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Home , Challenge to Lassie, Donald Crisp, Douglas Fowley, Edmund Gwenn, Farley Granger, Forrest Tucker

played by , the ,He blabs to a girl (Dorothy Ma- too, is on the lam. Even takes j Cine-color, which may not be Arlington. Va., contribution to jlone) that he is no desparado at him in as a partner in the rush better than life but certainly is , who is a passable all but an honest marshal, see, to get the gold ahead of George different. It has pace and some bandit and a fair match Drama News and Reviews enough (thereby getting the news all over Macready and his unkempt mer- humor and winds up in a fine for Mr. Scott in a slugfest. Mr. Nevada in 15 minutes, and he gives cenaries. battle between Scott and Tucker, Tucker a man who has his plays quarry every opportunity to “The Nevadan,” written by who knock each other around an stolen and hidden away some- knock him off. George W. George and directed by abandoned mine while it is caving Capitol Gets Superb R. Scott Rides where a quarter of a million dol- This doesn't matter very much, Gordon Douglas, is a moderately in on them. The gold's still in lars worth of gold, or maybe it however, since Tucker’s man is good . Its scenery is in there somewhere. in Met's is $40,000,000 worth of gold. The none too bright, either. He ac- In 'Intruder in the Dust' Again AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS 'Nevadan' western diction displayed here cepts at face value Mr. Scott’s By Joy Carmody being what it is we never could obviously phony story that he, “THE NEVADAN.” a Columbia release, make out. Lot of gold, anyway. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has done its and in produced by Harry Joe Brown, directed by AMUSEMENTS subject itself proud Mr. Scott plays a marshal whose Its screen retelling of William Faulkner's Gordon Douglas, screenplay by George ORIQINAL and "Intruder in the Dust.” W. George. At the Metropolitan. assignment is to find the gold LAST COMPLETE The picture, which opened today at the is THE CAST * Capitol theater, one Andrew’ Barkley and arrest Tucker, though this fKSY D. 0. SHOWING WEEK PRESENTATION, masterworks of of the its season. It is this because it turns a sharp Karen Galt . Tom Tanner_ Forrest Tucker is not as obvious to the peo^e and human eye upon the tormented hearts of a southern community Jeff Frank Fa.vlen Scott mets as it is to the audi- caught up in race madness. And, what is especially to its merit is Edward Galt _George Macready WALTDISNEY'S Dyke Merrick _ Charles Kemper ence, the people fc>cou uictto WINNER tnat it was maae ngnt on tne Bart Jeff Corey course not seen "INTRUDER IN THE DUST." a Metro- BiJI Martin _ Tom Powers having very many scene of the near-explosion with Goldwyn-Mayer release, produced by Clar- Sandy _ Jock O'Mahoney western movies. While Mr. Scott Jefferson, Miss, citizens joining ke® Brown, directed by Brown, screen- Deputy Morgan _Stanley Andrews Play by Ben Tex ______James faces this with cool- Madlow based on the novel Kirkwood assignment ACADEMY the studio’s professional cast to by Wnlliam Faulkner. At the Capitol. Mama Lito _Kate Drain Lawson and Rusty Olin jness courage he does not dis- FANTASIA- Howlin enhance its realism. THE CAST: _{__ Duke- Louis Mason much sense a mar- John Gavin Stevens David Brian play good for Here is an adventure in com- AWARDS Chick Mallison -Claude Jarman, ir. shal who wants to stay alive. LITTLE •ffisS'SSsa Lucas -■■■—■■ DOORS ORt*10 bined attack on the evil of preju- Beauchamp_Juano Hernandez By Horry MacArthur 30AM Nub Gowrie _ Porter Hall dice which should be as irresist- Miss Habersham -Elizabeth Patterson Randolph Scott, the “Hopalong AMUSEMENTS Crawford Gowrie-Charles Kemper NATIONAL SYMPHONY ible to moviegoers as it obviously Sheriff Hampton_ Will Geer Cassidy” of F street, continues to was to the film’s actual Vinson Gowrie_ David Clarke Howard '‘‘tike ‘Paison* and partici- Aleck carry on his chosen life work with Mitchell, Conductor ‘Open City*,this _Elzie