The Times from San Mateo, California • Page 15

30 Years'War Film Is Relevant Today By HEKRY.SHAIN Clavell: jack of all movie His list of Fly" "The and Love." Great Escape" "To. producer, and director). The latter. presently holds the record as most profitable movie ever made." It cost $600,000 to and it grossed in the describes "The Last Valley," now playing on the Peninsula which takes place during the Thirty Austria, as "more than just an anti-war film; "It is the story of a' of trying to exist there. The fact that It is set 300 years ago is immaterial; could be anywhere --Vietnam, Israel, the TJ1S.A., anywhere in the today, or.

even tomorrow." "The Last filmed in a charming i valley near the Solo Role for Young Pianist The California Youth Symphony will be presented in the sec- role of the Captain because it ond concert of its nineteenth They are' real they were never, late; they always co-operated." Miohael Caine relished 'the stretched his -dimension as an actor. For this same reason he insisted on 1 using a German'ac- cent instead, of his normal English inflection. -After, viewing his performance -I can-, say that Micahel will no be known a-s a on-e character actor. The scene a inovie is most important for director, as it has -a 1 -direct effect on the morale of the crew. If the first scene is successful, the tension relaxes.

Unfortunately, the fine ole English actor Martin-Miller died just before the first scene of "The Last he was fully costumed and- made up when Ihe died on the set. -He was a'gobd of Miller, a'native Austria had' returned '-to Austria proudly after escaping the country during the Nazi rule.toecause Brenner Pass Innsbruck in'of his Jewish origin, Clavell han- Austria. It took 2Yv years died the situation with aplomb. complete which was shot in 7knm. Todd A-0'and stereophonic musical score by John Barry has been pressed, into- an album.

The movie cost $4 million which is actually a when one considers the epic and content of the movie. Cavell, an a-ticulate English gentleman, credits the wonderful co-operation of his crew and the weatherma-n for Ihe 1 relatively low production chael Caine and Ofnar Shariff were marvelous to work with. and the rest of the movie went -m I without incident. While the film has a definite anti-Vietnam a flavor, -the was actually written 12 years ago, long before most of even heard about Vietnam. Clavell stated, "One can't fit a movie to- a market because the movie is started two years before it is released and before the manket is created.

I jusl make movies for the entertainment of the mass audience, no' i ClavelPs next project will be a novel. season at Foothill College gymnasium on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. The same program- will be repeated at San Mateo i School Auditorium at on- te 14. Featured soloist' is pianist Dorian Ho' of- Daly City. The winner of auditions held last May will play Grieg's 'Piano Concerto in A Minor, Opus 16." 'Miss Ho was'born in Taiwan- and began her piano studies with her mother at In 1964 and 1965 she was finalist of the National Music Contest and the International Rotary Music Jontest -in- Taiwan.

In 1965 she went to Japan where she studied music at the Osaka College of Music unil 1967. The Ho family moved, to the United States in 1967 and Dorian continued her piano study at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In 1968 she was-selected to be accompanist for the San Francisco Public Schools All- City Honor Choir which climaxed its year of performance with a concert-at the War Mem- Temple Beth El Musical Fet FACADEMY AWARD' NOMINATION for BIST ACTRESS CARRIE SNQDGRESS RICHARD HAWKINS Piano Recital Slated Sunday Richard Hawkins, a junior a 1 University of the -Pacific Conservatory of i will be presented LaRatta in a (recital on Sunday at 3 p.m. Coolock Hall'on the campus of. Mercy High School, Burlingame.

A student of. Edward 'Shadbolt, Hawkins is working toward the Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance, He has appeared concert locally and in A recipient the Elks Club Music; Award (1963), he presented a solo recjal for the San Mateo Guild of the Peninsula Symphony Auxiliary a year. The young musician is the son of Mr. arid Mrs. George Hawkins Jr.

of San Mateo. The public-isJnvited to attend free of charge. Musicians Are Sought The American Musical Theatre and Academy is seeking instrumentalists of all ages to in the orchestra for their production of Rogers and-Hammerstein's "Oklahoma." Emphasis is particularly on strings and- woodwinds but the orchestra also needs a harp aw player. Rehearsals wil be held twice a week, Monday and Thursday nights, at Skyline College in San Bruno, Bob Millar is conductor. The musical is set for April 2 3, 9, 10, 16 and 17 at Capuchino School auditorium in San Interested musicians may call Sha-rron Cancelled Extra week of Offenbach's "Orpheus in the by 'Stanford Opera Theater, have cancelled due of ierrh, academic pressures on the large cast of student performers.

Trainer Says Dolphin Has Moody Days DIEGO (AP) Working with dolphins considered by iome to be as intelligent as m-mans lets you learn their moods, says a 25-year-old blonde -from Norrkoping, Sweden, who trains the mammals. 'Sometimes they're moody, and sometimes you can just see lappiness in them, or anger," Lena Mukki says. Lena's taking a few weeks away from her job at tile Kol- marden Zoo outside of Stockholm to work with dolphins at Sea World marine park in San Diego. Miss Mukki says dolphin training is new in Sweden, scientists there have been studying them for years. "We began training dolphins in the summer of 1969.

the United States', dolphin training jegan in 1936 at Marineiand in Mukki said in interview, She said the same whistle and reward system used. i the United States is used in her native The Swedish'-park where Mukki works, eypects to add' our dolphins soon to the four has. The only'problem back home "the artificial water," she 4ays, adding "the water is very coid so we must. heat' it and add salt and chlorine. We keep ihe temperature at 69.9 degrees Fahrenheit." The water off coast, she says, ready.

diary of a mat housewife perry Mm OS UMVIHSAl PlfTLFK TICHNICOIOP' A'Yiddish Theatre Ensemble of 'five outstanding stars of'the New American-Jewish musical stage will be presented Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at Peninsula Temple Beth El, 170fl.Alame- da de las- Pul-gas, San "Mateo. The will be sponsored by Farband-Labor Zionist Order and the Workmen's Circle. Abe Tabachnick is chairman of the event. The touring company includes Ohayele Ash of Israel; Ari Fur man and Abraham Furman, character actors and Yiddish humorists.

The revue will include dramatizations from some of the best and most works in modeTM Yiddish literature, as well as songs in Yiddish, Hebrew and English. is Ginetta La Bianca, an interpreter of the greatest arias of the colora'tu-ra and of Yiddish, Hebrew and English folk songs. The ensemble will be accompanied by Edith Kesselman. Thursday, March 4, 1971 'EtltltgSan NOMINATED FDR DORIAN MO Pianist orial Opera House. A.partici- pant in the Junior Bach Festival in 1969, she appeared the next year as keyboard finalist in he Young Musicians'-Competition.

She is presently 'studying Mrs, Beatrice Beauregard at the conservatory on a sdbola-r- ihip. A junior at Westmoor High School in Daly City, her favorite classes are chemistry and science. Her hobbies are sewing and listening to. records. She has two brothers and one sister.

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