A-22 THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 4, 1953 Wayne Film Marilyn Here as Lorelei; \ %li fj * greatest 88-• At Warner CARTER BARRON vCL TECHNICOLOR MUSICAL the 7 THIATIR UNDIR THI STARS / \ since its famed hit "An American In Paris"! fßfsF Lana Has Heiress Problem 'lsland in Sky 14th S Col. Avo. NW. Rock Crook Pork By Jay Carmody Tells of Search & i ' Hi For Lost Plane jljre LAST 3 TIMES! •gentlemen prefer blondes, | “LATIN LOVERS.” a Metro-Goldwyn- Rodrart *Rionontili’i Msyer picture, produced by HPHpK.. Jji Fsboloas Maslool * 20th Centurv-Fox picture, produced Joe Paster- “ISLAND IN THE SKY.” * Warner by Sol C. Siegal. directed by Howard nak. directed by Mervyn Leßoy, Brothers picture, produced by Wayne- Hawks, screenplay by Charles Lederer, screenplay by Isobel. Lennart. At the Fellows. directed bo William A. Wellman, musical comedy by Joseph Capitol. screenplay by based on the lyrics Caat. Ernest K. Gann from his Fields and Anita Loos, music and The novel of the same title. At the Ambas- B ’•*** by Jule Styne and Leo Robin, choreog- Nora Taylor Lana Turner sador and the Warner. B^JI, JL B?* fjj/HM by Columbia raphy Jack Cole. At the Roberto Santos . _ Ricardo Montalban Paul Chevron John Lund The Cast. Fred CydCharisse The Cast. Astaire Grandfather Santos _ Louis Calhern Dooley John Wayne Hagen Lloyd Dorothy Jane Russel Anne Kellwood Jean Stutz Nolan hIHHT • • . Monroe Dr. Newman Fran* jH Lorelei Marilyn Lionel Y. Eduard Col. Fuller __ Walter Abel ..: OSCAIt LEVAW NANETTE FABMY U0( BUEHMUM Sir Francis Charles Coburn Woman Analyst Baulah Bondi James Arness Beekman Elliott Zeca Joaquin Garay McMullen Malone _ Reid Moon Andy Devine Gus Ehmond Tommy Noonan Howard G. Hubbell Archer MacDonald J H. Handy Allyn Joslyn Stirring Henry RpofTord. 11l George Winslow Mrs Newman Dorothy Neumann Murray James Lydon - Richard Essthase ? Martha Emtio Magistrate .... Marcel Dalio Mr Cumberly Robert Burton Harry Carey, jr. . Hunt Esmond, s. Taylor Holmes Christina ... Rita Moreno Stankovskl Hal Baylor ¦moot MoChooaor ? Dorothea STARTING SATURDAY, SEPT. 5 Lady Beekman Norma Varden Lovatt Sean MoClory MacFerlaad * Now York Cast at IMI Watson Howard Wendell Only those who have suffered D’Annunzla Wally Cassell Manager Oeray MATINEES DAILY, 1 P.M. CONT. Hotel . Steven Walrus Gordon Jones Seats Now—Call Grotler _ Henri Letondal the agony of having 37 million Capt. Turner Frank Fenton Phillips Leo Mostovoy Maj. Dltson Robert Keys TU. 2-4436 ST. S-434S AIR CONDITIONED, AND AMPLE FREE PARKING Pritchard Alex Frazer dollars can know what it is really Lt. Cord Sumner Getchell PARKING OP Cab Driver George Davis Sergt. Harper Regis Toomey FRII AT REAR THEATRE . - Alphonse Mertell Miller Paul Fix Headwalter Dancers, like. CAPITAL TRANSIT S-2 BUMS Boy ..... Gidley Colored Jim Duean : - -' x' Jimmie and Freddie Moultrie This is the thought which kept Rene George Chandler Ivory Nlto. lasi. Sam.. S:4S HISER THEATRE, BETHESDA _ Heydt Gendarmes. _ _ Dee, Fitch Louis Jean Jean De Briac. George running through Wilson Bob Steele Peter Camlin one mind which Darryl Harry Carey. Jr. Swanson Hickman Winslow yesterday Gainer Touch Connors Ship s Captain Jean Del Val observed Lana Turner Hopper Carl Switzer Peters Ray Montgomery girl Stannish Cass Gidley Anderson Alvy Moore trying to act like a with Breezy Guy Anderson Evans Robert Nichols Ogden Tony DeMario Ed Charles Tannen that much money. Miss Turner, Stevens Jimmy Young Purser Charles De Ravenne dressed in a wardrobe that cost By Ann Moffett Coach John Close Elms William Cabanne probably 30 million dollars, The strange love affair