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Thursday, Mnrch 20, 1 17 THE CINCINNATI Eft'Cg Tilt Kit lar, 17 Oscar Guessers Show Likes For Russell And DeHavilland cinema world and who stole the Show Mirror byE.B.Radcllffe Ttit Inquirtr'i Thtattr ditar ailing honors In "Heat Years" pulled an amazing 23 per rent of Movie-going readers express their likes and dislikes In no uniei terms when picking their fnvmito Hollywood actors, actresses and ri-nl Knrt Ky Jamn SI) nrliPi. Mrt Thomaa 'iimiunn, MlrhiKin Av KalhTina lili.la An aii-phrn Arf Mra. JoKrph Knur, Hill I'ark Npnrt, MtMH lif.hym 21 W. HTnth Kt J. 1,.

Kmlfriiit, lilh Ntwpofl, Will Matkry. SHi Odm nil the votes cast for the top sup putting role of 194S. films in competition with the Academy "Oscar'' awards announced The man sending In the list (lint tallied closest with tho final Hollywood awnrdH, was Robert 1-nilr, 32 Knnklick Florence, who correctly picked the first four He also receives a $30 prir.e. Twenty other contestants will Ret consolation prises of pair of free ticket to Keith' Theater. They Enquirer reader picked "The Yearling" as second bent, with last week.

scattering votes for "Henry Exciting And Enjoyable Novelty Offered In Personalized Murder Stalk At The Grand us MX In a recent contest sponaoied by Keith' Theater In connection with the run of "The Magic Pow," and "I arr. tikrvkv firNK TIKRVKV are: "Lady In The Lake," Robert Montgomery's tricky murder-mystery thriller which tries to make actors out of an audience without giving in which movie fans were Invited iJiura 1.171 Filrvl.w Wir- to make their own advance Acad rt 'lk. IMd Kaya Vrtm tni Norma vui equity cards, is an exciting, enjoyable whodunit that's really different. hilr I'ov Anna Carlir. emy Award arlertlons, 31 per cent .,1 I DANA ANllllltt "LAURA" Ala "On Of Our Aircraft Misting" chose "The Rest Years Of Our The picture arrived yesterday at the Grand.

Speaking for myself "Razors b'Age," "If A Wonderful Life" and "The Jolson Story." Clifton Webb, Laurence Oliver and Larry Parks also were represented by tribute votes from loyal fans. For submitting the perfect list of 'Oncar' candidates "The Rest Tears Of Our Lives." Frederic March. Olivia De Hnvillnnd, Harold Hiissell and Anne Baxter the Keith Theater judges awarded the first lady's prize of to Joseph Ellnore Skllken of 700 Chalfonte Place. Kvramor Hrr W. K.

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311 1'lkt HI. gave a spotty performance. Montgomery's idea of having me Movie Timetable Lives" the best picture of 1046; f4 per cent voted Olivia De Hnvillnnd for her fine performance In "To Each His Own" and "The Darh Mirror." Ann Baxter" ran away itvinatnn; Hfiiv MrAnnlly, Tt North Cnm- na otner memriers or the audience tring along with him on a murder etalk An which the camera showed with 63 per cent of the votes for how the deal would look and feel RKO her fine supporting performance in FALA(E) 10:05, 11:04, J.M, 4:01, 1:01, 8, III. UIMM); 10, it. 4, S.

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lOSII. RUTH'S: lourt, 1:114, 4:05, 8:01, 10:00. "The Razor's Edge," while Frederic March polled only 1 per cent as the actor of tho year, liiirold Rus ZzZ--iH Ir I a VJ uf sell, practically unknown In the COURSE; lw I II RKO aaa mm mmmmt m. aaiaavai at i The Academy SIIIIRFRT to us sleuths had me ready to chop down a couple of late arrivals who blocked off the screen vhen a motor chase sequence was cn. And our little tete-a-tetes with Audrey Totter, when she looked right into our eyes and gave us what Bob called "the campflre Kirls" llne-they got me, too.

