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The Shreveport Times Monday, Feb. 17, 1875 7-B Prussian Approach An En tertainins Movie That Intriguing Word Game with a Chuckle Edited by ClAV It. POUAN Argentine Ensemble Has Clockwork Style Murder on Orient Express Has Old-Fasliioned Flavor A Rearrange letters of the "four scrambled wordi below to form four simple words A 0 I 1 IS I 1 1 i LA FRO I I 13 0 GEO IS I I I used to wonder why worn-en did so much crying at weddings. Then I took a better look at some of the j. SLAAVS I I I I Connery, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Rachel Roberts, Michael York, Colin Blakely and Denis Quilley.

The performances by Gielgud (a butler), Miss Hiller (an elderly Russian noblewoman and Miss Bergman (a Swedish missionary) are especially treasurable, but the others are strong too. Other big names in the cast are Martin Balsam, as the head of the train line, and Richard Widmark, as the murder victim. Tony Walton's costumes and the carefully recreated Orient Express train add period charm to the film, and the old Hollywood, quasi symphonic musical score of Richard Rodney Bennett has a splendor that few contemporary film scores can match. caused delay to quiz the suspects and solve the murder Along the way, however, what seemed like a simple murder turns into a complex crime, and the stories of the suspects turn up some startling facts. Good performances are turned in by a bevy of stars, almost all of whom are noted more for their class and sophistication than for their physical attributes or box office appeal.

Albert Finney, with waxed mustache and slicked dowi hair, is delightfully eccentric as Poirot, the elegrfitly blustery Belgian. At times the portrayal borders on caricature, but is effective nonetheless. Suspected of )he murder are Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean Pierre Cassel, Sean you NUMBERED LETTERS IN THESE SQUARES A UNSCRAMBLE ABOVE LETTERS TO GET ANSWER Antiwar Play Just Right For Eileen PRINCETON. N.J (API Now that it has happened, casting Eileen Heckart in "Mother Courage" was probably not only theatrically inevitable but imperative. Miss Heckart, an award-winning expert at depicting all sorts of distaff distress, certainly faces one of -the biggest challenges of her career in the Bertolt Brecht antiwar solemnity which premiered this weekend at the McCarter Theater.

Brecht deliberately sought to sever the usual tie of emotional sympathy between performer and spectator. And Miss Heckart is just as well known for her ability to pull at heartstrings. The actress-author confrontation, to the great credit of director Michael Kahn's adroit concept, has been skillfully resolved. Miss Heckart is in brilliant technical fettle, together with a good many members of the surrounding cast. Mother Courage, trudging with her canteen wagon relentlessly across Europe with the armies of 17th century conflict, the Thirty Years War, is Brecht's bitter representation of those who profit from battle no matter at what personal cost.

One by one, she sees her three children killed, yet moans aloud only when peace ruins her business. Her fellow travelers in the drama's deliberately disunited scenes are companion cynics all, from priest to cook. The Heckart ability to remain within the Brecht austerity and even intensify it with a hint of internal suffering is typified by the silent scream that fills the stage, like a movie closeup, after she refuses to identify one son's corpse, the price of her own continued freedom. in the form of the Italian sin-fonia three movements, fast-slow-fast and was performed with a winning directness and brio. After intermission came "Overture to a Children's Comedy," a piece by one of Calderon's mentors, Argentine composer Luis Gianneo.

The work, scored for wind and percussion only, was a very accessible one in a neoclassic style, a perky moto per pet uo with some pungent dissonances. There was no trace, surprisingly, of Latin harmonies or rhythms. The performance was a delight. The program proper closed with one of music's monumental masterpieces, Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony. It got a straightforward performance where all the lines were clearly delineated without sacrificing any grandeur.

One could have wished for a bit more soul in the slow movement, but that would have gone against Calderon's interpretive grain. As an encore, the 6rchestra zipped through the fastest rendition imaginable of Mozart's Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro." The precision and articulation were fantastic, and the audience called Maestro Calderon back for several bows. It's funny how Germanic the Argentine orchestra sounded. The string tone was weighty and had so much bite that it often sounded coarse. The oboe tone dark and plummy, with a wide vibrato was classically German.

The number of German names on the personnel roster may explain the teutonic tonal qualities. The next Community Concert (March 12) will feature pianist Hans Richter-Haaser. nmnnnnmnrs sum SC RAM-LETS ANSWERS SWOOHO jo auios ooi jsnjsq 3(oo i uauj, sSurppaiW SuiXjo qontu os pip uauioM jtqM japuoM pasn u-l SWOOXD inssiA 9009 tuou oivsoj First -Rate Concert Olivia Newton-John Charms Audience MONDAY NIGHT FUSSBALL P.M. Weekly Elimination Game Leading to Championship Tournaments in the "World Fussball Players League" Winners Get Telephone for Details: 221-2527 610 Marshall Street Downtown FILM RATING GUIDE For Parents and Their Children By Mark MpIsoti Times Amusements Editor In many ways "Murder On the Orient Express," which opened Friday at Quail Creek Cinema, is an old fashioned movie, and that's just fine. For the very qualities which make it old fashioned its elegance, lack of pretension, cerebral approach, and good taste are the qualities which make it an entertaining, carefully -wrought film.

