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Friday, February 14, 117 Page 17 THIi CINCINNATI FNQUIKKK Movie Timetable ISHOW MIRROR by E. B. Radcliffe Bf 'Tht Enqubtr'i theaitr Editor vfHj New Theater Shows Courage But First Play Bogs Down BY OTIS I GUERNSEY JR. New York, Feb. 13 (HTNS) Experimental theater made its bow on Sunday night at the Princess Theater, 108 W.

39th with John Finch's "The Wanhope Building," an Imaginative if somewhat unstable drama of considering postwar significance. The intention of this group, under the sponsorship of the American National Theater and 4f ft 4 ,1 The idea, however, is better In Nan's No Dopes And Spies Play For Keeps In "13 Rue Madeleine" On Albee Screen The best of the screen's spy pictures to date and one that treats its subject material in serious and adult fashion is on display at the Albee. It is called "13 Rue Madeleine." It stars James Cagney and presents Annabella, Richard Conte and Frank Latimore in important feature roiea. With acute attention to fascinat ing explanatory detail, great sim- plicity and directness in narration, itheir underground collaborators, thai picture pavs tribute to thJ Story telling follows a documen- courage and competence of Pattern at the outset in which 7 IxC rfffHMIlai'kllaia2slM WIBPIMHiVSt iiimnminyji NswtaoMsifms FANTAST1C MOMENT IN "OKLAHOMA" Louise Fornaca, leader of the Police Gatette cancan girls, and Alfred Cihelli balletic shadow of the villain, are featured in an Agnes De Mille ballet fantasy of "Oklahoma," opening Monday night at the Emery. Academy, is to give a laboratory viewing to plays which for one reason or another have not commanded attention in the commercial theater.

For its first effort it has selected a good type of script, a play which is based on an intriguing notion and which has merit, but which is not quite up to the mark in the matter of dramaturgy and therefore might benefit greatly from such a tryout, This fantasy envisions a ruthless! king of finance broadcasting from his well-guarded office atop of 600-story building that one of his scientist minions has invented a( bomb which, if dropped, will destroy the wills of every one in America. The news Is flashed into a bar in the opening scene, and an impetuous sailor, with the good wishes of all the customers, deter mines to enter the Wanhope Building, fight his way to the presence of the tycoon, and find out what it's all about. Each SO floors he is faced with an obstruction, until he finds the answer to the repeated question, "What's the use?" The ultimate answer in this ideological allegory is that a sense of responsibility is Its own defense against the bomb, which cannot work unless the people want it to. Annabella Directed by Henry Hathaway 1 f'fini Broadway Briefs outline than in execution. The play cavillates between earnestness and farce during the series of trials in which the sailor is asked, "What's the use by a snobbish receptionist, a radio quiz master, a clinging siren of a woman, a suicide, a dead man, the inventor of the bomb and final ly the big shot himself.

The playwright gives an answer in each of these incidents, but it Is never quite satisfactory one, and so the prob- lem becomes obscured rather than illuminated. The writing, too, is erratic, sometimes achieving an incisive poetic prose, but more often sounding merely like overstatement Tht result is a show which starts toward a highly dramatic objective but bogs down in contrivances and confusion. The by the show's large cast is generally adequate. John Jordan's performance in the lengthy role of the sailor Is convincing, and! his best assistance comes from Octavia Kenmore as an aged barfly, Clark Howat as the receptionist, Blair Cutting as the quia master and Margaret Barker as a suicide. Theater, guest producer of this production, has put the play on well, but Brett Warren's direction is merely ordinary.

tl THE MOST SINISTER ADDRESS IN HISTORY I Richard Frank Conte Latimore Produced by On Louis de Rcchemont and Navy Intelligence operations behind the lines in Holland and France prior to the continental invasion. The tribute is in form of I.AST THREE TIMES TONITB AT 8:30 Tomorrow 2:30 and 8130 WALTER HUSTON in liii iiw romantic umii "APPLZ OF HIS tit" 3. 00. 2.40. 1.R0.

MATS.i 3.00. 2.40, 1.80, 1.20 (Tax SEATS NOW ON SALE EMERY AUDITORIUM Feb. If thru 23 NO SHOW FEB, 18 :20 SAT. at 2 EVENINGS at 8:20 SHARP BOX OFFICE NOW OPEN I THEATRE GUILD Mui RICHARD RODGERS tool ona lyna OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN 2d fnxkrtta, Dirtcfea tr ROUBEN MAMOUUAN Pom AGNES de MILLI Hundreds of Good Seats Available All Performance 2nd 1.20. 1.80.

