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eMeramoieiii i the new films I uu TX Carole King At Kiel Tuesday Carole King made a name for herself as a songwriter 10 years before she became Carole King, the singer. As a singer, she is approaching record business history with her "Tapestry" album, which has sold in the millions. In the '60s, songwriter King, in collaboration with Gerry Goffin, had several smash hits for a number of artists. The King-Goffin team composed such winners as "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "Go Away Little Girl," "Hey Girl," "The Locomotion" and "Up on the Roof." In 1971 she recorded one of her own compositions, "You've Got a i which was awarded a Grammy as song of the year. It was one of four Grammys that she won that year.

The others were for record of the year for "It's Too Late," album of the year for "Tapestry" and best pop female vocalist. James Taylor also won a Grammy for "You've Got a Friend," and Quincy Jones won one for the Goffin-King composition "Smackwater Jack" in 1971. Miss King is on a 12-city tour 'Day Of The Jackal' By Joe Pollack Of the Post-Dispatch Staff WITH EDWARD FOX and Michael Lonsdale turning in exceptional, low-keyed performances as the vital opponents in a plot to assassinate Gen. Charles De Gaulle, director Fred Zinnemann has provided a splendid film of thrilling, tense entertainment in "The Day of the Jackal." Kenneth Ross's screenplay, adapted from Frederick Forsyth's novel, leads the viewers through a maze of intricate detail work on both sides of the law, yet the performances and the direction never allow the film to become tedious, though cne can wonder why hired killers must spend so much time in airports and railroad stations. It is to Zinnemann's great credit that the watcher, even though he knows the plot cannot work, stays with it right to the end.

The direction is brilliantly paced, the tension exceptionally well-built and most important, the 2-hour, 11-minute film never seems long. Fox is very good as the Jackal, a professional killer with political experience hired by rebellious French officers after their own plots to eliminate De Gaulle have failed. His precision, so vital to success in his line of endeavor, is always in character and his necessary lack of emotion comes through in fine style. Lonsdale may even be better. He is the French detective who is assigned to find the killer before authorities know his name or a description, or even where he is.

Lonsdale's plodding assemblage of minute bits of information is done under the ever-present shadow of French bureaucracy, and his attitude under it is superb. There is a high point when Lonsdale accuses a high French minister of leaking information to the rebels and proves it with a tape recording. Another embarrassed minister asks how he knew which phone to tap and, in a moment of glory, the detective says, "I didn't know, so I tapped all of them. The ministers are avenged when, after 'Fox's identity is known, they remove Lonsdale from the chase, but they have to return to him in the final moments because they cannot cope with the killer. Zinnemann worked with a large group of generally unknown actors, and all responded in fine style.

Olga Georges- it mm4 ASSUMING SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT PERSONALITIES: Kris Kristofferson (left) and iBob Dylan, better known for their singing than their acting, are part of the same gang in "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid." Kristofferson portrays the Kid, and Dylan is one of the members of his gang. The film is at the Mark Twain, St. Ann, Granada and Grandview Theaters. How Broadway Fared Carole iKing of the United States. She will be at Kiel Auditorium Tuesday.

score others been announced for 1973-74. Broadway headquarters failed to turn up a success comparable to the earlier "Sticks and See CONCERT 1973 WITH HER SPECIAL GUEST DAVID T. WALKER May 29th 8 p.m. KIEl R'UM TICKETS S5.50, S6.00 $6.50 TICKETS ON SALE AT: Hide Std Leather Clayton, Northwest Plata A Columbia, Orange Julius N. W.

Plata, Spectrum, Mordi Gras Record Belleville, Mutlc Village, Dittount Records Carbondole, A Kiel Box Office. the complete music man For 4'IilSH (iu i tor l.vssons a iMUJIlllHTtllUlllimi llltllllllHlllllllin J07-11 WntJeffmon.Kbkuood. Mo. 6J1M (314 9W-4SU CS SAINT LOUIS SYM PHONY ORCHESTRA Picot is excellent as the seducer of the minister and acquirer of Information, and Delphine Seyrig is very good as a moment of dalliance for the killer. Cyril Cusack is wonderful as the gunsmith who prepares the murder weapon.

Jean Tournier is responsible for the brillant cinematography, which wanders all over Europe, and the travelogue includes Vienna, Paris, Genoa, London and the French Riviera. It's a superlative piece of old fashioned, high-intensity entertainment. (Running time: 1 hour, 45 minutes. Rating, R. At the Mark Twain, St Ann, Grandview, Granada.

'Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid' Director Sam Peckinpah continues his paean of pain, violence, dirt, vulgarity and general, all-around, low-down meanness in "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid," wherein he once again tries to analyze, lionize and even sympathize with a couple of guys who are just plain bad. So is the film. Peckinpah, who has proven himself a better director on many occasions, has allowed the film to drag all the way from boredom to tedium with some of the slowest pacing he ever has shown. There are a few spots of action, always with slow-motion blood spurting from gaping holes, but the interim periods just go on and on and on. James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson are the title characters, with Coburn as Garrett, the ex-outlaw and old friend of (he Kid who now is a sheriff and has to run him out of New Mexico.

