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i VI lihbock, Avaloneht-Jeumal, Uft. i. If II Gorgeous (And Brainy) Vanessa Brown Is Making A Splash In Literary World rr I i IT ERSKINE raw mm Labor Day Represents Shot Of Adrenalin For industry Entertainment Shakeup Is Due a traffic jam equal to that of Jan. 1 in Pasadena. When the celebration is over, the area settles down to sensible until the next Easter and the" influx of thousands of youngsters holiday bent.

The summer project nearest to Lubbock, (he State Fair Musicals in Dallas, came to a close last Sunday with the final presentation of "Paint 'Your -Wagon" to than'half a house of. paying customers. The season, however, was successful financially and artisr tically. Certainly "Paint Your Wagon" was worth anybody's three bucks and hours. (It would-not be amiss even now for those at the helm of Lubbock's pronosed auditorium to begin negotiations with the Dallas organization to bring the summer musicals here for a two or three-night stand at the of each run in Dallas.

The problem would be the overlapping of practice and 'performance sessions for the permanent chorus. But Lubbock could at least have a try-out engagement of the first offering and- a post-season engagement of the last.1 Labor Day means most, perhaps, to Manhattan. In the past week "Hazel Flagg" with Thomas Mitchell and Helen Gallagher resumed its run after a fjummer vacation, and a revival of "Oklahoma!" with a cast of new stars made it a quartet for Richard Rodgers and Oscnr Hammerstcin II on the Main Stem. The other Rodgers-HammPr- stein offerings arc "South Pacific," "The King and and "Me and Juliet." In recognition of the our productions running New York's designated la'st week! a.s Rodgers and Hammerslein from California Tuesday night. It was a feature of the light opera season in Los Angeles this summer, and th.

stars aje Dolores Gray and John Raitt, neither a newcomer to Broadway. "Carnival" will'- be the fifth important Los Angeles-born show to move from the West Coast to Broadway, Its predecessors have been "Meet the People," "Magdalena" Ear," the last being the variety show which elevated Carol Channing en 11 em en Prefer to stardom. From the straw-hat circuit, which closes down almost entirely at Labor Day, a few new productions may move into "New York. One is "Comin 1 Thro' the Rye," Warren P. Munsell "play with music" which is having a "The and Red Mill," "Lend An By T.

W. BRIDGES Avidanche-Journal StaU Writer i From coast to coast in the Unit- T' lg States, Labor Day brings a in entertainment pattern 'for many millions. It means the 7 end of ouldoor festivals, the fina" curtain on the straw-hat circuits returning to the boards ol Bumerousv musicals and straight plays in the metropolitan centers. means the beginning of a ''cert series in hundreds of local- 2 Jiies, the announcement of the winter's plans almost everywhere. "In a figurative language, Labor Day is a shot of adrenalin in the entertainment industry's arm.

-August is traditionally the bad I month for motion picture theaters, i -It hasn't necessarily been so in iubbock; where the month several sure-fire hits to "the first-run screens. Finding 5 proved difficult at some of the presentations. I To Bolster Receipts 3 opening of Texas Teoh will JS bolster box offices rc- ceipts have been sagging. For, i to see, college people are movie patrons than 'are 3 "ithe staid and settled residents -L-'-with convenient television sets in living rooms. 'The last of the important mer page.ints in California takes I on Labor Day weekend.

It licit, the Festival of Liphts at New- Bay, a hour's drive south of Angeles. The hig'hlight is an 3 parade throjgh the. in" --(IWid channels surrounding exclu- Lido Island and almost as Balboa Island. The floats, literally floating, carry out a theme just as the land- bound floats of a Tournament of Roses parade do. Music from heard from the shore, owns special enchantment, a lure not unlike the strumming of a guitar on the lonely plains, lights, reflected in the ppling waters of (he bay, turn the parade route into Neptune's jd: fairyland.

Cause Traffic Jam one principal disadvan- When the last boat has float- by, too many cars to estimate simultaneously to get out of i on'Sept. 30. agent. resort area. The exodus causes.

1 "Carnival' In Flanders" arrives Carradine says he' settled ali- mony matters with Ardanella two years ago. He since has married Sonia Sorel, an actress. 1 The sheriff's office said Carra- dine left California shortly after i the warrant was issued, and no By ERSKDvE JOHNSON' NBA SUU Correspondent gorgeous Vanessa Brown, following in the footsteps of dolls like Ruth Chattertqn, Ruth Gordon and Patsy Ruth Miller who have made a splash in the literary world, has decided to let Broadway see her first play, "Europa and the Bull," this winter. Kirk Douglas and Barry Sullivan have already been approached to play the male leads. The play is a modern version of the Europa legend.

