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1 Christmas Preview: A Bazaar Event JL JiJliLJL PART WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1967 JACK SMITH I I I I II VI ii 1 1 A 1 J- "A i 'V te' Pf. (jllllll. (:. JilSiW In the Mood for a Band of Renown Jmf Xi" i ti iai dfady) thf FACQKJ CnUfnmW rrwla rt Dlans witK mrtv at Bistro. From left.

Julian Tomchin. Rudi Dunne form quartet, and at right, Mrs. Alfred Blooming- Christmas generates Harper's Bazaar's December jssua Gernreich. Dominick dale, NaryWhite, William Fine, Mrs. V.

MinneUi chat. MOVIE REVIEW 'Up the Down Staircase' About Slum School Life Mrs. Wayne Dinsmore and Mrs. The 'sun was hot and the invitations had said Nancy White and William M. Fine "warmly invite you to an editorial party" at the Bistro.

The press arrived first. Then came the chic men and women who undoubtedly will appear in print when the Harper's Bazaar Christmas in California issue is released in December. Why California? Bill Fine addressed the whys to 200 guests after about three rounds of cocktails and hors d'oeuvres around a Beverly Hills-type silvery metallic Christmas tree with red baubles: "Nancy White and I are here Times photo by Charles O'Bear 'In short we hope to do California proud to replace Paris as a moveable feast and make people aware of California's heart warmth as well as its climate It was, as one gentleman suggested, "a pretty colorful occasion the men were in everything from long johns on up." Not quite; However, Ron Postal, president of the National Council of Men's Fashions, wore a foam white double-breasted walking suit with striped silk slippers not unlike the bedroom variety. "Most colorful" was Rudi Gern-rtsich, who walked in with Julian Please Turn to Page 6, Col. 1 BY CHARLES CHAMPLIN Timts Enttrtinmnt Editor i 4 7 A unity of time and place has been imposed.

Beginning with the claustrophobic and menacing confusion of the first day of school, we share Miss Dennis' shaky but resolute first year, through to the final day when she has to decide whether her idealism can stand another slum school year. But if the movie has a cohesion of interest in the stunning person of Sandy tyennis, one of its strengths is that it resists the temptation to. oyerplot and tie up all the loose ends in sight. Our sympathies are engaged toward dozens of individuals, but their destinies after they slip from our sight we (like the teacher) can only speculate about, certain only of their uncertainty. The pudgy, lovelorn student (Ellen O'Mara) cruelly put down by the teacher she adores (Patrick Bedford) tries suicide and fails and will live on: somehow, how? Bedford, a mass of hang-ups, moves on and will live on: somehow, how? The glimmerings of response and interest from students who seemed already brutalized and defeated by life in their savage pocket of society, can the glimmerings make a differ-" ence, or are they too little and too late? There are no pat answers, positive or negative, and Mosel's script brilliantly declines to fabricate either a facile gloom of an over-sentimental optimism.

The- film was made entirely on location in last summer's 6tifling New York heat. Two schools, each as derelict as the other, were used, one for exteriors, one for interiors. More importantly, Pakula and Mulligan Please Turn to Page 12, Col. 1 Hemline There is much worrying these days about the so-called gap" the distance between parents and children that makes communication difficult if not impossible. I never really believed in it, until my younger son and I went to a record shop the other day.

It was a sale. Classical and popular records were all marked down. "Go ahead," I told him. "You pick out a few and I'll pick out a few." Much to my surprised ound a Glenn Miller record. It was the real Glenn Miller, played a quarter of a century ago, during the war, but rerecorded with new techniques.

"Imagine," Itold my son, waving the record at him, "a genuine Glenn Miller." "Glenn Miller?" he said. "Yes. Surely you remember him." "I'm afraid not." "Good. Lord!" I said. "What's the matter with your education? Glenn Miller had about the best swing band in the business.

