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D-D THE KNOXVILLE JOURNAL Sunday Jun 17 1951 Western Film Comics Ask New Deal I Walter Winchell IN NEW YORK BROADWAY BEACON So ya think Old-Hat? Some of the dialog in (heard via Studio One) makes you wince with its timeliness As frinstance when Coriolanus makes men hate one When Dizzy Dean gets excited during his baseball telecast you can expect anything The other matinee he referred to Scooter Rizzuto as "Risscooto" With seven consecutive hit recordings and three offers to appear in the Magic Lanterns Patti Page is the hottest femme canary to come along since Dinah Patti plays to SRO at all theater dates The Copa Chewsdeh midnight had as big a show at the ringside as Martin Lewis on stage front center Gabby Hayes and his Lady were there from the Westerns Edgar Bergen June Ally-son and Dick Powell the Bauer Sisters (the golf wizards) and Capt Charles Blair who flew over the North Pole the other afternoon carrying 3000 postcards (the first over the Pole) for the Runyon Fund What do you bid? I Main Stem bijous are celebrating Pecan Week: There are three current films dealing with insanity Happy straitjacket! Those wo-dunit-wrong radio dramas would be more entertaining if they all sound like feeble echoes of old Bogard cinemas The boom is on at the Riviera with Tony Martin putting the velvet in ballads This reporter turned in 10-hour stint on the Berlethon We were on teevy almost as long as though our regular Sunday Nighter had been telecast a full season (45 weeks) which would total llti hours The Frustration and Panic (I liiiike it I liiiike it!) Will swap it for $1 to fight cancer dap hands! One of the few anti-Red films to do whiz biz is: Was a Communist for the It is among top 10 grossers Hollywood is like this: A movie mag reports Stanwyck and Taylor have discovered how much they love each other since they were divorced Although vaude acquired new glands two years ago it is slowly fading away again Numerous hinterland theatres are drop-ing stage shows Add bafflers: The Roxy advertised a PIKE-TOWER A re-released Bob Hope fea-ture Got Me will be shown at the Pike and Tower theaters Wednesday through Saturday with another re-issue In Trend of the times: The play My had an antiwar theme The film version concerns academic freedom Show biz is big biz: Admish taxes alone average $26000000 monthly never a cinch Shirley Tree Grows in Booth hit stardom after trouping for a quarter century The British movie (damned by many as inciting bigotry) was released the hinterlands recently and is turning out to be a financial dud tears please Talk about talent abuse: Former Broadway stars are doing 1-minute teevy singing commershills is strictly for male cadenza-jugglers Its lyrics sound silleh when thrushed by femme larks Have an eyebrow-lifter: The Critics Circle prizewinner at is not among list of the clicks Robert platter of Girls We Never Did gives his resonant tones a nice workout Gene guesting on teevy indicates he rates his own show His food-de-rol inspires belt-buckle guffaws West Coast radio clowns are still making the mistake of aiming quips at locals Leaves the rest of ushicks wondering London Theater-Goers I Rave Over Danny Kaye Everybody From Royal Family To Cockney Barrow Boys Hails Zany Hollywood Comic Those endearments swapped on teevy interview sessions are my idea of dullevision How Movieville wastes talent: Gladys George (who was a Broadway twinkler not so long ago) is now doing bit roles The stage offers more thorns than orchids for performers: The majority of footlight thespians average less than $1000 per year A movie advert offers a quotable line: one holds a candle to Joan when Joan is carrying the a rewrite of an I old Confucius crack The biggest non-musical disasters were revivals: Green dropped 200Gs and and was a 330 casualty The former drew unanimous raves and the latter fizzled despite a star power That front cover featuring eyetracjive Vivian Blaine puts more life in Life REFRESHING The fresh unspoiled quality of Barbara personality is one of the reasons she is heading for stardom in Hollywood next screen appearance will be in Secret of Convict which stars Glenn Ford Gene Tierney Ethel Barrymore and Zachary Scott This Week At The Theaters Muscle-flexing mayhem (in Western films) that US youngsters relish is taboo in Europe Censors there consider the fist flinging too brutal The senpter responsible for Ronald radio drama series knows how to make a typewriter warble The wordage has