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"BJ T-IU 1i" "41 "'i "14 aj' It's a gorgeously, skillfully pct-tcgether show-not particularly revolutionary, although it's about a revolution but thoroughly enjoyable. all was the recunirg mu- skal sub-plot, tha lovely, longing, homely letter' songs sung by John! Adams and Abigail (Virgi- I nia Yestoff) Lis far-away wife. 1776' Opens on New York Stage The part I liked best of JOYCE HABER Great Expectations, for 'Love Machine' Cfctattrs gpckm Drams SCHMIDT GRAND putty jowls ar.d plastic pate, aphorisms and wans whimsy and the dee? fiat voice cf Howard Da Silva: real-Lee and true-Lee Ronald Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, and red headed Ken Howard, as red-headed young Tom Jefferson, his nose in a book. Not a villain In the lot, there's Paul Hecht as Dickinson, leader of the nservative opposition, who sings "Hosanna, in a sane a. lucid manner" for things "as they are, and Clifford David, 'Rutledge of South Carolina, who dooms the Declaration's anti-slavery clause with a disturbing, shouting song called "Molasses to Rum," perhaps the only song that didnt seem to fit 7 i i v.

I P5 A a mttk-h 1 nfcrifaaMt a. fcfaaami mm ial THiruss CKTnjjui riAsctsca cpdujlsscciatcxs Kurt Hbrt AAer, gwMral director Simon Schuster just ordered an additional 50,000 copies of Jacqueline Susann's new novel, 'The Love Machine." It will be published, finally, May 16. Add that to the first printing of 150,000 copies, and it spells Great Expectations on the part of S. The publisher says Qm tftmlt VIJOI'S ERIMI p.m. TOMORROW fcwdi) KKUOr FC TCnYCli Crtspln.

LCa InUiLfla cwtt. PJL RIO AY. MAKH XI it i i 'flft 'iove Machine" is about three men who control the TV industry, but the industry, and the authoress, know it focuses on just one man who had a lot of control Leet me segue' subtly into James T. Aubrey, the man who once controlled the TV industry via his presidency of the then-most -powerful network, CBS. Aubrey was switching to the flicks, love and machine and all, while Jackie Susann was busy (m huHm) MOZAKTS U.I DlUlAnfll Siepi.Hollay.Tnma, Monk :8 TM.

SATURDAY, MARCH 22 Jacqueline Susann The Stasia it a flaace ttri MarcteTURANDOTIJn. BARBIOtE 01 SIVI6UA 2, 15ttTR0VATQRE 5, 9AUCIA Dl liMMHIMOOIt 8, 23MADAMA BUTTERFLY 12, 30ERNAK1 14, 19 DDK GIOVANN1 16, 22LES TROYENS 21D1E WALKUERE 26, 29 DAS RHEIN60L0 28 opens on a full-voiced and operatic congressional counterpoint composed, as far as I could sort out the Ivrics, of "Sit down, John," "It's hot as hell in Philadelphia," "Open a window," "There are too many flies," and "Vote yea." And there you have it. The whole tone, the whole plot. The thing goes along for two and one half hours (without an intermission: nobody seems to need one) with a gently rising tempo, gently quickening suspense and a beautifully constant quality of wit and good performance, delivered by a set of charming congressmen. Quivering Force Fiery little John Adams, William Daniels, packed with quivering force, jittering and jumping, obnoxious and disliked; lumbering big Ben Franklin, 3 S3 Sight ft Sound Productions Presenfs DAVE BRUBECK TRIO Guest Star GERRY MULLIGAN Mar.

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His generous grant made the paintings and sculpture by untrained Black Africans possible. The work, which will travel to seven cities, is sometimes astonishing, always fascinating House for H.H.H. at Spa Nancy Sinatra and her fiance, Jack Haley, flew to Palm Springs Friday night to prepare papa Frank's home for Hubert Humphrey's arrival Sunday. The security men, who came on ahead to scout the lavish digs, decided that the cottage Nancy and Jack usually occupy would be the safest for the former vice president. "I don't mind moving out," said pretty Nancy, loyally.

