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Boston Evening Globs Tuesday, September 23, 1969 THE ARTS 26 Verna Bloom: 'Medium Cool' heroine A 1 Ut i role in "Studs" Turkel's "Amazing Grace" that she was a little ashamed. "And while they tell. you that there are no such things as small parts in the theater, it's a lie," Verna said firmly. But it was Terkel who told Haskell Wexler about her. More irony: the New England Verna, brought up to speak the English language precisely, seemed so real to a well-known theatrical New Yorker that he asked Wexler, "Where did you find the Appalachian girl who could act so well?" "I spent two weeks studying that accent" said Verna, who lived most of day with' Appalachians who had come to Chicago.

I had a tape recorder and practiced the accent every night There is another irony not connected with Verna. Harold Blankenship the young boy now 14 might go on to become a screen or stage star but he's real Appalachian he can't read or write and spends his spare time playing cards and drinking. Yet Verna loves him didn't he say when some one made a slighting remark about her, "You shouldn't talk that way. I 'think Vernie is plum By MARJORY ADAMS Glob Stiff "They want you to try out for a movie, and they are coming to New York to see you," said her agent' on the phone. Lynn-born Verna Bloom replied sceptically, "You must be joking." The actress with the eager brown eyes and the intelligent face which has its own special beauty went off to meet a man named Haskell Wexler.

"I was delighted to find it wasn't a cattle call," said Verna, and she explained the term the girls in the theatrical profession use when they are obliged to show up, dozens at a time, to try out for one or more parts. "Two minutes after Haskell and I started talking, I knew the role was mine," said Miss Bloom in a recent Boston interview. "We hit it off at once." Miss Bloom plays the role of the Appalachian 'EASY RIDER' WILL KNOCK YOU OUT OF YOUR SEAT!" tasu RidSR I Shown At 2,4.6,8.10 -A iWilTFMUDC 'Ki'stf iIpc! IQScineiu SUBURBAN Audible audience To the Editor: I am tired of reading letters to your page declaring that nudity is so terrible, immoral and disgusting: Of course all your correspondents are well over 30 maybe 40 or more. Otherwise they would understand this kind of film is in today's "scene." They are on their way to the old folks' home: Where do they get the idea that boys and girls make love wearing all their clothes? Why do they object to life as it is? Too many film makers cop out and put their Romeos in pajamas: I understand that some elderly people complained that in the film "Romeo and Juliet" when Romeo spent the night with Juliet the Italian lover didn't bring along his dressing gown. How idiotic can they get? Most of the kids I have met and talked with regarding movies say "Show it like it is." And no matter what their grandparents say, sex and nudity are here to stay.

You'll see more of it instead of less. They have been trying to eliminate violence from the screen, and how far have they got? Well, they'll not get even that far in trying to dress up teenage lovers, in bed or out of it." MELISANDE Cambridge NOTE: You have one view; the older peeople accustomed to A more conventional morality, have another. And neither you nor I can predict how long nudity will be popular (as it is now) in the entertainment world. Realism can go far beyond good taste; romantic illusion can sometimes be namby pamby. Just stick to your own beliefs and go to those films that.

appear honest to M.L.A. BOSTON VISITOR Red" Skelton, with w'rf Georgia, arrived last night to become a 33d degree Mason in Scottish Rite ceremonies during a Masonic convention at John Hancock Hall. heroine in "Medium Cool," Wexler's new picture about news cameramen, the Chicago riots, and love nurtured in the midst of urban violence. It's her first big part. Probably only a few people going into the Beacon Hill Theater ever heard of her when they bought their tickets.

They'll all remember her when they walk away. "Life has been ironic," said Miss Bloom, musingly. She could go far back, in Lynn, to the time she made' her dancing debut. Her mother made her blue tutu which was so lovely Verna almost burst into tears with pride. But there were bitter tears afterward Verna wasn't as good as the others, she made mis-steps, and people laughed at her.

