I Venus.” Bob realizes rest apparently on his yacht, he goes to work Again.” He didn’t know will that Sings it, be settled out of court, you can his career can’t be played with for Goldwyn in then to but his “Secrets,” wife, Betty Garrett, stand- start betting now. The case is any longer. When I saw him lunch- 20th for sup- Century-Pox “Slattery’s ing just out of eyesight, was imitat- to come into court the ing at Romanoff’s he told posed 25th : yesterday, Hurricane.” ing Larry imitating Jolson. In the Roots’ me he to a (See A-21J Colored Tale reports Metro in week will make a GRAHAM7Page 'Tap Jimmy Cagney hand- next picture, Betty may play Jolson. Highly Joan’s or so for Return “Ready for Romance.” some profit if he sells his “Only the The Wallace Beery suit * * * * paternity AMUSEMENTS Valiant' to Paramount—they want Of Passion in the To Metro Lot John Old South Garfield is doing the old it for . Jimmy paid $50,- AMUSEMENTS Is Foreseen bicycle act between Columbia’s 000 for the Charles Marquis Warren By Jay Carmody Sketch” and "Rough Metro-Enter- best-seller. Paramount, so I hear, CAROLINA Producer prise’s ‘‘Force of Waiter Wanger never will qualify as one of the great By Sheilah Graham Evil,” where John has offered Jimmy double. By the 11th and N. Carolina Are. 6.E. is a LI. teachers of American history, but can he make it look in Techni- ding trailer for the picture. way, what to 4469—Air Conditioned—LI. 4471 lively Joan Crawford is returning to happened Cagney’s Adm., Mats.. 85c; Nites, 95c (tax Incl). color! No one has a more Elizabeth Scott received a St. 14th t H M.W. » Nnwtla A Rhtrta gaudily dramatic sense of what a people we Metro! I heard that Joan is having independent picture plans? Vou Be Sure of a Seat in medal set with Buy Tickets in Advance are—nobly anarchial politics, splendid in love, and incredible in war. confabs with Louis B. Christopher’s rubies don't hear a peep about them any REDS THREATEN U.N. WALKOUT quiet Mayer WarM tarlM Santa: TRU. MAIL ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY Give Wanger the mere hint of a historic incident for her birthday. From whom? more. T«a Faathall; Now involving these and Dore Schary, who want her to MAN IN PHILADELPHIA; Bahama ■_ Playina American and he will make it a Lizzie isn't talking but I am. Her * * * * Alrllaa Raatut: Dlanty'a "3 virtues, into movie which he intends make her schoolteacher story, "Miss Llttla Plat”: very much undercover “Traa at Waatth." a shall knock ycur eye out. O'Brien,” for Leo the lion. Mr. beau is New Larry Parks was rehearsing "Is TAP ROOTS.' a — Latest of zest Unlvfr*»l-Intfrn»tionsl York-Hollywood socialite Stass It True What WMAL Ntwacaata • Lait (ha* 13:41 Ywtll L«u«K Cr. specimen Wanger's Picture of Walter Wanter has had a soft They Say About production, pro- Mayer always spot Reed. m4 bitil for probing our past is “Tap Roots," duced and directed by George Marshall, for Joan and the milions she Dixie?” In front of the biggest screenplay bv Alan Le May. additional used new screen attraction at Keith's. Dana Andrews gets back to mirror Tve seen for "Jolson dialogue by Lionel Wiggam. from the novel to make for him during most of her Holly- yet a fiction James by James Street. At Keith's. wood from his “The Affairs of Originally pulpy by 20 years at Metro. jfijffleyysssilil Street dealing with a swashbuckling The Cast. Adelaide” location jaunt in London AMUSEMENTS r, jTii jmam is still burning over { AU-STAt in Keith Alexander Van Heflin in a few weeks. after a iyiuifi i'|"i CAST of Mississippi, Then, brief — family planters Morna Dabney Susan Hayward his duck-hunting brush with the M fi'im O. >IH> Roots" is now a bizarre “Tap tapes- Tishomingo _ Boris