Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 27

Oakland 7fiinmcf rrhy, Aeg. 13, 1948 27 nnnMounm Betty Hutton Matures in Dream Girl' i By WOOD SOANES Betty Hutton has matured but, unfortunately, Hollywood hasn't, and the proof of the puddinr lies Holly wood Big Shots Play 4 v- Good Will Ambassadors BWOOD SOANES Anyon who gives even a ciiTsory glance at the newspapers is quite aware that there has been a steartv stream STARTING TIME AT THE MOVIES Esquire "Return of Wildfire," 12:05, 3:05, 6, 9 p.m., and 12, 2:50 a.m.; "Tarzari and the Mermaids," 1:50, 4:45, 7:45, 10:40 p.m. and 1:40 un. Fox -Oakland "Key I Largo," 11 a-ml. 2:05, 5:15, 8:25, 11:35 pjn.

and 2:45 a.m.; "The Big Punch," 12:40. 3:50, 7, 10:10 pan. and 1:20 a.m. Franklin "Four Facea West" of Hollywood big shots to England, some on business, others. 1 J- on pleasure, and still others supposed to be functioning as ambassadors of good will.

The results have been somewhat less than satisfactory to the film moguls. Recently a more or less comprehensive on the screen of the Orpheum this eek where "Dream Girl" opened yesterday. In "Dream Girl," Elmer Rice, writing with his wife Betty Field in mind, concocted a story about an everyday girl, the type of kid we all know, who lives a pleasant enough life but like Danny Kaye's "Mjr. Mitty," has day dreams in which she imagines all sorts of things with herself as the heroine. Her sister is the fiancee a no-good, but she imagines that he is her dream boat, so while Sis is being united in the bonds of holy matrimony to this dope, she is functioning as bridesmaid and conjuring up a scene wherein she is the bride and Sis is out in the cold, cold world.

In the original Rice version, which I World War I and too old for service in World War he wondered if he wouldn't be censured the press as a "slacker" who preferred the luxury of war-time Hollywood to the rigors of war-time London. He needn't have worried. Colman a very personable and genuine fellow, one who has become a great star and a rich man without ever i i. or fxciting Marjorie Main who will be seen in person this evening with Joe Besser at the in connection with th opening oi 'Teudin. Fussin' and FightinV viewing himself as such.

He doesn't give many interviews in Hollywood but when he does he is agreeable, informative and friendly. He was the same in London and the reporters capitulated withou'. delay. One trade paper reporter wired back to Hollywood: "Old-timer Ron 1:25, 4:25, 7:25 and 10:25 p.m., "Docks of New Orleans," 12:10, 3:10, 6:10 and 9:10 p.m. Grand Lake "Time of Your Life," 7:10, 10:15 pm; "Shaggy," 5:55 and 9:05 pm.

Orpheum "Dream Girl," 11:30, 2:40, 5:50, 9 and 12:10, 3:20 a.m.; "Eyes of Texas," 1, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 p.m; and, 1:40 Paramount "Arch of 12:05, 3:20. 6:35. 9:50 p.m. "Waterfront at Midnight," 11 a.m 2:10 5:25, 8:45 p.m. Spook Show mid night only.

Roxie "Abbott and Meet Frankenstein," 12:08, 2:43, i 5:18. 7:53 and 10:28 pjn. "Bush 1 Pilot." 1:35, 4:10. 6:45, 9:20 and; 11:55 p.m. "Feudin'-Pussin and A- 8:40, 11:35 Dog pjn.

ana a.m. 'My Rusty," 1:45, 4:20, 7:20, and 12:50, 3:35 a.m. Tower "On 7:15, 10:10 pjn. "Jeannie," 8:40 p.m. only.

Ethel" Waters At Auditorium Ethel Waters will open tomorrow at the Auditorium Theater for a matinee at 2:30 and an evening per- 10:20 pjn.i.." gu: cnua 01 middle-dass people and her extrav- Qreams na.a some Pint- the wuuu version, sne is ine cnua of the idle rich and what Rice had in mind becomes pointless. Nevertheless, despite the vagaries; of Hollywood and its writers. Miss I ald Colman could teach a lot oflFightin'" 12:25. 3, 5:40, 'Spring Deceit' Opens Tonight "SDrine Deceit." the Hillbarn's last production of the summer sea- son, is being staged tonight, Satur-. I II day and Sunday evenings at the The Orpheum has its regular 9 little reconverted church on El Ca- o'clock.

