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CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE; THURSDA'Y. OCTOBER 25, 1962 PART 4- PAGE 11 Play, 'Night Life' Deeds with Society's Ills 1 BY DOUGLAS WATT over by Mrs. Robert E. Joyce, will be held in the Imperial suite of the Hilton hoteL An annual $250-a-plate benefit for Loyola university's medical school, the 1962 Award dinner, takes place Nov. 20 in the Hilton.

The Flossmoor Garden club's "Holiday with Flowers" symposium of home decorations and table settings will be on view from 10 to 3:30 o'clock in the village auditorium in gance, will see the Bolshoi Ballet dance "Swan Lake" Saturdaythe Russian company's second night in Arie Crown theater in McCormick Place. "We've sold our last ticket and anticipate a truly gala evening," said Mrs. Arthur Gerber, benefit chairman. Many of the ticket holders, she said, will be dining with friends in the Presidents Walk before curtain time. Others plan to rendezvous in downtown hotels and clubs.

The Howard Wolf sons are Weiss Aids Benefit Is a Sellout BY IRENE POWERS More than 1,000 benefactors of the Louis A. Weiss Memorial hospital, most in black tie ele- giving a small dinner party in their home and the Siegfried Strausses have invited a number of their friends to drop in after the performance for a nightcap. Dinner Suits Most of the benefit committee have elected to wear handsome dinner suits rather than ball gowns to the ballet. Blonde and vivacious Mrs. Gerber will be in satin white skirt and beaded black jacket White is the choice both of Mrs.

Leonard Pfaelzer, president of the Weiss Women's auxiliary sponsoring the benefit evening, and Mrs. Lester Stone. Mrs. Edwin Hokin expects to wear a favorite orange and gold ensemble. Mrs.

Harry Do-ber will be suited in olive and green brocade. Emerald green brocade is Mrs. Murray Vale's choice. Among others of the committee who plan to arrive early to help Mrs. Gerber welcome benefit patrons are Mrs.

William Tannenbaum and Mrs. Jerome Silver. Briefly Noted The women's board of the Alexian Brothers Hospital Foundation will have benefit plans to discuss when members meet at tea this afternoon in the Georgian suite of the Ambassador East hoteL Young women of the escort for the Stritch Award dinner will parade in their white ballgowns for their mothers at a preview tea today. The party, presided rum iff aai mm wmm of the lawyer, has taken up with the labor leader who fouls himself up in the end, leaving the singer free to resume her true love affair with the lawyer and leaving the degenerate actress-i-who also loves the lawyer free to continue degenerating. In staging the bits presumably illuminating these characters, A r-Director-Producer Kingsley often employs the tableau method, freezing all but one or two characters while they speak their souls.

Many capable actors are involved in this thing, but only one, really, the willowy Salome Jens, succeeds in creating anything like a genuine character. Miss Jenns, as the actress who is always on the edge of hysteria, is truly admirable. Neville Brand gives a forceful performance as the crooked labor leader but be is eventually swamped by the script Equally mired are the winsome Carol Lawrence as the singer, the wonderfully skilled Walter Abel and Carmen Mathews as the married couple, and Jack Kelly as the hero. Only Pianist-Singer Bobby Short seemed to be enjoying himself in his occasional bursts of music. As for Albert Johnson's impressively real-looking club well, it's bound to lose its liquor license any day now, for they were still serving booze at 6 a.

m. New York, Oct 24 A fellow I know sustained a heart attack and was forced to give up the late spots he had frequented- But as he reasoned, "nobody says much of any importance after midnight, anyway." I doubt that Sidney Kingsley knows this fellow, but the popular playwright certainly went out of his way last night at the Brooks Atkinson theater to prove the man's point with a play called "Night Life." Set in a key club, one of those saloons for out-of-town squares with larger expense accounts than brains, "Night Life" details the happenings in this shabby establishment from 1' a.m. until the dawn of the particular day. There, we meet all the people most of us are able to avoid in more sensible surroundings namely, a sick comic, a cafe songstress the heroine, a degenerate female movie star and her lawyer the hero, a tiresome middle-aged couple out for a thrill, a rough-tough labor leader the villain whom the law has been trying, unsuccessfully, to nail, and several other depressing types. Their talk -is prevailingly dull.

What Kingsley is apparently up to is to present a cross-section of society's ills in "this trap and he's evolved a casual sort of melodrama to perk things up from time to time. The cafe singer, former love 111 IIP III I ll I Cf i I 1 Quinn Is Superb in Movie, 'Requiem for a Heavyweight' her talent can't keep the role from being unbelievable. However, these are small flaws in an almost perfect picture. It's terse and unvarnished and carries a terrific impact. I'm happy to know that Mr.

Serling will continue to write for the screen, which sorely needs such talent. i (VI NEW! DESIGNER CREATED Wi 1 NUT i CHOPPERS "REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT" Produce by David Snsskind, directed ftr Ralph Nelson, written toy Rod Serlins. Released by Columbia Pictures at tnt Oriental theater. THE CAST Mountain Rivera Anthony Quinn Mai sit Rennick Jackia Giro sen Army Roomy Grace Miller Jolit Harris Perelli Stan Adams Ma Greeny Madam Soivy Bartender Herbie Fayo Jack Demosey Himself BY MAE TINEE There is one word for Anthony Quinn's performance in this film superb. His Mountain Rivera is a touching figure, a battered hulk who has fought his last fight and is baffled by the business of making a living at another profession.

He has no money, no education, and no future. He's clumsy, inarticulate, and stupidly sentimental in his childish devotion to his manager, but he's also a gentle giant with his own standards of decency and an eternal sense of loyalty. Quinn makes these qualities shine thru. Jackie Gleason, as his unscrupulous manager, a mass of jelly inside a burly facade, gives a quiet skill to his portrait of a man who plays on the emotions of the blundering fighter to save his own worthless hide. The third of the trio the central characters in this deftly-written tragedy is Mickey Rooney who also is excellent as he watches helplessly as the manager manipulates the trusting Rivera.

I did not see the TV play which Hod Sterling adapted to the screen, but in the film, at least, I felt the only false notes were in the female characters. Ma Greeny, a mean mountain of a woman who apparently rules a gang of murderous thugs, just didn't ring quite true. And while Julie Harris is probably one of the few actresses who could make the role of the sympathetic counselor anything but saccharin, even 4 i 1 good-looking so convenient! is Four decorator colors chop fin or perfect for iprtiding fj 2 eup eapoelty only NOW AT YOUR FAVORITE SUPERMARKET, HOUSEWARES OR HARDWARE DEPARTMENT Chicago inWTr''iiir-I'frfifirnri'iif Cats IincDJuMSDi nn si imw ft Eleanor Club Plans Benefit Card Party rvi. i (B A benefit card party is planned by the Central Eleanor club for members and their guests at 1 p. m.

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