Teacher Shortage, Student Surplus
Result In Parochial School Crisis
BUILDING DEDICATED The new addition to St. Pius X
Catholic Church, designated as a parish hall and con
fraternity classrooms, was formally dedicated Tuesday
morning by the Bishop of Baker, Most Rev. Francis P.
Leipiig, D.D., right, shown with the pastor, Rev. George
Murphy. Constructed at an approximate cost of $73,727,
the multipurpose unit includes two halls equipped with
sliding sound-proof partitions which can be arranged for
any combination of rooms. Previously without a parish
hall, the church will use the building for all social activi
ties as well as for the religious instruction of its parishioners.
Wickedest
By Eastern
By LOL'IS CASSELS
United Press International
One hot summer day in 1877.
the train from the east pulled
into Dodge Cily, Kan., bearing a
Graham Fair
Site Readied
NEW YORK (CBN) - The Bil
ly Graham Pavilion at the New
York World's Fair will cost ap
proximately $400,000. exclusive of
the site and landscaping. Con
struction began in March and is
expected to be completed by No
vember.' according to officials of
The Billy Graham Evangelistic
Association.
Made available by the New
York World's Fair Corporation,
the site, nearly 50,000 square feet
in extent, will be enclosed by an
octangular garden wall to pro
vide a quiet atmosphere in the
area immediately surrounding
the pavilion.
The pavilion will have exits on
both New York Avenue and the
Avenue of Europe and incorporate
a theater section with a seating
capacity of 500.
Octagonal in shape, the pavilion
will be encircled by a gallery area
which will house exhibits from
many countries. The rotunda will
also include a chapel which will
scat 150; counseling rooms; and
a lounge and offices for Graham's
team members and counselors,
who will be on duty each day.
The theater and exhibition gal
lery will be air-conditioned. The
gallery will provide an area
for leisure enjoyment as well as
serving as a waiting room be
tween showings of a 28-minute
evangelistic film each hour in
the theater section.
Meet Held
For Laymen
Four representatives of the
First Methodist Church are at
tending the eighth annual Oregon
Methodist Men's Assembly which
opened today in Salem. They are
C. H. Barnstable. Harvey Bran
nan. Harry Lemler, and Bruce
.'Stewart.
The theme for the meeting is
'"Religion in an Age of Scientific
Technology." Dr. Donald William
Stotler, science supervisor of the
Portland Public Schools since 1949,
is one of the featured speakers.
His family was elected "Metho
dist Family of the Year" in 1962.
Held on the Willamette Univer
sity campus, the Sept. fi-8 assem
bly is sponsored by the Board
of Lay Activities of the Methodist
vnurcn in uregnn.
ial."
MORMON METHOD Performed Funeral Service
! In those strait-laced davs, most
NEW YORK iL'PD Mormons j ministers would have huffily re
tithe a full 10 per cent of all they jeeted such a request. But t h e
have and earn, and alter this to
the church, they still support their j
local ward parish and Cunate their
work besides, says Catholic Di
gest. Zealous Mormon men also
consider it a duty to devote two
years to the missions at their
own expense, the publication said.
Aik about daily
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Town In West' Tamed
Pastor With Purpose
small, dignified man in top hat
and tailcoat.
He attracted curious looks and
a few snickers as he climbed
down from Ihe dusty railroad
coach, claimed his valise, and
made his way through a crowd
of roughly dressed cowpokes to
the hotel on Front Street.
If the onlookers had known who!
he was, and why he came to
Dodge City, they wouldn't have
snickered. They'd have laughed
out loud.
Dodge Cily in those days was
proud of its reputation as "the
wickedest town in the West.'
And it fully deserved the title
Front Street was about as wide
open as a street can get. The sa
loons stayed open all night, and
the houses of prostitution did a
booming business. Any cattleman
who got tired of liquor and sex
could find a high-stakes poker
game to keep him amused. Gun
fights and wanton killings were
almost as common, in actual fact.
as TV Westerns would have you
believe.
The one thing that Dodge City
didn't have and didn't want-
was a church.
Ministers Left Quickly
Several itinerant preachers had
ventured into the "Babylon of the
West" but all of them had left
precipitately, at the invitation of
the townfolk.
The little man in the top hat
may have thought 01 all tnis
when he boldly signed his name
in the hole! register:
The Reverend O r m 0 n d W.
Wright."
