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By WARD MOREHOUSE jv $s also true that playgoers want
When the first week in January comes around Richard Rodgers| will have three plays running si-|
multanéously in New York—and|
in the same block! Quite a prom-
ising fellow, Mr. Rodgers. Give him a few more
reach the five. plays - at - the-same-time mark of Clyde Fitch. Not more than two or three musical pleces in the lot of them, but the Fitch titles were “The Climbers,” “Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines,”
Mr. Morehouse
chie” and “Sapho.” : The extraordinary Mr. Rodgers, as of early January of 1952, will be represented by “The King and I” at the St. James, “South Paci
to see, and are seeing, that cap-
tivating young actress, Audrey|
Hepburn, who plays the title role. Perhaps playgoers should be reminded that a great play, “St. Joan,” is in its final‘ four weeks at the Cort, and that they should also be told that another revival isn’t likely for at least a decade.
Report on Havana William , Fields, a valued member of the staff of the Playwrights’ Company, and now on leave in Havana, engaged in getting pieces in the papers about the Ringling Brothers-Barnum. & Bailey Circus, sends in these brisk notations on life in Cuba:
“There isn’t much to report on! &
Havana theatricals; baseball
seems to be. ‘The King and I' of | this locality. , . . Everything here
starts at 9:15 p. m.—or later. . .
There are more Cadillacs here
than in New York and Philadelphia combined. Municipal buses
fic” at the Majestic (both done with Oscar Hammerstein 2d) and the new production of “Pal Joey” (lyrics by Larry Hart, book by John O'Hara) at the Broadhurst.! « + » 1 suggest a block party for the July 4 week. Vincent Sardi Jr. would probably be pleased to givg! over his restaurant one ‘evening to the celebration of a Richard Rodgers Night. I don’t believe he’s| been hurt at all by having those! whopping hits in his immediate!
vicinity. Startling ‘Gigi’: $21,755 If the emphasis is on the thea-| ter's successful side in today’s re-| marks, don’t let such new pieces| as “I Am A Camera” and “Gigi” | 28 overlooked. “Camera,” the!
peculiarity of its title notwith-|
standing, has brought a rush of|“Oscar” is to place its bets onlhave time for lengthy explana- mother.
trade to the Empire, and “Gigi” played last week to the fantastic gross of $21,755 at the Fulton. Theater parties helped to bring the receipts to such a total but
can, and do, achieve a speed of 50 miles an hour when in congested areas. . The beer is agreeable and potent, the food is wonderful, and Cuban courtesy
How to Guess
Award Winners |
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 15 (UP)— There are “systems” that are | Supposed to beat the horse races {and “systems” for winning at roulette. About this time of year, people ‘in Hollywood begin to think about “systems” for predicting Academy Award winners. There is one group in town that figures the best way to pick the winner of ‘the best-actress
|cannot be excelled.”
Jerry Wald’s entry. In five years, the young producer has had six of his feminine stars nominated for the awards. Three of them romped home as winners.
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Doctor Saves Baby But Loses Hog
SPENCER, W. Va. (UP)—Dr.!11th day, at 11 o’clock I delivered B. A. Smith, the oldest practic-ian eight-pound girl for an 18ling physician in Spencer, doesn't|year-old daddy and a 17-year-old The young daddy fired tions, some paper near the corner of his He submitted the followinglhog pen. Then pen took fire and birth report to a Spencer weekly|suffocated the hog. I saved the newspaper: baby, the mother, and the daddy, “Armistice Day, 11th month,but I lost the hog.”
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By Erskine Johnson HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 15—Behind the Screen: The video tubes will crack and the microwave relay will sputter, but a big-time TV star confessed today that he'd like to do less
television and more motion pictures.
Alan Young is his name, “Being a television star does not mean too much,” the sadfaced comic told me between rehearsals of “The Alan Young
Groucho Marx to re-team with Chico and Harpo for a musieal stage version of Moliere’s “The Doctor in:Spite of Himself” was
4 imore time for movies.
Show.” It's more important when your name is up there on movie-theater marquees, too. “I'm doing a TV show every week now, After I've built an audience following, I'll do television only once a month so I'll have
Alan campleted a Paramount film, “Aaron Slick From Punkin’ Creek,” before the start of the winter TV season and now he’s working in “Androcles and the Lion,” with “Sad Sack” slated for filming in the spring.
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Columbia, just uttered a big NO to the offer of a radio series based on her Billie Dawn character in “Born Yesterday.” “I have no intention of doing ‘Billie Dawn and Her Electric Rifle’ or ‘Billie Dawn in the Balkans' just to capitalize on a successful play,” Judy says. “Billie was great for me, but I like to think that I'm a versatile actress who can play a variety of roles.” ” #® » THE FAN-MAG scribblers have been instructed that they can ask Fernando Lamas every question but the $64 one: “Are you in love with Lana Turner?” . . Betty Hutton is introducing Paramount dance director Charles O’Curran around town as “my next husband. » » ” Inside reason for Jean Simmons’ jump-for-joy act about her new RKO contract:. She. will be paid in Uncle Sam’s crinkly green. Until now, Jean's salary has been frozen in sterling in England.
" ” " SYLVIA GABLE, I hear, is prepared to wait until gangrene sets|: in before she gives Clark a divorce, She's sizzling over the surprise move that X-ed Clark's name off the MGM payroll and frustrated her plan to attach his salary. » ” ” BROADWAY Producer Sabinson’s’
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ment wori't exempt me. I I kinda think they've got ideas, too.” : = . » » . Jack Carson’s four-year romance with Lola Albright may now be headed for the altar. Pals say she’ll go along as Mrs. Carson when he hops to England in the spring to star in “Matthew, the Matador,” for J. Arthur Rank.
. ” ” » NOW IT’S Walter Brennan headed for TV. He's huddling with Jack Rubin to star in “The Gentle Years,” a series about life in 1910. . . . After giving out interviews on her ideal man—"he doesn’t have to be rich, just understanding”’—Peggy Dow said “I Want You” to Walter Helmerich and his ofl Wells,
THE “My Girl Godfrey” screen play that’s shaping up at UT is earmarked as a vehicle for Joyce Holden, . . . Now it's Errol Flynn being braver than ever and under water yet. He climbs into a deep sea diving outfit and gurgles beneath the waves for some of his big scenes in
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