THE EVENING STAR. Washington, D. C. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. A-12 TCESDAY. >OVEMBER 24, 1»«3 Where and When The Passing Show Current Theater Attractions And Time ot Showing Stage. DON’T MISS THE It's a Tidy, Trim 'Mikado' National “Pirates of Pen- zance”; 8:30 p.m. SPANKING SCENE y j&aaßSßßSßfe! >¦ Sam S. Shubert "Misal- That's Sung at National. liance”; 8:30 p.m. tji Arena “Thieves’ Carnival”; | By Jay Carmody 8:30 p.m. is high time for a lot of things, one of which is to stop Screen. thinking of Gilbert and Sullivan opera in terms of D’Oyly-Carte. Ambassador—“ Thunder Over There never was, and possibly never will be, anything like the Plains”; 1:45, 3:40, 5:10, 7:35 the affinity between these in the realm of comic opera. The fact and 9:35 p.m. remains that Gilbert and Sullivan have outlasted the great Fngiuh Capitol—“The Robe”; 11:20 production group. No doubt the-* a.m., 1:55, 4:30, 7:05 and 9:40 operas many will outlive more ‘‘THE MIKADO.” an opera in two pjn. starry ensembles. This is a com- acts with music by Sir Arthur Sullivan Columbia “Torch Song”; and libretto by Sir William pro- fortable thought by Oilbert. iff to live with if duced and directed Dorothy Raedler. 11:15 a.m., 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:45 it is permitted conducted by Luncille Burnham, offered MM . p.m. admittance In the American University Concert H and 9:55 Encouraging its welcome is the Series. At the National. Dupont “Martin Luther”; appearance this week of Dorothy The Cast. * 11:45 a.m., 1:40, 3:40, 5:36, 7:40 j Raedler’s American Savoyards* The Mikado of Japen Roland Bush and 9:45 p.m. Nankl-Poo (His son, disguised as a at the National Theater. | wandering minlstrel, and In love Keith’s “All the Brothers with Yum-Yum) Norman Paige Miss Raedler’s company Ko-Ko (Lord-high Executioner of Were Valiant”; 11:30 a.m., 1:35, Titipu) V \.? n / \ opened its week's Rue Knapp 3:40, 5:45, 7:50 and 9:55 p.m. R| three-opera Pooh-Bah (Lord High Everything Else), repertory with “The Mikado,” Reinald Wolfe Little Time”; 6:15, a Noble Lords: Little—“So production whose accent is prin- Pish-Tush John Brldson 8:05 and 10 p.m. cipally If Go-To Henry Fitzgibbon Mac Cruel Sea”; musical. a Gilbert and Three Sister, wards of Ko-Ko: Arthur—“The Sullivan company cannot Yum-Yum Sally Knapp 7 and 9:30 p.m. have Pitti-Sing Joan Brower everything—and new Peep-Bo Virginia Metropolitan—“Thunder Over ones can- . _ Bower not—it is Katisha (An Elderly Lady. In love the a.m. 1:50, smart to choose vocal with Nanki-Poo). Plains”: 11:50 t emphasis. Mary-Ellen Thompson 3:50, 5:50, 7:50 and 9:50 p.m. Chorus of Schoolgirls and Nobles: “Glory This one has so chosen, and | Raymond Allen. Beatrice Arlt. Ken Ontario at Sea”; 1, because it has, one tolerantly Clifford, Kenneth Doubrava, Mari- 2:40, 4:25, '6:10, 7:55 and 9:40 is i lyn Sofia, Barbara Tracy, Lore disposed toward the economy ; Reckel, Susan Speler, Glenn t/f p.m. Fitzgibbon. Wilder. - kept Henry ¦ ,v.>- Palace—“ How to Marry Mil- that has the company j At the organ Keith Verhey a small, its production lean and 1 lionaire”: 11 a.m., 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40 and 9:50 p.m. clean and its improvisations re- j shreds and patches, but the rest freshing. One of these latter is Playhouse—“ Roman Holiday”; i of the music is as cheerful as 11:05 a.m., 1:40, 4:15, 6:50 and* the introduction of an electric ever. t > 9:30 p.m. organ into the orchestra, a de- It is definitely on the light Boy vice of which neither Gilbert nor Plaza—“ Little Lost”; 11 Sullivan was side chorally in this production, *•"V’ ./" ••"••• ' J| a.m., 12:55, 2:45, 4:35, 6:30, 8:15 aware but which i ruefully. adds body to what but not too On the and 10:55 p.m. might be a handsomely thin offering. other hand, it is Silver Spring—“The Beggar’s j handled in the solos, cluets, etc. Another novelty, at Opera”; 8:30 p.m. least There was not the demand for as STARS OF “PIRATES”—Raymond Paige and Sally Knapp Trans-Lux “From Here around here, is a youthful, of to many encores of the madrigal Eternity”; 11:10 a.m., 1:15, 3:25, feminine conductor, Miss Lucille the American Savoyards sing leading roles in “Pirates | last night as one remembers in of 5:35, 7:50 and 10 