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SECOND NEWS SECTION, PAGE 9 THE SUNDAY STAR-BULLETIN, JANUARY 3, 1960 An Av 4 Science-Fiction Never More Vivid mm imjji' li'g. tfnf WW i i fW3 A 4 LI rt ''4 Hi 1 ,...2 it' 1 1 liriously-happy married couple, celebrating their 13th anniversary. The husband, in a moment of mixed expansiveness and irritation, brags about their extra year before they got married. The revelation is tactless, to put it mildly, and makes complications. delay at the outset while Pat Boone sings a pleasant but unexciting song, but thereafter he acquits himself ably, as do Peter Ronson as the helper, Arlene Dahl as the widow, and Thayer David as the wicked count.

James Mason is completely at home as the crusty but competent professor. There is an adequate amount of romance to conclude the story neatly, but the big thing in this engrossing movie is the sight and the sound and the wondering what's going to happen next. The incredible was never more vivid. TJ i Arlene Dahl in Jules Verne's Peter Ronson, James Mason, Pat Boone and "Journey to the Center of the Earth." 'The Fnurnruf Will Have Two More Performances Two final performances of "The Fourposter" are scheduled for the next two Fridays, January 8 and 15, at the Hawaiian Village HoteL The comedy of a marriage by Jan de Hartog stars Elec-tra Gailas and Dick Fair. Producers are Alexander and ffcrv Onmanskv.

voai in the Hawaiian Village Taa Room. Mail Woes LOCKPORT, N.Y Jan. 2 (AP) It's not rain, nor sleet, nor storm that's keeping mail carriers from swift completion of their appointed rounds here. It's painted porches and locked gates. Postmaster William A.

-Maillet has asked residents to relocate their mail boxes or put out a box for mail in such cases. Continuous Performances from 1:00 p.m. Last Shew Starts at 9:10 presents you've ever before! Continuous Performances from 1:00 p.m. last Show at 9:10 if i UPltxiiiil mum fern UE: Both good shows. "Fisherman" more uplifting, "Solomon" more fun.

Th6 miracle mor than een liiiia'maiKii That's Show I Business I By Bill Mac Arthur In Tears Eighiteen-yea--oia Diane McBain was having difficulty getting tearful for a dramatic close-up scene with Carolyn Jones in "Ice Palace." It is Diane's first movie role, and her inexperience is to be expected. 'Let me show you something," offered Carolyn. She pushed her fingers sharply into the girl's stomach and held them there for a few seconds. "Ow!" wailed Diane, trying to catch hei breath, her blue eyes filling with tears. Director Vincent Sherman started the cameras rolling and the scene was easily shot.

"That's a trick I learned on one of my first pictures," Carolyn explained. "It always works." Carolyn Jones Home Again LOCKPORT, N.Y., Jan. 2 (AP) Except, for the jail cook, deputies might still be questioning a lost 9-year-old boy who refused to state his name or home address. The cook recognized the youngster as the son of a friend, prepared him a big plate of ham and eggs, and directed deputies to his home. Continuous at imJJL 52s5i Tcnumrni no portant in "Solomon;" erman" takes itself "Fish-very High VAL seriously, HOKUM CONTENT in both.

ENTERTAINMENT Believes in Signs LAFAYETTE, Jan. 2 (AP) Onlookers gawked in amazement as a motorcyclist stopped his machine at an intersection, waited until the "walk" light went on, dismounted, walked his cycle across the intersection, mounted and rode off. Choosy Chimps SAN DIEGO, Jan. 2 (AP) The chimpanzee show at the zoo was eliminated. Dr.

Charles Schroeder, zoo director, said he had determined that the chimps performed only under threat of discipline not for the reward of food, as with the of sea lions and dog. banquet discreetly silhouetted in "Fisherman." SEX: Very pure in "Fish- erman," except for wicked Herod. Quite explicit in "boiomon," witn regenera- tion promised. Both pictures end on grand renunciation. PERFORMANCES: Good all around.

Marvelous secondary roles, such as George Sanders as Adonijah and Herbert Lom as Herod An- tipas. RELIGIOSITY: Not too im- Sign Bank Book TUCSON, Jan. 2 (AP) The guest book at the new office of a bank includes these comments. By a Greenwich Village, New York, visitor "Cool, man, cool." By a little girl "If mama lets me make an investment I would." By a Tucson attorney "I am deeply grateful and indebted to your fine bank." t.wiiniuwkun By AUSTIN FARICY "JOURNEY TO THE CENTER 01 THE EARTH," with James Meson, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl and Peter Ronson. Screenplay by Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch, based on the novel by Jules Verne.

Directed by Henry Levin, produced by Charles Brackett. Cinemascope, Da Lux color. At the Hawaii, Varsity and Kaplolanl Drive-ln. A humdinger of a science-fiction picture, a brassy bedroom farce, a copious Japanese thriller and two great big Bible bonanzas sprawl across Honolulu's screens this week. "Journey to the Center of the Earth" starts out with a story by one of the greatest yarn-spinners of them all, Jules Verne.

