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‘All About Eve’ to Be Mature Entertainment

Post-Civil War Era Due for Another Going Over; Frankenstein Horrors Slated

S.. By R. XK: SHULL NEW FILM entries into town this week will be pretty slim, with the first-run films confined to three theaters. At the ‘Circle, starting. Thursday, will be one of the neatest adult films to come out of Hollywood since the

started

celluloid city About Eve.”

making

Opening Wednesday at the Indiana Theater will ‘be another post-Civil War film “Rio Grande,” which confines its fighting to Yanks and Yankees giving the poor tired sereen Confederates a rest after their recent

three-week stand at that theater. [Loew's will start Thursday with a double bill with Robert Taylor featured as, an Indian im “Devil's Doorway" and Lucille Ball in the

title role of “The Fuller Brush Girl.” Illsewhere, the Lyric will bring

back .a pair of those poor tired

old scare pictures titled “House of “Frankenstein” "and: “House of Dracula.” On the North Side Esquire will bring in “Henry 'V Friday if “City Lights” doesn't hold a Second week. un #0 * Eve & IQ MOST OUTSTANDING about “All About Eve” is that the film i= tailored for adulis even though the story is set in the make be lieve realm of the New York stage. : : Because the characters in. the resemble certain stage pers

story

‘Henry V’ Slated

Sir ‘Laurence Olivier will return to the Esquire Friday in “Henry V", if "City Lights" Jen't held for a second week.

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the things, The title is “All

and because the story them ‘act like humans

sonalities,

makes

rather than celluloid automatons, the film is a refreshing change

for flicker fans Eve is a: young girl, stage truck and determined to win 1d glory on the footboards, who gets the glory she wants, Of course, she has to use the carcasses of her friends as a ladder to reach this success, but then the story leads you to believe that this is the normal and situation in show business. Anne Baxter in the role of this vixen turns in a performance

of pace

which would. be labeled outstand-

ing in a regular film production.

! In this film, the competition from

the other outstanding. players _ makes her just another member a fine troupe. : Bette Davis gives a most pleasant performance, since she is acting her age for a change. After a couple of seasons in which she plaved.voung girl roles in'a black wig, Bette shines through in her. dramatization of an aging star.

—And-George-Saunders;-whe-has-

slouch at acting, in a tailor-made

never been a comes through

part as the -acid-tongued drama critic. The “good guy-bad. guy” film formula was tossed away

when his role was created. The cthers who round out the sextet of principals in .the cast all keep pace with the stars, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill and Hugh Marlowe, all aid in the fine counterpoint used to the heavy .dialog by Miss and Saunders.

offset Davis

cr AAO PARC BEOFY it SO pdb SDE en ter just th-gee it from the begin- :

ning without any preview briefing

—as—to—the—plot;

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the Indian

“DEVIL'S DOORWAY” re-

‘counts one ‘phase in the endless

struggle between the Indians.and the whites in the West, with Robert Taylor starred as a full-

~blooded.-Shoshene Indian.

Tavine retarnE Tron rhe Cet

War with a Congressional, Medal of Honor in his pocket, and high

hopes of teading a peaceful old age on his Wyoming ranch. He hadn't reckoned with the intrepid white man.

He arrives home to find that

under a new homestead law, the

Preview: "All About Eve’

Movieland has churned out an adult film which appears to be a million miles away from the usual Hollywood product. Its title is

"All About Eve." It will come to

the Circle Theater Thursday and

to appreciate it, you should see it from the beginning. You'll note resemblances in the film, such as Bette Davis wha portrays a slightly | “over-aged stage star with a volcanic porsnsity. Her or boy friend ; is

» director, Gary Merrill,

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* force him off

usual’

Indians are disfranchised of all legal rights. “His family's ranch has been designated as public domain. Sheep ranchers. eager for his fertile valley, have set up a conspiracy .to drive Taylor and the other Shoshones onto a reservation. This conspiracy includes fusing medical care to the Indians. Taylor balks. He the only lawy the area, Paula Raymond, to fight his case. She informs him he has no rights and therefore no case. When the sheép-men decide to his land, he makes a futile stand against them, fighting ‘the whites with the same pistol he used at Gettysburg: And when Federal troops rush to the scene, Taylor expresses no emnity toward the whites in general, only toward -the persons responsible. ” n u LUCILLE BALL in “The Fuller Brush Girl” will be doubled up on the same program. Eddie Albert and Lucille get up to their necks in trouble when they inadvertently diseover ~ the shipping company for which Eddie works is really a front for a smuggling ring. Of course, their escapades. with--the-mebsters--aré augmented by - -Lucille’s zany doings as a Fuller Brush traveling cosmetics salesgirl.

