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-16 PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1934- TTUtKS HDvaavtmaa UDssIk A Short-hived BOLD AND INTIMATE LOVE TALESI JOAN LOUIS Blackstone, Last of the Great Illusionists, Superb at Nixon Magician Fascinates Young and Old With Feats Which Defy Explanation ness. One-word description of "The Glenn Miller Story" at the Fulton: Musicaptivating. summer opera company hopes to pet Gordon MacRae for either "The Student Prince" or "The Desert Song." They may, too, if he doesn't come up with the role of By HAROLD V. COHEN be going before tie cameras late this summer for release around the beginning of the 1955 baseball season. Addenda Dancers Peggy Ryan and Ray McDonald have been added to the Helen a 1-Joey Bishop bill which opens at New York's Copacabana on Thursday night.

Loew's State Theater on Broadway may return to vaudeville Easter week for the first time since 1947 with a show headed by Julius LaRosa. Leslie Caron's movie, "Lili," will be a year old at New York's Trans-Lux 52nd Street Theater on March 9. Danny Kaye's new picture, "Knock on Wood." has been selected for a world premiere before the British royal family in Melbourne, Australia, early next month. age of rabbits, no matter what the master touched the little fellows popped out at his beck and call. There was no use trying to figure out how the major illusions were created, and even if some of the lesser tricks failed to baffle the more mature members of the audience, they were accomplished with an amazing dexterity to prove on the whole that the hand, at least Black-stone's hand, is truly quicker than the eye.

In short it was a perfectly wonderful show. The children, of whom there were many, squealed with delight, while their elders alternately gasped in astonishment and laughed without restraint as the wonders all of the promised 1001 wonders were being performed on the stage before them. As you will note, these remarks have been Written entirely in the past tense, which is not usual in this department. But even on the chance that a giant, fat rabbit will be sitting at this desk in the morning, you must be warned that all which transpired at the Nixon last night, may well have been merely an illusion. TV Appearances Not for Mature Other actors may be intent on combining a televis'on career with their movia career, but not Victor Mature.

"When I'm through in pictures, I will have 'had it'," Vic stated while working on "Dangerous Mission." "I've no ambitions beyond movies, and I doubt if I ever do even a single television show." Curly in the screen version of "Oklahoma!" in the meantime. "The Time of the Cuckoo" wound up the biggest box-office hit of the season so far at the Tlayhouse. One Academy nomination that doesn't make sense: Maggie McNamara's for "The Moon Is Blue." A downtown club in Los Angeles advertises a girlie-girlie show called "Stagnet Just the Bare Facts, Ma'am." a Jimmy Balmer, George Eby and Donna At wood (Mrs. John Harris have just been elected to the board of directors of "Ice Capades" and "Ice Cycles." Don Seat, Dolores Hawkins' personal manager, was in town yesterday on business with word that his singer would be on the Jackie Gleason teevee show (starring Red Skelton) Saturday night. Carl Dozer hears that a waiter in a downtown tavern got fired the other day when the boss smelled coffee on his breath.

Tommy Carlyn's band has been set for a summer run at the Henry Ballroom in Chicago. They open June 30 and will broadcast from there over the Mutual network via WGM. Bill Benswanger, the former owner of the Pirates, and Wilbur Cooper, the pitching greal, will guest on the Pie Traynor-Jack Henry sports show over KQV tomorrow afternoon in observing Honus Wagner Day. Radio announcer Joe Gibson is a year older today, Bert Stearn says the movie life of Connie Mack, which he and 3Iaurice Conn will co-produce, should TWO OF THE TRIO Mitzi Gaynor and. Keefe Brasselle have a dance together before they become mixed up in a train robbery in "Three Young Texans," which opens on a double bill at the Harris on Thursday.

Jeffrey Hunter is co-starred. Jack Local Scrappings The Nixon may get "Me and Juliet" before the season ends. Rodgers and Hammerstein are thinking about sending their Broadway musical on tour around the middle of April. Joe Tucker, with an assist from Ray Downey, will do the play-by-play of the Hornets-Hershey hockey telecast over WENS from The Gardens on Thursday night. Henry Hewes Clip-pered to London to cover the winter season of plays for The Saturday Review.

He's also going to Paris and will be gone three weeks. The drama critic is the nephew of Edith Warman Skinner, of the Carnegie Tech drama faculty. Catherine Copeland heads for New York this week-end to see the closing: performance on Broadway Saturday night of "Mile. Colombe," with Junie Harris, Edna Best and Eli Wallach. It was produced by a close friend of Catherine's, Robert Joseph.

