Show " - --- -- ' - I i i ' 1 I or- - - ir '1i I 71: 3 7 I -2 7-- - Nor 4 ii41 Loam 1 i ':11 -- te sr! a 1::- E'"41 gakt (Tribunt ve I 11"'"1 gl 61 II- " I t rx 1 II !k iii11' " Zalt ViIC Sunday Monitng: 1' ''''''''''' Aollits 7 t111112a (ke 7": ' wr:a SI: i VVA lv::-- ' '::) 1 C ' 4 I - x- i Veloz and Yolanda Young Too - 1 Icl I I I NEW YORK Feb13 (Pl—Mr and Mrs Frank Veloz better known as Veloz and Yolanda and generally recognized as our top ballroom dancers are back on Broadway after an all too long absence Back in 1940 at the height cf their success they announced their retirement Yolanda was expecting a baby which arrived as Nicky their son Frank had a book and a few articles he wanted to write and a desire to acquire a racing stable all of which came about But the attraction of the stage won its usual victory and "For Your Pleasure" their new production is the result Frank prepared and staged it Variously offered as a "variety revue" and a "musical" it is neither In the main it is a dancing recital by Veloz and Yolanda at their best interspersed with songs by the talented S usan Miller last seen in the George Abbott musical "B e a t the Band": guitar selections by Vicente Gomez ballet tap dancing by Bill Gary songs by the Golden Gate quartet Accordionist leading the orJerry Shelton chestra and Al and Lee Reiser at the pianos Mind you no chorus line no comedian not even a master cf ceremony And none is missed so far as this reviewer for once is concerned Veloz and Yolanda are on the stage most of the time and their numbers range from the "Darktown Strutters' Ball" "Alexander's Ragtime Band" through "Blue Danube" "Samba" "Caprice" to "Moon- 1 t tgI' -- ' r Hilton-Gree- ' ''' !Ile4 Ir E 1to h 4 ' 1 ceo i 14-- 1 -' o'::- 1 r 1 4 ify - -'e :: - lac fan -- - - 1 : ' 6:L4 1 - - - — ' - I oil ' ' - t 1 1I(13 0 I 0 oro lef : 3 ' i i 1 Lc Tis "c I '' tio- 1' - let 1r i k - 4 1 ' Now - ! g-- stt:ioxicSki4EGPILPmEoRiteE sc"s4t4 blitTti4 : ' t 1 1 - - i to 4 4 N 'P g M It' r-'- '7' -- -f Z EXTRA OUR GANG COMEDY 1 r 1 - ---- - ' i — ) - & A 5 pm 4 EYE ' --' - 4 :i 4- - — "k"? 474 - geottoP j'DiU 1 - - ' A v i epolklktitio -Id '' t': 7t'l-:--- '—''''4i'k :1''s' - ' '' : '' - ' ' '' 16 With GUY -' 4'''- :4 ! :- - ::?: '''' ' '"' :' ' ' ' ' ''' r I A ( ': ' - A ' ' i 1( '''': ''''''' tIti - ! : - 1 — - '''-- ''':t '' '": ': '' kL - ' 7 I :' :' ' f :' ' 1' i ' — - - ' r : - - - f4 best-love- kcities i ' roil ALN - 0 ) ' 1 e17- rDL::11:: ( 1'76' '‘' l' I - ' : 4 - - e - (41 4A-:::-- : gtp '‘ atil 7 - tn LL- 11 If Li Ill'e: 4:71:: ii W-: -- - le s? 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M-G-- - i - ' ' - - egut - - IL movi 2!'' 1 don't have C 1 1 ' Cast will ': '''::-:- 1 t l tickets : 't ) N othermAse c - 1 - the 0 F F—office of facts and figures—so as to establish Jean PS a young lady with a statistical turn of mind This is done under the heading of dramatic license since the 0 F F some time ago passed into limbo In the same picture Joel McCrea as an aircraft technician: so as not to elopes with Jean be delayed in ' departing for military service in north Africa" At this writing it looks as though American military service in north Africa might be a distinct possibility for some months to come Then there's chewing gum To enable Actor Charles Coburn to perpetrate the prank of divesting Actor Richard Gaines of a prop toupe there had to be a wad of chewing gum to stick in Gaines' hat band And the wad called for a traye ful of the substance A prop man combed Hollywood before rounding up several dozen packages One of the biggest gambles on audience reaction occurs when Coburn gets a percolator full of coffee entangled in the sleeve of r o bAe baonude spills stuhbes liquid ii ti choigntbeant tsh of water and dyestuff was used in arreovuinved L BERTRAM PEACOCK CATHEIZINE JUDAH kl JUNE WINTERS MARJORIE HAYWARD MARGARET ROY MARIE VALDEZ ROBERT ECKLES 43 envelope ' i-- PHILLIP TULLY aelamped rrinst hp NO TFLErHONE : ' Opera ) tI t 1 ! 