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r1 eetertaimimeMt 4C Mar. IT, 1074 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH How Twitty Picked Name Vintage Simon At Curtain Up said, "so I said, 'Call me Well, he didn't, but it got us looking at a map. Outside of Litte Rock is the town of Conway. In Texas there's one called Twitty.

So I became Conway I v-, Hi3 1 Twitty. "I thought my father would have a heart attack. I couldn't get used to it either. I am now, but then. Then in 1965 he made the switch into country music.

"I've really always been a country singer," he said. "It's just that I had my heroes. You know, people like Ernest Tubb, Roy Acuff and Red Foley. I didn't think I was in the same class with people like that. "When I finally decided that maybe I could make it, country disk jockeys were leery about accepting me.

My first single didn't do too well. But then my second was In the top 20. Since 1967 I haven't had a release hasn't reached number one." 1 A few years ago he teamed with Loretta Lynn, another country star. In 1971 they won a Grammy Award as duo of the year. Twitty and Miss Lynn will appear at Kiel Auditorium today in concerts at 2 and 7: 30.

'By Dick Richmond Of the Post-Dispatch Staff "Conway Twitty!" The words were uttered over the radio in the summer of 1956 by a St. Louis disk jockey. "I don't know what a Conway Twitty is," he said in an attitude ranging between amusement and disbelief, "but I think it sings." Then the disk jockey played a record called "It's Only Make Believe." It was a beautiful ballad by a baritone with a slight weep in his voice. The baritone was Harold Floyd Jenkins, a would-be big league baseball player who had just been discharged after two years in the Army. He wrote the song and decided to take a swing at big league pop music.

If you're going to do it; that's the way. "It's Only Make Believe" eventually sold 8,000,000 copies, and Harold Jenkins as Conway Twitty became established as a singer in the early days of rock roll. His manager decided that as Harold Floyd Jenkins, the chances were poor that the radio industry would pay much attention to him. He insisted that Jenkins change his name. "I'm from Arkansas," Twitty TAftai iJ CpmwJvLwmwmi iiiiim ii 1 1 i fe.

i He also wants them married, because "if you're not married, you're a Bum." The older son is a swinging bachelor who works occasionally; the younger son a meek stay-at-home who manages to keep his nose to the grindstone, his shoulder to the, wheel and his eye on the ball and wonders why the combination gives him a cramped libi-' do. THE CAST includes a mother whose life is devoted to being an intermediary and a couple of girls, one who wants to marry the older brother and one, who wants a Job in movies playing something besides a dead body. Adler and Miss Jacobson are delightful as the parents. They. have played so long that they know each other's every move, and they handle the comedy as broadly as possible.

It's a delight to watch a couple of old pros play and have fun, even if they are straining a little for the final few laughs in the third act. Berger is fascinating as the younger son, moving from wide-eyed innocent to wide-eyed lech-e using his brother's lines, mannerisms and even his girls The costumes are different, but the face remains the same. John Wayne, in the title role of "McQ," deals with drugs as a Seattle detective. The film is at the iCrestwood and Village. Sympathetic Side Of Gambler By Joe Pollack Of the Post-Dispatch Staff THERE'S OFTEN a resemblance between a Neil Simon comedy and a bowl of Rice Krispies.

When fresh, they both have lots of snap, crackle and pop. A little later, they just lie there and stare up out of the milk, regardless of how feverishly you stir them. That is about the ultimate effect of "Come Blow Your Horn," which opened a four-week run at the Curtain Up Dinner Theatre last week. The first half moves at a breakneck pace, with lines snapping, crackling and popping in all directions at once. Then it begins to slow down, and no matter how eagerly a good cast mixes the brew, it ends with a quiet exit and a darkened stage.

Over-all, it's a good evening of entertainment, bolstered by the clowning of Henrietta Ja-cobson and Julius Adler, a delightful performance by Gregg Berger and direction by John Bowab that keeps everything moving and everybody from falling over one another. It's a simple story. The father, who has two sons, is a manufacturer of waxed fruit and wants his sons in the business. Conway Twitty By Bob Thomas Of the Associated Press tightrope. It's a daaredevil act.

