The Times from San Mateo, California • Page 33

Joan Blondell Still Saucy Filmland By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD Ufi A 25-year veteran in Hollywood and becom- ing a grandmother, Joan Blondell is still as saucy and successful as ever in movies. Joan is batting her long eyelashes and aciing with her usual Xverve in "This Could Be the her third film in quick Succession. Earlier she did "The Sex" and next Sshe goes into "The Desk Set" with Hepburn and Spencer And she says her agent another assignment warming the bull pen. All of which proves that talent rtells. Back in the early '30s, she a kid named James Cagney picked out of a Broadway and brought to Warner For 10 years, she served the studio's stock company t'along with Dick Powell.

Ruby "Keeler. Warren William, Guy Kib- ifiee. Frank McHugh, Allen Jen- Jkins. etc. i-i "Oh, those were hectic times." reminisced.

"I was literally Jjjoing two and three pictures at ta time." But survive she did. She has al- Sa'ays kept active in films, minus out for matrimonial and wither ventures. "I've always thought a if you your job, you ought to be Rafale to find work," she said. "Of in every acting career cfhere are 'rtain transitions you to make." She feels she has made hers. least they don't cast me as a xdumb chorus girl any more." she "I played so many of 4hose I couldn't think of any new sjf'ay to do it, except maybe stand- yjig on my head." Note: In her current i Joan JJilays an ex-chorus girl.

i While she's working in Holly- SjFood, she lives in an apartment her daughter Ellen. 18. But Jfier home is in Manhattan. Her big interests are her chil- Sren. Ellen is an avid horsewom- "jrn and is studying horse raising St Pierce College in the San Fer- 'Srando Valley.

Her son Norman igraduates from Cornell University 5Jft June. He's married and his is expecting a baby in March. "ASTRO-GUIDE" For Thursday, For You Yours Benefic radiations continue and outlook is similar to. yesterday's. Popularity, credit and respect are accented, and career matters, advancement, and attainment of positions of responsibility are all favored.

Appointments should be kept promptly. Life smoothly at home now and co-operation can be obtained it you need it. Although new homes will continue to be built in record numbers, the percentage of vacant dwelling units will not increase to the point of alarm for some time to come, if ever. By Ceean December 13 1 Past frVFek Aif4s) flmyi The American religious leader and author Phillips Brooks was born December 1835. Although many will not recognize his name, they will remember one of his works Little Town of Bethlehem." The Day Under Your Sign A I March 21 to April 20) You xain by keepinp in tlir background and letting, have the airtight.

TAURUS (April 21 to May 20) Your helpfulness will be recognized but don't let ethers saddle you ivith llieir responsibilities. I I a 21 2 Transit? accent concentration anil study. but don't be aloof if others approach for a i hand. CANCER 22 Jo July 22) Relatives or superiors may seem too demanding. Just do what you can and LEO (July 23 to 22) A short trip is cominR up soon.

denote radiations in the Leo horoscope. Start making plans VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22 Accent is on domestic metiers, Gon! i to- acquire new household i ings, new -wardrobe-, etc. LIBRA An in (Sept.

23 io 22) terestint; day. Good time to strengthen relationships which have been SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 22) Focus Cood aHertlion oil job matters. me to seek advancement in pres- tiRe a i SAGITTARIUS (Nov.

23.to Dec. 2 1 Givr 1 may lousiit to your wardrobe. You ed to Ret somr new items before the Holiday festivities. CAPRICORN (Dsc. 22 to a A rat er unusual day is iiromised in the Capricorn chart.

Help is likely to A A I a 20 to Feb. Brinj; you' 1 thinkin your into ay mm persuade others to ymir 'way Money available if you need il. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Do mo find itahle re isteninR tli.tn taking. You may it somctliir.K that will prove pro to you soon.

1956, Field Enterprises, Inc. "Christmas Carol" to Get Two Showcasing SAND NOT SUITABLE BORREGO I Calif. gUP)--Officials of the De Anza jCountry Club, building a new 'rgolf course in this Southern California desert region, discovered an They couldn't find any sand suitable for sandtraps. The Piano-Organ-Mandolin Combination Saloon Pieces al The Swinging Door 106 East 25th San Mateo By ALINE MOSBY United Press Hollywood Writer (UP)-- Christmas two TV networks are unabashedly handing viewers the identical present--musical versions of the Charles Dickens' classic, "A Christmas Carol." At the demand of fans. CBS-TV is running for the third season its 90-minute filmed musical version of the famous story.

