Camps of the Dead Featured at Embassy
"Camps of the Dead" Featured at Embassy OFF KEY THE SONG OF BERNADETTE. By Jean and Walter Kerr, from tike navel by Franz Werfel. Di-%tcted by Walter Kerr. Pre-. tented by Victor f'ayne-Jenningt...
...So dees Felix Adler, who was in vaudeville...
...Paul Jerome, one of the top flight funster*, wa* a burlesque comedian...
...With the success of the motion picture as a challenge, the production has used colored slides throwing designs 0*1 a curtain, in place of the usual backdrops...
...Pat Valdo, now Big Show general personnel director, was a vauilevillian before he became a Barrrum clown...
...People Are Funny," based on the radio show of th* same name, is the associate feature...
...CANADA —Prime Minister MseKenzie King accuses Reds in spy case...
...At the Be-latco Theatre...
...It is unwise of the program to call "The Song of BernadeUe" the stage version of the "great novel," Because it is far from a great play...
...IT HAPPENED AT THE INN" HELD OVER AT SStk ST...
...AH photos are to be sent to the Strand Theatre on or before April 16th and become the property of Cab Calloway...
...and the lively Mercado Quartette...
...AT EL CHICO Finita Terentin, classical Spanish dancer, is a welcome addition to the bright revue at Benito Collada's El Chico...
...In truth, so is the entire performance...
...International's first French release in the United States—"It Happened st the Inn" (Goupi Mains Rouge*) with Fernand Ledoux, M*uric.**8chutz, Blanchett* Branoy and Georges Rollin, in French with complete dialogue title* in English...
...Besnadetta herself, in the bands of Elizabeth Ross, has the innocence and wonder, even the dumb firmness of purpose, of a peasant child that has had a holy vision...
...It has, as a character in the play remarks, "talent, but not virtue...
...Playhouse announces that it is holding over for a 16th week starting Saturday, March 30, the current American Premiere of M.G.M...
...tented by Victor f'ayne-Jenningt and Frank McCoy...
...Also highlighted in this show are Roberto and Alicia, exciting Gypsy dancers...
...you have to coese believing — And Broadway ia not fertile ground for miracles, "The Song of BernadeUe," like "Sing Out, Sweet Land" and the current "Lute Song," was first presented St the Catholic University of America, in Washington, D. C, where Walter Kerr is Professor of Drama...
...Joae Calderon and his orchestra play for dancing...
...REBECCA" BEGINS 4tk WEEK AT VICTORIA THEATRE "Rebecca," the David O. Selzni.-k re-presentation starring Laurent* Olivier and Joan Fontaine, will be held over for a fourth week at the Victoria Theatre on Broadway...
...Th* 56th St...
...Ambassador to Russia, has final talk with Truman befor* leaving for Moscow...
...he is now a head waiter with the Ringling Bros, snd Barman t Bailey Circus, which open* at Madison Square Garden Thursday, April 4th...
...In any case, the dramatic reconstruction of a miracle is most difficult...
...neither lifts with thst holy joy, thst sense of transfiguration, such s vision, such a miracle, should convey...
...The worst down ever to arouse the pity of the Big Shew'* "Famous Hundred" was an earnest minded gaffer who bdievad he was a barn clown...
...Kind fata took him ia charge...
...General Smith, newly appointed U.S...
...Leon Blum on a special mission for France...
...There are many famous clown* among the scores of performers with The Greatest Show on Earth...
...However, 100 clowns, with many stars back from overseas, make a tremendously important contribution to a circus day that will be long and fondly remembered...
...The mother chasing the girls with a switeh...
...CLOWN STAR OF CIRCUS WIDENS NATIONAL DRAW Weary Willi* Tramp Berosae* Favorite of MilMeao Who Bosk Hie Uughur Ulatioa Of course, down* are born, even as yon and I, but to say that circus clowns are born clowns is the bunk...
...Maria Teresa Acosta, Venezuelan singing star...
