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'New Moon7 Staging Saturday Staye St creen Oakland Tribune, Saturday, Sept 14, 1957 B-5 Proves Delightful tension, that accounted for some awkward moments last night, but such a performer as Tom Swift (in the role of Rob STAGE AND SCREEN 'Action of Tiger' At Fox Oakland By THERESA lOEB CONI Tribune) Drama frllh i "Action of the Tiger" is 't Vl one 01 ine 'ox uakiand's newest movies. But, the title has little relation to the film's plot which is i rw I I i "ivcu miair never adequately explained. In fact, eVen the attentive rrmvicrwr is nmiuiii spend a great deal of time trying to figure out just what is going on and why. This MGM release of a British-made If you were alive and even the slightest degree aware of popular music in 1928, you will remember that practically every melody i Romberg wrote for his new musical "The New Moon," was on the hit parade that year. And, believe it or not, those tunes still qual ify as top-placers today, a fact that was amply demonstrated last night at Woodminster Amphitheater wheret he first of four performances of The New 'Moon" wai heard.

m. I 1 1 I. oiagca Dy vjaiuana i i i Opera Association, "The New Moon may have seemed to sailing on choppy waters every now and There was a cer tain undeniable stiffness among some of the performers and oc casionally was lost in the confusion of first night problems. But by and large the production was so delightfully well sung by all. the leading players as well as the chorus that audience members seemed perfectly will ing to overlook any shortcomings in the matter of acting.

BEST OF ROMBERG From the moment the over ture was played by the orchestra under Carl Kalash.s very com petent baton until the final reprise of that rouser, "Stout Hearted Men, we heard some of the best numbers Romberg ever wrote. There isn't a dud in the entire score. And some, such as "Want ing You," "One Kiss," "Lover Come Back to "Softly As In A Morning Sunrise, 'The Girl on the Prow," are among the most beautiful melodies in all operetta. In this last of the summer outdoor operettas, several fine voices are being heard. Jess Thomas is especially effective in his singing of "Softly As In A Morning Sunrise," while the sturdy baritone of John Wall does very well by his numbers, especially the stirring Stout Hearted Men" and the lyrical Wanting You." PLEASANT VOICE 1 mm t'f BENEATH THAT BOUGH -Cornel Wild, oc a polk Omar saams happy in this scan with Dobra Paget from Paramount'! new movie, "The Loves of Omar Khayyam-" IN GERMANY Eirlc Douglas and the hawk six up each ether on lh sat of "Tha Vilrinaa Hawk Gets a Dramatic Role In Filming of 'The Vikings' VAN JOHNSON Ar U.S.

Adventurer Cam Mitchell Typed as Woman Beater Cameron.Mitchell can't figure it out, but movie producers al ways seem to think of him when an actor is required to beat up, or attack a woman in a movie. The subject came up on 20th Century Joy' "No -DownEay ment" "set' recently. Cameron -rnlitIon -Girl -on the plays the role of Joanne Woodward's husband, but criminally attacks neighbor Jeff Hunter's wife, Patricia Owens. Mm in love with my own Wife, Joanne, but I'm mad at everyone, -at -societyr-eeauselseemsexcessiveanJiii scenes, ert's servant Alexander) couldn't be better. He was thoroughly engaging In his humorous and relaxed portrayal of a comic fellow with a high regard for i romantic attraction to women.

Jim Falls had one wonder fully funny attempted love- making scene in his role of "The New Moon" captain, while Edgar Iversen's stint as a das-tartly detective for King Louis was up to his usual standard. Glorya Williams and Josephine 1 i vuuuiio aie guuu comedi ennes, were extremely amusing in a quartet sung with Swift and Mike Manley. DATED PLOT There's a definite dated dual ity to the plot development of this musical which had lyrics by Frank Manal and a then up and coming fellow named Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. It's all about bondservants, proud females. lovers quarrels, mass marriaees to brides brought from France, and men in the new world who believe "equality, fraternity and liberty." But the plot doesn't really matter at all while the orchestra is playing and the performers singing.