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Wayne Western

JOHN WAYNE mended by the rugged horse opera heroes of the Ilickers forthe way he "has elevated the I6wly grind

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This-may -seund like old- stuff, but Barney” Rapp and his New Englanders will be back to. the Indiana Roof tonight and tomorrow night for their second engagement of the season.

Celeste Holm portrays a soci-

alite’ who comes into the night -

life of the stage world by way of marriage. Because her only tie to Broadway is her'husband, she has a fine perspective toward We others,

should be ¢om

‘ to neighborhood policy this st Neighbor- |

Western into a work of art, but ne also should be advised to vary his characters a little. Again, Rio Grande,” he will be se a tough post-Civil War cavalryman, Seems wan

was

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that during the great between ‘the states, Wavne serving in - Gen. Sheridan's command ard had the sad duty of burning his Southern wife's pl: tation. She, Maureen O'Hara pretty sore about it. After the war, Wayne applic for duty against the Indians !

got

get away from his embittered wife. ~ He's . stationed near the Mexican. border to stop (he

Apache uprisings. In those days, the -U, S._and Mexican govern= ments had an agreement to Ki their soldiers on their own of the border. Thus; the Apackes could freely escape from either army by crossing the Rio Grande. In addition to these frustraLions, Wayne's Jarman, flunks out of West Point and comes to Wayne's command as an enlisted man. 5 » ”

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Horrors RERELEASING the Dracula: and Frankenstein film series has “become —an ‘annual~ event "around Hollywood, and every time

old

that they turn loose another pair of ‘the chillers, they float right into the Lyric. This time the thrill duo will be “House of Dracula” and. “House of Frankenstein.” In both cases, the “plots” deal with mad scientists trying to revitalize the old Frankenstein. monster for some nefarious purpose.

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Film openings at downtown houses during the coming week will includes John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and Victor Mclaglen

"Rio Grande’

2 'Neighborhoods' Shift Feature Times

Film patrons and theater op

of the noble experiment to be staged at the R

starting Monday.

The two theaters.will have- a.

feature at the same time Mondays artir Here -are-the. details:

—hHood--theaters-—usnaty-—open-——up shortly after supper with .their main film, then ‘follow wit é second feature, and Tep “Maina about Io or Toy 25 p. m.! Result is that most foodloving working people dally over

their supper until too late to catch? the first showing of the “A” picture.. So they have to sit ‘all the way .through the “B” to see the “AL from--the-—peginning " 8 ms, THE NEW policy at thie 1ttz

and Zaring will permit patrons. to dawdle over their Tood untit 835 p: m., then see the main feature. The two theaters are m: effort to adjust their schedule to the patrons instead of the usual policy of having: the patrons. ad-

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and Zaring

take sharp notice Theaters

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‘new policy of starting the main through Thur: ys, and contrary ng time will be at 8:45 p. m.

Mst—thremeelves

schedule. > =o n un ANF Web HF Spe ——af scheduies AT TOW times it might be nice to post here

against the down-

long, loud gripe :

Celeste's husband is Hugh Marlowe, a young writer of hit shows who is & lost lamb among the cat-creatures of the show he He mills out his plays, n tries to keep everyone smiling until the money igyin.

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George Saunders will be seen as the leading newspaper critic. If his venomous pen and cigaret holder resemble one of the New York critics, it's accidental ac~cording to the: screenwriter and producer.

cost af filling out a film bill wit} newsreels and “shorts” is greater “BB fim. some of the patrons wan feat true. But yo

cartoons, interest the cost of a That double tures

find

also can patrons

can even find persons who woul

sit all week in a -theater Af th price wasn't prohibitive Gistofthis—is—thatif-a-down

town theater or-two would ear

to gamble on running singie fea- —geous movie: redhead;

Anne Baxter is Eve, the title character, you'll love her sweet disposition ‘and devotions "to i” Bette Davis. All she wants out

her way to fae.

