Variety (November 1961)

2 MISCELLANY Rush Force of Wind Feature Made Among Castro Refugees in Florida | | ‘Acéd United International Pictures to the sroaing ast of regional predcction outits -backed by q eriikes and tacai tranchixe disthits--whnk Rave been spr inging tee VIE are ening frequency in recent Veurs. Lniike sotce of: the qrher cre s. hovever, CEP. which | es scorporated Baltimore Carlier This Seal, tas already comPreved EAOGLNL fn sts first feature, “Force of The Wind.” a melodrama Gealing with the pieht of a group ad) aes waokeas cf retucees from Castroland in Fierica. Piiip Geodiran. ty and legit cavector whe cnekes Ins feature; tam cebut with * Ferce.” reported , i, New York last week that al) the ach the dim may Lo out as an: expdomatien item. le feels it has te pica importance Gseriiding its! EXPTGMaTICN — ¢lements With a script by novelist Pat ‘"Myr.. Avam’. Frank, Goodman says that tie Alm is the first American feat| ure to treat the Cuban refugee : probiem seriously. Cesar Romero stars in the plc-; However, privately some members; ture w hich was shot entirely on lheeation in Florida in September. ‘It originally had a 12-day shooting eked. which was fengethened to i te beef up “production qua: lity.’ The director, whose komme is New! York. reported that because of the ; tage number ef Cuban refugees in ji F'erida :over 65.090 in the Miamt! gies alone, the film assyomed an sir of urgency and importance during vrodwtion which was hard to anticipate A mumber of actual! refugees play parts in the film, seme under assumed names to protect relatives still at home. A Butista-Castra type police chief viilain the pic ejuates the two Gictators is plaved by a Swedish inascleman-boxer. however. Robert M. Carson: one of the J? -ncipals of UIP. produced the film, which is now being edited in, New York. According to Goodman, : film was urion shop all the way, vith the camera-sounderew, hired | ont of Birmingham, Ala, “strictly TA.” NEW CULTURAL VISITS SET BETWEEN U.S.-USSR: New cultural visits between the | Soviet Union and the Uhited States ' are revealed via Columbia Artists | Mznagement in Manhattan. Len-| ingrad Philharmonie will bring’ jt. 330-man ensemble here for 30! dates, after a 1956 tour. Columbia is laving out dates for: the third U. S. tour of Saviet fidj dler David Oistrakh, at same time! as the Leningrad Philharmonic. : Meanwhile Canadian contralto, | Naureen Forrester. flies to Mos-! cow this Nov, 14 for eight con-, certs and Dorthy Kirsten of the Met Opera will go there. next February for eight appearances with the Bolshoi Opera. ——$ ———— Subscription Enclosed find check for $........0ce8 Please send VARIETY for TO... cc ccceeese Street poreacceveseccessccon 6. Cer rer eeln te epimers en! | fi Regular Subscription Rates. One Year—$15.60 154 West 46th Street ‘verdict, but the appeal was re 1 was, , verbally. being. | j the present obstacles might evensince Husten told him his ‘screen° “Sonora Matancera group and. oth| play would have'to be.pruned dras‘ers are arranging for permanent tically from its 2.000-page length. | residence here. @lease Print Name) City cee ee eeererenaoecesoaeosore Zone.... State..seseee . Three Years—$39.00 Canada and Foreign—$1 Additional Per Yeer LARIETY Inc... ‘OPERATION EICHMANN’ BANNED BY ISRAELI} Tel Aviv, Oct. 31. “Operation Eichmann.”. one of ‘the first Hollywood feature pix fo]. join the bandwagon of. anti-Nazi| [8 films stemming from the trial of]. Adolf Eichmann, was banned. here by the censorship board. Distributors of pic appealed against the jected. Censors agreed. however, to review the case, after the judgment on Eichmann “has been}. announced. “Operation Eichmann” is obvi-[ © Th 2 in cusly an anti-Nazi pie and there-| |, an wee a jot aera T a like ot fore the ban by Israel is creating | Ane if PAUL ANKA-sang one or a small sensation here. Official rea-j two of them. Paul is’a gifted person given by the Censor Board] former and, in addition to a fine ‘that according to the law.