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ADTERTTSEMTVr DETROIT FREE PRESS Ifl Friday. Aug. 12. 1949 Lizabeth Scott Finds Murder a Tiring Task quite a bit. But neither of them (Joe Young Sets Record for Hokum BY NORMAN KENYON tree Press Staff Writer Hollywood has unleashed some brother of ner first husband, who died a mysterious suicide.

KBISTINE MILLER lends a decorative but quiet bit as the sister of the husband who gets himself shot for his honesty. Duryea is reasonably convincing as a weasel who can't stomach homicide with his W'J character and gets cute with his poolhall lingo. Crime doesn't pay, as the producer of "Too Late for Tears' may learn. X.K. STARTS TODAY! DOORS OPEN 10:45 A.M.

Haw from'' 1 Murder can be a tedious busi ness, especially as it done Dy Lizabeth Scott in "Too Late for Tears" at the United Artists Theater. Miss Scott appears terribly tired in the film. Her acting has the same quality. All of which leaves what should have been an exciting movie in a somewhat rundown condition. MISS SCOTT attempts to portray a crafty little wench who will stoD at nothing- in her lust for lucre.

But Lizabeth grinds out her murders as if she were anchor man on an assembly line. She produces a characterization which is without explanation or belief. AS THE PICTURE opens. Miss Scott and her screen husband, Arthur Kennedy, are riding along, having a little tiff. Suddenly someone tosses sixty grand into their laps.

The money, it turns out, was intended for a smalltime blackmailer, Dan Duryea. Hubby wants to play it square But the sight of all those cool, green leaves is too much for his greedy missus. She wants to glom onto all of it. First she has to plug her spouse, after a brief moment of doubt. Then she poisons Duryea when he tries to cut in.

Don DeFore brings Liz to her just deserts. He plays the secretive DAN DAILEY ANNE BAXTER RINGSIDE Tooi Tony iw.l-i unmiMW mum i HI'RRY! A WT I 2 M. k3 Woodward nr. 6 Ml. TO 8-4110 Colo, by PRIGES: mats.

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Carlson TO. 8-3050 AUGUST FILM FESTIVAL Today! Daphne Du Maurier's "HUNGRY HILL" also "The Black Narcissus" Starts San. "ANNA KARENINA" "MADONNA OF 7 MOONS" COOLED Aim. 60e TONY WEITZEL Says: CTUFF: One of the national magfs oug-hta wake up and do a piece on Detroit's Jack the Bellboy, a modest guy named Ed Macke i who had to broadcast an appeal the other day to the folks to quit calling him so Michigan Bell could get its phone system un- 4 iony euzei sera 1 "ham" Vd a living as a station engineer until he started to talk one day and found the town liked to listen fyV: BIGGEST consumer TV yarn of the year is the way "Madman' Muntz that fabulous fellow from Hollywood Is selling those no aerial one pix control modern TV sets like hot-cakes in the midst of a hot spell that has the rest of the TV set market gasping for breath. Secret seems to be the fact Muntz technicians rush one of their big MODERN' sets out to your home an hour after you phone lixas 4-bbbU sho-7 vou MODERN TV right in your own living room.

Give 'em a ring now there's no cost or obligation find out how wonderful TV can be with a Muntz modern set. PEAKING of disc pilots six-foot-eight-inch Bob Murphy (Tall Boy Third Row) is turning out to be a super-Sinatra as far as local fans are concerned. OVERSEAS GOODWILL: Bonnie Prinr-B nfv Prince Charley Britain's brand new royal moppet (Princess Elizabeth's son and heir) will have a regal pair of Laurence O'Larry's mink Bootees any minute now. The St. Clair Furs tycoon who's turned the Midwest fur market upside down minv gut lu IIMIlHlIlg aWUl the Prince the other day poor little Charley with not a pair of mink bootees to his assortment of royal names.

