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Los Angeles Evening Citizen News from Hollywood, California • 15

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I I HOLLYWOOD TODAY ROBERT SYLVESTER Up Creek and Doyn In the Bahamas With SHEIL AH GRAHAM I found UCLA football star Ronaie Kaos lunching at Metro with talent department head At Tresroay He's getting an and I wished the handsome football player luck in his new career Monroe's broken shoulder strap at her recent press conference in New York is a repeat of the Anita Ekberg incident at Christmas Maybe their press agents think along the same' lines and what lines! The Robert Stacks had better enjoy the honeymoon while they can On their return to Hollywood there are 17 interviews and home photo layouts waiting for them Mary Anderson's parents who live in Binning haqi Ala will be in Hollywood' 14 CITIZEN-NEWS Saturday FeSruary 18 1956 make their lightning fast runs Mr Shark opens that mouth and plunges right into the school You also see barracuda over six feet long up there on the same murderous errand The 'cudas te FSge 15 Column 4 Ulonzo Youskevitch Create Sublime 'Giselle1 TOO INVOLVED iViW I Amazingly enough the orchestra has not improved with time the tempo especially in the ballet was very un even NJY Critics Find Play Bit Tedious JBy AUDREY KEARNS' Last night on the stage of the Philharmonic Auditorium that mpst rare quality genius was displayed by the two great stars ofthe Ballet Russe de Monte Alicia Alonso and Igor Youskevitch created a that was' sublime Perfectly matched they made of the Theo-phile Gautier story a performance of pure beauty Based on a theme by Heinrich Heine the story tells of Giselle a peasant girl loved by Albrecht owner of a nearby castle who has disguised himself as a farmer Hilarion a huntsman in love with -Giselle discovers who the fanner really is and denounces! iIaugham the earnnt fare him to Giselle who after BehrmiuT' aut'of Soiiier- 0 when the stork keep his April date with Mary and husband cameraman Leon Shamroy Joan Crawford's ''Queen turned out to be a bit of a drone at the boxoffice Hugh Herbert and Mark Robson are after Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer to co-star in their movie version of Herbert's play "The Little They'll make the film anywhere designated by the Ferrers if they sign Sterling Hayden who Hired Pasadena socialite Nancy Wilson to be governess for his four -kids is taking her to parties on her evenings off Richard Egan on his present in-demand starring status: worry so much about getting there but you can't relax when you're up there" But it fun Barry Fitzgerald en 'route to Paris goes to Ireland for a six week tour to visit all his relatives Don Hartman says his earliest ambition in life was to leave Brooklyn! And Dan Duryea reports about the Texas millionaire who went on a champagne diet and in four weeks took off $1500 Pasadena- Playhouse called and tells wit and charm the woman who is mixture of the oracle and Dale Carnegie" Gilmor Brown has a nearly perfect cast newsreel cameras This is sunny Margaret had to cancel her date with Rod Fulton for the Grauman Chinese opening beefuse of all things the former child star came down with the mumps! Both Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas have tried at various times to sign the other for their companies Kirk wanted Burt to star in Most Contagious and Burt wanted Kirk for a Western he was going to makf 'Now both stars wind up working for their first Hollywood boss Hal Wallis in At OK Vanes Brown doesn't know Linda Christian Which is why she happy about the printed report from New York that she's feuding with Linda The same scribe accused her of a hairpulling contest with Janice Rule several months ago Vanessa says she hasn't seen Janice in over a year When Bello Baker heard her old pal Frank Lovejoy was ill she called to say she hoped the actor would get well soon got rasped Lovejoy Jessel hasn't written my eulogy yet!" NEW Wait a mystery drama opened here after a successful run in London The critics found the play too involved and tedious THK CAST -SOMKOKZ WAITING thriller In three acts Smljrn Willie Me StMed by Allen Dneie: nreeented by Cddl Rich: Aeeneltte srodHcer differ Harem- eceaesr an Uthu fer Ben Ueirle: attunes hv Oene Coffin: eroduetlen steel site-star Joeeek Dinar At the Jehn Golden Theater John Nedlew Keward St John Mies Leant Ludia Clair Martin Robert Kordr HONEYMOON -BOUND Gordon MacRae as Curly takes th reins as he and Laurey (Shirley Jones) say goodbye to her friends as they leave on their honeymoon in "Oklahoma!" The musical hit still is screening at the Egyptian' and United Artists Downtown theaters era Nedlew Hilda Venn ANDROS TOWN Bahamas There was a wonderful creek or crick as we called it back In my home town of West Haven Conn and I guess maybe I've' always been a 'little creek crazy But never seen one like the one here called Fresh Creek a little river which atarts 15 miles up in nowhere and comes on down to the great reef off Andros Islahd I am a confirmed surf fishing addict but I have to admit that I've never seen fishing like