The Plain Dealer from Cleveland, Ohio (2024)

February 3, 1957

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The Plain Dealeri

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Cleveland, Ohio

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Sunday, February 3, 1957

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152

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CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER SUNDAY EBRUARY 3 195 McDermott on eroadway 'V K' 5 'M th surprise nf the to be Her fieshness and AMUsem*nTS to the Little Singers AMUsem*nTS 1 of Paris tz rp DON COSSACK CHORUS Address AMUsem*nTS (He Mob Mftfldcy or Tuesday) IRST CHOICE DATE vvivicni rrti uc ueua: OLAeK swain GRADUATION BALL NAME Pleue Print) AD GRUS TAc iff CITY ZONE STATE 4 Slue Sluwi MUY: 1 3:30 7:30 9:30 Next RI PATTI WAGGON CLEVELAND OPERA ASSOCIATION KIBBLER in Music Mil Call IV 1 8793 Buy youR TICKETSU6vv PLAY HOUSE at NORTHIELD PLAZA MUSIC OR ALT OCCASIONS UNDERWORLD THE lea EncleM SelfAddrtsed Stamped "Envelop Are the makes no sense but the bet kind of non TlelttH else said NOR4 KAYE retiring no her good lurraws Dawnffwe concede that they are as tast es joyously animated as a big PIK BRUHN ARENA 3700 Euclid Avsnut Richman's 736 Euclid Ave Richman's Main St Men's Shop Las by Brooks 86th GA bl 740 ONE WEEK ONLY STARTING EB 18 at PUBLIC HALL Auto Club ASHTABULA Byer's Richman's warren JuIuIs While Senhaussr'e Bill Hammermen Euclid 77th UT 1 5656 Nil Mat Whit Bill Hammerman Drury 86th GA 1 1740 and pm She sala CHILDREN HAL PRICE or tht "BEST 12 to 1706 Euclid Ave Room 5 CHerry 1 6633 561 East 185th St EVENING fb IS 20 21 $30 5250 $200 5150 Sunday 7:30 M' Convenient orking at the Sa vvith an act Livingston and Rav Vegas Jay Alan is receiving her ry to dale GROT BRINGS THE! CfRC MATINEE PRICES $200 $150 RI MATINEE EB 22nd $250 $200 $150 No Matinees Men Tees $HEiLA thePhler RYAN SEATS NOW IBURROWS 1 419 Euclid Brown" "Happy Hooligan" and Hallroom It's possible that the old shows were about on par with the Omnibus revival All fol lowed the same pattern with songs and bits and patriotic finales Some years ago George Jessci gave cxpresstQn to his idea nf a burlesque show which I suspect may have inspired Air Perelman in his Wheel" Jessel's format was included in Bernard Sobel's (Continued on Page fi) in "Bells in which she is bell ringer both comical as one of the a telephone answer TRAVELING BOX OICE THURS EE LORAIN SMITH It GERHART 10:00 A 5:30 RIDAY EB ERIE TA TIMES NEWS OICE 11:30 7:30 SAT EB PAINESVILLE GAIL GRANT CO A ULL LENGTH ILM IN COLOR Robert Mallett (in person) Wm (Bill) Director TUDOR ARMS HOTEL CARNEGIE AT 1O7TH By Harlow Hoy! In the estimation of those television regulars who delight in Shakespeare and opera in the grand manner Omnibus went slumming last Sunday night ot this tr oundation program devoted an entire hour to recreating burlesque as it was long ago when Jim Barton and anny Brice Al (Give me credit boys!) Reeses Dave Marion and Hrry Morris were its top comedians The revival followed publicity attendant upon New York's attempt to revive burlesque before the era of strip teasers and obscene comedy It lasted one short week Resquiescat in pace The project wasn't treated too seriously In truth it wasn't treated seriously at all since the oundation dragooned Perelman to write a script "The Rig which he did jn his repressed satirical vein and with no difficulty whatsoever decked Bert Lahr in a top hat and Ivemess discoursing learnedly on educational values while a chorus displayed its maidenly charms or extolling the aesthetic up lift punctuated by a display of living statuary in woolen tights Such commentary as this logically is within the demesne of Lonesome George Condon's tele vision reflections but nld timers in a spirit of nostalgia have turned to me because I presume haklowa hoit of my recent discussions of the transcendent aspects of bur lesque All of their remarks are not unalloyed approval While it was a commendable project they complained that it wr burlesqued That in itself is a novel idea burlesqueing bur lesque Some even