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llll'y lf.WM? Myles Standish The New Films A Voice From Home for the Men Overseas Red Cross Providing Recordings for Relatives lo Send to Servicemen; Some Emotional Moments Bizarre Espionage Hoax IWUIIII.I Illllll I-II IIIIIHUIIIB I I THIS CRITIC has always been a sucker for a good spy melodrama, and you can list "36 HOURS," at LOEWS STATE THEATER, as a biiarre and intriguing one, with a fantastic espionage plot and an exciting duel of wits. sr BSJT I ISMS Director-writer George Seaton, who produced this in conjunction with his partner of 25 years, William Perlberg, claims it is based on an actual incident of World War II. James Garner, as an American Army Intelligence major, is drugged and kidnaped by Nals in Portugal when on a courier mission, lust prior to D-day, and if 1 9 V' A I '4. Vi 'ly- I A P. i ,7 shipped In a coffin to Germany.

There In the Black Forest, the Nazis have set up an "American military hospital," complete in the last detail, with oonvalescnts and staff all completely Americanized. They subject the unconscious Garner to an aging process, then revive him and try to persuade him it Is 1950 and has been the victim of amnesia. The war has been over for six years, they tell him, and the Allies are still occupying Germany. Thus, they hope he will talk freely in the past tens of plans for D-day. Th unfolding Is suspenseful in development, although It cannot have ultimate suspense.

We all know that the Allied invasion was successful. Seaton can't help that. But what is best about this is its fascinating detail, the cunning of the Nazis, the duel of wits between the American and Rod Taylor a Nazi medical officer and Eva Marie Saint as a former concentration camp Inmate acting as Garner's nurse, and the ultimate ironic dash between the shrewd psychiatrist, Taylor, and the hidebound German command. Some critics have said it is absurd that the Nazis would set up such an elaborate and expensive hoax just to delude one prisoner. Well, it wasn't too expensive for Perlberg to set up to make the picture, and certainly learning the Allied Invasion plans was vastly more important to the Nazis than this picture to Perlberg.

Besides, it is implied the Nazis used the same etup to trap a number of prisoners. It was far wiser to get Information willingly and unknowingly than under torture, because Allied intelligence threw out so many false leads Nazi intelligence couldnt tell which information was true and which false (the Nazis actually learned the point of invasion and didn't believe it). Seaton has kept the pace taut, and the plot full of surprises. Garner, Taylor, Miss Saint and Werner Peters as a Nazi intelligence officer all deliver trenchant performances. The Film William Inge Disowned FORMER ST.

LOUISAN William Inge, who wrote four Broadway hits in a row and then the original screen play for a perceptive picture, "Splendor in the Grass," wrote "BUS RJLEY'S BACK IN TOWN" as his second original movie script. Mr. and Mrs. R. K.

Grant record a msssaga to their ton, Thomat, soldier in Germany, while Mrs. Richard Mots, Red Cross volunteer, operates tha recording equipment. They told him: "Writ Aunt Lana when you hava moment Said 'Mn. Reynolds Colton to her son, Lonnia, an Army spacialiit In Thailand: "You stop worrying about you hear?" Recording her mauage it Mrs. Howard Schiltz.

Joying too much. By the way, to the long table, sat down, her Kent and Beth wera ovsf Sun- head in her arms. Mrs. Colton took a deep breath i' fJ ''it: f-7. A A 4 l'te WXfea hiiiiIA But the name of the author given in the credits is a nonexistent "Walter Gage." When Universal changed the script without Inge's consent and reshot several scenes to give their new sex image, Ann-Margret, a bigger part, Inge thought his film was spoiled and demanded his name withdrawn.

The picture, showing here at the FOX, ly Robtrt C. Holt I Poit-Dlipttch rhotegnphtr "First of all I love you and you very much," Mrs. Raymond B. Smith told her husband, an Air Force staff sergeant who is stationed in Viet Nam. By Clarissa Start Of the PoM-Dipiilch Staff "SOMETIMES I LOOK at a plane coming in and I wish the doors would open and you'd step out," the serviceman wrote his wife.

"I'm just kidding, of course. I wouldn't really want over here in this mess. But if I could just hear 1 voice. As soon as air mail can reach his APO address, Staff Sgt. Raymond B.

Smitn, with the Air Force in Viet Nam, will hear his wife's voice on a small plastic disk that the American National Red Cross recorded for her this week. Many other St. Louis men in service will have the same thrill. On Armed Forces days, to be observed here tomorrow and Sunday, the Red Cross will have a display tent in Forest Park, just east of the Municipal Opera on Theater drive. From 1 to 5 p.m.

on both days, anyone who goes to the tent may record a letter to someone in service, free of charge. THIS PROGRAM has been going on for 10 years and thousands of records have been made, but each session is a heart-warming and sometimes heart-rending experience for the volunteers In charge. Ear. lier this week, two St. Louis women and a couple from Webster Groves went to the St.

