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PHILADELPHIA CAILT NEWS KCNDAT, AFBIL 15EJ 3 One Role Changes Career Kennedy No Longer Face in By VERNON SCOTT HOLLYWOOD (UPI). OnepLuke. came ionc." Kennedy his pre-'Luke' salary That sincla Dart in an stfon- tion-eeltins movie rame tn George Kennedy. The dream is JacE O'Brian Great Dane Vic Knows the Score NEW YORK. Nothing like a Dane: Victor Borge will write, compose the music, score it and star in a new movie.

Fire character actor Sidney Blackmer's eye okay after delicate retina surgery Always a handsome gent, Sidney was a true matinee idol in his acting youth. In a play with Chester Morris, Chester had a line which brought Blackmer into the plot: "Here comes your Greek god." Always the "regular fellow, Sidney demurred at the line and asked Chester if he might quietly part in one attention-getting movie is the dream of a thou sand good actors who cannot detach themselves from the mass of unknown faces that cross movie and television screens. That part and that -movie' came along for Ucorge Kennedy. On the strength of his role in: "Cool Hand Luke," the brawny, unorettv Kennedy has won a nomination for Best Supporting: Actor this year HIS COMPETITION is Cecil Kellaway Who's Com ing To John Cas- f(, I- Seven," playing 1 ,1 il Kla conDle ana1original movie." shift its emphasis to something less embarrassing; Chester said sure Next night Chester's bring-on line went like this: "Here comes your God!" Debbie Reynolds' announcement she wants to Etar in "The Apple Tree" film (part of it about Adam Eve) brought this barbed reply from its stage star SANDY DENNIS compulsive buyer TV'' 1 iv TWO HEADS ARE TWICE AS GOOD Star cf Broadway' musical hit "Mame" Angela Lansbury fleft) and her replacement Janis Paige get their heads together at cast party in New York. Miss Lansbury has left Broadway show after 775 performances and will go to San Francisco where will head up cast in same musical.

Miss Faige takes over Broadway role tonight. DEBBIE REYNOLDS forming triangle? Barbara Harris: "It will be the firrt time a triangle reared its head in the Garden of Eden." Septuagenarian star William Powell's ailing and former actress Virginia Val- 14. 1 1 chair, so their mates (Mou- sie Powell and silent star Charles Farrell) do the Palm Springs social duties together. a Crowd realized. More imjv llsr George has the tdlcnt ard drive to continue to me Oscar cr no.

NOW AFPEABIN6 WES MONTGOMERY SAT. MATINEE 4 PM IAr.MM.'.i,i,u.iirt i sALTImhOS i.rm iaii4- I lusuaHy playing beavies, before roir.ir. he has a fat part in "The Bos- ton Strangler." "THE NOMINATION Is flat- terms, and I appreciate the honor. But win. lose or draw.

the nomination makes me hap- py ror wnai aone aireaay. "ActuaHy, the major change took place before the nomma- tion. The people who hire ac- saw LuRe on the Bel-Air Circuit and the offers began' coming into my agent "Since then I had a big role in now the 'Stran-j and in a few weeks I play, the lead in "Quest of the Mag-: the1 the! role Yule Brynner bad in Kennedy will never win any beauty contest. His features are u.usi-uidr an l- nd DUl. 15 can act.

He harbors no desires of be- "I'M PERFECTLY HAPPY to shoot for character he said. "Look at Wallace1 Beery. Still, if the script calls for me to win the girl even the way I look, I'm not against that either." Kennedy feels he already Is at the stage for proving himself again. Art hough he has worked in television and movies for eight years, he feels no security in his new popularity with producers and casting directors. "There is no cliche so true in Hollywood as the one about being only as good as your last picture," be explained.

But Kennedy's last pictures have been a continual progression of success. Economically, he is earning more than double Father of Abolitionists The Abolitionist movement in the U. S. before the Civil War was established in Boston with the founding of William Lloyd Garrison's paper. The Liberator.

