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Evening star., 1960-06-12

very we'll. Quinn is the great
est character actor and Niveu
is fresh from an Oscar.
1--WE worked with all kinds
of actors, and the big ones
are always the easiest, They
don't have to try any tricks.
Every once in a while a small
player tries to steal a scene.
I'let them. I turn my back
to the camera, and let them
steal it-they need it. I re-
member when I did"
Worlds Fair Barker
Peck has been a star in
every one of his films-start-
ing with days of Glory" in
1943 at RKO. His first job
was as a barker at the New
York Worlds Fair in 1889.
Then he toiled as a guide in
Radio City. First acting
break: A scholarship at the
Neighborhood Playhouse
School in New York, His
first big-time acting was in
"The Doctors Dilemma" on
tour with Katharine Cornell.
1t was during this tour that
Greg met and married Miss
Cornells hairdresser, the
blond, blue-eyed Greta. They
were divorced in 1855, where
upon Peck married French
journalist Veronique Passani.
They have two children, w
year-old Anthony and l.
year-old daughter Cecilia.
And three sons from his first
marriage.
Lucky you didn't stick
around for Let's Make Love-
with Marilyn Monroe" said I,
before leaving, "or you
couldn't have been free to
do Guns of Navarone.
That's just it," replied
Peck. Il didn't anticipate the
strike, but in any case they
would not have finished in
time. They started in No
vember. I had to report for
The Guns in February"
AS of going to press, Lets
Make Love" is still before the
cameras.
Evening star., 1960-06-12
HoppyHom,' Soys Bine
And NicoIe Agrees

now?' So I reply I have just
finished a movie and am free
as a bird. He tells me, 1T is
good I am stubborn because
everyone kept telling us here
that you are tied up, so no
body called you. So, on a
hunch, I telephoned. We
want you for a movie with
me. It starts in 10 days and
there is no time to send a
script. Will you take my
word it is a good picture and
a good part for you and come
right away?'
81 say to Bing, I trust you.
I come to Hollywood In
three days, I am in town,
only knowing the title, High
Time I am not knowing if
this is a costume picture, a
modern story, or what.
Miss Maurey went directly
to goth Century-Fox studio
from the airplane and re-
ported to producer Charles
Bracket and director Blake
Edwards.
But They GrOaned
"They take one look at me
and start to groan and I am
crushed" relates Nicole. II
say, You don't like me, I go
back home But it is only
my hair. They had seen me
in Me and the Colonel and
The Jayhawkers' where my
hair was light. But now I
had returned to my natural
hair color which is a blue
black. The picture will be in
color, and black hair won't
do. But they will try. I had
been on a plane for % hours,
but I go straight to wardrobe
and they dress me and give
me a makeup and a hairdo
and that night I make a
screen test.
Again they shake their
See MAUREY, Page D-S
Evening star., 1960-06-12
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN

North American Newspaper Alliance
HOLLYWOOD. - Nicole
Maurey. one of Frances
shapelieSt and most beauti-
full gifts to the American
screen, is perhaps the most
superstitious actress ever to
face a camera-and she
figures Bing Crosby is her
guiding light, the top good
luck charm of her life.
You might. too, after
checking the records. Nicole,
acting strictly on a. hunch,
made her successful Holly
wood debut with the crooner
in the 1858 epic, Little Boy
Lost" and today she's back
in town for a High Time"
repeat appearance with Bing
because fate guided me-"
Both roles came to her so
accidentally and with such a
narrow margin between win
ming and missing that it is
small wonder she thinks of
Crosby in the same manner
as horseshoes, four leaf
clovers, and crossed fingers.
Busy Sleeping
Speaking with a delightful
accent that completely
charms any listener, Nicole
traced her sign-influenced
events as follows:
II have just finished a pic
ture with Robert Taylor and
am back home in Paris,
where I live with my mother
and sister, not knowing what
will be next for me when at
2 am. one night late in 1859
the telephone ring. A voice
says, 'Nicole, are you busy?
i answer, I'm very busy
sleeping. And who is this?'
He says, 'Bing,' and I
wake up fast. He says, I
mean, are you busy working
Evening star., 1960-06-12

