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cr. iool Million to Stoke Bard Festival By MICHAEL IACHETTA Joe, Mitzi, Sam, Amyas and Kathy, the million-dollar baby who wasn't there, played important roles yesterday in Lincoln Center's decision to enter into a 25-year Exultant Humble Pie By PATRICIA O'HAIRE Going to a rock band's concert at Madison Square Garden always is an experience, but attending1 one on what problably was the first nice day of an entire rainy year as a bit like taking part in one of the annual rites with the New York Shakespeare Festival for use of the Vivian Beaumont and Extra Matinee "Nash at Nine," the musical at the Helen Hayes Theater, will play an extra matinee today at 2 p.m. it is? CO CO Forum Theaters. The decision was bolstered by a $1 million- gift described as the largest single donation to an operating theater to help get the show on the road and dent a projected $1.5 million annual deficit. The festival became a constituent institution of Lincoln Center with yesterday's announcement at Alice Tully Hall.

The lease begins in September. The festival's 30-week season at Lincoln Center will begin Oct. 27 with a new play by David Rabe, the first of five to be staged at the Vivian Beaumont. Three Plays by The Bard The Forum's season will consist of three Shakespeare plays on dates yet to be determined. Now for a closer look at Joe, Mitzi, Sam, Amyas and Kathy.

Joe is impresario Joe Papp, guiding spirit behind the festival. On March 6 he accepted an invitation for the festival to join Lincoln Center as a constituent organization "contingent upon a sirft of $5 million being raised over the next few months to cover two thirds of the projected operating deficit over the first five years." Papp, an impish, long-haired version of little boy blue in a mod blue velvet suit, stood yesterday beside a bust of Beethoven and announced the $1 million gift from Mitzi. Sara Heads the Network Mitzi is Mrs. Samuel I. New-house, vice president and secretary of Newhouse Publications, which includes 22 newspapers, Conde Nast Publications, Inc.

(whose magazines include Vogue, Glamour aril Mademoiselle) and radio and TV stations. Sam heads the communications network. She sat behind Joe, alongside of Amyas Ames, chairman of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Amyas said: "There are so many things that she could have done with her money, but she chose to make a great institutional theater come alive at Lincoln Center; she chose to support the performing arts, and in doing so she has made a gift to the cause of theater in the United States, a gift to all of the people of the City of New York, and we thank her for it-" Talk Was Decisive Papp also disclosed a $350,000 grnt from the Rockefeller Foundation, and has asked for $500,000 from the National Endowment on the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the city of New ork. He has asked for irom ine oun- dation.

Decisions are expected by of spring. The audience was happy, expectant, eager and restless, sitting contentedly through the first set, by Black Oak Arkansas, whose music is quite aptly described as a and 1 1," while waiting for the main at-1 traction, Humble Pie, to make entrance. And when the four-man British group leaped onstage and started to play, the concentration of power and hig-h-voltage energy g-enerated in their listeners seemed almost enough to keep bkylab orbit for an extra year Blackberries 'n Pie The Blackberries, a three-woman trio, backed Humble Pie during their performance, and a interesting performance i was. The music was loud that's to be expected but it was also quite good and the sound system, for the first time in the Garden's recorded history, was working well. Lyrics actually were understandable.

Humble Pie has a defftiite. strong personality in its lead singer, Steve Marriott, and he leaps and bounds around the stage like a pint-sized Mick Jagger. He even does a creditable imitation of Jagger singing ''Honky Tonk Woman" during the group's tribute to the Rolling Stones. The Pie is unusual in that it ITLheGrteir ACTORS PERF. SUSDAY at 7:30 THIS YEAR'S BEST MUSICAL TONY AWARD WINNERS N.Y.

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J. Antoon; and a musical that "will bring a little of the East Village uptown, perhaps something by Michael Weller (author of "Moon directed by 25-year-old Kim Friedman," said Papp, who envisions moving the plays to Broadway or TV or films if their success warrants. He said: "The activities at Lincoln Center will in no way diminish the festival's production at its Public Theater nor its free out-of-door presentations in Central Park and the Mobile Theater. Quite the contrary. My present intention is to double the productions presented last season at the Public Theater by doing 12 to 14 plays by writers like Robert Montgomery, John Ford Noonan, i ii i i ft.

vvener, murray AieamcK, lom unorgan, jacK feiDer, reter Link and Fred Coffin. The Shakespeare at the Forum may be 'Henry and 'The Merry Wives of And the Beaumont will be a forum for major works by major writers." New 'Pippin' Player Dorothv Stickney will take over the role in "Pippin" that was played by the late Irena Ryan. She will replace Lucie Lancaster in the part. Miss Stick-ney's first performance will be on June 11. "A Little Night Music" will play a special performance for the benefit of the Actors Fund on Sunday at the Shubert Theater.

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Kathv is Mitzi's granddaugh ter. And, Mitzi explained after the formal press conference. asked me not long ago what I wanted to be when I grew up. I always wanted to be a ballet dancer. I've always been interested in the arts and my talk with Kathy made that interest clear to me.

I decided to do something tangible about that interest. With Joe, it was a case of the right timing, luck, and coin cidence, which is usually the way things work out in lite." Mitzi, in a smart gold suit with diamonds on her fingers as big as the Ritz, explained that she regularly goes to see free Shakespeare in Central Park and liked Joe's work there and at the Public Theater. Go-Go Show Papp said the "courtship" involved in working on the donation went on for about a year. Mitzi said it was closer to 10 years but she "dropped" Joe and thoughts of helping the festival financially when she became interested in her magazines. Then came that talk with Kathy.

While Mitzi was explaining that she was self-conscious talking in front of crowds, enjoyed coming in from "the country" (Lawren-ceville, N.J.) for first nights, ballets and operas and is a "lover" of the theater and Shakespeare (although no one from the Forum or Vivian Beaumont ever approached her for a contribution), Papp was describing things that her money would help pay for, beginning with Rabe's "In the Boom Boom Room" about a go-go dancer. That will be followed by Irish beginning with Kabe In the Boom Boom Room" about a go-go aancer. That will be followed by Irish DELUXE -I2ESQ- URWALLirONKOrS BETMMCf BtTMP-AM. HEMPSTEAD HtAtPSTEAO CASTLE CRANFOTO Crjnlari BENVH1E OeflvtUc DUNEUM DttaeUn BEL bene SAC HARBOR SAG Ait SOU AIT'S SHIRLEY 1 CEwrupnrs TURK nuwi.MC-rc riuA. RYAN O'NEAL-JACQUELINE BISSET njhe WARREN OATES IRIS? who cane to aerjrjEiR CtriebratHvg Warner Bros.

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