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Doris Day Learned How to Flick Ball Whip Tough Western Role in 'Calamity Jane9 In "Calamity Jane," Warner's Technicolor musical starring Doris Day and Howard Keel at the N. Y. Paramount Theater, Deadeye Doris' horse for the occasion is Rusty, the same beau-iful sorrel ridden in several pictures by Randolph Scott. D. D.

wrtrays the heroine of the new 'cture's title. Keel, aboard Galahad, the "Windy City," Miss Day per-formscrobatic stunts a la Burt Lancaster, and with good reason. Lancaster showed the ac-tressthe safest way, to take a tumble while she was rehearsing the number with Jack Don-ohue, director of "Calamity Jane's" musical sequences. Doris also learned how to tie up a man with a flick of the bull whip. Dave Kashner, Hollywood's No.

One whip-cracker, taught her. "Calamity Jae" went before the cameras at che Warner studio and at the Warntr ranch at Calabasas, where art director John Beckman designed a replica of Dead wood City, S. as it appeared in 1876, complete with hotel, gambling hall, theater, saloon, stage coach depot, homes and stores. "I've Got a Hive Full of Honey" (Dick Wesson), "I Can Do Without You" (Miss Day and Howard Keel), 'Tis Harry I'm Planning to Marry" (Gale Rob-bins), "Just Got Back From the Windy City" (Miss Day), "Keep It Under Your Hat" (Allyn McLerie), "Higher Than a Hawk" (Keel), "A Woman's Touch" (Miss Day, Miss McLerie), "Black Hills of Dakota" (Miss Day, Keel, Miss McLerie and Philip Carey), reprise "'Tis Harry I'm Planning to Marry" (Miss McLerie, Wesson), "My Secret Love" (Miss Day). Acrobatics Included In one of the numbers, and white painted West-rn pony which Gary Cooper ikes to ride, plays Wild Bill ljickok.

He does it In a ringing tenor, and with six-guns blazing. Other equally colorful, if less glamorous, charges than Rusty and Galahad are mounted by such Western ladies and gentlemen as Allyn McLerie, Dick Wesson, Philip Carey, Paul Harvey, Chubby Johnson and Gale Robbins. Ten Songs In filming the musical fanfares accompanying the excursions and alarums of the "Calamity Jane" cast, producer William Jacobs and director BOB HOPE'S OLDTIME VAUDEVILLE PARTNER MOVIE TIME SCHEDULE BROOKLYN AI.BEE "Drrll'a Cwm," 11:30, 3:51. 7:28, 10:57: "ValuM." 2:01. :07.

fOX "Tin 1m BI.e." 4:42, lirimA, David Butler applied stage methods more familiar to IN 'WHITE CHRISTMAS' 7.48. "Th. rUe." 12:24, 3:10, Broadway than Hollywood MONTGOMERY CLIFT and Donna Reed, JOAN FONTAINE yvill be seen with Louis Rather than calling in song writers to compose the music MARILYN MONROE and Betty Grable are co-starred with Lauren Bacall in "How to Marry a Millionaire," Technicolor musical comedy in CinemaScope which will have a gala two-theater premiere tomorrow night at Loew's State and the Globe theaters? in "From Here to Eternity," which starts a 15th hit week this Wednesday at the Jack Pepper, Bob Hope's old-time vaudeville partner, has been signed for a role in Irving Berlin's "White Christmas," the lavish Bing Crosby-Danny Jourdan in Decameron iNigms, technicolor film due at the Fine Arts Theater Nov. 16. 1:42.

METROPOLITAN "Tarek tm," 1:411, 4:42. 7:36, 'lulu en Trais," 12:31. 3:25, 1:13. PARAMOUNT "BUUf 17," 1:07. :51, "OIlBpU Elk," 12:33, 3:27, :19.

:11. after the screen play was com' Capitol Theater. Kaye Technicolor musical for I scriptwriter James O'Hanlon worked from the start with song writers Sammy MANHATTAN 'Covered Wagon' Fain and Paul Francis Web Paramount. Pepper Is mentioned in Cros-by's best-selling autobiography, ster. To Be Remade As By the constant exchange of "Call Me Lucky," as the owner of a Dallas night club, where ideas, the songs were closely A8TOR "Th.

QdMl 1:13, 6:53, :02, 10:08. 12:04. CAPITOL "From Hera EIctbIIt," 13, 2:03, 4:10, 8:17, 8:24, 10:31, 12:34. CRITERION "Bbrt UL 1:35. 1:50, 3:45.

7:40, (:40, Hit. kM GLOBE "Jack tbkt, 0,30, 1:11, 7, 8:45, 10:30, 12:24. MAVrAIR "BoUnr Bar," If. 1:04, 4:08, 8:12, 8:18, 10:20, 12:24. MUSIC HALL "Rial Ma Rait," 12, 1:45, 8:32.

8:30. 11:111 HI, 1:48, 4:38, 7:38. 10:22. NEW YORR "LHIla WarM af Daa Camilla." 12:18, 2:18, 4:18. 8:18.

