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Evening star., 1963-02-03
HOLLYWOOD
Joe Levine Becomes q Power
In Todoy's Wide Movie World

the bearded Frenchman who
killed so many wives, was
finished yesterday" he add
ed. "It's fabulous. I'm also
planning five new projects
with Carlo Ponti. and these
do not include my Children
Of Sanchez which will star
Sophia Loren with Tony
Quinn, Rita Moreno and
George Chakiras. The first
with Ponti. Ghost at Noon,'
will star Brigitte Bardot."
Money to Burn
Levine Is known as a great
promoter and I first heard Of
him when he was splashing
strong-man George Reeves
all over the place In those
Hercules" Italian pictures.
you haven't asked me why
I spend so much money on
promotion" he chided. So I
asked him. Whereupon Joe
took from his pocket q small
piece Of paper and set fire TO
ito and behold 1t was q
dollar bill.
"The more you burn your
money the more money you
make" he explained. When I
asked him to do 1t again. he
refused. OF course 1t was a
See GRAHAM. Page E-s
Evening star., 1963-02-03
THE PASSING SHOW
Somebody Is Resisting
Our Plunge Into Culture

Back" and That Touch Of
Mink" The former helped
Rock Hudson into the Num-
Der Two spot and the latter
landed Cary Grant In the
third position.
Fourth place is held by
John Wayne, principally be-
cause Of that children's safari
in the African veldt called
"Hatart." Next in line Is Elvis
Presley. who came through
with such gems as Blue
Hawaii" FOLLOW That
Dream" kid Galahad" and
"Girlsl Girlsl Girlsl"
What? SentlmentP
Elizabeth Taylor turns UP
in sixth place, which 10 O
neat trick for q girl who was
not represented by any films
during 1862. Either the vot-
ing exhibitors were struck
with sudden and startling
sentimentality or reissues
have served Miss Taylor well.
Next In line Is Jerry Lewis
1.-THE Errand Boy'C. He Ia
followed by Frank sinatra,
seen in "Sergeants Three"
and THE Manchurian Cam
didate." In ninth place q
Sandra Dee ("If q Man An
swers") and Burt Lancaster
CJudgment at Nuremberg"
and Bird Man Of Alcatraz")
rounds out the top 10.
Whatever the films max
ing the critics i0-best lists
did for their stars. II obvi-
ously wasn't reflected at the
box office.
The annual Stars OF To-
morrow list same voters,
same magazine-provides an
even sadder commentary on
some moviegoers' tastes. The
unchallenged leader Ia Bobby
DARN. It's enough 10 make
See MACARTHUR, Page E-Ie
Evening star., 1963-02-03
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM

NVhe" HAnehtCah newspaper Aulance
HOLLYWOOD. - The sun
never sets on Joe Levine and
his plans to make important
motion pictures.
Right now" Joe told me,
I'VE Embassy Picture Co..
are getting ready to release
20 pictures during the next
IL months. They are all fin
ished. These are not dreams.
It's hard to keep up with
Joe. One minute he's in Rome
making a deal with Sophia
Loren; next day he's in New
York setting up stage pro-
duction for Peter Ustinov's
Photo Finish" play, which
he is completely financing
and will also finance the
movie Of 1t later. Another
week end he's In Athens,
talking terms with Melina
Mercouri and Jules Dassin.
Projects just pour from him,
and 1t is hard to keep pace
with his plans. So this story
may be haphazard-but it's
the way Joe told 1t.
II 60 to Paris every three
weeks. Hollywood every other
week. It's all possible be-
cause ! have a wonderful
WIFE" said Joe. who must be
in his mid-40s and should
diet while he is under such
tremendous pressure. II get
weary and ! miss my family
very much. I heard my wife
say q fantastic thing the
other day. She was on the
phone and someone was ask
ing US for dinner. He's leav-
ing for Rome on Thursday,
and he won't be home until
Sunday I heard her say"
First There's Journey"
1t would be difficult to
mention all Levine's projects.
But Ill try. First. he has
Long Days Journey Into
Night" an established hit in
Evening star., 1963-02-03
BROADWAY
AT Long Last, Joanna Sees Sights

