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FOUR MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER ALABAMA JOURNAL SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 1931 Ruth Roman Shuns Lavish Dressing Room HOLLWOOD, June as I ELDS VARMER Fields Varner-Amusemcnt Editor The Montgomery Junior League is already busy with plans for another Follies this fall. The date, Oct. 12. A capacity audience attended the organization's production of "Laddies First," in 1949. It was an excellent sho Aug.

21-23 filled with the best local talent available. The show selected this year promises to be even bigger and better. Richard Carlton of Cargill Productions, New York, will arrive several weeks ahead of time to rehearsals Theater-In-Tlie Round To Be Presented By Little Theater The Montgomery Little Theater will introduce theater- ')' Younjr Crooner when onens a thrr-nitrht Ruth Roman says she's never been inside the lavish drenng room her istudio assigned her! Reason: She'd rather bt ths thick of things. "I'm afraid I'll miss something. Miss Roman explains.

She spends her spare time chatting on set with co-workers, circulating around the studio lot, or chang. ing costumes in a portable set-side cubicle. "I rtlax best in a crowd," f-hm says. "I get a tremendous krk out of people. So why go off some place and coop yourself up? I don't want to be alofjf." FRIED CHICKEN To! Cat 85 Htr OJ with Potato SaU a or FroncK Friao Our Specialty 25 Ytor Now Optn Ivtry DoyJ tOO W.

Fairri.w tk. t)04 FURR'S CAFE Phono Orars Roody 20 Miw underway. VARNER A causing quit; whenever he first carried a four-year-old youngster. Tat Thorn, is a hit of comment around town sings. This child prodigy, who tune at the age of two, has made numerous public appearances during the past six months.

He has won three amateur contests, one at the Para mount and the Strand; the patients at the Veterans Hospital 1 li. mummjmmmmmmummtmmmmjmmm.i,w mm HANK WILLIAMS I 1 I SjjJ ill IP Let Graml Ole Opry Star Folk Singer Hank Williams To Sing At Coliseum July 15 Hank Williams, the young Montgomery singer, who has become one of the biggest names in American folk music, comes home for a big celebration in his honor at the Alabama Agriculture Coliseum on July 15. fl ii 0 fH) FORREST TUCKER Adele MARA Swoatkaort of "Sana1 of I wo JW Swoatkaort of "Sands of Iwo Jim' RITA'S BACK: A re-release of "Gilda," starring Rita Hay-worth, is on the double feature bill at the Charles today through Wednesday. Mora OUR GANG COMEDY "When the Wind Blows" LATEST WORLD NEWS Start WED. DeADIN' YOUR IN A ROUGH 'M RUCCCD THRILLER rROU THE UWLESS WESTMf i 1 Ap I A 4 'DOUBLE CROSSBONCS" PAT THORN theater.

He has appeared in number of movies including York." He lives on a farm outside Abingdon and each year to the winner of the Barter Award in the theater he gives away an acre of his land. Such famous people. as Tallulah Bankhead, Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes and Frederic March own a bit of Porterfield's farm. His newest record release is "Howlin" At The Moon," backed by "I Can't Help It." When this recording hit the platter market 100,000 records sold in two days. Some of his biggest hits have been "Lovesick Blues," "Why Don't You Love Me?" "Honky Tonkin'," "I Dont Like This Kind of Livin'," "Moan the Blues." "Mansion on the Hill," and his "Move It On Over," with which he won his national recognition while he was still performing here.

Alabama Company All of the musieiuiis which appear here with Hank, with two exceptions, are Alabamiarus. In addition to the star will be "The Singing Ranger," Hank Snow; the rube comedian, Cederic Rainwater; the hot guitar specialist, Sammy Pruitt; steel guitar man. Don Helms; lightning fingered fiddler, Jerry Rivers, and bass fiddler supreme, Howard Watts. A Xew York Report Oscar Calhoun, the former esteemed reporter for the Advertiser, now living in New York, gets the Sunday issue of this paper every week at the World News Stand at Times Square. Two weeks ago he read Under The Marquee that entertainment news in Montgomery can get rather scarce lin-the-round to Montcomerv engagement of Anita Loos' the Whitley Hotels Blue and Aug.

21. The selection of the Anita Loos comedy was made for a number of reason. It was written especially! for Helen Hayes and was one of her great Broadway triumphs it was presented in-the-round in Birmingham with Joan Blondell in the leading role and was the most successful production of the. 10-week season there, and because the play reading committee considers it one of the best prospects the local drama group has yet attempted. Director Wolf Alva Craig Wolf, wife of WSFA News Commentator John Allen Wolf, will direct the production.

Mrs. Wolf, who was active in the former Montgomery Little Theater when she lived here in the 1930's, waa also active in both Three copies of "Happy Birthday" have been placed at the Carnegie Library. Persons interested in trying out for a part may check them out for a limited period of two days. directing and acting In the Jackson Heights, L. Little Theater at the time her husband was one of the Columbia Broadcasting System's top announcers.

