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A-14 ** ' the EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. mtiiimt, ma it. i*s» THE PASSING SHOW India Sends 'Chandra/ A DeMille-Size Film ' BY JAY CARMODY India, which has a large and flourishing motion picture in dustry, has sent us a lavish sample of its cinema product in '‘Chandra," which opened yesterday at the Little Theater. This is a DeMilie-size (larger than "king”) epic, extravagant in its every dimension and pulsating with color. Its cast is huge, including India's outstanding performers of both sexes and an impressive collection of Nautch dancers. Prom these specifications, you may gather that the conventions of Hollywood have profoundly influenced the producers of "Chandra.” Superficially, at least, this is a sound judgment which leaves India’s candidate for interna tional cinema honors—and prof its—more appealing to western curiosity than exciting in its drama. There is no denying, however, that the film’s land scape has about it a notable quality of visual splendor. Its settings are palaces, temples, bazaars and other aus tere or teeming centers of orien tal life that are not available to western film makers, and, in! consequence, have a special Quality of drama. Nevertheless, for all its accent j, cn spectacle, “Chandra” is a story film. It is a historic melo drama which reaches far back into Indian mythology to tell the i story of one of the country’s early j heroines. This is a girl who is as politically and militarily astute: as she is attractive and courage- j ous in person. That she lived in a dawn so far antecedent to anything re sembling our own makes her more startling than comprehen sible to western moviegoers. The producers 9t "Chandra” appar ently anticipated this which in spired them to present the pic ture in English, a helpful gesture but a not altogether successful one. "Chandra,” therefore, remains! a film whose appeal will be to; those seeking the special cinema! entertainment, a westernized ■ eastern which may be a presage of Indian films to come. As so many have gome from other, nearer lands in the internation alization of film exhibition. ** * * THE SWITCH: Hollywood, which only yesterday—a longish ago yesterday—was wondering how it could possibly live with television, might well begin to wonder how it could live with out it. If the present trend continues, the folk speech might even come up with an expression: “Oh. I decided to skip the telecast and wait for the movie." If, and when, this happens, it will be an outgrowth of the movie 6tudios’ sudden hunger to buy television scripts for Cinema scope enlargement. The cur rently most-talked-of new film release, if you didn't know, is "Marty” which was taken from j a video play written by Paddy! HOLLYWOOD FI By SHIILAH GRAHAM jOP Piper-Schine Romance Warm HOLLYWOOD. Piper Laurie has come a long way from eating flowers for publicity to a marriage license i with the very wealthy David ' Schtoie. She’ll more or less .give up her movie career after the marriage. MGM is holding “Green Man- i gions” for Pier Angeli, until : after the baby. That’s nice for her—and for them. . . . Jack Benny and Lucille Ball are trad ing guest shots on each other’s show. . . . John Agar, now very, serious about his career, will do j a “Climax” on CBS week after next. There will soon be a very fas cinating announcement from Bing Crosby. . . . Gregory Peck has started a racing stable. I hope he knows as much about horses as women in general would like to know about him. Greg is leading a very quiet life, Just dating Veronica Passani. ** * * Bob Aldrich has a new system for shooting “The Big Knife”— i 14 days of rehearsing with Jack j Palance, Shelley Winters and Ida Lupir.o, and then only 15 days to shoot. Jerry Lewis, discussing the new flood of rumors of a feud with partner Dean Martin: “I buried three in my family this; past year. Everything else