The "Met" Opens!--"The Connecticut Yankee" Reviewed
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
The "Met" Opens!--"The Connecticut Yankee" Reviewed This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY [Mr. Shipley talks about the new plays over WEVD at 11:50 every opening nightj 1.400 YEARS...
...still, a good many will" probably walk across 8th Avenue to hear Vivienne Segal and the rest in those Richard Rodgers tunes with the deft lyrics of Lorenz Hart...
...But a blow on the head wafts him across the ages...
...16, as the highlight of the theatre's big Christmas program which will include the presentation of the Music Hall's celebrated holiday stage show...
...The Yankee kid that Mark Twain perpetrated upon the solemn knights of old King Arthur would not recognize his maneuvers, in the song-and-dance version ^revised for the Martin Beck...
...27 in New York City, on the occasion of trie annual congress of the Italoi-American anti-Fascist organization...
...JAMIE" GIVES EXTRA MATINEES On account of the school holidays this week-end, "Janie...
...Governor Dewey, Vice-President Wallace and Wendell L. Willkie discuss the postwar world...
...Rapee was the world's first theatre conductor to be heard on the radio when he made his first broadcast from the stage of the Capitol Theatre in 1921 and has been on the air almost continuously ever since...
...News Forum's newest release presents "The Burma Campaign" by Henry J. Taylor...
...As the extry attraction the stage show features The Berry Bros., international Sepian dance sensation...
...Vivienne Segal captures the house with her singing of this song...
...Book by Herbert Fields...
...Directed b yJohn C. Wilson...
...But the songs atone...
...Based on Richard Tregaskis' best seller of the same name, "Guadalcanal Diary" was filmed with the cooperation of the United States Marines, and depicts our first major victory in the Pacific area...
...This will make a total of ten peformances for the week...
...And the tricky rhymes bubble riotously as the lusty Queen tells how she killed a dozen husbands "To Keep My Love Alive...
...Julie Warres, who—like the chorus, in several of its inept costumes— seems thrust forward in twin obtrusions upon the eyes, is a disappointment...
...Despite the songs, it's a rather shoddy capture of our civilization, and rather dubious entertainment, reawakened with the Connecticut Yankee at Camelot, in old King Arthur's Court...
...Pictures from the biasing Russian front show the recapture of Karkov from the Nazis, who leave the city a fiery ruin...
...PILLAR TO POST" OPENS DECEMBER 3rd Brock Pemberton's first production of the current season, "Pillar to Post," will have its premiere at The Playhouse on December 3rd...
...but there is light and lively work from Vera Ellen, who should prove a romping hoyden in some better shows...
...Erno Rapee, one of radio's pioneer maestros, will inaugurate a new series of broadcasts when "Radio City Music Hall on the Air" begins a half-hour weekly variety concert, featuring the Music Hall Symphony Orchestra and guest artists, at 11:30 p. m. (EWT), Friday, December 3rd, over WEAF.and the* NBC network...
...Ossy Ren-ardy, violinist, now Pvt...
...his bride, of course, joins the Waves...
...Bofflsfoai Asks Democratic Policy for Italy Terming the record of Allied diplomacy in Italy "unclear" in its democratic accomplishments, James Battistoni, national president of the Mazzini Society, called upon labor and liberal groups to renew their battle to democratically reconstruct post-war Europe...
...On the stage, the Strand presents Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra' featuring Eugenie Baird and Tommy Morgan, vocalists...
...The concerns of King Arthur, the mage Merlin, the lusty queen Morgan La Fay, are little different from those of other royal eras...
...In addition, on stage are Paul Remos and His Toy Boys...
...NEW SHOWS AT RKO THEATRES For the new Thanksgiving shows, the RKO Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester Theatres are now offering Sonja Henie's latest musical comedy, "Wintertime," featuring Cesar Romero, Jack Oakie, Carole Land is and Woody Herman and his orchestra, and the melodrama "Paris After Dark," starring George Sanders, Brenda Marshall and .Philip Dorn...
...As when Du Barry was a lady, men are the women's interest, and vice versa...
...Indeed, her performance is light throughout...
...Presented by John C. Wilson...
...He conducted the last "Radio City Music Hall on the Air" series from 1932-42 in more than 500 continuous broadcasts...
