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Show Home from Ihe Service Pvt. Dean J. Stoker ana ir"vt. B. E. Pullem Jr. were home to visit their families and friends during a 10-day leave from the Marine Corps, after five months of "boot" and advanced training train-ing at San Diego, Calif. Dean will report back to the Marine base at San Francisco, for additional training in music, and "Bud" will report at El Toro, also for advanced training in music. VOMlNii VP . . . - at the FIRMAGE THEATRE Sun.-Mon., Oct. 14-15 "THE CATERED AFFAIR" A wide variety of moods, emotions and high humor are In evidence in MGM's "The Catered Cat-ered Affair." Bronx cabby Ernest Ern-est Borgnine, his wife Bette Davis Da-vis and daughter Debbie Reynolds Reyn-olds find there are many involvements in-volvements when Miss Davis tries to make a catered affair of her daughter's Impending marriage. Quotes from reviewers review-ers indicate that honest Ernest Borgnine clinches his claim on his academy award i& "The Catered Affair," Bette Davis shows up well In this change of pace, and Debbie Reynolds is near perfect. The Bronx Che- VistaVision. For six consecutive consecu-tive years this comedy team has placed in the top ten boxoffice attractions in the U. S. Their latest farce hit called "Pard-ners" "Pard-ners" contains, without doubt, some of the funniest comedy sequences screened to date. The producer, Paul Jones, has many comedy hits to his credit including includ-ing all the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby Cros-by "Road" comedies. The screenplay was written by another an-other veteran comedy connoisseur, connois-seur, Sidney Shelton, who wrote the script for such hits as "The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer" (an academy award winner) and "Annie Get Your Gun." A story called "Rhythm on the Range" by Mervin J. Houser was the original from which Jerry Davis Da-vis based his screen story. Norman Nor-man Taurog directed "Pard-ners" "Pard-ners" and in so doing, added one more hit directing job to ihis long list of successes. All the music was written by Sammy Sam-my Cahn and James Van Heus-en, Heus-en, who are without question tops in their field. "Pardners" is the third consecutive picture carrying a reviewers' rating of "Excellent", to play the Firm-age Firm-age circuit. kov, as Paddy Chayefsky is sometimes called, engineered this production with the same excellent mastery so evident in his "Marty" which walked off with so many academy honors. A fine supporting cast, which includes Barry Fitzgerald, makes up the middle class Irish American background without which "The Catered Affair" could not have attained its excellent ex-cellent rating. "The Catered Affair" is classified as suitable for general audience. Thurs.-Frl.-Sal., Oct. 16-17-18 "THE FASTEST GUN ALIVE" Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain and Broderick Crawford are the chief marquee name values in the gun-dueling western drama rightfully named "The Fastest Gun Alive." Glenn Ford was not always the most peaceable man in Silver Rapids and he proves it to bad man Broderick Crawford. Pride in Ford's tempestuous past is not necessarily neces-sarily shared by his wife, Jeanne Crain. Good support is afforded afford-ed by Russ Tamblyn, Allyn Jos-lyn, Jos-lyn, Leif Erickson, John Den-ner, Den-ner, Noah Beery Jr., and others. "The Fastest Gun Alive'' is characterized by sharp action and taunt suspense and reviewers review-ers describe the ending as "intriguing "in-triguing and ingenious." The film is right for any audience. Fri -Sat., Oct. 19-20. "PARDNERS" Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis go western in Technicolor and |