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Walt Disney, whose animal lore is classic, turns to dogdom and to Cinema- "Not as a Stranger," the vivid story of medical ethics which was so successful Scope in "Lady and the Tramp," his latest, full-length cartoon adventure which as a novel, comes to the Viking screen Friday. Appearing in the above scene are will open on the screen of the Trans-Lux World Wednesday. (left to right) Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum and Olivia de Havilland. Calendar Of Shows For Week PLAT BILL Morning's at Seven-Paul Osborn play, with Philip Bourneuf and Nancy Marchand, opens at BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE, tomorrow evening. Stalag 17-Donald Bevan-Edmund Trzeinski war play, with Jules Munshin, opens at PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK, tomorrow evening.

For Love or Hugh Herbert comedy, with Marie Wilson in Kenley Players. production, opens at Bristol's GRAND THEATER, tomorrow evening. Guys and Dolls-Musical, with Marilyn Ross and Paul Reed, continues at VALLEY FORGE MUSIC FAIR, tomorrow evening. Me and Juliet-Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, with Bob Dixon and Patricia Wilson, opens at LAMBERTVILLE MUSIC CIRCUS, Tuesday evening. MUSICAL EVENTS Robin Hood Dell-Rudolf Serkin, pianist, Alfred Wallenstein, conductor, tomorrow evening: Wallenstein conducting symphonic program, Tuesday evening: Zadel Skolovsky, pianist, Andre Kostelanetz, conductor, in Gershwin program Thursday evening.

NEW FILMS The Seven Little Foys-VistaVision biography of song-anddance man Eddie Foy, starring Bob Hope, Milly Vitale. James Tuesday. Hope in person Tuesday evening House of Bamboo-Tokyo-filmed thriller, CinemaScope, with Robert Ryan, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Stack, Sessue Hayakawa.GOLDMAN, Wednesday. Lady and the Tramp-Walt Disney's first full-length cartoon in Scope, from Ward Greene's dog story, songs.TRANS-LUX WORLD, Wednesday. Land of the Pharaohs-Filmed-inEgypt CinemaScope spectacle, with Jack Hawkins, Dewey Martin, Joan Collins, Alexis Minotis.

-STANLEY, Friday. Pearl of the South Pacific-Adventure, with Dennis Morgan, Virginia Mayo, and Devil Girl from Friday. Not as a Stranger-Robert Mitchum as the dedicated doctor of Morton Thompson's novel, with Olivia de Havilland, Frank Sinatra, Charles Bickford, Broderick Friday. CURRENT FILMS The End of the Affair (106 4, 6, 8, 10. Third week.ARCADIA.

Cinerama Holiday (119 min.) 5:30, 8. 19th The Seven Year Itch (105 4:05, 6:10, 8:10, FOX. The Marauders (81 min.) 3:45, 5:30, 7:20, 9:05, 10:55, 12:40 A.M. -GOLDMAN. Continued on Page 14, Column 5 encounter a Jules and Ham- ment" in "Stalag Lambertville.

Park. Otto AMUSEMENTS Milly Vitale provides trouble for Bob Hope in "The Seven Little Foys," biography of song-anddance-man Eddie Foy, which opens in VistaVision, at Midtown Tuesday. (Preview Monday.) Gershwin Bill, Serkin Top Dell By EDWIN H. SCHLOSS In offering an all-Gershwin Robin Hood Dell is following a concerts. The bill pretty well crop with "An American in Paris," the jauntiest little tone poem ever written on this side of the Atlantic; the famous "Rhapsody in Blue" and Robert Russell Bennett's Orchestral Suite based on music from the most distinguished of American folk operas, "Porgy and Bess." Andre Kostelanetz, a veteran exponent of Gershwin's music, will conduct.

Zadel Skolovsky will be the keyboard soloist in the "Rhapsody." Gershwin's music has always been considered particularly attractive for relaxed al fresco hearing. But it has been by no means neglected in our more classical concert halls. A recent survey has disclosed the fact that in six of the nine years between 1945-54 Gershwin's music was more frequently played by major symphony orchestras in this country than that of any other American composer. And for the remaining three years it finished once in second place and once tied for first place. GERSHWIN PLAYED IT One cannot help wondering what Gershwin himself would have thought of this popularity in high places.

There is a story in that connection that goes back to the earlier 1920's when Gershwin was in the first flush of his fame and prosperity. George, it seems, liked to entertain his friends in his luxurious penthouse apartment on Riverside Drive. Frankly enamoured of his own music (a taste enthusiastically shared by all New York and most of the rest of the country), the brilliant young composer liked to sit at the piano by the hour playing one Gershwin opus after another. ADVICE FROM RAVEL On one occasion, still strumming. George said half aloud.

