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VOL. CLXXV. No. 184 THE GAZETTE. MONTREAL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1946.

THEATRE 5-? Guide to Theatres AN ATOMIC ALLURE Rita Hayworth Lives Up To Her Press Agent's Inspiration in 'Gilda' By HERBERT WH1TTAKER IS '-5 i "GILDA" I -FANNY BV GASLIGHT." AT THE PRINCESS. Gainsborough Production, directed by Anthony Asquith. Adapted from AT THE PALACE Picture djreed by Charles Screer.piay by Marion Person-ete Character Players Gsiaa Rita Hayworth me novel ny Michael saaieir Characters. Plavers. Glenn Ford Jf.hr.rsf Farrell Phyllia Calvert Mason Wilfrid Lawaon Stiewart Grander Jean Kent MarirueriUa Scott Nora Swinburne Cathloen Nesbett Fanny Lord Manderstoke Chunks Harry Sommerford Lucy Alic.a Mr.

Hopwood Kate Sommerford Mrs. Sommerford George Maoready Joseph Gaileia S'even Garay Joe Sawyer Gerald Mohr Hobert Scott lAtrtwig TVinath Don FoURlas Lionel Rivo Mundson Oriresnr. Cy GaS Evans Thorn a Langford Orman (Saturday schedules only.) LOEWS "Saratoga Trunk." at 10.50. 1 25. 4.00, 6.35.

9 15. CAPITOL "One More Tomorrow," at 10.15, 12.35, 3.00, 5.20, 7.45, 10.05. PALACE "Gilda." at 10.00, 12.20. 2.40. 5.00, 7.20, 9.40.

PRINCESS "Fanny Bv Gaslight," at 10.00, 12.50; 3.50, 6.50, 9.50; "The Falcon Alibi," at 11.45, 2.45, 5.45, 8.45. IMPERIAL "She Wrote The Book," at 12.10. 2.35, 5.10, 7.45, 10.20; "Smooth As Silk," at 11.00, 12.25, 3.55, 6.25, 9.05. ORPHEUM "Les Folles Heri-tieres." at 10.00, 12.20, 2.40, 5.00, 7.20, 9.40. CINEMA DE PARIS "Les Mile-rabies" at 2.24.

450. 7.18. 9.45. SNOIVDON "Diary Of A Chambermaid" and "Breakfast In Hollywood." YORK "Leave Her To Heaven" and "Breakfast In Hollywood. WESTMOUNT The Bandit of Sherwood Forest" and "One Way To Love." MONKLAND "My Reputation" and "Shock." KENT "Back Street" and "Princess O'Rourkp." CABARET EL MOROCCO Two chowi tightly ESQUIRE Two shows nightly Tha SAMOVAR Two ahowa.

Helen Haye 3 S. Z. Martirl Man li a Georse J. Lewis If this English-made movie kidded itself a little bit more, audiences (on this side of the ocean, at any rate) would have more fun with it. As it is, you are left to find out for yourself just how seriously it is intended.

As it is, some in the audience J. Mana Rom Ry Getting the.r clients' names in prominent places Is the occupation cf whole flocks of press-agents, and rome of them are very clever people. the best job to have ewe by a press-agent any way this peas cm was that, bv which Rita may well go right through the pic- iuie wnnoui leenng that its Victorian melodrama is too Victorian and too melodramatic to be accept ed witn a straight race. If they I luiurv udiiv uvn me pini auerwaros, they'll realize just how thickly mings nave oeen iaia on. Whether 4 Michael Nadliers novel was so or not, Fanny By Gaslight, as a film, includes too many literary and theatrical cliches to be anything but a delicate burlesque.

time but the huge show nine box-cars are needed to move its scenery had to do top trade to stay in contention. 5 Fanny, it seems, Is a good Kir heart -of -gold, innocent of brow and pretty, too. Its just as well she is, for her life would have broken a less pure spirit. Fanny, all dewey-eyed from school i she stays that way)' sees her father pushed under a horse by the wicked Lord Manderctroke, Protesting, she discovered that her father has been the proprietor of a rather elaborate brothel, which he keeps the cellar. Ther.

she dis covers that William. Hopwood is no father of hers. She is really the illegitimate daughter of a politi 1 cally prominent person. A iheauti- ftil affect ion springs up between Fanny and her real father, uphap-pilv cut. short when hi wife, a selfish beauty, discovers all and Night clubs are feeling the postwar pinch even more sharply.

