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Meet "The Five Donahues," a family of troupers whose trials and tribulations as dramatized in Irving Berlin’s "There’s No Business Like Show Business,** make a musical drama the like of which movie- goers have never beheld! Audiences will laugh, cry, thrill to their triumphs and be emotionally stirred by their trials and heart-aches. They will never forget "The Five Donahues’*. . .nor a screenplay that presents CinemaScope at its best. This is the story of an average American family. In this case, they make their Donald O’Connor, the playboy member of "The Five Donahues,** indeed, a chip off the old block comes home drunk after a night of club-roving to forget his being jilted by a talented hat-check girl aspiring to break into show business. Taken back by his appearance are Ethel Merman, Johnnie Ray, Dan Dailey and a fellow trouper. Page 20A livelihood behind the footlights. Glamor- ous, yes. Talented, yes. But, a family that courageously copes with passing years, come success or reverse, joy or sorrow. Produced at a cost exceeding $4,000,000, "There’s No Business Like Show Business’* will definitely chal- lenge the world’s record-holding boxoffice grosses and runs achieved by the first CinemaScope production, "The Robe.*’ Importantly significant, this prediction is made by heads of other major studios who have been privileged to see a "rough- O’Connor is too much in love with Marilyn Monroe, the ex-hat check girl, to take active part in this routine with her and his sister, Mitzi Gaynor. It is his frustrated love for la Monroe character that prompts him to run out of the family act, but, in the end, he redeems himself. His return spurs a sensational finish to the story, re- uniting "The Five Donahues” in a performance that will inspire audiences to cheering applause. cut” of the completed picture. Unques- tionably this company’s most elaborate and lavish musical by far, this picture proves, beyond any doubt, say those who have seen it, that there truly is "no bus- iness like show business”. . .and the ticket-buyers, who will flock to the world’s thousands of CinemaScope thea- tres by the millions during abnormally extended runs, will love it, for it will penetrate and linger long in the heart of every man, woman, boy and girl who will see it. "Ma” Donahue and "Pop” Donahue, with Johnnie Ray, their eldest son and friends, enjoy an impromptu routine by Donald O’Connor and Mitzi Gaynor on the eve of Johnnie’s departure to study for the priesthood. Mitzi, incidentally, hap- pily marries a struggling young lyric writer. This is a Darryl Zanuck production.