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3 SKf I I III 1 -BMlliai IIIIIWH IIIMKI Ml II I )fH, I I 1 tW 4 fi -Wr 1 -1 i L'- pv. ,1 I A Tsl Ty i 't DANCE, LITTLE! LADY! But the scarlet slippers with their evil spell gloating. The scene climaxes ballet in "The Red Shoes" created on the have taken their toll. The dancer lies dying on the arm of the priest screen by Britain's Michael Powell in latest collaboration with Emeric (Robert Helpmann), while the shoemaker (Leonide Massine) watches, Pressburger. The girl is sensational young Moira Shearer.

Coproducer Explains ROMANTIC ROLES Pamela Caveness and Norwood Smith, shqwn here in sentimental pose, sing the parts of Magnolia and Gaylord Ravenal, respectively, in "Show Boat, which comes to the Philharmonic Auditorium Christmas night for a two-week stay. story ea Pag 2 of this Section. Red Shoes Success BY PHILIP K. SCHEUJSR' The most ambitious and probably the inost dazzlingly successful use of ar traditional-type-baUet in any motion picture td date occurs in "The Red Shoes," a production of 'Jthef Archers" which J.Arthur Rank will shortly present "The Archers" are a couple of conscientious movie makers in England who paint with color as Josef von Sternberg once painted in black and white. Their names are Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

Last year they sent us the in comparable "Black Narcissus, which won Oscars for art direo 3lc03ngeIC0Cfmc0 Sunday morning, December 19, 1943 Part 17 tion and cinematography. Their AT THE THEATERS earlier works include "I Know Where I'm Going," "Stairway to Heaven," "Colonel Blimp" and (un colored) "The Invaders" and "The Opening HOME-TOWN VISIT YIELDS SMASH HIT Silver Fleet." Their previous re "LIFE WITH FATHER" Pasa lease this year was "The End of the River," with Sabu. In a trans 4l JA I I jC A 1 1 1 vlrf A I 1 1 MiT I Ml1 I A Mmyyyy I 2F i I itrTi rrnnf i ni -Ti' -ft" li--i '( i ij'n iTfTM'ViiiiniiB atlantic telephone conversation BY JOHN L. SCOTT When I rang, Mrs. Kanin turned from London, Mr.

Powell, the directing half of the team, wryly ad Shoiv Folk in Comfort for Last Act Veterans of Films Playing Out Roles in Country House dena Playhouse 8:15. Starts Wednesday. Saturday matinee. "NOW IS THE WINTER" Coronet 8:30. Starts Saturday.

Sunday matinee 4. Limited Rons "LAS POSADAS" Padua Hills Theater, Wednesday through Fay Kanin, like many another the busy phone over to her husband and beamed with good hu Easterner transplanted to South mor as she told me about the mitted "it wasn't very good." Red Shoes' Pleases He's delighted over the re sponse to "The Red em California, decided to visit new footlight hit. "I found on my Elmira visit her home town, Elmira, N.Y. She found things the same there, but Saturday, 8:30. Wednesday, Sat tnat I naa chanced but it hadn't.

though, both in America and in she explained. "That thought kept England, where it has been "tre discovered she had changed. This provided inspiration for her first play, "Goodbye, My Fancy," runmnsr throueh mv head, sn I mendously popular." This, he started putting It on paper. As added, has not always been the the idea developed, I decided to case: "At home you get more criti which has become a smash hit at the Morosco Theater on New York's have my heroine, a Congress- cism than you do away from BY HEDDA HOPPER The most appropriate story I might write for Hollywood oa this Christmas. 1948.

is the storv woman, return to her alma mater home." Then, elaborating on the urday matinees. "LEND AN EAR" Las Palmas, 8:30. Sunday matinee. "RAIN" Circle Theater, 8:30. Dark Monday.

"SHE HAD TO BE NAUGHTY" Musart, 8:30. Unlimited Runs "DRUNKARD" Theatre Mart, 8:30. Mrs. Kanin, the wife of Michael difference Kanin, who, is the brother of Gar- Written and Rewritten "There's a girls' colleee in EI of our Motion Picture Country "You have your films and we have ours," he "The films mira, which I attended for three we make are made from this side son Kanirt, who is the husband of Ruth Gordon all celebrities of screen and stage has returned to her beautiful West Los Angeles home. years, so I could draw on experi ences there.

Then. too. I did ron of the Atlantic, from our point of view. You make yours from House and the wonderful old show folk who are living there now. Always in the history of the theater its stars and craftsmen have given their time and talent and money to everv worth-whil KEN MURRAY'S "BLACKOUTS" siderable work on Congressional elections here in Southern Cali your viewpoint.

The two Amer ican films with music that I have Town Hasn't Changed She's still in a whirl over the fornia. I just DUt these things liked best were 'The Wizard of El Capitan, Monday through Friday, Saturday, 7, Sunday, 2:30, 5:30, 8:30. INSIDE. OUT" Turnabout, 9. Dark Monday.

together and out came 'Goodbye, cause for charitv the world vr Oz' and 'Cover They used aiy color as color should be used, and our Bob Hopes, Bing Crosbys, THIRTEEN YEARS APART That time separates Calamity Jane as acted by Jean Arthur (left) in "The Plainsman" in 1936 and Jane Russell in same role now in "Paleface" Fay Kanin didn't whin out her Immediate success of her first effort as a playwright and is trying to relax. However, her telephone and doorbell ring constantly. they had music and other things jacK tfennvs. Kav Kvsers. Al Jnl- hit play overnight, though.

