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i i I I irrr I jiii hiwiiihwiii snii.in i liLfsVartSvaVrrdi NEW RECORDS Discs 1st STAR CALENDAR 1 II First Covenant Church; 7th St Sat, Feb. 15, 1969 THE-MINNEAPOLIS STAR REPORTER'S VIEW RFK Deserves Spot in History Greater Tbyal Brother' kind of puritanical sense III I IILIJLIH I OKLAHOMA! Dancing girls in the dream ballet from Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, choreographed by Agnes de Mille, are pictured in one of many photographs in the enlarged and revised edition of VThe World of Musical Comedy," by Stanley Green (Barnes, $12.) Public events today: ON STAGE Tom Thumb" a Shelving Hall, Arena Theater' University of Minnesota, Admission ana reservations. "The Boy p.nt today, Chanhassen Dinner Theater, Chanhassen, Admission and reservations. "End of Ramadan" 8 pjn. today.

Theater in the Round, 1308 Stevens Av. S. Admission ana "Bleep Is a Four-Letter Word: A Rowdy Revue" p.m.f 10 p.m. and midnight today, 8 p.m. Sunday, Brave, New workshop, 2605 Hennepin Av.

Admission ana reservations. The Impossible. Years" 8 p.m. toaay, 7:30 jp.m. Sunday, via lor i neater, txceisior.

Admission and reservations. "Loot" 8 p.m. through Sunday, Cricket Theater. 28th St. at Av Admission and reservations.

"Legend of Rip Van Winkle" 8 p.m. through Sunday, Theater of Involvement, United Campus Christian Fellowship Center, 311 17th Av. SE. Ad mission and reservations. "On Borrowed Time" 8 n.m through Sunday.

Village Players of Richfield, Holy Angles Academy, 66th St. and Nicollet tucniieio. "East Lyne" 8 p.m. through Marcn l. u.

Jacobs tiemen tary acnooi, 1700 coon Kapias coon Kapids. Admission. "The Threepenny Opera" 8 p.m. through Sunday, Eastside i neater, 311 Ramsey St. haul.

Admission and reserva tions. "Dracula" 8 n.m. todav. Punchinello Theatetr. 100 North Hall, university.

Admission and reservations. CONCERTS "Harmony Hoedown" 8 p.m., iNortnrop Auditorium, universt' ty. Admission. Melody Four Quartet 8 p.m., Biographer Describes Methods She Uses BIOGRAPHY: The CRAFT AND THE CALLING, by Catherine Drinker Bowen (Atlantic-Little, Brown, 168 pages, Reflections by the author of several acclaimed lives on the art of the biographer. Reviewed by PETER ALTMAN Minneapolis Star Critic "A biography is not an encyclopedia, it is the story of a life," Catherine Drinker Bowen believes.

The biographer must be more than a mere compiler of facts; he must give us the sense and the shape of his subject's experience, and must be able to make us concerned about that experience. Mrs. Bowen has written a number of lively biographies, among them "Yankee From Olympus" and "The Liort and the Throne." She believes good biography is the result of the intelligent and earnest application of certain skills, not a mysterious outcropping of genius or the accumulation of data, and in this book she attempts to explain the formula. Her short book is interesting in two respects, although for all its brevity it could well be shorter. "Biog-graphy" merits reading because it does tell us something about the process by which the biographer works, and it is appealing because Mrs.

Bowen is a voracious reader and has crammed her book with catchy quotations from all eras. Elaborate on Truth "Writing a full-length biography is a long and difficult task, during which one is possessed not by dreams of glory but by anxiety," the author remarks. The prob War Crime Prosecuter Benedict Deinard Dies THE UNFINISHED ODYSSEY OF ROBERT KENNEDY, by David Halberstam '(Random House, A study of the new and old 'Bobby' and the new and. old politics during' the 1968 campaign. By AUSTIN C.

