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win ii i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 tti 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 iiir Tempest Rates I I Colossal lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHIl Earl Wilson 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 in 1 1 in ti 1 1 1 1 ititititit ,16 Sec.l-.Mxamiiirr s.rj.y,M.r.2i,iw cccc IMIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIII Louella Parsons Barbara Rush Gets Role in 'The Bramble Bush' iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii HOLLYWOOD, March 20. My soon-to-be-neighbor Barbara Rush had better get her trousseau fitted in a hurry because she's just signed to make another picture at Warners before she marries Warren Cowan in June. Milton Sperling and Jack 'A'arner sat in a projection Name Above the Title Is Martha Hyer Hope iiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiitiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiin MEW YORK, March 22. Martha Hyer is back from her camel riding tour around the Sphinx and Pyramids now back in Hollywood saying, "This is my big year the year I make the jump and get my name above the title." By 1IORTKXSE Eiammtr Orama Editor FTER WATCHING -V "The Tempest," at the St. Francis, I have a message you may take your "spectaculars" on the 21 inch screen (akin to the Gettyburg Address engraved on the head of a pin), but for me I'll take "colossal" as apt description of the Dino DcLauren-tiis film starring Van Hef-lin, along with Silvana Man-Kino, Viveca Lindfors and Geoffrey Home.

Confidentially, I never expected to regard "colossal" with a feeling of respect. But, the overworked Hollywood-coined noun, applies here. There are more people cavalrymen Yugoslavians fictional Lana Stars in Revival Of 'Imitation of life history Technicolor and Pushkin, than can be digested by the observer. And, the wide-wide screen delivers. The epic cost a lot, but doesn't everything, in this cinema version of Pushkin's "The Captain's Daughter" and 'The Revolt of Pugacey." The times of Catherine the Great provide a rich, colorful and strident back- males in her life arc John Gavin.

Dan O'Herlihy and Robert Aldo. For counterpoint, her daughter rebels. Miss Moore faces the fact that her child resents her mother's dark skin and tries to pass over the color line. Susan Kohner as the would be passer is tremendous and Miss Turner recovers (and, I do mean recovers) as the ambitious and understanding parent of Miss Dee. As for Miss Moore the Negro parent here is sincere theater.

By HORTENSE MORTON jaurj vjavcie nicivy rjEtsou nt'iMi mi mm-im mm rSL VilK IT room waicmng me louns? nmaucujiuam aim 11117 liked what they saw in the dramatic scenes between Barbara and Paul Newman. Result she gets another big role in "The Bramble Bush." Charles Merecndahl's controversial novel. (Somebody said it makes "Peyton Flaee" look like a Sunday school town!) Richard Burton has arrived from London for the top male role and producer Sperling plans to have the film betore the cameras on March 30. THE UBIQUITOUS and extremely talented Peter Ustinov joins Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum in "The Sundowners" in Australia. Fred Zinnemann in London long-distanced Steve Trilling at Warners to say he'd tike to get Ustinov for this role since it is meant for him.

Zinnemann conies back to Hollywood May 15 lor the opening of "The Nun's Story" and for conferences with Jack Warner. In a letter Deborah wrote me she said she miht come here before she goes to Australia for "The Sundowners." ALL OF US WHO love the theater cannot underhand why the HunlUston Hartford, the beautiful legitimate theater in Hollywood, is dark so much of the time. Certainly we should support a theater which is right in the heart of Hollywood and not let it stay closed. It's been dark since Nov. 8 when Tallulah Bankhead played there.

Now I'm glad to say that it will open May 7. Marjorie Lord (Danny Thomas' TV wife) and Fernando Lamas will be seen In "Once More With Feeling." Marjorie's real husband, theatrical producer Randolph Hale, closed the deal with Marjorie and Fernando over a luncheon table at the Brown Derby. THE FREQUENT dating of Esther Williams and her ex-husband Ben Gage, has led to rumors that they are planning a reconciliation. They were in Palm Springs with the children to attend the Waif Ball last weekend. I asked Esther the status of her relations with Ben.

"We have made no plans, but I intend to see Ben because of our children." she said. "We went to Yucca Valley too where Ben's bought a lot of land, and he's very interested now in real estate." Esther denied that she and Jeff Chandler were washed up. "Jeff has been in Phoenix training with the Giants baseball team. He goes there every year to exercise, and I expect to see him when he returns." SNAPSHOTS of Hollywood Collected at Random: FREEMAN GOSDEN is brushing up on his golf to keep a date to play with the Duke of Windsor tomorrow. The Duke and Duchess arrived tonight and they're deluged with invitations.

