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Members of iho ca Charlie Brown" pre ni.qht and Saturday 400 Merrimack St. Ready to it of "You're a Good Man, pare for performances to at the Smith Baker Center, Back row, frem left: Russ Well nffiAMTiMEflN, my HOYr li nPFWESCfannTwr I TRAIL with CUE, YES! OUT OUR WAY rOK SI I'PCACt AW'CJlAKAA HS'I VVl i III I I' 'EKROUEE OF TH' FARM IUSTEAD OF WORXJU' FROM 0A M.TD4 EM, BWLTCES, BUT LUCKILY MOSTOF US NEVER OETTH' CHAUCE TO A FIMPOLiTHOWOUICKLVTHEy perform HOW Varney as Scroeder, Jack Blackburn as Linus and Dennis Taff as Snoopy, Front, from left; Sue Eck as Patty. Donn Hill as Charlie Brown and Nancy Grennan as Lucy, WW PS IT ALL OV6R again'? evasyfJouR years, all this hip HOOKAH WV NOT SIT IT PONS ONCE TSB1I. I eruess ONE Tryin' til ONE Bridge By OSWALD JAMES JACOBY Hamlet's opening bid of four spades will be found in any bridgo book even though not in Shakespeare. Poor Yorick, sitting West, thought of trying a five club call but decided against it.

had never run well for him. The fair Ophelia studied her cards for awhile. "To slam or not to slam" was her problem. She bid six. The six spade call shut off ABOOT IM "THESES ALWAYS said, "Thank He started dummy's ace for a mute Was there taking that there any The answer was only if to a suit his The answer only if Yorick Hnmlet something suit, and he HITS i iho king or clubs.

Onhella nut down rlummv1 and Hamlet, gallant for once, Horatio and poor Yorick opened "Young Doctor Kildaire" set for Fall TV scene By WILLIAM E. SARMENTO Sun Drama Critic LOWELL This is one of those columns in which a hall dozen or so news items that have been collecting all week get thrown together since next week I'll be covering the long awaited film version of "The Godfather" as well as the television version of "Harvey" along with a couple of Broadway shows. So let's get to it. Blair Hospital will be open for business again this fall when a new half hour version ot the Dr. Kildaire series comes along for syndication on local channels.

The new series will be called "Young Doctor Kildaire" which reminds me of the old radio soap opera, "Young Doctor Malone." The new Kildaire following in the footsteps of Lou Ayres and Richard Chamberlain will be a new actor named Mark Jenkens. THE FILM critic for the National Catholic Weekly and Sunday Visitor was fireri because he placed "Condemned" rated films on his "Ten Best" list for the past year. The films were "A Clockwork Orange' rated and "The Last Picture Show" rated Coming next week, The Spanish Inquisition? The American television success, "Ail in the Family" was taken, as most of you know, from the British series "'Till Death Do Us film version of that series will be released in America under the title, "The Garnetl If yuu think Archie Bunker is something, you have (o see Mr And "Steptoe and Son" the British original of "Sanford and Son" will also be seen in this country in a full length motion picture version. A reader asks, "Whatever happend to Jean Arthur?" Well after her television series and Broadway play flopped, she retired and is cur "Charlie Brown" shows tonight and tomorrow LOWELL The Greater Lowell Theatre Company will present "Charlie Brown" at the Smith Baker Center tonight and tomorrow night at 8:15 The center, headquarters of AMNO, is located opposite City Hall at 400 Merrimack St. The G.L.T.C.

has just been designated as "Theatre Company in Residence" at AMNO. In cooperation with the City Recreation Department and the Mitdcl Cities" Agency, a 1000 seat theatre facility has been arranged in the center. The show will begin promptly at 8:15 and be over by 10 p.m. Tickets will be at the dnor. The show appeals rat only to children, but to the older set as well and a large attendance is expected.

BLONDIE teens can. ffie OLE MICKEY FINK 7T rWTMiTWEYl: BOTH urn: out you, my darling." to reach and then paused soliloquy. any hurry about ace of clubs? Was harm in taking il? to the first question Yorick could shift partner could ruff. to the second was held eight clubs. decided there was rotten about the dub let Yorick hold the first trick.