booked until May l8 and
there's already talk Of our
going 10 Chicago for two
months In the early summer.
Actually. I'm not keen about
that. I'll want TO be getting
back to New York TO pre-
pare for the next season.
"One OF the cities I really
want TO see Is st. Louis
you know. It's Mississippi ira
ditions and showboats and
Mark Twain and everything.
Wen be playing one-week
stands everywhere until we
get 10 the coast. Then we'll
play four weeks in San
Francisco and four In Los
Angeles"
Abbott Liked Her
Joanna came 10 New York
from London In 1850 and i'm
mediately began study at the
Neighborhood Playhouse She
lived at the YWCA for q
time, but found II too ex-
pensive and now shares an
apartment with q friend.
Beverly Rubin OF Pittsburgh.
She got her Job IN Take
Her. She's Nine" which had
q long Broadway run. by
reading for George Abbott,
who has discovered q bat
terry OF young talent during
his long career as director.
author. actor and producer
He directed this comedy by
Phoebe and Henry Ephron
Just think" said Joanna
"Ill see the Golden Gate
Wonder how Bettina will like
that"
And who's Bettina7" I
asked
shes my poodle and al
ready she's seen a bit OF the
world I got her In Rome"
Evening star., 1963-02-03
BY HARRY MACARTHUR
star staff Writer

This was supposed TO be
the administration under
which culture would flower
as never before In this land.
The climate was supposed TO
be so salubrious for them
that the Lively Arts would
proliferate In sheer abandon.
The climate may very well
be all that was promised. At
stocktaking time after Pres
ident Kennedy's first two
years. however, 1t Is obvious
that something has gone
amiss in our headlong plunge
into culture.
Jazz, jerome Robbins bal
let's and Pablo Casals In the
White House are not enough.
Occasional theater forays by
the President TO see q bal
let or half a new musical
are not enough, either.
Evening star., 1963-02-03
COMING ATTRACTIONS
STAGE

NAT1oNAL-"Hot Spot; Judy Holiday; starts Tuesday.
ARENA-"The Hostage; starts February IL.
SCREEN
AMBASSADoR-"son OF F1ubber"
cAPTToL-samson and the Seven Miracles Of the World"
DuPoNT-"A Child Is waiting. Judy Garland starts
Wednesday.
KETTHS-"No Exit" February 10.
MacARTHUR-"Trial and Error. Peter Sellers
METRoPOLTTAN-"Son OF Flubber"
oNTARIo-'Iawrence OF Arabia" February 25
PALAcE-"Joseph and His Brethren"
TOWN-"To Kill Mockngbird"
Evening star., 1963-02-03
IT'S Unbelievable

You can bring culture 10
some Of the people all Of the
time. all Of the people some
Of the time, but not TO all Of
the people all Of the time.
Evening star., 1963-02-03

And somebody out there IL
firmly resisting.
Look. for instance. at the
caper that has leaped into
prominence as the most pop
ular program on television.
This is q figure Of speech,
not an order. It should not
be construed as q suggestion
that you actually look at the
leader. a ghastly monstrosity
called "The Beverly Hill
billies." Even II you saw it,
you wouldn't believe It.
It Is . machine-tooled
strictly contrived. colossal
bore, q melange OF dreary
gags Of the sort that some
in Hollywood consider Just
what the peasants deserve.
They may be right. to q de-
gree. too. The thing Is
watched every week by some
80 million addicts Of the
undersized home screen. It
may be q frightening COM
mentary on the taste Of 36
million Americans. but there
II Is.
MoNegoers are not making
a much better showing. They
are not trampling each other.
at any arte. In needless pur-
suit Of cultural endeavors.
Popularity Check
The list Of top moneymak-
Ing stars Of the past year.
compiled annually by Motion
Picture Herald. O trade Jour-
nal. provides q fair check Of
the relative popularity Of
1928 films. The voters are
motion picture exhibitors.
Their votes are guided not by
personal preferences but by
the hard facts Of action at
the box office.
Doris Day Is this years
winner. largely because OF
the success Of Lover Come
Evening star., 1963-02-03