Louis Bi-State chapter office, 4901 Washington avenue, to make records. Mr. and Mrs. R. K.

Grant, 509 Larkhill court, were sending a message to their son, Pfc. Thomas C. Grant, in Augsberg, Germany. Mrs. Reynolds Colton was making a recording for her son, Lonnie, an Army specialist in Thailand.

And Mrs. Raymond B. Smith was granting her husband'i wish that he hear her voice. Two volunteers were on hand to help, Mrs. Richard M.

Moss, the chapter's project chairman for Armed Forces days, and Mrs. Howard Schiltz, whose hus- day. The kid ire so cute. Aunt Lena's at the Masonic Home now, and every time we go there she asks about you. When you have I moment, write her." The r'ecord was over all too loon, the last thread etched from the grooves.

"Goodby, dear, good luck and let us hear from you," the Grantl concluded, Mrs. Moss packaged the record for them. They would take It home first to try (at 33 1-3 RPMs) on their own player before mailing It. Families pay their own postage, but if the record goes to an APO li only stateside postage, 24 cents air mall for the record, or 15 cents regular mall. The Grants had taken time off from work, he from B.

F. Goodrich she from her secretarial job in the Mart Building, so they hurried away. Then it was Mrs. Smith's turn. She was a little breathless.

"FIRST OF ALL I love you and miss you very much," she told her husband. "Duane said he wished you could be back to coach the ball team. They're losing all their games. Perry and Joe are doing real well. They're making their first Holy Communion Sunday.

Richard's fine. Jeffrey's still dancing. Well, I guess I'll have that cup of coffee now for you." She paused. The record still had a long way to go. "I don't know what else to say." "Maybe he'd like to know about the Cardinals?" the volunteer suggested.

"Oh yes. The Cardinals have won five in a row. It's hot here. She paused again. "God bless you, Ray." She rose abnmtly.

walked over and started in. "Hiya, son," she said. "Everything here is okay as usual. The kids are fighting. Anthony thinks he's the man of the house now that he's 13, and wants to give orders te all the others.

We went to see 'Sound of Music' the other night. It's really good. "Jackie's trying to mike straight A's for you. Loretta says it's your turn to write her. "The only reason I'm here is the Red Cross was nice enough to have me.

They brought me from work, and they're going to take me home. Your dad is doing better; he's able to recognize us now. "Your last letter sounded really down in the dumps. You stop worrying about us, you hear? Everything's fine. About the fire, the insurance took care of everything.

You do your job and take orders and do what they tell you. Don't be no grand hero or anything; just try to stay together. "I guess you think I'm arguing with you a little bit, but I want it to seem like home." The threads had spun into a ball. The volunteer signaled. "Son, I have to say goodby now.

You write. Bye-bye." It was over. Mrs. Colton smiled. "I forgot all this stuff I wrote down," she said, tearing up her cards.

"I just started talking like he was home." 1 Mrs. Smith was still at His table. Mrs. Colton walked over and patted her shoulder. "Any time it gets too bad," she said, "you come out and see me and we'll cheer each other up." one man In Germany wrote the Red Cross.

Another wrote: "Maybe this here letter won't mean too much to you all there but I had to drop you a line to tell you how much I appreciate the work that you people are doing." The Christmas records were a half hour in length. The ones now being made are smaller, with five minutes' playing time on the six-inch disk. The Grants, because they were experienced, agreed to make their recording first. Consulting their notes, they spoke, a little formally at first but then more relaxed about things that would interest Tom. "I played a little golf Sunday," Grant said.

"Didn't do very well. I hope you get to the British Open. We took some pictures of your new Falcon." "Speaking of your new Falcon," his mother broke in, "you partly justifies Inge's criticism. But there remains a lot of Inge's honesty sensitivity and naturalness in portraying smalltown life some of the ugliness and sordidness, some of the love, good will and tenderness. And there is some amusing satire in the case of a high-pressure salesman who teaches the hero to combine his good looks and sex with glibness in selling Jo susceptible housewives and divorcees.

One feels the material is there for something much better. But, as drama, this just fizzles to an ending. As Bus Riley, a well-intentioned but confused youth returned home after a three-year Navy stretch, Michael Parks gives an appealing and refreshingly true performance. This is in spite of Ann-Margret's blatant, almost amateurish work as a former girl friend, now married, who lures Bus into an affair. Her performance looks like a travesty on Marilyn Monroe.

