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1 i I. -V I 1 tvenlRf VaflfBirl, Viaici, Cillf. Saturday, March 27, 113 Entertainment i Sam Hamilton Back Stage eel it is bold experiment geared to find out If there are audiences that will pay attention and responsive to this type of theater. Andrew Doe, creator of the street theater and director of the Experimental Drama Workshop, said: The theater has cut tsdf away from the majority of the papulation partly because of. economics and partly because of reverse snobbery.

Theater people automatically correlate low income with low intelligence or lack of response. This may not be true and we intend to find out The repertoire will include one-act play, "The Boor, sometimes called The Bear, by Anton Chekov, and a half hmv of pantomime sketches. Performances will also be given hi Spanish in those parts of the city where the Mexican American population predominates. The University of Southern Californias Drama Department has literally gotten the show on the road. Like traveling players centuries ago, USC drama students have created a "theater on wheels" to tike performances to audiences all over the Los Angeles area.

The street theater, as the students of the USC Experimental Drama Workshop call it, consists of a portable stage and sets carried on a panel truck. When the truck readies its destination, an audience will be attracted with music. The stage, made of pipes and planks draped and decorated with brilliantly colored cotton streamers, will be set up while the actors put on their makeup in foil view of the spectators. After a tryout at tin' intersection of University Avenue and West 39 Street in the heart of the USC campus last Tuesday, the street theater started rolling to city and county housing projects, parks, schools, juvenile homes and camps. Definite appearances schtduled thus far are for the recreation center of the Nickerson Gardens Housing Project at Compton Ave.

and East 114 St. at 1 pro. tomoc-, die athletic field of David Starr Jordan High School 2265 E. 103 St at 10 a.m. on March 31; and Juvenile Hall in April Othe performances will be arrange! after Easter vacation.

Many of these audiences are expected to bo seeing their first live theater in their neighborhoods when the truck arrives. The USC drama student! view die street theater with excitement and some apprehension. They homeland on Let My People Go. Hour-long documentary will be shown for first time on Channels, 5, 11, and 13 at 9 p-m. on April 8.

BORDER WATCHTOWER Guards maintain watch tower in tense scene of Arab-Israeli conflict in examination of the Jews struggle for The play cast will include William Wintersole of 9021 Venice Palms, Grigory Smirnov; along with Suzanne Benoit of Burbank and Gar Campbell of Los Angeles, 11 In the Spanish version, Smirnov will be played by Carlo Viniegre of Mexico City and Los Angries, and Elena will ba played by Mercedes Alberti of Buenos Amts, Argentina, and Los Angeles. The pantomime sketches will be directed by Card Brown of Beverly Hills. Their cast will Include Candace Laughlin, Gilbert Minot, Timothy Bennett, Nancy Hickey, Stephanie Moore, Carmen Sootti, Annette Corproo, and Irja-Leena Lnutamstti. Warburton of Culver City In Running for Oscar MGM Unit Invades Finland editors. Some of his previous editing work for Disney includes "The Misadventures of Merlin Jones, "Westward Ho the Wagons, "The Absent Minded Professor and "Son of Flubber.

The "Eddie presentation was made March 14 at the American Cinema Editors awards dinner at the Cocoanut Grove. Disney production Mary Pop-ins. The Culver City man is also in the running for an "Oscar for his editing of "Mary Poppins and is considered an odds-on-fav-orite to cop both major awards. A native of San Diego, Warburton is described as one of the movie industry's foremost film Culver City resident Cotton Warburton, A.E.C., was recently iresented with top honors in tin American Cinema Editors 15th Annual Eddie Awards. Warburton, who lives at 11034 Barman Culver City, was honored with an Eddie'' for The Best Edited Mption Picture of 1964 for his editing of the Walt 4 Folk Dance Festival Appearing at Shrine Pseudo Newsman Is Red Hot Actor Fists will fly-all in the name of international goodwill during the 18th annual International Folk Dance Festival at the Shrine Auditorium tomorrow at 8:30 pm.

