Season Gets under Way With New Musical
Season Gets under Way With New Musical "The True Glory;' Film History of the Fall of Fortress Europe, Proves Thrilling Film at Victoria "The True Glory," General Eisenhower's much-discussed film...
...The stage show, headlining Con-nee Boswell, The Condos Brothers, Gene Sheldon and Carl Ravazxs, also remains for s third week...
...The accompanying "in person" •how headlines Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra, featuring Kay Starr, Peanuts Holland, Phil Barton and Al Killian...
...The script is Ihe combined work ef Sergeant Guy Trosper, formerly a writer for MGM...
...S. "STATE FAIR" AT ROXY Rogers and Hammerstein's musical version of "State Fair," filmed in technicolor by 20th Century-Fox, remains for a record-breaking week at the Koxy Theatre...
...PRIDE OF THE MARINES" CONTINUES AT STRAND Warner Bros.' "Pride of the Marines," John Garfteld starring film based on the readjustment probiams facing returning servicemen, continues at the New York (Strand Theatre for a fourth week, ? Eleanor Parker and Dane Clark share star billing With Garfield, Who portrays Sgt...
...It was produced under the close supervision of the joint Anglo-American Film Planning Committee...
...One of the unnecessary ladies rustles her bustle...
...Sergeant Saul Levitt, "Yank" combat correspnodenl, and many others...
...William Alwyn, and was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Muir Matheson...
...But "Mr...
...Private Harry Brown, author of the successful novels "A Walk in the Sun" and "Pfc Artie Greengroin...
...Direction was the joint work of Captain Garson Kanin, well-known for his direction of outstanding Hollywood films, and the distinguished English director, Carol Reed...
...The trip of Johann Strauss to America is pictured as an exhibition before a sex hungry race of females lusting for a European lion, arranged by a manager who thinks (through the authors' minds) that it is funny to keep shouting he's better than Bui num...
...Strauss Goes to Boston" will not go in New York...
...Gil Maison snd his performing dogs and Bunny Briggs, tap dancer, are added attractions...
...but the sex is less coarse than dull...
...Ten million feet of film, shot by 1,400 combat cameramen, were reviewed, and from them were selected the incidents that would tell, with the greatest impact, this tense drama of one of the greatest and most significant conflicts in world history...
...Season Gets under Way With New Musical "The True Glory;' Film History of the Fall of Fortress Europe, Proves Thrilling Film at Victoria "The True Glory," General Eisenhower's much-discussed film history of the fell of Fortress Europe, from the inception of the invasion plan thron...
...and the several persons credited with this first of the fall musicals have managed to mess it pretty badly...
...Over 130 voices, with the regional accents of varied soldiers among the Allied troops, are heard, and they are the result of ten times that number of recordings...
...Her coloratura—especially in the difficult tipsy song is unstrained and sweet, high as it soars...
...and she quite captures the evening as a personal score...
...Distributed by Columbia Pic-tores for the Office of War Information through the War Activities Committee-Motion Picture Industry, "The True Glory" combines into one thrilling narrative the personal G.I...
...AJ Schmid, real-life hero of Guadalcanal...
...At the Century Theatre...
...True, it takes the now popular idea of basing an operetta on on a composer—but it does not use his music...
...Strauss Goes to Boston," who somehow leaves us longing for more of the original...
...True, it offers dancing of the presently popular ballet variety -but the good work of Harold Lang, as in his sailor dance, has no relation whatsoever to the rest of the evening...
...Too meny cooks spoil the broth...
...The narrative, introduced by General Eisenhower, is taken up by the Historian-Commentator (the English actor, Kobert Harris) and continued in the actual voices of combat men...
...The snatches of the "waits king" that are heard are quickly buried in the "arrangements" and original tunes of the composer-conductor of "Mr...
...He declares that Boston is so crowded, he must sleep with "the horses, the donkeys, and the asses" -much of the supposed humor is even more asinine...
...A romantie comedy, with mi4«i« by Kobert Stolz, lyrics by Robert Sour, book by Leonard I. I' ? !»»<,„_ 6a«ed on an original story by Alfred Grunwald and Geta Hereteg...
...The expensive costumes and the scenery are equally ineffective...
...STRAUSS GOES TO BOSTON...
...D-Day and to the final Nazi surrender, continues at the Victoria Theatre for s second week...
...The music is by the well-known British composer...
...story of the war from D Day to VE Day...
...anil to call Balan-chine's group creations routine would be to underrate the current Broadway quality...
...One bright spot protrudes, but not enough to save Ihe evening: the singing of Virginia MacWat-ters...
...Unique in form and context, "The True Glory" also employs a uniquely effective method of telling its story...
...Directed and presented by Felix Brentano...
...MR...
...With a fresh and mischievous charm she manages her acting and her songs, as the Boston girl come down'to hook the celebrity...
Vol. 28 • September 1945 • No. 37
