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VALLEY TIMES Mtitdiy, Ootobir 10, 1150 12 San Francisco Arrives-250 Opera Strong The celebrated San Francisco Opera Company arrives in Los Angeles today more than 250 strong prepared to give local operagoers two weeks of fine music, beginning with tomorrows brilliant first night performance of Andrea Chenier" at Shrine Auditorium. Such world famous artists as Lily Pons, Kirsten Flag- itad, Bldu Sayao, Lida Italo Tajo, Robert Weede, Glu-' scpps D1 Stefano, Ramon Vlnay, John Brownlee, Salvatore Bac-calonl, Brenda Lewli and many others will be on hand to contribute their art to the glamorous 'Rio Grande' To Make Bow In ta' 'Bitter Rice' Assignment No Soft Spot No soft assignment was the Disking of Bitter Rice, the sensational new Italian film opening Nov. 10 at the Laurel and Vagabond Theaters, which stars Doris Dowling and introduces the amnz-lng new feminine discovery, Sll-vana Mangano, Stars, supporting placers, and production crew alike had to sign a hardship clause in their contract. So bad were living conditions In the Po Valley rice fields where the film was made that the contracts stated: You hereby signify your awareness of the special difficulties of the surroundings and the woiklng conditions therein particularly with regard to the climate, damp, mosquitoes, and every other discomfort arising from the special conditions of place and season, Munday In Third Circle Appearance Three Out of Four" marks the third Circle appearance for pretty Mary Munday featured In the Op O' Me Thumb" episode with Marie Wilson. The young actress received her dramatic training tn undergraduate plays at U.S.C., then moved Into radio and stock.

San Antonio Rio Grande, epic adventure film thriller produced and directed by John Ford and Merlan C. Cooper, will have a world premiere Wednesday In San Antonio, and begin showings here on Thursday at the Paramount Hollywood and Downtown Theaters. The new offering Is a result of the same produeer-dirertor team responsible for such outstanding box-office successes as Fort Apache" and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara top the cast of Rio Grande, a cast which also lists Claude Jarman J. Carroll Naish, Harry Carey Jr, Ben Johnson, Victor McLaglen and Chill Wills.

The new arrival swells the list of films Wayne and Director John Ford have made together, Frat, Sorority Life Due For Expose On Screen By HAROI.D HEFFER.NA.V Ths Belt Syndic! Long the foremost sponsor of the so-called "controversial type of celluloid drama, 20th-Foxs Darryl Zanuck is probing another sensitive spot in the American social structure with Take Care of My Little Girl," tai ring Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters and Jeffrey Hunter. Although his No Way Out" has provoked a barrag of discussion and there are still some repercussions from other Zanuck messages dating back to "Gentleman's Agreement," he is not to be sidetracked. His current eyebrow raiser deals with college sororities and fraternities. A less serious sociological problem than his previous essays, this one, nevertheless, may create an even greater furore. For, while the, earlier crusades dealt with persons raught In circumstances generally regarded as evil, this time he Is picking on an Institution for which at least several million citizens have affection.

Not Indictment Take Care of My Little Girl" is not considered an out-and-out Indictment of the fraternity-sorority system but Its straightforward story cerlainly seems pointed enough so that the spectator will have no difficulty In drawing a conclusion. It deals with girl who goes to college and Joins a sorority to which her mother had belonged. She accepts the rather superficial and perhaps faintly vicious values of the group end stuffs off her childhood sweetheart Ultimately and dramatically (he manages to recover her perspective In time for a final clinch. Boy-Meeta-Glrl All this is strictly within the boy-meets-glrl formula, but the Story line necessarily presents sorority life In a manner that will please critics of the system group which Includes, by the way, most of the nations leading educators. Starring of Jean Peters tn such a film presents an Interesting footnote.

Jean came Into the movie industry by winning the title of Miss Ohio State University, she has repeatedly declared that politics were largely responsible for her victory and claims little per sonal glory tor the accomplish' ment. Each of the sororities was plugging one of Its members and Jean was the choice of ths non-orgs," or non-sorority members. Already Paramount Is contemplating the making of another picture with the famous Goldberg family of radio and TV fame, The studio has just finished one, The Goldbergs," starring Molly (Gertrude Berg) end the whole family. This Indicates that a new trend of family" movies Is on Its way to the theaters. Somehow or other, they seem the most solid sort of box-office Insurance a studio can get.

