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7 Gazebo! 6 Disenchanted1 Offer First Night Choice i Thriller, Village Tragedy Heart in Grips Film From India Drama In Bows By BARBARA L. WILSON Tomorrow evening's double theatrical bill brings "The Gazebo" into the Locust for a week, and "The Disenchanted" into the Walnut for a two-week engagement as a Theater Guild-American Theater Society subscription Both plays have 8 By MILDRED MARTIN Among the world's motion pictures, those from India have been at least so far as exhibition in the United States goes conspicuous by their absence. This omission will be rectified on Wednesday when "Pather Panchali trans o'clock opening night curtains. -With "The Gazebo," English author Alec Coppel, best known lated in English as "Song of the Road," is scheduled to begin an engagement at the World Theater. If this deeply sensitive, trag in tnis country lor nis screenplay, "The Captain's Paradise," is presenting his stage specialty, ically human study of family life in an Indian village is typical qt the work of India's artists, then; assuredly we in this country have1 been denied screen experiences of a rare order.

On the other hand, "Pather Panchali" is at diamet a comedy-thriller. The form, he says, has afforded him great success in Europe particularly with the production of "I Killed the Count," which Alfred Hitchcock recently did in three segments on his television program. HAILS MEADOWS Coppel, who has resided in California for the last eight years, says that he visited New York in March to assist in making final cast decisions on the people the producers (The Playrights ric odds with anything approaching slick, professional entertain ment, whether from Hollywood or elsewhere. TAPESTRY OF LIFE Careless of time, it moves slowly through almost two hours, a tapestry of tiny incidents: some irrelevant, "some heartbreaking, Company and Frederick Brisson) already had weeded out for "The Gazebo" roles. Casting Walter Slezak in the pivotal part of the jovial writer some horrifying.

Yet at the end, all seem important to the telling i riirw.wniw.'imxrrrittiiiiia I of the story of a Brahmin family of crime stories Coppel believes was ideal but the playwright which, after living for three generations in a Bengal village, leaves to begin life elsewhere in the perhaps futile effort to forget the death of a beloved daughter The good and bad Influences in the life Robards, and Rosemary Harris in "The Disenchanted," Walnut tomorrow, 8 P. M. once-great author, are played by, from left, George Grizzard, Whitfield Connor, Jason of Jason Robards, Jr. (center), portraying and to fight the poverty which has all but destroyed hope. 21 -Day CARROLL BAKER Carroll Ready to Quarrel Satyajit Roy, director and au thinks that Jayne Meadows, portraying 1 a k's blackmail threatened wife, will be "a real eye-opener.

Why this girl hasn't been a tremendous top star is something I can't understand." In reference to the title, Coppel says that "the common American pronunciation is but the correct pronunciation is The word he says, Inquirer thor of the script, based on a novel by Bibhutibhushan Bando Show Calendar For Week Travail padhya, has wofked with obviously meager means to achieve his peculiarly haunting ends. OfAuthor There are no sets, only a dirty, shockingly primitive village near an orchard beyond which lie a scum-covered pool and the tracks of the Emphatically, "Pather Panchali" is no travel PLAY BILL HI section and the means a sort of summernouse one of those decorative, ornate buildings of the Victorian era." Admitting that it is a major plot element of the play, he resists further explanation except to say, "you see it through the win- The Gazebo Alec Coppel's com By HARVEY BREIT Co-author with Budd Schulberg By JOE HYAMS HOLLYWOOD. Carroll Baker has been the butt of much criticism recently because of her reportedly temperamental behavior on the set of Warner's "The Miracle." She has been accused of every poster likely to attract tourist of "The Disenchanted," opening edy-mystery, with Walter Sle-zak, Jayne Meadows, Edward Andrews, opens at LOCUST, tomorrow, 8 P. M. SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 16, 1958 tomorrow at the Walnut, 8 P.

M.jdow of the setting. trade. TECHNIQUE UNIMPORTANT Tnct thrno uppIcs atm tosetherl MOVIE FOR SOPHIA WMklb Ml VV The Disenchanted Budd Schul- Sccoutl Time Around Featured players in the com Technically, the picture is no match for even Hollywood's thing from "feuding" with the director to arguing with other stars berg and Harvey Breit iay, with the gallant company of "The Disenchanted," I departed from edy-thriller, being directed by In the picture about the way theiriminor efforts. Its black-and-white with Jason Robards, and Rosemary Harris, opens at WALNUT, tomorrow, 8 Pf M. roles should be played.

