The Montreal Star from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 10

Eric SlcLean at Vancouver At the Movie ir FBI Agents Experts in Quick Draw Pleasant Little Film- About Youth Mercure Triptych Is Disappointing STAGE MOUNTAIN (Mount (musical revue) LA FOUDKIERE Chin-sonnieres da NORTH PLAYHOUSE House: 83a ST AGATnE THEATRE Sympathy: 841 a i 5: HOLLYWOOD not surprising that the acton portraying FBI agents In the John Dillinger sequence of "The FBI Story" starring James Stevsrt and Yen Miles handle their pistols in approved FBI fashion They are FBI men who co-operated with producer-director Vervyn LeRoy in auuring the authenticity of Theatre Directory OUTREMONT Gidget: 1230 I 145 040 940 Ride Lew 1 some: 2253231301 PALACE The Young drlphians: 930 1203 225 440 700 920 PAPINEAU Gidget: 1250 143 640 940 Ride Lonesome: 223 523 82a PRINCESS H-Min: 12ua 230 500 730 1000 Women Eater: 1050 120 350 620 830 SEVILLE Gidget: 1250 345 64a 940 Ride Lonesome: 22a 52a 820 SNOWDON Gidget: 1230 245 64a 940 Ride Lonesome: 223 52a 820 STRAND Gidget: 1145 305 620 930 Ride I-enesome: 1020 130 5ia 835 SnOWS PLAYHOUSE After Hours 841 Lee Ches Boro: 900 HATLEY Doctor in the BARN SUMMER Tee end Oh 721 941 Oh 72a 920 Give lTp 1221 231 520 1250 241 Lonesome: FKATTVAL OftHKIITltA Witter Uw riirardoti of ftelttr Huuhiiril In A perinrmant for tnt Vaer'iuver International tvfcl in the Qumh Efua-bth Tlwilrfi rn nifviat Snrn Neleomi Tripijwh fur Orehutra Pterra Mtreure 'Ceilo Cooeerte in minor opu let Dvorak Symphony Mm i npnc 47 HwaUkorkk GfDflKT CVriumM rrleiN at a Uia i VUchmil produriion directed for Paul Wemlfca fiwd a arrNapUy by Okhrtflb Upton buH na tha wtvH by FmiirMi Kubiwr: now playing at tha ftnnwtan Katpfw Outrtnwnl Panlnaau Mvilb and Mtrand theatre ami with tha following eaat: Fmnrine Sandra Una Kabnnpa C1ff Rohartann M'tond'htflf Janwa Perren KummiI Lawranaa Arthur yANCOUVER July 24 Walter Susskind the per manent conductor of the To- jfV the scene in which gangster John Dillinger is killed outride a Chi ty La Srr Lea Stinky Th Fear Prep Lover Hoy Hoi Shot Non Pnp Welktkl lord Hymn Coy No I Coy No Be ry knelt Jo Morrow Jntjy Baker Themielvea IVm Lauyhlie ill Geur Robert Elite Yvonne Crete Faltl Ken TViu M-Clur Burt Slalcaire Rieberil Nrwton Bln too cago theatre by agents who beat him to the draw The FBI indoctrinates its men in the quick dnw in which a pistol is whipped from holster with split-second precision in a stance giving the steadiest position for firing accurately Without training it would be difficult for any actor to aimulate the FBI style MOVIES 10a Sia 12a AVENUE I11 320 520 Ship: 1011 74a 100a EMPRESS-Gidget: 64a 940 Ride 221 521 821 IMPERIAL Senth Sees Adventure: 2CX) 841 Five Pennlee: 1011 122a 241 100 711 921 ORPIIEUM Alaska Passage: 100a 1220 241 110 721 1000 Frontier Gambler: II10 121 400 621 820 -jf PLEASANT little comedy-romance turns up this week "Gidget" in which the teeni in PRODUCTION TRAVELS HOLLYWOOD (UPI) story of Travels" 11 set for location filming in the Costa Brava area of Spain near Barcelona Operations will move later studios in Madrid and London for interior shooting i ager are depicted as healthy andj" V--'r attractive young none of 1 I ng from v- 'xi ZARA NELSOVA POPULATION GROWS Canada hu had an annual population growth of two per cent for the last few years hi liiJithuuiU'UuuiiUiiU'U'Ui I'Ll tun iii 1 1 1 1 1 iu hi li-i 11 1 111 iii 11 uiihii 1 Wailing Anxiously Danny Kaye and Barbara Bel Gcddes as Loring Nichols and his wife sit uneasily jn the hospital waiting room for word about the rendition of their daughter stricken with polio in this scene from "The Five Pennies" the film now being shown at To the annals of America? Naval Heroes now add the name of John Paul Sleekier VI! first man ever to a destroyer! 5 For Fitness rv 771 1 Stooges The pushing around will 5 vJWll keep you physically fit if doesn't kill you first' Rita Joe plays of the co-'l medy trio The other two are Moe Howard and Larry Fine They are currently starring in their first full length feature pro- duced by Harry Romm Pro- BOLLYWOOD Joe De Rita a member of The Three Stooges comedy team has a formula for physical fitness Otter and Gentleman by Act of I ConQressvj Go to bed late Getting upductions "Have Rocket Will i Travel" tion or neurosis none of them are juvenile delinquents and none of them an psychopathic cases Centrsl figure is Francine the of the title six'een-year-old girl who is in the midst of growing up and the action takes place 'during the summer holidays with the setting the ocean front west of Los Angeles Hen Gidget meets a 9pup of surf board enthusiuts headed by Kahoona a surf bum and falls for Moondoggie by the end of the end the film Gidget hu leimt about love Moondoggie hu decided to go back to college and even Kahoona has taken a Job Nothing exceptional in the atory but it is well told and makes for pleaunt entertainment Sandra Dee does a stand-out job ai Gidget while James Darren makes a likeable Moon-doggie and Cliff Robertson fits in neatly as Kahoona Arthur and Mary LaRoche an effective as Gidgefe parents Jo Morrow Sue George Yvonne Craig Patti Kane look in swim-suits while Joby Baker Tom Laughlin Robert Ellis Doug McClure and Burt Metcalfe an a handsome bunch of surf board riders The beach settings show up well in Eastman Color on the Cinemascope screen and make a good background for the action is just the thing for these hot summer days and it is all the mon welcome becauu the young people in it an just ordinary pleaunt young folk IL A EDEN