Vanessa is chuckling: "Funny thing about writing a play is that! was afraid it would start all that talk about my brains again. That hurt me in Hollywood. But since the news came out that I'm a playwright, I'm being asked to pose in ray lowest-cut gowns. I'm beginning to feel like Kathleen Winsor." Scott Brady got i highball tossed in his face at Beverly Hills nitery by the estranged wife a movie star. The beauty tryout in Westport, with (threatened to call the David Brooks, Anna Lee and'' UL Luella Gear in the top Ironically enough, summer theater is taking "The Moon Is Blue" into Maryland where the movie version, seen here recently, is banned.

The play closed a scheduled four-night run Saturday at Braddock Heights and now is extending- the engagement for a week. Actor Arrested On Old Alimony Charge LOS ANGELES old alimony ailment smote John Carra- dinp yesterday hut the Shakespearean actor is free of jail today pending a hearing Oct. '1. less 'the owners invited Scott to leave the premises, Scott left. Exclusively Yours: Despite all the Pollyanna.

talk, Donald O'Connor is Jar from being on side of It was the street when his the sunny healthwise. medics reported that they couldn't reduce his persistent high fever that Paramount decided to replace him with Danny Kaye in the new Bing Crosby picture, "White Christmas." FOX TO BUY CONTRACT EASON for Fox's etforts to buy Janet Leigh's contract from MGM is that the studio intends to follow "Prince with other movies about the young knight. Since Janet is Princess Aleta in the first one and weds Robert in the final reel, VANESSA BROWN Playright With Beauty IVpck: Several new attractions been announced. Anna Russel! and her wood theatre. The warrant was tract from MGM.

VUIJU Bette Davis wiu be posing fof ctions have wll sincc as di i she's on the sunny side of the Comedienne Although the warrant harked i street. Every passing day reduces her variety i back to the 47-year-old actor's all-1 tne ac a i swe iii caused by her -show arc due at the Vandorhiit mony contest his former wife, osteomyelitis. Monday "A Pin to See the Peepshow" with Joan Miller is slated for a Sept. 17 opening. De- lorah.Kerr in "Tea and Sympa- Ardanella.

she said she had noth-i inp to do with his and was I ciaudette Colbert, wiser, in surprised to hear about it. She is ways 0 European movie produc- wrd to Gordon Bennett. an after some DJtter aisappoint- hy" will hit the theater headlines Oakland, manufacturer's i men Si returning to.Hollywood. MIDWAY OPEN 1 P.M. ADULTS 35f PH.

5-9532 CHILD IT'S A FIRST RUN YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY THOSE MADCAP AKE SETTIN' NEW Of AN action had been taken in the courts to withdraw it. Rila Hayworth thought if up, so Dick Haymes wore bow tie tucked under his collar and fancy' bows on his evening pumps while on stage at the Sands in Las Vesras. After watching Marilyn' Monroe's hip swinging, shoulder shrugging and lip curling in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," she gets our nomination as the actress who runs the gamut of motion! Six DeMolay Candidates From Brownfleld Are fiven Degrees BROWNFIELD, Sept, 5 (Special) 'A top stage tragedienne, DeMolay candidates from j(j red many to be the first had initiatory degrees i a( tne theatre, has just I conferred on them at the Vernon undergone drastic plastic surgery Bryant Chapter of DeMolavs; that's taken years and years oil in Lamesa recently. Felix Craw-, ler clasic face, ford presided as Master Coun- i cilor at the- meeting. HOLLYWOOD IRONY As a courtesy to the Brownfield I TRONY of Jack Palance drawing chapter degrees were confevrec: on J.

the starring role in Leonard Mike Hamilton. Ken Muldrow, Nicky Grcer, J.orry Goble. James Sxydloski and Mumford Graham. Several other area hoys also look- initiatory work, including Kenneth Hocker, Welch; Johnny McLaurin, O'Donncll; Billy Gilhreath. Harold Pinkerton and Larry Smith, all of Lamesa.

Visiting Masons accompanying the group from were Gene Wilkerson, Sawyer A. Graham and Harry Goble. BIG, NEW FIRST ADMISSION -j. Dial 2 4537 JL for Feafure Times! SEE History's Most Seductive Woman! Land and Sea Battles That Decided the Fate of the World! Dance of the Vestal Virgins! Orgies of 5 Rome! Love Rites of Egypt! Empires Scenes Beyond Imagin- MOSTSEDU Cecil RDeMille BRENCS YOU HIS MOST FABULOUS MOTION PICTURE! atra rvn HENRY COLBERT WILLIAM WILCOXON JEAN KEITH JOSEPH SCH1LDKRAUT C.AUBREY SiMlTH GERTRUDE MICHAEL COLOR CARTOON AND LATE NEWS Goldstein's "The 'Man in the Attic," a Fox. flicker, a couple of years ago.

some big wheels it the studio told him that he would never make the grade in Hollywood. a Powell's headlines haven't hurt her with the fan- magazine readers. She's still No. One. on the- Motion Picture Magazine popularity poll.

