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14a THE SHREVEPORT TIMES Sunday, November 30, T952 Sunday Film Playbill Career Shortcut i ON WITH THE SHOW TBUm KING "Rah In ItacUri iPatilrtt "Snrinefieid Rifle." Gary fnrnr. By PERICLES ALEXANDER Fichard Ney. Gypsy Lee. John Boles.) "Privilis Thaxter, David Brian. '-Highway 301." (Steve Cochra.i.

CI F.VWOOD Tale nf Hoffmann." Motra DOV DRIVE-IV Robert Helpmann. Leonide Matslne I "Willie and Joe Back at the i 'Tom Eweli. Mari Blanchard. Haircut Puts Local Theatre Usher in Films Hollywood, Nov. 29 (Special) Just a few years ago a young man patrolled the darkened "aisles nOV Alw.

"Outiide the Wall." Plymouth Advent. ire. 'S (Richard Basehart, Marilyn Maxwell.) T'a-y. Gene Tirney. Van Johnon.

Dawn I Addams, Leo Genn. Lloyd Bridges.) y-. Tl majestic inner birst Huns tr illlllllf? ine wmet Min. tjt-n wavne. Ma'i- reen Hara.

Barry FiUgerald. Victor Airuagien. Symphony Society Strikes Blow for New Concert Hall For the Ark-La-Tex, the Thanksgiving Eve meeting of the board of directors of the Shreveport Symphony Society was an event of singular historical significance and one not to be kept secret for long. After budgetary matters were squared away and the obvious success of the opening of the Shreveport Symphony's fifth season noted, Col. W.

C. O'Ferrall, president OPENING WEDNESDAY BROADMOOR: "The Snowi of Kili-maniaro." 'Susan Ha.vward. Greeory BROADMOOR of the Strand theatre in Shreve-port, and while assisting patrons to their seats, determined that one Vl a rut u-riitlart firmo tmnn Vi 4-1 i "The iiet Hun." Uonn Wavne. Man 27 Pianists In Concerto Contest Here College Winner to Be Symphony Soloist for Christmas Concert Drawn from a four-state area, a total of 27 young pianists' of high school and college levels will participate in the Shreveport Symphony. Society's annual concerto competition Saturday in the music hall on the campus of Centenary college.

Of this total, 21 are registered in the contest's high school division and six in the collegiate, Mrs. Jean Despujols, chairman of the Symphony Society's concerto competition committee, announced yester Victor i Peck. Ava Gardner. Leo G. Carroll, HU- Tn Hara.

Barry Fitzgerald. AIcLagien.) degarde Hell.) CPNTENART DON: "Monkey Business." Marilyn "The Storr of Rohm Hood." (Richard Mnnr. rrv rirant. PIONEER WOMEN Dale Evans (left), in "My Pal Trigger" with Roy Rogers at the Joy; Gene Tierney, the Puritan belle in "Plymouth Adventure" at the Don. Todd.

Joan Rice.) STRAND: "Hangman's Knot." (Ran- BEX Idolph Scott. Donna Reed. Claude Jarman. "Willie and Joe Ba at the Front Richard Denning.) Maii Bianchard- Harvey OPENING THURSDAY wmDKJ GLENWOOD: "Sarabind." (Stewart VIM 8 'Granger. Joan jreenwood.) Todd rbm OPENING FRIDAY Todd.

Joan Rice MAJESTIC: "The WAC From Walla I Walla." (Judy Canova. Stephen Dunne.) of the Symphony Society, arose and waxed almost poetic Aime vlerVit ci uic ptiiiii, ji a ilj ui ire ivirrrv wicnw. ijtni i urner. Fernando Lariat. Una Merkel.

Richard 125,000 without a first-class auditorium to house first- Subsequent Runs Mvn; 1 Haydn. KAENOr.R screen on that theatre. Wishful thinking? Well, not quite. For today that same young man. Oil City's own Earl Holliman, plays important roles in four new pictures in Hollywood and it's reasonable to assume that all four will be screened at the Strand.

How did all of this come about? Earl credits a haircut at the Paramount Studio barber shop as the start of his actual motion picture career. He had just been turned down for a role at the studio for about the 10th time, for the usual reason, "You just don't look the part." Dejected, Earl sank into a chair at the studio's tonsorial parlor. class concert events, includ "Where's Chartrv?" iRay Bolter. lj-rie Al'o "Border PatroL" (William ing tnose oi jonn bnenauts 73-Diece symphonic en "Hopaiong Camidy'' Boyd.) OPENING TIESDAY. JOY CENTENARY: "Somebody Love Me." Trfiho (Howard Hill.) Aim "My! (Betty Hutton.

