The Voice of the Turtle Rings Clear on Broadway
"The Voice of the Turtle" Rings Clear on Broadway This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY [Mr. Shipley talks about the new plays over WEVD at 11:45 • every *»—tag Bight] GERTRUDE...
...The peoples of Negro Africa, having formed an Academy of Arts and Research, presented their hopes for a cultural fellowship in a dance festival, arranged by Asadata Dafora, at Carnegie Hall last Monday...
...20th Cetury-Fox film adaptation of MacKinlay Ranter's best-seller, remains for a .second week at the Roxy Theatre...
...Madame Curie" on Screen With World-famous Holiday Stage Show at Music Hall Gay and sparkling as the season t represents will be Radio City Music Hall's celebrated Christmas stage show, which this year will ye presented on the same spectac-ilar scale and in the ereat tradition of its far-famed holiday shows...
...The debate, part of a three-day conference on the question, "Will There Be A Democratic Europe...
...UKES CHAM8ERL1N ARTICLE From MARY ALLEN GRANT To the Editor: , I am very grateful to William Henry Chamberlin for his excellent article, "It's not Yet One World, Mr...
...On . Wednesday, December 29, comes the CIO revue, "Marching With Johnny," for an eight-weeks run...
...Staged by Robert Burton...
...John Van Druten ha* written them a play simple but intelligent, clever in structure and dialogue but human: wrapped in the nostalgic, twilight beauty of the spring.—Beyond which season it will still be m rrily playing...
...You'll send your friends for Christmas...
...All students are invited to attend the conference and may register by writing to USSA at 8 West 40th St., New York City...
...In four elaborate and vividly colorful scenes), with the entire Music Hall company assisted by a group of outstanding guest performers headed by Adriana and Charly, the lavish stage production will glisten with the Yuletide spirit from the time the great golden contour curtain rises on the beloved scene of "The Nativity" until it descends on the glittering finale...
...Margaret Sullavan, always rewarding, is gracious and eye-filling here, especially in that Sunday morning costurne...
...Tickets are free and are obtainable from Meyer Rubinson, 227 Bast Mad St., Brooklyn...
...Admission to the debate on Saturday will be 25c per person...
...Next week, beginning December 20, brings Walter Hampden aa Jefferson in Sidney Kingsley's rousing play "The Patriots," with a cast that includes Julie Haydon...
...Friday, December 31, until the dawn of New Year's morning...
...Ann Arbor...
...We are not fighting now just to see our sons and daughters fight another war in 1970...
...It will be held at the Premier Palace, 505 Sutter Ave., Brooklyn...
...With such a combination, on a stage that cleverly shows the apartment's three rooms at once, the author has displayed an equally light and discriminant hand in the directing...
...But if you want to see how deft talk, springing from persons richly realized in the writing and the actings can mellow an evening with delight, drop in at the Morocco, to "The Voice of the Turtle...
...Three folks and a hit...
...Special preparations for the party include entertainment with guest stars from Broadway, radio and screen augmenting the Village Barn's own revufc, "Hi-De-Hoe-Dowa* Hy...
...Brownsville Labor To Commenmorate Sftlp/acoff Birthday The annual and now traditional observance of the birthday of the beloved former Socialist and labor leader, Abraham I. Shiplacoff, will take place this Sunday evenin...
...At the Morosco Theatre...
...I think there could be a 'danger that imperialism would continue, but we can regulate that aspect too...
...International cooperation is our only answer to the right kind of peace...
...The City Center affords the opportunity...
...I'm young, hopeful, and optimist and I think the Students at N. Y. City College are "off the beam...
...and anotier counterpoint is neatly added by the crisp matter-of-factness of Elliott Nugent...
...Susan's husband is played by Conrad Nagel . . . Saturday (the 19th) is its last day at the City Center...
...In fact, the evening almost makes the critic adopt the voice of the turtle and coo...
...Conditions that on other grounds we regret have brought to New York a concentration of the greatest artistic talent in the world...
...The peace is going to be won or the war will have been fought in vain...
...I'm sure there must be even more to fightinjr this war than defeating totalitarianism...
...13, at Carnegie Hall...
...Arrangements of the "Shiplacoff Day Celebration" are being made by a large committee of • labor and Socialist leaders under the chairmanship of former Councilman Louis P. Goldberg...
...Titled "Good Cheer" and produced by Leon Leonidoff with brilliant settings by Bruno Maine, it opened on Thursday, Dec...
...The Mayor fought for, and maintained, a city radio station...
...December 19...
...Ashman's orchestra will mi f* musical attraction...
...For here is one of Mayor LaGuardia's dreams come true, and a civic home created, for bringing to the people—at prices the people can reach, the current plays being at a $1.65 top—the best in the public arts...
...except that both Bill and Sally have had one, shall I say slip...
...and work warily on their way to the next love...
...between Rein-hold Niebuhr and Harold Rugg, at the New School for Social Research, 66 West 12th Street, New York City...
...During the past 10 years the theatre's Christmas program has attracted an aggregate holiday audience of more than three million persons...
...Higher and Higher" on New Year's Eve...
