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loa Stageles ULimti Sept 30, 1976 Pt IV 21 17 TV REVIEW T'NITE SAT. 7 10:30 mom The Fatal Weakness' on PBS The Most Potent Theatrical Event in Years." LA Tirmt wm mm BY CECIL SMITH Times Television Critic the Monaco. If you can't see the play tonight, it will be re i coum cneertuny tnrottie whoever made ud made up PBS schedule this fall to spin off the five available Holly. peated Saturday night at 8. "Brilliant if you miss it, It will be your loss." Hollywood Reporter WESTW00D PLAYHOUSE 10814 It Ceirte Is Km Weitwees Casteae Ceater AMCLMERTY MUTUAL STUDENT RUSH SMO PHONE RESERVATIONS 477-2424 PETE SEEGER Sat.

Oct. 2 Sun. Oct. 3 4 8 p.m. 12:30 p.m.

outdoors at KPFK's Int'l Festival CL Adobe, Calabasas wood TV Theater productions as routine weekly shows rather than giving them the special treatment they deserve. A case in point is tonight's presentation of George Kel-ley's "The Fatal Weakness" (Channel 28 -at 9) with Eva Marie Saint in the role created 30 years ago on Broadway by Ina Claire. The play has historical significance because it was Kelly's last play before he turned away from the American theater in disgust. Yet is competes tonight with the opening chapter of NBC's Best Sellers "Captainsjmd the Kings," plus the debut of the new Nancy Walker comedy, a two-hour Hawaii Five-0 episode, the introduction of Mike Douglas' replacement on Streets of San Francisco. It is-really idiotic programing on a network where quality American product is so scanty.

The play, which Miss Saint will take on tour is a very old fashioned kind of theater in which Kelly, with a velvet scalpel, expertly reveals the inner workings of some ill y1 Ajfcfc GOOD SEATS AVAILABLE FOR ALL PERFORMANCES! Tickets at Box Office, By Mail, Mutual Liberty Agencies For Information phone: (213) 462-6666 Group Sales Jim Abbott: (213) 345-7170 HUNTINGTON HARTFORD THEATRE, 1815 VINE HOLLYWOOD, CA. M02S TONIGHT at 8:30 iiiy.riJHij! 1 THE FATAL WEAKNESS' Hollywood Television Theater's production of the George Kelly play. Producer-director Norman Lloyd. Art director Edward Stephenson. Music Robert Prince.

Costumes Noel Taylor. Technical director Cal Slater. Features Eva Marie Saint, John McMartln, Charlotte Moore, Gr etc hen Corbett, Dennis Dugan, Sara Seegar. Airs tonight at 9 on Channel 28; also Saturday, Channel 28 at 8 p.m. Tickets On Sale at the Theatre Box Office ARTIST CONSULTANTS PRESENT IN HIS ONLY LA.

APPEARANCE THIS YEAR An Evening with -Tonight at 8:30 and at all Mutual, Ticketron and Liberty agencies .9 A A A 9 9. i ma Mb it ll ll it it I A Mill JUU111J QJEdDimJE (CAMEjIIM usure lues-Sal evenings 8 30 PM Sun eve 7 30 PM ORCH MEZ2 $16. BALC $13. $11. $9 Wed Mai 2 30PMORCH4MEZZS11.

BALC $9, $8. So Sat Mat 2 30 PM ORCH MEZZ $13 50. BALC $11 50, $9 50. $750 OCT. 3 8:30 PM SHUDERT THEATRE CENTURY CITY 553-9000 Tickets by Mail, at 801 Office and all Mutual.

Liberty Ticketron Agencies KM GOVP SAWS MUKTH HOSS 559000 3 Tickets: $8.50, 7.50, 6.50 TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT Music Center Box Office Robert Lawrence Balzer very nice people in an adroit and glittering river of words. It's the theater of language, once the glory of the stage but a rare bird today. What Kelly gives us and Miss Saint plays beautifully is a fragile, ethereal kind of woman, who has been married 24 years, has a married daughter and a grandson, and who floats in organdy and silk about a fine house with a uniformed maid. She is also an incurable romantic. When she discovers the traditional anonymous note that her handsome husbsnd (John McMartin) is having a fling with a woman osteopath, she turns detective with the willing help of other woman eager to catch a straying husband.

