Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, January 13, 1963, Image 19

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Newspaper Page TextEUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Sunday, Jan. 13, 1963- Page 5B Picture Previews 'Qypsy', 'Bar abbas' Opening in Eugene This Week At first glance, it might seem that the week's two big movies "Gypsy," opening Wednesday at the Fox, and "Barabbas," slated to open Friday at the Mc Donald are just more chapters in Hollywood's familiar success story. "Gypsy" follows the time hon ored formula of a musical based on a Broadway play based on a popular autobiography. And "Barabbas" takes on even surer route a spectacular based on a short passage in the Bible which has been expanded into a lengthy movie. Both movies have been re leased long enough now for the movie industry to consider them box office hits. And both have been widely reviewed. In both, cases, reviews indi cate the movies have something above the ordinary to offer movie-goers. "Gypsy" is the story of the climb to fame of Gypsy Rose Lee probably the best-known "stripper" of the century. Na talie Wood is cast as Gypsy, and Rosalind Russell portrays Out the Other By DON BISHOFF " Of lite Register-Guard A few notes from a brief holiday vacation to Chicago: The city is still basically the wonderfully cornipt, hard nosed place it's been for years firemen accused of looting burning buildings, hoods accused of being behind-the-scenes operators of plush new night spots, posh motels alleged to be housing world's oldest prof essioners. But a Loop news stand vendor almost ruined the whole Image. Visitor stopped to buy, a paper, vendor actually said, ?'Thank you." Big city is NOT the place to spend New Years Eve. Places to go out to fall into two classifications; too expensive and too crowded. We hit one that combined the two. Chicago has become a city of freeways, perhaps surpass ing Los Angeles. But like Los Angeles', they are generally anything but free of traffic at rush hour. Pilot on return flight to Portland shook up his pas sengers a bit while going through his "We-will-be-flying-at-30,000-feet-at-a-speed-of-S00-miles-an-hour" routine. Began nam ing cities plane would pass over, momentarily forgot the route to Portland. Apparently somebody in the cockpit had a map plane made it on schedule. , , .. " ' Upon arrival in Portland, passengers were told plane would be unable to continue to Seattle because airport was fogged in, no landing possible. Amid much grumbling, Seattle bound passengers climbed off plane headed for 3M-hour bus ride. As they walked into terminal, they heard rival line an nouncing takeoff of flight to Seattle. WHILE ON THE subject of jet travel, comes this story alleged to be true from Herb Caen's San Francisco Chronicle column: Red-faced stewardess sat down beside passenger on San Francisco to New York flight, vowed, "I'm going to kill that pilot." Went on to explain: "This is my first flight, and he told me that the air pres sure on this plane is peculiar the only way it works properly is if all the john seats and lids are down. Every time somebody left the john I went in and put the lid down. "I must have done it 57 times before I caught on." THE CREW ROSTER for the nuclear ship Savannah, which visited Portland this past week, carries the names of both a Batista and a Castro. But the former is a messman from Connelly Springs, N.C., and the latter a laundryman from the Bronx, N.Y., so there's apparently no Cuban crisis aboard the ship. , AT RECENT kickoff luncheon for March of Dimes, Dr. Tom Warlick had to make a phone call about March of Dimes business. Found it necessary to borrow a dime for call from fellow drive worker. YOUNG FATHER REPORTS his daughter eagerly took Christmas gift "Chatty Cathy" doll to first kindergarten "show and tell" session after holidays. Only to find that three ohcr girls also brought theirs and all four dolls were identical blondes. Some consolation came to each, however, when they found that when strings pulled, each doll had something different to say. ....... AT THE JAYCEE'S Distinguished Service Awards banquet Thursday, James Lemert, fruit and vegetable grower, was named outstanding young farmer. In acceptance speech pro- . ceeded to chide Jaycecs for not having any Lane County vege tables on the menu. MERV DAHL, First National Bank's Eugene main branch manager, got up to make acceptance speech for Senior First Citizen Award at same banquet. Started with traditional joke, which was an involved one about man who accompanied his wife to church after years of not attending. -' Suspense built up, then Dahl forgot the punch line. Called to his wife for help, but the line was lost in the laughter over his memory problem. FIRST NATIONAL, incidentally, was the subject of what must qualify as the quip of the week. Joe Richards told a Chamber of Commerce luncheon Friday that he had just heard details on construction plans for the bank's new building at Broadway and Oak Richards said he understood the bank planned to construct a time-and-tcmperature sign in the center of the site and then have the new building revolve around it the new Lowrey chord organ (IS her mother. Mother, it seems, sees a sec ond chance to hit the big time through her youngest daughter, (in real life, June