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'n yi rn'wvT'nrrrrn i vt ENTERTAINMENT NEWS 20 ASBURY fARK EVENINO PRESS, Jun 16, 1964 fassszsmSllOW NOTES Home Movies' Should Byron Janis Opens Music Festival Have Stayed Home will direct the Drama Workshop at the ninth annual New York City Writer's Conference at Wagner College, July 5-17. Weinstein's "The Red Eye of Love" was a success off-Broadway and in several European countries, but his latest play, "Dynamite Tonight," which was produced by Actors Studio, closed after one night. BOOTS '11 centers on homosexuality and is not only obscene but vulgar. They play is very unfunny, although there are a few laughs here and there. However "Home Movies" does have a saving grace.

She is Barbara Ann Teer as Violet, the saucy, bouncy Negro maid. Despite the nonsense of much of what's going on, Miss Teer's lively vivacious, performance always stops the show. In fact, she keeps th3 play from dissolving Into a complete tedious waste. The entire cast is good but, unfortunately, they are in the wrong play. Rosalyn Drexler, an artist wrote the play and lyrics for "Home Movies." The composer is Al Carmines, assistant minister of the Judson Memorial Church and director of the Judson Poet's Theatre where "Home Movies" was first shown.

FANSLER Plays Your Favorite Songs Nightly Ml tlZj. -l I 01 By DAVID FRIEDMAN Press Staff Writer 1 NEW YORK Despite an ivalanche of bad reviews "Home Movies" continues to flicker at the Provincetown Playhouse. Probably one of the reasons Is that its producer is Orson Bean, who as a talented comedian and actor has been able to get free publicity for the show on radio and television. But as far as I'm concerned, the real reason for its survival is that "Home Movies" is a musical theater of the absurd. This means it attracts those persons who like to claim they understand the meaning of a play which most of us find obscure or nonexistent.

The Provincetown Playhouse has seen many strange works 6ince Eugene O'Neill and his original group first came down from Provincetowji, to Greenwich Village. But it is doubtful if any was more obscene, vulgar, meaningless and boring than "Home Movies." The obvious Intention of "Home Movies" is to satirize modern life. The play not only misses the boat, it falls off the pier and drowns. The play centers around the Verdun family, a father who runs around in a track uniform, the mother who lounges In a negligee and a daughter who is constantly 6tripping in hopes of losing her virginity. They are surrounded by a homosexual; a writer, who can't talk; a saucy maid and a lively priest and nun.

A large part of the humor Eugene Ormandy rehearse, the Westminster Choir in Verdi's "Requiem, which win be performed twice during the New Jersey Tercentenary Festival of Music. The New Jersey Tercentenary Festival of Music, a series of 16 concerts being given on the campus of Westminster Choir College, Princeton, will open at 8:30 p.m. Friday. Pianist Byron Janis will be the featured artist with his in-terpretatlon of Prokofiev's third Concerto. Festival music director Nicholas Har-sanyi will lead the Festival Symphony through Beethoven's third "Leonore" Overture, Roy Harris' third and Prokofiev's third piano concerto.

Friday's concert will be the first of five non-subscription offerings, including two performances of "An Evening With Benny Goodman," Junei 22 and July the Festival Symphony with violinist Erica Morini, June 26, and the Festival Symphony conducted on this occasion by Eugene Or-mandy, director of the Boston Symphony, and featuring soprano Janice Harsanyi, alto Lili Chookasian, ten Nicholas Di Virgilio, basi John Macurdv, and the Westminster Choir, performing Verdi's "Manzoni" Requiem. Works to be performed during the festival range from the massive Verdi Requiem, under the baton of Mr. Or-mandy, to the premiere of Edward Cone's "Music for Strings," commissioned by the Festival Corunittee. In con-: ast to the concertos and symphonic selections will be Goodman's two ad lib jazz concerts. All concerts will be held in a special festival pavilion, being erected on the Westminster campus and designed to provide "a delightful indoor-outdoor atmosphere and to guarantee performances rain or shine.

A total of 32,000 seats will be available during the festival, which will continue through July 5. dens, runs through Aug. 9 and includes dramas, operas, and ballets, as well as the usual art exhibit and contest. Most events are free or at a minimum cost. Night Life tzswr'iBy BARRY ROBINSON'-3339 What's in a name? If you were to have asked Bill Shakespeare that question some 400 years ago, he'd have spun you a tale about star-crossed lovers whose families are forever feuding.

