NEW MARCH OF TIME AT EMBASSY NEWSREELS
NEW MARCH OF TIME AT EMBASSY NEWSREELS GLAMOROUS ISLES That wind you feel blowing along Forty-fourth Street — that South Pacific wind — is Mary Martin. Now it is gentle as a lover's dream,...
...WISH YOU WERE HERE" AND WORLD HEWS EVENTS AT EMBASSY THEATRES March of Time has made a light, entertaining film about vacations in its latest release, "Wish You Were Here," now at the 42nd St., 72nd St...
...Israel becomes the 59th member of the United Nations while the Arab representatives walk out of the meeting in protest...
...The intention of this song is better than its psychology...
...Foreign news — Shanghai: Red fifth columnists publicly executed in Shanghai as thousands flee surrounded city...
...and the ice revue, "Rhapsody," starring Arnold Shoda...
...or more madly it may pour upon you like a cloud-burst of laughter, drenching you ina storm of almost grandiose yet comic beauty...
...They wonder about such prejudice...
...Joshua Logan has done a superb job of directing...
...Music and mirth here have mutual birth...
...Fortunately, onstage most of the time is Mary Martin, playful, boisterous, mischievous as a wind of the South Pacific — never displaying the fierceness of a gale, but rousing in the audience gales of laughter...
...She takes a shower and shampoo while resolving: 'I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair...
...Nurse Nellie (Mary Martin) and -the Frenchman Emile (Pinza) fall in love...
...Also at the Embassy Theatres are shorts showing trains, cars arid trucks rolling into Berlin after almost a year as the blockade is .lifted...
...STRCETS OF LAREDO" IN LAST WEEK AT PARAMOUNT "Streets of Laredo," with William Holden, William Bendix, Macdonald Carey and Mona Freeman, is in its second and final week at the N. Y. Paramount...
...At the...
...One man's meat is another man's poison~ and YOU might not want to be caught dead at some of the resorts where MOT cameramen discovered happy vacationers...
...The book, by Hammerstein and Logan, is no great shakes...
...The chorus, of sailors, nurses, and other South Pacific visitors, is well handled...
...South Pacific is the triunfph of Mary Martin's magic...
...Mary Martin does some highly amusing dance steps and lilting movements...
...The picture pays tribute to the fact that Americans are the most vacationing people in the world...
...then they sing "You have to be taught to hate and fear": "You have to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, Of people whose skin is a different shade: You have to be carefully taught...
...Best is her song "I am as corny as Kansas in August . . . I'm in Love With a Wonderful Guy...
...Majestic Theatre, there is music by Richard Rodgers, attuned to the island lure...
...Cable is killed by the Japs...
...Martin to South Pacific...
...Italy: Princess Margaret on vacation attends horse show in Rome...
...and there's a South Paciflcful of Mary Martin...
...Nellie (temporarily) rejects him when he shows her his two children by a native woman...
...Japan: Emperor and empress of Japan appear at celebration of second anniversary of Japan's constitution...
...John does an entertaining pseudo-Oriental gesture dance...
...They go more often, travel faVther, spend more money, make more noise and probably have more fun than vacationers in any other country...
...But getting-away-from-it-aU means something different* to nearly every family...
...and Myron McCormick—otherwise not so funny as he should be — at one point displays a surprisingly rippling ventrosity...
...are alike on one point: they agree vacations are a time to get away from the pressure or the humdrum of daily life...
...Divided as they may be by politics, income, and geography, people in the U.S...
...and Nellie's reconciliation with Emile takes place offstage...
...Some very effective ones, superbly sung by Ezio Pinza, and even more deftly put across by Mary Martin...
...ROXY HOLDS SHOW The Roxy Theatre's new triple program, remaining for a second week, presents "The Forbidden Street," new 20th Century-Fox drama starring Dana Andrews and Maureen O'Hara, the variety show headlining Dick Haymes...
...Pinza arid Mary Martin sing the charming "Some Enchanted Evening...
...The Pied Pipers, Frank Fontaine, the Evans Family, Victor Lombardo and his orchestra round out the program...
...but there the racial reference ends...
...but there is — thank Heaven...
...There is, of course, more than Mary...
...The in person show holding over is headed by Peter Loire, the screen's star who does a oneman version of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Telltale Heart...
...Again, it may seem'hardly to blow, tremulous with virgin hesitancy, before its warm' breath opens petals to romance...
...Cable refuses to marry the native girl whom he loves...
...no ballet...
...Now it is gentle as a lover's dream, toying with a maiden's curls: anon it whoops with a''mischievous swoop that swirls the hat off your head in ah April gusting...
...You're not born with, it, they say...
...and Rockefeller Center Embassy Theatres...
...with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstcin 2d...
...the program doesn't even name a choreographer...
...and Jo Mielziner's sets and lighting of the two islands intensify the mood...
...Conversely, Lt...
...Betta St...
Vol. 32 • May 1949 • No. 21
