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TRIED AND TRUE—| tested by hundreds of civic! light opera companies across| the nation each year—‘“The, Merry Widow” is coming for| its second movie version. The eternal Franz Lehar oper-! etta will open at Loew's Thursday with Lana Turner and Fernando Lamas in the top roles. Blasting its way into town on the same day will be two new romantic teams, Bob Hope and Trigger, and Jane Russell and Roy Rogers. They're all teamed in a new travesty on horse operas, “Son of the Paleface,” which will open at the Indiana Theater. The arrival of “The Sniper” at the Esquire and Shadeland DriveIn Wednesday couldn't have been better timed. It's the story of a

psychopathic with an uncontrollable urge to shoot young brunets.| Prematurely released from a mental hospital, he goes on a blood orgy with a high-powered rifle. Compare this with current

scene Into the script, of “Then search of a fortune in gold Merry Widow.” |stashed away by his late, IndianAs it 1s, Lana struggles through fighting father. an hour and 45 minutes of the| The story goes round and round, story in lace corsets and plunging and ends up with Jane and Bob gowns. fighting off a tribegof Indians, The story hasn’t changed a bit while they make a getaway in an in the umpteen years since it was antique auto.

first produced, and that's includ-| Sniping af Society

ing a movie version 39 years ago ™ ; s which starred Mae Murray. | E VILLAIN is a sympathetic : He murders women—

A small mythical kingdom jn Character, [young and beautiful women — in Europe is on the verge of bank- “The Sniper.” ruptey, when the king learns an : per. | Treated in documentary form, American widow with $80 million } . il Ve t ial call the story traces the actions of Will arrive tor a socla, ca’. [Arthur Franz, who perpetrates a The king orders dashing Count

: series of motiveless murders. The Danilo (Fernando Lamas) to WOO 11,4 a155 follows the actions of

‘the widow and latch on to the ihe police as they attempt to lo-

cash. The count is crestfallen ;5te the killer among the thou-

when he is led to believe the sands of people in the San Franwidow’s maid is the widow, but cisco area. goes ahead with the king’s plan| Tragic part of the story is that to save his titled neck. |Franz realizes he needs help, but

The. widow (Lana Turner) ls unable to resist his urge to kill.

headlines—the mental case who her true identity. {

shot a Columbia University secretary because he was mad at someone else and the murder of a young woman in a Chicago park because she may have resembled someone her Killer knew. Both of the real-life killers had recently been released from mental hospitals. Last of the first-run arrivals is “Woman of the North Country,” a sort of poor man’s “Bright Leaf” with a horse opera aroma. It'll open Thursday at the Lyric Theater.

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HAD FRANZ LEHAR known Lana Turner would someday star in his musical comedy, he probably would have written a sweater

learns of the count’s mercenary % takes for hair-raising susmotives and deliberately sets out | to seduce him without revealing)! Once’ More The count can’t resist her, even| “WOMAN OF THE NORTH

though he knows it may mean his| COUNTRY” has Ruth Hussey as

life. After a few squabbles overithe head of a wealthy family of money, she pays off the king's i : or debt which leaves her with a mere mine owners in the Mesali ore range of Minnesota.

$79 million. In the last reel, the widow and! When Rod Cameron moves into

the count are reconciled to the/the territory with a new mining strains of “The Merry Widow

Waltz.” process which promises to ruin

{Ruth's family, she woos and marries him, only to be able to sabotage his fast-growing enterprises.

loon singer and bandit leader in He gets smart just in time to “Son of the Paleface.” block her efforts. Ruth dies in a

In a plot which isn’t too differ- bit of gang warfare, and Came-

ron is free to marry Gale Storm, ent from the straight-faced horse a clean-living little girl Cameron

operas, Marshal Roy Rogers rides jgyed all the time anyhow. into town to round up her gang. | If this all sounds familiar, that Also to town comes Bob Hope is because it is.

