No.4 OF A SERIES TO GET YOU INTO THE MOOD!

RAPE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF LEUKIPPUS
by Peter Paul Rubens

FAMOUS
ABDUCTIONS

Mr. Leukippus must have loved his daugh-
ters deeply... so when
they were abducted
there was a big to-do
about it! The great
Rubens made a paint-
ing and the Leukippus
girls became famous.

We don't know whether the girls resisted ab-
duction but we do know seven other girls who
got used to the idea and liked it. You'll see them
struggle for a while in MGM's saucy, new
love-making musical movie (in CinemaScope
and Color).

"SEVEN BRIDES
FOR SEVEN BROTHERS"

You'll see the funniest six shot-gun
weddings ever staged by Cupid.

NOTE: This is the last of our series. We hope you're
in the mood for the freshest, friskiest musical movie
you ever saw.

You'll be carried away, too!

starring JANE POWELL • HOWARD KEEL • with Jeff Richards
Russ Tamblyn • Tommy Rall • Screen Play by Albert Hachett &
Frances Goodrich and Dorothy Kingeley • Based On the Story "The
Sobbin' Women" by Stephen Vincent Benet •Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Music by Gene de Paul • Choreography by Michael Kidd • Color by
Anco • Directed by Stanley Donen • Produced by Jack Cummings

COMING SOON • LOEW'S

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Second Runs

## Neighborhood Pick Is 'Woman's World'

By ALTON COOK.

Second thoughts on second
Runs—

"Woman's World," an ironic drama about the upper crust of business life, heads the week's movie newcomers in the neighborhood theaters. This is the story of cutthroat competition for a big job. The large cast of notables include Clifton Webb, Cornel Wilde, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Lauren Bacall and Fred MacMurray.

Another notable addition to the neighborhood movie list is "The Vanishing Prairie," the latest of Walt Disney's achievements in nature photography. This one is devoted to what is left of the once Wild West.

The best drama in town still is provided by "The Caine Mutiny," now nearing the end of its neighborhood tour. This one is full of Academy award prospects, particularly the performance of Humphrey Bogart as the hapless captain.

Mysteries have not come much better in recent years than "Rear Window," newest in the long line of Alfred Hitchcock's achievements as a director of excitement and suspense. This is told in Peeping Tom technique, a story seen through the eyes of James Stewart spying into the windows on an apartment house courtyard.

The other bundles of murder and violence worth attention just now are "Rogue Cop" and "Naked Alibi." The first of those brings on Robert Taylor in the best of the recent flood of crooked police stories. "Naked Alibi" follows Sterling Hayden along a rugged murder trail.

The musical movie supply is boosted by the arrival of "Brigadoon." The fantasy of this one is not altogether successful but

there are some lively moments in its comedy and Scotch dancing. Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse and Van Johnson are the stars.

Tops in musicals still is "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers." This offers dancing in a completely original style, sending some of Hollywood's best dance corps into rollicking bumpkin steps. Howard Keel and Jane Powell help with the singing and romance.

A quick check list, starting with the best your movie money can buy on neighborhood screens—

"The Caine Mutiny," "Rear Window", Seven Brides for Seven Brothers."

Better than some — "Beau Brummell", "The Bob Mathias Story", "Brigadoon", "Naked Alibi", "Rogue Cop", "The Vanishing Prairie", "Woman's World."

Today's Calendar

PHOENIX—"Sandhog," musical play by Earl Robinson and Waldo Salt, based upon Dreiser's short story about the building of the first Hudson Tunnel in 1874. Under the direction of Howard Da Silva. Cast includes Jack Cassidy, Alice Ghosley, David Brooks, Betty Oaks, others. Produced by the Phoenix Theater (Hamilton and Houghton), arranged with Rachel Productions.

Concerts.

CARNEGIE HALL—Michael Tree, violinist (8:30 p.m.).

BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC
—Jan Peerce, tenor (8:30 p.m.).

CARNEGIE RECITAL HALL—Classic String Quartet (8:30 p.m.).

Opera.

TOWN HALL—American Opera Society, Arnold U. Gamson, conducting orchestra and concert choir: "Otello," with Jennie Tourel, Thomas Hayward, Albert Da Costa, Carol Brice, Charles Anthony and others (8:30 p.m.).

Night Clubs.

CHEZ CARLO, 120 E. 40th St.—
Pianist Shura Devorine begins an engagement at the recently opened Chez Carlo.

Second Runs

'7 Brothers'
Romps Gaily
About Town

Second thoughts on second
runs—

"Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," possibly the most exuberant dance picture ever made, comes romping and prancing into neighborhood theaters this week. This one assembles a crew of highly trained and skilled dancers and has them turn the place into a frenzy of laughter as they lavish their talents on clodhopper hillbilly steps.

The dancing is as overwhelmingly good and in such unusual style, you almost forget to mention that the picture also is a mirthful comedy and an engaging romance. Included in the cast are Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Russ Tamblyn and Marc Platt.

