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STAR GAZING DETROIT FREE PRESS 1 Friday, March 27, 1959 'Jjj A CHALLENGE Sesih lied StttcCCS Livtrnoil at Davison One, Kids at iiere un in nn Sea, Sand, Sun and This sopHia mmx However, everything comes out all right, with a good surprise for Francie and Moondoggie at the last. It makes her parents happy, too. EY HELEN1- BOWER Free Pre Movie Critic Kop -1 Dop-Sops, Dop-O-Nop'-Top Mop-T-Sop-Sop Top-Hop-I-JSop. -For readers who haven't broken the code of Penny Pringle's "op talk" in the Detroit Free Press funnies, the sentence above, in plain English, is "Kids, don't miss this." 1 is a Cinemascope and Eastman Color movie Robertson), older than the others. Apparently just a happy-go-lucky beachcomber, Kahoona particularly interests Moondoggie (Darren).

The younger chap admires the elder's freedom and Independence. What is sound about "Gid-get" is the understanding with which both Francie and Moondoggie are presented, and the sympathetic way in which Miss Dee and Darren cross the threshold into more adult life. THE TITLE is a word coined by the fellows to describe Francie, a cross between a girl and a midget. She and Moondoggie are thrown together, first when he saves her from drowning and In later incidents. He doesn't have eyes for her, and she thinks she has a crush on Kahoona.

The night of a big beach party, too juvenile for Kohoona, Francie follows him to a beach house he has borrowed for the nighL That's when Moondoggie realizes that he cares enough to save her from a reckless desire to grow up too fast. He needn't have been afraid, because Kahoona is a right guy. THE OXLY thing about "Gidget" that I found disturbing is the apparent helplessness of Francie's father and mother, played by Arthur O'Connell and Mary La Roche. They are nice people. They want to safeguard and protect their daughter.

But they can only stand by when she rushes off in the car to go to the beach party, to which she wasn't invited. Everyone own r.u. "MAGNIFICENT ENTERTAINMENT." Make sure you and your family see It at the UNITED ARTISTS THEATRE for ONLY AT THIS THEATRE In this called "Gidget" that should have teenagers jamming the Broadway Capitol Theater, beginning Friday. It's summer sea-sand-and-sun fun in which Sandra Dee and James Darren learn a little more about growing up and being attracted by the opposite sex. Older people can enjoy watching the bright, happy young ones idling away the hours on the Pacific ocean beach at Mali-bu, where much of the movie is set.

They'll see some quite exciting surf board riding, too, in the sport imported from our 50th state. LIKE THE maiden in the Victorian poem, Sandra Dea is Francle Lawrence, "standing with reluctant feet where the brook and river meet." The three other girls who take her to the beach are more aware, more sophisticated In their calculated maneuvers to attract attention. They think Francle just doesn't know how to have a good time. In a kid sort of way she hangs around a group of fellows who make their headquarters at a beach hut. This belongs to Kahoona (Cliff area, can you see it as Walt Disney visualized Its perfect presentation in TECHNIRAMA 70 and In SOME HOT" for 7 Academy Awards! DEBORAH KERR DAYID NIYEN RITA HAYWORTH BURT.

LANCASTER FULL STEREOPHONIC SOUND WALT IDRffl-QUlNJI- feature Tranf Lux Krim 520, 7:10. 9:05. 11 fc Ml TO 1MB Acclaims It DISNEY'S THE H0W1 TABLES" MARILYN MOMROE cmd her bosom companions TONY CUMS JACK DOORS OPEN .2:45 P.M. Nominated NOW! rife. "RIO BRAYO' RATES BRAYOS ALL AROUND!" Helen Bower, Free Press "ir 'At.

r.wo "SEPARATE NOW! Doers Open 2:45 P.M. ONLYATTHI TODAY ONLY FIRST SHOW AT 3 P.M. TRE ORE SERVICES II NOON TO 2 P.M. "SIZZLING ACTION SCENES!" Al Wcitschat, News OVER! ADA THE FIRST all-Detroit LSO show will leave Friday for a 12-week tour of United States military bases in the Pacific Command. Vocalist Gloria Dee, left, and comedian Jack Weiek headline the show which also includes Maureen Sheehan, Sally Geier, Tony Thomas, Bud Karns, Sam Thomas and John Apkarian.

qSNEW COMEDY HIT -1 i I i Jungle Drums Sponoserd by the American Museum of Natural History and produced by Edgar M. Queeny, of St. Louis, in Technicolor is being shown at the Telenews Theater. It is the first film ever made of the Wakamba tribe in southeastern Kenya. Authentic sounds of wild animals are heard in addition to the scenes of native life with drum-beat rhythms of native dances.

Only Michigan Showing CLAWSON PLAYHOUSE 14 Mils Rd. 2 Mi. E. of Woodward JU 8-3977 Park Frc Ml 1 IJUUi "ONE OF THE BEST FILMS TO THUNDER UP THE WESTERN TRAIL IN Arnold Hirsch, Tunes 1 TECHNICOLOR (9f 'HD Debbie REYNOLDS Cleveland Paper Hiked to Dime CLEVELAND The Cleveland Press announced today it will raise its price to 10 cents a copy Monday. It now sells for seven cents.

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