Diahann Carroll's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Johnson, and her kid sister came on from New York for Diahann's Copa opening-. They'll be around for a couple of days.

Rita Hay worth's "Miss Sadie Thompson," in 2-D, opens simultaneonsly at 21 neighborhood and suburban theaters on Sunday. I It's hard to believe that Blackstone will be SO his next birthday. The man of magic certainly doesn't look or act his age. That's a very funny bit Marjorie Main does in "The Long, Long Trailer" at the Penn as a friendly neighboring trailerite. Lenny Litman picked up his option on Nejla Ates for a June date at a $250 hike (from SI.

000 to $1,250) in salary. Morry Allen's band got a holdover this week at the Vogue Terrace when the Dorsey Brothers had to cancel out on account of Jimmy Dorsey's ill you know what Palance stars in the companion mystery thriller adapted from Lodger." Miniature Theater Sets The Pittsburgh Miniature Theater will open the 1954 season with "The Little Mermaid" at the Arsenal Junior High School, tomorrow night at 7:30. Delphey, former Playhouse actress, will appear as Beata, the little mermaid, who falls in love with a prince. Other roles will be played by Helen Davies, Ernest Arthur, Milt Ange, Rosalind Wikander, By WIN FANNING Let it be quickly said that this is not an "honest" review. Nor will you read one elsewhere, for there is not a drama department man in town who dares run the risk of being turned 'into a fuzzy bunny ere morning.

Nor would it seem entirely proper for one who has not gone far beyond the half way mark in those three-score-years-and-ten to seriously quarrel with the mysterious arts of black magic which now, sadly, rest solely within the grasp of the only surviving great practitioner of the illusionary arts. Blackstone, the Magician. As they watched, and certainly they must have been there last night at. the Nixon, the ghosts of Alexander the Great, Thurston. Mulholland and, as an interested bystander at least, Houdini, must have applauded in chorus with the youngest mortals present.

Rabbits popped out of handkerchiefs, flowers by the dozens bloomed out of thin air, ladies disappeared before your very eyes and, complete with the smell of fresh sawdust, one fair damsel was indeed sawed in half. Now then, let's see. Oh yes, there was a dancing handker chief and a trunk full of cos tumes and a girl to wear them, put together (the trunk, not the girl) out of obviously innocent pieces of wood and cloth. Then there were cards which found their way into the hands of volunteers from the audience- including a couple servicemen cards that had originally found their way into Blackstone's hands from heavens knows where. Then there was that girl in the glass case.

She wasn't there when the case was constructed, but she certainly stepped out of it after the magic words and the magic cloth had been momentarily employed no doubt of that at all. There were also quite a number of birds about. They looked something like canary birds, to be- sure, but they couldn't have been of so common a breed, as they appeared and disappeared, even got in and out of their cages, at will or at Black- stone's will anyway. The 79-year-old magician also provided himself with a drink er's delight in the form of a bottle which could produce any desired refreshment and, upon being broken, a rabbit to boot. In fact, there was never a short Gourmet Special This Week! Roast Prime Ribs of Beef Whipped Potatoes i hmm Green Peas or I lfl Tossed Green Salad 1 MONTE CARLO th ft Penn EX.

(-12141 Satirist of fne Piano NINONAIiril Shows Dancing MONTE CARLO 1 6th Penn EX. I-1 2 II Free Parking and Checking uana Subject to Club Membership Mosque Concert Stars Eckstine Pittsburgh's Billy Eckstine will be coming home tonight to star in his own jazz show at Syria Mosque. Singer Ruth Brown will be co-starred with the famous "Mr. Miss Brown is widely known for her rendi tion of "Teardrop." Also on the big jazz bill Billy Eckstine arf The Clovers, a top-ranking vocal group, and Johnny Hodges and his orchestra. There is only one show, beginning at OA o.ou p.

m. aii seats are served. re- Ben dix Free William Bendix has obtained a release from his RKO-Radio Pictures contract, which still had two years to run. EDDY GILMORE, better than the next American, knows what full freedom of the press means after almost 12 years under Communist censorship as chief of the Moscow Bu reau of the Associated Press. This is just one of his recent homecoming AP dispatches.

With him came three other people, all born in Russia, for the first time to America and another way of life: his wife, the former Moscow ballerina. Tamara Chern-ashova. and their daugh-ters. Vicki, 9, and Susanna, 3. WW UDke boron By EDDY GILMORE Associated Press Staff Writer Final Fling piece, Marie "Man in the Attic." a Belloc Lowndes' "The 6The Little Mermaid' Margot Henderson, M.