...The City Center is a spot to put on your regular visiting list...
...The 50 RKO Theatre premiere of the Sinatra Show is ahead of its regular Broadway showing and is for New Year's Eve only...
...That's all...
...is being sponsored by the United States Student Assembly, U. S, affiliate -of the International Student Assembly...
...That self-propelling magnet, Gertrude Lawrence, has been spending the week with God and 3.H&0 persons nightly at the City Center...
...That one talent is richly possessed by John Van Druten...
...For Margaret Sullavan, Elliott Nugent, and Audrey Christie fill as charming and satisfactory an eve- ' ning as the current theatre affords...
...They are preparing a program which will include concert artiste and asm ajgjiiir who was a close coworker of the deceased...
...We have the power to put the right kind of Americans *on that Commission...
...By supporting the Center, they reward themselves...
...Douglas Gil more and Eleanor Audley come with Gertrude Lawrence from the orig«-inal 1937 cast...
...ROXT HOLDS SHOW "Happy Land...
...but she has another date, and leaves him with Sally...
...Perhaps I was born an idealist but to me World War III must not start...
...Good God, its op to us to see that the peace is won...
...The author has two acts to fill, before coming to the end the audience expects — and if you want to see how dragged out and dull just such a situation can be, penalise yourself at "Pillar to .Post," which opened tile same 'week, but will close sooner...
...There again free speech and press can and will do the trick...
...Letters to the Editor Says Student Fear of 1970 War Is Too Pessimistic From BARBARA PANZNER To the Editor: In last week's issue of The New Leader you asked for Student opinions on World War III...
...Staged by the author...
...let the citizens avail themselves of It...
...It's a soldier—though it might be- any man—and two women...
...We will win the war and the peace, we mast...
...now he has secured a people's center for music and drama...
...And the audience is whirled along with the sweeps of our mistress of the comic, whose pace is attuned to the gales of laughter, whose manners are a guide book of the slyly satiric, whom it is a joy to behold...
...Her tender earnestness is pleasantly counterbalanced by the archness, with just a touch of travesty, of Aurey CSiristie...
...Higher and Higher" which co-stars Michele Morgan, and Jack Haley in addition to Frank Sinatra in his first starring role, will be presented continuously at all these RKO Theatres from 5 p. m...
...She is the irrepressible Susan, who has found religion via the Oxford Movement...
...The African Academy of Arts and Research has good work to do...
...here is a crying of shame were this not made widely available...
...A vivid village dance of courtship and marriage showed the colorful aspect of the primitive culture — we call it primitive, although none of our drummers can come near the in-trically interwoven rhythms of their drums...
...Olive brings Bill to town for the week-end...
...Niebuhr, Rsnjf Debate German Re-f ducarion On Saturday, December 18th, at 8:00 P.M., student delegates from all over the country will hear a debate on "Can Germany Be Re-educated...
...More important is the City Center of Music and Drama itself, which all concerned graciously brought back this play to inaugurate...
...SOLDIER IN THE SWING "THE VOICE OF THE TURTLE" by John Van Druten...
...SAVE WAITING AT BOX OFFICE ON NEW YE A KS EYE Tickets which will save patrons the need of waiting on line at the box office but do not call for a reserved seat, go on sale at all RKO Greater New York, Newark and Westchester Theatres tomorrow for the premiere performances of the Sinatra Show...
...The Roxy stage presentation headlining Frank Fay and Irina Baronova, also stays for a second week...
...AFRICAN FELLOWSHIP FESTIVAL "AFRICAN DANCE FESTIVAL" Presented by the African Academy of Arts and Research...
...Willkie...
...It surely makes a correct analysis of the "Pollyanna" of 1943...
...VILLAGE BARNS PARTY The Village Barn will stage s holiday party for the forgotten man of journalism, the make-up man, on Monday, December 27, when all make-up men of New York's metropolitan dailies are invited with their wives or feminine companions for a sumptuous holiday dinner...
...Shipley talks about the new plays over WEVD at 11:45 • every *»—tag Bight] GERTRUDE LAWRENCE REVIVAL-PREMIERE "SUSAN AND GOD" by Rachel Crotkert...
...Sally is an actress, and she leaps when she finds her reason for liking the stage caught in Milton's words, of every creative artist: 'that one talent which fs death to hide...
...Monday, Dec...
...16, with the world-premiere of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Madame Curie," starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon...
...The presence of Eleanor Roosevelt made this, in addition to the artistry (with Pearl Primus as guest performer), a token of international friendship and the growing recognition of cultural neighborliness and friendship...
...and whom it takes all the sobriety of her drunken husband and earnest daughter to bring back to the world...
...Yes, we, all of us (maybe even the 18 year olds...
...Revived by John Golden to open tha City Center of Music and Drama...
...While television or devices now unpredictable may make the Center unserviceable for the "centuries to come" of Mayor LaGuardia's prediction, it certainly fills a present need and can render a great present service...
...Beyond mis snine tne promise of a week of opera, a return of "Porgy and Bess,'' a season of ballet...
...Poetry and music and flowers Mend with the mood...
Vol. 26 • December 1943 • No. 51
