STAR THE EVENING " Prates from fAe svfkor: Wethington, D C NATIONAL ?LAST 4 TIMES I Cliches of Our Time "I was hoppy fa fi*4 Th* Dis- Amusements ThunJtf, Moy 19, 1960 1 "Americas First Theatre” B-6 jn /* JBk' enchanted’ in such lering hands EVES. 8:30 MAT SAT. 230 at Arena Stage. Philip losco, "Not To Be MfjgeZ* Anne Meachoai and Alon Oppen- DonneHy. Nrecs Sliced heimer are felt JHE PASSING SHOW Satirically giving deeply per- MfCfWAf UtSAJirAU formances that command your at- tention.” “AU need to succeed is | *EXPR EMO BONGO.’ • British BuU Scheiber* you Lion release of Vai Guest produc- MM LAST 12 TIMES'. Still the Joke Lacks tion. directed by Guest, music and j observes the charac- leading lyrics by Julian More. Monty Norman If TORN David Parnon. Vai ter in the Playhouse’s new Heneker. Robert : Guest. Norrie Paramor. Paddy Roberts film. "Expresso Bongo,” and and Bunny Lewis; screenplay by Wolf Mankowitz from his own play. At the; ISWEET BIRD OF YOUTH: Both Pat and Mike the line may well fit its crea- Playhouse Theater. tor Wolf Mankowitz. He’s The Cast Laurence By Budd Schulberg A By JAY CARMODY the novelist film-writer whose Johnnv Jackson Harvey • Harvay Breit Maisie King Sylvia Syms ! Drama The for A Critic of Star "A Kid Two Farthings Dixie Collins Yolande Donlan "FASCINATING! CREATES STOlM!” HJIWM Star Bongo Herbert Cliff Richard | CarmotLv. If entitled the Irish as loveable and “The Bespoke Overcoat" ? anyone is to portray Meier lo> Office Open 10 A AA. to »30 A.M. Mayer Tzelniker "SUPERIOR ... TO THE BROADWAY were successful of Ronemary. Ambrosine it is the Irish themsejves. examples Lady Philpotts ORIGINAL.' Donnelly. Hewt |oc«iies. Eric Pohl ma nn Leon . a non-cliche screen entertain- Box office open today, 10 'til 9 They have been working on this project for many year Gilbert Hardin* Gilbert Harding Hermione Baddeley PLAY Bow, and naturally have developed it into something of an ments. Penelope FINAL OF THIS SEASON Rev. Tobias Craven Beckwith MMflfllSAVE Such as. for the latest specimen, "The Poacher's Daugh- This time Mr. Mankowitz Reginald Tto COM iDIE 25%HflMflfli Mr Rudge• Wilfrid Lawson new film at the theater. FRANQUSE • Order 1960 61 season subscription trt.•r,” today’s Apex Idfe and his cohorts examine the Kakky Martin Miller Pmr«ta ’ Mrs Bunnaze series before Moy 31st It offers Julie Harris, of all actresses, as Its star and world of the cliche itself—- RudgeAvis Beast Burns Barrv Lowe THE WOULD BE • Write for brochure ihile it is not a of the Kenneth Griffith LZrj sample or worlds, for very little Is Charlie "A DAZZLING DRAMA BARGAIN" Cynthia Susan Hampshire GENTLEMAN” imagination and sense -THE POACHER 8 DAUGHTER.” a \ Star Irish left unobserved: s Friend Peter Myers Carmody. Show Corporation of America release television, Cvnthla Boy IN USTKUH COLO* I the Chinese Rose Lisa Peake ; Lt/ of humor running riot, of' an Emmet Dalton production pro- the record industry, teen- Miss Harris duced by Robert 8 Baker and Monty I film provides and'J Berman, directed bv George Pollock, agers. burlesque and other 26rh end D Sts N W ME her associates a familiar bit »screenplay by Patrick Kirwan and kpccts of show biz. and our- Blanaid Trvine from the romantic curate number Os something to work on. ' New Gossoon. production And, comedy. The ' by George selves. They have come up At lhe Theater. called "The Shrine the ""m ""ir es in black and sShiels. Apex on j ™“"“S. HUROK presents"“ , course, even The Cant with a biting commentary Julie Harris Second Floor.” From then i white photography, there is Sally Hamll RUSSIAN DANCERS Rabit Harry that is but cliche, Brocan anything on, Herbert is always the Irish landscape, Tim