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pill Jl ttxpMOM Democrat and Chronicle Rochester, N. oT' HURRY! LAST DAYS! Stage Great Dame Edith Turns to Films at 79 TECHNICOLOR 1:15 7:35 9:55 AIR CONDITIONED tUNTON VL CINEMA SOUTH 37I.I7IS BY DIEHL, Los Angeles Times Service Aug. 6, 1967 JC He came to tame a bucking bronc called Africa! A4MUNT CURES ESFNTS IN T0S -'fiuiuCIiCN COLOR TEXAS STYLE WARING LYELL WiSING PLAZA LYELL WT READ PLAZA 467-1197 468-A823 PLUS 2ND HIT! "CHUKA" part. We don't 'approach' it at all. You channelize it all into the brain.

We don't have that attitude; maybe that's why some of our actors are better." Although "The Whisperers" is a story about a lonely old woman who lives in a fantasy world, the bustling Dame Edith is well companioned in the real world. Reality, indeed, is the very stuff of her existence. "I think that's why my work is true," she muses. "I don't keep looking at other people; I keep living." Starring temmon v- 4 Dyke called 'Garden of Cu- One might think of Dame Edith as a walking handbook on success in the theater, but she claims no special secrets. "I haven't got any of these method larks; they may be wonderful, but I haven't got them.

You know, all of you over here intellectualize everything too much," she challenges. "We don't do that. I'm very sure that few of my English colleagues have what you call an 'approach' to a "AN INTENSE ACTION STORY" Wolroff! D6C 2o. Bo Offict Hours 12-9 5-9 MMM1 fAIR 1451 0 before the show SMORGASBORD SUNDAYS SHERATON AND 2 TWICE EACH WEEK HOTEL 111 East Ave. 232-1700 lames D.

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next to J. M. Fields Open from 12 Noon Daily Up the Down Staircase' Zing Is Lost By BERNARD L. DREW, Gannett News Service FOR FAMILY THE 1 'tr-'- Thursday, September 28 out the antitheses in the lines and requests the students to relate the paragraph to the By DIG NEW YORK Dame Edith Evans started her acting career late by contemporary standards. At 24, she made her debut in Covent Garden as Cressida in "Troilus and Cressida'' on Dec.

10, 1912. Now, having established herself as the first lady of the British 'stage and as one of the greatest classical actresses of all time, Dame Edith, at 79, is becoming a movie star. "The Whisperers' is the first film I've made for major American release, but I began in cinema as 'The Queen of Spades' (1948), which was definitely an important role. This was followed by a major part in 'The Last Days, of I suppose you'd call them starring roles," she notes. Film viewers will, of course, recall her memorable performance as Miss Western in "Tom Jones." as well as roles in "The Nun's Story," "Look Back in Anger" and "The Chalk Garden." But "The Whisperers" is totally Dame Edith's film.

BUT WHY DAME EDITH'S reluctance, to appear in films? was just too busy acting," she Since touring in a Shakespearean repertory group with Ellen Terry in 1918, she had acted with literally every notable stage actor of our time. "I'd like somebody to say they worked with me someday. 1 mean, Richard Burton's first film part was with me Last ays of I was very happy playing with Michael (Redgrave) in 'As You Like If; he was a wonderftil Or-I a o. And Larry (Olivier) Oh. I acted with him when he was just a boy in 'Back to Methuselah' (1923).

I enjoy working with many different I just finished making a film in Hollywood with Dick Van TAHZAN VS. HERCULES IN "DUEL OF THE TITANS" Plu ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S "THE BIRDS" "Confessions of a BAD GIRL" PLUS "SUNSWEPT" TECHNICOLOR 4th SMASH WK! REGENT ON EAST AVE. THEATRE 232-5570 SHE'S BACK! ONE WEEK ONLY! Shewn Twice 8:55 11:15 -RECOMMENDED FOR MATURE ADULTSI CTADIITC DRIVE- uv IN W. Henrietto Rd. 244-6948 2nd Hit! "WILD AFFAIR" II3E R1AECED RURiiilH! "Fantastic, Tricky ft Wild." N.Y.

