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.11 lTnsium.u 1:1 mmiiay, ai'kil i3 IT MORI OUT 'At Random By Harold V. Tim Ne Fi lm a9 SWMitLV as 55 Cohen Q.UEErJ OF New ANN YOUNG An Honest Confession I am not the least bit ashamed to say that I tfAajVV rammc came away from "David and Lisa" with my eyes damp I Gmnms'TKAm'SpmsjrK i aVWia. la Vext weeA and dewy. It is a profoundly moving jueturc. The examination of two disturbed adolescents has been done with delicacy, perception, understanding and, c3acfiie in Condifon Technicolor Omar Shnrlf, Middle Knst star plucked for a Bedouin role and who certainly deseiAes the (Hear nomination he has as best supporting actor (though Mr.

Bolt's script has him shedding teal a little ton often over Mr. O'Toole's departures); Anthony (Juinns roughly humorous Arab chief tain; and Claude Rains' quietly given role of devious political advisor. Alec Culnness, ns smoothly sure as he Is, doesn't have the author given characterization of truly individual 1'rlnce Fcisul to work with. Jack Hawkins has a distinctly unreal Ceneral Alien-by on whom to waste his fine talents. Jose Ferrer, in a vignette of a sadistic Turkish Bet, has a convincing reality of person if the scene Itself has none.

Another In the land of make believe as far as Bolt characterization goes is Anthony Quaylo, as Colonel Brighton; and I am tempted to put Arthur Kennedy's war correspondent there, hovering as the character does on the borderline between reality and imagination. Capture of Aipibu I found believable and likeable O'Toole's two orphan servants, Michel Ray as Far-raj and John Dimech as Daud, and the Bedouin who, as O'Toole's lirst guide, came to an unhappy bloody end at a desert well. In one major point at least the film is not historically accurate. Thai's the dashing Lawrence-led capture of Aqaha. Lawrence did not capture the supply port, and when the port was taken It was not hy a dashing camel charge.

But what Is more Important than the film's historical facts, or the trivial matter of O'Toole's being at least 12 Inches taller than thr real Lawrence who was an extremely small man. is that the film does not give off the general large air of absorbing reality that excellent drama does give. It is too long, though full of beautiful photography and the best scenes ever made of the desert, and too slow. As for Mr. O'Toole himself, his acting abilities are unmistakably line.

The scene in which he tells the bartender at the officer's club that bis hoy Bedouin servant "likes your lemonade" is a gift for the memory beautifully done. But as I said before, he Is sometimes hardly cinematic in his delivery; and in this opinion, his sensitivity and talent don't rate him an Oscar this time. GIYNIS JOHNS CHARUE RUGGfES UUREL COOEWIN UHDABMJIH. ii ii TOOI.K As Turks, and thereby helcd bring the war to a quicker end, Mr. O'Toole has in his role, as has been so often said, an enigmatic man to portray.

To write a review of "Lawrence of Arabia" without using the word "enigma" hardly seems possible, for the real Lawrence, an illegitimate son of an Irish baronet, didn't shape to the pattern other men expected of him. The Ileal Lawrence After 1 1 is victories for the Arabs, his eolonclship, his renown i his world wide publicity was due in great part to the newspaper stories of war correspondent Lowell Thomas he enlisted in the RAF as an ordinary aircraftman, under an assumed name. When forced out of the RAF because his identity was uncovered by the press, he managed to get into the tank corps, again under an assumed name, and in the low- c.st tank of private. He lias heen called great man; he has been called a fraud. But whatever he was, happily the makers of "Lawrence of Arabia" did not make it their business to psychoanalyze him, or to try to solve "the Lawrence enigma." Producer Sam Spiegel and Director David I-ean simply made it their business to tell a slory about a man placed by fate in an historical situation he controlled.

