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-rr r- I I V' T4 -f I I 1 w-i-i' 'i i -V V' wUiMi EW PART I FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1974 ON THE MARKMt. Carmel High School freshmen owait the signal to begin competition in the third annual Math Bowl, designed to improve mathematics skills. Times photo by Tony Barnard Pride Is a Plus Factor in Math Bowl CRITIC AT LARGE The Sun Sets on Hollywood, Eng. BY CHARLES CHAMPLIN Times Entertainment Editor 1DNDON It is one of those spring mornings you would have said had become extinct, like the passenger pigeon, the Packard and other good things. The sky is cloudless, the air is pure and brisk breeze stirs immemorial oaks and a hillside full of buttercups floats down to a leisurely trout stream in the beautiful countryside northwest of London.

seems to have changed since Constable or Turner stopped by with easel and palette. Except that looking uphill you see the vans, the lights, the cameras and the curious parade a kilted couple on stilts dancing with a pretty child in a white dress, a clown in striped tights, two sports in ancient top hats. "Playback," cries the assistant director, and a ballad fills the late May air. The dancers pirouette through the buttercups, miming the lyrics. A surprisingly relaxed young director named Michael Tuchman is shooting an outdoor dance sequence for "Quilt," the musical version of Charles Dickens' "Old Curiosity Shop," with songs by Anthony Newley, who is also starring.

"Freeze, darlings," says Gillian Lynne, the choreographer, staring contemplatively at the vivid grouping on the slope. "Make straight for the flowers, won't you, dear?" she says to Sarah Jane Varley, the 12-year-old Surrey school-girl who is playing Little Nell. She was one of 500 girls interviewed for the part. and each team of 20 tries to outdo the other four teams. "It's a motivational way of getting them to learn math.

It's like a track meeL in a way. and the boys enjoy the competitive situation. They work very hard to win. The top five individuals get medals, and the winning team gets a pizza party that's all we can afford." Inspiring motivation on a limited budget is the story, not only of the Math Bowl, but of Mt. Carmel itself.

The Rev. Matthew Sprouffske, principal and himself a ML Carmel graduate, spoke with pride and affection about its pupils. i year we have 22 state scholarships out of a 'graduating class of 67," he said. "Between 90 of our-, graduates go on to college. Last Please Turn to Page 14, CoLl BY URSULA VILS Tinws Stall Writer Three years have passed since Ronnie Gueringer competed in 'ML Carmel High School's first Math Bowl.

But, he says, still savoring the sweetness, "our team wiped them out, something like 49 to 28." Ronnie's competitive spirit has carried him to election as student body president for next year. But he obviously enjoyed reliving his Math Bowl fun as he and other junior class members monitored the 1974 competition for 103 ML Carmel freshmen. The Math Bowl, nine events ranging from "Mind Blowers" (thought problems) to arithmetic bingo in each of four time periods, was the brainchild of Sister Mary Jane Vogler, a Sister of Providence who opted out as principal of "an elitist girls' school" because she wanted to teach inner-city children. In 1971 she went to work at ML Carmel, a Catholic boys' high school at 7011 S. Hoover, operated by the Carmelite Order of priests and brothers.

Its student body is 85 black, lCc Mexican-American and 3 Anglo and Oriental. Sister Mary Jane, now math department chairman and dean of student activities, decided her students'needed a fun way to improve their math skills. "They needed review, drill work, more expertise in the basics," she said against the hubbub in the Mt. Carmel gym as a hundred boys shifted from one Math Bowl event to another. "I had never seen a math bowl, but I modeled it on the College Bowl TV show.

Each boy competes in four events chosen from a list of six preferences. Channel 68: Loud, Clear and Languishing i v. J- IL you believe it," said David Golding, the veteran American publicist, "'Quilt' is the only production wholly backed by American money which is shooting in England these days?" "Quilt" is in fact the third venture in moviemaking by the Readers Digest Sawyer" and "Huck Finn" were the first two) and the first that the Digest has financed entirely. Helen Strauss, who used to be the literary agent for James Michener, Edward Al bee, Mario Puzo and other literary powers and who now oversees the Digest's involvement in film, is "They say it's good luck to step on one of those," she says, looking unconvinced at evidence cows had formerly occupied the field. "It is better luck to have a good score and we have a good score," Golding said.

