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Sousa, Clifton Webb Are Honored<br />
At Elaborate Lambs Club Party<br />
BROADWAY<br />
Tames E. Perkins, managing director of allJ<br />
Paramount offices in Great Britain and]<br />
northern Ireland, arrived on the Queen Mary {<br />
December 13 for a three-week visit to confer'<br />
. . .<br />
with home office executives. Rita Hayworth<br />
1<br />
was also aboard H. B. Allinsmith. formerly<br />
managing director of Westrex Corp.,<br />
subsidiary. Western Electric Co., Ltd., wh<br />
has been in charge of the company's activi-.<<br />
ties in Great Britain and Ireland for the(|<br />
past three years, is back in the U.S. . . . W11-.<br />
liam F. Rodgers, MGM vice-president, le<br />
for a Florida vacation December 14 .<br />
Albert Lewin, MGM producer who will makeil<br />
"Saadia," planed to London to complete cast-f<br />
ing before heading for French Morocco, when<br />
the picture will be filmed.<br />
Seen at the Lambs' club party, left to right: AI Lichtman, Clifton Webb, Ralph<br />
Bellamy and Robert Weitman.<br />
NEW YORK—More than 100 men prominent<br />
In the entertainment world, business<br />
and the armed forces gathered at the Lambs'<br />
club Sunday (14) to honor John Philip Sousa,<br />
one of the founders of the organization, with<br />
Clifton Webb as guest of honor. Webb portrays<br />
Sousa in the 20th Century-Fox picture,<br />
"Stars and Stripes Forever."<br />
A plaque dedicated to the famous band<br />
leader was unveiled in the club library.<br />
One of Sousa's batons was given to Webb<br />
All-Sousa Band Program<br />
Set for Roxy Opening<br />
NEW YORK—The U.S. Marine band will<br />
present an all-John Philip Sousa concert<br />
Monday (22) on the stage of the Roxy Theatre<br />
in ceremonies attending the reopening of the<br />
theatre.. Its entrance will be telecast nationally<br />
by the American Broadcasting Co.<br />
The feature picture will be "Stars and Stripes<br />
Forever," 20th-Fox.<br />
Work was scheduled to be completed at the<br />
weekend on enlargement of the Roxy stage<br />
to accommodate an ice show. About 5,000 feet<br />
of neon tubing in four colors was being<br />
installed under the ice surface, besides 3,000<br />
feet of ultra-violet tubing to provide special<br />
effects. National Theatres, which now controls<br />
the hou.se. also was improving the marquee.<br />
The neon tubing will cost about $38 000<br />
and all lighting innovations about $45,000.<br />
The first "Ice-Colorama" show has been<br />
titled "Crystal Circus."<br />
and a citation was awarded to 20th-Fox by<br />
the U.S. marine corps, represented by Brig.<br />
Gen. V. J. McCaul, director of public information.<br />
Others present included Winthrop Rockefeller,<br />
District Attorney Frank Hogan, Commissioner<br />
Walter Shirley. Fire Commissioner<br />
Jacob Grumet, Vinton Freedley, Conrad<br />
Nagel, Rube Goldberg, Bobby Clarke, Ralph<br />
Bellamy, Jack Pearl and William Gaxton,<br />
shepherd of the Lambs.<br />
SYRACUSE<br />
f^elebrities invaded Syracuse last week causing<br />
quite a ripple of excitement for news<br />
people and TV and radio critics. Thursday,<br />
Manager Sam Oilman staged a cocktail party<br />
on the mezzanine floor of Loew's State close<br />
by the goldfish fountain, refurbished with<br />
beach sand, where pretty Julie Dorsey, daughter<br />
of the bandleader Jimmy, displayed some<br />
eye-filling bathing suits she wears in the<br />
film, "Million Dollar Mermaid." Then, with<br />
Harry Unterfort and his Hollywood U-I promoter<br />
doing the honors for the "John Brown's<br />
Body" staff and Tyrone Power, there was a<br />
Friday preview of Power's film, "T!ie Mississippi<br />
Gambler," at the Strand before a<br />
luncheon at the Hotel Syracuse. Power answered<br />
questions about Raymond Massey,<br />
Miss Judith Anderson and himself. It was<br />
Power's first look at the film and he in turn<br />
invited criticism.<br />
Jean Renoir, director of "The GoldenJ<br />
Coach," Anna Magnani's first English-speak-i<br />
ing picture, made in Rome in Technicolor,!<br />
flew in from Paris via Pan American Airwaysfl<br />
and left for Hollywood December 17 to negotiate<br />
an American release. He spoke Decemh<br />
15 at the Cinema 16 showing at Central!<br />
Needle Trades auditorium . . . Kay Walsll,«<br />
British actress who made "Young Bess" forjj<br />
MGM in Hollywood, planed back to London<br />
December 13 . . . Jose Ferrer, flew in fron<br />
Europe December 15 for a short stay in Ne<br />
York before going to Hollywood to attes<br />
the Academy award pre-release opening<br />
his "Moulin Rouge" in Los Angeles December<br />
23. John Huston, director of the pictured<br />
and Colette Marchand, Parisian ballet starJ<br />
who makes her screen debut opposite Ferrer^<br />
planed in from Europe December 1 and<br />
also attend the Hollywood showing.<br />
Richard Condon, RKO director of advertis-j<br />
ing, publicity and exploitation, returned De-|<br />
cember 17 from Washington, where he dis-|,<br />
cussed plans for the opening of "Never Wave<br />
at a WAC" with army officials . . . David<br />
Golding, director of advertising and publicit;<br />
for Samuel Goldwyn, got back from Florida<br />
where he set the opening of "Hans Christian<br />
Andersen" for Christmas day in Mia<br />
Beach and left for Hollywood for meetir<br />
with Goldwyn on the west coast opening atj<br />
the Beverly Theatre December 26.<br />
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All 8 Majors Will Close<br />
For Long Xmas Weekend<br />
NEW YORK— All eight major companies,<br />
MGM, Columbia. Paramount, RKO. 20th-Fox,<br />
U-I. UA and Warner Bros., will be closed<br />
for a<br />
long Christmas holiday weekend, starting<br />
Wednesday evening, December 24, until<br />
Monday, December 29. RKO Theatres and<br />
Theatre Owners of Ajnerica also will be closed<br />
for the long holiday weekend and several<br />
other companies and organizations are expected<br />
to follow suit.<br />
To date, only MGM and 20th-Fox have<br />
.scheduled closing for the long New Year's<br />
wiekend, starting December 31 and continuing<br />
to January 4.<br />
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