Stage—Screen—Books Garden —Camera—Stamps E Radio —Music—Art §Q)e Sunday ffetf Resorts —Records—Bridge TWELVE PAGES WASHINGTON, D. C., AUGUST 12, 1956 TODAY'S SCHEDULES B. DeMille, 75, the Champion, STAGE Cecil Still CARTER BARRON AMPHITHEATRE—NationaI Ballet Com- pany of Canada, 8:30 p.m. OLNEY—“Much Ado About Nothing": 2:30 and 8:30 p.m. Looks Ahead in Hollywood He Started NATIONAL—“Pajama Game"; p.m. 7 By JAMES BACON SCREEN HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 11 UP). vigorous AMBASSADOR—“SateIIite in the Sky ’: 1:20, 3:20, 5:25, 7:30 —Cecil B. DeMille. a 9:35 p.m. living legend and the man end who gave the world Holly- CAPITOL—"The King 12:45, 3, 5:10, 7:35, p.m. and I": 9:50 wood. will be 75 tomorrow. COLONY—“Naked Amazon”: 2:55. 4:40. 6:25, 8:10, 9:55 p.m. COLUMBlA—"Werewolf”; p.m. And still champion! 12:30. 3:20. 6:10 and 9 glee DUPONT—"The Proud and Beautiful"; 1:25, 3:30. 5:35, 7:35 It’s a matter of in the p.m. Paramount accounting office and 9:40 mostly 3:45, that DeMille’s epics, ;;f§ ml j*£ w KElTH’S—“Pardners”: 1:40. 5:45. 7:50 and 9:50 p.m. based on Biblical themes, have LITTLE—"Don’t Bother to Knock”; 1:25, 4:55 and 8:25 p.m. - ¦ a been seen by an estimated 5 - 2,4, 5:55, 7:55, p.m. MacARTHUR—“Simon and Laura”: 9:55 billion people—roughly twice liIHP a METROPOLITAN—“SateIIite in the Sky”; 1:40, 3:40. 5:45, the earth’s inhabitants. Box- 7:45 and 9:50 p.m. office returns —nearly three- .A % I ONTARIO—“The Proud and 1:10, 3:15, 5:25, Profane”: 7:30 quarters of a billion dollars—- and 9:40 p.m. sound more like a congres- PALACE—“Away All Boats”; 1:15, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 p.m. sional appropriation than total PLAYHOUSE—"Storm Center”: 1, 2:45, 4:30, 6:20, 8:10 and ticket sales. 1 " v p.m. HK£: A f 9:55 The biggest is yet come !lWhßwi ifc» ¦ p.m. to PLAZA—"I9B4”: 1:30. 3:20, 5:05, 6:55, 8:40 and 10:15 —“The Ten Commandments,” TRANS-LUX—"The Eddy Duchin Story”; 1:10, 3:22, 5:33, 7:44 which has occupied DeMille’s and 9:55 p.m. 12-hour working days for the WARNER—"Cinerama Holiday”; 2, 5 and 8:30 p.m. last five years, will be released in November. It started out with a tenta- THE PASSING SHOW tive budget of six millions but DeMille now has the cost up to sl3 million. It may be the first sls million production in movie history. Fewer but Bigger Films Money Make Y. Frank Freeman, head of the studio that’s financing the movie, hasn’t even seen a Films in Prospect rough cut yet, but knows that any DeMille epic, no matter By JAY CARMODY an equivalent period at two the cost, always makes money. com- houses such as the Metro- Commonest of the politan A movie maker who spends plaints which moviegoers reg- and Ambassador. money This sort like water yet with the ister this corner of happy fiscal with is that experience something judgment of a banker, De- enough does for there are not movies. thinking producers. Mille shrugs off the cost of “Why,” the telephone callers the of film What it does is to bring them “The Ten Commandments.” and letter writers want to “It's money more and more to the convic- not the that know, neighborhood counts. "do all tion that the fewer What is important is houses seem to be playing the answer is good enough to but always bigger and better whether I’m same picture?” justice story. pictures. Even the smaller do with the The 'The is that there are story of Moses is in a answer Hollywood the ones needed so few pictures produced studios, tense specialty world with the threat of yearly, as many which once made a of half as when low-budget, widely distrib- the H-bomb.” from 500 to were made the To DeMille, story 600 uted film, have made this dis- the of every 12 months in the in- covery. Moses is the second greatest dustry's uncompetitive days, story of mankind. He Universal, for instance, is made HIS BIGGEST YET—Cecil B. DeMille, run gH that the outlying theaters have the first in 1927 as “The King whose pictures to size, here directs Yul $?. basking at the moment the Brynner and Baxter in a scene 2&s i no other choice. Or, best, in of Kings,” the life of Jesus. Anne for ‘‘The Ten Commandments,” being read- at popularity of of its ied the choice of playing a re- one most It has never stopped playing