The Theatre Guild's New Hit - "The Innocent Voyage"
The Theatre Guild's New Hit - "The Innocent Voyage" this Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY THE INNOCENT VOYAGE." By Paul Otborn from, the novel by Richard Hughe*. Presented by The Theatre...
...Of the six Americans, Thelma Altman, mezzo'soprano...
...It is not many years ago that stiff-shirted men groaned before and snored during the opera, whither they had been dragged by their wives, as a sacrifice to the social deities.NOW, in auuiuon to the ajejk there is often a shew evsajC men can enjoy...
...Sunday, Dec...
...Piano Concerto No...
...Christina Carroll, soprano, comes from opera at San Francisco...
...but Herbert Berg ho f is miscast...
...In addition, Comedian Jackie Miles plays ' a return engagement...
...Program commemorating tne 25th anniversary of the restoration of the Republic of Poland...
...2 in F minor, Chopin...
...5 in D. Alexandre Tansman (1st time in New York...
...Since that time, however, what 0 Henry called the Four Million have come into their own and it...
...Friday, Dec...
...soprano...
...For the MSfejC directors, such as Lothar KaSL stein and Herbert Graf, ssasZt their work in terms ef K theatre...
...But if someone remarks "11...
...The voyage is innocent of value if not of blood Outside of the work of the two oldest girls, Lois Wheeler as the half-bred Margaret, and Abbey Bonime, who carries creditably through the task of the Thorton girl that kills the sailor—the children substitute noise and running about for acting...
...Beyond the city, its influence (by radio, and both as a diffusion center and a'goal) has spread throughout the lead, and today, as Governor Dewey says, "it has become the leading opera organization as well as the refuge and almost sole trustee of opera in the world...
...Which, in the present instance...
...Enid Szantho, contralto, arid the Westminster Choir...
...In addition to this Pleiade of new talent, it is interesting to note that "Falstaff" will be presented in English, a new translation having been prepared by Sir Thomas Beecham, who will conduct, with Lawrence Tibbett in the title role, Bruno Walter will conduct Jan Peerce in a revival of "Ballo in Maschera...
...Soloist, Artur Rubinstein, pianist...
...Donald Dame, tenor, is from Titusville, Pa...
...In the present version, the role is played by Vivienne Segal, now m her third successive Rodgers and Hart musical (the other two were "I Married an Angel" and "Pal Joey"), who is featured and sings many of the musical's new numbers...
...Presented by The Theatre Guild...
...Richard Rogers and "A Connecticut Yankee Richard Rodgers, composer of "Oklahoma" and for twenty-five years the musical half of the distinguished Rodgers and Hart team of musical comedy fame, became independent producer with his presentation of "A Connecticut Yankee...
...Program commemorating tne 25th anniversary of the restoration of the Republic of Poland...
...conducted by the composer...
...and while he rolls towards them and towards a knife lying on the deck, we watch a sudden panic seise one of the girls until she plunges the knife again and again into the body of the helpless captain...
...For her act, nf course, the pirate and the kindhearted mate will hang...
...soprano...
...John Cherry, J ere McMafton, Katherine Anderson, Robert Warren Bernauer, Stuart Casey and Mimi Berry...
...On stage, the Music Hall is presenting "Aees High," footlight extravaganza produced by Leon Leonidoff with settings by Albert Johnson Philharmonic • Syrnhphony Society Artar BoshJaslri...
...On the same program, the "stars in person show" headliners include Hit Parade's Bea Wain, and Raymond Scott's Orchestra and his Secret Seven...
...As a place for the inner select to be seen, it opened its door on October 22, 1883...
...v "WO TIME FOR LOVE" OPENS AT PARAMOUNT "No i Time for Love," co-starring (Jaudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray, is the new film attraction at the Paramount this week...
...THE DIAMOND MET When one mentions the Metropolitan, according to their natures persons' minds run to or museum art...
...Coming to the local RKO houses after fourteen weeks on Broadway, *This Is the Army" contains the entire show of the stage version with excerpts from Irving Berlini World War I hit, "Yip, Yip, Yjiphank," and includes such Hollywood stars as Joan Leslie, George Murphy, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale and George Tobias in the large cast...
...Conductor, Artar Rodzinski...