Havoc), who tires of Momma and runs off. That leaves Gypsy, who is not very talented in most show busi ness fields. So Gypsy becomes a stripper. Fourteen songs, including the hits "Everything's Coming Up Roses," "Small World," and Together Wherever We Go," are included in the movie. Some miscellaneous statistics gleaned from industry press re leases about "Gypsy" indicate that Miss Wood's wardrobe for the movie 14 costumes cost $25,000. But press photos show that in many scenes, it's a case of Miss Wood being Natalie un attired. This is also Miss Russell's 45th motion picture. Other stars in the film include veteran actor Karl Maiden and Paul Wallace. The Green Sheet, a movie re- At Local Theaters This Week FOX Ending Tuesday, Tara Bulb." "The Valiant." Starting! Wednesday. "Gypsy." HE1LIG Plavins Sunday through Tuesday, "The Notorious Landlady" and "Who Was That Lady?" Open ing Wednesday, "Blue Hawaii" and co-feature. McDONALD Playing t hrouffh Thursday, "Carry On Teacher" and "uocior in Love, starting Friday, "Barabbas" and "Cash on Demand." McKENZIE (Springfield) Sunday through Tuesday, "Veran the Un believable" and "A Very Private Affair." Starting Wednesday, "It's Only Money" and "First Space Ship on Venus." NEW EUGENE DRIVE IN (Glen wood) Through Tuesday, "Stalag 17" and "Shane." Beginning Wed nesday, "Parrlsh" and "Splendor in the Grass." NORTH END DRIVE IN Endlnff Sunday, "13 West Street" and "The War Lover." Beginning Friday, Under Ten Flags" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight," Feature Times SUNDAY (Subject to Change) FOX Taras Bulba. 1:10. 5:10. :10. The Valiant, 3:30, 7:30. HEILIG The Notorious Land lady, 1:15, 5:40, 10. Who Was That Lady?, 3:45, S:15. McDONALD Carry on Teacher, 1:20. 5. 8:40. Doctor In Love. 2:55. 6:35, 10:15. McKLMZIB (SprlnKfleld) Veran, the Unbelievable, 1:30, 4:40, 7:50. A Very Private Affair, 3, 6:15, 0:30. NEW EUGENE DRIVE IN (Glen wood) Stalag 17, 7:25. Chane, 10:20. NORTH END DRIVE IN 13 Wcat Street, 7, 10:10. The War Lover, 6:20. view publication of the Film Estimate Board of National Or ganizations, was laudatory in reviewing the film. "Loud, long and lusty," the reviewers wrote, citing especially its "infectious musical numbers." And perhaps because of Gyp sy's occupation, they .listed it for mature adults and youth. The PTA rates it for "adults only." "Barabbas," starring Anthony Quinn in the title role, begins with the story told of the man in the Bible: Barabbas, a thief, is offered by Pontius Pilate to the people of Jerusalem in place of Jesus. The rest of the plot is conjec ture, adapted by the noted play wright Christopher Fry from the novel b Par Lagerkvist, 1951 Nobel Prize winner in lit erature. As written by Lagerkvist and Fry, Barabbas has quite a life. He celebrates his unexpected freedom in a tavern, with drunk en friends. Later he sees Jesus' body removed from the cross, and scoffs at predictions that He will rise from the dead. Barabbas, however, has not had his last encounter with the Christians. For crimes commit ted later, he is sentenced to 20 years in the Italian sulphur mines, and is chained to an other slave a Christian. Later, he becomes a gladiator in Rome, TuTSoT DRIVE IN warn Hwjr. 99 w., 1)4 Ml. No. of O'Pau OPEN 6:30 SHOW 7:00 OMm (TORS . rests wn ALAN ROD LADDSTEIGER IKHJIitMl and meets other Christians. Eventually, he finds that he must come to terms with bis own feelings about the "new religion." The moive has been widely reviewed in the church press and in religious magazines. Most 'of these reviewers were not very enthusiastic about the movie, and some attacked it on theological grounds. A reviewer for Presbyterian Life wrote that Fry, who adapt ed the story for the movie, "achieves a brooding, cogita tive, Scandinavian mood through sparse, economical, tightly -strung dialogue." This "taut" script, ho writes, "Also provides an appropriate setting for the occasionally lyrical and truly beautiful line to sing out as it should." "But the camera," he con tinues, "does not believe the script." Instead, he writes, the camera features spectacular, "dazzling" pictures which do not fit with the script. "It is much better on the cars than the eyes," he concludes, "and if one keeps his wits, it is, in all, an interesting movie." The Film Estimate Board reviewers didn t see this con trast in the movie, which they termed a "monumental produc tion" and a long movie which manages to "preserve realism." They rated it for adults and ma ture youth. NOW thru TUE. 3,1 j' jZi I1IU I she5 I AEKD K I L... Ill rum I oA mu , COLUMBIA PICTURES presMits k FRED KOHLUAR-RICrlARO OUINE PRODUCTION to ALSO TONY CURTIS JANET LEIGH DEAN MARTIN "WHO WAS THAT LADY' , STARTS TODAY i Opens Today 2:30 Movie 3 i nWRRYlFZANUCK-.,. I hap man Miss S X I 5-YEAR OR... This.' X ) 50.000-MILE X j GUARANTKR ON... M SuDeT I Imperial Chrysler Pljmonlb W , " m 1 Valiant M- DellClOUS I BARKER MOTORS INC. f RSNSrJS H 10SO olive Kuiene. Ora. M II 11 JT Til I SI 29' '111 J Available I 1 Vfc chocolate & MI ' ' j - U strawberry, tjf . l0HIT t- ARCTIC CIRCLE t ) fXt Qfalanl? drive.. cy j) WtCIIClU Broadway at Ferry (a D E . fwST oon ffli , musEEmaEmsssn .r ,7,! holdeh taylor PREMiNGEB Register.Guard want Ads me personal story i bfv . Bring Fast Result. 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