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; : : "HAS ANYBODY SEEN MY GAL" hardworking movie editors and thoroughly confuse the 3 a : De a : theatergoer, local theaters have been having a joyous To ; ; : o . V3 But a x Weel changin programs ab-the last minute... a is % ; 4 re N PRRUAL This porn To EE Shien :

to say is-an old standby: As far! As dramatized in the frequently '

“pet dog Tschaikowsky, a canine character of uncertain

as this writer knows the follow- sensational film, the hunting ing movies will be playing at the eagles save a party of travelers theaters next week. Whether caught between two savage wolf they will or not seems to be in| packs closing in for the kill. the lap of the gods. , . Lo “Has Anybody Seen My Gal” Roaring Twenties opens Thursday at the Circle! Universal-International has Theater. Starring are Piper reached back to 1928, the period Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Co- of raccoon, coats, rah-rah boys, burn and Gigi Perreau. - {speakeasies and the Charleston, Times preview-of-the-week isto put “Has Anybody Seen My “Francis Goes to West Point,” co-,Gal” on the screen. starring Donald O'Connor and| ‘Gal” relates the amusing probFrancis the Mule, It opens Thurs- lems faced by members of a day at the Indiana. small-town family when an unLoew’s next attraction will be known benefactor turns over “Lovely To Look At” which stars $100,000 to them. Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Difficulty was encountered in

lineage and equally unpredictable ' disposition, became a movie actor in his own right in his master's movie “The Tanks Are Coming,” the pets of | ;

the other stars have been jockey- | + ing for positions in front of me NO Hair, but Beard exmiera, Got Stunt Man

Virginia Mayo’s toy bulldog, . . . name of Punkin, had a chance to! His Acting Rid

do a walk-on in a scene in his

lady's musical, “She’s Working, BY BEN COOK Her Way Through College,” but | HOLLYWOOD, June 28—

Punkin didn’t make the grade. He When a movie stunt man gets just stood in front of the camera t00 old to take the falls and staring adoringly at Virginia, in-| jumps he has to do to earn a

y! Pc o a Sn ta Mapas To Cy oa Read of w 11 Baugh th ing. his cl hope val The Lyric Theater features Tippling Twenties. Peg top trous- scene as he was supposed to do. retire without any broken bones. ne BROOKS “Valley of the Eagles,” starring ers for some male members of When Doris Day reported to her [Few want to become actors. OVE Nadia Gray and John McCallum. the cast, bell-bottom pants for studio for Nebraska farm scenes, That's what makes Jack Woody a BLAKE It begins Thursday. others, and flat-chested, ankle- in (“The Winning Team,” her dog|a rarity in his current career as a Smoky was ruled out of bounds— supporting and character actor.

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Giant golden eagles. with. six-| cate. : foot wing-spread, talons bigger] The fact that few films are and stronger than the strongest made dealing with this period, man's hand, and five-inch hooked can partially be blamed. To many beaks, actually swoop to attack people of this generation the perand kill savage wolves before the iod seems like only yesterday—

camera eye in “Valley of theland it is—so little or no attempt Eagles.” has been made to gather up the

It is the first time man has costumes and other objects of

photographed the lore of hunting/that day. i with eagles handed down to the There weren't supposed to be Lapps over hundreds of years any real barrooms or night-clubs

from their Siberian ancestors, the then, either, so speakeasy sets Lapp-like Juraker tribe. for the film were the product of

When the movie company went the builders’ memories. far into the Lapland wastes to Ej ’ 1 shoot location scenes, they found Film Makers Nightmare natives living in the 5000-foot Take enough nylon thread to mountains in an eerie quiet. It’s|circle the globe twice, enough im- 4 more than tradition that has ported Swiss organdy to make a

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placed the swift, silent work of chiffon to build a circus tent,

The Stooge’ Takes ,...

