Trio, three more W. Somerset Maugham short stories, is keeping the Sutton in business, at 57th and Second. Another English feature is the witty Last Holiday, starring Alec Guinness, "the best actor of 1950." The Interborough Rapid Transit stops a stone's throw from the Ascot at 183rd and Grand Concourse in the Bronx.
If it is possible that anybody has still not seen The Red Shoes, the RKO chain distributed it to all its Manhattan outlets yesterday.
Winding up the European theatre, The Blue Angel, with Marlene Dietrich, a German revival, is at the Art, 8th east of Fifth.
The new domestic pictures are uninspiring. The personal appearance of Danny Kaye lends class to the Technicolor version of Call Me Mister, which opened yesterday at the Roxy, Seventh and 50th. Betty Grable and Dan Dailey grace the "75,000 inch Technicolor screen" in the former Broadway success; and Yma Sumac, the Dunhill dancers, and Hill Baird's marionettes give the stage show remarkable variety.
September Affair enters the hollowed Radio City Music Hall today, with Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotton, and Jessica Tandy. The Second Woman brings Robert Young and Betsy Drake to the Rivoli screen today. The Little Carnegie, next door to the big one on West 57th, presents The Dancing Years with the gaiety of old Vienna and a ballet corps which reportedly does justice to the music.
James Stewart, Judy Holliday, and Jose Ferrer are as successful on the screen as they were on stage in three recent seleases. Harvey is at the Astor, Broadway and 45th; Born Yesterday at the Victoria, one block north; and Cyrano de Bergerao at the Bijou, 45th Street west of the Great White Way.
All About Eve is now at the 68th Street Playhouse, on Third Avenue, with Bette Davis, George Sanders, and Anne Baxter. The Symphony, Broadway and 95th; is reviving intermezzo with Ingrid Bergman and the late Leslie Howard, along with the "star-studded" Since You Went Away (Colbert, Cotten Jones, and Temple).
Jazz
Jimmy Archey is still the best in town, and he is still at Jimmy Ryans, the last of the 52nd Street dives. Pops Foster, who was the first bass-player to go all-pizzicato, and drummer Tommy Benford, who hit the main circuit with Jelly Roll Morton, assist the star trombonist. Sunday is day off.
Wild Bill Donovan blows his trumpet as hard as he can at Eddie Condon's 3rd Street emporium, with Edmund Hall on the clarinet and Gene Scroeder at the drums. Young Ralph Sutton's piano playing make for the best intermission in years.
Pae Wee Erwin's Dixieland band plays with vigor verging on skill and humor verging on corn at Nick's, at the corner of Seventh and 10th.
Tomorrow night is time for the weekly jam sessions on Second Avenue. The Stuyvesant Casino at 9th Street and the Central Plaza at 6th gather such artists as Max Kaminsky, Red Allen, Sid Catlett, Buster Bailey, Bud Freeman, James P. Johnson, George Wettling, Joe Sullivan, and whoever else of note is in New York and has time to spare.
United Nations
An out of place reminder that both the General Assembly and the Security Council are discussing and attempting to deal with matters of more than passing interest. Now that China has been branded "aggressor," debate is due on what to do about it.
Still meeting at Lake Success, in Flushing, the U. N. hires personnel to answer Extension 2253, Fieldstone 7-1100 and help people arrange to watch the deliberations of either chamber.