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NYACK, N.Y., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1968 THE ROCKLAND COUNTY JOURNAL-NEWS 27 Movie Cocfc Voice of Broadway SPRING VALLEY Valley of the Dolls 7:20, 9:10. ORANGEBURG Billion Dollar Brain 7, Beach Red 8:55. PLAZA, W. Haverstraw Tony Rome 7, 9:20. DRIVE INS ROUTE 303, Orangeburg On Stage ROBERT COOTE SIGNED HOLLYWOOD (UPH Veteran British actor Robert Coote landed a key role in MGM'S "Year of the Cricket" shooting in India.

(All titnrs are p.m.) TOWX, New City Valley of fne Dolls 7:30, 9:10 CINEMA 301, New City Ulysses. 7:20, 10. PEARL RIVER Waterhole No. 3 7, Ambushors 8:30 CINEMA 45, Spring Valley -Smashing Time 7:15, LAFAYETTE, Suffern Valley of the Dolls 7:40, 9:55. CENTRAL Pearl River Valley of the Dolls 7:30, 9:40.

ROUTE 59, Nanuet Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 7:40, The 'Advancer Rated Over Show-Stopper THEATRE NewCity town 202 S.Main Street-634-5100 Valloy of the Dolls 7, St. Valentine's Day Massacre 9:12. NYACK Sadismo 7, Mondo Teeno 8:40. ROUTE 17, Upper Saddle River, N.J. Valley of the Dolls 7, St.

Valentine's Massacre 9:10. ROCKLAND, Monsey Rosie 7, Torn Curtain 8:45. 10. NOW A lillev lovely to look at, thanks to Gow-er Champion's stylish staging and choreography, but they have little to do with the plot. I suppose it is just as well in this case, since the plot is far from congenial.

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327-BCBO 1 fflN mm iofthe! I Bolls I I Feb. 16 "Absence of a Cello" at Antrim Playhouse, Spook Rock Road, Suffern. Also on Feb. 17, 23 and 24. Feb.

24 "My Fair Lady" at the Ramapo Senior High School, Spring Valley, by the Temple Beth Sholom Players. Also on March 2. March 9 "South Pacific" by the YM-HA Players at the Kakiak Junior High School. Also on March 16, 23. March 20 Piano recital by Van Cli-burn at the" Poughkeepsie High School at 8:30 p.m.

March 23 "Kiss Me, Kate" at the Ramapo Senior High School, Spring Valley, by the Temple Beth El Players. Also on March 30 and 31. March 27 "The World of Sholom Aleichem" at Playhouse on the Mall, Paramus, for two-week run. COLOR IB i STARTS TOMORROW I nit The traffic routine, Cantor argued, had been tested and the laughs were guaranteed. Goldwyn finally gave in, much against the wishes of the several authors, of whom I was one.

At the preview and subsequent showings the monologue did indeed stop the show. It stopped it so completely and interrupted the plot so effectively that it took more than a reel to get the audience back into the action and the mood of the period. Cantor got his laughs and the film got a lull. Also in "Darling of the Day" there is a song called "Let's See What Happens." It is, for me, Jule Styne's best number in the show, with its charming lyrics by E.Y. Harburg and its infectious melody.

More than that, however, it conveys more adroitly than most dialogue scenes could do tiie growing attraction between Miss Routledge and Vincent Price, who plays a famous artist disguised as his valet. Here is a splendid show-advancer, moving the plot forward, helping the characterizations, progressing the romance. How To Do It Right One of the best examples of this is "Adelaide's Lament," by Frank Loesser in his "Guys and Dolls." In Stanley Green's "The World of Musical Comedy," the best book on that subject that I know, he says of this song, "Loesser changed the lyric to make her suffer from psychosomatic ailments lady could catch a because her marriage to Nathan has been postponed so often. 'Adelaide's one of the most brilliant of all comic love songs, is a perfect example of Loesser's dictum. 'I try to ex orAt One show nightly, Monday through Thursday: 10 P.M.

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19 THROUGH MARCH 9. By GEORGE OPPENHEIMER NEW YORK In my review of the new musical, "Darling of the Day," I said, "It has one or two show-stoppers but practically no show-advancers." I did not then have space to enlarge on this Idea, which seems to me one of the basic faults in too many of our current muscials. Numbers are injected, almost arbitrarily, in the hopes that they will stop the show. More often than not they do. Musical audiences are highly susceptible to loud singing, fast dancing and a finale to the number where principals and chorus hold out their hands in a gesture that begs for applause.

Is it the kindheartedness of the spectators that makes them unable to resist this plea or are they overcome by the contagion of the" high spirits on stage? I have seen instance after instance where an indifferent singer will belt out a song on or off pitch, a chorus will go into gyrations that have more speed than pattern. The orchestra will drown out the lyrics and the house will come down. Well and good. But does it ever occur to the creators of a musical that, in stopping the show, they may be halting the action instead of progressing it? "Darling' Has Example A case in point is the number, "Not On Your Nellie," which serves as a perfect song and dance for the enchanting Patricia Rutledge of the Day." Sad and disheartened over the imposture of her husband, she goes to her local pub and proceeds to get slopped. She then sings the song, joined by the singing chorus, then by the dancers, until it builds and builds into a fast, rousing and js) family way HAYLEY MILLS JOHN MILLS HOTEL i 303 DRIVE-IN 17 ORlVE-INiij I IlfFft tarnmvrpniii coi MAIKIMKKOtT VAUIT By JACK O'BRIAN Jimmy Stewart generalizes for the Air Force the last time for two weeks starting now "The Deal" novelist Bill Marshall (Ginger Rogers' husband) lost his mother Angela Lansbu-ry will sing at both the Oscars and Tony awards.

