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p83' SAN BERNARDINO SUN-TELEGRAM C1 1 THE LIVELY ARTS-Books Music Art Drama BROADWAY Hurok Reveals Costa Program for Jan. 4 Joan Plowright Wont Play Tcen-Ager Roles Any More CULTURAL CALENDAR No concerts or lectures this week. Next event of the San Bernardino Valley Concert Association will be Wednesday, Jan. 4, 8:15 p.m. at the California Theater soprano Mary Costa in recital, with Gerhard Albersheim at the piano.

() land, New Yorkers have seen tale Jubilate." Miss Costa's German group will include four famous Schubert songs: "Gretchen am "Frcuhlingslaube" and "Rest-lose A French group will consist of Faure's "Notre "Soir" and "Fleur BV DVORAK The single opera aria on the program will bo the enchanting "Song to the Moon" from Dvorak's Three Spanish numbers will follow: De Falla's sung here three seasons ago by Nan Merriman; Granados' "El-egia Eterna" and Obradors' Tumba Le." The concluding groups will be made up of songs by Samuel Barber, Lukas Foss, Benjamin Britten, John Jacob Niles and Aaron Copland. REHEARSE FOR 'ACCENT' Rehea rsing for the opening concert of the Accent on Music's eighth season are the three artists who will share the program of unusual compositions, Tenor Burl Dean Smith (left, standing) and Flutist Kirk Barrett, with Pianist John T. Robertson at the piano. Watching is Bruce Tomlinson, Riverside cellist. The one-hour concert will be held Friday, Jan.

13, at 8 p.m. at San Bernardino Valley College Auditorium. (University of Redlands photo) LIFE WITH MUSIC Not Much Real Yule Music Except Traditional Carols Christmas carols which are pri Romberg 'Prince' to Be Restaged Hand in hand with the re-staging of the San Bernardino Civic Light Opera Association's forthcoming production of "Student Prince" is a new orchestration being written by Jack Rodgcrs of San Bernardino. The show is scheduled for Jan. 30 through Feb.

4. FIVE ADDED After months of painstaking work, Rodgcrs said that in addition to re-orchestration of parts of the scoring throughout "Student Prince," complete new orchestrations have been completed on the overture and ballet. Five instruments have been added to the aggregation used in the original scoring. Rodgers, who has a wide musical background and extensive education in orchestration, is being assisted by a staff of copyists on his project. Resides such Romberg favorites as "Deep in My Heart, Dear," "Student Prince" features a variety of stimulating student drinking songs including the Latin "Guadeamus known as the oldest university song and originating in the 1.1th Century; the song accompanying the ritualistic Salamander tradition also having its roots in medieval university life; and Romberg's own famous drinking song, which has become widely used throughout the world.

TICKETS JAN. 9 The Civic Light Opera Box Office located in Gene Vanouse Television and Music. Store, 3.18 W. Highland San Bernardino, is scheduled to open Monday, Jan. 9, for the sale of tickets to "Student Prince." -O- Grand Guignol Returning Here NEW YORK (AP) Grand Guignol, the famous horror theater of Paris, is slated for recreation in the off -Broad way zone.

St. John Terrell, sponsor of several summer musical tents, and Bill Doll have budgeted the undertaking at $50,000. The Grand Guignol repertoire comprises 2,700 plays, of which 500 are available for presentation in this country. -o- Good Shot HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -Actor Richard Rust, who portrays a crack-shot hired killer in "Underworld U.S.A.," actually is an archery expert. He was champion with a bow and arrow at Miami University in Florida.

By JACK GAYER NEW YORK next producer who approaches Joan riowright with a script that contains a difficult teen-ager role and tries to convince her that no one else can cope with it is going to get a firm rejection. "I am going to retire from such parts after this play," said the pert British star, referring to her role as a 17-year-old in "A Taste of Honey" at the Ly-ceum Theater. "I wouldn't have done this one, but I simply couldn't resist such a powerful script. But nothing is going to tempt me to play an adolescent again." NOW 30 Recently turned 30, Miss riowright has the sort of round-faced features and the wide-eyed look, off-stage and without makeup, that would seem to indicate she could pass as an onstage teen-ager for years to come. ''It is just that there are ever so many other things that I want to play," the star continued.

