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let hi, Hill and Lancaster) is an example of what hapiens v. hen a playwright (Terence Rattigan)
takes two plays, carefully threads them together and provide
a probable Academy Award vehulc lor David Niven.
Rita Hayworth leaves much io
The picture deals with a group
of residents at a rather dull Eng- - be desired, but she is married to
lish hotel where everybody eats the boss, James Hill, so what, can
at separate tables representing, you do about the situation--

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the Seesaw."
The year saw established queens
scene parade to
new triumphs, but a fresh crop of
trend won the
talent and
greatest attention.
Backstage. Kettl Frings, a matronly Hollywood script writer,
swept up all the honors including
the Pulitzer Prize for her play,
' Look Homeward, Angel," based on
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the Thomas Wolfe novel.
New laurels were won by Helen
Hayes, with an American Theatre
Wing Tony as the top star for
'Time Remembered," plus a bevy
of critical bouquets for "A Touch
of the Poet."
Among the other great ladies
were Katharine Cornell, back after
fix years, in "The Firstborn;" Judith Anderson in "Comes a Day;"
Fontanne, giving in
and Lynn
'The Visit" one of her most
mordantly memorable .portrayals.
Gwen Verdon and Thelma Ritter
phared honors as the top distaff
musical stars of the season for
their performances in "New Girl
in Town."
Also on
the
ftage, Jacquelyn McKeever was
cited for her debut in "Oh, Capan-exoti- c

song-and-dan-

The other story deals with
aging fashion model (Rita
who comes slinking Into
the hotel with the intent of win- ning back her former husband
(Burt Lancaster).
It seems that she is getUng
lonely in her old age. But a block
to her plans appears when it fs
discovered hubby has fallen in
love with the landlady (Wendy
Hiller).
The acting is a great example of
some good old pros in action.
David Niven gives an excellent
portrayal of a frightened little man
trying to buck the cold, cruel world,
and Hiller and Kerr give per- formance well worth the Academy
Award nominations that they re- cently received.
Hay-wort-

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'The Great Decision'
Story
Tells
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"The Great Decision: The Secret
History of the Atomic Bomb." by
Michael Amrine (Putnam. $3.95).
At the end of the first cabinet
meeting, Truman, the new president, learned for the first time
from Secretary of Wax Stimson
that an atomic bomb was being
constructed.
It was a secret on which he
had nearly stumbled when in the
Senate his own Truman Committee wondered about phenomenal
expenditures at a couple of the
secretive Army's Western installations.
As . Roosevelt
had told him
contrary inChurchill on the
formed his friends and even his
Parliamentary opposition Attlee
he himself did not pass the word
on to Byrnes, and the United Nations was organized at San' Francisco by United States delegates
who had no inkling of this in

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Van Dor en's
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busiest costume designers, and
Jean Rosenthal and Peggy Clark
all over Broadway as lighting experts.
A number of damsels from foreign parts added new allure to the
scene. These included the 50
pretty and accomplished Russian
girls of the Beryoska dance company, the frou-fro- u
femmes of
"La Plume de Ma Tante" and
assorted lasses of Oriental heritage answering the White Way's
sudden demand for Far Eastern

entertainment.

The film sets up several prob-jea- d.
lerns "He says that I'm afraid of
life and love and sex . . .," but the
answers to the problems are not
presented, unless something
'just sit still, don't move; every-w- ar
thing will come out all right' is
your idea of a solution,

Half of the movie deals with an
old Army major (David Niven)
who has kept the house spinster
with his tales of the
in North Africa.
But one day ne is arrested for
molesting a woman in a local
theater, and during the trial it is
discovered that he wasn't in Africa
after all but right there in "Merry
Old England" in a supply depot.

Theater Focus Turns East
A gaggle of girls earned more
Ry WILLIAM GLOVER
(AP)
Broadway's than passing critical attention in
NEW YORK
tnste In leading ladies took on an smaller parts of major value. Included were Zohra Lampert, ColOriental cast this year.
felin Wilcox. Jan Brooks and Undien
Two of the year's brightest
minine stars were Miyoshl Umeki, Forrest. Also noted were Joy HarJapanese
charmer In the new mon, a miss with Jayne Mansfield
musical hit, dimensions, and Dolores Hart, who
"Flower Drum Song," and France bested 500 tryout rivals for initial
daughter opportunity in "The Pleasure of
Noyen. Marseilles-bor- n
of a French mother and a Chinese His Company."
The ladies were prominent" in
iHther. who takes the bows in "The
many backstage assignments, with
World of Suzle Wong."
Saving the day for American Betty Coe Armstrong, Ruth Morley
j.tars was the dazzling Anne Ban-- t and Virginia Volland among the
roft. a native of the Bronx, who
won the highest critical acclaim
lor her starring role in "Two for

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.The Professor And I;. by
thy Van Doren (Appleton-Centur- y
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mother of Charles and John. The
book tells the adventures and mis-

adventures of this very famous
hut verv normal familv with wit
and cancj0r.
Members have experienced the
same ups and downSf tears and
laughter that every family knows,
Tne four Van Dorens have lived
Connecticut and In Man- both
natUlli Mrs. Van Doren, unlike
most writerSi prefers to do her
writing in New York. She finds
the country too distracting.
Building a martin house which
Best Sellers
never attracted martins was only
(Compiled by Publishers' Weekly)
one of their country adventures.
FICTION
Both the professor and Dorothy
...."Doctor Zhivago," Pasternak.
gave up smoking, but only Dorothy
-Lolita," Nabokov.
was successful. The professor also
"Exodus," Uris.
lost the battle of the television
"From the Terrace," O'Hara.
set. Charles' phenomenal winnings
The Ugly American," Lederer & finally drew them to the screen.
Burdick.
Mrs. F. J. Goodvogelsang, Alpha
NONFICTION
Gamma Delta grand president, is
"Only In America," Golden.
"'Twlxt Twelve and Twenty,' visiting the UK Alpha Gam chapt'

calculably momentous development. Truman told Stalin, without
using the key word 'atomic." And
the warning to Japan in the Potsdam Declaration was fantastically vague.
A great deal
about the bomb
picture is vague. We learn that
Stimson had visions of the most
disturbing problems in the future,
that Admiral Leahy never wanted
er.
the bomb used at all, that the at- Boone. ,"
"Aku-AkuShe arrived Monday afternoon
Heyerdahl.
titude of leading scientists was
Wedemeyer Reports!" The Com and will be on campus until to- ambiguous, or at least variously
interpreted. Still, not one bomb Ing of the New Deal," Schlesinger. night.
on Japanese
but two dropped
cities, and the war .soon ended.
Amrine leans a bit more toward
blaming Truman than is perhaps
Justified by the facts he presents,
or at least by my reading of them ;
for instance, to say Churchill approved in theory but not in the
explicit even is to quibble.

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Adler Buys Rights
To New Drama.
NEW YORK (AP)

lights to a

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The movie
Broad-

way play, "Requiem for a Nun,"
have gone to Buddy Adler, production director at 20th Century-Fo-

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The drama by William Faulkner has been the ambitious project for several seasons of the
acting couple, Zachary Scott and
Ruth Ford. Arrival in New York
has been delayed for a variety of
icasons, but the play was exhibited in London last year and
Guild
is now on the Theatre
agenda for 1959.

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