4 'Li 1 r 1 now-scarc- h Matinee—Main floor $224 and $168 Loges and Boxes $224 Lower Balcony $112 Upper Balcony 56c Evening—Main Floor $280 and $224 Loges and Boxes $280 Lower Balcony $165 Upper Balcony $112 1 ftiblineythferayngkelyt rc r711r77 i ra 't) LI L: 1 All 5 -- e ' ' r i itdi 11 f 4 2 67- fighting flying Force" received full FRIDAY MARCH - 441-g er producers rrr71G:e11 7 7 '1-- A - ' ( - Gets Army O K of the Warner Bros — '' : 1471 - producer Pete Smith about going from store to store before locating a half pound of butter The punning Pete proclaimed a "That's better than being black market shopper going from stir to stir!" - -- 1' Although it is now a commonplace custom throughout the country wherever two or more people can go to and return from the- same place at the same time It had to be figured out in adVFMCC for Jean Arthur to do in "The More the Merrier" at Columbia So Jean and three other girls to crowd into a tiny four-seatand from work in the picture The scene will be right in tune with the times when the picture: is released some months hence' —unless there is some new transportation development by then But moviegoers throw up their hands when it comes to keeping up with the changing government bureaus Some obsolete alphabetical can date a picture as nothiln°gn else M-G-- World Famous r - i 77 - ! I - a Peter Pun Just A friend confided to C7k VOS"tan C‘mu Ofitzet 1lk:71 - HOLLYWOOD (UP) — Since there is always a lag of several months from the time prodpc- tion starts on a picture and the special sort of erelease date isa needed to keep movies up to date inTake the matter of ride pool- "I from work" he explained have never finished a week with more than a cupful of gasoline" story "Air government filming of the use of facilities in 1 w1-1- Foster By Ernest one week He has just enough gasoline to rtet to work five times each wei:k "I do my shopping to and RH BURNSIDE " ' 7 arrangement with his studio Whereby he is not required to work on a picture six' days in P11 over-the-Pacif- ic : i Seer Needed to Keep Movies Up to Date lives in diointytod his He has a "D" card and bank : ' ()Ielesid MAT & EVE GE t i' 73:41:fil):: ii::iiiix: :::::::" ‘j-itn - has -put a B" in Paul Herrreid's bonnet and he's not complain-- ing -- civi : - War (P1- 1 Alct) - - HOLLYWOOD d - ' - t: - - show pays $200 i George Tobias the vegetable grower of "Juke Girl" is subject to poison oak when he works in his garden - EL--TA- t A few plants on the east coast have been tackled with good results but the project as a whole Is a long way this side of being A- similar setup in full bloom exists on the west coast (also under the auspices of the American theater wing) but neither has had the impetus so far to penetrate the middle west But they Wit and Welding Mix England mixed a little wit with its welding and discovered that production was increased about 11 per cent Human nature is the same on both sides of the Atlantic and American men and women doing work that at best isn't very stimulating in itself are charged with new spirit after a half hour show that is the best that Broadway has to offer Whatever it is lunch hour follies has to give the offer is made more important because the finest showmen are in charge of it Moss Hart and George Heller are cochairmen Miss MacMahon is secretary: Kermit Bloomgarden general manager James Proctor and Richard Maney publicity cochairmen The actors are learning a lot of geography and the factory workers are learning a lot about actors ment of each plant importing a The minimum salaries prescribed by the American Guild of Variety A rtisLs must be met and transportation for the unit (usually 10 persons) must be paid Important writers like Maxwell Anderson George S Kaufman J P McEvoy Kurt Weill Earl Robinson are writing the material which Weill explaina has content—"topical contemporary stuff goes better than sight acts like juggling The whole thing is set up like a little musical comedy" Miss Dorothy Bryant heads the talent committee She has ' geot' Gas Rationing Makes Paull I We 6 1k FiVe'Day ward Margaret Roy R o b e r t Eckles and Marie Vandez Louis Kroll has charge of the orchestra and there is a singing chorus of Savoyards that have been trained in all of the operas Most of these had a conservatory of music background before they became members of this company Undoubtedly The Mikado" is of all the operthe ettas even though its plot takes place in Japan The story is that of a crown prince who has joined a town band as a second trombone because of hopeless love for a girl of very ordinary social position and becomes a wandering minstrel Almost three score years have passed since William S Gilbert wrote "The Mikado" depicting the Japanese in the light that history now records—sly 'Wily and deceitful uncOnsdous- ly correlpt and treacherous Greatest humorous librati in the annals of the stage Gilbert satirized their despotic