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Evening star., 1948-12-05

a much greater array Of this type
of movie for the coming year than
ever before. MGM, for instance,
had quite an awakening with the
discovery that THE Three Mus
keteers" has become its biggest
grosser of the year.
So q few weeks ago studio execu-
tives hastily gathered and revamped
their plans for 1949. Twelve of the
20 pictures already announced will
be In the costume category. Among
these are such high h-budgeted num-
bers as Robinson Crusoe," Quo
Vadis," "Trifby," Take Me Out to
the Ball Came" big jack and
Madame Bovary." Three in this
group will get expensive location
treatment in foreign locales.
Warmers has gone all out with its
swashbuckling 18th century "Adven-
lures of Don JUAN" starring Enrol
Flynn, but has not stopped there.
Another Flynn story dated IS years
back is Montana" which already
is unlSneQ ana Will 1oIlOW llS OoIl
Juan"
Even Betty Cradle.
Look lor the Silver Lining" life
story of Marilyn Miller reverting to
the 1920s, stars June Haver and Is
second in cost only to Don Juan.
Among half a dozen others in this
species Is the handsomely back
grounded Danny Kaye musical,
Happy Times" set In a mythical
European country Of 1920.
There must be something big to
the vogue or you can bet Goth Gen.
tury-Fox~ wouldn't take a chance on
letting Betty Cradle out OF those
leg-revealing tights that modern
tales offer. Actually, Betty has fin
ished one period feature, When My
Baby Smiles at Me" 1920. In
Evening star., 1948-12-05
Gee Whiz, Ava Impresses an interviewer
Miss Gardner Pixie Type Is Animated and Frank She
Discovers Her Life, Her Loves and Her Career
BY Hubbord Keov
Assoeiatsd Press SfoH Writer
HOLLYWc

HOLLYWOOD.
Let us dust OF the gee whiz ap-
proach which I haven't used since.
I wrote about Hedy Lamar nine
years ago. This time it's Ava
Gardner
Gee whiz, I said after seeing Miss
Lamar. have just come from
Ava's apartment where We had .
long talk in the dining room, there
being no other place to sit and I
can sum up my reactions in those
same two words.
The pixy has red hair and green
eyes and full lips. She is an ami
mated talker and she talks pretty
frankly. She does her hair herself
and 1t gets harum- -scarum, in q
pleasant way, after she runs her
hands through it . few times.
Another role or two like her last
in "One Touch Of Venus" and Ava
will be out in front Of many who
now are regarded as better actresses.
And another such role or two will
make. folks forget the unfavorable
comment that followed her short
lived marriages to Mickey Rooney
and to Artie Shaw.
These adventures didn't do her
any good with the fans, and she
knows 1t.
She Had . Contract.
She insists she did not marry
Mickey for his money, as some said,
or to get q movie contract. CT had
1T before met him.")
II wanted to make 60 Of that
marriage. I was in love with Mickey,
really and seriously, but it just
didn't work out" she assured me.
Ava WINGED when she recalled,
with slight prodding, Kathleen Win
sors separation complaint: 1t alleged
Artie Shaw had Dragged that when
Ava was his wife he beat her and
thew her downstairs.
Ava denied that allegation, but I
will not quote her directly because
her expletives were SO un-pixylike.
About this time she kicked her
high-heeled pumps of her stocking
less feet. She said high-heeled
shoes, used only for dress up (she
dresses up for interviewers), annoy
her. She prefers low shoes.
She doesn't have furniture be-
cause she doesn't know what she
wants until she gets a house. The
month apartment is tenn
porary. And bare. She has looked
for houses, but anything she likes
is priced at $4,000. She says her
salary, which must be about
SAC, 900 q year before taxes, won't
permit that much for house.
Evening star., 1948-12-05
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
Scientists who search the heavens
tell us that trsnsits of Venus have
occurred four times in the past 243
years. When 1t will happen again
we have not taken the trouble to
ascertain-if only because q rival
luminary Is now in transit across
our National armament in a terres-
tial glory you have to see to believe.
In other words, Mae West Is now
on tour in her refurbished vehicle.
Diamond Lii" as blaEingly as any
winged 1carus-and much more
safely.
New Jersey now beholds her and
90 will all other States-multiplied
towns and cities from Hohokus to
Painted Post; from Kokomo to Med
icine Hat, and on to the gray Pa
cific. But not Broadway! No, Mae
knows better than that.
Time Has Caught Up.
Let this be at once said about
Diamond Lil"-it is not outdated.
It was once. But not now. Now
the realistic trend of current drama
has placed Macs show right back
in the groove of modernity. Real
ism! Why that back room Of Gus
Jordan's saloon on the Bowery
makes similar apartments in THE
Ice Man Cometh" and Time OF
Your Life" look like drawing rooms
and its occupants are beyond the
imagination of an O'Neill or q Sa-
royan, even should their fancy sink
to the most sordid depths. And II
YOU would like to see what a lady's
boudoir ought to look like, just take
q gander at Diamond LIS cozy lit
tie nest.
AS for acting, II it is not realistic
1t is nothing!
But neither the play nor its scenic
investiture, which, by the way, VIII
liam De Forest has done with splen-
did effect, is the thing. The thing
is Mae West and we have to report
concerning her that when she made
her first appearance in the theater
the other evening in Jersey, wear
Ing q lavendar dress, befringed and
befurred, a picture hat crowning
her platinum coiffure very much as
a sunset -tinged cloud caps snowy
Pixies Peak-when, in brief. her un-
dulatory hips carried her into public
view, even the more cynical males
broke into involuntary cheers.
Still the Same Mae.
Mae In a sentence Ia still Mae
the Mae OF international legend
once more In the flesh. But nc
more in it than of yore. While her
curvaceous outlines are those of yes
terday, they sre-seemingly-not
fraction of pound more SO. YOU
may attribute this phenomenon oi
bodily outline to diet and calisthen-
ics-as the admiring male contin-
gent did-or to her corSetiere, as q
Evening star., 1948-12-05

