THE STAR, Washington, D. c. ** EVENIT'O '» C-6 rtIBAT. JILT M. 10SS Life With Lewis and Clark THE PASSING SHOW One Cliche After Another I *jrf By HARRY lUeAKTHUR good thing "THX VAR HORIZONS "a Part- Medicine Is X-rayed It is. or wm, of R oount picture, produced by WUUsn H \ >int ud WtllUm C. TboißMi dlriettd ¦PF for Merriwether Lewi* and BUI ir Rodelpb Mote. icrecDplxr by Win*ton Siller cod Edmund Hr North, from the Clark that the movie* had not lord, "SocSovco of the Shothonec." il DcllA Oould Emmoni. At tbo CopltU In an Exciting Film yet become popular entertain- 1 Tho on that Cut By JAY CARMODY ment when they set out Ifcrrlwothcr Lowlx Vrtd MirMnmy expedition. they had, it BUI Clerk Charlton Heaton Stranger.” top If ioenjnvcn Donna Reed "Not As A which shot ta the of the best-seller would been a dull trip for Julia Hancock Barbara Hale a nagnMi t < have -WW7 list as a novel, should be equally popular as a film, despite the B flk Everything that occurred Sertaant Can William Demareit them. ebaiboneon . Aim Rood fact of sturdier competition. given them the feel- Cameahwalt Eduardo Norleca Thompson’s by would have Wild Bade Larry Pennell Morton work has been translated to the screen s #-¦¦-. ing that they had been here be- Le Borne Ralph Moody Producer-Director Stanley Kramer with not merely fidelity to its ¦ - ?a« -^:;> fore. Prealdent Jeffcraon Herbert Herea original tart flavor but with a- '~TOri. listen, » *-- can, you ;; 1 You if hear post. Despite them, high-powered cast. • AS A an ' Jpißß^^B :ommand u NOT STRANGER." United Major Lewis reporting to * pro- Presl-! expedition, Heading group Artists release of a Stanley Kramer ~ lowever, the slowed this are Robert by Kramer, acreen- dent Jefferson. “Dad-blamed- . duction. directed Mr. ' 'lk^lp 30w by strictly aJujuf Mitchum. Olivia de Havilland. ; pi3.sr bv Edna and Edward Anhalt based 8 expedition I ever was on. sir. and then a rou- jpon Morton Thomnson's noyel. musical est ;ine battle with the Redskins Frank Sinatra and Charles, £score by George AnthelL At the Palace You call that exploration? Why, “ - (about as George Bickford. Such a galaxy of iheater. V everything that happened to us formidable as . The Cast -*^B^is®!sS^B Marshall’s have been the last few stars tied in with the public’s 1 , Hedvigson.Olivia de *.““/ ¦^j&jjh’> ' was some well-worn movie cliche. Kristina Havilland B seasons), completes mission. obsessive interest in all things Lucas Marsh Robert Mitchum We could have stayed at home Its Alfred Boone Prank Sinatra Bijou every The rivers do, indeed, run down- medical should convert the Pal- Harriet Lana Olorta Grahame said gone to the Sat- Dr. Aarons Broderick Crawford bill on the other side of the ace into one of the liveliest of Dr. Runkleman Charles Bickford urday afternoon and not missed community centers during the. Dr. Snider Myron McCormick a thing.” mountains and the Pacific Ocean Job Marsh Lon Chaney right there where everybody next several weeks. Ben Jesse White ofe. - any rate, is Cosgrove ¦ This, at is the saying As A Stranger” is neither ; Oley Harry Morgan thought Ho- had been It was. "Not Brundage - Lee Marvin left by “The Far the last nor the only word onj Virginia attraction This whole affair has been un- Bruni Christine *" rizons,” new screen the profession dT medicine but - I '"8 • -¦ S s§->M . at the Capitol Theater. It’s a evenly paced by Director Ru- it is a vehement one of its kind. ;is a dramatic man, a perfac- big picture, all right. It has dolph Mate, though it must be In his first performance as di- ttionist intolerant of human been filmed in Paramount’s admitted he does have- an eye rector, Mr. Kramer has seen no, as process and in vweakness and such deficient VistaVision for pictorial composition. “The reason to soften the former while | j humanity that might Technicolor. Much of the filming making acknowledgement ‘ in the helped of the make a great surgeon. the Jackson Hole Far Horizons” is not a greater degree him wm done in latter to than two 15 minutes country in Wyoming and in much, either, by the fact that Author Thompson. The hours and did jof the film provide an extensive Vista Vision and Technicolor it Heston and Mac Murray