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DETROIT FREE PRESS LECTURE-CONCERT SERIES Star Comedy I' MSG Of ers List Of 53 Attractions Series Offers Detroit Talent Detroit talent will make up the cast of Star Comedy Theater, to be presented at 6 p. m. Sunday under the direction of Joy Mora at Hudson Hall, Local 154, 12101 Mack. Taking part will be ballet and Spanish dancers from the Ricardeau School. Included will be a sketch titled "A Kiss for 75 Cents," featuring Mora, Dot tie Locke and Margie Evans; Polly Anna Parks in selected arias; Rondi Vickeri, popular songs; Shirley Lange, vocalist; Marv Welch, of WXYZ-TV; Todd Vincent, and Genevieve Jura, in a program of French songs.

Other participants will be I Fucinari, clarinetist Cell Coverdlll, accompanist and the Adagio Dancers. Comedy Pair Two British comedies in Technicolor "The Titfield Thunder bolt" and 'The Importance of Being Earnest" will be shown at the Coronet Theater beginning Sunday. 7 I 1 vi -i -1 dise," Oct. "Moulin Rouge," Oct. 11 and 13; "The Moon Is Oct.

19; "The Living Desert," Oct. 25 and 26; 'The Conquest of Everest," Nov. 8, and "High Noon," Nov. 29 and 30. World travel series: Bob Friars, "New York Oct Dick Bird, 'The Alphabet of the Outdoors," Oct Karl Maslowskl "Outdoor Almanac," Oct.

Hjordls Parker, "Sweden," 30; Curtis Nagel, "Portrait of Paris," Nov. Clifford Ka-men, "Spain," Nov. 13; Paul Emile Victor, "Expedition Icecap," Friday, 26. Nicol Smith, "Hawaii," Nov. 27; Robert jtallett, "Exotic Ceylon," Dec.

Thayer Soule, "Festive Italy," Dec. 11; The Lambs, "Quest of the Lost Mission," Tec, 18; "The Ryhiners, "Jungle to Zoo," Jan. Col. John Craig, "Spanish Main Adventure," Jan. 15; Bob Davis, "Puerto Rico," Jan.

22; John Jay, "Skiing Safari," Friday, Jan. 28; Karl Robinson, "Brazil," Jan. 29 Neil Douglas, "High 11; Francis Line, "Road to Grandeur," Feb. 26; Stanley Midgley, "My California," March Julian Gromer, "Pacific Coast," Friday, March 11; Dr. Alfred M.

Bailey, "Arizona," March 12; Stanley Midgley, "San Juan Wonderland," March 19; Hal Linker, "Pakistan," April Ken Rlch-ter, "Holy Land," April Clement Conger, "Morocco to London," April 16, and Curtis Nagel, "Song of Switzerland," April 23. JUDY GARLAND In her much-heralded new picture, "A Star Is Born," will be seen at the Madison Theater Friday. Detroit Is the first city to see the movie following its gala world premiere In Hollywood best picture ever made? LAN A TURNER joins Clark Gable in the wartime adventure' of "Betrayed," espionage thriller In Eastman Color at the Adams Theater. Victor Mature and Louis Calhern are co-starred. 1 A pretty big question, to be sure -yet more and more one hears; this opinion wherever previewers have seen "A Star is They come out in unabashed awe of the Judy Garland performance.

You hear the words, "Academy They, speak of James Mason plored. Like the music of Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin-or the unusual and dramatic new use of Technicolor-or the superb taste of the CinemaScope pho-' tography. Long after the theatre has gone dark for the night, individual players are singled out, touches remembered, scenes re-lived. STAR GAZING Antnmn Qinrn i ol nil orli tpp BY HELEN BOWER 1 Free Movie Crltie Along with black-banded caterpillars and otner fauna, movie critics have their own way of knowing when autumn comes. i Our sign is the poll sheet.

Perfectly timed to arrive the first day of autumn, Thursday, came the blank for the 18th annual Ail-American Screen Favorites Poll conducted by the trade weekly, Boxoffice, as though discovering him for the first time. They search, their memories for a screenplay as inventive and imaginative as Moss Hart's. Here then is a new motion picture so far beyond the or dinary as to cause excited speculation among the screen's histori S- M-G-M's Triple-Star Thriller! Cool Contort! doors JSv CJ WIN A tumptuout exlravaganta ol Vienna past, present and future nil mo II IB This poll has three classifications male, female and Western stars. The 12 most popular actors and actresses and the eix favorite Western players are to be selected. So the first leaf of autumn has fallen on my desk.

Before long the critics will be polled for their 19540Bcar choices and THAT will be a Bign of spring! Sept. 28. '54 Sec. Show Time 4 A BAMS "Brjri," 11 HI, aJ. l.ti.