Fredric March and Basil Rathbone are stars of the presentation Thursday evening. And, as if one good show calls for another. NBC-TV is staging the same Dickens' sotry on Dec. 23--also as a musical. If this show looks familiar, it may be because Basil Rathbone, the ghost in the CBS version, will be seen as Scrooge on NBC.

Singers in NBC Version The NBC musical, re-named "The Stingiest Man in Town," also will star real singers--Patrice Mtinsel, Vic Damone and Johnny Desmond. The CBS show was made two years ago by producer-director Ralph Levy, who took the idea to the network because he wanted to try something more serious than his Jack Benny program. He graciously says he doesn't mind that NBC is musicalizing "Christmas Carol," too. "More power to them," he said. "We've been doing our version longer.

Besides, I'm sure they'll have a different treatment. I must say I don't approve of popular singers for the classics. Damone and Desmond are good but I wouldn't fool with the classics that way. Our version is more like an operetta." Purists Pacified idea of setting Dickens' The story to music at first appalled the purists. After the first CBS showing of Christmas Carol" on "Shower of Stars," the spon-' sor raked in "several thousand letters." Some were laudatory, others complaining.

"But the rating was good so the show was run again last year, and we received even more letters of praise," Levy said. "This year the sponsor got many letters from viewers wanting to know if the show would be repeated again this season." "More power to "em," he said. Carmel Used In Film 'Julie' By LESLIE I)ARD A suspense drama involving an insane husband determined to kill lis lovely wife is unreeled in "Julie," which was filmed against Monterey and Carmel area sackgrounds. Doris Day plays a tense and breathless" Julie in this feature, which will open tonight at the Peninsula theater. Her jealous mate in his pell-mell melodrama is portrayed by Louis Jourdan.

The entire effort might be subtitled "The Perils of Julie." For example, in the opening scene, she and Jourdan have had a row while they're out driving. He stamps his foot down on the accelerator and they're off and running. When she discovers that Jourdan killed her first husband he had rigged the death to look like suicide Julie takes tiff and keeps going, specifically in the direction of the Sa Francisco police. She checks in at a hotel under an assumed name. But soon the phone rings and Jourdan's voice comes through: "Julie, you are going to die." Director-writer Andrew Stone seemingly was determined to keep Miss Day in a state of frazzled nerves for the entire 106 minutes of running time.

And he has fairly well succeeded. The police listen to her story-but they can't help her without proof. A friend, Barry. Sullivan, tries to protect her, and Jourdan almost put him out of commission for good. When the police finally do move in to help, Julie is on her way downstairs while they're going up in the elevator.

All this can only end in one really tense sequence, and so it does, high in the clouds on an airliner, where Julie is plying her old trade as a plane stewardess. Who shows up? The mad Mr. Jourdan. And he kills one pilot, wounds another before he himself is brought down with a fatal bullet wound. Which leaves Doris with the task of bringing down the craft safely (with a bit of help from the control tower), although she never has piloted a plane before.

Stone has staged this film strictly for the excitement inherent in the situations in which he has placed Miss Day. IN SHOR.T: Chase melodrama. Macadamia, Nut Tree Search Is On RIVERSIDE, Calif. UP) If you have a macadamia. nut tree in your yard, a University of California horticulturist would like to know about it.

Dr. William B. Storey is searching for the rare trees, originally imported from Australia, in an. effort to find a high-yielding variety that withstands cold. Macadamia nuts are now so hard to get that they cost $4 per pound retail.

Michigan State and Purdue are even in their football series five victories each with one tie. Mrs. Nick Condos In Suicide Try MIAMI BEACH (UP)--The 24- year-old wife of actors' agent Mick Condos remained in a coma more than 24 hours after she took "40 to 50 barbiturate capsules." Doctors said Barbara Caplin Condos, former New York fashion designer who married Condos two years ago after he divorced com- medienne Martha Haye, was in serious condition from the overdose of sleeping pills. Doctors Tuesday described it as a "suicide attempt," her second in the last two years. SAN MATEO SAN MATEO Dl 3-56SI "1000 Years from "Invasion U.S.A." MANOK 5-1010 "The "Huk." PAI.H FI S-1015 "Lust lor Life." BURLING AME PENINSULA Dl "Stranffe Intruder." BELMONT BELMONT LY Starts "First TexE.n." DEIVE IN LI 3-m-i "Love Me "Beyond Reasonable Doubt." SAN CARLOS CARLOS I.T 3-2110 "Tea and "Unguarded Moment." LAUREL LX 3-3180 "Julie." REDWOOD CITY FOX EM H-K "The "Flight to Hong Kong." MENLO PARK PARK DA s-ciai "Lust for "Donald's Snow GUILD DA 3-6760 "Devil in the Flesh." SAN BRUNO EL CAMINO S-0'4 1 "The "Great Day In the Morning." MILLBRAE MILI.BRAF.

