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Mhdfcßaßyf Beverly Apocalypse” Is Next at Metro THE EVENING STAR Dan Dailey's Paris special for ORENS TUES. MAY 3: Washington, D C TV in June. And she is work- Amusements 1960 The DISESCHA.\TED* C-16 Thursday, April 21, ing on a jocose journal. “My by Budd Schutberg and Harvay Bratt S HOLL Y WO Twelve Years in Hollywood.” mommmrsi; in French and English for fall j J<on Anouilh't springtime Od|BJ ? ¦AArr ¦ THE PASSING SHOW publication. nd re By SHEILAH TIMES! GRAHAM Two films planned for East Africa in the late summer RING ROUND “The Lion” Farce at MacArthur "" for the Woolf ¦L 1A MM Brothers, who want Simone THE MOON Signoret and young Hayley “SHEER JOY”—Carmody. S*ar Had a Plan Mills, and Howard Flynn Hawks' Box Office open today 10 'til f "Tanganyika.” Good Seats Available for Set. Mat. Lampoons Diplomacy HOLLYWOOD (NANAI. 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