...HOLD OVER AT ROXY THEATRE "Guadalcanal Diary," the new 20th Century-Fox film, and the stage show, headed by the Ritz Brothers, remain for a second week at the Roxy Theatre...
...I'd not walk a mile for that, Camelot...
...GUADACANAL DIARY AMD RIT2 BROS...
...Returning to -the screen with original and new ice-skating routines, Sonja Heme also adds dancing to her achievements when she dances, with Cesar Romero in "Wintertime...
...Brock Pemberton's comedy at the Playhouse, will give matinee performances on Friday and Saturday...
...Lyrics by Lorenz Hart...
...Shipley talks about the new plays over WEVD at 11:50 every opening nightj 1.400 YEARS A<kO "THE CONNECTICUT YANKEE...
...Long May They Wave" when the bridesmaids join the navy shows the sparkle nnd freshness the humor fails to attain...
...NORTHERN PURSUIT" ON STRAND SCREEN-WILLIE HOWARD ON STAGE "Northern Pursuit," a dramatic wartime adventure of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, starring Errol Flynn, is the new film attraction presented at the Strand Theatre starting today...
...Battistoni warned that certain Allied elements have "sheltered, bolstered and almost vindicated" the formerly Fascist King and Marshal, who were prominent during Fascism's rise and disastrous Axis alliance, but who now see fit to collaborate with the Allies...
...expertly at ease, melodious...
...Antoinette Perry has directed the play, John Root has designed the settings...
...Home Front New*.—Washington, D. C.: In unprecedented appearance before both legislative bodies, Secretary of State Hull presents highlights of the Moscow Conference...
...The Mazzini Society head addressed his remarks to labor and liberal organizations in inviting them to : attend the convention dinner of the society on Nov...
...Immediately following the current engagement of "Claudia" the Music Hall will present Columbia Picture's new comedy romance, "What a Woman," starring Rosalind Russell and Brian Aherne...
...LATEST FILMS FROM ALL WAR PROMTS—ALSO HOME FRONT NEWS AT EMBASSY First pictures of the Tasks landing on Bougainville headline the new program this week at all Embassy Newsred Theatres...
...The eagerly-awaited film will have its world premiere at the Music HaH on Thursday, Dec...
...Selma Kaye, soprano, and the Music Hall Glee Club will appear on the first broadcast...
...The Warner Bros, picture was directed by Raoul Walsh, with Julie Bishop as the leading lady...
...Music by Richard Rodger...
...For the music and lyric...
...The film's supporting cast includes Helmut Dantine, John Ridgely and Gene Lockhart...
...Rose Simo nKohn is the author and it is described as "a romantic comedy laid against the background of army life in a small town near a large army camp...
...Perry Wilson, Carl Gose, Frank-lyn Fox, Frances Woodbury, Hamtree Harrington and Suzanne Jackson head the cast of twenty-five...
...The Connecticut Yankee has become a naval lieutenant...
...A mighty U. S. Navy task force, commanded by Admiral Haisey, moves against the last major base in the %lsraonj...
...Marines go aver the side to assault the island, protected by a terrific barrage from Navy guns and a devastating vain of bombs laid on jap positions by our airmen...
...My Heart Stood Still" and "Thou Swell" repeat the rouse of their first bearing...
...It is the campaign against the Japanese stronghold at Guadalcanal and Tulagi...
...Here the accent is on the versa...
...Dick Foran, the red-headed Yankee, has a breezy way and an engaging voice...
...Renardy of the U. S. Army and appearing through the courtesy of Camp Shanks, N. Y...
...As the special "In Person" attraction the theatre presents Willie Howard, comedian of stage, screen and radio, assisted by Al Kelly...
...Presented Martin Beck Theatre...
...Featured in the cast of "Guadalcanal Diary" are William Bendix, Preston Foster, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn, Richard Jaeckel and Lional Stander "MADAME CURIE" IS BOOKED BY MUSIC HALL AS CHRISTMAS ATTRACTION Booking of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Madajne Curie," starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon, as the Radio City Music Hall's Christmas screen attraction was announced this week by G. S. Eyssell, managing director of the big playhouse...
...Janie," which is popular with the younger set, has played more extra performances than any other play in recent months...
...stand out against a book that is commonplace when it is not vulgar or simply dull...
Vol. 26 • November 1943 • No. 48
