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1 21- PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1930 Getting Into Heap Big Trouble I JPJJU(B MniP IFMlim MGM's KING By HAROLD V. COHEN skill to a key assignment; Miss Thelma Ritter Is enormously By HAROLD V. COHEN loses sight of the humor in the SOLOMON'S MINES Snowslormcmos While most of the nrfrht clubs and cafes were shuttered or Bette Davis In 'All About Eve9 Comes to Harris funny as Miss Davis' cryptic Pnora Open 10:45 maid, and in minor berths, Mr situation nor the fun of watching these folks squirm at the hot coals they have heaped upon their own heads by selfishness and hypocrisy. In fact, he has whipped them with a lash in high glee. Gregory Ratoff (the producer), Unless there are Federal Miss Marilyn Monroe (the lame IX STEWART GRANGER ti Is RICHARD CARLSON statutes against making wagers in the public prints, put the de brained blonde) and Miss Barbara Bates (the girl who is going to give Miss Baxter the same hard partmental bank-book, such as itj -r0 act out his spanking script, PETE SMITH SPECIALTY! MGM Cartnon! is, down on "All About Eve" to time Miss Baxter gave Miss Davis) are all practically perfect.

For all the whippings the mov win the Academy Award for 1950. And make a parlay that Miss The Lunts' set for "I Know My Love" was still in the Nixon Theater late yesterday afternoon with a fair chance of catching up with them in Detroit by tomorrow. They planned to do the show there until then with plain drapes. In the meantime, the "Blossom Time" production hadn't arrived although the company was here, 24 hours late. That show as a result will wait until Thursday night to open.

The Lunts did "I Know My Love" to 73 people Saturday afternoon and about half that many Saturday night, insisting if there was even one person in the audience, the least they could do was to ring up the curtain. only partially open, the Terrace Room had one of the biggest week-ends in its The William Penn was packed with guests unable to get in or out, and they in turn jammed the Terrace Room, with "the result that Myrus, Hank Fort and Joe Sudy's band, with three men missing, played to unprecedented dinner and supper crowds. The place had to get along without its popular head-waiter, Mitchell, who suffered a heart attack Friday night and was taken to the Montefiore Hospital, where his condition at edition time was reported to be just fair. NEXT ATTRACTION HRSY HEDY MIDLAND LAMARR "coppercsxtyon TECHNICOLOR ies have taken from the Theater, "All About Eve" is paying the Theater back in turn and in spades. On top of "A Letter to Bette Davis' performance will line her mantlepiece with still another Oscar.

In the picture of the year, she has waved all competition aside. Three Wives," which he also Mr. Mankiewicz has assembled a cast that looks it straight in the eye without a tremor. Although the central figure is the conscienceless young lady of the title, whom Miss Anne Baxter plavs right to the fangs, a horrifying portrait of self-seeking, ruthless ambition, the most striking one is the biting, tempestuous, temperamental star Miss Davis pins down in a vise. Margo Channing has a wicked tongue, a staggering ego and a great talent, but through her towering rages and salty outbursts runs a "All About Eve" runs two wrote and directed, the picture at the Harris makes Mr.

Mankiewicz hours and 20 minutes and seems half that long. it ends too soon. Anybody with half an eye and even less of an M-C-M prajenti wiUIIMDofOl not just a garden variety genus but a five-star one. Ionr ear for the sound and feel of sky JUDY GARLAND JAMES STEWART HALE. Flu LITTLE RASCALS COMEDY TOM and JEKRJt CABIOON larking entertainment would be content to watch Mr.

Joseph Mankiewicz's scratching people of the Theater claw away at each other indefinitely. They are quite kind of fuzzy warmth and a human hunger for affection, and the wav Miss Davis leavens the The Casino didn't even get going on Saturday, and now has decided to stay closed for the next four weeks. The burlesque house will reopen Sunday midnight," December 24, Christmas Eve. "At War With the Army" was ready to give a per formance at the Playhouse Friday night to half a house but had to call it off when Actors possibly the most fascinating col WHATEVER YOU WANT, remember that Post-Gazette Want Ads have filled needs for THOUSANDS of readers. To-place an ad call EXpress 1-1475.

role, it is limitless in dimensions. She hasn't registered a triumph J. P. HARRIS BETTE DAVIS i-0975 ANNE BAXTER GEORGE SANDERS CELESTE HOLM "ALL ABOUT EVE" Continuous Performances lection of black spiders of our time. For Mr.

Mankiewicz has sharpened his talons at the ex like this or surrounded a part so completely since her name first went up in' lights. ii Among the men, Mr. George EVE" IS OUT OF THE DRIFTS pense of a gallery of egoists in Sanders scores the heaviest as a LIBERTY Ernst Libert? SOUTH HILLS Dormoni Bart I-ancast rr dm and fwtnn Iorthy MrGair "MR. 880" vicious, powerful drama critic AND READY TO GIVE YOU THE GREATEST TIME YOU'VE EVER HAD AT THE MOVIES! with an eye for pretties who are willing to exchange favors; Mr. Gary Merrill does an excellent ii.

Kobe. Walker-Joan Leslie DENIS "Skipper Surprised Mt.LekB0. His Wife" and "MYSTERY STREET" iob as a talented, warm-heartea director and Mr. Hugh Marlowe is fine as a playwright whose loy PERRY Perrysrllle Arm. greasepaint, and written a satire that sparkles with wit and poisonous barbs.