for November release. On C. B.’s 75th birthday today it represents an mvest- expensive and ambitious proj- place in the world ment of million, may turn be _ out to the industry’s first movie. release, such as "The Grapes “Away All Boats.” And some since sl3 sls-million of Wrath,” "Tobacco Road,” ects. its release—almost 30 years or Columbia could not be two of the older productions more ago. _ _ hopes that DeMille never enchanted than with the im- boasts films “Dante's Inferno.” now current in this area. pact DeMille that he never of "Picnic” and “The earned a cent from "The King “He’d insist on shooting the So, They Pounce Eddy Duchin Story” to men- of Kings.” crowd scenes in hell itself,” In this situation, suburban tion but two of its more recent “And,” he adds, “I won’t the aide moans. exhibitors live poised to pounce expensive ventures. take a cent from ‘The Ten In Egypt, DeMille shot the upon, especially, Among greatest Wms hit produc- the so-called “ma- Commandments.’ It will all crowd scene in movie JF s -wrtmmtu go history, tions as soon as they finish jors,” Paramount's highest to charity.” using 25,000 nomadic Ipl&l [ metropolitan hopes people along with their horses, f their runs. are tied in with the film He’ll Never Retire mm f Washington, Indeed, pro- that may end up as the most goats, camels, roosters and vided an extreme illustration costly of all time to produce. It will be DeMille's 70th pic- pigeons. DeMille says it was of this earlier in the summer This is Cecil B. de Mille’s sec- ture, but not his last. a relatively easy job getting when the outlying demand ond version of “The Ten Com- “I would rather wear out extras. than rust,” he says. forced “Picnic” into neigh- mandments,” set for autumn “I'llnever "I just hired every shiek in borhood release when it might release and for months a major retire." the brought along Upcoming under the area and he have continued its exclusive excitement in the industry's DeMille all his animals and humans.” popular run at Trans- program. banner is a musical version of 4 FLAMENCO VESUVIUS and the hit, You Lux. Columbia Pictures, the On MGM’s schedule, the im- an earlier "The Bucca- Don’t Tell Him Carmen Amaya, the smoldering dancer who fairly Others story goes, found Itself in the mediate offering includes proj- neer.” will direct and His old partner, Jesse L. erupts excitement, brings her troupe of Spanish produce it. Lasky, said position asking pro- ects as large as “Tea and Sym- DeMille is the only ... odd of the “I’ll just be the chairboy,” dancers and musicians to the Carter Barron Amphi- duction back in one of the pathy,” “Teahouse of the Au- director who's never had a theater on Thursday night. The engagement is for gust Moon,” and insists De Mille. producer supervising nim. company’s most successful Raintree The chairboy five performances its County.” the latter an epic is an important “Os Cecil’s 70 pictures only, will continue through Mon- deals for exhibition. cog some day, August 20. This instance, as noted, is size slice of Americana. in the DeMille machine 46 or 48 were under my so- When DeMille wants to sit by no means typical but it is Warners’ Big Three called jurisdiction. But let’ down, he does so without ever no one part of a widespread restless- looking believe that I had any- productions Warner Bros., which also back. It’s the chair- thing to do with producing THE THEATER WEEK ness to break film boy's the long once did its. share with the chore to see that even the first—'The Squaw loose from first-run book- always ings. routine movie, could not be chair is there. It has Man.’ You don’t tell Cecil optimistic been. The idea behind this agita- more than It is DeMille what to do.” over the prospects of such DeMille is an amazingly fit KM# JHpf W-- Cameras to Capture tion is that if the vexing prob- Some have called DeMille as man. His bald head is lem cannot be solved by in- George Stevens' “Giant,” tanned a an Leland Hayward's “The Spirit from gardening. In his off martinet but not John ' crease in production, away Wayne, who starred in “Reap out of St. Louis.” and, among hours he spades, digs ditches, might be found by a new hauls a the Wild Wind." Stratford's Dramas policy of distribution.