Like all the Sinatras, Nancy, you recall, supported H.H.H. in the recent campaign As Henry Mancini and Claudine Longet started up the asile to make a presentation, Hank remarked to someone nearby: "We're walking carefully because Claudine and Andy are Also expecting (in August) are Eve and Jonas Halperin. He's a vice president of Alan Jay Lerner Productions Carol Channing executed one of the two ABC specials she'll do in a space of less than 30 days and showed what a marvelous showman she is, as did costar Pearl Bailey. Carol can be seen at Las Vegas' Riviera, where she this week, while Pearley Mae is being sought by two networks, ABC and CBS, for a weekly series of her own. There are two good reasons NBC isn't bidding Diahann Carroll and Bill Cosby, both set on that net Smothered in Publicity I don't believe the Smothers Brothers are going to blow their show, but they sure have an eye for publicity.

Last week, they lunged around biting their cuticles nervously, waiting for CBS to pick up their show for next season. CBS did, only minutes before the Friday night deadline. Next day, the Smothers announced that they may not want to be picked up by the network, unless the network relaxes and eases it bothersome censorship. That's not only an eye for publicity, it's often called Chutzpah. That David Lean-Robert Bolt roadshow for MGM, stilt untitled but shooting in Ireland, has the lengthiest sex scene ever written into a major film script: 4 pages.

That star is Sarah Miles, who is Mrs. Robert Bolt in private life. Her lovers, in the four-page scene, are Robert Mitchum and Chris Jones Switching to more Ali-American subjects. Bob Hope will emcee the American Fighter Pilot's annual award in Houston Friday. Barry Goldwater will be the keynote speaker, but it won't be a one-party program.

Those Sinatras (them again!) will be representing the Democrats. Frank will watch proudly while Nancy Jr. crowns Miss Fighter Pilot, 1969. Now that's a lot of two-party talent, that. "FASCINATING INTELLIGENT TRULY WITTY -A DELIGHTFUL EVENING IN THE THEATRE." Dan Sullivan, LA.

Times BY SANDRA NEW YORK "17T6" which opened Sunday at the 46th Street Theater, is a musical which is not as obvious a statement as it might seem. In fact, "1776" foregoes most of the cliches of the genre. There's no dream sequence, no ballet, only one mass choral number and that's sung as the curtain goes up, not as it goes down. It's not a play with some songs grated on; it's not a revue strung out on a. sketched-in plot.

Nope, 1776 is a musical, an integrated, lovely whole. The music moves the emotion along, the words move the action, and one without the other would be a little silly. Together, they're original, funny, touching, just serious enough to be stirring and just sentimental enough to send you out humming over the lump in your throat. UJ5. Problems Sherman Edwards (music and lyrics) and Peter Stone (book) have played around with the terrible problems the United States had getting a declaration of independence signed.

The musical is a flippant sort of documentary about the second Continental Congress and its last three months of "piddle, twiddle and resolve" before the first Fourth of July. A lot of this staging (Peter Hunt directed) and lighting is deliberately reminiscent of those solemn half-lit paintings of groups of colonial leaders in historic poses very much akin to those paintings of Flemish Burghers so often reproduced on wastebas-kets. The play has just about the same mixture of dignity and irreverence. There's Ben Franklin, one of our founding fathers: "As I once said, never put off til tomorrow A chorus of groans from the Con- greas. yourself, Franklin" snaps Adams.

It's set in soggy Philadelphia, in summer. It Barenboim Will Play, Conduct Mozart Program Under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim, the English Chamber Orchestra will present an all Mozart program April 6 in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of The Music Center. With conductor Barenboim at the piano, the orchestra will play Mozart's Concerto in flat. Other works programmed include the Symphony No. 33 and the Symphony No.

