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Des Moines Register Page 8 Oct. 6, 1966 HOMECOMING Ruby: A Better Punch Than Loui Briton Most Promising of Hollywood's 'New Elite5 By Peter Bart Ntw York Timet Newi Strvlc OPENS TODAY Ntw York Timet Newt Strvlct DALLAS, Ruby, the man who shot Lee Harvey "divert funds from important mail handling operations." The economy plea was printed in the weekly Postal Bulletin for post office workers. An announcement of the plea was mimeographed and mailed to 250 Washington news offices. A three-day schedule of events for Drake parents-alumni HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. A new elite seems to be emerging Oswald in Dallas in November, homecoming weekend starts at in Hollywood an elite of men who can turn a good tune and maybe turn a good phrase as well.

In short, musical 'comedy 7 p.m., today with a pep rally 1963, has been described by his friends as a types near the Reflecting Pool of the Save Those Paper Clips! WASHINGTON, D. General Lawrence O'Brien came out four-square Wednesday for getting more mileage out of paper clips. In a message directed to postal employes, O'Brien asked for savings on "little things" including the 50 million paper clips issued annually. "A 1 a percentage of those were probably discarded too soon," O'Brien declared. Such waste, he said, helps A couple of years ago no Women's Residence Quadrangle THE I IN THE News shortcomings.

After Dolittle, Bricusse and Newley will resume their partnership to create Other highlights include Fri studio wanted anything to do with musicals in Hollywood, but semi literate hothead. Although out day's all-university homecoming convocation at 11 a.m. in the a. musical version of "Cyrano," wardly gregarious and nattily Fieldhouse and Saturday's foot the success of Mary Poppins and "The Sound of Music" has sent the studios on a musical kick. Everyone's looking for starring Christopher Plummer ball game with Wichita State at dressed, he lived a gloomy 1:15 p.m.

in Drake Stadium. Bricusse also is committed to create two more misicals for apartment cluttered with old MODEL DRIVERS TOKYO, JAPAN (AP)-About 3,500 private motorists and business chauffeurs are being awarded gold and silver badges in Tokyo's annual autumn safety campaign designating them model drivers. young musical comedy talents, Drake Parents of the Year, the screen, one of which will Every producer wants to sign a Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cobb, relate in song the bawdy saga young genius" to write a "title of "Henry VIU." recently transferred from Des Moines to West Haven, tune" for his picture.

Every studio chief wants his films to "The casting possibilities are have "hip, modern" background will be introduced at the Fri-day Homecoming music. Other features of the Friday convocation will be introduction boxes and newspapers. And a close friend said he brooded in the privacy of his rooms. He loved animals, especially dogs, but could not establish a close relationship with more than one or two humans. Many of his acquaintances dodged him because he would lash at them in vile language or suddenly strike them with his fists.

A Brawler Ruby was an accomplished brawler, and would not hesitate to tangle with men six inches taller and 50 pounds heavier than his 5 feet 9 inches and 175 The music men are suddenly commanding lush salaries, are invited to the best parties and are wined and dined by producers who wouldn't have remembered their names two or three years earlier. of Drake football players and naming of the Homecoming Queen from five recently select Ernie's Urban Lounge Noteour NEW LOCATION 2424 Harding nd. FEATURING 111 pSilij um ed finalists: Kay Keny, Daven fabulous," he notes. Mering Dies of Crash Injuries (Tht Reglstw's low Nwi Strvlct) OTTUMWA, IA. Evan Mering, 61, deputy city assessor, died Wednesday at the Ottumwa Hospital of injuries received in a crash Tuesday night here.

Authorities said Mering's car collided with a Milwaukee Road engine at a crossing at the west city limits. port: Nancy Parks, Seymour An especially promising 0 Phyllis Shields, Greenburg, REGISTER member of this "new elite" is Cathv Thornton. Glen Leslie Bricusse, a cheerfully ir Band Festival Hosts Ellyn, HI. and Connie Turner, reverent, 35-year-old Briton who Moline, HI. Des Moines Top Entertainment Nightly arrived in town a few weeks At 2 p.m.

Friday, the Home ago and has been accorded a pounds. Nor would he back away from physical encounters coming Registration Reception regal reception. the JOE ADAMS TRIO and Queen's Tea will be held in with men smaller than himself Line Forms to Right or even with women. the songs of JOANNE Bricusse's first movie job has Mike Reese (left), 16-year-old drum major, am IMax Cordon, 17-year-old president of the Ankeny High 1 School band, will be among the hosts at the seventh atmnal Ankeny Marching Band Festival Saturday at 7:30 pj m. at the Ankeny football field.

