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H A *tory that look* life »troight in the eye . . . and blink* at nothing! \r'f wi,h ethel Barrymore Barry FITZGERALD June DUPREZ Jane WYATT Produced by Dovid Hemptteod • Directed by Clifford Odeti • V’n» n.r y, cwtord Odt* 1 Horn the novel bv Bichord Llewellyn, ovithor of "How Sreen Wet My Volley" j j j ; _- SUPER-SHOCK SENSATION ** THE MASTER RACE ^_Y jj j In tte pulsing I Jart of miiniglit j ter testing tesrt toU ter. ■ • ttis is its . tKe romance 1 every woman I topes to tnu» • • _ l T M '— _ Doors open | OC/^tV 10:30 a. m. La*. NO ADVANCE IN PRICES __ - 111 DAPHNE ("REBECCA") do MAURIER’S daring drama of exciting love and dangerous adventure elTwenbrTfM', Pnmwoimt Vrescnts Joan Tontaine flrturo 'be CbrdoVa | CnpaC ~ MITCHELL LEISEN PRODUCTION wi»t Basil Rathhone • Nigel Bruce |j Cecil Kellaway • Ralph Forhes \ IN TECHNICOLOR * r y Warner Bros. Ea^le a Murder Wears an Urbane Mask In Thriller, ’Laura,’ at Palace By JAY CARMODY. Murder among the urbane, the folk wno are supposed to anesthetize their emotions with sophistication and alcohol, is almost invariably more popular than any other kind. That is almost certain to prove true in the case of "Laura,” which opened today at Loew's Palace, with Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb. Judith Anderson and some other: slick performers more commonly associated with Chanel 5 than with i bloodshed. They all are fascinating-' ! ly suave in this 20th Century-Fox J version of Vera Caspary's whodunit, ; which was praised as quite a literate thing when it appeared in novel form. There is only one flaw, and that not a maiming one, in “Laura.” That is the fundamental assump tion of the script writers that they are making every one extremely witty, that the merest commonplace of dialogue is the sort of thing that columnists covering the smart set would send winging to 6,000.000 newspaper readers tomorrow after noon. It is hardly true, except in the case of Clifton Webb, an actor who appears to have started in babyhood to master the art of the j icy Insult . The others too often seem merely to admire the art in stead of having mastered it. As we say. however, the air of excitement that pervades the atmosphere of “Laura” will take care of such a ! defect. * * * * The gloss which becomes gory as "Laura’ unfolds is to be found chiefly in its Park avenue settings iand the people who occupy them. The latter are primarily an arrogant columnist, a brilliant young adver tising woman, a laconic and very wise young detective lieutenant, and the ne er-do-well son of a once prominent Kentucky family. It is a slick quadrangle they make, to which another is periodically added in the form of a wealthy middle aged woman whose emotions are ! distinctly erratic. Into the somewhat jaded lives of these brittle people comes an at tractive corpse, who has been most unattractively murdered by getting a double load of buckshot in her beautiful face. Not since an ambi tious reporter sought to whip up ex citement by recording, “The nude body of a well-dressed man was found floating today In the East River,” has a murder been better dressed than this one. Its columnist (Webbi is to be so sartorially perfect that the picture dares to introduce him sitting in his bathtub turning out his next day's earth-shaking revelations about the private lives and thoughts of his wide circle of acquaintances. Its heroine 'Miss Tierney > is a girl who looks as if she were the solitary cli ent of Valentina, and even the hard boiled detective (Andrews' is a man to whom the haughtiest tailor could point with pride. Without giving away anything ol Miss Caspary's mystery, it may be said that the murderer clearly is one of the exclusive group. It is the de tective's job, of course, to track them all down, a pursuit which leads him to some of the loveliest lairs along Park avenue. Little old Ming vases, trinkets from the tombs of the Egyptian kings, clocks and other items which would make a museum arrogant are scattered among the lives of the group as a tired old oak I scatters its leaves in October. * * * dr Most dramatic character of the lot is difficult to select among so many fancy frames, but this department's guess is that it will be Mr. Webb He is the epitomization of the in sufferable columnist, the man who trades Insult and vilification for fa vors and courtesies, but he still man ages his engaging moments in his dealings with the heroine and the detective. Palpably, Mr. Webb ls one of the slickest performers the movies have laid their hands on in seasons, a thing that Broadway would have been glad to tell the movies years ago. Miss Tierney, whose stately loveli ness has been her chief asset in so many earlier pictures, is given an opportunity to register dramatically in 'Laura1’ and manages it quite AMUSEMENTS. Laura.' a ’ZOth Century-Fox picture, with Gene Tierney and Dana Andrew.