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place. 2-car garage, h.-w.h. Owner
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-16
BY HARRY MACARTHUR

The movie business, which
has enough to cry over, got
some news to cheer about the
other day.
The customers are coming
back to the theaters. The year.
long decline at the box Office
finally reached a turning point.
In August, for the first time
In a year, average weekly
movie theater attendance was
above that for the same Pc
Rod in 1855.
The optimistic note came
from Sindlinger and Co., a re-
search firm. and was passed
along by the trade journal,
Film Daily. During that aver
age week this past August the
paid, attendance was 81 mil
lion. During a comparable
period last year it was between
So and ga million.
This is still below the boom
business of a decade or so ago,
but the news is heartening. OF
the two directions attendance
figures can take, up is certain
ly preferable.
Is Million Passes
The total average weekly at
tendance this past August. in
cidentally, was 81 million. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-16
THE PASSING SHOW
Good Films Mean
Good Business

additional Is million came in
on passes. making the movie
business the only one in the
world serving 10 per cent of
its customers free. This is an
increase, too. over the IL mil
lion weekly free leaders a year
ago.
The reason for the August
rise probably is really a COM
bination of reasons. The ex-
hibitors can give part of their
thanks to television, which
obliged them with the dullest
summer it has achieved yet.
There is some suspicion, too,
that the political conventions
made the TV fare even duller.
driving people out of their
homes.
Another factor in the in
creased movie theater trade is
limited at in a further aspect
of the Sindlinger report. One
of the things Sindlinger meas
ures is what people are talking
about and people do talk about
motion pictures.
More Talked
In August. 1855, between rs
and % million of them were
talking about movies each
week. In August. 1856, more
than 40 million persons talked
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-16
COMING ATTRACTIONS
STAGE
NATIONALITY Abner' starting tomorrow night.
SCREEN
SCREEN

AMBASSADOR-The Burning Hills" with Tab Hunter and
Natalie Wood
COL0NY-"Frisky" with Gina Lollobrigida
DUPONT-"The Three Sinners" with Fernandez.
KEITHS-"Run for the SUM- with Richard Widmark start
ing Wednesday,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of The Reef"
METROPOLITAN-"The Burning Hills" with Tab Hunter
and Natalie Wood
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Festival Production of Mozzarts Don
Giovanni"
PALACE-"Johnny Concho" with Frank Snara.
PLAYHOUSE-"Lust for Life" the story of Vincent Van
Cogh, starting Friday
TSANS-LUX-The Solid Gold Cadillac" with Judy Holiday
and Paul Douglas
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-16
That Trite Overnight Star Phrase
Really Applies to Young Don Murray
Mrs. O'NeiII Called
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. /. is
(NANA). 80 Overnight start"
How often have you heard the
trite expression? Dating back
to Bushman and Bayne and
the Gish sisters, it's been one
of the most used and abused
terms in Hollywood jargon
Only on the rarest occasions
IS it really applicable to the
discovery Of a new screen per-
sonality.
But one such--the real Nc
Coy in an overnight star
has just come to pass in the
case Of a brash young fellow
named Don Murray.
Murray walked into a West
wood movie theater one night
about six weeks ago a COM
plete unknown to the glamor-
searching crowd. He walked
out two hours later to be
mobbed for his autograph by
the same gang.
In those intervening 100
minutes. a brand-new name
for the marquee lights had
been definitely established.
This was the occasion Of the
first sneak preview of BUS
Stop" the hilarious movie in
which Marilyn Monroe is
starred and top-billed.
They Went Out Talking
Marilyn had drawn them in,
Of course, but the patrons
went out talking not only Of
her splendid performance but
raving about the completely
unexpected flow Of boisterous
histronics from out-of-the-
blue Mr.. Murray.
With screams and shouts
that taxed the stereophonics
Don catapulted himself into
the proceedings a full five
minutes ahead Of the star. He
was in almost every scene
thereafter-and as BUS Stop"
opens in one city after another,
the happy word flashes back
to 20th Century-Fox that it
has one more potential box
Office wrecker on its roster.
Already fandom clamors for
a retesming Of Marilyn and
Don--and already the story
scouts are searching for an
other comedy-romance that
will serve them for an early
repeat.
Fortunately Don himself Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-16

