Excellent Handling of Drama: 'Men to the Sea'
Excellent Handling of Drama: 'Men to the Sea' STRAND Bill HELD OVER FOR SIXTH WEEK Charlie Harriet and hie orcheatra will remain on the stage at the N Y. Strand for a tth week beginning...
...WAR ••IMS LIFT AT HOME • "MEN TO THE SEA...
...Save for a natural flare, at a tenee moaacnt, from tht wild wosaafj of the bridal crew, there's no later suggestion of any thoughts of color...
...So his Wife goes to the boarding houae...
...That's about all to the story...
...In this boarding houae mar the Brooklyn Navy Yard, two of the girls might as well call "Madame Mosh," the landlady, "madam...
...and the rent is paid...
...Tha landlady objects...
...Symphony Mali Shostakovich...
...Sets oy Hewed Bay...
...Sunday afternoon, October IS, st 3:00 (Opening Sunday "Kvea" Scries) broadcaat over CBS: SyaShony No...
...A similar deftness—with acting often showing how effectively ft can move without speech—marks the management of the large cast, exits and entrances, climatic moments...
...8, Shotakovich...
...One that does finds his wife about to have another man'a baby...
...7 in A major, HeetkeZ "Sea Drift," Carpenter...
...But aa we see it, there's a swift pace of constant action, with the fine hand of Eddie Dowling discerned in many a moment of sensitive performance...
...COMEOf at MUSIC hall "Casanova Brown," starring...
...2 h3| minor, Borodin...
...PROGRAMS 41 C4RNEGIE HALL Artnr Bedsinaki, Musical Dxtetki Sunday afternoon, October lL 3 00 (Opening Sunday "Otxr*% ries) broadcast over CBS: fay phony No...
...Also to be commended is the neatest handling of the racial problem in many a good moon...
...Hare ia a melodrama rousing enough far all, with soatiment for tho quJek-to-grow-Ua»T—and a subtle, understanding treatment to please the theatregoer who likes his plays intelligently handled...
...he '• ia as much a real pal aa all the others...
...Joseph T. Shipley...
...Friday afternoon, OejEr IS, at 2:30 (Opening Friday Series): Symphony No...
...The play, beginning starkly, veers toward the mawkish...
...the white girts say it's all or none...
...lfc" •verture, Tchaikovsky...
...Directed by Eddie Dowling At the National Theatre...
...A natural situation naturally handled, no emphasis or pressing...
...Thursday evening, October slL 8:45 (Opening Thursdsy "|B> Series...
...Excellent Handling of Drama: 'Men to the Sea' STRAND Bill HELD OVER FOR SIXTH WEEK Charlie Harriet and hie orcheatra will remain on the stage at the N Y. Strand for a tth week beginning today...
...Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright, continues for a fourth week at the Radio City Music Hall...
...One of the gun crew is a Negro...
...That's all...
...If one must pick among the performers, I'd select James Alexander as the quiet "limey" and Mildred Smith, tha Negress...
...On screen is the Warner Bros, picturization of tha Broadway success, "Arsenic and Old Lace" starring Cary Grant with Raymond Maasey, Jack Car son and Peter...
...but the neatness of its handling keeps it clear...
...hut moat of the cast do good work...
...but men ' in battle see beneath the akin...
...One of the men never comes back...
...The pretty little bride, Bonnie from Boaton, grows up...
...The author must get credit too, as when on Christmas Eve on the destroyer the sex talk of the sailors geta tangled into the story of Jesus and the woman caught in adultery and the man without sin to cast the first stone...
...By Herbert Ah My...
...the other three are simple girls thst love their men...
...It's a story of what happens to the women Who marry sailors, marry them in wartime, just before they are shipped away...
...Men to the Sea'* is an effective play, and an excellent sample of how a work can be well handled in the theatre...
...Suite iE "Dor Resankavalier," StraaaS Got Rhythm," Gershwin GotddjL concert performance...
Vol. 27 • October 1944 • No. 41