40. The orchestra's concert April 7 will Include Schubert's Symphony No. 5, Concerto In Major for String Orchestra by Stravinsky, and with Barenboim again at the piano, Reethoven's Concerto No. 2. 1 lit JlJZZZn 77 1 1 1 rachel.

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27-Apr. 6 OSly C1LIF. APPHARAKGE i S. HUROK presents ARTUR RUBINSTEIN This Saturday at 8:30 Sonata in Major, BEETHOVENFour worka by BRAHMSOndin and Poiuon O'Or. wmmmmm PONTIFF Anthony Quinn plays Pope Kiril I in "Shoes of the Fisher-man," ot Corthay Circle.

CALL SHEET Heston to Return to 'Planet7. Charlton Heston, who starred as the American astronaut commander in last year's "Planet of the' Apes" for 20th Century-Fox, has been set to reprise the role in Arthur P. Jacobs APJAC Production sequel to the film, "Beneath the Planet of the Apes." Also signed to repeat their roles are Mau-. rice Evans, Kim Hunter and Iinda Harrison. Aubrey Schenck Productions has signed Warren Oates to co-star opposite Lee Van Cleef in United Artists' an original screenplay by George Schenck and William Marks which is scheduled to begin filming on the Colorado River July 15.

Elliot Gould has been signed to a nonexclusive four-picture contract by 20th Century Fox. The first film will be "Mash" for producer Ingo Premin-ger to film next month. It will be followed by "Move," to be produced by Pandro Berman and directed by Stuart Rosenberg, with filming scheduled for fall. M. Kirk) Douglas will make his motion picture debut starring in Cinema Center Films' "Hail Hero!" a Halcyon Production to be produced by Harold D.

Cohen and directed by David Miller. Orson Welles will portray King Louis XVIII in "Waterloo," a Mosfilm-Di-no de Laurentis production in association with Paramount Rod Steiger stars as Napoleon and Christopher Plummer as Wellington. Sergei Bon-darchuk is directing the Soviet-Italian co-production. mMtetiE a 0 Ich'a "Cactus Flower," which stars Walter Matthau and Ingrld Bergman for Columbia. BETTY MARTIN 1 1ST actuss.

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Florid Duel Cowan negotiated a full-bodied, beautifully produced Cuus Anlmam' (except for the treacherous high flat). Creditable, too, was the florid duel for icprano and mez-o, 'Quia eht homo qui con The organ am! piano heard on Sunday were, of course, wretched substitute! for an orchestra, but they were for the most part played Uitcfully In an effort at orchestral approximation. Members of a bra quintet under the direction of Cortlandt Tender opened the concert In festive fashion with Jarolj Ohrerhl'i cansona, Tsal een and an anonymous nth-century sonata. The liraai players vere Jolnel hv tymoanl and nrganut Mary 1 fmih fnf the West Cwsl fre-miete of Ilfy Ilrrli Fan Uy. This turn-! kjI as a mn-latly orirnieJ itma IkallV etl-rmthl Uturm firti OtEfl n4 1 hnt.tat pune tuaUin.

The tTn-pK-r ma en hanl acknon -k te rU -nontriT niLL-Y A new choral organization was inaugurated on Sunday afternoon In the Flnt United Methodist Church of downtown Los Angeles. It li called the Oratorio Society of Lo Angele. and 1U purpose ia set forth as the opportunity for KlnKcri and instrumenta-llsta to prepare and pre-Kent religious woi ka about twice a year. If Sunday'a performance of Rowini'i Subat Mater constitute a reasonably accurate cause of future accomplisnmenti, then the new society one to ret koncd with wrltiualy in lh musical community. Thli It not to report that the Latin enunciation of RfHulnl'i operatic oratorio lfl liltfe to I desired, or that all Mctioni of the croup were a equitably talanred ai thev might have been at all lime.

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