower p;ns . D.S.M...
...Thirty-eight companies in three industries—aircraft, autos and steel—held half of the total contracts...
...HARVEST" REMAINS AT MUSIC HALL Having established a new all-time attendance record for the Radio City Music Hall in its run to date, "Random Harvest," co-starring Greer Garson and Ronald Colman in the film version of James Hilton's novel, is in its fifth week at the Radio City Music Hall...
...The UMW has attacked vehemently such steps as wage-freezing, which it calls "unauthorized...
...On its great stage, the Music Hall is also continuing its gala music and dance spectacle...
...for non-durables the increase amounted to over 30%, and for trade and services 25...
...S. transport planes fly men and material to Chinese over impassable mountain country...
...In short, the rake-off of the profiteers was mostly on money put into their business by America's labor and farmers, and not on the investment of their own capital...
...We have things to do, and do them...
...Dur...
...Who has seen that mentioned in any corporation or NAM publicity...
...Such heroes...
...The play starts with promise of action, as two old ladies guard their secret (the scout from across the river) from a Nazi patrol...
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...This will constitute the 130th showing of the Anderson work which opened at the Cort Theatre on October 7 and has enjoyed virtually capacity business since that date...
...The old men of the town ask for guns, and tears well in the captain's eyes...
...Hats Off...
...The Russian version of "The Russian People" has been widely played in Sovietland, and highly hailed...
...For durable goods producers 1941 profits after taxes were almost double those of 1939...
...Strangely, Lewis reflects the opinions of all labor, including many of his enemies, by stating: "Currently the war production set-up here is almost completely a big business proposition with labor being tolerated only on the fringes...
...in 1941 they were 10 times as great...
...American Acting Version by Clifford Odett...
...musical comedy star, wrH alee be held...
...However, the war profiteering revealed so far becomes small potatoes when you get to volume II and its analysis of 200 war contractors...
...produced by Leon Leoni-doff...
...Volume IV indicates the direction of profits by showing that the average for this group was 40% higher in the first six months of 1942 than it was in 1941, and at an accelerating rate...
...The increases ranged from 11% to 955...
...ROLAND YOUNG RETURNS TO B'WAY Roland Young will return to the Broadway stage, after a four-year absence in Hollywood, in the Alfred de=Liagre, Jr., production of "Ask My Friend Sandy," the new Stanley Young comedy, which will open at the Biltmore Theatre on January 27...
...And while all this has been going on, the War Labor Board has been haggling over niggardly wage raises never exceeding 15% to small handfuls of workers here and there—all in the name of preventing inflation...
...V. Kaltenborn, ace screen journalist and war news analyst, headlines the new program appearing in the latest release of his popular weekly series of "Kaltenborn Edits the News...
...the Russians are battling valiantly and we hope will continue their victorious drive...
...Over 70% of the contracts had been awarded tc 100 large companies, mostly producers of durable goods...
...standing silent under torture (with a Quisling or two as in other lands)—things to do, and they do them...
...Warner Bros.' ace director, had a big year with directing "Captains of the Clouds," "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "Casablanca" . . . Mike is now busy on "Mission to Moscow" . . . THE Jack Benny picture "George Washington Slept Here" has been voted the best picture of the month for the entire family by the National Screen Council . . . ANN SHERIDAN, Olivia de Havelland and Joan Leslie have been chosen for the three top roles in "Night Shift...
...Among individual war contractors the record is even more lurid with war profiteering...
...In aircraft and shipbuilding, where there was no conversion problem, profits in 1939 were already showing the effects of mounting war orders...
...Theatres...
...MARK" to give a special performance on Sunday night for the benefit of the Actor's Fund...
...The large cast surges effectively, with several notable bits, as that of E. A. Krumschmidt as the fear-cringing mayor...
...Zorina, Ahm Courtney, Carmen Miranda, and the Weetshore Bros, will be introduced on the N. Y. Strand stage by Maestro Dorsey on Tuesday and will be crowned "Miss United Nations" by a group of servicemen representing the allied countries at war . . . "THE EVE OF ST...
