Newsday (Nassau Edition) from Hempstead, New York • 102

1. GARDEN OF MEMORIES. Souvenirs of New York landmarks lie in new "stone garden" at the Brooklyn Museum. The three-quarter-acre plot be hind the museum is being converted into a haven for the city's discards--salvaged from razed landmarks. The head in the foreground is a keystone from the Park Lane Hotel.

Standing at the rear are E. J. Lee, a Brooklyn contractor, and Ian White, right, assistant director of the museum and designer of the garden. Newsday Photo by Sussman FIGURES OF INDIFFERENCE. Two Atlantes figures from a Fifth Avenue house preside impassively along one border of the garden as workmen struggle to position a third one.

The new addition to the museum, named in memory of Frieda Schiff Warburg, was opened last weekend. Second City Trods Well-Worn Path By Al Cohn The title of Second City's return to the Square East in the Village, "20,000 Frozen Grenadiers," is intended to provoke guesswork. Judging from this show, as well as the general state of satire, it could refer to the soldiers of satirical wit who have been frostbitten for lack of fresh ideas. The writers of the new show (not listed in the program credits, significantly enough) have fallen into the spreading trap of formula satire. Material that once worked is hauled out of the bag and barely dusted off.

Take a crack at the folk singers, the war in Vietnam, a Broadway musical dance number and inevitable doom, throw in a few silly jokes and fill in the blank spaces. Presto, instant revue. Only one sketch, a satirical lecture on the importance of political satire, approaches the right track. What has been ignored over all is that, today, satire is all around us, Wednesday, April 27, 1966 WALL OF FROWNS. Nine Bacchiac heads, taken from the Park Lane Hotel, brood on the rear wall of the museum.

The latter-day bearded figure is Charles Froom of Brooklyn, the installation supervisor for the stone garden. Selected Short Subjects Hofstra Sets Concert By Graffman $4.50 and information about the concert and other festival events is available at the Playhouse box office, IV 9-7755. Also scheduled to take part in the festival is Friedelind Wagner, granddaughter of Richard Wagner an founder and executive director of the Bayreuth Festival Master Classes in Germany. She will give an illustrated lecture on "Modern Opera Production in Europe" at 2 PM May 9 in Emily Lowe Hall. The festival will open in the hall at 3 PM May 6, when Prof.

William Hull, twice a Fulbright award winner, will read from his poetry. On the same program, Associate Prof. Albert Tepper's "Five Songs from the Catullus of William Hull," will be sung by Associate Prof. Herbert Beattie, baritone, accompanied by Prof. Donald M.

Rowe, chairman of Hofstra's music department. Other events in the festival include: A double-bill of theater, Gian Carlo Menotti's short opera, "The Medium" and Terence Rattigan's satire, "Harlequinade," at the Playhouse May 6, 7 and 8 at 8:30 PM; an all-Stravinsky program performed by the Hofstra Chorus and Singers, at the Playhouse, 8:30 PM May 12; music by contemporary composers at the playhouse 8:30 PM May 13; a welding and ceramics demonstration; a chamber music recital; a program by the dance club and speech society; original one-act plays by students, and art exhibits. Pianist Gary Graffman will be guest soloist with the Pro Arte Symphony Orchestra in a concert highlighting Hofstra University's seventh annual Festival of the Arts. The festival, which will run from May 6 to 14, wiN feature drama, opera, poetry, dance, recitals, concerts and art exhibits. With Prof.

Eli Siegmeister, Hofstra's first composerin-residence, on the podium, Graffman will play Prokofiev's Concerto No. 3 in Major. The program, at 8:30 PM May 14 in the Hofstra Playhouse, will include works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Ives and Bartok. Tickets are creating the need to go a step beyond. How do you spoof Batman, James Bond, "My Mother, the Car," Bob Dylan and discotheque dancing? These have to be the current targets; avoiding them or imitating them is not the answer.

Unfortunately, judged even by former standards, Frozen Grenadiers" is at its best mediocre, at its worst amateurish. Sorely lacking in subtlety, the revue is funniest when the cast is kluttzing through the Broadway musical number or talking Sid Caesar-German in a spoof of the Brecht- Weill opera, "Mahagonny." Once you get through the passable slapstick, there are several less obvious sketches that are fairly amusing and a handful of funny lines. Mostly, there are flat variations on old themes. David Steinberg, portraying a jilted boy friend in his best sketch, is the lone standout in an undistiguished cast. Sheldon Patinkin's direction is unpolished and the music of William Mathieu and Will Holt is tuneless.

A play in verse by Winthrop Palmer, who teaches graduate courses at C.W. Post College, is being produced at Syracuse University during a two-day fine arts festival, which ends today. The play, "Beat the Wind," has previously been produced off-Broadway. Mrs. Palmer will also take part in the festival, lecturing on "Poetry in the Theater." 3.