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Jimmy Misses Ad Lib it i V-ii i Years in Night Clubs Broddtmy Luring Film Players I I. A SUNDAY, NOV. 28, 1954-Part IV Popular TV Shows Good Film Bets In one form or another, popular television subjects are likely to become feature pictures. A deal is being worked out to develop For eign Intrigue, the Sheldon Reynolds show, in that form. Talk is that Life with Elizabeth will materialize for screen, with Betty Whita starred, early next year.

Both Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, with their I Love Lucy and Jack Webb in his Dragnet adaptation have proved the potential of TV a i transcribed for pictures. Requirement A primary requirement, of course, is that the show be indigenous to television, so to put it, and not something growing out of the movie experience of the stars. Miss Ball, a former screen star, and Arnaz proved a perfect case for themselves with I Love Lucy and it won't be surprising if they do another picture later. Jack Webb undoubtedly has still large residual value as a motion picture will be exploited in some sub HOOFERS Besides dancing, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Cloaney and Bing Crosby sing and clown their merry way through Irving Berlins spectacular musical, "While Christmas," which continues at Warner Beverly and Paramount Downtown Theaters. Kaye-Clooney-Crosby talents combine nicely in all the aspects of entertaining show.

jw I .1.., ilii'iiil t- wmm lis GRATEFUL FOR GAGS Jimmy Durante a man who doesn't wait for friends to die before handing out posies. Says he of his writers: of us comedians is worth more'n they put in our mouths." ject aside from "Dragnet. CITY-WIDE FIRST-RUN ENGAGEMENT! 74 Everybody'! toying -0- 1 with 4 Academy "wtff AwarJ Winn.nl HUMPHREY i Ron art winner for "The Africen Queen" AUDREY 1 risY Aibun, diveaish star, ana lius- sell Enoch play lovers in "Intimate Relations" first Cocteau play filmed in English, showing at Sunset, winner for Roman Holiday' thanks. Man, what- a thrill that gives you, Nothin' else in show business like that." I asked Durante if audiences had changed much in his long show business Audiences Still People "Naw," he says, "not much. They're all people.

Maybe there's been a kinda tevelin' off. Ya know, through television and movies. People all over have got to lik-in' the same things. "Years ago, I remember, we took the act to Minne-mapolis. I'd never worked in my life outsida.

New Yawk. So we did our strict Broadway act, ya know, songs like 'I Can Do Without Broadway, but Can Broadway Do Without like 'Jimmy, the Well-Dressed a Broadway numbas. "Well, we died the death of a dog in Minnemapolis, The customers looked at us and saic', 'If Broadway can't do widout 'em, why are they Like a dog we died. Nowadays, a Broadway numba does just as well outa New Yawk as in. Whole country's HOTMN f.

1 Nature Aids Scene in Disney Film Nat-are herself produced one of the exciting scenes in "The Littlest Outlaw," Disney's Technicolor live-action feature depicting the adventures of a boy and a stolen horse. Pedro Armen-dariz plays the lead During filming in a remote part of Mexico, an unsea-sonal rainstorm suddenly isolated the' movie troupe. Producer Larry Lansburgh capitalized on the apparent misfortune by improvising a scene showing 10-year-old Actor Andres Velasquez swimming his horse Conquis tador across a flood-swollen river. Later this proved to be among the picture's high points. "The Littlest Outlaw" also features Joseph Calleia and Rodolfo Acosta.

Roberto Ga-valdon directed, Janice Carroll Will Play College Girl Janice Carroll, who made her debut in "Shane," will play an athletic college girl who strong-arms Fred Astaire into dancing with her in "Daddy Long Legs." ittemumiiKBOTffieof. ORSON WELLES FORREST TUCKER amy ml 11 in lit' ce-ttirrinc wen Fm tte Stem kj HAEffSCE WAISM A REPUBLIC PRODUCTION TRUCOLOR 1 by Contolidttftl jlarrini I MARGARET L0CKW000 I IAIPII "i Am lSUi feiturini i -'Ct MARGARET I -i2l I ARCHIE I DUNCAN I s7 lAvAJAJUil 'A New York today has a sl-renic lure for film players. Some who formerly were very active in pictures are even making Broadway their career. Leif Erickson now has dedicated 14 months to "Tea and a which has claimed such feminine stars as Deborah Kerr and Joan Fontaine for long separations from the cinema. Walter Slezak, active in Hollywood as a character actor until he went into "My Three Angels" and won success, still is pursuing his way in the East in "Fanny," again gaining an enormous personal hit.

Macdonald Carey has been bound over to "Anniversary Waltz" since April. The stage lured David Wayne away from Hollywood in "Tea House of the August Moon" and now TV has lured him away from the footlights, New Career Carved Janis Paige has made an entirely new career for herself in the East, with "The Pa jama Game" assuring her of an indefinite stay, while both Elliott Nugent, who formerly directed many pictures, and Sally Forrest are causing "Seven Year Itch" to continue on and on. An entire group of players like- Lloyd Nolan, John Ho-diak and Barry Sullivan are thorough expatriates from movielarid because of "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial." Jackie Cooper has-been east in "The King of Hearts," which has now closed, while PauJ'Henreid set forth just last Wednesday to join "Festival" by Sam and Bella Spe-. wack. 'Dream of Love Depicts Liszt Life The early life of the Hun-' garian Composer Franz Liszt is recounted in the French-language film, "Dreams of Love," now playing at the Vagabond Theater.

The picture deals with Liszt's love affair with the Countess Marie Liszt is portrayed by Pierre-Richard Willm with Annie Ducaux as the Countess. Mila Parely. plays George Sand. Selections from the works of Liszt, Chopin and Schumann are performed by the Paris Conservatory Orchestra under the direction of Andre Cluy-ton. kinda leveled off in what they like.

