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22 ASBURY PARK EVENING PRESS, Mar. 4, 1964 Introducing Diana Hyland Fred Friendly Heads CBS News I if 1 i 1- Strasberg, following Diana'f graduation from high school and a season in summer stock. Stock and Soap Her first hit on TV goes all the way back to a Robert Montgomery Show, followed by roles in the Broadway productions of "Sweet Bird of Youth" and "Look Back in Anger." A running role in a TV serial, "Young Dr. Ma-lone," made her self-sufficient while gaining more experience on summer tours. Last season, Dr.

Kildare fell in love with her when she played a gal interne on one of the episodes, but the character chose a residency in surgery over marital bliss with Richard and Diana continued freelancing. While in Hollywood, she was suggested to producer Frank Ross and director Denis Sanders for "One Man's Way," and a quick test con- vinced both men that Diana possesses that certain intangible quality needed for movi stardom. Tune in tonight's "Eleventh Hour" and perhaps you'll understand why, at 27, Diana Hyland is about to become a big star, even if she doesn't care one way or the other. By HARVEY PACK NEW YORK Diana Hyland, one of the most talented actresses to come on the scene since Hollywood decided to mold girls from the Grace Kelly cookie cutter, stars in tonight's "Eleventh Hour" as a gal who's "on" LSD, the drug wheh induces hallucinations. Off screen, the beauteous Diana has no such problems, and pursues her career minus the customary success drive generally considered vital for stardom.

Miss Hyland, a New York based actress who jets to the coast whenever her agent dispatches her to mine a lode of Hollywood's TV guest star gold, is currently being seen nationally co starring with Don Murray in the film "One Man's Way." She plays Mrs. Norman Vincent Peale in the picture, her first and the portrayal evoked positive thinking from film critics coast to coast, a fact that did not surprise those of us who labor on the TV beat and have loved Diana ever since she began popping up on the small screen. Diana hails from Cleveland, 6hio, where her father is an executive with a major food corporation, a fact wich has been magnified so many times Lk" nl i FRED FRIENDLY emy in Cheshire. and Nichols Junior College in Dudley, Mass. He lives in River-dale, N.Y., and is married to the former Dorothy Greene.

They have three children: Andrew, 12, Lisa, 10, and David 8. HYLAND a life or death proposition." One thing her father did finance was private lessons with the Actor's Studio's Lee ta vms TODAY'S ATTRACTIONS Advertised in The Asbury Park Tress WALTER READE-5TERLINO ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE If i 1 ft' it -Tt I A 'i 1 I s) lll MvW 1 MAYFAIR PRE-VIEW TONIGHT at 8:45 OF OUR 1SEXT ATTRACTION! Asbury Park, Mayfair, "Man's Favorite Sport," 2:30, 7, Prev. "Man in the Middle," 9. St. James, "The Victors," 2:35, 7:05, 9:47.

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Bowling Billiards Shore Lanes, Asbury Ave. Circle, Neptune, daily from 9 a.m. Johnston in a scene from "The Streets DIANA in press releases that even Diana sometimes finds herself believing she comes from one of the nation's wealthiest families, i No Help From Home "We're very comfortable," she said with a smile that could melt a glacier, "but I support myself without any subsidy from home. The only real advantage my background gives me is a feeling of security, unusual for an actress, which makes it possible to reject certain roles and not have to grab commercials to pay the rent." Miss Hyland insists that if she met the right man she could easily abandon acting and raise children without any help from an analyst. "I want to be a success," she adds, "but maybe I'm not hungry enough to consider it Howard Hawks iFavorite Barbara Williami (left), Ralston Hill, and Gail cf New York." XXVVNXN ASBURY PARK HAS SOMETHING 41 Y-s XX 'Streets of New A Place for Everything I1 SHOWCASE theWbes I liiiwuw 1 1 NEW YORK-In a surprise move Monday, CBS President Frank Stanton promoted Fred W.

Friendly from his post as executive producer of the "CBS Reports series to tne presidency of the network's news division. Richard S. Salant, who headed the news division until the "effective immediately" announcement, will serve as vice president and special assistant to Stanton. There had been rumors that a change was in the offing, but the announcement in the middle of the day came as a surprise to most in the industry. "Creative Force" Dr.

Stanton, in making the announcemnet, hailed Friendly's outstanding contributions to informational broadcasting during his distinguished career as a producer with CBS News. "Fred Friendly has been one of the genuine creative forces, both in public affairs broadcasting and in television journalism," he noted. Friendly has produced the "CBS Reports" series since its inception in 1959. His role in broadcasting was emphasized in his 1962 Special George Foster Peabody Award, which said, in part: "More than any single individual, he has brought a dynamic meaning to the phrase 'electronic journalism' not only CBS News but the news organizations of other broadcasters and the piblic have been vastly enriched by the remarkable journalism of Fred Friendly." In addition to his duties with "CBS Friendly served as chairman of the three-network production committee which was responsible for the first formal exchange of programming via Telstar satellite between European broad casters and the U.S. in 1962.

