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THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C ** WEDNESDAY, AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. A-42 DECEMBER 1«. I*S3 Where and When I _ The Passing Show Current Theater Attractions I sums TOMORROW And Time of Showing | ¦ MUMlmf Life Casts Bleak Shadow Stage. SCMM . Arena Stage “Charley’s SWAGE SPECTACLE Aunt"; 8:30 p.m. HOLDEN OF THE THOUSAND-MILE SAFARI# In Shubert's New Play Catholic University “Anti- IWILUAM gone”; 8:30 p.m. By Jay Carmody Sam S. Shubert—“ln the Sum- “In the Summer opened ¦1 HHMfPARKER House” which at the Shubert Theater mer House”; 2:30 and 8:30 p.m. last night is that “different” play again. It is so not different that Screen. all the agonized writing by Mrs. Jane Bowles, or the multi-flavored Ai| JOHN nm Ambassador “Hondo”; 1:30, acting by Judith Anderson, Mildred Dunnock and the others )n M-G M’t +/ made it comprehensible to at 14 3:30, 5:35, 7:40 and 9:40 p.m. least one spectator. Capitol “Escape From Fort | “IN THE SUMMER HOUSE." a new .J X- Like William Saroyan, Tenne- . play by Jane Bowles, produced by Oliver IflßnV* Bravo”; 11:25 a.m., 1:30, 3:35, Smith and the Playwright’s Company, Imm see Williams and fragmentary directed by Jose Quintero, scenery by 4:40, 7:45 and 9:50 p.m. O’Neill, per- . Smith, costumes by Noel Taylor, light- Eugene Mrs. Bowles ing by Peggy Clark, music by Paul Columbia “Take the High spective on life is unconventional. Bowles, associate producer. Lyn Austin. Ground”; a.m., 1:30, 3:35, At the Sam S. Shubert. 11:25 r| It gives off glints which she cap- The Cast. 5:40, 7:45 and 9:55 p.m. tures in arresting flashes of wist- j ’ < Gertrude Eastman-Cuevas. Dupont “Martin Luther”; IfSfib ful meaning, the sum total of Judith Anderson Molly, daughter ... 11:45 a.m., which is sheer confusion. her Elizabeth Ross 1:40, 3:40, 5:35, 7:40 ! Mr. Solares Don Mayo and 9:45 p.m. Poor humans ungifted with i Mrs. Lopez Marita (Reid) i Frederica Miriam Colon Mrs. Bowles’ perception are likely’ Esperanza Isabel Morel Keith’s “The Glass Web”; ¦ i Alta Gracia Marjorie Eaton 11:50 a.m., 1:50, 3:50, 5:50, 7:50 to leave “In the Summer House” Quintina Phoebe Mackay up when i Lionel . Logan Ramsey and 9:50 p.m. much more mixed than A Figure-Bearer Paul Bertelsen they entered. One, for instance, Another Figure-bearer. George Spelvin Little—“Tumbleweed”; 11:55 , Vivian Constable Muriel Berkson might depart convinced that life Chauffeur a.m., 1:55, 3:55, 5:55, 7:55 and Daniel Morales tODTWMU is a macaroon filled with grey Mrs Constable Mildred Dunnock 9:55 p.m. KiroiMMW Inez Jean Stapleton see it witheut dust, another that grit and ambi- MacArthur—“The Gentle Gun- | fUtsssj and illusory vir- tion are foolish Dunnock. Both and man”; 6:30, 8:10 and 9:50 p.m. tues, that life is a are widows and a third Metropolitan—“Hondo”; 11:30 And fourth both are unhappy, although for lonely nightmare. a different Marriage, ROMANTIC TWO—Arlene a.m., 1:30, 3:35, 5:35, 7:40 and that the theater is another. reasons. Dahl and Fernando Lamas furnish BETTY , residually represented by their the love interest in “The Diamond Queen.” The costume 9:45 p.m. The author of “In the Summer been I MONROE GRABLE went far too respective daughters, has drama will open at the Ambassador and the Warner tomorrow. Ontario "Those Redheads LAUREN House” to much a failure and motherhood is From Seattle”; 2:40, 4:25, 6:10, trouble to write play fleet- 1. in the Raw! Against Claw in the a as p.m. BACALL 30 minutes Fans | lovely have gone ' | hollow. some of it sparkling 7:55 and 9:40 ingly not to Miss Anderson's daughter but most of that grows from fright and frag- Savage oke farther and made it more lucid. it designed to prove that these j ility a Palace—“ How to Marry a Mil- "HOW TO ; (Betsy Ross) is shy and fright- into firmness that is too A disbelief in the way other 1 introverts to expedient lionaire”; 11 a.m., 1:10, 3:20, mere ened of the virtues of grit and never listen one for even a young ac- MARRY A dramatists write is no justifica- another. tress as as 5:30, 7:40 and 9:50 p.m. ambition which the mother capable Miss Ross to Playhouse—" tion for renouncing it altogether. It is no doubt ungrateful to conceal. Roman Holiday”; S 1 MILLIONAIRE” recommends. The girl's answer TtCMNICOtO* The presence of players of the