When we'photography is dark, often muddy aaw Miss Baker the other day to and inexpert. Yet somehow this check on the reports we learned! does not matter, for Roy has HamletCalifornia Style Whoop-Up Feuer-Martin-Gim- my familiar Manhattan to begin melodrama expert Reginald a hazardous journey which islDenham, are Edward Andrews, known, in theatrical and pre-iLeon Janney, Jane Ross, Michael Kerouacian parlance, as goinaClarke-Laurence and Ruth the road." Three weeks is 21 lette- The settmS ha been de rfave hut it rmiM verv well he! signed by Jo Mielziner, who also bel-Charlap musical, wan tu that she was guilty as charged san Johnson, Paul Ford, Danny shown something amounting to inspiration in catching illuminating, unsparing incident and, better still, the faces, the grace, the By HENRY T. MURDOCK but with an explanation NOT BUSINESSLIKE i 4U 1- Meehan, continues, at SHU BERT, tomorrow evening. It sometimes happens in this callous business of criticism that a profound play days- nd none them on toe by 'SS-Up "I've run into a strange experi which is 90 percent effective is less kindly treated than a mediocrity which scores 100 per Cue for Passion Elmer Rice drama, with John Kerr and orama, wun jonn wrr pitiful movement of these people as they endure life or, as in ence in Hollywood," she said. ncent in achieving its no great ends.

It is a corollary, too, that the higher the standard the Diana Wynyard, continues at 2 2 "There seems to be so much an the instances of a young girl and U1C tMSbailLCO Ul A JUUUK Kill Twenty-one mornings of meet-l wciaenumy, 10 menuiy v.oppei ings and agenda cleanups. Twen- further, he wrote the screen ay ty-onedaysof rehearsals and for' Ver go" and has completed note-taking. Twenty-one evenings Hello With a Gun" in which j. portance given to what people on' oW womaD( the'y find eth FORREST, tomorrow evening the more he challenges a re the set think. It's one big happy Despite the thousands of miles Hit MUSICAL EVENTS Danish 1 viewer's sense of apprecia 'Manfred' 4 of work.

Twenty-one nights of fit-P oren win star ror rar- idmujr which divide us from this little Danish National Orchestra tion. Lapses assume greater VZ "famUy in a far off speck of vil- ful and truncated sleep, "cu a which the slack mind Also, Coppel is hope- Symphony concert presented by Philadelphia Forum, at moment than they do in the mediocrity. In excuse of the tn snlve those nrob- wi mat a proaucer win emerge Orchestra Ensemble from among the interested par ity of spirit and understanding And for this, Roy may take credit lems that baffled the relatively ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Thurs day evening. to express them-rather, than on pie here try selves on set reviewer this may come from his fervent desire that the writer succeed in all his lofty ties and stage his "The Joshua Tree," which had good notices but a short life when Anne Bax Philadelphia Orchestra Eugene Whatever the language and whatever a way of life bleaker than any we could imagine, there im iiniirAic altf in Via ma A but only relatively alert daytime mind. TRANQUILITY DEPARTED Hundreds of uncooperative screen.

"I come from the theater where there is no time to fool Nove Returns lty purposes. IMAGINATIVE DRAMA ter starred in the "serious thriller" in London last summer. Ormandy conducting Tchaikovsky program, at ACADEMY, Friday afternoon and Saturday evening. Music With Mary Martin Stage around because the job at handvigi father dreams of more is all-important. I feel moviesLnav anA KoH.

Mo hours of reworking earlier work, "The Disenchanted" is the Such as the situation last week The Philadelphia Inquirer of undoing what was done, of Rudd Schulberg and Harvey By EDWIN II. SCHLOSS In the season's first Tchaikov with regard to Elmer Rice's are a wonderful art form and Ijpractical wife struggles to make sharpening, heightening, cutting1 Breit Diay based on Schulberg's "Cue for Passion." With what have an obligation to do my best. Charities, through the Phil- arlplnhia Forum, will Dresent the ends meet, bring up the children and focusing an elusive, brilliant, sky- program scheduled by Eu best selling novel. It stars Jason ever sins we find upon it, it is still the most gripping, most im But many people don't think movies are important and they star recreates roles from her famous tuneshows, accompanied by pianist John Lesko, guitarist Luiz Bonfas and dancer Dirk Sanders, at ACAD gene Ormandy for this week v.ts-n-1 n-wtr. thoihorrible, terribly-good, not-quite end's Philadelphia Orchestra with decency, maintain pride in the face of critical, interfering neighbors.

