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Myles Standish The New Films Satire on Marital Straying ALTHOUGH IT is about a young married man teaching an older married man all of the fine points on how to cheat on -his wife with impunity, "A GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN," at the FOX THEATER, is singularly inoffensive. That is because director Gene Kelly and scripter Frank Tarloff have approached the subject on such a broad satirical basis and loaded it with so many laughs that it can't be taken seriously by even the most strait-laced. Rather it can be hugely enjoyed as an extension of those racy black-out skits the big stage revues were full of 30 and 40 years I I V- ago. Walter Matthau is an investment counselor and typical prosperous suburbanite, who is still very much in love with his sweet wife, Inger Stevens, but is disturbed by all the girls he sees in tight dresses, particularly a wiggly married siren, (Sue Ane Langdon) who lives across the street. A friend (Robert Morse), guesses his predicament, and with Satanic glee, eggs him on to wander, giving him an extended lecture on all the pitfalls to be avoided so he won't be caught.

Morse is an expert, and explains piously he is so careful because he loves his wife (Claire Kelly) and wants to protect her from the shock of finding out what a Lothario he is. His scientific lectures are illustrated with flashback skits played by a raft of expert comedians among them Wally Cox, Art Carney, Lucille Ball, Phil Silvers, Louis Nye, Ben Blue, Polly Bergen, Terry-Thomas, the late Jayne Mansfield, Joey Bishop and Jack Benny. Almost all of the skits are ingenious, merry and clever. One of the funniest is Joey Bishop's practice of the technique of absolute denial even though caught in flagrante delicto by his wife. The film ends in a tongue-in-cheek paean to virtue as Matthau comes out of his first timorous adventure pure and unsullied and his Mephistopheles, Morse, gets his comeuppance.

Brutal and Sadistic IT IS NOT ONLY THAT "THE DIRTY DOZEN," at LOEWS STATE and CINEMA is a preposterous film in its idea that an American general would order a dozen convicted soldier murderers and rapists trained to carry out a highly important commando mission before D-day. Jack Bergman proved pilot was right. One-Night Stand As a Wing Walker St. Louis Engineer Volunteers For Stunt at July 4 Air Show VJ By Jack Rice Of the Post-Dispatch Staff A 32-YEAR-OLD industrial engineer, Jack Bergman, will do a wing-walk in the air show preliminary to the Fourth of July fireworks display on the riverfront. Bergman assumes that at the end of the act he will have the good judgment to retire from the field, thereby ending a wing-walking career of about 10 minutes.

Bergman has not done a walking, wing-walk before. When I called The salesman's fervor seemed By a Post-Dispatch Photographer Bergman prepares to climb onto the upper wing of a biplane. That is only silly. But the picture's glorification of these swaggering, vicious criminals as heroes, its constant ridicule of discipline and authority and its depiction of the sadistic zeal with which the party goes about murdering German officers and their women in a rest home are grossly distaste to make Bergman envious, wishing he could bring the same conviction to bear on wing-walking. The best we could do was arrive at the incomplete answer that Bergman will walk the wing because it's there.

He never has felt obliged to climb a mountain for that reason, but Bergman's hobby is falling, not climbing, and some esthetic sense can be made of his simultaneous debut and re- on him at the offices of the Nooter Corp. we spent an hour in a glass-partitioned confer ence room, asking one another why he will do this one. In the adjoining room, a traveling salesman was trying to sell a Nooter purchasing agent a million or so tons of something or other, and the salesman's persuasive voice occasionally rose and came through to us as we talked of wing- tirementasa wing-walker, come the glorious Fourth. Bergman's hobby is parachute jumping. He has made more than 900 jumps, beginning with 23 when serving with the Eleventh Airborne Division.

He was a founder of the Greater St. Louis Parachute Club in 1956 and several times has been its president. He was the right adventurer for a Famous-Barr man to call on for help in putting together an adr show to keep the gathering crowd on the riverfront amused before darkness falls and makes the annual fireworks display look good. The Famous-Barr man hired a stunt pilot from Iowa for the aerobatics and asked the flyer to recommend an added decoration, a wing-walker. The flyer asked if there is a parachute club in St.

Louis. Told that there is, the pilot said the wing-walker supply was right at hand. "You just call someone in the club," he said, "and tell him you want a wing-walker and ask for a volunteer. I'll bet nobody in the club's ever done it before, but half of them will trample over one another trying to be first in line to do it." The Famous-Barr man feet-firm on the wing for the same reason that water remains in a bucket when the bucket is swung around and around. He won't wear a parachute, not just because he has all that much faith in positive gravity and water staying put in fast-swung buckets, but because the Stearman will be flying rather low over the Mississippi.