Raoul Pause's dancers were perhaps a bit too much in evidence in some of the number- but they were nonetheless agree- aDie to watch. If all -the forthcoming performance nights are as pleasant weather-wise as was last night, the staging of The New Moon" ought to be exceedingly well attended, since word-of-mouth praise alone ought to bring good sized audiences to Joaauin Miller Park. T.L.G "-frrerjl IllS P.M. Ji Van IDHNMMi TAYLOR pCHOTHY MALC'IET CSA3Jm Oven 11:10 m.mu Hemhifway' fireat lev Stery la- TYRONE AVA 9 Dnuro cionvro luiiui unuviiui MCL CRRCH. FERRER FLYKN am mnrnTKHAiir Accumt noma wcroif Sim, WIT ajtSOIS saieaj el ea Inl arW tear aeart- eaa ftm ftsM and kuuuw cats Aiiti VISITS JAPAM" tomiss ww I OUTSPOKENI SOLDI "FORBIDDEN CARGO" ir-'-- i 1 wl vv a -j1 L'1' Cirimatie if, 4 i SJ7 I Time tatw asMaassssssVJsfjV mm tt.

a quote from Shakespeare as movie stars Van Johnson as a cynical character with the proverbial heart of gold pumping- away despite his seeming toughness. LOTS OF ACTION Tven if it doesn't all make much sense, there is a lot of action in this cinema effort which was filmed in Southern Spain but actually is supposed to be taking place in Albania. French actress Martine Carol (who wears eye shadow on a rugged cross-country escape to freedom) somehow makes her way through a role that requires her to first convince Johnson he should accompany her into communist-dominated Albania and then get her out She's a French girl intent on rescuing her blind brother who apparently was a turncoat communist. This isn't very clear, however. Once Johnson, an American who apparently spends his time picking up money for smuggling citizens out of Albania into Greece, is committed to the trip, he also must take with him a troupe of children, refugees all, which further complicates matters.

Others become mixed up in the story, too. LOYALTY SWITCHES For instance there's an Alba nian security policeman whose loyalty switches sides with great cascHey indicentally, is played competently if mvsteriouly by a handsome gentleman named Jose Nieto. Then there is an Albanian bandit played by Herbert Lorn who gives the charac terization so much flambuoyance that the color photography Well everything may not be quite understandable, but a lot does happen in "Action of the Tiger" and that Spanish mountain scenery is perfectly beautiful in color and Cinemascope. Johnson occasionally has some funny lines, but spends most of his time fighting and trudging. Miss Carol's accent makes her English a trifle difficult to understand now ancKthen and the tears she is asked to shed in one or two scenes look as if they were inspired by onions rather! than emotion.

The bard quote, incidentally, was about how men should act in war. Also at the Fox Oakland is a movie based on an Irwin Shaw shorts story "Tip on a Dead Jockey." It has almost nothing to do with either jockeys or horse racing, but concerns the activities of Robert Taylor, Dor othy Malone, Marcel Dalio, Jack Lord and a few other very com petent actors who find them selves unfortunately involved irr narcotics smuggling between Africa and Europe. String Concert Recitals Set For Berkeley The Griller String Quartet is preparing a series or six concerts In Berkeley and tw9 in San Francisco, sponsored by the University of California Com mittee on Drama, Lectures, and Music. The four players will be joined by William violist, and Nikolai GraudanJ 'cellist, as guest artists. First concert of the series, in San Francisco Museum of Art; next Wednesday at 8:30 p.m., will feature world premiere of Darius Milhaud's 'cello quintet, completed on February, 1956.

Milhaud viola auintet ded icated to the drillers and premiered by them in 1953 in Wheeler Hall, will also be presented in this series. Ticket information is avail able at the drama, lectures and music committee office, 2296 Telegraph Berkeley 4. TODAY 3 SHOWS i ltmt TMtct mt mum imtiiiiM cmm Im.lKtMaM.M.'Ui.MlJI hm mm mom mm MM 4( HMiuaMmf Unm MA. 15009 i sj L-ml I'm frustrated in my desire to havehe local police chiefljob. I lose it on a technicality, be cause I haven't a college degree.

