Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 59

STATE JOURNAL (Lonsing, Mich.) Sunday, April 11, 1954 59 HACKETT IN HOLLYWOOD Audrey Hepburnls 'New Woman9 Model May Play GaryC Lead in 'Don Quixote? A rH pi yl liaaBaMHHBaaBaaaaaaaaaaamaaaaaaam Here are scenes from "New Faces" at the Michigan, a modern Zieg-feld Follies in its inclusion of dance, sketches and take-offs on modern phases of life. Dancers cavort, left, to the story of Lizzie Borden, and at right schoolboy Robert Clary sings to teacher Rosemary O'Reilly. TVo Feet in the Air BURBANK, Tiny Galla- gher, female acrobat in the Clyde Beatty Circusy has the toughest opening assignment in "Ring of By CTNTHIA LOWRY (AT Newsfeatares Writer) KEW YORK Fashions In women, as in clothes, change, The 1934 model is 110 pounds, 5 feet 7, with a Peter Pan. face, dark hair and the lithe, supple build of a dancer. If this sounds like a description of Audrey Hepburn, Oscar, winner for her part in "Roman Holi- day," it is.

Miss Hepburn is the pilot model for the new look in females, the prototype of toTJays dish. A new cult started building around her something less- than a year -ago when "Roman Holi- day" was released. This delightful film with its story of the Hep-, bum tour about Italy with Gregory Peck and Eddie Albert started the Oscar prophets working without even looking into their crystal balls. But even as she was being bailed for her "Roman Holiday" -performance, Miss Hepburn had moved on to, Broadway. "Ondine," an old Jean Girau-doux fantasy adapted into English, opened to mixed notices.

But there was no doubt that Audrey. Hepburn completely enslaved the most hard-headed, rough-tongued critics in the world. Collectively, their reviews read like mash notes written by school boys in the spring. They compared her to Ethel Barrymore in younger days and to Maude Adams. And "Ondine," a rueful, sly fair story about the lmpracticality of ideal love, is a smash hit.

STILL CALM How ls: Audrey Hepburn, who won't turn 25 until May, reacting to all. this? Very cooly, with no apparent loss of balance, but with considerable amazement. She reclined a ballerina's grace on the chaise lounge in her theater dressing room the other afternoon, and unselfconsciously took a look at herself. "I have an opinion of myself which doesn't change," she said. "Everything happens around and outside that.

These other things are-exciting, wonderful and very pleasant to hear. Nothing will be any easier for me because of 5-V r' 1 '''Jr It. A fr 'Mi CHILDREN ADULTS 18c 45c sua ripping your fJ emotions with YY Fear," a Wayne-Fellows Cinema- 5cnn(i nmrliirtinn for Warner Br( Tiy nas to deliver her first lines in a scene with Pat O'Brien while standing on her head. IImuiT Entire New Show! II Olf i Today Doors Open 12:45 COMPLETE SHOW AT 2:55 5:00 7:00 9:10 FEATURE SHOWN AT 1:30 3:30 5:35 7:40 9:45 WTEPHQI WORLD -NEWS EVENTS "ENCHANTED SQUARE" Me Again J) Also "Devil's Canyon" PRINCESS' Audrey winner of the "best actress" Oncar for her role in "Roman Holiday," is seen here against background of the picture with assisting The picture 1 at the Gladmer. I know that I still shall 'Hire Com thm eirto' at 1:00 3:55 9:55 'Inferno' at 2:35 5:30 1:30 HEW SHOW TODAY 2 HITS It PLUS THE LATEST IN Big Color Cartoon WED, "Harry racked up by this movie was that showmen hunk with it put up signs reading: "Come in and See the Lousiest Movie Ever Made!" "None of which," Fregonese adds, "detracts in any way from the fact that Savo is one of the most gifted mimics in the world, if he'd like to come out of retirement." Another disclosure Is that for the first time in the more than three centuries since it was written, a treatment of Don Quixote will innovate a departure in that his movie will surround the legend with the biographical story of Cervantes himself.

LONG SEARCH This 16th century soldier took up writing after he had lost an arm in battle and spent seven years in prison. Despite the im-4 mediate fabulous success of "Don Quixote," he never got any money out of it and lived in squalor and poverty until, as a crowning dramatic touch, he died on April 27, 1616 by a strange whim of fate, the same night William Shakespeare died. "No message or symbolism will be crowbarred into the picture," Fregonese asserted. "Except, he added thoughtfully, "the original, inescapable and unavoidable parallel with our split-personality-civilization." Incidentally, In surveying for an actor to play Panza, Fregonese combed through every possibility in every country, including Cantinflas, the -Mexican clown, and even Charlie Chaplin himself. Chaplin, now in Europe, has long been fascinated with the Don 'Quixote story.