Programmed in two and a half hours of work, play, courting and ritual dances non from 20 Unds are Among these are Bavarias slap-happy Schuhplattler, tire Plains Indians war dances, the Scot Highlander's sword dance, and once bloodiest of all, but now formal and ritualistic a Javanese often ceded warlike Issue by letting two dancers sword-dance to the death. many traditional combat exercises performed by rivals fat war or wooing. For a fellow whose early goaluated from Rockhurst College In But when It comes to acting, in life it was to become a news-Kansas City, Missouri, with a de- the handsome sw-Icoter has lew paper columnist, John Larkin luisgree in journalism in 1940. Since done pretty well for himself as an then, the closest hes come to actor. pounding a typewriter for a liv- Currently coetarring in Waiting was playing a city editor in Disneys feature motion picture, the television series, Saints and 'Those Calloways, Larkin greet Sinners.

peers. As a matteref fact, be has probably played in more radio and te'evision shows than any other actor in the business except Ed Wynn, who also has a part in the Disney picture, MADRID Director David Lean heads the huge company of Metro-GoWwynMayers "Doctor Zhivago from Spain to Finland for location filming less than 100 miles from the Russian border. This marks the first stime major motion-picture unit has invaded Finland. The company, at work for three months on die film adaptation of Boris. Pasternaks famous novel being produced by Carlo Ponti will film for two weeks it Joen-suu where winter temperatures seldom rise above zero.

The Finland Railroad has leased to. the MGM group a two-engine train, bring revamped to look like a 1900 Russian carrier for use in the location scenes. It is estimated the train will travel about 1200 miles for benefit of the cameras. Upon completion of the Lean will return here for appraximattly five months more of filming in the mountains near Soria and on the extensive Moscow-In-Madrid sets. Doctor Zhivago stars Omar Sharif, Geraldine Chaplin, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Alec Guinness, Siobhan McKenna, Ralph Richardson.

Rod Steiger and Rita Tushingham. Robert Bolt wrote the screen play. Theater on Wheels May Roll Into Area SAH HAMILTON Entertainment Editor Culver City residents may have an opportunity to see live drama in the form of the University of Southern Californias theater on wheels. Flans are being formulated to have the traveling players of the USC Drama Department perform in. the area during its forthcoming tour of the Los Angeles area.

Arrangements are being negotiated between USC and the Culver City Parks and Recreation Department at bringing the road show to town, but no definite date has yet been announced. The street theater, as the students of the USC Experimental Drama Workshop call it, consists of a portable stage and sets' carried on panel truck. The stage, made of pipes and planks draped and decorated with brilliantly colored cotton streamers, will be set up while the actors put on their make-up in fuH view of the audience. The road-show repertoire will include a one-act play, The Boor, sometimes calleThe Bear by Anton Chekov, and a half-hour of pantomime sketches. Included in the cast is William Wintersole who resides at 6021 Venice in Palms.

TV TREAT Ah bourdong musical treat is in store for TV viewers oh April 2 at 7 when KTTV Channel 11 presents Ray Oonniff, his orchestra and 16-voice chorus. Selections during the special musical presenta-iton include material from Conniffs best-selling albums, covering the field from tops to piops to his original treatment of Broadway show tunes and Hollywood hits. Sonniff win utilize the facilities of special sound equipment, presented on television for the first time. ne revolutionary new sound system, which he features, in his famed Concert in Stereo programs, was designed exclusively for the conductor by Academy Awardwinning sound engineer, Fred Hynes. The Ray Conniff Show should be an enjoyable 60 minutes.

NAME GAME It was inadvertently reported in this -column last week that a Mambo Joe Stephans was playing the role of Professor Thornton in the Bryzin Playhouse performance of Fair Game. Actually, there is no such person as "Mambo Joe Stephans, at least at Bryzin, but there is a Mambo Joe Fonseca. As mentioned previously, the role of Profes- sor Thornton was one of the few bright spots of an otherwise not so funny comedy. Fonseca has a varied background of all phases in the industry. An accomplished musician, former disc jockey, night club owner, Mambo Joe has done many TV shows and stage appearances with Jqhnny Desmond and Jimmy Durante to name a few.

Currently, when not acting, Fonseca can be. found plucking the bass at the Carriage Trade on Lincoln Boulevard in Westchester, Tuesday through Saturday. Meanwhile, the Bryzin Playhouse is in darkness this weekend, but will open April 1 with Dial For Murder. The Kentwood Players opened last xright with the Paddy Chayefsky comedy-drama, The Tenth Man. Directed by Jerry Silver, cast members include Sam Dickerman, Harry Pierce, Lou Rosen, Fred Baum, Bill Buhler, Irv Rosen and Sue Beber.

Well have more on the effects of The Tenth Man in next weeks column. It runs at the Westchester. Playhouse at 8301 S. Hindry Los Angeles 45, through April 24. at the Bluth Brothers Theatre in Culver City is 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown.

