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The Arizona post., 1948-05-07
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$1O6, 900 of its $175,000 quota.
Actually this sum and more could
readily be secured if those who
have not yet given would not de-
pend upon being solicited before
making contribution (for such
cause one doesn't stand on
ceremony, waiting to be Asked
and those who gave, truly gave all
they could.
While it is true that Jewry as
whole has been generous with
help, it cannot be said that the
majority bave given to their maxi
mum ability. These are days that
require such giving, Mr.. Shan
house emphasizes. A casual read
ing of the news dispatches should
make known the desperate need.
A comparison of contributions
in 1948 with 1947 show there are
fewer of the smallest donors.
Whereas there were II contribu-
tors under $40 last year netting
$44. there were donors this year
giving $28. Between $40 and $25
yielded SITS in 1947 and Is gave
$235 this year. Those in the $25
to $50 show a reduction from 19
donors for $495 last year to 10
givers for a total of $3.50. The $50
to $100 was about the same with
81 men giving $3.50 in 1947 and
26 giving $1441 this time.
Those giving between $100 and
$3.50 show a gratifying increase.
Whereas 20 gave $285O, this year
40 gave $5OO6. There was a de-
crease in contributions between
$3.50 and $500 as shown with IA
who contributed $4225 against IL
who gave $1,000 in this campaign.
The decrease is more marked
for contributions from $500 to
$3.50. Twelve men gave $4,000 in
1947 and this year z gave $3525.
However, in the $3.50 to $1,000
bracket while 1 man gave $3.50
last year 8 gave $616O in 1948.
The most significant increase
were those giving from $1,000 to
$500. In 1947 9 gave $11, $50 and
this year II contributed $24, ,437.
Three gave $1,000 in the $250O
to $4,000 range in 1947 and the
same occurred this year.
The largest donor was for $4,000
in 1947 whereas this year the larg
est was l contribution of $4,000
and another of $4,000.
The Arizona post., 1948-05-07

Jack Kwass just returned from
New York and Chicago after
spending several weeks there.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Batavia
were seen at the Santa Rita last
Sunday night with their house
guest, Mrs. Sylvia Haas of Los
Angeles.
Evening star., 1948-10-17
Well, Week Had Variety
Broadway Drama Level Looks Up, But Not
to Stratosphere
By jack oBrion

ranges from frank sentimentalism
to satire, from caricature to fan
tasy. 1t is put together with sim
cerity and expertness. Parts Of it
are bad, but more is good and some
things touched brilliancy. Cheryl
Crawford produced and Ella Kazan
directed.
Biggest disappointment of the
week was the musical version OF
'"Charley's Aunt" renamed Where's
Charley and presented at the St
James Theater. It has good lyrics
by Frank Loesser but his tunes
aren't excitingly up to legitimate
musical standards. They are in
ventive but derivative from Gilbert
and Sullivan, old English madrigals,
straight modern ballads, etc.. But
the biggest disappointment Is the
story itself.
Running back half a century for
this old husk of classic British
corn, Producers Cy Feuer and
Ernest H. Martin, using an adapta-
ton and direction by George Alb
bott of the Brandon Thomas farce
instead of solving their plot diff
culties, have found new ones. In
stead Of heightening the attrac-
tiveness of brisk story, the musical
version drags it down to walk
Ray Bolger as Charley's Aunt does
his best to save the pieces and he
occasionally does. But it is moder-
ate fun at best.
Evening star., 1948-10-17
NEW YORK.

NEW o1N1&s
There is great variety, If not
great theater, in the three produc-
tions which opened on Broadway
this week. They include the new
Tennessee Williams drama, Sum-
mer and Smoke; Ray Bolger in a
musical version of "Charley's Aunt"
and q highly unusual and most ex-
citing tune show, Love Life"
Summer and Smoke" has lot in
II that Is imperfect, but the central
role alone, both in the writing and
playing. gave me the same sort Of
emotional wallop williams composed
In his Pulitzer Prize winning "A
Streetcar Named Desire"
Love Life" which opened at the
Majestic Theater, is an unusual
musical by Alan Jay Lerner, with
music by Kurt WE'LL.
1t Is a timeless love story using
two characters. played by Nanette
Fabray and Ray Middleton (de-
lightfully, who march through va
rious stages of affection for $50
years. The story is told with an
uninhibited use of every form of
entertainment from burlesque,
vaudeville, ballet and Punch and
Judy to magic, minstrel show, revue
and simple choral effects. The mood
Evening star., 1948-10-17
NEW YORK,

