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Lire Seniiis Story a Typical Chronicle of Theater. SATIRISTS IN GAY REVUE A DAY AT BEACH Anderson Pens Busy Week of Holmes will be doubling with Law. renre Welk. Sunday Holmes nru-ps north tl th Aragon to Join Dick Jurgens. Openings for Taiher' First Big Success of Producer There is a comfortable feeling abet the Bismarric hotel's Walnut rocra.

You walk in and Chicago Cafes Play Regarding the Boy Jesus By Burns New Y'ork Special. Maxwell An By Will Davidson. As one explanation of why the life derson has written a reverent, sometimes eloquent but fairly static of a night club reviewer is not so bad, glance at this week's schedule: you bear Art Kas-sel playing Hell's Bells or Marion Holmes singing "Sing a Song Blues," or see Collette and Barry doing that Ted Lewis soft shoe number, just as of old, and everything seems safe and secure and satisfactory. drama around the pilgrimage upon Tonight At the Aragon Tony Di which the boy Jesus accompanied his Pardo trumpets his band thru a double bill with Dick Jurgens. Monday One of the nicest events of this or any season, but strictly private, is the marriage of Patty Long, And when the the gay hearted young vocalist re Jane Hadley dano cently with Howard McCreery, and anc- for I ers come out Buddy Moreno, the perscnality plus lad with the deep dark tan, who will By Cecil Smith.

"r.tU Li'e with Father" came r-ve: t.w horizon none of us had nurh about a man named t.t EtrV.r.. In the event that some hae rot heard anything yt, re explained that Mr. Scrlin rrrijerr rf th! greatest dm- f-'l n-pf the rifradr, this Father." whih 'trans huge business nt th i.v'rr. lifter 31 weeks, New Ycrk at the Empire than 11 months. veil specs fled boundaries ar entitled to claim Mr, ts a ChUsgo boy who has iri.

5'? vbs born in Yalowka. be sure. This vas in 1001. when education, as vas still far from family migrated to Chi-v. here it loc ked as tho Father discover greater j-ros-; the cleaning and dyeing cf Oi.ar's uncles than be to attain in ValowKa.

a je cf 9. then a hasty bit t.on wiil show he is a neat little routine that Is like all the neat little join Dick Jurgens" orchestra Tuesday. Also, and this public, Tierson doing so gra- routines they've been Thai and his orchestra, wiih Gloria Fay singing, open in the La Salle ho ciously and capably for many mon'bs. parents from Nazareth to Jerusalem the year he was 12. "Journey to Jerusalem" is the titlp.

The play's appeal is less positive as entertainment than it is as literature. The word pictures are more Impressive than its stage pictures. And, like many of the Anderson plays, it will have to be read really to be seen. To those of us who have made a comfort rather than an obligation or a profession of our religion, probably the one episode that stands out in Jesus' boyhood is that of his casual meeting with the Wise Men In the temple in Jerusalem. Doubtless it is the Hoffman picture that has fixed this scene most indelibly in our minds.

In our Sunday school days there was real drama in that triumph of the and logic of youth over the muddled and uncertain searching for the truth on the part of ponderous oldsters. This scene Is naturally a major Incident of the drama, tho the picture tel's Blue Fountain room. Wedneiwlay Raymond S-ott, the composer turned maestro, opens the new Blackhawk a room vastly al tered in appearance by a brighter paint Job, photo murals, and best of all, much smaller pillars which hardly 1 i I obstruct any one's view of the floor. Six Dancing Co-eds, a brand new line, will make their debut, and Johnny you know you are at home, and that the war Is far away, and the problem of domestic politics something thst needn't bother you at least for tonight. Art maintains his good, substan al standard of music, and Marlon Holmes, strangely exotic in her black hair do, for one so charmingly sw eet, has -an amusing new version "The Lady Is a Tramp." Don Ricardi is a newcomer in the juggling IV! d.

but Collette and Barry are reliable and ever pleasing entertainers. It's a nice little ahow. By bringing F.rnie and h.l to Chicago, the pump room hi done Chieagoans a service. Ern In "Let's Steal a Tune from Offenbach" Robert Davis and Fay McKenzie satirize a current trend in popular music. The scene occurs in "Meet the People," the revue at the Grand Opera house.

in no way follows that of the familiar painting, "Christ tn the Temple." It is an appealing, mildly dramatic in Duffy, piano-organist, returns for intermission entertainment. Friday Paul 'Draper. Le Sinv, and Ilomay Bailey, F.mil Coleman, and the previously announced Carmen Miranda come in to the Chez Taree, Mary Rae and Naldl, one of the top-notch dance teams, are finishing out the current show in place cf Jack Cole. Same night, over at the cident. Jesus is wandering idly thru the balls when he comes upon four Gloria Day is the lovely dancing, partner of Maurice St.

