NEW FILMS AT ROXY AND PARAMOUNT
NEW FILMS AT ROXY AND PARAMOUNT On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley PRODUCERS that bill a play lor a star should be careful" to surround her with excellent actors, whose presence will be a challenge,...
...ClquTie Binyon directed "Mother Didn't Tell Me" and Fred Kohlmar produced, based on the popular best-seller, "The Doctor Wears Three Faces...
...Scotch Presbyterian Maman is helped, by love, to get along with these amazing folk, who have no sense of shame or sin, just natural impulses which they openly follow...
...A weakness in any of these three depai > wmis, of the theatre—authors, directors, actors- betrays the lest...
...Otherwise, instead of shining by contrast, the work of the star will slump...
...Ernest Thesiger, as the melancholy Jacques, looks like a scarecrow turning into a ghost, but gives an interesting interpretation...
...Katharine Hepburn, among other things, suffers from such star billing in the current Theatre Guild production of Shakespeare's An Yon Like It (at the Cort Theatre...
...Ann Thoittaaiafpn agreeable personality, who can put over a skit...
...Mother Didn't Tell Me" is the story of two people very much in love, their whirlwind courtship and early marriage, and the difficulties that plague a doctor's wife...
...BOB HOPE RETURNS TO PARAMOUNT THEATRE To accommodate anticipated crowds for the personal appearance of Bob Hope and Jane Russell, the New York Paramount Theatre will open at 8 a. m. and present six deluxe shows daily...
...recent and continuing attitudes make it frighteningly timely...
...They follow them to school one day, for a tempestuous and hilarious scene with the Principal, a rigid, repressed, selt. ighteous fellow, who has thrashed Bibi...
...The sets fend the direction are oddly baroque Trees send roots like praspine, hands up into the Forest of Arden...
...Bob Scheerer is an attractive fellow, who dances well: when they let him "dance a song," all goes smoothly...
...but it ranges from such realism on up through the degrees of love to rapture until it seems a parody of itself...
...The new Roxy variety revue will present popular personalities of the entertainment world...
...Bringing to Brooklyn movie fans a double feature program for a limited return engagement, the Fabian Brooklyn Strand Theatre presents Universal Pictures' "Canyon Pnssagc' and "The Dark Mirror...
...The seven lucky winners, together with one guest each, will win two-week vacations at a Miami Beach hotel...
...Also on the...
...Judy Parrish as Phebe, and Patricia Englund as Andrey, are liweiy wenches...
...Easy-going Papa has a drunken brother Louis, and a lady-chasing brother Desmond6— not to mention equally amorous Grandpere, in this French-Canadian family of moderate means...
...The two-week vacations for two people each will be awarded to the writers of the seven beet 100-word letters on "Why I prefer a Miami Beach vacatioa The letters must be written on the back of the official contest entry blank which is available (q as) patrons in the lobby of the theatre during the showing of the current attractions...
...His understandingvespecially of women, is also ripening...
...NEW FILMS AT ROXY AND PARAMOUNT On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley PRODUCERS that bill a play lor a star should be careful" to surround her with excellent actors, whose presence will be a challenge, and require superb playing...
...Hope and his entertainment caravan includes Les Brown and his orchestra...
...Wally Cox may prove a find, a thin voiced" comic he, with a wistful _ouanner...
...Her manners match her speaking...
...Katharine Hepburn cannot make up her mind how to play Rosalind...
...The downfall of what the tipsy amorist Robert Burns called "the unco' guid" is always a source of impolite glee...
...It is Bibi, the young son, whose growing pains we watch in this fantastic family...
...At the Plymouth Theatre...
...BROOKLYN PARAMOUNT RUNS CONTEST Visitors to the Brooklyn Paramount Theatre during the showing of "Dear Wife" and "Golden Stallion" are offered the opportunity of winning free two-week vacations at luxurious Miami Beach hotels, according to an announcement by Gene Pleshette, manager of the theatre...
...sstafsoTB BaMf'r fill MI'" ^Psa^a^sjJWsj^Bsaaa* saa^^^^OBp sg v^pssvsai srsrw AMD WtUIAM LUNDtQAN The aew 3uth Cantury-Fox comedy, "Mother Didn't Tell Me," starring Dorothy McGuire and William Lundigan, is now at the Roxy Theatre...
...The screen attraction will be "Captain China...
...Hence the lengthy run of Harvey...
...Shakespeare's simplicity is banished by buzzing courtiers and by farm hands going to'and from their labors through the forest...
...Hence the perennial appeal of Rip Van Winkle...
...Tho cast of "Canyon Passage" boasts such top-flight stars as Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, Andy Devine and a host of others...
...The acting tajent is thus left high and dry, in Dance Me a Song (songs mainly by Jainexijheltoii -four others are named Eight persons contributed the sketene«v Joan McCruckcn is a young ",.<«4ci an: but she's used in only four of the twenty-five numbers...
...Presented by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein 2nd...
...For the engagement the theatre is -idding six extra doormen and forty extra ushers...
...4 THE THEATRE is a cooperative art...
...In 'The Dark Mirror," Olivia de Havilland is seen in a dual role as twin sisters...
...The irony of Shakespear*1—three ill-assorted love mutches balanced against the idyll of Orlando and Rosalind is drowned in a sea of romantic mush, as Phebe rejoices in Silvios...
...DOWN AT the Rooftop Theatre, Geza Herczefi (and Heinz Herald and Noel Langley) have just been given a National Conference of Christians and Jews citation for their court-room play "The Burning Bush" (produced and directed by Erwin Piscator), which shows the trial of six Jews for "ritual murder," in Hungary in 1882-83...
...The whole production, however, is very far from being as this particular reviewer likes it...
...her voice is at times matter-of-fact...
...and Cclia and Oliver seem as deeply smitten as the first rapt pair...
...the final curtain falls as Bibi gives a surprised squeak—his voice is beginning to change...
...Cham Lightning," in which he portrays a test pilot I'm jet planes, is the feiture attraction at the Fabian Brooklyn Fox Theatre...
...This is especially true of a revue, where lyrics, music, sketches, must be prepared, then directed, then put across...
...THERE IS ALWAYS SATISFACTION, in the theatre, in the sight of an amiable sinner, a fellow whose vices are weaknesses many of us share, but who comes out on top of the rigidly : righteous...
...Lew Ayres is her co-star...
...The play has power, and is effectively staged...
...have a whole family of lovable rascals, in The Happy Time (by Samuel Taylor, from Robert Fontaine's book...
...And now we...
...Pity they haven't something worth while to do...
...Roxy stage is a new variety revue...
...CHAIN LIGHTNING" AT BROOKLYN FOX—DOUBLE FEATURE AT STRAND Humphrey Bogart's latest starring film for Warner Brothers...
Vol. 33 • March 1950 • No. 9
