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JUlt, 1 LOS 7 oetny tftezi sAiuttAr apiil it, im I DIANA VAN DYNE returns to' the runway of the Burbank theater in her ecdysiastic "shiiomy, shaking' dance routines. EDWARD BROMBERG hat the title role of "Yolpone," Ace tors' lab production, opening Tuesday at Las Palmas theater Ki, review 'Gilda By VIRGINIA WRIGHT "Gilds 'la dim novel atuff, dreMod to the hilt Ite cluttered melodrama tio plot hue been cov- red bp director Charlea Vidor 'with a rich, glossy patina, and the performer! go through their motiona with an lmpaaaloned testensity designed to. obscure 'the almost total abeence of lorlo. 1 1 don't mean to imply that roull be bored by the new film ait the Hillatreet and Pantages. Overlook the confuilon of plot and the loose, ends and you'll vfuid dlveraiona to keep you Swake.

1 Chief among these, of course, Rita Hayworth Columbias. answer to Howard Hughes. This the day of exposure, Hiss has been gowned by jean Louis in line with 1 the times, but what she does in a gown is an art all her own. Hayworths sultry, hair tossing performance reaches its peak in a number called Tut the Blame on Mame, a song by Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher in the fine tradition of This is the theme song of the girl who marries an Ar- gentine millionaire on the bound from an American gam bler, but retains tier tramp -standing in- a -vain -effort. -to make her former suitor jealous.

It isn't possible in this short to take you through the labyrinth of a 1 1 in this Harion Pareonnet script. Bift i-the millionaire runs a gambling casino as a blind for his activi-jieq as head of a cartel. "Con-essential materials and you nan rule the world is his motto. l-He is constantly shadowed jn wthis strange piece of fiction by a member of the Argentine police, who expresses the oddly mocratic sentiment that he doesn't like to see anti-trust jaws The crooked American gambler becomes th Argentinians assistant and heir to his possessions. He has.

no qualms about helping the man in his mad plana to control the but hes a thorough moralist, appar-, ently, when it comes to the matter of a womans virtue. Once his hose has married his former girl friend (unknowingly, of Course) he makes it his job to bee that she behaves herself. He even goes so far aa to marry her, when he thinks the boss IFilm 111 EucaK have the' leading in "Ramona," the dramatization, of its Tint -postwar performance tonight in Ramona Bowl near Hemet. For the of the squares who dont know what all this Be Bop business is about myself -included Harry (Hie Hipster) Gib eon "put the story, down between shows at tha Orpheum theater yesterday. a V.

To some Harry him self explain Be Bop-, at least not the Be Bop that all the slick magazines and child welfare organizations- are taking so 'seriously. Tm a comedian, he' declared, "and everything I do. I do for Borne peopl's musicians hipsters Included' have taken It seriously 'Most of the1 people'-in the' know, however, just think Her-' tys. words and phrases, "groovs-orooney," which ha scatters through his speech, are Mildred Norton review 'The Way Ahead9 lev JOE PASTERNAK producing Msrdi-Grss of Stan for tho -benefit of veterans' housing at tha CoKsaum, May9. IF i inm 'Four newts9 By KAAREN SPRAGER Tour Hearts, the new Soviet musical which opened yesterday at the Grand theater, provides a pleasant hours entertainment featured by soma lilting.

musio and easy, natural performances ala concerned. by the four principals The story, however, Is rather obvious and everyone knows from the moment that the lead-, ing nun rams his motorcycle Into the leading lady's bicycle that, the numerous, and complex love mlxups will, turn out all righti- Konstantin Yudin's, lively direction keeps the flaws in the scenario hidden by playing up the enjoyable comedy, sequences. Valentina Serova is forbidding In the early, part' of -the' fllnr -as a woman'matlrinv' atructor.who thinks love Is silly. She. doss a particularly ing job of projecting the dissolution of her aloof The man who wins her heart Is played by Eugene Samoilov who combines proper' amounts of humor, and under-tending in the effective charac terization of his dashing Ludmilla Tsellkovskaya and' Peter Springfeld, aa the younger Bister' and her art effective In the comedy bite.

