News and Notes of the Busy Broadway Season
News and Notes of the Busy Broadway Season "MAKIE-LOUISE" TO HAVE fKWEHE MOV. I2ffc i Herman O. Weinberg has coni-¦Mtexl the titling of the new French film, "Marie-Louise," star ring Josiane,...
...Pesheh, at once the symbol and the temptress of Joel's sin, dances like a Brooklyn Bacchante...
...Staged by Maurice Schwartz...
...is also two-sided, or more...
...The voices, especially in song, would carry well: shame on the actor who cannot hold his theatre...
...Heading the birthday in person show is Frank Sinatra, listed with Bing Crosby, Red Skelton, Ginger Rogers, Ray Bolger and scores of others as a Paramount Theatre discovery...
...Suggested by a play by Vicki Baum, "Weed-end at the Waldorf" was directed by Robert Z. Leonard and produced by Arthur Hornblow, Jr...
...Directed by Melach Ravitch and Maurice Schwartz...
...Colonel Mitchell Is now on terminal leave from the Army after four and one-half years of active service and will assume his new duties on November 1st...
...Tickets for New Year's Eve for the Tennessee Williams-Donald Windham comedy with Edmund Gwenn are now on sale at the box office...
...there are some good male voices singing Peretz' songs...
...THRILLER AT ROXT . Rene Clair's "And Then Were None," based on Agatha Christie's mystery thriller, remains for a second week at the Roxy Theatre...
...And Heaven is won...
...In the first place, a loud speaker is used in the play, foolishly...
...That physical scale seems a rather childish fantasy...
...Johnny in the Clouds," starring Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John and Douglass Montgomery, was directed by Anthony Asquith with the screenplay by Terence Rattigan...
...TOU TOUCHED ME" 50tft PERFORMANCE "You Touched Me...
...The film was directed by Leopold Limit berg (who made •The liast Chance," which MGM is distributing) from an original screen play by Richard Schweitzer...
...THE LAST CHANCE " TO OPEN AT CRITERION THIS MONTH The negative of "The Last Chance" arrived from Switzerland yesterday and, according to word tram Arthur Loew, President of M-G-M International Films Corporation, prints will be struck off immediately for distribution to theatres throughout the country...
...But down in the earthly realms of the theatre, all is not so smooth...
...Joel (in the form of his long-lost twin brother) wanders the earth again: if he gathers three "gifts of pure virtue" he will win Paradise...
...Starred are Academy Award winner Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston and Louis Hayward...
...Marie Louise," which will have its ¦nmiere at the Little Carnegie on Her...
...There's a friendly feeling at the Yiddish Art Theatre...
...special noises of the machine have their own loud fulfillment...
...The audience chat«, enjoys what's going on, both sides of the footlights, and pays about as much attention to each side...
...Sets arid costume* by H. A. Condell...
...Music by Joseph Rumshintky...
...reached its fiftieth New York performance tonight at the Booth Theatre...
...and much of it is played like farce...
...District Attorney, Jay Jostyn, the popular dancing Nicholas Brothers, Dave Apollon and Carl Ravazza...
...It seems a bit odd that these gifts are not his own good deeds...
...SOCIAL FANTASY "THE THREE GIFTS...
...J. T. S. "PARAMOUNT CELEBRITIES'" < fIRTNOAf The N. Y. Paramount starts the celebration of its nineteenth anniversary with the screen attraction "Hold That Blonde," co-starring Eddie Bracken and Veronica Lake, which concerns the adventures of a millionaire's son, who has a slight case of kleptomania...
...hiUSIC HALL HOLDS FILM "Week-end at the Waldorf," Me-tro-Goldwyn-Mayer's motion picture hit, starring Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, Lana Turner and Van Johnson, continues for a week at Radio City Music Hall...
...It's a fantasy with a conscience...
...Also remaining for a second week is the gay Roxy show headed by Radio's Mr...
...12, Is being distributed by Arthur Mayer and Joseph Burstyn...
...the balance holds exactly even...
...Its screen play was written by Sam and Bella Spewack and adapted by Guy Bolton...
...The farcial element catches up early...
...It directed by Leopold Lindtberg, jr*a Schweizer's own screen adsp-|*^*n ef hie book...
...but here the social theme conies into the evening...
...A hen-pecked tiddler of Poland tries to balance his wife's scoldings by other women's smiles— until the fiery temptress Pesheh marries another man, and tiddler Joel dies...
...Heaven and Hell contend for his soul...
...Wechsler for Praeseris Film Ltd., Zurich...
...For what Joel gathers are (1) a sack of earth from the Holy Land a rabbi dies to save, (2) the skull cap another rabbi dies to keep upon his head, (I) a safety-pin with which a maiden seeks to preserve her modesty, while being dragged to her death in a Gorman pogrom...
...and the audience seems to be having a genuine good time...
...But the present production— how does one "dramatize" a play...
...is this a movie hall...
...And the intimate, direct contact of the human voice and spirit—the theatre's chief hold —is supplanted by a bastard delivery, sired by a human but damned by a machine...
...On Joel's deathbed, his wife cries out at his shoes on her clean sheets...
...Featured with The Voice are Jan Savitt and his orchestra, the Pied Pipers, Coke & Poke and the Lane Brothers...
...JOHNNY IN THE CLOUDS" COMING TO WINTER GARDEN NOVEMBER J5rfc "Johnny in the Clouds," Two Cities Film produced by Analole de Grunwald for release through United Artists, is scheduled to enter the Winter Harden November 15, replacing "Blithe Spirit" which will have concluded a run of six weeks by that time at the Broadway house...
...The Last Chance," which is scheduled to open at Loew's Criterion Theatre here next month, **« acquired for world release by M-G-M from Laser Wechsler, pro-sue" ef the picture...
...CURTIS MITCHELL NEW PARAMOUNT AD AND PUBLICITV HEAD Colonel Curtis Mitchell, recently pictorial chief for the War Department Bureau of Public Relations, has been appointed National Director of Advertising and Publicity for Paramount Pictures, Inc., according to an announcement made today by Charles M. Reagan, Para-ment Vice President in charge of distribution...
...At the Yiddish Art Theatre...
...the play grows more serious and much more edifying...
...I2ffc i Herman O. Weinberg has coni-¦Mtexl the titling of the new French film, "Marie-Louise," star ring Josiane, Heinrich Gretler, Msrgrit Winter, Anne-Marie Blanc sod Aunin Schweitzer, produced ay I...
...Play by L L. Ptretz...
...The film features Albert Dekker and Willie Best snd was directed by George Marshall...
...But Maurice Schwartz plays with, for him, unusual restraint...
...The voices seem at times to come from the dismal space beneath the boxes...
...The Mm, which dramatizes the escape of a group of hunted inter-Jjetionals across the Italian border, ¦ besett on the novel of the same **M by Richard Schweizer...
...Unintentional farce is added when the heavenly scales begin to dip toward hell before the black bags of Joel's faults are set on them...
...footsteps become thunderous...
Vol. 28 • November 1945 • No. 45