So I go out and do the very thing I'd prosecute if I'd gotten the job," he explains. Whatever the reason for his current lapse of movie morality. Cam opines that all the glamour gals he has beaten up in his movie heavy roles, stemmed from his first attack scene in Outcast of Poker Flats. "I guess I did too good a job beating up Anne Baxter in that picture. For a while I kept refusing the roles, but some of them have so many other inter esting facets to their characters that I played them." His list of some of the stars he's done wrong to in the movies "Susan Hayward in 'Garden of Evil, Bella Darvi in 'Hell and High Lana Turner in 'Cass Timberlane, and Jane Russell in The Tall Men' were some of them.

There were so many others I can't remember them all." Dorothy McGuire In 'Old Yeller' Cast Dorothy McGuire plays a pioneer mother in Walt Disney's -Old Yeller." Miss McGuire plays Katie Coates, a young wife facing the rigors of frontier life with her two sons while her husband is away on a cattle drive. Fess Parker co-stars as her ON TWO SCREENS Dorothy Malona can be seen at both the of a Thousand and the Fox Oakland on a Dead as two very diifereni kind of wives, which proves the gal rated her Oscar. If falcoming is something you want to do, there is a man in Munich, Germany, who can help. His is Kraft Warlies and he's on the payroll of Kirk Douglas's production company with a dozen trained falcons, hawks and eagles for a sequence in which Douglas has his eye torn out by a trained killer-bird in "The Vikings," currently being filmed. Warlies runs what is probably the world's only school for jieophyte lalconers Actually, a hawk will be used for the scene because the hawk is traditionally the only low-level killer among hunting birds, with the possible exception of the eagle.

A falcon and birds of its feather hunt only in the air against other winged prey, while the hawk goes for such land-bound dinners-as-rabbits, squirrels and the like. "The scene in The Vikings' is no Exaggeration'," Warlies in sists. "Falcons or hawks kill with the strength of their grip. An average size hawk could easily put his claws right through a man's hand, so you can see, it would be no trouble for one to tear out a man's eye." To achieve the maximum 'JEANNE EAGELS Kim Novak Jeff Chandler "Tat Midnighi Slory" Tony Curtis Marisa Pavan EZ3H 'GUN GLORY" Stewart Granfer-Rhonda Flemma "THE BIG CAPER" Rory Calhaun "naun a trrrt BAND OF ANCELS" Clark Gable Yvonne de Carle 'TEE RESTLESS BREED" Scott Srady Tammy It Hit Bachelor" Debbie Reynold-Walter Bremtati 'THE LONELY MAN" Jack Palance Anthony Perkins WALT DISNEY'S Classic THE Dl-Jack W.aa. aeaws Feature! leaf rentier" IN-CAR HEATERS WMJ trnt 4 I il ii hwMI Georgann Johnson's Bow Georgann Johnson, whb has the feminine lead in Para mount's "Short Cut to made her bow on television do ing commercials.

She later came a dramatic star to the medium. MARY MARTIU AlllllEGET roun cvir JOHIl RAITT Sefa WW. ti final Mall Orrfrl neater dr ik 6-446 Follow RnttM signs on Moraga Highway (Orinda) Alt I TfS g-HOO I zzzzzz 'BSl knuoou tfT RVCSarJIlIU a I CUKRAN 1M toftivefy Oef. 1 safety without a sacrifice of realism or excitement, director Richard Fleischer and Douglas labored long with Warlies and finally came up with what seemed a good plan. Wearing no face guard whatever, Douglas will have the bird released at his face.

To insure its flying directly at him he will have bits of raw meat between his fin gers. As the bird nears him he will throw his hand in front of his face-and take the 4anding pact of the three-pound killer on the back of his hand. The hawk's claws will be bound with leather to minimize the danger. Starting Times Today FOX OAKLAND "Action of the Tl- gat," 12:30, :10, 12:00 M. ORPREUM eVenrWamJeri 'of thr World," 2:00, 7:30, 10:30 p.m.

