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THE PASSING THE EVENING STAR SHOW . , , "Witty hilartout . Shavian ramp. An altogether winning tom- WaftfefSM, D. C., Saturday, January 31, 1>59 WHERE " pony Carmadr. Star A-11 -V yWpjjpajß f 'if?'** j,."/? ¦ ¦ OtOSOISMNASOSHAWjS TOMORROW—3tOO P.M. Eartha Takes Turn HHIHI AND WHEN I Current Theater Attractions CONSTITUTION HALL and Time of Showing RENATA At Playing 'Anna' Stage Arena “The Devil’s Dis- By JAY CARMODY ciple”: 2:30 and p.m. Matinee Today 2:30! 8:30 Phan* ordvn accepted let ell parti TEBALDI Drams Critic at The Stir Catholic University Loading Soprani, “The mm—m—mtm OPENS FEB. 10; Philip Yordsn must sometimes be awed by the mileage he Misanthrope”: 8:30 p.m. SMITH WILLIAMS’adaptation of Metropolitan Opara IN POLO RECITAL has got out of “Anna Lucasta," a play he wrote some 15 National—“Juno”, 2:30 and TURGINIV’S buoyant lava ttary j years ago. 8:30 p.m. A MONTH IN The fourth version of it has Just turned up as a movie, Shubert—Closed.. SOLD OUT all-Negro cast, the Playhouse Theater. THE COUNTRY this one with an at Screen HATES rl . CONCERT BUREAU What it lacks of the elements that make it a thoughtful Ambassador kin Campbell'!), 110 S O St. N W l “Auntie National 8-71S1 stelnwey consideration of its subject—a Marne ”:, 1:15, 3:55. 6:35 and j Piano i *lemS J 26th and 1-6700 girl with a heart of gold—- -ANNA LUCASTA.” a Umtad ArtliU p.m. D Sit N.W. Ml. bad release, produced by Sidney Harmon, 9:20 could prove the very thing that directed by Arnold Lavtn, screenplay Apex—“The Seventh j j by Philip Yordan. music by Elmer Seal’’;! will it popular and Mr. Playhouse 5:45, 7:45 and | make Bernstein. At the 9:45 p.m. Yordan richer. The Cast Capitol—“ Some Came Run-| Furloii^i• Anna Lucasta Eartha Kltt KEENAN WYNN ELAINt By casting this “Anna Lu- Danny Johnson Sammy Davis, jr. nlng”; 11:15 a.m., 1:45, 4:15, Frank Frederick O'Neal >unba ntcim SBSI casta” with such name per- Rudolph Slocum Henry Scott 6:40, 9:10 and 11:40 p.m. Joe Lucasta ..... Rea Ineram FiPftiiliiLiii distinct ac- Columbia formers—as from Theresa Oeoryla Burke "Separate Ta- tors—as Eartha Kltt and Eddie James Edwards bles”: 11:30 a.m„ 1:35, 3:35,' . Stella Rosetta Lenoire Davis, Jr., Mr. Yordan ‘5:40, 7:40, 9:45 • Sammy ..... p.mJ Katie .... Isabelle Cou'.ey and 11:50 National Last 2 Timas! and his associates seem hardly I Noah Alvin Childress Dupont “The Horse’s "AMERICA’S FIRST THEATRE" Blanche Claire Leyba Eve, Male.. Wed. A Set.. T:3O Stanley .... ... Mouth”; 1, 2:40, 4:25, to have been unconscious of I John Proctor 6:10, •BlimUY its profit possibilities. Lester Charles Swain 8:10, 10:10 p.m. and 12:05 canitai irnii, ini mw tin* m MBLVYM Cop ... a.m. Secretary Isaac Jones V——dOTt tiiow tomtnl—ww Moreover, the entire cast is Wally Earl Keith’s—"The Perfect Fur- BOOTH DOUGLAS lough”; a.m., N(W MUSICAL directed to play Anna's seamy 11:40 1:40. 3:45, §\ ONEOF THE YEAR’S 10 PEST 4 _ VMI AU saga just a bit beyond its in- Third Sex.” booked as the suc- 5:45, 7:45, 9:50 and 11:50 pm. Kill . ALEC GUINNESS nately sensational hilt. The re- cessor film. The Guinness MacArthur "No Sun in Richard Todd will have its longest JUNOBook By Music lyric* *y sult picture of Negro family starrer Venice"; 2::10, 4:05, 7:55 A is a run, 6. life which is painfully amoral, next to that of New York, and 9:45 p.m. technicolor JOSEPH STEIN MARCBUTZSIEDI in this discriminating Capital !* Metropolitan—“A >l and tasteless enough to nullify untie ”« Stagtd ly if present popularity level is a.m„ I duoont iuit»a«""i ii) mw Numbers AGNES OcMILE any virtue that might lie in Marne”; 11:30 1:55, 4:25, • l I rent part » mi d., o giving evaded theme maintained The same thing, 6:50, 9:25 and 12 p.m. Cneeted By VIKENTI. DONEHUE that often FSANCOISC AftftOUl a hearing. more surprisingly and on a les- Ontario—“lntent to Kill”: Box Otlce Open 111 c m. to U SD p.m. ’ 0* ** * * i ser scale, is true of “No Sun in 1. 