...will present a "Five O-clock Opera Concert" at the 44th St...
...War orders were filled by increasingly intensive utilization of existing plants and the expansion of productive facilities FINANCED WITH GOVERNMENT FUNDS...
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...Reports were available," Volume I discloses, "for 1,753 large industrial corporations in each of the years 1939-1941...
...Due to limitations of available data, the subcontractors were chosen at random, and are not necessarily the largest as to either asset size or amount of contract...
...Despite the progressively higher taxes, 11 of the 50* industrial groups more than doubled their profits (after taxes) from 1939 to 1941, and only half of them showed less than a 50% gain...
...The cast of "Ask My Friend Sandy" will include Mary Sargent, Norman Lloyd, Phyllis Avery, Franklyn Fox, Kay Lor-ing, Anna P. Franklin, Joseph Tso Shih and Curtis Karpey...
...The dramatist is expected to attend the Washington performance on January 24, along with his partners in the Playwrights' Company, S. N. Behrman, Elmer Rice and Robert E. Sherwood...
...ehudi Menuhin (above), the internationally famous violinist, appears at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Tuesday evening at 8:30 o'clock in the Major Concert Series sponsored by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences...
...About three-fourths of the increase occurred from 1940 to 1941...
...Young worked in numerous pictures for all the major studios...
...R HYTHNTJIOLDS "Star Spangled Rhythm" continues on its record-breaking way at the New York Paramount Theatre--Ji added to its laurels by establishing a new two-week attendance record by playing to 320,000 persons, topping the 312,000 set by "Road to Morocco...
...by Carey Longmire...
...News from overseas battie-fronts: Latest picture from Russia—Red armies continue to advance, smashing Hun lines and threatening to stamp out all the Nazis in the Don River region...
...The labor movement is not going to be destroyed to satisfy the disappointment of temporary office-holders who sometimes confuse their own destiny with that Ol' tile people...
...During his Hollywood stay, Mr...
...and at the Guild you have a chance to see how the Russian people look to themselves...
...Contracts for more than $20 billion of war material had been let by U. S. procurement agencies alone...
...By the end of 1941, about one-fifth of total industrial and mineral production was for war purposes...
...Such darling daring girls...
...Boris Aronson has provided a vivid background in the varied sets: hu?, mayor's home, railway station used as Soviet headquarters...
...Anderson a,culmination of honors which began in 1933 when his "Both Your Houses" cantured the Pulitzer prize...
...on General Clark for pre-invasion exploit...
...Nevertheless, aggregate 1941 profits after taxes showed an increase of 56% over the 1939 level...
...Presented by the Theatre Guild at the Guild Theatre...
...A big job in finding soft spots in the way we are handling our mobilization for war—and then insisting the administration get tough, forget party politics and unite in hard work to win the war...
...is the newest issue of Your Ringside Seat now shown in the new program of one-hour world-wide news events at all the Embassy Newsreel Theatres...
...There is no mistaking Lewis' attitude towards the New Deal and its war politics...
...Strange or not, it is wondrously undramatic...
...The choice of "The Eve of St...
...His last stage appearances were in in "Her Master's Voice," "A Touch of Brimstone" and "Spnng Thaw...
...In aircraft, profits in 1939 were 81% above the 1936-'39 average, while in 1941 they were almost 17 times as large...
...The more recent of them include "They, Ail Ju*»e4 the Bride," with Joan Crawford...
...Benny Goodman and his orchestra, Moke and Poke, The Radio Rogues and Frank Sinatra continue in person...
...Lewis refers to the Washington war effort as a "big business-military show...
...Labor and Govt (Continued from Page One) sented in federal councils, the last edition of the UMW Journal said: "Labor's traditions and institutions are not the creation of politicians nor the by-product of paternalistic government, but were forged in the~ heat of a thousand battles over a half century of American history...
...Altogether, it's a grim war...
...In general, the rate of profits expansio* varied with the industry's ability to produce war goods without converting its existing facilities...
...Mart" to rive the "command performance" at the National Theatre of that city on Sunday night, January 24...
