Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 29

TffStiPr r-VVet-ffiV 41 litw i 'viwi' I I 9 4 1 I Corpus Chrlstl Caller-Times Sun Dec 27 1970 3C Making Occult Movies Can Turn You Into a Believer A'Mf OS TIIMMOAS PELICUUS TOROS LOS OliS ADULTOS $150 NINOS 50 OpttijSt pj WjikdRys i Swly Suw HMo still that way more or less but Hammond has had an experience which has made him willing to perhaps believe maybe I met Peter Hammond says asked me for a picture of someone I had a picture of my sister with me I showed it to him face down He said it was a woman who was now in a foreign he was right she is in who has dental right and who has recently and he was right about that too because she recently moved from Melbourne to Sydney" 1 reel He was originally a race driver competing in the big International events Then he was hurt and while recuperating served as the technical adviser on a race film He liked the movie business and became a script supervisor a second unit director and then a full-fledged director is his fourth feature Hammond was an assistant reducer at Universal until he ft over Christian Licorice He found and it will be his producing debut Even though there are other occult films on the way Hammond still thinks his is still timely subject is he says Lire and Look gets on it When that happens a sign that too BRENDA SCOTT lady in case KESSLER SAYS flatly that he is a He says when he took the Job to direct he did some research and concluded that all But he leaves the door open by saying has ever hap-ened to They were shooting a party scene on the set in a room done up to look old-fashioned and threatening with a weird assortment of there were hippie-types and society types fat men and slim women And Prine and Miss Scott looking every Inch the leading man and leading woman The shooting went ahead rapidly because of a new technique they are using Long after Is forgotten this technique may be remembered Hammond says it is the brain-child of a young camera crew whose first outing was Christian Licorice (Oddly Hammond quit Universal when they let him do that film) He says the camera crew uses a still lens over the regular movie lens and somehow this permits them to light the set as they would light for an ordinary still photograph It means not as much light and hence not as much time to set MARIO MORENO WHS Ethnic Theater Sprouting up lights On an ordinary movie set arranging the lights is the most time-consuming part of the movie-making process TESTED the technique In our Hammond says lit our office in 10 iifnuf minutes and shot some film which was fine A regular crew would have taken three hours to light It did a party scene a few days ago in two hours which would have taken an entire day the old Kessler estimates that the new technique is saving him 40 per cent of the time it would otherwise have taken to shoot the film That represents a lot of money too and in these tight-money days a big factor history is unusual even in this town where unusual histories are a dime a (jib' Flaying Nightly Euipl Sunday The Legacy CC Singl Club very Friday to 8 Big Special Sammy Nellie Crii Gomiollii Open Daily 12 noon la 2 am 4315 Alameda 852-92 A I Arran from Huerantmt Bawl JSKXUZZiBSZSi BUCCANEER By DICK KLEINER HOLLYWOOD (NEA) A couple of doubting Thomases have gotten together and become suspicious Sidneys and the result Is yet another film about the occult is the latest in the parade of movies about the mysterious world of the beyond It deals with a magician (Andrew Frine) and his strange powers occasional wife lovely little Brenda Scott is the lady in the case Both producer David Hammond end director Bruce Kessler were completely skeptical about the occult Kessler is the associate director fourth in the series is planned for late winter or early spring at the New Lafayette The cycle Bullins explained the other day over lunch aims to present the of the black people in the industrial North ana West The same characters are likely to turn up from time to time in the different plays along with recuring themes What I am showing is what happened to black culture when black people first came here and their efforts to realign their cultural values during the following UNDER Paul guidance charming old Mrs has gone to Paris to Parliament to Washington and even New York But to Broadway? No Not that she been wanted with music as a matter of fact Over the years the files have built up to bulging point with intentions of getting her to the local stage Today the news is that on her way again And QuCEDSQD OORXTlMffTa OO agoMHaBCBOBSCSowa ai i DOORS OPIN 12i4S Feature at 1:00 3:00 7:10 9r1S QUEEN CiftiifiuAts OPEN 1016 LEOPARD 882-0511 this time the prospects may be better than ever because Gallieo himself according to a report has agreed to work with whoever will do the book for the musical Although 'Arris Goes to will remain the basis for the musical producers Ken Gaston and Leonard Goldberg report that Gallieo in addition will permit the introduction of characters from the subsequent books Mrs 'Arris you may recall is a London charwoman who lives in a pallid little flat One of her clients buys a Christian Dior gown which to the old woman symbolizes everything that is beautiful in the world determined to get one too Gaston and Goldberg demonstrating the same aplomb with which they announced the signing of Leon Uris to do the musical version of as the show is due at the Bellinger Jan 24 say have Mrs in rehearsal in midsummer introduce her in Los Angeles and bring her here Oct 24 1971 PROGRAM GIVE HELL JOHN! JOHN WAYNE A Howard Hawks Production LOBO" "THE HOTTEST" MOVIES IN TOWN (CALL PLENTY FREE PARKING IN REAR fl fllitindertiinj OIQ QiAl 1 1 ROISTOWN THEATERS COLF-near (bearing "SOH OF FtOIIEr WAIT IISHET'S BEST COIF flarli Wad "THAT'S THE WAT IT darting Elali ROISTOWH HR now draw il CASA BEL FAIOL "Til IP0SIILI ROISTOWH HI HI THE- WEB TNW "El TESOHO Df "ALUS EL ROISTOWH DO IH Sforli Fri MOOHSHIHE 0S CHIUS (tbit ad A a an edell paid admliilpa ado TWO Man only at CaH) TWIN PALMS HI-WAT44 M-1H1 ALL COLOR-OPEN 4:30 20 CEMnylei pfOMMO GEORGE KARL CSCOTTHAIDEN I Pdfcia 4g bOAftgi 0O inTATTON" PLUS BLAZING WESTERN liHUIIB MAN 1STEWAKT Mini' WHfl CMbry Fw Prflteti TWIN PALMS Hv HI-WT44 14-HM 200 PER CAR ACTION-EXCITEMENT JASON ROSARDS AND STEUA STEVENS A CABLE HOGUE assignment (jycam By LEVIS FUNKE Naw Ywt Tim Near Servlet NEW YORK Amid the hullabaloo surrounding the sprouting ethnic theater one organization has been carrying on for almost a year now without seeking the spotlight It is the New Federal Theater whose headquarters are in the venerable Henry Street Playhouse on the Lower East Side once the home of Sanford Meis-ner's celebrated theater school and recently declared a landmark site Functioning under the guidance of Woodie King one of the few black producers in show business and Dick Williams last seen here on the stage in the title role of the Kcative Time Buck New Federal Theater has been supported by grants from the New York State Council on the Arts the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Ford Foundation Among its varied activities it has been putting on ethnic theater zealously Every two weeks it has been offering either Chinese Spanish or black plays staging each one for six formances without charg-admission tow NFT is looking for attention and with cause enough King and Williams have scored something of a coup They have coaxed Ed Bullins one of the best of the contemporary black playwrights into letting them have a play which they mean to Ent this season with a pro-nal company charging admission ana trying for a run The play is called New England and is to open Jan 28 following a week of previews BLACK THEATER buffs as well as others who have been aware of work his was done at the American Place Theater last spring may detect in the title of the new play a subtle similiarity to another BuUins work the Wine The relationship is signifi- cant inasmuch as it is the second in a 20-play cycle on i which the playwright is em- barked The third "The Du- was presented last I spring at the New Lafayette in Harlem which is home base and where he is Women won't cook Who needs it? 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