PARAMOUNT'S NEW FILM - "THE ACCUSED"
PARAMOUNT S NEW FILM - "THE ACCUSED" MERRILY MADCAP Practical politics has nothing to do with the moonshine panacea ol the delightfully wacky madwoman of Chaillot, who solves the evils of...
...Adding a "musical scenario" to a vulgarized version of the story has not improved its worth...
...and the greedy ones walk down and down...
...What a lovely day...
...it sings of his...
...The antics of an antique dealer who calls back wife Number One to assure Wife Number Two his infidelities were only in the first regime, make the plot of the play, as Wife Number Two—a beautiful but domineering number— cements her hold upon the luckless husband...
...It comes as some pleasantly artificial spoofing in a serious season...
...The husband—who in a moment of irritation calls his wife "as repetitious as a traffic light"— in a moment of jealousy envies the Crusaders: they were dressed by a blacksmith, and their wives were dressed by a locksmith...
...Symphony No...
...In a Paris sidewalk cafe\ men are preparing to dig for oil beneath the city streets, when Countess Aurelia, the madwoman of Chaillot, learns there is evil in the world...
...Giraudoux died with the play unfinished, and no one has carved an ending to match the slanting brilliance of the rest of the play...
...To be seen on the same program is a thriller, "Behind Closed Doors.' with Lucille Bremer and Richard Carlson in the principal roles...
...Just as most men are in life...
...PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY PROGRAMS A* Caracal* Hall Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...
...In the film, which co-stars her with Robert Cummings, Miss Young portrays an inhibited teacher of psychology...
...The cast features Wendell Corey, Sam Jaffe and Douglas Dick...
...Jean Carroll, America's new comedienne, the Vanderbilt Boys, and as an added attraction Ray McKinley and his orchestra featuring Jeannie Friley and the arrangements of Eddie Sauter...
...21 at 2:30 Soloist: Rudolf Firkusny, pianist...
...William Dieterle directed...
...The chorus plays many parts, ruch as: 1. It gives the backpound of the story...
...An old mode hi the theatre is enlivened by sprightly dialogue and spirited acting...
...4. It tells what we see happening onstage...
...The Rape of Lucretia, book by Ronald Duncan, music by Benjamin Britten, at the Ziegfeld Theatre...
...the movement is pedestrian When h should be aerial...
...Helier, Moira Lister, Adele Dixon, deft in a competent cast, you will enjoy Don't Listen Ladies...
...Incidentally, only nine shows in recorded theatrical history have run longer than "BornYesterday...
...The closing of "Harvey" over the weekend' gives "Born Yesterday" this distinction...
...rhere can be, from all these functions, no single effect except befuddlement By the tone and mood of the telling, it is not Lucretia but the itory that is defiled...
...2, Khatchaturian...
...Anachronisms pile upon ineptitudes, in what is an original book but sounds like a literal translation at a second-rate and absurdly banal libretto...
...and the Polka and Fugue from "Schwanda," Weinberger...
...i. It acts as agent of evil, as when it eggs on Junius to jealous rage...
...What a lovely morning...
...At least, that's the theme of Don't Listen Ladies, a French farce of 1910 vintage in a 1949 bottle...
...20 at 8:45, and Friday afternoon, Jan...
...Sunday afternoon, Jan...
...Karloff in featured parts will be Una O'Connor of stage and screen fame...
...But the essentia] brilliance of the dialogue and mockery of the thought dow along, in a keen and delightfully absurd commentary upon our wacky but not yet worm-eaten world...
...Ethel Griffies, the fine old actress, who scored in "The Druid Circle": Reginald Mason and Emmett Rogers...
...coining in "stealth" just as he drops his sword with a clash...
...Joseph T. Shipley LORETTA YOUNG AND ROBERT CUMMfMGS COSTAR IN PARAMOUNT FILM Academy Award winner, Loretta Young, has what is believed to be the most dramatic role of her career in Pa remount* s new Hal Wallis suspense thriller, "The Accused," at the N. Y. Paramount Theatre...
...Joseph T. Shipley DRAMA DENIED When Katharine Cornell brought the Obey "Rape of Lucrece" to the stage, it was evident that the two narrators, with the action saainly ssJmed, made poor theatre...
...They're saying goodnight...
...RORfS R4RLOFF THRILLER OPENS JANUARY It Gant Gaither's production ol the Edward Percy thriller, "Th< Shop at Sly Corner," will oper at the Booth Theatre on Tuesday January 18, after a three week out-of-town tour that included stops in Boston and Philadelphia, Boris Karloff will be starred...
...If you like this kind of quick dialogue—wit wavering into gags—and spruce British acting in a French fatee: Jack Buchanan and three ladies...
...Against her better judgment she is talked into a date with one of her students...
