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AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. ,5 _ __COMING TO YOUR LQEW’S THEATRE ! /f Starts m$. w& _ 10:45 fc^g^WALLACE BEERY • MARGARET O’BRIEN in “BAD BASCOMB” 0,1 Stage—T,M HERBERT • PATRICIA BOWMAN Hollywood Legit’ Tradition Shattered by Pemberton By Jay Carmody Producer Brock Pemberton, a political conservative, and a man with quite a decent respect for tradition, has been a party lately to upsetting one of Hollywood's more firmly fixed customs. You might think that would make Hollywood angry, but it has not. In fact, it meditates rather fondly on the dour-looking Pemberton, whose gloomy countenance hides a heart of gold, or. as some say. reveals a critic's past. The tradition, i to get back to it, w'as one of which Hollywood was rather ashamed. Pemberton's part in shattering it was deciding to send his "Harvey” |as a legitimate attraction into tne' j movie capital. Of course, other Legitimate attractions have been to Los Angeles, scores of them. But even those with Helen Hayes, Kath arine Cornell, the Lunts, Gertrude Lawrence. Ethel Barrymore never really go there with any intention of staying. They know there will be some polite reaction, and that the over-dressed. self-conscious movie people will come to pick up maybe a pointer on acting, or just to be able to say they attended. But it is all over very quickly. As "Harvey's” producer, this time With the Joe E. Brown company, Pemberton had no idea of making a quick entrance and a quicker exit. ' He was going in for a run, which 'simply is something one does not 00 in a city which has the reputa tion of being the country’s worst theater town. Maybe the world's worst theater town, if any one wanted to be nasty about it. It was Pemberton's notion that Los Angeles would be good for at least six capacity weeks, maybe as 1 many as 10. Actually, he will get nine by the time the play closes a week from next Saturday night. | Each of those nine weeks will have | seen "Harvey” achieve a box office | gross larger than that of the New | York company. It is a set of figures i which Los Angelenos contemplate with no end of municipal pride. On one play, at least, in the whole his tory of plays, Los Angeles has out stripped New York—week for week. A monument to Pemberton is un likely, but he would look fine in that park on the way to Glendale, he and a big white rabbit standing on a pedestal, commemorating nine weeks in which Hollywood recog nized a legitimate attraction as en tertainment, in its way. * * * * The success of "Harvey.” by the way, has created quite a strong sentiment in favor of Brown for the principal role when it comes time to translate Mary Chase's play into a movie. Frank Fay, who created the part, is most anxious to reach the movie's larger audience, but he has a genuine opponent to reckon with in the wide-mouthed Brow'n. The latter also did some damage to a tradition during the Hollywood run of the play, the tradition being the one that the movie colony never took kindly to one of its own mem bers joining up with the rival outfit, the theater. * ♦ * ♦ Warner Bras, want you to know that they are casting "Life With Father’’ with all the loving care a studio ever bestowed upon a beloved comedy. The latest additions to the cast—headed by Irene Dunne and William Pow'ell—are Zasu Pitts and Edmund Gwenn. Both have been seen here in legitimate attractions since last evi dent in a move. Miss Pitts in “Wall flower,'’ Gw'enn in the more recent "You Touched Me.” But the happiest piece of casting news out of Hollywood during the past week, or maybe even since Scarlett O'Hara, was that which teams Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer in Erich Remarque's "Arch of Triumph.” The role of Ravic. Remarque's dramatic refugee hero, is one for w’hich virtually all of Hollywood accented actors would have given their accents. The one who wanted it most among those we encountered personally was Paul Henreid. Henreid could have done it handsomely, no doubt, but there will be no public protest that Boyer got the part instead. The latter and Miss Bergman did very well in "Gaslight,” remember. There might even be an Academy Award between them again in "Arch of Triumph.” For Boyer, perhaps, since the Ravic role is so much richer than | that of Joan Madou. A quite un sympathetic character, Joan, as well: as a bad girl. * * * * If you would like to see a de signer who also is an actress, have: a