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Show 12 Sunday, February IS, 1948 SUNDAY HERALD 'Fantasia Presents Technicolor Concert . . " .-x : waiter Disney, master of music in the visual ense, produced his great concert feature "Fantasia," in color by technicolor, in 1940, and today the picture continues to draw enraptured audiences to its repeat engagements. This astounding film contains the works of some of the greatest composers in musical history. It is a concert for the eye and ear both. Under the brilliant direction of Leopold Leo-pold Stokowski, the Philadelphia orchestra plays eight great treasures of music, while on the screen. The characters in this fulllength entertainment range from the familiar and well-loved Mickey Mouse to flying horses, centaurs and centaurettes, ludicrous ostrich dancers and bellowing volcanoes. Star Mastering 4 Hundreds of Disney fans had been clamoring lor a film based on Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. Thus it was only natural that this beloved music should be included, as also Bach's Toccata Toc-cata and Fugue in D Minor, visualized vis-ualized in formless color racing across the screen, chased by weird geometric designs and regiments of marching fiddle bows. Dukas' lively and catchy music The Sorcerer's Sor-cerer's Apprentice is played with Mickey Mouse as the mischievous amateur magician. Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is interpreted on the screen in terms of dinosaurs and a world in the throes of creation. Beethoven's masterful Symphony Sym-phony No. 6, known the world over as the Pastoral Symphony, is given animation by centaurs, centaurettes, unicorns, flying horses, Cupids, gods and goddesses. god-desses. Set to the music of Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours, a ballet is danced by Mile. Upanova, an ostrich. os-trich. Assisting are Hyacinth Hippo, Hip-po, Ben Ali Gater and his elephant ele-phant pals. Moussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, a fascinating number is contrasted with Schubert's majestic ma-jestic Ave Maria. Imaginative Characters Interpret Masterpieces t v Foreign Languages Robert , Ryan is using phonograph phono-graph records to master three or four languages, so that on his trip to Europe this spring he will feel at home abroad. Last September Ryan visited France and Germany as part of the "Berlin Express" troupe. "I was monolinguistic,' 'Ryan says, "and limited. All I could do was rubberneck. It's no fun to be in a country with a different culture cul-ture and unable to study it by contacts with its people." Bob's listening to disks in French. German and Spanish. He's memorizing phrases. If he makes progress with these three, he may add Italian and Swedish to his linguistic repertory. Two of the delightful characters who animate Disney's visualizing of eight concert favorites including in-cluding "The Nutcracker Suite", Beethoven's "Pastoral", and "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" in "Fantasia" coming toon to the Academy. Unusual Picture Poses Problem Sophie Tucker's Life to be Filmed HOLLYWOOD Sophie Tucker's Tuck-er's best selling autobiography, "Some of These Days," has been purchased for a forthcoming picture, pic-ture, which Pandro S. Berman will produce. One of America's most colorful entertainers, internatio nally known as "the last of the Red Hot Mamas," Miss Tucker's life story spans more than forty years as an entertainer. SONG IS RECORDED HOLLYWOOD "The Dickey Bird Song" from Technicolor musical, mu-sical, "Three Daring Daughters." is due for a big play from bandleaders. band-leaders. It has been recorded by Freddy Martin for Victor; Larry Clinton, Decca: Blue Barron, M-G-M Records; George Olsen, Majestic, Ma-jestic, and The Dell Trio, Columbia. Colum-bia. In the musical it is sung both by Jeanette MacDonald and same kind Jane Powell. ."Key Largo," now before the cameras under the producing eye of Jerry Wald promises to be something uiiusual in the way of a motion picture. It is to contain no dissolves or time lapses. The story will begin when Humphrey Bogart arrives at the Key Largo hotel at 8:30 p. m., and will follow his assorted adventures ad-ventures with villain Edward G. Robinson, heroine Lauren Ba-call, Ba-call, and her father-in-law Lionel Lio-nel Barrymore until 10:30 p. m.. the same night, at which point the