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It Hoppened Last Night— Montez Shows Mixed Reviews in Boston She Can Act

| dically [ gave the cast of 12 six curtain calls and applauded spora Know She's | i

BOSTON, Dec. to Indianapolis playwright Joseph had its premiere last night at the The near-capacity audience, g

‘Beeg Boys’ Than a Sweater Girl

during -the play's two acts.

Critic

—By Earl

the discomfort in Hollywood.

asked me at lunch at the Col “They're all frightened.

gewd actress, I am a womar

% : ’ of action!” There's no doubt about the ac curacy of that statement.

down with the deluge,” she said. “If "Noah don’t put her on his : Ark, I'm building my own Ark!” Miss Montez, who says her | main claim to fame in movies © is that she is always taking a bath<in them somewhere, re. MHss-Monter ducing a picture called ‘The Las Port" with husband Jean PierreAumont. “Thees ees Mawntez the actres in thees picture,” she told me. “What do you play?” I said.

very bad.” “You like the role” I said.

Hollywood would never give me. | Every picture I get in Hollywood, *

of Something.

know you cowd act.’

actress!”

= ~ - “What's wrong weeth Hollywood that to be a very gewd

“Has Solid Public

over there?” I inquired. star in France!

the kitts between eight and 28. They. even think I'm terrific in! ‘Cobra Woman.’ * ‘Cobra Woman! " 1 repeated. “That's a very successful stinker I did” she said. -

cum

_dertake another.

asked. “They are very friendly to us 7 how, T don’t know whose daw _ lers ees doing that,” she smiled | with a lift of the eyebrow. ' “We want to go back to Hollywood sometime.” But while Hollywood riddle follies and pitty-pats, I'm keeping myself ow busy. / ’ “You see, hahnee,” she added,

survival of the fittest and I'm fit!”

The Midnight Earl its

S HOT: The Metropon-

year. Chairman of the Board Alfred Sloan expects some of the

revenues ba Martinigue-closed until next Tuesday, when it will open with a reYue... The Em-. bassy “Ciub also shuttered for a week's vacation but will continue 9 to pay the staff + + + The Onyx * Club closed and ge Zorita moves: with - her reptile. 3 Deuces

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IF YOU HAD A NECK AS LONG AS THIS FELLOW

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“NE v YORK. Per 28-"Maria Mortez {8 Taughing at all

“What happens to all the beeg boys out there?” Maria

“Maria is one girl that don't go

| his wife away for the- holi- In Wisconsin Going Dry days. Which holiday His! FOND DU LAC, Wis, Dec. 28 (and switched to a girlie policy . . . (UP) A mysterious gasoline dl Nathan Kramer. (Mr, Hotel Edi- well in downtown Fond Du Lac json) is writing a book on his ex- is running dry after supplying periences which he'll call “Side . the citv's trucks for 10 Show” Dolores Del Rio leaves fuel for ne : ry for. Mexico in two weeks to do Years. officials said today. “Forever” . The Monte Carlo’s No one has ever been able to

turned from France after co-pro- beauty contest to select a

“Well, the Hayes office call it a| Hershfield and other Democr hawstess, but between you and|saw it when they visited the P me, I play a little B girl—B for lident this week .

“HONEY, IT'S the kind of role tte: it's a fantasy, and I'm the Queen peapie--said We -deen't:

lady to Errol Flynn in some flim M&X Asnas, flam. Cawntrary to popular be. Delicatessen, lief, honey, I am a hell of a good When Harry Hershfield ask ed

actress you can't have a good

“DO THEY know your pictures “Hahnee, I am the most popular, will |

“I've got my solid ‘poblic.. I got)

MARIA LIKES ‘making pic- In jail | tures in France so much that hollow cane that holds two dry! she’s returning next month to un- martinis.

" "What i8'the feeling about Americans now in Paris? I

“Im a fighter. I'believe in the '

- tan Opera is already appealing to its friends for financial ald this

SL fina 10 De Fron non=boxso fice:

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finally gave up the B-Bop ghost

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| Boston Post sald the play “flirts lat times with greatness but as of last night's performance , . . it was Imperfect and unsatisfying: " He said some of the imperfections were “mechanical” the actors “uncertain.” Elinor Hughes of the

Wilson

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sion is “powerful, and at its best] | and the script is exciting and holds) § y the attention.” But she said the| i \ Earl's. Pearls “ oo ® script had “considerable rough-| An unhappy ness” and some scenes ‘“‘dawdle Wall Streeter 'and sound amateurish | lamented at Cyrus Durgin ofthe Boston Cavanagh's : | Globe said the play indicates “a| “The market is | great deal of clarification ... and

dropping out many | of the bottom” | +o. Comic Jack Gilford tells of

a pal who sent

la ruthless editing of many | words.”

Mystery Gasoline Well

Jack Gilford

“Miss explain where the gasoline came t;Sally Clause” was won by gor|geous Margie Winters. fuel was good enough for the city| un to. mix with commercial gasoline] ALL OV ER: President Truman ang use in its trucks. City street ‘has a toy donk®y on his desk department crews had to pump {which goes’ “HEE HAW!” Harry| [thé well dry each week to pre- |

from.

ats|yent it from.accumulating and res- possibly exploding. . Burt Lancas-| Sin¢e the well first sprang [ter told Julie "Wilson after her from nowhere, officials estimate

(triumph at the St. Regis Maison- more than 20,000 galions of gaso“You can stay here as long line had been pumped from it as George Jesse! can fall in love”, ——— | Harvey Stone and wife are|

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restaurant in Miami Beach. Clock * MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 28 (UP) “Well, when 1 filnish thees, the. 4 0» cs CIRCLE —-Funeral services will be held TODAY'S SMILE: Although “Blood on_the Moan,” with Robert here tomorrow for Eben Atwood, All: Holy- sports writers talk about a fighter, Mitchum, Barbar "Bel Oed ides jand président of the Atwood Coffee” wood wants me to do is be lidding being “a sucker for a left hook.” 533 7:50 ard 10 ' Co. Mt, Atwood died at his home boss of the Stage ESQUIRE in Wayzata, Min., yesterday. He puts it differently.| “nicholas Niekleby=—with sir was 69.

Cedric Hardwicke, at 8, 8 {why he is getting so fat, Max % answered, “I'm a sucker for a oa, i leftover." { Ry eration a ri as 1750. br ” gs » i 6 8:05 and 10:05 OUR ' TOWN: Barney Ross, KEITH'S

“One Brick Higher,'' the story of

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rigny will ‘undergo surgery in| {Mexico City this month and is trading her Park Lane apt. for| {Carmen Figuroa’'s Mexican viila| Monmouth Park race track

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be the first to adopt might LYRIC racing to lessen the Suipetiton Caner. ad ions. Maney, Noy from the Trotters . ..., Society’s| 12:57 4:06, 7:15 and 10:24. |Bob Rodenberg is dickering to| “Rose of the Yidkon," with Steve

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Starring SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE { |

| Tony Farrel who's etting| even fuhnier than Arthur Murray; was being bothered by a B'way ham who was fuming at a producer who'd turned him down for la part. “1 gine,” he said, “hal told me I couldn’t act.” “Oh, » ex-| — plained Farrell, “he just meant | on stage.’ . # That's Earl, brother. |

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