The Gazette from Cedar Rapids, Iowa • 20

ft TOE CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE; July 15. 1951 conda To Leave 'Roberts' But Stick to the Stage the Zjheaterd music back of it and then it played in Pittsburgh or someplace, The movie is the directors medium. When I return to Hollywood, and it wont be for the nqxt few. years, Id like to return as a director, although Id probably have to come back as an actor first. Roberts Film.

One film he does hope to appear in is the movie version of Mister Roberta. But that won't be made until after the play ends its roadshow run in at least a year. And then the Broadway producer, Leland Hayward, plans to make it himself, Fonda haa played the frustrated navy officer In "Mister Roberts for three years and eight months now. Hell don his navy uniform for the last time Atig. 4.

After Us closing here, Mister Roberts will continue Its road tour without him. Ive had it, he grinned. Its been wonderful, and nothing will ever equal it in my life. But I want to do something else now another play. Passage another technicolored frontier feature, will come to the State Tuesday.

In the leads are John Payne, Dennis O'Keefe and Arleen Whelan. Story centers on pioneers traveling across country when they are moved in upon by a band of convicts. Co-feature will be Mister comedy with Jack Car-son, Jan is Paige, Bert Lahr, Robert Alda and Maxle Rosenbloom. Now at the State: Follow the Sun, with Glenn Ford and Anne Baxter, and Lucky Nick with George Raft and Coleen Gray, At second-run houses. Toast of New technicolored musical with Mario Lanza and Kathryn Grayson, and Once a Thief will show at the Palace today through Tuesday.

Fathers Little Dividend, sequel to Life with Father, and starring Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor, and Farewell to Arms, with Helen Hayes and Gary Cooper, will be at the Times today through Thursday. The Noose Hangs High, with Abbott, and Costello, and The West Point Story, musical with James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Doris Day, will show at the Strand today through Tuesday. The Lemon Drop Kid, with Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell and Lloyd Nolan, and China Corsair, with Jon Hall and Lisa Fer-raday, will be at the Marion today and Monday. And at the Drive-In tonight and Monday therell be Ill Get By, technicolored musical with June Haver, William Lundigan and Harry James, THERE'LL BE drama, music and action in Cedar Rapids this week and a big movie week it should be. i Cyrano do based on the stage classic, will come to the Iowa Wednesday.

Film stars Jose Ferrer In the title role and has Mala Powers as his leading lady. -It was for this performance Ferrar won an Academy award last spring. Also In the cast are William Prince, Morris Carnovsky, Ralph Clanton, Lloyd Corrigan and Virginia Farmer, Picture was produced by Stanley Kramer. It will be shown in Cedar Rapids at popular prices, although it generally has been roadshowed. A student price of 35 cents will also be.

in effect for this movie 1 Co-featuro will be Big Gusher. Opening today at the Iowa Is Lorna Doone, technicolored ad-venture-romance with Barbara Nale and Richard Greene, and Five, Arch Oboler picture starting William Phipps and Susan Douglas. Shew Boat, technicolored adaptation of the musical favorite, will open at the Paramount Tuesday. i Film has a i large cast headed by Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel and Joe E. Brown.

i And featured in it are the immortal Show Boat melodies by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammer-stein II such songs as OP Man River and Make Believe. Now at the Paramount: Fort Worth, technicolored Randolph Scott picture. By Aline Mosby. TTOLLYWOOD (UP) Henry Fonda, who deserted Hollywood for the stage four years ago, shrugged Saturday that he doesn't care when his famous profile is seen on celluloid again. Fonda's back in Hollywood for the first time since he mowed down the Indian in Fort Apache back in 1947, But ie's in front of the footlights, not movie camera, for the roadshow version of his Broadway hit, "Mister Rob- Then he treks right back to onia New York for another play, Point of No Return.

And what about the movies? I dont care," he shrugged. I suppose I shouldnt say that, but the theater is more exciting to me. The motion picture is really the directors medium, not the actors. Rehearsal Counts. For an actor who loves his work, he continued, the the aters it.

If Roberts had been a picture, for example, my performance would have been equal to the second day of rehearsal for the play, The four strenuous weeks of play rehearsal are almost the most exciting part of the whole production. And when youre finally there, you begin at the beginning and build up your climaxes. But in a movie its chopped into unrelated sequences. The lanky actor drawled that he never thought so much of himself on film anyway. When I see my movies its somebody else up there, he said.

I dont feel it was I. Somebody Blackstone the Great Comes To Iowa Stage Magic will be in the air at the Iowa theater August 7. On that date Blackstone the Great, described as the countrys top magician, will present two shows on stage in the afternoon and evening. The array of wonders will run for two and a half hours. Included will be 30 people and 50 illusions.