Worked With Murrow The "See It Now" series, the forerunner of "CBS Reports" produced jointly by Friendly and Edward R. Murrow, cre ated a new concept in tele vision journalism during the eight vears it was broadcast. Friendly also produced tne Small World" series for tus News with Murrow. Friendly's career in broad casting began 1938 his home town of Providence, R.I., where he conceived, wrote, produced and narrated a series entitled "Footprints in the Sands of Time." His career was interrupted by his service in the Army during World War II, where he was assigned to the Information ahd Education Section and served in the China-Burma-India Theater and in Europe. In 1948 Friendly and Murrow first met, and the result was "I Can Hear It Now," one of the first audo cfrvn-icles of our time, released as a record album by Columbia Records.

This achievement was followed by the "Hear It Now" series of major moments in contemporary history, broadcast on the CBS Radio Network. Friendly was born in New York City on Oct. 30, 1915: studied at Hope High School in Providence, Cheshire Acad- Robert Goulet were married last August, and so far their career demands have postponed a honeymoon. "But after I close here (the Cocoanut Grove) on the 8th I just have one show to do for television, and then I'm going to rest. I plan to just relax and read and regain my perspective," she says.

Then, seriously: "That's the most important thing in the world to me perspective. Figuring out what I want, what I'm willing to do for it, and assessing what I'm doing now. I've got to keep reading, thinking, learning new things about life or just abnut my work. "I could meet all the de NOW AT BOTH THEATRES THE PICTURE THAT AND SAYS IT POWERFULLY ROBERT miTCHUm rnitnnn niiiipn Vj rifitiibE iiimu ESRRy sumo TREVOR, H0UJ3RD JO CWllST KB ENDS TONITI ROCK HUDSON "MAN'S as an unfortunate baker and a feeble butler. However, it's author Grael who keeps turning up in scene after scene and stealing them.

He's Badger, the shady clerk who's not only shady but a Secret Service agent, besides. His "California'' n-umber comes as close to stopping the show as any. In the final analysis, "The Streets of New York" is a fun show and no more. However, there is a place in theater for this kind of offering, just as there is a place for heavy dra- ma, experimental plays, block- buster musicals, and formula situation comedies. An old wives' axiom about everything being in its proper place -applies to theater.

A show if it has anything to offer, will work when presented in the proper place at the right time. For "The Streets of New York," the time is now, and the place is the Maidman "Plus! in NEPTVSE CITY ONLY. JACK LCMMON in FICKT NELSON In 'THE WACKIEST SHIP IN THE ARMY" FILM FESTIVAL OFFERS 'IKIRV RUMSON "Ikiru," a 1959 Japanese film, will be the second offering in the First Unitarian Church's International Film Series at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in the Rumson Fair Haven Regional High School auditorium. Akira Kurosawa, who directed "Rashomon," directed the film which tells of the search for the meaning of life by a man who knows he has only a short time to live.

STRAND THEATRE LAKEWOOD, NJ. MAN'S FAVORITE SPORT' Rock Hudson Paulo Prtntiu GATiS OKU 30 At 7 00 P.M. mi i mo so sun out uiisamivio nonistioo UHIX IVIHI Si! SU SHOO Ml RoeeRtmncwm man nonce nuren in we B3rw suiirvan TReVMHOWftD mDoie' TO ROME' IN COLOR FREE CU HEATERS! i tiw tm nmmjm SPIMIADHHTM HIT! N0W TUES. i 1 FAVORITE SPORT1' fl ST JAMES 33 lllfttSCM COMPANY am E0WAR0 ALPERSON mtur jaeK mmwr LEMMON MacLairVE WILDERS RMluDOU6E PANAVISION ST By BARRY ROBINSON Press Staff Writer NEW YORK "The Streets cf New York" is Besoyan with out bite, which is one reason why the merry, melodic melodrama is going into its sixth month at the Maidman Playhouse while the boards are barren of any Besoyan offering. There Isn't too much differ ence between the type of fare cute uiiTtui uic ijit ui iaib n.hinh Pint Rnan koon serving up for the past few years Mary Sunshine," l-Tho show put together by Barry Alan Grael (book and lyrics) and Richard G.

Chodosh (music). Besoyan's shows are usually parodies of Nelson Eddy-Jean-ette MacDonald operettas, while Grael and Chodosh based their musicale on an old play by Dion Boucicault. Both vary between out-and-out farce and good satire often from moment to moment, and performance to performance but the major difference lies in their choice of targets. Although his shows are usually set in the late 1800's or early 1900's, Besoyan aims his barbs in shotgun-like barrage at a whole variety of present-day targets; he often misses, but it's fun watching him try. Grael and Chodosh, on the other hand, are skilled marksmen, who fire with deadly accurate aim at long-dead targets that can do little to avoid their barbs and even less to return their fire.

