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ing-dervish kind of thing, Famous Dances of Texas Star though there is one nice pro Kismet9 Magic Carpet film exhibitors for his achievements ata March of Dimes rally there recently. Rodney Bell was commis cession, a la "ine King ana sioned a Texas star by Texas Mexico Shown in 'Littlest Outlaw' Never Gets Off floor that is both quiet and quaint. My notes also remind me I approved of three princesses (Reiko Sato, Patricia ram a HOW! Tte Screen Aflt Greatest! Historic Mexican dances play a'p'art in Walt Disney's favorite wife, and Sebastian BY PHILIP K. SCHEUER Dunn and Wonci Lui) who Cabot as the wazir himself. "Kismet" may have been a live-action feature, "The Lit engaged in a Siamese-type ritual that was picturesque, and In the play the Skinner play, FRt DEC.

23, 1 9 55-Port I 3 irJienvj 1113 11 grand old stage play with Otis 1 mean the big moment came a girl-filled harem number. Skinner, but it has never when the poet, or beggar, tlest Outlaw." These traditional ceremonies were photographed for the first time by Despite his too-fast patter, Cl.9 1 AS come out right on the screen neither in two dramatic ver plunged the wazir into his pool and held him there till he expired. Now the wicked M-GM' Spectacular Rcture of tlie Famed Stage Romance! OP SONO. spectacle! the Disney crew in color. "The Littlest Keel seems most equal, along with Miss Gray, to getting some fun out of impossible situations and sorry quips.

old boy just gets a good which opens Sunday at the Fine Arts Theater, is the story sions (both, as I recall, with Skinner) or as a heavy-handed extravaganza (1944) starring Ronald Colman and Mar- vujlvk and Ceremonial Capers of a stableboy's affection for a ScoPS Cinema! Sample: Keel (when Miss Gray urges him to remain in the harem): "In what capacity?" Miss Gray: "Your Amidst all this teeming ac horse which has been ordered rr tivity the most grateful res destroyed. lene Dietrich. Now it is back again as a musical, and as far as I'm concerned the jinx still pites are provided by the songs which Robert Wright and George Forrest derived The picture was filmed In old Mexico and stars Pedro Armendariz, Rodolfo Acosta "Kismet," most recommend- As we say in Bagdad able for its score, is showing kismet! from Alexander Borodin and Joseph Calleia. It intro This second try by MGM, at State, Hawaii and a half-dozen other theaters around "Baubles, Bangles and Beads," duces Andres Velasquez in the which must have cost 'em Rhymes Have "Stranger title role. town.

NX plenty of dinars, is the musical adaptation that first saw in Paradise," "Night of My Nights," "The Olive Tree," PERFECT the light at the local Philhar "And This Is My Beloved." monic and subsequently shone in Manhattan. The same two No quarrel with them, as sung variously by the four principals Keel, Damone, the Miss adapters, Charles Lederer and Luther Davis, went through es, Gray and BIyth. But then these, as the "ad says, are also John Paul Jones Story Aimed at Wayne; Peggy Lee Gets English Bid BY EDWIN SCHALLERT John Wayne "will probably be the man to play John Paul Jones on the screen when the film titled "Clear for Action," from the book toy Clemence Ripley, Is put before the cameras by the Admiralty Pictures Corp. headed by Samuel Bronston. 'Warner which transferred the rights to Admiralty, will be the sponsoring organization and though the Wayne deal is not settled, Bronston is actively negotiating this ideal stellar casting.

Jesse L. Lasky Jr. is writing the script and the film in color and wide screen will Be made early in 1956. Associated with Bronston in his company are R. Stuyvesent Pierpont, chairman of the board, Winston Frost, Lester Shurr, Bar-nett Glassman and Irwin Margulies, mostly of New York.

Some years ago the John Paul Jones subject was mentioned for James Cagney. Richard Wilson, who packaged and directed "The Man With the Gun," starring Robert Mitchum, for Producer Samuel Goldwyn has acquired "Ten Days to Talara," original screenplay by Laurence which is about the operator of a one-plane airline in South America. What he wants to do is bring Gordon MacRae back into the fold as a dramatic actor instead of a singer, in this picture, if that can be arranged. The film will be shot be tween May and October of the coming year in the Andes and the Peruvian jungles. Wilson formerly coproduced with Orson Welles at the Mercury Theater.main show be-t ing "Around the World in Eighty Days." Plot of the "Talara" film deals with kidnaped boy.

BRITISH PRODUCER BIDS FOR PEGGY LEE Peggy Lee is contemplating her first trip trf Europe because she has an offer from Producer Scott White Reed to star in "One at a Time," sophisticated comedy about an the motions of turning their play into a screenplay; but as produced by Arthur Freed THE POOL OP LOVE I available in MGM Records album." carl Hit RKO HILUTROT. MIAMI lika-AOUOMr'4 IN I AN and directed by Vincente Min- Jack Cole staged the danc es, mostly given to the whirl nelli, in garish Eastman Color and magic carpet never gets off the boards. "SHout from the housetops. Tell it on the drums. A great new, star has, come to the American screen, a But Name Is Same Thus the conventions of the theater are shown up in all their glaring artificiality, toy the clairvoyant camera The characters, for example, are never properly introduced merely taken tor granted woman of fire, passion and tenderness.

