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sLLOUlSruai-DiSpAitH -W 10, i7 3 Mylcs Standish The New Films Brilliant and Biting Satire PETER WATKINS, the bold young British director who made the startling antiwar quasi-documentary, "The War Game," has turned out a brilliant satire on the pop music industry and an alliance of the Church, politics and the Establishment, in "PRIVILEGE," showing at the BRENTWOOD THEATER. This acid and searing film is based on a story by John Speight, scripted by Norman Bogner. Using again a quasi-documentary technique, with Watkins as narrator, it imagines what could happen in the near future if the Establishment decided C'. 11 III Young patienf being X-rayed with new machine which males eon. tinuous photographic plate of the whole mouth.

She Renee Royer, daughter of Mrs. Rita Royer, 9005 Turquoise drive, Affton. to use an immensely popular singer to curb the growing rebelliousness and tendency to violence among Britain's young people with a "Christian crusade for conformity." The puppet chosen is Steven Shorter, a pop singer who is the idol of hysterical teen-agers. He is played by Paul Jones, himself a pop singer in his screen debut, as a moody, sensitive, intensely introspective youth who seldom smiles and off-stage has all the animation of a zombie. He is introduced in shock opening at a "concert" in Albert Hall, where he is manacled, put into a cage and tormented by brutal actor policemen who supposedly beat him with clubs while he pleadingly sings "Free Me." This sends the spectators into such weeping and hysteria that they, as planned, Help for Children storm the stage and attack the policemen.

1 i mm itt iliiiinnnii Mim ni i iimmmmmmmwrnj The singer is shrewdly manipulated by an oily (Mark London) and a wily song publisher (Max By Ltiter Linck, Post-Dispatch Photographer iWith Cleft Palates ur. woodrow Brien and his son, Ur. Uaniel Brien, examine a patient. Both are orosthodontists Bacon.) Behind them is a board of bankers, headed by connected with the Lesley Cleft Palate and Oral Cancer Rehabilitation Center at Washington Univerjfty. Center Here Corrects Defects So Youngsters Can Speak Normally By Manuel Chait Of the Post-Ditpatch Staff UNDER THE CONFIDENT GAZE of Dr.

L. Woodrow O'Brien, 7-year-old David slipped the plastic device into his mouth and for the first time in his young life spoke intelligibly and without embarrassment. "Is it comfortable?" asked Dr. O'Brien. "Yes, it feels fine," replied David.

Dr. O'Brien told the boy to remove the device so he could adjust one of the gold clasps that anchor the device to the teeth, much like a partial plate. As he worked he asked the boy about his work in second grade. David started to speak, this time swallowing hard and displaying the shy self-consciousness i a 1 of the cleft palate individual. His words were nasal sounding, muffled almost beyond comprehension.

Cleft palate, a cleavage in the roof of the mouth, is one of the most common congenital defects; one in every 750 babies is bora with it. Medical research, ers can create the defect in laboratory animals, but thus far are unable to explain with certainty its cause. Young David is one of the 85 per cent of the persons born with cleft palate whose difficulties cannot be corrected completely at birth. "These have become the forgotten children," observed Dr. O'Brien, a prosthodontist and director of the Lasky Cleft a 1 a and Oral Cancer Rehabilitation Center at Washington University.

"Because they fail to get early and complete treatment, they are almost certain to develop relat- torted. "It is all so unnecessary," observed Dr. O'Brien. "Duo to their appearance, these persons soon withdraw from normal human contact and are lost in our highly competitive society." Young David can anticipate a brighter future. Outfitted with speech aid that makes up for the lack of a functional soft palate, the boy can control the flow of air when forming words in his mouth.

With intelligible speech, confidence will develop. As he grows to manhood he will be fitted with successively larg. er speech aids. In the meantime the orthodontist will guard against any dental calamities and the speech pathologist will correct any incorrect speaking habits. Intensely dedicated to his work, Dr.

