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AKRON BEACON JOURNAL 43 Tuesday, December 20, 1955 Lib Is Box Office Flop Rita Gels So She Quits 'Wolf Circuit' Oil With The Shtur Americans Travel More WASHINGTON OP The National Association of Travel Organizations reports that travel within the United States jumped Hugh O'Erian since she bejran acting six years ago. By nights she was a steady fixture in the nightclubs. By days in pictures "I was always some sexy gutter snipe or tongue-tied Indian maid." This Actress ent EAST HOLLYWOOD UP) Margaret Hayes, the Baltimore-born beau It's Mvsterv To Smiling Pianist about -Pi per cent during 1955. They're On Bean, These Chinese HONG KONG of Hong Kong Chinese farmers was displayed when food parcels were distributed by Christian agencies in Hong Kong. In each parcel was a pound of beans.

Instead of eating the beans, the farmers have planted them and are now waiting for a crop. The organization said Americans will have spent more than $13,500,000,000 in out-of-state1 1745 Goodyear Hlvd. Park Free Own IX ty, is the latest movie star to reverse Horace Greeley's advice. Margaret once was a contract player here at Paramount but got nowhere. She went on the stage and got into television in its early days.

She appeared in 200 television dramas. She also played Robert Montgomery's leading lady for two seasons. Hollywood called again. As the sexy schoolteacher of "Blackboard Jungle," she is touted as a top Academy Award contender. Closed Taniehl- TAe travel in this country during 1955.

There would be much more travel, it said, if Congress would lift the World War II tax on intercity travel and would pass a highway construction bill. The organization, which acts as a spokesman for the entire American travel industry, said the biggest jump in travel was recorded by the airlines. During the first nine months of this year there was a per cent gain in passenger miles. (nrdy tor Private Christmas rartin. wprn inimuay itn HOLLYWOOD OP) A day of reckoning arrives now and then in Hollywood, and today it's Rita Moreno's.

The town's gayest bachelor girl has snared her first big dramatic role so she's sworn off men and is settling down. Until now the fiery Puerto Ricanwas a regular item in the gossip columns. But today she's hard at work in her first "non-pepper pot, serious role" as the beautiful Tuptim in the movie version of "The King And This big break in one of the top musicals of 1956 caused Rita to turn in her mambo dresses and officially resign from the night life circuit. "I'm so fed up with wrestling with wolves," sighed the tiny brunette. "At this stage of the game I want to work like a beast.

I'm tired of going out with new guys. You have to go through the same routine every time. Rita has been linked with most available bachelors in town from Marlon Brando to GRANT TAKES RICHMOND" And "CORNERS CREEK" 1 OO0HOOHJCHKHCKKOCH3-0CKi By ERSKIXE JOHNSON Beacoa Joarnal Special Writer HOLLYWOOD Lib-erace's candles may not be lighting up the box office for his first movie, "Sincerely Yours" it looks like the year's biggest flop but he's predicting the film will yet "catch on." "I haven't lost confidence in the picture and when it finally blossoms out," Mr. Smiles is smiling, "it will explode." But in Muncie, one theater manager found business so poor he pleaded, with moviegoers in an advertisement, "We will refund your money if you come and tell in all honesty that you haven't enjoyed "Sincerely Yours" as much as any movie you've seen In months." Liberace, no doubt, will have more to say on the subject when he guests on "Person To Person" Jan. 6.

THERE'LL BE another Hoi-lywood feud when Hedy Lamarr hears Zsa Zsa Gabor's explanation of why Hedy nixed a role In 'The Death of A Scoundrel." 'Says Zsa Zsa, who will love It up with ex-hubby George Sanders in the film; "Hedy Would be afraid to work in the game picture with me." Wowzsa! --THE MOVIE industry won Its three-year battle against. Srhnnl i i.ui apvtriai Student Duronnt Ticket from your nirnuij Acme market Manager! Admission Prices for This Fniaxement OlilHrrit AOo a NOW SHOWING TU sUtSXAl Ml KK JPIfta Clark Cablt Lam Turner HOtlKY TOIIK Shown at 6:45, 10:10 CO-FEATVRE RandoIphGCOIT vjnuui IS Robert Taylor Brian Dunlrvy I II Mil nChaUa M. 1 I Sf BILLY THE KID ANGELA LANSBURY At 8:25 Warner ANDERSON lean PARKER Wallace FORD-John EMEXT cokTECHNICOLOR Mac ARTHUR PORTRAYED IN FILM When Warner Bros, sought an actor to play Gen. Douglas MacArthur in "The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell," the studio's logical choice was Dayton Lummis, who has often been taken for the military chieftain. Here Otto Premlnger, director of the film, chats with "Mac." MacArthur, the only living judge who presided at the opening of the historic 1925 military trial, granted Warners' permission to portray him.

