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Crime and Opera Fill Movie Bills This Week

The Confederates Get Another Hollywood

Going Over—and Counterfeiting Fails to Pay By R. K. SHULL

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BIG-CITY con men, a small-time counterfeiter, an operatic musical and another lesson in Civil War history will be competing for your film coin during the coming week. Here's the way the four epics will come to town: “Dark City” (Lyric, Thursday), “Mister 880" (Circle, Thursday), “Toast of New Orleans” (Loew's, Thursday), and “Two Flags West” (Indiana, = LT Sonal core] ; 05 {made up of Army al Corps Wednesday). {combat films, newsreel photos| a8 " {and captured German, Italian and Conned Cons oS ea mtiien: mars aims of) : i ece ea. THREE Chicago gamblers mim think they're pretty smart when Green Thumb they, fleece Don DeFore, an out R. - 880" of towner, of $5000. The little peart.warming little story, and stake-out gets complicated when, the nice thing about it is that it's) DeFore commits suicide over the true. loss in “Dark City.” | One Iegle, old insignificant man | And more complications arise gets himself in a whale of a mess | when DeFore’s brother, a psycho-| When he takes up counterfeiting| Sha {to supplement his regular income. | pathic killer, sets out to liquidate | . ; re] { Since he doesn't have aspira-| the gamblers. He succeeds on tions of being a big-timer, he con-| two of the card sharpers, but the iy homework: to. th | third gets elusive. janes his homework to: the $1) variety and doesn’t take too much!

The third man in this case 18) care with details such as the|terfly’’ as Lt. Pinkerton to her]

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“DARK CITY"

Charlton Heston (and he's a new- | pelling of the word Washington, [Cho-Cho San.

comer to the flickers, recently of

hh "®t: = Broadway and teevee) who doesn Y norance of the

But, this little old man's ig-|

his windpipe. Of course, Heston has the full co-operation of a night club singer, Lizabeth Scott, and a _detec- who did his printing on scrap tive, Dean Jagger, in trying 10 paper. locate the psycho.

for a long time,

Department just couldn't cope!

a comely lass named Viveca Lind- ony Robin Hoodwinking the gov-

fors and learns lernment and wasn’t using his that the killer is hot on his trail He goes to his hotel room and prepares a hot reception for the killer. Little does he know, the killer is already in the room and right behind him, Also on the same bill, and a pn, Reynolds little more stim- ~

That's why he was sentenced to {a year and 2 day and ordered to {keep the green ink off his fingers {in the future.

Bayous and Butterfly

IF. KATHRYN GRAYSON thadn’t gone down to the bayous {to sing at the blessing of the fish-

met Mario Lanza, a simple fisherman, and “Toast of New- Orleans

His eager lovemaking on the counterfeiting [Stage led to a little backstage ken to have the psycho Cramp ., yet saved him from the law|amour which leads to a happy

The Treasury last reel.

with a $1 artist, particularly one Poor Rebs

FOR THE THIRD week in sucFey : i. When the T-Men finally caught cession, the Confederates will be up in the Civil War when he 1s Confederate prisoners. Heston visits DeFore's widow, him they decided he really was fishing for the audience's sym- captured and heaved into a Yanpathy at the Indiana Theater. This kee prison, Later, the big-hearted ten decides to desert and rejoin

Lyric

igains for any nefarious purpose. time in “Two Flags West.” The current rash of post-Civil hi War flickers will be prett over with the passing of this one, a82inst the Indians in th ” /Oh, there's still a couple whic haven’t showed here, but you can just seratch them off as glers. Week before last, we had Errol lieve Yankees for duty against the mand of all the forces. ling fleet, she might never have Flynn leading an ill-fated Con- Confederate Army. In othe! comes a Yankee convert so he

»|federate patrol right smack-dal 4..0q9 American POW’s to fight

v well detachment of Southern prisoner. love

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First run film attractions for the coming week will include: Mario Lanza and Kathryn Grayson in "Toast of New Orleans" (Loew's, Thursday), Lizabeth Scott in "Dark City" (Lyric, Thursday), and Linda Darnell and Joseph Cotten in "Two Flags West" {In- | diana, Wednesday). blackguards as fanatical best to do away with them. Chandler even dupes Cot-

against such Cornel Wilde and Jeff Chandler. Cotten gets himself all fouled ten

Northerners make a deal with the Confederate Army. He would m. All Cotten has to do is lead a have, too, if he hadn't fallen in with Chandler's widowed ¢ West sister-in-law, Linda Darnell. h and they'll all be pardoned. Cot-, For Linda, Cotten and his boys ten agrees. stand by the Yankees when the Now, in the first place, this Indians attack. After the smoke whole deal smells, since Cotten clears. Cotten finds that Chandand his Confederates would re- jer is dead and that he is in comHe be-

words, what if Hitler had par- can marry Linda.

And the worst part of this lit-

ulating than the usual downtown might never have been a movie. into an Indian trap. Currently,'against Russia in the last world tle epic is that Cotten was sup-

“second” features will be a news- But, she did. reel covering the American war, And when she learned effort from ‘Cassino to Korea.” Mario could sing, she got real inNoted war correspondent Quen- terested and started giving him

Ray Miiland is battling for the fracas? that Southerners against the Yankee |bloodhounds in “Copper Canyon.”

: posed to have been an officer in Anyhow, Cotten and his Johnny- Gen. J. E. B. Stuart's command rebs go west and join forces with beforé his capture. -Can ¥ou a Yankee major, Jeff Chandler.imagine a fine general like Stu-

tin Reynolds will narrate the full-'a little culture to match, which Next week, it'll be Joseph Cotten The Yankees neither trust nor'art ever having such a, worthless

length feature. The footage isjled to his debut in “Madame But- who upholds the Southern cause! like the Southerners, ahd try their ‘Scoundrel in his outfit?

