ROXY BREAKS RECORDS WITH "BELVEDERE" FILM
ROXY BREAKS RECORDS WITH "BELVEDERE" FILM A PLAY OF "THE FINEST" , There's a thoroughly good theatre1 jdb", with something for everyBOdycin Sidney Kingsley's Detective StQry (Staged by...
...At the Hudson Theatre...
...But it is a thoroughly workmanlike job, a vivid, colorful picture of the city's crime-catching concern, woven around a gripping story...
...Wesley Addy, as the young "traitor" professor...
...Based on the revelations of Frank J. Wilson, Chief of the U. S. Secret Service Ret., the film is a bullet-by-bullet inside story of how federal agents cracked America's most notorious criminal ring...
...the "in person" appearance of singing star Vivian Blaine and comedians McCarthy and Farrell, and the colorful ice show with The Three Rookies and Joan Hydloft> "Mr...
...Belvedere Goes to College," starrihg Clifton Webb and Shirley Temple...
...THE UNDERCOVER MAN" HOLDS AT PARAMOUNT "The Undercover Man" stars Glenn Ford...
...Lee Tracy, as the fallible and genuinely human Navy secret agent...
...From this ivory-tower attitude, and his consequent refusal to sign the college's loyalty questionnaire, we watch the events of the evening gradually rouse the old professor to the sad recognition that in this real world, of mixed motives and emotional drives, we have to take practical steps against the greater evils...
...tapped wires...
...In addition to Shirley Temple as a young war widow student, the fine cast includes Tom Drake, Alan Young, Jessie Royce Landis, Kathleen Hughes, Taylor Holmes, Alvin Greenman and Paul Harvey...
...He wakes up just in time to spare the Navy boy...
...And caught into the flow of this story, not as a sermon.but rising naturally from the natural events, is an analysis of Communism—all the stronger for being objective, for seeming oversympathetic at first, and continuing sympathetic even While it condems...
...and more of a swiftly-paced and competent cast...
...he and the spy leader go to their death together...
...Emanuel, staunch defender of academic freedom, freedom of thought and study and speech...
...And Sidney Kirigsley gives us humor, in the shoplifter from the Bronx...
...Almost too late, Professor Carr awakes to his error...
...The,play moves swiftly, with crisp and at times amusing dialogue, as in the detective's disgust at the unreasonable comH..lli.MrfB...
...As a spy thriller, The Traitor'la the story of a young atomic scientist, who honestly believes that, if Russia also knows the atomic bomb secret, with Russia's fear and supicion gone, there will be genuine, actually earnet, efforts toward peace...
...Joseph T. Shipley...
...Webb back to the screen in the popular role of "Mr...
...Belvedere," this time at college and his effect on the entire college personnel...
...excitement and gun play, through the long-practiced and lying thieves...
...There is not only drama here, but neat psychology, in the way in which McLeod, seeking to avoid the softness that had brought his mother misery, finally wakes up to recognize he has been repeating the pattern of his hard and cruel father...
...CLIFTON WEBB AND SHIRLEY TEMPLE CO-STAR 1ft ZM CENTURY-FOX COMEDY The Roxy Theatre's great spring festival program, now in its pacemaking second week, will remain for a third week...
...All this is woven into a story through the personality of Detective McLeod, whose career we follow to his violent death...
...It also provides opportunity for some excellent acting: of Walter Hampden, as the staunch old professor...
...Duke Ellington and his orchestra .head the in person show with Billy Eckstine, popular recording star, as an extra added attraction...
...An exciting drama, "Disaster," co-featuring Richard Denning and Trudy Marshall, makes its New York debut as the second feature on this program...
...Belvedere Goes to College," the further hilarious adventures of the character made famous in last year's "Sitting Pretty," brings Mr...
...that wt» pay considerable attention to that other item on the program: "A Jed Harris production...
...Well played, with a surprisingly vivid picture of Navy agents in action—Geiger counter to detect radioactive substances...
...Certainly, in those detectives, mulling about the squad room' of the city precinct station bouse, I recognized Hhe fellows that slip off their guns to play handball at the Y. In Dttective Story, they're playing a tougher game...
...Even more interesting, though closely woven with this story, is the psychological study of old Prof...
...Detective Story is at times a bit obvious, at times a bit over-melodramatic...
...Setting by Boris Aronson...
...The Traitor is thus a thought-provoking play, at the same time as it is a swift melodrama, with an atomic-bomb betrayal story out of the headlines...
...Other include Howell & Bowser and Peck & Peck...
...ROXY BREAKS RECORDS WITH "BELVEDERE" FILM A PLAY OF "THE FINEST" , There's a thoroughly good theatre1 jdb", with something for everyBOdycin Sidney Kingsley's Detective StQry (Staged by the author...
...It's an odd and entertaining assortment of citizen$ they bring in...
...For The Traitor (at the 48th Street Theatre) is a spy thriller, a psychological melodrama, a dynamic analysis of Communism—and excellent on all three counts...
...Herman Wouk's Stirring Drama By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Herman Wouk's first play is so smooth, swift, a*nd sure...
...A Columbia release, it is the first film in six years other than a Paramount product to play the Paramount Theatre...
...dictaphones...
...plaints from "Park—spell it backwards—Avenue...
...Presented' by Howard Lindsay and ltussfel Crouse...
...The popular triple-treat entertainment presents the widely acclaimed new 20th Century-Fox comedy hit, "Mr...
...flares, and swift comingdown "like a tent" on the suspects—The Traitor is, a drama' that will not betray your expectations of good theatre...
...The old professor begins our acquaintance with such abstractions as the thought that life is bounded by two immutable truths: ultimate death, and ultimate ignorance...
...sent> tnent, in the boy that goes off the beam after five years in the Havy, and his faithful girl friend...
...BRIM OF VENGEANCE" AT BROOKLYN PARAMOUNT Lucretia Borgia, one of the most dangerous women in history, is the subject of Paramount's romantic thriller, "Bride of Venge^ ance," starring Paulette GoddarcTT John Lund and MacDonald Carey, which headlines the new show on the screen of the Brooklyn Paramount Theatre...
Vol. 32 • April 1949 • No. 18
