Los Angeles Evening Citizen News from Hollywood, California • 23

i CITIZEN-NEWS HoUywood Nwi9 1951 15 THE HOLLYWOOD SCENE By LOWELL REDEUNGS I Metiso Pictm Miter Grable Wants to Po 'Blondes' Role Alec Guinness Set for 'MiserablesV Ava Gardner Stars in 'Lonesome Gal' GRAHAM INTERPLANETARY FILM DUE AT DOWNTOWN HOUSE "When Worlds CblUde" will open Thursday at the Downtown Paramount Sikth and Hill Sts Based on a scienceLfiction yarn by Edwin Balmer 'and Philip Wylie "When Worlds was filmed in color by Technicolor with the ac-' cent on the spectacular as a gigantic planet collides with Earth enormous earthquakes wallow entire continents and tidal waves cover countries in a matter of seconds The Paramount Downtown currently offers a stage show headlining the mambo specialist Perez Prado Men Behind the Scjenes come in all aizes shapes and ages from Gene Kelly in short pants to a Grable in pigtails Talent is as hard to duck as a Joe Louis punch" Aft ex staging some of Hollywood's most successful musicals for the past quarter century Robert Alton feels qualified say this And when it comes to stars "he knew them Kelly Grable Van Johnson Vera Ellen1 June Allyson June Havoc Mary Martin Betty Hutton Con-slahce Moore Lucille Bremer engagement he would return to Pittsburgh and his CtUm-Anri YULE Bozo the4magical clown and a of service buddies have some laughs at the annual American Legion Christmas1 Remembrance show held Saturday evening at the stadium 1628 El Proceeds of: the 2V4hour show go to non-compensated vets ill and abed ln Veterans Administration hospitals so that -they may have a happier Christmas i J' Robert Cummings Cyd Charisse and Kay Thompson "Gene was wearing knickers when his mother brought him to try out for the I was staging in his home I town" Alton recall first 'time I spotted Vera- i Ellen she was a I pinafore df ybungster danc- ing in a recital! with 40 -other i small fry" Rece 1 yj Vera-Ellen was dancing with om mighty big fry Fred Astaire to be exast in Metro-! Gojdwy n-Mayer's New whose musical num brrs are staged by Alton Directing the Technicolor production was Charles Walters a "talent" who- made his Broadway bow as a-chOrus boy in "Du Barry Was a Lady" Laterj he was upped by Alton to Betty! Grable's dancing partner isn't any great trick to spotting talent' sas Alton "A Kelly- Grable Van Johnson or a Mary Martin is usually a 'knockout whether in short pants or pigtails convincing a talent is 'destined for stariddin tough" Perhaps- Alton is thinking of a few years after his britches introduction came York for another tryout shiow "One for the i was again accompanied her "remembers Alton him and was so pleased work I offered him a better Faces But Gene give up the security of week job running his school in Pittsburgh turned his back on Broadway this didn't stop Alton him several times and raised i the salary ante to $125 a lie came but only on the that after this one ROBERT ALTON The Belie of However Kelly was soon Alton-bound in such hits at "Pal Joey a show which established him as a potent box-office star and alfco introduced him to a' young dancer Stanley Donqp Donen andKelly recently worked as co-directors Kelly is but one who found that association with dance director Alton proved lucky At 11 Betty Grable was taking dancing lessons from Alton in his St Louis school was all eyes- all hair and all he says "But whoever cam? Into the clasf room was sure to remark: the kid in pig "Sometimes talent is elusive' he points out "We Were auditioning for 'when I was about to dismiss a blonde girl who sang in a high lyric soprano Something made me hesitate and 'Forget the high notes honfy and give out with the throaty-tones "She did and the rest is history The girl June Havoc teamed with and took over Broadway like an ad Kay Thompson was a vocal coach-at MGM when Alton wrote the musical sketches which' launched her to star4 dom and revolutionized night club shows Remembering when Van Johnson June Ally-son and' Lucille Bremer danced in the choruses tf such shows as "Panama Hattie' "Best Foot For Alton says: 1 stood out like diamonds in coal bin Van a chorus boy had the kls standing three deep for his autograph Little June stole the show one night because she was out- of step It was so good we kept it in the act! Only a potential star gets away with Continuing he explains: "Even as a child Vera-Ellen had the same determination that makes her one of the screen's hardest workers and best all-round feminine dancers Vera would never be part of a chorus She held out for bit parts even if the bit lasted but a few seconds Her capacity for work is unlimited Together