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1 that Fiery Mexican Girl in 'Violent Men' Is Iris Menshell, Ex-Erasmus High Student 'Unchained' Film Producer Studied Prison as an Inmate 11 Two years ago a 29-year-old man arrived at the California Institute for Men at Chino, the prison without walls or armed guards, along with a batch of other prisoners. He was booked, mugged, fingerprinted and assigned to a cell, just like 11 i fill the other prisoners. There was tween scenes, scrimmaged with the prison's "legitimate" inmates. A wag dubbed the two teams the "Pros" and the only one difference. This man had committed no crime.

He was a voluntary prisoner who was in Chino to serve a three-month M-imposed "sentence" to find out "Cons." Still another football great worked on "Unchained." Cotton Warburton, an All- American of a few years back from U. S. was film editor prisoners lived and felt and thought. The young man is a movie producer, Hall Bartlett. The movie he entered prison to research is now completed.

of the picture. While casting IWrsch, Bart lett went after another off-beat casting he got Todd Duncan, Titled "Unchained," it opens at the Victoria Theater on Thurs day. the original Porgy of "Porgy and Bess," who had only played Hollywood's small army of agfyits heard that Columbia was looking for a fiery Mexican girl to be made love to by Brian Keith, and to stab Barbara Stanwyck in a fit of jealousy in, the Technicolor, CinemnScope "The Violent Men," which follows "3 Ring Circus" into Loew's State Theater on Wednesday. One of the agents Immediately came up with the name of Lita Milan, a Mexican beauty he was sure would fill the bill. They had always talked together in Spanish, but he was pretty sure she spoke Knglish.

So Lita Milan 'got the part her first In films and then disclosed the fact that she isn't Mexican at all. She was born and grew up in Brooklyn. Once sure that she was to make her screen debut, playing alongside such distinguished stars as Miss Stanwyck, Glenn Ford and Edward G. Robinson, the "senorita" disclosed more about her American background. In Brooklyn she is known as Iris Menshell.

Her home Is at 1302 New-kirk where her father and mother, Albert and Kay Menshell, live. Lita's sister, Mrs. Sam Klein, lives in the Kings Highway area. Aside from some private tutoring, Iris got mot of her education in Brooklyn, first at Public School 217, then at Erasmus Hall High. The latter proved a bond between Lita and Barbara Stanwyck, who also went to Erasmus.

Lita later went to Brooklyn College, and then, following her parents' ideas about education, was sent to Europe, where she was Bartlett had begun work on singing parts, to play the part Warner "Unchained Borne months before his incar of a dormitory leader. Another singer, Johnny Johnston, was I persuaded to take on a straight ceration, when he talked Chino'g Warden Kenyon J. Mi acting assignment in ua chained." Chester Morris was Ecudder Into giving hm the film rights to Scudder's hook brought back to motion pic LILVr I "Prisoners Are People." Scud tures after a five-year hiatus der had been offered much mm more money for the rights by in radio and television to play the role of Warden Scudder. Prison Without Walls Meanwhile, Bartlett worked BARBARA HALE, young Tim Considine and Elroy Hirsch are off on a family picnic in this scene from "Unchained," set to open at the Victoria on Thursday. Chester Morris stars as Warden Kenyon J.

Scudder of the prison at Chino, the setting for the film. other movie producers. What won Scudder over to Bartlett was the latter's promise to give 0f on the script which had to he him 'rnmnlpta stnrv annrnval 4 1 Lita Milan Cast Digs for Clams Under Camera's Eye tine supposedly takes place Doris Day and Frank Sinatra, two of the most popular singing stars of records, radio and the screen, with Kthel Harry more, head the cast of Warner Warneil'olor "Young at Heart," at the X. But some of the languages she learned to speak so well rubbed off on her English, and this slightly foreign accent, combined with her dark beauty, won her the role in "The Violent Men." She will appear later this year in another Columbia film, "Duel on the Mississippi." backed by the young man's nui um.v ny Utation for honest film a committee representing itfie l.fiflO prisoners in Chino, Made 'Cradle' for accuracy. Bartlett had produced the' "Unchained" was filmed in football picture acclaimed bylChino, the first of the "new football players, "Crazylegs.jlook" prisons.