On the same bill with "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" in many spots is "Go, Man, Go" in which the Harlem Globe Trotters are equally rampant with a basketball game. This is a simple sports success story lifted by the acrobatic and sleight of hand play of the Globe Trotters. Dane Clark works with the basketball stars.

One of the surprise pictures of the season is "The Raid," an incredible but mainly factual story of an almost forgotten Civil War episode. A band of Confederate renegades assembles in Canada and invades northern Vermont. Principal players are Van Heflin, Richard Boone and Anne Bancroft.

The familiar frontier settings are used by a couple of better than ordinary Westerns, "The Broken Lance" and "Three Hours to Kill." Spencer Tracy as a rugged, stubborn ranching pioneer distinguishes the first. Dana Andrews battles strenuously to clear his name in "Three Hours to Kill."

The biggest panoramic backgrounds around just now are seen in "King Richard and the Crusaders," in which knights in armor work overtime to keep an audience lively. This one has Laurence Harvey, Rex Harrison, George Sanders and Virginia Mayo.

A quick check list this week starts with "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," in a class by itself.

Better than some—"About Mrs. Leslie," "The Broken Lance," "Go, Man, Go" "Hell Below Zero," "Her Twelve Men," "King Richard and the Crusaders," "The Magnificent Obsession," "Private Hell 36," "The Raid," "Three Hours to Kill."

COOK

Woman's Home
Company

Still rubbing our wonderstruck eyes in de-
lighted disbelief, we make haste to tell you
that M-G-M's "Seven Brides for Seven
Brothers" starring Howard Keel and Jane
Powell is the merriest madcap musical ever
to careen across the screen! Perhaps you've
heard those phrases before, but this time
they're unquestionably true!

This CinemaScope dazzler in stunning
color is definitely the bounciest and the big-
gest musical to hit the screen in more ways
than fun! Against a sprawling, brawling
backwoods background, it sways to tingly
Johnny Mercer-Gene de Paul tunes like
"Bless Yore Beautiful Hide", "Goin' Co'tin"
and "Sobbin' Women". It rocks with the
rip-snortin'est, cavortin'est dancing Michael
("Bandwagon") Kidd ever staged. And in
addition to its principal luminaries, it shoots
twelve bright young new stars high into the
Hollywood heavens.

How they all prance and romance through
this tempestuous tale of kissin', courtin' and
kidnappin' based on a Stephen Vincent Benét
story. Howard Keel's virile voice is ideal
for powerful Adam Pontipee, who wrests a
bride from a town that keeps a respectful
distance from him and his six very red-
bearded, very red-blooded brothers. Jane
Powell blooms her loveliest as Milly, a vil-
lage girl who marries Adam at first sight.

When Milly learns she's not so much a
romantic bride for one man as a labor-saving
device for seven giants, when she schemes
to marry off her six superfluous "husbands",
when the sprightly "June Bride" ballet and
rollicking "Barn Raising" sequences back-
fire into a wholesale roof-raising, when Big
Brother Adam shames his kissless kin into
abducting their own village belles, when
snow avalanches thwart irate rescuers, when
winter turns to spring and love leads to a
wholesale "shotgun wedding" . . . when all
this hilarity happens, you'll be eternally
grateful to M-G-M for having taken the
magic of CinemaScope and making it all
possible. "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"
is so huge a helping of happiness everybody'll
be coming back for more!

M-G-M presents in CINEMASCOPE, Color
by ANSCO, "SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN
BROTHERS" starring JANE POWELL,
HOWARD KEEL with JEFF RICHARDS, RUSS
TAMBLYN, TOMMY RALL. Screen play by
Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich and
Dorothy Kingsley. Based on the Story "The
Sobbin' Women" by Stephen Vincent Benét.
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Music by Gene
de Paul. Choreography by Michael Kidd.
Directed by STANLEY DONEN. Produced by
JACK CUMMINGS.

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new films

HOW TO CATCH A WIFE OR SEVEN—SET TO MUSIC

SEVEN BRIDES FOR 7 BROTHERS—
(MGM) *Coming to Radio City Music Hall.* Stephen Vincent Benet's comic folksy fiction of multiple matrimony in Oregon in the 1850s has been reshaped into a big, bouncy, tuneful musical shin-dig. It's a cinematic barrel of fun—a large-scale CinemaScopic color romp, busting out all over the big screen with high spirits and young romancin', with great good humor, whistleable songs, live-ly lyrics, and an eye-popping screenful of high-speed acrobatic dancing. Any way you care to look at or listen to it, this "Seven Brides" is a full package of entertainment.

In its transposition from stage to screen, Benet's story "The Sobbin' Women" has had its somewhat ambiguous title and subtle humors stretched from the tongue-in-cheek folklore to the broader proportions more befitting a musical comedy. The rollicking tale of the seven pioneering backwoods brothers who went to town to shop for wives—along with flour, hardware, shoes and suchlike—is played strictly for laughs. Unable to make much of an impression on the timid womenfolk, the rough-hewn brothers dig deep into ancient history and come up with the classic example of larcenous wife-snatching—the ignoble trick played upon the Sabine women. This theme—a combination of kidnapping and compulsory matrimony set to music—has not, so far as I can recall, heretofore been used as the basis for song and dance, on stage or on screen.

