BRIGHT BEAUTY: "BRIGADOON"
Bright Beauty: "Brigadcon" Joseph T. Shipley ON THE STAGE LADDIE COME HOME "BHICADOOS." Book and lyries bu Ah,,, Jay Lerner. Mutrie by Frederick Lowe, Dunce* and tnuticil Humbert by Agne* de...
...Russia is mentioned...
...Virginia Bnsler, as a soon-to-'i-* bride, comes from the ten virgins in a ring to her dance of delight and diffidence, desire and doubt— with music reminiscent of Brahma but a mood delicately and surely captuied...
...Here is an evening of rounded and tasteful enjoyment...
...they are part...
...Best of these are "The Heather on the Hill," "Almost Like Being in Love...
...more and more...
...Some of i these girls are accomplished in d -ed, with elevation, grace, lightness, snd ease that would adorn a premiere danseuse...
...Here, the miracle has little effect on the incidents we behold, save for one tragic surging...
...they would sleep not that one in -hi but for a hundred years...
...Such a choice is the constant theme of John Balderston's "Berkeley Square," which takes an American of 1928 to the year 17K1 in Loudon...
...It seems that the minister of the Scottish town of Brigadoon, back in 1717, was worried about his good people...
...She is such a winsome lass we are not surprised he prefers the even flow of life in Brigadoon t> i'i' frenzied worries of the twentieth century world...
...In that way, trey would be in no age long enough to learn, or to be stained hy, its evil...
...Too much evil was In the air...
...Most of .the evening, of course, is gill jut ami gay...
...Pamela Hi it ton is amusing as the merry Meg...
...The humor and romance have occasional deeper wells of feeling, as when Fiona discovers that loneliness lies not in loving in vain, but in never having loved at all...
...Mutrie by Frederick Lowe, Dunce* and tnuticil Humbert by Agne* de Mille...
...When she talks to him, he releases the only political allusions in the play...
...His people must he saved...
...Again, credit must go to Cheryl Crawford for an integrated rouse of sensitive and satisfying beauty, one of the season's high spots: "Brigadoon...
...Marion Bell, as Fiona, is unaffected...
...Costumes by David Ffolke...
...dilliat acted as producer of the film which Launder directed...
...There is deft variety in the wedding dance, when each clan comes in a body, and in the sword dance that follows...
...Instead, it is the sense of well-being we enjoy, the innocent stir of these enchanted and enchanting folk of Brigadoon...
...Production staged by Robert Lewii...
...That ia how the liveliness begins...
...apart from the move- > ment of the story...
...At the Ziegleld Theatre...
...In truth, the sexy side of the play is weak—but wisely subordinated...
...Boomerang...
...There is a tine Scotch flavor in these dances, not only from the costumes, but in 1 the weaving of the steps...
...The Brigadoon folk have slept two eenturyapauuing nights...
...THE ADVENTURESS" AT VICTORIA...
...This new musical combines impeccable tsste with bright tunes an I superb dancing, to lighten the season with snother joyous production...
...Presented by Cheiyl Crawford...
...The two Americans bring a modern note into the olden village...
...It is that day in 1947...
...and Lee Sullivan sings a sweet "Irish tenor" as the Scots bridegroom...
...aiid especially "There But For Vuii (lu I." Two others are sunar by bridegroom Charlie: "I'll go Inline w ith honnie Jean," and "(inie to nie, bend to me...
...Neither is especially new, nor especially clever...
...Would the good Lord grant that, each night when the Brigadoon folk went to bed...
...The minister prayed...
...The piece hangs upon a miracle...
...In the market square there is varied lit of gay dancers...
...Whether in sola numbers or bits, or in the sweep and surge of a crowded I stage, .Vines de Mille has devised i masterly patterns...
...i "The Adventuress" was written by Frank Launder and Sidney (iilliat, authors of "The Lady Vanishes" and "Night Train...
...Back in Brigadoon town, all things lead to a dance...
...stand out...
...And, save for one day in a century, Hrigadoon disappears...
...For Cheryl Crawford, as usual, has worked with rich sensibility and good tsste...
...George Keane is effective as the other American...
...Such thrusts of deeper emotion enrich the light pattern of gaiety that pervades most of "Brigadoon...
...snd "My Mother's Wedding Day...
...APRIL 5th "The Adventuress," starring Deborah Kerr and Trevor Howard, which follows "The Thief of Bagdad" into the Victoria Theatre, will open on Saturday, April 5, it was announced today by F.aglel.ion' Films and the management of the Victoria Theatre...
...starring Dana Andrews, and as all-star revue headed by Ed Sullivan, Katherine Dunham and Her Dancers, Sid Caesar, Ernests laruona and Phil Regan...
...The Lord granted 1n* prayer...
...of the story's movement, and its1 ni aid...
...Costumes, seta, words, blend into the pattern that is set mainly by the singing and dancing...
...Brigadoon" brings festivity to town...
...He mistrusts the miijule—but the lusty wench Meg ensnares him just the same...
...The oth'r American is a more cynical—or perhaps a more scientific fellow...
...her excellent voice and natural airs endear her not only to Tommy...
...Trevor Howard, starred in "Brief Encounter," which was recently selected as "one of the ten best films of I'.MK" by the New York Film Critics' Circle, stars opposite Miss Kerr...
...there is little real sense of conflict as Tommy lias to make up his mind whether to go back to the world or to live with Fiona in Brigadoon...
...The plot is thin...
...And now, lost in/ a Scotch mist, two Americsn* hunting 'n Scotland And themselves in Brigadoon...
...Deborah Kerr, whose performance in "The Adventuress" won her the most coveted role of the year opposite Clark Gable in "The Hucksters...
...And the funeral dance ot I.idija Franklin, to the eerie tune of bagpipes, creates a pattern of strange beauty in the face of death...
...Kven more distinctive and distinguished are two solo dances...
...Out of 1747 Scotland the girl inquires: "Russia* That's in F.urope, isn't it...
...Scenery by Oliver Smith...
...As Tommy, David Brooks has both charm and stage command...
...Tom my is a romantic lad He finds the girl of his dreams in Fiona, who has been "Waitin' for my Dearie" until Tommy coin's...
...Warlocks were on the watch...
...Meg sings the two comic songs: "The Love of My Life...
...On second thought he adds: "It's not far from here...
...ROXr HOLDS OVER SHOW The screen snd stage shew at the Roxy Theatre now in its third week, presents the 20th CenturyFox action-drama, "Boomerang...
...Nor do they, as in many recent productions...
...The dancing of Virgina Bosler deserves another mention...
...Just cross the Channel, ami turn left...
...He answers: "Oh yes...
...presented by Darryl F. Zannck, is the third film to he produced hy Louis de Roche, moot, and employs the technique introduced in "The House on 92nd Street" and "18 Rue Madeleine...
...Witches were nearing...
...Tummy and Fiona sing most of the louuntic songs of the evening...
Vol. 30 • March 1947 • No. 12
