The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 156

nxTttttTrni' i r1! ri'' rmr rrTTTTT 1 4-tt THE MIAMI HERALD Sunday NoV 27 196fi BeryVs Amused by All the Fuss The girl from Honey pot Cottage on the Thames has capped a 30-year career with a smash performance in Killing of Sister The a shocker and Beryl Reid had a hard time shedding her Scotch Presbyterian image But she got the part demonstrating her singleness of MICKEY CARROLL TRIO ANTHONY AILIN VINCI HAYDOCK 110 CRIDIT CARDS HONORID tome of the "Camel-Sized" drink a bit of it over here" 1 DRESSING room visitors always seem surprised "I know what they expect when they see me without the gray wig and makeup" declares the 5-foot-3 actress 1 whose own locks are soft strawberry blonde and whose complexion is creamy Hereford absolute feml-n 1 all frilly dressing gowns and I Ilka the This after two marriages and two divorces terribly difficult to have a successful marriage if you a re a success in the theater because absence make the heart grow fonder and one is always on the go "But not disenchanted oh no one who longs for affection and not going to be out of it" Miss Reid leaps oven to shut off an air conditioner in the corner of her hotel apartment "it always makes me crouch" Then she fixes a short snifter "I like tea at all there's something obscene about all those leaves" And resumes the Reid saga "Everything that has happened to me in my work has its recent arrival at the Be-lasco from a long London run the personal Reid notices were unanimously the kind that kindle attention for season acting honors Miss Reid portrays a soap-opera heroine who away from the radio microphone turns into a cigar-puffing sadistic harridan who torments her female buddy "You just keep a level head about it she explains are just people and what they do influence me All one can do is act out the New York audiences she notes seem more shocked by lesbian references than British spectators w'hich mildly shocks her- think such behavior is more taken for granted says Miss Reid "though seen more than Bv WILLIAM OLOVKR Associated frost Drama Writer NEW YORK Broadway's toughest moll is an offstage dove Luv Just determined and amused by all the bother 1 "When I used to come up for a part in a revue back in she smiles writers would say here's Beryl Reid that awful Scotch Presbyterian who won't say a nasty word' So what happens? Why Miss Reid In the first dramatic role of her 30-year career goes clumping into the murky depths of black comedy where words may not be always nasty but conditions are The offbeat switch has paid off beyond her fondest dreams Although "The Killing of Sister George" drew heatedly mixed reviews on MAADmADtaDS IIT III? MWtSP £3 Press Photo Beryl COLUMBUS SMITH Estlwr Satlirland Cluck Polk Sextet The Peridots NO COV NO MIN it Ceetinueue A Fun Reid in lliP rriticx arlnrpil hpr Starting Times Of Films Jack Kofood Go Ahead Be an Adventurer OCEAN 163rd STREET WHERE THE ACTION IS Chib American Express Phillip Oil Gardner Gardner On the Telephone taken place so slowly that when something comes along like this play I can do SOMETIME' during Manchester childhood the future music hall comedienne got the acting urge though her background was altogether opposed Her father still alive at 84 was a real estate auctioneer and estate appraiser Her mother now gone a stalwart homemaker Her brother is a scientist who used to invent cake mixes and now concentrates on explosives of them was ever impressed bv all this show-huslness she blithely admits Still there was nn parental objection when Beryl Elizabeth started doing impersonations at 14 for hospital socials Masonic evenings and police benefits "oh the cheek I Her first professional job got her 2 pounds sterling at 17 and soon it was 1937 and she was braving the offices of London impresarios Her first job in a pantomime came after three obdurate weeks of sitting in an anteroom "and then I worked for that manager eight Such revue stalwarts as Jack Buchanan Harry Secombe and Max Bygraves