Also taking part in the event, sponsored by the Ankeny Band Parents Club, will I be the bands of Ballard-Huxley, Carlisle, Johnston, Southeast Polk and Urbandale High Schools. "Jack was always Jewett Student Union. The Homecoming Concert, featuring the Back Porch Majority, will be eiven at 7:30 p.m. and at He is survived by his wife, a been to create the music, lyrics and screen play for "Dr. Dolit- JACKSON Dancing daughter, two brothers and a sister.

Services are pending at Cocktails tle," the extravagant musical the Traul Funeral Home. starring Rex Harrison that is now in production at 20th Cen said one of his sisters. Since he was sentenced to death in March, 1964, Ruby has spent much of his time in the Dallas County jail drawing and decorating pictures of nude women and playing soli-tare under the watchful eyes of jailers. tury-Fox. The "inside word" has it that Bricusse's dialogue disapproved.

He was i irrested several times in Dal' las on sparkles as brightly as his mel assault charges. odies and that has been enough All Am I ALL ff i 9:30 p.m. Saturday's schedule starts with a family-style breakfast. At 9:45 a.m. a forum on the present and future educational trends at Drake will be presented in a discussion-debate at Harvey Ingham Hall.

Drake's 10 colleges will hold open house featuring student displays from 10:30 a.m. until the Fieldhouse Feed begins at 11:50 a.m. gfit 8 P.M. I A Although he consorts with SEATS A.W rt-L- jfATIONAL V(i 0f1' I rTTfiCTdTr.li W. I "I I movie a to start the producers lining up carpenter for his last 30 years, was frequently drunk.

And his mother had delusions, Including one that for years she had a fishbone stuck in her throat. She regularly went to a doctor for treatment of the nonexistent fishbone. GOOD SEATS AT SHOWTIME gamblers and criminafrT who outside his office door. Texas Court of Criminal frequented his club, thai re was I i hi Inn I Jn WWr'" ssr This attention naturally has Appeals Wednesday reversed no evidence that Ruby iras in flattered and surprised Bri the conviction of Ruby and or- volved in organized rac kets in cusse, whose past efforts have -V 14. I I I I mm liiiaive -I il -ijf been mostly for the stage and When he was 11 years old, Ruby and two younger brothers Hi ORDER NOW 1 -IwacH IJJJUL mostly in collaboration with Anthony Newley.

Texas. Ruby was proud I his prowess at a fighter and boasted that he coul hit harder than Joe LouL-v the FOR THE WEEKEND Call 274-2513 and a younger sister were taken After the football came, open ail- The pair created two Broad houses are scheduled for sorori from the family and put Into a foster home for a short time 0IWSCOPE CthrtiDclUICE ties, fraternities and men and way shows, "Stop the World I Want to Get Off" and "The former heavyweight 1 loxing women residence halls. because of the frequent fights between his parents. champion. Tommy James and the Shon Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd." Newley After he was returned home, dells will play for the informal However, one of, Ruby close has a major acting role in Dr.

friends testified before th War Homecoming dance at the Val-Air Ballroom, starting at 9 p.m Dolittle" and belts out several he did not stay long, but roamed the streets of Chicago with neighborhood gangs. ONLY LIDS COULD PLAY THESE WOMEN! ren Commission that Kiioy picked his opportunities of Bricusse's best Bilffii)iiiiww'iiww QiJ Symphony Strikers He learned to brawl in the choosing drunks, womertnr men smaller than himself. 1 streets. Many of his fights were started by other ruffians who Turn Down Offer INDIANAPOLIS, IND. (AP) Ruby also was describe data referred to Jews in deroga "gladhander and a 1 1 a tory fashion.