Others who are much more real are Janet Margolin, as a sweet teen-ager who grows to represent pure love in Riley's life, Kim Darby as his ebullient kid sister, Joycelyn Brando as his mother, Nan Martin as the alcoholic mother of Janet, and Brad Dexter as the brash promoter who sells vacuum cleaners like hotcakes by presenting them as "atomic home purifiers." French Attempt to be Different IN "THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG," a French picture at the APOLLO ART, directowriter Jacques Demy has attempted to make a simple, bittersweet and sentimental love itory into something quite arty by having every line of dialogue "I dreamed I heard my husband at the door, calling my name 'Ret, My name's Loretta but he always calls me Ret. He called, 'Ret, open the It was so vivid, I got out of bed and went to the door, but no one was there. I couldn't sleep the rest of the night. I just sat there at the window." THE GRANTS are looking forward to Nov. 11, the scheduled date of their son's homecoming.

He has enjoyed his stay in Germany, and he sent them movies of Garmisch Parten-kirchen at Christmas. The parents made a recording through the Red Cross and sent it to him then. "He was so pleased," his mother recalled. "He said he couldn't imagine what it was when the package arrived." Responses from servicemen indicate 'that records are a great morale booster. Young fathers have heard their babies' voices for the first time.

Sons have been reassured that a widowed mother Ls really getting along just fine. "It was the nicest Christmas present I could have received," "We've always been at military bases mostly in the South," she said, "and everyone was so friendly. Service people pitch in and help each other out. St. Louis is my home town, but the city seems cold now.

You have to be so careful. You can't just say 'Hi' to anybody." Mrs. Colton, whose husband, now hospitalized, was in service 21 years, agreed. "There's a special feeling among service people," she said. "You're all serving your country, and you either stick together or go down together.

It's the feeling of being in a group, like people who are on a ship crossing the ocean. When you're halfway across you become a group and then when you're halfway home, the ties start coming apart." Lonnie Colton is the oldest of eight children. Mrs. Colton and Mrs. Smith agreed that service families can be well disciplined no matter how large.

"They know what 'off limits' means," said Mrs. Smith. Something was disturbing Mrs. Smith. It was a dream she had the other night.

not get it back. I en- may FIRST 2S8Si 18.7 Cubic Foot sung and by mixing pastels and gaudy colors in his color photography. I don't think the film's appeal is helped very much by these devices, but the movie does emerge as a delicate, tender, lightly sweet, then lightly poignant story of frustrated love. It has Catherine Deneuve as the daughter of an umbrella shop proprietress MOTHER'S DAY BUFFE SERVED 11 :30 A.M. TO I P.M.

ADULTS S2.73 SPECIAL MOTHER'S DAY DINNER SERVED ONLY 4 P.M. TO 11 P.M. oa no a Brigadier general in Army Aviation Command. Red Cross workers suggest that families plan their letters in advance so they don't go blank on precious recording time. The Grants, Mrs.

Colton and Mrs. Smith talked over what they planned to say, and in so doing became pretty well acquainted. Smith is a rpgular in the Air Force with 15 years' service plus three years in the Navy in World War II, but this is the first time he and his wife have been separated since their marriage. Mrs. Smith, who lives at 1300 South Fourteenth street, is finding the responsibility of their nine children and big city life a rough combination.

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In a service station we have, "Shall I fill it up?" "Yes, please do" "Ethyl or regular?" One might argue that dialogue just as pedestrian as this is often contained in the recitative of grand operas. But this music has rone of the stature of grand opera. It doesn't even approach operetta. One is tempted to say it's closer to soap opera, although that wouldn't be entirely fair. As for the color, this is no artistic milestone.

Demy is like a small boy with his first paint set, smearing and dabbing colors all over the place. Ann Landers The Broken Ukulele DEAR ANN LANDERS: I have an aunt who is very fat. She is also very rich. Her husband owns half the lumber in North Carolina. This fat aunt came to visit us a few days ago.

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Only $15.00 a Month cheap of my aunt not to offer to buy me a new ukulele. She could buy me a whole store full of ukes and not miss the money. Please tell me what you think about this, and if you can help me in any way I would appreciate it a whole lot. 6ILF0RD Admiral Mark of Qualify Throughout tha Worti 1 1 Where the BIG BRANDS ARE! FORMER OWNER OF A UKULELE See Us for Cur Low Prices On Every Model Zenith Large Screen Portables at $139.95 Dear Former Owner: I agree with your aunt that run new rubti Iui4 FAR and m4 mP NEAR md 'fl 5 GRASSO PLAZA (10000 Orsvoij) AFFTON 10475 ST. CHARLES ROCK RD.

ST. ANN 6502 WEST FLORISSANT should not have left the uke on the chair, but then people should pay some attention to where they sit. There might have been a darning needle, scissors, or a small child on that chair. Let's hope Auntie sees your letter and comes through with a new ukulele. Sh hi Trl Rlort Plf fvtr Jr Sunday in rh POST-DISPATCH JENNINGS fa 2D Ma 7, 1965 ST.

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