HULL WOob.
Liza Minnelli, who tripped before
the camera in her Aim debut last
week, has o better chance for sue
cess than most movie newcomers.
Her ma Is named Judy Garland.
Liza is all Of ga years old now,
but don't expect her to become a
film favorite quite yet.
I'D like her. to be an actress II
she wants to-" explains her doting
mother. "If she's still interested
when she gets to be about IA, she
can 60 on her own and handle her
career. always did. Mother never
I won't either"
Acting Urge.
Judy told how her daughters
camera debut came about:
II didn't want Liza to feel left
out. After all, her father Director
Vincente MinnellD and mother both
work. They rush of every day to
q place called the studio"
Liza began to get the acting urge
when she watched her mother being
Evening star., 1948-12-05
Today's Schedules

AMBASSADOR-"The Gallant
Blade: las, 1925, $50, 7:35
and 9:45 pm.
CAPITOL-"My Dear Secre-
tary":: 1:30, AIS, 7:05 and
s:55 pm. Stage shows: $3.50,
$40 and 9:10 pm.
COLUMBIA-"San Francisco:
12:45. 3, $40, TAO and s:55
pm.
DUPONT-'La Traviata":: l,
2:40. ABS, sos, 1855 and GAS
pm.
KEITH'S-"A Song Is Born:
1:2o, 800, 5:25, 7:3o and s:S5
LrTTL-"Hamlet":: 2:so, $50
and $3.50 pm.
METROPOLITAN-''They Drive
by Night: las, $3.50, 5:35,
TAO and GAS pm.
NATIONAL-"The Red Shoes:
2:30. $50 and $50 pm.
PALACE THE Three Mus
keteers": 1:35, %:l0, $50 and
$50 pm.
PIX How Green Was My
Valley: 2:45, 6:25 and s:55
pm.
PLAYHOUSE-"Hamlet": 2:30,
$50 and $50 pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
Continuous from ! pm.
WARNER The Gallant
Blade: 1:2o, 3:25, $50, 7:45
and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1948-12-05
Like Mother, Like Daughter
by Bob Thomos
As,eeIa,.d Press s.eff Writer

fitted with O fancy costume. 1t
broke out into the open when she
watched Judy record some songs.
Debut at MGM.
"She sat quietly through the first
number. During the second, she
began to squirm, and when fin-
ished she broke into q loud, long
about eight characterization OF
The Farmer in the Dell She Just
looked straight forward and kept
singing"
The first. opportunity for Liza
came when MGM asked Judy II Liza
could play q small part in annie
Get Your Gun" Judy remembered
that the daughters Of Ethel Mer-
man and Mary Martin had both
played in the stage version, 10 she
answered, "Why not?"
THE Good Old Summertime" was
switched forward on the Garland
schedule and Liza was assigned a
walk through role as the daughter
of Judy and Van johnson.
Evening star., 1948-12-05

