VIVID 'BOOMERANG' AT ROXY
Vivid 'Boomerang' at Roxy TERESA WRIGHT AND ROBERT MITCHUM IN NEW WARNER FILM Filled with terse, tense, blazing action and breathtaking scenic beauty, Niven Bosch's "Pursued," the United...
...J. T. SMODERN DANCER Martha Graham in a week's dancing nt the Century Theatre...
...In the Orient, especially in India, long tradition has confirmed the patterns of movement and poise, so that every gesture has its specific meaning, no matter who may be the artist in the dance...
...J. T S. "SCHEHERAZADE" HELD OVER AT CRITERION Universal - Internationals' Technicolor production "Song of Scheherazade," starring Yvonne De Carlo, Brian Donlevy and Jean Pierre Aumont, currently showing at Loew's Criterion Theatre, is now in its second week...
...r these two productions bring more enjoyable hours...
...The warmer elements of humor, the lighter breath of whimsy, are lacking in Martha Graham's intense nature...
...Donald Wolrit shifts the emphasis, in line with recent thought, to say: "How express and admirable in action...
...Vivid 'Boomerang' at Roxy TERESA WRIGHT AND ROBERT MITCHUM IN NEW WARNER FILM Filled with terse, tense, blazing action and breathtaking scenic beauty, Niven Bosch's "Pursued," the United States Pictures' production ¦ released by Warner Bros., opened at the New York Strand Theatre...
...Indian, Spanish, or east Russian, the costumes caught the appreciative eye...
...Paul Regan, satirist, and Perry Franks and Janyce, dance team...
...At the XJemtiiry TheatreIt Donald Wolflt hsd begun hie Broadway presentation with "Vnlpone" and "Hamlet," his American tour might have found better faxing...
...The present production, in most instances, follows the least complex paths...
...A detail, perhaps...
...With complete command, of her body, and a grasp of effects both intellectually rich and emotionally intense, Martha Graham is almost our sole reassurance that what we call "the modern dance" has qualities that will outlast our day...
...Juana is an attractive young lady, an earnest and conscientious worker...
...so that La Mori's influence is far more widely felt than...
...The command of technique manifested in the Oriental numbers was warmed by a more emotional quality in Juana's Spanish group, and enlivened by an arch twinkling in the two Tartar dances, of the Crimea yesterday and the Crimea today...
...Hamlet's mother ia presented without subleties...
...But there is no doubt of what the play means to the players...
...The play loses in complexity, but gains in forceful drive...
...ETHNOLOGICAL DANCE J nana in two recitals at the Barbizon-Plaza Theatre...
...how noble in reason...
...all -ubtle or sexual shadings in the relations of mother and son are brushed aside...
...Calleia in featured roles...
...The New York Strand has booked Louis Prima and his orchestra for an in person engagement...
...Adapted from an original story of his own, the Niven Busch screenplay traces the adventures of the last of a clan, doomed to oblivion by an unseen avenger...
...The ghost is a very palpable creature...
...This is in sharp contrast with the western world, where each "modern dancer" develops her individual technique, and spectators—from performer to rierformer—must guess at the moions' meaning...
...Juana's costumes deserve an especial word, for at each new dance they won admiration- In a Javanese number, headdress and head were fused in a chaste profile...
...The music and life of RimskyKorsakoff, brilliant Russian composer, is the theme of ".Song of Scheherazade," which was directed by Walter Reisch and produced bv Edward KaufmanCAPITOL HOLDS SHOW Kathryn Grayson and Johnnie Johnston headline the stars inperson show which is now in its third week at the Capitol Theatre, Other stars in the stage hill include Nat Brandwynne and his orchestra...
...in apprehension how like a god...
...And her work, with her accordant company, is always inspiriting, always a spiritual "pickup," always enthralling to behold...
...Featured with the band are vocalists Jack Powers, Cathy Allen, and drummer Jimmy Vincent...
...There is a breathless rush of events—even in the torrent of Hamlet's words—that carries the audience along apace, '¦aught in the whirlwind of passion...
...in form and moving how express and admirable...
...The result is that, despite uneven work, the Wolfit "Hamlet" is an intelligent, enjoyable, rousing experience...
...how infinite in faculty...
...The accompanying screen attraction is MGM's "The Beginning of the End," starring Brian Donlevy and Robert Walker, with Audrey Totter, Hume Cronyn, Beverly Tyler, Tom Drake and Joseph...
...The latest of La Meri's dancers to appear in solo recital is Juana, on two evenings at the BarbizonPlaza Theatre...
...There is, furthermore, an intelligeit use of recent Shakespeare criticism in planning the scenes and in some of the delivery, which augments the interest...
...The work of Juana reminds us thst in the ethnological dance— as kept vivid and fresh by La Meri and her disciples—lies the true tradition of the dance as an expression of the people, and as a lilt of beautv in the soul...
...The supporting cast includes Eve Arden, Charles Kullman, Terry Kilburn and Philpi Reed...
...in action how like an angel...
...they In v.* brought into these aspects of the dance available elements of the basic technique...
...recognized, or than her name is known...
...but indicating that considerable thought has gone into the production...
...Punch and the Judy"—"a performance for fools," presenting the eternal story of squabble and scuffle of man and wife, is an amusing satire...
...the audience is always aware of the drive...
...This lack is felt in the somewhat heavyhanded "Appalachian Spring...
...Ophelia seems to recite her mad speeches, as in a high-school assembly, ft is hard to find reason for the strong accent on "name" in the exclamation: "Frailty, thy name is woman I" Yet other passages show not only discrimination but awareness of recent trendsAs late as 1942, for example, In his "Dictionary of Quotations," H. L. Mencken follows the pattern: "What a piece of work is man...
...Rut her "Letter to the World" remains the greatest creation of the modern dance...
...Milton Sperling produced the film for United States Pictures...
...The stage show also presents Frank Marlowe, musical comedy star...
...A crowded week permitted my seeing but one of the recitals, at which none of the week's novelties was presented...
...And the action speeds along like a fore i ta beneath u gale...
...The dances of the East are the only ones that have found a permanent language...
...Hamlet" is fciven, indeed, a harum-scarum performance...
...And there is, finally, the great play itself, which would shine Somehow through the poorest per-' formsnee—and which in Wolftt's hands commands our constant attention...
...The work of Martha Graham continues to be the best modern dancing in America...
...But there is continuing intensity of mood and beauty of expression in "Deaths and Entrances," the "legend of a heart's life" suggested ^by the 'doom eager" Bronte sisters...
...Directed by Raoul Walsh and scored by Max Steiner, "Pursued" was photographed by James Wong Howe, A.S.C...
...Joseph T. Shipley ON THE STAGE LATE RETRIEVING "HAhLKT...
...Presented by Hall Shelton, by arrangement with Advance Players Association, Ltd...
...In the former of these, we could glimpse beneath the veil the same desires that in the second dance shone more directly...
...There is always the eagerness to see how a new production will deal with the work...
...and Jane Wynn, dancer...
...Starring Teresa Wright and Robert Mitchum and featuring a company of supporting players including Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger, Alan Hale and John Rodney, the film is a penetrating portrait of a family feud in New Mexico at the turn of the century...
...how like an angel in apprehension...
...how like a god...
...By William Shakespeare...
...The reading of lines varies...
...The greatest American exponent of tho eastern dance—of the ethnological dance in general—is undoubtedly La Meri- A number of those that have learned from her have become prominent in other ranges of American dancing...
...He has, belatedly, put his best foot forward...
...There is much in her performance that indicates the potentialities of beauty, of the Oriential dance...
Vol. 30 • March 1947 • No. 10