became her on-stage companions Miss Reid reached stardom when her flair for perky characterization created Marlene of the Midlands hip with-it teenster in a long blonde wig and miniskirt given me a good living for 10 BET Miss Reid had other goals in mind "One of my few real talents is great singleness of she puts it "For seven years I kept saying I wanted to do a play A lot of people said Luv but not Michael Condron was the producer who broke the ice never worked for him hut seen everything done He asked me to go see Mr 1 found nut later thought about me for a part in it hut there was my reputation about being shoCkable I wasn't shocked at all and told him so when 'Sister came along he got in touch" She got the part without an audition too "haven't done one in 20 years and if I did I'd never THE THEATER she realizes "is an dodgey business" so as a balance for serenity Miss Reid at home nips off after each performance to do some cooking in her thatch-roofed sanctuary on the Thames near Windsor honeypot cottage was built by a man potty about she says only square room in the dear little place is the bath" New York she finds a bit frightening particularly for someone like her not setting myself up as a great she muses I have got an awful lot of feeling and warmth for other people And I get a feeling all the blooming nuts in the city find me and want to are publish-by theater These schedules ed as submitted managers Fair Lady 2:30 at me and whisper: "This is one of those jerks who break into telephone coin boxes call the I figure better leave before a misunderstanding cop hauls me to the precinct where with my luck I can't even get a call through to my lawyer So I nonchalantly amble over to the newspaper stand of the Taft Hotel find an inside phone in working order and dial my number figuring that by now probably changed anyway In a lew minute the ringing (which sounded like music by then) was interrupted bv the dulcet tone of an operator she number you have dialed is not a working With that she presses a wrong button and rings up mv last dime I decide the only way to get a message to anyone is to send it by smoke signals providing not swallowed up by the smog blank- eting Fun City USA OBSERVATION WARD: After Clay and his pigeon Ike Williams completed their bloody waltz in Hous-t Claude Terrill the champ's next patsy invited his opponent-to-be to be his guest at a local night club where he is the star attraction do there?" Cassius asked Wil-1 i a answered Clay shrugged "I can sing better than you can Here's one for the My Line? panel: Attractive Martha Sarno She owns and pretty much directs the Carriage House Inn in New York the San Carlos in the same city and the Diplomat in Washington But her real occupation is acting as assistant principal at Junior High School 60 in convinced you get a better payoff playing the coin machines in Las Vegas than trying to make a telephone call from one of those glass isolation booths scattered throughout Manhat-town trace my frustrating safari the other morning My first attempt to make a call was from a transparent booth on 52nd St I dropped the usual dime and heard it land with a Ihud The lever distinctly marked I thought maybe two nickels might work But being heavier they simply landed with a louder thud I damned the petty vandals been booby-trapping telephone company property and cheating citizens and walked a few blocks towards and tried another outdoor booth Here when no sign of life responded to my contribution of a thin dime I again pressed the release lever and could actually hear the coins slip into the slot Jubilant I struck my finger into the slot and It was empty Peering into the gizzards of the instrument I noticed that the little metal slide had been physically pried off and while my coin was visible there was no way to get it out of the trap I chewed on a stick of gum till it was real gooey then stuck the tip of it to a pencil and went groping for the coin The only thing that happened was that I lost my gum Still determined I