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Son Antonio Sunday, Aug. 1964 TO OPEN AT MAJESTIC Lemmon, Romy Schneider star in "Good Neighbor beginning Thursday. SAN ANTONIO MOVIES TO Paul Newman, Piper Laurie in "The Hustler," opening Thursday. Two Comedies, Horror Show Are Opening Here This Week Two comedies and one horror show are scheduled for San Antonio openings during the coming week, joining a host of extended run pictures at other theaters. Good Neighbor Sam, starring Lemmon and Romy Schneider, opens Thursday at TO OPEN AT "Hercules in the Haunted World," starring Reg Park and Christopher Lee, starts Thursday.

Trini Lopez" Dad Goes to His Janitor Job in White Cadillac Bv TOM JOHNSON DALLAS Trini Lopez entrances audiences in America and Europe and the money rolls in, his father sticks with his job as a janitor although there is no need to. His mother shells beans in the kitchen. Trinidad Ixipez Sr. have to work. Nor does Mrs.

Lopez have to shell beans, much less grow them in their lush backyard garden. Trini (Trinidad Jr.) has hit the big time as a singer and guitarist. He is seen in New York with Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis sometimes Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. One of his recordings, "If I Had a has sold over one million discs in America and even more in Europe. He has best selling albums on the counters.

To Make Movies Movies an' planned for hint with top stars in the cast. He already is becoming a television personality. Affectionately referred to as a "good by his father and Christian who will one day settle by his mother, 27-year-old Trini hasn't forgotten his parents. He bought them a new' house in a neighborhood of $30.000 homes. He bought his father a white Cadillac which he drives each afternoon to his job as janitor at Southern Methodist University.

Before Trini made it big a couple of years ago, the family lived in a three-room house in the Little Mexico section of Dallas. Mr. and Mrs. Lopez now' live in relative opulence but they still conduct their day-to-day affairs according to the austerity that marked their earlier lives. People of Land They are deeply religious and they are people of 1 land.

60-year-old father has worked hard all his life. Asked why he quit the janitor job now that he need it, the elder Lopez said simply: five years I reach retirement The elder Lopez was born on a farm in Mexico. He brought his family to a farm near Ennis, 35 miles south of Dallas, in 1927. From Ennis he came to Dallas, where he was a janitor in a downtown hotel and tended lawns in exclusive Highland Park, a suburb. He still longs for farm work and the satisfaction of what he calls "the joy of growing Garden in Back When they moved into their new home after Trini became a $400,000 or more a year entertainer, one of the first things Trinidad did was plant the back lawn with vegetables.

The front lawn is carefully landscaped in the conventional manner that he once fashioned and maintained for the Highland Park homes. The back lawn Is equally beautiful in a different sort of way with its corn, squash, beans and tomatoes. Mrs. Lopez spends her nays cooking with the garden vegetables, minding some of her 13 grandchildren and talking at the kitchen table with her children. She says of Trini: life is so fast.

But he is a Christian boy w'ho will one day settle down. think I would rather see him mowing the Mrs. Lopez often kneels at the small altar in the hallway. The father does not seem concerned about his sudden success. works hard, but I tell him, this is not hard work, what you A Diversion Trinidad Sr.

said that to keep Trini off the street when he was a youngster he taught him to play the elder Lopez guitar. The result is show business history. The four Lopez daughters are married. Trini and a younger brother, Jesse, 20, are the only single children in the family. Neither Jesse nor Trini smokes or drinks and both are church goers.

Jesse sings and plays the saxophone. A sophomore at North Texas State University at nearby Denton, Jesse has hopes for a singing career of his own. He recently cut his first record. Will he gain the international success of his older brother? OUT FOR THE EVENING? have to wait and he replied. "If I do, going to buy my parents a the Majestic Theater and promises audiences never a dull moment.

It replaces The Night of the Iguana, Lemmon is a bored member of an advertising agency who suddenly gets promoted because his exemplary family life impressed a big account (Edward G. Robinson). However, his neighbor (Romy Schneider) is in the process of getting a divorce and will Jose a $15 million inheritance from her uncle if she show she is happily married. Lemmon comes to the rescue and poses as her husband, much to the dismay of his own wife (Dorothy Provine). The wild situations which develop out of the mixup continue at a breakneck pace and often show no signs of clearing up.

Some of the scenes are in questionable taste, but overall the motion picture is delightful and carries off some amusing spoofs on the advertising agency. Also in the production are Michael Connors, Louis Nye and Robert Q. Lewis. Opening Thursday at the Aztec is a different type comedy show, Ensign Pulver, another takeoff on the U.S. Navy.

