Los Angeles Evening Citizen News from Hollywood, California • 15

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Affair- most and-' music and some ballroom dancing reverently laid that should bt revived in pert at the Theater Tinned is no great even as a abort play Its add accolade fr a turning worm in South London was for funnier a down years ago than it la today But the greet Gertrude Lawrence has set a -mood for the skit and made it communicative With the aid of Philip Tonge as the rebellious notions counter salesmen Valerie Coesart and North Howard the piece has dramatic excitement if little consequence The same cannot be said for the other offerings on the MIL Play' far example for all its haunting melodies is merely an exercise in pretentious nonsense is it is now being performed" TIMES Brooks Atkinson:" Mias Lawrence acts the slatternly away in an old attic trunk" MIRROR Robert "Tpnight at second section has like its predecessor been beautifully staged by Coward A tickler for detail one who demands perfection even in trifles Coward has demonstrated with them bUbbhr playlets his masterly showmanship" NEWS John Chapman: "The one sketch I did have some affection for is Turned This num FORT MONMOUTH Fsb 21 (AY Professional motion pie-turo equipment half the aixe of that now in use was announced today by this Army Signal Corps Edward Kaprslian chief of the photographic branch of -the Signal Corpa hborotoriee dladoeed new designs in Mmfflimetsr movie projectors practical In Mg puMic theaters It has been impossible hitherto to got enough Ught in the smaller projectors to show pictures on the Mg professional screens optical designs matched with fast new projection lenses have'over-oomethe difficulty Kaprelbin said At tM same time the bigger enlargements required to show the 16mm motion pictures lees than Generals TY I auggesfed fe men are very duQ-she answered "oravptduring I mentioned a few Hollywood ae ton and got nothhw but a scowL'Iv "Moybs yoq could: htdude jneaf you wmdd like to $1 want frmeet ahe Mutate fros tw wtter frtder adrisementt and flvr dayuv lafeygP submitted a Nat broadened to bw-'iv dude men of othernationalitieii V-Too factors night pointed rat orife thnd are nafive Americans and only one' fat an -acfaHai)5 her hat In order of fasdnaflon: ErieMarle AlexanderKlrk" former: toll ER-HOLLYWOOU HIGH GIRL SCORES HIT ON BROADWAY Nanette Fabray formed Hollywood High School atudent ia now the toast of Broadway for her sterling -performance in Button Shoes" Hitfierto a replacement for the actress who originated the role in various plays Miss Fabray has achieved success on her own in Button Shoes" She is pictured above (left) when she replaced (Constance Jupiter" Center photo shows Holm's replacement in Girl" right she is a star in her own right fit She has Moore in her aa Celeste and on the! as she shows been an en- ber is satisfying and Philip Tonge well- The first of the plays It playlets Across the Sea' is an interminably impolite little affair in which everybody ignores everybody else The last of them 'Shadow Play' is charming I guess But thewear and tear of the yean is beginning to tell on me and I was not quite enthralled" half the usual profasaidhal 35am size bas puaed on the IN BOW aagijggai Story oi Murder Inc Well POST Richard Watts Jr: "As It hu been ImpomiMe to move thesuccesshre frames ofjthe smaller films through the projector smoothly enough and the niw overcomes this Kaprslian saldu KapreUan: said the new pnije tor might eventual result in g-eral adoption of ltomu fflnv Mtig a semiprofessional aizefor Hollywood movies equipment has not yet been mads aavilablerfr the photographic industry: Igor Stranvfoaky Imst Hemlngwayanflwri'ytf Roberto ReewlBri6 ItaUaa -flbn A dinetor eTTlpeniatylBA: iPablo Plcnnw abtisLniPf' pwm Studay-LCardpeyyfinrF Nahmdoyy DalLfartist Noel Coward flu dLtndaar iArturoTicaduiiii Hollywood CITIZEN-NEWS Tuesday Feb 24 1948 15 LLOYD SLOAN Murder Inc in all iti infamy is currently on display at the Hoi-Theater on North New they know too much Then of course those who eliminated them must go on orders from the What happens' to the is the one question higher-ups is the one question ED SULLIVAN TITLE ANNOUNCED IN THE NEWS for Hands Across ths though it was the fanniest est snd most devastating of Ml when I flnt saw It and I am now more convinced of thls