Tampa Bay Times from St. Petersburg, Florida • 13

PAGE THIRTEEN ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1948 MOVIE REVIEW DON COSSACK CHORUS TO SING Junior Collegians To Dance Tonight At 'Neptune Ball1 AT CONGREGATIONAL MONDAY 'Gentlemen's Agreement' Hurls Punch Ai Bigotry artistry. Therefore, plaudits lift of an eyebrow, a frown or smile these get trigger re- sponses from the disciplined choristers. He holds this rigid rein, and pulls his rank, only at rehear -sals and concerts. Off-stage, the men pamper Jaroff like mammoth nurs- es, careful to see he gets the most comfortable train seat, lower berth, first restaurant table, and solitude while he writes the choral arrangements they sing.

Thirty-two members of the Original Don Cossack chorus will be heard at the Congregational church Monday night at 8:30 o'clock under auspices of the Adra circle. The group is directed by pint-sized Serge Jaroff, who follows an unusual style in directing. With his back to an audience he does not seem to be conducting at all. With hands held close to his chest, fingers pointing, palms turning up and down, the Rent Control To Be Subject Of Radio Debate Debate on the question, "Should Rent Control Be Continued?" will be featured on the American Forum of the Air over the Mutual network, next Tuesday at 10 p. and can be heard over WTSP.

Participants in favor of rent control will be Representative John Kennedy of Massachusetts and Senator Ralph E. Flanders of Vermont. The negative side of the issue will be presented by Arthur W. Binns, president of the National Home and Property Owners foundation and others yet to be named. The broadcast should prove of interest locally, according to Fred C.

Abbott, area rent director-attorney, because Tighe E. Woods, national housing expediter in Washington, now has before him recommendations of the local area ent advisory board, of which Mrs. Max D. Ulrich is chairman. Bills are also pending in congress for an extension of the housing and rent act of 1947, which expires Feb.

29. TO-NIGHT DANCE TO-NIGHT GANDY BLVD. NIGHT CLUD with "The Moonlight Ramblers" PALAIS ROYAL TONIGHT For Information, Dial 7-7390 froyy.y.-.-.-teaMBtattcou. TODAYS TOP BNTBRTAINMENTai FLORIDA LURE FOR TOURISTS is pretty Doris Boardman, water ski school siren, whose picture as shown above appeared in the Dec. 28 issue of the Chicago Tribune.

Doris, a student at St. Petersburg Junior college, is the daughter of and Mrs. Paul K. Boardman, 663 Sixth avenue south. MB mm mm mm- iinU jlilT'jSJlx AT Vvacl TtttSe hale JZuuJL" I TjikMlriliTiYiTTr tgo 4aAuGHTER oc pom gi" VSrJ Disks For Dimes' Show On WTSP Aids Polio Fund A novel radio show "Disks for Dimes" will be originated over WTSP Monday to aid St.

Petersburg's current March of Dimes should be given in big measure to Elia Kazan, director, who has handled an explosive subject well, as well as given the Ameri can public a preachment pill it will love to swallow. Added compliments should go to Moss Hart, who adapted the film story from the Laura Z. Hobson book by the same title, and to the producer, Darryl Zanuck. Casting is perfect, from the mightiest roles to the smallest. No detail is omitted, and the plot, a close teamwork of love and problem, is so arresting it holds the audience spellbound.

Among other leading charac ters, none is more outstanding than John Garfield, as Capt. Dave Goldman. Peck, McGuire and Garfield are a superb group, deriving strength for their performance from Dean Stockwell, already mentioned; Anne Re vere, in the role of the writer's mother; Albert Dekker, as Mr. Minify, the publisher behind the anti-Semitic stories, and Sam Jaffe, a gentle scientist who chose to hide his identity under the Christian cloak. Throughout the country, "Gen tlemen's Agreement" has caught critics afire.

Photoplay calls it strictly sensational" Screen land, "a great picture." Writes Delight Evans, of Screenland: "Hollywood, over- criticized for compromise, here faces up squarely to a problem with courage and at the same time realistically pre serving entertainment value." Question asked now is, "Will it be the Academy Award winner of 1948?" Righf now, we think it has a chance. THEATRE TIME CLOCK Saturday, January 17, 1948 FLORIDA "Gone With The Wind" liis. PLAYHOUSE "Carnegie Hall" 12:30. 2:51, 5:12. 7:33.

9:51. CAPITOL "Moss Rose" 1:15. 3:20 5:30. 7:40. 9 45.

PHEIL "Green DolDhin Street" s. LA PLAZA "Crimson Kev" 1. 1:10, 5:47. 7:57. Stage Show, 4:26, 7.

9:10. ROXY "Cheyenne 1. 3:50. 6:45. "Ghost Town Renegades" 1:55.