Ralph Meeker. Tal Trigger." (Hoy Roger. Dale Evans.) i REX: "Spriniif leld Rifle." (Gary mivtnii nvlvr.lv Phyllis Thaxter.l JOY: "Criminal Lawyer." (Pat O'-Brian.) Also. he Iron Man." (Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes.) OPENING FRIDAY REX: Dreamhoat." (Ginger Clifton Webb. Elsa Lanchestcr.

Anne Francis.) DON DRIVE-IN: "Young and Willing." (Susan Hayward. William Holden.) Also, "Millionaire, for Christy." (Fred Mac-Murray.) OPENING SATURDAY CENTENARY: "Dark Command." (John EARL HOLLIMAN In Oil City, president of his senior high school class; in Shreveport, usher at the Strand theatre and Shreveport Times' newsboy; in Hollywood, an actor in films with four pictures already completed. (Joseph Snrinmulrt Bui," Conner. 1 VENUS: 'Untamed Frontier David Brian.) Also, day. Thvlli Thaxter.

amain Blood." (Eirol Flynn.) Cotten. Shellev Winter. Scott Brdv DAVIS "Fabiola." (Michele Morgan. Henri Vidal.) SAENGER- "Affair in Trinidad" (Rita semble. His wide-awake board of directors were loath to let the matter be filed away for future consideration.

Quicker than you can say Circus Maximus or its Shreveport equivalent, the Municipal Auditorium, the board framed a stronglv- Havworth. Glenn Also. "Outcasts of the Islands." 'Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard i Wavne. Claire Trevor, Walter Pidgeon.) llri.j,.. ir.kk ai 1 Also.

"The Junale "How do you want it cut," (Betty PhVnn. i VENUS: "Red, Hot. and Blue well-phrased resolution of f)UPril thp soliritons harhpr Also "Brave Hittlon. Victor jre. 1 OPENING WEDNESDAY Warrior." (Jon Hall.

Christine Larsen.l rcxrhnn ff 'recruiting poster, conveniently for-'got his true age and joined up. a vear later the truth came out, 9t 4St STARTS TODAY (Cor- DAVIS: "EI Paso." (John Wayne.) I MA.IESTIC: "Oneration Secret The collegiate winner will appear as soloist with the 73-piece Shreveport Symphony conducted by John Shenaut on the orchestra's annual Yule-tide concert Dec. 14 at B-vrd high school auditorium iIule the winner in the high school division will appear on the Symphony Society's chamber music series during the present season. Enrolled In Saturday's concerto nel Wilue. Karl Maiden.

Phyin Thaxter. 1 1 Also. "Sunny Side of the Street." i OU ln.e. DON' DRIVE-IN: "The Ladv in the Iron 1 (Frankie Laine. Billie Daniels.) Half an Vioni- and i chnrt nor Mask." (Louis Hayward.

Patricia Me-i TDV- "'rail rt (Ann i innH cc nut- the irn-v rlirl Flarl dma ICorloi Also, "Wagon Wheels! laler tarl awOKe Wltn fllS flair v- 1 ninvcnirT npivr.tV' Pa- Rill" Elliott i Also. Chanter 10 of "Flvina rnnsirlprnhlv "thinnprl anrl nnmhorllHii eiihspriupntlv sprvprl a full hitch i-. i i i cr Kfian trnnfi wire i. i 'Dana Andrews. Brian Donlevy Disc Man from JOHN sase in what he terms a bang-tail ef-'ana then headed west, in Hoiiy-fect." In the next chair Director wood his career alternated between F.

Hugh Herbert emerged from, the Pasadena Playhouse. North SATIRDAY MATINEE ONLY BROADMOOR: All-Fun Show. (6 Car toons, Pete Smith Specialty. Serial.) -if competition are pianists of Lou Aio, "Chinatown at Micnight. (Hurd Hatfield.) OPENING THIRSDAY CENTENARY: "Caribbean" (John Payne.

Arlene Dahl, Sir Cedric Hard-wicke. VENUS: "Island of Desire." (Linda Darnell Tah Hunter I his second hot towel, spotted the i American Aviation company and viewed jnewlv shorn Holliman and there unsuccessful (until the haircut) Charles Laughton once isiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and action. It reads as follows: "Be it resolved that the Shreveport Symphony society, realizing the urgent necessity for an adequate and modern concert hall not only for its own orchestra but for visiting concert artists and road show attractions and, deploring present discouraging conditions under which such artists and attractions must now be presented, goes on record as willing to join in a civic movement for a new auditorium meeting the requirements and taste of a discriminating and metropolitan Ark-La-Tex Texas. The contest will begin at life with reservations. Laughton, 'and then set him as one of the in-jforays on the studios.

