The Idaho Statesman from Boise, Idaho • 31

7 vw vv- THE IDAHO SUNDAY STATESMAN BOISE IDAHO SUNDAY MORNING JUNE 24 1962 PAGE ELEVEN All Color Program "Shakespeare as arranged by Jerome Alden "Richard the is a tough tragedy to crack for it is introspective rather than active Hollywood Today Curtis Has plays as in' other plays in past seasons they have Will Geer Will Geer -1 these festivals are in the right direction If they can take Shakespeare out of schools and Doors Open 12:45 Starts at 1 :00 pm Top Tunes in Boise The Melody Shop Saturday listed the leading 10 tunes of the past week as: "Roses Are Red" "Baby Di "Sealed With A "Stranger On The "Johnny Get "Palisades Park? "Speedy "The and Make fut him on stages where he be-ongs the Bard will be discovered and relished by our youth NOTHING EVER MATCHED NS VIOLENCE ns VENGEANCE ns VASTNESS! and there are of words wit (There are of -course great speeches like "This and "tell sad tales of the death of The Strati orders quite cracked it but they have some interesting players Richard Basehart in the title role Hal Holbrook as John of Gaunt Philip Bosco as Bolingbroke and Patrick Hines as the Duke of York As often happens the Stratforders are handicapped by a disunity of style and voice Their production of "Henry Part One" is in happier vein largely because Shakespeare worrying about all the royal relatives he was juggling around in the plot introduced two slapstick vaudeville acts in a joint -called the Head Tavern He turned this sleazy place over to two people the proprietress Mistress Quickly and her biggest customer Sir John Falstaff In Connecticut they have the best Falstaff I ever saw and this includes Ralph Richardson He is Eric Berry and he is wonderful period Splendid too is Julie Bovasso as the proprietress' For the serious part of the plot they have James Ray and Hal Holbrook as the two fighting princes and Philip Bos co in the title role And in both 1 Starts Tonight Admission 75c Cooper-KIrr ESZ63HJ TEEKIUI KE0K3IE Tsw COOS JOE OlIflEE HIE AU iLitniTMM itniitiTtn and then and here and there as being anti-Semitic for two-three hundred years Nothing untoward happened on the opening night except a rainstorm which cut the performance in half The amphitheater bulged with 2300 patrons and police said about 2500 had to be left out It was an excellent first half of "The Merchant" with George Scott giving an interesting Individual performance as Shylock and Nan Martin making an attractive and intelligent Portia "The will play through July 7 "The will be offered July 16 to Aug 4 and "King will be on from Aug 13 to Sept 1 These productions will also tour high schools in the city In Stratford Conn they have opened the repertory season with "King Richard the Second" and "Henry IV Part Later on they will introduce Helen Hayes and Maurice Evans in a two-actor sampler called FAMILY FALL GUY is James Stewart who plays the father In "Mr Hobbs Takes a now playing at the Boise Theater Costarring are Maureen Fabian Lauri Peters John Saxon and Marie Wilson KRKDODGUS OTCUKIIS ERNEST BORGNINE JANET1UGH ENTERTAINMENT FOR EVERYONE i New York Theater Letter THE ratiliffViar RHONDA ANDREWS'FLEMING EFREM- JOHN ANNE pm KEENAN TROY WYNNDONAHUE WARNER BROS TECHNICOLOR OPEN DAILY 12:45 NOW Regular Family Prices Bard Is Entertainment '-a -a -a -a -a -a -a -a a -a -a a a -a a ging is rt goini going that these because they sy young had a a -a a By JOHN CHAPMAN NEW From the way things have been going and the things I have been seeing the Bard may soon displace the twist as an entertainment for the young In the space of four days have' seen three Shakespeare plays two in Stratford Conn and one in Central Park New York The audiences have been surprisingly encouragingly youthful ranging fromj school kids and college stuff to the young marrieds What is surprising and en To Relate By SIIEILAII GRA1IAM HOLLYWOOD "EV erythlng will come out all right it Tony Curtis voice was half pleading as we a i goodbye before he took off for Paris and The Berlin Film Festival He has just completed "40 Pounds of Trouble" professionally Personally Tony has had 40 tons of trouble He re-MIss Graham cently sepa rated from Janet Leigh after 11 years of marriage and two enchanting daughters The rumor has been that Tony in Europe will be seeing Christine Kauf-mann the young leading lady in his "Taras Bulba" movie When I questioned him Tony replied "Christine Kaufmann had nothing to do with the break-up of my marriage Janet and I have had a difficult time in the last two or three years But our problems have never been another man or another woman If a marriage is sound no outside person can break it up As you can see I am being careful in what I say I was never cautious before but been hurt six times and I want to let Janet be hurt or my children old enough to realize what it means when their friends say I read it in the I have nothing to say about Christine "While I have been working I have stopped at our house every day to see my children and to see Janet and then I have gome home to my A House "Where is that?" I asked Tony being cautious said "A And continued "All of us need a little time to search ourselves our needs and to figure out who we are Whatever happens with me and Janet not the end of the world all entitled to some hap-iness If you are not happy at ome you have to find it some Tony will not be finding this happiness in Hollywood not for several months anyway because he will be in Europe starring in "Monsieur for his own Curtis Production Company And when I talked with Miss Kaufmann she told me she expected