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BROOKLYN EAGLE, FEB. 12, 1948 Wyatt. Dorothy Blaine, at the Brooklyn and Broadway THEATER By George Currie ft HOLLYWOOD If-- VS. NIGHT By AL SALERNO Bob Hope and Charles I.uckman of Lever Hope's radio sponsors, are feudin' again. This time it's about who pays the troupe's traveling expenses when they broadcast away from California.

It's no mean item, either cornea to around $25,000 'Doctor Social' Gives Up, Nobly, And Becomes Moral, at the Booth Theater A chance play came Into the Booth Theater, last night, With a doctor giving his all to humanity, ably abetted by the girl who was to have been his guinea pig. It is somber, to be sure. The bed-side manner of Dean Jagger as Dr. Norman CHINA DOLL SHOW WORTHWHILE In the midst of all that snow, fallen and falling, Tom Ball the other night presented a Spring revue at his China Doll which proved that there are more things budding underground Jack Lait Jr. I'm afraid I'll have to take issue on this one.

Long before she was 11 Shirley was a very hep little trouper, who knew exactly who and what she was, and no mistake. She was also a very talented actress, which is maybe why she could put over that adorable-normal-little-imp routine on as shrewd an observer as Gallico. Don't get me wrong. Shirley wasn't much different from most child stars, who need a sophistication beyond their years if they're going to be able to do their jobs well, and in later years she had turned out to be a good wife, a good mother and a good kid. But I just thought we'd keep the recoitl straight.

Trade Chatter: Look for a wave of suspensions at the studios, as producers, with reduced budgets (on account of the British tax, etc.) try to put their stars into low-cost pictures. When a star refuses a role suspension is the usual next step Buster Keaton heads for theater engagements in Buenos Aires and Paris when he winds up his stint in George Pal's "Tom Thumb" Robert Montgomery will produce, direct and star in his next picture, "Come Be My Love." Who's he think he is Orson Welles? Showcases Next Week Ten short scenes prepared by the "presentation group" of the American Theater Wing's Professional Training Program will be given four performances Feb. 17 and 18 at 432 W. 44th St. Matinees are at 4 p.m., eve-" nings at 8:30 p.m.

These mark the end of the current session. Registration for the Spring ses-' sion, which begins March 1, wilt be held Feb. 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21. Exact hours may be ob-' tained from Wing headquarters. Lane Leaves for California Burton Lane, composer of the hit musicale, "Finian's Rain-, bow," at the 46th Street Theater, leaves for California today.

Mr. Lane Is considering several scripts for which he may do the music while at his home in than those provided solely Nature. The downstairs cabaret on W. 5lst off Broadway, has several virtual unknowns in its new show who are destined to acquire a fair share of recogni tion in the entertainment world before many more snows have fallen. The budding stars include the Three Cantons, who are merely sensational in their acrobatic and juggling act, and Katherine Lee Chung, who has a pleasing singing voice but has even more personal appeal.

Star of the show, and quite properly at this time, is Jack Soo, a tall husky singer with lung power. Whether he holds that distinction as the other performers come along as they will, and quickly remains to be seen. He is no newcomer to Broadway, having worked at the La Conga. Jack, the China droll, mixes comical patter in with his songs and it seems to me he should do even more of that. He has the natural flair for comedy that so few are endowed with.

In addition he has a well-trained speaking voice and a pretty fair command of the language. Soo majored in English at the University of California where he received his B. A. in 1941. He was an all-around inter collegiate athlete.

If you think Martha Raye is humorous when she speaks Italian, you should hear the Chinese Jack speak Jewish. Says he learned it around Flatbush and Church where he lived for a time. As for his singing, sometimes he sounds like Sinatra, sometimes like Tony Martin, and at other times like Jack Soo. That's when he really utilizes the full force of his voice. The Cantons are a youthful and amazing trio.

They perform unusual feats of strength and yet if you met either of the lads up a dark alley you wouldn't be the least tempted to run. As far as the girl is concerned, you'd be a fool if you did. She's cute and shapely. The trio stop the show as Embassy Club, is another sing er who made good via the ama teur contest route, winning a J. C.

Flippen award while a high school lass in Superior, Wis. Since then she has ap peared at many of the better known clubs and cafes in lead ing cities. Embassy Newsreclt Show Gandhi Ritts First movies of Gandhi's funeral rites, including the cremation ceremonies, are featured in the current program at all Embassy Newsreel theaters. Closing events of the Winter Olympncs in Switzerland are also i depicted in the foreign reels. National news includes swearing In of Gen.

