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BROOKLYN EAGLE FEB: ly 1946- 17 "polntlessly until, the last half hour 'Spiral Staircase1 at Palace- 01 me script wnen uie most inter I SCREEN By Herbert Cohn esting of the lot ii murdered. The victim Is a counter-girl In Joe's place in Wlnton, Cal. She is 1 driver falls from the car during the night and Is killed. The terrified, is certain the police will mil ir. mnrHpr.

Rn ha ILullmM ihei 'Detour' Opens at Strand a voluptuous wench, somewhat mysterious and given to taking off for Frim Ethel White's commonplace she doesn't understand. Miss Barry-driver identity, ditches the body 'Miss Susie Slagle's' at N. Y. Paramount-Roxy Shows Preminger's 'Fallen Angel' more, as usual, gives a line per and drives on, planning to abandon the car at his destination. The fol- formance, her third on the screen.

mystery novel, Director Robert Siod-mak and an expensive cast including! Dorothy McGulre, George Brent and several days at a time with any likely fellow who Btops for a cup of coffee. One customer toppled by George Brent plays one of her lowing day he picks up a ragged 'Ethel Barrymore have made "The sons, Gordon Oliver the other. Kent girl on the road. She- had ridden Smith is right as a country doctor, in the car in Louisiana, squabbled "Miss Susie Slagle's," which had Its premiere yesterday at the N. Y.

Paramount, Is off the motion pictures' beaten track far off. It Is the simple story of a half-dozen ordinary tsople who, In some way or another, are tied up with a med- Elsa Lanchester and Sara Ailgood with its driver, and knows that the her beauty is our hero, a man of mystery himself who is tossed from a bus when he runs out of fare but who replenishes his coffers the next day by promoting a "spooks" show conducted by John Carradlne. The contribute gracefully as a brandy- I driver has changed. She, too, sus- nipplng maid and an Irate nurse; pects murder, but she has her own cal school somewhere in the East tU 9UJ1UUJ DUIUCwireic ill Llic respectively, ana Knotwa Fleming game of blackmaU which she pre Jni'e In the days of electric automobiles Jlcks hls ieT to 0116 of the.I1Im .4 i best scenes. Spiral Staircase," an always chilling and sometimes hair-raising thriller, that the RKO Palace unreeled yesterday.

Here Is a story you have heard tefore the one about a maniac with a perfection complex who is driven to murder the cripples, idiots who mar his beautiful world. He has three deaths on his hands when he turns his attentions to a mute Is good as an alluring secretary. Miss Caulfteld makes a' faultless counter-girl would talk only marriage with him, however, so his next job is to relieve one of the town's socialites of her bankroll by mar But best of all Is the tenseness of the film, the result of Siodmak's atmosphere and Miss Maguire's muteness. H. C.

fers to play. It leads to her accidental death and seals the fate of the hapless hitch-hiker who never gets to marry his girl. Ann Savage plays the blackmaU girl vividly, no punches pulled. It's debut as the bubbling daughter, of the school's a determined warm, lovable and believable and to make the things they do intensely uugo nicy uu uivcuacijr rying her and then divorcing her. His plans go awry because of the tateresting.

And all of these things 7o "onrt it rlnmt without sowtarular hltri-1 the man sne 10 marry aml then contrives to win him. Veron- iirl who is companion to an invalid At the Strand f- -o I murder, and he's tagged with the the kind of acting that is reserved woman In a remote country house. crime. for the stage and is startling re "Detour," a Producers' Releasing Siques. I doubt, though, if you have aj freshing on the screeh.

There's no Corporation melodrama, planted Its simplicity extends to its dra contrived ending for the benefit of box office, either. "Detour" is sur ica Lake, though starred, plays the less-important role of a student nurse who falls In love with a missionary's son, a lad who wants to doctor the Chinese In his father's territory. Lillian Dish, seen too infrequently on the screen, is grand surprise at the Strand yesterday. It Is a not-too-late-believable story of a piano player who ruined his 5ver seen this melodrama played with more suspense than at the Palace. And I doubt if Director Slodmak has ever made better use prising, unconventional.