I
The famous mechanical horse
which received 80 much publicity
during the '20s, when 1t was
owned by the late President Calvin
Coolidge, will turn up shortly In
Mike Todd's new musical, "As the
Girls Co."
| "As the Girls Go" will be about
President, thereby justifying in
clusion of the well-known electrical
dobbin in the musical starring Bob
by Clark. The latter will play the
part of the husband of the first
lady President of the United States
for which role Producer Todd elected
Miss Irene Rich.
When Todd was searching about
for popular presidential props, he
decided Coolidge's well-publicized
exercising nag would be just what
the veterinarian ordered. And
burned If it didn't turn up when
Mike went shopping for replica;
the management of the shop said
the President had quietly returned
the galloping gadget after receiving
just a little too much publicity about
his household horsemanship while a
member of the White House gym
nasium cavalry.
Around Broadway.
Cuff stuff: annie Get Your Gun"
celebrated its 1,000th performance at
the Imperial Theater, thereby be-
coming the second longest running
book musical" in American theater
history longest running, OF
course, is "Oklahoma!" And since
Richard Rogers and oscar Ham
merstein, I'd, who wrote it, also are
producers of Annie" they thus
have a personal stake In the two
longest running hbretto tune shows
ever to play Broadway. . And it's
still in the big money, right up there
in its third year, with the best new
productions Of this and last season.
"Brigadoon," one of the best
musicals in q decade or more, is
playing two touring schedules; one
is the original show as produced
at the Ziegfeld Theater by Cheryl
Crawford :. the other is capsuled
version designed especially for vet
erans' hospital camp shows, Erst-
while .USO-camp shows. It will
play 100 Army, Navy and Veterans
Administration institutions during
the next 80 weeks.
Hard working Brock Pemberton
was elected president of the League
Evening star., 1948-10-17
Coolidge Horse Runs, Again
Exercise Steed Dug Out as Mount for
Bobby Clark in Musical
By Jack OBrion

of New York Yheaters. The
Harvey" producer almost coinci-
dentally was ordered by his doctor tc
take six weeks vacation before he
goes to London to supervise the
British version Of the long-run Pull
itzer prize winner when it opens in
the West End, starring Sid Field
High Button Shoes" is a year
old and moves to the Broadway
theater, one Of the biggest houses on
the stem. :. There's new Sitting
bull" in Annie Get Your Gun,
Bert Freed having taken over his
feathers, and ugh" from Harry Bel
laver, who originated the good
natured spool.
Angel Offered Profit.
Meyer Davis, one of the hackers of
Anne of the Thousand Days." Max
well Anderson's new drama about
the 1,0O0-day romance of Henry the
VIII and his Inflated second
spouse, Anne Boleyn, already has
been offered a $50 per cent profit on
his investment by another theatri-
cal f1nancier. Because of the
scope and complexity of the Ander-
son play, Actors Equity has given
permission to lehearse longer than
the usual four-week practicing
period. It opens here December
3, with Rex Harrison and Joyce Red
man starred. The playwrights
company and Leland Hayward will
produce.
With four plays on the American
and British boards, Playwright
Tennessee Williams is earning about
$500 a week in royalties from the
new Summer and Smoke" the
smash hit "A Streetcar Named De-
sire" still one of the biggest Sue
cesses after almost a full Broadway
season, plus a second company in
Chicago; and '.T.'he Glass Menag-
erie," with Helen Hayes starred, a
London hit. :. "Streetcar" will be
done in London with Vivien Leigh
starred, thereby further happily
complicating Williams finances. He
had been stony busted until two
seasons ago. when "Menagerie''
premiered. Besides, book sale Of
"Streetcar," has gone into several
editions, bringing in more moolah.
Evening star., 1948-10-17
Today's Schedules