Abbott and Cos-vaumS mannes in a new tecnni- DAVIS: "The Bi Sky." (Kirk Doug- now appearing in coior production called Pleasure Asked if he had any advice for would-be actors who even now might be pacing the aisles of some movie palace hoping for that "one worked famed SAENGER: Savane Meet Captain Kldd, (Lex Barker. Dorjthy Hart. Also. "Thei Kid From Broken Gun." (Charles Star-. as a Clerk.

in London Island." With the ice broken, the film 9 a.m. Registrants In the high school classification are Patricia Diana Jackson, Baton Rouge; Watts Miller, Lake Charles; Carol Strother, Alexandria; John Miller, Natch'-toches; i Smith, Lake rett. Smiley Burnette Also. Chapter 7 Claridge hotel. companies started to seek Larl out.

great chance," Earl advises. "Sure of "Nvoka and he Tinermen. SOME PICK-UP Virile Richard Ney and feminine a 1 1 1 Goddard i "Babes in Bagdad." the new film which will have something of a world premiere engagement at the Strand as of Sunday. In quick succession he landed fea-j Don't give them drama lessons, tined parts in "Gobi Outpost" with jUst cut loose at 'em with a hair r.yz.jr.-. -j Kichard Wirtmark and Don Taylor, clipper!" "Scared Stiff" in support of zanies! Martin and Lewis, and "East Concert Events 's-''" 7 with Cecilia Pate Ward Sumatra," an adventure varn Jeff Chandler.

Needless to sav.l- -mm. he's back at the Paramount barter if MUlUCll IxeCltal BARRY snop lor the Holliman Special every week. I WW! HEMINGWAY'S This is Cynthia from Montparnasse, plished musically by the Sym-phon' Society in four short years, what will this energetic board accomplish plunging headlong into efforts for an auditorium? The young in heart can bring miracles to pass. "Also, that the Shreveport Symphony Society believes that the auditorium project warrants consideration and incorporation into the city's master plan and the program of long-range planning for Shreveport recently begun and which encompasses every facet of community planning and growth but its cultural development. "The Symphony Society will hrintr this so thp attention of the ROBERT BRINK DANIEL PINK-HAM: Violin-Harpsichord Duo.

At 8:15 P.m. Tuesday at the Woman's Deoartment Club. Presented by the club's music department. Tickets will be sold st the door. The prodram: Sonata No.

12 in Minor Corelli Concerto No. 9 In Major Couperin Sonata in flat Major LeClair Mr. Brink and Mr. Pinkham Chaconne and Rondeau Chambonnierei Les Baricades Misterieuses fjTHC IMPISH I 0 A model with The auditorium case rests but Minden, Nov. 29 (Special) Presented by the fine arts division of the Woman's Department Club here, Cecilia Pate Ward, the Shreveport and Alexandria mezzo-soprano who has appeared in operatic productions in Cincinnati.

New Orleans, and Shreveport, will be heard in recital here Tuesday night at the American Legion hall. Her accompanist will be Marie Miller, an LSU piano major. The Shreveport mezzo-soprano presently is studying with Peter Paul Fuchs, former assistant conductor and coach at the Metropolitan Cnnnerm I ANO THE I IS BftEATetTAKNS AMD BVWT1WLI I five-man executive committee1101' fr lonS' Earl is the son of Mrs. Guv Bellotte of Oil City. His father.

Henry Holliman died hen Earl was 13. In addition to attending Oil City high (senior class Earl also put in time at Louisiana Avenue school (football, drama group) and Fair Park and Byrd high in Shreveport. He sold papers for The Shreveport Times, washed dishes at various restaurants and then graduated to the post of usher and eventually head usher at the Strand. Four German Danses green-grey eyes Haydn Sonata In Major Canon" Babes, Babes, etc. chosen to formulate such a master plan.

"The Shreveport Symphony Society will willingly spearhead a a Httlflt j. TATtS 1 and legs like a colt, who lit a fire in Harry Street that could only be quenched drive which will bring an auditorium worthy of our city into There have been "Babes in Toy-land," "Babes in the Wood," and now, so help us, "Babes in Bagdad," THE QUIET MAN Alt Gardner "Cynfki Opera and now head of LSU's de- "It is the fervent hope of the, the latter serving as a title for a Scarlatti Sonata in Major Scarlatti Mr. Pinkham Romaneses Variations Marinl Serenade for Violin and Harpsichord Pinkham Sonata No. 8 in Major Handel Mr. Brink and Mr.