p.m. Burnham who has a trimly lilt- j Penzance” the Gilbert and Sullivan repertory troupe's pres- YOU HAVEN'T SEEN UNTILYOU'VE SEEN ing the past, but the Knapps and Warner —“This Is Cinerama”; 3*D conception of how “The; Norman Paige got the last entation for tonight, Friday night and Saturday 2:30 and 8:40 p.m. Mikado” should go. She has afternoon. a M-G-M*S GREAT MUSICAL IN GLORIOUS COLOR . musician's respect for Sir : cheerful echo out of “Here’s A Arthur How-De-Do.” AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. Sullivan’s contribution to the I team's delightful and durable Also Mary-Ellen Thompson output, and an artistically com- sang Katisha’s smoulderingly ballads I HURRY! HURRY! 2 Shows W*d—2:3o and manding presence on a podium. s violent as they have not 8:30 P.M. ** * * been heard in a long time, and Lost Days 3 Shows Thurs 2:30-5:30-8:30 P.M. The fact that its emphasis is Ronald Bush made the Mikado 2 musical and that it lacks the ex- a deep-throated ruler well worth f- travagance listening I "The Robe" of predecessor groups to. —some of them pretty ghastly in j A cameo of a “Mikado” this Laurence their opulent pretense is not one. Olivier too costly to the acting of this ‘'“Beggar's “Mikado.” AMUSEMENTS. ¦ 1 It*** okra'’ Miss Raedler is a woman of | CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCES Ait seats riTirves “TECHNICOLOR exacting taste in singers, but she is too intelligent YOU SEE IT to let these get | GLASSES! RQTH’S 1 off scot free on the acting count. THEATRE ‘IXJXTUI She takes no chance that au- diences will know more about what Ko-Ko and Poo-Bah are sth Weak supposed to be than do *BlNr\ the per- (XLITTLE «• IT'S THE FIRST formers assigned to the role. ffei f BOY LOST, L\ QUALITY PICTURE IN 3-D! This is not as evident in the opening of the opera as it is L*flpßlNG j , « ' 11*8 like a front-row seat the later, but once her cast has Roth's PLAZA at famed found its singing voice, it warms V f NEW YORK AVE. AT U—ST 3-4777 Broadway show! Even bigger and better nicely to the duty be p At/cc CPOJM to the KMVto rKU/VI jn cagt ant j spectacle! Filled with the creatures of Sir William Gil- A story our love time and all times .. • bert’s mocking imagination. of ROTH’S EVERYWHERE! thrilling Cole Porter song hits from that Long before Yum-Yum (Miss Marius CORING • Maria SCHill ¦ itti!¦ TIIPITISP %i1 Samuel and Bella S ewack sta «e >“« ! ' • * P Sally Knapp > gets around to her C* // LITTLE THEATRE "Kate's the Best3-D Ye,!" “Sun And I” solo, sung in a —COIUMBUS CITIZEN neatly lighted silhouette, SPECIAL MATINEE it is SHURAsnu.a CHERKASSKYT*«rvploying... end.—. i'tit Chopin TUIiDcn a v all right that she is piut •( inUKbDAT not as.! ... Morart’i"Marrioat Fiaaro*9 -a™ HOWARD glamorous as Ava Gardner. Come THANKSGIVING DAY to think of Yum-Yum E it. never has been. The same is true of Reinald Wolfe as Poo-Bah. the SEATS NOW FOR SPECIAL THANKSGIVINrHOLIDAY SCHEDULE FOR CINERAMA I cabinet ‘ 3 SHOWS THURSDAY. NOV. 26 3 SHOWS FRIDAY, NOV. 27 GRAYSON-HEEL one-man of Titipu. UiiwlM M 2,3, p.m, ot 2 7 10 30 W 940 30, 30, pm. ° nmU 1' Wolfe's entrance gives the im- [ I CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCES pression that he is a singer whose it without glasses!. g.t j |fc^You$ ee mninw iHoirf Wuiaue}] fcrJSSr »'«* ANN MILLER comic taste is not identical with 1 seats -DALLASMORNING NEWS Sir William’s. IIY* • It’s a brief disagreement be- I I KEENAN WYNN BOBBY VAN them, however, tween and one • that ends happily in favor of J AMES WHITMORE KURT KASZNAR the librettist of “The Mikado.” Screen Play by Music and Lyrics by ** * * - It is a coincidence that finds DOROTHY KINGSLEY COLE PORTER the historic Ko-Ko in town at the Shubert Theater in a Shaw play * “ k P w n.y by SAMUELandBELLA SPEWACK while Rue Knapp takes over the 840 »firtwnwWLOlW • role in this G. and S. production. »SSr " I v,w»ANSCO COLOR TECHNICOLOR But Knapp, who has a better ADDED ATTRACTIONS *«¦ Directed bv Produced bv voice (as who hasn’t. Mr. Green | ' I raST CINEMASCOPC i _ I SHORT SUBJECTS might be the first to ask), adroit- mrOK ' I W.ll Disnty’s GEORGE SIDNEY-JACK CUMMINGS ly avoids the fatal challenge of “TOOT, WHISTIF, FLUNK l tOOM” AN M-C-M PICTURE t J ,JB® "CORONATION FARADF" mimicry.