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Show SaturiaY, June 21, 1969 VESEPET NEWS, 10A 1Learni t Tree' Sensititr , ,..,,,, , ::".'''.t...:1,' !,:,;!'.71, ',.,1 ; :f oo 1 , ,, ,' .';'; 1; '., t i'1 , t '' ;', 1,1c e,,,,el.,,..,,,,2....i.;,.:,- " ,, , ,.' i:, .;' --4 . Av4,94,,,,o,- A, zt .,,,,: ..47) ,t .5, , ::',..,, ,:,:'k-- : ,1) ,:,....,..:, ,.,.; .,, , ,,,,,,,k,, ,, ,....?. , , ,,,,, , y :::.4 f,, e , ifQ it :,,:. '' ' Kyle N . ' Johnson stars :40,1,,s,''',,,i,' ,., 2 6. '..::.... "Learning Tree." in movie, graduate of Hollywood High, who has been in one stage play. The picture shows how Negro boys were "The Learning Tree" Is uniquo for many other reasons. It is the first major .,,;, ..,.,.:,,,,10.,,,,AAtivi.., The role of the boy is taken by Kyle Johnson, a had encountered company some trouble. "You are not going to film that dirty story movie sets, served in several hasn't gone into general distribution, so the same problems would not be encountered. entrusted Although the boy movie comes from from 'Learning Tree,' it was the culmination of a drea,m. I looked back on three years of brut& treatment in Minneapolis, where I I had gone from Kans--s. looked back on the lessons of my mother. I had never thought of myself as black but then I realized that not every other eapacites and then was with his own book. here," he quoted the townspeople as saying. "I asked if they had read it and they said, no, but every novel today is dirty. We finally got kr Talking about acclaim his first movie, he said: "Last night when I heard the in the applause a large family, it isn't as large as the But the film also shows how one Mr. Parks actually came the boy has a high school rofrom. "We had 15 children in mance, bow his mother and our family," he said, "and lather guide him properly, our mother taught us never to blame OtT blackness for what bow his mother insists be go we coula not accomplish. I to church and always tell the don't know where she got the but she taught us to idea truth. never thhik of ourselves as Asked how much of the black, but as human beings I realized, howeNer, I story is fictional and how much is the truth, Mr. Parks would have to work extra said: "Dealing with the novel, hard. I would have to make it in a field opened to me. When the story is fiction. When the I went to Life Magazine 25 movie is referred to, it's autoI as years He indicated still ago, sought a job ac-a blogranhical." was I photographer. that although both his book as a human being." and the movie have the same cepted incidents and tell the same He later went to Hollywood as a still photographer on story, some suits are devel other indignities. view after the movie, that he had been offered as much as $75,000 to change the characters to white or some other color. This, he said he felt, was a tribute to the universality of his theme, yhich just deals with the problems encountered by a Negro boy growing up in Kansas in the early 1920's. television commentators from all over the world interrupted the picture with applause during five scenes Wednesday night. At one place, when the boy's mother dies, there was much audible weeping as in those pictures usually dubbed films. 