Los Angeles Evening Citizen News from Hollywood, California • 12

v-: v- -v i V' '-y V- -f -Vi- I 1 i 1 n1 1 -'s 1 tf -ft V- "i Tuesday Kay I960 (Dif ttialmaa Mirioch i- --y JTHE HOIITOOOP SCEHE IN THE jSSSKgr ByLOWELL REDELHI GS board and Marvyn LeRey and Gaorga Glas were elected to the board x-l 1 itliV LelltrFroa a Rtader A few: weeks ago producer Jerry letter on tdult movies and censorship was quoted in this space The significant essence of this letter is herewith re-quoted including Wald's quotations on William Life Magazine articles on adult "I would like to quarrel with evaluation inany producers still cemfuse honesty with vulgarity because they are in business MAM STUM rtfVtlW TCMITS nemooD ONLY Screen Producers Guild Juliaa Blaaataie was re-elected first! vice president Second vice president David Weishart and third vice president Leals IiWmn traded positions Kdalmaa becoming second VP Weishart becoming third VP Aabrey iehenek eras re-elected secretary Jerry Bresler was chosen treasurer Praak Roeeabarg first afJ sistant treasurer TSUtM wji Sperliag second assistant treasurer also were tf are informed on the subject it la the curious youngster who is lured by the very so-called bant What we are doing to our youth passed the -dangerous stage long ago had better watch our P's aqd when we point a at communism Particularly when we wag that fi Communism has released a generation of scientifically perfect adjustment young people who think nothing of applying long hours to gain the desired result This nas become a habit with them In this country where at' our very birth we had conceived the perfect form of government in this country where there is every knewn convenience' must me bow to the threat of confined and dangerous literature' which invariably finds its way to the screen? Are we pleading to he milked dry of our natural intelligence Are ROEfflTvHiraa OOttC KFPMO-CEORZ KAMLTOI fVftrTT SLOAHf HWU PICW00D DWCCTOtr AM ra MCONO HATUMS 1 COIOUDO e-ma uit wm 1 ISOCBIi 6111mm HOMl FROM THI Hiav MOMENT OF FEAR WHILE IN HIDING screening Iris doWntown Log Angeles and other --theaters and drive-ins Govind Raja -Ross and Lauren Bacall hold their breath less they be discovered and captured in this scene from Over Ipdia1 THREE ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS 'THE PilUIZER PRIZE AUTHOR AND NOW THE SCREEN IS STRUCK BY' U6HTNIN01 HOLLYWOOD TODAY JemMim With SHEILflH GRAHAM The two Oscar Wade pictures -now in production are in a furious drive for completion not racing" said director Gregory Ratoff going to be first" Oscar is Robert Morley Producer Irving Alloa's is less Oscar-Iooking but handsomer than Peter Finch Both films will be released within three weeks of finishing And at the moment Ratoff is the winner Hie WOde opens at the Carbon Theater here May 22 goes into the Rialto May 26 The former is in black and white the latter in Technicolor is 'is there room far two movies on the life and atrial of witty Oscar Wlldo who near the turn of the century was jailed oii an erotism rap? Kim Novak has gone to Paris lot a week of fun leaving director Dick Qalae to his work here However she might to Hang Kong -with Dick who is leavuig any mifiute to redo some of the scenes -there In rrhe World of Suzie Kim has been avoidini cal press says not see her name in current columns 'Mr Laurouoo Olhrior has finally a greed to play Caesar to EUaabotk 1 with Ifophon Boyd as Antony And Elizabeth is not getting a million dollars far this JValtor Wauger MOST HILARIOUS: WEDDING NIGHT IN MOVIE HISTORY TIMS tOUjmtA PICTURES ifratUBSttli YUL Zk BRYNHXQIDML 'TKCNMCOiOS mhSTUUYOWE' I AKNt BEVERLYiHILlSkThTaTr IMMwrMTi TMMMrnHWSlIo I rnShrnm s-Ba pwa oaitniriui DAISIES kHns-miKi'nni 'nunrnik to make money not nty Is the thing on their mmdsM good and maturity Is the lad name 20 who make films in good because they are fully aware of their moral responsibility to the public Zinsser recognizes' as po all the creative talents that the