give the The consequence is an en- portrait of Mitchum’s man as is often exciting scenery. grossing piece of entertainment j impression of having discovered medical student, lover, stormy ** * * trapped. that should end up of ' j too late that they were as one petrel of that ob-j more usually a capable actor, Kramer’s most popular pictures, * the science The trouble is that it is Heston, him, and a competent exciting anything occupy- merely if best. “ sesses sav- than here seems to be trying one short of his artistic er life woefully defic-l (Fred Murray). ** * * of who is ing Lewis Mac his best to believe this without lent in his understanding of life, j (Charlton Heston) and just Medicine and a variety of the Clark much success. Mac Murray Thisl is a long time to look at! Sacajawea, their Indian princess pained. types who practice it get a , looks a character so static but the in- j Reed). adapted thorough working over in “Not j* guide (Donna As Miss Reed, as Sacajawea, is. Stranger.” cident of the film Is varied and from DeUa Gould Emmons’ novel, As A enough considerably more believable . dramatic to redeem “Sacajawea of the Shoshones.” To the extent that the film portrait from mo- exploration than anyone else around. Her’s version has a point of view on ' Mitchums THIS PICTURE, HE WATCHES this tale of the of notony. (left) usually paints the Louisiana Purchase coun- is a convincing and attractive both the profession and its prac-j The detail with which the NICE, FRANCE—PabIo Picasso titioners, an onlooker critically try degenerates into the stock performance. It is not at all it is that of Dr. Lucas screenscript, by Edward and pictures bearing his name, but he Is Marsh, played by Mitchum. This studying the making of the motion picture about his life. yarn about the two adventurers difficult to discern why Saca- Edna] Anhalt deals ranges from girl. courtship Henri Georges Clouzot (seated) is producing the movie and the jawea went back to the Sho- Mitchum’s heartless of It’s been played to death be- the girl played by Miss De Havil- in”this French city.—Wide World Photo. shones after this contact with J. Arthur Rank Organization fore without dying and is not the white man’s wisdom. WHERE land to an extremely graphic likely to be done in by this proiont* heart operation which he per- , just audiences than to his professors. and a third, the warm-hearted, , repeat performance. It all PLAYING AND WHEN i forms at the film's climax. interne, his patients ! average mortal in medicine too trivial for these stal- NOW is, therefore, quite an ‘ As an are e seems Violet Homing CURRENT THEATER It edu- cases and his superiors on thei played by Frank Sinatra. wart residents of the history cation in medicine the movie- , ATTRACTIONS 1 unworthy in his eyes of this books. - goer gets although it is also a staff The fourth member of s FRY'S AND TIME OF SHOWING I j the profession they practice. group and next to Miss De Hav- In the beginning here Lewis CHRISTOPHER |ilone-sided one. And, Clark, old Army buddies, DELIGHTFUL * when the circumstances iland in the possession of heroicc and ** * I girl are right, he can enter clinically dimensions is th> country doctorr are romancing the same Stage power of “Not an (Barbara Hale). Clark tThe I The As A i into affair with an attractive played by Actor Bickford. wins but s Carter Barron Amphitheater,: .Stranger” lies in the fact that j<| divorcee with an utter indif- job director, . Lewis takes him on the expedi- Round Opera In his first as Mr. anyhow. long they Ring San Carlo Co.; 8:30 i its substance could not be more ference to its outcome. so tion Before being Kramer has been set on ex- p.m ~ Sacajawea along human, life itself. In its’ sort leads, ploring e have this and Moon IIm mu U The of life this man the human values of the . Houti presentation of Dr. Marsh as! she begins to believe that i. C»uir by TECHNICOLOR National—“The Skin of Our nevertheless, is a lively one. experience of these that he hass soon (Adapted from a French play Extra!' medicine's hottest friend and just boy her, Teeth”; 8:30 p.m. Naturally, brings and there into somee Clark is the for by Jean Anouilh) Academy severest critic it does not paint it him into fallen here What with proximity and one Olney “Ring ’Round the : [contact with more normal and of the unoriginal sins of filmn Use Olney Coupon #3 'THURSDAY'S I|I him a hero. _ thing another, begins Moon”; 8:30 p.m. as superior humans than himself. makers. These, however, consti- and he aCarter Barron Val. Book L»b!4A^4orj^rnnßZwW frankly as a deal to think so, too. RESERVATIONS: i He is treated j One the sacrificial tute no more than minor defectss! 