OCR Text |
Show "O Henry's Full House" To Play At Grove Theatre The trend toward the "omnibus" motion picture reaches its its peak with the arrival at the Grove Theatre tomorrow of "O. Henry's Full House," the Twentieth Century-Fox compilation of a handful of the most famous stories of America's Am-erica's master of the short story and the surprise ending. Twelve outstanding Hollywood stars, working wor-king under the supervision of five topnotch directors, were employed in bring "O. Henry's Full House" to the screen. Until the recent popularity of the three films composed of Somerset Som-erset Maugham stories, the multiple mult-iple movie had not won universal favor. Included in 'O. Henry's Full House" are "The Gift of the Magi" the haunting tale of a newlywed couple who gave up their prized possessions to be able to buy one another Christmas presents, in which Jeanne Crain and Farley Granger co-star in a sequence directed di-rected by Henry King from a screen play by Walter Bullock, and "The Ransom of Red Chief," describing in hilarious fashion the adventures of a pair of slick New York confidence men who make the mistake of kidnapping a Southern farm boy. Fred Allem, making a rare screen appearance, and Oscar Levant, in an unusual non-musical appearance, combine sardonic forces for this witty comedy com-edy interlude with a typically ironic ir-onic O. Henry twist at the end. Howard Hawks directed. Another episode is "The Last Leaf," a poignant story of an aged artist who dies that a talented young girl may live. Tenderly portraying por-traying the three focal roles of a sick girl, her comforting sister and the old man are Anne Baxter, Jean Peters and film director Gregory Ratoff. Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts wrote the script which Jean Negulesco directed. The other portions of the film are "The Cop and the Anthem," about a royal hobo who hopes to winter in a nice warm pail, but can't get arrested, and "The Clarion Clar-ion Call," a hard-hitting action melodrama about a boyhood rivalry riv-alry culminating in a cop vs. killer kill-er situation. In the former film Charles Laughton, Marilyn Monroe Mon-roe and David Wayne enact the turn-of-the-century comedy directed direc-ted by Henry Koster from a Lamar Lam-ar Trotti screen play, while in the latter Dale Robertson and Richard Widmark share top honors under Henry Hathaway's direction in acting out the Richard Breen script. |