1 10 FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1949 THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE TODAY'S NEWS TODAY Chuckles Found Galore In 'Unfaithfully Yours' Rex Harrison Ideally Cast in New Comedy; "Belle Starr's Daughter" Typical Western. BY MILDRED STOCKARD Chronicle Amusements Editor relied Preston Sturges always can bel upon for originality. never follows the standard Hollywood pattern, but each of his pictures is with his individuality. stanneds a touch of zaniness, a mingling of subtle humor and the broadest sort of slapstick. And his characters are with a satirical pen.
Yours," His latest, one, opened "Unfaithfully Thursday at the Metropolitan is no exception. With Rex Harrison, Linda Darrellice Rudy as its Vallee stars, it and has Barbara plenty of entertainment value. The other picture which opened Thursday is "Belle Starr's Daughter." a typical "hoss opera" which gallops across, the screen of the Majestic. Cameron, George Montgomery and Ruth Roman are its stars. "Unfaithfully Yours" is a picture serious music lovers will enjoy, for its wacky plot has a background of fine music, with Rex Harrison doing an magnificent job of conducting excerpts from Wagner, Rossini and Tschaikowsky.
It's a tribute to. his acting ability, and his expert coaching, that the can't actually read a note of music. It tells the story of a temperamental, and very famous, orchestra conductor whose imagination runs wild when he becomes suspicious of his wife. In his mind, he plans revenge while conducting a concert, each plan suited and inspired by the mood of the music he is conducting. Each plan is as fantastic as most daydreams are, and he goes through with each with the most admirable poise and sang-froid.
At the end of the concert, he dashes to his apartment to set in motion the "perfect crime" he had envisioned, but he lacks the poise of his dreams. He wrecks the apartment. T. All of his schemes backfire, and eventually his puzzled wife discovers the cause of his strange behavior and explains the incident which had aroused his jealousy. Harrison is ideally cast as the great conductor.
He has the manner and the charm as- sociated with the musically great, and he has acting ability to play zany comedy without seeming ridiculous. Linda Darnell, one of Hollywood's loveliest, is aptly cast a as adoring wife, and Barbaral Lawrence has a goo. role as her parried to Vallee and havgold-digging blond, sister who is ing an affair with Kurt Krueger. Vallee, as the stuffy multimillionaire who hates music, is at his best. the handsome blond Swiss actor, In support are Kurt Krueger, who is rast as Harrison's secretary, Lionel Stander, as the musiIcian's comical manager, and the late Edgar Kennedy as the delective who is hired by Vallee to watch Linda when he takes too hinterally Harrison's parting comEment to "keep an eye 0.1 my wife." The siapstick may be overdone in a few scenes, but "Untaithfully Yours" is chockful of chuckles, and is musically inspiring besides.
"Belle Starr's Daughter" is an old -time Western, with the love interest cut to the minimum and the emphasis on action, hard riding and gun fire. All of the old cliches of Westerns are incorporated into it. The villain wears a black coat and the favorite cry of the gang is "let's get out of here." But in spite of the picture does hold the interest 'and it is capably acted. Rod Cameron plays the villain, for the first time in screen career. while George Montgomtolery, the cowboy actor, is the heroic town marshal who falls in love with the girl he has to arrest, Belle Starr's daughter Rose, I played by Ruth Roman.
The setting is the Ozarks hideout of Belle Starr, the famous woman bandit of the '80s. When she is killed by one of her own gang who had revolted against her, her young daughter swears vengeance. She thinks her mother was killed by a posse from the neighboring town, led by the marshal. In spite of herself, she is attracted to him, and when she learns, too late, that the man who killed her mother is the leader of the new gang she has joined, she gives herself up. Quizzer Garry Moore Seeks to Speed Show By International Service York, Noon.
