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TODAY'S SCHEDULES ' *** * Gary fKm*• m Gabby Cooper Admits IS! vmEk. JhHMHQI 40'Jrr STAGE HK;« aj Hal.:lbßjeM j|S jQ ARENA—Three One Act Plays: “Bedtime Story.” "Portrait of HHg j § MB jfl^Bßa| a Madonna" and ‘Man of Destiny"; 8 pm. NATIONAL—Dark. “Hotel Paradiso” resumes tomorrow. His Taciturnity Just a Hoax CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY—Dark. “Don Camillo" By n ‘ resumes JAMES BACON ¥ 1 la" tomorrow. HaHni¦HEMP f s t# | pKa m m m -M _>a^BHBK'W^.VI 'i -a • ¦'.. HOLLYWOOD (ff). Let’s i 1 HI iJHn 11 »5l ;M|i||§# lw • SCREEN explode one of the most fa- AMBASSADOR—“Giant"; 1:15, p.m. mous of all Hollywood myths. 4:50 and 8:30 The myth—or good-natured CAPITOL—“Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison”; 1:30, 3:40, 5:45, * hoax—concerns Gary Coop- 7:50 and 9:55 p.m. , er's long publicized reputation COLONY—“The King and I”; 2, 4:25. 6:45 and 9:15 p.m. as a “yep" or “nope” yokel UMj/mJ jp***~f COLUMBIA—“The River’s Edge”; 1:40, 3:40, 6:45, 7:45 and who grunts in monosyllables. s 1 9:45 p.m. Actually, those who know Coop DUPONT—"GoId of Naples”; 1:25, 3:25, 5:30, 7:35, 9:40 p.m. best would put him on any list of the most sophisti- KElTH'S—"Tattered Dress”; 1:45, 3:45, 5:50, 7:50, 9:55 p.m. cated or most talkative of all MacARTHUR—"The Search for Simon"; 2:30, 4:20, 6:10, movie stars. 8 and 9:55 p.m. He is the first to admit, METROPOLITAN—“Giant”; 1:40, 5:10 and 8:40 p.m. once he knows that you know, ONTARIO—"Fear Strikes Out”; 1:20, 3:30, 5:35, 7:40 and that his taciturnity is a pose, 9:45 p.m. “It all started years ago PALACE—"Ten Thousand Bedrooms”; 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:35 when I was a guest on Edgar and 9:45 p.m. Bergen’s radio show," Coop imJ|| PLAYHOUSE—"The Ten Commandments"; 2 and 8 p.m. recalls. “The skit writers had PLAZA—Fernandei the Dressmaker"; 2,4, 6. 8 and 10 p.m. Charlie McCarthy wisecrack- TRANS-LUX—"The Iron Petticoat "; 1:10, 2:50, 4:40, 6:30, ing in his usual sophisticated •8:15 and 10 p.m. way. I was just the aig cow- UPTOWN—"Oklahoma!”; 2, 5 and 8:30 p.m. boy who said either ‘yep’ or Wonders of the World”; ‘nope’ through the whole skit. WARNER—"Seven 2. 5 and 8:30 p.m. ' "It came off pretty funny and seemed to catch on with the public.” THE PASSING SHOW He soon saw its potentiali- :'"' " ties as a defense against pry- IB ing gossip columnists. He Won’t Shut Up PRESENT HlT—"Fanny” has gone through many transitions it since origin- Dorothy Malone? “When a columnist would ally took form as a trilogy of plays by Marcel Pagnol. Jack Washburn and Italo ask me silly questions such as Tajo are a pair of those importantly cast in the hit musical based on all three whether I slept in the top or plays, which arrives at the National Theater on Monday, April 8. bottom of my pajamas, I’d just grunt. If they pressed, Seems shrug my Incredible I’d shoulders and maybe ‘nope’. They 'Fanny' By JAY Days” best picture answer Has CARMODY as was soon got tired of asking something of to me. The Motion Picture Acad- a double-cross And I’m still friends most touchy with all has its observers on of them." emy spoken and, as al- part Academy. A Notable the of the wife, Rocky, ways, the dissenters are speak- His once said of The Case of Mike his reputation for ing back. silence: The latter were all set "My trouble is trying to shut Family Tree Nothing has to ever come of bludgeon Hollywood him up once he gets going.” ‘‘Fanny,” the Broadway hit this latter process, and noth- on the Cooper will have chance viHHHH grounds a to which comes to the National ing ever will, but it does have that it is a special be articulate for a television ACTING? NOPE. ULCER? YEP—The troubled Theater one week from tomor- the effect of relaxing the dis- production, "a show on film” audience in the fall of ‘SB. Gary row look that helped Cooper win an Academy night. has a bushier fam- senter’s tensions, if not of in Producer Todd's own words. He has signed a three-year r ’ ily tree than most musicals transferring the Acad- When it won over such contract Award for “High Noon was not entirely histrionic. them to com- to act as host and Itwas due, in at least, to the fact can boast of. emy’s voters. petitors. if not favorites, as j narrator for a filmed series of part that his ulcer Some of these have de- Actually, the grounds for "Oiant” and “The King and action - adventure dramas was acting up at the time. scended from novels, some vehement post mortems were I." it was necessary to switch scheduled by CBS. (one makes sophisticated love to from straight plays each fewer this year, and less in- to the position that Todd’s tive towns and some primitive per “Fanny," An