Coburn is pretty good, but Kristofferson's emotional range is reached by the continual showing of a mouthful of shining white teeth. The musical influence is enhanced with the screen appearance of Bob Dylan as a knife-throwing youngster who joins up with the Kid. Dylan also provided the music, which adds little. The film reaches its nadir in a saloon scene where Coburn plays with the bartender and three friends of the Kid, a form of sadistic torture that is totally repulsive. Veterans Chill Wills, Slim Pickens, Katy Jurado and Jack Elam add bright moments when they appear, but they are only around for brief intervals and are not enough to get the film off the ground.

John Coquillon's photography of the West of 1881 is very good, but Rudy Wurlitzer's screenplay is so sparse as to be almost non-existent. A few casual grunts are about as deep as the dialogue goes. The Old West was better treated by the Old Westerns. (Running time: 1 hour, 45 minutes. Rating, R.

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winced. A cooky-maker grinned. Reform shook ancient dynasty. Angels quailed, the British retreated and computer Arthur got acting raves. Broadway during the 1972-73 season, as usual, was busy amassing such motley events with its traditional zeal for the unpredictable and topsy-turvy.

Counting over the delights and blights of stage effort is a rite associated with the perennial onset of the June-until-Sep-tember production halt. So regard now matters large and small for possible clues to drama's tomorrow. Altogether, 54 shows opened, six more than the prior season. Box-office gross dipped by $5,000,000 despite ever-rising ticket prices. Reversing long demolition tr three new skyscraper theaters opened to signal a new era and stirred convulsive argument as to whether they were dynamic or dinosaur in concept.

The venerable Shubert Organization, landlord of 25 theaters, went through shock reform, tried short-term bookings of rock and bands that failed to do much to brighten the Great White Way between regular bookings. Other landlords, too, fretted over where long-run tenants and gone. Of all the arrivals, which cost hopeful angels at least $12,000,000, seven succumbed to critical blasts on opening night, eight others lasted less than two weeks. THERE WAS, of course, one surprise 1 to confound prognosticators of doom and keep the "you never can tell" tradition alive. "Seesaw," which cost $1,000,000, opened to divided a -n a notices with scarcely a dime in the till, caught the popular imagination with desperation promotion that even enlisted Mayor John V.

Lindsay, then developed word-o -m endorsement that rocketed it into stable orbit. A lot of other musicals, 10 out of 15, vanished down the drain of broken dreams rapidly, the deluge led by "Via Galactica" and "Dude." The theater's two ranking authors, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, were stung acutely with disastrous critical and public response to, respectively, "The Creation of the World" and "Out Cry." A stir-r i revival by the Lincoln Center Repertory of "A Streetcar Named Desire" later assuaged Williams's ache. The Lincoln Center company itself, however, disbanded after eight years of strenuous effort because of a board unwilling or unable to raise inevitable deficit funds. Joseph Papp and his manifold New York Shakespeare Festival RIVER SIGHTSEEING SUN WON I 8 one-hour narrated cruises starting at 10 15 a ni I Adults $1 75 Children 1 00 12 yr. under I Bones" and "That Championship Season." The major winners were that last-named drama, along with the other still running comedies, "Finishing Touches" and "The Sunshine Boys," and the musicals "I "Seesaw," "Pippin" and "A Little Night Music." Not to be outdone in weird credits, "Shelter" won praise for some a 1 1 that remained invisible to viewers of the musical's decor.

The show, incidentally, was the sole melodic offering of the season composed by women, sadly eking out just 31 performances despite the presence on stage of that prop computer named Arthur who could sing and create galactic images. Broadway at times took on the appearance of an old movie marquee with a parade of such talents as Eddie Albert, Rhonda Fleming, Myrna Loy, Alexis Smith, Paul Henreid, Ricardo MontaTban, Maureen O'Sullivan, Debbie Reynolds and Glynis Johns. Many soon disappeared. MISS REYNOLDS made it big, of course, in "Irene," and Miss Johns got the Tony for "A Little Night Music." Other top individual winners of Broadway's silver medallion were Ben Vereen, the star of "Pippin," Alan Bates and Julie Harris for respective drama stints in "Butley," the only closed show that made a profit, and "The Last of Mrs. Lincoln." The martyred president's widow supplanted last year's fad interest in Elizabeth being the central figure in three plays, all of swift demise.