MISERY OF THE OLD aginative and best all-around acted drama the season has concerts, the maestro is offering Academy of Music Thursday Robards, as Manley Halli-day, the character said to be fashioned after F. Scott Fitzgerald. The plot concerns a once great American author of the '20s, who tries to regain his fame EMY, Friday, 9 P. and say to me, 'Why knock yourself out? Do as you're told, take the money, and forget I can't do that." three works inspired by master brought us so far. Saturday, 2:30 P.

M. partner-in-cnme, my collaborator Budd Schulberg, reflecting in his eyes the precise and extraordinary fatigue that my own must reveal. pieces of world literature. Th 96-piece ensemble, appear The children, a girl and her If it met with critical double- Jazz for Moderns Concert fea The Overture-Fantasy "Rom little brother, enjoy small adven Miss Baker recalled a recent ing under the patronage of King talk, part of the blame rests with playwright Rice. "Cue for Pas eo ana Juliet" taiier anaice- in the late '30s.

tures Dave Brubeck Quartet, the Four Freshmen, Maynard tures, quarrel and make up, and, day when she went to her hotel Why, then (I am asked and askLT6TTvnv ftv TV after work and some cnuaren everywhere, get into Ferguson at ACAD myself) did one year ago, give! oi ii Standing in his way is Frederik IX of Denmark, will be conducted by Thomas Jensen and John Frandsen. Jensen led the Danes on their first American sion" operates on two levels, one of which invites some perhaps invidious camparisons. his EMY, next Sunday, 3:30 and found her by the pool crying. "I trouble. Punishment in India told them I was just beginning! may seem unduly severe to us, edged securities (that are a irresponsible wife ayed 8:30 P.

M. NEW, FILMS The play is not "suggested by" but en PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA Eugene Ormandy Conducting TCHAIKOVSKY PROGRAM "Romeo and Juliet" "Francesea da Rimini" "Manfred" Symphonic Poem VnrkTimPsinMfnrthfiturhulentiDy Rosemary Harris, visit in 1952. Frandsen, his young Shakespeare "Hamlet." It is uncertainties of writing a play, couragement comes from a young screen writer (George yet there is ever the feeling that it is meted out for the erring youngsters'' good. Shocking to Western eyes, however, is the treatment of the aged. not a play "after" Shakespeare's er colleague and for several years High Society 1956 revival, with Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby, and The Swan 1956 revival, with Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, "Hamlet." It actually IS "Ham whose dividend to me could very well be scorn, contempt or, even to' understand things about Hollywood I never knew before," she said.

FIGHT FOR BEST "I finally learned why actors get through pictures and why they get sick and go to hospitals let" transported to modern day conductor of the Royal Opera at Copenhagen, will be making his first appearance here. Here, subsisting upon her family's reluctant charity, is an old peare) is a hardy perennial long loved and honored in the Southern California. ALSO THE GHOST1 Louis Jourdan. FOX, Wednes day. The orchestra current reper aunt, ragged, half-starved, worse, indifference? The answer, I think, is multiple and unconvincing.

TRY, TRY AGAIN Had I merely grown restless, repertory. The tone poem "Fran Julius Caesar 1953 revival, star The characters are readily tory is similar to the one offered six years ago in this country, bent, toothless creature who, Grizzard), a film producer (Whitfield Connor) and a New York publisher (Jason Robards, Told in flashback sequence, the William Darrid and Eleanore Saidenberg production has been directed by David Pressman in six settings by Ben Edwards. Peter Ustinov has decided to bring "Romanoff and Juliet" cesea da Rimini" (after Dante) ring Marlon Brando. TRANS and take out their misery that way. I understand it, but I don't believe in it.

I'd rather fight to do the best I can." We mentioned to being divided between Danish! LUX, Wednesday. is frequently heard. But "Manfred," sometimes called a sym clothed in rags and desperately wanting a shawl, at one point, cries to the niece whose heart stale, a trifle weary of routines? and international symphonic Pather Panchali India produced identifiable with the inhabitants of Elsinore, even unto the Ghost of Hamlet's father. The dead King, the morally uncertain Queen, the smiling Usurper and the avenging son are met in un masterpieces. At that time, the Yes.

