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Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 47

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-I STAGE AND SCREEN, Oakland Tribune, Friday, Oct. 27, 1961 D'I47, 'Cannbnballuint STRAVHATTER I Starting Times Today rJewman REVUE ENDS OX OAKLANIWSptandar In Id Gr, Supisrb in 'Hustler1 Due in Berkeley 4:40, 1:40 p.m. i CRANO tAK6 "Th King and 7: RUN SATURDAY no p.m. PARAMOUNT nha HiaHattJ: 4:35, :45 m. PARKWAY "Tha remoter rD By THERESA LOES CONE Tribune.

Drama Critic By RUSS WILSON 'We Had It So We Cooked p.m., ha Lavandar Hill Mop," 7: and 19:39 p.m. to a nerve-shattering, 25-hour who has won nationwide Some of the brightest names 11:15 a.m., 1:41, :10. p.m. It!" Festival Theater's satiric musical Straw Hat Revue will close its run in San Anselmo in jazz will be featured in a concert at 2:15 p.m. Sunday TAO "Breakfast at Tlffany't," .1:11, 1:50 p.m..

17:30 a m. TOWf Vcrite," 7: and p.m.' praise for her blues and folk singing, will be another prime attraction. nate. This first-rate actor plays with frightening exactness a twisted, depraved gambler who dominates Eddie for a while and in the process ruins the life of Eddie's' weak, but clear-sighted girl. at the Berkeley Community game, through his shame and defeat, his pitiful ineptitude in understanding an alcoholic girl who loves him and his subsequent determined comeback, Newman is simply Theater under sponsorship of The concert also will afford today and tomorrow at 8:30 p.m.

Tickets are avail SU5TUI" the U.Cv branch of the two -rising Bav Area tafents. NAACP. "III C(P)M(" llUiiai singers Mary Stallings and ty. None of us suspected that Most widely known unit is Don Washington, an oppor- able for both performances at the Bolinas Ave. at Kensington Road, San Anselmo.

Surrounded by warped per- Piper Laurie could portray the quintet led by. Julian unity to.be heard in an im I) sonalities, who are crippled "CannonballV Adderley, a portant setting. Miss Stallings, underneath far more than his prodigious alto saxophonist. San Franciscan, will sing Featured in the cast of 1961 His a ssociates include his with the Adderley group. with such skill so difficult and touching a role as the girl in question.

While the character is shown mercilessly in her own occasional depravity, she is also an object of pity, a basically, good person who pathetic, lame mistress, Eddie actually becomes part of the corruption for a time, ac- brother, cornetist Nat Adder- btrawnauers are veteran actors Louis Bennett, Elizabeth Berryhill, Carol Brumm, Mar-jorie Casebier, Robert Cowell lev, alone with pianist Joe Washington, who lives in Berkeley and is possessed of a fine, resonant baritone 1 1 the standards of Zawinul, bassist Sam Jones, IT PROBES THE THE SAVAGE REALITIES OF UFE AND LOVE! "CANNOrALL" ADDERLEY He'll he.rd in Berkeley: thieves, and the amorality of the conscienceless. and Betty voice, will appear with the Montgomery has found all the wrong an and drummer Louis. Hayes. Gaining in fame is the Montgomery Brothers Quartet whic.h since its organiza swers to her-problems. Portraying tne- worst of An unusual feature of the kindnesses to and friendships with musicians are legendary.

You don't have to know these deplorable personalities, concert is that it has been designated a personal tribute billiards to become engrossed Scott is Mephistopheles mcar- Fairmont Cast in the pool-playing scenes be tion something more than a year ago has established a nationwide following. The to Eldon Mills, Berkeley ac As a friendly gesture to minors, wh() cannot gain admission to most jazz clubs, tween Newman uleason. To Stage Rock' countant, artist, and probably the Bay Area's most dedi The latter, portraying a man student tickets for Sunday's' three brothers who are its nucleus guitarist Wes, who Tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. the Masquers Stage Barrie Comedy seemingly in control but even. cated jazz aficionado, whose concerts will be $1.75.

new Fairmont Flayers will tually revealed as a slave like last year was voted the coun all the others, does a master i 1 try's No. 1 performer on his present their first production, "The Rock," a religious play The Masquers open their fall "Lots of people have says George C. Scott to iPaul Newman in "The But, he adda: "It's Character that makes a You gotta have talent and In Paramount's newmovie, j. Scott tabs Newman as a born loser in a demoralizing effort to gain control of him. But the oily Scott is the Story eventually demonstrates.

