Brownwood Bulletin from Brownwood, Texas • Page 21

iPfe, BROWNWOOD BULLETIN, Sunday, January 23, Pianist To Perform Co me dy Comes To Coliseum M.MC...,. HO ie uhir t.i rrvmtrmnirfltr mu- nan. brilliant by the Hotis'on A TEXAS PIANIST Ivan Davis, a young pianist from Texas, will present a concert Monday at 8 p.m. in Mirm Auditorium on the Howard Payne College campus. A student of piano from age 12, his accomplishments won him scholarship for advanced study at North Texas State University with Dr.

Silvio Scionti. Davis also studied in Europe, a Fulbright Scholar, and an American prize winner in Naples and Lisbon. Rave reviews have srrceted Ivan Davis all across Ihe coun- try. This young pianist, na- live of Texas, will present a concert Monday at 8 m. in Mim's Auditorium on the Howard Payne College campus.

The Brownwood Civic Music Association is sponsoring the event. Davis was described as "his playing has personality ca ler a lender BOWIE "Thunderball" continued Sunday through Tuesday, "Secret Agent Fireball" and "A Spy in Your Eye," Wednesday through Saturday. CAMP BOWIE "The Art of Love" and "A Very Special Favor" stan-ing Rock Hudson Sunday Ihrough Tuesday: "Once a Thief" and "Boys Night Out," Wednesday through Friday: "Masquerade" and "The Train." Saturday. BLUFFVIEW "Ipcress File" and "Lover Come Back 1 Sunday through Tuesday; "Girls on thn Beach" and "Mr. Moses" Wed- inesday through Friday.

"The Glory Guys' 1 and "The Gu.i- light at Dodge City." Saturday. He is able to communicate mu sical excitement" in the New York Times. Davis made his debul in New York's Town Hall in 1959 and relumed in 1960 to take top honors in the first Franz Liszt Piano Competition. This honor opened doors for the talented musician giving him a second Town Hall recital and a tour sponsored by the National Association of Concert Managers. Other appearances of tire vir- i luoso were with the Philadelphia Orchestra on Revelon's "Sumi mer Festival" over nation-wide television, the New York Phil- I harmonic and the Fort Worth Symphony.

i At the Fort Worth perform- ance, John Rosenfield. musical kingpin of the Southwest declar- ed, "If Mr. Davis has technique, it is not for burning. If he has lone, it is not for thunder. It is i rather for singing in an exlra- ordinary variety of apt color.

i His approach to concerted pieces was that of the sensitive maker who is not merely the performer." i Davis has been dubbed "newest of our keyboard hero- es." by the Louisville Courier- i Journal, "thrilling" by the btiquerque Tribune: "extraordi- nary. brilliant" by the Hotis'on Post, and "a sensitive noet of the piano" by Ihe Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram. The artist has already entered the recording field with solo al-! bums for Columbia Record Comi pany. On records are "Ivan Davis Plays Liszt," an album of i Scarlatti, Haydn and Mozart sonatas, and the piano music of, Lynn Bari, a Hollywood actor since age 13. has appeared in over 80 movies, and 's coming to Brownwood March 1 at 8 p.m.

in Browr.wcMd Coliseum. The play she will be appearing in is "Barefoot in the Pnrk." generally acknowledged to be of the hmniesl and one Current Best Sellers I FICTION i THE SOURCE, Michcner i THOSE- WHO LOVE, Stone UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE, Kaufman AIRS ABOVE THE GROUND, Stewart THE HONEY BADGER, Ruark i NON FICTION A THOUSAND DAYS. Schle- singcr A GIFT OF PROPHECY. Montgomery KENNEDY, Sorensen A GIFT OF JOY, Hayes GAMES PEOPLE PLAY, Berne of the most successful stage comedies of ewr 1 It open- ed in New York Oct. 23.

1963. i Coliseum Manager Jack Knott; saw the piny in Chicago last summer and arranged kr this troupe of performers to come to Brownwood. According to Knott. "it is the funniest plav i 1'vf. seen." Neil Simon, the acknowledges thai the howling bits of "Barefoot in the Park" are taken from memories ot his first wteks of marriage.

It is about the adventures of a pair of newlyweds setting up housekeeping in an ancient New York apartment, in their first six days of marriage. The apartment is one-room, phower-and-closet on the sixth floor of a brownstone house wilh a broken studio skylight and an i attic that is occupied by a "nut" gourmet with grand manners and no money. 1 The bride found the plarc I while the groom worked for his law office. The bride's mother. Lynn Bari.

is almost "a hospital case" after viewing dwelling, and continues to play the "diffident" mama whose dignity il constantly shattered by her daughter's improbable domestic arrangements. Taking the part of the scatterbrained bride and coniused bridegroom are Joan McCall and Joel Crothers. Comedy's Tiektti To Sell At Discount Special prices are for "Barefoot in the Park," which plays March 1. if tickets are purchased by Feb. 19.

