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■ AMUSEMENTS. AMP8BMENT8. I _AMUSEMENTS._AMUSEMENTS.___AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. The Passing Show Ses iCdVfiO 'Mr. Congressman' Company sing/fii Adjourns as Congress Meets By Jay Carmody Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “Mr. Congressman” company turned over the Capitol of the United States to the 82d Congress yesterday, as grateful for the loan of it as it is humanly possible to be grateful, There was one hrief scene of the Dore Schary production still to be shot after Congress convened at noon. It was made unobtru- sively in the early aftemoo i. Immediately thereafter. Director- 1 wraer «od tirosn, Cameramar J John Citter Alton, Jack Dunning tag shots, bits we might need,” V' and the others folded their scripts Dunning explained. tripods, chairs and themselves anc ♦ * * * £ departed. If the Department of Defense With all its joys They did not leave town. Thej would like to know it, just for were too tired for that. Insteac adding sparkle to dinner table con- and all its melody they went back to their hotels tc versations, the most disconcerting rest up prior to picking up train: shot made by the “Mr. Congress- and all its heart and planes for the westward flight man” company was that at the today. Pentagon. , comes Warner BrosT. The company’s idea of this was ' Like an adjourning Congress it- that the scene, featuring Van self might do, the group inferen- story of songdom’s Johnson as the Mister Congress- tially passed a few final resolu- man, would be shot with a mini- Starts tions before leaving. Among these glorious Gus Kahn-and mum of disturbance to the defense { ] were be-it-resolveds to the effect effort. It was everybody’s idea that that: ATOMORROWJ the girl who put the love the Pentagon staff, so accustomed No city is the dramatic equal of to celebrities that it should be in his love sdngs! Washington. jaded by them, would hardly look No set in Hollywood, or any- up at a movie company at work. “It turned out that this was a where, else, can compare with the Charles s / From Chicago's North Side building in the gruesome sort of miscalculation,” LAUGHTOH-Eoris KUtOfF Capitol inspiration - it gives to the movie company Pirosh says. “There seemed to be Xy where he started, to the working on a picture. acres of people watching the whole thing. I got the feeling that the HBKST- tidonl STtfllT %/° No weather is more blessedly | Sallf Jj a / Southland's lovers lanes and audience was running into the whimsical than Washington’s thousands, an exaggeration no OPEN “THE STRANGE DOOR" IN which threatened the “Mr. Con- OUR LORRY- I from the boulevards of doubt, but you know how it is when WIN VALUARLE PRIZES! Hollywood gressman” project constantly and ^ you feel an unusual number of GET YOUR LUCKY KEYS AT GEORGE'S APPLIANCE < then,'on the climactic day (Mon- STORE, to the of eyes upon you when you’re work- 816 F ST., OR IN OUR LORRY J brightlights Broadway day) came through with vital and ing.” FIRST PRIZEi THOR AUTOMAGIC WASHER beautiful sunshine, his and his name are loved me spectators, nowever, were songs i No company, probably, ever got about generally pleasant being as others are. caught in a tighter race than the there, or anywhere else, the pic- jew “Mr. Congressman” one which had ture happened to be shooting I—^J to shoot its Washington location around Washington. They always ^ 1 "■■■■. 11 ■■■'■■ -. V t He's the scenes between December 26 and took their direction very well, in- wonderful fellow who 8 in order to clear the January deed, their direction (from Pirosh didn’t know how to 'I love Capitol by the time Congress con- and his associates) always being IN PARIS" say you* vened. be S5R RAIMU in "MIDNIGHT to quiet so they .would not to his own but wrote it in No company ever finished up a interefere with the scene. girl song location period more tired, more for all of happy, or with the feeling of hav- America's sweethearts! Jpg been made more at horns in Where and When the very heart of democracy. Current Theater Attractions * * * * And Time of Showing Next time Washington sees Stage. Pirosh, Van John- Alton, Dunning, Arena—“Twelfth Night”; 8:30 son, Patricia Neal, Louis Calhera, p.m. Ober, with Producer .)