The Baltimore Sun from Baltimore, Maryland • 13

Theater Films Music Television Art Comics TEE Baltimore, Friday, April 20, 1973 Bl Richard Franko Goldman found 0 SUN a good school that a little shaking up needed magazines during the 1930's. He had played tennis with Ezra Pound during expatriate days in Italy and becamean expert on Portuguese architecture and language during a residence in that country. His father had founded a concert band in New York, a business which still flourishes during the slimmer months, so his own background included fluency in the musical language and livelihood. He served on the faculty of the Juilliard Srhnol nf Mnsir frnm 1947 in IQfid and I v' so many professional schools today Is finding jobs. An awful lot of our gradu-.

ates are in various symphony orchestras, including six to eight in the Baltimore Symphony. "String players are still scarce, so a good cellist, for example, will have no problem getting a job. With pianists and singers, it's much harder." Mr. Goldman, an urbane, highly civi-lized man with impressive intellectual credentials, talked somewhat nervously with a smile which occasionally flashed, but seldom lingered. He chain-smoked during the conversation and his hands occasionally trembled.

It has been a long, circuitous route for this native New Yorker to the leadership of one of major cutural institutions. He had studied art and archaeology at Columbia University, beginning, while a freshman, a friendship with Jacques Barzun, then a senior, which has endured to the present. Mr. Barzun is now a Peabody trustee. "There can be intelligence without intellect; there can even be usually those spoiled by who decidedly lack intellect," wrote Mr.

Goldman in an essay lauding Mr. Barzun in "The American Scholar." 'Highest level' "What Barzun insists on is that civilization depends on a tradition of learning, on the ability to recognize allusions and references to our common heritage (now so often and so easily rejected, if ever known) of art, literature, scientific thought and the various accomplishments of the human mind that lie behind our present being. He is, in short, pleading the value of liberal, historical and humanistic education on its highest potential level." -What a man admires in others Is often a reflection of his own tastes. Add Mr. Goldman's admiration of Mr.

Barzun to a feeling for the1 delicacy and decency of language combined with appreciation for genuine eloquence and you get the out- lines of a sensibility, "if, Mr. Goldman was a free-lance writer out adventure stories for pulp 4. has been a visiting professor at Princeton, Columbia and New York Universities. When the opportunity arose to head the Peabody, he was contemplating a life. of retirement in London, but has since become a latter-day Baltimorean.

The pace and amiability: of the city fits him and he compares it favorably with the tensions which seem to increase every year in his native New York. Takes 50 years He recalled with" humor telling a friend, in Philadelphia that it took SO years to be accepted in Baltimore. The friend replied, "My God, have they speeded it up?" But he feels comfortable now in this city and frequently lunches with the heads of other cultural institutions, which are connected closely through interlocking boards of trustees, Mr. Goldman will be 63 years old this year and imagines that he may retire' in Baltimore, perhaps even serve as curator of the Peabody's art collection, which he has just finished cataloguing. Suggestions that the Peabody may not be committed to excellence bring a-vehement denial from its president.

His supporters claim that he has brought needed financial order; expanded the-institution's connections with to the community and revamped its musical conceptions to include formerly neglected areas of contemporary music i The next article mil examine me ffeabody from jthe perspective of a man who" has studied and taught there since. 1914 Louis Cheslock. and the question of what it was all about still unanswered. Scenes generally fall into two categth ries: conspiratorial sessions, with agents discussing obscure matters in cryptic fashion, and chase sequences. The latter' are sometimes by way of automobiles, speeding through streets or by foot, in.

and out and up and down buildings. And, since almost any chase, however hackneyed the presentation, is usually exciting, the film does at times generate -some measure of suspense. But such emotional outlay should -have a reason. Thus one feels doubly' cheated at the end. on the Pcabody: "Results are the best proof of quality" sumwpers nhoto-oearw h.

coot By EARL ARNETT "Peabody is a healthy institution," said Richard Franko Goldman in his. third-floor office at 609 North Charles street. "It's always had a good reputation. "When I came here in September, 1968, I found a good school that needed a little bit of shaking up, not really as far as the faculty is concerned, but on the staffing side. Fortunately since some people resigned, I didn't have to fire anybody.