Striking musicians of the In dropper" who wanted'; to be known as a "big shot." dianapolis Symphony Orchestra rejected Wednesday by a 52-3 Called "Sparky" Later, when he was running He was in tax difficult ies with TOMORROW: "CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF" SHOWN AT: 12:00 4:00 1:00 TOMORROW: "BUTTERFIELD 8" SHOWN AT: 2:00 6:00 9:30 Bricusse acknowledged that perhaps his toughest job on Dolittle was learning to please and appease his star, Rex Harrison, who plays the dauntless doctor who can converse with animals. Harrison originally signed for the picture when Alan Jay Lerner was committed to do book and lyrics. But Lerner backed out and, Bricusse puts it, "I don't think Rex was thrilled with the idea of my replacing Lerner." Harrison promptly exercised vote the latest proposal by Indiana State Symphony Society. nightclubs in Dallas, Ruby still the federal governmerj at the time he shot Oswald. 4be.pv-ernment said he owed 000 in would fight patrons who slurred The orchestra's thirty-seventh Jews.

season was canceled Sept. 27 back taxes from his fghfi clubs. He always was hot-tempered Maggie e's a hot number'in her because of the demands of Lo Jack Ruby "Always Fighting" The claim is pending, Cat, who turns Academy Award-winning cal 3, American Federation of Musicians union. The strike be bed into a TV Forum dered the case transferred out performance! cagei gan last April at the close of the of Dallas County. 1965-66 season.

Venereal The reversal was based on MEfROGOLDWYN 'PRESENTS his contractual right to veto any two key elements: (1) That SCRANTON OKAYS BOOST The subject of very' a-eal dis songs; he turned thumbs down and was called "Sparky" when he was a boy because of his temper. Ruby left school in the eighth grade and sold tip sheets at race fell in with gamblers and drifted around the country. After World War II, in which he was a private first class in the Air Force," Ruby went to Dallas where a sister, Mrs. Eva on the first three written for HARRISBURG, PA. (AP) METRO GOLDWYN MAYER ELIZABETH TAYLOR LAURENCE HARVEY Ruby should not have been tried in Dallas and (2) that the trial court should not have allowed ease, methods of con, trolling it and otnjbr problems T'hvWed Gov.

William W. Scranton an him by Bricusse. It took time, Bricusse says, before he began will be: discussed oo Station nounced Wednesday he has ap certain testimony by police offi on allot KDPS-TV from 9 to p. to gain his star's confidence. proved a 5 per cent, across-the cers which implied that Ruby tonight.

Panel meirtx rs will EDDIE FISHER board pay increase for 90,000 state employes, effective in "Bully, Snob" "Rex is a bully, a snob, a answer questions tel pi wned to the station. January, 1967. perfectionist and a magnificent XX Panelists will DC Julius JOHN OHARA'S DUTTERFIELD professional," says Bricusse.) S. Conner, director; of the Des Tin Roof ELIZABETH TAYLOR PAUL NEWMAN; BURLIVES He won't let one syllable go Moines-Polk County Health De into the picture that he doesn't partment; Dr. Robert E.

Allen- feel is right, even if it means THEATER CLOCK der. obstetrician "aha gyne fiddling for hours over a tune or cologist; Dr. Edmtf nd TJ. Burke, discarding it completely." urologist; Normal i Di White, Bricusse reports that Harri JACK CARSON-JUDiTH ANDERSON son also balked at his screen director of the Des Moines Public Schools' Heaf th Education Department; RoL ert M. Williamson, communiCale disease play, since, in the end, Dr.

Dolittle doesn't win the girl (Thursdii starting times as provided by theater managers.) GALAXY: An American Dream 12:10, 2:05, 4, 7:55, 10. PLAZA: Fantastic Voyage 6, 8, 10. (Samantha Eggar) bnt wins crRICHAfiD BfiOOKSoJAMESPOE MILDRED DUNNOCX-BETTY FIELD JEFFREY LYNN -KAY MEDFORD control officer for the Des the animals instead. "That," tunoxiwMx.oHCTmworK TENNESSEE WILLIAMS F'l SUSAN OLIVER ckokwt CHARLES SCHNEE and JOHN MICHAELHAYES Moines-Polk County It lealth De PARAMOUNT: A Man Called Adam I says Bricusse, "was rather owe it RICHARD BROOKS, st 5 OMEOEDir UAnltLMAftn A KAnUnU DtnMAR rKUuuLNUN f7j 12, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. weuca ir LAWRENCE WEINGARTEN anwonproouctkm, i ill hard for him to swallow." killed Oswald with premeditation.

"Very Happy" Although his attorneys said he was insane when he shot Oswald in November, 1963, following the assassination of President Kennedy, one of Ruby's principal interests has been to prove that he Is not now insane, a contention that was upheld in a state court on June 13, 1966. Phil Burleson, one of Ruby's lawyers, went to his cell Wednesday and told him that the court had reversed his death sentence. Ruby, Burleson said, was f'very, very happy" at the court's decision and appeared completely aware of the implications of the decision. Ruby was born in Chicago in 1911, the son of immigrant Jews from Poland. He was named Jacob Rubenstein, but he changed it on Dec.