"And these audiences today, they know what they like. They're more educated. Maybe they're harder to please. I dunno. "Ya know, later on, when I was in pickchas, Minnemapolis voted.

me their favorite comedian." MfTCHUM-WS WILLIAM A. WELLMAN'S CINemaScOP WMftCftCOLO STKIKOPHONIC tOUH DIANA TAB Lynn Hunter unices iMm hMnnwimna OUT WOO VICTORY MIVt-IN vmj at Caictotjtar ST 7471 IUHjHK PICKWICK illVI-IN )( in is'; CO am row COMPTCHi 2 MOTION 1CTURI MIOH-FID tXTRA! I staniiy WARNER fffi I Beverly hills I WHSMIM UWKU 1.1 in I i 12. 2 30, 5 05. 7 40. 1015 Schnozzola Reviews Old 'Jernt9 Days BY CECIL SMITH There's a photograph that, hangs on the wall of Jimmy Durante's Beverly Hills h.ome of a little guy sitting in front of a beat-up piano on a roll-top stool knocking out a few chords.

His legs are crossed and he holds his head on one side as if listening intently to the music. His coat is on and he wears a porkpie hat. His face is turned away and you can't see that magnificent adornment, that noble schnozzola, the nose, but I doubt if anyone would mistake the subject of this picture. His Favorite Photo And of the 1,000,000 and more photographs taken of Durante during his 40 years of entertaining the public, this is his favorite. "I love this pickcha," he says.

"You know what I'd title it? 'The End of the "Ya know, a guy starts out, he's a saloon piano player, and maybe he gets up somewhere in between, but then he winds up at last playin' piano in some jernt. "That's what this pickcha does to me. That's the way I started out. Maybe that's the way I'll wind up." Sentimental Thought It's a sentimental thought, but a doubtful one. Durante, whose famous schnozz and grating voice have ventured into five entertainment mediums' and conquered them all, is riding high at the moment, in television.

So high, as a matter of fact, that he constantly has to turn down offers from the four other mediums i night clubs, the stage and radio. Jimmy's TV show, seen on alternate Saturdays on KRCA (4) at 9:30 p.m., occupies him completely these days. As soon as he finishes each telecast, he begins worrying about the next, working at his baby grand piano en the songs he will use, conferring on the script. "Them writers got a tough job," he says. "Thinkin' up new material, the way this television eats it up.

"If the truth is known, ya know, none of us is worth more than what they put in our mouths. "Sometimes I wish we had a kinda freedom, go in and just ad lib before the cameras. Like ya was at a party. Like we used to do back in the old club, when it was Clayton, Jackson and Durante. Started in 'Jernt "That's all we did, ya know.

Ad lib. A numba just grew. Most of it ya got from the customers. A customer would enter the jernt, you'd waltz him over to his table give him the: "Here comes a friend of mine. Show him ovah to table nine.

Don't let him buy no ivine 'Cause he's a friend of mine." Jimmy sang out the old words in that famous- croaking voice of his, marking the time with a snap of his fingers, his small frame swinging to the rhythm. He was speaking of the legendary days when he had the famed Club Durant in New York during prohibition and the late Lou Clayton and Eddie M-O-M I. col hy TECHNICOLOR "Til! LAST im I SAY PARIS" Starring ELIZABETH TAYLOR VAN JOHNSON WAITER PIDGE0N DONNA REED litti Ami): Imi Ifmr "fALSTIFFS Fill PETE SMITH'S Ml Dwf rim p. lnPiral fx Comedy in Third Week pt Beverly Canon The romantic comedy, "Bread, Love and Dreams," now is in its third week at-the Beverly Canon Theater Vittorio. De Sica, who di rected "The' Bicycle Thief" and "Shoeshine," brought out the native wit of the Italian peasant, and as a police marshal, he costars with Gina Lollobrigida.

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NOW IN 19 THEATRES! tOmHIK HtiMl AMMWCumOUCIttll I 'II Technicolor rcn cvjhiw mow Mum iwnr traWM Shm and Vnn Pii U(C COTftl 9f nrrtm. mlin UBtffl R. iKWtw PirKIM I) IAT WMH jcacii 2MIMTII Ml WUSWiMPHIR iwui umis mm utniM mum Mr JOHNNY WEISSMUUK "CANNIBAL ATTACK" A COlUMtIA ICIURE alaiTladb!) i Better Bolder than VpP. than (I y)h'l 1 PATRICIA JacKson were his partners. Before the club, Durante was strictly a musician.

He'd started out as a kid in Diamond Tony's "jernt" on Coney Island as a piano player, then had organized and led his own jazz band and finally had. been persuaded to open the club. "I was in show business 15 years before I ever sung a song," he "says. "1 never left the piano. Then when we got this club, I said, 'Look, I'm an owner.

Why should I play piano? We'll hire a piano Then I started singin' and kiddin' around. I became an entertainer. Maybe if we don't open the club, I'm still in some jazz band somewhere. Still, Harry James done all right." Back to the Grind Jimmy shook his head regretfully and said he guessed that ad lib business was out as far as television was concerned. "The way they time it, ya know, down to the second," he says.

"So back to the grind. This TV's a grind all right," but I love it. Tell ya why. "It's because ya go into people's homes, their living rooms, like a member of the family, and you put on your act. Lot of 'em treat me like a member of the family, too.

I put-some girls in the act with short pants, ya know, to here. Ya should see the letters I get. they write, 'Jimmy, you don't need Like they're talking to somebody in the family who is maybe goin' a little overboard. "Or they come up to me on the street. They don't ask for an autograph or nothln'.

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