Variety (October 03, 1951)

Predict More Scnce-Fiction Ik meirt banning ja Hollywood. OH. 1 Total of six Metro pictures will fi under way In t£i nest tlx of x t enet I f tt ii ahead 1 l the forecast for the Industry eo ttie Mhi of bu*iness currently be inf orapped up by RKO* 'The thine and MtH-Fox’s "The Day the Earth Mad mu'* Crystal bsller* rvelng grasses an the patr e# man from M vrsera. see them Sure 1« h>p» an already existent -eyrie * That * particularly true Ha light at hit dnwn by previous plx In this t* nre The\ Inc lude "IVttiut.ofi Moon" "Han Fiona Planet X" and -RurketiMp XM - -Moon " In color a as t he moat *u< resaful of the lot Estimate of Ita Anal U.- S and Canada trow la ft 000 000 I i addition it ha« been highly tut - Old ‘Money* Circulates Molls u.hmI Ort 2 Oldest unreleased Aim in Mollyuund will ha released by RKO next month Picture Is ‘It's Only Money.** sifh Jane Russell. Frank Sinatra and <« r earRa Marx In top roles It has been an the shelf More its completion to tierem- her ih4A ■ Show Biz Pi* * get under way in the next six weeks starting this week with the Jack Cummings production, "Love- ly to Look At." ; Latter stars Red Skelton. Kath- rvn Grayson, Howard Keel and Marge and Gower Champion. g : Saddler’s Ballet j quality of entertainers and enter* tainment unknown in the V & . the troupe has had heavy advance sates in many place*, solely on the sn e e r s t and reputation of kd ■roper wane. Sadler s Wells Ballet It has « tariff running from $4 AO to *A0 la some rases as in Salt Lake City, for instance, it w the highest Ucfcet bMe ever attempted Fin Renews style ad a determined , ™orj is et a Los Angeles In woman, rather than as Hset femme photographer seen personality she wax JM ftw^Morfleld who plays the name of Michael fhrmer end Mar who disappear tcvlul t« England, where it Is e«- following Saturday's ‘Three Hu* totally in concert or legit pet ted to garner soother gI OdO * Hand* ** which failed to All the wuh 4^* urioiiiM K.ro tmo Thai s considerably higher smaller MO seat Eagle opposing t pf ikp (j n . flli C anada for than the normal V 8 British ratio I d Climb the Mi*tee*i. Mountain ' W*» That's conslderablv higher smaller MO seat Eagle opposing of ihe t A «d7 v ss*«l» for th*» It,, normal U S Bni.th I <* Cllm* .h, H >,►».( Moun.am | 5****? Ih * - or *r«». Uw L*tir in* nick i. Jo. at ; f,. *? ,. .?*?*• -Rocketship XM" fsruduced and ***?* * II 7MOOO• <tax excluded' on the distributed bv Robert L. Lippert JJJ 11 ^ nUllnp*a Figure compares favor* eivlh hold* pavoff position m pro- ’ „ ablV with the t2 OOP 000 net racked portion of ri lurn to coat It name n ""p" V . up by Sadler s Wells Ballet in its In at M40H *nd ha* grossed oyer V T *° R *” l *** v ' bight dances in • gu-werk lour last season, or with •*W«M» “Planet X* was the "wnmeait*. Mila—the commercial . n) Mr , Opt ra Awm spring junket \ oMthalrm tt ma4» , "«■ » \ balM or ■ u..<- .on,.,, j»4Ml i 'B«m i a«r '» » r* ZsrZL " " — - Kn«Mml -rtl t-ul II* caUm« (or both originally distnhuted by J* * b * ,,b • ••‘krl for rhe< king ig-car Iratn with Aw 70-tooi bag- Eaal* Uon ( ••»Ka anri taken over W***' The, 4ra» ccllonr ,l*pW 'X Jli b. mild ArtIM. ohrn tl ab- "»» d ‘ ,h »“« h •"*•"»** hclor. ^ * 1 “ n wte 10 devoite the midmaht < limine SlStfll, MS WMI tMUfe .VO orrpaa this pitch for authenticity. Mlaa Neagle plays the character Hi the legendary style ad a d e t arm H u d. yet gentle woman, rather than as the Aaauag personality aha was Although the name of Mtrhael Wilding, particularly teamed with Miss Hesgte. is a deAnite