seems a little bit trite.” Six-year-old Porty Mason turned down the Baby Spooks role on TV because of the working hours —40 a week at the rate of eight a day. And ldt’e face it, her parents, Pamela and James Mason, do not need the money. James is currently corralling $2,500 a week as host of Lux Video. And “A Star Is Born" j added $400,000 to the family bankroll. ** * * Silver Screen is chortling be cause of the Grace Kelly cover, picked two months before Oracle won the Oscar. I like the com ment inside—“ Never has so much been written about some one who has so little to say.” . . . And listen to this from * Charlton Heston: “Hollywood has created its own monsters, and they’re all femiplne.” Well! Time-is-passing department: Child Star Natalie Wood grad uates from Van Nuys High j School in June. And add the Hollywood touch—to celebrate, she has already purchased a 1955 convertible which she drives to her acting chores in “Rebel Without a Cause.” Natalie has been offered the role of Ann Frank in the Broadway play, *VMary of a Oirl"—written by I Chayevsky. With no bigger star names than those of Ernest Borg nine and Betsy Blair (Mrs. Gene Kelly), it promises to be the amazing money-maker of the year. This, on top of the success of Jack Webb’s movie version of "Dragnet,” the film companies have fairly leaped into the breach. Within the space of a week, for instance, MGM has ac quired rights to such recent tele vision hits as “Fearful Decision,” and “The Rack.” “The Rack” is the work of Rod Serling whose earlier electronic drama hit was “Patterns.” "The Rack” will be rechris tened “Court Martial” in the movie version. Glenn FPrd, 1 Metro’s most delightful recent 'talent acquisition, will play the lead. ** * * j* FURTHERMORE: Sheldon Reynolds, the "Foreign Intrigue” man. one of television's most { successful sleep delayers for sev eral seasons, is another recruit ! to movie-making. He has hired Robert Mitchum I as his star, made plans to shoot the film this summer on foreign soil (where else?), and reportedly has two big Hollywood studios panting for the distribution rights. Peace, it's profitable. ** * v TROUBLE IN PARADISE: Troubles keep multiplying for Rita Hayworth. The star who recently served notice on Colum j bla that she would terminate her ! contract and switch to inde ; pendent production with United 1 Artists, has hit a snag. It takes ! the form of notice to United ! Artists by Columbia that it has no intention of giving up Rita without a fight. The latter, naturally, is not sure it would care to get involved in one more melee between the star and her old bosses. + *,* * WHO’S WHERE?: There’s a question that is getting to be impossible to answer in show business. Next fall, for instance, Danny Kaye will stop being a Holly wood fixture as he has been, ex cept when traveling, for 10 years. He is coming back to Broadway in a musical version of an Alec Guinness film hit, "The Cap tain’s Paradise.” The adapta tion is being done by the writing team of Howafd Lindsay and Russel Crouse whose last contri bution to the musical stage was "Call Me Madam.” * boundaries anywhere, any . the girl who lived thiough the Nazi occupation of Holland. When Rita Hayworth learned that her studio was considering Tony Curtis for Joseph in “Jo seph and His Brethren," she quipped, “Then they should get Debbie Reynolds for my role.” Say. that’s not a bad idea. But I have an odd feeling that Rita will be back in the picture before long. Leo McCarey has cooled on the idea of starring Mario Lanza in “The Adventures of Marco Polo.” It’s one thing being tem peramental in this country. But to act pp in Spain would really be a headache. Remember when Carole Lom bard and John Barrymore starred in the movie. “Twen tieth Century?” Now I hear that Shelley Winters will play the Lombard role on the screen. It’d be nice to give the other part to John junior—only he still looks like such a baby. To give you an