Value For Everyone in "One Man Show"
Value For Everyone in "One Man Show*? RUNNING THI ROOST "ONE-tlAN SHOW." By Ruth (iosdman and Augustus Goetx. Set by Stewart Cheney. Pretented and directed by Jed Harris. At the Ethel Barry...
...3) The businessmsn'a advertising artist, who also takes private pictures of his nodels, and who spends the evening in alternate cackles and guffaws...
...Jsmes Rennie makes a personable millionaire...
...and of John Archer, the clear-headed yet impetuous boy that sweeps Racine free, Broadway should see much more...
...Others in person include Frances Lane, Tommy MorI gan, Arline Russell and Don Baker at the Paramount organ console...
...The direc- ; tion consists in putting as many well-built females where as much of them as possible will show—one, , supposedly nude, stroking herself behind s tranalucent glass door...
...Marjorie Reynolds is featured and others in the cast include Carl Esmond, Hillary Brooke, Percy Waram and Erskine Sanford...
...If sex slipped into the so-called comics, this would be a cartoon...
...The process of bringing it "up to date" ; has burst the bubbles...
...An extra added attraction is Louis Jordan and his tympany five...
...1) A professor of arachnology (spiders to you) afraid of women...
...2) A businessman who undertakes to cure the professor by taking him to the Beaux Arts Ball...
...she brings a warm reality to the affection for her father, making quite understandable even the excessive binding of the paternal tie...
...At the Ethel Barry mo re Theatre...
...BOB HOPE PICTURE HAS BROADWAY PREMIERE "The Princess and the Pirate," Samuel Goldwn's Technicolor RKO Radio-released comedy starring Bob Hope, had its Broadway premiere at the Attor Theatre on Friday, February 9. Leading lady is Virginia Mayo, a Goldwyn discovery._ "MINISTIT OF FEAR" AND STAGE SHOW STORY ON AT THE MMMOUNT Acclaimed by critics as one of the year's top thrillers, "Ministry of Fear" continues at the N. T. Paramount where it is now in it* second week...
...The few men that come close enough to woo the charming girl are turned away: until the father recognizes that Racine must pull up her roots and transplant her spirit to a fresh soil of its own...
...Johnny Long and his orchestra make their fourth Paramount appearance in heading the augmented m-perton show...
...The other two men would have lapsed with her into roles that would have made her father's a permanent "one-man show" in her heart...
...The art gallery (in its physical appearance as well) is a fit background for this intelligently developed play...
...Lorraine Rognaa, a heroine of the tragic Lisbon Clipper crash, does a comedy stint as does Jan Murray...
...As the father, Frank Conroy, comes well through the most difficult role, as the suave, successful, happy art dealer crumples to the weakling who fights with any weapon to nodd-tiis selfish happiness...
...Here, in "One-Man Show"—without the fanfare that preceded its sister effort, "Trio," and without the morbid tension that hangs like the breath of doom ovar O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra"—ia an effective drama built out of the fond affection of parent and child...
...By Cyrus Wood from a play by Avery Hopwood ana Charlton Andrews...
...This feeling is strengthened by sensitive direction, and accomplished acting...
...At the Hoy ale Theatre, .A score of years ago the Hopwood - Andrews farce, "Ladies' Night," was bawdy but bubbly...
...GOOD NIGHT, LADIES...
...Luclan Gardner, head of the Gardner art-galleries, has raised his motherless daughter Racine as a real comrade and close pal...
...it glistened like the bubbles of perfumed soap in milady's bath...
...In a season that lays accent on frivolity, when "escape" is interpreted to mean not "wine and woman" but "souses and sex," one is tempted to toss his hat high for such attempts at worth-while theatre as "One-Man Show...
...now the sexes are reversed...
...Bay Milland is in tha latest Frits Lang directorial trlumph, which has been labeled baffling, eerie, auspenseful, exciting, blood-curdling and hair-raising...
...There are a few men...
...Some of the lastact shifts in mood seem abrupt, as though devised rather than realised ; but in its main movement the drama carries conviction...
...Amid the flood of liquored and lickerish characters that try to pass for humans on the current stage, it is refreshing, invigorating, renewing one's faith, to (i a an intelligent treatment of a worthy theme...
...Staged by Edward Clarke I Miry...
...Constance Cummings is most welcome in her return to the American Stage...
...If it seems, at the start, just another triangle, it soon reveals the' deeper shadows of human relationships upon which its fitful light plays...
...J.T.S...
...The Beaux Arts Ball is raided, and the men hop across the fir* escape to the conveniently adjoining "cosmetarium" where the women are being exposed to beauty treatments...
...GOOD NIGHT...
...Her effort to cling to him, her awakening, and then her father's discovery that his own need is too strong, make a vital and vividly realized pattern against the love of Francis Kearny, whose understanding and patient will-power help effect Racine's cure...
...From the Oedipus that gave his name to a "complex," on through "The Silver Cord," we have seen eons "tied to their mothers' apronstrings...
Vol. 28 • February 1945 • No. 7
