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BROOKLYN EAGLE, DEC. 9, 1952 son of the next-door enemy, whose families refuse to let Two Children Spellbinders biavenska ana rranKiin in In New French Film Import them marry. In this cruae ko-meo and Juliet-like situation the young lovers snatch roughly at stolen moments of happiness. "Forbidden Games" Is both shockingly materialistic where the elders are concerned, and heartbreakingly poetic when, ever the children are alone with the camera. While all this appears on the surface to be a game with the symbols of death as toys, it is possible that the screen play Vivid Ballet of By LOUIS HHEAFFER Now they're dancing Tennessee Williams' story of the pathetic, ill-fated Blanche DuBoh, which provided absorbing "Forbidden Games," an ironic drama which presents an illuminating commentary on the effect of war on average people, while telling a touching story of the attachment between a fimall boy and girl One of the important pictures of the decade.

fa A lva ci rVy Viz ,5 vl 4" a. By JANE COBBY fare in the playhouse and on the movie screen, and they deserve considerable credit for making a striking new work, "Forbidden Games," new French import, its a film about intends, instead, to point to the vivid, sensual, moving, of Streetcar Named By troubled, lowdown musio; Peter childhood, about simple farm folk, about love, all of it Imper-meated with the far-reaching chaos of war and the bitter aftermath of death. It ODened vesterdav at the Little Carneele Larkln'ff sketchy but eloquent "tney" I mean Valerie Bettis, eWa.1fe,w. JS? OrJea.os-stylo who did the choreography; Mia Theater." Y6tea the best film of windows and door frames with sagging shutters, an entrance- eUI cross as a symbol of redemption and therefore hope, fittingly In the hands of children in the midst of all tevocj war. Pale haired, fragile looking Brigitte, who has a streak of iron in her spirit, and honest, devoted Georges are a pair of almost incredibly fine actors.

The title of the film, "Forbidden Games," may refer just way and the action move? Slavenska and Frederic Franklin, both as leading performers and for assembling a fine young ballet company; Alex North, who wrote the haunting score. the year from any country at the 1952 Venice Film Festival, the picture was directed by the noted Rene Clement. Valerie Betns Did the choreograph ij swiftly into Blanche's tragedy. The performance couldn't be to this child's game, which is, briefly, the project of mak-' Two children are the impor ing a nice graveyard for Bri- Slavenska as the and Sir. Franklin and their other associates in.

better. Miss this exciting mw niece, which 'lost heroine fluent, exciting dance version tant characters In the film, but crirtA'a Incr far nthor but can quite dead animals cai'efullv collected outclass Lucien Hubert is as much graphic theater asias the callous, brutisn blarney ot tne wiuiams piay. Jt ricniy it is bulkn. After the number's turn in outstanding work both deserved its ovation. i.L.n.

nnl ,1., as tne because children can never free themselves from the adult world around them, the grownups whose lives infringe upon peasant head of from hpinff lnnpsnmn. Hut theiratne.r upid premiere last nignt at tne ten- Danilova Guest Star them ex- turv. where the troupe openeuiarai uie ouiers give Last night's other major work, Slavenska and Frank title is plural and may also refer to certain adult games, "forbidden" in the sense that they a weeks engagement, tne mwui siwjh. the farm household; Laurence Badie is his indiscreet daughter, and the rest of a cast of striking and believable types. JENNIFER JONES and her screen father, Tom Tully, discuss ishinq lures in this quiet scene from "Ruby Gentry." worked-up audience gave them Mia Slavenska, who normally "FORBIDDEN GAMES" rd(M.

4trete4 br RM Pra4nee4 br Robert DrfMi lin's restaging of "The Nut are anu-social. and carried on projects great assurance anuj iWftirajt.riJ' Ste pure hi Games" is a dis- iS" fierce, suit-it which cracker" Suite," onw iiehiedf-' story pqssten- mrr wm ihiwimi, MBL 'rench picture, utth knn. ima-v well he' VHp rpsii-it1 of i Day atthe Mayfair: Charlton Beston co-sofs CAST war atmosnhpre. that can BridlU stand comparison'with is a thoroughly convincing Blanche, whether suffering from hallucinations, playing Dr. Irntm Maria, Larrae Baalfl, a genuine ovation, mucn ana bravos!" Since Sliss Bettis' choreography follows the general outline of Sir.

Williams' play quite closely, the new "Streetcar" Isn't an organic, truly creative ballet certain things happen the best of any country, now or in the past Waaler, AmrdF, Loola SaintCT. Feuding Neighbor One euch "game" is the feud between the elders of the farm by Alexandra Danilova, guest star of the troupe, who performed with her customary crisp sureness and style in two solos and partnered by Roland Vazquez, who supported her well. Other outstanding bits were given by Naomi Boneck, John Payne and $1,000,000 Bank Robbery Teamed in Film the world this tiny girl and a the wanton after she has caused her young husband's suicide or running in fright from Stanley, and she is equally effective in small boy make for themselves HATIU1H ta -ATNIVINS MM i where George lives, and their are rightly brought into sharp b'KLYN nearest neighbors, a feud which focus remiliii' intprvn in it because they also Illlal ho nlpvlmf at iho sne goes uu wiui uie iiwn muiii Kansas City Confidential." with John Payne as a young show Pai-iaVvorfiK in lhuu inn pened in an Arabian, dance choreo been going on for years but is now heightened to sense-of'less fury. The other is the ro- asylum. Frederic rranKiin.

