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>opular : ps ENT i 'RAVEL : BIBLES f . COOK HOP : ATLAS 3 ES ! y Filled m—] i , : Coliseum "NEW ORLEANS" ; Lyric aste heir : a - " " - le Che Saad pore I LIFE WITH FATHER FORECAST — Singing Cho Cho, San in Puccini's "Mme. Butterfly," Charles Circle Wagner production opening the Martens series Oct. 20 at the English, will be Mary ale: : Henderson of the Metropolitan. Looking more cheerful is Dusty Fletcher, of "Open bus, ! ‘ vi ' a . t . : . ain- . the Door, Richard!" fame, who will be in the cast of the Sunday Music Hall's variety — LAP : vice ’ ys" | show Sept. 28 at the Coliseum. On the screen next week: Welcome Stranger has © H ‘W ¥ St Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald and Joan Caul fi eld in its cac¢ "The Unfinished Dance'' “| TH e 0 I 0 of a 0 me Stranger’ 9 yo 2] or ros] y. in e co | presents Kat n Booth as a ballet” dancer in "New + Dorott s Patrick and 8 Erskine Johnson 3 ipal | Arturo De Cordova embrace 1 {lv. while "Life Yosh Father’ is anything out dul, a y : Lit } To Op en \ V ednes ay at In ana | with Willem Powell playing the hot-terr pered paren ’ HOLLYWOOD, Sept.-20—After 15 years in Hollywood, I finally a I “crashed movietown's lollipop set. Joan Crawford.did, too. i + 4 : »* lollipoppers didn't even notice me, but I'm sure they noticed 3 Ba ing to Loew's; ‘Life With Father’ at Circle; Gi ti She $ Ce i The loll} Ilet rh Comi 9 Bangs Make igan ic ow a (o) iseum La Crawford. She was wearing a live monkey on her head. vy p— ‘New Orleans’ and ‘Fun’on a Week-End’ Billéd ‘at Lyric Theater Men Whistle g I had better explain. Ei : : SheRR—.—— o . : 3 AN yy. store me i 3everly | Natu / 1€ “Hs Ha _— ING CROSBY and Barry Fitzgerald are back in screen partnership in “Welcome ’ Will Launch Stage Season } a Rew wy TS oD ed i erly His. Naturally, they Hadlo A : lave a arly. acl, Fr SLO be: Stranger,” opening Wednesday af the Indiana. Actress Says i : press agent insisted on it. (Every- momentarily on one shoulder and 1 gh i ical .rathor this coiriteal. whith: they were Es Great Artists Assembled for Sparkling Press age: eC at i IVY” then leaped to the top of her head. ii 1str ons é a | al, C, thing has ¥-, > ki Hi This time, their ministrations are med ical rather than spiritual, which th ao Revue Here Sent. 28. Othei-Notobles Billed hing 5 x pre 5 agent 0. Holy TRE. Bhoropraphors Alms! 3 in “Going My Way.” For the veteran Irish actor and the ace crooner are cast as United Press Staff Correspondent P y y ress agent who has a press agent.) ‘ampled six famous children to i Sa HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 20 —What By HENRY BUTLER Press agen 85 Rh press agent.) | cath to get the picture. Joan was ’ small-town physicians. . . ’ Fx : " I siaire sensors eth ‘els ane. Bent Of A / h : . makes gin whistle A girl wearing I'he loca ge seasont will start with a bang Sept, 28 “UNCLE BERNIE” Spier—that's # tartled as. the monk, But at 3 PA IN aly’ sd in leading roles, the film also presents Louis Arm= ‘nanos says Janis Paige, At 8 p. m. that day, the Sunday Music Hall will present its all-} ~~ , least she nonchalant about it, Hy WITH PLENTY of scope for Crosby 5 SINRINGs orang and his band and Billie Holliday, plus Woody Miss Paige, who would still get Ne iety show: at’ the Coliseum he fellow who owns the store—sei a i the story concerns an old-time general Fracutiones Hermtialy and his orchestra. whistled at- if she had no hair al With a glittering and costly roster of talent, the show will headline party invitations to all the sta: “This reminds me of a story about who decides to take his first vacation " years. : e » The story opens in 1917 New Orleans. Miss all, said the whistles on the boule- Bill (Bojangles) Robinson, the great artist whose style and technique kiddies. Then, accidentally, - of a woman who went to a psychiatrist LS , ete. gends to an agency for a temporary assistant, Who paiiop socialite singer, is fascinated while her vard had been longer, lower and have been imitated but never equaled course, he telephoned all the Hol- carrying a duck under one arm. The + turns out to be Dr. Crosby. : mother (Irene Rich) is appalled by the new jazz more interesting since she started! Versatile Katherine Dunham : . lywood photographers. And, when woman said to the - psychiatrist: w B has certainly caused plenty of heart-thtobs. - " | ‘ ' Ys ryP EUSP ant hr. temperance melodrama, is a novelty '¢ Sk ’ i rive. BAS 5 ing. 1a ” av mus|c. wearing her reddish-brown hair (dancer, choreographer, anthro . the mamas and papas heard that I need some advice. 