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4 "Hf i 1 4j ur ig) mj iij iiiiLh i THE BOSTON GLOBE WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 19. I )h0 27 4 DUDLEYMOORE PETER COOK ueni Controversial 'Don Giovanni' to play Opera House? 1 aN 4T 4. MARQUEE previous best-known stage work was "Dracula" of three seasons ago, did the sets and costumes. Peter Sellars.

who graduated from Harvard last June was the director. For Boston-Cambridge thea From A AMERICAN CINEMA 1960 AMERICAN CINEMA Bi.E .3 SAWN KABODy' BRAiNTREE 3t9TB(MONlSt fX SHOR SHOP SCUTM SHOBI PlAZA oTON S47-4600 599-1310 848-1070 "I tun SAi 4 1NLMA NATICK 237-S40 BOUTt 9 OPf ShOPWSS W.O CHESTNUT HILl RT 9 at HAMMONO ST. 277-2500 ST0NEHAM HOUTES 126 1 28 438-4050 tergoers, Sellars has been an undergraduate theatrical name to reckon with. In addition to such celebrated student productions as a one-night version of Wagner's "The Ring" and a most unusual "King Lear," Sellars was responsible for. the American Repertory The ater's production of "The Inspector General," at the Loeb Drama Center last snrincf Snmp Invert his i I if i ij Mhli "11 tut shows a bevy of shady ladies of the last century.

Personal appearances. Gloria Swanson and Mary Beth Hurt are generations apart, but they know the value of hype. First on the scene will be Hurt, female lead In "Head Over Heels," a romantic comedy directed by Joan Micklin Silver in 1969. It didn't cause much of a stir then, but is steadily developing into a Greater Boston cult film. Justin Freed of the Coolidge Corner Moviehouse in Brookline, said yesterday that Hurt will fly here from New York where she's rehearsing a play, to appear on stage after the 7:50 p.m.

screening Friday of "Head Over Heels." Freed said he saw Hurt at this year's Berkshire Summer Festival when she appeared in "The Rainmaker." "I met her after the show and told her 'Head Over Heels was becoming a cult film in Boston and, well, after many phone calls she agreed to come to the Coolidge Corner." Another Coolidge Corner favorite is Gloria Swan-son in "Sunset Boulevard." Swanson, who's getting as much publicity now as she did in her heyday, will be at the Harvard Book Store Cafe. 190 Newbury Back Bay, for some book signing Dec. 2, 5-6 p.m. Swanson's been on a cross-country tour promoting her autobiography "Swanson on Swanson." By George McKinnon Globe Staff The costumes swish from Edwardian to Flapper, sections of the show have the aura of a '20s gangster melodrama, and there's a slide show of semi-nude, demimondaines of the 19th century. Sounds like a Brecht-Weill revival? Not at all.

It's Mozart's masterpiece, "Don Giovanni" and you can see what Harvard wunderkind director Peter Sellars and artistwriter Edward Gorey have wrought at the Opera House in January. Although all details aren't worked out. it is likffly that the highly controversial version of Mozart's opera will be mounted there under the auspices of the Boston University Celebrity Series for two performances in connection with a tv taping. When the production opened last September in the Palace Theater in Manchester, NH, it drew raves from the critics, but caused considerable outrage among opera purists who don't like their Mozart tampered with, thank you. NH Symphony conductor James Bolle, who'll conduct the Boston engagement, brought the package together last summer.

Edward Gorey, whose SACK CHARLES 1-2-3 WotlMWDCI it SAC CM A NATICK 337-5840 90U1t 9 -a. GOV CTt JIT-Ulo! IMFMA ITV DANVERS SHOWCASE DEDHAM 326-455 tOUTf T0. 171 MARY BETH HURT treatment of Gogol while Brookline-bound others it to an Ab. bott and Costello movie. Sellars is controversial.

To give you an idea of what he has done with "Don Giovanni." in the scene where Leporello sings the "Madamina" to Donna Elvira in which he lists the conquests of the Don. instead of the usual list, he has a slide projector and as he names names, he CHESTNUT HILL RTI VatHAMMONOST 377-2500 LEXINGTON CINEMAS 1 1 2 862 3260 'At last, Mr. Wrong. REVIEW MOVIE in hHif niMw is -mm im A mildy scary 'Scream' .1 funny love story. n-m.

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The old Rudolf Kempe recording (Supraphon), which we listened to right afterward, sounded additionally wonderful in consequence. Let it be noted that the brass playing in John Williams' "Fanfare for the Commonwealth" was big, hearty, and assured. The work, itself was brief, adroit, loud, and forgetable. "Tan-ta-ra, tan-ta-ra, it announced in unctuous studio tones. Then it shut up.

No cavils about Harold Wright's contribution to the proceedings are possible. For it was an insinuating, delicately colored thing he made of the Adagio for clarinet and strings attributed to the very young Richard Wagner (a piece more Weber-like than anything else one kept awaiting the entrance of the moonstruck Agathe from "Der And in the Clarinet Concerto (1967) by the late Walter Piston a wise and witty summation of a lifetime's compositional craft the sound of his instrument moved like a rock skipping over water. There were dozens of weights and shades of color in the playing. It conversed; it sang. We also came to understand why people like to use that gurgly French word "chalumeau" to designate the clarinet's low register.

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The grisly manner of the death (the young man was knifed to death and buried in the sand) lead Mitchell and Schreiber back to the house. By the time these two lame-brained investigators discover the truth, several more gruesome murders occur. The character actors, dredged up from the past, are fascinating. Yvonne De Carlo plays a puffy matron who spends the entire film in a frumpy housedress. Barbara Steele, once crowned Queen of the Bs for her many roles in serials and Republic features, doesn't have a line, but her performance is invested with chilling terror.

Mitchell and Shreiber merely get in and out of a few cars. Director Denny Harris, like most every other horror steals most of his bits from Hitchcock. The sequence of killings looks as if he studied "Psycho" and made carbon copies. But he does show the ability to maintain suspense. In one frightening scene, while a young woman climbs up the attic stairs, Harris maintains tension by altering camera angles and quick cuts.

It's frightening. In spite of its obvious flaws, "Silent Scream" is the best low-budget horror film since "Halloween." If that sounds like damning with faint praise, so be it. SILENT SCREAM Directed by Denny Harris. Written by Ken Wheat, Jim Wheat and Wallace C. Bennett.

Starring Rebecca Balding. Barbara Steele. Yvonne De Carlo, Cameron Mitchell and Avery Schreiber. At the Sack Saxon and suburbs. Rated R.

By Michael Blowen Globe Correspondent A strange Victorian house overlooks the Pacific. The lace curtains flutter. The stairs leading to the attic are covered with cobwebs. The doors creak and Yvonne De Carlo is hidden away in an upstairs room. A conventional setting for an exploitation horror film.

In fact, everything about "Silent Scream" is conventional. But, given trie avalanche of recent slice-and-dice films, it's not bad. After "Prom Night," "Terror Train," "Fade To Black," and "Motel Hell," "Silent Scream" is a welcome relief. It's no masterpiece. The acting is mediocre, the script pedestrian and the direction inconsistent.

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