Red Ryder show, headed by mino Real in San Mateo. "Phantom of the another Richard Brauns. the Hillbarn The-1 chapter (No. 4) of "Superman," plus ater's versatile director, has drawn an hour and a half of color car-from a wide area for the five actors toons. who portray in "Spring Deceit" a Ronald Colman in "If I Were 5 nuiion aoes a capital joo oi work and if "Dream Girl" isn't worthy of a showing in a top-flight house the fault is not hers because she aoes her jod expertly and manages to quit being the exuberant Hutton at least Tor the duration of the film.

Macdonald Carey, with his part cut down at the pockets, is agreeable as the Hutton vis-a-vis; Patric Knowles is believable as the waster and there are good performances by Feggy Wood, Walter Abel and Vir ginia Field. But the sorry fact re- i Telenews Offers Red Hearings Today's all-new show at the Tele-news features the Red spy investigation as Whittaker Chambers appears before the House committee. Other top items include coverage I 24-hour period in the life of Fran-' cesca da Rimini. Elizabeth Hardy of South San Francisco will play Francesca: Mel Ellett, Stanford graduate, will play Paelo; San Fran- ciscan William Melton, the "Dion" 1 oMast year's production. "The Great God Brown." will play the page, i Margaret Reynolds.

Joseph Plott Waters in her "Cavalcade of Hits" mains 4t1hat-rany TelaTlcl, be' wiU be Fletcher Henderson, "am of Imer composer -arranger for aU the top- Rlcend Dream Girl" of Holly-flight orchestras and bands of 13 purely coincidental. past decade. Henderson will be re-i Gay Russell and Jack Hayes com-1 which headlines Bill Boyd in "Hop-plete the cast. i along Cassidy Returns," plus a serial "Spring Deceit" is by David MacMackin who submitted the play for consideration in the Dramatists' Alliance playwritins contest. The work is now being considered for the Maxwell Anderson award for Verse Drama.

nnrcn vjruws vsiaer membered as the star of Benny! Goodman's quartet and sextet when it made its appearances at the San Francisco World's Fair in 1938-1939. Both Miss Waters and Fletcher Henderson are highlighting their present performances at the Geary with both old and new material. She will sing such hits of the past as "Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe," "Ain't Gonna Sin No More," "Suppertime" and others. Highlighted in all her performances are two scenes from "Rhapsody in Black." "Rub-Sudy" and "Hostess." Henderson will feature, among other numbers, his own variations of olk. songi: 81 creuners axiana at the Auditorium Theater box office.

of the 14th Modern Olympiad i mj I wemoiey stadium, some spectacular scenes irom nood-swept Mexico! DUNKIRK. N.Y.. Aug. 13. (U.B City and the mighty B-29's in action The First Methodist Church here! again as they smash through the 'this year celebrated the 110th an-! Russian blockade.

niversary of its corporation. 1 Paramount to Offer Special 'Jinx' Program There wiU be a special "Friday the 13th" jinx show at the Paramount Theater tonight at midnight Doors will be open at 11:30 p.m. No seats are reserved and regular prices will prevail Two unusual screen features will make the special "Laugh and Thrill Jinx Show." They are "Sins of Bali," full of voodoo witchery and hetkviTlsland," a true story of a savage queen wko ruled an island of wild virgins. "Sins of Bali" is an exotic drama of a pagan para-djse and was actually filmed in the South Seas. 2 wltt 1U WflfmiB Driesli ft Thi Monster Eclti! Companion Hit "BUSH PILOT" with R0CHELLE HUDSON JACK LiRUE OPEN ALL NIGHT tit.

WEISSMULLER i Brenda Joyce Linda Christian Sensational Hiw CtTtalnrt KWfLumn TO THE Frldav-13th TV is your I LUCKY DAY I rno i aiirueiii 11 1 1 rUl LMUUMdl.l .1 I 91 Week! 1 m. I iuif it ii Bl la i If -4 H-V Rici Birro.jn's j'V! Nafin 1 II report on the reception by the reporters to the stars reached this desk. M-G-M, for instance, eager to win favor if only because it is preparing to do some heavy production at its studios near London, had especially bad luck. Lana Turner, as reported before, came a cropper almost before she descended the gang plank. She began with an interview, in which she blamed he- recent adverse criticism in America on the fact that a Red hunt is under way in the United States and because people were weary of reading about spies and such, she was made the target for malicious gossip.

