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Great Celestial Show Is On the Way Dickson Terry The New Films Cay Frolic Among the Cockneys NOW THAT MOVIES have become so International, the British, the Irish and the Americans ere going to have to get together and work out some common language that each can understand. EDMONTON 2:49 p. m. 9 WINNIPEG -N SEATTLE 4:15 p.m. 1 :39 p.m.

'law iil I a Mr a i icay: HELENA OTTAWA 3:00 p. In the otherwise excellent "Playboy of the Western World" a few weeks back, the ears of American audiences were assaulted by Irish dialect so thick that much of the dialogue was unintelligible. Now, at the APOLLO, we have another very good picture called "SPARROWS CAN'T SING," which is a slightly wild and MINNEAPOL1STN 4:28 B.m. DETROIT kfumcb' 5:41 p. SALT LAKE CITY CHICAGO, 3:08 p.

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WORTH i. MIAMI: m. L1 4:44 :6 09 p. VJpNEW ORLEANS $LJ? ol-" Total eclipse of the sun in 1959. This picture was taken from a plane 21,000 feet up.

This year's eclipse will be. total along a narrow corridor extending from Japan across Alaska. Canada and Maine to the Middle Atlantic. Tha magnitude and the tima of the July 20 maximum eclipse for a number of cities are shown on this map. St.

Louis will see 67 per cent of the sun obscured at 4:42 p.m. The next total eclipse after this one will not occur until 1970. wacky frolic taking place in London, but the cockney dialect is such that at times the actors might as well have been talking Greek. It is so baffling, in fact, that the American distributors of the film have tacked on subtitles in plain English here and there so that audiences will know what the actors are talking about. Aside from that, or rather, in spite of that, "Sparrows Can't Sing," is an amusing and often hilarious picture, done with such verve and vigor that the dialogue doesn't really matter too much.

The story centers around Charlie, a handsome, hard-drinking, free-wheeling young Irish sailor, just home after a two-year cruise. His arrival creates consternation for his family, friends in fact, his whole neighborhood. For one thing, it seems that on his last leave he virtually wrecked London's East Side. For another, nobody wants to be the one to have to tell him that his wife, Maggie, has taken up with a headstrong, footsore bus driver named Bert, who, himself, is on temporary leave from his own wife. Charlie's family, friends and the whole blooming neighborhood conspire to keep Charlie from finding out about Maggie and Bert.

But Charlie, insisting on his "conjoogal rights," roars around the neighborhood until he finds her. Even then he thinks that the only thing between them is the free-for-all fight which ended his last leave on shore, and all the neighbors even the youngsters follow Charlie's trail, living in anticipation of the moment when he learns the truth and comes face to face with Bert. When the picture mounts to a crazy and unexpected end, one realizes there hasn't been much of a plot. But one also realizes he has been taken on a fast, entertaining and amusing trip through the lives of London's lower classes, a trip filled with sights, sounds and action into which the cockney constellation of relatives, friends and hangers-on has been expertly woven into a gratifying experience. The actors are James Booth as Charlie, Barbara Windsor as Maggie and, in other beautifully acted roles, George Sewell, Roy Kinnear, Murray Melvin and Griffith Davies.

Walt Disney Warms Our Hearts "SUMMER which is now showing at LOEW'S MID-CITY, is another of those Walt Disney confections for the family which will delight the kiddies and warm the hearts of the adults. North America to Have a Ringside Seal To See an Eclipse of the Sun on July 20 ring of sunlight around the moon at mid-eclipse. An eclipse has great scientific value, for only then can certain my at Smith. Mount Holyoke, Wellesley and Arizona State College before joining the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in lOfil. The Tiros 6 weather satellite will help provide special information for scientists in connection with the eclipse.

The satellite is scheduled to photograph the area of totality throughout the entire period -of the eclipse. Cloud maps based on its photographs will be available at Weather Bureau stations. The bureau will release forecasts of cloud conditions and possible rain 24 hours in advance of the eclipse. More detailed special bulletins will be issued on eclipse day from stations at Bangor and Portland, and at Boston. A meteorologist from the Boston forecast center will be based at Bangor to collect and analyze weather reports for eclipse watchers.

Driving Nails Nails driven in at a slight angle have a good deal more holding power than if driven in perfectly straight. of space flight, or It may be Navy Comdr. Alan Shepard Jr. Miss Gill said that she had discussed the choice with Air Force Maj. Donald K.

