The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 66

De Rochemont Thinks Enjoyment Is Requisite for Job 1 Polynesian Choir Sings In New Film i Famed Movie Maker Pities TV Producers Who Lack Fun in Work By MARJORY ADAMS "I pity TV producers and I am sorry about their ulcers and their psychoanalysts," said Chelsea-born Louis de Rochemont, grizzled, heavy- I' -1 I A Polynesian choir of 400 voices sings Handel's "Mes if I I t. "-sTi HI -J jr I I 'I I 1 I 1 i. I 'SP "ud siah" in a sequence filmed i in the Friendly Islands for "Cinerama-South Seas Ad I 'I 'I 1 venture" opening Apr. 16 at the Boston Theater. Making a fast transition shouldered, forthright producer who has been making successful films ever since he originated the March of Time series, De Rochemont was sitting in his' modern, expensive and huge-windowed office on Madison av.

evolving last minute plans for his trip to Germany to produce ''Ten Years a Counter Spy," which is the story of Boris Morros. His son, "Little Louis" as he is called in the de Rochemont 4 I from the hula-dancers of French Tahiti to the psalm- LANA TURNER is estranged from her child, Terry Burnham, whom she has left in the care of a nurse, Juanita Moore, in "Imitation of Life" at Loew'i State Theater. singers of English Tonga was a movie crew of 18 aboard the sailing schooner Te Vega. Fragrant Broadway Blonde The film-makers found the run mm nffn nifimnn iWmtuM itiilfn offices, who speaks German, was leaving that night for West Berlin to make arrangements for the selections of actual Berliners who will give authentic color to the picture. "A TV producer works ttj "Now Borgnine gets guar-hard labor for seven days to antee of 10 weeks at $10,000 a Island of Tonga, and its capital city of Nuku'alofa, reminiscent THREE WESTERN HEROES, Ricky Nelson, John Wayne and Dean Martin, watch for trouble from the front porch of the town jail in "Rio Bravo" which opens Wednesday at the Keith Memorial Theater.

produce one show. Then it's have distributed other of Victorian England. Queen Salote, the monarch of the smallest kingdom in the world, rules with a firm hand by Christian principles. Her Tongan subjects are devout worshippers in a Wes-leyan church. Australian mis did not which he himself week, Mr.

de Rochemont said with a shrug. "He's the best man for the role." De Rochemont hasn't given up his plans for making the Henry Morton Robinson novel, "The Cardinal." But he is not sure he will photograph it in Maiden as he originally planned. make, including the prize winning "Albert Schweitzer." His Festival Tropicana, a program of Afro-Caribbean dance He grinned back. "That's a questionl But I can promise you it won't be the usual kind of break. "How does it happen you are presenting "Embezzled Heaven' at the Kenmor thea and music with Massie Patter over," commented de Roch-mont.

"Yes, he has made a lot of money and it comes in handy when he pays his doctor specialists and his high-priced psychoanalysts. But he doesn't have any fun at his job. "As for me, I'd rather take In less money and enjoy myself. No matter what profits I get from 'Windjammer', they wrill nnt Yvifian He miwh in mi own recent films include "Ani Will Make Movie History In First Smeller Flick By JAMES BACON HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 28 (AP) Beverly Bentley, a blonde eyeful from Atlanta via Broadway, is about to make movie history in the tradition of Broncho Billy Anderson and Al Jolson.

Beverly is the first star of the smellies just as Anderson was the first star of the movies, silent ver- sion, and Jolson was the first star of the talkies. Some will argue that movies have smelled' for years but Beverly will star in the first one that ever smelled on purpose. That's what makes her historic. son and her company, will be mal Farm," a full length car presented Friday evening st toon, "Cinerama Holiday" and John Hancock HalL "Cinemiracle Adventure." ter when you didnt make the sionaries brought Christianity to the Friendly Islands generations ago. In their struggle for Polynesian souls, they set film yourself? I continued.

"I'm afraid that Maiden, is getting too modern- "In the first place I think it is a great film and decidedly about to translate the Chrys-tian to the Tongan tongue. as the pleasure I received looU- ll making the film. That was for tne period of the story, he fun rather than work." worried. might start work unusual and off-beat as far as productions go today," he said in less than two years on the film and I'd like to make it in Mob Choirs With only 12 characters in seriously. "There are certain productions which should be Todd-AO, but I can't give you the language, a word like role.

