El Paso Herald-Post from El Paso, Texas • 28

6 SHOWTIME EL PASO HERALD-POST Saturday December 4 1976 Living with Rev Frey is 'fun1 Joanuarm 3 'Nutcracker' DENVER (UPI) Ann Davis best known tor her role ai housekeeper In television's "The Brsdy Bunch" Is psrtof a new large household of Colorado's Episcopal bishop A veteran of 25 pears In show business Ms Davis 50 moved to Denver last January and took up residence with others in the Rt Rev William Frey's home She said she has almost retired Cram acting "1 WAS tired of show business tired of running around like a chicken with my head chopped she said "The way we live at the bishop's house is economical and fun The last part is ss important as the first" According to Ms Davis she underwent a renewal of faith three years ago and met Bishop Frey about the same time while appearing at the Colorado Music Hall She said she met many other church leaders while on the road "THERE WERE several other areas I considered hut I enjoy the Frey she said "Maybe God has a good reason for me to be here God have picked a better place for men could He?" A native of Schenectady NY Ms Davis first appeared on stage at the age of six with her twin sister The pair earned $2 for a puppet show Her first major role came 20 years ago as Schultiy on the 'Bob Cummings Show" NOT hitter I just wanted to change my life I still have friends in the show business community but I had my fill of the other life and now I feel much closer to God" she said him with a special magic born out of his own years in theater and opera Dance is much a matter of mime and this actor makes us believe that he is really winding up mechanical dolls and making them perform TWO PAIRS life-size arrive in boxes Pierrot and Plerette turn and posture followed by a military couple played very well by Kendall Cherry and Ernest Tolentino who are so angular so stiff-jointed so inclined to run down just when the musk tells them that it is hard to believe that they are not toys Tanya Barrientos is a Clara fafi of the charm of childhood dancing on thistledown Mark Loomis from grace We want to attend a real and Andree Harper are the gentlest of CaDriCOrn One Droduction set ch'WfflU Ml of magk And pnrents The parade into supper and wupiiwm viw iimiuwiivii we can Every yeir unlversi- the grand processional are as real as ty-Civic Ballet has pledged Itself to the teasing the sentimen-give us that party in Magoffin Auditorium Every year a little girl called Clara has the Christmas all little girls should be given and we are privileged to lose our troubles with her in a world of fantasy called "The "Capricorn One" an ITC Entertainment film will begin production on Jan in Hollywood and Red Rock Canyon Calif it was announced by president Abe MandeU Starring Elliott Gould Hal Holbrook James Bro-lin Sam Waterson and Brenda Vaccaro with special appearances by Candice Bergen and Telly tal play and sleepiness at the end of the party The mouse-eye view of the room which occurs at midnight is technical magic When a tree grows before our eyes and we shrink until the wainscot Sa-valas One" is being presented by Sir Lew Grade for Associated General Films Paul Lazarus is the producer and Peter Hyams is directing his original screenplay "Capricorn which deals with a gigantic hoax perpetrated by the United States space program will be one of the most provocative and controversial motion pictures in 1177 9 SHOW TIMES 7:00 10:10 pm ALSO: "HUSSLTStarriM Burt Reynoldi Show Times 5:30 1 8:40 PM Roi Rated AMLTS 1 JO KM I I Rosnn at FARIAHS Idrfiir CENTER TSMttft is enormous we believe that there is a Santa Claus indeed When little tin soldiers fight enormous mice and have a hard time winning we become very small indeed When Clara and a magic escort fly high above us in a walnut shell to the Kingdom of Sweets we fly with them drooling at the thought of ice cream and cake even if we gave up such fattening follies years sgo Act Two of Nutcracker" is a series of divertissements or entertainments arranged to please little Clara The Sugar Plum Fairy is in charge and last night st Maggofin Auditorium she was a girl with a future in ballet: Leticia Hernandez Mbs Hernandez Is a natural built to dance with timing and grace inherent rather than absorbed When she dances professionally I hope that she will not change her name for nothing Russian could be more pure in line then this border girl Bsllet Master John Gardner partnering her worked with self-denying care to1 her so that she should always appear to her best Both were rightly well-received OF THE divertissements "Hot Chocolate" was lively with Kathy Henderson Myrth Lotspekh and Patsy Johnson: the last a beautiful black dancer who bears watching for she too a natural talent Andree Harper wu fascinating in from Arabia" well-partnered by oomis In a fine duet Gregory Rodge and Ernest Tolentino were popular as energetk Russians while Kathl Henderson and Roxan Lotspekh were as they have always ben among the best dancers onstage When they soloed applause wu spontaneous Without an orchestra there would be no ballet and Maestro Laurence Gibson trained his university orchestra to full efficiency Violins weredel-kate woodwinds were magic and the temp never foiled Lighting by Robin Quarm and costumes by Ingeborg Heuser and Rosa Barrientos gave visual color to the dance This is the best party I have yet attended and I look forward to many mm Tonight next Friday and Saturday at I and both Sundays at 2:30 pm i 'i i ViY t'n i FORTUNATELY FOR El Paso the artistic director of our ballet company is German Ingeborg Heuser makes a wonderful combination of her own choreography with that of the best of Lev Ivanov George Balanchine Ruth Petronovk and John McFalL Together they invite us to a party we cannot resist It has everything Charles Dickens ever wrote into a Victorian Christmas much of which came from Germany by courtesy of the Queen's husband Prince Albert And each year it Is a different party better than that of the year before It hu authenticity and I defy any professional company in America to make Act One of Nutcracker" more vitally alive than we see It here Frequently choreographers listen to Tchaikowsky's heart-warming musk mutter "Crowd scene" and fill in the measures with vague romps I saw such an interpretation In Houston last year and was not impressed despite adult dancers and expensive settings Ingeborg Heuser remembers That is the difference What she remembers comes from her heritage It includes a Christmas card pastkbe of top-batted gentlemen and cloaked ladies walking ahead of their prim children gifts in hand on their way to a party It includes a door and a keyhole and children peeping Into a forbidden room where the Christmas tree is waiting This year the children light candles and march in reminding us that once the lights were not electric The soft glow becomes rich and warm and the party begins There is gift-giving with hugs and kisses each child on tiptoe with excitement each parent gentle with love There is idaying and romping and crying and being kissed and made well when a foil brings bruises Little girls dance their piece" as little girls used to do little boys simply cannot behave When could they? The grownups dance the children play and the best of all magicians arrives In little godfather old Dr Droasel-meyer This year Brian Swingle plays i i i ii i i i Iff 1 1 I I I I 1 I 1 ITS II I I I I liTffll M4 1 -r sr 1.