The Hev. Mr. Wright was
a field representative of the Pres
byterian Board of Home Missions
in New York. He had not come
to Dodge City to conduct a few
preaching services and flee for
his life. His audacious purpose
was to plant the cross of Christ
firmlv and consoicuouslv in this
'citadel of Satan. He had come, in
short, to build a church.
The incredible fact is that he
did it. He even managed, in time,
to make deacons out of Bat Mas
terson and Wyatt Earp.
"Why this man succeeded
where others had failed remains
a historical mystery," said Pres
byterian Life magaiine this week,
in an article paying overdue trib
ute to the little-known preacher.
Actually, it's not such a mys
tery. Old histories of Dodge City
record an incident which took
place shortly after the Rev. Mr.
Wright's arrival, which made a
tremendous impression on the
gun-toting cowboys and the wom
en who entertained them.
A prostitute had been killed by
a stray bullet during a saloon
brawl. A delegation of dismayed
and drunken cowboys went to the
preacher's hotel room and awak
ened him wiih loud knocking on
the door. They told him what had
happen0() a)d ask(fd
c;ive
Ih -,ri -phricjn h,
Rev. Mr. Wright did not. He per.
formed the funeral service, read-
ing over the girl's grave the Gos
pel account of Christ's tenderness
toward a woman taken in adult
ery. This act of compassion seems
to have established a rapport he-
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EDITOR'S NOTE: What are
(he hard fads behind Ihe much
discussed "crisis In Catholic ed
ucation?" In the following dis
patch, I'PI correspondent Louis
Cassels examines in depth the
problems of too few teachers,
too many students in the Catho
lic educational system.
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPI)-St. Leo's
Catholic School in suburban Fair
fax, Va.. is typical of thousands
of parochial schools in the United
Stales.
It has a shortage of teachers and
a surplus of students.
In the past, St. Leo s has of
fered a complete elementary
school program, from kindergar
ten through the eighth grade. This
fall, however, it is dropping its
kindergarten and first grade
We feel it is more necessary
to have the upper grades than the
lower grades if we can't have
them all." explained Father W'al
ter F. Malloy.
Throughout the nation, paro
chial schools are I Hiding it in
creasingly difficult, if not impos
sible, to expand their teaching
staffs and classroom space to ac
commodate an ever-growing bodv
nf applicants. More and more of
them are solving the problem, or
at least easing it somewhat, by
dropping their lower grades.
Some parochial schools in Cin-
twecn the prim-looking little
preacher and the rough men and
women whom he had come to
serve. The Rev. Mr. Wright soon
began to hold religious services
in whatever quarters were avail
able to him usually a saloon
or dance hall. He was able to
tell the Presbyterian Board of
Home Missions- his first offi-
cial report, that he had 13 regu
lar members of his congregation.
The board sent word that it
would contribute $450 a whop
ping sum in those days for
the conslruction of a church
building, provided the local resi
dents would raise a matching
sum. It was taken for granted in
New York that it would take the
Rev. Mr. Wright a year or two
to obtain his half of the building
fund. 1
But the word got around Front
Street that Preacher Wright need
ed $450 to build a church. The
hat was passed in the saloons and
bawdy houses, and on one roai
ing Saturday night, the whole
sum was contributed, with a few
dollars to spare.
And that s how Dodge Cily got
its first church.
Rally Day
Marks Race
Of Balloons
The first annual balloon race
will climax Rally Day at the
ruamaui L,uiiierau emu en un
Sunday, Sept. 8, adding a unique 11
feature to the observance.
Each child attending the 9:30
a.m. Sunday School on Rally Day
will receive a helium-filled bal-1
loon with a return postcard at
tached. The card will include the
child's name, an invitation to
worship at Klamath Lutheran.
and a blank to be filled in by the
finder giving the exact location
the balloon was found.
Prizes will be awarded Sun-
day. Oct. 13, to children whose
balloons traveled the greatest
distance and to those who have
the best attendance at Sunday
School up to that time.
The cards, as they are re-
turned, will be placed on a map
in Hie parish education unit to
show where each ballloon was
found.
Willard McKinny, chairman ol
Ihe hoard of parish education, said
a full Sunday School staff will be
ready to serve tlie number of
students anticipated on Rally Day
and that new materials have been
secured for all age groups from
the department of parish eduta.
tion of the American Lutheran
Church.
On Sunday, Sept. 15, an adult
Sunday School class will be add
ed to the church program. Sched
uled at 9:30 a.m., the class will
be Instructed by Rev. Malcolm
Unseth, pastor.