hoxoffire lure, he Is not loo happily caet as Hidney Hert>efta , Wir Minister Within HmHaticins he ■ skes i the heal od this part The strong fea- ture opal Hsclodes FfHx Aylmer, with m sarsptlasully good dHHM of Lord Palmerston, Arthur Young, in a nice sketch of Gladstone, Gladys Yeeug and Julian D AIM#, effective as the couple who accom- pany Mias Waudit to Turkey; Hassry Edwards okay in a hit role ss a re- porter and MootSioA HoRe shin- ing as the almost Imp* rtur h aMt i British Ambassador in ConwiantL nodie . , 1 llrrbert Wilcox, as alwaygi di- rects fn a plain, straightforward manner Austin Dempster does an okay fob at the camera while Bill Lewthwaites editing, at all times competent, is notable for some ex- pert rutting of the Crimean battle scenes. ■. Mpro I riigiif Old hot British wsr Rim with little Amsriron appeal, even as ult sudlenres. “JsiglS r la/ Implausible and indL la ad a Loa Angeles free* sinm pMfag r aphs t search* Wpierfleid. who plays a w-nia Army plane on a routine flight over Jungle territory When her hoot capoises, the gnl. Shelia Ryan, stumbles tnte Weissmuller, a Jungle guide. They Immediately ■pot Wat erf I eld during a tribal f»Rht Hi the Jmgh whan he comes fight in the Jungle when he comes to their rrsrue bv tossing a hand- grenade like a pigskin at the at- tacking natives It'd us simple as all that A schtmlng white man Mini raptured natives In mine a mineral which ho employs to manu- facture synthetic dfcimon<H7~Ctr. compri s es some od the other action, all od it too hokey. A death Mnaggle b etween dwo huge rep- tlies Is HiJocted for no plausible ^Weissmuller still It the he-man od old and a terrific swimmer as Jungle Jim. Wsterfleld shapes up as a s c re en poaaiblllty this being his first picture, though he obvi- ously lacks t h t api ng ability Mi>s Ryan supplies a pat performance as the Inslntd newajpaper shutter but Lew Landers has dune better di- recting William Whitley v s camera- Hf la ahoy Wear tZw*-*«. mt- si s*^ ^bisEL* *”■■*•** **■ wl MM. -W * T hw« - , 1B|| „ m , iBd •«* «M0 <'"*» •' «rkr H * hubbs like the biegecl furrent f or - im |i % ,, rf , urw » estimated the outRt will use up edimate* arc for 12 000 000 gross KjiI u«ni tik- buik ... rt , 4.0UU pairs of ballet slippers on the "'Earth Blood Bilir has not h d MaJn Thrt aUradjvr cumiinn a re Um/ High boxotflre tailR la at- «. nu *h Pl.v— f . p ,ri rw , w n, v ;, u ,fc, <nbu«^ .o .b. kWT phyuc»l H«. nwke . r-li»W» .» «» pill- s..h.ifh.*an Albert. Kwr mde income bid la doing wHl at * d British CnMmbta f Two WagW Names' Paramount has readv When The Eagle Theatre has a perm* Eugnnrss with which the new W. (UK O.lltdr Release I* being nenl sign insulr Rest Room Up- troupe has been"sold, and at its held up however fora short tl ? * ./si airsPlease Apply to lioorman high wale, U explained In the trade to let the atmo*p.Vrr clear of th* for Key When ohtaioed the kr> b> the romho of two magic other foreton »mdie« admrts either one male or female names.*’ Sadler’s Wells and Sol ‘ >'► . I|HR thhi u ilron to • place marked "Lava Hurt*' > uometial success of rlet «f Aim* will r* n't in pleniv u * rv upstairs in a suite od nfhr, - in two previous seasons more Is based on normal Hollv wtM d rt ' *l nF *o the theatrr. One id apparent Iv has whetted the put>- esp-ru nee (hot Micee-- breed* ey- ,t *‘ *u*tis ibree htgels. the Im lie s appelite for the new tr«*upe 10 devpae the midnight closing, when Sunday officially t»-gtm Dur worn Sunday official 1> logins Dur- ing breaks in each dance all cou- ples link arms and promenade