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"ST S'- in Survival Skills 1 i Restaurant CI aiiu.w Become Course 7 PART IV TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1973 A M- CRITIC AT LARGE Calling Again on 'Romeo, Juliet' A i -'If A) cv- 'fj 0 tyxs BY LOIS DWAN Tim Staff Writar Success Trends of the 10s," was the chosen, by the Southern California Restaurant for the 1973 RestaurantHotelMotel Exposition, the largest regional show of its kind; continuing through today at the Convention Center for the members of industry convening from; eight Western states. v. By the time the show opened, however Survival "Technique's" 'might' have been a more apprb-priate the problems with beef and'prices. One of the more popular exhibits was a new; method for" changing prices on menus, (Menus: have been a subsidiary crisis; printers could not handle the emergency changes fast enough to kee'p'up-with them.) An' overheard remark was a clue to the "Stay'afive," one. man said to another as they k.

are more 1,000 exhibits, approximately 400 more than could be handled before the move to the Convention and attendance has been at Everything that, could ease a task is on display, ranging from a Super Shake Base to a Solid Waste Compactor, honors going to, the beautiful things of stainless steel that, are made, for, kitchens. stoves, disposals, mixers were as sleek and exciting as modern, sculpture. stainless iSculpture! 'address of welcome, SCRA retiring president 'Ralph Wood Jr. described the situation as "chaotic," deplored continued "government, intervention as "too radical and too and suggested directions for the of 7 which afegressivfr political; involveinent1' -He stressed "the "craving for good food, well prepared noted the unexpected, interest of young in the "industry as one very hopeful i The" facilities' of the Convention Center, made possible more conferences and discussions, lorkh'e first time, two. lecture demonstrations arranged by the Chefs de Cuisine.

seemed to at least one wishful observer' there was-a definite tendency to corisider.chefs at least as, Important to the kitchen as a new gadget. Wood' suggested as a way 7 At a-special seminar arranged' by the. American Academy of Chefs, the panel members "were a littler defensive about the attack on convenience foods. "They have become a whipping boy," said Bert Behrendt, general manager of the' Sheraton Palace, San Francisco, "A better term could be used; perhaps ready-to-use foods." But they admitted that more adventure in food was' desirable even though educating the public is difficult and expensive. "Why not give them Samples?" asked a woman from the audience.

i ItAvas pointed out that chefs need longer stay forever. in "their kitchens: Management needs people with a background, in FOR SHAKESPEARE From left, Arlene Golonka, Pot Supper" from "Boys From Syracuse" during the Woodell, end Meredith MacRae do "Sing for Your "Shakespeare Cabaret" benefit at Hollywood Times photo by Marianna Diamos BY CHARLES CHAMPLItf Time Entertainment Editor Five years after Franco Zeffirelli made hl3 "Romeo and Juliet," Paramount is re-releasing opens Wednesday at the Village in Westwood, the Egyptian in Hollywood and the Reseda Drivein, which is an impressive tribute to the film's artistic and. commercial reputation (and possibly a comment as well on the scarcity of surefire new product). I Going back to call again on a film you reviewed fondly the first time around is a trepidatious business. As with an old love, the years may or may not have been kind and it may or may not be easy to remember what you saw in her, or There are some shifts in gaze the second time around, but "Romeo and Juliet" remains a great pleasure to watch.

The luxurious texturing of a time and a place is still overwhelming. The costumes rich and poor, the cobbled squares, the cool courtyards and the narrow streets are marvels of movie decoration. manipulation of color to emphasize, the tone of the scenes is strikingly effective. There are tableaus which seem like old paintings seen through ancient varnish aged to gold, others which have the bright romantic vigor of pre-Raphaelite paintings freshly done, other scenes done in the urgent reality of natural light. Pasqualis DeSantiis, one of the best, was the-cinematographer, and his skill shows in every frame.

The candlelit glow of the masked ball at which the lovers first meet continues to be one of the innocently romantic visions the movies have given us in years. At the farthest extreme, the lashing sword fights in the sun-bleached dusty streets in which Tybalt and Mercutio die have a deadly credibility which is closer to "Blackboard Jungle" than to Errol Flynn. The second time around the excellence of the supporting performances stands out even more sharply than before. Pat Heywood as the energetically bawdy nurse, Michael York as arrogant bait, Milo O'Shea as Friar Lawrence, John McEn-ery as the antic Mercutio and Robert Stephens as the prince constitute an assembly of players the Bard himself could well have admired extravagantly. They-preserve the- poetry but they also propel Shakespeare's tragedy; as the suspenseful story it is: And by making the fa miliar, characters palpable individuals, they restore the most familiar of the lines to fresh-said STAGE Benefit for the Bard at Bowl BY DAN SULLIVAN Timet Theatre Critic -The Los Angeles Free Shakespeare Festival gave itself a benefit at Hollywood Bowl on Sunday night.

The results were I choose the word carefullymemorable. Jean Stapleton played a chorus girl. Alice Cooper did his business on "West Side Story." Jean Simmons made out with Roddy McDowall in "Planet of the Apes" drag. Rhonda Fleming more than once sang. And a few people even said some Shakespeare.

Shakespeare, in absentia, wailhe'rioint of It The Free Shakespeare Is hurting vfor'- money for its first production "As You Like opening Sept. 3 at the Pilgrimage Theater. It was thought that an all-star "Shakespeare Cabaret" at the Bowl would be a fun way to raise someV Box-office figures weren't available Monday morning, so we can't assess the event's financial success. The Bowl looked more than half full, but a lot of tickets were given away at the last minute.) As an evening of vaudeville it did offer quite a bit of fun and a distressing amount: of stumbling around; Many oMhe stars scheduled to appear didn'ty Lorne -i Greene, Judith Ann Miller, Please Turn to Page 12, Coi Buildinsf Boom's BatHroom BottleneGk BY STEVE KLINE Times Staff Writer In Huntington Beach, a development of 191 new. homes stands empty, their eager owners poised to move in but stymied.