The institution Ail-American," and the Indian has been called the most sig-picture praised by Indians, Inificant experiment Mn penal "Navajo," both of which won history. The complete aiitlthe-Academy Award nominations, sis of the maximum security KIroy llirsch, the subject and 'prisons such as Alcatraz, Chino tar of "Crazylegs," had made has literally no walls only a Then the fun began on- and off-camera. To begin, the actors and equipment had to be lowered down cliffs to the beach aboard a caged platform manip enrolled in various schools on the continent. In this way she acquired fluency in half a dozen languages. filled as a music box, as a music oox, rings with the voices of Miss D.iy and Sinatra in a succession of both new and perennially-pop ulated bv a mobile crane.

There j- Paul kapplc, portrays the child of Miss and Sinatra. I.onny Chapman, the amorous bellboy in the recent "Ladies of the Corridor" on Broadway, makes Charles McGraw Of 'Toko-Ri' Cast Has Lived Drama ular songs. were no paths making the de-MTiit much less rads, Pii'i Imported lain it, i. Doris sings such new songs Charles McGraw, the tough-, ventures to keep a script winter i Mis break came with "The as "There's a Rising Moon for fine start as an actor in thatjlow, barbed wire fence to mark picture and seemed Ideal forjthe boundaries of its the part of Steve Davllt, a acres, a fence which vVardpn rancher who winds up in Scudder instructs new prison- his movie debut as an amorous plumber. For three days' shooting of a picnic sequence, the entire supplied with stories for years.

a Broadway show McGraw got his theatrical' in which he was starred with .1 in flrnnnwlrh I and ton Pin-nnr the cast -ing clams that had mM Jel com-been exiieciallv brought in from in Paramount "The Kvery Falling by Paul Francis Webster and Sammy "Until ti In Yniip mK prison for nearly beating a man ers in climbing, if they so de transplanted, Bridges at Toko-Ri," has a realwntre he in dozens the latter now a Paramount ii- to death, in "Unchained." sire and no armed guards. Connecticut liccau.e of the marked differ- hjirktrmund that rouldinf nfr.ltriailu-:iv nrruhwt imn I eiice it. -ize and appearance be- mauh the drama of many of bv Rav lleimlorf, Charles Hen-of "oung at Heart' re-dersori and Don Pippin. ,0 Sequit. "Ready, Willing and Able." doubles for the Con-Flovd Huddelston and coast where the pie-Rink er.

Sinatra sings such favorites MOVIE TIME SCHEDULE as "Someone to Watch Over brimikltn tween Fa-tern clams and the California varietv. The ensuing his screen and television roles. KG ACTS i niBTK Hirsch, who recently played his last game with the Los Angeles Rams and was stripped by enthusiastic football fans after the game, Is not the only footbal player connected with "Unchained." Three of his Ram Also, there is no "stoolie" system. The warden set up an honor system by which inmates police themselves. Unlike other prisons, Chino allows weekly meetings between prisoners and their families In leist jiroved a happv occasion As an ex-crime reporter, bar-both on and off the screen; lender, skip tracer and sailor on the el, ins were actually baked 'a tramp steamer, the talented Henry P.larke.

actor has stored up enough ad- ig NEW BIQ THfVLL HITSi 1v and nmnt." 12-10, Ii' nn fir anil AI.RfK "BrJ, Uma kVarf." I Vi, Just One of Those Things." 7 teammates, Don Paul. Stan West and Tank Younger, work In the picture and, be- a picnic grove. There are no barriers between the men and their wives and children. And Frank ami Doris, IS: i. sing, "You, My l.ove.

a new GARY BURT LANCASTER COOPER and: i 7:22. "Aihm." 2:11, i 41, 111 IrARAMOt'NT "Tlrt af rt 1 2H. 4 25, tier I 712. ID: lit; "Whllt Orchid. 12 2 01, song by Mack Gordon Van Heusen.

