STREET SCENE' IS SET TO MUSIC
'Street Scene' is Set to Musie No such excitement catches us again until two nurses push their carriages to the scene of the shooting, and soothe their charges while they discuss, the murder,...
...In truth the plot, from suspicious growling husband to slow-moving stretcher with dying wife, wakens little emotional response...
...PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY PROGRAMS of Carnegie Hall Sunday afternoon, Feb- 9, at 3:00 (broadcast over CBS...
...BALLET RUSSE SPRING SEASOH AT MET...
...and the clusters of tenants and neighbors are usually effective, as when the adults welcome the girl graduate, with her diploma "Wrapped in a ribbon and tied in a bow," or when the youngsters romp in.their game of "Catch me if you can...
...The figures are the same, and the basic pattern of the piece is unchanged...
...Jones and her worthless family...
...Despite the apt and frequently effective music of Kurt Weil, however, one may question whether the tranaformation of the melodrama into a "dramatic musical" has produced an improvement over the play that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1029...
...Slated for revival is the first presentation at the Metropolitan Opera House of "Pictures at an Exhibition," which made its New York debut with the International Ballet in 1944...
...The songs—solo, duo, trio, or choral — are operatic in form, rather than popular...
...Piano Concerto No...
...It might have been better to acknowledge the pattern "dramatic musical" seeks to evade and frankly to strive for opera...
...EASY COME, EASY GO" OPENS AT PARAMOUNT With Barry Fitzgerald in the i-51e of a lovable rascal who has his own way with everything but the horses, "Easy Come, Easy Go" is now at the New York Paramount Theatre...
...The dialogue may at any moment break into music, as when Maurrant, scolding his wife for not properly watching the children, suddenly sings one line, that he * —,wants to know where his daughter is at night...
...Based on the famous suite by Modeste Moussorgsgy, it is choreographically pictorialized by Bronislava Nijinsky and designed by Boris Aronson...
...Perhaps because on stage the weither has been hot and the mood foreboding, the first real enthusiasm comes when two jitterbugs, no better (morally) than they should be, are wondering whether to call it a night...
...Meanwhile their daughter Anna is wondering whether to escape from the sordid slums by running away with their neighbor, Sam Kaplan, or by accepting the offer of the married man who wants to set her up on Broadway...
...Also programmed for opening night are the Pas de Deux from "Don Quixote" with Andre Eglevsky and Rosella Hightower, and David Lichinc's "Graduation Ball...
...Death and Transfiguration, Strauss...
...At the Adelphi Theatre...
...Symphony No...
...Hope Emerson makes Emma Jones a good picture of a coarse but good-natured gossip...
...These keep their singing among the pleasant moments...
...A dramatic musical from the play by Elmer Kice...
...The present production falls between two styles...
...Out of the morbid drama of perverse lust, "Green Grow the Lilacs," came the fresh and joyous musical comedy, "Oklahoma...
...13 Rue Madeleine' was produced by Louis de Rochemont and directed by Henry HathawayJoseph T. Shipley ON THE STAGE CITY LIFE IN MUSIC "STREET SCENE...
...The playboy's caroled proposition to Rose Maurrant may be intended as burlesque, but overdoes itself...
...Barry's horses seldom come in, but the polife do...
...Such story as there is revolves about the Maurrants...
...Unfortunately, the author chose another path...
...An episode in song, about ice cream, that might have been charming, should go where they dump the cones when the song is over...
...Hughes is a poet, not a song writer...
...Why might not "Street Scene" do the ssme thing for the city...
...Featured with the orchestra are Dorothy Claire, Rex Stewart and Billy Usher...
...There are brighter aspects of the production...
...What comes through of the original work is vivid still...
...Tuesday evening, Feb...
...Hia wife, Anna, needs affection: her quest of it outside her husband's erms#brings him home to shoot her...
...With the popular quartet in person are Ella Fitzgerald, Tip, Tap and Toe, Stump and Stumpy, and Cootie Williams and his orchestra as an extra added attraction...
...The engagement will begin with "Giselle," featuring Alicia Markova in the title role, partnered by Anto Dolin...
...Around these, there is the swirl of the other tenants...
...Like three weird sisters the gossips gather...
...The book carries effective wit, but no mellow humor...
...Near-rhymea abound, perhaps tjying to capture a folk spirit, but producing an effect of ineptitude...
...11, concert in Springfield, Mass., under direction of Bruno WalterThursday evening, Feb...
...Book by Elmer Rice...
