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: The Passing Show "TOP FLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT!” \ Shirley Booth Gives a Glow "Shirley Booth walks off with all the honors in an L emotional drama that gives her every chance to <1 Jk * display her great talent." -N.r. wovu s 1 -To a Soap Opera Script • f By Jay Carmody "Shirley Booth is a |oy to watch... she makes M ’ Now we know that Shirley Booth is the best actress on stage or HfUnP* 'About Mrs. Leslie' a film with warmth and screen at this point in human history. spf*! How do we know? heart." r. mw HS§fF';Tv. It’s simple. The full evidence is available in the Paramount production “About Mrs. Leslie," which opened today at the Play- house. That any actress can take this over-perfumed, bubble with fiction and by the sheer, steady Daniel Mann, screenplay bv Kettl 1 precisely what Miss Prints and Hal Janter, from the novel Booth does by Vina Delmar Ot the Playhouse. and while it will not win her a THE CAST second Oscar, it should earn her Mrs. Vivien Leslie Sliirley Booth George Leslie Robert Ryan a silver star for the breastplate Nadine Roland Marjie Millar of the one she already has. I.an McKay Alex Nicol Harry Willey Sammy White “About Mrs. Leslie” is a spurt Mr. Poole James Bell Pixie Ellene Janssen of suds from the typewriter of Mort Finley Philip Ober Vina Delmar, a novelist who has Fred Blue Henry Morgan Marion King Gale Page spent the last couple of decades Mrs. Poole Virginia Brissae wringing feminine Mr. Pope lan Wolfe hearts with Mrs. Croffman Ellen Corby the lost causes of members of Blrney Ray Teal her sex. Her stars were never luckier than the day Paramount an arrangement for a compan- prevailed upon Miss Booth to ionate sort of marriage. It is not play the lost cause of the one clear to the woman who is to called Mrs. Leslie. become a nominal, only, Mrs. why this must She ' ** * * Leslie be. <-¦ merely takes it for granted that // J The Playhouse’s soap opera, a this is the most offer such decent - recital of the romantic idyll be- an honorable chap can make. m Wmm tween a second rate night club There is where the arrangement vocalist and an airplane tycoon, is left. jSlmr Jj&m- \ name...and is otherwise blessed beyond its gBL. intrinsic merit. Beyond Miss This and other aspects of Mrs. j »« u.eeks of sil Booth, i Leslie’s story are related in a it has the asset of Daniel j&ss n Mann’s direction, a solid per- series of flashbacks. When the *'* opens, she is proprietress of n 5 • formance by Robert Ryan, and story ’Sip* v 7 i. . • a Los Angeles boarding house. It ‘^msssmmmmmmomommommmbmmo some first class pretending by * # other members Producer is a nice, cOzily philosophic PRINCIPALS IN NEW ROMANCE—The relations hoard- m'l of Hal inhabited by of a Wallis’ cast. boarding house ing house owner, formerly a night club singer, and an aircraft ** * * people with problems, not as but industrialist are portrayed by Shirley Booth and Robert Ryan Whatever she to begin acute as Mrs. Leslie’s own lacked neatly inserted into the texture in the film, “About Mrs. Leslie,” opening today at the With, Mrs. Leslie is rather a Playhouse. memorable heroine by the time of Ketti Frings’ screenplay. [ never u,as a * \/rj twlp’l'" * ** * ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ 1 "* ¦ Miss Booth is through with her. * i | Mr Leslie... _¦ In respects, she is not un- Miss Booth's acting and / some and said so! i . S. like Lola in “Come Back, Little Mann's direction imbue “About * Sheba.” She is not as sloppy, in Mrs. Leslie” with a warmth and Hollywood Diary: their fact she is trimlyplump, but she honesty that should make the has the same anxiety to please hacks of soap opera—Holly- One Plea for the Facts Enbugh, 5.1 and much of the same unques- wood’s and others—flee to the tioning acceptance of fate’s nearest desert island. Jack Webb Tells His Writers niggardliness. By virtue of their expertness, I—————Bv Sheilah Graham 11 ¦¦ The target of her aim to please they manage to keep a grip on HOLLYWOOD. movie “Oklahoma!” four months Is the plane tycoon played by audience attention and sympathy ago, and a caretaker was hired altogether Rita Hayworth has sent most Ryan. They meet one night in that is out of propor- dress- to see that it grew “as high as worth of their mate- of her wardrobe to her the club where she sings plaintive tion to the Rita an Elephant’s eye”—by July. songs, The figures maker for alteration. Either little are drawn together rial. central of the weight, or she Cyd Charisse, driving a $15,- by the loneliness film are a pair middle-aged intends to gain common to of Dick Haymes