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HO Thursday. April 7, 1960 DETROIT FREE PRESS ALL-NEGRO OSCAR WINNER mm Orpheus Rides Again I AK 1 I mm today! believe that Orpheus made the sun rise by playing his guitar, a la the Chanticler legend, have a final scene. With their small girl companion they suggest that the spirit of Orpheus, his gift of music, is not dead. Others will play the sun above the horizon. Life and love will go on repeatedly with every new day.

BY HELEN BOWER Free Press Movie Critic Oscar winner from among the five foreign language films nominated for the 1959 Academy award, "Orf eu Negro," or "Black Orpheus," is a modern version of an ancient Greek myth. The Eastman color movie opening Thursday at the Studio Theater is a French entry filmed in Brazil with an all-Negro cast, including the North American actress, Marpessa Dawn. from Way Out There and WAY s- Oliveira), a slender, vivacious, go-getting type. She becomes a jealous fury when she realizes that she has lost Orpheus. At the carnival Eurydice is terrorized by the appearance of her pursuer, symbolically dressed in a skeleton's costume with death's head mask.

Under the direction of Marcel Camus, the car barn setting for Eurydice's accidental death is a weird, eerie foreshadowing of Hades. When Orpheus in despair searches for Eurydice's body, a sequence at a revival meeting takes the place of the descent into Hades. Then Orpheus carries his lifeless love out of the morgue and up on the cliffs of his home. Mira's savage, flaring jealousy defeats her when she accidentally reunites the lovers. TWO LITTLE BOYS who Huw? last Dsssi till iiiinwmiiif-imir Imr lain mi mi 11 as the first space-creature to land on Earth! 'it TiYMD Rio de Ja-niero at Mar-di Gras carnival time provides setting and action.

Jean in's camera work is highly i aginative, ini Mill UTDAIIIE HEPBURN MomovEir CLIFT isM3r Academy Award Winner "THE GOLDEN FISH" COLOR IS ACADEMY AWARDS CLIFF HALL, right, who plays the role of the mayor in "Music Man," happened to meet Ilenny Youngman at lunch. They let the food get cold to talk over old times when Hall was part of the "Baron Munchausen" radio show. Youngman is at the Broadway 1 1 ill I 'first Will IMMIIHIIA I I uproano us SBk WA I mfJ: hit of th space a THE NEW ALL-TIME ACADEMY AWARD CHAMPION HAM RiAPIUAM.Tadi UniiniAn'i Cnrn Pi mi JOHN WlLUAMS now a fly saucerful of screen fun! UUnli ULHUaiVIMirLHIALIIULUIVlMlrl ALU ULAMV Gale Gordon TONIGHT AT 8:00 P.M. MAIL ORDERS FILLED EVENINGS: Sun. thru $2 65.

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J1.50, SI.25; Sot Hoi. $2 25, $1.75, SI 50. PLUS SPECIAL EASTEB VACATION MATINEES AT 1:30 FRIDAY APRIL 18, 19, 20. 21 ond 22. Prices Incl To.

BUT OFFERS MUCH 'Peer Gynt Play Almost Too Long BY J. DORSEY CALLAGHAN Free Pres Drama Critic Vanguard Theater reopened its little playhouse at 58 E. Columbia with a preview showing of Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" 140 BAGLEY A''. WO. 2-7135 exploring Mello life in a slum area on the cliffs above Rio and dipping wildly into the costumed carnival scenes.

Knowledge of the Orpheus legend helps in understanding the story. Orpheus, who played the lyre, could literally charm the birds from the trees. When his wife, Eury-dice, died, he descended to Hades, where Pluto permitted him to lead her back to the upper world on condition that he would not look back to see if she was following. From an anxiety of love, Orpheu3 did look back, and Eurydice was lost to him forever in the shades. THE MOVIE STORY does not follow legend exactly.

The innocent girl, Eurydice (Miss Dawn), comes to visit a cousin in Rio for the first time because she is afraid that a strange man in her village has come to kill her Orpheus is a streetcar motorman who helps direct her to her cousin's house and later appears as the cousin's neighbor. He plays the guitar, and leads his neighbors in their carnival "group. Breno Mello, the Orpheus, is bronze-skinned and stalwart. He and the gently beautiful Miss Dawn are exceedingly well chosen to be the romantic principals. Before the arrival of Eurydice, Orpheus has been engaged to Mira (Lourdes De BARGAIN DAY Today ALL-DAY PREVIEW SEE TWO FEATURES "Who Was That Lady?" P'" "Visit to a Small Planet' A Paramount Picture EVES, at 8:30 P.M.

(Sun. 7:30) MAT. Hols. 2:00 P.M. (Wed.

1:30 P.M.) EASTER VACATION MATINEES APRIL 18, 19, 20. 21, 22 AT 1:30 Tuesday night. The play, which will be pre 1 1 en mi sented nightly except Mondays, had its first public performance I I ItiU AM. NOW! I I TTEELE RJ EEWS SIPECHAQ. (FEAlTILDnE! During the evening there were instances of sheer beauty in the handling of lighting effect.

