Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-06
slightest concern for a critics re-
action to his latest sabu picture.

slightest concern for a critics re.
action to his latest sabu picture
Sabu's role on this occasion il
that of a kind of Kid Gavilan (the
new middleweight boxing cham
Ipion. He is on his way to winning
the lightweight championship Of
the world in Madison Square Gar
den when the title bout is called
off. Instead, the boy has to &c
back to Numidi to become King
replacing a brother who has just
been aSsaSSinated.
This is a drastic change in any
young mans idea of his LIES work
but it is even worse than appears
on the surface. Numidi, once ar
island paradise in the Pacific, is
now a pawn in the great game Of
international bastions or inter-
national politics. This govern
ment which is Sabu's friend is
trying not so much to control poor
INumidi as to keep it out of the
hands of some unnamed but easily
identified, Marxist cutthroats.
Any one who has ever seen Rocky
Graziano or Jake LaMotta on tele.
vision can see this is a dramatic
situation, one in which a 1876.
pound crowd-pleasing kid from
Numidi suddenly finds himself
matched against the Kremlin.
Sadly enough, having set tn.
stage for showing what this might
be like. the director of Savage
Drums" completely evades the is.
sue. All he asks of Sabu, H. B
Warner. Steven Geray and col.
lection OF other actors no one evel
heard Of. is that they go through
the simplest motions of people
in a motion picture.
The one startling exception tt
this rule is in a sequence in which
a sinking. treacherous brunette
mentions political spheres of in
f1uence" to Sabu. When the lat
ter greets it with the expression
of a prizeflghter, the electrifyine
promise Of the thing vanishes.
The picture. however, goes on
for the length of time necessary
for Sabu to make Numidi safe fol
the Numidians.
Who knows that a Numidian
might not enjoy it?
X X r. II
There is another Lippert pro-
duction. they come in pairs, on
the Metropolitan's program this
week. 1t also obviously was made
with a tough overseer yelping at
the heels of such actors as John
Ireland and Marie Windsor. They
move pretty fast, with no obvious
overtime, through Little Big
Horn" which is another recollec-
ton of Clusters last stand.
If Custer never had been given
that assignment, there probably
would have been only half as
many movies since Edison, or
whoever, invented the magic Ian
tern.
Bulletin board. The demand
for seats for Olivia de Havilland's
Candida" at Olney next week in
dicates that the house may have
a new record by midnight Of July
is ANTA's play series next
season will consist of eight pro-
auctions, of which at least four
will be new plays The series
will be offered to the public on
a subscription series only
Catholic University's summer sea-
son will open next Monday night
with a double bill of one-act
plays, Sean O'Casey's THE End
of the Beginning" and Thornton
Wilder's Pullman Car Kiawatha. +"
/. John McGiver will direct
Shaw's ''Misalliance" on July %
and Labizche's 1.-THE Straw Hat"
on August 6 are the two remaining
plays on the summer subscription
series BY way of showing
their new enthusiasm for the fu-
ture, Warner Bros. who were
thinking of selling out recently,
now have Is big productions slated
for the cameras within the next
six weeks.