That was the end of Verna's ambition to be a second Margot Fonteyne. Then there were the early experiences at the School of Fine and Applied Arts at Boston University. "Naturally we all had to be members of the crew, and act as property men and electricians it was part of our training." She though her career was ruined forever when her job was to carry a very expensive lamp lent to the school by a smart Newbury street shop. "I dropped it, it broke and I ran," said Verna. She THEATERS Katharine hepburn CINEMAS; 1:30, I Starts TOM'W at 5 THEATRES! POPtJUfl PRICES! A Q.

Are two of Roger Vadim's wives appearing in the same picture? Boston E.O.Y. A. Yes but with different heroes. Brigette Bardot stars in "Spirits of the Dead," an Italian made film, with Alain Delon. In another incident in the cinema trilogy, Jane Fonda appears with her brother, Peter Fonda.

Q. What has happened to that likable and rotund film and TV comic, Billy Gilbert? Beverly C.H. A. Billy lives in North Hollywood, made his last film, "Three Weeks in a Balloon" five years ago, and has been slightly ill in recent years. His wife is the former actress, Ella McKenzie.

WINNER! OAUAUtMY AWAKUO hciuowg BEST ACTRESS w- P6T6ROTOOL6 KATHARIN6 H6PBURN 4:15.7:00,9:30 LION cially. Later he said, "To me you were just a good looking broad who added a decorative note when you appeared in a bathing suit at my swimming pool Sunday parties." "Everybody had read for the part, many had been called back three or four times. I was allowed rather grudgingly to try out, but was given no hope," Verna remembered. She read once; the others were dismissed, and Verna made her first appearance of importance on Broadway as Charlotte Corday in "Marat Sade." Another irony slowly, painstakingly, and with many mistakes, Verna and her husband, Richard Collier (they are now separated) smarted the Trident Theater in Denver, Colo. At first, the public was disinterested they wanted either professional actors from New York, or amateurs who didn't get paid.

Many times, Verna was glad she had learned about back-stage activities like lights and properties when she studied in Boston. At last the repertory theater (1963-1965) caught on, but the young couple who ran it broke up. Verna left for New York and many vicissitudes professionally and financially. To tide her over, she took such a "teeny weeny" SUBURBAN BELMONT STUDIO CINEMA 484-1706 A. Cond.

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HUNTING" LEXINGTON LEXINGTON John Wayne (G) 6:45 9 "TRUE GRIT" MALDEN -DADDY GONE A HUNTING" I MV 1 MT. trlS-f I -WHERE ITS AT" 1 iwtmM'N mt. a tame i-asv-r i -CASTLE KEEP' ML! i-m mt a low t-sva -l -CORRUPTION- I. nTTei mt a i-M-a ae MARSHFIELD 1 CHARLY" 7:00 and 8:00 Aim III, MM i i A VERNA BLOOM first film doesn't know now the fate of the lamp, but she does know that her stage work went on to more ironic twists. There was the time she needed a job any job to keep on living in New York.

She accepted fill-in employment at a New York theater where she addressed subscription envelopes. The theater was playing the Royal Shakespeare Co. and many a time she sneaked out of her office to admire the work of Glcnda Jackson and Patrick McGee in "Marat-Sade." She learned the play by heart. Then came a time when actors and actresses were invited to appear in a Broadway revival of "Marat-Sade." Many were called for the first auditions. Miss Bloom was not.

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The camera zooms in to explore issues that are tearing America apart law and order, police brutality, the revolt of the young, black militancy, white poverty. Haskell exler, Academy Award-winning photographer, ha; written and directed this striking new film, as well as photographing it, in semi-cinema verite style. Wexler takes a non-committed TV news photographer and through him explores some of the country's harsh problems. The high point comes when Wexler brings his camera into the midst of the riots in the streets of Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The street fighting brings the picture to a climax.

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