Newsday (Nassau Edition) from Hempstead, New York • 135

Here's the BIG one you've been waiting Friday 9:30 PMto Midriight QQWQm STAGE PT Med do wbroo Semi-Annual Pre-Lincoln's Day 2 Vi HOUR Dare to be Jane By Allan Wallach Th ey had a new opening sight for last night which may strike you atfaU! odd since the dhow has never closed The musical at Minskoff Theater was simply celebrating with a bit of hyperbole to introduce the new Mias Irene Jane Fow ell Mias Powell be relieved to Ieam looks as pert and youthful as if just stiepped out of one of her old MGM musicals And her perform-anos is almost a replica of the one that earned a Tony nomination for Debbie Reynolds when "Irene" opened for the first tkne lari March Mias Powell who even looks a bit like her predecessor seems to get her determined high spirits from the same shop If she lacks some of Mias rimer vitality in the big danoe ranchers she makes up for it by ringing mote sweetly Although the show is being billed as a new pro-ductian it has the same look and slightly mechanical charm as the one Gower Champion staged 11 months ago The only significant riuuxge is that one appealing old song Always Chasing Rainbows" has been restored for Mies Powell The star also has a brand new wardrobe designed by Donald Brooks while Urn rest of the cast makes do with last fashions designed by Raoul PeneduBois 1 a revamped version of the 1919 musical remains a nostalgic bit of fluff about a Ninth Avenue Cinderella who becomes a drees model and wins a socialite Prince Charming Among the newcomers Ron Hurinann is appropriately stuffy as her diffident lover and Dottie Frank and Patti Karr inject some raffish good cheer as Ninth Avenue friends Most of the fun though oomes from two stalwarts of the original oast George Irving and Patsy Kelly Miss Kelly still carrying on in outrageous defiance of the anti-mugging ordinances has added enough hits of business to steal the show and anything else around Times Square left unguarded If we must have nostalgia musicals and apparently we must remains as pleasant a way as any to be taken back to thorn innocent days when and were still two separate words II strong CEILING TILES Discounts up to First Quality Brand Name PREFINISHED PANELING Thera's no need to "sell" this sensational Sab of Panel-big and Ceiling Tib to those of our customers and friends who have been to our previous "MID-NIGHT SPECIALS" But if you've missed them before here's the scheduler Meadow brook will "dose" at Sts regular time of 9-00 PM From 9:00 to 9:30 new rustical sloshed price tags will bo put on oH Brand-Name panels and ceiling tiles At 9:30 Meadowbrook will reopen its paneling and tib departments until midnight! the balance of the showroom will be dosed off At mid night the sab ends and ad prices go back to earlier listings No sab prices will be held past midnight without bona fide order with a deposit of not less than 2S Since the yard will be closed material ordered during the "Midnight Special" will have to be picked up Saturday or during the following week at your convenience All purchases are picked up at our yard Delivery availabb at additional charge This is one sab you can't afford to miss so do all your compartivo shopping early but get here before midnight tonight MOVIES Stepping over wits edge By Joseph Gelmis' Mel is a spoof of the western got a title song sung by Frankie Laiue a Gabby Hayes figure who speaks frontier gibberish" a town drunk (Gene Wilder) who sobers up resumes his Waco Kid identity and rimota so fast that you never see his banda touch his guns The hero of the movie is a blade dude named Bart (Cleavon Little) in Gucci cowboy togs been appointed sheriff of Ridge Rode by crooked Gov Lepetomane (Brooks) and his Machiavellian strategist Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Konnan) The politicians want Ridge Rock razed so they can run the railroad through They save Bait from prison when he is awaiting hanging for having exited his unscrupulous boes (Slim Pickens) with a dhovel to name him the first black sheriff in hopes of starting a riot that will destroy the town Saddles" which opened yesterday at the Sutton is a Brooksian cornucopia of one-liners sight gags and references to old movies I have some minor reservations which really diminish Brooks in my eyes as one of the funniest professional entertainers in America I have misgivings about the biggest laugh-getting naming gag In the picture: anal humor: Sstaa-f tiona not intrinsically funny get big bmgba by the' Continued an next page All Sola Prices Picked Up at Yard-Master Charge and BankAmericaid Honored.