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wiViTTiHimiiiiiimmi iiiiiiiiciiiiiiiiiiiriiitiiniNiniiiniiiiiiiiiiriiu "Roses," he had some off who directed the off Broadway play, will stage "The Only Game in Town." Broadway success with "Who'll Save the Plowboy?" THE MARQUEE The new play will be pro duced by Edgar Lansbury, who presented tiiiroy's two previous i warn Broadway dramas. Dan Petrie, Bv Barbara Bladen tZM UN MATCO TIMf AND PAIL.Y NfW ICACIft THEATRE WORLD jBbbbbbV Tliiiriday, DecHnbw 14, 1967 Un Mileo 21 Barbara Bladen Is on Vacation By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (AP) "When I turned 60, I thought Broadway Banter by Gaver ject Was Roses," will have a third go at Broadway this season with "The Onlv Game in Town." EUrwJhr BELTING OUT JSS THATWICVVPU.1 PRESLEY mOW) iOAMIMft TBHWDLtrUfBt lUMIM rmn IK KHH "THE WAT WEST i wao up, inai noDoay wouia want to nire me And now I've got more offers of iobs than ever before! Miss Jackson is scheduled for By JACK GAVER The nlavu riser's "TW Such is the position of Groucho Marx, the irreverent elder statesman of American comedy who refused to assignment mer That Fall" was a quick a two character "The Staircase." CURSE OF HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN DRACOLA NEW YORK (UPI) Ten of lOSer ast season Priup frt the 20 productions of the first The American Shakespeare Lost" and "Othello" and Bernard Shaw's "Androcles and the Lion." Next spring's student audience schedule will begin on March 18. Preview performances for the regular program portion of the 1967 6B season had closed by the time the halfway Festival Theatre at Stratford mark was reached. The only one to have a re 1 hkhImI S'KrffliH I THEATRE SiiAMujy SI OPEN 7:00 fM. BUk 'vToiSce KILLER vsKIUER! begin April 2Y, and the offi act ins age, which is 72.

Among the offers which most appeal to him: 1. A series of interviews for Public Broadcast Laboratory; 2. A nightly news commentary on television with Goodman Ace and Groucho as a wacky Huntley Brinkley; 3. A syndicated series of five minute television tapes with Groucho grousing about contemporary customs. These projects cast Groucho in his latter dav role as the satric sage, the commentator with sharp aim at pomposity and human folly.

That is how todav's generation knows him. Those who hark back to the "mad musical comedies of the Marx Brothers saw the master in his fine old form last night on NBC's Kraft Music Hall. spectable run was "The Un has announced that its productions for the fourteenth season, during the summer of 1968, will be: Shakespeare's "As You Like It," "Love's Labour's known Soldier and His Wife by Peter Ustinov which openod iast July at the Vivian Beaumont cial seasonal opening will be in mid June. The A PA Repertory Company began its season at the Lyceum Theatre with Michel de Ghelde rode's a a 1 i and Theatre in Lincoln Center and then transferred to the George Abbott Theatre in the Broadway district. It achieved a total of 95 Unusual Golf Pift OF HERAKLES" 7 jT HI I pc a.

is, only BljK I CrrTkr'''" George Kelly's "The Show Groucho was host and performer on a special called "A Taste of Funny," and he performed in his classic performances but the trade pa which will be the only items or! In New Film per Variety estimated that it the schedule through January 2 ruiea as uapiain tjpaulding and Dr. Hackenbush. He danced, he loped about the stage like a lecher At that time Ionesco's "Exit the 4WKM AM Anyone out for a game of King" will be added to the list ous fox. His performance proved a revelation to young night golf on the executive lost 125,000. Others that lost out, some running less than a week, were: "Dr.

Cook's Garde," "Keep It in the Family." "Song of the Grasshopper," "A Minor Ad course maintained by the Home TWITE 8:30 1 A Mi TPKICES THIS ENGAGEMENT I IL I tftGSSM Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" will be introduced March 19. There will be some performances of past successes aLCia wiiu juiuw nun uiuy as me acia quizmaster. Groucho is no mossback who vearns for the good old days of vaudeville; he has reiterated that the general run of comedy in vaudeville was pretty corny and tired. He does claim that humor has fallen upon bad Insurance Company of New York in Great Barrington, was in for a bit of a sur before the AFA season ends jus tm en "Johnny No Trump," "After the Rain," June but there has been no de FRIDAY AND SATURDAY EVE. Ill MUl IlllII'Hlll I MlKflNlll I IBBBBLUh 1 1 Tllll" WW COildrtn Junior 42.00 wiuini ui I uiyiu uiuiuiMUll I jMnai" WWW prise after the production company of 20th Centcry Fox's "She cision as to which they will be.