Authentic Cowboy Audrey Hepburn. He'll wear characters still around. musical'. how- citing, than many previous picture is special and as such in ’ ever, springs from a trilogy of seasons. Nothing, certainly, ineligible to compete against He has made a few brief white tie and tails on the “We drove into a little town plays by Pagnol to guest appearances TV. , for the first time in 20 day just as Marcel compare with those in which conventional film fare. This on But screen one two characters the weekly : years. feuding “Marius." “Fanny” and Joan Crawford’s “Mildred sort of thing is awkward and shows will be his who had started in a first regular series. He To the younger generation, saloon decided to settle “Cesar." Pierce” was declared the pe- leaves the reviewers with only won’t it in All three works of the the solace that in accepting, play any roles, however—not , there is no one quite as heroic the main street with the draw riod’s best feminine star per- rugged, Coop gunfight—- of Fiench playwright had suc- formance. his Oscar, Mr. Todd repeated even the silent types i as in a screen six-shooters. Or with the senti- ; for which he’s famous. tribute to his often under- ”1 stood there and cessful engagements on the ment-inspired that it is “a show." Which a watched choice of Cecil Except Wayne, acting ability. the whole thing—too w6b&^sS2&o* s ' Paris stage. All three later B. deMille's does seem to imply something for John he i rated scared to successfully "Greatest Show on is the screen's top purveyor move even though the bullets were transformed Stanley different from a film. i “I'm not really that heroic.” Earth” over Kramer's of the rugged, and blood splattered Into French motion pictures. “High This critic, who agreed with, taciturn Western i he mocks himself. "In fact, all up Noon.” “Marius” also turned in his fellows that Kirk Douglas’ j hero. It’s true he is one of the i when I read what some of around me. It seemed like a translation pn the Broadway Hollywood was months hear- bonafide cowboys in the movies, . those guys had to do keep crazy way to settle an argu- ing about both was the best male performance to stage back in 1930, presented of those. but predicted Yul Brynner's j but he is equally at home in the s alive in those days, I'm glad ment." by Gilbert Miller. Mr. Miller Inflammatory Oscar, haunts of international society, . I wasn’t around. I think I Cooper grew up on the Mon- It’s shares the considerable range, has had more rewarding ven- disappointment here. The dif- ; particular favorite of the * would have been a minister tana able to rope, ride tures in the theater. Among the 1956 awards British royal family. instead.” and shoot with the best. Yet Wednesday night, ference between the two was Twenty-four years later, made last that Douglas' Society folk will tell you he w-as no yokel from the *• v portrait of Van t§ > the most inflammatory to It Was *v. v*sg Primitive . however, “Marius" was beck. the Gogh original. Bryn- that Coop is witty, urbane and sticks. Dorothy was an 55-year-old Cooper In an adaptation by S. N. Behr- critics was Malone's ner’s of King picture highly sophisticated. He may r The He was the son of Charles supporting performance Siam's a , probably Henry man and Joshua Logan of all in made and polished wear the tight fitting blue is the only Hollywood Cooper, a former Brit- in three of few of • three plays, with lyrics and "Written on the Wind.” Miss years of stage performance. jeans on the screen but his | star—and one the his ish barrister who had moved music by Harold Rome. As a Malone, a pleasant girl when personal wardrobe is tailored I age—who ever witnessed an to Helena and later became a play they have frequently met, Professional moviegoers are honest-to-goodness Western justice of the Montana musical called "Fanny.” was invariably on Bond street. Su- Pagnol’s outrageously victimized into an disarmed when Di- gunfight. As a teen-ager. preme Court. Mr. refurbished tril- rector George White ogy opened outrageously overplayed per- Stevens wins Tie and Tails Cooper once worked as a jit- When Gary was 9 his family ON at New York's Ma- anything BROADWAY—One play of theJPagnol trilop, formance in opinion from a hole at golf The public will see this side ney driver hauling sent him to Dunstable came as jestic Theater in November. the of i tourists to School, “Marius,” to Broadway "Marseilles” in 1930. 