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Spotlight THE HERALD STATESMAN, YONKERS, KT WRN Monday 27, 1974 -c Entertainment 21 -BigJWinner is-j ust that IS in 1 kV rr v'r-v aun. DOUGLAS and BRENDA YACARRO hive Mdded to join the legally wed brigade. After five years -w Being each others constant man and woman, theyll become man. and wife as soon as a wedding can be arranged. Those arrangements won't be made overnight Brenda and I are very Bwwfany to get mar lied," says UicfaaeL We want It as a gesture of love to one another and because we want children.

But it's not going to be as simple a matter as merely driving ourselves to the nearest Justice of the peace." GEORGE CL SCOTT either has lost all sense of rea son bes simply raising a Xv fBS about the rating ac-corded "The Savage Is Loose" to garner publicity for the film in which hes invested his personal fortune and professional reputation. Whatever his motivation, Scott's dne- ma story about incest, hist, and attempted murder of a father by son no more deserves a PG than did the "X-rated "Last Tango in Paris." NBC president ROB-. ERT HOWARD gives fiie impression there will be no letup of the controversial story themes that have been flooding the tuber Addressing the Hollywood Radio and Television Society the. other day, Howard admitted airing of the TV film "Bora Innocent" (the story of a girl in a detention, center -who is raped by fellow By LOU CEVETILLO WRN Music Writer The essence of good chamber ensemble playing is more than having the musicuni be-ginning and ending together. It is that collection of consummate artistry that permeates a score so well integrated and balanced that the listener hears the whole through the parts without being distracted by any of the ingredients.

Such, was the performance offered by the Tokyo String Quarirt tanday evemngat the tfiKnly crude The highlight of the evening was the String Quartet's performance of Bartoks Third. This work exhibited some of ty-lncriteid Itoihis -possply perfected by such modem the most elegant recital haU in composers like Alban Berg, the county with its richly pan- The powerful, almost elec-fled walls of carved walnut tronic sounds from the violin punctuated by huge oil paint- wcre effectively contrasted wiih a pedantic TirtdercUrrent The Tokyo Stnng Quartet of- of somber tones. Bartoks' feted a program of Brahms, 67, was brilliantly executed by this ensemble of masters. The lush, furtive melodies swept ever the small aadience with soothing ease. (Reid Hall has a capacity seating of 115, This limits the availability of seats for these concerts, keeping the audience perfect for the intimacies of the chamber repertory end acceptable to the college officials.) The fourth movement of the Brahms work was only slight: lv marred by over-zealous bowing, resulting in some ar- work was.

moody or, Stan Porter as bis successful rival and one other. REGARDING that other, I must add something for the benefit of those readers who memory doesn't go back 25 years. At about that time, a middle aged character actor named David Opatoshu came out of nowhere and suddenly was giving memorable performances la practically every movie -and television play there was. How had he gotten to be so good without anyone's having seen him before? He. was a product of the Yiddish theater, and he Is now returned there to direct and "The Big Wimer'Land his great talent to the titlerole.

The Big Winner," rest assured, is thoroughly naive and unsophisticated. That is what nostaglia is all abouLr HENRY rOFKIN if theater critic fqr WRN. with the symptomatic sounds -pf the fledgling 20th century meglomania winning over the old guard of I9th'century survival. 1 LOU CEVITILLO Is music writer for WRN. Jjtf 7 yA -'ill ft ttt; w.VT4: S' ,1 Jut i.

JUT DAVID OPATOSHU, MIRIAM KRESSYN stars of 'Big Winner' er, he made the point, "TV an it offered was would not serve the public If Hollywood with Marilyn Beck Bartok and Mozart. Its per-, formance was as sophisticat-edly intricate ss the transistor circuitry of its native Japan. JOHANNES Brahms' String Quartet in flat Major, Opus V- Jfe'sAoiOcasG thcotri- PISAZA? RNV mWMnH Hill MUM MUMMflUN- By HENRY POPKIN Michael Moriarty must be. the first American matinee. "Idol to act Shakespeare in New York since John Barrymore and Richard century played Hamlet III half a century ago.