But Audrey's big, personal kiss, wherein her Hps completely block out and darken the screen frame-that proved as artificial, cold, mechanical, and impersonal as a handshake with a robot wired for ound and movement. And when it came to helping Brother Montgomery track down the killer, I was Just no help at all. First, I picked tre wrong (4 Award Winner? aw mm r- HOW SHOWINCI IN MOM'S NFW KINO OF SCREEN THRIltl ro in nrfn? BEST UrliULaVU HIE LiULilLS what sweeping and cumbersome rhythm of a mechanical man. But oneeu have the feel of this type oi screen exposition, you'll like It. THE STOKY presented is a dilly with Phillip Marlowe (that would be Montgomery) the principal hawkshaw and involved in Investigation that points an accusing finger at a very pretty employer (Miss Totter).

There ate three murders (including the little lady who Is in the lake) and a double shooting. Fine acting hy all including Lloyd Nolan and Tom Tully. Breezy and amusing dialogue. Great direction. AUDREY TOTTER -LLOYD-NOLAN YEARS OF OUR 1 ALllEE H.VCJJ TEAM llelene and Howard, dancers, are featured on the new vaudeville bill uhirh briniu Tex lleneke and his band to the Albee today at headliner.

mw airal NOW! sCRPITOL Doer flau "The Locket" the Charleston, W. Symphony Modarelli said he would the present concert neason here and conduct symihony program at Ofilebay Park during the summer before leaving for Charleston. 10:45 (a. 0M 1 RIClSi WMk Diyi-Milt. tOei iMir I It eletlnr.

VM TrtTt'ltRS AT 11 It 1 He came to Wheeling from Pitts memoiis of her past mental storms and crimes, and she collapses. The movie ends with Miss Day being escorted to the local asylum and with what is left of her love life following her out the door. Her tribulations are presented In much too glamorous and romantic a fashloi to ever whip up any real drama, but the film is handled well enough in its own gilded way to hold your Interest. J. DEVANB.

burgh, where he hat been director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Starting TODAY! Doors Opn I0i4f A. Ai (Palace) Laraine Day turns up as a mentally unbalanced femme fatale In "The Locket," causing Robert Mitchum to toss himself from a window, Brian Aherne to be condemned to an Insane asylum, and leaving Gene Raymond, the luckiest of the trio, standing brideless at the altar. Which shows you what can happen when a child is denied a locket at least, in the movie world. The picture opens with gay cocktail drinking and everyone congratulating Raymond 'on win Dana AINDREWS Dana AINDREWS "KIT CARSON" Pluit Randolph SCOn' in "LAST OF THE MOHICANS" htard on ffit TREASURY tmmrrl ML. a a Symphony Head Quits To Go To Charleston Wheeling, March 19-(AP) Antonio Modarelli, conductor of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra since has resigned to become permanent director of over wr uai 8 "FALLING 'ANNIVERSARY SONG" "SUICIDE SQUAD" II I I VI jaa ning the lovely Laraine.

Soon INarman Ftaler layct CompUn Plus "Volley 0 Wonted Men" Fnnkla Dirro and Leray ilnon there are changes to sinister music and sinister glances when stranger Brian Aherne asks to see the host. Then Miss Day's past is dragged out for public inspection. Mr. Aherne's story begins with a uspect right off the Then I witched my choice in the middle of the crime hunt and picked a wrong number again. Hope you can do better.

THE IDEA behind the picture la to exploit to the fullest extent the talking picture's unusual capacity for conveying Intimate and ffectlve sensory Impressions. Foreign moviemakers have gone In for this more than we have. Montgomery cornea up with aome refreshing new examples of camera technique, and expansive developments of old method like those used effectively In "Rebecca." The business of making the Camera lens and sound equipment hence the audience present and, unseen parties in the drama is specially effective In scenes of Violence and action. Climaxes in romantic experience, however, Intensify the harsh and impenetrable remoteness of acting celluloid hadows who are so warm, close and real when they take flesh and blood form on the theater stage. BY ATTACHING cameras to moving actors and shooting action from eye and shoulder level of their prinlpal sleuth, the picture builds up audience Impressions of being on the spot when little and big events transpire whether they be office or boudoir conferences.