Karloff authorities last MR. EUIOT FORBES Aven year. He has can- j. that conforms almost perfectly Dabney _ Julie London AMUSEMENTS n womin only •« 111 p. m. try Clay Maclvor_ Whitfield Connor celed his 40-acre shooting lease near I_ formula. Hoab MEN ONLY iN.I «t t t. M. to the Hollywood Dabney _ Ward Bond Bakersfield—swears he will never It has to Bruce Dabney Richard Long everything designed Reverend go within 100 miles of the Kirkland_Arthur Shields place. th»m— _I make it a cinema best-seller, includ- Dr Macintosh_ Gr'ff Barnett Robert Walker isn’t doing so well i*• khm Mt mr iiwira, Shellie — Sandra Susan dressed amaz- Rodgers MIHtM UM MM ing Hayward Dabby at the box office in "One Touch of Ruby Dandridge : ingly like all of those busty heroines Sam Dabney Russell Simpson — _ FRIEDJL Starts who just now are the style on dust AMUSEMENTS Today jackets of the most popular fiction. sprawling magnolia scented planta- It deals in war and love as the hu- tion and slews of handsome people MRS. “A bold man heart's DORSEY'S 1948-49 arrangement great tempests. And, strutting around in pre-Civil War | in the process of doing so, it photo- NOW! of a screen wedding of 1 wardrobes and he will turn out a graphs a Mississippi whose very modern art and psy picture that is never less than swamps are beautiful. grand. CONCERTS cMatrg This may not be true, but you Every single shot in his album of CHARMED—The role of the Constitution Hall, 18tli and C Sts. the is N. Y. TIMES ean't have people as rich and racy Dabneys visually dramatic, playwright, Eric Busch, who SUNDAY SERIES: Munsel, as the in whether it shows the life blood of Dabneys living squalor and succumbs to "The Saxon Ginette Neveu, Pints, Original dilapidation. a Dabney son discoloring a river, or First Piano Rubin- Charm” is John Payne’s in Quartet, * * * * poor paralyzed Morna lying like a stein, James Melton, Series Powers model in her the fllmization of the Fred- These Dabneys, Author Street said presumably tickets (< events): IS, $7, $9, boudoiir. erick Wakeman novel. It in the original novel, were terrific. pain-filled *12, 115. incl. tax. Director Marshall’s sole The screen version reiterates it. instruc- opens at the Capitol tomor- EVENING SERIES: Lily Pons, tion to his well have There are moments when the latter players might roiv. Bjoerling, Horowitz, Heifetz, been that could let in all di- cannot be as outspoken—especially they fly Cavadexus. Series tickets (5 rections in rTTBCHMCOLOfl// about the carryings-on of the beau- without any way over- AMUSEMENTS events): |5, |7, 19, |12, *15, incl. acting the story of “Tap Roots.” \ VAN HEFLIN SUSAN tiful Dabney daughters—but it cer- tax. HAYWARD^ tainly suggests they lived vehement- Clearly, they have taken him at SPECIAL EVENT: Don Cossack W BORIS KARLOFF juik lONDOtJ his word. Even such a actor WARD iONO ItCHARO tONO ly by a private Dabney code. A lot corking Male Chorus, 90c to S3, incl. tax. Jf ^B|gl|g| as Heflin the of M WHfTWflO CONNOt of men were prepared to die for the accepts challenge mutinied Circular an Rcaaeat the with relish. His girls, Morna and Aven, and it turns story Rhett MRS DORSEY'S CONCERT BUREAU Butler is played with all the 1108 G St. (Campbella), NA Tlfil GEORGE MARSHALL out that a lot of them do. Some of stops lrcirallalfSlfalfalFlHOfaifnmrzmmfsmdmnnnfiit ^ ^^^B out, but Heflin is a fellow who can these found it more worth while TONIGHT than others. make you share his enthusiasm for ! this sort of Another who does Locale of the yarn spun in Wan- thing. AND ger's vivid Technicolor is Missis- the same is Boris Karloff, a Chock- taw, or you-all type of Indian, who THURSDAY tMIkUktMWUwhMlv NWkMh|>*MII sippi's old Lebanon valley. The