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THE SUN, BALTIMORE. SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2. iS.ifi PAGE lfi Section A A Social Document Or Work Of Art? Anna Kashfi Should Please Connoisseurs By R. H. GARDNER By HEDDA HOPPER Ihe MAN WITH THE GOLDEN Marlon Brando.

"Tell me about your romance with him," I said. "How did you meet "Romance?" she asked. "This thing puzzles me in Hollywood. At home I had a quiet life, away from commercial things I was usually chaperoned. But here I live like any American girl; I live in an apartment alone, and I have learned to drive a car.

I date like American girls and mostly eat out. You never eat out at home; you eat and entertain in your own home. I met Marlon Brando at Paramount when he was thinking of doing a picture there. We go out occasionally there really isn't anything serious. "I also read that I am 'going' with Leslie Nielsen.

This is fantastic we have only had lunch together In the studio commissary. Then people call and ask me about this and that person and often I do not even know them. It is all so strange." I FIB ST MET Anna Kashfi at the last goine away party for Grace Kelly. She va? wealing a gold nari, and I thought she was an Indian prinrrss. Then Benny Thau introduced her saying: "This is our new little actress." She had made but one picture then, "The Mountain." with Spencer Tracy, but since that day she has co-starred with Rock Hudson in "Battle Hymn" nod is slated for a ftarring role in "Ten Thousand Bedrooms," with Dean Martin, and "Don't Go Near the Water" something of a record even for a 21 -year-old beauty.

When I asked her how she'd managed a top role with such a veteran as Tracy when she'd had no previous acting experience, she fmiled and said: "I think he wanted me because the part rails for him to carry the girl up and down Ihe mountain, and I was so skinny I weighed only 100 pounds. Later, when I got to France, I ate so much I took on ten pounds." 4 Iff I addict's head, Frnnkie whose dexterity with cards has earned him the nickname of "Dealer" and "the man with the golden arm" fights his one-sided battle with his fate. From the first almost from the moment that he returns to the garish Clark street section of Chicago after spending six months in a Federal hospital for dope addicts he finds that the cards have been stacked against him. Acting upon the advice of the hospital doctor, Franfcie decides to try to avoid the temptation to resume his dope-taking habits by changing his pattern of living. For this reason he refuses to return to his old job of running an illegal poker game for Schwicfka, the gambler (RobcrlStrauss, and tries instead to gain employment as drummer in a dance band.

Pretends To Be Cripple This inclination on his part to change upsets his obsessive, hysterical wife Zosh (Eleanor Parker) who fears she may lose him in transit. Zosh's whole life is motivated by her neurotic determination to hold onto Frajifcie. He married her because of a feeling of responsibility when an automobile he was driving had an accident, injuring her spine. Since then, though the injury itself has healed long ago, she pie-tends to be a cripple, rolling nervously around their sordid tenement fiat in a wheel chair, reminding him constantly that it is his fault, she cannot enjoy life as others ran. It was this endless bickering, during which his guilt was dangled before him like a banner that drove him to drugs in the first place.

It is same bickering, combined with the insinuating urging by Lovie (Darren Mr-Gavin), the peddler, and the frustration of not finding a job, that finally sets him off again. Saris More Graceful She came to our interview in American dress a simple blue cotton sheath wore her hair in the classical Indian style, brushed severely back from her brow. Her eyes are large and expressive with thick dark lashes; her long slender hands are of rare beauty, and she uses them gracefully. She tells me she had only saris when she came to California, thinks they are more graceful than modern dress but says the main thing is to put them on so as to be able to move about easily. When I suggested American dres gave a woman a climate of independence and self-assertion not possible with saris, she Tor The Connoisseur Moviemen claim they supply a type for every taste; if so, Anna Kashfi is for the connoisseur.

Black-haired, brown-eyed and exquisite, she, from Darjeeling, India, peaks many languages, was privately tutored at home and spent three years in a French convent in Calcutta. Since learning the Indian dances is part of every "well-reared Hindu girl's education, she qualified fussily for the one film she made in her riative land. "It was a tragic legend set in the India A which opened Thursday at the New Theater, has an involved and interesting history. To begin with, it was denied a seal of approval by the Johnston office, the censorship bureau of the motion-picture industry, because it deals with the forbidden subject of dope addiction. Otto Preminger, the producer and director who had defied the Johnston office once before when it had refused to okay "The Moon Is Blue," went ahead and released the film without the industry's official sanction; but, just as was true of the earlier film, he ran into difficulties with the Stale of Maryland.

Reversed By Higher Court Unlike his predecessor, who frequently told reporters during the "Moon" squabble that he personally believed the film to be immoral, C. Goldstein admitted that he found nothing in "The Man with the Golden Arm" that offended him in an unofficial capacity. As head of the Maryland Board of Motion Picture Censors, however, he felt that one scene violated a State prohibition against showing anything that might instruct a potential addict in the use of narcotics. His order to delete this scene was upheld by the Baltimore City Court hut was later reversed by the Court of Appeals. Thus the two-minute sequence showing a peddler giving the central character a shot of heroin has been left in and the film at the New is being exhibited intact.

On moral grounds, it is hard to see how anyone could object to "The Man with the Golden Arm." Throughout, Mr. Preminger has presented the negative side of addiction, with no reference whatsoever to any of its dubious delights. Surely one terrifying scene, showing Frank Sinatra rolling and tossing on the floor in a simulated agony of craving, should be enough to sober even the most jaded teen-ager. The movie may, in fact, be a better social document than it is a work of art. Sufficiently Credihle When I first saw it in New York last December, I thought the characters were too cute as if they had been lifted from some unfunny version of "Guys and Dolls." I also thought that 118 minules of unrelieved wretchedness was too much for an audience to swallow in one lump, and that Mr.

