Elmer Rice's New Play "A New Life" at the Royale
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Elmer Rice's New Play "A New Life" at the Royale This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr. Shipley reviews each play aa its opening night over WEVD at 11.50 p. m. TOMORROW AND...
...Rice turns preacher...
...Or has he been attending the wrong schol ? And why—to shift to more obviously theatrical considerations...
...David Bernstein, Nate J- Blumberg, Jack Cohn, N. Peter Rath von, Marvin H. Schenck...
...They hsd no wish for her: s night-club performer who'd acted toe violently on their son snd heir...
...At the Royale Theatre.' The theatrical effectiveness of Elmer Bice is indisputable...
...Harlem—these must not 'aSJgjwa again...
...41 To work for the improvement of our educational institutions, so that children in the schools can grow and learn in the genuinely enlightened atmosphere of a "democratic community...
...hi» Swing and Sway Orchestra and Revue featuring Tommy Ryan...
...If democracy means one ttjhrer, it means the right of peo-psat So live together in mutual freedom...
...by C. Shvedoff...
...Aa a playwright, he has a keen plot sense, a gift of dialogue that pins the rbjf tor oar inspection, and a knowledge of, what scenes make sure dramatic fire...
...Don Cossacks Open Three Concert Festivals at Met Opera House, Friday* October 1 The Original Don Cossack' Chorus, with Serge Jaroff at their head, will be presented by - S. Hurok in three concerts at the Metropolitan Opera House beginning this Friday evening (Oct...
...Program—Friday (Oct...
...Robert M. Whitman, managing director of the - Paramount Theatre, has been appointed chairman of the producers committee, with Louis K. Sidney and Ed Sullivan cooperating as co-chairmen...
...Nancy Norman, Arthur Wnght the 3 Kaydets and the Kaye Choir...
...Otoers in the cast are George Tofts*, Jack Carson, Alan Hale, Edward Everett Horton, S. Z. Sakall, Hattie McDaniel and Spike Jones and his City Slickers...
...by the time he reached "Oil...
...The U, S. Department of Labor might well establish an educational bureau on Minorities, to diasrminute on a nation-wide basis the simple and scientific ideals with respect to races and creeds sad color...
...The test the world-over of American sincerity with respect to the "Four Freedoms" will be our own record at home on the issues of race tolerance and enlightenment...
...Lord, Have Mercy Upon Us, by Lvovsky...
...It looks as though "A New Life" will not prove long-lived...
...In the hope of making the forthcoming affair the greatest in its exciting ten-yejr history, executives of the amusement industry have inaugurated plans for offering the nation's top-flight personalities of stage, screen and radio before an anticipated capacity audience sv the Garden, victory will be the keynote of the stage divertissements...
...It seems rather for Hollywood (Mr...
...Also under discussion to e "second edition" to he offered on Broadway next tpriaa after a, transeontinetal tear aftbe csraent "Tropical Revue...
...and Albert Warner...
...PARAMOUNT HOLDS STAtt AND SCREEN SHOW ~a "A Lady Takes a ChancC aM' Jean Arthur and John Wayne g the starring roles, continues at" tne New York Paramount f*r * third week...
...Blessed Is the Lord, by P. Tehaikowsky...
...CATHERINE DUNHAM...
...Grover A. Wholes, and Stephen S. Wisn^Co-chairmen are Sylvan Gotshafi lJaod Rudolph G. Sonneborn...
...Beaumont, Mobile, Los Angeles, Detroit...
...Every day in the street, or in the movies, or in the subway, or in a hospital, war camp, or court-room some little problem presents itself...
...Holding over faro, third week in person is v*agfea Monroe and his orchestra efts Ziggy Talent...
...administration.' and 6) to appoint ourselves a constantly functioning Committee of One to combat Race Prejudice and Conflict...
...S. army and navy, and to work for the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act...
...Tropical - Revue" hi being shown nine times a week every evening and Saturday and Son-day afternoons...
...And, helped along by Edith's friends, we see the impending clash between the mother and her desire that the child be bora to live its own life, and the grandparents* wig that the child be trained to take "its proper place" as a leader in a capitalist civilisation...
...But it has no part at all to ttie dramatic conflict...
...3) •In Thy Kingdom, by P. .Tchesnokoff...
