Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 23

Oakland Tribune, Tuesday, April 13, 1954 21 Valiant Prince Murder Thriller At Fox Oakland A bizarre murder guaranteed OPEN 12:15 P.M. DAILY At Paramount CURTAIN CALLS Porgy and S.F.; Movie in ha lfi.4 lia V'Vi to pound pulses of even a police reporter is perpetrated in a Billed Talked aaajHaMHMHBaBJMaBajaa Bess Deal caVSliaiTd: "Phantom of the Rue Morgue," the current 3-D thriller at the Fox-Oakland, starring Karl Maiden. Claude Dauphin and Patricia Medina. Dolores Dorn is the victim of STOIMS TMI SCtlfN CidEfilftSS? in lha woneW nf STEREOPHONIC SOUND this particular killing, one of TOiER LDGH PADET-KAYCEM ai i 11 Tf CHNCOtOK aaaaaaas the many in the story which was based on the Edgar Allan Poe shocker "Murders in the, -Rue Morgue." When this murder is committed, the fiend disposes of the shapely Dolores by stuffing her body up a fireplace flue. Second feature on the screen 'Beachhead Drama of War, Opens at "Beachhead, a saga of Marine gallantry in a suicidal mission a few days prior to the Bougainville battle, is told with dramatic imagery in the wide-screen color film which opened today at the Theater.

Filmed on location at Kauai, northernmost and most picturesque of the Hawaiian group it has been duplocated in realistic effect on the terrain which the Marines captured and defended in World War IL Starred in "Beachhead are Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy and Mary Murphy, with a supporting cast headed by Skip Homeier and Alan Wells. Completing the double bill is "Drums of Tahiti." a new South Sea Island adventure drama also in color, starring Dennis OTCeefe and Patricia Medina and featuring Francis L. Sullivan. Production problems can be corkers. Producer Robert Jacks continues to learn.

He received an odd item on the expense reports for "Prince Valiant," the CinemaScope swashbuckler now on the Paramount screen, with James Mason, Robert Wagner, Janet Leigh, Sterling Hayden and Debra Paget in leading roles. The charged item was for the services of a horse hired to haul a Viking ship which figures importantly in the film story. The highlight "prop" had been brought from the coast of England to Loch Dornie in the Scottish Highlands and part of the 350-mile trek the ship had to be tugged through locks by a small drifter. Halfway through the locks, the skipper called "quits' CINKMAsCOrl "SOTS' CtMaiml HalWay" Dtracy CartMn I OPEN 12:15 P.M. US By WOOD SOANES There Is talk that the members of the cast of "Porgy and Bess" which is due for a four weeks engagement at the Curran starting June 14 will proceed back to Hollywood and be photographed and recorded, along with the production- This is the same sort of thing that happened with Top Banana" and "New Faces," neither of which worked, according to preliminary reports.

If the movie deal doesnt cab to take him from one bistro jell, however, it is planned tojto another, have the cast, now headed byf whether or not you who read Cab Calloway, to use its spare Wlll iRtemxtd the distress tun durtf the Coast irg, spectacle of the Messrs. Wait tjoes vrt 'Lr and San Baptist. Jack LaLanne and rranctsco to rehear, a new Clancy a "Mister America" Hexing their biceps, musical er.tit.ed Fre and you milh, intrigued by the Ea.y presence of Mrs. Magana mnuld a HaroJd Arlen- tate. a pretty cute trick who was Jriny Mercer musical by Bier- Arlene Dahl in the film.

is tne Korean war drama, "Dragonfly Squadron," with aCSr3a AND I John Hodiak. Barbara Britton and Bruce Bennett heading the cast Starting Times Today rOX OAKLAND "Phantom of th Rue Morfu." 11:40. 10:45 p.m. FAAMOCNT "Princ Valiant," 12:43. 1:13.

9:40. :05. 10:30 p.m. BOXIC "Act of Iuove. 1:15.

4:27. 10:55 P.m. and told the Viking master target a horse to finish the trip. It was the Sabbath and nobody in the area worked. "Beachhead." 1:90.

4:35. 7:35. Also on the Paramount bill is a CinemaScope featurette about I fA4l' 1 IT BE Jaha VI iVri-i rfj BCMAN I BOD1AK Jfk 2 ACADEMY AWAID WINNIU "To" nu ii ii I i hiii an I pwiim frr 1 rLZthtX awaraimm Til P'1 TILSNEWS "HekJi." 11:42. 3:17. 4:52.

