Becker Mamed DirectorOf Building Forum Here

Appointment of Howard Bec-ker, manager of the BuildersExchange of Stockton and exe-cutive secretiary of the RoofingContractors Association of Cal-ifornia, as manager director ofthe first annual California Con-struction Industry Managetnent-

Forum, was announcedthis week in a joint statementissued hy Frank Corbett andBryan Deavers. co - chairmenrespectively for managementand labor.

Corbett, managing director ofthe California State Builders’Exchange with headquarters inSacramento, and Deavers, pres-ident of the California Buildingand Construction Trades Coun-cil. AFL - CIO with offices mSan Francisco, have been primemovers in working out plansfor the precedent • establishing•vent over the past year anda half.

The forum, scheduled for theRiviera Hotel here Jan. 28-29-30, is expected to attract aminimum of 500 construction in-dustry leaders representing bothManagement and labor fromthroughout the state.

AM labor unions serving theconstruction industry will berepresented at the forum, andto date some 35 local and state-wide construction trade associa-tions have indicated their in-tention to participate, accordingto Deavers and Corbett.

Attendance is open to repre-sentatives from all segments ofthe construction industry. Theonly requirement is a nominalregistration fee of $5 per per-son to cover incidental expensesof the conference.

Purpose of the forum will beto duscuss, but lake no formalaction on, the following pre-se-

lected topics of mutual concernto both nn i;cznent and labor,it was «t»n<*mced by ManagingDirector Becker: force accountwork, moonlighting, plat main-tenance and contracting out,safety, training of apprenticesand journeymen, and public re-lations.

Patterned after a similar an-nual conference which has beenheld with considerable successfor the past six years in NewYork state, the forum will becomposed of six panels of studygroups from both managementand labor who will devote oneday to separate discussions ofthe pre - selected topics andthen present their conclusionsto an “Open Forum” to bemoderated by U. S. SenatorThomas H. Kuchel at the clos-ing session on Jan. 30.

Labor has not yet announcedits panel chairmen, but thefollowing industry leaders willhead up the respective idscus-sion committees for manage-ment:

Force Account: A 1 Atwoodof Los Angeles, Executive Di-rector, Engineering and Grad-ing Contractors Association ofCalifornia.

Moonlighting: Ryan O'Bri-an of Los Angeles, ExecutiveDirector, California MasonryContractractor Association.

Plant Maintenance andContracting Out: Ernest G.Knamm of Hayward. Public Re-lations Representative, NinthDistrict Council, National Elec-trical Contractors Association.

Safely: Julian Riehl of San-ta Rosa, manager of the NorthCoast Builders’ Exchange.

Training of Apprenticesand Journeymen: Attorney Hen-ry B. Ely of Los Angeles, Exe-cutive Secretary, Air - Condi-tioning and Refrigeration Con-tractors Association of SouthernCalifornia, Inc. John H. Ban-tick of Los Angeles, ManagingDirector, Sheet Metal Contrac-tors Association of SouthernCalifornia.

Public Relations; JackHorner. Manager of the Build-ers’ Exchange of Long Beach,Editor of the Builders’ ExchangeNews, and member of the Pub-lic Relations Society of Ameri-ca.

Robert B. Bradford, memberof Governor Brown's cabinet,and administrator of the High-way Transportation Agency ofCalifornia, will be the speakerat the forum luncheon on Jan.29. His subject will bee “TheConstruction Outlook in Calif-ornia for 1965.”

To make it convenient for itsmembers to attend the forum,the California State Builders’Exchange will hold its regularquarterly meeting at the Rivi-era Hotel on January 28, con-densing its usual three - daygathering into a one - day ses-sion.

Lincoln Center'sRepertory Improving

By JACK GAVERLPI Drama Editor

NEW YORK (UPI)-As oneof those who did not tear intothe Repertory Theater of Lin-coln Center in its first seasonfor not immediately becomingthe world’s greatest organiza-tion of its kind, I’m still in-clined to be tolerant. It lakesfour or five years to get some-thing like this clicking.

