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i -20- PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1964 At Random At Holiday SUBURBAN ROOM DELICIOUS NIGHTLY FEATURES LACK ANGUS STCKS FILET MIGNON LOBSTEH TAIL STEASEB Hlr i- Fri. 1 Sat. Th. AL MADIA TRIO. I tlT MOM OUT CO OUT TO A HOWI I By Harold V.

The Senor, He's Sawright! Cohen PITTSBURGH William nRnTTF.STHA jie I oera Mutic Director V' By Request (Mine) The recent salute here to the magics of "Mary Poppins" has produced a barrage of mail. For a change, favorable mail. Not just from the Walt Disney office or Gabe Rubin, who owns the Nixon, either. Constant Reader, too, has been coming in strong, at TONIGHT at 8:40 P.Mr-Sunday Afternoon al 3:10 P.M. HAIG YAGHJIAN, Conducting PETER MENNIN Canto for Orchestra RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF Lyubasha's Aria from Tfia IRINA iBvuinaifa AHKHIPlJVA BhninFicce House Cecilia SYMPHONY Syria Moiqu DiMy-Eighth Saawit la I'l Third Song from "The, Snow Maiden' twmnhnnv In Mi MOUSSORGSKY Introduction to "Khovantchina MeZZO-SopranO MOUSSORGSKV Marfa's Fortuna Telling Arlj from Trepak and tha Field Marshal's Song STRAUSS "Till Eulampiegel's Marry franks' December 18, 20 AARON COPLAND, Compostr-Conducfo, Slnili Tuksts: Friday, $2.00 to J5.00; Sunday, Jl-50 te Synipaeny OKIci, Kauimann's; Glmbtlt; Horni't; University el plttisargk Rook Cent im MOSQUE BOX OFFICE OPENS l'i HOURS SEFORE EACH PERFORMANCE "ENCHANTMENT 1 MOVIE IS EVERYWHERE AND 0 FULL OF HAPPINESS 0 1 'a: SEEI" AND LAUGHTERI" SEEI" AND LAUGHTERI" frail i CoAtn, Poit-Goiefre Chicken talks with Senor Wences.

By LEE McIXERXEY THAT'S A nicely. entertaining show the Holiday House has this week (and, so far as Its head man goes, most of next It's a show to take the whole family to gee, for the head man is Senor Wences, in a typical performance which means a good performance with a lot of delightful whimsey. Don't ask me how It is that you can see and hear little Johnny Martin over and over without tiring in the least of his wilful persistence. There he is, being taught music by his master, the Senor; and the conversation goes like this: (Senor): Very nice music. Yes? (Johnny) Yes.

(Senor) Yes. (Johnny) Yes. Very nice. (Senor) Very nice and very difficult. (Johnny) Very easy.

(Senor) Very difficult. (Johnny) Very easy. (Senor, taking up stick) Very diff-eecult. (Johnny) Very difficult. For you.

For me, very easy. The crowd loves it, every repetitive word, and has a real liking for the little boy who, for a face, has Senor Wences' wig-bedecked hand, and for a body, a stiff small-size dummy's. Johnny seems real; so does that crazy Pedro in the box, who just has to say. "Saw-right!" to get his laughs; and as for Cecilia the Chicken-well, there's another strange personality for you. They all have Senor Wences' accented voice in different ranges he even brings in the muted voices of a man and woman over a telephone; and he's able to make Pedro's voice seem muffled, within the box, and de-muffle it as he opens the lid.

That's being some ventriloquist; but what really makes the Wences act so beguiling, as if you need to be told, is the charm and appeal of his assorted little creatures. IFYOUUKEW the current postal rates Man, woman and child, in notes both neat and scrawled, Constant Reader wants At Random to know that they stand four square behind its Seal of Approval. Let this then be a collective thanks to them all for their gracious chorus of amens. At the risk of going1 overboard, still again, for "Mary Poppins," something borrowed simply cannot be resisted, a column that looks at Mr. Disney's happiness-on-the-wing so uniquely that it should not be limited to only the subscription areas the Kansas City Star covers.

The piece by Bill Vaughan ran on the editorial page of that newspaper a week ago and appears below in its entirety by request (mine) under a silent sub-head which reads Add -Things-I-WLsh-I Had-Written: I wasted a recent evening at the movies by going to see a picture called "Mary Poppins." If you can imagine it, this was a picture where nobody took their clothes off or expressed their affection by biting one another. The camera work was amateurish because you could tell what was going on, instead of there being the customary threshing about in the dark with occasional bits of flesh flashing Ing at something which has nothing whatever to do with the atomic bomb or Vietnam. Worse, my 13-year-old daughter was laughing. And it was healthy laughter. There was nothing sick about it.

