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0 If CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNEt TW.J.y, Nor.mW 1950 Part 4 Page 6 Ti W. Sommct Maugham' 'TRIO' Part Verger' THE CAST Albert Foreman James Hayter Emma Foreman Kathleen Harrison Bank Manager FeKx Aylmer Lana Morris Ted Houston Tho Vicar. Hordern () i i a.ui.. ii 1 W. Somerset if i 1ZJ 1 Maugham appears One day Albert visits the bank and the man-v ager learns he can neither read nor write.

He is astounded. "What," he asks Albert, "could you have been if you were able to read and write?" Albert "Why, I can tell you, sir," he says, "I'd be the church verger!" (THE END. Tomorrow, "Mr. 2 Albert Foreman, the efficient verger, receives a summons from the new vicar to appear in his office. The vicar has been shocked to learn his verger can neither read nor write.

He tells Albert he must either learn or vacate the post. Albert doesn't think he could learn at this late date, so he leaves. THE STORY The first of three Maugham short stories. The others will appear on successive days. A Sydney Box production, released in the United States by Paramount.

Albert comes home to find an engagement party for his landlady's daughter. When walking, Albert had wanted a cigaret but couldn't find a tobacconist. He decided to draw out his savings and open up a shop himself. Now he has another idea. He asks his landlady, Emma, to marry him, and she accepts.

A The shop prospers and Albert and his wife open a second and a third. Finally they own a string of shops. When his grandchild is born, the christening takes place at St. Peter's. Albert astonishes the vicar, who had fired him, by making a large donation, to say -The Verger" is about a Londoner who, for 20 years, has been a church verger.

One day writer. There is a nice setting by George Jenkins. Van Druten Van Drufen's Household Forum By Louise Bargelt. Celeste Holm to Leave Play and Do a Movie in Looking at Hollywood By Hdda Hopper now in Switzerland completing Four In a Jeep," goes to London to discuss playing Madame Tussaud in a film version of the famous founder of London's wax museum. tCopTTUht: 1850: ByTh Chicago Tribune 1 1 Giff Designs mm -In Illinoi 'MjBuvina love with Harrison, and her powers as a sorceress are taken from her in punishment.

Since, even as a plain human, she is an attractive dish, she gets along all right. Stories like this range all the way from Wagner to Gilbert and Sullivan, and among them Van Druten's is slightest but most of it is good, naughty fun, and Miss Palmer and Harrison play it lightly and. delightfully. They are smooth comedians, and even to watch Miss Palmer move across the stage comes under the heading of pleasure. The first two acts are the best, and by the third act, when Miss Palmer has been reduced to mere humanity, Van Druten seems to have run out of invention.

But there is enough in the whole play, what with the acting and some nice, smart lines, to make "Bell, Book, and Candle" an enjoyable seance. The principals are assisted by Jean Adair, who is amusing as an elderly witch, and Scott McKay, who portrays a handsome young one. Larry Gates comes in a couple of times as a liquor-loving Seance Good, Naughty Fun BY JOHN CHAPMAN New York Dram Criticl New York, Nov. 15 As long as the League of New York Theaters is expanding, setting up new departments of propaganda and faith, it might as well name John Van Druten its official cupid, for this playwright is at his best when he is making boy and girl fall into a clutch or onto a couch. His best work in this department was The Voice of the Turtle," of happy memory.

His newest, "Bell, Book, and Candle," which was revealed last night to ail of Producer Irene M. Selznick's Hollywood friends at the Ethel Barrymore theater, is his next best work in the cupid department and a very pleasant and humorous lot of nonsense. fir the HOME BY SUE GARDNER SI women favor. If you are building a new home or redoing an old one, start your Mrs. Tom Chicago We finished a rumpus room last year in the basement for our children, but the noises from it were hard to take, especially on stormy days when the neighbors' children joined our youngsters for a funfest.

This summer we covered the floor with old rugs from the attiej and had walls and ceiling lined with stiff insulating sheets. Mrs. Bertha Oak Park We have a gutter and leader on an exposed side of house and last year water from melted snow froze in them, resulting in clogging. This year we are going to take a friend's tip and scatter several shovelfuls of rock salt on the surface of the roof and gutter. Vera Chicago If inside plaster is applied directly to brick walls, can this cause condensation? Will it help to replaster, spreading new plaster on lath on furring strips? We have been advised to do just this.

