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'Soutli Pacific' Back Gaynor stars as Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific," the film version of the Rodgers and Ham- merstein musical which opens a return engagement today at the Fox Wilshirc. Rossano Brazzi cottars. i jimmy T7itlierspoon Singing at Parisian BY LEONARD FEATHER Times Staff Writer Cljcatcrs poken Drama C9usic (g IQ Part IV-We Oct. 1969 goa'flngrlfgCimfg STAGE NOTES Zsa Zsa Slated for 'Blithe Spirit' BY DAN KNAPP Timet Staff Writer Zsa Zsa Gabor, the lady with "Dahlink" programed into every other sentence, will make her Los Angeles stage debut at the Huntington Hartford Oct. 21, in James A.

Doolittle's production of Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit." Miss Gabor, whose co- i 1 i I I i'" i i 1 weak spot In Tils set was the opening chorus of "Danny Boy," which failed to pass my glucose tolerance test. Accorap anying both Withcrspoon and Creach, as well as playing on their own, are the house musicians, with Red Holloway as leader and tenor saxophonist, Art Hillery on organ and Kenny Dixon on drums. Hollo way dominates pleasantly as the trio plays a repertoire of standards in the standard style of the soul-jazz fraternity. Both he and Hillery offer effervescent solos. Dixon tends now and then to over-dramatize, especially when backing Creach.

The Witherspoon-Creach Holloway will be on the stand for several more weeks (Mondays off). "(PEGGY GLIDES AND WHIRLS OVER THE RINK LIKE A WINTER BALLERINA" LA. Times "INCOMPARABLE DREW DEAFENING APPLAUSE FLEMING DISPLAYS REMARKABLE SKILLS WITH DAZZLING STYLE Hollywood Citizen News "THE GREATEST SHOW ON ICE SYMPHONY OF SKIMMING, SKATING, PIROUETTING, CLOWNING, FEATS OF DARING, AND 1 iaslmu Ur SPECTACULAR that he can sing effectively at a tempo so slow that most rhythm sections would be tempted to double the beat. Some of today's slick pseudo-blues belters should be forcibly removed to the Parisian Room for de facto lessons. Featured in the same show is Johnny Creach, the jazz violinist.

Since he has been playing in the Southland about as long as Jean-Luc Ponty has been alive, his obscurity (and the fact that he has never recorded) is puzzling. Melodic Lines Though Creach cannot match Ponty's stunning technique and avant-garde harmonic imagination, he swings hard and buoyantly on tunes like "Lover Come Back To Me" and "Sonny moon for Two." If Ponty is the John Coltrane of the violin, Creach is its Coleman Hawkins. His melodic lines are fluent; he never falls back on the tendency to use repealed riffs, one of the very few- shortcomings of the late Stuff Smith. The N.Y. Hit, 4th Wk.

L.A. ff LAST 5 DAYS with Special Guest Star star during the three-week run wll be Michael Evans, has appeared in nearly 30 films, among them "Moulin Rouge" and' "Lili," as well as TV dramas and a slew of talk shows. The Hartford staging of "Blithe Spirit" will be directed by William Tre-goe, who coached Ann Miller for her current Broadway role in "Maine." Zsa Zsa, who has pcared in "Blithe Spirit" with Evans before (in Chicago), will start rehearsals as soon as she Zsa Zsa Gabor OLYMPIC WORLD CHAMPION Ticket Prices. All Seats Reserved: J5.0O $4.00 $3.50 $3.00 $2.50. Schedule of Performances: Tues.

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tour for her own cosmetic firm. That date, says one aide, "is impossible to determine if you know Zsa Zsa." The play, if you recall, is about a lovely ghost accidentally called back to earth by her husband who happens to have remarried. The role and return to the stage are right up Zsa Zsa's alley. "I luf the theater," she says. "I alvays have.

You know, dahlink. I stahted in the theater. But I've never played Los Angeles, which I now consider my home. But most importantly, I luf the idea of a relationship with a handsome man when his wife can't see me." Juniors (Under 16): Half-price Tues. through Sat.

at 5 p.m., in ail price ranges. I TV THE LOS ANGELES CIVIC LIGHT OPERA presents A Romantic Speculation on what may have happened behind, the scenes before Columbus' great adventure, based on fascinating facts in history. MEREDITH WILLSON'S Illustrated ways How to Savs a llarriage "A MOTION PICTURE MONET TO BURN: It's hard to believe, but the East-West Players, that little group of professional Oriental thespians that puts on classical and contemporary Asian drama around town, is having a hard time giving away a bundle of Ford Foundation money. The theater group has been awarded a two-year partial grant of $38,500 by the Foundation to develop new plays on classical Oriental and Oriental-American themes. just aren't many people writing such savs Buelah Quo, one of the Hollywood actresses Sand who performs in East-West productions.

So the company, which includes artistic director Makko and such fellow film and TV players as Pat Li. Soon Taik Oh and Richard Loo, is holding a contest. What the East-West Flayers want is a new play based on the problems and contributions of the Japanese-American. They'll pay $1,000 for the Avinner. The contest deadline is Nov.

