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core of Van Gogh's problem as a a tremendous homosexual problem. This was what I attempted to show, with some taste and delicacy, in my portrayal of Van Gogh, Obviously I succeeded with you because as a woman, you found it embarrassing for some odd reason.' I wanted you to know what that reason was.... The greatest thing an actor can do is to portray a character so that the audience sees only the character and not the actor himself. Here in Hollywood, when you attain a reputation based on a certain type of character ..... such as I played in CHAMPION, 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, etc...... it becomes very difficult to break away from the mold. As an actor, I enjoy breaking away or trying to

now and then. Believe me, I am most sincere when I thank you for your discernment in picking out. one of the subtleties I tried to inject in my portrayal of Van Gogh, Kirk Douglas."

A boy recently requested some pinups from a Des Moines theater. Offered a picture of Lolobrigida, he asked instead for some of "them monsters that you had in the picture last week." NYC Board of Regents banned French film version of LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER (with Danielle Darrieux) calling it immoral, glorifying adultery and presenting it as a " desirable, acceptable and proper pattern of behavior.".... Critics raving over SUSANNAH, NYC Opera Company's production of first opera by South Carolinan Carlisle Floyd, who promises to be another Menotti. Floyd says his text (from the story of Susannah and the Elders) points the moral that "Puritan heritage has conditioned us to suspect anyone who is a little different, to equate nonconformity with wrongdoing and evil." L.A. entertainment critic Dick Williams complained of so-called offcolor material in Jerry Lewis' new Las Vegas show. He said the Aristocrats' singing and dancing was marred by " smutty material with an emphasis on homosexuality. It is neither amusing nor diverting and irritated every female onlooker I talked to." He said the pansy theme "all too popular" in Las Vegas completely

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dominated Jack Carter's New Frontier show. Williams has also complained loudly about homosexual implications in such films as CRIME IN THE STREETS..... Between acts in her beefcake show lately, old sexdilettante Mae West put in a kind word for censors Why, if it wasn't for censors, there'd be more and more wickedness on the stage, and finally complete depravity. Shocking!" Few months back: Juvenile authorities at mass meeting of theatre personnel told ushers et al to watch for patrons who enter theatres alone, change seats, or carry a newspaper or topcoat over an arm to cloak possible indecencies.....In commemoration of last year's Whitman Centenary, the Library of Congress & the Gertrude Clark Whittall Fund present on 5 L.P.'s three lectures (by Gay Wilson Allen, Mark Van Doren and David Daiches) on the poet and readings from the poems by Arnold Moss. The lectures can be obtained from the Government Printing Office for 25 in brochure form.....Oct. 56 TRACE, a periodical survey of "little magazines," deals with problems familiar enough to ONE (or any other small, nonsubsidized magazine). They describe bulging files of letters from readers calling them indispensable, yet TRACE itself is always on the verge of going under from shortage of time or money, and that if these very readers could just do a bit to get a few new subscribers! .....After a citizen complained to cop, Beverly Hills TopCop Anderson had an art store remove from its window as "obscene, indecent, etc.", a $325 replica of Michaelangelo's statue of David and a $1000 figurine of Giambologna's Rape of the Sabines. The shop owner protested that Europeans bring their children hundreds of miles to see these statues, which stand in the streets. At least Michaelangelo was unavailable for prosecution by the righteous Beverly Hills cops. ACLU lawyers, contesting case, said it was unprecedented in California for officials to claim that nudity per se was obscene. Police argued that an indecent statue doesn't become less obscene because done by a great artist. The Judges of the Superior Court

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