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gogflngettflt'Etmeg Yirmis. jrnns metis mmm 'Othello' Slated for Citywide Showing Laurence Olivier's "Othello," the Technicolor-Pan-avision film version of Shakespeare's tragedy which was released in 1966, will be presented again here in two-days- only engagements Nov. 6-7 by Warner Arts. Engagements oMhe BHE production from the National Theater of Great Britain will take place in 30 city-wide theaters. Gary LeMel Billed Singers Gary LeMel, backed by the Bob Corwin Trio, will play in the Playboy Club's Living Room Monday through Nov.

9. on the Vegas Strip "lit THE STORY OF THE SELF-CONFESSED BOSTON STRANGLER IS A TRUE AND REMARKABLE MOTION PICTURE BASED ON FACT. This is the madnessThe panic.The search for answers. Answers to why this man? Why did 13 women open their doors willingly to him? The result is a film that is not what you expected. one session which probably occurred to Sarno and his chief associates, Jud Mcintosh and Stanley Mallin, when they put their out-of-this-world extravaganza together.

Freeloaders Frolic Sarno estimated that the invitational (synonym for freeloader) party which ran for three hours opening night cost about Hotel owners, leaders in civic, country, state and show business circles, representatives of press, radio, TV and magazines and other guests ate and drank their fill, watched the acts, participated in carnival games and came away wondering how all this could happen in dice-ville-in-the-desert. One of the amusing incidents opening night occurred when comedian Marty Allen tried the baseball toss game, where, if you hit the target, you knock a beautiful girl out of bed. She dances briefly, then climbs back in to awaiting the next challenger. No Denny McLain, Allen couldn't seem to zero in on the traget, so with a Tarzan-like yell he leaped the railing and bashed the mark with his fist. Out popped the beauty and the crowd roared.

stage show plays in the Hippodrome, main showroom of Circus Circus, under the aegis of Jerry Schafer. Steve Allen wrote the songs. Within the huge "tent" are 14 restaurants and bars dispensing enough food and beverage daily to feed an Army division. You can get everything from a taco to a gourmet dinner. There's even a concession where you can drink all the beer you can hold for $1, but there's a catch.

If you leave to find rest room and return, it costs another buck to get back in. Family Project Entrepreneur Sarno describes his Circus Circus as "a project suitable for the entire family. We even have a huge nursery complex for children. Ours is an entirely new complex; there's nothing like it in the world." Sarno laughed when he added: "We have been careful to train our gaming dealers (on the ground level) to keep from looking up at the circus and car nival entertainment, for obvious reasons." Actually there's so much action of all kinds in Circus Circus it's impos- sible to assimilate it all in READY Jim Brown "cases" the Coliseum preparatory to the brash theft of boxoffice receipts in a scene from MGM film "The Split' playing citywide. JOYCE HABER 'Galileo' Having Its Film Problems BY JOHN L.

SCOTT Tlmti Wrltw LAS VEGAS Ten years ago anyone suggesting a combination of circus, carnival and gaming establishment on the world-famous Vegas Strip would have been laughed out of town. Over the week-end, innovator Jay Sarno and associates opened their Circus Circus and iu the first eight hours some 26,000 persons came to frolic and wonder. The concrete "Big Top," located across the Strip from the Riviera and fronted by the largest privately-owned fountain display in the world, represent an investment of $15 million. Circus Circus was unveiled with an invitational costume party from 7 to 10 p.m., after which the public started flooding in. A horrendous traffic jam on the already week-end crowded Strip required services of a battery of Clark County's finest to control.

After paying a nominal admission, patrons enter the structural steel building, capped by a 90-foot, tent-shaped roof formed of a plexi-glass material painted hot pink and white, onto a mezzanine floor which houses an amazing collection of carnival and arcade games ranging from an electronic safari shooting gallery to the traditional baseball toss, besides lounges and restaurants. Kids Can Flay Payments to winners (kids from 12 up can play) are in tokens which may be redeemed for merchandise. The gaming area (in Vegas parlance it's called the pit) i the ground level reached in one of three ways: you can use a slide, a fireman's pole or more conventional ramps. Above the mezzanine circus performers go through their paces. Featured are several amazing aerial acts the Flying Ca-varettas, Jean nine Pi-voteau, Rodriguez Brothers, Flying Alexander, Flying Palacios, Jean Pierre Souren, and others.