Slayton, assignment director for the astronaut team, and they had agreed to keep the selection secret until just before the flight-primarily because of the possibility of last-minute changes in plans. Training in astronomy is becoming increasingly important for astronauts as they move from the Mercury program into the more advanced Gemini and Apollo programs, Miss Gill said. She prepared an astronomy curriculum for the astronauts some time ago. But she said they were so preoccupied with the other facets of their missions that they have been "not too interested" in the Gill course. Astronaut instruction in astro-nomy has consisted of little more than a weekend at Moore-head Planetarium at Chapel Hill, N.

and a last-minute briefing before a flight. Miss Gill, who received her Dortor of Philosophy degree at Yale University, taught astrono WASHINGTON, July 12 From FoHt-nUpatrh Wire Sprrlrri NO ONE WILL HAVE to stay up late to see this year's big celestial show an eclipse of the sun on July 20. All over North America observers will see varying pnrtiohs of the sun covered by the moon for two hours or more. The path of total eclipse begins in Japan, crosses Alaska, Canada and Maine, touches southern Nova Scotia and ends in mid-Atlantic, Two to five solar eclipses occur each year, but from any one place a total eclipse is visible only about three times in 1000 years. Thirteen total eclipses cross or touch part of North America in this century.

After this one, the next will be in 1970. When and where the mile-long conical shadow of the moon touches the earth, the sun Is blotted out for up to eight minutes. Although the moon passes between the earth and sun once a mnnth, at the new mnnn period, the lunar orbit is usually ton far north or south of the earth to cause an eclipse. When the monn is near apogee farthest from the earth on its orbit and at the new phase, the tip of the shadow is above the earth. Astronomers call this an annular (ring) eclipse, after the sizes, and shoot at 1-100 second.

In black-and-white the time is 1-200 at f-16. Vary the aperture and time combination to get a selection of pictures. With color movie film, shoot at 16 frames per second and Ml. Those lucky enough to be In the path of totality should remember to remove the filter to take pictures during the minute-long total phase. Over 100,000 professional and amateur astronomers will travel to the path of totality, 30 to 50 miles wide.

Some will get there by boating in rivers in northern Canada; others will go by truck and car over gravel roads; still others by airlift. AH will be seeking to witness a portion nf the four hours and 50 minutes of total eclipse possible on the earth in this century. One of the seven Mercury astronauts will take a high-flying look at the eclipse, and he will be accompanied by a woman In the course of an eclipse-tracking flight in a jetliner laboratory eight miles above the earth, Miss Gill will explain to the astronaut what they see through various instruments. Some of these instruments may be carried in future two-man Gemini flights through space. The eclipse will permit a study of the sun's corona the luminous outer envelope of gas and the chromosphere, or red incandescent layer of sun'i atmosphere below the corona.

will try to estimate how far out from the sun the equatorial streamers are going," Miss Gill said. "We will watch for comets and we will be looking at the moon's shadows on the earth. This should add to the astronaut's experience with a dim sky, and make him aware what a solar corona is." The astronaut will report back to his colleagues the technical information gained from the flight. The astronaut pas may be Navy Lt. Comdr.

Scott Carpenter, who is perhaps the most Interested of. the astronauts in the scientific aspects aspects of the radiation of our nearest star be studied. Albert Einstein's theory that star light would be bent if it passed near the sun was confirmed at a 1952 eclipse. Observing the eclipse is simple, but ample protection for the eyes is vital. Smoked glass can transmit Invisible, eye-damaging radiation, doctors warn.

Dark glasses do NOT afford adequate protection. Several layers of heavily exposed and developed photographic film provide sufficient density for safety. Viewers are urged never to look at the sun through binoculars or a telescope. Eclipse photography, through a No. 4 or 5 neutral density filter, should yield the best photographs.

Here is a rough guide for color transparency or negative film: Set the camera at f-11 for 35mm; for larger his one is a story about a recently widowed mother of three children, determinedly cheerful in the face of it all, who discovers that the family was left with virtually nothing. They're about to have to move from their nire home to the proverbial hovel, when the daughter has an idea. She recalls a handsome old vellow nirnrnyuio CONTINUES LUCn lO astronomer. She Is Miss Jocelyn R. Gill, 42-year-old Wellesley College graduate, who hopes to generate a little more interest in astronomy among the Contract Bridge its 77th Birthday Sale With Spectacular B.

Jay Becker house in a small town called Bculah, which the family once visited on vacation. The house has been standing empty for years. She writes to the postmaster and weaves a sad story about the family's plight. The kindly old postmaster, who turns out to be none other than Burl Ives and who is more or less in charge of the house, as well as everything else in town, agrees to let them rent it for a mere $60 a year. He conveniently forgets to tell the owner, who is away in China and who hardly ever comes home anyway.

