Evening star., 1947-06-03

woods strangle hold on the cinema.
Three dimensional fiocks Of screen
celebrities are busy currently In
mid-Manhattan. One OF these, head
ed by Joseph Gotten who is a Village
resident again. has been busy for
months on Portrait OF Jennie" for
David O. Selznick. It's work was not
finished before 20th Century Fox
moved In with Gregory Peck,
Dorothy MCGUIRE, John Garfield
and other players on the New
York background for "Gentleman's
Agreement"
Now George 8. kaufman, the stage
directoral genius who is making his
debut as a movie e-maker, will move
In with the cast and crew OF THE
Senator Was Indiscreet." New York
apparently being the scene Of
the senatorial indiscretion. First
sequences Of the screenplay involve
feminine star Ella Raines, who plays
newspaperwoman in the script
written by Charles Macarthur.
II this travel should broaden the
movies, which have shown desperate
signs Of needing just that. 1t will
displease no one except possibly the
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
Other businesses may be as capri
cious as the one of exhibiting NOV
les, but. II 80, 1t is harder to detect.
The movies have no choice but to
plead guilty to the charge OF being
whimsical when they call up to
announce changes in bookings.
Those reporting yesterday were
Keiths, which says THE Egg and
I" will hold for a fourth week. thus
keeping Honeymoon" waiting; and
the Metropolitan.
"Odd Man Out" set for June Il
at the latter theater, Is out. IT
will be supplanted by Smash Up,
a contemplation of the effect OF
alcohol upon women In which Susan
Hayward plays the beautiful victim
/ How long ."Odd Man Out" will
remain out Is not announced.
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Metro Goldwyn-Mayer which II
about to be asked If 1t would lend
it's most precious star, Margaret
O'Brien, to an outside producer may
have just set a precedent that will
make refusal more difficult. The
precedent is represented in the
the loan-out of Claude Jarman, jr
to RKO for "Roughshod." Claude s
role in that will be an approximate
equivalent OF his Jody part in "The
Yearling," the one which sky
rocketed him to fame.
The rumored likely request for
Margaret's lease-out has to do with
her services as co-star with Maurice
Chevalier in a musical OF which
Lester Cowan is dreaming big
dreams.
Generally speaking, M-G-M's
| pO1ANy 1ldS OCCll W q UOl
rover nor a lender be-" Just as
Polonious advised.
Tuesday tidings: Liza Minnelli
whose parents are Director vincentt
Minnelli and Judy Garland, will
make her acting debut at the age Of
IA months in 1.-THE Pirate" Her
father is the screenplay's director
her mother, its star =. A new Ten
nessee Williams play, 1.-The Puri-
flcation" was presented last night
by King-Smith Productions, at the
studio, rear 2118 Massachusetts, ave.
nue.. It's companion piece is
Goodbye to Richmond" by Horton
Foote. John Ford whose THE
Informer" still is the most startling
piece of Irish screen drama produc-
ton in this country, will make q
picture In Ireland next year. -. Its
stars will be Maureen O'Hara, Vic
tor McLaglen and John Wayne
and its theme will be in no way
related to Irish politics. On the
contrary. 1t is a romance entitled
THE Quiet Man" based upon q
short story of the same label by
Maurice Walsh.