The entire stage settings consisted of a pair of ladders and a number of planks, which served to indicate mountains, a cabin in the woods and Peer Gynt's home as well as the Troll King's palace. SPECTACLE OF SPECTACLES! The Mass Marriage Of rhousands Of Persian Women! FULL ft The Charge Of The Knife-Studded Chariots! The Human Juggernaut Of Shield, Sword And Spear! THE EXHAUSTING role of Peer Gynt was played excellently by John Gregory, with Alice Rolph as Aase, Terri Davis as Solveig, Diane Mar-golis as Ingrid, and Loree Marks in a virtuoso performance as a number of creatures of fantasy. Other outstanding performances included Hakim Abba Fagga's cigar smoking Troll King, Stuart Stahl as the enigmatic button molder and William Samples as Aslak. PLUS: In Gorgeous Color! "OFF TO THE RACES'1 AND LATE WORLD NEWS FLASHES! Wednesday night. The choice of Ibsen's fantasy nn human behavior serves to illuminate the purposes of the theater group.

Future offerings will be from the classics not frequently presented. "Peer Gynt" is a long play as judged by today's commercial theater. With two 10-minute intervals, the final curtain did not descend until shortly after midnight. Any play of this length places a burden on the audience and the players and brings the entire production close to being an endurance test. For those who are up to it, though, "Peer Gynt" has much to offer in the current production.

IX THE MATTER of individual performances, it has been very well cast. As an over-all production, though, it needs tightening and rather more attention to nuance. The occasion of Aase's death, for instance, did not share the tenderness and sweetness of mood found in the poem. Again, the emphasis was on a stridency at times, rather than upon strength. In the matter of furious action, the company was most impressive.

The incident of the palace of the Troll King was kept at white heat, and the result was about as exciting a witches' sabbath as one could wish. BEGINS APR. II MATS. WED. AND SAT.

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Tickets $1.45, $2.50, S3. 00 at Box Office and Marwil's N'Land and E'Land. Special group rates available Phone orders accepted at WO 3-3863 I NEW I960 VALIANTS See LEO ADLER Classified Ad THrJfmG and four Qraror JoyAsJirrr COLOR The direction by William A. Smart people are Gregory stressed the comedy values as a way of highlighting the human frailty and silly pride of the title role. dining and dancing nightly at the ICEHWOOD DON PABLO and his ORCHESTRA 5 iomr riiMs wm BLACK ORPHEUS" Ns Cover, Minimum, or Door Charge KE 7-7377 (BsEEtEay Starts Today! CHOICE MAtPf SSA OAWH MIMO MILIO SMnplT ky JACOUtS VIOT DlraclW ky MARCH CAMUS ff4m4 ky SACHA O0IMfl A lOf II fHMt.

IK THE ALL NEW WHETHER the director was well advised in using the modern incidental music by Harald Saeverud instead of the familiar music by Grieg is a matter of personal preference. We found the Saeverud music more In the nature of nound effect than as background for fantasy. SEATS NOW THUR. 8:30 P.M. EASTMANCOLOR L-nffiatfi FOR LYAE.L SMITH ESENTATION IUIS Ol ROC LOUIS DM ROCHEMONT'S 2 OF THE MOST HONORED mq PICTURES OP" THE YEAR Stadia LIVERNOIS W.

DAVISON Produced in Cinemiracle Eastman Color lot Offitl Oati Diilf 10 l.a. ti 9 MAIL ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY HELD OVER; 2ND BIG WEEK! Winner of many world- 17T MKiui it Inst Held Over For a second week beginning Thursday, "The 400 Blows" will be held over at the Surf and Coronet Theaters. The French movie about a boy who became an involuntary delinquent stars young Jean-Pierre Leaud In his first picture. wide awards! WO I-37SI my infill Club Alamo BRAND NEW SHOW AND BAND Tuesday 2 Bands with Panchiro Conlnuom Dancing Thursday Latin Night plus Arthur Murray Dancers. OPEN Winner of the New York Film Critics Prize as best foreign film of the- year; of the Cannes Film Festival Award; of the Prix Melies of the.Paris Film Critics, and Nominated by the Motion Picture Academy for the "best story and screen play of the year.

ALSO A DIABOLICAL MYSTERY "THE DEVIL STRIKES AT NIGHT!" MASONIC AUDITORIUM STARTS FRI. 8:20 If Frl. tni Sat 8 20. Mat. Stniay 220 S.

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"As Of Today," is a daily and Sunday feature on Free Press sports pages. Lyall Smith is one of many fop-flight writers and columnists who make the morning hree Press so much fun to read for so many Michigan families. Gil Forster Quintet Cliff Smith, emcte Special Roadhouse Style Club Steak Dinner. $1.75 aaam -aHNtlaBL HI I I AWARDS klfUiU mm LUNCHEONS, DINNERS QUETS PART ESH ENTERTAINMENT I COCKTAILS 3 STARS featirlna PLEASE NOTE: AN INNOVATION 31 I CHILI Z'ijoT- nrnnrn IN THEATER PROGRAMMING! For the convenience of those who may wish to se one but not both of these features, thev will be run on ALTERNATE SCHEDULES each day. Today.

"Room at the Top" will be shown at :05, "Diary of Anne Frank'' MASONIC April 29 AUDITORIUM 8:20 $1 65. $2.20. $2.75. $3.30. $3.83 FNal Downtown Grlnncll'i.

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