Clair in the floor show which is helping Wayne King set the Edgewater Beach hotel's famous Marine dining room off on its formal season. Bruno cf Hollywood Photo. 'Male Animal' Gay Comedy of Life on a College Campus members of the Sanhedrin and ventures, timidly, to answer the query of one as to the coming of the Messiah that has been foretold and Oscar Serlin entered one His Russian- a. -ert tr-ade him the butt cf scorn. At this ever, the strong determina-- haj marked his subsequent rci.5 into icw.

For many bis Knglisii a mirror, watching the hJ.i formations of the E.5 he listened also to accen-c er.d vowel quality. This naturally im-: Ms diction, Iho Jack Gould, to Icr.ow a great deal Mr. Serin's early develop-: in the New York Cs.ar's immortal ex- to the grammar school such identification as be may carry knows music, plays it superbly cn his iolin, and produces a kind of rhythm that seems tailor made for the Ambassador hotel's smart room. A d3ut attraction fioor show makes the current entertainment about as attractive as any that has been cerel there. It is absurdly simple to the boy cestors still hanging about, it seems a little heartless to me that a house filled with playhouse patrons should rock itself into a state of happy sighs that any one should worry about one assigned to the work of God.

Surely Hotel Sherman, Harry James and his band return to the Panther room, where Clown Carl Marx is celebrating his fourth year as an entertainer. Saturday Griff Williams, a top notcher in both music and personality, returns to the Stevpns hotel's Continental room for a command encore that should last four months. Out at the Trianon ballroom Herbie Jesus and Ishmael, and the dpsert man'a acceptance of the boy as the holy one whose coming has been foretold by the prophets. It is all eloquently written and well staged, but it is for the devout and the sympathetic rather than the average playgoer in search of theater entertainment. Sidney Lumet plays Jeshua with simple sincerity and and tears over the antics and words of a perfect fool.

There are bombs dropping and killing our kinfolk across the seas. And yet I also find AMUSEMENTS. he ill be blessed by God's help, else he would not have been sent, and will be known for what he is. The Wise Men count him logical, but also a little impertinent for his years. Seeing that little is known of Jesus' early years, Mr.

Anderson has assumed that one team cf which he was cap-1 myself thanking whatever gods there where be entered Pe Raul university because it had a theater he approved of. The saga of his experiences after he left De Paul is rather drab. Newspaper work in San Antonio and burlesque press agentry in Chicago left him equally dissatisfied. Soon, on one shoestring after another, he established himself as a producer of plays In New York, including such homely affairs as "Skidding" and "Broken Dishes." Whatever success these popular items brought to their producer was quickly dispelled by a series of failures and of good chances missed for want of money to invest. In the latter category fall "Once in a Lifetime" and "Strictly Dishonorable," both of which came under Mr.

Serlin's scrutiny before other producers, who could afford to stage them, jfinally made money out of them. "Life with Father," therefore, represents the first spectacular success of Oscar Serlin's entire professional career. The story of the dramatization and staging of the ripely amusing reminiscences of Clarence Day Jr. has been told "over and over how Mr. Serlin had the bright idea of making a play out of the material, AMUSEMENTS.

may be, who are not absorbed by war, that we can have this relief. good effect. Arnold Moss is the Ishmael, Horace Braham the Joseph, and Of course, as I have told you be Arlene Francis the Miriam. Continued from page 1. Mrs.

Turner Is suddenly confronted by the man she might have married and didn't. An old spark is fanned into a fairly considerable flame, and overnight the Turner home becomes the scene of a triangle. Tommy Turner is a quiet, introspective fellow, not used to noisy quarrels. But when he sees his wife leave for a football game with Joe Ferguson, an ex-quarter back who had once been his rival Leon Ames, something happens inside Tommy's bosom. In a scene hic by now has become quite celebrated Tommy and a student editor Robert Scott, whose article in the campus literary magazine got Tommy into trouble with the trustees, turn to the solace of liquor.