Jail fights, auto chases and wrecks, a head-on collision with a punch In the Jaw, or the dealing out of ame. Hands with which the audience "commits" its deeds are seen at the lower borders of the screen" frame. Smoke from cigarettes smoked during investigation rises from below to cloud the frame. Physiological reactions of the eyes to shocks from opiates and punches are recorded in fuzzy and blurred focus of objects in the screen frame's boundaries. It takes a little time to accustom yourself to having actors "talk to you" and to orient yourself to the feeling of a movement in some- 9 TODAY Thra SATl RUAVI 4f trnSWatnV MA In James STEWART IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE flashback which concerns his life with Laraine and soon dissolves into another flashback concerning her life with Mitchum which in Donna Reed Lionel Barrymore JAMES MASON "HOTEL RESERVE" Plan ZA.NE GREY'S 'Wanderer then' Wasteland' Exlrat Pl'STV H.ET( HKR In "OPEN THE DUOK, RICHARD" turn dissolves into a flashback into her chlldhoad.

One would think "WHAT A WOMAN." Koullnd i Rnxell. Plu: "HKON1DK MAN- that with all these plot gymnastics Miss Day's character had beer. hf.K," Rath Hnir, Jobn Ctrroll I amply covered, but the scriptwriters, aided by Miss Day's naturally angelic expressions, still manage to keep you wondering as to the out TO come. CINCINNATI'S It seems that as a child she was brutally accused of stealing a locket which she coveted, and was left with mental scars that made NEWEST AND FINEST her a kleptomaniac and smooth. tongued liar.

These pastimes crop SH0WPLACE SH0WH0USE up during her various romances, once in connection with a murder, I Sl7 JLTX CARRY STtVEHS BOBBY NICHOLS Ml I and, although she is a psychiatric case, it's generally her boy friends who crack under the strain. A wedding gift locket Btirs I Sl r)-Jf Ik- amamji i(C Wf IDNJWf flUISSI I I AMUSEMENT DIRECTORY ti PRICE HILL Featuring fine screen tnlerla'mmtnt awoyi Nightly from 6.30 PM (Sunday tonl. from 1:30 FM) ATTEND THE GALA OPENING TOMORROW ENJOY THtSE NEW PATRON-SERVICES! What Will Hippia APRIL 7 th imRKO ALIII PAIACIAORAND "STATE OF THE UNION:" James Rcnnle, who plays the role of the politician, Jim Conover, In State of the Union," the 1946 Pulitzer 11 iy Jh It'll bt lucky for yeul ALBEE: Stage: Tex Bcneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra, featuring Garry Stevens, Bobby Nichols, Ginny O'Connor and the Mcllo-Larks. Other acts will include Artie Dann, known as the clown prince of comedy, Helene and Howard and others. The screen presents "The Devil Thumbs a Ride," starring Lawrence Tlerney.

Opens today. Prize comedy now playing at the Emery, doesn't have to act his role. He is personally very much inter ested in politics, and attributes his interest in part to tho fact that he grew up in a political atmosphere His grandfather was a member of the Canadian Parliament, and he free parking on flood-lighted lot floating comfort chairs latest sound and projection equipment year-round air-con. ditioned comfort staggered seating Individual hearing aids himself in his youth, was a close friend of Joe Tumulty, private I II 3rd BIG secretary for Woodrow Wilson. OAYETYj The "Kewpie Doll Beef Loft Trust" will augment the full-length burlesque show opening tomorrow "it at the Gayety.

This act consists of hefty ladies who dance and sing '1 .31 ijfUL. and create what the management calls "tons of laughs." The regu lar show will be headed by dancer to MEAVEi Ceil Von Dell and the comedy tean. of Lou Ascol and Moe Garry and also includes in its cast Cliff Cochran, Petty Dayne, Margie Palmer and the chorines. NOW AT POPULAR PRICES! New York, Yi direct from fldvancd-prlct engagmenti in Boston and Lot Angolts, where it still smashing records! araatlnf vtatai, swacplng pinonmii, SEE enmera ir.nulc that bafflei your aye -1 MADICMnUT woosteb AMBASSADOR SEE THE LOVE STORY THAT WON THE YEAR'S GREATEST ACCLAIM I with alartllnf uprrtarlal niMlllhlllwn I Bralful Joan rawford, J. r.arfhld, Oarar levant rBKK PAKKINU, HEAR OH THRATKK HU MORESQUE "Deserves the Highest Recommendation of any Film of the Year!" Boiay Crowlfiar, N.