...1 ili-iin Ford, in the leading male role, appears as the beauty's principal love interest, while in the cast, besides George Macready, are Joseph Calleia, Steven (leray, Joe Sawyer, Gerald Mohr and Robert Scott...
...The Jive King, considered the most animate of band leaders, will afford lena clickers the opportunity for split-second action shots...
...The tender story requires a delicacy, sensitivity, and a theatrical competence that here do not combine...
...Highlighta from the New* of the W or M N.Y.C.—Winston Churchill pay* visit to Cardinal Spellman at St...
...Paul likes the circus better than th* stage...
...J. T. S. $700 IN BONDS TO STRAND CANDID CAMERA FANS The first ten rows of the NY Strand will be reserved on Saturday, March 30th, at 12 noon for its patrons who are candid camera enthusiasts...
...It is encouraging to find this valid stir of the theatre among our college youth...
...but all these plays have come to Broadway with some touch of that immaturity still upon them...
...Calloway on stage during the first show...
...They are invited to "snap_ Mr...
...Cab Calloway, the Hi De-Ho man, is sponsoring a "Focus Fan" contest which is open to all amateur photographers...
...Judges will be Earl Wilson, Gertrude Niesen, Murray Korman and Lee Mortimer...
...Rebecca," directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and being released through United Artists, appears headed for a long run at th* Broadway house...
...It is a sincere, an earnest effort, even a pious attempt, to bring the miracle, of Lourdea into terms of the theatre...
...Prizes for the best shots include $100 in Victory Bonds and 100 guest tickets to the Strand...
...A new huge super-epectacle, costing $280,-000, tops the magnificent production offerings...
...The former Prime Minister is in Washington to negotiate a loan from the United States...
...Unfortunately, the colors are st times garish, at times blurred...
...GILDA" AT MUSIC HALL "Gilda," starring Rita Hayworth with Glenn Ford and George Macready, continues a third week at Radio City Music Hall...
...MISS SUM SLAGLES" AT kVKLYN PARAMOUNT Adapted from Augusts Tucker's novel, "Miss Susie Slagle's," is Paramount'a film version of the story of young doctors in the making which enters its second week on the screen of the Brooklyn Paramount Theatre, Flatbush at DeKalb Ave...
...the police officer bullying BernadeUe to keep her from her tryst with her vision...
...The 1946 performances, starting at 2:16 and 8:15 P. M., with doors open at 2 and 7, are of prewar vastneas and quality, with every new wonder available in these postwar days added, to say nothing of a galaxy of new European stars and troupes that the circus has at last been able to import...
...Patrick's CathedraffifNext day Churchill boards the Queen Mary and sails for England...
...Marcel Petiot is accused of slaying 26 persons in his home in s fashionable section of Psris...
...the insane-asylum keeper come to snatch the girl away, seem half out of farce, half out of old-time melodrama...
...MI4Jjr HIGHLIGHT IS mUP PICTORIAL RECORD Of NAZI ATROCITIES "Camp on ths Dead,'' a pictorial record of Nazi atrocities, will be a feature of the new program at all Embassy Newsreel Thaetre* this week...
...Th* film shows proof that Hitler'* madmen snd women made lampshades of human skin, had mumk-fied heads for souvenirs, slaughtered civilians by the train loads, burned thousand* in incinerators and used their ashes for fertilizer and were gtulty of many other horrible brutalities...
...Best seats ran b« obtained during early Monday hoar...
...It may f>e that, beyond differences in what is sought in the play itself, the methods of presentation and direction call for a different hand...
...To accept it...
...in the present play it has not come to life...
...Bobby Clark, the famous stage comic, was a Ringling down, and so it goes...
...From Paris comes sensational pictures of on* of the most amazing criminal trials in history...
...but neither she nor the play becomes clear, or radiant...
...There are more acts than ever before, and there are thrills almost innumerable...
Vol. 29 • March 1946 • No. 13