"Winning isn't the important thing; it's staying in the action. The gamblers I know don't buy things for themselves when they make a bundle. Thek use the money to keep thetefelves In the game." HOUSE NEXT MARCH 22-8 P.M. KIEL OPERA "Tin Rocst Wiper Choral is test ft rid." -ft NociooaJ, Carocos, Vniu(a MM bwh-Mtit, of eijeytwnt, irttillt throttfb- evT ThMdora Irons, TK. New York lira.

as he changes his life-style. It's a very deft portrayal, and Ber DINNER TlH TO people hide the fact that they are gamblers, and I think that's wrong. "If people want to gamble, that should be their privilege. Most people work hard at jobs that are incredibly dull. I think they should be permitted to have fun.

And those of us who doit know that gambling is fun." Altman is now filming "California Split" the name comes from a low-ball poker game with George Segal and Elliot Gould as a pair of hustlers after a big win. The script is an original by Joey Walsh, whom the director described as "a New York actor who never was able to make a living from acting but managed to net around $30,000 a year from poker and horse races." WALSH POURED his experiences into "California Split," which Altman said would show both the bad and the good side 1 Ball win Plaia on Manchester Rd. 6 Miles Wait of 1-344 LOS ANGELES THE AMERICAN gambler finally gets sympathetic treatment in a new movie by Robert Altman, a self-confessed gambling man himself. "In most movies and television shows, gambling has been presented as an immoral thing," said the goateed director of And "Mc-Cabe and Mrs. Miller." "Many Ticket Sale For 'Waltz Of Toreadors' Tickets will go on sale tomorrow at the box office for "The Waltz of the Toreadors," the Jean Anouilh comedy that will star Eli Wallach and his wife, Anne Jackson, in a one-week run at the American Theatre opening March 25.

The Wallachs' daughter, BY POPULAR DEMAND THRU APRIL 7 HENRIETTA JULIUS JACOBSON Starring In ADLER "COME BLOW YOUR HORN" Fabulous Dinner Delightful Show Dancing Every Nite "tz-sr in ii tii 4p "If mors aro bailor choruses, thov mutt bo in heaven." EXTRA MATINEE Thursday, March 28th Weekdays Sun. $9 Saturdays $11 Wed. Mat. $7.50 DINNER AND PLAY Lot Angetet Hif-emner JUTS 01 KUON ST MAR a CMHm-Oowirtowii. Kid Ofm Moum, Mon-M.

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roPUlAI FOCI TKKITtl SA, S. A SI. ger lights up the stage. He leaves home with a farewell letter to his father, which brings up the obvious, 'I don't have two sons. I have a Bum and a Letter." ELIZABETH RAE and Mary Ruprecht are the girls, and Miss Ruprecht is dynamic as the one who loves the older brother, propositions him and leaves him pondering, "If I say that I want you, you're mine.

If I say that I love you, I'm yours." The paradox, of course, defeats him. Ronald Gilbert, the older brother, is the weak link in the evening. He is too broad, too loud, too much interested in posing and posturing, and the comedy loses something because of it. Otherwise, it's Neil Simon vintage Neil Simon, since it was his first successfully produced Broadway hit and Neil Simon always is slick, smooth and entertaining. The play will run through April 7, to be followed by "Catch Me if You Can," opening two days later.

CALL 391-9000 For Reservations rtfiitiitiiiiimi ill i if in ini iiitfimiiiiiiniiiti Katherine, also is in the play and a second daughter, Roberta, formerly was a member of DINNER THEATRE THE BARN NOW THRU APRIL 7 A Musical Comedy SAVE GAS 20 MIN. WHEN DRIVING FROM CITY Roger Wagner brings his famed chorale to St. Louis Friday for an 8 p.m. performance a Kiel Opera House. of gambling.

