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Filin JUSA LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA gHtity SATURDAY. FEBRUARY V. lfM 5 Mildred Norton Even the great Johann Sebastian Bach wrote music for the guitar, maintains Andres Segovia, Or anyhow, he says, Bach wrote it for, the lute, which is of the same Instrument family as the The work, a prelude, fugue, lj -4 be played are the sonatas opus 26; opus 31, number and opus 2, number 3. The series win be continued on March 25. Feb.

18 Evenings on the Roof will start- their; spring season of chamber concerts with a program of muaio by Beethoven, Brahms tnd Pro-kofieff. Ballet Theater Tonights program by the Bat-' let theater will include Swan Bluebeard, and the rentier of Michael Kidds new. allet, On Stage. Matinee performance presents "Peter and the Wolf, "Tally-' Ho, and two local premieres, Gift of the Magi, and "Interplay, at the Philharmonic auditorium. ROMA, The Champagne Girl," will bubble through the dance of the naughty nautch on the stage of the rallies theater.

BING CROSBY pleyi a Mr. FiVrt priest in Bells of 5t. MalyV held over for a seventh week at the RKO and Pontages theaters. review By VIRGINIA WRIGHT "Three Stranger, the new film which opened yeaterday at Warner Broa. Hollywood, Down town and Wlltern theatera, I a melodrama developed with nice irony.

Overwritten in aome parts, and not too carefully cast, nev-ertheleas- it hold the attention moat of the time, in the manner of a picture puzzle. Three lives, brought together by chance, and held together, by the common bond of interest in a sweepstakes ticket, are the pieces of the puzzle. Presumably their fates hang in the balance until they win or lose on the' Grand National. Ac- tually, their characters fine-. shadow their fates.

The woman who precipitates the action is an estranged wife with a mystical belief in the legend of Kwan-Yin, an Oriental goddess who "opens her heart on Chinese New Year. A. wish made by three strangers on that night will be granted, according to the legend. Geraldine Fitzgerald, as the Qpman bent on winning back 4 husband, invites two stranger off the London street up to her apartment One is a barrister, the other, is a gentlemanly alcoholic. Her suggestion Is that their common wish be for money, a -suggestion the drunkard makes concrete by of-, fering them each a third Interest in his sweepstakes ticket They agree, if the hone is chosen, to bet their total winnings on the race.

Between that night and the date of the race each goes his own way. The barrister Juggles trust funds and is close to suicide when he sees their horse has been chosen. The alcoholic becomes involved in a murder charge, and Just escapes hanging. The woman uses all her wiles to win her husband away from another woman, and tuns vengeful when she fails. The horse wins, but-how It happens that none of the three spend the money you will yAe to 'discover for yourselves.

While the screenplay by. John Huston and Howard Koch is Interesting, certain scenes involving Peter Lorre, the gentle alcoholic, fail to come off. Lorre is not the charming hero type, gnd his readings slow the action. Geraldine Fitzgerald is effective as the venomous wife, and Sidney Greenstreet has an op-. portunity for some dramatics as the desperate manipulator of stocks.

Joan Lorring does a nice Job as Lorres cockney sweetheart, and Peter Whitney is good as a ruffian whos quick with a dagger. Produced by Wolfgang Reinhardt and directed by Jean Negulesco, "Three Strangers is playing on a bill at the three theaters with some entertaining excerpts from Hack Sennett ewnedies, a cartoon and the Film review 'Military Secret By KAAREN SPRAGER There Is no doubt that the story on the- screens of the Laurel and Grand theaters concerns a Military Secret in fact much of the action is kept as a deep, dark secret front the audience. Billed as the first spy drama of German agents in the Russian spy story writers have hauled out almost all the stock spy 1 situations, including a knick-ln-time ending, for their debut' The military secret involved is a super gun called the L-2 which looks like an ordinary GI Ftme thrower in action. The kyry develops around the ef-forts of the Germans to steal both the gun and its' inventor, Leontiev, and the Soviet counter-espionaged success in snafuing the Nazis. In the course of the action, the workings of a German spy school and the Russian counter- intelligence are revealed at lengths1.

If these scenes are more than the product of screen writers imagination, they are both interesting and illuminating. However, the plot completely falls to pieces at the end. The scenarists never bother to ex-, plain Just how the Russians captured the German plana Which wab to carry the Nazis and their Inventor captive to Berlin. Pethaps that is really the military secret. What suspense and excitement' there is in the picture is due ehtirely to the performance of the excellent cast.

Sergei Lukianov as the chief of the Red Army spy system has a quiet, underacting manner vOch is perfectly suited to Ida 've. He is particularly effective in his clever interrogation scenes in which he breaks down an elderly German spy. His companion in these so-, (Continued on Pag 4) courante and bourree, will be in eluded on the Spanish guitarist's recital program st Philharmonic auditorium' Sunday afternoon, Feb. 17. In addition to re-introducing music of the classicists for the guitar, Segovia has also aroused the Interest of modem com-' posers in- the instrument.

