The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 89

SECTION (J 4 JL ill 1 JL 11T.JL 1 sirriMin ii. Mil MOVIES, pp. 1, 2, 3 THE THEATER, pp. 1, 4 MOVIE CLOCK, p. 2 TRAVEL, p.

11 RADIO AND TV, pp. 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 MUSIC, pp 9 ART, p. JO AMUSEMENTS, TV AND RADIO PENTAGON vs. TV Some producers claiming the co-operation of ihe armed forces are awaiting visit by service brass investigating 'benefits' Lover Boy After 25 years, Boyer says there is no star today like Greta Garbo HOLLYWOOD TODAY By Shcilah Graham Special to The Courier-Journal Evcr-Mooming movie lover Charles Boyer blossoms here amid some of the famous actresses with whom he has appeared: from left, top, Hedy Lamarr and Greta Garho (she's lops to Rover), and below, the late Jean Harlow, Brigitte Bardot, Ingrid Bergman. Bardot is ambitious but lazy, according to Boyer.

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 27. "There are no actresses today like Greta Garbo," said Charles Boyer, who made two movies with her, recently costarred with Brigitte Bardot in "La Parisienne," and soon will celebrate his 25th anniversary as an actor in Hollywood. "There are actresses today," he continued over a glass of wine, "who have more acting ability. But Garbo had a guarded mystery about her.

She was an enchanting person to work with. She had secret on her face, the most beautiful face and nose. You could read her face like a book, all the thoughts that came to her. The gift of projecting from inside made her unique." "How about Miss Bardot?" I asked. He likes her.

"Bardot is ambitious, but a little lazy, and is stunned by her success. She doesn't believe for a minute that it will last. She's a very nice, quiet girl, is very grateful for advice, and comes from a nice, well-to-do family. She couldn't be more different from her reputation because she has been undressed in a few pictures. I loved making, 'La Parisienne' with her it was so gay and frothy.

She was easy to work with, not a bit temperamental." A Play Is ISexl Boyer, who thrilled the ladies of the world when he invited Hedy Lamarr in "Algiers" to "come wiz me to le Casbah," recently returned from Paris, where he costarred with Michele Morgan in "Max-ime." His next project is the play with Claudette Colbert, "Marriage-Go-Round," coming to Broadway October 29 by way of San Francisco and Philadelphia. "I play a professor," Charles described It. "So does Claudette. We are married. A beautiful Swedish girl, Julie Newmar, causes trouble.

I last worked with Claudette in 'Tovarich' at Warners in 1937." It has been time since Charles played an honest-to-goodness romantic role on the stage or screen. "But I'm not against romantic roles if they come in my age group, not if it's an adult love story. Chevalier can play a romantic part if it is not ridiculous for apply myself. If the play is not a success, I will return to Paris in the spring to make another film." The advance sales for "Marriage-Go-Round" have passed $800,000. Boyer, who had been a stage artor in Paris for 10 years, came to Hollywood in 1933 to make pictures in French.

"At the same time, for fun, I played bits in English. For instance, I played the chauffeur to Jean Harlow in 'Red-Headed I saw it recently on TV and what a risque film! This was the one that started the censorship code. Funny, that sort of thing can be seen by children now on television, but not by adults in movie theaters." The last big-lover role essayed by Boyer was with Ingrid Bergman in "Arch of Triumph." It was a colossal failure. "And this is why. It was shot for a 31.

i-hour film, and afterward condensed to an hour and a half. It didn't make sense. Oddly enough, in 'Arch of I got my best reviews. But it hurt me the most. value to the Army was doubted in somt quarters.

Senator Earle Clements of Kentucky looked into the situation at the instance of Television Editor Bill Ladd of The Louisville Courier-Journal. Clements was told that good will engendered by the program justified such lending of equipment. The larceny in Bilko's soul had been toned down by virtue of the presence of an Army man, Clements was told. Public-relations value always has been stressed by the services when this question has been raised previously. Another program, "Flight" (not seen in Louisville), is receiving much co-operation from the Air Force.

