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P.CCHESTEH DEMOCRAT Monday. Sept. A.D CKP.C.VICLE 29, 13S3 Rags to Riches with Musc Never an Unsold Seat for 'GigV and 'Fair Lad Rock-Ballad Is Newest, FOR RENT Excellent New Store 1094 CULVER RD. 2050 Sq. Ff.

AIR CONDITIONED Avoilablt Immediately Call LO. 2-5700 SIBLEY REALTY CORP. Sibley's Downtown OPEN MONDAYS and THURSDAYS 9:30 to a paradox which Shaw himself would have relished by reason of a performance which durinf the first scene seemed likely to be its ruin. The Professor Henry Higgins of Rex Harrison is the most theatrically compelling, the amusing, the crispest-spoken, the most phonetically-passionate and the most touching Higgins I have ever encountered." So much for "My Fair Lady" and now we'll be waiting to hear from France about musical "Gigi" but we'll take an optimistic tip-off from Maurice Chevalier who was discussing his life the other day on his 70th birthday. He confirmed what the Americans have always thought the French thought was of prime importance affairs of the heart.

And said Chevalier: "The only regret I have is that I have not taken love seriously tnough." Ah Shaw, on the other hand, was innocent of any such notions in his approach to his heroine. He once said that if he had to choose on grounds of intellect and passion he'd "recognize that intellect is a passion far more indispensable than physical ecstasy or reproduction." So really, you see, Shaw and Colette probably had very little in common. But Lerner, Loew and Beaton have in common two hits. I 4 London newspapers on the reception for "My Fair Lady" with Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews in the leads. It will be recalled that the play opened on London's West End on May 2 to one of the most excited audiences that had assembled in the memory of living critics.

"JHE CLIPPINGS were brought back from England by Mrs. Harry L. Segal of 30 Stoneham who bought all the papers the next day, eager to explore the critical English slant on an American interpretation of British Mr. Shaw's play. The praises all enwrapping like a London fog, but the Sunday Times did clear a little spot for a word or two but not manjr-for a cool look at the thing.

To quote, in part: "'My Fair Lady brought off a near-miracle. It actually overtopped expectations. It is not merely as good as we have been told; it is better. The key-line of Shaw's play has, through a misunderstanding of the nature of dramatic 1 1 1 1 been changed; the music, though catchy, is less good than that of or of 'South Pacific'; Julie Andrews acting, though not her singing, has no interest whatever; the scenery is unimaginative, opulent and vulgar; the author of the book, Alan Jay Lerner, has foisted onto the most piercing and unsentimental intellect of the English theater the outlook of a Charles Garvice or a Berta Ruck; the direction has so little knowledge of class and period that the romantic Freddie does not lift his hat when he meets a lady; and the attention to detail is so casual that Colonel Pickering is shown reading a 1912 copy of The Times which could not possibly have been printed earlier than 1931." But, continues the article "JN SPITE of all this, 'My Fair Lady' is a joy and a triumph. And it is so, through GIRL WHO MAKES GOOD Kim Stanley stars in "The story of a star's rise to fame, at Fine Arts tomorrow.

1 1 $lww JimsLSu Jvjdcuf By JEAN WALRATH QNE of Brodaway'j purveyors of what-do-youknow-about-that information flashes the word that as of tomorrow night, "My Fair Lady" will be in ninth' spot in the history of all long-run musicals. In only two more years, if she lives that Jong on Broadway, she will have surpassed "Oklahoma!" to become the musical hit of all time and there are those who will bet she'll make it. "Fair Lady," now 2M years old, has never played to anything less than a sold-out house. The musical, which played to eight sold-out houses in Rochester when a first-anniversary road show came here in March of 1957, is reported returning next March and undoubtedly 20,000 more Roch-esterians will see it and again an equal number will be turned away. But in the meantime Rochester is to see "Gigi," which as movie musicals go is the biggest hit so far on Broadway.

Since the opening last March 16 the Royale has sold every seat for showings seven nights a week and two afternoons. Leslie Caron plays Gigi and Maurice Chevalier an aging charmer. THE FILM, with book and music by Lerner and Loew and settings by Cecil Beaton, the artists who put together "My Fair Lady," arrives in Rochester on Oct. 9, and then we shall see whether the people of our city fall as much in love with "Gigi" as the moviegoers in New York. Americans made them into hits, but it was the French and the English who provided the inspiration, both themes having escaped from the pens of native persons of letters George Bernard Shaw in England and Colette in France.