FIRST-RUN MOVIES—Scheduled at present for the first-run downtown theaters this comin are Howard Keel, Red Skelton, Marge Champion and Kathryn Grayson in "Lovely to Lo At" [next attraction at Loew's); Nadia ‘Gray and John McCallum in the Lapland adventure, ''Valley of the Eagles" (Lyric, Thursday) and Charles

not that a dog wouldn't have been; Woody broke both heels and correct in the sefting, but merely legs doing a spectacular stunt in

because there wasn't much likeli; the temple destruction sequence

hood that a Nebraska farm dog Of “Samson and Delilah.” He left

would turn out to be a well- Hollywood and became a pack

station guide at Lone Pine, Cal., groomed black French poodle. in the Owens Valley sportsman’s

Smoky almost got another , chance, though, with Miss Day paradise. He coulde' Tesist's by and Ray Bolger in “April in| To look picturesque for the pack Paris.” But this time they decided | train customers, he shaved off his to use poodles in various gay col-| hair and grew a long beard. ors other than black; so it's back Hired for Picture to the backyard for good old! An old friend, Andre de Toth, STORY: ond Deni the beard wes an . | y n e beard when he Non-Acting Ambitions | went to Lone Pine looking for loSuzy, a miniature French poodle cations for “Carson City.” He who can and sometimes does fit Persuaded Woody to take an act|ing job. It was a simple role. The into the handbag of her owner, most dangerous thing he had to Jane Wyman, appeared briefly be- do was ride a speeding horse and fore the cameras with Jane in a/8¢t punched around a Ilittle— clipped head, beard and all.

| .The pets of most of the other|it wasn't hard to get him to ae-

FE ALVERS lence iu the Jnnaspiiabls Jana, CRY Moa Hall au) od : yo Sythe Laglert hursday) Coburn, Piper Laurie and Rock Hudson hopping in Scene for “The Story of Will" By the time Woody had finND" I cs Langing moun [I Fe Liory. Add to it Good Old Days "Has Anybody Seen My Gal" (Circle, Thursday). Rogers,” with Will Rogers Jr./ished that assignment, he found NG KIND" threat of avalanche that might enough sequins to pave a mile | 3 Suzy, however, prefers to sit on/out he liked the acting business. taudette be started by the slightest noise, area of Broadway, enough velvet] HOLLYWOOD, June 28—Ah, In Hollywood — . Miss Wyman’s lap, rather than| nen De Toth sought him out OLBERT Hence, rifie fire has never re- to cover a football field, enough tha cost of living. ill act. jagain for the a ner.

