Peeoshow: Thru the Glass to a Philanderer
"Peeoshow": Thru the Glass to a Philanderer LOOK THROUGH THI SLOT PEEPSHOW. By Emeet Pateal. Directed by David Burton. Setting* by Lemuel Ayers. Prodittcit by Mr Pascal in association...
...Martha Raye heckling friend Fred heating's comedymagics at Spivy's Roof...
...But David Wayne, save fop a slight effeminate touch, makes the creature so gay we hardly mind it's promptings— any more than Mallet himself...
...Festured\with Miss Hut ton's band it vocalist Stuart Foster...
...Explains Sparks: "Guess I've got Persisn Koornatism...
...Ned Sparks tells John Hoysradt that it's his fifth consecutive night st the Plaza tableside...
...Buts^neittter...
...lonathrn Mallet has little to do save make love to loose ladies, and even attack one, like his architect's wife - the architect is building a home for him and his fiancee—but his conscience is rather light about it all True, there are lectures, and warnings, and "1 told-you-so's...
...A lone diner in a distant nook at the Cafe Louis XIV—Capt...
...Mtenm oat the dramatic flow is consistent...
...Sex-appeal may keep it on Broadway for a while...
...At the h'u'tjn Theatre...
...with the result that the general effect is of cream-puffery and chiffon...
...but . that's the only .kind of appeal it is like to have...
...On the Strand screen is tht Warner Bros, love story of prewar Poland, "In Our Time" star, ring Ida Lupino and Paul Henreid...
...nor dots having the fiance" arrive while the other woman is there become less trite because Conscience exclaims "Just like a French farce...
...At the Village Bam, Laird Cregar apias a greup of corner tables filled with folks from the bobby-sax set aad remarks: "Ah, the Frank Sinatra Room...
...Too many virtues . are sacrificed for the immediate effect...
...as a nember of the Fisk Jubilee Singers...
...Even had Jonathan Mallet's being made him worth seeing into (as all men are, to the properly attuned sight) this "peepshow" by its very name establishes its level, and the kind of glass it gives us to look through at these folk...
...Eurasian ballerina Sono Osato lunching with her French Moroccan husband at the Holland House Tavern*—What a league of nations...
...The Aft Enduro becomes sn arena far two Dodger and Giantfans* sfJbZ mortems of last year's baseball aeries.—Johnny the Call boy Shnozsola Durante...
...EDITH SEWELL GIVES CONCERT Edith Sewell, colored dramatic j soprano, will give her first Town Hall recital Sunday afternoon, i ' February 20, at 3 p. m. After her studies in Europe were nterrupted by the war she reurned to America and made her •rand opera debut under Maestro , ¦ Ufred Salmaggi in Aida in Febru- j try of last year at the Brooklyn ' Academy of Music...
...At Leone's, Paulette Goddard's Cimme-a-sentence-with-the-word, with the noun Forepaw: "Eating peas with a knife in public is a terrible forepaw...
...In addition, the stage show features Georgia Gibbs, singing star of the Camel radio program, who is making her first Broadway stage appearance, and those dancing sensations, the Condos Bros...
...DINIM Jean Arthur dining on three kinds of salads at Ceruttils—and nothing mow...
...As as Ex...
...Prodittcit by Mr Pascal in association with Samuel It must on...
...The impression is heightened both by the freedom of the language and by the eccentricities of the sets, from liberate distortions of the cellar where the architect, the lover, and the conscience sit op the table swinging their legs, in one of the play's truly humorous moments...
...but there are also wise-cracks, and help even in the escapades...
...Miss Sewell has just returned rom a tour of the southern army amps where she appealer...
...1- | STRAND HOLDS DILL Ina Ray Hutton and her all-male orchestra-will head the "In Person" ahow at the N. V. Strand for * second week starting today...
...It'* sui prising how engaging one's conscience can l>e...
...Rather convenient, a conscience of that sort...
...Even to the twist at the end, when the fiancee decides that she wants to try what she's getting before she's tied to it by a ceremony, the p|ay has the the Dali background of Le Coquille an Citron dining room to the deflavor of a French farce...
...Eddie RAcken backer...
...There's no need to tell the incidents in which our dalliant hero gets involved...
...tra Attraction, the Strand presents the comedy stars of stage and screen, the 3 Stooges...
...And it seems, too, that when a nui>e sticks a needle in your arm, it's your conscience that feels the prick...
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Vol. 27 • February 1944 • No. 8