Omar Bradley as Army Chief of Staff, "Para-dog" huskies bailing out over Arctic snowfields and Mardl Gras celebrations in New Orleans. Albeo Displays Mexican Handicraft A $9,000 display of ancient and modern Mexican handicraft, loaned by the Mexican Government Tourist Bureau, is on display at the RKO Albee in connection with the current showing of "Captain From Castile." The Technicolor film, starring Tyrone Power, was entirely made in Mexico. More Names Added Jinx Falkenberg, Tex Mo Crary, Myron Cohen, Carl Ra- vazza, Libby Holman, Red Buttons and the Diamond Horseshoe Orchestra have been added to the long list of those who will take part in the all- star show for the benefit of Israel Orphan Asylum on Feb. 21 at Madison Square Garden, it was announced today by Mrs. Gustave Hartman, president.

A record-breaking attendance of more than 20,000 is indicated by the advance ticket sale. "Magdalene" in July Edwin Lester announces on the West Coast that his next production "Magdalena," described as a musical adven- ture" about life in the colorful Magdalena river section of South America, will be done by him and Homer Curran in Los An geles in July. The booking will be under the auspices of the Los Angeles Civic Opera Association. An engagement in San Francisco follows. There upon Mr.

Lester and Mr. Cur ran plan to bring the musical to Broadway. '65 ButHollywood. LIFE through the bounty of Mother things are, but they are working on a number which will be the acme of Juggling. The China Dolls are expensively and tasefully gowned and are as good-looking and shapely as ever.

Particularly the slant-eyed sweetheart known as Katherine Kin. The production also offers Matt Tuck, barrel juggler; Laurie Leong, dancirtg M. and Ding Dong, in a specialty dance. She wears very little and adds about that much to the show." Or, maybe I didn't get it. For music there are the oi--chestras of Fausto Curbelo, in rhumbas, and Jack Frase, in American tempos.

Frase's vo calist, young Johnny Martin, has a voice worth mentioning. OTE WORTHY Menasha Skulnlck, one of the all-time Yiddish comedians, opens a two-week engagement at the La Martinique on Friday, (surrounded by a new revue. The show will go on thrice nightly but Skulnlck will appear only at adpper Increased business and high temperatures are noted at Club Samoa since flaming-haired Georgia So them brought her "old look" dancing into the 52d St. Eddie Albert and Margo admit they have been enjoying a second honeymoon doing New Freeman Chum, owner of the East Side Chinese restaurant, celebrating 26th year in the Ijuctenne Boyer, French ehanteuse of far-flung fame, opening at Waldorf's Sert Room on the 19th. Emil Coin-man and Misoha Borr orchestras have been held over.

MUSIC DEPT Cozy Cole, who pounded a mean drum for Benny Goodman and helped keep the rhythm in "Carmen Jones" red hot, wields his baton at the Royal Roost these days. Also on the bill at the Broadway restaurant where chicken is king are the Three Flames, and the piano-organ rluo, Billy Tavlor and Bob weekly Incidentally, Jack- Benny, the "tightwad," pays all his people's transportation costs on away-from-home broadcasts and gives 'em $150 a week each for incidental expenses Metro has never before made a movie laid in eariy 17th century France and England, so they had to make all new props for "The Three Musketeers" weapons, clothes, table utensils, decorations, and what have you. Usually a studio can dig up just about anything it needs from the props on hand left over from earlier pictures 'Dja know Ida Lupinos first important screen role was as the girl friend of John Loder, Iledy La- marr's recently shelved mate? Ida was 14 at the time, but a big girl for her age The movies aren the only indus try where people hire their relatives. When Betty Hutton's sister, Marian, goes on a new show March 11 for the Revere Camera Corporation of Chi cago she'll be working for her brother-in-law, Betty hubby, Ted Briskin, who owns the company. Marian's a singer, of course, and a good one, as well as being byootiful Charles Boyer, a sick lad, won be back In front of the cameras till Spring Yipe! California's Alcoholics Anonymous has now put out an inspirational lecture, "Your Peace of Mind," on phonograph records so that If you feel yourself slipping you leap to the victrola and recharge your will power; or if you come wobbling home at 4 a.m., your wife can sit down in a chair and play the thing at you.

