The Gazette from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 12

12 TliE GAZETTE, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1963 TICKETS ON SALE AT BOX OFFICE 10 A.M. TO P.M. MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY f.LLED French Picture Leads in Mm ii 'A i Harold Whitehead in TOOD-AO Color by De Luxe TICKETS NOW ON SALE, MAIL ORDERS ACCEPTED MATIHIEK MON. tWru THURS of 2 P.M. SJ.OO MATINEES FR JAT S0N HQL ot 2 rM $2 J0 EVENINGS MONDAY thru THURS.

ot I P.M. SJ.00 SAT. HOL. at 8 P.M. $3.50 SUNDAYS ot 7.30 P.M.

S3.S0 VilVi'hn-i Jk Msrv v. rirl.s4Wi.. i PAUL NEWMAN ft 2S HUD! iiiliii Wmstm M- rtaiiiiiB mmmmm knirfcsu mmMmmmAMimmmmimesxxu, fwmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Milling sks THE MAN WITH THE BARBED WIRE SOUU Ann-Margaret gets herself battled over in Bye Bye Birdie at The Palace. DOVER ILVYN DOUGLAS-PATRICIA NEAL-BRANDON deWlDE Woodward Is Signed For Film 2nd WEEK THE MOST WONDERFUL ENTERTAINMENT EVER (MAMS COUNTERFEITERS OF PARIS SNOWDON A brilliantly told little story from France about crime that does pay, heads the list this week in no uncertain terms. The story starts out with a trio of greedy crooks who are on the look-out for some easy money.

One has the bankroll, another is the negotiator, and the third, and most feckless of the team, has a mistress whose hushed is a master engraver of the genius class. Whet to do? Phoney money is the answer, but they need an expert to handle the scheme and look after the distribution. Who to get? There is only one the "old Once the schemers have reached this point the audience is in for a treat. The "old man" turns out to be Jean Gabin. He moves on the screen, creaking a little with age, but there is no doubt that the star has arrived.

He growls, he snarls, he passes insults, he flatters, he persuades, and, in short, takes over the whole picture and relegates everyone also to second place at best. It is a performance that will do your heart good. Mr. Gabtn, over the years, has piled up a fine reputation for himself as an actor, and now he has reached the time in his career when he can pick and choose the roles he wants to play. He obviously wanted to play this one.

He takes so much enjoyment in it, you can't help having as much fun as he does. The story is a well-written affair and if your French is shaky, for once the sub-titles convey the richness of the original. The dry wit, for instance, comes through admirably. Aside from Gabin, the cast contains Martine Carol, as the mistress; Bernard Blicr, Dalpetre and Frank Villard, as the originators of the counterfeit scheme, and Maurice Biraud, as the engraver who is brighter than everyone takes him for. Francoise Rosay appears in a brief but telling scene.

This is not a great or important film but it sure is an enjoyable one. BYE BYE BIRDIE PALACE A movie version of the stage musical about a teen-age idol who is drafted into the Army, turns out to be a quite handsome film with not too many drawbacks. For one thing, the movies have left the play almost as unpretentious as it was on stage. The screen has a tendency to gild the lily when dealing with stage shows but the temptation has been resisted here. The story involves a songwriter (about to go broke) who has finally persuaded the big rock 'n' roll star of his day to sing one oi his numbers.

Before he can do so, however, Uncle Sam puts the arm on the singer and disaster seems about to hit the writer. We reckon without his secretary. She arranges with Ed Sullivan to have Conrad Birdie (the singer) plant his ultimate pre-induction kiss on the rosy lips of a small-town teenager right there on the tube for all the U.S. and Canada to see. The scheme is fine except that the young girl's adolescent boy-friend objects.

The plot, as you can see, couldn't be simpler but the script for all its egg-on-the-face theme, has some very funny lines in it. These are mostly, praises be, put in the mouths of competent performers like Dick Van Dyke, Janet Leigh and Maureen Stapleton. We have never seen the last-mentioned actress handle a comedy part before but we hope she doesn't stop here she is marvelous. Mr. Van Dyke and Miss Leigh are able comedy artists as is Paul Lynde who plays the lucky teen-ager's har-rassed dad.