She literally makes a dossier on his infidelity, not so much as evidence against him as for the sheer romance of it. In fact, she thrills to each new detail of her husband's romance. Meanwhile, her spirited, liberated daughter Penny (Gretchen Corbett) is having her own problems with her husband because she believes marriage is "arrested development" that she refuses to take seriously, declaring she sees "no reason to stop growing simply because you're married." But when she discovers her parents are in the same boat, she's horrified, turns on her mother and defends the traditional vows for a marriage that has lasted 24 years. Her parents' rift sends her back to her husband. The confrontation between McMartin and Miss Saint is an elegant scene, a jewel under producer Norman Lloyd's direction.

And the final romantic act you must see for yourself. Bv TV's machine-gun standards, the play is slow and talky, its pace methodical, its playing exquisite. There's even a brief postscript on the life and art of George Kelly in an interview with his niece and heir Princess Grace of takes you into the world of wines. and all Mutual Agencies MUSIC CENTER DOROTHY CHANDLER. PAVILION "YOU WANT TO REMEMBER IT ALL.

YOU WANT TO GO THERE AGAIN" -Dan Sullivan, LA. TIMES Sundays in The Los Angela iti presents INTERNATIONAL The Original New York Production PACIFIC OVERTURES" MUSIC CENTER DOROTHY CHAN CHER PAVILION LIMITED RUN THRU OCTOBER 18 EVES. 1:30. MATS. WED.

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At the Fabulous FORUM in Inglewood Hurry! Only 5 evening performances at 7:30 PM.Two matinees Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 PM. 1 sum Rated the 1 Indoor Horseshow in the country by "Horses" Magazine. Over 800 horses competing for more than $100,000 in prizes. Hunters. Jumpers, i Tennessee Walkers, Gaited Horses and Ponies.

Wonderful family entertainment. LAS VEGAS SCENE Openings: George Carlin Tower of Power perform Friday at the Aladdin. Jefferson Starship Heart play Sunday: Andy Williams and Freddie Prinze open a two-week engagement today at Caesar's Palace; Ginger Rogers and Norm Crosby open Tuesday for three weeks at the Desert Inn: Bobbie Gentry opens a one-month engagement today at the Frontier; Glen Campbell opens Tuesday for three weeks at the Hilton; Eddy Arnold opens Friday for three days at the Sahara. Buddy Hackett and Jim Bailey follow there Monday for one week, and Hackett continues with Dick Jensen through Oct. 20; Robert Goulet opens a two-week engagement Wednesday at the Sands.

Continuing engagements: Liberace at the Hilton through Monday; Sergio Franchi at the MGM Grand; En-gelbert Humperdinck and Chita Rivera at the Riviera; Wayne Newton through Tuesday at the Sands; Sandler and Young at the Thunderbird. Upcoming engagements: Johnny Carson (Oct. 14-20) at Caesars Palace; Roy Clark (Oct. 28-Nov. 24) at the Frontier; Sheckv Greene and Florence Henderson (next Thurs-day-Oct.

20) at the MGM Grand; Bill Cosby (Nov. 2-22) at the Hilton; Bobby Vinton (Oct. 14-27) at the Riviera; Eddy Arnold, George Gobel and Mike Curb (Oct. 21-Nov. 3) at the Sahara; George Burns and Doc Severinsen (Oct.