with Astaire she- rehearsed six a day on routines for "Bdlle York then reported foj a lesson with her teacher nfc Nijinsky Don't let that' ppcarance fool you Talent in ail forms Look care-ind it hard to in likes to point out that keeps a ellowed bit I Of stuck to his mirror The a souvenir of the dancer's creen test reads: Pd Astaire Chn't act Can CR-5-9187 A I DREAMER- Vivien Leigh I plays the delicate srhooltrach-r er Blanche Du Bo is in Streetcar Named in its fifth week at the Warner Beverly Theater Gene Kelly Bitten by Art Bug Alter 'Paris' Gene Kelly has been bitten by the painting bqg! In preparation for his role as the ex-GI art student in "An American in Technicolor musical now in its second week at State and Egyptian 'theaters the star took daily instructions in the art of brush and easel from Gene Grant Internationally famous artist I In lieu of a professional model Kelly practiced on Oscar Levant also featured in "American in stipulation But that -he sometimes Kelly who short New an Alton "Gene by hjs I signed with his role in refused to his $63 a dancing Kelly But "I wired inally $83 CUTE GOLD-DIGGER Mitzi Gaynor plays thq legendary star Lotta Crabtree in Girl a musical saga of the: Gold Rush era opening Wednesday at Chinese Los Angeles Uptown! and Loyola theaters SHEILAH Watch Betty Grable report back to 20th Century-Fox ixW: that Mr Zanuck has bought TGeritle-men Prefer Blondes" for the round sum of $125000 ff Betty resists this bait she as bright as I know she is I British star Alee Gulaaesa is coming to Hollywood in December to star in Miserable" The versatile actor seen as 'Disraeli' in "The Mudlark" Is settling his affairs in London to make 'the dateline Lewis Mileitonej' directs Ava Gardner is back and Metro is going to star her in "Lonesome Gal" based on the Jean King radio EXTRA MATINEE SET FOR NY PLAY AT THE BILTMORE "The Member of the Wed-' which brings Ethel Wa- ter to the Biltmore for three weeks beginning Tuesday Dec -4 will play an extra matinee on Thursday Iec 6 'Unable to reach Lo Angelica in Vme or the usual Monday night opening this prizewinning comedy by Carson McCullers has added the matinee on Dec 6-ta its schedule in order to provide the full1 quota of eight performances per week during its opening stanza The regular Wednesday and Saturday matinees' will be played each week throughout the engagement 1 Reservations for all ances may now be made by -mail 'j'- Jane Devotes Life to Care of Children in Blue Veil'f Film Jane Wymap In a remarkable role of devotion and love heads the star-studded cast of "The Blue screening at the RKO Pah-tages and Hillatreet theaters Charles Laughton Joan Blonde 11 Richard CSrlson Agnes Moorehead Don Tsykr and -Audrey Totter are also -starred in this unusual drama of a career "The Wniphanq" melodrama featuring Carl Balenda and Elliott Reid is the companion picture Crisweil famous forecaster whose predictkrtis have amazed millions with their accuracy is appearing in person at fach performance on the stage of the 'Hillstreet Theater jpnly fBllTMORItAST a is Hollywood Citizen Has the Host Durable Business Ever Hade! String Quartet Concert Scheduled ior Dec 2 A busy season It ahead for-the four members of the Hollywood String Felix Slatkin and Paul Shure violins Paul Robyn viola and Eleanor Aller cello which in the space of four years has achieved a national re puts tion through its belt-selling recordings First of two' scheduled concerts Is slated for the Assistance League Playhouse1 Sunday evening Dec 2 with the date for the second concert to be announced later show Ava hostessed the press party in New -York for Frankie's picture "Meet Danny Wilson" You'll see (Varies Laaghtoaas Heny the 8th all o-er again in "Young Ben" 'Which Metro starts in January with -Jean Simmons and Stewart Granger- The book was bought originally for Elizabeth Taylor to play the Virgin Queen But a- lot of water ha flowed under the bridge since then Columbia' boss Harry Cohn and RKO boss Howard Hughes having lot of huddles I wonder if Harry buying into RKO? Divorcees Barbar Starnwyrk and Xanry Sinatra to New York for a week of fun Nancy waited for Frankie to leave the big city before making reservations Evelyn Keyes is' actually studying how to be a bullfighter in Mexico City Plans to be one In a picture there Meanwhile scripts are piling up for her in Hollywood but wC seem to have lost her Merle Oberon unhappy when Doctor Rex Rosa failed to follow her to London returned over the weekend to to marry the medico formerly wed to the current Mrs Elliott Roosevelt John Farrow is searching for a new personality to play Christ in Son pf Man" which John produces independently with the Namur Brothers "What are the qualifications?" 