| voice, he has the knack of making nothing that may prejudice a judg| the words. come to life,” Ipublie before the actual decision. Freud F im Not To Liking of Kin, Others in Vienna Vienna, Oct. 381. BILLY ROSE ’ The Famous Showman. says: of the Board gave a more plausible explanation—simply that they saw the pic as a cheap, incompetent , and quickie affair. Israeli censors are usually liberal |. .and whenever they trv to tell the] ipublic what it.is die to see and iwhat it may: not see, the press ihits them right on the head) of exterior shooting on “Freud,” for Universal Pictures release, [finds ect. ‘Easy to Do Business With’ Avers Russia’s ’ John Huston, in: for. three weeks | opinion divided on the proj| Among ‘those all for it. are | | PWOOD ANSWER TO 4 hour special, {swer to Communism,” vidtaped two: | Hosted and produced. by aetor' conducting anti-Communist rallies and Schick Razor which w iL bank Wednesday, November 4s: 1961 ||Bob Hope Celebrating 25 Yrs. in Films Ne ow in London for ‘Hong Kong? He Wants to Continue Present Work, Play F Pattern + : : London, Oct. 31. 3 Bob Hope, “now celebrating his. ’ 5th year in motion pictures, wants COMMIES ON WPIX ‘to maintain: the existing pattern of WPIX-TV will present a’ three-/work and ‘play.for the foreseeable “s Hollywood's An-| future. In other words, hé.. wants ‘to ‘go'on making films, appearing ;on tele and radio and ‘playing golf ‘as far as he ean see ahead. In his 25 years in pictures the English-born _ comedian has appeared in 50 films. He na current: y completing. his seventh “Road” George Murphy, the rally was run. ¢ijm “Road. a Hong Kong” {UA), under auspices of Dr. Frederick's which he is again costarred w ith. Schwarz, Australian who has been: Bing Crosby, and in which Dorothy | , Lamour: ‘has done. a. guest appear-" vance. It is the :first in the series. jfor eight years, the last one Ddeing i“The Road to Bali.”” On his imme-_ weeks ago at an atiti-Communist; rally in Holly wood Bowl, tomorrow night (Thurs,) from 8 to 11-p.m. for the last three years along with! an ex-FBI man, W. Cleon Skousen, : Sen. Thomas Dodd and Rep Walter! Judd. Industrial support | has. been! ;diate slate, Hope is. committed to year and is talkine a deal with. the roll the WPIX showing. . Indian government for a picture to Three-hour show features John,be. lensed in India the latter. part. Wayne (in the pledge of. allegiance} | ot 1962. and a number of Coast luminaries,| _Thotigh Hope dates his motion including James. Stewart, Linda | picture .debut from . “The. Big. Darnell, Walter. Brennan,. “Robert Broadcast of 1938” (which was. ac-: Stack, Jack Warner, Andy Devine, tually filmed in 1937), his. first feaRoy Rogers and Dale Evans and(|-ture role was at the Warner studios” others. Compton and Kenyon & in 1934, when he appeared. ‘Eckhardt are the agencies involved. “Loves At Three‘ with Dorothy | Stone. 7 Many Show Biz. People —_|criousis'in srsderiic wav back on From Latin-Am., Cuba Seek Refuge in Mex. 1927, but it was seven years. later that. he latched on to. radio.Now, of. course, most of his working time: is divided between pictures and -his. six hour-long tv shows a year. _ Mexico City, Oct. 31,. | While he. has worked in almost Many entertainer§.-from various ‘every branch of. entertainment,. he. “Minister of Culture; Vienna’s.lord mayor, Franz Jonas, ; parts of the world, especially Cuba jbas never yet appeared ‘as’a nitery By GEORGE KATZNELSON Moscow. Oct. 31, of Vienna's psy chiatric department. ; ‘Arrayed in opposition are Anna‘ | uralization and Dr. Hans Hoff, head of the U.}and Latin America. are seeking! performer. Nor does he ‘expect to. i refuge in this republic via the natroute. “Actually I would . ‘like to,” he Rhythm -of!comments, “as I really come awake. Soviet Culture, the USSR Min-; Freud, daughter of the founder of ; naturalization of foreign entertain‘at night and these are. the hours I ‘istry of Culture magazine, has run : psychoanalysis (and an. analyst.in ers appears on the upbeat. ‘an article by Georgi Zhukov, head! :of Government Cultural Commit-|_ ‘tee for Cultural Relations with ! shrinking camr. London: herself), Russo-American cultural exchange! ment. difficult but expressing hope that! tinged with. professional jealousy..: ually be removed. “The article dealing with Soviet , scientific and: cultural contacts _with as many as 82 countries of: the world, including the East : European and AfroAsian nations. said “the cultural ties with the. United States of America are de|‘ veloping satisfactorily on That would have made for a 10hour ° film,. and when this film!” © Russian picture themselves as‘ Period encompassing his courtship, ‘ reasonable traders. willing to show *™Martiage, Paris studies under the what they: have te offer and allow ! h¥notist Charcot, ana Freud's own a choice, wanting the same priv-'@@Tly experiments, So it’s not flege in return. But, per the article, | {Tuly a biopic, but it. boggles the the-“ruling circles" of the U.S. are {imagination to think how Sartre | different kind of traders, are full . 