Boyer-Bacall on the Strand Theatre Screen
Boyer-Bacall on the Strand Theatre Screen WAILING BANSHEE 'THE NEXT HALF HOUR." Ry Mary Chase. Staged by George S. Kaufman. Dialect supervised by Neil Fitzgerald I'resented by Max Gordon. At the...
...The Astor Theatre has been set aside for Wednesday night for purchaser* of Victory Bonds, and the house has been scaled so that at least a million dollars worth of Victory Hoods will be sold to the premiere audience...
...J. T, S. "CONFIDENTIAL AGENT...
...Week-end at the Waldorf" presents Miss Rogers, Miss Turner, Pidgeon and Johnson, respectively, as a beautiful Holly, wood actress, a pert public stenographer, a globe-trotting news correspondent, and a young veteran officer of the U. S. Air Force, brought together by chance during three days' stay at the big hotel...
...A new Roxy stage show features Carl Ravazza introducing radio's famous "Mr...
...As Margaret Brennan, she is one of those Irish that know a bad day from a jubilee...
...SPELLBOUND" IN VICTORT BOND PREMIERE The leading Broadway motion picture theatres have been tied in for the aale of tickets .to Victory Bond buyers for the million dollar Bond Premier* of David O. Selz-nick's production of Alfred Mitch cock's "Spellbound," starring In-grid Bergman and Gregory Peck, bv Irving Lesser, New York chairman of the War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry...
...Long before Mrs...
...Confidential Agent" was directed by Herman Shumliu, well-known Broadway stage director and producer...
...Not the tenderest performance of Fay Hainter can make us delight in her spread of doom...
...It sings a different tune...
...Joined by a cast including Edward Arnold, Keenan Wynn, Phyllis Thaxter, Robert Benehley, Xavier Cugat and his orchestra, Leon Ames, Samuel S. Hinds and Lina Romay, the four popular stars of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer success, appear in a modern comedy romance suggested by a play by Vicki Baum...
...District Attorney," Jay Jostyn, the dancing Nicholas Brothers and Save Apollo* and kia Filipino Boys...
...Not all the "kill of a director (most accomplished in j comedy) can hold us either li^ht or tense through these dink mnI merits...
...Warner Bros.' dramatic, melodrama baaed on the bestseiling novel by Graham Greene, ia now at the New York Strand Theatre...
...Katina Paxinou, Peter Lor re, Victor Francen and George Couiourb have prominent featured parts...
...DOUBLE FEATURE AT SSfh STREET PLAYHOUSE Two notable French revivals will be presented at the 65th Street Playhouse for two weeks: I .on is Jouvet, Michel Simon and Victor Francen in Julien Duvivier's "The End of a Hay" (I.a Fin du Jour), with Madeleine Ozeray and Ga-brielle Dorzial, and Kaimu in the satirical comedy "The Man Who Seeks the Truth" (L'Homme Qui Cherche la Verite), with Alerme and Jacqueline Delubar...
...Brennan herself, the audience is aware of what is hanging over her so long, that dramatic irony is swept away by impatience...
...The stage is filled with competent performers, from Thelma Schnee- the married woman who has "lured" Maggie's twenty-year-old son through the two O'Neill brothers and their sharp-tongucd sister Francis Compton, Art Smith, Jean Adair — to Conrad Janis as Maggie's younger son...
...With an extra turn of the knife, for her having tried to change the course of "the next half hour," which is God's...
...At the Empire Theatre...
...MUSIC HALL HOLDS SHOW "Week-end at the Waldorf," the picture at Radio City Musk- Hall starring Ginger Rogers, Walter I'idgeon, Lana Turner and Van Johnson, continues for a fifth week...
...ROXT H7s^"Al«rTMFN THERE WERE NONE...
...NEW WARNER BROS.' FILM, DIRECTED BT H. SHUHUN "Confidential Agent...
...ALSO NEW STAGE SHOW Rene Clair's "And Then There Were None," new 20th Century-Fox film based on Agatha Chris tie's mystery bestseller, is now at the Roxy Theatre with an imposing cast headed by Barry Fitz-gerald, Walter Huston and IawIs Hayward...
...Selzniek's offer of the world premiere of his new and important film, 'Spellbound,' as our first Victory Bond premiere," Lesser stated...
...Robert Buckner produced the film for Warner Bros...
...Vaughn Monroe and hia orchestra, featuring vocalists Ziggy Talent, Janie Raid and the Norton Sisters, will headline the accompanying "in person" show...
...But James O'Neill's story of the red-robed fairy, and his violent defense of his beloved Ireland, do Mot help the How of the story, nor can they (five pace to the Brennan doom...
...How they were etruck down, one by one, to the terrifying tune of an old nursery rhyme, ia told with excitement and spine-chilling interest...
...Charles Boyer and Lauren Be call have co-starring roles in the new film...
...The lady that keeps us on a marry . hasp after a six-foot one Inefc rabtiit in last season's «>ntinuing hit, "Harvey," tries now to hold us with a banshee's wail...
...And Then There Were None" is the story of ten who sinned and were marked for death In a weekend of horror on an island of mystery...
...all the signs are wrong, and in her fear of coming calamity, this over-anxious mother brings on t.h« very doom she would avert...
...We are delighted to accept Mr...
Vol. 28 • November 1945 • No. 44