Silence Golden? Not to

- . s t b c Actors and visitors alike were i ] | AIR the winged killers. ab — DE re OTe on Diag et filled with longin for vester : stars on the Warnes lot have SHm- cept. : Io tack a amart shapoand Jou ith -a-engIng. fof _yester: By ERSKINE JOHNSON [the screen. Believe me, I've dug|to visit 10 countries in a college 11&r non-acting ambitions. They| This Warner color picture, ein Theater have what it takes for one of the Year gn the. set of Hal Wallis’ HOLLYWOOD, June 28— up reactions I never knew I had.” credit tour. ; just want to make friends, like in which he now is working, is from Home |most fabulous fashion shows ever “The Stooge.” Exclusively Yours: Starring Stars of the silen films even” ’ x 4 ig > ras : Errol Flynn's Slerman shepherd, being filmed mostly in Woody's Me put on the®screen. Martin-Jerry in a full-length ie with yond it easy compared to his role, KEENAN WYNN offered to do : Bose, who became a studio Lone Pine stamping grounds. t Run Bive The above is no dream, al-i "0 0" 1 ein 1930. Fo : ngih movie Without |Ray sighed. “They talked and anything—even haul his ex-wife, 40) ony n a few short weeks but Once more his beard and clipped Rides though those charged with the ' akes place in 1930. For saying a single word may be then their words were flashed on| didn’t have time to consolidate head were written into the script. FREE! | B 8 d 4 J {Evie (Mrs. Van) Johnson, into|his popularity bef Fi took technical problems of getting it & drugstore scene, Jerry Lewis ont down Harpo Marx's alley, the screen. I can’t even open my court 4 ta Int Pop ar y co wh ynn adh Woody misses doing stunts, TURES on celluloid claim there were and Marion but Ray Milland’s confessing he's Mouth.” 0 cut down on the money raveling to various distantithough. He said: ENS! times when it was a nightmare. lice cream sodas at 10c apiece. never worked so hard in all of his 2 ws payments he’s been shelling out to am 8. Ya | “Every once in a while I'll sée DUSK wea Designer Adrian, who whipped 20 years in Hollywood STERLING HAYDEN'S pals! her—but Betsy Wynn did the cold, one o e current crop of|a place where I think a jump or hows NITELY up this ultra salute to feminine i : > . th 5 . oi are all smiles. The big, rugged c0ld heart act to his reconcilia- pet canines, whether lap dog or|roll down a hill would look good: wice fancy, admits its ingredients P2Na SP ts, 25¢; double malteds, 8 the hero without dialog in\gtar 1s once again living under rover, can quite compare to the 1 start to suggest it to Mr. De Co — were strictly the stuff dreams are 15¢ and sundaes, 10c. In the back- cer Harry Popkin's “The tne game wroof with his erstwhile behind-the-scenés dog|Toth. Then I remember I'm mo ROWERS made of.- And, by that he had ground, a theater marquee an- -hiel,” a chase movie in which no getty and this time it looks as| VILIAN ROTH'S big chance to star of he lot, a captions White louges 3 Stunt man: : RRON reference to the stars who, to- nounced general admission at 25¢. one says a word, Ray told me: though the reconciliation will|Prove that she's in the Ethel Mer- Poodle Who yede around the studio “Once I did propose that he let on MeNALLY SOLOIST—Mary Susan Sing- Bether with the world’s most 1p the streets, roaming taxis were discovered that dialogistick. The stork played Cupid in man league as a musical comedy his left forepaw resti Na 1 jie fail oi of the mddle Wiley ' ianist- f beautiful models, wear the “ . » covers a multitude of sins. You their case. star has Hollywood cheering. Big-| ; SPAY Tes ng IMmY on rm ahot at. } OFF Ye Eas rom New |. ireams” They are Kathryn Marked “5c for the first mile.” lo3p 1oaq lines and be thinking * no |volced. Lilitar Tay the ans: BIg- her right shoulder while she drove.| “He said, ‘You got a scene with » A 8. ) ) : : $ » lead 'in.a i ork, will be heard in a benefit Grayson, Ann Miller, Marge But outside the movie lot, life|ghout something else. But with-| TED DONALDSON, a child| Broadway-bound musical “Gum-|d Ruths ROMAN, observing this|Gary Cooper tomorrow. If you get e BROOKS recital 8 p. m. Monday in Rid- (Champion and Zsa Zsa Gaor, all Went on as usual. General admis- out dialog, if your mind isn’t on star only a few popcorn bags bo Yaya” with an 1890 New Or-|“I¢ that d on t i ae marked, hiss youll ruth my Production OVE” dick auditorium. LBB. A {appearing in “Lovely to Look At.” sion, 85c; banana splits, $1. {what you're doing, it shows up on!back, leaves for Europe in July leans background. a left turn TN hi 5 paw for schedule. Doms. you, daze. fall op Iyn KEYES . - . ps a oni dan ’ . ps i re LAND” F . . 4M rancis to West Point )W TONITE! Zachary SCOTT ’ DAY we ING KIND” RA”

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Peter Stirling (Donald O'Connor) and his pal Peter becomes very good friends ith hs wo Francis be + of the A : He : a : op \ Francis save an atomic plant from destruction by sab. ~ bunkmates, Wilbur Van Allen (William Reynolds) and team he Point, or Bri in oat —— hing gid * pedis A Va ri ation to oteurs and Peter is rewarded with an appointment to ‘William Norton (Palmer Lee). Van-Allen is star of the and also advises the Army coach, Chad Chad- Point rules. Peter is questioned and refuses to give fo "lay eel pl West Point, in "Francis Goes to West Point," Indiana, Army football team, afd in a weak moment, Peter wick [Oto Hulett), saving Army many games by information and is ex the He hed nt ei oer rats Tu 5 Ti Fuh Tuy tnt St Pep? . foe, e100 te by inf Ve. Me andl 4 yee er ; DY h ancis,. whe kno ispensable the Point than Peter and be- Allen's sister is m V . : 4 ——— ri love. a more ; oan Peter rr : comes great friends with the cadets, ~~ = ror wis made Warvied=~net " d that an

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