The staff of Ted Mack and the Original Amateur Hour hope to capture the nostaglia and human interest of the earliest days of tills hardy perennial in the Cavalcade of Amateurs, a two-part documentary depicting the 80-year history of the program on both radio and television. It will be presented on KNXT Channel 2 on Sundays, March 28 and April 4 at 5:30 p.m. Former Amateur Hour graduates to be peen as they appeared back when are Frank Sinatra, Frank Fontaine, Teresa Brewer, Vera-Bllen, Jack Carter, Regina Resnik, Stubby Kaye and Connie Frances. Whatever happened to Dick Contino? In observance of Easter Week, KHJ-TV has scheduled Miracle of Fatima a splendid color production starring Gilbert Roland. This is the moving story of three children in Portugal who behold a vision and cause a furor.

In addition to the nightly Million Dollar Movie showings, Miracle will also be shown on three' weekend matinees. Wlosk Chainridn Of Moses Premiere A Justice Stanley Moak of the California Supreme Court win serve -as chairman of the event dedicating the West Coast premiere of the opera "Moses" by Rossini on April 7 in the Pavilion of the Music Center to the Ute President, John F. Kennedy, who was the first honorary member of the Festival of Faith and Freedom Foundation. During his 20 years in the profession, John has almost always played the lead in one or more continuous radio or television series. After his Army discharge In 1945, Larkin was signed to the title role in the "Periy Muon radio show, and held the job for seven years.

From 1955 to 1981, ihe was Mike Karr, a detective-tumed-fcwyer on the New York-based daytime television series, "Edge of Night He played leading roles in radio soap operas, like Rood of Life, "Hollywood Story and "Right to Happiness, and guest-starred on almost every major network TV show during this period. He portrays Major General Wiley Crow in the-current 12 Oclock High scries, nd has had lead-ling roles in two major features besides Those Calloways: Seven Days in May and The Satan Bpg, Bom, in Oakland, and raised hi Kansas City. Missouri, John got the acting hug when an experimental radio station Kansas City give him a job writing, directing, singing, acting and doing commercials. 1 even had to sweep out the place before I left," he says, but overall, it was great experience, After graduating from college, Larkin decided to forsake journalism for show business. He went to Chicago where he "Starved for eight month before Unding a job as a radio announcer.

John and his wife, former ae- tress-singer Audrey Blum, lwe a a spacious home in North Hot-, lywood with their daughter, Victoria, 8, and John 2.11 Larkins hobbies are fencing, swimming and acting in front ot, "live audiences with the Los; Angeles Art Theater, a repertory group for professionals. Art Museum Opening On Television The Foundation commissioned the Southern California Muss Association, Roger Wagner' murie director, to perform foe opera in concert version. An all-star amt headed by Metropolitan Opera Jerome Hines will join forces with foe MDvoice Los Angeles Master Chorale and foe Sinfonia Orchestra of Lot Angeles under the baton of Roger Wagner. Vincent Price will be foe narrator. Dedicated to the devefaupment of a better understanding of Americas biblical heritage by people of all faiths through music, drama and art, the Founds-, tion made Its first noteworthy contribution in 1958 with a presentation of Darius Milhauds opera "David in foe Hollywood BowL In 1981, and again fa 1984 fo Foundation presented the Saa Francisco Opera Company fa foe Verdi opera Nabucca Among the members of foe Festival of Faith and Freedom Foundation board are: Walter Hflbon, chairman; Jascha Heifetz; Gregor Piatigorsky; Chancello Franklin D.

Murphy of UCLA: Man. Arthur J. Israel; Mrs. Victor Dr. George Armacost, president of Redlando University.

First Time Together, for European Stars FIRST TIME 18 Two of Europes greatest start, Academy Award winner Simone Signoret and lecenttyodected "World Film Favorite Marcello Mastroiinni are together for the first time in the rollicking new Italian comedy, "Love A Carte, opening April 2 at foe Bevetty Hills Music, Hal: and Vagabond theaters. Also coetarred are Emman-uette Rive, of Hiroshima Mon Amour" fame, and Sandra Milo of Directed by Antonio Pietrsngeli, the picture follows foe adventures of. four Tidies of pleasure who deride to go legitimate and open a restaurant together when a new Italian Uw fences closing of aU houses prostitution. Eddie Albert, popular aotoren' tertainer, has been named to hast the preview opening of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, to be televised exclusively over KHJ-TV on March 30, starting at 7:30 p.m. Other Hollywood celebrities will also be on hand for this important occasion, according to Malcolm C.

Kirin, stations vice-president-general manager. Scheduled to appear, and narrate portions of the televised program are Irene Dunne, Janet Leigh, Gregory Peck, Edward G. Robinson and Rosalind Russell Albert, a well known art collector, artist and sculptor in hit own right, will work on camera with Dr. Richard F. Brown, director of the Museum.

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