Joe Gerlach dives from the ceiling into a sponge; there are jugglers, clown acts, animal acts, a sway pole artist -and a flying elephant to enchant the crowd. Alexander Do-britch is executive producer of circus entertainment. Don Heaston conducts the band. A full-scale western 20th Century-Fox Rod Steiger, who'll be in town briefly this week expects to rush back to Europe for the start of "Galileo." The star, like the proverbial wife, is apparently the last to know. What he doesn't know is that "Galileo" is in trouble.

mi fltifriifi iiimih BOSTON ST RANGLER CHEVALIER, 80, BIDS STAGE CAREER ADIEU Suggested for Mature Audiences. Tony Curtis Henry Fonda George Kennedy Mike KelllTl Murray Hamilton Robert Fryer Richard Fleischer Edward Anhart GeroW Frank Panavfsion Color by Deluxe The word is that brilliant director Franco and Zeffirelli won't be doing "Galileo" after all (due, I understand, to a very personal quarrel with his partner). And neither will brilliant scripter William Who's Coming to Rose (due to reasons I don't quite understand). Steiger may carry the weight of at least a dozen men. He played, or seemed to play, twice that NATIONAL GENERAL CORPORATION i Foxiimmiiwi EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT! Starts TOMORROW! 477-2487 DAILY-BOX OFFICE OPENS at 55-SHOWTIMES at 6:10 and 10:20 P.M.

SUN. I HOLS. DOORS OPEN at 145 SHOWTIMES at 2.00 4:05 and 10:20 P.M. cer, Chevalier philosophized in song and poem on love, youth, love, and how to be youthful again. He showed he can keep up to date.

He pantomimed such moderns as Sammy Davis and donned a Beatle wig for a pop number, complete with pelvis movement. At the end, he shook hands with everyone in the front row, burst out with a song, "When I Was 100 Years Old," and then made his farewell speech: "You've just seen the last recital I'll ever do on any stage anywhere." Chevalier said he would continue performing for television, the cinema or for records. Rod Steiger UNIVERSAL STUDIO TOURS 10:00 A.M. thru 3:30 P.M. Sundays: 10:30 A.M.

thru 3:30 P.M. PARIS WI Master showman Maurice Chevalier bowed out of- his 68-year -long stage career Sunday with a solid voice and a lingering twinkle but his audience sniffled its regrets. Silver-haired Chevalier, 80, did his best to curb sentimentality during his adieu. His friends said it was the snappiest performance in the three-week series. The packed Theatre des Champs-Elysees knew it was his last, even though it was supposed to have been a secret.

Three fourths of the seats were filled with people near his own age, who clapped and sang along with the old songs that made Chevalier famous. One grandmother, dressed in black, said she splurged to take her three grandchildren "to the last chance they would ever have to see the great Chevalier." In straw hat and tuxedo, the handsome hoofer didn't let them down. A self-confessed mediocre singer and ditto dan HE USES HiS BADGE LIKE A A bodyguard too involved with the body he was guarding! 'Romeo and Juliet' Will Open on Oct. 31 The Franco Zeffirelli production of "Romeo and Juliet" will open Oct. 31 in the Vine and Royal theaters.

The film will be shown on regular continuous performances at both theaters. Music bv Written by Directed Produced by KENYQN HOPKINS A. J. RUSSELL DAVID LOWELL RICH RICHARD LEWIS 1 A 'UNIVERSAL PICTURE TECHNICOLOR9 SJft I ftW.VA s-sct WJm li A love story that begins with an incredible experiment! A less than ordinary man is turned into a genius. He awakens to an exquisite love experience, but CLOSE THE GENERATION TAKE AN ADULT TO SEE, UNIVERSAL prM.ntt GEORGE PEPPARD MARY TYLER MOORE many in the critically not publically, (nor by me) well-received "No Way to Treat A Lady." But even Steiger can't make the stars move over without a script or director.

