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Robert Kendall ’s Hollywood f From Venice to Rome where the Italians have enormous signs advertising their movies. Düring August heat, many Romans retreated to their movie houses to be entertained and keep cool at the same time. Athens was packed with American tourists, and the films most often are shown in English with Greek sub-titles. Here, as elsewhere throughout Europe, movies are a very populär form of entertainment, with Clint Eastwood heading the popularity parade. Rooftop theaters are populär in Athens, and then on to Geneva and Paris. In Paris, Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” was playing in the multiples, and doing very well. On a small, narrow Street on the Left Bank, the Hollywood classics are always being revived. Garbo, Garland, as well as pictures like “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” and Buster Keaton movies play. *** In London, caught the British Alice Faye and Art Nicholson revival of the stage hit, “Showboat” which has played for two years at the Adelphi where Anna Neagle starred in “Charlie Girl” for almost six years. Harve Presnall stars in “Gone With The Wind” as a musical, and Robert Morley, Laurence Olivier were also in London hits. Old movies were being revived not only in downtown London, but in the suburbs. *** In Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum slated showings of 21 feature films directed by George Cukor, spanning four weekends of showings. Cukor directed such movie greats as Katherine Hepburn, Greta Garbo, Judy Holliday, James Mason, Ava Gardner, Joan Crawford, Ingrid Bergman, Judy Garland, and Rex Harrison. The series included, “Holiday,” ‘‘Little Women,” “Bhowani Junction,” and “Star is Born.” The Cukor Retrospective is the first series of the season, and will also be seen at the John F. Kennedy Center for performing arts in Washington. Meanwhile, local theaters in Los Angeles have brought back the “golden-era” motion pictures as never before. The Marx Brothers are being shown in “The Big Store” and “A Night in Casablanca,” and the Mayfair Theater in Santa Monica is giving Angeleanos a month of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy MGM movie specials, including “Naughty Marietta,” ‘‘Bittersweet,” arid “I Married An Angel,” among others. “Key Largo” and “African Queen” are being revived at the Encore. In another Hollywood revival house, the Bijou, “Suspicion” and Fritz Lang’s “M” is showing. But, the splashiest revival of all was given for “The Gang’s All Here” a 20th-Century-Fox technicolor musical that opened the Yule season at « N :uvs PRESTIGE PONTIAC FREE TEST DRIVE OF THE NEW SUBARU Test drive the new SUBARU GL COUPE Look at what's included in the base price. Front wheel drive, radial tires, tinted glass, radio, pop out rear Windows, bücket seats, rack & pinion steering, 4 speed transmission. $2499 5848 Van Nuys Blvd. 786-2433 5720 Van Nuys Blvd. 873-6611 The car for people who know all about imported cars. Thecarfor people who never considered an import. 25