boundaries of subject matter and treatment are bdn extended1 in Hollywood That a marvelously healthy phenomenon and one far which we may indeed rejoice The fact that we are portraying reality on the screen rather than romantic trivia is a reflection that both moviemakers and their audiences have come of age Only an insignificant minority will regvd this as license to turn films' into a medium far smut and poraogra phy While the flexibility of the code may have increased it certainly continues to squelch any such- attempts wholeheartedly agree with Zinsser's conclusions that the responsibility of separating films into adult and younger categories should rest in the home where children receive their draining in ethical' and morel values It would indi- cate a lack in such training if any picture could change these values There is no reason the adult mind should be deprived of mature stimulation tn its entertainment by maintaining a false attitude that everything should be equally suitable far children If such an attitude prevailed the great wealth of world literature would not exist "I am sure the public welcomes the new freedom and frankness on the screen as a sign of maturity and health We should bend our efforts to preserve it rather than usto die in its early stages is after all what our founding fathers envisioned for our nation: an environment in which freedom of expression would flourish for all" This brought the -following letter from a reader: Mr Redelings: You may recall me as a drama teacher to whom you once considerate Virginia is impossible to let your column in which you quote a opinions on so-called freedom and frank ness on the screen' pass with out some retort is not so it simply is un true This producer is another of our badly adjusted products of virtue' If democracy has become something which means no more then toe free speech and (indigestible morsels of oversexed antics to view over and over with a' label attached for adult viewing then I say that every adult I know has became so' weary of this utter tripe which they were thoroughly acquainted with before having to listen to the dialogue and watch drunken sequences that they no longer attend picture? at alL pictures are not aimed at adults How could they be? Adults already THE MOST HONORED MOTION PICTURE OF ALL TIME! WINNBM OP If latV AWMUt WIUJAM WYLERS vi fianavAiiAMi an WMAMCfl MCW At Ml-J I IT MAH Mm mJ mIi liriiiM TkeetMt HO 7-tW CM MmM km Mite Mm teMr MM AllfMa -leu tmiatm fAinai TCWWTKIMIku KXCLUVVW tHOAttmtrr production' as reported mere $750000 against 10 per cent of the gross And nothing mere or gross about this figure The best play in London Is "A Passage to India" from the famed novel by Mtor who states he will never sell the film rights to it The play with great performances elderly especially the COLSi AfOW Im3 sr rF! Mrs Bimi iu IMfPSt a mm INHUF FRIDAY! -X corrcn 0RME1T' Aua SIMM WTCT n7442l' MS41I7 Screen Actors Guild announced that 699 of its some 14000 members voted on the proposed SAG contract with major film producers 6714 ballots Ming returned The union said only 258 voted against acceptance and 56 ballots were invalidated for various reasons- Bart offidea the Columbia lot and will shoot "Matter of Conviction" there for UA releases! 1 a as I a "The Gaaa ef Navaroaa" set has been drawing a stream of royal visitors on the Isle' of Harold Haekt and Bart Laa- caator rented six offices on Rhodes Dropping in to watch proceedings have been King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece Crown i Prince Constantine Princesses Irene and Sophia King Paul's sister Helene former Queen Mother of Rumania and ex-K i Michael- On the set they met stars Gregory Peek David Hlvee Asthoay Quias An-ftheuy Quayto Staaley' Baker James Darren and Gia ieala Nanette Fabray famed musical comedy star will play a dramatic role in Naked in tke' World" nriiiich stars Ginn Lollobrigida sa and Ernest Berpsine Honored as mystery writers at the annual