Well, mebbe so but I don't think it'll ever replace Benny Goodman. Paul Gallico recently wrote that, of all the child prodigies he had ever seen, Shirley Temple was the only one who was "completely unspoiled." He met her when she was 11, he relates, and "She did not know who or what she was, because she had never been permitted to see herself on the screen. She was an adorable, normal little imp, who could play like the little girl she was." I have great respect for Gal hen as a newspaperman eut9t srVw f2- "DOCTOR SOCIAL," a new pity Joseph L. Xatrjr, preeeated by Harold Barnard. Stated, by Don Apptll.

SelUni and lighting by Stewart Chanty. THK CAST Ana Ranis Ida Htinemarm Dr. Tom Morrlaer Ronald Alexander Mrs. Hamilton Nelly Malcolm Dr. Norman Farrar Dean Jester Yvonne Tompkins Mae Questel Dr.

Isaac Gordon Al 8hean Dr. Plemlnc Donald Foster lM Mannlnc Halla Stoddard Paul Harris Drake Trior ton who have asked, in the living room, if I have ever heard of their operations, I am in no position to say. There is a little nobility about this drama. The moving boost it gives to the Cancer Fund is not to be treated superciliously. The acting, certainly, is not to be overlooked.

Dean torment between worldly affluence and honesty in his profession creates a struggle in his imagination which arouses sympathy. Miss Stoddard's desperate willingness to submit to anything, if only to come back from her "contained" personality, is worth more than a passing notice. There was comic relief in this piece, albeit that before it was ended, one realized there was also a touch of sincere human befuddlement. Eda Heinemann, as Ann Harris, conducted herself well as the doctors' receptionist, and Ronald Alexander, as the young Dr. Tom Morrjsey, lent a deep push of reality into the production.

Mae Questel, as Yvonne Tompkins, who wanted her nose altered and then wondered whether, if she became married, the nose would crop out in her children again, was comical. Al Shean, as Dr. Isaac Gordon, the man who had thrown up a Park Ave. practice to help his fellow men at the foundation, was enveloping. Drake Thorton, as Paul Harris, the young son of the receptionist, really discovered the secret.

with appropriate laughter, out front. Donald Foster, as Dr. Fleming, comported himself well as the Satan who was tempting Mr. Jagger. This is a play for those who like to tell you about their operations.

And, I guess, there are plenty of them. They sav it has a four weeks' guarantee. WAllar.hQ I II MIIMVIIW I i iff I i' 1 2 ivallachs has them early Farrar, the face-lifting surgeon, reads like the ticker at the closing of the Stock Market, with everything going up. But the guinea pig, who was a whipped and certainly a faithfully human patient, Haila Stoddard, Jn the role of I-ee Manning, rang the bell with the lump in many throats. The harrow cuts up land and Miss Stoddard's three operations cut me up, plenty, and harrowing.

In the end, the doctor follows his literal rules of his Hippocratic oath and wins the girl. And gives hi3 serum to the foundation (the Cancer Fund at $150 a week, instead of millions from a drug syndicate. They tell me that the author's name, Joseph L. Estry, Is a blind for two cancer research doctors and a slick writer. For this, I cannot vouch.

There was enough of laboratory business, on stage, to indicate that medicos' advisement was something that had been added. On stage, nobody in his right mind assumes that the answer has been found in retorts, test tubes, red-rubber hoses and off tubes, red-rubber hoses and offstage noises of hissing from what might be, possibly, an oxygen tank. Or even in the fumbling of the mechanical scenery in the second scene of the second act. The fact that the cellophane wall stuck, upon its grievous occasion, of course, is no matter. Simply put, the story concerns the struggle which Dean Jagger had between his conscience and the love he found himself involved in with the employe of the syndicate to which he was about to sell his brilliant discovery.

Anybody could fall in love with Haila Stoddard. She played her heart-rending roie with both pathos (and 1 didn't say bathos) and restraint. 'An actress who dares to show the side of her face all marked up to indicate something horrible and get away with it causes me to raise my hat, in all honor. She dared to do it. And followed through with a performance which tugged on the heart strings.

