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14 VALLEY TIMES Monday, December 23, 1946 IHellinaer Sets Third Productiwi Wallis Sets $8,500,000 For Next Year New Show at Gardens Delights Customers sLEIEErilom sicizeL ooRA 1FrilsaRA1 TT With Burt Lancaster as one oil the stars and Jules Dassin as thei director, Mark He Ringer yesterday announced "Brute Force" as his ithird production for Universal-International release. Dassin was signed on a free-lance basis immediately after the announcement that he had secured his release from G.M. where he has been under contract for the past five years. This will be Lancaster's second ipicture for Hellinger, his first haying been the highly successful 'The Killers." By RICHARD D. SAUNDERS The new show at the Florentine Gardens, which opened Thursday night, proves' both eye-filling and ear-catching to the manifest delight of the customers.

Producer Frank R. Bruni has provided glamorous girls and lovely costumes in the former department and effective music and comedy In the latter. 4 headliner is Allan Jones, back for a repeat engagement. and his -ItIt JOB WELDING lc JOB WELDING -Following an extended series of -conferences in New York with Joseph Hazen and Paramount home office executives, Hal Wallis on his return to Hollywood yesterday an-flounced plans for his 1947 produc tion schedue which has been bud'. geted at $8,500,000.

Current production is "I Walk Alone" (formerly "Deadlock" with an all-Wallis cast headed by Liza. beth Scott, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Wendell Corey, Kristine Miller and George Rigaud. Byron Haskins directs. First film to go next year will, be "Be Still, My Love" a suspense, $.1. drama to star Barbara rl slated for a late January start.I A Story is from a forthcoming novel by June Truesdell.

A In April, Wallis will leave for lf i England to produce "For Her Tol ct1 maerPicaarnamocuasntt: a 0 production to star Ray Milland andl Jisohseapuht author, Shearing, celebrated ted which 'It is based on incidents of a famous' 1 London crime. 1 i 'I r'a 1 I P' il: it, I. :1 '4 411' q) i Is i ii It OA i J. 4, itvp 0 ii', 1,.... 0,.

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lcuties. They disguise the babes as bugs, birds, bees butter-'cups, daisies, or rJa Eastertirne, las chicks popping out of 1., eggs. 4r4) They must )01 'work about months ahead of the 44 however, Gene Handsaker Ito allow time for distribution and, publication of their art. The result is that the gals take Icy dips In the ocean In January and perspire under winter minks in rnid-11 1 summer. sh Ann Dvorak, a beauti-1 intelligent young woman ward Ibig green eyes, was rounding out days of posing for lobby: and newspaper and magazine pictures publicizing her latest movie.

The Long Night," when I the RKO still-picture gallery. She was attractively in a black dress. Film Cheese (lake Ann reminisced on sixteen years of posing for cinema cheesecake. She has looked pretty in from forty-pound Victorian to nothing but a towel. She has twisted herself Into awkward positions that looked good but actually cut off the circulation in an arm or leg.

IShe was One of fifteen girls who atop a thirty-foot-high sign-'board on Wilshire boulevard. It out the name of a picture "Hollywood Review," and there was one girl on each letter. InVe got sick and tired and dizzy. and they sent sandwiches up at lunch," An remembered. For a still photo spelling out the title of the same movie in the bent bodies of pretty girls, she posed as the letter 'L." And "the poor girls who were '0 and 'Y' really took a beating.

It took four girls to make W'." Ann Puzzled The reasoning of the Johnston (formerly Trays) office, which censors every still picture, puzzles Ann. It required the studio retouchers to remove a garter front her leg but otherwise approved a picture of her in tights. She spent a whole day posing in a skimpy dancing outfit that included a net skirt. The censors said: "Shoot those pictures all over and take off the net appealing tenor voice drew emphatic plaudits, especially for Malotte's "The Lord's Prayer" and the traditional "Eli, Eli," done with dramatic warmth and fervor. There were clamorous calls for "The Donkey Serenade," which had to be done on both shows, and Jones obliged with Gershwin, Porter, and light opera favorites as well.

The comedy end of things rested in the skilled hands of Pinky Lee. whci kept laughs rippling or rising to roars with polished ease 'whether he appeared as a butcher boy, a marimba player or Caesar. 'Ills buriesque of a strip-tease brought down the house. Dancers Igor and Tanya were Ifluently graceful in effective rou tines, including an airplane spin that would have had the average wrestler out cold. Marilyn Hare contributed pleasant singing, and Jack Hilliard made an adroit emcee.

For those who like their rhythm hot, the Slim Gaillard Trio provided a lot of it. The production numbers were very attractive, including a showy 1 of Books" personified by brilliantly costumed cuties, a lively "Gay 90's Promenade," and hula and college numbers. Musical Director Emil Balla kept the proceedings to a merry pace and deserves a special hand for the finesse of his accompaniments to the vocal numbers. accompani- anibers. EQUIPMENT AVAILABLE OMEGA D-2 with color head $199 IlL leni Valley Headquarfers for Broadloom Orienfal Rugs ters for tal Rugs Ig olooermoteAt tali and ACIMEDETil CO.

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