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FEATURES THEATER MUSIC BOOKS MOVIES BRIDGE SOCIAL LIFE FASHIONS SECTION" UB i I Chicago QErihune SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1964 Pants-Suits for Teens On the Aisle From Shaw to Broadway Musical and Now to the Wide Screen, 'My Fair Lady' Triumphant BY CLAUDIA CASSIDY months pass her off as a duchess at a state ball? Or how Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe turned "Pygmalion" into that all but unbelievable musical "My Fair How 3 t'ZJS! BY FRANCES BORZELLO SAD TO SAY, a teen tends to look most scruffy when she feels most comfortable. Those stretch pants and parkas in which she spends her non-school hours too often leave her looking like a refugee from the ski slopes instead of the casually clad young charmer she hopes to be. That's why we think the new pants suits suits with pants in place of skirts make such sense for her. Their co-ordinated jackets and slacks cigaret straight, please note couldn't be more 'casual, but they're attention-getters, too. Outfits shown are from the junior department at Carson Pirie Scott Co.

Ik- Ac WHAT AN ENCHANTING picture "My Fair Lady" turns out to be. Awash with color and sound, it does for the wide screen what the original in its pristine state did for the musical stage gives it a brilliantly amusing love story, the gayest songs of the decade, the most amusingly preposterous costumes and decors, the most engaging cast, then sends it spinning with exuberance that makes even a film audience applaud out loud. How Shaw would have loved it and the royalties. Of course, Shaw always pre- "MY FAIR LADY" Alan Jar enter's saeci alar adopted from the Lerner ant Loewe musical based on ShaWi "Pygmalion." Directed by Ceorae Cukor, destined by Cecil Beaton, choreographed by Hermes Pan, photo-traphed in Technicolor and Super Pana-vision by Harry Strodling, with music supervised and conducted by Andre Pre-vin. Produced by Jock L.

Warner for Warner and presented in the Palace theater Friday, Oct. 23, 1M4. THE CAST Eliza Audrey Hepburn Professor Higiins Rex Harrison Alfred Doolittla Stanley Holloway Colonel Pickering Hyde-White Mrs. Higgins Gladys Cooper Freddie Eynsford-Hill Jeremy Brett Mrs. Pearce Mono Washbourm Zoltan Korpathy Theodore Bikel Mrs.

Eynsford-Hill I so be I Elsom The Queen of Transylvania Bina Rothschild The Butler John Holland tended there was no love story, but he fooled no one, certainly not Mrs. Pat Campbell whom he courted ardently to get her to create Eliza. Hollywood does not tweak his beard with closing clinch. But when a relieved Rex Harrison reverts to Higgins type and demands his slippers from a suddenly indulgent Audrey Hepburn, the screen turns as warm and glowing as happily ever after. These two, you say, smiling with and at them, will not bore each other stiff once the honeymoon is over.

Can anyone have forgotten the tale of the irascible phonetics professor who makes and wins a bet that he can take a cockney guttersnipe from London's Covent Garden and in six true thing, tho, was the dauntless ambition. Then suddenly as she sat, draggled and discouraged, in the house in Wimpole street, unable to learn to speak without yowling, Higgins gave her Shaw's clairvoyant words about the beauty of the English language. They penetrated. Hepburn disappeared and Eliza Doolittle lifted her long and lovely neck and looked into the future. Then she said, carefully and forever, "The rain in Spain and that was that.

She was Cinderella come to the ball, and it was Higgins who lost his slippers. Considering how affectionately Cecil Beaton has put the London of 1912 on the screen despite the lack of his mourned "opal skies" and how adroitly Eliza's celebrated gaffe comes off at the tea party, it is a bit of a puzzle that the Ascot scenes lack the stage impact. Not a sign of the Forzane slouch, named, he says, from a pre-war cocotte who thrust her hips forward and dragged a foot, wearing a beach basket hat Still, most of the magic works. It is hard to tell which is lovelier, Covent Garden when the flowers are dawn fresh or Miss Hepburn in full Cecil Beaton bloom. Wilfrid Hyde-White is a perfect Pickering, genial, kindly, a true aristocrat.

