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Hank Fonda Gets No Favors EASE SECTION 4 HTTSBURGH SUN-TELEGRAPH APRIL tl, 1T I LAST DAV I mnm ART CINEMA ffin-i -ui I Ail Held 0 vtrl just Over a year ago, author Reginald Rose served on a jury. The day after he was relieved, he began to write 12 Angry Men, which became an outstanding television drama. Now, as a motion picture, it is scheduled to follow the current Funny Face in the Penn Theater. The powerful drama, set behind the scenes in a jury room during a murder trial, stars Henry Fonda, with Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, E.

G. Marshall and Jack Warden. It was directed by Sidney Lumet, one of televisions most highly praised young directors. FONDA IS MAKING HIS BOW as an independent producer after two decades as one of Hollywoods top performers. His producing technique, like his acting, leans toward the restrained and understated.

In fact, he sums it all up in a single sentence: I hired the very best people I could, then stepped aside and turned them loose on the picture. As an actor in 12 Angry Men, Fonda arrogated no special privilege to himself on the basis of his being producer. So far as the director, the production manager and the cameraman were concerned, he was just another one of the performers, subject to the same discipline and orders as the others. 12 ANGRY MEN WAS FILMED ENTIRELY in New York, and was shot in what amounts to a new and revolutionary technique. It contains no dissolves or fadeouts to indicate the lapse of time; no flashbacks to the past.

The entire action of the picture is continuous; screen time is actual time. Thus, the 95 minutes that the film runs is the actual length of time it takes the 12 angry men the jury to reach a verdict. Virtually all of the action of the picture is shot in the confines of a jury room in a New York courthouse. Since all of the 397 scenes in the picture were shot out of chronological sequence, the magnitude of the job was enormous. Yet, when the entire film was put together, it was discovered that only one angle was wrong, and needed to be shot over.

TheX roaring excitement of Americas most exciting, era -and JAMES STEWART asIINDY? TV The Spirit of Stloiiis nntstu i WARNER BROS CincmaScop(iWarnerCoioi WEDNESDAY STANLEY COMPLETE TV LIST-Ings. Every day In the Pittsburgh Sun-Tele. IIENRY FONDA DIAGRAMS AN ERROR IN STATES CASE murder tcene flaw boomerangt in 12 Angry Men coming to Penn Pilol-To-Pilol An Old Comic Beats the Rap By KARL KRUG Only on rare occasions do the Hollywood publicity grist mills become imbued with human interest and flashes of originality. Quantity, not quality, comes rolling out of studio typewriters dedicated to the dubious art of motion picture ballyhoo. Great MW riNAL VJLUll Hank Stohl and Robert Nellis in The Teahouse of the August Moon" Ticket: $1,75 Mo, thm Frl.

Sat. $2.10 TICKETS ALSO ON SALE FOR: "WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION-OPENS MAY 4 "OFF THE TOP MUSICAL REVUE-OPENS MAY 11 "Arthur and the Magic Children-(Sats.) TICKETS AT PLAYHOUSE, HORNE'S and GIMBELS or CALL MA. 1-4445 TICKETS WILL IE HELD UNTIL 1:11 P. M. Lindy' Okay For Jimmy During the filming of The Spirit of St.

Louis, Gen. Charles A. Lindbergh made an unannounced and more or less secret visit to Warner Bros. Lindbergh looked at two hours of unedited film, including the re-enactment of his takeoff for Paris, and came away apparently satisfied that his monumental achievement was being well taken care of by Hollywood. He also wandered onto the set where the picture due in the Stanley on Wednesday, was shooting and where he found James Stewart, who plays Lindbergh, fitted snugly into the cabin of a replica of the Spirit of St.

Louis. ON INVITATION, Lindbergh replaced Stewart in a duplicate of the seat In which he once risked his life. He had a nostalgic smile on his face as he reached out and adjusted a knob on the instrument panel. Gen. Lindbergh approved of the choice of James Stewart to portray him in the movie of his Pulitzer pnze-winning autobiography.

Academy Award winner Stewart not only Is recognized as one of Hollywood's best actors. He also resembles Lindbergh and is a top pilot himself, qualified to fly the latest jet bombers. STEWART however, made no conscious effort to imitate Llndbeigh's personal traits. He said. If my walk, my move-ments and my speech suggest Lindbergh as much as they do Stewart, then I will have accomplished all I sot out to do.

