The Windsor Star from Windsor, Ontario, Canada • 17

akes Date Ballet mnipeg Club Sponsors Visit on Kiwanis Two Canadian ballets, given their world premiere in Winnipeg on Oct. 12, will be seen in Windsor when the Royal Winnipeg Ballet performs at Cleary Auditorium Nov. 5, under the patronage of Windsor Kiwanis Club. The first ballet is Brian Macdonald's ''Prothalamion." Mr. Macdonald first gained prominence in Canadian Thea pMNMRMMMf IWWwmiWWfr 'vx.

i A VW ft -'S 'i fjrA tre as director of McGill University's musical comedy "My Fur Lady." He has two other ballets in the company repertoire that have been seen on CBC-TV. They are "The Darkling" and "Les Whoops de Doo." Second Canadian ballet is "Danse Boheme" by Jim Clouser. Mr. Clouser is a dancer with the company and this is his third work. His bal let "Recurrence" has also been seen on the CBC network.

Turning to American choreographers, the company will present the world famous "Pas de Dix" by George Bal-anchine, considered the greatest living choreographer. Mr. Balanchines assistant Miss Una Kai taught the ballet to the company in Winnipeg in 1961. Miss Agnes de Mille, niece -x I I ll I 'A 1 -0 I i i Jrr. HEAVY DUTY Fred Broeder and Frank Ugrits are two long-time members of the Windsor Symphony who lean toward the larger instrument.

They were "caught" by the photographer during a rehearsal as they bowed their cellos while preparing for the Windsor Symphony opening concert Sunday at .3:30 p.m. at Cleary Auditorium. LEAD ROLES Embracing each other prior to singing their first song together are the student prince (Robert Munn) and his sweetheart (Eileen Chisholm), waitress Kathie. The scene is one of the many tender moments that appear in the Windsor Light presentation of Sigmund Romberg's -The Student which opens at the Cleary Auditorium Nov. 17 On Ciolliam SciMU Audrey de Vos, Leading English Ballet Teacher, Instructs Koyal Winnipeg IJallet Dancers Theatre Radio Television Geography Fails To Aid Musical A second look sometimes doesn't help a bit.

concludes critic Howard Taubman. after a re-examination of the "new stvle" musical, "Stop the World I Want to Get Off." Jk a Ak. Nov. 5 of the famous film producer Cecil B. de Mille, who gained fame by revising the American dance pattern when she choreographed "Oklahoma." flew to Winnipeg to teach the company "The Bitter Weird." a tale of the Scottish Highlands.

The Winnipeg Ballet is the only touring company in North America performing one of Miss de ballets. 6s) 'ages 17 to 20 Exporting Humor Walter Slienson Likes His Work By GEORGE MONTGOMERY LONDON, Eng. (Reuters) These are worrying times lor many exporters of British prod- ucts, but one of their number, a lanky, soft-spoken man nair3d Walter Shenson, does not share in the anxiety. Shenson, a 43 year-old Ameri can based here, has established' himself as a successful exporter of one of the most ephemeral am! tricky all I.nti.sh wares -film humor An Iiulependent movie producer, Shenson confidently forecasts an increasingly bright future for this British "product" provided it is tailored properly for the foreign market. The market in which Shenson is most interested is the American one.

lie scored well in the Star i i xvmsnx Chapman Itcport Capitol Movie Co tro ve rs ia I The controversial, yet provocative film "The Chapman Report," based on a sex survey and its impact on a suburban community, is termed human drama by Director George Cukor. This feature, which is current) ly showing at the Capitol 1(TSta)rrinTg To0n 1 Theatre, has also been called "a Meade, Jim Backus, I -red Clark eood story with fine elements anfl CePl1 Kellaway Poston por- Windsor Ontario Saturday October 27 1962 Now Let') ENTERTAINMENT ALMANAC trays the timid professor. TONIGHT Detroit's Fisher Theatre. "Lord Pengo" starring Charles Boyer and Agnes Moorehead. Second of three-week engagement.

Curtain 8:30 p.m. TONIGHT Detroit's Vanguard penny upera, starring Powers, Charles Gilbert Goes into sixth of seven except Mondays. Curtain of drama highlighted by delici ous moments of comedy." Comedies are programmed at both the Vanity and Palace Theatres. "If a Man Answers' again nir Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin and it provokes laughter from start to finish. "Zotz" is a new venture by former horror-picture expert William Castle.