Moriartyr It will be rtmem- IT IS odd to cast Moriarty, who is slight and fair, delicate in his gestures-and disarming Th appearance, as the sadistic Most Richards, the I THINK I know why Mor-beri known rf torn generation iartyY Richard speaks some is Laurence Olivier. played the farMiriwnliTMted. JtylR post-Shakespeareanr adapter: role with Slot grabbing ami hugging women with whom he is engaged in an argument? iTHESTING MSTPiuyiMii BURTON splashed off the cart against -doctors orders Who said the show Hurst go oe? Not for FRED GWYNNE (playing Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) who took off two performances the show's second smash week to do high-fee TV mermai Tony, indeed, NEIL SIMONS Immi-" nent Gods Favorite comedy due Dec. 11: NeB won a Tony far The Odd Couple: CHARLES NELSON rSlLY of the new Simonixing earned his in How to Succeed in Business Without Realty Ity-tag, and MARIA KARNILO-VA foe "Fiddler on the Roof." Investors in BETTE DA VIS' Broadway-bound musical, "Miss Moffat based on the Lirtrmwftt AUBCMVlMuniu MOVIE CLOCK FOR TIMES i By HENRY POPKIN At the Eden Theater on Second Avenue, in what used to called the Lower East Side, Nostalgic Production is presenting "The Big Winner." a lively new Yiddish musical version of a comedy written 60 years ago by Sholem Aid-, cbem. Sholem Aleichem (whose pen name means "how do you do?) is the great Jewish writer whose fame now rests mainly on his bittersweet stories and on "Fiddler the Roof," which is based on some of those stories, but some ofLhis' plays deserve a second glance.

The current 'production at once strikes a nostalgic note by having one of the characters come out as an old man now living in New York, to tell a story out of his youth in Russia. A poor tailor wins a large sum in a lottery and immediately Russifies his name and becomes a snob. WE SEE him In his new home, surrounded by attroc-iousty bad taste, planning to many Ins daughter off an empty headed clothes horse. But some con men swindled, him and, at his future in-laws great ball, which is carefully designed to bt the apex pfbad -taste, his poverty is exposed. His false, friends desert And he goes off in pursuit of his level-headed daughtervwbo-has eloped with his two apprentices.

Shepicks Motel, the big one, leaving Kopel, the little one, to go to America and tell his story at file Eden Theater. "The Big Winner has a plentiful share of good natured. humor and also those brief touches of heartbreak that every Yiddish comefiy seems to Sol Kaplans music is spirited, and both Sophie Maslows choreography and Jeffrey B. Mosss designs are quite eessfal, especially when ire conveying the dense ef the newly rich. 'Among the acton, I must hr compliment Miriam as the taikffjLwife, Brace Adler as the losing suit- EMBASSY Jpori CHtsmW! I Exit 34 Merritt Parkway Exit 7 Com.

TurngilM PMMOMincTiNU mstari II ALBERT IKiiODT PIOOUCTBI STARMNO BUHTRETCOLDS THE 1 LONGEST YARD COLOR By TECHNICOLOR'''-' fsvj' ARWUMOUNTPIClURr Exit 34 Merritt Parkway Exit 8 Conn. Turnpike-- 'off with his head; 'go much for Buckingham. One reason was to give pedants like like1 me a chance to point It out, but the real trouble is that Shakespeare did not give Rich-over ard a snappy line to speak when he disposes id his old. bered, earned his status as a matinee idol a year ago with "Bang the Drum Slowly end other films and with "Find Your Way Home on Broadway. And now Joseph Papp bas-cast this sweet-faced as the most wicked of ikespeires.

villains, Rich-; telling outrageous aid Ill. at the Mitzi E. New- listeners believe, house Theater (formerly the. Forum) at Lincoln an old tradition has, been renewed the idea, once current in our country and still- Martorty gives ic Ricbsfd, raspish flamboyantly wicked must depend solely speares doquent tarty can force of a He has one great the noisier the scene, where us a le more of scoundrel than that his The. more Richards on Shake- lines; Mor- genuinely angelic countenance.

Like most American Shake-spearer this production has some strange things in it that make no particular 'sense. Why does this Richard have the suddenly advantage Richards In Aichard is lies CALIFORNIAYB) fiLU NpN SHnM tireen, tadnde: theSHUBl HAMMERSTEWS widow, DOROTHY, societys cgder skylarker ELSIE WOODWARD slums hi with" aother "Whats My Line?" veteran ARLENE FRANCIS chanced $S00 as dkl MERYYN LeROYW promoter son, WARNER The ghoberts ire biggest ogds in the season even devils fear to tread fiscally: they hive $25j000 in "Scaptoo" wfajchwas a happy gnesL The Bette Davis mosical suffered unfriendly Phfl- lytryontehaftlhf fiiis weeks Variety When Bette in 1945 starred in the film version mf the play (ETHEL BARRYMORE'S finaL stage smash), ahe was jJL Varietys ghim forecast: "No longer resemles as an honest mistake The small play and movie were set to beautiful widefocus, biackfad in a sugarcane, Deep South background Old trick cf the musical's co-au thor JOSHUA L0GAN, set Chekhovs "The Cherry Orchard deep in. Emlyn Williams "The Corn Is. JBERTS, in for OSCAR NOWSHOWING yofaU country and changed the tide to "The Wisteria Treo; thatone wak an honest mistake, toor- MASEEH lUlltylWfarflTiflMbtiA Ctmhry DRlENtXn-? RAJAHS ROOM Fine Cuisine BAr-MidniiTT Days. Take-out 500 W.P.

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