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PAGE 7 MEMPHIS PRESS-SCIMITAR SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 22 1979 Chandler to Address Meeting CinemaN erkint al Knight Arnold 365 4283 I 99 CLINT EASTWOOD Edwin Howard The Front Row Mayor Wyeth Chandler will speak at 1 pm tomorrow on the first day of the National Community Development Association Region IV Conference at the Holiday Inn-Rivermont More than 200 community development officials from eight south-central states will attend the three-day conference to discuss issues and problems pertaining to housing and economic development One of the highlights of the conference will be a training session on the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 and neighborhood reinvestment strategies No aspirin is faster' or more effective to relieve headache pain iCSmS: AMITYVILLE UllIHlldlllllliWl RESTRICTED -3E ESCAPI FROM ALCATRAZ ALSO GOING SOUTH 3 6:301040 fllKISPSSSSH DOM Burt Reynolds and Sally Fiold paired once again in "HOOPER EVERGREEN 1703 Poplor 722-8 II 2 PARAMOUNT THE LUXURY THEATRE i COBB FABULOUS a faue4 MV 7 790 a Whitt Station Poplar M3 2436 OOUBLE FEATUREI BRINKS -J3L DOUBLE FEATUREI "THE BRINK'S 'V Thl JOB" iroi AIRPORT 79 LAST 8 BAYS SAT SUN The FIRST Certified 3BQ EXCLUSIVE WEEK TODAY SUN MATINEES DAILY SHOWING THRU SUN SEPT 23rd 2 BERGMAN CLASSICS Virgin STARRING Bill ANDERSON STARRING MAX VON SYDOM A INGRID THUUN Both Films are in SwedlshEnglish Subtitles SHOWTIMES: EVENINGS strawberries" 730 "VIRGIN" :20 SAT A SUN MATINEES "strawberries" 200 "VIRGIN" 3:50 Balmoral Cinema QUINCE at RIDGEWAY 683-8994 683-4384 lOO 4:30 7:30 9:45 MIDNIGHT SHOW TONIGHT HELD OVER 3rd WEEK! A TRIUMPm Alan Alda is brilliant: tough and vulnerable and true And if there is such a thing as a world-class actress it is Meryl Streep who gives a gorgeous performance THE SEDUCTION UNITED ENGAGEMENT MATINEES DAILY PETER ALAN FALK ARKIN lM OF JOE TYNAN DENNIS CHRISTOPHER BREAKING AWAY (R) Sammy Sings the House Down I -oinnrta8oriOwtd ftwwoor Sammy Davis jr sammy stops the world SPCCIM CVCNT (NTCKTIIINMCNI FUMED AUVE ON STAGE (R) A LAM ALDA BARBARA MERYL HARRIS STREEP A MAUI IN BRfCjMAM PRODUCTION A HIM BY JIRRY SCHATZBE RG THE SEDUCTION OF JOE TYNAN also starring RIP TORN ndMELVYN DOUGLAS Written by Al AN Al DA Eurrutrvc Producer LOUIS A STROLLER Music by BILL CONTI Produced by MARTIN BREGWAN Directed bv JERRY SCHATZBE RG ptU BOOK A UNIVERSAL PICTURE 2:00 (SNEAK SCREENING Of NEW BUBT REYNOLDS FILM AT 7: 30 ONLY!) rerun i ito wn to wane CHECK INDIVIDUAL ADS FOR SHOWTIMES MATINEES SAT 6 SUN The A-j PUTT Southern Areurct PARAMOUNT Find Your Horae In The Want Ads (MLNtGIMiHT OOiS NOT DiCOMMiWD PC WHS FOB TOUNGIR CHEDRfNl Whitt Station 4 Poplar 1 2iOO SNEAK PREVIEW FOR GOD SAKE GIT THE out AMITYV1LLE HORROR RfSTRICTEO 00-9 J5J TT7YI3 Sings The House Down" Sammy Davit Jr in "SAMMY STOPS THE WORLD" Restricted nyu a 1 hit iq HTn mcebct 2ND EXCLUSIVE MONTH MXT A FACE IN THE CROWD-4 ALLET GUYANE 'Stop the World' Doesn't SAMMY DAVIS JR substitutes frenetic shtick for mimetic style in impresario Bill Special Event Entertainment version of Stop the World I Want to Get Off (PG) which opened yesterday at the Paramount It IS the Leslie Bricusse-Anthony Newley musical hit Sammy is doing in this filmed-live-in-the-theater offering even though the ads identify it as Sammy Stops the World The egocentric re-titling is appropriate though because what Davis has done is dilute I might even say pollute the inseparable blend of form and content As it was conceived and as Memphians saw former Memphis actor Ken Zimmerman do it first at Memphis State in the and again at Front St Music Theater in 1972 a tattered mime appeared under a single light on an uncluttered raked stage He writhed irresolutely until a tentative shoot of mood took root in his mind and began to grow into a meaning It was birth he was miming the unfolding of a new life from the womb and the birth of wonder and hope The character of Littlechap was created before our eyes and the play and a whole world seemed to take shape from the tips of his expressive fingers Birth led inevitably to childhood childhood to adolescence and graduation graduation to ambition and girls and marriage to the daughter and so on until the whole life cycle was completed and had begun again For all its cynicism and its