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A-14 THE EVENING STAR. Washington, D. C. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. FRIDAY. JULY IT. 1833 ~ The Passing Show Z<* 6fi£AT WEEK! " - Fry's 'Lady' Summer's High *1 -in Y || In Hilarity at the Olney By Jay Carmody Christopher Fry is back on his broom writing wonder in the sky over Washington. Well, not exactly Washington but Olney. Md., where his “The Lady’s Not For Burning” is the area’s top summer theater attraction. This production starring Margaret Phillips and Basil Langton, is an exhibit not to be missed' jf M either by those already familiar missed perfection. This was most ' v with the wit and wizardry of notably evident in a third act yet ?..A fighting spirit Fry or those who have to that lost pace and revealed a ft Stalagf7 salute to men of who lived under brutal meet him. small hole or two in Fry’s Without John Gielgud and craftsmanship. CONDITIONS...AND NEVER GAVE UP! first brought *** * Pamela Brown, who ¦t .. k .-ft ai jgjgjgY “The Lady” to Washington. Fry’s The exhilaration of “The . - still agile play is an astoundingly Lady's w SB work that manages at once to Not For Burning” is the be uproariously comic, clever and brilliance with which itrenovates tel profound. Also without these the English language. Fry’s performers, ‘‘The Lady” awesome characters, principally a disil- STORY of those boisterous, roisterous prisoners-of-war is played by a group like that for Stfllaa which Fry wrote it, competent lusioned young soldier who wants WHO BACK WITH THEIR SECRET actors delighted to find them- to be hanged and a pretty girl MAKE-UP DEPARTMENT—DeaIs even with horses in Holly- fOUGHT WEAPON...TIAUGhTerI.. selves involved in its innate wit who does not want to be burned wood. Here Austin Arnold, proper painter, retouches a white FIGHTING BARBED WIRE WITH BARBED WIT AND spot on MACHINE GUNS and wisdom. at the stake, are comedy a thoroughbred stallion for the latter’s role in "My It is a highly contagious de- Sheba." The original story is by Damon Runyon. WITHImQNKEYSHINESI! light that fills Olney’s theater originals. —Wide World Photo. — - — with more intelligent merriment It is inconceivable that they 1 ¦ i naiiiimi —Tiigar mi i^ii • —n^—Tii "i iijcffl¦ i in that it has ever known. This, should speak the dull language STARRING too, despite the fact that the of the • drama’s usual dull WILLIAM HOLDEN DON TAYLOR • first performance of Director humans. Fry sees to lt that they Esther, Ablaze With Health, Afolof] OTTO PREMINGER Gene O’Sullivan’s production never do. He their 17 • clothes | M ftoduoed and Dirreted.by BILLY WILDER Written for the town by BILLY WILDER and EDWIN BLUII thoughts in speech that is clear and splendid and musical—-and Returns to Capitol's Screen funnier than anything any one . in If was "DANGEROUS WHEN WE T.” a Fun the there an Academy Metrn-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, has heard in years. ( produced WATCH To* MO-M’S the movies’ healthiest | by George Wells, directed by Charles TECHNICOLOR fluty It leaves the spectator feeling Award for Walters, screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley. MUSICAL BAND WABQN* UX* purged of most he Esther Williams would 1At the Capitol. Seas of the sins actress, The Cast. I MMlNlllMlllllllNßN|ft|Nft|||gMiMM|N South has shared in reducing the win it hands down—or up, or Katy . Esther Williams mother tongue to a withered Andre Lanet Fernando Lamas Virginia Mayo Has even sideways. Windy Webbe Jack Carson crone, a bony shadow of its Ma Higgins Charlotte Greenwood " limitlessly Esther’s pictures with their Glgi Mignon Denise Darcel A Preposterous beautiful possibilities. Pa Higgins William Demarest ** * * ASPECTACLE AS IT rosy-cheeked charm are to the "Junior” Higgins Donna Corcoran SHOULD BE SEEN Time i Suzie Higgins Barbara Whiting at Warner There is no confusion about nation’s entertainment diet what Greta Bunny Waters what “The Lady’s Not For Joubert Henri Letondal "SOUTH SEA WOMAN,” a Warner Burn- apple pie is to its more basic ¦ Bryar Sam Pierre Paul Brothers picture, produced by ing” by Frye GIANT by is about in this summer menu. They are all made the Stuart Jack Ralne FULL-STAGE PANORAMIC SCREEN Bischofl. directed Arthur Lubin. Swimmer, screenplay by theater unfailing recipe i Egyptian Channel Edwin Blum adulation version. It is about same precise, Richard Alexander by Earl and Stanley Shapiro, people Baldwinby and life, both of which undoubtedly each brings in ; Old 8a lt Tudor Owen from play William M Rankin. At and ! Mrs. Lanet Ann Codee the Ambassador and the Warner. Fry finds extraordinarily impressive amus- an identical and i : THE CAST. * ing and exciting. They are con- profit