It shouldn't happen O'Larry decided to a prince! CO HE PUT the St. Clair fur experts to work In the big fur emporium at 1567 Broadway on a special set of precious mink footgear (royal pastel mink of course) wrote a nice little note to Princess Elizabeth and dispatched 'em to the royal palace over on the tight little isle just a friendly token from a fellow named O'Larry who came up the American Way to a youngster who's got a lot of problems ahead of him the British way. fe- if I SHEFFIELD- GARNER can get the fuse lighted on a romance labeled "explosive." Only bright spot in the picture comes when Duryea slips out of On Savage thrills in an untamed land of terror FUMED IN SEPIA TONE mm MMINC TfPT ONE WEEK ONLY PEGGY LEE DAYE BARBOUR. AND HIS QUARTET TW Vf A That of the plus Great 2 Big Shows DINNERS 1 giagfa -TONIGHT i Li in, rwm Popular Cruising Crooner BREAKFAST CLUB AFTER DARK Stage Comic to luaite dow at Elmwood Bert Wheeler, comedy veteran of stage, screen and radio, comes to the Elmwood Monday. Wheeler, who boomed to fame with the late Bob Woolsey, recently won acclaim for his work soeM inS Frank Fay io-s me star as tne star in "Harvey." Co- I billed in a com- ture are the Slate Brothers and Sandra Larry Lane and his Mellow Men of NBC and recording fame are making their first De-t i appearance at the Bert Wheeler Vogue Cocktail Lounge.

Belva White, blond ball of fire, is making the piano keyboard hum at the Main Street Club. Virginia Barrett's goofy doings spark the laughs at Club 509. Herby Lynn joins in the shenanigans, a la Olsen and Johnson. Snowball Harris, formerly of Ted Lewis' Band, is featured nightly at Club Manhattan. Cast includes Lee Caron, emcee.

DINAH WASHINGTON is showing Flame Show Bar customers why sales of her records are zoom ing. Also on hand are the vocal artistries of the Four Caldwells, Kitty Stevenson and Em i 1 Jones. Fal con xneater 1 unge patrons swear that the Gotham Trio is a dead ringer for the Three Sons of record fame. Nino Nflnni's niann satires are i the Town Pump gang into hysterics. Our sultry weather Dinah Washington has been bringing out a flock of requests for the lazy rhythms of Ha according to the Brass Rail's Al Whyte.

Jack Owens, cruising crooner of Breakfast Club note, is lulling Bowery fans with his own compositions. Newest is "You're the Only One I Care For." Four Dukes are introducing Carol Donn; recent Arthur Godfrey talent show winner, at their supper club Friday. Also joining the show are the Stapletons, tap stylists. Bob Hund, Northwood Inn baritone, is rejecting New York offers until he can complete his vocal studies here. LOVELY KAY CARSON is entertaining with her satires at Mike's Palm Room.

The one Others are Art Mee, one-man band; Eddy Jerome, tenor; Billie 1 1 er, trumpet ace and whistler and Phyllis Seymour, tap dancer. Accord- is ionist Al Gelb 5 is squeezing out some gay ditties at Club Gay Haven. Car- Kay Carson man both Florida boys, are having a big time poking fun at life in California during their Ted Lipsitz' club act. Sam Catania, sax man at Sid's Cafe Lounge, still is accepting congratulations for winning the hot dog eating contest at the annual Detroit Federation of Musicians picnic at Jefferson Beach. New Yorkers Trio at Parker's Stage Bar is readying a new novelty, "Red Head," to wow the summer trade.

NEW FRENCH Unema MjrjorieMAfN Percy KLgRPE niiii iiinmnr dP yum I Alr'Cond'itiened GRAND RIVER AT MEYERS THEY'RE MARVIN WELCH and ELENORA Votil Dm, fantomlmt Ban and Piano Artists FUN LIFE LAUGHS Entertainment Thursdays thru Sundays So Cover, No Minimum No Admission Charge Anytime i i I I 5 jf I fit Is: i I- 5 1 I 4 if (SlEST Lounge All-Star Revue Funny Man, Frankle Rapp Nightly, 9 11:30 Artie Field's Orch. SERVED AFTER 6:00 P. M. super colossal hokum in "Mighty Joe Young" at the Palms Theater- The picture is a wierd combina tion of fantasy and tomfoolery. Plot centers on the activities of Joseph Young of Africa." a monstrous gorilla raised by an African farm girl, Terry Moore.

THERE COULDN'T be a gorilla going as big as Joe. But the creature shown in this film is just about the most realistic monstrosity ever to come out of Hollywood's frenzied makeup chambers. This gorilla can grimace like a regular John Barrymore. And many a bush league baseball pitcher would envy Joe's curve. Robert Armstrong plays a hop-ped-up impresario who goes to Africa to find the world's most unusual night club act.