everyone's boy. Luke Carev Seely and most hilariously wel- FROM THE CAUCASUS Ellen Carey Make Kean with its lanes and hills, to ex- ¦• • « Mag Kehoe Rriri Lynch come. MORLDPREMIERE SRObUHG ' the Gaels for any Neri Shay Eridie Golden ntt ENTIRE lAWMTIC--Mwfto.Tla*> cuse even Yolande Donlan an • Mad” Henlv Philip OPlynn The setting is London's gives | non-gales of laughter. Biddy Henly Flnola O Bhannon THIS WAS THE seamy Soho, the counterpart honest picture of a brassy | (Puns like this are the ef- BULL OF THE PACIFIC! GEORGIAN of which does not exist in but fading song queen who fect of seeing Irish movies i weak man down the young - the United States, unless one latches on to Bertie. Cliff His name was Halsey and reading Time magazine i road. But can imaginatively combine Richard is excellent as the the enemy film reviews'. Any moviegoer can take the STATEDANCE such jungles of civilized 18-year old innocent. In fact, spelled it "Hell"1 •** « I plot from there, but not quite Americana as 42nd Street, all of the performers are just with the laughable lilt that A romantic comedy. "The |' Coney Island. Scollay Square, about flawless, particularly James some truly adroit acting injects New Gossoon," by George? and certain parts of Green- two fine into certain spots of it. Even FROM THE USSJL Shiels is the source of the j wich Village and its Los Baddeley in a bit role as a if her brogue is slipping, as it BEN HUR'S BENEFACTOR Apex screenplay, the latter the 1 Angeles - San Francisco short-sighted lady of the Cagney LOEW'S CAPITOL is on occasion. Miss Harris! “Adnlral work of chaps named Patrick! 1 Jack Hawkins, as the admiral who rescues complements. streets, and Ambrosine Phil- ! Halsey Wed., and Thurs. manages to make fleeting se- Tues., Kirwan and Blanaid Irvine. !* as a coldly cultured 1 Tn Ben-Hur Heston) from •» « » potts ‘ P.M. quences of the film fun, more (Charlton galley May 24, 25, 26-8:30 press agent. Miss Harris’ role is that of ¦ • is of the few noble Romans on Qallant ORCH., $4.50, 5 50, 675 innocent than riotous. slavery, one The leading characters are a spirited collegn whose mis- From time to time, the MEZZ.; $4.50, 675. LOGE: $675 One of these has to do with the Warner Theater screen. Where, of course, a brash, down-at-the heels RAIC., $2.25, 275, 3.50, 4 SO fortune it is to be the principals are called upon to Hours daugh-; | her immobilizing of her ‘‘Ben-Hur" continues its popular run. theatrical agent named HAYES CONCERT BUREAU ter of a butter-tongued poacher limber up their vocal chords erraa re atutterre ! jquarry’s motor bike rather than Jackson, superbly played by (In Compbelt-.l 1108 G St. N.W. who sensibly prefers to live and burst into Even Well NAtional 8-7151 Steinway Piano by , song. Ditnev'i ISLAND >V4f SEA ! see him use it to break his Laurence Harvey, and his j his wits rather than by work. I' Laurence Harvey, who does 1 neck or go courting the open- stripteaser girl-friend ("My This is hardly the type of well. However, the songs, armed daughter of a tinker. voice teacher says I’m a new a ? ' parent proud, fiery girl can hwMH¦wamai¦¦¦¦ mm ¦¦aiaMmaeaeam albeit clever and pertinent, STANLEY WARNER THEATRES ! The dramatically contrasting Judy Garland”*, well done ,tTX admire. Miss Harris is too do impede the tempo of the passage is one in which she by Sylvia Syms. In what a canny to try. ! script. It's a minor point to ! shows too much pride to spring B B C. commentator refers to She makes it her quibble about, let it merely mt.iia ii objective, the trap on the desirable young as “a contemporary youth [orb ii em^ |ff'(e i ihiaciajMAasiiaope, i be said there’s so much of instead, to keep him