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Hootchy-Kootchy ‘danee are on the bill for downtown movie goers during the coming ‘week. Opening at the Indiana, Wednesday will be “Jim Thorpe, All-American,” starring Burt Lancaster and Phyllis Thaxter. The . Loew's will feature’ John Derek and Jody Lawrance in “The Mask of the Avenger,” which will be seen for the first time in the city on Wednesday. : Thiirsddy, the Lyric will bring Edmond O'Brien and Pamela Britton in “D.0.A.” The preview of the week finds Mark Stevens and Rhonda Fleming top-billed in “Little Egypt.”

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BURT - LANCASTER will star as the Oklahoma Indian who became the greatest- athlete of the first half of the 20th Century in “Jm Thorpe, All-American” (Indiana, Wednesday): The story of this great football, baseball and track star ‘is told through the eyes of “Pop’” Warner, who started his coaching ca-

."reer at Carlisle Institute. and later - gained great fame at Stanford.

Jim Thorpe as a youngster did not like school. He would leave the reservation school as soon as his father disposed of him at the door. One day Jim's father gave his gon 4 short talk. He said, “Son, do you always want to be an Indian selling blankets at the railroad station, or do you wnt to make something of your self like the ‘white man? Go to school.” Thorpe entered ‘Carlisle Indian school in’ Pennsylvania, not as a

Indian Scores as Pal Of Film Lone Ranger .

Hollywood (UP)-—Jay Silver Heels figures he is risking his motion picture caree® on a single role. es : The handsome, well-built Mohawk Indian has built up a tre-

mendous following in his many appearances as, Tonto, the Lone

Ranger's trusted Indian friend. a lot. He returns with another Quinn turns Casamare's fort

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Mark Stevens. American swindler, and Steven

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Minor Watson. transplant. a Cairo street to the Columbian ‘Exposition of 1893 in "Little Circle, Thursday). The pasha is supposed . to he big ‘attraction, but he is detained in [Egypt and Rhonda Fleming takes his place. - .

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lauded football player as you might suspect for he knew nothing about the game. But" ne could run. : And run he did as he personally won victory - after ‘victory at scho6l track meets. Taking his letter he had garnered to the sewing class to have it stitched on, he meets Phyllis Thaxter. This is the turning point in his life. He falls for her immediateiy. . . Also vying for her affections is Steve Cochran, captain of the football team. Thorpe turns out for football to prove he is better than Cochran. : Because of his amazing athletic ability, he is goon leading the little Carlisle school to victories over such powers of the East as Harvard: Army and Pennsylvania. He continues as a one-man track team and marries Miss Thaxter. The 1912 Olympics roll ‘around and he decides to enter the decathlon and pentathlon. He triumphs in both, an unheard of feat. The King of Sweden gives him a trophy and pronounces him “the greatest athlete .in the world.” "ee Later it is discovered that he played a summer of professional basebdll, so he is stripped of all of his records and trophies. He

turns to pro ball again, playing Campbell, Luther Adlerand Edmond O'Brien in

with the New York Giants, He then quits the team to play pro foothall. =” All. of this ‘time he works with his son, whom he

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NEXT WEEK'S ATTRACTIONS—Leading movies to be shown at the downtown theaters ‘during the coming week will include Burt

Lancaster as Jim-Thorpe and Jack Baston as King Gustav of Sweden in "Jim Thorpe, All-American" (Indiana, Wednesday), Beverly

Avenger" (Loew's, Wednesday).

ball and they ask him to be their coach. He then discovers his life-

idolizes. He plans: for Jimmy Jr. long job, coaching youngsters.

to-win all of his records back; but his son dies at the age of 6.

Thorpe drops out of sight, be- The Co

coming a circus barker, dance marathon announcer and doing other such low: jobs, His old coach Warner discovers him a few days before the 1932. Olympics. appearing in a show in lL.os Angeles. He offers him a ticket to the big track event. Jim first refuses, but is there at the opening of the world meet. Warner says a few words to him and then leaves. lL.ong after the stadium is empty, Thorpe gits and thinks. The next day as he is driving along .he funs over a fpotball! being used by a group of kids in

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THAX LEGENDARY. hero.

she” Count. of Monte Cristo,” lives again in ‘THe Mask of the Avenger” (Loew's, Wednesday). The plot has John Derek returning from the front during the Austro-Italian War of 1848 to find his father murdered. He suspects treachery by Anthony Quinn, the military governor of the district. Donning the guise of the Count, he faids the Governor’'s palace and rescues. his friend - Eugene: Iglesias and his sweetheart Jody Lawrance,

» Nig, e Piincess of Egypt. She has a Stevens doesn't like the way Rhonda got herself into the show, so he makes a, play for Watson's daughter, Nancy Guild. Stevens then throws a party to show Miss Fleming how much_he loves her, but she sees a piece in the paper announcing his: engagement to Nancy. Stevens insists that he is doing this to keep in the good graces of Nancy's father. Rhonda still burns. She and doesn't care how she attains her goal. :

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over to the Austrians, but it is recaptured. by the townspeople. Iglesias is killed. and Derek's sweetheart abducted. Derek follbws after Quinn, but is injured.” Miss Lawrence then provides a dramatic climax that is quite different .from most love stories.

