The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 106

1 7 1 .7 i 'w'i ir i I EW FILMS by Josephine O'Neill 111 IJUUU IN i hi flees it a tuff" ii It By Jock Veitch One of the reasons guitarist Peter Posa will migrate to Australia next year is that he's getting sick of a white rabbit. He recorded the tune "White Rabbit" about three years ago in New Zealand and it was an enormous hit. Its sale record still stands, not even the Beatles have beaten it. 'The trouble is that everywhere I go people ask me to play it," he' said this week, I'm getting sick of it." Peter, 25, is paying a brief visit to Sydney to feel out the club scene. His visit must end next week but he'll be back, here early next year for good.

"There's an- enormous amount of work over here," he said. "I'd have to be a fool to knock it back." Peter is a big star in New Zealand, but that means an unsettled life. He usually does two four-month tours of the country each year. "That means months of small towns and dull hotels," he said. "It's not the best life.

Over here I'll be able to live in one place even when I'm Peter Posa working all over the city." Peter has been enthusiastically taken up by the clubs here. He's worked most of the big ones, and each one has offered him more work "Seconds" Ihe surface, this chilling filhi is a ji'ost stylish piece of Lorror. It's underly-fig and saddening truth makes it into a noral nightmare. Its central character is a dreary, middle-aged bank executive (played by John Randolph), who finds a way of becoming young again of having a second chance tore-live his life. lie finds this way through series of surgical and psychological operations 'that director John Franken-fccimer stages with venomous skill, and he emerges a new man (now played by Rock Hudson) in a Califor-nian, beachfront community shall not go on with the "story.

What stands out is the self-effacing skill of Randolph and Hudson, and of Murray Hamilton as next year. Raquel Welch in "One Million Years B.C." Suliotis, the swinging From James Thomas in London TOJ might call Elena Suliotis the swinging prima donna a brown eyed, short skirted Greek with an unruly mop of blonde hair. WfSfe-k and the second the fancy, and hair-raising exploit of the gambler in marking cards. The third is the presence "The Naked Runner" HEN he directed "The Charlie: Salome Jens as Nora; and Frances Reid as VnriiPSIoJlle' detective played with sly i.j.v. J.

Furie handled a writer of unctinn hv riiv prima donna Elena Suliotis She is already hailed as the second Maria Callas. At 24, she is the most sought-after dramatic soprano in the world a 1 black-and-white cine- But in Francls Ciifford rnatographer James Wong author of The Naked Run. j0 ggjj and the scriptwriter ner, Furie has a darker 1 (off -Broadway, Louis Jean and more difficult fellow Fp nW fa'Hnn. pxercise hard, re- I Oil WW "I don't know the answer, I only know it is a tragedy." Significantly she made is at least 10 years older When she was 18. the nuord aemanas our be tneir t- F.ft MfKrRN Krrnoc trA work.

uci inai Dinisn intelligence, I u- having to dispose of a dan- mendous urbanity in rtnioilK us scenes iuc or, girl with no pretensions her debut in Britain, not in than I am. stage director of the about the Covent Garden, but before "There are very few of Cologne Opera heard her formance she can command, the biggest audience in the us about, and it is quite singing for her own pleas- A girl who says: "I never land the TV public. easy to get work." ure on the edge of the walk on to a stage without Covent Garden has taken She worries about the jungle where she lived in wondering who the devil Up her first free dates in kind of audiences who fill the Argentine with her got me into this." 1969 on the strength of the the seats in the emigre businessman father. In Italy and America, this five arias she has recorded international I opera world ril see you in Italy one round-faced baby of grand for l's "Omnibus" To many of them g0 day," he said, opera has already earned a magazine of the arts and 'ust t0 seen' formidable reputation foi has Bnot been slow in trying new gown or a new string f. resounding, classic roles at to woo the hottest thjn of pearls, she says.

They LKlllCALi an age when most sopranos ralla? know nothing about music are cutting their teeth in 3 or the hard work we put a year later, Suliotis neo-musical comedy. af ed into it. They just turn it and her father decided to she said, 'but Cal- jnto a socjai occasion. It go to Italy on holiday and las had sung it quite recent- infuriates me s'ze UP me chances. SO YOUNG k'-7eyu askeu me t0 sing "If we pull in She stayed to study in Aida, but there are so en0ugh yoimg people Milan and just two years All the way from La many sopranos they could whose fauit is jt? Is jt be- later, made her debut.

as to Carnegie Hall, get to sing that. cause they are priced out of Santuzza in "Cavalleria ffltu filVn! "Now they want me to the theatre? Rusticana" in the San Carlo sing Lady Macbeth. That's Theatre in Naples. tL tin would So to the tortuous yet another comedy of a ftWn engths of picking an inno- mass-murder. The cinema s-lll3eJ cent industrial designer has yet to find a vehicle netweSnson-Ind' (F-k Sinatra) for the job.

worthy of-Mr McKern. Hamilton's wife. (Rapallo). does not hire He plays an amorous and the designer direct. Instead, ambitrous university profes- iii i ti I i with the help of agents in sor, led to his crimes by a II KOSTO line JODJ East Germany and Copen- laboratory accident and the a hagen, it conditions him, rather obvious allure of his kk" and funny, ten- through a long process of young assistant (Janet Mun- der and as sorrowful as mental torture, into killing ro).

tomorrow's alarm-clock, his man. As his wife, Maxine Aud- this is a study of a young This is ugly. And al- ey shares McKern's skill in Italian lad finding and though Furie manages the treading the hair-line be- Vorking in the big city for tale with superlative physical tween farce and reality, the yery first time. skill, all comfort in believ- But the other soth New Italian director ing the unbelievable drains piayers jn BEF's piece r.rr.,anno Olmi, who uses from the viewer. suffer from the repetitions non-professionals, gives an.