"The tragic side is depicted by Segal, who runs a horticultural magazine in Los Angeles and has a compulsion to gamble," said Altman. "He steals the alimony check from his former wife and time from his job to indulge himself in gambling. "Gould, on the other hand, plays a full-time gambler, and he does it because he enjoys it. And so do ALTMAN SAID HE didn't like to make moral judgments in hit movies, and this one won't either. Filmed around Los Angeles and in Reno, it will be "atmospheric, showing the kind of world that gamblers live in." He has his own ideas about why people like himself gamble.

"One of the basic human instincts is self-preservation, and in the last 200 years that has meant money. Money buys guards for the castle, protection from the threats of the outside. "So if you risk your money by gambling, you're toying with your self-preservation. There's danger to it, like walking a I at the movies DINNER and SHOW $9 SATURDAYS $11 Scheduled Wed. Sun.

Matinees $8 5 I OortonSood 1 Manchester Road BAPN jytOQ I 5 I I 391-0710 miles west of Manchester A Clarkson M. When driving Irom ffw city may we suggest taking HWY. 40 to Clarkson Rd. to avoid the Manchester traffic slow-down. 74 hr.

notice rtqtilfil for ex-diunge. No cash refunds. 4 raaoDDDiaDpii IN PERSON 1 FRANK a mm a a COMING DmON. APRIL 15th 8:30 ARENA 5700 OAKLAND Mar. 25 thru Saturday.

Mar. 30th the cast. Wallach plays the part of Gen-e a 1 St. Pe, recently retired from the Army and a self-fancied great lover. His wife sees him as a great general and not much else, and the farcical plot involves Wallach, his real loves and his fantasies.

William Roerick, Diana Van der Vlis and Benjamin Masters are featured members of the cast, which also includes William Le Massena, Andrienne Donald, Judith Egor, Mary Hara and Nancy Sellin. Performances will be given at 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday, with matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2. Ice Capades Opens At Arena Thursday The Ice Capades, now in its thirty-fourth national tour, makes its annual visit to St. Louis this week with shows at the Arena beginning Thursday and running through next Tuesday.

Ken Shelley and Jo Jo Star-buck, in their second season with the show, are featured as solos and also as pair skaters, an event in which they won international fame. The young Californians, who have been skating together for 14 years, began as a pair of snowflakes in a children's show at a rink in their hometown of Downey, Calif. The program includes the usual sound-and-light spectacular numbers, with rhythmic chorus line, and will display comedy routines, animals and almost every other facet of fancy skating. Movie-Bistro Opening In Gty The Maryland Plaza Screening Room, which describes itself as "a cine bistro," will open Wednesday with a week-long series of Marilyn Monroe films. The theater, at 75 Maryland Plaza, plans performances at 7 and 9:30 and will serve food and drink.

The opening series will include "The Seven Year Itch," "We're Not Mamed," "Ni-agra," "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," "River of No Return," "The Misfits" and "Some Like It Hot." It will be followed by a one-week run of "Women in Love" and then a seven-night series of Greta Garbo movies. Children's Theater Florissant Valley Community College will sponsor a day-long festival of children's theater Saturday at the college, 3400 Pershall Road. The first program, at 11 a.m., will be a sharing of professional and nonprofessional talent in several short plays. The Normandy Nomads will do "Cinderella" at 1 p.m. and Ginny and Her Pop-Ups will present two puppet plays.

The Metro Theatre Circus will perform at 3. The programs are free as part of the St. Louis Festival of Missouri Women in the Jrts. ADDRESS MAIL ORDERS TO: ARENA TICKET OFFICE, 5700 OAKLAND ST. LOUIS, MO.

63110. PRICES: $12.50, $10.00 $7.50. (For mail orders include 504 per order handling charges.) PLEASE ENCLOSE SELF-ADDRESSED, STAMPED ENVELOPE. TICKETS ON SALE IN PERSON, MON. THROUGH SAT.

AT THE ARENA BOX OFFICE 10 A.m. 6 P.M. M. NIGHTLY 8 P.M. MATS.

WED. SAT. 2 P.M. "DELIGHTFUL, FROTHY, IRIDESCENT!" Olive Barnes, New York Times Howling! funny! Eli Wallach has always possessed perfect comic pitch and he displays 3-iin. Anne Jackson is an awesome virago who her lines like baonet thrusts." T.