2:45, 4:30, 6:15, 8 and 9:50 JT xtb" j. “Anna Lucasta’s” history is Venice” at the MacArthur. p.m. no Ikmsr exposure TwlaT^LnaEolTioNr Its third wrfek was sun in The Interesting in this connection. unantici- Palace—“ The Inn of the Created 5 MATINEES: Wed., Feb. 4, Sot., It was written originally around pated, the more especially with Sixth- Happiness”: 11 a.m». since Mah film! F«b 7; Wmd , F«b. 11; Fri., F#b. a Polish family in a Pennsyl- the prize-garlanded “Pather 1:55, 4:45, 7:35 and 10:30 p.m. 13, and Sat., F«b. 14. vania mining town. This, a Panchali” from India waiting Playhouse—“ Anna Lucasta"; failure in New York, was fol- to take over that house’s screen. 11:05 a.m.. 12:50. 2:35. 4:20, . Mlie Tint LU. Birpct In*Ln6h lowed by a Negro version done . The latter will *pen next 6:05, 7:55. 9:40 and 11:30 p.m. Jpg. ! present! with restraint and reserve with ; 1 week, however. Plaxa—“The Night Heaven 5 under tfce monefentenf o. S- HUROK Fell”; Hilda Sims heading a gifted Tennessee Williams’ “Sweet 11 a m.. 1, 3. 5,7, 9 and EBE3I "ONE OF THE M THEtiISKT and deservedly popular cast. Bird of Youth” already has set 1 NOTED*ARTIST AT WORK 11 pjp. i\* “Anna’s” time out, her Trans-Lux—“Bell, ttAII’SIOIESTi" OLD VIC third ,an advance sale record in Phila- As a painter of eccentric behavior taking ways, Book and first the screen, to and Candle”;. 11 1.3, 5,7. —Tim#* HEAVEN FELL COMPANY on reverted delphia where it opens Feb- is am.. 9 «• on Alec Guinness making quite a popular film of “The p.m. ftptUSABCOPt* | lOHN BARBARA LAURENCE the white family background ruary 9. Mail c-Hers total and 11 its Horse’s Mouth.” The comedy continues at the Dupont Uptown NEVILLE JEFFORO HARVEY with Paulette Goddard as more than SIOO,OOO ior the play “South Pacific”; j title player. It received in- Theater—in its tenth week. 2 and 8:30 p.m. was which Ella Kazan is directing j * differently % I ? SEAT SALE NOW ? which may very well which Paul Newman, Warner—”Bouth Seas Ar* HA. .TB6. 4.HA, A.AO and stars . TRANS-LUX Vvf«.l «l *4.75. PLAZA ;i.BA. 4.40. 4.9A have left Mk, Yordan with the venture”; 2 and 8:30 p.m. • Mats.: HI.HA. 2.?0. Page Sidney N. Y. Ava. 14th ST. 3-47 notion that he would later i. Geraldine and 1 St.. 77 make it Negro film. Blackmer share top casting.... as a Only musicals have exceeded any* he has, under *mb *® At rate, the the auspices of United Artists advance total for “Sweet 1 HOLLYWOOD |f > |f|pyy £ |[Ml«H|til|<M|||l||uriiumnnimnn *¦ IS Bird.” I HF more and with Arnold Laven as its '- VUH ; - out of ,Ft - Jjg nuIUIIIIVIIiiVUIIa w director, and Elmer Bernstein Community drama groups are By Sheilah Graham ¦aiai!—. t? -T )’ Ks^p3j» as the composer of its musical in one of their most active pe- 6core. riods of the 1958-9 season. .} JMXIEMMOH-ERMEIOWeS *** * Upcoming on the schedules of Elvis Booked in'6o «¦ aw •na mmiti «w w.;r- Regardless nationality these are “Diary of Anne . of or HOLLYWOOD (NANA).—El- U* TECHNICOLOR* race, has been the Frank,” the play’s fust non-j Wash. Lea Shopping Center BnPM Anna same IRYRTI i professional production here, vis Presley has another year TRANS-LUX Films of More Than Routine Merit "¦“¦P Opp. Ft. Myer. IA. 7-1733 girl in each of the four treat- at to '£s.&»¦ “THE BRIDGE DBIVE-1N THEATERS ON ~ “LADY KILLER.” ALEC OUIN- THE RIVER KWAI”—The Oscar-winning ” ments of her story. She is a Mount Vernon Players’ go with Uncle but his NESS "PARIS TO LOVE Under- Sam. war film, well played by a first-rate cast. waterfront tramp, exiled from croft Auditorium, Ninth street manager, Col. Tom Parker, « WITT Polls Church, Va. has “THE GEISHA BOY”—Jerry Lewis on the loose in Tokyo, Jt. 2-1555 CHAPEL family merely and . .| QUEENS her not because Massachusetts avenue. « already booked him solid for mainly for his fans but with some comedy. Walt Ager Road at Hamilton occupation by inventive HyattsvilU, of her but the It will open February 19. run; “THE GODDESS”—Kim Stanley W. Md. WA. 7 2900 overwrought feeling 1960. “He’llmake two pictures in the searing story of a WILSON of her i through February 28, with no iw SHOWS f J. "BUMMER LOVE.” JOHNNY W7 movie star’s rise and fall by Paddy Chayefsky. SEVENTH SINBAD." i BAXON. 745 2. “LAW AND father for and for -WM. KJ VOYAOE OF i toward her attractive- Sunday or Monday perform- 20th-Fox one Hal 1 “A NICE LITTLE KERWIN MATHEWS. KATHRYN ORDER” 'Color' DOT MA- iow 1 BANK THAT SHOULD BE ROBBED”— LONE RON,\LD REAGAN ness. Yet, when a decent ances. Foundry Players will Wallis, plus records and per- I jQRANT.