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8R00KLYN EAGLE. SUN MAR 11, 1945 24 mwtcing Mt 1 CANDID CLOSE-UPS 'Must Be the Flatbush Background Say Sue Ryan of 'A Lady Says Yes' MAIL uRutKS NUW For all p.fforminc from 5 thru AijajB May 20. (OPENING NIGHT, 'Apr. adomuoo by war bood purcb.M ooly REGINA RES NEK as Leonore IPH fTIljB Saturday matinee. I "1 MUSIC'S OVERTONES Two American Composers Writ Musical Scores for Broadway By MILKS KASTENDIECK Two familiar names In the list of contemporary American composers in the limelight may be found attached to hit showi on Broadway this season: David Diamond, who has written an original score for the Margaret Webster production of The Tempest," and Leonard Bemsteln.

who has written the music for "On the Town." That one should be serving Shakespeare and the other Broadway establishes a certain kind of self-evident classification as to the relative values of their music. Both composers display a real mastery of technique and resourcefulness: both succeed In accomplishing what they set out to do. Obviously writing music for a Shakespearean play, even though it is a comedy, Is a more serious undertaking than creating a score for a Broadway show. It must be said for Leonard Bernstein, however, that with this score he has raised considerably the general standard of music in this kind of show. While David Diamond's music is not quite comparable to Mendelssohn's famous score for "Midsummer Night's Dream," still the composer has made his score an intrinsic part of the whole performance.

Its absence would be conspicuous. The Overture sets the keynote In a striking manner, treating the problem realistically. The general Impression as the play unfolds In Its prologue Is that of a tone poem come to life. When the storm at sea gives place to Prospero's magic Island, the atmospheric nature of the place Is suggested effectively. As the play progresses the music becomes more and more Incidental; yet in Its brevity may be found the source of considerable satisfaction because It Is so much a part of the show.

The songs are a little disappointing, though their brevity may be the cause. To say this music seems to grow out of the production Is in this case high praise. Any idea that It turns "The Tempest" Into a musical show Is ludicrous. Quality may be noted In the opening song of "On the Town," and so far as Broadway standards are concerned It Is sustained through-nut the performance. Primarily Jazz, it abounds with clever Ideas which follow one another with uncanny skill and dramatic effectiveness.

Bernstein knows how to catch a mood: every song has Its right setting; every scene has its appropriate tone color, whether gay or blue or satiric. Yet one comes away singing no particular song, suggesting that Bernstein has yet to become a lyricist In order to turn a tune that catches the ear. While quite in the groove he may overdo his brasses for environment in which he finds himself. Certainly he has the knack, the slick technique and the grasp of his medium. Everything seems to move along with remarkable ease.

It may very well be that this composer is more completely at home in the theater than in the concert hall. One wonders if the complete success of the music has not been attained by the exceptional direction of Jerome Robbins. who appears to have worked hand In hand with Bernstein in creating so smooth a production. Whatever the final verdict, two American composers nave not only made tzood on Broadway but added to the lustre of the season. Bt ROBERT FRM II "You Ye prompt." remark corner aa Si Rn drope Into the opposite chAtr at a table in Sardi'i.

"Its jurt J5 pt It," "Whv Our show breaks 11 15 If a gal can get the paint off. change her clothes and get MfOB street In 10 this eurfe makes for jpeed. I ihould like a very large beer Sue ha Juft her In "A Lady Says Yes' in which ahe supplies chief lemlnlne comedy angles at the Broadhurst, on the other s.de ol St. "And Inquire our reporter, as soon as Sue is behind the required brew, new at 666 T. 37th St.

in at bush? The last time you made a report was over a year ago, when you were in the "Well." she says soberly, "there's one thing that is good telling and that's that my mother hopes to have Pon home again snor.h Hos pital Sport fans may remember Pop years ago as bantamweight Harlem Tomrr.v Russell, and vaudeville dittos mav rival', him the other half ol the u-am of Glenroy and Russell when lie worked Uie two-a-riav Wltb Sue's niima. The latter mav remember Sue then, too. although '-he mi pint-sized. Pop used to pinch her to make her veil at the right spot in the act. Jut where the Ryan'' trade came into the picture 11 IBg ol a the Dutc tater Works, i-riance gal TALLULAH BANKHEAD, star of the Theater Guild's latest, "Foolish Notion," by Philip Barry.