1.20 At Knr Office Only No Phone Reservations cor ruese seats. JI MUSIC HALL MON. FEB. 17 FIRST PIANO QUARTET Beats at BALDWIN'S, 142 W. Fourth St.

S3, 2.50, $1.85, 1.25 Opening TONITE! mm fa LATIN QUARTER SOCIALS: "El. FBI, Ml 3 SHOWS NIGHTLY ROUTE NEWPORT. KY. Mt-94j2 IN PERSON l)iCnnnnr lira 3.60 NATIONAL COMPANY A kWuMOMA aw Vail By Die Milkers of "The House On 02nd Mrert" Now! RZCO ALBEE Piano Quartet Booked At Music Hall Monday una mrst nano quartet, com posed of four concert pianists play ing four concert grands, will give a concert in Music Hall Monday evening. The quartet is composed of Adam Garner, Vladimir Padwa, Frank Mittler and Edward Edson, They have been playing together since formation of the quartet In 1940.

They still are the only permanent piano quartet in the world and as such have becpiae one of the most ropular musical attractions. Their concert wfl bring to a climax this season's Artist Series. J. H. Thuman, under whose management they, are appearing, wishes to remind season subscribers who have not yet changed their Taft seats for ones in Music Hall aro urged to do so, either by calling at the ticket office in the Baldwin piano store, 142 West Fourth Street, or sending them to htm by mail.

OHIOAN'S BURNS FATAL. East Liverpool, Ohio, Feb. 13--(AP) Burns suffered In a fire In which his wife perished February 1 caused the death today of Rol'ani Caird, 52. wo PALACE NOW SHOWINOI Ul AdvtMSMVt iaUwl "1 LYRIC NOW SHOWINOI Smmr It's Bogart's Kind of Action for a own wsiri "THE BLIND SPOT" Chester Merrls C'eaitanos Dewllnf Plus: "LAWLESS BREED" Kirby (1BANT and Tazzj KNIGHT miiisoaNii'iily TODAY and TOMORROWI Beutiis Jaclc MORGAN CARSON "Time, Place And The Girl" In Tomorrow! Doors Open 12:40 P. "THE INVISIBLE INFORMER." Linda Sterllnr.

pins: "8KCRKTS OF A SORORITY GIRL," Mary Ware, R. Vallln EXTRA! TONIGHT ON OUR STAGE AT 8:90 P. M. "TALENT QUEST" f6fhiWAlNUT-TWA02(a Evelyn Reyes Keenan Wyna "THRILL OF BRAZIL" "MR. HEX" Leo tiorcey -k Hunts Hal M0 IHCHmt IU PRICES 7 JHX ft 1 sjsjn-JsVJlVssfcsJhal kf5 buIsTairbahks.

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GRAND: 12:23, 2:18, 4:13, :08, 8:03, 10. LYKlli: 10, 12:22, 2:44, 8:06, 1:28, 9:50. SHU BERT: 30. 12, 2. 4, 8, 10.

KtHH'8; 10:00, 1:16, 1:21, 5:38, 1:49, 10. so-called cloak and dagger work, the enemy is rated as an equal in the complex and mysterious art of gathering and withholding vital secret information. There are no mechanical twists of plot to bring vic tory to our side. There is no display of stupidity by the enemy to swing the odds in favor of the home team. A believable split sec ond circumstantial break provides opportunity for desperate sacrifice that means success of an operation with the objective of gaining knowledge of Nazi rocket-gun im-placements in Normandy.

So far as I have been able to discover the picture's presentation of facts follows or parallels docu mentation in official archives in Washington. With a Nazi spy planted in a group of candidates for Operation 77 the kidnaping of a French Indus trial designer kept under guard behind the German lines in Normandy the movie is off to a suspenseful start. When he causes the death of a fellow American agent by cutting his parachute cords in a drop over Holland a plan to have this Nazi tip his hand flops. It is necessary for the director of Oper ation 77 to go behind the lines and try and complete the kidnapping mission before the Nazi can work up counter-espionage plans to block the deal. It costs the director and an aid their lives to carry out their eleventh-hour measures, but the plan works.

