Garden City Telegram from Garden City, Kansas • Page 5

Vira List, Sinatra Take Leads in State Feature TRUDY "Hey, kids! Our provider here!" He Didn For Role By BOB THOMAS AP Writer HOLLYWOOD AP) "When you tee sornethng you want, you should go after it with all your energies. Those who wait fo things to come to them usually have to be latisfied with left-overs." This bit of Irish sagacity comes from Richard Harris, who ia living evidence of what he preaches. Sure now, would that broth of a lad Richard be playing the king of England if he had waited for the role to fall in lapT Probably not, although Harris is one of the more accomplished actors of Anglo-American show business. Within weeks he will be starting his enactment of King Arthur in the apparently last collaboration of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, "Camelot." The pageant Is being produced by none other than Jack L. Warner, who left his usually august position as Warner Brothers headman to produce the last Lerner-Loewe adaptation, "My Fair Lady." "They really didn't want me," said Irish Richard Harris.

wanted lots of other chaps, but I earnestly desired the role and I insisted that they test me. "I don't believe in all this cant of the big stars who insist that they won't test for a role. I had never played anyUiiug remotely resembling King Arthur before. So how could Jack Warner know that I could handle the role? He didn't, and I was willing to test at my own expense in order to convince him." Fortunately, Harris was spared that indignity. He tested 't Wait to Fall the expense of Warner Broth rs, exhibiting a lusty baritone that had never been heard professionally.

"But I sang vhile I was drunk," Harris ex plained, "so I had plenty practice." His voice end regal bearing convinced the sage of Burbank and Harris was cast as Arthur along with Vanessa Redgrav as Guinevere and Italian Franco Nero as Lancelot. J.L pparently is convinced the play's the thing andhe doesn' iced the box-office insurance of an Audrey Hepburn, who cost him a cool million for "My Fair Lady." Autkerlitd Dealer CITY MONUMINT COMf ANY HuteAaV Ml i. Wf' Opening Sunday at the State Cheater is "Assault on a Queen" pairing Frank Sinatra and Vira Lisi in lead roles. The story deals with a band of adventurers, led by Sinatra, who plot to pirate the Queen Mary on one of her trips to Nassau in the Bahamas. The group raises a sunken U-Boat as its pirate ship and fits it out for a voyage of plunder.

But one of the group, an ex-Nazi U-Boat commander, begins to slip back into the days when plied the Atlantic, ruthlessly and with no regard for human life. Into the picture is woven a triangular love plot. Also topcast in the production are Tony Franciosa, Richard Conte, Al Kjellin and Errol John, Rod Seriing wrote the screenplay, based on a best selling novel by Jack Finney. "Nevada Smith" takes over the State Theater screen Wednesday. Steve McQueen, Karl Maiden, Brian Keith and Arthur Kennedy star in the film with Suzanne Pleshette.

The central figure, a cow country loner, "Nevada is an usregenerate gunslinger played by McQueen. The character is based on a person by that name in Harold Robbins' "Carpetbaggers." Producers claim it is his regeneration which makes the western rank with other all- time greats. Two Walt Disney movies will be paired at the Garden Drive In Sunday through Tuesday. Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette are co-starred for the first in a rollicking comedy, "The Ugly Dachshund." The comedy is based on a novel by G. B.

Stern. When a great Dane puppy grows up with a litter of daschshunds and believes himself to be one of the smaller breed, hilarious accidents result. Suzanne Pleshette, a relatively new star, was first discovered through a photograph in Harpar's Bazaar. Since then she has played in such well know films as "The Birds," "Rome Adventure," "Youngbiood Hawke," and "The Miracle Worker." With the Disney movie Is one of his animated cartoon feature- ttes. "Winnie the Pooh." The beloved Milne characters who roamed the Hundred-Acre Wood with their friend Christopher Robin are all here.

In bringing the characters to life, Disney and his staff have carefully adherred to the original illustrations of Ernest H. Shepard. The story itself is adapted from one of several adventures contained in the book, "Winnie- the-Pooh." Coming Wednesday to the Drive In is "Major with Charlton Heston in a title role. He plays a Union Army officer who commands a company of renegades and dc sorters in a desperate mission through the Southwest. Also a part of the cast is Richard Harris, as a Confederate captain second-in-command of the expedition, and wno is de termincd once the mission is completed, to kill the hard- bitten major.

Baker Adds Arsenic To Bread in Revenge ZAMORA, Mexico (AP)-Police say more than 600 persons suffered from arsenic poisoning after eating bread prepared by a bakery worker who claimed he was "bewitched." Dr. Feline Velarde said Fri day that none of the victims died because the dose of arsenic poured into the dough was rela ively small, causing only minor discomfort for most who ate it Police said the bakery work er, Alfonso Medina, confessed to adding the arsenic to the dough is an act of vengeance agains lis employer, Jose Tijero, be cause Tijero had him be witched. I City Telegram August ll, ivee SUNDAY THRU TUESDAY! "DACHSHUND feature starts 1:25 10:40 9:55 only WAIT DISNEY DACHSHUND Dean JONES Suzanne PLESHETTE CharfeRUGGLES Come 7:00 Starts 8:05 Walt Disney Clown On Playground Ntff TRIATS ft MOM POR KIDDNSI i KATURK TONITII 1:10 to POR H.A.R.M." 10:00 to WILD WINTIR" MMM "RUNAWAY i't THE MEETING Frank Sinatra meets beautiful Virna in the production of "Assault on a Queen" which opens Sunday at the State Theater. Movie Calendar STATE THEATKB "ASSAULT ON THE QUKEN" Sunday through Tuesday. Sunday at 1, 3:15, 5:20, 7:25, and 9:30 p.m.

Weekdays 7:15 and 9:20 p.m. "NEVADA SMITH" Wednesday through Saturday at 7:15 and 9:35 p.m. Satuday at 2 "SPOOK CHASERS" Wednesday at 7 p.m. Dime matinee Thursday at 2 p.m. GARDEN DR1VK IN "UGL.T DACHSHUND" and "WINNIE THE POOH" Sunday through Tuesday at 8:25 and 10:40 DUNDEE" and "SYLVIA" Wednesday through Friday at 8:05 and 10:40 p.m.

"KID RODELO" and "NIGHTMARE IN THE SUN" plus "GIRL HUNTERS" Saturday at 8:05, 9:55 and 1:25 p.m. HURRYI Ckeace! TMlte 7:15 All Color! All FUN! Starts Sunday IN TECHNICOLOR! Sunday's feature 1:00 7:25 ft 9:30.