Emanuel starts today pants. Mrs. Mallison_ Lela Bliss coolness and courage in “The latest from is a stark Mi". Wed., Feb. 1, 8:30 P.M. import Faulkner gave these latter a Mallison-Harry Hayden Nevadan,” which arrived Mr. Tubbs Harry Antrim yester- Series A—Constitution Hall and film." stark and searching story to tell day at the Metropolitan. Mr. uncompromising Hernandez. He makes of ERNEST — and that is the way they have told the ac- Scott's chosen life work, as you N. Y. Times it. Moving in the sun and shad- cused Negro a complete man, as well know, is cleaning out the old exasperating in certain aspects of ows of the tale’s actual setting, MASTERWORK’S HERO— west. To date he probably ’has make clear how his pride as he is admirable in killed more outlaws than they dramatically Claude Jarman, jr., plays a have ANSERMET it Lucas a his stand that any crime will be existed were was that Beauchamp, leading role in the dramatic since there laws to colored Jeffersonite was on the community’s conscience, be outside but Famous Guest Conductor proud version William Faulk- of, the scriptwriters not his own. film of BEETHOVEN: Eroica saved from a home town mob and He makes it clear always manage to find a new one Symphony No. ner’s “Intruder in the 3; FAURE: Pelleas & Melisande (lot life is a Dust,” the mob was saved from a savage that small forfeit to pay for him. time at these concerts); and STRAVIN- the new screen attraction at SKY: Petrouchka. injustice. for the right to walk proud, live The one in “The Nevadan” is the Capitol. Prices; SI.20, *1.50, *2.10, *2.40, *3, Under Clarence Brown's direc- beyond obligation to any man, *3.00 (Tax Included) even _ tion, the film catches a sweep of those nobly intentioned to- Symphony Box Office, Kilt’s, 1330 G AMUSEMENTS NA. 7332 Piano and community ward him. Steinway , passion MR. ANSERMET CONDUCTING THE This is a heart-searching that the movies gem of acting and Early Showing NBC SYMPHONY OVER WRC SATUR- the motion DAYS AT 0:30 P.M. THRU FEB. I I seldom attain. so are the several others such as! “Stromboli,” picture .. ii ■ n i*———————— i * * * * Brian’s attorney, Jarman's ter-| which has been widely discussed rifled Miss Central figure in "Intruder in boy, Patterson’s tiny lately in the news and gossip FORD’S Baltimore Md. grand dame, Geer's drawling, con- /'BEST SATURDAY Theatre, 1, Dust” is Lucas fTVKRfiWf't/FM the Beauchamp, columns, is scheduled for early « 1 M. CONTINUOUS SAT.) an almost insanely proud, majes- at Keith’s per as the lynch-hearted Gowrie showing Theater, open- tic Negro who owns a small plot OF THE YEAR!” I WEEK ONLY begT MON. JAN. 30! ing February 15. “Stromboli” is ! —— brother. CARMODY. STAR; COE, POST ❖ || of Mississippi land. Jefferson is OF X * * * * the -directed AND N. Y. FILM CRITICS 60 MINUTES ❖ V WILLIAM I. KATZEll, MANKLIN GILBERT t ? of two minds about Lucas Beau- film in wiiich is COMEDY :w :. » ? The misty, mossy terrain around champ. Its best people are ir- the star. ALL THE Jefferson and the sun-blistered ritated by his hauteur but percep- f DIRECT CQ WEEKS ON I town itself make a perfect A clothesline'thief at tive enough, too. to give him a setting Walling- | for a story such as Faulkner’s. ton takes finest KINGS MEN,f kind of respect. The cruder- , only the FROM 90 BROADWAY* t Director Brown has used A Columbia* future (VM Jeffersonites regard it them underwear. simpler with I® RAYBOLGER consummate skill in scene with a kind of suppressed fury, after scene. The most dramatic AMl’SEMENTS playhouse ANNE SHIRLEY- DENNIS DAY' f v~ — i'f which is not longer suppressed NOW" »5'b and h streets of these are the dingy bur- ST 8300 when one of the hot-tempered family j gH-r= lal plot on the Gowrie’s Washington Town Hall Don Gowrie boys is murdered and shabby1 farm and Constitution Hall .Coyote the over quick-sand creek fyyffyrryyfn»ftyyyrrp—i Lucas is found standing the 30 — which leads to Monday Eve., Jan. 8:30 up the hill grave- i presents -"-aarj body. yard.

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