Evening star. [volume], May 07, 1947, Page B-14, Image 37

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Keith's Marquee Sad to Read
On 'Best Years' Closing Day
By Jay Carmody
A new high In haunting wlstfulness mi set yesterday by Keith's
marquee, which read:
Last Day
The Best Years of Our Lives.
• · * ·
What with "Love for Love" en route to Washington, this correspond
ent Has œen aoie κ> Keep up uicsc
last three or four weeks with the
condition of New Yorker critic Wol
cott Oibbs. As press agent for the
show, Wlllard Keefe has also borne
regular bulletins on Mr. Gibbs' con
dition. The latest reads, as nearly
verbatim as it is polite to quote Mr.
Keefe:
"He's doing well. He's home now,
recuperating. They operated and
found none of the things wrong
that they expected. They don't know
what is wrong with him, of course,
but It is not as bad as they feared."
* * * *
One of the reasons why Mr. Keefe
Is the most popular press represent
ative in the theater is that he is
one of the greatest raconteurs in
the theater.
He may not have known as many
beautiful people as William Saroyan
thinks he, Saroyan, has, but Keefe
apparently has missed few of the
fascinating ones of the last 25 years.
Moreover, these are not people of
the drama or the movies, but the
ones any one might run across if
he had Keefe's knack for It.
There was this painter Keefe knew
In California. He was not a success
ful painter, as relatively few paint
ers are. "But," Keefe recalls, "he
was a resourceful sort.
"He lived In a place which was
lighted by gas, with one of those
meters you dropped quarters In. The
lights were on all the time, even in
the garden which was Illuminated
the same way.
-The funny thing was there were
never any quarters In the meter.
Naturally, the gas company became
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Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing
Stage.
National·—"The Two Mm. Car
rolls"; 2:30 and 8:30 pm. t
Screen.
Ambassador — "The Sea Wolf";
1:30, 4:55 and 8:30 pm.
Capitol—"Temptation"; 10:30 am,.
1:15, 4, 8:45, 9:30 pm. and 12:20
am. Stage shows, 12:10, 2:55, 5:40,
8:25 and 11:10 pm.
Columbia—"Boom Town"; 10:45
a.m„ 1, 3:15, 5.25, 7:40 and 9:55 pjn.
Earle—"The Sea Wolf"; 10 am.,
1:35, 5:15 and 8:55 pm.
Hippodrome—"Brief Encounter";
2:15, 3:50, 5:25, 7, 8:40 and 10:15
p.m.
Keith's—"Tarzan and the Hunt
ress"; 11:15 am, 1, 2:50, 4:35, 6:25,
8:15 and 10 pm. ,
Little—"Henry the Fifth"; 1:80
and 8:30 pm.
Metropolitan—"The Locket"; 11:20
am„ 1:25, 3:30, 5:35, 7:40 and 9:45
pm.
Palaoo—"California"; 11:10 am.,
1:15, 3:20, 5:25, 7:30 and 9:85 pm.
Pix—"Art of Love"; 2:20, 6:10, 8
and 10:15 pm.
Trans-Lux — News and Aorte.
Continuous from 10:15 am.
fascinated. It checked and rechecked
the meter and the feed-in systm. It
never could find anything wrong,
except that there never were any
quarters.
"So, as any intelligent gas com
pany would, it finally went directly
to the man. It made him an offer
of free gas and no prosecution if he
would tell what his system was.
"The man denied there was any
system. He suggested that maybe
evil little people were making off
with the quarters he was deposit
ing.
"The gas company went back to
its investigations, not that it be
lieved the meter was being robbed,
or that the customer was putting in
quarters. Still it found nothing, so
it returned to the patron again with
the same offer and with some argu
ment that it really ought to know
about such systems as his.*
"The fellow was in a better mood
on this occasion. Since all he really
wanted was free gas to light his
house and garden and cook his
meals, he told them his trick. It
seem." he was using slugs made of
ice, very trickily designed, intricately
balanced things which naturally
disappeared without a trace."
Keefe's companions asked the
question that naturally has occurred
to you.
"What," they asked in unison,
"ever happened to the guy? With
a mind like that he should have
been a great Inventor. Was he?"
"Funny," said Keefe, "he never
was. I asked him once why he did
not use such an obvious gift to
nobler purposes. His answer was
pretty final. He just looked at me
and said, 'Somehow I can't. I can
only Invent under pressure'."
♦ * * *
Francis Swann of the Baltimore
Swanns who is now in Hollywood as
a screen writer may possibly be on
the fringe of presenting the movies
with a fresh character type. "Fresh"
in the sense of refreshing, not of im
pertinence.
Swann's latest script, an item
titled "Hold It, Please" deals with
the life and fortunes of a sidewalk
photographer.
Jackie Cooper will impersonate
Swann's hero in the picture which
will be made by a new independent
producing group called Comet.
Incidentally, one of the great dif
BALLERINA—Sophie Korkoles
is one of the featured dancers
in the Ballet Soiree dance
troupe, which toill present its
second performance of the
season this coming Sunday
and Monday at the Jewish
Community Center, Sixteenth
and Q streets N.W. The group ,
is directed by Marion Venable.