4®%’* CHILDREN’*. Screen as cap- of these is *** * Li < WHUehxll 6-8100 | ( of a heel. He is shown , plays. an engrossing story of a dra- irVWr~ Box Office: Super Music nurse Miss De Haviland ;in HL,. Store, 1.350 F N.W. marrying De a view this Air.rnniiitlnneHSt. Ambassador “Mister Rob- able of Miss Havil- is idealistic doctor matic figure in a field that isiS Lewis takes dim of IV'iUw/T ' Another the are squabbles erts”; 1:15, 3:35, 5:55, 8:10 and: land for the money that will on the medical school faculty. 'today obsessively interesting. and there are in the 10:35 p.m. jget him through medical school . ] Capitol—“The Far Horizons”; asj he is incapable of returning NOW iili 1* 11 a.m., 1:10, 3.20, 5:30, 7:40 and her love and loyalty. His class- attitude a student is no iMHfeENew Horizontal VISTAVISION Proiectioti!j| 9:50 p.m. , room as . more likely to endear him to Colony "Doctor in the MacMurray-heston House”; 6, 7:55 and 9:50 p.m. CINIMASCOFI SCREEN reed-hale Columbia ‘"This Island Earth”; 11:50 a.m., 1:50, 3:50, 5:45, 7:45 and 9:45 p.m. yfflSl‘ mRIMRIZONC 11 I Tonight’s Performance 1! colo. o» TECHNICOLOR f Dupont—“The Great Adven- BOHEME ture”; 1, 2:45, 4:30, 6:20, 8:10 Hitl LA 9:55 p.m. >| I \ with Harris, Knight,. ft and di Roney, 11 “Lady jl I r \ Valentino. Motcono Keiths and the If I Pietro Cimara Conducting II j Tramp”; 10 and 11:55 a.m., 2,4, II Ranklh, Cravl, Roney. Mac- (M liHmvvnA 6, 8 and 10 p.m. \\ TOMORROW NIGHT, CARMEN *""0' c*r,° du'etin * 8 M ‘ J Little—“The Lady Vanishes”; If SUN., JULY 31, IL TROVATORE Si'a B,um c fl fjESQUimSI 6:15, 8 and 9:50 p.m. \\ MON., AUG. 1, MME. BUTTERFLY SR* C ‘“'fl MacArthur “The Intruder”; \l ALL SEATS RESERVED: St.SS, l.'S. 2.50, 3.00.’ 3.40. tax Memo! (V 6:15, 8 and 9:55 p.m. Metropolitan "Mister Rob- erts”: 10:45 a.m., 1:05, 3:30, 5:55, i 8:15 and 10:30 p.m. Ontario "‘You’re Never Too Young”; 1. 2:50, 4:40, 6:25, 8:35 Jl) SUPER MUSIC CITY BOXOFFICE. 1350 F ST. N.W. ST. 3-3916 V and 10:45 p.m. II Open Daily 9:30 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. Closed Sunday fl BOXOFFICE. TU. 2-2620 fl Palace—“ Not as a Stranger”; 11 CARTER BARRON AMPHITHEATER \1 Open Daily 10:00 A M to 10:00 P.M. Sundayj 1:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M. 11:35 a.m., 2:15, 4:55, 7:35 and If 10:15 pm. Playhouse—“ The Seven Little %:' Foys”; 10:30 a.m., 12:20, 2:10, fj JBjjL 4:05, 5:55, 7:50 and 9:45 p.m. STARTS Plaza—" The Bed”; 12. 1:40, f 8.25, 5:15, 7, 9 and 10:55 p.m. r# TODAY Trans-Lux—“The Man From Laramie”; 11 a.m., 12:50, 2:45, V GREATEST OF HITCHCOCK’S THRILLERS! 4:35, 6:30, 8:25 and 10:15 pm. I Warner—“ This Is Cinerama”; SLAKING 1 and 8:30 pm. yy^UrT "‘Housewives’ Matinee” pDGRAVE Friday-lp m.-be Out ot 310 p.m.
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kvi&tran * Mttreeelitan IMSJ U S. MPCI and the IlsTls}r7 N.W. L 10Ml 2«l *Bm \ °M SS Mt Vernon* h*l, Tho Only Theatre South of Boilon Now Showing "Thi» l» CINIRAMA’ iiss MI. VBNotoSr"’"’ s CBUIBI vwnon I MOONLIGHT IATE SHOWS TONIGHT MAWHAUMAU A Mink OAVII'MUIK ill » **»««*»" FAK. I loor JYLtt I**IWT (. , iMtarin [p-:pilll« ™EW> LSOX LIXKRSV 11 .«1 Sfiovi \ '¦ mm ho.*- maim mi» «t. iw. ¦ na. i-iaao BUG LAST 2nd Big WEEK (HURRY! joyous filmini 7~PAYB^ ‘•"''WARNER BROS." of the happiest play that ever played! “Good entertaining fun from opening to close . . . Hope plays the Foy role with obvious affection... As MISTER Eddie Foy he is as genuinely funny as he ever has ROBERTS ' been as Bob Hope.” --MacArthur. Star
. HENRY „JAMES WILUAM . “Quite a party . . It’s Jim-Dandy . . IWA-tMY-POWELI Bob Hope has his first real part in years I • . .brings to it a wealth of wit and under- jack Lemmon * CiNeM*Scoe>£ /I^^--j* “«0l WAO***C