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to I PUMP? OUT, BUT IT liTnV WAEMgl Bf tl X- Drum Beating Barrault Revival a to eads Noisy 'Rabelais' Martin Branner Dead; Created Winnie Winkle New London, May 20 (AP) Martin Michael Branner, 81 creator of the comic strip "Winnie Winkle," died last night in a convalescent home. II had been confined to a wheel chair since a stroke in 1962. By JOHN CHAPMAN Jean-Louis Barrault brought his "Company" to the City Center Tuesday evening atrical spectacular called "Rabelais," based on the writings of Francois Rabelais. It is, I would say, somewhere between "Hair" and "Beggar on Horseback" but in French. -1 partner was his wife, Edith, who died in 1966.

Branner was a member of the Lambs Club, a theatrical group in New York City. While in vaudeville, he kept his interest in drawing, which had started when he was a school hoy. In 1919 he sold a Sunday feature called "Looie the Lawyer" and then drew a cartoon called "Pete and Pinto" that hal a 20-week stand in a New York newspaper. And Then Winnie The following year he created "Winnie Winkle." The National Cartoonist Society voted "Winnie Winkle" the best comic strip in 1958. Branner entered the Nutmeg Pavillion convalescent home here several days before his death.

His home was at 27 Riverside Drive, Waterford. Survivors include two sons, Bernard D. Branner of Water-ford; Robert J. Branner of Baltimore; a twin brother. Randolph, of Laguna Hills, a sister, Mrs.

Ethel Gordon of New York City grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. A Requiem High Mass will he offered at St. Matthias Church in East Lyme Friday at 1 0a.m. Burial will be at Maple Grove Cemetery, Kew Gardens, Queens, Monday. And it is noisy.

Most of the 30 actors and actresses play dual roles, which makes them twice as noisy. The orchestra, playing musk- by Mitchel Polnareff, will brook no opposition. Even Barrault, performing as a sideline commentator and beating a drum vigorously is far from suave. A Lively Show This "Rabelais" is not a classic but a new work, very often in hippie style. If your French is as rusty as mine, you'll have to unearth the plot from the program, which is in English, or hear it through a transistor headset, which the management rents.

(I got mine free, but forgot to use it.) Barrault, as author-director, has put on a lively show wihch is not precisely literary. It seems to be a consideration of some of the works of Rabelais, who is described in my encyclopedia as a humorist, even though, in approximately 53 years of life, he also had been a monk, a doctor and a teacher. He may have been the originator of the dirty joke, altough the proceedings at the Center Theater are more earthy than dirty. Like the beginning scene about the birth of Gar- 2(1 Edition "I Am Curious (Blue)," at the Cine Malibu, is just more of "I Am Curious (Yellow)." More of Lena, director Vilgot Sioman's pigeon-plump heroine mistress. More of Sjoman himself who takes ego trips through his films.

More of Lena's rambling interviews with the Swedes-on-the-street. More of those discussions about the class structure. A few new questions about the prison system and religious hypocrisy. Amazingly, there is less sex. Lena, who has grown fatter and duller, has become a voyeur, and a listless one at that.

Apparently, she can't wait for the thing to be over and one knows exactly how she feels. KATHLEEN CARROLL UNTIL I VV TO THE OFFICE "Winnie Winkle," introduced April 20, 1920, in the New York News, is now published in more Martin Branner Cartoonist die at 81 than 150 daily newspapers through the Chicago Tribune-New York News undicate. It Will Continue Max Van Bibber, Bran tier's longtime assistant, has been drawing the strip ever since Branner suffered a stroke. The story is written by Jean Sparber. The syndicate plans to continue the feature.

Asked several years ago for advice for would-be cartoonists, Branner shook his head and said: "You can't learn how to become a cartoonist in art school. Those schools all look down at comics, call them the lowest form of art." Typically American "But I believe that comics are the most typical features of the American people. They portray their slang, reactions to everyday events and a thousand other things. "The way I look at it a cartoonist must have a good sense of humor, a full knowledge of life and the ability to portray in a comic manner. In addition, the comic artist must be an author." Once in Vaudeville Branner in his youth performed in vaudeville, in a dancing act called Martini and Fabrini.

His PP. 6 RANT. WHAT 15 THE IN i iff fix 11 IN for a two-week run a the Jean-Louis Barrault Beats his own drum gantua, who was a very bit at the start. Tuesday nights opening was for the benefit of the Yisitii.g Nurse Service of New York. Paramount Release Paramount Pictures has- Acquired "L'Aveu (The Confession)" for release in the C.Sj and Canada.

The latest film by H'-ri'i Costa-Gavias, who directed relates the imprisonment a high Communist official 0 ing the Stalinist purge in Eas'eni Europe of the early Yvi- Montand and Simone Signoret are starred. 'Love in Showcase MOM's "Brotherly Love." starving Peter "Toole and Susannah York, has opened at 19 Showcase theaters in the metropolitan area. The drama revolves around the stormy relationship l.etwien brother and sister and her husband. 'Prom Exhibit signs for an international exhibition of scene and costume designs for onera and ballet, will be on display at Philharmonic Hall during the New Yrk Philharmonii 's "Promenades," Mav 27-June 20. BETTER CET BACK I HAVEN'T HAP TOUAV! IV EXPECT IT EEST THAT VOU CANCEL HIS APPOINTMENTS FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS, JUNE if- 1 MARY HINKSON will be one of the principal dancers in the first revival in 18 years of Martha Graham's "El Peni tente" to be presented by the Martha Graham Center of temporary Dance at 8:30 p.m.

next Thursday at the YMHA, 92d St. and Lexington Ave. DeLury Raps Medical Cos Washington, May 20 (AP) The leader of the nation's largest sanitation union accused the federal government today of contributing to the rsing cost of hospital and medical care. John J. DeLury, president of the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association New York City, said medicare and medicaid rates for doctors and hospitals pegged to so-called "reasonable and customary" rates, are among chief causes of "runaway costs galloping inflation, if you will." "Reasonable and customary means whatever the trafic will bear," he told the Senate's antitrust and monopoly subcommittee, "and that means whatever the consumer, organized or unorganized is forced to pay." DeLurv suggested a reorgani zation of "our funding vehicles, such as Blue Cross make them consumer coperatives." Stoky Premiere Leopold Stokowski will conduct the world premier of a new can- tata by Polish avant garde com- poser Andrzej Panufik in a free concert, Sunday afternoon at 4, in the Cathedral of St.

John the1 Divine. I 'VVHy PONY YO) WAIT MAV--- Seeks Reversal On Bar Exam Ban The New York Civil Liberties Union announced yesterday it had submitted a brief on behalf of itself and 14 other organizations calling upon the New York Court of Appeals to reverse itself and permit students from law schools which suspended final tests to take the bar exam. Shortly after President Nixon announced the Cambodian strike, a number of law schools suspended classes to permit their students to demonstrate in Washington. But the state's highest court ruled last week that no one would be allowed to take the bar final "unless he had first taken and been tested by an authentic written examination in each of his law school courses." THAT DIFFICULT TO 5 AT THIS TIME, LATER THIS AFTERNOON TIME TO CANCEL OUT HIS APPOINT PERHAPS HE WILL HAVE Hfc HAS A LL. FKACTURE AN P.

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