AMBASSADOR-"Johnny Be-
linda: l, $40, $40, 7:30 and
9:45 pm.
CAPITOL "The Saxon
Charm 1:30, AIS. 7:05 and
$50 pm. Stage shows: $50,
$40 and 9:05 pm.
COLUMBIA-'Luxury Liner:
1870, 3:35, $40, 7:45 and $50
pm.
DUPoNT-"Dreams That Mon
ey Can Buy: /, 2:25, 3:55,
$40, $50, 8:l5 and s:40 pm.
HIPPODROME-"That Hamil-
ton Woman: 2, $50 and GAS
pm.
KEITH'S-"Tap Roots: 1:15,
800, 5:25, 7:30 and 9:35 pm.
LITTLEe"The Great Mr.. Han
del":: 2::55. $40 and 9:45 pm.
METROPOLITAN - rs mart
Girls Don't Talk: l, 2:45.
4:35, 6:25, 8:l5 and 1905
NATIONAL - Red Shoes:
2::30, $50 and $50 pm.
PALACE-"Julia Misbehaves"::
/, $40, 500, 7:30 and $40
pm.
PIX-"Blood and Fire: l, 3:55,
6:55 and $50 pm.
PI4AYHOUSE-"Mine Own Ex-
ecutioner":: 1:25, 3:35, 5:35,
.7:35 and 9::35 pm.
TRANS-LUX - News and
shorts. Continuous from /
pm.
WARNER-"Johnny Belinda:
l, $40, $40, TBS and $40
pm.
Evening star., 1948-10-17
Gal Stars in Battle Royal
But She Makes Hollywood Look Bad
in Academy Race
Bv SheiIoh Grohom

be seen. I'm sure, however, that 1t
will 60 for Ingrid-as usual.
Has Had But One Flop.
Miss Bergman'S success in Amer
ica began with her first movie, In
termezzo." Her employer at the
time, David Selznick, who signed
Ingrid for Hollywood peanuts-she
was getting s1,750 weekly when She
left him five years later-didn't
realize what he had in the kitty. I
used to hear them grumbling behind
Ingrid's back that she was too tall
and too difficult to photograph. We
should all be so diff1cult!.
Today Ingrid, who's got q real
business head, won't make any
movie unless she gets guarantee Of
SITS, 900, plus a big percentage Of
the profits. Her only real flop in
Hollywood was the top-heavy Arch
of Triumph"
3. Barbara Stanwyck for Sorry
Wrong Number" Barbara has yet
to give bad performance in a pic
ture, although she's the first to ad-
NIT that her cinematic career has
included a few bad pictures. She
came to Hollywood from the Broad
way success, "Burlesque," in 1929.
She then was married to Frank Fay,
who discovered and promoted her.
Her marriage was an unhappy ex-
perience whose after effects lasted q
long time after 1t was over.
When first met Barbara she told
me she never would marry again.
Then she made movie with Rob-
ert Taylor, His Brothers Wife"
They were married in 1887.
Marriage q Success.
This is one of the few successful
marriages in Hollywood where the
husband and wife are both top stars.
Yet they don't have the same in
terests off the screen. Bob loves to
fly; Barbara loathes it. Bob loves
fishing and hunting; Barbara is
strictly a city girl. She tried to
live on a ranch with Bob when
they were first married, but the ar
rangement wasn't successful. They
sold the ranch and saved the mar
riage.
Barbara looks fragile, but Is the
stronger half of the Taylor menage.
Bob has learned to know his poll
(See GRAHAM, Page CID
Evening star., 1948-10-17
An Epic for the Screen
The Red Shoes Tells Faded Story
With a DAZZLING Brilliance
By Joy Cormody

The motion picture has rarely been used for the delight
Of degree
motion pictures but they
forgotten long, long while during which time National theater
soers will devote exclusively
had its American premiere here Friday night
THE Red Shoes" is extraordinary achievement It
this because 1t basic story tell That story at least
conventional and long familiar the of the ARTISTS necessity
diverse Arts Perfectly Blended.
triumph therefore beyond story.
lies the cameras ability to blend the several into the
function Of assans the heart and the mind with
from human existence The
painting and architecture and all the
by which has been best able communicate
perence himself.
result of all together by
rressburger screenpay that simple brilliant
not telling story epicay simply
familiar tale dramatically ephatay possible
The their instrument and they
ment invented.
power nearly every one
knows exist but which almost successful oang
using.
Theme Shredded by Users
An incredible retrospective Red Shoes is that its
theme vibrant spite wear and tear
upon 1t in its excessive by Broadway
and wherever the theater hourishes made
entertainment makers narcissisc They
enchanted by another baktage They nothing
Us 70 en the he stories OF great paywfghs actors actresses
SINGERS dancers clowns
avalanche of these exhibits upon heads of
'heaergos ana movgoers The net impression of them
create the feeling that eapades the artist
small du human who fully merits the spiritual
Powell and Presburger who directed
Red Shoes, !" write brilliant such tawdry folies
In their modern version Of Christian
girl who wanted to dance they the
cness missed They
nes ana artists characters who both
Their most brilliant accomplishment respect is Boris
the ballet enepreneur played Wabrook By
standard measurements Wbrooks villain not as he
created and interpreted in THE Red Shoes"
neves the creation Of beauty and drama in the ballet
proud hnpeous fanatic who
ne utilzes 1t to the single end of the ballet
He Pays q Debt to Society.
IL is nothing to Lemontov that human lives that no
cruelty beyond him in the his artistic purpose He
es by choice beyond the nomaes human
whose tastes he regards with manning scorn
Nevertheless The Red Shoes makes
waded by the beauty that Lermonov thus
offers this compensation for the lesser smaller things
bothered with. He not william pictures
end he Is to be held in affection pity
dramatic superior of 10 dozen superficial
character equal number shabby plays pictures
burger set for themselves emptiness of such
characters IN score Of similar fcons Of backsage
They equally brilliant in searching the heart of their heroine
the Shearer She altogether
creature simple as she is dramatic.
The honesty search depth through
hst in The Red Shoes" Even those
ketched great
and all of them quite unforgetably.
makes "The Red Shoes merely brilliant picture perhaps
epocha but also scathing those hollow
on the theme which in focks.
Evening star., 1948-10-17
Film Writers Give
Studio Story Boss
A Cause for Hope
BY the Asseeioted Press
HOLLYWOOD.

