THE PASSING SHOW Cost Stress Hard; On Latest 'Porgy! By JAY CARMODY effect of the cleanliness, but Drunk Editor ol Th* Star the fact remains that it re- Possessed as it is of a soul duces the squalor of that fairly Catfish reeks with human Row life which is such ah CT charity, this corner hopes essential part of its drama. fCT that Samuel Ooldwyn gets It is responsible, too, for thft ipp2 (fiMIOP his anticipated return on h<s criticism that Director Pra- * a X “seven million dollar ‘Porgy mlnger, bom, Iph ” German hab iJnfil Ir \r -M ll\ xS? and Bess.’ photographed “Porgy ana s FlJf/C Nevertheless. It does regret Bess” as if it were an Old Hawk that the sum ever was Heldelburg musical mentioned. Why? festival. zffil Well, because “Porgy and Is It Overdressed? Bess” Is essentially a drama poverty. every Although Mr. Goldwyn, a of Its exciting proud narrative man and a confident element from its one, may quibble, haunting, misshapen call it a love ground story through Its alternating there is for argument that his “Porgy” is sadly B moods of dark violence and sunlit hope, grow overdressed. out of a Its slum setting called Catfish wardrobe is the work of Row. Irene Sharafl, a designer who has all of the Catfish Row Is a water* learned dra- ruin, specimen matic tricks of costuming front a classic performers of that time-wrought shabbl- working before v large, color cameras. There is zct\ ness which Its name suggests H’ —but no question that these are \ \ not In the movie seven U -1 million dollars and the beautifully harmonized as to poverty implied In the name toner and that they look like Catfish Row are irreconcil- paintings as they flash on x x able. the screen. The mind that undertakes Still, there is a large ques- to tion in the minds of those '' reconcile them simultan- eously finds itself taunted by familiar with the stage pro- the notion that a duction, that they relate as fraction of they ir that sum would not only re- should to the economic /x gives claim Catfish Row but con- distress that drama to vert it, say. into a Spring the love story of Porgy and Valley. Naturally, this Bess. As dressed in the sort production of thought can only dilute the Robert Breen drama so essentially implicit which ran for years in this In George country and abroad, the . Gershwin’s im- STAGE: NEW PLAY BY WILLIAM INGE a stage "Porgy” caught mortal “Porgy” music. And the in Dubose Hayward’s inspired true flavor of the life on Shirley Booth returns to Washington this week as the star of William MA of story on which the music is Charleston’s waterfront Inge’s new play, “A Loss of Roses,” opening on Thursday night at the based. which Gershwin’s lovely * A m mmm a a a m mm National Theater. In this scene Miss Booth is refusing as too expensive M/g/A A A¦ m M A A a music sings. Jk Actors Cost, Too The transforming hands a gift watch offered by Warren Beatty as her son. Ihe interested M V< ¦ a m which worked on the Gold- * In justice to Mr. Goldwyn wyn production did not con- spectator is Carol Haney, playing her first straight dramatic role as a Iff | mm aw I Awr aw and his picture, of course, setting fine themselves to the mature woman involved with the younger boy. its does not repre- physical production. They sent the only element of this WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER 25, 1959 H-9 “Porgy’s” are evident in a number of $7 million produc- more important details, of tion costs. Uncounted other reshaping items, which one is the including heavy talent of the character of Bess. investments, figured in this. LOVE THAT LUXURY TODAY'S SCHEDULES LIVE, SAYS ZSA The fact remains, however, Bess Not Found Wanton the the mention of money in In the original narrative connection with a film which and musical design, Bess is STAGE sings "I Got Plenty ” O’ Inevitable sinner, victim Nothin’ an She Likes Hollywood ARENA STAGE—“Major Barbara”; 7:30 p.m. 