look at Jane Summers in "Rich ard III. ’ Cue and Curtain's offer ing Friday and Saturday nights at George Washington's Lisner Audi torium. She plays the Duchess of York in the settings w-hich she devised for the production, which is being staged by Floyd Sparks. FWA Efficiency Rating Committee Named Acting Federal Work Admini strator Baird Snyder has appointed the following employe efficiency j rating committee for the office of the administrator: W. N. Rehlaender, chairman: Wal-: ter L. Rhinehart, secretary; Aubrey E. Taylor, Ernest E. Hall, Alan John-| stone and Miss Leona Kempainen. , Alternates are Clarence H. Ost-1 hagen, Frank G. Holmes, Miss Helen Pierce, Charlie C. McCall and Mrs.’ i Elinor Jenkins. ' j NIVEN FILM BACK —While awaiting the first postwar ap pearance of David Niven, fans may see the popular British actor in the reissue of “The Prisoner of Zenda’’ which begins today at the Little. Niven is now in Hollywood at work on his first film there in six years. AMUSEMENTS. MAKES IMPASSIONED PLEA TRIESTE TROUBLE— CREATES CRISIS 1ST PORTRAIT— HIROHITO AND FAMILY WMAL—Hourly Newtcait Where and When Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing Stage. National—"The Two Mrs. Car rolls”: 2:30 and 8:30 p.m. Screen. Capitol—"Bad Bascomb”: 10:45 a.m.. T30. 4:20, 7:10 and 10 p.m. Stage shows: 1, 3:50, 6:40 and 9:30 Columbia — "Hoodlum Saint”: 11:25 a.m., 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30 and 9:35 p.m. Earle—"Bandit of Sherwood For est": 11 am, 1:15, 3:35, 5:40, 7:45. and 9:55 p.m. Hippodrome — "Arsenic and Old Lace": 2:35, 6:20 and 10 p.m. Keith's—“Spiral Staircase": 11 a.m., 12:50, 2:40, 4:25, 6:15, 8:05 and 9:55 p.m. Little—“Prisoner of Zenria": 11 a.m.. 1:05, 3:10, 5:15, 7:20 and 9:35 Metropolitan —"Saratoga Trunk' : 11:15 a m., 1:50, 4:30. 7:05 and 9 45 Palace—"The Virginian”: 11:20 a.m., 1:25, 3:30. 5:35, 7:40 and 9:45 Pix—‘The Bakers Wife : 3:25, 6:40 and 9:55 p.m. _AMUSEMENTS. NATION MAtINFFS TODAY and SATURDAY 9he Internationally Famous Actress ^mBERORER __ IN MARTIN VALES_ Witi. JOEL ASHLEY 2 WEEKS BEG. NEXT MON., 8:3C MATINEES WEDS, and SATK. at 2:3* The Theater Gnild Present* TMt THfATRf GUILD ftHAKESPfARC COMPANY CHARLES COBURN (in person) As Falstaff The Starry Wives of Windsor JESSIE ROYCE LANDIS tOMNEY WENT • GINA MALO BAY ID ROWfll • CHARIES flANCI. Di'tiitd ROMNEY .RENT —SEAT SALE TOMORROW— ON WORLD’S LAROEST ST REEK BARRY FITZGERAtD JOHN WAYNE LONG VOYAGE HOME DAUO NIVEN—LORETTA TOCNO ETERNALLY YOURS CREATIVE WRITING novels • short stories • ploys CLASSES WED. EVENING 7:30 to 9:30 PM. THE WASHINGTON WORKSHOP 2020 Mossachusetts Ave. N.W. Call Daytime, RE 1078 NOW, . Doors Open 10:45 MORE STARS THAN THERE ARE IN HEAVEN ☆ Listed in order of their appearance. I WILLIAM POWELL I u the Great Ziegfeld, plant his I greatest, most spectacular show! | Pictet | ITheg don't paq the two dollars' ...bnt deliver 2,000 langhs! makes "Love" the snltrg song sensation of this or ang gear! 1 JUDY GARLAYD j thrills gon with song and dance | in a rollicking musical satire! LUCILLE BALL as the whip-wielding Queen of (hose gorgeous Panther Girls! | ESTHER WILLIAMS I I The lovelg Bathing Beautg in f I an under-water wonder world! \ MURE* KELLY terrific tapping twosome in a high-stepping Gershwin number! tries to make a phone call—and it's a long-distance laugh-riot! TJui $£uci£Jit, I ASTAIRE*BREMER | thrillinglg dance into gour heart singing "This Heart of Mine." I RED SKELTON shows the fun in store when Television comes! yumzA 'Maiion MELTON * BELL Love songs, dance and specta cle in a midnight masquerade. FM BRICE wins the sweepstakes—and it's aproarions comedq at mrg turn! C Jj in "Limehouse Blues"...a love dream in moody Chinatown. kiTHRU (ill \VSI)\ sings the Grand Finale, a high note in Technicolor melodq! BUNIN S PUPPETS • CYD CHARISSE ■ HUME CRONYN • WILLIAM FRAWLEY • ROBERT .LEWIS • VIRGINIA O’BRIEN — . Directed by VINCENTI MINNELLI Produced by ARTHUR FREED fpQKfS'"™" Heart Of Mine" and "Beauty", by Harry Warren and Arthur Freed. "Love", by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane. "The Interview" by Kay Thompson and Roger Edenc* starts THURSDAY (. I < F at 13th • Doors Open 10:15 CARTOON CARR/m DOORS OPEN 8:30. ^ TICKETS ON SALE OC» !"«• £HOW STARTS 9 A. M. NOW <3DC tax ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY AT LOEW’S PALACE X^ SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 27 ^ Ends Today • Paramount 1946 Ttolmicolar "THE VIRGINIAN’*