from; man once she has lured him center,” they discover a teen- W——' The FUNNIEST Picture since Fun was bom! hopelessly everything that there may upsetting her own into it. age tonsiUtwanger named ‘ be too much. trapping operation by which Inevitably the most Irish of By SHEILAH GRAHAM Herbert Rudge ("that child's Wake Me When itt she to So lines and mo- hopes capture the rich, the characters in the Apex film got more sex than age”) and [ many in would be that of the poacher- Jackson seeks to parlay ments "Expresso Bongo” Ife Over* Ernie KOVACS Bertie million worth that his- father played by Harry Brogan. into a pounds, , are quoting • Dick half for himself. torians years hence will Margo MOORE SHAWN In the process of invoking the! run it ofY as a WHERE blessing of heaven and all of Freddie's an Ad Man Bertie's name is changed I fascinating glimpse into this of our the Irish saints to Bongo Herbert. Jackson L segment age. eligible upon salary has doubled since I JpgJ Tony HOLLYWOOD (NANA) Her It not his for him to make a t may appeal to every- j __ AND WHEN dawn-to-midnight rogue- “I do" Warren arranges Robert Horton has house, girl, she said to to those who Mr. j big splash in an Expresso > one. just are ries, Brogan miraculously Cowan last June. Current Theater Attraction* and will marry—singer Marilyn > non-squeamish when watch- to make his look joint, and after a variety of manages part whom he first met in Richard Egan and wife Pat and Time of Showing Bradley, other devious deals, they felo- . ing the contemporary mores better than the vaudeville turn "The Ohio when she played the lead are off to Rome for Story satiric it niously assault TV viewers by r being slashed by the actually is. Dolls.” did of Esther." in which Dick in "Guys and They plays knife of It’s A number of other Abbey adding motherhood and re- a witty surgeon. Stage the show together in Detroit, I King Ahasuerus. . , . They to . strictly for adults. Players perform with the ap- ligion rock-and-roll, re- Arena Stage “The Disen- and Marilyn will be jetting to would like Joan Collins for ambitious propriately lunatic touch which sulting in a screamingly ac- W. L. S. chanted;" 8:30 p.m. London when the popular! Esther, but she is reluctant, as I the Irish would resent in Catholic Sweet any- ‘Wagon Train" actor goes there. I have mentioned before, to be University—“ ' | ' from one but themselves. with Freddie Bar- guy William,” 8:30 p.m. Chatted j separated from Warren Beatty. ¦ * * * * National "Sweet Bird of tholomew, whom I shall always •* * • Milwaukee MEMOS: Arena Stage's dead- \ Youth”; 8:30 p.m. remember as young "David boxoffice received j A communique from the set VERSATILE JULIE HARRIS LAUDED BY CRITICS! , pan yesterday Copperfield." Freddie is in! I in Screen a 1 I reservation for two tickets Hollywood for the first time of "Let’s Make Love”: Yve* cauqht to “The Disenchanted” in the Ambassador "Wake Me in 10 years. "I haven’t acted Montand. Tony Randall and name of B. Hur. ... Did When It's Over”; 1:50, 4:30, Arena for about seven years.” said Wilfred Hyde-White on the set Ifo treat as a ... 7 and 9:35 p.m. it joke— It a 1 Freddie. “I’m with top ad-1 at Marilyn Monroe due Iffll 9 a.m. ¦ Apex "The Poacher’s did not. ... It didn’t even and I have vertising agency, ; at 10. She arrived at noon with Daughter”: 6:15,! say, “Delighted, Mr. Hur.” . . . 1, 2:40, 4.20, three children of my Arthur I own.”