zip Colbert declared: actresses are scared of tele vision because afraid of how look on Righto! Teevy cameras (and those fierce lamps!) are as merciless as X-ray The film is defying the critics Despite so-so notices it is attracting coin This offers an estimate of the The past season had 90 premieres During the 1920s Broadway used to average 200 openers Elsa Maxwell rebuked gossip colyumists recently Miss Blimp is now doing gossipy pieces for movie mags Parking Lot Boy Inside Singer Champ Butler No Longer Wears On His Back His Name Goes On British comedian had left a very small estate On June 25 a special midnight show at the Palladium conceived and run by Kaye will net about 50000 tax free dollars to go into a trust fund for children probably the answer to the way Britain feels about Danny Kaye a nice guy and they know Sit liwli DANNY KAYE OAK RIDGE 0 TODAY AND MONDAY Fred ASTAIRE Jane POWELL In 1 In Technicolor TODAY A MONDAY Glenn FORD VALLI WHITE Color by Technicolor a a 6 Pat Buttram Charges Studios Just Not Fair I HOLLYWOOD June 17 (UP) The Western comics of Hollywood i are threatening to go on strike lor better working conditions The studios they charge just considerate of them Pat Buttram who supplies th laughs in Gene movies 18 was boiling mad when he got back from location with latest Columbia oat opera Can- I high time he said that studios found out comics have feelings too of all the Buttram said every picture the comic has to eat a big meal They always shoot this scene right after breakfast or lunch when stuffed to our ears and the -thought of food is revolting Or else they have us eat a bowl of chili about seven in the morning going to demand that we do eatmg scenes only within -one hour of regular meal time Another thing we aren't going td do any more eating scenes where the script calls on us to spill half a pound of salt on the just the first of complaints He also objects to the- fact that a water trough-' in every Western picture and a comedian in every water trough time I get dunked a -cold he said going to have a minmum temperature for water trough scenes in the i Officer Vetoes Speed Trap CLEVELAND June 16 (UP) Catching speeders can be handled on a sporting basis just as can any other game of hunter and hunted" according to motorcycle patrolman Robert Claxton of suburban Cleveland Heights Craxton holds the record for catching the most speedsters in the suburb with 125 of them over the past 10 months He disdains the method of hiding behind a billboard out on the motorcycle I never he says believe in staying in plain RIVER BREEZE DRIVE-IN THEATRE SUNDAY MONDAY Starting Times 8M A 10 00 THE RED SKELTON Arlene DAHL -Ann MILLER a PLUS CARTOON AND NEWS TODAY AND MONDAY' DOUBLE FEATURE- "HARVEY" JAMES PEGGY DQW THE SIDEWALK ENDS' otorrins-Dana Gene TIERNEY Tit imfwt tor 3 riT flwwlli avfl HmEUI 0 TODAY AND MONDAY Of The Starring Gordon MacRae London Nv Broad STARib WEDNESDAY It- i lot of fun IDS ROPE DOROTHY LABOUR TlllVGOTm rrCOYERBD Jane POWELL Fred ASTAIRI WEDDING Chap IS Tlrin Dies Maa Freni COLOR cartoon' SPACE ALL THEATRE W3H 4- is" i 4T tr BOOTH 8un-Mon of Broadway with Doris Day and Gene Nelson Tues-Wed Guys Named Mike with Jane Wyman and Van Johnson for Bonso with Ronald Reagan and Diana Lynn Danger with Dich PoweU and Rhenda Fleming PARK Son-Mon of Broadway with Doris Day and Gene Nelson Taea-W for Bonso with Ronald Reagan and Diana Lynn Thurs -Fri Story with James Stewart and June Allyson of Wildcats with John Wayno and Martha Scott LAKEMONT DRIVE-IN Sun -Mon with Alan Ladd and Mona Freeman Tues Night In the Tropics with Abbott and Costellos also Years Before Your Eyes' Thurs-Fri of Broadway with Doris Day and Geno Nelson to Bataan with John Wayne and Anthony )uinn STARLITE DRIVE-IN Sun -Mon Forsyte Woman with Greer Garson and Walter Fidgeon Tues -W ed Solomon's Mines with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger Boy' with Lloyd Nolan and Audio Murphy Fri Breaking Point' with John Garfield and Patricia Neal also Jitters with Jiggs and Maggie SUNSET DRIVE-IN Sun Strikes Twice with Ruth Roman and Richard Todd for Alarm' with Loretta Young and Barry Sullivan Valley with Burt Lancaster and Joanne Dru Without A Passport with Hedy Lamarr and John Hodiak also with Joel McCrea SKYWAY DRIVE-IN Sun-Mon Soft Touch with Glenn Ford and Evelyn Keyes Tues-Wed Boulevard with William Holden an A Gloria Swanson In Hiding' with Howard Duff and Ida Lupino Fri -Sat Steal with Robert Mitehum and Jane Greer DAWN Night in the Tropics