Even though he is getting a whopping $800,000, not, as elsewhere reported, $250,000, for "Galileo." As for that fascinating Roman, Mr. Zeffirelli, don't be surprised if he already has a substitute movie in the works, and, after that, don't be surprised if he takes on all the brilliance of another top scripter (cum Rose and Shakespeare), Abby Mann; he's a top contender to direct Mann's movie version of Arthur Miller's "After the Fall." Zeffirelli staged "Fall" in Rome, with Monica Vitti playing the Marilyn Monroe part that will be played, in Hollywood, by Faye Dunaway. Richard Harris as Scrooge? He's been all things to all men (and women, goodness knows), but how about Richard Harris as Scrooge? The wild Irishman, who's suddenly become a top-of-the-chart pop singer, is first choice for the musical Scrooge in Cinema Center Films' "A Christmas Carol." Oscar-winning composer Leslie Bricusse to the is the chooser. He's interrupted work on his musical "Cyrano de Bergerac" in order to finish the screenplay, music and lyrics in time for Harris to play the heavy. "Richard has a fine Dickensian quality," says Bricusse.

"He's young, but the story looks back on Scrooge's youth. If the tycoons can talk out the numbers, he'll do it." Gazing still deeper into his crystal ball, Bricusse comes up cautiously with "the directors who'd be marvelous for it in alphabetical order." In alphabetical order, they are Richard Attenborough and Herb Ross. With the "Doctor Doolittle" librettist do any doctoring with Dickens? "He didn't do a bad job when he wrote it," says Leslie, adding, "I don't think it'll come as any great revelation that Scrooge had a mother and father." 'Soul' of a White Man The long-awaited television special, Soul, starring Lou Rawls and produced by those moguls of Laugh-In, George Schlatter and Ed Friendly, proved a marvelous Idea for a series a black variety series and I hope to see it on the air. But let us, please, only have a bit more soul and a bit less LaugMn. I watched it at a dinner-screening at the Schlatters, and chatted with all those delightful, talented people in the cast and while I was chatting, hostess Jolene Schlatter picked up a long distance call from Sammy Davis in Chicago, who said, excitedly: "George said he'd do it, and he did it.

Now I can tell my militant friends a white man did it." Touche Sammy Surprise-Romance-of-Many-a-Week: They say it's comedienne Kaye Ballard, of Mothers-in-Law, and Alex Hart, president of Hart Department stores in the San Jose-San Francisco Bay area. Hart's very social, and Kaye we all know about. She's a gusty, funny gal Rosemarie Stack held a birthday party for everyone's friend Lee Anderson at Beverly Hills' Bistro restaufwit, and the presents, piled high on the banquette beside Lee, and the stares of the neighboring diners, fixed on the celebrants, proved she's everyone's friend. Like Polly Bergen's, Adriana (Mrs. Dan) Rowan's, Micheline Lerner's Denise Minnelli's, Betty Bloomingdale's, Ann Rapp's, Ann (Mrs.

Lloyd) Hand's, Jean Trousdale's and Beverly Lohman's. And mine. I'm sure we're all waiting for that national Mexican-American restaurant chain of Trini Lopez. Well, he'll launch the first eatery in Anaheim on Oct 29. And we're waiting for the Miss Teen-Age America pageant, too, which Trini, the swinging bachelor, emcees over CBS-TV on Nov.

30. Taking turns at the mike will be Dean Jones and Michele Lee Hugh Hefner in Disneyland? On his first visit, yet. It took a former Miss California in a former Miss Teen-age America contest to get him there. Her name is Barbara Klein, she's a coed at UCLA, and she's so pretty she caused Hefner to postpone his return to his Chicago bunnies after last Wednesday's taping of his syndicated TV series, Playboy After Dark Warren Beatty laid aside that screenplay, untitled, when he took off for Paris and "The Only Game in Town." Contrary to popular belief (it says here), Warren concentrates on one thing at a time. At an impossible price tor JR 00M DeLUtSE-JOHN McHARTIS-SUSAN SAITJAMES DON STROUD umw lM.liqaiiniiria mmm mar nua.Maiai Mi.

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