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Miss Talbot-Martin Turnabout Guest Star Beginning tonight, and for two weeks only, Elizabeth Talbot- Martin takes over the guest star rola in the Turnabout Theater revues temporarily vacated by Elsa Lanchester. Miss Talbot-Martin is classed as one of America's foremost comedy impressionists. She was last seen locally with Veloz and Yolanda. Scores as Dancer Ann Nelson, alternating hero ine of "The Drunkard" at the Theatre Mart, shows her versatility as a dancer in a new olio TOUITE! MAJOR STUDIO PREVIEV LOS ANGELES UPTOWN "QUEESi F0H A DAY" NOT, SHOWN 'AFTER 5 PJI. number, "The Girl on the Police Gazette." She is easy to look at and clicks with her stepping, ably backed up by Jim Bronte and Tom Burton.

Dan Eckley stages the number. LAST DAY! v0 HIGHWAY THE SKY" fcr a DoyI BQAHD HEW JFA1I OifSli XOggnggtCgCimeg2 9 Heroine at Mart TOMORROW! DAMES AND DIVERS 0 DON'T MIX when you're after a million dollars ft a wrr.witii a iwasnnucwing A Crew ot .111.11 Bruce Bennett Obtains Scientific Subject; Lon McCallister Gets Break BY EDWIX SCHAIXERT Bruce Bennett who played Dr. Alan Moritz in "Mystery Street" at expects to create a whole series of pictures based on the scientist's activities in the field of legal medicine; "Mystery Street," it may be recalled, stemmed from investigations carried on at Harvard University when Dr. Moritz was head of the department there. He has since become associated with the department of pathological research at Western Reserve University.

While "Mystery was being made Dr. Moritz was the "jruest of Bennett and the actor then became interested in the work the noted instructor was doing, how he treated various cases: He has now arranged both for the poible production of pictures and a TV series and has engaged William B. Sackheim to write the script of the first film, which he intends to package to some studio with himself as Dr. Moritz. Sackheim is the writer of "The Mother which will star Lo-retta Young.

TU'CAIXISTER WILL STAR AS PIONEER HERO Lon McCallister will have a chance to compete for large western honors, because he has been chosen to star in "Mon-" tana Territory," Technicolor production, as an adventurer in COSTARRED Shelley Winters and Farley Granger, whose names have been linked romantically in private life, portray newlyweds in the comedy, "Behave Yourself," opening today at Pantages and Hillstreet Theaters. A wiiacqr Beauty! FILMLAND BRIEFS HERBERT J. YATES 4 prtnt A WILLIAM MARSHALL 211 1. rTf ture there. He may also visit Australia.

There is talk of his directing 'Flesh and the Devil" in Hawaii, with Ava Gardner, Fernando Lamas and Ricardo Ml 1M I.MOI HO -M own.w oftnuwoow fwnwoo Montalban in the stellar roles. the gold rush of the State named in the title about 100 to: Joe Pasternak is reported test-: ing Beverly Hudson, the Mo-cambo singing sensation for a top spot in the Metro musical, "Baby Needs Shoes," which will star Jane Powell. "David and Bathsheba." holding for a fourth week during its first-run showing here, has already taken in a revenue of $113,650, which is the best record for any picture since "Leave Her to Heaven" back in the "plush 1945 period. Rhys Williams will play the owner of a San Francisco store in "The World in His Arms" at Universal-International. Bill Williams, who is a featured heavy in "Son of Paleface," will start his Kit Carson TV film series Monday, which will consist of 26 half -hour shows to be made by Revue Productions.

Rudolph Mate has been noti ii i mil i ii iff a mm mm -w orv years ago. Colbert Clark is to produce the film with Ray Na-; tarro directing the Barry Ship-, man screen play. The picture -will start next Thursday. Mc- Callister was last in A Yank in Korea." Phyllis Kirk will fly out Sunday to New York to begin rehearsals with Henry Fonda in "Point of No Return." This will be her first venture on Broadway since "My Name is Aquilon" about four years ago. i She lately finished a stellar role opposite Eddie Bracken in llii I ii Patricia Medina 'About Face" at Warners.

mm Patricia Medina will replace Barbara Payton in "The Lady fied that he is the winner of a special annual citation from the Science Fiction a New l. i i (4. York organization, because of his it's been six years since any motion picture has played afGrauman's Chinese Theatre ch a long, record-breaking run! 1 direction of "When Worlds Collide," and as soon as he finishes "The Mother," starring Loretta i Young, will go east to receive the honor. Besides the picture "Today" for J. Arthur Rank in England, Diana Douglas has an offer to star in a production titled "Catalina" in Spain.

First she has to do for Film Group, in India. Before setting forth -for the Far East she will stop at Bermuda to vis-, it her family. Director Clarence Brown will 4 the Iron Mask," starring Louis Hayward. Miss Payton asked to be relieved of the assignment, according to the Wanger-Frenke offices, because she does not desire to work for a month. She had originally been chosen for the role.

