"Lady in the Dark" Opens at Paramount
"Lady in the Dark" Opens at Paramount GAY GILBERT AND SULLIVAN THE COMIC OPERAS, by the (lilbert and Sulltian Comic Opera Comimny. At the Am ttugsador Theatre, Two thingi roust lie said,...
...Robert Pitkin (as Mikado especially) is a real And...
...Cliquet-Pisyil 4. In the nursery...
...ToumaaM (1913, Peace...
...here, begun...
...The barrenness of such ballet (when beautiful, beauty in a void) is at once revealed by La Meri's transformation of the work into the full-bodied Indian art...
...Mueic by Tchaikovtky...
...when they are developed to the neglect of the upper parts of the body and of the head, they may be admired as exercises in agility, or indulged as the gamboling of frisky lambs...
...Bad boy...
...she, put it at the end of a Hindu program —not too well chosen, a bit repetitious,, with even some of her peacock movements reappearing in the swan...
...In other words, "Gilbert and Sullivan" is good...
...March 8. Her program follows: 1. Before the performance staifc, 2. A few violets...........Jacques Ibtrt (Faded violets in an old beakParting...
...In a challenge as successful as bold, La Meri has taken one of the best-known claasical ballets, and keeping the music, the spirit, the very growth of the pattern, has reconstructed the "Swan Lake" story in terms of the Indian dance art...
...There'd have been more elan in a program of her other ranges, Mexican, Spanish, Arabian, Chinese —with the final stark challenge of the new "Swan Lake...
...The film contains exclusive views of old and new Iran, of the vast lend-lease installations constructed by the United States Army, and is climaxed by scenes of the historic Teheran meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin...
...Love Affair...
...Guerrila) author >l the piano...
...Lullaby) 5. To foret (after ToulouseLautrec...
...The Rhumbs King" features Una Romay, Del Campo, Don Rodney and the Cugat Choir...
...Classical ballet, contrary to the expectations and practices of normal intercourse, concentrates its expression through the movements of the legs and feet...
...Choreography by Petipa adapted to the Hindu technique by La Men...
...Bertram Peacock slyly deft...
...J. T. S. BALLET—EAST AND WEST "SWAN LAKE...
...Photographed by a special production unit with the cooperation ' of the Iranian government, the film offers a revealing picture of the country which has become a lendlease lifeline manned by American, British and Russian troops...
...1N1, War...
...At the Ethnologic Dance Center...
...1111, Revolution...
...Without neglecting the lower limbs (though at times, perhaps, restricting them a bit too much), La Meri gave meaning to the ballet through the age-old Hindu gestures of head and hand...
...Catherine Judah is as good an actress as you'd hope for, with unexpected turns and touches, in the heavy roles from the Mikado's Daughter-bi-LawKlectd to the Queen of the Fairies...
...It's a challenge the balletomane can disregard to bis own loss...
...but they cannot enter deeply into the artways and the lifeways of a people...
...The star cast is headed by Ginger Rogers, Ray Millaud, Warner Baxter and Jon Hall...
...1914, War...
...1941...
...La Meri was timid about thrusting her "Swan Lake" upon si' wholly unprepared world...
...FILM VERSION Of sta4j* HIT HAS GINGER ROGERS AND FINE CAST "Ijidy in the Dark," picturization of the stage hit of tha same name, made its long-awaited bow at the New York Paramount oWashington's Birthday...
...It is in the dream sequences that the film reaches its most spectacular aspects...
...On the stage: Xavier Cugat and his orchestra headline the in-person show which complements the screen showing of "Lady in the Dark...
...Leg movements are naturally a part of any larger pattern...
...1930, Work...
...awl they sing so they ran be understood...
...And in costumed caricature, in exaggerated gesture and dance, from fabulious Florenz Ames to the funiest male chorus, the company teases and plucks every possible laugh Out of a bubbling audience...
...At the Am ttugsador Theatre, Two thingi roust lie said, that mark the present Gilbert ami Sullivan company as lively enterta'.n ment anrl a genuine treat: they emphasize all the fun in the opera...
...they may even catch ffleirrwrth tn a moment's- dazzle of beauty...
...Joseph T. Shipley...
...ON SAME PROGRAM The first comprehensive film of Iran, vital but little-known focus of United Nations strategy and diplomacy, has just arrived in the United States from Russia...
...Filmed entirely in technicolor, this drama with music tells the story of a "career woman" whoae heart problems are solved through psychoanalysis of her fantastic dreams...
...There are charming ladies as well as funny men...
...For this may well be the first step in a slow but rich evolution, a new deepening, of the western art of the dance...
...Twenty years from iw...
...Treattchek...
...Bearing the title of "Iran, Where the Big Three Met," the film is now having its first public showing as an added attraction with "No Greater Love" at the Victoria Theatre...
...remember that it was...
...the wise ballet dancer will heed, ponder, and learn...
...Sweet Kathleen Roche, twinkling Marjorie Hay ward (in "The Gondoliers" and "The Mikado"), demure Kathryn Recce (in "lolanthe") make delightful watching...
...Don Baker at the organ rounds out the program...
...Melodies 1MI 6. Backstage at the Opera House (after Degas)..._atrtri 7. Gargoyles (after medieval sculptures) Cowardice..................S...
...Mme...
...Riak> nation) 8. Postcard from ChampsEJysees.-----H...
...Sheer grace of body in feats of skill, stunts, give way to grace Interwoven with wisdom — which may be as playful as a child's fairy legend, or as mystic as a dream beyond the world...
...ELLA REINE COMES TO TIMES HALL MARCH I «¦ .-ft Bella Reine, well-known cesa> dienne choreographique, who hn been praised by many of Euifss/, rrities, will appear s,t New Twk Times Hall on Wednesday eveni...
...A Russian story ..K...
...All of Gilbert's shafts of satire and darts of wit come over, all his dreaming sentiment (usually with a wink -either at the pretty heroine, or at the audience...
...Such an art must be, at best, a tour de force...
...At a ball at the Opera ds Paris in I860 (after Gavarui)-----------Lenl 11...
...the heads, arms, and the rest of the body trail along, of cource, but without any well denned and developed relationship to the business...
...Florenz Ames absurdly superb...
...Walter "Dare" Wahl, acrobatic comedy star of "Star-Spangled Rhyth," and Dean Murphy, popular satirist, recently starred in "Ziegfeld Follies," are other features...
...Mitchell Leisen produced and directed...
...ProkoM Curiosity----------J de Mensjct Slander—......-._ S. ProksM 8. In a cabaret (after Constants Guys) . K. Pauani 9. The milk jug (after Millet)..-..............-Old Meloaiei 10...
...Y. Looiii (Good boy...
Vol. 27 • February 1944 • No. 9