•; {.. Philip Schary New Gayety—Jose Greco and almost certain to be along, will be his Spanish Ballet; 2:30 and 8:30 In the summer. This is when “Mr. p.m. will be released and Congressman” Screen. It is Inconceivable that its world Premiere Ambassador—“Distant Drums”; Washington —Tomorrow Night premiere could be held anywhere 5:15, 7:20 and 9:30 p.m. Arthur Ranh presents else. 1:00, 3:05, J. Capitol—"The Flame of Araby”; “We’ll be back, more fit,” said in artJ 11:00 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 and A Masterpiece Performance Suspense Pirosh. a.m„ 10:00 p.m. Stage: 12:50, 3:30, “Less tired,” added Alton. 6:15 and 9:00 p.m. “More threw human,” Dunning 11:45 to. Columbia—“Elopement”; “POOL OF LONDON” * * * * a.m., 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and 9:50 with a great cast—including Pirosh, an old Baltimore boy, p.m. of Hoffmann”; BONAR COLLEANO e SUSAN SHAT but not so never Dupont—“Tales very old, had any ASHERSON • EARL CAMERON 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30 and 9:40 p.m. RENEE Question in his mind that the • Keith’s—“The MOIRA LISTER JOAN DOWLING essential scenes for the he Strange Door”; story Produced by Sir Michael Balcon wrote and directs in “Mr. Con- 11:35 a.m., 1:40, 3:45, 5:50, 7:55 Directed by Basil Dearden gressman” would have to be shot and 10:00 p.m. on location here. Little—“Midnight in Paris”; Through the generosity of Mr. Sam Roth and "They can do miracles in 6:15, 8:05 and 9:50 pjn. Holly- Universal-International Pictures, the entire pro- wood with sets,” he says, “but not Metropolitan—“The Big Night”; the miracle of reproducing the 11:25 a.m.; 1:05, 2:50, 4:20, 6:15, ceeds of tomorrow’s premiere performances for Capitol. It has been tried, but 8:00 and 9:45 p.m. the benefit of the National—"Smoky”; 11:15 aoa„ IQVEJOY PATRICE pmy one who is familiar with the WYMORE1 DAMON RUNYON MEMORIAL atmosphere of the real building 1:00, 2:45, 4:30, 6:15, 8:00 and JAMES GLEASON knows the sheer folly of it. What 9:45 p.m. CANCER FUND ^viuG^ÂCKlye MICHAEL CURTIZ we have done here—and it all looks Ontario—"Darling, How Could See a Great Show! Help a Great Cause! fine in the rushes we have seen— You!”; 1:40, 3:45, 5:50, 7:55 and Last Times Ala inereaia in admission prim Gary COOPER could not have been done any- 10:00 p.m. | ' Palace — T where else.” “Quo Vadis”; 11:35 PRot/ib SPitUe PTAeafae — 9th St at F Today 'Distant Drums How about retakes? a.m., 2:45, 5:55 and 9:05 p.m. All three, Pirosh, Alton and Dun- Playhouse—“Caesar and Cleo- ning, doubted any retakes will be patra”; 11:00 ajn., 1:05, 3:15, 5:25, Becessary. 7:35 and 9:45 pjn. “Until we got that sun on Mon- Plaza — “The Lavender Hill I day, with the odds supposedly so Mob”; 10:35 a.m., 12:30, 2:25, 4:20, • much against it, I thought we 6:20, 8:15 and 10:15 pjn. I Opt* 10:4$ Last ftatart 9 P.M. might have to come back,” Alton Trans-Lux — “A Place in the DICK COE PICKED THE Said. “I think I was even hoping Sun"; 10:55 a.m., 1:05, 3:15, 5:30, WINNER LAST OCTOBER we 7:40 LlfeOiilSuOUSPMFOMSaS —a little might, but now I. don’t think and 9:55 p.m. I/ / Hi- el. 4. we’ll be back before the opening Warner — “Distant Drums”; love in v0ice oj"9 of the picture.” 11:15 a.m., 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:45 life? J| "We took care of a lot of cover- and 9:45 p.m. your Ju THE WASHINGTON POST m MfSS WtdntUtr, OtUbw It, 11U -a little life L m A Tl-CIINICOI.OR One On the Aisle ROBERT TAYLOR KT APRIL Hollywood Diary | DEBORAH KERR J Dorothy McGuire Ready ‘Place in the Sun’ ÔGjNN-PETERUCTIN^ i I STEVENÔ For Picture Assignment El '**' i rc* By Sheilah Graham—. Hates That vJ2z*z!zr I Exactly Starts TOMORROW Opt* <9:48 HOLLYWOOD. days to star for Elia Kazan in | Richard L Co* TIE TWE-TI-UFl Dorothy McGuire, with a flop “Flight Into Egypt.” By 1 * * * * BEHIND-THE-SCENES â,*no Go to play in New York, is ready to lis- 441 PLXce in THE SUN,* at thk paint, Is Hollywood’s finest HoH 'll John O'Hara’s R[ STORY DEI ONE LOU! Hi ten to the Fidelity picture offer “Appointment in A drama of the year. In fact. the. new Trans-Lux arrival will Samara” will be done as a to star in “Gardenia,” by Vera play probably rank as a screen classic. 9 .u—THE first on Broadway. Skirball-Man- I the I * That Is a tat wen Tor her* A It will be nice to have sweeping statement, considered 9^[TE WAS I Caspary.

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