The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 28

8P THE CHARLOTTE OBSEKVER -Fri-Aug 21 1970 Wins Three Gracious DEL MAR Calif Willie has 6014 career winners only 18 shy ot Johnny all-time record of 6032 THE HAWAI1ANS with Chariton Heston Gureldin Chapim John Phiur ILw Tinn Chen Al Mccowon Meko Virginia Ann Lea and MHkc Mayama directed by Tom Grtaa screenplay by Jamaa Webb baaed on James a Michener't novel "Hiwaii1 music by Henry MancinJi color At the par Ten-act Theater show Miss Chen is particularly adorable as the concubine who becomes the of her own six children founds a fortune in a vegetable patch and survives the horrors of the leper colony on Molokai scenes aren't really as dramatic as those of Chinese herded into a hold lawlessness amongst the lepers and family empire-building of tiny Nyuk Tsin A Review The blank-but-not-blank expressions on the faces of her children when she returns miraculously from this island of the living dead afford one of the finest moments in the literature of cinema fGASTONIASOUTH DIANE Vei Modt sion of' tfc resid By DICK BANKS Observer Stiff Writer Hawaiians" is a gracious picture in the old style of movie-making appealing to the intelligence and tho emotions in unforced fashion with frequent emphasis on beauty It would be difficult not to have beautiful scenes and beautiful people in a film about Hawaii 1 Finest portions are not about the native islanders but about humble Chinese and Japanese settling there These segments reach the level of a masterpiece in their representation of human beings expressing love and experiencing conflict The beauty of the unclothed feminine form is captured in a uniquely unlustful fashion in a sequence which has Heston approaching and then joining Japanese girls bathing after a day of working in his fields The show lasts 134 minutes but it drags only in scenes showing whites arguing amongst themselves Giarlton Heston Moves Easily delicately sweet music of Henry Mancini Is perfectly And for these moments the rano Wins $1500 GEE WONDERFUL! TWO BIGGEST ATTRACTIONS AT TWO FINEST THEATRES! Charlton Heston as Whip key figure in the original novel by James A Michener moves easily through the picture he never monopolizes the camera yet he contributes a good deal through the virile strength of his personality Sop Trip In Contest Already winner of a $2100-a-year National Merit Scholarship to Howard University Charlotte soprano Yvette Walker this week won another $1500 and a trip to London HELD OVER 4h BIG WEEK! fh RECORD BREAKING MONTH! NEARLY 100000 PEOPLE HAVE SEEN AT THE VILLAGE THE NUMBER ONE MOVIE OF THE YEAR! Comprising the filmization of the second portion of it touches on initiation of artesian-well irrigation his dramatic pioneering in pineapples the rise of the dynasty of Nyuk Tsin and Mun Ki and the overthrow of the ancient Hawaiian monarchy With an aria from she captured first place in the National Shriners of America talent competition in Boston A voice pupil of Mrs Jacqueline Hairston she is the daughter of Willie A Walker of the Charlotte Model Cities staff and Mrs Walker Tina Chen as Nyuk Tsin and Mako as Mun Ki steal the Playhouse Dinner Theatre sM IAWYF R0 A HWY Duke Med Faculty Pioneer To Leave airport TODAY $100 GEORGE KENNEDY FLIGHTS 2:00 4:30 7:00 9:30 A Associated Press DURHAM- Dr Julian Ruffin professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center and one of the few active members of the original faculty will leave Duke in I AU AOII AOtHTTfD I Audncea TODD-AO TECHNICOLOR' MINT Hill PRESENTS THE BLOCKBUSTER COMEDY The Odd Couple WITH Georg Gray Howard Hunter DIRICTID RT ill HICKLK Gourmet Buffet 6:45 Curtain 8:30 Set-Ups Included Fri-family night Children 16 under 'h price RESIRVATIONS 545-6316 Special Group Rales PLUS WALT DISNEY'S PETER TECHNICOLOR go HILARIOUS FUN SHOWS 2-4-6-8-10 Dr Ruffin who camo to Duke in 1930 will continue private practice in Durham He will retain his connections at Duke by teaching in public clinic and seeing patients in consultation FREEDOMlVILLAGElSHOPPINGlCENTER TOMGHT AT Newest and Most Unique Twin Theatre SOUTMPARK S7o "r'- rnrx OXT SOUTHPARK SHOPPING CENTER SHARON and FAIRVIEW ROADS 364-6622 DOOIt PRIZES! GIFTS FOR ALL OR TWO MILLION -ARCHES WINSUN NY POSt BAG FULL OF LAUGHS! Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis play off each other like pros Neil Simon has a genius for discovering rich lodes of comedy rocks with -KATHLEEN CARROLL NY DAILY NEWS JACKLEmi SflIIDY DENNIS I NEIL SIMON STORY TIIEOUT-OF-TOWIIERS COLOR TONIGHT at 7:30 9:30 SAT at 7:45 9:45 SCREEN CAPITOL MOTION PICTURE 5UPPLY CORP INC STARTING SATURDAY SHOWS WILL BE CONTINUOUS DAILY FROM 1:30 PM EARGAIN MATINEES sujv All OUR THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE ADLER SILHOUETTE LETTER CO IMBREE REED COMPANY WADE MANUFACTURING CO BAB CONTRACTING CO DR PEPPER BOTTLING CO WSOC RADIO 930 Suppliers of push back seats sound and projection equipment DAILY rTr jKnajF'Tf SL 7 Ilf vt a rtV.