3:10 U.14. Super-Spectacle; Bing and Bob once made a 20th Century-Fox Has World's Prettiest Oil Well, Painted Blue By ALINE MOSBY United Press Hollywood Correspondent Hollywood Twentieth Century-Fox studio, which temporarily stopped making movies, today took up a more profitable business drilling the world's prettiest oil well. Recently the studio closed its doors while it uses up its guest appearance, but no au co-ordinated with the script. As a result, the songs enhance the action and aid in telling the Two topflight film craftsmen, Academy Award-winning Di story much in the manner of dience showed up because they thought Pepper was pulling a gag in announcing the famed entertainers. rector Michael Curtiz and Pro such Broadway musicals as PARAMOUNT "Calamllr Ja "Oklahoma!" "South Pacific" and "The King and ir ur- -a 5:59, 8:59, 11:57 ataa, In "White Christmas" Pep ducer Irving Asher, have been assigned to bring "The Covered Wagon," all-time western classic, to the screen as one of Para-mount's top productions for per portrays a railroad condilt- "Calamity Jane songs num RIVOI.I "I lltle Ba Lait," 12, 1:80, 5:35, 7:30, 9:30, 11:30.

tor In key comedy scenes with backlog of Cinemascope movies ROXY "Tha Raka." 2. 4:30. T. 11. ber 10 in all.

Here is a list together with the singers: "The Crosby, Kaye, Rosemary Cloo- So. instead of pictures, the after just a couple of million dollars." VICTORIA "Tha Moon la Blac," 12, 1:53, 3:48. 5:43, 7:38, 9:33, 11:21. WARNER "Cinerama," 2, 8, 8:40. WW 15 fi HnitnTlUHiHr" inmiiliiiMUllninnri luff 1954.

Both Curtiz and Asher Deadwood Stage" (Doris Day), ney and Vera-Ellen. studio is producing petroleum. On the exact spot of the back -1 had difficulty inspecting have many memorable motion pictures to their credit. Long regarded as a great lot where Ava Gardner was pinned under a truck for a movie scene has been built a saga of American pioneer life, "The Covered Wagon" Is being re-made by Paramount as a real, live oil well. This oil well, in true Holly this new Fox "production." Oil drillers, Williams explained, think it's bad luck for a female to hang around on the first drilling day.

I finally sneaked in under the disguise of a driller's tin hat. 'Snows' Filmed Here "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," arfOSBSSS2 super-spectacle of the old West. wood fashion, is the most ele Decision to re-make the classic gant in history. It is draped pictures of 30 years ago was with soundproof material paint reached following the enthu ed a delicate blue. The disguise matches the sky and keeps oil siastic acclaim given George Stevens' "Shane." pump noises from offending Asher recently was the pro the neighbors in nearby man Plons.

Neighbors Appealed starring Miss Gardner, was filmed on the spot where the derrick was built. Tanks of mud for the drill stand where Claudette Colbert starved in a prison camp for "Three Came Home." And the hill where Christ traveled on a donkey ducer on Paramount Walk," starring Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews and Peter Finch, widely regarded as one of the most important of upcoming films, while Curtiz is currently directing ''White VICTOR. MATURE as a captive in "The Robe," Technicolor production in CinemaScope, now in its eighth week at the Roxy Theater. Jean Simmons and Richard Burton are co-starred. An oil expert explained that the oil field has been around for years.

The stu for "The Robe" was leveled for the drillers. Other oil well owners drove-Christmas," starring Bing ON WIDE SCREEN" SIEKOntONIC SOUND out to stare at the 136-foot steel derrick that, disguised, looks Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen as his like a windmill without pro first assignment at Paramount. peller. The original "The Covered Wagon" was directed by James "It's so elegant," drawledl dio finally overcame objections of surrounding home owners and drilled for the liquid gold. venture may bring Fox Wtire money than it makes from Marilyn Monroe, said C.

G. Williams of the Consolidated Oil Company. "It cost about $350,000 just to drill the well," said Williams, a sedate- man in a costume Including a vest and hat foreign garb to filmsters. "So I assure you we aren't going JLM HiUU WKHE oTmII MiuKUTnMmsMiTCun II I waul joa.m. tnou un nm utm torn gt one lexan.

11 musi oe me Marilyn Monroe influence." The drillers won't know for 60 days whether they'll strike oil or get a gusher of old golf Cruze with a cast headed by J. Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson, Tully Marshall, and Ernest Torrence. It was based on a novel by Emerson Hough. Paramount's new production of "The Covered Wagon," to be filmed in Technicolor and for the wide screen, will go before balls from the country club across the street. OOOtSOW fT unit II I HI JOAN CRAWFORD II the cameras early next year.

nm ihbius? PLACK FURY" WILDING TWNti UST TIMES TOOAir dan, Glen Ford and Zachary Scott. The animal eventually roamed growlingly, into Scott's dressing room, where he became attracted by the vision of him- Script Didn't Call For Puma's Acting Up Unexpected thrills, decidedly not in the script, occurred when a puma escaped on the set and wandered at large during a jungle sequence for the coming "Appointment in Honduras," Alpine's Technicolor production for RKO Radio release, co-starring Ann Sheri- WIDE sel in the star's mirror and SCREENS AT THEATRE attacked what he say. That's how his trainer was able to catch him. In the Big-Time Grand-Time, Great-Time Show of All Time! To Accommodate All of New York 20th Century-Fox Announces the Simultaneous Two-Theatre Engagement, Starting TUESDAY Robert Ryan Set To Co-Star With Shirley Booth Robert Ryan has been signed as co-star with Shirley Booth in Hal Wallis' "About Mrs. Leslie" for Paramount.

