Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 20

WHAT'S SHOWING HERE 8-B THE ABILENE KEPORTER-NEWS AbUeae Texas Suaday Maralag Jniur 1US 'Bad Day at Black Rock' Tells Strange Story of War with Bob Mathias Also It Ainl Hay with Bud Abbott Lou Costello Grace McDonald TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY: The Country Paraoa with John Beal Also Tho Deeper ado with Wayne Morris FRIDAY SATURDAY: The Racket with Robert Mitchum Us abeth Scott Robert Ryan Also Tarzan Triumphs with Johnny Weissmuller THURSDAY: Confessions of a Model with Dougina Fairbanks Jr Also Secrets of a Sinner with Bruce Cabot FRIDAY SATURDAY: Passage West with John Payne Dennis also Harem Girl with Joan Davit ELMWOOD DRIVE-IN SUNDAY MONDAY: Tho Mighty Fortress with Bin Graham Also tho Bob Mathias Story den Humphrey Bogart Also Hell Below Zara with Alia Ladd Ladd goes aa a manhunt aboard aa Antarctic whaling ship TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY: High Norn with Gary Cooper Grace Kelly Also Tho African Queen with Katherine Hepburn Humphrey Bogart FRIDAY SATURDAY: Duel fat the Sun with Gregory Pock Jennifer Jones Also Racing Blood with BiQ Williams Miss Jones orphaned half-breed goes to live with her father's family and causes bad blood between her cousins UNDA SUNDAY MONDAY: Lurt of the Wilderness with Jean Peters Jeffrey Hunter Alee Sea Hornet with rod Cameron TUESDAY WEDNESDAY a whole series of English peers (and one peeress) in "Kind Hearts and Coronets" I and a succession of polite rascals I in his four most recent comedies And just for contrast his next I role win parallel the real-life story PARAMOUNT SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY: Younf at Heart vith Doria Day frank Sinatra Gig Young Ethel Barrymore Warner Brothers Technicolor After proving to satisfaction that he i he can act Frank Guaranteed to Please tMISM mount Heston and Young lock expeditions on a treasure hunt into the Andes but High Priestess Sumac leads Heston to the secret SATURDAY: Small Town Girl with Jane Powell Also Princess of the Nile The daughter (Jane Powell) helps a playboy speeder (Harley Granger) out of 30 days durance vile TEXAS SUNDAY MONDAY: Sabrina with Audrey Hepburn William Hol cardinal Mindszenty of Hungiry out to provt that he I tu out to provt in Prisoner msm COME TO SEE THIS GOOD MOVIE BUBBLING WITH EXCITING ENTERTAINMENT! HUMPHREY i BOGART AUDREY HEPBURN WILLIAM HOLDEN LUCKY NAMES: GEORGE A CLINTON CHARLES HOWARD E- feature at the Paramount starting Wednesday R1IHMIS FAMILY THI ATE1 TODAY MONDAY ALSO TOM JERRY BROS! 1 Ultra-new look IN MUSICALS! I CinumaScopIz: jf moWUMERGOLOR BOX OFFICE OPENS 12:41 Adslts Me Children 25c BILLY GRAHAM Momvr yiM fo the ALEC GUINNESS Hal of Fame! X- MALTaTsTORY RAF Commandant Jack Hawkins center looks over flight reports with two aides in the Arthur Rank movie at the Majestic this week Alec Guinness is also starred (ECU KEllAWAY Eu UK PAiinn 0 PATSY OTONNOI BKHAKD LANE LEIGHTON NOBLE In lnktr Sinatra aeta can itiQ sing too He plays the part of a down-at-heels song arranger and composer who lounges into Doris Day's life one day and sweeps her oft her fact Married lift is not rosy for the couple however Ethel Barrymore celebrates her tOth year in the theater right after her 75th as the spinster aunt who has reared Doris and her two sisters Gig Young is the bigtime Broadway song writer to whom Doris engaged before Sinatra comes along Miss Barrymore last of the theater's Royal Family and its undisputed Grande Dame apparently has no intention of retiring heaven's name she reportedly asked an interviewer recently She made her stage debut before any of the stars in the present movie were born It was in a production of Sheridan's Rivals" starring her grandmother Mrs John Drew on June 11 1894 at Montreal WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY: Bad Day at Black Rods with Spencer Tracy Robert Ryan Anne Francis Dean Jagger Walter Brennan Metro-Goidwyn-May-cr Cinemascope In sense this is western but like few that have aver ridden the celluloid traiL Spencer Tracy a middle-aged stranger with a useless arm dressed in business suit and snap-brim hat alights from a streamliner at the little desert town of Black Rock one day a little after the cad of World War IL He's looking for the father of a Nisei soldier who gave hia life to savo Tracy's during tho war He has a posthumous medal won by the boy Tho father can't be found how-over Whenever Tracy asks fbout him he gets the unconvincing answer that he was sent to a relocation center Or he gets no answer at aQ Finally the truth comes from Walter Brennan The father was killed early In the war by a band of overly citizens of Black Rock led by Robert Ryan Ryan has everyone in the town except Brennan buffaloed afraid to tell the truth Tracy the nosey stranger is marked next