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[ ...... I. AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS \ MARJORIE MOFFETT Drama News and Reviews Leading Solo Actress Hollywood Diary in Six Dramatic Sketches NOW Lou Costello Wants to Use Nov. 17 — 8:15 P.M. PLAYING Fri., of 'Kiss Yankees and Browns in Film MAYFLOWER HOTEL—Williamsburg Rm. Taming Me, Kate' Single Tickets, $1.20 (tax incl.) at door TAMING OF Season Subscriptions, $4.80 (tax incl.) -By Sheilah Graham- THE SHREW” CHARLES CARROLL FORUM What It Looks Like Now HOLLYWOOD. at the star-studded local premiere A Fresh Treatment in Central Stafinr! SERIES John has in of “All About Eve.” _TONIGHT AT 8:30 Barrymore, jr., put Bill was re- c'o Cathollic University of America—Ml. 6000 By divorced his Eves. Except Sun.: 8:30, Jti.90 (incl. tax' Jay Carmody a bid to buy the famous mansion cently by long- Mats. Wed. & Sat.: 2:30. 81.50 (incl. tax> It is unlikely that Shakespeare’s shrewish Kate ever could be estranged wife, Joan Fontaine. I’ll l*r»cne Orders Accepted DI. 85!' on Tower road in Beverly Hills, tamed too often. It is rather more probable that she has been tamed make a bet now that Joan will re- now owned by the Grimaldis, that in too many forms of late, first by the Lunts in a circus perform- marry within 15 months. ... I ance some years ago and currently in the musical, “Kiss Me, Kate,” belonged to his father, the late sat next to Larry Parks and Wife by those Spewacks and Cole Porter. and great John. This is where Betty Garrett at the movie. Their the Italian film starring Silvana new Mangano, as fiery a girl as Even a girl as durable as the Bard’s pet comedy heroine can John the first baby has a spring dateline. young spent years (Released ever waded a rice paddy." be exnaustea Dy tnat by North American temporarily ! is Newspaper Alliancei —Carmody, Star of his childhood. The place _ degree of overwork. There should be many who, not going comparatively cheaply—but This seems to be the chief han- having seen the Porter-Spewack _AMUSEMENTS_ the upkeep, of course, is some- Open lu lo A M. 1-Uh at H N.W. teaSscBn dicap under which Arena Stage is musical will be able to enjoy it else i working in its theater-in-the thus. thing again. a 0»d»«'w Lou Costello has gone East to co#*4,‘ round production of "Taming of * * * * duaont,M* BOOTS AND SADDLES—Soon- talk to Happy Chandler about UVpfUUI OUpent 7WO the Shrew” which opened a fort- The Arena Stage company n er or later these become the using the New York Yankees and INATIONA night’s run last night. This is the which undertakes to give Skakes- ■ E BETWEEN 13th b 14rh J^ tools of all actors in this the St. Louis Browns in his next tale of love in ancient peare’s comedy back to him is one day original the DUC of of tyrse opera. Latest movie with Bud Abbott, “Two VICTOR McLAGLEH iwcmpms m l Padua and, paradoxically, it the best offered to date. Its ZZ*~T name to don them is Bums With the Yankees.” I saw seems unoriginal in view of the members are young enough and Stephen McNally, male star of Lou at U.-I. just before he took tampering moderns have been do- handsome enough to have a rous- “Wyo- nfbrmer 2 LAUGh"hItS! vt.r"?r^£; Mail” off. “Never felt so well in ing with it of late. ing good time playing at rough- ming ivhich opens to- my life,” morrow at said he. mjMAttyMengB In a churlishly embarrassed house love- Moreover, they are Keith’s. llTTU~a“ Mrs. Richard Conte—Ruth—is way. one keeps missing “Wunder- neither awed nor baffled by the off to the races with her bar,” “I’ve Come to Wife It master’s melodic speech. They sponsored in its opening perform- acting Animal Crackers career. She was testing Wealthily in Padua.” “True to speak it trippingly, neither getting ance by the American Association Friday in the of of with Alfred Hitchcock for a big W. C. FIELDS jt You, Dear, in My Fashion,” “Kiss way the language or al- University Women .... The GARY~C00PER in on a Train.” It LAST 3 DAYS Me. Kate,” and the rest of Por- lowing it to get in their way. date is Friday, the place Lelfcmd part “Strangers |- all started when Ruth starred at I "... An Amiable and ter’s music. This is commendable but, more Junior High School auditorium r| Infections If I Had A the Circle Theater in “What I British Comedy”—Star. Million’ .... Every This is no way to feel about importantly, it is highly useful in Ethel Butler