Riding High and Tommy Dorsey in Gala Paramount Show
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
"Riding High" and Tommy Dorsey in Gala Paramount Show This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY THE DILEMMA Of LIFE "Levers and Friend*." By Dodie Smith.; Staged by Guthrie Me-Ctintiei...
...Rodney replies "Oh no...
...Don't mistake me: Katharine Cornell and Raymond Mas-sey are among our stage's best...
...Differences of opinion arise en two points—wages and 'control...
...Asked if he is the "and Bos well...
...NOEL MtAPOWS TAKES OVER 55fa PLAYHOUSE Noel Meadow, former newspaperman and Broadway publicity agent who is believed to be the first of that ilk to become * theatre owner, now operates twr motion picture houses The Fifty-Fifth Street Play house will be devoted to a polin by which unusual -notion picture* removed from the run-of-the-mil Hollywood films, will have ther premiere showings here...
...Perhaps for this reason the work of Raymond Masse y as Bos well is still Lincolnian...
...for a time she bloomed as our brightest promise—hence the greater disappointment when they do not ripen toward that rich realization...
...GALA HOLIDAY SHOW AT RKO THEATRES Betty Grable lends her charms to the new Christmas holiday show in "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" now at the RKO Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester Theatres, accompanied by Walt Disney's Technicolor production, "Victory Through Air Power" based on Major Alexander P.de Seversky's best selling book...
...play of flame: for this one has long looked at his direction in vain...
...In discussing nationalization, Mr...
...Elmer Rice directs his wife well...
...Rags" Ragland, and Nancy Walker...
...opinion on the subject, arid it would he an immense job to undertake, "we should not be justified in embarking upon' it without a general election...
...The action of "Biding High," which includes s hilarious chuck-wagon race, takes place on a dude ranch in Arizona...
...One migrJt profitably ponder the validity of a real-life husband and wife being linked in the theatre...
...THE GANG'S ALL HERE" ON ROXY SCREEN—BILL ROBINSON ON STAGE On the stage this week at the Roxy Theatre are Jimmy Dorsey and his' orchestra, with lovely Kitty Kallen, having just completed the new 20th Century-Fox film, "Four Jills in a Jeep," and Bill Robinson, world-famous tap dancer...
...Can a man and his wife be friends...
...And the fact that his wife Stella once wanted to act (and later does again), and that their friend Lennie has a light-handed and shall I say light-footed way of collecting cads, does not in any degree detract from the eminently high^ class tone of it all...
...Control: mines are now under a "dual control" system, with private enterprise operating the mines subject to general control and detailed directions from the central and local officers of the Ministry of Fuel and Power...
...4 <W/T NAMED JOE* OPENS AT CAPITOL—LOU HOLTZ TOPS STAGE SHOW Its not exposure of a military secret to let you in on the guess and about Broadway nowadays is due to the trainload of glamourgsted movie stars in town from ollywood, for the Capitol Theatre's current big Holiday season "Stars In Person" show...
...Featured with the orchestra are Eugenie Baird and Tommy Morgan...
...The miners propose that the Government take full financial and managerial control equivalent to nationalization of the industry...
...For this garden (with its wishing trees woefully blasted by the Blitz before the Epilogue) is in fashionable London...
...As the Special Attraction, the Strand presents the radio, stage and screen comedian, Willie Howard, assisted by At Kelly...
...On Christmas Eve, (Friday, December 2*th) all RKO Theatres will play special late shows...
...The Roxy's holiday film fare is the new 20th Century-Fox Technicolor musical "The Gang's All Here" with Alice Faye, Carman Miranda, Phil Baker and Bonny Goodman and his orchestra...
...courteous talk with the other woman...
...STRAND HOLDS GLEN GRAY WILLIE HOWARD STAGE SHOW—FILM HOLDS ALSO The N. Y. Strand will hold its present stage show headed by Glen Grsy and the Casa Loma orchestra for a 5th and final week starting today...
...Contributes 'Real TMeUaf " To the Editor: From ALICE BEAL PARSONS In my opinion The New Leader is worth all the others m its field put together, contributing real thinking in a time when there is all too little of the same...
...Even the second woman in the case insists upon divorce, and marriage to her, before she and Mr...
...Are lovers necessary...
...riffs* Miners Offer Their Plan for faereosed Cool Production Delegates from every coalfield in Britain attended a national conference /recently called by the Minowerkers' Federation, to put forward their solution to the problem of increasing coal production to asset war needs...
...that chair turned so that- Katharine's words come with her back to the audience—how natural!— but the imagination that lifts the production with the warmth and the...
...America's popular satirist...