4 “Welcome Stranger’ gives him a chance to play at Using influence and social connections, the dangling over her forehead pologist, author) will® appear in opening at. Steve Brode y's. Music the photographers would be there: o u ” i Nixon diagnosing same. ' mother has Mr. De Cordova, owner of the jazz- She didn't realize that was the some of the exotic Caribbean Hall (the Red Gables) Sep! 20..A ihey decided it would be all right! *“‘YES, MADAME, said the psyDe Is There's the usual comedy of errors, plus some dispensing night club, run ot of town. Daughter |... . at first. Then her hair. dances he has made famous for g-run success on the es! coast for Junior and sister to join jn the chiatrist, ‘what's wrong with you?’ tails. i bitter medical rivalry which sets the little town into can now pursue. her serious musical study without dresser, Agnes Flanagan, tipped through her “Bal Negre,” which In he show. will be pre ented here in fun. “‘Oh’ said the woman, ‘there's confusion for a while, There's also romantic inter- the corrupting influence of popular music, her off dianapolis saw last season at the an atmosphere remirfiscent of Tony andor ‘and. sisthr apvived.: tn Le Se She a ho $ A est, with Joan Caulfield playing the role of a school- Some years later, Miss Patrick and Mr. De Cor- “Bangs seem to have a definite Epglish Pastor's. days hauffeur-driven town cars and °° wrong with ME. 1vs my teacher who doubles as nurse when Dr. Crosby saves dova are re-united at a New York concert, As an . en’ Mrs Flanagan said » wy 9 . > bright 3 ‘onver + husband. He ¢s he's a duck.” effect on men,’ Mrs. Flanagan said a ae BESIDES “The Fatal Weak: right red convertibles—some with Dr. Fitzgerald's life with an emergency appendectomy. encore, Miss Patrick sings a “low-down’’ blues num= (va Jeast it makes them whistle DOROTHY DONEGAN, pianist is iS "The Yala) Weakne nurses and some with mamas and 1m nol ; it 1 think’ JoseAdvance build-ups represent the picture as ber, with the Armstrong and Herman bands joining rownm who handle boogie and classics starring Ina Claire and coming to papas and step-mamas and step- Pipe perched atop Joan's another “Going My Way." ° ' the symphony orchestra in the accompaniment. | ON THE strength of that, Miss With equal. facility, is third in the the English Oct. 2, to be followed papas. eal Bord A n " = . : The film should have historical interest for Paige tried to induce director SHOW op billing . Oct. 9 bv “Another Part of the nN Lhank you, Miss ( rawford, said, " ing OFF THE BEATEN Hollywood path is “The Un- o,o01ar music lovers. ‘It includes revivals by ex- ‘Michael Curtiz to let her wear the Other celebrities will include: Forest,” Lillian Hellman play, the. BUT THE party .was dull until the photographers, as th owner finished Dance, film about ballet, which will appear perts of the famed Dixieland style. bangs in Warner Bros. "Romance Willie Brant, Step Wharton, Indi- old theater will house a concert by joan Crawford arrived with daugh- "" tched Josephine oul "of Joan's on Loew's screen Wednesday. . Also on the Lyric's coming Bill is “Pun On a in High C.” Curtiz said no. anapplis-born pianist; Helen the King Cole trio, of radio and ter Christina did gon Christopher hair. LE : wig I¢'s evidently in the tradition of “Ballerina” and wok. End,” starring Eddie Bracken and Priscilla | “I want to keep you sophisti- Humes, Anna Belle Haill, Dusty platter fame Sunday, Oct. 5 a AVS pollung al Bil, sald Joan “I P.M. other films about the dance, With Margaret O'Brien, pane It's light stuff about a boy and girl, com- cated,” he sald. “I don't want Fleicher, the Deep River Boys and in tow. Joan and Christina were always wear a monkey on~my head ay Cyd Charisse and Karin Booth in