Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1952 — Page 7

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SECOND SECTION

Circle : “DENVER AND RIO GRANDE"

These Movies Should Satisfy Almost Anyone

By Kathleen Cvengros IF YOU CAN'T FIND SOMETHING in the film fare for the coming week—let’s face it—you just don't like, movies, anyway. In Hollywood—

Aimed at the summer theater-crowd are the follow-| ing ims: At Last—A “The Winning Team,” tale of D&RG's remaining narrow-gauge; Grover Cleveland Alexander star-trackage in the heart of the Colo-| NE JOHNSON ring Ronald Reagan and Doris/rado Rockies. By ERS Ri} OHNESO! Day, comes to the Indiana Thurs- | HOLLYWOOD, June 21— day. En Garde {Ray Milland's starring role in Edmund O'Brien, Sterling Hay-| Noted as the finest swordsman “The Thief,” den, Dean Jagger and J. Carroll jn the film colony Naish keep things hopping in : ;

a full-length

Cornel Wilde feature movie in which he ‘has an opportunity to display his|;,een't have a single line of diaprowess in “At Sword’'s Point,” log, has the film's crew predicting romantic period drama. {he'll cop an Oscar nomination. “Scaramouche” opening Wednes-| Wilde portrays an adventur- The movie, by the way, will be day at Loew's. ous youth who, with two com- billed as “a talking picture withrades and a girl, sets out to helpiout dialog.”

“At Sword’s - Point” features the agin ueen of Cornel Wilde and Maureen O'Hara her age 2 PETRY Re]

at the Lyric Wednesday. ous nobleman.

Thursday at the Esquire George Brent and Myrna ‘Loy Baseball Heroes The Never Die of Siam, the actual grandson of the character he plays in “The

take over star billing in Rains Came.” | With Ronald Reagan as Grov- ging and I” When the prince Rough and Tough ler Cleveland Alexander, “The wars, pany to return to ily Yul “Denver and Rio Grande” is Winning Team” unfolds the tale zqqressed him as “Your High- ¢ 16 of of a Nebraska farmboy on his pegs” he tale of how the infant Den- trek through the minor leagues,| «Cut that out. Yul” said the ver and Rio Grande railroad bat- his marriage “to a childhood young monarch. “Just call me tles against every sort of natural Sweetheart, his battlefront ex- Ned.” bstael i _Iploits in World War I, his sets Obstacle and man-made opposi backs and the triumphal come-| tion for the right-of-way through pack he makes w the Royal Gorge and over the the underdog St. Louis Cardinals|steam-ahead” sticker on his file Rockies to Salt Lake City. The to the World Series victory inlin UI's young talent bank. He film was made in color along the!1926. [began his career as a child in mena ——— - : so

“Denver and Rio Grande” starting Thursday at the Circle.

Times’ preview-of-the-week is

2 » ” YUL BRYNNER, who makes {his first movie for Paramount next year, recently struck up a friendship with Prince Suksawat

808 JACK KELLY: Brother of ac-

‘Scaramouche’

Andre Moreau (Stewart Granger), mystery man, fries to pre-. ‘Andre eludes police by joinvent a duel between De Maynes (Mel Ferrer) and Philippe (Rich- ing a troupe of traveling actors. ard Anderson) but is helpless in the presence of the queen's guard He assumes the disguise of (Henry Wilcoxson) in ""Scaramouthe™ (Loew's, Wednesday). In. the. Scaramouche, star of the duel, lige is killed and Andre vows vengeance on De Maynes froupe, and proceeds to debut finds himself no match for the swordsman, When Aline (Janet velop his skill with the sword. Leigh isturvanss, Andre a1capas to fight aucther day. He balisves -The leading lady in the troupe Aline is his sister and is unhappy when he learns she is betrothed is Lenore {Eleanor-Parker) and to De Maynes by order of Marie Antoinette. Andre finds himself, engaged

hen he pitches tress Nancy Kelly, with a “full-|

Lyre “AT SWORD'S POINT"

Talkie Without Talk

New York, modeling for clean Edmund Grainger, who produced | — —— k

film, is saying: | “Egan has the quality to be | either a hero or a heavy on the screen — the combination that made stars of Clark Gable, Vic Mature, Kirk Douglas and Bob Ryan.” » u = |

JURADO, beauty

face soap ads and playing kiddie the roles in Broadway plays When he reached the leading) man age, he came to Hollywood “cold,” as he puts it, and landed a small part in RKOs “Where Dan-| ger Lives,” UIl's “Bronco Buster”| and “Red Ball Express” are meatjer acting assignments. “I dont like to be referred to as Nancy's brother, Jack groans. Noon,” is in a critical condition]