you must believe me, if I had
to choose between 81 million
clear and making a good
movie of Beloved Infidel,'
I'd take the movie"
I noticed "The Guns of
Navarone" press agent look
ing at me. 1.-THE present
movie" I began. But Greg
wanted to make his point
very clear. "The two things
most important in my life"
he said, "are my pleasure in
my wife and family, and my
work. I'm very lucky to have
both. I've come along to the
point where I'm able to make
a good life for my family.
The only thing that can dis
turb me now is a bad picture.
I enjoy trying to make good
pictures. I enjoy a bit of
money, of course-but it has
never been the aim of my life
to make a lot at the expense
of doing something worth
while"
All the Ingredients
Greg'S favorite movie of
the 20 he made before Guns
of Navarone" was his Oscar
accoladed Roman Holiday"
with Audrey Hepburn. I'm
most interested in films that
are concerned with relations
between the opposite SeX," he
said. And I'm not too long
in the tooth to make more
love stories for the screen,
although I'm usually thought
of for films like 'Navarone,'
in which I play a captain Of
a commando team.
Am I enjoying it? Well,
I could say with conviction
that this will be as good as
Bridge on the River Kwai,'
but I'd feel cheap saying this.
All the ingredients are here
"a powerful cast, the script
by Carl Foreman (credited
with writing the original
script for Bridge on the
River KwaiO, David Niven,
Anthony Quinn, Anthony
Quayle; we all play different
types, and we play together
Evening star., 1960-06-12
By JAY CARMODY
Drama Editor of The Star

There will be many ex-
plantations for the overnight
rapprochement which settled
Broadway's drama blackout.
This corners choice among
them is that the turning
point in the emotions of Ac-
tors Equity and the League
of New York Theaters came
with the announcement that
43 productions set for next
season were to be held in
allegiance.
This was the moment of
unbearable truth, of panic in
deed, for both parties to the
conflict. Here was a fear of
a long strikes effect that had
far more impact than the
closing of % current produc-
tions, than the dreary sight
of a deserted midtown Man
haitian at night, and of a
slump in restaurant and even
movie business.
Disaster LOOmed
Broadway had never seen
anything like it, but neither
side was in a mood to settle
short of moderately condi-
tional surrender until it real
lied the blackout's disastrous
prospects for the autumn.
1t is only on the surface
that summer is the theater's
quiet time. Actually it is the
three months from the eX-
plration of existing contracts
on May 31-all of them at
once-that are among the
busiest for everyone con-
nected with theater.
This is when the next sea-
sons productions are put to-
gether. 1t is the time when
producers make a beeline for
the directors and actors-or
the agents of these-that
they believe to be indispens-
able to the play, comedy or
musical they intend to do.
Similarly, it is the interval
in which directors, actors
and set designers have the
widest range of choice of jobs
for the upcoming season.
Nobody Could Talk
Now, as the strike seemed
to be settling down to a
summer-long run, nobody
was able to negotiate with
anybody on the other side.
Both Equity and the League
looked well dug in-wretched
but firm-until Thursday
mornings front page head
lines.
These were the ones that
proclaimed that 43 new
shows were in complete
allegiance with the prospect
that the traditional excite
ment of September, on which
it is historically established
that seasons rise or tumble,
would be lost.
Both sides took a long.
hard look all day Thursday
at the six issues involved in
what the League called a
strike, and Equity insisted
was a lockout.
Enter John Shubert
The points of controversy
all suddenly looked compro-
miSable, including that of
the pension plan which,
prior to the blackout, looked
like the chief stumbling block
but later gave way in ap-
parent insolubility to the
demands regarding pay min
imums.
The pension formula, in
Evening star., 1960-06-12