Miss Barrymore's role, lc2l anMwirIIJTWrTVPal Ls4L I Built Big Business Supplying first on the screen in r21. yenrs, is a straight dramatic one. hhe plavs Aunt Jessie. color by TECHNICOLOR SUPERSCOPE CLRaiBPOl Her nieces are played by those pretty "sisters," Doris Day, ASTIR "20.00ft Lrarun lixlT Ihr Sra," 12 OH. 4:41.

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10. 12. C'RITFKION "Tha oonlr, Clrl." 12 IU. I Mi. 3 45, I 15.

7: 9:20. 11:10. I 10. GI.DRK "Tbandara, Mlava l.mpma." 12, il. Dorothy Malone and Elizabeth Chorale Singers for Movies By VERNON HCOTT Hollywood (U.PJ Movie' audiences usually are much too fascinated by the hero and heroine on the silver screen to concern themselves with the vocal background, but one man made it his business and It's really paid off.

rMS Eraser. Sinatra Is cast as a 4I, IAST 3 days I 'ill I StarU WELMSDAY I BROaDWX it 4ith SI. iZZZZi I song writer and Gig IALBEEI ghi returning to the screen after 11. u-m-. Mat, m.

scoring a success on Broadway I riX in "Oh, Men! Oh, 2. 4. 12. ylMol-V. mV0l.l-"Tll.

frlf, 12 2J. turn J'iujs uiiihii a a iu ti in 15, 4 45, 7, 0:10. 11:20. Martin Lewis 3 Rihg Circus Day, One-year-old Steve Kapple, BOXY "Thnr'a Na Raalnraa Ilka Ra.lnna," 12 10, 5 40. n.

In VIITORU "A Nlar la Bora." 12:05, 2:49. 5:1.1. 11:01. WARNER "flnrrana." 10. the son of Doris Day's brother, 10 MOVII INIOIMaTIM uuSPruce64000 If It a a good movie with 100 cr more singers supplying the music, chancea are the voices belong to the Roger Wagner Chorale, the only group of Its kind In the world.

This unique musical organization supplies everything from a 14-voice group which aings the theme fgr the "I Married Joan" TV series to a 255- 24-voice group sang in London's Royal Festival Hall, in Paris, Amsterdam and The Hague. Wagner proudly produced copies of rave reviews the group received abroad. "Eleven of my original Chorale are still with me," Wagner said. "They and five others JOANNE DRU ZSA ZSA GAoOR vpHRrv nor.T r.iisra "H'VJJ If 1 Caaatlal ITUF BHIFPAII KnUTPaa I WIDE VISION SCREEN i ar, a aaaa aa a i a I av wai I a at Clar) -OrtlATION MAMH Vr are on regular salary and com LAST 3 DAYS! CROWNING 50 YEARS OF FINE ENTERTAINMENT! J. rARROI.I.

NAIHII DAI KOBIRTSON "SITTING BULL" (niraHraal "BLACK TI OIIU" BI ST A( TOR." HIM DIRU TOR Or' VEAR: marine DIWUIV IHIk.U. Aaaaaai STARTS WEDNESDAY! Sigmund ROMBERG'S I eoaaoaaiiiaooaoooaaaeaoooi))ouoKejy voice aggregation thundering pose the core of the Chorale, the "Messiah" in the Holly- The others get paid only when wood Bowl. Jthey work. If It's a movie, they The Chorale i leader, guiding make $70 a day. light and founder Is Rogeri -We have a 20 percent turn- HumphreyBOGART TORO DM THE WATERFRONT atf 'MCMUR or marion inu tuc iATCDrTnwT VALEICIA un i lib ii i nun i MAYF AID BRANDO GRACE KELLY SUWAUT GRANGER la GARDNER aiaia jaii caaa III.

