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The enraged Anderson made the
future after Atkinson tlistered h
Barefoot in Athens" last fall.
On Andersons schedule this
season is one project, Devils
Hornpipe." a musical he has writ
ten with Reuben Mamoulian. It
will be produced by the Play
wrightS' Company, of which An
dersor1 is charter member, in
the spring.
Broadway, however, remains
merely amused by Anderson's
pouting. an attitude that ignores
the fact that Barefoot In Ath-
ems" took quite a drubbing from
more, critics than Atkinson.
AS for Atkinson, he just turned
up again for the ''steenth time as
the leading critic in the boxScore
kept by Billboard on the reviewers
performance in 1951-52. It has
been years since Anderson came
out top man in his branch of the
entertainment business.
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Physiology Department.: Tele-
viewers and telecritics, among the
latter our colleague Harry Mac
Arthur, were properly excited re-
Gently over that televised surgical
operation under the auspices of
the American Medical Association.
Well. something of the sort
could have happened in the Du-
points next film attraction, Under
The Paris Sky" Could have, but
probably will not.
Near the conclusion of the film,
there is a large screen version of
a heart operation. an outsize dis
play of surgery that so startled
the critics they suggested the pic
ture might be far better without
1t. The Dupont management is
giving the suggestion every con-
Sideration, on the major premise
that the big screen magnifies this
sort of thing too much for COM
fort.
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Music Department: Rosemary
Clooney, the girl whose name is
a natural for success in entertain
ment, is having that kind of Sue
cess in Hollywood. She is so good
in Paramount's "The Stars Are
Singing" that she has just landed
one of the best jobs in the movies.
This will bt to team with Bing
Grossly in white Christmas" the
film based upon the Irving Berlin
song.
1t could be one of the seasons
big musicals and no future is more
promising than to be the girl who
sings with Crosby in a Crosby
Screer hit.
Mans Fate Department: Show
business is laughing at this story,
why not everybody?
At Judy Garlands testimonial
dinner George Burns, told the
guest of honor:
Il could have been a great star
like YOU but I wasn't as lucky as
you. When you were 10, Louis B.
Mayer heard you sing and signed
you at $4,000 a week.
when I was 10, Mayer was TO-"
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Maternity Department: Another
reason Metro-G Goldwyn- Mayer has
found for putting frenzied dead
line on Elizabeth Taylor'S picture
is the possibility of twins. Miss
Taylor's grandmother, maternal
side, had two sets of them.
The title of Miss Taylor's pic
ture, just in passing, is The Girl
Who Had Everything"
Omen?
Recreation Department: When
~Stalag IT," opened in Los Angeles
recently, the first night audience
kept its eyes fastened on Gary
Cooper. He was just a member
OF the audience that night, but
he will have the lead in the film
version Of the play.
Watching Cooper was a re-
warding experience, however. He
laughed harder than any one in
the theater. On the screen, he
will do all the work, leaving the
laughter to the customers.
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New Projects Department: It's
IN the theater that one keeps
more irons in more fires than in
any other profession. Take War
rem p. Munsell, jr.. general mana
ger Of Olney summer theater.
Tonight, Munsell will launch the
theater's second semester with the
production, "The Man." starring
Dorothy Gish. Tomorrow morning
he will fly to New York to COM
plete the casting of Comm
Through The Rye" a musical play
Of which he is the author. The
play will have its world premiere
at Olney August 10 and is sched-
uled to open ON Broadway in the
early autumn.
On Friday, Munsell will return
to Olney to get ready for the
theater's next production, II
Found April" starring Constance
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