2nd TREMENDOUS WEEK! THE EVENING STAR. Washington, D. C. Passing BATTHDAY. FEBRI ARY 12, The Show MIDNIGHT SHOW TONITI t»W B-15 hmOPENS FEB. ISIMMi HApB Three of the Year’l LATK SHOW TONIGHT "A time for rejoicing" 'Black Rock' a Superb Film; ¦ . I Fineit Screen Artrnion. N. Y. Timet * Performances! The World of 'Prince of Players' Opens Hw ; BING [SgHaRROMI DMCCnOMAI SOUNO xjBF/ By Jay Carmody mL CROSBY TfCMMKOtO* 'flk / SHOLOM “BAD DAT AT a,.* BLACK ROCK.” “PRINCE OF PLATERS." a Twentieth- '* '• LAST 4 DAYS Metro-Goidwyn-Majrar olciure, produced Century Pox picture, produced and M»-~ by by by ~ f\ JDore Schary. Stur- by Philip ecreenplay directed John directed Dunne, ; : ink I B ALEICHEM Rev screenplay by Millard Kaufman, Moss Hart, based on the novel of the Efr KELLY PIAYHOUSI l ¦» / adapted by Don McGuire from story title by Eleanor Ruggles, music by Y a same ; / by Howard Breslin. music by Andre Bernard Herrmann. At the Columbia. E '7- WILLIAM From the folk toles if Previn. At the Palace. The Cast. * Edwin Booth of the Jewish Mark I ft Mary HOLDEN The Coat. , Devlin Mattie McNamara fct* John Wilkes John PERLBEAC SEATON PrWuct.*" Twain. John J. Macßeedy Booth Derek l 4H ‘ «*A io days Reno Smith Junius Brutus Booth Raymond Massey Seats Now Liz Wtrth Anne Francis Dave Prescott Charles Bickford ftp THE - SkaLrtpearc’o Tim Dean Jagser Asia Elizabeth Sellars Special Theatre Party Rotes Horn Qallienne Doc Velie Walter Brennan The Queen Eva Le ALL SUNDAY NIGHTS SOLD OCT Pete John Erieson Edwin Booth (Age 10) ant Wirth Christopher Ivomeo Coley Trimble Ernest Borgnlne Cook MCOUNTRY - English Doctor Dayton Lummls LAST 2 TIMES Hector David Lee Marvin 2:30 Mr Hastings Russell Collins •’King” in Hamlet lan Keith TECHNICOLOR 11||\at Performances at A 9.30 Sam Laertes . .. Paul Stader GJURL Walter Sande John Booth (Age 12)_ Louis WILLIAMPERLBWG Moliere's Colorful Comedy AlexanderWalker 1 Produced by Old Ben William h|r THE “Bad Day at Black Rock.” Theater Manager Jack Raine K Wntun for the Scroen and Directed dWSStVX SaT • H GEORGE SEATON Blast Theater Assistant Charles Cane "Q.I. |* which opened today at the Pal- Ladv Macbeth Betty Flint Is the answer to any public Witch in Macbeth Mae Marsh Hfe TRANS-LUX ace. Abraham Lincoln Stanley Hall 1 Itb at H N.W. hunger for another as ’ Mrs Abe Lincoln Sarah Padden Oprn IW; tft A.M > English Nurse Ruth Clifford * good as “High Hayes l . r- . ' Noon." Bernardo Ivan i. Francisco Paul Frees **^^j is it, bleak, biting, ter- JJ,| This a Horatio Ben Wright NATIONAL SYMPHONY rifying story through with Young Lady .Melinda Markey FROM THE HEART shot Audley MITCHELL, CONTINUOUS topped by Mrs. Montcheslncton Eleanor HOWARD Conductor an acrid humor, and Polonlus Per cival Vivian presents OF ALLAMERICA PERFORMANCES performances Spen- Doorman George Dunn one of those Nurse Ruth Warren METROPOLITAN OPERA STAR -An Entertainment Mesterplecel OPEN 9:30 A.M. Tracy give* when the script i Doctor Richard Cutting cer Colonel Lane Chandler offers encouragement. Both the Major Rathbono Steve Darrell Stage Doorman George Melford Aim and its star's acting are Trenchard Tom Fadden clearly worthy of Academy Bartender Henry Kulky Catesby Olan Soule nominations, due to be made in Hollywood 'tonight. The mad Booths of whom Ruggles Rock, a lonely, sun- Eleanor wrote so richly Black Play- scorched shack town in the West, and so well In “Prince of richly day. ers” are wider and shallower In deserves its bad It is version biography is the film of the a crossroads whose soul eaten today by guilt for an atrocious crime which opened at the Co- lumbia Theater. and its retribution in the person of Tracy is remorselessly exacted In 20th Century-Fox’s Cin- emascope process, 1 by John Sturges 1 direction of the and in the film. hands of too many young, inex- f perienced players, the inner VICTORIA tighter screenplay than