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m m THE PASSING SHOW H Summer of Stars V For Rock Creek % By JAT CAKMODT dience, and have also made Drunk Mltor of TO* War history in other entertain- Weather permitting—and ment operations, will go on ivW the feeling U that It never sale tomorrow at Super- EEL ¦ Music stores in the again be as unpermissive area. can They also may be purchased c as last summer's—the Feld by mall, through check or are ready with thetr money order, j| £ brothers with an en- * starriest program for Carter* closure of • cents postage. pr> Barron amphitheater. As usual, the amphi- Hr * For a 12-wee* season, one theater's summer program is - l of the longest ever set for the based upon the premise of Wlmfißm Rock Creek park bowl, they providing something for V have booked a variety enter- every popular entertainment IjL i tainment that runs the taste. The single item miss- gamut. ing is a musical (of which Headliners in comedy range "The Golden Apple” remains ¦ from Red Skelton who opens the Felds' prize booking) and amphitheater on the season this may be taken care of. K.*:- . y:. . v . June 11. for one week, to Allowance for it is made in Jerry Lewis who dominates the leaving open of two .... the final week In August. weeks, from July 20 through m Felds, Irving , Musically, the August 2. HR and Israel, have set a new f high in extravagance. They Maybe “Three Penny” ALICIA ALONSO nothing have overlooked all Among the availabilities, or the way ’n’ to LEWIS August 3-9, with Igor Youskevitch and the from rock roll possibilities, JERRY grand popular for this interval Russe. opera, with i < August 24-31, Hollywood variety. “The Three Penny Opera,” s. wPr with provide is ¦Hf •; 5 music promising to currently long- j W. W r year’s biggest New York’s the weeks in running musical, now in programs of Harry Bella- est The schedule of summer entertainment under the year ofl-Broadway. s fonte and . In its fifth the stars at Carter Barron Amphitheater however, merely of S ’£ of the youthfully It is, one promises a wide variety of music, dance and if.. the area productions being popular, performers will in- several lIS comedy. It also will bring us a host of stars for the bowl's kV Johnny Mathis, pianist considered between Red Skelton’s opening on June 11 m . mm clude single open Amhad Jamal, the Fabulous date. and the Fabulous Fabian’s closing on Sep- Fabian and Duane Eddy. The Felds, forgetting last tember 7. summer’s rains, are delighted Opera's Top Stars with their prospects for the alk Hr From the Met, during the coming season. If, in their book, any one item of their opera festival, Robert Mer- MARIA TALLCHIEF rill and Jan Peerce will schedule seems more dra- June 29-July with Washington Ballet * dominate a program that will matic than the others, this 3; the Juf include six of the classics in one could be the Harry Bella - the opera library. fonte date. :<1 Ballet will have two major The explanation for this is segments of the season, one simple. It lies in the fact } - featuring Washington's own that after the record num- Wt - / ballet company with Maria ber of rain-outs last sum- JfmH Hm. Tallchief and Andre Eglevsky mer, the hope of retrieving tis <1; as its guest stars. As its reg- season losses lay in the Bella- ular ballet highlight, the booking. fate would JOHNNY MATHIS ELLA FITZGERALD fonte As June 22-28 amphitheater will offer the have it. maliciously from the July 13-19 Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo amphitheater standpoint, whose premier dancers will Bellafonte was forced to can- m be Alicia Alonso and Igor cel his amphitheater engage- w&ffrz'" Jj Youskevitch. ment for an eye operation. Also in the plans of the year, # This the star is in Felds for their fourth year perfect health. Smog May of operating the ampitheater is the value book, which orig- A “Top” in Offing inated with the brothers, For all their dejecting ef- and which has become one Make It a Ghost Town fects, last summer’s rain- of the most popular aspects outs at the amphitheater may 5b m m By HAROLD HEFFERNAN of the most popular of operation. come one £ summer theater yet produce an ultimately North American Newspaper Alliance sites of all for choked-up c This, still selling at the orig- happy ending. Under study HOLLYWOOD. To the stars and their families. £ inal rate of has a po- BELAFONTE $3.50 with a definite view to action HARRY grave economic crisis created Heretofore only a secluded.; savings value of more tential is away of providing the August 10-23 Opera, July $-12 years ago by spot where few stars such ¦ SSO, more than ever be- several “run- a than huge area, stage and amphi- away production,” Hollywood as the late Humphrey Bogart fore. theater, with a moveable cov- today is facing up to an even and Jimmy Cagney anchored jjj ering. A of engi- * “Rivals” Included number greater threat to its vaunted boats, Newport is today a neering minds, unawed by the ARENA STAGE IS ASSURED reputation as the world's en- residential mecca for such top V As Usual, coupons on the design problems involved in capital—that