Sensitive Performance at the 'Cherry Orchard'
Sensitive Performance at the 'Cherry Orchard' The Week on Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY RUSSIAN DECAY "77/1? CHERRY ORCHARD." By Anion Chekhov. English version by hma Skariatina. Staged by Eta...
...In two weeks the picture has played to 298,550...
...Without any of the exaltation, of the final assertion or summoning of faith in man, that mark the I tragic spirit, the play can be called a "comedy'' only as some Olympian I views the world...
...Every figure in the play, indeed, and without exception, is somehow pathetic...
...Eva Ia- (iallienne again present...
...and his Orchestra for a sixth and final week starting today...
...Al Rosen, of Ix>ew's State Theatre, has been named chairman of the entertainment committee...
...THE SHOW OF SHOWS" A GREAT SHOW FOR A WORTHY CAUSE TO BE HELD MARCH 13th "The Show of Shows," an allstar variety show featuring the biggest names of the stage, screen and radio, sponsored by the Emergency Committee to Help Save the Jewish People of Europe, will be presented at Madison Square Garden, Monday evening, March 13th...
...and most of them are doomed...
...As the com pletely irresponsible but irrepre* sible owner of the orchard, Miss I* Catherine, gives a performance in which gaiety bubbles like water in a lioiling pot of grief...
...At the National Theatre...
...Others who continue in person include Allen & Kent, Patti Dugan and Gene Williams...
...The screen feature is the Warner Bros, gripping tale of submarine warfare "Destination Tokyo," starring Vary Grant and John Garfield...
...r -.—,-,----,---BAR Mi T BAUD AMD FILM SHOW HELD AM STRAND The New York Strand will hold Charlie Bainet...
...A meeting of various theatrical groups will be held Friday at which time plans for the big show will lie disclosed...
...Complementinaj the screen attraction is an in person show headed by Johnny Long and his orchestra and including Hazel Scott and Gil Lamb...
...With a second week's attendance greater than its first, the Preston Sturges film, co-starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Mutton, ia also proving the box-office miracle of the year...
...OXT BILL IN 3rd WEEK "The Lodger," 20th Century-Fox mystery thriller, starring Merle Oberon, George Sanders and Laird Cregar, remains for a third and filial week at the Roxy Theatre...
...Thousands of dollars were pledged by these organizations following an appeal made r-ver the weekend by Dean Alfange, co-chairman of the Emergency Committee, and the Honorable Judge Benjamin Shalleck...
...here in its third hilarious week at the New York Paramount...
...Featured with the orchestra as vocalist is Harriet Clark...
...The Show of Shows" is being supported by the leaders of various industries and trades, in addition to the theatrical groups...
...a masterly production, in the revival of Chekhov's depressing picture of a withering society, "The Cherry Orchard...
...PARAMOUNT HOLDS COMFDf HIT "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" is...
...Presented by Caily Wharton and Margaret Webster...
...Staged by Eta l.e (lallunne and Margaret Webster...
...LARRY ADLER—FAUL DRAPER AT CITY CENTER Larry Adler, Harmonica virtuso, who appears with Paul Draper, the tap dancer, at City Center, 131 W. 56th St., for four performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, is collecting harmonicas for service men overseas...
...Donations will be accepted at City Center and the donors will receive acknowledgement of the gift from the service man himself just as soon as he gets it...
...As her wholly incompetent hut more often repressed brother, Joseph Schildkraut creates s figure less freqpent here than in old dying Russia...
...George Woqlf, who has been associated with British War Relief, Navy Relief, Army Emergency Relief and Creek War Relief, is serving in a similar capacity with the show as director of special events for the Emergency Committee...
...In addition, the stage show includes Lowe, Hite and Stanley, a trio of funsters whose heights range from 3 feet 2 inches to 7 feet 9 inches, and tapster Bunny Briggs...
...The Roxy stage presentation with the Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, also remains for :i third nH fip"1 week...
...Even the unfeeling peasant who is climbing to wealth on the shoulders of the tottering aristocrats | himself—and the play takes an i added irony from later events—is soon to be brushed aside by the ! Revolution...
...Vet it ia, lackI ing implications of philosophy or | ideals, nonetheless a faithful picI tuie of a fading group—excellentj ly captured in the present producj tion...
...As the Special Attraction the "In Person" show presents EUa Mae Morse, the original "Cow-Cow-Boogie" gal...
...but genuinely pathetic...
...Entire proceeds of th.show will go toward the Committee's campaign to help save the Jewish People of Europe...
Vol. 27 • February 1944 • No. 6
