A Very Merry Go Round With the Guild
A Very Merry Go Round With the Guild Valerie Bettii to Offer Three Premieres In Dance Recital May 13th Three new dance CSsapssltisna I l.y Valerie Bettle will here their acemieres et the Adelphi...
...Stealing a star from heaven, Billy comes down to try once mere —and slaps his daughter...
...TWDwaawsasse Hart, j with a poem set to the dance by John Brinm and musie by Mr...
...It is definitely a major item in a season of good musicals...
...Without Love" waa directed by Harold S. Bucquet and produced by Lawrence A. Weingarten...
...Then the mood shifts to tb* story: tbe suicide of Billy, his journey to heaven — whence he looks down on his daughter, a wild law of fifteen, as the scorn of tb* townsfolk and the lure of a troupe of passing players urge through the ballet that picture her desire...
...all is routine for a while, with even a *****—a fear—that Agne* de Mill* is going to repeat herself...
...but someone ought to have pointed out that all through th* play—despite the occasional Yankee turns of phrase—the characters talk in the broad Western drawl instead of tbe sharp New England twang...
...Another deft diversion has coxae to town...
...A charming prelude, with not a word uttered, swirls with the gaiety of an amusement park, though pantomim* foreshadows the gathering love, as Billy Bigelew looks upon Julie Jordan who works in the milk...
...Segall...
...The line* are clear, too: "Many a ship'* at anchor Because th* captains hanker For comforts they can only get on shore...
...Only "Oklahoma...
...Th* box office sale opens at the theatre Monday, May 7th...
...Baak and tyrtc* by Jt)tear Hummerif Ajpm 4*.as%^s*W%T/» MiaUtntr...
...Segall, and "Daisy Lee" a dance play utilising an especially written script by Horton Font*, spoken by' offstage voices, with music by Mr...
...MOM OP TNI SAM" By JOSEPH ?. SHIPLEY "CABOVSML...
...Perhaps there should be music all through "Carousel...
...Annabelle Lyon'b an arch mis* in ? later dance...
...Pacta and Figures," a group work baaed upon a recently-published editorial article by Prank Sullivan, and "Dramatic Incident," a group work interpretive of persistence of mam ery...
...Tb* habit *f building gay musicals out of sober dramas has caught "Oklahoma...
...A scintillant sieturitation of the Philip Barry play, with a screen play written by Donald Qgdeo BUwart, the Metro-Goldwyn Mayer success present* its stars in a witty, modern romance in which Lucille Ball and Keenan Wynn are featured players...
...Cottumet by Miles W kit...
...The curtain for the May 13th performance will rise at 8:30 p. m. ST?RM TO '40011SS NfW rOM UNIVEkSITY JMDIO CLASSES Martin Starr, radio and exploita-tion director of United Artists, wid address...
...The persons in the east are a pleasant lot, though mainly new on the main stem...
...Untie by Riebard Rodgert...
...sad Barabi linn dances tb* ballet *I Billy's daughter...
...While these scenes are touching, they are a turn from the opening mood and manner...
...But despite th* break in mood, "Carousel" maintains its hold on our interest...
...Pretented by the Theatre Cu?d...
...its tone is more like opera than musical comedy...
...Murrra Vye, th* villain Jigger, was th* villain Jud of "OMsanousn...
...tb* motion pietur* and radio claasea of New York University on Wednesday, April 25...
...has made a true fusion of the grim theme and the gay mood...
...Mail orders for the one Adelphi pss fin mams now are being received...
...who will ac-f ssnaa ay the Bettis dancers at the Adelphi...
...Nonetheless, if you want J? be merry go round for an evening to "Carousel...
...The new ccenpositions include •Theatrics," a group work satirically delineating some aspects at aa evening in Aa theatre...
...At the Majttie Theatre...
...Msy l*th, when Mies Bettis and her company make their trat Bread/ay an»*aiaaca in a long awaited performance of modern dance...
...Strangely, the moat romantic of tb* three plays made th* poorest musical...
...Pearl Lang rouse* as, seeding th* dance group in "June Is Bustbf Out All Over...
...as tbe rssnposir of musk for "Facta and Figures " The program also will include three of Miss Bettis' moot widely acclaimed solos—"And the Earth Shall Bear Again," with music by issbnCsare...
...The Firebrand of Florence," "Carousel...
...Starr will discuss the trends ef radi* production and its evergrowing closeness to Hollywood sasratt...
...There is another charming stage grouping as Act II opens on tbe Island, with a simple and pleas snt song: "This was a real nice clambake, We're mighty glad we cam...
...The wistful mood of Liliom, lad of the streets ashamed and unable to apeak hia love, who slapped when he would have kissed, is transported from Hungary to the New England const of 1873...
...Then scene two comes, and "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" sweep* iiia«**uantij of fresh beauty scree* th* stag...
...But th* team that concocted "Oklahoma...
...The engagement if limited to the One performance...
...Tbe vittles w* et Was g*ed, you bat, And the company was the same...
...and for several more ef tb* principal...
...From than on, the music and the dancing surge delightfully through the act...
...Thus it ia tbe Broadway debut for John Raitt, rich voiced and rugged as Billy Bigelow...
...A Very Merry Go Round With the Guild Valerie Bettii to Offer Three Premieres In Dance Recital May 13th Three new dance CSsapssltisna I l.y Valerie Bettle will here their acemieres et the Adelphi Theatre ea Sunday eveninr...
...Music for "Theatrics" and "Dramatic Incident" baa bean composed by Paul Ban at...
...The supporting east includes Felix Bresaart, Patricia Moriaon, Carl Esmond and Emily Massey...
...AT THf MUSIC HALL The Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn hit, "Without Love," hailed as one of th* season's gayest screen comedies, Continus* for a sixth week at Radio City Musik Hall...
...They meet in the park...
...An »ptrettm bated en Foren« Haimar* "Liliom...
...to find out that his clumsy and inexpressive love nonetheless wins its reward...
...Bernardo Segal...
...for Jan Clayton aa Julie, with gent|« charm...
...Perhaps it is th* influence of th* earlier hit, and Soeben Mamoulian might not knew tbe difference...
...has scored again with "Carousel...
...Ha will also deal with the type of programs that radi* is formatting for the immediate futur* utilising Hollywood material, Tb* address to New York University students will be recorded for playback to classes studying these subjects in other colleges aad universities throughout the ? country...
Vol. 28 • April 1945 • No. 17
