Daily News from New York, New York • 17

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Ml. aV H.T al Smith, is a skillfully contrived young man on the prowl for If the weather ever cools off and if director Michael Gordon trims il a bit here and there, it will play very briskly. At its first performance at the Longacre last evening, it wast a test of endurance for both actors and audience, for there was no air conditioning and I think everybody behaved quite gallantly on both sides of the footlights. An extraordinarily amiable group f.f players are in "The Tender Trap. Konnie Graham is a young bachelor-fcbout-Ncw York who lives an ideal life.

He has an apartment with a terrace overlooking Queens -T1IK TENDER THAI" Farce by Max Shulman and Kohert run I Smith, produced bv Clinton Wilder at the Ixng-ju-re Theatre, Oct. 1'J, TIIK rAT Charlie Rralrf. IVi'l'i Mjw. M.4 ail Jl llllllla J.ltt. iailliK i I hf l.r Honnv f.r.ili.un I'arki-r i.nni.

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They tidy up his phice for him. r.very Sunday morning the nicest of them all. Kim Hunter, comes up, leans the establishment and makes Konnie's breakfast. The Happy Life This is a fabulous setup in the eyes of Roliert Preston, an old neighlior front IndianaoIis who tlropg in and stays three weeks while conducting some business involving the invention of a cold cute. Preston is an old married' man with a wife and three kids back home.

The wife has wall-to-wall terH-ting, the kids have braces on their teeth and. all in all, Koln-rt is a comfortably settled gent until hit gets involved in one Ronnie's love affairs With girls coming and going all the time, the play keeps moving. It has er.ough funny situations, and nomcthing ever letter humor. For example, Graham, in one of his many flustered moments as he tries to juggle dates and dames, tries rejH-atcdly to tie his four-in-hand with no luck. So he calls up Countess Mara on the phone and complains in a lellow that for fifteen bucks she could at least have sold him a tie that would tie.

Ronnie's girls are different types but all ladies and all attractr'c. jrirls and girls a-hunting men. Robert Preston Enviet hi bachelor friend. Miss Hunter is the wise and rueful type a violinist who works for foscanini but is beautiful enough to work for Spiialny. Janet Kiloy is her opposite a fresh and lovely young iiiiss with an iron will who is out for one thing, marriage, she is the one who finally springs her tender trap.

There are some other interesting dishes around. I wish I could have seen more of Miss Parker McCor-mick, for she strikes me as an individual comedienne. And there are a couple of other men Jack Manning as a pugnacious little laboratory researcher anil Joey Faye as a trombonist left over from a big, drinking party. It's up to Graham and Preston to carry most of the play, and they carry it well. They have funny things to and do, and they time everything right and last night's heat was a terrible test of timing.

I think Gordon and the authors should get together soon and cut about twelve minutes out of the comedy, six of them in the last act. After all, a farce is no more than a farce, and the happiest thing to do is get it over quickly. Music by Wells Roy Wells, pianist, singer and record star, is headlining at Ray tollman's Casino in the Park, Jersey City. 1 4 i il. Jsig-A Visra Vision, which is Para-mount's answer to CinemaScope, was unveiled on the Music Hall's screen yesterday, with the introduction of "White" Christmas." The photography of the new process is impressive, but not as startling as CinemaScope was in its first demonstration.

However, i these new and improved processes' i of photographing and projecting! film is all to the- good, as far as the motion picture industry is concerned, as every advance in projection stimulates public interest in films. Yes, It Entertains What we are mostly interested in this morning is not so much the manner in which "White Christmas" is projected on the screen, as the picture's entertainment quotient. Given in Irving Berlin score, a sentimental and amusing book by Melvin Frank and the two Normans, Krasna and Panama, a cast headed by Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Cloo-ney and Vera Ellen, not to mention Dean Jagger, Mary Wickes and dancer John Braseia in the supporting roles, and a production all wrapped up in Technicolor, "White Christmas" adds up to first class entertainment. There is a lot of talent animating this VistaVision production and the principals work hard to catch the interest of the audience and hold it throughout. Bing and lanny are well teamed and, with Rosemary Clooney's considerable help, sing vhe tuneful Berlin numbers with verve.

Vera Ellen dances delightfully with Kaye and Braseia. A Show-Biz Comedy The story is a sentimenta showbiz comedy-drama. Bing and Danny represent a couple of big shot entertainers who befriend a sister-act and help to get their friend, Gen. Waverly, out of a financial hole, by putting on a bang-up show at his winter resort inn, when snow fails to materialize. Besides the title song, which was used in "Holiday Inn," the picture presents four new Berlin numbers that have a chance of becoming hits.

They are "The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing," "Love, Y'ou Didn't Do Right By Me," "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheen" ami "Sisters." Michael Curtiz handled the di-1 rection of the picture admirably! One of the world's most symphonic groups, the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, opened its first American tour last night at Carnegie Hall. The conceit was a thoroughly distinguished one. Aside from a fairly short symphony by an Indonesian composer, Henck Bailings, the program was made up of familiar masterworks Von Weber's Overture to "Der Treischutz," Ravel's Suite No. 2 from his "Daphnis et Chole" ballet score and, following the intermission, Brahms' Symphony No. 1.

Sounded Like New They were familiar, but what performances they were given! Under the extremely sensitive direction of the orchestra's permanent conductor, Kduard Van Beinum, the 100-old Hollanders played with fine skill and a winderful awareness of the music at hand. All of the readings possessed great clarity and the Ravel work, in particular, was delivered with rare insight and beauty. The Badings work, his Symphony No. 2, proved something of a stage wait. Since the composer dedicated it to Van Beinum in 19:52, there was at least an excuse for its presentation.

It is not really a bad piece, merely a mediocre one. Most of the time, throughout its three movements, it takes itself very seriously in a conventional manner, but now and then touches of delicate charm, which I took to be the composer's most natural expressions, put in an appearance and give the composition a bit of distinction. A packed house responded with loud and prolonged applause to the obvious delight of the visitors from Amsterdam. Critics Elect Kerr as Prexy The New York Drama Critics Circle yesterday elected Walter F. Kerr of the Herald Tribune as president for the ensuing year.

Kerr succeeds Joseph T. Shipley of the New Leader. Other officers named at a meeting at the Hotel Algonquin are Whitney Bolton, Morning Telegraph, vice president; Thomas H. Wenning, Newsweek, treasurer, and George Freedley, curator of the theatre section of the Public Library, secretary. The also voted to consider publication of a play anthology to be titled "Critics' Choice." WHAT ABOUT THEIR.

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