:r-*fe. i.-*. -^f- **NAL COURH3WOURNAL ,1966 Friday, August 26, 196j5 TASTE THE A New Chord is Sounded|^B«jfci Community Le^el DIFFERENCE< Henrietta Mallet Pick up a —The Mercury Ballet Company the bag full of >ldits will perform in "Ballet Under 7hurs- On4he-B£ailes-BzQuho:ka Urgedjat the Stars" at the Town of Hen dtlicious and rietta New Park Shell on Satur­ •p.m.) day, Aug. 27, at 8:30 p.m. D0HUTS The Company is directed by "DE LUXE" Miss Olive McCue. •tides 27Vari0tl« »e ar- St. Paul, Minn.-(RNS)— A —Madt Rita playwright urged leaders of the YOU WILL LIKE Fresh Hourly . Eve- Catholic theater movement here to involve more people in self- TO* oor 4\. creation activities at the com­ "POP"! -v.| munity level. Trrebig gawt *•"•f Ti*ota—" Buckman's Corner There are hundreds of thou­ starts October 1st. 2576 Ridg* Rd. W. u^Tond sands of people who have yet to read and see a play or enjoy a poem with someone else, Emmet Lavery of Los Angeles, said in the keynote address-a the annual convention of the National Catholic Theatre Con- ference. Japan! Hona Kona! Mr. Lavery, a co-founder of the Conference, said expansion of_poetry and"play-reading and all kinds of art and related ac­ tivities would provide a richer Bangkok! community life. "For people who believe in TRiFthings of the Spirit, Sunday to Sunday is too far apart," Mr. GrinnelVs Orient Tour Lavery said. The former president of the for a Glorious 28 Days Screen Writers' Guild reviewed Tour of a lifetime! Oct. 9 to Nov. the achievements of the Na­ Personally 5 you'll jet into another world! tional Catholic Theatre Confer­ Japan with its timeless treasures, ence during its first 30 years Escorted from temples, shrines, gardens. Hong and said the conference's Rochester by Kong where you'll shop for the growth was due largely to the •world's greatest bargains I Observe impetus of Catholic teaching Walter L. Scbmld Chinese traditions, enjoy Chinese Sisters. food. Bangkok, a tropical jewel Oct. 9 to Nov. 5 with floating markets. Thai dancers. They havp kept alive a "thea. "This is the tour of tours. J ter of the Spirit" in schools, parishes and communities of "a The Beatles, with John Lennon in the foreground. r5 very high standard of excell­ EMMET LAVERY GRINNELL-Kalbfleisch Chicago — Right in the mid­ larity to His followers," the ence," he declared. u n rest) and speak about What we've got to do is find a panel discussion by directors, dle of the recent Beatles con- priest wrote.. "In fact, He as- Christ's teaching on the love of something we can put the same He noted that hundreds of Phone 454-3200—LU 6-5662 troversy, while reactions were actors and designers on "5he m% sured~Hts~ followers of unpopu­ neighbor. See how popular you ener-gy into as we did into nuns have received Masters De­ Guthrie staff. «= , ranging from record-burnings larity. He told them to expect are. being Beatles. That's why I go grees in drama and dozens have 233 AAIDTGWN PLAZArfERRAOr fer. to reluctant agreement that the to be beaten up and even kill­ arouuid taping and writing and earned a—Ph.D. 0,ther Conference award re­ for foursome were indeed more ed in the name of justice. "Christ's way is not the way able painting and that, because it cipients included: popular than Christ, a Carmel­ "Those who teach Christ's of smiles and applause. It is may be one of them." Mr. Lavery accepted the 1966 ite priest suggested that there message are not the popular perhaps the failure of so-called Dinneen Award given by the Religious Drama Award: Wil­ dak is more theological content in people of Chicago these days. Christians to understand this But in one of the more un­ Conference to Alfred Lunt and liam Alfred, a professor of what the Beatles sing than in Visit Chclago Lawn, Belmont that makes John Lennon's cyn­ usual reactions to the recent Lynn Fontanne, who were not English at Harvard and autKior G of the hit, "Hogan's Scat;" — anything John ' Lennon might or Woodlawn (areas of racial ical view of Christianity such Beatle controversy, a Canadian present to receive the award. M WOULD YOU The husband and wife team was have said. an indictment." Catheolic • newspaper hinted at Religious Film Award: '"*tFhe the possibility of an entirely honored for their consistently valuable contributions to the Parable," shown at the ProHes- Father Thaddeus O'Brien, O. Lennon is the first of the different future for the Beatles. tant and Orthodox Cent er BELIEVE Carm., writing a youth column Beatles to break away from the American theater. Mr. Lavery in was the first re.ipient of the- throughout the New York to "The New World," Chicago 'Odd Couple' group, and will appear without Said Edmonton's "Western World's Fair. in" Archdiocesan newspaper, Paul McCartney, George Harri­ Catraolic Reporter":" Dinneen Award in 1957. Thouscnds?