new YORK ana Hollywood.
This movie with Katharine
Hepburn, Jason Robards, jr.;
Sir Ralph Richardson and
Dean Stockwell, was made
for less than 100000 be-
cause all the principals took
only a token salary and gam
bled on the success of the
film with varying percent
ages. Levine and Miss Hep
burn are good friends and she
will make another picture for
him on the same terms.
Seven Capital Sins" was
postponed d from the pre-
Christmas opening in New
York because of the news
paper strike. But the COM
mitment called for 1t to be at
the Sutton Theater by jan
uary 16. The strike was still
on, but the reviews on radio
and television and the little
papers that appeared from
nowhere during the strike,
gave the movie four stars,
four bells and a thousand
raves.
Now Melina's Famous
AS I have already men,
toned in this column, THE
Law" back to its original IT,
tie Of lie Loi." is due for
immediate release. And since
the three years ago when
Joe originally released The
Law" two Of the people con-
cerned with it-Melina Mer-
couri and Director Jules Das-
sin-have become fam Gus
and very valuable movie
properties.
Then there Is Levine's
Love at Twenty" And The
Three-Penny Opera" whic h
he bought ready-made from
Germany, starring Curt Jur-
gems and Hildegarde Neff,
with the added inspiration Of
having Sammy Davis. jr.. in
serted later. singing Mack
the Knife" "And 'Landru.'
Evening star., 1963-04-03

necticut avenue and L street
NV. and three minutes hac
elasped Monday when she
suddenly realized she had left
the purse behind.
She hailed a cab driver. whose
name she doesn't know, told
him she didn't have a penny
and wanted to try to catch the
Mount Pleasant bus at the end
of the line. The cabbie was will
ing to gamble.
Fifteen minutes later, Mrs
Evans spotted the bus at the
Mount Pleasant street turn
around. Sure enough, the bus
driver had the purse and
Evening star., 1963-04-03

can and the State has a Demo-
cratic Senator, the Senator an
nounces the award of the con-
tract with great fanfare.
This of course leaves the
impression, Mr.. Secretary, that
1t was he who maneuvered the
contract"
Ohio has two Democratic
Senators.
IF you are interested, I can
cite you dozens of examples
where the procedure I outlined
has been followed" Mr.. Ayres
said.
II have observed your testi-
mony before various congress
siona committees" he told Mr.
Evening star., 1963-04-03
Hot Chase of Bus
In Cab Retrieves
Womun's Purse

Honesty, apparently, is not as
rare as it seems.
Mrs. Marion Evans Of 2415
Twentieth street NV. has rea-
son to be grateful to three men,
all strangers. who helped get
back the purse and money she
left on a bus.
Mrs. Evans said she had
alighted from the bus at Con-
Evening star., 1963-04-03

Mcnamara, "and you have con-
sistently maintained there are
no political considerations in
volved in the awarding of de-
fense contracts. This is an ad-
mirable position.
This being trul, why play
politics after the contracts are
aWarded?"
Evening star., 1963-04-03
Disclosure of Contracts
Through Politicians Hit

given to a political informa-
ton officer in the Pentagon
who, in turn, starts the politi-
cal wheels turning" Mr.. Ayres
said yesterday In a letter to Mr.
Mcnamara.
IF the company slated to
receive a defense contract Is
located in a congressional dis
trict represented by a Republi-
Evening star., 1963-04-03
BY the Associated Press

