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Thursday, June 20, 1968 T H E R E G IS TE R , D E N V E R A R CH D IO CESA N E D ITIO N Page 1 Sec. 2 Mile High Entertainrpent | 'America' Asks NCOMP By Tom Officer • The Boy» From Syr MUSICALS: A Perfectly Art buffs and persons acuse, July 9-14; nn^ent Affair or Lying interested in purchasing • Threepenny Opera, I ” Latching, an adapta To Drop Nudity Ban art works are visiting the July 23-28; and tion o f the 1845 play 12th annual "Own Your • Sweet Charity, Aug. Fashion, will open its Own” art exhibition at the 6- 11. engagement at Theater in Denver Art Museum’s in the Square, Denver, to- In Classifying Films terim gallery. W. 12th Greeley night (June 20). avenue and Acoma street. New York — America, valid reasonR of art, would the screen, but in recent C The exhibit is op^n daily The Little Theater of the J^Z; it is not too early Rockies will present five national Catholic weekly, lead to wide abuse.” The films, the nudity has been through July 7 — except to start planning to attend has urged the National committee promised that more drawn-out. for July 4. plays and an opera this the S c h h t a Salute to J a i . r . summer at Colorado State Catholic Office for Motion the national Catholic film One indication of the di Persons have a chance to M , to be held at Red Rocks Pictures to end its ban office would continue to college in Greeley. Per lemma facing NCOMP is purchase the objects — Saturday, July 20. Tickets against nudity in films. resist nudity in films even formances start at 8 p.m. the absence to date of a textiles, jewelry, ceramics, at $4.50 are available at The NCOMP policy has though "some may regard moral classification for the paintings, prints and draw for: various agencies in the been to condemn any film this policy as rigid and • Barefoot in the latest Ingmar Bergman ings, and sculpture — that Denver area. in which nudity appears, perhaps arbitrary.” film, Hour o f the Wolf, Park, June 27-28; are on exhibit. Among the performers on the grounds that if released in the United • The Rose Tattoo, A M E R IC A commented And the viewer has a will be Dionne Warrick, NCOMP approves a film in its editorial that nudity States several months ago. chance to see if he agrees July 4-5; Ahamd Jamal, the Gary with nudity in it the result It contains one lengthy • Measure for Meas in films has increased de with the awards of the Burton quartet, the Can will be widespread exploi spite the NCOMP ban and, nude sequence which judges of the show. ure, July 11-12; nonball Adderly quintet, tation by unscrupulous secondly, many worthwhile would automatically bring • The Odd Couple, At a preview showing, and the Thelonious Monk film-makers. films have been con the film a condemned rat this writer saw weveral July 18-19; quartet. The NCOMP policy has- demned. ing according to NCOMP’s • The Barber of Se works that impressed him; not worked, argued A m eri "While some of (the) current policy. ville, July 25-26; and English ‘Students’ • 15 -H 1 — an acrylic MUSIC: Sibelius' Violin ca in a June 15 commen But the condemnation of • The Man Who Came nudity is designed for aph by Barbara Bertie, with Concerto (Itzhak Perlman tary, and it is also respon- rodisiac effect,” the weekly films by such "serious” Assuming the role of students at the six-week to Dinner,. Aug. 1-2. blue squares and rectan ^loist) and Tchaikovsky’s sibile for creating false argued, "much of it is res film-makers as Bergman — NDEA English institute at Loretto Heights college gles predominating, and symphony No. 6 criteria for judging films. trained, artistically inte- who appeal to only a select are Mrs. Ellen Romansik, right, fifth-grade teach one chartreuse square; Potpourri (P a th etiqu e) head the "The real problem is not ^ated or at least — in the clientele to begin with — er at Doull elementary, Denver, and Wendell • Bcreshith — an acryl TELEVISION: Two spe Boston Symphony program whether there is nudity in judgment of many mature has been criticized by Evans, fifth-grade teacher at North Summit ele ic by Lorin A. Paul, with a cials on network television 22^ '■ ^ P-ni. June a given film,” the weekly and prudent observers — Catholic film critics and milky way galaxy effect; m entary, Cc?»lville, Utah. Sister Ruth M a ry Ols- deserve special watching observed, "but whethpr the not corrupting. educators. NCOMP has zwski, assistant professor of the four-state institute • Window No. 2 — an film as a whole is likelv to this week. "One thinks, for example, apparently chosen to solve oil and ink drawing by Schubert’s Symphony No. corrupt the adult viewer. and assistant professor of education at Loretto The first is The New of recent motion pictures the dilemma presented by 9 (The Great) is the major By revising its policy to Heights, demonstrates use of an overhead projec Leonore K. Loewinger, American Catholic, an like The Fifth Horseman "Hour of the W o lf’ by with grey and white domi work on the Cleveland ward film nudity, NCOMP tor as a teaching aid. examination o f the new Is Fear, Benjamin, Blow- simply not rating it__(CPF) nating the design, with a Symphony broadcast on could conceivably help edu trends and movements of Up, Here We Go ’Round red square; KFML — 1 p.m. June 23. cate the viewing publics in D e n ve r Rose Show Scheduled Sunday the Church in America, on the Mulberry Bush’ — • Infinity — a white forming a correct con KOA, channel 4. and none of which, in our view, The Denver Rose Show Denver Rose society. Judg balsa sculpture by Dudley MOVIES: Proceeds from science.” can be said to be in them w ill be held June 23. 1 ing will take place before KO AA, channel 5, Colora The Hugh K. Wiltse, of the a special showing of The In 1965, the Episcopal selves corrupting for ad p.m., in the Colorado Na do Springs. the doors are opened to the American flag: and Green Berets at the new Committee for Motion Pic ults. Y e t they have all tional Bank lobby. 17th public. Ribbons w ill be • Alferd Packer — a The second is a three- North Valley Cinema on tures, Radio and Gelevision b een a s s ig n e d a C M Williams and Champa streets, ac part series — Th e Cities, awarded in 238 classes in painting in the design of a July 2 will 20 to benefit — NCOMP’s policy-making (condemned) rating by an examination of troubled cording to Ross Lahr, pres the main section and 22 commemorative stamp by the New Horizon School body — said that "the NCOMP. Other earlier ident of the sponsoring classes in the novice. Dirk Bach, of the famed cities in the U.S. The pro for Reiarded Children. temptation for film-makers Show films assigned a C, largely grams will be shown on Colorado cannibal. The film, starring John to exploit the prurient for nudity, include such KLZ at 9 p.m. June 24 Wayne and David Hans- appeal of nudity in this superior films as L*- and 26, and at 8 p.m. June sen, opens July 3 as the mass medium is so great FERN STANSFIELD Central City 25. Avventura, La Notte, first attraction of the thea that any concession to its It’s oF>era — or operetta The program for June 24 Knife in the Water, The ter at 84th avenue and use, even for otherwise — time at Central City is "A City To Live In,” for Pawnbroker, Woman in Valley highway. the Dunes and Th e Si- again. June 25 "D ilem m a in Bill Jackson, former as None of these This year the menu is Black and White,” and for le n c e sistant manager of the V il condemned for the D’Oyle Carte Opera Project should be June 26 "T o Build the la Italia and Englewood company in Gilbert and adults. Future.” Cinemas, will manage the TH E America editorial Sullivan productions. Per theater, fifth in the Denver Equality comes at a time when formances are to be given Because of popular de area for the General Cine NCOMP is seriouslv torn nightly Tuesday through mand, KLZ is repeating ma chain. by the nudity dilemma; Saturday, with matinees the four-hour One Nation, Approved On the one hand aware planned for Thursday, Sat Indivisible at noon June that without some form of urday. and Sunday. 30. official government film For the week of June 22, The program, which In K an sas classification young movie the operetta will be The deals with the national Wichita, Kan. — The goers will be exposed to Mikado. and local racial problems, Kansas Catholic confer more and more film nudi Other productions and DENVER COLISEUM was first shown May 23. It ence, organization of the ty; one the other hand dates are: One Night Only was planned to rei>eat the state’s Catholic Bishops, aware that the almost au TUES..JUNE 25-8:30 • lolanthe, June 29; showing on June 9, but has joined other major reli tomatic "C ” is alienating Prices: (All Seats Reserved) . TARTAN ROOM • Yeoman of the the coverage and aftermath adults who see no problem S7.S0, S6.00 and SS.OO ^ ^ \ 01SIV0 H0URS:0AILY«:3 0-1 0:00 S UNO AYS: Guard, July 6; gious denominations in o f Sen.