"1 want to stand.on my OWNn ;, , Mexico City hospital. Seri-|

KATY

Mexican who's

” ” ” h RICHARD EGAN: Three years © °°" i)

in the school of drama at Stan-| «THE GRACE MOORE ford University won Richard an STORY” is nearing the camera |

MA degree in theater history and stage at Warner Brothers. Al1/Cruise,” a sly saga involving a dramatic literature and a chance the necessary clearances have ship whose only passenger is a

Veteran movie woman, a woman who never stops that dramatic training can some- director Frank Lloyd, who re- i io

in Hollywood. Now he believes been made. . . .

to screen|tired to Monterey, Cal, is returning to his megaphone follow-

ing the death of his wife. , .

times be a handicap success:

2 “It’s more important for a

act.” female six-footers in “Sky Girls,” Dick’s big break came as Bob'a science-fiction thriller about Mitchum’s executive officer “One Minute to Zero,” And now planets.

“ dre and Lenore are a great success as an acting team and soon find themselves in Paris where Aline and De Maynes are living. Aline secretly admires Andre whom she recognizes in the guise of Scaramouche, and she and Lenore conspire to keep the two enemies apart. Meanwhile, Andre infuriates Be Maynes more by denouncing him in the General Assembly of France. By this time Andre is skilled with the sword and he proceeds to polish off many of De Maynes' followers. Thereafter, Andre and De Maynes work separately to meet each other. Yi r y I -~ a

‘A Little Bit Of Everything

the fiery the spice of the titles and plot Gary lines of the three stories featured Cooper's leading lady in “High|/in “Encore.”

lous injuries sustained in an auto|ls titled “The Ant and the Grass\hopper”’ brothers,

.|/Gigolette,” a thriller about a beau-

young actor to project his per-/ Five-foot, four-inch Aram Katch- tiful stunt diver who risks her life sonality onto the screen than to/er will be the menace (?) to the so. the amusement of high society.

in/women who try to conquer the 0f master story-teller, W. Someriset Maugham.

The Indianapolis Times

Esquire "THE RAINS CAME" §8

FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT—Slated for audience pleasure next week at the downtown first-run theaters are the following atractions: Cornel Wilde and Maureen O'Hara in "At Sword's Point

(Lyric, Wednesday); Ronald Reagan and Doris Day in "The Winnin

Team" (Indiana, Thursday);

J. Carroll Naish and Edmund O'Brien in "Denver and Rio Grande” (Circle, Thursday) and George

Brent and Myrna Lc

Encore’ Features

y tv ia : Variety is the spice of life and By BEN

“horse face,” which means he

Story number one is the trilogy

and concerns two “Quite ugly people make love. |

That's one of the things about] |love. It has a transforming. pow-| er. Quite an ugly gazink can| seem pretty good looking to a woman who happens to be in love with hfm. She sees things no one| else does about his face. Maybe she thinks he looks kind. I don’t! know. Maybe she only thinks he'll be all hers, because no other woman wants him. . “Anyway, ugly people do fall in love. “For years the movies had been harping on the theme that|

Story number two is “Winter

Number three is “Gigolo and

All three stories are the works

in “The Rains Came" (Esquire, Wednesday). ~~ ~~~ ~~ ‘Horse Face’ May Be Screen Lover, Too

COOK

HOLLYWOOD, June 21-—Lee Marvin says he has a

isn’t pretty. He has a sneak-

ing suspicion that it doesn’t entirely rule him out as a possible romantic lover of the screen, however. :

ing at the love making. Then Bogart came along. You know the result, Somehow the movie makers got around Bogart. They said he wasn't pretty but there was ‘something attractive’ abou him. “What I think is that the public is getting wise to the fact that it is. refreshing ta see any and all kinds of men and women make love on the screen. “I think we're in for some offbeat love making. “I'm sure off-beat enough. I'll

{only pretty men are worth watch-/be ready.”

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One evening Andre and De Maynes meget at the theater where Scaramouche performs. A duel, the likes of which Paris has . never seen, follows, but after severely wounding De Maynes, Andre finds he cannot run him through. He allows Pim to live. He learns the strange reason he could not kill the nobleman later when he discovers his own true identity, His father was the Marquis De Maynes and he and De Maynes are half-brothers. Shortly after. ward, De Maynes is killed Bastille. .

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in. the people of France storm the