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Friday ft T-iff ft Friday vr 9 SIDESHOWS 1 i i I II I i-ri-ri-r- r-i inmrni Dl AlC I 1 rmm j.mmmihjwimiiwijiii hiijii il Mia mi ii imiiiiii jiji.ii.iiii.miii ii iwdiwi ii iimuMmM'J IrFenzh lesson TP" I i Am iir: iivfcj try 4 By Debra Hope Schwartz Because Henry Clay Frick, founder of the Frick Collection, collected only French clocks, only French clocks nearly 100 of them will be exhibited in this special showing. The clocks range in date from 1532-1823, in size from one inch to 100 inches, and in stature from the simple to the sumptuous. They are made of brass, steel, lead, rare woods, gilt, silver, tortoise shell, ivory, horn, porcelain, glass, enamel and crystal, and represent the work of clockmakers Fobis, de'la Garde, Plantart, Hanet, Baltazar and Gilles Martinot, Isaac and Jacques Thuret, and Julien Le Roy, among others; and of designers Boulle, Cressent, Latz, Lieutaud, Duplessis and Pajou. French clocks, through Jan. 30 at The Frick Collection, 1 E.

70th St For grownups Artist Debra Hope Schwartz' "Music On Canvas" is now on display at the Century Cafe (132 W. 43rd The exhibition, consisting of 55 paintings and seven sketches of music stars (such as Bonnie Raitt, shown here, Elvis Costelk), Janis Joplln and Debra Harry) runs through Dec. 12. The artwork Is for sale. If you like things that go "vroom," you'll probably like the Fifth Annual Long Island Custom Van and 4-Wheel Drive Show at the Nassau Coliseum.

You can see It today (6-10 p.m.), tomorrow (noon-n p.m.) or Sunday (noon-10 p.m.) There'll be over 100 customized vehicles for the ogling. (516) 794-9300. The National Horse Show Is trotting out their equine best this weekend at Madison Sqaure Garden. Showtimes are: Friday (1:30 and 750), Saturday (9 a.m.. 130 and 7:30) and Sunday 130 and 730).

The Canadian Mounties will be there for the matinees and evening shows, and the Black Stallion (of movie fame) will perform at the Saturday and Sunday matinees. For more horsln around, 10 rodeo cowboys and 2 cowgirls will perform In a free exhibition at Nathan's Famous' parking lot (2290 Central Park Yonkers). The buckeroos will demonstrate horemanshlp, trick riding, and lariat throwing. It's tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The rain date is Nov. 13. St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery (10th St. and Second Ave.) will host a White Elephant Rummage Sato tomorrow from noon to 4 p.m.

Bargain hunters can find clothes, books, household Items and collectables. Admission is free. 674-6377. Long Island University (DeKalb and Flatbush Aves.) will host a celebration of Caribbean dance, music and crafts tomorrow from 1-5 p.m. in their Triangle Theater.

852-6200. thoir kids Obviously, nothing is sacred. The Museum of the City of New York will present the Nifty Puppeteers performing "No, No Pinocchiol" tomorrow at 130. The show is an updated version of the classic wooden-puppet story this time getting the little "Guys and Dolls" THE BEST YEARS OF HIS LIFE guy Into drug-related trouble. (Poor Geppetto he put so much faith In that boy.) Admission is $2.50 at the Museum auditorium.

534-1672. The Staten Island Children's Museum (15 Beach St.) tomorrow will present "Inua Mask-Making." The program Is based on the masks of medicine men of the Inult Eskimo and the demonstration includes movement and storytelling. This program, by the way, will have a signer for the hearing-Impaired. On Sunday, The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers" will perform songs and dances from four areas; the Northwest Coast, the Eastern Woodlands, the Plains and the Southwest. Both programs begin at 1:30 and are free with museum admission (50 cents for kids.

$1 for adults). 273-2060. jj Heights," with Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, David Niven and Geraldine Fitgerald; "Dodsworth," with Walter Houston, Mary Astor and Ruth Chattertown; "The Winning of Barbara Worth," the 1926 film which marked Gary Cooper's film debut; the original "Hurricane," directed by John Ford; Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes," starring Bette Davis and Teresa Wright, and "These Goldwyn's first talkie, "Bulldog the rarely seen 1930 version of "Whoopee," with Eddie Cantor; "They Shall Have King Vidor's "Stella "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," with Danny Kaye; "Kid "The Bishop's Wife," "The "We Live "The Real "Woman Chases "The Wedding "The Dark "My Foolish "Come and Get and the classic "The Best Years of Our Lives," starring Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy and Frederic March, which swept the 1946 Academy Awards, winning eight Oscars, including Best Picture. The Samuel Goldwyn Film Classics Retrospective, Sunday-Nov. 18, The Regency Theatre, Broadway and 67th St Box office number is 724-3700.

During the years 1923-1959, Samuel Goldwyn produced nearly 80 films and, along with them, a standard for excellence in Hollywood. Neither has ever been matched. Known as a "star maker," Goldwyn elevated the position of screenwriter to prominence, and brought the talents of Lillian Kellman, Dorothy Parker, Robert E. Sherwood, Sinclair Lewis and S.N. Berman to the screen.