Both had the rags-to-riches notion in mind. Shaw's Cinderella was a flower girl who escaped her lowly class by acquiring phonetical perfection while Collette's was the winsome young lady who escaped courtcsanship, her fate by training and inheritance, by falling in love. Both found rich and charming men. We haven't heard from France how the French like what the Americans have done to the film version of "Gigi," but one of our treasures, acquired this summer, is a batch of clippings from I DOWNTOWN MOVIES Lotw't Glenn Ford and Red Buttons in "Imitation General," 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 10. Palaco Alan Ladd, Ernest Borgnine and Katy Jurado fn "The Badlanders," 1:13, 4:10, 7:05, 10.

Paramount Gwen Vordon and Tab Hunter in "Damn 12:35, 3:45, 6:55, 10. Regent "A Streetcar Named Desire," 1:55, 5:55, 9:55. Cinema Brigitte Bardot and Charles Bover in "La Parisienne," 2:15, 4:05, 3:55. 7:45, 9:45. Fine Art "Captain's Paradise." 7:30 and 10, and C.

Fields Festival." Little Brigitte Bardot In "The Night Heaven Fell," 2:05, 4:05, 6, 8, 9:55. Monroe "South Pacific," in Todd-AO, 8. A jV mi i fV '111 ft -1 1 A 1 i. 27 9 second color choico d3 Says Youth By LOIELLA O. PARSONS HOLLYWOOD.

Sept. 28 Rock roll is out and rock 'n' ballad is in. Dean Jones told me when I congratulated him on his new contract with MG.M. "I am sure of it," he said, "because I'm going to work with David Rose on good music and we will not use any uf that type of song." Dean's first venture movie-wise is "Bonjour Pardner" with Glenn Ford and Red Buttons, who were with him in "Imitation I had heard that Glenn might play opposite Kim Novak in "Beach Boy," but they haven't even a script yet. SOPHIA LOREN won't be back in Hollywood until the first of December.

She and Carlo Ponti have taken a villa at St. Tropez and right now they are in Paris on a vacation. Clinton et Court. IA S-500S IH.U'.'i-H M-G-M rtMntS WORLD WAR ITS MOST RIOTOUS ADVENTURE! GLENN FORD Lovo Romoneo Drama "HANDLE WITH CARE" Dta Jonot Joan O'lritn ARTE end CARLOS BAENA Hifi 1EFFREV NIGEL ANWMARIE HUNTER PATRICK DURINGER Fine Arts IR 1-5800 FREE PARKINS Public Disrobing of a Generation! born like her ir pression ai seued by prosperity born like her in the depression and ob- KIM STANLEY in a performance worthy of an ACADEMY AWARD by Paddy Chayefsky Co-Starrinq LLOYD BRIDGES W. C.

Field's Comedy Festival A "DIPFERENT" TWISTI V. 6WW I AstYeAn NOW p'liQp-' M-G-M ttewHs Un WORLD WAR IfS MOST II my KWtwna elg it- nvi i i 1 Viemm L'm mm 1 L-it JSLUU 2nd Wk. 1 jti HER FIRST NEW FILM FROM THE CREATORS OF 'AND GOD CREATED 'THE MIGHT i h. CINEMASCOPE an EASTMANCOLOR IN INOUSH! A "The living Swamp" CinemaScope featuretle of Georfia't Okefenake Swamp I 111 Ciimui 3RD BIG WEEK SEE HER AT 3:15, 4 OS 1:55, 7:45 AND tin Engliihl BAROOIS ninninri nuiurjci VLwti STARTS WEDNESDAY WIDESCREEN in Frufmon starring CHRISTIANS i a hp bio SOUTH AVE. AT GREGORY 4 he starts TUES.

Jfl Shotting From the Typewriter el Paddy Chayefslcy who electrified you with "MARTYl'V ko Trur Point!" Timmt ik t' i cmmu i i jpr, i Exclusive Show Both Theaters ENCHANTED EVENING Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi fall in love to lovely tunes in "South Pacific," now showing in Todd-AO on the Monroe theater screen. 7-1. NEIGHBORHOODS Lyell "The Vikings" and "High Cost of Loving." Rialto, E. Roch. "The Fly" and "Showdown on Boot Hill." Waring "The Vikings" irtd "High Cost of Loving." Webster "The Vikings" and "Five Steps to Danger." DRIVE.

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KISCO, N.Y., Sept. 28 (VP) The wife of Hollywood producer Joseph L. Man-kiewicz was found dead yesterday in their summer home here. Police said a nearly indecipherable note was found in her hand. She was the former Rose Stradner, 45, a one-time motion picture actress from Vienna.

A caretaker found the body lying on the floor next to a writing table. Police listed the death tentatively as natural pending an autopsy. Mankiewicz, also a writer and director, said he had last seen his wife Friday night when he left here for New York to work on a forthcoming Broadway play. She appeared in good spirits at the time added. Miss Stradner wed the film executive in 1939.

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