If that were not bad enough, when asked about her $30,000 trousseau, she apparently forgot that Londoners are wearing 1939 gowns and patches on the seats of their striped trousers, and said: "Just a few dresses, that's all, maybe 10 dresses and four suits, and perhaps 10 pairs of shoes." TWENTY SEASONS AGO TODAY "Chicago After Midnight" is at the Hippodrome. wth Ralph Inc. The reporters didn't like it and wrote to that effect Then the studio press agents decided to take 'her in hand and tossed a typical Hollywood cocktail party. Everything was dandy except that Miss Turner kept the Fleet Street boys waiting for an hour before she burst into the rom and waxed poetic over the English countryside. She may have been perfectly sincere, but the lads decided that she w5asnt.

Instead of giving he a good press, they pointed out that it was at coincidence that she arrived to view the English countryside just 24 hours before her husband opened a midget racing track: and despite it i wm me laci mai ivuss iurn nuac nightly appearances at the track VL-h fn it nncnd and eenerouslv kissed the winners, the gentlemen Cf the pre.s ignored Tracy, on the other hand. made a ten-Strike witn tne DOys. After Miss Turner's arrival, they expected to be given the run-around by Tracy, who is known to be dilli- dent about interviews, instead xney found him in one of his most genial them when Lewin. the sage or tne Express, who had been savage to- ward Miss Turner, asked a leading I nique- FORTY SEASONS AGO TODAY "Nearly a Hero," with Sam Bernard, is to be sent on a coast-to-coast tour. Tracy didn't rise to the bait "You should know all about acting," he replied.

"After all, Britain has that side of the business sewn up. In America we have no actors to touch Olivier, Richardson and Donat Olivier is 'way out in front of anything we can produce. That's the tragedy of We're out of touch with the theater and we have no real actors now. "I have made 40 films since 1930, and matter what one says, I've been bad in about 30 of them, and the fault has been my own." The following day Lewin told his readers: "Tracy has the knack of sounding true and real, natural and aggressive. nice guy." This more or less took the curse5 eff the Turner incidents for M-G-M and the bad press given Mickey Rooney for his appearance as a vaudeville performer at the Palladium.

Of all the stars who have done a stint at the Palladium, Rooney was the only one to come out second best. The reviewers thought his stuff dated and corny. Andther emissary of good will who approached England with apprehension was Ronald Colman. A British citizen he had been away from home for 15 'years and was dubious about his reception. Despite the fact that he was Invalided out OAKLAND'S tXCLUStVE fJr BROADWAY AT 199 of by is a I AT NOON 5f I -m Fox Schedules Junior Fare Four junior shows are- on tan to- morrow morning at local Fox West Coast theaters.

King" heads the Grand Lake screen fare sharing the bill with Tjght-ning, the Wonder Dog, in "Man's Best Friend" plus color cartoons at the special junior show beginning at 9:30 o'clock. The Senator. 40th and Telegraph, again features free pony rides to all children attending its 9:30 show.J and a screenful of color cartoons. The California in Berkeley has its regular Hollywood "Hobby Horse" matinee at 9:30. with the screen fare headed by two Western features, "Tex Ritter and the Boy Scouts" and "Hidden Valley Outlaws." GREENFIELD.

Aug. 13 (U.R) James F. Mooney filed papers! for the Democratic nomination for register of deeds well before the deadline. The election does not come up until 1950. PERSONAL APPEARANCES at 7 p.m.

10 p.m. cw AND I- PLUS ON THE STAGE TOiiiTE only and JOE BESSER Stars ef "fttm CONNOR Baa PA k-rm HflAM mLT'' BtKuMAM 4 rnnfs BOYER 1 WILLIAM GARGAN AT MIDNIGHT" 2nd Hit! WATXE MORRIS -THE BIG PUNCH" Srxi THI RSOAT FOX OAKLAND GRAND LAKE CfT GRANT-Mvrn LOT MR. LANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE" i mm Betty HUTTON MacDeaald Crty "DREAM GIRL" tad Hit! In Color! Roy Rot r-'Trinr" "Eys of Texas" JAMES CAGSET Wm. Bendix-Wajine Morris TIME OF YOUR LIFE ls: In Oatdoor Color "RHAGGT" Joel McCreo-Frai "FOUR FACES WEST' New 'Charlie Chan" Thriller! "Dock, of New Orleani" BOYS GIRLS TORRQtl 9KX) ORPHEUMaAISEIIOQnF ttu RED RYDER -LITTLE IEAVER" "PHANTOM OF THE PLAINS" tut EtritiBC Serial "SUPERMAN Jeclsnicclcr C4IT00N CABXIYAL HSEB RONALD COLMAN In "IF I WERE KING" las 2nd Action Feataret "LIGHTNING" The MarTfl Doc, la "MAN'S BEST FRIEND" FREE! BUBBLE GUM To All Children Tecfenicclsr CA1T0CX CASXIYAL TOMORROW tOO lu H. BILL BOYD ia "Hopalong Cassidy Retwrrts" Free Pony Ride, to AU Childr.a! Color Cartoon Carnival OAKLAND AUD.