this creek has to offer For openers you cad just walk out on the dock of the elegant Andros Yacht Club and if you look down you'll see the schools of turbot and the tropical version of a blue fish and snapper and heaven knows what else The kids catch these common varieties with what amounts to a string and a bent piil There have been times when 50-pound tarpon'from the tarpon hole up creek have also been hauled up on this dock and in the summer the natives take literally thousands of bonefish From the dock you step into an outboard and chug up creek for almost any distance The guide stopa the boat and starts poling You stand up and watch You see the bonefish in schools of 50 and 100 in the shoal water This season of the year they are spawning and are pretty skittish It takes a little patience but you can-hardly mist bringing back a couple The most unbelievable thing however is the fact that the big salt waters fish will make the trip up through the brackish water and almost into the pure fresh water 'stretches of the creek Douglas Bournique the Milwaukee salt-water buff has a boat equipped with all kinds of tf ckle and two outboards so he can go anywhere and be ready for almost anything The other day it was lucky for us he had the heavy tackle-aboard Up creek in not more than three feet of water we nailed a sun shark which measured over five feet in length You see big sharks in a foot of water silently and stealthily working their way up on a school of bonefish' When they get on a school of bonefish the sharks act like sheep dogs They circle the school in a tightening spiral and when the bone are packed close together and unable to Jessie Rare Lindla reek Brron Lae Cerreil Nereh Keward Herbert eland Leutso Buckley Mr Danecourt A Neithbor la wu at the -Jt is with great story of a extraordinary of Delphi Producer selected headed by Lois Kimbrell in the title role Stye Arline Anderson Ralph Clanton and Liam Dalzell glitter through the urbane dialogue with expert craftsmanship If the portrayals of the younger actors appear a trifle less professional it in only because the principals set so high a standard The story is not particularly discovering Albrecht Is really engaged tpjthe princess becomes mad and dies A she has been engaged and died before marriage according to an old Slav legend she must join the Wilis spirits who dance forever Albrecht in remorse comes to her grave and joins Giselle and the Wilis ip their dance only to die at dawn on the grave- The buoyancy of young love was superbly depicted through mime' and dancing by Alonzo and Youskevitch while the denouement' of Albrecht Apparent faithlessness was so poignantly pantomimed- by Miss Alonzo that there' were tears in many eyes NAVY SPYSTORY SCREENING LATE The Los Angeles New Fox Uptown and Loyola theaters will have late screenings tonight for Man Who Never one of the strangest spy stories in the annals of naval espionage Filmed in Cinemascope and DeLuxe Color the new 20th Century-Fox picture stars Clifton Webb and Gloria Grahame Jflf Chandler received the biggest ovation from the bleacher crowd at the sparkling premiere arriving and leaving And George Nadar surprised me without Danl Crayne His girl -was' Martha Hyer Sums Hayward a late arrival with her ageij Hugh French re believable in hindsight but it ceived big Adelaide's Health Always Suffering In 'Guys and Dolls' If Vivian Blaine were of a hy- pochondriac nature she would never have sun-ived the past five years 4 Even sincehe first sang on Broadway in and she has been getting cold a cough or the because Adelaide has been engaged to her guy too long This chronic condition which the pert comedienne sustained through some 1600 performances on Broadway and the London stage has been recorded on film in Samuel Cinema- Scope production-of and in which Miss Blaine co-stars with Marlon Brando Jean Simmons and Frank Sinatra and is current at the Hollywood Paramount in the audience lovely and tal-i amusing and contains a moral of sorts Jane in her middle fifties is considered dowdy She marries a man 20 years her jun- ented Irina Borowska was as Queen of the Wilis presented by the Ballet oohs and ahs from the crowd Rosalind Rnssell with Freddie Briason by-passed the TV and movie cameras Sort of sneaked in Jeff Hunter brought his mom A Gobel show foursome the newly reconciled Peggy King and Knobby Lee with Aldo Ray and Jeff Donnell Grourho Marx escorted his wife and daughter Melinda co-star Cameron Mitchell flew in from Russe with Alonzo and! an becomes the toast of Youskevitch is one of the most LondonTn due course she re-superb ballets of our day marries a man her own age but Following was the Pas denot because she is driven to re-Trois dassique with Gertrude! morse over a May and December Tyven Yvonne Ctyouteau- and romance Rather it is because Alan Howard The latter is defi- he realizes the young man is nitely a dancer to watch his! toeh old for her Debra Paget Found Herself Lone Gal Amid Sea of Males Debra Paget has had a taste of what it means to be the of the Not only did she have Robert Taylor and Stewart Granger fighting over her in her first MGM picture