Article clipped from Fort Worth Star-Telegram

You'll Held BY ALICE VENICE, city in the movie theater I've attended various film debuts in many a theater by the name, but never before in a real palace until a few days ago, with a plane load of 35 conferees from newspaper magazine and radio fields, we arrived in Venice, Italy, the world Be Seeing Hepburn's in Venetian HUGHES. Italy, June 7-Every United States has a called the Palace. KATHARINE premiere of HEPBURN. the exciting new romantic film, 'Summertime," held in the historic Pallazo Grazzi on the Grand Canal in Venice. This was the first time the city of Venice had ever beheld a world-premiere of a movie, and the ancient Palace was filled to its crystal chandeliers with disinternational visitors tinguished, from eight or ten European countries, the United States and Canada. As one would expect, there are innumerable large rooms, great hallways, vaulted ceilings, sweeping marble staircases and walls, and a sizeable theater seating 750 in this cen- "TOP JOURNALISTS." There were present 250 "top journalists" at least that's how they are referred to locally from France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Spain, England, Argentina, Mexico, Canada and the U. S., all come to witness this doubleheader, "Summertime," starring Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi, presented by Lopert Films in association with United Artists. Miss Hepburn, now touring in Australia, was not at the event, but her co-star Rossano Brazzi, Italy's most popular male movie star, a former boxer and professional soccer player, crescendoed the female heartbeat. After the picture had been shown and as the audience filed out, he stood at the head of the stairs leading from the theater and handed each lady present a fresh, white gardenia. It is hard to visualize a Terry Becomes slippers tossed everywhere, bed bundled up carelessly, skirts hanging from rods, and her one obvious desire is to get away from me and out of the house as soon as she can. JUST CAN'T STAND IT. "Lina's mother works in a department store, and has a good alimony besides, but she likes to murmur to her father long stories about poor 'mum.' She called me •Mrs. Beckwith' until her father told her he would give her a sound whipping if he heard i it again; now she calls me 'Aunt Ann' which I hate. But Van usually takes her side in everything and often asks me to the kid a break. That he fell in love with before he got his divorce is a fact, and Lina knows it, but is that so unusual a situation? It happens every, day. Van, and Lina's mother had reached the parting of the ways long before that. "I've reached the point now Chapter Hears Report On State Convention At the monthly meeting of the Gamma Rho Chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha Thursday, Miss Bernice Tune, education director, reported on the state convention held in San Antonio last month. Mrs. L. B. Clauder, welfare committee chairman, and Mrs. J. H. Deitzer, social committee chairman, reported on activities. Mrs. A. K. Lawley, vice-president, presided the meeting which was held at the Hilton Hotel. Newcomers Club The Newcomers Club of Fort Worth will have a luncheon and card party at noon Thursday at Colonial Country Club. Members and any new residents may make reservations with Mrs. Loyst Hartwick, 3359 C Creston. Paris. "Soldier of Fortune" reveals the best of Hong Kong to motion picture audiences and now-"Summertime" gives them Venice with an artistry which has never been seen by tourists. As to the film itself - its American premiere is June 21, at the Astor Theater in New York. It is based on the famous Broadway hit "Time of the Cuckoo," by Arthur Laurents, which starred Shirley Booth and won for her the Oscar of the theater. Those who have already seen both the theater and movie version of this story of the 35-yearold American secretary who had never had a real love affair and who uses her life-savings for a trip to Venice in quest of a possible romance, find the yarn enriched by the movie. (Copyright, 1955, King Features Syndicate, Inc.) Brazzi Movie Premiere Palace top American screen star doing the same--Clark Gable, for example, or Marlon Brando. But Italians are the most gracious people. P Better get acquainted with Rossano Brazzi. He has already been seen with Ava Gardner in "The Barefoot Contessa;" with Maggie MacNamara in "Three Coins in a Fountain!" with Linda Darnell in "The Last 5 Minutes," and now, after "Summertime", with Katharine Hepburn, he has only to make one picture with Grace Kelly. After that he will belong to that exclusive circle of male movie stars number among them Cary Grant, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Ray Milland, Clark Gable, Stewart Granger, etc. Director David Lean and cameraman Jack Hildyard, together with the Eastman color camera and all of Venice to use as background for this unusual Lopert film spectacle, present an entertainment package in pictureattractions that can scarcely be topped. WANT MUCH MORE. Movie audiences are greedy; always wanting more and more. In the past it was enough to offer a good story and fine actors. Now they've been spoiled into wanting much more specially written with music, as in wistful "Summer time", haunting, odies composed into a musical montage embodying many Venetian sounds, composed by Maestro Alessandra Cigogni; wide screens showing panoramic views of areas hitherto to be caught in one camera. as if that were unable, not enough, the precedent has now been set by three or four films showing the beauties and wonders of an entire city in one film. "Three Coins in the Fountain" made Rome come alive to millions who had never been there. "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" has done the same for MOTHER'S HELPER BY HEIMANN &amp; PEARSON.