An. "MKMIU.R or THE ftKIIDINO" ItT RIOQE signer, wnq organized me 0Ver of personnel every year TMWtBOI5j Aaaaaa I aa "Ona ar Oil III Baal al I ha Vaar." N. V. Timra MIDWOODi lingers ten years ago, The BAREFOOT Ulk It 'CARMEN JONES riNF.M.- I genre Tl A Aaaaaa t4 PAUL trfrij. I fl IKJ At our weekly rehearsals about 200 singers show tip.

Many of them are church soloists from aft denominations." MIIISIOE tuuKi an MKaaal tlraal A 'OI'TLAWR DAIT.HTFR' iBaih In I alar) STRICT I I IDEVOORT CONET IS. ttTES umo IINtS All COLO thaw LILT flS OVtK U' "We're a going concern," he aid, "in business to provide people and organizations with music when they want It. We WIlltRO 'nARRIKIA' vmow DF Al Tfl H. BOdART lAlALi 1 VJ CarUlm RaU A. Ill FBI DOUGLAS kM-C-ATt 1 TOMAHAWK' 1 HaUKl comssn' TECHNICOLOR Tha Spy Story of tha 0ctdl OPERATION MANHUNT Wagner and company fulfill MACTD A Mn SITTING BULL DIRFCT fROM 1-FIK H.

RI ORIENTAL Kiaft Hav riala Am I rl II rARON I I Mi I aa'Baii MTRK lOROMRl ADD ATIIT provide anything from soloists more than 200 engagements a up to more than 200 voices for year. sometimes supplying sing- til kinds of events. for a as three events i CIMRUSCOef nmci rut LILI x. i i nnftnuu I rar, a. riEMiEa starring naia At.

josr FERRER. MmtOBERCN AlaaaarM "FIRE OVER AFRICA" ELM Anaaa at laM Ota ttraal MAt RIFN O'HARA (BOTH IN COLOR! Flaltam Aiaaaa CROtlT II VISIT TO mttifNiic flIH! COLLEGE WHITE CHRISTMAS'1; NORWAY' "DUE FOI A TEAR OF PIIZESr-MM BING CRACK WILUAM CROSBY-KELLY-HOLDEN THE COUNTRY GIRL Hf un TRAUBEL ina aoauuar rU-ClOONET-rOWEll urn Mowfo mm (Marra uiller-keel-henrei0-1ellt DamIxe-chb-mIi Oil JtOOUt SCREOIS TDDWl MGM't ATHENA' "THE NATURE GIRL" irounie is, legitimate music al the same timp The (Morale doesn't pay. We usually loseitUrns down as many Invita-money on concerts because of tions as it accepts union wages and the expense' prcfer l0 of mvself of renting halls. Ia, a musician rather than a "So our meat and potatoes Vagner said, are provided by movies, tele- u-e coul(1 m.ke mopv vision, radio and records. We if we witn an(, do concerts for prestige and the tolivlsion.

but the organization of art, hut it good old wouldn't have room to grow, ahow business that pays the, ''Commercial music isn't stim-freight. lulating and wouldn't hold, the Last year the (horale was In-. interest of our singers. We en-vited to sing in London as part jov our nmvie Wol ki hllt we of the Coronation program. A mir ConcCru even more." A Fatal CRITERION 'mi AVENt Viitaylila 'AVFNIIF nM TlallUb Wio Vlnaa ttraaa Kaa White Christmas Vtiitl Karaaa "HUNTERS of the DEEP SEA" in COLOR (AT RIDOK AND Ml NSI.T FARK NAiaAlW It I-Al NIVIMf MM CT A VI tV Vlllaa tttaaai I 1 Ma An aa Fit tt vnaigc at camel ixitci ttraar ILVER CHALICE GINGER ROGERS.

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