Evening star. [volume], September 10, 1947, Page B-14, Image 35

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Broadway Charms the Best
Of Britain’s Acting Talent
By Jay Carmody
Casting department: Leading British players are quite as available
to Broadway this season as they have been these many years to Holly
wood where the pay is higher, the climate reputedly more attractive, and
the work lighter.
One new play—English, by the way—has just succeeded in corralling
the services of two outstanding London favorites.
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Hands,” by Mary Hayley Bell, and
the leading performers in it will be
Joyce Redman and Francis L. Sul
livan.
Miss Redman left her mark, ever
so pleasantly, upon thousands of
theatergoers in New York with her
tempestuous and roistering per
formance as Doll Tearsheet in the
old Vic’s production of "Henry IV.”
Sullivan, conspicuous in a dozen
of the top flight English pictures
which have been shown in this
country, last was seen here as the
corpulent barrister in “Great Ex
pectations.” Incidentally, while it
was remembered by but few movie
goers, he played the same role in
the American version of the same
Dickens’ story when it was produced
in the early 30s with Richard
■ Barthelmess.
The interpretation was quite dif
ierent, nowever, ana tne ainerence
was enormously in favor of the
second picture under the direction
of David Lean.
With John Gielgud, who is re
maining in this country to star in
“Crime and Punishment,” they will
give American drama lovers a good
view of the best in English acting.
Gielgud is presently busy directing
Judith Anderson in "Medea,” a
chore which he will follow by being
just a leading actor in "Crime and
Punishment.”
+ * * *
Wardrobe department: Cecil
Beaton’s gowns for the Victorian
women in "Lady Windermere’s
Fan” were one of the production's
most sensational features all
through last season. They will be
-again during the current road tour
of the comedy which opens a three
week engagement at the National
next Monday.
Cornelia Otis Skinner, star of the
* play and wearer of its most elab
orate garb, is of the opinion, how
ever, that the styles represented
will go no farther than knocking
the eyes out of the beholder. As for
any real influence upon contem
porary design, the cleaning bills
alone would make the thing pro
What with a frock requiring 20
Harris of fabric and the multitudi
nous underskirts (seven or eight
to the outfit), the upkeep of the
production’s wardrobe is prodigious.
Ask the Theater Guild which pays
' the cleaning and pressing bills!
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Parenthood department: Actor
fathers, it seems, are as capable
as any other kind of making mis
judgments as to the proper fu-'
tures, or careers, for their sons.
That was the case, at any rate,
In the William Faversham family,
of which second son Philip is vis
ible on the local scene as Sergt.
Bill Page in “The Voice of the
Turtle.”
Father Faversham. a singularly
Illustrious actor, thought Philip
should not go into the theater.
Older son William, jr., but not
Philip. The latter, he figured, was
more the broker type, even though
he might not realize it. That is
how it was at first, William, jr., the
actor and Philip the broker’s as- j
distant in Boston.
When the depression came Wil-1
11am, jr., decided that he would get j
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out ot the theater into something
more substantial. He became a
broker. At the same time second
’ son Philip decided he would get put
of brokerage into something that
might keep a man busier.
He took up acting and has been
: at it ever since, with the exception
of the war years, when he was in
the Army, but as a first lieutenant
instead of the sergeant he is play
ing at the National this week.
* * * *
Type-casting department: There
i will be no relief for Joan Crawford
—even if she wanted it, which she
does not. She will go right on play
ing those tortured women with
whom she has achieved such popu
larity in “Mildred Pierce” and “Po.v
sessed.” The next one will be the
heroine of “Until Proven Guilty,” a
woman who has every reason in the
world to develop a dramatic neu
rosis
* * * *
Tourist information department:
Go to Hollywood if you will but
don't expect to crash a movie studio
unless you are a traveling potentate,
ambassador or a close blood relative
of the men who run the film fac
tories, As part of the new economy
efficiency program of the producing
studios, the bars against visitors
will be raised higher than ever.