O'Brien takes justifiable pride in the progress being made at the center. "Hearing youngsters begin to speak with clarity, seeing them smile with-o embarrassment, knowing that they are beginning to succeed in school is wonderful to behold," he said. "When one sees little children doing for the first time the things everyone can do, there is satisfaction in knowing that these children who just didn't belong before are now on their way toward life in which they can communicate, participate and achieve, find love, happiness and a sense of fulfillment." medical expertise brought to bear on the patient's physical and emotional problems. Surgery may range from the relatively simple closure of a cleft lip a condition that some-times accompanies the cleft palate-to extensive oral surgery for cancer. Similarly, the prosthodontist may be called upon to make a speech aid such as that needed by young David or a lifelike mask for a cancer patient.

Not surprising, months and even years of work by the orthodontist and speech pathologist may be required before a patient is truly rehabilitated. MOST IMPORTANTLY, the center has proved to be a valuable teaching and research facility. There seems to be an inexhaustible supply of potential patients many with neglected problems supporting Dr. O'Brien's contention that too few dentists and physicians are aware of the rehabilitative work that can be performed today. By way of example he cited the case of a young man who had undergone an operation for cleft palate as an infant but who had received little subse-q care.

Tension resulting from the formation of scar tissue from the operation had caused his upper jaw to collapse. He developed appalling dental problems, eating had become extremely uncomfortable. Gradually, his face became dis- cold and ruthless man (William Job) who reaches an agreement with the coalition government to use the idol for its own purposes. First, Steve's image is changed to one of repentance for his past misdeeds in stirring up his fans. He is used to sell goods and set styles.

One superb sequence shows the making of a silly commercial urging Britons to eat six apples a day to use up an overproduced crop. In another, dignified churchmen listen, mostly approvingly, while a combo knocks out "Onward Christian Soldiers," with the Big Beat. There is a frightfully real, gigantic evangelistic rally at a Birmingham sports stadium where the new Steve whips the people into a religious frenzy amid blazing pageantry chillingly reminiscent of Hitler's Nuremberg rallies and a clergyman with a fanatic gleam in his eyes teaches the crowd to chant, "We will conform," while crosses burn and the combo gives Steve a Nazi-like salute. As Steve attempts to cure the maimed and the ill who flock to him, it becomes clear he is being raised by his idolators to the status of a deity. Steve, bewildered by the hypocrisy and tortured by his conscience, breaks dcwn when with the only sympathetic person around him, a girl who is painting his portrait, and is comforted in her arms.

He rebels in a ceremony in which he is presented with a platinum statue which poses him in a Christ-like attitude, and blurts out over television that he hates them all. He is immediately broken by the Establishment, deserted by his disillusioned fans, and in a year has been forgotten. This supremely cynical film has harsh power and a devastating bite. Its scenes have been vividly composed by Watkins and filmed in exceptionally good color by Peter Suschitzky. Its acting is skillfully naturalistic with the exception of the playing of the girl artist by Jean Shrmp-ton, a model who has lush beauty, but isn't much of an actress and whose tiny voice can scarcely be heard.

by the Pinch-Hitters, an organization of wives and associates of professional baseball players. More recently, a group of housewives, the a a club, pledged $5000 to equip the center's dental laboratory. Dr. 0 'B I serves as the only full-time staff member at the a time-consuming role that has all but forced him to ignore his private practice. Much of his time is spent devising intricate prosthetic devices that enable a youngster with cleft palate to speak coherently or permit an adult who has undergone radical oral surgery to eat and drink normally.

Facing difficult prosthetic demands is not a new challenge for Dr. O'Brien. In World War II he served with other Washington University Medical School physicians and dentists in the twenty-first General Hos-p i a 1 Unit. Stationed first in North Africa and later in France, Dr. O'Brien, as chief of dental prosthetics, frequently found it necessary to fashion unusual devices for servicemen with severe facial and jaw injuries.

SOON AFTER returning from the war, Dr. O'Brien was called upon to treat his first cleft palate patient at the dental school. Laboratory equipment was lacking, as was medical personnel trained i cleft palate work. The experience convinced him of the need for a comprehensive treatment center. Today, each patient at the center is treated by a team headed by Dr.

O'Brien and including a plastic surgeon, ortho. dontist and speech pathologist. Treatment is co-ordinated, with ed physical problems and crushing psychological burdens unable to take part in classroom discussions, mimicked by other youngsters, sometimes even rejected by their parents." Essentially, cleft palate is a product of faulty development. The palate, like the skull, grows laterally. In normal fetal development, the sections of the palate are joined by the eighth week.