Representative Ayres, Repub-
lican Of Ohio, wants SECRETARY
of Defense Mcnamara to keep
political office holders out of
the act" when the award of
military contracts is an
nounced.
when a defense contract is
to be awarded, the details are
Evening star., 1963-04-03
Tokyo Hit by Fire

TOKYO, April 3 (AP). - A
big fire famed by more thar
30-mile-an-hour winds burned
down 33 factories and homes
lin northern Tokyo yesterday.
Evening star., 1963-04-03

handed it over to her. He said
a passenger had found it and
turned it in.
The purse contained S37 and
personal papers, said Mrs
Evening star., 1963-04-03

Evans. Back in funds again, she
said she tipped the cabbie a
little extra.
Evening star., 1963-09-29

conductors famous analysis of how
Beethoven constructed the first move.
ment of the masterpiece. You'll enjoy
the talk, enjoy and understand the
music even more after listening to the
why and how columbia Records).
A gentle novel of young love, young
Hmarriage between two near-beatniks.
That's Hortense Calisher's Textures
of Life" written with delicacy and
style Little, Brown & Co. $4.75).
lAIe have one short sentence for
Vv"Three Penny Opera, a new movie
presented by the fabulous Joseph E.
Levine. "See it." Written by the late
Bertolt Brecht with music by the late
Kurt Weill,. this musical play was the
hit of Of-Broadway for several years,
It's easy to watch and hear yet
oddly memorable. You'll recognize
Mack the Knife, of course and
you'll enjoy the sets, the rest of the
music, and the one and only Sammy,
Davis Jr. as The Street Singer.
The very day this issue of POISE
] comes out (Sept. 29) marks Judy
Carland's first ''The Judy Garland
Show" on CHS, 9 to 10 pm. EDIT.
You'll see a younger.looking slim,
slim Judy, excellent choreography by
Evening star., 1963-09-29

Tic SdIIlc TINE,
TOR sheer fun, the new Cinderella
story of Sam (Samantha) a depart
ment store buyer, and Steve, news
paper columnist, in "A New Kind
Of Love" Paramount outshines any
movie we've seen in recent months.
Fast pace, wonderful color shots of
Paris, Dior clothes. Elizabeth Arden
salon in full operation, Paris night
clubs, and those two beautiful people.
jeanne Woodward and Paul New
man. They look lovelier and hand
somer each year. The fine cast includes
Thelma Ritter and George Tobias.
Another Paris background movie and
Ha far more serious one is I'm The
French Style" columbia Pictures)
in which Jean Seberg proves to our
satisfaction land delight that she is
an actress Of great beauty and talent.
The picture is saying something i'm
portant to all young women but says
it so you will be entertained as well
as touched by tale of a girl doing
some difficult growing up.
k khore about your exciting world? Just
Ivldive into this Sunday paper further
=. but save your copy of POISE
from little sisters or mothers hands!
Evening star., 1963-09-29

your date to Tor vice versaD. It's a
Stanley Kramer film in Cinerama, in
color, and its cast is literally all-star
like Spencer Tracy, Milton
Berle, Sid Ceasar, Ethel Norman,
Edie Adams, and q other famous
names who are really in there!
Elizabeth Taylor shows you ''her"
London in color over CHS Sunday
October 6 at 10 pm. EDIT. See it -.
and don't miss THE spectacle of this
and years ahead, Liz in Cleopatra.
lAIe say thank you" to RCA Victor
w for their wonderful new line of great
music by great performers at great
new low prices, $3.50 for monaural
LPs; $500 for stereo. The reason
behind this new series under the
"Victrola" label is YOU. RCA learned
that young people loved the great
classics, would like to own them
except for the little matter of money.
1t was hard for US to pick which
goodies to show. We settled for De-
bussy's la Mer" and Ravel's "Rhap-
sodie Espagnole" with Charles Munich
conducting the Boston Symphony.
A brilliant recording of the Beethoven
HFifth by Leonard Bernstein and the
New York Philharmonic has bonus
... an extra little record, with this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-11
AFTER DARK
BoIger Could
Give Lessons