He has spared neither the great nor the near-great, and "All About Eve" sinks its teeth into the elite of the stage with malice aforethought. As it follows the malevolent maneuverings of an ambitious young actress who stops at nothing to get ahead in the profession, the movie explores the deceits and mischiefs of the Broadway set like a pedigreed bloodhound and everybody who Ruth Roman "BARRICADE" Pla 8 Cartoona alties conveniently waver. Miss Celeste Holm brings her usual Movie Houses Open Doivntown As Public Service All of the downtown film houses, with the exception of the Art Cinema, opened yesterday as a public service for people stranded in the Triangle area. The move was made after a consultation with Mayor Lawrence's office. Skel-ton staffs are keeping the theaters going.

Meanwhile most of the neighborhood movies are operating on regular THE BIG QUESTION James Stewart is ready to give the $24,000 answer hereas Barbara Hale stands by listening in a. scene from "The Jackpot." The Twentieth Century-Fox comedy, about what happens to a poor fellow when he tries to dispose of his radio giveaway loot for cash in order to pay the Government $7,000 income taxes on it, goes into its second week at the Fulton tomorrow. BEECHVIEW BeeehTiew 6:15 to 7 25 Joaa ''iinld Roht nnrmints "PETTY GIRL" Color by Technicolor Jane Greer Quakes Before Microphone NORTHSIDE Federal St. "TWO FOR TWO" aha "Ariraaa Taik-inor hetween scenes of "The Company She Keeps," Jane comes within camera range is Greer admitted to Lizabeth Scott roundly and maliciously whacked. There hasn't been such soar tionist so he could open the Fulton along with the other downtown houses.

Some of the Darryl F. Zanuck presents and Dennis O'Keefe that, despite her years of experience as a kling dialogue on the screen in neighborhood theaters had ter years nor incidents so punish- singer and actress, she gets com pletely upset on a radio program Bette 1 AVIS rific days Saturday and Sunday, but their prosperity was hardly mgiy mmy, and "All About Eve" dishes out a worldly, brilliant Eddie Mack and Henry Lockhart failed to show up. They couldn't "My last two radio appearances were so unnerving," she said, "I satire that dismantles even a Mil IV Anne AYTFI) don't think I'll ever try it again razor's edge. What Mr. Mankie get through.

The hit comedy has suspended until transportation NOW I can't explain it at all. It just facilities are restored. As a re- happens." wicz has discovered goes on in Thespis' name is by no means flattering, but it is ground of wonderful wormwood. The whole jsult, its run may be continued at JWS e-jVUKiA ti (wrJinun aim La? .4 the Frick School auditorium unit i bit SANDERS mm 5mm ssai. Shonv Time after the regular Playhouse en thing has cunning and dazzle.

and a mature cynicism dipped in FILTON James Stewart In "The Jackpot" ai ends on December otherwise, the schedule for the (remainder of the season might the most scorching sulphates. 11:23. 1:15 3:07. 4:59. 6:31.

mu 10:35. f- day night so they could try and make Chicago, their next stand, by Monday. Woody Herman and his band were stuck in Pittsburgh after their week's engagement at the Vogue Terrace. The Herd had to cancel a Sunday one-nighter but hoped to depart for Youngstown, late yesterday by train, leaving college dance last night. The Art Cinema has postponed "Kind Hearts and Coronets" indefinitely.

It was to have opened today. That picture keeps running into jinxes. The Xixon booked the English hit early in October, then the newspaper strike came along and the house closed down. Speaking of jinxes, the Lunts must be convinced by now that Pittsburgh is their own particular one. In 1936, they came here to open Robert E.

Sherwood's "Idiot's Delight" and ran right into the never-to-be-forgotten St. Patrick's Day flood. John Walsh was still waiting late yesterday afternoon to get a projec- WARNER CU3 -mmm. Warner Bc What's more, the comic gloss HARRIS Bette Davit and Anne Baxter In All About Eve" at 11:04, 1:42, 4:20. yatTjCxSr Si wnuen tot ine Va, XfeST DO GARY MtfiflU-HUGH MARLOWE FTSTP; Screen and Directed by be hopelessly tangled.

Bill Elder, the Penn manager, walked the entire distance of nine miles on aii adoui is monu 6:58 and 9:40. PENN" Deboran Krr and Stewart Grar.jer expected to be very long-lived inasmuch as they'd have to keep on playing the same picture until film deliveries were resumed. The Nixon will announce in a few days either refunds or exchanges for those who held tickets for "I Know My Love" and were unable to get to the theater. Most of the radio stations maintained skeleton staffs in Downtown hotels so they could be on the job. Nominated for oblivion: The disc jockey who included "Winter Wonderland" among his platters over the week end.

The leading downtown night clubs, the Carousel, the Copa and the Monte Carlo, hoped to be in operation "again tomorrow night, or Thursday at the latest, but the reopening of such rooms out on the highway as Bill Green's, the Ankara and the Vogue Terrace was indefinite. mental. Although there are sharp streaks of pathos in this In 'King Solomon's Mines at 11:17, UlTORY JOSEPH MANKIEWICZ; Continuous Performance! from his new home in Mt. Leba DARRYL F. ZANUCK OTHW now jnf 4 3:35, 5:44.

7:53 ana ritz Jud Garland in "The Wizard of Ox' caustic examination of an aging non on Saturday, and then stayed put. He. had a cot set up in his star clinging to her stature in ine neater belore the vicious SIXTH STREET HARRIS ttUf Fred h- utioh 'astaire "is Dance mnQH ASTAIfiE at 10:05. 12:30. 2:55.

5:20. 7:45 and 10:00. STANLEY James Cagne and Doris Da? In "The West Point Story" at 11. 1:15. 3:30.

5:35, 7:50 tnd 10:05. WARNER Destination Moon" at 11:35, 1:45 3:50. 6 8:05 and 10:15. rt Aftrae- onslaught of an unprincipled newcomer, Mr. Mankiewicz never office.

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