...John Farrow directed the film, the cast of which includes Dick Foran, Frank McHugh, Allea Jenkins, John Litel, Arthur Shields and Frank Faylen...
...Sheila Bond and Danny Daniels make this a lively stir, in a jitterbug dance with modern and apache interweaving*, arid 'the song "Moon-faced, starry-eyed...
...Perhaps with "Porgy and Bess" in mind, the work came forth as a "dramatic musical...
...try to sing "the subways twisting tunnels underground...
...Symphony No...
...and town life...
...gossipy Mrs...
...Frank Maurrant is a strict Irishman, married and expecting devotion from his wife, obedience from his cnil-*——--—— i dren, though he shows little tenderness in return...
...13, at 8:45, and Friday afternoon, Feb...
...Lyrics by Langston Hughes...
...Setting by Jo Mielziner...
...14, at 2:30...
...7 in A major, Beethoven...
...BEGINS MARCH 20 S. Hurok announced the return of the Original Ballet Russe, Col...
...Sam's orthodox but radical father, preaching social reform from the groundfloor window...
...The screen attraction is Warner's romantic drama, "The Man I Love," starring Ida Lupino,- Robert Alda, Andrea King and Bruce Bennett"13 RUE MADELINE" IN FINAL WEEK AT ROXT The 20th Century-Fox actiondrama, "13 Rue Madeleine," starring James Cagney, is now in it* fourth and final week at the Roxy Theatre and ends its run on Monday, Feb...
...Directed by Charles Friedman...
...Heading the new in-person show at the Paramount are the Ink Spots...
...Out of the tender, wistful charm of "Liliom," we have the bouncing gaiety of "Carousel...
...One had hoped for more...
...We are, still, more interested in the various personalities than in any central story...
...Brian Sullivan makes an earnest Sam Kaplan, though at first he talks far too loud...
...Dances by Anna Sokolow...
...The volatile Italian...
...the Negro who brings up the garbage pail and his cheery children...
...Norman Cordon makes old Maurrant ominous if not real...
...Strange with the surface realism, on so hot an evening, that they do not finish their cones...
...Diana Lynn and Sonny Tufts share headline honors- Fitzgerald's continued dream of longshot winners and sudden fortune almost loses the boarding house he and his daughter operate...
...The popular Roxy hold-over stage show is also in its fourth week and headlines the famous international star, Gracie Fields...
...Guest conductor: Bruno Walter...
...Overture to "Leonora" No...
...Presented by Duight Deere Wiman and The Playwrights' Company...
...In addition, also featured on the stage, are Ray English, comedy sensation, and Honl Coles and Cholly Atkins, novelty dance duo...
...2, Beethoven...
...Guest conductor: Bruno Walter...
...Much of the stir of city slum life, in a neighborhood of mixed races, is preserved and still colorful in the musical version of Elmer Rice's "Street Scene...
...Country life...
...the Swedes...
...Much of the play's mood is marred by such weaknesses...
...Music by Kurt Weil...
...1 in E minor, Chopin...
...Your Daddy is a lush" and "Hush, my little man, Your Ma cheats whenever she can" build an ironic and amusing contrast of infancy and adultery...
...Many nf the minor figures catch their types well...
...And the effort to shape this to the pattern of a "dramatic, musical, it seems to me, weakens this evocation and dilutes the spell...
...Both Polyna Stoska and Anne Jeffreys, as mother and daughter Maurrant, have excellent voices...
...The power of "Street Scene" lies in its evocation of the stir and the mood of a city acene...
...These, and more, continue to give vitality to "Street Scene...
...Kurt Weil's music sometimes very engagingly captures the moods...
...Sydney Rayner as Lippo Fiorentino, and Irving Kaufman as Abraham Kaplan, are vivid...
...5 in D major, Vaughan Williams...
...The lyrics are atrocious...
...Street Scene' is Set to Musie No such excitement catches us again until two nurses push their carriages to the scene of the shooting, and soothe their charges while they discuss, the murder, such lines as "Hush, baSy, hush...
...Soloist: Artur Rubinstein, pianist...
...STRAND HOLDS OVER SHOW Charlie Barnet, his saxaphone and his orchestra head the stage show at the New York Strand for a third week...
...A "Faust" Overture, Wagner...
...W. De Basil, director general, for a limited spring engagement at the Metropolitan Opera House to start as usual at the close of the opera season on March 20th and continue through March 2i)th for 13 performances only...
Vol. 30 • February 1947 • No. 6
