Show of Shows Due March 13 at Garden
"Show of Shows" Due March 13 at Garden MANT GROUPS PLEDGE SUPPORT TO CAUSE laedeit of the garment indus 'TthwitrietJ and other groups ^LndTy Pi**** >*» »uPP°rt .Mfheir trades and...
...The latter picture in technicolor, co-starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland with Jon Hall, War ner Baxter, Barry Sullivan and Mischa Auer, will bow in on Washington's birthday, Tuesday, February 22...
...The new Roxy stage presentation headlining Martha Raye and Rossrio and Antonio, also stavs a 1 second week...
...Although the film continues to play to capacity audienees ita run is being curtailed to make room for tha New York premiere of "Lady in the Dark...
...In repertory of the comic opera masterpieces...
...Katisha in particular (Catherine Judah) being caparisoned like an oriental cartoon...
...For the hepsters, Lionel Hampton, reigning monarch of jazz, has a show that is rocking Broadway...
...hers they are now on Broadway, in as¦ured, professional performance...
...the supercilious Lord High Everything Else, had a sly self-satisfaction that added a new timbre to his role...
...Hampton, famous as drum and vibrahary star, has Rubel Blakely and Dinah Washington as added attractions...
...It's led to a lot of iisappointment in the recent theatre...
...j These attending the luncheon net only pledged their support*be- I hind the show, the net proceeds of j which will go toward the Emer- j gency Committee's work to save tht Jewish people in the Reich 1 and other Nasi-dominated coun- | tries, but agreed to form commit- , tees within their trades, organnatisns and groups to make this one ; of the most significant and successful events of its kind...
...Bat Gilbert and Sullivan are rteroal spring — and the present :ompany makes merry with their magic...
...Florenz Ames put sn extra oriental sway into his [lancing...
...At the Ambassador Theatre...
...Presented by R. H. Burntide...
...Plans disclosed at the luncheon revealed that these various groups I would purchase blocks of tickets for the event but turn them over to organizations like the USO for free distribution among members of the armed services...
...hit tilm version of Charlotte Bronte's famous novel co-starring Juan Fontaine and Orson Welles, is being held over for its third big week at the theatre...
...The Mikado' is managed — with the "gents of old Japan"—like a caricature...
...i GAY GILBERT The Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company...
...ROXT HOLDS "THE SULUVAHS" "The Sullivans," new 20th Cen- I tury-Fox film starring Anne Bax- ' ttr, Thomas Mitchell and Selena I Royle, remains for a second week at the Roxy Theatre...
...The Show of Shows" is the first venture of this kind sponsored by , the Emergency Commtitee to Save tht Jewish People of Europe, which was set up last summer...
...CAPITOL SHOW POPULAR Two kinds of music lovers are having a holiday at the Capitol Theatre, with the current show attracting crowds of each...
...if you have seen them- 1 don't have to tell you...
...There hss been a sort of top to the impatient, in the two companies offering the operas Jown in Greenwich Villsge...
...and Robert Pitkin as the Mikado romped about and ;tu»Ik stop, X ped the show...
...Pinafore" proved just a bit less freshly done, though Ames as Lord High Admiral is again the essence of comic caricature, and Dick Dearleye would chase away the gremlins...
...Aim is- ti> < hsve more than three-quarters of tht audience at Madison Square Garden men and women in uniform...
...It's fun...
...at one point in an encore, that veteran Florenz Ames just laughed along with the rest of us...
...MIRACLE" FILM IN LAST Mfilst AT PA*AMOUNT "Miracle of Morgan's Creek," the Betty Hut tan, Eddie Bracken laugh hit produced and directed by Preston Sturges, is now in its fifth and final week at the N. Y. Paramount Theatre...
...George Woolf, who has been associated with British War Relief, Army and i Navy Relief, Army Emergency Relief and Greek War Relief shows, it director of special events for the I Emergency Committee...
...Hope springs eternal in the human breast...
...Dean A'fange cochairman of the Emergency Committee, who explained ita work...
...While the voices, for the singing1 parts, are not the best our generation has heard to Sullivan's music, I the comic moments are as richly | played as one might desire...
...There ' is an added sense of the company's joining the audience and enjoying it all, too...
...and the Honorable Judge Benjamin ShaUeck, who made the appeal...
...Tachaikowsky's music, suplemented with Yip Harburg and Jerome Kern's best melodies, in "Song of Russia," starring Robert Taylor and MGM's new screen beaut1', Susan Peters, is pleasing that part of the audiences with musical appetites of the orthodox sort...
...and the chorus combined caricature effect (especially the males) with good voices...
...Oldsters around me—and I myself—were laughing as gaily as the nine-year olds, getting their first thrilling taste of the operas...
...Any of the operas is an evening's delight...
...This opera depends a bit more on the singing, but there's laughter enough for any lad or lass from six to ninety-six...
...Between those ages, if you haven't seen Gilbert and Sullivan, I bid you go...
...Show of Shows" Due March 13 at Garden MANT GROUPS PLEDGE SUPPORT TO CAUSE laedeit of the garment indus 'TthwitrietJ and other groups ^LndTy Pi**** >*» »uPP°rt .Mfheir trades and organizations " wj^a aa all-sUr variety show, ^mot*d by tha Emtvfancy CoramittsTw Bars tha Jowish People of Europe, which will be pre„„ted st Madison Square Garden, lurch It UteUHg at a luncheon in the jlttti Aster, the group pledged iu ..iSBTt ss preliminary plans for tat promotion of the big show, en titled "Th« Show of Shows," were JUlsstJ by Alsn Corelli, head of Thtetre Authority, and chairman j the luncheon...
...MUSIC H4LL FILM HOLDS , .Playing to Rapacity audiences at Radio City Music Hall, ".fan* Eyre...
...Robert Kckles as Pooh-Bah...
Vol. 27 • February 1944 • No. 8
