The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 93

Dec. 25, 1970-Part IV g' MOVIE GUIDE Woodstock" (Adults only) So out under 18 admitted) End of the "Road" Lonesome Cowboys "Trash" 91 I A PARAMOUNT iiArnminnvni lx 4 SHOWCASE" MARTIN BERNHEBIER Sir Robert Turns to Don Quixote Robert Helpmann was born in 1909 he does not mind admitting the date in Mount Gambier, Australia. Since then he has circled the globe blissfully, numerous times and in numerous C-l "I feel like a jet-powered gypsy," he declares, "and I love it." His strikingly melodramatic features and tasteful penchant for the outrageous have enhanced an incredible variety of ballets, plays and" films. He has functionedand functioned brilliantly as premier danseur, mime, choreographer, actor and producer. He served as the protagonistic foundation, more or iJ aaiaaaaa As a guide to parents The Times lists currently playing movies as they have been rated by the Motion Picture of America.

Movies. not rated by the MPAA have been rated by The Times'" and are indicated by (T). GENERAL Airport" "Beatle Foursome" "Cromwell" "Duck Soup" CD "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" "Scrooge" "Song of Norway "Tthe Aristocats" "Tora! Tora! Tora! "Wuthering Heights" GP (Parental caution advised) "Act of the Heart" "Alex in Wonderland" "Burn" "Dirty Dingus Magee" Little Big Man" Ryan's Daughter" The Confession "The Great White Hope" 'The Oblong Box" The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" "The Twelve Chairs" The Wild Child" RESTRICTED (So one under 17 admitted without parent or guardian) "A Drama of Jealousy" Catch-22" "Diary of a Mad Housewife" "First Love Five Easy Pieces" "Groupies" "Joe" "Little Fauss and Big Hal-y" "Lovers and Other Strangers" "Promise at Dawn The Black Angels" "The Owl and the Pussycat" "There's a Girl in My Soup" "There Was a Crooked Man" National General Slates 'Terror' "Sudden Terror" has been added to the 1971 release schedule of National General Pictures, according to Charles Boasberg, president. It has a GP rat; ing. The suspense film about a young boy who is an innocent witness to murder and who then must elude the killers, stars Mark Lester, who played the title role in "Oliver!" Filmed on location on Malta, the release costars Lionel Jeffries, Susan George, Tony Bonner, Peter "Vaughn, Betty Mar den and Jeremy Kemp.

,1 My "Husbands" "I Never Sang for Father" TODAY AT 2:00 8:30 PM i A GREAT MQlTIOrJ RE I IMJS-TtlE OTlOiJ P1CTUHE! DAUGHTER1 IS EPIC III SIZE, GRAND 111 THEME! Its THE FOUR FACES OF ROBERT HELPMANN Robert Helpmann himself The Bishop in "Henry AOErWrUM Mr vmmvtm.n w. inecnuutim JOSEPH KUB essence lies In Lesn's loving attention to storytelling, and in acting that is uniformly brilliant. Sarah Miles is completely winning as Rosy." mm ialum. mm tm Mma- jack cilfqrq; buck henry; bos raw psM; pmw mm, mm am A MASTERPIECE! DAVID LEAN IS A GENIUS. HIS XNnKifTt0RS9MWELLES0R scBEPir iy suck hewiy pnooucf by johui calley i mmik rasohoff krecttj by mixe Muisu rlWHKItlfl IPMimiiiri IKmg)irowlWaWirITOS WWIflBWSBUIBnillMBaW ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENTS REACH THE I 'mm NOW SHOWINCr AT THESE ft "GOLDEN WEST SHOWCASE APEX IN 'RYAN'S DAUGHTER'." Wanda Hale, New York Daily News i 1 "A MAJOR EVENT IN THE HISTORY OF if YVj InC MUllEd! -Rex Reed, Holiday Magazine I 1 "VERY REWARDING! A NEAR-CLASSIC IN ITS STRUCTURE Uuf AND UNIVERSAL IN ITS HUMANITY!" Judith New York Magazine anwiatMiui.t CRITERION uNirra Aurisra CAPITOL UNITED ARTISTS If UNITED ARTISTSj Santa Monica 395-9929 -Jl Glcndalt-243-4261 Pasadena -681-5171 long Beach-437-1267 fo1mHtnmi vmm'f Riverside-689-8022 Inglewnod 678-8377 Torrance 325-4232 Santa Ana -543-9287 PAN PACIFIC MIRA0A Orivt-ln COVINA Drive-ln 1 FASHION SQUARE 4 I los Angeles-938-7070 Santa iFe Springs -921-2666 Covina ll la Habra 691-0633 I AIRPORT If AlHAMBRA 1 SHOWCASE CINEMA If WESC0VE CINEMA 2 SepulvPda-892-1181 Jf Alhambra-282 613S i Powrtey.

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He illuminated the cinema in "Henry "The Red Shoes," and "The Tales of Hoffmann." Now he haunts the nightmares of a whole new generation of mini-moviegoers as the supernasty Childcatcher of "Chitty Chit-ty Bang Bang." Proud Father Superior Helpmann returned to Los Angeles this week as the proud father" superior of the Austrialian Ballet, which opens a brief season tomorrow at The Music Center. He serves the youthful and idealistic troupe not only as one of two artistic directors but also as choreographer of a new abstract ballet called "Sun Music," and as the titular hero of "Don Quixote." Helpmann should be very tired. But he looks dapper, sounds refreshingly tart, and apparently thrives on hyperactivity. "If I sat down for half a day," he says, "I'd shrivel up like an old grape and die." His dapper look may be attributed this week, at least, to an indisposed airplane which gave him an unexpected stopover in Honolulu en route to Los Angeles. "I could not let the opportunity to do some surfing pass me by," explains the sedate-seeming Sir Robert.

(He became Sir Robert three years ago. and apparently had no trouble adjusting to the new title. "My dear," he admits with disarming mock candor, "I had been visualizing it for The selfsame sedate-seeming ex-ballerino reminds us that he once made the Top-15 list of the hit parade in both Australia and Hawaii, warbling pop ditties called "Letta Go Your Heart" and "Surfer Doll." Really! "Swan Lake" was never like this. But Helpmann's career never followed traditional lines. It all began when his father, an Australian sheep impresario, grudgingly gave in to the boy's terpsichorean predilections and sent him to study with "some girl who is supposed to be the best dancer in the world." Her name was Anna Pavlova.

His First Duty-One of the 13-year-old Helpmann's first duties with The Great Anna was to adorn a crowd scene in "Don Quixote." "My job," he to sit, look picturesque, and keep one eye on the horse. If the beast happened to answer a call of nature on the stage, I was supposed to flourish my cloak and stand in front of the crucial spot. The horse had an accident every night, so I rapidly became a central attraction." He has been a central attraction ever since and, he says, capes and cloaks have remained his specialty. When Rudolf Nureyev came to Australia last April to stage "Don Quixote," Helpmann claims he gave the choreographer only one strict order: "Rudi, dear, no horses!" The man of La Mancha in the original Tetipa-Minku3 ballet is, surprisingly, a secondary rote. The Australian Ballet production enlarges Don Quixote's participation a bit.

"The character's importance will be heightened further," says Helpmann with unmistakable approval, "in our forthcoming film version." Helpmann may have reservations about the degree of his involvement in "Don Quixote," but he is happy about his divided managerial responsibilities. He likes sharing the artistic directorship with Dame Peggy van Praagh. "The arrangement," he says, "is ideal. It also is practical because I can spend only six months a year at home. "Peggy is wonderful," he adds wryly.

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