Porgy and Bess Returns to the City Center
"Porgy and Bess" Returns to the City Center GERSHWIN HEYWARD MUSICAL SUCCESS HERE FOR SIX Weeks "Porgy;, and Bess" starts the second week of its fourth engagement on Broadway under the Cheryl...
...It is hanging up a unique record for return engagements...
...On screen is the Warner Bros.' drama, "In Our Time...
...Etta Moten has been the Bess from nesr the start of ".'orgy's" career when Ann Brown left for concert work...
...Amore Pastor ale" and the "Puppet King" or April 28...
...in the romantic leads, while important roles are played by Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Jane Withers, Ann Harding and Erich Von Stroheim...
...A big supporting cast includei Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet Helmut Dentine, remembered for their excellent performances ia "Casablanca,' and Mich '; Morgan, Philip Dorn, George Tobias sal Peter Loire: Michael Curtiz, ska of "Casablanca" fame, directed this as well...
...As Special Attraction, the stage show pre sents the comedy screwballs sf stage and screen, the 3 Stooges...
...Only one member of the cast makes a poor showing...
...and 2nd Ave., starting Friday evening March 17...
...The first performance will Ix Verdi's "La Travjata...
...Now entering ita fourth year of almost continental playing, with the exception of short in between season layoffs, this George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward musical success has been presented in prsc-tically every state of the union and the principal cities of Canada...
...Avon Long has been the one and only Sportin' life for Cheryl Crawford, and Warren Coleman the undisputed killer, Crown, for the same length of time...
...There is a new Porgy in William Franklin and Alma Lillie Hubbard is the Serena of the past two years...
...Invariably the repeal engagements whether weekly or one-nighters have topped the first appearance...
...Cavalleria Rusticana* and "Pagliacci," April 21...
...Louis twice (two weeks the first time, one week the second time...
...Porgy has had a new one each season...
...That is the'goat...
...Porgy and Bess" Returns to the City Center GERSHWIN HEYWARD MUSICAL SUCCESS HERE FOR SIX Weeks "Porgy;, and Bess" starts the second week of its fourth engagement on Broadway under the Cheryl Crawford and John Wild-berg sponsorship next Monday (March 6th) at Mayor LaGuariaV City Center of Drama and Music...
...Carmen will be sung Friday evening, March 20th, with "Rigoletto' to follow one week later, March 31 The classic fare for April wil consist of "Barber of Seville,' April 14th...
...In addition, the show features Georgia Glbba, singing star of the Camel radio program, and the Cea-dos Bros, dance sensations...
...Weaving its story around the life and death of a little Russian village standing in the way of the Nazi tidal wave, "The North Star," stars Anne Baxter and the new Goldwyn "discovery," Farley Granger...
...anc "Serva Padrona...
...IN OUR TIME" GOES 4th WEER AT STRAND ~" The New York Strand win hold Ina Ray Button and her orchestra who headline the "In Person'* see* for a 4th and final week starts**' today...
...Theatre...
...N. f. CIVIC OPERA TO OPEN AT CENTURY THEATRE Arriving in town from its wintei road tour of military and defense centers the New York Civic Opera Co...
...The cast, too, is hanging up a record of its own for longevity...
...For example, last Monday night's box-office reeeipts at the City Center on "Porgy and Bess" fourth engagement were several hundred dollars better, than the previous opening for the third engagement...
...will open a three-month seasoi of popular priced grand opera al the Century...
...NORTH STAR" AT ALBEE STOKOWSRI CONDUCTS Samuel Goldwyn's epic picture of the Nazi invasion in Russia, "The North Star," after 16 .weeks on Broadway, nine of which it simultaneously occupied the screens of two theatres, the Palace and Victoria, is the featured attraction at the RKO Albee this week with "Never a Dull Moment," starring the Ritz Brothers, Frances Lang-ford and Mary Beth Hughes...
...Georgette Harvey has be.'ii the | Msris of every production since the Theatre Guild's "Porgy" when it wss a drama...
...Ninety per cent of the cast has the same record...
...Starring Humprey Bogart as Hatrac, an anti Nazi who has beer mulshed to Devil's Island or rumped-up charges, the picture tells of his daring escape from th« Island with four other convicts am the peril they encounter in theii attempt to get back to France...
...12th St...
...HOLITVVOOD OFFERS BOGAIT Iff PASSAGE TO MARSEILLES'* The valiant contribution of thosi Frenchmen who fight—not bow tc —Fascism and the story of a smal rroup of men who risked thrfi ivea to join that light, is the ex-siting background for the nee rVaroer Bros, film, "Passage tc Marseilles," new tenant of the Hoi ywood Theatre...
...Featured with the orchestra is Stuart Foster, baritone...
...The goats can't stand the terrific pare—Jean Darlymple...
...starring Ida Lupino and Paul Henreid...
...Besides the four appearances on Broadway, it has played Boston three times, Baltimore three times, Columbus (Ohio) three times, St...
...On the one-night circuit, including split weeks, it has repeated successfully in Dayton, Ohio, Toledo, Cincinnati snd a number of New England towns...
...Harriet Jackson will always be associated with "Summertime," and to top tli.-m all, Alexander Smallens, the conductor, has wielded the baton for this Gershwin opus from the very beginning...
Vol. 27 • March 1944 • No. 10
