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•• THE EVENING STAR. Washington, D. C. B-18 MONDAY. JANUARY 08. 18M : tonksnt •» ss3o:! ¦|!|ffiB|9VSnR!VWVIVS 99!ISfiHnilSn| THE PASSING SHOW Mr Igs no matinee today I TWNiw. Tbow * C. U. Players Triumph \ \ CWIRAKAFRESEVTiTUM WksfA fti VAN JOHNSON XM JOSEPH GOTTEMj^I In an Exciting 'Hamlet' WITH ROHAN j By HARRY MncARTHUR JACK CARSON jj^ that Catholic University’s speech ¦ If the news and drama department preparing heartening was to tackle ‘’Hamlet" was Msitvia sun now on saui high today TAS /V evidence of purpose, the news is even better. For the mail oxoixs riLLis noMmr I \ P B > >o« ofuci onu -QAM iomm news today is that the project has been brought oft with com- M plete success. § Director James D. Waring and the cast headed by Philip I PHONE RESERVATIONS ¦(¦11!^ V\, • 1— ........ Bosco have met "Hamlet” head A ACCEPTED ME. « r1 Joy Cormody, drama editor at Tho Star, , i 1-442 S on. cut it down to size and I o V iwv I ii it exciting, is in Hollywood to raceirt the Screen HB turned into an throb- \ VtsT’ • living It sings its , Directors' Guild award as "Critic at f|l Wyman bing. drama. AW 11 Jane inexorable tragedy passionately! i the Year." His column will resume i \ 'v xL m¦ jl r Rock Hudsonn and it will give you an emotional! l next month with e series of articles 1 \ M jBSu wringing out the like of which i from the movie capital. - os Story you too seldom encounter in the you. dramatically The that has belongM to It illuminates Me worM f* v theater. the tragedy at Elsinore. ft 7 M ft] Thirty Centuries This completion of the cycle, j * * * * y of Shakespeare's greatest trag- ¦ Mr. Waring, the evidence on «W> RUltlt edies has been a dream in Father University | the Catholic The- • ~,-si MM xiaiuiu! STARTS Gilbert V. Hartke's sector of ater’s stage indicates, sees all of "‘PLAYHOUSE• • IMIHN. W. ST. 14S00 OMN 10:10 VvUNVKSVAT Catholic U. for some time. It had this as brooding psycholog- 1 less LiAfUDATs: q»Tim m MUbttn to await a proper Hamlet deemed -1 ical drama than as stirring ¦I HANSOM! capable of undertaking the most It soars ex- challenging Shakespearean melodrama. with tUM MMt I role. ¦ citement and roars with conflict Mr. came along. 9 • Then Bosco as Hamlet tries to drive himself FORO REED Oddly enough, however, this ; to vengeance for his father’s Wmmm v^^v “Hamlet” is no one-man show. death. It moves with ever- Mr. Bosco has, indeed, accom- mounting fervor to that verit- ROSSANA POOESTA NATIGNAI Tomorrow at 8:30! plished something that such a able shambles of a climax, when jack sernas |£snBBSBS3EBBH9ES2SH&H stalwart as Alec Guinness seems 1 Horatio alone is left to say, to unable to do in have been [ "Good night, sweet prince.” (Mr. M-t. W l . BdSet.2:3o England. That is create a valid ; seem pm ;/ ; and Dr. Callan to an age! [-Waring BACK ON THE FULL-SIZE SCREENS r to and acceptable Hamlet in Norway, Bigg¦ITI'MLyTiTiTB Wondknul to too! Wonderful hoar! have left Fortinbras In BUI Bendlx, who is a weekly visitor to many a television when Maurice Evans seems to ! him.) TggPSk —JOHN MARTIN, N. Y Timas Ml but you won’t miss hpme via his “Life of RUey” show, own sole rights. But what makes, ** * * also has found time ,! to play in another feature movie. In his loud BUeyesque this C. U. “Hamlet” is that Mr.! Any production of plgy this ,| style he plays Stations,” S. HUROK MOfOh Waring has achieved an orches- heavily on In a chief boatswain in “Battle now leans the actor the; set as the Capitol Theater’s next attraction. tration rather than a collection role, naturally, and Mr.; ! gßi@| THE individual roles. title AZUMA of Bosco is conducting himself most ** * * commendably. He is probably too That is not the only thing : young to be called a seasoned- this “Hamlet” such definitely! '^9 that makes -1 actor but he is a delight, day iff a of course. It started 1 talented one. He may some ED SULLIVAN Musicmns 1 with a really superb editing job do a different Hamlet, but forj CLAUDETTE Wjgdntakesxßmi by Mr. Waring and Josephine 1 present he can pride j EVER.: Orel*. SI. Ml: l»t Bale. $3.3®. S*s.7ft, S?.3®. QQ the take ini Upper Bair. *3.30; lit Bale. 52.76. s2.t®, W McGarry Callan. who also 1 this one. Players of more expe- LITTLE OLD NEW YORK COLBERT OrcH. coached the performances the rience and renown have done, director has blended so deftly. worse by the role. They have cut the five hours Mr. Bosco appears to be un- of the full-length drama down decided whether Hamlet was mad BARRY SUlliS to some 10 minutes under three but canny or cannily feigning! hours of playing time. What madness, but other experts Sonja Still Startles they sure, He ¦ have deleted—and let the haven't been either. bardolators howl their heads off seems to lean toward the latter When big-league ball players.’ jagile in finance as on her skates. runners or professional fighters exception —piust have been extraneous. view. His is no Melancholy Dane. The one was when EigJ is left is a firm, lean Rather, he is sardonic. His self- get into their middle 30s, it is! someone close to her suggested For what they are on I SUPf*%COM I NEIGHBORHOOtfS^®i’ story line, embellished poetically reproach for his indecision is conceded that the that she would do better if she . legs, so goes L 3 Films of More Than Routine Msrit j wmn aMii but not confused with diversion- marked more by bitter wit than Last Mile. The the split up with Arthur Wirtz. The ‘^IICHIMCOtOr go. Walt Disney documentary about ... forays. by self pity. This perfectly adage, are the first to Occa- decision meant that she lost her “THE AFRICAN LlON”—Fine I nDrvr 7)0o Indian Hood ary is IMH, ra jjj sionally. there’s an exception to Ice show route in such arenas as v the head man of the African veldt. UIHYL-ln Mwy lo 7. 2 It presents us a fully-rounded valid. batcrday bunday the rule. Sonja Henie, at 42, “BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK”—Spencer Tracy in fine form in openjpridav Hamlet and it is clear-cut as it If there is a quibble—and is Madison Square Garden and the , startling audiences at the Roxy Chicago arena. a taut, well-made suspense yarn. ANACOSTIA s t l(J °[^o7o follows him to his inevitable quibbling is sheer churlishness in That cost her a! Theater by the brilliance COURT MARTIAL OF BILLY MITCHELL—Gary Cooper cinemescope Howard keel ann doom. What the Waring-Callan Mr. Bosco s hour of triumph over of her cool $1 million. But I’ve never “THE skating and the trimness of her plays the famed early exponent of air power. "Hamlet’’ does is suck to the Shakespeare—it is that he does heard her whine about it. In the> aiso”robert flgure. Os course, the eye- one big DETECTIVE”—AIec Guinness plays Brown, the ! point. If other “Hamlets’’ have not seem as lndecisive'as Hamlet Henie defeat of her career. i “THE Father ful always nas been a phenom- popular sleuth invented. «::ia, a.-uu. you you were is. In the scene where Hamlet Sonja carried herself like a real’ I fictional Chesterton left confused and She skating when professional. “KISMET”—Large lavish stage musical; 2333 w to to discovers his enon. started and film version of the HIGHLAND afraid submit the full- murderous uncle she was 8. years aa a Gray, Blyth, length praying Three later the a Dolores Ann Howard Keel. jack palance. ida lupino one, this version is for and makes excuses for 11-year-old Norwegian W not doing on spot, won the Clement Attlee a grandpa. SEVEN YEAR ITCH’’—Summer Bachelor Tom Ewell rv zu him in the figure skating championship, The ( THURSDAY “THE knife**«t aTs^dale instance, a quick, new ending John Harwoods (Felicity Attlee) meets Bachelor Girl Marilyn Monroe, for laughs. robertson in silver whip. ' »i \ Nights / ’ for you. Norway Only 14 and. mind Is loaded . part- for the play seems logical and [ named her Penelope Anne. J —4 f “THE TENDER TRAP” Life in a New York bachelor’s NWhS7A^A.tan.i, with terriffic skaters. At 13[. she Matinees # AlldlMlil WHERE imminent. Batista’s brother, Panchin, re- ment; Celeste Holm, Debbie Reynolds, Frank Sinatra. s, s i to 3 yxy, was the runnerup for the world view , Jl: Al , ° 1 cuperating surgery. ,j a dramatic But this is so minor that a championship, from “THE VIEW FROM POMPEY’S HEAD’—And second greatEßT bex and won the world Henry Marguerie new old Southern ways. Technicolor ‘ot K.a.i. »«. auo AND WHEN critic ought to be ashamed to Fonda and it is of the South and its McLAGLEN IQ a year mmmmm^m^^mmhb mmm M—^ mm^m VICTOR BENGAZI- bring title later. She held the Lamkin a Colony duet. The: Current Theater Attractions it up. Mr. Bosco’s Sardonic figure skating champion- a world Topping E and of Showing Dane does make “Hamlet” lot ship years, Dan stork due in March. s Time for 10 three times! Douglas. Johnny Stanley Wirner Tlieaiers Niighborhood Tketlen CfiHMESS funnier than you usually think Olympic champion . Jack Car-; S. ARLINGTON. FALLS VA. ! Walt Disney's "AFRICAN LION.” was and came writer, seriously CHURCH.