"THE INNOCENTS"-FINE AND POWERFUL PLAY
"THE INNOCENTS"-FINE AND POWERFUL PLAY "STROMBOLI" AT CRITERION THEATRE RRO-Radio's"Stromboli," which stars Ingrid Bergman is now in its.Broadway engagement at the Criterion Theatre. Most of...
...A and B are married...
...To patch up this mudle, Eliot brings in a psychoanalyst and two friends with apparently superhuman sources of information, and most unprofessional ways of dealing with patients...
...Also appearing in person will be George DeWit and the Mayo Brothers...
...The film was produced and directed by Roberto Rossellini...
...Some changes have been made in the James story, to good theatrical effect...
...Eliot's play, with a like dependence, remans an interesting though hardly A successful venture...
...The Margaret Webster production, which was hailed at its premiere at the New York City Center broke the house record for that municipal playhouse during its two week run when it grossed $78,500...
...Directed by E. Martin Browne...
...With Murder in the Cathedral, T. S. Eliot took an historical theme of personal concern, and wrought a moving drama...
...Presented by Peter Cookson...
...only the intelligence of the author (a Nobel Prize Winner) keeps it flashing with interest...
...An eruption of the island's volcano which compels the villagers to flee for their lives, forms one of the most exciting scenes in the picture...
...You can drink my cocktail...
...Thus human destiny seems to depend partly upon a person's nature, and partly upon divine intervention, grace...
...The housekeeper knows, and is helpless...
...Held almost willingly—until the good in their new nurse begins to work...
...It is almost as if Christ—or one of his angels—came to the cocktal party...
...but their power over the boy is too Intense...
...There are six names on the center page of the progra.n, but the other two are ghosts...
...Her struggle there against lonliness, suspicion and poverty leads to the events of the story...
...The new variety revue also starting February 17th on the Roxy stage will present Allan Jones, Betty and Jane Kean, musical comedy stars and Irving Fields, pianist, and his Trio...
...ALL THE KINGS MEN" HUD OVER AT BROOKLYN fOX THEATM "All the King's Men" Columbia Pictures' great and powerful drama, that walked off with two New York Film Critic's Circle Awards, and currently headlining the screen show, at the Fabian Brooklyn-Fox Theatre, will start its 3rd big week on Friday, February 17th...
...In this four-part play, these two are given good support by ' the grown-ups, Beatrice Straight and Isobel Elson...
...Most of the production was filmed' on the rocky lava-covered island of Stromboli off the Italian coast...
...WHEN WILLIE COMES MARCHING HOME" AT ROXY John Ford's comedy of World War II, "When Willie Comes Marching Home," starring Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet and Coleen Townsend, starts at the Roxy Theatre Friday, February 17th...
...The nurse, who comes into this lonely, dark house where the dead steward and maid keep their evil hold upon the children, is not the only one aware of that evil spell...
...This story of a modern quadrangle is obvious and not well managed...
...But it thrusts upon us a squirmy kind of martyrdom: the good Samaritan (become nurse in Africa) is tied and left besides a giant hill of ants...
...Producers Richard Aldrich and Richard Myers with Julius Fleischmann are moving the production intact to the Royale with the consent of GBS...
...Eliot, perhups fearing that he might overburden his audience with poetry, strips his verse to the bones of prose...
...At Henry Miller's Theatre...
...THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE" OPENS AT ROY ALE PES...
...Any more, and the tragic mask would become the Gorgon's head...
...And, among all the crowding brood of child, actors this season has seen, none sustain such long and such difficult parts with more natural power and grisly effect than nine-year-old Iris Mann and thirteen-year-old David Cole...
...Directed by Peter Glenville...
...Beatrice Straight, as the nurse, holds us beyond any questioning of the unexplained supernatural spell, is as powerful and tense a thriller as one would wish to see...
...At The Playhouse...
...21 Bernard Shaw's comedy of the American Revolution, "The Devil's Disciple" with Maurice Evans, Dennis King, Marsha Hunt and Victor Jory starred opens a run at the Royale Theatre, Tuesday, February 21...
...An Anderson may seek to make his drama poetic, and produce rhetoric...
...When Willie Comes Marching Home," John Ford's salute to all the Willies who came marching home, is a story of the small-town hero who finds himself stationed at a camp near his home town...
...The co-feature, "Blue Grass of Kentucky," centered around the famous Churchill Downs racetrack, at a running of the Derby, and starring Bill Williams' with Jane Nigh, will also be retained for a second week...
...Boyd Raeburn and his versatile orchestra and Lina Romay will be co-featured with Johnnie Johnston, singing star of screen and radio...
...The difficulties begin to overweigh the delights, when he attempts an eternal theme in the modern setting of The Cocktail Party (presented by Gilbert Miller, by arrangement with Sherek Players Ltd...
...The children know, and are held...
...Miss Bergman plays the part of a refugee who marries a poor Sicilian fisherman and goes with him to his home on the dreary island...
...On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley For SHEER POWER of eerie mood of evil, no play of recent seasons has surpassed William Archibald's The Innocents (based on Henry James' The Turn of the Screw...
...A is getting rid of his mistress C. C and D break because D is having an affair with B. When B loses D, she leaves A. This makes A aware that—though he is incapable of love—he wants B—whom nobody seems capable of loving...
...The same producing trio earlier this season presented "Caesar and Cleopatra" with Cedric Hardwiche and Lilli Palmer starred, which is presently an SRO Shavian attraction at the National Theatre...
...PAID IN FULL" PARAMOUNT ATTRACTION With the opening of "Paid In Full" at the New York Paramount, that theatre has altered the accompanying In person show...
...It is amazing to see the insinuations of evil, the sly trickery with the adults, the fear that gathers to genuine terror, so subtly and surely caught by these child players...
...THE TURNING OF POET into playwright is an enterprise of delight, and danger...
...When in the urge of the nurse's goodness the boy defies the spell, he snaps in the one moment the evil's hold upon him, and his heart...
...The little girl, she can save...
Vol. 33 • February 1950 • No. 7