THEATRE AUG. 14th MAT. ft EVE ETHEL WATERS with FLETCHER HENDERSON 'TAVALCADE of (Soaff and Seen. From Her Mast Faraoas 8 tat. Saecesscs) TICKETS NOW AT BREUNER'S Oakland TW -4friS.

Berkeloy TBSaSOl Frieea: Eva SlJSt ta S3. Mat. Me to (141 A ARE-HAZELTON ATTRACTIONI DANCING LINN'S BALLROOM 1933 Broadway NEXT TO CAPWEIX'I DANCING Every Taeadar, Tharaday, Friday, Satarday aad iaaaay MELODY LANE 1414 Franklin St. DANCING Modern and Old StyU Evary Tharsday, Friday, Satarday aad Saaday "mil in in i ami lees Dft MM PFPrv MAIM PERCY till RPinr- British and American stars how to behave at a reception. a good, straightforward talker, unassuming, possessed of infinite patience.

It's a long time since I witnessed a visiting star make such favorable impression on the news hawks." Edward Dew loins 'Sweethearts' Cast Edward Dew, a favorite of Civic LigM- Opera audiences, replaces Harold Patrick as the Prince in "Sweethearts," starring Bobby Clark, "now in its last week at the Curran Theater. Patrick leaves the Victor Herbert operetta to make appearances with the Indianapolis light opera group. For the Civic Light Opera in 1945, Edward Dew appeared in its productions of "Desert Song" and "Rose Marie." Since then he was engaged by Paula Stone and Michael Sloane, producers of "Sweethearts," to play the governor in "The Red Mill" for more than a year on Broadway. Dew has appeared in over a dozen Western films and in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." Mother Held for Death LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13.

(JP) A vmmr nther wa hnnkH on mis. i i a accident whic took the of 3.Vear-old daughter vesterdav Si. RtSJr narentlv failed to heed a ston citm said Officer A. R. Steiner, and her car collided with another and over- turned.

Her daughter, Chelley, was pinned beneath the car, I i 1 111 "jf fVft ri 'ft CO 11 S3j lLILl III "TIMBER TRAIL" ALSO "UNTAMED FURY" STARTS SATt'RDAT 'Desperate Trails ALSO ff I Tl Z-ll baxiuan oi raris SUL1HER HOLIDAY Mickey Roomy Gloria Dc Haven also: Johnny Wissmullr Tariin't Stent Trtisiri Mawrecw 0'Sullivan LATE SnOW TOMTE of 1948 Ejttbay Box Offict: BREUNER'S Nit 8:15 Sun. Mats. 2:1 WINTEHLAND S.F. II. to tM Tx NEWS THE A TRE i 3-O720 GmmG UKOULiaim WiWi THEATRE ot DISTINCTION it AND TtUCKAMt GAY ENGLISH COMEDY HITS! Darin "OH APPROVAL'; M6HIIHI6 Miehael Redrnvo 53C' 1 flSiliE SI LV tmi mum by t.

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Takes Oa a New Meaning Whea Toa Meet the Sedaetive "Poaay" aad the Men She Knew Toa IT ell ia Shanghai's Sia Soots: GENE TIERIIEY VICTOR MATURE WALTER HUSTON "The SHAHGUAI GESTURE" PLC 8 ALL-ACTION HIT NO- ZANE CRET'S ROARING BEST SELLER BLAZES ON THE SCREEN 'UNDER THEE TOOTOHIM' TIM HOLT NAN LESLIE CALLS EVERY DAY ARLEN I SS PATVOA isl MOR1SON HUGHES. TOAfPI I inl NOW! TWO BEATRICE ULUK la Frederick Lonsdale'. mi. AND Tko HiUrioaa Heart-Warminr ii it -i a a i imi fi: rim "i i aa a.aa..a.. a.

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