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12 TS Independent Record, Sunday, February 16, 1969 PJlarvin, PJl'tfune Square OH Arts Entertainment NEW YORK "Hell In The Pacific," which courageously grapples with the arresting re lationships of character, com munication and survival, suc ii ceeds only fitfully in dramat She Alway nears me ame ically projecting these element al qualities. As a conflict between two World War II war treatment of the film's varying moods. However, he compensates handsomely by the genuine, subdued emotion he has elicited from both Mifune and Marvin in the second half, which gives them and their story meaning and substance. The breathtaking beauty of the pale blue lagoons, the sapphire, booming seas and the lush greens of Koror Island in the Palau Group, where most of "Hell In The Pacific" was shot, have been artistically captured by Conrad Hall's color cameras. matic as well as melodramatic effects.

Glints of emerging friendship flash by a3 Marvin, with rough solicitude, covers the sleeping Mifune and as Mifune gives the suspicious Marvin a knife he has been sharpening. And their growing communication and trust, despite bickerings, is graphically exposed as they build a raft and weather turbulent seas in it to another island in further counterpoint to their previous animal-like battling. Once in that deserted island formerly held, in turn, by Jap riors, a Japanese and an Amer Nude Scenes Sound ican, forced into wary coexist During i i I 't i Xr- 't. i i I 1 ence as castaways on a lonely aiou, is more obvious than revelatory, more often Pacific my clothes off before an audi ence. she remarked.

"If it ever than Hellish in probing, somewhat erratically, beneath the sunburned skin of these men caught in a war and world they anese and Americans, the pair, shaved and clothed, cement opening I said, 'Oh, hell, I'll do it in the nude. I did it and the scene was just right There were no sniggers or laughs; that would have ruined the whole thing. "The director had done just the right thing: he let me make up my own mind." She doesn't intend to make By BOB THOMAS Associated Press Writer HOLLYWOOD (AP) "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" When Maggie Wright walks onstage as Helen of Troy in the Royal Shakespeare' Company's production of "Dr. Faustus," it never maae. comes easy to me, I'll know it's time to quit.

"I go through an entire ritual in my dressing room, starting with makeup on my feet. Then I carry on a conversation with Helen herself, trying to figure out what kind of a woman she their amity in an excess of Lodge Meetings Tailored for Stars Sake. But this return to even mere remnants of civilization As a tour-de-force, this two- Masonic again brings misunderstandings character study is tailored to Helen Lodge No. J-StjJ com- over religion and war and a the undressing bit a habit. When the international appeal of both truncation Friday.

Feb. 21, P-m. nnt thot muci. niiwas. ioure not a wnore, no climactic end to friendship as Refreshments.

'matter what people say," I tell Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mi- they sullenly and silently walk Morning Star Lodge No. 5 Stated communication Wed Feo. fune, Japan's best-known star. on the well-lighted stage her year's contract is up in May, she hopes to land a movie part that has been dangled in Hollywood. "The Royal Shake away from each other.

at I p.m. Refreuimenra. Completely. Maggie Wright at 24 is wen The principals performances Kins Solomon's Lodge No. To the credit of the writers and producers, the dialogue Mi-fune speaks Japanese through schooled in the entertainment world.

She danced for a year Special and stated communications Feb. 1, of 7:30 p.m. Worfc in the initial portion are simply speare is great experience, but "There is always the same sound when I enter." says the well-formed English In the E.A. degree. Refreshments.

strenuous. John Boorman, who out the film is not essential you're paid almost nothing," Maggie commented. 'I'm not and a half in Japan with Eng. vrk Rite Feb. U.

SDecial Royal to a viewer's or Marvin's com beauty. "It is a sort of preiously directed Marvin in "Point Blank," has depended mass lanas tamea uiueoeu oiris. ap Arch Degree 7:30 p.m., followed by stated assembly of Helena Council peared on the stage and televi prehension of the proceedings. like those actors who say the part is everything. I love mon No.