...When young Cleghorne is pressed to the choke, despite his rich upbringing, be rings true...
...Heading the group of honorary chairmen are seven leaders of the motion pictures industry...
...Ben A. Boyar is associate chairman...
...but now his heir was being born...
...The Murphy later* and Phyllis Lynne, Otnexm, person are Bob Evans snd Dor-othy Keller...
...G. A. Lowenstem is the executive Chairman...
...Abraham L. Laebovitz treasurer, and Leonard Ginsberg i|' chairman of toe trades council...
...The battle is not over when we have registered a vote, or signed a petition, or submitted a resolution...
...Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Ann Sheridan, Dinah Shore and Alexis Smith...
...Sinclair recognised that the capitalist can have e sense of humor, and indeed in many ways be just a good fellow on the wrong track...
...though all the foregoing has been a question of theatrical integrity: a problem should be posed fairly, with both sides equally well represented — why the delivery scene...
...a — - ansa saa^a* ENOAGtmtNT TO CONTINUE' An instantaneous surge to the box office, coupled with great audience enthusiasm, has influenced S. Hurok to prolong the engagement of Katherine Penh am ia "Tropical Revue" at the Martin Beck Theatre until further notice...
...The United States government must hare a national policy and program to guard against the infraction anywhere of a citizen's civil rights on account of race, color, religion, or national origin...
...The picture has Bette Davis singing and doing a jitterbug routine...
...Is it that Elmer Rice is a comparative novice in social problems...
...T-he beginnings of a good conflict are established early, as we watch Edith in the maternity hospital...
...We cannot sit- and eMsh' new riots in the making...
...The picture feeajaa in its cast Charles Winninger aa) Phil Silvers...
...Samuel Blitz continues as executive directory in w-hich capacity he has served since the inception of the Night of Stars in 1933...
...SO •RCft&i.r WE MAIL* STAYS AT MUSJC HALL Acclaimed by large audiences...
...Active and honorary' members of the various committees of the Night of Stars are represented by many of America's foremost individuals • in every walk ef life...
...The list of big name stars in the production include Humphrey Bogart, Eddie Cantor...
...Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn, John Garfield, Joan Leslie...
...Teeth Anniversary of Might ef Stars Announced for Madison %quare Garden November J 6th i The tenth anniversary presentation of the Night of Stars, climaxing a decade of benefits for the United Jewish Appeal for refugees, overseas needs and Palestine, will be held on Tuesday evening, Nov...
...Prejudices must be eliminated from text-books...
...THAMX your imcxy STARS" AND SAMMY RATE ORCHESTRA AT STRAND THEATRE Warner Bros, was wrapped op almost its entire studio, complete with the talent roster, directors and technical personnel, to produce its lavish musical "Thank Your Lucky Stars" which opens at the N. Y. Strand today...
...This is argument in the early Upton Sinclair style...
...5) To arouse the community to an awareness that rectal difficulties have deeper roots in the basic difficulties of living and working...
...The new Boxy stage show headlining Bert Lahr...
...Elmer Rice's New Play "A New Life" at the Royale This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr...
...We pledge ourselves in this democratic campaign -for a social order in which all people may live in mutual freedom, in a genuine world brotherhood and international peace...
...Legend, by P. Tchaikosky...
...The mammoth, modern-day "Minstrel Show," produced by Russell Markert, with settings by-Nat Karson, also is being held over on the Musk Hall stage...
...If the battle against Race Prejudice and Conflict, against anti - Semitism, against injustice to the Negro, and to other peoples harmed by bigotry and discrimination, is to be carried on to "unconditional surrender", each of us must be a kind of one-man front...
...Fair employment practices throughout the nation's factories will be a long step forward toward real equality and security...
...Tehaikowsky...
...It is therefore doubly to be regretted that his aew play, "A New Life," fails to satisfy...
...2) To maintain and extend the enlightened activities'of the President's Committee on Fair Employment Practice...
...Her aviator husband is missing in action: his wealthy (and pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist) parents now first meet their sodden daughter - in - lew...
...Duke Ellington and Ernesto Lacuona, Cuban composer, have composed numbers for the Dunham troupe whieh may be included in th esecond edition...
...by Jaroff...
...The Strand "In Person" show is heeded by Sammy Kaye...