8:45. CAMEO "Claudia and David" 1. 3:56, 6:52. "Likely Story" 2:28, 5:24. 8:30.

NINTH STREET "Blue Dahlia" 3:19. 6:20. 9:20: "Alone the Oregon Trail- 7:55: BEACH "Stork Bites Man" 7. 10: "Northwest Outpost" 8:30. DRIVE IN "Miracle on 34th Street" 6:30.

8:15. 10. PARK "13 Rue Madeline" 7. 9:50: 'Last Frontier Uprising" 8:42. Entertainments Item under this heading may oc cupy minimum of five lines and a maximum of 10 lines.

PAID ADVERTISEMENT Community Sing Recreation Pier Sunday three n. m. Gladys Cornell Contralto. Guest Artist Percy David. Baritone eolist and entertainer.

GAME PARTY AND REFRESH MENTS. Every Saturdav at 8 p. m. u. a.

v. wan jros lsnn st. so. Come to our Games Parties. V.

F. W. Hall. 26th Central every Sat. night 8 p.

m. Prises refreshments. Public invited. Games tonight arid everv Sat. night.

8 p. at Odd Fellows Hall, 4th St. So. next to Independent Bldg. Meet old friends and make new ones.

Bill Mann, noted tenor, will present a concert in the First Methodist Church Auditorium. 3rd St. 2nd Ave. No. on Jan.

17th at 7:30 p. m. The program will include well known songs by outstanding compos ers and a group of religious songs. Public invited. Silver offering.

Don Cossack Chorus. Serge Jaroff, conductor. Monday. January 19. 8:15 m.

First Congregational Church. Tickets, $2 and $1.50 on sale at church office. All seats reserved. --iv The "Deep Sea St. Petersburg Junior college in formal quartet, will hold the spotlight during the "Neptune Ball" floor show tonight at 9 o'clock at Lakewood country club.

Members of HCC social club of the college are sponsors of the costume party and dance to be presented in nautical theme King Neptune will be crowned and prizes will be awarded for most effective costumes. Bernie Vogel and his orchestra i 1 furnish music. In addition to the quartet, composed of Randall Dodd, Da vid Hostetler, John Savage and Ross Dooley, tap dancer Harry Lynch and pianist Bill Thom son will take part in the eve ning's entertainment. WHAT'S DOING ENTERTAINMENT (Today) Three Quarter Century club soft- bail club, Kjds and Kubs, 10:30 a. south Waterlront park.

Open Air Forum, 3 p. 1 1-liams park. Wit and humor program in charge of Mrs. Grace D. LeMay.

uay Nineties celebration, Gulrport. Cat sponsored by St. Peters burg Cat association, pier. ORGANIZATIONS (Todav) Speech clinic for children with speech defects, 9 a. to noon.

Chil dren's Service bureau. Chamber of Commerce building. Lip Reading club, 2 p. Tourist Center. Saturday Night club.

United Spanish War Veterans, 8 p. USWV home. Alcoholics Anonymous, social. 8 p. Fourth street south and Fifth avenue.

TOURISTS (Today) Sunshine Card club, .1 p. Tourist Center. 1 Fayette Contract club, 10 a. 137 Second street north. Luncheon, 12:30 p.

Concord hotel, followed by contract, 1:30 p. m. Rochester and vicinity, 2 p. lourisi center. TOWNSEND CLUBS (Today) Townsend clubs No.

1, 2 p. 106 Seventh street south. RED CROSS (Today) Children's swim classes, 9 a. m. Spa pool.

ENTERTAINMENTS (Sunday) Concert, Sunshine City btond, 2 p. m. Williams park. Chapel exercises, 2:30 p. Pinellas county home.

Chapel exercises, 3 p. Masonic home. Community sing, 3 p. recreation pier. Community sing, 3 p.

Gulfport casino. ENTERTAINMENTS (Monday) Half Century Softball club, Pels and Guls, .10:30 a. South Waterfront paw. Concert, sunshine city Dana, i p.m., Williams park. Open Air Forum, 3 p.

Williams park. Public joint installation, Clearwater, Tampa and St. Petersburg chapters, Order of Ahepa, Hellenic center, Tam pa. ORGANIZATIONS (Monday) St. Petersburg Advertising club, p.

International club. Board Realtors, 12:15 p. Detroit hotel. Post No. 14.

American Legion, 8 Legion home. Pinellas lodge No. 169. Knignts oi Pythias. 8 p.

JOUAM hall. spebsqsa, renearsai, p. YMCA. Sunshine City chapter. AZA.

8:30 p. 1039 Arlington avenue. St. Petersburg society for Hard of Hearing, lip reading class, 7:30 p.m.. Alhatnbra arcade.