to MGM. I ! Sprat O'Hearn _ Burt Lancaster cerned with everything, life and writes about a channel swimmer Virginia Mayo In world as unstable as this, Ginger Martin death, love, religion, a David White Chuck Connors sex, art, Miss Williams is a phenomenon , (English) who enters the contest Donovan. V 8. N. R._ Arthur Shields heresy, the eating owls Berry Kelley habits of if not to supply the family's farm with Col. Hickman and of to be held in affection Marchand __ Leon Askin futility scrubbing the actual awe. Indeed a bathing thoroughbred may Madame Duval Veola Vonn floors. I a bull. This Lt. Miller Egbert Sweeney suit-clad monument to her in Lt Fears Hayden Rorke The situation in which they very well be the noblest motive Raymond Greenleaf one of the city’s many Admiral immediately statueless Ensign Hoyt Paul Burlfe are involved makes small triangles might very prop- ; for which any girl ever tried to Alphonse Henri Letondal this abundance of experience Mr. Smith William O’Leary erly be in order even if the na- swim from France to England. Mr Fitzroy John Alderson plausible. Saurel tional budget is not. Jacques Georae It is set in*a small town where Channel swimming is a serious Mlml Viola Daniels the Suzette Alena Awes the turmoil terrible because Miss Williams’ place in i business, but "Dangerous When _ Rudolph Andrews is Cant. Van Dorck the play’s hero cosmic scheme is reaffirmed by j Wet” is not. It is as light Fatso ------ Noel Cravat wants to be Chong film, Wu Chine Peter hanged and its heroine fights off the appearance of her latest i hearted as a lark at morning “Dangerous When Wet,” at ! although not in ex- By harry MacArthur the community’s intent to kill as effortless her as a witch. This is municipal Loews Capitol. It was chosen j pressing itself. To describe any movie as the if any one ever heard to christen the theaters’ new This is certainly the spirit of Hollywood delirium ( | most preposterous one of it and Fry makes the hearing wide screen and a wiser choice the passages dealing with Car- your Bigger 1 has happily dispatched alternately and sus- could not have been made. | son’s training of 1937, hilarious effort at Miss way since the spring penseful. than ever. Miss Williams is in- Williams her swim, in A man al- for those would be foolhardy. That he accomplishes it in evitably better than ever in a which she fences romantically safe, however, in ap- that most feels such a storm of unprecedented cavalcade of bathing suits | with Lamas, the highlight the to “South Sea skimpier than and plying label talk is the that holds might be a bit sequence in which per- is sprawling miracle Esther Woman,” which spellbound the ever. ; acquatic giant audiences while forms her latest ballet. oaflshly across the pano- lady escapes burning. up swim and from Also suited to ! This, you /nay be the ramic screen at the Warner and ** * * sure, is frolic with her are such whole- really imaginative touch in Ambassador. For all their remarkability, the Charlotte Green- is dedi- some types as I “Dangerous When Wet” and it is ‘‘South Sea Woman” characters of the play are William Fry wood, Demarest and pretty as • cated about equally to the pre- easily instantly recognizable. ; impressive acquatic and Jack Carson. However, to give go. In one, .Miss mises that Virginia Mayo is an drama cast ballets this Modem offers no com- the picture contrast, the Williams is supported by small appetizing sight and that United parably amusing figure to the also includes Fernando Lamas Marines can outfight any : animated Disney-type animals, States bitter hero, played so capably by and Denise Darcel. a pair of one. Both are sound premises. j just the sort a girl would like to Basil Langton. This is a tem- aliens who serve their purpose meet in her dreams. The Marines themselves, how- pestuous young man who has ever, on a of occasions well. number tried life, found it wanting, and ** * * Miss Williams has the time of have much more effectively dem- wants to get it as her life, swimming rhythmically out of as fast Kingsley onstrated the latter one with- possible. He could kill himself, Dorothy who wrote with them on the bottom of the out turning it into a burlesque, is the screenplay at the Capitol English through the of course, but there something inspiration channel which is what the movie does. cleaner about a legal hanging. could have found her hulls of ships that make ideal Sea The action of “South Moreover, Is pending, for it in Florence Chadwick’s ballet settings. in a se- while this now EHOwiNt Woman” takes place he can keep spitting his famous televised Catalina There is just enough in disdain any music ries of dashbacks from the court- in the face of humanity which channel swim.