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-IPictnrized All the Kings Men? NO. 2 AS CRAWFORD'S ACTIONS and slogans diverge more end more because of his political ambitions; his own son, John Derek, comes to despise his (ether. Crawford insists his son play in football gam although he is injured. Derek is crippled for life as result. Now, Pontages, Hillstreet.

NO. I MAN OF THE PEOPLE Broderick Crawford is elected Sovernor with the help of literary hatchet men John Ireland and is aggrassiva secretary and mistrass Mercedes'' McCambridge. Earl -Wilson went up to kc Vaughn Monroe, alias Nasal Nose, Muscle (tat. Fog Voice, Leather Lungs, Lung and the Million Dollar Tiotone, "How do you take all this kid-! -Ml ding aaked 1 the big fellow, who comes from Akron, one of my many home towns. I don't particularly like it," said Vaughn.

"Some of these disc jockeys use me as a gimmick to get calls. "If a guy says stinks and breaks a record, his switchboard lights up. Some of the guys are sincere, though." Vaughn, a tall, big-shouldered, unsmiling gent, very serious about life, leaned back in his room at the Statler and said: "Might as well make use of it They're going to do it anyway. "There's a guy in Sioux Falls. He ran a contest for a way for Vaughn Monroe to slit his throat He got three bushels of razor blades.

"I went cm his program one I was tired and got real I People said, Oh boy, waa rjlad you gave it to him! What type of voice do you have?" I asked him. "Bass baritone, Vaughn said. Once at Hotel Commodore during the war an. Army captain aekrd me to his table. "He said, just wanted to see what a bastard baritone looked "I said, 1 don't know whether to hit you or not "So he said, 'We couldnt decide whht your voice was so we decided you are a bastard After that they got chummy.

Monroe a real farm boy who went to country school at Harts Corners, O. is in earnest about his singing. He'd lived In Cudahy, then In Jeannette, and, he saids never even thought of singing till I was 17. "One day the teacher heard me hummin along with the hymns and asked me to join the choir. "Well, I studied voice at Carnegie Tech and in Boston, and for a long time I wouldn't touch popular music.

VT was gonna try to be an opera Uiwsughn Isn't surprised that guys don't like him. "I was like that. I met my wife In Jeannette. "On Friday when she had date with me, she had to atop and listen to Russ Oolumbo! "One of my idols was Rudy Vallee. Ten liked him to one that didn't.

But in Boston they threw grapefruit at him. "So it happens to me now. A fellow comes up to me and says, 1 think you 'stink but my girl likes "Some people just dont understand me. If you don't understand something, you dont like it." Vaughn has finished a western Picture, "Singing Guns," a fujl-ength one in which he wears cowboy boots. "I hate to think, he aaid, what the critics are going to do to me cn that" Earl's Pearls Ernestine Mercer, the Latin Quarter singer from Texusass quotes Taffy Tuttles line to Bruno.

Taffy says, "I'm dying to go to Europe I hear its so continental. TODAYS BEST LAUGH: Win fjr County Fair" m. wen'; a doc about a head cold, The doc told him to go home, take a hot bath, and sit naked by an open window. "But Id get pneu monia said Win. "Sure," aaid the doc, pneumonia we can cure, WISH I'D SAID THAT: Lou Simon: "Many an executive is a man." at! wwsjj t' i A W'f OV -Y- i- Av fciu -if NO.

A CRAWFORD MEETS VllS PUNISHMENT when Joanne Dru's doctor-brother, Shepperd Strud-wick, kills him and is in turn shot by Crawford's trigger-happy bodyguard. Crawford has left behind hiip the wrecked lives of all the people with whom ha has coma in contact on his path to power. e- NO. 3 ENAMORED OF JOANNE DRU, Crawford appoints tier undo. Raymond Greenleaf, attorney genaraL When Greenleaf opposes him, Crawford threatens to smear him and ha commits suicide.

Stage review Vaudeville By MARIE MESMER Impersonator Sybil Korea high applause this week on the Orpheum bill even though all the acta are This talented gal springs on -cl iV V-Jfj SA. if- -5 'ai the audience, "And how do you doy Westbrook Pegler." Her 'Marlene Dietrich" delights. With an ample display of her limbs, she coos about loff. Hildegarde, Ethel Merman and Beatrice Lillie all get the works In the Bowan style. Miss Bowan's timing Is beautiful Even when she flits to her dresser for a change of costume, the interlude is styled as an entertaining part of the act.

The gal explodes with showmanship. The noted juggler Jerge Flash had a rough spot following Miss Bowan at yesterdays matinee. He did well, but Miss Bowan moves to the closing act at later performances. She just cant be topped, that'a alL Casa, Owen and Topsy are a good team of tumblers. They do tha craziest tricks.

The Budgets, a puppet act, is also perky presentation. Robert Maxwell treats the harp aa an all-around Instrument, playing hillbilly, boogie woogia and classical turna. If orchestrations permit, his act could stand mors musical background support. Vet' rah performers Will and Gladys Ahem are back on the Orpheum stand with their engaging rope dancing and gags. Phil and Dotty Phelps perform tricky balancing stunts.

Noble and King, a duo singing team, didnt dick with me. A1 Lyons handles the baton this week for Rene Williams, who Is on vacation. Lyons is well liked by audiences. lie was given I reception yeeterday that undpubt ediy wanned bis heart. Creighton Poet NEW YORK, Nov.