I had the dreadful feeling that, as we laughed, we weren't releasing any of our pent-up animosity toward the world around us. I'm going to call the psychiatrist to see if he has a family rate. I try to excuse myself on the grounds that I had dined well, the day at the office hadn't been too bad and I was, in a word, feeling good. Some day when I'm feeling terrible I'm going to give myself a second chance and go back to see "Mary Poppins" when I can really hate it, and make up for the evening I wasted. End reprint.

But unending remain the green-wlth-envy shadows which hang over this typewriter for not having thought up such an off beat salaam to "Mary Poppins" first. Scrapping Don Taylor, of Freeport, has been signed by 20th Century-Fox to direct the pilot for the new Ed Wynn-Ethel Walters television series, "You're Only Young Twice" Lenny Lit- is the one If they're all talking about I I Walt Disneyjj ALL TO -il sairrii' to'! i Slatting Julie Andrews Dick Van Dyke David Tomlinson Glynis Johns ma a i i II ALL TO This V'nl 1 i "nFlir.HTF.IIL A FOR ONE Mononon, BKVSRIT Hil PMTHOI ST Bab-Cock Blvd. North HUH, "gnter Lauih-Ini." Tontiht at 4:30. arm. planetarium "The stir at Bethlehem." Todajr at 2: 15 and 8:15.

CAKINO Continuous burlesque itate ahowe from I to a p. m. Evening liora 7.30 to 11. GOOO Ol.DE DAYS fit. 30.

E. McKr-ra-port. "Under tha Mistletoe." Tonight at 9 KRAMER'S Kim Edward Oakland Evening with Esther Lapi-dusa." Tonight at 9 30. NT-TSUI HGH PLAVHOt'SE Theater Dad. Poor Dad." Tonight at 8:30.

Craft Avenue Theater She Lovea Me." Tonight at 8:30. STRIA MOKQIE Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra concert. Tonight at 8:40. At the Movies ART CINEMA "Anr Man's Woman." at 11. 1:30, 6:35 and 9:10.

"Heavenly. Bodies." at 12:30, 3, 5:35. 8:05 and 10:20. EORl'M- Warren Brattjr and Jean Seberg in "LIUth," at 6:15, 8:15 and 10:25. at 12:45.

3:05. 5:25, 7:45 and 9:55. GATEWAY Alain Delon and Jane Fonda in "Joy House," at 12:20, 2:15, 4:10. 6:05. 8 and 10.

GI II Alberto Sordl and Vittorlo Cass- man In "And Suddenly Ira Murder," at 8.10 8:05 and 10. Nixos Julie Andrews and Dirk Van Dyke In "Mary Poppins." at 12. 2:25. 4:50, 7:15 and 9 40. SHAUYSIDE Jean-Paul Belmondo In "That Man from Rio." at 6.

8 and 10:05. SQI'IRRKL HII.L Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton Is "Becket," at 6:30 and 9:45. STAN LET Tony Curtis and Debbie Reynolds tn "Goodbye Charlie." at 12:25. 2:50, 5:15. 7:45 and 10:15.

WARNER Lana Turner In "Peyton Place at 11:30. 4:20 and 9:10. Carol Lynley In "Return to Peyton Place" at 2:15 and 7:10. RICHARD BURTON PETER OTOOLE firr-f-1 ii mi tMOfOUS SALS A lOt I is tude, Miss Robin, and a deft way with words between songs. AT THE Twin Coaches, Al Fisher and Lou Marks are going through their zany antics, with Mr.

Fisher also getting in a few song numbers on his own. And the core of dancers from the Ballet Granada, headed by Estrellita and Raul, are continuing their show at the Ankara. The Ankara brings in Del Ray, the magician, for the holiday shows starting Dec. 21, with singer Betty Barnes and organist Chuckie Carlini all Pitts-burghers. LAST 5 DAYS! jL TECHNICOLOR VSTEREOPHUNIC SOUND special nixon which we all know has become the mark of the cinema that la Really Worthwhile.

A certain amount of sex was involved, but only in the primitive sense that you could tell which were the girls and which were the boys. As we all recognize, this Is no wav to come to grips with the tragic realities which underlie life today. I regret to report there were no Japanese peasants carrying buckets of sand up strep mountainsides to illustrate the futility of man's predicament here on earth. Furthermore there were a brother and sister in the show who did nothing at all to shed a blinding light upon our knowledge of sibling rivalry. They didn't even hint at forbidden games ripped from the hitherto unpublished writings of Krafft-Ebbing.