Ava's manager allows her $65 q
week for her maids salary, groceries
and minor ,incidentals. All large
purchase are charged and the bills
go to the manager.
No Marriage Prospects.
Ava says when prices go down
she may build the kind Of house
she wants. She wants small
house with a big living room, one
big and one small bedroom and lots
Of closet space. That seemed to
indicate, I thought out loud, that
a third marriage is not in prospect
How right" Ava almost groaned
Cant. No prospects. But I wish
there were. I'm the kind who ought
to be married. You miss COM
panionship when you're not mar
ried. Maybe some girls can get
along with a career alone, but I'm
not the type"
Ava volunteered that her hobby
used to be going to night clubs. If
she wasn't in one every night she
felt she was slipping socially. Now
they bore her. "You see the same
people, night after night, all little
tight, and they look like bored
goonS."
Books and Records.
Her hobbies now are convertible
and clothes. Shed buy more clothes
If her manager would allow her.
He tells her IL suits. good tweeds
and gabardines, at $165 each are
enough.
Evening star., 1948-12-05
Genius in the Smoke
Williams Play Sometimes Lost in 1t,
But It Has It's Magic
BY Joy Cormody
Drama Editor Of The Star
NEW YORK.

playwright could having
written such hits 1.-THE Glass Menase and "A Street Car Named
wonders
might fats predecessors had losing standard
The fate playwright who produces two prize winners that
he will be asked something expecting
the ball. asking
That Just cannot be done and williams only
Summer and Smoke Justly unusty paying the
penalty for his entirely logical failure
Setting II Superb Creation.
that williams current play better theaer than 1t
be comparison with the masters previous works
might be that purely the basis Of 10 Mners triumphant
setting with few magic light
wrought brilliant impression Of small sutry Southern town where
peoplg live and know Joy and sorrow mostly the latter
Within singing Of sadness is Williams work
Judged fairly damage the authors
taon He still can write like no other young the teae
worth listening sometimes only for the
ringing the words These by the astonishing young Margaret
Phillips Tod Andrews moving and revealing They make the
and directed Margot
rewardng than have been led to expect
Doctor . Consutant.
disappointing aspect Of Summer and Smoke" is Its
suggestion that Williams exhaustns subject so far his
that Southern
sexual maladustmen The most loyal williams follower will have
be he feels sometimes that the playwright will have to
patient another doctor he cannut her himself
Theagoer being human least extent will tolerate
just $ much stubbornness in
YET Defense his latest has
brought Broadway its third successive brilliant Miss
Phillips glowngy in the tradition of Lauree Taylor in "Glass
Menaserie" Jessa Tandy "A Street Car Named Desire
Alma Winerir girl to and to forget Alma is
another of touching children daughter little
Glorious Hill Miss From childhood she loves the doctors
exalted emotion fits at all with his
conception between the 1t
which Williams life the cards In favor
Johnny Buchanan Aa can only be turned
wetchedness while Johnny at least
rampage countryside much of himself need be
o debauch
Of this struggle dramatic perhaps dramatic
purity Alma the
Of its They thus just lar
he exalted she the degraded
Smoke achieves Williams stand
volume considering the
with constant movement be-
In the little
which them. This mobile hu
number interesting variations the human
meets only in Williams and Saoyans plays
Amas dmented mother whose childish tantrms
Johnnys doctor father
gentle integrity Nelly the daughter of Glorious Hills
dapdated mother passionate Rosa Gonzalez who
up hating repressons Mexican and of the
misfts and mserables.
Phillips Andrews ghteng assets to Broadways
acting gallery after they
deep pathos Williams almost obseSsvey sad writing
with that he has
don-hey filled him with the
conviction unsspeced greatness
in act for Williams.
after the plays summer has died and its
smoke has blown
OF how plays is even that truep
Evening star., 1948-12-05
. Running Start
by the Assoeioied Press

HOLLYWOOD.
Nancy Olson Is making a running
start in films. She dashed to star
dom in her first picture, although
she had no previous dramatic expert
ence.
She literally ran in every scene OF
the film Canadian Pacific"-ran
into Randolph SCOTS arms. ran to
warn of an approaching Indian at
tack and ran away from Villain Vic
tor Jory.
Nancy, from Milwaukee, Is the
daughter of physician. Paramount,
which holds her contract, loaned her
to Producer Nat Holt for her screen
debut in canadian Pacific"
Evening star., 1948-12-05

The Beautiful Blond From Bashful
Bend" she goes back to the l870S.
On the same lot. Chicken Every
Sunday" swings back to 1912, and
Down to the Sea in Ships" is Of a
few years earlier vintage. Zanuck
lots humdinger effort, of course.
is prince of Foxes% starring Tyrone
Power and Wanda Hendrix. That
one is 18th century and still is eat
ing up a few millions on Italian
locations
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naner Alliancel
Evening star., 1948-12-05
Coming Attractions