idea of how Rock Hudson has climbed in the ; film firmament, he now employes Bette Davis' former secretary, Bridget Price. I’d like to read a book about Hollywood, by a sec retary to the stars. ** * * Marlene Dietrich, Rhonda Flemming, Terry Moore, Gloria Swanson, Shirley Booth and Carol Channing are among the lovelies who will attend the big party at Toots Shor’s Saturday for the Damon Runyon TV Theater. Hosts include Jack “Big Butch” Dempsey, Leo "Jack the Beefer” Durocher, Alfred “The Fingers” Vanderbilt and Joe “Sleep Out Sam” Di Maggio. Joe’s date for the party will be Marilyn Mon roe. The Grace Kelly-Oleg Cassini romance has to be over. Oleg has been dating Claudette Thornton. Bob Stack’s ex-steady. Tallulah Bankhead opens here next Wednesday at the Biltmore in "Dear Charles," and Tallu is tossing a party for all her dahlings .on Tuesday. I’ll be there! * (Helmed by HAMA) Medical Complaint Plan HELENA, Mont. UP). The American Medical Association has been studying a Montana physician-patient grievance pro gram as a possible pattern for wider use. The Montana Medical Association set up a grievance committee to hear patients’ complaints. Dr. Harold W. Ful ler. committee chairman re ported that advance discussion of fees between the patient and his physician or surgeon would eliminate many grievances. .JR § .if'Jmgt WBL 1 JSI atm lap m /m? 8 ■r WKLM Hh M Wmßm? Mai / K V-P* ami fc*. 'Mm mm ■ -j j f si'f a . IK ~ ..nwiflll; MllllirflSVf/f f 'GAME OF LOVE'PLAYERS And it is a poignant score with which Nicole Berger and Pierre-Michel Beck come up at the end of the film now at the Plaza Theater. The screenscript is based upon one of the late Colette’s most searching stories of childhood's emergence into adolescence. NEWS OF MUSIC W&L Players Show Remarkable Technique BY DAY THORPE Washington-Lee High School Sym phony Orchestra, Dorothy Baumle, conductor. Soloists: Hugh Matheny, oboe; June Cook, piano; Sally Strat ton piano- At the Washington- Lee High School. Program: Toccata. Prescobaldi. arr. Kindler: Two move ments from Symphony No. 1, B flat. Schumann; Winter’s Passed, for oboe and strings. Barlow* Angelus, Masse net: Overture to Die Meistersinger, Wagner: First Movement and finale of the Concerto for Two Pianos. K. 316a, Mozart. If you can judge a school by its orchestra, the students at Arlington’s Washington-Lee high school are well educated. The members of the large orchestra, which gave a concert last night under the direction of Dorothy Baumle, an instructor in the music department, did not every one of them play up to profes sional standards, but the ap proach to music of each of them was professional, and the con cert was one of great vitality and remarkable technical polish. Girls outnumber boys in the orchestra of more than 100 ap proximately two to one. First fiddles are evenly divided, but the second fiddles are mostly played by girls. The five flutes are all girls, as are two trom bones, a horn, a bassoon, the concertmaster and the leader of the second violins. The four trumpets are safely in the hands of men, but the orchestra’s only cornet is blown very nicely by a girl. Miss Baumle cannot be con gratulated too sincerely, in a time when all too frequently children's music is thought of WHERE AND WHEN CURRENT THEATER ATTRACTIONS AND TIME OF SHOWING Stage National “The Seven Year i Itch”; 2:30 and 8:30 p.m. Shubert—“The Honeys”; 2:30 ’ and 8:30 p.m. Arena—“ The World of Sholom j Aleichem’;; 2:30 and 8:30 p.m. Screen Ambassador—“ East of Eden”; 1, 3:05, 5:15, 7:20 and 9:35 pm. Capitol—“ Hit the Deck”; 11 am., 1:05, 3:15, 5:25, 7:35, 9:40 and 11:50 p.m. Colony—“ The Little Kidnap pers”; 6, 8:10 and 9:55 p.m. Columbia "Conquest of Space”; 10:45 a.m., 12:45, 2:45, 4:50, 6:50, 8:50 and 10:50 p.m. Dupont—“Wuthertng Heights”; 11 a.m., 1:05, 3:10, 5:15, 7:25. 9:35 and 11:45 pm. Keith’s “The Long Gray Line”; 11:15 a.m., 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 and 11:40 p.m. Little "Chandra”; 1. 