A few of Broadway's more garish bistros have closed "for alterations" while others admit to a drop of at least 75 per cent, at the gate. Most have lost at least 25 per cent and the average drop is 50 per cent. As a result many of the after-dark rendezvous have cut down their floor-shows, laid off a waiter here and a cook there and tightened the managerial belt until cooler weather sends the patron back in-nido if. Decrease in the throngs who jostle under the display-lights of Times Square where last summer and for years- before servicemen and women in the uniforms of a dozen allied countries could be aeen on almost any Mock has dealt similar damage to those wh.i subsisted on the lesser takings from the war-trade. Souvenir-shops, bowling alleys, side-street bars, penny arcades, shooting galleries and the like are just barely hanging on.

The bars have the best chance of survival. Unless the autumn sends the market soaring back up it is bound to, in some degree, but how far is the question Broadway's palmy days are over for this decade at least. uses her information to secure a divorce so that she can marry that Hayworth had her name inscribed on "the atom bomb. That association cf M.fs Hayworth and the atomic force will undoubtedly persuade millions of movie-goers that the redheaded Hsr has even more attribute in common with the bomb than she has. But it must be admitted thst Mis Hayw-orth's atomic appeal is not all a figment ot her press-agent's imagination.

Nor is it the job of esT.ir.g attention to it left entirely to her hired help. Hayworth. who transformed herself from a plump, dark Italian into the vibant, flashing sexy creatf.re she is now. is her own best drum -beater. She turns in a terrific display of present and poterUal charms.

Evsry toss of the eyeLfls. the lively mane of hair, the eln5'je-t calculated to give t-e ruMic what it comes to see. Tn short. Hayworth not only acquired the looks and the figure. sv-e bar the technique, too.

And rat's v.ni to he confused with techr-ia Ore must say thst. in Gilda, Miss Haywnrth is rot without, assistance. Columbia has gone all out to present its atomic star in as attractive a light as poss.ble. The photography is at Ume positively inspired. The Havworth wardrobe, also well-pub-1 is worthy of the current Snba.

The story is mathematically calculated to serve the same cosmic aim, Gilda is a fabulous creature, an Amer can exotic loose in the centres of South America. As Marlene Dietrich used to sing. rn pother 'round hrr like moths irourd a fiame and Gilda's coquetry is on broad and simple lines. But, obeying the first law of the glamor girls. Gilda has but rr.e tme love.

She spends most nf the film derr.nrust rating how she hates the man she loves, but, audiences are aware that this ma.sk of hatred must ilip before th final fade-out. "One of the moft interesting love-hate patterns I have ever had the opportunity of observing," remarks one of the minor philosophers in the picture. Audiences are likely to take a less clini-ral view of it. and simplv enjoy the battle which goes on between and her true love, knowing comfortably who is going to end in whose arms. In addition to Gilda's love-hate, the film aUa finds tima for a story cf a en cartel, with overtones of world domination.

same nasty old Lord Manderstroke. Fanny's father does the only thing a gentleman and statesman can do and Fanny is left to fend, a3 they gay, for herself. It's a beautiful story, and 111 not spoil it for you. I won't even say how Fanny falls in love with another politically prominent person, S. the handsome and dashing Marry Sommerford, and how.

despite his oroud family's opposition, they run away to Paris (Fanny still dewy V' eyed as ever) and how uord Manderstroke turns up again, and how there is a duel and how no, I'll not spoil it for you. 1 i This animated novelette is ten derly broiicht to the screen integ s-k rtirun i tv1 II 1 rity by a cast of rare tact and integ UIMILAUu rity. Neither in accent, gesture or Paradise Cafe- Ti FAST LIFE OF VARIEO SORTS: At the top Rita Hayworth has a gay time at the gambling table. This is in the Palace's new film, Gilda. Down below, Phyllis Calvert.

Stuart Granger and James Alason participate in a little Victorian melodrama in a London nightspot of the period for Fanny By Gaslight, which is at the Princess. 1252 St. Antoine PL. 1994 "Harlem in Montreal" Broadway Falls on Gloomy Days As Audiences Head Out of Town Til I' Ai V. S.

-mm. C0WMl4 NOW SHOWING if hi NG (JCl- NOW SHOWI IT now SHOWING vri in 1 rTl Ml VI -4 MV sir i i i ft CoPrvoJLP ft I -ieA'CV a. yy 1 Ml'v BVll i AffAltZ THAT WILL jlu 'All WW Lion 11 Vwm iw "SHE WROTE THE BOOK'' AT THE IMPERIAL Universal release of Warner Brothers picture, directed by Charles La-mont. Screen play by Warren Wilson and Oscar Brcdney, Characters Players Jane Fealherstone Joan Davis Jerry Marlowe Jack Oakie Boris (Joe) Mischa Auer Kddie Kirby Grant Dean Fowler John Litel and of one gambler's gratitude to By MICHAEL. O'MARA iimtner.