This time its comedy with "Zotz" the magic word for fun. It is headlining the Palace bill. CAPITOL Ripping aside a wealthy suburban community's facade of srnug respectability, a team of psychologists conduct- Lt.v tiiri.i.v ru rn ul in "The Chapman Report," the r.rr.tr..otiu(. li P. Vt 1 Tff TONIGHT Detroit's Masonic Auditorium.

noted pianist, in recital. Curtain 8:20 TONIGHT Windsor Jewish Community Paiama Game." presented by Centre shoo. Continuing Sunday 8:40 p.m. SUNDAY Cleary Auditorium. Windsor Symphony Orchestra featuring internationally famous Beaux Arts Trio of New York.

Curtain .3:30 p.m. SUNDAY Assumption University Centre. R. F. Byrnes, noted historian, lectures on "Russian-West Relations: Problems and Prospects" Curtain 8:20 p.m.

MONDAY Cleary Auditorium. Rotary stage show in ton-junction with Rotary Auto Show. Two performances nightly through Saturday. Curtain 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. VANITY Combining romance and comedy in just about equal portions, Universale "If a Man Answers," which; opens Sunday at the Vanity Theatre, is the perfect answer lo anyone seeking momentary escape from today stark real- Sandra Dec and Bobby Darin, happily brought together for the first time in "Come September," are again paired off, this time in frothy situations that heighten the conflict of, and the natural attraction between the sexes.

Adapted from Winifred Wolfe K. oest-seUing novel, "If a Man An swers" is the story of the daughter of a French mother and staid life is love filled with problems of first on how to trap the man she's decided to marry and then how to keep his attention focus- jed on her. Ail of her problems crop up in a hilarious and unorthodox manner from advice given to her by her mother. But the way they solved could start, a revolu- tion among young married couples. Mieheline Presle, a most at tractive French actress, was taken Hollywood from Pans lo give all the necessary authentj.

city to Sandra's mother. NEIGHBORHOODS Wind- sor Drive-In Theatre will be open only on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings after this program for next. includes "Weak and 'weekend thf, vvicked" with Diana Dors, Kittens Go To College" wjtn Mamie Var. Doren and 5 (l arKl jofJin" rilf. "Batman Centre is holding its mirthmaking oro and "Watrh Your Sifen A is featuring "Rome Adventure" with Troy Donahue of htar.

amJ uXi(k urfm Th Uuri huK an Italian program Sunday but opens "Guns of Navarone md on of Sherwood Forest' Monday. U.S. market three years ago with his British-made I The Playhouse. "The Three uooert liounsevnie, iviarie and Roma Butler Riddell. week presentation.

Nightly 8:30 p.m. Van Cliburn, p.m. Centre. "The Work- Theatre and Nov. 3 and 4 Curtain in Christian Culture Series, is currently playing at the M.iiiMi'wii."MiL'"iinmi.mii" v.tmmamm, wmii m.i i .1 iiul mi nil i nicolor picture now playing the Capitol.

Efrem Zimbalist, Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom, Glynis Johns, Kay Danton and Ty Hardin top the cast of the Dairy! V. Zanuck Production which is based on the controversial best selling nov el by Irving Wallace. Because of the controversial subject matter Producer Rich- ard Zanuck and Director George Cukor closed the film's set dur- ing much of the shooting. "The picture is based on the premise thai love ana lenuer- ness are the true meaning of sex and that sex without, these is mere animaiity," said Zan uck wnen me mm weni the cameras. we inieno 10 maK.e an non- est picture wmen win oe niginy mieresung, ano we imeno 10 uo it without becoming a dealer in pornography." PALACE William Castle who succeeded in bountiful crop of goose pimples on screen auuiences wnen ire 1 i i 1 Film Show On Norse Arthur Dewey Next A.K.O.

Cue Arthur Dewey will return to the A.K.O. Worldorama stage Sunday NoV- 4 for the sec0nd i show of the new series. He will present his latest all-color, sound film, "Scandinavian Summer." Tickets for the 3 m. show at Cleary Auditorium may be picked up at Wansbrough's Camera Shop. Chatham St.

or reserved by calling WII 8-1313. Mr. Dewey well known to Worldorarna audiences having made two previous appearances with his films on Mexico and the South Pacific. "Scandinavian Summer" has been judged his outstanding presentation and this new film on Norway, Sweden and Denmark is new territory for the A.K.O. travelogue programs.

Summer time in Scandinavia is happy time. Enchanted days at the shore. Wonderful cruises through steer), shadow fiords. tunes And standing, like Thor, or Wodm. on a mountain peak, jr has created a color flim tnat.

captures the spirit and genius of Scandinavia at its best i A unique travel documentary of' the Crown Countries" a film distinguished for its fresh ap- proach and superb artistic photo-1 graphy. illiam Garrett, will present his organ recital at 2 30 m. i Norm Hull will be master of ceremonies. Stimlav Hor' Show To Aid Iloxpilal About 50 of the top horses from the U.S. and Canada will take part in the Western Horse Show being staged Sunday at the i- enn Brothers farm, Huron Line.