Elmer Bernstein has done the full score from Newley's songs. On locations in another part of England, Ken Russell is doing the film version of the rock opera, "Tommy," with Oliver Reed and Ann-Mar gret, but the truth is that there is dismayingly little motion picture activity in England these days. The well-known London film critic, Alexander Walker, has a book forthcoming this summer called "Hollywood, England," an account of the' glorious days in the 1960s when the center of American film production 'seemed to have shifted from Gower Gulch to Picadilly Circus. EX-NEWPORT MAYOR iii Making a Career of Involvement BY SHEARLEAN DUKE Times Stall Writer NEWPORT BEACH Although Doreen Marshall hasnt really held a full-time job since 1 952. she has been involved in a non-stop career that's kept her busier than most people.

The career? Community service. And she'll be recognized for more than 20 years of work Saturday, when she receives a special award from her alma mater. UCLA. Mrs. Marshall, class of '44.

will he honored along with Tom Bradley, class of '41; Yvonne Braithwaite Burke, class of '53. and about two dozen other outstanding alumni during UCLA '74, a champagne reception. and luncheon celebrating the university's 55th anniversary. "I feel quite humble." Mrs. Marshall said.

'Tm really not that outstanding. I feel very grateful to be among such other award recipients." Mrs. Marshall, former mayor, of Newport Beach, will receive a UCLA community service award. The 51 -year-old Newport Beach housewife was involved in local government long before the current emphasis upon women in politics. From 1959 to 1962 she was a member of the Newport Beach City Planning Commission, and in 1962 she was elected to the City Council.

She served as mayor pro tern from 1966 to 1968 and as mayor from 1968 to 1970. "Since I left office. I have been involved in a smattering of activities," Mrs. Marshall said. BY DICK ADLER Times Stall Writer KVST-TV, Channel 68, has been on the air for.

four weeks now. but nobody seems to know it. According to general manager Clayton Stouffer. the response from Viewer-subscribers has been so sparse that he is "a week or two away from putting everybody on two weeks' notice Stouffer and his technical staff insist that it isn't the station's signal which is at fault. "We're only operating at half power now, but we've had calls and letters from people in Santa Barbara and San Diego who say we're coming in strong and they claim.

KVST ha3 been broadcasting' for two hours a night, four nights a week p.m, Sunday through Wednesday) over Channel 68 on the UHP. dial since an official opening night party on May 5: They are up against two' major problems: a nonex. istent promotional budget, and the availability in-Los Angeles of 12 commercial television channels-plus the noncommercial offerings of KCET and the school board's new Channel 58. Still, any enterprise that fought so hard for. so many years to get on the air deserves at least the chance to have its product examined critically.

So last week I took a look at a whole day's worth of! past and future KVST programs. The shows range from solidly worthy and informative to exciting Please Turn to Page 1 HOME-FRONT ACTIVIST Mrs. Doreen Marshall, former Newport Beach mayor, relaxes at her home on Lido Isle. Times phota In April she was appointed by Gov. Reagan to serve as chairman of the California Council on Intergovernmental Relations.

As a result, she spends a couple of days each month in 'Please Turn to Page 8, Col. I In those days you were more apt to hear Can-arsie than Cockney in the London studios. Drawn by lower production costs, an abundance of talent of which seemed to be named Redgrave), of the world's most civilized city and by a favoring tax situation especially by a very-favoring tax situation American film-makers and their helpers and handmaidens arrived in force. According to Simon Jenkins of the Evening Standard, 60 of the dwellings on one of London's most fashionable squares were owned or leased by Americans in the late '60s. The Yanks settled in, began.to follow the fortunes of the Chelsea and Fulham football teams, learned the soporific charms of cricket but also played a game of softball every Sunday morning in Hyde Park (a tradition memorialized in the opening sequence of "A Touch of Golding arrived in London as part of an expansive Universal presence then headed by Jay Hamper.

