Los Angeles Evening Citizen News from Hollywood, California • 15

Friday OR Ilf Moment' Proves -Absorbing for 81 Minutes DOGS GO TO FILM VICE VERSA LONDON TEST LONDON Dec 2 tLF The Times of London suggests that if the movie industry is to going to the it must do more to entertain dogs The Times told the story of three gentlemen who took their the movies of the it said attentive throughout A second seemed somewhat bored but bark when the dog in the picture barked The third went to The picture was "Master of The reactions of the dogs the Times said that if the cinema indiptry hopes to stop the films going to the dogs it still picture or not it throws enough a good deal to I violence on the screen to keep it CITIZEN-NEWS Hollywood 'Reckless One War Picture dogs to 0 ed Premiered By out of the sissy classification Held to a tight 81 ning time the Henry-Robe Soderberg moves swiftly through the story of a attempt to keep her daughter from the scandal of an imprudent romance A quarrel with the unsuitable suitor brings death to him and serious trouble to her Respectable protected she suddenly finds herself on the brink of an unsavory world of which she knows nothing dealing with blackmailers pawnbrokers cheats To complicate matters further her husband is out of the country on business too far away to land a masculine helping hand The contrast between the calm safety of her normal existence and the grim situation in which she suddenly finds herself is deftly insight lyricism snd Conner to tribute to the famous 101st them and woke up covered with Division which wrote an snow lack of ammunition has page in the history of food and medical supplies poised World War II during the famous a serious problem In the face of CZECH PIANIST ACCLAIMED Concerto by Brahms Beautifully Played By MARGARET HARFORD Rudolf playing of the Brahms Minor Piano Concerto was the particular distinction of the concert offered last night by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under Alfred direction in Philharmonic Audi torium The young Czech pianist brought Stars to Attend Theater Opening William Lundigan Shari Robinson Colleen Townsend Retty Lynn Debra Paget Nancy Guild Mark Stevens Randy Stuart John Derek and Broderick Crawford are among the stars who will attend the opening tonight of a remodeled Pomona theater with ad mission proceeds going to the Community Chest A parade will precede the activities at the film house the Unit ed Artists Theater formerly call ed the California them mere boys dug their foxholes in the frozen ground slept in The all this especially the gloom of the thick low-hanging fog which for days pressed them down and kept supplies from being flown in they kept a firm grip on themselves and even joked a bit at their lot! The little things that differentiate one man from another are expertly brought out in the kid who slept with hi boots off even in the snow the father who had orders to return home to his wife and kids but get out the soldier whose false teeth clicked when he slept And then that wonderful moment when the nazis are advancing on the remnants of the 101st Airborne Division from all sides This then is the end apparently and the weary fix their bayonets for a last stand But suddently the snow lights up The sun! And soon after the sky is a magnificent sight as US dive bombers blast the nazis and parachutes from supply planes drop their welcome loads to the battered The acting is all topnotch It would be unfair to single out any player The defense of Bastogne was a and was carefully cast with this in mind Denise Darcel is the lone woman in the cast and she plays a French girl with complete conviction all well she should The men in the cast are Van Johnson John HodiaV Ricardo Montilban George Murphy Marshall Thompson Jerome Court land Doh Taylor Bruce Cowling James Whitmore Douglas Fowley Leon Ames Guy Anderson Thomas Breen Richard Jaeckel Jim Ar-ness Scotty Beckett and Brett King Dore Schary was the producer and Robert Pirbsh wrote the story and screenplay William Wellman directed with laudable skill and Paul Vogel rates a cheer for SKOLSKY Hollywood Is My Beat The Mail Bag "THE OTHER day I read your column' writes Sam Spade of Hollywood "in which you discussed an Howard Duff (or whatever his name is) who plays me on the radio (and I don't get a penny out of it) According to you Duff (hr whatever his name is) is not only loyal trustworthy brave ruggedly handsome (all qualities I loathe in a name) but he made the grade strictly on his own This is a vile canard and I even know French For your information if it wasn't for me this bum would be back In the window of the Bon Marche in Seattle wrestling dummies "Since the advent of this Duff (if his name) I have been the recipient of merciless jibes quips sallies jape ties and salacious innuendo by my erstwhile friends on and off the force I ask you how would you like it if from otherwise kind-hearted citizens you get this: Shamus the caper this week? Ha ha Or what would your reaction be if when snugly ensconced on your favorite bar stool sipping your favorite asperitif (Three Feathers) a