The News from Paterson, New Jersey • 7

May 31, 1975 Morning The News Evening Top Pop Hits PBS Theatre Crocks a 25 Best Sellers 1. -5HINING STAR, Earth, Wind Fire (Columbia) 2. BEFORE THE NEXT TEARDROP FALLS, Freddie Fender (Dot) I 1 3. HOW LONG, Ace (Anchor) 4. JACKIE BLUE, Ozark Mountain Daredevils 5.

THANK GOD I'M A COUNTRY BOY, John Denver 1 I (RCA) 6. ONLY YESTERDAY, Carpenters 7J SISTER GOLDEN HAIR, America (WB) 8. BAD TIME, Grand Funk (Capitol) 9. -OLD DAYS, Chicago (RCA) i a 10. WHEN WILL I BE LOVED, Linda Ronstadt (Capitol) 11.

KILLER QUEEN, Queen (Elektra) 12. -CUT THE CAKE, AWB (Atlantic) 13-LOVE WON'T LET ME WAIT, Major Harris (Atlantic) 14. -JTIJACK, Herbie Mann (Atlantic) 15. BAD LUCK, Harold Melvin (Phil. Intl.) 16.

-ONLY WOMEN, Alice Cooper i(Atlantic) 17. JVILDFIRE, Michael Murphy (Epic) i 18. -U DON'T LIKE TO SLEEP ALONE, Paul Anka (UA) 19. SHOE SHINE BOY, Eddie Kendricks (Tamla) 20. I'M NOT LISA, Jessi Colter (Capitol) i 21.4-GET DOWN, GET DOWN, Joe Simon (Spring) 22.

LAST FAREWELL, Roger Whitaker (RCA) J. 23. WALKIN IN RHYTHM, Blackbyrds (Fantasy) I 24. RAINY DAY PEOPLE, Gordon Lightfoot (Reprise) 25. TAKE ME IN YOUR ARMS, Doobie Bros.

(WB); on, the drama begins to shed exaggeration, allowing Hare's comments to hit i home. Depressed Sarah, a pretentious girl, calls; life "a plush i slaughterhouse," yet she i wanted to everything "especially decay." Gun-runner Curly and "his tight little heart. with the need to insure everyone is as degraded as he is. "has his own little game self denial of pleasure. And father I Patrick i I "splashing around in the loot downtown," considers the pursuit of money as "a force for i progress whose sound is the making of money and the i breaking of men." '( In short, ''Knuckle" conveys the worst, in us.

It's knock on cold, modern man, a caricature I of the old Hollywood cynical! style. For his final show of the season, producer-director Norman i Lloyd has no qualms using New York actors Michael Christofer and Crete hen Corbett in the leads, with Jack Cassidy and Eileen Brennan supplying backup support, i i Gretcben Corbett may familiar to viewers this past season since she's been on the run during her first year in Hollywood, working 16 shows, She was brought out to Universal Studios after she appeared in a New Haven 5 production of; "The Master Builder." i Under a 7-year contract, Gretchen covered the Universal lot like a vacuum cleaner, appearing in "Cplumbo," "McMillan HOLLYWOOD "He must have liked those old Hollywood movies," says newcomer jGretchen Corbett of the young English playwright David Hare, author of the last drama of the season i for Hollywood Television on PBS this Wednesday, I As Jenny, manager of a i rundown Santa Monica beach bar, The Shadow of the Moon, attractive Gretcben happens to play the only decently human character in the Hare I play, which is peopled by stylized rotters leading ugly lives. I Despicting an English community of the rich and decadent, Hare's play has minor changes by David Scott Milton into a Southern California locale where the message of human cynicism, dishonesty and rudeness fits right in. i i New York! actor Michael Christofer has a' ball overplaying the Bogart style as Curly, the gun-peddler, returning to quiz Jenny and locals over the supposed murder of his paranoid sister. While Christofer's 1 wallows in i Bogart, Jack i Cassidy earns his jollies; as I the cultivated banker-father, Sa silver-haired man of perfection, given to Henry James, elegant clothes and a pliant housekeeper (Eileen Brennan).

