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1 ON STAGE ICE ALMOST JjC FORGOTTEN fJSr? AH THI5 WILL TAKE NOT FOR ME VOU'RF VOL! CAM CALL VIEW THE CHJIL OFF US THANKS. AND TELL THEM THE HAVE A BRUTAL ...7" WHETHER YOU WANT PICTURE I TO 60 THROUGH WITH HOW DOES THE ANKLE PRIVE HOME STORYF; IT OR NOT. EITHER WAY FEEL? AHEAP WILL BE ALL RIGHT WITH C3 A OF ME. ME. 1 75 ill SHERE'5TH sjLtr" Ci BRANCH MOVIES a Peii Dance Film Opens erf Plaza SHOW BUSINESS Fitzgerald Play Boivs; Graham in life iv Dances "This Side of Paradise," a dramatization by Sydney Sloane of the F.

Scott Fitzgerald novel, will open at 7:45 tonight at the Sheridan Square Playhouse. P3 CC 70 to By WANDA HALE Roland Petit's "Black Tights," at the Plaza Theatre, is a most unusual ballet picture, artistic, beautiful, saucy and naughty, delightful Gallic naughtiness. A dance-musical, the Technicolor, Cinemascope French fil mis a classic, an ageless film that like Cecil B. DeMille's Biblical spectacles and Walt Disney's best animated cartoons, The play stars Paul Roebling. can go on for years being appreciated throughout the world, Others in the cast iaclude Miss Sloane, Donald Motion, Jess Os-una and Carol Tisser.

Herbert Berghof directed. Two new works will be in Joseph Kaufman and Simon Schiffrin produced "Black Tights," Terence Young directed. But it is Petit's ballet, his ideas, his choreography and his magic dancing with three famous ballerinas, his wife, Zizi Jeanmarie; England's Jkfoira Shearer, our Cyd Charisse. Maurice Chevalier, the spirit of Paris, is the commentator, ap- cluded in Martha Graham's spring Zizi Jeanmarie and Roland season of dance at the Broadway Theatre, which gets under way March 4. Miss Graham will have the title role in the first new composition, "Phaedra." The second premiere will be that of an abstract composition for four dancers.

This number is still untitled. Almost all the shows, on and Petit "Black a Magna Cinemascope Technicolor re off-Broadway, will play special ueorge Washington Birthday precious gems. Jeanmaire and Dirk Sanders are the amusing, imaginative dancers in these roles. This is the only ballet in which Petit does not appear. Even "Cyrano de Bergerac" has comic relief as well as lyrical beauty.

Petit gives this one the benefit of his brilliance as Cyrano; Moira Shearer, unearthly beautiful, is the lithe, lovely ballerina in' the role of Roxane. George Reich is seen as Christian. "A MERRY MOURNING," bubbling with sophisticated humor, gives Cyd Charisse a chance to show her talent as an interpretive dancer in the role of a gay widow who falls for the dashing stranger who killed her husband in a duel over her. Petit is the stranger, Hans van Manen the husband. In the fiery passion of "Carmen" Petit and Jeanmarie give an example of the heights they have reached as partners, the spell they cast dancing together.

Their unequaled grace gives proof that they are the world's best ballet team. She is Carmen, he is Don Jose, Henning Eron-stam is the toreador. YVES ST. Laurent designed matinees tomorrow. Playgoers i i a i ii.

lease. Produced by Joseph Kaufman and Simon Schiffrin, directed by Terence Young from screen plays by Roland Petit, Alfred Adam, Henri Meilhae and Ludovic Halevy. Presented at the Plaza Theatre. Running time: 2 hours. THE CAST: Tl Diamond Cruncher The Piimnd Crum-berZizi Jeanmarie Pierrot lirte San.lt-ia "Cjraae Berwrae" Shearrr ClflM i Roland Prut are advised to check the alpha betical ads lor time schedules.

The revival of Sean O'Casey's "Red Roses for Me" will play I I a I ir i ao 11 Rebecca Tkompaoa SlamJy fob Zizi Jeanmaire and Roland Petit Vir Retro. A Merry Jlaurnirur The Widow Cd Ad its 100th performance tomorrow night at the Greenwich Mews Theatre. At that showing the play will have outstripped the original Broadway production by Chariie im Ten- Kolaml frill Hana waa Mjuim 1H Muatoi Soviet Pianist 71 iMrfnrmini'H TtstvalfiAa ti ftli 'Carmen" 7'-' Jeanmarie Roland Pent, KronMaro Maunee Chevalier TomMtor. Dlie Clt JuIIIiard ailin Irish playwright will have Emil Gilels, Soviet pianist, will mond Allen, Brendan Burke and visit the Juilliard School of Music Kebecea Ihompson head the cast the fabulous costumes for all, in this afternoon to perform for the 01 lne currenl enow' students and faculty, to listen to' some of the students perform and John Stix las been signed to to answer questions from the i direct "There Must Be a audience. cluding the girls and boys of the chorus.

The sets by a group of artists are in the film's moods, amusing and dramatic; the colors are as exquisite as I have ever seen. And we can applaud the beautiful music by the Orchestra the James Kirk wood Jr. play i Yi pearing every so often as himself, giving amusing introductions to each of the four numbers, explaining the stories in his gay chatter. THE SEQUENCES in "Black Tights" are "The Diamond Cruncher," "Cyrano de Bergerac," "A Merry Mourning" and "Carmen." "The Diamond Cruncher," set in the colorful Les Halles section of Paris, is the story of a girl thief who steals diamonds to nibble on and a nice young man who persuades her that cabbages make better food than at the High School of Fashion playhouse, beginning March 2. Seats go on sale at the Broad-hurst Theatre tomorrow for "My Fair Lady," which will continue its run at that house Feb.

28. The long-run musical will give its final performance at the Hel-linger Theatre Saturday nihL Marilyn Debuts Marilyn Maxwell opens at the Latin Quarter, tonight. The new Plus Room at Barbara Kelly's pens tonight with the Barbara Barry instrumental quartet featured. One and Only Ferruccio Tagliavini, Met tenor, sings his only Carnegie Hall concert of the season Friday night. Wing SCnOOl ShOWS the Broadway stage for the first The American Theatra Wine- time.

The premiere ia scheduled of the Concerts Lamoureux under begins its third year of special Ior nm vciooer. stage shows for the pupils of 67 high schools and iunior hi phi "BaeUane Center" will con the direction of Marius Constant, the music of George Bizet. Maurice Thiriet, Jean Michel Damase and Marius Constant. schools in the citv's four bor-Minue its run at the Folksbiene ougha on March 5. Three troupes' Theatre throughaMarch.

It is the will present condensed versions only Yiddish play currently Boy and Girl I ol classic and contemporary ho wing. as well as musical comedy pro- ductions. Donald Woods has een signed to play opposite Nancy Wickwire in "Rosmersholm," cpening off-Broadway April 17. The Henry losen work has been newly trans Theatre Directory SMAtH Hit! ruil BIIISMT:" Honor Hanson The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park, will honor Dr. Howard Hanson, director of the University Rochester's Eastman School of Music, at its sixth annual award dinner on March 8.

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