to co-star with Tony only 17 years old but is bright and intelligent with a lot of depth and warm personality I have been greatly intrigued with the fact that Tony was hy-notized into forgetting his pho- bia against flying When Tony went to Argentina to make it took weeks by boat and train and even mule pack For his current movie he actually flew to Europe me all about said I course you never get to the point of not knowing where you the likable actor informed me "I wanted to fly and sure that helped After the hypnotism I flew from Reno to Los Angeles It was a little rough over the mountains but I played cards and I worried I think you get over everything in time" "But how did the hypnotist cure you?" I wanted to know "We talked of airplanes and what my conscious fears were after that he hypnotized me He asked me had I ever had any Open 7:30 Starts at Dusk a -a a -a -a -a a a -a -a -a a a a a FIRST IDAHO SHOWING TOW RANDALL MGM Vpo JOSEPH EIEVINE present KIM JAMES NOVAK GARNER IN A MARTIN RANSOHOFF PRODUCTION a -a -a a -a -a -a a a -a a -a a a a a a coura weren to No teachers were snapping their bullwhips and no college credits could be obtained for attendance The "young marrieds could have gone to a drive-in or remained home with the TV At tendance was voluntary in all three cases and only in Central Park was admission free According to Brooks Atkin count there are a dozen Shakespeare seasons afoot or underway in this country and all of them are called festivals We have in this comer of the continent the Stratford Ont Shakespearean Festival Thea-ter the Stratford Conn American Shakespeare Festival Theater and newest of all the Shakespeare festival in the Shakespeare Theater in Central Park "Festival" is an overused word Seventh Season This is seventh season of the Bard in the park and six of than have been more or less chancy This devotee of free theater has run into severe money trouble and even more excruciating political hazards When Robert Moses was commissioner of parks Moses said a big no to plea that the city build a' good permanent outdoor Elizabethan theater One of the objections was that it would take a lot of fuss to build toilets When Moses commands somebody to drop dead somebody usually does but Papp fought back The result of his persistence is a really fine amphitheater in a' beautiful spot in what has become one of the ugliest big cities It is a municipal enterprise with the city appropriating $100000 toward the $285000 needed to operate this first season The chief contributor to the $400000 theater is publisher George Delacorte who gave $150000 Papp could have started off in this new place with something nice and safe and sweet like but he chose "The Merchant of which has been denounced now The Laughter Is Rocking the Nation! ALL NEW 1ST RUN a a to take life a lot easier not going to kind of pamper myself Im not going to work for sake" After "Monsieur Tony returns to Hollywood to start in "Then I have one to do for Metro will never be made and do something else for them They Gina en our approval of the script Can you beat that the two stars approved and then they changed it Th $2000000 trouble with Hollywood is there are a lot of amateurs running the business What used to be the major studios are in a lot of trouble because of this Actors do better working for independents They have the best properties today But I still think Hollywood will always be the center of motion-picture making' However no country can have a monopoly It depends on who makes the best pictures" And a final word "I think if my personal life was okay rd be as happy as I was 12 years ago when I started here I feel more secure Today I take nonsense from any-b ery be liked" all been through this stage So as he gets Tony is 35 he becomes more discriminating in whom he wants to like him CS-fnUMWC JANET BLAIR PATTI PAGE JESSIE ROYCE LANDIS OSCAR H0M01KA MOMMAS MOMNS ANN JI WRITS a a a -a a a a -a -a a -a a -a a a a a a DIAL 344-2311 HOWARD DUFF CINEMASCOPE METROCOLOR MAMAMAMOMMnUJAMMMOOC WWDCUMwl uuotutan hthwoovitt uiiw 111 NORTH 10th STREET it's the most picture you ever saw! Someone's got to give when this IRRESISTIBLE FORCE meets this IMMOVABLE OBJECT I 1 Open tarts Dusk bad flights? I said one time that had shaken me up Just by talking he convinced he that my fears were groundless He analyzed the mechanism of planes and the odds against accidents At this particular time I wanted to fly and the hypnotism helped We all have fears We all need guidance" Taking Lesson Tony has now become so casual about flying that he actually went up in a one-motor Cessna and told me quite seriously "I think take some flying lessons Yes I feel accomplished something As human beings we must push our muscles we must try to do a little more than is easy to do But been doing too much just going to it as they say going to be calm I'm going into a period of adjustment going to take time off next year and paint going Adults $1 Kiddies Free TONIGHT! duMHiTsi GIG YOOTG-iTOEY MEADOWS PH Adult $100 til 2 pui Than 125 Child 25c uoifuemftaonr BINCj CROSBY BOB Hope JOAN COLLINS OPEN 12:45 COOL! a VACATION PANAMAS FRANK'S GimaIoilobrigida hHWM FANTASCOPE TECHNICOLOR GEORGE SANDERS -UmPAVAX TttlrjfamWedffiScfllai Galaxy of the most celebrated Cabaret shows from all over the world Judi Merhxih Torin Thatcher audie MURPHY dan DURYEA ioan a 2 SOLID HOURS OFFUNI CKMMKMiKClfteurflriU DOROTHY SAMOUR ROBERT MORLEY Western a Co-Feature $1 til 2 Thun 125 Child 50m ram GUM STREET IV 10:00 SENSATIONAL STAR ACTS! 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