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10 The Berkshire Eagle, Saturday, Sept. 20, 1969 Music Theatre Movies TV Art feature Film Made Here Draws Rave From Variety Town Players Open Season With 'The Lion in Winter' r-fc i iMAcpwAC6c(5iowfVw wmmm-mwi WPJfJM, i hctjkjv emr. twee cfcomm. (ll6S' HAV5 RIGHT HAWS CCW- ftf jScRQ OXIH ArJ WjCMM fj)h I a sr- A mM ft if pk 3fJP Pittsfield Town Players will open their 49th season Oct. 23 with James Goldman's "The lion in Winter," a comedy-drama set in the 12th century.

The recent film version of the play was nominated for numerous Academy Awards, including Best Motion Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress, for which Katharine Hepburn won an Oscar earlier this year. Sisson Directs The play will be directed by Roberta Sisson, who won the Tee Pee best-director award for her production of "Barefoot in the Park" two seasons ago and directed "Little Mary Sunshine" last year. Performances are scheduled to run through Oct. 26 at the Berkshire Museum. The second production for the "season will be the comedy, "The Little Hut," by Andre Roussin.

It is scheduled for Jan. 15-18. The play will be directed by Emile Jalbert from his own translation of the original French version. Mr. Jalbert is making his Town Players' directorial debut, but has been associated with numerous productions with the group and at Berkshire Community College for the past several years.

Folk Drama The third production, March 19-22 will be "Dark of the Moon" by Howard Richardson and William Berney and will be directed by Marion T. Bruni. Miss Bruni won the best-direc tor award last season for her production of "A Hatful of Rain." The play is a fantasy drama with 'oik music and is based on a folk-legend from the Smoky Mountain region of the United States. The final production will be announced at a later date, pending its release for amateur theatrical groups. It will be a recent Broadway comedy and will be directed by Walter Sisson, who was a director for "The Torchbearers" last season.

Running dates are scheduled for May 21-24, also to be presented at the museum. Curtain times for all productions are Thursday through Saturday at 8:30 p.m. and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Season tickets are still available. Special group rates are available for Thursday and Sunday performances, and student rates for the Thursday performance.

Ticket reservations may be made by calling Town Players. Akim Tamiroff Typed HOLLYWOOD Akim Tamiroff, who plays the leader of a Mexican bandit gang in "The Great Bank Robbery" for Warner Arts, said that when he first came to Hollywood he was' typed as a Russian because of his Russian accent. He tried hard for any kind of role in order to erase the impression. Since then he's played everything from Chinese war lords to Chicago gangsters. A feature film made in Pitts-field two summers ago has drawn an enthusiastic review from Variety, the show business weekly, which calls it the "sleeper of the year." New Lebanon "The Honeymoon Killers." which was filmed under the title of "Dear Martha," was produced by Warren Steibel and was directed by Leonard Kastle, who also wrote the screenplay.

Both men live in New Lebanon Center, NY. Mr. Steibel is producer of the William Buckley television show, "Firing Line," and Mr. Kastle is a composer and librettist who has written several op eras. The Variety reviewer said that the film "is an extraordinary study of the Lonely Hearts Murder Case of the 1940s," which centered around Albany, N.Y.

The review said it has the quality to earn "a class as well as mass audience." The film is being distributed by American International Pictures, and the reviewer stated that he hoped the company would not just exploit it as 'a sex-murder movie, which was done last year with "Pretty Poison," filmed in Great Barring-ton. Low Budget The picture was made on an extremely low budget and several local people were used as ex- As I Hear It Study Abroad By Jay C. Rosen eld Warren Steibel tras, with scenes being shot at Berkshire Medical Center, City Hall, Onota Lake and on various streets. Pictures made in Berkshire County have been doing extremely well this year. "Alice's Restaurant," which was shot mostly in Stockbridge, has drawn enthusiastic reviews from most of the major reviewers and is currently doing big business at the box office.

That film was directed by Arthur Perm, who has a home in THE STORY was told a long time ago of an American boy who went to Vienna before World War I to" study with Beethoven. When no one seemed to be able to inform him how to get in touch with the master, he queried, "He's still Movie Timetable "BURNET ROOM" Rt. 7 New ord, Man. 10 Miles North of Pittifield MIXER EVERY TUESDAY Bonquat Facilities Mak Riuervations Now Dial 443.4754 THE LIST NOW would be endless but a new factor appeared early in the 10th century. Students in all the arts had long been leaving borne and studying in other countries of Europe.

The Institut de France had established the Prix de Rome within the Academe des Beaux Arts in 1803 whereby a jury would select the best-qualified students, after an annual competition, to spend four years at the Villa Medici, in the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture and music. A hasty scanning discloses that among the winners were such names as Berlioz, Gounod, Bizet, Massenet and Debussy. When Cecil Rhodes, the British colonial and imperial statesman, died in 1902, he left the bulk of his vast estate to found scholarships at Oxford for students of every important British colony and every state and territory of the U.S.A. "for the enlightenment and peaceful union of mankind." A codicil later enlarged his views on the association of the races necessary to secure peace. He al so added a number of German scholarships.