George Hewitt will direct the show which is being in aid of the I E. Memorial Hospital. Starting time is 2 p.m. be written down. One would hardly expect a group of actors to make up a play as they went along, except perhaps when playing charades at a Christmas party.

Such is the credulity of concert audiences, however, that one group of instrumentalists has, for the last five years, been making some kind of a livelihood out of an entertainment i they make up as they go along. Lukas Foss, a young American pianist, founded his Improvisa- Hon Chamber Ensemble in and it now consists of tarinetist, cellist and percus- 8 Chat Movies By BERT STEEL Director George Sidney is reporting soon for conferences with Producer Joe Pasternak and to start preparations on "Moon Walk which will go before the cameras late this year starring Shirley Jones. It will be the first picture at MGM for Sidney since 1954. That's where he started his career as a direc tor of short subjects and later became one of the studio's top 'directors of box office hits. "Moon Walk" will tie a romantic comedv.

The sporting David Niven probably would never mention it, but Peter Ustinov, arriving in Manhattan from London lor the U.S. premiere of "Billy Budd" in which they both star volunteered it without a qualm. He was once Niven's batman. During World War II Pte. Ustinov was assigned to write a morale film that would star Lieut.

Niven. Because of their difference in stations (military) it was awkward for the pair to live together while working on the film. By appointing Ustinov as Niven's batman convention was satis-field. James Leo Herlihy, author, ihas been signed to co star with i.lean Seberg and Stanley Baker "The French Style," a Columbia released being filmed in Paris Herhhy recently wrote "All Fall Down" and collaborated with William Noble to write "Blue Denim." For four days' work with Maria Schell in the German-made picture "I'm Also a Woman," Eartha Kitt will drag down Stll.lMMI. Just to show our personal reaction, when we typed stars under this note we hit the dollar signs.

It took Olive urgess 300 TV shows to finally get her first movie role, so she's not complaining that she has to wear a perod costume weighing pounds (half her weight) for current co starring with Vincent Price, Boris Karloff and Peter Lorn in "The Raven Hope she doesn't become the corpse in the first reel. 15 years as a musical group, F- a i if '1 Unimpressed the first time iwhon he saw the production a months ago in London be fore it was transported to the New York scone, Mr. Taubman finds "Stop The World" even less enchanting on American soil than in its native habitat. A new male lead, Anthony New ley, puts forth a prodigious effort, but his stellar performance only emphasizes the emptiness of the show, claims Mr. Taubman.

"It lacks spontaneity; it generates nn omntinn- its humor is am, Us satirp SUp0rficial. Despite its divergence from the routine, it releases no magic in thl theatre," he says. The Arizona desert and the York staee would to liavo i 'common, that is. un)ii pla right Thorn- Wilder is in the desert, apparently hard at work on a couple of new plays. Word ((or smoke signals) has it Mr.

Wilder has completed three plavs for the two cvcles he promised "The Seven Ages of Man" and "The Seven Deadly Sins" aixl has two others partially com- pleted. A program will be selected for Cireh v. in The Square by a i I Mr. 1 Wilder's "Plays for Blcekcr Street" are well beyond their performance. TlVOl.l FEATURE Les lie Caion stars as the wife of a i est less businessman caught up in a revolution in a in tit ions I.

aim American country "(inns of Dark iiess," which is currently playing at the Tnoli. David i ven co stars OLD -TIMERS Alter the popular Ivbstlim I'al earned them i.uiio am toast. From Mike will be part ami pa ice most I c4 lwi.i.iii'ii. i. It a I are I TV Feiby, I of 1 orougm lorm such masterpieces as "Mr.

Kardoni-iand cus," "Homicidal-' and "13 Ghosts," has turned to comedy. nng CANDID 1-IBM -Jane Fonda, starring as the young widow of a test pilot, in Warner Bros. "The Chapman Report," reluctantly takes part in a sex survey, determined not to reveal her fears of frigidity. She learns she can be normal when she falls in love with Efrem Zimbalist chief J'oss ailfl CflMMIII Musical Improvisation One -Man Job satire The Thut i iv oared The picture, Shcnson's first, seven times its cost, an excellent record considering i the precarious nature of filming nowadays. It also marked the first big tune introduction of Peter Sellers to American audiences.