for murder He has to fight practically the whole town to get revenge against the Japanese fanner's killers The movio has received some fine reviews Iu plot is certainly something out of the ordinary in films You find Black Rock on any maos incidentally although it did stand for a time between Mjunt Whitney and Death Valley on either side of a single-gauge railway track MGM built the town near Lone Pine Calif just for this cne picture After shooting was finished the town was torn down and carted away by nearby residents The streamliner is the real thing too It was rented for three days from the Southern Pacific Railroad just to make two stops at Black Rock MAJESTIC SUNDAY MONDAY Malta Story with Alec Guinness Jack Hawkins Anthony Steel Arthur Rank Organization released through United Artists Although Alec Guinness probably can commit some wrong as an actor we've never observed him at it in the six of his 10 films that we have seen to date He has played a dandy in Expectations" an arch-viUain in Tho British film which will be released this year by Columbia casta Jack Hawkins tho British commandant of Story" opposite Guinness as the Interrogator who forces a confession from him TUESDAY WEDNESDAY: The Golden Mistress with John Agar Rosemarie Bow United Artists Technicolor Hunting treasuro un Haiti John Agar just happens fo run into an old codger with beautiful daughter and golden idol which he has ihig up Tho idol not the daughter Agar and the girl continue searching for tho treasuro after her father is killed by voodoo but finally decide just to give it aQ up and get married THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY: The Keystone Kopa with Bud Abbott Lou Costello Universal -International What Mack Sennett started his most illustrious imitators carry through to the last custard pie Sennett actually appears in the picture along with a couple of silent film comics Heinie Conklin and Hank Mann as Kopa Abbott and Costello who art anything but silent get into tho movies when Costello in a motion picture studio then discovers the deed is a fake They light out for Hollywood to recover their money from the swindlers (Fred Clark and Lynn Bari) who are posing as a famous Eurodirector and his protegee The boys him on as stunt men lid Costello is assigned to double for Min Bari in a aeries of of stunts tho main object of which is to send him on ever the cliff The show ends with a rollicking chan in which Abbott and Cootello aro joined by the real who think they're real cope QUEEN SUNDAY MONDAY: Lucky Me with Doris Day Phil Silvers Robert Cummings Warner Brothers Cinemascope Doris Day stranded in Miami hires on as kitchen help at hotel along with three fellow performers from a defunct burlesque show and meets Broadway producer Robert Cummings Her four-leaf clover and her singing voice are in good working order TUESDAY WEDNESDAY: Night People with Gregory Peck Broderick Crawford Rita Gam 20tb Century-Fox Cinemascope Peck helped much in hia attempts to retrieve an American soldier from the Russian zone of Berlin by the bossy and boisterous father Broderick Crawford THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY: The High and the Mighty with John Wayne Claire Trevor Laraine Day Robert Stack Warner Brothers Cinemascope John wayne as tho co-pilot of an airliner in trouble over tho Pacific claims crew and passengers and brings them Into San Francisco safely METRO SUNDAY MONDAY: Sabrina with Humphrey Bogart Audrey Hepburn William Holden Para-j mount The two Kims of a wealthy Long Island family vie for the hand of their chaffeur's beautiful daughter TUESDAY WEDNESDAY: The! Egg and I with Fred MacMurray Claudette Colbert Fred MacMurray realizes a dream when he starts his chicken but it isn't a wife's dream THURSDAY FRIDAY: Secret of the Incas with Charlton Heston Robert Young Yma Sumac Para ON TOUR JAN 30 ALEC GUINNESS HAWKINS ANTHONY STEEL I 14 4-9307 9h LMWOOffl 1 DRIVIIN HEATERS HOT TAMALES Vk am Ih Em Imd AHS Choir Gives Concert uesday TRIPLE TREAT run TWO CARTOONS neoi-LK M1LT GIARSM eoe MATHIAS IT AWT MAT MUREl PAVLOW RMS ASHBtSON FLORA ROBSON This win be the fourth extended tour the choir has made under Kenney's direction Last year it spent almost two weeks on the road singing before high school college church and Abilene High well-travelled and much-applauded A Cap-pella Choir will appear in concert Tuesday at I in the high school auditorium This will be the last NOW THRU TEE 400 WATT CAR HEATERS performance here before leaving other groups in Oklahoma Kansas 'pi t- At -B Jan SO on its annual tour this year to Brown wood Waco Austin San Antonio Houston Nacogdoches and Dallas Proceeds from the concert w31 help pay for tour expenses Director Gene Kenney said Tickets wQl be 30 cents for adults and cents for students AT 6:35 AND 10:00 i Will LEAVE YOU LIMP 'BtiAHvCiHavDa' STEMIM