of Steward' Philip Sylvestre INAUGURATING Proprietor Jack Chefe seemed completely lost. flyers and the air is the theme Athlete John Hedloe Pierre Alfred Pa i x So for that matter did Isobel of “Island In the Sky,” now on Court Max Wtllenz Clerk Sedan MW WIDE Waiter Rolfe script, VISION Lennart, who wrote the the screens at the Warner and in Passport Officials. , j HERE AT LAST—Marilyn Monroe, who stars “Gentlemen Robert Foulk. Ralph Peters , and Marvyn Leßoy who directed Ambassador. Prefer Blonds,” opening today at the Columbia. The musical PANORAMIC The preferred blonds in the ! : “Latin Lovers,” the Techni- The film is introduced with was delayed by “Stalag 17” which ran for eight hit weeks SCREEN^ screen’s “Gentlemen Pref er j jcolored romantic comedy now at a narrative explaining that at the theater. Blonds” now at the Columbia | the Capitol. there is a kind of man who falls models, not in love with flying and after- intense and overburdened with AMUSEMENTS. Theater, are 1953 The moral of the picture wards his life consists, reality, might very well be that it is in those who amused a whole gen- only In the sky. cliches. world wars. ridiculous to have 37 million fellow actors eration between two The drama itself tells the Wayne and his one surely dollars but even this is not suf- They are, as every j story of an Air Transport plane do a good piece of work on their by now, Marilyn Monroe ficiently clear for a reviewer to TONITE AT 8:40 knows that has gone down somewhere portrayals: Wayne’s, in fact, is Tommy Bront present! and Jane -Russell whose resem- guarantee it. most likely was in the uncharted regions of quite LEON JANNEY to anything that ever ex- What In sincere. (In blance Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s mind, Labrador and of the search for person) In isted before is more hotly denied lt by all the other planes. Army On the whole, the film is en- "THE SHOW-OFF" by Hollywood than the charge of course, was that It would make tertaining and beyond that, in Oto. Kelly's Comedy oI the and civilian, in that region. Roaring 20’sl _ of Communism. some money—not 37 millions, oft half of the scenes it Is snowing. 51.90-I.BA-5.40 J*. 8-8811 course—by teaming Miss Turner "There is a rich suspense created Coming: Ettollo Wlnwood In This casting necessitated rath- Spirit” and Ricardo Montalban. This as the camera switches back and “Blitho er ruthless changes In the musi- forth between the men on the AMUSEMENTS. could be sound business judg- cal which Carol Channing made ground beside the crashed plane Into a national institution. It ment, whatever It lacks of ar- and the organization and carry- Is that may be tistic merit. WI H A an alteration change ing out of the search. f fll | resented by those who saw Miss It will not, however, n that two minor char- The rescuing aviators continue cv l are ~f their Channing but not by those who the truth five-day search acters In “Latin Lovers” are ac- their relentless are susceptible to the appeal Dooley, played .. tually most figures. not because Pilot X(7 fascination of the Misses Monroe and Rus- its dramatic by John Wayne, is the greatest sell. Indeed, the latter truth One of these is Louis Calhern, Holmes man in the world or their best has been so amply demonstrated back in his old Justice friend, but simply because he is the musical make-up, but portraying this by the success of one of them. 20« h Century-Fox presents that the contrary argument is time an elderly Brazilian roue. A. Wellman funny, in an off- Director William merely 1 academic. This is rather has done a superb job of tying * way. // | SILVER SPRING PLAZA ** * hand Funnier still Is a the plot together, not if Roth’s Roth's RUSSELL' I GEORGIA AVE AUMIJt AT JANE MONROE whole an NEW YORK AVC 14 MARILYN plays 0 This “Gentlemen Prefer cadaverous actress who easy task in view of the story’s J Blonds,” whatever its defects. I the fanged wife of a psychiatrist, range. Is the perfect showcase for its a type who sits around telling The drama does have its saggy HUMPHREY THE MIGHTiESIBPBE^P^RPB^™IPW representatives of Lorelei Lee his rich, fashionable patients to moments from being too melo- and her bosom companion, Dor- let themselves go. dramatic and it might have been othy. They are. as were the “Why don’t you ever tell me better if Director Wellman had bogmu^Kwm- originals but in a less artful way, that?” the wife wants to know. used his camera more forcefully KATHARINE || J J | girls who are both pursuers and “Latin Lovers” as befits a and his actors in a more subdued pursued and their habits are picture starring Miss Turner fashion. ToSftnHBBBEIEIyEEHIIH such as might have changed with $37 million, is lushly pro- The dialogue and story are by the percentages in Lr. Kinsey's duced. It pokes its cameras into Ernest K. Gann, who 'has laced T lovely, far-away landscape production with enough hu- STARTS TODAY ( Roth’. LITTLE latest book. the the titSHUT tITWKN PAG A— Miss Monroe, naturally, is Lo- of Brazil, meticulously cropped mor to keep it from being too relei. a girl endowed with an polo fields, breeding farms where enormous talent for gpld-dig- even horses live like Aly Kahn, ging. In this, she is not handi- and hotels so splendid they would capped as was Miss Channing make a Prince feel furtive. by any such old-fashioned garb An incidentally dramatic as- orig- UUII IK as that in the period of the pect of the film at the Capitol is inal book, the early 20s. On the that it was produced by Joseph |**H T that I contrary, her wardrobe and Pasternak. Pasternak, you will lanaturner “¦““lUUIlil of her business partner. Miss remember, is the man daringly who made Russell, are advanced a career of Cinderella-type where both have to the point movies starring Deanna Durbin. freedom for their remarkable Jane Powell, and others of the work. shining young. ** * * ' It is interesting that MGM Miss Monroe's Lorelei is by no now regards as enough robustly funny girl him old means the | Ito produce a Lana Turner Miss Channing made her. Under | Hawkes’ tute- picture. Director Howard I j ** * * comedi- lage, she is more of a Entering the twilight may have of its enne than any one | years as a stage show house, the but not enough to suspected, Capitol on this with represent the wide-eyed huntress carries week could play with such a lively sort of program. It is who dumb headed by Comedian Don Cum- wisdom. The sugges- Eve-like the singing tion her performance is that mings and New of Bobby Sheldon and Miss Monroe is more familiar | j Yorkers, also with the role of quarry than that ! June Burnett and Roberto and of hunter. Alicia. Miss Russell, however, as the less predatory partner of Lore- Olympic team, relaxed in her of a virile an- lei Is much more other represented by Charles performance. Coburn as a vetern philanderer The general outline of the i Dorothy Fields book who can afford tiaras. Herbert and : ¦MBhI • •-'.?% wB for the musical is followed in The conversational candor ¦- ‘ the screen’s “Gentlemen Prefer with which the stage could ap- ugi K H Blonds.” Its dominant setting proach these relationships be- .