Asa play to further the Cancer Fund, this is indubitably the tops. How it will hit those Olivier' 'Henry Coming to Bora's Vogue "Henry Laurence Oliv ier's prize-winning version in Technicolor of the Shake spearean play, opens an indefi nite run next Wednesday at Century's vogue Theater. Supporting Mr. Olivier are Leo Genn, Renee Asherson, Felix Aylmer, Robert Newton and other noted English per formers. 8 P.M.

for 'Mister Roberts' In order that the final cur tain will descend by 11 p.m., Leland Hayward has decided on an 8 p.m. sharp curtain for the opening of "Mister Roberts," the play by Thomas Heg- gen and Joshua Logan, based on the novel by Thomas Heg-gen, which opens at the Alvin Theater Feb. 18. Ku Kluxer Expose "The Burning Cross," an ex pose of the Ku Klux Klan, opens next Thursday at the Victoria. Hank Daniels, Virginia Patton and Raymond Bond are among the lead players in the Somerset film, which is being distributed by Screen Guild Productions.

Jewish films Due Loew's Palace will present an all-Jewish double feature next Tuesday and Wednesday. The films are "The laving Orphan," with Gustav Berger, Fannia Rubina and Jerry Rosenberg, end "Her Second Mother," with Esta Salzman and Muni Sere- broff. MOVIE TIME TABLE BROOKLYN ALBEE "Captain Frm Caitilt." 11 10:15: "Dfek TrMr Meets uraewme," 5:4, FOX "Chrtitaiu -raaaieai 1U METROPOLITAN "H(fk Wall." 3:57, "The tlnflaltaea Dane," X.li. til. IMRAMOCVr "Wlimra Thera'i Life." 4:07, "rnl.

mi9. TRAVD "Traarare af glen Vaira." "Case at tha Baby Sitter 11:2, MANHATTAN "The Biahea'a Wife," 1:1. 1:16, 4:11, 4.1X, CAPITOL "Tkrea Darin Diarkten." 10:15, 4:4. 7:54, otace, 1:21, :4. 10:08, fKITEBIONU-'T-Men," 3:1.

5:14, 7:10, 11:0. r.LOBB "Be and Seal." 1:, 5:57, 5:50. :20. 10:05, MATPAIK "GeatleiMH'e Aireeaieat." 1:20, 5:27, 5:84. 7:41, 11:55.

MCSIO HALL "Tee Parae'lne Caae," 10, 12:50, 1:52, :55, 10: state, 11:10, 1:00, 0:14. Walk Alene," 10:25, 1:21, 4:21, 1:51,1 etae, 12.21, 0:54. 10:12. BlVOI.I "Ta the En is af tke Carta." 10:17. 12:14, 2:52, 5:10, 1.21.

0:47, 12:05. XOXT "Tea Wera Meant far Me," 1:10, 4:10, state, 12:20. 1:15, :0, 0:16. TRAND "Treaiare at Sierra Maare." 0:00, 11:64, 2:45, 5:22. 11:14, 2:07.

4:55, 7:40, 10:27. WARNER "A Miraele Can Haaaea." 11, 1:10, 1:25. 5:15, 7:50. 10:05, 12:05. GOING PLACES?" PHONE MA.

4-6200 FOR IDEAS ESTHER WILLIAMS stars in "This Time for Keeps' through next Tuesday at Loew's Kings, Pitkin and Triboro. Among the other stars are Jimmy Durante and Lauriz Mel-chior. Also on the bill is "The Arnelo Affair." 'Joy to the World' Completei Cast John Houseman and William R. Katzell have completed cast ing their production of Joy to the World," the new comedy by Allan Scott, starring Alfred Drake and Marsha Hunt. Now in rehearsal under the direction of Jules Dassin, the play, which features Myron McCormick, Morris Carnovsky, Clay Clement, Hugh Rennie, Mary Welch, Nina Vale and Theodore Newton, will have its premiere at the Shubert Theater in New Haven on Feb.

19. Sam Bonnell is the final member added to the cast of 24 which, in addition to the stars and featured players, includes Leslie Litomy, Bert Freed, Kurt Kasznar, Lois Hall, Herbert Ratner, Peggy Maley, Walter F. Appier, Harris Brown, Hal Gerson, Beverly Thawl, Blanche Zchar, Lucille Patton, Jeanne Jorden and Vicki Carl son. Playhouse Bill Brandt's Atlantic Playhouse is offering through Saturday the French-made "Pearls of the Crown," starring Sacha Guitry and Jacqueline Delubac, and Thomas Mitchell in "Swiss Family Robinson." The Gallic feature has English subtitles. hrnnhlvii HI VWIIIJII 'J gray flannel suits to 1 Si There is nothing quite like a gray flannel suit to help you ease from Winter into Spring.

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