Newman wants more than anything else to be a pool-' champ. He, wants to beat "Minnesota Fats'- (Jackie Gleason) whose coast-to- coast reputation as a poolroom ace reached into the i of Oakland, jfrom, where the would-' be champ and pool shark (or hustler) Although critics have emphasized the sordid backgrounds (mostly New York) In which the conflict between ambition and the means of achieving a goal unfold with electric brilliance, Eddie's struggle is not one confined only to the hoodlum, unhealthy atmosphere of that male domain: the poolroom. is the agonizing experience of many a brash young man challenging and straining for top position in business, sports and organizations of all however much their respective decors may be more pleasing to the eye than billiard parlors. J'The Hustler" has tenseness, insight and chilling real-Ism leveled at the adult viewer. Producer director Robert Rossen happens to be one of those rare Hollywood movie makers who thinks 'audiences are not all composed of permanent ful job, too.

season tonight at 8:30 with the Mvron McCormick is ex by Mary Harn5p, at First Christian Church. 29th and instrument; pianist. Buddy and bassist. Monk all are Eastbay residents. Strangely enough, although they 'have played in Bay Area clubs this cellent as a drifter who helped James Barrie play, "The Admirable Crichton," at 105 Park Place, Point Richmond.

Fairmont Streets. develop Eddie in his skill but This will be the only pub is destined for the discard According to Josephine lic showing of the play, since Murray Hamilton is adroit as will be their first concert here. With them will be drum Camp, director, generations of all future performances have a southern tycoon who goes in been scheduled for private or mer Eddie Moore. for a hard game of billiards playgoers have enjoyed this comedy since it was first produced in London in 1902. She ganizations.

Barbara Dane, of Berkeley, once in a while. 5 A major film of this or any "Today, when class dis year, encompassing a shatter tinctions are so often treated ing variety of emotions and scenes not meant to entertain the prudish. "The Hustler" is with bitterness, it is a refreshing reminder that they once 1 fliferwix could be gently spoofed." "Director Elia Kazan has fashioned a deeply moving experience for the yiewer Miss Wood gives a peruTsireperform- PREMIERE EAST BAY ENGAGEMENT! Til Mist TaMAiMt Tka Mist Shickel Mmt Pictm if Oh Yens! Iitrs 0M p.L SkmBKiOilf it I II for the mature and discriminating moviegoer. Performances will be given each Friday and Saturday for the next three weeks. PIPER LAURIE ance.

-EDMS Of MATABOKE" Theresa Loeb Cone Oakland Tribune OQLG2s Gregory Pact-David Nivoa James Danwa-Anthony Quma "Cidoet toes Hawaiiai" 9m fafetwetiami "A superb new movie what a cinematic power house it is!" Stanley Eichelbaum S.F. Examiner "One of the richest American movies in recent I ucur I im. SUSPENSE WEEK! Jazz Concert CANNONBALL ADDERLY QUINTET Miss Mary Stalling Newman, whether Jie is acting cocksure or uncertain, bold or weak, drunk or sober, tender or tough, gives his finest screen performance as mi i years News Week The Motion Picture with Everything1 that makes Entertainment Great I America Greatest Folk Singer "THEODORE BIKEL Oct. 28 830 P.M.- IICKITS: $3.71. S.00.

2.M Itwttm Cealcr Ik Office 32S Mum $1, s. skHBN-cui. 2111 briy. MUri Mill 0rm AcctiM ROD. IN ASSOC.

WITH UONAKD 4. MANT mr Eddie, the hero "who finds his character in a hotel room," a "fact he reveals at a finale combining heartbreak I BARBARA DANE Sugar Hill Trio OlA KAZAN'S PRODUCTION OF with victory. From the opening sequences VtfVlAofn Ka inRa1 Inrirf ao "ITate" mm IN PERSON! 0m lerkeley Cowewpity TkHttr MANTQVANI It HAS TERRIEIC It roars with the fierce excitement of men in the passions of human strifej. the power of human valor! Back demand! ltUIIWU.UK NATALIE WOOD WARREN BEATTY awtft wtt Malt WES MONTGOMERY and the MONTGOMERY BROTHERS Don Washington Berk. Commi Theatre This Oct.

29 2:15 p.m. Adminien: Studtnr $1.71 Canaral $2.75. Tickers: Sherman Clay Sax Office, Oakland: HI 4-IS75. UC ASUC City, Sorktloy SpeaMfts' ay Itrk. Caap.t UUCP AND HIS NEW MUSIC ORCHESTRA OF 45 Special Eutfctf Epff TIIES, OCT.

31 it 8:30 P.M. BERK, COMM. THEATRE Tickets: $4.73. 3.50. 2.50.

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