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The Passing Show Movies No Longer Too Big For Release in August By Jay Carmody August 1951 will be like no other August the movie industry remembers Former Augusts were doldrum months in which producers and exhibitors alike were inclined to sell air-cooling and inexpensive pictures which came under the heading of light summer entertainment This year no production is too costly or too big to be held back. This week, for example, see the release here of two "Alice in Walt Disney's at the Louis Bunin production at Trans-Lux And Warner Bros, will let fly with "Capt. Horatio at three theaters simultaneously, the Warner, Metropolitan and Ambassador The Playhouse, after holding "Tales of nearly four months, will revert to an allstarry bit of English nonsense, "Tony Draws A One of the most interesting of the pictures will follow "Show at the Palace This is "The a 20th CenturyFox version of life in the underwater demolition service during the last war Makes Channel swimmers look like heat sufferers taking a dip in the pool Also on tap in the Loew houses is In The the angriest picture ever made by the satirical minded ProducerDirector Billy Wilder, co-producer of "Sunset Exciting fellow, Wilder, when he gets mad. Tony Curtis, Mario Lanza and Sinatra fan clubs can have a week off. or something, come August 11 That's the date Francis Bushman, pioneer film star, will come to Washington, thumping a melodic tub so to speak for and Now in his late 60s.

as the departmental addition goes, Bushman finds himself arousing all sorts of nostalgic feeling wherever he stops on his good will tour Every body remembers him when everybody was little or small He still is considered tops in matinee idol types, but, take it all in all, F. X. B. likes life better now than he found it then It's calmer He will be in Washington three days, as part of a 30-city tour. The two smash weeks it did at is only part of the success of De in its release at popular prices It has been the same all the way from here to Anchorage, Alaska Only About and did better first days in New York Producer Stanley Kramer will think hard before releasing another of his super-specials at road show prices And the first guy to admit it wnen me iacts suggest ne is wrong.

Mary Coyle Chase, whose millions in royalties from turned her into a financieress instead of a writer. Anally has Anished another play. This one is called and it will have its world premiere tonight at Abingdon, Va. As the title suggests, Mrs. Chase has written another fantasy, an entirely different sort.

Unlike Harvey, who neither spoke nor was visible, the title character in is both heard and seen. He speaks three lines. Nearer at hand, in the adjacent country. Olney this week offers "Anna with Ann Corio, and McLean's summer theater will FRIEND Virginia Mayo plays the leading feminine role in Horatio tchich Warner Bros, will proudly present here at three the Warner, Metropolitan and Ambassador, starting Thursday. present, With Miss Corio, a great Washington favorite in the days of the burlesque, is making her first country drama appearance in this area.

She's a big draw in New England where she has appeared in a number of productions, etc. Two plays new to this area. and will be the bookings of the same two theaters next; Jessica Tandy and Hume! Cronyn are the complete cast of; the former, which should give Olney's hostess, Nancy Holland, her nearest thing to a week of rest this summer. Drama job most in demand, if the State Department is listening, is the opening for a stage director in Turkey. The drama desk is littered with requests for recommendations from its occupant.

Either of two top names would make a good man for Warner Watson of ANTA, the man who has the job to dispose of. But it is nice that he, not we. must make the choice. Speaking of jobs, Hollywood still can lure away Broad-; way top talent. Vivian Blaine has left and and Russell Nype.

Me for movie chores. And Doretta Morrow has departed "The King and for the same purpose. And, still speaking of people and jobs, the District of Columbia Recreation Department finds itself shy of one of its most charming staff members. This is June Blair who already is at work as director of recreation at Los Alamos. N.

Mex. Miss Blair was Sybil Baker's assistant three years here and a more energetic girl the local drama desks never met. Harry J. Scully who appeared in 14 Arena Stage plays, totaling 314 performances, has resigned to join the McLean Suntmer Theater company. Joan next film, will be released through RKO, Miss first association with that In town for last Olney opening was Leo G.

Carroll who won't be able to keep his September date at the Maryland theater due to a Hollywood commitment.1 He regards himself, as Olney a date, perhaps next summer. Hot w-eather joke suitable for ending a Monday column: Actor Stewart Granger once knew an African big game hunter who dis- appeared, leaving his friends fearful that something he disagreed with ate him. Absurd day, Monday. 5 miles from Chain Bridge on Rt. Stage Shows New York Cast! at 8:40 i Tommy Brent Jim Garwood Presents "LIFE WITH FATHER" Plus 3990 Hollywood Diary Miss Grable Having Fun But Her Studio Isn't By Harold Heffcrnan- HOLLYWOOD.

Will screen history repeat in the case of Betty Grable and Alice Faye? Will Betty quietly follow her predecessor queen of the 20th Century-Fox lot into retirement, without an explanation? Whether Betty decides upon such a measure or not, top brass at her studio are frankly worried by the absence of any indication as to when she will return to work. Suspended for refusing to make Does a Betty normally would have notified her; employers shortly thereafter that she was willing and able" to resume her contractual duties. Then, it would have been the procedure either to restore her to the payroll forthwith or! take advantage of eight weeks in which to find her a suitable script which period the actress would still draw no pay. After the lapse of such time, the company would be obligated to restore her wage, whether or not a story had The mystifying, worrisome note, however, is that Betty has given no hint of when, if ever, she intends to come back. All that she has said is that she is her suspension.

When it was suggested that June Haver or Mitzi Gaynor or some other young star might pass her popularity rating during her absence from the Where and When Current Screen Attractions and Time of Showing Stage. Carter Barron Rock Creek of Our 8:40 p.m. Screen. Amoassaaor un Moonlight 1:00, 3:10, 6:20, 7:30, and 9:45 p.m. Prince Who Was A 11:00 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 and 10:00 p.m.

Stage 12:50, 3:35, 6:20 and 9:05 p.m. Care of My Little 11:40 a.m., 1:40, 3:40, 5:40, 7:40 and 9:40 p.m. 1:05,2:55, 4:45, 6:30, 8:20 and 10:10 p.m. de 11:15 a.m., 1:20, 3:25, 5:30, 7:35 and 9:40 p.m. 1:25, 4:05, 6:55 and 9:40 p.m.

11:15 a.m.. 12:55, 2:40, 4:25, 6:10, 7:55 and 9:40 p.m. National 11:30 a.m., 1:10, 2:55, 4:35, 6:15, 8:00 and 9:40 p.m. 10:30 a.m., 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Under 2:00, 4:10, 6:15, 8:25 and 10:35 p.m.

Playhouse of 2:30 and 8:30 p.m. 10:40 a.mj 12:15. 1:55, 3:35, 5:15, 6:55, 8:30 and 10:10 p.m. 11:00 a 12:50, 2:35, 4:25, 6:15, 8:00 and 9:50 p.m. Moonlight 11:00 a.m., 1:10, 3:30, 5:30, and 9:55 p.m.

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AMUSEMENTS. screen, she replied blithely, always room in this business new What bothers 20th-Fox toppers most, however, is the precedent set a decade ago by Alice Faye. Alice, also a great musical star, and also suspended, never announced a formal retirement; she just show up to make any more pictures. And thus the sfudio lost a great boxoffice attraction. Naturally, the company, espenially at this time, would deplore having the same thing happen in the Grable situation.

Betty is the feminine boxoffice champion of the entire industry and the Faye parallel is too close for comfort. Ida Lupino plays a girl who waits in a lonely house to be her next, "The been quite a while since Ida was murdered in a has been too busy directing. Joan Blondell tells me she has genius in the 16year-old. six-foot-one son Norman, now at Lawrenceville Prep School. gets only 95s and 97s in says Joannie.

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