1954. most reviewers. to an Oscar. Mr. Stevens is a of Cooper in his latest movie, , Yellowstone National Park. Bedfordshire, England, where It ran for three seasons not only admire but Frances Torchiana was its Fanny, Alexander Kirk- and racked up office man to to “Love in the Afternoon.” a ro- Some 40 years ago Wyoming he propped for four years. He a box Miss Malone's portrait of an hold in the wannest land its Marius. gross affection. mantic comedy in which he and Montana had some pnmi- on Page E-2, of more than $6 million. oil tycoon's nymphomaniac It is less likely that he should Continued Col. S ______daughter inspired wm . some of ever "go Hollywood” than that 1956's loudest, longest critical Hollywood should “go George jeers. Such a girl as this, espe- Stevens.” cially in her slip-clad dance If Tab Got Away With 'Young A Little Quibble *% £ before Rock Hudson’s por- Love/ : * IjksKk trait. would have been put So, no quible has anyone away at the age of 4. the that Mr. Stevens won the best critics insisted. director award for "Giant.” Stars Reason, They Can Do the Same f'-mip.wi'/ t .\ / That girls apparently Well, maybe quib- By mm\"ffi*sSt lift '“*' such a minute HAROLD HEFFERNAN Audrey Hepburn is coming - ft V are regarded as relatively ble at that. There is a critical HOLLYWOOD, < >.— out soon with an album for common-place is notion that the picture NANA in Hollywood best Verve of Gershwin music from something of year must logicially When a Hollywood studio cast- the reviewers take a be her new film, “Funny Face.” amiss. Most enragingly of all linked to the best direction, ing director interviews a new Grace Kelly earned a gold rec- when they remember Eileen that the two are somehow the prospect these days he has a ord from Capitol for the album thing. According Heckart’s two mother roles in same to this special question to ask: of “High Society,” wnich was “The Bad Seed” and "Some- canon, an ineffective canon if her very first platter venture. body Up There Likes there ever was one, if Mr. “How about your voice? Me.” up Presence of Bing Crosby and The victory of Mike Todd's Stevans was the best director Think you can sing a Fiank phonograph Sinatra might well “Around the World in CARMODY, storm of records helped 80 See Page E-3 that will sell million have push the sale. a or two? Dot signed Oddly enough, that’s what has Marlene Dietrich and she’ll be recorded THEATER movie business has been evolv- here shortly, ing clearing but Miss D. is no Into—a sort of stranger to the house for actors who can also mike, having big cut hits several times in the put themselves over on the / past. The hi-fi circuit. One might point same company also Girls From nas Gale Storm under con- Stratford to the records the waxed Raimu and Pierre Fresnay played Cesar and Marius in the to Stratford and even visited the triple crown in Billboard's with the amazing title Come Shine." Latest to maka sun-baked cowlands of Texas. poll—this of fact the leap Robert Wagner, movie version of “Marius.” theaters in New York and De- in spite the “Mamma Looka 800 is The two have simple expla- never sung before. Boo.” who'll appear on ihe Liberty troit." the lad had by "What’s This Gen- of how they backed label—the company which nation did it. Tab's Triple Crown eration Cornin’ To,” is setting took “Being women helped a On Their Third Auto Julie London, forgotten as an lot.” the record counters asserts Robin Patterson. “It The distaff duo undertook Tab's been followed by a on fire and actress after her retirement to Man rash of actors turning vocal- he's already made an LP Having organization marry subsequently Your Back Is Wonderful, would tougher of backwoods and di- have been a lot the album to follow Certainly to for men.” Her partner. circuit when illness temporarily ist on wax. all in hopes of up. vorce Jack Webb. Her star w»as Laurel Mitchum is the last person Crosby, nods agreement. forced Patterson to the side- making a quick kill and count- quickly thrust into the rhyth- ing in Hollywood one would Visiting Broadway for a lines. the royalties pouring into ever mic heavens with "Cry Me a Reconciled Jeanne Crain Declares the bank. They be expect to record a ballad, much quick catch-up on what's new Thus far the ladles have can't River.” blamed, of cents less calypso—and expertly. Hopping By SHEILAH GRAHAM again in entertainment, the pair clocked off 65.000 miles—and course. At 4 aboard the band- I don’t want to work royalty disc, wagon before May. stopped long enough to de- are wearing out their third on each a 2 mil- Mark’s a Business are such acting figures HOLLYWOOD < N A N A ). lion sale —and as Steve Rowland, of MGM ‘T’ve always worked.” con- scribe the backwoods boom In automobile. Sometimes bliz- means SBO.OO0 Now Mark Stevens, who son "We have an agreement,” said • that’s not bad pay for a couple Director Roy Rowland, with la tinued the red-haired actress. show trouping. zards have overtaken them, or sings a Jeanne Crain, "never to discuss of hours work. Cut the figures