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cinnati, Ohio, have already cur
tailed their lower grades, and
Bishop Paul F. Leibold announced
recently that it may be necessary
to drop the first lour grades of
all church-operated schools in the;
archdiocese.
Curtailment Begun
According lo the National Catho
lic Welfare Conference, curtail
ment of lower grades has also
begun in Kansas City; St. Louis
Cleveland; Colunpbus, Ohio; Green
Bay, Wis.; Spokane, Wash.; Far
go. N.C.; Clinton, Iowa; St. Paul,
.Minn., and Kichmond, Va. It is
under consideration in many oth
cr dioceses.
Whenever a parochial school
drops , one or more grades, the
public schools serving the same
community experience a sudden
spurt in enrollment.
Some Catholic educators have
seriously proposed closing down
all elementary grades in parochial
schools, in order to concentrate
the church's educational efforts!
on the high school years.
If this were done, U.S. public
schools would have to find class
rooms and teachers for 4.5 mil
lion children more than they are
now educating. It also would
mean a corresponding increase in
the local tax, load.
Such a drastic shifting of the
educational burden is not likely
to take place in the foreseeable
future. Most Catholic authorities
are still committed to the ideal
of providing a religiously-oriented
education for Catholic children
throughout their formative years.
But even the most ardent ad
vocates of this ideal are being
compelled to admit the necessity
making some compromise with
the goal of "every Catholic child
in a Catholic school."
Xo Room
At present, fewer than half of
the nation s Catholic youngsters
are enrolled in Catholic schools.
About 54 per cent are going to
public schools, some by choice,
many because there fs simply no
room for them in parochial
schools.
Despite the millions of children
who are perforce turned away
each fall. Catholic schools in
many cities are severely over
crowded. Where public schools
are trying to limit class size to
a maximum of 25 or 30 students,
many parochial schools have
classes of B0 to 70 students.
DAVID TERRY CATMULL
Youth Called
To Australia
A call to serve on a full-time
mission for the church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints has
been received by David Terry Cat-
mull, 20.
Following a week of orientation
in Salt Lake City. tatmull lett
Sept. 2 with a group of nine other
young LDS missionaries assigned
to Sydney, Australia. He will
serve his church there for two
years.
Catmull. a graduate of Klamath
Union High School, attended Ricks
ICollgee in Rcxburg, Idaho, for the
past one and a half years. Major-
mg in prc-Ocntistry, he plans to
complete his college education
upon returning from the mission
''pd-
A member ol the Klamath rails
First Ward, Catmull was given
a farewell testimonial at the LDS
Church on Aug. 18. He is the son
of Dr. and Irs. Harold L. Cat
mull, 2237 Lakcshore Drive.
PRAYER UNITY
The World Day of Prayer, ob
served on the first Friday in Lent
and sponsored by women of the
major Protestant and Orthodox
communions, has a history of 75
years. Basically, the same service
is used by groups in approximate
ly 150 countries and areas of the
world.
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A Branch al Th Mathar Church. Tho Pint Church of Chrilf.
Scitnliit in Soitan, Man,
Sarvicatt Sunday Sirvtca 1l:OU e.m.
Sunday School 11:00 a.m.
Wtdnudoy Inning Taitimony Matting 8:00 O'Clotk
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thi Lord, that dilighttth greatly in hit commondmanta.
Nursery facilities available durinf church tirvlcat.
This kind of overcrowding
makes it difficult to do an effec
tive job of leaching, and protests
from Catholic parents have in
duced a number of major dio
cese', including those of St.
Louis. Richmond and Baltimore.
to take steps to limit parochial
school classes to 50 students or
less
Enforcement of this ceiling will
mean turning many additional
applicants away to the public
schools.
Why dont Catholics expand
their school system to handle all
the children seeking admission?
The. answer is that they have
tried to do just that, but have
been overwhelmed by the sheer!
magnitude nf the task. Enroll
ment in Catholic schools has al
most doubled since 1950. The
frantic pace of expansion is illus
trated by the archdiocese of Chi
cago, which has invested more
than $60 million in new schools
during the past 5 years. Nation
wiac, tne iota! investment in
Catholic school buildings is now
estimated at $5 billion. There are
more than 13.000 Catholic schools
of all types. Their annual opcr-
atinfV-costs exceed $825 million.
