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PHILADELPHIA PAUT MEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY It, 19EJ AS At the Trans-Lux 'Nothing 'but a Man' at. Lane Jerry Gaghan stantly comDromise to avoid The film never strikes a false note in word or deed. The dialogue is laconic and true. The characters are flesh-and-blood people who touch the heart. The drama unfolds naturally, giving the viewer the feeling he is observing events in real life.

THE ACTING is on a oar with trouble with the whites. He sees in her a warmth and stability lacking in his rootless life. DESPITE the ODDOsitinn nt her father and the man's relue- tance to assume permanent ties, they marry. He takes a job in the local saw mill but soon is fired because of his refusal to be subservient. Branded a troublemaker, he is unable to find work and becomes the object of baiting by the local white toughs.

While violence always lurks close to the surface, it never erupts. The man's rebellion is strong but auiet. It drives him from his pregnant wife but also torces him to return, determined to make a life for him self and his family with dig nity. Mask and Wiggers Ready 77th Show COLLEGE HUMOR: "Listen, They're Playing Our the 77th annual production of the Mask Wig Club, will survey pop art, the anti-hero vogue, neo-con-formity, pseudo-events and other maladies of the striving-to-be Great Society. The angry but gentle young men from Penn will launch their cabaret-style production Wednesday at their S.

Quince st. clubhouse. The only legit attraction that "tries out" after its regular run, the Wiggers will take the show on tour Lancaster, New Haven, Rochester, New York after it closes here "Kismet" and "Carousel" will be the musical revivals this summer at New York's Lincoln Center. Each ill play six weeks in Manhattan and then tour, with Philadelphia listed as a stop for at least one and perhaps both productions "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," which started its long run here at the Shubert in September, 1961, returns to that house for a two-week engagement, April 4. The musical ends its 3 'i -year Broadway stand, March 6.

OUT AND ABOUT: The Latimer Club's Bill Rodstcin is enlisting midcity cafe owners in a promotion campaign to be built around Petula Clark's No. 1 record hit, Down Town." Miss Clark, of course, is the first of the British gals to reach the top of the charts here and Rodstein fig Xalloways' Has Pathos, Humor Walt Disney turns his talents I for folksy human drama and nature lore into winning entertainment in "Those Calloways," now at the Randolph. The story of a backwoods family long on ideals but short on cash has the heartwarming saaaww" TIIEflTQEkn lijumiuwaie i in ures to use her catchy "Down Town" as the theme music in his drive to bring suburbanites back into the bright lights and tall building sector Camden's Betty Green, who has worked with the Clark Terry-Bobby Brookmeyer group and other combos, just cut "I Want You to be My Baby" bw "Tree in the Meadow" for Miles' Abundant Sounds Studio. Miles, incidentally, 1S unKms torces with Morristown collector and jazz enthusiast Joe QaMBaaeHililM111'" hum luminal! Cp5rlA nrAmnU carioe tt 1 1 BETTY abundant sound La Baker In Mia' The title of an old standard beloved by dramatic tenors sums up the situation explored in the melodrama at the Trans- Lux. The movie's title is "Svlvia" but the question is "Who Is byivia?" The search for the answer sends Georee Maharis on a lone: and exhaustive investigation into the oast of a lovelv vonnp blonde who travels in Los An geles best social circles and writes modern poetry.

THE FACTS he uncovers reveal a classic story of the slum girl who yearns for better things, is driven into prostitution by adversity, eventually reforms and builds a decent and successful life for herself. Sylvia also is the classic "prostitute with the heart of gold" who always offers a helping hand to those in need. Less classically, she is a culture- vulture who constantly has her nose in a book when she is not plying her trade. The title role is played by Carroll Baker, one of the top contenders for the vacant title of Hollywood's No. 1 sex sym bol.

She moved to an enviable position with "The Carpetbaggers" and hopes to clinch the crown with the forthcoming "Harlow." ITS DOUBTFUL "Sylvia" will help her in the sweep stakes. While the role gives her ample opportunity to flaunt her charms in various stages of undress, she is relegated through most of the film to flash back appearances a minus fac tor that weakens her impact. She doesn't come on strong until her final reels when, in present tense, she meets and falls in love with the private eye who secretly has been delv-i ing into her sordid past. Maharis, in ths role, is hired for the job by a wealthy socialite (Peter Lawford) who is engaged to marry Sylvia and is suspicious of her stories about her background. Following a trail that leads from Pittsburgh to Mexico to New York and finally Los An geles, Maharis gradually fits the pieces of the puzzle to gether.

EACH PHASE of Sylvia's past life and career is treated as a separate flashback episode. In each, a supporting player is fea tured as a person who knew Sylvia and who clues Maharis in on his association with her. Good impressions are made by Viveca Lindfors, as a librarian who encouraged Sylvia's literary interests as a child; Edmund O'Brien, a traveling salesman who enjoyed a brief idyll with her; Ann Sothern, a blowsy cashier who worked with her in a penny arcade, and Joanne Dm, a fellow call girl arrested with her in a raid. SANDRA SAUNDERS 'Judith' Traveled HOLLYWOOD (UPI). Direc tor Daniel Mann filmed "Judith" with Sophia Loren and Peter Finch entirely in Israel but scored and edited the pic ture in Hollywood.