...Where Heywood's version, at dawn after the ravishing, sets one of the loveliest of English lyrics, Duncan has the maid cry ¦*Oh...
...Comparisons of the human male's fate to that of the insect male—usually devoured after mating—tend these days to fall flat...
...THE PALEFACE" AT ¦ROOKLTN PARAMOUNT Bob Hope and Jane Russell are on the screen of the Brooklyn Paramount Theatre as the costars of Paramount's production, "The Paleface," the movie which started the "Buttons and Bows" wave...
...but the old flame, whom Toulouse-Lautrec painted, neatly reveals some feminine formulas for mastering the male...
...The Chorus says Tarquin is coming with "alacrity" when he creeps most slowly on...
...LONESOME LADS...
...Don't Listen Ladies, by Sacha Guitry...
...At the Booth Theatre...
...Thursday evening, Jan...
...In self-defense she kills him, then tries to use her knowledge of psychology to avoid detection...
...For good measure, the glamour girls who make society and snare the lions walk down the fateful stairs behind the presidents, the prospectors, and the press...
...7. It lets as Roman citizens of 509 B. C. When Lucretia's husband pardons l»er, it cries "No...
...presented by Lee Ephraim and Jack Buchanan...
...translated by Stephen Powys...
...LISTEN...
...should have matched his courage in producing the play by bis re-1 strains in not directing it, for it j requires a touch he has not provided...
...Born Yesterday' has done both for me...
...Others in the cast include: Jsy Robinson, Philip Seville, Mary MacLeod, Jane LloydJones and Alfred Hyslop...
...Martita Hunt and Estelle Winwood are especially effective, as two of the madwomen, in gorgeously absurd costumes that, along with the two excellent sets, came from Paris, the work of Christian Berard...
...Alfred de Liagre, Jr...
...I have been producing shows for almost thirty years and had but two ambitions — to put on a play that would run beyond the thousand performance mark and to have a play that would be the oldest on Broadway...
...Then he reflects that this is the origin of the saying "Love laughs at locks...
...Humor is not intended...
...Piano Concerto, Menotti (first performance in New Y/irk...
...4 in E minor, Brahms...
...Joseph T. Shiolev...
...The world of pimps is buried, and the innocent ones may smile on...
...The dialogue is at once batty and penetrating, for only the mad dare speak the' truth about the world...
...RORN YESTERDAY" MOW LONGEST RUN SNOW ON BROADWAY "Born Yesterday," Max Gordon's production of the Garson Kanin comedy hit, which begins his fourth Broadway year at Henry Miller's Theatre on February 4, is now the oldest show in town...
...8. It acts is a minister of 1948 A. D., praying to Christ to cure "our blindness, which we mistake for sight...
...In person are The Mills Brothers...
...like a bad echo of "Oklahoma...
...The upstairs world crowds in (it should have crowded through all the walls, in majestic loom...
...Two Interludes from "The Island God," Menotti...
...16, at 2:45—Three Chorale-Preludes by Bach: Wir glauben all' an einen Gott, Ich ruf zu dir, Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland...
...To own the longest run play on Broadway is a dream most producers have, but only few ever achieve," said Max Gordon...
...PARAMOUNT S NEW FILM - "THE ACCUSED" MERRILY MADCAP Practical politics has nothing to do with the moonshine panacea ol the delightfully wacky madwoman of Chaillot, who solves the evils of the world by having all the greedy folk walk down an endless flight of stairs into eternal darkness...
...Georgian Symphonic Dance, Muradelli (first performance in New York...
...2. It makes zOth century moral comments, as that a villain stirs a foreign war to hide a domestic evil...
...L'Apres Midi d'un Faune, Debussy...
...And through the odd-angled facets flash lights of irony, or amused contemplation, upon many insanities of the supposedly sane folk who make the laws and the conventions...
...Playing opposite Mr...
...The madwoman of Passy comes with her little dog that isnt there...
...In the Countess's cellar, she summon* her madwoman pals to plot the doom of the greedy ones...
...And then they say "Goodnight...
...3. It tells what's happening offstage...
...A coruscating wheel of sparks that fly off at all tangents marks the movement of The Madwoman of Chaillot (by Jean Giraudoux, adapted by Maurice Valency, presented by Alfred de | Liagre, Jr., at the Belasco Theatre...
...She promises to adjust it all, and suicides turn to lovers...
...When an actor leans across the footlights to tell the man in the audience what women are like, you can guess that he's their victim in the play...
...5. It gives us the unspoken thoughts of the characters...
...Ivy St...
...But it's a superb mockery of human ambitions, greeds—and despair...
...Symphony No...
...Music from "Petrouchka," Stavinsky: Dense Russe, Petrouchka, The Shrovetide Fair...
Vol. 32 • January 1949 • No. 3