Ray Bolger was born In Dor
chester. Mass, on January 10,
1905, and the entertainment
world has been brighter ever
since. 1t took a few years for
him to make his presence
known, during which p was
variously a bank LP,rk, q
vacuum cleaner salesman, an
accountant and a ballet stu
dent. AS soon as he signed on
for a Nav England tour with
OTIS Musical Comedy repertory
troupe, though, he found a
home.
He and audiences have been
enjoying each other ever since.
First 1t was in vaudeville, where
he was half of a dance team
known as Sanford and Bolger.
Then 1t was on the Broadway
musical stage, where he en-
livened e host Of shows - 1.-THE
Merry World" "A Night in
Paris" Passing Show Of 1926"
Heads Up" George Whites
Scandals Of 1881" Life Be-
gins at 8:40," ION Your Toes, {"
"By Jupiter" Keep Off the
Grass" Three to Make
Ready" Where's Charley2"
He has added the lively Boil
ger touch to a number Of NOV
les, too, starting with 9Th e
Great Ziegfeld" in 1885, After
that he danced and clowned for
the camera in "Rosalie," THE
Wizard Of o." Sunny" -Four
Jacks and q JILL" THE Harvey
Girls" Look For the Silver
Lining" make Mine Laughs, {"
where's Charley?" and april
in Paris" He also delved into
television
. After all of this, a man has
to be an old pro, which is pre-
cisely what Ray Bolger is DEM
onstrating himself to be at the
Shoreham Terrace nightly this
week and next. This is, oddly
enough his first Washington
night club appearance and 1t
turns out to have been we'll
worth waiting for.
The vast reaches of the Ter
race are no problem for Mr..
Bolger. He establishes close
rapport with his audience the
moment he careens on stage
and he never loses it through
one Of the fastest disappearing
hours in memory. His blend Of
comedy. song and dance is
about as smooth as these things
ever get and a lot smoother
than most.
He starts out to sing Life
is Just a Bowl of Cherries"
quickly beaks it off to 60 into
his dance. He pauses to rem
iriisce about his beginnings in
show business and deny that
he was a born dancer. II was
born a baby"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-11

CoiuWH WIN Do IeSuWeu on neI
return.
forces with william Castle
who, next TO Alfred Hitchcock
perhaps, is the master Of muir
der, horror and suspense or
the screen. Their epic is titled
"Straightjacket." and an elabo-
rate curtain Of secrecy is being
drawn around the plot. Cast
and set workers have been eau
toned = half for publicity
half for dramatic effect or
ticket buyers not to divulge
any Of the plot goings-on, es-
pecially the surprise finale.
"All I can mention" says
Joan, SIS that I play a woman
scorned, but a woman scornec
so terribly that she doesn't take
1t sitting down."
Interesting cast members an
nounced is a trio of famous
actors sons - Henry Fonda:
Peter, Bob Mitchum's Jim anc
Tony Walker, the new-monick-
cred offspring Of controversial
T'V commentator Mike Wallace
ANITA'S SHARP-What well
might be the worlds most beau
tiful barber is welding a skill
full razor on a Warner Bros
stage this week.
The feminine tonsorial artist
is Anita Ekberg and her Gus
toner in the chair is a brave
Frank Sinatra. This surprising
twist comes in a scene for
-Four for Texas" and marks
the voluptuous Ekberg's first
American movie in six years.
The swedish ge1sha plays the
role of a servant so devoted to
Sinatra that she insists on CIV
ing him his daily shave - this
on the grounds that II his love
eventually waned, her tonsorial
skill might bring him back a.
running.
Since the films period =
Galveston of the 1870s-is long
before the day Of the safety OF
electric shaver, Miss Ekbere
uses a straight blade on the
precious throat of "Mr. Show
Business"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-11