HEROIC FILMS HEROINE
Audrey Hepburn plays
Natasha, the ebullient girl
who Is brought to maturity
by the dramatic doings of
Leo Tolstoy's War and
Peace" Dino de Laurentiis'
mammoth film version Of
the novel will open at the
Capitol Theater on Sep
TENDER rs.
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THE THEATER WEEK
OH-Broodwoy Trio
On With O'NeiII Play

the "Iceman" production won
hurrahs from the critics, a
continuing boxoffice sellout
and the warm regard of the
playwright's widow, Carlotta
Montery O'Neill. Mrs. ONeill
was at the same time being
pressed by others for rights to
Long Days Journey Into
Night"
Mrs. O'NeiII Called
Continues Quintero: 1--WE
read it Of course when f was
published. and thought it
wonderful. But we felt that
being allowed to do Tceman'
was honor enough. Besides
We knew all the uptown pro-
ducers wanted the new play.
Then one day Mrs. O,Neill
invited the three of us to see
her. She asked me Just three
QuestionS-Did we have any
commitment for this season?
I said no. She asked why not,
and I said because we were
looking for a really substantial
script. Then she asked
whether we would like to do
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-16

decided hiatus was for the
birds. Or for TV.
You could almost make up
a years 10-beSt list from the
pictures that were on the Ma
TONS screens during August to
halt the box Office decline. You
might not go all the way to 10,
but you could get a good start.
A Genuine Classic
In addition to 1.-THE King and
l." for instance, there was
"Moby Dick" John Huston's
genuinely classic translation
to pictorial form of Herman
Melville's novel. There was
BUS Stop" the adaptation of
the William Inge play in which
Marilyn Monroe seems to have
demonstrated to even her once
severest critics that she can
act. There was "Trapeze," the
widely publicized Hecht-Lan-
caster production directed by
Sir Carol Reed.
There were other pictures
helping inspire the August up
turn. There was High Soci-
ety." the musical version of
The Philadelphia Story"
which has been living up to
expectations and enchanting
vast hordes of moviegoers.
Biographies Helped
A pair of exceptionally pop
ular biographies helped, too.
One was the lavender-and-
old-tear-ducts Eddy Duchin
Story" which was retrieved by
Tyrone Power, Kim Novak and
a splendid sound track by Car
men Cavallaro. The other was
the frank personal story of
Rocky Graziano's life and hard
times, Somebody Up There
Likes Me-"
This isn't all, either. Some
other solid attractions were
selling tickets in August,
among them Away All Boats"
1.-THE Proud and the Profane,"
"Bus Stop" THE Bad Seed"
THAT Certain Feeling" and
"Pardners." Toward the end
of the month War and Peace"
land 1.-THE Solid Gold Cadillac"
came along to generate more
activity at the ticket wickets.
The movie fare available for
the comparable month a year
ago provides a considerable
contrast. MARTY" and Mister
Roberts" we're doing business.
So were Love Is a Many
Splendored Thing" 1.-THE
Seven Little Foys" and 1.-THE
Shrike."
Small Wonder
Other films doing better
than most at the time were
ITO Catch a Thief" Lady
and the Tramp" The Man
From Laramie" and pete
Kelly's Blues" That's right,
Pete Kelly's Blues"
1t is small wonder that so
many more people were talk
ing about motion pictures in
August, 1856. than a year pre-
viously. There were so many
more movies worth talking
about.
1t is oversimplification to
say that all of the motion pic
ture industry's ills can be
cured by making good pictures
that people will pay to see.
But it is a fact. the Sindlinger
statistics demonstrate, that
good films on the screen mean
business at the box Office.
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900. But it isn't too big, three
bedrooms. and the boys can
stay week ends. Wen use the
guest room for a nursery" OF
course there's a swimming pool
for his boys, who learned to
swim before they could walk.
I've always said that news
paper people meet such in
teresting people. Especially
women reporters. And that's
how Veronique met Greg.
A Pup Reporter
She was a cub reporter in
Paris-they call them pup re-
porters there" Peck recalled.
And they are usually sent out
to report things like dog bites
and insignificant social stuff.
Then she was promoted to in
terviewing people like Jean
Paul Sartre Sam Goldwyn and
DR.. Albert Schweitzer. She
asked me some good ques-
tions-nothing personal, as /
remember with a side glance
at me-. About Roman Holt
day l remembered her, and
later looked her up"
We discussed the SAL mil
lion "Moby Dick" praised by
most reviewers as one of the
best movies ever made.
It's an uncomprumising
artistic achievement for John
Huston. and completely true to
the Herman Melville book.
said Greg. My children saw
il and loved it. Huston's rea-
sons for making it were first
grade "a man challenging
fate. challenging God, a man
who doesn't want to accept
mortality. or being a tool Of
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TODAY'S SCHEDULES
STAGE
NATIONAL-Dark. LII Abner' starts tomorrow.
SCREEN

