Long Awaited, "The Last Chance" Tuesday
Long Awaited, "The Last Chance" Tuesday CRITERION TO HOUSE MUCH-DISCUSSED FILM Everyone speaks his own language in "The Last Chance" and since it probably is the most cosmopolitan picture ever...
...I make the 1946 prediction that Fuchs is the coming sensation and that uptown will be coming downtown to try and make him theirs...
...Cooper delineates the Texss Colonel who plays an important role in Clio's life._ "WISH ME LUCK" IN TIDDISH AT THE SECOND AVE...
...others, after wandering across Europe, find themselves in Nazi-controlled Italy...
...under ordinary circumstances they would undoubtedly never find themselves together...
...Sergeant Braddock is portrayed by Ray Reagan, a young flyer from Camden, New Jersey, who was interned in Switzerland after a forced landing in his Flying Fortress...
...That's the only difference...
...Yetta Zwerling gives her usual high standard as the routine comedienne...
...Rased on the novel by Richard Schweizer, "The Last Chance" tells the story of a group of people who, though they come from widely diversified origina, find that they are all seeking the same goal—to get out of Italy and away from the Nazis, and to get across ths Swiss border to freedom...
...The scenery and staging are effective and good...
...As swell an actor as Second Avenue hat had in some time, and that Broadway could well be proud to acquire and call its own...
...But in the crucible of their anti-fascism and thir search for freedom, they achieve an indissoluble unity...
...But I'm here to tell that not only does Leo Fuchs "make the grade," he captures the audience completely...
...THEATRE Originally "Wish Me Luck" had Menashe Skulnik, he of the funny face and funny feet and funny voice...
...So if you wsnt an entertaining evening in the theatre in any language, you'd better hie yourself off to the downtown Second Avenue Theatre before Fuchs is shied off to uptown Broadway...
...Carlo Romatko, a laborer from Yugoslavia, is seen in the role of s Yugoslav worker...
...The stage show is a triple headliner, with Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra, featuring Dee Parker, Karl Kiffe and Dick Culver, celebrating their return engagements with new melodies and novelties...
...In "Wish Me Luck" he proves he also has a flair for comedy...
...The languages in "The Last Chance" come easily and naturally to their speakers...
...Certainly Menashe Skulnik has established himself through the years on the Yiddish stage and haa built up an' enviable reputation...
...And rescue it is indeed 1 After three and a half hours' of entertainment, consisting of two acts and twelve scenes of music, laughter, bright costumes, songi 'and dances, Leo Fuchs is outstanding...
...still others, such as the soldiers above, are military escapeea...
...It wa* a plain, simple, homely role, and he played it with distinction...
...The role is portrayed by Rudolf Kaempf, a real German professor...
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...Lowe, Hite and Stanley offer gymnastic hilarity, and as a special attraction MGM contributes Carlos Ramirez, South American ambassador of tong, recently seen in "Anchors Aweijh" and "Two Girls and a Sailor...
...They're one and the same, and cut to a mighty fine pattern...
...He's the one I He's polished, he's finished, he's news...
...At that time he showed he had the stuff that made for success as an actor...
...It is a story of a pretty girl who believes Fred is her "guardian angel...
...Other leading roles in the new film, based on the popular story by Edna Frber, are portrayed by Flora Robaon, Jerry Austin, John Warburton, Florence Bates, Curt Bois and John Abbott, Miss Bergman plays the part of Clio Dulaine, Creole beauty who comes to America from France to avenge the shabby treatment of her mother by her father'a family...
...Where Muni left off, Fuchs will take on, and it shouldn't be in the too distant future...
...He is a gem indeed, and I'm still nnder the influence of an evening at the theatre with this brilliant performer, For a while there was some doubt ss ot whether Fuchs could carry the show from which Skulnik was forced to retire...
...The parts of Major Telford and Lieutenant Halliday are played by E. G. Morrison and John Hoy, a Major and a Lieutenant in the British army who themselves escaped into Switzerland after being captured by the German in Italy...
...He'll out-Muni Psul Muni...
...It all adds up to a half dozen of one to six of the others...
...The costumes, the dances, the music by Abe Ell-stein are fully worthy of the best traditions of Second Avenue, and plenty of it could be Broadway...
...Then he fell from the parachute jump, one of the play's trick manipulations, and Leo Fuchs came to the rescue...
...Its premiere will take place at Loew's Criterion Theatre on Not...
...This year, Muni Serebrov, handsome, pleasant and debonair, is the hero instead of Max Kletter...
...It is a pleasure to be able to associate that splendid dramatic actor with this grand comedian...
...Ths Last Chance" was directed by Leopold Lindtberg, and relates the trials and adventures of this highly cosmopolitan group in their quest for liberty...
...they sometimes have difficulty understanding each other...
...English, of course, is the predominating tongue, but there are respectable slices of Italian, French, Yiddish, German, and Dutch, among others...
...The picture was produced in Switzerland by Lazar Wechsler and acquired by M-G-hf International Films for release throughout the United States...
...There is, for example, a German professor in the film for whom the only thing with meaning in life ia that he will be allowed to finish hi| book...
...The roles of a Jewish taaor from Poland and his niece, Chanele, are played by a Jewish tailor from Poland, Maurice Sakhnowaky, and his niece, Berthe...
...Some years ago, when he appeared in "The Man of Tomorrow" with the beloved Samuel Golden-burg, he portrayed a serious role as sn old man...
...and Gertrudten (ate, a woman from Holland, portrays, naturally, a woman from Holland...
...C. C. G. GALA HQUDAT SHOW AT CAPITOL Designated as its Victory Thanksgiving show, the Capitol Theatre's new offering includes MCM's technicolor musical romance, "Yolanda and the Thief," starring Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer...
...The plot is the usual humdrum melodrama with every player in his accustomed role, from Miriam Kressyn, the soubrette, to Anna Teitelbaum, the menace...
...They come together from many different places...
...And in addition to his acting ability, he can even play the violin, no fooling, and proves it by playing it well during the course of the show...
...But here I am, back to Leo Fuchs...
...Here's s lad that has everything— youth, charm, good looks and acting ability...
...Long Awaited, "The Last Chance" Tuesday CRITERION TO HOUSE MUCH-DISCUSSED FILM Everyone speaks his own language in "The Last Chance" and since it probably is the most cosmopolitan picture ever filmed, the number of languages heard in it adds up to nearly a dozen...
...r GARRY COOPERINGRID BERGMAN STAR IN "SARATOGA TRUNK" "Saratoga Trunk," Warner Bros, drsma co-starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman, is now in its world premiere showing at the New York Hollywood Theatre...
...Yes, he's the up and coming actor...
...Some of them have escaped the concentration camps, some of them have managed to thwart the death ovens...
...As extra added attraction Jackie Gleason, comedy star of night clubs, radio and Broadway's "Follow the Girls," completes the show...
...27th...
...Seymour' Rechtzeit, Dave Lubritsky, Esta Salsman, et aL, perform well in their customary roles...
...Something must also be said of the cast, even if not for the play...
...Albert Margolies...
...The leading roles are those of two British officers and an American sergeant, and the story starts with their escape from the Nazis as they are being transported to a prison camp in Germany...
Vol. 28 • November 1945 • No. 47
