The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 93

GUY AUSTEN, "The Sun-Herald" man in HOLLYWOOD, fells of a nev musical scl in an ageless land nnmm i nvyiiw mmmt km i li i 1 q) run i life mm, I have four children ranging from 18 to 5 years and the youngest, who started school this year, is my problem. IT IS ALL onward and upward for Peter Finch, the most famous and durable of all the Australian expatriate actors. PROBLEM o) nomination as best picture of the year. It starred the late Ronald Colman as a noted British diplomat who attempts to evacuate a small group of people from a revolution in southern Asia and unwittingly leads them into a kidnapping, a plane crash and a trek across the mountains finally to discover their Shangri-la. Now it is to reach the screens again in a modernised version produced by noted Ross Hunter, but this time made as a drama with music by Burt Bach-arch to lyrics of Hal David, today the most successful team of song writers in the United States.

Finch will take the Ronald Colman role in the new version. Sir John Gielgud will have the co-starring role of Chang, the spokesman for the high lama of Shangri-la a role not yet cast. After hit personal triumph in ''Sunday, Bloody Sunday," Finch has been selected for the starring role in the projected re-make of the old Hollywood classic, The Lost Horizon." And this time, Finch will be really living up to his name: he will be singing. "Lost Iforizon is from the late James Hilton's novel that introduced to the world the name of a mythical haven of peace in the stormswept Himalayan Mountains the mystical, magical Valley of tho Blue of the Blue Moon and the lamasery of Shangri-la. In this place the art, the culture and the accumulated knowledge of the world are treasured against the day when an all-out war will destroy civilisation.

The Lost Horizon was first filmed in 1936 and won an Academy Award The 72-ycar-old French actor Charles Boycr, who hasn't a film for five years, will portray a 210-year-old man in the film. Ross Hunter, known for years as the film industry's number one- progenitor of family entertainment he has produced 45 films from "Magnificent Obsession" to "Airport of a couple of seasons ago waited 10 years for the opportunity to bring "Lost Horizon to the screen as a musical drama. His move from Universal to Columbia Pictures was strongly Influenced by the fact that Columbia held the film rights to the James Hilton NoveL This weelc he launched an unprecedented campaign to Introduce the music for the film with a unique one-man concert at the Burbank Studios (Warner Bros renamed and now shared by both that studio and Columbia) by Burt Bacharach playing and singing tho 11 songs he and Hal David have written for the film. I Vo 1 1 fl mm us FOR WE Ross Hunter narrated and described each musical scene for an audience of 400 comprising the top recording artists, record producers, music company executives as well as tne stars of the production. many other top film celeb rities and national and international press repre scntatives.

Bacharach and David as a team broke away from conventional song-writing early in their partnership and with unprecedented success. Ill II1C l.USl J1U11UU score they do it again. In all tne numbers tnere is not one with the hitherto conventional verse and 32- bar chorus. Filming will commence in around two weeks with location scenes of the Himalayas sequences at Mount Hood in Oregon. The interiors for the lavish production will all be done in Hollywood, giving a great boost to local employment msses sales for Caramoor Products, one of the most significant aspects of the new chess boom Is that it now has a twofold market the player and the collector.

The collector, a growing breed, is buying numerous sets for their beauty, for status and as decorative pieces of furniture. For him, there are "boards" on rugs and fancy table tops, and handsome chessmen made out of sterling silver, blocks of lucite, ivory or crushed stone. The chessman can resemble Roman or Napoleonic figures, museum objects, Picasso drawings or even scenes from "Alice in Wonderland," and the sets may cost as much as up to $500 each. meals and refreshments. BBS genetically determined; others arc not.

In some instances, injury, disease, or even poisonous substances arc at the base; in others no demonstrable abnormality or cause can be cstab lished. Fits can occur at any age but most begin prior to adulthood. They vary in type and severity. In some cases the sufferer loses consciousness, in others the attack is more in the nature of a "dizzy spell," and in others again the person may remain fully alert during the attack. Many epileptics carry a card giving pertinent information in case of an attack.

Treatment may be on a number of levels. For example, behaviour problems are found more commonly in epileptic children than others. But the primary aim in treatment is to control the seizure, and this is strictly a matter for the doctor. This is all very general and you will want something more specific. One book that you will find worthwhile is "About Fpi-lcpsy, by Donald Scott (a ncuro-psychiatrist).