...Three Jewish Poems, Ernest Bloch (conducted by Leonard Bernstein...
...Featured in support of the stars lave Paul McGrath, Ilka Chase...
...Friday, Dec...
...It well deserves this, not only because of the ever increasing hold the opera has taken upon the people (especially with the new, lower prices), but also for the opportunities it is extending to American talent The new season (which opens Nov...
...Other principals importantly involved are Julie Warren, Robert Chisholm, Vera-Ellen, Chester Stratton...
...Eight other revivals are scheduled, among which we especially welcome "Tares of Hoffman" and "Polices and Melisande...
...Martial Singher and Frederich Lechner, baritones, are from abroad...
...Back in 1927, this same combination of Fields, Rodgers and Hart wrote another version of "A Connecticut Yankee" which was produced by Lyle D. Andrews and Lew Fields and which ran for a year at the Vanderbilt Theatre...
...5. at 3 p. m. (Broadcast over CBS...
...Three Jewish Poems, Ernest Bloch (conducted by Leonard Bernstein...
...9, at 8:45 p. m...
...5 in D. Alexandre Tansman (1st time in New York...
...and the author's directing is as confused and pointless as his adaptation...
...Soloist, Artur Rubinstein, pianist...
...WHAT A WOMAN AT THE MUSIC HALL "What a Woman," Columbia Pictures' new comedy romance, starring Rosalind Russell and Brian Aherne and introducing a new leading man, Willard Parker, is now on the screen of Radio City Music Hall...
...Enid Szantho, contralto, arid the Westminster Choir...
...conducted by the composer...
...Voyage" finds rx^ safe harbor on Broadyay...
...Thursday, Dec...
...It is also interesting to note that the role of Queen Morgan La Fay, then played by Nana Bryant, required no singing and was a comparatively minor part...
...Conductor, Artar Rodzinski...
...Symphonic Concertante for Piano and Orchestra, Szymanowskj (1st time by the Society...
...in every aspect of its being the Metropolitan has become a haven for the music-loving citizens of New York...
...June Havoc and Richard Haydni Woody Herman j and his orchestra will remain* as the headline irj person attraction for a fourth week, as will Marion Hutton...
...At the Belaseo Theatre...
...10, at 2:30 p. m. Conductor, Artur Rodzinski...
...Co-featured with Miss Segal is Dick Foran, making his Broadway stage debut, following a career of 11 years in motion pictures during which he has made 116 films...
...An all new show is being presented with others in person including Red and.Curley and Jan Murray...
...Symphonic Poem, "Step," Noskowski (1st time by the Society...
...2 in F minor, Chopin...
...In tha sense that everything which is enacted by living persons in a theatre ia a play, "The Innocent Voyage" makes the gradela the sense that a novel and a drama should have one central conflict, | presented and resolved within the work, Paul Osborn has not found any such unified opposition to;put upon the stage...
...Symphony No...
...ITie playwright has tried to tie things .'together with a prologue after the event jn which the lawyer prepares to question the children, and an epilogue after the those involved in them come alive...
...and Erich Leinsdorf will come from conducting the Cleve- . land Orchestra to repeat his work with "Parsifal" during Holy Week, which will culminate a season of twenty weeks—four more than usual—for 1943-44 at the Metropolitan...
...Piano Concerto No...
...studied at the Eastman School in Rochester...
...22 with "Boris GodunofT") brings eight new singers, six of them American trained...
...Symphonic Concertante for Piano and Orchestra, Szymanowskj (1st time by the Society...
...By another stretch of plausibility, the Swedish captain, bound, is left - alone with the, two oldest girls...
...Sunday, Dec...
...Resurrection" Symphony No...
...The kids fall in love with the pirate life, the pirate captain, and his soft-hearted mate.' They are havings a gay time...
...Influenced by trends sit manifest in the Broadway nX...
...THEATRES Now at the RKO Manhattan Bronx and Westchester Theatres can be seen the first neighborhood showings of -"This Is the Army," Technicolor screen version of the great,Jrving Berlin stage success with its all-soldier cast and with all production profits going to the Army Emergency Relief...
...5. at 3 p. m. (Broadcast over CBS...
...9, at 8:45 p. m...
