Amusements, Pages G-l-3 Radio, Page G-5 Music, Art, Page G-4 Features, Page G-6 G TEEN, After Page G-4 (Die Sunday Books, Page G-7 EIGHT PAGES WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 19, 1959 BROADWAY . TODAY'S SCHEDULES STAGE Theater ARENA—"The Lady's Not For Burning,” Christopher Fry’s vesse comedy; 7:30 pjn. SCREEN Gets New AMBASBADOR—"AIias Jesse James,” Bob Hope in the old West; 1:30, 3:15. 5:20. 7:25 and 9:35 pm. Sensation CAPrrOL— "Some Like It Hot.” vastly funny roaring *2os comedy: 1:20. 3no. 5:20. 7:35 and 9:40 p.m. By WILLIAM GLOVER COLUMBIA—"Shaggy Dog,” whimsical fable (live) by Walt Amarlkttd Prc*» Wrltfr Disney: 1:20, 3:25. 5:30. 7:35 and 9:45 p.m. NEW YORK—HaI Hol- DUPONT—"The Bolshoi Ballet,” the Moscow troupe’s brook is Broadway's new “Giselle,” and other items, in color: 1, 2:50, 4:35, 6:25, overnight sensation. 8:10 and 9:55 p.m. , Unknown and unheralded, KElTH'S—“lmitation of Life,” Lana Turner in a flve- the 34-year-old actor took soap opera; 5:35, 7:45 and handkerchlef 1:15. 3:25. the town by stepping onstage 9:55 p.m. the other evening in MacARTHUR—"The Circle,” polished British mystery a solo Tonight!” drama: 2:35. 4:25. 6:10, 8 and 9:50 p.m. show “Mark Twain James," Bob Hope in the at a little off -Broadway METROPOLITAN—“AIias Jesse / V ' '''V old West; 1:30, 3:05, 4:40, 6:25, 8:05 and 9:50 p.m. theater. n 1 */( / \_zi?'V'' / '' \ / ><_x / / ONTARIO—"The Sound and the Fury," life down South G*\3/ 'V\/ I The critics went wild. as seen by Faulkner; 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Ever since, 6-foot Hal has been swamped by the PALACE—“Green Mansions,” Audrey Hepburn as W. H. pi/. / < Jack- ; \ j\\ \ flood Hudson's South American jungle girl; 1:15, 3:20, 5:25. (sy X/’, / \I lVi 1 iri\MV pot of attention and 7:30 and 9:40 p.m. \JS>A A offers that accompany sud- den lime-light. PLAYHOUSE—“StaIag 17,” drama in a World War IIGer- \ H still trying to get man POW camp; 1:15. 5:25 and 9:35 p.m. Vlf "I’m my stomach back Passion," dully marshes; / \ / Yir>-// noteworthy non- hill out by reading as much as I the most ahead tells a whole story in political visitor. Mr. Braine could and putting little bits an instant that w-ould require together,” British, whose \ of information he is a writer, pages in a book.” A Onˆ7 says. first published novel, “Room So far Mr. Braine was Hal had Twain thrust upon at the Top,” established him sounding very little like one him in his senior year at immediately by becoming a of England's “angry young Denison University, Gran- sizzling and. controversial men,” though the label has ville, Ohio, in 1946, when the best-seller. been pinned on him. He is head of the drama depart- This is not what makes a man of definite and out- ment arranged a 30-week Mr. Braine a noteworthy spoken opinions on a variety tour for Holbrook and his visitor, however. He achieves of things from, among others, wife in a program of drama- this distinction by being movie-making to writing to tic readings. That such program was something of a rarity, a nov- politics to international prob- OUT WHERE MEN ARE MEN AND GIRLS ARE ALL GIRL a elist who is delighted with lems to acting to ice water. non-existent at the moment by the motion picture made (Ice water curdles the in- Bob Hope, six guns slung low, impersonates Jesse James to the lush saloon songstress In the spoof of outdoor adventure was rectified the mentor from his novel. It bears the sides and should be the considerable consternation of Jesse himself, played by yarns at the Metropolitan and Ambassador Theaters. The who made the entreprise into never graduation project. same title as the book and in meals, for, Wendell Corey, in “Alias Jesse James.” Rhonda Fleming is comedy was directed by Norman Z. McLeod. a honors taken with which Doing Shakespeare, Moliere Mr. Braine's mind this is an the only fitting accom- liquid and Twain, the young couple important thing. paniment the said, “I is proper made the tour. Their first “You know,” he wine.) understand the stupid- show'was in the mental ward can t disagreeable ity movie producers who Mr. Braine, for all his man. Just a of a Veterans Administration of readily views, spend all those dollars for a voiced refuses young man.” HOLLYWOOD hospital, after which they to “angry book that has been read sit still for that Top,” performed for service clubs, young man” title, however. With “Room at the and liked by thousands of disposed of for the moment. schools and small-town or people, then promptly change “Joe Lampton,” he said ganizations over a wide sec- of the central figure of Mr. Braine was asked the the title. of his nov?l. Was tion of the country. Top,” status next Tut-Tut, Lana, Otto Never Shouts “Room at the “isn’t he now working on it, or Faithful Adaptation irate at the shabby way the Knows Hard Work about to work on it? By SHEIEAH GRAHAM very in world is run. He's just a poor (North American Newspaper Alliance) “Sometimes in a week we’d •‘I was fortunate boy gotten “As a matter of fact,” he dealing with the Woolf who hasn’t his HOLLYWOOD.