* produced and directed by Otto Preminger, screen play by Jay Dratler. Samuel Hoffen stein and Betty Reinhardt; adapted from the novel by Vera Caspars'. At the Palace. The Cast. Laura . . __ Gene Tierney Mark McPherson ... Dana Andrews Waldo Lydecker Clifton Webb Shelby Carpenter _- Vincent Price Ann Treadwell _...Judith Anderson Bessie Clary _ Dorothy Adams McAvity _ James Flavin Bullitt _ Clyde Fillmore Fred Callahan Ralph Dunn Corey . Grant Mitchell Louise Kathleen Howard competently within the limits of the script. Miss Anderson is quite startlingly removed from her old stature as Lady Macbeth in her current cinema assignment as the fading charmer of "Laura," a woman who competes with the beautiful younger members of her sex by flashing a checkbook under thp nose of the handsomest handy male. It is not a very testing! role tor her, obviously, but it is to the advantage of the‘picture that she was willing to play it. * ♦ * * Andrews is not normally surround ed by such lustrous players, but he brings off his detective part with just the touch that Director Otto Preminger wanted. So does Vincent Price as the weakling whose fatal fascination for women is a plausible thing at all times. Murder, as we say, has not looked so attractive in several seasons. For the Duration Pv the Associatpd Press. HOLLYWOOD. Sound concentrators have disap peared from the movies, probably for the duration. They are huge microphonic devices designed to pick up the noise of airplanes ap proaching at great distances so film companies, operating outdoors, could stop work and prevent cam era sound tracks from being ruined. The Government has taken over the last of them for military service. AMUSEMENTS. _ALL KEATS SOI.U * DAYS BEG. NEXT SUN. NITE THRU SUN. MAT. & EVE., NOV. 12 Q oiorous musical mast fee i set $ BLOSSOM l*“.TIME-3*J f”* • SI.2*. SI.SO, S2 40. S3.00 (tax Hm.) H,0. Mai.: 60c. SI 20; Orch.. SI SO. Oal.-SKK. Mat..; 00c. SI 20 SI 80, S2.40 —SEAT SALE SOW — | SUBSCRIBE NOW! f NATIONAL SYMPHONY HANS KINDLER, Conductor 8 WEDNESDAY EVENINGS (All-Subscription) Crooks, Potri, Francescatti, Jepsen, Elman, Barilatt A Robertson, Brai lowsky, All-Tchaikovsky Program. 10 SUNDAY AFTERNOONS Molcbior, Mooro, Milstoin, Traubol, Zimbalist, Grainger, Nash, K a poll, AH Wagnor Program. LGala Opening, Wednesday, Nov. S I 8:30 T. M . CONSTITI TIOX HALL I Soloist, RICHARD CROOKS, Tonor | All Concerts in Constitution Hall \ HfdnPodAv Seri** (8 Concert*): »«, $7.20. $9.60. $12. *16.80. $21.«• Sandar Serie* do Concert*): 8. $9.60. $12. $14 40. $16.80 NATIONAL SYMPHONY BOX OFFICS HITT'S, 1330 G St.—NAtional 7332 ijl TODAY . . Doors open 10:45 Il'^H AMERICAN ROMANCE” *1 in Technicolor starring \vBRIAN DONLEVY«*nn richards A Dmrs&u* 10:M in. They’ve Got ^ WASHINGTON ' In An UPROAR! .'’%! Fibber takes over the Capitol ....and TRIES Wj TO RUN IT! | H* ugene PALLETTE ymond WALBURN Gordon OLIVER Barbara HALE Where and When Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing National—"Harriet”; 8:30 p.m. Screen. Capitol—"Marriage Is a Privat* Affair”; 10:40 am., 1:30, 4:20, 7:1! and 9:55 pm. Stage shows: 12:55 3:45, 6:30 and 9:20 p.rn. Columbia — "An American Ro mance”: 11:35 a.m., 2:05, 4.30, 6:5! and 9:20 p.m. Earle — "Frenchman’s Creek” 11:10 a.m., 1:45, 4:20, 7 and 9:40 p.m Stage shows: 1:15, 3:55, 6:30 anc 9:10 p.m. Keith’s — “None But the Lonelj Heart”: 11:50 a.m., 2:15, 4:40, 7:1< and 9 .35 p.m. Little—“Catherine the Great”; 11 a m., 1:05, 3:15, 5:20, 7:30 and 9:44 p.m. Metropolitan — "Arsenic and Oh Lace”; 11:15 a.m., 1:50, 4:25, 7:0! and 9:40 p.m. Palace — "Laura”: 11 a.m., 1:05 3:15, 5:25, 7:35 and 9:46 p.m. Pix—"Diamond Empire”; 2, 4:4C 7:30 and 10:15 pm. Trans-Lux — News and shorts continuous from 10 a.m. AMUSEMENTS. 3 Performancet Onlyt Nov. II (I p.a. 8 l:M p. m.i N»y, II (lilt pja.)—«M»tH«tl»» Hall xmitoR RUSSIAN BALLET i'&ttttf'TheaCte the NattMAl SyMpbMy MATS MOW: |1.||. fl.M. 92 41. $3. MfttlcMl iHMkwr Bex Office. KITTS, 133ft C St. Me taut— rwrnUMM m ce»4c4. After • p. m., WffUrft Retd. MA. 1971. _AMUSEMENTS._ Hotel Statler 8:30 Wed. Ere . 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