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THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. ** A-9 The Passing Show AMUSEMENTS. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY SI, IBSS Floor Show AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. 'Scapegoat' Finds a Stage tan SHOW TONIOHT Spotlight *n""'late"SHOW^TOmGmr r'BIST 1952”” I N.y. C**—Amtj or film Critics Award In Production at GWU Postinaugural "ANDROCUS C*rm*dy—Jr*c By Jay Carmody mdIHE UON~ ... MBEM Doldrums Avoid George Washington ALL NIGHTS INC. SUNDAY! JEAN SIMMONS.VICTOR GARY It is brave of University’s drama group to i-iW M MATURE . HIGH J/L /J* ROBERT . John F. Matthews Scapegoat.” promts NEWTON MAURICE EVANS undertake “The a dramatization of Paltadian Room JOSE FERRER end ALAN YOUNG M Androcles Franz Kafka’s "The Trial.” were those who won- That "Tsrfffls" Broadway Oast la There TRANS-LUX COOPER NOON Itis also indiscreet. dered if the Shoreham Hotel Tht “Hilarious Comedy” $4 dupont comm av ou The indiscretion of it lies in the circumstance that Kafka’s management knew precisely what I nightmarish story of modem man is nightmarishly beyond the it was doing a few years back KblmmL^ interpretative skills amateur* when it opened the Palladian of “Margaret Rutherford dots 6 flam- performers. What evolves on versity. Room in competition with its . Old associates these with Georg* -Douglo, the stage of Lisner Auditorium, own Blue Room. If any of these lobiot WiHon boyant, hilarious repeat of hur of Director-Actor Callahan In his MATINEES: WED. * SAT. «:I0 » itt tun* tamer A where the third and final per- are still around, they must have r days as • to C. U.’s topflight actor.... long since stopped their won- WARNERIWS Ml AMBASSADOR 1145 ».«} 'Passport Pimlico' rolt!’^^_ formance of the play will be Arena Stage may not have Its given tonight, is barely more most dering. The Shoreham manage- felicitous choice of play in ment knew exactly it was wiSaijwin RUTHERFORD than a shadow of the tension Wycherley’s Country Wife," what MARGARET "The doing. to til* M* Sritilh e*i»*d» tJ and terror implicit in Kafka’s but it has its liveliest actress in novel. A return visit to the Palladian Sternhagen. ... may France IfMiss Room this week disclosed things Partial blame for this be Stemhagen is not defleoted into Castle*A*R- Lm to be humming along quite hap- (" attributed, also, to the Matthews’ marriage, girl Coffee our compliments she is a clearly pily there was, in fact, “JAZZ Lounge 7 to It There SINGER the Piccadilly dramatization which attempts to qualified for a COUMI. TECHNICOLOR remodel Kalka’s savage indict- considerable considerably less evidence of the career in comedy. Or, per- post-inaugural ment of modern man into play doldrums than haps, even if she i5.... She has has been noted at some other form. This is a challenging task performances ¦"lulls'” Iff given three hit this establishments around town. Also At Ambassador Optn 1 p m CO. 5-5595 which has been accepted by season, the first two in Catholic others, among them Andre Gide, Palladian Room regulars in a university’s “The Alchemist” and large part, of course, and the playwright who fails at are en- “The Skin of Our Teeth. trenched Washingtonians to it is left with the consolation At the rate William Saroyan is COMEDY ROMP—Is led by Margaret Rutherford, right, in whom a change in administra- NEIGHBORHOOD L that he is at least a man of turning up on television, espe- "Castle Air,” light-hearted that opened tions is something less than mettle. cially Omnibus, it is almost in the British film epochal. They Films of More Than Routine Merit. ** * * cer- ¦ are those with a tain that the theater will be yesterday at the MacArthur. Miss Rutherford’s co-playgirl -too - -pass attitude, “ABOVE AND BEYOND,” Robert Taylor over Hiroshima. this shall Flynn in a This is true also of William tempted to consider again the above is Helen Cherry. whatever administration happens -AGAINST ALL FLAGS,” Maureen O’Hara and Errol Callahan who directed and plays works of Saroyan. Who is to be here temporarily. Anyhow, swashbuckler. MERMAID,” confection for Esther Williams the leading character in “The reported to have a stack of plays Alfred and George were presid- “MILLIONDOLLAR Scapegoat.” . fans. He at has THAT high. , , least The mellowness ing at the Palladian Room door junket.A given the curious a chance to he lost in his postwar novels, the “ROAD TO BALI,” Crosby and Hope on another zany Hollywood Diary with air of men at the helm STRIPES FOREVER,” with