Storm Operation - Anderson's New Play
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
"Storm Operation" — Anderson's New Play The Week on Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY •OrS AT SLA "STOHM OPERATION." Bf Jfe*-woll Andoroom. Staged by Mukael Cordon. Settings by Howard Bag. Presented...
...Her "Punch and th* Judy" — included in the present recital—is a rich combination of satire and humor, on the eternal theme that it is the woman that takes the punch In life, but finds a dream-way of loving and enduring...
...From many critical source* comes the thought thst this is the play of our time most likely to live beyond it...
...YOUR TOWN AT THI CITY CENTER "OUR TOWN...
...And when the Captain performs the .wedding ceremony for the Sgt...
...Bramwell Fletcher keeps as assured that the English are still lords of the Empire (however we relish th* thought...
...Salem Shore*—"a ballad of a woman's longing for her beloved's return from the Sea"—is th* sort of piece Miss Graham tried in her earlier days, though with a wider sweep...
...With him are two nurses, one his mistress...
...Presented by the N. Y. Center jiil Music and Drama...
...Staged bg Arthur Sir-comu Setting bg Frederick Fox...
...But the old maid librarian (Zasu in person) who has bought it finds the inn crowded with incidents...
...There is (as often in her work) a - suggestion beneath th* joyous moments of a waiting woe...
...By Tkomtm Wilder...
...the nurses and natives arc just What ws might expect...
...The story itself is as full of coincidence and clash as any in th* Daily News____And there lie* the trouble...
...It may all b* true...
...At tke Royale Theatre...
...That a faithful copy of Ufa doe* not constitute art ha* further demon* t rat ion at th* Belaaco, th*** evening...
...Myron Mc-Cormick makes the top sergeant that mixture of assurance snd uncertainty w* export, with perhaps a shad* more fluency than th* author- should hare allowed htm...
...Ramshackle Inn" is the first of its sons, and an Impish offspring...
...Storm Operation" — Anderson's New Play The Week on Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY •OrS AT SLA "STOHM OPERATION...
...1 Chico will present iu laPMli ii to special prod actios nmuedfLiJi special Pact-American dtouesjgkfspV taring the authentic Psssisajilsn dishes...
...The players are natural as life, in their various ways...
...From Martha Graham we expect two things, of two aspects .of the art...
...Evedything about Maxwell Anderson "Storm Operation" might hare come out of a newsreel...
...Honor guests will include Panama'* Consul General, Roberto Da La Guardia, and many Latin srtists who will take part in th* gala fete Srepared for this Sunday a raping...
...Martha Graham appeared again on Broadway...
...The intertwined vine-stem seemed a cross between s lovers'knot snd a crown of thorns...
...Presented by the Playwrights Company At the Belaeeo Theatre...
...This is a man's war over there, not a Graustark romance...
...Avar-age America cut* to the cor* of our living, and capture* the heart as few play* of our era...
...At the City Center...
...Whether she's stuffing a reluctant pickaxe into her handbag, or contemplating a corpse in s closet, Zasu has a daffy gaucheri* of constant surprise at life that makes for merry watching...
...and that P6.000 in bonds will be awardde winners determined by the number of votes cast on their ^ Votes will be obtainable th rough porch asm of bond* la RKO Theatres during th* period of the drive —e $25 bond being worth 100 votes, and other* of higher denomination rating mere rotes in proportion...
...Simply told, and even more simply presented, this dramatic picture of Mr...
...The pattern seem snot a* integrally interwoven nor as effectively building as th* "Letter...
...As a performer, an inter-' mutative artist, we know than sb* has fullest control ef her rsapon, ¦We body and expressive felts as* As a choreographer, a creative artist, we look forward to pattern* of dance that capture a mood and a spirit, deeply felt and clearly thought through...
...Ramshackle Inn itself is s tumble-down place on the stern New England coast, where it seems two puff* and a haw might blow it to Boston...
...As the "stag* manager," who keeps the story moving, Marc Connelly comes from the job of producer to pinch hit—and knock a hooter!—ae the plain folks fellow that lets you in on it all...
...Unfortunately, she has a harder tussle with had direction, that doesn't know how to distribute the chills and the laughter, in this "melodramatic farce...