MARIA. PALMER Nazi agent in atomic bomb drama, Render vous 24," to bo irolaasad soon. By DAVID HANNA Filmgoers who expect motion' pictures to be as timely 'as a newspaper will find "The Way Ahead, a British importation at the Laurel theater, somewhat lata In reaching these shores. HENRY BRANDON and Juanita the famed California legend in Is dead, 1 then absents himself and sees that other men do the same, to keep her faithful to a corpse. Flimsy as all this material 1 may be, Vidor has directed the action as If it were the tensest kind of melodrama, and he had good support from Glenn Ford, the somber American, and GeorgS Hacready, the Joseph Callela, as the unlikely member of the Argentina police force, and 'Steven Geray, the "philosophical mens room at-.

tendant are good, too. If it was producer Virginia Van Upps Idea to hootthia pic-i- ture without background music, then she deserves a' standing vote of thanks. Except for the underscoring of the final reconciliation scene, and thats an in- the only music comes naturally from carnivals, night- dubs, It is an enormous relief to hear dialog spoken without the accompaniment of a symphony orchestra. "The Wfcr Ahead deals with a handful of men. It takes them-through their training, then aboard a transport which is torpedoed from under' them.

Primed for the North African Invasion they are ordered instead to Gibraltar. There they sweat-jt draws-to its climax a single unspectacular skirmish but just as vital in the broad strategical pattern as any of the battles which recorders one day will call "colorful The events that came after North Af rlca write the finish to Way Ahead a conclusion that -is Infinitely more effective than any that might be conjured up on It is aff motion of the democratic heritage and a warning that, the common people of the world have earned and will insist on their right to peace. David 'Niven is the single player familiar to American 1 film audiences. In his role of an officer who comes up from the ranks, he gives a highly satisfactory account, of himself. Billy Hamell Is superb as a sergeant "regular and the rest of the-cast is composed of equally talented actors.

Quentin Reynolds Appears at the beginning of the picture reading a prologue and his voice is heard again at the finish. The commentator seems an unnecessary appendage to a noteworthy screen drama. suppose, though, Its incorporation stemmed front the realization that "Tha Way Ahead deala with iuch an early phase of the war. Also billed at tha Laurel theater is "Its Love oo tarring Jesse Matthews 'and Robert Young. luring a program, proceeds which.

will go to. the phans of Biro Bidjan. Sunday evening, the Behymer Artist Bureau presents 'violinist Alex Murray In recital at the WQshire-Ebell theater. Shibley Will assist at the keyboard In first performances of Milhauds "Danses de Jacaremirim and a-Sonatina by Gail Monday Evenings I. on the Roof presents works by Zoltan Kodaly and Ingolf Dahl, as well as the Weber Trio, opus 65, -and a concerto by Johann' Christian Bach.

Thursday, Giuseppe de Luca, onetime Met baritone who recently made a Town Hall comeback after several years In retirement abroad, will appear concert at Pasadena Civic Friday night' the Los Angeles Light Opera co. will open its ninth annual season here with -a production of Rudolf Frimls "The Vagabond King at Philharmonic auditorium. Feature of the revamped perennial favorita will be the composer playing, an Entracte piano eon-' certo on theme from the musical. John Tyers and Dorothy Barnoff head the cast.1 Next Saturday evening, veteran thespian Paul Bara toff will celebrate 45 years before the footlights of the Russian Jewish stage. A jubilee program, ing on the talents of a score of resident artists, will be pres-' anted in' his honor at the WH-fhlra-Ebell theater, under aegis of Mary Bran.

ELOISE MACK can niaht in brilliant bursting eck-edc dance in the current shew at the Follies theater. Hollywood film composers have now banded together to form theft Screen Composers a group organized to cope with what they feel are unjust conditions facing their craft today. Among these are the present operation of film employment contracts and the A8CAP system of royalty distribution and membership requirements. The film composers think they should havs some voice id' what becomes of the music they compose. A majority of producers insist upon owning all the rights to the music written for their films.

This is all right with the composers, in those dues whets the producer is willing to have the music published and kept before the public. But too often the music is merely shelved and never heard They also feel that, Hollywood tenures being, what-, they are, the composers are entitled to guarantee of royalty add performing rights Income In their later life. In Europe, performing rights societies allocate a portion of cinema performance -receipts to the composer, provided he is a member; otherwise his shard goes to the publisher member. Since over 60 per cent of com- posers are non-mefitbers they 1 cannot share unless the producer agrees to split receipts. This, say the film composers, the producers have uniformly declined to do.