riders and their customs with shafts of wit that made the opera the unparalleled SUCCPSA of more than half a century Presented by the Boston Comic andSulTopera 'companY-G-Ilber- t ivan'i- "The Mikado': will be a special stage attraction at the Capitol theater Friday March 5 : "serviced" - Favorite Among Comic Operas Comes March 5 - always the extra- tertainment" Better Than Time Clock Show folk aren't preaching to the factory hands they are A song like singing to them Harold Rome's "On Time" with which Blues Singer Patricia Ryan woos them to punctuality has been found to be more convincing than a whole battery of time clocks The American theater wing which has been passing out entertainment to service men at the famous stage door canteen put up $10000 Jor this civilian entertainthent and the manage- i : : :: I The performers all well known professionals—Vivien Segal- Arline Francis Selena Royal- Ann Francine Josh White Arthur Elmer and others of the same Broadway experience use their troupers' dash to put over the shows like Saturday matinees— but without any of the props Staged at odd hours—noon evenings and eerie 4 o'clock in the morning calls the performance is apt to be given outside in decent weather against a backdrop of wrecked battleships with the audience perched precariously on scaffolding instead of in orchestra seats and the illumination by blow torches instead of a cannily lighted stage There are no geographical limits on the American theater wing's lunchtime follies Shows can be booked a:nywhere any time but the ideal system they are seeking is to have regular engagements at frequent intervals in each of the factories edge off the burden of the workers "The war production board had a tasty list of troubles— acciabsenteeism tardiness dents lack of war consciousness" said Aline Mac Mahon who really invepted the lunchtime follies last June "And we converted the problems into en- 1 ' - L1 Drew S ' - 'red-headiciGre- er ' s' 44 v - ' '' -- - : ' ' ' F' - - ' -- i '''''''''':":" ': - - James Hilton probably didn't fashion his heroines around the personality of lovely Garson—but these roles seem to have been made to order for her She scored her first success in a Hilton role 'Mrs Chips' and now is said to have topped even her 'Mrs Miniver' as the showgirl of Hilton's superb Random Harvest' i Col 4 -' 7 " - ' ' Actors Willing vert made the first overture and the big war plants picked up the cue with the happy result that solid professional entertainment is being slid into the factories at lunchtime to take the !' fll Robert Preston "Night of January 16fit' - : ::'"' 1': ' 4t:t 4 ''''4 Ellen ' - - g I !Itt' i - 7:: :'"'' 4I "Scattergood Rides High" 111111PPOOME ':: : '' 0 1 11 A ieS '''''74'::-'-:'-'- ' t li114 ' 't''":' - ) tory Broadway 4 '7 t With WALTER HUSTON in H ' rii-- 8- 4 0 ii -' 171 : sC N IN 7 2c sigiri PRICES i ARCADE TINI?)Dn:ilY 7s - )2 Open Today I p gth W 5c i7 4th So &GENE ' TIERNEY i N 1 ' 1 frit - - No ': E 42- ' auditioned 500 applicants from Actors' Equity AGV A and American Radio Art isats and has 150 performers on tap other I ':44- ‘ - rill' 0: 1 4- t - ' ' 7:-- ' - ! 3AkG4ii' i A IIII i It ! - jif4 - 111111 ' - 4:- i4 Ng A '' 4- :3!"''T--'''''441:-''--'-''-- ' z 'I' - -- WPREktiNGER Universal Nws Via Air Express iltr- o 1(0SLECIk A Al'efis71u:17:k: ii 5:- voixsitx ) - 4 - f'- - 4- - 1 nAl 11 1 ::': - I' - A By Jean Alleegan NEW YORK Feb 13 (X)—As strange an alliance as this War has fostered is the new one between the theater and the fac-- The theatrical world of mystery mustiness and magic was as unrelated to the industrial matheworld of machinery matics and measurements as grkase paint is to axle grease --t now like delegates to an But Elks convention they are very intimate and glad to see each 2 t::::::: ! ' i "J :::- - - ' As only one of the operas can here "The Mikado" was chosen bythe management with- - the belief that it is the mOst' popular of the series In fact for the runs and w eek stands it has been presented two or three times to the other operas' single performance As the services of the entire Company will he needed in this opera the presentation will be the same as the one given at the St James theater New York a short time ago The cast includes Florenz Ames Robert Pitkin Bertran Peacock Morton Bowe Phillip Tully June Winters Catherine Judah Marjorie Hay- - 100 74: Le- 1 - - :''ir : I- 14" r '44' :-- ':':--- ''' 5 - 1 ' : From 12:30 P - M f"77 