of personalities as Rock Hudson, Z apply only tertainment "Value Book” not anything so large, are at OF ANOTHER FULL SEASON “runaway stars.” Dick Powell and June Ally-# to Olney summer theater, work on making the amphi- With two ominous early- son, Jane Wyman, the Marty * nominally competitor, winding up with “Epi- (Doris a but theater into a convertible. Arena Stage, now its season season "alerts” already Melchers Day), the * also for the first time to such It is nowhere in this con- taph tor George Dillon,” will be back next year for recorded and fresh warnings Paul Clemens (Eleanor};“ regular season attractions as sideration that the huge bowl another full season at the old stand. Destined to lose its coming from medical authori- Parker), the Ray Millands, the productions of the Opera should be provided with a present home at Twenty-sixth and D streets N.W. to a ties that heavier and “dead- and many lesser known Society of Washington and permanent covering, what highway project, Arena has just been assured of a re- lier” air pollutants are exert- screen and TV performers. ,* those of the Washington with its starry roof regarded prieve. It has been informed by the District Department ing untold damage to hearts, Land values there and in Ballet. as its only natural one. But of Highways and Traffic that “there is absolutely no lungs, eyes and throats, a bordering communities have The books which have pro- something that could be danger” of the repertory company’s eviction before June, serious attitude of “let’s really tripled in the last five years, vided the amphitheater op- quickly “raised” in event of 1960. This will enable it to operate for the complete realtors say, and the do something about it” has smog-;' eration with an enviable rain, that is quite different. season as usual, .from October, 1959, to May, 1960. RED SKELTON struck the film colony. escape boom has spread as basic, subscription-like au- And would be quite welcome. June 11-21, with David Rose, others. far down the Coast as La* Resort Popular Jolla. 125 miles south. Results of the new fears Blast Jolted are everywhere evident—- Grant orally and physically. Actors “Smart” actors who a doz- *' BROADWAY who were once content to en years ago first met then Paul Anka, Millionaire, complain vociferously and evils of foul air by colorfully, and let it go at homes in the San Fernando that, are now springing into Valley, in hilly Bel Air or; action—with the van com- along the Pacific Ocean Pali- - Schoolboy long Andy, a Star, Is Asked, Not Told Is Still a panies. As a result, a retreat sades, have since become; disillusioned. With the rapid- top that began slowly and quietly By WILLIAMGLOVER concentrate on both but I HOLLYWOOD (NANA).— “Diana,” he went into heavy industry and overnight. a few years ago is assuming inflow of Associated Press Writer Kids by the score line up in speed almost foul can’t.” scope of general the fumes therefrom, the of “Destry” front of the big gate at MGM “Diana” brought him eight the a exodus. NEW YORK.—There’s one The story also Should it continue during the air has gradually filtered 32-year-old every afternoon waiting for gold discs—each represent- passes and, big thing about stardom, says demands that more aggravating summer through canyon Andy get Andy dancing, and a glimpse of their latest idol ing a million in sales—and supposedly immune Griffith. You asked do some royal- months to come, Hollywood into sec-- salutes Michael as he plods off the lot after more than $250,000 in tions. Today it is conceded; instead of told. he Director ties. might be transformed into people mightily for having the day’s toil in his first spot a 75-mile , A lot of have been Kidd fine dandy for something resembling a ghost that no within homespur. movie, “Girls’ Town.” All’s and a radius of the factories and; asking drawling, gotten him moving about. young town, populated only by sway Newest to set the younger millionaire like Paul? com- refineries is spared. Andy. “Once in a while I’ll He has one bitter muting actors. the Broadway my I group afire is 17-year-old Nope! Although other leading film Griffith hit a little with wife, but gripe. age, Much closer than Palm big-time just four years ago Now singer-composer Paul Anka, Under he must figures have been pounding* couldn’t even twostep. follow California state regu- Springs and other desert spas as rambunctious Will Stock- do several numbers. who has come up so fast in away in equally bitter denun- K I years he knocked lations and attend school which are bulging as never dale in “No Time for Ser- “One thing about Kidd— two that ciations, it took Cary Grant’s', eight record- four hours a day on the set. before, the fashionable coas- day* geants.” Then came three boy and hon- off million-sale explosive blast of a few & he’s a helluva ings—and year paid That’s four hours of money- tal resort town of Newport ago films, one the notable “Face wTk with everyone all the last in- to jolt complacent mu-* est cool $1 million! making time gone down the Beach, about 50 miles from authorities come tax on a nicipal