say so, but the best of the dia- 11 a.m., 1:05, 3:10, 5:15, 7:20 and is to retreat into the summer 1 Among the rollicking Mexi- 9:30 p.m. TREMtiEMus stature of Miss Anderson and i logue in the play is the inspired cans who 1 WMT CinvmoScopv SHOUT* house where, she vegetates with provide such blissful Little Boy Lost”; 11 foR ' jj the play inti- drunken gibberish delivered Plaza—“ Miss Dunnock in the honeysuckle and her comic i by relief from the torment of their iJ-J W«N Diinfty carlo©* mates that its obliqueness does Miss Dunnock. This hauntingly a.m., 12:20, 2:40, 4:35, 6:20, 8:05 "C©ronell«n Cored©" relationship California neighbors are a couple mystify them. That is some- books When the lonely figure who looked and 10:05 p.m. VZCT Technicolor not becomes intolerable, the mother in vain of extraordinarily gay perform- thing. Just what, they fail to for love has some bitterly Silver Spring—"Back Street”; V. ' escapes byway of a desperate comic ers. One of these is Jean Staple- I clear. observations to are 2,4, 6,8, and 10 p.m. METROPOLITAN make marriage into a well-off. wallow- make. They ton’s imitation of a simple wait- L3Sr ** * * made with as- Trans-Lux “From Here to Open 11». m. Fat 10th RE. 7-0612 lim6S lodai) ing family. The be- the excellence ress valiantly resisting the On the surface. “In the Sum- Mexican sociated with Miss Dunnock’s Eternity”; 11:10 a.m., 1:15, 3:25, wildered daughter marries an complexes of her American cus- 5:35, p.m. has its piquancies. reputation i 7:50 and 10 * mer House” equally young lobster as an actress. : tomers, the other a longer sus- Its characters might be relatives bewildered Warner—“ This is Cinerama”; yi AMBASSADOR bar attache and everybody lives Much more elusively written tained but less intense fight 1 ON OUR WIDE SCREEN Open Ip. m. CO. 5-5595 18th & Cel. Rd. 1 *#»1 U of Saroyan's, couple of widows 2:30 and 8:40 p.m. *¦ villiKTIRKOenONIC tOUN© ¦ U -3D a ever, is the mother played by Miss against the same harrowing daughters, and a col- just as unhappily as and their Anderson. This woman is the force by Marita Reid. I TAKE THE NIGH of uninhibited Mexicans. j Miss Dunnock's mother prob- lection domineering type, energetic, self- Oliver Smith has designed a Chamber Music Concerts Southeast House and Slouit PTA“~~ There are many colors of comedy lem is different. Her daughter GROUND!'I ish, self-deceiving and destined pair of seductively tropical The first in a series of four JI RrtrtWIOMMtK K* MAIDEN I in the relations of these and devours life in gulps exceeded in LISNER AUDITORIUM in the end to find life as hollow settings the ’ concerts by the Chamber This Fri.—B:3o faces size only by the mother’s drinks beach for Mexicans free P.M. “In the Summer House” as the woman who surrendered to show how much less Group Trio will be given at 8:30 THIS FRI.—B:3O P.M. which she consumes to escape morbid CARDOZO AUDITORIUM the normality of this quite without a fight. Miss Anderson j j than the others are their simple, p.m. tomorrow in the Interna- bravely. life’s emptiness. The daughter ; with majesty that HELSINKI this is killed—by being plays her a | j earthly lives. ! tional House, 1825 R street N.W. Platoffs It is not the surface that in case should be much more rewarding World-Famous pushed over a cliff by the other UNIVERSITY counts, however. It is the neu- than it turns out to be. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. rosis of these Southern Cali- j girl—but apparently without a TODAY Thru Friday 1-11 F.M. A role almost difficult CHORUS the and ; ripple of excitement on any one’s as as fornians mothers the senior in the of Finland DON COSSACK daughters quartet juxtaposed; , part. that of women play is that assigned to Miss ' * CHORUS and DANCERS to the robust simplicity of the i j The intimation of all this is Distinguished,Touching s Unusual Martti Turunen, And. Ross. Sponaorshlp which the play | that much must happen in "In Under of Tickets SI.BO. $2.40, $3.60 Mexicans with This is the daughter of Miss ...ExeHtmenU H. E. The Minister si Finland deals the Summer House.” The ac- J L Priced: <I:2W. SI .80. SLIP. 83.00 Talbert Agency Willard Hotel Anderson, refugee j the wistful dramatically of impression of it all is the j Tickets at: Hayea Concert Bureau NA 8-5575: Wal-Thom. 11th Most afflicted tual I N Plu» Tex 1108 G ST.