In order to resemble Lind-betgh more closely, Stewart dyed his hair blond and switrhcd his pat fmm right to left. He also studied the 90 000 odd feet of newsiccl film made of Lindbergh during and after his historic flight The latter or-nil-red in 1027 on May 20 21, the first of which is the anniversary of Jimmy Stew-art's birth. -'y PUB KEEPER Marlene Dielrich bosses a Barbary Coast saloon in Around the World in 80 Days, a sharp hit on the Nixon Todd-AO screen. Stylers Top Variety Bill In Terrace By Leonard Mendlowitz The Vogue Terrace gets back to full time status tomorrow with a pleasing variety bill headed by the Stylers, Jubilee recording trio. The three Redheads, a dancing girl trio, and the aero a 1 1 novelty act Itright of Carl and Light Arlene are Itelt nn the same bill.

ll 1 Eve 1 1 ONeills orchestra and organist Ken Wayne debut tomorrow in the Tom Me-Cune Elmer Willett spot. PEIRO BROTHERS from Argentina, specialists in spinning everything from wheels to hats, and Frak-son, sleight of hand expert, join the bill tomorrow In the New Nixon. Continuing with the Springtime Follies are dance stylist Janet Miller and those "comedy in song" favorites, Court and Saunders. BILLIE HOLIDAY, one of the top jazz singers of our times, opens tomorrow in the Copa for her first local visit In a long time. Billies frank biographical novel, "The Lady Sings the Blues," will he filmed by Paramount.

Bobby Bravo, West Indian calypso singer and dancer, and dancing Eloise are also on the Copa bill. The Topnotrhers, Holiday House favorites, return there tomorrow. Trudy Richards, Capitol songstress, and the ace dance duo of Gloria and Jimmy Vincent complete the bill. Pittsburghs Sylvia Karl-ton is home to head the Ankara show, which includes Comedian Frank Fontaine, featured on TVs recent "Sa-tured on TVs recent Salute to Baseball and the baton-twirling team of Ted and Flo Vallclt. THE VARSITY FI from California State Teachprs College is scoring in the Twin Coaches, where the Hal Iverson Trio and the dance team of Drmav and Moore are also spotted, KAYE BALLARD, one of the top comediennes, should jam Dorcs during her current run.

She was recently featured in TVs Cinderella Singer Bill Sullivan Is on the samp bill. The comedy team nf Prullle and Tallow top the new Horizon Room show. A Ilog's Lifu Kv Ilisnev As a follow up (or "Old Ycllor" his current technicolor dim production about a range hied dog, Walt Disney has pur-ihased the theatrical and television rights to "Nomads of the North "The famed novel of the Canadian frontier by James Oliver Ourwnod is a sag, i of a dog that trimnps over hir-Klupand rugged ndvenhnes ranks among the gual nnimil stories nt all lime It his hei an in'irm tieniMv ni ii i nk in- Its puhlK.illnn 111 IdP) if OPEN TODAY! orful career as one of the truly great clowns of the century, and together they produced the picture. The story as they tell it, opens with a performance of The Three Keatons family act, still unchallenged as the roughest knockabout act in vaudeville, at the Fargo (N. Orpheum, shortly after the turn of the century.

SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Buster (Larry White) takes his first fall, an Inadvertent one, when a table collapses under him. The scene shifts to about 1920, when the family act breaks up at the Los Angeles Orpheum, and Buster (Donald OConnor) decides to crash Into pictures. In his first day on a movie set he takes another bad fall when the wire rigging tangles. A decade later, when he has risen to be one of the worlds top three funnymen, the advent of sound deals him a body blow and he quickly falls figuratively, this time from popularity. THE KEATONS were a great troupe and the son known as Buster, with the dead pan, the flat hat and the slappy shoes became an Immortal among Hollywoods silent comedians.

As a contemporary of Chaplin and Harold Lloyd he became rich and famous. Rut, along with John Gilbert and many others, Buster went down the box-office drain and Into oblivion when the screen began to talk. Which makes It nicer to see him come bark, even if, technically speaking, its in an off screen wav. Ruster will be visiting here soon In the interests of his Stanley bound picture IIp should nirtke good Inter view ropy. Especially if sompone remembers to ask him how It feels to fondle a $99 000 check when one Is on his "death bed FREE htc IVL SHOWS n.

POLKA MON. FRANK YANKOVIC Go COMING WEDNESDAY, MAY 1ST GUY LOMBARDO anil HIS ORCHESTRA AND EVERY SUNDAY sum bryant bthe WTH nancy HNAl WILDCATS a. J. oig o.ira Mr- xy U. lH Potrlelft WrtfM bales of worthless claptrap roll across the nations drama dpsks.