E. Kalem, Time Mogaiine CIRCLE hi it SQUARE resents mm ii ARENA AGENCIES AT CRESTWOOD PLAZA (ARCADE) NORTHWEST WEST PLAZA (LOWER LEVEL MAIN OFFICE BLDG.) MAN ON A SWING Joel Grey is fascinating as a psychic but the rest of the movie is just another police story, with Cliff Robertson as the seeker after murderers. DES PERES, MARK TWAIN, ST. ANN. MCQ John Wayne as a policeman, without a horse in sight, but the plot hasn't changed much, nor has the pace.

CRESTWOOD, VILLAGE. SERPICO More policemen, this time an honest one played by Al Pacino, who does a fine acting job even if he docs look and walk and talk like Dustin Hoffman. AVALON, BAC FAIRVIEW, CREVE COEUR, CROSS KEYS, SOUTH COUNTY. MAGNUM FORCE Still more policemen, this time Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan, who fights dirty and talks worse. ESQUIRE.

FANTASIA A couple, not a cop, in Walt Disney's 1930s combination of sound and light that predated psychedel-ics by quite some time. A little old, but still interesting. KIRKWOOD. FANTASTIC PLANET A European look at animation, in a parable of man and his world. Well made and worth while.

ESQUIRE. THE LAST DETAIL Jack Nicholson in a memorable performance as a veteran sailor escorting a naive youngs-' to the brig. Salty dialogue, wry humor. DES PERES, GRANDVIEW, PETITE, STADIUM WEST-PORT. AMERICAN GRAFFITI George Lucas won a well-deserved Oscar nomination for best direction in this underplayed story of high school youth out for a final fling.

Splendid film. WESTPORT. CINDERELLA LIBERTY A sailor falls in love with a hustler, and the results, while slightly on the soap opera side, are good entertainment. James Caan and Marsha Mason are the principals. SHADY OAK.

THE EXORCIST Many shocking moments, but a fascinating look at how visual effects can create emotions, and a fine performance by Jason Miller. BRENTWOOD, MANCHESTER. THE STING Superb entertainment, with Robert Redford and Paul Newman as a pair of classic con men. George Roy Hill directs with taste and class, and Scott Joplin's music is a moving force. BAC CINEMA, CYPRESS VILLAGE, NORTHLAND, STADIUM II, SUNSET.

SLEEPER A real comedy achievement by Woody Allen as writer, director and star in a farcical look at the 21st century. First-rate work on all counts. FOUR SEASONS, PADDOCK, SOUTH CITY. LE SEX SHOP Amusing takeoff on the morbid fascination With pornography and its effects on non-morbid people. FINE ARTS.

ASH WEDNESDAY The shades of night were falling fast when through an alpine village passed Elizabeth Taylor, swathed in bandages. She mistook the face lift for the ski lift, but Henry wasn't fonda her, anyway. AT EIGHT AREA THEATERS. THE WAY WE WERE-Barbra Streisand and Robert Red-ford, radicals through peace and war. Unfulfilling.

AT 17 AREA THEATERS. THE VANISHING WILDERNESS A very good trip to see the animals in their natural habitats. Well-photographed and good enough to overcome a rather banal script. AT NINE AREA THEATERS. PAPER CHASE Timothy Bottoms as a Harvard law student, with a fine performance from John Houseman, but a rather flat ending.

DES PERES, ESQUIRE. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE Fine adaptation of the compelling book by Kurt Vonnegut with Valerie Perrine as an appealing Montana Wildhack. ST. JOHNS. JOE POLLACK txnJo ooQooa Singing her 1 hit "The Morning After" from Poseidon Adventure gl -V jo 1 ELI ANNE 3ACKS0N WALLAH mth New York Drama Critics' Circle Award-Winning Comedy JEAN ANOUILH's WALTZ 07 THE oooooooooool pA LSSc JO nrrvTYir nrm 1 oil ll "il Mwjkl (ftiWfll gi es era a BRIAN MURRAY Prices Man.

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