Daniel Mann is directing the picture. One of the top-ranking favorites of the screen, Ryan will portray the role of a Washington governmental power who finds solace for personal loneliness through the years in a Clandestine romance with an ex-night club singer. The film is an adaptation of Vina Del-mar's successful novel. In acquiring the talents of Ryan for "About Mrs. Leslie," producer Wallis scores another triumph in unique casting, fori the assignment is a striking de- irfll Tr In nVi ah TECHNICOLOR Show.

GREGORY PECK WAUNCIA AUDREY HEPBURN 'DfiMAN GAY ThOPICAL MU8ICALI I I ft wmiir' STREET 1 1 I H0LWAY' VlREVOOIT JTIIBOiq 1 fin on our PANORAMIC WIDE SCREEI NHttiod 'THE LAST MCARDO HIIIM POSSE' l0QWAI JCONEV VK 0 jxmgs KSJfTALBAM HOLIDAY SHOW LAST 3 DAYS STARTS WEDNESDAY VTMTINUMr rtfrr (AAT IID6E Jeff CHANDLER 2 VOIIEHTAl Htt Gttatttt Role! JOAN VPITKIIT. 'EAST of SUMATRA' 5 'Ml MtAV A tow roiTiir VPREMIE.R CIKVJFOIU) WITH Of- STEREOPHONIC tL 9 MGM's 1 Nraal MttttaneMl aiialail L------C3niam POWELL M-O-M'f the rueed antnr Wnllic nrn. CRITERION 'ii "SpreUeular folar I tkrlllint ctln!" Mirrr 'E B'wy JM 45th SI I Co-rtrri MICHAEL WILDING duced "Come Back, Little Sheba" with Miss Booth, the picture that won her an Academy Award in her screen debut, and in it gave Burt Lancaster one of his most excep-l acting opportunities in the off-beat assignment of the star's alcoholic mate. 1 Among his more recent Hollywood credits, Ryan was seen' outstandingly in "The Texas Man," "Inferno" and "The Naked Spur." He recently completed "Alaska Seas" at Para sS RADIO CITY Ml Sir HALL I mT GIG MAM0RIE YOUNG-RAMBEAU 20 Ctnhiryt Clark GABLE AvaGARDNER Firit N.Y. Showing "The AFFAIRS of DOBIEGILLIS" DEBBIE REYNOLDS Snowploc of tho Nolien RocktfoRcr Contaf Bt musical of lh wart" ZUNSER, CUE "KISS ME KATE" lUNlM SPECIAL THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY SCHEDULE FOR CINERAMA! Thurs (Nov26, 3 Perfs-2, 5,8:40 PM; Fri (Nov 2:40, 7:30,10:30 PM All MAtt MUIVI0 I MGM's TERROR ON A TRAIN' GLENN FORD -ANNE VERNON mount and "Miss Baker's Dozen" with Greer Garson.

XATHRYN GRAYSON HOWARD KEEL T.lR..",MENN1Wm 0BBYVA MMCSWHITM0KC KURT KASZNAR a PMoptphad In ANSC0 COIOR Prml if ItCHNICOlOlt Oirtcted by GtORGE SIDNEY 'Producod tvJACXCUMMINGS.to M-t-M Pict.rt OK STAGE: "LIGHTS UPr-Coto prodded by lidofJ. Rockoftei, Corp. de Ballet, Chorol En.emble and Symphony Ordwftra ctirecled by Raymond Paige. Boon Open Today 11,30 A. M.

Picture ol I2J0, 5,31, ,30 ,) Stoge Shew 40. 4:38, 7,36. Doog Ope, Meadey 10,1 A. M. wipmcd TuriTDt "Hey, Mister, you're TTir iSign Thomas Mitchell Thomas Mitchell, of "Hazel Flagg" fame, has returned to Hollywood for the first time in almost two years and will star with Charlton Heston, Nicole Maurey, Wendell Corey and Yma Sumac in Paramount's "Legend of the Inca." He will play the villain.

"Legend of the Inca," Mitchell's first film 6ince "High Noon," will be 'produced by Mel Epstein with Jerry Hopper directing. WARNM BROK 1 tt. I "Cilainiiy janB'i; Z'OtZ'JST KAI8UU4 18 mm COM CHNICOlO AINIYIM8 3M UN D'lflYnO-OerfMribiA Mouorat 11 jo a. m. COME ANYTIME AND SEE A COMPLETE SHOW nooet e.ce imoa.m.

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