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Dorothy Dandridge, as Carmen Jones, succeeds in breaking down the stern spirit of Joe, the soldier man. She has been arrested by the MP for having created a disturbance at the parachute factory. CARMEN JONES A GREAT MUSIC-DRAMA EVENT Another of the American theatre’s top musical dramas reaches the CinemaScope screens of the world with Otto Preminger’s presentation of Oscar Hammerstein’s "Carmen Jones.” Hollywood for 11 years by- passed a filmization of the Broadway hit, which opened in 1943 to criti- cal and audience acclaim, remained for 500 performances, enjoyed a number of subsequent revivals and then toured the United States and Canada. It remained for Preminger to see the possibilities of the property which he both produced and directed with a cast headed by Harry Bela- fonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Olga James and Joe Adams. Harry Kleiner wrote the screenplay which features an all-Negro cast in- cluding Broc Peters, Diahann Carroll, Roy Glenn, Nick Stewart, Madame Sul Te Wan, Sandy Lewis, DeForest Covan and June Eckstein. Preminger brought theatre methods to insure perfection and highest possible maximum audience entertainment value, rehearsing his actors and technicians for weeks prior to actual shooting. Last week, as a screenplay, at the New York Rivoli theatre, it was given an ovation by both critics and capacity audiences! The boys and girls at Billy Pastor’s whoop it up in the song and dance number ,"I Tell You Why I Wanna Dance,” led by Pearl Bailey who is cutting a mean rug with the dancing soldier partner. Harry Belafonte, as a member of the army security de- tail guarding the defense plant, falls completely under Carmen Jones’ spell, and instead of following orders to take her to the Jacksonville jail, he finally gives in to her embraces. The next morning, she is gone and Joe is jailed in the stockade.