Blithe Spirit Has Film Premiere Wednesday
"Blithe Spirit" Has Film Premiere Wednesday FILM VERSION OF NOEL COWARD COMMIT SET FOR WINTER GARDEN Glittering opening-night ceremonies, reminiscent of the best traditions of those colorfsl old...
...Arcati, the eccentric spiritual medium, and critics have hailed her choice for this part as one of the most deft bits of casting on record...
...Supporting him are such seasoned players as Kay Hammond, Constance Cum-mings and Margaret Rutherford...
...tha play/ will appear in the •tanfig rote, •The Three Gifts," SMsbaJ fantasy by L L. Peretz, »ill have a cast of 66, with music hT Joseph Kuatshinsky,'and chore oftspbj, by Lillian Shapiro, and •ffleasn at the Yiddish Art Thea-mB Ave...
...Miss Rutherford has the role of Mme...
...the first of the new plays which will open the 26th year of the Yiddish Art Theatre, and Maurice Schwartz, in •esmsn to directing and products...
...fHWIH'S WAT CELEB*ATION ¦nsiral world—andteh world ,t large—will mark the forty-sev nth anniversary of George Gersh-,irt birth on September 26, The man who set America to mu-,v Gershwin symbolised an era isfftve musical expression to his utaweUy, New York, and to the (•afar which saw him rocket to turn from small beginnings as a yoatkfll song plugger...
...Supplemented by the personal appearance of The Andrews Sisters and their "8-To-Tbe-Bar" musical rodeo...
...Paul Wbiteman, Gershwin's dose friend, who introduced the "Rhapsody in Brue" to the world is lit*, SPlB again feature the moot of tha las* ceespissr on his Ja.tiu Ball of Fajaa network broad-nuts...
...MAURICE SCHWARTZ'S" ritMSff ART OPENS Seat* went est ssda last Monday for The Three Gifts...
...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, Mniaiu Franklin, Olgs San Juan...
...Cast in the lead role ia Rex Harrison, the widely-known young English actor who already has a dozen or so notable screen successes to his credit—both in London and in Hollywood...
...Harrison has planned to be present at the opening night festivities, but because of the somewhat chaotic travel conditions which prevail in Britain just now, he was unable to make connections with the steamer he had expected to take, hence his arrival in New York will come a day or so later than had originally been planned...
...Mr...
...and 4th St) on "«»d|f waning, October 1. "DUFFY'S TAVERN" STAYS ON AT PARAMOUNT "Duffy's Tavern" is in its fifth week at the New York Paramount Theatre...
...Jacqueline Clarke, cast in the role of the dead-pan house-maid in "Blithe Spirit," played the same part during the New York run of the stage version of the play—the production which had Clifton Webb and Peggy Wood cast in the star roles...
...narration of the Gershwin birthday will climax the nation's aajsjsadented participation in a J| ef world-wide Gershwin con r*ru snd events, of which the re-may concluded George Gershwin Jabfles Week, sponsored by Psul Whiteman and a host of distin-initeed persons of stage, screen, iiilhvmm the concert halls, was Tajhirtbday celebration will be hifJMhted by a Grrshwia Canad-itn Jubilee, during which tbe Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Mil devote its facilities to per-formsneee of Gershwin compositions...
...AT THE MUSIC HALL "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes...
...Gary, Phillip, Dennis and Lin Crosby...
...Blithe Spirit" Has Film Premiere Wednesday FILM VERSION OF NOEL COWARD COMMIT SET FOR WINTER GARDEN Glittering opening-night ceremonies, reminiscent of the best traditions of those colorfsl old trst-night fiestas at the Metropolitan Opera House in ths lush, long-forgotten nineties, will mark the return of New York's famous old Winter Garden Theatre to tbe ranks of Broadway's Mm houses en the evening of Wednesday, Oct Srd, when the Technicolor film version of Noel Coward's sophisticated stage comedy, "Blithe Spirit," will have its American premiere...
...Both American and British film company executives who have seen the picture are unanimous in predicting a protracted run for "Blithe Spirit," and they agree that it is beyond doubt the best example of Technicolor screen production which haa yet come out of the British studios...
...Featuring Ed Gardner as Archie, "DvJlTy's Tavern" headlines most of the stars on the Paramount lot including Bing Crosby, Betty Hut-ton, Paulette Goddard, Alan Ladd, Dorothy I.amour, Kddie Bracken, Brian Ilonlevy, Sonny Tufts, Veronica take, Arturo de Cordova...
...film version of George Victor Martin's popular novel starring Margaret O'Brien and Edward G. Rob inson and featuring Jackie "Butch" Jenkins, tontines for a fourth week at Radio City Music Hall...
Vol. 28 • September 1941 • No. 39