Advance tickets go on sale Monday at $1 off regular ad: mission. The tickets arc priced as ilows: lower balcony, now i upper balcony renter, now upper balcony, side: now main floor center. and main floor side. J2 Prices on all these fares are $1 higher after Feb. 19.

LYNN BARI In Brownwood REPAIRED REF1NISHED Call Us Per Estimates DAY CO. Top Ten CAN WORK IT OUT, Beatles i SOUNDS OF SILENCE. Simon and Garfunkel AS TEARS GO BY, Rolling Stones i FIVE O'CLOCK WORLD. 7 ogues SHE'S JUST MY STYLE, Lewis A MUST TO AVOID, Herman's i Hermits THE MEN IN MY LITTLE GIRL'S LIFE, Douglas BARBARA ANN, Beach Boys 1 NO MATTER WHAT SHAPE (Your Stomach's In). T-Boncs win Choose your as you would choose a doctor tour Doctor Cell OPFN 7 A.M.

i P.M. TOP OF THE WEEK entertainment in town centers around a onc-nipht performance of Ivan Davis in i a piano concert at Minis Auditorium on the Howard Payne campus. Nation-wide critics have raved about the talents of the young musician. From all this writer can gather, if is a performance not to be missed, especially for persons who enjoy music in its finest form by a musi- jcian who puts sensitivity and feelinginto the compo- sition I Brownwood Civic Music Association is sponsoring the concert Monday at, 8 p.m. BROWNWOOD HIGH SCHOOL members of the; speech, choir and band are putting on an arrangement i of "Bye Bye Birdie" Thursday night in the high school! auditorium.

BOX OFFICE OPENS AT 6:00 SHOW STARTS AT 6:30 ON COLEMAN HWY. 645-2393 TONIGHT THRU TUESDAY "Lover Come Back WEDNESDAY THRU FRIDAY Robfft Carroll VBvi WVvHMvl COMING SATURDAY "The Gunfight At Dodge City BOX OFFICE OPENS AT 6:00 On Brady Hwy. SHOW STARTS AT 4:30 TONI9HT THRU TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THKU FtlDAY Metio-Gotdwyn-Mayer presents ALAIN DELON-ANN-MARGRET VAN HEFLIN-JACK PALANCE "Boys' Oraaaflitof Night Out COMINft UTUIQAY pro tjiiii I THE FAMED "THUNDERBALL" is still on the Bowie Theater in Brownwood and is scheduled to i play through Tuesday. Agent 007, Sean Connery, has; his usual covey of beautiful female co-stars. Popularity of the film may be riding on previous "007" flicks and promotion of the movie industry as first night at the Bowie filled one showing.

Many people think it is bet; ter than "Goldfinger" and others still hold it will be hard to top the previous movie. This writer sticks with, the latter feeling with the addition that movie makers seemed to be trying too hard in this production. i TWO MOVIES SLATED to run Thursday through! Sunday if the Bond movie leaves town on the scheduled date are "Spy in Your Eye" and "Secret Agent; Fireball." Dana Andrews stars as an American intelligence chief in "Spy in Your Eye" who has an operation in i which a lost eye is replaced with what later is revealed to be a miniature camera and sound transmitter. Both the Soviet secret agents and American agents are looking for the secret of a laser death ray. Costarring are Pier Angeli and Brett Halsey.

Two Russian scientists flee the homeland and become the center of a spy war between U.S. and-Soviet agents. Richard Harrison and Dominique Boschero star in the film which plays with "Spy in Your Eye," Thursday through Saturday at the Bowie. BACK FOR AN engagement at Bluffvue Drive-In is the "Ipcress File," starring the increasingly popular i Michael Caine, who also is a fine actor. The plot centers around England's "brain drain" and attempts by British to discover the source and recover their bril- liant scientists.

Caine plays an off-beat bad Army record, a Cockney accent and nearsighted eyes nevertheless brings humor and timing into the show which is one of the best spy thrillers out. This i is on Sunday through Tuesday. "THI TRAIN" starring Burt Lancaster plays Saturday only at Camp Bowie Drive-In. Lancaster is area inspector of the French Railway Service during the German occupation where he is forced to cooperate with the Nazis, and is actually a resistance leader. A dramatic-action-packed film which also stars IPati Schoiield colonel) and Jeanne Moreau (a widow who aids the underground).