Hott as a Pistol Character actor Leonard Hott has been set by producer-direc tor Jerry Lewis for the role of Abe. Pistol, a gangster, in Lewis Para mount re 4 leaserTh Family Jewels." star concerts in that area Pal the Prophets, just back from eight By SANDRA SAUNDERS Many pitfalls beset films about contemporary Negroes. One that admirably avoids them all is "Nothing But a Man," the prize-winning drama now playing at the Lane. It neither shouts nor preaches. But its very understatement makes a far more eloquent plea against race prejudice than any amount of sermonizing.

BASICALLY, the film tells a simple story about two likeable young people who meet, fall in love, marry and try to Cud their place in the sun. While many of their problems are universal, the fact that their skins are black and the setting a small town in Alabama places an added burden on the day-to-day routine of living. He's a footloose railroad section hand. She's a school teacher, the daughter of minister. They meet when his work brings him to town for a brief time.

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However, too honors must ea to the young filmmaking team 01 Kobert Young and Michael Roemer, who collaborated in all behind-the-camera Thev have Darlaved a little money and a lot of talent into a memorable film. Tualities associated with Disney offerings plus enough action. suspense and humor to temper the sentimentality. Set in rural Vermont in what appears to be the 1920s, the film revolves around the efforts of Cam Calloway (Brian Keith) to establish a sanctuary for the great flocts of geese that pass over the area 'on their annual migrations. IN BIS MISSION, he has the whole-hearted support of his young son (Brandon de Wilde) and the reluctant agreement of his devoted but practical-mind ed wife (Vera Miles), who understandably resents his using the mortgage money to buy a stretch of swampland for the geese.

The project leads to a violent climax when Cam is duped by fast-buck boys from the city who plan to turn the area into a hunter's paradise. The Vermont setting, beautifully photographed in color through all four seasons, is a natural for Disney's expert shots of wildlife. IN ONE humorous a friendly nouna aog gives chase to a cagey otter across a snow-swept field. The dog comes out a poor second when the otter leads him to a chilly dunking in a mountain stream. On the harrowing side is De Wilde's hand-to-hand combat with a predatory wolverine which has been raiding his traps.

The wild geese also are stunningly captured by the camera in formation flight and solo closeups. Lending further enchantment are vignettes 01 smalltown Americana a spirited town meeting and a rousing "roof- raising" which has all the town-folk rallying to build a new 'cabin for the "crazy Callo- ways. COLORFUL New England types re limned by a strong suDDOrting cast. Ed Wynn plays a hard-of-hearing oldtimer with a knack for saying me thing at the right time and Walter Brennan xs the town crier who takes up the cause of the Callcways against the money-grubbers. Sandra iaunder T3z 3TBi EUGENE ORMANDY, Music Director ACADEMY OF MUSIC TOMOR.

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The show, which was put together for a paltry $750,000 in October, 1962, is already dated (no pop art, for instance). Nevertheless, the exhibit is drawing some of the Museum's largest crowds. The big repository of culture on the Parkway has a handy tearoom for visitors. The food is good, the service is fine, but the room itself is singularly bare for a spot in a treasure house of objets-d'art. The corridor leading to the tta-room is lined with modern masterpieces by Cezanne, Ronal, Braque, etc.

But the dinery itself looks like the kind of place they blow the whistle to let you know a meal is finished Steve Lawrence will be at the Latin Casino, Sunday, to watch his working wife, Eydie Gorme. His Broadway hit, "What Makes Sammy reaches the 400 performance mark Tuesday at the 54th St. Theatre, N. Y. The Saxony-East introduces a Friday-Saturday night entertainment policy tomorrow with singer Stacy Lynn.

PEOPLE IN PLACES: WFIL production men John Toutkaldjian (TV) and Jerry Donahue (Radio) are making technical preparations in Florida for Triangle's coverage of the Sebring 12-hour endurance race and the Miami to-Nassau powerboat run Irish Airlines' Jay Beagle is staging a four-day weekend trip to Eire for area representatives of the major airlines, Feb. 18-21 Phil Cohen, special deputy commissioner for the State Athletic Commission, has closed his Arch st. sporting goods emporium and taken over the Havertown Sports Shop from the combine of school coaches who formerly operated it County Court President Judge Adrian Bonnelly celebrates his 53d year as a Philadelphian, Saturday. The judge came here from New York in 1912, an immigration inspector checking on a complaint, and liked the town so much he never went back Cap Knight, chairman of the Philadelphia Veterans Advisory Commission and a former clarinetist Le? Brown and Johnny Long, will le jb, sidekicks from the big band days at his "testimonial dinner in Feb. 24.

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