State of the Union: Excellent Indeed
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
"State of the Union": Excellent Indeed A GOOD REPUBLICAN By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY "STATE OF THE UNION." By Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse. Staged by Bretaigne Windutt. Sett by Raymond 80-vey....
...Benny Baker, as Stephano (with Wsttaee Acton as Trinculo) draws with broader strokes through the esssc scenes than did the' Czech ¦air en Bread way...
...Army coup ousts President Vargas of Brazil...
...The state of the union may actually "give cause for alarm...
...Minor Watson gives sn effective presentation of the political boss...
...Grant Matthews has sent a thousand planes into the war for every* ship of Kaiser's...
...Grant'a traveling companion is Kay Thorn-dyke, who besides being a sedcetive woman is owner of a chain of Republican newspapers...
...The performers are Walter Abel, Beatrice Pearson, Frieda Ines-cort and Lois Wilson...
...Gene Sheldon, Sig Human, «<*uy Marshall and Collette Lyons...
...Presented by Lelemi Hay-ward...
...Moat of them fall upon the politicians, who should feel uncomfortably warm...
...Vera Zorina doesn't pose •site so much as in her earlier d»y» ss Ariel...
...Presented by Cheryl Crawford, At the New York City Cantor...
...The casual way in" which thia ia allowed to slip through, almost unawares shifting our sympathy from Kay to Ruth, is one of the- many deft maneuvrings of these accomplished playwrights...
...J. T.S...
...Grant must take his wife on his trip, building good will into the nomination...
...he hit Just the right solemnity and nth*-importance...
...The Technicolor musical drama stars netty Grable and June Haver as we two top glamor girls of a gen-¦fetion ago and brings John Payne to the screen after a two-year absence during which time he ¦jrved in the Army Air Forces...
...Told that he must he ready to make clear to Grant the real difference between the Democrats and the Republicans, he retorts at once, "All the difference in the world...
...Other, speakers will be Lillian Hellman...
...J . Four noted stage and screen actor* will be featured in thia new comedy by the author of "The Voice of the Turtle," the smash hit in its third capacity season on Broadway under the sponsorship-of Mr...
...The unobtrusive directing of Bretaigne Windust may be broad, as with Maidel Turner, who plays the tipsy wife of the Southern Senator, or it may be sharply but subtly defined, as with Ruth Hussey, who, after her first moments, makes Grant Mitchell's wife' rewarding portraiture...
...Co-starred in the screen attraction are Eddie Bracken and Veronica Lake...
...cast alto includes S.Z...
...Thus the triangle motif is pressed upon the political satire...
...Together, the cast moves easily, in well-timed patterns, through the play's intensities...
...As another of the staunch Republican reflects: he talks s bit radical, but any man that's made all that money must be a good American 1 Like many good Americans, Grant' has domestic difficulties...
...His wife wants Grant to be himself: her pressure haa aimed to prick his occasional complacency and self-importance...
...Cordell Hull wins the Nobel Peace Prise for 1945...
...American Legion convention in Chicago...
...Stopping here again, on its tour, tbi Margaret Webster production of "The Tempest" continues ita ^jjght...
...Americans set fire to Jap tanks...
...PEARL HARBOR NEWS AT ALL EMBASSY THEATRES—ALSO UP-TO-THE-MINUTE NEWS Startling revelations" at the Pearl Harbor investigation headline the new program now at all Embassy News reel Theatres...
...News from Japan: Tojo and fang in Tokyo prison...
...and fare*, the play is a romping pageant of moods, ad nJrsbly set and pleasantly perOut of the curtain picture of a taip ceases the deck of the doomed mssI...
...yet the authors neatly fuse the two aspects of the play into a shining unity...
...DOLLY SISTERS" HELD OVER AT IOXY The "Dolly Sisters," Twentieth Jjsatury-For musical biography of fat world famous dancing and sing-lag sisters, continues for a second *«ek at the Boxy Theatre...
...THE MERMAIDS SINGING" TO OPEN NOV...
...Then the satire works in: end of Act II, if a a play Democrats will like...
...this is a play Republicans will like...
...29th The Swiss minister to the United States, Dr...
...U. S. troops ig up buried treasure...
...The Army's heavy bombers, some of them obsolete before s single battle, are turned into children's toys and ashtrays...
...Production by Mar...
...Save for one role, the play ia well cast...
...she both loves and respects him, and values his self-respect.—In one of her bitter moments, parodying what she'd been hoping for him...
...The newspaper woman wants Grant to be nominated, wants him to "play ball" with the politicians...
...But the barbs prick both sides: end of Act III, it's a play good citizens will like...
...But from the steady flame of interest, frequent sparkling* of humor fly...