—Maybe noted: son and Ringo Starr in a film*. Van Horn Award of $500: E^or "They should be cautious, be­ The Tyrone Guthrie Theatre To be Staged titled "How 1 Won the War.' of Minneapolis received the outstanding- work-in- drama-amnd Hundreds. .Come From rs "As Beatle musicianship has However, the four will appear cause their confrontation with support of the conferoimce, God. hold^s personal danger for conference's St. Genesius award steadily improved, the moral together in a later film, as they in recognition of- outstanding Mercy College of Detroit. Out Of Town To The -message-of-tfee.Beatlejniistelias, did in "A Hard Day's Night" theoi, Look at the transforma­ in tion, that -occurred—whei leadership in the United States Besides the Guthrie Theaatro been unmistakable. 'Help,' 'No­ At Auditorium and "BCelp?' in the repertorial and regional where Lan* and the recent PauJ and St Augustine con productions, the conv entl on CRESCENT BEACH HOTEL fro»nted God. He works in theater and for "setting fresh sampled the productions at local 'Eleanor Rigsby' all speak as "The Odd Couple," Broadway Earlier, Lennon had remark­ and challenging standards for ed: strajnge ways arid uses unlikely theaters as well as contoimpo- Each Week. So Make Like *. modern theologians speak — comedy hit, begins a five-day all theater groups." rary dance movements, stsago of man's alienation. engagement at the Auditorium instruments to speak to man "We can't go on holding kind. Delegates attending the meet­ diction, acting form, improvasa- A Tourist And Gome On Theatre on Tuesday evening, hands forever. We have been ions and acting demonstrations "These songs are as much a Sept 6, matinees Friday and ing witnessed three Guthrie part of the message of Camus, Beatles as best we ever -will be "is ft too far fetched'to think productions—Shakespeare's "As for college and high schmool Down And Enjoy The Saturday, with Comedians — those four jolly lads. But God would produce a St. John levels. Bonhoeffer and the 'death of George Gobel and Phi] Foster. You Like It," Strindberg's God' theologians as anything we're not those people any­ Lentnon or a St. Ringo Starr?" "Dance of Death" and Wilder's Finest Food Available. more. We are old men .. —(Catholic Press Features). A day at Sfc-Benedict's ^Art that has been written. In fact, "The Odd Couple" was wrlt- "The Skin Of Our Teeth." The Center, St. Joseph, Minn., and there is something thaT~the tenrproduced-and orginally di­ program also included a back­ St. John's University. College In Romantic Atmosphere Beatles add which, theologians rected by the same triumvirate, stage view of the theater and v ville, Minn., featured staged, sometimes jniss — hope. The responsible for the earlier film and television tfemonnra- Every Day Of The Week. The music of the Beatles is streak­ comedy hit, "Barefoot In the tions followed by lectures and ed through with optimism,jJai Park" rianiely'Neii Si00,0n, discussions. Four Gale^s Appearing Nitely "We can work it out' (a saitipl SM^bbtYand Mike Nichols. • ^ lyric) d^monsj^tes." Talks on theater, public re­ In The Vineyarc) Lounge Afld " "The Odd Couple" brings to­ lations, careers in the perlo»rro.' The controversy was set off gether two men: one, divorced, ing arts, and new materials -and by the widespread publication careless, happy-go-lucky and plays for production plus duem Kenny Unwin's Band On of a comment by Beatle found­ living in disheveled splendor onstrations in low-budget scenic er and leader John Lennon, in an eight-room apartment; the effects and on make-up tech Fri. & Sat. Nites 31 who is said to have remarked other, overly-fastidious, compul­ niques rounded out the Biro in an interview: "We're more sively neat — and recently gram. Your Hosts—"THE BARRYS" Joe fiV Gloria popular than Jesus now; I don't ejected by his wife — taken in know which will go first—rock as a somewhat precarious room- Some 600 delegates. Inducting *n' roll or Christianity." mate. __ : directors, teachers and stu dents, attended. „-, WMieTnostcoimrientatqrs and The hilarity mounts as the -editorialists were either sup­ mismated friends begin to un­ porting or attacking Lennon's ravel, each in the ether, the popularity claims, Father true reason for the failure of Thaddeus claimed that "popu­ their marriages — and what larity" was a false issue to start still might quite possibly be with. done to straighten matters out AFTER-THEATRE SUPPE* "Christ didn't assure popu- The National company of "Odd Couple" was directed by Headmasters Harvey jyedlinsky.