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Show rsv' I Clecr Verdict: Worst of NEW. YORK-N- ew york had two gala premieres recently: The Fall of the Roman Em- CAMBRIDGE, MASS., April! 5 (UPI) Cleopatra. the film spectacular of 1963, was given the double-barraward of worst movie of the year and worst of the century Sunday by the Harvard Lampoon. The film was listed as number one on the Harvard Uni- pire and the Rise of Barbra Streisand or Funny Girl. Miss Streisand says it all began for her with an el Bed. The Timothy Cratchit memorial crutch, given annually to that Hollywood personality who offers the lamest justification for unsavory behavior, went to Elizabeth Taylor for' divorcing Eddie Fisher on the grounds of abandonment It Was Wilde The Wilde Oscar was presented to the producers of Beckett and Night of the for castihg Richard Burton In clerical roles. The award is conferred upon that performer who has been willing to flout convention and risk worldly reputation in order to pursue artistic fulfillment." Stanley Kramer was present- -' Corried the Hon. Wrong-Wathe for memorial palm gan worst direction of a film during the past year in Its a y Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. The Drums Along - the - Mohawk Grant, presented annually for the most drummed up publicity campaign of the year went to Frank Sinatra, Frank Sinatra Jr., And the Thre Kidnapers of the Lattpr. Thanks, Again The Thank You Again Citation went to Victor Mature for not making a picture this year." Cleopatra Following in the list of the 10 worst pictures The Vips, The were Its a Mad, Mad, Prize, How the Mad, Mad World." West Was Won, Heavens 55 Days at Peking Above, and Act One. Listed ninth were "The e Birdie. Birds and In tenth place were "Gidget Goes to Rome and Tammy and the Doctor." Bye-By- quot- ing Billy Rose: . . . of all the jLyi Mr comediennes he's seen, the one whose comic qualities most closely approach bliss Brice's is Barbra Streisand." Rose was at the Winter Garden Theater for Miss Streisands first starring role on Broadway, portraying Fanny Brice, At the Rainbow Room party afterwards he was asked for his opinion. He replied: Are you asking for my opinion as a producer, as a member of the board of directors of the New York Central, or as an of Miss Brices? Bronstons Career Soaring The Fall of the RomanEm-pire- " is the film spectacle produced by Samuel Bronston, who made King of Kings and El Cid. Bronsons former associate, Robert Hag-giasays that all of this too began with an item in this column, Jan. 24, 1960. The item was: Poitier will costar with Belafnnte in El Cid, to be produced by Gaggiag in Italy. Haggiag flew to Spain the next day and showed the item to Bronston. The story of El Cid Is in the public domain, Bronston produced, the film version In Spain, not with Side ney Poitier and Harry but costarring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren. The profits rocketed Bronstons holdings. With du Pont backing he expanded wildly. Now the du Ponts have cut off his credit, and Bronston Is in the midst of a rough legal battle for survival. And it started, says his former associate, with an item in this Dr. Lao, Tony Randall, does philosophizing for Barbara Eden in scene from Seven Faces of Dr. Lao at Centre and Tark-V- g, Tony Randall Plays 7 Roles In Fantodramystacom Film Six-tim- Award- Academy e producer - director George Pal is due for more laurels as the result of his newest production, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, one of the most unusual and fascinating motion pictures ever made, with star Tony Randall in seven different roles. Word For It winning er This film, playing at Centre Drive-iis so and Park-Vunique that ordinary adjectives do not apply to it, and a word had to be invented combinfantodramystacom ing fantasy, drama, mystery and comedy. Here are the different characters portrayed by Randall, who with Barbara Eden, Arthur OConnell and John Ericson in 7 Faces of Dr. Lao: the title role, Merlin the Magician, Medusa, Apollonius of Tyana, Pan, the Abominable Snowman and a Giant Serpent. In Early