Unless you prefer Benny Goodman." "Benny Goodman?" "Don't tell me you never heard of Benny Goodman! Probably the greatest clarinetist the world has ever seen." "Well, the name does sound familiar," he said. "By the way, do you mind if -1 buy this Oistrakh record?" "Oistrakh? "Who's he?" "You never heard of Oistrakh? "Well, it sounds familiar." "David Oistrakh," he said, "is one of the best violinists in the world. Igor is his son." "Oh," I said. "I didn't know Bach wrote anything for the violin." "He wrote three violin concertos," he said. "This one's called a double concerto.

It's for two violins. It isn't played very often. You have to get two violinists of equal ability. The Oistrakhs are supposed to be very good." "Look at this," Isaid "Lea Brown, and his band of renown!" "Did you make that upband of renown?" No. That's the name of the band.

You mean you never heard of Lea Brown? -i "It sounds familiar," he admitted. "Is it OK if I buy this Landowska?" "Landowska? Who's he?" "It's a woman. She's a harpsichordist. She probably plays Bach better on the harpsichord than anyone else." "Fine," I agreed. "I love Bach.

I think I'll just get this Benny Goodman. It's got 'In the You ever hear that?" "Tn the "Yes. Ta ta ta ta ta ta ta tata' ta ta ta." "Oh yes. It sounds familiar." We bought the Miller, a Goodman and a Brown, and the Oistrakh rendition of Bach, Vivaldi and Beethoven, Miss Wanda Landowska playing Bach inventions on the harpsichord, and the "Eroica," played by the Berliner Philarmo-, niker. What do you think?" I called out to my wife when we got home.

"Now what have you done?" "I got a record of Les "And his band of renown?" I looked at my son. "You see?" "Ask her. if she ever 'heard of "Oistrakh," he said. "Well," she said, "it sounds familiar. Who is she?" TODAY IN PART DEAR ABBY ASTROLOGr MARTIN BERXHEIMER 10 BRIDGE Page 5 CHRISTY FOX 2 HAL HUMPHREY Page 15 KIRSCH ON BOOKS Page 9 ROUNDABOUT 6 BY MARY LOU LOPEB TlnH Staff Writer because of the Square Backlash.

When the Rolling Stones pushed the Nightingales out of the Berkeley Square, we decided to say, in spite of the Hippies, we still believe in Christmas!" He continued: "Bazaar pages with Nancy White's special talent for understanding giving will feature the Christmas thoughts of some of California's nicest personalities their feelings about the season, the fashion, the beauty, the home life and the outings that say 'holiday' as only California can BY EUGENIA 17, Publishers ROME The subject of skirt lengths may be a big bore to designers who know their own minds, but it's a source of worry to plenty of spectators attending the made-to-order fashion shows here this week. Who's to believe what? An old time couture house like Antonelli concentrates on hemlines at midcalf While an hour before skirts were just; to the top of the knees at Irene Galitzine and the same at Patrick De Barentzen an hour later. Last night the Milan star, Mila Schon, edged hers down to the 'center of the knee cap. She believes in making the change gently instead of with a wham. I don't believe in long skirts for-daytime.

I simply don't feel for them, said Irene Galitzine when her Monday morning opening was over. Her only experiments in length are a couple of just above ankle evening dresses of old fashioned moire. They have shirt waist tops, slashed necklines framed in collar and lapels and wide, buckled belts. The good looking Russian born princess, a socialite herself, who knows all the others, has shed pounds over the past six months. She looks young and skiny and so does her new collection, done with the assistance of Neville Lund, a young man still in his twenties from the House of Yves Saint Laurent in Paris.