1. on action to make this script sion in England, and in such But one is made uneasy by a Scottish Rita Stated meeting, work, but he is uneven in his Helena Lodge of Perfection, Thurs films as "Goldfinger," in which story line that is dangerously March 11 at I p.m. she plaved one of the girl pilots, thin during the first section of "Ooooishhh. It happened the first time I did it in London, it happened in New York, and it happens here." It is likely also to happen in San Francisco, Detroit, Baltimore and New Haven, which Algeria Shrine Temple Stated meeting Monday, Feb. 17.

at p.m. the film. Mifune's discovery of HER FORTE IS SHAKESPEARE It didn't take press agents long to arrange a cowgirl outfit for actress Helen Mirren, a star of Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, when she visited Columbia Studio in Hollywood. She held the gun reluctantly: "Everybody in England knows I don't know one end of a gun from the other." She's in the film city to promote her latest film, "Age of Consent," in which she stars with James Mason. (AP Refreshments.

Nothing in her background quite prepared her for the unclad Helen in Christopher Marlowe's Marvin presence has a certain shock value and the tension is Eastern Star Elizabethan classic. Miriam Chanter No. 1 Slated will also be visited by the famed English acting company on its maintained as the black-bearded Mifune and the white- mMtina. Til Feb. 25 at I P.m.

She didn't think it odd when Butte Sends TV Signal To Helena Free CBS television is com Americanism program, initiation, affiliation and social hour. Refresh ey." 'Bitter Woods' Realistic, True (c) New York Times The Bitter Woods. By John S. D. Eisenhower.

With illustrations and maps. 506 pages. Putnam. $10. President Roosevelt considered dropping an atomic bomb American tour.

That is, if the police don't intervene. she received a call to audition for the Royal Shakespeare Com bearded Marvin set the lush but desolated island's birds to squawking as they murderous "That's always a considera pany, even though she had no classical training. Nor did she ly stalk, goad, taunt and fight ments. Josephine Hepner Chapter No. It, Stated meeting Feb.

18. I p.m., honoring 50 year members, American-bm program. Refreshments. Feb. 11th the official visit of the Worthy Grand Matron.

Joint meeting with Miriam Chapter No. I at I p.m., preceded by a banquet In the dining room at each olher for the meager wa take seriously the proposal by the director, Clifford Williams, ter and food. These are trans tion," Miss Wright admits. "We were actually breaking the law in London when the play opened there; that was when the Lord Chamberlain was still censoring the theater. I believe we are ing to Helena soon.

parently obvious exchanges that that she play her speechless scene sans clothing "After all, Liz Taylor had last played the need no subtitles. But the clash and the Wolf Featured at Central es become repetitious and rare on Hitler's forces in December, also breaking the law here. But role (with Richard Burton on Daughters of the Nile Sapphire Temple No. 7 Stated session Feb. 27, at I p.m.

Memorial service, and honoring past queens. Program and social hour. ly reach the subsurface make 1944, during the Battle of the so far nobody has complained. up of the often flamboyant Bulge. "If this should be the deci A highlight of the concert of Ed Peiss, general manager of KXLF Radio TV in Butte said Saturday the Mining City station hopes to start beaming its signal to Helena in the near future, possibly this week.

"The important factor in deciding to bring the Butte signal to Helena area residents was the fact that there was no free CBS-TV signal available in the area," Peiss said. The Butte Marvin, one gathers, is an sion," said uen. Leslie K. Groves, the bombkeeper, "we the Helena Symphony Orchestra at 3 p.m. today at Helena Catho Knights of Pythias Knights of Pythias It Pythian Sisters, regular meeting the first and third Monday of each month.

Eagles Hall, I p.m. aviator, nothing much more. Mifune? Simply a military man, can and will do it. However, an the stage and in a film) fully clothed. Besides, there was the Lord Chamberlain" Maggie went through her scene in rehearsals and tryouts wearing filmy costumes.