"I wonder if my music will be played 50 years from now!" There was a moment's silence, then a voice surely will be, George, if you're around." Gershwin's untimely death in 1937 dealt a tragic blow to Ameri- Continued on Page 16, Col. 7 Patricia Wilson, Bob backstage imbroglio in merstein musical making The Philadelphia Inquirer 0 SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 26, 1955 13 Disney Dogs Enchant Lady and Tramp' Hailed program Thursday pattern long favored in skims the cream of the night, summer Gershwin Andre Kostelanetz, Dell conductor for Gershwin program Thursday. He will return for the July 14 bill. Female Aboard USS Caine The male monopoly in "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" will be broken for the first time this week. In the Gateway Playhouse production in Somers Point, N.

the court stenographer will be portrayed by a girl. Heretofore, billing has called for a USN in the role. Appearing as the WAVE stenographer will be Suzanne Turner, 18-year-old Philadelphian. Miss Turner, who will be a sophomore at Skidmore College next fall, is a first-year Actors' Equity apprentice with the Gateway company. She is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles A. Turner, of 3411 Warden dr. Edgar Kloten, director of the production and a former Coast Guard officer, states that there is nothing improbable about a WAVE serving as a stenographer at. a court martial instead of a sailor.

Dixon and David Aiken "Me and Juliet," Rodgers area debut Tuesday at It's no secret that Walt a little late to discover Walt's the creatures which carry on reens. Disney's love affair with the animal kingdom became public with the debut of Mickey Mouse. It has continued to grow and flourish to the delight of millions through the years. In his very first feature-length cartoon, the little woodland animals shared honors with "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." The adventures of a baby elephant and its mother won juvenile and adult hearts in "Dumbo." And the tender, poetic Disney treatment of Felix Salten's deer story, "Bambi," is still recalled by those who smiled and wept gallons of tears over it. FURS AND FEATHERS Disney's wonderful nature series, "True-Life Adventures," well as such separate featurettes as the current "Arizona Sheepdog," are the result of Walt's abiding interest in furred and feathered things.

While, if you think back, it's a virtual impossibility find a film cartoon or live action which bird or beast does not appear in some capacity. If by any chance Disney thought he was soft-pedaling his position as the screen's Number One animal lover, he has, happily for himself and all of us, cast away all restraint to make "Lady and the Tramp," combination of Ward Greene's touching dog story and typical Disney conceptions of the canine world. Disney's initial feature in CinemaScope is remarkably expert and charming technically. But doubt whether technique is going to matter one way or another enchanted audiences once Lady and the Tramp, their four- and two-footed friends and enemies take possession at the Trans-Lux World on Wednesday. ENDEARING HEROINE Disney has found his most dearing heroine in Lady, a cocker spaniel puppy who arrives as Christmas present for Darling a hat box.

Lady grows to young doghood under the guidance of owners and, especially, a licenseless mongrel named Tramp, Continued on Page 14, Column Munshin is the American prisoner 17" bowing tomorrow Simanek and Lother Rewalt are By MILDRED MARTIN Disney is at his brilliant best when inability to conce al-not that he despite man's inclination to blow Marie Wilson stars this week with Kenley Players at Bristol, in "For Love or Money." Ballet Tickets Now Available Although the opening four months away, the famed Sadler's Wells Ballet is setting Philadelphia theater history. The box office for the English ballet is now open. Emma Feldman, executive director of the Philadelphia All Star Series, a division of the Philadelphia Inquirer Charities, has inaugurated the unprecedented ticket sale to handle the demand and to assure those who will be away all summer of getting seats. Sadler's Wells will give eight performances at the Academy the week of Oct. 24.

The performance of Oct. 27 is for subscribers to the Philadelphia All Star Concert Series. The seven other programs are for the public. Evening performances will be danced Oct. 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29.

Matinees will be given Oct. 26 and 29. getting at "the Playhouse treat- it. in this Nazi guards. opens dealing with animals.

And It's would wish to-his affection for himself and his world to smithe- Munshin Student of Dramatics You're never too old to 'learn. So believes Jules Munshin, who, now that he is hovering about that age "when life begins," is studying for the first time. It isn't that Munshin, star of "Stalag 17" at Playhouse in the Park this week, agrees that education is wasted on youth. It's just that until now Munshin has never had that particular thirst for theatrical knowledge. DID VIDEO SHOW when the comedian was doing a television series on the West Coast.

