B-20 THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. ' AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENT». AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. THURSDAY, JUNC 11, IMS Passing The Show JB Hk JB Bk. Ida Finds a Taut Tale JM lb In Keith's 'Hitchhiker' WHAT MAKES A- By Joy Carmody JB Ida Lupino, who snatches movie scripts from newspaper head- lines. has found another grimly real screen subject In “The Hitchhiker” which opened yesterday at Keith’s. Moreover, having decided this was a story she would like to . direct. Miss Lupino has done a crisp and tidy job of getting the ilffißl i Hhi Jh dramatic most out of it. Its appeal limited those "THE HITCHHIKER." a will be to picture, produced by Filmmakers who their Collier Youuc. di- like movies taut and rected by Ida Lupino. tcreeopiay by - tegse you with glances or with lips? but smart Yount and Miss Lupino. At 'Keith's. Does she her tingling a girl as as The Cast. .!M|. . ... Miss Lupino undoubtedly had Roy Collins Edmond O'Brien mm Gilbert Bowen Prank boveloy this in mind when she made Emmett Myers William Telman “The Hitchhiker.” Captain Alvarado Jose Torray Sam Hayes Himself i I W'KjMl Does her smile say come closer SML..or touch-me-not? As its title than implies, wendel Niles __ Wmself more Inspector General Jean Del Val the picture is a dire warning Government Agent Clark fipwat to motorists who henceforth will Jose Natlvldad Vado JKBBkL ignore all ride thumbers not in- capacity than the town hall recognizable Do you see arr angel in her eyes is a.devil lurking there? stantly as Charles where the group formerly played f&Lor *l^ Coburn and/or Marilyn Monroe. operation. ** * * will house the new ... A regular proscenium stage 'jlß ¦§ It is a tightly written script, will be used. . . . Arlington’s 6S ° W^6 *urn er eyes or er head? which she co-wrote with Collier Byrd Cinema continues its art Young, from which Miss Lupino ||i~’ picture policy with “The Im- in film at Keith’s. It sh works the portance of Being Earnest” relates with remorseless realism booked for the week, June 11-17. the tale of two vaca- black intrigue or make her . . chiffon blush? California . One hundred Korean war tjjjtf jP i-Does ‘ ,/^W tioners who pick up a stranded veterans will be guests at the on the highway. herd's.. motorist Wednesday, June 17 performance Once in the back seat of the of “Showboat” at the Carter Samaritans’ car, the hitchhiker Amphitheater. Barron ... A What's a mad a of? pulls a gun and takes command. few tickets, by the way, are MINSTRELESS¦ —Miss Georgia Gibbs, who will bring her song He introduces himself as a flee- available for Monday night’s gala J repertory Capitol headlining ing felon who has just killed opening of Washington’s new to the Theater on June If, the several other generous motorists. summer music center. house’s stage show. He would like, he says, to be taken deep into Mexico. His unsuspecting benefactors have got into the act Even Keefe for mo"? We don't no choice but to go along with Hollywood Brasselle—he banged the cymbal his yearning for foreign travel. Diary while UCLA football coach, Red jived to The trip is sheer nightmare for Sanders in the back J| claim know ail the answers Prank Lovejoy and Edmond Rossellini Splits room, along with a hundred high O’Brien, a pair of strong men With Money Man school girls and boys all attired —hut Cary thinks ha does—- who have no choice but to quail in white. . . . And downtown, at -fa before the gun and the guile -¦ By Sheilah -¦¦ ¦ the Statler—Xavier Cugat, lick- Graham „ . Tal- wounds, ik u and it's hilarious! of their passenger, William HOLLYWOOD. will ing old asked the audi- man. It is pretty much a night- do for Keel in “Kin Me ence: “Do I look like mon- M-G-M Rossellini lost his chief money a presents mare also to the spectator in Kate.” ster?” he added; Xljjst man, Angelo It seems *** * Explaining, his process of discovering that Poppeao. what my last Roberto’s last three pictures “That’s wife called desperate gunmen are as cun- Bob Hope is scanning the 18- me.” went 'way over $100,000,- * MB CARY mmk>EBORAH WALTER ning as they are dangerous. their day diet. So am I Fay Wray ?* * per-pictUre budgets. Although they are always and Paul Hartman will team up How come Ruth Roman left in within a few feet of their cap- Mike O’Shea was landed in for television series, “Life of Judy a the middle of the Ray Anthony Pidgeon Lovejoy and O’Brien are Holliday’s “Name For Her- The Family.” tor. ” show, with husband Mortimer . . . George Grant self Raft refused powerless to make the slightest As soon as “Melba” opens in staying behind? $5,000 a year for a beer endorse- Hall move toward overpowering him New York, Patrice Munsel and making their He is ment. On account of tee- It wilfbe a pity if Bill Goetz or escape. he’s a her husband leave for Europe. every of totaler. Such honesty! leaves Universal-International in the master of situation They have rented a castle in November, as reported . He has which a dozen ticklish ones give Even Mario Lanza’s servants Italy—a M|int hundred the film a high pitch of suspense. don’t know his telephone num- rooms and no done more to develop young tal- plumbing, but the view is won- Behind a camera, Miss Lu- j ber. There’s a blank space where ent than any one else here except derful! . . . And Clift pino operates with as much in- the be the Monty Is possibly Don Hartman. Bill has ; number should on on his way to New York to talk telligence and intensity as she just put another $50,000 in the j dial. a picture producer ever did before one as an ac- Dig Van crazy crew- witl*“Melba” Kitty at U-I to train new Heflin’s Sam Spiegel, who seems to have tress. The bleak and menacing cut hairpiece in the “Shane” players. landscape representing back- left Hollywood for keeps. . . Guy Mitchell returns to the premiere photos! . For no roads Mexico is one she turns reason at all it reminds me of Just saw a photograph of Jen- London Palladium after “Red (OUAtft into one of her film’s most dra- Bing Crosby’s toupee which re- nifer Jones and Humphrey Bo- Garters”—“And Then,” he vows, matic aspects. Incidentally, it, cedes an inch every year. gart greeting George Sanders in “I’llfinally honeymoon with the is pretty much the same one ** * * Rome. Bands, banners, slogans. girl I married seven months that moviegoers saw in Danny Kaye and Panama and No wonder he had a nervous ago.” suggest * “Jeopardy,” which may Frank each own a third of breakdown. ** ? that Hollywood regards Mexico “Knock On Wood.” Where Does Attention, Tierney: Rita Zanuck, at the Mo- Ditto,, as the looking land this Gene Susan »r loneliest Paramount in? They’re Hayworth going Stevens: side of Antarctica. come is to Europe cambo, asked Marti just using the studio’s money soon for eight weeks. And num- “Why Did You Change Your The exclusively male cast of (Marti’s dad is Nick “The has done its j and facilities and Paramount ber one on her agenda is a meet- Name?” '¦ '¦ MOOUCIO .' Hitchhiker” will release the picture, of ing with the Schenck.) “My Father,” said gallant best for its feminine Aga Khan, grand-

