Theatre Guild in the Best "Othello of Our Time"
Theatre Guild in the Best "Othello of Our Time" This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY [Mr. Shipley talks about the new plays over WKVD at 11:50 every opening Bight.] HERE'S VILLAINY...
...Rodelf Firkusny Pianist...
...assures RKO Radio's "Behind the Rising Sun" not only a second week, but very likely a third week at the RKO Palace Theatre...
...But from New York a telegram came through —"Wonderful publicity...
...Margaret Lindsay, and a half dozen more give performances decidedly worth the watching...
...Thursday evening, October % at »:45...
...The new Roxy stage presentation features the musical comedy star Danny Kave, Tommy Tucker and his orchestra, and the former singing star of "The Gay Nineties" program, Beatrice Kay...
...The plot, it is true, ships toward melodrama, with the one, the only Shakespearean villain in such prominent role, and his dupe perhaps too easily ensnared...
...The group hardly noticed the boy, and he saw only one person, the girl they called Maine...
...Nearly sixty years ago Mary was walking through her village with friends when they passed a shabbily dressed youngster...
...Tchaikovsky Program...
...Hall appearance tide fall on Wednesday evening, Nov...
...THE STORY IS TOLD of the Impresario who was finally prevailed upon to go hear Sinatra...
...A good performance might be praised, and left with the applauding...
...Nobody was happier about it- than Dalrvmole and Iturbi...
...It would be easy to write a completely laudatory review of the Guild production...
...to my surprise I had worse seats than originally assigned me, but it seems I was lucky to get any, for the house was filled with a crowd that ignored the reviews and bubbled with laughter like a freshly opened bottle of fizz...
...supporting leads...
...But by these very excellences, it sometimes gets in the way of the inner action...
...Soloist: Zirin Francescatti, Violinist...
...3rd...
...Frederick Lonsdale the author cannot keep all this from being talky...
...He was ushered in through packs of wildly screaming co-eds, and finally heard The Voice...
...This is an important production of a great play...
...the brother, vice-president of a bank, in love with his secretary but engaged to the president's daughter—and both girls already given to his love: here is enough for a feast of farces...
...but his talk is...
...The despondent brother is superbly performed by Roland Young, and if his words are a bit repetitious: "I wish I were dead...
...It was she who first saw a star in a cbaj> named Archie Leach—Cary Grant...
...Perhaps the very tenderness of Desdemona, moreover, gives more emphasis to the terror than to the steadfastness in the moments before her dying...
...LOVE WITHOUT CHECKS •ANOTHER LOVE STORY.' By Frederick Lonsdale...
...Dkk Powell with Franchot Tone and Victor Moore, continues for f second week at the New York Paimmour.t Theatre...
...This event will mark her thirty-fifth concert in New York since the summer of 1925 When she sans as the prize-winning soloist with the New York Phiiharmonic Symphony Orchestra at the Lewisohn Stadium Th* famous contralto opened the first segment of her current ninth national tour in Memphis last Saturday evening, Oct 16th, and before terminating bar swing through the South will uing for members of the armed farces in Lawson General Hospita* in Atlanta on October 25th...
...There is also a tipsy butler, who comes in handy, revealing a trap to the young lover, and of whom we'd have liked to see more made...
...Mrs...
...Known as the "behind-thethrone czarina of the theatrical headlines," Miss Dalrymple today guides Grace Moore, Lily Pons, Nathan Milstein, Jan Kiepura...
...His hero was a tramp who every now and then passed through the town and the boys used to gather in some secluded spot to hear about his experiences on the road...
...and we've had so many...
...NEW YORK CITY CENTER Mayor LaGuardia announces that the theatre of the City Center of Music and Drama, Inc., has been named New York City Center...
...His matter-of-fact moments carry a dry conviction, sharp, clean-cut...
...its portent strikes us in its opening tones...
...It pulses...
...Do it again on the way home...
...Dvorak...
...both in the major moments of soaring, and in minute details...
...When Emilia...
...Staged by the author...
...and in its slower roll it seeks for opera...
...But "the pity of it" is so great, and the Moor's final aspect so noble, as to lift the drama despite these limitations into true tragic grandeur...
...MUSIS HALL FILM STAYS Having scored a solid hit, "Lassie Come Home," M-G-M Technicolor picturization of the late Major Eric Knight's famous and final novel, stays for a third week at Radio City Music Hall...