And the costs are rising sharp
ly. In the past, Catholic schools
have been able to provide cduca
tion at a far lower cost per child
than public schools because most
of their teachers were unsalaried
nuns. In 1950, only 7 per cent
of all elementary teachers in
Catholic schools were lavmen
Hire Lay Tenchcrs
But the number of nuns avail
able for leaching duty has not
grown as fast as the number of
children to be taught. As a re
sult, catholic schools have in
creasingly had to hire lay teach
ers and pay them salaries.
This fall, about 30 per cent of
the elementary teaching staff in
parochial schools will be com
posed of laymen.
To finance the rising cost of
the world's largest private school
system, the Catholic Church re
lies heavily on voluntary contri
butions from its members, or the
proceeds of fund-raising activities
such as bake sales, bazaars or
bingo games. Tuition payments
have traditionally been kept low
ior the sake of poor families and
large families. At the elementary
school level, they rarely exceed
$90 to $100 per year, compared
to the $600 to $1,000 tuition charge
which a parent would encounter
at a private day school.
These are the hard facts be
hind the much-discussed "crisis'
in Catholic education." They ex-.
plain why Catholics feel
strongly about having parochial
schools included in any general
program of federal aid lo educa
tion. . .why they are ready to ex
periment with "shared time" ar
rangements under which Catholic
school children take some of their.
courses in public schools. . .and
why Catholic parents in a grow
ing number of parishes are being
told that they'll have to start
their children in a public school
even though they prelcr a paro-i
chial education.
Church Bell
Ringing Set
LANGELL VALLEY At the
Aug. 29 meeting of the Guild of
St. Barnabas Episcopal Church
at the home of Chervl Kcady, it
was reported that the rock bell
tower for the church had been
completed.
The tower s bell, the old Bonan
za High School bell, was donated
to the church by the Clements
Ranch of Bonanza, and the guild
was instrumental in raising funds
to install it. Erected in memory
of Tommy Lindsay, son of Mr.
and. Mrs. Marion Lindsay, the
bell will ring for the first time on
Sept. 8.
In other business, the members
voted to sponsor a rummage sale
at the old variety store in Bo
nanza on Oct. 5.
Following the meeting, attend
ed by nine members and two
guests, the women sewed articles
for the guild's fall btzaar. The
next meeting is scheduled Sept.
26 at tlie home of Ethel Jones
in Dairy.
BI.ASPflEMY VETOED
WASHINGTON. D.C.-A Johan
nesburg, South Africa artist. Har
old Rubin, has been acquitted on
charges of blasphemy connected
with his controversial painting nf
Christ, says Church end State
magazine. The publication quoted
Ihe magistrate as replying, "What
was considered blasphemy in the
Middle Ages Is no longer consid
ered so by us in South Africa."
10'h end Wothington
Bltiwd !i the man thot faorith
HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath
Hope Lutheran Outlines Fall Plans
Hope Lutheran Church will open
its Prc-School Church School for
children from 3 to S years
jld on Monday, Sept. 9.
Conducted from 9:30 to 11:30
each morning for two weeks,
the school will have a regis
tration fee of 75 cents per child.
A daily offering will also be re
ceived. The director of the school will
be Miss Nancy-Jo Nelson, the par
ish worker assigned to the church.
Her staff will include Mrs. Loyal
Neth, Mrs. Frank Wheeler, Mi's.
Warren W. Pechman. Mrs. James
Stuntabcck. and Mrs. Richard
Young.
Rallv Day for the Hope Luth
eran Sunday Church School will
be held Sunday, Sept. 8, with the
teaching staff to be installed at
the 8:30 and 11 a.m. worship serv
ices. A coffee hour in honor of
the teachers will follow the sec
ond service.
The staff includes Ted Moore,
superintendent; George Kilen,
chairman of the Christian Educa
tion Committee: William Hager
man. Rev. and Mrs. Warren Pech
man, Mrs. Frank Wheeler, Mrs.
Winston Kurth, Mrs. Mariese
Malme, Mrs. Claud Rodgers, Miss
Patricia Isensee, and Miss Mary
Voss.
The Sunday Church School will
include classes for all ages from
3 to senior high school.
The Weekday Church School for
young people entering the fifth
through the tenth grades will be
gin with the Parent, Student,
Teacher Conference at 7:30 p.m.
Convention
Hears Close
Approximately 70,000 delegates.
representing all 50 states and 43
foreign countries, are expected at
the international convention of Je
hovah's Witnesses when it climax
es at the Pasadena Rose Bowl
on Sunday.
