Doodle dandy of the U.S.A.

              1942
Doodle Dandy's Back in Town!
JUNIOR PROGRAMS'
ROLLICKING, FANCIFUL MUSICAL STAGE PLAY ON BROADWAY FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON


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THE ANSWER TO HOLIDAY ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE CHILDREN. —
Herald Tribune.


Doodle Dandy OF THE U.S.A.

Play Written By SAUL LANCOURT
Music By ELIE SIEGMEISTER
Dances By TED SHAWN

Matinees Dec. 26–27–28–29–30–31–Jan. 1–2
(AT 2:30 P.M.)

Morning Performances Dec. 26 and 30
(AT 11:00 A.M.)

BELASCO THEATRE
44th STREET East of Broadway   BRyant 9-2067

Tickets On Sale at JUNIOR PROGRAMS, INC.
45 WEST 57th STREET, NEW YORK CITY
Phone PLaza 8-0573

THE HOLIDAY EVENT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE!



Highest Praise Ever Given A Play For Children!

The New York Times
MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1942.

As pleasant, and perhaps as profitable, an afternoon for children as could be imagined was offered yesterday at the Hunter College Theatre when Junior Programs, Inc., presented 'Doodle Dandy of the U.S.A.'

It is to be hoped that whoever books it can see his way clear to bring it back to New York, preferably in the holiday season, and make it available for many more New York Youngsters.  If the service men's offspring at yesterday's performance were any criterion, they'll eat it up.


A SPRIGHTLY DANCE is staged by the anti-dictator forces of Springville.  The dance is part of a show which is put on at Doodle's suggestion to convince the people that dictatorship doesn't work.  This dance tells the story of how a loaf of bread is made, and points the moral that one man, all by himself, can't run a government any more than one man, all by himself, can mine the iron, make the plow, grow the wheat, mill the flour, bake, transport and sell the bread.


About 200,000 children, from here to the West Coast and back, are going to have at least one very good time between now and April.  They are the kids who will see 'Doodle Dandy of the U.S.A.,' a romping fable about democracy, in the course of its 30,000-mile tour of the country this season.

Doodle Dandy goes over. Written with lots of gay songs and dances and a minimum of complicated dialogue, the show is a tale of an impish fellow in a red, white and blue shirt, who appears in the little town of Springville to help the people there get rid of Humphrey Dumphrey, dictator.  Biggest kick the kids get out of the show is when Doodle is invisible and is able to play all kinds of tricks on the villain.




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JUNIOR PROGRAMS, INC.
45 West 57th St., N. Y. C. PLaza 8-0573

TICKETS: 83c, $1.10, $1.65, $2.20, $3.30 including tax.
Morning Show at 11:00 A.M.
Afternoon Show at 2:30 P.M.

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KATHARINE CORNELL Honorary Chairman
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is the only non-profit organization of its kind—bringing the finest professional musical productions to young people in hundreds of communities from coast to coast.  Now in its seventh season, Junior Programs has given about 2,000 PERFORMANCES TO YOUNG AUDIENCES TOTALING OVER 4,000,000.  Junior Programs has become an American institution.



Doodle Dandy OF THE U.S.A.
A rollicking, fanciful musical play written and produced by Saul Lancourt, author and director of Junior Programs' Robin Hood and The Adventures of Marco Polo.

A story of a very human problem in a little American community which brings home to even the youngest audience what is meant by the Four Freedoms.  Doodle Dandy, himself, is a fantastic character, whimsical, mischievous, hard-working.  He is the messenger-boy and trouble-shooter for Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and other great Americans who direct the activities of a firm somewhere in space going by the name of freedoms, Inc.  He is sent down to a community which seems to be thoroughly cowed by its own dictator, Humphrey Dumphrey, who controls its newspaper, its town meetings, its very thinking.  How Doodle Dandy and the children help waken the people to their responsibilities and laugh the tyrant out of town makes a lively, exciting play.  Old American ballads and patriotic songs, and very modern ballet patterns are skillfully woven into the actual plot with the same technique combining singing, dancing and acting which proved so successful in The Adventures of Marco Polo.

A ROLLICKING, FANCIFUL, MUSICAL STAGE PLAY
DOODLE DANDY OF THE U.S.A
A MUST FOR EVERY XMAS LIST THIS YEAR