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i 10 Section 3 CHICAGO TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 1968 CHICAGO ENTERTAINMENT CALENDAR Pulitzer Award a Disquieting Omen THEATER Continuing "Mame." musical comedy based on "Auntie Mame," with Celeste Holm, begins 22d week at the Shubert. i "Showdown at Credibility Gap," original revue, begins eighth week at the Second City. "Yon Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Rnnnlng," with Eddie Bracken, begins second week at the Blackstone. Coming "Songs of the New Renaissance," Chad Mitchell's one-man show, to the Happy Medium, June 10 for six weeks. "The Lion in Winter," opening of the second season at Academy playhouse, Wilmette, June 12 thru June 30.

Outlying Candlelight Dinner playhouse, Summit. "The Teahouse, of the August Moon" continues thru July 28. I Country Club theater. Mount Prospect. "Luv" closes next Sunday.

"The Paisley Convertible" opens June 12. Drury Lane theater. Evergreen Park. Forrest Tucker in "A Thousand Clowns" continues thru June 23. The Auditorium Gets -New Cooling System Hull house theater.

"Electra," by Sophocles, continues thru July 21 at the Jane Addams center, 3212 Broadway. "The Boy Friend" continues thru July 14 at tbe Lerner theater, 4520 Beacon st. "Viet Rock," a war satire, continues thru July 7 at the Parkway theater, 511 E. 67th st. All performances Friday thru Sunday.

In the Round Dinner playhouse, Archer and Mayfield avenues. "Oklahoma!" continues thru June 16. Ivanhoe theater, 3000 N. Clark st. Arlene Francis in "Kind Sir" continues thru June 16.

Mill Run playhouse, Niles. "Barefoot in the Park," with Ann Sothern and Tab Hunter, closes tonight. "Tom Jones," with James Darren, Gigi Perreau, Reginald Gardiner, and Pippa Scott, opens Tuesday to run thru June 23. Pheasant Run playhouse, St. "Picnic," with Ron Ely, continues thru June 16.

Shady Lane Farm playhouse, three miles west of Marengo. "A Thousand Clowns" continues thru next Sunday. CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Ravinia festival. Opens in the park on the north shore Thursday, June 27, for the summer season of concerts, ballet, drama, and light music. GRANT PARK CONCERTS The free concerts open in the band shell on the lake front Saturday, June 29, with concerts Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, thru Aug.

25.. CONCERTS Chicage Chamber orchestra, Dieter Kober, conductor. Museum of Science and Industry. Today at 3:30. Ronald pianist.

Orchestra hall. Next Sunday at 3:30. Continued frdm page 97 viously three won twice, and three years produced no winner shows no work remotely comparable to "Echoes." Most of the composers were considerably older than Mr. Crumb's 39 years when they were nominated, and their names were, with one or two exceptions, known to most of the American musical community. Six of the works were symphonies Hanson's Fourth, Ives' Third, Piston's Third, Gail Kubik's Symphony Con-certante, Toch's Third, Piston's Seventh.

Five were operas Menotti's "The Consul" and "The Saint of Bleeker Street," Moore's "Giants in the Earth," Barber's a Robert Ward's "The Crucible. Three were piano concertos Quincy Porter's for Two Pianos, John LaMontaine's and Samuel Barber's and two were string quartets Carter's Second and Leon Kirchner's Third. The others were Copland's "Appalachian Spring," Virgil Thomson's film score for "Louisiana Story," Leo Sowerby's "The Canticle t)f the Sun," Norman Dello Joio's "Meditations on Ec-clesiastes," and Leslie Bas-sett's Variations for Orchestra. It is a remarkably heterogeneous group, reflecting both the ease with which nominations can be made for the award and the willingness of the newspaper editors who form the advisory board to accept a jury's view. Some of the compositions have had careers which justify their Score of Crumb' "Echoes of Time and the River" would Beethoven approve? selection as "distinguished musical compositions in the larger forms." Others have dropped from sight.

For the complete rundown, the reader is referred to Lewis A. Harlow's article in the April 27 Saturday Review. But there is one common denominator shared by all previous winners. They stick to established and establishment categories. Even Mr.

