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DAILY NEWS. LOS ANGELES. SATURDAY. JAN. 30.

1943 FIFTEEN 5 tti c. u- rf Wr -VU': I Pill J-A, 2 A DEALER in black market visas (Peter Lorre) persuades a night dub owner (Humpnrey Bogart) to hid tho stolon vises for several hours. 'Jt A -J i it' v.tf 1111 1 1 MU fo WiWlMilliT 1 I IN "CASABLANCA," a Ned captain (Conrad Veidt) is to Freo French Casablanca by the French 3 ARRESTED ON SUSPICION of the murders, prefect of polico (CUudo Reins) when he arrives to investigate the murder of two German emissaries. but he doewt reveal the whereabouts of the precious visas, i 'iss vt- JP' -I bSh OT r' -Tkr A s. JS I.

A' m-'iK fT Tills is Irving Berlin Tha sentiment expressed In Us two song, Oh, How Hate to Get Up in the Morning" and "This Is the Army, Mr. Jones" no private rooms or tele hones. no longer apply today 9 Irving Berlin. The composer of "This Is the is staying at the Bev-erly-Wilshire hotel where he can sleep as late as he wishes in his sumptuous suite. Berlin is In the cinema city with )ils all-soldier show prior to its plcturi-cation by Warner Bros, and he Is a busy man.

He is appearing in the musical nightly at the Philharmonic theater, conferring with Warner executives on the film version and holding court In his dressing room during and after shows every evening. These are but the trappings and the suits of affluence, however. Otherwise, Irving Berlin la still the sad eyed Isidore Ba-line of the "Yip, Yip Yaphank days, the same shy and modest individual whose songs have become part of the popular consciousness of several generations AfUr more than 30 years of song writing, Berlins face is etched with noticeable lines, but his complexion still is hale, his hair is black and intact and his figure conforms to army standards. When he dons his 1918 uniform and marches out on the stage with the boys during the finals of This Is the Army, he does not seem out of place at all. Berlin was sitting in his dressing room just before going out before the footlights at 10:30 p.

m. Outside his half open door, the members of the cast were dashing back and forth boisterously, lugging helmets and rifles. Berlin was applying a few last touches of makeup and surveying himself in the mirror. "I'm not really an actor, commented Berlin, "although I've done this sort of thing before. Here I just come out and take bow.

It gets to be a routine. But this whole show is a newcareer for me. It Keeps me on the move and I find that Ive forgotten about a lot of things that seemed important before. Now I find them trivial. I never knew I could keep so busy and be happy at the same time.

A private popped his head in the door. "Five more minutes, Mr. Berlin, he announced. Berlin nodded. "I had a good start in doing this show, he continued.

"25 years. Its the Yip, Yip Yap-hank formula brought up to date. "The writing of the songs was quick. I did them at Camp Upton, practically on the very same barracks site where I wrote my first army show. The rehearsals were long and getting the men.

We sent out questionnaires and I personally knew many experienced performers who were at Camp Dix or Monmouth. We got the boys from all over the country and the professional theater contributed many of its best talents to help us stage it properly. "Everyone seems to agree that weve got something good here. I think its a good show that it gets the proper spirit across the footlights without trying for it "It may be that its a little overrated right now, but time will take care of that. It will take its proper place after the war, like Yip, Yip Haphank.

That was the Irving Berlin of legendary modesty speaking. The men of the This Is the Army" company look up to him as a paternal guardian, but he regards himself as one of 'the boys. He frequently salutes officers, although he does not have to, and he commented to a friend not long ago, Whatll I do without you guys when I'm a civilian again? The motion picture version of This Is the Army" will bridge both the 1918 and 1943 army shows and will be connected by a thread of a story. Berlin will appear on the screen, probably singing "Man-dy and Oh, How I Hate to Get Up inlhe. Morning." Exactly how much I will do the picture," he says, will depend on whether I frighten little children or not.

It will not be a biography in any sense, though." The strains of the Bombardier number floated into the dressing room. just about ready for you, Mr. Berlin, announced the private. Berlin got upland put on his old army hat. -I have to go, I'm sorry, he said.

He shouldered-his way through the press of army men in the wings and paused near the stage. One of the performers was announcing, Irving Berlin. The house lights dimmed and a spot pierced the gloom. Berlin stepped out before the audience 'which showered him with crescendos of applause. The music swelled and the small, fragile man in the circle (Continued on rage 17, Col.

4) 5-BOGART TRICKS RAINS into aiding in Europten underground (Paul Henreid) after he j. 4 WHEN THE WOMAN (Ingrid Bergman), whom Bogart loved In Peris, appeals to him to help her husbana escape ha becomes in volved in a new intrigue. TV Picturized review I By VIRGINIA WRIGHT 1 I With such advance men as Roosevelt and Churchill, Casablan ca cant possibly miss at the boxoffice. But the new picture at Warner Bros. Hollywood.

Downtown and Wiltern has a good deal more to recommend it than a topical title. A smooth, exciting and even number the whole course the escape of the head of tho has supplied a them with exit vises. ed the of the action changes. How Rick turns Into an active Interven- i tionist, arranges the escape of the underground leader and even turns a middle of tho. French prefect into a patriot, r't forma the substance of an ex- traordinarily good movie.

Screenwriters Howard Koch, Julius and Philip Epstein have provided the players with somo very idee momenta and director Michael Curtis has encouraged underplaying in every scene. He has some exceptionally coopen- tlve performers. Humphrey Bogart, as in Tbo- Maltese Falcon and Across the Pacific," la in perfect command of such a character as Rick, and as sincere an actress as Ingrid Bergman la ideally cast opposite him. Paul Henreid plays the cou- rageous Czech with quiet conviction, while Claude Rains supplies excellent light comedy as the corrupt. French official who blows with the wind.

Dooley Wilson gets his best screen role to date as Ricks piano player, and comes through with ease. Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre are the heads of the black dealers in falsified papers, and Conrad Veldt is the German captain, out to get Henreid. Casablanca is accompanied vilMfw.Mii.M mwm at the three theaters by a car toon parody on Abbott and Cos- tello, a defense short and news- fftfll. romantically appealing film, Casablahca is dated -only in that it deals with the Moroccan capital prior to the landing of American troops. It Is the story of a city of intrigue, of black, markets and the underground, of Germans and fence straddling French, of European refugees, of a banished American and a Czech with a price on his head.

Beene of much of the action la Ricks, the most popular night club in Casablanca. Its owner is Humphrey Bogart, an enigmatic gentleman who has fought with the Loyalists In Spain and smuggled arms to Ethiopia but who, for the moment, la refus-1 ing to stick his neck out for anybody. He slips from his noninterventionist stand only to see a couple of Bulgarian refugees win at his roulette table, and to hide some stolen exit visas for a murderer. When the famous Czech bead of the underground (Paul Hen-rled) walks into the cafe with his wife (Ingrid Bergman) were Introduced to a new side of Rick. It seems, in the days just before the Germans marched into Paris, he had been in love and Jilted at the station by the woman who suddenly shows up In Casablanca with her husband.

Its "As Time. Goes By, a sentimental little song, full of raris illliriiUH HShlv a memories, that brings Rick bounding out of his office to silence his piano player. When lia anon tba WMItaA IL'hn TMIIlflts 6 TO ASSURE TH. ESCAPE of who attempts to stop their piano. Honreid and Miis Bogart hat to kill tha Nazi captain But there are no reprisals.

Rains, by this time, has changed sides..