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SV4J Mon. 4 Tae. 30 LADIES MATINEE LVvcD EVERY WEDNESDAY Mosr xcrto show inn pRtstMmo I ENDS SAT. NITE 7- UCAij; MOM ALL SttVLMH ALltCHtrtfCCUHTY AQ if SAi AACA THE EVERYONE'S Coronation Ceremonies Sat, Contest Winner Crowned on Colorful Pooeon 01 CAorus Gfrli TALKING ABOUT uMm siucn Tat mmyt av mr maks am tXOTIC TA. A NtW GYPSY NOW JAUV AMt The PROUDLY PRESENTS lwVVr'5r rilUll) HWmw iiliwiaw urn i loved as if his life BALLET GRANADA The show this week also features the modern adagio dance team of Bido and Shanil, who remain through next week, and red-haired Tina Robin.

Miss Robin is the first Holiday House performer Ive seen win over a noisy and indifferent crowd, gradually. Her first three songs went down the drain; and I admit I was among the indifferent, for 3Iiss Miss Robin Robin's young voice in those songs seemed brass-hearted in style; but when she got into her impersonations, and especially with her Songs of Yesterday, she became the darling of her audience, and deserved to be. Her good humor throughout helped, too: a nice atti- vi fa vaF Held Over! I MORE DAY! Nite AutovftecM JILL JU4 tvHUSK tOI Stage Sat lit Triple Atfroctionl PEACHES PALMER FIFI PAREE HONEY DARIN HELD OYER Py Rales Ph. HO. 2-624 HO.

6-1202 Rails you won't af th Shadytidt tha spinal chilli ara toe riotously abundant but roar you Harold V. Coaen, JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO FRANCOISE DORLEAC JEAN SERVAIS MNOUCHKINEanGFORGES DANOGER3 I wit 1 mmii RcTiinti Tn IlklWIIII IM 5' W.fl.lIIfaT DIRECT FROM N. Y. LATIN QUARTERS Slormj ESTRELLITA and HAUL with their company ol Spanish and Flaminco Dancers, Singers and Musicians SHOWTIME 8:30. 11:30 COVER CHARGE $1.00 PER PERSON am Rouli SI Special without even a surfing scene, let alone a sex kitten or slave girl.

There were songs In this movie and the people who sang them could sing. This should have been warning enough, but it got worse. The people who danced really danced Instead of rushing around over the set. Of course, when I saw how things were going, I should have walked out, but I was committed to the baby-sitter for the minimum. I hoped things would get worse, meaning better.

They didn't. This "Mary Poppins" turned out to have a plot. If this weren't unthinkable enough it had whimsey, the one thing we addicts of the pure cinema can't abide. It makes us" fwow up" we say whimsically, tak-ing another sip of a good, dry sherry. You know what else this movie had In it? It had a cute little boy and girl in it.

Yes "cute." That's the only word for It. I had an Impressionable 13-year-old child with me. All her life she has been rigorously protected from cuteness. We tear "Peanuts" out of the paper before we let her read It. mm tv i Jt a v.

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As Ordered The Instructions from th director of "Once Thief were explicit. "Let yourself go," Ralph Nelson commanded Ann-Marjfret, The young lady did. She wound up and hurled an ash tray off-camera. It struck Mr. Nelson on the forehead and 19 stitche were required to close the wound.

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Any pet that shows signs of this failing has been traded in on something more austere. We are the only family in the block wilh a falcon and a puma. The biggest waste of the evening was that I laughed at this movie. Boy! Laughing at a Walt Disney production. This can get you drummed out of evrry intellectual circle you ever dreamed of being involved with.

What I am mainly ashamed of Is that It was the kind of laughter that Is absolutely out these days. I was laughing because what was happening on the screen was full of Joy, exuleranie and high spirits. The character up there was having a good time and I went along with It Where was the social significance? There wasn't any. Where was the biting satire, the rapier wit, which cuts through man's pitiful pretension that he is anything more than a vegetable? Totally lacking. It makes a man feel like I linking out of the theater When real lies he Li laugh "A GRAND GLORIOUS SPOOF" Poanioo, Potf-Goietlt "HILARIOUS!" Ilosief, Praii "A WILD AND WONDERFUL TIME!" rma Mogotine "A LULU! FUN FOR FUN'S SAKE!" Na York Tmal fe7 EDWARO BIIMNS LARRY HAGMAN FRITZ WEAVER aatttvma curlis debbic retinoids nat boonc foatura Tlmasi 12 2S I SO 1:20 41 no- 10:11 PHILIPPE DEBROCA P.

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