Sinatra, so far from fam- that make the fim a nar, ar of brilliant improvisa- Iiar cinema, acts with in- miss (Lido ion. to his black-and-white tenSe integrity rather scenes, shot in real places showing up Peter Vaughns rf and without any music ex- Slattery and Derren Bes- rlUISOn iBfflS u. "'T great. I'll do that." Next day. all Italy knew been throwing the massive that a new star had arrived.

music of Verdi, Bellini, ine explains ner success Donizetti in vast parabolas modestly "I was lucky to fs it because schools Yet she is more critical of sound over the heads of seem to have no inclina- of the Italian audiences than alienees astonished at the turn from coloratura to dra- tjon or ability t0 get the of any other. "They learn capacity of a singer so matic soprano so young. I children interested in real their music from records," cert that in the stnrv. vutrs Hartmann. A great least Fox's colour deal of the production A His wondering youth vZrr credit goes to colour cine- she said disdainfully.

suppose the next youngest music? young. faiWn love wih a matographer Otto Heller, tnmette (Loredana Detto) (Century- ihey wait for their first ri i Ji 7iew: and their blossom- dl6Ea0SC0D6 day of freedom has a scientous attempt to lift pre-history films out of the school-holiday class. It simply telis how a member of the uncouth Rock Dwellers (John Rich- Edinburgh vuimasi in meir irus- arikon escanes tn meet k.d meetinn lnno in unusua lv elaborate inp opni im r.nynpii ri'rraucracv's corridors. colour, Warners' Warrpn reupic, lati in iuvc wiui yrarren ri Clmi's e.vp. fnr ic scope" follows a uiuiiuc gin uijuv llAnlti'i fD Rnd ho nrr.iimiilatne UUUIIV Kdiuuici auu Crmo ord ers an From Nigel Muir in London SYDNEY playwright Patricia Hooker, -who wrote the television play "A Season in Hell," is to write another play for Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre.

At present working in London as a court reporter, Miss Hooker, 34, details to remind us Susannah York's foot-loose dawn of human reason and cf.the individual man- Londoner through a fancy responsibility ms, routines and char- ove-affair and a danger or Thjs a thg justke of People twP- can do Fox's work, shot in i meir desks nn tpctivai ine enieriainmem is wh i on. jueir aesKs, on testival, me enieriainmem i im in the aien i i "i CU1ULI1 111 lilt fllini itiiivi- colour a iUf the tenement building (and more arch than it es of the Can; our hapless hero ought to be) except for Islands tne prUned PATRICIA HOOKER tn the to Aust. play sincine hnmp. three remancaoie ieaiures. nf ornnt or sinoinn tirno three, remarkable features.

i-) One is the poker game, sjnge syiiabie in its speech. at the Traverse Theatre, and prompted the commis- (Recent.) Miss Hooker, who comes sioning of "The Lotus Eat- I'm AaYmViOoA rr writes plays in her spare. from Ralomvlah first he. ers" for the Arts Festival. tClAL SHOW NEW YEAR'S EVE BOOKINGS OPEN "Nights o( Terror uic iiavciac lucaut waina me.

me to wrjte another pky gan writing plays for radio Miss Hooker is at pres- Her latest play, "The for them. and television about six ent rewriting "A Season in Lotus Eaters," has just been Tliev mUot have been years a8- My ear'y stutf Heu Lln nope tna: accented for next vear's Ju "a 1 is diabolical," she says. may be ab to get it on British television. She came to England in Adelaide Arts Festival. Her when it was perform 1964 to find a bigger mart- The Lotus Eaters" was A satire, it is set in a ed there.

THREE miniature horror pieces, set in a scientist's crypt, a poisoned garden and a haunted house, come roughly from Nathaniel Hawthorne tales. Vincent Price moves silk-ily through the Warner Bros, release, in roles of varying menace: the affairs are neatly executed in colour; and a tiny cast, to match, makes the whole more bearable than it sounds. (Cameo.) WINE AND DINE FROM 6 P.M. CURTAIN RISES 8.20. I HALL RESTAURANT small Queensland sugar port nt inntlno fnr fr her work.

Her first real the hardest work I've ever and deals humorously with u.l hrri nrl success was "A Season in done, and I think I will industrial relations on the 10 We nara WOrK' sne Hell" set in Paris in the relax for, a while before waterfront. late 19th century which getting on with the play for "I drew the name from "I think you have to be twice appeared on television the Traverse," she said this Tennyson's poem and I deranged to be a playwright, in Sydney and has since week- believe it fits perfectly the Everything you see in life been translated into French A wouJd Lke to ine situation presented in the Adelaide for the opening of play and perhaps, reality," has t0 fit into that small and Italian. the play but dl)bt ff she said this week. square the stage." In Britain, it was put on will make it." 105 THE SUN-HERALD, DEC. 3, 1967 105 1B6 MILITARY NEUTRAL BAY.

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