Neither is particularly accustomed to alcoholic stimulants, and their indulgence leads to a remarkable freeing of inhibitions. In a maundering and highly diverting discourse, Tommy explains to his J1 Now. men, we have a very ahead of us." lit cf Mr. Berlin's rise to is scarcely a conventional Alsr story. Indeed, it would r- cir.t to the objectionable industry, integrity, and a guaranty of uc-- the lucky breaks also come fore, comedians are a personal vice Especially musical comedy comedians The Wynn who usually sets me shak Again we have laughter holding both his sides, and his head ns veil.

Ed Wynn is back on Broadway with AUDITORIUM Now to OCT. 27 r.vrav mght TrnY muifH TH1C f.Kr.TF-"T TKF.IJG rEV ORGANIZATION I AMERICA SAM CARLO OPERA CO. RIGOLETTO Mrnafl, nraan. irara TrtrmS. Bratt a new revue.

Ann wnat a revue: not ing at his first entrance can quite as reasonably leave a seatmate stiff if not cold. But I do think that there is a greater percentage of playttoers who respond to this inspired Zany's fooling than to that of any other one dramatic moment was that in which he approached the gates of Jerusalem. An order had been issued by Herod Anti-pas, son of the ruler who had ordered the slaughter of the innocents 12 only the best Wynn has assembled, but the best we've been shown in ie thre were least none that ypars. With the shades of my Puritan an comic SYuPSIGIlY ORCHESTRA fresaats 1940-41 Ceacart Seritt ORCHESTRA HALL IZLEI SOLOMON. CeWr TUESDAY, OCT.

IS. 140. p. m. MISCHA MISCHAK0FF Vieliaitt TUiSDAY, NOV.

If. I40. I IS a. ROBERT TOPPING Ttr WtDNISDAY. DIC.

II. M40, p. m. CHICAGO SYMPHONIC CHOIR Walter Acnbrniir, Director WfOKISDAY. JAN.

I. I4I, MS p. m. JOSEF AND ROSINA LHEVINNE Du Pianittt AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS.

Mov. i r.tr ''a-ks, jt st i ulti-e firing r. i.r.'s a 1 a pell? lo BUTTERFLY Kni a. Bruno, OnofrM. young friend that the male animal unless he happens to be a human JUS-, one experiences no temptation to HJaSxJu Qiit fa OfMlY JimrmRf He's a meek guy turned tough; a very comical "male years before, to register at the gate all 12 year old children as a further check upon any Messiah who might have escaped.

sit back idly and watch his mate in but was temporarily rebuffed by Katherine Mrs. Clarence Day, who said that she could not consider giving her consent to the project until she had a script to read; how Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse worked for nearly two years fash the process of being stolen by an other and more aggressive male ani Maiwrll Andfrtna. a cal; mal. Eeyond this point it would hardly But he'll steal your heart in this .4 hilarious comedy. Iam SkuvSh tzrtZf- be fair to tell the story.

Suffice it to say that "The Male Animal" is warm and lovable, but somehow Vic-t a rose the links 1 LISTtH IN DESIGN. FOR HAPPINESS" P. M. SUNDAY WBDM Ubby-Owam Ford CO Sponior basically sensible, and all 'in all one Joseph and Mary Miriam of the Old Testament were worried, but trustful. On the way, however, their party is stopped by Ishmael, leader of a group of revolutionists who were tarrying on for the defeated Judah, and also awaiting impatiently the messenger of the Lord.

Ishmael senses the holiness of Jesus Jeshua of the best comedies the Chicago Tt 'ErAV. ct. A1DA Hr.DFrAY. OCT. 1 FAUST Tin KnY.

OCT. IT CAYALLERIA PAGLIACCI rmY. oct. i CARMEN HT. MATIVFE.

OCT. 19 MARTHA us iscusHt BALLET ST. f.U'MMl. OCT. 1 TOSCA TIIIKII I I Sun.

TKIH Man TK1IU-. l. millr.vil Writ. KU.nl I I Irl. IIFKI 4 I I I Sal Mai Ill Ill t.r..

i AKMKN All. stage has seen In several seasons. i Mrala JM-Ilmr Frlrra In ft Simi TiiUfia 4 Ml S. Wabash, Smsle Tirki'lJt Orviu-nira tlS Lht fl-ar Sprlin. i IVan nsent, icnti! at 18 he actu-: trl of assistant man- and assumes his protection.