Preminger might have improved it, had he been able to effect intermittent changes of mood. NoW, having seen it second time, I realize that the quaintness of the characters is not the fault of the film but of Nelson Algren who wrote the novel. Mr. Preminger and his adapters (Walter Newman and Lewis Meltzer) should, in fact, be congratulated for taking Mr. Algren's overdone clownlike types, credible enough perhaps for a novel, and making them seem sufficiently real to support Mr.

Sinatra's really excellent performance as Franfcte Machine. Stacked Against Him Against a musical background as dissonant and frenzied as the clanging and banging that presumably goes, on inside an 4 said: "You think of Indian women as being in the background, saying 'Yes, sir, and no, but that is not true. She gets her own way, but subtly. Indian women are singu- Having failed to hitch a ride by his own method, Jack Lemmon stares at device used by the fair sex as demonstrated by June Allyson in movie "Night Bus." 'Monkey" On His Back larlu u'hprp mpn arp rnnrprneH? they never let a man know it is really the woman who is the power behind him. We get our way by being subtle this is an art, A something you must learn from childhood." i-yl gentleman, honest with me and courteous to everyone.

And he should like children, home and family life. He must be gentle I do not like domineering men I have no patience with them. There is no such thing as a 'dream That is where women go wrong: They have a preconceived idea, a hero-image, and they try to change the man to fit their image. I would prefer my husband would not be an actor." On American pictures: "I prefer French and Italian films basically their stories are more interesting and their approach to life not so artificial as in most American pictures." From India to London to Hollywood in a lew months' time is a radical change in social climates, but. this young girl Iras assimilated tilings.

We hit our most solid ground when she discussed Greta Garbo: "I have been seeing all of her films at Metro. She is marvelous!" picture people." When I asked her impression of Grace Kelly, she said: "She is charming and pleasant but I do not know her, I have only an impression. I saw her at the party where I met you. It was my first Hollywood party and I was awed waiting to see what would happen next." Husband Must Be Gentle Anna is a Buddhist, a religion which she explained as "a faith which teaches you a philosophical way of life." Her father, Deva Kashfi, is an architect-engineer at present engaged in some civic projects to improve the cities of India, "installing sewer systems and other modern improvements such as bridges." She expected her father to visit her here but since she goes to Italy for "Ten Thousand Bedrooms" shortly, she says he will join her there instead. On husbands: "I don't think nationality is important but I think he should be a Divorce "Not Nice" I mentioned divorce and asked how it is regarded in India.

"We have divorce now, but is not considered nice," she said. "Usually marriages are arranged, and they work out." "Did your family have marriage plans for you?" She smiled: "I never found out if they had such plans in mind for me." I got the impression from her expression and the tone of her voice that she would not have consented to such an arrangement. Apparently Anna came upon the greatest difference between East and West when she cut her hair very short when she went to London. "When I returned home they looked at me in horror," she said. And when I asked her if she'd ever worn a mark in the middle From the moment that Frankie takes his first "fix" in the curtained room across from ntpfc'i Tug and Maul Bar, he is doomed to stagger down the narrow, twisted streets of his own fantasies, through the torment of endless poker games, with "a 40-pound monkey" on his hack, and not even the love of the comical Sparrow (Arnold Slang) or the beautiful Molly (Kim Novak) can save him from the helil that awaits him at the end.

All is recorded graphically by Mr. Preminger in a film that is remarkably faithful to the grotesque nature nd crazy, souped-up tempo of Mr. Algren's book which is why, despite its obvious good points, it fails to qualify completely as a work of art. One medieval concept of hell had it that periodically the damned were transported from an exceedingly hot to an exceedingly cold environment, so that when they returned the brimstone would. hurt everfmore.

This idea that people may, after prolonged subjection, cease to react even to pain is well illustrated By "The Man with th Golden Arm." After a while, its unbroken grimness, which at first gives one the impression he is wading naked through a cesspool, becomes monotonous. The spectator finds his mind straying from the fervid activity taking place on the screen. He may even get a little bored. For mood, like ac-tion, requires a change of pace to be totally effective. An Indoor Stampede Wooden barricades were erected between the humans and the cattle.

They looked safe but after one hectic stampede run, a columnist leaned on the barricade that had been separating him from the cattle. It collapsed with one easy push. 3 of her forehead as some Indians do, she said: "No. Basically this was to indicate a caste system, but it is not used for that now. In southern India, the sign is considered by some as protection against the evil eye.

In other places, it is used as indication of belief in a third eye or Inner eye of spiritual vision." Intensely Patriotic Despite her youth, Anna Kashfi is intensely patriotic, thinks everyone should be interested in politics of their country. She finds Hollywood strictly a movie town with everyone interested only in films. "I think.it 'is nice to have friends away from the business," she said. "Most of my friends are not in movies. I don't know very many AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS ANNA KASHFI ff 3.000 years ago," she said.

"I needed only to dance as our films are made with music and pantomime. Nobody took it seriously, and it was a new game for me. I was 18 then and shortly after that, I went to London to visit friends an 18-day trip by boat. A Paramount executive saw me at a party in London and wanted to know if I'd like to make an American picture. It all happened so fast; first thing I knew 1 was in Switzerland making the fi'm." Dates Marlon Brando Anna Kashfi broke into the Hollywood rolumns when she began having dales with Hollywood.

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