...I wonder how "the boys on Bataan" feel about war profiteering Fat Boys who make 500% on their blood and sweat...
...In 1939, income taxes absorbed 18% of the profits of all 1,753 corporations, while in 1941 almost 50% was paid in taxes...
...I can hardly wait . . . WILLIAM MARSHALL has been signed for the important role of a Russian army officer in Columbia's 'Boy From Stalingrad" . . . SPENCER TRACY, soon to be seen with Katharine Hepburn in "Keeper of the Flame" and something later in "American Cavalcade," has been slated to make "A Guy Named Joe" with Irene Dunne as his romantic partner . . . JANE PICKENS, lovely lady of song . . Doing her "One Woman Show" at La Martinique . . . JACK FLIEGEL and Dorothy Ross have thought up quite a novelty for their "Holiday Inn" at Flushing- . . . They have a Bing Crosby room in which can be heard every song waxed " by the singer...
...but soon talk gets the upper hand and dominates the evening...
...Only seven of the 50 groups showed less than a 50% gain in profits from 1939 to 1941...
...Volume III is divided in two parts...
...The Russian People" to be held at the Guild Theatre this Senear afternoon . . . Incidentally "The Russian People" are to do SaiuU* shews starting January 24th . . . AS a climax to "United Nations Week" a "Miss United Nations" will be chosen...
...And on Capitol Hill a Tory Congress, at the lecherous urging of the Big Business monopolists, is preparing to plunge the knife into the time-and-a-half after 40 hours provision of the Wage-and-Hour Act...
...4th WEEK FOR "YANKEE DOODLE DANDY" "Yankee Doodle Dandy," which is continuing to break all records at the New York Strand Theatre, holds over for a fourth week...
...and the Theatre Guild — if Clifford Odets' version preserves the spirit of the original—is giving us an opportunity to look upon a self-portrait of the Soviet man and the Soviet woman at war...
...In celebration of United Nations Week which is in all motion picture houses, Don Baker, Paramount organist, will feature a presentation of United Nations melodies...
...China—U...
...A footnote explains: "The prime contractors were obtained from WPB confidential lists of companies holding the largest war contracts...
...the Russians have things to do—like blowing up a bridge...
...But before and after comes the lengthy Russian talk...
...By Konstantin Simonov...
...For all prime as well as all sub-contractors, the return on invested capital before taxes tripled between 1939 and 1941...
...In his address to Congress and the nation the President points out that the Axis powers have iost the war by failing to win in 1942...
...Miniver" which also starred Miss Garson...
...In the first 25 days of its engagement, 569,988 persons have seen "Random Harvest," 11.022 more than saw "Mrs...
...For instance, in 1939 three war contractors already had jumped their profits to between 400% and 500...
...For each group," the study discloses, "1941 profits before income taxes were more than three times the pre-war level...
...Through the close of 1941, this war output was for the most part superimposed upon expanding civilian production...
...A most worthy cause . . . LOOKS like an un-limited engagement for Katharine Cornell's "Three Sisters" . . . Seats are gelling ten weeks in advance...
...Earlier attractions which have played "command performances" in Washington in connection with this fund-raising phase of the President's birthday celebration are "Between the Devil" with Jack Buchanan and Evelyn La ye, "Life With Father," "Outwards Bound," "Old Acquaintance" and "Watch on the Rhine...
...Mark" to Give Command Performance at Washington ANDERSON PLAT TO IE HONORED The committee for the Washington celebration for the .President's birthday has selected Maxwell Anderson's play, "The Eve of St...
...In shipbuilding 1939 profits before taxes were twice the pre-war average...
...Part one is "Comparative profits of 200 War Contractors and 1659 Other Large Industrial Corporations, 1939-1941...
...Indeed, it appears to be an actual blacklist against effective labor spokesmen, and only those are admitted to the inner circle who can be trusted to nod acquiscenec after the decisions are made by.others...
...V .. . Capital Comment (Continued from Page One) entitled "Profits of 1753 Large Industrial Corporations, 1939-1941...
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