A FUTURE DATE to remember is March "Barefoot in the Park" comes to town for a one-night engage- mcnt at Brownwood Coliseum. The six-member cast i is headed by a Hollywood favorite, Lynn Bari. She the role of the diffident mother of the bride in Perhaps the most important feature now is that advance tickets for the program go on sale Monday at reduce dollar off regular admission. These prices will last only until Feb. 19 when the regular admission goes back into effect.

iROWNWOOD STAOi BAND Festival, the 15th event, is slated for Feb. 24 through Feb. 26 with 89 builds indicating an interest in coming. AH sections of Texas are well represented in the (ete which brings high school musicians in from Class A through AAAA schools. The concerts and contests are based on semi-modern to modern jazz programs with music composed and arranged by students, ANOTHER FIRST FOR THE BROWNWOOD COLISEUM "ONE OF THE FUNNIEST COMEDIES BAREFOOT NEWSMEN'S QUEEN Dale Evant.

singer, song writer, author, movie-radio- TV star and Queen of the Cowgirls, been named Texan of Year by the Texas Press Association. Announcement of her selection came from former Bulletin staff member Don Coppedge, chairman of TPA's Texan of the Year committee and publisher of the Waxahachie Daily Light. Uvalde-born Miss Evans is the wife of Roy Rogers, popularly known as King of tht Cowboys. Rogers will accompany his wife to San Antonio where the newsmen will present the special award to Miss Evans during TPA's Mid- Winter Convention, Jan. 28-29.

Winn Crossley, association president and publisher of the Madisonville Meteor, said this is the first time in the history of the state's largest newspaper organization that a woman has been selected as Texan of the Year. History Tops Library List Mrs. Walter Dix, librarian of the Brownwood public library, announced the following new books received by the library; this week. NON-FICTION "The Proud Tower," by Barbara Tuchman. A new book by the author of the prize winning "Guns of August" in which she i portrays the iateful century lead: Ing up to the Great War.

Her aim, she states, is to discover the quality of the world from which the Great War carne. "Sails Through the Centuries," i by Sam Svenson. A short his! lory of sails and sailing from the earliest Rornan mer- ichantmen and Viking ships to 1 the American clipper ships. "Elegant Decorating on a Lioi- i Ued Budget," by Janet Ashton Reist. A book whose emphasis is on stimulating the individuality and creativity of the tender iThe book features a chart for i every known period and styie of decorating.

"Fighter Aces," by Col. Raymond F. Tolliver and Trevor Constable. A saga of the great fighter pilots from World War I to Uie Korean War. i Mailers of the ANTIQUES New Open In New Location Junquc, Stuff, and Things Jackson's Cabinet Shop 106 108 NORTH CENTER 643-0154 IN THE PARK ONE NIGHT ONLY Tuesday, March 1st 8: PM Original Production Directed by Mike Nichols "One of the Funniest Comedies "Detonotionly Magazine "A Hurricane of New York Ntwt Featuring LYNN BARI, WOODY REMOFF, JOAN Me CALL, and JOEL BROTHERS PLANS NOW BROADWAY'S SENSATIONAL SMASH HIT ADVANCE TICKETS NOW ON SALE at the Coliseum Office Clip this ad and mail to Coliseum or bring by.

Check the desired ticket. $1 DISCOUNT ON EACH ADVANCE TICKET PURCHASE Lower Balcony 4-50 Upper Balcony Center 3.50 Upper Balcony Sides 3.00 Main Floor Center 4.00 I Main Floor Sides 3.00 I I NOW BREAKING ALL BOX OFFICE RECORDS AM INTUiTATI THIATtt Downtown Brownwocd Phone 643-4449 BOX OFFICE OPEN AT 11:45 ADMISSION 1.25-1.00-35 FEATURES AT 12:00 2:20 4:50 7:20 9:40 LOOK IIP! Mffi lilM LOOKOUT! MERE COMES THE BIGGEST BOND OF ALL! uK marked the emergence of jazs on the American I "The Complete I by Robert Schwarti and Hubbard Cobb. A comprehensive i coverage on construction and i tleed 1 Schwartz is a New York lawyer whose specialty tstate and Hubbard Cobb is edi- Horof i'THUNDERBAU; CIMJQINEAUIEI SA Mdffl TrftaG RICHARD JACK WHfTTINGHAM IAN MHIOIf 'Ulf Thi Adi SMCIAl HIU OtIVlit IN CQLOa 4..