High spots of its development include the director's hairbreadth escape from execution by undergrounders who won't ac cept his story that he ISN'T the Nazi agent he seems to be in order to travel behind enemy lines; a perilous phoney riot staged by a French village Mayor as a covering operation for resistance movement operation; the airplane pickup of il SATURDAY NIGHT ONLY! CHES WAHLE AND HIS ORCHESTRA 1, szT 1 Vn amistl Rm. sm fa msw Jean I poneM. BAT TlDOLt UH. M-sleHall On. R9ETr AT -q MATINEES 2:15 EVES.

8:15 TAFT AUDITORIUM SYRIAN SHRINE TEMPLE Proudly Presents i KESERVE SEATS ON SAT.R TAFT AUDITORUM BOX OFFICE I C'ncy'i Biggesi Liiilt NHt Club THE BANDBOX Gilbert Avenue At Peebles Corner THE WHOLE TOWN IS TALKING THE GAY BOY REVUE f.HS 5th BIG WEEK FOR THE EARLY CROWDS OITR 1ST SHOW STARTS AT 8:30, li30 THREE COMPLETE SHOWS NIGHTLY Please Phone Early for Reservations WOodburn 9917 Fine Foods NO COVER OR MINIMUM CHARGE DANCING NIGHTLY CURLEY BRAND and Hit ORCHESTRA BOB STRONG And His Orchestra Reservations CH 3086 "Corky" Bobbin. pitnitU Tnnm.f r. m. EMOTION! MELODY! engrossing delineation of a typical I operation by American spies and precise and minute training methods of operatives are swiftly traced. When candidates who survive rigid testings of their physical and mental capacities for exacting assignments are put to the test in highly tense and dramatic situations in Europe the picture maintains its cool and objective attitude toward its subject material.

By sticking to the task of bringing out the grim and ruthless high degree of efficiency in lying, cheating and killing necessary for proficiency and success in espionage, the film registers with powerful impact on an audience. For the first time In dealing with IF YOU LIKE GOOD PIANO ENTERTAINMENT LISTEN TO PAUL PETERS Playing Every Night at CAFE MARDI GRAS 6118 Hamilton Avenut "Collece Hill's Smartest Cafe Welcome to -w The YORKSHIRE famous for Good Food Southern Hospitality Begins At The YORKSHIRE 518 York Newport, Ky. MUSIC HALL V.11- SUNDAY 8:30 GOOD SEATS AVAILABLE Tickets 1.20, 1.80, 2 40, 3.00, 3.60. Central Ticket Office, Lower Arcade, Carew Tower. PA 6666.

uaeni This Evening A Hilarious Road Revue "COMIC VALENTINES" eo-ttsrrinf Broadway's merrnsl mirthmiktri LOT (T nfTnEW! WHAT'S NEWTjf I The Lookout Revue! New Ach New Doneen fcs- New Bmd New Trio 1 Have You Seen It? FV 1 Ho BUT fM GOING SOCIALS 9:15 1 strSiii NO COVER SMALL MINIMUM i sniisnsmt ciiuktos, ii. sunt the kidnapped Frenchman; an explosive climax which smashes 13 Rue Madeleine, Gestapo headquar ters in LeHavre. Mr. Cagney plays the Operation 77 director with effective intensity that compensates for the absence of his usual swagger which would be out of keeping with his role and the sincere and serious pitch of the piece. Conte has the fattest feature part as the Nazi spy and does it without the usual heavy overtones.

Annabella and Latimore are satisfactory in assignments that are not overly exacting. Sam Jaffe, as you might expect, is u-perb as the French village Mayor. John Monks and Sy Bartlett rate praise for an intelligent script. Henry Hathaway's direction is finely drawn and extends to ex treme carefulness in little details that heighten realism and naturalism. Typical example: The lightning brief "casing" of Dutch operations headquarters in London traced in a swift but not overly obvious (to his companions) Conte glance on entering the room.

AND P. You'll find the tracing of tests of sensory acute-ness of eyes and ears of spies and tests of mental alertness as fascinating as the film's actionful drama. Lecture On England Set In University Series Major portions of the British Isles after the war and before the current winter emergency there will be described by Mrs. Winifred waiKer, waiemury, in a March 9 University qt Cincinnati World At Your Door Series lecture. Mrs.

Walker, the only woman to be invited back fo- i-eturn engage' ments in this UC program, will speak on "England, Scotland, Wales Today" and show color movies she made there last summer. Commander Irving Johnson, USNR, will open this ninth annual World At Tour Door Series of six Sunday afternoon illustrated travel lectures by noted 'authorities at 3:30 p. m. February 23 in Wilson Memorial Hall, campus auditorium. His subject will be "Sailing To See," with a description of a world cruise on his schooner Yankee.

