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Arlington 1:40 vice versa. We do not intend to re- Welles Goes All Out 'something to the effect that evil of "The Lady From Shanghai," al- AMUSEMENTS sign from her fan club Just because people destroy each other. This is though it is possibly challenged by she cannot act. For not a new truth, to be sure, but cer- the comedy effect of a picnic which The newest vehicle in which Miss Excitement in tainly it has never been stated so is one of the highlights of the deb- Love to De Carlo is to the Turns Violence permitted display A Smallish thunderously. auchees social calendar. It is a particular cinematic talent that is i Story “THE LADY PROM SHANGHAI.'’ a Co- Miss Hayworth is one of the many stunning picnic, about the size of a hers is a Technicolor affair called In lumbia Picture produced and directed by evil humans in the script in which, Balkan coronation in the old days. Met’s Melodrama “Black Bart,” at the Capitol, in Orson Welles, screenplay by Welles, based on a novel by Sherwood Kin*, song by come to think of Orson is the It is not enough to save the War- On Werld’« it. Screes which she plays Lola Montez to Allan Robots and Doris Fisher. At the ners Largest representative of and picture from its exaggerated H. and Liz. By Jay Carmody Dan Duryea's Black Bart. Warner. only goodness Bogart The Cast. virtue. triviality. J. c. Scott "Dead Reckon- Some of the cinema's most Sherman directed i gifted humans pool their talents in "A George “Black Elsa Bannister _Rita Hayworth ing" at 7:20, 10:38 Womans Michael O’Hara _ Orson Welles Vengeance,” but the result is a Bart,” with his His role is that of a poetic, black Ken Curtis In "Lone only moderately interesting obviously tongue Arthur Bannister_Everett 81oane melodrama. in Irish as he is, he is on AMUSEMENTS Star Moonlight," 9:28 his cheek at the time. By not George Grisby _ Glenn Anders giant. Big Sidney Kids Free Th« who wreaks her or too Broome_ Ted de Corsia the side of the world's “little people.” Adults, 50c; vengeance is the still-waters-run-deep taking itself, anything else, Judge Erskine Sanford type. She is the sort He is a sailor to all outward SIT IN hardly to make the blood run hot and cold even seriously the picture has become a Goldie _Gus Schilling appear- Y0URCARo«^5EE THE MOVIES when so a District Attorney_ Carl Prank but great charmer as Charles is marked as modestly amusing tale of cops and ances actually he is a writer at Boyer her special Jake _ Louis Merrill victim. As Bessie _ heart and is ma- played by Jessica Tandy, a superb actress, she is a robbers in the old west. Evelyn Ellis merely collecting plain Cab Driver i_ Harry Shannon nuumii wxiuae resentment as A man would have to have his terial for future novels. Even' he, DANCE TO Deing Li _ Wong Show Chong "A WOMAN'S VENGEANCE.” t by-passed In love Is more sur- Univer- in his of to Yacht Captain_ __ Sam Nelson as weaker-men, is not invulnerable sal-International tongue cheek, course, Picture produced and to Miss TOMMY DORSEY prising to her than to audiences at dtrected by Zoltan Korda, screenplay by translate into the terms of the Hayworth’s beauty, how- the Aldous Huxley based on his story. "The screen's the of Orson Welles as producer, direc- ever. ant hit entire orchestra Metropolitan. Gioconda self censorship story Smile At the Metropolitan. tor and star of "The From "A Woman's Vengeance" may very The Cast. Charles E. Boles, one of the most Lady Because he is not capable of re- Friday Evening, May 7 Henry Mauxler-Charles Boyer at the Warner, is in one well have been made with the idea eminently successful men of his Shanghai,” sisting her, he finds himself lured National Ann Blyth D. C. Guard Armory 9orl* of those moods in which he feels aboard a that it would achieve more prestige Spence- Jessica Tandy profession, sticking up stage coaches. private yacht which she Dr. Lib bard -Sir Cedric Hardwicke like Jove, or one of the other major inhabits with DANCING 9 'HI ) A.M. than popularity. The original highwayman, unless we her debauched hus- EVERT 1 Nurse — DAT P.M. TO MIDNIGHT Braddock_Mildred Natwick VICTIM "A Woman's Mn»« ticket* «n •*!