25 Feb 1961
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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1961
Page
1
In Munich Germany after 16 years Italian director Roberto Rossellini’s Open City premiered to a censored version drawing shocked silence. The film shows atrocities by German troops against Italian partisans in World War II with a shortened brutality sequence and an added introduction stating it does not attack the German people or soldiers.
New York editors and major press groups plan to join the case against a Supreme Court ruling that affects film censorship. The American Society of News Editors and allied organizations seek a rehearing and broader support to challenge limits on content in Don Juan and Mozart’s Don Giovanni adaptations.
The Times Film Corp of Chicago faced criticism after the Supreme Court’s Jan. 23 ruling that a Chicago police board could not blanket censor films. A dissent by Chief Justice Earl Warren warned the decision risks permitting prior restraints on expression. The Newspaper Editors Society plans briefs by Feb 27 to challenge censorship in motion pictures and extend concerns to other media.
The Long Beach City Colleges choir and madrigal singers led by Royal Stanton and joined by Jester Hairston offered a two part program. The first half featured standard repertoire with crisp singing and clear authority. The second half showcased Hairston arranged spirituals that sparked enthusiastic audience applause and participation.
The Press Telegram lists start times for features at Long Beach theaters. Entries include Elephant Walks and This Earth, with showings around 5:18 PM and other noted times, plus a Palace Bay listing and a call for a reliable serviceman in Classified.
Los Angeles reports detail a high profile marriage dispute. Robert Westbrook, 21, seeks annulment of his Dec 192? marriage to Judi Meredith, 24, claiming cruelty and desertion. Meredith counters with a separate maintenance petition and accuses him of outside pressure and illicit affairs, while denying the firm vows of virtue.
In Manila the Australian Mules defeated a Missouri team named the Marauders amid filming at the site. A producer sought imported mules from the Philippines. Missouri Governor John M. Dalton offered five animals but was late. five Australian mules will arrive in March for the competition.
Opera star Dorothy Kirsten canceled her performance in Manon Lescaut at the San Antonio Opera Festival due to a severe bout of influenza. She was confined to her hotel and planned to fly home to California for hospital care. Lucia Albanese travels to replace her in the Puccini work.
PERIGIEUX FRANCE an actor in a toreador scene faced a real bull on Friday night during the closing performance of the musical revue Ber grac s en Balance. Lucien Loubiere dressed as a bullfighter preserved dignity until he drew a pistol and shot the bull dead. He quipped to the audience that it is a modern way to do it while they screamed.
News reports that former president Syngman Rhee and 607 others were deprived of civil rights by the South Korean government. Julius Janzon, a pioneering cinematographer of Swedish origin, was also charged in an unrelated democratic act case. Rhee, 85, who had lived abroad since an overthrow last March, died recently in Europe.
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