An infant born with a cleft in the hard palate (the roof of the mouth) or the soft palate (the fleshy part that continues to the back of the throat) is prevented from sucking. Surgery is performed in the first few weeks, using tissue from elsewhere in the mouth to close the cleavage. IN ABOUT 15 per cent of the cases, the single operation will be sufficient to correct the defect and preclude future difficulties. In the others, however, the magnitude of the cleft or accompanying complications will necessitate treatment over a period of years. Few get it.

Eighty-five patients have begun or completed treatment at the Lasky Center since it was opened 18 months ago in the Washington University School of Dentistry. Because comprehensive treatment centers for cleft palate are scarce, persons arrive from hundreds of miles away seeking aid. For the most part, however, the patients are referred from the dental school clinic or by private physicians and dentists. Many are from in. digent families, unable to pay the barest cost.

No one thus far has been turned away, despite the cost of treatment, which can reach $15,000. For 20 years Dr. 'B 1 Play Bridge By Jerry Levitt E3 Paul Newman in a Chain Gang "COOL HAND LUKE," at the FOX and ST. ANN CINEMA, is another, and grimmer, look at society's efforts to impose conformity upon a rebel. This is a stubborn fellow, superbly played by Paul Newman, whose tragedy is tute declarer to misread the actual situation.

Declarer wins the first diamond and plays three more rounds. What do you discard on the fourth diamond? What about a high spade? If declarer is missing the queen, he may become apprehensive about taking a subsequent finesse and choose an alternate plan. If declarer is looking for his thirteenth trick, you can see by your holding that the club suit is going to behave for him. If he holds dummy's fourth club will be high. Why not throw some more dust? On his play of the club king and queen, casually drop the ten and jack, creating the impression of a doubleton.

With clubs apparently not splitting favorably, declarer may decide to finesse dummy's eight, rather than attempt the spade finesse. You surely can't lose and you may win. False carding is good only when it cannot possibly confuse your partner. Unfortunately, it has little effect in beginners' games, where tittle attention is paid to spot cards. NORTH A 2 Q76 10 3 2 A862 WEST EAST a 9 7 8 6 4 3 5 4 3 2 10 9 8 9 8 5 7 6 4 7 5 4 10 9 SOUTH 10 5 AKJ A KQ3 South West North East 2 NT pass 3 pass 3 pass 6 NT pass 7 NT pass pass pass OPENING LEAD -diamond nine.

The sequence by which North-South reached their grand slam is worthy of comment. Holding 13 high-card points, North realized the partnership was well within slam range. He knew his partner held between 22 and 24 high-card points. If this holding were minimum, North was will ADVERTISEMENT that he cannot be made to conform to anything, laws, rules, even the society of his fellow-prisoners, and ends up dead of bullet wounds. Luke is a born rebel sent to a Southern chain-gang for breaking off the tops of parking meters in a drunken spree.

His cool insolence antagonizes not onJy the tried repeatedly to establish the center, but was told by university officials that the financially pressed dental school could ill afford to underwrite the costs. Then, in 1965, Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Greenspon donated $250,000 in memory of Mrs. Greenspon's parents, Jacob and Mary Lasky, to establish the center.

Contributions remain its primary source of income. A women's auxiliary sponsors fund raising events and the center was the recipient of proceeds from a benefit ball staged Preserve New Carpet Look It's easy. Simply remove spots and traffic paths as they appear with safe and satisfying Blue Lustre. Leaves beaten down nap at doorways bright, open and fluffy. Blue Lustre can keep new carpets beautiful for years.

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His repeated attempts to escape result only in capture, brutal beating, and the "hot box," but he won't give up until the rifle of a chief guard cuts him down as he tries to surrender. His tragedy is that his indomitable spirit is never used for anything positive, merely in blind rebellion. Director Stuart Rosenberg has made this far above the cut of the ordinary chain-gang motion picture. His fluid camera, working in close for telling expressions, has caught the sweat and the monotony of work of digging ditches and scything weeds, the harsh but sometimes surprisingly boisterous life of the prisoners, the ominous lock of the silent chief guard, his gaunt face impassive, with eyes hidden by black sunglasses. Instead of the usual stereotypes, the prisoners merge as varied and interesting individuals.

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