THE EVENING STAR AFTER DARK F-10 on, D. C., Wednesday, Aped 22, 1959 ESHUilliliafilNOW Dm- II . \ The secret of i lend unknown to m»n! \ THE PASSING SHOW Audiences' Best Friend, MG-M presents \A AUDREY HEPBURN - ANTHONY PERKINS \l That's Carol Channing GREEN MANSIONS I the tofbiddtn forests beyond in# Amtxon 'Naked Maja' a Bore By HARRY MacARTHUR Jm Star Staff Wrlttr I. ..4 Carol Channing, who has come to us byway of all the | MItIOCOtOI CM«IIW other entertainment media, Is with us now as a supper club To Poor Naked Eye only message today. star and there Is one See her. It may not By JAY CARMODY be easy. The Shoreham Hotel Blue Room, where she will be Drama Critic of The Star holding forth through Saturday night, has rigid walls and History has had some thunderously banal echoes on the Channing devotees already have staked out numerous claims motion picture screen, but few to equal that of "The Naked there. But she’s worth any ef- / Maja” which opened yesterday at the Playhouse Theater. m MET] V I fort. so don’t give up without an hour to get from one to the JMrDBNEtt This Is the one, of course, that pretends to be about the trying. other and there is never a dull . Channing, hardly vivacious Duchess of Alba and Francisco Goya who painted Miss it moment in between There are. ( " repeated, tesarm needs to b« is one of In fact, many hilarious mo- her in the nude. The film’s stars are Ava Gardner and An- truly thony Franclosa. It is an in- v the fine entertainers of her ments as Miss Channing goes VjgnAEl prjf day. The difficulty in reporting through array songs, teresting thought in connec- • THE NAKED MAJA.” t United Art- J »J a wide of —y Lt« release produced bjr Ootfredo Lom- on her is that she is virtually from shows wp'Mfly wmnuMwi tion with the former, who now bardo. directed by Henry Koeter, some she’s been in much of the time in screenplay by Norman Corwin and indescribable. You could much other especially written for her. lives Prosperl. from a story by Oicar easily describe spiral Spain, that the Duchess' ghost glortloau) and Talbot Jennlnfs, music by more a Her impressions your of some may very well come back to Anaelo Lavatnlno. In Tachnlcolor. At staircase with hands tied | 6th HILARIOUS WEEK! the Playhouse. your well-known personalities right of the behind back than describe in haunt her out The Cast Channing country. Carol without voice show business are a joy to be- “FUNNIEST MOVIE I’VE SEEN i Duchess of Alba Ava Oardner gesture. hold, eye IN YEARS AND It is not what Miss Gardner I Francisco Ooya Anthony Franclosa or with both and ear. i Manual Qodoy Amedeo Nazsarl Her voice is surely only She does a fine Sophie Tucker, YEARS AND YEARS does to the Duchess already fljjlfm |%v ; v the I” i Carlos IV Olno Cervl v v shredded reputation however Marla Luisa Lea Fadovanl one of its kind anywhere. Her an even funnier Tallulah Bank- Sanches Massimo Sertto wide-eyed thing heaa and a biting portrait that explains the distortion ! Juanlto Carlo Rlaco Innocence Is a of “HOT AND HILARIOUS! TNE j Bayeu Remo Cesana of beauty, maybe, surely of un- a little girl singing at the Pal- FUNNIEST FILM and dreariness ot “The Naked Fepa Ivan* Klsllncer And her «» Maja.” Everyone gets into the ! Anita Audrey MacDonald -.jjl diluted hilarity forever. She ace. version of Marlene COMEDY IN YEARS!” ! Enrique ; Patrick Crean could recite last Thursday’s Dietrich swinging the famous act of making this spot of 18th Aranda Tonlo Selwart Vrc century Spanish history ludi- Dr. Peral Peter Mersman '. ¦ ' Vfpß stock market reports and read 'Dietrich legs and singing that Navarra ... Ento Plermonte throaty “COMEDY CLASSIC!