About the Theatre
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
About the Theatre By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY BUY A SPOT IN HEAVEN! "EMBEZZLED HEAVES.' By L. Buek Fekete and Mary Helm Fey from a nui el fry Franz Werfei. Presented fry the Theatre Guild. At the...
...At the National ThAT the world holds both pioty and fi ami is brought home to ua in Ethel Harrymore'a latest vehicle, "Emhessled Heaven...
...Coincident with the pre-premiere is the Capitol's delayed 25th Anniversary show which continues on regular achedule, with Jimmy Dorsey and orchestra, Ted Walters, Pa-ti Palmer and Henny Youngman contributing the "stars in person" talent...
...persons at Radio City Music Hall, MetroGoldwyn-'Mayer's new Greer Garson-Walter Pidgeon hit, "Mrs...
...Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte by Lord Byron, for Recitation, Piano and String Oichestra (Schoenberg...
...but in the next breath he asaurea her that one ao concerned with eternity may hope for God's grace...
...For twenty-five years Tete, the devoted cook, deals oat her savings to the nephew she thinks is studying for the priesthood...
...Thursday evening, November 23, 1 at 8:45...
...The ninety-nine-year-old villager, brought in to remember Teta's family, jars on one's sensitivity, credibility, and aenae of dramatic fitness...
...Not so much can be said for the direction, however...
...Such a plot—to which my summary has doubtless done scant justice—may quietly color a reflective tale...
...The Vetknn, by the by, and the other seta, by Stewart Chancy, are excellently done...
...Aa Teta dies, the curtain falls t>n the biblical reflection that whoso is humble enough to seek the back door will And it the main entrance...
...Sploist: Gregor Piatigorsky, Violin-cellist...
...kington," has taken its place with the all-time high attendance record makers in the theatre's twelve-year history, G. S. Eyssell president and managing director, announced...
...Filmed from Richard Llewellyn's best-selling novel, "None But the Lonely Heart" also features Barry Fitzgerald, June Duprez and Roman Bohnen in supporting loles with Clifford Odets, director, and David Hempstead, producer...
...Soloists: Charles Kullman and Kerstin Thorborg...
...Ted Lawson, the flyer who lost his leg on the mission and wrote, his love story with Bob Considine, have the principal roles in the film, with Phyllis Thaxter as the "love interest...
...Pianist: Edward Steuermann (1st performances...
...Three Dances from "The ThreeCorn red Hat" (De Falla...
...The story itself, however, moves too much by talk...
...Each strikes s false note...
...NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART" AT PALACE "None But the Lonely Heart," the new RKO Radio drama starring Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore and Jane Wyatt, will open at the RKO Palace Theatre today...
...Ethel Barrymore is her goodly self, but has no chance to rise, even in her final Irene Her nephew, and the countess, are definitely bad...
...Cello Concerto in D major (Haydn...
...Laid in England just before the slart of World War II, the story presents the problem of a man confused and puzzled by the conflicts in life and whose indecision is I eightened by his love for tw6 girls...
...One waits impatiently and ia vain for the guards, to snap him to silence...
...it does not body forth the breath of life in drama...
...THIRTf SECOMDS OVER TORTO" AT CAPITOL "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo," MGM's big new epic of General Jimmy Doolittle's breathtaking exploit, ia now in its world premiere showing at the Capitol Theatre...
...nor does the play stimulate great performance...
...Even leaa appropriate is the character of the man that arranged the pilgrimage...
...But "Embexxled Heaven" is hardly more than a faint tap-tap at the golden gates of Broadway...
...Twice, before r • os—Teta's discovery that her nephew is a fraud...
...Friday afternoon, November 24, at 2:30...
...Albert Baaaerman, after a diatinguiahed role on the German stage, in hia first English-apeak role makea the most of his few moments as the Pope...
...Das Lied von der Erde" (Mahler...
...Philharmonic -Symphony Programs, Carnegie Hall ARTUR RODZINSKI, Musical Director Sunday afternoon, Nov...
...PAH KINGTON" FILM HELD Already seen by 698,15...
...Now in its sixth week, it is estimated that the picture will have 'ggregated an audience of 760,000 by the end of is fifth week...
...Haffner" Symphony in D major (Mosart...
...Spencer Tracy, in the role of Doolittle, and Van Johnson as Capt...
...the Theatre Guild maintains its tradition of superb production...
...Narrator: Mack Harrell...
...he writes her religiously of his progress—but nothing else about him is religious—he has become s charlatan fortune-teller outside Teta's home-town, go Teta gees to Rome, where the ailing Pope tells her she cannot win heaven by raising someone to pray her in...
...There is interest in the stir of Teta's big kitchen, with its bustle of preparation: the countess is having the cardinal to dine...
...when it seems that the sick Pope may not grant an audience, the guide'a loud protests that he's provided good food and hedging, they can't complain about him, ring alien and ugty in the <|Uie| dignity of the Vatican...
...snd Teta's audience with the Pope—the play presents what we call, in Shakespeare, a comic interlude...
...Miss Barrymore letuins to the screen after twelve years absence in the role of the man's cancer-stricken mother who is the motivation for all his r.ctions...
...19, at 3:00 (Broadcast over CBS): "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" (Mozart...
Vol. 27 • November 1944 • No. 47