Kirchner's Third String Quar tetlast year's winner uses its tape recorded voice as an integral part of the musical patterning. Randomization, improvisation, and concert hall theatrics so much a part of the modern musical scene are conspicuously absent. Our discontented violinist perhaps would not have liked all the past Pulitzer award works, but he would not have objected to them as silly wastes of time. i 11 TL Pvp Pippa Scott as Jenny Jones head the four-star cast of "Tom Jones" at Mill Run playhouse from Tuesday thru June 23. The comedy is an adaptation by David Rogers from the Fielding novel on which the popular motion picture also was based.

The play is set in 18th century England. The supporting cast includes Bill Morey, Roger Barrett, Lillian Evans, Jane McDonough, Bob Lanfield, Jack Reidy, Jack Horner, Del Yarnell, Jean Webster, Vicki Kaywood, and Roger Barron. Morey, Barrett, Lanfield and Miss McDonough are repeating roles they played in "Tom Jones" at Pheasant Run Playhouse. Jane Russell will star at Mill Run in the comedy, "Here Today," June 25 thru July 14. Hermione Gingold, English comedienne, will star in "Dear Charles" at Pheasant Run playhouse July 9 thru July 28 The current show, "Picnic, starring Ron Ely, will be followed by Stefanie Powers in "Sabrina Fair," June 18 hru July 7.

Concerts and Recitals t. Lee Bouvier Molly Picon George Gobel No one can take awards very seriously today. At best, they are sociological documents of the changing times and values. At worst, they are repugnant results of political infighting and downright chicanery. But they do tell us about our world, whether we like it or not.

The selection of Mr. Crumb's "Echoes of Time and the River" has a contradictory message. On the one hand, it speaks of needed flexibility and change, of willingness to experiment, and of the interesting possibilities inherent in the unusual and unconventional. On the other hand, it suggests that a sizable and influential jury has declared it could not find or should not choose any opera, symphony, ballet, or choral work in which skilled most professionals could understand what they, and the music, were about. But if this last statement reflects the true state of events, then meaningful communication between today's serious composers and almost all the concert hall public has ceased.

And if this is true, then we are indeed, as my intermission friend stated, ready to make our symphonies museums. It is a disquieting omen. THE Auditorium has in operation a newly-completed air conditioning system, a major step in the restoration of the theater, which opened in 1889 and then reopened Oct. 31, 1967 after a 20-year hiatus. The 450 tons of air conditioning has been installed in the Auditorium's original air distribution system which, tho 80 years old, was found to be adequate to accommodate modern equipment and serve present day comfort requirements.

The 1889 version of the theater's air conditioning-believed to be the first commercial system of its kind put into use in Chicago used large blocks of ice placed at the bottom of a 10-story-high air-intake shaft adjacent to the stage area. As the warm outside air was drawn over these it was cooled and drawn into the building. The quantity of air that was drawn into the building or recirculated was controled by large wooden doors placed in openings in the air chambers. How far they were opened depended on the judgment of the building engineer who roamed thru the theater during a performance. Today's building engineer has only to look at a panel which registers the air temperature in all parts of the building, and the large wooden doors have been replaced with thermostatically controlled dampers.

The blocks of ice have been replaced by a bank of cooling coils which not only cool the air but also remove humidity from it James Darren, Gigi Per-reau, Reginald Gardiner, and 1967-68 a Lackluster Season in the Theater "Aleko," with Simon Estes as soloist, Melissa Hayden and Jacques d'Amboise dancing Tschaikowsky Suites and Mr. 'A mboise's choreography, and the Symphonic Interludes from Shostakovich's "Katerina Ismailova." Next 's Parisian program brings the pantomimist, Claude Kipnis, for Dukas' "Sorcerer's Apprentice" and Milhaud's "Le Boeuf sur le Toit." David Low, a -cellist on the faculty of Chicago State college, concludes the school's concert lecture series with a recital Wednesday morning at 10:25 in the auditorium at 6800 S. Stewart av. Schumann, Sammartini, and Shostakovich are Memory of Mozart," are also programmed. Jean choral composer, will conduct the North western University chamber singers in the premiere of his cantata, "A Song of Seasons," at 1 o'clock Tuesday in Northwestern University's Lutkin hall.