than eyer (X course Miss Lawrence is a Joy in everything she does Tb play slovenly drab of Turned Oik' toe scatterbrained bootees of Hands Across the Sea' and the heart-broken wife of 'Shadow Play with such variety and unfaiUn skill is rarely one of the season' feats -in virtuoso acting" SUN Whrd Morehouse: VTIhe scond group of Noel Coward's short plays gives Gertrude Law-and her company brisker material than they hid opening MU arid hat show at the National was far better The fantasy Shadow Play' which BYPrW01fS0N The story of the New York underworld organization its vieiousness and its permeation of the Ufa of ordinary citizens is vividly told in Lionel tender's production of The play which was originally Observations On the Theater Show business presented on Broadway Just before Pearl Harbor and had a Dsn Dailey and Betty Ann Lynn lave been set by 20th Oentury-Fbx for the leading roles in Every Sunday" to be made this Summer NEW still Heart which irt gabMng about- the'itaggering Night at the Copacahana played until 3:30 am and By WYLIE eomadyih ahort-lived existence as a result has been brought up to' date through changes in the And though it is now supposed to the top- stan of Hollywood under the ill of MiltO! Milton Berle way which does not answer It hints at political corruption 'but leaves only to the imagination the idee that a similar gang might again grow up and flourish under the guidance of the same higher-ups Generally speaking the play is well staged and wen acted Richard Barnett as the No One heavy does a good Job though at timea he appears too extited for the rale Shimen -Ruskin as a disillusioned barber and for the gang turns in an excellent performance as do Benny Baker Cud Milletaire Jody Gilbert Stephen Roberts and Olive Derring Others in the cast include Eileen Sherwood Richard Irving Sid Dubin Martin Lowell and Edmund MacDonald Standees direction seems somewhat erratic in the early scenes but gains pace and builds to thoroughly effective -dimax The recorded music played betwe scenes could be toned down quite Sbit take place in this postwar era it is still obviously the stor of the depicta fat song and story the man Cri)em AitdltoriUm on Vtr- Benny Rubin has given up his director's post at Eagle-Lion and will return to acting with comedy rale in "Hollow Triumph" which Paul Henreid is produdng at that studio The Life of William Shakespeare? will be the title of a forthcoming morion pie- tore biography of Ike famous playwright which will' be filmed here and- in England Wrifson ex-Paramount producer announced today Wolfeon hasset up 1 6SV backed by Interests and will put the story before the cameras early next year The film will deucf high points in Shakeapearrs life aa well as scenes from Ms more famous Mays -Maurioe Evans and Laurence Olivier among -others will hr contacted about' pjsy-fng the tifls role Wolfaon Indicated'' mont -Avs- With louder heralding more iwwrolf'jMiiitrtfr rote'JabtatoejiRXeMKBrooki ZaDer pedal inentknfor JrinportnRjdlr anardentBidergnduatewtth of lrif and a temporaturo riase3 to toriJOf-M profesaoc'mdIdM4aghte r2W play could last a eoupU of werio Aslt is find if worth while which when he was district attorney Hard hitting and packed with earthy realistic dialogue the play reconciliation of a who voroe introduces two of pleasant songs You Wire end Plsy Orclwstra Plsy' Mies Lawrence is disturUngly lovely as Victoria Gayforth whp succeed fat holding the husbpnd she loves1 Gregory Pm Sky Uch20th Peril wiU star In "Yel-L Burnett's novel Century-Fox- is pro- low which during to catchit briore if Journalise irafessor'liT- iMM-westem coDegc who finds hhnadf up frhisaanr fat polificsThe father-ofaoouple attractive puQs no punches in presenting the behind-the-scenes activities of at Chapman torpa to a good pep3" Jayne by 20th hardened criminals Different than any Hollywood presentation of gangster-themes it offers no Meadows has been signed Century-Fox for- a role of 1 Fear of Little Men" aa the corrupt tawn-tyl -nadlarnoflter in Tor and lwrtiM of man- Abe Green who's been around for a panel of years summed it up in his comment to Cornel Wilde Charlie Schlaifer Robert Young and Otto Preminger: never been a performance In the same league with Berle's" He Mended "the whole night into breath taking musical comedy staffed by such headlin-eti-ps Irving Bolin and Ethel