Engrossing, matic pattern as well as to its camera techniques. "Miss Susie Slagle's" is a boarding house for students at an old and nameless medical school. Miss Susie Is the lav- 11 mil too. H. C.

life by hitch-hiking from New York fyv Tne r. vl t1 WW 1M WiRCICO many llUf Still but it is told bluntly and briskly Local Vaudeville as Miss Susie: Billy de Wolfe is de "Fallen Angel" Is a suspenseful mystery after that, but the twrn-about comes after the film has spent too much time getting nowhere, despite the clipped lines its people speak In. the style that Preminger created two years ago in "Laura." Linda Darnell plays the counter-glrl ably; Dana Andrews does his best to make the bus rider, a character written with the blunt end of the screenwriter's pen, seem credible, and Charles Blckford is a credi by Director Edgar Ulmer. I Loew's Bay Ridge and Hillside and Morris Carnovsky and mothered their doctor fathers it howling storms, dusky passageways and shadowy prowlers than he has in "The Spiral He creates an air of mystery with such effect that the cliches of the jplot seem not to exist. I He must share the credit, though, iwith Miss McGulre, who plays the (mute girl brilliantly, creating a Bay Collins do beautifully in sup- they were students.

And brief epi- AT LOEWS MET. Jeon Porter and Robert Walker in "What Next, Cpl. Hargrove?" opening today. Dortlng roles. Tom Neal finds the going tough Theaters will have vaudeville shows from the New York line to Arizona, tonight in addition to double-feature His lifts are short, the sun is hot screen attractions.

I and the roads are hard. He gets a. break when the driver of a trim! Ann Miller has been named by-coupe, also headed for the Columbia as the star of "Rendez-picks him up. Really it's only the vous in Rio," Latin-American musi-beginning of his troubles, for the cal. sodes In the lives of Miss Susie's boys during their four-year course, tied together by the house itself, by CLAIRE TREVOR stars ii "Johnny Angel" with George "Miss Susie Slagle's" Is the kind of human movie it Is a pleasure to greet a film that is a credit to the screen.

ble sleuth. Best in the cast is Alice her role to help make the windup Faye, making her return 'to the of "Fallen Angel" more compelling sharp, sympathetic portrait by facial expressions alone, and with Miss Barrymore as the wise, bed-ridden mother of two sons whose characters screen as the socialite who is to be than the several reels that had gone At the Roxy In "Fallen Angel," yesterday's ar defrauded. She brings warmth to before. I Raft at the RKO Albee. MOVIE GUIDE (fx 1 rival on the Roxy Theater's screen, Producer-Director Otto Preminger RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL also tries his hand at sketching realistic people, but he has less success than does John Berry In "Miss Susie Slagle's." The reasons are that his characters are less appealing and that they rattle around one of the prospective doctor's psychological fear of death and by the spirit of comradeship among the students, combine to give "Miss Susie Slagle's" its dramatic line.

It Is a leisurely but endearing screenplay that marks the arrival of 28-year-old John Berry as a promising director and 23-year-old Joan Caul-field as a bright Hollywood star. Sonny Tufts plays Pug Prentiss, a Vermont farmboy who wants to be a surgeon and doubts his talent only when terrified by the imminence of death. He runs away from the bedside of a fellow-student when he realizes the boy is going to die. He begs off an emergency ambulance call when obsessed by the thought that he might lose his patient. How i aMBBHaaaa Showploce of Notion Rockefeller Center 111 ff ERNIE I STORY STARRING BURGESS MEREDITH Wh.

