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J2 THUHSDAV, NOVEMBER tt.'ltU ' MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MfcuruMU. ur,uwi , . TJiy Fcair Lady To Be IHlollyvoods Most Costly By VERNON SCOTT UPI Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (UPI) An enormous crystal chandelier winked its myriad lights down on Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison for the grand ballioom scene of "My Fair Lady" when a hoarse voice shattered tne air, : "Let's be quiet on the set!" The voice belonged to George Cukor, who is directing the movie version of Broadway's greatest musical. And he was shouting at more than 200 ex tras who milled around under the lights. Because "My Fair Lady" is the most costly pic ture ever made in Hollywood ($17 million), each minute's de lay on the Warner Bros, stage wasted tnousanas oi aouari. " Miss Hepburn and Harrison held their places at stage cen ter while Cukor instructed the extras and bit players on their assignments. . The set was brightly illumi nated, a sunburst of elegant costumes, extravagant jewelry, beautiful women and debonair men. Hair stylists and makeup , specialists circulated among the actors. Ready for another take, Cu kor called, "Roll 'em,'' and the action began. Suddenly Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins came vibrantly alive as Audrey and Harrison spoke their line" Relax Between Scenes ' : When the cameras stopped grinding . the performers re- , Miss Hepburn smiled brightly when asked how the picture was going. , "Wonderfully," she said. "I find it more ecstatic than hard 'work. Professionally it's the grandest thing that ever hap pened to me." Harrison, never considered a superstar before "My Fair Lady," has the distinction of being the only actor to star in two pictures the combined cost of which is $57 millionVCleo patra" and "My Fair Lady." He was asked whether he thought the picture would match the New York production for quality and artistic accom plishment. - ' "I should certainly hope so," he said. Key Tn Success Cukor is the key to success or failure for "My Fair Lady." H is the most recent of many distinguished movie directors who have been put on the spot in developing a smash Hroaci way hit Into a smash boxolfice film. In the past Hollywood tins fallen woefully short ot doing justice to great musicals "South Pacific," "Carousel," "Oklahoma," "Guys and Dolls," "Gentlmen Prefer Blondes." No matter how big WEISFI ELD'S s FEATURE FOR A CHRISTMAS . . . JrTHE WORLD'S " iTr' MOST HONORED WATCH. W1TTNAUER 2-DIAMOND, 17-JEWEL "GAIETY Anti-maRnetic with shockguard movement, wv oreaKaoie mainspring, lear- mmm m Chun r-rA krAAl lOW AS S O0 A MONTH w - LADY'S 17-JEWEL, 8 0IAMONO LONGINES i Anti-mag-ietic with unbreakable mainspring. 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With these things In mind, Cukor said, "my fondest hope is to keep the Shawvian wit in STARTS JANUARY, MM tOMQINE SYMPHONETTE 18 LONQ PLAY RECORD. BOO Screen Star Audrey Hepburn Harrison (R) and Jeremy Brett the movie along with the beauty and romance' of the play. And I want to make it clear that we are making a motion pic ture, not a photographed stage. play." Shoots In Continuity Cukor is shooting in continu ity, a rare circumstances in movies. The reason is the dif ficulty Audrey would have had transferring her characteriza tion of Liza back and forth from the wretched ragamuffin or a flower girl to the splendid lady in the latter part of the laiory.. . . The director's responsibility is J awesome, f ilm rights alone cost $5 '4 million. Miss Hep burn's salary is $1 million. And a half million dollars was spent on costumes alone. The breath-taking sets cost an additional million dollars and occupy all of six cavernous sound stages. Another stage houses wardrobe, makeup and hair styling centers. But great gobs of money and overwhelm ing sets nave lanen in me past to breathe life into a filmed Broadway musical. My Fair Lady may be the exception. Says Cukor: "We are getting an absolutely wonderful per formance from Rex Harrison, and our girl Audrey is thrilling as Eliza. We're just about half way through now, and in all hon esty I can say the picture is living up to my dreams." 1IW4 Hrlrnse Cukor, along with Production FRI.-SAT. ALL NEXT WEEK Your favorite 7.99 SUBURBANS are specially priced 5 MAIL OKDCRS PROMPTLY PILLED r in scene from "My Fair Lady," m which she plays the role of Liza m the filming by Warner Bros. (UPI) - Designer Cecil Beaton has worked on "My Fair Lady" for more than a year. Rehearsals with the cast began last June and the cameras began rolling last Aug. 12. Production will be completed near Christmastime and release in theaters is sched uled for late next year. Choreographer Hermes Pan (his real name), who also work ed on "Cleopatra," says, "This is the perfect blend of story, dance and music. "There are 24 different music al sequences, more than in any otner picture. , The question arises, will the ponderous weight of money, Jav ish sets, blinding costumes, huge screen and hundreds of extras crush out the tender lit tle love , story of the haughty English patrician and the beau tiful guttersnipe? A resounding, unqualified "no" is the answer from every one connected with the picture. There are many who believe It will surpass the stage ver sion. Jack L. Warner, big chief of the studio, says "My Fair Lady" is a milestone production for the whole world of entertain ment. Naturally, he is not alto gether objective, but he has been around longer than any other studio mogul and knows his business. Predict Record He says: "The picture Is a culmination of the great artistic and technical resources which we have developed over the 97 years ... We are certain My Fair Lady will be the finest motion picture ever made." It will have to be a humdinger to match the original. The musical opened in New York in March, 1956, and ran continuously for six and a halt years, closing after 2,717 per formances in September of last year. It broke all records for musicals. , In London it did almost as well. It endured 2,090 perform ances from April, 1958, until I July of this year. Additionally it has been translated into many languages for long runs in Ja pan, Iceland, Mexico, Israel, Germany and in South America and Scandinavia. In the United States is has almost become a folk classic of turn-of-the-century England. It has grossed more than $60 million and sold more than 6 million record albums. But more importantly, "My' Fair Lady" evokes a special. proprietary warmth in the peo ple who have seen It. More than anything else it is this feeling that the movie must engender. Almost everybody in Hollywood hopes the picture will do just that. SIT IIOWN! OLYMPIA, Wash. (UPI) -Patrons of establishments where alcoholic beverages are dis pensed by the drink may not be served while standing up un der the terms of a regulation enforced by the state liquor con trol board. Brazil, 'Giant of South Has Long To Go in Building Up Industrial System By JOSEPH SIMS United Press International RIO DE JANEIRO (UPI) - Some of the most beautiful women of the worm Daine on Rlo's handsome beaches, many of them "the national tvDe" golden, tawny mulat tos who have the blood of sev eral races and the innocent sen suality of carnival gaiety. Brazil is a racial adventure. Within one family the father may have the features of a Japanese, the mother an Indi an, a daughter a ugnt SKinnea Negro and a son blond fair and blue eyes. Immigrant waves from Ger many. Poland, Japan, itaiy ana other countries have been lured here by the promise of a land of plenty. This huge non-Spanish (most Brazilians have no idea what a tamale" or a "taco".is) Latin American country boasts such thorough assimilation that ra cial incidents are practically unknown. From the arid, desert ranges in the northeast to tne pampa wheat plains of the south, Bra zil offers variety in other ways. Its geographic conditions vary from .the inaccessible, dense jungle of the Amazon basin, the high center plateau where the capital city ot Brasilia was constructed, to the hilly south central region where nearly half of Brazil's population lives. lives. Builds Industrial System Lately. Brazil has been build ing up an impressive industrial system to satisfy domestic needs for television sets and refrigerators, automobiles and oil tankers. But the "giant of the south" Brazil makes up the eastern coastal bulge of South America has a long way to go. Brazil s mineral ana nyaro- electrlc potential for the most part goes untapped because of poor communications, sparse population and totally inade quate transportation. There are tew pavea roaas in the interior. The railway sys tems are ancient and unrelia ble. Telegrams sent to some in terior cities take weeks to ar rive. Foreign exchange earn ings still depend mainly on raw materials mostly coffee where world prices are unsta ble. Her currency, the cruzeiro, is one of the world's weakest and she faces a worsening for eign trade position. ' Successive governments have built up a foreign debt of 1.8 billion dollars to United States and other international lenders. Her leaders say they are try ing to curb ' government spend ing and halt inflation. But so far they have not been success ful inflation last year was more than SO per cent above the previous year; this year it is expected to reach over 65 per cent. Tremendous potential, how ever, Is tn the country. Brazil has enormous deposits of man ganese and iron ore, nickel, chrome, diamonds, quartz, tungsten, coal, mica, tantaite and oil. She has 40,000 miles of navigable rivers containing three of the world s five largest waterfalls) with hydroelectric potential estimated at 15.5 mil lion kilowatts. With U. S. and European financial help, the country is planning and building scores of dams to start harnessing this potential. Produces Most Coffee Brazil exports sugar, rice, Slip into the flexible comfort of these wedges with hidden elastic vamp for g-i-v-e. Two-tone Brown, Antiqued Cocoa Brown, Black, or While glove leather with restful foam soles. Save on yours right nowl bananas, cotton, cocoa, pine- wood, castor beans, tea, oranges, pineapples, corn, iron and maganese ore, sisal, wax and wine. The United - States buys 70 per cent of Its coffee from Brazil, the world's great est coffee producer. 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