Merman Golden Gata Quartet Hildegardej Bill Robinson John -hilarity- with Phil Silvers and Joey Faye Wendy Bertie Perry Cbmo Myron Cohen Maureen CannonHarvey Stone Victor Borge Sid Caesar arid Louis Prims Spelling Berle at the mike i Homy Youngman Mickey Alpert Jyrry Bergen and Red Buttons and each one of them was cooking with dynamite The Srib finale with forty glamor no sympathy to the men- tally-strained individuals who pur- tally-e uras 'thei yoMnn ddaifer8andrd'Ifefe Otheoveitactvifi Ellen Drew yesterday secured a release foam her contract with Columbia uerfel-wm be beoomea cal footbalL and is ahnost upstain fr the college WORLD TELEGRAM IVOliani Hawkins: "MBs Lawrence is aSk ed oo for wide variety of Jater-prietationa which -ehc proceeds to effedfwjUt an -tafeDigenci In Shaitow She is just abotri tits most captivating pukturo who ever set foot on a stage The sketch is also the best far Graham Payn who is playini opposes her" George Pali Puppetoon Tsrifrt rior'short subjects are being stu- eriori sue the various rackets and her come more and more involved with each killing Once into their Moody profee-ifam they find there le no The Implication is that they are all eliminated by the goywnor ahnost smariad MOtaL' glm an outstanding info a' WMOO a year JWvfcy the nevtaflon HerhTkit Ja aati atafr base and almoat forced to fat a ratan-twrkSS'isii ad-photognphy -Michael Johnson former general manager of the Gainsborough studios in London has been named studio manager for Jerry Fairbanks Productions died fat voiced the Department of Clnematogra' U8C the new course in started by The box-office grosses rose slightly last week of the'six local Mils "Voice of the got off to the beet start Juice Dassin will direct "Bus-man's Holiday" for Mike Todd Anne Gwynne will co-star with Kane Richmond In Jeffrey Ber-nerd's "Stage Struck" nt Monogram Franklin Adreon will produce The Thrill ManM his flnt film for Republic tan on stage as Berle was pc sented with the "King of Hearts" prown suggested by Mayor Bill Dwyer and all of movie tars and no Business Like Show was one of those rare William Moss PictureaInc has announced "Judgement In the to be filmed in One-coloraa its first production for Eagle-Lion release Kodak Paramount stocks gained on market while Loewa Fox and Warher Bros kwt ground Other film shares warn unchanged according to 2 pun (EST) quotations spontaneous things that happen when show people forget an audience ana have some fan an their asm Behind the was maestro -Mike Durso ing the million dollar 0 was Berle directing the left flank was Eddlg Davis end little Connie Haines herself a rheumatic fever Directing the right Jerry Cooper Carl Ra-vassa and Joey Adams As choral disdplinariaiLTony Csnsoneri as-iated by the write brothers Soot- 13-Week Booking For Hellingier Film ty Beckett Glenn Langden and the Di Gatanos A straight 13-week engagement at the Capitol Theater in New York atyfor "The Naked City" the late Mark Hdlinger'a last production has been arranged be-tween'-WUUam A SedUy Universal-International general The night faombehelled New Yqrk hardened to anything' bet1 cause of feyrotechnicsJ As leslbeater Authority's Alan Corelli marvelled: -did a rhumba with Dioaa he played a trumpet with Prime he made the fifth at the Golden Gate Quartet he danced with Bill Robinson he manager and Vogel head of Loew then Belgium Has Pew Bans On DS Film Showings played a terrific straight for Phil SHversh he sang the tenor pert of Belgium is the spofi of Ean ftns Europe so far American To Each His Own' with Eddy Howard and his trio he engage: in a running mock feud all night with Henny -Youngman he downed with Irving Berlin he did Hollywood routine with Preminger Cornel Wilde and Bob Young and he even moved the piano for are concerned the department: of Commerce reported todpy in Washington following recent survey of foreign film markets That country has placed virtually no restrictions on American films which occupy about 70 per cent the playing time in theaters' The blinding 'brilliance as JackHaley printed out to Bugs Beer wan accented 'by his foie taste It was night to -remember and by the same token a great star never to forget re a let of fresh talents scattered around end abou Tun to Page IT Jms 4SggiL 'scon C4GEDFURy iPARAMOlINfl HOLLYWOOD DOWNTOWN Lf-J WieaWlMf -f l' u' vs- a i '--is -v 11 -j -V-Ts 'v I.