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Ruta Lee Will Pair With Arms in Irma Lr i 'a vt if I it -J 7 such other major films as Marjorie Morningstar Witness For The Prosecution and Funny Face Recently she was the only girl in Sergeants 3 suiTounded by Frank Sinatra and his "clan" and has been signed for another picture with the same gang Robin And The Seven Hoods Arms who starred on the TV Your Hit Parade was a straight dramatic actor for five years before anybody put his singing voice to use A native of Berkeley he won a seven year movie contract upon graduating from the Pasadena Playhouse and has been in many major films He makes many appearances in the nation's leading hotels and supper clubs as well as guest appearances on television Tickets for the remaining Music Circus shows Wildcat which will open tomorrow night Oklahoma! Anything Goes Irma La Douce South Pacific and West Side Story' are available at the Civic Theater box office ktnA Jk A Russell Arms and Ruta Lee New Music Ensemble Will Debut At UCD With World Premieres Russell Arms who has scored previously with Music Circus audiences and Ruta Lee a singing and dancing performer seen often these days in movies and on television will join the popular Oliver Cliff in leading roles when the Music Circus presents Irma La Douce in a week's run starting August 5th The Gallic comedy a cheerful tongue in cheek combination of sly humor and genuine romance is the 8th in the series of 10 professional shows being presented by Lewis and Young in the tent at 15th and Streets The producers stressed the fact that the stage play bears little resemblance to the new movie of the same name which uses none of the music of the original and features a drastically different storyline Irma La Douce a hit in Paris England and New York is the story of a pretty and somehow innocent Parisian cocotte the young student who falls in love with her and the wise and humorous tavern owner who acts as both a participant in the action and narrator Miss Lee a newcomer to the Music Circus was last seen on a Northern California stage a couple of seasons ago as Ellie in the Edwin Lester production of Show Boat A native of Canada she was educated at convent schools in Montreal and Los Angeles where she also attended UCLA She broke into show business through television and has since made some 500 appearances in major network dramatic shows The movies cast her as one of the Seven Brides For Seven Brothers and she has been in SHERMAN CLAY music ipecialisls for 93 year new areas of contemporary music The concert will end with a nod in the direction of Charles Ives who was pioneering new sounds in American music a half century ago The ensemble will perform his Scherzo (Over The Pavements) dated 1906-1913 The players will be Austin Rosen Swift Lunetta trombonist Donald Brewer pianist Adrienne Casielian harpist Sylvia Hoffman saxophonist Jon Gibson piccolo player Barbara Johnson reed and vibraphone player Wayne Johnson bassist Jerry Lopes and reed player Arthur Woodbury A large variety of instruments will be used Students will be admitted free the general public at 50 cents Never before such a portable An extraordinary program of modern chamber music including four world premieres and two west coast premieres will be offered by the New Music Ensemble in Freeborn Hall at the University of California at Davis at 8:15 PM Wednesday July 31st It will also mark the premiere performance of the ensemble which is described by its spokesman UCD composer and faculty member Larry Austin as more an idea than a group of performers "The idea" Austin said "is to perform significant contemporary chamber musi whatever is instrumental to explore new composing and pcifoiming techniques and to develop a concept of group improvisation "In frequent rehearsals over 11 J3 as this! KLH STEREOPHONIC PHONOGRAPH the past two months the ensemble has been primarily concerned with developing various approaches to group improvisation particularly since all the works on this debut concert involve improvisatory andor chance techniques in varying degrees To begin with all the players are fluent improvisers either as creative performers as composers or both The problem for the group was to perfect a sort of creative rapport which would enable us to improvise freely as a group and create aesthetically successful musical moments "Future concerts depending on the works selected for performance may or may not involve improvisation Our view is to present as many forms of new music as possible Hence we strive to involve performers composers and listeners in active music making" To be heard for the first time anywhere in the July 31st concert are four pieces written this year: Elegy for solo percussion by Jerome Rosen chairman of the UCD music department Extrados for solo clarinet written for Rosen by former UCD and San Jose State music major Garrett Bowles Collage a piece for chamber ensemble by Austin which makes use of considerable free improvisation and Domains II also for solo percussion by Richard Swift another member of the UCD faculty The two percussion pieces are dedicated to Sacramento percussionist Stanley Luneita who will perform them The west coas premieres will be Refrain for piano celeste and vibraphone written in 1959 by the German composer Karlheinz Stock-hausen a leading figure in modern music and Densities I for clarinet vibraphone harp and bass written last year by New York composer-conductor Gunther Schuller another active and internationally important figure in OPENS WED AUG 7 Only 3 Nites 2 Mots Wed at Fri Sat at 8:30 Mots Sat Sun at 2:30 THE 23rd ALL NEW mil EDITION I UKJUJ Barber Shoppers Invite Barbers Sacramento barbers will have a chance to see and hear what barber shoppers really do at tomorrow night's meeting of the Sacramento Chapter of thte Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America Inc The meeting in the SP Clubhouse '1916 15th Street will begin at 8 PM Even if you are not a barber the barber shoppers will be ghd to see you We believe this to be the finest portable phono we've ever offered! Weighs only 28 pounds! Garrard AT 6 automatic turntable Pickering 380C magnetic pickup Inputs for radio or tape recorder Separate bass and treble controls Extra Special! Canadian North American World's Olympic Champions! WAGNER PAUL How to order by mail! Write letter to Ice Capades Civic Theater Box Office 15th Sts Sacramento Enclose check or money order together with stamped self-addressed envelope State price number of tickets and performance desired SAMCERMAoMr Auditorium 199 Prices: $2 S3 $350 $4 (inc tax) SHERMAN y' CLAY Bridge Bay's Choice Critic's Choice the comedy about the drama critic and his playwright wife will open in the Bridge Bay Summer Theater on the shore of Lake Shasta near Redding Shasta County Tuesday for a run through next Sunday Ivan Bonar is featured Curtain time is 8:30 PM except Sun-da at 7:30 PM ALSO PLAYING! Bfyh Olympic Arena Squaw Valley State Park 4 Nites only! at 8:30 AUG 1-2-3-4 For information or mail orders write Blyth Olympic Arena Olympic Valley Calif Downtown on KAY "THE" Capital Music Center 1312 St Gl 2-6911 Monday Friday 'til 9 Free Purchase-Parkina at Weinstock-Lubi fc Muni Page L5 THE SACRAMENTO BEE SUNDAY JULY 14 1963 Sacramento California.