The Naked Genius Arrives: Mike Todd's First Play of Season
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
"The Naked Genius" Arrives: Mike Todd's First Play of Season This Week on the Stage by Joseph T. shipley Mr. Shipley talks about the new plays over WEVD at 11:50 erery opening night J STRIPPED...
...Schwartz, likewise, has time and again been beseeched by proffers to grace the Broadway and Hollywood aura...
...Sunday afternoon, Nov...
...In discussing his new plans— and the resourceful director certainly has plans this season which include a musical play by Harry Kalmonvitch, "The Folk Singer" and "I Want to Live," a drama by David Bergelson, Russian writer—he still glows with the same unabashed, puerile enthusiasm as when, in the humid summer of 1919, he divulged his frenzied ideas to a group of patriarchs...
...Technicolor film version of the late Major Eric Knight's famous novel, holds over at Radio City Music Hall for a fourth week...
...holy matrimony" at r.k.o...
...30, at 8:45...
...But, of course, there is a wealthy man in the offing who wants to take "Honey Bee Carroll" from her burlesque days, and whose bewildered parents discover how a burlesque queen rules the home roost...
...At the RKO Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island neighborhood theatres, the new show brings Jean Arthur and John Wayne in the starring roles of "A Lady Takes a Chance," newest RKO comedy There's going to he a party after the show on the stage of the Majestic Theater tonight...
...Fatuous grins daubed the faces of "his admirers...
...featuring Noah Beery...
...The troupe boasts of an extensive repertoire, embracing the classical works of Shakespeare, Klabund, Toller, Rolland, Moliere...
...Also, bumping Georgia Sothern, another artiste, and an assortment of trained dogs, a monkey (nonhuman) and other eccentricities...
...famous non-seauiturs...
...In a quiet corner at Leone's, Jimmy Cagney gives genial Gene Leone a special private performance of "Yankee Doodle Dandy...
...Sunday afternoon, Oct...
...Best among them is Doro Merande, the keeper of the Ladies' Room in the saloon below, who gets a similar concession at Honey Bee's wedding, but has a line of "hot stufT* on the side...
...and wife hack in the little Polish towr...
...Philharmonic-Symphony Society Concerts at Carnegie Hall Artur Rodzinski, Musical Director Saturday evening, Oct...
...and the shapes of ladies' shoulders have definitely changed...
...Yes, the idea delighted their hearts, and, lest ye forget, their palates, for the borsht was good and hot...
...They, too, were gorged with the hokem, slap-stick "pot-boilers," then prevailing along Second Avenue...
...It's a conglomerate and roust...
...31, at 3 (Broadcast over CBS...
...Although the author and the director protested that "The Naked Genius" was not ready for Broadway, and although the daily reviewers cried they'd been gyped by Gypsy, this is the kind of play the unpredictable public might take to its heart...
...but there's a good press agent—and more—on the Plymouth stage...
...Friday afternoon, Nov...
...in professional life the stars of the vastly successful "The Merry Widow...
...Carlyle was wise in recognising that the tailor may be a symbol of man's mind...
...Soloist: Leonard Shure, pianist.— "Memorial to Lidice," Martinu...
...Schwartz's artistic chat blossomed into a stirring reality with a production of Peretz Hershbein's "An Abandoned Nook...
...Batista is supporting Carlos Saladrigas, although his hat will probably be in the ring again in 1948...
...130 West 56th Street, or appear at the 7th floor information window of that address, to obtain choral audition application forms, which they will fill in and return to the same address...
...COSTUMfS AMD FASMIOMS If art and taste grew rn proportion to the opportunity for their ansa ciss, Near York would be the artistic center of the world...
...Her fire-escape is busier than a Main Street store with a fire sale...
...The more intelligent plaggoers on Second Avenue beamed radiantly when Schwartz announced and presently produced during the same rear Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband...
...even the shoes: all gather into, pictures of the people that gave them and wore them...
...who staged and directed the production and his wife who also will observe a wedding anniversary, their eighth...
...Inc...
...The name ef the picture they were making was "My Hea,-t Is Calling Yon" which set the sta«re for one of the most romantic of courtships...
...If clotbes do not make the man, at least they reveal him...
...Gypsy Rose Lee contributes less than we expect, after her "G String Murder...
...Theme, Variations and Finale, Miklos Rosza (first performance in New York...
...Oh, boy," whistles one doughboy, "if Algiers were only like this...
...1 in C minor, Brahms...
...Some of the patterns have subtler tales to tell, of symbols recurring in different countries and times, of universal impulses, ways of the female and the male . . . Even the child that cried out upon the naked king would be held by the variety of material, for observation and reflection, at the Museum of Costume Art...
...we wait from one to the next, through increasingly dull stretches, with decreasing hope...
...Many of the players who started with Maurice Schwartz in "Abandoned Nook" are still with the troupe...
