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10-E THE TENNESSEAN, Sundoy, May 21, 1978 Actor Michael McGuire Mixes Benet Prose and a Bit of Story tor. Ann Bishnn is appnmnanist. M.i. II II I I Mil i limn. I up i.mu i mum, i ii mi on i.

i mmm MrSf 1 "'tfc. iiHHHinTlfflfA lit i life 4 6- fx: A I i TiiiMttTn'nf "imtn "Tfr tii il TTrir" ii Nance also has multiple duties as designer and builder of the set. The costumes are the work of Tom Byron, Nancy Swanks and Elizabeth Moses, and lighting design and execution are the province of Betsy Beasley. According to Northcutt the first" weekend of the production is to feature a "Mystery Seat" door prize, and Sunday evening performances offer two tickets tor the price of one. Lee Green, who has probably never had a busier year as director, what with a succession of shows that sometimes overlapped for Circle and Theater Nashville, will keep up that pace this summer.

As soon as In Fashion opens he begins rehearsals for the summer snow, Pippin, for which auditions will be held at the Circle today from 2 to 5p.m. TREVECCA Nazarene College will present its spring drama festival Thursday through Saturday at8 p.m. in the school's McClurkan Auditorium, 333 Murfreesboro Rd. Produced entirely by students, the festival offers two one-act )lays. The High Window, directed Jeff Thompson, is a mystery hriller by Verne Powers; George Alley's comedy, The Flattering Word, is directed by Marc Sims.

Tickets are $1 and the students are eager for a good turnout. The growing number of fans appreciators of fine photography will not want to miss the current showing of photographs at Sarratt Center on the Vanderbilt campus. A HIGHLIGHT of the exhibit is a group of cyanotypes, a photo-graphicprocess dating back to the 1840s. Explaining the cvanotype Bodo has been honored with an invitation from the American-Hungarian Bicentennial Committee to attend the commemorative ceremonies in France marking the 200th anniversary of the creation of the French cavalry by a Hungarian nobleman. He left earlier in the week to go to Tarbes, the regiment's seat in France to attend the event this weekend.

Laszlo, Count of Bercsenyi, born in Eperjes (Hungary) in 1689, was the Inspector General of all the cavalry forces of France and later Marecnal of France, serving with distinction under Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI. Laszlo was granted permission by Louis XV to own and organize trie country's Hussar regiments. LATER, THESE cavalry units led by the Count of Rochambeau and the Due de Lausun at the Battle of Yorktown, helped the fledgling colonies win their independence in the Revolutionary War. Bodo, who had been a political prisoner for his work as a Hungarian Freedom Fighter, came to the United States some 20 years ago. He is this state's official delegate in the Polish-Hungarian World Federation.

As president of the American-Hungarian Historical Society and Bicentennial Committee in Tennessee, Bodo will represent this state at the festivities commemorating Laszlo's work as founder, organizer and later the first inspector general of the French cavalry. He carried with him the flag of Tennessee to display in Tarbes; and Gov. Ray Blanton has proclaimed this weekend as Laszlo Count of Bercsenyi Days "to honor the memory of this great hero of all Allied friends, and great helper in winning our war 200 years ago." IN FASHION, a musical based on a Feydeau farce, opens Thursday at the Circle as the final production of the season. Lee Green says he is directing Sandor Bodo In French ceremony this "frothy foolishness" in the style of The Amorous Flea. It was originally conceived and staged by Jon Jory of Louisville's Actors' Theater and later carried on the PBS "Theater in America." In true French farce style it involves the usual mistaken identities, surprise encounters and marital mixups.

There is Doctor Mo-lyneaux (Richard Northcutt) whose new bride (Marsha Brewer) finds that marriage hasn't altered his roving habits. His mother-in-law (Mary Stout) rampages; his servant (Jud Burroughs) is indiscreet. HIS FRIEND Bassinet (Ben Nance) is something of a bore, but aids him in this intrigues. His latest fancy (Linda Summey) seems always to be accompanied by her husband (Howard Hood). To further complicate matters Rosa (Kay Boyce), a lady of the boulevards, arrives from his past.

Northcutt doubles as producer, with Judy Brown as musical direc- technique as similar to modern blue-printing, photographer Christian Mouneer said. "Mv cvano- -Staff photo by Dan Loftin types are landscapes in which I draw lines and intensify shading at By CLARA HIERONYMUS SCRATCH AROUND in recollections from childhood days your own or those of friends and relations and you're likely to find that the happiest and most vivid memories have to do with a storyteller in the family. It might be a father who told Irish tales, an aunt who recalled pioneer days, a grandfather who knew all manner of myths and legends and recounted them with the zest and skill of the born storyteller. No matter who it was, you savor the heritage of story-telling, the feelings you had when someone Art and Theater dramatized with voice and facial expression a ghost story, a recreation of a character or an event in history couched in story form. THOSE OF US who knew such story-tellers feel sorry for anyone who grew up without this wonderful, personal interchange between narrator and listener.