At the -7 indeterminate moment. There will also be dancing and refreshments. Despite an extension of the return booking in New York, William Saroy-an's prize winning comedy, "The Time of Y'our Life," will still open gates of the city he registers the boy as his nephew, newly come from the mountains and the desfits and al 1ERIANGER ioning a stage piece out of the scattered substance of the original sketches; how Mrs. Day was finally completely won over, and aided the producer even to the extent of lending family furniture and knickknacks for use on the stage; how Mr. Serlin thought he had a failure on his hands after the New York opening, because several ludicrous mishaps took place.

Mr. Serlin's life story the first 39 years of it is a tpi at chronicle of the American theater. There are ups, and there are downs, Right now he is on top of an up. Perhaps he will manage to be one of the select few who are able to remain In this enviable situation. At any rale, it will be interesting to see what happens when he stages his next play.

The cast of Meet the People the "XJ. ELLIOTT NUGENT LEON AMES ELIZABETH LOVG .1 I I Utl Vrlrr Kvtrr JCilr fii. liKlme Sun.lav fr-b 75 Bute Vd Maimer Sjttur.Uv; Or.h "(I. I Bl- SI M.lo -ENTIRE ORCH. SI.65.

IALC. $1.10 Sf.65 BARGAIN MATINEE WED ready 13 years old. It is by this ruse that Jesus passes tho guard, tho, matching the boy's appearance with that of the wild man, there is strung doubt in the guard's mind. This is a high dramatic moment of the drama. There are fragmentary scenes of definite beauty.

One, at the first dawning upon Miriam that her son is indeed the blessed realization of her vision. One, at the meeting of ORDERS TfiEATRt GUILD aidu. -KxtL EJJD1E DOWLING "TllrvntA, PULITZER. "PRIZE. WO N.yr CIRCLE AWAKO It Every Night at 8:30 Mats.

Wad. Sot. at 2:30 roniQUT at the Frlanger theater on Monday, Oct. 28. The play, which was given both the Pulitzer prize and the New York Drama Critics' Circle award last season.

Is produced jointly by the Theater Guild and Eddie Dowling. I Mr. Dow ling, of hom more ill be told in this section next Sunday, produced tw Paul Vincent Carroll plays Chicago has seen, "Shadow and Substance" and "The White Mr. Dowling and Julie Haydon are featured players in "The Time of Your Life." The comedy is the sec I Mean- v- i at the th Chi uzo Opera nt Auditorium theater. ei.t.

artistic crush, ster.toiian bari-. '1 as the Mr, Gould re-. rung admirer beard liis the rrxess cf vocalizing to -r vc i.e. Most singers vo- v.prn su.h. ronsense syllables Tr.ay, rr.y, mo, moo, or pos- mi, fa.

sol. Tit to Ruffo r.s-d vc ic. Z-lr. Srrlin asserts, llables titta ruffo titta it sr eii as an all-Cook county "1 foot'rall star, young r.D longer restrain the urge afield in search of his for-. An lli-starred trip to Cleveland, arahke hunger and a stint curbed bis real in r.

lie returned to Chicago, 5. vj52? lively Hollywood produced revue at the Grand Opera house, will be guests Audilorium oet. 2 Ml PERFORM VNf OCT. 13 7 TMES ONLY S. HUROK announces Th3 Return io America of fhe ORIGINAL of the Chicago Repertory group after Saturday evening's performance.

The I3C0B repertory group on this occasion will celebrate the opening of its new head as Thousand ond subscription offering of the Theater Guild and the American Theater society. I li.W MAM CirnViA) quarters at Foresters' theater, 1016 North Dearborn street. At the party, which is open to the public for a modest sum, two stage shows will be 0 are happier OC EDDIE JUUE DOVaUNG-HAYDOW and 25 oThm SJ 75. SJ 20. II 63.

Jl.lfl: Mt. LO I presented by the groupers one for early comers, beginning at 10, and one for late comers, beginning at an ordering by mail and insuring choice seat locations in advance! OSCAR SERLIN presents CLARENCE DAY'S OI. II.IV, 111 IRC. Scad stomped, addreued cavafopa. CO-STARRED IN NEW FILM The Theater Guild and American Theater society will accept subscriptions, at a reduced rate, for the remaining five plays of the season.