in- Hollywoode Sept gg r; I Bril Fast Year aim knr g other f or e| «m lu>die* (HwmrrV finwii that Hu* *«- rbt of Aim* will revuR in plenn more Is based on normal Ifollv w«* d esf»-runce that M«cr c" breeds c* - fcwm l i i Haw**t •woers. Jsdim •rOs. iSSir. husssU UM iww Also Bl. tnHB yv. .v. Ur iwiotv . . Inm hr Ur Wfttlmpmo D>«M TMobiMM Ur« Waiunsi-* . . Ps«»#la U«uH#«k» isrS Ar*«l4 Ikfcwi All*M>Sorwo<S gswseka ■ . h**Mt Muu Utok ^ s e m s l . . r*ir m-s w •a.ti n «i*« Urs AswpM . . .liriws ah«o» a Or SWmorrKihA .. Jn*«H AImm elcs These oreur regularly desplte petial. has • a locked bathroom I The Hurok t»g. always associated s«yuawk« from eshtV Crtlle* a d vliuh even room guests can use with high-calibre concert sttrac- the oublic and » verv effort bv |»to^ — getliug the kr\ at the lions, has been taken as guarantee do* n«*nex« to he d th.m «»ff ’"'’ t,r,v d*-*X along with a b^ihiovkvl that ihi> troupe will measure up — v im h i* not supplied otherwise fu the other one There s been _ ’ 1 ^ -I- ° w bf the hotels, the llea|>, has iv»mplamt that kx al managers hava Ufllnpcc Rirlft RnmiM’r kveu.selling the new troupe as the ff Hfir* > ntywniy ,, Sv*.lt Current popiilotuu. nearly olh*r Ssdbrs all hough all Hurok TL.i D* TH n *“ • r ***^»> gramc-lihra* promotion has pointed out the dtf- I Ml P“ r*B IfA on If !«r renter ulth a federal expert- ference There* hren eye brow* m |j a*s f»* i) diefriul farm and irngatum plant raising aC-*be tS40 tariff aa well, WOviiO A ,# 1 IICUO r’T ****** l« »cated in the Savkatche-1 but no stiff kicks <i n a jj. a * m dust hoWl * less than 1WI Ballet trouor is n^niKiil hv om# V Hnllywmd. OH 2 mile* from the U S border! wh* re off ^ !TTub H^wTu WwST Mrtrrll Iwnrt. I« Hn» W"* brim Im th, mp n.nwly, * J £ dTv.loi. and general took the sfapd wa* killed in infancy bv 1a« k of Fredarlek igii.n Its lcsd«i not IM. ««•* .. IV of « .... i*** >«I* »f J u U *.H in«»n .« M.ritot'VuB.JyB n '• **" 4n ,h '* nn 99 Itok* ;* , %eTd BlaS^C hf uf *.■) l-own- «« t. |»..» m .« lo h.. v, M rtl4 Iho from Mfllac nr Im, o- «*• t V^' M,r >™ *-»< l»*»M ISol.. IVmald hi* p*x ’ i -ii l «fer..i l*o« , rt ' ‘ “ . * rr U P | RHtton aasd Stanley Holden SWTB ”■* " *** ,n *‘" d *T* or»'l rnnir^fw i Hotly w in d Oct gene r» r .is U 4 i»" is v is sir*.,,, , »*»•*. it .u- . . r.—- A I m. ii iw-ir, first rep witnestt. Metro publicist his husineaa guaranteeing him Li^Vnel 1 ^ Sutcwhef- a\T Wdluim R C o,den in charge of against rn.p failures CrTh SJuma. ^Sed “pSil Rackrvys ap^cisl service depsr.- The towns newest smartest *, llU . |. (l fl’* wh.rh ihl MFBt »h*t I . »* ♦, liore.i* a consumer t ooai ratlve r ||ld |h ^ f |K .^ lh .* Rog« r*' prx to TV would rr* aflv |,s dairy is aLo a coop. 2fJ - !HLl increase Ro-er* comiMrH.il tic » ,->d one of it* small private homes T. Wn f ..ff 4 *" increase eommrrn ... » - and one of n« small private homes j rquullv -praised Harleauin In hosine**. Wv.lch cowpoke te*tlA~d has Its street number xnittea Hi Anril * 1,41,11 * grossed 120 000 0<W last year red neon which glows all dav and . j, ■••• '' • "y'- Rneem’ eon'ention is that releayt* mzht in udd contraat lo the *<MMlen Troupa is Ave years old. H of the pit would "harm 1 that b"*i- >ulcwalk m front of the house guile distinct from Sadler s Wells ness Its weekly paper the Sun and has its own home at the Federal Judge Pierson M Hall » Everything in Swift Current Rr ,while S#d * overruled Re ’er*‘ counsel Frederic solves Around the Sun"l r recently IT 1 , dances at l ovent Sturdy permitting Golden* raised ita price from a nickel to XmiwatlEIthas