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Sunday, April 5, 1964 Page 16 Austin, Texas Austin Tryonts for 'Iguana' Slated at Playhouse pllp 1(5 Leighton, Bette Davis and Patrick O'Neal when presented on Broadway during a highly successful run. An already publicized film version has Just been completed with Richard Burton, Ava Gardner and Sue Lyons in leading roles. The play, set in a shabby Mexico hotel run by a free -wheeling proprietress, is chiefly concerned with a rather bizarre relationship between a dissolute ex-clergyman and a sad, middle-aging spinster who travels the globe with her grandfather, "the oldest practicing poet in the world." Mature actors interested' in filling one of the "Iguana" roles are invited to attend any of the four scheduled tryouts or call Hogan at GR 6-0541 or GR 8-2697 to arrange a special 'i 1 V. i "It -i "A 1 win 1 Tryouts for the Austin Civic Theater's next production Tennessee Williams' "The Night of the Iguana" will get under way Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at the Playhouse.

Subsequent tryouts have been scheduled for Monday through Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Playhouse. At these sessions, ACT Director Joe Bill Hogan will be looking for an assortment of players needed to fill the diverse and colorful roles in Williams': powerful drama. The script calls for eight men and six women. "Night of the Iguana," regarded as a sample of Williams at the top of his dramatic form, had a cast headed by Margaret mm DRIVE-IN THEATRE MM N.

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CARD 50e SENIOR CITIZENS DIS. CARD 50c CHILDREN FREE ACTRESS I LOVE ME TENDER CINemaScOPS gCBthWeek i Aitru i.ir Mk MTRSIGiONAl HIGHWAY Ends Wed. TECHN ICOLOR yr Jiiite Caravan Monday night, started off her show-business career as a singer in her native New England and still reveals a big belter type voice in her act. But it until she turned full-time to comedy that Miss Fields hit the entertainment world's bigtime. Performing last March at New York's Co-pacabana, the five-foot, 170 -pound comedienne was spotted somebody who went away because of divorce reasons or tax reasons," said Perkins.

"When I was 24 years old I came here and made a lot of pictures. I didn't go to Italy." The 32-year-old actor appreciates what his "mission" accomplished. He appeared in films abroad with Brigitte Bar-dot, Ingrid Bergman, Melina Mercouri and Sophia Loren, ranked among the top leading ladies in Europe. "I think I've done very well in Europe," Tony said. "But I've reached a plateau, a breathing space." Quite often when stars leave Hollywood for European film appearances, they leave behind them a flood of words, almost all of them critical of the town's culture, citizenry and its movies.

Perkins lived in Hollywood and New York, where he still has an apartment, for all his pre-European professional life. It is in America, he says, that he feels at home. 5 Tony, tie wast critical RecognitionTour Cheers Perkins ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Tony Perkins is back in Hollywood after a four-year "mission" to Europe, a part of the world where he had been almost totally unknown. American moviegoers were well acquainted with the lanky Perkins four years ago because he had been making films here. But abroad, his name evoked hardly a glimmer of recognition.

Such a state of affairs is intolerable to an actor's career which feeds on a constant diet of recognition. "I felt I was on a mission for myself," said Perkins. "That sounds better than saying I had a master plan; that's so finaL" During his absence from Hollywood Perkins has made seven pictures, a respectable amount in these days of limited movie production. Six of the pictures were made in Europe, the seventh in Tennessee. "I've never been able to think of as an expatriate of Hollywood in the past And he was impressed with the reception given him by old friends in the industry when he returned recently.

"I think any comprehensive check of my newspaper clippings will show that I had my knocks against Hollywood," Tony said, offering no defense. He no longer feels that way. In fact, he defends the town. "I'm impressed with the reception I've had here," he said. "Hollywood is known as a place with a short memory.

And that's explainable considering all the knocks it gets. And some of the knocks come from people that Hollywood tried its hardest to make something of. "It's easy to knock Hollywood. It's teed up and ready to be hit" He accused some of his critical colleagues of being "professional procrastinators." In a way, Perkins sounded somewhat like the prodigal son returning when he said, "I think I've grown a little past INCLUDING BEST FEATURE TIMES 7:30 11:10 -PLUS- Ma boar's trn ELVIS PRESLEY RICHARD EGAfM OEBRA PAGET MM.