1, ,;,t were pushed around, called "boy" or "hey, you," and how they had to endure ifr , oping over' depiction of characters in the book. The movie blacks He said, during an inter- r lgazine editors and per and Ott g g r 1 called "niggers," how they were discriminated against in the drug store of the small and how the community musical background. The audience of 360 newspa- ,,,'' , )at ,.. no and dealing suggestiveness with the simple subject of a boy growing up in America, grabbed the spotlight in the fourth day of the Warners-- 7 Arts film festival here. ,, ,.:!.:.,,,,,:,,,: , ii,if4 'ir' ' ... . t,'"74',k.,.-.- movie with no lewdness, e v , :::: -- :: ,, ,. , ' BA- "Learning Tree," a HAMAS .. Ao 4,','4 sz...A-- ft,,,,, . , ' If-- !;t, 'A ' GRAND FREEPORT, ;.:.1.1,4).,,,,:..!....:..'40 : ., ' , 1,, r,1 ,A. ;i1.4,t4 ..,..i 14.:',-,,,- 4t,t. ,,4 Hollywood production to be directed by a black man. The director is Gordeon Parks, who also wrote the novel on shich the film Is based. Not only did be direct, but he produced, wrote the movie from his own book and wrote the By HOWARD PEARSON Deseret News Theater Editor t4. ,, r 1,!',1,',, '',. ,,:','''',....,,,,';. ., val' v(Iyri ."1.: , f?4,:;::6;,,,..:',.;,4 .2.,...i:1,....,,,..1,4,. , , ,:, , ,,,,, 4 ,,,fei:. :. 1',..,..,........:;. t 1 t, , 4 0 e :,t ''i, ' AO ;.....t e. .i ( aii .:,........:;?,.. ;j 4,,, ..,, -- ,.-i-- ' vie hltg 42 the permission because I told them this was where I grew up. When I went into the town, there was one copy of 'The Learning Tree.' When I left, everyone in town had a copy." colt on the untamed moors... Free as a hunting bird in flight...Tender bs a young boy's Innocence...wrong as the feelinj3 of love itself! as a o: A ',, (); .,:" ,?: sie.: 1 ::. :.:,'; i ,,A, C't VAM trL..t)'kv 4777:11, vvi, , If 0 4 ;'4:i- ', ''Nr iY- ;". ':: mothblack boy could have nor like a er mine, family ." (He had gulped a couple of times when he mentioned his mother. She died when he was in high school, which is what happens to the boy in the film.) c ., .e 11 I a z til Z ,k Nim k it - . a Suggested fix GENERAL , tr" HONIA4ND11 .d....cro (Hwity4ND .70 ;ix. - 3610 It I yilDi- ,- ,,- .11 ; .. "" - t .0, S. , '14, 0- -7 s ) rt.: !:. I, , ti) - ' 00- ,,--- - - VIVIEN ., ,,- - 0- 'a v -...- in. ITT ilt '. , , 41 IYINNERI. I 4 A 4, IP rp . VgIt; peoy,lAeVtto the 1 6,k0 - 410F ' , i:,., 4 eC- Ne idi 09 ,t4Or It. 0 Q - HOWIARD Tel A-$1- 4 - ' . Iti 11 . .6. N''. ."6.:E:11; t t PRICES: ALL MOM ---.- ... 1214 , - ,....0 .E, the CDs MICHELE LEE mama 0 k., - IFIrn- - I AT 1:30 815 NANO- -. EVENINGS 0 II6f DIRWIE.Bild 291.288. i ,REDWOOD RD, wlavr, I ,,) i ' NOW! . OEREAE AND (MURIA 1 4-01- ,,,,- -- 412' it . 4,Ve 41 . b ; 'LEASURE f' 016 PkAINA,,w,a,ereT 3 -- ,; ... ... T EXCLUSIVE I , km.. ool '. . em onus( ALIHIPh -- LEN3AGEMENT TV GiNNIRTM '' '''. k 111111kbANE ,eatnan, PlitUMBIONd Elea METN0001.011 ,,,,,. 5 AcmuAypArac A Pa4 tA413:-'171:- . HAI mu A A1 Exciusive Engagement t '4' 1P, rnII '1 idlifitAmo) Ai? ousE TODAY! it 9 ADULTS 12 03 2 00, Vttli THEATRE $2 25 Jk FEATURES. . ,A;1 tmtzt; 0, L fr 2" 1 FUN-LOVI- WEEKS LISTEN TO THE AUDIENCE HOWL WHEN THESE TWO GET TOGETHER! - . o turtiT unTIL 'AUDREY ALAN HEPBURN AR,I,9N F.:17'...1, Pt ,R., "MCA '414a.""111 0.4":7171.7:;7.4; - , , i BiilColoreCozhit! MOP , In. v I lin r 111.,, , - 3 ' -.