II .1 I G.I.JOE' xy ngs Of pint ioii rra PITKIN BARRYMORE BRENT' McGUIRE VERA VAGUE 'SNAFU' BENCHLEV TODAY mi REDBOOK "SELECTED THE PICTURE-OF-THE-MONTH!" MAGAZINE LJ 1 1 IfiiiTiliTilliB III I r.d I fir. vi I "vr. "ill lililMlllllllllBIBil.il II VJ 1 i jm I 1 TLN I III 'JrllinUlfi JENNIFER JONES JOSEPH GOTTEN KTf in HAL WALLIS' 4, A thrillina event! Clark Gable's WjJ I Hargrove's NEWEST and I vm-mikf vnlinn rftturn lr motion nic. 1 1 46th STREET ALPINE BEDFORD BROADWAY CONEY IS. GATES KAMEO MELBA ORIENTAL PREMIER Funniest Adventure! MGM't VI JP" tures co-starred with tha II screen's best-loved actress.

11 i iIJJ oiADi DAhir nnrro oadohii PARAMOUNT HITI plus CORPORAL FOLLOW THAT WOMAN' HILLSIDE PLAZA PROSPECT WILLIAM GARGAN NANCY KELLY WILLARD HARGROVE? WOODSIDE At KAMEO: 'Love Letters' plus Selected Shorts Starring A I I I I LWii. III I HI II II I I THIS LOVE OF OURS'-Mirli OlirM Out Kuril REVO 0RT and 'PURSUIT TO ALGIERS' Basil Rathbone ld ttofoio av. OAT KlUUt 3rd AVt, I'KIYN Robt. WALKER KEEN AN WYNN JEAN PORTER CHILL WILLS B0R0 PARK NEW UTKCHT AV. 'AND THEN THERE WERE NONE'-Barry Fitig.rald Ph, Walt Disney's 'PINOCCHIO'-In Technicolor SafeTHOMAS MITCHELL Sliy Jl Directed by VICTOR FLEMING Produced by SAM ZIMBAUST '-1 Screen Play by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan and Vincent lawrenc on the great stage ill V0DVIL T0NITE 'VEEK-END at the UALDOnE" PALACE- NW YOK AVt mnus it IjUSlOE BERT KING I CO.

at BAT RIDGE 'GUEST WFE'-C la udette Colbert Don Amecha and M-G-M presents THE LAST CHANCE WARWICK fUlTON JCKOME They Never Stop Loving! You'll Never Stop Laughing! Mmwm NEW SHOWS TODAY 5 "SKY HIGH" Yesterday's romantic showboats and tomorrow's giant flying stratoliners inspire a fantastic, dazzling spectacle produced by Leon Leonidofif with breath-taking settings by Bruno Maine featuring the famed Rodeftes in streamlined precision whirl- wind dances by Gloria Gilbert-. delightful song by June forresf, soprano, and the Vocal Ensemble the inimitable Jacfc Powell the glamorous Corps de Baef lively novelty by Paul Gerrits. For the overture, the Symphony Orchestra, directed by Charles Previn, plays George Gershwin's great tone-poem, "An American in DOORS OPEN TODAY 10:00 A. M. Pictura at: 10:05, 1:06, 4:08, 10:12 Stage Show 12:10, 3:1 1.

6:15, 9:15 11 mrm WWW Starring W1LLARD PARKER MARGUERITE CHAPMAN Brooklyn 5 MVS CHESTER MORRIS -JAMS CARTER BUSHWICK I VAT ft HOWAR0) DYKER HIT ftlAvL GREENPOINT MANHATTAN ft ALT II KENM0RE CHUPtCN ft KfNMORC MADISON Mvarn a avtKorr ORPHEUM 1 A wvyy rfmmia 11 IN HltOM ORRIN TUCKER ANDOtCH. PROSPECT STANWYCK REPUTATION MtkCCOKC IKENT OHNt 9 AJ. 3T 1AVL REPUBLIC 0ffo Li IIIDIWI UltlVIU PETER UND HAYES unni GRAND A KlAP TILYOU COMtr IliANft I ia (LiLK (( vara inmsTnir mj UNIVERSAL PICTURC 6AK1T COOKR IN6KI 8ER6MAM w-HFlOtlA MISON VMimXlM WOO LOEWS CRITERION wy i 45 U. Queens ALDEIt MHAICA KC'TH-S FLUSHING NOV) THAN SL ft MAIM KFITHf RICH. HILL I1MT ftHIUIIOIAVC STRAND Aft ROCK A Mr AT WARN(RVHOllYWO0O tlMl.lltl.