Application may be made at the Er-langer theater until Oct. 28 On the evening before the Saroyan opening on Sunday, Oct. 27, to be more specific J. J. Shubert brings the musical "Unfaithfully Y'ours to Chicago.

Tiys is the operetta composed by Karl Millocker in 1879 under the title "Countess Dubarry," and revived in New Y'ork in 1932 for Grace Moore as "The Dubarry." NOW, IN TH ii it CO 1 Ul1 PliaHMaUlNai Oct. 19 flEST TIME IS CUn.i'iO! POLISH A LET TICKETS 51.65 "0 LO CO Lillian Gish Percy Varam Mad inta play by Howard lindtay and Rwttct Crousa (J CUI tVtS tcpiSudoylot 30 MATS Sol 3 30 fv 10. 65.S2 20.JJ 75 W.d Mot.5Sc.SI tO. S16J.J2 23 Sol MM.Sl 10. St 65, J2 20 rJWy rncfoi itlf tJdrnttd ila.W rlopt witS yaa faat(c COL.

W. deBASIL Director Censril itatiirinq BARONOYA. TOUMANOYA. RIABOUCHINSKA, LICHINE and a brilliant eompony of distinguished and fovorifa artists in a repartora 6 NEW SFECTACULAR BALLETS including ihe "COQ D'OR" Er. l.n i.a.

Si. 7.. Mal to MAIL ORDERS HOW Vi-r Oct. 20 The OPERA THEATRE prcscr.is "IL MATRIMOMO SKGRKTO' ol'KRA IN ACTS fiy Cmim-a B.r-v J't k-r A Kt.i' GRAPJB TONIGHT EVERY NIGHT INCLUDING SUNDAY, $1.10 TO $2.75 WED. MATINEE 55c TO SAT.

MATINEE $1.10 TO $2.20 ORQIF-STRA HAI '2LLNEW CHICAGO SYMPHONY WIDELY AGGLAiuED MUSICAL i FlU.m Rll'K FTOtTv Frsducrd by Shipitod Johnson ORCHESTRA Ctm.turtpr WITH THE MERRIEL ABBOTT BRILLIANT NEW Tut-neniV WFninW at 1 j'' KEVU HIT AUDITORIUM COr.HNG OCT. 16 For 13 Days Only 7 -Kii'C l.r-ir": Syniinn-I'o. in Milltai-' mi-- li-tmi-nv U--n Unci Wain 77 i'on roni-rrt Siit. KREISLER Seats Aon- Selling PHIL ADKLPHIA SYMPHONY 0RCHK1 R.V ASS St KKI 13 15 M. ORCHESTRA HALL SEATS NOW ON SALE Pri-fi.

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C. of 'Infornialion Tirade' CLIFTON FAD 1 MAN Lrfliirr on -INII)K lUl)IO MV. SI. SI Box Now 0ien lhl.6i Hiillini luh r.rmf.l. ARTUR RUBINSTEIN SOLOIST Seals Aoit Selling "Smash hit brings down -x: "THE SHOW THAT MADE CHICAGO ICE CONSCIOUS." Starring B'.

Khrlisrdt. Kvclvn Chandler. it Hov SliipiHil. Kru and Krm-k ami Oilier. 'irt Clucmio si-liparaii-e.

in 10 jears. the house." LIFE MAGAZISE 4 FRI KVE T. is civic: ZIX? ar nun rrsifil I CHICAGO REN i FEIITHA UTT ASNOl'MES KIIRl.L Friday. Oct. 25 HALL.

VU1LIV RKi'lTAT. HUGO KOLBERG I Sat-. K-Ic St 1" r. A LU UillLlliikL Ca-o'e Lombard and Charles Laughton are co-starred in Knew What They Wanted," now showing at the Fa'ace theater. Others featured in the cast are William Gargan, Harry Carey, end Frank Fay.

FDNA THOMlSOV, Soprano Nnrttfiian Voman I'luh rrix-rr-d'S lo Nnmrsun K'-lir-f. Iru-. Ti-krl: SI rn aalr al Civic Tl'cairc. I.vnn A H-iIV -7r 400 E. ERIE ST.

DEL. 8S00 HOLLYWOOD STAGE CAST.