sashayed into a 5 and 10-cent store and blew $189 on a flashlight and combination bottle opener and screw driver With the deft touch of a Willie Sutton I was on the verge of retrieving my dime when a couple of wisenheimers park outside the booth stare sJtMjoOOir oaninir BAY Mv 5:30 8:30 Dr Zhivago 2:30 8:30 BOCA Professionals 2:30 7:30 9:45 Robin Crusoe 1:15 6:55 9:45 Wild Surf 11:45 3:35 Giant Shadow 1:20 5:15 9:05 Hot Rod 1:00 4:05 10:00 Goliath 2:20 5:30 8:40 Texas Across River 2:15 Benefit 8:00 Hercules 2:10 5:25 Vampires 3:45 7:00 10:15 Bye Bye Birdie 12:30 8:00 Love Many Faces 2:30 10:00 CINEMA I (Ft Professionals 2:00 4:05 7:10 8:10 10:20 CINEMA II (Ft Dr Zhivago 2:158:30 CINEMA Texas Across River 2:00 4:00 6:05 8:05 10:05 Fiintstone 1:45 5:00 8:15 Birds Do It 3:15 6:30 9:45 Walk Don't Run 2:25 6:15 10:06 Three on Couch 12:30 4:20 8:12 Dr Zhivago 2:00 8:30 CORAL RIDGE (Ft Laud)-Fortune Cookie 1:00 3:10 5:20 7:30 9:40 CUTLER RIDGE CINEMA-Texas Across River 2:00 3:55 5:56 7:55 9:55 Uglv Dachchund 2:00 5:15 8:35 Tarzan 3:30 6:50 10:00 Fortune Cookie 2:15 4:45 7:25 9:50 Professionals 1:10 3:25 5:40 7:55 10:00 FLORIDA Holly wood)-Fortune Cookie 1:00 3:10 5:20 7:30 9:40 Fortune Cookie 2:20 4:50 7:20 9:55 GATEWAY (Ft Laud)-Texas Across River 1-20 3:20 5:25 7:25 9:25 Birds Do it 3:45 7:10 10:20 Fiintstone 2:00 5:30 8:50 Professionals 200 3:51 5:55 7:55 9:55 Man Woman 2:00 4:00 6:00 8:00 10:00 Man Woman 2:00 4:00 6:00 8:00 10:00 Texas Across River 1:00 2:45 4:35 6:35 8:15 10:05 Texas Across River 12:10 2:05 4:00 6:00 8:00 10:00 A I Fortune Cookie 2:25 4:50 7:20 9:50 NORTH Love Marriage' 2:10 4:10 6:10 8:10 10:10 163RD Texas Across River 1:25 3:30 5:40 7:45 10:00 170TH Professionals 1:30 3:30 5:30 7:45 10:00 Fortune Cookie 12:00 2:25 4:55 7:20 9:50 PALM Magnificent Men 2:15 4:40 7:00 9:25 Fiintstone 11:30 2:35 5:40 8:45 Birds Do It 1:05 4:10 7:15 10:20 PARKWAY Time Lost Remembered 2:12 4:10 6:00 8:00 9:55 PLANTATION (Ft Laud)-Fortune Cook-ie 2:00 4:40 7:05 9:35 PLAZA (W Texas Across River 2:05 3:55 5:50 7:40 9:30 Quo Vadis 12:00 4:10 8:30 Good Day Hanging 2:40 7:00 Professionals 1:30 3:30 5:30 7:45 10:00 Wrong Box 2:10 6:00 9:55 Three on Couch 4:05 8:00 Ambush Bav 2:00 5:55 9:55 Russians Coming 3:45 7:45 79TH Swap 2:00 4:45 7:30 10:20 Bare Hunt 3:40 6:25 9:15 Alfie 2:00 4:00 6:00 10:00 Fortune Cookie 2:15 7:20 9:50 Fortune Cookie 2:10 7:20 9:50 Man Woman 2:10 4:00 8:00 9:55 Texas Across River 2:00 6:00 8:00 10:00 Criada Malcriada 2:00 10:00 Puerta Joven 3:51 8:01 Stage Russians Coming 2:00 10:20 Tempest 4:05 8:15 Mad World 12:20 3:20 6:20 9:15 Mr Pennypacker 2:00 5:20 8:40 Fanatastic Voyage 3:30 6:50 10:10 fiiaililililHlil!) ALKIO in ft i fi WHEN the average man takes his wife or girl friend to dinner he usually orders steak or roast beef fine I'm a steak and roast beef guy myself over the long haul but there are times when one should seek a more adventurous approach Try new things Why not? The first person to try oysters and clams had to be something of a hero Escargots for instance snails broiled in garlic They are fine at Club Gigi in the Fontainebleau Le Parisien and the Starlight Room of the Doral Grenouilles legs Provencale go for those at Chick Rubi-no's Plantation and the Mona Lisa room of The Eden Roc The first time I tastpd squid was years ago in Havana and it was much much better than it looked Casa Santino has squid and I think Gerardo's and the Sorrento BIFTEK All POIVKE steak with tiny pepper kernels you can find at its best at Le Cordon Bleu the Celebrity Room of the Diplomat and Le Parisien Most people when they order Dover Sole order Marguery or Meuniere but try this great fish a la St Germaine dipped in lemon and oil and slightly crumbed at the Flami Yacht Club atop Tony's Fish Market the Shadows or the Lighthouse Imperial crab is practically the state dish of Maryland but not too well known here fine at Mike Gordon and the New England Oyster Houses Stoneerabs are old hat to natives but a suggested for visitors a delightful taste thrill They were introduced to