awards dinner of the Mystery Writers of America were Ernest Lehman for his By Northwest" selected as the best mystery film of the year for his Comic" in the Peter Gunn series outstanding teleplay Alfred Hitchcock for his outstanding achievements in mystery suspense and to the Perry Macau series far consistent excellent in quality for TV series Goes to War" the luemaeooyo and color comedy starring -Bright Bardot has yet to make its bow in New York although- Jt has been seen on many screens in the Lou Angeles area It will follow Property" on the screen of the Paris Theater in NY IWAISI STARTS' Torionnow nun SRSSM2 cansai auaz LOYOLA ViUll ELPC2TU Tti-mi pSTOEsnnss A -t we throwing oia- country away under contract to studio has written a novel She is the eld age of 21 The novel should sell It is the perfect paperback It is full of sex and lust and murder and ends in insanity The iferfect formula hadn't pasted Page 4 before I realized Was reading real fact I cringed (Recall Mr Redelings that I have had many beautiful girls for students) Some 'of the people (real people in fact) this book should be tarred and feathered I have learned some of their AND I am net astounded I reed about some blessed producer who needs plenty of freedom' to instill upon the mind of youth yet a little more of that seems like good money-making business You know we sugar-coat the bad ones in this business much longer either! we go down the drain or the bad ones have to be dragged if necessary out of circulation We'd better with on the way" Quality of String Tone a Featuxe of Cleveland Orch An imr riant factor in the quality of the rtringtone of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra which plays in Paso dena Civic Auditorium Pridky night is the exceptional distinction of it he instruments from produced Josef Gfaigold concertinas-ter jriays Tjpbrt a celebrated violki made by Antonio Stradi vari at OrOmona Italy in 1683 James cBarrett uses a much 1 a Stradivuri- instrument made in 1728 that formerly belonged to Josef Fucha The oldert-instrument in the or-dieatra lathe viola jdayed by FrederickFunkhouser violist made byAndree Amati first of the great An lati family at Cremonafei-63 6f( MERVYN i On COLOR WKlUtt ERNIE KOVACS MARGO MOORE HACK WARDEN nobu McCarthy lKCK SHAWN WtSSBSSmi psnaam wntu MHttl fveaur Mill1 Mill winira rm Cmmtt rM fatkMi cmfciy HMlaailiaIM 1 L- Moore played by Eaid Lori-mar was hawked around in New York and London for three years before being put on at the Oxford Playhoum It will hit Broadway eventually and I prophesy it will be as big hit there company has Gary Coopsr ready willing and signed far "First Train to Babylon" which will be filmed in England When Marlon is through with Ugr American" end of he wfll star far his own company in Paris in Blues And in September Ingrid Wsrgmse makes her first movie in a long time Vous Brahms'" with Lauren Harvey and Yves Montand am assured by the prddueers that Ingrid as of now at least is not expecting to add to- the population British actors often -sound unintelligible to American audiences But I hear that ell of Sir Lanreaea Olivier's film version of Entertainers' has to beyedubbed because no one understands whet a is saying- except sea gulls "Montezuma" will be filmed by Bryna Productions far U-I release Kirk Douglas will star as Cortes and Johrf Hue- ton will direct iwuialston I III MKCOMCUr VJUUUSIPiTPi fcdwOMOr utturbOwaiMGBisiuaaKnaeMn rt John Xrelaad filming in Lm don is waiting to hear of the divorce (dans of young and pretty Mrs-Georges Cam They will many when she is free Ana I hear that Rax Harrison and Natasha Parry who fought to a fare- time-well during their play on Broadwayi fighting Cock" have completely -bur ied the hatchet ana will probably do another play together Audrey Hepburn's next film after the birth of her baby will anthony PeHdns Mjana ftnda ruATuita AUTHumo '-'K jZxfiuttti ib But tottmt SimJ KMau-unGHgimar 1 fi RTKFC CEMUr SJU IUS3L ssnt nssin i 'tv.