...as others find everything too too often divine—he compensates by consummate reticence in the acting...
...Just so have the Impresarios gotten around to signing Jean Dalrymple...
...Mrs...
...Symphonic Poem "Blanik," Smetana...
...Thus, by the very loveliness of her character, Jimmy Maurer, an irresponsible youngster, feeling no obligation to society for its' immediate welfar nor concern for immediate welfare nor concern for into a devoted husband and father aad later became an outstanding personality in the labor and Socialist movements...
...Margaret Webster is greatly admired (for her Shakespearean direction, only...
...The City Center also provides modern offices and halls for rehearsals, meetings and1 educational purposes...
...Szell): Piano Concerto ia G minor, Dvorak (Piano part in edition of Vilem Kurz as authorised by composer—first time in Men York...
...Robert Young and Ariolphe Menjou, is current at the Roxy Theatre...
...Maurer was widely known and loved...
...There, Robeson might be unimpeachable...
...Margo is starred in "Behind the Rising Sun" with J. Carrol Naish, Gloria HoWen, Robert Ryan, Tomi Neal and George Givot in the...
...Others include Patti Powers, Johnny t Paradiddle Joe) Morris, Tony and Wrng, Chinese dance stylists, sjnd Pat Henning, former star of George White's "Scandals...
...Circumstances prevented my attending this comedy on the usual critics' evenings...
...The verbal power and depth of passion of the dramatist are at their richest...
...But that look aroused emotions that upset his life's cherished dream...
...Here is a show that, if it can wait for word-of-mouth recommendation, will drown in applause the half-hearted words of the next day's press...
...If Lonsdale the director is a bit loose with entrances and exits, he has excellent persons to move in and out for him...
...Uta Hagen catches us with a moment's surprise, at the gentle yet slightly husky quality of her voice...
...RISING SUN" STATS ON AT PALACE Capacity business at every performance since it opened a week ago...
...for an instance, is ordered to leave the stage, would she not give a backward glance of wonder and apprehension at this new and ominous Othello...
...The promotional tour took them across many continents, and on one of the hops the plane crashed...
...Once she went abroad with her leading musical star, Jose Iturbi...
...And surely there is more pathos in the twofold sense, and the two doomed lives, than comes through the present, reading of "Put out the light, and then put out the light...
...3 Marian Anderson will be presented by S. Hurok in bar only Carnegie...
...At the Shubert Theatre...
...Friday afternoon Oct* bet 29, at 2:30...
...OTHELLO...
...always deftly distributed, usually intelligent, and frequently very amusing, so that the audience (unimpeded by the weight of critical wisdom) relaxes end has a good time...
...It varies, but ft does not grow...
...Knowing its power, the director has allowed the performer to rely fully upon that voice...
...This conjunction of failures to sear us with an inner fire suggests directional fault...
...4 in F minor...
...it seems* rather to posses the man than be his instrument...
...but * Another Love Story" is intelligent and entertaining trifling with the polygons of love...
...They made a fine-looking man of him, externally speaking, but Mame discovered in friendly association, add later in wedded companionship, that his was a heart of devotion, honor and loyalty...
...and Jimmy Maurer had decided he'd become a ship's mechanic so he might travel to foreign lands unencumbered witt wife and children...
...Paul Robeson's deep, resonant voice is reverberant through our generation...
...but not from a tortured soul...
...Completing the screen feature and also held over is an in-person show heeded by The Ink Spots and Tony Paster and his orchestra...
...The headlines were, at first, big and black and tragic—but the news soon came through: no casualties...
...MARIAN ANDERSON SINGS AT CARNE&IE HALL...
...Sign him...
...By William Shakespeare...
...It was Jean Dalrymple who discovered Jimmy Cagney, and made his name synonymous with fighting Irish character...
...Concert gr**n hi collaboration with the American Friends of Csecho-Slovakia m commemoration of the 25tv anniversary of the founding of the Czocho-Slovak Republic So.ou.ts: Jarmila Novotna, Soprano...
...Arthur Margetson is suavely insulting and Johnny-Wiseacre-on-the-spot an the artist ex-husband and fixerupper who helps to clear the atmosphere...
...The accomplishments of her husband in the fields of trade unionism and Socialism were in large measure the result of her help and inspiration...