AMBASSADOR -" Canyon
City," with Scott Brady, start
ing Thursday.
CAPITOL-"The Hills OF Home"
with Lassie, starting Thurs
day.
COLUMBIA-"Crash Dive,'
with Tyrone Power, starting
Thursday.
DUPONT-"The Eternal Re-
turn" with Jean Marais,
starting Wednesday.
KEITH'S-"Kiss the Blood on
My Hands," with Joan Fon-
taine.
METROPOLITAN - Fighter
Squadron" with Edmond
O'Brien.
PALACE.."The Night Has a
Thousand Eyes" with Ed
ward G. Robinson.
PIX-"The Idiot" a French
film. starting Tuesday.
WARNER-"Canyon city,
with Scott Brady, starting
Thursday.
Evening star., 1948-02-11
By Alice Eversmon

It was a nice, honey, social eve
ming in Constitution Hall last night.
The reason-Burl Ives was there.
His friends came and brought their
children, and lots of high-pitched
gleeful laughter from the young
sters startled the dignity Of the hall.
Not that the oldsters didn't laugh,
also. Most of them already knew
the answers to the old songs Ives
sang or the weird turn these song
stories took to provide the surprise
at the end. But they laughed as if
they heard them for the first time,
and the reason for that was Ives
again and his sly way of putting
them across.
From some of the publicity re-
garding the "Wayfarin' Stranger"
we we're rnisled. It pictured him
as roaming the country, seeking
studiously in every corner for the
choice bits of folk lore he finally
gathered. But the short program
notes stated several times "I learned
this from my grandmother" or my
mother used to sing this" And that
was Just the point. During the in
termission those same words were
heard on every side, MY grand
mother" MY mother" It was be-
cause, for the short concert period,
nearly every one turned time back
and became a child again.
Not all the songs were of the
kind mother or grandmother sang.
They were too CORY or had a little
bit of the innuendo not intended for
childish ears. There were others
that Travelled here from overseas
or sprang from the particular work
surroundings of this country. They
are part and parcel Of the American
heritage and as such our most
cherished musical possession.
It seemed that nearly every one In
the audience-and it was close to
capacity-was familiar with the Ives
repertoire. At the first opportunity,
calls came for favorite songs from
all over the hall. Some choice ones
| were given as encores, and always
with a bit of explanation, and
doubtless many more after the short
program was finished. 1t was a
Evening star., 1948-02-11
Worship Going to cubo
For Maine Anniversary
BY the Asseeioted Press

The Navy is sending a destroyer
and three submarines to Cuba this
week for the 50th anniversary Of
the sinking of the battleship Maine.
The vessels will arrive in Havana
from Key West, Fla, Friday and re-
main three days. They are the de-
stroyer Sarsfield and the submarines
Spikefish, Sablefish and Madregal.
The Maine was blown up in
Havana Harbor, February Is, 1898.
Evening star., 1948-02-11

the minstrels. It was a gay costume
for q ballad singer. His voice is
sweet and soft: his guitar playing
isn't much, but he knows those
songs and Just what an infection
will do to them. And for the short
space of an hour and a quarter he
had every one relaxed and for
getful of all the worries that would
hop on their shoulders again as
soon as they left the hall.
Oh, the music. He sang "Poor
Boy" when I was Single" Lord
Thomas and Fair Eleanor" BILLY
Boy" -eBaby Did You Hear" "Aunt
Rhodie," "The Fox" "Old Blue" !"
"Old Paint" mfr. Froggie," Bar
bara Allen" Bonnie Wee Lassie, I"
John Hardy" drill Ye Terriers"
and Edward"
Evening star., 1948-02-11
Youngsters Join With Adults
In Laughing at Ives Songs

friend meet friend evening and you
know how that can continue indef-
initely.
Then, of course, there was the
picturesque personality Of Ives him
self. The friendliest person In the
world, he came out with his guitar
slung over his shoulder and began
Immediately, with his nice grin and
a gentle rolling Of his eyes, to make
every one feel at home. He wore a
red corduroy coat, and If this was
not the customary garb Of the
troubadours, the minnesingers and
Evening star., 1948-02-11
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Evening star., 1948-02-11
CheverIy Legion to Dance

