The Dolly Sisters Has Premiere at Roxy
"The Dolly Sisters" Has Premiere at Roxy BETTY GRABLE and JUNE HAVER FEATURED IN NEW fox FILM "The Dolly Sisters," new 20th Century-Fox technicolor musical, baaed o nthe lives of the glamorous...
...Featured with the singing maestro's Bond are Zany Ziggy Talent, Janie Raid, The Norton Sisters snd Andy Bagni...
...Snatched by the N axis from her rearerL career, she is one of the wholesale rapees set to sate soldier's lust...
...but in the few minutes of his onstage existence Dr...
...Principal supporting roles in "Confidential Agent" are portrayed by Katina Paxinou, Peter Ixirre...
...Convincing evidence to the contrary msy be seen at "The Rich, Full Life...
...Frances Dee is charming as Susan, in the early moments, but less successfully catches the gathering tension, with sound instead of subtlety...
...Jr., bustles pleasantly aa the psychiatrist husband...
...In scores of ways, the timing, the (.'lances of scorn or understanding, the shrug of the grandmother, the ease of the young school hero, the direction gives impetus to the story, carries us over the meager stretches, and warms the room...
...PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY PROGRAMS * at Carnegie) Hall Musical Director ARTIIR RODZINSKI, Sunday, ToV...
...Miss Evelyn is the only one whom the author has given a rounded character...
...By Robt...
...Some persons, playwrights among them, have recently reiterated the old cry that the director contributes litle to an evening in the theatre...
...An sdmirably cooperative cast help,s from Jonathan Braman as the boy and Virginia Weidler as Cynthia, through Edith Meiser as the doctor's sharp-tongued wife, Jessie Busley as the old mother trying to keep her two daughters-in-law st peace, and Frederic Tozere as the dull and unimaginative but well-intentioned shopkeeper husband,to Judith Evelyn as his drudgery but loving wife Lou...
...In addition to Betty Grable, June Haver and John Payne, the large cast includes S. Z. Sakall, Reginald Gardiner, Frank Lati-more, Gene Sheldon, Sig Rinnan, Trudy Marshall, Collette Lyons, Evon Thomas, Donna Jo Cribble, Robert Middlemass, Paul Hurst, Lester Allen and Frank Orth...
...Also continuing are Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra, featuring ZiKK.v Talent, .lame Reid, the Norton Sisters, drummer Bobby Rickey snd Andy Bagni, headlining 'the accompanying "in person" show...
...There is every resson why Leda Perron i should have gone mad...
...Preteuted by Joeeph M. Heyman and Bernard Hart (in collaboration with Haila Stoddard...
...Friday afternoon, Nov...
...Soloist: Robert Casadesus, pianist...
...18, at 3:00 p. m. (broadcast over CBS...
...The Dolly Sisters," produced by George Jessel and directed by Irving Cummings, tells the story of the most famous figures known to the entertainment world, two girls who set the world aflame with their song and dance, and broke a million hearts along the way...
...Excerpts from The Ring Cycle...
...Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla from "Das Rheingold...
...How could he have picked Cynthia...
...as her slightly elder sister, have cute moments, but usually mem to recite memorized lines rather than speak spontaneously...
...Gomez and Beatrice, direct from the Hotel Plaza Persian Room, and Maurice Rocco...
...THE ROLE OF DIRECTION By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY "THE RICH FULL LIFE...
...4 in G major, Beethoven...
...Act III of "Die Wal-kuere...
...Then the director steps in...
...Pretty, I suppose, but always sick...
...Pneumonia follows, with the relatives' "1-told-you-so's...
...22, at 8:46...
...During the talking, and for the (comparatively long) moments when no one is speaking, the characters busy themselves so naturally that the play takes on the genuine air of life...
...25, at 3:00 (broadcast over CBS...
...Preteuted and ttaged by Gilbert Miller...
...confidential 4GENT" IN THIRD WEEK AT STRAND THEATRE "Confidential Agent," Warner Brothers melodrama co-starring Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall, stays a third week at the New York Strand Theatre...
...There are many ringings of doorbell snd 'phone...
...23, at 2:30...
...Thursday evening, No...
...she makes the most of it, in a rich performance of a part into which she herself must—snd does—infuse the intensity and the glow of human feelings...
...The stsge show slso presents Jrad Sanborn, comedian and Son-dre Barrett, dancer...
...Monroe also introduces six dancing and singing showgirls who fdd eye-appeal to the ear-appealing tunes...
...To pad the play, there is a lengthy explanation of a nurse's not having really been drunk on duty...
...Jane Karle as little Noonie Beverly, and Fussy McQuade (radio name...
...At th* Golden Theatre...