"And, as they say, I don't want to get typed. "As a matter of fact, I haven't done so many roles of this sort and have done a lot of other things. It is just that when it Is known that a mature person is playing a youth, it attracts a certain amount of unusual publicity. Do two or three such parts, and people begin to think you do nothing else." Miss Plowright's reputation for "juvenile" roles actually is more pronounced here than it is in Britain, where she has done most of her work in a career covering a decade. In addition to her role in "A Taste of Honey," in which she didn't appear in her native BOOKS 'The Infidels Tells Story Of Crusade By ROBERTA BLAZER Chloe Gartner combines authorise knowledge of the Middle Ages with fascinating story in her first novel, "The Infidels," 1.95, 428 pages, Doubleday.

The novel presents a'panorama of the first crusade, beginning with the historic proclamation of Pope Urban at Clermont and ending with the fall of Jerusalem. CAPTURED The story centers around a young noble, Justin Le Noir, the handsome son of a Christian father and a Moslem mother. Reared as a Christian, he fights unflinchingly against the Moslems until he is captured. Living among his enemies, he learns to love and respect their culture and he is eventually, faced with the decision to spend his life as a Christian or a Moslem. A secondary theme to the story is the conflict between his love for his wife and the belief that she has been unfaithful to him.

EXCITEMENT A series of contrasts aids the reader in understanding the impact of the crusades on all who participated. The brilliance and excitement of the East is seen against the cold and drabness of medieval France. Pious intentions merge with those of extreme cruelty and baseness. Callous treachery walks beside the strongest of religious faith. 'Music Man' Hits Sixth Spot NEW YORK (AP) "The Music Man" is a new member of the top six in Broadway's all-time musical parade.

The Meredith Willson hit recently registered its 1.201st performance, and pushed past "Guys and Dolls" into the elect bracket. The longest run of all belongs to followed by "My Fair Lady," "South Pacific," "Hollzapoppin" and "The King and Togetherness HOLLYWOOD (UPI) "His and Hers" hospital beds were the order of the day recently when TV star Anthony Eisley and his wife Judith checked into St. Joseph's Hospital. The handsome detective of the "Hawaiian Eye" series underwent an appendectomy while Mrs Eisley was in another ward Riving birth to their third child, a boy. Once Again HOLLYWOOD (UPI) An'gio-Dickinson, who appeared as a nurse in "The Bramble Bush," has been cast once more as a woman In white for "Rachel Cade." S.

Hurok, world-famous impresario, has announced the program which Mary Costa, young opera soprano star, will sing at the California Theater, San Bernardino, Wednesday, Jan. 4, at 8:15 p.m. at the second event of the San Bernardino Valley Concert Association's 22nd season. At the piano will be Dr. Gerhard Albersheim, who is accompanist for several other world-famous artists.

Dr. Albersheim has appeared frequently at Red-lands Bowl. "ALLELUIA" Miss Costa, the recent sensation of the San Francisco Opera, has programmed two Handel oratorio arias: "Oh Had I Jubal's Lyre" from "Joshua" and "Oh Sleep Why Dost Thou Leave Me?" from "Semele." These will be followed by the Mozart "Alleluia" from "Exul- DR. GERHARD ALBERSHEIM Miss Costa's pianist Albersheim Pianist for Miss Costa Dr. Gerhard Albersheim, who will be at the piano for Soprano Mary Costa's recital in San Bernardino Wednesday, Jan.

4, is one of the most distinguished accompanists in America. Albersheim is the author of the recently published article, "The Sense of Space in Tonal and Atonal Music," which appeared in the fall issue of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism in Cleveland. MME. LEIIMANN He has served as accompanist for Miss Costa for two years. Prior to that he performed for Lotte Lehmann, Elisabeth Schumann, Georgia Laster, Lauritz Melchior, Ezio Pinza, Claudia Pinza, Jussi Bjoerling, Deitrich Fischer-Dieskau and many others.

This fall he accompanied Richard Lewis, British tenor of the San Francisco Opera. Albersheim, who resides in Santa Monica, is associate professor at Los Angeles State College. He teaches history, appreciation and music literature classes, advanced piano and opera. He is music director of the college's Opera Workshop. He also conducted six performances of "Annie Get Your Gun" last May for the LASC drama department.

FELD SCHOOL Alborshoim and Miss Costa are very much interested in the work of the Feld School of Music in San Bernardino and they hope to visit it in the afternoon before the concert. Eddie Hodges Goes Dramatic NEW YORK (AP) Eddie Hodges, the singing youngster of "The Music Man," plays his first straight role on Broadway in "Critic's Choice." The comedy; written by Ira Levin and produced by Otto Preminger, stars Henry Fonda, Eddie, now 13, made his melody debut three years ago, has since appeared in several movies. the reader especially if he is a railroad buff. California has been the setting for many of the interpretations. The Espoo station in Colton is the nearest point mentioned.

