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THEATRE MOVIES HIE EVENING SUN PACE a 10 BALTIMORE, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1970 Norton Mockridge It's John Q. Public Vs. Our Uncle Sam I Qom Ok Waters And His "Maniacs1' New York-With that awful, AWFUL deadline day coming up fighter is supposed to take his dive, the other boxer gets delusions of grandeur and he begins to grandstand. By Mary L. Schellen tomorrow, I was talking to a lawyer who.

specializes in han which are on the very light side. Chairman Sorbello is the woman dling tax matters and who "He belts my guy four or five TONIGHT he loves, Lizanne Brazell is the times, real hard, he butts him with his head and then he gets minister's wife, and Billy Shriv- knows more than almost any body about ways to get legitimate tax deductions. Continuing events for this er is the son. him against the ropes and be week appeared in Monday's JOHN WATERS, leading local leaker of underground movies, hired the hall at the First Unitarian Church over the weekend to show his newest production, the promising but ultimate-'v very disappointing ''Multiple Because Waters' last film, Miss Sorbello and Miss Brazell Maniacs" is very smelly, save for a moment here and there when the Waters humor is apparent. And humor he has.

It's just a shame he has chosen to ignore that for the brutality which is not, as he and his audiences may think, a gas. Waters' movies should be as clever as his press releases. They are fun. He's all for getting his clients Evening Sun. give Mr.

Kronold excellent sup Theater "Catch Me If You port, and if young Shriver doesn't do as well, we can put it gins to clobber him. This makes my guy mad as hell and he bounces off the ropes, gives the other guy a very sharp one-two, and knocks him stiff! "Later, of course, he's sorry everything that due them, he told me, but over the years he's had people come to him with ideas for deductions that have all but turned his hair white. Painters Mill Dinner Theater, Owings Mills, 8.30 P.M. "Mondo Trasho," was almost as down to inexperience; this is his first role of any real size, and at the moment may be a bit too much for him, though director he lost his head and won the "The Indian Wants the Bronx" South of Cockeysville road, 8.30 P.M. "The Flip Ridge Dinner Theater, 8.30 P.M.

"The Boys In the Theater, 8 P.M. Special Eventi "An Evening of Atrocious Po-dry" With John Stoneham and Dick Ireland, Room S-3, Mount Royal Station Auditorium, Maryland Institute, 8.30 P.M. Sports Baseball Orioles vs. Washington, Memorial Stadium, 8 P.M. The plot, by the way, features Ladv Divine, proprietress of a sick as it was amusing, I had misgivings about "Maniacs" What frightens him most is that many of these people have talked themselves into believing fight.

But he comes to me and and "The Gnadiges Doug Roberts might improve says: Tiease fix it so 1 can Center Stage Theater, 8.30 P.M. would Waters continue down the perversion show (I think the ear lv scenes were done in Luther- salvage a little something. I things by having Shriver drop the English accent. Miss Sorbel vomitous path he was traveling "0 Mistress Hill Dinner Theater, Sutton ville), who goes mad when her wanna take that thousand as a lo hasn bothered to afect one, Sadly enough, he has. "Man business deduction Place, 8.30 P.M.

COMING-Robert Ryan appears as the mysterious Captain Nemo In "Captain Nemo and the Underwater City." The film fantasy Is coming to area later in the year, and neither should Shriver. It would make things much easier "The Star Spangled Girl" iacs" is not only uglier and more lover picks up with the Harlow type. In the end, out of her mind, she is sexually assaulted by a Limestone Valley Dinner Thea for him and he be all the more To give you an idea of how telephone service is progressing that the ideas are honest and they're ENTITLED to the deductions. "One lady," said my lawyer friend, "wanted me to list her parrot as a dependent. She got indignant when I said no.

she said, 'my parrot is named Daphne Witheringham, same name as mine, and she easily could be listed as my ter, Beaver Dam road, just revolting than "Trasho, it is even more repugnant than "The Conquerer Worm" which, until I plausible. giant lobster (Rosemary's Lobs-j in and around New York, here's TOMORROW the story of a harried lady who "0 Mistress Mine" will at the Bolton Hill through May 3. has suffered in silence too long. "Time and again," she told me, "when I pick up my phone, Lectures "The Savage God: Sylvia saw "Maniacs," was the worst 1 had seen of that school. And, as usual, the audience, mostly young and including at least two couples with very small children in tow (oh, man, the nightmares they must have ter?) which is probably the; funniest scene in the movie.