It opens at the Martin Beck Theater Tuesday night. The Bankhead Rides Again In Barry's 'Foolish Notion' of Saga of Dana Dale, Margaret Hayes, Fleurette Ottenheimer We remark that "Brook.lv. 0 A la the top song number of Ladv." particularly with 8ue's inimitable delivery. -It mm be Just the old Flat-bush ba.kground." fhe laughs. It Ml ten Into the original score, you know.

I was in the Shubert offices one dav Just after rehearsals started. Will Morrisy was there and 'J. asked me to listen to a song he'd just written. 'Die minute I heard It through the first chorus. I said 'that for me It a grand number." What has she been doing since l.u-t we talked together1 "Nothing very she savs the 'Follies' closed I vent tip-State for a rest on a farm.

Then I had a night club engagement in Detroit and after that I came back here for a four-week stretch at the Strand. By then, it was about time to begin thinking about this one. "Oh. yjts." she continues thoughtfully. "I got my divorce irom Dan in April.

Dan' is Dan Wh.te. who has written most of Sue's muMc and lyrics for years We haven't broken up the business partnership, though. He still does my specialties." "That reminds us." your reporter remarks, "that there is ome talk about a new heartthrob. What about it? That," blushes Sue. "Is strict 1 column stuff.

His name is Max BohiUtT He army doctor, stationed at Fort Tilden. I met him several years ago. when I was playing in London. He was hurt in Sicily and now he's back here. Now you know everything." "When are you getting married?" persists your reporter.

"That I wouldn't know." replies Sue. demurely finishing her beer. Ar.v.v auto and fashion advertisements. About this time, the country was being turned topsy-turvy in a search lor a Scarlett O'Hara for the screen version of "Gone With the Wind." Dana was tested for the part. She didn't get it, to be sure, but on the strength of being able to stay in the running until the final selection, she was given a movie contract.

The picture publicists told her she would do better on the screen as Dana Edwards, so Edwards she obligingly became and made a few films listed as such. But the "Dana" vogue had gotten to such a pitch by then, in the naming of picture players, that she decided to delete this given name from hrr life. That is when she became Margaret Haves "to her public" ard Maggie to her friends. As Margaret Hayes she has done extremelv well, too. with featured roles in "The Glass Key." "Sullivan's Travels," 'The Lady-Has Plans," "The Night of January 16." "New York Town," "Take a Letter, Darling" and other pictures.

The impending Bernard Klawans-Victor Pay e-Jennings production marks her Broadway debut as Miss Hayes, and gives her a chance to quit being a "menace" woman In favor of depicting a most beguiling voung ladv. Events Wednesday "Dark of the Moon. a legend With music, by Howard Richardson and William Bumey. 46th St. Theater.

In the cast are Carol Stone, A. Winfield Hoeny, Roy Fant, Iris Whitney, Marjorte Bell, Maidel Turner. Thursday "Happily Ever After." comedy by Donald Kirkley and Howard Burman. Biltmore Theater. Gene Lockhart heads a cast including Warren Douglas.

Margaret Hayes. 'Harvey' Tonight There will be a special performance of "Harvey" at the 48th Street Theater tonight in aid of the Actors' Fund Dm II at Tkonlar 001181 I lieUier Returns to Met 3. Hurok has announced that the Ballet Theater will begin a four-week Spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House on Sunday evening, April 1. A roster of eminent guest artists and three new productions will be featured, including Antony Tudor's psychological murder ballet "Undertow." The first ballet of this genre, "Undertow" will have a score specially composed by William Schu-man, with decor and costumes by Raymond Breinin. Another new work, "Moonlight Sonata," is Leo-nide Massine's choreographic version of the Beethoven classic, with decor and costumes by Sergei Soudeikine.

Also scheduled is a WED. ADD ZL NIGHT lliTl GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH. Sid. Anna $5 A W.50 Ind log. 50 KUzianln $3.50 End Ar.na $3.50.

$3 I $3.50 Ulcony $1.30 Children undnr 11 half arlcat avary Aft, axcopt Sat. A Sun. II pricts include 2 Showi TODAY 2:50 8:40 SCHOOL FOR BRIDES SING OUT, SWEET LAND ALFRED DRAKE HI Rl IMS. Ribl OittrwaM. Aim Rr INTERNATIONAL nil i I i Tr i Song of Norway 24 PERFS.

