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ftp-. THEATER v. By Georg Curri I I Brooklyn and Broadway NIGHT LIFE I- i BROOKLYN EAGLE, APR. 13, 1949 17 Tellow Sky' Ace Western; Boro Strand's Choice Bill At the start of "Yellow Sky," when some desperadoes ride into a strange town, stick up the bank and take off with the U. S.

Cavalry in hot pursuit, the RKO Albee's new tenant looks 'Death of a 'Madwoman 'South Pacific' Win Critics' Awards The X. V. c. Drama Critics Miller's "Death of. a Salesman" If you listen closely, there's a line during the fight scene in the French import, "Dedee," which would make Hays office censors swallow their blue pencils Talking about swallows yarns.

But wait that's only top s-how of the year "by 'an overwhelming vote. I he count vas 23 for. Maxwell Anderson's "Anne of the Thousand Days" v-on 2 votes and Tennessee: i jvj i HI lams' a fcmoke," now defunct, earned! i)oe vote. So did "The Silver I yVrJiUo' extant, and still a t.igeous piay. nut tne impact iTZ jr 0' Death of a Salesman car-a 50-50 proposition, with the ried through, and let it be having the thin LEE J.

COBB, star of "Death of a Salesman" at the Morosco Theater, the show which won the clitics' 1949 award. the fact that critics are sup posed to be sadistic ghouls and cannibals, the result has been borne out In the judgment of those for whom they write. The decisions cannot fairly beget complaint. Oddly enough, it might be remarked that the present season started in a thunder of failure and ended with an award to a musical which opened only last Thurs-j day night. The best thine about thei season has.

been how it picked I By AL SALERNO theatrical visitors that the drop serving system in the main dining saloon. Reason cited is to bring patron closer to management. But it also eliminates an additional tip, which many diners consider unnecessary, and some resent so much they patronize spots which don't use captains. l0li; THK TOWX Irene Dunne and Simms, two gals who do fine with the vocal applauding i the Duchin- Downey combine at the Wal-dorf Jack Andrews, Cava-naugli chef, working on a book of Irish recipes, said to be first its kind here Royal Roost closes for a week tomorrow to re-arrange room for return to floor shows Bill Bertolotti says hat check people are find-ling fewer people giving a wrap for them, the warmer it gets Copa's Jackie Miles, who doesn't know when he's well off, planning to branch out as i a playwright and movie pro- Joe Colucri, the pizzeria proprietor on V. 51st is making a nice gesture toward his Jewish friends, and has tailored an 1 1 a 1 1 a n-Jewlsh menu for the Tassover holidays.

You've never tried Yiddish cheese hllnt.ps with inai'inara sauce (and neither have I) but that's one of the dishes especially cooked up by the fertile Coined brain. Another Is minestrone soup with mat.o balls, or goulash with I nk sell en ltalienne, and Pesach rake with Neapolitan sauce. What do we say about here, Ruona Festa, or Cuten Vom Tov? ODDKXDA Kay McKewen, of Music Business, who guests Friday with Charles Korvin on "Luncheon at Sardi's," says there are 1,000 fan clubs In the U. with anywhere from five "Casablanca," set during the war, has Bogart as a tight-lipped American who runs a popular cafe and knows all the answers. He knows them, that is, until Ingrid Bergman shows up with her husband, Paul Hen-reid, a legendary figure of the underground, who hopes to elude the Gestapo by escaping to America.

Miss Bergman is no stranger to Bogart. That's the trouble they'd had a serious love affair in Paris when she had believed her husband to be dead, killed by the Nazis. Not until she suddenly reappears in Casablanca does Bogart learn why she had never kept, their last date. Her husband had returned. Around this ill-fated love story, "Casablanca" weaves a fascinating web of black market intrigue, espionage and counter-espionage.

In addition to the co-stars, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre also add topnotch performances. In "G-Men" James Cagney is on the right side of the law, playing a Department of Justice sleuth, but he's every bit as tough and resourceful as he ever was during his Public Enemy career. Kept moving at top speed and well played by Cagney and others, the film works up a heavy lather of excitement. Ii. 8.

'The Life of Riley' At Criterion Saturday "The Life of Riley." a Universal adaptation of the radio serial, with William Bendix in the title role, is a newcomer to the week's list of premieres, opening Saturday at the Criterion. Among the cast are Gleason, Rosemary De-Camp, Bill Goodwin and Beulah Bondi. ADDITIONAL THEATER NEWS ON PAGE 23 UoU aftm- nff foori.inair, IOO, JOll call leilieilliiri Mvrna Lov nlaved heavv "COMMAND DECISION," vith Clark Gable heading an all-star cast that includes Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Brian Don-levy and John Hodiak, opened today at Loew's neighborhood houses. to 53,000 members. Jack Oakie and fiancee Victoria Home will act together in Westport, Summer stock Civil Aeronautics Board cracking down on airlines which donate free rides on I giveaw ay show s.

