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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE i MONDAY, DECEMRER 2.1, 1961. mm.Lui i 'I JJJJjPiWHW' i i TUT Flaf wu elms 13 ft afc MalliniaMaaM 2 dangerous love! -i KmrrmiMailmt9 i mftwmmmmwWwwmmmmMmmWwmmm Annette make as winsome and innocent a couple as could be imagined; and Mr. Ed Wynn is his old hilarious self as the Toymaker. There's nothing to be wished for in this film that, isn't done, The beauty is that it's ail done so well. i IIIIIIIIIHtllllMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Gateway Gets 'Flower Drum Stanley Feature Is 'liabes in ToylamV for children, for adults, too.

Adults seeing; "Babes in Toyland" have a happy trip back to some pleasures of their childhood and the added zing of knowing they're watching skilled dancing (such as in Mr. Rolger's "Castle in Spain" number). The imaginatively rhymed verses in the musical number help the whole light wonderful romance of the fantasy as i'much as the costumes, do-; signed by Mr. Bill Thomas. Mr.

Tommy Sands and Miss Bolger has Little Mary In the spot ho wants. When ho announces to the townspeople that he and Little Mary will he wed, there is of course much lamenting. "Ooo, I'd like to holt him," says Sylvester ttie Goose, a sentiment with which everyone in the theater is in accord. There's much more intrigue ahead, with a search for the lost sheep in the dreaded Forest of No Return and problems in a toy factory, all a concoction of delight, not just a i 1 FINAL WEEK HOW thru DEC. 30 the exotic settings give the whole production a gay, festive air.

"Flower Drum Song" Is a show business present for the entire family. Its opening at the Gateway couldn't have been better timed. HAPPY HOLIDAY lYWfflW NIGHTLY AT 8:30. MATINEE WED. 2 P.

M. SATURDAY 2:30 By WIN FANNING It is not possible physically, of roursr. But in the enter-talnmont sonso a movie ran sometimes add a "dimension" to a stage production. The screen version of "Flower Drum Song" does just this. One of the Messr.

Richard TODAY AT 2:32. 4 27, 6:22. 8:17, 10:12 SEATS NOW FOR ALL PERFORMANCES! AT BOX OFFICE ONLY DO NOT PHONE! 'Babes in ToylamV NO DANCE TONIGHT! 6E0. BODNAR presents the following dances this weeki MONDAY (Christmas) RECORD DANCE 9 to 12 TUESDAY "Over 19" RECORD DANCE 9 to 12:30 WED. FRI.

TEEN RECORD DANCE 9 TO 12 OPENING TODAY (CHRISTMAS) AT 5 P. M. JACK McDUFFs ORGAN QUARTET ralurim JOE DOAKS. the Natinn'a Newest Hrummini Sensation Plus "THE MOM 1 DII'I'FKS Neviest I'restine Itecordiiii Mars (70AIAID COlWfj ADMISSION 73e. SUBJECT TO MEMBERSHIP CARD Shack Fried Chicken a VJ A' Steaks Braiilian Shrimp Drake DJ NO COVER NO MIN llin ir tin 'n irri SATURDAY AT THE STAR BALLROOM WORLDS GRt'- POLKA NIGHT THE GLENN LADS DANCING TO 1 ADM.

$1.10 PERSON CABARET STYLE DANCELAND WEST VIEW PARK VICTOR DEMPSTER i Rogers and Oscar Hammer-stein's least Impressive musicals in the hit song sense, this is at the same time one which has long, fairly cripd out for settings beyond the scope of the legitimate theater. The story is a strong and engrossing one. The cast of characters Is highly original. Yet, the Kan Francisco Chinatown background can not be Ignored as an Intriguing element of the composition as a whole. Mr.

Ross Hunter's production retains all the magic of the stage show while adding' an optical dimension which serves so effectively to heighten the reality of this conflict between the old and new generations among the Chinese who have come to this count ry. Humor and romance are blended delightfully in both the music and the dialogue. The mail-order bride and the ultra -Americanized prospee- Stanley By LEE McINERNEY Hurrah, hurrah, as people say in books if never in life, Mr. Walt Disney has put his marvelously fine and brilliant touch to the musical film he adapted from the Victor Herbert classic, "Babes in Toy-land." All the blessing-kind of adjectives in the dictionary', the unabridged version, aren't enough to do right by this Disney film, which is one of the most enchanted trips ever made into the golden imaginings of childhood. The world that book-reading children believe in comes alive on the screen in colors that would make rainbow icecream look palely Inglorious and in sets that Art Directors Carroll Clark and Marvin Davis should win medals for.