"Murder On the Orient Express" is based on the book by Agatha Christie, the Charles Dickens of Whodunits. It has the usual ingredients for such fare a heinous crime (two, actually), a bevy of colorful suspects (all with motives and all with alibis), an eccentric but brilliant mystery solver (the legendary Hercule Poirot) and an ingeniously worked out denouement. Director Sidney Lumet, though handicapped by action which is rather static and locales which are confined what's more confined than a train stranded in snowy countryside?) builds tension masterfully, letting viewers know only enough to guess (and guess wrong, as you'll discover) at the killer's identity. The story seems classically simple: a wealthy man, purporting to be a retired American businessman, is murdered on the Orient Express, the fabled train that linked Istanbul with Western Europe during the years between the world wars. One of the passengers is the detective Poirot, who uses the time gained by an avalanche Downtown Shreveport inn, tiiyiTit CONVENIENT LOCATIONS 3100 VOUREE DRIVE Ph.l H48 1178 HAl AWN AVENUE I Ph.

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Remarking jokingly that she was going to demonstrate her musical versatility, Olivia produced a tambourine and called for the audience to help her sing "The River's Too Wide," The house lights came up at her insistance that she wanted to see the crowd, and at first, the audience was reluctant to participate; however, after several appeals they were pursuaded to sing along. a moving song written by Ms. Newton -John, was commendably performed. It was composed "for a friend" and dealt with what to tell a child about the separation of his parents. Her delivery captured the certainly tearful situation.

She closed with another of her hits, "I Love You." We did too, Olivia. RESTAURANT, BAR ANTIQUES MONDAY NIGHT Beer Roiled Shrimp All You Can Eat $3.50 Potato and Salad Bar Included kimikt xKksn.M.h mu 9 mm GENERAL AUDIENCES All Ages Admitted 33 PARENTAL GUIDANCE SUGGESTED Soms Material May Not Be Suitable For Pre-Taenagero "'4 RESTRICTED requires accompanying or Adult Guardian PG NO ONE (Age limit Under 17 Parent fgPG 12:10 2:33 7:15 9:45 ll rrraro AV 'irlj'V' nIl matinee rirtWv5l. it 1 'I EVERYDAY I WmiER THE RmKJT JJ MOTION fICTUAl ASSOCIATION Of AMIHICA. PrinMd pubMa tarvlc by Jhm Mirvwpon TtmMy, Lr JJ 1 Nanking RESTAURANT' By Mark Melson Times Amusements Editor The Shreveport Community Concert Association brought (he Festival Orchestra of Buenos Aires to Shreveport's Civic Theater Friday night, and the program went off like I clockwork. And that was a shame.

For the 33-Diece Areentine fnsemble is an impressive one, with hair trigger precision and a dark, hefty tone. Conductor Pedro I. Calderon whipped them hrough a conservative program with great podium i (lair, an impressive stick technique, and a penchant for Very fast tempos. i But, though the speed and orchestral discipline were ad-i fnirable, and often exciting, maestro Calderon and his for-! fces had one major inter-I pretive shortcoming the Inability to relax and sing. This shortcoming was most obvious in the longest work pn the program, Tchaikov-i sky's popular Serenade for Strings.

The Serenade is a melodious, singing work, full of good tunes and lots of sentiment. It is an oft-recorded work, usually by big, lush String sections from the major orchestras. The Tchaikovsky Serenade is not unfit for chamber ensembles in fact, it gains in textural clarity and rhythmic definition when played by an "orchestra too small to swamp "Tt in sonorous goo. But Calderon conducted the work fin an unsmiling, mechanical that stripped it of its Charm and elegance. That Prussian approach was most damaging in the long, third-movement elegie, 'normally one of the most beautiful moments in all of Tchaikovsky's works.

Even the few attempts at Rubato were done with cold calculation. The conductor's metronomic approach did not change for the other works on the program, but they were more congenial to Calderon's style. the Tchaikovsky was the evening's opening york, the little-known Overture to "L'lnfedelta Delusa" by Haydn. The overture was today's Amusement Calendar MOVIES Broadmoor Ricco," with "Mr. Dean Martin, (PG) Dnn "Franken- Cf stein," (X) CaprJ "The Towering Inferno," (PG) Shreve City Cinema "Godfather II," (R) Joy Cinema 6 "Earthquake" (PG) "Blazing Saddles," (R) "The Longest Yard," (R) "Airport 1975," (PG) "Gone With the Wind," (PG) "Moon Runners, 3 (PG) Quail Creek Cinema "Murder On The Orient Express," (PG) "The Front Page," (PG) Strand "T.N.T.

Jackson," (R) Showntown North "Conrack" and "Cinderella Liberty," (R) Showtown South "Tender Loving Care" and "Private Duty Nurses," (R) Don Drive In "Girls In Trouble" and "Models," (R) I I i "A 1 I i ART R. S. Barnwell Center Exhibition of 25 Rajasthani Temple hangings from the Krishna Cult. State Exhibit Museum Exhibit by Tyler Art League. Centenary College Library Early views of Vieux Carre by William Woodward.

LSU Shreveport Art Gallery Louisiana Tech Advertising Club exhibits renderings of letterings and layouts, Liberal Arte Building, Room 336. LSU Shreveport Library Collection of paintings by Leah K. Lerner. Highway 1 South. Louisiana Bank and Trust Exhibit of works by Natchitoches Parish primitive painter Clementine Hunter.

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Newton-John and Dave Loggins (not to be confused with Kenny Loggins of the group Loggins and Messina), according to a State Fair official. Loggins opened the concert. He and his two accompanying musicians proved all first -act performers do not have to be substandard. Country and Western music influenced Loggins' music. This was particularly true in "Goodby Miss Sadness," all you girls that have been doin' It had a distinct resemblance to the Allman Brothers' style blues.

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