George Hncziscse. presiding
minister of the Klamath Falls
Congregation of Jehovah's Wit
nesses, is attending the eight-day
assembly with a large group of
local members. Meetings of the
local congregation have been can
celled until after the convention,
One of the highlights of the
Pasadena gathering, which opened
Sept. I. will be a mass baptism
on Saturday. Convention officials
estimate that 1,500 new candi
dates will be baptized by immer
sion, in water at the special serv
ice
N. II. Knoor. president of the
Watchtower Bible and Tract So
ciety of New York, convention
sponsor, will deliver the principal
address on Sunday at 3 p.m. to
conclude the final session. The
peak attendance is expected at
the Rose Bowl for his lecture,
"When God Is King Over All the
Earth."
Rrst Chrjstjan
Area Bible School Clinic
A Bible School Clinic, open to
all churches in the area, will be
ponsored by the Fint Christian
Church for three days, Sept.
12-14. from 7:30 to 9:15 p.m. each
evening.
With the general theme, "Build
ing a Better Bible School, the
lime will be directed toward Bi
ble School teachers and oflicers
and other church workers inter
ested in Bible School programs.
Tile featured speaker at the
Aug. 22 meeting of the Women's
Missionary Union of the First Bap
tist Church was Solvcig Arvids
son, a native of Sweden who pre
sented a program of slides de
picting life in her country.
While visiting in Klamath rails
for a week. Miss Arvidsson was
the housegucst of M.Sgt. and Mrs.
M. M. Crotwell of KingsWy Field.
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Friday,
on Sept. 12. Regular classes will
be conducted each week on Wed
nesday afternoon at 4:30.
with the exception of the senior
conlirmation class (ninth and
tenth grades 1 which will meet at
7 p.m.
Also on Hope Lutheran's fall
agenda is a series of leadership
classes for the congregation to
prepare the teachers of the vari
ous church schools. The leader
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FUTURE MISSIONARIES Delivering his farewell ser
mon at the Lorella Full Gospel Church last Sunday, Rev.
Eugene Willis planned to move to Portland this week
to prepare (or a foreign mission assignment in Guayaquil,
Ecuador. Accompanying him to the mission field will be
his daughter Kathy, 4; son Bobby, 3; and his wife, Joyce.
Lorella Pastor Awaits
Ecuador Mission Work
Rev. Eugene Willis and his fam
ily are already making plans for
their future missionary work in
Ecuador, although lus appoint
ment to the town of Guayaquil
will probably not become effec
tive until next summer.
Moving to Langell Valley three
years and eight months ago from
Portland, the family was to re
turn there this week to prepare
for the four-year foreign mission
assignment. Rev. Willis delivered
his farewell sermon at the Lorel
la Full Gospel Church on Sept. 1,
the day after the congregation
honored the family with a picnic
at Bonanza Big Springs Park.
With Portland as a center ol
operations, Itcv. and Mrs. Willis
will begin an itinerant schedule
among the Oregon Assemblies of
Jod, traveling on a preaching cir-
Promotes
The clinic, held under the aus
pices of the Standard Publishing
Company, will be directed by its
West Coast representative, Bill
Jessup, and his wife. Jessup is
a noted Iigurc in tno held ot
Christian education who served
as president of the San Jose Bible
College for 20 years.
The opening assembly of each
program will include a song serv
ice, prayer, and a film strip. Fol-j
lowing the assembly, those at
tending will divide into two dis
cussion groups. Jessup will lead
the class sessions concerned with
youths of junior ago and above,
and Mrs. Jessup will lead the
kindergarten and primary ses
sions. Bible School program plan
ning, teacher training, visual
aids, and visitation are among
Ihe subjects to be studied and
discussed during the inlormal
cluss periods.
Ucfroshmonls will be served by
Ihe host church alter the pro
gram. No nflerings will be taken
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September 6, 1963
ship courses, "As tho Teacher
Teaches" and "Helping Children
and loulh Know Doctrine, will
be forerunners of the new curricu
lum now being prepaid by the
Lutheran Church in America.
The first course will be taught
by Rev. Warren Pechman on Sept.
25, beginning at 12 noon. Miss
Nelson will instruct tho second
course each Wednesday evening
at 7 o'clock.
- lcuit. Later this fall, they will re-
I turn to the Klamath section to
conduct special missionary serv
ices.
' Rev. Willis hopes to go to Costa
Rica for language studies in May,
and then take up his mission
ary duties within the next few
months. He will be among tlioi
first missionaries of his denomina
tion assigned to the country, as
the work in Ecuador was just
opened to tho Assemblies of God
in December of 1962.