THAT FINE SINGER Johnny Mathis won the fifth annual Diners Award as the best singer of the year. THE ATTRACTIVE daughter of former Ambassador fo Great Britain, Lewis Douglas Sharman, that is joins the Arthur Jacobs Publicity office staff. DAVE CHASEN left tonight for New York on the maiden voyage of TWA's jet. He is with some of Howard Hughes' big boys and they left from San Francisco. A SHOWPLACE in Beverly ftills is Blum's new restaurant and goodie shop.

The opening was a gala event with president Robert Beattie on hand to greet the guests. AFTER 11 YEARS as head of the music department at Warner Ray Heindorf, whose contract has expired, bows out. Bag and baggage, wife and two children, he moves to Rome. HIS LAST NIGHT in California. Aly Khan took Nora Haymes to hear Earl Grant at the Interlude after dining at Edna.Earle's Fogcutter's.

TWENTY YEAR OLD Jean Scbcrg, who recently completed "The Mouse That Roared" for Columbia, is in the American Hospital in Paris recovering from an emergency appendectomy. That's all today. See you tomorrow! Copyright 1959. Reproduction in whole or in part strictly prohibited. TODAY'S FILM CLOCK Martha's speaking about billing and it started that Tuesday morning 6,000 miles from here in a hotel lobby in Cairo.

We were about to go out to the desert for a tent party. "There's a sandstorm wear something warm," somebody said and suddenly there was Martha, in a long mink coat, exclaiming: "Did you hear about me?" "Got one the nominations for an a for 'Some Came Running'!" she announced. It wasn't a squeal because Martha studied speech at Northwestern but she was ecstatic. "What a place to get the news in!" Martha said in the bus ride out to the Pyramids and was still thinking about that when Hugh O'Brian was helping her get on the camel they call "Whisky and Soda." "I sent my father and mother in Dallas a cable when I heard the news-it cost me $28," she said. Her father, Julien C.

Hyer, who's a municipal judge and a Methodist Sunday school teacher, and her mother will probably attend the Oscar dinner April 6 "I told them in the cable that I felt I owed it all to them for everything that's happened." It was on te TWA Jetstream over the Atlantic on the return that Martha sketched out her future. "From now on I will ask for at least co-star billing." She was sitting beside me. Van Johnson and Evie, his wife, were in the seat in front of us. "And I want to play some more sympathetic parts from now on." She herself had snared the role of schoolteacher Gwen French in "Some Came Running." "I liked the book and said I'd give anything to play that part." MGM had tried to get Deborah Kerr and Jean Simmons, who weren't interested in a supporting role. "They asked me to audition with Frank Sinatra in a very sexy scene in which he takes my hair down.

Vincente Minelli (the director) asked me the very first thing 'Is your hair "I was glad it was long. It helped me get the part." Martha, who now gets $35,000 a picture, was once married to Producer Ray Stahl who took her to Africa to make a film. "It was a bad marriage, but a good trip," is the way she puts it. "I left him in Africa and came back to get a divorce." 'S. Hurok America's Most Popular Tenor "Sabrena" was her first She got her big picture mink coat as a bonus.

She's been working her way up since, with never any unkind gossip heard about her. She's 36-24-38 going on 39 since the Cairo and she learned to be a lady at Fairfax Hall Junior College at Waynesboro, before going to Northwestern and Pasadena Playhouse. Martha credits Ella Logan with giving her her start. "Klla was singing for the USO in Europe. My father was one of the judges at Nuremberg.

"Ella saw my picture 05 his desk. He told her I was going to school in Pasadena. rpHE WEEKEND WIND. 1 UP Artie Shaw "struck water" at his Mai-lorca home, where water is more precious than oil. Genevieve (Jack Paar's Gallic warbler) left her date the other night complaining of a "migrating headache." The BBC banned Nat "King" Cole's record "Madrid" (a jazzed-up Lionel Hampton's Sunday concert at Carnegie Hall was taped and sent to his biggest fan club at Alabama State Prison.

