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LEADER-TIMES, KITTANNING, PA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1960 Young Leticia Roman Breaks lolly wood's Studio Barriers By VERNON SCOTT UPI Hollywood Correspondent (UPI) Italy exporter of such shapely beauties as Sophia Loren and Oina Lollo briglda, has contributed a shape ly teen-ager to tne wilds of Mov ietown. Leticia Roman name No varese) is an 18-year-old with flashing black eyes, blonde hair and a dazzling smile. A newcomer to acting, Leticia made her own breaks in Holly wood and ended up in two new 6 6 I I BUCK A CARLOAD TONITE--FIRST RUN STEVE REEVES FRANKIE VAUGHN 'DANGEROUS YOUTH" Technicolor Cartoon Feature "TOM THUMB" COME EARLY-SHOW WOW STARTS AT 8:40 movies one co starring with Elvis Presley, and the other with Clint (Cheyenne) Walker. Daughter of a Roman costume designer, Leticia arrived In Hollywood 18 months ago and set about establishing a career.

Joins Acting Class "I got myself an agent and joined Sandy MeLsner's acting class," she said in the Warner Brothers commissary. "Daddy and mother didn't want me to become an actress, but I went ahead anyhow. "Earlier this year I had an in terview with Hal Wallis at Paramount Studios. He told me to lose some weight and come back again." Fifteen days later (and 17 pounds lighter) Leticia returned for a screen test and snared a top role in Presley's "G.I. Blues." She's currently playing an Indian girl (with dyed black hair) in Warners' "Gold of the Seven Saints." Unlike many Tinsel Town hopefuls her age, Leticia leads a sheltered, closely supervised life.

She lives with her parents and must be home by midnight when she dates. Grow Up Slowly In Rome I never went out without a chaperone," she said. "Even then it was to parties and never with a date of my own. Boys didn't come to parties until we were 15 years old. We grow up more slowly in Italy than girls do here.

"And somehow we are happier than American teen-agers seem to be. I didn't have nylons until was 16. The use of nail polish, lipstick and other feminine things were given to us at proper intervals. They mean much more to a girl one at a time." Leticia was surprised to see 18- year-old American cuties zooming Gallery of Yesterday HERE is another look at Kitranning of another day, from an old picture post card. Photo looks eastward along Market St.

from a point near State Theater Building. Building on the left is Hotel Steim. The view above the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks changed with remodeling of the Armstrong County courthouse a few years ago, and the construction of the courthouse parking lot. around in mink stoles. I am looking forward to a mink coat myself," she explained, 'But not until I'm 21 years old." "I hope I don't sound too critical," Leticia concluded in excellent English, "but there is plenty of time for growing up.

My mother waits for me when I go out at night, and I like it that way." NO POSTAGE DUE HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Kennerdell Festival Sponsors Hunting Mystery Benefactor Have any of you been and Carnegie Tech. He Yul Brynner is one of the most ardent stamp collectors, having a collection he conservatively values at a quarter-million dollars. USE WANT ADS FOR RESULTS SUNSET-VIEW DRIVE-IN THEATRE Junction Rts. 28 and 908--Top Freeport Hill NOW SHOWING "THE GALLANT HOURS" starring JAMES CAGNEY as Admiral "Bull" Halsey Plus "LAST DAYS OF POMPEII" (Tech.) COMMUNITY DRIVE-IM THEATRE I A I ON RT.422 A OF I A I 2 BIG HITS 2-NOW SHOWING! JE Showing writing the Kennerdell Music and Art Festival? The sponsors would like to recognize some benefactor, but can't remember who he is. The Music and Art Festival, now in its fifth year, will be held from 1 to 7 p.m.

August 21. A summer serenade by a symphony orchestra, and an art display, will feature the festival. Eugene Reichenfeld, a summer resident of Kennerdell and musical director and conductor for the concert whiih will begin at 3 p.m., said that a resident of Kittanning last year gave the festival sponsors a substantial cash contribution," requesting that he become a patron fo year's festival and that he be notified when the event'would take place. "We are deeply grateful to this person but somehow his name and address have become misplaced. "We would be happy to recognize our friend and your neighbor," Mr.

Reichenfeld wrote The Leader-Times, "if he responds to your publicity." Mr. Reichenfeld is a music educator in the Penn Hills Schools and an instructor at Duquesne is well known to state music educators and music students as guest conductor of PMEA music festivals at high school in Erie, Greenville, Manheim, and Grove City. The orchestra, will consist of 100 superior musicians representing four states. Featured soloists for the serenade will be Alberta Childs, concert pianist from Zelienople. Anyone interested in participating with the orchestra may receive an application form by writing Mr.