toured Britain but opinion. Latter glsd said he doesn't Ac. has a good circulation * nearby n ‘' 1 elM ''* hr,f brlteve there Is surb a thing a* dailies from Regina and Saskatoon Tour is probably the biggest any Implied sponsorship on radio or sell well here. tool, largely due to visiting donee organization baa at- tdecision Roger*' contention vM el wly written, alert local cover- tempted in this hemisphere Af- that rhowiny pis on teevee implie* air. bright chatty columns by the *«’ brief appearances in Quebec and sponsorship mtitor Jim Greenblat. and the Ottawa, troupe plays six times in Britain but American Jheatregoers will And little to mtrigue them in this Brit- ish entry , which must depend upon grasses fur lower bracketing in smaller situations Film it about as old hat as anything which has come out of the Isle* in years, everything about it being dated Film recounts a hodge-podge yam about A\e leading British sci- entists recruited bv their govern- ment. directly prior to World War II to develop'radar and other in sfrumen't of war for the upcoming conflict with Germany As worked out in Peter l *11 no vs screenplay, which ho also directed and ro-pro- duced at lion is slow , uninteresting and often silly. So fine an actor as Ralph Rich- ardMrti billed as star, is absolutely sasted m film, which presents him more as a clown than a serious and able scientist Ills scene* usually consist of walking in and out of the action in a flustered sort of way Raymond Huntley is the only other player whose face is at all known to U. S audiences, and as another scientist he likewise is ad* dieted to wandering John Laurie, •till another man of srience. is the onlv standout. There la a certain interest to the Anal experiments in radar, in K Hind to-atr control whereby a rman night flier la 'blasted out ef the sky; there is a successful conclusion of navigational radar guidance in British pinpoint bomb- lug of Cologne But these are iso- lated instances and are far over- *hadowed by long passages of -pirttHM. hard-to-understand Eng- lish dialog. Attempted comedy is dragged iu. Technical credits are average Herbert J Yates, proxy of Rep new* editor. Dave Be I beck, and a Montreal next Is expected to testify this week lively, controversial lefters tothe week might shows) in Toronto and ■ v,—. -■ ■ dilor page then hands thruuMi northern U S .. ^ . — —towards the Coast It pUys a full l^ne^me C.I B.op,c -Qu^n 1 BoW. Xm. Dm c^fuB^p^X™, Jl’iJui D,« St-harv" will Aim th» Hf • ^ H «r».oa^ t /Sruln QaM^wLd h °*f "‘^ >lly 1° J *f t*or% «f Jean King radio Drr*o i>» . nonaon s Aincan Wueea Aimed ,* four-hour trip! for ballet audi- Plrtur. Wtn b- mad* at M ri, ^ *•««*. lively, controversial letters-to-the- ■ditor page. foUewmd by a • 000.000 will have passed through the turnstile* The legit aide of the entertain- ment industry, which planned a year in advance In the expretatiocia of a lush mm, Mt Ha first re- buff* the opening deya of the fes- tival The flrat major calamity was the Alec Guineas production of “Hamlet." which got off to a had critical start and had to bo withdrawn Just as It fH getting on its feet. Of all the special fes- tival productions, by far the most impressive were the twin Olivier presentation* of “Anthony and Cleopatra ’ and "Caesar and Cleo- patra.’’ which folded a week ago after a solid capacity season lid almost every respect it was a normal trading mason for legit. The big hits like ’'Waters of the Moon ’’ The Winter’s Tale " The Loves of Four Colonels " and mu- sicals like “Kiss Me Kate’ and "Carousel" stayed in the big money The failures passed Into 4|lilftkHMl as quickly In festival year as they would have done m any other year, while the average mid- dle-of-the-road attraction* man- aged as they have done In the past to keep their heads above water for a few months Weather Helped Film Theatres The picture business, in a very modest way. was up during the festival season But probably the greatest contributory factor wag the weather which nearly answer- ed the exhibitors’ dream The Aim industry's only festival contribu- tion. the co-operative production of ‘The Magic Box," ia now hav- ing its West End preem. but will not be released until after the few tivat is over. For h o tel s, cafe* and niteriea. It has also been only an average sea- son The first two festival months of May and June were well below average Many hotels with ad- vance bookings from North Amer- ica xrere inundated with cancella- tions when the International situa- tion worsonsd. Tim visitors from the P rov in ces did not have the money te spore for lush entertain- ments, and there wore not enough Americans to fill oil the night ‘Lonesome Gal* Biopic Hollywood Or* 2 Dore Scharv will film the gif * eloomller. In cHffhanger. era swell for or Ava Gardn-r In the ton role y '2 9 ** a reaervra seat, twsi Frisco 14 in L.A . and 10 in Chi. fee * ««—-M» W» *» " »■*• »«*r • |*l* pmm ia Tb. Chi top »HH. Uf iB LA £“ llo!l)«ood »Bd Mm m 1 C Traua. will ar. K ncey nogsn races From the Coast the troupe rn starring, works hock east through the south DRF .!■ Los t( im 10 performances skedded In irUM San JUmhh WtiMawMbT fe tare, am SiwmI Sfetla Rm IW sscSsO b Lew “ Within a few days, dismantling work will ataH an the South B-ng Exhibition site. Hut two of the structures are la remain The Telekinema. which nffered a rom- S win ar- aw r a short {£•• ■/ • Hollywood. ' usd Frisco is Bfi Troupe will ar- HmmO foldwja Special ■ * ' n “** d lo rt *« *■ H V .. -M.rrh " . tfiort ^Lyna f .n .4. puMk-ily ..*« ha. M lh . , d ,( ln( W»..bl »H4 brtn re Sin d by Samuel Golduyn Pri*du<-tion« to on the c*m . MO Sealer fee Hanever ' m 9 ■oy/ ’.AMee’ eo Army Circuit f 2f * ’ od-puh d|- j , Hanover N H Frankfurt. Sept 21 «, V7.? dl, ' ,0 **J T* 1 * ■»» NttfgM The- “That. My Boy <Pa». "Altco la «Bju?"«.Mi*h. <l * y ^ *. ,re “ P *?f d 8 *« H * Woad,rl,n.l ' .RKO-DAMyi. "C»l- ■ S " it be opened his own the old NuggH was destroyed hr* tie Drive" 'U> and "He Ran All irn aboju two >car Are in 1M4 local film shows had Way" «LA> are rHeaaes eo the Itrk* ^ deal H ,or ,our ^ " held in Webster Hall at Dart Arm>’s theatr ? circuit for week ^ I mouth College- < suiting Sept. 3a fea outer fee WmrS.II »•'* • pg.p • • •• . P. w This ia a routine aeries entry of ei r rl ( the cltffhanger type The addition u uw of pro foot hell star Bah Waterfield aa virtual co-star with Johnny Weir LTTT muller merc y odd* another mua- JT** clc man is this adventure picture, p ’ 1 i which may do an lower rung of P 4 " some twin bills and wiU entertain 1 kiddies at Saturday matinees. For Hall pitvrd to capacity nine shows a day. lo to stay for at least another Ave yeara Patrons have been qJYsa- ed en the typo af program they would Uke In the future The ether permanent building la af eouTM. the **00.000 Festival Hall, which already has become aa institution in music and concert Hrrlefi, With an average groat of it MX) per performance, it hat played to more than 00% capacity since Ha official opening May S. Op' ll, ballet, and stage sUri took part ia an end-of-the-festival hall held in th# foyer of the Concert