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ON STAGE vi ii i -a. in VOU WANT TO KNOW THE SURE THIN WE SnOUlX' Uc SOMETHING, CHINO I WARDROBE Mi STRESS SHE'S A DOLL ABLE TO SET HER JSV Ff OKAY SLAVE UKE HAVING SOME PLACE IS RETIRING ANP Tr- SOMETHING REALLY 1 A TPTTIV WHILE YOU'RE tOGO AND SOMETHING WE'RE TAKING UP lAYANf5 WORKING THINK ItOPOA A C0LLECT10Nl." 7 A Vl OF ME SNUGGLED" kU 1 CS PtT ALREADy TtA A DOWN HERE INPCFi I tH vf- iSr V-Z 5c tc Tony and Debbie in Capitol Film girls than ballroom dancing with 4 Merrick Varmints Rig Rialto Gun Shoot By CHARLES McHARRY The big first annual "Destry Rides Again" gun shoot came off at high noon in Shubert Alley yesterday and 1 was in this thing up to my ears before I realized that no live ammo and not even any red-! Benefit the predatory males with the tickets. Fate pats them together, in the same crummy West Side boarding house. Tony is the idealist whose spirit is not broken by failures or predicaments. His ability to take the blows without bitterness is moral aupport for Debbie even though she-is disillusioned almost beyond redemption.

Their story-ends on a hopeful note if the big opportunity has not yet presented itself. Oakie in Comeback Jack Oakie, in screen comeback, is delightful as a good na-tured, understanding owner of the bar and restaurant where the young people congregate. Kay Medford, one of the stars of the musical "Bye Bye Birdie" at the Martin Beck Theatre, comes through as a fine film personality as the boarding house owner who really has a tender heart under the tough hide. Don Rickles is a slimy villian you will want done away with. Imaginative Touches These performances, all first rate.

Robert Mulligan's tight direction and the imaginative touches he adds for good measure, the New York scenes in color around the Times Square section are the factors of im- By WANDA HALE Taking a leave from lighter things is rewarding for two popular comedians, Tony Curtis and Debbie Reynolds, who give appealing dramatic performances in "The Rat Race," William Perl-berg-George Seaton production presently at the Capitol Theatre. The trials and tribulations the characters of "The Rat Race" have been depicted before on the acreen-but never more effectively than in this adaptation of the Carson Kanin play of 1949. Kan-in wrote the screenplay of his tory about two of the thousands of young people who come, yearly to New York full of ambition and hopes to carve careers for themselves. And are soon shocked into the reality of the struggle to survive in this cold-hearted, competitive city. Hot in Milwaukee Tony plays a musician, a player who was hot stuff in Milwaukee but one of the many who find the going rough here.

Debbie is a dancer, with a cup to show that she was tops in Tampa. Having arrived first, the bet she has done when Tony gets here is dance hall hostess with a boss who expects more of hb Ford's 'Sgt. Vi John Ford has taken the racial prejudice problem, set it in a post-Civil War Western background and come up with an intense, taut and vivid tale. While "Sergeant Rutledge" may not have the scope of some of Ford's productions, it's a darned good yarn, full of all the excitement 1 of the wild and woolly West, from Apaches on the rampage! to an electrifying court-martial trial. The story, on screen at the i Palace Theatre, concerns Rut-i ledge, top sergeant in a Negro' regiment under the command of, whit officers.

Rutledge, called top man by his fellow soldiers and loked up to by them, w-ell Kl-A -A knnnkl. i Rutledge' Opens at Palace eye were to be used. I didn't enter into the proceed ings with complete innocense. I knew the show was rigged, what with having as its sponsors the-ifour varmints who representj David Merrick's current enter-; prises, but I hoped for interesting action. Since Merrick's press agents, have been known to knife each other painfully, what.

I wondered, would stop them from patting, each other with six-guns? He'd Move There Long before sundown, as I pictured it, the Merrick foursome would be riddled and stretched out side by side under the alloy's -Sound of Music" poster. This would horrify Merrick, I figured, and he would be sure to come along and move the stiffs' to a position under the "Take Me Along'' poster, which boosts one of his own shows. Regrettably, nothing like this: happened. With no real bullets to; fire toy pistols ejecting sticks with suction caps were used the PAs were reduced to threats; and other unpleasant verbal ex-; changes. Girls Thre The competition was between newspapermen, theatre managers and the Miles.