In any case, the spirit is one of levity, and everybody seems to be having himself a good time. Howard Keel and Jane Powell, as the first of the septupular sequence of newlyweds, deliver solidly and satisfactorily. They are aided and abetted by an excellent cast of bounding, singing young people: among them, bridegrooms Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, Tommy Hall, and (doing double duty as dancers) Marc Platt and Jacques d'Amboise; and, among many blushing brides, Julie Newmeyer and Nancy Kilgas. Stanley Donen ("Singin' in the Rain") directed with a fine sense of style, speed and frolic. Much credit, however, should

go to choreographer Michael Kidd, for the superlative staging of the extraordinary solo and mass dancing numbers; and to Johnny Mercer and Gene de Paul, who wrote a generous songbagful of wonderful tunes—among them, "Bless Your Beautiful Hide," "Goin' Co'tin," "June Bride," "When You're in Love" and "Wonderful, Wonderful Day."

**DIAMOND WIZARD** — (United) *At the Palace*. In this somewhat less than breathless British melodrama, an American cop combines forces with Scotland Yard so that together they may track down the crooks who swiped $1,000,000 and are now on the trail of a "secret formula" that's going to turn sugar into diamonds—and diamonds into death. Everybody chases everybody else in this picture, whose main purpose seems to be to suggest that diamonds are not a girl's best friend—but cops are. Dennis O'Keefe and Philip Friend pursue their duty and Margaret Sheridan with equal zeal.

**MISCELLANY** — For the 17th year running, the Thalia Theatre people are putting on another of their celebrated Summer Film Festivals—presenting the most remarkable collection of motion picture classics ever assembled in one theatre for one continuing showing—from now through October 9th. The Festival includes 369 outstanding domestic and foreign films of the past 30 years, and each day's program consists of two of these films—many world prize winners. The Thalia presentations will richly reward a visit. The theatre is located on Broadway at 95th Street. —JESSE ZUNSER

BACKWOODSMAN Howard Keel says "I do" to Jane Powell, in scene from "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," at the Music Hall

CUE, JULY 17, 1954

PICTURE
of the Month

IN
CINEMASCOPE

This CinemaScope dazzler in stunning
color is definitely the bounciest and the
biggest musical to hit the screen in more
ways than fun! Against a sprawling,
brawling backwoods background, it sways
to tingly Johnny Mercer-Gene de Paul
tunes like "Bless Yore Beautiful Hide",
"Goin' Co'tin'" and "Sobbin' Women". It
rocks with the rip-snortin'est, cavortin'est
dancing Michael ("Bandwagon") Kidd
ever staged. And in addition to its prin-
cipal luminaries, it shoots twelve bright
young new stars high into the Hollywood
heavens.

How they all prance and romance
through this tempestuous tale of kissin',
courtin' and kidnappin' based on a Stephen
Vincent Benét story. Howard Keel's virile
voice is ideal for powerful Adam Pontipee,
who wrests a bride from a town that keeps
a respectful distance from him and his six
very red-bearded, very red-blooded broth-
ers. Jane Powell blooms her loveliest as
Milly, a village girl who marries Adam at
first sight.

When Milly learns she's not so much a
romantic bride for one man as a labor-
saving device for seven giants, when she
schemes to marry off her six superfluous
"husbands", when the sprightly "June
Bride" ballet and rollicking "Barn Rais-
ing" sequences backfire into a wholesale
roof-raising, when Big Brother Adam
shames his kissless kin into abducting
their own village belles, when snow ava-
lanches thwart irate rescuers, when winter
turns to spring and love leads to a whole-
sale "shotgun wedding"... when all this
hilarity happens, you'll be eternally grate-
ful to M-G-M for having taken the magic
of CinemaScope and making it all pos-
sible. "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"
is so huge a helping of happiness every-
body'll be coming back for more!

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COSMOPOLITAN

NP

S. U. B.

(n. Bristled)

GREAT NEWS FOR
RICHMOND!

This city has been chosen to
play the year's most celebrated Musical
simultaneous with its sensational
engagement at New York's famous
RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
where it is breaking all records in the 21½
year history of that theatre! That means
it's a bigger hit than SHOW BOAT, MOGAMBO,
and KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE or any
other picture, for that matter.

Yes, we're proud to bring our
patrons M-G-M's great

IN CINEMASCOPE and BLUSHING COLOR!

M-G-M Presents in Color and CinemaScope • SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS
starring Jane Powell • Howard Keel • with Jeff Richards • Russ Tamblyn • Tommy Roll
Screen Play by Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich and Dorothy Kingsley • Based On the
Story "The Sobbin' Women" by Stephen Vincent Benet •Lyrics by Johnny Mercer • Music by
Gene de Paul • Choreography by Michael Kidd • Color by Ansco
Directed by Stanley Donen • Produced by Jack Cummings

COMING SOON

LOEW'S THEATRE