for the first time on the titled "Flat Train”; “Now I'd like oil. they've been caught in 30-be- tune Wheel what happened between us.” some time They Were Determined in half you're still doing screen in Robert Bassler’s pro- Debra Paget. Ida Lupino, How- This may be a pessimistic low-zero freezes. But Patter- and “Gunsight Ridge.” referring Mrs. Patterson and Miss pretty well. duction of ard Sal Mineo, Rory Jeanne was to her viewpoint, but an actress gives son-Crosby and their Cana- following Duff. Crosby launched their adven- Hunter, only Is suit. He’ll record Calhoun and even bitter divorce and unexpected the best years of her life to dian Players have never missed So Mr. known "Hankerin' For You” Charles turous career three years ago, performance. as straight dramatic thes- and Laughton. reconciliatiop with her hus- the public. They want you a a ’’Matinee” for the Zephyr band years, Paul Brink- armed with a road map, an of U only while you arc looking The two set out eight But goes step away glad idea—and determination. label. Stevens a man. "But in I’m it good—from 16 to 10. I've months before the playing Already happened.” “We made every mistake in further: an actor, all she added. "So been working in Hollywood season begins, heading for director, producer is Paul. us, the book and more that popula- writer, and The divorce cost be- now for 14 years I'd like it communities with a maker of TV commercials, he tween us, $51,000. That's a lot first season." says Miss Crosby. not to dominate my life any tion of 2.500 or more. has set up two new corpora- of money to find out you still more. "At last we have the ledgers love a man. I also lost 12 in the black.” One-Two Punch tions (Mark Music and Mark ' In Records) pounds. gained J Career Got Way From last October through they to publish tunes and I've 4 back—- I *pP Then make sure there but I'm still spinning, and I'm “It took me a long time but this coming month of April, is an auditorium—usually in produce discs for his own drained of energy.” I’ve discovered that marriage two youthful companies (aver- a school—and sufficient local label. "When do you make another is a full-time lob. You can't age age 25) of performers un- interest to guarantee finances. Nothing particularly new, of picture?” Iasked Jeanne, whom do everything and do it well. der the Patterson-Crosby aegis Just keeping the show on the course, about actors going you will be seeing about now on Something suffers And the will have played 300 communi- road costs between $3,000 and platter. They’ve been doing it the screen in "The Tattered day comes when you must de- ties In nine Canadian provinces, $4,000 each week. for several years—but only in Dress.” Her answer startled JEANNE CRAIN cide what is most Important. 25 States and Washington. D. C. "Robin calls the local peo- sporadical fashion and num- me. She has always been am- Glad It All Happened One of the troubles in my The dramatic enterprise was ple together and gets them bers. Jane Wyman created bitious and a hard worker, and marriage was that 1 worked launched as an off-shoot of the enthused on artistic and cul- quite a stir several years ago her acting career has always son is like a vessel. If you too hard at my career. I k'-pt renowned Shakespearean Fes- tural values,” Miss Crosby ex- when she waxed for Decca, to been very important to her. pour out the contents, it be- putting oil living and enjoy- tival at Stratford. Ontario, a plains. be followed by Yvonne De comes empty. And acting ing my family life, until some brainchild of steps Carlo, who turned out "Take Acting Drains You Mrs. Patterson’s "Then Laurel in and drains you more than any- future date. Now I’m going husband, Tom. Once that was gives them the business facta.” It Or Leave It” for Capitol. “Icouldn't care less,” Jeanne thing. You need a surplus of to coast a bit on the career.” underway, Patterson thought, adds Mrs. Patterson. “She And nearly two decades ago replied. "Imade three pictures energy on top of having such Unless she changes her it would be a good idea to keep absolutely flummoxes local it was the late Walter Huston last —that's mind, next year too much. I’d a disintegrated life that Jeanne's picture the summertime acting com- . merchants with her direct- who may have set the pace by like to do three pictures every nothing is normal and prac- will be in September. “With pany intact with off-season manner. And once she sets a I KT MITC 11l M half-singing, half-speaking the TAB HUNTER two years at the most. A per- tically everything a problem. Continued on Page E-2, Col. 1. might get a -price—she never changes That Calypso memorable "September Song.” “Love” Is work—and also lot it.” Beat^ Wonderful*.1