...Deaths and Entrances" is based on the three "doom eager" Bronte sisters, aa "Letter to the World" grew from- Emily Dickinson...
...Once those far-back acoustics are adjusted, with this kind of production, we are well on the way toward a civic home of drama worthy of the City...
...The result is that there are dreary stretches, seemingly aimless dartings about, and an unhappy cast—until in the third set Zasu Pitts gets real mad, takes things into her own competent hands, and sweeps through to the end in a gale of audience laughter...
...Her "Letter to the World" Is the masterpiece of the modern dance...
...One sister predominates, with memories —again evoked by such symbols a* a Jar and a shell...
...Presented by Robert Rend...
...incidentally, her work show* increasing use of such symbols, though one might hops for more reliance on the dance itself...
...Two novelties and the "Punch" make up the current program...
...Kidnapping, new-Oct, mayhem, black market liquor, innocent son railroaded to Jail, miserly uncle with lovely niece: all the material for a fine spoofing of the spooks . The dialogue is adequate, but staging that doesn't know when and now to thrust through thrills to the farce make* "Ramshackle Inn" a miss that's as good as Zasu Pitts can make it, to a palpable tilt...
...carry us right into the lacalo* of action...
...Produced by Jed Harris...
...and there seems a tend, ency to repeat certain body movement*, such as the high lift and wide ¦weep of the leg...
...Our Town," which might be any small town, or life in any comer of a large city, is again holding entranced audiences, in its revival st the City Center...
...The sets of Howard Bay, including the scene under the broken bridge of the dried brooklet, but espcislly thst outside th* tent *nd thst of the invasion barg...
...but it's unbelievable...
...OUR MODERN DANCER MARTHA GRAHAM AND HER DANCE COMPANY...
...J. T. S. RAMSHACKLE INN AND OUT "RAMSHACKLE INN...
...Shi Is by fsr th* leading American exponent of the modern dance, and much of the excitement that the modern dance still hold* I* due to her power, her earnestness, her depth of thought...
...Revival of tke Pulitzer Prize winner...
...Last Sunday—snd public enthusiasm, packing the, house and ring* ing the rafters with applause, brings a repetition this spring...
...BuGeorge llnteon...
...Anderson but of the ways of the theatre into the fashions of the dairy true story for the tabloid...
...The tension of waiting, the rush and blood of action, the quaindness of Tunisia to western minds, as the color and the many strong odors almost come over with the sound, are all caught...
...Presented bp Austin Wilder in recital at the idth Street Theatre...
...Millard Mitchell at the walkie-talkie is his usual efficient hard-boiled self...
...EL CMICO HONORS PANAMA SUNDAY El Chico, continuing it* figurative Pan American tour, honors th* Republic of Panama this Sunday evening, January 16, as its refa> 1st weekly good-neighbor fiestas...
...But if th* new dances hsve not greatly enriched our stock of modern danc* numbers, Martha Graham remains the most searching and most moving of our modern dancers, with the high seriousness and rich power that keep* the dsnce a vital RRO Of f f PS ia nnp IN PONDS IMMY UAUTY COMTKT for age...
...With demoniac skill Zasu Pitts pits her dumb genius— thst always beloved Puddinhead Wilson, muddlin' through mixture of seeming stupidity and luck—against the bootlegging gangsters, and tumbles into triumph...
...But double-talking Cy Howard make* his Broadway debet a real contribution to the color of the theatre...
...The cast is excellent, and there is every reason why you should go to the City Center...
...And that very nurse had asked fog a transfer from the American to the British line* because she'd been too much in love with that vary top-fergeant...
...It was inevitable that "Arsenic and Old Lace" produce a progeny...
...end the Nurse—they go right on in the dark when a strafing German plan* swoops down—it becomes clear that "Storm Operation" has led Mr...
...and when we aee th* Italian prisoner we look for his hand organ and hi* monkey...
...Coincidences in life do not always Jell into the drama Here the English staff officer And* himself with the Americans, taking orders from a top-sergeant...
...And the end of "Salem Shore" seamed a bit casual for the woman'* long longing...
Vol. 27 • January 1944 • No. 3