WEHRWEIN Of The Star's EditorialOpinion Pages Staff It was Robert Kennedy's fate, while his brother John was alive, to play, a secondary although powerful role, always willingly, of course, in the remarkable tradition of that remarkable Kennedy family. Thrust by the phenome non of the 'McCarthy movement into 'a 'race for whidh he was, unprepared, then robbed of his chance for the presidency by the second assassination of a Kennedy, his place in history may be largely that of the intensely loyal brother. But perhaps "not. For what Halberstam has tried to do is to assess what Robert was forced to do when he was far more on his own than John, and how he met the challenge, both burdened and aided by the Kennedy tradition that a Kennedy Nmust win. He had helped his brothers win.

He had, himself, won a senatorship. But did he win his own identity? In the traditional sense, of the word, did he find his soul? I take it that Halberstam would answer, "yes." An exceedingly bright and industrious 34, Halberstam is ideally equipped both to judge and. ideatify with Kennedy, who was 44 when he was. murdered. Like Kennedy, Halberstam was a Harvard product; now with Harper's magazine, he has a Pulitzer prize for his New York Times correspondence from Vietnam.

In tune with the new journalistic style he writes himself into the account, which is more of a mood essay than history, although it is good post-1967 history at that. He is sensitive but not sentimental. While his focus is on Kennedy, he covers well the other major figures Johnson, Humphrey and McCarthy. For all, his in sight is sharp, as when he observes, "When people cheered McCarthy, they were cheering themselves." To Halberstam', Kennedy was a former conserva tive, then the harsh hatch- etman for his pragmatic brother, then, as he sees him, a man driven by a lems on wnicn sne concentrates are the structure of the biography, the author's problems of evidence, the difficulties of describing how men looked and what thev thought but did not write down, and the latitude al lowed the author for elaboration of bare truth. and Chicago Av.S, performer? Bill Pearce and Dick Anthony, The Bethel College Women's Choir will also appear.

DANCES i Square Dance Parity 7:30 p.m., Hayes Elementary-School, Mississippi and Monroe St NE. Fridley Fliers Square Dance Club, Saccoman, caller. Admission. Square Dance 8:30 p.m., Midway YMCA, 1761 University St Paul. Randy Dougherty, caller.

Valentine Dance 9 p.m. to midnight; Ballentine VFW Post 2916 Lyndale Av. S. Sponsored by Hennepin County General Hospital employees. Door prizes and refreshments.

Admission. SUNDAY CHILDREN'S EVENTS "Play Play 2 p.m. Sunday, Jeanne, d'Arc Auditorium, College of St Catherine, St. Paul. Admission.

"The Sleeping Beauty" 2 p.m. bunday, tastsiae i neater, 311 Ramsey St. Paul. Admission. "The Little Mermaid" 2 p.m., Children's Theater Company, Minneaapolis Institute of Arts, 201 E.

24th St Admission. "Let's Pretend Children's Show: The Hokey Show" 2 and 4 p.m., Brave New Workshop, 2605 Hennepin Av. Admission and reservations. ONSTAGE Theater of Psychodrama 5 p.m., 1317 1st Av. S.

Admission. MISCELLANEOUS Showing of Prize winning photographic color slides 1 15 p.m. ana Minneapolis Public Library Heritage Hall, 300 Nicollet Mall. Nature slides at 1:15 and pictorial slides at a p.m;- MONDAY CONCERTS "Sounds of the Symphoknolls" 8 p.m., St. George's Episcopal Church, 5224 Minnetonka Biva, Minnesota' arid American bar associations.

He was a mem ber of the American Law Institute, a fellow, of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and vice-president the Minnesota Orchestra Association. Survivors include his wid ow, Lucile Curtis Deinard; two sons, Ethan Long Island. N.Y., and David Minneapolis; a brother, Amos, Minneapolis grandchildren. Services will be -t p.m. Sunday in Temple Israel, 24th St.

and Emerson Av. b. Memorials to the Univer sity of Minnesota Law School scholarship fund are pre ferred. DEATHS RAYMOND E. AMBLE, 46 4817 Dunberry.Lane, Edina, died Wednesday.

