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~. ~.~•' ~ ~At~~,iqi;. On The Harmflil:ness of Tbbacco," by Anton Chekhov. -Directed andi producert by °' Paul Newman and feat i NL4 h 1 St th h k d 1 t h .0 lt'''~~''`~ Condensed from Public Sources Hill and Knowlton, Inc ~ y~ ,.~~ ' ! LIE Y.:..~ ~y,~t, ~4 FM~y`C~ R~e{~t I,~;S•t~~ ~ `~"? Y'~{q~' ~ "~ Y;:•: I!t r~µ<~?i ~3"t ~ ~ `'v e ~~„~ 1' XL ~ ~Al f rong as e en pec e ec urer Al, f''4~4daa 7} ~, 1`t.,;9 sra, y,t t ~r ~ . ¢~?,ff1 .njv i ~~L,r : 4„~ A ,~.i;?~ a!- ~• ~,~ ~•c,y ,u~~f~`tiPiM'S"y-~~j ,'.liwf°''l...f~ -~'~"t l.li~.a~?' .~„!' '~nr-.; t11_;• .~ 17p!t.~~'" production, which has just been released after some two years in planning ~~cr.~. .~, ,.. ,~4 .. ... _. ,i.., ,,... - .: . .. ti a~md production, Yollows alosely.. ,the script of Chekhov's monologuie originally ~21'phblished in -I886 and real:ly has nothing to do with "harmfilness" 'of tobacco;'~ t l _:~~'~~+~ 'AWIM ~ 'or any adati totiacc o m~iterial i~~~~, ~*~"~`~~~~c ~ ^i ti:~- AQ ? ~' M~7~jTr~{Kit+~ ~~ t~ N ~,N~.:.~lC ,' `~~~!~M?Mi}~~•v~tr t~ ~~[ tX^~,`~~. .Pt ~7tv ~ y~- c~~ i ,~ ~~ g.,} ~ ~'~E E i'~~P. e 25-minute ftlha is:s1.kill:flnlly done but would not seem to have broad audience appee:L . flz is ar.mosT~ entii.re.cy aevotea to a piziaole aen-pecKea iecyurer wno, ~9although he himseLf smokes,' is ordered by his wife to "lecture toddy on the ~~ 1 r,T~~'~isrm~zlness of tobacco, and therefbre there isno'help,for it."-; Nearly mentally'deranged,'the lecturer dwells primarily on his miserable state of V M.,~~~ af'fairs and' ill treatment by his wife .: As he concludes his rambling complaint; ~ ph tells 'hiis!'au1 dience~~hat hisw3fe has appearedibeh~indthe platform and pleads °1Z 7they,tell her that he behaved with dignity ;7Then he delivers the final words •~ venture to hope, so to say, that this my lecture ' Qn the Harmfulness of +~,Tbbacco' irill be of some profit to you. I have Yinished '•Dixi et animam levavi "' u< ~Sti T 1 ` ' - , tl , ~ ~ P W , , y K -, '~ f:'~ t ~yt~i •t~ ~:T:.: ~'i ~i7 ca .r ~qt 3~ 4 , ~~I-A ~ ! .d" w a 3q ?~~ i - . M4'i,P~~ ~'j y ~~1,'~~i4 ~~~i!}'~,„'. =,'4iE;_.. . r~n)'Rif~.,:~ ,R ~ ~". ~} S;~ }"H~6,,t~# . ,,, I ~ y1Mr.}. ~~ ..i}~ ~',i~J 3YCy 3!'~tY'X. 1~`".•i t~a~t~f ~L4it.1+Y .:, i~'~ eryyh°~ ~~'~"~.F.,>`Y'i''k'~,~ The only interpolation to Chekhov's,'script comes at one point when the lecturer ?~'j~,~mentions that tobacco is essentially a plant, andithe film version adds that,it is related "to the potato, the tcmato and the red. ..red. ..pepper " - tk:?t 014 1 .~ t fi# ti I , .;° ' (Editor's l~ote ;' ` Early in 1960 a Hollywood column by Sheila Graham interprete :~~ ~.r F ~ ! 1 f fy, y ~ ~~... F.. ~~~-~.~, , ~tfS7~t.a'r4l5 ~` - ~'-` `T~''~ >~-,'y : t.:. ti~~ 41 ~ ~•'1 ° '. ~?t .~:j~~ f f si i ~ ..~v.; 4 1 ;the Newman production as being a major crusade against tobacco. :-Checking at =:,;that time indicated that Graham's information was wrong and the Yilm as r=l+'~ presented confirms it.Y BOOKS ~ ~t f ' ~'i ~ - ry~~ . , ~ip'' i" F t j.'_; ~~~.,.. 7> ~~ 7.`i~MJ:•N ~~%v ~'::~~ ' ~ '~~~`'" ~ '~ x~ ~ ~. ~~~ . f .A . µ u"~.n`~i-...t~ r Y . I1' 11i P -~ L dr i, ;4~ kt ~,.• ~':~ -:r