Merchant Marine Veterans. 8 p. m. Patriot Militant No. 9.

IOOF. 7:30 p. Odd Fellows hall. Sunshine City Boat club and auxiliary, 8 p. club building, Vinoy basin.

Yacht club board, 7:30 p. Yacht club. TOURISTS (Monday) Presidents union, iu a. uounsi Center. International Railway association, i p.

Tourist Center. Iowa society. .7:30 p. Tourist Center. New Hampshire society, p.

Tourist Center. International Retired Teachers asso ciation. 2 p. Tourist Center. a T.lfl p.

St. Mary's hall. Canadian society, picnic and dance. 12:15 p. Gulfport.

Iowa, New Hampshire and Maine societies, guests of honor. Active residents of tourist societies. 9:30 a. Tourist Center. International Railway association, p.

Tourist Center. TOWNSEND CLUBS (Monday) Townsend club No. 13. 2:30 p. Twenty-ninth avenue north and Eighteenth street.

RF.n CROSS (Mondav) Knitting and sewing, 9 a. to 1 n. Defense building. Board of directors meeting, 7:30 p. chapter cottage.

2:30 P. M. 1 1 l-nmau ru 1 1) campaign to raise funds for the Paralysis. The show, which involves tions to the local drive as of noon on broadcast day, and for which attractive prizes are of fered, will be aired at 9:15 night ly except Sunday, according to Station Manager Herb Ander son. The broadcast, Anderson said, will feature music recorded by favorite musicians and singers and will be highlighted by announcement of the contest win ner for that day.

Contest rules are An derson said. Contestant must guess the total of contributions to the St. Petersburg March, of Dimes campaign as of noon on broadcast day. These guesses must be written down with name, address and telephone number of the contestant and mailed or delivered to WTSP, fourth Times building. Nearest guess will win the day's prize and will be a n-nounced on that evening's program.

A new contest will follow next day and so on. Contestants may enter as many contests as they wish. Deadline for receipt of each day's entries will be 4 p. m. In case of ties, the entry first received or first mailed will be the" winner.

The prizes, Anderson said, in clude home furnishings, electrical goods, food and odd items. He said a cedar chest, office! desk, lamps, luggage, electric iron, a chicken, food orders, end table and ottoman are "among prizes already donated to the contest by local merchants. STEAM fuse Pf GULAPo PRICFS "Movie of the Week!" We Honor Picture of the Month!" Screenland "Great entertainment! I ask everyone to see if" Louelia O. Parsons CELESTE HOLM ANHE REVERE i mi Of0 5C JUNE HAVOC ALBERT DEKKER JAKE WATT III (MnMifjJsmk ml Gregory Peck and Dorothy McGuire in "Gentlemen's CAST 20th Century-Fox: produced by Darryl Zanuck; adaptation by Moss Hart from Laura Z. Hobson's bestseller by same name; direction of Elia Kazan; running time, 1 hour, 58 minutes.

Phil Green Gregory Peck Kathy Dorothy McGuire Cava John Garfield Anne Celeste Holm Mrs. Green Anne Revere Miss Wales June Havoc John Minify Albert Dekker Jane Jane Wyatt Tommy Dean Stockwell Dr. Craigie Nicholas Joy Professor Lieberman Sam Jaffe Jordan Harold Vermilyea Bill Payson Ransom M. Sherman Mr. Calkins Roy Roberts Mrs.

Minify Kathleen Lockhart Bert McAnny Curt Conway Bill John Newland Weisman Robert Warwick Miss Miller Louise Lorimer Tingler Howard Nesley -isen victor KUian Harry Frank Wilcox Receptionist Marilyn Monk Maitre d' Wilton Graff Clerk Morgan Farley By LILLIAN BLACKSTONE "Gentlemen's which opens Sunday at the Flor ida theatre, is a highly polemical picture that's bound to be re ceived with mixed emotions. To our way of thinking, it is one of the best acted and highly con centrated films to come out of Hollywood for some time. It heaves a terrific and steady punch at anti-Semitism to prove that this particular phase of intolerance is bound to continue and grow worse so long as the people who abhor it, don't drop their passivity and get down to the brass tacks of actively fight ing it when it raises its head. FUNDAMENTALLY, it is the story of a magazine writer who pretends to be a Jew in order to get a better slant at the series of articles on anti-Semitism he's been assigned to write. Action takes place chiefly in New York city, with occasional lapses into restricted Connecticut areas where the Bill of Rights, with its preachment of justice to all, gets poor interpretation.

