About the Theatre
About the Theatre RING OUT. FAIR BELLS! "A BELL FOR ADANO." Bp Paul Ot-bom, from the novel by John^Hertey. Directed by H. C. Potter. At tke Cort Theatre. TtiERE might Mem torn* difficulty in...
...indeed, Virgiaia Gilraore has little else to do than to be swept...
...Vladerk Forum, Downtown Branch, Sunday, Dec...
...To their little Italian town, just liberated, th* U.S.A...
...Topic: "The Crisis in Modern Society...
...And if the sergeant laments the recall of Major Poppolo (when the General reads that report), we can feel that our civilian-army should provide many such, in whose hands democracy is a shining and a golden-toned ringing...
...TtiERE might Mem torn* difficulty in presenting a piny on the struggle (or democracy, without either propaganda or spreadeagling...
...12, at 862 Eatt Tremont Ave...
...31, 8 p. m. Entertainment, dancing, etc...
...And the day thtt Ruth it engaged to a steady, solemn banker, the dashing lieutensnt on leave dashes in on her...
...Mary H. Johnson, financial ftert-tary...
...sign was posted, and the pressure for admittance continued unabated through Sunday...
...The A. I. Shiplacoff Branch is arranging a modest little affair to honor our grand old veteran...
...But while Major Joppolo brings democracy, not all Americans can do the same...
...And so our grand comrade is now 74 years young...
...but—unless in deliberate ironic contrast that did not come across—Egievsky's sentimental movement belied th* intent of th* turtle onstage and the bicyclists painted behind...
...and soon forgotten...
...Carl Landauer, educational director...
...Sixty-two Hollywood atart illuminate the cast of the musical romance' which tells the story of the famed West Coast servicemen's center...
...New Yttrt Bv* Social of Russian Social DemoeraU in the Rand School Auditorium, Sunday, Dec...
...But to ask Mis* Eaaon to dance th* "Bolero" it lib* giving "Schnoxzlt" Durante a violet...
...A Bell for,Adano" rings the bell...
...Deli's backdrop for "Sentimental Colloquy...
...Speaker: R. Abraniowitch...
...Aa a further promise of such beauty, we welcome the Ballet International...
...24, noon, in the Forward Bldf., 176 East Broadway, N.Y.C...
...Predric March makes the Major a warmly human being, a bit unbending in his earnestness, but rich and real...
...Further sessions will be held on Sunday Jan...
...We may therefore look upon ita first offering to see what better it might do...
...Comrades and friends can aend their greetings to hit home, 979 Hegeman Ave., Brooklyn, N. T. SDF NEWS NATIONAL Tke Nationsl Executive Committee wl meet in New York City on Saturday January 20th, t p. m., at 7 East 1Mb ? Local Naw York ha* arranged aa baa...
...But, more than these, it is Director Moss Hart who has made of a dramatic cream puff an appetizer as well as a dessert...
...John Dall as lieutenant sweeps Dear Ruth off her feet...
...it'a a smash hit...
...The present Miss Miriam ia a sixteen year old, at the stage whan life it really earnest She writes to Secretary stei tlniut, and she writes to a flier at the front...
...Algernon Lee answers questions on current issues every Saturday at 9:15 p. in ova-Station WEVD...
...mat* dinner gathering for th* eveaiag...
...for example, it aa striking at Big Bon...
...The newly organised Eatt Bran Branch met laat Thursday...
...12th in theae headquarters with Prof...
...8. . , . Central Branch, Brooklyn: Housewarming of tht new headquarter*, 1110 Eastern Parkway, corner Utica Ave., Friday, Jan...
...at the Men's Club, Beth Sholem Syns-gogue, Bay Parkway and Bensonhunt Ave., Brooklyn, Dec...
...22-23-24-ta.TT Oakland, Calif.: Th* recently organise East Bay Branch report* steady program and mora members...
...Presented by Joteph M. Hitman and Bernard Hart...
...As eager Miriam, Lenore Lonergan — you remember her from "Junior Miss"—carries the brunt of the rouse...
...The other Americans are less fully portrayed...
...For if not everything is novel, everything is smoothly paced and neatly timed, and lots of fun...
...Edwin H Cm orach *n and Burnil W. Porter,4 vie*, chairmen...
...City Central CommHts* meets Wednesday, Jan...
...Rand School Workshop for the manufacture of clothing for war sufferers is open daily from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. from Monday through Thursday and on Wednesday evenings...
...There are the badly trained ones, heedless in authority, like General Marvin who, when a water cart gets in his way, orders all carts kept out of Adano...
...August Claeaaen* speaks at the Liberal Party Jamaica Club, 10th and 11th A. I), Queens, 166-28 Jamaica Ave., Dec...
...22, l>) p. m , in the Rand School Studio...
...rotary...
...HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN" OPENING IREAKS N. r. STR4ND RECORDS All opening week-end records in the history of the New York Strand Theatre toppled with the premiere of Warner Bros.' "Hollywood Canteen...
...By Norman Kratna...
...At Henry Miller't Theati...
...JULIUS GERRER IIRTHDAT JuLIUS GERBER wUl be 74 on Dec...
...Dancer, composer, designer must not each be monarch of his realm, but must all bow to a central conception that will produce an integrated work...
...A play is offered us: Bang...
...There's not much that matters much in "Dear Ruth," but stage magician Moas Hart demonstrates the font: out of that little substance he pulla (like the seven , rabbits and a turkey-cock for good measure, from the stovepipe hat) a sparkling comedy, well acted, with laughing lines that ripple into a season's hit...
