The 1943 Edition of "Stars on Ice" a Thrilling Spectacle
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
The 1943 Edition of "Stars on Ice" a Thrilling Spectacle This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Mr. Shipley reviews each play on its opening night over WEVD at 11:50 p. m. WIZARDS ON...
...Stars on Ice" combines the beauty, of the ballet with the appeal . .of the circus, and more...
...METRO'S Mary Astor studying aerial navigation...
...Phoney Rumors . . . Made in Berlin" by Carey Longmire...
...Navy gunners, home on shore leave for rest, donate blood for the Red Cross...
...BROADWAY ECHOES By Don McCloud AHUGE saaas memorial and pageant will he heio at Martian* Sqnare Garden on the night ef March ninth ia commemoration of the mswaain or more than two million European Jew* . . . tT will be prsdarrrt ky a committee of theatrical personalities needed by Ben Hecht and Billy Rose . . . THE ceremony will be called "We Will Never Die" and will he divided into three parts . . IN the fret pert, more than fve hundred choir members represeni...
...IMMORTAL SERGEANT" IN THIRD WEEK AT ROXY John Brophy's "Immortal Sergeant," filmed by 20th Century-Fox and starring Henry Fonda, Maureen 0*Hara and Thomas Mitchell, remains for a third week...
...Tickets range from 83 cents to $4.40 and may be obtained in the Rand School office...
...is the latest release of "Your Ring-, side Seat" at all Embassy News-reel Theatres...
...H. V. Kaltenborn, ace screen journalist and war news analyst, headlines the new program appearing in the newest issue of his popular weekly series "Kaltenborn Edits the News...
...Assisting the committee are Elizabeth Brofaerg, Esther Golden berg, Ruth Fishkin, Emma S. Keith, Mary Oliver, Sofie Speyer, Hehm Shatakin aad Genua Viera...
...To folks that enjoy beauty, it's a treat...
...who made such a game and brilliant comeback over the tragic illness which struck her down over a year ago, has just made a Columbia recording of "Waltzing...
...h< Of the various group spectacles, my favorites are "The Chase"— a rousingly colorful fox hunt number, with hedges to leap on the way—the "Jack Frost Reverie," and the swirl and glory of the "Autumn Leaves...
...Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid will continue for a 3rd week...
...This concert is not only a great artistic event and an opportunity for an annual reunion of our friends, said Mrs...
...Wednesday...
...During its long engagement the all-star musical screen show has registered new opening day...
...Legionnaire, Veteran of 15, is hofcrably discharged from the Army...
...Elliott institute Lecture Program The John L. Elliott Institute of Human Relations...
...News from Overseas: Fighting French in North Africa get American P-40 fighter planes...
...28th . . . MARJORIE LAWRENCE, the Australian soprano of the Met...
...sub, back home after victorious campaign over Jap shipping...
...this customer will keep coming back for more...
...A large attendance is expected, including a crowd from the armed forces that have been invited gratis...
...65C Monday...
...The crowd that gathers along the Central Park Lake, or around Rockefeller Plaza, on a clear winter's day, to watch the stir and movement, the color and grace, of i the skaters, there, would be fascinated by the' exhibition of the Center Theatre troupe...
...Deanna Durbin (above) as "The Amazing Mrs...
...Society for Ethical Culture, Central Park West and 64th Street...
...Holliday," will follow the currently showing Alfred Hitchcock thriller...
...Miss Lawrence was accompanied by a group of Anzacs who formed the choral background . .. "ANGEL...
...8:30 p. m.: "A Global View of Religion," Dr...
...With her traveling troupes of wizards on ice, Sonia Henie brought to the world a new sort of entertainment, which is established, it seems for personal popularity, at the Center Theatre...
...Only two others of the 600 odd screen attractions played by the theatre played as many as six straight weeks...
...William Karlin who for many years has been its directing spirit, without the aid of all of our friends, especially the trade unions...
...Popularity well-deserved: one could see, over and over again, this changing spectacle of beauty and skill and fun...
...HOWARD DE SILVA in New York from the coast . . . He is to take over the role of "Jud" in the Theatre Guild's production of "Away We Go" . . . It ia a musical . . . COLUMBIA PICTURES going in for eatchy tinea, here's a sample: "What's Buzzin...
...When it closes its eight week engagement next Tuesday night "Star Spangled Banner" will have played to more than a million persons, according to Robert M. Weitzman, managing director, and will have broken every gross and attendance record of the theatre...
...Tuesday, Feb...
