Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1942, Page 21

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HOLLYWOOD. ‘ Bishop Ford of the Royal Alr | Force is getting more than satisfac- | tion for shooting down German | planes. ‘ His cousin, Actor Glenn Ford, has | been nwnrdinx his accuracy with gifts. For Bishop’s first plane, Glenn sent along a crate of* Cali- | fornia eranges; for the second, | pair of Western cowboy boots. Bishop recently bagged his third. S;':l en route to England is_the pay- It's a lock of Rita Hayworth’s hair, just what Bishop ordered. In Runyon Film Henry Fonda has been signed by R-K-O Radio for the starring part in “Little Pinks.” This is the picture with which Damon Runyan, columnist and fiction writer, makes his bow as a producer. “Little Pinks” is an unpublished story of Runyan's authorship, with a Broadway night club background. He has within the past eight years written more than a dozen originals for the screen. “Little Pinks” will go into pro- duction in mid-Februas _ AMUSEMENTS. GAYETY; i P\ BURLESQUE CONT.\ExTRa A0DED ATTRACTION ANl Time Sche Bros. Ads. In Presented. .| the midweek concert of the Na-<— THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, BEACH COMBING AGAIN—Charles Laughton, who can comb a beach with the best in the business, is preparing for another foray at it in “The Tuttles of Tahiti” He plays a slap-happy, elderly idler whose independence from razors and shoes is among his chief joys in life. Prokofieff’s Fairy Tale Work Features Concert ‘Peter and the Wolf’ a Fantasy Charmingly Composed and Made Doubly Effective by Narrator Hale By ALICE EVERSMAN. Most of the concert-going public feel that music to be worthy of the Serge Prokofieff proves in his “Peter and the Wolf” workmanship can make as entrancing a theme and as rewarding a composition as the most deeply conceived opus. tional Symphony laughed in pure! name must be soul stirring in its emotional intensity and the grandeur | that a childish tale combined with humor, fantasy, inspiration and skilled |. The audience of | that sometimes rises to exultation NE 1 H St AT. 8300. ‘LADIES IN RETIREMENT,’ With TOA LUPINO, LOUIS HAYWARD. n_Same Program. “THIS WOMAl\f IS MINE.” At enjoyment and forgot for a short | while last evening the world shak- " |ing events of the past week. This delightful work was the central point around which was arranged TOENDY | program offering a varied selec- tion but no other of them attempt- | with a tinge of joyousness to it yet not sufficiently to counteract that peculiar apartness that is present MEL 1 > PA rrm £CODDARD O’rHlM‘- =T In the first movement several folk- like melodies occur, somewhat remi- | 7 With FRANCHOT ALTER BREN ON STAGE “Ol' Fashion Ama CAROLINA ¢ DEANNA DURBIN. Also “PRIVATE CIRCLE GEORGE CIRL LADY " Feat CONGRESS BRIAN EV’ Rworwr‘xrl( FRAW OF TAHIT) DIIHBARTOH THING TRUTH" with BOR HOPE, PA GODDARD ted FAIRLAWN 1>+ 24 1om, TR. 8T MARTA D in A YANK IN THE LL.D. BRUCE in ~HOT TONE. FrARROY. and WAL, THIE WOMAR 7:40. 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Brad. 0165, Broadway's Comedy-Melodrama— ‘LADIES IN RETIREMENT, HAYWARD, ohown at 6, 7:50 and 9:45 P.M. __ | captured the wolf. | 19 | probable tale. The appeal of his | 5, | “ i oA character of Prokofieff's work was © Major.” the second major number | the 40 miles twice a day. “Week End in Havana,"i I niscent of Dvorak'’s, but they are not | permitted to arrest the onward | movement of the music. The sym- ing to recapture the fairy tale joy known in childhood. w&w&wm&xmw S in all that Chausson has composed. | 7 However charming the music of harmonies and emotional | which the composer has used with a refined touch. Nothing is over- done and the balance is achieved tion of its success with last night's audience was due to Richard Hale, the narrator. Gifted with a keen sense of humor to match Prokoflefl’s .. lown and gifted also with an ex-| %in eXcellent taste. ; ceptional speaking voice that rang | _ The orchestra brought to its Inter- | through Constitution Hall without | Pretation & noble sonority of tone | aid of amplifier, Mr. Hale's dramatic | 8nd & fire of spirit that emphasized delivery carried his listeners along ! its powerful sentiment. In the broad in the thrilling tale of how Peter line of the symphony as in the more His splendid | Suave writing of Mozart in the over- voice shook in a bass key as he de- | ture “Lucio Silla” with which the scribed the wolf or, in the role of Program opened, the ability of the the grandfather, admonished Pe- | Orchestra to mark its graded effects ter, and mounted up the scale as| ¥ith sharp outlines was constantly evident. Bringing the concert to a | he pictured Peter's companions, the | ith the P cat, the bird and the duck. [[eloestand s ke TO- Prokofiefl shows his afnity with | Kkofiefl work was the | Dances,” from Borodin’s “Prince the Russian method of satire of " _ another era in slyly masking a (18051 alwayn coe OUiLDe mos: e f 1ar works of the orchestra’s repertoire deeper meaning with some im-', p gindler directs it. “Peter and the Wolf” is for children | and adults alike, according to what | they find in it. But apart trom nis MCCrea Youngsters choice of theme, his genius as a . composer is again revealed in tne I1ave Their Chores Joel McCrea, whose first intro- | music that so aptly describes the characters of his story and fits| progress toward a denouement. His | duction to motion picture personali- great ability at melodic invention, | his imaginative faculty and his sen- sitiveness are directed by originality | in construction that springs from a real zest for musical creation. The grch:m: unflder 'Dr K'"i‘f{fi \'ml-[ actress, is going the limit to permit lerstanding direction caug! e ful flavor of the music and abetted Mr. | ::;g:: ;gf:; JockandiDavid,Malive Hale, who has assisted the Boston | Although Joel is now co-starring ‘Ei',"k"hfn"ym‘f e precording o 1€ | with Claudette Colbert in Preston Far removed f th | Sturges’ “The Palm Beach Story” Tomy e carames | 5t Paramount, he still lives at his Chausson's “Symphony in B Flat | ranch in Ventura Countvmdrives s sons | on the program. The underlying | do not attend private schools, but motive is a loneliness and detach- |ride by school bus dally with 20 ment that returns again and again | other students to a country school in spite of lighter interludes. 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