1 1 I fm Adultt SOc-Junion 35c-Childin 20c Janet Jack Bettv LEIGH LEMMOM GARRETT MY SISTER EILEEN IN COLOR AND CINEMASCOPE At 7:00 10:20 Jack Kelly Ilildy Parka Special Delivery At 8:55 AUTHlNDCAur KMiO THt SWISS AM thru IWrrtO ARTISTS Chlldran 20c, Jn. (Undar 16) 50t, Adulll 73c PLUS CO-FEATURE MOST IXTHAOtDINAtY MOST UTUOHDINART py making "The Benny Goodman Story" and "Backlash" with Richard Widmark. You get the sippin' smooth flavor of rare JACK DANIEL'S whiskey in the square bottle with the green label- mmmnmwii MOTION PrCTUHII THREE STHIPES it Lyn And Southern Theater Sehetlule COLONIAL "Count Three ind Pray," 12:05, 3:20, 6:3,5, 9:50. LOEWS "Lawless Street," 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20. PALACE "Heidi and Peter," 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10.

STRAND "I Died a Thousand Times," 12:23, 3:45, 7:20, 10:55. DAYTON "McConnell Story," 8:05. FALLS "Honky-Tonk," 6:45, 10:10. HIGHLAND "Quentln Durward," 8:25. NORKA "Outlaw," 6:30, 9.30.

ROYAL, "McConnell Story," 8:05. STATE "Aids," 7:35, 9:50. THORNTON "Quentln Durward," 9:35. It'i powerful dram ft ft WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS Cloned Today, Will He-Open Dec. 25th aw ri FX II II llll II" I IRUM in nr ri I (urging ocroa the screen its glorioue music iung by great voice ATDA ia tht film WILLIAM HOLDEN LUCILLE BAIL w.

eolorbf AJfaRAYwCAREYiiictYORK MsttTUUIMU PALACE THURSDAYI veal of our age) MISS GRANT TAKES RICHMOND Also FIRE OVER AFRICA STARTS AT 7:35 AND 50 ford played in the original, and while making the film she wasn't speaking to Norma Shearer and vice versa. THE BRITISH certainly 2 HITS Long Lake Lodge Will Be Closed TODAY Through Dec. 31 We Will Re-open New Year's Day at Noon In Color Merry Christmas Show STARTS SATURDAY Girl Happy. Son Tilled Delight! 'KISMET Macdonald Maureen Mara Uncle bams charges of. conspiracy to withhold films from television and restrict the distribution of 16-mm product.

But the victory is an eyebrow-lifter now that one of the defendant Companies, RKO, just sold 600 bf its pld movies to television lor $12,000,000... Moore signed up for another year at Fox but Dale Robertson and the same studio called it a day. It was a pre-Christmas gift Dale's been waiting for. He's either been on suspension at the studio, or on loan-outs, for the last two 'The Man With The Golden Arm," Hollywood's first movie about a dope addict, will be released, like "The Moon Is Blue," without a Production Code Seal of Approval. Reports that the code would be changed as regards the subject of narcotics, probably will shelve two other films being planned, Is For Heroin" and Hatful of Rain." HOLLYWOOD hears that Jackie Gleason offered Marilyn Monroe $5,000 just to appear on his show $4,000 to inhale and $1,000 to June Allyson and Jimmy Stewart were the big favorites, but the late James Dean and Jennifer Jones, as you know by row, won "The Best Performance" award in the first annual Audience Awards.

Carey Fait with hit haven't any hard feeling. fiits and faster NORKA Park Free RE-3-1893 with his women I ktlWIM 1MT KEEL BLYTH toints rc GRAY'DAMONE Rum The Outlaw OUR SECOND TECHNICOLOR HIT Silver Lode against Bob Hope. He went to see "Richard III" in London the other night and as he walked down the aisle to his seat in the theater, the audience applauded him. Louella Parsons Writes: HIGHLAND LAST TIMES TONIGHT OPEN 6:30 JOEL tl' STRANCER ON Airtiievi I kua I00 IAVM0NO wuuu A UNIVim MIWUTIOfUL PICTURE Now at Both Theaters DAYTON Cuyahoga Falls Av. 111 in CinemaScopc and in color Why cook tonight? CALL CHICKEII DELIGHT Chicken Fish Shrimp Dinners Carry Out Free Delivery ROYAL 625 Johnston St.

THE STORV OP A GREAT PILOT McCONNELl STORY June AUymn Alan I. add Shown One At 8: OH TALL MAN RIDING Randolph Scott Dorothy Malon At 6:30 Closed Wednesday Through Saturday VAN Robert Taylor Kay Kendall-Robert Morlet Shown Once at 8:25 CO-FEATURE FOOTSTEPS IN THE FOO Stewart Granger Jean Simmon! Shown at 6:43 10:05 Starts Tomorrow Gary Cooper in UNCO.NQUEREI) Starts Sat. TO HELL AND BACK HEFLI17 HOLLYWOOD (INS) Minutes before she departed for London with her three children, Donna Reed took pen in hand and signed a six-picture deal with Ed Muhl at I. Donna's contract calls for six pictures in six years on a nonexclusive contract. She won't be back until April so no picture has been set for her at I.

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