the Beach years ago by Stonecrab Restaurant where still the top attraction but are available in many places including Sammy intimate and unusual Persian Room in the Shalimar Beef tenderloin en brocehette has several other names but it is beef slices alternated with mushrooms onions and green peppers and served on a sword and tucked neatly in a bed of rice Nick and Arthur's do it exceptionally well CETLETS Poyarsky Old Europe at the Top of the Home in Hollywood is three kinds of meat in cream sweet butter and bread crumbs and chances are you never tried it Duck is done in many entrancing ways a (with oranges of course) at the Deauville Montmorency (black bing cherries) at the Doral Copenhagen (prunes apples red cabbage potatoes) at Chez Ven-dome Pekin (pressed) Mai Kai Luau Fu Manchu Danish lobster tails were new here until imported them but while they can be had in many places including A1 Fairway they're still news to some people Potato pancakes are so old fashioned new to a lot of people so try them at Hofbrau Haus in Hallandale WILLIAM KOELLE a trencherman of sorts and a judge of good food reports on dinners he enjoyed in Philadelphia At Chaumiere" he started with Quiche Lorraine a French custard with cheese and ham and followed with steak aux champignons and Peche Melba the cost totaling S790 At Le Pavilion Bill dined on escargots (snails) Tournedos Rossini (Filet Mignon on French bread with liver pate covered with mushrooms and wine sauce) finished off with crepes Suzette Thus cost S975 At Alfredo's Koelle ordered antipasto sirloin steak a la Pizzaiola eggplant Parmagi-ana and Italian rum cake This amounted to $725 Of course in no instance were cocktails included TOM FERRIS notes that if the waitress idea takes hold in this town eateries will have to be renamed "breastaurants" When the Footlighters' Room is opened at Pompernik's President Eddie Schaffer will break a bottle of kosher wine against the picture of the founder Leon Fields Dania Jai Alai starts its season Dec 1 and its Basque restaurant will serve dinners beginning at 6 Anne and Harold Kane Le Cordon Bleu in Dania holds its formal opening Dec 1 but the Food and Wine Society will have its annual dinner there on the 29th with a Belgian cuisine Dr Louis Skinner is chairman THEY CALL Leo Peighton author of Ipcress and in Berlin" the "Mystery Chef" because no one knew what a culinary expert he was until he brought out Cookstrip Cookbook" Collins a hit at the Domino Lounge Lynda Gloria long time star of the French revue at the Carillon will headline at Freeport this winter Mona Clark dubbed by Jimmy Durante as one of great stars plans to live in Miami henceforth Talented Ruth McMahon due for a crowded season under the aegis of Capt George Maines Armand (Tony's Fish Market) Cerami golfing with Sens Lansche (Ohio) and Bass (Tenn) at LaGorce Playboy Qub thrush Teddi King was Metronome of the a couple of semesters ago How Plays Shape Up On Great White Way Drive-Ins Transatlantic Liner Luxury it Elegance SuVl CRUISES to I1ASSAU TWICE-WEEKLY ALL-EXPENSE ARROW (W Professionals 7:00 11:05 Walk Don't Run 9:15 Wrong Box 7:20 Spy From Cold 9:25 BREEZEWAY 3 on Couch 7:00 11:05 Sands Kalahari 9:05 CORAL Professionals 7:05 10:50 Born Free 9:15 DAVIE (Ft Daisy Clover 7:15 Pawnbroker 9:20 Khartoum 7:10 Ambush Bav 9:43 444 (M a 9 a Harper 7:00 10:45 Wrong Number 9:00 FEDERAL (Pompano Skull 7:00 Feast 8:40 Maniacs 9:50 girl 11:15 GOLD COAST (Deerfield)-Wav Out 7:00 11:00 Russians Coming 9:00 GOLDEN WEST: Profession als 7:00 3 on Couch 9:15 EAST: Professionals 3 on Couch 7:30 11:15 L-Shaped Room 7:00 11:15 Yesterday Today 9:15 l-WAY (Ft Gordon 6:30 Feast 8:00 Maniacs 9:10 Playgirl 10:30 LAUOERDAL Hot Tin Roof 6:50 10:30 Butterfield 8:48 LE Fiintstone 7:10 10:40 Birds Do It 8:50 LIB Alvarez Kelly 7:00 10:45 Born Free 9:00 Slender Thread 7:00 11:10 Khartoum 8:55 NORTH ANDREWS (Ft Lud)-Wrong Box 7:30 Lost Command 9:20 NORTH Patch of Blue 7:00 11:00 Lady 9:00 PALM Alvarez Kelly 7:00 10:45 Born Free 9:00 22NO AVE Alvarez Kelly 7:00 10:45 