Stanley Hollo-way is back in full gusto with cronies to match, as Shaw's mouthpiece, the dustman of the "undeserving poor." Gladys Cooper's crisp Mrs. Higgins is more beautiful than that in real life. Mona Washbourne's housekeeper is precisely right, while Jeremy Brett is just the handsome lad to sing, heart in mouth, "On the Street Where You Live." And how lucky they were to find Bina Rothschild for the queen when Fritzi Mas-sary, Vienna's darling, was, of all unlikely things in this lavish film, "too expensive." Her companion, if you look fast, is the late Henry DanielL y4 Above left: Perfect for scrunching thru leaves: Straight cut pants and an above-the-knee coat with four mock pockets and a zip out pile lining. In olive wool and cashmere, suit costs $50. With it, Collin Gil-lerlain, Homewood Flossmoor High, wears an orange sweater an olive and orange tam 1 -i Left: Great for a game, said New Trier High school student Karen Harris, when she saw the way these separates looked together.

Divided skirt by Mr. in brown and cream checks is $12. Many-pocketed, cutaway camel jacket by Ardee is $15. Sleeveless white ribbed sweater is $10. Clothes are accessorized with a brown shoulder bag ($9) and knit cap I bjp Audrey Hepburn they caught the Shavian wit and spun it into skeins of silky songs and wry patter songs and thumping music hall ditties? How the late Moss Hart put it on the stage intact? Add now how that master of the screen, George Cukor, has carried on.

Seldom can one good play have been so fortunate. In the heady realm of Holly-w salaries it sometimes seems that while other stars are being paid millions, Mr. Harrison takes $500,000 and the picture. He has done it again. In his and possibly last performance as Higgins he rides the crest of his career.

The role, lean, acerbic, wonderfully attractive, is uniquely his own. His uncanny gift of timing has a different job here than on stage, and comes off as superbly. In the world of the talking song you will not rival his way with such querulous charmers as "Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?" Miss Hepburn had me worried a bit at the start. It was just not quite right, this smudged little Cockney. One Grace Bumbry 13 gloriously ngnt lor tne music-it ues in perfect posi- on with a11 the potential of color 311(1 timbre she is at moment no more Carmen 111311 other cigaret girls, She lacks the elemental power 41131 makes Carmen dangerous, and attempting to dance with tne ballet or to use amateurish castanets will not mitigate that lack.

It lies deeper, in the heart of the music, which alone can stir the smouldering fire. I think she has what it takes, Right: Pants suit of royal blue and white checked wool worn by Ann Coffman, Home-wood-Flossmoor High, pairs slacks with a double-breasted cape. By Loomtogs, about $50. TRIBUNE Staff Photos by Cy Wolf Corelli's Don Jose and Bumbry's Carmen Voice but Not Yet a Lyric "Carmen" -Looking at Hollywood- Fair Ladies Have an Evening Santa Barbara Outdoes Hollywood at Ball ilT'-'ijrfjV'V BY JUDITH CASS glamorous in a gown which combined a yellow silk skirt and a top of turquoise beads, made for her in London by Belinda Bellville, "who is enjoying great success as a designer just now," she said. Lady Harlech looked forward to meeting Mr.

Harrison because she wanted to ask him to appear at the Washington benefit opening Dec. 1 of "My Fair Lady," after which a 'j-N. 1 BY IIEDDA HOPPER HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 23 We can all take a back seat when Santa Barbara throws a ball. Bill Frye and Jim Wharton's account of the Beaux Arts ball, a benefit for the Affiliated Arts of the University of California, is simply fabulous.

The old Bliss mansion closed these many years was opened up for the occasion and all 60 rooms done up as night clubs. People came from all over the United States to dance to Ernie Heckscher's orchestra from San Francisco, and three other orchestras played continuously. The judges included Vincent Price, George Hamilton, Tony Duquette, Gladys Cooper, and John Ireland and everyone had such a good time nobody could remember who won the prizes. Almost 1,000 attended; notable and socialites were thick as daisies in a British garden. Smashing beauty of the night was Mrs.

Pierpont Morgan Hamilton, wearing a priceless old Moroccan wedding gown. LESLIE CARON purred like a kitten when she told me she was named "star of the year" by Allied States association at a banquet in Detroit this week. She has a setup like old time movie stars before taxes and high cost of living wore the plush off the green. The luxurious home she occupies in Holmby Hills has three swimming pools his, hers, and one for the kids, a tennis court big enough for Wimbledon, and bleachers seating 25. She's going home to London to visit her children: "I believe all children should be brought np by their mothers instead of their fathers." The children are 6 and 5 now and they've been swimming since they were 2.

