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Indiana “"FABIOLA"

= OPENING S==Perstraiiiey + local first-run houses next week will include Michele. Morgan, surrounded (upper left) by ancient Romans, in "Fabiola" (Indiana, Tuesday); Cece and Bud Robinson (center), featured in the Lyric's stage show (Tuesday through Thursday); Tony Curtis and Piper Layrie -(upper right} in-"The Prince- Who Was a Thief” (Circle, Thursday) and a "Show Boat" sextet consisting of (left to right) Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Joe E. Brown, Agnes Moorehead Robert Sterling and Ava Gardner (Loew's, Wednesday). :

the basis for “The Prince Who | Was a T ture. Ever since Douglas Fairbanks Sr. did “The Thief of Bagdad” in| 1924, Near-Eastern settings have

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been heavily exploited. They put glamorous females in harem cos-| tume and under the spicy threat| of harem exploitation. They put athletic, rope-swinging, knife-tot-| ing males in shorts, thereby add-

Loeu’s ing Tarzan appeal to harem ap-

“SHOW BOAT"} : peal.

In technicolor, this latest version of the theme has Mr. Curtis] jin the Fairbanks-type role and| [Miss Laurie as the romantic in-|

Films to Range From Ancient Rome to Custer [uns uo avon

|casts, in a way, Mr. Curtis being] } : ; an adopted son of a Tangier thief . V J ew’s screen next Wednesday. |way ahead of Ft. Lee and Long for this immense production, Miss Te (for bonnie w By HENRY BUTLER Lo y y 3 : 0" and Miss Lau nnie whom ; ; In a burst of fine frenzy, Frank Island City (Hollywood was not Which evidently has sets reminis-|\. cyrtis is ready to lay him First-run houses will offer you he Lyric, has 5 cent of New York's Pennsylvania y ancient Rome, the ' Arabian|Paul, manager of the Lyric, has|ya¢ headquarters) in the pioneer SE0V ; ; doon and dee) ‘a dip, or picki seid booked two shows in for next|y..r« Station. pocket Nights, the old Mississippi and : Sd | “The title role of Fabiola 1s] pr. ; : ’ week: A stage deal surrounding” That many umpteen years ago Not to give anything away, it's Custer’s Last Stand among other a . an dn bred ‘played by Michele Morgan, blond : 5 it wool Jerry Gray and his orchestra forithe Italian companies ground out . ilies . ms POSSIDle to say here that the whole #0enes next week, : [three days opening Tuesday, and “Quo Vadis,” “The Last Days of Irench star familiar to American story turns out far better than| B Ancient Rome is the setting for . 3 hy , Cy So up ye audiences, with muscleman Henri} 2 te “Fabjola,” fabulous Italian im-| Little Big Horn" the Custer's Pompeii,” “Antony and Cleo- yyq.1 a tho ladiator who rescues 2PYPody has any right to expect. an. ’ 8 a - x 3 - tt “rahi "_ . € £ e 1ato 2S PB port (Indiana, Tuesday). Last Stand picture, starting next Patra a a biria Probabiviine maiden from serving as Gro-| Ol' Man River The Arabian Nights, or a rea-| FTC ay. ie Orst genuine .'eplies Pup for the tyrant’s lions. : a ’ | The Esquire, still playing history. Jumping the gun on the Star-| Gaynor. sicals production

sonable facsimile thereof, PTO-l«n dette” through next Thursday, | biola” seems to be kind of That's the kind of picture it Is.\jjont My OF] rl reminds vides scenery for those male and .

: y e following/a retake of “Quo Vadis,” if you A Press agent's estimate (always|«ghow Boat.” due at the Fair 5 - female heart-throbs Tony Curtis {130, Hot _coneTted fhe Jolewing remember that famous novel conservative, needless to say) grounds July 31-Aug. 5, Loew's Marge and Gower Champion in and Piper Laurie in “The Prince|y.qqiine. labout the early Christians, the Puts its cost at $4 million for the wi have the most recent screen other important roles. Who - Was a Thief” (Circle,| # |decadent Roman empire and the! Scenes of wild revelry and Sty version of it next Wednesday. Thursday). (Incidentally, in case Quo Vadis” Influence large - scale technicolor

huge, sadistic spectacles staged 8randeur ih pagan, sinful Rome” ‘my; i San you've eluded the press agents’| “Fabiola,” the Indiana’sby Nero inthe Colosseum. (Where (I quote from the press book).|jaa1 has Kathryn Grayson as] With the late Jerome Kern's Magnolia, Ava Gardner as the score and the lyrics by Oscar

dragnet, Mr. Curtis and Miss Wednesday offering, has had lots Sonja Henie skates is spelled di.[ What more can you ask? Laurie will appear here in the of publicity pro and con. It seems ferenyy.) Dreiser Story tragic Julie of mixed racial heri- Hammerstein II and others, the round, or in the flesh, next Thurs-to be -in the tradition started n post - war, poverty -ridden| ‘tage, Howard Keel as gambler musical, based on Edra Ferber's A fantastic short story by the Ravenal, Joe E. Brown as Cap'n novel, often is termed the first

day and Friday). |more than 35 years.ago by the Italy, it was no trick for Director! Old Muddy’s troubled waters Italian film industry which, be- Alessandro Blasetti to hire hun-late Hoosier novelist Theodore Andy and Agnes Moorehead, Rob-!genuine American opera. As announced above, the Lyric

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will float “Show Boat” on tollieve it or not, artistically got dreds, even thousands, of extras (“American Tragedy”) Dreiser is ert Sterling, William Warfield and|

Preview: ‘Little Big Horn’

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Summoned on a desperate mission to try res | On the way to help Custer's column, Ireland sees smoke puffs cuing U. S. cavalry headed by Gen. George A. rising from a mesa. Galloping to their source, he grapples with

Custer, Ireland says goodby to Bridges’ wife, and kills the Indian spy. But the damage already has been done, Marie Windsor, . and further trouble is in store for all. the U. S. troops. %. * a ~ har

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Ambushed-by the Indians who had seen th and he himself dies of arrow wounds, after bec command of the small force headi Custer, they encounter an enormous force of indians. Despite

will play host to Jerry Gray and his orchestra for three nights, starting next Tuesday. A stage show will accompany the band, and vice versa, with “The Killer That Stalked” on the screen. For the week's second change of bill, the Lyric will move in “Little Big Horn,” the western film briefly summarized in pictures at the bottom of this page.

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SUCH VIVACITY—Betty Lynn, freckle-faced redhead with contours, is a contributor of vivace ity to "Take Care of My Little Girl," starring Jeanne Crain, Dale Robertson, Jean Peters and Mitzi

Ship Sinks in Channel LONDON, July 7 (UP)-The 691-ton British steamer Jargoon sank in the English Channel toe day after colliding with the 1339ton Spanish ship Tormes in thick fog. The Jargoon’s crew escaped

in boats and was taken aboard the Tormes,

e smoke signals, Bridges’ oming reconciled with his friend. Ireland takes ng for the Little Big Horn River.: On ;

their w odds, they charge