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The Province from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 27

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THE PROVINCE, Wednesday, August 11, 1971 "27 8 James SPEAKS Series stresses love A little By BOB THOMAS V';" Associated Press bit of nepotism ttmmtnnm mi, nwMa 'J never hurt John Wayne, Avith sons Patrick (left) and Michael HOLLYWOOD Big Jake, starring John Wayne, was produced by Michael Wayne, featuring Patrick Wayne and John Ethan Wayne. This current attraction supports the old Hollywood adage that a little bit of nepotism never hurt anyone. At least it hasn't hurt the Wayne fortunes, says producer Michael. "I'm rather proud of the pictures we've made for Batjac," said young Wayne, referring to the family production company. "We've done better than the outside John Wayne pictures (made by other producers).

"All of the pictures we've produced have made money, and all but one have pome within five per cent of the budget, "Chisum was $200,000 under, and Big Jake was $60,000 over. Only Green Berets went 10 per cent over, "Green Berets cost $7 million, but it already has grossed $16 million for Warner Brothers" but By WILLIAM GLOVER Associated Press NEW YORK With a famous name, you get no stage guarantee which is just the way these youngsters want to work. After a bushel of good reviews, Julie Garfield said: "Now when I go for an audition, people will take me more seriously." The different notices Roc Brynner got just bore out his own wry premonition: "I can't fight thatmy father's fans will come but they won't stay because of him." Making it on their own is a tradition among second-generation hopefuls in name is no guarantee famous show business, and for this season's group of talent 'chips off the old block, the rewards around Broadway were particularly mixed. Most fortunate of the new performers with renowned heritage were 25 year old Miss Garfield, winning kudos for portrayal of a pensive Russian youth in Uncle Vanya, and Tandy Cronyn, 26, daughter of Jessica and Hume Cronyn, stretching her emotional reach through four varied dramas at the Lincoln Centre Repertory. Like most of the other new faces, the two were not making exactly apprentice appearancps, but the attention they received from critics and public was their cheerfully as we are introduced, "but the show, as they say, must go on." We chat about his films, his interest in crime and his contention that comedy and the macabre go well together.

"It has been possible to laugh at a funeral," he says. Every few seconds, an admirer pushes pen and paper through the car window for an autograph. Hitchcock, patient and affable, obliges with a little cari 0 0 0 emerged with modestly flying colors as a moon-faced improviser in Propositions, an impromtu revue imported from a gala triumph in Boston. Dell Brownlee followed in the operatic footsteps of her late father, John, by taking over with melodic verve the emotionally strenuous distaff lead in Man of La Mancba. Second-generation ambition isn't restricted to Broadway.

During the season English family traditions were carried on by such novitiates as Matthew Guinness, Michael Sellers, Noel Harrison and Angela Pleasance. After all, the Fondas and Redgrave have showed greasepaint and bloodlines can mix magnificently. Hitchcock to walk towards the camera, stop and look up at a first-floor window. There is a hiatus as the sky darkens and the camera crew looks to light settings. Someone mentions tea.

"What do you think this is," Hitchcock mutters, "an English film unit?" For his actors, he has raided the London theatre and come away with Barry Foster, Anna Massey, Vivien Merchant, Alec McCowen and Michael Bates. And he has chosen Roman Polanski's Macbeth, Jan Finch. He explains that he has gone for character players rather than stars because this is a fairly realistic film and the audience knows that someone like Cary Grant can never be a murderer. Jon Finch walks along the payment for the umpteenth time and you begin to wonder how a film ever gets made. Eventually the shot is completed.

Hitchcock amuses himself by squatting on a garbage can a must for the amateur photographers. Jon Finch, the handsome young rising star, relaxes with a cigarette and says that Hitchcock is strong visually but not too concerned about the dialogue. "Some of the lines are frankly unbelievable, but he has told us to change anything we like," Finch says, "so all the actors are getting together to work out something reasonable." By lunchtime, a crowd of several hundred has gathered round the unit, and Barry Foster at the upstairs window has to speak his lines directly at them. The next scene is completed and rails have to be laid for the camera to track on. Hitchcock explains that he is shoot-ting a dialogue scene between Barry Foster and Jon Finch in which the camera will be employed subjectively, moving in on the actors.

Sipping tea afterwards, Barry Foster says: "Before I met him, I expected Mr. Hitchcock to be a rather intimidating personality. In fact, he is a very kind man and will do anything to help you. He exudes the feeling that nothing of this is crucial and it can be done again, which has an enormously relaxing effect on the actor." first important recognition of ability without parental cross-reference. Miss Garfield's father, John, died when she was six, but his influence was tangible through the growing years for her and her brother, John David, who at 27 concentrates on film opportunity in California.

"Being his daughter hasn't helped me and hasn't hurt me," says the movi star's daughter. "People are more curious and pay more attention. But if I'm not what they want, it hasn't made any difference." A couple of seasons back, Miss Cronyn Eot a smattering of Broadway as a brief end of run replacement in Cab- cature of himself and a signature underneath. One woman says she merely wants to see him. "You could have done that at Madame Tussauds," he replies, referring to the waxwork exhibition.

Frenzy, his fifty-third film and first in Britain for 21 years, is about a sex murderer. Hitchcock gave the actor who plays him two books on Neville Heath to Wednesday 7 8 12 'It's possible to laugh at a Yet another television series is being made at the busy Channel 8 studios in Burnaby this time it's a children's series, entitled Rainbow Ridge, put together by the Mantrap producers, Dick Clark and Al Hamel. The pilot episode will be made next week in the hopes of selling the series to the CTV network and to individual U.S. stations. Hamel, Clark and producer Bill Lee organized the program concept, but the most experienced man behind the show is Hamel, who wrote and performed in his own children's series on CBC for five years before he moved to the richer U.S.