28. Garry Moore was in York this week, discussing with his sponsor the various gimmicks and gadgets that have been added to "Take It or Leave The chief topic was what to do with the telephone calls, by which people in other cities can compete for the prizes. There is no question of dropping the calls, but Garry feels that the interview with each person on the Mrs. Zilch, what do you do, where do you live, how do show. He wants to skip the interview a and get Incidentally, along with these the so questions.
alled phone calls The -town telephone calls, are really noti contestant is sitting before a microphone in the studio of a local radio station, and the conversation is originating carried by point special of the line to program. the le Program Well Set That's the reason the audience can hear both sides of the conversation. In an actual phone call, as for example on "Stop the Music," the person at the other end is not heard on the air. Moore explains that F. C.
C. regulations forbid it. Garry says he has not yet had an offer from CBS and is quite happy where he is-on NBC. At the moment, it looks as if his program is pretty well set in its Sunday evening time. However, anything can happen in radio.
For a while, says Garry, there was some talk of moving the show over to ABC to follow Walter Winchell, but nothing came of it. Moore has a television show all and ready to get into production, but is somewhat! baffled fact that the television network hasn't yet reached the West Coast. He could put it on from New York, but he doesn't like to live in New York. Hates Commuting hate commuting," he explains, "and if you live right in the city, what are you going to do with the kids-hire a nursemaid to walk 'em around the park? Nothing doing." The television program is a comedy show, not a quiz. And that brought up the question of what was Garry doing as a quizmaster, anyhow, when he was a (notably successful comedian? "Well," he said, "It pays money, for one thing.
"And then there's this angle: Sometimes I go around and watch the comedy writers beating their brains out on a script for their next show. Just to needle them, say, "What's the capital of New York? Albany! There's my script for next "Sec what I mean?" Gimmicks and Gadgets on "Take It or Leave It" Discussed With Sponsor. BY JOHN M. COOPER feel, up the District Court's Grand Jury Panel Named in Galveston Special to The Chronicle Galveston, Jan. 28.
Eleven Galvestonians, including one negro physician, and four mainland men, comprise the panel from which the February grand jury will be selected when Judge J. G. Howard opens the Tenth District Court for the new term Monday. The grand jury panel was named Thursday at a meeting of the three, grand jury commissioners term- G. W.
B. Murray, both of Galveston, and A. E. Eriksson of La Marque. Judge Howard returned to the courthouse Thursday for first time since he suffered a heart attack on December 5, and first official act was to swear in the grand jury commissioners.
Dr. M. J. Mosely is the negro physician named on the panel. The other Galvestonians are: James R.
Gorman, Sam Musex, R. H. Bazanella, W. O. Schuler, O.
M. Curb, David Nathan, Ralph E. Meyers, Charles A. Popular, V. Luby and Raymond A.
Stewart. The mainland men on the panel are: Otto Olsen, Marque; George W. Deats, Dickinson; Lawrence Pearson, Paul W. Anderson, Hitchcock, and Dixie Walker, Texas City. Ad Executives Due To Visit Galveston Special to The Chronicle Galveston, Jan.
executives from five states! will be in Galveston Saturday, when the Galveston County Advertising Club is host to the Southwest district Advertising! Federation of America meeting. This will be the first A. F. A. directors' meeting held in Galveston, James Bradner, president of the host club, announced.
Directors from Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and Louisiana are scheduled to attend, District Governor Rex Pries has announced. Pries, head of radio station KTST in San Antonio, estimated 50 directors will attend with their families. Judge F. Hall and Jack Hamilton are cochairmen in charge of arrangements for the event. Scientist at Rice Vastly Increases Speed of Sound A new feat was added to the age of speed Friday, this one by a Rice Institute scientist who made sound travel at more than 44 times its normal rate.
Under special conditions, Dr. Charles Francis Squire, assistant professor of physics at Rice, has made sound travel at about 31,000 Antique $10 Bill Is Lost and Returned By Press Charleston, S. Charleston man lost an antique $10 bill on the of New York-and got it back. It was an old-style large bill issued by the First National Bank of Charleston in 1885. Ashmead F.
