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tyw i i) HI: m. A Little Girls Day As A Ham 1 work DAVE HOLLAND. Editor 24 May 22, 1962 Valley Times TODAY Most actresses refuse even the remotest association with the word ham but not the Alabama girl playing Gregory Peck's daughter in Universals "To Kill A Mockingbird. Mary Badham is used to it. The Badham girl from Birmingham expected to play a ham in the grammar school play they were filming.

With her name, what else? Oscar May Be Won On Phone Shelley Winters, who al-iemy Award for The Great ready has one Oscar, mayjZiegfeld, a comparison be a candidate for another which may not see her com-when Warner Bros. The'ing off second best. Report is re- Chapman leased. Shelley, of course, already has an Oscar for The Diary As Sarah Garnell, the un- of Anne Frank, a role faithful wife who sins with a which forced her to put on handsome but hammy little- 25 pounds so that she might theatre director, Shelley has play the matronly mother in a role charged with a mil- that film. If Shelley gets one for The Chapman Report as her own slim self, it would probably please her even more, women being women first and actresses second.

ROBERT Q. LEWIS AT PASADENA PLAYHOUSE For review of comedy, see below. EDGAR BUCHANAN EXCELS Pasadena Flowers Should Be Pruned lion volts of drama PROBABLY the high spot of her Chapman Report role, and possibly of her entire dramatic career, is a telephone conversation during which the love-plagued Sarah learns her paramour is about to whirl off to Mexico by himself. The cameras implacable eye is pointed at Shelley for a full five minutes, during which she alternately laughs, cries, pleads and condemns in a range of histronics so capably handled it will probably emerge as one of the years most memorable scenes. MAKING it even more outstanding is the fact that it is played against the festive background of a gay party, from which Shelley slips away to place her pitiful phone call.

As it turns out, the merrymakers at the party have their own little domestic problems but this, of course, is of no help to Shelley. Director George Cukor thought the scene was so important that he himself read the lovers lines to Shelley, keeping his voice impersonal so as not to influence unduly her own performance. SHELLEYS dramatic per formance on the telephone probably will be compared to the one which helped gain Luise Rainer an Acad- as the neighbor who turns to drink when he learns his friend will soon pass on. OTHERS in the Norman Barasch Carroll Moore comedy are Guil Dudley, Robert Gibbons, Penny Phillips and Garry Phillips. In short, the cast surpasses the vehicle; one that is in need of extensive pruning.

Take a typical television situation comedy, add a few mildly purple lines, lengthen to almost three hours and you have "Send Me No Flowers. By JAMES BYLIN alley Times TODAY Staff Writer Did you ever have a friend tell you a joke that seemed to stretch on endlessly? It may be funny at times along the way, but by the punch line, you wonder if the trip had been worth the trouble. This about sums up Send Me No Flowers at the Pasadena Playhouse, a one-joke comedy that provides a steady stream of chuckles until it wearily runs out of gas somewhere in the third hour. THE JOKE: hypochon driac overhears a doctors conversation that leads him to believe he only has a few weeks to live. Take this and (lien to sleep theme and play all the variations possible.

Robert Q. Lewis, the worlds worst disc jockey" (thats what HE says), pumps all his professional training into the main role and manages to squeeze out many more laughs than the script deserves. His leering, his double-takes and, most important, his pitiable belly-aching evoke a humorous sympathy for the character, George Kimball. He feels all the time as we all feel sometimes. To breathe life into the play which proved a flop on Broadway, the entire cast appears to work very hard except one.

He doesnt have to. VETERAN Edgar Buchanan, as the doctor who ignites the trouble and later quashes the hypochondriacs thisll show em dream, only has two scenes. In both, he effortlessly steals everything but Robert Qs glasses. The lines and yocks drop from him like water off a ducks back. Peggy McCay is attractive and efficient as the suffering wife and Richard Knee-land lends strong support i 23BQ "Perchance to dream of the day when therell be no possibility of her being called a "ham." That days already here, the films dilector, Robert Mulligan, said.