...Shipley talks about the new plays over WEVD at 11:50 erery opening night J STRIPPED FOR ACTION "THE NAKED GENIUS" By Gypsy Rote Lee...
...1 in C minor, Brahms...
...The Naked Genius" comes near justifying only the...
...We are told that Gypsy writes her own...
...It takes more .than a good press agent to bring about a success...
...5, at 2:30...
...The in-persin show, headed by The Ink Spots and Tony Pastor and his orchestra, and featuring Patti Powers, Johnny (Paradiddle Joe) Morris, Toy and Wing, Chinese dance stylists, and Pat Henning, former star of George White's Scandals," also remains for a third week...
...Diana Barrymore and Robert Paige...
...I saw the panoply of the American past unfold, as garments down the decades carried my fancy back—well, back to the coat worn by George Washington's dentist: then swiftly across seas with the folk of many lands that have brought their habits (in both senses, of inner and outer garb) to the growth of America...
...and the Madame is Marts Eggerth, the toast of gay Vienna in other days...
...There's a ghost writer in the play, trying to collect more because...
...Since then, the work of the Yiddish Art Theatre has flourished to huge heights...
...Batista Not to Run, Names Saladrigas Fulgencio Batista, President of Cuba for the past four years and Cuba's "strong man" for many more, will not be a candidate for re-election in 1944...
...Joan Blondell, lush and lovely, acts the part of the strip-tease artist who has gone in for art and written a book...
...Andreyev's "Katherina Ivanovna" and Sti indberg's "The Father...
...and refreshments will be m the Hallowe'en vein...
...who used to be an outstanding stai combination in pre-war Europe, first met on a Paris movie set...
...An unrural pair of sophisti'cates, Wendy Barrie and Regin aid Gardiner, doing the Virginia Reel at the Village Barn...
...Fashions not only vary with man's thinking, but may actually alter his physique...
...The two will mark their seventhV wedding anniversary, i There will be another cause of celebration too, for tonight will mark the 100th presentation of the New Opera's production of Franz Lehar's gay score...
...Somehow the newt leaked out and wt>er they came to the town...
...The Family Carnovsky" Opens 25th Season of Yiddish Art Theatre The twenty-fifth season of the Yiddish Art Theatre was, sans blaring trumpets or fanfare, unfurled Monday evening, October 18, when Maurice Schwartz, celebrated Yiddish actor and director, offered for critical appraisal a new Yiddish play by I. J. Singer, titled "The Family Carnovsky...
...Schwartz and his troupe...
...Millard Mitchell is the press agent that manages and loves her...
...Symphony in G major, No...
...Batista recently sponsored a new Federal constitution to limit the presidency to four consecutive years...
...The Kiepuras...
...Carlos Saladrigas, lawyer, Senator and a former Minister to Great Britain, was Batista's Prime Minister for two years...
...There is a brightness of lively interest and quickened understanding just in trie sight of these vivid reminders of our past...
...Applicants will be notified by mail of two dates aid times available for their auditions, giving each a choice of daytime or evening on the two dates specified...
...During the past summer, Mr...
...first half of its name...
...I spent e profitable and fascinating boar the other day, to give one example, hi The Museum of Costume Art, which opens its doors (free of charge) at 18 East 60th Street...
...Applicants will write the City Center of Music and Drama...
...A systematic procedure for arranging auditions will be followed...
...The Algiers Club's John Pichon welcomes a contingent of soldiers just returned from North Africa...
...More legitimately through the door comes Rex O'Malley, the butterfly style expert for Gypsy (excuse me, Honey) in her turns...
...for most of the evening, her fine figure is properly displayed for audience enjoyment...
...who became mar...
...HEADUNERS MAKE SMART DINERS That walking breath of Spring, Margaret Sullavan, watching the pre-Winter ice skating in Radio City's Promenade from a vantage spot at the Cafe Louis XIV...
...Nor is it only in the main articles of costume (costume and custom, etymologically...
...Although the crowds an* nearby fifth Avenue paae along unconcerned, the Museum reaches out to them, for dressmakers and milliners of today to find many refreshing ideas among the 6,000 items of the collection...
...announces the completion of plans for organizing, along competent artistic lines, a choral ensemble to take part in operatic productions for presentation at the New York City Center...
...the stripper's story is a success...
...Symphony No...
...lassie" held over at music hall Stamped with the seal of enthusiastic acclaim that has distinguished it since its opening, "Lassie Come Home," M.G.M...
...4 in G major, Beethoven...
...Anne Gwynne...
...Saturday, October 30, for the Jan Kiepuras...
...about gathering that hives with Honey Bee...
...4, at 8:45...
...Schwartz and his troupe completed a successful sojourn in Buenos Aires...
...Gallic-Adonis Pierre Aumont, garbed in his Fighting Free French uniform, scans the murals of his native land at the Cafe Krancais with a sad sentimental sigh...