Galitzine holds her place at the top of the Roman couture with the greatest of ease this time, especially with her daytime clothes. She has a wide variety of coats, many of them issue. Holiday-ing two, Mrs, Herbert early were crowd including center Maass and Mrs. George HEART WARMTH California's "heart warmth as well as its climate" will be injected in Christmas in Rome As a national best-seller, Bel Kaufman's "Up the Down Staircase" was a kind of scrapbook of her 17 years In the New York City school system, a collage of bureaucratic inanities, a chronicle of small triumphs and large frustrations in overcrowded, understaffed melting pot schools. Adaptation seems too small and limiting a word for what writer Tad Mosel, producer Alan J.

Pakula, director Robert Mulligan and Miss Sandy Dennis have wrought with Miss Kaufman's material. What they have in fact done is transmute the material into a major and cohesive motion picture. It is at once warm and chilling, tough and sentimental, greatly moving, notably honest, improvisationally fresh, wryly and ribaldly funny, disturbing yet infused with a quantity of optimism no larger than the human heart. It is a work of fiction with the feeling of a documentary, in the best sense of giving us real insights into ourselves and others. (I am trying to hint that it is a very, very, very good movie.) Sex Education Brings Cut in Disease Rate BY LYNN LILLISTON Timet Staff Wrihr The value of sex education in the schools has been dramatically illustrated in one area where teen-age sex behavior can be measured venereal disease.

The teen-age syphilis rate, which reached, epidemic proportions in 1962, began to decline in direct proportion to establishment of pub- Second of Two Articles lie school courses which taught the dangers of VD. "The progress has been truly tremendous," says Robert R. Lugar, public health adviser on loan to the Los Angeles County Health Department, from the U.S. Public Health Service. Paying Dividends "Our instruction program in health seems to be paying dividends in terms of how much students know," said Joseph J.

Langan, City Schools supervisor of health education. "The precipitate drop in syphilis would make it seem our approach is valid." This is no time to mark the problem "solved," however. Another disease, gonorrhea, is on the, rise, "particularly among teenagers. V---' Gonorrhea is the No. 1 communicable disease in Los Angeles County.

The gonorrhea rate for persons aged 15 to 19 is three times that of all other age groups combined in the city. In the county, teen-agers have twice as much gonorrhea as all other age groups. An estimated 4,000 teen-age girls have gonorrhea and either don't know it, or are afraid to seek treatment. uf Bate Zooms The fight teen-age VD began in earnest in 1962, when the syphilis rate among persons aged 15 to 19 zoomed to an unprecedented 43 cases per 100,000 population, far outstripping tha adult rate of 30 cases. It ended a notion among the public that VD was something Please Turn to Page 4, Col.

1 i' i -r-rfk In r- a- yrJ IfV if SHEPPARD Ntwipiptr Syndicate worn with what she calls pant-gaiters of matching fabric. The gaiters are either elasticized at the tops to keep them in place above the knees or they are attached to jersey panties to become tights. They are much less hard looking than boots, explains Galitzine, who makes them on the premises. Among the chicest coats are a couple printed in irregular spots on white wool to look like Dalmation dogs, and worn with big visored caps of the fabric. Other prints are pony, calf, snow leopard and some of the other furs.

The dresses, young and simple, are of double matte jersey, many with brief, box pleated Skirts. Afternoon coats, like the dark green velvet belted in leather, and the bright silk mixtures cover the same kind of young little dress made of silk or satin. Galitzine has Invented a 7 side decolletage that's more exciting than the deep V. A pleated black cocktail dress simply remains open from armhole to waist, on both sides. The dress is cut to cling to the body and it really doesn't show a thing, says Galitzine.

She always has a hit evening dress in her collection, and this time it's double white crepe cut in at the shoulder to a high crystal collar. The skirt is slit thigh high at each side and' the top is peekaboo, too, but honestly, you can't see a thing unless you happen to be looking. In a reverse mood galitzine shows a heavy peach and white striped silk, kigh walsted, cover-up and Please Turn to Page 2 CoL 1 ITALIAN LOOK De Barentzen tailors hers and his outfits In gray herringbone tweed Whits silk crepe cuffs, tab front accent the dress,.

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