It wns just as well. East could have ruffed the aca and left Hamlet one trick short of his slain. 1' HESI I THEN WE'LL CO OUR GETTIN' RID OFI I THIS JOB IS WORTH I SEPARATE WAYS THE BODY WILL I AT LEAST THREE i THOUSANP' IT'S BE THERE fLLETTHH I 'v UES ALWAYS LOSING HIS BRUSHES NORTH AAS85 VAC K72 A10SB TffiST EAST A Void A 2 105 VKQ987432 J84 4Q1095 KQJ9T Void 53 2 SOUTH (D) KQJJ97643 AG3' Both vufncrnlile West Noilh Eaat Sooth Ptira 6 A Puss Paw Pais Opening Irad rently teaching at Vassar College in Poughkeep sle, N.Y. DO YOU REMEMBER Leon Ames? He played Judy Garland's father in "Meel Me In Saint Louis" and also the title role in the television series of "Life With Now 70, he just signed a new five year film contract to make rated family films. Despite all the smiles for the press, neither Lucille Ball nor Desi Arnaz are very happy about Desi current involvement with Liza Min nelli whose similarity to her mother is off stage than on.

And finally the most asked question in New York this week concerns singer Al Martino who walked off the stage at the Persian Hoom and quit his engagement there after supposedly having words with a heckler in the audience. The question is simply this, "Did Martina's appearance in the film 'The Godfather' irritate his Italian chums? Petite former actress converts French to American rock musicals, revues By PAUL JAJENDIB PARIS (Renter) A petite former actress with a sharp eye for the commercial possibilities of the Vietnam war, nudity and Jesus Christ has managed single handed to convert the French to American rock musicals and revues. Miss Annie Fargue, a lithe young blonde who once worked for the revered French State Theater Company the Comedis Francaise, turned impresario and Irak a gamble in 1969 when she put on "Hair." Despite fears the pro youth, anti Vietnam war musical would flop, it ran for two and one half years in Paris and is now playing to packed houses on a provincial tour of France. Until then, French theater audiences had been notoriously fickle in their attitude to imported musicals. The American show "Sweet Charity' and the English musical "The Boy Friend" were both resounding flops in Paris.

No impressario had the pluck or money to put on such musicals as "My Fair Lady," "The King and and "Oklahoma," which have been box office winners in England, Germany, Italy and Scandinavia. AFTER "HAIR," MISS Fargue tried her luck with two mure American hits and struck gold again. In early 1971 siie put on the revue "Oh Calcutta' a combination of risque sketches and nude dancing. It is still packing the aisles at a theater in Montmartre. This February Miss Fargue brought "God spell" described by its American authors as a rock musical comedy based an St.

Matthew's gospel to Paris. "In Hair 1 copied the American original as PVE MtoKteUMNoMUlT' MV WHOLE HFE FLASHED BEFORE ME WHEN Mi WIFE SAID HEP. MfllVIEp. yy IfcS iNSUM.AN'fnMEIFILH ft CLAIM, THE IKWANCC company says, rrs NO FAULT OF THEIRS WAb MOVING IM By George DEAR GEORGE: I am only 19 and have fallen in love with an older man. He is 32.

What should I do? CONFUSED DEAR CONFUSED: Would you mind sending that letter to Abby or Ann? The more I read it the more ecr tion 1 become that no matter what I say, it's going to look funny, DEAR GEORGE: I am a writer who lives in an apartment full of beautiful stewardesses. They flock into the swimming pool in bikinis. Do you think a writer can do his HE SEE TOP AGAIN job while distracted? mzF HESAID1MDST S.W. DEAR S. Absolutely not.

Pul awav that silly typewriter LEON AMES much as I could," she says. "In France it's definitely the secret to success because you don't have any directors with a sense of rock music." Fni "Liodspell," she imported Nina Fasco, who did the direction of the original off Broadway show in New York. Miss Fargue says the shows have been' successful "because they are not typical foreign musicals. The French would definitely never accept the old type of American musical comedy and the only reason they swallow something like "Hair" is the rock music. "Financu for 'Hair' wasn't that easy but I managed.

'Oh Calcutta' was certainly difficult as people were afraid others would discover they had put money in it," she said. THE LOWELL SUN March' 17, 1972 Page 30 YOU DIDNT KNOW THE COULD PUNCH, PIDJA? MY WIFE AND! USED EX HUSBAKD WAS A BONE TO BE SOUL MATES, JQWWErfcfcLMWE SPECIALIST foR A LIKE CELL MATES LOAl Nfcr CEAP GAME OUR BOARDING HOUSE BE SND)A5 Ml! JSITIJA.TI0N "fICARIN'J EM OFF! HE CALL THE FOLIce? AIM 17 KANCE HALL! lWMvr my car llf'AtTT' TtJSETHER.