Carmen Jones: Billy Rose Plays Santa Claus to Broadway
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
"Carmen Jones": Billy Rose Plays Santa Claus to Broadway This Week on the Stage by JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY [Mr. Shipley talk, .bout the new stars over W'EVD at 11M every opening-...
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...THE WORLD IS PULL Or GIRLS...
...Then Carmen rages: / throw myself about, I dislocate a hip, I wear my girdle out— To entertain a drip...
...MUSIC HALL P\LM HOLDS "What a Woman," Columbia Pictures new comedy romance, starring Rosalind Russell and Brian A heme sad Introducing a new leading man, Willard Parker, stays on the screen of Radio City , Music Hall for a second week...
...Her appearance here in "A Connecticut Yankee" wUi he her third successive engagement in a Rodgers and Hart musical...
...And when the ragamuffin street boys march in, mimicking the guard, with their song "Lift fern up and put 'em down"—"'enj" being the feet—the sautatnee tightens with the surety of a rich treat laid before them...
...Brownsville Lobar To Coaimemorofe Shls/aeeff iirfftcfay The annual, and now traditional, observance of the birthday of the beloved former Socialist and labor leader, Abraham I. Shiplacoff, will take place on Sunday evening, December 19...
...and Broadway, ssd The Now si eel Theatre, Broad and Market Sis., Newark, N. J. , At RKO THEATfii This week the sew anew at the RKO Atbee and the RKO Manhattan...
...This week I am on the job again for the New Leader, I even got a couple of subscribers at the hospital...
...Billy Pastor|s Cafe,where/Carmen lures Joe to follow her to Chicago, is an eetie how of purples—and Ss the erowd dances, to Eugene Loring's deft choreography and the slap-happy drumming of Cosy Cole, lights play the spangled purple into pinks and reds and sinister stabs of black...
...Tickets are free and are obtainable from Meyer Rubinson...
...old style guitar), Luis Milan (15**);' Prelude—Fugue—Bourree (originally composed for Lute, J. g. Bach...
...Nobody ess put over our songs like Vivienne...
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...Tyler and Montgomery quicken their smaller parts—but it becomes invidious to make selections among players admirably attuned, and quickened into a rhythmic unity of color, dance, and song...
...Music by Georges Bizet...
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...It will be held at the Premier Palace, 505 Sutter Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Arrangements of the "Shiplacoff Day Celebration" are being made by a large committee of labor and Socialist leaders, under the chairmanship of Councilman Louis P. Goldberg...
...227 East 92nd St., Brooklyn, N. Y. in the Pacific moves on Tarawa...
...Presented and staged by Jed Harris...
...The selections listed for Sunday's recital include in part: Two Etudes, F. Sor (1778-1839...
...Fov thht adaptation of Bizet's "Carmen" to negro life and an all-negro cast is an event of major importance in this year's theatre...
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...All this color sad rousing stir carries along the diabolically clever lines and lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II...
...featuring the Andrews Sisters, Patric Knowles and Grace McDonald With Charles Butter serai sad Billy Gilbert "The Iron Major" is the dramatic story of Frank Cavanaugh, World War I hero, Fordham's famous football coach...
...Here's another hit that's bit Broadway, j Smack on the bull's eye—aad we all see stars...
...Carmen Jones" shows us once more that Billy Rose rose to his opportunity...
...he goes AWOL to Chicago In her trail...
...Carmen works in a parachute factory (it [was a cigarette plant before the war...
...Staging,'lighting, color-schemes by Hasnard Short...
...The new stage presentation stars Frank Pay and the premiere ballerina, Irina Baronova...
...Her Joe is a guard there...
...She dances alluringly before him ;but Joe has just one hour's leave...
...She Was east in such movie operettas aa "Music in the Air," "The Cat and the Fiddle" and "Song of the West...
...Shipley talk, .bout the new stars over W'EVD at 11M every opening- night.] CARMEN-CARMINE— RES-HOT JONES "CARMEN] JONES...
...HAPPY LAND OH IOXT SCREEN-NEW STAGE SHOW ".Happy Land," new 20th Century-Fox film version of MacKin-lay Ranter's best seller, is the screen attraction at the Roxy Theatre this week...
...Outside the factory is' the gaiety of yellow dresses and uniforms, with just splotches of red...