—CHEAT ONE!” ’ into all manner German Is the crous. Marla de la Lui Yemiko Fullwood - them of lurid ballad Jose Carlo Oulatlnl ¦kTH' ... meaning with facia) expression closest thing to a masterpiece JAMIS O'NCHX, JR.—NEWS The script writers, for in- j Rojas, the Innkeeper Ermlnlo Spslla * stance, who conveniently re- I The Inquisitor John Karlsen NEW DANCE TEAM—Ava Gardner trips the light alone. that you’ll find in the Blue French Ambassador . Paul Muller present Room or any other after dark ’ locate the Inquisition in the A Mala . .. Renata Mauro fantastic, Spanish style, with Anthony Franclosa In In her enterprise at A Mala Pina Botttn rendezvous. MARILYN / 1© reign of Carlos IV, ana .on- The Sinter Amru Sant “The Naked Maja,'' new screen attraction at the the Shoreham. Miss Channing v V duct the supposedly passionate The Ballerina Carmen Mora starts off with “LittleGirlFrom This is not a complete re- MONROE & i » * Oort's Assistant Clsvton Hall Playhouse. port. hut romance between the princi- The Priest Oustsvo De Nardp Little Rock,” which she care- there’s not much Tony pals in a dialogue modeled Count De Puentes Andre lethersel fully explains is a place in more that needs to be said. If CURTIS i H V Governess Assunclan . . ? V upon that of "Dragnet.” Amina Aranl Man! “Gentlemen Prefer Blonds” and you can get to the Blue Room Jack LEMMON 7 Prince Prrdlnando Leonardo Botta . while Miss Channing there, Unwittingly on their part i Princess of Portugal 1 the painting and, were it not views! with “Imitation of Life.” not in any state, and winds up is Roberta Prlmavera , don’t drag your feet. Get there. this can be wryly funny, but! Marla Isabella Pamela Sharp 1 for some passingly fine bits of The United Nations’ much- with perhaps her most famous the real high point in inin- I Don Antonio Alberto Plebanl talked-of film, “Power Among song. This, of course, is “Dia- UKE[\ ! Carlotts Joaquina Nadia Btlabln photography,1 the whole thing ! tended humor occurs in the Luigi of Perma Giuseppe Glardlna Men” had its Washington pre- monds Are a Girl’s Best FINAL 2 WEEKS! Marla .. Vttellescht would be a total loss. scene when Franclosa—Goya’s Josefa Stella miere yesterday afternoon at Friend,” from the 6ame musi- jealousy reaches its zenith. ** * * the Department of Agriculture cal. "WANTON MERRIMENT” sudden over- stead an overthrow of the MEMOS: The MacArthur Qarmody, Star P-Tar PAT o'brien ft p * The painter's as , auditorium. . This comer, It takes her approximately - m JOE E. BROWN ,T f whelming conviction here is king i comes up this week with one of , duty-bound to "A SCINTILLATING TONIC" v . see Coe. Pott that he is approximately the Incidentally, it must be men- j its most interesting bookings of ; Maja,” wants Brian Meredith

a busy year. . . . today | NOW last man in line in cafe- tioned that the nude painting I the Critics will to name the date of the next Tatiana Rousseau Jedenoff Ofm I0:4S I teria The duchess, realizing from which the movie takes its : see Jules Dassin's “He Who . showing of Thorold Dickinson’s that explanation is inescap- makes but two fugitive : Must Die,” at the ( presents an name opens . . list,a which documentary. . Please, Mr. XXawiCRPITDL able, comes up with one that is appearances on the screen. In MacArthur tomorrow. . . . The “Portrait With tho M. ... Stratford, Qnt.’s Shake- positively inspired. one of these instances, it Is Ontario's next wili be the film : spearean Festival this admits, summer Masque” It is true, she that revealed behind a door that is version of John Braine’s “Room will be dominated by produc- 4 Ballet In 3 Acts a of men apparent there have been lot opened by mistake: in at the Top.” ... On the Pal- tions of “OtlpeHo” and “As You Lloyd Geisler, Conducting but only because she so enjoyed the other, the velvet behind ace’s schedule next is “A1 Like It.” Libretto by Meryle s ,, scandalizing the stuffy madrile- which it is draped is dropped Capone,” with Rod Steiger '• Secrest ADDED PEBF. NEXT MON. AT 8:30 »;y« amy | Student members of Phone orders accepted for oil perfs. viaoß «n»i 9 I t.7. 