West Set in the early West, the story opens with Dr. Lao riding into the desert town of Abalone astride a yellow mule and with a tiny fish in a fishbowl tied to the saddle. u n co-sta-rs The Chinese has come to town to announce the opening of the Circus of Dr. Lao. This entertainment, which proves to g be not only a circus n but a company, takes place as scheduled but not before Dr. Lao has turned the town upside down. one-rin- one-ma- "Tom Jones" Pli FEATURES CrtoNi Acodmy Award Nomina "THE CRITIC" AT I1.1I, 1 30, 5:00, 7.30, 10.00 - hus-han- d, y 90th Anniversary The 92nd Street YMHA Is . n. a A item Jn .this column April versity Humor magazines annual list of the 10 worst pictures of the year. Sorry, 01 Burt Burt Lancaster, for his work In The Leopard and Seven Days in May, was given the Kirk Douglas award a worst actor of the year. Named worst actress was Debbie Reynolds for her parts in How the West Was Won and Mary, Mary." ' The worst supporting actor and actress of the year, according to the Lampoon, were Roy Cohn, in Point of Order,1 and Carol Burnett, in Whos Been Sleeping In My David Susskind will return to Milkwood. . . Jerome Robbins first steps on any stage Broadway producing with Pewere at this Y and T. S. Eliot The Royal ter Schaffers down all lucrative lecturned Hunt of the Sun. It will ture offers just to recite his open at the Chichester Festipoetry, regularly at the 92nd val July 6. St. Y, . . . The building Tom Bosley was lunching in carries the scars of the Marx Sardis the day he opened in Brothers antics and art teachA Murderer Among Us. er Zero Mostels conga line There he received word thatf of students, the play would not reopen even Mike Nichols, whose wife for a second performance. His gave birth Jo a daughter at companion sighed at the shockMount Sinai Sunday, flew to ing news: Oh, good Lord! California to cast a national . . . The good Lord was on of Barefoot in the company our side, but the critics were Park . . . Pocket Books not, said Bosley. I wonder, printed several hundred thouif it were the other way sand copies of Anne Bemays round what wouldve hapShort Pleasures." Her pened? Justin Kaplan, is comGould may appear , Elliott pleting a Mark Twain biogranext in the musical, Tevya phy for Simon & Schuster . . . . , Opening night tickets for Brien Bedford, George Segal, the National Repertory Theand AlexRoddy Maude-Roxbater here will be priced at andra Berlin complete the $25 each . . . Eleven paintcast of "The Knack at the ings by Marc Chagall, never Establishment Theater. before shown here, and canvases by Mane-Katz- , Kisling ALL SEATS RESERVED and Rubin, will be exhibited at the Israel Discount Bank on Fifth Avenue . . . Natalie Wood is interested in playing the role, created by Sandy Dennis, in the movie version of Any Wednesday. 27 . FOR 10 AWARDS NOMINATED Billy Pins Rose on Funny Girl Babs 63, Century Iguana The Salt Lake Tribune, Monday, April 6, 1961 Leonard Lyons The Lyons Den celebrating its 90 anniversary. It was this Y that brought Dylan Thomas to Amprica, and there he presented his dramatized reading of Under EM 53 So. Main OPEN NOON DAILY Excitamant . . . Suspanw . . . Comody WALT DISNEY'S Bela-font- Twinkle, Twinkle In his own enigmatic way, he blocks the attempt of the town's dictator Clint Stark (Arthur O'Connell) to buy up property in a shady railroad deal. When Stark is exposed by newspaper editor Ed Cunningham (John Ericson) and his thugs wreck the printing press, Dr. Lao puts it back together again in the twinkle of an eye! The crusading editor has more reason to be grateful to Dr. Lao when the latter takes an interest in his romance with schoolteacher Angela Benedict d AUGER WHIKS MIAN KEITH Flue . VERA MILES DISNEY'S . . WAIT Tha Legend of 10 BO" Both m Color column. Wagner to Stay Mayor Wagner had selected a duplex apartment for himself and his sons, after the tragic death of his beloved wife but decided, last week, to move back Into Mansion . , . Myrna Loy has agreed to appear in a limited summer stock tour of The Irregular Verb to Love . . . 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