1ask Johnny "High' personal- character and a good actor? he replies The reason Gary Cooper is making personal appearances to boost Crl "High picture is becausd Gary' who stars has a big financial interest He has never tub-thumped for any other movie John Barrymore junior and his mother battling more than ever Dolores objects to nocturnal cavorting He say he is old enough to decidn the hour of his bedtime I wonder what the late Jawn would have said? Gilbert Roland lost his head and his watch when Matador Carlos Arusa dedicated a bull to him Gilbert wSs so excited he threw his Csrtier timepiece into the ring still looking for it Kirk 81 Elizabeth Threatt returned to New York to close her apartment She plans to live in Hollywood permanently This is Kirk's cue to leave town for six months He and Dan Dailey are the most elusive bachelors in town Zsa-Zsa Gabor on her local TV how want everyone to love everyone" Zsa Zsa insists there can be no reconciliation with George -Sanders I wonder Suun Hayward gets Robert Mitchum ifor- her RKO picture "This Man Is They make the movie dpse to Greer all white cattle ranch in New Mexico Joanne Dru -ind her husband John Ireland are off to England to star in Boy" John plays aprfcefighter "We get 50 per cent'of the profits with all expenses paid and Joanne will be able to dear back taxes" says Mr Ireland Elizabeth Taylor sent word ahead from New York that she wants "a complete change of everything ground She starts with a redecorating job on her apartment Michael Wilding returns to Hollywood at abopt the same as Elizabeth with his divorce behind him Elizabeth is free in January Caught Virginia Mayo on the set Working Her Way Thrqugh standing on her heaiL- "I'm on my feet all day and the switch is perfect for me" said Ginny when' she got right side up Grand Opera Slated For Wilshire Ebell A double 'bill of grand opera "I knd "Cavalleria will be presented at Wilshire Ebell Theater Wilshire Blvd and Lucerne Ave at 8:30 pjn Saturday Noy 24 under Frnk Pace's sponsorship Francisco Comacho-Vega will conduct the performances --which will have an all-star cast of favorite singers including Neida Scar-sella Florence -Korsak Julian Oliver HarofH Reed Verna Mon trey and Sidney Bloom 'j ML I A4IL UL ML ML I MAT SAT MS VI 10S ANGELES' GREATEST SHOW VALVE I AU-MOAOWAT CAN TCtt RAtflt-BItTWHSOn 1 NKROUS BROTMtS TICK SKYLARKS 4 if ta1iSSlSmmU Sim OAUKCrS MfNC ft I1NTIT Ida (Mud Mrift)UHIT NIKI Ml SteH Ml Mi I Mu SHI tt Hit America's CiVfs TUFIOI FOXTTOUO S-way tipper wvdM Llnd to Stvbeo Stroec-id 2 vartieal pocksts 14 a 11 Atoo IS a IS JTAG iMeNfeawrifvf Gale Opening BED UN 21 (Rllipaa ARAK 8580 Santa Monica NONSTOP Setvite to OAKLAND loo! nmol ship sad Cerered stsal intartoek-inf framo 3 packsts center ana double aita LIFETIME EDGE and LIFETIME HANDLE IlillxIVv 75 T- I HO-9-1234 i AN AD TAKER I llfWS I Hollywood Citizen Stationers a i 16364 Hollywood Blvd E-L'MttNT THEATRES MARRED WITH Mama-May- PiMIa CMt IhAIm all AM at Vmmi 1 NIKI IT tana Tamrr I Firm 1 imperibb 1 1 AHA Jam Mm aa TAE KIIII Aim Ana i Carmel Wimr-Bran FITIM lEATNEAAICAI rake it Jan M-tHm BABI4AB LIVE BEST Mata stasis FE4TABE PIETIES aaa 1 K4UI flmnr TALES IF SSFEBASS Catarl lltome a AM RHflCI raMtaam MO Mwa a TAE BEIEIT FAX 1 Fttrfn Frw lth Aanan Ta LIS SaaaSMS Aaa Mmm as TSE ESEST FIX 1 As Mill Jka Atsfllnc INSSAII Samtr-a TAI AITEI CM -A kill laiaa Tain Ccfetehaa tk MKIIIlitUE CM Batataa VMS IfeCltft 1ILOW ARE OPEN ALL NICHT Cordon VS1 ws3944 LaArsa-Mi Sim lTU Fhrlaf InHMraatkM ralar Ah AM at Waawa Jr Hollywood AattveaaS al AlsklaaS Caat 1230-5 a AE-5J71 KPU S'AARA Waym-Ana FLTIAS IEATAEAAECAS Cotar In 501 Manama 0M CaaL 1300 AI-tlM Mnia TALES OF ASFFMAAI Cake wane la BEB M0E4 raatlaam NvAinv-hikr BHltaaaSa Mr CkrMy StS-La Ana San 145 Baa MUIaa Jn 901 ifeltna AASSAAA TAI ESEST FIX Lo Brea Larchmont Lar-Samta L-T41T Mlllsn Bate SAISAIB Loma Jaam Maaia TAE ESEST FIX Fane-Ana CBSSSWIASS Cate l-IIU Sam Ml Ritz 5214 Wlhkki Sam 035 MA-1221 TAE RACAIT RH FLISST -TO BASS dr Village -4501 A I-5-S042 AA-5-9250 OaaaCsAS A IMFESISR EVItet CMm Lirs bare it lecsl CaaL II lam SI-2355 Vogue ni TIE RACAIT nnnNiiBnRiaiwiv 3a Rtt FLICAT TC BASS nr La Rclna ST-T-tJAI ST-4-1141 CaaL 1X35 CkHMt-CanF LET'S BARI IT LECAl Brnh Stc SATIRSAT REN Biveli Taa Arra Sam 30 STs5501 CSRBEAES Ba LSII Studio City Sam 45 OS --2377 ST-T-1TTF STapaa Bsaa Uaa I Hum Mum a TIE SHIRT FIX MOSS-HArMN-yriLSOfl I FMILHAAMOWIC AUS" TOMORROW NIGHT ROBERT SHAW CHORALE I AND ORCHESTRA" TICKETS! 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