American Legion Post 1oS will
hold its annual program dance at
10 PM, February 81, at the Legion's
clubhouse in Cheverly. Duke Tay-
man Is chairman Of the Program
Dance Committee.
Evening star., 1948-02-26

ened up by Miss Bess. I can almost
hear her saying:
Harry, you are not going to
buy another hat. You already have
more than George Washington ever
had. And for goodness sake, quit
giving dinners all the time. Can't
the three of us ever sit down to a
little supper of leftovers? Those
parties you are always giving are
making a bigger hole in my pocket
book than you know. And you SIM
ply must quit having whole soles
put on your shoes when half soles
will do. Margaret's bringing IN q
little money with her singing, that's
true, but I don't feel it is right to
ask the girl to pay for room and
board In the White House"
OF course, the White House talk is
purely imaginary, but let me tell
you few things that go on in my
own home, which must not be a
great deal different from thousands
of other American homes.
Must Return Book Same Day.
If I get a book from the rental
library, at 3 cents day, the woman
in charge of the purse strings al
most goes wild unless I sit down
and read it from cover to cover
and get it back the same day. For
me to have a sports shirt that must
be dry cleaned and not laundered
is a cardinal sin. And for me to
long for q T-bone steak while q
steer still has q neck, is to call upon
myself a lecture that even the
neighbors can hear.
The President has the right idea,
all right, but it sho wasn't original
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Evening star., 1948-02-26

after m q n y Loweh Meiiett.
months of study has reached con-
clusions not too greatly different
from those of the President and his
housing advisers.
To date every attempt to obtain
housing legislation has been de-
feated in the House Banking and
Currency Committee. The Taft
Wagner-Ellender bill. for example,
was not permitted to emerge from
that committee after passing
through the Senate virtually un-
opposed. Senator Taft, endeavor-
ing to get action In the House, was
snubbed 50 thoroughly by Chairman
Wolcott last year that he hasn't
had the heart to bring his bill up
again this year.
The House committee wouldn't
listen to Mr.. Taft. It may listen to
the Joint Congressional Committee
and, of course, 1t may not. Hereto
fore 1t has seemed to lend an atten-
tive ear chiefly to the organized
real estate interests. What the
latter will have to say this time is
uncertain. Speaking for one group,
the president of the National As
sociation of Home. Builders said in
Cincinnati, I'VE can go along with
some of Mr.. Trumar1's points" That
doesn't offer much encouragement.
IT do not think we want continu-
alton Of rent controls" he also said.
Disagreement on Housing
A principal point Of disagreement
between the President and the joint
committee concerns public housing,
the building Of homes for low-in-
come families, using Federal funds
to aid local communities. There Is
Evening star., 1948-02-26
Dewevites Warn G. @. P.
Party Told Wallace May Cut Heavily
Into Negro Vote and Upstate Strength

ministers, from women, from vet
erans who don't want to 60 to any
other war, is coming evidence that
Mr.. Wallace may tap solidly Re-
publican sections upstate which
hitherto had been taken for granted
Peace Appeal Powerful.
The peace appeal does 1t, Dewey
spokesmen explain. In such sec
tions, and especially among the
women, Mr.. Wallace's Communist
alliance seems dim or unimportant
and he is described as an idealist-
after all, he came from farm IN
Iowa.
New York is great both in popula-
ton and extent. The spreading val
lev of the Mohawk and the fertile
southern tier of counties lying along
the Pennsylvania border-this Is
rural country similar to the Middle
West, which 1t closely resembles IN
a preference for Protestants, pro-
hibition and the Republican Party.
What the upstaters can do on an
emotional or social issue was DEM
onstrated during prohibition. In rs,
when they broke party ties to
trounce the then Senator James
Wadsworth because he said boldly
he was wet. Mr.. Wadsworth was
one of them-a gentleman farmer
from Genesee-but they were dry.
Warnings for Taft.
Naturally the Dewey warnings are
especially directed at Senator Taft,
his nearest rival. Senator Taft, vic
tim of the contention that he's q
fine fellow but too tactless, too un-
popular to win, has especially
trumpeted the good news that New
York is in the bag regardless.
With reluctant candor, Dewey
spokesmen say they believe Senator
Vandenberg could carry the State
even If Mr.. Wallace proves strong,
but, they add, he Is not candidate.
Others, they are sure, couldn't. And
they name Harold Stassen and Gov.
Warren of California.
Another Dewey point is that while
the Palestine issue Is now murder
ing the Democratic Party, other in
ternational incidents might occur
between now and election which
would benefit the administration.
It is safer, they contend, to have a
candidate who is not at the mercy
of the winds of foreign policy. which
may benefit and then chill him.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate. Inc)