Others that have been beneficiaries of co-operation were "West Point," "Annapolis," "Navy Log," "Silent Service" and numerous others. Grew From Conference, There has been considerable complaint in some quarters about using Government film, equipment and personnel in the making of commercial films designed as an advertising medium to sell products. A recent publicity blurb sent to tele Kvcn Poleet was excited over the news that Cousin Stevie van to appear on a television series. Mir rhil 'Bilko' Silvers lie got 'benefits' early vision editors by the "Steve Canyon" show says the idea for the show grew from an Air Force Man Power Conference held in Washington in 1954 at which Milton Caniff, the creator of Canyon, was present. Caniff presented his idea of the TV series at that time in order to help deal with the problem of recruiting and retaining Air Force man power.

"Through the support of the Air Force," the story says, "as well as that of the aircraft manufacturers, it is possible to use authentic, up tod ate film rather than to rely on stork footage as is usually done in motion picture film production." Producers of movies and TV films which lean heavily on Armed Forces co-operation are looking with some alarm on the visit of Pentagon officials here next month. C7cOU5lN YITMVS HEBE EASY, 51 CTCVIC THAT YOU'RE 4t Jjl fc OOIN'TO APPEAR jlS. 1 i A ssC Vri Ni HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 27. Hollywood producers of filmed series for television that boast of "co-operation" of various segments of the armed services are sweating out a visit in October of top level Pentagon officials.

The Tcntagon wants to know what shows are getting co-operation; what benefits the services get from giving such assistance to commercial ventures; what it costs the taxpayers, and whether such co-operation limits the jobs available for professional performers. One of the shows said to be under scrutiny is the new "Steve Canyon" series on N.B.C. Based on the comic-strip character created by Milton Caniff (published in The Courier-Journal), the series claims to have the cooperation of the United States Air Force. Mike Meshekoff, producer of the "Canyon" series, told Hollywood Reporter last week, "Without Air Force cooperation, it would be impossible to make this series. We'd have to build our own Air Force." Air Force Film Used "Canyon" officials told Leo Kovner of the Reporter, "At this moment, the Air Force is much, much more co-operative than it has ever been before." Not the least of the co-operation, Kovner reports, "is the thousands of feet of film shot by Air Force camera-men.

And we have the full use of any Air Force installation, subject to security regulations. This enables us to shoot our own footage on Air Force backgrounds." Kotmer says the show's people told him the Air Force will not shoot special footage for the "Canyon" series unless it can be done without interfering with normal business. When the Air Force cannot shoot the needed film, the show can do it. Its people have passed security checks. A rich source of material, Kovner says he was told, is to be found in progress reports of aircraft manufacturers.

In some cases the sound track contains classified matter, he says, but this is removed and covered with a narration saying the material is still classified. Declassification Touchy The matter of declassifying material so it can be used on the film, the producers told the paper, is a touchy one. They say there are huge vaults filled with film that is still classified because "no one has gotten around to declassifying it." For the Canyon show, the declassification process is speeded up. The Pentagon is said to be wondering if (he whole matter of "co operation" with television shows isn't costing the taxpayers more than even the Pentagon ever dreamed. The furor was started by Representative Joe Holt, a Republican from California.

He received a complaint that a proposed movie film would use Marines attached to the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean for several of its scenes. Holt said he checked and found that there was substance to the report. The congressman said he intervened at the Pentagon, and the Defense Department ordered the "loan-out" of the Marines halted. Further information was that soldiers in Germany were being hired on their off-duty time for parts in films at $9 a day. The Screen Actors Guild complained to Holt, saying that professional actors were thus cut out of work at a much greater rate of pay.

Borrowed hy Silvers The number of TV series that have received co-operation of various services is large. Early in the co-operation era came the Phil Silvers show. Some years ago, the producers sent out through their publicity department a story that the show often borrowed equipment from the Army. The Defense Department at one time assigned an officer as technical adviser. His duty was to see that uniforms were accurate and Army life was correctly represented.

Since Silvers played the part of the rascally Sergeant Bilko, the public-relations 'The Tunnel his age. But I'm embarrassed when certain movie actors try to look 20 years younger than they are. They fool no one not even themselves." In addition to celebrating a quarter of a century in Hollywood, Boyer will have been married 25 years to the former Pat Patterson this coming February. They have a son, Michael, nearly 15. Back for Rehearsals "They will come to New York for the play's premiere, but they will live here because of Michael's school.