7:24. 9:51 p.m. TOWE "Livinc Deaert." 2:25. 4:30. 6:35.

0:40, 10:45 p.m. the Roger Wagner Men's Choir. ins Daru and Rojert Breen, us-: r.ai tunes ana piayea Azun ins sorr. r( the tune the Desert Son" at Wood- Arlen- Mercer t. Louis minster as well as Adah in Woman" of m44 vintage Marietta" last season.

en tii Matyana Baptist who will ba on of th nltrtccinars at the "Body Baautiful Ba-tu" at Marinas Memorial Thaatar San Francisco on Friday arantna. a new fcok the Coun 'Heidi' at Telenews "Cod Geary ro present Taaslrai' ts: Culn adaptation Send Sunday." DOORS OPEN al :46 II gg CeaUaaeaa freaa 11:4 a.aa. in the evert the new must- OIV OUR GIANT II mm9. OUR 'Sabrina Fair' CtcbIiic A VI I JUIA WIDE SCREEN eal wrkj out, the intent is to Inc. 2N Uf.

Tax And Elmwood Armchair travellers who delight in the lure of distant places can do a generous share of vicarious voyaging when they see Opera Festival Date Changed end th present company on a -Sabrina Fair." the comedy European tur usmx both shows. cpnj a four-we-ks en- fakement at the Geary Theater TWtXTT SEASONS on Monday nifht, April 19, was AGO TODAY written by Samuel Taylor, who 'U'lIAT 1CUHTIS 6UY1 r.lAKE the junsiE Steam Date of the "Heidi" at the Telenews and Elmwood theaters, for this motion picture version of Johanna Spyri's story was filmed in the actual locales, high in the Swiss The Nmth Guest' beir.j calls San Francisco his home verdi S.1 in presented at the Rvet theat thoujh he now reside, in Newjgjjjj" has be er. frrrerly the bv York. in Chic.fo, Taylor I ft? Berkeley Opera Alps, as described by the author ttn-v uvea nere since cruianooo ana. r- Scenes from "La Traviata" and Elsbeth Sigmund is seen in the "Aida" and excerpt from other Verdi operas will be presented.

ACADEMY AWARD WINNER BEST FF ATI IB I A The RoosevtU Players. graduated from the Univer- sitr of California. i Taylor was established as a Time Marches en Department: pjaywrllM wilh his dramatiia-It seems to me that it was only ofJ cf ronUlne.g -7 a month or so agobut it cer- Happy Time" which lasted two tainty mut have been fcner in vrk TONY lUUATlUrieii (Oecumanrsry) title role as "Heidi," in this Laza Wechsler production. "White Mane," a featurette which tells the story of a small boy's longing" to own a great white stallion is coupled with ji color cartoon to complete the bill. sunder direction of Marsden Ar-Irsll.

Appearance of Jean Leon Des-j tine's Haitian dancers at San iFrincisco Veterans auditorium I i a. a TjJfiTlCTl fiPIN 1 n.m. I. a fcw aT I. CURTIS n- Tv Tne west Coast company.

comedy ''Jlr 7 which will present the the fox vest Coast, and hlJ prodl en i kit ured by Uler ine earner ait rial rraaa i.awavn i ttciy. an ancieni enemy oi and Howard wb aayawTBaa Ticamroioa craphical error. LOVEJOY I WVUlt'ain ana ywaaa conununwatea me oy r. Younr Thf Wendell Ameches device of the devil to rv r.t!l Stumptown Players Offer 'Mice and Men1 "Of Mice and Men," by John report that brother Paul, the while Morton DaCosU a a AKaTAawA Telenews Theater To Become Globe -i aLT(llL)(Hgij and that the he-child was to be a -a? a -1 MARY MURPHY MURPHY IS?) Stenbeck, will be the premiere stage offering of the Stumptown Players, in Marin County the last two weekends In April at Park elementary school in Mill Valley. QriEuascoPfc in Starting this Friday, the name of the Telenewa Theater in Osk-land will be changed to Globe Theater, it was announced today by John Parsons, managing rarr.ed Paul.

It thus somewhat startling the fther day to have the phone at No. 204 jinxle at 2:22 pa a.nd hear a somewhat familiar voice say: Philippine Film Is Due at Paris Philip Walker, who will be. director of the West Coast Di- Paul presented by Oakland Commu-j vision of the circuit The policy i A (' i "Muter this Spser junior. I thou; is you nit Forum Thursday evening of the theater will be the presen- riizh! tn kn--w that I am at 8.15 in the Paris Theater withjtation of one or two feature pic raehte After ti father of R.ar.na. eight his new film The Philippines tures plus the latest newsreels.