TV networks. That series was called Razzle Dazzle, appearing in the late afternoon slot and based on the old Fred Allen format, Back Alley, in which the show's host would wander down the alley in search of interesting characters. "It was really a forerunner of Sesame Street," says Hamel. "The American Psychiatric Association called it the healthiest children's series in North America." The new series is also along the same lines as Sesame Street, with at least three important differences. It will be shot on location in a rural setting, it will have an ecological theme, and it will stress the love between the people who appear on the show.

"I discovered by research and by simply watching other kid's shows that the characters in the other shows don't really seem to care about each other," says Hamel. "One thing Rainbow Ridge will have is a great love between the three regular characters." Members of the affectionate trio are: Dale Wilson, a Vancouver singer and guitarist who is also an outdoors-man. Hamel describes him as another Marlboro Man, but with brains. Peter Rolston, long-time host of the local kiddie show Pete's Place who will be the "indoors man" in the series. Singer Sharon Kirk, who will also take character parts.

Hamel says that sbejyill act as intermediary between the indoorsy Rolston and ouldoorsy Wilson. He describes the mythical farm as a place with flowers and trees, a clear stream, every possible plant, plus mountains and even a seashore. The majority of the action will take place in a Surrey farm, but it takes the miracle of film editing to bring all the elements together. Guest stars will appear in more or less the same format as Sesame Street. In the pilot episode, Broderick Crawford remembers his old Highway Patrol TV series and does a comedy routine in which he numerals via the police radio.

Colonel Sanders also appears, counting drumsticks. At first they are the wooden variety, but they soon turn into chicken legs, which the. Colonel uses to beat a drum. Unlike Sesame Street, the half-hour daily program will carry a full ration of commercials. Although the producers would have no control over what individual stations and sponsors do with the show, they are filming pilot commercials to fit the rnood of the half-hour daily show.

Al Hamel However, Wardle gained the impression over a week of Stratford-watching that the acting there is "the product of a sometimes uneasy alliance between Canadian casts and British directors." In spite of this, the critic has nothing but praise for actress Pat Galloway in the Peter Gill production of Macbeth. "I have never seen a better Lady Macbeth than Pat Galloway, whose power derives, as it should, from high-pressure sexual blackmail," writes Wardle. But he criticizes Gill's decision to import British actor Ian Hogg "over the heads of the Canadians." This yielded, said Wardle, "a puny Macbeth who proved all too amenable to belittling the thane into a suburban social climber." OTD (Migftfero (right). "aret, but this season she has been tested and found highly promising in a variety of plays from The Good Woman of Setzuan through The Playboy of the Western World and An Enemy of the People. A fourthcoming stint is the portrayal of Ismene in the Greek tragedy of Antigone.

Michael Douglas, 27, son of Kirk, took time between some promising movie roles for portrayal of a brainwashed soldier in George Tabori's anti-war polemic, Binkville- One leading critic hailed his "wonderfully telling performance." Master comic Zero Moslel's 22 year old son, Josh, just out of college, says study. But he insists that the film must have plenty of comedy. The director is helped out of the car and walks slowly over to the unit. He will spend most of the day sitting in a chair, partly because of his back but mainly because he does not need to dash around yelling instructions through a megaphone. Otto Klemperer has said that he can conduct an orchestra with his eyes.

Hitchcock directs a film simply by being there. He calls the crew by their Christian names but they address him as "Sir" or "Guvnor," showing proper respect for a giant of the industry. "He is bigger than any star I have met," says the director of photography, Gil Taylor, who last worked on a Hitchcock film nearly 40 years ago. He found Hitchcock an economical director, knowing exactly what he wanted and often printing the first take. The morning's first shot, superficially simple, does need several rehearsals and several takes.

Extras pretending to be porters, fruit salesmen and various passersby (including a couple of nuns) have to be coached in a sort of elaborate ballet, and, while they are milling around, one of the principal actors has Coward sees self portrayed in ballet Reuter LONDON Sir Noel Coward, 71-year-old doyen of the English theatre, saw his first ballet performed by the Royal Ballet Company recently, with himself portrayed in one of the leading roles. The Grand (Tour, a nostalgic recreation of the 1920s, was based on Coward's popular tunes arranged by Hershe Kaye, and choreographed by Joe Layton. The one-act ballet, set on the first-class deck of a cruise liner, had for its case the young Noel Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas and Theda Bara. This light-hearted yet slightly cynical work, which had its London premiere at Sadler's Wells, delighted a capacity audience, including Princess Margaret.

McCartney faces $1.5 million suit Associated Press NEW YORK Two music publishing companies are suing Paul McCartney, his wife Linda and others for $1,050,000, charging that the defendants violated an exclusive rights agreement for the song, Another Day. The Northern Songs Ltd. of Great Britain and MacLean Music Inc. of New York City lodged the suit for $50,000 in actual and $1 million in punitive damages. The companies said the agreement was violated when Linda collaborated with her husband on Another Day.

tedl 4 5 6 By PETER WAYMARK Dispatch of The Times, London LONDON In a corner of Covent Garden Market, thick with traffic and bustle at 8:30 a.m., the film unit is lining up the first shot of the day. Across the street, the director sits in a Rolls-Royce, resting his back, which he injured in a fall a few days before. "I am hors de combat," Alfred Hitchcock says Today's viewing highlights A rerun of Somerset Maugham Theatre is seen at 8 p.m. in Channels 2 and 6, with Dorothy Tutin and Lee Montague in Flotsam and Jetsam, set on a tropical plantation. Same channels at 9 p.m., more, highlights of the Pan-Am games, followed at 9:30 p.m.

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