All seats will be reserved, with mail order tickets sale opening Monday and box office sale opening July 27. And the day after this therell be more magic at the theater this in the shape of Walt Disneys new else pieced it together and put Alice in Wonderland. THE FAMOUS "CYRANO DE which generations of playgoers have known, comes to the screen with Jose Ferrer as the hero and Mala Powers as Roxane. The picture opens at the Iowa Wednesday. when Janice, at 15, said she was 18 and got a summer job dancing at Chicagos Chez Paree.

But hes reconciled to her career now, Janice said. I guess fathers worry, and you cant blame them. Hes real He Sees Stars in Terms of Color HOLLYWOOD (UP) Robert Planck, cameraman, sees red whenever Kathryn Grayson comes into view which doesn't mean she makes him angry. Its just that 20 years of photographing Hollywood stars has convinced the photographer that color is the most revealing index of a persons personality. Miss Grayson is red-blue," he said.

Shes peppery but tempered with common sense. Breaking down the spectrum in terms of personality, Planck ex plained that favoring red reveals a quick, nervous nature easily aroused to anger. Violet denotes the calm, sensitive type; yellow mystic; orange, optimistic. HOW! ENOS MONDAY! Armar To Offer Gray, Anthony Jerry Gray, maestro youve heard on radios Club 15, will bring his orchestra to Armar next Sunday night. Gray was right hand man to the late Glenn Miller and took over the Miller orchestra after the maestros disappearance during the war.

Hes an arranger and composer of note, his tunes including Kalamazoo. And coming to the Armar bandstand July 28; Ray Anthony. Show Boat Prop Is De-Glamorized HOLLYWOOD (AP) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayers biggest prop the 180-foot river steamer Cotton Blossom is In the studio dry-dock. The ancient craft, decorated lavishly for scenes in the musical, Show is being stripped of its gilt and glitter. Theyre transforming it into a completely un-glamorous ississippl river packet for Huckleberry the general run of them, really, from her superior world of ballet.

Her dancing inclinations emerged when she was 10 and her father brought home an album of Strauss waltzes. Theyre something you just have to move to, Janice glowed across our studio luncheon table. When she was 12 her mother put her in a dancing school in their home town, Glen Ellyn, III. The mother had once wanted a professional career as a pianist instead she had six children and could sympathize with Janices serious absorption in twirling. But Dad Miss Rules dad, a practical man who deals in industrial diamonds, was less warm to such notions.

My father used to forbid me to dance on the carpets," Janice re called, "and there was no other place in the house to dance. When my folks would go out to a movie, Id turn on the phonograph and dance. "When they came home, thered be little tufts of rug all over the living room. Dad would say What have you been doing? and Id say, Rending, and hed say, No, you havent, and would order confinement to quarters for a week. Her father still didnt like it Janice Started Young and Is Far Along Way By Gene Handsaker.

HOLLYWOOD Is Junior tearing up the joint? Sis dancing holes in the rugs? Be patient, parents. Your kids may be heading for movie stardom, the way Janice Rule 4s. This shapely 5-foot 6-Inch brunette is getting big-letter billing in only her second movie, Stariift. If you saw her high-powered emoting in Goodbye, My Fancy, you'll understand why Warner Brothers has such high hopes. However potent her dramatic talent, this 19-year-old with sultry green eyes Is primarily a dancer.

She had been hoofing at the Copa and In the Miss Liberty" chorus on Broadway when her agent got her to read for the role In My New York representative of the studio were seeking a new fare for the part. Ballet. Janice had never thought of being In movies. She looked down on figure and talents in Love Nest. It isnt enough, though, for long-term program, especially if ygu want to pick up a thing or two about emoting.

Theater Time For Sunday Time mrm tho tnnounetd for todv ttte theater mgDkktmrnii. The asclie is not reaponsibla for late change When matinees ara different at tna Paramount. Iowa or Plata tomorrow, their schedules art aUo listed. PARAMOUNT Fort Worth" 1:35, 3:40, 5:50, 7:55, shorts 1, 2:55, 5, 7:10, 9:15. IOWA Lorna Doone 3:15, 8:45, Five 1:40, 5:05, 8:35.

STATF, Follow the Sun 4:05, 7:05, Lucky Nick Cam 2.35, 5:35, 8:45. TOWN "Time of Their IJves" 1:15, 4:05, 6.50, Tougher They Come" 2:45, 5:35, 8:20. PALACE Toast of New Orleans 2-50, 8 20, fl 45; Once a Thief 1:20, 4,50, 8:20. TIMES Fathers Little Dividend 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10 20; Farewell to Arms 12, 2:55, 5:55, 9. STRAND West Point Story" 1:30, 4:40, Noose Hangs High 3:15, 8:40, 10:10.