ANdBAssADoR-"The Bad Seed" 1855. 4:1O. $50 and
$3.50 pm.
CAPITOL-"Bus Stop: 1:40 3:4O 5:40 TAO and $40 pm
COLONY-"Thirst"; PAS 4:30 6:10 7:55 and GAS pm.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES; 1890 2:45 s. 7:25 and $3.50 PM
DUPONTA Kid for Two Paintings" $780, 1885, 5:40 7:45
and $50 pm.
KE1THs-"walk the Proud Land; las $780, $50. 1855
and 9:55 PM
Observation-Disclosures Progress" 22O 4:1o g. 7:5O and
GAS pm.
METROPOLITAN Bad Seed" las 4:25 Z and s:4o
oNTARIo"The Proud and Profane" 110 3:15 $685. 7:3O
and $40 PM
PALACE-"High Society; l. 3:1O $780, 7:35 and GAS pm
PLAYHOUSE Riff: l. 3:15, $50, 7:30 and GAS pm
PLAzA"Naked Night $780, $685. 4:45 $685. sos and $50
pm.
TRANs-LUx- Eddy Duchin Story: ITO, 1922 $780,
744 and 9:55 pm.
WARNER-"Cinerama Holiday; 2. 5 and $50 PM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-16
Gregory Peck's q Movie Producer
Who Hasn't Produced Anything
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. Is
NANA).-Gregory Peck ore
dered a Bloody Mary, ham
and turkey on rye, and hot
tea, smiled charmingly across
a. table in the Bel Air Hotel
patio and told me: I'm a pro-
Queer, but haven't produced
anything yet.
Everybody is doing tt
setting up their own COM
panieS. You can incorporate
yourself for SIS, rent an Office
and put your name on the
door and you're in business.
Then it gets harder. You
have to find good stories to
film. My company already. has
backing from United Artists
for a two-picture deal. /
think we (partner Sy BARTLETT
will start with AN Affair of
Honor 1t was a Broadway
play that was not a success
about a British major Ito be
played by Gregory and an
American girl in Colonial
times. No. that won't be the
first-it's too big. Well start
with a melodrama-a 1--we
story" This is Thieves
Market." to be made in Ma
Frid with Ava Gardner.
u Date at Metro
Before launching his own
production Peck has a date at
Metro with Lauren Bacall in
Designing Woman" In, spite
OF all the new star companies
mushrooming all over Holly
wood. there's nothing like a
sure salary-especially Greg's,
which has to be in the half
million-dollar class.
Peck isn't givenSto talking
about his private life, and he
surprised me with his eloquence
over wife Vefonique. whom he
married last January after his
divorce from Greta, mother of
his three boys.
= She's a girl to have fun with
and III love her till death"
Their first baby has an Octo.
Der 20 dateline. We hope for
a girl and we'll can her
Victoire. We have no name
chosen if it's a boy. We tried
to keep it a secret, but Veron-
ique felt wobbly during a din
ner party and the cat was out
OF the bag We're so happy
about it. I don't want to sound
Ike the birds and the bees but
I've never been so happy"
Man Must Rebel
We discussed our children.
who attend the same school.
Il like q boy who raises a little
he'll" said GREG. If a boy
isn't adventurous it isn't right.
I like a boy who isn't too
easily refined in. A man must
be a bit Of a rebel. None of
my children is the soody-
soody type. thank goodness.
The Pecks bought the Kurt
Frings home recently for $685.
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about movies then being
shown.
This is not because more
people suddenly decided to talk
about the movies. 1t is because
of the nature and number of
movies on display.
The Observation-Disclosures. I'M
doubtedly was the years mu-
steal delight, screen version of
the Richard Rodgers-O oscar
Hammerstein hit, THE King
and T." It was not alone. either,
in Inspiring conversation or in
Turing people out of the house.
For this seems to have been
the summer when Hollywood
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-16
By WILLIAM GLOVER

