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I TTl VtILTOW ft HELD OVER SECOND WEEK i Keeps Fingers Crossed By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, Jan. Tamara Toumanova is kipping her fingers crossed" about her first movie starring role and so, she says, are a great many of her ballet friends who have written her. uni IRC I Dancer and Top Man With IVggy Wins Honor Top man in the life of Peggy Ryan, comedy star teamed with Donald OConnor In Chip Off the Old Block. Tech. Sgt.

Ray Hunch. Peggy former dancing partner on the stage, has been chosen from thousands of Marines stationed at San Diego as "typical United Slates Marine He, as such, has been assigned to gunnery srhool, with honors l'orty million housewives can't be wrong if they save FATS to help win the war. By ROBERT InlcrunUonal MenlM Dremelle fcdttuf NEW YORK, Jan, was Karl Bernstein on the phone. Karl is one of the plantest publicists on Broadway. Would I speak to Vinton Freedley? Of course, I would 1 Vinton Freedley is one of the pleasantest producers anywhere.

Now, its Vinton. Would I be good enough to come and look at Jackpot" a second SHORT MEN Look Taller dancer who becomes lost while entertaining at Ihe front and finds hiding with a baud of Russian guerrillas headed by Gregoiy Peck. when they vmp MUlel Trod Rhr, Nnt high heeled but ft .14 3 lrnhe to your tUturft. Actor Hack Again With Pay Inerta-eil HOLLYWOOD, Jam 22. AP.) Frequently It happens, as It did with Deanna Durbin, Ann Sheridan and others, that A studio allows a player who later develops Into a big success, to go when he or she could have ben retained at a small flguie.

Five years ago, Richard Conte. Bioadway star ol "Jason, signed for top role In The Purple Heart," was released by 20th Century-Fox. He could have been retained for buttons at that time, as he was unknown. Hts return to the same studio, since his Broadway experience, bi ought him a raise of slightly more than 1,000 per cent, Career Sidetracked, Hillary Brooks. Paramounts new blonde charmer In "Standing Room Only," studied to be a dietician, got sidetracked into professional modeling and landed in Hollywood as an actress.

Take your FAT SAVINGS to vour meat dealer regularly. Save FT8 to STOP (be JPS. UmlOrd.r, 10 94 Ateepted "I am so excited I could die, but with so many people holding kind thoughts I know It will be good. She talks rapidly, with her prety, gracefuly hands weaving their own choreographic patterns through the air. Tills premier ballerina fairly dances as she sits and talks, and her eyes, a waim brown in a classically chiseled, olive skinned face, are dancing, too.

Her black hair tumbles over her shoulders, wavy and unrestrained. Toumanova, Siberian-born In a freight car as her Georglan-prlncess mother was fleeing the revolution to Vladivostok, is making her feature debut In Casey Robinsons "Days of Glory," story of the current war. She plays a HIb Trad" fell Ht fra ragiwt LITTLE'S SHOES ftMO Forbsa Squirrel Hill Clou to Forb on ft Murrey Beer-soaked and belligerent, those three wise old witches still have the folks out front In stitches. Me among them! Lovable and Laughter Why shouldnt they? Lovable and laughable In the novel written by Mary Lasswell, lovable and laughable In the play translated by Jack Klrkwell: lovable and laughable as brought to life by Jane Darnell. Brenda Forbes and Kasla Orzazewskl, Mrs.

Feeley, Miss Tlnkham and Mrs. Rasmussen are my favorite onstage characters. From tip to toe, they have guts, gayety and gusto. Don't tell me I dont know real ladles'when Im lucky enough to meet them. These three are ladles.

And. as plotless as it Is. with practically no love story to ruin an entrancing loveless evening, "Suds In Your Eve" Is even funnier than It was when I enjoyed It the first time. Dont get me wrong. You laugh with these gentlewomen of the junkyard, not at them.

Reading fiom left to right, or from right to left for that matter. Id be glad to have any one of them for friend. All three of them, If posable, would be Just three times mote desirable. Incldently, that red-h a sailor whose name I couldnt find In the Bomewhat confused program, is Kenneth Tobey, living In the same apartment house that I do. he told me so himself.

A rising young actor to keep your eye on. hes In a real hit. Im JUST 9 DAYS And Box Office Sole Starts For giiiigf time? Things went askew at the somewhat inauspicious opening Of com se, I would! As my dear old mother used to advise. Try everything twice, my son. You may be nervous the first time.

I went and looked at "Jackpot" for a second time. Well, I may have been nervous the first time. not very! The piece, even when speeded up considerably, -still remains fundamentally leth- argic. The score is even better Jthan I had remembered. This In--eludes the orchestration, in which the omnipresent Russell Bennett had a hand.

Nanette Fabray Is still charming, even If she doesnt happen to be a blonde. Allan Jones still sings One Track Mind delightfully. Libretto on Dull Side Max Meth, one of the best of musical-comedy conductors, remains a marvel on the podium, At the Alvin, his is one of the first peiformances of afternoon or evening. If Allan Jones could act as well as Max docs, Allan would be a leading man to cope with. But Allan cant.

So, Allan Isnt. Benny Baker and Jerry Lester still aren't as funny as they set out to be. As for that libretto my chief bone of contention It remains definitely on the dull side. But definitely. Incidentally, and In spite of us newspaper so-and-sos, "Jackpot is standing them up nightly In West Fifty-second Street.

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With Your Order I critics are out of touch with the public. Or, as the saying goes, vice versa. Only the other day, this Mr, Freedley, who Is one of the pleasantest of producers, hied himself to a miciophone (WEAF) and told Mary Margaret McBride and the waiting woild that the drama critics were actually unkind to Jackpot." Old meanles that that they are, they came to the Alvin on the opening night instead of later on. What he failed to mention was that he himself had Invited them, sending them free-for-nothlng six dollar-and-slxty-cent ducats to make sure theyd be there, Not Exactly Ready Listening between his tearful lines. I gathered that it was the reviewers fault that "Jackpot wasnt exactly ready.

Unless I misunderstood him. we should have returned our tickets and stopped around at the Alvin some time later on. Or, if that proved not to be feasable, we should have withheld our opinions for a day or so, mulling the musical-comedy over until the forgetflness of distance softened our not too sympahetlc points of view. They do this In London, dont you know? Says he! During all my years of professional playgoing. Im yet to hear Mr.

Freedley, or any other pleasant or unpleasant producer, complain of us professional first-nighters when our reactions are enthusiastic. As far as I know, no protesting peep came forth following the Initial showing of, say, "Oklahoma," "One Touch of Venus" or "Carmen Jones. Or Mr. Freedleys own "Anything Goes or Girl Crazy." Frankly, I thought we guys were very kind to Jackpot. If you dont agree, turn back to Wilella Walforf, Vulgar and Unfunny And so, thanking you, Vinton, and with all good wishes, "Jaek-pot" continues to look pretty much the same.

As for the libretto. that still reminds me of what Oscar Wilde said about Sir Henry Irvings "Hamlet." Only In reverse! The book of "Jackpot" Is vulgar without being funny. No pleasant or unpleasant producer asked me to come back and take a second look at Suds In Your Eye, which, by the way. moves tonight to the Forrest. I went back of my own accord.

I wanted to find out for myself if Jack Kirklands new comedy is as funny as I found it to be on the night it opened. Conversationally funny, that Is to say. It ARTHUR MURRAY HAS THE SHOWS" METZ vi A wi Je variety of the smart est new styles (all formerly rationed). Leathers, combinations, gabardines, suedes high, low, and medium beels. tor CORNELL COOPER, MC.

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