She says they have a very happy relationship with their father. DURING THIS STAY HERE Leslie has made two pictures with Rock Hudson and "Father Goose" with Cary Grant: "Universal treated me like a queen, sent me to Paris to buy the most beautiful clothes 16 changes of costume and specially made jewelry for them, and after the picture was finished gave them all to me. In 'Father Goose1 1 wear Cary Grant's old shirts and have a drunk scene which will surprise you. Cary plays a character part in old clothes, with beard and mustache, and never has a bottle out of his hand. If this doesn't get him an Oscar nothing ever will." Leslie is much prettier now than when she first came to Hollywood.

"Did love do this for you?" I asked. She said: "Uh huh, yes." She hasn't seen her former mother-ih-law, Mrs. Jay Hormel, of late. "I talk with her occasionally; she was so wonderful to my parents and grandmother." Calendar Notes Lord and Lady Harlech tifr's "-jn'''iviif- friends, and the President's widow "just now is beginning to adjust" to widowhood, said Lady Harlech. She and her husband will be leaving Washington in a few months because he has resigned his post and "will take up a life of politics in the House of Lords." Their five children, aged 10 to 24, are all in England, and while their apartment in London is rented to an American diplomat, they have a farm in Shropshire and a house in Harlech, Wales.

Is her title a hindrance or a help in this country? she was asked. "it's a confusion," she laugh- ed, "especially since my hus- band succeeded to his father's title in February. Before that he was Sir David Ormsby Gore, and in Washington so many people say, 'Doesn't Lady uar- lech look just like Lady Orms- by Gore!" Also dining in the Casino and seeing old friends were the Stafford Barffs, who once were stationed here and who now are going to New Orleans where he is to be British consul general. A SUFFIX IS A LETTER OR SYLLABLE THAT GOES AT THE END OF A WORD TO CHANGE ITS MEANING AND MAKE A NEW WORD LIKE: joy-ful tooth-less Sister Mary William, director of Marillac House, will ad- dress 2,400 members of the Council of Catholic Women at 3 less lit a harm rocket. On Sundays It is In even, considering how young she is, the time.

Robert Massard, of whose Escamillo so much was expected, turned out to be quite miscast. The music is wrong for his voice and the role for his person. Irma Gonzales, brought in from Mexico City to substitute for Nicoletta Panni, is a pleasant, plump woman without the voice for Micaela. The quintet seemed about four voices short. But Morley Meredith made Zuniga count in voice and presence, and Bernard Izzo was as good a Morales as you are likely to find.

The Daueis Dig moment in tne last tewo iaie ior me. iwiu nave to try again. which could be worth the journey for Corelli alone. He has everything for Don Jose, the tall, dark good looks, the sense of drama, the beautiful, "P.1 that pours heart and life into opera. I have heard him sing the role when it brought the whole opera alive.

This time he brought down the house with the "Flower Song" despite a quicksand orchestra. -C. C. of sacred music, will be one of four soloists, The Chicago Story league wiU hold its 7th annual Story- cuurcu S.CUUIH reiauon to story telling. ChicdQO Alumnae Unit cict Dinner, otyle oilOW The Chicago circle of the In- ternational Federation of Cath olic alumnae will have a dinner and fashion show at 6:30 p.

m. Tuesday in the Martinique restaurant, 2500 W. 94th pi. Mrs. Robert Burns is chairman of the event The proceeds will benefit the sisters scholarship fund which provides several teaching sisters from the Chicago area with scholarships in special education.

If the government can pay farmers not to raise corn and wheat why can't it pay the neighbors not to raise kids and crabgrass? Green ut "CARMEN" Opera with no sic by Georges Bizet, French libretto by Henri Meilhoc and Ludovic Ha levy from the novel by Prosper Merimec Staged by Marcel Lamy in production designed by Piero Zuffa, with choreography by Ruth Page. Presented by Lyric Opera of Chicago in the Civic Opera house Friday evening, Oct. 23, 1964. THE CAST Don Josa Franco Corelll Escamilla Robert Massord Carmen Grace Bumbry Micoela Irma Gonzalez Frasaaita Carol Toscano Mercedes Elizabeth Mannion El Dancairo Renato Cesari El emend odo Herbert Krous Zuniga Morley Meredith Morales Bernard Izza Ballet with Patricia Klekovic, Kenneth Johnson, Orrin Koran and others. Conductor Pierre Denraax THE FIRST OF the Lyric's four sold out "Carmens" took over the Civic Opera house last night with Franco Corelli, as far as I know the finest Don Jose in the world to- day, and with Grace Bumbry, whose voice might have been hom fnr titl rnlp vpt it- was no closer than in the past to solving the rjroblems of stae- ing this extraordinary, and extraordinarily difficult, opera.