I don't like to take him in and out of school. I don't know if the play will last." Mike and his mother were planning to join Charles in Europe for a vacation in Ischia. "But I had to return for rehearsals of the play." I noticed that Boyer ale sparingly. "I put on 12 pounds in F'ranre, in my last two weeks there. When I came home, my wife said, 'Gosh, you've put on I can lose weight easily, but I have to of Love' Will to.

a 1 XI It II 1 I I saw Ingrid in 'Tea and Sympathy' on the Paris stage. Her French was perfect. And when we did 'Gaslight' and 'Arch of Triumph' she could not speak one word of French. She's a remarkable woman. Many Changes Made "Hollywood," said Boyer, "has changed a great deal since I first came here.

The people who are the same age now as I was then are more Immature than we were." He doesn't care very much for the current crop, with some exceptions. "I love Sophia Loren; she's very natural, nothing phony about Sophia, and she's great in 'The 1 admire Afarlon Brando and Montgomery Clift. One of my favorite actors is William Holden. And 1 think Louis Jourdan will come into his own as a result of He has a great future." So has a certain Charles Boyer. You'll he seeing him soon as a pirate in the $4,000,000 production, "Buccaneer." And he will probably star in the movie version of his "Marriage-Go-Round" play.

on October 6 "The Tunnel of Love," a comedy by Joseph Fields and Peter DeVries, will open a three-day run at Memorial Auditorium on October 6. Tickets are available at Baldwin's. Performances start at 8:30 p.m. on October 6 and 7 and at 2:30 and 8:15 p.m. on October 8.

The plot centers around sex in suburbia. Eddie Bracken stars as Augie Poole, the repressed cartoonist, the role that Tom Ewell played on Broadway. Isolde, his wife, is played by Kathleen Neal. Gerald Metcalf is Dick Pepper, the Pooles' Lothario neighbor; Dorothy Whitney is Pepper's wife, Alice; Joan Watson is Estelle Novick, the social worker who mistinterprets her calling, and Elsa Walden is Miss McCracken. As might be expected, it is not the Lothario but the cartoonist who gets entangled with the social worker from a home for foundlings.

Mrs. Poole, it seems, has been hedging her own bets for motherhood with applications to every suitable agency in the community. The amusing situations arise from the efforts of Poole and Pepper to keep the social worker concealed during her confinement, arranging for adoption of the child and hoping the baby won't look too much like papa. "The Tunnel of Love" is a Theatre Guild presentation. Season Ocl.

29 Marrh 4 and 5 Irene Jordan, who will sing a leading role with the N.B.C. Television Opera Theater this year, will be another soloist making her first appearance with the Louisville Orchestra. Critics across the country have been impressed by her versatility, emphasized during a recent summer when she sang Santuzza in "Caval-leria Rusticana" in St. Louis and Gilda in "Rigoletto" in Central City both in the space of one week. A new symphony by Klaus Egge also is on the agenda for these concerts.

Fgge is one of the most versatile musical figures in Norway today, with a wide range of activities in addition to his basic preoccupation with composition. He is a prominent critic in Oslo, and president of the Norwegian Composers' Society. Among other offices he holds at Ailililionnl ii cm ,1,1 tnutir in hrnhiilii-una will he found on I'ogp '), present is that of Norwegian representative on music to U.N.E.S.C.O., and member of the board of the International Music Council. April 1 and 2 Leon Fleisher, one of the country's best young pianists, will appear with the orchestra in a performance of the Brahms Concerto No. 2 in B-flat.

or'li, rnvrrrl inn nf 1iir or-(detJr'i. mil p'nv the i nrld-prrwrre performance of UV'Nrfnri Variations far aKd ri. Sen-. tickets fur the orrhe-tia' Mib-sn ip! ion of pairs of Wedneday-eening and Thursday-matinee conceits are now nn sale at the offices nf the Louisville Philharmonic Society, 330 S. Fourth, 7 368 1 Open Here January It and 15 One of the most eagerly awaited events of the season is the first Louisville appearance of the Bach Aria Group, scheduled for these concerts.

