Newsday (Nassau Edition) from Hempstead, New York • 66

1L vii'tiii' y'r mri 1 Of SHORT 'J? t- art Photographic Insights Cfaus 'Sand Dunes' has 'a marvelously sensuous quality Polish holiday tradition The Polish American Museum will hold its traditional Christmas program Jan 10 at 3 PM Among the attractions at the the traditional Polish holiday event will be a variety of entertainment including folk dances of Poland Christmas carols and a visit from St Nicholas Part of the ceremony will be an authentic ritual the breaking of the Oplatek known as The Bread of Love The museum at 5 Pulaski Flf Pott Washington is open on a year-round basis It contains exhibits of national costumes art work handcrafts and displays of Polish history Admission to the Christmas program is $150 The rest of the time visitors are admitted free CalL883-4727 Grim outlook for theater Chances are slim that the Uniondale Mini Cinema a popular theater which booked special films aimed af the youth market will reopen Marc Laffie co-owner of the theater said that it was doubtful that the 416-seat house would ever go back into business He said it was closed Sept 14 because of a combination of factors primarily a legal dispute with the Nassau Library System and "declining The library system owns the property on which the theater is located mid has its administrative offices and storage facilities there Laffie said that the library system erected a fence around the property which blocked access to the theater Andrew Geddes director of the Nassau Library System said that the crowds of young persons attracted by the theater presented "a serious security problem" and there was "the constant matter of litter and The issue is currently in litigation The Uniondale Mini Cinema which originally opened in 1970 as an ATT Theater was acquired by company about four years later It became successful with a policy of showing youth-oriented films and such cult offering as "The Rocky Horror which was a staple at the theater for several years as a midnight feature firm also operates the East Meadow Flick Slutting for charity The St Vincent de Paul Society end Laces Roller Skating Rink in New Hyde Park will stage a roller-skating party for the benefit of the needy on Feb 2 PM The rink will be open to the public during those hours free with only the donation of $2 worth of eennwd food required for admission However a spokesman for the event said that those wishing to skate without bringing the canned goods will be charged a $375 admission The charitable society hopes to collect $5000 worth of food for distribution to Long Island families hit by hardship Laces Roller Skating Rink is located at 8345 Hillside Avenue About shady preachers Maijoe Gartner resident preacher-entertainer has found a lead for his independently financed movie about what con-men preachers Gary Bu-sey who played the title character in The Buddy Holly will star in "Glory as a television preacher who learns to turn a nifty buck by spreading the Word via the tube Gartner who was a child evangelist is directing the picture which is being financed by a Mississippi land developer For the congregation scenes Gortner said he would take his cameras tp real churches and personally help set the mood "I know how to work up how to get in that trance praising the Gartner said "Til get into w' -M i By Malcolm Preston Although Claus Mroczynski was bom and educated in Germany his photographs are far more American than European in character Like Ansel Adams with whom he studied briefly in 1972 images with their high degree of technical kill and dramatic Bubject matter extol the beauty of the American landscape Of the almost 50 prints on view at the Port Washington library there are only a few that do not convey the beauty of the mountains and deserts of the American southwest Mroczynski who lives in Old Westbuzy first came to the United States in 1963 at the age of 22 He stayed for two years working as an interior decorator Long vacation periods allowed hi to travel On those trips to Mexico and Alaska he began to take After his return to Germany photography as hobby gave 'way to a serious career hi 1968 he returned to school and after five years of study returned to America His work as evidenced by the Port Washington exhibition is much in the genre of Adams Like Adams he finds among the rocks trees skies and boulders the most arrangements of form and light By converting the familiar into something new prints give us new inrights into nature I 1 Tid -j In "Geyser Mroczynski catches the mist ice and bare trees that we have all seen before but in this particular arrangement we see them anew It is the same with the hot caked cracked endless plane of the desert in "Parched or the waterfalls rocks and quiet of "Mono The broad panorama which Adams handles so marvelously appears in work too "Badlands South two studies of the same theme are both sweeping views technically well done But beyond that they demonstrate the breadth and grandeur of nature It is finally however eye that gives his work its special character It is the way he sees and composes the image of a- dead cactus or the shapes of sand stones smoothed by centuries of wind and rounded into molten flowing forms It is his control of light and the sharpness of his focus that giverf to his "Sand their marvelously sensuous quality The hanging of the show groups the prints more or less in accord with their specific subjects -There are the dunes and the finest the lakes and water things the rocks and the swamps But what seems to pervade almost all of the work is a feeling of desolation of emptiness In that respect Mroczynski differs from Adams whose work tends to romanticize the majesty and sweep of our land Still one flnda anma abstraction in Adams as one does in Mroczynski The exhibition will remain on view through Jan 14 The library located at 245 Main St Port Washington is open Monday through Friday 9 AM to 9 PM Saturday 9 AM to 5 PM and on Sunday 1 to 5 PM if i i irv siJ t-ri iva i 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