Allen Draper who produced Theater-in-the-Round during a 10-week season at Birmingham's Redmont Hotel last winter, is acting as technical advisor. The director and production staff of "Happy Birthday" have already had two conferences with Draper. For the first time the Little Theater is opening the door to non-members to try out for acting roles and to work on the production staff of the summer production. President Fields Varner says this is to stimulate new interest in the group and to get a larger membership and season ticket roll for the 1051-52 season. Large Cast "Happy Birthday" will have the largest cast of any production (lie Little Theater has yet presented.

Tryouts will be held at the Carnegie Library on July 9, 10 and 11 at 7:30 p.m. The 19 members of the cast will include: Addie, the leading lady, SUNDAY and MONDAY SftHCtk JAMtS TRACY STEWART VALENTIN A C0RTESJ PLUS CARTOON GARY GRANT 1 "urn "STORM WARNING' Ginger Ronald RfAOIN Show 1. FiJkST CHANCE TO SEE THIS I SHOW I I Honey Wogner Th World- Greatest A Acrobatic Tumbltr III PLUS ill Joyefts Badtlful Chorui Lin fS Sunday Pooal SrV SPECIAL C4l -lv SJV SpjfharH iifZ Salad II Bvrag JjiCK r2g 1 WrTVL w' GoH's yf a Orchestra Jlfl If Shows JUS I 11:30 ijuf Enjoy tna coot- ft I Wf Jjf li romantic P'J "5S IrN Double Ftatur Nit comedy "Happy Birthday," at Gray Room on the night of 1 ALVA CRAIG WOLF a librarian, who wanders into a cocktail lounge and learns of life in the raw; Gail, the cocktail lounge hostess; Dad Malone, the waiter; Gabe, a married man who Ls involved with another charac ter, Bella; Herman, the bartender; June, a good time lady; Maude, a beauty parlor operator; Don, Gail's son; a judge; Paul, a bank clerk; a policeman; Tot and Emma, two old biddies who fre quent the cocktail bar; Manuel and Margot. a rhumba team; Mr. Bemis, Addies father, and Mr Nanino, the owner of a beauty shop.

The Friendly Theatre PROGRAMS 2:00, 3:33, 5:23, 7:13, 9:03 WOO rTy PETER LAWFORO SARAH CHURCHILL KEENAN WYNfl BRING HOME THE SENSATIONAL MOVIE HITS OF Hoor tho mahing re nor voko thot'i won America' hoort all it glo-riout to no and romantic boautyi ON RCA VICTOR RECORDS AT II v- LAi till af 1 1 vv Ml cheered him after he per formed for them; and following a broadcast over WJJJ the studio was swamped with calls requesting Pat come back for a return engagement. One of the biggest problems the mother of the young "crooner" faces is getting her little star to rest on the day of an appearance. She can tell the difference in his performance when he doesn't. His mother is Mrs. Clara P.

Thorn. Thev live at 14 Holcombe Street. Montgomerian At The Barter Robert Porterfield's Barter Theater at Abingdon, during its relatively short existence, has achieved worldwide fame. It has launched such stars as Gregory Peck on an acting career. It has given some excellent productions.

Mrs. Harold Watkins, of Montgomery, was privileged a few weeks ago to be in the audience on opening night of the 1951-52 season. She says it was even a greater thrill than an opening night on Broadway. The play was Moss Hart's "Light Up The Sky. The cast was excellent and no doubt there was a future star in the group.

Producer Porterfield has had a varied career in the 28 Broadway productions, and "The Yearling" and "Sergeant the sea is Helena Carter. Not In Technicolor II MY IOVI end The singer of folk music, who' began his first radio show over Radio Station WSFA, is being presented by the local Junior Chamber of Commerce. All proceeds will go to the organization's charity fund. Recipient of award after award, Hank's den in hi.s home in Nashville is beginning to look like a trophy room. It is the opinion of the big staff of entertainers and production men at WSM's (Jrand Ole Opry that Hank Williams is the givatest.

as well as the most prolific writer, of folk mu.sie ever to appear the Opry. Hit Songs In current national ratings, the former Monlgumerian has three tunes listed in the 10 songs of the Hill Billy Hit Parade. At one time during the past 12 months five of the 10 songs which Williams sang frequently were his own compositions. Jimmie Fidle HOLLYWOOD, June 23 It's a rare week when some spokesman for the movie industry fails jto climb aboard a soap box aijid give forth with indignant remarks about the censorship imposed upon films. iThe speech, after a preamble setting forth the sanctity of "free speech," becomes a contention that the film studios now have such high regard for the public welfare that they may be trusted to police them selves and dish out nothing harm ful or in the least degree offensive.