Injun Epic JANE RUSSELL stars as a sa-

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Dailey joins his new Marine outfit under command of James Cag"What, Price Glory" will open at the Circe

ney as Capt. Flagg.

Dan Defley, as Sgt. Quirt, introduces Robert Wagner to some eauties of the French countryside, namely Marisa

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Cagney settles an old score

battlefgont during World War |.

in a village inn.

moment they meet. He accuses Dailey of one of his girl friends while they were stationed together the last time. The score settled, they are again the best of friends and live together

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SATURDAY, AUG. 23, 1952

In Hollywood—

Actress To Produce Telefilm

By ERSKINE JOHNSON

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 23 — Exclusively Yours: Kathryn Grayson, as smart a businesswoman as ever hit Hollywood, will produce her own telefilm series under the banner of Kathryn Grayson Productiogs, now being formed. The episodes-—story and music —will be shot in color for the advent of rainbow TV, but will be released as black and whites first, C » ” . THERE'S a honey of a feud brewing between Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor. Rehearsing for a new

First-run movie attractions to arrive here during the coming week will include Jane Russell and Bob Hope in "Son of the Pale. face" (Indiana, Thursday), Marie Windsor in "The Sniper” (Esquire and Shadeland Drive-In, Wednesday), Lana Turner and Fernando Lamas in "The Merry Widow" (Loew's, Thursday) and Rod Cameron and Ruth Hussey in "Woman of the North Country" (Lyric, Thursday).

Luscious Marie Dumb? ‘She's Fooling, Brother

| HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 23—Marie| While she was starring in “A Wilson, the brainless, bosomy| Girl in Every Port” with Groucho beauty of film and “My Friend Marx—in which she plays a dumb Irma” fame, has been fooling the! car-hop and wears abbreviated {public for 14 years. costumes-—Marie was approached | Back in 1937, Marie, a luscious by an interviewer and asked if California lassie, decided to crash she had any use for a dietician. into movies by playing the dumb-| Her big, brown eyes popped in est blonde in Hollywood. She a bewildered stare as she anwrote a small sketch for herself swered, “What use would I have land got a screen test at MGM. for a dietitian? I don’t have to | But the test flopped. No one could' speak with an accent in this pic-

believe anyone could be that ture.” {dumb, | The interviewer tried again, She Proved It {asking her point blank if she

really was dumb. With a vacant smile, plied, “I don’t know.”

Marie set out .to prove she was. She pulled fabulous verbal boners, all carefully premeditated. She drove her car on the wrong side of the street at the right time. She went out job hunting! in a mink coat and tennis sneak-

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Dog Confused, Too

She then went on to say, “My dog Hobbs is quite a character. ers. He's a little Yorkshire terrier, The campaign jelled, Marie and I've had him three years. He Wilson became the talk of the doesn't think he's a dog. He town. Warner Studio starred her thinks he just looks like one.” as a hole-in-the-head waitress in This interviewer moved on to “Boy Meets Girl”"-—and Marie has Groucho Marx to get his opinion been giving bird brain imperson- on Marie. ations on stage, radio and tele- Dumb?” Groucho murmured vision and in the movies ever with a quick look at Marie. since. The $64 question around “There's one of the smartest the studios today is whether this girls in all Hollywood. She's so lovely blonde chick with the figure smart, such a

80 slick can possibly be as dumb that she's kept the whole world] fooled for 14 years.”