^ellllfllsli! still is an ocean liner bound for tween the boat passengers is not France, on which the two girls possible in the film, of course. are given spectacular opportu- Its absence, however, results in nity to attract vulnerable males, not the slightest confusion as i just everyone One group of these is composed | to what is up to. Musically, the original score is followed in all vital respects Where and When with a few necessary changes in Current Theater Attractions the lyrics of the show’s unfor- Time of Showing gettable tunes. The frankness And with which Miss Channing was Stage. free to sing of a Little Rock. Ark., the Phoenix Too Fre- j ; adolescence is not possible on Arena—“A ! screen. As a matter of fact, the quent” and "The Happy Jour- : j song has been revised to cover ney”: 8:30 p.m. Girls from Little Baron Amphitheater—- | “Two Little Carter | Rock,” which is a reasonable “Carousel”; 8:45 p.m. Olney—“Red Sky At Morn- | j substitute. happened “Dia- ring”; 8:40 p.m. Less has to I monds Are a Girl’s Best Friend,” Screen. one of the period’s most pro- Ambassador “lsland in the found ballads, and to the other Sky”; 1:10, 3:15, 5:20, 7:30 and tunes in the score. 9:35 pm. is “Gentlemen 11 It not the old Capitol "Latin Lovers ”; Prefer Blonds,” but its success to a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 and 10 p.m. date indicates that not many Stage: 12:55. 3:40, 6:25 and moviegoers care. 9:10 p.m. Prefer Columbia—“Gentlemen 7 Blonds”; 10:45 a.m., 12:35. 2:30, 'Carousel Holds 4:25, 6:20, 8:15 and 10:05 p.m. j Dupont—"The Moon Is Blue’ ; Third Week Here and 12 1. 3:10, 5:20, 7:30. 9:45 "Carousel” will remain a p.m. third week at Carter Barron Keith’s "Devil's Canyon”; 4:50, amphitheater in Rock Creek 11:15 a.m., 1:05. 2:55. 6:40. Park. 8:35 and 10:25 p.m belated announce- Little—"The African Queen”; This p.m. ment of the holdover is 6:05. 7:55 and 9:50 i today by Producer MacArthur—“Mr. Potts Goes made 8 and 9:50 Constance Bennett, who has to Moscow”: 6:15, summer’s really p.m. found the “Abbott and stupendous success in the Metropolitan Rodgers-Hammerstein Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. am., 1. 2:40, 4:30. adaptation of “Liliom.” Hyde”; 11:15 The 6:20, 9:55 p.m. production, unani- 8:05 and mously by Ontario —“Sailor of the King”; praised the crit- 2:45, 6:20. 8:05 and ics and rhapsodically re- 1. 4:30. ceived by the is the 9:55 p.m. public, Palace—“lnferno”; 11:40 a.m., summer theater’s second 5:50, 7:50 and 9:50 triumphant holdover in the 1:45. 3:45. other the p.m. area. The was “The Lady’s Playhouse “The Moon Is , four weeks of Burning” at Olney. Blue": H a.m.. 12:55. 3:05. 5:20 Not for will be change A" 9 45 and p.m. There one by 7:30. 12 Oiroctod by Produced by Screenplay Based upon the book by . conducted the of of Photojraphy Music composed and r , Manner* Plaza Seven Deadly Sins"; in cast “Carousel.” Director • ikiiTrn* • • • . aspen artists the replacement of Richard james hoch, «.s c. oimuri tiomkw picture united — 11 a.m.. 1:15. 3:30. 5:45, 8:05 and MARK ROBSOM THERON WARTH Charles kaufman a. michener wotn c | 10:25 pm Eastham by Stephen Doug- Silver Spring “The Seven i las in the role of Billy Bige- Deadly Sins”: 1:40, 3:50, 6:05, low. Douglas sang the part 8:15 and 10:35 p.m. for a year in the original Trans-Lux “From Here to> London production of “Ca- Eternity"; 10:45 a.m., 1, 3:15, , rousel.” TO gn\»SwJ^PAL 7:40, 10 p.m. Marthe Errolle, the sum- 6:25. and 12:10 a.m. * * season’s top • • ACE musical Warner “lsland in the Sky”: mer Today • Ryan Rhonda Fleming William Lundigan 3«P INFERNO ..TECHNICOLOR 11:15 a,m., 1:20, 3:25, 5:30, 7:40 ) star, will remain as Julie. End PALACE Robert *nd 9:50 p.m.