The business office was inefficient and the morale-was not terribly high. "But Charles Pettus has done a staggering job in administration, establishing accounting and other business standards now imitated by other schools across '1he country. I think morale is very good now." Mr. Goldman was in his capacity as president of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, first opened its doors to 150 students in 1868. Over 100 years later, the institution lists 431 students for the present academic year; i 193 Maryland, 217 from other states and 21 foreign 248 undergraduates, 110 graduate students, 66 special students and 7 working for certificate and artist ') "There are eight independent-conservatories in the United States, nine if you include Curtis Institute, which is so richly endowed it really can't be compared with the other eight.

Of course, there's competition for students, but our applications for admission have tripled. We really can't admit more students. Some in trouble "We have financial but there are no worries about Peabody 's survival. Some schools like New England Conservatory, for example, are in real trouble. Our annual giving keeps going up and a little light's beginning to' show.

I "Results are the best proof of quality and we turn out a high-quality product indeed. We think we turn out the best teachers anywhere. The problem as with but doesn caster and Scofield as two middle-aged men, one American, one Russian, who met during the Spanish Civil War and whose friendship, based on a mutual aversion to facism, has not been weakened by their subsequent involvement with the espionage organizations of their respective countries. The film begins with a VIA-backed assassination of a Middle-East politician. Lancaster, the agent in charge of the employs Alain Delon, a French expert in such matters known as Scorpio, to do the job.

It is not until the two have returned together to Washington that one discovers that part of the assign melon; but the slices of honeydew were, juicy and flavorful, draped with thin slices of mildly spicy Italian ham arranged on Romaine lettuce and garnished with parsley. Creamy chowder The Manhattan clam chowder is full of clams and creamier than usual-more like a hybrid of New England and Manhattan chowders. Order the cup rather than the bowl, unless you want a filling first course. The herring with sour cream was a success, too: chunks of herring in unusually fresh sour cream served with, onions and lemon slices. The other choices for a first course the night we were there were shimp or crab cocktail and chopped chicken livers.

Our salads came next and they looked belter than they tasted. They were mysteriously served on warm plates, which doesn't do much for a salad's crispness especially if it's made of iceberg lettuce. If you believe that a tossed salad should consist of more than lettuce, these salads should please you: there were cherry tomatoes, grated carrots, cucumbers, and red cabbage mixed in with the limp iceberg. For some reason, the waitress adds the salad dressings at the table (they 'Scorpio' suspenseful, make sense Goldman By R. H.

GARDNER I can't imagine what gets into people engaged in the production of thrillers that periodically results in films of utter incomprehensibility. After all, the creation of almost any feature-length film requires a multimillion-dollar investment, not to mention weeks and weeks of preparation writing, designing, casting, rehearsing, traveling, shooting, editing, recording, etc. And, view of all this, to come up with something nonsensical can hardly be attributed to sloppiness. Is it a conspiracy by which those in Eater's digest is key at Seton's By ELIZABETH LARGE Decor Habit ment, given Scorpio by CIA chief John Colicos, was to kill Lancaster, too. A long associate and admirer of Lancaster, Scorpio disobeys the order be; cause he is not convinced that the other is, as Colicos insists, a double agent.

Later, while pursuing him throughout Europe, Lancaster having placed himself under the protection of Scofield in the meantime, Scorpio entertains the same doubts so much so that, when Lancaster's wife is accidentally killed by the CIA, he abandons the quest and returns home. The film ends' with everybody dead taste bottled and there's no house dressing). It isn't very interesting to watch, since she's just scooping them out of one of those three-bowl dishes. I felt like saying I wanted to serve myself. All in all, the side dishes could be improved at Seton's Habit.

