Listen, Professor! a Stimulating Play
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
"Listen, Professor"! a Stimulating Play The Week on Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY "LISTEN, PROFESSOR!" Adapted by Peggy Phillip* from the Russian of Alexander Afinogenov. Presented by Stilton Baron,...
...as I have mentioned, is far from this goal...
...Directed by San ford Meisner...
...Jut its cast is a good one, with several youngsters perform ing WclJ...
...their translation is incidental, their main drive is at hmmt...
...at the close, it was an appropriate gesture for both cast and audience to sing the Internationale...
...Rut the professor insists upon facing the facts...
...It has interesting types as minor figures in the action...
...wishing to many again, sends the professor his grand-daughter to keep...
...At the Forrest Theatre...
...and the present fact is that "Listen, Professor...
...its setting has been designed by Stewart Ch» ney...
...duced by RKO Radio Pictures, "Higher and Higher," received a gala premiere showing on New Year's Eve only at all 50 RKO neighborhood theatres in Greater New York, Newark and Westchester prior to its Broadway opening...
...i "A LADY COMES HOMf" AT PLAYHOUSE JAM...
...After victory, the next concern is t<> consolidate the gains...
...Besides the world premiere of MGM's new Spencer Tracy-Irene Dunne romantic drama, "A Guy Named Joe," the show includes the personal appearances of MGM's Cavalcade of Stars from Hollywood...
...interesting as it may be, taken as a symbol of the Soviet stage, is less than successful as a play...
...gentle ridicule wiping off the excesses of the new...
...Miss Chattel-ton's gowns have been created by Mainbocher...
...The holiday week-end offerings at the RKO Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester Theatres star Olivia De Havitland and Robert Cummings in the romantic comedy, "Princess O'Rourke," wit...
...And the final stage would be reached when the playwrights no longer Mel it necessary to defend the Soviet system, when the public can go to the theatre for its own stimulation rather than a patriotic rally...
...But for those before whose eyes the stage holds a mirror up to nature, Listen, Professor and you shall hear of the Soviets working in high gear...
...Back from seventh century manuscripts he comes into the circle of a twentieth century Russian child...
...The play shows the gradual breaking of the barrier between crusty age and ardent youth...
...The play has been staged by K. Elmo Lowe...
...4, George N Brandt will present "A Lady Comas Home, a new play fcj Ethel Borden and Jacques 'Then Starring Ruth Chat tenon, Ralph Forbes and Frank (onroy, tht cast alsotincludes Henry Bernard, Charles McClelland, Frunx Benav sen, Gordon Nelson, KathertM Wiman, John Grogan, Betty k«j ley, William Phillips, Dsnn Mal-loy and Lillian Udvardy...
...For (hose seeking entertainment, the feature of "Listen, Professor...
...Triumph, then conformity...
...but a young new idea, in the flush of its conquest, wants everyone to subscribe...
...4 At the-Playhouse on Tueea...
...The plays of the second stage of Soviet drama, then, became satires of life aiound—biting scorn heaped upon the relics of olden ways of thought...
...The professor's son, married against his father's wishes, dies far away...
...EXTRA HOLIDAY SHOWS AT CAFITOL THEATRE Extra New Year's Day performances have been scheduled by the Capitol Theatre in addi-ttoTrto added shows on "the intervening days, the management announces, in anticipation of record-breaking holiday crowds...
...is Dudley Digges...
...For the play seems to be a representative example—not an outstanding example, for as a play it does not come wholly through—of what we might call the third stage of Soviet drama...
...and the theatre boomed away with Soviet attack...
...Art is a weapon, they proclaimed...
...Play after play presented episodes of the revolutionary days...
...SINATRA SHOW AT AKO HABES HEW TEAR'S EVE Frank Sinatra's first film pro...
...Unmatched as a character actor, Dudley Digges has warmed his way into the heart of every theatregoer...
...after some years the daughter-in-luw...
...seems for u -time to have- reached that final -stage, —----¦-----• - 8avc for the way in which the school children's "collective" makes everybody's business its own, the youngsters giving public discussion to what we consider personal and private concerns—the play might have been situated in any capitalist land...
...Calflove, a doctor ladies' man (not a hangover from pre-Soviet days but grown in the red) and other characters show—except again for the busybody youngsters, whose leader, however, is a typical quiz kid bright boy—that human nature has not much altered under the Soviet regime...
...evening, Jan...
...There is room in democracy for a wide variance of attitudes and opinions...
...And his portrayal of the dusty professor, whose tender heart can hardly crack the shell of his objective research, is one of his flpjor achievements...
...Charles Coburn and the new RKO Radio drama, Gangway for Tomorrow," featuring Margo, Robert Ryan and John Carradine...
...The first stage was of the Revolution...
...Jh* professor might really,have come out of Dickens (who is more than mice mentioned), and Dudley Digges* performance is vital and rich...
...Presented by Stilton Baron, in association with Jea% Muir and Temi Ward...
...Remember that these plays, of course, are prepared for Soviet consumption...
Vol. 27 • January 1944 • No. 1