30, 1947, after moving to Dallas. The fifth of eight children, Ruby was reared in Chicago, III. His father, an unemployed in CIREMASCOrf ano METROCOIOK an release INGERS0LL: The Blue Max 8. CAPRI: The Sound of Music 9. lJ LI IN HETII0C010I AN M-G-M RE-RELEASE Grant, was operating a nightclub.

As a nightclub operator, Ruby had a special fondness for police officers. He gave them cards entitling them to special prices. Ruby never married, although he had an 11-year romance with a Dallas divorcee who says she refused to marry, him because of his hot temper, among other things. "Bad" Boss One of Ruby's clubs, the Carousel, featured striptease dancers and other features of the burlesque stage. A number of his former employes told the Warren Commission, which investigated trie assassination of President Kennedy, that Ruby was a "bad" boss, that he frequently refused to pay them and that he used obscene language toward them, and sometimes struck them.

Own Bouncer Ruby was his own bouncer at his clubs and frequently beat patrons of whose conduct he As for the tunes, Bricusse HOLIDAY: Doctor Zhivago 8. Ends Tonit says Harrison delivers them like VARSITY: Gigi 6, 9:55. A Thousand pro. "He's really become Sammy Davii, Jr. in Clowns 8.

Starts TOMORROW! CONTINUOUS SHOWrNG! rather keen on singing he PLANTATION DRIVE-IN: Who's Afraid A MAN CALLED ADAM" thinks of himself as Portofino's of Virginia Woolf? 7:30 (repeat of first hour I'll Take Sweden 9:40. DOORS, OPEN 11:45 A.M. Bobby Darin," says Bricusse, partment, and Carlet A. Johnson, assistant profesf sor of psychology at Drake Diversity. The program is sf, onsored by the Adult Educations Department of the Moinxj.

Public Schools and Polk aunty Medical Society. BEGIN CONST! IUCTION MONTREAL, QU EBEC, CANADA (AP) Alp'lf onse Ouimet, president of jie Canadian Broadcasting Cai.j, officially inaugurated constn iction work at the site of what is expected to Though he realizes that the S. E. 14TH ST. DRIVE-IN: Cartoons NOW! success of "The Sound of Mu 7:30.

Tenth Victim 7:45. Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number 9:25. OPEN sic" and "Mary Poppins" paved CAPITOL DRIVE-IN: The Plainsmen the way for the $l-million Dr. 7:35, 11. Incident at Phantom Hill 9:30.

Dolittle, Bricusse admits he was less than enamored of these (irirlll LESLIE CARON blUl MAURICE CHEVALIER -IN COLOR- PLUS "A THOUSAND CLOWNS" JASON ROBARDS BARBARA HARRIS NOW THRU SATURDAY Nights at 8:30, Matinees 2:30 PIONEER DRIVE-IN: Adam and Eve NOW! previous musicals. 7:30, 10:30. The Shame of the Sabine Women 9. "Mary Poppins," he says, WEST-VUE DRIVE-IN: Glass Bottom be the world's la? -gest broadcast Boat 7:30. Cincinnati Kid 9:40.

center. KRNT THEATER: Funny Girl 8:30. "pandered to children. It underrated them." As for the "Sound of Music," Bricusse says that 4 'it started off with six great Elizabtth Tvlr RicMrd Burton "WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF" PLUS BOB HOPE FRANKIE AVALON "I'LL TAKE SWEDEN" -ELECTRIC HEATERS- Recital of Atrocities lsn 9t Theater songs then followed them with six really bad ones. That's the way the whole show went." While criticizing the work of constituted records, pasted together the tes TONITE AT 8 P.M.

a daily routine of what emerges th others, Bricusse also is willing to give himself the needle. He this long, abrasive, naked invasion of history. During the entire evening at the Ambassador, prison camn timony of many witnesses into By Walter Kerr Ntw York Timit Ntwt Strvica NEW YORK, N. Y. "I saw something move a little among is a sense off at some the restrained words of a few.

