Joplin Globe from Joplin, Missouri • Page 11

ATTRACTIONS ON THE SCREEN AND STAGE Music and Romance Keynofe Attractions on View Today Films with the accent on music and romance will keynote the list of attractions playing on Joplin screens today. Comedy, action, suspense and'drama are themes of other pictures on the celluloid calendar. FOX. A musical featuring a new'Cole Porter score, "Les Girls," will be playing as the principal attraction today through Wednesday at the Fox screen. Members of the cast include Gene Gaynor, England's-Kay Kendall, making her Hollywood debut; Taina Elg and Jacques Bergerac.

The picture presents the story of a musical act which tours Europe and gets itself involved in hilarious romantic complications, Seven new'songs by Porter are featured in the film. Supplementing the fare will be ''Rockabilly Baby," a musical drama concerning the struggle of a youthful mother and her two teen-age children to find a place for themselves in hostile small town. Starring Virginia Fields and Douglas Kennedy, with Les Brown and his band featured, the" film introduces three young teen-age newcomers. Judy Busch, Marlene Willis, and Gary Vinson. Opening an engagement Thursday will be "The Missouri Traveler," a film tribute to the American Middle West, particularly centered around the section "in Southeastern Missouri known as the Mark Twain country.

The film's cast is headed by Brandon de Wilde, Garry Merrill, Paul Ford of the Sergeant Bilko 'television show and newcomer Mary Hosford. A world premiere of the film will be held Tuesday at Kansas City. Completing; the fare will be "The Violators." a melodrama starring Arthur O'Connell, with Nancy Fred Beir and Clarice Blackburn cast in other lop roles. TRI-STATE DRIVE-IN. Featured tonight through Tuesday night orrthe Tri-State Drive-In screen will be "The Girl Can't Help It," a comedy starring Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield and Edmond' O'Brien.

Fourteen of the top on the jazz scene today appear in the movie. them are Julie London, Ray Anthony and his orchestra, Fats Domino, the Platters and Barry Gordon. The story evolves around a nightclub entertainer whom a gangster, for romntic reasons, attempts to launch as a jukebox favorite through -gangster tactics. Completing the bill will be "Battle Cry," a war drama starring Aldo Ray, Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Mona Freeman, Dorothy Malone and Anne Francis PARAMOUNT. P-at Boone and Shirley Jones share starring honors in "April Love." a romantic musical which will head the fare today through Wednesday at the Paramount.

The picture presents a story of young set in a. mid-Western background of sulky racing. Others cast in key roles are Dolores Michaels and Arthur O'Connell. "Dino." a drama starring Sal Mineo, Brian Keith and Susan Kohner, will supplement the program. It concerns a juvenile delinquent and the forces which assisted in bringing about his rehabilitation and rightful place in society.

Frank Faylen and Joe DeSantis are featured. Making up the twin-bill offered as the bargain night" program Thuis- day will be "Rebecca." starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fonlaine, and "The Third Man," with Joseph Cotten, Valli, Orson Welles and Howard in the starring cast. REX. A science-fiction thriller, "The Black Scorpion," starring Richard Demming, will keynote a 'triple-feature program offered today at the Rex. CHher features are "The Road to Denver." a western starring John Payne, and "When Gangland Strikes." a melodrama featuring Raymond Greenleaf Tunes, Love and Laughs on City Cinema FareToday HA--Joplin Globe, Sunday, February 2, 1938.

SUNDAY DINNERS ARE TOPS WITH THE FAMILY Your favorite from snacks to 4-course dinners, cooked to perfection and served with distinction. 1210 MAIN SPACIOUS PARKING MA 3-7230 HOLLYWOOD PERSONALITIES By iOB THOMAS. HOLLYWOOD of families make home- movies, hut none has made them pay off as well as a friendly couple named Virginia and Andrew Stone: cost at a major studio. They also lhave won critical acclaim for their quality. The Stone home is a busy beehive most of the time, but it is chaos right now The reason is that they are building a new- cutting room for Virginia out by the swimming pool and tennis court.

She showed me her present base of operations in the basement England's glamorous Kay Kendall is pictured at the upper left with Gene Kelly in a scene from "Les Girls," a musical comedy being featured loday at the Fox. Miss Kendall makes her Hollywood "debut in the film, which features a new musical score by Cole Porter. Pictured at the upper right are Shirley Jones and Pat Boone. who share romantic interests in "April Love." principal attraction at the" Paramount Co-starred in the film are Dolores Michaels and Arthur O'Connell. Jayne Mansfield and Tom Ewell appear at the lower right in a scene from Girl Can't Help It." a comedy featured tonight at the Tri-State Drue-ln.

Edmond O'Brien is starred in the picture, along with Miss Mansfield and Ewell. MOVIE PREMIERE KANSAS CITY Several Celebrities to Attend Initial Showing of "The Missouri Traveler'" Tuesday. Clubs of greater Kansas City to aid their youth welfare program for 1958. Brandon de Wilde, who stars in the title role in the 000 000 tech- nicolor production, will fly here from New York joined by Paul Ford, the popular army colonel of the Sergeant Bilko TV show, who also is topcast in th'e drama. From Hollywood will come Lee Marvin, popular motion picture and TV actor, who also plays a leading role in the Whitney film, projected series stars upon their arrival A motor-120 Optimists Clubs will realize, all cade will bring the personalities to the Muehlebach hotel where they will reside.