There was much criticism be-cause the first sc ..son includedtwo new plays by veteran play-wrights and a revival of Eu-gene O’Neill’s “Marco Mil-lions,” which isn’t exactly an-cient, Repertory theater, thesecritics said, should mean th eclassics, or experimental pro-ductions of the works of newwriters.

So, the company has startedits second season with a clas-sic, “The Changeling”, a 17thCentury melodrama by ThomasMiddleton and William Rowley.But this isn’t going to makeanyone happy. It is a badchoice no matter how you sliceit; no matter how much youmay want to urge that the or-ganization be given time to de-velop.

The company needs friendsand customers, and it isn’t go-ing to get them with “Th eChangeling”. This is a workthat, no matter how well it isdone, will appeal only to so-called students of the theater;to those who are interested inseeing what such a relic lookslike in performance. Once sol-idly established, with a largeand firm following, the troupecould afford to experiment withthis or some other rather ob-scure classic, but not now.

It is a puzzling thing that‘The Changeling” has a textthat is more difficult to handlethan any of the works of

Shakespeare, yet Elia Kazan,who directed this play and isco-arlistic director of the proj-ect, has said that his companywon’t be capable of doing jus-tice to Shakespeare for three orfour years.

Aside from the fact that“The Changeling” is somethingof a dramatic mess, with theworld’s most useless subplotthat saps whatever strength themain story line may have, andthat Kazan seems to haveabandoned sound staging forantic inventiveness for its ownsake, this production revealsthat the present company isless than adequate to handlethe classics.

There aren’t more than threeor four who acquit themselveswith honor in “The Change-ling”, notably Barry Primus asDe Flores, the steward in anoble Spanish house who com-mits murder for the noblewom-an he adores to rid her of anundesiraole fiance. Barbara Lo-den, so successful as the so-called Marilyn Monroe charac-ter in last season's “After theFall”, is completely out of herdepth in this.

The simple fact is that theLincoln Center outfit is notonly going to have to exercisegreater care in the classics itchooses to do, but it also mustbuild a stronger company.There are any number of ac-tors around, and available, whoare superior to about 75 percent of the members of thepresent group, largely held overfrom last season.

Possibly things will look upwhen the company adds ArthurMiller’s new "Incident at Vichy”to the repertoire on Dec. 3 andlater, Moliere’s “Tartuffe.”

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Hauser, Bailey PlanPioneertown VenturesGaylord Hauser, eminent au-

thor and lecturer on health anddiet, was the guest of BentonLefton, head of The Golden Em-pire in Pioneertown last week.

Hauser is considering the lo-cation of a Health Farm inThe Golden Empire, and wasthere to visit the contemplatedsite.

Lefton said this visit resultedfrom a recent meeting in Paris,France, and a more recent con-ference in Los Angeles, to con-sider definite plans for theestablishment of a large healthcenter in The Golden Empire.

Hauser wrote of Pioneertownin his recent book "Treasuryof Secrets,” as one of the mosthealthful sites in the world,dedicated to happy living.

Jack Bailey, of "Queen ForA Day" fame, also visited Pio-neertown last week, as a guestof Lefton. Bailey is interestedin starting an “Art Colony” inThe Golden Empire. Bailey’shobby is painting, and he feelsThe Golden Empire will be-come an ideal mecca for art-ists from all parts of the world,he said.

While here. Jack brought thehouse down by doubling at thepiano with “Dazzling Dallas”at the Red Dog Saloon, and

with “Big Arthur," at the Golden Stallion.

When lunch time rolls aroundduring film mgs of “The AndyGriffith Show,” the meal isserved in a relaxed picnic styleby caterers.

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I dish cloths.

VISITING Pioneertown recently was Gay-lord Hauser, right, recognized authorityon health and diet, right, with JackBailey, host on the TV show, "Queen for

a Day," at left. They're shown with Ben-ton Lefton, head of The Golden Empirein Pioneertown.

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