20-Nov. 2) at the Sands; Jim Bailey (Oct. 26-Nov. 14) at the Thunderbird. Long-running shows: "Casino de Paris" at the Dunes; "Hooray 76 Reveue" at the Flamingo; JJJallelujah Hollywood" at the MGM Grand; "Spice on Ice" at the Hacienda; "Lido de Paris" at the Stardust; "Who Gets the Drapes?" at the Union Plaza.

if (10am-6pm -ff Ticket prices $3.25 to $6.25 Special Group Rates! Tickets at Forum Box Office, Ticketron, and Mutual Agencies. For ticket information call (213) 674-5021 Proceeds go to benefit City of Hope. ENTERTAINMENT LIVE MUSIC 120 CRAFTSMEN 22 EXOTIC FOOD BOOTHS CIRCUS VARIETY ACTS BELLY DANCERS MORE ADULTS $a50 CHILDREN 75 FOR GROUP RATES CALL 1213) 455-2172 i The Ninth Annual International Horse Show LOCATED AT THE CORNER OF CANOGA NORDHOFF, CHATSWORTH TONITB 1tt L.A. AppMrinoa Australia's Top Entertainer ROLF HARRIS Tsi 1H bsm hn" Km OOUa WESTON'S TROUBADOUR Ml S.M. Wrd.

27t-tm LIZA MINNELLI AMBASSADOR 1S AUDITORIUM 300 VV. Green Street, Pasadena fere ori Tins snunniwnro TONIGHT AT 8:30 rj 9th Wonrierlul Month! OCT MEETS DCy A Thirtyish Musical Comedy Chi LP Now mt SUeM AUK TENNILLEII (Tvi DAVID GALLEGLY Channel 28 Will Broadcast Live Interview With Gov. Brown A live interview with Gov. Brown concerning his performance as California's chief executive will be broadcast over KCET Channel 28 on Monday from p.m. Brown will be questioned in his Sacramento office by Leah Catabruno, managing editor of California Journal magazine, and Douglas Kleigel, state capital correspondent for Sacramento television station KXTV.

The program will be carried exclusively on public television stations in California. Actor Plays Arrestor, Then Arrestee Ron Glass will be working both sides of the law tonight on ABC. At 8:30 p.m., he'll be playing his regular role as a detective on Barney Miller. Then at 10 p.m., he'll be one of the bad guys in the season premiere of The Streets of San Francisco. "xV IS BACK! Air Conditioned' TIs? New Las Pal mas Theatre 1642 N.

Las Palmas 466-4259 1 I FOSTER BROOKS! TONIGHT AT 8PM AL WILSON! e.n-THAOO HAMILTON, JOE FRANK tt rr DENNISON! I A 1 OtlkLglfaGldt Featuring songs from Camelot, Showboat, Paint Your Wagon, Fiddler on the Roof and other favorites by Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Rodgers Hammerstein and Leonard Bernstein. Tickets: $7.50. $6.50. $5.50 Mail Orders: Ticket Office, Bin 15AA, Pasadena, 91109. Hon.

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3 CORONET THEATRE UUtlOOK SeCtlOn. 366 North La Cienega Blvd. RESERVATIONS: 855-0125 wm THRU OCT. 17 ONLY TICKET INFO: 972-7211 For ICE only: $3 student tickets available in advance of perl, date (1 I.O. per sluj GROUPS 972-7372 NELSON RIDDLE AND HIS ORCHESTRA Don Feddrntoa, (Produrr Dattn Mo-s Co-Proturr Eraie Farrcll Producer Sandra Tut lie Aoriale Prodnrrr St aired and Dirvrled by Arnold Marquiit TICKETS ARE 88 AND 86 etraiJaM mt The Farum Mutual Ticket Agmrir.

liberty Tirkt AnnriiMwir City Star, Tiekrtrtm: Semr. Hrmmdmmy, Montgomery Wmrd All pmrrrd ko to Prrmamrfit 1 5ritH- of ibr F.nimaiwmrnl lndn-lrif MUSIC CENTER it CENTER THEATRE A 0OaVtnnt WuSac PMnKl Dy AmtMKlMOf anWrnelWnal CuMtHAI rOuntMMn StJ'an SOOnSOred ty AmOSMlOf CoMeqe GROUP Gordon Davidson. Artistic Director.