EARL'S PEARLS: The main trouble with a fixed income these days is that you have to keep fixing it. TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Jackie Kannon explained his wife's luck at the Las Vegas crap tables: "She didn't talk to the dice she nagged them." WISH I'D SAID THAT: Some women retain their youth by a simple exercise they just keep pushing 30. Henny Youngman tells of the child who asked, "Daddy, how did you come to marry Mother?" Dad: "I didn't come to marry her. I came to fix the TV set." That's earl brother. (Distributed by Hall Syndicate, Inc.) "Nowhere to Go" tarrlnt GEORGE NADEft Star of Opera, Radio and Concerts SAN FRANCISCO Pulitzer Prize Winner ZOE AKINS' MOON" il(ir ft if mJ KWRH 2nd HIT! ground for a rough and tumble upheaval involving lower and royal classes of Czarist Russia.

Personal aspects of the conflict center around a young inconoclast, banished to outer Siberia, or the equivalent thereof, who participates in a Good Samaritan act, the rescue of another rebel. This good deed lor the day is to pay off in later times, when the revolt comes into full flower. The Yugoslavian settings are visually stimulating. So are the cavalry charges. And, the ca.t is something more than noteworthy.

It includes Hef lin, film stealer as the leader of the Steppes' rebellion; Miss Lindfors, regal as Catherine the Queen; Miss Mangano, romance partner of Home, Agnes Moorehead and Robert Keith. CU1KIIAN oiM4o. r- MATINEES TODAY 2:30 A LAST 2 TIMIJ y.iyfT TOMORROW Ui Office I. 3 ind his ALL-STAR INTERNATIONAL SHOM THEY FOUCHT BACK TO BACK dhatj rjnirrirj mo BHAU0 bond ec' OPENS 11:11 t. m.

Lt Shaw Ton) til FRUIT" SHAW AND THE "GIGI" GIRL DIRK ALASTAIR BOGARDE SIM LESLIE CAROM "THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA" "TWO MOUSEKETEERS" AdemT Winnn LATE NEWS fdt itiiim STORMING THE HEIGHTS OF MOTION PICTURE GREATNESS I RICHARD EGAN now on location at Monterey on "A Summer Place," directed by Delmer Daves, also starring Sandra Dee, Arthur Kennedy and Dorothy McGuire. Holiday Film Fare Town By SCREEN SCOUT IN KEEPING wifh the holiday week for kids, two films have appeared on the local horizon one "The Shaggy Dog," a Disney contribution, starring Fred MacMurray, and the other "Gidget," with Sandra Dee. Miss Dee, I gather is the busiest little Hollywood bee since Mary Miles Minter. She's in every film! "The Shaggy Dog," gets into a great pother, and so does MacMurray as a postman with a normal aversion for the animals. Through a fluke, one of his sons, tinkering with a weird stone, turns into a wonderful sheep dog.

This is a fine fantasy with MacMurray allergic to hairy characters finding little solace in the presence of his first born when he is dogging it. There's much nonsense involving crooks, juvenile problems and such. The cast has fun. But, it's Mac-Murray who stands out as the paterfamilias confused by all of this fuss and feathers. This one is at the Fox.

Second item, listed above, is "Gidget." It's a Columbia Studio release the studio should have released it for the birds. Even Sandra Dee, cute as she is, couldn't save this one. It's all about a young girl who finds herself, completely naive, the center of attraction at a marine type of muscle operation. Miss Dee is the girl. Between the two of us, this is a Malibu version of "Bon jour Tristesse," a summer of awareness.

In this case the boys are young, James Darren the big moment, and Cliff Robertson, (late of "Autumn Leaves," as the leering adult. (He must be all of thirty!) It's a clean film I guess and playing at the Coliseum. Metro, El Rey, New Mission, Royal, Geneva Drive-in and Seavue. TODAY HH0WS MAT. 2:00 EVE.

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"DARLING DUTCH DOLL" ONLY Jtooo lurletsue Show rVorfd lei Anqettt McAIIMw S. Oft Market mm pwjjftjn sons a dm utKms PSonuc: VAN HEFUN SILVANA MANGANO -VIVECA LINDFORS -GEOFFREY HORNE aomi oscii ww a dm't ncnif Htio mew Km vmc asm PI.U COLO CAETOON MM PnClTlPSC LA PETITE PARADf KI V4W21Iu13 LATE NEWS IRJ UMMTm. un i wio "IMITATION OF LIFE." Fannie Hurst novel in screen form, is again with us. this time at RKO Golden Gate. The melodramatic book-picture dealing with a racial problem back in 1934, starred Claudette Colbert and the late Warren William.