Com mons and George Spelvin. The play, produced by Margo Frye and directed by Madge Miner, win tour so cities the Tri-State area. Rare Treat bonny Scotch lassies Kitty and Marietta MacLeod. two of the few exponents of Gaelic Mouth Music, make their film debut in Walt Disney's new Technicolor live-action produc tion "Rob Roy." The girls sing the jigs and reels for the danc ers at a Scottish wedding party following the screen marriage of stars Richard Todd and Glynis Johns. Shoo? TTimo NIXON Blackstone.

the Magician, and his "Show of 1001 Tonight at 8:30. PLATHOCSE "Take Giant Step." To night at 8:30. THE GARDENS Billy Eckstine. TvUth Brown. The Clovers and Johnny Hodses Band in a iazz show.

Tonight at 8:30. WARNER "This 3s Tonight at 8:30. BUHL PLANETARIIM "The Sun Chariot." Today at 2:15 and 8:30. ART CINEMA Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan in "Decameron Nights. at 11.

12:53, 2:46, 4:39, 6:32. 8:25 and 10:18. FULTON James Stewart and June Allyson in "The Glenn Miller Story, at 11. 1:05, 3:20. 5:30.

7:45 and 9:55. HARRIS Judy HolUday to "It Should Happen to You." at 11, 4:39. 6:32, 8:25 and 10:18. PENN Lucille Ball end Desl Arnaz in "The Long, Long Trailer' st 1:50. 3:55.

6. 8:05 and 10:10. RITZ Fernando Lamas and Rhorda Flem ing in "Jivaro." at 10:3. i.m. 4:23, 6:18, 8:13 and 10:08.

SQUIRREL HILL Lawrence Oliver In "Hamlet." at 6:35 and 9:25. STANLEY Ginger Rogers. William Holden and Paul Douglas in "Forever hemaic. at 11:15. 1:15.

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Good seats available st sll prices. newspaperman? I was a reporter a long time before I really knew. To this one who has spent the last 12 years In Russia it's like being born again. It means being able to think what I want to, say what I want to, and, what's more important for any writing man, to write what I want to. Big hands, keep still.

I know how you feel. You've been handcuffed. For 11 years the censor has been sitting on my shoulder. But that man's not there any more. So, take it easy.

You want to fly over the typewriter keys. Dance up and down on the keyboard. Touch all the letters at once. Beat away at the rich words of the English language. Hammer your heart into the magic of words.

All we want this time is to mash out a message of thanks. Thanks for the majesty of facts and for being able to put them down before you as you feel they should be put down. Not as the grubby "no-man" of state censorship says they should. Today the Soviet government is fighting for the minds and souls of free men everywhere. To millions in China, India, Pakistan, the Middle East, the Near East, Africa, France, Italy and South America it is saying life is cheaper in the U.S.S.R, That life is more bountiful there.

That life is freer there. Well life is cheaper over there, all right, but not exactly in the way the Communist government means. For Russia is the country where everything is costly except life. That is very cheap. Not long ago the Communist leaders reduced prices.

They cut the price of one orange from $1.10 to 55 cents. But the censor wouldn't let me say that. He would only let me say that oranges had been reduced 50 per cent. There was a good reason for this. For even an ignorant Chinese peasant can understand that life can't be very bountiful if one orange costs 55 cents.

And then there was the death of Joseph Stalin. I saw Muscovites by the countless thousands shuffle through the cold March days and YOU'VE SEEN THE REST. NOW Get your tickets NOW Box office opens 10A.M. nights, in long lines that stretched for miles -into the suburbs, to see the dead body of the grim dictator. I saw a few with tears in their eyes.

A precious few, I should add. And I saw one man openly crying. But not many. The great mass of Russian humanity came down to the hall of columns with dry eyes and no sign of sorrow on their broad Slavic faces. One Russian whispered to me: "They've come to make sure he's really dead." But, when I wrote my story, the censor cut out all references to the absence of sorrow, I sometimes thought I wrote for the smallest audience in the world that single censor, with his stubby blue pencil, who ripped my copy apart and often my journalistic heart.

Every correspondent who writes under censorship has that happen to him. But that man to use an old Russian expression isn't sitting on my neck any more, I've been writing for American newspapers and the Associated Press for 23 years. And not one time has any editor, publisher, owner or anyone else connected with the newspaper business ever told me to write anything any way but the way I saw it. They have never asked me to write anything or to do anything that I was ashamed of doing, For this is the American Press, and I'm thankful for it. It may sound hammy, but this will be the truth, too with deep humility, let me say from the bottom of my heart: Thanks for the American Press, operating in Free America.

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