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The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana • Page 41

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The Timesi
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Shreveport, Louisiana
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0i 1 1 12-C Friday, April 27, 1956 The Shrevepokt Times CURTAIN CALL HOLLYWOOD AND VINE By HEDDA HOPPER ON WITH THE SHOW By PERICLES ALEXANDER Concert Association has booked the Boston "Pops," Arthur Fiedler conducting, for 1956-57 Nearly every Civic Music and Community Concert Association in the southwest have announced their 1956-57 seasons, but Shreveport's It is reported that by June the movie version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's other big musical, "The King and will be illuminating the screen of the Don Theatre. play for a dance that's said to be a sell-out at the Progressive Men's Club Nick Kenney hasn't been with the Ink Spots for several years This singing group is here for "Holiday in and will entertain at one or more events Come Monday and Shreveport Symphony Conductor John Shenaut will be off for Europe and a summer of musical study Monroe's Community Neiv Movie to Be Shot in Louisiana HOLLYWOOD, April 26 Hall Bartlett has Such a dramatic impact did actor Robert Middleton make in the role of Kobish in the movie version of Joseph Hayes' "The Desperate Hours," the ogre-like impression he created haunts the memory. Physically, in every respect, the film, stage, and TV actor fitted the role of the convict who was tougher than written and will produce a post-Civil War story, "Drango," with Jeff Chandler as star for their first independent film. It will be shot in color in St. Francisville, where Louisi- SWIFT'S CHARCOAL-BROILED U.

S. CHOICE is rugged and his chubby Mansfield role in the Broadway play, "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter," but had to turn it down at the studio's request. Now that Mamie's baby is a iiionth old, she's in high gear and ready to go. If the studio hasn't anything set, she may tour as guest artist with hus-hand Ray Anthony's band. 1 1 i A I If i i 1 I- 1i SWIFT'S TENDERGROWrT-i Fried Chicken SERVED WITH: SMALL MIRROR SALAD r.

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Albert Glasser (he is a composer-conductor) are friendly witnesses of the un-American activities committee here. He told how they joined the commie party in 1943 but quit a few months later. A cup of mayonnaise mixed with a quarter cup of French dressing plus catchup or chili sauce, horseradish and Worcestershire sauce makes a delicious sauce for a shrimp cocktail. Hwy. 80 West Phono 6-1281 ir Plays First and Fourth IT'LL fRACTURE, YOUR fUNNY- SONEi AH im iMim Min im n-in'ri inn rum mm I 1 01 I I 1 1 ana Governor Robert Ken non has promised them every cooperation.

Shirley Booth, coming to the Carthay Circle Theatre here with "Desk Set," is due for a much longer stay. Anthony Mann wants her for Mario Lanza's next film musical at Warnei Brothers Studios. Many persons don't know that Shirley sings, and very well, too, besides being one of our great est actresses. Stewart Granger reports he and David Niven will soon join Ava Gardner for "The Little Hut," to be made in Spain and London with Mark Robson directing. Stewart and his wife, Jean Simmons, fly to Spain in June.

Since they want their baby to be born in America, she'll fly home in time for its birth, and Granger has permission to take a week off "if the picture isn't finished by then so he can be with her. The Grangers are ecstatic about the 105 square miles of prop erty they ve bought in New Mex ico. They'll build a Spanish adobe hacienda there and live there six months a year and devote the other six to making pictures, Kathryn Grayson took her 7 year old Patty to see "The Rose Tattoo. When they left the theater, the moppet turned to her mother and said, The lady needs a bath. Rex Reason, under contract to Universal-International, seems to be getting the same build-up they gave Rory Calhoun.

They even gave Rex permission to appear on the Millionaire TV series. The same studio wasn't as generous with Mamie Van Do-ren. She was offered the Jayne Children Under 12 Admitted FREE When With Adults Jmm iiMIj A M-G-M presents in Cinemascope ud color vjv. GRACE KELLY LOUIS um TT 1 II While "Miss Holiday in Dixie" was being chosen last night at Municipal Auditorium, out at Centenary Playhouse a Nellie Forbush was being chosen for Summer Theatre's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" Either role is a great one for a lucky girl, although Nellie requires talent as well as beauty The Courtyard Players will conduct readings for "Dear Charles" at 7:30 p.m. today at the Lakeshore Drive theatre-in-the-round And tonight Harry James and his new Jazz Group 1 GROVE Glenn FORD uonna REED U-M-M-M What a Grand Flavor! BAYER'S ORIGINAL CHARCOAL BROILBERGERS BAYER'S BAKERY GRILL 1324 LA.

