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two-feature programs a 3 lOiZnttUtZimti FRI AUG. 8, 1953 Part 1 23 being offered, each for a limited engagement of one Gallic Cinema Fete Today' The "Famous French Film tractions. Both of these pictures have been widely ac claimed a3 two of the finest films produced In France. Space Film Shows on 12 Screens Screenwriter Bernard week. I Jean "Beauty and the Beast" starring Jean Tho Yoar's Grcattstl GARY COOPER h2L TEN NORTH FREDERICK Festival" starts today at the Marais and "Under the Roofs Crest Westwood and Sunsetof Paris" starring Albert Halm it luu UtHtt Theaters.

Six weeks of major. Prejean are this week's at- Ml! CfftMMM' Schoenfeld has dreamed up 'Less Art or More Art' the Question 'Gigi' and 'Old Man ExampJed; Production on Upswing at U-I BY PHILIP K. SCHEUER That old argument is up again: Is the motion picture an art form? Weekly Variety prints the pro and con of It, as expressed by Carl Foreman, writer and Frank Capra, veteran director (con). Capra Is quoted as saying that while films are "capa an unusually weird turkey with "The Space Children 1 A for Paramount. However, in fairness to Mr.

Schoenfeld, he shouldn't be held solely responsible. Paramount could have refused to make cxpnn( mow xcmng AuvcmuKC) on lana ana jeai the thing. First of all the title is mis THRILLS so lift-lik YOU itttr thii hook'n' ladder rig through downtown traffie leading the little mon sters don't even get off the ble" of art they should ground. i -r Good Idea The trouble all starts when a bunch of scientific-tvpe characters build the I 1 PRECOCITY Christine Carer -e stars as the old-beyond-her-years teen-ager in UA Certain Smile," version of Sagan novel at RKO Pantagps and Loyola. Rossano Brazzi and Joan Fontaine are in top roles.

explore fhe ocean' man-eating Thunderer. This is a six- stage rocket that's supposed to hover" in space and disas be made primarily for entertainment. He added that they have little art in them today. Writes Foreman, scripter of "High Noon" and "The Key," in the British Sight and Sound: "We will attract a larger audience again when that audience feels that we have something to offer Yt' sociate by obliteration ail nonpeace-loving characters wherever they may hide. Now this is a wonderful idea; it's something that His Jury9 Taut Movie BY CHARLES STINSON Who says the good, solid V.

1 Wyat Earp and Mat Dillon would have found most useful in their Anyhow, little film is dead? the day before the Thunderer is supposed to be launched, a gob of radiant If 1 You can't prove it by Co- Iumbias "The world Was mm fcr Jf goop slides down a rainbow (honest!) and lands, on the His Jurv" which slid in mod beach near the launching down a mountain neck-brealc estly on ednesday as the second feature to "Vertigo" site. Back on Its Rainbow at Paramount Downtown, 'ft' JP Vogue, Wiltern, Picwood and 12 other theaters. It's about the size and shape of a scientist's brain A young first officer on a It just lies there and sends Caribbean cruise liner must take over after the sudden messages to the in death of the captain; almost structing them to louse up the Thunderer. This they do wmm back into New York, a fire breaks out aboard ship while other kids all over the world do the same thing in their respective scientific in the resultant panic, 162 lives are lost. centers.

Mouthpiece Hired The young captain (Robert After that the Thing just jumps back on its rainbow Spencer Tracy tjiem wnen we COme closer to being an art form rather than an industry; when they feel that we can give them the answers, or the stimulation, or the' inspiration, or whatever it is they expect from an art form. "I think we'll get them back if we've lost them and we'll get new audiences as they come along. And God knows we've got the means to do it." Myself, I don't know how you can define art; all pictures have some of it in them, either a little or a lot. It is significant that Capra aTW Foreman can't even agree on what is the opposite of art: Capra calls it "entertainment" and Foreman "an industry." It seems to me that a motion picture is made by an industry to entertain (that broad generality which can mean so many things to so many people!) and that in doing so, or failing to do so, it uses, inescapably, the tools of art. This definition would certainly fit the musical "Gigi" and Spencer Tracy's poetic "The Old Man and the Sea," the two best American films of 1958 so far.

They use the tools well. Arthur Millier, our art critic, says his favorite quotation on the subject is, "Art is anything made with love." This is essentially the same thought. U-I RESUMES WITH IMPOSING TITLES In re the resumption of big-feature activity at Universal-International, which has begun, as I was saying yesterday, with the Lana Turner "Imitation of Life," here are some early prospects: Later this month Henry King will launch "This Earth Is Mine" in Napa Valley. Stars in this U-I, Mm'mr THESE and goes back into space. McQueeney) is judged guilty by the Coast Guard and the many What a life what a turned over to the Federal YOU 1 exciting moments world what a motion pic courts to be tried for man ture It playing all over experience when Southern California includ slaughter.

The ship line hires the best mouthpiece avail en ing the Los Angeles, New Fox in Hollywood, Fox Ritz able, which rough, tough barrister turns out to be Ed-mond O'Brien. Mr. O'Brien, aided by his Loiils de Rochemont's 1 i and nine neighborhood theaters. Michel Ray, Adam Williams and Peggy Webber are starred. William Alland produced and Jack Arnold directed.

David 0. Selznick's "Adventures of Tom Saw private detective (John Bera-dino), discovers enough loose strings in the case a fourth of the crew were phony TWICE DAILY '2 8:30 P.M. it SUN. 8 P.M. sailors to make him sus 1IR mm Vl1 yer has been rereleased as picious enough to dig for the real cause 'of this "act of God." And when it comes, after prolonged but satisfy- the feature film.

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ingly crisp courtroom sequences, it comes as rather Coogan Rehearses Jackie Coogan has begun rehearsals on his top-fea Vintage production will be Rock Hudson, Jean Simmons and Claude COOUD by ttfrlgtrotioil o-HNse 2J Hollywood llvo-HO. 4-11 1 1 a surprise. As O'Brien's wife, unhappy with his taking the case, Mona Freeman does her igffn tured role in Dore Schary's "Lonelvhearts." usual warm, quietly effec tive work; Paul Birch as an A young girl's love affairs with a boy. and with a married man I older, passed-over officer gives a fine etched performance quite poignant at the last. However, it is 0 Bnen's I Rains.

Casey Robinson wrote the screenplay from Alice Tisdale Ho-, bart's novel, "The Cup and the Sword." For Rains, back in films after seven years away, this also marks his return to I the studio where he created "The Invisible Man." Two Audie Murphy ve- picture all the way and in that superb, hard, pile-driv ing locomotive-energy way ROSSANO I 1 i of his, he makes the most of it. Herbert Abbot Spiro's Claude Rains script is pleasingly spare and unpretentious and the late Fred Sears rapid-moving direction matches it Producer was Sam Katzman hides are on the schedule: "Stranger From Nowhere," Robert Arthur producing and Jack Arnold directing, and "The Wild Innocents," Sy Gomberg-Jack Sher collaboration, to costar Sandra Dee. Kirk Douglas' Bryna company has tied in with U-I for two epic-type movies. First is "Spartacus," by Howard Fast, in which Sir Laurence Olivier will direct Douglas, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov and himself, starting in October; The budget on this one is $4,000,000. The second vCill be "Viva Gringo," by Borden Chase, with Hudson and Douglas.

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