John Derek, the hero of the.

is ohne of the few stars allowed to do his. own Before entering the movfes he broke polo ponies. This, and. the, fact that he has done quite a bit of sword fighting for other films, make him well equipped for the rough and tumble action of the picture. Impresgive medieval castle interiors, modernized to the period of the movie, were created for

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crush on Stevens. i - phasizing culture rather than entertainment. An idea is suggested

Thursday) and Anthony Quinn -and ,John Derek in "Mask of the

setting in this technicolor picture. throatle throttle (to sing). Some Others appearing in the film are of these odd terms are. worked Arnold Moss, Dickie LeRoy, ifffo the script. Harry Cording, Tan Wolfe, Carlo This movie is a tour of -the Tricoli, David Bond and Wilton 1,08 Angeles and Hollywood gangGraff. ? land hangouts Seen are the L.-A. y ‘Police Department Homicide Division, Main Street's "Skid. Row, Solves Own Murder The Sunset Strip, Beverly Hills EDMOND, O'BRIEN and Pam- Haunts of known criminal elgela Britton will star in “D.0.A.’ ments and Santa Anita, (Lyric, Thursday), which has they Pamela Britton, who, loves murdered man solve his own case O'Brien through the entire story. before dying. - is a former member of the road Featured in the film are sev- company of “Oklahoma.” She has eral sequences on Bebop, which played in such movies as “Ansome people insist is music. Be- chors Aweigh” and “Key to the bopologists have their own lan- City.” She also played the ¢om-

guage, including .such terms as edy lead in Broadway musical turkey (a- fool or-a persdn who --"Brigadoon.’ doesn’t like bebop), to sing (to! * Oh yes, “D.0.A.” means Dead display one's emotions), ‘to on Arrival. ,

The ‘show seems ta be going to the dogs, because it is em.

that Miss Fleming put some sex into the show by doing Egyptian ceremonial dances. She presents one that is called the "Hootchy

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: By Erskine Johnson HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 1—The ho-hum around Hollywaod. is about to change now that Stanley Kramer has signed Katy Jurado, one of Mexico's fiery stars, for a key role in “High Noon.” : :

Katy is a combination of such! late Lu

Bogart and Katherine Hepburn Velez, Dannielle Darrieux a iworked in “The African Queen.” Pola Negri, according to Univer-| Director John Huston had just cal International director Budd ordered his special effects men to who guided her set fire to a village that had taken through sher scenes with Robert weeks to construct.” Suddenly the Stack and Gilbert Roland in “The natives began to chant, “Kickwa » : Tupe, Kickwa Tupe, Kickwa Here's one of the Jurado stories-Tupe.” | “What does that mean?” Huston asked the company translater

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|picture to take part in a mam- rhe ”» h “ {moth benefit performance in Mex-| Ig empy heads,” came the an | The movie director paused to 'look at Bogey wearing a black {beard, Katie in her slacks,

“Natives say white men got

Because of faulty plane connections, Katy showed up at the

theater shortly before midnight,| a time when the audience wag the flames shooting into the

or growing restless and noisy. “You know,” he said, I thi A soprano ‘had already left the those natives are right.” stage in. tears when Katy faced , 8.8 -8

the boisterous crowd. As she be- DAPHNE DU MAURIER, who gan her song, cat-calls and jeers apgked $250,000 for the film rights filled the air. : . to her forthcoming novel, “My Katty ~glaréd at the audience Cousin Rachel,” plus percentages and walked off. ‘and a seven-year. lease arrangeA few seconds later she was ment, {s now coming down in her

back, pointing a deadly-looking demands. And one Hollywood revolver at the loudest hecklers. studio is nibbling. d

“Ladies and gentlemen,” boiled] Katy, “I have volunteered to en-| tertain for this great cause. I receive not one penny for this. “In my _ hand I have a re- | volver. And the first joker who | makes one sound will get it be- | tween the eyes.” | > ” 8 Nn ALL THE HOTEL yarns don’t’ concern Bing Crosby. 3 Jack Gilford tells about one vain, pompous movie king checking in at a New York hotel. ‘A group of women gathered to peer at him and the actor kept turning his profile to his admirers as he’ signed the register. - “Make certain,” he =aid, “that I have a room with a beautiful view.” x . “Yes, sir,” answered the sar-. donie clerk. “We'll instruct the bellboy to hang up a full-length mirror.”

LJ n o SHELLEY WINTERS was sprinting down the hallways at UI when an old friend stopped r it “Why haven't I seen you lately?” he asked. ‘Have you been busy?” ! “Busy!” gasped Shelley. “Honey, I've been so busy I've even had to‘rush my crying spells.’ o o »

ESQUIRE RETURN — Mario ' . Lanza, sensational young singer, \ will ‘be featured in "The Great IT'S A STORY relayed from the Caruso," which will open at the Belgian Congo, where Humphrey, Esquire on Friday.

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Rhonda Fleming and Mark Stevehs are charged with fraud. Movies of her dances are presented in court as evidence. The public ‘prosecutor then springs his big surprise. He produces the pasha to' clinch the case. It blows up when the Soyptian legation proves the pasha to be a phoney. Rhonda is.able to continue her = “dance and recejves 100 grand for the use of the name. of "Little . Egypt." Mark a ET utc

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