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'REAR WINDOW' TOP THRILLER FLYING HIGH is Mary Martin, top musicomedy sprinkle fairy dust is Cyril Rif chard (R, standing), star, who opens here in "Peter Pan" Tuesday night 'while Robert Harrington (L) Kathy Nolan and at the Philharmonic Auditorium. Watching her Bucko Stafford follow Martin on gossamer wings. KID STAR ALFALFA BLOOMS AGAIN It's hiss stuff from beginning to end. NBC censors scissored Alan Youngs "Saturday Night Re-vue" sketch about a man who cant fy a -nightclub bill and telephones pals desperately from the washroom. Alan, never before accused of blue material, wasn't happy about It two-hour lunch periods Esther Williams takes dont add up to "exhausted" rumors.

It's been in her contract for years Susan Cabot, the UI glamour doll, will get a recording contract Now Its Yvonne de Carlo, authoress. Shes written a movie treatment of a space opera comedy MAYBE THERE'S a lesson for Hollywood in nightclub warbler Pearl Bailey's theories about money and billlng-Mwo little words that cause more trouble in Hollywood than anything else. "Billing," says PearL "means nothing. Money nothing. You achieve nothing with billing and money.

They trap you. You find yourself doing the same thing over and over." It's the kind of talk that has made Pearls agents reach for the smelling salts, but by now, she tells it, they know she means every word of It. She'll come out on. the losing end by. cancelling nightclub dates to play comedy lead In "Carmen Jones and she Intends to let more money go down the drain when she stars on Broadway this fall in "The House of Flowers." AS PEARL looks at It: 1 started out to achieve something as an actressy then I got turned around at some point.

All of a sudden I decided that Id rather do drama like Ethel Waters than make a lot of mbney. You cant keep the money anyhow." Sign on an electric golfmoblle at the Irvine Coast Country Club: "CADDY LACK. comes the perfect arrangement for Hitchcock to spin his suspense yarn. We get intimate glimpses of Miss Lonely Hearts (Judith Evelyn), Miss Torso (Georgine Darcy), a songwriter (Ross Bagdasarian) and, many others. The temperature is high as we get a "Grand Hotel" perspective on everyone.

As Stewart fights his boredom his wealthy fiancee, smoothly portrayed by Grace Kelly, tries to convince him that marriage and softer assignments are his future dish. A wise-cracking nurse, enacted in a pleasant but biting fashion by Thelma Ritter, is his only other companion. BUT STEWART, sniffing for news (and some brandy) thinks he spots trouble on the far side of the court. A salesman (Raymond Burr) and his invalid wife (Irene Winston) have been at it with the bitter-word routine. Then amateur sleuth Stewart discovers that the wife no longer occupies the apartment and tlie husband has been making 3 a.m.

trips with a suitcase. Thats all HitMicock and screenwriter John i 1 Hayes let filmgoers in on. The rest is pure deduction, with enough comedy tossed in to permit any possible ending. A cop (Wendell Corey is called in by Stewart as he tries to prove a crime has happened. The result will keep patrons on the edges of their seats with one of the suspense films of the season.

"Y' JP Tb 'gA Vif jv. Jr HONEY HARLOW, one of the best lookers on the strifif circuit, opsns tomorrow at New Follies. rfi a JEAN PETERS is the female lead in thriller, "Apache," with Burt Lancaster at the Fox. Wilshire. f- si W.

I ft HER 12 MEN' IS SOLID COMEDY By RUSS BURTON With Rear Window," which opened last night to the eyes of Ihe public with a dazzling pre-mine at the Paramount Hollywood Theater, Alfred Hitchcock underscored the fact that his name at least in filmdom should be synonymous with uspense. "Rear Window is an exciting peak into the semi-private lives of several individuals, and by mealing only the rtark and the necessary in opening sequences. Director IlitchrucK constructs a mood that builds slowly and steadily and resolves in a climax that bieaks with the fury of a cyclone. liN II1S masterful Job, Hitchcock has improved on most of his other efforts by giving a depth to the puie action line with the addition of a sincere lose element and a comedy line which runs like a warm cur-tent Just under the surface of the tension which is tighter than the hide on a bongo drum. In the lead is Jimmy Stewart, playing the role of a news pho-togiapher confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg.

