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GOLD FOR VILLA!
WITH CUTS AND GUNFIRE
thoy blasted their way
into history!
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RORY SHELLEY I GILBERT CALHOUN WINTERS ROLAND THE TREASURE OF PANCHO VILLA
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FILMSTO FILMS
"It's Always "Fair Wen-
ther" starts off with thred war-timo friends who, at the end of hostilities, make a rather sentimental pledge to meet ten years from that timb, lh the adhib bar, and renew their worda of warmth. Perhaps they have been unduly carried dwný by the stimulation of the moment and the amount of drink th which they have toasted their resolution. Whatever the cause, the re- union lan't at all what they have planned.
The le naturalised Italfan bax hack a hard time making a small cafe pay and consequently seen it as Fomething a little less thon the Ritz-but only slightly
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Gene Kelly manages boXCTS
or perhaps fighters would be a beller word, and is not unduly perturbed when he bears of ixed fights. He merely switches his bet to the Bghter fixed to win.
The third of the trio, Dan Dalley, bast thrown
away its lisch khvols and has become an extremely wealthy artist in the advertising business, believing all the commercial plirases put out by the publicly inen.
The three
and men meet after
* few seconds of senu- ment. allne that They ከ longer have anything in com- mon and even actively dislike cach other",
After the somewhat goxy beginning 1 was pleased to see this more realistic attitude, and although the plut of the film 19 over-compleated for a musical.
the dance routines (especially those of lovely Cyd Charisse) are stick and polished.
Bad laste ereens in u when Dan Dalley, in an burst of revolt against his boss, calls him "Fatso" and "Meat head" at his own dinner party and proceeds to get unfurally drunk to prove that he has been liberated from the
of Lolls commercialism. 16m.
Gene Kelly's persunally, as usual, steals the show.
of the whole
The best part thing was a fight in a television studio. It's a honey, and the timing must have been perfect to have avoided anyone being
hurt.
Miss Winters Was Boring
now HD-
Gilbert Rolarıd parently has a permanent Latin accent.
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th. "The Treasure of Pancho Villa" he guerilla colonel in Pancho Villa's army, very devoted to the cause, attached his friend, the Americana creenary who fights for Villa because it pays him to do so (the American is played by Rory Calhoun) and, according to the dialogue, ruthless.
.
villal in
In any picture in which He is cast, this was a
BY JANE ROBERTS
ГГ
Disillusionment is only a maiter of time, and. Frou-Frou
that although
The New Films At A Glance thought she was safe, in having
SHOWING
HOOVER and LIBERTY; 'It's Alwayi Edit Weather". A bright musical that, wille being over senllmentāl, faver- theless has a human alle. Gene Kelty, Dan Dalley, Cyd Chatline and Michael Kidd.
Villa".
KING'S and PRINCESS: "To Catch A Thior". A light- hearted story set against the opulent background of the French Rivieta., Cary, Grant and Grace Kelly. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: The Treasure of Pancho An American mercenary and a Mexican guerilia colonel attempt to get a lead of gold, through to Pancho Villa. Rory Calhoun, Gilbert Roland and, Shelley Winters. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "The Last Froniler”. A western.
Victor Matire, Guy Madinari and Robert Preston. ROXY sad BROADWAY: "Frou-Fron". High and low fa in France before, during and after the first World War.
COMING
IKOOVER and LIBERTY: The Scarlet Coal“, fülzijde plygt- ing found the plan of General Behedict, Arnold to deliver the American forces into the lands of the British during the American Revolution. Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding and George Sanders.
KING'S and PRINCESS; "You're Never Too Young”. Dean
Martin
and Jerry Lewis in another of their crazy comedies. This in its second time Here.
"To Hell and Back"." Actor Audle Murphy was highly decorated during the war for bis courage. This picture tells of some of his explolis, Also a reiden visii.
NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "A Day To Remember",
A day trip to Boulogne and the effect it has on the lives of several of the trippers. Donald Sindef. Odflo Versois, James
nes tayler and Joan Rice.
Tennessee's. Partiier". A western. John Payne,
Ronald Reagan, Bhonda Fleming and Coleen Grdy. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Helen of Troy". Another version of the age-old story, with Röszaná Podesta as Helen.
Touch and Do". A comedy about a family who decides to emigrate to Australla. Jack Hawktis. Roland Culver, Margaret. Johnson and John Frazşer. ROXY and BROADWAY: "A View Frotti Porifey's Hend”. A romantic drama, involving the colour prefidice still in existence in the Southern statós of U.S.A. Richard Egan, Cameron Mitchell and Dana Wynter.