Brin relates the forwarding of the body of Walter Barry, a railroad hobbyist February last. FIRST EFFORT This Is a first effort In book publishing for-Brin and his coauthor, Prosser, of Minneapolis. Roth are members of the California Nevada Railroad Historical Society and have ridden extensively on railroads. Sprinkled throughout the pamphlet are black and white scratchboard etchings by Marshall Thomas, a graduate of San Rernardino Valley College, and now of Santa Ynez. There are violations in the foi-m of repetition of adjectives, and it might have been well to have included prefatory remarks.

But railroad workers and uthuslasts both will enjoy reading "Spirit of the Ralls." A. E.G. 4m. Uf her as a schoolgirl In "The Lesson" and as a barely ex-teener in "The Entertainer," which she also did not portray in England, DOUBLE BILL It should be pointed out that "The Lesson," which brought her here for the first time in January 1958, was part of a double bill of Eugene Ionesco dramas and that she played a nonagenarian quite successfully in the companion piece, Chairs." Such versatility, of course, is not uncommon among British-trained actors who get the benefit of long schooling- through actual work in any of a number of regional repertory theaters before tlwy go to London. That was Miss Plowright's road to stardom, followed by continued training in London with the Old Vic company.

"We have nothing at home like your Actors' Studio here which has produced the so-called 'method' actor," Miss Plowright said, "simply because we don't need such an institution. The schooling in the repertory houses is thorough, for one thing. Also, the professional actor in England gets a chance to play many more roles even when he has gone into professional work in n's West End. "It is all a matter of economics, of course. The cost of producing a play here is so high that there aren't many productions.

The best actors may go months or two or three season between stage roles. In London, I might do three or four plays a season. DIFFERENT ROLES "So your Actors' Studio is a fine thing for the serious actor who wants to improve himself. It gives him a place to work between engagements, to try many different types of roles. "The only thing wrong with the studio and the 'method' is that they have received too much publieiy, mostly because of the success of a flamboyant personality or two who has emerged from such training.

They would have attained prominence without the studio. "Most of the stuido people are level-headed and sincere players of fine talent. But there are bound to be a few who get identified with it who bring it unfortunate attention. "Actually, we get the same training at home the so-called Stanislavsky system of 'identifying' with a role, of 'living a And you had it; here long before the Actors' Studio. I think we have one advantage at home.

Along with that sort of training, we also get a thorough training in the classics that is not generally available here. It provides a nice balance and makes for a well-rounded actor. "And because this balanced training is available in many places and has been established for generations, there is no such overdone publicity as the Actors' Studio receives and which, I am sure, does it and its members no good." New Project Aiding Writers NEW YORK (AP) A new project aimed at benefiting young playwrights If being undertaken by the Phoenix Theater, New York's only permanent acting company. Single performances of new scripts that have failed to win the interest of Broadway producers are to be given, so that flaws and perhaps assets can be more fully apnraised than is possible with simple reading. 'White Cargo' Being Done Over NEW YORK (AP) "White Cargo," a lurid sensation of Broadway's 192.1 season, is being revamped for new showcasing.

A different attitude this time is noted by Director Roger Sullivan, a collaborator on the adaptation: "The original version dealt mainly with the problems of miscegenation and integratipn whereas this highlights the comic and dramatic aspects." Doing Score HOLLYWOOD (UPD Morris Stoloff has signed to do the musical score for "Fanny," Joshua Logan's production for Warner Brothers. "Fanny" was filmed in Paris and Marseilles and starred Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier and Charles Boyer. Stoloff previously scored another Logan production, "Picnic." -o- er Hired HOLLYWOOD (UPll Mar tha llyer will play the lead in "The Last Time I Saw Archie," which co-stars Robert Mitchum and Jack Webb. CURRENT Bestsellers Compiled by Publishers' Weekly FICTION ADVISE AND CONSENT A len Drury HAWAII-James MIehener MISTRESS OF MELLVN-VIc- toria Holt THE LEOPARD Giuseppe di LnmpediiNa THE DEAN'S WATCH Elizabeth (ioudctt THE LOVELY AMBITION Mary Ellen Chase TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Harper Ie. THE CHILD BUYER John Kersey DECISION AT DELrill Helen Machines THE LISTENER Taylor Caldwell THE LAST OF THE JUST Andre Sehwarz Bart NOV FICTION THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH William I Sliirer THE WASTE MAKER.S Vance Packard BORN FREE Joy Adamson THE AMERICAN HERITAGE PICTURE HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR Bme Cattoa and editors of American Keri-taco BARl'CH: THE PUBLIC YEARS Bernard M.

