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The Austin American-Statesman -Page 44 Austin, Texas Friday, February 8, 1974 New Director For 'Cinderella' 'th II WK. 7th RECORD BREAKING -J- IN A BUI PHIU.IPS OF A GEORGE RQY HILL FILM THE STING TECHNICOLOR A UNIVERSAL PICTURE agkyp Al Pacino slars in Paramount film based on the true story of Frank Serpico, who fought against the corruption rampant among his fellow lawmen in the New York Police Department. GACT. An alumnus of the University of Texas and Southern Methodist University, Goldblatt is currently resuming his studies at St. Edward's University.

Serving as director in the last two weeks of production, Mrs. Dodson, commentator at KGTN Radio in Georgetown and formerly with KXOL in Fort Worth, has spent a great portion of her life in the theater as actress, choreographer, dancer, designer and director of touring shows from New York to Florida, in Texas and elsewhere. An alumna of the UT, T.S.C.W., Catholic Univeristy of America, Washington, D.C., Mrs. Dodson is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York. In addition to being stage manager and current director for "Cinderella," Mrs.

Dodson serves as vice president of GACT. SSsN CklAu WEEK! OF THE YEAR! Magazine r- IMGHT DOESNOTI PGI I "COMMEND I GEORGETOWN Georgetown Area Community Theater's production of Ruth Newton's "Cinderella" will go into its last week of performances with Gin Dodson, stage manager, "subbing" as director, at 8 p.m. Friday and at 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, with the possibility of a matinee at 2 p.m. Sunday.

Enthusiastic audiences greeted the past weekend's performances of the play for children and adults. Reservations for the weekend's performances may be made from 2 to 5 p.m. daily at the box office at 601 Austin phone 863-2112, or by calling 863-5875, Georgetown. The price of admission for GACT members and patrons is $1.50 for adults and 75 cents for children, and for non-members of GACT $2 for adults and $1 for children. Directing the cast of local talent in the initial stages of production was Joe Jeff 1 1 a 1 1, former director-in-residence of the r2 or 157 BARGAIN MATINEEV I jk 1II 11 5:10 TXS 1 7:40 1 it takes is a little Confidence George Segal in A Mel vin Frank Film A THE FUNNIEST LOVE 5 FIESTA DRIVE-IN THEATRE Montopolis Riverside Phont 385-1953 AT 7:30 11:00 Rated STORY Judith' New York Glenda Jackson Crisl JYflJjl Am AMPARO RIVELLESl 'I Ai II ENRIQUE RAMBAL ft MAX FLCMCMCH BTUM1 ETWaPTIVI THE MOST SENSATIONAL SERIES OF ANIMATED FILMS EVER SEEN ON THE SILVER SCREEN AN IVY FILM PRESENTATION oXBUCK ROGERS plus; it 1 Touch Of Class John Bustin we've certainly had Ccasion to notice, this is the jSear of the police drama, the 3tard-hitting, tough-talking, Jjlood-letting movie that.

Really "tells it like it is" with Jgards to the inner of the big-city JJJOlice department. recently been posed to "Magnum Perce," "The Seven-Ups" jnd "The Laughing Policeman," all well-made films of the genre, and now awaiting John Wayne's "McQ" and Peter Boyle's "Crazy Joe," however, we may not by now be considering "Serpico" with the same sort of enthusiasm that we had when we first learned that the best-selling book was being made into a motion picture. It would surely be a though, to write "Serpico" off as just another police drama. In the first place, it isn't, by any means, "just another police drama." It's a skillful adaptation of the story of I Frank Serpico, the unconventional New York detective who, in real life, blew the whistle on the widespread graft and corruption in the New York City police department. As such, "Serpico" doesn't i blast the screen with blazing sun battles or having you hanging onto your seat with i its mad, screeching car chases through city streets.

