THE GALAX NEWS AoonsT 30. 1962 PAGE 21 LYDfl HflKCOmBE 3.KAL estate — I K^n.AAl.G.R potts service stdtion Gas Oil Repairs Tires f PHONE 9300 (FINAL HOT PRODUCTION CON»T FRCM PAGE l) is not imknown in the theatre* Karen*s daughter, Mariea has been working with HOT all suimner and is remeiiibered as glima in BUS STOP. Mark Duffy, resident actor from New York, will be playing Victor Prynne in to night >s production. Last seen as Capt. McLean in TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON, Mark also appeared as Dr* Lyman in BUS STOP* The opening play LITTLE FOXES, was the de but of John David Richardson as Leo, and he was seen as Mr* Oshira in TEAHOUSE,' A tcacher at Christ School, Arden, N* C«, John will portray Elyot Chase in LIVES* Ann Rhodes (Amanda) has been connected with the Theatre for several summers* She was seen in DULGEY as her first appearance and later in BLITHE SPIRIT. The French maid, Louise, ELla Jayne Cabe, is working for the second summer with the Theatre* She was seen as Miss Higa-Jiga in TEAHOUSE and appeared last year in ANDROCLES AND THE LION. Curtain time for PRIVATE LIVES is 8:30 tonight* Tickets are available at the down-”*^^ HUSTLER” town boxoffice on M^n Street between 10-5* driving and ruthless lust of a RHODES ELECTRIC COBB BUILDING A Con5)lete Line of General Electric Appliances — Electrical Wiring, 5196 Do you need a Luded ca^k /legX^ieA o/i a LUAed fLLing, cahinei.? Ike K)US^ hjcu6 ikm fv/i ^ale! n nno BUFFET SUPPER Sunday 6:20 to 6:00 • $1.75 reservations requested the HIGHLRODS G£m SHOP FIRST GEM SHOP ESTABLISHED IN MACON COUNTY ARCHIE M. JELLEN CUSTOM GEM CUTTING JEWELRY DESIGNING IN Ik KARAT GOLD and PUTNIUM THE LARGEST SELECTION OF GEMS AVAILABLE • Public field trips Specializing in local gems BRYfinT FuneRni Home FrankiiIN, N, C, 24 HOUR flmBULOnCE SERVICE PHOm LA young pool shark to become the nation*s all-time champion is the crux of Robert Rossen*s fast-paced production "The Hus tler,” opening Thursday, September 6 at the GALAX THEATRE, The CinemaScope film stars Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, George C, Scott and Myron McCor mick, and was shot against the authentic backgrounds of New York's levels of life, its multiple underworlds, its fashionable and pseudo-elegant society, the daily flow and flux of the world* s greatest melting pot. "Fast" Eddie (Paul Newman) has arriv ed in the big city with his friend and manager Charlie Burns (Myron McCormick) after a hustling career in the West. Ob sessed with one aim only, to take on the legendary Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason), undisputed champion in the field, Eddie is equipped with cash and a cold resolve that beats out all other loyalties. The game in on, a nerve-grinding, exhausting battle of skills, wits and stamina. Eddie loses, but he has been watched by'dBert (George Scott) 1 a big-time money man who exploits poolroom talent for percentage. Defeat draws Eddie into the aura of a desperate street waif named Sarah, (Pi per Laurie), a strange, lame, humiliated girl whose own insecurity has turned her toward alcoholism and isolation. Her un derstanding of Eddie's blind need to be a winner gives Sarah a new purpose, and she attempts, through love, to awaken some in stinct of decency in him. Failing to re shape Eddie, her will to preserve is lost in the welter of peverty and perversion that have overwhelmed all of them, and she takes her own life. It is in this act that she accomplished the regeneration of Eddie, who, now aware of the waste of hu man life for which he has been responsible, returns to beat Minnesota Fats in a climactic and perfect game, and, in a showdown with Bert, regains his personal respect.

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