questioned if the old shows were quite as bad as this one was made out tiwii Slot AL "The "Happy the other per comic pages in days SINGERS Enroll Now at Norah McGonnell Studio TtacMr if Start in ladia Sfa*ga and TV Popular and Children and Adults (Italian method used exclusively) I TICKETS ON SALE: ARENA 3700 Euclid Avnu Richmar'j 734 Euclid Av AKRON Richman's 5 Main $1 ASHTABULA Byr'v Richman's CANTON AuU Club ELYRIA Men's Shoa NEW PHILADELPHIA Senhousm 's akk cm Julius YOUNGSTOWN NarHfield Rd Utt (I Emry Rd un TAn Briskin then to Charlie O'Cur ran Alan himself had two children by a previous mar riage Betty sent the two girls Candy and Lindsay to Chicago to stay with their father be cause she said she felt thatt1hey would be better off there than on the road with her Betty born Betty June Thernberg in Battle Creek Mich has come a long way since she started nut to help her mother take care of the family Her story is too ell known for me to repeat Band master 'Vincent Lopez hired Betty at 565 a week One night when she thought she was go ing tn be fired she went out on the stage in a defiant reck less mood shouted stamped and sang "The Dipsy Doodle" without even the amplification of a microphone That did it Betty was in She got her big chance with Ruddy De Silva in "Panama Hattie" with Ethel Merman Betty made many pictures Two of her greatest roles being in "The Greatest Show on and "Annie Get Your Now she wants to make an other picture but she wants to go dramatic or if comedy not to be the bouncy Betty we all know a great hit as the Spanish nobleman of the play and pleases mightily the women in the audience i a suave and graceful actor of notable personal charm The find of the season is Virginia Gihson who plays the ingenue role of RethLiving sione She has previously placed nn Broadway and in the films bul she is news in this show sparkle arc extraordinary She is a delightful minx ail sweet ness and mischief and it will be surprising if site doos not become a recognized star Judy Holliday Also Triumphs Bells Are Kinging" isa tri umph for Judy Holliday Sire was good after a mannered fashion in "Born Yesterday" but she is a revelation of flexi bility charm and general at tractiveness Ringing" principal She is touching ployes of ing service who is moved by hergond and her unor ganized brains to intervene in the private lives of the patrons of tlie telephone service The show written by Hetty Com den and Adolph Green with music by Jule Styne has a good underlying comedy idea and it is pushed along in a frantic and amusing fashion by AMUsem*nTS Tickets Bernardi Mgr 2816 Euclid Ave Cleveland 15 0 Burrows (19 Euclid Ave TICKETS MAY BE ORDERED AND CHARGED AT HIGBEE'S MUSIC CENTER DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY Sunday eb 17 Music Hall 3:00 PM Colorful Costumes Dances Ticlsts st Burrows $300 $250 $200 $150 $100 Children 50c She seemingly works with out effort nr makes work seem holiday She doesn't sing in the usual sense She let a song overtake her and then joins it with a glad roar of melodious rapture It is the most precise kind of art hut you never notice lire art because it appears so easy and unpremeditated and be cause it is overwhelmed by a robustness of personality which no art can crenfe Time has left its imprint on Miss Merman bill it has mot dulled her spirit and it has in tensified her ease in song her grace with a comic line and her skill in a transitory evoca tion of loneliness and chagrin or Liz Livingston the char acter of the rich and energetic woman she impersonates has her moments of forlorn earn ing and acid disappointment The play is about a Phila delphia heiress who could not quite make the higher echelons of that city's society but who finally snares a royal prince she meets in Monaco The show has the ring of the familiar hut it is amusing handsomely environed and Miss Merman is superb in it ernando lamias has made AMUsem*nTS I By Louella Parsons HOLLYWOOD Calif (IN'S) The girl who retired more times than Harry Lauder did in his hey day Betty Hutton I mean says more Sh brought looking husband Alan Livingston local head of NBC