Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-25

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achievements but obviously n
harm In a small setting-up !
exercise until something more
inspiring shows up.
This is most patiently true In
the case OF Mr.. Dawes. one OF
the real pros In intimating II
was a mistake ever to have
tanned the frontier.
"Tne Badlanders." set In
Arizona at the end Of the 10th
Century, Is about gold which
may come as q relief from
movies about cattle. II intro
duces Ladd. looking more
craggy from film to film, as a
geologist-yeah. a geologist-
who has Just done a i0-year
stretch in prison at the urging
of some types who would rail-
road their own mothers.
Restored TO freedom. he Is
less interested In picking up his
career as a scientist than IN
showing his enemies they can't
monkey with an educated man.
This he intends to accomplish
by mining an old deserted shaft
which he alone knows Is viz
tually inlaid with gold.
This involves q lot Of wanr
dering in a ghostly old mine
shaft with the implication that
the whole State Of Arizona may
fall on Ladd at any moment.
This gives Mr.. Dawes the main
thread Of suspense in "The Bad
ianders" and he. Ladd, Ernest
Borgnine and some ugly gun
singer types follow 1t to the
very end.
Above-ground, Ladd plays 1t
cool and laconically with a slew
Of nasty, homicidal types but
with a steady show Of his con-
Germ for underdogs. These are
principally members Of the
Mexican colony who are treated
worse than the dirt that stands
between the villains and the
gold.
More dramatic often than
the action are the eerie. lonely
landscape scenes which Direc-
tor Dawes is forever finding
when he goes out with color
camera. Or an old black ana
white one.
Katy Jurado, Kent Smith and
q new girl named Claire Kelly
are among the other partici-
pants in 1.-THE Badlanders."
BRIDGITTE DOUBLE ID:
Bridgitte Bardot who apparent
ly never will be absent again
from one Washington screen
or another, will turn up in her
newest picture at the Play
house and Dupont theaters
next Wednesday.
The picture is la Paris
ienne" and Washington adj
mirers of BIB will have a chance
to hear her in either their
language or hers. This Is to
say that the Playhouse YER
sion will be dubbed in English
while the one at the Dupont
will be in French, with sub
titles.
Miss Bardot finds herself
with q towering co-Star In La
Parisienne" in the person OF
Charles Boyer. Storywise also,
she rises in the social scale in
that she is now playing the
daughter of a Prime Minister.
Heretofore, Miss Bardot has
worked in the area that is
known as privileged, a
circumstance that has always
injected a note Of ironic COM
edy into her pictures.
In celebration Of Miss Bar
dots presence on its screen,
the Dupont theater will open
daily at IL am, with a first
showing Of the film at 1880
am. The Playhouse which
opens at 1890, first showing at
IL, will maintain its regular
schedule.
INTERNATIONAL NOW:
Washington Ballet. young In
It's own years and those of its
personnel, goes from excite
ment to excitement. And now
1t has reached the pinnacle.
This takes the form Of an
Invitation to become interna-
tional with a visit early in
September to the Dominican
Republic. With Alicia Alonzo
and Igor Youskevitch as its
guest stars. the group will play
q three-day date, September