Today—Saturday
"Mambo,” which opens at the
iiheum today, tells a story—the
la of a girl whose craze for
rim-mg swept her overnight from
<• alums of Venice to the glitter
of palace society.
f Ivana Magnano, who made her
f/r t American appearance in the
- r ational “Bitter Rice,” portrays
fiiovanna, an obscure but beauti
( l factory girl fired with dreams
i rame as a dancer.
Fiverything'we hear about “Mam
lu" is different. Venice is the back
ground—the Venice of the slums
an-' backstreets, as well as the ca
sinos and the glittering palaces.
Ttlere is exciting music and danc
/ with many of the lyrics com
posed by the famous dancer, Kath
* >ne Dunham, who appears in sev
eral numbers herself.
Supporting cast includes: Shel
ley Winters, Michael Rennie, Vi
torio Cassman.
bunday and Monday
The Living Desert” is said to
combine a pageant of loveliness
with exciting drama. It is the Walt
Di ney true life adventure feature
w ich unfolds on the local screen
Sunday and Monday.
The film offers a series of high
ly exciting incidents as dramatic
as they are unusual, all played out
against the brilliant mosiac of Na
ture’s most colorful desert.
'.uch personalities as the Gekko
lizard, the chuchawalla, pygmy de
i'-undent of the ancient dinasaur,
i e solemn little elf owl, the coati
i tndi, that rakish desert bandit,
md the kangaroo rat share the
screen with innumerable other de
sert creatures representative of
the insect, reptile, animal and flor
al life of that locale.
The film is in Technicolor.
Also on the same bill, ‘ Ben and
Me.” Star of this Walt Disney
twenty-minute animated cartoon is
Atnos, a Philadelphia church
uiouse. He literally steals the show
(com two such colorful figures as
Benjamin Franklin and Thomas
Jefferson. He is a very historical
mouse and is in on all the inven
tions and the events in the life of
Benjamin Franklin. Sterling Hollo
way supplies the voice for the fa
mous mouse.
Tuesday and Wednesday
Curvaceous red headed Piper
f .aurie, who turns musical comedy
itar in Universal-International’s
Technicolor “Ain’t Misbehavin’, ”
is said to cover the equivalent of
three-quarters of a mile in one of
her big dance numbers in the film,
which shows at the local play
house this midweek.
'Ain’t Misbehavin’ ” is a bright,
tuneful Technicolor comedy with
aiusic, has a cast of top-flight per
sonalities—Rory Calhoun, Piper
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CLUB
Laurie, Jack Carson and Mamie
Van Doren—heading the list. These
stars are supported by Reginald
Gardiner, Barbara Britton and
Danu Crayne. Edward Buzzel di
rected.
Thursday and Friday
“Anchors Aweigh ” the famed
musical hit, this time in Techni
color. stars Frank Sintara, Kath
ryn Grayson and Gene Kelly. It
comes to Kodiak as an M-G-M Hall
of-Fame release.
The picture's score includes both
Isk€
popular and classtcfaf fav<$ri&£ Si
natra and chorus, of course, sing
“Anchors * Aweigh,” ail'd *he *“ also
sings Brahm’s “Lullaby" and a
special arrangement of Tschai
kowsky’s “Waltz for Strings.” Jose
Iturbi lends his brilliant piano
playing to Liszt’s “Second Hungar
ian Rhapsody” and also introduces
a novel boogie-woogie version of
“The Donkey Serenade.’
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