...As the candidate and tycoon, Ralph Bellamy is refreshingly natural, but his voice seemed brushed by the edge of a hoarseness...
...The inter-service controversy over unified command takes on a new interest as Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz and Genersl Eisenhower give their views...
...Ludwig Kaphan, president of the Metropolitan Region of Women's American ORT, will report ea on the ORT Guardianship Voce, tional Training Plan...
...It takes a bit of kindling before this play begins to blaze...
...Charles Bruggmasn, will address 1,600 women attending the Annual Regional Membership Luncheon of Women's American ORT, at the Hotel Commodore, ea Wednesday, November 28...
...I recommend this play for a house-warming theatre party for the new Freedom House...
...in fact, for some time the couple have been but officially conjoined...
...He will make a special trip from Washington for thia occasion and his topis will be "Our Common Efforts te Halp...
...They're in...
...but the state of the theatre has by this production been considerably improved...
...Robert A. Sherry who haa a record of over 200 successful missions in the Pacific Theatre of War, will represent the U.S...
...Emanuel List, leading basso of the Metropolitan Opera House, will also be featured...
...28th Tickets for the Alfred de Liagre, Jr...
...Sin-»tra, one of the many stars of ¦tags, screen and radio, discovered at the Paramount since it opened in November, 1926, is playing his fourth solo engagement there...
...With aim in person are Jan Savitt and Wt orchestra, the Pied Pipers, Coke • Moko and the Lao* Brothers...
...trtt Webster from an idea by gva L* Calhenne...
...Treasury Department, sad Mrs...
...Return Visit of the Hit Playwright shakespeare AHOY...
...it is not only ctssskal drama but excellent cur rest entertainment...
...We're out" For one act...
...the four sides of a central ttA admirably gi ve realistic back -ground and at once the suggestion «f further heights, for sll our life ii rounded with a sleep...
...This gives us time to discover that Grant's picture of his wife Mary ia really Kay'a picture...
...The writing peir, Lindsay snd Grouse, brilliant in farce, have in "State of the Union" proved themselves equally fleft, barbed in entire, pricked with humor, tense with drama, along more earnest lines of theatrical concern...
...the other woman always makes the husband feel that his wife doesn't understand him...
...Under thai plan thousands of European war orphans will receive maintenance and training in an ORT school or on an ORT farm, and upon graduation will be supplied with tools sad machines so thst they may be folly equipped for employment...
...Carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt leaves Brooklyn Navy Yard one shakedown cruise...
...de Liagre...
...This Republican being in a play (or perhaps modeled on Willkie), he too breaks from the boss, snd speaks the truth as he sees it He probably loses the nomination, but he stays in the fight for a better world...
...her foreign speech n still an obstacle, and she gesticulates (how could yen, Margaret Webster...
...A medley of romance, atlodrama...
...THS TSMPEST" By WUltan...
...Sakall, "?final d Gardiner, Rrank Lati-5...
...German prisoners in Rhode Island attend special Army classes where they are prepared for leadership in their own country...
...Wet surrender in Malaya—Japs yield in mud on the double...
...The neat work of the authors, the combination of social concern and human warmth, have found fit response in the other collaborators...
...Canada Lee Sp stakes a fitly cringing Cali-tts, though he might have been Man a bit store bulky a beastly cure...
...Skakeepearc...
...she gulps a glass, exclaiming "I'd rather be tight thin president," ^Even when Con over shrewdly points out to her that the one way of being sure of Grsnt is to gain his election— for the other woman could not follow him into the White House— Mary chooses, against herself, for her husband's integrity...
...40,000 Navy planes end their days as scrap aliminum at 6 cents a pound...
...WOMEN'S Oar HOLDS LUNCHEON NOV...
...Myron McCor-mick makes pleasantly off-band the newspaper man assigned as Grant's campaign manager...
...At the Hudson Theatre...
...OLD THAT BLONDE" IN SECOND WEEK At PARAMOUNT "Held That Blonde," supplemented by Frank Sinatra in person stays a second week at the N. Y. Paramount as the twin attraction of that theatre's nineteenth anniversary celebration...
...For, to stifle scandal...
...For the new play deals with nothing less than a potential Republican presidential candidate for 1948, and the attempt to build him into a threat to Truman...
...He complains that his wife is always running him down...
...Production of John van Drutn'a new slay "The Mermaids Singing," which will open at the Empire Theatre, Wednesday evening, November 28th, will go on sals at the hex office today...
...the noted tycoon is on s tour of his factories, making a speech in each city, when the Republican leader, Jim Con-over, discerns presidential timber...
...Hke a high school Istayiin But Arnold Moss, as Prespero, is in full command of hiswelf as well as the island...
Vol. 28 • November 1945 • No. 47
