Max Brand's "The Gate" to Have Premiere
Max Brand's "The Gate" to Have Premiere KEEP IT OPEN "The Gate" sounds like one of the season's high points of interest. Its world premiere brings to the Metropolitan Opera House on May 23 a...
...The Roxy stage show headed by Connee Boswell, Raymond Scott and his CBS orchestra, and Willie Howard, also remains for a second week...
...This scenic oratorio promises to be an event of considerable importance...
...Montague Salmon, managing director of the Rivoli, is captain of the Broadway first-run movie area for the Women's Army Corps recruiting drive, and in connection with the drive, ending today, he has had the Rivoli lobby set up with an attractive display featuring life-size mannequins in the various WAC uniforms...
...PARAMOUNT HOLDS "GOING MY WAY" "Going My Way" on the screen and Charlie Spivak and his orchestra in person, continue a third week at the New York Paramount...
...Henry Cordy, tenor...
...Cast includes: Norman Mackay, Alfred Linder, Jack Bittner, Leon F( rbes...
...The film stars Bing Crosby m the most dramatic role of his career, supported by Rise Stevens and Barry Fitzgerald...
...Both in the audience and on stage, it is gathering a distinguished assemblage of theatrical personalities, and others interested in the cause that has brought it into being—which is the common cause of humanity today...
...RIVOLI THEATRE AND MONTAGUE SALMON, ¦UST IN WAR ACTIVITIES "The Song of Bernadette," which has broken virtually every motion picture record on Broadway, enters its 17th straight week today at the Rivoli Theatre...
...The Twentieth Century-Fox hit, a five-time Motion Picture Academy award winner, stars Jennifer Jones, who is supported by Charles Bickford, Vincent Price, William Eythe, Lee J. Cobb, Anna Revere, Roman Bohnen, Blanche Yin ka and Charles Dingle...
...Charles Welch, baritone...
...Production directed by the composer...
...This year, however, instead of holding just the New Jersey State finals, Palisades will slso hold the Greater New York finals which Isst year was sponsored by the R.K.0...
...Staged and lighted by Peter Frye...
...Proceeds go to the India Famine Relief Committee...
...Miss Hansen represented the Jersey resort in the national judging and won the title from over 6,000 other girls from nearly every state in the union...
...Girls interested in participating are invited to write to the "Venida Beautiful Lags'* director in cam of Palisades Amusement Park, Paliaades, N. J., for free entry blanks...
...Featured with Spivak in person are Tip, Tap and Toe and the Wesson Bros...
...Jean Paul Morel conducting 72 members of the N. Y. PhilharmonicSymphony Orchestra...
...Settings by Leo Hen...
...Its world premiere brings to the Metropolitan Opera House on May 23 a nusjio-dramatio work" by Max Brajacfj Mirzo Ahmad Sohrab and June Chanter...
...Francis Verdi, Robert Bretton, Hy Amity, Ramsay Williams, Nola Chilton, Robert Strauss, Bernard Randall, Clyde Vaux, Florence Aquino, Bruce Halsey, Adele Rivie, soprano...
...FIN-UP GI*L ' HELD Betty Grable's newest starring film, r'Pin Up Girl," filmed ia in technicolor and produced by 20th Century-Fox, remains for a second week at the Roxy...
...Staged by Eiw/n Piscator, the production brings together the Caravan of •Fast and West, the Dramatic Workshop of the New School, the People's Philharmonic Choral Society and 72 members of the N. Y. Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra...
...Jack and Irving Rosenthal, operators of Palisades Park announce that their amusement center has been selected again to run a series of eliminations in the 1944 Venida "Beautiful Legs" contest...
...The Palisades Park "Beautiful Legs" finalist won a 160 00 War Bond at the amusement center last summer for being selected as the poesesor of the "meat beautiful pair of legs in New Jersey" and as a result of her being chosen as the national finalist will receive a $1,000 War Bond from Ruth Rieaer, directress of the Venlda League during the forthcoming Fifth War Loan Drive, At the same time...
...Music by Max Brand...
...Book (in English) by Max Brand, Mirsa Ahmad Sohrab and Julie Chanter...
...theatres in conjunction with the Venida League...
...PROGRAM Metropolitan Opera Houte Tuesday evening, May 23, 8:15 p. m. World premiere of the scenic oratorio "The Gate...
...Lydia Summers, alto...
...THE WHITE CLIFFS" HELD AT MUSIC HALL Established as one of the season's outstanding screen hits, Metro Goldwyn Mayer's "The White Cliffs of Dover," starring Irene Dunne and Alan Marshal, stays a second week at Radio City Music Hall...
...Keep open "The Gate" to a better world...
...fAMAMS TO HOLD "UAUTIFUL LEGS CONTEST SOON Big plans are underway at Palisades Amusement Park, N. J., to celebrate the selection of Janice Hansen as the national winner in the "Beautiful Legs" eontest conducted by the Venule League...
...People's Philharmonic Choral Society (Max Helfman, director), and Chorus of the Caravan...
Vol. 27 • May 1944 • No. 21