...But his father, the moneyed Samuel Cleghorne, is such a man of straw, we wonder at all the energy expended to knock him down...
...16, at the Madison Square Garden, it ia announced by Nathan Strauss, chairman of the event...
...private narrow-minded biases of special factions must not continue to poison minds of young and old...
...These are indicated hi the following listings by a star...
...than for good drama that democratic poverty is to be preferred to an air-conditioned playhouse on a' millionaire's isolationist ranch...
...In Thy Kingdom, by P. Tchesnokoff...
...How Great Is Our Lord, by Bortniansky: Save, O God, by P. Tchesnokoff...
...And from mere stunts in toe theatre, the Lord deliver us...
...Strains must be eadpd to oar factories and city 'astoeis...
...So Proudly We Hall," Para-mount's stirring romantic drama co-starring Claude ue Colbert, Pauierte Goddard Snd Veronica Lake, is being held over at Radio City Musk Hall for a fourth week...
...Ida Lupino, Olivia de Havilland and Georga Tobias in a boogie-woogie dance...
...Blessed Is the Lord, by-P...
...Songs of Cherubim, by Kastalsky...
...It is as big as the poison ef race prejudice which has apparently engulfed the world—it is as broad as the democratic forces which have been enlisted in the war against fascism and its bigoted mentality...
...popular co comedian, Lucille Manners, radio's singing star, and Paul Haakon and Patricia Bowman, famous dancers* supplement the film attraction...
...Honorary chairmen include: Albert Einstein, Mayor La-Guardia...
...The programs on all three evenings will include new additions to their repertory, such as Soviet songs, classic compositions and Cossack numbers...
...They are: Barney Balaban...
...As a stunt, it may be an achievement to be the first to let us see (at least the mother's head) and hear the whole process of a child's being bom), right on the stage...
...Deep-roofed hatreds have lingered through changing circumstances for long periods of time, 'bat planned social changes and readjustments can create guarantees for s genuinely free way ef Ufa...
...3) .To call for the elimination of Jim-Crow regulations in the '¦V...
...Pre-tented by the Playwrights' Company...
...The job question is the key to many areas of race friction...
...Ann Sheridan leads a line-up of chorus cuties m a boudoir number,^ and John Garfield mugs his way through a Sing-Sing hot seat song-and-reci-tation act...
...We must be vigilantly behind the steady campaign for the removal of slums, for new-housing programs, for extensions of economic end social socnrity, for more effective and liberal civic...
...Petchersky Monastery...
...many peoples and races fight each other not because they hate each other, but hate each other because they fight each other...
...Is the common way to be embraced as always best...
...The return of -the missing aviator intensifies the opposition...
...1) at 8:40...
...But, alas, Mr...
...1) Funeral Service — Traditional, arr...
...Sunday (Oct...
...legislative measures will ftaWM to be adopted immediately tov atoiatsin vital war unity on \hehetoe front To this end, we in this Conference to Combat Race Prejudice and Conflict, with delegates from many trade unions and progressive groups, pledge ourselves: 1) To win support for the en-aafyionf by Congress,of a Fair Racial Practice Act, which would serve in the field of race-relations as the National Labor Relations Act serves in the field of labor relations...
...But it is no tittle problem...
...Legend, by P. Tehaikowsky...
...Shipley reviews each play aa its opening night over WEVD at 11.50 p. m. TOMORROW AND TOMORROW «A KWW 'VMt* Written and staged by Elmer Rica...
...are all the rich forever barred from earth's new Eden...
...2) Blessed Is the Man, from KievoThe "newest-Son ja Henfe Starring film, "Wintertime," is now at the Roxy Theatre...
...Iteadjustmants in the comjagy't tour witl hare to he made since the New York run was scheduled to hmTasdy two weoka- iAetosr wiS he added ^tW'reVna as the ma prepresses...
...One of these W "Pink Scene" writh mash: Wf4|tesr copecMufy for Mast Dwham -by Aaron Copland...
...SDF Resolution on Race .. We believe that prejudices and conflicts between men and women of different race, color, creed, or national origin, can be eliminated...
...Saturday (Oct...
...As a director he can mould the stage into a unit, press home the points without reticence or overemphasis, draw out the performers as s good driver, who manages but never forces his steeds...
Vol. 26 • October 1943 • No. 40