"RIDERS TO THE STARS" SCKATOB ONLY CZ7 p-ur. rn rwnce. and every Today." is a San Franciscan Opening bill at the Globe will thifg ti fine I who received his training on na- feature a new laugh-propelled opfn ADULTS ONLY British color comedy called The con versa! ion I pattern tional radio and television net-thn harre the sam. Ai I re- works in the field of production. ALSO DRAMA OF "Genevieve," dealing with fast ICSTACY "SEA OF 1 Walker, women and not-so-fast automo O0PENS 5:45 P.M.P ealE.

Uncle R.chard. having de- A world traveler. biles. 50, CO Current and final attraction at i the Telenews is "Heidi." 7 Iivered the mimentout news pro- knows the Philippine Islands eedd tt advi me that the intimately, and has traveled in rew at the Paramount or' Australia, New Caledonia and the Tot Oakland or the Grand New Guinea in recent year. Lae or the State which I was Tickets art available at Sher-due to rrview would be the man.

Clay box office. grratrit I had ever seen. ACADEMY AWARD WINNER YEAR'S BEST PICTURE Nephew Paul. has aban- Jj The Living Desert' art a d-red theater in favor FROM HERE TO ETERNITYj Fox Easter Matinee For Children Slated A special Easter kiddie matinee will be held at the Fox-Oakland at 9:30 this Saturday morning. The entertainment package will consist of such fare as the science-fiction thriller, "When Worlds Collide," the comedy hit "Bonro Goes to College," and a Duney cartoon.

Free tickets for the kiddie l-f-a L. ta "aaj aV IVmM Alio "THE BRIDE CAME TO YELLOW SKY" the etothtrx proceeded Holdf it the Tower to lr.fr-n rre that he tt now Gross's eran in Walnut Creek Or Disney's four a--d prepared to aell a suit- Otcar award films of the year. aSi suit f-e riU werk. Living Desert." continues -hat )ru reed." hold the tcrttn at the Tower, he cood. The priie winning documentary 1 cVn't know whether of desert wild life in color has to fc rr gt ere.

Shark- received international acclaim Tkaj Mt TkekTaief Seoey TW MariwM Evw Filmadl antar "ROM UACtT "aft ANT Wbl ta 'MANT0M I kameval way be obtained aow i rr bat Way ke eaeMf ar 4 for its cinematography. The in the Boys Department ef Roos trafi-comic daily existence of Brothers, the Sporting Goods De-such animals as the kangaroo partment of the Maxwell Hard-rati, king snakes, tarantulas. tor-Jware Company, and at the Pay- FORTT SEASONS AGO TODAY STARTS FRIDAY! JUDY HOLLIDAY in "IT SHOULD IIAPPEfl TO YOU" totses and wild bobcats are ex-less Grocery in Montclair. Cur beat Smith, wr Id's heavy ity cj inr camera icr.i ioi EXCITING COMPANION FEATURE weijM rftiRiptm, appearing at the Tsfltsifs Theater thu t. BATTLI OF THE EUELESQUE QUEENS Supplementary attractions are week.

Dtiney's animated story, "Ben and Me" and "Winter Paradise." On Tndty ruxht I invited trt atterd the 10th annual "Body Ca a. A Beautihil Revue' which i to be VIOVie ifarS TO Alfl tavf wcrum held at the Marines Memorial Theater in San Francisco ari I 'Newspaper Frolic' Bob Hope. Gloria De Haven. i i am have half an ide. to g.

Not, mrrd yu, because I am Dick Contino and Allen Jones S3 WX'J MrptMf KnaaiauJ syauf v. mm aw FRANCtt SULLIVAN Interested rr.u.Ie men but be- tar in the one night revue cau.ie I have scanned the tut cf "Newspaper Frolic" at the Civic iudiet diKvered that one Auditorium. Saturday, April 24. ef them Herb Caen, vho ti The big three-hour program is prfctly tne columrust of sponsored by the members of the all time with IM prble ex- working press in the Bay Area. ef rad commentator General admission tickets are BU Weaver, and this ink-tamed on sale, along with reserved seats wretch ar.d whre idea cf a Crane Box Office.

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