"I knew that some of the things I was told to do weren't right. I felt it but I couldn't explain why they weren't right." Munshin came back to New York and began lessons with Uta Hagen and Mira Rostova, a disciple of Stanislavsky, "Now I think I'm beginning to learn the answers. When I'm free to go to classes we do a scene a week. Maybe something from Shakespeare or Shaw. I can make my own choice.

SOME RUIN CAREER "We concentrate on a different idea with each scene. Like who am I or why am I here? It's surprising how often I've been applying these analyses to life. "I remember a problem I had when 'Call Me Mister' was going into production," Munshin re- called. "I was preparing a ballet sequence but I wasn't satisfied with it. My wife suggested that do it like Henry Armetta, the Italian character actor, would.

tried it and it worked." Speaking of his appearance Continued on Page 15, Col. 2 Bert Bertrams wins a measure scene from Paul Osborne's tomorrow night at the Bucks Stewart Granger and Viveca Lindfors are romantic antagonists in "Moonfleet," CinemaScope swashbuckler now on screen at Stanley. Straw Hat Cireuit Four New Shows On Area Stages By BARBARA L. WILSON Bill changes are listed this the local straw hat circuit, while "Guys and Dolls," which opened Saturday. At Bucks County Playhouse, "Morning's At Seven," the second of three Paul Osborn plays, will be produced.

Playhouse in the Park has scheduled "Stalag 17," the Donald Bevan-Edmund Trzcinski sometimes comic, sometimes melodramatic commentary on war. St. John Terrell has chosen the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Me and Juliet" for Lambertville presentation, beginning Tuesday. The Kenley Players at Bristol's Grand Theater will offer F. Hugh Herbert's comedy, "For Love or Money." 'STALAG' BACKGROUND I "Stalag 17," in the Fairmount Park tent, is the result of prisonerI of-war experiences of Bevan and Trzcinski in the real "Stalag at near Krems, Austria, during the Second World War.

The play first was intended as a musical but later of comfort from Aileen Poe "Morning's at Seven," which County Playhouse. week for a quartet of theaters on at the Valley Forge Music Fair, Thursday, remains through rewritten and offered to Joshua Logan who liked the script but, other commitments interfered with production. Six years after victory in Europe, Jose Ferrer saw "Stalag 17" performed at New York's Lambs' Club. He took the script, did further rewriting and produced it in 1951 when it became and has since remained an outstanding success wherever it has played. Starring in the role of Stosh at the Park Playhouse will be Jules Munshin, Featured cast members are Otto Simanek and Lothar Rewalt as the Prussian Captain and Corporal Schultz, respectively.

Robbert Shawley directs. During the week of Aug. 1, the Playhouse has scheduled "Gigi," Anita Loos' adaptation of Collette's novel. Film actress Cathy O'Donnell will be the star. OSBORN REVIVAL "Morning's at Seven" is a family comedy concerning four aging sisters whose lives are run completely by habit.

From the moment they rise every morning at seven, they are engaged in gossip and malice, and as in their youth, their reactions toward life and each other remain the same. Osborn's play, first produced in New York in December of 1939, is currently enjoying a revival vogue. It opened Wednesday evening in the Greenwich Village Cherry Lane Theater to favorable reviews. The New Hope theater cast, being directed by Robert Caldwell, will feature Nancy Marchand, Philip Bourneuf, Dorothy Sands and Aileen Poe. An associate at Bucks County describes Osborn's work as an "Octogenarian Picnic." Some notes on cast members from Buck's production of "The Fairly Fortune," disclose that Victor Jory has gone to Hollywood to portray Claude Rains' role in Warner television series of "King's Row," due for ABC telecast in the fall, and that Lois Smith will play the role of Josephine on Broadway in Sally Benson's "The Young and Beautiful," a rewritten adaptation of F.

Scott Fitzgerald stories. R. AND H. MUSICAL "Me and Juliet," at the Lambertville Music Circus is the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical of the trials and tribulations of backstage life, produced on Broadway in May, 1953 and being presented in this area for the first time. Outstanding songs from the show, which ran for 358 performances, are "No Other Love" and "Keep It Gay." Principals in the Lambertville production are Patricia Wilson, who will have a featured role in Rodgers and Hammerstein's new musical "Pipe Dream;" Bob Dixon, who appeared on Broadway in Continued on Page 16, Column 1.