There is also murder, sinister rlottmas. echoes of in- tn'rje and a few songs from Gilda. The lady aLso dances and her APPEARING NIGHTLY Return Engagement of JOHNNY GARDNER Your Favorit Af.C. TWO NIGHT STEPPERS Mai Dane Ttam ANGEL WASHINGTON Exotic Danemr URA BAILEY Swtet Singr IRVING PALL mnd Hi Ctntltmtn of Swing Open from 7.30 p.m. till Closing TWO FLOOR SHOWS NIGHTLY reading or lines does any memoer of the company even hit at burlesque.

Thus we get Phyllis Calvert as a perfect sweet-browed heroine, melting but staunch; James Mason as a wicked, wicked Lord Manserstroke, unredeemed by any touch of humanity; Stewart Granger, the most handsome and dashing hero imaginable in British politics, and the superb Margaretta Scott as Fanny's wicked foster-mother. Wilfred Lawson is the kindly old retainer, Jean Kent the pretty, wilful friend from Fanny's girlhood, and Cathleen Nesbitt Harry's stiff, proud and jealous sister. Anthony Asquith has directed these excellent people with a clear head and a direct gaze, neither looking to the left of satire or the right of burlesque. He has even resisted the temptation to have the snow fall when Fanny is starving and penniless in the streets of London. It's a beautiful film and I Just know you'll have a lovely time.

play the film's philosophic types, Mr. Calkia one of those suave policemen. Mr. Gerav one of those sages of the men's room. In Gilda, you get a smart, expensively-produced drama, deliberately and quite successfully sensational.

Just like MLs.s Hayworth. yrip-tease is a highlight of the film's action, even if she removes nothing more than a couple of g.oves. it the implication which counts. Not ui much overpowered by Mi.vs flay worth, as you might think New York, August 2. (( Business is bad on Broadway.

New York's biggest and most spectacular industry is the entertainment dodge and nearly all aspects of sucker-baiting are in a sharp decline. Theatres and cabarets have been hard hit by what appears perhaps not merely a seasonal recession. The optimistic believe the main reason for the fall-off is the fact that car-owning New Yorkers can for the first time in four summers buy all the gasoline they need for week-end and fortnight jaunts out of the big town. The country is vacation-happy at the moment with beaches, mountain-resorts and fishing-spots doing the turn-away busi- is Glenn Ford. Quebec actor who is resuming his screen career in t-is film after a session in the U.S.

Marine. Mr. Ford has lost his distinctive leanness but stil has a certain bold-eyed, white lipped jook wricn manes him a believably ness Manhattan had cornered throughout the war. Less cheery observers huddle together sadly and fear the public taste has changed permanently and the fat days when second-rate musicals and big-name dramas without much theatrical justification could make money are gone for good or until the next wartime boom. Whatever the cause, ticker-brokers no longer attract queues as Ions as do butchers, and head-waiters are relapsing into a state of decaying nobility.

Honest publicans complain of hard times and flea-circus proprietors are in acute economic agony. Only a few of Broadway's current attractions are selling out with any frequency. Slow turnovers have chased out numerous attractions that a few months ago appeared certainties to see September. The big musicals. Billion Dollar Baby, Are You With It? and St.

Louis Woman have folded after promising starts. I Remember Mama, a legitimate show with limited but powerful appeal, quit in a huff. What had appeared ideal summer stuff, the frothy Dear Ruth, is a corpse. tough character and his acting is Qute satisfactory. Also satisfac AT UNITED THEATRES tory, a rattier more tvlized wav la Georte Marready, who breaks the big time In this pri-ture.

Joeph Callcia and Steve Geray GENU TIKKNKY in "Leave Her To Heaven." in TECHNICOLOR with Cornel Wilde and Jean fraln. "BREAKFAST IN HOLLYWOOD," with Tom Breneman and Bonita Granville. CORNEL WILDE The Bandit Of V- J'c rwood Forest," ECHNICOLOR with Anita Louise. "ONE WAY TO LOVE," with Marguerite Chapman and Chester Morris. 4 Latest dust-biters on the main 1 BARBARA STANWYCK in "My Reputation," with George with Vincent Price Iff, Si Brent.

"SHOCK," and Lynn Bari. stem, both folding tonight, are Glass Menagerie a top flight drama which deserved another year of life and Orson Welles' extravagant musical Around The World. Menagerie has been running downhill for weeks and playing the last few nights at cut rates. Mr. Welles' onus was doinir fairlv well for a V- 1 but 1hc old slory of the wife who acts like a mistress and the (hush) photographer who acts like a conscience still has some power.