The religious jokes are also rather good, but they are eventually overdone as is the gore in this film, "Waters' first "talkie." It may also be his first real "sickie." Pickwick Players Plan Workshop The Pickwick Players will of daughter or my niece. It's abso "0 MistrMi Mine" By Tersnc Rattl-tran. Directed by Doug Robert. At the Bolton HiU Dinner Theater through May 3. Olivia Oiarmlan Sorbello Polton i Aibl Cauffman Plath and Contemporary Poet I get no dial tone.

Or maybe 1 get some scratches. Then, when I do get a dial tone, 50 per cent lutely legitimate. I love that parrot more than I would a daughter or a niece, I spend a fortune on her, and, what's most impor fer a Summer Musical Theater Miss Dell Lizanne Brazell Sir John Richard Kronold Michael Billy Shriver Diana lizanne Brawll Miss Christian Annellse Lotthe of the time I get a busy signal or had) laughed most when Waters ry" By A. Alvarez, poet and writer, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, Garrett Room, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University, Workshop for children between.

I get a recorded announcement was at his sickest. A to the effect that: 'The number tant, SHE loves me! She definitely is a member of the When Waters' heroine, played At Bolton you have dialed has not gone the ages of 6 and 12 from June 22 until July 31 at Slayton House, Village of Wilde Lake, Columbia. bv a female Impersonator, mur Homewood campus, 4 family!" through. Please hang up and dered then carved out the heart P.M. Several people have demanded The sessions, which will be MISTRESS MINE," the Terrence Rattigan comedy Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne dial again." "Well, I went through agony that the lawyer list mothers, of her love, the audience thought it terribly amusing, and I don't "Yoga and the Acayra Anyminanda, lecturer, held on Mondays, Wednesdays, fathers and children as depend Letter "MR.

CEDRONE: Tom Jones mentioned that he will be touring the United States this summer. Will he stop in or near Baltimore? If so, how does one get tickets? Mrs. J.W.W." Jones will play the Merri- think the reaction was "new Sherwood Room, Levering Hall, and Fridays between the hours of 1 P.M. and 3.30 P.M., will ents, even though they had died. "Why not?" cried one man.

used as a vehicle for a number of years beginning in 1944, is being revived at the Bolton Hill ous" in any way; these people seem most appreciative when "That so-and-so cost me 10 more Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Theater, 8.30 P.M. Theater "Woman in Love: Two Views," Two one-act plays by August Strindberg and Alfred Kreymborg, sponsored by the Tri-College Theater and the Pratt Library, Pratt's North- wood branch, 8 P.M. "Catch Me If You Mill Dinner Theater, Owings Mills, 8.30 P.M. "The Indian Wants the and "The Gnadiges Stage Theater, 8.30 P.M. "Flip Ridge Dinner Theater, 8.30 P.M.

Mistress Hill Dinner Theater, Sutton Place, 8.30 P.M. "The Star Spangled Girl" Limestone Valley Dinner Theater, 8.30 P.M. "Help Stamp Out Marriage" Garland Dinner Theater, Columbia, 8.30 P.M. "The Boys in the Theater, 2 P.M. and 8 P.M.

offer a curriculum including The Johns Hopkins University, Homewood campus, 8 P.M. "African Journey: An Afro- Dinner Theater where, curiously blood is being spilled and when knives are being plunged into music, creative drama and the other morning dialing a number and getting nothing but a busy signal. It's an office with a big switchboard and I couldn't believe it was likely to be busy FOREVER. So, I dialed the operator to ask for help. "On the third try I got the operator and explained my prob times more than I've ever been permitted to deduct for her.

Why enough, it resurfaces as a rather dance, and art. American Seeks Her Origins" By Mrs. Mary garter Smith, li charming period piece. can 1 1 list her for a few more The areas covered will be Of course, the Bolton Hill peo years 'til it all evens weather Post Pavilion at Co-j lumbia June 22 through 27. You may write the Pavilion, P.O.