Miss Medina has worked with Hayward in other pictures. Milton- H. Bren and Edward L. Alperson have dispatched a preliminary script of the musical version of "A Star Is Born" to Mary Martin "in London with the very much wishful hope of -interesting her in starring in the picture. Miss Martin has been resistant to movie offers.

'KIRK DOUGLAS ALSO YEARNS FOR DIRECTING TAWhat with Dick Powell already set for such an engagement fat Paramount, the business of actors directing pictures seems to be growing in popularity at least in plan form. Kirk Doug- las now has the intention of essaying this with "The Fear-' Makers" by Darwin Teilhet, and wiirpick someone else to star in this production. "The Fear-Makers" is the story about Wash- ington lobbyists that Kirk has long owned for his independent Bryna Productions and he hopes to get to work on that or "The Shadow," by Ben Hecht, as soon as he finishes "The Left Hand of God" for Winchester. He is currently appearing for this company in "The Big Sky." I The MGM Woman's A Cappella Chorus, directed by Jeff ander under the supervision of Johnny Green, will supply all the i music for "Westward the Women," which means that there 1 will be no instrumental scpre in this Dore Schary-William Well-man production starring Robert Taylor. Should be a novelty musically.

JESSE WHITE NOW HAUNTED BY KANGAROOS Jesse White might like to get away from pictures involving animals but they continue to haunt him. He's had the mule Francis to deal with, the monkey Bonzo, and the imaginary 5 I mm continue on to Japan from Hawaii with a view surveying possibilities for making a pic- THEATRE DOWNTOWN noiiywooanrLasraimas wnsmre nr LiuieneEi western ai uirmpie oepunreu-maiiwwici Broadways 6th 10 am Open Daily 12 Noon Daily6'SatSunl2Noon Dairy 6Sat Sun 12:30 Dairy 6 Sat Sun I PM ttonVRE. 4111 Phone GR. 2555 Phone WY. 3154 Phone PA.

1116 Phone OR. 8-2444 Novel Drama iitun 'itiM imzK sii3- TODAY! I. I Opens Today 2Qu "Thunder on the Hill," costar-ring'Claudette Colbert and Ann i Mto lite (Bsrite 1003 iUELf Sfil0ll '1IT jjiun rabbit Harvey. The latest is Blyth, opens today at Ritz, United Artists and Iris Theaters. MOST fOMIOOIN 0 THI WORLD'S OR (AT 10 VI STOtllSI The film drama is an offbeat that he'll be a trainer of kangaroos in "One Piece Bathing Suit," the Annette Kellerman GRAUMAN'S I story to star Esther Williams- CHinoso I DOWNTOWN I CONTINUOUS PEJCFCRMANCIS suspense film involving six people, trapped in a nunnery, and all held under suspicion.

Support is furnished by Robert Douglas, Anne Crawford, Philip Friend and Gladys Cooper. John Litel and Marie Windsor Hollywood nr. Highlond Broodwoy near 8th Cont.12 Noon RE. 4111 after she finishes "Skirts Ahoy." Mervyn LeRoy will direct this for Producer Arthur, Hornblow. Alfred Zeisler, at whose anti-Hitler meetings i were held in Germany, but Oti.

Mm. Nlfhti $1.00 fUt Hn MH. Iacf tn4r- star in "Two-Dollar companion feature. Only -agister of Mercy can. find The Most Beautiful -wwy who made films while Der Fuehrer was in power, and I consequently had contact with mm mil in aateJ Hitler, Goebbels and Goering, the-kev" to unlock Love story Ever told! A Sister of Mercy -the -violent' past 7 and'freethem! if.

XL Am I 5 A condemned 5. i Dill 3 Till IITURT m- 1 Gregg Sherwood will be able to utilize this background of experience very effectively in "Five Fingers" at 20th. He will play the role of Ernst Kalkenbrunner, the bulky chief of German intelligence who was hanged at Nuern-, berg. Normally Zeisler functions as a producer-director rather i than an actor. He made "Parole rnc," "The Life and Loves of and "Alimony," among other pictures.

Gregg Sherwood, who came out to Hollywood originally to appear in "The Naked City" at the instance of the late Mark Hellinger, will report today for a leading part with Lana Turner In "The Merry at MGM. She has been active recently in New York on TV and in stage musicals. She is a real beauty, a Wald-Krasna have chosen Silvio Minciotti, noted star of the Italian-American Theater, to play the father of Paul Douglas in "Clash by which has Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan and Marilyn Monroe in other primary parts. Minciotti, i'Who does not play an Italian in the film, is devoted to his son -and to the accordion. riwaUAM NANCY FRAKK HoldenOlsonIovejgy ws ii ts- rnMICHAL CURT1Z ANTHONY YEILLER rTTtTfi 'V? A doctor and his guilt-ridden wife Jim Than All Cant.

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