The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 21

FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 6. 17 THE COUKIEIUOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. 0 Si Hospital Nurse Schools Dwindling, Group Told TVI( rUH sWTVUU LrM-l'Jl, EVERY NITE -'EXCEPT MON. MATINEE SUNDAY 2 PM.

I1' J1 ySf-L FONTAINE fERRY ROLLER RINK W. MARKET mL WESTEgM PWY shoe srATes PARTY RATES -77tVGe2J vhich began yesterday at the Sheraton Hotel in Louisville. New state officers will be announced tomorrow at a "uniform breakfast." About 500 student nurses are expected to attend the three-day convention. I I' 4 I Meadow Vale Becomes a City, 62nd in County Jefferson County got its 62nd official municipality yesterday. Circuit Judge Lyndon R.

Schmid signed an order creating the sixth-class City of Meadow Vale in an area west of Hounz Lane near Westport Road. Meadow Vale is the county's 51st sixth-class city. The county also has seven fifth-class cities, three fourth-class cities, and one first-class city, Louisville. Meadow Vale has 89 registered voters. A petition asking incorporation was filed Sept.

14. It contained the names of 77 voters. Schmid also appointed a list of residents to serve as Meadow Vale officials until the next regular election. Named trustees were Robert Larger, of 9804 Grenfell Way; Jerry Thomas of 9800 Meadow Vale Drive; Gale McMi-chael, of 9810 Grenfell Way; Charles Ryan, of 9826 Tiverton Way, and Archie Ware, of 9816 Meadow Vale Drive. Other officers are police judge, Robert H.

Lindsay, of 9821 Somerford city clerk, Mrs. Erlene Carter, of 2500 Meadow Vale Road, and city marshal, Isaac H. Windham, of 9801 Grenfell Way. Rising costs are forcing hospitals to abandon their nurse-training programs and to rely on college-trained nurses, according to Dr. James Miller, director of the Center for Study of Higher Education at the University of Michigan.

He addressed a conference of the National League for Nursing at the Sheraton Hotel in Louisville yesterday. He told the 350 nursing educators from all over the country that unless they are willing to make "substantial investments" in their nursing programs, they might just as well forget them. He said that three-fourths of the nation's 600,000 registered nurses are hospital-trained and that he does not how long the changeover would take. Dr. Miller referred to a survey which showed that 96 students working for their bachelor's degree in nursing cost a college $400,000.

"Almost every other program on the campus will cost less," he said. Miller said the two-year program of junior community colleges gives training for "bedside-care" nurses. "The community-college programs have gone into direct competition with the hospital diploma programs," he said. "The fighting between these two forms of training has been amazing to behold." Student Nurses Meeting "Miss Student Nurse of 1967" will be named tonight at a meeting of the Student Nurses Association of Kentucky JAMES WOODALL, left, Grace Chapman and Grant Sheehan in a scene from "All the King's Men," which opened ATL's new season last night. I) a ni a Review 'All the King's Men' Royal Disappointment 37 Nurses lo Be Graduated A class of 37 will be graduated from the Jefferson County School of Practical Nursing at 8 p.m.

today in the auditorium of St. Joseph Infirmary. It is the largest class ever to be graduated from a state-supervised nursing school. NOW IN ITS 7th WEEK! velum hum dim; Kit!" Dudley Saunders Times "YOU'LL STAND I AM) CUEE II!" New York Post WAR. MOV ING AM) N.

Y. Daily News "PERFECT FROM TOP TO BOTTOM!" Judith Christ of props is a distraction that greater ingenuity could surely have prevented. His deliberate pace, too, accentuates the meandering style of the play. A more fatal flaw, however, is the performance of James Woodall as the play's principal narrator and one of its central characters. Woodall poses and preens, mutters and intones.

He glances over lines with a sing-song monotony that dissipates them to the winds. Such self-indulgence is the sign of insecure technique, perhaps, but whatever the cause, it is distracting. Impressive Performance Grant Sheehan, as a pragmatic despot based on the character of Huey P. Long, gives the most controlled and impressive performance of his ATL career. Jack J.

Johnson, in makeup that makes him look like a bilious beetle perched precariously on toothpicks, is splendid as a devious political hack. No one else in the large cast has much of a chance to make an impression, although Lenny Baker is fine in a role not really suited to his physique or temperament, and Grace Chapman makes a promising ATL debut as Shee-han's tough mistress. ATL was all decked out last night with its new balcony, and the audience of 260, including among its members Mayor and Mrs. Kenneth A. Schmied, was a festive one.

All the ingredients for a gala opening, except a play to grip the imagination and move the heart. Ily WILLIAM MOOTZ Couritr-Journil Critic Robert Tonn Warren's "All the King's Men," which opened Actors Theatre of Louisville's new season last night, is the kind of play that makes a man wonder wonder why a theater company with good intentions and a director with lofty aspirations would want to fool around with a drama so formlessly old-fashioned and so pretentiously hollow at its core. But if we're seeking for a reason why "All the King's Men" won the nomination for ATL's opening bill of the season, we don't have far to look. This is an election year in Kentucky, right? So what better way to alert the electorate than performing a work famous for its agonized probing into the nature of power politics. A Loser on the Stage At least, I suspect this is the trap that led producer-director Richard Block into elevating "All the King's Men" for his opening production of the season.