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M. OPEN ALL HIOMT 'TIL li M. NOW SHOWING 2 GREAT STANLEY KRAMER FILMS EmiS DOUGLAS Marltya Manr.ll Arrkw K.nR.dy Rata Romaa Flat a first Plctura of Iti K.k Fraak Lav.jay omJ J.ff Cray la "HOME OF THE BRAVE" THE CRITIC'S CHOICE is Choice WITH CHARLES LAUGHTON AND JOHN MILLS "Contlnaemly tirmyl" "Om 4 ttta a.ml y.arl" H.t, Ulrtmr ftavortarat at a ckimk af kat fork pw h.t. rim, "It Mm anllV(ry taot 4uanlr mavla will tara up far Isna tlmal" IIU La.n.rd, WCJS IB i r- tfu PUtl Roogie's Bump tOUfHT, HARRIOT wowtrn ataaaa EAST LANSING Fifty-three major attractions are scheduled for the 1954-55 lecture-concert series at Mlchi-1 gan State College. Included are 14 programs featuring soloists, orchestras, operas, ballet and choral groups; six lecturers; 26 world travel programs, and seven "special attractions." Nine prize-winning films also are scheduled.

All programs and concerts will be presented in the college auditorium except the film series. Films will be shown In Fairchild Theater. FOLLOWING are programs and dates: Series Roberta Peters, Oct Boston Symphony, Oct. 21; London Festival Nov. New York City Opera Company in Nov.

22; Old Vic Company of London in "Midsummer Night's Dream," Dec. Detroit Symphony, Jan. 18, and Isaac Stern, March' 8. Series Concerts e-bouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, Oct 28; London Festival Ballet, Nov. New York City Opera Company In "Rig-oletto," Nov.

23; Old Vic Company of London Jn "Midsummer Night's Dream," Dec. Vienna Choir Boys, Jan. 20; Victor Herbert Festival, Feb. 1, and Myra Hess, Feb, 23. Lectures: John Gunther, Oct.

20; Trygve Lie, Nov. Dwight Cooke, Nov. 12; Congressman Douglas R. String-fellow, Feb. 21; Meredith Willson, April 14, and Dr.

Le-Moyne Snyder not yet dated. Special numbers: Stan Kenton Festival of Modern American Jazz, Oct. Jazz at the Philharmonic, Oct. 12; "Caine Mutiny Court Martial," Oct 18; "Biggest Show of 1954," Nov. 8 or matinee performance at 3:45 p.m.

of "Hansel and Gretel" by New York City Opera Company, Nov. 23; Marge and Gower Champion, Feb. 2, and Burl Ives March 2. Fall term film series: 'The Mikado," Sept. 27; "From here to Eternity," Sept 29 and 30; "Tales of Hoffman," Oct.

"The Captain's Para Wayne Group To Show Films Robert Flaherty's "Man of Aran" will be shown at 7 and 9 p.m. Friday In Wayne Univer sity's State Hall, Room 101, by Clneum, a new Wayne group in terested in experimental film production. "Research at Burton," a 13- minute film about the Burton Historical Collection, will also be shown. This was produced as a class project in film funda mentals. Receipts from the Friday eve nlng and future programs will used by Cineum for other films with Detroit subjects.

Donor Bonus As an added incentive to blood donors, the management of the East Side Drive-In Theater will give two complete car passes to all donors Tuesday at the Denby High School between 3:30 and 9:30 p.m. Volunteers rejected by the Red Cross mobile blood unit will also be entitled to the passes, which will be good any time this season. liHlMHIlliniC) THIS PAST week another sign of something else came to my attention, something I found intensely disturbing. Last Tuesday the critics were obliged to see "The Black Shield of Falworth" at the theater, because there had not been time for an advance screening. The audience included a good proportion of older teenagers most of them boys who looked to be from 17 to 19 They re-affirm the artistry of director George Cukor.

They've been so thoroughly entertained in such unprecedented fashion that they seem to find it part of the continuing delight to discuss this experience until every wonder is ex ans. Certainly there has been nothing like it before -we can only wonder if its like will ever come along agjain. The best picture ever made? We confidently leave the answer to your own good judgment. CQoJvrwsQnxrt. the age bracKet ot so many young saaisis and hoodlums.

As the medieval action picture got under way it was appalling to see what these younger people found to laugh at always some scene in which a person was ridiculed or tricked or humiliated. There is a garden Bcene where Janet Leigh is playing croquet. She wants an excuse to send her chaperon, a much older woman, into the castle because Tony Warner Bros. PRtttNT Curtis is about to scale the Miss Leigh purposely knocks a croquet ball into a little V5V5 I a tfjL AUOtrMmNt JACK CARSON CHARLES BICKFORD TOM NOOMAN pool. As she and the chaperon try to retrieve the ball, Miss Leigh jostles the older woman into the pool.

Of course, the chaperon has to go in and change her clothes. The laughter at that sequence was uproarious. To judge from the hilarity, today's audiences would find 'nothing shocking in that "Ki. of Death" scene where Richard Wid-mark kicked the wheel-chaired invalid down a flight of stairs, back in 1947. i 0 THE ONLY things thaa restored my faith a little were the exhalations of relief, the small cheering noises when Tony Curtis' white horse regained his feet in the final jousting scene.

At least the audience was plainly on the side of the good knight. But what is happening to the American sense of humor? Go to the movies and note the things at which, people laugh. Reviewing "The Egyptian" I had commented on audience laughter when Peter Ustinov, as the servant, steals some grapes. It was my first experience of this strange "humor," but it evidently isn't an isolated' instance. LUFT SS" i hwscoki FRIDAY! ICESEiBgCT A fjliltering cavalcade that it bolh drama and lalire.

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