TODAY nAVV. AGATHA I TEN LITTLE INDIANS JHE HASTY HEART The late george'apley Performance TONIGHT at 8:40 THE OVERTONS FRANCIS FARRELL WHITING GREAJ ELISABETH BFKI.SER MAMA1CT WnsM 'ISoDUCTIOIl VERA ZORINA CANADA LEE THE TEMPEST NUGENT FIELD THE VOICE of the TURTLE MICHAEL TODD UP IN CENTRAL PARK HERBERT A DOHOI in I II I I l.vrwi h-j 00ROTHV i II I ls Sir.MI 0 ROMBERG rMMIMMAHMMrtUMri, work titled "Harvest Time," cho-u reographed by Bronislava Nijin- Truth is that Al.ib.mw-o. Tallulah Bankhead first tasted the heady wine of fame in London. She had appeared In a half-dozen plays, none noteworthy. In New York, when she left for the British capital in 1923.

For the next eight years she was the toast of the Britons, ever In the headlines, friend of royalty, mer curial and capricious both in her professional and private conduct. Returning to this country in 1930 for a Hollywood fling, she found the camera unkind, the colossi selected for her of dubious merit. For all her London reputeand it was established in star roles in such worthy plays as "The Green Hat," "They Knew What They Wanted," "The Gold Diggers" and "Let Us Be Gay" it wasn't until her engagement in "The Little Foxes" that she enjoyed the fruits of a long-run success in New York, Since that play the Bankhead star has burned brighter than ever, both on stage and screen. The Hollywood which betrayed her a dozen years ago now bids frantically for her services, thanks to her performance In "Lifeboat." 'Calico Wedding' Ends Its Run Abruptly "Calico Wedding," a comedy fea- luring Grete Mosheim. closed night at, the National Theater.

opened Thursday, to the tune of disheartening reviews for the play but considerable praise for Miss Mosheim, one of the stage's refugees i Hitler. SUE RYAN, Brooklyn -actress, ha i cm- Yec comedy at the Broodhurst. Its she who sings the hit song, "Brooklyn, U. S. st Tf Will Shakespeare were alive now.

he would probably know better than to ask that question, "What In a By devising titles that click, many a person and project, otherwise doomed to blush unseen, has surged toward fame in our time, or at least achieved a respectable livelihood. So, in these name-conscious days, who could expect a girl to click with the monicker of Fleurette Ottenheimer? That is the one originally bestowed on Margaret Hayes, the actress, who return, from Hollywood to Broadway in "Happily Ever After-Wednesday evening at the Bilt- Thea Witl that hair the while to She w.ls getting alone, but not fast enough to her way of thinking. So, when some columnists, with whom she was sitting at a night club one evening, her to become Dana Dale, she gratefully accepted their counsel. As Dana Dale, her stock as a model zoomed. She was soon featured In the best cigarette, Week's Ooetl and Dorian Olvos.

Playhouse. In the cast are Mr. Goetz, Valerie Van Martens. Whitford Kane, Suzanne Caubaye, Michael Strong, Marjorle Peterson. Tuesday "Foolish Notion," comedy by Philip Barry.

Martin Beck Theater. Tallulah Bankhead. Henry Hull, Donald Cook. Aubrey Ma ther, Maria Manton, "In order to permit Miss con-stance Blnnoy to take a vacation. Miss Tallulah Bankhead, daughter of Congressman Bankhead of Alabama and granddaughter of Senator Bankhead of the same State, will assume the leading feminine role in '39 East' at Maxine Elliott's Theater on Monday evening.

Miss Bankhead Is a newcomer to the stage and is only 17 years of age." This paragraph, culled rrom the drama page of the New York Sun of 25 years ago, embodies the first recognition ever gained on Broadway by the Tallulah Bankhead who will appear at the Martin Beck Theater Tuesday evening as the star of Philip Barry's "Foolish Notion." Stormy and spectacular has been the career of this 17-year-old who stepped into the Binney shoes. New York last saw her on the stage as the unrecjenerate Sabina of Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth." Her impersonation of the eternal Lilith in the Wilder work was voted "the best performance by an actress In the 1942-43 season" by the New York reviewers. More recently the New York film critics hailed her characterization in the Alfred Hitchcock film, "Lifeboat," as "the best performance by an actress In 1944." Writers who attempt to Miss Bankhead in their prose usually wind up by saying that she is uniane. "Cello-voiced." "s.iffon-haircd." "vibrant." "a volcano of vitality" these are some of her sketchier identifl- cation discs. It was St.