NEW YORK, Sept. is tR.--
Sometimes you get what you
want by asking-and some
times by keeping mum.
The silent way has Melted
a youthful producing trio the
biggest coup of the new
Broadway theatrical season.
I'VE can hardly believe it
yet" says one of them.
The prize is the taut drama
Long Days Journey Into
Night" written by Eugene
O'Neill, and published postum
mously last February. A
scramble for the stage rights
Immediately began among
many of the White Ways
shrewest craftsmen.
But the trio who will pre-
sent it November Z at the
Helen Hayes Theater weren't
in the scramble. How they
were chosen to produce the
play adds one more strange
chapter to the unusual joint
career of Jose Quintero, Theo-
dore Mann and Leigh Cornell.
Five years ago they started
on a shoestring of dreams in
the agitated arena of off,
Broadway experimental the
alter.
Since then they have be-
come perhaps the best known
and most artistically success
full of those responsible for the
oft-Broadway renaissance.
QuinterO Directs
Quintero doubles as director,
while his partners concentrate
on business phases. Long
Days Journey" will be their
debut on the Main Stem, al
though Quintero individually
has directed several Broadway
plays previously.
This began six months ago."
says Quintero of their current
enterprise. I'VE wanted to do
ione of O'Neill's plays down in
our theater in Greenwich VIII
lage, and were finally given
permission to do The Iceman
Cometh.'"
The tasteful brilliance of
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lucky first Of all to get billed
opposite Marilyn Monroe.
Everyone wants to see Marilyn,
so they have to take me along
with her. I'm lucky, too. that
I got such a swell and we'll
known show as a starter. But
its what do from nov on
and what kind Of roles / get
that will tell the real story.
I've seen too many guys flop
after one big picture. 50. I
won't buy that new hat jost
yeti"
The deal that took Don to
Hecht and Lancaster Is ironic
in a couple Of ways. Around
See HEFFERNAN, PAGE E-2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-16

not too electrified over all the
tumult. A level-headed fellow
who has been in show business.
one way or another. AL his life,
he knows its ups and downs.
Oddly. he was born right here
in Hollywood. left for the East
with his parents at the age
Of s months and hadn't been
back until he began work or
Bus Stop"
You can't base a whole
career on. one picture" he de-
clared on the set Of Bachelor
Party" which marks his sec
ond screen start on a loanout
deal TO Harold Hecht and Burt
Lancaster. Il was Just lucky
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-16

Long Days Journey I think
I replied, That would be very
NICE"
Quintero-wlAo halls from
Panama and who fell into
directing" after setting out
first to be a doctor. then an
actor-has been diligently pre-
pairing the drama. He even
travelled to New London,
Conn.,, and located the old
waterfront house that is the
scene of O'Neill's autobio-
graphical play.
What I seek changes with
every play I direct" says Quin-
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tero. 81 do things in one play,
discard them in the next"
He likes to apply to stage
craft what he learned as q
psychology student at the Uni
versity of Southern California.
1.-THE trouble lots of times in
staging a play is that the peo-
pie involved are insecure, and
a sort of hysteria surrounds
them because so many things
are involved.
But if I read something
and say I believe in this
then that's the only idea you
have to stick to-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-16
New Method

Although Jack Palance drew
and shot well enough in
Shane" to win nomination
for an Academy Award. he is
having to learn all over again
a different way-for his per-
Torrance as a reformed gun
fighter in Paramount's The
Lonely Man"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-16

fate. Melville was such a ,-'~''
Huston is such a man. Some
people agree with JniS, ..-.u
I've heard people argue about
it-playing Capt. Ahab was an
experience in living, a new
form"
Success Was Sudden
No success in Hollywood ever
was faster than Gregory
Peck's. Before he ever came
here from the New York stage
where he appeared in 10 plays
without causing too much at
tention. he found himself
evenly divided between four
studios and a dozen pictures.
His first film. Days of Glory"
proved that the future was
justified and he became a SYM
boil of masculine virility. He
has chalked UP % top films,
including the controversial
Duel in the Sum and the
prize winning Metro movie,
THE Yearling." He has played
priests, gunfighters, Air Force
colonies. sea captains. Biblical
characters and an African
white hunter.
Greg has returned to the
stage a couple Of times-at the
La Jolla Playhouse Che was
born in La Jolla. in Southern
California; which he founded
with Jennifer Jones. Mel Fer
rer and Dorothy MCGUIRE. He
is now interested in founding a
theater group in Los Angeles.
He's a good father--I see him
at all the local school events.
and q very nice guy.
Heck. Why didn't ! do that
interview in Paris!