Services were to be he at 1 o.m. today in woman dale Lutheran Church, Edina. Burial in Lakewood Cemetery, Partner at Jacus-Amble Consult ins Engineering and na tional vice-president or tne ao ciety for Professional tngineers. Director of the society tor Fro fessional Engineers at the time of his death. World war 11 Army veteran and graduated from the University of Mmne sota magna cum laude.

Member or Twin -city farmers, mmne sota Society of Professional En eineers. Minnesota Association or consulting tngineers ana tne Plymouth Masonic Lodge no, 160 AF AM. Survivors: His widow. Donna; two sons, Wal ter R. and Curtis a daughter, Marcelyn all at home; his mother.

Mrs. trna Amble, Brice lyn. two sisters. Mrs. Oscar CrumKrumrei, Los Ange les, and Mrs.

Perry Dean, Deep- haven, Minn. WARREN E. BLAISDELL, 56, 6612 S. Crest Edina, died Friday, services Monday at p.m. in Lakewood Chapel.

Bur ial in Lakewood Cemetery. Graduate of University of -Minnesota Law School in 1936. Member of Hennepin County, Minnesota and American Bar Associations. Survivors: widow, Beulah; brother, Scott Emerson, Georgetown, S.C.; three sisters, Mrs. George Martin, Minneapolis, Mrs.

David Wilson. Alfred, Maine, and Mrs. Nicholas bear- cello, Worcester, Mass. MRS. FREDA BURR, 95.

1907 NE. Ulysses died Thursday. Services Monday at 1:30 p.m. in O. E.

Larson Chapel, 2301 Central Av. Burial in Hillside Cemetery. Member of -Salem Covenant Church Martha Society. Survivors: son, Law rence, ana two aaugnters, Mrs. Florence E.

Horan and Mrs. William Fitzgerald, all Minne apolis; 7 grandchildren, 1 1 great- grandcnnaren, JOHANNA B. HECK. 77. 1004 Portland Paul, died Thursday.

Services Monday at in a.m. at St. LUKes uttnouc Church, Lexington' Pkwy. and Summit St. raui.

uunai in Calvary Cemetery. Lifetime res ident of St. Paul and retired teacher of music and German, Member of Schubert: Club, Women's Association of Minnesota Svmohonv Orchestra. In and About the Twin Cities Music Education Club, and St Luke's Alter and Rosary JSoci-etv. Survivors: a brotheW.

Frank Heck, Rochester, turn sisters. Elizabeth Heck and to to Music Changes By JOHN K. SHERMAN The Star's Books and Arts Editor Stereo discs keep up with new developments in music better thanNio individual orchestras and other public performing groups, and a case in point is the issue by Deutsche Gram-mophon of "rf-new" iine named Avant Garde Vj 'i' At hand is a 'disc 'devoted to two works' by Karl-heinz Stockhausen, and CARRE (137-002) and another titled FOUR TROMBONE PIECES (137- 005). The Stockhausen pieces illustrate the German composer's in "music? in space" and what coufdbe called "music in pre'sent time." "Gruppen" uses 'three or chestras led by -three conductors, situated- at left, front and right of thet au dience, so that sounadirec- tional effects are part of the listener's i experience. Three-channel jpiekup has been converted here to two-channel stereo, so that we get about of the concert-hall impact.

The music is JSefined as a synthesis chamber and solo music, and on first hearing sounds like a collage of clangs, pluckings, percussion, violin solos and other less definable disturbances. I found for four orchestras and four choirs more intriguing than the "Gruppen," for here are human voices blending in slow tempo with instruments, producing a reaction Stockhausen refers to in his statement that! "every moment can exist for itself." The music, sounds absent -jminded and improvised, apd. induces a kind of trancelike, meditative, frame of mind. There are various timbres in the mfy, short and long notes, silences, an occasional concourse of voices in spoken and musical phrases, nd tongued wind instruments. The four small, orchestras, with singers sprinkled among them, occtipy-our quarters of a circle enclosed by a square" space in whose corners the listeners sit.

