The Montreal Star from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 8

utiarimi jj'ffA ui mi Itii Liifirninwir iff TjirrirBnii grrfrtffrfiTrnfiitiftii ftiiifiHW "irtTMimnir frriiiirrpmn i 1- i to i i to to i THE MONTREAL STAS MONDAY JUNE 11 1969 Siskind in Vienna 1 1 vy pit A at ft 'it 4 dafe-i -t Austrians Are Cool To Modern Music Ysdf'A -u I jt At Comcdie Moiseyev Denounces Rock-n-Roll By JOHN MILLER Banters MOSCOW A campaign la under way here to revolutionize Soviet ballroom dancing In an attempt to break the grip on many young Ruailans of the influences" of some kinds of Western dance music The idea Is to capture the imagination of young people with modern dances ana oust rock roll which although it may bo becoming a spent force in the West is still in vogue among many Soviet youths Attacks on Jerk-lngs of Western shake music and monstrous rock roll are not new here A steady campaign in the Soviet Press against this kind of dancing hu been featured since thousands of Western youths came to Moscow in 1957 ter the World Youth Festival and ehflwed at hundreds of dances and Jazz concerts Just how well it could be done Now Soviet choreographers and composers hsvs been told that it is about time they got together and worked out dance torn" Igor Moisyev leading Soviet choreographer and folk dance director stressed in the newspaper Lenin Banner the concern over the influence of rock roll a dance which he said is with cynicism immorality and banality" Ha declared that the muaie kindled an animal instinct and Russian youth want nothing to do with it Moiseyev suggested new dances lively to provide for the outlet of youthful exuberance and at the ume time chaste enough to reflect the dun and beautiful relationships of Soviet youth" The recent All-Russia Conference on Ballroom Dancing discussed and approved 11 new dances Patrick Auffay as Rene and Jean-Pierre Leaud as Antoine in 400 Coups" the notablo French film which is being held over another week at the Comcdie Canadlenne Theatre In Musical Comedy at Moysc Hall Randy Davies and Shirley Harrison singing away in the one of the many lively numbers in It the new production of this McGill Red and White Revue which is still running nightly at Moyse Hall Theatre Canadicnnc Chalet Concerts with the tenor Richard Verrau guest artist Alexander Brott is to direct an all orchestral concert on the following Tuesday evening July 12 The final concert on July 19 will be conducted 'by Jacques Beaudry and ha will have his soloists Clalra Gagnier soprano and Jean-Louis Pellerin tenor ua Orchestra Plans The Montreal Symphony Orchestra hu announced plans for three rammer concerts to take place at the Chalet on Mount Royal during the month of July Three Canadian conductors and three Canadian soloists have been engaged for this popular series On July 5b the orchestra will be led by Roland Leduc Directory The Fugitive Kind: 1010 140 435 710 831 PALACE The Big Fisherman: 91ft 1105 33Q 535b 830 PRINCESS Three Jlurder-hOQO 1255 830 645 945c 13 lighting Mea: 1130 233 53Q 830 Madame Butterfly! I15400613905 SI VHJJE Can-Can: 830 STRAND Virgin bland: II40 105 630 945 63 Special: 1010 130 430 115 WESTHOUMT Libel: 130 530 J30 730 931 Don't take your wife for granted Toko her out to the "Movies AT UNITED THEATRES! Alaaav-Stelaa ME WHEN ITX OVES" ClnamaScopt fr Color illlUrlSlC Emls Kovoei Mar-Moora Jack War dan "MAN ON A STS INC tmeit Borpdna Karwin Mathewa naama Air CeiilWsasdi "SLACK TUESDAY" Edward Lucerne koblmon Joan Parfcar "WAB MUMS" In Color Las iffcr on Ttytor ikf nnrnn( "ON THE Cfaxory Peck Ava Gariinar IFlOUKinnU had Main "THE THIRD voids" In Cimu-i Scapa Edmond O'Brian ulla Lortdan Laralna Day ilnmi'nnnl Air CaadWMadl "BELOVED INFIDEL" Cinanw-UUlITinOllt Scopa fr Color Craaary Pack Deborah Karr "SINK THE BISMARCK" In ClnamaScepa Kanntlh Mora Dana Wynton Winnenof ACADEMY AWARDS Mad BEST PICTURE YorE" Ah CoodHbnedl Van llomO "ROOM AT THE wHh Acadamy Award Winnar Simona Siinerot and Lauranca Harvoy Maathar Sears ASM at Tartu "LAW AND DISORDER" Robert Moray Michael Radpava Ad dad at Via Haraai "SILKEN AFFAIR" David Niven Lena lea- Papa much more effectively produced First of all the television cameras helped build the tension and sustain continuity through the episodes of which the opera consists Then the cast whose names I did not catch was most compelling both vocally and dramatically and the conductor wu Fcter Hermann Adler of American television opera fame Montrealers are no strangers to Kafka's trial we had a- production of a stage version of it some years ago by Rupert Caplan Von Elnem's music very cleverly helps sustain