Reichenfeld at 1013 Savannah Avenue, Pittsburgh 21. Since the program is scheduled for one day only, there will be no rehearsal and musicians must be prepared to sight read the selections which will include serious compositions as well as contemporary and social music. The afternoon will also feature a painting and art objects display. Artists desiring to display their works may contact Miss Eleanor Riddle, Box 117. Clintonville.

Works may be placed on sale if desired. Light lunches and refreshments may be purchased on the ground's. Visitors are requested to take folding -chairs because facilities are limited. A nominal admission charge for the festival is made, and children under 12 are admitted free. Rain date for the event is Aug.

28. Festival sponsors are trying to raise money to pay for a piece of land and a permanent structure, as a local recreational center. Civic-minded people from Kennerdell, Clintonville and other nearby areas have joined with summer residents and visitors in promoting the festival. Mr. Reichenfeld is general chairman of the patron committee.

Adjoining properties of Thomas E. Jones, Richard Fisher and Charles T. Furniss, fronting on the Allegheny River, have been placed at the disposal of the festival sponsors, space for nearby parking. The grounds provide settings for the art exhibition and concert, and Television in Review ERNEST D.GLUCKSMAN A Riot of Comedy and Action--2 Hits Television THURSDAY KDKA-TV (Channel 2) Show of Champion Stallion Ide, Newi News Valley Daye Civil War Rlngo Grey Theater Hunter Tell the Truth News Tonight Yates Studio Edition Shift Theater Off WXAE-XV fChannel 4) O'clock Adventure 8 Reed Show Real McCoys Carson Show Untouchables News Dollar Movfc Show WJAC (Channel Page Express Jamboree of the Plainsman Masterson Cholc. Father Best of Oroucho Calling Hour News Theater And Sports Headlines Off wuc (Channel 11) Schaeffer In the News Report of Cochlse the Experts Masterson Father Bet Your Life Hammer tl Weather Paar FRIDAY KDKA-TV (Channel 2) Rogers Ide Newt News De Village Zone to Person Tonight Yates Theater Page Edition Shift Theater Off WTAE-TV (Channel 4) O'clock Adventure Disney From Blackhawk Sunset Strip Football Oame Weather Dollar Movie WJAC (Channel Road Han DftWtoa City Phil Silvers Show Tour Hunch Territory Of Few Playhouse and Sports Headline! Off wnc (Channel ll Otty Town Tour Bunch Party of Fear and Weather Paar By CLAIRE COX United Press International NEW YORK (UPI)--All righ Red Buttons, you can come ou from behind those spectacles an that false mistache now.

Wt knew it was you all the fime, even fore your cockney accent lapse into New Yorkese. Buttons actually did a com mendable job' in the face of tr mendous odds on the United State Steel Hour on CBS Wednesda night, playinl the role of Inspe tor Plover, pith helmet and all in "The Cast of the Missin Wife." His greatest obstacle was tha Buttons--or Plover--did not hav the pleasure that most fictional detectives enjoy, that of solving crime and being able to bra about it. He solved it all righ but nobody ever told him abou his feat. But maybe we'd better start the beginning. The scene is a Malayan jungle where a rubber planter name Edmund Hobart and his wife, So phie, have been living in a stal of wedded non-bliss, while the: neighbor, Mrs.

Jean Ferrier, a attractive young widow, also rubber planter, has mooned silen ly over handsome Hobart. The wife obligingly disappears leaving the widow Ferrier a clea field, if she can make it from he rubber grove to Hobart's withou tripping over a poisonous snake. Police Suspect Husband But the first person suspecte in the case of the missing wife i the husband, as soon as polic learn that he had launched divorc proceedings, only to drop them when Sophie took sick--sick in th head. The police, on an anony mous tip, start digging in Hobart' yard. They find a body, identifier as that of the wife, along with her clothes, her jewels and a blood spattered suit belonging --you guessed it, Hobard.

After exchanging vows of love and. an ardent kiss or two with the widow Ferrier, Hobart goes tc jail and is convicted of murdering his lovely blonde wife. Buttons, naturally, is quite pleased over his first big crimina success. But he does not allow for a determined woman in love--t widow Ferrier. She is not going to give up her chance for happines in the jungle without a struggle.