In the conference room next door, the salesman seemed to be stating his case well with the purchasing agent; Bergman looked their way again, still envious. "A lot of people," he said, "make one parachute jump and no more. But they've got to do it once, they think. I guess I feel the same way about wing-walking." were diving hard themselves, at the time, but not so spectacularly. Bergman was disappointed.

He had made survey flights of the stadium and was certain he could score a clean double, a spot landing on second base. So now he has the consolation of a wing-walk over the Mississippi. Actually, it will be a wing-stand. He will stand on the center of the top wing of a Stearman, and that is a comforting platform. The Stearman biplane is the old gray mare of the air, never in a hurry but sure to get where it's going without a stumble along the way.

Bergman will be held in place by lines attached to the wing and to his parachute harness, and by the positive gravity of snap rolls and outside loops. That means he will stay thought that the stunt pilot had been flying upside down too long, but he called Bergman anyway and asked if he would poll the parachute club for a wing-walker. Bergman said, "Absolutely not." "Why not," asked the caller, feeling smug about the comparative insight of young executives and old pilots. "Because," said Bergman, "I want to do it myself." Sitting in the conference room ait Nooter, Bergman speculated that he might be trying to make up to himself for last year's disappointment. He was booked to make a jump into Busch Stadium, between games of a dou-bleheader, but somebody canceled the act.

Professional jeal- ousy, perhaps. The Cardinals! Play Bridge By Jerry Levitt ful, sometimes revolting. In the first place, there is no necessity for Ernest Borg-nine, as a rough-and-ready general, to pick the unreliable and rebellious criminals for the mission and put them through a six-month training course when any commando outfit could have done the job immediately, and better. But this absurdity compounded by the feats of the sneering convicts in showing up a martinet colonel (Robert Ryan) and a foolish major Kennedy) in a war game, and the blood-lust which they let loose in a prolonged sequence of violence as they parachute down and attack the Nazi rest home. We are treated to such exhibitions as a drooling Telly Savalas, as a religious fanatic and psychotic degenerate, dis-emtoowling a terrified prostitute and the raiders pouring gaso- line down an air vent to a bomb shelter, then gleefully setting it afire as the Germans and their concubines are fried Inside.

What grist for the Communist propaganda mills this picture could make! Responsbility must be borne by Robert Aldrich's heavy-handed 'violence-prone direction and the crude script by Lu- kas Heller and Nunnally Johnson. But the chief star, Lee I Marvin, extricates himself favorably from the mess with a tense and realistic performance of the tough infantry major who trains the commando group. Among others involved are Robert Webber as a colonel, John Cassavetes as a psychopath I under death sentence, Charles Bronson as a treacherous kill- er, football star Jim Brown as a white-hating Negro, Trini 'Lopez as a defiant criminal, towering Clint Walker as the least obnoxious of the dozen, and Richard Jaeckel as a hard sergeant. Neil Simon Farce ALTHOUGH "BAREFOOT IN THE PARK" opened last week at the ESQUIRE, this writer was on vacation and caught up with it belatedly. It is certainly worth catching up with, as is as hilarious and pleasantly zany a farce as it 'A was 'n tne howling stage success by Neil WEST EAST 4 109 4AK42 A73 8 6 42 A83 107 AK4 J73 West North East South INT pass 2 pass 2 a pass 3 pass 4 a) pass pass pass proper play will insure a contract.

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And don't overlook the comic talent of tall Herbert Edelman as the friendly telephone man. There are some technical flaws in the direction of his first film by Gene Saks, and some uneven editing and matching of scenes but that's lost in the laughter. Ann Landers Speeding Teen-Agers DEAR ANN LANDERS: Last weekend, five teen-agers from our town were killed in an automobile accident. Four of these kids were friends of mine. One was an only child and two were brothers.

The driver was going at a very high rate of speed and he lost control of the wheel. The car went through 25 guardrail posts and down a 40-foot embankment. Every kid in the automobile had a broken neck. The funerals were like nightmares. You can't imagine the grief of the parents and grandparents and brothers and sisters of those kids who were killed.

Classmates and friends felt awful, but in a few weeks we will get over the sadness and think about something else. For the families of the kids who died, the pain will go on for a long, long time maybe forever. I just hope you will urge all teen-agers everywhere to ask themselves, this terrible thing have happened to me?" I admit I've been guilty of speeding and I have been in cars when the driver was going too fast. I was just luckier than the kids in the death car. Please print my letter.

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