Columbia under Mike Frankovich and Paramount under Bud Ornstein had large production schedules. MGM had its own studio. Clubs, restaurants and hotels prospered under the American patronage. The Americans did not really create swinging Please Turn to Page 16, Col. 1 Don Juan With a Social Conscience ffiti.

I mmmmmmmsm liiiiii THE VIEWS INSIDE reality of compromise and defeat perhaps a lesson learned from the McGovern campaign. On the set of "Shampoo," which he'eo-wrote with Bob Towne and is also producing after an eight-year absence from executive decision-making; Beatty explains the evolution. It is 11 p.m, he looks tired and the wrinkles from 38 years of living are prominent. The makeup man begins to apply eye shadow and four shades of brown powder to his sallow complexion: "'1 used to be more interested in making money, but when you have as much as I do, what really matters is to do exactly what you want as an artist," he says slowly, unraveling each word as if it were attached to a skein of yarn. "Given that movies are a form of mass entertainment, the real problem is whether you see them as an art form or a commercial venture.

The question is art or compromise? Politics is a way of compromise, but art, theoretically, isn't. Half-Court Basket "Our instincts and impulses are. trained to give in to others' demands, and it is difficult to reverse them and insist on what you the artist perceive to be perfect. "To make concessions is exausting. To say what you want as an artist is invigorating.

It is like putting a ball in the basket from half-court, very little) chance of being winded. That is I no longer compromise." The evolution of Beatty from actor to producer began eight years ago when as the 30-year-old producer of "Bonnie and Clyde" he would not settle for the film's initial box-office failure. It was first released as a straight gangster film and Beatty' persuaded Warner Bros, to give the film a second Please Turn lo Page'jy, Col, 1 BY MARY MURPHY Times Stall Writer The extraordinarily handsome actor posing in front of the camera in skin-tight velvet pants with zipper partially undone, hair disheveled and white silk body shirt hanging by one button is Warren Beatty on the set of his new film The character Beatty portrays is a compulsive Don Juan, a Beverly Hills hairdresser who makes it with all his clients. The scene being filmed is Beatty caught in the act by a jealous girlfriend (played by Goldie Hawn). The role fits Beatty's public image as a renowned womanizer linked in the past with such-celebrities as Natalie Wood, Leslie Caron and Julie Christie (who costars in the film).

And it carries on the theory that Beatty is in fact the cinematic heir apparent to Clark Gable's romantic image. Acute Business Sense But what few people realize because Beatty is so intensely private and elegantly insulated in a top-floor suite of the Beverly Wilshire hotel is that beyond the pretty face and notorious reputation is a keen mind, an acute business sense, a commanding if at times overbearing presence and an outsized ego, accompanied by a sense of social consciousness which peaked when he gave up acting to campaign for George McGovcrn. Beatty was the first big name in Hollywood to back Sen. McGovcrn, and for two years he hop-scotched across the country making speeches, heading fund-raisers and giving newspaper and television interviews about issues rather than 'himself. Beatty was personally responsible for recruiting James Taylor.

Catiy Simon, Paul Newman, Barbra Streisand, Carole King, Joni Mitch- AROUND ORANGE COUNTY on Page 2. BOOKS: Redmond McLaughlin's "The Escape of the Goeben: Prelude la Gallipolt" by Robert Kirsch on Page 4. MOVIES: "Music" at the Toho La Brea by Kevin Thomas on Page 20. MJSlCt Sutherland Bros, at the Whisky by Richard Cromelin on Page 1 9. Pasadena Symphony by Daniel Cariaga on Page 22.

STAGE: 'Twelve Angry Americans," -Garden Theater Festival and "She Loves Me" by Lawrence Christon on Page 2,3. I WHAT'S DOING In ORANGE COUNTY on Page 12. IMAGE Warren Beatty says, "What really matters is to do exactly what you want os an artist." Times phol ell and Jack Nicholson to work for the senator from South Dakota. As a result, first names like George, Teddy and Sarge punctuate his already star-studded vocabulary. Beatty seems to have returned to his career with a new maturity a sense of life tempered by the AND OTHER FEATURES DearAbby 5 Bernheimer 15 Art Walk 6 Comics 27 Astrology Page 9 Television Pages 25, 26 Smith is on vacation.

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