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Coming Attractions Right: ROBERT MITCHUM on TERESA WRIGHT in "PURSUED" at the RITZ COMING SOON Above: CARY GRANT and SHIRLEY TEMPLE in "THE BACHELOR AND THE BOBBY-SOXER' Coming soon to the EMPIRE THEATER Above: VAN JOHNSON and JANET LEIGH is 'THE ROMANCE OF ROSY RIDGE" at the ALABAMA Thursday m. is 7E BIRMINGHAM NEWS-AGE-HERALD AUG. 17, '47 II A Dan Do'ley Knew Just What He A II Wanted, Hoofing, Acting Career Coming Pictures Given Ratings As Excellent what Darryl movies is another Dan Dailey a about you. fellow who fits in smoothly with things, Dan any young country club group that I havent met loves outdoor sports and horses. He was four ad a half years at a FL 'war doing some rough work at with the 88th where he yth.

decorated in the field. He is tall fo? a expert horseman, and so is his wife, the former Elizabeth Hofert. Juggled Account HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 16 iP) On an expense sheet mailed hoit by Jules Dassin from New York, where hes directing The Naked City, was this item: One jdggler, not to be seen in the picture. Auditors howled.

Dassin explained: New crowds always get in the way when he tries to shoot a street scene. The juggler begins his act just aa the camera starts rolling and the interest of the crowd is on him not on the camera. Dublins fuel shortage is the worst since before the war. of Los Angeles, to whom he was Dad nodded. Im a hoofer, he he kept onjmrie( flnzB nf Mnne i One of Dans characterizing himself this way all i it.

'Norwegian So Dumb That Swede Has Role' HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 16 (A3) Excerpts from a letter from Charlie McCarthy: There is an ugly rumor going around that Bergen has Turned legitimate and that I am through. They also say Ive worried myself so thin I can sleep in a pencil sharpener. Let me say Im enjoying dandy health and am as happy as the day I killed my first woodpecker. Now as for Bergens acting, thats a long story and a dirty one.

Some say its out of this world. I say keep it there. However, it is true that he is doing a straight role in I Remember Mama. He was chosen to play the dopey Norwegian undertaker after it was turned down by every other actor. I understand the part calls for such a dumb Norwegian they had to get a Swede to play it.

sidelines is training jumping horses. He sells em, too. Outdoor Guy The Daileys live in a small apart- Birmingham movie-goers certainly will have no reason to complain about the entertainment thats coming up during the usually dull August vacation month this year. Next on the schedule of the four major dowptown theaters are four pictures that have been given excellent rating by drama critics The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, coming to the Empire; The Romance of Rosy Ridge, opening Thursday at the Alabama; Living in a Big Way, coming to the Melba. and Pursued, coming to the Ritz.

Perhaps the most widely-publicized is The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, a gay comedy with a star cast, booked by the Empire. Shirley Temple and Cary Grant have the title parts, and Myrna Loy is also starred. The supporting cast includes Rudy Vallee, Ray Collins, Jack Of All Trades Sometimes, as Dan Dailey talks. Film Producer Sees Montalban As New Valentino HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 16 (JP Ricardo Montalban is on his way up in the movit world.

Jack Cummings, an up-and-Cummings young producer, says so. Cummings is the guiding genius behind Montalbans sudden success. And he is very happily basking in the reflected glory of his protege. Thats the way producers work. Glory makes the star; boxoffice makes the producer.

Both are happy. Pleased with his work in Fiesta. Cummings now wants Montalban to star in a movie Cummings bas yearned for years to make. Ive waited a long time for the right man to come along, says Cummings. Montalban is the first Ive seen who could really do justice to the story of kapata, the Pancho Villa of Southern Mexico.

Zapata and Villa were contemporary and almost parallel figures. But, says Cummings, with difference. Villa was brigand, and a low class crook. Zapata was a true revolutionary hero. Cummings is sold on his story.

He believes it may be the vehicle to rocket Montalban into the position once occupied by Valentino. But just to make sure Montalban has the proper heart interest, hes going to give him, as his leading lady, Lana Turner. And if Lana seems a little incongruous well, thats HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 16 When Dan Dailey was 14 and the neighborhood kids were shooting the breeze about their ambitions, Dan would look down his nose at the future bankers, presidents, big game hunters and lawyers who lived in bis block. Me? hed say pityingly.

None of that stuff for me. Im going into show business. You think youll make a hundred thousand dollars maybe, but me, Ill make millions! At that time Dan was creeping I up fast on the six feet four he through our mterview eventually turned out to be. He was mostly legs and his face gave very little promise of the rugged handsomeness it later developed. The kids thought he was nuts.