I think it was called "West Side Story." On the other hand, if you were to have placed the same question before Gertrude Stein, she'd have changed the subject to roses, which she insists are roses, no matter what. But, just ask Jean Valli what's in a name, and she'll tell you plenty! Jean Valli is the country-western singer who headlined the show Saturday night at Rac's Hut in Jackson Township. June Valli is the popular song stylist who scored big a few years back with "Crying in the Chapel" and who currently guests regularly on Arthur Godfrey morning radio stanza. Jean valli has never met June Valli, but if she ever does, she has a bit of advice she'd like to pass on to her "Please, change your name." The similarity in names has caused Jean, whose real name is Jean Vivaldi (pretty close, all sorts of problems. A major record company nearly signed her to a contract until its representative learned that June Valli had signed with it the week before.

a The biggest problem, of course, Is confusion. Like when we were compiling The Weekend Scene, the entertainment roundup that appears in The Press every Friday. From the advertising department to my desk came a note "June Valli's at Rac's Hut." Crazy! What's June Valli doing at Rac's? Pop singers are pop singers and hillbilly singers are hillbilly singers, and pop singers don't usually work country western rooms although a few hillbillies have wandered into pop rooms. Thus it was that Saturday night saw this journeyman sipping a chilly brew in Rac's and chatting with the confusing Miss Valli. "You'd never believe how many times we've been confused with each other.

Once I was offered a night club booking sight unseen because they thought I was June Valli. I had the contract right there in front of me and I could have signed it, but it didn't seem fair. When I make it, I want to make it on my own." She paused, refected a moment, and gesticulating dramatically, remarked: "You know it's really weird. I was established In the country and western field under this name for years before June Valli even came on the scene, and yet I'm the one who has the problems because her name's like mine." She went on-stage then, accompanied by the cheers of an audience that knows a Jean Valli when they see one. There's zaniess a 'plenty at the African Room these weekend nights when the Steve Lane Revue is on-stage at the basement night club in Asbury Park's Robert Alan Hotel.

Head nut is Eddie McCann, who blows a pretty good sax, when not pretending to be a remnant of the Third Reich, complete with helmet and achtungs galore, or a shy stripper with long blond wig. No show is complete without girls and the SLR has its share in Ronnie and Jerrie, known collectively as the Lynn Sisters, who combine charm and comedy. Ronnie, who is Mrs. Lane off-stage, is the glamorous blonde songstress who always seems to be attempting to overcome the distraction of her red-headed sister and sing her little song. Jerrie is a bit zuftik (an ethnic phrase meaning pleasingly plump) and more than a bit hilarious as she bumps and grinds across the stage as Ronnie tries vainly to ignore her.

Finally, her resistance breaks and she cries out: "Look at my sister. She walks! She talks! She crawls on her belly like a Jerrie stops dead in her tracks and turns indignantly "I do not crawl on my belly! I can't this gown's too tight." They'll be there Thursday through Sundav niehts until the if 4mm i i S2gWf4. 3 DRAMA SESSION: Playwright-poet Arnold Weinstein School, with an additional performance on the 27th. The Greater Freehold Jaycees are sponsoring the production to benefit fhe Freehold Memorial Hospital Fund. Included in the cast are Leni Pentaleri, Richard Law-ler, Dorothy Skalky, Charles Reilly, Marjorie Hartm an, Bud Mcllvaine, Sondra Krup-nick, Victor Spitzner, Leo Kornsman, Jerry Donowitz, and Al Hepner.

William Starsinic is directing the 1948 show, which has a look by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos, music by Jules Styne, and lyrics by Leo STRAND THEATRE; Bean first saw tie play there and became so intrigued according to the program notes that he decided to become a producer and bring "Home Movies" to off-Broadway. On May 26 in order to help the boxoffice, Bean stepped into the role of Father Shenanigan. He also opens the show with a half hour comedy monologue. This is without a doubt the only real entertainment of the evening for Bean as comedian is very funny. He just has to open his mouth and I laugh.

But in looking at the entire evening's performance, there is a suspicion that Bean's biggest joke is "Home Movies." p.m. Aug. 7 under the auspices of the city Chamber of Commerce. SUNDAY CONCERT: English organist Jerry Gerard will perform in concert at 4 p.m. Sunday in St.