2:45, 4:30, 6:15, 8:05 and 9:50 p.m. MacArthur "Doctor in the House”; 2, 3:55, 5:45, 7:45 and 9:50 pm. Metropolitan—“ East of Eden”; 11 am.. 1:05. 3:10, 5:15, 7:25. 9:30 and 11:40 pm. Ontario—“ Camille"; 1:30,3:30, 5:35, 7:35 and 9:40 pm. Palace—“A Man Called Peter”; 11:30 a.m., 2. 4:25, 6:55, 9:25 and 11:55 p.m. Playhouse "The Glass Slip per”; 10:40 am., 12:30, 2:20, 4:10, 6, 7:55, 9:45 and 11:35 p.m Plaza—“ Game of Love”; 12, 1:50. 3:50, 5:50, 7:50, 9:50 and 11:50 pm. Trans-Lux “The Country Glil”; 10:45 a.m., 12:30, 2:25, 4:20, 6:15, 8:15, 10:15 p.m. and 12:10 am. Warner—“ This la Cinerama"; 2, 5 and 8:30 pm. 27 Racing Pigeons Reported Stolen A pigeon fancier reported to police yesterday the theist of 27 of his homing racers from a loft at the rear of his home at 734 QUincy street N.W. Charles L. Smith, 57, said he' missed the birds when he wenti to feed them. He placed their! value at $l5O and Mid each wore an international identification! band. -V only as a social grace and not as an artistic accomplishment, on an orchestra that plays so well in tune, with such good color, and with such assurance. It is not at every concert that one hears so exciting a performance of the Meistersinger overture. Hugh Matheny, the first oboist, turned soloist to play an in consequential piece called “Win ter’s Passed,” and showed a tal ent far superior to the music. After intermission, Sally Strat ton put aside her bass viol, ana June Cook laid down her violin to collaborate in a performance of the Mozart concerto for two pianos. Both played very well— so well, in fact, that it seemed a shame that the middle movement of tiie piece was omitted for no apparent reason. While there may be a certain latitude in a school orchestra in the matter of arrangements to fit the personnel. Miss Baumle, who did not hesitate to use only strings as accompaniment in the piece for oboe, may have shown bad judgment in letting the full orchestra play the Mozart score. In a piece for strings, bassoons, oboes and horns, a large orches tra Including even trombones and trumpets can only cause con fusion and distortion. General participation may be good for morale, but more important than morale in an ochestra that clear ly has so much of it is the culti vation of a feeling for style. Police Seize 35 Lewd Films Undercovermen seized 35 lewd films from three penny arcades here during a series of ratds yesterday, police reported. | Inspector Roy Blick, of the ! morals division, said he used the j ruse of sending new undercover ! men into the arcades in the 1200 block of New York avenue N.W Six men were arrested. He said 14 short reels were seized at the Variety. 10 at the Funland and 11 at the Coney Island, all in the same block. Chester S. Mattingly, 37, of the 2800 block of Gainesville street S.E., and John Price, 66, of the 1200 block of Massa chusetts avenue N.W., were ar rested at the Coney Island. Arrested at the Variety were Carol W. Shore, 42, of the 1900 block of Thirty-seventh street N.W., and William A. Farina. 58, of the 1800 block of Twenty third street S.E. Raymond A. Mcßoberts, 22, of the 1100 block of K street N.W., and Henry A. Remsnyder, of the 5700 block of Eignteenth ave nue, Chlllum, Md., were ar rested ft the Funland. All six were charged with possession of obscene film and exhibiting ob scene film. Two Boys Die In Old Icebox LOS ANGELES, April 16 (/P).— Two small boys were found dead In an abandoned icebox last night. A search of several hours end ed when the bodies of Albert Arebalo, 8. and his small com panion, David Anthony Fen nessy, 2, were found by sheriff's deputies. The old icebox was stored in a tumbledown chicken shed near the boys’ homes. The youngsters were found crouched inside the box. Fireman R. F. Britton said they had been dead about five hours. John Richardson, 26, owner of the property where the tragedy occurred, said the icebox had been stored in the shed for six months. | The boys were the sons of Mr I and Mrs. Frank Fennessy and ! Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Arebalo. ! Both Mrs. Fennessy and Mrs. i Arebalo are expectant mothers. NAVY SAYS CLOUD SEEDING YIELDS NO WEATHER CROP NEW YORK (A*).—The Navy says "Operation Scud,” an attempt to alter weather along the East Coast by seeding storm clouds, has prove a dud. The official report yesterday from New York Univer sity, which evaluated the tests, Mid: The experiment lent no support to the theory that seed ing can make, break or change a storm In a big way.” Dr. Jerome Star, NYU scientist in charge of the experi ment, Mid localized seeding might work, but added: ‘These is no evidence of any large-scale meteorological effects due to seeding.” In the experiment, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, planes dropped 30 tons of dry ice between Florida and Massachusetts and sent aloft 250 pounds of silver iodide from 17 generating stations between New York and Florida. The tests were conducted between January through April, 1953, and from December, 1953, through April, 1954. New York City spent about $50,000 on rainmaking at tempts to break the 1950 drought. Limited success was re ported. Fund-Raising Trip Planned by Pastor Os Chinese Church The interdominatianal board of managers of the Chinese Com munity Church last night voted Dr. C. C. Hung, pastor, a summer leave of absence to seek new building funds among Chinese on the West Coast and Hawaii. Plans call for Dr. Hung to leave here about May 1 for San Francisco, where he will be co chairman of the first national conference of the Chinese churches, sponsored by the Na tional Council of Churches of Christ. When this meeting adjourns May 12, Dr. Hung will begin his fund-raising efforts. The fund stands now at about $20,000. The church is located at 1011 L street N.W. The board of managers ap proved the appointment of Dr. T. T. Ho as interim pastor dur ing Dr. Hung’s absence. Dr. Ho, a Methodist who is studying at Westminster Theological Semi nary, Westminster, Md., was in troduced last night. Broadcasters Pick Officers By the Associated Press Chesapeake and Virginia Asso ciated Press broadcasters yes terday electld new officers. David V. R. Stickle, news director of WMAR-TV, Balti more, was elected president of the Chesapeake A. P. Radio, TV Broadcasters Association. He succeeds R. C. Embry, general manager of WITH of Baltimore. The Virginia Associated Press Broadcasters elected Wendell Siler, manager of WRAD, Rad ford, Va., as president. He suc ceeds Howard Hamrick, program director of WRNI, Richmond. The Chesapeake Association also named William Paulsgrove, assistant manager of WJEJ, Hagerstown, as vice president. John Mine of the Baltimore bureau of the A. P. was elected secretary. For other officers, the Virginia group elected Don Greene of WSVS, Crewe, Va., vice presi dent: E. S. Whitlock, WRNL, Richmond, treasurer, and Frank H. Fuller, Richmond bureau! chief of the A. P. secretary. Churchmen to Meet The Fairfax County Associa tion of Churches will hold its fifth annual meeting at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow in St. Paul’s j Episcopal Church, Baileys Cross Roads, Va. Lloyd Millegan, a layman of Fairfax, Va., is presi-j dent. He will preside. V m rfVjflU ST 3-4777 ' WE SHOW TONIGHT I TH© (p-anie f£z) Wfjntjrtwjl »tn Jim'iTiVr l WmfjJlUm a-1326 | NOMINEE FOR THE’ . ft, «£” INTERNATIONAL I /TW GRAND PRIX! lIiPHM i <//Ajpi, India’s Fabulous "HAUICH GliqS” 7rti * T N.W. NO. 7-3000 | HOWARD j “Mister Personality'’ • IN PERSON • LOUIS JORDAN & Hit Tympany Five Downbeat Award Winner BENNY GREEN it Hit Orchestra Broadway Master Mimic ARNOLD DOVER Man with Happy Feet DERBY WILSON Midnite Show Tomorrow Thrills in The Air FERDINAND A GERRI j Midnite Show Tonight! WWjSSSum MATINEE TODAY 2:3$ ! 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