...A special attraction "in person" is Carlos Ramirez, MGM's South American ambassador of Song, recently featured in "Anchors Aweigb" and "Two Girls and a Sailor...
...In the stage show, Jimmy Doi'sey and his orchestra nnd featured entertainers including Dick Culver, Dee Parker and Karl Kiffe, introduce several novelties and new songs...
...All-Wagner program...
...a baby is born, she does net know its fate...
...Lawrence Fenwick, in his family's eyes, has married below him...
...In spite of the bad weather, Lou lets her daughter go...
...Lost week's wail of the banshee is supplanted, in "The Secret Room," by the maniac's stare...
...the nurse turns up later, to care for sick Cynthia...
...Tk« secret room of Bluebeard held ae more eerie horror...
...Sunday afternoon, Nov...
...Soloists including: Helen Traubel, Doris Doree, Herbert Janssrn...
...Fred Sanborn, comic, and Sondra Rarrett, dancer, are added attractions to the "in person" bill...
...2, Piston...
...On the Strand screen is the j drama of love and intrigue, "Confidential Agent" starring Charles ¦oyer and Lauren Bacall...
...Piano Concerto No...
...the Immolation Scene from "Goetterdaemmcrung...
...But his doctor brother has a snob of a wife, whose child Fredonia knows she ought to be the one going to the high school senior dance with the school hero, instead of her cousin Cynthia...
...Jackson's farming out Leda with the Beverly family...
...MOTHER RLUEREARD THE SECRET ROOM...
...Betty Grable, June Haver and John Payne head the large cast A new Roxy stage show presents Carl Ravazza introducing in person Beatrice Kay, famous "Gay Ninetees Girl...
...Not only is this a thin theme for a play, but the drama of family antagonisms gets the color washed out through many rinsings and ironings...
...Victor Francen, George Coulouris and Wanda Hendrix, 17-year-old Warner discovery...
...For Cynthia has her heart set on the dance...
...There is leas reason for Dr...
...The accomplished work of Eleonora Mendelssohn, as the unfortunate Leda, stands firmly, intense yet controlled, strong yet sensitive in a difficult part Not even good acting, hoowever, can lift the atmosphere of gloom that dampens the evening...
...The situations are human, but the drama is weak...
...J. T. S. STRAND HOLDS OVER IK IN PERSON show The N. Y. Strand will continue Rs present "In Person" bill headed sy Vaughn Monroe, his Orchestra snd Revue for a third week...
...Fete Dieu e Seville and Triana, from "Iberia," Albeniz...
...Waldweben from "Siegfried...
...The Secret Room" but drearily discloses its wretched patch of Nail-broken soul...
...The Dolly Sisters" Has Premiere at Roxy BETTY GRABLE and JUNE HAVER FEATURED IN NEW fox FILM "The Dolly Sisters," new 20th Century-Fox technicolor musical, baaed o nthe lives of the glamorous stisters, is now in its New York premiere st the Roxy Theatre...
...The author has good companions, who lift her play into a better thing, one of the truer and warmer pieces of the cold early season...
...And when the crisis approaches, and all the doctor can do is wait and hope, again mother-love and v sensitive quickness come to the rescue...
...In the secret room of the house, as in the secret room of her soul, Leda's pain and anguished need fight with the weapons of madness against the peace that comes to the insane...
...At the Regale Theatre...
...Dialling the 'phone, then awaiting reply, Lou spies the fish-food, lifts the box, and tilts some into the bowl...
...By Vina Delmar...
...The story is a very simple one: shall Cynthia go to the ball...
...Lowe, Hite and Stanley, and as an Extra Added Attraction, Jackie Gleason, comedy star of "Follow the Girls," complete the "Stars in Person Show...
...Funeral March from "Goet-terdaemmerung...
...rarseg...
...Directed eg Mont Hart...
...Symphony No...
...Jackson is so feeble anything may be surmised...
...He has a hardware store, is a good-natured, humdrum soul, loving his wife Lou...
...Come to live with sweet Susan Beverly end her daughters, Leda's mad and cunning desire for children spins plots against the unsuspecting mother-love of Susan, for Mr daughters too...
...and big holiday SHOW AT cawol A triple headline stage Rhow with MGM's romantic technicolor musical, "Yolande and the Thief" starring Fred Asia ire snd Lucille Bremer, is to be the Capitol theatre's new Thanksgiving season offering starting Thursday, Nov...
...As a play, however, the unfold ing wavers between case history and shuddery melodrama—too often falling with a dull thud between the two stools...
...Reed Brown...
...and Lou wants her to have some fun before marriage, "the rich, full life" of family concerns, closes in...
...Setting by Raymond Sovey...
Vol. 28 • November 1945 • No. 46