A quartet of singers (Eileen Farrell, one of today's greatest dramatic sopranos; Jan Peerce, "Toscanini's favorite Carol Smith, alto, and Norman Farrow, bass) will sing arias and chorales from the St. Matthew and St. John Passions, and from nine different cantatas. They will be supported by a brilliant array of instrumentalists, including Julius Baker, flute; Robert Bloom, oboe; Bernard Greenhouse, cello; Paul Ulanowsky, piano, and Maurice Wilk, violin. An overture by Beethoven and Bohuslav Martinu's new "Estampes" for orchestra will round out the program.

It will be a great evening for Bach lovers. Indeed, according to the New York reviews of the Bach Aria Group's appearances, it will be a "must" program for us all. 'TUNNEL' STARS, FROM LEFT, KATHLEEN NEAL, EDDIE BRACKEN AND JOAN WATSON Open Louisville Orchestra By WILLIAM MOOTZ Courier-Journal Mimic Editor Following the opening pair of concerts October 29 and 30, the Louisville Orchestra's subscription series will feature: December 3 and 4 Cellist Janos Starker will make his first Louisville appearance playing Boccherini Concerto in B-flat. Starker has had a meteoric rise to prominence during the past few years, evoking comparison with the great Casals. Born in Budapest in 1924, Starker began play the cello at the age of 7, and made his first public appearance as a soloist when he was 10.

After graduating from the Budapest Academy of Music, he held the first-cello chair in the Budapest Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1946, oppressed by the totalitarian atmosphere, he left his native Hungary, concertized widely in Europe, and in 1943 came to the United States, where he now is first cellist with the Chicago Symphony. Benjamin Lees' Second Symphony will the new work for the December Luvisi ToHelp ILEEN FAR ELL and Jan Peerce at l-i the head of a group of star-studded soloists called the Bach Aria Group, pianists Loe Luvisi and Leon Fleisher, cellist Janos Starker, soprano Irene Jordan, and a sextet of contemporary composers ready with brand-new compositions these are the high lights recently announced for the 1958-59 Kpasmi of the Louisville Orchestra. meni fi Robert Whitney will tf yd cert of the season on October 29 at Columbia Auditorium. It will be repeated October 30.

Lee Luvisi, brilliant young Louisvil-lian, will be soloist in Chopin's Concerto in minor for Piano and Orchestra. Featured com LUVISI poser on that evening will be Paul Ben-Haim, who has titled his Louisville Orchestra commissioned work "To The Chief Musician," Metamorphoses for Orchestra. Much of Ben-llaim's music has a liturgical background. When commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation for the 3.000th anniversary of Jerusalem as capital of Israel, he wrote a cantata called "The Sweet Psalmist of Israel." Fvidentlv this subject is still occupying him, for he writes about his Louisville work: "In (his work, a single basic theme is varied and transformed in much the same way as each of Ihr PsUnis treats a hair idea in poetic variation. For this rr i-snn I have also chosen for the title of th work the Psalm hearlin; 'To The Chirf a heariinj the true meaning of whirh has nnl been explained yet.

It ninv point to the leader of the Temple rhoir, but mav also mean King David or even the Lord Ilimsrlf." on to he AMUSEMENTS THIS WEEK AMATEUR THEATER-TODAY; Hmlcuin P'oy-i in Tnnl pnnt pm, Artt in lauiiv.ll H-un, FRIDAY, SATURDAY: Hnrltquin PlnyM in 4 1 m. All Hf.ji Cl0'klill l'' Tno'r Vivt to A Smoll Plniwt, 20 p.m. Clnrk.vilU fog 4 ART CnlnHnr of vnt on Pnq 10, MOVIES of toHny mnviM on Pnq 1 MUSIC TODAY: Pol in pzi prognm 3 30 "i TUESDAY; MouriC lon U-tU'M on jori; 8 A I I. Hnv, Mnnt! noniKo'o' Urtijrl on opro 8 1 5 Um Aihnny Hqh ScKool. A Hn'th, vtoltn rotcl, orcompon by Doni 0n; 1 4i pm, H.ll Wwi' Club.

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