How does she like mak- snown 10 me umiea dui because they are different the actual dates as yet." ing movie history? He wants to do a prison story "hymn" came to be spelled as "him." The Bible was rendered in this manner. The common Iiorgnine Stars It was obvious that "Big Louis" was getting the utmost happiness out of going to Germany for "Ten Years a Counter Spy." Things are really happening there and we will be in the middle of them," said the producer. "It wil be like the old major distributing companies art not interested. and is working on a script of A a story by James Bennett, di I learned that nobody She came to Hollywood for a few days to be fitted by designer Helen Rose and is now enroute to Malaga, Spain, to star in "Scent of Mystery," the first move in Smell-O-Vision, the new process of Michael Todd Jr. In the script, Beverly, a rector of the Federal Bureau wanted to distribute the March of Time series at first, unen system of musical notation was simplified, as well.

Missionary teachers substituted Arabic numbers for notes. Punctua I know I'm In for a lot of kidding," she says, "but it's a good script and done with" tongue in cheek. I was a little dubious myself untii Michael demonstrated the process." That's what sold me. You can't imagine how much smell1 of Prisons. 'Embezzled Heaven tion symbols took the place of they became popular and RKO Radio purchased the rights to market them.

When I made "Lost Boundaries' it was con March of Time pictures right on the spot where there was most doing in the world." His "Did you know that many lnrsfinn iiu9rna flQt mH shapely beaut with more of the prisoners in Federal penitentiaries are juveniles?" high- way, is chased through Europe he asked. "It's due to the Dwyer Hymns are taught on sidered 'too hot to" handle' by the distributors. "Only Film Classics would touch it. By the time 'Martin Luther' came slanl an Englishman who has adds to a picture especially if it's fragrant." Todd, who inherited some of his father's humor, said he was advised to call the new proc Act which makes it a Federal eyes sparkled, I Ernest Borgnine will play the lead-Alexander Scourby, the English actor, Coleen Dew-hurst and Kerwin Mathews are In the cast, Borgnine made his blackboards to the three church! seen her only irom the rear but has smelled the perfume, choirs of 70, 120 and 650 voices. Tongans refer to them as along there was nothing to do but organize to distribute pic a new scent, as well as 35 ess bcent-o-vision or something more glamorous than other odors.

The fragrances tures myseii. That was in "mob" choirs, which might be a more apt description than the usual phrase, "mass choir." 1953 and we are still showing THE BOGUS BEAUTY basking in her bubbles it Tony Curtis the blonde listening to his troubles is Marilyn Monroe, in "Soma Like It Hot" now at Loew'a Orpheum Theater. are piped individually through the theater seats and are syn offense to taken stolen automobiles over state lines. And since automobiles are desired so much by kids who have always yearned for a car from their childhood the number of such crimes is tremendous." "Can you make such a picture without the customary jail break?" I asked de this one." Four selections were recorded chronized with action on the De Rochemont Associates first film appearance for de Rochemont. It was ''The Whistle at Eaton Falls," photographed for the most part in New Hampshire, and Ernie received $250 a week for his stint.

The picture was produced in 1951. screen. "I know It sound's crazy," Michael explains, "but it's new, "Smell-O-Vision." "No matter what I called it," answers Todd, "the public and. the press would have changed, it to smell. So I just beat them to the punch.

It's it's fun but it's also more so than the talkies were when they first opened. "Don't forget, they laughed at Edison and the Warner Shaw SATS. 12-2JO-ia5-10 for "Cinerama-South Seas Adventure" Handel's "Messiah," Haydn's "The Heavens Are Tolling," an original composition by a member of the Tongan royalty, "There's A Happy Land Far, Far Away," as well different and above all entertainment and that's what the public demands these days." Honour olfMoy Sq. yolf Ll THRlLt-ra-THE 1RS Df OUR 50th HAWAII WHEN YOU SEE "CINERAMA SSUTH SEA TODAY: Order Ycjr Tickets I Beverly, with a list of TINKER BELL as the old favorite, "Onward Broadway credits, was chosen Christian Soldiers." over 300 girls for the historic too." to tha tropic sphshed excitement cf i tha SOUTH 1 LAST WEEKS' SUNDAYS 3 SHOWS tV 5:00 V-jr 'J THINIW TECHNICOlOk till IIIIIIT H00UG1itll.fcOvMhLtaiBl min(HntainklHlMHI mt liMMfctti Htm im HOW I torn'. ti PREMIERE THURS.

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