Since then, drama critics have been queried hundreds of times about cast and story. For some reason, this picture has stayed in the public mind. In 1959. Universal Studio revived the drama. The new version is complete with posh trimmings, sets and costumes including Lana Turner, in the Colbert role, Sandra Dee, hot item of the teen-age set, and Juanita Moore.

Out of pocket, Turner and her daughter encounter Miss Moore, a Negro, and her child, light of skin. Both mothers have monetary problems and worries. They pool resources and share a roof. Through myriad breaks, goaded by ambition, Miss Turner becomes a great star of the theater, New York that is. Interesting Dutch Do Siri, burlesque star new to San Francisco, is the headliner on the new stage show at the President Follies Burlesque.

TODAY 2 SHOWS MATINEE 3 00 EVENING SOUTH DVENTURE TICMNICOIOI feox OKftca Ooan 10 am to ttm 3 Moil Ordart and All Agtncits I PHONI MA I I-500O "Gidget's the Greatestl" gj Dick Clark Hi lays CINEMASC0PS CASTMAN COLOR? sdm mm f. 2nd. LILTING HIT! COLUMBIA PICTURES present! HKum i. Firit Fulurt Motion Picture Aooeirinci el I- I DO Ml tlu vMITU luuu rniitmiiimxLi ohiiiii SAM WTEM v4 1 WIlNtSCS COLISEUM CLEMENT at 9tk MISSION at 11 ni METRO ONION iWEUTFA ROYAL POIKn. CALIF EL REY 1970 OCEAN Ave SEAVUE PACIf ICA GENEVA elvf-iN NEIT COW NlACf STUDIO SAN JOSE SO 'vi'i (ji JOHN GAVIN SANDRA DEE DAN O'HERLIHY SUSAN KOHNER (3 ROBERT ALDA JTZS JIIANIIA 100RE MAHALIA JACKSONte singing "Trouble of the World" )SjrV (ill) i lit" Ownt II a.

m. Lib Show Tonitt: 1 sinj Imilalion ol Lit KXTYfTIf PARAMOUNT "Rio Bravo." 10:45 a. 1:25, 4 05, 6:45, 9:25 and 12:05 p. m. PRESIDIO "Forbidden Fruit," 1:00, 3 00, 5:10, 7 1 5 and 10:55 p.

m. Prevue 9:00 p. m. RIO "Cabaret' 6:15 and 9:30 p. m.

ST. FRANCIS "Tempest," 11-30 a. 1:51, 4:15, 6:39, 9:03 and 11:27 p. m. STAGE DOOR "Gigi," 2:40, 7:40 and 10:15 p.

m. UNITED ARTISTS "Some Like It Hot." Now Remodeling Open soon. VOGUE 'The Am of Infidelity." 1-55. 3:35, 5:15. 6:45, 8:15 and 9:45 p.

m. (These times subject to change by theaters, without notice.) janP E.R ONLY IAY AREA APPEARANCE THIS SEASON i Tickets S3.50-3.00-J.SO-2.00-1.50 NOW at Slier. OPERA HOUSE I man Clay lei Office. S.F. Oakland; Bruener'l AT 1-30 I lerk-' 0ok- 0ra House Tonite at 7.

FIRST TIME IN imniHiMHttnimi Extri! "MAGIC RAILS TO VESTEROAY" llw COLOR CARTOON WA.I-2929 1 Cfitnut at Scott ALEXANDRIA "South Pacific," 2:00 and 8:30 p. m. RIDGE "The Two-Headed Soy." 1:15, 3:05. 4:55, 6:45, 8:35 and 10:25 p. m.

CINERAMA-ORPHEUM "South Seas Adventure," 2:00 and 8.30 p. m. CLAY "The Doctor's Dilemma." 1:55, 4:00. 6:05, 8:10 and 10:15 p. m.

CORONET "Sleeping Beauty," 10:40 a. 12:40, 2:40, 4:40, 6:40 and 8.40 p. rn. rox ''Shaggy Dog." 11:31 a. 2:18.

5:05, 7:52 and 10:39 P. m. GOLDEN GATE "Imitation of Life." 11:10 a. 1:40, 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 and 11-45 p. m.

LARKIN "Dollars From The Sky." 1:00. 2:45, 4 40, 6:30, 8:30 and 10:20 p. m. LOEWS WARFI ELD "Night of the Quarter Moon," 12:45, 3:56, 7:07 and 10:18 p. m.

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