It is a flame of the 19th century’s fa- j that of “High Noon” that MGM acting family turns to LOS ANGELES produced mous DE and Dore Sc ha it have something approximating mere Soprano here. Technicolor. The exception to 81nrlnt: PLAY—Sonja in pink spangles—form-fitting ones—is hostess at a Hollywood HAYDN'S '‘Simmer” from "Sea* opens with Tracy descending this, a ALL IN Ifenie, It and rather meritorious RAVEL'S "Sheheracade" costume party. The guests with whom she is pictured here are Jean McCallen and Boh * from a streamliner making its j one. is the performance of Rich- FALLA’S "La Vide Breve" Neal. Virtually everybody was there. Program includes: Midnight first stop in years at Black Rock. ard Burton as Edwin Booth, the FOOTE—Suite for Strings. F MaJ. The handful of inhabitants greet title character of the family saga. WAGNER—Tristan and Isolde (Prelude and Love Death) WASHINGTON'S MOST rAMOUS THEATRE BAS A him not with mere hostility but He gives might ard Tod already hape that mop- FALLA Dances from "Three what be called Cornered Hat" with murderous hate. He quickly the Old Vic interpretation of l like look, but Henry took pity GRAND NEW LOOK r’iF'ii GlA“°U* MAUtr INT,*NC« IOMV learns why, namely that Black Booth, a characterization more seeing WED. EVE., FEB. 16 l/ri4/ ULlit on Dan O'Herlihy. After i 1 j,l 7'L fwCOr iuxu«r magniucence fwClw roriß iounois Rock has lynched the Japanese deeply respectful of Shakespeare Hollywood Dan’s heavy beard in “Robinson Tracy Constitution Hall 8:30 P.M. farmer to whom has than aware of the Maryland boy Crusoe,” told to grow Tickets: 51.20 to S.TtfO Koster him Svmphony Box Office. Kltt’n brought posthumous war medal who became country's ~ a this a mustache only. 1330 G St. N.W. NA. 8-7332 ¦ii ¦«>ifs^o33Ciinn3Hii - awarded the farmer's son. greatest actor. It has force and (Released by NANA.) Until Tracy shows up. Black fire, however, in comparison with Sonja Takes Skates Rock has found away to live which the performances of John Into Network Show with its guilt. It is away of Derek as John Wilkes Booth and mutual distrust and suppressed Maggie McNamara as Mary represent a regrettable violence, away nevertheless. Devlin -* but immaturity. —By - Now it is threatened and Black misuse of Sheilah Groham 1 Rock's solution of the dilemma is Moss Hart, confronted with the j HOLLYWOOD. tournament there, for a blow-by- & slicing “’i.rir" to add Tracy's murder to its list. task of the screenscript ! i blow account of each shot. LATE SHOWS tONiCHT! PALACE • CAPItOL Edmund Purdom is fraction out of Miss Ruggles’ big I hear j Brother Bob Crosby also hospital- aMtfssateeaseesssM^aMsttMtetseMesMMtaeeeeessesssssesssMstsssssesestsssesafMSstiMetssssssssssMssMMSMoaeaeflsaMM* It turns out that he, a retired j asking for a smallish role in ; " Army officer with a useless left j! biography, shows a sharp eye Junction,” with Stew- ized, is coming along fine. angles “Bhowani PREMINGER presents OSCAR S arm resources the for the cinematic of Booth Granger Gardner, Joan Craw’ford is having a HAMMERSTEiN has three history. art and Ava townsmen not ] His selections include j he get away special gown made for that $lO,- homicidal did agonized boyhood as j because wants to figure are a disdain j Edwin's his Hollywood problems i 000 Las Vegas hostess stint. It on. These guardian: from all his life, a majestic courage, and drunken father’s his —meaning mostly Linda Chris- may keep her in the hostessing for j successful of latter’s tP STEREOPHONIC SOUND a justice as strong as 1 rescue the who prefer business at an even higher salary. sense of on tian. seems to Bob Rock’s injustice. mantle their fateful Western Schlessinger. Marilyn Black tour; marriage Mary , Maxwell wanted to searing suspense in; his to Dev- plunging weight There is lin: his London triumph in Ham- Sonja Heine, into | lose some and