Bid for Academy nomination A MUST!" -But WaUrhtrt, L. Examiner LOVE SONGS! "STRANGER IN PARADISE" Thus Hajj, the beggar, is no longer Hajj the beggar, but and 12 Morel Haii the poet, who a mis fin taken for Hajj, a beggar who placed a curse on Jawan, a brigand, 15 years before. 11 A4 American girl who goes to IS BURT IMCrlSm-JMMGNANI Hal Wallis wnmimtOmwi TENNESSEE WlLLtAMf THE ROSE TfiTTOO tm mW II All ISA PAVAM BB( OOtWUm mw Jm rUm i i. OHM. Bhtolti BAHIKt StAMM Howard Keel takes the part; but if the he spouts is poetry I am Omar Khayyam.

No, that's wrong Monty Woolley is Omar Khayyam, and a mighty befuddled one, too, as he follows the young caliph, Vic Damone, around, not spouting much of any- London and finds herself in charge of her sister's four children while on a visit. Miss Lee may be able to do this before "The Helen Morgan Story," previously announced by Warners and, in addition to the picture, will fill a number of sing- ing engagements abroad, including the Palladium. The British film is her 10th offer since- she won the Compo Award. Burch, casting di THE SECRET WALL OP THE HAREM I HOWARD ANN DOLORES VIC HELP OVER-EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT fix Then there are Ann BIyth KEEL BLYTH GRAY DAMONE as Marsinah, the poet's marriageable daughter; Dolores Gray as Lalume, the wazir's SCREEN PUY IMfHUIICAL IAN CABOT CHARLES LEOERER ND LI itoiim 'iiHiniiiiiiiriiiiir i i mi Peggy Lee MUSIC AND URICS 8V rector for 15 top TV shows ROBERT WRIGHTanoGEORGE and also well known as associate producer at La Jolla. Mutte eAmo roii iHCHctor aiiuhhr naoei.

OIBECTCO BT PRODUCED BV woT06.tom.UTOTt UUIMUll IDIUIID FREED CDCCn IIILLU' CASTMAN COLOR IIIIULMIL IVIII1IIU.LI UIIIUIl ricruM THEATRES: CINEMASCOPE COLOR 3R CARTOON M-O-M I I 0OOD WILL TO MEN" FROM Playhouse, has obtained rights to "Day of Violence," by Hannah Furman and Victor Kushner, former CBS staff writer, and through Leon O. Lance, the agent, is seeking a writer-director deal with Stephen Longstreet. Umisual story is about a group of people caught in an elevator crash in a New York skyscraper and naturally will be told largely in cutbacks. Robert Simon joins "The Cattered Affair" at MGM aa the father-in-law of Debbie Reynolds who wants her to have an elaborate hurch wedding. 'Simon, who appeared, in "Death of a Salesman" after Lee J.

Cobb left to cast in New York, recently acted in "The Rack" at Metro. BOULTINGS TO EMBARK ON 'BROTHERS-IN-LAW Roy Boulting, who has completed direction of "Run for the Sun" for Russ-Field, will rejoin his brother John to direct "Brothers-in-Law," modern drama by Henry Cecil UAPid.n. WARNER'S Huntington Park BRUIN STUDIO CITY FIFTH AVENUE CREST Vifuii; rim mmtw rsMiunc, uimri i urn i run, fimca vr nui, smu wwrtsats wi TUEfHOHE HUMtEEX COHSUtT THEATtC DIRECTQfTY ItfTIHM tLSEWHQtE ON THtSE MCtty ACKOmLXJ and spectacuus colo MOW ImI INCINO COVIN CENTtt 1 se5atluV- fi 4 for British Lion. Roy will direct, John produce. Charles Marquis Warren, who has done 26 Gunsmoke TV films with James Ar-ness, now moves into RKO to direct "The Quick and the Dead," Sam Wiesen-thal picture from the Frank jGruber novel, scripted by Winston Miller.

Peggy Knudsen, who scored a surprise hit in "Good Morning, Miss Dove" as the nurse Billie, will play a pal of Jean Simmons nim DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES UNITED ARTISTS biOffictOpnlOIMhSPH t. MOADWAT Peggy Knudsen TU. 41 in "Hilda while Evelyn Varden has a strong part as the mother of Guy POSITimY CANNOT BE SHOW! IN ANY OTHER THEATRES ANYWHERE IN SO. CAUf. mm Madison.

Albert B. Taylor, "business executive for CBS-TV in New York during the past three years, now becomes executive in charge of commitments on all major contracts at RKO reporting Jan. 9. He was formerly with William Morris Agency. Elmer Bernstein will arrive Tuesday to commence his major work on the music score for C.

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