the feeling of utter human futility This is done so ingeniously that inf the television production at least it never seems to obtrude It is not unlike a background score to a film except that the people are using some kind of speech-singing rather than simple speech or pure voice The music twists and curls and has an emotional rather than an intellectual effect on the listener or at least on this listener And the whole left me feeling very uneasy which is exactly what Kafka and von Einem wanted But the difficulty I had getting to see the opera Not a soul I knew with a televt lion set wanted to wute an evening with Kafka Strangers bo coerced into watching either Finally I went into the bar of the Hotel Europa ut down in front of the TV ordered a meal and stared anyone down who wanted aomething else The opera hu ita points After a while the bartender wu Ignoring his customers and watching the show snd before too long quite a crowd had gathered Near the end most of them had to admit they wanted to stay to the finish even if it Brahms 1 The question always is one of exposure but an Important factor too is that it be a good performance or people are turned away forever The Viennese ''need extra special convincing where contemporary music la concerned Ten Countries to Enter MontreaVs I960 Film Festival Canada the United States Mexico Japan India Israel Poland Italy France and Britain are expected to enter films in the first Montreal International Film Festival August 12-18 The festival win offer it leut two three-bour programs daily in a downtown theatre Plans for the festival which wu officially recognized by the International Federation of Associations of Film Producers at ita last session in Cannes France are being made by a committee under Pierre Juneau Mickey Rooney Again In Alimony Trouble LOS ANGELES June 13-(UPI) A complaint against Mickey Rooney charging that he owed hia fourth wife $25000 alimony wu postponed until June 17 The action filed by Elaine Mahnken came only two days after the pint-sized second wife Berry Jane Baker charged he wu $9000 behind in support payments to their two children Rooney is married to his fifth wife Barbara Thomason SPECIAL IVININI PARKIN! CONVENIENCES PON YORK THEATRE PAT RONS FRON PN AT NANRIONt Naadaal Imto Ckaiae a Ua tar I Man aaiklat Piawat Neaaleaa laraia akaali aaaklar if Tart tar ValMaUee Theatre STAGE SHOWS MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE-Tha Philadelphia Story: 830 THEATRE CLUB Uncle Vanya (Chekhov Festival): 830 MOVIES ALOUETTE BenHur 800 Carry Oa Nurse: 10b 210 53s 735 945 CAPITOL Five Branded Womea: 1015 1235b 250 505 735b 940 COKEDIE CANADIENNE Lea Quatra Cents Coupe (In French): 110 830 530 730 840 Us Kistons: 1245 235b 435 735b 915 CHATEAU GRANADA PAHNEAU RIALTO SAVOY Thru Murderesses: 230 "15 935 IS FlghVng Mem 130 430 815 IMPERIAL Windjammer: 840 Sapphire: 115 330 535 730 935 Frlnceu Wedding: 1255 300 505 710 915 Jean Seberg to End French Marriage MARSHALLTOWN Iowa' June Jean Seberg who cams out of obscurity to star in two motion pictures hu filed suit ter divorce from her French husband on charges of end Inhuman treatment" Miss Seberg 21 who married Francois Moreuil in a hometown ceremony here Sept 5 1958 uid she and her husband to the divorce Her marriage followed starring roles in the movies "Saint and Bonjour Tristesu" No property settlement wu mentioned and the couple hu no children roam KNTIRI FAMILY rscHMicoLoa JO SAT ST NOLI 6100 9100 EAT MIN Sr H0U 9210 llllllllll 3 girls who wanted to kill the same man a with LOVE! "3 nffiERn COLOR by DC LUXC mnMJUHDOM MnUEDCHOKEOT By JACOB SISKIND Mr Sliklti It It Ktrtte It tint (A Vltttt fruim tut severs tthtr ihnulttl ltd miw hilil til mu hi raparia Tkit it tkt fill tl VIENNA (By Air Mail) The Featival of Vienna paid lip-service to contemporary Austrian musie on two occasions this past week and both were stonily ignored by the people of the city Not that either work was particularly difficult or modern the Viennese simply do not care for music of this century The two events were a concert performance of Alban unfinished opera and a television presentation of Trial" an opera composed In 1993 by the German composer now resident in Austria Gottfried von Einem Of the two the von Einem received the much more representative performance but 1 should like to write about the concert first The Berg opera was presented In the Grosser Saal of the Konzcrthaus This is a fair sized concert hall seating about 1900 people in the Austrian style that is with an open stage that is part of the theatre itself Lights are not dimmed during concerts or