M' MiAIM PLUS AT 8:30 ONLY Missouri Arkansas Louisiana and Texas Chief of the four AHS choral groups the choir has 34 girls and 27 boys in its membership this year Most are juniors and seniors although a few sophomores are included Kenney said It has been invited to slog at the 1955 choral division meeting of the National Association of Music Teachers in St Louis Mo choir w01 also make its appearance with the Abilene Orchestra next May students have sung before southwest division meeting of Educators National Conference The choir has also been as one of 130 outstanding school musical groups over to appear in the book Chair of America" night's program will Jesus Wept" Billings Finished" Steimet "La Mozart They So Rest" Wfflan: and Kodaly Shall I Filly Meet Thee" chorale Chorale No 21 from Passion of St John" Bach: Solemn Ippditof-Ivan-Wilbousky Hath Been Granted" Brahms in four movements Us Start With a Goodly Hasler six folk songs 'Cavalcade' Entry Blanks Due Tuesday Entry Hanks will be available Tuesday for performers wishing to try out for the third annual Cavalcade of Talent Director Johnny Harper has announced The cavalcade sponsored by the Abilene High School Orchestra and Band Parents Club win be held March I in Rose Field House Last year blind pianist Dick Edgar of Abilene Christian College beat out 33 conteststanta before a stand-up crowd of around 3600 to win Rogers Washington was 1953 winner Auditions win probably be held i the week-end before the cavalcade I Song" The third Symphony The the the Music selected high the Tuesday include: Softly the Bach the Light motet ROD CAMERON Swn Oyta IS: Ha hartaaa Mm Two Features Show Vain Plot GUY0UNG ETHEL BARRYMORE DOROTHY MALONE nor wm buhcm nuua wu ms EXTRA SYLVESTER NEWS aniuaua-oouwau 3 NEWS I I Brahms Gretchanin-off: "Caniigas" Berger: "Norwegian Echo Song" folk tune Mary Where Is Your spiritual Czechoslovakian folk dance song: "Set Down spiritual selections from Student Sigmund Romberg AS GKKAT AS ITS GREAT GREAT CAST! HUMPHREY BOGART AUDREY HEPBURN "WILLIAM HOLDEN PLUS HELL BELOW ZERO ALAN LADD BOLT worn wujua awnuam-jMi i hit vua nw Tnmwf Ft HI4I I Bnt T1F11 CntnM lh Bum Wm nr MM (MM At bat wo briag to yon this Special Program! auay onr friends aid patrons kava wqneated thla program that wa aro proed to briag tt to anr theatre with ne advance ia price So that bow aU may aro at anr rogilac Opaa BIHy OntM Tta MlfMf Mh am a nm am a am Lure of the Wilderness Joan Peters Jeffrey Huter The Set Hornet Bod Cameron dIiI0S7 ADDED FEATURE 4- goes on stage Harper said Time win be announced later Classes this year as last win be divided into elementary and junior high high school college and open Entry blanks may be obtained at aQ local schools or for performers living out of town by writing of Talent" in care of the Windsor Hotel Harper said Any sort of act is eligible he added Chairmen for the cavalcade include Leroy Eplen talent James Golleber publicity Mrs James GoQeher tickets Mrs Russell North staging Touchstone is president of the club 'Rigoletto fo Be Produced ai ACC baa been selected for the spring opera production of AbOene Christian College to be gives aa the ACC stage April 21-23 Twe light perfosnanres win be gives April XI and 22 and a mati-see la scheduled for April 23 Richard Palm ACC music BILLY GRAHAM twin Rnlif Anita Carlton Recital Slated In Abilene Monday Anita Carlton pianist from Ann Arbor Michigan win present a recital in Radford Memorial Auditorium at pm Monday She win present works of Bach Beethoven Chopin and Aaron Copland The program under the auspices of the Fine Arts Department of McMurry College is open to the public without charge Miss Carlton the daughter of Annabel Estes Carlton formerly of Abilene began the study of piano at tho ago of 4 She gave her first ado recital seven years later Entering the University of Texas at age 14 Miss Carlton earned the bachelor of music degree un- i Joan Ryan DrjveHIn MtheatrsM iw aw rw maw at am oaty aw at am a um Mm Writ adlui aid hurt ad pm um -mi llm gri daw too topbW km il dt aayk Re pMU if dllakQMaliMkpTM(l BOB MIMS Htway Pbo 34222 TWO BIG HITS! Bounty Hunter Storriag RANDOLPH SCOTT MARIE WINDSOR Ia Bcaatifal Warner Color two eaum CABTOONS Instructor will direct the opera der the guidance of Gay lan Collier assistant professor i and Dalies Frantz ALSO PLUNDER OF THE SUN Storriag GLEN FORD PATRICIA MEDINA MATHIAS WARD BOND MELBA MATMAS GIANT COLOR CARTOONS In 1952 Mias Carlton continued her studies at the University of Michigan under Joseph Bnnkmaa Since receiving her master's degree in piano she has given recitals in several mid-weiten dike DON'T MISS THESE! af speech win super the dra mattes: Lewis FuUts speech instructor wU have charge of building sots: and James Beaton graduate assistant In musk wu conduct the Symphony Orchestra ftUEOMTfflS PISIISI.