HOLLYWOOD (UPI) early may be for the birds but look whit it got the worm Smoke 20 cigars a day Eat as much as you like particularly pies ice cream and cake Get a balloon around your middle Then join up as one of The Three "Is- landia" the story of a mythical Utopian land will be filmed in the Alps and in Scotland Sure we never lost a war but we never had an officer like him before! EEMSpi Bli WUiAKS XOU KAYDEII IYH THOMAS BRADLEY ronto Symphony Orchestra took over the direction of the second pair of orchestra concerts on the schedule of the Vancouver International Festival The Festival Orchestra which consists of the Vancouver Symphony augmented by the Vancouver Chamber Orchestra and a few key players from the east was heard in a new work by the Mont real composer Pierre Mercure the Dvorak concerto with 'Canadian Zara Nelsova as soloist and finally Shostakovich's boisterous Symphony No 5 As In the opening pair of concerts under Herbert Von Karajan's direction there will be a single change of program for the repeat performance: the Dvorak will be replaced by the Brahma concerto for violin and 4cello in which Miss Nelsova will be joined by the violinist Betty-Jean Hagen Of immediate interest to Montrealers is the Triptych for Orchestra by Mercure which was commissioned by the festival for this concert As the title suggests the work is in three movements Unlike most tri-sectional music however it consists of a single quick movement flanked by two slow movements instead of the more usual order of fast-elow-fast Total ploying time Is eleven minutes The music gives the impression of having a focal-point of tonality almost impressionistic in character although it would not surprfce me to learn that the whole thing had been worked out with a tone-row technique: these days apparently serial writing can be made to sound like Puccini if the composer chooses broad use of the full orchestral forces once again illustrates his well-grounded skill in instrumentation and his instinct for color A factual description of the Triptych cannot go beyond this and from now on my persona reactions must figure in these remarks I thirk the Triptych is a weak work and something less than the Vancouver commission deserved The quality of music cannot be measured in minutes but past experience suggests that Mercure could have made much more of these three short movements The sounds like a short introduction to something much more important which never arrives The quick movement is a frantic explosion of energy in which the showy effects seem to have no more purpose than to conceal the basic lack of substance The final panel of- the Triptych was again in the nature of an introduction this time leading to silence It would be no kindness to say that this wu simply an off-moment for Mercure This mwsiLis was made a full year ago and if the Triptych wu the most the -composer could produce in the intervening time he would have done better to ask for a release from the commitment Zara Nelsova Is really at her best in the romantic works of the 'cello repertoire and there wu every reason to expect her performance of the Dvorak concerto to be one of the highlights of the festival Her full and beautifully controlled tone her fluent finger technique and her eloquent phrasing are everything this ripely romantic work requires All then thing were in evidence In her playing in this concert but unfortunately the orchestral performance did not always meuure up to the soloist Entrances wen sometimes timid and shaky and the winds wen not always accurate Then were some fine passages particularly in tha slow movement but they' wen too often cancelled out by the basic lack of co-ordination Earlier performances have shown us that the festival orchestra is capable of professional playing of a high order and we can assume that a conductor with Walter experience and nputation can lead Jhe Dvorak along with the but of them For these reasons the fault can probably be traced to the division of rehearsal time It's my belief that too much of it wu devoted to the Mercure and the Shostakovich symphony on the assumption that a favorite classic like the Dvorak would present few problems The fallacy hen of course is that the Dvorak 'is a particularly difficult piece with constant changu of tempo within each movement Susskind's best qualitiu came out in the Shostakovich scon It was a clean energetic and thoroughly exciting reading The brilliance and caustic wit of tbe writing wen clearly displayed although the line was allowed to go a little alack in the Largo movement IMiiii-HMR-UlieaiGB THEY ODTSHOCK THEM ALL! 'iirmTtwwrtsui imwOTitiiimiiHiimii'ii Each gives terror a new meaning 1 0 I TS9rj -H ATTEimon All Yobiig Montrealers RIDES BARE LEGGED HOLLYWOOD Riding 'f tv- horse can be fun but not the waySylvi Koscina lovely Italian film star haa to ride one in She ridei bareback barelegged and in a filmy kind of Grecian gown Compensation for the rigors of the bouncing journey was found in Min share-th e-ride companion' who is husky handsome Steve Reeves acting the title role In the Joseph Levine spectacle production You may recognize yourselves when you see Paul Henan and YV s' f'' j'-'TIVS: w-'Mrvr The laughter the loving the happy living of a wonderful guy III Young 1 1 I Ti He raised his daughter with jazz for a lullaby and used his Five Pennies dixieland Glenn Miller Dorsey Goodman and the for baby sitters! THE BIO HOT BOLD MOTION PICTURE ABOUT THE ANGRY YOUNG MODERNS OP TODAY i'j? 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