30, so if you've got a play on the subject gathering dust in your closet, get in touch with Buelah Quo at 664-5769. It might just be a winner. MARRIAGE ARE YOU S'33 it with soeissna you Love." GOME JUDGE RATED with a brilliant cast of acting, singing, dancing artists and a magically beautiful production if there is anyone else presently living who can sing the blues like Jimmy Vitherspoon, no evidence of such a phenomenon has come to my attention. The special lyrics and even more special delivery of the Arkansas-born veteran are being spoon-fed to receptive audiences at the Parisian Room, La Brea Ave Blvd. at Washington Spoon, as his fans have long called him, is a large, loose-limbed figure with a timbre that is much lighter than, say, that of Joe Williams.

The absence of depth is more than countervailed by other factors. He has an uncanny facility for imparting to the blues a hip sexuality, a certain evil irreverence that could, in the words of an old song, make a preacher put his bible down. You Believe Him When Spoon sings the "Past 40 Blues," his message comes across even to the under-20s. When he disinters the 192!) Bessie Smith vehicle "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out," even if you've just seen his block-long Cadillac outside, you believe him. Finally, with ain't Nobody's Business If I Do," you realize that his is a definitive statement of the blues and that this tune, which gave him a hit record in the 1950s, can never mean quite as much coming from any other larynx.

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Id llrirl mit mwi I I CI -llll fl I r- POSTSCRIPTS: N.Y.'s Lincoln Center Repertory group opens an eight-week tour of Heinar Kipphardt's "In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer," at Washington. D.C.'s National Theater, Oct. 14 It's "You're A Good Man Charlie Brown," soon to play its 700th performance at the Ivar Theatre here, and not "Hair" that is the long-run champ for L.A. Equity shows "Hadrian VII," Peter Luke's dramatization of Frederick Rolfe's novel of the same name, opens Oct.

14 at the Ahmanson Theatre with Hume Cronyn starring "Don't Leave Go My Hand," a two-act play by Arthur Robinson, will be staged by the Performing Arts Society of L.A at the PA SLA Center, 8801 S. Vermont Thursday through Sunday. IV STAR Raymond St. Jacques is starred in "Change of Mind," opening citywide today. Directors Guild Names Mann Again Dclbcrt Mann has been re-elected president of Directors Guild of America.

Other officers elected to two-year terms are George Schaefer, Robert Wise, Tom Donovan, John Rich, Howard Magwood, vice presidents; Sheldon Leonard, secretary; Karl Genus, assistant secretary; Lesley Seiander, treasurer; J. ugh rue, assistant treasurer. Elected to national board of directors were Delmer Daves. James Di Gangi, Tom Donovan, Karl Genus, Franklin Heller, Sheldon Leonard, Howard Magwood. Delbert Mann, Jerry Markus, Mickey Mc-Cardle, Mike i 1 John Rich, Enid Roth, George Schaefer, David Scago, Jack Shea, George Sidney, George Stevens, Robert 1 a and Robert Wise.

Elected alternates to the board were Stanley Acker-m a Sydney Andrews, William Beaudine, Richard Brooks, Hal Cooper, Norman Jewison, Ira Marvin, H. C. Potter, Lee Rafner, Lesley Seiander, John J. Sughrue and Gordon Weisenborn. 'LIBERTINE' is fast.

sophisticated I and The details -of the iilm i ere bright and glossy as its L.A. Herald Examiner lbs truth is that 'The Libertine' at times, is pretty hat Kevin Thomas, L.A. Times "THE it.rrin Catherine Spaak Jean-Louis Trintifpiant r. (ASTMANCOtOK lm4lliii Kal At'Ol'lUN FILMS rCSON UNDIR IT HOT ADWITTIO. LAST 7 DAYS! DAILY 7:10 8:55 10:40 PM SAT.

SUN. 1:40 3:25 5:10 7:00 8:45 10:30 PM Extra! Midnight Show Sat. 12:15 AM UNOIItOOK at WESTW00B iiv. I aiOCI 0TM tf WILSHIRF r'-sTTT Phon 477-OS7S 5 "La Mancha" with Bob Wright WIIIS CRITICS' PRAISE What i it about Geese that so offends one group A so intrigues another? See Ceese decide for yourself. CORONET THEATRE TONIGHT 366 N.

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Hollywood Reporter mm i GVAR THEATRE 2nd )5 N. Ivar 464-7121 Year yrvftrssy I OPENS TONIGHT thru TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7 Evenings at 8 p.m., including THE LONG-AWAITED RETURN ENGAGEMENT OF the QRAn6 1Attiikt of sforring ShOROkU Atl6 BAlkO Presenting Each NigM: "ONE OF THE MORE DELIGHTFUL STAGE ENTERTAINMENTS OF OUR TIME THIS REVIEWER HAS SEEN THE SHOW TWICE PREVIOUSLY BOS WRIGHT IS WITHOUT DOUBT THE CHAMPION" DAVE MctNllRE. S.D. Tribune "LA MANCHA CHARMING BOB WRIGHT, AS DON QUIXOTE WAS SUPERIOR" DONALD DICRKS S.D. Union Newly Air Conditioned 10 Minutes trom LA Civic Center PASADENA CIVIC AUDITORIUM This special one return engagement was booked fo accommodate all ol the people who were unable to see Man of La Mancha during- its "sold-out" run at the Los Angeles Music Center.

BOB WRIGHT Star of tha New York Company MAURA K. WEDGE TONY MARTINEZ GEORGE WALLACE DALE MALONE a Reserved Seats: Sec A $6.00 Sec. $5.00 Sec. $3.50 Friday and Sec. A $7.50 Sec.

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