Answer "Yes" to both questions. Have the furring strips at least an inch thick. Mrs Emma Chicago Lint from a washing machine can. sometimes clog a sink drain. When I pump water from a washing machine into a kitchen sink or laundry tub I place an old strainer over the sink drain as insurance against lint.

color scheme from the roof. That is the advice of Beatrice West, color consultant and designer, who has planned color schemes for some 40,000 homes around the cane sugar Sugar at its best! 1 DISHES SPARKLE HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 15 Celeste Holm will take off next summer from her play, "Affairs of State," in New York Gty, and come west to do a picture for Jerry Wald. It's titled "I Married a Woman." Since King Solomon's Mines is selling out in New York City, Metro has moved up Stewart Granger's picture Scaramouche to early January. The girls want to see more of hirn.

Scaramouche will be George Sidney's assignment v. hen he finishes Showboat." Charlton Heston, who was great in Dark City," is talking to Cecil De Mille about The Greatest Show on Earth." Hal Wallis also has another film coming up for him. TjUSINESS REPORT: Fred Packard, who is preparing "The Adventures of Lochinvar" for Larry Parks, recently returned from England. He says "Rogues of Sherwood Forest" is doing phenomenal business there. The picture will take HV2 million dollars out of the United Kingdom.

Packard says the motion picture business in Europe is better than here, because there is no competition no TV', no credit buying, no entertainment rationing. Henry King found his giant for David and Bathsheba in Walter Tulin, who's 6 feet 8, weighs 320 pounds, and wears size 16 shoes. He's a professional wrestler, discovered in the Pasadena arena. When Marian Anderson made a picture for the World Artists series, it was shot at her mother's home in Danbury, Conn. They photo-grafed Marian's 83 year old mother, who read a letter she had written to her daughter when she started her career.

Jane Wyman's week-end date, W. Barry McCarthy, is a handsome lad. Warners bought Winterset from RKO and are negotiating for Arthur Kennedy or Eddie O'Brien for the Burgess Meredith role. Joe Lewis has signed to direct. TTJLA.T NOW? George Murphy has done a great public rela- tions Job for Hollywood and our industry; but what's our Industry doing for him? Gower Champion Just discovered he has malaria, which his 51.

D. thinks he contracted in the Philippine four years ago. Gower's on the mend and will be able to continue his dancing In Showboat in two weeks. George Seaton and Bill Perlberg traveled 3,000 miles to Manhattan to find a cat for Rhubarb when they could have gone down any alley here and found any size, type, or color on two or four feet. Meow.

And what cat likes rhubarb? pOMIXG Gloria Winters, who plays Bill Bendix's daughter oa The life of RUey," goea into the Paramount picture "Rendezvous. In that same film, Mona Freeman, mother of a 'i year old, plays a 14 year old. Cecil B. De Mllle hired the aerial adagio team of Lynn and Linda to teach Betty Hutton the trapeze tricks for his circus picture. Butch Jenkins was among the losers la his school's Sadie Hawkins day race.

Joan Crawford's daughter, Christina, nabbed him. Maurice Evans wants June Havoc for two weeks of Rain with, his repertory company at City Center In New York. Paul Douglas Introduces Grantland Rice In Follow the Sun," something he often did la real life when both were oa the air. Vlveca Lindfors, A few tablespoons daily will help supply the Vitamin Bi which is lacking in many diets today. "Bell, Book, and Candle" is about a real witch who bewitches a handsome publisher on the slopes of Murray Hill, where my office is.

Nothing like it ever happened to me, but I wouldn't mind if it did for the witch is Miss Lilli Palmer. The handsome publisher whom she enchants is Rex Harrison, against whose suavity I would have no chance. In the comedy Mr. Harrison and Miss Palmer fall into clutches and onto couches with such ease, and do such real meat-and-potatoes jobs of kissing, that it is reassuring to know that they are married in real life. Most co-stars don't like each other that much.

Van Druten's little fable is as old as mythology, being about deities or other supernatural beings who lose their magical powers once they fall in love. Miss Palm- country. Miss West says it is a good idea to let 'the exterior set the color for the interior of your home, because you often see parts of the outside from big picture windows, which also show enough of the inside to make harmony important. While deciding on the color of your roof and the walls of your house, you should also pick a vivid, eye catching hue for accent, the consultant said. The gayer shade will complement the larger areas of softer coloring.

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