Last Hunt" but on the location in the Bad Lands of South Dakota she was the only girl in a company otherwise made up of 167 men "The Last in color and Cinemascope starts Wednesday at State Hawaii Picwood UA-Pasadena and seven' drive-ins: Van Nuys San VaJ Edwards Whittier Compton Torrance and Lakewood Til Cry Tomorrow' Rates High at MGM Rated by MGM officials as one of the most important productions in their calendar of attractions Cry based on the unusual life of Lillian Roth is the current attraction at Four Star Theater Susan Hayward portrays Miss Roth in Cry story of a young and beautiful girl who became a star of stage and screen then entered a nightmare of misery and near-suicide before gaining the help that enabled her to start a hew life elevations briers and entrechats! The key to her character i New York where he appeared are excellent and he dances with! that she habitually tells the television the night before to a grace and lightness sadly lack- truth hence is considered hwtivities (Stars Goring in his two companions outrageous wit Although Beau Director Mary Green set pr Vu wtur programmed originally for! highly mannered tone to thef dewrts a iantic lastnight "The Raymonds (DI- piece and probably deserves lea 11 llie with choreogra- much of the credit -for the in-phy by George Balanchine and genious by-play that makes the Dan Dailey who has always wanted to direct will finally be Quiet Scene Ruined During one quiet 'scene on s' Paris street while filming Parisian scenes for "Cinerama the mood was broken when an inquisitive Parisian suddenly popped his head out from beneath a sewer cover Excerpts from the reviews: TIMES Brooks Atkinson: Williams has written a crime play too ingenious for Its own good Even Mr im maculate sense of style cannot rescue it from dullness i MIRROR Robert Coleman: A hit in London A hit In Paris i But Its a miss on Broadway NEWS John Chapman: As an addict of the psychological thriller I had a fine time last evening wondering who if anybody was going to get killed JOURNAL-AMERICAN John McClain: It is generally considered a sneaky and unethical thing to tell the customers too much about a thriller So I will just tell you enough to get you good and confused which is what I was It seeiiu there are these people in England a rich bloke and-his wife and they have a rather sinister adopted son Well a Swedish girj has been found dead in their apartment and the best friend of the sinister son has been charged with her murder convicted and hanged where we come in We begin to think that maybe the sinister son is pretty suspicious Then alohg comes a fellow who has been hired as a tutor for the son and it turns out that he is the father of the boy who has just been executed for the munfer So it is only natural that he and the son get together and figure out how the real murderer is no lest a person than the rich bloke Most of us would have picked up the phone and called the police and had the rich bloke arrested but of course this would have brought the curtain down at the end of Act One It is only fair to report that Mr Williams has contrived a very acceptable ending What he hasn't contrived in my opinion is a very plausible play HERALD TRIBUNE Walter Kerr: I can tell you who done it Eralyn Williams done it But why? WORLD TELEGRAM AND SUN William Hawkins: There are enough switches and changes on the theme here to provide a 20-volume set of Nick Carter or Gray POST Richard Watts Jr: Mr play about a homicide and a vengeance has St least the virtue of an ingenious theatrical idea and yet it seems to me almost incredibly tedious Alexandra Danilova after Petipa was performed instead Again Alan Howard wax outstanding with Gioconda Filippini and Irene Minor as his counterparts playJive- The set by Marvyn Harbert is sumptuous In sum those who have a taste for highly civilized wit and fine acting will find the play very enjoyable Winner Bit efthsYi HiViFliM HIM BOCTUNCASIER-JUOaMiGKHff HslWUIU 2 ACTION-PACKED HITS THEROSE TATTOO ronysoH allowed to megaphone at his home studio wjthin the next year And it will be a musical Gordon MacRae couldn't attend the premiere but his' 11-year-old daughter Meredith was happy to substitute askedher if she too to be a singer and she made a pretty good two TV tFor Egan is the most model Hollywood He lives with as you know and for a new home them near transportation because neither his mother or father drive a car By the way it 1 was so cold while that 20th had to rush a motorcycle cop to bring whale oil to defreeze the Fresh Presentation One of the most engaging features of the Theater Mart's pres- entation of "The Wayward I and is the freshher dad' quality of itk treatment The beauty of the-girls who usher the modesty of their crisp-old-fashioned gowns the high spirits of the' cast establish that quality instantly I wanted replied start on Dirk son in his parents looking for all of tfjZKUr MWifHI "DM snU tab: M-M-MMfcM i IMWNwr IHU-MOmW HwKfiloyof A FABULOUS GEY A WONDERFUL GIRL A MIGHTY IN I "QmUt Csruh Free CkiWrMi Ticket Cm et AS Thestie PHri" "Fluwf Darkef! 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