As we have said, "Gentlemen's Agreement" does set people thinking. At first, experiences encountered by the magazine writer as a fetched. We smugly, "It Jew appear far-get to thinking, couldn't happen" and then little things come to mind. An incident, a remark, or a joke, all bred not so much of intolerance but because we, as a people, can't put ourselves into the other fellow's shoes to feel how he feels. Gregory Peck, playing superbly the role of Phil Green, the Jew, encounters many things he never really understood before not only restrictions, and the slurs that meet his ears and eyes, but taunts hurled at his little son, a role admirably played by Dean Stockwell, an amazing youngster.

He even suffers misunderstandings of the girl with whom he is in love a young divorcee, Kathy, played by Dorothy McGuire. Coming upon these things, Peck, as an absorbed crusader, is morbid and bitter. He is so obsessed by his discoveries that he forgets he is a Christian, takes it as 'a personal affront when his cynical secretary. Miss Wales, played June Havoc, reveals she has changed her name so people won't know she is a Jewess and so she could get a job on the magazine now fighting anti-Semitism. The love element between Peck and McGuire is well handled, with a little twist to the ending that makes us wish he could have fallen in love with the magazine's witty fashion "editor, Anne, played by blond Celeste Holm.

WITH LESS adroit direction, 'Gentlemen's Agreement" could not have reached its high peak of FREE SHELL LESSONS Jewelry Plaque NoveltiM Jutr Purchased Material Every Week Day 1 0 a. m. 4 p. m. SHELLCRAFT SUPPLIES WHOLESALE WATCH THIS SPACE THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL Double cut cerithiunts 7c dox.

Venetian Pearls 5c pkg for 25c, $1.00 int metal pinboek, safety 20c doz. We Meet All Advertised Prices SHELART STUDIOS 3102 th it. So. Sifl Carlint The famous, family parlor quiz game is more fun than ever on the air I It's a whiz of a quiz on 1ATCD 8:00 PM I 3lT SATURDAY XIUTUAl ItOAOCASTIN fYflflM hav you v.r I playd V. Bi 41 (ONE Will THE WIND 7 ON WEEKS DOORS OPEN cue "Picture of the Month!" Red Book and Liberty "Medal Award Film!" Parents Magazine Will be way up there when Academy Awards are handed out!" Hedda Hopper DEAI STOCKWELL SAM JAffE (INTVWrat 6RM vonpowe.

TtN B6ST piaiRi mmw mm miM 1 1 -v STAGE FUN UytV HITS DUNG- ldWWKt st'A LIKI L.Y STOW ml I J1 tsr on AT vTa National Foundation for Infantile Gulfport Sing Features Duet Featured soloists at the Gulfport Community sing tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at Gulfport casino, will be Aimee Hum-mell and Malcolm Ogden, popular singing team. Miss Hummell will sing "Prelude" by Donald, and Ogden will sing "Sunshine of Your Smile." Their duets will be "Some Sunday Morning," "Because You're You" and "Something Sort of Chief Silvertongue is sing director, assisted by Dorothy Mills, accompanist. The casino will be heated. Painting Contractors Install Officers Pinellas county chapter, Master Painters, Decorators and Contractors of America, in stalled officers at its first January meeting Wednesday at the Lions club, Sunset Beach. New officers are Arthur Bar- tie, president; Roger Fremont, vice president; Fred Carty, secretary-treasurer.

They succeed L. Stephenson, C. E. Ander son and C. E.

Carns. Next meet ing is January 18. Airways Plane Connections Limousine To Or From Your Flight Th. 7-2383 or 3-3043 Rorei On Request. Railroad Cert.

L-100 HEATED Follow The Sky Beams I LAST Adulrs-30c I DAY Children-9c 7 pm-1 1 pm lost mm Uprising With Monte Hale Adrian Booth In Colorful Action 3 i PART PART ECSTASY! vvcw this the curse of the MOSS ROSE i MIKE TMIKHT TOR IHTORMATIOU. Putc 7-7315 MATINEE DANCE 1 TODAY i 1 WW i3l til ii- N6LSON CODY HELD OVER Today Thru Monday IJUMMI No Advance In Prices Shows Continuous From 12:30 MASStY iilMiMfa ILIASIO THRU UNITID ARTISTS Follow The Sky Beams for luncheon for dinner a grand place to know! iv meet and eat iifwhere smart people goy 5 limited call aTSr wiiS? 17-4525 mi II HMA GHOST TOWN RITWeGAOCS a DENNIS mOROAM "CHYNN owl. SERIAL 31 V.Af DAY Zti.l9filMt Aicf7r 1800 Tangerine Are. So. i mmr mrm 35 MINUTES of CPlHb5 NtLSON tDOY ILOMA MASSPY NORTH ST OUTPOST 13 Rue Madeleine with Annobelle-Excitina Dramo-Plui Cartoon i.