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LAWN AND GARDEN A' I "STAR MUSIC AMUSEMENTS TELEVISION-RADIO KANSAS CITY. SUNDAY. OCTOBER 22. 1050. SECTION An Unreal Existence, Far West Action, and Theatrical Life in Three New Films.

A POIGNANT ROMANCE between a pretty crippled girl and a friend of her brother's, and the girls attempts to become adMted to everyday circles, carries the plot of "The Glass Menagerie," soon to appear at the Paramount theater. Jane Wyman i the girl and Kirk Douglas the friend (left). Miss Wyman and Gertrude Lawrence, in the role of a mother who lives only for estcrday, are at right. The movie is based on a prize Broadway play. Arthur Kennedy, Ralph Sanford and Ann Tyrrell also are in the fast.

THE NORTH NEEDS HELP FROM THE SOUTH In Two Flags West, coming attraction at the Tower, Uptown, Fairway theaters. A Union unit holding a western fort is decimated by Indians, so the help of Confederate prisoners is enlisted, as Civil war is overshadowed by the Redman menace. On horseback are Cornel Wilde Joseph Cotten as they face an onslaught by the Indians. Providing romantic interest are Linda Darnell and Jeff Chandler (right). The cast also has Noah Beery, Jay C.

Flippen, Harry Von Zell and Arthur Hunnieutt. Famous Clown Is a Villain in Movies the most tattered pair of pants 'gav something new to the eyes. Id ever seen. i It's the sort of thing you see in EMMETT KELLY, one of, "A fellow who was boss of the th hos as Per the most famous and he- oer their huge snouts. lo ed clowns the wag Worses in a circus gave Was8wilhe he was world, stirred up a minor me Jears a.

created in 1921. Ive never storm when he agreed to make he said. 1 never deliberately changed him. But in those days, his screen debut as a menace in torn them. Its the w'ork of time Jl wasnt seriously interested in "The Fat Man.

at Universal-(and wear. This coat, he con- the character. Being young, I In'crnational. It was the casting tinued, exhibiting another to do something more su if rh of the year, and as sut credibly frayed piece of rlothing, glamorous than clowning. So I dr the applause of many, was bought from a circus clown became a trapeze performer.

I Othrrs, including myself, pro-1 in 1942. I paid S3 for it. back to Willie in 1932, but tested They could not see derby hat come from New York. R' ears of work were required eary Willie. the kindly, for-ilt cost a dollar.

Those shoes. 1 1 before I got the real feel of the character. Of course, the clothes helped. A clow'n with the Ringling circus once gave me an old misfit suit. I thought Id wear it to save the other costume.

But that suit sihiplv didnt belong to Willie. I didnt feel him in that suit, and I dont think the audience did either. After one performance I threw it away and lesumed wearing the original clothes. Even in the suitcase, the clown is so real to Emmett that he often takes him on trips just for the sake of companionship. He always rides with me, said Kelly.

I wouldrtt think of checking Willie like baggage. Often the two visit Emmetts mother, who keeps Willies clothes from disintegrating completely hv sewing a few stitches here and there on the costume. It ig thus understandable that, although part of Emmetts role in "The Fat Man railed for him to he a clown, he didnt want Willie associated with it. "The deeper I got into the script, he said, the more worried I became. Then the idea 44n PRIVATE UVES OF THEATER PEOPLE are carefully and minutely examined in the photoplay which begin a run today at the Orpbeum theater, All About Eve.

Eve is a young stage hopeful who has an unyielding ambition to become a star, no matter who she happens to overrun in the process. The role of Eve is taken by Anne Baxter, who is shown with Bette Davis (center). Miss Davis portrays a stage star at the height of her career. The two actresses are flanked by the men in their movie lives, George Banders (left) and Gary Merrill (right). The cast also includes Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Thelma Ritter, Marilyn Monroe and Gregory Ratoff.

Redskins Take a Leaf cnru film kt thf a imo. From Movie Foibles C) i-'b Ft Released in 19SO. NOW PLAYING Hollywood (AD Now and then movie companies on loca contract to David Selznick, was very happy with picture making. Hed like to do more films, particularly one dealing entirely with a clown. If the story was appropriate, hed let Weary Willie play it.

Emmett, now 52 years old. was born in Sedan. Kas. His Now playing at thp Kimo the- ALL ABOUT F.VE ORPHKIJM. Co m.d dram written and direrted losepb Mankiewim produced bv Darrvl Zanurlc and releaed bv Ten- mother was Bohemian, and his th tinn in Arizona and New Mexico is a tir" released in actually encounter Indians with Lights, starring names like Sam Heavy Elbow The story tells of- a pathetic Jack Owl and Swet Bdagodv hut rnrn)c llMlp frarrp chaphn.

when they round tip local resi- vvno meets a blind flower girl oents for roJps as extras. and an eccentric millionaire. It But there is increasing evi- is one of Chaplins best known keen. In a relatively minor part, Thelma Ritter, portraying a hard-bitten handmaiden and sidekick of Miss Daviss, is de-hghtful and excellently comic. Merrill, Marlowe and Miss Holm round out the cast ably Gregory Ratoff is natural as a producer with a pea-soup-thick accent.