Writers are turning out good film
yarns again, says a studio story
expert, and that may be consoling to
formula-weary movie fans.
During the war there was q
definite dearth of good Stories" says
Ellingwood Kay, Warner story de-
partment head. mo one seemed to
have anything to write about. Now
writer's seem to have found some
thing to write about again"
''The studios are buying more
originals than ever before. This Is
a good thing. Film writer's are doing
creative work themselves, instead Of
being just adapters."
More than 100 originals are SUBJ
mitted monthly to Warmers alone
All are by professionals, since anna
teurs have little chance to crack the
field.
"At the moment. studios are losing
their minds looking for good COM
edies," says Kaye, a former Magazine
editor.
Evening star., 1948-10-17
HOLLYWOOD.


This is the time of year wher
Hollywood unveils its big pictures
and reveals its ambitions for Acad.
emy Award honors. Looking over
the field, I cannot spot single
male star whom I can point to and
say, He'll be nominated for sure,
except perhaps Montgomery Cliff
for his excellent performance as 9
CT in "The Search"
It's different with the ladies
Coming down the stretch are tive
great feminine performances, and ]
will now go out on limb and name
the gals who think will be nomi-
mated for the top acting Of the
year. They are, but not necessarily
in the order named: Jane Wyman
Ingrid Bergman. Barbara Stanwyck
Olivia de Havilland and Irene
Dunno.
/. Jane Wyman for johnny Be.
linda" Jane almost won an Oscar
for herself two years ago in "The
Yearling" She played Gregory
Peck's drab backwoods wife and sur
prised me and every one else here
with an unexpected depth of acting
ability. In Johnny Belinda" Jane
is deaf mute and does not speak 8
word all through the picture. But
what a performance! And what q
change from the girly roles Jane
always played until few years ago
It will be kind of anything car
happen here" If she bags an oscar
But Love Curdled.
Miss Wyman's first job in pictures
was in 1886. She played a bit part
in MY Man Godfrey" She was
born "a years ago in st. Joseph, Mo
I remember when Ronald Reagan
started to court her eight or nine
years ago. Brother, were they ir
love! Now they are divorced.
What happened? After eight
years of listening to Ronnie make
speeches, Jane decided she was
bored. That was one reason. The
OLIlcE Was Illc SIl dlll VI OOlullly DE-
linda" Just before the picture, Jane
nearly died when she lost her ex.
pected baby. Rohnie, instead OF
being able to take care Of Jane, also
was rushed to the hospital with q
dangerous case of pneumonia. Jane
still hasn't completely recovered hel
health, but she now Is more friendly
with Reagan. That often happens
in Hollywood.
2. Ingrid Bergman for "Joan oi
Arc" Winning an Oscar or being
a nominee is getting to be habit
with Ingrid. She already has one
for "Gaslight." In addition. she has
received a nomination almost every
year. I haven't yet seen her ir
Joan of Arc" which opens in No
Ivember. But the advance ballyhoe
about Ingrid's performance is ter.
rife
Its the dream fulfillment of my
life," Ingrid told me when she wa.
making the movie. Whether tht
public will go for a completely
spiritual type of picture remains Il
Evening star., 1948-10-17

(See GRAHAM, Page CD
Evening star., 1948-10-17
Evans in Shaw PLAY
Set for Baltimore