MARION Lemon Drop Kid" 1:10, 4, 7, 9 50; China Corsair, 2:55, 5:50, 8:45. DRIVE-IN Ill Get By 8:55, shorts 8, 10:25. 1 WAucTEXAS vat sptit wide epen-he EbM frfkr with h4! fcJolpk SCOTT I IN I WARNER BROS. "D0KI7 srepFI aULJ mu-rnuBiuiia TODAY 50c Mil 2 TWO ALL NEW BIG FEATURES HOT BLOOD and COLD STEEL in the story of two bom to love- but sworn to hate! Marilyn Monroo Has Problem Too HOLLYWOOD (UP) A shapely actress, Marilyn Monroe, wishes she were a bit less shapely. Then, she says, she might have a better chance of becoming known as an actress, The azure-eyed, honey-tressed actress has a figure -that makes many a critic remember the late Jean Harlow.

She says that is more of a hindrance than a help when it comes to the serious business of becoming a good actress. A girl can get along for quite awhile just because her contours are in the right pattern, observed Miss Monroe, now parading her MUSICAL ItATlKETTS CAKTOON WORLD NEWS DOORS OPEN TODAY AT 11:45 35e TILL 2:00 CHILDREN 10c fimtr Mm 9fs6ercfMeSnck COMING TUESDAY! fa ACCENT ON YOUTH. Montgomery Clift started his' career by Appearing in a summer straw hat theater at the age of 14. I now! (gSESEP Kwhryn -IvaGwdner -HcwardKeel -Joe lBrown-Marge ond Gower Champion i STARTS WEDNESDAY 4 JOSE FERRER Academy Award Winner 2 SUM HAIE-RM) BEENE- taum RED 'wiiswiSKlP-iwSfflEi SECOND BIG FEATURE FOUR MEN AND CHE WOMAN ARE THE LAST FIVE PEOPLE LEFT ON EARTH Is their story I Written, Directed ond Produced by ARCH OBOLER I (MllVi A COLUMIIA fICTUlI EXTRA DISNEY COLO CARTOON Special Student Price S5e All Day During This Engagement Onlyl Starting TUESDAY! TECHNICOLOR! "PASSAGE WEST hMwM main tueii NcM Miaou eoteee srr rmmrrK wmw at ee a vn ut-- Arleen Whelan Dennis OKeefe John Payne OPTN AT MALA POWERS Americas Greatest Comedy Stars All Wrapped Up In a Bundle of Laughs Mr. UNIVERSE lor It 1UH Itnli UH PAiOl Gary COOPER Halm HAYES In FAREWELL TO ARMS Extra CARTOON NEWS SECOND FEATURE THE BIG Wayne Morris GUSHER iff Preston Foster Dorothy Patrick ALWAYS TOP FEATURES! Cl PAR RAPIDSJAVORITE r' ii i AIR CONDITIONED AIR CONDITIONED SUN.

AUG. 7 MAT. and EVE. ON the STAGE TODAY thru Tues. Sunday Eg Til 2 53 51 Children 10c' aas (Today Monday) rrrm 1 8 NOW 2 BIG HITS MAIL ORDER SEAT SALE.NOV! BRILLIANT SPECTACULAR GORGEOUS i Jw mniirnmnnuinij in iiurrTi'inmrir" M-G-M 32 Open 1:00 Today Eg Continuous m3 Til jT I GOTCHA WHERE I WlNItw) Jll ABBOTT sPcr -I I COMPANY OF-30 STARRING UTxtrji um etna GRAYSON LANZA NIVEN OAY HU MAKM GRAS COtOI If eerg Technicolor! fj kssammexeaszmmssxxoswmm LL GORGEOUS GIRLS g.SJrSKraeBUUUlUISIOH-50.

CO-FEATCKE A i8 portrait of 'XasE A Tempting Available In the Concession Stand! EVENING MAIN FLOOR: $2.44, $1.83 LOGE: $2.44 FIRST BALCONY: $1.83 2ND BALCONY: $1.22, Tax Inch MATINEE MAIN FLOOR: $1.83, $1.22 LOGE, $1.83 FIRST BALCONY: $1.22 2ND BALCONY: 92c. Tax IncL SEND CHECK OK MONET OKRFK WITH SELT-ADDKE88ED STAMPED ENVELOPE SPECIFY MATINEE OK EVENING. CO-HIT MOEIJSFOSH! fe Iberl Comp" Co-Hit: nn Lisa Ferraday tf ii China Corsair.