A good part of the picture is devoted to the family's fixing up the house, getting adjusted to life in the country and feuding with an orphan cousin who comes to live with them. The denouement comes when Mr. Hamilton, the owner of the place, comes home unexpectedly. He turns out to be a handsome young man, and he also turns out to be a good sport, so everything turns out for the best, as it always does In a Walt Disney movie. By and large the proceedings are a bit sticky, but the picture has Hayley Mills, a very gifted young girl and the idol of the popcorn set, as well as Eddie Hodges, who shares the same kind of popularity.

Ives gives a very good performance as the kindly old postmaster and town do-gooder, and a youngster named Michael Pollard is captivating as Ives's son. Between them they weave a sort of summer magic spell which leaves you feeling that the world can't be all bad. Rather pleasant, in fact. Boy Meets Girl, Loses Girl, Gets Girl "BYE BYE BIRDIE," which is now showing at the ST. LOUIS, starts out to be a hilarious satire on the Elvis-type rock and roll singers and their swooning teen-age audiences Jewelry (1) You are declarer with the West hand at Pour Spades.

North leads the queen of hearts. How would you play the hand? 4 A 10 8 2 K94 A6 A93 A J974 A62 J853 Q8 (2) You are declarer with the West hand at Six Diamonds. North leads the ace of hearts and continues with a heart. How would you play the hand? of the contract by making the proper discard at this point. Discard a club on the king of hearts and draw the adverse trumps.

Then cash the ace of clubs. If both opponents follow suit, the hand becomes a certainty regardies of how the remaining clubs are divided. Assume a 4-1 break, for example. Play the ten of clubs to the king and ruff a ciub. Then enter dummy with a spade and ruff another club.

This establishes the jack, on which you later discard your spade loser. If you were to make the mistake of discarding a spade on the king of hearts, you would subject yourself to guessing how to play the clubs later to pick up the queen. You might guess right, of course, but you would be running an unnecessary risk. The club discard at trick two makes the hand completely foolproof except in one case when South has all five clubs and this possibility is much too remote to be seriously considered. New value-packed models! "S-ET? 1 riJ Big family sizes! See the 1 ftfo mm 1 il 7A MIS refrigerator that doesn't cara i I IP i HJi ANh) how often you open its door, I UU i even up to 75 times a I 1 I the "Instant Cold" Philco I Dtrmrt fl I yy HBlCllffi lis 6Sf i AK7 KJ KJ4 KJ632 963 AQ10852 4, A 10 9 but somewhere along the way it loses its bearings and turns into just another musical.

It all starts when a singer named Conrad Birdie, who swivels his hips, plays the guitar, wears cowboy suits made of cloth of gold, and who is the idol of every teen-age girl in the land, suddenly gets drafted. This brings universal sorrow to the 'm'mt jj mT Illustration Enlarged fO a FLY TO VV4 I i'JjLl rT; 9 To Show Details (1) Win the heart with the king and play a low club towards the queen. If North has the king, the best he can do is take it and return a heart. Win it w'ith the ace, cash the queen of clubs, play a diamond to the ace, and discard a heart from dummy on the ace of clubs. You then make four or five, depending on whether or not the spade finesse succeeds.

If it turns out that South has the king of clubs, you still have a chance of making the contract. Assume South takes the queen of clubs and returns a heart. Win it in dummy and lead the jack of spades and finesse. If the finesse loses, you go down, but at least you've given yourself two chances to make the contract. It would be wrong to win the opening lead in dummy and take the spade finesse at that point.

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And from the files of the Conrad Birdie fan club, she selects an Ohio girl to be kissed by Conrad on the show. Symbolically, he will be kissing every teen-age girl in the land goodby. The impact of Conrad Birdie on the little town of Sweet Apple, 0., provides some of the best comedy in the picture. He arrives, along with a retinue, all on high-powered motorcycles. His followers stand with guitars crossed as he mounts the courthouse steps, and as he strikes the first chord on his guitar and sings his first note, the mayor's wife faints dead away.

Equally funny is the scene in which the teen-age girls, with hands to their hearts, solemnly take the Conrad Birdie pledge to be always loyal to Conrad Birdie and the United States of America. A good deal of the plot has to do with the question, will Van Pyke's song get on the Ed Sullivan show, or won't it? This creates a certain amount of suspense and certain amount of comedy. There is a lot of singing and dancing in between, most of it by teen-age boys and girls. Much of the show's success is due to the cast. Van Dyke is good as the song writer, Miss Leigh is pretty and clever as his secretary.

A young girl named Ann-Margret is very assured in the role of the teen-ager from Ohio, and Bobby Rydell performs and sings capably as her jealous boy friend. The two funniest performances are those of Maureen Stapleton as Van Dyke's possessive mother, and Paul Lynde as Ann-Margret'i long-suffering, small-town father. Ed Sullivan is till Ed Sullivan. Bill Vaughan Says NOW SCIENCE THINKS that man is 2,000,000 years old. But not 2,000,000 years smart.

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