As far as the youngsters in the film are concerned, they are not called upon for much else but to swoon, and look handsome and healthy all of which they do with great ease. Ann-Margret, the up and coming young star, plays Kim McAfee, the chosen fan for the Birdie kiss. She is much to frenetic for our taste. When she calms down a little she will probably be really something for the musical screen. HOLD-OVERS AND OTHERS At the Capitol Today is a real red-letter day for Jerry Lewis fans.

Not only does the master's latest film, The Nutty Professor, open here but Mr. Lewis, himself will make four appearances on the stage. He will do shows at 2.00, 4,20, 6.55 and 9.15. At Loew's, Hod, a fine, well-written western with Paul Newman as the star. At the Kent, Wrong Arm Of The Law, a vintage Peter Sellers comedy.

At the Avenue, The Girls Take Over, a comedy from Britain. At the Westmount, Miracle' Of The White Stallions, a story about the Second World War and the Spanish Riding Academy in Vienna. At the Seville, Lawrence Of Arabia, a spectacular filming of the First World War desert campaign. At the Imperial, How The West Wa Won, a Cinerama film with a story. At the Alouecte, Cleopatra, The much awaited film turns out to be belong to Caesar after all.

Former Academy Award-winner Joanne Woodward has been signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to star with Stuart Whitman in Lawrence Weingarten's production of the mystery thriller, Signpost To Murder. Simultaneously studio announced that David Miller has been signed to direct. Miss Woodward, who won her Oscar for Three Faces Of Eve, will be working at MGM for the first time in her. career. Her husband, Paul Newman, currently is at the studio starring in The Prize.

Miller reports to MGM to start preparatory work as soon as he completes his current assignment, Captain Newman, M.D. Scheduled for a summer start, Signpost To Murder was adapted for the screen by Robin Estridge from the hit London stage play. DiCK Ai- MaURBeN BOBRT J6SSE ED Frank Villard, Martine Carol, Bernard Blier and Ginette Leclerc ploy a scene from The Counterfeiters Of Paris, the film at the Snowdon NOW SHOWING JO Dorothy Kilgalleris WnStSs VOICE OP BROADWAY Or JOOOQ Marlon take it amiss, but a fellow does have to stick to the script, and that's what he did Comedian Danny Dnscoll, "The word of God is too precious to be degraded by presenting it in a night club." Two years ago Mahalia was offered a fantastic deal at Basin Street but she remained true to her cwwictions and turned it down. Pat Boone, touring the mid so badly injured in that Alabama auto accident, is back in 9th I New York, in St. Luke's Hospi tal.

It will be a year perhaps The Celebrities The Maria Novotny story may challenge Christine Keeler'sj saga before the international call girl scandals become history. One of Maria's closest girl chums was involved with two heads of state one Latin American, the other a Very Big Man on the other side of the Atlantic. The girl who 'could tell all" about them is reported to have committed suicide not west, had a frightening experi more before he can work again. The car he was driving at the time of the crash was the only important possession of his ence in Kalamazoo. The mob of a new look gtj-j that are at sey ea Qfl not strictly teenagers waiting for him out friend Todd Michaud, a strugg oia JJtench! side the theatre where he had appeared was so large and so ling young singer.

Todd has vapiuu Sins 1 9.3S frantic that it took half the town's police force to get him given up his hopes of a career, at least temporarily, and enlisted in the Army. TIMES: 12.3S J.50 5.00 7.1S long ago Robert Goulet out alive. The cops put Pat and ex-wife Louise has an ardent suitor. He's Bud Brees, the disc his publicity man, Glenn Rose, The Joanne Woodward flicker, a squad car, and zoomed him jockey-singer, and friends ex 1 4 twins fi Miss pect them to marry when and 11 he gets a divorce. The Stripper, has been retitled Woman of Summer in England.