FEATURE RIITIS SHDUIIiKS TDDflV I 4th LOOK Mogaiim lucflon BAT Bnir.lt ANTI RIIVSET Ctnttr. An, iiid Mtk St Purple Hrirti Im On ApproTl! ElMlr, 751 lad TNIrd Aw. Macnlflcrnt Ambrnoni: gwln Fimllr Knhlnwn BETTY HUTTON Harlxr. St. and Fwrtli An NorthwMl Mounted Pollre; all Thla (Inn for Hire Slanler, Firth An.

and 75th St Hrr Hirhneaa and tha Bellboy: Damtroua Partntn rara, at ruin unclt Harryi Sbadr LadT RrnFfiRn Mnroln. l.drard also Mask of Dlmltrlai National, HO waiaioitait At Klti and Trill alao Volca of the Whistler VIRGINIA BRUCE VICTOR McLAGLEN to fm. 5 "StorkClub- dick'tracy" Bottrs, 133 Rutri Ah. PR. 4-2230 ol Six Million; alio Sonr of the Saront BENSONHtRST Colony.

Ilth 8t BE. Whom tha Bell Tolla BORO PARK SHORE I0AD V(" WHNS0N Ctngtr lOGtM Lena TUINII WaHwr rtOCION 'WlkK IND al fht WAlDOOf' Doora Opi 8:30 A. M. C-HA liton, 3d St. and H.w utrecnt Ave of Morian'a Creiki alia I Lara a Soldier BOROI'OH HAM.

AND DOWNTOWN nufflrld, Dufflild aad Fultoa SU Thla Lore of Ours; also Porsolt to AJrlera Majeslle, CM Fulton St Saint Mtats THr: ln. Slnntr, Sine Talwhon. Ottratar liKF-THFTCriiiirinn wm 'The DALTOIIS RIDE AGAIN' Alan CURTIS Ion CHANEY Kent TAYLOR 'Noah BEERY, Jr. Vr-v iGtorg' Claire Sign RAFT TREVOR HASSO lk Akf with Hoagy Carmichaal-SKO (odio Hit DOORS 0MN UMAM. ALBEE fullonlOeKilD.tklyfi DENNIS O'KEEFE MARIES- Mcdonald riUiss SUSIE SLAGLE'S" mm 7 ml LILLIAN CISH GSmM Dm mm 1:10 A.

I. (swim PARAMOUNT si WEHESIMM WALTE Contlnuam Pttrormonf mum n. ana naranii ri farrnaiei alia I LlTt on Danrer St. Crorte Playhouse. 100 Pintaptla St.Thlt Lore of Ouni also Pursuit to Alflera Terminal.

Fiurth An. and Dun and Trll; also Valee of the Whistler Fultoa St. and Bare Hall Thla Love of Ourai also Pursuit to Alflera BRIGHTON REACH Oeeani, BrliM.n Bsacn -H oft St. Lore of Ourit alto Pursuit to Alflera BUSHWICK Empire, Ralph FO. I-7H40.

I'nele Harry; alio Shady Lady FLATFISH Flatbosh. Flstbuid Ava. and Chwett Adrenturea of Mareo Polot alia Kid Million! Granada, Church and Nsstrand An Harm also Shady Lady Kent, Csn.y Island An. and Avenue Miss Manton; also Junele Captlre Leader. Casey Island aad Nswklrk W.s..Thls Love of Ourai also Pursuit to Allien EAST FLATBUSH Arcnae Avenue and E.

43d Her Hlfhnej and the Bellboy; Danreroua Partner! Butby, Ulna and Chursh Avsauss Abbett Cestslle In Hollywood; That Nitht With Xoi GFRRITSEN BEACH Graham, fsrrlttitn A Wbltnty Dolly Sisters; alia Caribbean Mystery PARK RLOPK Atlantic, Flstbuih Aw. and Daan Rvollerai also Always a Brldfsmald Carlton. Flstbuth and Seventh Ayes Love of Ours; also Pursuit to Alffiera Plata, Flatbush Avs. and Park Plaia. ind la My Co-Pllot; also The Unseen Sanders.