The Johnson Office (nee Hays) has acted very skittish about this film this time and it is so carefully established that there is never anything between the photographer and the playboy after his marriage, that they are hardly even allowed to be on speaking terms. But it's still fun when the two ladies get together. This part of the film is, as we said, all right, but the parts about the 1920 Bohemians and the efforts of everybody to show what a sickening life is that of the playboy don't get over very well. Part of this may be due to the fact that Dennis Morgan, for all his curly hair and curly smile and curly teeth, lacks the "imagination to be a convincing playboy. Ann Sheridan, something of a stranger on our screen these days, is levels eyed, flat-voiced and attractive as the photographer and Alexis Smith is as "iciiy beautiful as ever as Mistress Wife.

Jack Carson, Reginald Gardiner and Jane Wyman work hard (but without much hope) at the business of being uproariously Bohemian. I hone this wraps up for good and all (or at least until after the next depression) the fable about the reclaimed playboy. f'A 'I 1 I PAULETTE C.l' 1 1 GODDARDin "Diary Of A MCSiT Chambermaid." with Burgess Meredith. "BREAKFAST IN HOLLYWOOD," with Tom Breneman and Bonita Granville. MONDAYS, CLOSED Until 7 p.m.

4 Millicent Jacqueline de Wit Phyllis Fowler Gloria Stuart Van Cleve Thurston Kail George Dixon Lewis JL. Russell Joan Davis is getting that sub--tie! The comedienne who fought her way to her present screen popularity by dint of good, hard slugging, is rapidly smoothing down her edges in all directions. Whether this is altogether a good idea is up to her fans, but it can't be denied that She Wrote The Book is one of the best, certainly the most coherent films this star has been in yet. It has a topical little slory about the publicity campaigns behind the modern sensational-type best-seller and the exploitation of its author. When I point out that the best-seller in the film is called Always Lulu, you'll know just where everybody is pointing.

Acording to this, Miss Davis is one of those horn-rimmed female professors of caculus who gets roped into impersonating the heroine of the best-seller in New York. A touch of amnesia helps, the plot along and the caricature of a lady professor is discarded in favor of the caricature of a femme de glamor. It's all high-class fun, although Miss Davis slips into one of her old routines towards the end, when she blackmails a wealthy friend into endowing her college. Jack Oakie is on hand as a press agent, and Mischa Auer is a gigolo, both giving their stock characteriza. tions.

The cast has some other solid people in it, including John Litel, Jacqueline DeWit, Gloria Stuart and Thurston Hall. "ONE MORE TOMORROW" AT THE CAPITOL Warner Brother release of Benjamin Gla.er production directed by Peter Godfrey. Screenplay bv Charles Hoffman and Catherine Turney, based on play by Philip Barry. Characters. Ptavera.

Christie Sage Ann Sheridan Tom Collier Dennis MorKan Pat Regan Jack Carson Cecilia Smith Franc Connors Jane Wyman It must have been all of ten years ago that the first film version of Philip Barry's The Animal Kingdom hit the screen. At the time it seemed to be a highly intelligent and sophisticated movie, although some of this impression was probably due to. the performances of the late Leslie Howard, of Myma Loy and Ann Harding. Being ten years ago, it is hard to recall the exact details of the plot. There might have been some reference to a radical magazine in it, but I don't recall it.

The new version of it, which wears the un-memorable title, One More Tomorrow, is quite concerned about this magazine, which it calls The Bantam. It seems that the playboy hero buys The Bantam because he is bored with his birthday party. A rather young lady photographer has some bearing on his action. The lady photographer and her friends, an insistently feckless lot but high-principled, get the young man quite serious about the duties of an editor (never sell your back cover to Anaconda Copper, it corrodes the soul) until the lady carelessly spurns his offer of marriage. Before you can eay Anaconda Copper, a beautiful, icy blonde has snapped up the playboy and is.

busy wearing him down into a sordid groove of capitalism. That's where, I The Animal Kingdom begins. It's a bit late, AiB-CONOirtONA A JiN I mmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmiimiK-im 4 FREE EVERY AFTERNOON EVENING ALL WEEK V. rt-y' CBC INTERNATIONAL SERVICE INVITES YOU TO ANOTHER VO1 yo't ft 'e' ft 4 1 "Canadian Party (Dance TO Wl MUSIC or BENNY LOUIS' ORCHESTRA a j. -a i 1 i' -L'HERMITAGE (COTE DES NEIGES RD.

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Jack Oakie is bv a serios-mindcd Joan Davis in the Imperial's Sr.e Wrote The Book. i.