However, there's something rice and safe about shooting at clay pigeons, which is why "Student Gypsy" was bombing the barn that is the 54th Street Theatre (capacity 1,434) at about the same time that "Streets was opening to mixed, but mostly enthusiastic, reviews in the petite playhouse (199) at 412 West 42nd St. "Gypsy was a poorly aimed missile that managed, after 5 7 Est I 4T PLUS i MARiLttJ MONROE TDNYCURT15 ONE COMPLETE II MM BILLY TECHNICOLOR Carol Lawrence Busy With A Frantic Career By DAVE SMITH HOLLYWOOD W-Carol Lawrence is a busy little body these days, frantically trying to keep up with the career surge brought on by her role in the musical drama "West Side Story." "And you know what?" she says, "I'm dead on my feet. Soo-o-o tired." The dark-eyed, raven-haired beauty also has been touring and appearing on television as a singer and dancer. And she's busy being a newlywed. She and actor-singer if HOT- fl LYRIC Trrky the show's witticisms; they're not terribly memorable.

Sam- JiTLl1, mother are named Fairweather. It follows, then, that friends of the Fairweathers are Fair-weather friends. (Honest!) The funniest thing in the whole show comes before it begins. Three maidens dressed in gowns with parasols et al stroll to center stage and sing a small ditty about why one ii ii i should not smoke in a theater, They conclude by warning the audlence fat they re caught smoking they 11 be fined $a00, jjcf for theater tickets anywhere' and this was written before the "ice age" scandal broke. So far, we've eliminated memorable music and devastating wit as the reasons for the show's success.

Onward to the plot, which, at its simplest, is a complex montage of contrasts. A 1 i a Bloodgood, leading character and arch villainess, is sweetly icy, while Lucy Fairweather, the afore-mentioned "heroine, is icily sweet. Daddy Gideon Bloodgood is a first rate scoundrel, who commits his various infamies and there are many in the name of good fatherhood; he wants to provide for his daughter's future. About the only unlikable character is Lucy's constantly nagging mother, who insists that her daughter pay her the proper amount of filial devotion which she does little to earn. The hero spends most of the play being unhappily unhcroic and finally has to be aided at the end by one of the sub-villains, who is really a hero-of-sorts in disguise.

I'm not even going to try to outline the plot itself since I'm none too sure it really exists What might happen is that the performers walk onstage nightly costume, armed with their songs and a bare idea about what might be taking place, and iirmrovise madlv. in pretty inconceivable that such delight ful madness could be the result of fore-planning. If any single factor is responsible for the show's success, it has to be the cast, which charges onstage nightly imbued with the spirit of the old college try a highly contagious spirit which soon infects the audience. Barbara Williams, as Alida, is probably the most charming, enchanting villainess to come down the pike in a long time. Whether she's pouting because upper crust society won't let her in, or rubbing her hands in sadistic glee as Daddy Bloodgood tells her how he evicted some "poor people from their homes, she's an utter delight.

Ralston Hill, as Daddy Bloodgood, is a happily robust rascal, who makes Billy Sol Estes look like a spoiled brat. His is the glad hand of friendship in which a dagger is hiddenlest he be crossed. Gail Johnson Is sweet and charmins the wav a Lucy Fair- Nominated for 3 Academy Awards Best Actress: Rachel Roberts Beet Actors: Richard Harrii Albert Finney IPTheM ARINE GRILL A A RICHARD HARRIS nTHDS SPORTING RACHEL ROBERTS STARTS "A GEIl 50ML'k SHOW AT 7:30 Shrimp PA- I 'V several false starts, to get far much the wav that soapbox op-enough off the ground to build eras are pasted together. It's 0 DINO DE LAURENTltS will open For the 30th Season, Friday, March 6th Once again we will be prepared to please you with unparalleled good food served in an otmosphere conducive to gracious dining. We are specialists in the royal family of fish and, of course, we also serve delectable steak, chops and poultry.

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A show with a small overhead and a small house to fill can survive mixed reviews far better thun one that costs a mint to bring into town and has to draw a huge audience nightly if it is to survive. "The Streets of New York" falls into the category of pleasant divertissements and is a pretty good way to spend an evening. You will probably not leave the theater whistling the show's tunes since thev are, for CARY AUDREY uKAINI ncPBURIM Thermodor Stuffed Lobster 1 Boneless Shad and Shad Roe ft MATTHAl JAMES COBURN mands and run myself ragged. But that makes people go stale in their work, besides wearing them out. "That's why performers in any Geld must take the time to look at themselves, as performers and as people." Musing over her longer-range plans, she says: "It's really hard to say which aspect of the business I love the most dancing, singing or acting.

I started as a dancer, of course, but as I get older (she's all of 29 now), the dancing will probably be the first thing to go. Then, I suppose, the voice. So I guess I'll have to rely on acting to carry me over the long haul. "But at that, I'm lucky. No performer trains as hard as a dancer.

Dancing teaches you things about other aspects of performing that you simply don't run across any other way. And it keeps you in good physical condition much longer than most people. "Not too long ago Bob and I were with Harry Belafonte at a Peace Corps camp in Puetro Rico. They had an obstacle course there ropes to climb, slack ropes to walk across and all that and they asked me if I'd like to try it. I'll do anything once, so I did.

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