Evening star., 1952-06-20

members of her own sex. In ont
wild brawl in sailors saloon
she knocks out several males twice
her size. It is possible, of course
that her victims here were ordered
to take a dive but this in no way
diminishes respect for Yvonne.
She is a conner and she manages
to look lot more alluring than
Mildred Burke. the champion at
flinging people about on televi-
sion.
Univer sal international Pic
lures. a sort of manager. for
Yvonne. has the kindness once
more not to bother her with a
script that requires even a mini
mum of acting.
1t finds a setting for her in the
New Orleans of 1865. At that
time, virtually every day was
Mardi Gras day in New Orleans
and girls less ferocious than
Yvonne were hardly safe outside
their homes. Yvonne was safe
even in a saloon called the Scar
let Angel" where she got the Gus
toners drunk and then rolled
them for their billfolds. money
belts or whatever.
She meets her match for the
first time in a customer played by
muscular Rock Hudson. AS rogues
OF opposite sexes frequently are,
these two are attracted to each
other. Hudson. just home from the
sea and hungry for small talk
with a girl like Yvonne, is the
harder smitten and consequently
the more disappointed when he
discovers he has misjudged the
girl.
He learns that she means it
when she says. There are some
things won't do"
This leaves plenty of other
things. saloon brawling, adopting
q baby. impersonating the dead
daughter-in-law of a wealthy
family, and the like to keep Scar
let Angel moving at something
OF a break-neck pace.
It is all much too labyrinthine
to go into here but it is kind of
wonderfully silly journey the
camera makes following Miss De
Carlo as she leads pack of
passionate males through high
society and low.
The most inspired touch in the
screenplay by Oscar Brodney is
that OF providing a baby as Miss
De Carlos playmate in the quieter
scenes of Scarlet Angel" The
passages in which the hulking,
swaShbuckling Hudson teaches
her how to hold, change, and
otherwise care for infants are
some of the obliquely funniest in
the 50-foot shelf of De Carlo pic
lures.
Happily, the baby is a male
which not only assures him of
some degree of interest for Miss
De Carlo but goes on to hint that
he is the type who understands
natures like hers, vehement ones.
Universal did not spend lot of
money for elaborate production in
the case of Scarlet Angel" but it
does dress Miss De Carlo daringly
and extensively. When the pic
ture moves out of New Orleans to
San Francisco, as it eventually
does, the chief setting is one of
those gold rush mansions on Knob
Hill which one seems to recall
from movies as far back as Boris
Karloff's old thrillers.
This is probably the first time
anyone ever noticed the architec-
ture with Miss De Carlo around.
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There is a sentimental flavor
quite different sentimental
flavor, in this weeks Capitol stage
program. It is represented in the
appearance of Hope Zee, song
Stylist, on the bill assembled by
the Capitol's production director,
Allan Zee. Hope, just about to-
escape from her teens, has OBJ
viously been told that she would
have to learn quite a bit about
singing before her father could
use her on one of his shows.
She has been dutiful daughter
about this.
The more nancy vocalist on the
program, however, is Don Cornell
who has had considerably more
experience both on the air and
records. Highlights of his part of
the bill are two patiently popular
recorded numbers, "Ill Walk
Alone" and I'm Yours"
The comedy department is
turned over this week to Jack
Norton and the four Wades pro-