Shenson went on to make "A Matter of Who," which performed the same service lor gap toothed, nioustache-sporting British comedv actor I cry -Thomas. At the moment Shenson is at nearby I'niouood Studios film lug The Mouse on the Moon," ia comedy -satire about the i Itusso American space race. Shenson, a native of San Francisco, says the market-tailoring trick involves "putting fine British artists into a story Inch, matter because of its is appealing to Ameri- iivuhutn Sfff He's (iacticnig tions tor the se his improvisa-vice this eve mng All sorts of jokes are told about composers, but it has never sciu.uslv been suggested that two or more compositions by riillcieiil composers should ever be played simultaneously. Such an event could not possibly be icgarilcd as a genuine musical experience. It is a sad commentary on the contemporary thought ol some American musicians that the public is esteemed sit little as to have inllictcri upon it the rambling cacophonies of no less than four improvisers.

Hopefully, so far as concerns i the public taste for music in the! city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, it! can truthfully be reported that most of the sturdy and forth right run thcountrymen and their wives had left the ball before Mr. toss and his associates had left the stage. So far as they were concerned there was no score; and in the absence of a score there was definitely no music. Improvisation remains a "do-it-yourself" technique, but certainly it should one-man job. only be a AcT- Us- Ever since the art of music became sufficiently interesting for people to want to write about it there has been present one almost completely insurmountable difficulty, namely that no written words can ever be found which will adequately explain the subject.

No two people in the world react the same way to the sounds and even skill ed musicians seem to disagree more often than they agree as to the relative merits of any particular performance. The only common ground on A 1 those who enjoy playing or i listening 10 ii can siana logetner 'is the printed text, or as rnusi- id'jnc if 1ho t.r-.' t.f i His latest production for Co- lumbia Pictures' release, Zotz: will help J'aiace aum ences (where it opens Monday to "die laughing." Even in comedy, Castle has IlOi i i i i caiiirnru mr "gimmick" approach of his horror hits. Ray Russell's screenplay for "Zotz!" deals with an unassuming college professor who dreams of becoming the Dean of Languages until super secret turns his life topsy-turvy. "Zotz" puts power at his fingertips, women in his arms and spies in his life. LAUGHS GALORE Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin are teamed as a young married couple in the hilarious romantic comedy "If A Man Answers" which opens Sunday at the Vanity Theatre.

They were previously teamed in "Come September." interviewer. This frank picture Capitol Theatre. troduce a discussion as io whe-ther or not improvisation, if practiced simultaneously by; more than one player at a time.1 i ii ran legitimately be regarded as 7 i a valid musical experience. Observe carefully the distine- tion drawn between the impro-' visation of a single player, and the collective improvisations of as few as four players all alleg-j erily inventing music simul- taneously. Any player, no mat- ter what instrument he plays, can usually invent a few phrases on 'Hi spur of the moment.

Or- gamsts in particular receive a good deal of formal training in l'''V, fL.luihti,t lion Li.rw,hirin laiong to eniiuire me name oi me composer of whatever they hap- pened lo be playing before, dur ing or after a service was just a little casual improvisation," they say, purring contented, in acknowledging the com- Can anyone imagine though, the possibility of a pianist and a violinist doing this sort of thing together and getting away with it, much less a quartet of players, even if one i i of them should be the melody-less, harmony less pert-ussion player? Mr. l-oss argues that his ii ay- (VS r'ly on both system and chance to carry them through: the improvisations, he says, are the result of both collective plan mng and experimentation He tells us that recordings are marie not only of concert per- formances but of the rehearsals whii precede them from these the players decide "where cer- tain results are worthy of re membrancc, and where we ought to piocccri in a different manner." More naively still he remarks be --J I gin to lapse into cliches and memory begins to displace all invention, then we lose interest in the piece and it is dropped from the repertory." So, in ef- feet, his, improvisations have all been carefully and collectively rehearsed, which brings us to an old story that most musicians found slightly amusing the first nine iney neard it. it concerns a Sunday afternoon cail at an organist's house: "May I please see Dr. "No, I'm sorry he can't be disturbed just now. sion player.

Recently they haveluua, i i51t lh'y are always secretly in England one of which i ih i these events, and the latest (Oe- tobi-r issue of the Musical limes of London contains a scribing the system on which he members of his group operate. Armed with this information, though not having had any personal experience of the group's playing, one has enough material available to in- composuion. nere, in cieariy in- telligible signs and instructions, 'is set down what the composer war is io oe nearu me actual notes that the performers must play; the exact sounds which, if some listener found them attrac- i utv. a a Ji ai 111 1 1 I mi reasonably exi-ct to hear again at the second, or the 100th repetition of the piece. Music and drama have this much in common, that what is io he performed must at least still playing in a stvle that has fame on CBC fiom coast to Marc Wahl and Jack Jensen the Rotary Review to be held Auto Show at Cleary iii conjunction with the Rotary Auditorium starting Monday..