That's because over there they don't know about strippers, you understand. Republicans will have a hard time finding anything that can even come close to matching it in folksiness. They did something unusual at a recent screening of the new Ross Hunter movie. The Thrill of It All showed it twice because some of the punch lines were drowned out by laughter the first time around. Lucky, the internationally famous model, suddenly cancelled her wedding to singer Jean Derives.

She decided against it, she told everyone, because her two previous marriages were flops and she's happily busy taking care of her beautiful little granddaughter Jazz singer Joe Williams is titling his reminiscences "There's Nothing Deader Than Yesterday's Blues." New York police are having their usual problems with girls who insist on parading through the Times Square sector in the briefest of brief shorts, now that Summer is here. Some of the current costumes are little more than bikinis but veteran cops say this is nothing compared to what they'll be seeing next year when the World's Fair is in full swing. And it will be a delicate situation, because the Finest hate to embarrass visitors. out of town with the wild fans trying to follow in their own jalopies. Eventually the squad cars outdistanced all the others WseJPJF and made a secret rendezvous (Copyright 1963, Kino Features Synd.) with Pat's chartered bus 20 Mahalia Jackson, billed for many years at "Queen of the Gospel Singers," is carrying on a determined one-woman campaign against performers who sing gospel songs in night clubs, people who encourage them and night club owners who employ them.

She's even angry with the customers who applaud them in the drinking places. Miss Jackson's belief: AT 2.00-4.20 6.55 9.15 4 -x miles from the scene of the melee. Singer Jackie Wilson is due in New York to undergo minor surgery The Apollos, the hot new vocal group opening at The Eighth Wonder, the Village nightclub, features one vocalist who surely merits the blessing of the State Liquor Authority or at least the Bartenders' Benevolent Association. His real name is Hiram Walker. Get ready for all kinds of Midwestern gemutlichkeit next May when Harry Truman celebrates his 80th birthday.

The Democrats are out to make it the biggest political event of the year, next to the presidential elections, and the La Pension Play Concludes Harvey Lembeck does such a devastating take-off on Marlon Brando in Beach Party, he's i JERKJ LEWIS the'nut" himself afraid Marlon will be offended. Please do not reveal the middle of this picture They're old friends, says Lem beck, and he'd hate to have The final edition of La Pension will be seen on Channel 6 on TONIGHT 8.30, Sunday, June 30, at 11.30 p.m. Entitled I'll Take Romance, PICTURES i Action It'a all In thtre lov- Spectacular Suspense! the story revolves around the as "TV ij jj ft IP sfiSL, id i on arrival at La Pension of a girl student from C. with strongly pro-Commonwealth views. There she meets a fiery young French-Canadian who holds strongly separatist views and some lively action ensues.

nnmSrS' PROFESSOffii CJ (A Jerry Lewis Production) ROWTHEWWASWON '8 -TECHNICOLOIT' The regular cast Roland Che- ChlUnn, 10 years, AdmiUed it Mats. nail and Margaret Cunningham Tnu. 2 p.m.; 1 p.m. as the parents; Jean Besre and What does he become? What kind of monster? WITH: Debbie -r Susan their chil Reynolds, John Wayne, Carroll dren; and Paul Hebert as the grandfather are joined this saner, uregory O'eck, Richard Widmark, Car-olyn Janes, etc weekend by Michelle Chicoine and Claude Prefontaine as the two out-of-town students, with 0 Julien Genay making a return MON. JULY 1 MAT.

2 P.M. -DOMINION DAY EVENING 8.30 P.M. appearance in the role of a Parisian student. Production of KbaHOHOoaoSBonoKOWSBolskUMBOH co 0Ta this episode is by Roger Racine. Written by Tony Williamson, IN PERSON TODAY 0NUT! Than.

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1-7104 family residing in Montreal, the series attempted to show the French and English attitudes towards issues which, on a more general level, are the grave problems which face Canada today. The scries was presented by CBMT on an exoerimental 8 tfm. oHica eoen NOW SHOWING to 9 p.m. Man to 00000000000000 Jerry Lewis clowns his way through a scene in The Nutty Professor, the film at the CapiM 4li fcleery Mtl. Inf.

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