Burl Ives, Robert Walker, Walter Matthau, singer Tommy Sands and Millie Perkins have the main roles in film. Scene is a U.S. Navy cargo ship in the South Pacific in 1945, captained by an overbearing Burl Ives, who is despised by the crew. The comical scenes arrive when he falls off the cargo ship and Pulver (Robert Walker) dives in with a life raft and saves him. On the raft, drifting in the sea, the captain becomes delirious and begins to reveal secrets, which Pulver rapidly jots down on paper and eventually uses for blackmail.

A very good production, "Ensign is in color by Panavision, and has an excellent young cast. Ives is superb in his role as the captain, while young Walker gives a memorable performance as the fun-loving Pulver. A "A "A Hercules in the Haunted World will begin at the Texas Theater Thursday, offering viewers some blood curdling scenes in the true horror picture style. Starring in the new release will be Reg Park and Christopher Lee. The show offers little out of the ordinary for viewers but should excite quite a few youngsters who will jam in to see it.

AAA The Josephine will offer local movie fans the revival of a hit movie a few years back. The Hustler, starring Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason and Piper Laurie, along with George C. Scott. The story, of course, centers around Newman, a pool hustler and one of the best. Gleason is the memorable Minnesota Fats, another topnotch pool player who throws money around in a big way when he plays.

Piper Laurie TO OPEN AT AZTEC Matthau, Robert Walker star in Ensign Pulver," making its debut here Thursday. Fabian Chucked His Singing Career To Follow a Dream AT Burton stars in "The Night of the is the girl in the romantic scenes. Three motion pictures which have proved to be big hits locally will continue showing for the fourth week. They are Flipper's New Adventure at the Laurel; Walt The Moon-Spinners at the Olmos; and Stanley gigantic comedy, a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World at the Broadway Becket, with Richard Burton and Peter goes into its sixth week at the Woodlawn. Showing at the drive-ins will be How the West Was Won with an all-star cast at the Bandera Panic Button with Jayne Mansfield at the Trail Cleopatra with Burton and Taylor at the San Pedro Fun in Acapulco and Girls, Girls, Girls, both starring Elvis Presley, at the Varsity Island of the Blue Dolphins and To Kill a Mockingbird at the Kelly Viva Las Vegas and Wild in the Country, both with Elvis Presley at the Alamo and Mission Twin (south screen) From Russia with Love with Sean Connery', and Great Escape at the Rigsby, and on the north screen of the Mission Twin, For Those Who Think Voung and Rome Adventure will be showing.

Hopper By HEDDA HOPPER HOLLYWOOD Many of youngsters have had either too much or too little. Fabian knows what like to have both. He began working when he was 11 as a assistant, clean i a e- ments. After one year, the g. roaches be- a too much for him.

and he left to work for a pharmacist. At 14 he went into show business. Fabian worked At 6 he became a national idol with a six figure income. Three years ago when Fabian stopped making he was quoted as saying that he sing and was leaving show business. Since be is still around, 1 was curious to know what he had meant by that.

was misconstrued, Fabian explained. "My first manager thought it would be great for me to say that though 1 sing, could make money. It was nothing more than a publicity gimmick, and that was one of the reasons I decided not to keep him as my manager. I quit recording at 18 and haven made any records since. 1 want to study in the acting end of the Wanted Satisfaction "You just stopped cold and gave up all that He smiled at my astonishment.

no millionaire, but a lot of things mean more than he said. "Personal satisfaction is one of them. If I have any astuteness about handling my career, 1 feel I have my parents to thank for Fabian is as close to bis family now as he has ever happy to say able to support my mom and dad and two brothers. Dad has a heart condition and has to take it easy. My brother, Robert, is 18 and will enter college in the fall.

hoping go to Penn State, but, of course, his decision. do anything to see they both get a college education. sending my. 15-year-old brother a .22 pistol. a crack shot and has gone to school to learn safety in handling Breaking a recording contract is not an easy or inexpensive enterprise.

1 was curious to know what it had cost Fabian to get out of his singing contract. Cost Him $65,000 "I paid $65,000, and I consider that a small amount. You have to put forth a lot of effort to get such a -contract. have a personal manager, anymore. I have a press agent, a business manager, an accountant, and a lawyer.

You need all of When Fabian Forte made up his mind to get away from what he calls "cotton candy he played a homicidal maniac on TV and a cry went up from fans, critics, and friends. It was a drastic change in type, and even the critics who praised his work, deplored the fact that done it. Later he was offered several parts along the same line but refused them. He is satisfied, though, that the TV appearance drew attention to his ability and got him a role in "The Longest His part in that movie placed him in the ranks of serious actors. Beginning Ninth Picture At 21, he's about to begin his ninth motion picture, "Erasmus with RECORDS Respighi Trilogy Of Rome Lives On Reddell GUNTER HOTEL GERMAN FOOD-DRAFT BEER A REAL GEMUETLICHKEIT ANYTIME Open daily 'til midnight (except bunday).