Bom Free 9:00 27TH AVE Appaloosa 7:05 Robin Crusoe 8:00 Brass Bottle 10:15 THUNDERBIRD (Ft Bizarro 7:00 It :00 Blood Red 8:30 Defiant 10:00 I A Fiintstone 6:55 10:42 Birds Do It 8:59 I Fiintstone 7:10 11:00 Birds Do It 9:00 MIAMI BEACH NEW TEAR CRUISES Dec 30 (4 Days) Jan 3 (3 Days) CHRISTMAS CRUISES Dec 23 (4 Days) Dec 27 (3 Days) girl's romantic misadventures available "THE APPLE TREE" Barbara Harris Larrv Blyden Alan Alda Shu-bert unusual musical consisting of three separate stories on general thema of man-woman-temptation good advance some available "THE IMPOSSIBLE YEARS" Sam Levene Playhouse comedy of psychiatrist who has problems with his teen-aged daughter available "THE INVESTIGATION" Peter Brandon Alice Hirson Ambassador Petar Wess drama based on trial record of German charged with Auschwitz atrocities available "THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE" Beryl Reid Eileen Atkins Belasco London prize play of odd reiatinship among three women available "THE ODD COUPLE" Eddie Bracken Mike Kejlin Eugene O'Neill comedy of two buddies separated from wives who set up bachelor establish- ment available "THE ROSE TATTOO" auretn Staoieton Billy Rose revival of one of Tennessee Williams' best plays moved to Broadway after limited engagement at City Center available "THOSE THAT PLAY THE CLOWNS" Alfred Drake Joan Greenwood Ante drama about 16th century band of strolling players in Denmark with "Hamlet" overtones available "WAIT A MINIMI" South African company Golden unusual satirical musical revue available "WAIT UNTIL DARK" Lee Remick Robert Duvall Music Box rousing melodrama of blind woman outsmarting three crooks available "WALKING HAPPY" Norman Wfe-' dom Louise Troy Lunt-Fontanne period musical about young woman who turns a man into business success some advance "MAN OF LA MACHA" Richard Ki-ley Joan Diener Anta Washington Souare prize musical fantasy blending Cervantes' life with his "Don Quixote" sellout plan ahead APA-PHOENIX REPERTORY Lyceum Sheridans' "The School for Scandal" and Pirandellos' "Right You Are If You Think You Are" current others to follow subscription out some avaiiabH NEW YORK (UPI) Current attractions their stars theaters and ticket availabilities: "A DELICATE BALANCE" Jessica Tandy Hume Cronyh Martin Beck Edward Albee's new drama of tensions within a small group of disturbed sophisticates available "BAREFOOT IN THE PARK" Ilka Chase Bittmore comedy about newlyweds adjusting to arried I ife available "CABARET' Haworth Jack Gilford Broadhurst musical set in pre-Hitler Berlin based on play "I Am a Camera" good advance "CACTUS FLOWER" Lauren Bacall Barry Nelson Rovale a Don Juan dentist meets his match in his plain Jane assistant sellout "DINNER AT EIGHT" Large all-star cast Alvin top-drawer revival of 32-vear-old Kaufman-Ferber drama of life in New York society in the 1930s' available "DON'T DRINK THE WATER" Lou Jacobi Kav Medford Morosco comedian Woody Allens' farce ebout American family accused of espionage while vacationing behind iron Curtain available "FIOOLER ON THE ROOF" Her-schel Bernard! Imperial musical plav of Jewish father in czarist Russia with problem of marrying off several daughters sellout "FUNNY GIRL" Mimi Hines Maies-tic musical about early career and romance of Fanny Brice available "HELLO DOLLY!" Ginger Rogers Oavid Burns St James musical about female matchmaker who reserves wealthy client for herself available "LUV" Barbara Bel Geddes Helen Hayes comedy of a man who palms off wife on a friend remarries then wants first wife back available "MAME" Angela Lansbury Winter Garden musical version of "Auntie Marne" capacity plan ahead "SWEET CHARITY" Gwen Verdi Palace musical comedy of danceht AS pm from CAUSCWWy leuaWAL Miami Beach WWtY CRUISES SAIL FRIDAYS 4-0AY CRUISES SAIL MONDAYS 59 75 150 I 3 Nur enjoy a new standard of excellence aboard fee ONLY big transatlantic liner in this cruise service! Modem fully air conditwwd stabilized Unusual splendor service copdort! 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