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"SMITTY I 4 ll ma WA 4 XV MA 'HA r. s. 1 HA A 1 1 VM17U OMP riPUlC nlfsIUV "TiUP" TlAlCT RAr 1 i VI Js.O vSrl Gene Kelly's Dance Film Opens at Plaza pi to CO Diana Barry more Play In Downtown Opening Diana Barrymore, all dried out and ready to go to work, opens tonight at the off-Broadway Provincetown Playhouse in a serious drama titled "The Ivory Branch." rest Theatre. The gross totaled Dizzy Gillespie flies in from Europe today and will unwrap his now 18-piece band at Birdland Friday evening. Some of the stars who will take part in the May 29 benefit for the Gustave llaitman Home for Children, to be held at Madison Square Garden, include: Sammy Davis Jr.

and Jack Carter, William Johnson, Judy Tyler, and The Charhvels By WANDA HALE Cl "Invitation to the Dance," the Technicolor film that Gene Kelly made in Europe several years back, has finally got around to a showing, an evening premiere at the Plaza Theatre. The premiere was turned over to Ballet Theatre Foundation for the benefit of that worthy organization. London's Sadlers' Wells Ballet will exchange three-and-one-half-week visits this fall Jan Peerce, the Met tenor, takes off June 3 for a one-month tour of the Soviet. He'll be the first Met artist to appear in Russia since World War II Guy Lom-bardo announces a $250,000 advance sale for his "Show Boat," opening at Jones Beach June 21. "Shangri-La," the musical based on James Hilton's "Lost Horizon," opens a three-week pre-Broadway stand in Philadelphia tonight.

It's due at the Winter Garden June 13 The New York company of "Teahouse of the August Moon" broke an all-time box off ice record for its four-week stand in Philly's For- "Invitation to the Dance," a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor film. Direction and choreography by Gene Kelly. Produced by Arthur Freed. Presented at the Plaza Theatre. Running time: 1 hour, 33 minutes.

THE CASTS: The Lover Ijor Touskevit.h The Loved Claire SomlH-rl The Clown Gene Kelly "Ring Around the Rosy" Gene Kelly, Tamara Toumanova. Itror Youekewitoh. Diana Adams, Tommy Kail. Belita. David Paltemirht.

Daphne Dale, Claude Bessy and Irving JJaviee. "Sinbad the Sailor" Scheherazade Carol Haney The Genie David Kada.v Sinbad Gene Kelly Peggy Phillips has been appointed story editor for Sapphir Films, the London TV outfit Morris Carnovsky has signed up for "King John" and "Measur for Measure," first two prestnta tion of the American Shakespeare Festival, at Stratford, this summer. For Playgoers A theatre booth, staffed by actress Vivian Coleman and con- tainine complete information on current shows, will be installed at Rosoff's midtown restaurant on June 1. "Nammr llaivta ir, la 'owerhnnfcai In mnA rnrrgrtlc nw niimlriil Hatrkim Sum MR. WONDERFUL a stw mi sir nr.

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4 05. 3 45; 2nd Bale I Frl. 4 Sat $2 This is Gene Kelly's baby. He conceived the idea, making a dance film without dialog but with music and other sound effects. He is the choreographer, the director and the star of two of the three sections, "Circus," the first, and "Sinbad the Sailor," the finale.

Sandwiched in between is 'Ring Around the Rosy," which features Gene along with a good many of Gene Kelly the world's famed dancers, Diana Adams, Tamara Toumanova, Tommy Rail and others. 'Twas Gene's Ideal "Invitation to the Dance" is something that Gene must have wanted to do in' the worst way. Now, since this arty experiment is out of his system, I hope he will leave the selection of his vehicles to MGM, the studio that has always one right, by him. Undoubtedly, there is much in this novelty that will satisfy ballet-tomanes but the appeal is limited to too few. "Circus," a tragedy, presents the star as a modern Pagliacci hopelessly in love with the ballerina who loves and is loved by the aerialist.

Kelly expresses his grief by posture while Claire Sombert and Igor Yousltevitch express amour in their dances. For me, it was all too mechanical. 'Ring Around the Rosy" is a clever travesty with witty interpretive choreography built around a bracelet that was given by a devoted husband to a wife who is enamoured with an artist. The token of love goes from the lady to her lover, or to someone else and on and on till it completes the cycle, coming back to the first recipient. Wisely, Kelly saved the best 1 -a aan Miss Barrymore has the role of Southern girl who discovers she has Negro blood.

The curtain is at 8. Diana, the daughter of John Barrymore, last appeared locally 10 years ago in an Agatha Christie melodrama called "Hidden Horizon." It ran three weeks on Broadway. Since then the act ress has been playing out-of- town engagements and fighting an uphill battle against alcohol ism "I'm on the wagon now," Diana said on the eve of her off-Broadway appearance. "I've taken this $30-a-week job because it's a good part. I'm never off-stage, I would like to point out that this so-cailed comeback of mine is not from Skid Row.

I may have been a bad girl but I never hit the Bowery." "Ivory Branch" features Mur iel Rahn as co-star and a cast in eluding Clay Corbin, Edgar Bodi ford, Gilbert Rogers, James Parker, Hal Burdick and Jean Sch-legel. The production is by the TSR Thetre Company. Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet and Summer Job ISOBEL ROBINS, Broadway actress and night club singer, will be resident star this summer at the Green Mansions Theatre, in Warrensburg. She'll do straight plays, musicals and her club routine. the Veur 5hore(lub on the ocean at lyth it.

Beach i 226 N. Y. Off. CY 3-4646 4 Send for exciting fre color brochure I 1 1 for dessert. In "Sinbad the Sailor, Gene comes into his own, dancing as we love to see him dance as a sailor who buys an Aladdin lamp, which comes complete with Genie, that takes into a wonderful world of make believe where he dances with cartoon characters in palaces and in an outdoor fairyland.

A Big Splash In Herald Sq. A soda distributor threw a party a beaut in front of Macy's at Broadway and 35th St. at 8:50 A. M. yesterday when some 1,000 bottles of tonic water went spinning and crashing among workbound crowds, injuring five persons.

Police said a truck cut too sharply into Broadway from 35th and between 40 and 50 wooden cases, each containing 24 bottles, hurtled onto the street and sidewalk. The injured, treated at St. Clare's Hospital for cuts and bruises about the arms, legs and body, and then released, were: Jerome Greyfus, 45, of the Madison Square Hotel, 35 Madison Josephine Taylor, 37, of 31-23 81st Jackson Heights; Harriet Council, 29, of 484 Claremont Parkwav, Bronx; Harriet Klein, 23, of 1714 Prospect Place, and Nancy Arlotce, 49, of 5120 19th both Brooklyn. The truck driver was Robert R. Gironda, 32, of 346 Richbell Road, Mamaroneek, police said.

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