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Ffid Mv 5C An Ovation Great Ninth' for a and majestic beauty of the "Ode to Joy" finale had snapped at last into silence, the audience rose to its feet and let out bravos that just about matched the jubilation of the massed choruses, four splendid solo singers and the orchestra. There'll be one more performance of the Ninth, preceded by Lukas Foss' "Parable of Death," to Translation For Opera By Rossini Ruth and Thomas Martin, noted New York translators, have created an entirely new English version of Rossini's comedy, "The Italian Girl in Algiers," which will be part of the Spring Opera season at the Opera House, opening May 6. Earlier translations by Mr. and Mrs. Martin, on the upcoming Spring Opera schedule, will be those of Weber's romantic opera, "Der Freischuetz" and of Mozart's "Abduction From the Seraglio." Martin has worked on the director staffs of both the Metropolitan and San Francisco Opera Companies.

Spring opera tickets are now on sale at Sherman, Clay boxoffices. hi i Hi! it and well received, Felicia Montealegro (the petite wife of Leonard Bernstein) was a narrator of fervid, warmly musical voice. And Lewis again served music greatly by another example of his intelligent willingness (rare among toprank tenors) to learn new roles, and also by another example of eloquent singing. This time the triumphant choruses were from Foothill College and San Jose State. "The Parable," pictur-ing Death as a noble, wel-come, heightened emergence from Love and Life, draws its text from the German poet Rilke.

The half -hour score is effective, thoroughly interesting, well written and particularly beautiful in its last pages. However, my first im Hy ALEXANDER FRIED Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is the ideal work to climax a winter scison of symphony, Masterfully conducted by Josef Krips, it brought the San Francisco Symphony's Wednesday series to a sensational, ovational conclusion, night before last at the Opera House. When the excitement -i i smwi a I Vittorio passman I STARTS drs WW llMf Tt- 7 11 inn i tATJB i mvmwmm I llll V. CONTINUOUS SATURDAY 1 TODAY! 4:30 tZ2SD3CZll and sunoat fp0 1.30 pression is that its intelli- gent musicianship and skill UD fO iVO wOOu are somewhat at odds al- most to the point of super- 'THE STRANGLER" Victor Buono plays the title role as a ficiality with the strange, paranoiac killer in "The Strangler," making his first starring elusive, mystical thoughts film following his debut in "What Ever Happened to Baby Rilke had in mind. Jane?" The thriller opens today at RKO Golden Gate Theater.

SMILES OPEN CANNES FESTIVAL YOU ARE THE JURY! Three men are on trial for their lives-two are guilty of a ghastly crime-one is innocent! You are charged with finding all three either guilty or innocent night at 8:30. Get to hear it! It will thrill you even if you have to be a standee to do so, LOGICAL WHOLE Krips' view of the Ninth had certain overall characteristics that truly fulfilled both the symphony's musical powers and its religious-humanitarian ideals. One such characteristic was a continuous sense of forward movement, which joined the Ions master-work into a logical whole and inexorably built up its spell and its ennobled delirium to a stupendous peak. In such a concept, para-d i a 1 1 Krips approached the first movement not so much in the mystical tone that normally gives it special expectancy and suspense. The approach, instead, was relatively level-headed and direct, and thus it laid the itiiiiimiiiiiiimiiiiimiiimiiiini Sneak Preview At the Mefro There will be a sneak preview tonight at 8:30 p.

m. at the Theater, of a major American film satire. This will be in addition to the regular showings of Ingmar Bergman's "The Silence," which ends its run on Tuesday. "The Silence" will be shown at 6:50 and 10 p. m.

iimiiimmiimiiiiiiiimiiimimi a REY I 1 iv- WW yaw I it hA Li 1 I P. CANNES France )-(UPD-The 17th. International Cannes Film Festival opened Wednesday with a "new look" of fewer prizes and more comedies. To silpnce annual complaints that everybody usually wins a prize, the festival organizers cut down the prizes to four official awards: A grand prize, a special prize and two acting honors. A festival spokesman said WHAT IS YOUR M-G-M prasent AN FILM 0000000000000000000000 professional teenagers, Tippy Walker and Merrie Spath, who will be in Cannes to view their first film festival.

The German dramatic entry, "The Visit of th Old Woman," starring Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn, also was the subject of favorable speculation as film directors, actors, producers and technicians began to arrive in Cannes for the 10-day festival. Britain's favored entry will be the "The Pumpkin Eaters," starring Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch and James Mason. The prize winning films will be selected by a jury headed by German-American director Fritz Lang. Members include actor Charles Boyer and Arthur Schlesinger former member of the Kennedy administration, United States; Joaquin Calvoso-tello, Spain; and Rene Clement, France. New Music by Joseph Weber Music by local composer Joseph Weber, for piano, violin and trombone, will make up a concert tonight at 8:30 at the KPFA studio-concert hall, 321 Divisadero.

foundation solidly for a whole large musical archi- tecture. Another Krips character istic was his alert discrimination in all the complex, lusty and often frankly theatrical sonorities of the Schiller cantata Finale. CAMPUS CHORUSES Thanks to such discrimination, Beethoven's aspects of theatricalism took on the innate dignity of an irresistible, elemental human force. Krips made the four campus choruses (from State College, Stanford and two from UC) sing their high-ranging music with surprising beauty, subtlety and power. (The power gained sharply from the brightness of the new stage shell.) In the same process, Krips kept the solo and joined voices of Pierrette Alarie, Katherine Hilgen-berg, Richard Lewis and the proclamatory Yi-Kwei Sze wonderfully clear within the Ninth's colossal, agitated tonal fabric.

No wonder the audience responded just as Viennese audiences must have reacted in the old days when Felix Weingartner (Krips' one-time teacher) used to conduct historic Beethoven performances. FOSS PARABLE In Lukas Foss' 12-year-old "Parable of Death," also superbly performed COLISEUM th Ave. Clement it BEST ACTRESS PATRICIA NEAL Best Supporting Actor MSLVYN DOUGLAS PAUL NEVMAN iHllin me 2S40 CHESTNUT WA 1-2929 PERFORMANCES RICHARD LEWIS YI-KWEI SZE I I PLUS 2ND OUTSTANDING HIT! "ARTURO'Sj ISLAND" INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARD STARTS TODtr- OPEN AT 6:15 P.M. FEATURES AT )J ICIf A I LARK'N OFp GEARY VU ALL FHONE OR 3-4800 CONTINUOUS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY FROM 100 M. it.

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OPENS IMS P.M. fly Enemy, Shows: 8:10, "THE SILENCE" 6:50 10:00 Closes May 5 PREVIEW TONIGHT WILL HE Starring LORNA MAITLAND incredibly (No On Under 11 Admlttad) 8:30 WIN? PRESIDIO THEATRE Shown it 7:00, 8:30 nd 10:00 p.m. FINAL SEASON W.fFH ITT km, PIERRETTE ALARIE KATHERINE HILGENBERG 4 7 HOT ROD rumble 'WORLD PREMIEREll CHORUSES NAUGHTY NUDES BEET HOUEH'S NINTH frr.tr A auctmn ri', 1 flMtket j'. I herf. 7 women's 73 eJ" FELICIA MONTEALEGRE RICHARD LEWIS CHORUSES PARABLE OF DEATH LUKAS FOSS TONIGHT AT 8:30 P.M.

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