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Randy won't be two years old until next summer. The boy's father, a theatrical publicist, staked him first to a $100 investment in "Fiorcllo." The bit has already earned a $25 profit. Randy next received one-fourth of one per cent of the shares in "The Hostage," a gift from the producers, Leonard S. Field and Burke Swann. 'Don Quixote' To Be Musica NEW YORK (AP) A new musical version of the classic "Don Quixote" is under option for future Broadway production.

David Cogan, co-sponsor of "A Raisin in the Sun," plans to hring the show in next season. Names of the adapter and composer have not been disclosed because they are engaged on other projects. Shearer" HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Deborah Kerr reports her 9-year-old daughter Melanie has sheared the sheepskin rug which the actress brought back from the Australian location of "The Sundowners." Going Up HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Actress Georgette Anys, who has doubled her weight since cast as a slim FiF'i on the Paris stage, will soon be seen as a 2.1.1-pound fishmonger in Warner's production of "Fanny." Third St. 'Accent' Tickets Now Available Low-cost season memberships for Accent on Music, the Inland Empire organization which presents "the best music for the least cost" are now available to the public for the eighth season, which opens at San Bernardino Valley College Auditorium Friday, Jan. 13, at 8 p.m.

ONE HOUR The opening concert, one-hour long, will feature three outstanding artists, Burl Dean Smith, Riverside tenor; Kirk Barrett, University of Redlands flutist; and John T. Robertson, University of Redlands pianist-composer, Memberships are being accepted by mail by the Accent on Music treasurer, Mrs. Theodore N. Cohen, 65T W. 34th San Bernardino.

Patrons are asked to enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope. Smith will offer songs by Hugo Wolf, Gabriel Faure and Aaron Copland, with Robertson at the piano. Barrett will play flute sonatas by J. S. Bach, Poulenc and Dutilleux, also accompanied by Robertson.

FRANCK SONATA Other events in the series: Friday, Feb. 24, at 8 p.m., Otto Feld, violin, and Lisa Maranz, piano, performing the Cesar Franck Sonata and Howard Lindholm offering modern piano compositions; and Friday, April 14, 8 p.m., Catherine Waldrop, Violin, and Grace Soltau, piano, offering classics, and Jean Barnes, piano, playing works by Ravel and Bartok. Accent on Music is considered by critics as one of the most unique organizations in the country. As well as reviving old seldom-heard works, the group is famous for having produced two dozen world premieres. 0 'NOSTALGIC Colton Man Co-Author Of RR Saga "Spirit of the Rails." By Burton X.

Brin and Richard S. Prnsser. 60 pages. Went Colton Press. $1.50.

In 15 concise vignettes, a quality of sensual nostalgia for the railroad saga is set forth in "Spirit of the Rails." That the co-author, Burton N. Brin of Colton, is competent in his subject is evidenced by the abundance of railroad terminology and the fact his father, now retired, worked for the Soo Line in Minneapolis 42 years. IMPRESSIONISTIC The book consists of a collection of contemporary sketches of railroads and railroad areas in the United States, written in pi'ose narrative form. Although it is creative and impressionistic in nature, the sketches are based on actual places and occurrences. The authors write in a benevolent style, reminiscent of the late columnist Meyer (Mike) Berger of the New York Times.

One is taken to the old depot at Quincy, which is now used for storing farm machinery; to Piedra, a remote gravel pit just above the mouth of the Kings River Canyon in California; to the Santa Fe's Calwa yard, three miles south of downtown Fresno; to Omaha Union Station; and to Ihe Southern Pacific depot in Indio. There are a number of different railroad areas around the country dealt with in the hook, which will lend enchantment to By RICHARD D. SAUNDERS The Christmas spirit is beautifully expressed in song by the haunting Christmas carols and in a number of more elaborate choral and solo works that find performances during the Yule-tide season. The carols are the most familiar because their simple tunes can be and are sung by almost everyone and most of us have grown up with an appreciation of their charm. But when a symphony orchestra wants to perform purely symphonic works exist.

