House on 92nd Street to Open at the Roxy
"House on 92nd Street" to Open at the Roxy WORLD PREMIERE ON WEDNESDAY Twentieth Century-Fox today announced that New York City will be the scene of the world premiere of Louis de Rochenlont's...
...Finding herself low on the horizon, she has come to shine high once more by way of a Broadway hit...
...Pretented by William Cahn...
...But—despite smoke that comes from the telephone when, via Brooklyn, the Satanic imp talks with his boss—the whole project is as lively and as funny as split fish glut...
...29, at the Belasco Theatre, S. S. Ki ell -berg will present "Live Life Again," a drama in verse by Dan Tot her oh, whose last play on Broadway was "Searching for the Sun" in 1935...
...The story desls with the hitherto unpublicized efforts of the F.B.I, in safeguarding the secret of the stomic bomb and preventing the Nasi agents from stealing the secret formula and transmitting it to Germany...
...Robert Alda, playing his I screen role, portrays Cershwk the musical film...
...It turns out to have been just a fist fight and a black eye...
...The locale is a prairie farming community in Nebraska 1— ? ?? A WHAT A DEVIL...
...SEPT...
...but the story gets into the papers—and a line forms at the box office.—That's what is railed a wishful dream...
...The cast includes Donald Buka, Mary Rolfe, Thomas Chalmers, Beatrice de Neergaard, Parker Fennelly, Harold McGee, Zachary Charles and fourteen others...
...It's a misnomer to call it a playl J.T.S...
...Director Henry Hathaway filmed the scenes, wherever possible, against the same backgrounds where the original action occurred...
...Oil* VINES" HELD 4T MUSIC HALL With "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes," the Musical Hall presents "Happy Landing," a spectacular, timely revue produced on the famed stage by Leonidoff...
...Dealing with a literary agent supposedly a master of seduction, it shows him as obvious as a rhinoceros in Macy's window, as inconsistent as white paste...
...Other lesi parts are played by Alexis Ssj Joan Leslie, Al Jolson, Oscar vant, Paul Whiteman, Hazel 8| Anne Brown and Charles Cokj...
...By Vers Mathrwi...
...DEVILS GALORE...
...The House on Ninety-Second Street" is based on esses from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was made in its entirety on location, for the greater part here in New York City...
...Featured with the Andrews Sisters are Vic Schoen and his or-chestra, Foy Willing's "Riders of the Purple Sage," Pigmeat "Alamo" Markhain, and Charles Leighton, new king of the harmonica...
...On their way home, the audience from the Barrymore knew just what he meant...
...But, in any location, it's a hell of a play...
...Gary, Philip, Dennis and Lin Croaby...
...but somehow or other, this one managed it...
...Presented by Albert N. Chaperau and Johnnie Walker...
...Leo G. Carroll and William The screen play was wrttt Barre Lyndon...
...At the Ethel Barrymore Theatre...
...At the Royale Theatre...
...DUFFY'S TAVERN" A HIT AT PARAMOUNT THEATRE "Duffy's Tavern" on the screen and the Andrews Sisters in person roll into a second week at the New York Paramount, holding a new 11*46 record for the theatre...
...RHAPSODY IN BLUE" IN Mfb WEEK AT HOLLYWOOD THEATRE '•Rhapsody in Blue," Ws Bros.' film based on the Iii» music of George Gershwin, mortal American composer, a for 14th week st the New 1 Hollywood Theatre...
...To call it · comedy— as the program does—is also s misnomer...
...He had called her a Brooklyn Bernhardt, thus insulting both the borough and la belle dame...
...By Kueene Vale...
...The play has been directed by Sawyer Falk, dean of the drama department of Syracuse University, the msn who first produced Helen Hayes' hit "Harriet...
...Charles G. and John Monks, Jr...
...The all-star lineup of "Duffy's Tavern" includes Archie (Himself) Ed Gsrdner, Charley Cantor as Finnegan, Eddie Green as Eddie the waiter, Ann Thomas as Miss Duffy, Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Paulette Goddard, Alan Ladd, Dorothy Lamour, Eddie Bracken, Brian Don levy, Sonny Tufts, Yeronica Lake, Arturo de Cordova, Barry Fitzgerald, Cass Daley, Diana Lynn, Victor Moore, Marjorie Reynolds, Barry Sullivan, Robert Benchley, William Demarest, Howard de Silva, Billy de Wolfe, Walter Abel, Johnny Coy, Miriam Franklin, Olga San Juan...
...The title of this opus is a misnomer, for there are only two devils in it, and one goes to heaven at the end...
...The opus of the evening concerns sn unlettered, loud-mouthed woman who, for no discernible reason (the psntie-clad synthetic southern lass at least has a pleasing form) hsd become a Hollywood star...
...Her play is S complete fiiasco.—Its author himself said it was so stinking he smelt the fumes all the way to the hotel...
...Such bed taste or ignorance or downright effrontery is almost unique, even on Broadway...
...ROADWAY BATHOS Review by JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY "MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME...
...But lot a phone call comes: the star's brother has shot the caustic critic, George Jean Morris...
...The girl's charms quite seduce the devil from his evil ways...
...The settings hsve been designed by Albert Johnson snd the costumes by Grsce Houston...
...LIVE LIFE AGAIN" ^ OPENING SATURDAY...
...House on 92nd Street" to Open at the Roxy WORLD PREMIERE ON WEDNESDAY Twentieth Century-Fox today announced that New York City will be the scene of the world premiere of Louis de Rochenlont's dramatic motion picture, "The House on Ninety-Second Street," which will open at the Roxy Theatre on Wednesday, September 26...
...Also, featured is Tim Herbert, hit of the Broadway plsy "Follow the Girli...
...The cast is headed by Willi, Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hi Gene Leckhart, Lydia St...
...29, AT RILASCO On Saturday evening, Sept...
...Based on the return of victorious American fighting men from the Pacific, the show features the celebrated Music Hall Rockettes, Corps de Ballet, Glee Club and guest artists headed by the popular tap-dancing trio, Tip, Tap and Toe, in scenes highlighted by lavish settings by Bruno Maine...
...The sweet young thing lights a lamp on his .head, and a devil comes to finish the job...
...At most, the piece could be an imposition on—a waiting trap for—the unwary folk that, coming to the Great White Way, find "standing room only" or long lines everywhere else...
...After the two plays that on two nights preceded "Make Yourself at Home," it did not seem that anything could be worse...
...But this play has given the theatre a black eye...
Vol. 28 • September 1945 • No. 38