Rory Calhoun and Gilbert Röland in a skefie from "The Treasure of Pancho Villá”.
a set of adimirers who, could be kept at a listance by their watchfulness. of each dich the pool in which sho hai decided to swim is too deep for her immaturity.
There is a disjointednom in the tollf
telling Frou Frou's story confusing at times, but although some of the parts of her Ute
Ure were sketched, in too roughly to give, of what must the lower, a complete picture of
that
have happened, the im- esionistie treatment is por
all that could be fitted into such a
а
ac-
a long story as her's There is n gem of a per- formance from Mischa Auer who hasn't been on the screen for a very long time--as Russian aristocrat forced, after the revolution, Into the Indignity of working, and another from an, actress whose name I can- not discover, playing the part
Russian countess, customed to bowing only to the Tear, who has had to band her dignity to the job of looking after a restaurant kitchen,
The English sub-uties tite fatter than usual in a film of this type, and Dany Robin her- self, who makes the film what it is, will have the sympathy of most of the women who go to see her.
Latest News From
Hollywood
Hollywood Award
Academy
winner Donna Reed WILA told that her latest role in "The Benny Goodman Story" meant she would co-star with Stevé Allen in a "love story."
So In one sceno sho wds knocked down, elbowed in her Hbs, banged on the nose, kick- ed and Generally trampled. Ant ear-ring landed four theatre rows behind the field of
and her skirt and combat, stockings were Hipped.
Miss Reed läter learned that this was only pno scene of the Universal-International
film,
and that other episodes would be a little less vigorous.
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The scene in which she wan all... but
up-ended
led and thea Oattened was a recreation..by director Valentine Davies of a day in 1037 when Goodnig opened his stage show at the Paramount in New York.
Miss Reed's only crime was that she tried to walk through
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the crowd of teenager jitter-SUNDAY MORNING MATINEE: REDUCED ADMISSION bugs as they were gyrating. In keeping with the Goodman rhythma.
agree of Intelligence
Miss-Reed's role is that of credas a little at umies. I was any
polled by too much half baked (which is one thing she shares Alice Hammond, a Vanderbilt wk about ideals and causes. with Náñja) brings on a bore fileco who eventually became dom in men that Nana, wid bodman's wife five years her practical, festt-whole bust after the musical mod scene,- ncas-like ptitude with regard UP,
A Poor Second
To 'Nana'
the Felationship between men and women, avolds, by never giving anything of her real self,
In spite of her frivolous This is an interesling Alm We don't see much of this name, 1 feel that Madeinol- bows more clently than many from many points, of view. It ruth'essmess-indeed he seems to selle Frou Frou (reigning others have done, the hysterion be rather a nice fellow, as does at the Roxy and Broadway) gaiety Mr Calhoun, (in spite of Shelley would come
and absurt lengths to off a poor which those who had enough Winters opinion of him).
only second best to Nana in the whim of the moment, In the
mojley would Joseph Calicia is the
go to gratify charicter who comes out of the game of fleecing men.
period just after the 1914-1918 story covered with anything but
Frou Frou IB always war Frou-Froli berrölf, after glory, and as he is nearly, always
searching
having for love and deal of
beed through a creat the
sufferinkä affection, despite her ac- which could have been avoided lot of ceptance of the more con- by a little clear thinking- crete symbols of a success drific through this after the ful campaign, whereas Nana war period, alternately discard- grabs for her diamonds, fursing and adabing the feds of and real estate, and having
She
has started ta .akའ got them, flaunts them in flower girl in a fashionable I'm afraid I got very bored the faces of her idmirers, where she has caught the eye
French night
club In 1912. with Her before the end and was openly acknowledging that of four elderly routs... Euch delighted when the was packed off to Tampico out of the trou- she has no heart and cares hopes to win her for hitriselt. ble she was so obviously tying only for the material things but thinks he is deceiving the to fting herself into.
of life.
foregone conclusion,
Tiere didn't seem much for Shelley Winters to do in the picture except talk poutingly of her ideals and the fact that she wanted to fight for the revolu-
flor
This western has a fair niount
tro-moment.
others by pretending ta... band with them in. educating the
The sincerity cf Frou-Frou, va
of action, though the dialogue blthough it is not backed by come of the manners they don't
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