* *t Its Geiera Of are of some one was gods. band and their set of rich author is the brilliant Aldous Spence-Cecil Humphreys thinking else, debau-! MORE THAN SO ATTRACTIONS Soper Music City, 13AO F St. N.W. Robert is Charles He hurls restraint to the Huxley, a writer whose medita- Lester- Hugh French Vengeance" Boyer, so unfailingly successful at knock- winds chees. His notion is that he can Willard Hotel Ticket Bureau Emily Mauner-Rachel Kempson ; in the that and when he is through with it, his at least save her tions on the follies and strange vio- Clara --Valerie Cardew picture of name, ing off Wells-Fargo stages that the which would not Nome Bonds, Inc., 11)0 F St. N W Coroner little is reduced to a lences of the human Carl Harbord now at the company, in self defense, finally poor story be a bad idea even if his motive Advance Admission. SI.SO species have Prosecuting Counsel_ John Metropolitan. Williams dramatic The is plus lax per person enjoyed a vogue more intense than Pirn Warder-Leland Hodgson saved itself by buying him off with pulp. spectator were considerably lower than it is. Mrisey Ola Lorraine able to disguise the fact that it is a on which he left with the odd feeling that all His does not Door Admission. IS.00 widespread. In this of generous pension, program work, but in lax adaptation McNabb —- _Harry Cording plus per person pretty intellectual stuff. lived to a old He this might be the act of a great the of it his long short story, “The Gioconda happy age. process failing oilers audi- DANCING O TO IS NIGHTLT FREE PARKING He is never able to the doesn’t with like sardonic clown, a man bent upon ences some of the most Smile,” It is a cool, detached look idolizes him and a 35-year-old spin- disguise get away anything dramatic EXCEPT SUN. PAUL XAIN ORK DOORS OPEN S P.M. fact that the husband is a fine ridiculous he takes at the human heart. It ster who has been waiting patiently probably that in the picture, but he is a making burlesque photography the screen has achieved i not of the crime he and carefree robber of the whole movie business. this season. is a style of observation that must for him for more than a decade. guilty although genial right This is the major merit well for it. to the where the Taken in this one seem strange to moviegoers who The number of women in his life may very hang up point script spirit, might is The chance of his escape from the proves to him what life never could, enjoy “Lady From Shanghai,” but AMUSEMENTS have been brought up on passion as reduced to two when the wife latter fate lies in the of the tnat crime does not certainly not if the thing is an unbridled thing. suddenly dies of a heart attack. ability pay. really an urbane There is not much in the screen- On that N.Y. Instead of abating his turmoil, how- family <toctor, philosophic being played straight. LITTLE TIMES: sort Sir Cedric of “Black Bart" that is ex- THRU IVES. ONLj ; ever, this event intensifies it. pla^d by Hardwicke, play could not level, everything fantastically •MOVIE Boyer's role In "A Woman's At | MAGIC!... A WONDERFUL WORK Of WHIMSY. UNSOPHISTICATED CHARM AND to force the older of the other have been a aggerated and the molehill remains Is amorous the Instigation of a nurse supplied by sopho- Vengeance” in the suspicious HUMOR UTTERLY BEGUILING!... IT WOULD BE * GRAVE ERROR NOT TO SEE < —the one women to admit the crime. more student of the western film. just another molehill. This is not groove that he has dominated for woman who cordially hated; •TAWNY PIPIT1. The man one ONE OF THE FRESHEST ANO MOST HEART-WARMING FILMS IN A him—the wife's is disinterred. methods of such a em- It does move, though, with suffi- what expects of the redoubt- , many years. It has this difference, body GREAT WALTZ LONG TIME!... THE barked upon such a task are not the cient that shouldn't be able Welles. CAST IS PERFECT ... CHOCKFULL OF DELIGHTFUL CHARACTERS however, that his here Traces of poison are found. This, speed you conquests '• IT SEEMS UNFAIR TO POINT OUT kind that throb with excitement. bored and its light is “The Lady From Shanghai," In ANY PARTICULAR ACTORS ... COMPLETELY while reaching to the number of taken together with the fact that approach His procedure is to talk the woman pleasant to encounter. which beautiful Rita CHARMING THIS IS A FILM FOR EVERTONE TO AND OELIGHT IN!" 4 three are destined to failure. His the man has had the bad taste im- Hayworth plays RAINERGRAVETKORUJS out of her secret. This is popularly Mr. Duryea, incidentally, is much the director's co-star, is based upon charm works only up to a certain mediately to marry his 18-year old ) supposed to be an easy thing, but better cast as a happy highwayman a novel by Sherwood King.
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