EUGENE 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,
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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.
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