This book which is published by Gerald Duckworth gives a comprehensive yet non-technical account. Punished wrongly Dont you agree that this dyslexia" business is getting out of hand? In my day when fundamentals were taught instead of window dressing there was no such thing. I believe that more often than not this sort of thing becomes an excuse for poor teaching and lazy children. FUNDAMENTAL. NO I DONT agree.

In fact I disagree completely. It's an outdated concept that the only causes of school failure are "poor teaching and lazy children." In bygone days dyslexic children may not have been identified as such, but I've no doubt that they existed. And I'm equally sure that many of them were punished, scolded, and classified as "lazy" or "fools" because of a perceptual dysfunction completely beyond their control. Clearly there are dangers in pigeon-holing children, particularly if this is done without proper foundation. And feasibly this has been done with the term "dyslexic." But such instances would be far outweighed by those many cases in which the accurate diagnosis, understanding, and management of this condi- tion has saved a child's-educational future.

I i year he I oil a full week at ici.ool. I trork full-time and don't arrive home until about My ton unt taken to school by hit urand-parent i but orer the tceekt after much hang' lag on to gate, fencet, and tar doon, o. tcell many teart, th grand-parent found it too up ftting. I made arrangements to start tcork later to that i could take him to school. Things tcere going along reasonably tcell until one day last tceek tchen he ran away from school.

I took him back but he screamed and seemed to ba in a ter-rible state. The teacher says that icithin fire minutes of my leaving he is happy and remains that tray all day and he is a very happy child MRS h. FOR MOST children school is the first major step away from the family. For this reason preparation for it important. Effective preparation should be many-sided to include, in particular, separation from mother and home.

From the description you give there doesn't appear to be anything of a threatening nature in the school situation. I suggest that you continue to take the boy to school yourself and on a regular and consistent basis. Ensure that he is picked up regularly at the same time. Make clear to him that you will bs taking him each day from now on and also that he will be met at the same time each afternoon. When leaving in the morning simply say "Goodbye, have a happy day," cheerfully and with none of the elements of a great parting.

Remember that a happy beginning is most important. There are many years of formal education ahead; and you have time on your side. Castles in the air Is it harmful to build castles in the air? I'm 23 and married and my wife and I disagree about this. When I tell her about my plans for the future she says that I am im practical, and that now that I am married I must concentrate on the present. Some time ago I tvas thinking about changing jobs and my wife put her foot down.

She said: "You can't do this sort of thing till we're more secure." I don't want to give the impression that we have stand-up fights about this. We don't. It's just that I've always been some' You'll never get wet with a carry-pack RAIN SUIT aim hi DrlYH BARROW Lyn Barrow, PhD, a leading writer on psychological subjects, ires friendly adrice on brins-ing up children, oj crow-ag opw and other problems. Wrlti to Dr Lyn Bar-roV The Sun-Herald" Problem Clinic, Box 505, GPO, Sydney. 2001.

Selected answers will be published In this column. None will be made direct to Inquirers. what of a dreamer while my tvife is of all things practical. CVS. I DARESAY all famous people have done their share of "castle building.

I suppose tho relevance of the "castles" is a key point. I don't know the extent of your particular fantasies or their relevance; so the best advice that I can give is to paraphrase slightly some words of Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau said: "If you have built castles in the air your work will not be in vain or lost if you now put the foundations under them." Theories on epilepsy We are seeking information about the disease of epilepsy. What we would like to know especially is if there are any advanced theories in this country. EPILEPSY I WOULDN'T know about "advanced theories." A medical specialist would be much better qualified to give an opinion here.

But I would consider that medical competence generally is as advanced in this country as anywhere. Epilepsy comes from a Greek word epilepsia meaning "seize." This disease was known to the ancients and there are many, references to it, some dating back as far as 2000 BC. It is a general term describing recurrent convulsive disorders. There is no complete answer to causes. Some convulsions appear to be -as From DON RISEDO ROUGH in New York WITH YOUNG Bobby Fischer preparing to become tho first American to play for the world chess championship in June, tho sale of chess sets across the US is booming.

95 Chess, once thought to be a dull, slow-moving intellectual's game, is now thought of by Americans as "a challenge, a brain-tease, an 'in thing," according to one chess expert this week. Chess Is now an everyday thing in schools among young people and women. The US Chess Federation reports that there are now over 500-mem-bership clubs in this country and many are known to exist outside the federation. Manufacturers say that new Improved instruction booklets have made it possible to learn chess quickly and helped it to shed its image as a game that takes years to learn. According to Irving Toler, vice-president of Waterproof vinyl 3-piece suit for men women.

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