...Shayae and Armstrong, Albert Gifford...
...Whimsy is on hand with "Little Miss Muffet" and the Fantasia mushrooms...
...In addition ,the stage show features Don Cummings, Broadway Musical Comedy Star, and Chris Cross and "Looie," novelty act-As a special attraction, the bandleader presents his famous latf feature, "So You Want to Lead a Band!' in which the audience participates for War Stamps...
...The concert will feature leading Metropolitan stars in scenes from famous operas as well as the incomparable Met ballet, chorus and orchestra...
...Rand School Concert March 7 Friends and supporters of the Rand School are looking forward with great anticipation to its twelfth jEnnual benefit concert, Sundays evening, March 7, at the Metropolitan Opera House...
...American Marines, who landed in a surprise attack, 'took Jap-built Henderson Airfield and held it through'six months of hitter, fighting...
...Our heroic boys repulsed all efforts by the Jape to reinforce their troops on" Guadalcanal...
...Horace L. Friess...
...There's something worth watching every minute...
...The Roxy stage show headlining Connee Boswell, the Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, with Paul Lavalle and his orchestra and Milton Cross, and Herb Shriner, also starts a third week next Wednesday...
...Shipley reviews each play on its opening night over WEVD at 11:50 p. m. WIZARDS ON ICE "STARS ON ICE...
...Along with its record-breaking film, the Music Hall is continuing for a tenth week its gala stage spectacle, "Hats Off...
...GUADALCANAL REVIEW AT EMBASSY A pictorial review of the battle for Guadalcanal headlines the new program of world news events at all Embassy Newsreel Theatres...
...Stars on Ice" can keep on going another fife years...
...ing the synagogues of New York will participate ia mass sJagiat of consecrated hebrew melodies . . . THIS will be followed b> » rollcaU of the contributions to civilization by Jews from the that of Moees to oar present-day Einstein . . . THE event will close wfch a pageant of one thousand people written by BEN HECHT tad based on his Readers Digest story - Remember Us...
...But I have had guests voting for "Pan-Americana" •and "Juke Box-Saturday Night...
...Friday, Feb...
...Friday, Feb...
...NEW YORK STRAND BILL HOLDING OVER Sammy Kaye, his Swing & Sway Orchestra and revue, featuring Tommy Ryan, Nancy Norman, Arthur Wright, Billy Williams, the 3 Kaydets and the Kaye choir holds over at the New York Strand for a 5th week...
...Hazel M. Allen and Mrs...
...Miniver," Metro-Ge4dwyn-Mayer's "Random Harvest" held over for a tenth week at the Radio City Music Hall...
...26, 8:30 p. m.: "A Prophet Crying in the "Wilderness—Sir Ha'lford Mackirder," Dr...
...produced by Leon Leon id off In a huge cast headed by Leonard Gautier's famed trained dog act, "The Bricklayers...
...Guy Smith, the Music Hall Sosfc-ettes...
...to the fanatic balletomane, it's a revelation...
...Holliday portrayed by Deanna Durbin, is a resourceful young American girl who evacuates a group of helpless children from the Orient in time to eseape the Japanese terror...
...The pageant will dramatize the gathering of the nations around the peace tablr with the spirits of the murdered Jews pressing forward with tlx list of their sacrifices in the great straggle against the barbarian* of the Third Reach . . . BILLY ROSE Will personally stage and direct the presentation . . . The Garden will be converted hue a dimly lit place of worship with special settings and decoration* by Lemuel Ayers and Syrgala . . . KURT WEILL is composing as original score for the occasion to be played by a hundred piece lymph any orchestra . . . Costumes for the huge personnel will be created and contributed by Emil Friedlander of Dalian's...
...With the speed and'precision of its skaters, it draws everyone interested in sports...
...Glee Crnb and Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Erno Rapee...
...Road-to Morocco," enjoyed a seventh week...
...L. M. Birkhead, Dr...
...and "Reveille With • Beverly...
...holiday, Saturday and Sunday and weekly records...
...Casablanca" starring Humphrey Bogart...
...and I haven't - named the half of it—nor the skaters, especially the stars, from Skippy Baxter, who leaps nine barrels, to seven-year-old Twinkle Watts—with a glance at Paul Duke, who doesn't do much skating but pulls cigarettes, cigars and pipes—already lighted—from out of the frozen air...
...Robert W. Searle...
...Cousin...
...Sonja Heine and Arthur M. Wirtx present tin, 1943 edition of the ice show at the Center Theatre...