Special -Three new membership groups showing special films mostly documentaries and revivals have appeared recently, and a quick count reveals' the amazing fact that every month some 33,000 persons attend such showings In this city, fhis does not include the foreign language films shown commercially, eitIier The World Documentary the ater, another outfit which has just started, offers three programs for 83.60 in a small hotel theater. It is drawing about 2000 to each pro-' gram. In addition to three wretchedly-photographed Items from Soviet- controlled areas, it had a British animated cartoon on town planning, and a really beautiful piece from Canada, in color, called The Loon's Necklace. It la a highly stylized Indian story In which all" the actors wear Indian masks. The star attraction of all the.

special films have seen, however, is a Danish fantasy by Astrid Hennlng-Jensen called "Palle, Alone In the World." The cast consists of one little boy about 4 years ofage who wakes up one morning to find hlnuelf absolutely alone In a big city which, presume, is Copenhagen. Streets, houses and building are deserted. Quite unconcerned, palle seta out to look things over. Down the street he finds a trolley car, also completely empty. He goes aboard, takes himself on a wild, careening ride, smashes into an- a other car, gets out dusting his hands, and goes off.

Same thing with a fire engine. In a deserted bank he' plays listlessly with piles of paper money, but takes a fancy to coins. In a big, glossy hotel he goes to the empty kitchen and mixes a big mess In a kettle. At an airport he W'trms up a big four-engine job, and soon is zooming through the clouds. AU the while you watch- Ms face as It fills with delight, fear, worry and concentration.

Finally his plane goes up, up, up and crashes into the moon. But getting home ia a cinch. He uses his umbrella as, a parachute, and keeps falling, falling, falling until he falls out of bed. The charm of this freah and Ingenious picture is due to the boy's unconscious performance and the fact that real city streets, buildings, were' used. 'How Jensen cleared the streets of Copenhagen of all people to do this would be something to find out.

Leader in the special film field is the Museum of Modern Arts excellent Film Library which, for many years has had two showings every day lif the week In its tiny auditorium, with never an empty eat It concentrates on revivals. Of the new groups, Cinema 16, which sticks to documentaries, and ia now In Its third year, has had the greatest success. Members pay 310 for eight showings a season, mostly held ia a high school auditorium. In all about 5000 mo each program, in four showings. At a recent showing of Cinema 16, which 1 attended, some 1500 were present.

Five films were shown, not one of which would have been acceptable la a commercial house and yet people were obviously enthusiastic. The word "entertainment" can mean many things. The first short was "Feeling All Right," made for the Mississippi Board of Health with an all-Negro cast It is about syphilis. Chiefly Its purpose Is to break down the rural Negro's fear of doctors and hospitals. Despite its subject It Is neither morbid nor clinical but rather hopeful and the tone is cheerful.

Other' films were "Explosions on the Sun, made by Harvard astronomers, Jorls 'Irens film about a vast engineering project In Holland, "New Earth," and an East Indian dance film. Finally, there was an experimental French film by Pierre Courtade about a French revolution of 1848. He has developed a curious technique. He uses noth lng but prints and woodcuts of the period, to which he has added sound effects and a running com mentary. Static pictorially, It ia a great deal mors effective than you might think.

With proper sounds one fancies he can ms the drawings move. Why do people like curious programs such' as this one 7 It does not fit either Hollywood's or Broadway's formulas. think their appeal Is similar to that of newspapers and picture maga zincs. People are crazy for facta these days. 'AH the King's Men9 By EZRA GOODMAN "All the King's Men," the Columbia release at the Pantages and Hillstreet, Is right royal celluloid about a man of the people" who goes from democratic Ideals to dictatorship.

This plcturization of Robert Penn Warrens Pulitzer prize novel should cop its share of prizes, too. It is faithful to the book and also faithful to Its obligation to audience intelligence. "All the Kings Men" Is moviemaking at Its best. It moves both on the physical and mental planes. It has something to say and says it with the kind of technique the screen has not seen since "Citizen Kane." The Warren tome told of Willie Stark, a southern hick whose silver tongue led himNto political gold as governor of the state.

He started out on a platform of "My study Is the heart of the people" and Soak the fat boys and spread it out thin." But in his rise to power he dumped the humanitarian aspirations which won him the vote and developed Into a home-grown American Adolph. He built power dams, colleges, football stadiums, hospitals, roads and libraries but his theory was the people be damned. A bullet put an end to a career that looked toward Washington and maybe beyond. All the kings horses and all the kings men. could not put Willies machine back together again.

In the movie, the setting has switched to an unnamed mid west city, although the resemblance to Huey Long la more than coincidental But beyond that, the picture is an incisive study of politics, power tnd the corruptibility of mankind. As such. It becomes a tragic drama on the higher, human leveL There are many memorable moments In' the movie. The Kene where Willie first realizes his gift of gab and the hold It has on the populace as well as the turbulent assassination sequence are particularly stirring cinema. The Kenes at aristocratic Burdens landing where Willie brings corruption into a tranquil, sylvan setting serve to counterpoint the more rough-and-tumble stretches.

The films fadeout. In which two of Willie's followers vow to shatter the Stark legend, Is somewhat Holiywoodish In the happy ending (Continued on Page 38, Col 6) stage with an exuberance that might reflect an overdose of vitamin Bl. From her first impres- sion of a heavy-weight Swedish 1 nightingale, Ml nt Bowan hits show 'W5I, stride through-out In her rep- I ertoire. everyone As-is needled with satirical wit in-eluding Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt Says Miss Bowan, waving her kerchief to Maxwell jjf At Tfc'- I Liff yZS WiM DULY KEYS, LOS AN6ELES m-i i rtf.

kb i A JUNE HAVOC wants to braak har parole, but Cathy Lawis advises against it In "Tha Story of MoHy prison malodrama opening tomorrow at tha Unitea Artists, Ritx, Vogue and Studio City. THURSDAY, HOY. 17, 1M 35.