Series subscriptions are being received in the US Administration Building. GAYETY OPENING. "Brevities," burlesque attraction featuring Diane Shaw, dancer, is next on the Gayety schedule. This show will open this afternoon for xour stage shows daily and a special midnight performance on Saturday, Seats for the Saturday midnight show are reserved. Others in the cast will include Bobby Fay, Hap Arnold, Nadine, Irma Lee, Eddia Yubell, Fred Geiger.

Collett and Barrie and the choristers. The Gayety is open from 11:30 a. m. to 11 p. with feature motion pictures exhibited between the daily stage shows.

1 17. 5. MAY USE DIARY, M0RGENTHAU AGREES Washington, Feb. 13 (UP) Henry Morgenthau former Secretary of the Treasury, has agreed to return to th i Treasury any materials from 'i controversial 900-volume "dia that may be needed for the- department's official records, John W. Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury, announced tonight.

I K.I ADVENTURE! Blazing through tbi grandeur of i lusty in! STEWART PHYLLIS N. Y. Bureau, Btt Rockefeller Flaw. UPBOUI. DISr-ATCH 10 TH BNQUIHHK.

New York, Feb. 13 This week's only opening took place last night at the Playhouse, where GANT GAITHER presented a revival of GEORGE KELLY'S Pulitzer prlne play, "Craig's Wife," with JUDITH EVELYN in the starring role. This is the part created by CHRYSTAL HERNE when the play was first produced here in 1925 at the Morosco Theater, where it ran for 360 performances. The part was played on the screen by IRENE RICH and later by ROSALIND RUSSELL. PHILIP OBER appears opposite Miss Evelyn in this production, which has been staged by Mr.

Kelly. The supporting players include viola roache, Kath leen COMEGYS, VIRGINIA HAMMOND, JOHN HUDSON, VIR GINIA DWYER, DORTHA DUCKWORTH, HERSCHEL BENTLEY ALLAN NOURSE and HUGH RENNIE. The setting has been designed by STEWART CHANEY. With the return of "Craig's Wife," Mr. Kelly will have two plays current on Broadway.

The other Is 'The Fatal Weakness," starring INA CLAIRE, which plays its 100th performance tonight at the Royalo Theater. This one will close March 1 and will embark upon an ex tended tour March 3 In Baltimore. YESTERDAY, the Theater Guild began advertising that "The Iceman Cometh" is now In its last weeks at the Martin Beck Theater, and it was learned that the closing date has been set for March 15. The EUGENE O'NEILL PLAY will then begin an extended tour probably in Washington or. Philadelphia.

(Ed. Note: It will appear at Cox.) WESLEY ADDY will step into the cast of LILLIAN HELLMAN'S play, "Another Part of the Forest," at the Fulton Theater in about three weeks. Mr. Addy, who was last seen here with KATHARINE CORNELL in "Antigone," will have the role of BEN HUBBARD. LEO GENN, who created the part, has bacn given a release by Producer KERMIT BLOOMGARDEN in order that he may accept a motion picture offer.

LAST REPRESENTED here by "Walk Hard" at the Chanln Theater, GUSTAV BLUM has acquired for spring production a play by PAUL ROBERTS entitled "Day After Day." Mr. Blum will direct the play, which is described as a psychological study of a confused young man MARCEL STRAUSS has been engaged by REX CARLTON to direct HARRY YOUNG'S comedy, "Open House," which is slated to begin rehearsals March 17 to recuperate from a recent attack of bronchial pneumonia, HASSARD SHORT has gone to Florida for a six-week va cation JAMES DALY is cur-1 rently pinch-hltting for GARY MERRILL In "Born Yesterday." Mr. Merrill, who has been on a two-week vacation, will return to the cast on Monday LEONARD SILLMANN says he is looking for sketches, songs and revue material for a new edition of "New Faces" that he wants to stage In the fall. His address is 156 E. 79th St.

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Gael Sullivan, resigned Second Assistant Postmaster General, taking over his new duties of Executive Director of the National Democratic Committee, dictated a letter yesterday to his secretary, Miss Ruth Barkow, New York, at Democratic headquarters in Washington. SPECIAL ADDED FEATURE JERRY TURK VI THEIR GREAT TRAVESTY ON "RIGOLETTO" NIGHTLY 1 A. M. SHOW ONLY (Filmed la Beautiful Color).