France, where we have taken
a villa until october first"
The last time I saw Peck
was outside a sound stage at
Goth Century-FoX. do you
want to come inside and
watch?" he asked. I said no,
because I didn't want to dis
tract him while he was act
ing with Deborah Kerr in
Beloved Infidel," based on
my biography. Deborah
played me; Gregory was F.
Scott Fitzgerald. And the
"Navarone" meeting was our
first time together since. And,
since then, the critics have
had their say and I was
curious to hear Peck on the
subject.
Starts Too Soon
"The failure of Beloved
Infidel' as a film," said the
actor, whom I have known
for all the II years he has
been a Hollywood star, "is
the failure of the assembly,
line system in Hollywood. A
story is bought, a director
assigned, the script rushed
into production. Stars are
rushed into it because of
studio commitments. The
picture starts without ade-
quate preparation. And -
shall I go on?" Gregory asked.
I said yes, of course. Gregory
and I have been friends al
ways, and can speak freely
to each other on an assort-
ment of subjects.
I'm so sorry" continued
Greg, because, when 1 read
the book, I wanted to do the
film. I felt we had a diff
ferent, tender love story. I
thought it would be one OF
the great love stories of the
screen. I wanted you to be
pleased. But as you know
when I read the script, l
didn't want to do it. We des-
perately tried to patch up the
script, but there wasn't time"
Deborah Kerr, working Ill
the same studio on a differ
ent picture, passed by during
this inquest on a project that
had been very close to me,
and said, well, all the In
fidelS are here. We all tried,
Sheilah. Well do better next
time" The three of us
laughed-but a trifle grimly.
One Final Word
Tell me more about your
present picture and your
wonderful summer" I asked,
changing the subject. "One
final word" said Greg, "and
Evening star., 1960-06-12
HOLLYWOOD
Gregory Peck AssoiIs
AssembIy-Line Films

By SHEILAH GRAHAM
North American Newspaper Alliance
HOLLYWOOD - "We're
going to have a marvellous
summer" said Gregory Peck
to this reporter on the set
of his current movie, "The
Guns of Navarone." This
picture finishes in July, then
we (hiS family are off to
Cap Ferrat in the South of
Evening star., 1960-06-12
THE PASSING SHOW
Fear for Autumn
Settled Dispute

cidentally, emerged from a
suggestion by John Shubert,
the family name not always
one of the most popular in
Broadway circles although
often far from deserving un-
popularity. Why shouldn't
the theaters themselves, of
which he owns 18 and oper-
ateS II, get into the pension
program with contributions
supplemental to those of the
producers and Equity, Mr..
Shubert asked? 1t could not
have been a more alluring or
timely suggestion and, once
injected into the discussions,
made the pension issue sec
ondary in Importance to that
OF the. pay minimumS.
AS to these latter, it turned
out that both sides were
willing to recede from their
previously fixed positions.
The actors got something,
but by no means everything,
with the result that neither
is in a better position than
the other to claim victory.
The happy mood of both,
with l9 of the % closed pro-
ductionS due to reopen to-
morrow night, suggests that
neither will jar BroadWay's
new harmony by making any
such claim.
Would Have Hit Road
Although it was unaffected
by the now settled contro-
Versy, the road, including
Washington'S National The
ater, would certainly have
been affected had the 43
projected fall productions
been delayed. In such a case,
the Nations Capital, Boston
and Philadelphia would have
lacked the shows that always
start new seasons.
Now, peace restored, all
three can go back to affirm
ing or disproving that the
ater seasons rise or fall, live
or die, on the excitement
generated in September.
WaShington's National
Theater figures in a number
OF case histories of this point.
One was its mid-August
opening a few years ago of
West Side Story" which
from the Tuesday reviews
leaped toward a standing
room only basis. And which.
by the end of its three-week
run was so thoroughly sold
out that Louis Lotto, who
books the theater in New
York, could not get a seat for
any performance.
A Pair of Others
The season went on to be
one of New York's best after
setting a record for the num-
ber of midtown Manhattan
ties who came here to see
the wonder wrought by
Leonard Bernstein, Arthur
Laurents and Jerome Rob-
bins.
A couple of seasons earlier,
the starter in Washington
was Robert Anderson's Tea
and Sympathy" which again
initiated a season that was
cheerfully prosperous, or vice
versa. "Auntie Name" a
year later, launched a wave
whose last ripple carried all
the way to the following
June.
AS for the other side of the
story, the 1959-60 season.
which is generally regarded
as calamitous, began with
"Heartbreak House." "Cheri"
opd ga T.occ of PocacO
Evening star., 1960-06-12

