The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 54

Hollywood Byline Hollywood watches reaction June Whitley with Alan Young's TV Duncan Sisters' life story WJLi By Bob Two former Vcmcouverites. June Whitley and Alan Young, once together on Canadian radio, now combine their talents in television. SELECTED SHORTS Richard Bare, producer of the "Joe McDoakes" films, has secured the rights to the story of the Duncan Sisters, formerly owned by Canada's Mary Pickford. Bare hopes to star Virginia Mayo and Doris Day as the sisters, is now working on a screen treatment in collaboration with the real Duncans, who now operate a California drama school. British screen actress Anne Crawford (star of the record-breaking revealed during a recent Hollywood visit that she has had a book of poems published.

Anne's verses deal with wartime troop entertainment and include her impression of the American film capital. Canadian Wallace Ford, out standing as the crooked lawyer in "The Breaking Point," has returned to the Warner- lot to play a strong supporting part in the Steve -Coehran-Ruth Roman starrer, "Tomorrow Is Another Day." By FLORA McKISSOCK life of fighting men. Such criticism is of great dis service to the industry. Of course, pious pictures and reverent scenes should be well made. They should not be cheaply done and they should be believable.

Popular actor Gregory Peck, approaches it from the latter angle. Speaking on the set of "David and Bathsheba." in which, he co-stars with Susan Hay ward, Greg says: "Who- ever started the tradition that all-Biblical drama should be played sedately and with stiff dignity? For generations it was an ironbound rule that anything that touched royalty, or'a period, or Shakespeare or the Bible should be played at a deadly tempo, like a funeral dirge. That belief is being supplanted with a more dynamic presentation, bringing period characters to life. They talk, don't just strut and enunciate. That gives them validity.

The former Prince of Wales never endeared himself to anyone while stalking around during royal ceremonies. When he fell off a horse or danced with a pretty girl he became a real guy. That's an illustration director Henry King pointed out early in the filming of this picture." WILLETT OK WON'T IT? Interest you to know that dashing Paul Henreid talent yet to be revealed on the screen, that of a light opera star. In 1935 he was in "Mitzi," a London musical. He returns to singing uext month with the Los Angeles Light Opera Company.

Be gratifying to know that Vancouver's June Whitley is blazing a television trail in Hollywood. June made her TV debut in a small part on the Alan Young Show, has since become a regular. The video cameras treated her kindly, perhaps because during her initial appearance husband Bill, upstairs in the CBS newsroom, was typing with crossed fingers. IN a world divided by the struggle between spiritualistic democracy and atheistic communism, the motion picture can be one of the most potent influences for good. Religious films and others with religious substance made a noteworthy appearance among Hollywood releases last year.

Among them were "Stars In My Crown," story of a crusading preacher; "The Next Voice You Hear in which God spoke on the radio, and "Samson and Delilah," which adhered quite faithfully to the Bible. Cecil Blount DeMille has always been good at making religious films that have been successful at the box office, perhaps because he has never skimped on budgets. (Many producers are loathe to spend money on this type of picture for fear of negligible returns.) DeMille spent millions to make "Samson," yet it was the top grosser of 1950. While a few such movies cannot be called a trend it, is now apparent that more religious films will be made if the public approves. Particularly significant is the fact that 20th Century-Fox has recently completed two big-budget films one Biblical and and the other a story of Faith Climb the Highest The studio has another Bible story in preparation, "Esther." Twentieth has led the industry in pioneering new trends and if these pictures are successful, other studios will follow suit.

More and more movies will have 'enlightening scenes that will serve to strengthen belief in God. It goes without saying that our whole concept of living involves recognition of the Christian faith. There is, therefore, no reason why Hollywood should not also recognize it. "But," says producer Darryl F. Zanuck, "few people realize our problem.