Box 937, Columbia, Md. 21043 for make-up, design and execution Many other ruses have been pie have moved the time to the present, but "0 Mistress Mine" of props, sets, masks, costumes, suggested and politely turned bodies is this part of the "new world" they have in mind? The friend with whom I attended the "Maniacs" screening said, when I noted the emphasis on blood, that Waters is putting all this down, in particular the horror film. lem. Will you please verify rather stubbornly remains ticket information. down by the lawyer but the one postures; puppetry; basic elements of musical form, intro whether that number is really I asked.

The operator that really bowled him over "Applause" has "swept" the brarian, Central Pratt Library, 12.30 P.M. Music Piano Recital-Featuring Roosevelt Newson, member of the Peabody Preparatory Department faculty, Peabody Institute, Leakin Hall, 21 East Mount duction to keyboard, rhythmics, came this year. He says: Tony nominations, meaning it told me that SHE couldn't veri thing of the past, an aging drawing room comedy, subdivision English. In 1944 it was regarded as basic principles of vocal music, fy, but that she'd give me the "For some years I've pre I think not. I think Waters and elements of song writing; operator who could.

pared the tax returns for a fairly has been nominated as best musical play, Len Cariou has been nominated for best actor in a musical, Lauren Bacall has enjoys this sort of thing, and I flimsv and worthwhile only if mime, Spolin technique of im well-known boxer. But I think "In time another operator the Lunts were in it. Twenty-six provisation, creative playwnt came on and she said: I years later it is still very light ing, ethnic dance forms, basic Vernon place, 5.30 P.M. Concert Featuring Brian Priestman conducting the Balti am very sorry he has chosen to build his epics on it. He does, of course, beat the critic to the typewriter by calling his films been nominated for best actress in a musical, Bonnie Franklin I've come to the end of the road.

This year he came to me with a story about how he'd been hurting for money, and so he'd decided to take a dive in a club explained my problem again, and asked her to verify the num ber. weight and the attitudes almost hopelessly dated, but these con principles of music theater movement, and fundamental for best supporting actress, Pen "trash epics," but the fact re ny Fuller for the same, Ron 'Oh, I can't verify she AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS mains that he has some wit and Field for best director of a musi fight in which he was the heavy said. cessions made, the play is a rather pleasant one primarily because the Bolton Hill management was fortunate enough to kinethestics. Spree Is Premature Bangkok, Thailand (Reuters) could probably do intelligent sat favorite. cal and Brandon Maggert for best supporting actor.

The last is "He bet $1,000 on his opponent 'The other operator told me that you were the operator who COULD verify I said. 'Aren't ire if he chose. You don't, however, parody a puzzle. Maggert, when the Textile merchant Sam Ang and, by losing, stood to win IF YOU MISS THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES, YOU MISS ONE EXECUTIONS, ONE SEDUCTION, AND THE KEY TO THE PLOT. obtain Richard Kronold for the lead.

show was at the Mechanic, was gave away all the goods in his about $5,000 or $6,000. He was so you the verification slit trench by diving into it. Waters has and took his audiences one of the weakest things in it, He plays a cabinet minister, shop and went on a spending spree when he was told he had with him, and if most of them didn't seem to mind, I did. He did improve as the show went along, but did he improve 'Yes, I said the oper-tor. "'Well, I said, 'why can't you verify the ill separated from his wife and in love with the mistress he is keeping in a style she prefers, pleased with the idea he spent half the dough even before the fight.

"Well, he and the other fighter climb into the ring and go to it. All works well for three rounds and then in the fourth, when my Jn truth, there are some very funnv bits in "Multiple Man and things go nicely until her enough to win the nomination? The Tony Awards will be telecast April 19 at 10 P.M. on won $24,000 in a government lottery. Later he discovered he had been the victim of a misprint in the results and had won nothing. said the operator.

iacs," beginning with the Jean son, sent ott to school at the age 'My verification equipment is out of of 12, returns home almost six Channel 11. Don't trust Harlow type who pleads with Lady Divine's lover to allow her to "perform acts" with him, but the. funniest thing about this AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS years older. He's a spoiled, bloody bore and why a mother who hasn't bothered to see her son in six young woman and almost all the members of the Waters stock years would care what he thinks in company is their accents. about her arrangement, is one of Heavily Baltimorese, they those you have to accept, now just as in 1944 when it seemed give the proceedings a tone I don't think Waters is aware of; I inhfj Lttf just as silly, Mr.

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