3 C™ I nos Carlos IV’s reign. As an Inquisition judges . Jedenoff Academy de Ballet 1 of to give the playing the title role. . . j ANTHONY NEWIFY n explanation for a kind of na- a shocked glimpse of what : Drama desk occupants saw It Sunday Apr. 26—3:00 P.M. OPENS TUES., MAY 5: v promiscuity, this ; Liiner Auditorium one . . . tion-wide Goya and the Duchess have yesterday. Reith’s, of VUr'" BURLESQUE I first Post-Broadway production of Tides of PnssiOH Lianer Box Office Open I p.m. hardly satisfies Goya but it has , been up to. 11 course, goes on for a gleeful Sunday John Osborne and Anthony Creighton's a kind of daffy charm for the Actually, the hollowness of : fourth week (after those 1 Benefit for St. Ann’s. Arlington. Va. FUK orZHOBE re- "KISS MEA Tickets: $1.85, $2.50, EPITAPH ; tmw'lux detached moviegoer. acting “The | $3.00, $3.85 'Z ..rtfe. the in Naked Talbert Ticket Agency GFOKGK DILI,P.M ** * * Willard PLAZA Maja" is shocking than Hotel. Virginia Ticket Agencies more ,4TH • y. Henry Roster, who has lived BABY”ft‘< Music Time. 7 Corners; Books ’n I TRAIK.I IIY H ST \ \ 4 ,n. A...uthst Records, Shlrllngton; Junior Mode, I nniYO-LUA Dl 7-7600 ST. 3 4777 happier than • far. far moments —TAFFY O’NICLd, j Clarendon. p N.W. Ml 1-6700 directing 14Ni tnd In. those spent “The KL UftitTl.Vvlmiimcmni»*** Naked Maja" seems thoroughly W ucMtocot dispirited to find himself on ¦L * ITTM this assignment. The film’s Shop Thursday and Friday 10 to 9, Saturday 10 to 6 pace Ilanjßer OPEN somnolent suggest that Mr. rLATHOUSt »t> i n sn im STORE HOURS: Mondays, 12:30 to 9; Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, 10 to 6; Thursdays and Fridays, 10 to 9. FREE Parking Roster kept thinking there I PARRFRfi ? EVKNIWS surely must be more to this period of Spanish nistory than i JOHN GAVIN I DEE the script writers imply. SUSAN To be sure there are allusions KO HELD OVERT to the cruelty and repression iH¥te> under which the Spaniards lived AlfluVm!:* when Goya loved the duchess, but these are fleeting and sup- erficial. Just how superficial is 0Pf»1!» ' , .j 1;.,.; ...1 intimated in one scene of what y.; the queen calls “revolt” whose p ; NEXT ATTRACTION heaviest weapon appears to be the castanets which divert the people into a street dance in- TODAY! jg*\ WHERE ALL DAY AND WHEN PREVUE! Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing BRIGITTE Stage If Arena—“ The Lady’s Not For j j BARDOT Burning”; 8:30 p.m. W Screen Doing What She Does Ambassador “Alias Jesse ! James”; 1:30, 3:15, 5:20, 7:25 and 9:35 p.m. Capitol—“Some Like It Hot”, J , I 11 a.m., 1:05. 3:15, 5:25, 7:35 w .ill and 9:45 p.m. Columbia “Shaggy Dog”, 11:15 a.m., 1:20, 3:25, 5:30. 7:35 1 and 9:45 p.m. ! Dupont—“The Bolshoi Bal- \!| let": 1, 2:50. 4:35, 6:25, 8:10 and 9:55 p.m. Keith’s—"lmitation of Life”: 11:15 a.m.. 1:20, 3:30, 5:35. 7:45 and p.m. ! 9:55 » MacArthur “The Circle”; I 6:30, 8:15 and 10 p.m. {“ffUmJlUl PtyUU) Metropolitan "Alias Jesse Aa i| James”: 11:30 a.m., 1:15, 2:55, ”* 4:40. 6:25, 8:10 and 9:50 p.m. "COLOR, CINEMASCOPE... 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