Dan Dailey, who had a pretty plush proposition in the hotel business, spent a lot of time trying to make junior see the light. But junior had a one-track mind and dancing feet, so his advisers got nowhere. i Made It Dans persistence led him through good many vicissitudes before he landed with 20ft Century-Fox playing opposite Betty Grable in Mother Wore Tights. But he now has the situation so well in hand that the studio is planning a star future for him. You seem to be the new curly-haired wonder child, I said to him.

They tell me youre the first dancer 20th has ever groomed for star dom. You should hear Zaunck has to say I hear swell grinned. Of course, Mr. Zanuck T'haf 1 Whl arent you awfully cer? qualified, and I noticed he falls back into the vaudeville, the idioms towns, the flavor of show, the honky-tonks, lesque houses across he got his training. I did everything, long as it was show business.

Id go out with vaudeville units. Somethingd go wrong, so a guy comes up to me and hollers: Hey you, get out there and sing! Me, I had no inhibit ions, Id sing my fool a f. Or someone would SWIM Today At CASCADE PLUNGE A SURE WAY TO BEAT THE HEAT! vernacular of ment in Beverly Hills, a makeshift of tank due the housing shortage. But the ministrel they spend all their spare time on the bur- the San Fernando Valley ranch this land where were horses are kept. And theY swim and water-ski at Arrow- Hedda, just so head.

The Dailey family have forgiven their black sheep who couldnt see the hotel business for dust Dans brother heads the Hotel Roosevejt in New York now. Thats the job Dan, had in mind for Hollywoods newest star. Dan has a well-balanced plan for his motion picture future. He made good as an actor, so he only wants to make one musical a year, playing straight roles the rest of the time. Betty Grable, who says he's terrific, would ask nothing bet- be sick, or fail to show up on time, and the first thing you knew Id be reading BETTY ORABLE lines.

It was peachy just peachy. Forget your heat worries! Come down to RELAX and enjoy Bing's best Summertime hit in a cool place where joy rules the day! Farmers Riding Continued From Page 1 CALIFORNIA Ray Ml liana tartar Stanvytk Jilisjr wedding Jl'lSh I4IS show Harry Davenport and Johnny Sands. Pursued, coming to the Ritz, is an action drama of the Southwest outdoors, teams Robert Mitchum and Teresa Wright. Its a story of love that called across a prairieland of fury, with a supporting cast including such personalities as Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger and Alan Hale. Van Johnson comes to the Alabama Theater Thursday in the screen version of The Saturday Evening Post story, The Romance of Rosy Ridge, an action drama.

The cast includes Thomas Mitchell, Marshall Thompson, Selene Royle, Dean Stockwell and Janet Leigh, who makes her screen debut. Living in a Big Way, the next picture scheduled for the Melba, is a new musical with zany comedy, fast dancing by Gene Kelly, romance, and songs including It Had to be You, Fido and Me, and others. Teaming with Gene Kelly is Marie McDonald, and the supporting cast includes Charles Win-ninger, Phyllis Thaxter and Spring Byington. Each theater will show a newsreel; some of them will include color cartoons and educational shorts to round out their programs. Back-Stage 'B' Fite in 'Allegro'; King Of Waltz Coming Here BY LILY MAY CALDWELL Nsws Drama Editor "OKLAHOMA!" is coming to Birmingham this season! The history-making Broadway musical has been booked for a solid week at the Temple Theater.

Sihging the leading roles here will be the No. 1 road eompany headed by James Alexander as Curley and Peggy Engel as Lau-rey. They scored a hit in Washington this Summer when they launched a nationwide tour. Dates for the Birmingham engagement are tentative, but at the present time: Feb. 9 through the 14th.

ess WAYNE KING brings his stage show to the Municipal Auditorium for one night only, Saturday, Oct. 4. The waltz king will feature as soloists such personalities as Jan Stevens, ABC network baritone, and Nancy Evans, of the Don McNeil Breakfast Club program heard over ABC-WSGN. A dance team and the King Choir, along with Evelyn Davis, concert violinist, will be among featured attractions. Miss Davis is concert master for the Chicago Womens Symphony Orchestra' and has appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and other symphonic organizations.