television for a late after noon co*cktail Betty has lost much nf that ex uberance bounce and conti nued excitement and I have no doubt its due to the in liwell rxasoxs fluence of hr husband "Alan doesn't want me retire" she said "He knows that I'd be miserable without my career and I know it now too" She's even taken the new Betty into her picture "Spring Reunion" which she made with Kirk Douglas for his independ ent company I don't know how the picture will go It has no sin no sex no murders It's just a nice clean warm stogy It seems today the public wants destruction and not love and warmth "I'm believing there are still nooole" went on Bettv "who i like the decent things in life i diifi win nui viumu uik uierttej? to see filth and immorality" Betty Be Good Retty herself made her suc cess shouting and screaming I but this is no more to be a part of her life She has de I cided that she has outgrown the slam bam rip roaring hits I that made her a star HaVing seen Betty in action in her act I I can well believe make I a terrific success as the new Betty She opened hara in written brother Evans highest I "I've got a business manager now in Alan to look after me and to see I don't make the mistakes I made before I met him" she told me Alan is number three in her I life She was married to Ted' RI AMD SAT EVENING AND SAT MATINEE PRICES $350 $300 $250 $200 $150 AH pricev tai included TUES EVE SUS PM EB 5 imw Masnnie Aud SI 75 St 30 $125 By William McDermoH Among the relatively new Broadway music shows are Are and Abner" All of them are playins to seating capacity and sometimes to such overflow as can be meagerly accommodated in standing room at the rear of the theater They are not distinguished for subtlety or origniality nf Idea but they are all in different ways and varying degree? good lively frolicsome entertaiment What is common to each of them are briskness of move ment great vitality and competence in staging The matter they present is not so important as the way in which it is presented I suppose that is what makes American music shows distinctive and often superior in re lation to their foreign counterparts The head long action the explosive energy the precision in detail the sumptuous scenic backgrounds of the popur American tune show are lather spe side nf the Atlantic Of course European music some of these qualities JOHN BOSNIA KR1ZA HIGHTOWER HUGH IUPE IAING SERRANO CtWANY Of ICO SHUT THEATRE SYMPHONY OKHESTRA txlrs Added Attraction EDDIE HEYWOOD trw RCA Yltter Recordi TOM BROWN OE WHK Tickfi $240 $140 5440 MUSIC HALL TICKETS $150 "The Old Stuff Goes Great" On the whole there was a goodly recreation of the old stuff Lahr doffed his tegalia to participate in two bits Other recognizable comedians were Bozo Snyder who started with Edmond Hayes in "The Movers" by George Cohan and Bobby Barry who got under way years ago as one of the bad hoys in Joe Hart's "oxy Car toon musicals are nothing new Others were "Buster AMUSEM NTS JUDY HOLLIDAY 3 sfarred on Broadway ii "The Bells Are at the Shubert Theater It's a musical comedy about a operator by Netty Comden and Adolph Green to music of Styne ICE OLLIES 1957 MAIL ORDER APPLICATION THE ARENA 3700 EUCLID AYE CLEVELAND 1 5 Enclosed is Chck Money Order for At each Sun 1:30 5:30 daU Mon thru Thurs Eves I Sat M( 53no 57 tin $7 nn ri I Sat Eve Double Sun Mats $375 $350 $3 $2 Eva Mat 1st choice date1 2nd choice Name YZ CLEVELAND MUSIC HALL THURS EVE EB 14: IntenatiMtl fatwl CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA' GEORGE SZELL Musical Director and Conductor Twilight Concert Today eb 3 3 LOUIS LANE Pianist and Conductor AMERICAN PROGRAM IneMInc KOGERS and GERSHWIN I and SI 00: Bai Seats $150 VIIAISIK AT SKVEBANAE HAIIs PROGRAM SATURDAY 8:30 THEME AND WIN1ER 5 OENBACH IN THE SUNDAY 3:30 DESIGNS WITH PAS DE DEUX: BLACK SAT MAR 9 EVENING SUN MAR 10 MATINEE Clip end Mail This Order Blank Today! Ui AL 5IRAT GROTTO CIRCUS Office Public Hall Cleveland Enreed check or money order lor which nd MV Chrk( to Order of AJ Sirat Grotto Circua Matinee Saturday Teahouse of the August Moon xc 1 1 1 1 friee charm and humer" MeOermett