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Show -""W-m - " X- sy. V VtTv Anthony Quinn, in the title role of "Barabbas," now at the Academy in Provo, asks the Roman crowd whether he should spare gladiator Jack Balance, in Dino De Lauren-tiis Lauren-tiis Technicolor-Technirama production of Columbia Pictures Pic-tures release." Also starred are Silvana Mangano, Arthur Kennedy, Katy Jurado, Harry Andrews, Vittorio Gassman and Ernest Borgnine. "Barabbas" is based on the novel by Nobel Prize winner Par Lagerkvist. Jack Palance had varied activity before launching acting career When a man's career can encampass such activities as a coal miner, short order cook, radio repairman, salesman, lifeguard, bomber pilot, professional pro-fessional boxer, student and athlete and then he can win both the Sylvania Award and TV's Emmy (equivalent of filmland's Oscar) as well as an Acadamy Award nomination, obviously this man Jack Palance Pal-ance rates some special distinction. dist-inction. And now, in Dino De Lauren-tiis Lauren-tiis production, "Barabbas," the Columbia Pictures release with Anthony Quinn in the title role now at the Acadamy Theatre, Palace once again gives testimony to his inimitable inimit-able talents. He plays Torvald, captain of the gladiators, in film. Injured in a bomber chash and discharged from service after a period of hospitalization, hospitaliza-tion, Palance enrolled at Stanford Stan-ford University under the G.I. bill to study journalism; While at school, he joined the Drama Club, a seemingly innocuous action ac-tion that changed the course of his life. Again, impulsively and unexplainably, Palance left the University determined to become an actor. After a number of minor roles in plays which invariably folded, Palance became understudy under-study for Anthony Quinn in the touring company of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and subsequently replaced both Quinn in Chicago and Marlon Brando on Broadway when the stars were invalided. The experience ex-perience brought him the attention at-tention of noted director Elia Kazan, who brought Palance to Hollywood and launched his film career in "Panic In The Streets." Since then, Palance has worked exclusively in films except for two invitational appearance ap-pearance with Shakespear Festival Fes-tival at Stratford, Conn. |