They did it on such a scale that their effort won them ten Academy Award nominations, one for "Best Picture." The film might get the award, that and several others without feeling in the least the lack of appreciation here. But I find it considerably less an Oscar film than the other Spiegel-Lean winner, "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957 J. The 'Impressive' Hanks In the impressive ranks of stars, the vividly capturing roles to mo wine those of 4. I a HAYS! FOR Awards "BEST ACTRESS" S7 (Z Angeli's sister, is in Paris picking up her divorce. Ilelene ('rrill, who has analyzed the handwriting of such diwrse personalities as Henry Kuril II, l-cwrHt Sal-tonstall, Iting rnsliy.

Art 1. 1 I mid Mickey Ulii ii, is bark home practicing her specially at Well-ster Hall. Thai's just a skip, Imp and a jump trimi i hen-Icy High School and Carnegie Tech, where llclcnc re-ceivetl her early education. After llnishini' her sophomore year at Tech, she went to Columbia I'niwrsity, re-ceied a bachelors deuree in psychology, became seriously interested in handwriting analysis and divided in make it her career. Of Mickey Cohen, she says "he actually tried to disguise his handwriting." Mickey's now in prison.

Apparently he couldn't fool aiilindy. Pinl The Kirds is coming but the man who trained them lias came. His name's Kay Berwick and he was in town the other dav to talk up the Al fred Hitchcock picture which turns thousands of leathered friends into feathered enemies who threaten to take over the world. Now Berw ick will probably have to begin training cats to take over the birds. Pittsburgh looked different to him.

It should. He hasn't been here since Dick Powell was the emcee at the Stanley, and Berwick played there as half of the brother-nnd-sister rope twirling-aud-dancing act of Maidie and Kay. It was a good act, too. Ray had only one concern after "The Birds" was finished. He had trained 100 sea gulls to land on the heads of people.

Then Hay had to get rid of them, so he took the gulls down to a beach between Santa Monica and Malihu in the dead of night and set them loose. Since there have been no complaints so far from bathers who suddenly found sea gulls swooping down and sitting on top of their bends, he assumes the birds is went. A lot of Pittsburghers liked the singing impressions of Bob Francis at Con-neaut Lake's Reach Club last slimmer and they'll be happy to know that he's coming into town for a week's engagement at the Horizon Kooni Jerry I'd win, the new KDKA radio news director, has checked in fresh from an Acapulco honeymoon and he and his bride are house hunting. Meanwhile, station manager Fred Walker has bought a home in Old Yirginia Manor and hopes to bring his wife and two young- daughters here from Cleveland in mid-May and more cocktail lounges are going in for live music these days, the Three Brothers in Squirrel Hill for another. It lias hooked the Don Wade foursome for Friday and Saturday night entertainment Dorothy S.

Kodgers agrees about the Smothers Brothers. "Those boring vulgarities," she writes, "don't go with their fresh young faces and American music." PITTSBURGH'S FAVORITE AMI. ItOOYl Prenenfx Ine fabulous rn ortvtn JA7Z CAM: above all, affection. Hum are no cliches, no distortions, no quick resolutions. The movie is both tragic and humorous, trenchant and troubling, harrowing and hopeful.

flip porformatu-es are re markablp. Keir Dullea, as the boy, is so real I had to keep pinching myself to make sure ht wasn't just acting; Janet Margolin, as the girl, dries the throat and wets the palms; the psychiatrist of Howard PaSilva is a model of compassion and restraint, and the sickrningly solicitous mother of Neva Patterson makes the blood run cold. "David and takes a lot out of you, but it puts something there that wasn't there before. New York has a new rah-aret-theatr, ul Society, on Second Ave. and Ii St.

It is owned and operated by a ritt.sbinsii boy, Bernard Brnnk. Tbe np ning two act revue Is "New York Coloring Book," music by Jerry Powell, lyrics by Michael McWhinney and directed by Bill IVnn, 'who a il -Medium Hare." and 'Till It In Writing" at Chicago's Happy Medium. It 8 1'OSM ihle At the Holiday House, Xavier Cugat, introducing his phenomenal bongo player, Jack Del Rio, says "he's from Argentina. He may he their next president. Don't laugh.