Marvin truck firiver who resents neing trained a miiuon-uoiiar nanK same time it rates as graphed by La Sleri; Th I RON MISTRESS The adult world is that equally fine, catches all of Krauter and Gene Gavin, in the 'robbery, is the new headliner. starting today at the Albce more than a literal dance transcription of the plot's high j-hj, wnen rarisians were mantle affair on Stanley's casual brutality and atraaaa uaaiac -liaul MMft KMC Chinese dance: Ronald Colton Theater. 'Tark starring irt-ne is ine accompanying; refuBees an as a dancer is in top form, es sister of Georges and the sol- moving haltingly toward the uecially in the vigorous card feature. With Payne In "Kansa City ERICA TONIGHT doing the Trepak, and Shirley Weaver and Sally Seven in a duo number. The balanced program games.

Confidential are Coleen Gray. A Lois Ellyn, a talented young. 1 ALLRKO THEATRES IH KOREA beauty, plays the sister; Slar- NEWSREEl SPECIAL brought on Miss Slavenska and lights. It's a free, imaginative adaptation that, in addition to capturing the heart of the story In forceful and dramatic terms of the dance, has its brilliantly inventive moments. Excellent Performance The mood is established Immediately by Sir.

North's Mr. iranklin for some excel Preston Foster. Jack Elam. Lee Van Cleef and Neville Brand. The last three are the real criminals in the story, with Foster as the master-mind, an ex-policeman who has worked out an hoped-for safety of the countryside, and decimated by strafing from enemy planes.

The picture starts with an example of wholesale slaughter, only because this Is the key to the story which concerns a five-year-old girl, whose parents, and little dog are killed in the bombing, and who wanders off car vin Krauter is Mitch, and the rest, playing neighbors of the Kowalskis or figments of Blanche's tortured mind, are lent straight dancing, spirited, clean, authoritative, in the NEW Trt'RftDDaMAIi MTSl 0M.V snow lUitiunnuii Don Quijote Pas de Deux," ably attuned to Valerie Bettis' which again aroused the first- lUI! almost foolproof way to nicie will give a recital at the Academy of Music tonight as the third event in the Major Concert Heries sponsored by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Assisted l)J' pianist Leon Poninicrs, she will feature Brahms' Nonutii in I) Minor, Concerto NO. i ii A Major, and the "Mosck" Fantasia for the (J string arranged by Puganini. MB KCNMORC nignters to great applause, nefarious activities. Sli CAMERON the evening began with a pleas- Grav is his daughter, ignorant rying the dead dog onto a near-! by farm.

As an exhibition ofl ant classic-style piece, "Sym-If the whole setun. aa rn A fEf RAY MILLAND OYKCK niosrccT TILVOU OOPMCUU MAOISON IUSHWICK nvMLnu phonic choreo- The situalion ets critica, for RITA CAM TT Payne when the cops run him MARIE A WINDSOR i allien uia vvn-Ttu Cesar Franck's music. war on civilians, the aerial attack is only mildly impressive: Hollywood does this sort of thing much better. But it does in for driving a florists' truck JOHN U(CII0INT, It's an attractive, well-trained company, and the corps de bal that is a ringer for the bandits' eetawav car. He's so mad about'ting his face pushed in VVAYNEM every I not matter because this Is mere- the take-off point for the it that when he is released afterifew feet of film.

It's a well-toldly let girls are an uncommonly pretty lot. The Slavenska-Frank- experiences. It is some livelv questioning heistory, for those who can standjyoungster's Come after 4:30 P. M. to a preview of "STOP, YOU'RE KILLING ME'-plut last thawing af "THE IRON MISTRESS" at 0:50 P.M.

last In Person show starring Toni Arden, Jack E. Leonard and Art Mooney and His Orchestra at 10:40 P.M. Late preview of Stop, You're Killing Me at 11 :30 P. M. lin Ballet has made a fine start.

I Hill Bi)llll)lll)llltlRilRli)llltR goes off on a fact-finding tactics in not this strafing that conveys Tonight they'll offer another premiere, Zacharv Solov's )f his own. His search for the plot is coherent enough a sense of wars chaotic hor-riminals takes him Guate-ito sound believable. ror so much as the kind of nala, where he finds the rob- Sliss Gray is only around with which the little "Mile. Fifl," with Danilova, and Thursday another one, Slaven- ers anil romance too. ienougn 10 auu i.

raigiue usy, uiuiidKes, ska's "Portrait of a Ballerina MittMoh Is Bac touches to the scenery, but she with the help of young Georges Poujouly, to assuage her grief. does that very well. .1. There's a big dose of rough tuff in this picture, with some-ne getting shot or at least get- Hclp Stomp Out Tubcrculosii i i Uie Chrittmos Sea It rreriew TXar mtMiws unor 1 The Showings "OUTPOST IN MALAYA" Plus Last M0mi i Most JU VfiUUtrlLLC lHRYDEN CARLSON EXTRA! Lovable 14 7 mtA Hi DAY THE BIG IN KOREA Muggs and Molls ADVENTURE SPECTACLE! UWTTISl 'The TURNING I 'EVERYTHING 1 1 LAUGHTER, I FIltruamaM Ml TOPAT 1 uu-." i ml KINGSWAY KlOfl Hilhwiy ft Caaay llllna A VI. MARGE and GOWEK CHAMMON 'EVERYTHING I HAVE IS YOURS" "Tl'RMNQ POINT" WILLIAM HOLDEN POINT' HAVE IS YOURS! IMt-nwi Tnaanaf INC.

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