And what Verne's imagination plotted in the way of adventure and amazement has been abetted by equal imagination in visual and sound ef fects and a discerning musical background. An Edinburgh professor gets a message in a piece of lava that sends him posthaste off to Iceland to have a look down cellar. A favorite student is with him, and a tall young handyman, and, somewhat unexpectedly, the widow of a rival Swedish professor. They encounter many things, some of them agreeable, like hot springs and flowering quartz forests, and big delicious mushrooms; and some less agreeable, like floods, "magnetic winds, rolling boulders, prehistoric monsters and a dastardly enemy. Their journey down is a long one, but the question of how to get out is solved in a hurry when they accidentally activate a volcano and get blown out by the Sicilian exit.

All this has been handled not only with mastery of trick effects in Leo Tover's photography and the ingenious sets of Walter Scott and Joseph Kish, but with a nice balance of style in Charles Brackett's direction, which combines a light touch, and relish for the preposterous, with unfailing suspense and movement toward the climax. The picture suffers some Gates Open 5:45 Kids under 12, Free 5 TWC MOST CXCTffNQ The Scalding Sahara! aw Ta. r-4 WLOUOBRISiia A slapstick sub-plot deals with the husband's aversion to television, and involves a well planted kick in the works, which never fails to delight the audience. "Happy Anniversary" is forced in dialogue and direction. But it 'has the advantage of excellent acting by the entire cast.

Morals aside, and considered just as a comedy, it is fairly funny. Two Spectacles SOLOMON AND SHItA," with Yul Brynner and Glna Lollobrljtda. Screenplay by Anthony Veiller. Directed by King Vidor, produced by Ted Richmond. Technicolor, Super Technlrima.

At the Kuhlo. "THE BIG FISHERMAN," with Howard Keel and Susan Kohner. Screenplay by Howard EittbrooK end Rowland V. Lee, based on the novel by Lloyd C. Douglas.

Directed by Frank Borzage. Eastman color, Panaviston. At the Queen. With two of the big BIG Biblical spectacles in their second week, most of our readers have probably been to one or the other. If, like us, you see both on successive days, they may be hard to sort out in retrospect.

Here is a checklist: SPECTACLE: Both huge. Casts of thousands by the dozen. COSTUME and TERRAIN: Similar near-Eastern sub-desert. Burnooses, beards, veils. No cheesecake in "The Big Fisherman," lots in "Solomon and Sheba." FIGHTING: Pitched battles plus matched duels in "Solomon;" individual scraps in "Fisherman." MIRACLES: Demolition of idols and striking of Temple in "Solomon;" healings and changes of heart in "Fisherman." ORGIES: Pagan fertility rites in "Solomon." Herod's Reopening JANUARY 8 Alaxarder Oumantky's Magic Ring Thtatro Presents FOUR POSTER THE A Comedy of Married Life by Do Hortog starring ELECTRA OAILAS and DKK FAIR directed by H.

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I LAST DAY at VARSITY 1:00 P.M. CONT. DE LUXE STEREOPHONIC SOUNB Guinness "THE SCAPEGOAT Ths Magittrat" Japanese Film AN ALtfCD ARTISTS PICTURE LAST TIMES TODAY 12:30 p.m. Cont. I Continuous 'Hidden Fortress' THE HIDDEN FORTRESS," (Kakushi Toride No San-Akunin) with Toshiro Mi- fune, Miss Uehara, Mlnoru Chiaki and Hamatari Fujiwara.

Sreenplay by Ryu-zo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni. Shinobu Hashimoto and Akira Kurozawa. Directed by Akira Kurozawa. At the Kapahulu. "Hidden Fortress" is an adventure story dealing with the convoying of a rightful princess and her ancestral gold through hostile territory to her home base.

It is a long picture, made much longer by eminently expendable clowning scenes on the part of the two rascally yokels who stumble into the Akira Kurosawa, director of "Rashomon," has an eye for epic sweep and somber mood, but neither is quite suitable here. In fact, the mob scenes at the opening of the picture are so out of key with what follows as to give rise to the suspicion that they were left over from some other picture. The acting traditions of Kabuki and the comic interludes of Noh are apparent both in the clowning and in the formal lance-duel and the concluding tableau. Toshiro Mifune as the heroic general wears the grand style comfortably, but it sits uneasily on Misa Uehara as a princess behaving like an imperious prince. 'Happy Anniversary' "HAPPY ANNIVERSARY," with David Niven and Mitzl Gaynor.

Screenplay by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov. Directed by David Miller, produced by Ralph Fields. At the King, Palace and Waialae Drlve-In. Whereas "Blue Denim" and "A Summer Place" considered pre- and extra-marital relations serious enough to warrant at least the knitting of brows and wringing of hands, "Happy Anniversary" takes a determined attitude of "I did it and I'm glad." Moreover, having apparently decided that it might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb, it insistently uses semi-profane and infra-vulgar language, with no particular gain to the movie. The plot dealr with a de- The Chevy Show Presents State Fair U.S.A.

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