They've tried everybody else" Walt Harper plays for thr Carnegie Tech Phi Kappa fraternity's spring formal at the Adams House tonight and the Delta Upsilon's at the Churchill Country Club tomorrow, the first of more than 40 college proms and concerts Harper's band will be doing during April, May and June. Academy Award winning screenwriter Abby Slunn may soon have to start thinking- alniut Inserting a role Into one of his for his niece, ninth-grader Trudy Sack, of llobart Street. Last week at the Drama Festival, she won the "Best Actress" award In the junior division. John G. Fuller hopes Aristotle Onassis will some clay decide to spend part of his time in California.

He also hopes the Greek moneybags will consider purchasing the old Buster Keaton mansion. He further hopes Onassis will pose for a snapshot beside it. Then Fuller could caption the picture: "Aristotle Contemplating the Home of Buster." An Offer Show me a better dance team than Krascia and Tybee. of the Cugat revue, and I'll make you a gift of two free seats, tourist class, on the first passenger flight to the moon. Brascia, by the way, is almost a dead-ringer for Jose Greco.

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HEAR HE IRH5P0KSI8lt" IHE HI! SONG RQM "PAPA" WtlWIftlM mu SINATRA airnaoa JACKIE fiLEASON Cf'tOt IttUWI JACK JONES SARAH VAUGHAH rr 1.4 iUffi-rvnt. It Musi of fill, in ils oh tcrrifyinf irwy, if is a love Ktury LLJ RUTH WHITE PAUL FIX a i i rvnvt' of Arabia Slam Vvtrr (PToolv, Film at ISixon By MclNt KMV IT IS undoubtedly unfair, in some ways, for a lilm to have the advance towering reputation that "Lawrence of Arabia" lias. To whom much is given, much, as the preachment goes, is expected, and with the lavishly heaped praise that lias U'cu given "1-awrence," plus its stock of admirably gittod stars and all its Academy Award nominations more than any oihe motion picture the very most is expected of it; indeed by this reviewer it was happily expected. The Academy Award for best actor of the year was. in my mind, already conceded former Peter O'Toole.

said to he one of the two greatest weeks months -before I saw the preview showing at the Nixon Theater. In leaving the theater Wednesday night I felt not so much an admiration for Mr. OToole as for the photography of Fred Young. In the scenes of the Arabian Desert, you actually see heat shimmer; an oncoming rider looks at tirst like a wavering, diffused, battling dark ghost; the color is used more heallti- i tuny man in any oilier nun 1 can remember. That photography is the asset of the film is ia pity when yon consider that hums forty-two minutes I have to te filled up and that in view ot the i.avvrrncc Arabia" rating, people have every right to expect an equal brilliance in acting, dialogue and plotting.

A Disappointing Script Mostly the film was a disappointment hero because of Robert Bolt's script. He based it on T. M. Lawrence's own book, "Seven Pillars of Wisdom," and though Lawrence, in a letter to a friend, wrote that "the Seven Pillars I feel is parlly theater," Mr. Holt, in his screen adaptation, chose to make the story wholly theater.

Theatricality dominates in pauses, emphasis, cuts, poses, relentlessly in whole (bunks of conversations. The script seems written more for the stage than the screen; and Mr. O'Tonle, in some of his acting, might as well be declaiming in a drama at Stratford-on-Avon. In the title role of the Ki it sh army lieutenant who, during World War I successfully led the Arab tribes in their 'light against the Shi SINCE 1900 That's about 59,762,452 Shrimp ago And 4,732,981 Lobsters ago And 19,457,664 Imperial Crabs ago And gosh! all those clams and oysters and other seafood delicacies P.S. We've enjoyed servtnq every one of thorn.

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