Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-31


American Newspaper Alliance
writer. reports from Rome. |
|. Sophia Loren. with a divine
ing rods instinct for where the
gold is buried. has celebrated
the first anniversary Of her
arrival in Hollywood. Anna
Magnani gets to Hollywood once
. year to make a iilrn. but back
home she stays In the ranks
Of the unemployed. She's been |
trying since September to talk
Italian producers into finding |
. screenplay for her. and de- !
clares she has given up waiting |
for the phone to. ring.
Gina Lollohrigida has made
only one film In Italy in the
past three years. In Rome she
Is not only unemployed but
virtually unemployable. Her
salary per picture, Mr.. ARM
strong points out, is equal tol
what Sarah Bernhard earned |
in a lifetime, as SOLDERING q |
thought as anybody has
pointed out around here in
months.
The Italian film industry is
in such dire straits, in fact.
that Rome's famed Cinecitta
Studios-built by Mussolini and
rebuilt after the war into Eu-
ropes best movie-making plant
will soon give way to Q real
estate development. The only
life left in Cinecitta. as things
now stand. Is the year or so it
will take to make the $40 mil
lion Ben Hur" there.
| i 4 &&
OH, THAT-There is q fell
lloR in the Warner Bros. pub
llicity department who knows
|how to catch q readers eye.
There's this blurb in the mail
to-day for instance, which starts
out: Some girls viii give up
anything to get into the
movies"
Three paragraphs down it.
develops that this wistful Ital-
ian girl name Of Concetta Glor-
Iiani gritted her pretty dental
caps and sacrificed her long
tresses to the shears for q role
lin The Nuns Story"
i PROJECTS AND PEOPLE
Mos imminent major event on
1.-THE towns entertainment scene
is tomorrow nights gala pre-
miere at the Uptown Theater
of South Pacific" It will be
a benefit for the American
Cancer Society and some tick
cts are reported still avail
able. 81. Tuesday, April 8.
brings that Spring Shower of
Stars" to the Shoreham Ho-
tells Blue Room. First Of these
will be Herb Shriner, who par
layed O. harmonica, q special
brand Of Hoosier comedy. and
Ia manner reminiscent of Win,
| Rogers, into a TV career, Mr..
IShriner was q vaudeville hand
before he ever heard of tele-I
vision and he and Blue Room
audiences should be happily
met. Entertaining in the
Gilded Cage at the Sheraton
Park Hotel is Buffafo's Bruce
; Raeburn. A pianist-song stylist,
he specializes in novel paro-
dies. Opening tonight at
; the Casino Royal: The -Four
C"Put o Light in the window"
There's Only One Of You"
etc. Lads.
Alicia Alfonso, due at Con-
stitution Hall next Saturday
night. will be making her first
Washington appearance since
a recent triumphant tour Of
Russia. It had to be trium-
; plant. In Miss Alonso's field
we have the Russians topped
!. with Miss Alfonso. Miriam
Folstein, who operates a dance
studio in the Langley Park
; Shopping Center. reports she
: is in need Of girls to appear
on the Atlantic City Steel Pier
this summer. They must be
: from Is to Is years old and
have one year Of hula expe-
] rience and we wish Miss Fol-
: stein luck. Margaret Phil
lips, one Of this departments
! favorite summer brighteners
, out at the Olney Theater, will
be q movie actress next time
We see her. She makes her
motion picture debut with
sacrif1cial Concetta Gloriani)
in "The Nuns Story"