ALL WEEK? SENSATIONAL DEMAND! COMNM SOON: YOUM MCS If 4 1 1 i i4LJ GEORGE KENNEDY Pretty, he Ain't coming, romantic leading man i 1 I DOWNTOWN rtmADtlTMUk WiWRwHW ii VVliUi LSUM FOR SEA FOOD US5gapj jy- mppnUn I Fff1tH iil. iii uiiuiiu ii iiasy I BUNNY GO GO GIRLS Opposit. Itiidlnc Tirminal 1 I 12th St. atiOTi Market ii i It is academic whether Kennedy wins the Oscar. The nomination.

"Cool Hand Luke" and his striking perfor- mance have already changed! his world beyond measure. No! longer is Kennedy a face in the crowd, "a good character man" or a fine supporting player who can be had for a reasonable price. "I'd done about 17 movies. 'Romeo Julie! Ic' Fills Dell Date Metropolitan Opera star Rosa lind Elias will return to the Robin Hood Dell for the first time in three years as a soloist for the Doll debut of "Romeo et Juliette" July 18. The romantic Berlioz sym phony was selected for the last unfilled date in the Dell's 1968 series of 18 summer concerts.

June 17 through July 25. Appearing with liss Elias will be tenor John McCoIlum and bass baritone Yi-Kwei Sze. both making their debuts in the Dell. The mezzo-soprano's last appearance at the airmount Park site was in 1965. CHARLES MUNCH will con duct the Dell Orchestra for "Romeo et Juliette" with choral background by the 85-voice Philadelphia Chorale, Earl Mess, di recung.

McCoIlum, chairman of the vocal department of the Univer sity of Michigan School of Music, has performed through out the S. in recitals, festivals and operatic productions. Sze is the first singer from China to establish a career in Western music under rigorous American concert and operatic standards, and currently is one of the busiest of today's bassos. KOSAUND EUAS Met laeizo-sopraoa I Astronaut Alan Shepard was asked to sign an autograph at AI Schacht's by a youngster who then held up a record of "Up, Up and Away' Granny Records signed a new rock-troupe called "The Musicians Union;" a striking group. BRENDA VACCARO.

GIFTED and attractive young lunatic of "How Now, Dow Jones," almost completely fumished her big flat with furniture from Sandy Dennis, a compulsive purchaser at Salvation Army and second hand shops, who constantly must make room for her latest whims Gig Young gave matinee ladies at his "Girl in My Soup" hit the shock of their day: Gig's pants-doffing scene in which he shows off some brilliantly checkered shorts almost turned a laugh into a sensation when the shorts started coming off with the slacks. United Nations' talent scouts offered an interpreter's job to Dana Clark, graduate of the Universite du Theatre des Nations in Paris, whose French is impeccable: also her figure she's a Playboy Bunny here No shy violet, that Raqnel Welch: at the Rainbow Room she noted "I'm fairly intelligent but I'm still a sex bomb." SKITCH HENDERSON'S DAUGHTER Heidi was asked to draw a picture of pop in kindergarten and she did without the beard; we agree with Heidi You make Skitch glad if you tell him he looks like the late great British conductor Sir Thomas Beecham but he really looks like a German sub commander. Agents say male stars are at least as hammy as their gal dittos with their hairdos Spend lots more money in the glitter-barbers All three networks advised Bill Cosby's corporation they'll take any kind of a weekly show so long as Bill heads it; but he'll stick to films, records, concerts and an occasional TV special. Comic Flip Wilson's adventures when his plane was hijacked to Havana of course will be his next LP album. SORRY ALBERT FINNEY leaves "Joe Egg" (which he produced) on April 14, for his performance was the finest of the Broadway season, in a powerful, fine-bitter comedy.

But he's being replaced by another very special young actor. Donnelly who takes over April 15; Donal was one of the stars of "Philadelphia Here I Come" which lit up our Broadway sky so richly two seasons ago. He's Irish od he-'s erand. THE WILD ONE-SUE ROY CONTINUOUS ENTERTAINMENT FROM NOON SIH SANSOM ummxD S24CATlULiBSTv.