Pique Dame Opens at 5th Ave. Playhouse
"Pique Dame" Opens at 5th Ave. Playhouse American Premiere of Pushkin's "Pique Dame" Th* 6th Avenu* Playhouse fa) now presenting the promior* pres •nUtion in the United States of the first...
...Friers aceepod the travelogue field early last year by flying to Parieutin and filming the first and exclusive •con** of Dionisio Pulid* the Tarascan farmer, re-enacting the birth ef the volcano en his land...
...Madeleine Oxeray plays Lisa, enamored ef the young Russian officer...
...Lucien Baroux, Gaby Morlay, Elvire Popesco, Erich von Stroheim, Michel Simon, Jules Berry, Simone Berriau and Marguerite Moreno head the brilliant all-star cast of French players...
...Pique Dame" is the work of the Russian director, Fedor (hep, who produced it in pre-war Paris...
...Thunder Rock" will not be shown elsewhere in the Greater New York area this season...
...Mexican Holiday" Color Travelogue at Carnegie Hall Parkutin Volcano, which erupted in a Mexican cornfield last year, will be featured ia a new fulllength color film travelogue, "Mexican Holiday," to be presented by Robert Friers, the young humorist narrator, at Carnegie Hall on Sunday, October 22, in the first of a series of showing...
...New in the 20th month of its amasing eruptions, spectacular stages of the growth of the volcano which is th* greatest show on earth," according to informed critics, will be ahown...
...Dialogue is in French and there are complete titles in English...
...Playhouse American Premiere of Pushkin's "Pique Dame" Th* 6th Avenu* Playhouse fa) now presenting the promior* pres •nUtion in the United States of the first work of the greatest Russian poet and novelist, Alexander Pushkin, ever transferred to the screen—"Pique Dame" (La Dame do Pique...
...Marguerite Moreno, dean of French actresses and honored member of the ( omedie Franraise, is seen in the title role as "la dame de pique," which translates into "the queen ef spades...
...James Mason and Lilli Palmer head the very large supporting cast...
...THUMDtH ROCK" GOES INTO second MONTH AT WORLD THEATRE "Thunder Rock," starring Michael Redgrave and Barbara Mullen, which ia gradually building into one of th* biggest successes ever to be ahown at the World Theatre by reason of its controversisl nature, goes into its second big month at the World Theatre this week...
...Dialogue is in French and there are complete dialogue titles in English...
...55#h HOLDS OVER FRENCH FILM HIT The 55th Street Playhouse announces that it is holding over for a fourth week the successful French satirical film comedy, "32 Rue Montmartre" (Derriere la Facade) and the feature-length travelogue of France, "Vive la France," starting Wednesday, October 18...
...The hero of the French underground, Pierre Blanchar, who was the ''Voice of Resistance" in Paris during the Nasi occupation, and who has now become second in command to Jean Painleve as head of th* French (Urn industry under th* provisional government, ia th* star of "Pique Dame," in the role of Hermann, the young Russian officer who is obsessed with gambling, especially with the discovery of the secret "three winning cards" held by an old dowager Countess who got the secret from the charlatan adventurer Cagliostro...
...Adapted from the play by Robt...
...This is the same story by Pushkin which provided Tschaikowaky with the basis ef his famous opera, "Piqu* Dame," though a new musical score is used for the film...
...Preceding the Parieutin scenes, Friers takes (the audience on an exciting tour of Mexico which highlights the life, customs, architecture, scenery, ritual dances and night life of the country...
...Ardrey, the Sim is the first directorial work of the brilliant young English director, Roy Boulting...
Vol. 27 • October 1944 • No. 43