Prssaeet Park Wnl-Utn Rhapsody In Blue; also The House I Lire In New Venus, 1224 Pretest! Spanish Malni also 8in( lour Way Horn KINCiR HIGHWAY Jewel, Kims Mlihwiy at Oisaa Parkway tha Anreli glnr; alio Plttsbarih AVENI'P SECTION Avenue Annua and E. lirh and Tell; also Voice of the Whistler Traymere Avenue end E. 4th St. Harryi also Shady Lady Rinr.FvvooD BfSTPiarORt OFTHE YEARf SAYS: "Ore Klnis Boyer. Lauren Bacall, "Confidential Atent CeneyUland Ave- and "Leve, Honor andGaodbya" Hll" I KINGSWAY A AIM Mm Ctitittl ERROL LYNN md ALEXIS SMITH NrtMmft.

JAMES M.nlMR ri.tki.il, 1 Wi.kav i i I I i I mtm 5 MASON TODD i Thovi ours'-- ANTONIO" fJUfl WITH BLONDIE" JUDY OAKLAND M.O-M'iMu.kol la TCCHMCOlOlt THE HARVEY: GIRLS JOHN MOOAK: mmsoH THI tim MILLER with UX BENEKE fm MCAN tadd lye VMZ I TIVOLI' runea at. and sere wall "rmgi.IT to ALUiERer- babii. smthbone tatio. ristiuia an. ana Mieweee fteeers, welter pieeeca, Leaa Turner, vea jeaneea RIALTO, Fletaush An.

-Certelyse Rd "WEEK-END AT THI WALDORF" onH UV157 if. muiiinuimni Evmm putt tv AVAI.ON, Hlfkwey and E. IXh MIDWOOD. Avenue aad E. 13th MAYFAIR, Aveauo U-Ceaey Island An.

AY SOtCH An Excellent Surrounding Program 'Daffy's Tavern" 4 "Scotland yard Inyeetlfater" Shirley Templa lereaia Ceurtland "KISS AND TKU." A "Velce at tha Whistler" FARRAOUT, Fkstbueh Rd. NOSTRAND, Klats Ay. a vie a leirwci mmw Colonial, Breadwey and Chaunssy Thla Lot! of Ouri; also Pursuit to Allien IMPDlrt Dm4 AM 1 1 Rldrcwood, 1173 Myrtle Avenue Week-end at tha Waldorf INUKIU DtKuMVI 1 BlToll. Mrtle-Wlltsa Avti. GL.

Harryi alio Shady Lady A UNIVtliAl IUA VOGUK, Ceaey Island Ay. and Annua "A MEDAL FOR BENNY" aad "MURDER HI SAYS" DETOUR TRIANGLE. Kins' Hlihway-t, 12th St. la Bias A "Tha Heme I Live In" (Psatnrette) r.DPr.nDV Drrif 1 rheefrhfad bat UIVCUWlXI rCd Sbeepshead, Sheoaskeed In Bluet alio Tha House I Live In XITTLB MEN" "BAND IT AND THILADT" ADnr kl (W COLLEGE, Fletus Aee-Anaue PLUS "WHITE PONCO' RIVOLI AirMD HITtKCOtHS 1 SOUTH BROOKLYN 1 Hansen oioae, nth Rise ana Ten; ana Voice or tha wmitier I txm "3 STOOGES" I Prktas LINDEN, ser. Nestrend aad Perkslde Avea.Hedy Uararr, "HER HI6HNES8 AND THE SSUB0Y" ej Svaadway A 50lh Streat A I Ql KNTIN.

Buentla Rd. at I. 35th St. aad "DAN8ER0US PARTNERS" jar a rjB tJ I Dm Oxi I A.M. I Qlerla, MS Cittrt it tha World; alia Corvette K-M5 fABISIDI, Flatbuahaad Partslla Avee.

"UN0U IABBT an "SHADY LADY".

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