Faith Dane. Yvonne Constant, Arlene Golonka and Sara Dillon. One event was; a combination cigar-lighting-f ast draw contest featuring boy-girl i partners. 1 ne gin in eacn irani i nuired to grab a cigar, strip cigar, strip us wrapping. and light was then a a.

it for him. ine. maie free to turn and fire at the target. I picked Faith Dane, the Gyp- sy" bugler, as my partner and we should have won easy, for I'm 1 a crack shot and Faith is the kind of girl who can do anything. She can paint, ride, swim, dive from a high board, dance, sing and she can strip, too.

The one thig ahe can't do and those P.A.s knew this is get the wrapping off a cigar. When 1 cur turn came Faith started i stripping, not herself but the ci- gar. She bungled badly while the i clock ticked on. and when I final- lv got the stogie in my kisser it i wouldn't light, having been bust- led in the strip process. I wheeled taking dead fired anyway.

aim on man- i i Tony Curtis and Debbie Reynolds provement over previous films on this theme. Paramount is releasing the Perlberg-Seaton picture. The Rate Race." a Paramount Technicolor release, produced by William Perlberg and George Seaton, directed by Robert Mulligan, from a screenplay by Garson Kanin based on his play. Presented at the Capitol Theatre. Running time: 1 hour, 45.

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Billie Burke provides some welcome comedy relief as the fluttering, scatterbrained wife of the commanding officer. Willis Bouchey. Judson Pratt and Juano Hernandez are good in supporting roles. Drt Settinr For the background. Ford has gone to Monument Valley on the Ariiona-Utah border, and some of the desert shots are awe inspiring.

Taken from a screenplay by James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck the picture was produced by Patrick Ford in association with Goldbeck. All in all. Ford has once more turned in a gripping, adult Western with a fine modern twist. MAXINE DOWLING "Sergeant Rutledge. a Warner Bros.

Technicolor release, produced by Willis Goldbeck and Patrick Ford, directed by John Ford from a screenplay by James Warner Bellah and Goldbeck. Presented at the Palace Theatre. Running time: 1 hour, 41 minutes. THE CAST: I.inil. Cjinlrril Jetfrrr Hunter Mtrf Hr-her Conun.f Tr Mn ForIe Billie Kurt SkKtoiorr Jdano Hrroamli Wnli Houoh Shatturk.

Crt-ton Tounr l.irul, Mulauwa. I lU VIVIEN LEIGH can be seen as the unvirtuous dueler in "Duel of Angels" which will play its last performance at the Helen Hayes Theatre, Jure 5, as a benefit for the Actcrs' target 15 feet away. I missed, the projectile flying ever the dummy's head and nicking a spectator named Max Eisen. My markmanship wasn't to blame. somebody hadn't win.

and I'd been wmnira mf in given a faulty weapon. The actual winner, supplied with a good pistol and a good stripper in the persen of Miss Constant, was Horace Wright, manager of the Royale, whert Miss Constant appears in Plume de Ma Tante." I'm not sore about all this, much, but the next time any Merrick's boys see me on the street, them rats had better ready to draw. Last Go-Round The American Savoyards ctart their final eight-week Gilbert and Sullivan cycle at the Jan Hca House tonight with "The Yoensan of the Guard. oeman" will 5ply through the matinee Sunday. It will be followed next week -The Constance Towers, who Jeffrey Hunter and Constance Towera rable as Cantrell, defense at- torney who is Rutledge's superior uriiees in his innu- made her Screen debut in ord "The Horse Soldiers," do a noteworthy job.

She plays the role of a girl who has returned from the East to find her father slain by maurauding Indians, and whose own life has been saved bv Rutledge. She also provides ance is given to Carieton Young as the prosecuting attorney, who gains his point by making you killing a young white girl and murdering her father, an officer at the post. The evidence, all circumstantial, is strong against him. The picture is set in the courtroom but reverts to flash-; backs as the witnesses testify. Splendid Portrayal jthe romance in the picture as Woody Strode is cast in the the girl Hunter falls in love with, title rola and srives a splendid: Another noteworthy perform- portrayal of the man who cries for equal treatment as a human being.

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