Unlike the foreign performing rights societies, A8CAP requires "that at least one piece of music published, before he id eligible for 1 membership. Film music is hence many film, composers are excluded from membership and-the possibility of deriving any performance revenue either from for-. eign countries or from the picturie houses in this country licensed by ASCAP. International Music dept. tint Intematlon- 1 al Music department has been established by Enterprise Productions, who have engaged artiste representative Rudolph.

Polk to represent them in obtaining talent. Polk will establish contact of-' flees in several European and South Ahnerlcan cities, in order to bring conductors, composers and instrumentalists to Hollywood to -work on forthcoming Enterprise films. Musical calendar 1 This weekend and next, young Southern California school musicians will gather at Occidental college in the 11th annual South-era California Band and Orchestra festival. Tonight, dance mlms Angna Enters number of new sketches as part of her pro- i gram at Philharmonic auditor- -ium The 22nd annual Icor -concert will be held at Strauss auditorium, 21S N. Soto fea- 9 aa ha meant them to "I make up a new word sv-j ery time I sing a song just for the laughs it will bring, he ex- plained.

Technically, Be Bop defines' a' style of musie played by small bands in the dubs on 52nd it. In New York. All of the instruments play the same melodic line, without harmony, by a rhythm section. As the mood strikes, individual instru- mentalists will Improvise a solo. Many of.

the musicians those bands cannot read music -and those who can, sing 1 the melody to them, using tbs words "Be Bop those words particularly because they adapt them-: elves to the steady rhythm which la characteristic of tha style. Tm known as a Be Bop" sing-: er -Harry said, "because I use that method to accompany my- -self when I Actually, Harry's- style is much more varied than Another phrase which, could de--scribe it is stream-of -conscious- ness, for a large part of his consists of playing and singing 1 anything that happens to pop into his mind. His routine has been developed only during the past two and a half years, and the whole thing. was just -a matter of chance. He had been working as an intermission pianist in a 52nd st.

club in New York to pay for a practice course at Julliard-- echool-of-mustor Earl Wilson heard him. sing a ditty he wrote one night, a satire on- himself "Beautiful Harry the Hipster The' next day, Wilson gavs him, a plug in his column, dubbing. him, Harry the Hipster. is derived from the jive word "hip which means much the same thing as "hep.) After the Wilson publicity, his act became mors comedy and leea When he came to California nine months ago, Harry found that most people didnt under-, stand his songs which were, about the habits and character- istics of 52nd st. habitues.

That, prompted him to tell a little story and explain his songs be-' fore he sang them. Ibis patter, has become a distinguishing feature of his routines. So havs the acrobatics and' jupnplng around he does when he is playing. call that physical entertain-' meqt It has form 'and action. I use It only as a contrast to my he declared.

His vocal style Is always adapted to the song ha is performing at the moment per forming rather than singing for he acts out etch word. Tm as much a ham as a lie admitted. Right he' is planning to take a flyer into musical comedy and build a. style, which has wider appeal than Be Bop. Yet as a documentary drama of a democracys preparation for War The Way Ahead is an Ageless -story which bears In- jspection not only now when the f-jUagedy of World war II is 1 fresh in our 'stand revival years ahead.

The English film, meticulous '1gttsavoidance of-Hollywood-heroics and refreshingly simple its few romantic touches, Is a straightforward account of. events beginning with the nalye ffpeace In our time era and. leading up to the start of the European invasion. In a-series of clipped, effec-tive sequences director Carol Reed Introduces his protagonists, each representative of a differ- but: can uncertain but all bound together by woeful ignorance of their precarious situation. We meet the store clerk fears conscription because of its effect on his wife, the spoiled rich- lad who visualizes military regimentation as a personal affront, the minor -executive who questions the sagacity of "call-- ing up one so vital aa himself.

Even after Dunkirk, there is little patience with the exasper-sa of ating inconveniences of civilian life or the rigors infantry training. The almost inhuman, demands the army makes on mind and body form a never ending source of complaint, bit-' terness and anxiety. 1 But when it is over, when the mock battles are finished, the obstacle courses forgotten, a soldier is born. As one character puts it no one knows how. Misfits all, the common bond of pulsion and an inner awak-g of spirit, merges them the civilian army that broke the.

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