Had I become a little dis Miss Baker that many of the reports had her feuding with the ensemble introduced the great' satisfied with stating my opinions never softens, "The old need things, too." story of life in an Indian village. WORLD, Wednesday. CURRENT FILMS works of Denmark's most notedjprecisely but never suggesting director, Irving Rapper. phony but actually a long symphonic poem, has not been played by the Orchestra in the Academy since December, 1911, when Karl Pohlig conducted the work. WORK OF MATURITY Only the very young have un composer, Carl Nielsen, since my ieeungs wiiaiyr xes.

ma i "I'm quite a strong woman or pity for the veryjHouseboat (110 min.) 1, 3, 3, 7, mistakable paraphrase. This makes an exciting expert then, because of the orchestra's begun to balk at a job that re- 9, 11. Fifth week. Grant-Loren nes more or less a woman- 0m Director Rov tacitlv imnlies back to the Forrest Nov. 24 so that he will be in commuting distance of New York to rehearse his play, "The Empty Chair," for TV's Omnibus Dec.

7. Note that "La Plume de Ma ment far too thorough and liter hater," she said. "The result whiie Durga 8teais fruit for we're like two cats. Working onithe old) oW woman and loves to notable success and recordingsjquired of me only part of my-Nielsen has come to enjoy an self? Yes! Yes! As the hero in our importance in America compara-iplay puts it: "The whole consort based on Byron's it tA 1a IqKaIa tte "ettint comedy ARCADIA. Windjammer (129 min.) 2:30, 8.

Third week. Cinemiracle voy- poetic play (1817) had us first rnntinn.j p.r. rvi, i lister ten to her stories, her mother Continued on Page 4, Column 8 I Continued on Page 4, Column 6 Continued on Page 3, Column 4 Continued on Page 5, Column 4 Continued on Page 3, Column 2 jContinued on Page 3, Cohima 3 Jazz Theoryi By Brubeck Dave Brubeck, speaking for And on the good side Rice has approximated the wild and whirling words by which Hamlet voices his troubles in a series of stirring, turbulent passages the like of which are not often met in modern drama. And in John Kerr, he has just the boy to declaim them. Kerr rants, as Hamlet did, but it is ranting in the grand manner.

All through, Rice has followed the Bard's precept in giving "fat" roles to the players. NEGATIVE REPORT Just as Kerr's performance Iff o. A. tl A the "Jazz for Moderns" show at the Academy of Music next Sun-'day, 3:30 and 8:30 P. says, 'It's the most balanced of modern jazz I've been associated with.

Wit 4 -r. "Besides the vocals of the Four Freshmen', there's the great big i iff A 1 will stand out in the season memory, so will the charm, the if; 1 at swinging band of Maynard Fer guson. It a wonc.erful group. The best I've heafd since Woody 35. wit, the persuasion and the trag edy expressed by Diana Wyn yard as the 1958 Queen Gertrude.

The negative side of this re Herman's First Herd and the early Stan Kenton. Then for the avant garde we have the Sonny port also stems from the dual complex of the play. Rice, somewhat more than Shakespeare has Rollins Trio." FRIENDS FOR U. S. elected to be explicit in his Concerning what the Brubeck m- explanation of Hamlet's conduct and firmer in his solution of the puzzle.

He elects to exorcise the demons which possess Hamlet by revealing him as infatuated with his mother, which is not a new or untenable theory in "Hamlet" Quartei, has in store for Phila-delphians, the pianist-leader explains, "We'll be featuring our new album, 'Jazz Impressions from This covers the junket the Brubeck group made from last February to May, from London to Baghdad, playing more than 70 concerts in 14 countries, all the while winning friends and influencing people in Uncle Sam's behalf. exploration. But it by no means covers the whole mystery of Hamlet. Its usage, heavily foreshadowed throughout "Cue for Passion," Recalline the trip. Brubeck serves to present us at the cli- Jayne Meadows, Walter Slezak.

and Edward Andrews (right), the principals in "The Gazebo," enjoy coffee break before resuming rehearsal of Alee Coppel's comedy-mystery which hows at the Locust tomorrow evening, 8 o'clock ays, "We varied our programs Uma Das Gupta, as th young girl, offers a guava to the old aunt, played by Chunibala Devi, in scene from "Pather Panchali at the World Wednesday. The film, shot in West Bengal, concerns family life in an Indian village. Continued on Page 4, Column Continued on Page 5, Column.