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SHOW WORLDThree Better Than Average Movies on Local ScreensBY DUDLEY EARLY'In a Lonely Place'A Columbia picture produced bv Robert Lord- directed by Nicholftt Re • *■lt; :eeiipl*jrby Andrew Ml! At the rtrftmduntBased on a story by Dorothy B. Hughes, the mystny writer, thistells of Screenwriter HumphreyBugart who has a reputation foi being a violent man. One night hrtakes home a hatcheck gul from a bistro, to tell him the story of a book he is supposed to write a script from ihe's the lazy type), She is found murdered in a lonely spot that night. His neighbor, Gloria Grahame, testifies to the police in his behalf, and they fall in love But so violent is he that she beginsto suspect him of murder of the girl. . . .Bogey has got him.-rlf a pretty good picture here, the best he hashad of the last several. The audience knows from the beginning that he did not kill the girl, but it is interesting to watch suspicion mount in Gloria Graharr.es mind. And in this is the films weakness. She piesumably saw him say goodnight to the girl, yet she becomes suspicious. It is a story fault that is more than made up for by the interesting characterizations and the mounting suspense in the Bogart-Grahame relationship.The ending is different, to say the least.Rating: •* *'No Man of Her Own'A Par Amount picture, procured by Richard Malbaum dire ted by Mitt nell Leisen. •creeapiftv by ba’iy Henson and Cathrme Turney. At the Btate.Helen . Barbara StanwyckBill Jonn LundMrs. Hirkncss ,, Jane CowlWith a story that you can swallow or not, according to your taste, this is a bi tter than average movie. It gives Barbara Stanwyck a chance to display her talents, which she does to gixid advantage in the role of an unmarried mother who takesthe identity of another pregnant woman killed in a train wreck. Her in-laws have never seen their daughter-in-law and. as their son was killed in the wreck—which La Stanwyck survived—all goes well until her ex-lover, Lyle Bettger, shows up to blackmail her John Lund is her supposed brother-in-law, who loves her.The picture has a strong cast, with the late, great Jane Cowl turning in an excellent performance. Others, besides the principals, are Henry O’Neill. Richard Denning, Phyllis Thaxtcr and Esther Dale.The ending will come as something of a surprise Suspicion points in several directions to the murderer; there are several confessions guilt—and one murderer.Rating: * *certainly unheralded in the paradeof pictures.Ra.mu, however, is such an actor that his performances are delights to watch. This performance is no exception He portrays a drunken lawyer who has not appeared in court for 20 years, having taken to drink after his wife ran away with another man. But when the body of a stranger is found in his house and his daughter is found to be involved in the killing, he takes on the defense of the accused, who is his daughter's sweetheart. He issuperb, both in his portrayal of a sot and of a courtroom lawyer.Others in the cast are good, Director Decoin having had a goodeye fnr type casting but it is Raima all the way. The English subtitle translations of the French dialogue, in this instance, are outstanding,Rating: * *lt;1 RRKMLY KK OMMKMIHI♦ * Asphalt Jungle. Tea For Two, Champagne For Caesar, The HappyYears, The Flame ad the Arrow, Under My Skin, Crisis, Love Happy, ♦ * * The Furies, The Sheriff s Daughter, Three Little Words, *♦** Broken Arrow, Treasure Island• Rating Guide:««« Very good.***** Superb I Hti1-Anr1Etilt;31ri\* Fair, ** Good; **** Excellent,of'Strangers in the HouseA Lopert Film# picture Henri Derotn. screenplay by Clou tot. At the Texas.lour at .... ............Nicole . . ,Emile . .» * » »direrted hy 'Henn-Oeorte*Hal mu ! Juliette FaberAndre Key ban I★THIS DAYIN TEXAS★SEPTEMBER 8Born on this day in 1810 in Claiborne County, Tenn., was Henderson Yoakum, pioneer soldier, author and jurist for whom Yoakum Countv ii namedA graduate of West Point. Yoakum moved to Texas in 1833 He is said to have accompanied Sam Houston into the Battle of San Jacinto. He saw further military service during the Mexican War.Perhaps the most significant monument v YoakUttl’i memory in the annals of Texas is his History of Texas, y lished in 1855. It was this work which was used to refute statements made bv mem-whers of the anti* Houston political factions that it was actin'liy Thomas J. Rusk who led Texan trooos to victory in the final battle of thewTexas Revolution.Ylt;»akum County, in the SouthHigh Plains, is now one of the state's lending oil-producing conn-ties. There is evidence that the area w-as once inhabited by numerous Indians, probably Mescolero Apaches Ten miles from Plains, the county seat, is Ink Basin, a10,000-acre depression dotted with numerous shallow water wells supposedly dug by Indians The windsof West Texas have filled these wells with sand, and thev are now-dry. CURT BISHOP.I!*The Texas Theater returns to the HIS UNKNOWN TALENTshowing of foreign language films Samuel F. B Morse, creditedwith this offering Except for the with inventing the telegraph, waspresence in it of Raimu, it would a successful artist before patentingpass more or less unnoticed and his invention.
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Austin, Texas, US
Wed, Sep 06, 1950
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