Wallflower Climbs Down to Blossom at Cort
"Wallflower" Climbs Down to Blossom at Cort NIGHT BLOOMING \ui kUftfU D****m Staged t, Mr. Otmhtm. Setting »y Samuel Lev*. Prateuted buMeuer Dqvu. At the Cort Theatre. Here* rapid...
...and Joy m ¦ joy < behold, while Jackie pretty (hough she is i* completely pttoed aside by her sister's looks iad technkwe...
...bet sex holds the stage...
...As this eager lassie...
...Mary lelfe does good work...
...Indeed, Mr...
...Starring Anna Sten and Kent Smith, the drama presents a dramatic account of the day-byday life and experiences of a group f Red Cross nurses and features in the supporting cast Mimi Forsaythe, Alexander Granach, Kathy Frye and Paul Guilfoyle...
...HslfMttn am Ussy...
...Sunnie OT>a has more than her beauty, ss Joy...
...Honors in acting go to Jcel Marston (eighth in the "Who's Who in the Cast") as the boy who in tipsy with Joy, then drunk with Jackie...
...most of the dialogue is no less so...
...hut the boys will court Joy and Jackie there for some time to come...
...And swift-paced timing of action ¦nd efforts keeps the audience attentive, while excellent staging and performance draw from the audience every "belly-laugh, every sudden snert, every self-conscious snkker the theme permits...
...The company includes Frank Wttcox, Louise lxirimer, Gloria Willis, Harry Pedersen, Marylyn Monk, Jackie oyers, Richard Basehart, Sara Floyd, Curtis Cooksey, Harold Moulton, Angela Jacobs, Arthur Griffin, John Souther, Graver- Burgess, Tito Vuolo, Harriet White, Stapehon Kent, Robert West, David Lewis, Shaque Hampar, James Rawls and Martin Leonard...
...And only lster dees everyone else, onstage and off, Itiew that, first, she married the fallow Even he was too drunk leknow...
...nA\m IT AS IT COMES" OUff FEBRUARY 7f* Armin L. Robinson will present ""Take It as It Comes," a new comedy by E. B. Morris at the 48th Street Theatre en Monday evening, February 7th...
...The rest of the plot is equally trite...
...But Jackie comes through...
...J. T. 8. "THREE RUSSIAN GIRLS" NEW PALACE FEATURE "Three Russian Girls," the heroic drama of volunteer nurses working snd fighting on the Russian front, opens todsy at the RKO Palace Theatre...
...And if Joy, as she puts it, keeps her pettiBg "above the belt," the play directs our sttention to other places...
...Take It as It Comes" is a comedy of a New Jersey household selected by a national magazine as the model American family, a reputation difficult to live up to...
...Denham has done a good job with a good cast...
...Joy sucks in boys libs dustjgrains in s vacuum cleaner Until Jackie, who has ihrmteM* » so *Wy»g in the ade" -does so...
...Here* rapid and i ibahj com* tij: success through se*cees...
...The film is a Gregor Rsbinovitch production released through United Artists and directed by Fedor Ozep and Henry Kesler...
...The stern father is in the | capable hands of Walter N. Greasa...
...Three Russian Girls*' teams for the first time Anna Sten and Kent Smith in" the roles of a fighting volunteer nurse and an American V?t0r wh<> find WT* in th* mid*t »f bombs and machine gun bullets « the active Russian front, while »e few battle sequences screened « actual fighting scenes photographed at the front by Russian i cameramen...
...Anthony Brown is directing and Perry Watkins is designing the production...
...The Cert Theatre has had four tenants this season...
...After s qusrter-century enclosed by two revolutions, the English produced, in Restoration comedy, thiir liveliest and most suggestive drama A similar period, enclosed by two world wars, is shipping us similar crate of oranges.' "Wall newer," far all the virgin innocence of its title, squeezes' their last drop of juice...
Vol. 27 • February 1944 • No. 6