IN MUCH THE SAME spirit Sen. Simon Guggenheim and his wife established the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Scholarships in 1925 to improve the quality of education and practice in the arts and professions and provide better international relations. Those who were eligible were citizens of the United States and the other American republics, the Philippines, Canada and the British Caribbean. In 1936, the United States educational exchange grants for universities provided for graduate study abroad for men between the ages of 25 and 50. In 1946, Sen.

Fulbright proposed some changes and additions, and the program has come to be known by his name although he did not originate it. THE NEWS COLUMNS of newspapers all over the country at this time mention the names of men and women leaving for European universities to speffd one of their four years of college in a foreign university. The hegira is almost as steady and probably as politically warmth-bearing as the Gulf Stream. In the other direction we invite and welcome another stream of students from every continent on the globe to enroll at our colleges. This process had become such a tradition that when a man such as Leonard Bernstein is noted as entirely American-trained, it is treated as a phenomenon, for music students in particular had always believed there was no alternative to study in Europe.

But now the movement, if not entirely halted, has at least been tempered so that young European men and, conspicuously, Asiatics, now come to this country to gain the final polish that our conservatories can provide. THE TRAFFIC between Europe and this country by men and women with goals of scholarship of some kind must almost equal that of the numbers who go for pleasure or for commerce. There is still the trace of an attitude in some Europeans to consider our culture as we consider a kid sister as something to be tolerated even though unsophisticated and probably misguided, but that is dispelled once they set foot on our academic soil. On the other hand, there is no dispute that the centuries-old scholarly attractions we concede are Europe's still draw those capable of profiting by their stimulation. In spite of what Samuel Johnson called the "perpetual reciprocity of malevolence" which smolders and keeps breaking into flames at so many places on earth, it does seem that there must arise a permanent reciprocity of benevolence as this scholarly exchange persists and increases.

Prejudice is not held against people because they have evil qualities. Evil qualities are imputed to people because prejudices are held against them. Natalie," 7:00, 9:00 (matinee Sun. Palace "The Italian Job," 1:30, 5:05, "Only When I Larf," 3:10, 6:45. Showcase "3 Into 2 Won't Go," 7:00, 9:00 (matinee Sun.

Zhivago," nightly 7:30 (matinee Sun. 1:30 p.m.) Sunset Drive-In "The Great Bank Robbery," "The Green Berets," 9:15. Berkshire Drive-in "Play Dirty," "Hell's Angels 69," 9:30. Pittsfield in the Attic," "Chastity," 9:30. Coury'8 Drive-ln (North Adams) "Me, Natalie," "Barbarella," 7:30 Hoosac Drive-ln (Adams) "Hell's Angels 1969," "God Forgives, I Don't," 7:30.

Mohawk (North Adams) "Daddy's Gone A-Hunting," "A Fine Pair," 7:20. "Daddy's Gone A-Hunt-ing," 1:30, 5:00, "A Fine Pair," 3:25, 7:00.) West Springfield Cinema "Last Summer," 2:00, 7:20, Sat, Sun. 1:30, 3:20, 5:10, 7:20, 9:35. Cinema 2, "Midnight Cowboy," 2:30, 7:30, 9:45. Cinema 3, "Oliver," 8:00 (matinee Sun.

composing, isn't he?" "No," was the answer, "he's now decomposing." Americans have been going to Europe to study for centuries. The earliest student I have read of was Benjamin West, the man who came to be the president of Britain's Royal Academy, succeeding Sir Joshua Reynolds. West left his native Springfield, in 1760 after having been tutored by an Englishman named William Williams who came to America and stayed from 1745 to 1775. While Williams was here, he wrote what is now considered the first American novel, "Mr. Penrose: the journal of Penrose, seaman." The roster of students whom West attracted to London is astonishing.

There were John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart and Samuel F. B. Morse and Robert Fulton. THERE WAS another modest exodus of men such as Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper but they did not go as students. A bit later there was a flight of poets and authors, such as Longfellow and Edward Everett, who went to prepare themselves to assume the duties of the professorships to which they had been appointed.

At the age of 21, Everett was appointed to the chair of Greek literature at Harvard and went to Europe for nearly five years to prepare himself. When Longfellow was offered the chair of modern languages at Harvard, he went to Europe for two years. Oliver Wendell Holmes went to Gottingen to study medicine. The first American I know of who went to study music was Louis Moreau Gottschalk, born in New Orleans in 1827. He went to Paris in 1841 for five years and was the first American pianist to attain international fame.

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