'Men sends the perverse of her own impulses as well Shouldn't Sit eye looking for the ways in the criminal hungers which as of SCREEN it was spent. the early men in her life. In the “Porgy” Story”; case of this As played by Dorothy Dan- And Being a Film Star AMBASSADOR—“FBI James Stewart vs. crime impulse is almost On Their Money' irresistible. dridge, through the years; 1:15, 3:45, 6:20 and 9 p.m. she is shown as one And, in its perverse way, it more sinned against than By SHEILAH GRAHAM water flats and be arts-and- CAPlTOL—“Tamango,” melodrama in the slave trade; By JIM MORSE Zsa Zsa, who purred her is rewarding. Newspaper sinning, a kind of apologetic North American Alliance crafty and hungry. But if 1:40, 3:45, 5:45, 7:50 and 9:50 p.m. North American Newspaper Alliance For they’re going here comments while dress de- one illustration, the Bess in comparison with the HOLLYWOOD. Carolyn to stay Wall”; NEW YORK.—“None of us greatest money DUPONT—“Back to the melodrama from France; signer Livia Sylva struggled basic stake of this wanton who could be trans- • and take the they Jones, the blond brunette 1, 2:40, 4:25, 6:10, 7.55 and 9:45 p.m. are here to stay, darling,” of folk operas is a earn in pictures and televi- to fit her in a new gown, water- formed by love: who went from $l5O a week Me,” said Zsa Zsa front square. Save in the Yet, despite sion, then they should keep KEITH’S—“But Not for Clark Gable in a fable of Gabor. “Men said she doesn't believe these and middle-aged 3:20, 5:25, scenes immediately after the complaints to $150,000 per picture in lix their mouths shut. Some of romance; 1:15, 7:35 and shouldn’t sit on their money. Flynn’s death represents the other churlish 9:45 p.m. They Money famous hurricane in the logically to be made against years, is NOT a member of them not only bite the hand should live. it- end of an era. story this has the them—they MacARTHUR—“The Mouse Roared,” Imaginative self kept anybody look of Mr. Goldwyn’s picture, it is the fashionable "IDon’t Like that feeds chew That never “There will always be won- having been swept, even on the entire arm. farce from England; 2:25, 4:15, 6:10, 8 and 9:55 pm. warm. he who may well have the Hollywood" school. This derful men who dare to live vacuumed, before each of Di- last laugh. METROPOLITAN—“FBI Story”; James Stewart crime "I'm so terribly upset over know, latter includes Diane Varsi, Fan to Walk On vs. well,” she said. “You rector Otto Preminger’s His “$7 million 'Porgy and through the years; the death Errol Flynn. ” 1:30, 4:05, 6:40 and 9:15 p.m. of darling, someone new is al- scenes. observant movie- Marilyn Monroe, Marlon up He such The Bess’ is among the top “When I was growing ONTARIO—“PiIIow Talk”; Doris Day, Rock Hudson was a wonderful ways coming along. I have goer, say foreigner in I dreamed human being. I didn’t know a unfa- three pictures in current box- Brando, Suzy Parker, An- Texas, of the amorous comedy: 1:15, 3:20, 5:30. 7:35 and 9:45 p.m. great hopes for a young miliar with Hollywood’s love figures day would chocolates him well, darling; but he office popularity I thony Franciosa, Carroll I eat PALACE—"Career,” Broadway behind the scenes; actor named Steve Boyd. He of the antiseptic, might well according champagne 1:20, 3:25, represented something. He to this week’s Va- Baker, Tony Perkins and in bed, drink for 5:30, 7:35 and 8:40 p.m. has a role in the ’Ben Hur’ conclude that this is a re- riety. breakfast, wear mink in my dared to live. They say he Errol many others. Scapegoat”; movie. He thinks like quierment of the Screen Ac- This surely is a of living room, and wash my PLAYHOUSE—"The Alec Guinness plays two died broke. That’s nonsense, Flynn. form *,T like Hollywood, and I chaps, good He dares to live. tors’ Guild consolation for whatever diamonds in gin. I wanted and evil ones, in a slick tale of mistaken darling. He was one of the He dares, like being a movie star," said Identity: 1:35, 3:25, 5:25, 7:25 and p.m. “Frank Sinatra? This obviously is an over- shafts are aimed at it by an all-white home, and clos- 9:20 richest men in the world. He' too, but he isn’t like Flynn extravagant Miss Jones, on the set of her lived full life estimate of the critics. ets full of expensive gowns. PLAZA—“The Lovers”; frank French look at adultery; a and he was at all. Sinatra isn’t as happy. latest starring Him, "Ice 1:15, 2:50, 4:55, 6:15, pm. rich in experience. Palace," at Warners. "I like I wanted furs to walk on and 7:55 and 9:40 He’s still looking for women everything about it—the drag, as well as wear. That TOWN—“Female and the Flesh,” Brigitte Bardot as a wife Always Someone New to make him happy.