MISSOURI. Marso Eve Aridivon JD Witt Karen Bill Sampeon Hetta Devi. Anne Baxter. Sardera Celeste Holm. Gary Merrill and remembered films.

Liovd Rirh.rdn.. Marlosc. Birdie Thelm Ruter. Mx Fbin Orvftory Rtoff. Mi Caswell Monroe.

Phoebe Barbara Bale. dence that pven the Indians are going Hollywood. When George Sherman, a The Torch is an rector, was making a picture interesting little tale near Sedona, one of the Navajos he interviewed as a of revolutionaries in father Irish. The latter worked as a sertion foreman with the railroads until he bought a farm in Missouri. Emmett grew up tilling the land From his mother, whos a painter, he must have inherited his sense of color and design.

One day he ran across a ropy of Billboard, the show business magazine with circus and car-problem nival news, which fired his im-ahead. agination. Previously he knew nothing of the business. He was David Niven a Double for a Famous Author Hollywood tAP) David Nivpn prospective extra listed himself says he didn't know- it. but ap-as Milton Happy Nose.

'parenlly he and Edgar Allan How in the world did you get Poe are almost doubles lorn down created bv Kelly and 'believe, came from England. occurred to me that I might cre-lo ed by voting and old alike, were scarred, scuffed, and ate an entirely nevy clown es-getting within a mile of anything over-sized. Emmett patted them pecially for the picture. I drew criminal. and said, They're getting about some sketches and took them to Kmmett himself was gravely right for Willie now.

concerned As an artist he was' The entne outfit. Including imrigued with the idea of plav-1 mae uP at1 putty nose, is irg a screen heavy. It would be thm' a new medium and a new char-1 can for h.m. But h-Vi b- Aubrey Schenck and Bill Castle, the producer and director of the picture. They understood mv and told me to go Hes not like Willie at all.

aricrizatinn for him. But hed but mood ami feeiin I-made him a composite of EITHER to see good acting or to hear first-rate dialogue is a too infrequent movie occurrence. To have those features combined in a single film is rare indeed. All About Eve is one of those happy rarities. No doubt the fact that Joseph Mankiewicz directed the picture as well as wroie the script Mexico, filmed in that south-of-the -border nation.

Pedro Armen-dariz is cast as a general who liberates a small town and sets up his forces. He falls in love with a pretty girl (Paulette Goddard) and proceeds to press his af sev-1 his teens when he saw his the last person in the world to asked he rot Yhnrie eral clowns Id known, and I first circus. Whi'e sowing wheat hurt Willie. To him. as to mil-' g' left him at the studio when I one afternoon, he saw a peculiar Imnc of others, that sad clown finished the picture.

I think, wagon coming over a hilltop. It is as real a life itself. Hes even JavVS avei however, in my death scene "as followed by an elephant and closer to Kmmett than Charlie LT.SlWilhc did help m.t a bit Other camel. who had their feet hAYI he remained strictlv in my bound wnth sacks to keep from the mouth th. rnimh clown, he said.

And because Kelly rrW h- McCarthy i to Edgar Bergen. a name like that? Sherman asked. Oh, I just made It up, th' Navajo confessed. My rPajVelope. The letter said: I lust name i.

Francis Phillips, butjwanted to see if our Postoffire Ive found that by' using a stage department recognized the rename like Milton Happy Nose I semblance as easily as I. get much more work from I Well, it did. Niven got the movie companies that come up letter. His publicity man swears here. ihe did.

while I n. do.ng should be much wider. Theresi a hound dog sort of look in mv picture. If he wete another human being. referring to the personalitv Accolade a Thespian.

aw Willie or him voire pr: so 1 make-up on such occasions is touched ith hnp 'tit that expression. Id The results were very satis-iown to town by wagon, reverent affection. When I vis- earned bo" to acquire pathos factory. Schenck told me that; Emmett attended a perform-ued him he said, "Willies in the from cartooning. I got Emmett gave a brilliant per- r.nce.

The clowns intrigued him, closet. Would you like to see at butdldn 1 ha a formance. i hut he had no idea that he him? I said I would. Willie In a Suitcase, nose. Then I remembeied that, Hes a fine artist.

Schenck would "eventually "become for some reason tramps are sup-'sid. As a character actor, he His heart as set on cartooning, e. jposed to have been heavy booz- could become accounts for the smooth portrayal fpction PVPn though she is to of theater be married to an American ties hy its stars, and physician (Walter Reed). Gil-the deft pace of its bert Roland is a priest. comedy plot.