The fun starts when he sees Joe and the gorilla's young mistress. ARMSTRONG sends a herd of cowboys to lasso his find. This scene is fantastically funny. It should nail down any "I-Risked' Death-in-Darkest-Africa" films for all time. Joe finally becomes a star in a night club setting that must have been dreamed up by a guy just back from a lost weekend.

The gorilla does his routine to strains of "Beautiful Dreamer." His act ends in a tug of war with 10 strong men, played by such capable wrestler actors as Ivan Rasputin, the Swedish Angel and Primo Camera. Three meanies get Joe drunk. He starts on a wrecking rampage that is awesome to behold. Nothing less than an atom bomb could duplicate such destruction. The police are sent to ring down the curtain on the gorilla's career.

But he eludes them in a wild and woolly chase. JOE AND HIS pals come upon an orphanage fire, filmed in an in viting cherry pop red. While walls crash around him for a near-eternity, Joe does a Hairbreadth Harry and saves a baby from a burning ledge. Pandemonium reigns throughout the picture. The producers have used two-ton piledrivers, perhaps unwittingly, to pour satire on every form of mighty melodrama.

All human actors play second fiddle to Joe. One newcomer, Ben Johnson, offers a thunderous contrast with his shy, western drawl. He's a former rodeo performer and seems right at home with all the horseplay. You'll enjoy the ride if you get in the spirit of the hocus-pocus. But leave the little tots at home.

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240 acrat of shaar baauty coelad by Laka trial vv4)( COMING MON. BILLY FARRELL Slnein Star of Bob Hope's Show JACK HARWOOD FAMED BALLET-TAP DANCER 1212 i Timmmr? JuUliiJlJLIJ5 Room shanjrri-Ia for fastidious food fanciers is having trouble. For some weeks now he's been indoctrinating son Sam, in the fine arts of catering to the customers and Junior is takipg to Papa Sofferin's footsteps like a bloodhound. When Papa Sofferin flashes that famed Sofferin smile Junior flashes It wider and brighter When Papa gives a patron that warm Wonder Bar greeting Junior makes his hello 10 degrees more so. Great training but it's keeping the Senior Sofferin right up on his toes (and in such hot weather, too).

TTUNCH: (For mustard connois-seurs) Check the dairy department of your favorite market see if they've got Mr. Mustard keeping hot in the cooler. If Mr. Mustard is there, grab a jar find out for yourself the spicy tang he can give your hot weather menus a wondrous old French mustard recipe made a new scientific way. If your store doesn't know about Mr.

Mustard drop a card to "Mr. JIustard 1745 National Bank Bldg." or phone WO 2-3525 give Mr. Mustard the name of your grocer and he'll send you a generous free sample of the finest, spiciest mustard you ever tried. OT OF folks have called up -Lj about the Taylor family's "Carlife Guaranty" plan that underwrites your car against mechanical failures (new Plymouths and Dodges Taylor used cars and Dodge trucks) for 23,000 miles. "How," everybody wants to know, "can they do it?" Well, they've BEEN doing it since 1932 and the plan has made thousands of motorists regular Taylor customers and if you drop in at the block-long Taylor Dodge- i Plymouth emporium (Livernois between Seven and Eight Mile) they'll explain it.

HPins IS a mechanical age and the machine is supposed to do just about everything but as far as Bill Sage is con-' cerned old fashioned craft skill is still the top ingredient in fine bindery work. Over i at Commercial Bindery, Bill's linked up 110 craft experts with the most modern miracle machines to give Detroit the finest, fastest, most economical service on any bindery job from pamphlets to book-size cata- logs. (Phone him at CA 4105). HAD AN hour to spare the other warm afternoon and I dropped over to watch Walter Dossin's Pepsi Cola ball team wrap up as thrilling a diamond tussle as I've seen in quite a spell. Take it from me, you can look to the Dossin family for the tops in snorts activity as well as thirst-quenching, sparkling Tepsl Cola (Those six-bottle 72-ounce cartons of Pepsi are a family MUST for this hot; weather period so why tane less when Pepsi's best?) I fig r-JSAVt; 50 QU DANCE LESSONS with Robert Morgan's new combined teaching method of private lessons and dance club meetings at 2-for-l rates.

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