This will be Sun. -Mon. My Brothar Talka to Horaea "Butch" Jaakiaa Patar LaofarB Will have you singing and humming ''SLY OLD GENTLEMAN' ''EAST SIDE OF HEAVEN," and other hits in I even worked on a South American I ter than to have cruise ship. Dan danced himself onto Broadway in Babes in Arms, which kept him working for a year. Dwight Deere Wimap next gave him a featured spot in Stars in Your Eyes.

Then the boy, who had haunted the booking agents with a minimum of luck, had a choice of two jobs. He took the juvenile lead in I Married him in her next. But hes now working with Nancy Guild in to Broadway, a juggler. Hell The Flapper know-it-all hoofer, Crain. Meanwhile hes Sun.

-Mon. CALIFORNIA Ray MillaaO Barkara Staawyak 11 nancy guild Give My Regards in which he plays follow that with Age, as a cocky opposite Jeanne shopping for a Sun. -Mon. BONO OF SHEHERAZADE Vvaaaa Da Carla Brian Oaalavy EAST SIDE OF HEAVEN an Angel. It eventually led him to hus- Thf Daileys expect an heir Los Angeles, where a movie scout shortly their first and the apart-spotted him.

M-G-M signed him to ent won 1 be large enough for; MTwo Yaara Bafora tha Matt Alaa Lida Briaa Oaalavy rr a contract. three. (Copyright, 1947, The Chicago Tribune). With This Fun Cast JOAN BLONDELL MISCHA AUER IRENE HERVEY Sun. -Mon.

LADY IN THE LAKE Rafcart Mantaanary Audray Tattar NOW Showing JO Mu. out ilSUlloUAj Hlthvve rtllfMINI, HAM'S Ml PKNIC I PI Hi pineview beach I Swimming dancino 4 f't Ciu tUf i Ctfjx; Uh Piteit bb acre. Mortgages ran to $8,500,000,000. or 15 per cent of total farm values. Some farms, purchased on a shoestring, were almost full mortgaged, and easy pickings for the sheriff.

Farm speculation has been relatively moderate this time. Moreover, price supports will rule throughout 1948, which cushions against a drop. At the same time, European needs for American foodstuffs will persist. For the farmers, potential consumers are not the problem. The main problem is dollars: Will Europe get them? IF CONGRESS PROVIDES the funds to implement the Marshall Plan, farmers will continue to be big buyers of agricultural implements, automobiles, refrigerators, housing, and so on.

But ultimately, American agriculture must prepare for a fundamental readjustment, similar to that of the late 20s. As Europe rebuilds its economy, as it begins producing its own foods. U. S. farm exports will drop sharply.

This presents a major problem for the next session of Congress. Here we are asking farmers to increase crop goals so as to feed Europe, knowing full well that these high exports cannot go on forever. Therefore it is only, right and proper to extend price supports beyond 1948. As a war measure, we guaranteed to support prices. Now we must do it as a peace measure.

Meanwhile, theres no denying that farmers are well off. Some moderate drop in prices will not seriously endanger their strong economic position. Indeed, it would tend to cut the cost of living in urban areas, which in turn might diminish demands for wage LYRIC NEWS Alabama prices prevail AT YOUR ENSLEY THEATRES TODAY Light Feet To Heavies It was swell experience, he said. I was dodging on and off sound stages all the time. I ran into a big1 Irishman out there Billy Grady, He took one look at me.

It said, 1 Brother come into the fold, as plain as words. He stuck me into every picture in sight. Then one day Louis B. Mayer sent for me. I stood outside the door of his office and thought: This is the; works; he doesn't think youve got what it takes.

The room was a mile long and all white furniture and all and as I walked down toward 1 his desk I kept telling myself to keep a stiff upper lip. But it was nothing like that. It turned out to be a heart-to-heart talk in which Mr. Mayer told me: Dan, your per-; sonality doesn't match your face. Youre too old for your face, so Ive i got to cast you as a heavy.

But stick around movies 10 years and you'll be a star. That was eight years ago. Back of the hoofing and the vau-j deville and the theater and the 1 THEY RACED ACROSS THE WORLD ENSLEY be given over to a stage ALLEGRO, the now-in-rehearsal musical production. The Theater Guild expects to top the coming season on Broadway, will feature Birminghams Mary Beverly Fite in a dancing role. Fite, dancer-pianist-singer-actress, and former director and prima ballerina of the Birmingham Starlight Opera, is making a name for herself on the New York stage.

She has been featured aancer in Oklahoma! and more recently with Barefoot Boy with Cheek, in which she also understudied the star, Nancy Walker. When Nancy was stricken ill one night last month, stepped into the leading role on a half-hour notice. She won the praise of critics and a big hand from the audience, Hugh Martin, wrote me. Hugh, by the way, was arranger for the show. SPEAKING OF HUGH MARTIN, the Birmingham composer will at last see his latest musical for which he wrote the music open on Broadway this Fall.