still winces at the mention of the word "Pickwick" the we are among the dead two SEATS STILL AVAILABLE I This is a selective transcript, an kinds of dead. i successful if heavy-handed re vue for which he did the lyrics There are those hundreds, then thousands, then millions of evening of edited fact. It is disturbing in its implications, repetitive in its method, wearing as an experience yet He also tends to belittle the book for "The Roar of the Prices: Main MM, 55.50, Balcony M.50, S5.S0, M.50, 13.50, 3.00. Matinees: Main OO, S5.50, Balcony W.N SS.M, M.50, UM, S3.M. Phene 244-7162 unnamed human beings herded out of boxcars, hustled out of thing worse ten "mere" murder.

i It is the-fvorror of murder for fun, urder for sport, murder for scientific curios ity, murdw as sheer technique. Gradually, one realizes the least offens ive defendant on trial is the me who simply had a habit of shooting prisoners Greasepaint." But Bricusse is too busy at present to worry about past the: dead," says one of the survivors of Auschwitz in "The I vestigation" as she recounts her horrified crawl through a chamber matte with corpses. So, I think, will you Oil incontestably an experience of some sort Criticism is, in a way, irrelevant You will either wish to endure this kind and this amount of information in a riiiiifsiipv WiKXER OF 5 ACADEMY AWARDS! TWO el tie SEASON'S TOP HITS! DORS ROD ARTHUR LXfJMOR GODFREY their clothes, and hurried toward "shower baths" that rain nothing but cyanide. And we are engaged with another kind of dead those who have survived. Some have been prisoners at Auschwitz and have listed out the ordeal miraculously.

The others were once guards, doctors, camp commanders, now facing the questions of a prosecutor. Hardened Flesh mmm VIVIAN theater or you will not The theater is an open house down at lAM, even if he did "like to shaf for the legs first." R00SIQGR JL OMAR SHARP fcL 1L lie vljmsyi1 IS The true monsters are the which can accommodate itself, though not at its highest level, to events other than plays. men of ingi nuity who most con though you at ham may be a shade surprised at what you do see. The girl telling this particular ctory is only one of dozens whose testimony is summarized IN WWMtttOfi AND MkTHOCQU scientiously created great rabbit DocronzimAGOj warrens the mazes of the Vivid Acting I The performances, if they are Charge 244-0664 PLUS EXCITING 2nd HITI new minott mr for dispatching the unproflKjsting with skill, efficiency, gtf mine imagination. They, one and all, are carved STEVE EDWARD ANN- gr 1 to be so regarded, vary in range and illumination.

Noteworthy is in Peter Weiss documentary I I wmm McQUttN-ROBINSON MARGRfcT that of Vivian Nathan, whose USM Kt- LS CW-IMgi SITUS I One 1 tens, shudders, and arrangement of the German war crimes trial of 1964-65. i baketd the ancient kiln of deliberate The girl actual has stumbled with KARL WALDEN-TUESDAY WELD a :40 -JkS- RESERVATION RECOMMENDED goes aw i) 'silent, lne issue has been jposed on the stage and Mrs. Rojack a liinnt hnmrr nhi IN THE BIO-HEW Pixie Contest An yoi (miliar with If lot, tarn to today's eomie tut and sit bow thay wark, Than, eraata yasrawt as nany as yea eta. Sand tti PIXIE CONTEST, Tat Das Moints Ragisttr. All aa tries lied ftr aklicatiea will wis $5,00.

Kr i warmth, or any shame, then, rlessly, dismissed. a There they sit, in the unvar- work is sometimes vivid indeed. By the time she has finished forcing herself to recall an episode in which a child with an apple had its head bashed bloodily against the nearest building, while the officer who managed this small triumph went on to Thei no point in at HURRYI ENDS THURSDAYI uut u.c woode witness boxes ictnmqut uevIstu ior that make up the entire setting mm for the occasion, remembering 44 E. 14th Oam 5 tempt) to deal with "The Invest bjatlon" as drama, for no att tmp has been made to. turn a ftsasty piece of evidence about ffbe nature of man into dram Weissts gone over the trial DON MURRAY in 'THE PLAINSMAN" ROBERT PULLER IN INCIDENT AT tt a mm eat the apple, she has driven one more nail straight through the open palm of human possi- 2 Kinds of Dead But it is not the stir of the living, of voices or of faces, that is apt to rise like an unbidden gho before your eyes during COLOR "10TH VICTIM" COLOR CO-HIT "BOT, DID i GET A WRONG NUMBER" nothing, denying everything, utterly dead to what was.

As the witnesses tick off the violations of personality and the dismembering of bodies that rnADIUM MILL a bility. I .9.

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