C-6 THE SUNDAY STAR. Washington, D. C. SUNDAY. AUGUST S6. 18AI V HpFjpl Monty Goes on Trial The Passing Show And a Star Is Born Portrait of a Girl, Another Actor Climbs to New Fame rfl BB| In a Movie Lawyer's Role A Dewy, Crisp One By Harold Heffernan Montgomery Clift sits nervously I / Lionel Barrymore, for example, •• j Peggy Dow, Southern Young Lady Hp&ii. jjf.. -in;¦• ¦ 9*^99 in the witness chair. He is won his only Academy Award by charged with the murder of Shel- playing. the brilliant, but alco- Who Made Good in Movies ley Defense attorneys' Winters. holic, lawyer-father of Norma By Joy Carmody have just completed the quiet, carefully planned ex- Shearer in “A Free Soul.” Be- you your young feminine movie stars lettuce-crisp, sympathetic, * If like animation of their client. It is; l fore that, Barrymore’s career had Peggy Dow is your girl. slipped he had gone in for is remarkably attractive quite a the climactic moment of high i and Miss Dow’s crispness and : directing. directing “The distinguishing among younger suspense in “A Place in the Sun.”j< While mark the glamour set, some of whom Trial of Mary Dugan,” he sought they are untidy It looks as if his lawyers have;' of as irresistible when of ' even • think themselves ' •- to suddenly from * character rise mentality. >'' • a splendid job in Clift’s be- la' appearance—and ft* ¦ done Ithe witness chair for dramatic Apparently, too, it is a quality that is paying offsince the lady- V ft rPH half. Spectators settle back with; 1 comforting feeling that the effect. He was told this couldn’t like young Tennessean, who got her degree in drama at North- the j since the actor would may get If not scot free, be done, western University, is keeping quite busy in quality pictures. She boy off. bump his head on the microphone, < maybe a light sentence. Then it will be turning up here this week as the heroine of ‘’BrightVictory,” ; ’ i. jl. ~ J| I whichJ had to be placed just which Ogives her a quite rich role, and later in “IWant You,” the 'happens! range. - Barak- SBUk above camera ’ Irwin Shaw screen adaptation of his own story of world turmoil I A bulky man pulls himself Barrymore asked, “Why not and the upset young. ilaboriously from a chair just in- move] the microphone then?” Up Dewy, Acts side the inclosure, leans heavily to that moment nobody had She Looks Professionol slowly up 1 To be dewy yet to look and act professional is perhaps some- on his cane And limps thought, to move a mike. All every recent co-ed should know, but that belongs in Betsy to the witness chair. He moves were stationary, so they put it thing a department and we not go into it. his swarthy face within few, on a boom and. as the actor Caswell's shall giant Itis more pleasant to stick to the specific Miss Dow and leave inches of Clift’s, and, in a rose, so did the mike. Hence, it any generalizations to experts on how to grow up just right. closeup, commences pounding was in a courtroom scene that a One Miss most conspicuous assets is a mind of her own. away at the now-disconcerted de- microphone moved for the first of Dow’s needling, This asserts itself quickly if you happen to make that chronic fendant. Sneering, in- time. blunder of asking Miss Dow about yearning to be a legitimate i sinuating. stalking heavily around Lionel’s brother John played the sly, in theater actress. Me***- T, ! the room and using all . one of his most colorful roles "Movies are theater, and acting,” she says. "Os course, I have HP cunning tricks of his profession, . “The Great Mouthpiece.” Then cuts Kruger did a feeling for the stage. But I also have a feeling of impatience this prosecutor gradually i there was Otto who with those I went to school with at Northwestern who look at me 9Mi9 Clift’s story to ribbons. “Counselor at Law” on the stage as if I had betrayed my integrity by going to Hollywood. This His Best Opportunity. for many seasons, and also devotion to an art by starving, or living starred in the screen duplicate bf business of proving your k Wi '»?' isafe. . M Izm As 8 clincher, the crippled at- on Broadway, it the play. on virtually nothing while looking for a job well ¦(L A*?: 9' f";* ' 7*" torney displays to the jury an oar, , - ‘ | ' ' v > - ago William was can be silly. rill'll U 'ilfw v which he suddenly raises high over Years Powell