recitals here snd the audience and the performers are able to glare at each other with equal facility The orchestra was the Vienna Symphony and the conductor was Bruno Ma-derot a young conductor who has acquired quite a reputation here as an interpreter of the modems I am told The aingers Included Evelyn Lear as Lulu Marglt Kobeck as the Grsfln Kurt Equiluz as the painter Heins Behfuss as Dr Schon and Petra Mun-teanu as Aiwa The other aingers were Margarets SJos-tedt Scipio Colombo Hans Braun and Erich MajkuL To be perfectly honest the performance was correct enough but hardly inspired Madema Is obviously well acquainted with the score but it takes someone with the personality of a Mitropoulos to put this music across effectively The notes were there mostly but Madema lacks the sense for orchestral color and the rhythmic elan necessary to make this score come through to people unfamiliar with its intricacies The singers were generally capable but only Behfuss created a character But the most interesting performance came not from the stage but from the Viennese public I had had difficulty getting seats Finally some one with Influence found me a place (In Vienna if you know no one with Influence even if he's only the doorkeeper at your hotel you are hopelessly lost) As sat down I looked about at the audience The place was only half fulL At intermission I made inquiries The house had been thoroughly papered but even people with free tickets were unwilling to come1 At first I thought that the audience was critical of the performers not at all it was Berg that no one was interested In My companion slept through most of the first act and left at intermission pleading fatigue I noticed when I took my seat that many in the audience had had the same idea There was one heartening aspect to this affair It is that most of those who came and stayed to the bitter end were young people Apparently Berg can and does communicate with a newer generation of Viennese Just as he does with the same group in North America The von Einem opera wu CHEIiHQV FESTIVAL TONIGHT THEATRE CLUB 1151 St lake St WE 7-1979 1 "MaaM Nat Sa ailtard" 1 I Sydaey iaRaata liar 'badbal ewa I i Nmald WfcHahaad Saeatta "faearaa Mrtkf at anal praise" (Miaa HaaaaM La Devair FIRST MONTREAL SNOWINGI A BRITISH COURTBOOM AND THEY ARE THE ONES WHO KNOW HOW TO BRING THEM OFFI" Caaerra liBei 0UVU DIM mimnum WESTMOUNT I HU 6-9545 RETTER-THAN AVERAGE COURTROOM DRAMA CLEVER ALTER NATION OF TENSION AND RELAXATION MAKES THIS AN ATTENTION HOLDING I far at ML ML ML ML Ml Lsaf Cemplals Hum 9 ms tU ML Mi tM Ut "IFfd-dlai ttM IN ML ML US ALL SEATS RESERVED! UI SUN I HOIL S230 FU1IKI LIE FK MT0rnH30 Ui SUE I HOU 3rd VfEBKI Studio Pays Over Million For Musical By MURRAY SCHUMACH (e) New York Timet Service HOLLYWOOD June 13 Twentieth Century Fox celebrated the end of the screen strike today with one of Ita most Impotent announcements of the year The company said it had paid more than $1000000 for the movie rights to Sound of the Broadway musical hit with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstain IL According to Buddy Adler in charge of production at the Fox studios hoe the purchase price wu the highest ever paid by a studio for a show or a book Additional detaila on the deal were supplied by Irving Lszar the agent who represented the -theatrical producers in the negotiations with Fox Lazar said the price wu $1-250000 At the end of 12 yean the rights will revert to the producers The movie is not to be released before 1961 Laxar said the producers will receive 10 per cent of- the gross after it passes $12300 000 Pacific" which Fox also purchased from Rodgers and Hsmmersteln hu already grossed more than $18000000 according to Fox In addition box previously concluded a deal with Rodgers and Hsmmersteln whereby they would supply new songs for a re-make of the movie Fair" Rodgers and Hammer-item did the songs for the 1954 film of Fair" which Included Might As Well Be Spring and A Grand Night For AFTEK)ONI kHD EVEMNGS RATI MURDER MYSTERY SAPPHIRE NKEL FRTRICX-VVONNE EUTCHELll5slW3 MICHAEL CEJUG -PAUL MASS! cQlOt AMei Peetuiotte i Princess Widdlng Ta ATI ICES I JO PM WED IVENINCI PM MON TO FBI UST 3 DAYS TONIGHT at the FAISAN BLEU FOR ONE WEEK ONLY The Craat Lady of Songs Josophino BAKER Jtetsrva ywr saatt NOW MU 1-1637 NtahHy abswai Waab days 1011 pda aad 12 IS am FrL Sat pa II pda aad I ia I aad ay thaws AT THE i HOTEL SL MUTIR FA HI f-lflf IVV mSaa bam CetisraHIa BiHts th KEiVT UvfiI salad By RaftnaratlaN WEEKI Shaih at Hhi(atM HU S-2271 EXCLUSIVE ENCACEMENT! 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