The music emanates from the center and spreads outward, "centrifugal" effect. I had a harder time with the trombone pieces, played by Vino Globokar. Four works Include Glo-bokar's "Discours IP' for five trombones in "which taped in turn the four accompaniment parts- and then the' solo while listening to the four merged soundtracks. This, and three other' works from other hands, seemed experimental in the extreme, like exercises. There is singing of vowels inside and outside the -f trombones' embrduchdre, and the music is mostly ejaculations combined wih mystery noises, some, of 'them vocal.

As counter-irritant you might try CLARE DE LUNE: The World's Favorite Piano played by Philippe Entremont, who will be guest artist witji the Minnesota Orchestra March 28 (Columbia D3S-791J This is a three-disc myp-up of 35 familiar and xover-familiar short pieces, and, while they're all by master composers, listening td them in a row is like mng a meal of hors-d'oeuvres, snacks and The young Frenchman plays with brisk precision, better perhaps in sjtieed than in mood. Final Princess' Show Scheduled The final performance of "The Princess, Whose Face Stopped Clocks" wll be presented Friday by the Council of Jewish Wpmen "Masketeers" Since. Sept. 1, 1967, the play 4irected by Mrs. Barry Bonoff and produced by Charles F.

Mark, has every Tuesday in Minneapolis elem a schools. The "Masketeers" will continue to perform i every Thursday in. the schools with their second, play, "The Stranger's Crown" written by Mrs. Bpnof of social outrage, moving left far more than ortho dox liberals understood. Halberstam thinks that Kennedy's instinct was to run in 1968 before McCarthy did, reports that liberals like Allard Lowen-stein urged him to do so.

But Kennedy was urged to wait by the some of the ageing lieutenants of his late brother. He didn't trust himself. And, says Halberstam this was the once brash Kennedy's cru cial mistake. -Thus, although Kennedy had broken on the war with Johnson early in 1967, his eye was on 1972. When, in the wake of McCarthy, he did run, he lacked the time for careful planning that is the essence of the Kennedy campaign style.

Halberstam has a keen analysis of the race, but it is too recent to require recounting here. Suffice to say Robert wasn't as "nice" as John, nor as good a speaker, though he was a master at fielding tough questions from an audience. And, as we know, he developed a special rapport with the black and Latin Americans. In sum, Halberstam sees Kennedy as having emerged as the spokesman for the "poor and the rest less and the dissatisfied." Issues and human grievances, he believes, began to consume him. He judged people less on how they served the Kennedy cause the old acid test than on how they related to the issues.

This thesis leads to the conclusion that Kennedy had changed far more than the traditional liberals, pojnt where, with an almost primitive and innocent anger, Kennedy believed institutions that "strangled" the country must be changed. I'm not sure how to characterize this. A neo-populism, a Kennedy-style "new some sort of instinctive radicalism? But still, the issue for th people before the Los Angeles murder was "Bobby himself. The essay closes with the suggestion, however, that his death will let the nation discover what it had never understood or believed about Robert Kennedy during his life. If the thesis is correct, did he leave a tradition or a mood or a style that will endure along with that of his brother's New Frontier? And if so, what does this mean to the odyssey of Sen.

Edward Kennedy? For that matter to the nation? 'Atreus1 Critic: Production Hit, Audience Flop NEW YORK, N.Y. Reviewing the Minnesota Theatre Company's "House of Atreus" on Broadway, Anthony West in the Feb. 1 Vogue magazine wrote that "there is nothing, but nothing, worse for a theater to contend with than an almost illiterate but highly sophisticated audience." West praised the performance and wrote that, "It id a safe bet that nothing better in this line has been done in modern times." Criticizing the Broadway audience, he added that "the sight of male actors dressed and masked as women produced the inevitable clever-clever reactionah ha! drag queens! and the smart thing was to go on from there to compare the production's extraordinarily powerful arid'ef-f ective Clytemnestra to Hermione Gingold." He concluded that, "The whole thing, including John" Lewin's shrewd adaptation, was indeed refreshing and vitalizing, and it is alto ART CALENDAR Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 201 E. 24th (10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Tuesday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday; 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday and holidays) Siembab Gauuery Photographs, tnrougn eb. lb.