The choice of vegetables is a baked potato, which is fine if you've ordered beef, but not so fine if you've ordered what" you hope will be a delicate veal dish. They do offer what they call an "extra vegetable" but it can't be sub stituted for the potato. That evening it was baby white asparagus in a special sauce. But we passed it up because the waitress was so vague she was charm- -ing, but vague throughout the meal-about what the special sauce was. Good, but greasy With my baked potato and warm salad, I had chicken ipavolo: a breast, thigh, and leg of chicken sauteed with onions, mushrooms, and green peppers.

I like meat cooked with green pepper, so I was prepared to be receptive to this dish. "I would rate it as good, but greasy it was well-seasoned, but tasted as though it had been on the back of the stove all day. Two of my friends ordered veal dishes promised to be markedly different: veal In a wine sauce, and -See SETO.N, B3, Col. 1 control express their underlying misanthropy? Or does the staff somewhere along the line become so fed up with what they're doing that they simply say "To hell with it! Let somebody else figure it out?" Whatever the reason, every so often a "Kremlin Letter" or a "Shamus" pops up to confound patrons of this particular genre. The latest is "Scorpio," now appearing at four local theaters.

It is hard to understand how actors as discriminating as Burt Lancaster and Paul Scofield could have gotten mixed up with "Scorpio" to begin with, since, even with a good script, it wouldn't Seton's Habit, 610 North Eutaw street. Open Tuesday through Saturday for lunch and dinner, closed Sunday and Monday. Baltimore has a respectable number of restaurants that serve good food in uninspired surroundings, but few that try for anything unusual in their decor. Seton's Habit at 610 North Eutaw street is one of the exceptions. The restaurant is located above an equally intriguing bar (which the owners of Seton's Habit run) called No Fish Today.

It's easy to miss the small sign for Seton's Habit and hard to believe that you actually go up the unsteady iron steps on the side, above the garbage cans, to get to a restaurant. Warm atmosphere The interior of Seton's Habit is as pleasing as the outside is uninviting. You step into a small bar with a dining-room almost as small to the left. The subdued lighting, brick walls and wooden rafters help create a warm, intimate atmosphere; but the first thing you'll notice is the strong ecclesiastical theme of the restaurant. The owners got many of the decorative touches from an abandoned church, our waitress told us.

The booths have pews for benches, for Instance, and the maitre'd. works from a lectern. Thera are atained-glass windows, reli- have amounted to much, being a cliche treatment of an idea that has been used to better advantage countless times before. The essence of this idea-is that espionage is a dirty business and that, more than preserving the security of their countries, heads of spy organizations are concerned with keeping themselves in positions of power. They will, therefore, not hesitate to condone wholesale murder, if necessary, and our own CIA, according to the rationale, is as guilty in this respect as its opponents in Europe and Asia.

Gerald Wilson's screenplay casts Lan gious statues and other church artifacts. While it sounds pretty awful, the general effect is pleasing; there's nothing fhat would shock a serious churchgoer. Up a rickety, wrought-iron spiral staircase in the center of the room is another small dining room. We watched (with great admiration) as waitresses nimbly carried trays up and down those steps. Religious-hippie Everyone connected with the restaurant is young, friendly and casual.

The waitresses are dressed in slacks and blouses; and the general effect of Seton's Habit is religious-hippie, a sort of "Alice's Restaurant" flavor. On the other hand, the tables are set with stemware and fresh linen, so we weren't surprised that the entrees fall into the $6 range. The handwritten menu isn't extensive and there's nothing unusual offered, but you should have no trouble finding something that appeals to you. Do have the hors d'oeuvres, since they were the high point of the meal for us. Not only were they delicious, but they were attractively put together.

One of us had a weak whisky sour (needless to say he hadn't ordered it that way), while the other three sampled the first courses. I ordered melon with proscjutto a little hesitantly, since it's early for tw yi mart i -i ninifj..