Its Look Ma! Im Dancing! and Nancy Walker, a favorite of Hugh, and of George Abbott, the producer, will have the leading role. Choreographer will be Jerome Robbins. a FROM HOLLYWOOD Visiting in Birmingham this week is another young aspirant from this city for movie stardom. Jim Tidd, nephew of M. J.

Robinson, of 936 South 25th Street, returns to California shortly to resume his studies at the Hollywood Actors Lab. He will have a featured part with the Greek Theater group, and will be screen-tested by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. Jim has been in training in Hollywood for the past nine months, studying dramatics, voice (he has a baritone) and dancing (he is well known here, having been a dance partner of Jean Shontz on many USO tours). Personal manager for the Birmingham youth is Grace Causey, actors agent, who formerly lived in Birmingham. She writes Jim that she is arranging auditions for him for the Victor Young and Garry Moore network shows, and is "dickering for a part in a New York show.

A graduate of West End High, he had leading roles in his school plays, and sang with the chorus. Hollywood has renamed him Paul Tides. LOIS WILSON is playing th "ABILENE TOWN' RANDOLPH SCOTT Sun. -Mon. THe WESTERNER Gary Caaaar altar Braaaaa FRASiKJI Sun.

-Mon. CALIFORNIA Ray Ml liana Barkara Staawyak "FALCON'S ADVENTURE' TOM CONWAY Sun. -Mon. SINBAD THE SAILOR Daaglaa Falrkaaka Mauraaa OHara TWKSK.UE "KID FROM BROOKLYN Danny Kaya, Virginia Maya Phona Tniiivilla 9-R-Z TODAY FIRST FEATURI 1 :00 P. M.

IT'S look New Jersey last week; starts the current tour of the nation that brings it back to Birmingham's Mu nicipal Auditorium next March for another Week. Randy Barker, of New Orleans, in town for a chat with Ted Brownell, brings glad tidings that Comedienne Peggy Fahy Will be back in a new skit, and that most of the other stars of the show that played here last Spring will be making a return visit to Birmingham. Randy, who was company manager for the show on its first date here two years ago, has been producing Summer operas in Toledo and Indianapolis. DAVID O. SEIZNIOC'S Production of EXACTLY AS ORIGINALLY I SIRIN! Mss in lova with a covor girl I Hai in a flaw hit MARGARET MITCHELL'S GONE WITH Turumun tfUu IV Mill Strawhat Circuit, along with such personalities as Gertrude Lawrence, Realism Where It Hurts ZaSu Pitts, Conrad Nagel, Diana' Barrymore.

Miriam Hopkins, Faye Emerson, Ilka Chase, Lillian Gish. Edward Everet Horton, Margaret Bannerman, Freddie Batrholomew and others, along the New England coastal regions. HOLIDAY ON ICE opened in HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 16 Somebody in the prop department at Republic is a little too tic to suit Orson Welles. Maestro, was appraising foot-high statuette of himself clay to be used as an effigy scene in Macbeth." It was a by VICTOR FLEMING TECHNICOLOR CLARK GABLE VIVIAN LEIGH LESLIE HOWARD OLIVIA De HAVILLAND CONTINUOUS SHOWING Sunday Price Adult SOc All Day Children Under 12, 10c including Tax UP) realis-l a in for a nice little statue, but Orson decided it needed one alteration.

Orson pared his miniature likeness giving it a flatter tummy. Deaths News Fatal BILLINGS, Mont. (P) Edgar 62-year-old ranch worker, died here recently and a mortician telephoned his brother, 1 Jaques, at New York, N. to tell him of Edgars death. After breaking the newa, the undertaker heard a thud and then the wire was silent, for a time until another voice told the mortician that Nels Jaques had just died oi a heart attack.

Dua to th length at "GONE WITH THE WIND" It I Neceary That Wa Start tha Flnt Show At 1:00 P.M. Today An M-G-M Release NOW SHOWING! WEST END THEATER TODAY and MONDAY "NEVER SAY GOODBYE" ERROL FLYNN ELEANOR PARKER James CRAIG Frances GIFFORD LUANA PATTEN Mere: "VAUDEVILLE REVUE" LATE NEWS Start THURSDAYI George RAFT In "I STOLE A MILLION" Now! Teroea WRIGHT Robert MITCHUM NEXT! PURSUED'.