Saturdays 'til 1 A.M. DOWNSTAIRS IN THE GUNTER HOTEL KTSA presents Dick Clark's Caravan of Record Stars Paul Gene Cry ito Clifford Major Rip Round Robin Brian Hyland Bobby Freorwin McCannon, M.C, Jimmy Ford and Orch. Extra Added Attraction: Donna loren (the Dr. Pepper girl) Municipal Friday, Aug. 7, 8:30 p.m.

Balcony (not $2.00 Lower Floor $2.50 and $3.00 an Mun. Aud. and Record CA 7-7491 Bv BILL REDDELL Sooner or later, serious music collectors will decide that Ottorino beautifully done trilogy about Rome belongs in the library. Respighi is a modern (h died in 1936) whose descriptive music has long since earned i a place among the best of the post-Wagner era. This trilogy was probably the most important work in putting him in the class of Richard Strauss, Rimsky Korsakov and Ravel, for example.

There are other recordings of the trilogy (THE PINES, THE FOUNTAINS, THE FESTIVALS of Rome) but the Philadelphia Orchestra and Ormandy (Columbia Masterworks) first put them on a single LP disc. The work is a remarkable musical tapestry that includes the pastoral quiet, the many moods of Rome, night sounds among the pines. Music that is made to live with without demanding too much from the listener: YOU AND THE NIGHT AND THE MUSIC (RCA Victor) by the Melachrino Strings and Orchestra. This is mood music done in the full-voiced style of a great string orchestra. restful and full of melody: "One Night of "Dancing in the "Clair de "Violins in the "Goodnight My etc.

Romantic music from faraway places: POLYNESIAN SUNSET (Dot Records) by the Bonaires (not a real Polynesian in the quartet). Their South Sea sounds are great but we lost them on "Mai Tai Bossa and "Holo Waapa Bossa Their best tunes are "Nani Wale Na "Beyond the "Lure of the and Billy Vaughn does a good business with a big-b and of diit tunes. Thus his new recording, ANOTHER HIT ALBUM (Dot), can be expected to find its way into many collections. The hits in- elude "Sixteen "Tears and "Pm "Peace in the a Closer Walk With etc. MEET GINNY ARNELL (M-G-M) introduces a young singer who has attracted a big following among youngsters.

She younger than her 22 years but her appeal is apparent in her wide- eyed style of young love. Best songs of the dozen on the disc are "I Wish I Knew What Dress To Many Times Can One Heart Pulled a Fast (Excerpts from these recordings may be heard on Radio KITE Monday through Friday at 7 p.m.) Seven Musicals Put on Records NEW YORK (AP) Seven of past musical hits are being revived on recordings this The group includes Boys From "Babes in "On Your "Oh, and "Girl FABIAN just finished dubbing his first film, "Ride the Wild Surf 1 Fabian said, "is a film with Jimmy Stewart. I play the boy friend of daughter, working my way through college. Erasmus is an 8-year-old with an IBM mind, a genius. I use him to handicap horses so I can make some fast money because my girl wants to marry a millionaire.

When caught and thrown out of school. 1 have a hard time getting After finishing Fabian takes off on a tour of ,36 cities in the United States and Canada. He will emcee Dick Caravan of Stars and agreed to do the tour in order to promote the Wild important how it does at the box Fabian said. is the story of surfers and why they go in for dangerous sport. Some do it for personal achievement, some are glory hounds, some are after escape, and others want to make money.

A surfer can be a big man with the girls. A lot of them are high school and college students: others are just beach Fabian had never surfed when he took the part. Ee spent three weeks taking and two months in the water shooting the picture on location in Honolulu. The crew filming the picture ran into a lot of trouble. Hard to Shoot "It was extremely hard to he said.

"Boats ride along with the big weaves when they break, and how do you hit your mark in water? Everyone in the ca.st had coral cuts; live coral is infectious wiien embedded in the flesh. I was cut on the hand and foot. The scar on my foot will be with me for life. One fellow was killed when he was thrown off his board. He went down and smashed his head on a coral reef.

Waves only break in shallow water, unless a typhoon. Waves in California compare to those in Hawaii. Some go as high as 50 feet. Local people surf in one bay over there. Only the visitors are that At 21 Fabian looks back on his teen years and wonders how he ever survived the mobs.

He remembers a time when he was very young and his family was living in Philadelphia: "My father told me about Frank Sinatra. Dad was a Philadelphia policeman at the time, and he was assigned to work as bodyguard while he was appearing there. He would come home at night and tell me about the mass hysteria singing had caused. He was amazed when much the same thing happened to.