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...latest count, there are at least three dozen walled "total security" communities in the desert, beach and woodland areas of Southern California, and more are on the drawing boards. "Until about five years ago," says Los Angeles County Deputy Planning Director Frederick Barlow, "most subdividers wanted the county to maintain their streets. Now a majority of the subdivisions we are approving have private streets" (which entitles the communities to block off the streets with gates and guards...
Died. Brian Donlevy, 69, barrel-chested Hollywood heavy for three decades; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. The son of an Irish whisky distiller, Donlevy joined General John Pershing's Mexican border expedition as a bugler when only 13, then lied about his age again to become a pilot in World War I. A walk-on part in a 1924 Broadway play led to larger roles and his eventual move to Hollywood in the mid-'30s. There he established the tough-guy image epitomized by his portrayal of the brutal sergeant in Beau Geste...
...acre area will include an ice-skating rink, a recreation center, outdoor tennis and basketball courts, a playground, and fields for baseball, softball and football. Another seven acres are set aside for high school football and baseball. The remainder of the interchange will be turned into a 25-acre woodland with hiking trails and picnic tables. Five miles of underground electrical conduits will make it possible to install lighting anywhere in the cloverleaf...
Died. Norman Reilly Raine, 76, author of short stories and screenplays; of a stroke; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Though he turned out such top movie dramas as The Life of Emile Zola (for which he won a 1937 Oscar), Elizabeth and Essex and A Bell for Adano, Raine was probably best known as the creator of Tugboat Annie, the bumptious, bighearted heroine of 75 Saturday Evening Post stories and the 1933 Hollywood film in which Marie Dressier portrayed Annie and Wallace Beery played Terry, her soused spouse...
...takes a great degree of theatrical skill to turn the box like dimensions of the Ex into anything other than one of Edgar Allan Poe's tomblike vaults-let alone invest it with the otherworldly aura of Prospero's mysterious island. Of itself, Robert McCleary's woodland setting, overgrown with mosses and shadows though it was, did not overcome this difficulty. But Boorstin's incantatory approach more than compensated. The first scene opened after a long, disoriented period of darkness during which three sprites, among them Ariel, introduced the audience to the magical qualities of their island world. The sprites...