| husband Miller. Her 8:05 and 9:55 p.m. It merely said thank you and He does not hanker for Holly- first shot of the was made that the tickets would be held day I I Capitol—“Please Don’t Eat wood. at 4:17 p.m. After which Mari- until the usual 6:15 . the Daisies”; 11:25 1:30,1 p.m. . . I didn't know that Steve am., lyn departed with Mr. Miller, There was some laoe 3:35, 5:40, 7:45 and 9:50 p.m. anticipatory Alien’s mother, 75-year-old vLs- a chauffured speculation, however, to just in limousine, as I j/ Dupont "The Would-Be as Belle Montrose, is an ex-trapeze per her contract. Actually, it Gentleman.” 1, 2:40. 4:25. 6:10, |what B. Hur would look like. artist and vaudevillian until I doesn’t seem to matter when I Their "The Rat due 8 and 9:45 p.m. . . . Race,” also learned she will play Fred Miss Monroe reports for work, Keith’s "The Gallant soon, will mark the 20th an- MacMurray’s housekeeper ini as she of the association of long as reports. Hours”; 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 4:50, niversary “The Absent Minded Professor." i ! Producer William and' I«• * » 7:20 and 9:50 p.m. Perlberg Director-Writer George Seaton. I MacArthur—"The Man in a Pretty Dolores Hart, who < PERLBERG-SEATON The comedy stars Debbie i I . „ n Cocked Hat”; 6:05, 8 and 9:55 ... ' 1 made two movies with Elvis A Paramount Picture Production and Curtis. pin. Reynolds Tony Presley, visited him at Para- j Review drama Metropolitan "Wake Me Saturday critic, ¦ mount and relayed. "Elvis looks MB will lecture at When It's Over ”; 11:45 a m.. Henry Hewes, very well, 15 pounds lighter, George Washington University 2:15, 4:40. 7:10 and 9:35 p.m. j and two years in the Army ! May 27. 8 under the " CM *vto sll,l 25-8.30 m. Ontario —“Jazz on a Sum-! p.m„ ¦ made him more mature:” O-, ' p of the school's "Writers’, mer’s Day”; 1:25, 3:05, 4:30,j auspices ’ | Dolores js currently filming "6H*r taoMto Om« Ttoe, lit..SI »«... Men m ... He will n. y. n.., Club.” speak on r<\\ D.m. 6:30. 8:15 and 10 “The Plunderers" with Jeff I 2 00. g $2 75, 200 p.m. ! I [j a, Sun !"New Forms in GrflW Wed 2 cm. 00, Playwriting.” | Chandler. has 4K. VATS $2 Palace "The Fugitive ! . . . Marriage A. | 1 )) JAZZ ON J 1 tp" ¦ Hols ? D m S? 30. 60 i. . . Hollywood Columnist Joe Barbara Kind”; 11:50 a.m., 2:15, 4:35,i been good for Rush. mlFJW Pr’ces Inc' Tax Fnc OK* writes in the 7 Hyams, current DAT and 9:20 p.m. Engogement, Ladies Home Journal that the o'ders. • *> h hn |u<» Playhouse—"Expresso Bon- j O3g Specie! Consideration Given Theatre children of film stars are un- PArt.es And Groupt; go”; 12. 1:45, 3:45, 5:40, 7:40 t ‘to*. Call WO. 6 7832 happy because their parents and 9:30 p.m. liJfc j•] TECHN£OIM i "are basically unhappy people.” “Myau need Plaza "Private Property”; * Tickets Also-a marie Security A Trust Co.. Sears, AAA, Stanley Warmer Theatres 1... Sets one to wondering about Jto succeed in thh starring 11:45 a.m.. 1:15, 2:30, 3:50,! \ the of critics. If children ... 5:20. 6:50, 8:25 and 9:55 p.m. bvfinnu \ anyone cares to go into that Town "Greatest Show on ho*' WEDDING OF JULIE HARRIS on the theory a magazine editor .fl | | Earth”; 4:05,. 6:45 and 9:25 would buy it. to* ABBEY THEATRE PLAYERS Boxofhce Daily: 10 a.m. to g; 15 P.m. SUN. 11 to p.m. PRINCESS Wit* Open tJJ p.m. , There will be a special sneak Trans-Lux—"Suddenly Last preview Monday night at Loew’s MARGARET Summer”; 10:15 a.m., 12:30, ¦ Capitol Theater, 8:30 p.m.. the in 2:50, 5:10, 7:30 and 9:50 p.m.’ ¦ ¦ time. . . . "News” releases we TODAY Warner—"Ben-Hur”; 8 p.m. EXPRESSO never finished reading: "Nancy | | m Mwpffe xjn. Peter Sellers J Kwan, Eurasian actress who > MW •plays the lead in ‘The World /V*TTerry•Thomas ¦ of Suzie Wong’ has taken a , Trans-Lux I Ticke "now for 2 iI stand which might divide the > Playhouse APEX . Q I CHOICE TICKETS NOW at BOXOFFICE OR BY • I MAIL ADVANCE WANT TO SEE! 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