Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1952 — Page 7

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By CK MITTMAN Taylor and Deborah Kerr, con- Since her mom and dad are too!She portrayed “Roseanna McCoy” A glar social problem, a tinues at Loew's, involved in their own social af- in the film by the same name. movie ling with organized The Lyric begins Tuesday with fairs to fulfill’ thls craving,. she Since then she has appeared in crime poignant love . story, “Lost Continent,” Times preview has to go elsewhere. PE ‘Edge of Doom” and “Our Very " another week of ‘the Roman of the week, starring Cesar When her boy. ‘friend Robert Own.” spectacle and tale of a uranium- Romero. Arthur gives her the brush off, 2 4.4 loaded island inhalited by pre- “8 4 Joan seeks vengeance by running Timely istor nimals are plots for . ; i . iste RE Snimae fe DS Social Problem around with the least reputable The pressbonk bills “Iie Ranke

boys in the high school. She gains a bad reputation: which leads to a bitter row at home. Believing herseif not wanted by all, Joan attempts suicide. It is then that her mother and father see the light, Although almost too late, they try to straighten out the

theaters during the coming week. Who is to blame Opening Tuesday at the Circle delinquency? is “On the Loose,” starring Joan Many sociologists _put their Evans, Lynn Bari and Melvyn finger on the parents. “On the Douglas. Loose” (Circle, -Tuesday) the “The Racket” also opens on case of a. teen-age girl who, Tuesday at the Indiana. It fea- through parental neglect;” betures Robert Mitchum and comes a brazen young lady. lives of their daughter and their Robert Ryan. * The selfish, thoughtless parents own. : Cornel Wilde and Merle Oberon are played by Lynn Bari and Joan Evans is 16 years old and are billed in “Song to Remem- Melvyn Douglas. Their daughter the daughter of playwrights and ber,” which starts Friday at the is portrayed by Joan Evans, screenwriters Katherine Albert Esquire, Miss Evans, like any young per- and Dale Eunson, Her first movie, usual role of a night club singer, “Quo Vadis,” billing Robertson, wants love and affection./dt the age of 14, was a starrer.’ Although the picture is taken

et” (Indiana, Tuesday) as a film taken from a Broadway play with timely significance,

for juvenile

. The film deals with gangsters and political corruption, which seem to _go hand-in-hand. Starring roles: go to Robert Ryan, a prominent Eastern’gangster; Robert Mitchum, a police captain that: money won't buy (this picture isn't a comedy) and Lizabeth Scott who plays tHe

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from a 1926 stage play by Bartlett Cormack, it has a special sequence inserted which ties it in with the crime investigating com mittee headed by Sen. Estes Kefauver. Ryan and Mitchum make quite a reversal in this movie. Ryan, usuélly billed as the honest but rugged hero, is the villain. Mitchum switches from his role of a’ character who is none too choosey about his way of making a livelihood to the hero. Lis Scott ia the gal who “spills the beans” and enahles Mitchum to trap Ryan. ! 5 on n

Immortal Love

The love story between a great novelist and anh” equally great

composer is told in a reprint, “A

‘Lost Continent EE

.~ "An atomic "powered rocket disappears over the Romero warns his Pacific out of radar range in "Lost Continent" (Lyric, for the Tuesday). Scientists John Hoyt (left) and Hugh Beau. Sudden ‘mont (center) ask permission to Seek the ship, Cesar Romero is ordered 22) « ”n . + a Sh oni

party to watch the Geiger counter are nearing the spot the focket disappeared. y the plane spins out of control and crashes on the ‘ship an unchartered island. A young native girl tells of a to fly the group in its search, - “fire-bied" which plummeted into a nearby mountain.

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~The. group starts its perilous climb toward fhe peak through thick overhanging clouds. First sign of . what is ahead comes when Hoyt spots a gigantic. lizard, The initial victim of the climb is Dr. Brig $s . (Whit Brissell) who loses his hold and falls 4o his death, .

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Song to Remember” (Esquire, Friday). The author is pants-wearing George Sand and the song writer i3 immortal Fredgrig Chopin. Por-

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impossible barrier for her to hurdle. Filmed in technicolor, thhe movie has 18 of Chopin's most. famous tunes blended through it. Wilde

traying Mme. Sand is Merle Obe-"t0ook 66 hours of piano lessons and

ron. Chopin is enacted by Cornel Wilde. The other principal character that of Prof. Joseph Elsner, Chopin's. musie master

is played by Paul Muni. Chopin becomes enchanted with Mme, Sand when she is the only critic who gives a favorable review of his first concert in Paris Mme. Sand finds she must overcome loves of three different kinds

to gain his complete affections. She must conquer his love for Constantia (Nina Foch), his sweetheart; love for music and

love for his native Poland. These other influences proved to he an

At the top, a movieland world of prehistoric animals unfolds to. the party. After a dangerous trek they find the rocket under attack by these -

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Another Week

“Quo Vadis” (Loew's) continues to draw it being held over for another week,

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Five-hundred carpenters, painters and other artisians worked two years to build the setting for this spectacle. They had ‘to construct a reproduction of the Circus

of Nero, large enough to seat 30,000 people; the exterior of

Willie Tatlow ceratops leaving

Nero's palace; a complete section of Rome as it appeared 2000 years ago; a bridge capable of supporting 5000 persons fleeing from burning Rome.

Costuming was another gigans tic task. In Italy, as in other foreign countries, many firma" contract for the work and then parcel it out to housewives throughout Italy. This system was used in making “Quo Vadis.” Thirty-two thousand costumes were utilized .in the film, It took more than 52,000 yards of cloth to make the array. There wera more than 15,000 hand-sewn sane dals and 13,000 piecés of jewelry, Soldiers’ armor consisted of 4000 brass, aluminum and tin helmets, 4000 breastplates, 2000 shields

and 21,700 water bottles.

(5d Molton) is gored by a rie our Tithe party. They hurfy

their descent as a earth tremor begins.’ At the

huge beasts. The animals are diverted while the” bottom they paddle to ‘a safe distance to watch

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flight recording mechanism is extracted,

the uranium deposit on the island explode,

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