lit i: - ut Ta'A - - NEWS OF THE WORLD 1 ' 1 - ' ' t -1 ' ) ::--- : Continuous Today I 1 : :: i L ' : - c :i '41 4 4 Do'''' - - e'4-- -'' 2 1 tilp :1' ': for two- perfprrnances matinee and evening i:n 1941 Orglinized for the purpose—of giving a Gilbert and Sullivan repertoire the company ha flourished for two years a series of eight of the Savoyards' favorite operas in of the east and the midvvest with a long run at the StTSatnes theater New York At - the- - present the company is giting seven of the operas at the Studebaker theater Chicago visit—this City en route aton dtIZI-Ic- '''' 1 - f ' - ' ' ' frr 's rst WOR1) 1 f : ' ' ' - QM aie'' ' : 4: be given 1 Ti ' - 4 - '"-- - 1- - a - in vrr' - 1 k ' '' till 11 :-- 4 - :- bmrt II c - 1 I - - ' i Garson-Ronal- d "11 tcacA- 1 r -- 4 GMAT 5 v ' - - 4performances 1604 t1 1 t -- w"AORNE1NDAY ! '''i- i'''''' eito - of 30c 1 -- ' ' ' '':-4- '- - z:::: - - ' t soldier whom she rescues from the fog Colman i s said to cap his great itti ' e' " 'Ing ce0R " E I e - ' - 7' A'g4'-M- ' - '''- J r t- l f")edo fibtlior ' A 1" S s irtielity 1 it' li'' - - L : :''' ' :'--- -- - ': : '' ' : : - 1 - - - phony had been in Hollywood an unhappy year—doing the usual making tests but kept idling—before the part of "Mrs Chips" fell to her just a week before her contract expired In the new picture she is called l to enact upon not only emotional experience but areveals new facets of her talents pera gay colorful songandforming -dance number of Harry Lau- - atr 'M 't 1 A" 1 12‘114 Troupers Go to War Plants With Lunchtime Follies ' r'1 '7- 7 ''' v : 4''''''' IL- - 4 f eth 1:'11 tollwasi'lllittosams I ':' '' e 17il j 11 : 1 world Shangri-Lthat Ronald Colman found one of his greatest roles? It was in a Hilton role too that Greer Garson first won the heart of the American movie public with her unforgettable performance of the schooMr lmaster's wife in "Good-b- y b- - t4- c C Colman triumvirate is an unbeatable combination The remarkable success of this film Is not unexpected Was it not in a James Hilton story "Lost Horizon" that of the dream haunting fantasy a ' 1 ' '' ::' ''''''' V ' '- 3 ' '' - 11-G-- s4z Arm 1 : 't ? tr ve ' - :: 4Ig ---- :' :':- -' z 40 1 4 i 1 - - i - f'-- ' le77 - I- 0 IP7491 1 1 rip-roari- to-gi- E 11 Chips" In turn their brilliant performances added to the fame of the Hilton novels Now that the two romantic stars are brought together for the first time with Hilton characters to portray that the picture should be a triumph seems years in a featherweight foota foregone conclusion The stars note to postwar planning called are given difficult and exciting S a rid v" "Ask My Friend characterizations playing what Young's zany mild surprise in are virtually dual roles in a the face of trouble delightful as it is turns out to be little more story laid in the period 1918- 1935 Colman's portrayal is that than a crutch for three acts of the war victim of amnesia He's cast as a rich publisher restored to normality by the dewho inhis cups takes the advotion of the show girl who vice of a wacky young soldier finds him on armistice night ill his money away The and bewildered Miss Garson whose red hair " WAR BONDS 1S 1 t -NVI ii r green eyes and white : dulostest s a technicolor symi form 'skin i i ' ) f4 d I' Judging by the acclaim that filmizahas followed the ton of "Random Harvest" wherever it has been viewed the James f: i' b t - 't ' : ' q4't 4 L " ' 1 Hilton Roles Aid Stars Hilton Too to be a success I doubt that it will be Too many theatergoers muthese days want sical comedies with their chorus gals and comedians Roland Young also has returned to Broadway after five 3 I1i i 1 er light Madonna" "For Your Pleasure" deserves yi I ''''':- : ''''' - 17-- 1 P111 T - s::- - - - idea is to meet the brave new world half way At that point Mary Sargent who plays his wife and ably complains: "Why give it away? Why not wait and be taken with the rest?" That's quoted as a sample—not a laugh Young sans the weight of his money becomes a taxi driver also sans wife She leaves in a huff and turns up again inexplicably a bolt expert in a war plant They recover their money when one of Young's books becomes a best-sellThe play was written by another Young: Stanley It was staged by Alfred de Liagre Jr J M Kendrick - t f - - :: I'::'-- 1 — : :: - :: i: 4 k:i: 1 Back on Broadway By pe ':-- r--- i'''L'ir f - Itt—L 711'111---T--- S11:::::::71113t 3 - aco ' i 1913 February 11 t - |