El Paso Herald-Post from El Paso, Texas • 20

EL PASO HERALD-POST Saturday September 25 1971- Page Two Critic's Corner No Real Cops and Robbers for Actor Family Tree Festooned With speak to me for eight he recalls His grandfather was a sergeant on the Chicago police force during the A1 Capone and John Dil linger days was one of the arresting officers in the Leopold and Loeb father a captain is still with the police force remember seing my father come home once with a bullet hole in his arm after a run in with some criminals which he brushed off as just a flesh wound I was about seven and was terribly He talks of his father with genuine respect and admiration though he is far removed from the strict Middle West puritan conservative ideas his parent espouses would even have a hard time adjusting to my beard I remember when I was about 13 and at Christmas all the merchants trucks kept backing up to our house with gifts for the then Chief of Intelligence And I would run out and wave them off He was so honest he accept any gifts even if they intended as a bribe He handle compromises and after he began to get pressure from above about By BETTY LIGON Stewart Moss is a writer as well as an actor bookworm rapid fire conversationalist and handsome bearded bon vivant As an author the Marquee Theatre star currently seen in could write another version of Great Only this time it would be about how he escaped from the world of cops into the make-believe of comedy and scripts Because the name Moss has struck fear into the hearts of many a thug over the last 50 years in hometown of Chicago is literally the largest police family in the United he said naming among his law-enforcing relatives a grandfather for whom he was named his father four uncles numerous cousins and until recently a younger brother now a lawyer And all on the Chicago police force YOUNG STEWARTwas expected to go for a law degree at Marquette University (where he graduated in 1959) I got there and started taking all those drama courses my father Hopper Consistent By NORMAN NADEL Scrlppc-Howford Staff Wrlwr NEW YORK packing in at the Whitney these days with of all things simple straightforward American realistic painting And die man of the hour is Edward Hopper dead these four years but more alive than ever in the mind of art critics and the public The occasion is the first showing anywhere of 157 paintings watercotorr drawings and prints selected from more than 2000 Hoppers bequeathed by the artist to the Whitney Museum cf American Art A native of Nyttck N-Yt Edward Hopper began studying painting at the turn of the century with Robert Henri who became known as the mentor of the Ashcan School This was when most American scenic painting had been rural sentimental and somewhat European No American painter was considered an artist until he had Nadel studied abroad THE ASHCAN painters got that name because they depicted the American urban scene with all its squalor It was a new kind of social realism TV Hopper quite go the Ashcan route Between 1906 and 1910 he made three trips abroad painting fairly predictable mnA tumJ Parisian scenes a number of which are shown to the lint time at the Whitney Then he came home never to go to Europe again for the remaining 57 years of his long life (he died at age 94) At New' Armory show in 1913 Hopper sold his first painting for $250 but 10 years passed before he sold Ms second Meanwhile he became a member of the Whitney Studio Club founded in 1918 by Gertrude anderhilt Whitney In BM he married another artist Josephine Nivison who survived him by a year They had no children LLOYD GOODRICH Director of the Museum for its first 40 years was friend and biographer All in all was a rare association of an artist and a museum in terms of cordiality length- of time and productivity Goodrich prepared the current show and a new illustrated Hopper biography by hkq is to bending the rules a little he went back to being a AFTER MARQUETTE University Moss received- a Yale Drama School scholarship for a year did a part In the serial of Night" on television at the same time An agency saw me at Yale and started me off in television and Broadway In two years I had the lead in and Otto Preminger saw it brought me to Hollywood and now done six films 30 or 40 television appearances and 60 plays This is the first play though in seven years Ideally like to do one play a year and make movies the rest of the time I took this part at the Marquee Theater because my wife Marianne McAndrew was in it too and we could be The versatile young (33) actor has written a screenplay which will be produced in January starring George Kennedy called 1116 Hostiles and takes place in Texas in about 1870 a period Western Writing? I love it but the hardest thing ever done I had to read about 20 books of research on the locale and time but it was what made it Stewart claims to have no interest in politics and he avers that he thinks it foolish for actors to get involved at Jane Fonda What does she know? I think it is all very MOSS SEES an entirely new concept in theater and movies coming up will become once again a very special thing after we have cable television and cassette movies I see walls at home becoming movie screens and people want to go out to movies much anymore a very fascinating thing to be an actor now think this is a lovely opportunity for actors from Holly- Policemen STEWART MOSS wood to come down here to El Paso in the Marquee Theater and stretch their muscles so to speak The audience intimidated to go In there no requirement for coat and tie My opening lines are addressed to the audience and sometimes they talk bade to me I like that Makes it all informal I know why more people come out to a dinner theater like In spite of Ms police background Moss had never played the role of a cop played lots of baddies tots of he allowed a sly smile to follow For an enthusiastic actor looking for new experiences a role should be a happy lot DR HUMBMTO sm30 UININMISaill INONSMOUK uh hme jwki 112-2-76-69 POST The bequest exhibition Is more interesting for revealing development than for the works themselves which mostly predate the stark spare style on which Ms reputation rests For the most part second-rate They are typicaUy Hopper however in being more static than dynamic Some critics describe Hopper as the deanof 20th Century realists Maybe so maybe not Andrew Wyeth whom I consider superior for his perception sensibilities and certainly his technique currently la out of favor as beng too AND SOME of his contemporaries deserve a second took Reginald Marsh Peter Hurd John Steuait Curry and Charles Burchfield to name just four Hopper however was uncompromsingly honest sensitive beneath a rigorous seif-discipline and above all consistent In more than 60 years as a working artist he watched the coming and usually also the going of Fauvism Cubism and a variety of other styles through Pap Op and Abstract Through all these trends he never changed course Painting to him was the Americanscene a the eye encompasses static and fixed with no distortions or personal idiosyncrasies Within those limts he was a notable panter fe -QK9B The greatest monster since POLICE A special Invitation to El Paso police to attend the Marquee Theatre 6345 Alameda avenue at reduced rates next week has been extended to the El Paso Municipal Police Officers Am through its president Sgt Ralph Coulter right Next Monday through Saturday Has been declared Paso Police Week at Making the presentation is one of the stars of playing at tho Marquee Stewart Moss a member of a large police family in Chicago.