Plain Oalr Arthur VIEW ROM THE BRIDGE Vi elent raalijtlc scnu*timl Caliwianl Mirrnr I fa VAV I Cleveland's Own TICKETS ON SALE AT RICHMAN'S And PUBLIC HALL "LES PEtit* CHANTEURS A LA CROIX DE BOIS" Under the direction of Msgr Maillet SAT EB 9 8:30 Teevy Tries Burlesque and Smile Mtumn rial to this shows have The Parisian olies Beigere is more elaborate and pre tacular scenically than most American shows but nohndy seen many of them would moving as careful in minutia popular American music show If you have seen a play like "Oklahoma" staged in Den mark by Danish players you will know what I mean In Copenhagen this masterpiece of our music show theater has the charm of novelty but it lacks the infectious high spirits the sunlit brilliance of the American original 'Tie difference may be part ly rooted in personality Vc have a number nf players whose special qualifications for roles in American plays cannot he duplicated abroad One of them is certainly Ethel Mer man She is currently placing her individual stamp on the Broadway hit "Happy' Hunt ing" The play is lively and amusing but it is not particu larly fresh or inspired It is a serviceable play spaciously produced and much like "Call Me Madam" written for Miss Merman by the same competent craftsmen Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse What differentiates it and makes it superior is Ethel Mfrman Nobody else stands Lp to a song as she does No body puts a sharper point to a comic line Nobody else has her exuberance of spirit cloaked in an air of the natural and the casual AMUsem*nTS I Singing Stars Make Musicals Big Hits MURDER MISTAKEN Ttr "rli atal Spaath And DANCERS Serge Jaroff Director SUN EB MUSIC HALL TICKETS $150 ARENA eb 26 Mar 10 ONLY SAT MARCH '2 AND 9 AT 2:30 SUN MARCH 3 AND 10 rvavv 2 MAT' SHOWS AT 1:30 4 5:30 DAYS EVES MON THRU SAT AT 8:30 Pt SECOND CHOICE DATE Mt Pieast designate aeeond choke to irw giving you better Batt some wild complications lively dancing and cheerful singable tunes It it makes sense One of show is a most engaging per formance by a tail young lead ing man Sydney Chaplin son of Charlie I am not a student of the newspaper comic strips and I attended "Li'l the musical show made from the Al Capp series uniformed about its genesis and unpre pared to say how faithfully tlie original was followed It docs not sem to matter The material used in "Li'l Abner" is suitable for broad romping comedy satirical cari cature and giddiness of pace I was reminded of the music shows that were made 'y ears ago of "Mutt and Jeff Katzenjammer Hooligan" and sonages of the those innocent The humor in "Li'l Abner" is much the same It is delib erately affectionately corny The difference is that the cur rent show is infinitely hotter in acting singing dancing and all Hie other elements of stag ing I found it old fashioned hut pretty steadily well typed in the acting capably sung and danced and altogeth er genial unpretentious frolic It is a thumping box office hit AMUsem*nTS HUNTING" Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse rjiusical comedy starring Ethel Merman has ernanao Lamas in leadina male role New York is viewing it at the Majestic Theater ROXYBURLEm CMtSTEH II OO toiuoop MASONIC AUPlTOKIUM 36 and EUCLID HE 2 2233 HIT SHOW 1957 th LUGKT GIRLS I RUE DAVIS i STRONGS OEITW 1 ASSB BAHbm ARGO OY WILLING I THE RIBEI IS THE PURPLE SAGE TIBI rnTUtc 9 Tur un nnv BAuru nraupatri CHOICE RESERVED SEATSi $250 $200 $150 ADEMA Nt IN A 1 :00 and 4:00 Betty Hutton Ends Her Retiring Cycle I ICE SKATE 1 I INDOORS I Live Music Evenings fek heath ay C4y State Please enclose stamped $eH nvoUp GABRINA Und DANCING Chorus CO STAR 8 Clt A0OO tWHni'i as 1 1 I 4' 233 1 ITO JL ix It 2 I1 IS 'z 1 11 iL 1 7 f) LU 11 iO xxz SY A si AL Sll HKfl JM I Mean The 1957 Concert Program of Concordia Choir MASONIC AUDITORIUM ilPi JK I I raui nriSTiqnien Director riday Evening ebruary 8 8 PM OR CALL MAIN I 313Q i Tickets: 75c THET aRE Av WWBWja in the I 7157 1 a a I A Tiekes 1 AH 1 rv El 'y 1 1 HiptESS HIIITAM PLAY HOUSE at NORTHIELD PLAZA MUSIC OR All OCCASIONS.

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