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First Run Theaters Offer Choice Menu to Easter Week-End Fans

Two Color Musicals, Maugham Collection, Slapstick Comedy Among Varied Program

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ANTICIPATING big audiences over the Easter week- Gay Interlude end, the first run theaters have wheeled out some of their, BALLET, OPERA and all the

best offerings.

other components’ which went to

Two color musicals, a drama guaranteed to give a'make Vienna the music capital spiritual uplift, another Somerset Maugham collection and of the world at the turn of the

a slapstick comedy will be among the new offerings.

Here's the way they're sup-| posed to open: “Royal Wedding” (Loew's, next Saturday), “The Dancing Years” (Esquire, Friday), “I'd Climb the Highest Mountain” (Circle, Thurs-| day), “Trio” (Keith's, next Sat-| urday), “Abbott and Costello] Meet the Invisible Man” (Indiana, | Wednesday), and “Rogue River” |

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Britain Bound | STORY OF “Royal Wedding” is| a feeble thread upon which new dance routines by Fred Astaire are strung. Also, it introduces Jane Powell as Fred's new dance

partner. So the story goes, Fred and Janie are an American brother-

. {century will be brought into focus lin “The Dancing Years,” British cept a London engagement dur- ,eroring slated for the Esquire. Ing the time of feverish prepara-| With love riding a teeter-totter, tion for the royal wedding of the story begins with Dennis Princess Elizabeth. Price as an impoverished comSince they are a team, Fred and poser working for peanuts in a Janie have a pact of long-stand-|cafe on the outskirts of Vienna.

ing which forbids either to marry. | He 18 having an affair with the

: |owner’s niece, Patricia Dainton. Janie heaves the pact out the window ‘when she meets Peter Law- When the cafe owner decides s ? to sell Price's piano, Price offers

ford on board ship en route. lone of his compositions for sale Fred and Janie dance their way to the patrons. Gisele Preville, an across the ocean and all over opera diva, purchases the work, London, during which Fred meets then takes Price under her wing and falls for Sarah Churchill to Write a new opera for her. (Winnie’s daughter). He's re-| He deserts Patricia and goes luctant to pursue her, until he with Gisele on the opera circuit catches Jane and Peter in a for three years. In the meantime, clinch, Mutually, Fred and Janie Patricia has gained stature as a agree to throw out their anti- ballerina. matrimony pact. | At a chance meeting, Price pro-

and-sister - dance team who as! In his hotel room, Fred 18 89 noses to Patricia in jest. Gisele

DANCING DOL L—Patricia Dancing Years," British color ep opera, and symphonic music,

Movie Preview:

In “Royal Wedding," coming to Loew's Fred Astaire gazes at a

next Saturday, ‘picture of Sarah Churchill,

overhears and takes the matter seriously. She should.

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MOVIE OFFERINGS—Coming first-run film attractions include: William Lundigan and Susan Hayward in "I'd Climb the

Highest Mountain" (

ircle, Thursday), Bud Abbett, Lou Costello | lacting, the principal reason the|

and the shadow of Arthur Franz in "Abbott and’ Costello Meet the Invisible Man" (Indiana, Wednesday), Rory Calhoun and Ellye Marshall in "Rogue River" (Lyric, Thursday), and Michael Rennie and Jean Simmons in "Trio" (Keith's, next Saturday).

She is,

about to become a mother, and|challenge, convinced of "his own|as a tuberculosis patient in “Sani-

‘had planned to marry Price. She dashes out early the next morn-| ing and marries Anthony Nicholls. . Later that day she gets the true .. |pitch from Price, but it's too \ late. Heartbroken Gisele settled down with Nicholls, and Price marries Patricia. Other than a few sporadic incidents in the years that follow, Price is content to leave Gisele alone.

” = » New Heights APPROPRIATE for the Easter season is “I'd Climb the Highest Mountain,” a fine study in faith, all wrapped up in a heartwarming story. Near the turn of the century ‘William Lundigan takes his bride Susan Hayward into the back country of Georgia where he has been assigned as the circuit minister. . Immediately he is beset by the problems and tragedies of the town, all of which he expects to be solved by his infinite faith land trust in God. This almostblind faith leads him astray until Susan forcibly points out that much of the power of God is E sometimes lost if the proper hu- ¥ man tools aren't available with

: i Neate a sy which to Work. Dainton is a ballerina in "The | "y ;;qigan learns his lesson well,

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‘Royal Wedding’

Sarah "sends" him and he starts a dance routine, tapping his way up the front of the chest of drawers.