We produce a different film and then our job really begins. The exhibitor has to be sold on it. They say they'd rather have something like 'Call Me However, 'David and Bathsheba' has had exhibitor requests from all over the U.S, and Canada." This reporter is not recommending all-out production of religious movies but where devout scenes are part of the story they can't be anything but beneficial especially in depicting democratic ways for the benefit foreign, film patrons. The development of this trend depends almost entirely upon the movie-going public, to a slight degree upon movie reviewers. A New York critic panned the prayer sequence in "Halls of Montezuma," calling it "corny." However, prayer is an important part of the daily THERE is always a chance the date will be interesting or entertaining.

Be-, low you will see listed a few of the" Vancouver activities for next week. They indicate an urge towards a metropolitan maturity. There is something for everybodylong or short hair. AHT Did you have a chance to see the Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition of the work of nine voung graduates of the Vancouver School of Art? If you didn't and want to, slip in today or tomorrow at the latest because Sunday is the final day of the Some Younger Painters display. The work of well-known Vancouver art teachers maybe seen also in the Third Quarterly Group Show, comprising the work of Jack Shadbolt, Orville Fisher, J.

Brusberg and Lionel And you have up to March 4 to look at the can- vases of three internationally known Pacific Northwest artists in the American Trio. DRAMA Curtain time is 8:15 p.m. for the Everyman Theatre performances tonight and March 8 and 9 of Ibsen's "GHOSTS" and Benjamin Kav's comedy "THE CURTAIN RISES" March 7 and 10, with matinee performance March 10 of "LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD." Phone Modern Music Co. for, reservations. Vancouver Little Theatre performances of three one-act plays at Empire Hall March 8 and 10.

Program: "THE POACHER" bv J. O. Francis; "THE BLACK CABINET" by Aubrev Feist; "THE DERELICT" bv Philip Johnston. Tickets at the door. 641 Granville Street.

March 9 at 8 p.m. is the date for Vancouver Y's Men's Club "HOWDY '51 BLACK WHITE REVUE" at Pt. Grey Junior High Auditorium, Thirty-eighth Avenue and West Boulevard. Proceeds go to development of Camp Howdy. LECTURES Mar.

3 8:15 p.m. Vancouver Institute's Saturday Night Lectures Rm. 200." Phvsics UBC. Speaker: President Andrew Stewart, University of Alberta. Subject: "The University and the Professions." Mar.

712:30 to 1:30 UBC's Pine Arts Noon Hour Lec-ture Series in University Auditorium. Speaker: Miss Marjorie Milier with the Modern Dance Group. Mar. 88:15 p.m. B.C.

Academy of Sciences, Rm. 202. Phvsics UBC. SYMPOSIUM ON PHOTOSYNTHES IS. Speaker: D.

J. Wort, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Botany, University of British Columbia. Mar. 108:15 p.m. Vancouver Institute's Saturday Night Lectures, Rm.

200, Phvsics UBC. Chairman: 'Professor H. P. Oberlandcr, School of Architecture, UBC. Panel: Professor B.

C. Binning. Mrs. Rita G. Allen, R.

Ross McKee, Miss Eileen Cross. Subject: "Tomorrow's Homes, Today: Design." MUSIC Mar. 42:30 p.m. Vancouver Symphony Orchestra subscription concert at Orpheum Theatre. Guest conductor: Manuel Rosenthal.

Tickets at Kelly's. PUBLIC LIBRARY New fiction noted at random on the Library racks: Faith Baldwin's novel The Whole Armour; Nightrunners of Bengal by John Masters; A Breath of Air by Rumer Godden; Home Is the Stranger by E. A. Mc-Court; Point of Honor by M. R.

Kadish. A couple of eyecatching titles among the whodunits Murder Steps Out by Christopher Reeve and Murder But Natch by Miriam-Ann Hagen. Biography: Arthur Mizener's study of F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Far Side of Paradise; R. A.

Millikan's Autobiography; Stephen Crane by John Berry-man. Travel: The World We Saw by M. B. Decker; Confessions of a China Hand by Ronald Farquharson; The White Continent by T. R.

Henry. Film Loan: North to Hudson Bay, a National Film Board technicolor reel which runs for 10 minutes. RFYN01D NOVELTY CO. "rj tvTr fl H'Vf IT 5f 3, 1951 THE VANCOUVER SUN MAGAZINE SUPPLEMENT PAGE 6.