...And as she dies, the back curtain turns into a transparency, behind which Husky Miller in the prise ring knocks out his man...
...Bronx sad Westchester Theatres, stars Pat O'Brien as the late Frank Cavanaugh in "The Iron Major" with Ruth Warrick and Robert Ryan, accompanied by Universal's new first-run comedy, "Always a Bridesmaid...
...Carmen Jones": Billy Rose Plays Santa Claus to Broadway This Week on the Stage by JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY [Mr...
...Fantasia (dedicated to Anaren Segovia), J. Turina...
...Second, it fights for our workers, and social democracy, and President Roosevelt's New Deal...
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...Presented by Billy Roue at the Broadway Theatre...
...A soft of mutual admiration society has come into being between these three...
...Enclosed find check covering ten yearly subscriptions^ |20 with more coming...
...That's the end of us;, Go and catch your bus...
...The three are Ethel Barrymore, Richard Rodg-ers and Lorenz Hart...
...First, The New Leader is a working man's paper...
...Here the Spanish dance is a high-spot of burlesque that again tumbles the audience into that twist of admiration and amusement rarely won, but alone worth the seeking, in stage comedy...
...After having scored in "Three Musketeers," Miss Segal went to Hollywood to make motion pie...
...They are preparing a program which will include concert artists and one speaker, who was a close coworker of the deceased...
...When Carmen makes her first date with Joe, she warns him: "You'd better be right in there pitchin' for I'm net the kind of mare that stands without hitchinV At the Cafe she invites him: "Wouldn't you just like to come and raise some pandemonium...
...while, at 5 a. m. '^hese^po^^ Park Ave...
...And the big boy for whom Carmen deserts Mas is net a toreador, but a prizefighter, heavyweight Husky Miller, .kin got the ring...
...By Oscar Hammerttein II...
...Luther Saxon as Joe, Carlotta Tranzell as Cindy Lou, have the two moat touching parts, and sing and play them soundly...
...For the final scene, when Carmen goes to her defiant death, "bring her life" as long as it lasts, whites and reds and black are intermingled: the colors of life—her red hot life— and of Ha bitter ending...
...Costumes by Raoul Pepe Du Bois...
...What took the audience more than any other lyric, however, is the way Bizet's Toreador music music lent itself to the prizefight: "Go in and fight until you hear the beU, Stand toe to toe...
...It brightens a dull and artificial season like a 20-carat diamond in a window of paste...
...VIVIENNE SEGAL AND RODGERS AND HART TUNES Three people are responsible for .the emergence of Vivienne Segal as a full-fledged singing comedienne, a style in which she remains as popular as she was in the days when she was the romantic heroine aad prima donna of such operettas as "The Desert Song," "The Yankee Princess," "Three Musketeers," and "The Chocolate Soldier," to mention but a few...
...With delightful . capture of the negro spirit—and every now and again a dash of caricature—the evening rolls aloiig.: The coiorpscheme is so richly designed thst it becomes an integral part of the play...
...Because the first two concerts demonstrated the public's demand to hear him, a fourth concert has bees scheduled for December 30 it Town Hall at which time another and new program will be presented...
...Sonatina (dedicated to Andres Segovia), a) Allegretto, b) Andante, e) Allegro M. Torroba...
...Two Pa-" tanas (written for Vihuela...
...Has sard Short has achieved one of his greatest triumphs...
...The cool ass a ranee off the Chicago country club, where swank swaggers arid Joe is thrust aside, comes through in pale gray-blues...
...A'Report from a Booster From Harry ROSENBAUM To tie Editor: Last week I came from the hospital...
...say Rodgers and Hart in unison...
...he has brought another triumph to Broadway...
...Muriel Smith, as Carmen, brings both a rich voice and a witching way to her part...
...Based on Meil-kme and Halwy's adaptation of ProspafMerimie's" Carmen...
...Choreography Si Eugene Loring...
...It is as a singing comedienne- that Miss Segal is seen in the new musical adaptation of Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee" which Rich ard Rodgers is presenting at the Martin Beck Theatre...
...By Nttnnally Johnson...
...trade blow for blow—" The whole gay showing is capped with a company that— picked from all around the U. S. and with novices even in the leading roles — performs as only rhythm-born Negroes can...
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...At the Rouale Theatre...
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Vol. 26 • December 1943 • No. 50