Preview:

Based on a frue story, "Mister 880" opens Thurs - day at the Circle Theater. Burt Lancaster (left), a Trdasury ‘Agent, calls a staff meeting to discover and arrest a mystetious counterfeiter who passes $1 bills in New York. Lancaster refers to the unknown money

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The counterfeiter is a kindly old junk dealer, Edmund Gwenn, wha uses his ill-gotten money to buy sweets for the neighborhood kiddies. He he inadvertantly gives her two phonies in her change. nevér prints enough to make any profit for him Dorothy later gives Lancaster his first clue when she self, and carefully "passes" “The bills are printed on a hahd press.

em one at a time.

. Dorothy. McGuire, a United Nations employee, buys a replica bf a spinning wheel from Gwenn, and

store. Lancaster starts trailing gang's” headquarters.

sses them in a dr + her, trying fo locate

into executing a couple of

At this Yankee duplicity, Cot-:

He soon falls in love with Dorothy, and she gladly co-operates with him to track down Gwenn, who is still churning out the bogus $1 bills on his little hand press.

Leo Piper and his orchestra will move to*%he Indiana Roof tonight for a two-day stay. In addition to the regular dance programs tonight and tomorrow night, he will play for a special teen age matinee sponsored by the State Youth Recreation

Centers at 2:30 p. m, tomor- | row.

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Indiana

In Hollywood—

Lana Turner Fuming Over Retirement Report

Star Also Denies Her New Film, ‘Kiss of

By Erskine

Fonsi | |

A Millionaire’ Is Biographical

Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 21—Lana Turner is still fumbling {over that erroneous report that she will retire and pension

{ off her mother.

There's no truth either to talk that her

| next film, “Kiss of a Millionaire,” in which she plays a movie

|siren, is biographical.

MGM will film “The Strip.”

No, it's not the biography of |Gypsy Rose Lee but another | Hollywood-backgrounded movie about the famous Sunset Blvd.... Another movie cowboy satire coming up-—“Callaway Went | Thataway.” . . . Contract beauties at UI are fuming over the {studio's decision to bring in Gail Russell from the outside to play the role they were all drooling for in “Air Cadets.”

” » n { TY POWER and Linda Chris|tian are trying to talk Darryl {Zanuck Into co-starring them in {a movie. . . . Two comedies are in the mill for Greer Garson at MGM. One will be a S8an Francisco period piece. Funny gimmick to “Father’s Little Divi-| dend,” the sequel to ‘Father of the Bride.” The baby slated for Liz Taylor winds up in a constant feud with Grandpa Spencer Tracy —bawling every time he sees him. Liz, by the way, has been seeing ia dermatologist about a serious {skin condition.

= = » IT WILL BE a Ginger Rogersy {career for Sally Forrest at MGM, with the studio alternating her between straight dramatic and {musical pictures. At a party at Ciro’s honoring Sally and Howard Keel as winners of the annual ‘new stars popularity poll, she said: “It's all unbelievable, The other day Mr. Mayer himself came on the set and put his arms around ime. I was scared stiff,” Before Sally was tapped for stardom by Ida Lupino, she was {in the chorus line at MGM in “The Barkleys of Broadway” and other musicals. Sally's comment on the critics’ complaint that she acted moge like Ida than Lupino herself in “Not Wanted": “It was unconscious on the part of both of us. We didn’t even {think” we looked alike until we saw it on the film.”

" n » THERE'S an amusing switch on the famous California line— “On a clear day you can see Catalina Island”—in “Mr, Imperium.”

Gwenn, citing how he

for any evil purpose. The judge gives Gwenn Both of them like the little old ' minimum sentence, a year and a day in jail, man, but they realize that the law must be Gwenn can be paroled after four. months. Dorothy 5 : ~ Lancaster decide to whit for him, together. bo

Lana Turner and Ezio Pinza are in an Italian seacoast and Lana says, “What a beautiful place.” | “Yes,” says Pinza, “on a clear day you can see Corsica.” » » ” THIS is Hollywood, Mrs. Jones: The. flash-bulb fraternity is welcomed at movietown’s plush night clubs, but a hamburger-frankfur-ter spot on the Sunset strip has turned thumbs down on the lens

boys photographing stars who drop in. ~ Md n GIG. YOUNG, Mark Stevens.

Don Taylor and Robert Douglas are working in “Prisoner of War” on the same lot. Young and Douglas are Nazi interrogating officers who have picked up a group of American fillers shot down in France. The set is a lavish reproduction of a French chateau, complete with nude statues. Director George Sherman tells me about the time Charlie Einfeid sought Joseph Breen’s permission to use unclothed female statues in a picture. Einfeld, according to Sherman, brought along sketches and explained that ‘the figures were to represent angels. “Angels, my eye,” - Censor Breen is reported to have ‘hundered. “They're naked women with wings on.” ” ” ” “LIGHTS OUT,” a film aboyt blinded war veterans, is being shot on the back lot. Equipment has been set up in the middle of the studio’s permanent village atreet and extras are taking it easy on porch swings while Arthur Kennedy and newcomer Betty Adams piay a highly dramatic scene. Kennedy, as a blinded top sergeant, is wearing special contact lenses over his eyes to shut off vision and “lend realism to his acting. Before the bell rings to signal a take, an assistant director warns the cast and the crew not to throw lighted matches or cigarets on the fake grass. Hollywood is the only place in the world where a lush, green lawn will go up in smoke.

In court, Lancaster and Dorothy make pleas for

never used the dribble of money

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