As he convalesces, his entire world becomes his window, which opens on the inside of a large court suriounded by apartments. II's Interest in his neighbors starts his career as a harmless, curl-us peeping Tom. a THE IMAGINATIVE set (by Sam Comer and Ray Mayer) be OS -i. I HOLLYWOOD AND Grape-VINE: The bad luck that dogs the footsteps of former kiddie stars has lost the scent in the case of Carl (Alfalfa) Switzer, the freckled faced, toothy-grinned kid of the Our Gang comedies. With a minor role in The High and the Mighty and a bigger one an ancient Indian in "Track of the Cat," hes rubbing his.

eyes about film emoting again and wondering what -happened. "I look just like I did when I was a kid," he says. "Its hard for a child actor to start working again. Ive never played a part over 19. Im always a teen-ager and there haven't been many jobs until recently." For the last seven years.

Carls been a bear hunting guide in Sonora County and up around Mount Shasta. He has 18 hound dogs and a couple of movie star customers. Roy Rogers (who got two bears last year) and Henry Fonda. Says the one-time kid star of his newest role: 'Til see how this turns out If this doesn't do it. for me, nothing wilL I go all the way through the picture." JENNIFER JONES has David O.

Selznicks promise that she can try the Broadway stage next year. Its now a matter of the right play Big. quarrel between Pierre Rouge author) LaMure and Pat Clark, a former Warner studio actress, is a current movletown gasp. It started at a party given by Mrs. Philip Yordan No significance to Mona Freemans unexpected flight to Baltimore beyond small daughter Moanie's yen to see her grandmother The Ludovic Kennedy whose play, "Murder Story, will be produced In Londons West End soon is the hubby of ballerina Moira Shearer.

Those talks between John Wayne and Republic big gear Herbert Yates about "The Alamo" must have come to naught Wayne wants the story that he claims he poured money Into, but Frank Lloyd, assigned to direct. is dickering with Gilbert Roland for the role Wayne had staked out for himself. IDA LUPINO Is telling pals she (hay be making the biggest mistake of her career In playing the role of the prison matron In Columbias "Women's Prison." A Si teaching In an exclusive boys school In the Southwest She Is to boot, the only woman teacher in the school and her 12 pupils at The Oaks determine to make her life miserable. Her. efforts to win the respect of her class are made no easier by her superior, Robert Ryan, who shares the boys' belief that a woman should never profane The Oaks' sacred soil BUT MISS Garson fights back through a welter of toads, false fire alarms and all conceivable Indignities woman is heir to.

Ryan and the 12 little men all surrender their hearts to her in the end, and we leave The Oaks with a feeling that future crops of little acorns will be better for her loving care. Barry Sullivan, as a Texas oil millionaire whose son causes most of the trouble, and Richard Haydn, the lend sparkling support to Miss Gar-son and Ryan, who turn in delightful performances. Barbara Lawrence, James Ar-neas, Frances Bergen and Ivan Triesault also appear, plus a gang of youngsters who wont give you a minute's rest. JOHN HOUSEMAN was producer and Robert Z. Leonard directed the screenplay by William Roberts and Laura Z.

Hobson. The second feature at both the Palace and Hawaii is "Security Risk, with John Ireland and Dorothy Malone. By ROY RINGER "Her Twelve Men" Is that rare motion picture to which you can safely expose the whole family. The MGM comedy, which returns Greer Carson to the screen after much too long an absence, is antiseptically free of sex and violence. In their place it offers that almost obsolete commodity entertainment.

FROM THE opening scene until the last, there's nothing to contribute to your Juveniles' delinquency or your own neuritis. On your next family night you can be certain of a good time at the Palace and Hawaii theaters where "Her Twelve Men, in Ansco color, ought to be holding forth for quite a long time. Tills' STORY Is from the Ladies Home Journal series by Louise Baker, and introduces Miss Garson as a sort of female Mr. Mitty. Her childhood dreams had been of spectacular tions.

She saw herself the throng as a circus aerlailst, winning ovations at the Metropolitan as the greatest Brunn-hilde of all time, or signing autographs for trampling mobs as Hollywood's foremost idol. BUT HER life dklnt turn out that way, at alL There was an unhappy marriage, then the death of her husband, and to support herself she turns to 'V- VS-'-'" THINGS GET ROUGH in this sceno from "On MaMsn (L) plays a priest and blond Eva Maria the Ayaterfront" after Marlon Brando (center) has Saint is Brando love iiterest. The smash film is been in the fight of his cinematic career. Karl at' Paramount Downtown, Wiltem, Hollywood..