story closes. From 8:30 to 10:30 is two hours of elapsed time, and that, according ac-cording to instructions received by .Director John Huston, is x- I actfy how long the film must be. I Such concentrated action, how ever, poses quite a problem for the gentlemen in the cast. For estimated "shooting" time they must report for work every day appearing exactly as they did on the morning of the first day the same kind of a shave, the same length of beard, the identical identi-cal kind of a haircut, and according ac-cording to Director Huston, the of a snap in their Disney Introduces 'Pecos Bill' Legend .Top hand of all the rip-roaring ring-tailed heroes of American legend is Pecos Bill, mythical champion of the cattle country. Walt Disney introduces him to screen goers in his forthcoming musical cartoon fantasy, "Melody, Time." , Around Pecos Bill, theJTexaft who was reared in a coyote den, and his exact opposite in the galaxy ga-laxy of native heroes, Johnny Ap-pleseed, Ap-pleseed, the premier of animation has woven one of his most hilarious hi-larious and enchanting pictures. Roy Rogers recites the saga of the prodigious cowboy, aided in song by the Sons of the Pioneers. Dennis Day speaks for th( strange man who tagged after the pioneers to plant their apple orchards a timid soul who yet became as celebrated as his more boastful fellows in the American myth. Women Should Dress For Mood, Not Style HOLLYWOOD "I hate clothes, particularly if they're new," Irene Sharaff, noted stylist, styl-ist, told Virginia Mayo during the filming of Samuel Goldwyn's "A Song Is Born." "Clothes hamper the individ-uaLlL-Misa Sharaff-said. "A woman wo-man should dress according to her mood and should not be told that any specific design is suitable suit-able for any specific occasion. For comfort around my home I wear aviator's coveralls most of the time." Singer Averages $1500 Per Hour eyes! OPTIMISTS HOLLYWOOD How much should a dream house cost? A chart showing figure levels rising ris-ing from $10,000 to $39,500 was laid out for the house and will be shown on the screen in "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House," starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas. Doug-las. Because of the constantly changing cost of living, however, final figures will not be set until un-til just before the picture's release re-lease so they'll meet latest cost levels. The English counterpart of the United States Medal of Honor is the Victoria Cross. Shirley's New Film Sets Milestones HOLLYWOOD Shirley Temple's Tem-ple's latest picture. "War Party," in which she co-stars with John Wayne, Henry Fonda and Pedro Armendariz, represents a couple of milestones in her career. This picture will present her as a mother on the screen for the first time. The picture also presents pre-sents her real-life husband. John Agar, as her love interest in the story. It is his first fictpre. Agar was selected for his role when Producer Merian G. Cooper and Director John Ford raw a film test of him. Not until he was signed did they realize that Shirley Shir-ley was ideal for the feminine lead. A rattlesnake coiled like a gar-den gar-den hose cannot strike. Romantic Statistics From Bette Davis Romantic statistic: Bette Davis estimates that she has made 168 love scenes for films, with an average of three clinches per picture! . . . Publicity for San Francisco. "Blackmail," the play has been purchased. It will be filmed against Bay City backgrounds, back-grounds, and titled "Golden Gate" . . . Alfred Hitchcock, now directing "Rope," says there's a sign in the window of a famous Santa Monica restaurant which definitely concedes inflation: 'Fine Steaks, Easy Terms"! . . . Jack Carson defines a smart girl as one who is "always in the NO" . . . Producer Bill Siegel has offered of-fered $100,000 for the screen rights of Barbara Corcoran's first novel. "Yankee Pir.e" . . . NEW PARTY GAGS: Harry Lewis Lew-is had a birthday this week, but because he's supposed to be in love, the party cake was equipped equip-ped with torches instead of candles. cand-les. Later, at another party, Lewis Lew-is won the door prize, which turned out to be the door to the very place where the. shindig was held! . . . Anne Baxter, currently cur-rently emoting in "The Wa'ls of Jerico." has had her option lifted (meaning renewed) . . . Modern philosophy: A considerate girl, says