The tendency to limit studio visit
ing has been gaining momentum for
the past several years, but there
were loopholes.
The new ban applies even to thosfe
guided tours through which bus
loads of visitors were zipped through
the major movie lots to look at a
lot of dull sound stage exteriors and,
perhaps, just perhaps, catch a
glimpse of a star.
Finian Signed
Albert Sharpe, who scored one of
the biggest hits of the recent
Broadway season with his portrayal
of Finian in “Finian's Rainbow,”
has been signed by RKO Radio to a
long-term contract and cast in one
rvf the tj-in mips nf "The Rnv With
Green Hair.”
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EDWARD EVERETT
HORTON
in
“SPRINGTIME FOR HENRY”
Tuesday Through Sunday, 8:45
Tickets: Ballard'*, 1300 G St. N.W.
ME. 7516 Adm.: *1.80, *2.40. *3
DANGEROUS—Anne Jeffreys
plays the leading feminine
role in the cinema melodrama
“Riff-Raff,” which comes to the
Metropolitan screen tomor
row).
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Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing
Stage.
National—“The Voice of the
Turtle”; 2:30 and 8:30 p.m.
Screen.
Ambassador — ' uarnegie nau ,
1:20, 3:55, 6:30 and 9:15 p.m.
Capitol—“Kiss of Death”; 11 a.m.,
1:45, 4:30, 7:15 and 10 p.m. Stage
shows: 1:50, 3:50, 6:35 and 9.20 p.m.
C o 1 u m b i a— Gone With the
Wind”; 9:45 a.m., 1:35, 5:25 and:
9:15 p.m.
Earle—“Carnegie Hall”; 11:05 a.m.,
1:40, 4:15, 6:50 and 9:30 p.m.
Hippodrome—“The Happy Breed”;
2:05, 4:05, 6:05, 8 and 10 p.m.
Keith's—“The Bachelor and the
Bobby-Soxer”; 11:35 a.m., 1:35, 3:35,
5:35, 7:35 and 9:35 p.m.
Little—'‘Fantasia”; 11:05 a.m.,
1:05, 3:10. 5:15, 7:20 and 9:30 pm.
Metropolitan—“Welcome Strang
er”; 11:10 a.m., 1:15, 3:20, 5:25, 7.35,
and 9:45 pm.
Palace—“Mother Wore Tights”;
10:45 a.m., 12:55, 3:05, 5:15, 7:25, j
and 9:35 p.m.
Pix—“The Overlanders”; 2:35,
4:25, 6:15, 8:05 and 10 pm.
Trans-Lux—News and shorts.
Continuous from 10:15 a.m.j
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Screen play by Donald Ogden Stewart—from Oscar
Serlin’s Stage Production • Music by Max Steiner
Directed by MICHAEL CURTIZ
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Hollywood:
‘Menagerie’ Cast
Gets Fonda,
Maybe Ethel
By Sheiloh Graham
Henry Fonda is the boy in Charlie
Feldman’s movie version of "The
Glass Menagerie.” Jeanne Crain is
definitely set as the girl. And with
Helen Hayes out as the mother—
Helen just isn’t in the mood to make
a movie—you can expect Ethel
Barrymore to take over the role
made famous on Broadway by the
late Laurette Taylor.
Now I learn that Hedy Lamarr
plans to plav three roles in “The
Tales of Hoffman” when she makes
it into a movie. Hedy will run the
gamut of hair dyeing—she’ll be a
biona, a reaneaa ana ner own nat
ural brunette!
Van Johnson came back from his
personal-appearance tour loaded to
the teeth with baby clothes- Ador
ing fans showered him with every
thing.
Mickey Rooney moaning all over
town, "I want a home for my two
babies!” The two children are living
with Mickey’s mother in the Valley,
until he ccrtnes up with something
large enough in the way of a house.
Mickey sold his house when he sep
arated from his wife.