—“I don’t do 12 performances and yet and means to get it.” answered, “I gave it to my brothers (John and James. publishers London just want to say anything against travel 1,000 miles,” says Hol- making in British producers) in Disagreeable, Yes before I left to make this Lana Turner,” said director brook who feels the experi- Top.’ They good •Room at the trip.” An expression of mock Otto Preminger, with the ence will stand him in the The luncheon as to really were faithful to conversa- alarm came over his face. semblance of a smile. “This stead he settles down book." (It’s scheduled for tion turned to other things girl long run here. “I'm used to just has had a lot of trouble the Ontario Theater in the and somebody made a cogent “I realized I hadn’t and I don’t want to hurt her. hard work.” near future.) observation about something heard from them since. But, fairness my pic- The Holbrooks continued on Maybe they’ve turned it in to “If they had suggested or other. ture, ‘Anatomy of a Murder,’ the road for several seasons, changing the title, though. I “I disagree . . Mr. down.” I would like to tell you why until about five years ago should have said, ‘Let’s chuck Braine prefaced his retort, The thought so shook him Lana is no longer the leading when they decided to raise a the whole deal.’ Because I and not for the first time that, to guard against cur- lady. family. Now they have two know anybody who would that day. “You see,” he went dled insides, he poured an- “Lana says I shouted at children. suggest that wouldn’t have on, “I’m not an angry young other glass of bordeaux. her when she refused to wear Hal began, somewhat re- brains enough to make a the dress I had picked for luctantly, to transform the good motion picture. her. I never ’shout’ at any- act into a solo performance. “I'm an artist. I don’t one. That is not the way I Also gradually, he began to need the money. Oh, money operate. But I must be the concentrate more and more is very nice and I know I boss—l never have allowed upon Twain’s material. can't buy a bag of groceries an actor or an actress to tell “He was a complex and and pay off the grocer in me what to do. I am not dif- wonderful man, blessed with artistic integrity. But I don’t ficult—even Frank Sinatra, a sense of humor that en- need the money on those whom I directed in ‘The abled him to comment on terms. Man With the Golden Arm,’ many things." says Holbrook. "You know how Hemingway will tell you that.” “But underneath there Is al- ’ ways real substance and sells a novel, don't you?” Mr. Calm Was Ruffled l¦ 5 went on. "When he meaning.” Braine However, l’affaire Lana did perform- sells story to the movies, AND FRIENDS—Otto Preminger poses with a couple of He burnished his a ruffle Preminger’s usual PRODUCER Village gets a with a copy ance in a Greenwich he in car calmness. people important to his next movie, “Anatomy of a Murder”—Lee lengthening of the book in New York night club, it “I’m supposed to have Remick, who has taken the role originally set for Lana Turner, and gradually 15 and starts driving West. The from minutes to shouted at her,” said Otto. Attorney Joseph N. Welch. The famed figure of Senator McCarthy’s war its present two-hour size. He producer gets in an auto- “Yet there were six people in is playing a judge in the picture. with with the Army has taken it on one-night mobile in Hollywood a w\ fir t v,-^ p ;|y, the room at the time who big bag of dollars and starts stands all over the continent. didn’t even hear our conver- "I have about five hours driving East. Somewhere in very simple Remick, Ben Gazzara, Eve •we wouldn't have had close- tion of “St. Joan” in which sation It's a of I only middle of the country spoiled. She Arthur ups at all." newcomer Jean Seberg was material now. but the thing. Lana is Arden. O’Connell. j keep three hours of fresh they meet bumper to bumper, went to Jerry Wald lawyer Preminger will make one starred. “I gave my con- it see a Kathryn Grant and Columbia — ’ mind,” and Hemingway throws the before he started ‘Pey- more movie this year—either tract with her to in he discloses. "When week Joseph Welch. right i want the other book to the producer, who ll '% mi ton Place’ and told him. ‘I "Bunny Lake Is Missing" or with the to use Jean in I material I “I’m filming all of my pic- picture year. have to go back and brush throws him the big bag of won’t go on location.’ ‘All “The Other Side of the Coin" one a Am I tures on location,” said Otto, sorry up.” they & right,’ Jerry, ‘we ll send by Pierre Boulle. The first I took a chance on Jean dollars. Then turn said who recently took time from The process of selecting around and speed back to PiBl! J 4^. a double instead.’ I would would be filmed in New York for such a difficult role? No, his own company to direct Sure, has been the most arduous where they came from as fast never have allowed that. City, the second in Malaya. and I don't think she is. "Porgy and Bess" for Sam she received bad notices—but, task. He estimates that 98 as they can.” Then, she wanted Jean Louis Goidwyn. ‘Porgy,’ “I will do ‘Exodus’ in Israel "For I used if she hadn’t been in the pic- i per cent of the lines he uses to design her clothes for our technique directing. next year.” said Otto. “I A Visual Writer a new in ture, she would have had no | on stage are pure Twain, the picture. But Jean Louis de- The film is in big screen have no cast for these. I signs glamor clothes, and don’t sign actors until I have notices at all! She’d still be balance brief transitional The British writer inti- Todd-AO and I don’t use one daughter of bridges he has devised. that he couldn't desert Lana was to play the wife of close-up throughout the pic- a completed script." the unknown a mated officer living in a druggist in Marshalltown, a Braine-child of his in this an Army ture will run 2 Starting with “The Moon selected which lowa.” . cavalier manner. So any trailer camp. I the hours and 10 minutes. If Is Blue,” Preminger's com- movie-maker dealing with costume—a Western. the bfg screen had been in- pany has made millions on Preminger came to Holly- before the close-up. each film—with the excep- wood in 1936—“1 did a play, him in the future may as well She Wanted to Help vented be prepared to hew to Mr. ’Libel.’ on Broadway for Gil- Braine's story line. “Lana loved the part, but bert Miller in 1935: I was an It should not be difficult didn't like the costume. She actor in Vienna at the ripe 20; a I for, as he says, “I’m a visual was an hour and a half late age of then I became COMING ATTRACTIONS in writer as a novelist has to reporting to wardrobe, director. I have acted be. The novel, you know, is looked at the dress, and said. STAGE this country, but have played much adaptable a ’This is old- fashioned; I only five parts. The last time more to ARENA—“Epitaph George Dillon”; starting May 5. j movie than a play is. won’t wear it.’ ‘You’re not For I acted was for Billy Wilder "I'm sure you’ve heard the supposed to be glamorous.' in ‘Stalag 17.' With all my SCREEN my I definition of the difference: I reminded her. ’I know, but plans for company, A well-written play can be I'd like to help you,’ she told AMBASSADOR —“Lonelyhearts,” Montgomery Clift; start- j doubt whether I'll have much again." enjoyed by someone who me. I told her. ‘I don't need ing April 29. chance to act can t see it and a help.' and explained that I CAPITOL—“Warlock,” Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn. Recently divorced and pay- well-made ing alimony six figures. movie can be enjoyed by treat extras and stars in * *** COLUMBlA—“Compulsion,'' Diane Varsi. **** * everyone—the Not too depressed somebody who can't it. j same. Otto didn’t look hear wanting any sug- DUPONT—“TaIes of Hoffman,” Moira Shearer. life, “In 'Room at the Top’ I trouble I about marital or other- gested Hayward. think (Director to Lana's agent that, KElTH’S—"Thunder in the Sun.” Susan wise. Jack Jack any- Clayton) did excellent NEW AND RENEWED if she wanted to leave the MacARTHUR—”He Who Must Die”; starting Thursday. "I’m not sorry about some cast, She things using she could. took ad- rROPOLITAN "Lonelyhearts,” Montgomery Clift; thing." he assured me. He the camera in- vantage ME stead of words. A great deal A considerable span of movie history is repre- of the offer. I ex- starting April 29. lives in New York, where he pect the part to make a big office, to of the dialogue is lifted right sented by these two players in "The Horse ONTARIO—“Room at the Top,” Laurence Harvey: starting has his and comes star of Lee Remick." Hollywood only for movie out of the book, but Soldiers.” Connie Towers is a night club Thursday. a MODEL Ava time Preminger is currently in assignment. He believes that Gardner after time he uses no words singer making her feature film debut as the PALACE—”AI Capone.” Rod Steiger. plays of Alba, Ishpeming, Mich , filming his Hollywood, with the coming the Duchess at all no Civil War PLAYHOUSE—“The Naked Maja.” Ava Gardner; start- because words are drama's feminine star. The fellow movie version of the Robert of pay television, will more who posed ior did she?) needed. giving her ing Tuesday. be the lesson in lassoing is Hoot Travers’ best seller which prosperous than ever before. for that famous Francisco Gibson, years for PLAZA—“The Crucible.” Mylene Demongeot. "You can do so much with now 64. who came out of of he paid $350,000 profit come,” j Goya picture in “The glance, and a TOWN—"That Naughty Girl," Brigitte Bardot, starting “It will concluded a a shrug, a gesture. retirement in Nevada to appear pic- percentage. • stop Naked Maja,'’ in the And more for his • Otto. "You can't starting _ Wednesday. r And that last scene, where ture.—Wide World Photo. cast —Jimmy Stewart, Miss progress.” 1 Tuesday at the Playhouse.