New Ice Show Opens at the Center June 22
New Ice Show Opens at the Center June 22 "HATS OFF TO ICE" HENIE-Winrt'S NeW Offering "HaU Off to Ice," having disposed of the opening number, tilled from the show, and having dismissed ibe...
...Its magnificent photography weaves at times a spell of quiet beauty...
...Wassell is—or should be—well known...
...AT RKO THEATRES "Uncertain Glory," starring Er-rol Flynn and Paul Lukas with Faye Emerson and Jean Sullivan, shares screen honors with the new musical, "Lady, \M'» Dance," at the RKO Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester Theatres and featuring Belita, James Ellison, Walter Catlett and the comedy ice-skating team, Frick and Frack...
...For Mr...
...Why of course, it's also Jimmy The Best Dressed Man...
...The story Of Dr...
...old dodderer is ignored until the wives think he is pctent and wolfish—then they all dash to be caught by the wolf...
...New Ice Show Opens at the Center June 22 "HATS OFF TO ICE" HENIE-Winrt'S NeW Offering "HaU Off to Ice," having disposed of the opening number, tilled from the show, and having dismissed ibe closing chorus at "Here's Lurk," yesterday turned Hi attention to weather men, aatroiogists and tea-leaf readers...
...36) ________________Tchaikovsky Tuesday, June 20 "Leonore" Overture No...
...Stadium Concerts 27th Season Opens Monday, June 79 Stasflaan Concert* will open its 17th consecutive seanan on Monday evening^ June 19, a* 8:30 e'cloek shsrp, wtih Frits Kreisler, world famotui violinist, as soloist, and Sir Thomas Beecham, noted British conductor, leading the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra...
...Three strikes, and the play is out...
...Aided by Lena Home, Gracie Allen, Jose Iturbi, Van Johnson, June Allyson, Gloria Deliaven and Ben Blue, the "Schnol" cavorts to the orchestral tunes of Xavier Cu-gat and Harry James in "Two Girls snd a Sailor," which is now at the Capitol Theatre, with Sammy Kaye and his Orchestra on the stage...
...3----Beethoven Symphony No...
...June 21 1st Half: All Wagner: Prelude to "Die Meistersinger" Good Friday Spell from "Parsifal" Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla Introduction to Art III, "Tannhauser" Overture to 'The Flying Dutchman' Symphony No...
...and this the art of Hollywood may capture...
...Also included in the cast of "Lady, Let's Dance" are Henry Busse, Eddie l.t-Haron, Mitch Ayres and Lou Bring and their orchestras...
...The addition of f the usual rather silly plot, or 1 melodramatic villain or spy motif, merely makes the intelligent pic- » ture-goer wait more impatiently 1 for the genuine scenes of war...
...but surely there has never i been so thoroughly photographed i a conflict as the present one, on c every front...
...Three roles at once...
...Not satisfied yet, Hollywood stretched the Dur-ante personality to the popping point by introducing "Junior" Srhnoxxola, and who do you think plays that role...
...In the present play, the...
...no, the leaders of their community— are as stupid or as sex-driven as the figures in this play...
...HISTORY FILMED "THE STORY OF DR...
...WAS- « SELL...
...Thus, with favorable omens ia the ofting, she counting room turned its addinr machines to such earthly matters as tickets and prices...
...The bargain basement fees on laturday night are 90c to $2.98, which also means tax and all...
...t in D major (London) -------------Haydn t II, and H, No...
...but apart from its history (and there is a voice, after the picture is over, telling us that word has come since the filming that one man left for dead is alive today, a prisoner of the Japanese) the picture can stand on its distinctive merits as a Ami...
...The first night's program, which features the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major, also includes Haydn's "London" Symphony, "\m Preludes" of Lisxt and the over-tur* "La Patrie" by Bitet Sir Thomas Beecham* choice of th* brilliant and seldom plsyed "La Patrie,"* which opens the program, has been hailed a* prophetic, la "La Patrie" Bixet expresses the frief and shame at his conquered stherland (France) under the Prussian yoke, but ends the composition with a not* of courageous defiance to the German aggressor, paralleling today's liberation of the continent by the Allies...