Most tie Stressing thing about "Death of la Salesman" to many Broad- I way character, in that they didn't write it. I THIS I BKLIKN KV Press agent for a name trio says lads have been offered 50 percent of a Phllly club to play there five months each year. If it were one of the town's top spots, the hoss would be mad to make such an offer. Any of the other Joints couldn't stand such a deal. Loew'i Vaudeville Vaudeville will be offered with the two screen features this evening at Loew's Oriental and Melba; tomorrow night, the Bay Ridge and Pitkin; Friday night, the Coney Island, and Saturday night, the Bedford.

me me pessimists, met critics voted themselves out of the Hofte Alff'nqujn. where lht'-v confabulate. 1 hey left. in vt iuiiK turn icrtiiicia. rn uaa been said, their choires werei.

obvious. This time all recognized it. 'Mr. Belvedere' Set For English Thriller Clifton Webb, who will be seen Friday at the Roxy in "Mr. Belvedere Goes to College," a 20th Century-Fox comedy, is next slated to appear in "21 Bow Street," a semi-clocumen-j tarv melodrama about Scotland Yard.

Mr. Webb is in New York and will leave shortly on an extended European vacation before making his next picture, which will be marie in England. was this column's enthusi- Bsuc choice. On foreign plays now in theater, there was also the Reueroui agreement. "The Mad-' Vmvian of Chaillot," by the late lean (iiraudous and adapted by Maurice Valency and occupying the: Bel asco.

won hands down. The score against the Robert Mrrley play at the Martin Beck, "Etfftard. My Son." was 22. with voting for "Edward" and voting for "The Victors," so now departed. One digresses for this moment MADISON SQ.

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B'wayt S0triSt.Clrr.laJ.4a7 V3-08 'ut hsnSiJ 7--, Jqmilo 1 I '''iygten hallJ NOVOTNA 1 7 SuSlfe, j' JMw'iyiJ MW- 7 like a hundred other Western the start Oncethe outnumbered bandits decide to shake their pursuers by crossing a cruel stretch of salt flats, with only I a fighting chance of survival, this horse-powered job from 20th Century-Fox does a fine job of raising dust and excitement. Led by Gregory Peck and Richard AVidmark, the outlaws make it to the other side, all right, only to find greater perils in the ghost town of Yellow Sky. For some mysterious reason, an old desert rat, James Barton, and his hot-tempered grand-daughter, Anne Baxter, are holed up in Yellow Sky and they have no love whatsoever for the strangers. The girl takes a potshot at Peck when he comes nosing around their home. In double-quick time, since gold has a strong smell, iheir hecrct is out.

They've struck pay-dirt. And gold being a powerful cause of trouble the outlaws are soon at one an other's throats, when they're not trying to eliminate the girl and old man. Well played, well handled, with a dusty, raw hide look, "Yellow Sky" is a superior item for all Western fans. The other feature, Preston Sturges' "Unfaithfully Yours," is a mild, trifling compound of slapstick and classical musica about a famous conductor who suspects his lovely young wife of two-timing him. The playing ol Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Rudy Vallee and Barbara Bates is considerably better than the story.

At Brooklyn Strand Right out of Hollywood's top-drawer are both features on the Brooklyn Strand's re-issue program, including "Casablanca," which won an Academy award, starring Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart, and "G-Men," one of James Cagney's most exciting cops-and-robbers stories. MORE HOT CROSS SUGARED DUNDEE CAKE SPONGE LAYERS MARVEL WHITE BOSTON BROWN and imports, word comes via in Scotch sales (due to the re- cent Israel sympathy boycott) Ihurt British distillers but made the citizenry happy. They had been protesting the liquor shortage resulting from heavy i sales to U. S. 8ALEKNOTES Social climbers can now make the acquaintance of Mrs.

Corne-llua Vaudt'i'bilt for a fee delivered to one of her hangers-on. The Grand Lady in not aware of this, of rnurse Morton Downey, the Wedjj-wood Room hit, will lose his Coca Cola radio nhot in (lie Full, but the TV show ill con tinue Br transatlantic phone, Margaret O'Brien in-I forms friends she'll sail home from Britain today If it's the daily grind that gives a person polish, those strip joints must be filled with fascinating females What happened to all those yeal 3 There gray in your roles In films. I Crosby's "Connecticut Yankee." Virginia I iine morgan i iLe Fav roleir-hiJ created by Cre shrw4 Myrna in the 1931 version If you see the rest of Gregg Sherwood (head only shown) this Summer, it'll be clad (yes. you can smile at my choice of worda if vou've seen the new swim wear) in a SI two-piece bathing suit, with a mink top. Another siitn of the times? The Leslie House, smart set rendezvous.

Is doing away with the "captain" echelon (he's the chap who takes your order and passes It along to the waiter) from Its with freah, I EISTER plump cindy 3-layer gold ired Circle yesterday named Arthur at the Morocco Theater as the to say that in the case of a tie, one could have a vote with no qualms of conscience to "Edward, My Son." This re- viewer regarded Doth niavs as edge because she wa- theater through and through. Perhaps 1 should have joined George Jean Nathan and reported no vote. On the musical side, conscience did struggle. "Kiss Me, Kate," at the Century, was a fine experience. But the mellow relaxation of "South Pacific" at the Majestic, with Ezio Pinza and Mary Martin and Myron' McC'ormiek carrying on; and the music and the literary or should one say, musical restraint were immense.

The score, let it be reported, was 18 for "South Pacific," six for "Ki Me, Kate" and one for "Love Life." a warming presentation, too. Though I voted for "South Pacific." it was gratifying that "Kiss Me, Kate" drew six ballots and that "Love Life" chew one. They are, both a evening's isit. wortltwnuc able to sav that the results of the balloting were what are sometimes a 1 1 "blind i.liA'irtni minKt 'lie iiugiiL. at i OWI1 they to the depths and sav wert tihvious.

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