This was another of the times when the Lyric looked better on paper than on stage. There was so much wrong that it would be hard to pin down the major culprit. The costly new production has never been a success, and it seemed even uglier in return engagement It is drab to the eye and so cluttered that it blurs the action. This was no unforgiv- able crime in view of Marcel Lamy's staging, which is com- monplace and surprisingly fond of causing actors to take falls, Pierre Dervaux's direction got off to a lively start in the pit, despite some curious ttumps and bongs in the overture's timpani and percussion, but it soon lost direction and style, giving the singers little support and less Bizet excitement. Had Miss Bumbry been a rival the Corelli Carmen to Don, all this might have been i 1 1 1 swept aside in a maze oi music drama.

But while her voice less now he's in a swina the Comics section. (Pictures on next page) THE RED CARPET was rolled out at the Palace theater last night as hundreds of people some who had been waiting since 4 p. m. lined the street. All were anxiously awaiting the big moment when Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison, the stars of the film "My Fair Lady," would arrive for Chicago's premiere performance, sponsored by the English Speaking union.

In spite of the chilling winds, the eager watchers were there In droves. Some of the women wore Slacks, others wore furs. Children were perched on top of daddys' shoulders and everybody was wild with enthusiasm. It was a night when the tall were glad they were tall, and when the short wished they had an apple crate to stand on. With every black limousine that drove up, eyes in the crowd got bigger and bigger and "oohs," louder and louder.

Stars Arrive Arthur Godfrey was the first to arrive and drew a few "yeas" from the crowd. When the next car pulled to the curb, and stopped, a smil ing Audrey Hepburn got out, a cfinntPd at the ton of their lungs. Miss Hep- hum was wearing a wnue empire style sleeveless gown. The underskirt had an intriguing display of red ostrich feathers around the hem line. Her hair was pulled away from her face and formed three huge curls on the back of ner neaa.

No sooner had she gone into the theater than Rex Harrison was welcomed with shouts. Cecil Beaton, who designed the costumes, Producer Jack L. Warner and Director George Cukor were also on hand tor the big night. Inside tne ineaier, wueie Godfrey was interviewing the stars, the crowd's comments went something like this: "Oh, Mr. Beaton is handsome," to "Look, look at Rex Harrison's shoes, they really shine," to "I'm so happy, Audrey Hepburn really is glamorous, isn't she?" "Who said the Beatles were the only record breakers? This is Ambassador-Attends Lord Harlech, British ambassador to the United States, and Lady Harlech created a stir when they arrived" from dinner with Thomas S.

Tyler, E. S. U. chairman, and Mrs. Tyler, in the Casino.

The ambassador's wife is tall just under six feet -r- and slender, with longish dark hair that frames her face. She was looking especially their 31st fall luncheon as- teumg festival from 9 to 3:30 sembly today in the Interna- 'cIock today in Stouffer's res- tional ballroom of the Hilton t3ur3nti West Madison hoteL j. j. Howard greet Fesfaval 4. j.

'be Dr. Arthur T. Allen of executive director of the arch- Brooklyn college, Brooklyn, uiuucaou iuuuui, mu mc xvcv. wfio win speas on The James J. Murtaugh, assistant Educational Value of Story-director, will speak briefly.

telling." Morning workshops Song of the Ages, the annual will focus on creative drama, benefit concert sponsored by the classics, puppetry, and dance will be held in the British embassy. "Already all tickets at $100 per person are sold," she said in the apart- ment of the British consul- general and Mrs. Philip G. D. Adams where Mrs.

Adams gave a luncheon for her yes- terday. About 450 is the dance canac- fty of the embassy "unless we put a tent up in the garden," said Lady Harlech, who pre- sides over this large residence and its staff of 17 with the as- sistance of her personal secre- tary. J50tt jrg Kennedu hKd Harlech and the late President Kennedy were good SHORT CUTS TO rT.tonef,i and Musicians alliance, will be presented tonight in the Little theater in McCormick Place. Ti It 1 Si jerry u. rrauuu, Damone, nationally known in the field No.

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