In Oxnard, another. 373 homeowners patiently wait to call the movers and take possession. In Irvine, one complex of 307 apartment's is va-. cant; in Anaheim a tract of 171 homes is sold but their owners, too, are locked out. It all adds up to one of the biggest bombshells ever to hit the building boom, as would-be apartment renters, condominium and homeowners by the thousands, are thwarted hv their attempts to ply Stanton.

"We'rt probably looking at a $1 million decrease in our. business this yeai4, and it could get worse.) "We're doing everything but making them in the backyard. People calling every day begging for just prier toilet, and not asking, the, price. "We've. made several trips to Mexico to import water- closets and had some luck, but it doesn't even begin' t6 fill the gaps.

a very serious agrees -plumbing contractor Stan Jacobs, president of Lea verton Jacobs Inc. "of "Garden Grove. "We're; buying, any. toir let that flushes just to get people moved in V. Please Turn to Page 6, Col, establish residency throughout Southern' California and the nation.

The stumbling' block in every instance is-not skyrocketing interest rates or hotly contested, zoning ordinances but, to put it simply if indelicately toilets. There aren't any. Or more accurately, there aren't enough to. go around. Call it the commode crisis, the toilet turmoil, the bathroom brouhaha but whichever frivolous term you plumbers are not laughing.

"If you knew someplace where we could get toilets this afternoon, we'd buy them," says Greg Thielen, vice president of Penn Pipe Sup At that, I guess innocence is a onetime commodity. The daring but calculated risk of casting two then-unknown teen-agers, Leonard -Whiting -and Olivia Hussey, as Romeo and Juliet demonstrates on second sight the risk involved as well as the reward. The young innocence, a Juliet who is a Credible 14, a Romeo who is neither a matinee idol nor even yet a claimant to man's estate, is still marvelous and their anonymity lends authenticity to the story as story. But the inexperience shows up as strain in the high-voltage passages as the drama marches to its sad inexorable end. In those passages, the sense of characters in being gives way to an ayareness of the director directing and the performers was always the danger Zeffirelli faced in "Romeo and Juliet" that the swirl and the color and the pa geantry might finally only become an exercise in visual In fact, the persisting strength of the 'film is that Zeffirelli does sufficient homage to Shakespeare the dramatist to bring off a film which moves and thrills and which is also moving.

What could have gone wrong came clear, in fact, In Zeffirelli's subsequent film, "Brother Sun Sister. Moon," which had all the visual opulence of "Romeo and Juliet," and even sought to recapture the magic of innocent youth awakening to the world. But for lack of a script to engender an emotional' pull worthy of the imagery, the movie was a richly upholstered Yet when Shakespeare's and Zeffirelli's lovers die in the flickering darkness of the burial vault, they touch our own memories of love foundand love lost and at second viewing or tenth, the impact is enormous. Nino Rota's major love theme is still a drerich-ingly romantic melody in the oldest tradition of film music. The re-viewing of the movie reminds you how often it recurs in slightly changing modes.

Musical innocence is also a onetime thing and I felt again that against the arguments that critics should see films twice before they review the emotional force of a movie is measured the first time and is never quite the same although, as here, it is very nearly the same and fortified by your appreciation of centuries separated, which made the movie work. Jack Smith is on vacation. Come Italy to Saiita Barbara Colorful Mix 111 ri 1 iir- y- '-yy py I P'H Hi'-' v- THE VIEWS INSIDE BY JODY JACOBS Time Seclety Editor In Santa Barbara just as it is farther north' 'in San sortie social groups are. cliquish and closely knit. And parties are usually, gatherings of people who know each other pretty well.

Virginia and Kenneth Hunter "Festa a 'la Bella' Italia" over" the weekend 'in the. Montecito home: whose name translates into "the Elysian Fields," was quite something, Ginnie and Ken are more apt to give small dinner parties, hardly ever for more 12. But last weekend Ginnie's sister Renee Casta gnola de and her. husband. Ricardo and their two chil dren were from Madrid.

Before theHur ters knew what was happening their guest list had grown to 130.: And guests were coming from San Francisco and Los Angeles and practically everywhere Which caused orte well-established -Santa Baj bara matron to raise a well-brushed eyebrow and remark," "This is quite a mix. I don't know more than 25 people here, tonight." -We lost track of the lady later in the evening when the Hunters' surprise a young, voluptuoua helly. dancer started gyrating. Her -remarks on that also would have been quoting. Ken had introduced the belly dancer, who arrived in layer's of chiffon with blonde hair in multi small braids," in stages to the group.

First by dancing with of the men's heads were fol- Please Turn to Page 8, ColTl ART: America Realists by William Wilson on fags 2. BOOKS: Paperback Scene by Robert Kirsch en Page 5. MUSIC: Debussy Birthday Party by Melody Peterson on Page 10. OPERA: "Romeo et Juliette" by Daniel Cariaga on Page 11. AND OTHER FEATURES Dear Abby 6 Joyce Haber Page Astrology 8 Robert Hilburn 12 Bridge A On Fashion Art Buehwald 3.

Maury Green 14 Comics 17 Peter Weaver 7 FESTA ITALIANA Mrs. Kenneth Hunter right, Mrs. Clem. San, Francisco and Giiy, was hostess at Montecito party where guests like Root wore red or white attire with a touch of green." phots I- X-.