Recent Sculp tures by Charles Huntington, through Feb. 23. Recent acces sions: Drawings, through April 6 in the Herschel V. Jones Gal ley, David Friedman, through March 19. Barry Le Va, Pieces No.

1 and 2, Feb. 19 through March 9 Paul Art Center, 30 E. 10th St Paul (9 a.nv to 10 p.m. Tuesday. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; 9 a.m.

to 10 p.m. Thursday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday) "Drawings and Sculpture "by Louise Kaisch," through Feb. 23. "Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture" continuing.

"Arts of the Far, East, continuing. American Swedish Institute, Faric Av. (2 to 5 p.m. daily except Mondays) "Eight Mil lion Swedes," a photographic record of modern Sweden, through Feb. 23.

University of Minnesota's St Paul Campus Student Center Galleries. (8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mon day through Saturday, noon to 10 p.m. Sunday).

German Bar oque prints, by Ron Dufault, 1st floor lounge display cases, through Feb. 21. Jake Lee, Wa tercolors, 1st floor lounge, through Feb. 28. Printmaker's image, 2nd floor gallery, through Feb.

26. Raheel oils. Rouser Room gallery, through Feb. 28. Hamline University, St Paul Paintings and prints from the ooilectioiv of Dn iF redr i Leach, A.

G. Bush Student Cen ter. Twenty-five Graphis Works from the collection of William Hogarth, English artist, Drew Fine Arts Center Galleries, through February, Theater in the Round. 1308 Stevens Av. Lithographs by Gerald Martin, through Feb.

23. Augsburg College Center. 8th St. and 21st Av. S.

Gilded paintings by Don Celender, through Feb. 28. Kilbride-Bradley Art Gallery, 68 S. 10th St. (9:30 a.m.

to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday) "20 Years of Paper Jons by Robert Killbride" an exhibition of prints, drawings and paintings on paper from art school days in Paris in 1950 until today. Kramer Galleries. 507 Waba sha St. Paul.

Works by various local artists in multi media, through March 1. Sons of Norway, 1455 Lake (8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. weekdavs. 11, a.m.

to 4 p.m. Sunday) featured artist for February is Bettye Olson. Exhi bition of oils and watercolors. Coleman's Restaurant Oil paintings by Pholomine Miller. through February.

First State Bank of St. Paul. Verba Weaver, Acrylics, through February. Manamore, 4536 France Av. nrint and oottery show, Feb.

16 through March 1. ws ay f' wolr kp IQfiQ nf th of American rtnnts hv if? KoaH of chartrellnrc 3" eminent rwvs or Mr. Wnnb (jpnt. fnnft ppnoiinrp-meit. Mlnwsbin $5 000 awprrl.

A nroram of evpn-mental filrns snorsored bv the Art Center will be nesritpd pt n.m. 'r the Minneapolis Public T.ibrarv auditorium. The fi'ms bv Herb Grika. instructor in film techniques at the Minneapolis School of Art, are all in color. Novelists, Mrs.

Bowen says, often tell her it must be easy to write biography because the plot is already established. Not so, she responds. One of the biographer's greatest problems is to find the conflict, the dramatic issue on which a biography can turn. Graduate students can assemble information in doctoral theses, she comments rather sharply, but this" hardly constitutes biographical art. Mrs.

Bowen is no advocate of the unsubstantiatable flight of fancy, no urger of abuse of poetic license, but she strongly believes that biography must come to life by creating the atmosphere, the mood, and the texture of the historical situation, and this requires both digging and inspiration, she says. Art Is a She quotes Picasso's famous paradox, "Art is a lie that makes us realize truth," to make us realize the artifice behind any great biography. Then she attempts to anatomize the artifice, describing in detail how she has created her best work. This is a gracefully written but not very profound book. Mrs.

Bowen is a crisp stylist but her pungency of expression at time fails to cover certain superficialities of probing. One can admire her liveliness, yet not help feel that perhaps she is advocating a middlebrow approach to life-telling. Reservations must also be voiced about the necessity for all the recondite quotations Mrs. Bowen passes on, and about the author's stress on personalities over issues and milieus. Nonetheless, this is a lively account of how a biographer goes about gathering and organizing material.