PARAMOUNT "Omar KOXIE "The Tn Commandment," a.m., a p.m. A "Man of a Thousand Facet 12:22, 4:05, 7:47, 11:34. p.m. TOWER "DevU'a 5:04. 7:40.

10:18 p.m. Jack Haley Jean Parker "OHE BOOT TOO MUT alio TIKE SWEEPER EZjBV Special Tonite! $500 MATCH RACI NO HOLDS BARRED Toughie Brasnhn Yt. Annis Jensen Exposition Oakland WEEKLY SCHEDULE: Sat. Niter, 1:30 Sunday Afternoon, 2:10, Per nervations CaNt TE 2-4202 Sigmund Romberg's New Moon presented by the Oakland Light Opera Association Romberg's hit musical! OatstaadiBg east aad orchestra Fridays, Saturdays 8:30 p.m. Saptinbir 13, 14, 20, 21 Reserved seats, $1 85, $1.50 Box seats, $275 General admission, 90f (Prices include tax) Tickets at Sherman, Clay Sea Offke, Oakland er CaH KE 4-J 194 WOODMINSTER: AMPHITHEATER SJOO ieaeeia) Miller Read Oakland Key System Sua to and from Park.

Top Hi! 4 "WHIN WORLDS COLLIDt" Sienc-Fietioa Thriller! eaaaaaaaMaaaaaaaaaaaaaaMasaaaaaai in II I III lit Hi Prow," "One Kiss" and "Lover Come Back to Me," were par ticularly fine has the role of Marianne, a New Orleans belle whose romance with Robert (Wall), a one-time French nobleman winds through a stormy sea of events. ZJJndoubtedly-; additional re hearsals before next weekend's performance will help lessen the LAST 2 WEEKS FINAL ENGAGEMENT DOORS OPEN at 9:30 a.m. J500D SEATSALLSHOWSL CHECK SCHEDULE BELOW MON thru SAT 3 Shows at 10 a.nb 2 1.M. 1 1 pjk GEN. ADM.

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Academy Award win ner Dorothy Malone and Jane Greer have other starring roles in the new film. Whole sequences from such Chaney hits as "Miracle Man," "Hunchback of Notre Dame, Phantom of the Opera" and many others, are also seen. The Joker Is Wild' "The Joker Is Wild," starring Frank Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeanne Crain and Eddie Albert, isbased on the triography of famed nightclub comic Joe E. Lewis. mCAZMMAT.

TODAY BO. 2-MM TmWM 1 LAST 7 PAYS I "A MIMORAILI IXrUltHti' CONE, Otktand Trlbunt THIATRI AT ITS STRONSESr HODEU Nm PULITZER PRIZE PLAY. DRAMA CRITICS AWARD mar, I phoni oioars Aecarrn HUE EM nors completing the cast The production, based on Fred Gip- aoni novel, was directed oy Robert Stevenson. ELI WALLACH JOINS CAST OF 'LINE-UP' Eli Wallach will make his first Hollywood appearance as. the star and principal heavy of "Line-Up," for Columbia.

The Broadway stage star and graduate of the Actors Studio, who played the male lead in "The Rose Tattoo" throughout its run and appeared in London as star of "The Teahouse of the August will arrive in Hollywood late this month for the film, which has a tentative Sept. 30 starting date. His only previous film appearance was as coster with Carroll Baker in "Baby Doll." "Line-Up" has a San Francisco background and will be shot partly in that city and partly in Holly wood 20 m.ut nun it vi KIT! -o scum it New Show Every WEDNESDAY and SUNDAY DUSK TO DAWN MOVIE MARATHON! J.I-l I WW LANCASTER TOKY CURTIS The Theater of Tomorrow, TODAY! Lmng-room comfort! Lots of r-1 "WELL SUCCESS I I SPOIL EOCK HUNTER?" "3:10 TO YUMA" Ciena Ford -Van Heflin EXCLUSIVE mAA JV 2mi Thrill Hit SHOWING! Jayna Mansfield (It's Hilarioartl) "gun mrc CeatinsMM P.M. SMiiiaTr.