V. Tmti tO.VTINKIU-i l)AII. KHOM I P. M. iohn Garfield, Klranor Parker PRIDE OF THE MARINES flUrta: I -3d p.

M. Frrddle Nlrwarl. Junr PrHnurr HIGH SCHOOL HERO Starts: 1 4:114, 11:19 M. NORDLAND fvffi11 Jamra Mamn Manraret LorkwooJ THE WICKED LADY TALACE; "The Locket." How a psychological shock affects the life of a lovely and charming girl, and develops into a compulsion to steal, Is the basis of this story, starring Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum and Gene Raymond. Opened yesterday.

GRAND: "Lady In the Lake." Spine-tingling mystery drama with Robert Montgomery aa both star and director. The picture, adapted from Raymond Chandler's best-seller novel, employs a startling new camera technique, with the plot unfolded through the eyes of Philip Marlowe (Montgomery), private detective, hired by Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) to trace down the disappearance of her boss' estranged wife. Opened yesterday. KEITH'S: "Stairway To Comedy fantasy in Technicolor. David Niven, Kim Hunter and Roger Llvesey in story of man who fell in love on borrowed time.

Third week. CAriTOL: "Best Years of Our Lives." This Academy Award Winner is a simple story for and about John and Jane Doe, as timely as today's headlines. Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Harold Rus-ell, Cathy O'Donnell and Hoagy Carmlchael. Second week. SHtBERT: "Johnny O'Clock." Dick Powell plays the role of a flashy young gambler, who plays rough with women who play cute.

Evelyn Keyes and Lee J. Cobb teach him a lesson. Second week. LYRIC: "Kit Carson." Reissue, Andrews, Jon Hall, Lynn Bari, Ward Bond and Harold Huber. Also: "The Last of the Mohicans," tars Randolph Scott with Btnnle Barnes and Henry Wllcoxon.

Opened yesterday. FAMILY: Today and tomorrow, "Suicide Squad," starring Norman Poster, plus "Valley Of Wanted Men," with Frankic Darro and Leroy Mason. Starting Saturday, "Death Valley," with Robert Low-cry and Helen Gilbert, plus "Out California Way," starring Monte Hale and Adrla" Booth. PARAMOUNT: Today through Saturday, James Stewart In "It's a Wonderful Life," with Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore. Sunday, ilonday and Tuesday, "Dead Reck Anne Bela Lu(nal GENIUS AT WORK AMFRIPIIC H.mlton Ae.

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VnfillE VIVE RTREET UHHE Patrnna Frne Parklnc Alan I.A4M.ltrlail aSl ORrHEl'M: Today, Rosalind Russell in "What a Woman," plus "Bedside Manner," starring Ruth LARAINE DAY BRIAN AHERNE ROBERT MITCHUM GENE RAYMOND NOW SHOWING PALACE. 2 YEARS BEFORE THE MAST Husscy and John Carroll. Tomor beauty lhat challenged all llPVCnU EASTERN AVE 1 Quern City Art. WEST HILLS row and Saturday, "GI War Brides," with James Ellison and J. Crawford, Garfield JHUIfUI1 Lucille nail .3 SEE- Heaven and aarth to claim Onrar HUMORESQUE TWO SMART PEOPLE mum lips of the man alia loved! Anna Lee, plus Penny Levant DOORS OPEN 9:45 A.

M. MIDNITE SHOW SATURDAY F.Mt Side Kld, "Mr. Het" and Arthur Lake In Ion die Knows Best." Tomorrow night the Talent Qu will be held on m.i" ri( tf' a MA niCnil HO'll MADISON ROAD MAUlOUrl FREK PARKING Alan Ladd-Brlan Donlevy-Hllllam BendU 2 YEARS BEFORE THE MAST Walnut Niar Flttk WESTWOOD HUMORESQUE Utarta Vted.l "Suddenly lt' Hnrtns," Paillette Ooddard rred MacMurrar ataga at 8:30 p. m..