OPEN CITY POWERFUL FILM AT THE WORLD
IDoen City" Powerful Fiim at the World g? IMPROPAGANDA wjnB." By Robert Ardrev. Sets .iSJIlf J° Mielziner. Staged und presented by Herman Shundin. ;mAt t*« Martin Beck Theatre. PNflhl...
...Passion is not the path to a better world...
...The newest March of Time subject, "Report on Greece," which meets the demand for an authoritative story on the events in the Balkans shaping history today, completea the new Roxy screen program...
...The screen play was written byy Chester Ers-kine, Anne Morrison Chapin and Whitfield Cook, based on the play By Chester Ersklne...
...Then we thought it would be over soon...
...the weaklings, who succumb to the J varied tricky lures of the Nazis— 1 all-grow into strong and moving ! picture of sacrifice and martyrdom...
...you know that you are watching ' reality a* you see the Germans 1 questionin, then torturing the cap- ' turde patriots...
...The Crosby-Hope-Lamour film in its first week set new opening day, Saturday, week-end and first week, other than holiday, records...
...This re-s mark, accepted casually by those 't in the film, might dampen the .- ardor of United Nations spec...
...Why then, its lack of power...
...Suggesting no solution, it can merely inflame...
...1 Taken mainly with actual oiti- 1 zens that lived through the occupation, "Open City" has power...
...The accompanying stars "in person" show is headed by Sammy Kaye and his orchestra, and Marie (The Body) McDonald...
...The Roxy's popular stage show, headed by Carmen Miranda, also stays for the final week...
...Solo stars with the ''band include Billy Williams, Betty I Barclay, Mary Marlow, Ernie , "Cecil" Rudisill, Chubby Silvers, ' | and the Kayedettes and Kaye ! i Choir...
...The new and elaborate stage ahow at the Roxy headlines The Hartmans, world-famous dance satirists...
...So »' vivid, so realistic were the filming* that Italian citizens came rushing ¦ to drive out the new onslaught of * the Nazis, as storm-troopers take * a group of prisoners—for the film...
...Complaining at the length of the war, : one person exclaims: "We were in i- it two years ago...
...I am not sure how good a sign that is...
...tators...
...SENTIMENTAL JOUR MET" AT THE ROXT THEATRE "Sentimental Journey," new 20th Century-Fox film, had Ha world premiere at the Roxy Theatre last Wednesday...
...FALLEN ANGEL" IN FINAL WEEK AT ROXY The 20th Century-Fox film, "Fallen Angel," produced and directed by Otto Preminger, remains for a fourth and final week at the Roxy...
...It has been insured for $5,00(1...
...it is ^pre-eminently shown as a problem St 'the South—where it can hardly Top* to be shown...
...The exhibit, which features hundreds of Ziegfeld stars and show girls, is from the famaus Albert Davis Collection of Theatrical Photographs...
...f ITALIAN UNDERGROUND t "OPSN CITY.' Italian film at tha World Theatre...
...In many Negroes—as the timing of the ap-" t Wycmfwyp shrdlu shrdluo plause indicates -it but confirms the bases of their resentment against the whites...
...ROAD TO UTOPIA" BEGINS 2nd WEEK AT PARAMOUNT "Road to Utopia" ia now in its second week at the Paramount Theatre...
...The situation is surely •he that this country has to face...
...g^the North, they are kinder, they just don't give it to him...
...Kaye offers his popular audience partici-, pation feature, "So You Want to ' Lead a Band...
...In order to accommodate crowds, th ('management, will continue to open doors st 8:30 a. m., and on Saturday will open at 7:30 a. m., on which day seven Complete stage and screen shows will be presented, with showing of the featuring running to 4 a. m. With "Road to Utopia" Is Benny Goodman and his orchestra in person, with Pat Henning, "atomic comic," as an extra added nttrac-' tion...
...Hume Cronyn, Audrey Totter, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson and Reginald Owen are prominently featured in the cast...