Maurice Evans in Bernard Shaw's
Man and Superman" opens 9
weeks engagement at the Ford The.
ater in Baltimore November /.
In his first non-Shakespeariaf
play of his own production, the actor
will be supported by Frances Rowe
Chester Stratton and Josephine
| Brown.
There will be Wednesday and Sat.
urday matinees at the Ford.
Evening star., 1948-10-17
Coming Attractions

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AMBASSADOR 90 Loves Of
Carmen" with Rita Hay
worth.
CAPITOL-"Cry Of the City"
with Victor Mature, starting
Thursday.
COLUMBIA - THE Secret
Land" Admiral Byrd docu-
mentary.
KEITH'S lone Touch Of
Venus" with Ava Gardner.
LITTLE-"Hamlet," with Laur-
ence Olivier, starting Wednes-
day.
METROPOLITAN - sorry,
Wrong Number" with Bar
bara Stanwyck, starting
Thursday.
PALACE Red River" with
John Wayne.
PIX -" Jenny Lamour," with
Louis Jouvet, starting Tues
day.
PLAYHOUSE-"Hamlet," with
Laurence Olivier, starting
Wednesday.
WARNER-"Loves Of Carmen"
with Rita Hayworth.
Evening star., 1948-10-17
Masquers Plav Set

Village Green" a three-act COM
edy Of politics in a small New Eng
land town, will be the first play of
the season for the Roosevelt Mas
quers.
The play will be given at the
Roosevelt High School auditorium
December 8. Pauline Eaton Oak
will direct.
The Chicago star., 1948-05-15
Peace hope flares;
Truman douses it

in reading his own open letter
to Soviet Prime Minister Stain.
s.
DURING the war, Wallace had
made famous the phrase, "The
Century of the Common Man"
Now he asked for "a Century Of
Peace" guaranteed by an UNDER
standing between the two re-
naming great powers of the
world - the U.S.A. and the
U.S.S.R. To create this pacific
century, he asked that the two
great powers follow a six-point
program.
MEANWHILE. Truman an
nounced that the letters had
changed nothing, that the cold
war against the U.S.S.R. was to
continue in full force, that the
Truman "containment doctrine"
was to be applied even more
vigorously.
AS though to put a full stop to
any talk or hopes of peace, WASH
ington announced that 1,500 Ma
rines-American shock troops
had been ordered to the far-off
Mediterranean.
State Secretary Marshall was
to attempt reinvigoration of the
containment policy with a special
press conference exclusively de-
voted to undoing the hope raised
by the Smith-Molotov letters.
The Chicago star., 1948-05-15
Mundt bill bottle
stirs Chicago

Chicago's protest against
the M u n d t Bill this week
gave birth to a strong, mill
tant army of citizens determined
to retain their freedoms.
Twelve delegates to Washing
ton button-holed Illinois Con-
gressmen on the bill. Meetings
and mass rallies to discuss its
dangers were held in almost
every community by many lib
eral-and more than a few con-
Observation-Disclosures.
A large scale march on Wash
ington was planned in the event
that the police state bill should
pass the House and come before
the Senate.
A MASS protest rally to be
held in the Coliseum Friday, May
%, was announced. The Civil
Rights Congress said that list
of distinguished speakers would
be released later.
CRC asked Mayor Kennedy for
permission to hold a tag day
against'the Mundt Bill during the
week beginning Sunday, May %,
and ending May 80.
Strongest organized force in the
fight was the Progressive Party
of Illinois, which took up the
fight after Henry Wallace
warned that 'this monstrous
hill'' was drawn up "to destroy
any organization which has
single liberal thought"
THE IL delegates who left this
week represented trade unions,
veterans organizations, commu-
nifty clubs, and political groups,
especially the PPI.
One of many meetings held in
every part of the city took place
in the Midwest Athletic Club,
Madison and Ham1in, at the call
of the PPI.
More than 100 leaders from
various organizations in the 6th
congressional district mobilized
against the bill. according to
Sidney Ordower. who chaired the
meeting.
The Chicago star., 1948-05-15

For II hours of the night
of May HIP the people of
the world breathed easier.
Letters exchanged b etwee
US. Ambassador Walter B. Smith
in. Moscow, and Soviet Foreign
Minister V. M. Molotov seemed
to open the path to peace for
War-weary world.
Presidential candidate Henry
A. Wallace, addressing a jam
packed peace meeting in New
York's Madison Square Garden,
took notes of the worlds hopes
The Chicago star., 1948-05-15

them TO any jobs at ALL"
Peck declined to say how many
students had been told of the
jobs. Inquiring students had been
told earlier in the day, however,
that they would receive "referral
slips" to take with them to Ar
mour plants. if they were inter-
eSted.