■ 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^^ACKlye 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’ ^OGjNN-PETERUCTIN^ i I STEVEN^O 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 ^a,*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. ning wanted Henry Fonda for the yon have a movie told in movie terms; each picture It related tel I UNKNOWN Dorothy back. She’s one of the film version—that was a year ago. i a brilliantly planned mosaic and fit* soundtrack, while admirablJ best actresses of our Anne Baxter and Louis day. Jourdan ■s to word* and background music, is subordinate to the pictur^ Joan Crawford’s $200,000 settle- will star in “Face in the Deep,” a MAM#Is' fascinating yarn of underwater ment with Warners is to be paid at • r^;-rfi#Jl exploits'during the war. ^Broker] the rate of $50,000 to Joan for the SCOn BRADY THELMA RITTER Cornel Wilde’s leading kdy in •iM» ire Mas tat • 0$s#o / r«m ous Cju/fAi rrwr'v'AN ///I next four years. On the old con- "Condor’s Nest.” Irish colleen Enjoying It* 4th Rtcord Month at TRANS-LUX STARTS THe»^e Orel* tract, Warners would have had to Constance Smith, is having a bad Ends Today ^CLIFTON WEBB AM A. ■ // pay Joan $800,000 during the next bout with bronchitis. COLUMBIA “ELOPEMENT" four years. If any of their other Bette Davis’s temperamental ■“ ”5g ■“PATRICK HATES CONCERTS ^CAPITOL-77^ $200,000-per-picture stars want storms during “Another Man’s •ut, they’ll be happy to oblige. Poison” were described by a TWO PERFORMANCES NEW fiAYETY Ends Today Maureen O’Hara*Jeff Chandler “FLAME OF ARABY** Technicoi The May-September marriage British press girl as “like a strato- In Constitution Hall MAT. TODAY 2:30 ©f Gig Young and Sophie Rosen- cruiser landing on a window box.” Next Sun., January 13—4 P.M. CAPITOL On Stage ... In Person ETHEL SMITH .., others ctein is going along swimmingly. * * * * Next Mon., Jan. 14—8:30 P.M To celebrate their first wedding How about Richard Whorf to Different Programs Each Performance JOSt Eddie I anniversary, Gig gave Sophie a play Cantor in the Sidney S. Hurok presents The Magnificent! h ... 1 ____ Ytt, Fm mosaic swimming pool. Skolsky production? Dick looks a OrekMt lot like Eddie. On THE SHE AND OMIT /> Viveca Lindfors will take a crack second thought, GRECO FREE at the New York theatre. She said why doesn’t Eddie play himself. and hit Oct-p*, ; SSffWSfl! He’s 60, for that she was planing east in a few but, my money, looks SPANISH iAUET COMPANY ORCHIDS like a boy. You’re welcome Qt&di, TQgr*** Eddie COURTESY OF —ana and hit sianey. 2 WEEKS IE8INNIN8 JAN. 21 Gabriel Pascal is BALLET ROBERT WINSTON CANDIES of WASH1HST0N dreaming, of HINDU FAREWELL ENGAGEMENT course, but nonetheless, he says Scats, >1.80. $1.80, S2.40, >3.00. S.60 HATES CONCERT BUREAU SEAT SALE BE8INS MONDAY he is negotiating with Lord mi* 110S G N.W. (In Campbell Mnsle Ce.) 3 Performance! Only! Mountbatten to play himself in NA. 7151 Stein way Plane THE MESSRS- SHUtERTJ'KESENT “The Life of Gandhi,” with Alec With National Symphony Guinness as Gandhi. Janaary 26, 27, 28—0:10 P.M. Aldous U Rath'. ~ PLAZA Huxley is writing the screen play. NOW y CONSTITUTION HALL NEW HO«K AVt. AT WTM ST. James Cagney has OPtM 11 AM PROGRAMS reactivated _ his Student “Lion in the Streets.” “I’ve Impressive. Absorbing'.. Jon. 36—-Ballet Imperial had it six years James vw»Time Dan Quixote (Pat de Deux) now,” said Magazine Mute Wife on the set of “What Price Glory?” SAT. I YE, JAR. I2, SiSS Mi. Gaite Pari,tonne “I to CMUtttatln Bell Fnnce Jan. 27—Swan lake plan do it now as a satire, WITH A CHEAT CAST Hue lird From th# 1 with myself as the lion.” AMD THE " BARBERSHOP Cirque de Deux Edmund QUARTETS Rollicking Gwenn, my favorite JOHN BARRYMQREJR. S.B.E.B.S.Q.S.A. FAMOUS STUDENT CHOWS Capriceie Etpognel actor, plays the bishop in “Les Jan. 28—let Sylphides Broadway Etjtj a “lig NigU” Frii.it the Sktnhas's Mw Grand Pa, Clas.ique Miserables.” feels (latent wttk Teddy fine, he Iw-UHw tt IWtt l M wWWIC Mr Mailt Raymonda (Ad III) "*■ said, after several operations and Scheheraxade a 0:30 P.M. a long rest. ! NATIONAL SYMPHONY TONIGHT Price*: 81.20. 1.80 1.40, 8.88. 8.88 Hall Sroheny Box Office, XlU’i Errol Flynn’s money—what he HOWARD MITCHELL. Constitution 1888 G St. N.W. has for Conductor left—goes his teeth. He Tales of TriURS. MATINEE, JAN. 10 is having another big dental In • Mat nanrt Usnnr Auditorium, 2:30 session. , offmanri THIS WEEK! MOWA SHE AM* SPECIAL! ace starring THOMAS BEECHAM Jerry Geisler, criminal law- color br TtCMNICOtoe arrennment/ HtaSS SIR yer, and at tl.to Gregg Bautzer were a , Ooew.oecM. Cue* Conductor rerfnnne Continuous perft.—1:00, lunching duet at Romanoff’s.® 3:10. MO, 7.30 l 9:40. OUPOnT 5“* « tali m« at Kitt'e IIU O NATIONAL SYMPHONY DANCE COURSE Wish I’d been a fly on the table- w"; JHHrrtaijjty^loj^aow^e^llJOjA^j^ MRS. • PRIVATt M«il cloth. IIMu Program { Cib>I»H lnnlni |f (Released by MARA.) Haydn: Symphony No. 103 K% iSBBSBSSSSs&s=s±^ Mtm, twaka, ■wati.Wrtli. To»*»,«*c Lord Berners: of Neptune VIVIEN Triumph T>i» aaaloa coafii Nwi* ASSIGNMENT ENDED — Pa- II ATI ON AL LEIGH I EVENING Schubert: Symphony No. B PARKING CLAUDE RAINS ar I'rwiaf tricia Neal who plays—very the First atfvancatf, past ; Delius: On Hserins pvpHs; but only o«a cowsa prettily—the newspaper wom- 50° ‘Zif ^ Cuckoo an in "Mr. Congressman,” will ^ Bcrlioi: Corsaire Overturn mi patra leave Washington today upon iif(ini CAPITAL GABAGE contmuou* mouuws location shoot- •OOM BA completion of 1110 N. 1. An. N.W. OMN 10.10 Tho PLAYHOUSE si.se. fl it. fi.M. as.ee. ss.se: ; T*“" ing on the picture. Htt tm4 Utt jgkP’&ff