The Philadelphia Inquirer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Page 18

I THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18. 1962 ad IB Fly Eastern. first In on-time dependability Ml LTnn Among rntortainors appearing at area nisht clubs arr (top row. from loft) Stan Kenton.

Krie Social Hub; Klla Fitzgerald. a i a I Carlo, of the Secrets, Peppermint Cane Lounge; one of the Metronomes, Pep's Cafe. Bottom, dreg Lewis, of Lewis and Christy. Hawaiian Cottage; Sarah Vaughan. Red Hill Inn; Ginger, of Ginger and Johnny, Equator Bar, and Cuddy Hackett, Sciolla's.

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"The chances are we won't even have time to check all systems." There is no rest in store for either Spiegel or Lean until Faster. After the first print in FnglMi is ready, they must dub versions in French. Ital ian and German. Spiegel will 1 1 wiw 1 1 1 1 1 tit 1 1 III II II I II II -ilQU L1WUU IrdUlfW. 01 mmiira picture people me subject of Sam SpiegH's "Lawrence of Arabia" for Columbia will be a prominent topic of conversation.

It is one picture all seem certain will be one of the great films of all time. The fact that "Lawrence" is still editing and has to be scored doesn't detract from the grapevine enthusiasm. Both Speigel and director David Lean have heard the glowing reports of what is anticipated and while it's always nice to hear Tattering comments on a project of such magnitude, the reponsi-bility of delivering what's expected is enormous. During lunch, Sam told us: I wish I had the comfortable faith others have in this picture. We've worked hard and Jong and under difficult conditions.

But now we're forced to race against time to have the picture ready for release in icy spots this December." FIRST IN ON-TIME DEPENDABILITY supervise all these versions. He speaks the languages fluently. "LawTence" credits will unfold on the screen with Alee Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jose Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy, etc. on top, followed by "and introducing Peter O'Toole." O'Toole, who plays the title role, is already being hailed as an upcoming star of the highest calibre. He is deluged with film offers from producers and directors throughout Europe and America.

Marlon Brando was Spiegel's and Lean's first choice for "Lawrence." He had done "On the Waterfront" for Spiegel. But other contracts (particularly "Mutiny on the scratched him. The alternative was to find a complete unknown and surround him w-ith Nobody can talk a brilliant international cast. The unknown O'Toole, of the Royal Shakespeare Theater at Stratford-on-Avon, has become PETER O'TOOLE Star of magnitude edited with such speed. My only concern is having it ready for the Queen's date." Then he added: "I wonder what we'll show tfie Queen if it's not ready.

Probably TV shorts we prepared on the making of the picture." Scheduled dates for "Lawrence" beyond the London premiere include New York (Dec. 16), Philadelphia at the Mid-town (21), Los Angeles (21). Most of these opening are for charity. Spiegel plans to attend tha London, New York and Los Angeles openings. Spiegel, who made the much-kudoed "Bridge on the River Kwai" with David Lean, shows signs of thi gruelling, punishing deadline work hours.

We didn't see Lean, but we're told he's Just as worn as Spiegel. He keeps a cot in his office for snatches of sleep. "Lawrence" is the first 70 mm. film made in Technicolor in Europe. According to Spiegel, the print the toast of London long in ad vance of the "Lawrence" open ing.

A first print of "Lawrence must be delivered for the Dec. 11 opening in London for the Queen. "A date set on the court calendar for the Queen Is Immutable," Spiegel taid. We would have liked more time. When David and I made the commitment 10 months ago we thought we'd be finished shooting seven weeks earlier.

We found ourselves in a situation where we would hive but three months from final shooting to print delivery. A staggering task. 'Ben-Ilur' had a full year for editing and scoria." Spiegel's and Lean's working hours are almost without letup. Four cutting units are working continually around the clock. "Never before," Sam said, "has a four hour (witt intermission) picture been like a i) The cost of "Lawrence" Is perhaps a third that of "Cleopatra." It hat had ita diffi culties, but these were prob lems of rigorous desert loca tions.

