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Daily News from Los Angeles, California • 31

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ROMANCES -G, OCCASIONALLY, will show you icsnei from John," with Helen Hayei, Frank McHugh, Robert Important motion picturai to bo released in the Walker and Dean Jagger. It marks Misi Hayes' future This one is from Paramount's "My Son, return to the screen after a lL Music review GROWING TEPID Gable love rumor hits cold wave By. ERSKINE JOHNSON EXCLUSIVELY YOURS: A chill has descended on Clerk Gables freshened-up-romance with Virginia Grey. Pals who predicted a quick marriage when Gable was un-Sylvla-ed are now looking fool- iah about the whole thing. Maybe Virginia just doesn't like Ike like Cable's been shouting.

The talk of an impending breakup between Jane Russell and Bob Waterficld baa never been so high-geared. Long overdue, the tongue waggers. insist, with some i eye- bugging reasons civciii The Hollywood models who know -her best say that Barbara Preking t1 i will never wed I dress designer Oleg Cassini, I -4X whos about to be divorced by I 'v Gene Tierney, I checked with GABLE Sylvia Sidney just befors she left for New York: after completing Les Misersbies, on whether shell marry a gala after her divorce from Carle toa Alsop. Her answer: Theres a good chance. Where theres life, there's love.

Ann Sothern to Jack Carson oa her low cut cocktail dress: A dress is llks.a picket fence it protects ths but doesn't obstruct the view. Theres a hilarious plot line to Cary Grants next at Fox, Darling, Am Growing Younger. Ho plays a scientist who accidentally discovers a reversion to youth formula and winds up roller skating and playing cowboys and Indiana with the kids. How about some stilt walking Cary's first stage profession? Stanley Kramer's spiking talk that the Rex Harrlson-Llil Palmer co-starrer, Hie Four Foster," coat peanuts because of its one-set and cast of two. Tbs final coat sheet, says Stanley, added up to 8850,000.

Rosemarie Reid, the bathing suit designer; her three children, a maid, her sister-in-law and her mother all eloped to Las Vegas with Danny Malloy, singer and aunt man for John Wayne. Corinne Caivet, the luscious French pastry, and Zaa Zsa Gabor, tha blond Hungarian man-killer, finally met in the Fox studio cafe after weeks of hurling' barbs at one another in newepw -per interviews. Oorinnea account of the event! It was very peaceful. Everyone was horribly disappointed Zsa Zsa suggested that we carry on the battle on her TV show. But Im afraid to do that because might let myself go.

Corinnea long hair frequently tumbles down over one eye, but shes denying any attempts at. a Veronica Lake eye-hiding coiffur Darling, she let It fly, Im not hiding ANYTHING! Fox has scheduled a movie titled Something for the Birds With Walter Pidgeon directed by Howard Hawks? Its eye-popping, thats what It Is, but Errol Flynn wants to team Show on Earth' HOWARD McCLAY Earth, now at tha Orpheum and Warner is Cecil B. DeMille's loud and lavish who make up the exciting world of r'iifr 1 I I I -It Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra By MILDRED NORTON Some half dozen years have passed since Nathan-Mllsteins violin srtiatiy has highlighted a concert by the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra, and so his return -here this week as soloist for the Dvorak A minor. Concerto lent heightened Interest to a program last night which was again under the baton of Alfred Wallenstein. The Thursday evening portion I ij S' 0 -t of this weeks subscription pair was sponsored by the All College Philharmonic Forum and so quite a number of seats were taken care of In this fashion, although there was by no means house th should be at jjL SfcTiOM MU command and a bravura sweep that did not neglect any refinements of fingering and phrasing, and with an expressive bow that was equally etoquerit in a dramatic first movement which arched tranquilly to a songful adagio and in the spirited rondo measures of a concluding Furl ant in which Dvorak always the passionate Chech reminded us of his vigorous homeland.

The orchestra under Wallenstein cooperated energetically, and the players, especially violins, added their own spproval to that of the audience as Milstein took his bows. Some eight or so variations on the 17th century German chorale, Lobe den Herren, written by the resident composer Wilbur Cheno-weth in memory of his son who died in 1948 at the age of 16, proved to be interesting variants on the robust hymn using the various orchestral choirs with some resource and effectiveness. If not all of the variations were equally worked out, they Included a lament of moving emotional ower, some nice contrapuntal interplay and an engaging fUghetta that wound up in a dramatic restatement of the original chorale tune. The composer took a bow for his work, which was received very warmly. Brahms Second Symphony, in major, formed the concerts latter lialf, in a performance that was vigorous but rather coarse-grained.

The strings this time showed to better advantage, but the brass and woodwind choirs are no longer the virtuoso units they were a season or so ago. DISAGREEMENT Raymond Massey and enjoying popular run at Globa, Ritz and Vogua ory Peck are at odds in "David ana theaters. Susan Hayward has the feminine lead. Film review every one of these concerts. thunderous Ovation, however, greeted the slender, personable fiddler at MILSTEIN the conclusion of the concerto, which Is a big, melodious, strongly romanUc work, rich in Invention and the engaging sonorities of Its Bohemian com' poser.