. . disgrace director. It almost completely course. . same studio is dick- sire of daughter Yasmin. Rita Marti, '“was afraid I’d wants your object to succeeds in sustaining the ex- ering with Bette Davis for a top that financial business him. Did father straightened your Hitchhiker” for picture. out. going into show business?” citement of “The ** * * “No,” “They wanted the full 75 minutes of the film. Tony Quinn follows “Ulysses" said Susie. the of to get into the act. Mom used Only almost, however, for it is i in Rome with film version Mickey Rooney’s “For the Love that any dbuld “Cavalleria Rusticana”—possibly of Mike” TV series goes before to be a Mack Sennett bathing improbable cast beauty.” conceal the fact that there is a with Linda Darnell. the camera for NBC when he

. intelligence: repetitious quality in the day- j Gordon Mac Rae and wife returns from Toronto. . . And Add incidental to-day contact of motorists and Sheila are plotting a husband- Donald O’Connor wouldn’t take When Barbara Stanwyck is their kidnapers. and-wife television show. Gor- $35,000 for 12 days in Canada. working, she eats a steak at 5:45 ** * * don kept TV rights in his War- Says he’s too tired. He must be. every morning! Her “Three Coins in the film, AIR CONDITIONED VACATION MEMOS: Wash-! ner deal.... And whatever hap- The Rooneys and the Don Fountain” by COMKJJTASU lngton bureaucrats could pened to Joe E. Brown’s TVpilot the way, is the fifth since signing take i Taylors and the Spike Joneses • with Paul Small a year ago. • lessons in bluntness from one | for CBS? flrst-nighted at Ciro’s Ray Be- Ends Today PALACE Daw Dailey June Haver Dennis Day "THE GIRL NEXT POOR"T«dmleolor for fore that, no 15 this correspondent and his wife j Howard Keel and Keenan Anthony and his band. And the offers for encountered on the beach at | Wynn going into the auto months. are joint was jumping. Everybody (Relented by NANA) Minot, Mass. . . . The bureau- j business together in Santa Moni- crat in question came into their j ca.... And Metro is hoping that AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. lives as they were inspecting a what the beard did for Robert Wm large, fish mmi fatally stricken Taylor in “Ivanhoe” the Vandyke 1 washed up on the sand. . . . j “What kind of fish is that?” this TOW* IS ABOUT ignoramus as’ied. ... “Me, I don’t Where and When GLORIA know the names of them.” the Current Theater Attractions .STARTS TODAY bureaucrat replied ... "I just F EDDIE GRAHAME_ bury And Time of Showing * them to keep the beach OPERATION / BRACKEN Lj! NOW clean.” Stage. A AIHUT Speaking of Minot, still free Arena “The Country Girl”; and a°moti of summer residents, it has be- 8:30 p.m. 3rd final top If a wm \ come a haven for several mmmm Screen. fIHHf Him performers of “South Pacific,” with Mickey Rooney in f Ambassador “Shane”; 1. Si now playing in Boston. . . . Larceny** 3:05, 5:15, 7:20 and 9:30 pjn. J["A Slight Case of George Britton, who succeeded Ezio Pinza in the musical hit, i» Capitol “Girls of Pleasure W on Strings BE SURE TO SEE THIS GREAT PICTURE the major enthusiast for escap- Island”; 11 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 MARTHT47LOREHI By; ing Boston’s summer tempera- and 10 p.m. Stage: 12:55, 3:40, ifftUi# I THAT ALL WASHINGTON IS TALKING ABOUT ... W ture. He went to New York 6:25 and 9:10 p.m. gu Dancing Stars of CBS-TV over the week end to collect the Colombia—"Pickup on South V i HoIBHUBb I1 "Songs for Sale” two young Brittons to give them Street”; 10:45 a.m., 12:40, 2:35,