- In. a.EIIMOrdinaly JACQUELINE BISSET a 6 i: MOVIDIA THING . , Nom 4 10A.s,,,,tek AWBUILILDITIT I $0.11, ' ',,,' 4, ... V44.9 succEssr MIC - CU FEN- 1 ' ' .010 k, 'GOODBYE. COLUMBUS'IS BOUND TO BE A GREAT SITIEVIE ' ,.,A IL I tin 1250 , -- - ).; 02t COLOR RICHARD BENUAMIN JACK KLUGMAN4417AFINEICliCGRAW '"1,' . ANN S A VERY si 'NOW, 1 1 DAY 40000BYECOIUM6US , Mg.. 71Air e, m JP (41 IMMENSELY APPEALING lismosignomatmEnts, pam. P ' nn A BLUSTERY , SHOlUirIG bet DEIIVE-- M :G1,7'm ."1"........ ,s,..." :::::::;; s..., P.. WS- -. Art COLOR -- Pawicaent Mettakir A Famtvays RetureStver mot 4101;604;:wviri. I.Nts'....:kiP 1E7 Tt - !Am. wit Dunaway -- owNE " a..;- smesteitotino p th Itto DDY un-aw- ay Patrick Mc Goohan Jim Brown FRANFS'ILIER POGEONsh,r,z", I . ACADEMY AWARD WINNER CARTOON : Lap fI NAIIIM PRESENTS WALT DISNEY DAYS! It.,,, DEAN JONES Juan Nda i Rock Hudson Ernest Borgnne ME 8: 46. 6 INI 'AI. iijakkeY ROOno it r itiev.7,114 P42. 845 "4' 4,010 coest I, . limm' :;,:..,,,. oar( - i ?;4 POSITIVELY LAST WALT DISNEY'S Bla lsf RUN David Von Faye Dunaway Acs lamb ,A41 qr., of TECHNICOLORPANAVISIT, i ACTRESS! , 10 I fSHOWTi dli, gat Ei STREISAND. 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PAY ANY r "BUILD-1- Is LESTER.ip 6I Vfigin&il e, 1 1110 t ..., , I 13411cCUEIEN As p.. ,. 0 ....CORONET MACIAZINi , JOHN MILLSMARK g Q, , .1.111VING ALLEN PRODUCTION 'COLUMBIA NtlylAciTAIN sTrEvIE , IN L t "The Learning Tree" will be in Salt Lake fleaters in late summer or early fall. It should figure prominently in Academy Awards next year., Talking about the filming, which was mostly in Kansas, Mr. rarks said he and the PUT lk .1114,r- :, :' ..:""jii,, f . ., AtiaVti.AILLABLE 4104,,, -- ,,,,!7c.z-qii! ,,,,, JO lo CONTEST BLANKS "Rugged, wildly beautiful Mark Lester, the winning .:, young hero of "Oliver!". ' ,,,P is fine in Columbia's handsome RUN WILD. 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ADULTS 1.25 CHILD 50c cifountam $ TicAmitic);io't, 7'11 9'15 364-- , calEg srrptlit ofthe , ,:11 discre 6"'" -- OUR 4 MATURE I ! 01..itilTECHNISCOPI i,,,,,..,.. A o 01 U. $tott 4114 0 , AS ' PEUILLITI $0, . v'; URRAYJ . c.91YeSt cle o 7,v,- , "Iti under lis not admitted. unless cc. companied by parent or adult guardian. 01 Zersons under 18 not admitted. i THe., rticCUIEEIN audiences. RESTRICTEP -- , 1NEEK; Irma sume cthcr Lind' a cep. sirtv GENERAL for n Ili ar &FINAL, i SEAL for VI ilIlf.ti.A2" 7.1191'.66 audiences (parental tion advised). 0 1 Nov. M Suggested , , ruilitt-14- 1 le eds indcates the filet wet tebneteti end sdepsesed andes the Meilen itottete Cott ft Self ilessdoeee. ,i7, i... LAita Focciive BALL i.,:' sHow "Tilt. Deluxe ' 111:01A71 Liberty Park AWARDicrOx tedt, 4 in Concert ' ELNI 'SALT ,I t 0.1J,jt JO" COLOR ter HENRY Ile MOVIE AUDIENCE' i la ,,: 0 BAND ,, ACADEMYBEsr A u",-,3- , " otesants a GeOsge Em7lund oroducton 0 Panavision.and Metrocolof rot mme gr.. ite.b.a... 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