Miss Korkoles also dances with
the Columbia Light Opera Co.
Acuities In forming a new movie
company Is finding a suitably colos
sal name tor It.
"Comet" obviously was one of the
few still open.
♦ *'* *
What with "I Remember Mama"
holding the boxofflce record so far
in the Washington Theater Alli
ance's spring festival of drama at
the Jewish Community Center, con
jecture ii rife as to whether It will
be that way after Thmrsday night.
That's the night the St. Paul
Players present the most ambitious
item on the program as to size, "The
Man Who Came to Dinner."
The casts of the other offerings
seem comparatively modest In rela
tion to that assembled for the Moss
Hart-George S. Kaufman comedy
by the St. Paul's group.
"Candlelight" by the Arts Club is
tonight's festival offering.
«
Hollywood:
Ann Sheridan
Is Not the Girl
For 'Serenade*
By Sheilah Graham.
Charles Beyer wants to play the
lead In "Mortal Coils," from the
short story, "The Gioconda Smile,"
by Aldous Huxley. It's a Zoltan Kor
da package with Universal-Inter
national, which paid $11β,000 for the
property, and $150,000 to Mr. Korda
to d'rect and produce.
It's now definite that Ann Sheri
dan is out of "Serenade." The story
has been completely rewritten and
the heroine is to be a Mexican girl
of 17. Mike Curtiz and Jerry Wald
are doing the picture at Warners.
Orson Welles will direct and star
in "Dearly My Beloved," an original
by Hans Jacoby. It's for the new
Milton Bren setup.
The Lana Turner-Van Heflin
Donna Reed-Richard Hart movie,
"Green Dolphin Street," cost Metro
in the neighborhood of $4,250,000.
Costs of pictures will have to come
dçwn soon, or else.
Lucille Ball has completed a deal
with Metro where she can do an
independent picture with Husband
Desi Arnaz. The movie they have
chosen is "Follow the Girls," which
Gertrude Niesen did on the stage.
Ed Sedgwick will direct; It's for
United Artists release.
Dane Clark has to knock out Tony
Garland, leading heavyweight con
tender, in "Whiplash." But Dane
must wait until his injured thumb
heals!
* ♦ * *
Poor Esther Williams! She has to
deny at least once a month those
persistent rumors of marital discord
with Ben Gage. A few days ago
someone called me with the 'usual
"hot tip." I didnt even bother to
duck with Esther—if any gal seems
to be in love with her husband,
it's the swimming champ.
Geraldlne Brooks—you'll see her as
Joan Crawford's daughter in "pos
sessed"—is about to announce her
engagement to writer Stanley Rubin.
The Dana Andrews picture, "Mem
ory of Love," has proved very bene
ficial to the colony Just above Malibu
Beach. When they shot some scenes
there, RKO built two roads at a cost
of $20,000—and the natives now use
them.
Sam Ooldwyn Is after Curt Bern
hardt to direct "Earth and High
Heaven," but Curt, one of our better
directors, will get to work sooner
than that. He directs Robert Taylor
and Audrey Totter in "The High
Wall" for Metro. "Earth and High
Heaven," with Joan Fontaine and
Gregory Peck starred, wont go into
production until 1948.
When you see Laralne Day In
"Tycoon," take a good look at the
black wig she wears. Laralne is
thinking of dyeing her own hair
black and she wants your comments
on whether she- should.
Linda Darnell has her passport
and tickets and will leave for Paris
and Switzerland on the Queen Eliz
abeth, May 15.
* * ♦ »
Here's something new on Alexis
Smith. I'm told bv Yucca Salamu
nich that Alexis h» the most sexj
seek in Hollywood! Yucca has Jus
made a bast of Alexis, and it toot
quite awhile because he was alwayi
stopping work to admire her neck
Jean Neguleeco goes nowhen
these days without his golden frying
pan! Jean won it for his musaks
and mamlya concoctions (I'm spell
ing these phonetically) in the re
çoit competition at Arthur's Res
taurant He insists that Errol
Flynn's "Don Juan" picture is still
very much on fire. Jean should know
—he's directing It.
William Hidden and Brenda
Marshall are planning to make a
picture together. At the moment
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BALLET SOIREE
W»»hIn«ton't Own Ballet Company
Presents
TWO NEW BALLETS
Marian D. Vcnable. Director
SUNDAY. MAT 11th, 3:00 P.M.
_ MONDAT, MAT 12th. 8:30 T.U.
Tickets on aale Fairway. 1328 α St.
M. W-, 1.50 * 1.80 tax included.
they bave a cute arrangement.
. Brenda, working at Paramount in
"Whispering Smith," brings BUI to
work at Colombia—for "The Man ι
from Colorado»* Then she picks himj
up at night and takes him home.
That's fine, except that Brenda has
to report for work two hours before
BUI does. "I just sit around and
(See GRAHAM, Pace B-15.)
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