with Abbott and Costello also On Anv Door with Humphrey Bogart and John Derek Taes-Wed Agent with Marjerie Reynolds also Rod with Jimmy Lvdon and Art Baker Quentin' with Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart also with Don McGuiro and Tracey Roberts Sat Runner with Jimmy Wakely also Sing Nights" BROADWAY Sun-Mon Guys Named Mike1 with Jane Wyman and Van Johnson Affairs1 With Lucille Ball and Franehot Tone Raiders with Pat O'Brien and Robert Ryan Hayride" with Jndy Canova LEE Sun-Mon Wedding" with Fred Astalro and Jane PoweU Badman" with Le: Chaney Island with Bebby DrUeell and Robert Newton of Home" with Lassie also Strike with Tex Williams SUNDAY MONDAY SOFT CLINN FORD and EVELYN KEYES TWO CARTOONS Bax Offie Ope Fint 6hw BUM 8 OS Tw Caplet Shw Nltely 1 Mil Nrth Fantain City Chllirea Under IS FREE Tonight El Flon Shows at 10:30 1 1 a A DAY A BIO BRIGHT MUSICAL WITH A SONG A DANCE LAUGH FDR EVERY LIGHT ON GAY STREET! Gn NELSON Billy DaWOLFE The opening night crowd included such celebrities as Barbara Stanwyck Gertrude Niesen Nicky Hilton Frankie Laine Jose Ferrer and Lex Barker A delegation of parking lot boys from the nightclubs up and down the sunset strip was on hand too was so scared I was Champ his real name) sighed is the toughest club in the world to play because show business people are so After the show ended the applause and cheers brought down the house Butler cried and the critics rushed back to their typewriters to proclaim new star was born who will take his place with Sinatra Haymes Como Now instead of name hanging on back his name is on Mocambo A big banner out front says own Champ Champ forgotten his first job Opening night he parked his own car LONDON June 16 (JP) London reviewers tired of telling their public how good they think Danny Kaye is certainly are trying to figure out why the zany Hollywood comedian is such a British favorite His appeal on this side of the water is universal as great with royalty and politicos as with Cockney barrow boys His run at the London Palladium 14 times a week for eight weeks was sold out even before he arrived and his lure was enough to draw Prime Minister Clement Attlee to the first variety show of his life Princess Margaret always has been a Kaye fan The illness kept him from filling a date to see show but Margaret and Princess Elizabeth went and had a whale of a time The royal regard for Kaye is best illustrated by the fact that he and his accompanist Sammy Prager were the only commoners who attended a private dinner for King Frederick of Denmark when the latter visited London Danny sat between the Queens of England and Denmark Sammy between King Frederick and the Duchess of Kent Things never were like that in Brooklyn The Duchess of Westminster once asked Danny for his autograph but stipulated that it must be different from any other autograph he had given in England he said signing Daniel his real name one else in England has that The latest gesture certain to endear him to Britons came when he heard Sid Field the late great SUNDAY and MONDAY DOUBLE FEATURE Tom from the pages of history A great war drama a great love story TYRONE POWER MICHEUNE PRELLE A COUMHl noun Lola ALBRIGHT and learn to be a popular partner so much fun ahead for the good dancer And so easy toils good dancer when you learn the Arthur Murray way Beginners can go i dancing after only one les- i son So make sure in on all the fun this summer En- foil at Arthur today! i ARTHUR HURRAY I 625 CHURCH AVENUE PHONE 4-7423 TENNESSEE San -Wed and Dellah with Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature My Dust with Red Skelton and Sally Forrest XV LERA Son -Wed Forbidden Fast with Robert Mitcham and Ava Gardner Thurt-Fri Sword of Monte Criste with George Montgomery and Paola Corday To be announced BIJOU West with John Pavne and Dennis Thuri and Delilah with Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature PIKE 1 "Vengeance Valley with Bart Lancaster and Robert Walker In Arms with Danny Kaye and Dinah Shore also Got Me Covered' with Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour TOWER Valiev with i Burt Lancaster and Robert Walker ed-Sat In Arms with Danny Kaye and Dinah Shore also Got Me Covered' with Boh Hope and Dorothy Lamonr Minutes iron Downtown Alcoa Hwy SUNDAY A MONDAY tfte a TUT feu a i it jirt lnl I 'SLS- tiw cBcts wum nosorr FLM GA1SG5 PIDGEOftf Y0CAG that Forsyte Vomm Mta irtmcaoe mmam jrr LEIGH at'yf'anuanrt'h 'Em JACOBS PRESENTS MONDAY NICHT JUNE 1 8th CHILHOWEE PARK AUDITORIUM