"But it just wasn't working," she related. "The audience didn't react the way it should have. Finally, just before the Maggie may be the only method nude in show business. Like Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger and other method actors, she prepares for her role by contemplating the character's motivations. "I'm just as nervous now as I was the first time I stood with operational weapon won't be who is favored in the plotting aa a resilient type who can cope with nature better than Marvin ready until August, 1945.

If we lic Central High School will be the presentation of Sergei Poko-fiev's "Peter and the Wolf." The story of this "symphonic can't test it first, the mechanism F. O. Eagles Helena Aerie No. 1 Regular meeting 1st and 3rd Thursdays. Auxiliary regular meeting 2nd and can.

ine constant challenges, might not go off. Then the station is a primary affiliate of fairy tale for children" and Germans might find out how it CBS. 4th Thursday. Club room hours a.m. to 2 a.m.

even after a delicate truce is achieved, does not dissect their adults will be narrated by Gene works." Brown to the accompaniment Most of the programs telecast will be in color, with the few All books about the Bulge tee Knights of Columbus of orchestral background. Each off on the elementals making Helena Council No. ti Social exceptions caused by failure of character will be represented by meeting Feb. 27, at :30 p.m., at Council Chambers. Clergy Night.

the network to provide neces a different instrument. possible that surprise, and "The Bitter Woods" is no exception. With an amazing I almost -Family Restaurant- The strings will play the sary color films. The KXLF signal will be seen B. P.

O. Elks theme that represents Peter, said overwhelming grasp of Regular meetings each second and the bird will be by Roxanne fourth Tuesday of the month. in Helena on channel 8. The station's translator is located on Mount Helena. detail, John Eisenhower tells us what was happening every- Burnham on the flute; the duck characters other than to indicate that Mifune is a tough, moody, but largely one-dimensional Oriental and Marvin is, equally, a surface hard guy and also can fend for himself but is given to wisecracks not in keeping with the dire circumstances.

Second Half Incisive But the film's second half is more incisive, with enough revealing nuances to point up dra- by Peggy Edie on the oboe; For Special Di nner and Luncheon gatherings, call Mrs. Lola Schumacher at 442-4721. LI loyal Order of Moc- where, at almost every moment, KXLF is Montana's pioneer the cat by Dr. Everett Lynn Helena Lodge No. N.

Jack-o, regular meeting 2nd and 4th at every level, within the Ger-5 man as well as the Allied lines. Try Our New on the clarinet in low register; station, according to Peiss. It aired its first program Aug. 14, Thursdays WO'M 1st and 3rd Mondays. Club hours open at 4:00 the grandfather by Stephen Lynn Grizzly Burger p.m.

daily except Sunday. 1953. on the bassoon; The wolf by Andrew Schei- Gene Brown Full 5-oz. Hamburger, Frys, Relish, Cheese. QQ He conceived his book as "A Study in Command, an Examination of the Command Structure on Both Sides of the Allied Invasion of Europe." He thanks his father for checking and supplementing material "even decker, Tom Burnham and Michael Henry playing French 1 A Every Day horns, and the shots of the hunters by the kettledrums and bass drum played by Jane Fritz- Dining with us a treat for the whole family Char-Rock Broiled Steaki though in places our viewpoints may somewhat differ.

Dining Room Open 10 a.m. Sunday Luncheon Dinners In short, he has bitten off an 51 awful lot, and he chews in into the suburbs of infinity. Ian and Bob Clark. Also on the program, in this second of four regular concerts during the season, will be Beethoven's Third Symphony in Flat Major, or "Eroic- Symphony," the "Merry Wives of Windsor" by Otto Nicolai, and Breakfast Lunches Dinners OPEN DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY HERE'S HOW VOTED Hal Holbrook's "Mark Twain" Braised SIRLOIN TIPS With noodles. Served Saturdays.

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