...The people of Adano are starving...
...Nijinska's backward-looking and rambling choreography it a eerioua handicap, in the light of ballot progrett in this country...
...Sidney Hook as speaker...
...rj vantioa at th* Now England asirtaa...
...City Executive Committee meet* Wednesday, Dec...
...Philadelphia, Pa.: National Conference of the Jewiah Socialist V*r-band, January 27 28...
...Gerber have compelled Julius to abstain from activities in the last few years...
...Shrinking in fear, smoothly subservient, whining, or bluntly defiant, they are all won by the Major's patient honesty and fair dealing to a sense that the Americans have really brought something different, a new hope, to their town...
...His poor health and that of Mrs...
...It is a rich play, a dramatic aurge of forces, and a searching probe into the most serious problem of our time...
...Nevertheless, he is as much interested and as optimistic as he over was for the Social Democratic and labor movement...
...Now York has witnessed a flowering of ballet art, and a genuine surge of public response to its beauty...
...and th* ensemble, especially it* male members, must still learn to work together...
...There is variety of talent in this new group to make us hope that it will find avenues of growth to ballet beauty...
...they rise iridescent in the air of gaiety...
...DIRfCTOrS DRAMA "DEAR RUTH...
...or Pouf...
...Music, dancing, refreshments...
...J.8.V...
...men bring new hope—of sustenance for body: food and drink...
...The Brooklyn Forum, under the auspicti of the branch and the Rand School, opens on Jan...
...and for anal: symbolized in the town-hall bell carried off bp th* foe...
...let Frankfurter give blood I) are deft and amusing...
...5; at the Vladeck Club, Liberal Party, 6416 Bay Parkway, Brooklyn, Jan...
...21, morning and afternoon...
...Shortly after the doors had opened, at 8:30 a. m., the S.R.O...
...Prof...
...There are the fearful of authority, like the MP captain, who sends in a report that Joppolo has countermanded the General's order...
...There is mood in the play of "Junior Miss," which Moss Hart also directed...
...But the Ballet Institute is offering not only a present season of six weeks, but promise of a permanent company to promote the arts of the dance...
...NEW YORK CITY Holiday Gathering for branch otVeri, delegates and committee member* of Local Now York, Friday, Doc...
...At the laat mettfat tit* following officers war* elected: Mum Q. Humphrey*, chairman...
...Krasna pops along with complications to kep the evening faster, and lines that hold the audience in bubbles of Isughter — and Moss Hart keep* tht bubbles from bursting...
...GALA MUSIC HALL BILL Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's new hit, "National Velvet," continues for a second week at Radio City Music Hall, with the theatre's celebrated two-part Christmas stage prgoram, the far-famed "Nativity" spectacle and "Star Bright," a festive new Yuletide circus produced by Leoni-doff...
...at the Liberal Party Boro Park Club, 4612 13th Av»., Brooklyn, Jan...
...WhEN the stage magiciaa Is readyiag his favorite trick, hia patter goo* rippling along, usually with some allusion to the triumph of mind over matter...
...it takes memories of football at Good Old Yale to break him down...
...and as the audience leaves the theatre its rich tones, symbolic of the better world to come, continue pealing...
...What is needed it a whipping together, * drawing of ail th* aspects of ballet art into a unified harmony...
...Against all these Major Joppolo struggles, not with sermons and fine speeches, but with fair dealing and honest endeavor in love of his fellow-men...
...IALLET INTERNATIONAL lVthe new ballet company at the International Theatre were like a new play production, one would have turned from its opening night and gone to other concerns...
...and the Italians remain types—except for two more fully developed into caricatures: the usher, and the interpreter, rousingly played by Tito Vuolo, Marge, as the fisherman's daughter, brings a slight but pleaaant feminine tone into the evening...
...There were color, enthusiasm, verve in the first offering...
...Leslie Douglas, recording ttt...
...but the other Italians run the gamut of reactions to the forces of occupation...
...Topic: "The Future of Social Democracy in Europe...
...Phyllis Povah as the mother, Howard Smith as the father (he's only a traffic-court judge...
...And there are the reckless of authority, like the soldiers that smash the art treasures, so that the owner calls them "worse than the Germans...
...at th* Chelsea Labor LyeeaT Chelsea, Mass., Dec...
...but it has to meet the test of competence in the field...
...Th* dancer* individually are good: th* principals, Eglevsky and Dollar, Viola Esssn and Marie-Joanne—and th* company...
...Next meeting, snd election of officers on Friday, Jaa...
...There are the sticklers for authority, like the Navy officer who refuses to cooperate because he wasn't consulted first...
...The history of American Socialism is enriched with biographical matter relative to the invaluable service of Julius Gerber and his long life of devotion to our movement...
...Before daylight, at 7:30 a. m. on opening day, an unprecedented line formed at the box-office...
...A similar harmony must be established among th* other elements, music, setting, choreography...
...He waa among the founders and pioneers in the 90's, secretary of New York sections of the Socialist Party in ita heyday, campaign director in the most successful election victories, 1916 to 1922, on* of the founders of the Rand School, The Call, The New Leader, and numerous other ventures and institutions...
...But, being her age, tht putt her sister's pic tors in, and her sister's name on, the letters to the Lieutenant of tht tir...
...Directed by Mot* Hart...
...but "A Bell for Adano" finds th* way...
Vol. 27 • December 1944 • No. 52