Clifton Webb as John see the much discussed, elusive especially “Wesley Jackson,” of a successful enterprise, Sande “STARS AND Philip Sousa. > dramatization on a stage. gushes out of Saroyan again. Roz Really Aroused Williams was presiding over the What it fails to do is much, No writer anywhere is more bandstand with his usual jubila- In this fussy and distracting pro- thoroughly convinced that this By Brassy Brass tion and the dance floor was WINELAND THEATERS WARNER BROS. Tkeatns duction, but it nevertheless hints is the best of all possible crowded. worlds. By Sheilah Graham ""¦¦¦¦ ANACOSTIA AMBASSADOR of the scope study of The music, you Singer.” Thomas, of Kafka’s Williams BING CROSBY. 808 HOPE. DORO- “The Jats Danny and guilt in contemporary HOLLYWOOD. Italy—“llove whisky and yacht- you THY LAMOUR in “ROAD TO BALI. Peggy Lee. Special Midnight Show. crime should be told if are not a 3. 5:05. 7:05. 11:25. society. The “The ing. My wife Rom In Technicolor, at 1:15. 3:40. 5..10. 1. 9:15. idea of Where and When Rosalind Russell tossed out hates both.” Palladian regular, is cheer- 7-36. 9:40; also Walt Disney Cartoon 0-2000. "Thunder- *** * AVAV nw wo. Scapegoat” and and 3 Stooges Comedy! Plus GIANT ft? BIiUR birds,” John Derek, is huge and terrify- Current some ful bouncy. The Williams <at ’2:45 only)! ing Theater Attractions of the show’s brass from Jerry Lewis spent most of CARTOON SHOW Mona Freeman. 1:45. 5:10. 7:25. and well beyond the ad- orchestra was on hand when the “ 9:35. spirit And Time of Showing her “Wonderful Town" dressing Monday at Cedars of Leb- opened, replaced venturous of most play- the room was tem- HIGHLAND ““ST™? BUT GRAND *¦!. 3-2100. “Dark wrights. Bell, Book and room when they demanded more anon Hospital, where his three- porarily in due time by a couple UHIIHII Command." John National—“ Wayne. Walter Pldgeon. 6:10, year-old Ronnie, had a ton- of other bands, always a ot “MAGIC CARPET, 9:20; 2:40. It is related in the experience Candle”; and p.m. can son. but has in reissue Sunnybrook 2:30 8:30 laffs. And no one be 8:05. Plus GIANT “Rebecca of silectomy. at 1:30. 4:45. only Farm." Shirley Temple. 1:20, 4:50, B. of Joseph K., a rising bank clerk Sam S. Shubert—“Stalag 17”; more temperamental than Bette returned. Now he seems to be a CARTOON SHOW (at 1:00 )J *,rie * * LI- 3-3300. "Ride whose Mushy Callahan, fixture and Pi*‘* Di Lin RFVPRifl!V the address is Civilization. former the customers seem Morlboro a1 Dt»Ml Y •• 2:30 and 8:30 p.m. I know it! —but Man Down Brian K. is living a private life, harm- Davis —don’t tighter is putting muscle into to think it’s a good idea. CORAL Donlevy, 1. 4:50, 9:28: "Dark Com- Arena—“The MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN In "BONZO mand." John Wayne, _3:15, lessly to every appearance, Country Wife”; that nonsensical story from New Monty Clift’s biceps, who’s also The Palladian Room, itself, GOES TO COLLEGE.” at 1. 4:20. 7:05. when 8:30 p.m. REAGAN In a w° ®-234fl "Ride the is that Bette froze Irene learning to blow bugle and to seems to have fixture, 7:15. 10: RONALD ‘ he arrested one morning in his York a become a reissue of "LAST OUTPOST.” in I»#vCAf.VEK’r'la Man Down,” Brian Screen. “Two’s Company” pool “From Here good idea, ' Technicolor, at 2:50. 5:45. 8:40. Donlevy. Forrest bed. Arrested for what? His Dunne at the shoot for to and that’s a too. <at 7:20, Tucker. 3:05. 5:16. * * Plus GIANT CARTOON SHOW 9:30. accusers, representing the Ambassador “The Jazz party is—well, words fail me. Eternity.” ** 2:15 only)! court MIE' "MoTtiM Lynn join Av* a« Atlantic CENTRA! .’ of special jurisdiction, do not tell Singer”; 1,3, 5:05, 7:05, 9:15 and The mutual-admiration stuff Claudette Colbert is indulging Singer Burns will ATI RifTIP Nichols bLniBIHL Be n e Jane RusgeU A1LAN lit St. S.E JO. 3-5000 9:30; him. They never do 11:25 p.m. with Betty Hutton and Sophie in winter sports at Zurich. Joseph Sudy’s orchestra at the 2:25- \:55, "Fighting Com- tell him. BINO CROSBY. 808 HOPE. mand. Robert Mitchum. 12:45. Instead they attempt to break Capitol “Niagara”; 10:30 Tucker has reached the stage Hubby Joel Pressman will join Mayflower Lounge on Monday THY LAMOUR In "ROAD TO BALL” 7:45. 4:15. night not the In Technicolor, at 1:15. 3:40. 5:40. r —^Hangman'* him mentally and physically am., 1:05, 3:45, 6:20, 9:05 and where Hutton is signing herself her there at Easter when his and she, will be 7:40. 9:40: also Walt Disney Cartoon COLONY a7¥4ssoo Stooges GIANT VVbVn I Knot.” Randolph “Betty only innovation.