...Most clearly, one would wish the Katharine Cornell could find a director that would actress has become merely and lift her out of herself: a great always Katharine Cornell...
...bat how explain the writing of his most recent play...
...The screen feature is the Warner Bros, drama, "Northern Pursuit" starring Errol Flynn...
...All parties agreed that production increases depend on a continued and intense effort by the miners and on stepping-up the' entry of young men to the industry...
...Lovers and Friends" is a cream-puff, served with a golden spoon...
...Bos-well may enjoy the frosts of their mutual love-tree...
...Msrk L. Moody, Ameri-nan business msn and amateur photographer "shot" happenings ia war-torn China as he saw them...
...HEW FILM MUSICAL CO-STARS DOROTHY LAMOUR-QICK POWELL "Riding High," all technicolor rhythm rodeo co-starring Dorothy Larnour...
...all that—only not life...
...Dick Powell and Victor Moore, ia the holiday screen attraction at the N. Y. Paramount Theatre...
...The indisputable cinematic evidence he brought back with him is act pretty, according to advance reports...
...A musical in in Technicolor, "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" co-stars Robert Young with Adolphe Menjou, Reginald Gardiner and Virginia Gray in a story of the Gay 90's...
...Teddy Walters, The Sentimentalists, also the Edwards Sisters and Paul Regan...
...who is ad extra added attraction...
...And mast one always hate what one loves* Mast every husband wear the horns of this dilemma...
...To what extend are the Lunts limited by their always acting together...
...If there were clear proof that nationalisation was the only way to win the war, the'Government would not hesitate, he intimated, but, since there were wide differences of...
...Cass Daley, Gil Lamb and Milt Brittoa sad his band also appear...
...Supplementing the feature is a gala in person show hesded by Tommy Dorsey snd his orchestra and featuring Betty Brewer...
...Bos-well, and Bos well...
...How deeply familied it all is may be seen from the name of Rodney's law-firm: Bos well...
...Ravaged Earth?' is described as a warning of what could happen here if the Japs are not stopped...
...It is in most exquisitely proper drawing-room terms that Dodie Smith putts these questions...
...RAVAGED EARTH" AT j STANLEY THEATRE "Ravaged Earth," a sensational film esposing the atrocities of Japanese militarists in the Far East will start an engagement st the Stanley Theatre, beginning Christmas Day...
...her first solo in several seasons and a special orchestra...
...The gala return will be on Sunday evening, December 20th, at 8:45 st the Forty-Sixth Street Theatre...
...In the "Stars In Person" snow', Leo The Lion presents Kathryn Grayson, Lou Holts, Richaxd Himber and tare* stars from "Girl Crazy,"—June Allyson...
...Moody used no blue pencil in putting his film together...
...Churchill has already said that the Government is Concerned with only one question, would it increase present production...
...In addition, the "In Person" show presents those sepian, dance stars, the Berry Bros, and Paul Rentes and his Toy Boys, novelty act...
...And possibly because less attention was paid to them— though Dodie Smith gives them more humorous and more human lines—Carol Goodner as Lennie and Henry Daniel as the male comforter are the most rewarding...
...Sharing honors on the program is also the World Premiere at MGM's "A Guy Named Joe" which co-stars Spencer Tracy and 'Irene Dunn* far the first time...
...He simply turned his camera loose on life and death and came away with a picture which, for sheer horror, probably never will be equalled...
...Also presented in the specs*] show are Paul Carley, Ray English, Gautier's Steeplechase, Seckler and Archibald, the Ben Yost Singers, the Gae Foster Roxyettes and Paul Ash with the Roxy Theatre Orchestra...
...that was my grandfather...
...Staged by Guthrie Me-Ctintiei Preaented by Kotkerine Cornell and John C. Wilton at the Plymouth Theatre...
...Self-restraint in the face of a collapsing family-life...
...Guthrie McClintic knows (not feels) the stage business' that belongs: that stopping of the gentleman's foot, as he is about to be comfortable on the couch, and putting it properly back on the floor again...
...hi ART HA GRAHAM AMD DANCE COMPANY OFFER PREMIERE Martha Graham returns to Broadway for the first time in two reasons with everything Santa Claus might order: a premiere of her new "Deaths and Entrances...
...Louis Horst, Musical Director, will condnct...
...Wages: the miners have already won increases and a national minimum, but now want an increase of the minimum by about 50 per cent and are asking the Government if it would be willing to raise coal prices to make such a minimum possible...
...Neither the lovers are lusty nor the friends are warm...
...though rather as a man reciting a part...
Vol. 26 • December 1943 • No. 52