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While Cagney is away in Paris, Dailey meets the innkeepers daughter, Corrine Calvet, who Cagney considered his steady girl. With Cagney not around to interfere, Dailey develops a fast friendship with Corrine. Her father, Henri Letondal, is suspicious of Dailey's intentions and insists they marry—the only way, he feels,

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play, “Strike a Match,” in Hollywood, Eva’s being hailed as “the Gabor who can act.”

is telling pals that he didn't care whether

Fast, Warns Rosemary” ever ads Bother movie,

By United Press )

| HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 23 - Rosemary Clooney just laughed up her | sleeve when some of the girls out lat Paramount warned her, as a | newcomer to Hollywood, to be lcareful lest some handsome film lactor take her for a ride- and (they didn’t mean in his flashy convertible, Rosemary just smiled wisely and allowed as how the average |small - town drugstore cowboy packs more wallop in his mating call than any Hollywood fancy pants wolf whistler. The little country girl with the million-dollar pipes ought to know. She has played so many one-night stands in rural America she claims she has trouble waking up in the morning unless a! roogter crows. In those days, when she was first warbler for Tony Pastor's band, she told the girls on the set for “The Stars Are Singing,” she picked up firsthand information on the nocturnal habits of Main Street romeos, n n n

“THESE HOLLYWOOD hotshots are amateurs,” she said. “The boys you really have to

watch out for are the supposedly shy young farmers who relax on a Saturday night at the local Helpers’ Club dance. They've had all week to map out a campaign, with nothing disturbing them but the sounds of a cow being milked and they're sure they've figured |out the system.

be performed,

On his return, Cagney becomes furious when he learns of Dailgy's aftair. Then he becomes overjoyed at the thought of Dailey being forced to marry the girl. But before the marriage can

where the wo men fight side by side.

SWITCH: Claire Trevor won an “Funny thing about it; I think | Oscar for her drunk portrayal in they have. “Key Largo.” Now she’s preach“Young Mr. Cornfed lures you|ing teetotaling in “Stop, You're away from the band after the Killing Me.” . . . Lita Baron's up dance with promises of a double and around again on her doctor's chocolate malted at the corner|ok after being cancelled out in drug store. Once there he starts|the stork handicap. . . . Jane talking about” his livestock and| Russel}'s busting with joy about before you know what hit you,|the leg publicity she’s getting in you're sitting on a rail fence | Son of Paleface” and the addiwatching the 11:40 go by while he tional gorgeous-gams propaganda spouts Walt Whitman poetry.” she'll reap from “Red Garters.” ® va o a “ » IT IS A RARE hula dancer] THE IMPLICATION of gami | blers backing a professional womwho can expect to make a living golfer in the movie “Pat and at her profession for more than' Mike” caught the golf world off a couple of years. { balance and the wails are coming

The location crew of “Big Jim in from Soast of Soast. f one " i 've just received a copy o McLain” is learning all about the mad, letter sent to boss whys and wherefores of hula pore Schary by Walter Keller, a dancing while shooting scenes for p(3A member for 23 years and the. picture in Honolulu, where operator of the Sunset Fields they are using a liberal amount | Driving Range in Los Angeles. of grass-skirted dancers (only| gajler was “surprised” aad they really wear ti leaf skirts). |«ghocked” by the film's theme and “Eighteen to 20 are the good| yregrets “that Hollywood had to years for professional hula danc-| pick on our business, which never ers” sald Kent Ghirard, who has been tainted by gamblers operates a hula studio in Hono-| owning a piece of any professionlulu and has six of his most agile-/ al golfer.” The golf scenes, says hipped beauties in “Big Jim Mec- Keller, were ‘technically satisfacLain.” Ghirard said tory, but obviously your golf ad“By the time Hawaiian girls are viser was not consulted when the 20, they're either married or be-| script was written.” ginning to get too fat to be ace Then clear - thinking hula dancers. When they're mar-| adds: ried they seldom have the time | “Many fine MGM movies have that is required to be a hula star. preached Americanism. But won't It {3s an exacting profession, de- Russia use ‘Pat and Mike' as manding many

Keller

long hours of| proof that even U. S. sports are corrupted?”

study ‘and rehearsal.”

Cagney and Dailey both realize they love Corrine, and rush back to marry her. She chooses Dailey, but again ‘the troops move out, with Dailey and Cag-

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