He will play compositions dedicated to him by Gomez-Crespo, Tor-robo, Turina and Castelnuovo-Tedesctyps well aa other works. Tribute to Sinatra A musical salute to Frank Sinatra for- his fine work in the furtherance of unity and breakdown of racial intolerance, will be offered at the Shrine auditorium Monday evening, Feb. 25. Titled "Tribute to Frank Si-, natra, it will be participated in by Hollywood's top musicians, singers and performers, accord-. lng to Johnny Green, chairman of the musicians division of the Hollywood Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions.

Jussi Bjoorling Six languages and 40 operatic roles give Swedish tenor, Jussi Bjoerling, plenty of material to draw from for the songs he will present Tuesday evening, Feb. 28, at the Philharmonic. Bjoerlings current tour cornea after four war years of enforced retirement at his- home In Sweden. Hie first operatic, role here after returning from Europe was In La Boheme last fall with the San Francisco Opera. Violinist in recital Tuesday evening, violinist El-liott Fisher will be presented at the Wilahlre In his first.

Los Angeles by the Behymer Artist At 12 Fisher received a schol-, arshlp to study with Efrim Zim-ballat at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he remained for six He then became concert master with the Don Lee Mutual network, and has only recently Tetumed from a USO concert tour covering army and navy bases and hospitals. Violinist in recovery John Pennington, violinist of the London string quartet, la making a speedy recovery from a recent operation, and the noted London group will definitely play at the Pasadena playhouse tomorrow afternoon at 4 oclock, according to word from the Coleman Chamber Muaio sponsor of the event The quartet will be assisted by two guest artists, Lysbeth LeFevre, cellist and Virginia Majewaki, violist, in a unique program presenting two compo- aitlons qnly the famous Vtwo- cello quintet by Schubert and the equally celebrated Opus 18, by Brahma. Sonata team Pianist Harry Kaufman and violinist Sascha Jacobsen will be presented in two recitals of sonatas at the Assistance League playhouse Wednesday evenings, Feb. IS and Feb. 27.

Kaufman, long a faculty member, of the Curtis Institute, and Jacobsen, until recently on the Juilliard staff; have been playing chamber music together ever since their' student days at the Institute of Musical Art in New York. 1 'r Beethoven sonatas Pianist Richard Buhllg con- tlnues his Beethoven sonata se- ries at the Wilahire-Ebell the- a ter Monday- nightat -which time five of the leas frequently heard sonatas will be presented. The simple, early style as found In opus 48, number 1, believed to have been written for a pupil, will be contrasted with the vigorous opus 10L Also to mop i mji 2uNtT'tOTN TNSATXfSi JACK HALEY hit nun iraiusiE PATRIC KNOWLES and Dorothy Lamour star in Masquerade in Mezico," at the two JOHN HODIAK and Judy Garland aro lovers in "The Harvey Girls," at Los Angeles, RHz, Egyptian. KEN MURRAY and Sylvia Shore, dancer, help keep things rolling 1 long in th "Blacouts of 1946," et Capitan theater. CURLEY finds the going pretty rough in the "Three Stooges routinein the annual 'r Show" now at tha Orpheum.

WJflS'lIIJI At '-6 t. I LAURA DEANE DUTTON sings few ditties in' the new review, "Tim to Laugh," opaning Monday night at Slapsy-Mazia's dub. MARLO keeps things lively on Burbank theater's runway with ier vivid rendition of the dance of the mischievous mink. HBalllet Lovelorn suitors provided the opening gambit of the Ballet Theaters current engagement at the Philharmonic last night-front tha languishing lovers of Giselle to' the footloose wolves of "Fancy Free, with the first performance here la several years of Spectra of the Rose thrown In for good measure. Up to Its customary high' performance standard, the company this season reflects the discipline which has maintained it as an Integrated and smooth Iyt functioning maohine la the past Some of its Most popular dancers did not com west with the company this time.

Hugh Lnlnga name is notably abeeat from the program roster, and Marjorie Tallchief is, temporarily in sick bay with a sprained ankle. review But several have been brought here by the although none, was presented last night It is pleasant to feel again the sens of intimacy allowed by the smaller stage, after viewing the dancers scroll the summertime spaces of the Bowl. The presence of backdrops, toot helps set the mood for a ballet in a way not possible in the large amphitheater. Robert Zeller, 26-year-old ba-toniat has been engaged to re-plaoe Antal Dorati, who la now conductor of tha Dallas Symphony. Mola Zlatia remains with the company.

Lastjtight was practically all Markova's, sines the impression she made as tha fey and tormented Giselle1 was not dispelled even by the slaphappy gambolling! of Jerome Robbins three sailors mi the prowL Her alight, almost bodyless little figure, the tenderness of her dancing and tha. virtuosity which animates whatever she does, make her performances invariably fins, and when lent to such a role as Giselle, endow It with greatness. Equal honors go to Anton Dolin, in the role of Albrecht These two dancers never 'give less than their best and- their best is matched by none. Nora Kay made a commanding fig ure of the Queen of the Wilis. Eglevsky danced the Spectre of the Rose.

There are roles to which he la better suited. He Is too heavily built to have the necessary fluidity of line and buoyancy. Michael Kidd, John Krlza and newcomer Tommy Rail were the three Irrepressible tailors ef the concluding "Fancy Free..