Chopin's Music in "Polonaise" at the Alvin
Ruffian Trade Treaties Deliberately and with malic aforethought I impugn the motives of some of our national landen who at lest are aroused to the menace cl Bolshevik -Russian imperialism. They do...
...Choreography by David Lirhinr...
...POOR POLAND...
...Broadway exercises greater restraint, but wants more entertainment than "Polonaise" provides...
...Book directed by Stella Adler...
...No rhyme, reason, nor taste—save that Rem Olmsted is a fresh and spirited dancer, with excellent elevation...
...h? is a leader of those liberal ( atholkJsdJ with Social Democrat* are the beojgffi of European democracy...
...A play on the theme of Polish liberttion would start riots in Cracow...
...The comedy is in especially poor taste, one Curt Bois being provided with as sorry a sequence of dull business and cheap attempts at fun as has dampened a rainy spell of seasons...
...It seems that in the opera-bouffe country here called Poland, the hero returning to free his land and its enslaved peasants at once becomes involved not in politics but in petticoats...
...Britain especially objects to the trade treaties consummated by Russia with Rumania, Hungary, Bu?garia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, etc., which make these nations economically dependent upon the USSR, and give the Russians control over the resource* of its satellites Nor do tha British like Uie nationalization of foreign-owned mines and other property in Yugoslavia and elsewhere, even though the I.alxir Party and the French Socialists also have programs favoring nationalization...
...Lyrics by John Latouehe...
...but why that solo in conventional ballet costume, on toe-points—in the hay field...
...Fascism any more than I agree with H, Kremlin's denunciation of it, but I reeaav mend this book...
...Little else about the evening uplifts any spirits...
...They do not oppose Russian expansion merely because of deep-rooted love of democracy or adherence to the ideals of the Atlantic Charter, as the treatment of Poland and of the Baltic States proved...
...Presented by W. Horace Schmidlapp in association with Harry Bloomfield...
...They are worried because Russian imperialism threatens American and British national interests...
...NEWS AND NOTES Andre s. Brummer haa been engaged a* assistant musical director of "Song of Norway" and is conducting the Grieg operetta at the Imperial Theatre while Arthur Kay, the regular maeatro, is on vacation...
...but his strains too often get lost in the operatic sirs or the would-be humorous lyrics...
...Woods, who has lieeu with Mi...
...Chopin's music is best when purest, as when the piano plays his F Sharp Major Nocturne and later his Polonaise...
...POLONAISE...
...In the group effects, there is at least swirl of color...
...Jan Kiepura overacts, sings even his love songs lika threats of war...
...enstaatiae Brown in Ike Washington Star writes that Russia "forced on the puppet governments trade agreements which make them nub-servient to the Soviet...
...Even harder to bear is the constant flow of ballet...
...Music by Frederic Chopin...
...The Rumanian agreement provides for Soviet-Rnmanian syndicates for the exploitation of all the resources of that country...
...In these cartels ihr Ruaaiaaa are atilising ? he service* ef sorts pro-Nazi Indus 11 ia lists as Nirhola* Melaia, friend of Goeriag and Goebbels, aad other capitalists the like of whom Foster damns in the USA...
...A peasant lass, and the wife of a noble, fight to open the Warsaw gates to win his fsvors...
...What can he do against Austria, Prussia, and the Russian bear...
...He hatflK evils of monopoly capitalism >>mK the greater evil* of totalitarian ?**lm niam...
...F.dward Woods will go to Lou don to supervise preliminaries on the production of "Song of Norway as soon as passport and transportation arrangements can he made...
...Especially to reaijuooafj Catholic* and those who hate QauWies i-*Si Chopin's Music in "Polonaise" at the Alvin "SONG OF NOKWAY...
...then the producer and all connected with the performance would be shot...
...Reading the citation, George Washington apeaks with a foreign accent The rest of the evening is equally off key...
...To remind the audience that the hero of "PolonaUe" fought for American freedom, the first scene shows Kosciusko at West Point in 1783, receiving promotion from "General Washington...
...Fascist priest ia not a brilliant write, but be ia an exeoptionally tie*, honest thinker who has a lot to say...
...Anglo-American imperialism, political and economic, i* enlightened and humanitarian compared to Russian imperialism Hut hypocrisy is bad even i...
...U ia a cartel arb****, compered with which · suit a list sn>ii*a*ti»e are relatively free and competitive...
...For instance...
...It hits our pocketbook harder than our conscience...
...Then the Polish patriot returns to his fa therland...
...THE LAST CHANCE" TO OPEN AT CRITERION 'The Last Chance," the story of the escape across the Italian border of a group of hunted inter nationals, will have its premiere at Loew's Criterion Theatre in mid-November, it was anounced recently by Arthur M. Loew, president of M-G-M International Films Corporation, ? "The Last Chance" was produced in Switzerland liy Lazar Wechsler and is the first of the films to lie released under M-G-M's ?. w policy of presenting to a wide United States audience noteworthy pictures made in other countries...
...It is a moat stringent mono polistir agreement, aimed st the exclusion of all other foreign interests...
...A battle is danced...
...By Gottfried Reinhardt and Anthony Veiller...
...Settings by Howard Bay...
...The public pocketbook having opened to musicals with ballets, here...
...Let's admit that we object to Bolshevik expansion, for economic a* well as political and moral reasons...
...Thi* isn't the book review P?rt ^ «?** who w**t to know the tren?, thi* postwar world should read Italy J? the Comtuf Werld, by Don Luigl Stur», (Roy, $3.M and worth it...
...Thi, ,Bli...
...is one with almost more ballet than musical...
...At • the Alvin Theatre...
...In fart...
...Marta Eggerth strains and struggles...
...Lester for two seasons, served in a similar capacity when "Song of Norway" opened in New York, Miming from IjOS Angeles to make all advance arrangements...
...a good cause...
...except in her soft low tones and her highest notes...
...Edwin Lester, the producer of the Grieg musical at the Imperial Theatre, probably will go over later...
...a song of motherhood must have its following ballet...
...I don't agree with Dim StaajjL . apologia for the Vatican vis- a-vi* B...
Vol. 28 • October 1945 • No. 43
