Doctors Disagree": Rose Franken's New Play
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Doctors Disagree": Rose Franken's New Play By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY DOCTORS DISAGREE. By RoBtn Franks*. Directed by ike author. Settings by Jokn Beet. Presented by William Brawn Meloney at the bijou...
...The choice of Aha Thomas, the telephone oaerabr of "Counselor at l-aw," fdr thV trsirmd jBJUH, wan « clever stroke /tji&'rn the main pkr(* you hardly think Barbara OfNeil and Philip Ober are act lag, no simply and smoothly do they work along...
...The male doctor is convinced more easily than I by her successful per jormanr* of one emergi nry ojiei atlon...
...With war-work drawing women by the hundreds of thousands into industry, she has chosen an odd time for its production...
...show headed by Tommy Dorse* and his orchestra and featuring Gene Kiupa, the drummer mai» Hetty Biewer, Teddy Walter*, The Seiitlmi ntalists, the Kdwartti Sisters and Paul Koga'l, "A meg i< a s popular satirist...
...An official British government estimate numbers civilian work ers in Germany, including foreigners and war prisoners, iu 36\O0O,0OO, ami imported labor if known, t%.»xceed 12,000,000, the figure VfeYi last summer...
...ROXY SHOW IN 3rd WEEK •The Gang's All Here," 20th Century-Pox musical starring Alice Kaye, Carmen Miranda, Phil Hakcr and Benny Goodman ami his Orchestra, continues foi a third week at the Rnxy Theatre...
...in this she adds a tender strain to her uFoaily caustic notes...
...many subtle tricks of Stage-crsft help, fn the last act, where several pairs have to fie left alone, and per* ns keeping going in and out ("like Grand Central Station," loudly whisper ed someone nearby), the director does a better job than the playwright...
...Presented by William Brawn Meloney at the bijou Theatre...
...Foreign Labor in Germany Now Totals One-Third Her Manpower Foreign labor employed in Germany now constitutes more than one third of her total home from manpower, according to Allied officials in Isiudnn...
...The attitude of the millions of foreign workers housed in these hufs consists of (he never-ending 'go slow' campaign, witlpejndi-viduals maintaining a cold, heUtile attitude and wherever possible escaping for home...
...Nazi leaders and press seek to reassure themselves and the population that all is well, but significant recognitions of danger (M-cur from time to time...
...Out of the back of e bottom 4nw«r Mia* Franken has resurrected the theme of thia play: is woman's place the home...
...On this mildewed theme much care has been bestowed...
...QrOYlHNhtlNJ GJffl...
...Eda Heinemann is noted by new for her maid's roles...
...Deutsche .Allgemeirie Zeitung writes, "Vast areas of liut.s which now constitute part of the German landscape might become soil for fostering revolutionary ideas...
...Japs Draft Chinese for MiJifory Labor Service According to p ronort from Kwangchowwm received by Chinese official- in Chungking, the Japanese mili.ai authorities there are drafti'iT ¦¦< rb^eied men n various distric ir t're Luichow Peninsula for mil: . • 'ab^r °erv-ce...
...OPENS AT i* A LACE The RKO Palace Theatie opens its dolus today to usher in a new post holiday show starring Olivia de Uavillaml and Sonny Tufts in the romantic RKo Radio picture, "Government Girl" With Olivia de liavillaiid in the title role, sei letary to a dollar a yea i man, "Government Gni" was written and directed by Dudley Nichols and based on a story by Ad la Rogers St John, and featmei...
...Also, in the selection of the cast...
...in the supporting roles Anne Xhu-ley, James D 1,11,1,, Agues Moore Ilea.I and Paul Sti wait 1 " wm ¦— ¦¦¦ ¦ -~r^" PARAMOUNT HOLD$ ' STA&i-SCREtN SHOW "Riding High," the Donrth-I,aii>o<ii...
...Moore technicolor musical, play foi a third week at the Para mount Theatre Also holding ova...
...Hut the whole problem seems so out-of-date that neither it, nor the minor plot of doctor and patient triangle introduced to add action, can stir much interest...
...Can a woman, she asks, have the constantly steady hand and ever-ready devotion a sur goon must have...
...or is she still a sublunary creature doomed to periodic fluctuations from that essential firmness...
...Ilii k Powell, Vic to...
...Rose Franken as director is quick to see opportunities and to take them...
...But alas, the author has .hardly given them a regainv conflict to work through...
...The Roxy stage show headlined by Jimmy Dorsey and his Oi chesti a, and Bill Robinson, also stays a third week...
...though ¦he has tried to give it a new twist by making the woman a surgeon...
...I don't quite see how that answers the lunar query the author wisely refrains from re peating...
...This vast army is regarded by many Germans as a trojan horse from which potential danger is increasing daily with United Na tions victories...
...Drojrping the first wrrd (When) from the original title of Doctors Disagree has not removed the proverb or saved the patient...
...foi a third week is the in perso...
...Each vilbigre i mqui-ed to mpply seven men They are to asi-cmhle in Kwang-chowwan to undergo rigid ;raiit-Ing before beinp sent to the various fronts, the report *aid...
Vol. 27 • May 1944 • No. 2