Pinkham CLAIDIO ARRAV: Pianist. At :15 p.m. Wednesday at the Municipal Auditorium. Presented by the Community Concert Association of Shreveport. The program: Rondo in Major.

Op. 51. No. 2 Reethovit 8 TECHNICOLOR I At the age of 15 Earl saw a navy Ipartment of opera. board of directors of the Shreve-film which places Paulette God-port Svmohonv Societv that all dard and Gypsy Rose Lee in a Gregory Peck 'Barry Street" A Admission 10c other musical and theatrical forces harem and in filmy costumes Phone 5-1501 of the city will join hands with the For no particular reason the pic- Offic society to present a unuiea ironi ture will arrive Sunday on the for action on an auditorium and, strand screen as a world premiere Color Cartoon Opans 10:45 will diligently pursue any reason engagement.

Neither Miss Lee nor Horn Double Features TODAY Open 10:15 A M. WP. KOI eMUM Snows ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S GREATEST LOVE STORY' GREGORY SUSAN AYA PECK HAYWARD GARDNER able course to get the auditorium project rolling immediately." i fK nn rrn Sonata in Minor. Op. 57 Beethoven Rondo Capriccioso Mendelssohn Son Without Words, Major Mendelssohn Variations on a Theme of Paganini.

Book II Brahms Pour Le Piano Debussy The Maiden and the Nightingale Granadns El Pelele from "Goyescas" Granados Colonel Ferrall and his confreres have taken the words right Charles; Mary Belle Fletcher, De DARRYIF.ZANUCX HENRY KING Sums pii CASEY ROBINSON CO -FEATURE SECOND IIC HIT) William Boyd Sm Miss Goddard will be among those present for the first-day but we think we will manage to live over it. Miss Lee, but whr be so formal? Let's call her "Gyp" to rhyme with her onetime occupation on the runways. In 1940 this entertainer, actress-authoress, reigned as "Queen of the Midway" of the Louisiana State Fair. Among her literary efforts, she authored the book. "Mother Finds a Body." Her books are usually of the mystery variety, which explains in 6hort order that title.

Gypsy revealed herself as an entertainer an unnumbered years ago on Broadwav stages, starred in Michael Todd's Streets of Paris" and "Star and Garter." As a play. IN PAL out of On With the Shows Underwood but that doesn't leave him exactly speechless. However, the swiftness with which the Symphony Society's board pursues matters does. Colonel O'Ferrall immediately appointed Ed E. Hurley, P.

A. Turner, and John H. Tucker, to an auditorium fact-finding committee and we'll bet you the cornerstone of the old Municipal Auditorium the committee is functioning right now. Turner, the pleasant and agreeable vice president of the powerful Commercial National Bank, w-as named chairman of the committee. "BORDER PATROL STARTING WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 3 Kidder; De Juana N-ell McCormick.

Monroe; Allison Salley, Mansfield; Ruth Nell Gordy, Winnsboro; Imelda Anne Broussard, New Iberia; Patty Rusheon. Bossier Citv; Philip Ambrose. Monroe; Betty Sue Morris. Mansfield; and Hunter Her-ron, Mary Almanrode, Tabby Sinclair, Stanton Durham, Mary Jane Carter, Ned Boagni. Carolyn Crumley, and Richea Brown, all cf Shreveport.

Competing on the collegiate level will be Martha Jean Smith of the University of Mississippi, John D. 1 toy ROGERS "TRIGGER" 'GACBY" HYB OAlf cVAW Don't expect to pry a loan out of the Commercial if vou don't be- lieve an i-uditorium is a vital ne-if nmy uue reiernng cessity for the community. lo une UUL a roine a Pia- A Colonel O'Ferrall also named am oaDe nerseit wnetner in Hardy O'Neal, Calf Tolbert, Errol Ba4ad CJT that western mecca of movie culture, Hollywood Is Pau Buckner, A. H. Tarver, and vir tually the whole board of directors to the committee.

wi cL 11 ji ja i I Hart ot vvaco, Texas, Elizabeth Fabrycky of Magnolia, Wil-bert Winston Mason of Natchitoches, Stanley Sarrazin of Hammond, and Jacques Andre Hamm of Barksdale Air Force Base. Required playing for college pianists are Bach's Fantasy in Minor and the second and third movements of Beethoven's Concerto No. 3 In Minor, Op. 37 (Shirmer edition). High school pianists must be able to perform Bach's Two-Part Invention No.