It sons, George Jessels, Sophie Tuck we like. On your side you may have thought of them as only Turn to Page 8, Column 4 good films but to us they were ers ana all the others are there whenever the need calls. It is onlv In recent vears that terrific. Hollywood Possibility Hollywood has recognized its re- Calamity Jane Goes On and On Like Poet's Brook BY EDWIN SCHALLERT, Times Drama Editor sponsiDiiity to give security to those who have served our in. dustry; and the country house "Now we over here think 'The Hed Shoes' is a good film.

We hope you over there will think it is terrific! It is obvious we should go on making one or two good pictures on this side but they must be the kind we can do better than you. It helps to even Mrtha Jane Canary, otherwise known as Calamity Jane, shines out as one of the most recurrent heroines in screen history. About things up." I inquired if he and Pressburger would consider producing in Hollywood. (The closest thoy stands as a living, working monument to its own. Beautiful Setting It, is like a fabulous country club, beautifully situated about 30 miles from the Intersection of Hollywood Blvd.

and Vine SL, amidst gardens, oak trees and all kinds of flowering shrubs. It i3 the home of actors and emplo3'ees who have been in our industry for 20 years or more, now without jobs or families to help care for them. The food Is good. There is a theater in which they see the her, because she was the personality girl of her time. Hardly any account is too specific about how she looked, although there are photographs of her in maturer days that register her as a dark-haired type.

Because of her fabulous history any portrayal of her may enjoy much latitude. Her impersonators may portray her as a government mail carrier, an Indian Scout or as a bullwhacker. Early Films Recalled Probably from the beginning have come was Canada, for "The Invaders." at 'the start of the war.) "We might," Powell replied. "It 1 I I y. i fy A yyyyyi my every 13 years she returns.

Although she may have been in some westerns since then, her last impressive appearance was when Jean Arthur played her in Cecil B. De Mille's "The Plainsman" in 1936. Calamity will become practically twins during the coming year, because two film actresses, Yvonne de Carlo in "Calamity Jane and Sam Bass," and Jane Russell in "Paleface," will be seen through the nation as the famous bullwhacking 'lady, whom chroniclers have long labeled one of the most picturesque characters previews of the latest pictures as well as revivals in which many of the guests themselves have starred. They occupy beautiful of the movies on there were Ca-( lamity Janes at intervals in one; and two-reel westerns. It's un-j likely that the film pioneers could i have avoided such a distinctive figure of the early West.

Ethel Grey Terry gets the nod individual bungalows and share an enormous living room, complete with television and a well-filled library. I've paid $30 a day of the frontier days. at a country club or hotel for much less. Beauty in Buckskin Calamity, so these historians de Stars Support Home The Institution Is supported by would depend on the 'Pimpernel Refurbished At present, he volunteered, they are completing "The Elusive Pimpernel," which is the old "Scarlet Pimpernel" with "something new" added. The stars are David Niv-en and a new sensation tall, blond Margaret Leighton.v It will be followed in the spring by "Gone to Earth," with Jennifer Jones a drama of the English countryside which will be "rather like "Wuthering The kaleidoscopic ballet, for "Red Shoes' was, although choreographed by Robert Helpmann, "a combined affair by all of us." In -it Moira Shearer, as the "possessed" heroine of the Andersen fairy tale, literally dances herself to death a feat which is paral leled in the story of the film itself.

"You've seen the ballet?" Powell asked; and when I-assured him, appreciatively, that I had We tried to prove we could hold Turn to page 2, Column 6 all the prominent stars who appear on the Screen Guild Players clared, learned to cuss when she was knee-high to a-duck. She used to tell the small boys off who hurled things at her as a child. air show and donate their salary to the fund; and by the one-half She was a fine-looking woman as the first to impersonate her in more modern times. She was Calamity Jane in the silent film "Wild Bill Hickock" which starred William S. Hart at Paramount in 1923.

She was more or less of an incident in that feature, which revealed Hickok as a two-gun man who shot it out with all contenders. Jean Arthur made a more decisive impression in "The Plainsman," in which Gary Cooper had the Hickok role. They were linked romantically in that story. Jean blended feminine appeal with a rugged attitude, but she wasn't Turn to Page 3, Column 6 of one per cent which is taken out of the salaries of most play when she was dressed up in women's clothes, one historian asserts, but she preferred buckskins most i 1 Ah 1 ers, producers, directors, writers as well as office workers and of the time. craftsmen at the studios.

No matter how rough-and- Because most of its members are former actors, they are, of course, still hams at heart. Un ready she was to conform with the life she led and the times she was more than a favorite in legend. Frontiersmen really loved SUCCESS STORY Fay Kanin, wife of Producer Michael Kanin, wrote a play, "Goodbye, My Fancy," in her spare time which has reached hit classification in New York. The new author tells why and how she hit the "big time" OLD AND NEW Ethel Grey Terry (left) played Calamity in "Wild Bill HickohT with William S. Hart in 1923; Yvonne de Carlo stars now in "Calamity Jane and Sam Bass." Turn to Page 8, Column 4.