...Shipley talks about the new plays over WKVD at 11:50 every opening Bight.] HERE'S VILLAINY RIFE...
...Memorial to Lidice," Martinu...
...Quartet "From My Life," Smetana (arranged for orchestra by Gee...
...James Monks, as Cassio, gives a wholly delightful performance...
...That.look into Mame's face blotted out all his dreams of bachelorhood, and from then on tailors,, haberdashers, barbers and tradesmen—essential for the creation of a well-dressed gentleman—had an important place in Jimmy Maurer'* life...
...The sincerity and earnest intelligence of the entire cast, the unobtrusive excellence of the settings by Robert Edmond Jones, the inevitable yet daring choice of Paul Robeson for the central role, make this "Othello" memorable indeed...
...Symphony No...
...TRUE TO UPE" A HIT AT PARAMOUNT "True to Life," the comedy eostarring Mary Martin...
...ROXr OFFERS "SWEET ROSIE O'GRADY" "Sweet Rosie O'Grady," newest 20th Century-Fox film musical, starring Betty Grable...
...his lines seem to come from a mouth and throat (highly competent, indeed...
...Jean Dalrymple, apparently, couldn't make a mistake...
...J. Maurer Dies in Reading By LENA MORROW LEWIS Mary Jane Maurer, wife of James H. Maurer, Socialist leader and former head of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor,'passed away on Saturday, October 16th, at her home in Reading, Pa...
...Despite these strictures, the Theatre Guild "Othello" js the most moving production of the play our generation has been privileged to experience...
...there are moments when one may sense the separate vibration of its vowels...
...There remain, however, certain' reservations that must be made, of flaws not irremediable yet holcfing from the play that full measure of yielding it should exact...
...Prior to her Carnegie Hall appearance, Miss Anderson is scheduled to sing under American Theatre Wing auspices at the Halloran Base Hospital on Staten Island on November 1st...
...a better one deserves more discriminant consideration...
...lin I Concerto in D major...
...Well," he was asked, "are you going to sign him* are you going to sign him...
...the queen of highpowered show-business publicity...
...she may be trusted to produce a solid work...
...When its pace is fast, its very sonorousness at times makes consonants trip...
...The Theatre Guild present* the Margaret Webeter Production...
...But Lonsdale gives us more mixed triangles than cocktails in this tangled tale of loves and laughter...
...Presented by Louis Lotito at the Fulton Theatre...
...But there are times when her imagination seems not to take the flight...
...But when passion cries in him, there is little sense of an inner force...
...The City Center of Music and^ Drama, Inc., which is a non-* profit organization, organized for the purpose of providing cultural entertainment at popular prices, now occupies the newly renovated ' building running through from 56th to 56th Street, with executive offices at 130 West 56th St...
...Philip Ober, Doris Dalton...
...she becomes indeed a rewarding Desdemomt, frail yet resolute, to the last loving...
...The mother with two husbands (the ex an artist and connoisseur of life, the in a wealthy bore and boor): the prospective son-in-law with a former sweetheart still tagging on...
...thundered the Impresario, "I'm going to sign his press agent...
...Marta Eggert, arid on the stage: "One Touch of Venus" starring Mary Martin and Kenny Baker, "Porgy and Bess," "Early to Bed," among others...
...I Programs at Carnegie rUf ARTTR RODZl v SKL Maeieal Director i Sunday afternoon, Octabsa H at 3 (Broadcast over CB...
...it slows for the soulful passages, that we may drain their music...
...The more earthy Emilia is also excellently performed, with Margaret Webster rising from the respectful yet romping waiting-woman to the horrified yet defiant figure of the closing scene, as she reveals her husband's villaining...
...Perhaps the title troubled the critics: "Another Love Story*— is that all...
...In the role of Iago, however, the bitter man that pulls the strings to which the others dance, Jose Ferrer is at times brilliant, at times banal...
...Also continued on the great stage is "Autumn Revue," Russell Markert's bright-spirited spectacle of dance and music, with settings by Nat Karson...
...But it grows upon us...
...The filmization of James R. Young's powerful inside story of Japanese atrocities that will some day backfire in Hirohito's face, is one of the most exciting pictures to reach the Palace in years...
...Sorgs My Mother Taught Me" an,- aria front "Rusalka...
...Lonsdale may not have given us another of those patterns of comedy he was writing twenty years ago...
Vol. 26 • October 1943 • No. 43