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ability and fortified by his faith Sidelighted in the story are in cidents involving hypocrisy and atheism, featuring Alexander, {nox as an atheist who puts Lundigan’s faith to the supreme test.

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More Maugham RECENTLY, American . audiences were pleased with a British (film titled “Quartet,” which combined four. W. Somerset Maugham short stories into one film. Each of the stories separate from the other. Now the British have done it again. This time with three short stories and the title, naturally, “Trio.” In the first story, “The Verger,” James Hayter is an illiterate verger (we call them sextons over here) who has.served his church faithfully for years. But when the new vicar assigned to the church learns that -he can neither read nor write, Hayter is immediately ‘discharged. Feeling totally inadequate, Hayter leaves the church and uses his life's savings to open a small tobacco shop, through which he becomes wealthly. Ironically, he besomes one of the church's staunchest patrons.

opening Friday at the Esquire. Theater. [to move on, he’s prepared for any| Beautiful Jean Simmons is cast have been pre

A hand-stand on the chair gives him a new perspective of the picture, now set-

he desk. He's exhilarated. = °

torium.” She and Michael Rennie, another patient, are madly in love, but fully aware that the excitement of marrigae would be fatal to both, Bravely, they are forced to make the decision whether to spend a few carefree months in wedded bliss, or to live the rest of their lives in the half-world of the sanitorium. The third portion of the film offers a little comic relief and

some high drama. Nigel Patrick is cast as’ the title character in “Mr. Knowall.” As a diamond

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In addition to the outstanding!

two Maugham movies, “Quartet” and “Trio,” are having such success in this country is that they flatter the adult mind.

“Trio” is a ray of light in the|

entertainment field, and a sign that at least one company is making an honest effort to cater to the post-bobby sox masses. Someday Hollywood will realize that a great many adults are seeking adult entertainment, and to many the legitimate. theater is either non-existent or prohibited by cost. u n ”

Sequeled Sequel

NOW THAT “Trio” has been hashed over, let's turn to the other extreme in movie making and discuss the latest Abbott and Costello comedy in which they “Meet the Invisible Man.” . Arthur Franz makes himself invisible and Costello poses as a

merchant, he succeeds in making boxer in order to solve a murder.

himself obnoxious to’ everyone during a steamer trip.

Also aboard is a fickle woman and her suspicious husband. The woman is wearing an expensive necklace she claims is imitation and that she had purchased for $40. Mr. Knowall knows the necklace is genuine. When the husband tricks Knowall into a wager tp identify the necklace, Knowall suddenly realizes he will expose the unfaithful wife, In appraising the necklace, he is forced to throw away his reputation for being a knowall. Possibly you've met these three stories sometime in the past. All sented on the radio,

Dancing again, he taps his way up the front of the chest again, then ascends the

wall, still dancing.

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lush: gun routines

Adele Jergens is ‘the moll. Via their usual they catch the killer. " un »

More War

HOLLYWOOD is now hitting its stride in the output of Korean War films, with “Korean Patrol” slated to be doubled with “Rogue River’ -at the Lyric. “Patrol” recounts the struggle by several United Nations soldiers to blow up a Red bridge. “Rogue River's” greatest asset is Ellye Marshall, Marie Wilson's old stand-in, who appears to be better endowed than Marie. It's a gunplay story set in the wilds

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Keith's "TRIO"

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Of Handling Film Crowds

By PATRICIA CLARY ' United Press Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 17— Director Robert Rossen’s greatest may well be his handling of crowd scenes, He says his secret is just letting people behave like themselves. Rossen's production of “All the

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{King's Men” won an Academy Award, partly because of its violent crowd scenes. In his latest ;Columbia ‘picture, “The Brave Bulls,” he expands his technique of putting 2000 people together and letting things take their course. “I try to use real people in real life settings,” Rossen explained. “I explain the action to them. But I rehearse them as little as posOtherwise * a good live human becomes just a bad actor.” One {illustration is Rossen's

handling of 2000 persons stampeding through the concrete tunnels of the Plaza Mexico in Mexico City, the world's biggest bullring. The action required Mel

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MAESTRO—Larry Fotine and his orchestra will be at the Indiana Roof tonight for the St. Patrick's Day dance and tomorrow night for the "Lucky Spot" ance.

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ROSSEN TOLD only the three actors what it was all about. He hired police and soldiers to hold the mob back but even they didn’t know the score. “We had six cameras trained on the scene,” he said. “There they were—2000 sweating, shoving people packed between 50-foot walls of concrete, and nothing seemed to give. We stopped the action before anyone got hurt, but imagine [trying to rehearse that!”

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