Theater Guild Play Opens at the Martin Beck
Theater Guild Play Opens at the Martin Beck THE ETERNAL REFUGEE -JACOBOWSKY ASD THE COL OWL." By S. jV. Behrman from the ploy by hianz Werfet. S'uued by Elia Kazan. I're-tented (in aetoriation...
...The Colonel at first wanted none of Jacobowsky...
...Unfortunately, however, the sa ' reality and the comic opera mood—and any attempted symbolism, not pressed, only to be surmised—are difficult contrasts to weave into a single pattern of feeling...
...Interspersed, however, are pathetic lectures such as that of "the tragic gentleman," on walking from Paris until the ache in the legs drives out the ache in the heart—and he learns that it doesn't...
...Jacobowsky we could believe...
...Only their way (like the ab- j sentminded professor's) is two wheels on the upper level of fantasy, and two wheels in the gutter of Nazi brute thrust...
...Sancho Jacob owsky smooths the way, provides the gas for the Colonel's driving, talks his way out of scrapes into meals for the wanderers (the girl arid the Colonel's man Friday, Szabunewicz —don't pronounce it...
...Starring Ann Sheridan as Nora Bams and Dennis Morgan as Jack Mar-worth, the popular songwriaar&s became the singer's husband, Us film is said to be a mixture of gay music and fast paced story, depicting the well-loved singer's the from honky-tonks to the glory ef a Ziegfeld stage...
...Elia Kazan could not give it the sparking of life he usually imparts...
...The Strand "In Person" show Is headed by Russ Morgan, his Orchestra and Revue...
...and, although he gets to like him in the end—which also may be part of the symbol, and hope for the world—the play presents them as the two horns of a dilemma, and the authors really got stuck...
...and Oscar Karlwe s' playing, though it makes him a touch over-humble, makes him a likeable fellow, for all his f.elf concern (which his first scene nonchalance, out in the air raid, contradicts...
...Almost, for the Colonel thrums a serenading violin while his man Friday plays the harmonica, and down in the or-rhestra pit is a fellow with a beret and an accordion, who ought to be up on the stage...
...and Anna bella proves that Hollywood plus good looks do not make an actress...
...An excellent supporting cast includes Irene Manning, Jack Car...
...The drama of "Jane Eyre," which tells of the love between a gentle, wistful governess and her silent, brooding employer under the shadow of a great mystery, includes John Sutton, Margaret O'Brien and Henry Daniell in the supporting cast...
...SHINE ON HARVEST MOOT OPENS AT STRAND THEATRE I Tie joy, the heartbreak, ft ah) glamour of life backstage ht ta» early days of the Ameriean abet re form the background y|> "Shine On Harvest Moon* tho no* Warner Bros, musical based en Us life of Nora Bayes which stay* tat a record eek at the Strand...
...but J. Edward Bromberg is a bouncing Colonel's man, and many more of the large cast flow effectively through scenes ingeniously designed by Stewart Chaney — with a real Renault car to carry the four central figures on their way...
...The Colonel is the last of the Cyranos (minus the excess nose), carrying blithely on in a Hitler haggard land Despite the secret papers he must delivi r, his car turns first towards the Nazis, for it is off with the old love, on with the new and the new lives in the path of the tank hordes...
...hut the Colonel is a large incredibility...
...Taking its cue from magazine covers, the novel revue features the Music Hall Rockettes, Corps de Ballet, Choral Ensemble and Music Hall Symphony Orchestra, with the famed ballerina, Patricia Bowman, and Ben Dova, comedian, heading the list of guest artists...
...There is more of Sancho l'anza in Jacob owsky, four times a refugee (or is he the ever ready, ever-resourceful, ageless Jew...
...The usual Guild presentation makes the play glitter...
...son, S. Z. Sakall, Marie Wilson, and Robert Shayne...
...JANE fffRf" AT RKO NABOHOOO TMf AT*t% "Jane Eyre," latest screen version ef Charlotte Bronte's faaaeus novel is now nt the RKO Meneattan, Bronx and Westchester Theatres with Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine co-starred in the leading roles, and accompanied by the musical, "CajWr Girl" featuring the singing star of the Bob Hope air show, Frances Ijingford...
...It's a Graustark journey these four make to the Channel port, with a lisping "tourist" Nazi on their trail...
...UP IN ARMS" HOLDS AT THE MUSIC HALL Hailed as one of the season's most hilarious musical comedies, Samuel Goldwyn's new pictu , "Up in Arms," starring Danny Kaye, continues for s second week at Radio City Music Hall With Golwyn's "Up in Arms," the Music Hall presents" Magazine Revue," a lively stag production by Russell Markert...
...fall under his provident spell) and even restore the Polish papers the Colonel has left lehind...
...As the "Spa-cial Attraction" the stage show presents Borrah Minevitrh and Hii Harmonica Rascals In addition Barbara Blaine, the dancing de lovely, is featured...
...I're-tented (in aetoriation uith Jack H. Skirball) by the Theater Onitd at the Martin Beck Thiatie 'II.if ii an almost musirless opera bduffe with a backgiound of Nazi invasion...
...There are other such little contradictions...
...Serenade, sentiment, charm, stupidity, gallantry, duel: perhaps Wei fel intended (though Louis Calhern's rather literal performance does not achieve) a memory of the last knight of chivalry, Don Quixote...
...And his world of make-believes too pasteboard for the Nazi invasion...
Vol. 27 • March 1944 • No. 13