As a matter of fact, Fregonese's inquiry vealed that Chaplin once played the mad Don himself, in an early obscure English picture. It Had to Happen BURBANK, Cal. One of the telephone girls on the Warner Brothers switchboard was more than slightly baffled when a caller, identifying himself as a member of the American Astronomical society, asked to be connected with "Someone who can give me some information on that new scientific film about an exploding nova." Telephone gal finally figured out that the A. A. S.

man was a little confused himself. She gently informed him that "A Star Is Born," the Judy Garland-James Mason Cinemascope musical drama, had nothing to do with astronomy. i nil la L4r-: DUO By WALT HACKETT (Journal Hollywood Writer) HOLLYWOOD "Don Quixote" has been slated by Hugo Fre-gonese for independent produc-' tion in Spain. Gary Cooper has been enthusiastic for the role and early considerations for Sancho Pana, Don's servant, were Jimmy Savo and Juan Garcia the latter a hit in "Blowing Wild." In the unorthodox, approach adopted by Fregonese to this classic, Panza emerges in a sort of split-personality relation with Don. "They are like Jekyll and Hyde," Fregonese says, "except that they personify the madness and the sanity, rather than the' goodness and the badness in all of us.

Poor loony Don, jousting with windmills, considers fat, comfortable, plebian Panza's common-sense advice to be the ravings of a madman." Early reactions to Garcia, Mexican character actor who plays the bandit chief. El Gavilan, in "Blowing Wild," indicate that this actor may soon zoom to the top in Hollywood. On the other hand, Savo, a gifted Broadway and night club comedian, some-- how never hit it off with Hollywood. LOUSY His major flier in pictures was in a peculiar clambake titled "Once in a Blue Moon," which Hecht and MacArthur made in their old free-wheeling days for Paramount. The main distinction London production of "High Button Shoes." When she went on location in Monaco for a Grade-Z movie, "Monte Carlo Baby," the French novelist, Colette, happened on the set, took one look as Audrey and instantly announced: "There is Gigi." Colette's novel of that name was in the process of being translated into a Broadway play by Anita Loos, and Colette cast the lovely unknown for the title rola.

LOOK! THE PRINCESS! Then someone persuaded Hollywood Director William Wyler to take a look at Miss Hepburn in connection with the projected filming, in Italy, of "Roman Holiday." Wyler reacted as had Colette: 'This is the princess." "I've had great breaks," she said in her pleasantly precise British voice. "But I've never been ready for them when they came. I've spent all my life trying to catch up to my good fortune with my technique. 4 cav vK have to start on the next one from scratch." WHAT NOW? What is her ambition now, with the theater world at her feet? "I strive for a security which rarely exists in this profession," she said instantly, earnestly and with an odd little formality she has. "I want to develop enough technique a solid enough reputation so that even if I want to lay off for two or three years, I won't feel panicky and feverish." To a feminine eye.

Miss Hepburn away from the footlights or camera does not seem to have the electrifying qualities of personality, mystery and other-world beauty which devastate just about every man who sees her. She has a soft, pretty young girl's face; a clear, fine English complexion: wide, pleasant eyes, and the slim body of a dancer. She wins attention without excessive curves or proportions. She has a mature dignity of manner, a polite detachment, a certain aloofness. BRUSSELS MIXTURE She was born in Brussels In 1927 of an Anglo-Irish J.

A. Hepburn-Ruston, and a Dutch, mother. Young Audrey summered on her father's estate outside the Belgian capital and the rest of the year attended English boarding school. Her parents were divorced shortly before her 10th birthday. In the Netherlands, Audrey lived through six years of German occupation.

Frequently there was not enough food. When the war was over, Audrey wangled a scholarship in an English ballet school classical dancing was her original ambition. She made ends meet by picking up a chorus job in the It's j-( And Ue-Iovely! Here Coaie mcotmir Technicolor HQEE-MAiaiN ARTENE ROSEMARY DAIIL'CLOQNEY THE MOST EKUTIFTL GIRLS IN THE WOULD MltWRD MITCHELL ISM nFHiRFCT WED. "BOTANY BAY" and "COOn THE HOURS" LAST DAY ETT7I7TITtC Jath SGocb' DOROTHY ALONE FRIDAY "LIU" and "PETER PAN" RADIO MARK i 1 STEVENS li 1 gmftmilllililHi X--- SljsP STARTING TODAY YOU'VE GOT A FRONT ROW. SEAT AT THAT FABULOUS SHOWS AT 1:00 2:50 4:35 7:00 Si 9:05 P.

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