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Circle “RIVER LADY"

Director Prefers Gals Over 30 For Screen’s Torrid Love Scenes

‘Take Ladies Like Joan Crawford, Loretta Young, Roz Russell,’ He Says, ‘They Don’t Give With Looks Like Ice Cream Sodas’

By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON, United Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, June 26—Jeer not when a movie queen you can remember from

your pablum days burns up the screen with passion. . Director Lewis Allen says a gal ain't worth her salt in a boudoir scene until she'll

never see 30 again.

The other boys can have the cute young chicks—wide eyes, curves and all. Mr. Allen’ll settle for the full-blown matrons. They may need a little help in the curve department, but they know what the customers are looking for and they

know how to deliver it.

““IT°S EXPERIENCE, that’s all it is,” Mr. Allen says. “These 18 and. 19-year-old beauties are nice ‘young kids. But they're just babies. Don’t know what it’s all about.

“They lezn their lines and they come in front of the camera and they recite 'em back to you. The actresses over 30 don’t just read ‘em. They think—and feel—every word they say." ! ! Take ladies like Joan Crawford, he says, and Loretta Young and Rosalind Russell. Age Is a delicate subject in these circles. But Allen figures he can’t be accused of ungallantry if he sticks to. the “over 30” angle. > <@ WHEN MEN see them in action on the screen they’re seeing the wife—or mistress—they dream about but never find,” Mr. Allen went on. “They walk out of the theater, glare down at the sweet, little thing with them, and think: ‘Why don’t you grow up, kid?" ” : We pointed out a lady or two.who seems to be doing all right in the love department and Who still has that 30th hurdle to get over. Mr. Allen sniffed. “Good direcfion,” he said. “And there may be a few around who can fool the camera. We say, ‘The camera likes em.’ They photograph With more personality than they actually have.” But usually, Mr. Allen says, the gal's eyes givé her away. * “She may be murmuring tender words of undying passion,” he went on, “but look at her eyes. If she’s over 30 she gets a certain gleam everybody understands. ' If she’s one of these babies, she gets a look that reminds you more of ice cream sodas.” 3 ¢ & &

MR. ALLEN hit the jackpot, he said, when Hal Wallis hired him to direct Ann Todd in So Evil My Love.” Now, Miss Todd is a Willowy 38 and she doesn’t mind telling it to Anyone who asks, much to the distraction of her Press agent. “Thirty-eight!” Mr. Allen sighed.

“Ah, she Was won-derful!”

Billy De Wolfe Tells

How to Be Funny

HOLLYWOOD, June 26 (UP)—You, too, can be a sure-fire comedian, advises the comedian Billy De Wolfe, if you'll tell the folks you're from Pwllheli (pronounced Puchlillie). . “It gets em every time,” the mustachioed De Wolfe says proudly. De Wolfe's little handbook for budding comedians says that's the way to soften an audience up. “What's the first thing you tell them?” he demanded. “Your name. Can't always get a

laugh on that, What's the second thing? Wheré"

you're from. Tell ’em Creaking Springs, Neb., or Revenooer’s Folly, Tenn. Or, if you get stuck, Pwlheli.” After you've got them giggling, De Wolfe says, throw in the place name in the locality that somehow strikes their funnybone. “In Los Angeles,” De Wolfe pointed out, “all you need to say is Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga—and you're a solid click. Don’t ask me why.” :

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HOLLYWOOD, June 26 (UP)—Some people

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Reginald Denny makes a good salary acting in movies. Many of the movies he acts in give him an idea for making money an the outside. ' When he was making “The Lost Patrol,” for instance, he became so interested in airplanes that he decided to build models and now Has one of the best-known model shops in the country. . When he was making “Mr. Blandings Builds Hig Dream Houde,” he got interested in model homes. Now he's going into the business of

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Butler Bowl SUMMER SYMPHONY

IN PROSPECT—Upper left is Rod Cameron, more or less spurning the impassioned declarations of Yvonne | DeCarlo in "River Lady" (Circle, Thursday). Even more | indifferent to feminine charm is Jimmy Durante, ‘idly whittling while Esther Williams lols, trunk to trunk, against a desert island palm in "On an Island With You" (Loew's, Wednesday). Modeling 18th-Century boudoir lingerie is Lucille Bremer in "Adventures of | Casanova" (Lyric, Wednesday). In that Viennese court scene, the gent in civilian clothes is, of course, Bing Crosby; the richly caparisoned blond is Joan Fontaine, while old fuzzy-face is Richard Haydn as the Emperor Franz Josef in "The Emperor Waltz" (Indiana, Wednesday). Shown in his Gl sergeant's uniform is Pianist Eugene List, who will be one of the soloists with Fabien Sevitzky and the Summer Symphony in an all-Tchaikovsky program in Butler Bowl July 23. The conniving pair in Renaissance costume are Michel Simon as Rigoletto, and Rossano Brazzi as the king in "The King's Jester" | (Esquire, opening today).