LOEWS MIDLAND. Devils Doorway casts Robert Tayior as an Indian who has his family' property taken from him by homesteading sheepmen. The Indian balks at this maneuver, rA ri and went'a" eid-pennerf mtie. the other pressed hy an unscrupulous At 18 he left home and wenti lawyer (Louis Calhern). Tay- to Kansas City.

He took a batch 'players men and women are Jor pnjjsts the aid of another 'of his cartoons to several papers, subordinate, but not unkindly so. lawyer, a woman (Paula Ray- The leading characters of Eve Harrington and Margo Channing, played in ordr bY Anne Baxter and Bette Davis, are starkly and ii another Lonj-jis mother had given him a calf. 'minutely examined, and superb- and trs- uSo me thp idea Chaney. which he raised, sold, and used acted. With the exception of small suitcase.

Iiom it he lifted the red, bulbous nose, which1 Kelly, who is under a years the profits to pay for a mail-jGeorge Sanders, in the role of including The Star "The city editors were nice, he recalls, but they werent in- Margo Channing is a stage mond), but before any action luminary in her fortieth year, fan be taken, the sheepman realizing her ingenue roles are an(j the United States cavalry terested in hiring me. I wound nearing an end because of the wipe out the Indian group en-up cutting butter in a creamery call of Father Time. trenched on their former land, for $21 a week After quitting However, into the picture there, I got a job stacking lum- comes Eve, completely stage ber. struck, so ambitious she must Turn to Kewpie Doll. stardom at all costs.

Its jnot long before Margo discovers I still wanted to draw. ai costs mean her own ca- But Copper Canyon transforms Ray Mil-land into a sharpshooting former 'Confederate army colonel, who comes to the aid of his compatriots who are trying to peace One afternoon I passed a build-'rPer, not" to" mention her haping that housed a lot of carnival piness. For Eve becomes at good. The business was a to Sampson (Gary property exchange. I went in Merrill), Margo director and and got myself a job painting true love.

Eve also nearly dis- the faces of kewpie dolls. Then rupts a happy married couple, fully mine copper in the West. I asked to paint a merry-go- the persons of Hugh Mar- He meets and falls in love wnth round. Thats how I got into lowe and Celeste Holm, in her Hedy Lamarr, and meets and show business. For a shortladvance toward the heady, dislikes Mardonald Carey.

But while I worked as a spieler with our-name-in-lights goal. Millands leadership and shoot- a carnival, but the life was too; Eve doe achieve the theatri- account for the wrong-rough, so I returned to Kansas'cal summit, through the guid- drs, and he wins the hand City and resumed painting kew- ance of Addison De Witt (San- the air Hedy. pie dolls. iders), hut it is De Witt who Tr i fiirwa "At about that time I began forces her to maintain her hal- TOWr.lt LFTODN FAIRW Ai to experiment with my face for'ance on that height on hpr own clown make-up. For a period Itfeet, not the shoulders of her traveled with a dog and pony supposed friends, show, playing a clown.

But the Miss Davis has work didnt appeal to me. So I glamour for realism as the tal-again went back to Kansas Margo; she appears in where I got a job helping ani-lgrim makeup which accents her mate film commercials. The facial lines and shadows. She technique, of course, wa quite ha never topped this perform- necessary after he adopts crude compared to the methods ance in the past. four orphaned boys and a run- used today.

Walt Disney, inci-j As Fve, first disarmingly self- away girl. Wanda Hendrix is dentally, was cartooning in effacing then hatefully arrogant, the girl. John Mcfntire is a Kansas City at the same tirr iMis Raxt.r i wonderful. 'The gruff ranch owner who dislike Mickey' Mouse was about to be caustic line Sanders has been children, and adds to McCrea bom. given are delivered razor-edge woes.

NOT AN INTERNATIONAL ROMANCE, but a scene from The Toast of New Orleans, in part of which Mario Lanza and Kathryn Grayson sing roles in Madame Butterfly." Th film is next at the Iews Midland theater, Lanza is a New Orleans fisherman with a beautiful voice who falls tn lova with Mis Grayson, who portray an opera tar. Darid Niven, Carroll Naish, James Mitchell, Richard Hageman, Rita Moreno and Clinton Sundberg also are featured players. INTRIGUE IN HIS TAST has led to the dour expression on Robert Ryan and Laraine Day this were Trom "The Woman on Pier 13, next attraction at the RKO Missouri theater. The two beooroe man and wife in the film, and then Ryan's escapades younger man begin catrHng up with him. Also in the movie are John Agar, Thomas Gomez.

Jam Carter and Birhard Rober..