There was no trouble Ford Dealer! with stars, and evidently no interference or quarterbackinf from Columbia brass. v. If "Lawrence" is all we hear It is. reviewers will have to find new superlatives. Louella Parsons Frank Desser, and so ardent is bis courtship that he calls Gloria long distance dally, and continuously sends ber flowers.

The non run away Jerry Lewis refuses to make pic tures outside Hollywood, but HOLLYWOOD. TWO years ago when MGM first saw "Ben-Hur," it offered 20th Century-Fox half a million dollars for Stephen Boyd's contract. Twentieth turned down the offer, even though it had no big productions ready for the handsome Irish actor. The moment he was free of that deal, however, MGM grabbed him, cast him in "Jumbo" in which he is reputed to be a big hit. Now, wasting no time, Stephen is being put into another, "The San Franciscans," for the same producer, Joe Everything seems to be coming up happy hearts and flowers for Harold Herht and his new bride Martine, as well as for his ex-wife Gloria.

Harold and the present Mrs. Hecht landed In New York from their honeymoon in Rome, with Harold aware that he had a date to meet his ex in Santa Monica Superior Court two days after Christmas to conclude their property settlement. The good news he received on arrival Is that all this might be settled out of court because of the increasing devotion of Gloria Hecht's attorney to her. He's a New Yorker, he's going to prove next June that he will go anywhere to sell them. In characteristic Lewis style Jerry is going to head an entourage consisting of his wife and five children, two nurses and his press representative Jack Keller, and will strike out to 22 foreign countries to make appearances with "The Nutty Professor." mttwmmamtiiirf' t- '-t-nntmti f-m if4 -m r--tinirT wito Leonard Lyons property, but no borne," said Miss Goddard happily.

"Now Talk about RIDE. the '63 Ford Galaxie for instance! I have no property, but a home" Margaret Leightou, rnsfar of "Tchin-Tchin," has moved into an apartment with a bed and one chair until her furniture arrives from London Ex-candidate James Michener has resumed work ing on his musical "Iiabili." Come spend 10 minutes to discover the fide Ford spent $10,000,000 to develop! Smooth? You just won't believe it until you feel it for yourselfl Hundreds of improvements went into Ford Galaxie's new $10,000,000 ride! Just one example: A whole new suspension system that lets the wheels give a bit horizontally, as well as up and down, when they hit the bumps like a boxer rolling with a punch. The jolts get stopped before they get where you're sitting. Hilly winding bumpy road Ford Galaxie-takes it and loves it and so will you! The whole story is really a whale of a tale. Get the happy ending in personout on the road where the proof isl Irving Berlin tells of the day during the war when Eleanor Roosevelt saw his GI musical i'uwavJW MB I A 1 1 NEW YORK.

SOMERSET MAUGHAM, who will be 88 in January, recently was ill. A woman who lives nearby phoned Maugham's secretary and asked if she couJd send fruit or flowers. "Tell her," Maugham replied, "it's too late for fruit and too early for flowers." Jack Waldron, the veteran nightclub comic, presided at a Lambs Gambol. He announced the door prizes: "First prize will be 50 Laurence Welk recordsand a hammer." Winston Churchill was asked if the public should be told everything. He replied that the public should be told everything by those in possession of the facts.

Churchill said that keeping a secret for security reasons is the responsibility of an elected head, that as long as those with whom the secrets are deposited are freely elected, then our freedom is not impaired. Paulette Goddard owned vast, valuable tracts of land on both roasts and in Europe. COME TALK TO YOUR "This Is the Army." She went backstage afterwards and told the assembled cast of soldiers, "You're all invited to the White House, and you won't have to do KP." Few people traveled throughout the world as much as Mrs. Roosevelt did. The importance of travel in educating those who Influence our ways was first impressed upon her, she said, by her uncle, President Theodore Roosevelt.

He said, "If I were President and Congress in one day, I'd pass a law that no one could run for Congress without first visiting at least six other HE HAS THE KEYS TO THE RIGHT CARAT THE RIGHT PRICE 1 1 PAULETTE GODDARD Property is not home Now she Is happily settled a home near the Swiss-Italian border with her husband, Erich Maria Remarque "Before Erich, I bad much 1.