Jackie Coogan found a way of tak
ing his personal-appearance tam
ings out of England. The agency
which sent him there paid him here
in dollars on his return. Jackie had
a tremendous triumph in England,
where they still think of him as “The
Kid.”
* * * *
John Payne and wife Gloria De
Haven returned from their big Bear
vacation showing no evidence of
having marriage trouble, as reported.
Leo McCarey has a tough religious
problem in his current picture,
“Good Sam.” There’s a Protestant
minister in it. Protestant church
authorities want him to be very
serious. But the role is on the
AMUSEMENTS
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NATIONAL AIR SHOW
Sensational Speed, Stunts
AMERICA WINS DAVIS CUP
Schroeder Victor in Finals
N. Y. GIANTS CRUSH
COLLEGE ALL-STARS
WHAL Newscast • Lut Show 10:46
■ humorous side and Leo doesn't
| want to change it. “So," he tells
me on the set, “I think I'll switch
j and make him a Catholic.” If he
| does, Frank McHugh will get the
I part instead of Singer John Charles
Thomas.
Gary Cooper in the same movie
looks like a bolied beetroot. He has
a case of sunburn—all over his
body, he says. And it hurts when
he hs to bend down and carry Ann
Sheciaan. It would hurt more if
he carried me (wishful thinking!).
I’m heavier than Ann, who is still
taking three eggnogs a day to gain
weight.
George Brent on the set of
“Luxury Liner” describes how he is
going to Tahiti next month, And
it does not include a luxury liner,
“I’m taking a Dutch freighter,” says
George. The fare money is $250 one
way. Ana ne is traveling ngnt— a
couple of pairs of shorts, and a
sports suit.’’ He will not be taking
Janet Michaels with him. “I’m not
getting married—ever,” says George,
with finality.
Barbara Stanwyck has cut off
most of her hair, and Robert Taylor
is delighted. He's been trying to
get Barbara to snip her long bob for
years. Now she has to do it for the
flapper period scenes in ”B. F.'s
Daughter.”
* * * *
This is certainly Lana Turner’s
year. Now I hear she is down for
the fascinating role of Grushenka
in “The Brothers Karamazov” at
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would be Ideal for the leading man's
role. And Michael Chekov will
probably snag the part of the
sleazy old father.
Carmen Miranda will not be in
the line-up when Monte Proser
opens his new Copacabana in De
cember on the site of the old Troca
dero. Originally they were having
a special room called the Miranda
Room. Now they are cutting ex
nenses—hut. riot, the dresses of the
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THRU HEn SUNDAY MAT. AND NI6HT
Eve*. 8:30 Mat*. «Ved.. Sat.. San. 9:30
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TWO BIG HITS!
OPEN 7:30 STARTS 8:00
TONIGHT AND TOMORROW
AT 9:45
WILLIAM BENDIX
DENNIS O’KEEFE
"ABROAD WITH
TWO YANKS"
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At 7:55 and 10:55
"GLASS ALIBI"
’ showgirls, which will put Mr. Proser
back $40,000.
There's a new about-to-be Amer
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brought here by David Selznick a
(See GRAHAM, Page B-15.) ‘
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The heart-story of a man who
was loved by two women! His
melodies-which are sung by
all sweethearts-kindled a
billion kisses! We bring back
one of the finest, most excit
ing musicals Hollywood ever
produced. It's as new today as
the day it was made. If you
didn't see it before, a fine
treat awaits you. If you did,
you'll want to re-live its thrills!
C. JOHANN STRAUSS II
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YOU'LL IOVE TO HEAR/
■ THE BLUE DANUBE"
"TALES OF THE VIENNA WOODS"
"ONE DAY WHEN WE WERE YOUNG"
I M IN LOVE WITH VIENNA"
AND OTHER MELODIES
MGM’s MUSICAL MASTERPIECE
gloriously re-presented
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IN PERSON World Famous Magician & Hypnotist II
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The Screen’s New “FALCON” |V
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