...John Payne, Maureen O'Hara and William Bendix are starred...
...The film ^ives a picture of German ruthless brutality—but also a glimpse of another national <e selfishness that we must not forte get...
...The picture is crowding film 1 houses all through Italy...
...J. T. S. ZIEGFELD EXHIBIT AT CAPITOL THEATRE An exhibit of Ziegfeldiana, including pictures of famous stars and show girls of the Ziegfeld Follies, is now on display on the mczzanjne floor of the Capitol Theatre...
...the question is, ,why did it open 7 Despite its flaws—the minor character sre caricatures...
...The play is scheduled to close before this comment appears...
...Thsi exhibit is being held in connection with the showing of MGM's "Ziegfeld Follies of 1946," Technicolor musical, coming to the Capitol following the current "The Sailor Takes a Wife...
...The picture was directed by Richard Whorf and produced by Edwin H. Knopf...
...For the picture—not intended for foreign audiences—has one line the ' man making the English titles 'l might wisely hsve left out...
...PNflhl sensitive staging of Herman "•JlBimHn, and the good acting of the caste-—especially Ossie Davis as the Negro Jcb and Santos Ortega at the well-meaning but weak White man—give stress to the problem of the problem play, typified in "Jeb...
...Jeb himself is too naively unaware of th* difficulties raised by his desire iJtf a better, for "a white man's," jebe—-ihe play is a serious and on <Jjl whole effective presentation of the ; problem .of the Negro soldier r-witb new skills and a new sense M his personal value and his ron-mibution to this country—return-Tgfa to the old South...
...Before the guns ceaede firing, A the cameras began shooting in Rome, as the underground Italians C with German equipment began n E record of weir fight, grimly caught ; in "Open City...
...J. T. S. "SAILOR TAKES A WIFE" [ OPENS AT THE CAPITOL , MGM introduces a new love • team in Itobert Walker and June Allyson, who play a pair of newly-weds in "The Sailor Takes a Wife," which is now a tthe Capitol Theatre...
...Despite its attempt to til the .^rouble to the North — "in the South, if a Negro wants a better job, they beat the life out of him...
...For had the war ended 0 "two years ago," as they seemed ,s to wish-Italy would have been it jackal to a triumphant Germany, licking her chops for the bloody t_ booty of the democratic world...
...in more, it is lilekly to stir areaction of defense: thoughts that the problem is complex, that conditions cannot be expected to change overnight — as one character protests: "I didn't invent the South...
...The printer, the ' priest, the little boys that watch ' in terror, yet do their share of ' message-bearing, even of bombing...
...In the first place, like most Negro problem plays, it is presented in the wrong part of the country...
...drawing excited C crowds at the World Theatre...
...Herb Shriner, comedy star of NBC, and Dick Brown, radio's newest zinging star...
...But secondly, the better such a play is, the more it rouses the emotions...
...Featured in the cast with John Payne, Maureen O'Hara and Wil-litm Bendix are Sir Cedric Hsrd-wicke, Glen Langan, Mischa Auer, Connie Marshall, Kurt Krueger, Trudy Marshall, Ruth Nelson, Dorothy Adams, Mary Gordon, Olive Blakeney and James Flsvin...
...It seeks to ¦lay fair, in that Jeb is fleeced, f> Harlem, by other Negroes, not mr whites...
...Jack Carter adds to the ' I comedy values of the bill...
...The rrill manager is a Believable figure: wishing to give lab a chance at the better job, bat brow-beaten by the banker sad still by the fear of local opinion...
...In a few whites it may rouse proper indignation...
...Aparently this would have pleased the Italians as much as the present outcome...
...Others include Johnny Barnes, I Mel Powell, Cozy Cole, Liu Mor' roWl-.fatn '^SS'y- bdW MsGairlty I andtfoflnny White...
Vol. 29 • March 1946 • No. 10