...Musical Director Concerts •# Corsegie Hall Saturday...
...With this responsibility and this widened public, the "diamond horseshoe" Metropolitan celebrates its Diamond Jubilee...
...MICKEY ROONEY AND JUDY GARLAND Ml "GIRL CRAZY AT CAPITOL THEATRE The famous Broadway musical show "Girl Crasy" that skyrocketed Ginger Rogers, Ethel Merman and George Gershwin to fame, is now MGM's brand new motion picture musical-comedy which the Capitol Theatre is currently presenting...
...The great popular appeal of the Met has been legally acknowledged, in the.passage this year of the bill exenfpting its property from taxation, as with every other educational institution and home of civie culture...
...4. at 8:45 p. m...
...Resurrection" Symphony No...
...Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland have the leading roles, with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra playing all of the revived Gershwin songs...
...The crowding of children on our stages makes the demand for good actors exceed the supply: Oscar Hotnolka does his best with the part ef the pirate sentimental in spite of himself...
...Among those featured in the Herman orchestra are The Woodchoppers, Frances Wayne, Chubby Jackson and Cliff Leeman...
...One other aspect of the opera calls for comment...
...sel...
...Al Dexter, who composed and recorded "Pistol Packin' Mama," and his Troopers are a special attraction...
...als of light opera flTnuliiuhf which the Met...
...George Szell will conduct the Wagner Ring cycle, with a new reading promised...
...2 in C minor, Mahler (Soloists: Astrid Varnay...
...Among the conductors, Kurt Adler is an addition...
...is not often...
...The change from leisurely novel to compressed play makes short shift of plausibility...
...they lend themselves to the capture of another Vessel, Swedish this time...
...Cesare Sodero will conduct mainly Italian works...
...John Baker, baritone of Passsic, won the Metropolitan Auditions of the Air...
...Thursday, Dec...
...Christine Johnson, contralto, another Auditions of the Air winner, was born in ol'Ken tuck', and Patrice Munsell, 18 year old coloratura soprano, is another Auditions of the Air winner, from Spokane, Wash...
...The acting side of her part has also been considerably enlarged...
...The result is a chronicle of events on a voyage, interesting only as racy, when the black flag had become1 a tattered, dirty gray, a Dutch pirate captain with a West Indian crew Stops an English ves...
...2 in C minor, Mahler (Soloists: Astrid Varnay...
...This hysterical murder, which might start a genuine conflict— in the novel, the girl deliberately sends the men to death for her act...
...Part of the cargo put on the pirate ship is a family of five youngsters...
...Symphonic Poem, "Step," Noskowski (1st time by the Society...
...Among other things, this earlier production served to launch 'its leading man, one William Gaxton, into theatrical prominence...
...And at its best—-which is ( S years means at the Metfussjfii —it has come into its M M M place, with a power ami a h S all the people have learnecMafH and to enjo "THIS IS THE ARMY" AT R.K.O...
...fusion of all the theatrical ami...
...Musical Director Concerts •# Corsegie Hall Saturday...
...in the play, her fear blends in a not fully understanding acquiescence as the pirates gallantly take the blame—this murder comes close to the end of the play...
...Philharmonic • Syrnhphony Society Artar BoshJaslri...
...With a revised book written by Herbert Fields, and many new songs composed by Rodgers and the late Lorenz Hart, this new musical adaptation of the famous Mark Twain novel' continues at' the Martin Beck Theatre...
...There was a time when the Metropolitan Opera House, with its famed Diamond Horseshoe of glamorous boxes, betokened the sparkle of New York's Four Hundred, the flutter and thrill of the social elite...
...But the anticipation builds to no tension, for there is no continuing hold on our minds or our feelings...
...Symphony No...
...In the ragtail end-days of pisailing scenes, in which the children are questioned...
...meet you at the Met," your thoughts turn at once to the landmark on Broadway at Fortieth Street Which is well Met indeed...
...4. at 8:45 p. m...
...10, at 2:30 p. m. Conductor, Artur Rodzinski...
...knows as "flejb.' raaus", "The Merry WkkmajA these directors make ths e2| business more livelv and S S E For opera is at its best netaeZr illustrated music, but a ass...
Vol. 26 • December 1943 • No. 49