(Indiana, Wednesday), Robert Taylor and Paula

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= who want to—the—tieater Srp rR quadruple Terres Yor

the man- dialogue and that she's

stown double feature policy. » ' ro E oe : : 5 J y Hervals \ This argument-might be started tures at two hour-interv: il i by saying that since the days of the remaining time filled in \ with Will SHEakespeare, the legitimate desirable short features theater, vaudeoville.and burlesque agement might” find the public a AS “an Hy recep! ive to.a perma i chaiiule: for 1 Hedin ou thelr main feature, In mMany And fing ally, how enan-the filo large-eittes the fiim-bukie ss also sters_ expeet the. public. to helieve has four it profitable to i Ft Pwo stogan that Mov the feature “A” attraction at the ies Are Better Than Ever”. wher same times. throughout the year. along with each .of “these ne¢w z u ® better” films the NOW, THEY are reluctant to subjected to a dose of , do this here for two reasons: The the film barrel? ‘R. S

= her dear friends in- the dust on mates with a bullwhip : |reen wouldn't sopaider it a full )

Gwynne and Glenn Strange in issue (Lyric, Thursday).

In. Hollywood—

O’Hara Worries About Necklines

Performance Not First Consideration of Redhead

By Erskine Johnson 4—Maureen confessed today

HOLLYWOOD, Nov.

more about the V

Raymond in "Devil's Doorway"

(Loew's, Thursday) and Anne “House —of Frankenstein; he To

O'Hara, the

and: fun in her pictures: than she is.about Academy-Awards, “We. worry-.too. much. in. Hellywaod abouts performs. ance, the—lady whispered.’ =

day'd work if she didn't make her

andience is going: to think.” The play may be the thing. but it's the play of solid silver on the boxoffice till that lights up “the aurora borealis in Maureen's orbs. She reads.the exhibitors’ magazines and the ‘gross sheets the way Hedy Lamarr reads Dun and Bradstreet, “Do you know who ig one of; our+greatest boxoffice stars?” asked me. Leaning over and look-

she

ing around the room, she whispered: . “Randolph Scott.” = = = EVERY NOW and then, -producers forgef -that Maureen O'Hara -is the Forever Amber of

the -great-outdoors and tess her something that Olivia. de Havilland would drool over. Maureén tosses the scripts right back. She persuaded Fox to assign

“The Scarlet Pen” to Irish beauty Constance Smith: “It was. psychological,” -shé sneered. : She latched on to “Kangaroo” instead. tee

That's because the heroine goes,

and

Whoin Denver, Fort Wayne leading -man-heler—0Ouehs or Pocatello’ cares one hoot _ She cuts ’em .up with-cutlasses, 1bout a performance? Who are - blasts away at: them with rifles top boxoffice stars? They're and once even got a chance .at - the ones who are reputed 10 hand-to-hand combat. be great performers, ny Te oo pram 1 try to have fun in my Di an I De tures. I- make them and 1 dont NY rr uid worry- about - Academy: Awards en union. : and things like that. Just enter- Maureen thinks she’s got it fig tainment and fun and what the ured out wh*movies in which she

beats up the profile boys always mop ‘up at the boxoffice. “I believe that women like it, They sit there and say, ‘Give him a good sock, Maureen.” The boys eat it up, too. They secretly like a woman who will paste a man one.” Listen in on Maureen and her dress designer and you'll hear a lot of talk about necklines..

Not one itsy-bitsy aside, mind

vou, about sleeves, shoulder pads, pencil - lines, hemline lengths or ‘the way Maureen

will look when she turns her back on the camera. Just necklines. ” ” =» BILL HOLDEN has been ribbed plenty about being the only actor in Hollywood who. ever narrated - an entire mavie (‘Sunset Boulevard”) while face down in a swimming pool. Other day Bill was ‘having trouble talking to wife Srenda Marshall on long distance from Palm Springs. He chided the operator: “It sounds like we're talking under water?”

§OFan—— that-she worries in her costumes than about deathless more interested in entertainment