A-16 THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. MONDAY, MARCH 4. 19ft7 EXTENDED THROUGH MARCH 17 * jL > NATIONAL LAST 8 TIMES! WHERE <sj “Dolly Comedy . reolly romps.” “AMERICA'S FIRST THEATRE” THE PASSING SHOW n AND WHEN —Carmody, Star ives.. * So a Malt.. Wrd-Sal , t:SO Current Theater Attractions NOMINATED FOR MAURICE and Time of Showing ; HEPBURN VWftmGlri French Troupe Stages iK° “A WINNER.” _c o,. poss-r. h. EVANS a Stage Ccmedy by ELMER RICE MRNARO SHAW’S CONROY Arena Stage—Dark. “Dream with SEFTON DARR Girl” resumes tomorrow. S LANCASTER Eves. 8:a0s Sun. 1; S»t. Mat. 2:30 Tickets in Ballantyne's. 15th nr. F A Fine 'Misanthrope' National—“The Apple Cart”; Mail ami phone orders. DI. 7-4080 The APPIE CART 8:30 p.m. Co-Stonlat ttEVfftf* By HARRY MacARTHUR Shubert—Dark. B Htftfff* It was a fine day yesterday for all those who contend that Screen TECHNICOLOR* Twenty-Sixth and D Sts. N.W. SIGNE HASSO Moliere loses something in the translation. This, of course, may be Ambassador Box Office Oven Daily 10 AM. “Don’t Knock to 9:SO P M. an argument that is not pushed militantly arotmd your house, but the Rock”; 1, 3:55, 6:50 and 9:45 S there must be some who have strong feelings on the subject. p.m. Anyhow Madeleine Renaud. Jean-Louis Barrault and their com- Capitol “The Wings of ¦ Jib Mills | pany, a repertory group which calls Paris home, paid us a brief Eagles”: 11:25 a.m., 1:30, 3:35, _ visit with a frolicsome French h 5:40, 7:40 and 9:45 p.m. : THE feLTke (Jh\Nd]VIaNEIJVER production of “The Misan- • THE MISANTHNORE.” by Moliere. Colony—“La Strada”; produced by the Renaud-Barrault rep- 7 and BABY and the I Mi.krlr Gerard I'ltilipe OPEN ihlnitlti >2:30 thrope.” ertory company of Paris, directed by 9:30 p.m. The troupe Jean-Louis Barrault, scenery by Pierre was at the Shubert Delibee. costumes by Marcel EscofSer. Columbia—" The True Story of Theater for matinee and evening ; presented by S. Hurok. At the Shubert Jesse James”; 11:45 a.m., 1:45, Theater yesterday only. performances yesterday only, The Cast 3:45, 5:40, 7:40 and 9:40 p.m. WINNER OF which is too bad. Your French i Alceste Jean-Louis Barrault Dupont—" The Grand Maneu- 7 ACADEMY AWARD Philinte Jean Desailly may be badly fractured but this i Oronte Pierre Bertin ver"; 1:05, 3:15, 5:20, 7:30 and NOMINATIONS Celimene Madeleine Renaud p.m. is no serious handicap when 1 Eliante Simone Valere 9:40 these people are around. Even if. Arsinoe Natalie Nerval Keith’s—“Battle Hymn”: 11:30 "BEST PICTURE Acaste Jean-Pierre Qranval NOMINATED FOR OF THE YEAR" French films are halfway over ! Clltandre Gabriel Cattand a.m., 1:35, 3:40, 5:45, 7:50 and 2 before you are tuned in well Basque Jacques Galland 10 p.m. ¦ ACADEMY A Guard Andre Jobln AWARD! enough to stop watching the ' Hu Bois Jean Juillard MacArthur— “The Babv and ¦ •If Ftr.lt. Y subtitles closely, the comic A Oerard Dournel the Battleship”; 6:05, 7:55 and lanfuMi f »lR! ; Moliere message through 9:50 p.m. comes unity of good acting. Barrault, in this production. a Metropolitan "Don’t Knock who directed the Moliere com- M. Barrault and company the Rock”; 12:50, 3:50, 6:50 and are -1 edy, obviously believes that old p.m. 1 ______ uncommonly fine pantomimists. rule 9:50 physics every - of about ac- Ontario—" The Some nuances may not slip tion having an equal and op- Rainmaker”; 1. MATINEES CONTINUOUS -1 3:10, 5:15, 7:35 and 9:50 p.m. through the language barrier, posite reaction. give MON. SAT, The and Palace “Oh, Men! Oh, 808 AND KITE SIMPLY GREET! THRU | but it still is obvious that this 1 take and the broad gestures and *77' fellow Alceste is enraged at Women!”; 11:45 a.m., 1:45, 3:45, ¦ the small bits of business are a p.m. Celimene, the coquettish widow joy 5:45, 7:45 and 9:45 EVENINGS, 8:00 to watch. Playhouse P.M. SEATS he loves: at his friend Philinte, “The Ten Com- pM & That also applies to the con- Boy SUNPAYS ' I 8 P.M who practices the grandiloquent mandments”; 10 a.m., 2 and 8 EM^BFBBH GUARANTEED tributions made by Marcel Es- p.m. hypocrisy of the time, and at eoffier and Pierre Delbee. M Plaza "The Snow Was * the world in general. Escoffier designed the costumes !