A graduate of the Central Bible
institute and Seminary in
Springfield, Mo., where lie ob
tained his B. A. degree in Bible,
Rev, Willis also attended the Can-
yonville Bible Academy for two
years.
while in Portland, Hev. and
Mrs. Willis, with their two chil
dren. Kathy, 4, and Bobby, 3, will
reside with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Emmanuel Keller, at 3177
North Willamette Blvd.
Adventists
Talk Health
Dr. ft. W. Graham and Elder
Manley Miles, pastor of the local
Seventh-day Advcntist Church,
were among some 400 doctors
and ministers of the Oregon Con
ference of Seventy-day Adventists
who attended the first annual Med
ical-Ministerial Council.
Held at tlie church-owned Big
Lake Camp, east of Salem, the
meetings were concerned with
matters of community health in
terests and health education, in
cluding public health drives, home
nursing, nutrition, and services in
convalescent homes.
Five-day slop smoking clinics,
conducted as a public service,
were also studied and updated.
and first aid classes in civil de
fense projects were planned. The
fourday conference ended Sept.
FOOD FOR
"B- iMk. ka watchful: vaur
roaring Man, wajkath oboul talking whom ha may davour."
(1 Par. 5:8).
Tha devtl li hire lihanad lo lion Making far pray. Thit
biait of lha farair hunri ttoalrhily and anly roan whan
ha ipringi. Sa rha devil It iraalthy and daet nat aa
warning of hit approach, bur it always ready to tpring
upon and davour any wandlir from lha fold of tafaly,
Tha admonition to tha child of Gad, than, It to bo calm
of mind, having mmral tall-control, baing constantly
aware of tha dalibirora, fiarca and lubtlt partlitanca
of tha dutroyar of man's touli.
(. WAYNI LOW!, Ivangtllit
- CHURCH OF CHRIST
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Epic
Movie Made
'To End All'
ROME (UPD - Someplace in
the woods not far from Rome, a
young couple is going to gambol
in the nude before the movio
cameras in what the producer in
sists is in the most "innocent"
scene ever filmed.
It is one of the opening se
quences of Dino de Laurentis'
epic to end all epics "The Bi
ble." A'er three years of writing and
preparation, the shooting starts in
the Garden of Eden, showing
Adam and Eve dressed as Adam
and Eve.
De Laurentis admits that he
has spent a good deal of time
thinking about how the scene can
be made.
First, we have to have a girl
who portrays innocence itself.
She cannot be any known actress,
that immediately would do
away with the effect.
"And she must be absolutely
uninhibited. If there is any indi
cation she is self-conscious, then
the scene automatically falls into
the class of nude scenes In hun
dreds of other movies."
Well-kept Secret
De Laurcntiis isn't savins
where the actual shooting will
take place. It's a well-kept . se
cret and all pains are being taken
to make certain it doesn't leak
out.
Directing the scene Is France's
Robert Bresson. He is charged
with directing the first part of
Ihe Bible" dealing with the cre
ation on through to the murder of
Abel by Cain.
Doing the entire script is Chris
topher Fry, noted poet and play
wright. Even while shooting Is getting
underway for the opening of the
epic, preparations are almost
complete for further scenes. Or-
sen Wells will direct the Abraham-Isaac
episode and sets are
being constructed on the lava-
scarred slopes of Mount Etna.
the active volcano in Sicily.
Tho third director taking part
in the first, three-hour-long film
of "The Bible" fs Italy's Luchino
Visconti, who does the Joseph
and his brethren episodes. These
will get underway in Egypt in Oc
tober.
Film Segmented
Actually, the entire film will be
broken down into three or four
parts.
The opening, three - hour film
contains the episodes mentioned
above.
What I want to make." ex
plains De Laurentis. "is a film
that will be as good 50 years
from now as it is nowr.
"It must follow truly the Bible.
fn other words, it is a storv that
if done as It should be done once.
will never have to be done
again."
De Laurentis is no newcomer
to Bible epics. His film "Bara
bas" still is making money
around the world.
But the producer himself is the
first to admit that "The Bible"
must go a long way ahead of
"Barabas" in artistic merit.
"I have pulled together the best
writer, Christopher Fry, and the
best directors alive today. I'm
certain that the end result will bo
a film we all can bo proud of, a
film that will not fado with tho
years." ,
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his 50-ycar record of driving with
out receiving a ticket was spoiled
Thursday when lie was fined
$5.60 for a parking violation.
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