Milstein was in superb form and played It with brilliance, elan and the assurance of one thoroughly at home In his task. If it Is true that this piece has not previously been performed on these concerts It seems incredible, for it Is a durable and substantial staple of the repertory, and has even been recorded by Milstein for RCA Victor under Antal Dorati. Milstein makes an excellent choice for the soloist, since he has both the tone and the temperament to do it Justice. Dvorak wrote it for Joachim, a fiddler who was able to hold his own against any competition from the orchestra, and the music is heavily orchestrated, particularly in the strings, which could easily submerge a less assertive solo talent. played it with sure 'The Greatest By Th Greatest Show on Bros.

Beverly Hills theaters, celluloid tribute to the performers sawdust and popcorn the cln- upwlth Charlie Chaplin In an la- Ringling A Bailey a aerialist who Is In love mmH Th irHnt rn the she dependent movie. The script calls MARIA ANTONIETA PONS, rhumba and mambo queen, now headlining tha stage show at the Million Dollar theater. for them to play brothers. Oh, well, Hollywoods always said that theres a little of Chaplin in1 Errol and a little of Errol in Chaplin. George Dolenz, who hasn't made a movie since Vendetta, wrote a Dear Howard letter to Howard Hughes asking for release front his contract No answer to date.

Jack Beutels hearing ia now 100 per cent The shattered eardrum that partially deafened him has completely healed. Its full movie steam ahead for with manager. However, cools off momentarily when she discovers he. has replaced her in center, ring with a big name foreign trapeze artist Her injured pride forces her to take up with her aerial rival. Meanwhile, an elephant girl has turned her attentions to tha manager, which rouses the Ira of an elephant trainer with ideas'-of his own about the girt This triangle, or rather parallelogram, causes ths trainer to Join a plot with an ousted sideshow l-Wl A fa.

4 y. i gambler to halt the train and rob George Raft now that hes Junked Vs A I ii aided and abetted master show man DeMille In hla Technicolored phantasmagoria, and the combined result Is ample proof that the circus certainly found ths right man to bring its atory to America's movie-going public. Probably nobody but DeMille could have captured the robust flavor of the circus and accorded It the production quality it right' ly deserves. And any doubt about the film being a big production will soon fade away after youve watched DeMille's actors from Hollywood and Sarasota Jump, swing, yell, cry, laugh and occs' sionally act for 2 hours and S3 minutes. In an Introductory commentary to the film by DeMille himself he says, Wa bring you the circus! a tinsel and spun candy world of reckless beauty and mounting laughter, and whirling thrills of rhythm, excitement and grace, of daring and blaring and dance, of high-stepping horses and high flying stars And then he painstakingly turns his words into sound and action, telling ths story of the circus with meticulous detail.

It becomes, in effect, a photographic record of Ringling A Bailey's 1951 show in winter quarters and on the road. However, the plot is not quite as stupendous as the films subject matter, but in this case 'any plot would look anemic against such red corpuscle production. Briefly, the story unfolded In The Greatest' Show on Earth-deals with a circus managers firm conviction that he can make the circus show profit on a full season run, Respite ths decision of the owners to curtail the itinerary. He finally gets the nod to go full steam ahead with the extended run. Romance, If you can call It that, gets Into ths footags In ths form A j- his retirement blueprint He will star in movies to be made in London and Rome before the year la out I dont know what it signifies, but you can buy Dick Continos accordion records at ths reduced price of 29 cents per platter at a Hollywood drugstore.

Warners said NO to Maureen O'Hara's request to borrow Stevo Cochran as her leading man for her first Independent movie, Jehad. Watch for Steve and Heddy Lamarr as a new twosome, by the way. There's a buss that Mickey Rooney will Join Betty Hutton and Donald O'Connor Paramount Look, Ms, Im Dancing. The very thought of all that combined energy makes me tired. The names of Peter Lawford and Rocky Cooper are being en twined again on the grapevine.

Jean Simmons contract tangle with RKO has producer David Rose hoping. He's ready to star Jean in Toilers of the Sea the tha cashiers car. This sinister action results in a mammoth train wreck, a technical masterpiece in itself. But In the true spirit of the show must go on, the performers extricate themselves from the litter of dead and wounded, round up the animals and piece together enough pacsphemslia to put on an outdoor shdw. A lot of the action and acting in Greatest Show la too dramatically emphasized, but sines the circus deals with magnitudes, these exaggerations Just become jart of the story.

Dont let comparative evaluations spoil the real Joy you'll derive from witnessing this entertainment spectacle. Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Dorothy Xjamour, Chariton Heaton and Gloria Graham head the cast, with special credit given to James Stewart, who plays the part of a clown. It would be futile to list all of the enthusiastic players in the film, including actual circus Aarf XK 1 4r A -nXfv Tf '-A but everyone, from the moment she leaps into the to the bottom, acquitted them- lance class, selves nobly, I Note from a Max Factor pres Th same goes for the technical agent: Edgar Bergen Just or- staff and anyone else connected dered a plne-and-cedar-scented co-with making The Greatest Show logne for Charlie McCarthy and on Earth one of the greatest en- a new-mown-hay fragrance for tertalnment values to hit the Mortimer d. Something screen in years. smells here, boys.

i CONGRATULATIONS Will Wright compli- their rendition of long number in "Tlis Las Vegas menfs Hoagy Cermichsel end Jane Russell on Story," now at Panfagei. and HiHstraet theaters..

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