It presents sympathetically the problems, and comments sagely on the solutions, of the practitioners of a vexing but rewarding art. Benedict S. Dienard, 69, chief U.S. counsel in the eco-nomic section in the post-World War II Nuernberg trials, died Friday. Dr.

Deinard lived at 909 Parkview Golden Valley. He was an assistnat general counsel for the Board of Economic Warefare and Foreign Economic Administration from 1942 to 1944, a special assistant tlve U.S. attomay general from 1944 1945. As chief section attorneys, he prosecuted and helped convict German munitions manufacturer Alfried Krupp in 1 1945. Mr.

Dienard was a member of the Hennepin County, Levi Pease, 96, Teacher, Dies; Funeral Monday Funeral services for Levi Beckley Pease, 96, a professor emeritus and member of the University of Minnesota fac ulty for 45 years, will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday in Lake-wood Chapel, with burial in Lakewood Cemetery. Mrs. Pease, a native of Minneapolis, died Friday in Abbott Hospital. He graduated from the Uni versity in 1898 and earned his- master's degree in 1899.

At the time of his retirement in 1941 he was professor of metallurgy in the School of Mines. He was a life member ot Zuhrah Shrine Temple, a charter member of university Masonic Lodge and a mem ber of Acacia Fraternity. He also was a member of First Congregational Church, Al. pha Chi Sigma and Sigma XI. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs.

Leif Gilstad, Washington, D.C.; a son, Sherman Houston, Texas; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Alton Smalley Rites Monday Funeral services for Alton D. Smalley, 66, Pine Springs, a veteran Paul newspaperman and public, relations counselor, will be at 10 a.m. Mnndav in St. Jude's Catho lic Church, 700 Mahtomedi Mahtomem.

Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery, North St. Paul. Visitation will be from 3 to 5 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at Sandberg mortuary, 2593 7th Av.

North St Paul. Mr. Smalley died Thursday in St. John's Hospital, St of I Violinist to Play Brahms Sonata A "lost sonata" will be among the works played by violinist Isaac Stern in his Masterpiece Series recital at 8:30 p.m. Thursday in Northrop Auditorium.

The sonata, by Johannes Brahms, was originally composed for clarinet and piano. The clarinet part, can be played without change by the viola, and this may have motivated the composer to transcribe the part for violin. The manuscript of the revised arrangement was lost for many years and only recently was discovered. Stern will be making his sixth Artists Course appearance Thursday and most recently was heard there as a member of the Stern-Istomin-Rose Trio last year. Hamline Play Hamline University Theatre will present "Morning's At Seven," by Paul Osborn at 8 p.m.

Wednesday through Saturday at the Drew Fine Arts St. John's Buys Elizabeth I Letter COLLEGEVILLE. Minn. (Special) One of the most important letters of Queen Elizabeth I ever offered for public sale has been acquired by the Alcuin Library at St. John's University.

The letter, signed "Your loving cousin, Elizabeth R(egina)," was written to James Douglas the Earl of Morton, in 1575. Elizabeth had helped Morton defeat Mary Queen of Scots and had made Morton the Regent of Scotland three years previous. MUSIC AT MACALESTER The Rosen String Quartet will play music by Haydn, Bartok and Dvorak at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Wallace Fine Arts Center at Macalester College. The quartet of four Minnesota Orchestra members will make its New York City debut on Mar.

2 at Town Hall. RECITAL SCHEDULED Macalester students Clyde Thompson and James Straka will perform works for two French horns in a recital at 8 p.m. Thursday. AT REDWOOD FALLS REDWOOD FALLS, Minn. The Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski will perform works by Haydn, Debussy and Brahms at 8 p.m.

Monday at the Redwood Falls High School. 4 .4 inmm imii gether too bad that Broadway and its critics gave this very distinguished provincial visitor so churlish a welcome." Robert Kennedy; A primitfv anger I Mathilda HecK, ootn or st. raui Paul, of lung cancer..