COMING ATTRACTIONS
STAGE
OLNEY THEATER-"Antony and Cleopatra" by Shake
speare, opens June 90
NATIONAL THEATER-"NIy Fair Lady; opens June 20.
MBAssADoR-"Hannibal"; with Victor Mature starts
June %.
APEX-"Ikiru"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of Huckleberry Finn; starts
Thursday.
DUPONT-"And Quiet Flows the Don"
KEITH'S-"The Apartment" starts Wednesday,
Hannibal with Victor Mature starts
June o.
ONTARIO-"Conspiracy of Hearts; with Lili Palmer
PALACE-"The Story of Ruth" starts Thursday.
PIAAzA-"The Savage Eye; with Gary Merrill
TOWN-"The Brides of Dracua."
Evening star., 1960-06-12
A BOY AND HIS RIVER

Eddie Hodges, the Delta King standing
proudly down the Mississippi River behind
him, plays the title role in "The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn" The movie version of
Mark Twain's famed story is set for Thurs
day opening at LOew's Capitol Theater.
Evening star., 1960-04-11
Films of More Than Routine Merit


THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK"-GeOrge Stevens poignant
film of the famed World War II refugees touching jour-
nal
THE 400 BLOWS"-Fine French drama about a small boy
enduring the neglect of self f-centered parents.
THE GAZEBO"-The joke is stretched thin but Glenn
Ford and Debbie Reynolds do have
"HOUSEBOAT"-Car Grant, with assist by Sophia
LOren explores of the comedy aspects
"OPERATION PETTICOAT'-Grant again. as belea guered
sub skipper playing unwilling host a plague girls
"SINK THE Observation-Disclosures More in documentary
style recall of exciting World War II chase. - w
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posure on television." Also,
Why work that hard?" Then
he did two shows a month.
Now, four!
Doris Day has the right idea
for a vacation. I've Cancelled my
summer trip to Europe. I'll 60
with my family to the beach
in California instead" The
Ray Millands are selling their
home in Beverly to live a year
in the South of France. This is
not tax dodge" Ray tells me.
q. The Nunnally JOhnSons are
also selling their home here
and will live in Europe.
&&&
At the traders in Beverly
Hills. I learned that the Ojai
Music Festival will feature Dor
Othy Kristen, John Raitt with
his wife Margery at the piano,
Anna Maria Alberghetti and
other members of her family.
Also the piano team of VrOn-
sky and Babin. And LOtte Cos
car. My informant is Franklin
Lacey, who lives in Ojai, and
who wrote the book of the fab
IulouS hit, THE Music Man"
Evening star., 1960-04-11
THE LYONS DEN
Monteux Hoppiest at Work
BY LEONARD LYONS

