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the Ripper. Jack, he said, with a blast from a whistle, was wearing a black slouch The police arrived too late, hat and a black coat that Jack the Ripper had van-trailed down to his knees, ished into the London fog Parker called for help and into a legend. ti '4! rinDlkl BCftllC TU1IBC AT MeflMet UiniUIN DLUIMJ-IIIUIW. 1:30 Sf-We czect ncu 11 car tmnmi "DON'T MISS IT!" "ONE OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS' FINEST BXJKAS!" CHERYL CRAWFORO GERALDINE PAGE SIDNEY BLACKMER RIP TORN SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH (' A New Nay by a) TENNESSEE WILLIAMS rik I Directed by fHi 1 Setting! end lighting by iS.I.-h JOMBHBV Music by PAUL BOWLiS 1j Costumei by ANNA HOI JOHNSTKff 2JT Price: MONDAY THRU THURSDAY Nighti, Ici or Log, $4 M. Balcony.

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Prict include t. With mail order lend ddrn) STAMPED nvlop. A Theetr Gulld-Amrlcn Theefr Society Hy. which could have served for "Jack the Ripper." The man who imported the British picture for Paramount release, Joseph E. Levine responsible, too, for that box office jackpot, "Hercules" claims that "Jack the Ripper" is a faithful version of the celebrated case.

The only liberty taken, he says, is the crediting of Scotland Yard with a solution to the energetic killer's identity. Actually, the Jack of all murders managed to elude Scotland Yard and achieve his boast of at least 20 victims. One doting detective tried to catch the elusive fiend by photographing the eyeballs of a fresh corpse. He believed that the image of the killer would still be there. Others masqueraded as streetwalkers and wiggled off to embarrassing adventures in Whitechapel's alleys.

Meanwhile, Jack the Ripper continued with his flow of gory notes, taunting the police to a white heat of frustration. In one, he offered the properly Victorian assurance, "Decent women are perfectly safe." It prompted Bernard Shaw, already a critic of social inequality, to write, "If the habit of duchesses only admitted to their being decoyed into Whiteehapel back yards, a single experience in slaughterhouse anatomy on an aristocratic victim might fetch in a round half million pounds for improving conditions and save the necessity of sacrificing four women of the people." There was plenty of conjecture but no solution. Some believed that Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyil and Mr. Hyde," published just two years before, indicated the sort of killer to look for.

Others believed that he was an American tourist with a penchant for collecting samples of female anatomy. Another popular theory was that he wa; a lunatic Russian doctor who had escaped from an asylum. Only one person definitely saw the infamous celebrity. A fruit stand owner named Parker identified a bag of grapes found at the foot of a corpse. He told the police he had sold the grapes a few hours before to the girl's escort, a man of about 30, short, dark and stockily built.

With Scotland Yard pay GEARY KIGIITS 8:30 MATIHIIS Mrf SAT BILL SHINE AND DORINDA STEVENS "Decent women ore perfectly sotV A New Twist For a Ripping Old Horror Story A British Film Closes the Case Of Legendary 'Jack the Ripper' By Michael Grieg IT WAS Easter Monday, like job of mutilation on the POSIWBLY LAST TWO WEEKS Broadway's Top Comedy Hit I COMPANY FREDERICK MISSON. reient 4 CORNELIA OTIS CYRIL RITCIIAflD-SKIflfJEfl LEO fi. CONRAD CARROLL NAGEL IN corpse of Emma Smith, a I ThePIEASirRE 1888, when the first victim was found in the cramped, snake-like streets of London's Whiteehapel district. Obviously, the murderer was skilled with a scalpel. He had done a business- "AM EXTIUGXARY A Comedy by SAMUEL TAYLOR irk Cerntlia Otit Skinntr JOHN NAPIER CAROLYN 6ROVE3 Production- DttigntJ end llghttd by DONALD OENSLACEI Ceifumei by EDITH HEAD Diftfd by MR.

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By September there were three more victims, all Whiteehapel streetwalkers, all expertly carved up. There was also a note which arrived at Scotland Yard after the fourth murder. "This is the fourth," the laconic note, written in blood, stated. "I will murder 16 more and then give myself up." It was signed: Jack the Ripper. On the morbid but well-founded premise that everyone loves a good murder, the new British mystery, "Jack the Ripper," should prove a howling and harrowing success.

It opens Friday at the Paramount with a cast that includes Lee Patterson, Eddie Byrne, Betty McDowell, Ewen Solon, Bill Shine and Dorinda Stevens. A more familiar name. Jimmy McIIugh, a dean of American popular music, is credited along with Pete Rugolo with the sound track score for the film. McIIugh's hits range from "Hinky Dinky Parlez Vous" to "Murder, lie Says" MNAL PWORMANCI THWISOAT P.M. JOHN OSCORNE'S Vienna UrfP1 RtcRiM mrs tirriiENT CHOIR TRRT'S UNIQUE Oafy lay 4rt 'rforaiajac) 7:00 P.M.

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