Reversing the accent on English talents, only six plays written by or starring performers from London risked the Atlantic hop, but only 1 1 bloomed. Three musicals, in addition, evicted British directors before reaching town. Off-Broadway contributed a half hundred shows to the play parade, and like Broadway displayed declining interest in ver-hal and visual extremism. Fourteen naked men in "The Changing Room" in fact stirred no perceptible public reaction. Ticket-buyers couldn't, however, be accused of galloping provincialism, as witness SRO visits of an amazing acrobatic troupe from the People's Republic of China, the Japanese Bunraku puppeteers and France's ineffable mime.

Marcel Marceau. And to round off appraisal of the season, note well that seven long-run holdovers from pre-v i semesters continued to thrive alongside 14 current season survivors. As further reassurance that the Fabulous Invalid is far from turning up its toes, a dozen projects have already pledged production, and several Tickets ovailoble only of the gate beginning at 6:30 p.m. on June 2 Adults 52 50 Children $1.50. Please bring a blanket or chair at fee movies Where on Earth V.

as? W'fMSiiYi? THE SOUL OF NIGGER CHARLEY-Fred Williamson as the expressionless hero in the tradition of Western heroes, and the story is generally exciting, if overlong. LOEW'S STATE. SWEET JESUS, PREACHERMAN Tedious, dull, vulgar, trashy. AMBASSADOR. MAN OF DEEP RIVER Part nature study, part sex study, with bad dubbing and a lot of violence, some toward men, some toward animals.

CROWN. CABARET Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey in Oscar-winning performances under similarly honored direction by Bob Fosse. A splendid motion picture. HI-POINTE. CRIES AND WHISPERS A masterful, perhaps depressing, piece of work from the great Ingmar Bergman, with amazing performances from four brilliant actresses.

A superlative motion picture. BRENTWOOD. CAMELOT The knights and days of the Round Table, with Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave, among others, singing the sones of Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner. ESQUIRE I. LAST TANGO IN PARIS Bernardo Bertolucci's statement about loneliness and terror in a 45-year-old man, expressed in some rather repugnant ways but in a moving performance by Marlon Brando.

Not for everyone. FINE ARTS. SLEUTH A very literate, handsome presentation of a fine mystery story, with Sir Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine turning in splendid acting jobs. First-class entertainment. SHADY OAK, STADIUM II.

TEN FROM YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS High-caliber humor, starring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca in their original work for the comical, innovative and much-missed television series. ESQUIRE II. CLASS OF '44 Benjy, Oscy and Hermy revisited, but two years seems to have moved them backward rather than forward in terms of maturity. Their collegiate behavior ranks with the pre-adolescent. CRESTWOOD, VILLAGE.

LOOK FOR THAT BIG SEARCHLIGHT IN THE SKY! SUN JUNE 3 IN PERSON xmmmm dW cr. 1111 1 5 zth organization were enlisted to take over next year. That high-energy impresario immediately projected a much larger deficit, presumably to be filled by a more protent trustee group. The take-over continued the rise of the man who last year supplanted David Merrick as Broadway's busiest impresario. Merrick enterprise continued doggo, with just one offering.

There were some signs, how-e the Papp phenomenon was losing some steam. His hailed song-dance i of "Much Ado About Nothing" folded on Broadway at a loss, possible victim of its parallel television incarnation, which unfortunately a i 1 to draw a significant audience. THE SAME organization's five new exhibits in its off Role For Cronyn Hume Cronyn will play a major role in "The Parallax View," starring Warren Beatty and Paula Prentiss. Cronyn had i and starred with his wife, Jessica Tandy, in "Promenade All" on Broadway, in Florida and Seattle this year. DAVID BRENNER can ou see shows direct from Broadnay and musical productions cen prior to the New York openings for as little as $2.00 or $3.75 a performance? As a Municipal Opera season ticket holder ou can hae your own reserved seat for the entire, summer of exciting entertainment.

Aoid waiting in lines and most important of all. save money. ONLY 6 DAYS REMAIN to select your seat location from charts at the ticket reservation offices in Forest Park, open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m.-l p.m. Join Municipal Opera's subscriber family before the ticket sale ends on Saturday, June 2nd.

Remember free parking at all times. Take advantage of the greatest bargain on earth. STREET FAIR Street Fair And Gala Fun TV Personalities Exotic Foods Art Fair Rock Bands SUNDAY, JUNE 3 THE GETAWAY Sam Peckinpah takes a fairy tale look at a paroled bank robber and his moll in a chase across Texas. Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw are lovely to look at, undelightful to know. ESQUIRE III.

COOL HAND LUKE Paul Newman as a recalcitrant prisoner, George Kennedy as a sadistic guard in a brilliant motion picture. Paired with mountain man Robert Redford in JEREMIAH JOHNSON. SOUTH CITY MANCHESTER I. THE SOUND OF MUSIC The hills resound and resound and resound with the voice of Julie Andrews, baby-sitter extraordinary, and the music of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. TRANS-LUX CINERAMA.

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