Among the household adventures that proved smash hits over a long period were the Hardy, the Aldrlcli and the Jones families, Blondle and Dagwood, tle kin of the four daughters and recently the rise of the Wilkins family in "Dear Ruth," Dear Wife" and, next Dear Brat." Many other single movies about famous families were hits, among them "I Remember Mama," "Abie Irish Rose," "Life With Father," and many others. John Hodlak's enthusiasm for golf has finally led him to break a long-standing agreement with hla wife, Anne Baxter. Mr. H. has asked permission to visit her on the set of her current Follow Th Sun" at 20th-Fox.

When the two were married four years ago they agreed It would be better If they didn't Interfere with each others work. Aa a vital part of that decision they vowed not to visit one anothers set Both had scrupulously abided by the agreement until Anne came up with her present role at th wife of the famous golfer, Ben Hogan. Hogan himself has been serving as special technical consultant on the biographical drama and this was just too much for John. A great Hogan fan, as all must FRANCES RAMSDEN AND HAROLD LLOYD Beauty Passes Test-Faints Churches To Show 'Again Pioneers' Protestant churches In 100 cities throughout the country, Including greater Los Angeles, will show the Protestant Film Commission feature motion picture, "Again Pioneers," starring Colleen Townsend, on Monday, Nov. 6, when the production will be given Its world premiere, under plans completed by Paul F.

Heard, executive secretary of the organisation, Again Pioneers" concerns displaced persons in America as told In terms of a family of migrant workers as they come In conflict with an established midwest community. Its cast Includes Tom Powers, Regis Toomey, Sarah Padden, Russell Hicks, Evelyn Brent and Peggy Wynne and It was directed by William Beaudlne. Heard functioned as executive producer. The premiere showings will be attended by leading clergymen as well as church members. Again Pioneers" will be screened In approximately 30,000 churches throughout the country during Its overall period of release.

Fox West Coast Opera Festival To Start Nov. 4 Fox West Coast Theaters announces a grand opera festival for Its Beverly Hills showcase, the Fine Arts, starting with Saturday, Nov. 4, and continuing through Sunday, Nov. 19. Seven great musical masterpieces will be presented In repertory, with Donlzzettls "Lucia Dl Lammermoor," starring Neill Cor-radl and Alfredo Poll, as the im augural ojera feature to be shown Nov.

4-5-6. Other opert films to be shown and their dates follow: Nov. 9-10 Gounod's Ave odle," with Glno Cervl and Con-chit Montenegro, Nov. 9-10 ounod'i "Ave Marie, with Beniamino Gigli and Katy de Nov. 11-12 Rossinis Regina De La Scala, with Almando Felconl and Marghareta Carsl, 13-14 Puccini's "La Toscp, with Ferruclo Taglavlni and Elsie Merrlllnl, Nov.

15-16 Verdi's "La Tra-vlata, with Mari Cebateri and Giovanni Matero. Nov. 17-18-18 Bizet's Carmen, with Vivian Romance and Jean Marrlass. Performances will be continuous with no reserved scats and no increase In prices. enthusiastic golfers be, he asked that Anne let him break' the pact for Just this once.

She did, and since then John has spent more time on the Follow Th Sun set than has Anne. It's Man Who Flies In 'Woman On Run' By DIAL TORC.r.RSON Woman on the Run" really a picture about a man on the run the man who is married to the callous, out-of-love woman who thinks it is her duty to save his life. Whether or not shell be able to save him brings on one of the most suspenseful manhunts seen on the screen this as Harold Lloyd's leading lady In Mad Wednesday." The picture It finished now and will be distributed shortly by RKO Radio. In It Miss Ramsden wins audience acclaim In the company of such scene stealers at Comedian Lloyd, Jimmy Conlln, a histrionic-minded lion and a bearded woman. Frances Ramsden, with dtrk good looks and wistful appeal, It New England Yankee, born In Cambridge, Matt.

She never studied drama, raver joined a Little Theater group, never even took part In a school play. Instead, she studied music, French and English literature at Harvard's extension school, hopped to New York and the Conover studios. She came to Hollywood on a vacation, met Sturges, took a screen test. Then Frances Ramsden fainted and Fame revived her. Success' can be a shocking thing at times, ss witness the startling case of Frances Ramsden.

Mias Ramsden, a beautiful Conover model without previous dramatic experience, took a screen test under the guidance of Director-Writer Prejton Sturges, Not a nerve In her lovely body quivered. Calmly the made the test, delivered her action, recited her lines. Quietly the walked off the sound stage, took one smiling look backward and toppled over In a dead faint. I suddenly realized whst I had been doing," she said later. Regaining her senses, Miss Ramsden almost fainted again when Informed she was owner In fee simple of movie contract and had been selected to make her debut ITALO TAJO Basso season, sponsored by the Southern California Symphony Association.