a beach vacation. . . . North At- 6:25, 8:25 \ 4:30, and 10:25 pjn. RMT NEW PMORUK SCREEN lantic days. Britton and his Dupont—“Man on a Tight- fellow suburbanites say, are the siaapmiiHC rope”; 1:20, 3:25, 5:25, 7:30 and EXTRA ADDED ATTRAgTION \xu go balance for “South irau»\\\ perfect m%innww,vr J§ 9:40 p.m. Technicolor' M fafiSS Pacific” nights. L % jyiapY J| ** * Hitchhiker”; * Keith’s “The ambassador BULLETIN BOARD: There 11:15 a.m., 1. 2:50, 4:40, 6:20, Sr- Hr itom-voniMioß\****** Ml E-WARNERIS will be two opening nights of 8:10 and 10 p.m. mmSm KIIUI COMFORTABLY COOL MmO® MBUI - Olney Theater’s 1953 season. . . . Little—“The Strange Ones”; VCMW Ame/ JOM Mercnry —— 6, p.m. • • BpiHiaEi The first one will be a benefit 8:15 and 10:15 fiRQMILE/ ‘OiOOH BAH Singing bfor FmmmUA on Tuesday sponsored by the j Mac Arthur—“Penny Princess”; 1 Wheaton, Md. Chamber of Com- 7:25 and 9:55 p.m. Last Timas Today—Teresa Wright in “COUNT THE HOURS" . . . The public’s first merce. Metropolitan “Prince of 1 12 BIG FEATURES of opening production, view the 2:25, Shaw's “Man and Superman,” Pirates”; 11:25 a.m., 5:20 and 8:30 p.m. ¦ ww% - ---J WU A directed by Basil Langton, will /jf'\ CHAar-THI.BUJM STARTING SATURDAY - « follow on Wednesday night. . . . Ontario—“Count the Hours”; STARTS TODAY ! A**-. M ft* “Shane,” its most popular stand- 1:40, 3:50, 5:55, 7:55 and 9:50 ard process film since “The p.m. At 2 Air-Conditioned && Greatest Show on Earth,” will Palace—“ The Girl Next Door”; "AN EROTIC DRAMA i

love . . . . . remain a third week at the War- 11:30 a.m., 1:35, 3:40, 5:45, 7:50 ei broth*r*istar provocative, jLf irritation, fascinating all at onc%T / 1 . . . poatio, ner. starting today. And and 9:55 pm. K-B THEATRES! "wrath! . . . # as well. at the Ambassador Playhouse “Lili”; 11 McNaughton, Mont- Bill former 12:35, 2:25, 4:20, 6:10, 8:05 and I “Always fascinating... gomery student and ath- TIME: l I <«••» Jfattft&i2p) Blair 10 p.m. . « /h l lete. has just made something of Current Choice!" ' the University of Plaza “The Seven Deadly £ / W a sweep in * Wl i "Electrifying... / \ Missouri’s one-act play contest. Sins"; 11 a.m., 1:15, 3:35, 5:50, l Newsweek i II

... He won first and second 8:05 and 10:25 p.m. prizes with two contributions. Trans-Lux—“Salome”; 11 a.m.. ‘ op i « IrKiA/CE ... McLean. Va., summer theater 12:50, 2:45, 4:30, 6:30, 8:20 and ; 4 p.m. will move lock, stock and actors !10:15 ' c ”

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