...Written, staged, and acted by J. C. Nugent...
...t in D major----Beethoven Fn Saga _______.....___________________Sibelius Prelude, "Irmelin" ........................Delius "France»c* da Rimini" (Fantasia for Orchestra Tchaikovsky Wednesday...
...Among the films of the wartime, "The Story of Dr...
...Per- 1 haps the next war will be actually t seen and heard by the civilian t population—if there be any non- t combatants to watch — by tele- I vision, and fought by remote con- ' trol...
...we'll see the reason...
...WITHERED WALLFLOWER -THAT OLD DEVIL...
...Beginning June 19th Concerts begin at 8.30 sharp Sir Thomas Beecham, < ondueter June 19 through 2b Monday, June 19 (In case of rain this program postponed till next clear night) I Soloist: Frits Kreisler (1st appearance at Stadium) Overture "La Patrie" --------Bixet Symphony No...
...Mayer LaGuardi* will once again give his annual address of welcome, and, following the custom of years, he will be introduced by Sam A. Lewisohn, whose father, the late Adolph Lewisohn, helped found the Stadium Concerts...
...104) Violin Concerto in D major, (Op...
...At the Playhouse, Across the street from "that Old Devil" runs tbst young hopeful of "Wallflower," the girl left •lone till the boys think she is bed —then they all dash after her...
...Now he is these two, and a director as well...
...It's a pretty sorry spectacle...
...then a whirl of speedy action, as when the jeep plunges down the ravine, or the great Java bridge crashes...
...Presented by Lodtwiek Vroost...
...Wassell, with the wounded men he refused to lesve behind, and Paramount has woven this story into a technicolor film that is both beautiful and deeply moving, a fit memorial to an heroic enterprise...
...For a musical show with ¦ cast of a hundred these tariffs are purposely low so that the whole family "can take it in...
...Wsssell" deserves a lasting place...
...Stmdtum Concerts Programs 1944 First Week of Season...
...Except on Saturday evenings the prices for all performances are to be 90c to $1.98, which include the new federal tax of 20 per cent...
...It in hard to believe that anyone actually thinks men and women— the average men and women...
...J. C. Nugent has been around the theatre for some time...
...Such an episode is the journey through Java of Dr...
...I The newsreels are so vivid these 1 days, and the special government ' shorts, such as "Invasion," are so 1 stirringly real, that it would seem ' Hollywood might just as well stop ' trying to compete...
...The opening concert will mark the first appearance of Frits Kreisler at the Stadium, and Sir Thomas Beecham, who will continue to lead the Orchestra through the week, including Sunday, June 2hth, will anWanudje his Stadium debut...
...Never an extra charge for cooling off...
...At the Rivtli Theatre...
...then an awesome contrast, as when the mortal doctor stands before the great stone figure of the immortal Buddha, in the tangled forest...
...It's too bad Lncella Gear hasn't a vehicle in which her talents can fitly ride...
...And, strangely, that is the very evening on which the Center Theatre is to anfold it3 newest ice revue...
...The general report of the forecasters brought a most ewourag-ing note: "June 22 will be the hottest night of the summer...
...The boys in the box oflce will have their pennies resdy o open for - business on Monday, June 12...
...2 in D major____Sibelius JIMMY DURANTE FILM AT CAPITOL THEATRE There is only one Jimmy ("Schnos-xle") Durante in the world, but MGM triplicated him in "Two Girl* and a Sailor" by making him play himaelf as a young man with a full crop of (phony) hair, and again a* himself in his present infuriated success-poem form...
...If President Roose- < velt is really worrying about s < name for this war (former lesders I have usually left the label to his- 1 tory) he can call it the Pictured i War...
...That the author thinks humans are like this, or expected audiences to accept such portrayals, is a sad commentary on the man-about-the-stuge...
...t But occasionally there occurs an ( episode that is a unit in itself, a . complete story within the greater i pinvRv nf the war—almost, ai it t were, a work of art...
...Recently he has often been observed watching his son Elliott, but in his day he achieved something of a name as an actor, and even a fashioner of plays...
Vol. 27 • June 1944 • No. 25