asked her this quiet, savage duel skates, will a good diet. He put between! let, and his warped brother’s television with both doctor for town. j . . on an egg eggs the stranger and the Not assassination of Abraham Lin- do a show every w’eek. . her diet—two for a wisp of it is missed in Sturges’ bought an breakfast, two for lunch and two j | coin. Jeanne Crain has unhurried search of the con- j SB,OOO sports car for dinner—that's all, for a solid These are big Mercedes-Benz sciences, or lack of them, in the the incidents of that can do 184 miles per hour. week. But, instead of losing NEVER FORGET THEIR FACES! by Philip YOU’LL j the film directed weight, Marilyn gained. characters involved. It turns | :. . . Spike called to advise Seems 004 They Jones out out there are remnants of jDunne. make “Prince of searching high-button she'd bees sneaking “egg” snack-s | Players” fast-moving, thin, he’s for among townsmen, ; a if horns, meals. conscience the one captures shoes and old but didn't between alcoholic ruin of a sheriff, j j film and which say why. extemporizing at a the something of the florid, gaslit Desi Arnaz. broken down doctor w ho also J | dinner, brought a roar the r flavor of late 19th century thea- Aldo Ray’s brother Dante, just when he serves as Black Rock's under- service in the Far said, “Iwould like you to meet stranger j ter. back from taker. These, the de-; a destroyer, says things my wife. . She won’t was a period East on tects, also the undeveloped moral j This of star- pretty rugged say anything anything, worship. were expected are over there. or do be- sense in the pretty girl who runs I Actors Aldo; "The way cause she has no talent.” Replied to explode with emotion in the Comments the Black Rock garage. They are may up being Lucy, “Don’t start those rumors. theater, and out. The Booths things look. I end wan allies, but the only ones a marine when I go there on lo- Remember, Vou’re in Hollywood.” did. First, old Junius Brutus ** * * available. cation for ’The Gentle Wolf- Hostility and hate, on the one whose off-stage soul stormed Mike O'Shea Is popular on rages, griefs hound'.” side, courage other, with the prides, and ** * * ! set a on the are Shakespeare’s kings the of his “It’s Great Life” made so tangible as j¦of and D’Arcy new I television series. He Seldom in princes. Alex and 20th-Fox takes his the atmosphere of “Bad Day at j1 After him. Edwin. The | Marjorie are entire crew to lunch every day Booths never learned not to act contractee Hellen Black Rock.” For this Director lovey-dovey. . . . Gene Tierney and picks up the check. Sturges players j and this was their tragedy as Dailey and his are any day 20th's Dan advised me not to AjRKf it A. . Mm&Witmt i fully as it was their triumph. is due now for deeply in each other's debt. of God.” . . . Robert print any split-up rumors if I This fatal flaw’ in their genius "Left Hand Sturges. of course, is most Cummings’ daughter down happen see Gwen a in- j is apparent in is to minus to Tracy a less the film than j family wedding ring. It that, debted who makes I Ruggles’ book, it is with the flu. The whole seems in masterpiece utterly in Miss but only just over the pox. to get of his fearless portrait is chicken their haste married. Dan never sketched-in in Burton's . . . voted bought ring too jngn who lifts his voice or Edw'in. in loose, Tab Hunter has been Gwen a much a psychologic slip in of And. the free- groomed boy year” bought a tnakes cal- wheeling imperi- “best of the small and Gwen Dan j^*****. culating imitation of the ring large. They the strength of his by Raymond by the barbers' association. much too had enemy. ous Junius Brutus over-boy style: Cy Devore quite a struggle at ceremony Massed His cool control Massey. wry New the This is ham before getting on. dropped .of his man clearly carries over was discovered by theatergoers. is