KNOXVILLE 19 2AJL Plenty of space reserved for shite spectators Advance $150 Door $200 Tickets on sale at mail nlaees 5 $''' r' i STATE Proudly We Sun with Claudette Colbert and Paalette Goddard Mon -Toe Trail' with Randolph Scott and Gabby Hayoi Wed-Thnr with Charlea Coburn and Ruth Huaaey Golden with Ro land Winters also of Cherokee with Monte Bale CENTER Sun-Mon of the with Gordon MacRae and Jnlie London Taes-Wed Tattooed with John Myles and Patricia White als "Underground with Robert Rock well Thurs-Fri Desert Mystery with Johnny Weismuller and Naneey Kelley Sat Lawlesa Valley" with Tim Holt HORNE Sun-Mon with James Stewart and Peggy Dow also the Sidewalk with Dana Andrsws and Gene Tierney Tues-Wed Softly with Joseph Cotten and Valli also with Spade Cooley and the Sons of the Pioneers Thurs -Sat with Audie Murphy and Marguerite Chapman also Wedding" with Fred Aataire and Jane PoweU TITLE RT Guerrilla In the with Tyrone Power and Mieheline Prelle also "When with Jerome Conrtland and Lola Albright Tueo Retarni" with Roland Toung and Joan Blondell Wed Me Milter" with Dan Dailey and Betty Grahlo Fri-Sat Brush with Lucille Ball and Eddie Albert also and Mr with Marjorie Maine and James Whitmore ROXT 'Sunset In The West" with Roy Rogers and Penny Edwards Bresking with John Gorfield and Patricia Neal Wed with John Wayne and Patricia Nealt also Of The with Bob Baker Fri-Sat with Whip Wilson aloe with Abbett and Costello KNOXVILLE DRIVE-IN Of with Doris Day and Gene Nelson Tues "The Desert with Yvonne DeCarle and Richard Greene Wed -Thurs with Bebby Driscoll and Robert Newton Groom Were Spurs" with Ginger Rogers and Jaek Carsoni also with Tex Williams RIVER BREEZE DRIVE-IN Sun -Mon The Birdie" with Red Skelton and Arlene Dahl Tues Anniversary" with Penny Singleton and Arthnr Laks Thurs-Fri with Jsel Me Crea and Shelley Winters Of with Broderiek Crawford and Jackie Cooper FAMILY DRIVE-IN Sun -Mon "Lullaby Of with Doris Day and Gene Nelson Desert with Yeonne DeCarle and Richard Greene Wed with Bebby Driscoll and Robert Newton Fri-Sat Carer with Alan Ladd and Wanda Hendrix COLORZD BOOKER ef Reals with Juna Haver Tuea-Wed with George Raft and Pat with Gary Cooper Sat Cemes Te with Wild Bill Elliott OAK RIDGE THEATRES ELZA DRIVE-IN Ban White Tewer1 Glen Fora and VallL also with John Warns Thor -Fri Me Miater" with Betty Grable and Dan Dailey 'with John Wayne SKYWAY DRIVE-IN SonMea "Reyai Weddin with Fred Aataire and Jane Pewell Taea and the with Loretta Yeaa( Wed -Thera "Lady from with Loretta Teen alas with Batter Crahhe Fri-Sat with John Wayn BOOKER THEATRE (Colored) 5 MINUTES FROM DOWNTOWN GAY SI) TODAY fir MONDAY IuHe haver in OF ROSIE ALL-AMERICAN NEWS By ALINE MOSBY HOLLYWOOD June 16 Champ Butler was just a frecklefaced kid whb parked the convertibles of Ava Gardner Lana Turner and other' night blooming blossoms at a swank movietown nightclub eight months Champ wore a white uniform with lettered on the back The parking lot boy hustled Cadillacs about for be-jeweled celebrities and since he had a big smile he made about $50 or $60 a week that way Tonight the 24-year-old Champ has a different job at Mocambo graduated to the inside singing at the club at its big headliner attraction And the movie start who used to toss him quarter tips will cheer the lad who switched from Buicks to ballards just as they have since his opening night last Tuesday been swell because glad to see somebody getting Butler grinned of them had pretty much of a struggle The male Cinderella of 1951 said wanted to be a singer since he was 14 He took a job at the parking lot five years ago because many of his pals from high school worked there And the hours left him free to make the rounds of radio studios during the day A agent Barbara Belle heard about Butler and dropped over to the parking lot Champ leaned against Clark imported jaguar and sang a few bars She signed him up and he quit parking cars Butler figured on rehearsing for a year and then starting in some wayside nightclubs But after only eight months he was rushed into Mocambo when Sing er Fran Warren took sick Western Heavy Steer STTEAESS Baked Idaho Potatoes Salad Rolls $300 and butter AIR CONDITIONED 3 BANQUET ROOMS FOR PARTIES 5 to 500 For Reservations Call Oak Ridge $1384 5-1385 Oak Terrace OAK RIDGE Only 18 Miles From Knoxville TODAY MONDAY In Technicolor Alan Ladd-Mona Freeman Shows at 8 :00 and 1 0 :00 3333 Summertime's ho time to sit home Copr Arthur Murray 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