9 in Minor and the first movement of the Mozart Concerto in A If so much has been accom- lette Goddard. During World War II GIs in the Far Eastern theatre where she toured dubbed her "Madame Cheescake." Paulette must be because she has been known in films as "Queen of the bathtub scenes" and has taken many a Saturday night bath for Cecil B. DeMille, who believes cleanliness is a virtue in movies and to assure same, always man '4 mwm mii iiiii, I FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF OUR CUSTOMERS DONT MISS THIS GREAT WESTERN 0VEC 1 TODAY AND MONDAY MINUTE TO i With i Robert Mitchum Ann Bljth Cartoon and Newt -i -Sim ages to make his leading lady bathe luxuriously. DeMille riidn'f direct "Rabes In Bagdad" but we are given to un-drrtand La Goddard does take a milk-anrl-lotus ablution in the PRiVE-l N- TH EATRI FIRST DRIVE-IN SHOWING (1 BBIVEIII TH.EBTBES Alto: CAUTION NEWS fmT I rT -S-3. Ui i.

ja8.J i WORLD PREMIERE! I lpP rfw" TODAY! 4. 'M. 1 4 i -T----- ill vSi, f. I A j'f GYPSiROSElEEi. i ifl I MR'CXING-S HWY AT FIRST DRIVE-IN THEATRE Olfi KUfSOi WT 4-W FIRST DRIVE-IN THEATRE GARY COOPER it FIRE POWER! the hands of a real figiiting man! iMHIi))jrijTj I VAtNtlCOlOJ FkyUJs THAXTER AIv: ERROL FLYNN Also Virfinia Grey-Steve Cochran Major.

No. 23, K. 4KS. the Mozart Cadenza in the Shirmer edition. Three judges, whose names will not be revealed, until the contestants arrive Saturday morning for th competition, will dptermine the winner of each division.

However, Mrs. Despujols did reveal that the judges will come from Arkansas, Texas, and South Louisiana. The public will be permitted to sit in on the contest at the Centenary music hall, Mrs. Despujols added. Besides Mrs.

Despujols, members of the Shreveport Symphony Society's concerto contest committee are William Teague, John Shenaut. Ralph Squires. Mrs. Nina Plant Wideman, and Mrs. John Palmer.

Warners to Film Two Best-Sellers lolly wood. Nov. 2r.) (Special) Jack L. Warner, studio executive, has acquired film rights to "East of Eden," the nation's No. 1 best-seller by John Steinbeck for production at Warner Brothers' studio.

Steinbeck himself will adapt the best-seller for the screen and Elia Kazan will produce and direct "East of Eden." Another best-seller, Agnes Sligh's "Gown of Glory," also is a story property of the Warner Brothers' studio. "CAPTAIN BLOOD" a s. mrr it raon UU9 "HIGHWAY Vr I CO CILIHWOOD toa ir JOHN WAYNE IN ONE OF THE ALL-TIME GREAT WESTERNS RED RIVER" I PLUS MARILYN MAXWELL RICHARD BASEHART "OUTSIDE THE WALL" SECOND BIG HIT! DENNIS OTCEEFE "Up in Mahle's Room'1 I i Am I i i '-Z 'i lilt' fci" I SUNSET phohz i-i ni 2409 BIX TEXAS AVE JOY t. llf OlOtiT arnerColor ft -erf IPLOMHTZC i a i 1m- I akemtsm. ft a ss ai ill KacK at HflttKPmr-JOjfl BOIES a.

lf- -r PHYIUS THAXTER DAVID BRIAN Color i ms tuMCMaojpron ON SAME PROGRAM PAIR KEUY ION CHAN FT Cortoon 'tl tin 'i 7 3 ALSO OHSSTUJI ti i 1 Betty GRABU Dan BAILEY tVTCMKss Next! "THE HANGMAN'S KNOT" Co-Feature EARKSDALE "CAPTAIN BLOOD" ERROL FLYNN Co-Feature KINGS HY-30 1 STEVE COCHRAN "UmI lord liberty" latest Newt Bob Wilke and Sheb Woolev. th gunmen of "Hih Noon." continue their careers of joint crime in the new Dennis Morgan ktarrer. "Cattle PHONC 4-349 OPENS 10:45 A.M. Something new in tcreeo team..