I approve heartily of the ideals presented in the preamble, but I'm exceedingly distrustful of the rest of it. I remember too vividly the pictures which were produced before public indignation tightened the reins of official censorship, called into existence such unofficial censorship as that imposed by the Legion of De cency, and frightened the movie makers into adopting a "production code" and setting up the Hays Office to enforce it. I'm also too well aware of the hundreds of efforts which have been made and are still being made by individual studios and independent producers to dodge the restrictions of that Eduction code. In support of my views, I want to call your attention to a survey made recently, here in Los Angeles, of the program offered on another entertainment medium television which not at the present time nubjected to censorship. TV Magazine, which conducted the survey, reported as follows: "One hundred and twenty-seven murders.

101 "justifiable homicides," 357 attempted murders, 93 kidnapings, 11 jailbreaks that's what the young fry saw on television programs broadcast in one week by seven Los Angeles stations. Eighty-two per cent of the crimes occurred on programs designed especially for children." True, the television industry is not the movie industry, but even now they're sufficiently interlocked, through the exchange of personnel, to rate as first cousins. Nine- tenths of the men producing TV shows today either are still in, or were in, until very recently, the motion picture business. Without restraints imposed upon them, they're forgetting the public reaction to those pre-Hays Office films I mentioned, and they're doing exactly the same thing that many moviemakers did 20 years ago, and, in my opinion, would do again, if they had the chance. They're engaging in a contest to see which one can out-do the rest in capitalizing on sensationalism.

I've read' several statements that Joan BlondelL after finish In Hollywood ing' her role in "The Blue Veil," will return to New York where she has established permanent residence, but I've read nothing about the new career she has built, with Gotham as her home base. A very profitable career, too, from all accounts. She spends about months of the year on tour, starring in "local talent" productions' of three plays, "Come Back, Little Sheba," "Happy Birthday" and "Annie Get Your Gun." In these shows, she is the only professional player, and the only one paid a salary. All of the other parts are played by the home town folks. (Distributed br McNuht yndlr.l.

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Being the newsman that he is, Reporter Calhoun came through with a letter filled with all sorts of items of interest to Montgomery. His biggest news is that Helen Claire, the Union Springs actress, is being signed by the Theater Guild to play the lead in a new play, "Lover Come Back To Me." This is her first stage appearance since she scored such a big hit a number of years ago in "Kiss The Boys Goodbye." In the meantime Miss Claire has become one of the top radio actresses of today. Petite Lily Pons, the coloratura thrush of the Met, recently pinch-hitting for Broadway Columnist Dorothy Kil-gallen, started her column off with something I said about her when she was in town a couple of years ago. Miss Pons wrote: "Once when the leading hotel in Montgomery, refused admittance to my Tibetan poodles and we spent the night in a motor camp, a reporter wrote that I must surely love animals as much as I do people. I wouldn't go so far as People are people and animals are animals, but I do love animals and don't think that consideration for them 'should be anything out of the ordinary." (Neither do we, Miss Pons.) Mr.

Calhoun has seen about every show on Broadway. He was impressed with "South Pacific," found "The King And almost perfection itself, was a little disappointed in "Guvs And Dolls," and surprised at the entertainment he found in "Flahooley." Caruso On Film This week the Paramount presents one of the best double bills of the season. Opening today is "The Great Caruso," one of the biggest hits to come out of Hollywood this year. Wherever it plays it has been drawing record crowds. Mario Lanza pays Knrico Caruso, the immortal tenor.

It presents the greatest nrray of singing talent ever assembled on the screen, and Includes: Blanche Thebom, Dorothy Kirsten, Jarmilla Novot-na, Teresa Colli, Nicola Moscona, Guiseppe Valdenga, Lucine Amara, and Marina Koshctz. The many arias from "Rigolet-to," "Aida," "La Tosca," "La Boheme," "La Gioconda," "I Pagliacci," "Martha," "Cavalleria Rusticana," and the lighter classics, "Because," and "Ave Maria," are all included in the production. A'nr Blythe is cast as Caruso's wife. "I Was A Communist For The FBI," coming to the Paramount the last of the week is a picture every American should see. It stars Frank Love joy and is based on the "amazing true experience of an undercover man.

To get the needed information on the Communists of this country, Lovejoy turns his back on all previous connections. Included in the cast are Dorothy Hart and Philip Carey. "California Passage" is now showing ai'the Empire. It stars Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara and Estellita Rodriguez. Set against a background of pioneer California during the gold-rush days, the story follows the fortunes of a pretty girl and her brother as they journey across the country to join their brother who has staked a claim on a rich gold mine.

Donald O'Connor plays a comic pirate in "Double Cross-bones," which arrives at the EmDie Wednesday. Co-starred i Shew today at 2:00. and NOW tn4. TUtS, wit Don I O'CONNOR i it) "GREAT CARUSO" How Showing Paramount Thsslro Through Wed. If I i I I Vet'i lo Albwm W0M150S.

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