The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 November 1966 — Page 4

Th* Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana Tuesday, November 8, 1966

TV in review

(By Rick Du Brow) HOLLYWOOD UPI — The incredible and inspiring story of Dr. Louis Leakey and his 40year search for the remains of earliest man in East Africa were the basis of a weekend CBS — TV documentary that amounted to a scientific thriller. The one hour Saturday night broadcast, done by the National

Geographic Society in association with David Wolper, and titled “Dr. Leaky and the Dawn of Man,” reconstructed the anthropologist’s eventual discovery with a rare combination of gentle civility and detective-story pursuit. The greatly pleasing urbanity and lack of self-consciousness of the British scientist were con-

siderable assets to the hour. They gave such a touch of sanity to the program that suddenly all the petty ambitions of people for status symbols and material things seemed absurd, trivial and absolutely sad by comparison. “The scale of his quest defies the imagination,” wrote the producer, Nicholas Noxon, in his sensitive and model-like script about Leakey’s career of searching. And surely it does, for it involved nothing less than a quest for what and whom we evolved from. As a student at Cambridge, Leakey stated his belief tha the

dawn of man was in Africa, not in Asia, as widely held. For years, as the CBS-TV hour showed, he and his wife worked patiently to prove his theory, sometimes being the objects of ridicule. When it was shown how, in 1959, his wife discovered the first traces of the oldest living remains ever found eventually computed as almost two million years in age the camera captimed an excitement and genuineneso infrequently seen on the home screen. CBS-TV, in its mature and excellently informative press releases preceding the docu-

mentary, noted that Leakey, who was bom in Kenya in 1903 and whose father was a missionary, grew up among Kikuyu tribesmen, “learning the ways of the wild.” At Cambridge, “he was allowed to continue his studies in Kikuyu a; one of his modern languages, but had to teach Kikuyu to a language professor so the latter could properly examine him in the subject.” The further character o* Dr. Leakey was definitively etched in the broadcast when, asked why he and his wife go or and on with their work, he replied: “It’s highly satisfying it’s

knowledge for knowledge sake.”, The latest attempt to come up with another Wizard of Oz” was offered by NBC-TV Sunday night: a 90 minut musical entitled “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” based on the Lewis Carroll classic. The opening and closing parts were rather noisy as Nanette Fabray, as the white queen, fussed around too broadly and gave me a headache. But I thought that in between there were plenty of enjoyable moments. Jack Palance was a standout in his song as the villain Jabberwock. And I also liked Roy Castle as the jester,

Judy Rolin In the title role, the Smothers Brothers as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and Iris Adrian as the flower called Tiger Lily. Others included Jimmy Durante, Agnes Moorehead, Robert Coote and Ricardo Montalban And future showings might get off to a much more pleasant start if Miss Fabray’r big opening number were redone.

Out Of Control LEVELLAND, Tex. UPI—The Levelland Fire Department will have to find another house to practice fire fighting on. Its regular fire fighting house I burned down. Fire chief Frank Allen said i the practice house was set afire by children playing with matches.

BUYS SCREEN RIGHTS HOLLYWOOD UPI—Columbia Pictures has purchased

MARTIN IN BOND APPEALS HOLLYWOOD UPI — Dean Martin will stai in three U.S. Treasury Bond apepals to be

screen rights to the novel “Such seen in movie theaters and on

a Gorgeous Kid Like Me.” | television.

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