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Those Quiz Shows AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENT*. Drama News and Reviews Hollywood Diary May Explain It Red Skelton to Ride the Range By «t» Associated Press HOLLYWOOD. ~ Makes a With Gene Autry as His Partner Movies may not be any better, FRED RED 4 Time Vivid Show but they are at least more accurate • ■ .. Graham -.. ASTAIRE SKELTON By'Sheilah than ever, reports Metro. Of 'Faith of Our Fathers' Arlene Dahl and Lex Barker are Imperium." “Then, in November, Dorothy Luke, MGM researcher, I mum mo,. planning a honeymoon In France. I do 'Strictly Dishonorable.’.. Lana says the motion picture industry m TECHNICOLOR By Jay Carmody While neither Lex nor Arlene will Turner, whose baby is expected in regards itself as an educational, as Last In the five weeks since its helter-skelter opening, “Faith of Our 4Days talk about their wedding until his three to four months, hopes to well as an entertainment, medium. 4th RECORD has settled down to be a show. The WUR Fathers” quite production has divorce is final—very soon now— finish her scenes this week. Studio research departments are smooth and the is aware become quick, performance clearly of mean- they are both arranging their Stewart Granger will be with us working harder than ever to be well have been missed and ings which might earlier, for any form working schedules to give them in Hollywood again. He brings all accurate in every detail. so broad and episodic as symphonic drama, the Paul Green work tWb months in the fashionable his belongings with him from Researchers have been on their DESIINMI1I has a satisfying unity. French resorts in the fall. They England. He’s going to stay. First toes, Miss Luke says, because to- over and above the pageant drama there is the Also, itself, are very, very much in love. picture—“Soldiers Three.” day’s fans are better educated and i that wasn- delight of discovering Red Skelton is keeping his end Nina Foch is quite a changed more apt to notice factual errors is of so ington possessed anything hero, and in greater scope makes up in the current Western stakes. personality since doing four plays than those of a generation ago. and exciting as handsome, large clear that turmoil, division and Bing Crosby has Hoppy for a in New York. When she enters She reports that all letters al- in Rock the new amphitheater dismay are not new experiences picture. Bob Hope has Roy Rog- the Metro commissary, every one leging errors in movies are for- Park. Creek in democratic life. ers. Red is going to have Gene looks up and a lot of people say: mally answered by MGM. And in At this point in their mutual Whatever obscurity marred Autry. They have the same busi- “She looks like a young Marlene most instances, she proudly adds, life, a little more than a fortnight these purposes of “Faith of Our ness manager. Bo Roos, and the Dietrich.” Nina returns to Broad- studio researchers are correct. before the production closes Sep- Fathers” originally, it has dimin- deal will be part of Red’s new way after her, “An American in ■wcwwrowwKNWMBBPK';-:: tember 30, the show and its set- ished in the flow of the produc- supercontract at Metro. Paris.” ‘‘I may have a part in AMUSEMENTS. ting add up to a singularly at- tion these mid-September nights. DEBUTANTE — Aurora Bau- Phyllis Kirk sits with me at ‘King Lear,’ with Louis Calhern,” tractive spectacle. If one is not * * * * tista, who has been variously lunch and tells me, “I just took she says. held spellbound by Playwright Symphonic drama in a setting described as the “newest act- him (Andre Previn) to the Army. Gloria Grahame isn’t too happy Green’s large dimensioned por- as lovely as that of ing sensation of Europe and He was cheerful, and so at playing second fiddle to Jane Washington’s terribly ^/ONSTAGEIN I trait of this National Capital’s Sesquicentennial show is an inter- South America” and the “first was I.” Andre signed up two years Russell in “Macao.” Not after PERSON founding father, he nevertheless esting adventure in entertainment. lady of the Spanish theater,” ago with the National Guard. It playing the leading lady to Hum- TONIGHT tt 9:00p.M. can be delighted by its color, its It is like nothing one has ever makes her motion picture de- is now the 40th Infantry Combat phrey Bogart in "In a Lonely music, its lighting, costuming and seen before, unless he is familiar Division, and Andre, Phyllis tells Place.” Star but in “Madness of Lope,’' * * * Lovely Hollywood its mechanics. with Green’s two earlier