Bob Wagner leads the men, with Tony Curtis in second spot. 6 Joanne Dru's sighs have re: lief all over them. Med I icos gave John Ireland a -thor- ough checkup after his alarming dizzy spells and loss of equilib- rium, and decided that it was just overwork. Just- as Gregory Peck left don to star in "Night People" in Germany, Hildegarde Neff, who had been in Germany, ar; rived in London for the premier i oJ her picture, "The Sinner." Piper Laurie, big success that she is under" that name, is still legally known as Rosetta Jacobs and she won't change her real- life tag. EUROPEAN ROUND-UP JACKIE LAUGHERTY, last tl year's Miss U.

S. A. is madder than a wet hen about reports of a rift with Guy Mitchell and has joined him in Glasgow, Scotland British star Patricia Roc, familiar to every TV Jan who looks, at old British movies, has separated from her husband, Andre Thomas, in London Insiders in London vow that it was the objections of James Hanson's parents, very social all that, to Audrey Hepburn as a daughter-in-law that scuttled Audrey's engagement for the British rumors of a split between Sonja Henie and Winthrop Gardiner was the ice skating star's, chartered, plane trips to Paris to' see Claude Terrail, owner of swanK Tour d'Argent restaurant, and Terrail's flying trips to London to see. Sonja. Joan Crawford has only to deny it, but the grapevine is spelling out 'Secret meetings with Greg Bautzer, once her big moment, Steve Cochran's due back from Europe soon and there's a good, chance he will replace Howard Duff as the star ol Ida "The Story of a Cop." RKO will hold John Wayne to the fine print on bis contract that says he must report to the studio before he can do another picture for his own organization.

So John will next emote opposite Jane Russell in "The Silver- Horde." BOXATJD O'CONNOR Bncaiise Of Health Filmland Folk Plan Movie To Keep Own Schoolhouse Open By ALINE MOSBY HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 5 UP- Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews, director Anthony Mann and director John Sturgis plan to make a movie, not to -line their own pockets, but 1 to keep a schoolhouse open. The box office profits will be turned over to perhaps the most unusual school in the country, one of the movietowners built- themselves. Two years ago, Ryan decided the public grammar schools in his the San Fernando Valley, were overcrowded. So he recruited some other Valley parents "because we felt it necessary to start our own school." Had 21 Pupils The group bought an abandoned synagogue.

The lathers built desks, chairs and bookshelves; the mothers whipped up curtains and planted flowers and grass. The parents got permits from the health, building safety and lire departments, hired teachers and opened with 21 pupils. Next week they'll start their third i season with 75 pupils, from kinder-; garten through the sixth grade. "But we're still in the red," ex-, plained.the aclor. "So the school will buy a appropriately about a school, and form its own company to make a movie.

We want to eventually put up another building for a junior iiigh school." Ryan coincidenlally is working now. in a school movie, "Miss Baker's Do7.cn" at MGM. 6ut. he sighed, "We couldn't buy ihis because MGM already owned it." Parents Siill licip The parents si ill have a hand in running the Oakwood school. The mothers dp the office chores and help the kindergarten teacher carry in orange juice and wipe noses.

"Parents are urged to know what is going on in the classroom," Ryan said. "We feel the more-you get parents involved in a school, the more they'll think about if and the more they'll do about it: Too many parents regard school as entirely separate from home life. "We get thn fathers into the act by having them take the children through their businesses. I had the entire school on "my movie set one day The school pupil, Billy Eckstein's child, when the crooner East. "We have four other Negro children and one Negro teacher," Ryan said.

"We try to 'nave a cross- section of all groups." Mexico will -spend Chile is buying four for new roads to help develop its i cargo ships for its coastwise ports. i trade. LUBY'S SUNDAY MMU Soup Shrimp Cocktail Roast Beef Au Jus Baked Ham Grits Creamed Turkey Dressing, Cranberry Fish Fillet, Tarter Sauce Meat Loaf Fried Chicken, Mashed Potato, Gravy Veal Cutlets, Mashed Potatoes Chicken Pie Child's Plate WIN. SELECTION OF 8 MEATS 12 VEGETABLES EACH DAY HOME'MADE BREAD AND PASTRIES Luby -CAFETERIAS PAT.AXCE In Tlic Attic' 1 FOR PROFESSIONAL. twm SHOWING THRU MONDAY ADMISSION Dial 5-9641 SONGS! "The Greatest Show on Earth," "Be a Jump- ing-Jacf," "Lovely Lua'wana Lady," "Popcorn and Lemonade," "A Picnic in the Park," "Sing Happy Song." IGHTIEST.

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