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Pix Back to Normal As Awards Fade Away

By Kathleen Cvengros

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Film fare for next week is settling back into more or

less routine billings. As the excitement of Academy Awards dies down, the race to book “prospective winners” ends. Opening Friday at the Indiana is “With a Song in My Heart,” featuring Susan Hay-| ward, —Rery Calhoun, David California's famed Seq Wayne and Thelma Ritter, lests to wrest them from Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller and ment of homesteaders. Patrice Wymore star inf§fhe Big| Employing legal trickery and Trees” beginning Wednesday at oftentimes physical force to gain the Lyric. their ends, the outsiders manage Times preview of the week is to Wreak havoc among the towns“Singing in the Rain” starring People, murdering and pillaging Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and until a courageous lumberman Donald O'Copnor, opening Satur-|takes a firm stand against them,

day at Loew's. { fat “Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fag 90INS the Parade

brings those lovable comics Mar-| Latest addition to the delicate {oste Main hid Kilbride to art of “dubbing” is the new teche Circle . Inicolor drama “With a Song in Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, | » Clifton Webb and Vincent Price MY Heart? starring Susan Haystar in the memorable “Laura” Ward. -- opening Friday at the Esquire. | In no other way, except through ee alot, rane the synchronization process, could i ury| - artists to trace Christ's experi-| 1° story of Jane Froman be pre ences from the Last Supper to the sented. She is the courageous en-

Crucifixion, opens Wednesday at tertainer who at the.very height the Ritz. (of her career, and on her way to

entertain servicemen overseas They're Back Again

| (February, 1943), crashed in a i ,, [plane off Lisbon. » Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair” Few thought she would live, let is the fourth in Universal-Inter- alone ever walk or sing again, national’s “Kettle” series. {buf Marjorie Main and Percy Kil-125 operations and almost a half bride again bring their “Ma” and million dollars in surgical bills. “Pa” characterizations to the To tell her story, Twentieth screen, and, as in other films, are Century-Fox selected Susan Haysurrounded by their 14 kids. ward, who had never sung or) The new comedy highlights danced in a movie. Yet it was! Ma Kettle's participation in a Miss Froman herself who was county fair bread and jam-mak- the first to agree that Susan fit ing contest, while Pa becomes in- the part. According to the songvolved in a horse race. stress, Miss Hayward, had a sin- | Lori Nelson, newcomer in the gular attribute, her speaking voice role of the eldest Kettle daughter, had the same emotional quality— |

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rubber heiress Elizabeth Firestone new “whodunit,” due this fall,

‘By ERSKINE JOHNSON lare being- reteamed in two horHOLLYWOOD, Apr. 5— Para- ror films to be produced in Lon-

for “The Madrid Story,” which “Campaign Train.” , Cary

Take a good look at the derby Pa wears in this film. It's the last of the famou8 Al Smith der-| bies and was presented to Percy! by the late politician back in| 1030. To the best of his knowl-| edge, there isn't another of the famous skimmers in existence. |

The Great Outdoors |

When Warner Bros. decided to film “The Big Trees” with Kirk Douglas and Patrice Wymore, the most natural thing in the world was to shoot the outdoor sequences in the country in which the events actually took place. = So, following the indoor scenes filmed at the home lot, the entire company moved to Eureka,

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Art Combined

Some of the greatest works of 14th to 16th Century artists are combined with Johann Sebastian Bach's Oratorio to bring to the screen “St. Matthew Passion,” at the Ritz Wednesday. The film is a unique experience, Not only because it is the first time so much beauty is seen and heard in one picture, but because no. theatrical performance could be so convincing as the scenes and personages created by such artists as van Eyck, Mantegna, Massacio, de Vinci, Titian, Raphael, Rubens, Tintoretto and

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mount’s cooking up a howl for the main title on the Hope-Cros-by-Lamour reteaming in “The Road to Bali.” Plans call for a giant slave striking a gong a la Rank trademark. Only this slave misses the gong, tries again, misses again—and that's the cue for Hope and Crosby to walk out carrying the Paramount mountain trademark. Press agents think of everything dept.: Vaughn Monroe, in Hollywood for “The Toughest Man in Tombstone” at Republic, was met at the airport by studio officials, his leading lady, Joan Leslie, the president of his fan club .and his HORSE. . . . RCA Victor is cashing in on the Robert Merrill-Roberta Peters Ro-

don by George Minter, un a s NOW THAT Jane Wyman has announced she'll wed Travis Kleefeld, it can be told that the match does not have the complete approval of Travis’ socialite mama. Shemasked that Jane and Travis wait for a long time before hitting the marital path on the theory that whirlwind romances don’t make solid marriages. Jane agreed, but has now jumped the gun on the waiting time. 5 n »