Daphne in Cottage "The Let Him Continue turned the Frank D. Gilroy, who won a Triaf of Lee Harvey Oswald" srve McQueen "BECKETT eighth hole into a lover's lane. Pulitzer Prize for his "The Sub Parting the bushes in quest of and "The Ninety Day Mistress." There are 20 productions cur 1 a lost ball would have brought a er smack up against stars PH PJ rWilion SrdM.trtcelof Bk illRt FMREf rently. listed for premieres during the rest of the season. There probably will be others announced during the next couple Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld staging a passionate love scene before the cameras for the Marshal Backlar Noel Black production.

of months, after whicti it wi'l bei uiues in leceni years, ana ne onered Jus reason lor the decline. "The laugh track," he declared. "Those phony, recorded laughs on television comedies have done more to destroy comedy than anything else. The laugh track has made it too easy for writers. Thev no longer have to struggle to write funny material.

Thev know that if a doesn't go over, it can be covered with a laugh track." Groucho found something else to deplore in the comedy field: the use of off color material bv younger comics. He cited Buddy Hackett as a consistent offender. "He doesn't need it." Groucho declared. "Buddy is a brilliant monologuist who can convulse an audience without using blue material. I've told him this and asked him why he does it.

He says. 'I've got it inside me, and I have to let it I don't understand that at all. "To me the best of the new comedians is Shecky Green; he is a comedian's comedian. And except for ani occasional line, he doesn't use dirtv material. That! shows it can be done." time to start planning for next season.

Anne Jackson and husband 1 1 umavm mJrilT lBLES Varsity Theatre HB I wmm II JAHES UCHEHEfiS 1 I I S6 UNIVERSITY PALO ALTO BMBlMBlBaaffl I "C001 HUD lUffi" Eli Wallach are both scheduled for Broadway again this but not as a team, as is usually (he case. II DIPUIDB iTTrynnnniimi III MihlMfl Maim CUlt L06E5I Most Thankless Screen Role range. So you ve cot to keen oucKing or get powder burned In another instance our hero was almost kilJed by a pack of runaway horses. Italians Are Out Rustling Westerns By M3RNON SCOTT "I thought it was fust a re hearsal." Byrnes recalled. "But I found myself in the middle of' The award for the year's "most thankless role" will probably go to William Windom.

cast in the role of Colin Maclver in 20th Century Fox's "The Detective," the film adaptation of Roderick Thorp's best selling novel starring Frank Sinatra, now finishing shooting in Hollywood, Abby Man's screenplay for the Panavision and DeLuxe Color drama profiles Maclver as a "twice married latent homosexual who commits a mutilation murder, engages in a swindle of land in urban poverty areas, and finally commits suicide by jumping off the grandstand roof of a race track." Some guys just can't win at all. WmT 'Pf'l iBS Jean Paul Belmondo mmim SfARIS DEC. 20 HEOiS Cort HOW iSTBr I Ml SEASONS" "THE BIBLE" XtAlSKBf I IC1ZJ 1 I Louis Malle I "THE KNACK" 11? t4m9? I lTilirinrfHifRBMaM SERB A SKS NOW PLAYING i. a tield with nothing to hide behind when a dozen horses came thundering at me. I had to run HOLLYWOOD (UPI) tor my lite." Byrnes has nothing but praise Head 'em off at the pass, Gi useppe," the Italians are rustling the traditional Hollywood for his Italian directors who were the only members of the crew who spoke English.

"It's a rough life for the staple, trie western. Horse operas are bigger in Italy than grand opera. Ed Byrnes, television's Kook norses. though." he sighed "They don train them. When horses are supposed to fall, they le in the defunct "77 Sunset Strip" series, recently returned from the land of lasagnia.

He jusi artacn a wire to their ENCORE starred in three cowboy shoot em ups. and he knows. "The Italians have a flare for westerns," says he. "But they're wilder than the old wild west. "Sometimes I was lucky to es and down they go.

You can lose a lot of horses that way." Byrnes, like Clint (Rawhide Eastwood.) found that his television series paved the way fDr Italian adoration. He was given the full star treatment. "I love it over there," he said. "They give me parts that would go to Paul Newman in this country. And the money is terrific as long as you" have it deposited in a bank." Edd made a fourth, non western, picture while he was cape witamy irte.

In one scene Edd was to touch off a fuse with a cigar. He fol lowed instructions and the fuse blew up in his face, setting his hair afire and singing off his LVMdvtf it talilomi. My. Mfmrl PETR SELLERS THE BOBO color 1 i VWffM children's matinee sat, i pm. 7 ALL1IHE (SMEDT CUBIC PLUS: CO HITt mWdmSow'SL AS 0)R THE 1MTKH UN DO IT jff JSSESEEBSSBi "the sihncIki TERRY THOMAS ijy IPBiTOMljH "Kin or cure" I jijSrafe SsSS THE ENGUSH THEaEIH 1 Maraaret Rutherford Jatijj fe eyebrows.

Luckily the scene was on the bank of a lake, into which there and plans to return to Byrnes hastily jumped. "They don't have special ef rope for another contemporary picture after the first of the year. Big parts: Lee Mervin will fects experts there like they do in Hollywood" he explained make his singing debut when he stars in "Paint Your Wagon" "When the script calls for them to blow up a cabin, they really blow it. up with dynamite. They load their six shooters all copies of American guns with na, tM Foul" wsessmmmmm wait shey's for Paramount Nick Adams: has signed to star in "The Kill fuiiy loaded blanks.

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