John's Methodist Church, Hazlet, Raritan Township. His program will be comprised of religious compositions, which he will play on fhe church's new organ. Gerard Is a fourth generate organist; his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were organ builders. IN THE HUB: The Boston (Mass.) Arts Festival opens tonight with a production of George Bernard Shaw's "St. Joan." The festival, held on the Common and Public Gar RESTAURANT COCKTAIL LOUNGE LAKEWOOD, N.

J. IfKr Et. 35, Asbury Prk jSrl Academy Award. Winner "TOM JONES" SATCHMO'S COMING: Lou-Is Armstrong, his band, and his big hit record of "Hello Dolly" move into Convention Hall, Asbury Park, at 9:15 DO NOTSEE IT ALONE! I 111! I TODAY'S ATTRACTIONS Advertised in The Aibury Park Prut DANCING NITELY! 2 Great Bands fiAlDAI-'UDYIN ACAGE onrf' Th Sad Sack" I V.I I i mm MATTY DICE CATiS OPEN 7:00 F.M.-MOVIES AT DUSK inJSH -URSTSHOWONlt -MOVIES AT DUSK WINNER OF ACADEMY BAND! GLAMOROUS SUNNY STEVENS also appearing nitely Jhs Swrtd Sdt LEE WILEY and Bill Pollock yt AWARDS! THE BARD FOR FREE: The New York Shakespeare Festival will open its 10th season of free Shakespeare with its first production of the season, "Hamlet," at the Dela-corte Theatre in Central Park at 8 p.m. Thursday.

Julie Harris, How Da Sil-va, and Nan Martin star in the drama, which is produced and directed by Joseph Rapp. lso slated for production this summer are "Othello," July 8 and Sophocles' "Electa," Aug. 11. THE JttJGHTT ItlKDrO ADYENTURE! Is -1 Aibury Park, St. James, "Wild and Wonderful," 3:40, 7, "Walk a Tight Rope," 2:30, 8:30.

Lyric, "Tom Jones," 7:25, 10. Lakewood, Strand, "Tom Jones," 2:35, 7, 9:15. Neptune City, A.I.T., "Lady in the Cage," 7, "Walk a Tight Rope," 8:30. Freehold Mall, A.I.T., "Tom Jones," 7:10, 9:30. Hazlet, Plaza, (A.I.T.) "Tom Jones," 7:10, 9:30.

Ocean Grove, Strand, "Under the Turn Yam Tree," 2:30, 7, 9:14. Red Bank, Carlton, "Tom Jones," 2, 7, 9:20. Toms River, Community, "Honeymoon Hotel," 7, 9:10. DRIVE-IN THEATERS, Eatontown Drive-In, Cartoon, "Lady in a Cage," 8:52, "Walk a Tight Rope," 10:40. Laurelton Drive-In, "Wild and Wonderful," 8:45, "Walk a Tight Rope," 10:30.

Loew's Drive-In, Cartoon, "Lady In a Cage," 8:54, "The Sad Sack," 10:30. Shore Drive-In, "Tom Jones," "AH In a Night's Work," 11:15. Toms River Drive-In, "Bridge on the River Kwal," 8:45, "A New Kind of Love," 11:40. "MIDNICHT LACE CANDY CANE PLAYGROUND FREE! Complete Prime Sirloin Steak Dinner 5fc-FRI. SAT.

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FHm Col Slaw, Dttierl Be.er.ft HOB NOB RT. 33, EATONTOWN S'lYJACKSONj QUARTET" Id No Charge Charge Zk ROYAL MANOR i Rt. 35 Wall Township PlP.TIIRfS end of the month when Al Antonio and troupe return for five weeks. The three middle-aged grandmother types in the sleeveless print dresses didn't look as if they belonged in a cocktail lounge. As they walked up to the bar in the Landmark Lounge in Long Branch, it seemed as though they may have walked in by mistake, thinking they could have a glass of tea, a cup of coffee, and maybe a piece of pound cake.

Moments later, the scene became even less believable when they climbed onto the small stage, took their places behind the piano, bass, and cocktail drum and were introduced as the Elinor Sherry trio. If there was anything they didn't look like, it was night club performers. Then they played, and while they didn't look the part, they sounded it. They swung slightly through a few old chestnuts, and, sure enough, appearances were deceiving. Lenny Bruce is scheduled to go into court today in Manhattan to defend himself of obscenity charges stemming from his appearance earlier this season at the Cafe Au Go Go, a Bleeker street coffee cabaret, where, incidentally, Mort Sahl opens tonight.