Seldom do the harks and flacks vary the formula. Invariably, when the exception to the rule pops out of an envelop, the subject matter is one of Hollywood's older heroes or heroines. Those who have been practically forgotten, or long since disappeared from their days of glory, seem to Inspire the most literate attention. SUCH A RARE amalgamation of timely and human interest studio reporting has suddenly and unexpectedly made its appearance. And since the man who Inspired it is bearing down on our town to add his own personal appearance promotional value to his new-found fame, it rates immediate attention here.

It seems that on a dav in October, 19.95, a man from 1 it 1 1 see another man. a patient in a ward at the United Statps Vpterans Hospital in Saw-telle, Cal. The man in the hospital was sick almost unto death. THE VISITOR from Hollywood said to the hospital patient' "I have here In my hand, Roster, a check for $90 000 for the screen rights to your life story" The man In the bed who had come upon many lean years, peiked up The man from Hollywood, knowing actors, paused for dramatic effort, then continued ate you going to lie thote and die nr ate nil going to gel up and stait spending if" The man in the bed, who hadn had much spending money is quite some time, decided to get up. THIS, I KsS THAN two vears later, raramounfs VlstaVision production, "The Buster Keaton Story, had been put on film, with Don-aid O'Connor in the title rnlp, and with Duster himself just about as hale and hearty as a man can boas technical advisor.

Buster has since bought and moved on to the little chicken farm that has long seemed to tie the heart's do-site of many of the roving show folk Best of all, however, Buster has felt wanted" again. He Is the (list to admit that if the idea of screening his slory (and the check) hadnt come along at exactly the so i ailed ps( Imlogie il moment, he probably wouldnt be still among the living HIE MVN WHO (atried the (heck, and who had had the idea, was a screen wiiter named Robert Smith The man wdio has brought the pielure to the screen as Its director Is another sueen Wider named Sidney Slid don 'I ngether Smith and Sheldon wrote the original irieen plav bised upon high ipso a ssr The Plan Far Dimmer mr Skmm HORIZON ROOM AT THS GREATER FITTSBt R4.H AIRPORT Proudly Protooit THEFOaRSHOlVr.iEN Plat FREDRICK 7At OftctpAio toft Prulll ind Tilow "Dane Styl'it" LARRT FAITH AND HIS ORCHESTRA CATERING TO IOWIINO IANQUETS A SPECIAL PARTIES UtMnatlMii SYM.I-f Mill AMktnf M00t MI S1LVURT AS LINDBERGH the rrnemblnnre is amming Pittsburghs Biggest Stage Event I Hie Thealer Clock DATS OHLY APRIL VPfV 1 Jf A ,1 7 i 1 I A Sophia lairetl impproniites a Greek island beauty a the romantic spark of Bov on a Do I i due next iiiiu fc SLswm (Atartlnf hm nf fpohirt ft vn hrra wfr nnnncfd by thw thenar manaieri) NIXON "Around lh World In ftft Mika 1'0-Mi ovur nmnet I t'-M AO and mor with David Nrv Ahtrlff Marinin arv nfiaa and nvanv otfinr afar snenpd wrah Todav at 2 AO and 7 10 W4MNFR Dn DaMMla FDMteal sprtabli1 in and rnt with (TtaOion Mrtrn Anna Bajtnr Sir Cnlrlc Hardwl and Yv rma da Carln mark Today ai 2 30 aad Nam HI HI. HASH ARUM Dn of F.lar' Ionian hv aho 1 7 1 4 1 1 and ft 30 ftMMIV IMapall rma nf Walt Diana a fwaf animated fratinn In mlnr rmiiTw AacmuJ work PlnrO brln al 2 I 3 Aft, ft '0 7, ft 4 10 10 PI NN Ptinnv pa ra MuaMai manna in VltLiirn and cni ih Frrd Asalr Alldray Hepburn and Tbnmii'n praiar ftryina al 2 1ft, 4 10 A II 10 lit 10 KARRI Mravm Rnowa Air AMI an Drma in rnameftfn a-d ml ny, with kort Mtfrhum and hnrah Karr fh work peal tt rr begin i I 4 1 A ft I ft lo PI TON Incredible ft I I Man mrn a ftnt tr rv drama th Grant an 1 ft At Muarf ftamnd won Pealarw Hailna at 2 1 4 1 AM ft I in 11 IRRM Mil I lull I mtnOn mndv and fctivati ha a on. Ftu begin ai 2 4. 4 7 ft 70, ft I A in Of HD We Oordie onrw fi tn iv in rlr A a sun ah an! a ma ir on it week Fnatfirr begin a 2 4 ft ft 14, ft in in nt, Mllllil tip M.mi the Maul and I di i ir.

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