Tomorrow night the Shrine Auditorium will be the center of Interest for Angelenos, where social, civic, motion picture and musical leaders will gather for spectacular opening night. For the past weeks carload after carload of scenery and lighting equipment have been arriving from San Francisco and crews have been busy hauling the equipment Into Shrine Auditorium In preparation for the opera season. With 14 operas on the agenda, the season requires a great deal of scenery, props and heavy lighting equipment with several auxiliary switchboards. Moving an opera troupe the size of the San Francisco Company Is a problem In logistics. Wardrobe mistresses will be busy today and tomorrow sorting out the dozens and dozens of costumes, and wigs used In the productions.

These alone required a full baggage car, It Is learned. Paging Errol Flynn Gregory (Captain Horatio Hornblower) Peck has been given a new title by French hucksters. They now refer to him as Hollywood's No. 1 "Great I year a man hunt that gather even greater tension from the fact that the murderer seeking to kill the hunted man Is working Ide-by-side with the wife. Realistic Scenes The picture carries the woman, Ann Sheridan, through a series of realistic San Francisco scenes that reach a violent climax at an amusement park roller coaster.

She Is trying to get to her husband before the killer does. With her Is a newspaperman, played by Dennis O'Keefe, W'ho Is actually the killer. The audlenre knows It, but she doesn't until the killer and the police close In on her husband In the film's last minutes. Different Romance Woman on the Run, which opened Saturday at the Studio City, United Artists, Rita, Vogue and Culver Theaters, Is sn unusual film In several respects. It tells of a different sort of romance the love that rekindles between Move Studio Props' Construct Holy Ark Of Covenant Replica the woman and her husband as she learnt, for the first time, that he still loves her.

There are brief characterizations that, bring out the strange surroundings she visits In tracking down the missing man, who Is trying to find safety from gangland along San Franciscos water front. Vivid Contributions There are glimpses of woman In a bar "husbands never come back, dearie, she tells the wife a milquetoast window-dresser, and a crabby shop tender, all short but vivid contributions to the picture. Fidelity Pictures made It, and Universal-International released It. Fine direction la by Norman Foster and vivid camera work Is by Hal Mohr, Also on the bill Is an English film, "Madness of ths Heart," which blends strong drams and soap opera situations Into a complicated and rather tedious plot Double Bill Held Over The double bill, "No Way Out' and The Showdown, Is being held over at the Guild Theater. The first film stars Richard Wldmark and Linda Darnell, while the second picture features WU llam Elliott ubs on the lid, or mercy seat.

The Ark, also described ss repository of the Divine autograph of the two tables of Moses and a reliquary for the pot of manna and the rod of Aaron, was symbol of God to the ancient Israelites. Carried In Battle They took It Into battle, crying Arise Yahweh and let thine enemies be scattered. Captured by the Philistines, It was returned by them to Israel after It was believed to have brought bubonic plague to their land, In David and Bathsheba," as In the Bible, It Is transported to Jerusalem by David and proves a means of salvation to him and famine-smitten Israel after he In-rurs the wrath of God for stealing Rathiheha and tending her husband to his death. After tour month of research, the 2oth Century-Fox Property Department yesterday begnn construction of one of the holiest objects In human history the biblical Ark of the Covenant, presumed home of Jehovah. The Ark will be featured In Darryl Znnucks David and Balh-sheba," from the Old Testament drama of love, power and faith which Henry King will film In Terhnlcolor with Gregory Peck and Susan Hayward In ths title roles.

Oiled Atari In conformance to sketchy descriptions found In the Bible, histories, and artists' versions, the Ark will be made of oiled acacia wood 2 cubits long by 1H broad snd deep roughly SS feet by IS and will have gold-winged cher MAJOR STUDIO PREVIEW MIDNITE, OCT. 31st HALLOWEEN NITE EL PORTAL THIATM-NO. HOLLYWOOD REINA THEATRE SHERMAN OAKS TICKETS NOW ON SALE VICTORY AT COLDWATER anley 7-4423 SUnset 3-5511 SHOWS START AT P.M. LAST TIMES TODAY "SAIGON "WHERE THERE'S LIFE' TOMORROW ONLY-STARTS 6 P.M. good reasons why you should bo el ono of tho Vsllsy Pacific Drive In Theaters Thursday or Friday Nights.

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