drunken doll weaves up to you taps you on the shoulder (without removing her highball glass) and says Goodnight In other words my life has been as free from fretfulness as a male elephant who is in love with a female French poodle "In closing this Duff (or whatever his name is) while plaving me on the radio avers that he (Spade) me will not touch cr tain type cases This is a vile canard (a phrase I picked up from my first paragraph) I will take any type case except a Peeping Tom caper the reason for this being I have a slight I wish all my Tintype subjects would write me a letter after Tintyped "HERE'S MY suggestion to top stars writers and movie writes Lillian Rottmann of Brooklyn New York to your neighborhood theater for a good idea on the likes and dislikes of the audience Private projection rooms and lush premieres do not give a true estimate of the feelings toward a movie might be wise to check with the theater managers on how to curb raucous patrons those who smoke in spite of the warning flashed on the screen and those who put huge feet up on seat If the neighborhood theaters are kept quiet and dignified so one might enjoy the dialogue on the screen rather than loud talk all around box office receipts would go soaring up! Teen-agers are unusually the culprits here but adults in some cases have terrible movie manners I agree and have been saying that movie producers should see their pictures at theaters during local engagements At least maybe get the main feature put on at a decent hour And from Toby Stein of Brooklyn New York: "Knowing you are interested in your readers' suggestions I submit the following: a revival of all Academy Award-winning films Perhaps this will revive a steadily declining trend in the movie This is a good suggestion I know it is for it is being practiced by the Motion Picture Academy every Sunday night at their Academy Theater with great success They show an Academy Award film and the place is packed with actors producers and directors who enjoy it This certainly should be proof to them Turn to Page IB Column 4 a concerto that is a double hand ful for any pianist no matter what his equipment Firkusny's equipment is sound and tidy so that the knotty phrases of the opening had real authority He made the slow' section introspective without making it interminable and coming dewn the home stretch the rondo rolled fleetly and brilliantly along Firkusny's recital a season or so ago is a memory one recalls with great pleasure The rest of the program was a tribute to Finland's grand old man of music Jan Sibelius who will be 84 Thursday For this birthday salute Wallenstein brought out two almost unknown works the composer and introduced them with an old acquaintance "The Swan of Tuonela Sibelius' incidental music to "Pelleas and from his opus 46 is scarcely up to music for the same play and certainly far below par as set by Debussy's opera It makes cajoling intimate sounds but it takes up a great deal of time for only a meager reward "Pohjola's is more 19th century romanticism rooted in Finnish folklore which is alas quite dated as it turns up now of whatever contempt its familiarity may breed in high places still is poignantly personal evocation full of lovely heavy-hearted song which like every thing else last night benefited from devoted playing and some luxurious orchestral tone Vincent Schipilliti's beautiful English horn solo in was a reminder of our good fortune in having him on hand to play it STARS AND STRIPES Film celebrities and top military brass mingled last night at the premiere of at the Egyptian Theater Gen LeRoy Watson (above) chats with Dore Scharv executive production head of MGM before the start of the film (Below) Glenn Ford and his wife Eleanor Powell arrive for the event Gerald Geraghty Wife Divorced Too much golfing and too much bridge was the charge entered by Gretchen Darling Geraghty 34 in obtaining a divorce yesterday from Gerald Geraghty 43 a film writer Mrs Geraghty testified that her husband spent so much time in these pursuits that he was seldom home Her testimony was corroborated by her father Scott Darling also a screen writer Mrs Geraghty was granted custody of crafts- their daughter Erin 4 and award NEWS Joan of has been approv- ed by the Spanish government it his outstanding manship ed $250 a month for her support IN THE The Motion Picture Export Assn now meeting in New York has formed a committee at Eric Johnston's suggestion to help foreign film producers sell their product in this country Care of My Little a college story by Peggy Goodin has been acquired by 20th Century-Fox for production next year Barbara Stanwyck will star in a Western now being prepared for production by Hal Wallis Jim Backus veteran radio comedian has been set by Columbia for a featured part in Film rights to War With the Broadway play have been acquired by Abby Greshler was disclosed today in New York assault charge said she was home and will be shown in all first-run mf situations In Spain 2rnt me Mr Fowler said I go-Robert Young has completed ng to my attorney about narrating a short trailer for the shutting