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SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1949.
SEAT IN THE STALLS
Statue Of Liberty "Pother Makes A Play
From FREDERICK COOK in New York
WO men-six-foot-six, Harvard-educated Robert E. Sherwood, top American playwright, and smiling Irving Berlin, born Izzy Baline 60 years ago in Russia, Ave-foot-three product of the New York slums and now Broadway song writer of the century- were talking in Sher- wood's, house just off the Portsmouth road at Witley,... near Godalming, Surrey.
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Sherwood was putting the finishing touches to the final proofs of his boolt, Roosevelt and Hopkins, "Bob," said Berlin, thinking aloud, "now that the book's all behind you, what are you going to do?””
It was the moment Sherwood had been walling for. Without looking up from his work he sald: "Oh, another musical," then added quietly,
with you."
"You are?" guped Berlin. And then, suspiciously: "What's our opus going to be all about?"
Dinner and two songs
ALLYN MCLERIE-She is the Miss Liberty girl.
"When I told him," Sherwood sald to me in the darkened. theatro where we were walching down and wrote their new show, Miss Liberty, songs. And that's how come slowly to life under the
a couple of gift to the Americans who have
this altogether too much?"
deft touch of Moss Hart's diree- show was born.
"No good." anys Bennett, "wo tion, he wasn't at all excited." Miss Liberty is going to be a can't print anything from Eng
"But a couple of nights later big show-15 scenes, 15 sats, land,
It would antagonise our It was over dinner at Claridges plenty of action, lots of songs. Irish renders."
I got him interested. He sut Best of all, sald Sherwood, "
Robert Sherwood has personal real old-fashioned chorus. interest in both these old-time
Theme is to be
the
pather Titans of the New York Presa. here over the gift from France He once edited
the New York of the heroic statue which stands Herald, and in his later years guard over New York harbour, has four times captured the a pother, kicked up largely by prizes Pulitzer left behind to the bitter rivalry between bear his name.
Pat O'Brien, his own hair looking definitely out of lime ordinary stares in astonishment at Dean Stockwell, whq. plays a boy whose hair turns green in the RKO-Radio film "The Boy With Green Hair." now showing at the Roxy.
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The unprintablo Times
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Two worries
Two things Miss Liberty.
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"Usually we go in April," he told me, "but this year, with Miss Liberty opening in July,
unmask Pulitzer's iden us u of most of his summer holiday Iroud. There is one amuslug In England.. scene where Bennett roary: "I want evidence that this statue of Pulitzer's is a fake!" A dutiful yes-man answers: "Yes. Com modore," and reads him a com- ment from the London Times: "Why should the French, why have so little liberty, make this
shall just have to stay on. Too bad, I spent 13 Us. Od. Hopkins royalties on bulbs for. my garden last year,
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a grey suit. Two days later she was in a traditional ŢEADING male role in the white wedding dress at Pine. new Edward Dryhurst pro- wood Studios for scenes of duction The Romanic Ago Produced by STEPHENAMES • Quoctué by JOSIPE CZET « Bowen Play by UEM PARIMAR and ALFRED LEWIS LEVITT Cinegulld's Madeleine, which which will be made at Denham. NE never-failing interest of the cinema is watching her husband is directing. wil be played by. Hugh
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Ilis part in this adaptation of There are two people, one of each sex, in this week's Smith, the Glasgow girl who was de Jeunes Filles" will be that +++ SUNDAY MORNING SHOW +++DEE+TİTE this story of Madeleine the Serge Weber novel, "Lycee pictures at whom one can point confidently and say, tried for the murder of her lover of a schoolmaster around whom "There's a star." The girl is Doris Day, a plump-faced in the 1850's, Ann's wedding is adolescent romance in a girls' blonde, no classic beauty and no thrilling actress. But cancelled. Miss Day has a warm, tough, amusing personality. You feel she would be fun to know. And she can sing.
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THE man is Kirk Douglas You have seen him before, usually being slightly sinister in a smiling way. But in "A Letter to Three Wives" the conclusion that he is soon going to be up there with the Cary Grants and Ray Millands in Irresistible. Francis, together with John Her Favourite Husband, Again no overwhelming looks, but an abundance of personally. French from Doncaster and Alan with Robert Beatty. Margaret ZATREENERITENED Intelligence, too, and an easy handling of himself which is very Rothwell from Oldham, visited Rutherford and Gordon Harker satisfying to watch.
London for a screen test. Donat in the cast.
Strong Competition
saw the tests and then gove Her husband, Yusef Rarnart, young Franels a second test, from whom the has not, been IT is easier for Miss Day to shine than for Douglas. "It's Masle" He saw this and then decided, pane to
since their marriage, is only really worth the trouble when she is is action, what he has really known all plans to drive to Italy in a con- preferably vocally. It is the oldest of musical comedy plots along, that the cheeky smile and verted van to join her for her (mistaken identity), and once again that stalwart comic, Jack engaging personality of the lad birthday on June 20. After Carson, puts more into his material than the writer did.
But Kirk Douglas has strong competition in "A Letter to other boys Donal sent a friendly will tour Europe in this van.
from Preston had won. To the liming is finished, the couple Three Wives." There are virtually six stars. The three wives telegram offering them each have three husbands, and that's the point of this slick, witty small part in the Alm. ploce of screen storytelling.
The letter of the title tells the wives that one of their husbands
It will mean they will miss the London premiere of Jean's latest picture, Two Cities'
Francis, stocky, dark Lanca- Technicolour story The Gay has run off with a woman they all secretly fear. Ann Sothern shire lad, is one of a family of Lady. fears that hers la the wayward man-Douglas. He is a highly eleven. He attends the local
articulate schoolteacher whom Modern school and has never she has overshadowed, in the appeared in any stage perform home by becoming a successful ance. He has now arrived back radio writer.
in London, for rehearsals for, the him, after a week-end trip.home to tell the good news to his five brothers and sisters. His father,
The husband hates radioa labourer, has temporarily and It looks as if Joe Mankle given up his job to look after. wicz, who wrote and directed. Francis at the studios.
the Bim, hates it too, because
some of the speeches given to Douglas have the savage bite of genuinely held opinions,
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which has just gone on the floor al Pliewood.
Jeanne Crain' In the third couple is touchingly funny as the STUDIO Alming is completed girl who has only a demode pre- on Ealing's latest comedy, war mail-order dress for a smart Run For Your Money, dance,
story of two Welsh miners who are given a free trip to London Roddy McDowall
Bothered a little by delusions as reward for winning a coal- plays of significanco, the picture does output competition. Night loca Robert Louis Stevenson's bay for the American country-club tions are now being held in Madeleine Carroll and Fred hero David Balfour in set something like what John dirent parts of London, Maanfurray, who star in "Don't *Kidnapped # the Monegram O'Hara has done for them for to
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