time 1\ IfMlif Temarrew, Oat. 14! Is 1860, just before the Civil War. travels through “Tap Roots" as a 5H» A UNWUSAl MURNAIIONAI ttlEASE kind of comic char- Forty-five years before, the original unintentionally CONT. FROM 12:45 P.M.; 50* TIL 5 P.M. Dabney, old Sam, carved on a gi- acter. ENGAGEMENT NATIONAL SYMPHONY gantic tree that all the land visible Miss Hayward, Miss London and HANS KINDLER, Musical Director NOW RKO KEITH’S BOOKS 0«N 10:4$ A M from the top thereof was Dabney the others on the distaff side look 10 Ccnecrtt—Wed. Strict 1STH AT 6 Start* land. The tone of his carved and act bit too legend dramatic, perhaps a (all sabseriptlon) j made it clear that this gigantic much so. if that is possible in such •occt Artiitc: Krcialrr, Eoneo, Marini. Hanson TOMOtlOW. acreage was subject to no law save a lusty fiction as “Tap Roots.” Thebom, Meyer, % ftvblnstein, Firkucny, Others. Dabney law. like him Nothing quite Oct. doors open “Tap Roots" is concerned with Opening Thun., 14. 8: SO \ ever to FRITZ the test of Old Sam’s ukase. happened the KREISLER, Vionliniet 10:45 AM great (Only Washington Appraranrr) The North and South are to tcreen ... or going Be You King, Queen, you! —CONSTITUTION HALL— war but the Dabneys. wrho love a or Princess TOMORROW Common-men SS.40. 10.80. 14.40, 18, *4. 30 tax Inel. ^STARTS fight better than either, decide the You'll Enjoy the Delight of National Symphony Box Offlry Lebanon shall be neutral. ■Robert YOUNG tltfy, 1330 C, St. N.W., NA. 133* valley RICH'S FAMOUS BLINTZES a Carroll Mnilr Co.. 8010 Grorgia Are. 'Robt. This gives the Dabneys their col- SUxer Spring. Maryland MONTGOMERY] 8«>uly Tlrkit. Availably it Wamrn'. Cam. SUSAN JOHN msm « lective war. Dabneys vs. the Con- 4 W*m* BIOS, *Ru/c6 ‘gutauxtud Maureen O’HARA Baetlal Bur.au. 1727 K *t N.W. IX. (244 That, is • federacy. however, merely 500 19th ST. N.W. AT "E'’ HAYWARD PAYNE £ one of the conflicts raging in “Tap Roots.” Clifton WEBB. » The storm in every Dabney soul 'martGims sets him more or less at war with EVENING PARKING everyone else in the family. Morna 4M* T0 (Miss Hayward) is the Scarlett 4fle DontTaik O'Haraish daughter and she and the Silting VIRGINIA ROtKRT Melanie-like Aven (Julie London) ; NOW! B cwfcVwm RRUCC are dueling over young Clay Mc- CAPITAL GARAGE Iver, a handsome Confederate major. 1320 N. Y. Are. N.W. a Between 13th nnd 14th pretty morton Aven wins temporary victory •*2a_ WALTOnT&fl O'ROIIliKE^i^‘onnie prcstnu when Morna is paralyzed in a fall J*ansy. THE HORSE from her horse, out what Morna AMUSEMENTS *u°Art"tryRKE does to the sanctity of that mar- ELIZABETH TALBOT-MARTIN riage later is unprintable. church |MhIleYN Meanwhile, too much a Si,,rital being Original Oklahoma Oanc.r* ,mPre”i#"» Dabney to confine her interest to one hunk of handsome Clay, Morna BURGESS MEREDITH !£=. LAST m ISAM JACK KAUFMAN pretenH KAY BE WITTV 1 Hi Is involved with a chip off Rhett ■ Butler, a fellow played by Van week Ends DONALD O’CONNOR'MARJORIE MAIN .. - ^ Bi|r LAST DAY "sonfl CITY or INTRIGUE Heflin. This sharp-tongued, swash- ‘FEUDIN’ FUSSIN* & fl-FIGHTIN’ Stage SHOW buckling duelist is actually what Today impolite society have always called such men, but, legitimately or otherwise, there is no doubt that mmmmM <^50^ /°^w?ira STARTS TOMORROW! he was born for Morna. Obviously, then, “Tap Roots” is DOORS OPEN KflTDO—I high enough in love interest that i”iuiiiiu I! the great climactic battle scene be- COLOKtv ||MQQ2a)p| /c:"o tween the and the iHMHiVi IHH »lr»' KosHm I Dabneys Confed- techmicoloi HIHIl?4 JMfHol/w../I eracy is so much gilding of an al- l .. ■■ ready too dramatic lily. •”y^lMEi||prjT|t

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