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Show Night and Day Now at Mario Based on the fabulous career of Cole Porter, outstanding contemporary con-temporary song writer, the eye-filling eye-filling technicolor m u s ic a 1 'Night and Day," now playing at the Mario theater, takes its title from one of the composer's most popular songs. Carry Grant, in a well-timed change of pace from the melodramas melo-dramas and comedies he's been starring in, draws the top romantic ro-mantic role of the composer playing opposite lovely Alexis Smith. Surrounding them are a group of top performers of stage, screen and radio, including includ-ing Monty Woolly, Ginnjy Simms, Jane Wyman, Eve Ar-den, Ar-den, Carlos Ramirez, Donald Woods and Mary Martin. Porter's career in itself is fabulous fab-ulous because he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth only to decide that all that was silver sil-ver held no glitter for him. So he gave it all up, including a law course at Yrale, and took Professor Monty Woolley (who plays himself in the film) . , with him to pursue a career of song writing and show producing. That career was stopped dead in its tracks on Porter's first opening night by the news of the Lusitania. His romance with lovely Linda Lee (Alexis Smith) . was broken off by the First World War. And the demands de-mands of his successful career after the war, nearly finished off his marriage to her. . The film features more than a score of Porter's best loved tunes. |