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Donat definitely will be in New York to start rehearsals on Maeterlinck's "Pelleas and Melisande" in two months. Listen to thisJean Parker, currently knocking 'em dead in "Born will be costarred with You can see why Jean isn't tarrying in Hollywood to listen to movie offers. She will head for Broadway when she finishes her Western tour. Jean and Donat worked together previously in "The Ghost Goes West." Rex Harrison's Broadway hit, 'Anne of a Thousand might have influenced Donat to come to this country. On the other hand, Donat told me last summer that because his mother is living in Connecticut, if anything came up that he was interested in, he would come here.
The role that broke Wallace Beery's heart to refuse in "Curtain Call at Cactus Creek," goes to Walter Brennan. It's a a a a a wonderful story and after Beery read it, he was on the point of going against his doctor's orders and accepting Bill Goetz' offer, but he knew he must rest. So Brennan, who has been in Oregon, comes back for this part. Walter will be good, too. Arlene Dahl, the pretty head who is certainly one of the real Hollywood glamour girl, gets the break of a lifetime "Scene of the Crime," opposite Van Johnson.
Donna Reed was set leading lady and Roy Bowland, the director, was ready to gO, but today Donna asked for her release, and it was given her. Four years ago, Paulette Goddard made a picture, "Forest Rangers," for the United States Forestry Department. At the time, they asked her if there was anything they could do for her. Paulette, being the smart girl she is, said: Yes, she could use a few trees for. her Malibu home.
So, exactly four years later a truck drives up to Columbia and delivers 3000 seedling trees to Paulette, "compliments of the United States Forestry Department." Among them are several hundred redwoods that take 2000 years and heavens know how much space to mature. Betty Grable was so with the screen possibilities of Keefe Brasselle several months ago that she wrote me a letter asking if I would bring him to the attention of Humphrey Bogart for "Knock On Any Door." As you know, John Derek got it. Poor Keefe became so discouraged that he took a job as a salesman and things were going so badly for him, his wife and baby, that they barely managed the rent money or enough food. Now the story gets brighter. Ida Lupino saw a picture of Brasselle in a movie magazine and looked him up.
Now he has the second male lead in "Not Wanted." Snapshots of Hollywood collected at random: Gloria De Haven and John Payne are having plans drawn for that house in Malibu they have planned. I am certainly glad they are going ahead with their dream house because I believe it will keep them who Lucille Bremer, is visiting in town with her husband, Abelardo Rodriguez, telephoned to tell By Louella Parsons! me that it wasn't true when I said she was going to have a babybut it's true now. "At least," she said, "I didn't let you down." Don De Fore was treated at the Santa Monica Emergency Hospital for burns from a cigarette. His coat caught fire while he was driving his car. Keneth Hopkins entertained at dinner at the Cafe Jay in honor of Mrs.
Roland Clemme, wife of St. Louis' brilliant brain surgeon. Lynn Bari had nine inches of water in her kitchen--and you can't blame it on the rain or snow. The pipes in her house broke. Wanda Hendrix and Audie Murphy, who were so "cute" in their interview on my radio show, are wonderful time in Dallas.
Audie's getting rid of his cold. Henry Ginsberg made their honeymoon all the happier when he gave Wanda permission to stay two weeks. That's all today. GET CASH! Why not get cash for those old pieces of furniture or other miscellaneous articles you no longer need or use? Phone a Classified Ad to "Miss Classified," Charter 4-6868. NAVAWAY AT NAVIGATION: WAYSIDE "Body and Soul" John Garfield Lilli Palmer 4633 HARRISBURG BOULEVARD 'Apartment for Peggy' WILLIAM HOLDEN JEANNE CRAIN Empire room DANCE TONIGHT to the rhythms of CARLOS MOLINA and his "Music of the Americas" 'featuring BOBBY RIVERA The Singing Sensation 1000 CAR GARAGE: NEARBY FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE DONT.
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