sadness asking finally "What Kind of Fool Am Stop the World in its original unadulterated form is a joyous affirmation of life concluding that the mime is worth the gesture and the dumb show of life worth the playing THE DAVIS VERSION done without the mime is merely a dumb show with scenes pointlessly juggled and re-jiggered in the editing Even cut to an hour and 35 minutes it seems interminable Sammy can sing of course no disputing that But he has done the fine songs in the Bricusse score so often that he is no longer content to sing the melodies Instead in the musical paroxysm he makes of Build a and even in the haunting Kind of Fool Am he improvises his own tunes just as he improvises much of his own dialogue all of which makes his English Everyman Littlechap a little cheap As Evie his wife and all the other women in his life the estimable Marian Mercer of New York cabaret and revue fame is left somewhere out in left field most of the time while Davis determinedly dominates the stage Instead of mimetically and balletically peopling world as was done in earlier productions the attractive chorus writhes repetitiously through the same disco-style dance-steps whenever Sammy deigns to share the spotlight with them 1 stuck it out to the end but I must admit that I wanted to get off long before this sorry version of Stop the World stopped MSU Calendar Updated MEMPHIS STATE UNIVERSITY THEATER has updated its theater calendar for the season after several cancellations and substitutions As it now stands the season's major productions and dates will be: INNER WONDER a musical tribute to Stevie Wonder created by director Keith Kennedy and musical directors George Caldwell and Joe Mulherin Oct 4-6 9-13 RALPH ROISTER DOISTER 16th century comedy by Nicholas Udall billed as the first comedy written in English to be directed by Richard A Rice Oct 22-27 THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE Edward Albee's dramatization of Carson novella to be directed by guest artist Jeffrey A Posson Nov 8-10 It 14-17 WORDS AND MUSIC by David Kranes a new play examining the current national portrait of the successful and happy American family directed by Richard A Rice Dec 3-8 THE GOOD DOCTOR Neil affectionate comic portrait of Anton Chekhov Feb 11-16 SANTA FE SUNSHINE a new comedy by Texas Trilogy author Preston Jones who died tragically this week at 43 and directed by Keith Kennedy Feb 20-23 It 27-March 1 ORCHES1S spring dance concert with guest appearance by Memphis Ballet Company March 48 CAROUSEL Rodgers Hammerstein musical guest starring Metropolitan Opera baritone Raymond Gibbs as Billy Bigelow directed by Richard A Rice April 9-12 14-19 NIGHT OUT" and PARTY" a pair of one-acts by Harold Pinter by mime Wil Robertson April 24-28 LYS1STRATA powerful drama of women striking against their husbands for peace directed by Bob Shea May 22-24 28-31 MSU's Lunchbox Theater free in the Lab Theater at 12:30 pm and lasting about 30 minutes will begin its season next Tuesday and Thursday with selections from four Workshop works-in-progress Offerings will be John Jim Bridger John 1430 Dan In His Own Time and Steven Pigeons Battle to Save Baby Whale Fails Autopsy Ordered SEATTLE (AP) Despite round-the-clock nursemaid-ing by veterinarians and the hopes of an army of volunteer babysitters Florence the 800-pound baby sperm whale has died Moments after her heart stopped Friday her pool at the Seattle Aquarium was drained and two dozen scientists swarmed over her shiny black carcass searching for clues as to why the baby mammal may have beached herself Tuesday near Rockaway Ore Florence died shortly after 11 am when her lungs filled with water said John Nightingale aquarium curator She just have the strength to push it out Her lungs are a yard away from the blow hole" he said "It was as if you ran hard two miles and tried to catch your breath in five seconds" Dr Tag Gornall director of the Marine Resources Center in Seattle who directed a post-mortem said scientists may find that Florence whose sex was undetermined before her death made her lunge for the beach because she had been abandoned by her mother umbilical cord was still attached when she was found Tun HT8H WGtBCT 14TN EXCLUSIVE WEEK TODAY SUN MATINEES SAT-SUN-WED BARBRA STREISAND RYAN From the Director of TODAY SUN 1 PM-31 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