-¦ I.'y* VISTAVISION and TECHNICOLOR ** * * Black”; 12:10, 2:10, 4:10, 6:10, some fetching for the I Open 11 ones 8:10 and 10:10 p.m. TRANS-LUX A.M> I reservations accepted for As played by Barrault, Alceste ' feminine *»' ’ •«<"> members of the cast Trans-Lux—“The 14th at H Is a wonderfully comic figure as 1 and some hilariously outlandish Iron Petti- in- coat”; 11:30 a.m., 1:10, 2:50, IrtIEPHONE the pomposity of his dudgeon • for the men. These do much to AN AT He is solely figure OASIS LONG LAST 4:40, 6:30, 8:15 and 10 p.m. creases. not a • support Moliere’s case for the Uptown—" of fun, however. Since Moliere play- HOLLYWOOD—Yvonne de Carlo, long known in the movie Oklahoma!” 2 and ¦ hater-of-mankind and the 8:30 p.m. originally wrote the role for him- them with flair, capital as the Queen of the Sex-and-Sand Epics, has been ers wear a as Warner—“Seven Wonders of self it is a nice, fat part that ; if everybody wore this sort of rescued from the restless desert tribes by a role opposite the World”: 2 and 8:30 p.m. fives an actor plenty of scope. stuff every day. M. Delbee's no less than the King, Clark Gable. It’s in “Band of ISNEICHBORHOOrp^i M. Barrault is clearly its match, , single set is a first-rate one, Angels,” just about completed. Miss De Carlo credits her ] ! too, as his Alceste lambasts the 1 masterfully combining func- study of the dramatic art—and a change of agents—for extravagant of the • tional simplicity with CHOICE SCATS NOW AVAILABLE of Than manners so- intricate her graduation to better films—AP Wirephoto. All SHOWS Films More Routine Merit K-B THEATERS ciety surrounding him. pictorial comment on time, place “ANASTASIA”—Ingrid Bergman, Helen Hayes and Yul Bryn- ' BIB Mass' Av«. WO APPIT^““ 6-4600 SHOWS ner in the l A Parking One thing Moliere neglected , and manners. fable about the heiress to the Czar's fortune. Pre* to ' INGRID BERGMAN (Academy Award do here was to write very much “The Misanthrope.” in these TODAY “BABY DOLL”—Carroll Baker in a sordid Tennessee Williams Normnationi and YUL BRYNNER In 2fO» "ANASTASIA” iin Colon at 1:10. hands, comedy RODGERS jnd drama expertly filmed by of a play. Bernard Shaw was not is low done in HAMMERSTEIN S Director Elia Kazan. I 7:30 and 8:35 P M. : high style. The next the “FRIENDLY PERSUASION”—Gary * the first playwright self-confident time *' Cooper in a heart-warm- i N M Av 4Univ ton* company 4 ing among LANGLEYuniiuiiiii enough to substitute witty de- Renaud-Barrault comes ED SULLIVAN 5.' 5? tale of life the peace-loving Quakers. Hfe 4 5700 way, you'd plan to “GIANT”—King-size novel, INGRID BERGMAN <Academy Award bate for plot. He was not the this better version of Edna Ferber’s made Nomination i and YDI. BRYNNER in first to get away with either, spend an afternoon or evening noteworthy by Director George pictorial genius. ANASTASIA" (in Coiori. at 1:15 it. Stevens’ 3:20, 5:3q__7:35 and 9:40 P.M. LITTLE OLD NEW YORK Ant motion picture produced “LUST FOR LlFE”—Kirk Douglas as as the Renaud-Barrault com- with them. Vincent Van Gogh in Av» & Pinay * * FI QWFR Br Rd ** mmm a handsomely-colored, distinguished ¦ KWTTSin Mr) pany which visited us yesterday TODD-AO screen biography. si| Sog l(J g I6W proves playing AUDITIONS—The Washington “MOBY DlCK"—Herman Melville's classic novel made into a i Alfred Hitchcock’s "THE WRONG in its of "The ; MAN.” With HENRY FONDA at 7:25 Mesanthrope.” Community Theater has a pro- fxtlusive Woshington fngogement truly classic motion picture by Director John Huston ar ‘d 9:35. Short Subjects at 7:00 *• Olh.. TK,„(r. : ** * * duction ken OF THE AUGUST P.M of "Mr. Roberts" in the •* Surrounding “TEAHOUSE MOON’—American democ- Areo in This Process racy and Glenn Ford nniLunNAYLOR 4 «• *»“«' This repertory troupe has been works, aimed for March 28. and A4y Secretary, Africa, Speaks comically meet an Okinawan impasse. tu 2WO still NEW YORK grandson RHONE “WAR AND PEACE”—Excellent, INGRID BERGMAN (Academv a Paris success for more than 10 has some vacancies in the —Dear Boss: Be-j-jLodge’s named Fred- RESERVATIONS star-studded film classic that I on Award captures spirit meaning ! ,“?S lih*! , | and YUL BRYNNER In years and it shows. cast. Tryouts will be held to- fore Gene Burk's funeral at St. 1 the and of the great novel. n C °lon “ Barrault’s! erick. Fernanda Montel's ACCEPTED WO. 6-5400 s:4i ; j kiO p M ' ’ misanthrope stands out. of night at 8 at 2712 Dunbarton Patrick's Cathedral. Conrad Mail Order* Denny . Promptly j escort Slater.