making matching sport coats Gw’en's Dan to the others in the cast, Robert for Eddie Fisher and Debbie Rey- his somewhere and it was gone Ryan as the amoral leader of j nolds. .. . Vanessa Brown says with the wind. Black Rock's gunmen; Walter Sherlock i she'll be Adlai Stevenson’s cam- Betty Grable, with her leg Brennan as the doctor; Twins [ paign manager if he runs again, taped above the knee—she tore Dean j By th. Aliociot.d Pr. 11 Jager as Well, she has the 1.Q., if not the some ligaments when she stepped the drink-shattered NEW j sheriff; Ernest Borgnlne as the j YORK. energy. out of bed not realizing the leg brutal town bully; and Walter A new NBC radio series, As soon as Marie Wilson signed w Tas still “asleep”—relays that if Sande as Borgnines running “The Adventures of Sherlock for her new’ TV series, she or- she does “Show’er of Stars,” it mate. ; Holmes,” has been scheduled i dered two stoles—one of white will have to be from a wheel | for Sunday nights, starting ' mink and the other in pink fox. chair.

January 2. Sir John Gielgud ... Richard Widmark, reporting “Captain Lightfoot." an ac- Where and will play Holmes and Sir Ralph to U-I for “Fort Starvation,” tion-packed picture, will make When Richardson will portray Dr. plays the hero for a change. Rock Hudson even more popular. Current Theater ** * * Attractions Watson. A TV version being Ditto for co-star Barbara Rush. And Time of Showing Aimed in England and tele- Bing Crosby installed a direct Director Henry Koster has or- Stage. cast in this country stars Ron- line from the hospital to the dered all the male thespians in . National —"Tonight in Stam- ald Howard, son of the late Thunderbird Golf Course in Palm “Sir Walter Raleigh” to grow ftrkand"; 2:30 and 8:30 p.m. Leslie Howard, as Holmes. Springs, during the just-finished beards. Jay Robinson and Rich- H Shurbert —“The Tender Trap"; NKk ~im wm Jk. 2:30 and 8:30 p.m. Prr pi Catholic University "The Playboy of the Western World"; 8:30 p.m. Arena—“The Miser”; 2:30 and 8:30 p m. Screen. Ambassador "Battle Cry": (flj 12:30, 3:05, 5:45, 8:25 and 11:05 1 p.m. Capitol—" Carmen Jones”; 11 a m . 1, 3:05, 5:15, 7:25, 9:40 and 11:50 p.m Colony— "The Big Day"; 6:30, 8:10 and 9:55 p.m. Columbia "Prince of Play- ers"; 10:45 am.. 12:50, 2:55, 5, 7:05, 9:10 and 11:15 p.m. Dupont—"Romeo and Juliet”; 11 am., 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:35 and 11:59 p.m. Keith's "The Long Gray Line"; 9:30 and 11:55 am., 2:20, 4:50. 7:15 and 9:45 p.m. and 12:10 am. • Little—"lsle of Stolen Wofn- THE EXCITING STORY €Bi": 1:30. 3:25, 5:05, 6:40, 8:15 W pid 9:55 p.m. OF EDWIN AND HIS \ MacArthur— “The Little Kid- riappers”; 2, 3:55, 5:45, 7:45 and BROTHER JOHN WILKES fi.;so p.m. MffiSmL — Cry"; BOOTH! IT HAPPENED ROBERT RYAN “Battle V A SPENCER TRACY it) a m.. 12:40, 3:20, 6. 8:40 and 11:20 pm. IN WASHINGTON AT 10th and 1 Ontario “The Bridges at /fM 'Joko-Ri"; 1, 3. 5, 7:15, 9:35 and F Sts. 90 YEARS AGO! p.m. 11:35' Day at MYATBLACKROCK Palace—" Bad Black BAD co-starring Rock”: 11:40 am., 1:40, 3:45, 5)45. 7:45, 9:50 p.m. and 11:50 - ;Playhouse— “The Sign of the Pagan": 11 a.m., 12:45, 2:35, ! ANNE FMMIWWMWER in JOHN EMMST BONE 4}2Q, 6:10, 7:55, 9.45 and 11:35 pan (HUNS • • ¦ Vlaza “The Detective”: 12. brings the LEE IMMISSai MILLARD*KAUFMAN JOHN STURGES DOReIcHARY 3:20, 5, 6:45, 8:30, impassioned 1:40. 10:15 best-seller to pJ * ijBjiti COLOR • Maputo* DOK . 0" • atid 11:59 pm. Photographed ini EASTMAN COLOR Scirt* to McGUIRt Into Stor» to HOWARO IRUIIN An MOM Picture ;Trans-Lux “The Country DELUXE Girl”; 10:45 am., 12:30, 2:25. ( 4|20. 6:15, 8:15, 10:15 p.m and - Starts TODAY °p« n 10:45 12:10 am. —“This Is Cinerama"; MAGGIE JOHN UrMO.D and 8:30 pm. BURTON McNAMARA DEREK MASSEY starts - Ads and cmius (ti2tutH iv« iiaahim Additional BICKFORD SELLARS LE GALLIENNE VPLUHUpI News on Next Page PALACE S