NEW YORK. Last week
Pierre M0nteux celebrated his
85th birthday by conducting a
rehearsal of the Boston SYM
phony. This was typical of the
dean of all active conductors,
for he's happiest when he's
working. Il work without a
contract" he said. "At the be-
ginning Of each season I go to
the business manager and ask
him, What's my salary this
year?"
In Philadelphia, before con-
Quoting at the Robin Hood Dell,
he was asked why he'd studied
the viola. Monteux explained,
Il was too lazy to study the vio-
lin, so I studied the viola. When
l was too lazy to play the viola
any more, 1 became a conduc-
Tor. AND when get too lazy to
conduct-then, of course, I'll
become a critic" He once chided
the San Francisco Symphony
for not needing his instructions:
Gentlemen, frankly l know
you can do better without me,
But please let me conduct, be-
cause I must earn a salary"
Robert Merrill showed him a
photo of the singers 4-year-old
child, and then a lady showed
him a photo of her 1-year-old
baby. Monteux drew a photo OF
his son from his pocket and
said, This is my baby. He's
63." E. A pretty girl once asked
Monteux to teach her to con-
duct. NO." he told her. 1T
Evening star., 1960-04-11

Leland Hayward, co-produc-
er Of Gypsy" and Sound Of
Music" is in Nevada . Jack
Lennon not only will star in
the Broadway show, Face of
a Hero" but also will co-pro-
duce it Truman CapOte is
sailing for Europe to stay
See LYONS, Page C-S
Evening star., 1960-04-11
Model AirpIone
Winners Chosen

Winners of the eighth annual
model airplane contest spon-
sored by the District Recreation
Department, were honored in
ceremonies yesterday in the
lobby of the Commerce De-
partment
-Four winners, from among
more than 1900 original en-
,trantS, were selected. They
we're:
Edward Dent, 16, represent
ing the Greenleaf Playground
who won the Best of Show;
Patrick Comedy, Is, represent
ing the Harrison Playground
who won "Runner-Up of
Show; Roy Bozzi, 9. represent
ing the Lamond Playground
who won an Outstanding Orig
inality" prize, and Danny
Queen. 16, representing the
Kalorama Playground, who was
"Runner-Up for Originality"
Evening star., 1960-04-11
HOLLYWOOD
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM
Rocks Had q Year off
HOLLYWOOD NANAl

HOLLYWOOD (NANA) -
Rock Hudson, the Number /
box-of1ice star, has not done an
acting job for more than a
year. 81 don't mind a month
off," Rock, star Of Pillow
Talk" told me. but a year is
too long" Rock is still waiting
to start his DAY of the Gum
with Kirk Douglas. Joan
CrawfOrd's adopted actress
daughter. Christine, will be
tested by Jerry Wald to play
the Diane Varsi role in Return
to Peyton Place"
Frank Sinatra and Juliette
PrOwse are back in Hollywood
after bypassing New York City
Evening star., 1960-04-11

JEANNIE'S BACK - The
shuttering of viva Madison
Avenue" means that Buddy
Hackett will not-not this time
Evening star., 1960-04-11

from Miami. going home via
Chicago. It could be Rex
Harrison and not Yves Mon
tand for the lead with Laurence
Harvey and Ingred Bergman in
"Almez Vous Brahms?" Rex
wants the role. In any case
Rex will summer in Porto Fino
in the home he shared with
wife Lilli Palmer, then with
the late Kay Kendall.
=
Why did Jack Benny under
take the killing pace of one
TV show a week for next sea-
son? I remember Jacks reas-
onS for one show a month:
You can't have too much ex-
Evening star., 1960-04-11