If taken seriously, "Knuckle," which means exactly that grinding in to the bone is absurd and 1 overdone. i But if audiences will hang I (HEM 'Knuckle GRETCHEN CORBETT Wife," ''The Rockford Files," before being allowed out for shows like "Hawaii and "Gunsmoke." Nothing Gretchen has done so far out here compared to "Knuckle." It's the only show of the Hollywood hatch the actress is asking her non-TV family in Oregon to watch. Naturally, Gr etc hen's" looking for a juicy movie role. Her part in "Knuckle" should be worth five screen tests proof of six years in New York, training by doing, which includes a run in "40 Carats" with Julie Harris and Glenda Farrell. i 1 I Now, Gretchen rturns to.

the meat-and-potatoes fare. You'll see her aU over the tube, but you'll remember her for "Knuckle." I TO END OF QUARTER Mr i i TrinFncminE Ballet Roundup VENICE (UPI) A half dozen ballet companies of international repute will converge on Venice in June and July for a festival of dance which will offer 50 performances in a seven-week period. a rticipating companies include the Ballet of the 20th Century from Brussels, Budapest State Ballet, New York City Ballet, Antonio Gades Co. of Madrid, Tokyo Ballet, and the Wayang Wong dancers from Bali. They will perform in the Teatro La Fenice, the theater on San MONDAY 62 i Getting la Sbap 3 :30 Daytime 4:30 Black Buffalo's Pow Wow 5:30 Action News 6:30 News Views of Chiltoa Hospital.

6:45 HBO Presents 7:00 Direct Line to the People 7-30 Today's Sounds in Concert tOO Action News 8 JO Sign Off TUESDAY 63 Getting in Shop 3:30 Daytime 4-30 Black Buffalo's Pow Wow 5:30 I Action News 6:30 Enjoying Your Yard Garden 7 KM Robbie's Robin's Nest 7:30 Getting in Shape 8:00 Action News 8:30 Sign Off -y. WEDNESDAY 64 Getting in Shape 3:30 Daytime 4:30 Black Buffalo's Pow Wow 5 JO Action News 'Action Nwi i repeated at 6:00. I apiF imiEiPciDsmr nnncEMiEnti miriES i ''George TRW YORK (UPI) Mickey Rooney will be the star of the first Broadway Bicentennial touring show, a new production of the musical "George The show will tour 1 major American cities; and Bicentennial centers opening in Dallas in midsummer and closing In New York in 1977. It will have a 12-week run In Washington in the summer of 1976. Joe Layton is the director.

1 1 i "i Giorgio and in the St. Mark's piazza. i 6 JO Inside Sports with Phil Pep i 7:30 Action News Sign Off THURSDAY 65 3:30 4 JO 5:30 6J0 Getting in Skope. Black Buffalo's Pow Wow Action News Enjoying Your Yard Garden Robbie's Robin's Nest Getting in Shape 7:00 7:30 8 KM 8J0 Action News Sign Off FRIDAY 66 Getting in Shape 3:30 Daytime 4J0 Black Buffalo's Pow Wow 5:30 Action News I 6 JO News Views of Chilton Hospital 6:45 HBO Presents 7 KM Action News 7J0 Sign Off -i I' SATURDAY 67 4:15 News Views of Chilton Hospital 4:30 Black Buffalo's Pow Wow 5:30 Sign Off HOME BOX OFFICE MOVIES I "Sugariandl Express The) Odeiso Filet" "Opon Season" 'Bank Shot IHifiKlflM REGULAR PASSBOOK ACCOUNT EFFECTIVE ANNUAL YIELD ON i -OF WITHDRAWAL $25 IS LEFT IN ACCOUNT DAY OF DEPOSIT DAY PROVIDED A MINIMUM ACCOUNTS INSURED TO $40,000 OF INTEREST PAYABLE QUARTERLY to0 AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 136 MARKET PATERSOH 240 BALDWIN PARSIPPANY BRANCH Jl.