House wing Of the Capitol.
Don't try this one. It is open
to Congressman only.
Library of Congress:
The Library of Congress
cafeteria. open from 8 am. to
1890 am. and II am. to 1880
pm, Monday through Friday.
For the first-time visitor. this
cafeteria is rather difficult to
find. Enter the back door of
the main building, take the
elevator to the cellar level and
you'll find 1t in the tunnel
area.
Supreme Court:
The Supreme Court cafeteria,
open from 1880 am. to 9:15
am. and from II am. to 2 pm,
Monday through Friday.
Due to typographical errors,
an added paragraph in the col
umn last week was all but I'M
readable. We therefore repeat:
We've found another excellent
entree on the menu at the Old
Europe Restaurant and Rath-
skeller. 2434 Wisconsin avenue
NV. - kalbssteak jaeger art,
q sauted veal steak topped with
imported German mushrooms.
It's one Of the more expensive
items $3.50 but worth every
cent Of it. Included are two
vegetables and bread and but
ter. Try 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-11
BY HARRY MACARTHUR

He contrasts Eddie Cantor's
rendition of IF You Knew
Susie" with his own delivery OF
the same song at the same
time in the vaudeville wilder
nesses. He brings up ION Your
Toes" to recall Slaughter on
Tenth Avenue" and There's q
Small Hotel" then demon
strates his dizziness at the old
soft shoe.
He has some fine dancing
fun with a number remember
ing the Charleston of 1926, the
Black Bottom Of 1929 c"That
was the year Of the bottom;
everything went black"), tn e
conga, the samba, the rumba
and that mixture Of the latter
three, the cha-cha-cha. He
delves into movie nostalgia for
a couple Of Wizard Of o.
numbers.
He even touches upon the
tragic with his story Of the
singer who spends years train
ing his voice, then starts to
sing something operate only
to have a ringsider yell, "Hey
Mac, sing Melancholy Baby"
Its especially funny If some
conventioneer has Just inter-
rupted Mr.. Bolger to demand,
Hey, sing once in Love With
Amy"
He has some further fun
with Muriel Landers. the round
est straight woman you ever
saw and he does a highly comic
burlesque of o strip-tease per-
formed by a Miss Lii st. Sin
cere.
Mr.. Bolger dances, too, and
memorahly, when the mood "a
upon him. He has one top
notch number pointing out how
previous dancers have affected
his style. He does Eddie Leon
ards soft shoe, Pat Rooney's
waltz clog and Jack Donahue's
eccentric dancing as well as
they ever did.
Eventually, Of course, he gets
around to Amy" and 1t seems
much too soon to end this ses-
sion with that comic rubber
face, those gangling legs and
that alert sense of fun. Mr..
Bolger is reasonable. talented
and q real smooth one, VIII o
could give showmanship lessons
to q lot Of upstart entertainers
who have only been around for
is or 20 years.
Il
CRAZY, MAN Herbie Banks,
who plays a listenable piano
moons and nightly at Buddy
Pappas' Silver Spur. decided he
was hungry the other evening
and the dialogue went some
thing like this:
Mr.. Banks: Boss, I think I'll
have a piece of that apple pie.
Mr.. Pappas: It's out.
Mr.. Banks: Solid, man. In
that case I'll have two pieces.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-11
HOLLYWOOD
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN
North American Newspaper Alliance

HOLLYWOOD. = Sinking to
the dramatic dregs not only
can be exhilirating but epidem-
ic-and Joan Crawford readily
admits 1t. 1t was her sheer de-
light in making What Ever
Happened to Baby Jane?" and
later sharing with co-star Bette
Davis in It's sensational box Of
flee returns, that prompted
Joan to come right back for
more of the macabre and the
bizarre.
Reporting next week at Co
lumbia Studio, Joan is joining