OX 1-4444 "Unguarded Mo- Jlickey Mantle is the first to lead the American league in home rims two years in succession since 1942 when Ted Williams did it. "The SAN FRANCISCO STATE 3V 8-1434 "Between Heaven and Hell." A DRIVE-IN PI. 5-30(10 "The solid Gold "Unguarded Moment." COLMA SERRA PL 5-UH-, "Toward the "Raw Edge." PALO ALTO STANFORD DA 3-41011 "Love Men "Fliffht to Hong VARSITY DA 3-6411 "Man from Del Rio." CARDINAL DA 2-J1771 "Teen-Age "Between Heaven and Hell." DRIVE-IN "There's Always a "Greatest Sex." SHAP.P PARK SEAVOE Ft "The Opposite- "Miami Expose." HALF MOON BAY MTIO Double Feature. DRIVE IN Belmoni Gates Open 6:30 LY 3-0074 Staris 7:00 ENDS SATURDAY MR. ROCK in the sto he was'Dorn to pi THRILLING CO-FEATURE "BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT" DANA ANDREWS IDANFOiiTliNE Ladies' Day Dec.

13 For S. M. Rotary Ladies will be honored guests at Thursday's -regular noon meeting of the San Mateo Rotary club at the Benjamin Franklin hotel. Chairman of the event is Dennis Hession. Corsages will be provided the ladies and there will be entertainment.

Eight carloads containing 68 thoroughbreds checked in at Hialeah in one day in November to prepare for the winter meeting. TRAViHiWORLD t- GLOBAL ZOBEL WEDNESDAYS 6:30 P.M. tonight MYRON ZOBEL presents CHAPTER III OF CAMERA inside RUSSIA UNCENSORED FILMS OF LIFE BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN KRON -TV PALM I7TH-ONE BLOCK OFF.EL CAtKHO FIresiie 5-1015 fle was not a he lived with insatiable passion I KIRK DOUGLAS in M-G-M's end METROCOIOR CO.JTJUBNG ANTHONY QUINN James DON AID- Pamela BROWN wM Everett SLOANE M-G-M presents (he year'e big suipense-shackerl DORIS LOUIS DAY-JOURDAN BARRY FRANK SULLIVAN; LOVEJOY mJULIET An Production CO-HIT Edmund Purdom Ida INTRUDER" DOORS OPEN 6:45 STARTS TONIGHT "'SHNMOTEO Wednesday, Dec. 12,1956 San Mateo Times--33 TONITE THERE WAS A KILLER IN HER the law said he had a right to be there! M-G-M Presents DORIS DAY LOUIS JOURDAN BARRY SULLIVAN FRANK LOVE JOY LAUREL THEATRE GIFT TICKET BOOKS NOW ON SALE COMING CHRISTMAS DAY GIANT EL CAMINO 25th SAN MATED ILLBRAE SHEER SUSPENSE YOU'LL CLIMB AN IMPOSSIBLE MOUNTAIN SEARCHING FOR THE WRECKAGE OF A GIANT AIRLINER! SPENCER TRACY ROBERT WAGNER RON RANDELl GLORIA SAUN YASTlTiKS ttRY THE PRETTY GERALD MOHR CASTLE DAN 0 HttUHY AND THE BOY WHO GREW UP TOO PENINStTLA Open 6:45 DORIS DAY -JUTJE" Phone Dl 3-1825 "THE STRANGE INTRUDER ESTHER WILLIAMS GEORGE NADER CARLOS--Open 6:45 Phone LY 3-2110 FOX--Open 6:45 Spencur Tracy "THE MOUNTAIN "FLIGHT TO HONG KONG" STANFORD Open 1:00 Phone DA 3-4100 TONITE! AT 8:45 One Knife Against A Thousand Knifed OF ALL THE HEART-STOPPING MOMENTS THE SCREEN HAS BROUGHT YOU- JHIS IS WE MOST VICTOR MATURE THE and introducing KAREN STEELE JAMES OLSON with PHILIP COOLIDGE RAFAEL CAMPOS CLAUDE AKINS GEORGE NBSt Screenplay by LAWRENCE ROMAN mid JOHN ROBINSON- produced SAMUEL GOLDWYN, JR. Dirscted by JERRY HOPPER Released llmi United Artol! THRILLING MOST SAVAGE GUERRILLA WAR ON AT CIOMOI MOMA MONI60MEKIT- FREB4AH RtltaH tfru UNITED MIRI..