"This little gals a real trouper." Unlike the more tempciamental actress, Mary didnt so much as wince as she painted her "name" on her costume (above left) and she couldnt wait to get into it (above). An exhuberant youngster, she relished the whole sequence which is only fitting because whats ham without relish? sex with strings attached NEW KROFFT tickets on saie now THEATER AT Ar 0fFICE' A iO'Y'Ar agencies ok mail. X.Cl.O Nightly (Exc. Mon 8t30, 10 39 AiSlSantiMomci Blvd. 0184100 'Gang's' In Playbox The Pasadena Playhouse Alumni and Associates will present the West Coast premiere of The Gangs All Here, the Lawrence and Lee play based on the Harding Administration in the Pasadena Playhouses Play-box Theater opening May 31.

Direction is by Don Schwartz. K'Y Vs, VALLEY THEATRE GUIDE CORBLNJ fcv Vantura Blvd. at Corbm OI-J-WW Open 4 p.m. Sat, 10 45 Suit. 12 45 Valley Times TODAY photos by Alan Hyde "3v? THE OJA! FESTIVAL As Bright As All Outdoors 6lnn Pard Ingrid Thulln "4 HORSEMEN OF APOCALYPSE itm Hutton Paula Prtnftta "HORIZONTAL LT." Free Jazz Concert At Valley State A free concert of modern jazz will be given by the Studio Band at San Fernando Valley State College tonight at 8:30 p.m.

The program in the Campus Theater will be representative of the wide modern jazz spectrum. INCLUDED will be works by classicists Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Other the the Band All Fernando be Angeles 26 the students the -it a flash of intensely personal TONITE IS FAMILY NITE! SEATS 50c Childr.n Und.r 1 Frt. Whin Accompini.d by P.r.nti miracle WOI a film beyond the usual! starring ANNE BANCROFT and introducing PATTY DUKE with VICTOR JORY I 114 N. M.cfay, F. EM1-42M Op.n 4 43 S.

Swi. ll.U John W.yn. J.m St.w.rt "MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE plus Basil Rathbont "THE MAGIC SWORD achievement in the form, with Foss conducting. Their interpretations seemed thoughtful, although the first movement was a bit on the timid side. Previn played the 24th concerto, minor, with Smit conducting.

Previns playing in this concerto and his conducting of the final one, seemed the most forceful of the evening. In the final concerto, the 21st, major, Previn managed to create an air of excitement and Foss playing was more than adequate. SATURDAY EVENING: Ojais contribution to modern music performances seemed even more experimental this year than last, when Foss improvisation group played and the jazz portion consisted of Andre Previns trio performing portions of West Side Story. This year, the jazz was even further out with the major work being Gunther Schullers Variants (1900) on a Theme of Thelonious Monk, a tightly-organized four-part work. The concert also included Vareses Density 21.5 for solo flute, Cages Winter Music in which the two piano players face each other from opposite sides of the stage and two pieces of electronic music.

ONE, Cages Aria for Mezzo Soprano and Fontana Mix, in which the soloist competes with a four tape track played back through four speakers surrounding the audience, was about the most controversial of the evening. The barking of a stray dog in the middle of it only helped to point up the more humorous elements of the work. The other electronic piece was Berios Differences," in which the five instrumental performers on stage were aided by a tape track, again played back through the outlying speakers. SUNDAY AFTERNOON: The highlight of the festival and this concert was the United States premiere of Stravinskys 1961 work, A Sermon, A Narrative and A Prayer," which follows in the tradition of Canticum Sacram and Threni," al though it seems a little milder. Its simple three-part structure is constructed on various modern techniques eluding serial devices.

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Its programs ran the gamut fiom all-Mozart to all-modern and included the U.S. premiere of Igor Stravinsky's A Sermon, A Narrative, and A Prayer. Its spirit this year, as last, one of adventure. Its performances, held In the outdoor bowl and Nordhoff High School, were first rate. This year the festival began tvith a series of discussion sessions and student concerts at the Art Center which were under the title, Four Days with Four Composers Lucian Berio.

Mil-ton Babbit, Gunther Schuller and Lukas Foss. The weekend portion of the festival followed the familiar pattern, chamber concerts at the school in the morning and symphony, choral and jazz concerts in the evening. Under the musical direction of Lukas Foss, composer, conductor pianist, and UCLA professor, the Festi val, which had slipped into the production of some me diocre light concerts a few years ago, was revitalized last year. This years concerts left members of the audience with something to talk about. FRIDAY EVENING: Three Mozart piano concertos were grouped for this performance.

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