produc- next attraction at the Plaza. me, expects to be sent overseas.' This is not to imply that “Faith tions, “The Lost Colony” and “The I hear, not from Phyllis, that Elia Kazan is the guy who is of Our Fathers” is an indiffer- Common Glory.” Its scale is enor- Andre wants to marry her before closing the set of “A Streetcar JAMS CARTER time and space as is covered in mous as with leaving for Korea. She would Named Desire Some people told and ent work packaged dramatically compared anything “Faith of Our Fathers,” the por- Hollywood's short of a circus. In the case of rather wait. me it was Vivien Leigh. But I enough to conceal its flaws. trait of this man must be painted “Faith of Our Garland went to see her- checked and it isn’t. Vivien The fact is that in its present Fathers,” it requires with broad, bold strokes. Ryle is Judy 4 ORIGINAL! in New doesn’t mind how many form, and with Lawrence Ryle as three stages; a huge central play- an actor conscious of this neces- self in “Summer Stock,” people traffic. watch her emote. The first time the new George Washington, ing area, two small side stages for sity and yet by consistently under- York—and she stopped the I saw Vivien act was on a British Green’s pageant play has some- intimate scenes. Two of these may playing Washington to the per- After the show, she called sound in 1937. She and thing to say on two important be, and are, blacked out and missible limits, he gives tlie char- producer, Joe Pasternak, in Holly- stage Laurence Olivier had come scores. On the personal plane, it speedily set while the third is in acter an affecting human quality. wood, and said she had never been just back from Denmark after draws a portrait of a truly noble use. This, of course, is an imperative so happy in her life. “This could starring there in “Hamlet.” were It should not be that the spec- of the production. Without a man- be the thing to bring her back,” They tator is ever more attracted by the size figure for focus, “Faith of says Joe, who is preparing another much in love then. And still are. when want E. MORRISON PAPER CO method of a symphonic dramatist Our Fathers” might well be a movie for her. In Hollywood you than the results of his work. * * * * the correct time, you get it by t009 Phu At*. N W. by series of 19 tableaux instead of a A “Faith of Our Fathers” is not free dramatic narrative In 19 scenes. Ezio Pinza tells me that he will dialing, Ulcers! Hollywood Story... from this diverting aspect. This take a short rest only after “Mr. Peter Lorre is dangerously ill in * * * * is perhaps inevitable when an a sanitarium in Germany. I also SUNSET BOULEVARIT As it is, the range of the produc- author employs drama, music and hear that Peter, who hasn’t been GLORIA WILLIAM tion over 15 years and the several HOLDEN dance in such huge proportions as able to work for some time, isn’t SWANSON colonies from New York to Vir- Where and When in the Sesqui pageant. doing so well financially. ERICH von STROHEIM ginia manages a meaning. Current Theater Attractions Yet as the production moves Bud Tobias, the glamor jeweler, fjlso at Ambassador siamT7F| now there is less of this distraction It is revealed in a series oi ex- and Tima of Showing leaves for the East to negotiate life than original lamented. cerpts from Washingtons a deal for the sale of his Yellow report; — An* from the surrender of his sword Ambassador "Sunset Boule- Green’s work gives the 9ense of a Goddess diamond ring. It merely and his commission at vard”; 1:10, 3:15, 6:20, 7:25 and TODAY'S NEIGHBORHOOD, MOVIES Offieo Supplies man of heroic stature, yearning Annapolis costs $72,000. A top stage actress ESEiiHSFii? in 1783 to the end of his second 9:35-p.m. Direct from Kit Week toward a private life, driven by a is interested in buying. ttD/amer<s^4t/ term as President 15 later. 11 2105 r«. av«. n.w. re. 01*4 1VA. lifetime of emergencies into a years Capitol—“Summer Stock”; is nnri r Phone 2945 Hopalong Cassidy grossing VWMefc Air Conditioned WARNER BROS public one. In any such area of, There is nothing subtle in the a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 and 10 pm. TEA rSEATOS $100 million this year! Hoppy’s FOR TWO Last Day, Walt Disney's "TREASURE For Information Cad 3BE. MM of these episodes whether 3:40, 6:25 and DI8- writing Stage show; 12:55, share is 10 per cent. The boy ««*r TECHNICOLOR ISLAND." in Technicolor, BOBBY Theatera Marked • Air Conditioned they relate to the pastoral scene 9:10 COLL, ROBERT NEWTON.

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