...Shadow of a Doubt" at the Rrvoli Theatre, on Saturday...
...David Lloyd George celebrates 80th birthday...
...Slagle and Grace get around for some other antics, too...
...will be soloist at the concert of the Jewish Mnaiaal Alliance on Sat Eve at Carnegie Hall „ . . JOHN WILDBERG is not worrying about the tossing around the critics gave "Cry Havoc" . . . He has secured the- legit, theatre rights ano is going to send it on a long tour . . . JUDITH PARRISH and Richard WiWmark will play the leads in George Abbott's forthcoming "Kiss and Tell," it comes to B'way on Sait Patrick's Day . . . "JANIE," the moving-est show, in town...
...STREET" another show which is going in for Sunday shows . . . Soon the play which is not doing a Sunday show will be considered the exception to the rule . . . NATALIE BODANYA of the Met...
...Price Administrator Brown explains the point rationing system...
...Mathilda...
...Catherine Littlefield has arranged choreography •that takes advantage of choral and solo possibilities, with skates -adding possibilities of surge and sweep the dance has never known...
...21st Assembly District ALP Holds Dance February 21 Mrs...
...RHYTHM" IN ALL-TIME RECORD AT PARAMOUNT "Star Spangled Banner" today gains the distinction of being the first screen attraction in the New York Paramount Theatre's history to play an eight week engagement...
...Miss Grace Gosselin and Algernon D. Black: 50c...
...with the Gin Rummy card-shuffling...
...Opera Co...
...Hans W. Weigert: 65c.—Service men and women in uniform admitted free...
...OP77-1090 and fljyif-97...
...8:30 p. m.: "Intolerance and Fascism in City Neighborhoods...
...are: Dave Malien...
...Sophie Turbow, chairman of the sponsoring committee, "but it provides the School with one of its main sources of income...
...Maid a Springer (1942 Assembly District candidal*/) -have been appointed chairman and co-chairman of the danee committee for the annual affair of the 21st Assembly District ALP Club which will be held at the Hamilton Place Hotel, 30 Hamilton Place, Saturday evening, February 20...
...Youngest...
...It goes to the Playhouse on Sunday . . . This is the fourth house for Brock Pembeitoh's hit comedy . . . DOC BENDER back from Hollywood after a successful raid on movie talent for his new musical "Circus Revue...
...V . . .—V . . .—V . . War Note •¦'HE following is clipped from a government * release analyzing the economic warfare against the Axis: "The Board of Economic Warfare and Defense Supplies Corporation jointly announce certain modifications to plan for purchases of goat skins in foreign countries by the Defense Supplies Corporation by permitting purchase from dealers in the United States of foreign goat skins acquired through shippers' agents and providing for quotas for dealers to establish number of foreign goat skins which may be sold to the Defense Supplies Corporat on...
...Without the proceeds of this concert the School would have to curtail a large amount of its work...
...8:30 p. m.: "National Planning — Freedom With Organization," C. Hartley Grattan...
...How she finds refuge in America and is forced to masquerade as a wealthy widow provides the dramatic action leading to the film's climax...
...Only one other film...
...V .. .—V . . .—V . . "|"VARK EYES" is slated to do a benefit show for the Russian War Relief at the Belasco on Sunday night, Feb...
...HARVEST" EQUALS "MINIVER" RECORD Equalling the all-time long-run attendance record set last summer by the spectacular ran of "Mrs...
...We naturally cannot make a success of this undertaking," added Mrs...
...But lor out and out comedy, you have to hand it to i xthe three rookies—as gawky a triplet-group as ever drilled on ice— and the perennial "four bruises"—Sidney Spalding, Charles Slagle, • Monte Scott, Buster Grace—in their scrub-woman's free-for-all romping...
...Corps de Ballet...
...Aboard an aircraft carrier Admiral Halsey honors Navy aviators with Distinguished Flying Cross...
...News of the Home Front: U.S...
...8;30 p. m.: "The New World—Oswald Spengler and the Future," Dr...
...with the "kitten" on skates...
...Under the command of Admiral Halsey, the United States Navy soundly thrashed the Nipponese Navy...
...Hans W. Weigert...
...The ball committee has invited Frank R. Crosswaith and Dean Alfange as guests of honor...
...Brazil, our South' American good neighbors, put ban on junk and gasoline to help best the Axis...
...Edmond O'Brien has the leading masculine role, playing romantically opposite La Durbin...
...Treasury Departments Secret Service Agents crack down on counterfeiters...
Vol. 26 • February 1943 • No. 8