are getting 000 Mercedes-Benz, says this is humans, up by making unexciting and and end lovers, as in their of a little one thing and Bing Crosby actions as they are ready for the arrival she have in ... Is true I unreason- Haymes. common. it ; able in their submission to their “Rip Van Winkle” is being taken situation, somehow Miss Jack Webb instructed his Where and When but he’s to say down from the shelf as a possi- TOPPING HER ACADEMY AVARD Booth manages to invest the writers that “I just U Current Theater Attractions want the facts, only ble starrer for Jimmy Durante performance affair with the flavor of an idyll. ma’am” George Jessel? w in come back, once in each “Dragnet” show. and And Time of Showing She makes her Mrs. Leslie - LITTLE has pass- Alan Young’s four year -old SHEBA” Stagd. only obliquely a poignant figure, George Raft his m port in order and will sail for Eli llrl a woman who really is able to (See DIARY. Page C-8.) | Arena—“Room Service”; 8:30 soon as he finishes make a deal of honest happiness Europe as p.m. . “Black Widow.” . . Frankie : Carter Barron Amphitheater- out of small fragments of com- with the she Laine is planning a new TV for- Ballet Theater, 8:30 p.m. panionship 'man mat when he competes with National “South Pacific”; loves. These are the quiet vaca- Hit Parade” in the tions they take together in “Your fall. 3:30 and 8:20 p.m. re- Corn planted I mote Mrs. was for the STARTS TODAY! Olney "Venus Observed”; places where Leslie HITHER... {?,* 8:40 p.m. ¦ learns in loneliness the wisdom Jpg? DOORS OPEN 10:30 A.M. KLAV T FI VVdE 15th AND N ST. that makes her dramatic'

Screen. ' ‘ ! There is a rich and saving j r meet Ambassador—“ The High And streak of humor, a kind of warm Ij r^’waißr-sss.I ASfcT ‘SENSATIONAL!../ ...and the mistress i 1 i ¦— ' ' the Mighty"; 1:10, 3:55, 6:35 and ; wryness in Miss Booth’s por- I i. i. ¦ -¦¦i... 8:25 pm. . trait that makes her story the ! who, a smile, \ Capitol “Gone With the exceptional thing it is on the with Wind”; Playhouse screen. l 9:20 a.m.,T:10, 5:05 and ,1111111111' 11, rftNnirmM.n .11, 9 p.m. ** * * |pi-IJJU';m.i. BOIrfiITiVITOI AIR CONDITIONED of the ,0 Colony—“Three Forbidden There is a clean, wind-blown £ick pocket^ NOW N '4S GREATER ON SCREEN! °!!.. Stories”; 6. 7:50 and 9:45 p.m. j | look about the production of TKANEVER WIDE kWHPEh Columbia—“ Men of the Fight- ! “About Mrs. Leslie.” This does ing Lady”; 11:25 a.m., 1:30, 3:35, not hurt a‘ bit in pointing it up ?x=sy_.l p.m. a vehicle for an actress of GONE WITH THE WIND MATURE 5:40, 7:50 and as f 9:55 Dupont—" The Captain’s Para- Miss Booth’s caliber. Ryan, U S • CHILDREN || || 2:45, 4:30, 8:05 Marjie Miller,' Eilene Jansen, NOW COLONY CURKGABLE• VIVCNLEIGH• LESLIEHOWARR ~.t. *.lnn dise”: 1. 6:15, ¦ for all they could! und,M> Yr, II and 9:55 p.m. | Alex Nichol and Philip Ober give OtKIA de TECHNICOLOR] HATWAKU Mutiny”; supplemental HAVILLAWOI. Keith’s—“The Caine ! | trim performances. j (now ; - -_==*& 10:30 am.. 12:45. 3:05, 5:20. 7:35 and 9:55 p.m. CUMMINS SpV Little “From Here to Eter- , ‘nity”; 5:45, and 10 p.m. MORGAN 7:50 IONAID MacArthur—“The Long Mem- j ory”; 6:15, 8 and 9:50 p.m. u SQUIHIn Metropolitan—“ The High and j the Mighty”; 11:10 a.m., 1:45, Always 4:25, 7 and 9:40 p.m. H TDWMWtAMt MOHM TOUD Ontario —"The Egg and I”:• STRICT ANB COLORADO AVI. M.W. 1:25, 3:25, 5:30, 7:35 and 9:40 a Bride p.m. i with • OHCEINfI JAMES HAYTER MARIELOHR Palace “Demetrius and the A).Arthur OrgMiMti** GENERATION^ Rink Fr*t*nMi«n SCREEN Gladiators”; 11 a.m., 1:05, 3:15, THE OFFERS A RED-RAW PICTURE LIKE THIS! MacABTHUB—STARTS FRIDAYt IN TNC LAST GENERATION IT WAS "BEASTS OF BERLIN" THAT STUNNED THE NATION! $:25. 7:35 and 9:45 p.m! ; Playhouse—“About Mrs. Les- Netlenel Symphony Orchcitra. Cendncted by Jeieph Levine lie”; 11:15 a.m., 1:20, 3:25, 5:30, and 9:40 p.m. TONIGHT TOMORROW eOlO! SHOCKtNGi CAN YOU TAK£/r? ; Plaza—“ One Summer of Hap- Swan Lake. Bedee, Helen es De.lrni With String*. Giselle. piness”; 11 a.m., /Troy. TU Enleniplegel. FRED ITS THE EXPOSE OF BRUTAL RED TERROR BEHIND THE LINES! _ /- CLAUDETTE \ _ V -,} 4:10, 6, 7:50 and 9:45 p.m. * : Trans-Lux—“Man With a Mil- Ticket* On Sale at . . . ALL SEATS COLBEKT MvMURBnr SUPER MUSIC CITY BOXOFFICE. 1350 P St. N.W RESERVED lion”:* 11:20 a.m., 1:05, 2:50, M Phone ST. 3-3916 or NA. 8-6798 .. £:4O, 6:25, 8:10 and 9:55 pm. W At the Amphitheater after 6 P.M. TU. 2-9754 ¦ ’XheV.GGandl'' Good Seats Available As Late As Showtimet J2.50-53.00 M t H 9 ?Sk Warner—“ This Is Cinerama”; Marjorie MAIN Percy 2:30 and 8:40 p.m. KILBRIDE Starting TOMORROW wr9*l

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