into thei % In a Crowd.” time.” drain daily, he avers. the movie factories, has be- Now the man from Mt. Paul’s screen debut con- full realization that Holly-;- role, become, Airy, N. C., is scoring in his Next Television centrates on a dramatic wood could someday sortie, but before the girls begin a movie capital Without stars - second stage as the |k A serious planner beneath -dancing -conquering weeping it should be noted to glorify its constellation. singing the rustic manner, Andy has songs. hero of “Destry Rides that he also does three "The smog here is the-L fixed his next show busi- - Again.” as When not before the cameras thickest, heaviest and smoki ness objective a television se- , idly picking The musical is giving him he’s at the est in the world and it’s a opportunity ries. away, composing or singing potential death trap,” de-> the precise he when step There was a time for the entertainment of cast, dared Grant. “If it weren’t- wanted as the next in had him Griffith television scared crew and visitors. For two for the fact that I must make the career. stiff, but he figures “it’s had record “Used to be that producers now years Paul has a a picture here now and then* : 9 *' v:’vwE the really big thing and I among the top twenty, and look after a few other. bother to find SKHH > never would & ’ wmamug ¦ »gßj|»g£gr.. ffigwE might as well join ’em.” usually one of his own com- B* 4; 'M business interests, I would out if you wanted to do a will part, or he That move however position. never come back.” certain could.” “Destry” began singing replies when asked the most have to wait. His Anka and years old, Gets In The Eyes satisfying aspect of popu- contract is through June, composing when 9 1960, and, says Andy, “There but attracted no particular Coronary and respiratory larity. years ain’t no use trying to do too attention until two ailments, together with death > You Have to Look many things at one time." ago. Recording his own rates therefrom, show an*; “Now they do. That’s the alarming increase and one main difference.” has only to attempt an eye- ‘m (the Then he gives a swift run- doctor appointment best * down of other phases of the COMING ATTRACTIONS ones are operating three and; Griffith program. four months behind) to un-r* “I decided that STAGE derstand what smog is doing'# Angeles' there are certain things I NATIONAL—Les Africains; starts May 18. to Los vision. can do and certain things What it has done to the . I can’t and I’ll just wait to last lingering traces of Hoi-.; “ SCREEN get right ones. lywood glamour is just about . the Garland; starting “What can I do? I don’t REPEAT PERFORMANCE —Andy Griffith AMBASSADOR—“A Star Is Born,” Judy irreparable. Night lifeamong.-' know precisely. You just scored Broadway on his first appear- Wednesday. the noted is now practically , Take this show a hit APEX—“My Uncle,” Jacques Tati. so many are have to look. Now he is extinct because now. Ever since ’Sergeants’ ance in “No Time for Sergeants.” CAPITOL—"Warlock,” Anthony Quinn and Henry Fonda. too far removed from the’, all the stage bids to me were riding high again as the singin’, shootin’ and COLUMBlA—“Compulsion,” Diane Varsi: starts Thursday. bright lights to make whooper for musicals. That’s because • even dancin’ star of the musical, “Destry DUPONT—“Dreaming Lips,” Maria Schell. for a single round-trip eve-j I said right out that’s what KElTH’S—“Thunder in the Sun,” Susan Hayward; starting ning. And, saddest of all, la. I wanted to do next. Rides Again.”—AP Newsfeatures Photo. Wednesday. the comment of Marilyns “One day Harold Rome — MacARTHUR—"The Two-Headed Spy,” Jack Hawkins. Monroe of New York: he composed the music—- METROPOLITAN—“A Star Is Born,” ; start- “I’m glad I’m out of that;* course, after coming up here. asked me if I’d be interested like me. Os I was a job ing Wednesday. ENTHUSED ATHLETE foul air! The moment I in ‘Destry’. I said ‘l’m in- voice major in college and I That’s when I turned to pon- Five Pennies,” Danny Kaye. Hollywood my sinuses,*set£ anything.’ Later ologues. ONTARIO—“The foot in terested in taught choral music for three PALACE—“Woman Obsessed,” Susan Hayward. No, he did not just win a pair of tickets to the start pounding and I getH on he played me three of the “I’ve heard myself on rec- Farmayanis, a my years and I'm conductor now TOWN—“Shane,” Van Heflin. Bolshoi Ballet. He’s Georgi colds and headaches. I can't& songs. Afterwards I told ords. and I d rather be known Happened Jane,” ; starting my for the Methodist choir in TRANS-LUX—“It to member of the spectacular Russian troupe wait until role is finished*# manager ’Let’s do it.’ as a comedian. May 18. Thursday and I can get out. It is good v Manteo. songs coming to the Capitol Theater Sings and Dances “Doing I don't think UPTOWN—“Diary of Anne Perkins; starting night Jpr one performance (sold outk of the doctors have given Up numbers, 'that's “But I quit singiA in 1952 about the sound, just Zhe May 19. ” warnings.” *T Ag six folks g BolshcPhighlights. a lot of singing for somebody when I got a turndown on a words. Maybe some can