The stars will meet representatives of the press from a number of neighboring cities at a luncheon on Tuesday and will participate in other activities later in the day. The premiere will climax all festivities. Setting the stage for the game room Strips of film were Operating from their Westwood everywhere, and Uje billiard ta' 1 -yrtn Hills home, the Stones make mov- We was' stacked wi les with noted stars and the result! Virginia was busy shown in theaters around the world, rather than living rooms. They're a unique film operation. perhaps the most unusual in Hollywood.

Andrew gets the tdea for a movie, writes the script, produces and directs. Virginia cuts the film, assists her husband in many ways and scouts the locations. The latter is no small affair, since their films are shot entirely on location. The remarkable thing their i are made at a fraction of what they would cans of film on the final cut of their last film, "Cry Terror" with James Mason and Inger Stevens, and Andrew was at work on the script of their next one, "Infamy at Sea," with Mason and Dorothy Dandridge. They took time off to explain how they work.

"This is the system that I tried C. Whitney's "The Missouri a Buena Vista release. The event will be held Tuesday evening at Fox Midwest Theaters' Uptown theater with all proceeds donated to the 20 Optimist "Julie," with Doris Day, Louis KANSAS CITY, Feb 1--An invasion of celebrities to this Missouri metropolis will commence Monday, as stars of Hollywood 1 and television start arriving from New York and Los Angeles for the! tne.secona in nis PTM' 61 1 5 event will be a parade of antique gala benefit world premiere nf depicting American history and theater cdeb heritage. Augmenting the celebrity ranks will be John Burress, author of "The Missouri Traveler." who will come from New Y'ork for the festivities. Other leading personalities currently appearing and in neighboring cities also will be Jourdan, Frank Lovejoy and Bar- rities will be photographed as they arrive at the theater.

Brief stage ceremonies, at which the stars will be introduced, will immediately precede the start of the film. It is anticipated that several thousands of will be raised foe the Optimists via the gala de' AH the Excitement of Our Growing-Dp Days! A STORY AS MARK TWAIN MIGHT HAVE TOLD IT! MUSIC AS STEPHEN FOSTER MIGHT HAVE WRITTEN IT! We are fo join the statewide premiere ef this a family entertainment event! TECHNICOLOR' ffl STARTS MI-EM1H! D- THURSDAY-FOX THEATER! Makes the Whole World Young Again! 1 April love monies from the sale of tickets. The opening of "The Missouri Traveler" here will springboard more than 600 engagements of the comedy diama in 19 mid- and southwfisi states ths month. General chairman of the premiere is Mark Stone of the Kansas City Optimist' Club. He is being assisted by C.

L. Hataway, immediate past president of the Optimists, and Ross C. Roach, of the downtown K. C. Optimist Club.

COLOH by DE I.UX1: PLUS! present at the premiere, fast shap- ry Sullivan. -Despite the top-draw- ma as one of the mos i er cdst CMiss- Day earned $200,000) they made the film for a total of 5750,000 How do they do it? By trimming their operation to hare essentials. The equipment can their garage--a light camera, tape recording gear for sound and simple lighting. "We let the locations work for said Virginia, who sometimes must find as many as 7n for a and i mpor a nt entertainment events staged in Missouri in many years. An gram Varied Agenda.

extensive and varied proof activities is being ar- to sell the studios in 1947; said picture. "We'll shoot 'Infanvy at TM Andrew, who had produced some musicals and.comedies for United Artists. "I knew that pictures All the FRIED CHICKEN You Can Eat! Served with Pettitoes, Gravy, Salad, Rolls, Buffer, C1 AA Honey, Drink I iVU SAT. and SUN. 5:30 fe 8 P.

M. DRAKE HOTEL CARTHAGE, MO. could be made on location with is that i a minimum of equipment and ex' pense and a maximum of quality, "I convinced no one. In fact. 11 fear the word got around that pooi- old Stone had" lost his marbles." Stone had met Virginia when she worked for him as a music culler.

They married and formed a team to produce their own Sea' entirely on shipboard, using Matson liners a'nd a ship along the coast" ranged for the visitors preceding their appearance at the initial performance of "The Missouri Traveler." The personalities will meet representatives of the press, TV and radio and appear on a num- io shows during their two-day stay. Civic dignitaries and executives of the Optimists will meet the pictures (as well as two boys. and 10). Falling to get studio backing, they found an angel who backed their first effort, "Confidence Girl." It cost $50,000 and turned a healthy profit They continued operating on their hit the big time with "The Night Holds Terror." a crack melodrama with Columbia bought i Nexi came but of "The Missouri Both the Optimists and Fox Midwest Theaters have agreed not to deduct their expenses for staging the premiere so that each of the All. VOIP CAN EAT" 57 PLUS.

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