So upset does she become, in fact, that her doctor sends her to a drugstore for a wonder drug to calm her nerves. A chance re mark by the druggist about a hair bleach leads to the finding of Sophie Hobart, alive and in need of having her darkening hair lightened again. She also coulc use a good home permanent. Plover Releases Hobart Sophie has taken refuge In the dingy quarters of a Chinese girl who has been running errands to the drugstore for bleach so often that one wonders. why Malaya's hair restoring climate is not billed in tourist brochures.

Inspector Plover released Hobart and restores Sophie to him, although Hobart clearly Is not happy over this turn of events. Sophie can't remember a thing, except that she does not like her husband. Gaby Rodgers was convincingly addled as the wife. The other leading women, Nancy Wlckwire as the smitten widow Ferrier. and Rita Vale, as Sophie's worried aunt, also were excellent.

John Colicos, as the more than harassed husband, appeared to be understandably upset. The entire production was well handled, In (act, save for the plot. The husband's behavior at the end was a bit baffling, and Buttons managed to mumble a key line so that the identity of the body that found in the Hobart yard remained a mystery. So how did the play end? What was the explanation for Sophie's survival? Wh perpetrated the bizarre plot, And who won Edmund in the love sweepstakes? You won't find out here. It would be unfair to the television fans to disclose these secrets, for the show is likely to turn up on home screens again, as a rerun next summer.

USE WANT ADS FOR RESULTS Shakespearean Actor Prefers To Talk About Ferris Wheels HOLLYWOOD (UPI) You would hardly think of a serious actor In connection with Ferris wheels, but leading man Liam Sullivan has strong ties with the amusement park devices--his family manufactures them. Sullivan has appeared on the Broadway stage in "The Constant Wife." with Katharine Cornell, and in Shakespearean plays such as "The Merchant of Venice" and "Julius Caesar." On television he played Romeo to Susan Strasberg's Juliet. But he seems to prefer talking about Ferris wheels and his family, particularly his "Pop." "Pop" is Lee Sullivan, 71, president of the Eli Bridge of Jacksonville, 111., who drives a white sports car and broke the bank on the television program "What's My Line?" when the panel failed to guess he was a Ferris wheel maker the only one in the world as a matter of fact. Son Liam recently became the unbilled hit of a Hollywood charity carnival after he heard the sponsors were distraught because they could not locate a Ferris wheel. Hearing of the difficulty, Liam wired his father, located a wheel in storage in this area and produced it.

Sullivan can reel off facts and figures about Ferris wheels likej a regular salesman. "George Ferris who was something of a mathematical genius, built his first Ferns wheel in 1893 for the Chicago World's Fair," he related. "It was 208 feet high. It grossed of a million dollars in six months tt SI cents a head." Liam's fatter took over facture of the wheel about Si years ago. TOM THUMB pins WRECK of the MARY DEARE Along Broadway By JACK GAVER UPI Drama Editor NEW YORK (UPI)--The Broadway stage gets back another of its theaters this fall.

The Mansfield, like the Hudson early this year, returns to its original function after a decade of use as a television studio. Owner Michael Myerberg, himself a theater producer, will spend $200,000 refurbishing the house and also will give it a new name. It will be called the Brooks Atkinson Theater in honor of the recently retired drama critic of the New York Times. The original name of the which was opened in 1926, was in honor of the great American star of the late 19th Century, Richard Mansfield. The reclaimed house already has a tenant for the new season, a revue entitled "Vintage "60" which has been running since last spring at the Ivar Theater in Hollywood.

Broadway producer David Merrick has arranged with the original producers to take it over intact and offer it here. The show thus follows in the footsteps of such coast-produced Foxburg Theater To Present Play, Concerning Tyrant Is All," delightful story laid in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country, is the coming Saturday night attraction at The Barn theaer here. The play, centering upon a tyrant papa with religious scruples against most everything, is being presented by The Pitt Players, who have modeled their costumes after those worn at the premiere of the play, in 1941 in Pittsburgh. Pitt Players have presented a play each year since the inception of the summer theater at Foxburg. "Papa is All" was written by Patterson Greene.

Curtain time is 8:30 p.m. revues as "Meet the People," "Lend an Ear" and "The Billy Barnes Revue," which were transferred to Broadway. The most notable tenant of the Mansfield was "The Green Pastures," which stayed there for 670 performances back in 1930-31. Silver Fox Playhouse Foxburg-St. Petersburg Road Route 338 Presents PAPA IS ALL University of Pittsburgh Players Directed by Michael J.

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