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Wednesday ebruary 16 1566 Buffalo Evening News 'Amusements Section IV 61 The Right 'Way' at Studio Arena Between times he tries absorb the point of view for when he departs usual ly a day or two after the open ing Mr responsibility is to see to it that the show re mains on an even keel and does not fly apart Stage manager is a middle position liable to private criti cism? bringing little pubic praise The Studio Arena is Jim Way 28 married a univer sity graduate whose aspirations include writing and directing for films Heis at the right hand of the director of every show and is obliged to know precisely what the left hand is doing as well He also must be professionally ambidextrous Evenings he sees that the show on stage runs as smoothly as the director has indicated Days he confers with the newly arrived director provid ing for him the pro duction resources Absorbs Point of View naturally on the special abilities of the directors oflighting sets costumes prop erties and sound JfeJnsures that the director lacks nothing for the creation of hisshow Since a stage show at its best Is a creative effort once each evening it is a fragile affair vulnerable to any deviations or well intentioned changes in the script by the players If an actor wishes to experi ment with a new idea it is Mr decision About his job he prefers not to give a precise definition and talks about it in round about anecdotal fashion "I can tell you what I do but not exactly what the job is he said "I like to I try to think of it as creative Works Long Hours "My wife often see me for days All of us including Neal Du Brock stay at the toi theater work and nap when one show is' coming down and an other is going up Long hours But that all it is either "I see my job as making the actors as comfortable as pbs sible A stage manager once said to me that no matter how perfectly a production was with out actors no one would pay a dime to see it a valid point So I believe the actors have to worry about a thing except their performances see Another thing a show has a rhythm The director imposes a rhythm derived from his interpretation of the play my job to discover that rhythm and stay true to it "Something else Huckleberry inn says someplace that some people eat white bread and the rest of us eat corn bread Only the finest people eat white bread "Well in an intellectual not a social sense this theater is giving Buffalo while bread Real Whitebread" i MI'S 4 i i JIM WAY Stage Manager Carrier Is Decommissioned SAN RANCISCO eb 16 The 20 year old aircraft carrier Midway was decommis sioned Tuesday before undergo ing a $75 million modernization job AT KEINHANS HALL By John Dwyer Koeckert Quartet ollows Mellow Tradition The Koeckert Quartet follows an old European tradition mellowness and containment no virtuoso fireworks outside of the musical context but a strong reach for the longer lines and larger forms Violinists Rudolf Koeckert and his son Rudolf Jr violist Oscar Riedl and cellist Josef Merz ap peared Tuesday evening in Kleinhans Mary Seaton Room on the Buffalo Chamber Music So ciety series THEY ORMED the ensemble in Prague after World War II and then established head quarters in Munich They play everywhere in Europe at festi vals and recitals and have re corded a large array of works There is an American ap proach perhaps also a tradition by now which serves notice that the American quartet no less musicianly will be brilliant if possible and occasionally for its own sake The American listener then may take a little time to adjust to the dynamics of such a group as the Koeckert and its more in ward turning style But the ad justment will be more than worthwhile THE HAYDN OP 33 No 3 Is one of six dedicated to the Grand Duke Paul of Russia and this one is called the quartet for its singing trills in the first movement and the violin duo caroling of its scherzo trio But the work has far more size and human breadth than this cap tious title The shuddering fates that sometimes menace the fragile salon ethos in the machine age decreed that an ambulance with open siren should hurtle by as the violins were dancing their feathery trio caper largely on the basic chord of and its dominant But the resources of fate are as endless as ironic and the siren stayed more or less on the of the chord through its quick crescendo and fade out blending in and saving the day A half tone lower or high er and one might have written off the most delicate episode THE ENSUING Adagio was dark hued and touching and the closing Presto speedy and con trolled ending in a high style rubato which sparked a burst of applause The Shostakovich Quartet No 7 mystic modal theme inverted into a chaconne wild fugato finale variation on the original air in big unisons and obbligato figures was played with author ity and a deep bowed explora tion of the resonance This group has a very fine violist The Beethoven Op 130 much of it a reprieve from the melan choly of the late years though with the heartfelt afflic tion of the Cavatina was ex pressed In strength and simpli city with excellent control in the many transitions of mood and tempo The players were given a warm reception and surely will be welcome on a re turn visit Mental Hospital Planned ALBANY eb 16 The State Mental Hygiene Depart ment said Tuesday it plans to' construct a 500 bed hospital for the mentally ill on a 17 acre' site next to Albany Center Hospital Construction to begin next year will be finished by 1970 A tree top aerial survey has revealed evidence of two 1500 year old Mayan highways in Mexico not now on the map WWW S''L ft 1 a 837 8300 EW7 1 DAILY V) or 0 RICHARD GALLERY LOUNGE ft Ax sei GENERAL CINEMA CORP GRATEULLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE SERVICES AND TALENTS OLLOWING CONTRACTORS AND SUPPLIERS ssssa MM CONGRATULATIONS! 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