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VVIIVI1L DAYS A WEEKS Now at Box Office Puccini's "Tosca" Amprirati Klaf irmal upera company Jose Greco ZIP THEATRE 5:05 f7vw wsmm o-i MS (Sib 'ftt The Royal rfA Philharmonic Orchestra of London Thursday, January 4 DINING ROOM OPEN 11:00 to 9:30 SUNDAY rkOM 12 NOON COCKTAIL LOUNGE FROM 11 A.M. NOW BOOKING FOR CLAMBAKES PRIVATE PARTIES WINTER RECEPTIONS OUTSIDE CATERING NEW YORK-Robert Mulligan, the director of "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Love With the Proper Stronger," has made of Bel Kaufman's "Up the Down Staircase" a literate picture which has at times, the air of a semi-documentary. the Down Staircase" is now playing at the Regent Theater). Tad Mosel, has fashioned, from the random notes, parodies, and memoes which comprised Miss Kaufman's novel about the efforts of a young East Harlem schoolteacher to establish contact with her unruly charges, a screenplay which 'has a beginning, a middle, and an inconclusive but optimistic end. BUT SOMEWHERE along the way, he has lost the zing of the book.

What has emerged is nice picture, but one which is not remarkably different from "The Blackboard Jungle" or the now-current "To Sir With Love." "Up the Down Staircase" should have been more than merely a nice little picture. Sandy Dennis plays Sylvia Barrett, the schoolteacher assigned to tough and teeming Calvin Coolidge High School, and Miss Dennis plays Sylvia on two levels. The first is our cherished schoolteacher stereotype, the sweet, virginal, idealistic young thing who ALWAYS THE FINEST IN FOOD SERVICE 32t E. LINDEN AVE. E.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. 381-2070 or 586-9804 turns out to be a lot tougher and more resilient than she first seemed. The second is- based on Miss Dennis' own personal set of idiosyncracies and mannerisms, not as pronounced as they were in "Who's Afraid of Virgin? Woolf?" but enough to make us feel that she needs psychiatric help immediately. She salivates, gulps, strangles, on words, blinks back tears, and stutters stammers, and twitches even before it is necessary for her to react. And because Mulligan and Mosel desired to make a truthfully simple film which would not overly resort to violence and melodrama, she is not given that much to react to.

Much df the anarchy and anger which filled the book has been expunged or watered down in the interests of tidiness, and with it a great deal of the excitement and almost all of the humor. STILL, THE PICTURE has moments. There is a affecting scene" where Sylvia first ignites the spark of imagination in her students with a reading of "A Tale of Two Cities." Up to now, contact has been desultory, but as one boy stumbles through the opening paragraph, and Sylvia interrupts him to point Style," 2:15, 5:50, 9:30. "Chu-ka," 4, 7:35. Lyell "Africa Texas Style," 5:15.

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This scene, played by the class on the stage of the cavernous and now-empty auditorium, has the sharp ring of authenticity. VIXETTE CARROLL COX- trjbutes a deeply moving vignette of bitter passion as a Negro women begging the teacher to pass her foster son, so that he may graduate "not to own cars or drive them, but just work on them." An Jeff Howard as a surly, handsome troublemaker with whom Sylvia desperately attempts to achieve an understanding, and completely inexperienced Ellen O'Mara as a homely, shuffling girl driven to a suicide attempt over love for her teacher, make highly impressive film debuts. Ruth White as the indomi-natable old battleax whose tough grind as a slum teacher is her whole life, Sorrell Booke as the harrassed principal, and Roy Poole as his petty bureaucratic assistant are little short of magnificent, as anyone who has ever gone through the New York public school system can attest. But Patrick Bedrord as the good-looking but insensitive pedagogue who is writing the' novel on the side, and Eileen Heckert as a silly, coquettish teacher, are less successful, only because their roles are not well written and are misdirected, "Up the Down Staircase" is not a bad picture. At moments it is a good one.

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