ANYTIME There is Rimsky Korsakov's "Christmas Night," for instance but apart from the title it is merely another piece of music that could be performed just as appropriately at any other time and is not even one of the composer's best efforts. Bach's "Christmas" Oratorio, which is a series of church cantatas, has an orchestral "Pastorale" which often is programmed, but again the music has no particular connotation with our concept of Christmas today. Carmen Dragon and Morton Gould have made potpourris of 'Messenger Of Destiny9 Off the Press The fourth, and possibly the concluding volume of the John Howell series of books on the U.S. Navy in Old California, was timed as a 1960 pre-Christ-mas publication This volume is titled "Messenger of It deals with the long-neglected career of Lt. Archibald H.

Gillespie of the United States Marine Corps, the secret agent and dispatch bearer for President Polk who crossed Mexico in disguise and arrived in Cali-forna to alert Consul Thomas O. Larkin and Lt. John Charles Fremont. WARNING Despite his youth Gillespie became entrusted with major wartime assignments by Commodore Robert F. Stockton.

Left in command at Los Angeles with only a handful of troops Gillespie's ingenuity and firmness enabled an honorable evacuation of that pueblo in the face of the Flores insurgents. Earlier it was Gillespie who had done much to mold the rather irregular Bear Flag group into the organized companies of the California Battalion. Subsequently this fearless officer carried Stockton's warning to Gen. Stephen W. Kearny, a warning that if heeded should have assured an American victory in the Battle of San Pas-cual.

Author of "Messenger of Destiny" is Dr. Werner H. Marti, of California State Polytechnic College at Pomona, who delved deeply into long-neglected official papers to produce a documented profile of Gillespie. The young officer grows in stature under the Pomona professor's appraisal, one-that took several years to complete. Dr.

Marti, a professor of history and political science, has been a Cal Poly instructor since 19f6 and a most popular member of the faculty. Totally blind, he and his seeing eye dog are constant companions. BEAUTIFUL "Messenger of Destiny" is a beautifully printed volume designed by Lawton Kennedy in style and format similar to other volumes of the series. The edition is limited to fiOO copies and the book is priced at $12.50 LBB. marily arrangements that string together a set of recognizable selections, treated with skill.

They are the nearest approach to instrumental Yule music that we yet have. The difficulty is that music in itself does not portray any pictorial aspect of anything. It can elevate or depress. But in itself, music cannot paint a specific picture without application of titles or. words of explanation.

A skillful composer might take one familiar carol and develop a strong and noble work on the theme, as Weinberger did with the old English tune of "Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree," for instance. In such a case, the Christmas spirit would be apparent and if the composition were good enough, it doubtless would have performances by many orchestras during the Yuletide. Bronislau Kaper is basing his entire score for "Spinster" with Shirley MacLaine, on native Maori music and has discovered a wealth of little known folk song material Bernard Kahn has much less to go on for his score to "The Legend of Mandinga," which Britt Lomond and Michael H. Hoey are producing in the South American jungles of Interior Columbia. a group of nine Mexican guitarists are recording the folk music background for Margia Dean's "The Long Rope," for 20th Century-Fox.

Money talks, they say, but Franz Waxman has to figure out a way to make it sing for his score to "The Big Duning as the "Faust" like assignment of musically meeting "The Devil at Four O'Clock" at Columbia Studios. Soprano Mary Lou Keller is using Schubert's neglected "Auf dem Strom" on her programs, whenever she can find a French horn player for the necessary obbligato. 3 Newcomers Signed for Play NEW YORK (AP) Three Broadway newcomers have vital assignments in "A Cook for Mr. General," scheduled for March arrival. They are Bill Travers, British star; Steven Gethers, author; and Fielder Cook, director.

The comedy is based on a 1957 TV script by Gethers. It concerns a Greek cook' who ends up with American soldiers on a Pacific Island durmg World War II. To Make Debut HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Irish-born actor Carroll O'Connor, who recently played the district attorney the TV production of "The Sacco-Vanzetfi Story," makes his Hollywood film debut in Warner Brothers' "A Fever in the Blood." O'Connor portrays a newspaper publisher in the story dealing with a political race for governor. I Music 'Tween Acts HOLLYWOOD (UPI) In addition to appearing in th- "Maverick" TV series, actor Roger Moore teams with his singer-wife Dorothy Squires to write songs. With' Moore writing the lyrics and Dorothy the music, several of their songs have been published.

Joins Cast HOLLYWOOD (UPD-Actiess Barbara Bel Geddes has joined the cast of Universal lntrt national's "By Love Possessed." IlWrtj And BEST WISHES from your Complete, Book Store 462.