leading roles, the ,1at01y broke, who work a scheme to get-into the whistles; I want sighs.” the bands of Tiny ‘Bradshaw and Adds ‘fo Faculty wearing identical dresses, and Chris. When Igo to : fidule pars, story is set in the Metropolitan Opera ballet school, financially best Florida circles. They get there and Miss Paige stuck to an upswept King Kolax ; bald ; tina even had that new long hein. ALFHOUGH 1 wis under thd 1h Little Miss O'Brien, talented pupil, is loyal 10 gov there, which is how you cant tell it's a movie. |coiffure for “Romance in High C’ On a circular and perhaps revoly- Jordan ‘coliservatory -has an- j.e = Christina made a curtsy to as Ar \ Miss Ohatisse, Who is cast as the premiere bailerina, ’ Ps an but liked the bangs so well off- ing stage, the array of talent wil nounced the expansion of its ype Bernie, but her heart wasn't fluence of lemonade, I think I have When Miss Booth enters the company, Margaret is THE DAY. FAMILY'S home life will continue t0 core she had some made for hef. be centered in the Coliseum's huge “Pee h department in the prepara- jn i. she was eyeing a lemonade a pretty accurate guest list. Edgar Jealous lest the mewcomer usurp her idol’s position. occupy patrons of the Circle for another week be- ERY arena 80 as to provide the best pos- tory division, with James Philippe {ree: Bergen's daughter, Candy; was To embarrass the newcomer, Margaret pulls a ginning Thursday. MRS. FLANAGAN, who shampoos sible visibility and audibility for the 8nd the Misses Bernice Van Sickle, " gnq an organ grinder with a there, sitting on her mother’s knee. Under switch backstage during a performance, thinking “Life With Father,” a technicolor parade of an Janis’ hair weekly and brushes i! expected 12,000 persons in the audi. Marguerite Carlson and Hazel Nixon monkey named Josephine was eye- Joan Bennett arrived with her #t's the light switch. Instead, the switch opens a extraordinarily red-headed family, has Willlam hundreds and hundreds of strokes, ence. : on the speech faculty. ing Joan Crawford. ® ‘youngest daughter and Lana Turtrapdoor. Miss Booth falls and is permanently Powell storming and Irene Dunne as Mother trying persuaded her to try the bangs a { Ee — ; enn | “Shake hands with Miss Craw- ners 4-year- -old. Im him d s the she in. (G " CLASS OF '98° ALL PRESENT " ing Wild bet etic crippled as a dancer. to calm him down. Now she likes them so well she in-| AMONG ‘important stage events ford,” the organ man said to Jose-! Running "electric RY The remainder of the film concerns Margaret's Heart-interest is supplied by Jimmy Lydon and tends to grow her own, in the near future will be the FT. ATKINSON, Wis. (VU. P.) ~~ phine, trains, dolls and oy Were the off. remorse and efforts to obtain forgiveness, : Elizabeth Taylor, with that remarkable comedienne | “I'd hate it,” she said, “if gome- Charles Wagner * production of Some 25 members of the class of o spring of Penny Singleton, Johnny 1. 7581 an i : Zasu Pitts and Stage Star Edmund Gwenn in other \body pulled on my bangs some day’ “Mme. Butterfly,” opening the Mar- '98 at the Northey grammer school. JOSEPHINE hl Tha out a hairy Mack Brown, Jerry Colonna, Mare y a e ' supporting roles. and they came off in, the hand tens Concerts series at the near here took stock of their class- paw. Joan reac or it and, in'vin : ) Dy. A DOUBLE BILL will start Wednesday at the rit ) d th fr th dt C ts ser Oct, 20 h h took stock of their cl J h { t d i Miller, Maureen —_— Lyric, with “New Orleans,” a iia about: jazz The film should attract alf who have enjoyed That's why I hope 1 cap have my English. pred % mates. Now in theif iddle fifties one of. these split seconds ygvou, Jerome Cowan, Lee Bo — histofy, in first place. the stage play, if only becaus® people like to see own hair that way at the end of Barry RBreden's production of or sixties, every ber is still always are hearing about, Josefine Costello, Alan Ladd, B with Arturo Pe Cordova and Dord Patrick what Hollywood does with a story of the sort, [tHe picture.” “The Drunkard,” old- fashioned. alive, ibe up Joan's : arm, jershea, and B bi Jue. i

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