It is, though, a wholly absorbing film and one that not only entertains but focuses a well-directed spotlight on what was a serious social problem that sorely needed illuminating. frank Serpico, you see, was an unconventional pjliceman in several respects. His hair was long, and his face was generally bearded. He wore mod 4nthps. uriM Fi3ts and thrw tm four rinss on his fincers.

end he hune around with Jeople who were variously rty or shady or at least as iwnnrthnHnx as hp. i3ut the most -itmconventional thine about Serpico was simply the fact 4nat he was an honest cop kwidently one of the very few Conductor Guest "HOUSTON (AP) Nicholas Slonimsky, internationally acclaimed composer, author, 3fecturer and lexiconist, was to 'te guest conductor for a of the Universityof 3Jbuston Symphony Orchestra Hhursday night at the 3S)iversity. tflfk TIL Ot rZJ BARGAIN II rv Tl MATINEE I i 1 JlS 'TIL 1130 P.M. Lw 5J AUSf ATS $1.00 7 riano Recital Sunday GEORGETOWN Rachel Heard of Belton will present a piano recital at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Fine Arts Building of Temple Junior College in Temple.

The public is invited to attend the recital. The program includes Bach's Prelude and Fugue, Debussy's Three Preludes, Khatchaturian's Toccata, and Beethoven's Concerto, Op. 15, No. 1 in Major, with her piano instructor, Drusilla Huffmaster, accompanying. A pupil at Belton Junior High School, Miss Heard, 14, began the study of piano at the age of five.

She has been studying piano for the past four years with Miss Huffmaster, artist in -residence in the School of Fine Arts at Southwestern University. In 1971 Miss Heard won the "Our Little Miss" Talent Contest at the Texas Pageant and was chosen "Best Pianist" at the International Pageant at Miami Beach. She has been a top winner in Piano Guild Auditions for the past eight years. Miss Heard is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

L. P. Heard Jr. of Belton. TOM StWTlAQ tlyLJjL WMW iflMlli Chapter Featured ah 10:25 2 1 st Guadalupe Second 8 Ken KusseH's 44THE DEVILS" (x) 12:10 THE MARX BROS.

IN "HORSE FEATHERS" GB0MII1D on New York's huge police force at the time and that turned out to-be the most perilous thing about his nerve-racking undercover job as a detective. Almost from his first day on the force, which he had longed to join ever since he was a youngster, Serpico. noticed the sort of little graft that New York cops were getting into, scarcely noticing that it was technically illegal. Soon, in the line of duty, he realized that his colleagues were routinely raking in thousands of dollars a year for granting special favors, for not "leaning on" certain shady parties. Serpico was offered his chance to be part of this under-the-table operation, but when he refused, without making a big deal of it, he became suspect.

As someone tells him, you just can't trust a cop who isn't on the take. Finally Serpico, outraged by the callous disregard for ethics and personal integrity, felt he HAD to do something. He. couldn't get his immediate superiors to listen to his story, and eventually, he came to realize that even the chief of police and the commissioner himself were somehow involved in the corruption. Serpico finally made it to the top and touched off the far-reaching scandal that, after a thorough airing by the Knapp Commission, resulted in a complete shake-up of the department and numerous indictments, along with the resignation of the chief and the commissioner.

In life, it made an often frustrating drama that nearly ended with Serpico's getting killed while his fellow narcotics officers stood by and watched, and on the screen, it becomes a taut, engrossing story, written in an unflinching style by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler (who, be warned, let the four-letter words fly) and directed with a hard eye by Sidney Lumet. Al a i who distinguished himself as the Mafia heir in "The Godfather," does a superb job in the title role, and' everybody else in the film looks as if they were plucked right off the streets of New York. "Serpico" needs this sort of realiam, though, and it uses it tellingly to produce a fascinating film. 5 pm Hon-fn. 12 30, 2:50 Angeloi A an innocent affair 1 1 1 a 1 1 -mkmmm 5:1 5, 7:30, 9:5 EVERT FRIDAY SATURDAY $125 THE JAMES GANG NEW YORK ROCK ENSEMBLE COUNTRY I0E WHITE LIGHTNING CINEMA I Technicolor ParuvUton Eel IMOMT DOES MOT) RECOMMEND FOE CHILDREN JOSEPH mm mm Ul IDlDI! "THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN' TAKES OFF LIKE A BLAZING FOREST FIRE, WITH A THRILL A MINUTE.

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