He also brought a lot of people into movie theaters. He still does, it seems. Thirty-three award-winning films produced by Goldwyn and chosen by his son Samuel Goldwyn Jr. will be shown at the Regency Theatre starting Sunday. The retrospective will open with a three-day showing of "Guys and Dolls," the 1955 musical starring Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons and Vivian Blaine, and directed by Joseph L.

Mankiewicz. On the same bill will be a half-hour documentary on the making of the movie, featuring interviews by Ed Sullivan with Goldwyn, Brando, Simmons and Mankiewicz. Other films to be shown include "Wuthering M0MI1rSlIOt The American Indian and Eskimo are the subjects of a film and video festival which started Wednesday and which will continue through Nov. 21. The first week of the festival will be held at the Bleecker Street CinemaAgee Room, 144 Bleecker St, where such documentaries as "Raoni" (on the life of the Kayapo Indians) and "Good Medicine" (on the traditional healing practices of Navajo "singers" and Sioux medicine men) will be shown.

Other weeks will examine the film industry's presentation of "Indians; as in, forexample, D.W. Griffith's "The Massacre," and the rarely seen "With Sitting Bull at the 'Spirit Lake Native American Film and Video Festival, through Nov. 21. For more information, call The Museum of the American Indian, Broadway, at 155th St, 283-2420. of Bleecker and Thompson Showtimes for tonight and tomorrow are 9:30, midnight and 2 a.m.; Sunday at 9:30, 11:30 and 1:15 a.m.

228-3788. Bobby Short, the darllng-est of the jet set (so some would say), is back at the piano at the Cafe Cariyle (76th St and Madison He performs Tuesdays-Saturdays at 10 p.m. and midnight 744-1600. Jazz flutist Herble Mann Is at Fat Tuesday's (190 Third Ave.) through Sunday. He plays tonight and tomorrow at 9, 11 and 1 a.m..

and Sunday at 9 and 11 I I Classical The New York City Opera will perform The Merry Widow tonight at 8 and tomorrow at 2. Tomorrow, it's "Carmen" at 8. it's la Boheme" at 1 and "Mefistofele" at 7, Guitarist Julian Bream Is at Town Hall tonight at 8. The New York Philharmonic, conducted by John Nelson, is at Avery Fisher Hall today at 2 and tomorrow at 8. Pianist Alexis Welssenberg will give a recital at Carnegie Had tomorrow at 8.

The Metropolitan Opera win present "Lucia Dl tonight at 8. Tomorrow, they'll stage "Idomeneo" at 130 and "Un Ballo In Maschera" at 8. The American Symphony Orchestra will be at Carnegie Hall Sunday at 3. contemporary Linda Ronstadt asking the musical question, "When Will I Be Loved? Is rockin' away at Radio City tonight through Tuesday (all shows at 8 p.m.). Well, maybe the Bus Boys, who open the show for her, have the answer.

Or, perhaps, she'll answer herself with That'll Be the Day." 757-3100. PI efface tihk Country kid We all know what her daddy did. And we're all aware that Sissy Spacek won an Oscar for the film version. But Loretta Lynn Is most definitely the star of her own life. And she'll prove why tomorrow and Sunday at Westbury Music Fair.

For Information, call (516) 333-0533. p.m. 533-7902. The High Heeled Women, a New York-based comedy group, are at the Inner Circle (113 Jane St.) every Friday and Saturday at 9 p.m. through Dec.

10. We've never seen them but judging by one skit title, "For White Girls Who Have Considered Analysis When Electrolysis Is Enough," they must be OK. 924-7030. ell tho rest The Boy Friend," a musical spoof of the 1920s. Is being revived at the St.

Bart's Playhouse (109 E. 50th St.) through Nov. 20. It plays tonight at 8, tomorrow at 230 and 8, and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. 751-1616.

"Nurse Jana Goes to Hawaii," starring Georgia Engel (best known as Georgette in the "Mary Tyler Moore as a naive author of romance novels, Is at the Theater In the Park (located in the New York State Pavilion, Flushing MeadowCorona Parkv The I I pV Little Foxes." -H r--'-' i "Wutherina Dallas Vjd iv olfi 8" A special exhibition on the nude will, no doubt, be the star, attraction at the Third Annual Fine" Art Photography Exposition. Forty photos in black and white and color of male and female nudes by both American and European artists, from the" 19th century to the present, will be shown. Oh, yes, elsewhere in the show will be simple little works by Lewis Carroll, Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbot, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Stieglitz, Third Annual Fine Art Photography Exposition, today (6 tomorrow and Sunday Roosevelt Hotel. (Exhibit hours will be preceded by seminars tomorrow and Sunday, and an award presention to Ansel Adams tonight) Tickets $10 per day or $15 for three days. 1 Utopia, that rock band headed by anti-nuker Todd Rundgren, is in concert tonight at the Westchester County Center (Central Ave.

and Bronx River Parkway) at 8. (914) 949-8900. 00 Marty's (1265 Third at 73rd St.) through Nov. 13. She goes on tonight and tomorrow at 10 and midnight.

249-4100. Phllly Joe Jones and his band. Dameronla, are playing their jazz be-bop music at Lush Life (corner HankGallo It plays Tuesdays-Saturdays at 8, Sundays at 2 and 6.30 p.m. and cabaret Sylvia Syms, known to many as a "singer's singer," Is at weonesaay matinees at 2:30. 592-5700.

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