The Paul Newmans chomp gum right through Broadway first nights; at the great "Joe Egg" premiere for instance Not even the producers of "The Grand Music Hall of Israel" thought they'd get the smash-boxoffice lines we saw personally at the Palace Theatre; tjie combination in N.Y. City is unbeatable: a good show, good notices, plus 24.5 per cent of the N.Y. population is Jewish (Mazeltov). The Stony Brook school marijuana-and-worse scandal doesn't surprise Its neighbors; the school for years has been trying to pry extra land from its rich down-the-roaders who told us they refused not out of anti-philanthropy but because of (he school's shenanigans, which have hit the headlines years late. Actor Walter Kinsella financed his recent stroke with a flock of TV commercials' residuals; he's back TV-shilling again Luke is a sacred name in Italy so "Cool Hand Luke" over there became "Nick: Cool Hand." Anxious farmer helping the stork in Henry Fonda-Jimniy Stewart's "Firecreek" is played by John Qua- leu remember him as Papa Dionne? Anyone remember what the real Papa Dionne actually said when advised ho was the daddy of quints? "I'm so ashamed," he cringed.

"Green Berets" actress Irene Tsn's real name is Wei Ho Tsu and she shuddered away from a romance with a gent named Silver: "Imagine If I married him I'd've been known as 'Wei Ho Bob Russell (he wrote "PYcnesi," "Maria Elena," etc.) dashed off mod-stuff for The Monkees and explained: "You gotta run like hell these days just to stand still." Considered sure-pops for Grammy (recording academy) Awards are Bobbie Gentry, Glen Campbell, Aretha Franklin and Burt Bacharach And whether he wins a Grammy or not, we find Ed Ames' voice about the most monotonous of the moment Ricardo Montalban won the very-funny role of the Latin movie star in the "Sweet Charity" movie Allied Chemical Tower on Times Square (maiden name Times Tower) will turn it into one huge product-showplace instead of an office building Greenwich Village mod-blob jernt peddles anti-hero sandwiches" Together-dancing may be returning: the Summit Hotel's Gaucho Room started cheek to cheek style music and got so crowded, it's being enlarged. Adlal Stevenson III Is being groomed for Illinois politics; you'd think he'd've learned at his pop's politics-busted knee Acting coach Andreas Voutsliias, who almost wed Jane Fonda a few kisses ago, plays another sort of lad in "The Producer" a tres-gay swish Playwright Ken Tarker sold a feature-article "How to Get Your Play Produced and Sold" to a writers maga-ine. Nice little miracle: Parker's never had a play produced on Bdwy. Copa chorine Erica Kerry and her manager Gary Blohm. wed N.Y.

State may okay Mexican divorces again "Flying Nun" actor Alejandro (an Argentinian) just won U.S. citizenship; next his divorce Catholic Book Prize novel "No Little by Elizabeth Ann Cooper, was bought for films by Universal Ben Gazzara. will run for his life: wife Janices Rule stars with him for the first time the TV series The off-Broadway Blackfriars Guild produces plays almost always by new young authors; Michael Kallesser, who wrote "Babes Don't Cry Anyone" is 78! Roseland postponed the engagement of bandleader Artie Arnell (due to start Feb. 27) because of his heart attack In Pittsburgh I1MWOOD 1-1441 HIT MIKINS LAST TIME TODAY "TONY ROME" -THt HCW U) CINEMA Nl 4-I1M itkit hi. win ii ciiiuY iim.

NEW CITY, H. Yi Adults $1.00 Children 5X STARTS TOMORROW "SAND PEBBLES" STARRING STEVE McQUEEN LAST TIME TODAY "ULYSSES" AT ALL TIMES entertaining production number. The hands go out and produce generous applause. amine characters, not events." The song was sung by Vivian Blaine, seated at a table alone on the stage. She didn't have to stretch out her hands to ask for applause she got it for herself and for a song that told us everything we needed to know about her character.

Think back to the four classic musicals of Rodgers and Ham-merstein "South Pacific" and "The King and These were integrated shows in which the music and dances fitted into and advanced the stories. There were show-stoppers, plenty of SPRING VALLEV, hi, Y. Elmwood (S.iCXO fhuitmxmnv, NOW SHOWING FIRST STARTS TOMORROW V8LlIey ti "THE PENTHOUSE ormeiLPoiis FOR ADULTS ONLY! them, but they did not stop the flow. A number such as "There Is Nothing Like a Dame" gets COLOR by DELUXE PANAVISION What has been accomplished is Miss Routledge has shown one more facet of her many skills without revealing any new facet to her character, and we in the audience have been provided with a lively number that was mentioned enthusiastically in the reviews as it was intended to be. However, what has it done for the plot? How has it advanced the action or the characterization? The answer is not one bit.

It comes toward the end of the evening, an excellent place for a show-stopper since it sends us out into the street in better humor than a quieter song might do. But what if the latter really made us feel for Miss Routledge in her disillusionment and worry? Done In Films, Too I recall many years ago a fight between Samuel Goldwyn and his comedy star, Eddie Cantor, involving the film "Roman Scandals." The popcyed comic wanted to inject a comedy routine about traffic condi LAST TIMES TODAY DEAN MARTIN IN "THE AMBUSHERS" PLUS "WHO'S MINDING HE MINT" 51 tV lr. lt "0. SI MM WTWCITOWH SMOPP'NC ClMl LJ 1 rJ tnt fAHMNQ nn pAuswts IN OUR fBU PARKINC BLAUVELT.N. Y.

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