actor at Useful Elder Stars his head and brings crashing down i a featured Paramount. She Meets the Some I ; He was used almost entirely in the same people in Hollywood that I would meet on on one end of the rowboat—this ‘“Imeet is a spirited account the in- which villain parts, until finally they Broadway. And the chance to work with them and learn from IN THE NAME OF KINDNESS—A flock of party guests try to Wednesday. The film cheerful, of to simulate the manner in i blind veteran Arthur the hero sightless soldiers under the foul deed. . chose to make him a star. For Ithem is, if anything, greater. In New York, the best you could light the cigarette of Kennedy, dependence developed by the re- Clift perpetrated his opens > the first time, his name was to be I hope for would be to work with one, perhaps two, experienced and of “Bright Victory” which at the Playhouse Theater on habilitation program of the Veterans’ Administration. The man who stole the 20-minute ’ the picture. The persons in a season. This if you were lucky. As courtroom scene in “A Place ini above the title of greatly talented » story selected was “For the De- my in Hollywood, I’ve made 10 pictures and worked the Sun” is an otherwise amiable sfor chance Burr, who > sense,” in which Bill was a scream* kinds famous, helpful players, directors, etc. named Raymond with all of fellow . ing criminal lawyer. Dana An- i “Maybe it’s an accelerated sort of course, but I like it.” has played many strange char- Irony drews had a prize lawyer role in Shirley's films acting? Miss Dow has a Stardom Has Its in Hollywood s she happen to go into acter villains How did none, “Boomerang,” in which he played piquant way that. the past 10 years—but , of explaining for former mother,” she says, “is a lovely woman. I mean just that, he admits, that gave him such l Homer Cummings, United “My States Attorney General. as we use the phrase in the South. She knew I wanted to be Miss Booth Hits Top She Spent Long Time ‘ colorful opportunities as this one help give background Always Popular. an actress and she did everything to me the Shortly after the picture had I spent my first two college years at a college in the In Roles Totally Working Way to pri- Courtrooms always have had a for it. I Junior Ifrjl been previewed and shown can go way South—learning the rudiments of being a lovely lady in my execu- . kick for fandom. You Lacking Glamour Present Goal vately to various studio “Manslaughter” 1922, mother’s mind at least—and then I was sent to Northwestern to began ringingr back to of tives. Burr’s phone in which a attorney had take my degree in drama—a bachelor of science degree, by the By Mark Barron in the 2-year-hit “Three Men on persistently. He had offers from[ district * 1 to send to prison a girl he loved. way.” a Horse." After that came “the nearly every lot, all of them with , fresh young NEW YORK. 5 It was played in silent days by that females off • Philadelphia Story” for a year, Miss Dow is under no illusions Shirley Booth, an actress 4¦ ; requests that he come over and I campus ready to zoom to the top. “They’re not whose m two years in “My Sister Eileen, variety , Thomas Meighan, with Leatrico a drama school are versatility ability are amply S ¦$ jimi ’ turn on some punch and either,” surmises. and long stays “Tomorrow The in , Joy as the girl. It was the pic- in journalism she proved by many she and in * to courtroom scenes they had a background that can be useful,” she insists. the awards World” and “Goodbye. MyFancy.” ture that made a tremendous box- “But they have gathering, finds her ’ mind. “And they have away of approaching the profession of acting has been , office star of Meighan. Later, in come so easily stage fame a bit ironic. She Was Dubious. The Burr onslaught against and Claud- with some quality of intelligence that might not script actually sound, Fredric March (meaning pro- When the of "Come Montgomery Clift has successfully elsewhere.” “Usually they Back, Little Sheba” first came 1 thel ette Colbert teamed ducers) me to play roles toJ touched off a renaissance of in the same gripping vehicle. as Top wanted her, Miss Booth didn’t want to movies, and j She Regards Intelligence Asset where I appeared like I was an 5 courtroom scene in Gregory Peck impersonated a intelligence as one of the actor’s