...TRUE TO LIFE" held OVER at paramount "True to Life," the Mary Martin, Dick Powell, Victor Moore, Franchot Tone comedy, stays a third week at the N. Y. Paramount...
...Not only has the war cloned the great European centers, and driven to us many of the leaders in all fields: but available here, beyond the knowledge of moat of us hi this hurrying city, are the resources for study, for comparison with and building upon the peat...
...Amsterdam, Brussels—and prior to the Hitler scourge—in Vienna and Berlin...
...Symphony No...
...group of exceptionally fine calibre...
...13, Haydn...
...The garters I saw...
...The two slipped away to Katowice where, they thought, they would be alone...
...for knee-breeches, would hardly fit around a man's ankle of today...
...Thursday evening, Nov...
...Saturday evening, Nov...
...7, at 8:45 (Broadcast over CBS...
...Guided by the gracious Irene Lewisohn, who since Neighborhood Playhouse days has been an unobtrusive force for beauty in our community...
...but his dreamv 'brown eyes have squinted uneasily, spuming coffers of gold and "silsed to spend an obscure but active life with his troupe...
...In fact, it is said that the party decorations choral ensemble for new york city center The City Center of Music and Drama...
...Of course, the fact that it is also Hallowe'en, a typically American "feest," won't do the celebration any harm either...
...The Family Carnovsky" will be the 130th play, launched by Mr...
...133 West 55th Street...
...Autumn Revue," gala extravaganza produced by Russell Markert, with settings by Nat Karson, also continues on the great stage...
...The Yiddish Art Theatre, today, is known and admired the world over: time and again, the troupe has crossed the Atlantic to exhibit its repertoire in London, Paris...
...and I. J. Singer...
...the busk (that curved piece of wood tucked in center, front, to help stiffen the dress) carved with a hearttoken, for a gentleman to send to his lady-love...
...He was nominated by the Batista administration and can count on the support of Batista's powerful Democratic Party...
...The elaborate stockings...
...6, at 8:45...
...The Communist Party is solidly behind Batista in this election, while all parties have declared their t support for the United States' war effort...
...Returning the favor, Gene gives Jimmy a special private preparation of Irish Stew, Italian-styled...
...Taking a bow will be Felix Breatano...
...At Cerutti's, Sam ("Include me out") Goldwyn refuses to utter a word lest he be accused of spouting one of hi...
...Auditions will be held singly, by appointment...
...In this respect, Cuba's new constitution follows the Mexican practice of barring the direct reelection of presidents after one year...
...Josenh Buloff and Joseph Schildkraut, have departed to garner more worldly renown and gain...
...The chorus being a basic part of any musical organization of this character, the City Center of Music and Drama hopes to form and maintain a chora...
...She could have used a play-doctor for this one...
...Staged by George S. Kaufman, Pretented by Michael Todd...
...Several, however, like Paul Muni, Stella Adler...
...Conductor: Bruno Walter...
...Symphonic Poe, "Blanik," Smetana...
...Schwartz's performances have attracted an extensive patronage that includes countless non-Yiddish playgoers...
...are the same word) that folk ways and fashion ways are made clear...
...The work of the Yiddish Art Theatre is likewise known throughout the principal cities of North and South America...
...Observance of this procedure will prevent the long, indefinite waiting that usually attends group auditions...
...Phyllis Povah contributes as Pansy, Honey's irresponsible mother...
...The course of a stripper's true love runs less smooth than Honey's skin...
...the hats of colors, sites, shapes, that show their seasons...
...The guests, besides personal friends of the Kiepuras...
...At the Plymouth Theatre...
...A melodrama of the Old Weflt, "Frontier Badmen" concerns the fight of the Texas cattlemen against swindlers and also includes in the cast Leo Carrillo and Andy Devine...
...In the fall of that year...
...Gogol, Gorki, and Feuchtwanger —not to ignore the Jewish folklore classics of Peretz Hershbein, Sholem Aleichem, Sholem Asch...
...Jan Kiepura is the Polish tenor, recently of operatic boards and concert halls...
...Over a sizzling hot bowl of borsht, in the historic Cafe Royale on Second Avenue, he revealed his designs to form a permanent acting company which would at least make a creative attempt to produce better Yiddish plays...
...of Katowice, will be members of the cast, stagehands, doormen and usher...
...The rowdy life is replaced by prepared, more or less mechanical, gags...
...Haydn...
...Conductor: Bruno Walter.—Symphony in G. major, No...
...Quartet, "From My Life," Smetana-Szell...
...Bronx and Westchester Theatres, is accompanied by 'Frontier Badmen...
...Jan and his bride-tabe were met by a crowd of 7JJC who turned the little wedding into a gala celebration...
...theatres "Holy Matrimony," current at the RKO Manhattan...
...Piano Concerto No...
Vol. 26 • October 1943 • No. 44