AVE. PH. 3-6186 1 PHONE 4-5349 NOW! She'd Do Anything FOR A INCLUDING KILL! 'iti 5: Sbrrm fr CAROL OHMART T0M TRYOU JODY LAWRANCE mt sue NAT "KING" COLE 'tntxtt Md BmcM ky MICHAEL CURTI2 "Little Audrey Ridin Hood" LATEST NEWS STARTS SUNDAY! Jane Wyman Van Johnson PHONE 2-6911 TWIN ATTRACTIONS "STEEL JUNGLE" "RIVER CHANGES" Li, 'fait? TH Ji Shakespearean troupe arrived to stage the now-historic "GI Hamlet." Middleton met Evans one afternoon and found himself playing Claudius the same night. After the war, Evans telegraphed Middleton an offer to appear in his Broadway version of "Hamlet," but Bob wasn't demobilized in time to make the curtain. So he returned to Cincinnati, took over his fath er construction business, helped organize the Cincinnati Civic Theater and the Cincinnati Music Drama Guild.

Bob calls this "perhaps the bust est period of my life. I acted, pro duced, directed, administered even sang." Now and then he would wistfully consider the idea of a repeat siege on New York City and The Big Time. Finally, his self-confidence burgeoning with his waistline, he set out for New York in 1951. got his first TV offer on his second day and for the next three years he averaged three television shows a week, setting some kind of a record for a number of appearances on major network dramatic shows. ine next world to conquer seemed to be the theater and in 1954 Bob brought about that achievement with his appearance with Audrey Hepburn and Me Ferrer in the smash hit As soon as the play closed, Middleton headed for Hollywood and quick succession landed lm portant parts in "The Silver Chalice" and "The Big Combo." William Wyler, who had seen him in "Ondine" took advantage of his presence in Hollywood to sign him for the vital part of Kobish in "The Desperate Hours" which was followed by "Gruesome Griswold" "The Court Jester." In fact, ever since Middleton decided to make that second siege on New York back in 1951 he has been blessed with a chain reaction of success.

He is probably one of the two or three character actors most in demand in television, the theater and motion pictures today. Buying Potatoes Depends on Use LINCOLN, Neb. an It's a good idea to keep in mind what you are going to use them for when buying potatoes, advises Mrs. Clara N. Leopold, University of Nebraska extension home management specialist.

She said some are best for baking and not so good for frying or boiling, while other varieties are good for boiling but not for baking. Round russets are good all-purpose potatoes, she added. Russet 0 Humphrey Bogart Middleton's architecture facade is topped by a bald head. The actor is six feet-four inches tall, weighs in at 260 pounds, and possesses resounding basso profoundo vocal chords to scare an Andy Devine out of a gravel-voiced career. The movie and the Middleton performance as Kobish came to mind the other day as we were reminded that "The Desperate Hours" is being returned to the proscenium stage from which films snatched it as a final production for the Little Theatre of Shreveport.

Besides being of brutish physical proportions, this Middleton guy has character acting talent and a Broadway background including acting in the Audrey Hepburn-Mel Ferrer "Ondine." Middleton (real name: Samuel Messer) was born May 13, in Cincinnati, Ohio, one of four children of a building contractor. His taste for the theater developed at an early age and he spaced a stint at the Cincinnati Conservatory in between his regular education at the University of Cincinnati and Carnegie Tech. Middleton made the usual pilgrimage to New York in search of theatrical employment after he got out of school, but, Bob rem bers, "they wanted dancers and though I didn't have the girth then that I have now, I wasn't exactly a twinkle-toe type. Having hung around his father's construction business as a youth, Middleton turned to the only work he knew while waiting for his break in the theater. As a result, he found himself pushing concrete around in wheelbarrows.

Nothing developed in New York but muscles and blisters so the young actor retreated to Cincinnati where he got his first professional job in the entertainment business on the announcing staff of Radio Station WLW. Soon Bob started filling in on dramatic programs. His brief sojourn in New York provided him with enough "dese, dems and dozes" to play an assortment of mugs. That was the start of an illustrious career as a make-believe killer. Middleton's first real brush with the theatrical big time that he had so avidly attacked in his post-college journey to Broadway came in an unusual way and in the opposite direction.

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