Too bad, then, that "All the King's Men," no matter what power it may have had either as a novel or movie, is a loser on the stage. The saddest thing of all about "All the King's Men" is that it brims over with good intentions. Honorable aims flowed at Actors Theatre last night as heavy as the sirupy cornpone metaphors that are just one of the afflictions that deaden Warren's dialogue. SUSAN STRASBE THEETS NOW 'V THE ROLE YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR SINCE "LILIES OF THE FIELD" AND "A PATCH OF RIIIF in JAMES CLAVELL'S production of vftfrm 7Wa JUDY GEESON CHRISTIAN ROBERTS IJIUW IilPui SUZY KENDALL-THE "MMDBENDERS" A PLACE THAT IS ILLEGAL INMOST OF THE PSYCHEDELIC TECHNICOLOR 'end Introducing ill III IP BARDO OPEN 7:15 SHOWTIME EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT toHEMYOU ll SEE THE KICK SET-WILD SET WEIRD SET! NOW PLAYING! U1MTDWH I TMlOtSVII I MS. I RECOMMENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES WINNER OF 3 ACADEMY AWARDS One never lost sight for a moment of the playwright's seriousness.

One never doubted for a second the honest motivations that led ATL into producing him. But serious intentions and honorable motivations do not a play make. And the bitter truth this morning is that "All the King's Men" is not a play. 2862 Frankfort 896.1689 film Editing Sound Effects Sound "jf'' '4 X-i i HELD OVER 2ND Theglamour and ACADEMY AWARD WINNER "Its power is -k v. a Thp snppH and We are always being told that a work of art cannot change the course of history.

I think this one might. It should be screened everywhere on earth." Kenneth Tynan, London Observer inestimable." tff Diefrich, frf should be a vital part of your education." Saunders, Lou. Times 9 HURRY-fiNAi (BamoiKilI IPoHszl graphic. fearful and forceful. simulation of catastrophic reality." Botley Crowther, N.

Y. Times "See this film. The dramatizations hit home. The cast is exceptionally fine." WW IN SUPER PANAVISION'AND METROCOLOK MATINEES 2 P.M. EVENINGS 8 P.M.

NfW FA LI under 16 $1.23 aH ihawi. Golden Ag Price $1.23 Wed. Met. i Tur cunuDi acT -EUU Kalter, Dally News Choice sea i mailable to OF KENTUCKY both Cinemas Lot of Other Things "All the King's Men" is a lot of other things, all of them unfortunately calculated to doom its life in the theater. It is an exercise in dramatic narration.

It is an exposition that lurches fitfully among points of view. It is a lecture on ethics and the nature of power. It is a question hanging in midair, constantly worrying whether political success is worth the price it may cost in corrupt practices. These are thoughtful matters, never more pertinent than today, when a disillusioned public grows ever more weary with the machinations of their federal, state, and local governments. And Warren, although his play occasionally seems surprisingly romantic in its point of view, brings to them a conscientious mind.

Lacks Coherent Dramatic Substance Never, however, does Warren invest his "All the King's Men" with coherent dramatic substance. His play is a kaleidoscope of brief scenes. It moves haphazardly from episode to episode; shifts aimlessly from spotlight to spotlight. Ever so infrequently a scene promises to send up a flare of dramatic truth. Invariably, however, Warren interrupts it with another outburst of narration.

Characters narrate and narrate and explain and explain. They indulge in pseuJo-Freudian tricks of analysis, and occasionally burst into magnolia-scented prose. It's repetitive and exhausting. It's also peurile and boring. Somewhere amid the chaotic jumble of Warren's methods, a viable theme gets lost.

Last night's production was not strong enough to rescue it. If, indeed, Directed by Peter Watkins. A British Broadcasting Corporation Production. Presented in Association with the British Film Institute. "An extraordinary film.

Undoubtedly the most impassioned outcry against nuclear warfare yet to be conveyed. A brilliant accomplishment disturbingly topical." -Jack Could, N.Y. Times A PATHE CONTEMPORARY Release 3408 Birdstown Roid Tel. 459-4700 Free Parking Air-Conditioned Full Stereo Sound Reclining Seats Mezzanint Art Gallery HURRY FINAL WEEKS! IZi'SUPERB'fMl -Los Angelts Times "Thoroughly delightful!" I wot 1 A Citiztn-Ntwt WAKY mm i wc i i mM i i i 9 i i i i ill i I si! "OUTRAGEOUSLY FUNNY!" N. Y.Diily News "Julie Andrews is Darling I I I 1 I in association uilli AMERICAN PRODLCTlOiNS Presents 8 Uith it could be rescued.

Production Uncluttered Director Block obviously has sought for clean lines and clear treads of thought. His production is uncluttered, although his use of youthful stagehands scurrying on and off with bits and snippets 1 1 1 1 1 f-f JJku A It. 'Ntw York Times "ANOTHER 'SOUND OF ilium rr v' 1 UUS111 smashing!" World Journal Tribun "Carol Channing ic SOUL, INC. and the ALPHABETICAL ORDER And Special Guest tars IfNlSlll MUSICT Chicego Tribune "Mary Tyler Moore is delightful!" Open 11 A.M. A Cont.

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