Ianyhow - taste stage renown
along with such other refugees
from televiSion as Jackie Glea-
son. Some others from video
are more fortunate, though.
Two of them-Jeannie Carson,
the pert Scottish lass who deco
rated the living room cyclops a
few seasons back, and HoWie
Morris one-tlme Sid Caesar
.sparring partner-are involved
in a project virtually assured OF
success. They'll play leading
roles in the revlVaI o. 'rlu-..n .
Rainbow" at New York's City
Center tor two weeks beginning
April 26.
-
MOVIE-MAKERS - Alfred
Hitchcock Is the latest to be-
come a tourist IN the interest of
more cash at the ticket WlcketS.
He's OF on a selling JaunU to
discuss his recently completed
"PSycno" with paramount Of
flclaIS and newSmen IN europe,
Asia and Australia. When
ne returns, Hltcncock Will get
to WORK on his next project Tor
paramount, a move version of
PauI Stanton suspense novel,
'VllIage OF OtarS." Ii 1t
seems ike only yesterday mat
Joe PaSCernaK name Was De-
coming known py way OF some
moves ne Was MAKING Win d
ALtIe girl named Deauna Uur-
oln-lC wasn't. Please Ion t
Eat The DalSles," Cne move
maze from Jean kerr'S pest
seller, coming TO LoeW S Capitol
on TnurSoay, is the Slxty-nrst
MIN proouceo in Hollywood by
Joe PaSternaK.
Another novel with a movie
future is j. B. Priestley'S THE
DoomSday Men" 1t mas been
purchased by Producer director
William Castle, who will film it
for Columbia release. CO.
lumbia also will get Five Fin
ger Exercise" with rreuerlck
BrlSSon, who produced the play,
doing the motion picture ver-
sion with his wife starred. She's
also known as Rosalind Russell.
:. Hal Wallis is moving ahead
with his production of Ten
neSSee Williams Summer and
Smoke" He hired Peter Glen
vile to direct it and now has
signed Geraldine Page and
Laurence Harvey as its stars.
It's hard to know whether
Walt Disney hired his director
for Robert Louis Stevenson's
Kidnapped" because of his
demonstrated talent or because
he just couldn't resist the
temptation. The directors
name is Robert Stevenson.
THE ORIENTALS - Nancy
Kwan didn't wait long to i'm
press the boss when she took
over the leading role in THE
World of Suzie Wong" She so
impressed Producer Ray Stark,
in fact, that he has signed her
to star in a film titled "Kow-
LOOM" to be filmed in Hong
Kong next fall. And Rich
ard Quine, directing Miss Kwan
in "Suzie Wong" has gone on
record considering her "the
discovery of the decade" E.
Producer Ross Hunter, who per-
suaded Anna May Wong to re-
turn to the screen in Portrait
in Black" has talked Myrna
10y into taking a top role in
his latest, Midnight Lace" g.
And Miss 10y has every right
to be among the other lasses
from the Far East here. She
got her movie start in Holly
wood playing seductive Orient
tai temptresSes.
Evening star., 1960-04-11
WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage
Arena Stage - Dark. "Rine
Round the Moon" resumes to-
morrow.
NatiOnal-"The Dark at the
Top Of the Stairs; 8 pm.
Screen
Ambassador - The Nuns
Story" lis, $50, $50 and
800 pm.
Apex - "Aparajito," l:30,
$3.50, $50, 7::35 and $40 pm.
Capitol-"Room at the Top;
11:55 am, 4:45 and $50 pm
Anatomy Of a Murder; 1:5O
and $40 pm.
Dupont - BLACK Orpheus";;
1:l0, $40, 500, 1880 and 9:4O
pm.
Keith's - THE Unforgiven";;
HAS am, 2:15, 4:50, TBS and
9:55 pm.
MacArthur-"The Magician;
sos, 7:50 and 9:4O pm.
Metropolitan - "The Nuns
Story; 11:15 am, 1850, 4:30
7:l0 and 9:45 pm.
Ontario-"Our Man in Ha-
vana";; 1, sos, $40, 7:25 and
$40 pm.
Palace - Home From the
HIP; II am, 1875, Ais, $50
and 9:25 pm.
Playhouse - Swan Lake:
1890, 2, $3.50, 5, 6:35, $40 and
$40 pm.
Plaza - Nude in a White
Car; 11:45 am, lis, ESQ,
4:30, $40, sos and $50 pm.
TOwn-"Beast of Marseilles";;
lis, $40, 6:10. 8:35, 11:O5 pm
Trans-Lux - Suddenly Last
Summer; 10:15 am, 1890,
ESQ, $40, 7:3O and $50 pm.
Warner - "Ben-Hur";; 8 pm.
Evening star., 1960-04-11

would be no good. Men wouldn't
follow you; they'd only run
after you"