Thanks to the talents of a splendid American actor in Nashville for a brief stay as Murray in Advent's A Thousand Clowns, and to the fact that he and his two brothers had a grandfather who kept them spellbound with stories about frontier days in Iowa, we're to have opportunity to hear a sampling of the story-teller's art. Michael McGuire puts his convictions about the role of storytelling and his deep interest in Stephen Vincent Benet's prose together and will present a one-man show Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 at the Advent. Titled O'Halloran's Luck, the 40 to 45 minute one-man show is a rich lagniappe to this community. The public is invited without charge, and it is not necessary to make reservations. MCGUIRE, whose theater credentials are impeccable and who left his mark indelibly on American theater history with his role as James Daley in That Championship Season, stresses the fact that he does not do an impersonation of Benet.

"Benet," he said, "wrote out of the oral tradition of story-telling, knowing that people love to have stories told to them. Told aloud, the way your grandfather used to tell them to you, but that people don't seem to do any more. That's what I want to do in this program, bring his wonderful stories to life as a story-teller." McGuire has been working on this show for several years and the portion he'll present Tuesday will finally be the nucleus of a one-man show he plans to tour. HE WILL USE O'Halloran's Luck, the story dealing with "Benet's whole Americana thing" that touches ethnic groups all over the land. When he expands the material into a full-length touring production of an hour and a half he will incorporate as many as ten of Benet's stories, alternating them from one production to another.

"Later, I'd like to do Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer, a story that takes a boy at age ten and ends with him as a man of 96." McGuire continues in A Thousand Clowns nightly through Saturday (except lor tonight), with matinees Wednesday and Saturday. O'Halloran's Luck, as noted earlier, is scheduled for Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. as a free performance. It is a remarkable opportunity to see a first rateperformer as he shapes up a new snow. He's paid his dues in theater, with roles in Henry Three Sisters, Kins John, Troilus and Cressida, Macbeth and Corio-lanus for the New York Shakespeare Festival, and the Broadway productions of That Championship Season, The Passion of Joseph Child's Play, and to round a pleasant circle Sean O'Casey's Pictures in the Hallway.

NASHVILLE ARTIST Sandor (Turn to Page 23-E) j. II Michael McGuire, star of A jpTOry- I eiier. Thousand Clowns at Advent jTheater, will present a free one-man show based on I Stephen Vincent Benet stories, Tuesday at 3:30 I The theater is at 1200 17th Ave. So. ipifllipipli ii llililfllili lilllEiiii iiiiiipiililK rZ 1 iY 'v YYYH1 t.

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So. One-man snow, O'Halloran's Luck, stories based on Stephen Vincent Benet prose, by Michael McGuire (Murray in A Thousand Clowns), Tuesday, 3i30 p.m. Playing time approximately 40 minutes. Fee. 1200 17th Ave.

So. CENTENNIAL ARTS CENTER: Student show of ppttery, jewelry and batik, through Friday. Centennial park. Free. OODLANDS GALLERY: A Family Affair, paintings, jewelry and drawings by Harold and Frances Miller and their daughter Karen, through Jiine 15.

Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5:30 pinj. Free. ALLIED ARTS CLUB (Franklin): Biennial art exhibit by Williamson County artists of original work not previously shown in Williamson County, today 2 to 5 p.m. O'More School of Design studio, 819 West Main St.

Free. PORTFOLIO: Prints by Jim Dine and Claes Oldenburg, through May 31. Tuesday through Sat- a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission $2 for nonmembers; $1 for students; children under 6 free.

DILLINGHAM GALLERY: Group show by gallery's artists, through May 31. Tuesday through Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 2213 Bandywood Dr. Free.

PUBLIC LIBRARY: Tom Tichenor Marionettes present Thumbelina, Friday at 7 p.m. For children 4 and over. Main library, 8th at Union. Free. UNIVERSITY CLUB: Serigraphs by Sarah Russell, through June 2.

Monday through Friday 11a.m. to 7 p.m. 2400 Garland Ave. Free. MARTIN WILEY GALLERY: Paintings by Brett di Palma, clay sculpture by Ken Catbagan, closing today.

1 to 5 p.m. 2122 Acklen Ave. Free. APPLETREE THEATER (Cowan, Tenn.) Hot Springs, new farce by Tupper Saussy, closing today. Dinner 6 to 8 p.m., snow at 8:30 p.m.

Admission price of dinner varies with menu selection. For reservations call (615) 967-9500. COKESBURY BOOK STORE Paintings of people and places in Monteagle by Corinne Adrian, through (Turn to Page 21-E) 4 CUMBERLAND COUNTY PLAYHOUSE (Cross-ville): Wait Until Dark, mystery thriller, through June 11. For reservations call (615) 484-5000. Performances Friday and Saturday 8 p.m.

and matinees Saturday 2 p.m. and Sunday 2:30 p.m. UT-NASHVILLE: Photos by students from Everglades Photography Workshop, through May 29. May be seen during classroom hours. 10th Ave.

No. at Charlotte. Free. mSTORIC NASHVILLE LNC: Spring tour of historic downtown churches, Friday. For list of churches to be open call Lee Ann Thornton, 242-1210.

Free. CHEEKWOOD: Tennessee Watercolor Society show, main galleries through May 31. Two-man show in Nashville Artist Guild Galleries, sculpture by Bill Johnson, paintings by John Richardson, through June 2. In Botanic Hall Nashville Rose Society show today. Today 1 to 5 p.m Tuesday through Saturday 10.