most precious jg? '£ play the role because it sad happy. is 1 She believes in unmade bed,” Miss Booth com- Wku was 1 fandom is There noth- ’ lawyer in a similar story, “The gifts part of her deep delight in having worked with and she recently had a sad gripping dramatic and it is a wryly recently. “And I & Wr had ing quite so or Case,” which he was a Victory.” mented St- 9 -1 in ac- _ Paradine in Arthur Kennedy in “Bright that is the kind of part I experience in her own family. Fi- - as an expert movie lawyer prosecutor who fell in love with as one of the most intelligent as well as think nally forgotten, Kennedy is rated usually to play, because : she was persuaded to forget t tion. In case you’ve ” a murderess he was attempting in theater or on the screen. wanted 9IP" Wm P mourning play present one of the best young actors the I tried to play a dressy her and to in the many a top star owes his to Wendell Corey made much a lovely lady by instinct to say that every time s I convict. Miss Dow is too of part, one where I had some fancy role which ultimately vaulted her popularity status to his earlier his first hit in an attorney role is her actor, but Kennedy is one of her favorite to “A r jury. r any one favorite clothes, the play was a flop.” Tree Grows in Brooklyn.”” ranting before a via “Thelma Jordan,” and Ronald persons. . role of mm mm .^9Bk had its Broadway be playwright. Her current starring The latter Colman will always remem- She will talk, however, about her favorite Smith’s premiere postponed until for his courtroom scenes Shaw. Like any one else, she swears by Cissy in Betty and Arthur Miss bered in That's Bernard Schwartz’s song-and-dance ver- Booth had finished playing in Coming Attractions “The of Two Cities.” Shakespeare, but she has had a boundless enthusiasm for Shaw Tale quartette—Charles sion of the noted novel, “A Tree “Little Sheba.” More awards have Screen. Robert Cummings. Humphrey ever since she saw Charles Laughton’s drama only Miss come to her this singing and Laughton—do Grows in Brooklyn.” is for per- AMBASSADOR—“Jim Thorpe Bogart, Clark Gable, Robert Boyer, Agnes Moorehead, Sir Cedric Hardwicke venture on the Burt Tracy—go Like many fascinated spectator at Booth’s second formance. —All American.” with Montgomery, Spencer “Don Juan in Hell.” another musical comedy stage. Miss Booth is impressed down starry, and profound and witty, poetic and graceful of Shaw’s works, with Lancaster. right the list this most Composite Columnist. such attentions because, although “As Young As find the toppers have played has been enchanted ever since. CAPITOL you’ll she Her previous effort was in a she understands stardom coming You Feel,” with Jean Peters. attorneys at least once. Vincent Blended With Brilliant Language show where George S. Kaufman to Katharine Cornell, Lynn Fon- Time.” Price found the vicious prosecutor Wisdom could DUPONT—“Wonderful Until then she could not believe that brilliant language did a Gilbert and Sullivan bur- tanne, Helen Hayes and other with Willy Fritch, starting role he played in “Song of Berna- be made to cover so much of wisdom with so much of irresistible lesque of Hollywood life, and Miss such high-falutin’ ladies, she says, tomorrow. dette” shunting him from obscur- performed as combina- she can’t Flying ity stardom, Cornell Wilds charm. younger Booth a understand how she has KEITHS—"The Leath- to and Miss Dow has been one of the busiest players in tion of several movie columnists. become the established star she is. ernecks,” with John Wayne. had the same experience follow- Shirley ... a frump to love. Hollywood since she arrived there, but she has tried her best to “I played a role called Lou- METROPOLITAN “Dear ing his legal tussles with Gene keep work from interfering too excessively with her favorite hedda says Miss Booth, Brat,” with Mona Freeman. Tierney in Her to Heaven.” healthy Hopsons,” Pa., but she gave up because the The lady who was born in New IHe Even Looked “Leave pastime. That’s reading. She does all the physically “in this show called ‘Hollywood “Showboat,” And how about Lewis Stone, who condition, but she believes mathematics necessary in run- York and Like a NATIONAL things that keep a bubbling actress in Pinafore.’ But I only sang one christened Thelma! Sergeant with Ava Gardner. made a career of playing Judge exercise that comes from wrestling ning the farm puzzled her. was no overnight By lK« Auociat*d Pr,n Just as much in the mental song, so unless you happened to "Although I am a star now," Booth, star; PALACE—“Rich, Young and Hardy? the ideas writers have put on paper. in early you would never when she “Little HOLLYWOOD. (Rcle»sed by the North American with come she explained, “my understand- emerged in ( Pretty,” with Jane Powell. Newspaper Alliance.) She is set for a pleasant stretch of both during the next few have known I was a singer. The All present and former U. 8. PLAYHOUSE—“Bright Vic- rather personal ing of trial balances and bank ac- Sheba.” Marines this. After her stopover here —a sort of call than can easily believe * Sit Nightly sorfg Peggy _ weeks. was called ‘Little Butter- counts is I don’t , Theater pundits had first tory.” with Dow, a w.DaHaglPlu. will go to Tennessee to visit the lovely so limited that noted Hugh O’Brian, 26-year-old vil- IKA O Pssl Crsen’f appearance program—she up.’” I getting her, back in 1926 when starting Wednesday. nFW DrlHlaat the family she likes so much. know If am a star’s abilities lain in “Son of All Baba.” was lady who is her mother and Shirley is an actress who once (salary. (she had her New York bow in ani WARNER “Jim Thorpe— There she will play, read and relax and not think about her County, voted “the meanest man of the ran a dairy farm in Bucks “Even when I became a star I item titled “Hell’s Bells,” with All American,” with Burt next picture assignment. year” by the Universal-Interna- * had trouble because the theater Humphrey Bogart ally. Lancaster. quite as an She has it figured out crisply. she tional Secretaries Club. ¦ mJ « 1 electrician didn’t want to climb |Earlier had beat the stock cir- O’Brien was a Today's Schedules in many role, Marine drill up on the theater marquee and cuit a sometimes as sergeant in the last war. Asked Stare. (put my in nights ingenue, again of name because the heroine. how he won the role, he told a COMPLETELY AIK CONDITIONED ARENA—“The Importance it was too cold.” After the success IJSgNAj^E] Being 8:30 lie said 1926 there reporter: LAST Earnest’’: fi.m. came a whole series of good, bad. br| Screen. She Collected Prizes. “Easy. I just looked like a nationall » MTVIIN * I TIMES! and shows ¦ ll* 1W My Miss Booth is the actress who indifferent on the local sergeant in the test.” r o*cor Wilde'* Comedv AMBASSADOR —"That’s boards and circuit. She hit I Boy”: 5:20, 7:25 was named by New York drama on OLNEY, MD. 1:15. 3:30. the bonanza in 1935 with On# of the Aus. 28-Sept. 2 IRIMESTRA mm IMPORTANCE having jackpot J| | and 9:35 p.m. critics as given “the best •ast, chorus, portrayal _ OF BEING EARNEST” performance” of the season in her her of a gangster’s moll ** GREAT VERONICA LAKE IN 'rSKrB job pure CAPITOL—“The Law and the THRILLERS ¦ALLIT—ISO (Yl A “A flossy on Wilde's nonsense.” •role of the lonely slattern. Lola 7/ i BARROH i CAJIAfODy. Lady”: 1:35, 4:20. 7:10 and Premiere ~BJb at our time ”Th« Curtain Rises” •ARTCR /JLjßk J . . Delaney, Hfl g i "Delectable comedv . Arena should 9:55 p.m. Stage shows: 3:35, in the serious drama, TOM'W—^ with Carl Bets AMPHITHEATRE have one of its biggest hits.” COE. —A Mastsrpisra” Eves, riT| I"Elegant satirical nonsense.” SCHIBR. and p.m. “Come Back, Little Sheba.” For at 8:40. SI.BO. 52.4U. 88. Mats, 16th Bt. A Colorado us #• 6:25 9:10 Sat. and Sun. at 2:40 p.m.. 11.20, " Toes, (this Etc*.. thru Sen.. 8:S0 P.M., SI.AO COLUMBIA—“The Secret of performance she also won -itunnwc- UNO MAVNE [ SI .80. Washington Box Office: Jor- Ave. N.W. Comfortable Set. Met.. 2:30 P.M., SI.BO DI. 0002 Perry award, vV dan’s. 13th and O Sts. Phona: Re- Seats. Tickets: 75c; Re- the Antoinette the j‘ -UmODDUI — 3:50, -y public 1313. $1.50 ! AIR-CONDITIONED Hippodrome. Pth A N. Y. Convict Lake”: 1:50,. served Seats Barter Theater award, the Don- fWM J NO MONDAY PEKFORMANCE Statler, race 5:50, 7:50 and 9:50 p.m. Theatre phone: 6888 Shoreham. PauunA aldson award and countless other mmm Ashton Willard Hoteb. 1:05. • • DUPONT —“Kon-Tiki”: medals and ribbons which make .Illf~ r OPEN 1 P.M. 2:55, 6:30, 8:20 and T AIR CONDITIONED 4:45. her look like a military adviser in | 10:10 p.m. Graustark. 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