The case, which was supposed to go to trial last month, was postponed when Bruce was hospitalized with a kidney ailment. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton have joined theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, psychoanalyst Theodor Reik and 87 other members of the New York cultural community in protesting to Mayor Wagner the circumstances of Bruce's arrest. The protest describes Bruce as "a performer in the field of social satire in the tradition of Swift, Rabelias and Twain." It defends Bruce's "use of the vernacular in his nightclub performances" as being "within the context of his satirical intent and not to arouse the prurient interests of his listeners." Ephraim London, winner of key anticensorship struggles over Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" and Roberto Rosse-lini's "The Miracle," will represent the West Coast comedian. presents (o St Bind! MoUl 542-0906 VUUMY COLOR Start! Thursday "THE CARDINAL" I HEALTHFULLY AIR-CONDITIONED I 1 JS 0PENING DAY GIFTS IT'S HERE! THE MIGHTIEST ADVENTURE i ENDS TONIGHT AT COMMUNITY AT LAURELTON I -'-'-vi "HONEYMOON "Wild Wond.rW" I-Xllt I H0TEl" "Walk Tight Rep." I VUiyi1 SHOWCASE THrife EVER FILMED! Acres of FREE PARKING or ALL TV Answer Man OLIVIA diKAVaUNO WiKHS YOU: THE UAKASEMEKT WARDS YOU: D0N0TSEEITAL0NE! titled "Dr. Kildare's WcrlHincr Dav." in which I.nrainp was killed off just before she i i.

a There are two very fine actors who appear on TV with some regularity and I hope they will eventually end up as regulars on a TV series? They are Michael Parks and Chris Robinson. Parks was recently on a repeat of "Wagon Train'' 1 1 GUI yJtMMtt. MEf-1 1 jj 5 maue 10 ine anar wun ner doctor. (Shades of today's TV "soap opera" plots.) Miss Sothern has no immediate TV series plans, but she has reactivated her film career nftpr a Inn it absence from the screen. She ana vnns nuuinson was on Arrest and Trial" and many other shows.

F. Decatur, And "WALK A TIGHT ROPE' STARTS WEDNESDAY 1sf TIME TOGETHER tTpi Co-Attraction Wngal 7S Iffipilttoryofthe WORLD" 1111111: iUClQueen Bee LAST DAY: "TOM JONES" Hount WW10" ISllir I LAST DAY IrAlVl, "lady in a 'MmilW Pius "walk a wktirt MmmMS' TIGHT ROPE" PUflCOTS ti bjjsjB-1 I UffllBJ ALEC GUINNESSlACKHAmiNS! can be seen in the current film release "The Best Man" and has an important featured role in the upcoming movie "Lady In a Cage" which stars Olivia de Havilland. FRIDAY! Sidney Poitier in "THE LONG SHIPS STARTS WEDNESDAY ST. JAMES STARTS WEDNESDAY fj i ST. JAMES mi Sip, A WALTER READE-STERLING THEATRE i prnr matinees at 2:30 p.m.

nmr EVENINGS FROM 7:00 P.M.! HOB THE BEST I I METROCOLOR9 ijj pj r-n j0 FThJrv yf? few- ifi fe $C5J Vi wr- iiliill in y-J ffi Tj ft, sm THE ACADEMY AWARD WINNER! 6 "BEST DIRECTOR Rcherdson I "BEST John 0bome JUIIUI Will. Ml BEST MUSIC SCORE -John AddlsoKj PR 3-5000 HELD OVERI .5 a 'v7 luncheon Dinner Supper Today's luncheon Special, Both these actors have received a great deal of attention from the fans according to our mail. Michael Parks' TV performances this past season on such shows as "Channing," "Route 66," "Alfred Hitchcock," "Wagon Train," "Arrest and Trial," and others have boosted his stock immensely. He has completed two feature films, "Daffy" and "Bus Riley's Back In Town," and is currently before the cameras in the role of Adam for John Huston's "The Bible." Chris Robinson has yet to really make it in films, but his TV performances have made him an actor to watch. Did Ann Sothern play the nurse who was Dr.

Kildare's love interest in the movie series which starred Lew Ayres as Dr. Kildare? I have been trying to think of the actress who played this part and I seem to connect Miss Sothern with It. A 1 what is Miss Sothern doing these days? Is she planning any more TV series? Mrs. B.B., San Jose, Calif. Laraine Day was the patient nurse who loved Lew Ayres in the Dr.

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