New Rene Clair Film Opens at the Gotham
New Rene Clair Film Opens at the Gotham PRESSBURGER'S "IT HAPPENED TOMORROW" OPENS TODAY Rene Clair's "It Happened To morrow," which Arnold Pressburger produced for United Artists release,...
...As an extra free attraction for the holiday week-end, Janice Hansen, who was recently selected as the winner of the Venida "Beautiful Legs" contest, from 6,000 girls throughout the country, will appear in person and display "the •prettiest pair of legs in the country...
...Archie Stout, who twenty years ago filmed "The Ten Command ments" for Cecil De Mi He, served as director of photography, and the assistant director was Henry Kesler, who recently completed a directorial stint on the Gregor Rabinovitch - United Artists film "Three Russian Girls.'' "WHITE CUFFS" IN THIRD WEEK AT MUSIC HALL With attendance in its second week greater than in its first, Metro-Goldwyn-Msyer's screen hit, "The White Cliffs of Dover," starring Irene Dunne and Alan Marshal, continues for a third week at Radio City Music Hall...
...Georgie used to be aaxaphoaist ' Benny Goodman and his hand, inaugurate the new band policy . the New Jersey fua center...
...It will be recalled that this was the last work to be sung on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House by Enrico Caruso.* The forthcoming production will find Arthur Carron, dramatic tenor of the Metropolitan, in the part of Eleazar made famous by the late tenor of the golden voice...
...The orchestra is to be under the direction of Michael Fiveasky...
...Music of the film was composed by topflight musician Robert Stclz, Viennese composer and, conductor, who composed a character motif for each player and wove them together to form background music...
...Other principal parts will be assumed by John Garris, Sidor Belarsky and Vicki Lawrence...
...Instead of playing name bands just week-ends the park will present Auld and his band throughout the week-end and for a week thereafter, with Auld offering concerts twice daily at 4:30 p. m. and at 8:30 p. m. Torina continues as the free thrill act for Saturday and Sunday and on Monday, May 29, the internationally famous Kimris begins a limited engagement at Palisadea Park...
...inn _ _ —*~ —-Seats on Sale for "La Juive Due at Madison Square Garden...
...Though the "tomorrow" theme is supernatural, the situations are everyday ones, thus doubly funny...
...Clair treated the film in such a way as to make supernatural matters set m natural...
...Doris Doree, dramatic soprano, also of the Metropolitan, is to sing the title role...
...Leading members of the cast are Dick Powell, Jack Oakie and Linda ' Darnell, with such supporting players as Edgar Kennedy, George Cleveland, Sig Human, Paul Guilfoyle, and a newcomer, John Philliber...
...Composer of 38 operettas and 54 motion picture scores, Stoli set something of a record, creating 51 minptes of music in the short space of five weeks...
...New Rene Clair Film Opens at the Gotham PRESSBURGER'S "IT HAPPENED TOMORROW" OPENS TODAY Rene Clair's "It Happened To morrow," which Arnold Pressburger produced for United Artists release, will have its premiere at the Gotham Theatre today...
...Clair and 1 irhols were the sixth team of writers to put their skill to a story which originally belonged to Prank Cspra...
...With the film the Music Hall presents Leonidoff's stage spectacle, "On the Beam," featuring the Don Cossack Chorua under the direction of Serge Jaroff, with the Music Hall Rockettes, Corps de Ballet and the Music Hall Symphony Orchestra under Erno Rapee...
...Rene Clair directed the piece, also having written the screen-play with Dudley Nichols, well-known writer for the screen...
...Anthony Stivanello will be stage director, and H. A. Condel, who was associated with Max Reinhardt in many of his fabulous productions, is designing the decorations, which, although modern in conception, will live on In authentic traditions NEW DIVfHTISfMFNTS AT PAUSAMS MM THIS WEEK A big- holiday show is scheduled for Pelisadee Amusement Park, starting today, featuring Georgia Auld and celebrated orchestra for the free shew and free dancing...
...The plot concerns a newspaperman who receives a copy of tomorrow's paper, learns things thst will hsppen the next day, and that he will be killed...
...Flag Day Seats have been placed on sale 1 for the gala presentation of Jac- i ques Halevy's soul-stirring opera J "La Juive," to be ""presented- -at-.---—- 4 Madison Square Garden on the night of Flag Day, Wedneaday, Juaa 14...
...A fantasy-comedy with a "tomorrow" twist, it is laid in 1890, in the days when ladies wore long, full skirts, Nellie Melba sang, and William Jennings Bryan ran for president...
...Philliber, aged 72, plays the wraith who gives the newspaperman-hero the tomorrow's news...
Vol. 27 • May 1944 • No. 22