and her modern 114 Great Stars I Woman Knows”—and made a big Shakespeare. >pr probably Arena bringing out the roistering dance group will present & con- quality hit. Stage, but that Porter and those of the play’s joke on women who cert at Lisner Auditorium on the rp3®f;S\ Louis Calhern has a job waiting Spewacks fill a man's eyes and think it pays to be shrewish. The night of November 21. ‘KUNU& for him in Hollywood, if his “King ears with sights and sounds he one who pretends to think it in with Lear” doesn’t click on Broadway. cannot forget. this instance is Anne Chodoff and of Battle They want him at Metro to team alec GUINESS Thrilling Story the Normandy * * * * she ends up a limpid comedy mess Where and When with Robert in “Man on loved by Petruccio (Pernell Rob- Taylor EXTRA! "INSIDE THE ATOM" For humans more pure in their the Train.” erts) and admired by any male Current Theater Attractions fidelity to Shakespeare, Arena’s Marina Berti—the girl star from \\ with an ounce of manliness in and Time of Breakthrough of the Shrew” have Showing in Front”—has WWfitS BUDS Stirring uSSfe*®! “Taming may him. Italy "Up this tc PICTURE more to recommend it. This is the Ambassador — men: JtkViO .JOHN j^L-—-sra^tlsS^'’" * * * * “Breakthrough”; say about Hollywood “They FRANK \ on a central the com- 7:30 and 9:35 are too way, stage, Before Miss Chodoff’s Kate 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, p.m. impatient. No finesse.” was in the Bard’s Lon- Capitol—“To Please A And of women edy played comes to this happily acquiescent Lady”: the here: “They BrianAgarLovejoy don and it is imaginative of 11 a.m„ 1:45, 7:15 and undress too much in quite condition, the Arena theater has 4:30, public.” Also At Ambassador Open 1 P.M, \» Director Edward to 10 shows: Mangum have 'achieved one of its most vigorous p.m. Stage 1, 3:45, 6:30 Meaning decollete gowns. ”•“ worked it out so well. It is all very and and 9:20 p.m. SAFE DRIVING s‘:S” freely flowing productions. It CONTEST1’^ Ittt * fluid with even j Robert was in NtC» frtt DODGE tftcetm the audience par- is one marked considerable Columbia—“Fighting Caravan”; Cummings Florida } \ by *s\* \ as dinner watch- | 7:45 and working in “The Barefoot Mail- X ticipating guests 'change in the conventional ar- 112:10, 2:45, 5:15, a of 10:20 man” when his the Rev. [‘WrTwvsl ing group strolling players. rangement of the comedy which is j p.m. mother, If a | iRuth died of cancer man could only stop think- now divided into two acts. There Dupont—“Bitter Rice”; 1, 3:10, Cummings, *?*"\ in his Hills ing he is seeing something called can be no quarrel with this divi- 5:15, 7:30 and 9:40 p.m. Beverly home. “The Bill Demarest is Taming of Kiss Me, Kate,” jsion, but it can be pointed out Keith’s—“Edge of Doom”; 11:15 very sick— ERROL FLYNN It might be with the prevailing virus. in quite enjoyable. sadly that it is not until the sec- a.m., 1:15, 3:20, 5:25, 7:30 and They |\ Warner Bros.' 9:35 are shooting around him in “Ex- : ond act that the comedy really p.m. — cuse Dust.” ! achieves a proper tone and tempo. Little “The Informer”; 12, My \ By this time, the have 1:50, 3:50, 5:50, 7:50 and 9:50 p.m. Keenan Wynn and a few others to mw sei^eo. players AND STARDOMS NEW LOVELY LADY.. — are working their heads and feet 8»-^v *«. settled into the style of the work Metropolitan "Rocky Moun- \ «^io.°T*l t# off entertaining the servicemen in \ i and have abandoned the tain”; 11:35 aun., 1:35, 3:40, 5:40, %nfes fumbling 1 PATRICEWYMORE I \ approach which makes the first 7:45 and 9:50 p.m. nearby camps and hospitals. The ----rGc*«^_—— commit- half of the play seem like any- National—“If I Had a Million”; Hollywood co-ordinating tee thing but comedy over wide areas. 12:45, 3:45, 6:50 and 9:50 p.m. keeps promising to send groups of movie TODAY'S NEIGHBORHOOD MOVIES A one-performance assurance that Palace—“All About Eve”; 11:10 people to cheer up the but they are not going to forget their a.m., 1:45, 4:20, 6:55 and 9:30 p.m. boys, something seems to go Now 10:45 CIRCLE 2105 Pa. Av«. N.W. «. 0184 -WARNER RROS. lines may give first acts Pis—“International wrong nearly every time, and it is Open f subsequent Burlesque”; JOth I Today Only: DAN DRYEA, GALE STORM THEATERS-, the left to Keenan, Arthur dEfl C«ntury-Fox's major Fer Information Call KEnnkllo MM confidence conspicuously Jack- 2:15, 4:50, 7:25 and 10 p.m.