John who i Youngest of the Stepping Stones Carol Stone, youngest of the famous "Stepping Stones." daughter of comedian Fred Stone, has a highly dramatic role In "Dark of the Moon." which the Messrs. Shubert are bringing to the 46th St. Theater Wednesday. Unlike her sisters, DoroMiv and Paula, New York-born Carol did not make her stasjc debut with her noted father. Dorothy first tripped across a stage In the musical, "Stepping Stor.e.s"; Paula In the musical, "Ripples But since Carol had shown an early propensity towards the drama, she chose to begin a career with a Long Island Summer theater production of Arnold Bennett's comedy, "Mr.

Prohack." Her New York first Henry Miller Theater i Blanche laughter in "Javhawker," a ia of Civil War days by Uoyd and l.ur Iams, and as in "You Can't for many rel Skies." "White Horse first Like It" have been among her iorK engaijc West Coast she ha Noel Coward's "Shadow Play," and again In "Spring in Autumn." She has sung "Irene" at Louisville, and last Summer she appeared In Connecticut in "tittle Women" and in "Private Lives." in the latter with Tallulah Bankhead. When 'ark of the Moon" received Its first trial performances last Summer at Catnbridie, under Robert Perry's direction. Carol Stone created then the role of Barbara Allen, the North Caro- marries a role i Fifty-Two Plays Running in Paris wright. producer, playhouses are crow audiences enthusiast! Boston to Play Modern Works Dr. Serge Koussevltzky will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra In its fourth Brooklyn concert Friday at 8:30 In the Academy of Music.

The program will of Haydn's Symphony in B-flat, No. 102. Hanson's Third Symphony, and the orchestral suite from Petrouchka," by Stravinsky, The piano soloLst in the last work will be Lukas Foss, young American pianist-composer. metropoutanopera" LAST THREE WEEKS OF OPERA BIERE 0 I.1UN II I TO LC WN HALL, GRALNICK iiifulf 2 SHOWS TODAY 3 8:15 "THE HIT K'F. s( ol Mil llMinl HATrofFUrVoUirCE 75c, $1.25 and $1.65 Tr? 0ImxiKwi mi olrnt Dmi- 49th st 46th 2 Perfs TODAY 2:40 8:40 FRAWMOT TONE ANF WVATT Hope for the best "CHRISTUNS HOMOLKA MAMA Penin8 TOM'W EVG.

at 8 40 if! A GIFT coAm Showi TODAY KISS AND TELLviX OLSEN JOHNSON in LaFFING ROOM ONLY! I N- TIMES Utt- WI1H A I BOBBY CLARK MEXICAN HAYRIDE 0KVLAH 0MA NEW VORK'S Ml SI I A I 1 thetown" wllh SONO OSATO by Joseph Wienlawskl arranged by Antal Doratl. Th artists be seen are Tamara Toumanova, Leonide Mas-sine, Jerome Robbins, Agnes De Mille, Argentinita, Pilar Lopez and company, and as guest conductor Sir Thomas Beecham. Alicia Markova and Anton Dolln will appear as guests for two performances during the season on evenings when there are no showings of "Seven Lively Arts." They will dance in "Giselle," "Romeo and Juliet." and "Bluebeard Massine's 'Mademoiselle Angot" and a revised version of Agnes De MiUes "Tally-Ho" will be restored to the repertoire, and favorites of last season Will be shown, including Jerome Rob-bin's hit ballet. "Fancy Free," "Graduation Ball" and "Waltz Academy" and a series of grand divertissements featuring Tamara Toumanova. American Folk Music At Academy of Music A program devoted to "Our Folk Music" will be held at the Academy of Music this afternoon at 3.

The first half of the program will be given by Tom Glazer. well known ballad singer, anci the second half by the composers "study Group, under the direction of Blanche K. Thomas. Charlotte O'Neal with the ch us. The progTam by the Brooklyn i Guild.

Music Teach TOMORROW AT 4 AND 8:15 T. M. FATHER HUBBARD "POST-WAR 'LASK it' ALL SEATS II. TAX INCLUDED BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC I BostonSymphony Orchestra BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC THIGPEN Cvncert Mai. Vfta Bull Hull v'l'a'd I 'Mn 1 Via Mt.

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SHI lim I nrrn nl DARK OF THE MOON Ont ol the DEAR moss hah i GERTRUDE NIESEN bi fOLLOW THE GIRLS 2 SHOWS TODAY, 2:50 ft 8:40 FINAL WEEKS Good night 'ladies' HARVEY GENE LOCKHART, Kathleen Lockharr, Margaret Hayes and Warren Douglas in "Happily Ever After," opening Thursday night at the Biltmore Theater CAROL STONE in "Dark of the Moon," newcomer to the 46th Street Theater Wednesdoy evening..