JACK Beutel and Howard Hughes have called it a day, ending one of Hollywood's strangest contracts, After starring in “The Outlaw,” Jack never faced .a camera for seven years. During

she’ll shoot in Spain. , . . Gary Cooper's New Orleans operation for hernia was his second. He still has to face the knife for his ulcer condition. ” ” on SHELLEY Winters plays a wino with anv$11 wardrobe in MGM's “Letter From the President” first character of the type to come her way since “A Place in the Sun.” . . . Ray Milland’s next at Paramount will be ‘“Jamaica Run.” Run, not rum, ” n n UNTIL the blography of Fannie Brice, now being penned by Norman Katkov, is published, eexcutors of the estate of the late, beloved star will not discuss a motion picture deal for a movie based on Fannie's life.

Grant is saying that the deal’s still on for him to co-star with Cantinflas, Mexican comedy king, in “Don Quixote” for Walt Dis-| ney. { » y n |

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Esquire "LAURA"

AT THE FIRST-RUN THEATERS—Susan Hayward and David | Wayne star in "With a Song in My Heart" (Indiana, Friday); play ing in the great outdoors are Kirk Douglas and Patrice Wymore in "The Big Trees" (Lyric, Wednesday): Marjorie Main and Percy Kil bride have a "fair" time in “Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair" (Circle, Friday), and Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb team up in "Laura" (Esquire, Friday).

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he swims in the ocean every | morning winter or summer. | Groucho: “How far?” i Brahm: bout a half-mile, to a weed bank.” x Groucho: “Whaddya do, deposit weeds? ” n ”

“SPLIT B8econd,” based on the § Nevada atomic bomb tests, is ing

the production mill at RKO. About a couple of convicts who try to retrieve a fortune in cash]

Cal. There they worked in the Velasquez. shadow of the mighty redwoods,| The paintings are not used as, in the mill ponds and mills, along illustrations to the music, neither the rivers and on the loggingiis the oratorio used as backrailroads which haul the big logs ground music to the pictures. Art down to market. Thereby, they and ‘music are _ welded into a got authentic backgrounds. unity, to tell the tale of .Christ’s The story itself is of the relent- experiences from the Last Sup-| less lumber interests who invaded per to the Crucifixion.

'Singing in the Rain’

Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lafont (Jean Hagen), the screen's most romantic team in the 1920's, greet their public at an exciting preview on Hollywood Boulevard in "Singing in the Rain" (Loew's, Saturday). They are infroduced to fans by a movie columnist (Madge Blake), and tagging along is Cosmo Brown (Donald O'Connor), Don's friend ahd adviser. ° : Eh

mance—they’ll be teamed on rec- nine years on Hughes’ payroll, he ords immediately. worked in only four films. Red Skelton has writers work- # a & Ing on “The Clown,” which he EVELYN Keyes and Paulette hopes can be his next film at Goddard got together in Paris to MGM. talk about co-starring in a picture Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi fto be shot in Barcelona this sumwhose blood-curdling movies mer... . Alida Valli and Orson grossed a fortune for Universal, (Welles are being beckoned by

Don is mobbed by fans following the preview, and escaping down an alley he hitches a ride with Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds). Kathy laoes down her nose at movie people, declaring oo is a dramatic actress. They part only to meet later at a party where Kathy is in the chorus.

Don and Lina discover that to keep their popularity they must make talking pictures. This is all right as far as Don is concerned, but in spite of the efforts of Director Dexter (Douglas Fowley) and diction coach (Kathleen Freeman), Lina's voice comes over nasal and monotonous. The harder they work on the picture, the more of a farce it Becomes, rs . :

Insistence will be made at bid- hidden in a Nevada ghost town ding time, I hear, on absolute before the place is reduced to fidelity to the book, with fiction dust. i strictly out. 4 8 » : ha IT'S, AVA GARDNER as TyITS ELECTION year, £0 rone Power's co-star in Ul's “Mismovietowr publicist Gordon Gor- sissippi Gambler,” if borrow ne-

ARTISTIC WORK—This is just one of many works of art used to present the story of "St. Matthew Passion” starting Wednesday

don and his wife have titled their gotiations with MGM go through. '- at the Ritz Theater. The painting is by Rogier Yan der Weyden.

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