A!an Hale, is one who refuses re-fuses to marry an unwealthy man . . . Tim Holt is dickering to purchase a large rancho in the mountains of Central Mexico. I He fell in love with the place ! while locationing nearby for j scenes in the adventure-thriller, 1 "Treasure of Sierra Madre." By ERSKINE JOHNSON NEA Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD " (NEA) Mari lyn Maxwell ii collecting $1500 an hour (pass the smelling salts) for her warbling stint at the Colonial Inn in Miami. Her salary is $10,- 000 for a 10-day engagement, but she s singing only 40 minutes a night. , Jack Benny had 'em in the aisles at that $100-a-plate March of Dimes dinner in Denver (despite (de-spite Fred Allen's crack that there wasn't a dime minted that could march past Jack). Introducing Phil Harris, Benny said: "He's been my musical director di-rector for 12 year and he knows nothing about music. But show him a patent medicine medi-cine and he'll tell you its alcoholic content." Watching Dan Dailey sing and and dance in "You Were Meant for Me," I couldn't help remem bering what M-G-M did to the poor guy before the war. He came out from Broadway as a song and dance man and M-G-M pegged him as a villain. Remember that nasty Nazi with the shaved head in "The Mortal Storm"? That was Dan. I hate to think about it, but the fellow who finally cast him as a song and dance man probably has been rated a "genius." A waiter at Ciro's won $900 on the ponies the other day and immediately quit his Job to put his system to work on a full-time basis (the dope). Recommended: Danny Thomas' comedy patter at Slapsy Maxie s He's the greatest night-club per former Hollywood has seen in years. Or since Kay Thompson, anyway. . . . Since the release of "My Wild Irish Rose," Warner Brothers is offering Arlene Dahl three times her previous salary and a co-starring role with Errol Flynn. and Sylvia Sydney at the peak off their careers. . The other is a celluloid version of Agnes Moorehead's famous ra dio skit, "Sorry, Wrong Number, I in which Barbara Stanwyck hears her own murder plotted on the telephone. Burt Lancaster s the fellow she marries. It's a dress- up role for Burt for a change. He wears seven tailored suits, includ ing tails. I hear they're even thinking of making him comb his hair. The pictures has a 1938 background and fashion designer Edith Head is still chuckling. Feminine clothes then were the same as now long skirts and padded hips. So feminine extras in the film are wearing their 1948 clothes to give the picture that '38 look. But Barbara, as I told you the other day, refuses to adopt the "new look" because Bob Taylor doesn't like it. Her clothes in the picture are a compromise between '38 and '48. Novel Short Candidate For f Academy Award HOLLYWOOD Pete Smith's candidate for this year s. Acaaemy Award honors will be "Now ."You See It," a technicolor adventure into the mysteries of insect life through the magic of microscopic photography. .' Dr. Richard L, Cassell perform ed the photographic "miracles, which show the birth of a mosquito, mos-quito, the death struggle between a moth and praying mantis and the first moments of life . of a i , . . . Humming Diru. m rri . l. . i i . . . , it.-' inuuKii ujc picture is less uwn 1,000 feet in length, it took more than two years to film. Weatherman to Decide Location Qf New Film The weather man, who has always al-ways maintained that he could save millions for movie producers by long-range predictions, gets his chance at last. Meteorologists in - California, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico have been asked to foretell snowfall snow-fall conditions in certain mountain moun-tain locations in those states for three weeks beginning Feb. 14. On their pred.ctions will depend de-pend which of f( ur sites will be chosen for location scenes of "Blood on the Moon," the drama of the 1860's co-starring Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston and Walter Bren-nan. There are about 30 towns with post offices in the United States named after Benjamin Franklin. Constance Bennett Cary Grant "TOPPER" Roland Young ALWAYS TWO KITS I BARBARY COAST with Edward G. Robinson Maria m Hopkins Joel McCrea Not in the script: "These new hats are sily. I feel like j I was going back to my kid days and wearing ear muffs. ! 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