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By Erskine Johnson

A E—— | HOLLYWOOD, June 26-—Larry Parks, who recently “fired”! | himself from his Columbia contract, is about to bring his long | | ight with the studio to either a stalemate or a victory for himself. | { Larry has notified the studio that he'll star in a summer stock theater in Worcester, Mass., néxt month. Columbia has announced it will fight Larry's attempts to work for anyone other than the

France for two weeks but she : has pretty designer Elois Janssen is still in force. This will be the showdown. The Tushing through an expensive play, ironically titled “A Free travel wardrobe. , . . Uncle Sam’s Hand,” is a domestic comedy by prosecutor of the Jap war crimi: Norman Panama and Mel Frank, (021s, Joseph Keenan, was a who scripted “Mr. Blandings| Visitor at M-G-M. He's conBuilds His Dream House.” vinced that 15 of the 20 prisoners .w-n will get the death sentence. OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND'S # 5's best-performance award from a| RED SKELTON'’S new six-year leading Belgium fan magazine for radio contract, I hear, adds up “To Each His Own” makes it an|to a gross of $3,000,000. . .. John even 100 awards for the picture. Garfield's filnf company, currently 2 8.» filming “Tucker’s People,” is negoBOB W. R and Mont-|tiating for the purchase of a N. Y. gomery Clift, who clicked in “The|theater for John’s annual flings Search,” are battling it out for|at the stage. . . . Greer Garson, a top role in RKO’s “Battle-|being interviewed by a London ground.”+, . . Gale Gordon, the newspaper via telephone, was radio and stage actor, will star|asked about the new look in the {in the John Barrymore role in|U. 8. Cracked Greer: “The new| a revival of “My Dear Children” look is okay as long as it can still ‘on Broadway. (get that old lock ‘rom a man.” ” = ~ " » ” = HEDY LAMARR tells every-| STU ERWIN returns to the {body she is undecided whether to screen as a county newspaper ediaccept the invitation of theitor in Jack Wrather's “Strike It! French government " go to|Rich.” Ty

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With You,’ Loew's; ‘Adventures of Casanova,’ Lyric By HENRY BUTLER ‘ AFTER considerable ballyhoo, Paramount's “The Emperor Waltz” will open

Wednesday at the Indiana.

More about it presently, and meanwhile here are the other downtown offerings: “On an Island With You” (Loew's, Wednesday); “Adventures of Casanova” (Lyric, Wednesday), and “River Lady” (Circle, Thursday). ’ Uptown, the Esquire, still specializing in imported films, today introduces “The King's Jester,” a screen version of the story that inspired Verdi's lecherous and mur-

derous opera, “Rigoletto.” “THE EMPEROR WALTZ” has Bing Crosby impersonating an American phonograph salesman, circa 1901, crashing the court of Emperor Franz (Whiskers) Josef in Vienna. Bing’s fox

| terrier strfkes up an acquaintance with an

aristocratic court lady’s poodle, and Bing gets to meet the lady (Joan Fontaine).

The rest of the technicolor film exploits the Crosby-Fontaine romance, Canadian Rockies for the Austrian Tyrol (incidentally, Bing does some yodeling, if you go for that) and Hollywood's idea of what pre-World War I Vienna and the Umgebung (that's deutsch for environs) were like. o> bob AFTER last-minute changes of program, and I hope for your sake as well as‘\ours there won't be further indecision, Loew's will come forth with the Esther Willlams-Peter Lawford musical romanza, “On an Island With You.”

This elaborate job, which employs also the services of Jimmy Durante, Ricardo Montalban, Cyd Charisse and the man people call “Eggs-avy-er’” Cugat, is described as a “brilliant, tropical technicolor musical hit.” In these matters, one always assumes the press book is accurate. Anyway, the story concerns a movie company filming a picture on location near Honolulu. It's a handy location, since the actors, actresses and technicians are able to put up at a luxury hotel where, by the sheerest coincidence, Xdvier Cugat and his orchestra are playing an engagement. * & ¢

MISS WILLIAMS, star of the island film being made, again by the barest coincidence, is given an opportunity to appear before the camera in sarongs and similar revealing brevities. Mr. Lawford is_a Navy pilot temporarily serving as technical adviser for the movie outfit. In the course of the story, Miss Williams gradually transfers her affections from her leading man to Mr, Lawford. Her change of

heart Seva and punctuated by .Cugat

music, Durante comedy and similar typical - divertissements of the Hollywood musical. IN “Adventures of Casanova,” Arturo De Cordova portrays a swashbuckling rapier artist rather than the tireless seducer of the famous “Memoirs.” For reasons best known to the Johnston office, that's just as well. Algo in the cast In this drama against a background of the Sicilian struggle for independence are Lucille Bremer, Turhan Bey and Noreen Nash, > > & “RIVER LADY,” to be launched Thursday by the Circle, concerns the novel theme of the conflict between sacred and profane love. In this corner, wearing low-cut 1870 gowns and other accessories of the sinister female, is Yvonne DeCarlo, In the opposite corner, looking demure and pure-minded, is Helena Carter. ’ The referee, so to speak, is Rod Cameron. One look at Mr. Cameron's rugged, honest face, and you realize he'll never fall for the blandishe ments of Miss DeCarlo. Particularly not, since she's operating a gambling boat on the Upper Mississippi (this is back in the old lumbering days). ; Miss DeCarlo has plenty of dough. But, as we all know, money can’t buy love, though it's said to help on occasion. So, while the sternpaddles go slap-slap against the turbulent river, and the menfolk—gamblers, lumberjacks and others—engage in spectacular fist-fights, the romance between Mr. Cameron and Miss Carter opens slowly and shyly, like an exquisite dan= delion blossom. . Se & 9 FOR STILL another week, your best prospect of mature entertainment probably is at the Esquire. I don’t suppose the “Rigoletto” theme is the best possible choice for the kiddies, espes cially since the film handles the story dra= matically, not operatically—and there's a whale of a difference. : : Verdi's music is used incidentally, with some of the more famous arias sung offs by Ferruccio Tagliavini and Toti dal Monte, who do not appear on the screen. RRR KY A