The New York Philharmonic is in the midst of its "Promenades" a Lincoln Center, and Andre Kostelan-etz's program choices are as usual far from the expected fare. This Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, are Russian nights and offer, among other selections, excerpts from Rachmaninoff's opera, RONALD TURINI, Canadian pianist, returns in recital at 3:30 next Sunday afternoon in Orchestra hall with a program reminiscent of an earlier day. Included are two Bach Chorale-Preludes transcribed by Busoni, Mozart's Sonata in B-flat major, K. 570; Prokofieffs Sixth Sonata, book one of Debussy's "Images," and an etude and two preludes by Rachmaninoff, and a Liszt duo made up of the Sonetto del Petrarca, No. 123, and the Trancendental Etude in minor.

Mr. Turini, who has studied with Vladimir Horowitz, first appeared in Orchestra hall in 1961. He has also appeared as a Grant Park soloist. Steve A i and Bill Crofut, who play a variety of instruments including French horn, Vietnamese van tranh, and recorder as accompani- Continued from page 9 for five, "The Homecoming for six, "The Killing of Sister George" for five, and "The Impossible Years" for one. Looking that lineup over carefully, one is forced to the conclusion that qualitatively this was not one of the Loop's better seasons.

these days JUNE 4 one week only 2 shows nitely and Dancing to Peter Palmer's Orchestra Outside the Loop, there was good news and bad. The 5econd City Repertory compare, at the Harper, missed the boat with Norman Mailer's "Tke Deer Park" and Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard." The Academy playhouse, in the auditorium of Loyola academy at Wilmette, made its bow with an exciting season that included Peter Shaffer's "The Private Ear" and "The Public Eye," Eugene Ionesco's "Rhinoceros," and William Alfred's "Hogan's Goat." Lee Bouvier made her stage debut in "The Philadelphia Story" at the Ivanhoe, and it where does one jo to enjoy dancing (and fun) AMUSEMENTS COLLEGE INN Sherman House FR 2-2100 Comedian Allan Drake opens in the College Inn of the Sherman House Tuesday with the Checkmates, and continues the following week with the Fifth Dimensions. was mentioned that she is the sister of Jacqueline Kennedy. Does anybody remember who was her leading man? John Ericson. She was followed on Wellington avenue by another star who can't act, Zsa Zsa Gabor in "Blithe Spirit." "Barefoot in the Park" and "Generation" each played four of the outlying theaters.

"The Odd Couple" played three. No one can accuse the suburban producers of being overburdened with imagination or daring, altho Bill Pullinsi of Candlelight Dinner playhouse does deserve credit for a splendid production of a rotten play, "Mac-bird." The Goodman, as usual, had strong shows and weak ones, with Bramwell Fletcher in Moliere's "The Miser," Delphi Lawrence and Jay Lanin in Jean Genet's "The Balcony," Murray Matheson in "Caesar and Cleopatra," James Earl Jones and Len Cariou in "Othello," Terry Lomax in Bertolt Brecht's "A Man's A Man," and Hiram Sherman in Georges Fey-deau's "A Flea In Her Ear." It also presented a reading by players from the Vienna Burgtheater of "Der Junge Goethe," and Bramwell Fletcher in his one-man show, "The Bernard Shaw Story." The town gained one new theater building and regained another, in addition to finding the Auditorium restored to the list of possible play-sites. Second City, chased from its second home, opened a third, a few blocks south on Wells street. The Mill Run playhouse in Niles, dark for nearly two and a half years, was reopened in April by Carl Stohn proprietor of Pheasant Run playhouse near St. Charles.

In all, it was just another season. We aren't listening to any false promises these days, but only because no one is promising us anything. It's a lackluster time, in the professional theater in Chicago. AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS the CHECKMATES American humor of allan drake LAST FEW PERFORMANCES: ALLEN ROSSI CAROLYN DAYE in person BILLY ECI'iSTINE Ittetxa Janet Evans 1 Sunday, June 16th 8:30 P.M. ONE SHOW AUDITORIUM THEATRE Concrtss It Miohifan 3 brings lut-eioui beauV 1 1 ond warmth of talent in her Chicago's First Hevada Style Show Lounge i "A COCKTAIL.

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