The Mother Goose Village has a full-scale house of Perfect Holiday Entertainment! NIXON 4 ONE WEEK Beg. NEXT JAN. I si oaay 2 8:30 Direct from 520 PERFORMANCES go Broadway tOGl I SrfKfNS fviMofs a an a Ar xmpxA 'MB A Li mm a I a five groom, a mht club pro-! Peter-Peter, Pumpkin-Eater; a pnetor, provide a dramatic 20-foot high shoe of the Old Woman who lived there, the a. 1 IT mf J03a MmmK.mgMm. tS Bi JAMES FRANK KENT ANO A fSATUZB SlCT0 1 tew' iff (MjP -1T Queen of Hearts tart shop, the wax-drip candle house of Jack-Iie-Nimble, and a little grey-stone church, not to mention a castle on the hillside.

Mary Contrary's cottage is picture-book if ever a cottage was, all fronted by cockleshells and maidcns-in-a-row. Then, too, there's a toy factorybut there, that's enough of an edge for anticipation. contrast, of course. Introduce the hep kid, the Chinese-American exotic dancer with her eye fixei firmly on the same family fortune, and there Is the substance of a genuine musical comedy a la the Messrs. Rodgets and Hammerstoin.

Comes then the camera. What a grand sight for problem-weary eyes. Not a soul in his right mind could doubt the outcome. It is of little matter. Director Henry Kos-ter plays It straight, for jLOVEJOY SMITH WESTERFIELDj THE BEST MAN uproarious comedy" by GORE VIOAL i Oirtcted by JOSEPH ANTHONY I WEDNESDAY CAPITOL THEATER Warrington Ave.

HAZELW00D TOMORROW ARCADE THEATER South Side MT. OLIVER About the story itself, why LITMAN PRE5ENTS laughs and a touch of pathos. 1 it starts out happily and ends He achieves complete success up happily, as all stories in both departments. should. Miss Miyoshi Umekl is com-i Mary Contrary (Mis An- 8:30 WED.

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Bale. $2.50, $2. CO, $1.50. (All Price Tos Included.) With Mail Orderi, Plea Enclose Selt-Addreued, Stamped Envelope VORLD TWIST CHAMPIONSHIP AUDITORIUM THIS FRIDAY, 8 TO 12 3 CATEGORIES JUNIOR 12 YEARS AND UNDER TEEN 13 YEARS THRU 19 YEARS SENIOR 20 YEARS AND OVER PRIZES TROPHIES 100 TWIST ALBUMS GUEST STARS JERRY LEE LEWIS THE RAYS DANNY THE JRS. GENE CHANDLER FRANKIE SARDO THE SKYLINERS METRO-GOLDWYfJ-MAYERp.

SAMUEL BOOT'S MILROSK ill. shu'l rs. crt 1 iu: nettej and lorn riper (Mr. Tommy Sands) are tone married. The very day before the wedding, while everyone in the village cheers them, Mr.

Ray Bolger in his rickety old gray house on the hill has his spy-glass on them all. He's a villainous fellow, Mr. Bolger is, with waxed mustache and oily curled hair and ominously black cape. He alone knows that Lit tie Mary, on her wedding day, will come into a lot of money (unbeknownst even to hen, and so he is intent on marrying her himself. His cohorts, Mr.

Henry Calvin and Mr. Gene Sheldon, musical Laurel and Hardy types, are great comic fun as they go about the evil plan of kidnapping Bridegroom Sands and announcing to a sorrowful Little Mary' that he has drowned. When they also steal the sheep so that Little Mary and her sisters will have no income, the black-hearted Mr. pletely captivating as the mailorder bride, while Miss Nancy Kwan is equally engaging in the snarly contrasting role of the super-America ni.ed night club entertainer. Mr.

James Shigeta is the ideal leading man for this musical tale and Mr. Jack Soo contributes a splendid performance as a Chinese playboy-gambler. A catchy lit He tune, "Chop Suey," gets the bright treatment it calls for from Miss Juanita Hall; Mr. Benson Fong upholds the proper dignity of traditional Chinese customs and Mr. Kam Tong is fine as the bride's father.

Enjoy Bring a Girl," the hit parade tune in the show is given the full treatment in tiie movie version as are several less popular, but thoroughly enjoyable selections, such as "A Hundred Million Miracles" and "Don't Marry Me." The color photography and i "Cvciops." Mat T.ies 1 3(1 I MT, m.lVf'R if Thla it. He Lrt's and AND MANY OTHERS ARCAlte (HK. I-IK-JT) "Stege of Svracusr." 2 00. 17. 8 II.

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