her up National Tuberculosis Assn which The countess and the model are urges the purchase of Christmas fading over the affections of Ed- I ard Fowler 43 the Muriel Maddox has been set for estranged husband a leading role in the a new stage play by Peggy Fen- ohOW rfOQUCer ollGu wick which will open soon at the Earl Carroll Theater OingDY Director Funeral services are pending under direction of Pierce Bros for Eft direc or LOWELL BEDEL IN 08 M's film Airborne unforgettable Battle of the Bulge was premiered last night at the Egyptian Theater to a distinguished audience This sterling account of the American soldiers who held Bas-togne in the face of tremendous odds during the cold December1 days of 1944 was enthusiastically received by the first-night audience of film stars civic celebrities and military officials is a good photoplay It just misses greatness by a breadth It get inside of you like the great war film of World War I "The Big but it does manage to maintain interest consistently And it does arouse a deep admiration for the courage of the Gls who refused to give up in the darkest hours at Bastogne The film tells in dignified terms the whole story of Bastogne how the foot soldiers were cut off from their comrades how they were eventually surrounded and how their commander answered the nazi demand for surrender with the terse reply It tells how these men some of Countess Model Feuding Again A red-haired Lithuanian countess was accused today of throwing a statuette through her blonde rival's window Ariel Ames model who says the countess knocked her down in a sidewalk hair-pulling match last weekend now says the red-head broke her window threatened gunfire and keeps telephoning her at midnight She signed a malicious mischief report for police naming Mrs Rel-la Fowler the Counteas Orgra- byszewski Fowler free on bail on an IM WIltNtM WA Itll Mkt-ia taMknhi VOGUE on CULVER suspense-conscious direction play their part in building the melodrama An earnest attempt is made aft atmospheric realism so earnest that it become too obvious at times That and editing it hurts are only minor an un-routine and movie The local settings Los and Balboa add interest Joan Bennett as the mother In jam and James Mason in other of his "likeable as a blackmailer who falls with his victim play to good effect Geraidi who looks enough like nett here at least to be her life daughter is the erring daughter Henry Sheppard Strud-wick David Bair Roy Roberts' Frances Williams and B)ll Schal-lert are in the supporting cast Both theaters are also showing Alias a For those who see enough of "Gorgeous George" on their television sets it provides a chance to see him on a big screen The story is about wrestlers naturally FLYNN GREETED BY INDIA FANS BOMBAY India Dec 2 HE Hundreds of Indian film fans and stars welcomed Errol Flynn to Santa Cruz Airport today when he arrived from Cairo en route to Lucknow to make a film baaed on Rudyard Kipling's imrm ft to umi mis SSSZr demanded $10009 in back salaries yesterday in Superior Court from Ralph Paonessa who staged the show Blue The operetta was staged here more than a year ago but Paonessa has failed to pay them for their Re-'work in the show the two con-public tended 21 1935 at Dallas Tex They will share custody of their daughter agent for Dean Martin and Jerry ilwis as a potential costarring flm ock today Pr- vehicle for the two comedians has been okayed by the censor in Memphis for exhibition there it was announced today by 20th Century-Fox The King Bros have signed an agreement with United Artists for four feature films two of which will be made next year The Nassour brothers Edward and William have negotiated a deal to use the Clyde Beatty Circus as a background for their forthcoming untitled circus film Renzo Rossellini brother of Roberto arrives today from Italy to write the score for Irving Reis has been signed to direct for Gloria Films Marlon Brando star of is suffering from a virus attack and will not resume work in the film before Monday mount up Loew up up 4 and Warner Bros up Showing slight losses were Eastman Kodak down and Universal down Other film stocks remained unchanged Zachary Scott Divorced by Wife Temper temper said Mts Elaine Scott was Zachary trouble She won a divorce from the 35-year-old movie thespian yesterday charging mental cruelty Mrs Scott testified that her husband frequently displayed fits of temper in front of guests Once she said he threw a tantrum and an ashtray the ashen guests got up and left The Scotts were married Feb METRO-GOLDWYN MAYER FINEST PICTURE STARTS ITS BIG PARADE TO GLORY Story and Scrtonpiay by ROBERT RIROSH Associate Producer Directed by WliLIAM A WELLMAN Produced by DORE TODAY km pirns M-G-M's Lktk mnJ PETE SMITH SCHARY hove the child six months of each year Mrs Scott was awarded the family home and $500 a week for 52 weeks AND FINAL EXCITING WEEK! iMSiyHEMT' PARAMOUNT MOL DOWN TO WM HOtlYAOOD -t SIXTH MIGMI AND HO 92121 Ml 7321 WARNERS' -jr Larry Parks 'JOLSON SINGS AGAIN" Color by Technicolor With Barbara Hale ura mTTiTi i 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