'would have treated that! : of fears. and angles and concerns ° "Film : stars Montgomery Clift as for “political goals.” Does USSR Freud, with Susan Kohner, Larry ! not have similar coneern? No bon (the longtime screen absenComplaint ts also voiced against , {f° 7 Erie Portman and Susanna (Continued on page 87) | i Playwright ‘whose “A Far Country” stage play MW/T itl with Freud’s first success with a hysteric, also encountered ' family. objection, notably © from ’ public : relations... counsel Edward L. Berriays, Denker aceused latter of being. “a professional nephew” | of Freud Ed) . SUBSIDY & REDTAPE CRIMPS ITALY’S OPERA Order Form Rome, Oct. 31. {) One Year | Again. ‘the threat. arises of no. 0 Two Years j winter opera or concert season in tC] Three Years | Italy, unless cugrent pleas for immediate: government aid. are | heeded. That’s the gist of a telej Sram . ‘sent this week-to Italian | Prime Minister. Amintore Fanfani and: Entertainment Minister Alj berto Folchi, in which the heads of all Italian opera and concert | houses and groups asked for emergency measures to help prevent an immediate shutdown. Major: beef' is that money asSigned by government to aid the {ailing concert and opera groups, which. include opera. houses in Milan, Rome,.”. Naples, Bologna, Palermo, and Venice. as well as | Rome’s Santa Cecilia Academy and soc ersseeseeecesacos eeesee COCO OCHEHOELELSEO ES ECR EEO Beed Two Years—$28. 00 -other similar: outfits, traditionally | arrives very late due to red tape, and, furthermore is assigned on a year by year basis, thus not allowing Houses. to make seasonal plans until, very: Jate; — : “4 ‘New York 36, N. Y. ‘other relatives.'year such show biz folks as the and. a large segment: of the head| Silva Brothers, :Olimpo Cardenas. Likewise writer-.| Lucho Gatica and Virginia’ Lopez, | Foreign countries. officially accus. philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. who completed legalities so.as to he, ing the American side. of making! authored the original screen treat‘come naturalized’ Mexican But: his: objection seems . zens. was nified her intention of : pointed out. to Sartre. the French! i Mexieo. permanently. man snapped, “So make a 10-hour to open a night club in Acapulco. Sartre apparently: overboarded | naturalization proceedings include | the; the minutiae, since the pic. will only! Antonio Prieto, Lulu Gatica, CarRobert Shaw's Chorale, in| whole, although there are -seriouscover about. a five-year period in‘los Arrieta, turn. will zo to the USSR. a repeat obstacles to be met. in their path.” : Fieud’s life—from age 28 to 33, the Haniel Riolobos. t Henry Denker | without t compensation. 133 current cn Broadicay, dealing | ‘some | Last j would like to work. But it takes ‘(Cantinued on Page 7 74) SPANISH SHOWFOLK HONOR PICASSO, 80 Madrid, Oct. 31. Contingent of Spanish showfolk. aned out to the Co * Yr Italian thrush Nila Pizzi. -has sigBabe’ Picasso’ P oth suakeersecr living in ‘fete. ‘Expedition includes ‘singer She plans ! Nati Mistral, who plans to -serenade the octogenarian with a potpourri of Spanish. tunes; stage and screen actress Aurora Bautista who will’ regale the artist's ears. with a irecital of. poetry, ang ‘actor Paco ‘Rabal.. . Bullfighters Luis. Miguel Dominguin and Domingo Ortega are. Coe as IFK Adviser ‘lalso in on. the trek to Picasso’s Washington, Oct. 31. {home town of Vallauris where they Président Kennedy has: selected | will stage a hand to (mano a mano) television producer Fred Coe to be |corrida de toros.to horor the old: his personal tv adviser,.a post held | master. |. 7 by Robert Montgomery. in. the j Though’ Picasso exhibitions have Eisenhower Administration. — “been held in Barcelona.and Ma citi This year, Celia . Cruz, the } ‘Other. entertainers . initiating Kika da Silva and ; White House Press Secretary’. drid, the Malaga-born maitre -has: Pierre Salinger said Coe will. serve not. set foot ‘on‘Spanish. soil’ for rover. 25 > years. Trade. Mark Registered FOUNDED 1905 by SIME SILVERMAW). Published Weekty by VARIETY, Inc. | yd Silverman, Eresiden ; JUdson 2-2700 Sy 134 West 46th St., New. York 36, N.Y. Hollywood a8 €404 Sunset Boulevard, HOllywood 9-1141 Washington 4 1202 National Press mee STerling $5445. Chicago 11 400 No.. 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