Rouben Mamoulian-Director of Hits!
Rouben Mamoulian—Director of Hits! BELLA HEINE IN RECITAL AT TIMES HALL Bella Reine gave one of her all too rare recitals Wednesday evening, October 31, at the New York Times Hall. The program...
...Katina Paxinou, Peter Lorre Victor Francen, George Coulouris and Wanda Hendrix, new Warner Bros, discovery, have leading supporting roles in "Confidential Agent...
...It was half completed whea Mr...
...She truly bears well the imprint of her European schooling—the Russian emotionalism and the French hohemian'am, all too rare in many of our American performers...
...This was followed by the first production in 1935 of the musical version of "Porgy," (ieorge Gershwin's 'Porgy and Bess," now an American classic folk opera on its third transcontinental tour, following its recent successful Broadway revival...
...Though he aimed at such an integration for some time before he was able to realise it, his new form of musical theatre didn't make its debut until his production for the Theatre Guild of "Porgy and Bess...
...Started writing a book...
...The costumes bv Mstsislav Dub-ojinsky and Arthur Ssyk while modest in their execution, were adenuate and lent themselves well for the ouick changes necessary in solo work...
...The program consisted of "Backstage at the Opera," "In the Nursery," 'To Forget," and "My World,* a trilogy...
...She truly looked more like the original than the original itself...
...Mamoulian was horn in Tiflis, film production, "Applause" in 192(1, and since then among others "City Streets," with Gary Cooper...
...and "Blood and Sand," with Tyrone Power...
...One hardly gets the sense of one emotion, when she's off to the next, without having fully developed and completed the theme...
...This seems to he the distinctive element in Miss Heine's interpretations—her humanity...
...He then came to the United States, becoming a producer-director of the Eastman Theatre, Rochester, where he remained from 11)24 to 1!)20...
...RESPONSIBLE FOR < "OKLAHOMA" AND "CAROUSEL" Rouben Mamoulian, who staged the Theatre Guild's new musical hit "Carousel," has been interested for some time in creating a new form of rhythmic theatre, blending all stage art forms—the spoken word, pantomime, music and dances...
...The Gay Desperado," with Nino Martini...
...His first production was "The Beating on the Door," at the St...
...Jekyll and Mr...
...The one difficulty in watching Miss Reine at work is that her emotional portrayals are not sufficiently sustained, a bit too fleeting...
...Follow-in gthe sensational success of "Oklahoma...
...Claire Grosner...
...Queen Christina," with Greta Garbo...
...Mr...
...She was capable assisted at the piano by Miss .lane Sears, who also performed two groups for piano alone...
...any Ziggi Talent, vocalist Janie Reid, The Morton Sisters, drummer Bobby Rickey and Andy Bagni are featured in the "in person" offering with Fred Sanborn, comic, Sandra Barrett, dancer, as added attractions...
...He returned east in 194'J to stage the classic "Oklahoma" for the Theatre Guild and was again hailed 1 as one of the most creative directors of the modern theatre...
...CONFIDENTIAL AGENT" AT STRAND The new Lauren Bacall-Charles Boyer co-starring film, Warner Bros.' "Confidential Agent," and an "in person" show headlining Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra stay for a second week at the New York Strand Theatre...
...Hyde," with Frederic March...
...which has since been revived many times and hss become a classic of the American folk theatre...
...The romantic melodrama is based upon the best selling novel by Graham Greene...
...Mamoulian started to work on the production of "Carousel...
...The Art of Gods and Monkeys," concerning the stage and screen, which will be published by Alfred A. Knopf...
...presenting, among others, "Carmen," "Faust," "Boris Godunoff...
...R." In 1931 he staged "The Hand of Fate," an opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, with Ijeopold Stokowski conducting...
...Her gestures and mannerisms are nostalgic of our own Ruth Draper—without words...
...He studied law but never practiced it, as his interest soon turned to the stage...
...and Gilbert 4 Sullivan opera...
...But in her terse manner, she is not afraid to cut "deep to the roots" and her performance was warm, mature and sympathetic...
...During the next five years he staged "Oongai" snd "Farewell to Arms" and many Theatre Guild successes, including "Marco Millions," "Wings Over Europe" and "R...
...She embraces the whole world in her small, petite body, seems to fully feel the pain and the anguish, the gaity and the joy of life...
...My World," the most ambitious of her efforts, takes in a lot of territory — Russia, Jerusalem and France—and was capably performed...
...Backstage at the Opera," was Delta to the life...
...Becky Sharp," with Miiram Hopkins...
...Song of Songs," with M Hilenc Dietrich...
...Mamoulian'a idea of reviving hit plays and making' musicals of them, as a result ol this success, inspired the Theatre Guild to turn "Green Grow the Lilacs" into "Oklahoma...
...Mamoulian then joined the Theatre Guild, his first production being "Porgy," at the Guild Theatre, October 1927...
...James Theatre, London, in 1922 —the same year Jeanne Eagels created a sensation as the original Sadie Thompson iu "Rain" on Broadway...
...There is sif much of Miss Reine that is reminiscent of Miss Draper, that at moments one expects Miss Reine to apeak out and to hear the voice of Miss Draper...
...It was mi evening well spent and I shall look forward to Miss Heine's nccf visit with us...
...Mamoulian was born in Tftis, Russia, at the turn of the century...
...He was educated at the Lycee Montaigne of Paris, the Tiflis Gymnasium, and the Moscow University...
...In the Nursery," done in four continuous movements—Good Boy, Bad Boy, Trepatchok and Lullaby —was captivating indeed, full of humor, charm, and most human...
...Love Me Tonight,' with Maurice Chevalier and Jean ette MacDonald...
Vol. 28 • November 1945 • No. 45
