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R015 mchKS 10 tho examiner wodinoday May 16 1979 Mtami em notes Woody Allens heartless film By STEPHE AUBR Of The Ex her Manhattan the new Woody Allen film is the most popular film in Toronto right now Its wracting record crowds at the Uptown and rapturous rams from the critics The Time cover story on Allen that ared couple of weeks ago proclaims the film to be the materpiece that everyone hoped Allen would one day pr dont agree Manhattan is ny oneliners and ultrahip ins Yorkers but it doesnt come Hall Allens previous comedy eresting film full of fun tnto contemporary New the brilliance of Annie Technicall its very accofiiplished film with superb direction an photography nd fine score that featurs music George Gershwin But Manhattan is film without eart both as comedian and problems Isaac Davis Allen wants to be taken seri as an artist and that creats Allens alter ego in the film tosses off the usual flip comments about big city life but at the same time tries to be moral man of conscience Davis is disturbed by the superficial trendiness and intellectualizing of his friends all very cerebral and analytical characters but hes guilty of many of the faults he condemns in his friends And by the end of the film Davis and his friends have become irritating bores too selfcentred to appreciate or understand love and frienship Manhattan to put it bluntlyfinot masterpiece Allen proved with Interiors that whenhe tries to tackle straight drama hes too cold too manneredand too selfconscious to make succeszul film His strghgth has always been his ability to look at relationship ith such sympathy and humor that he makes you ca ut his character even while youre laughing at themsfiut Manhattan tries to be fumiy and profound at the same lifrie as though hes blen ding the attitudes in Annie Hall and Interiors atid it doesnt work jg After seeing Manhattan left the theatre disliking Woody Allen character for the first time Isaac Davis is man to pity man whose sense of humor seems like fragile defence againt despair Theres too much despair in Manhattan and not enough humor Allan makes better films when he follows his natural instinct for comedy Short takes Tonight at pm at Central Collegiate saxophonist Paul Brodie performs with the Central Collegiate Band in the final concert in the 197879 Collegiate Concerts Series Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for studentsBob Stutt puppetccr with the Frog Print Theatre in Toronto presents Dragon Stew show for childrdiat the library Friday at 130 pniSunday aftemoon at five Park Home the Bar rie Registered Music Teachers pfient scholarship recital featuring local music students students will compete for scholarships worth up to $500 Two Toronto concerts just announced Emmy Lou Harris performs at Kecfe Centre on Jline 5Cheap Trick appear with Graham Parker and ThéRumour at Maple Leaf Gardens on lune 12 nae WOODY ALLEN tonaltun Auth Intuituh as Qxfiur eynolds Smokeymni audit iiiiiii 1113 tunMi AWARD3 Best Actress In in nun um um it 13 ln vuiu 885 Ongmal Scfeenplaywmo Saiafionwt In Star Nair law Imight nr Coming vocvai1srvovrnnuo Editor Stephen Gouor teinment Subtlest Englishwriter director Dont touch Shakespeare STRATIORD Ont CP If any modern Canadian poets or playwrights think they can im prove on William Shakespeare they should write their own plays That is the view of Montreal bom Peter Moss director of two of Shakespeares history epics Henry IV Parts and II in this years Stratford Festival Asked whether Shakespeare whose language now is archaic needs to be rewritten into con temporary English Moss said If you can find the poet who is up to it then he may as well write his own plays Shakespeares language is the most beautiful richest deepest subtlest and most reso nant of any writer that ever wrote in English Tamper with it at your peril He also feels that Shake speare is so international we can pretend he is Canadian Theatre is only bound by language would have hard time to direct play in French or Hebrew or Russian but have spent five years in Eng land and lived and worked in New York and have been working here for three years dont see why any other di rector shouldnt also do all three In other words Moss believes there is good to be had in letting directors and other creative people move from country to country without nationalistic barriers being set against them think the notion of uniquely Canadian theatre is Upside down style spurs creativity TORONTO CP Pulitzer prize winning composers arent ordinarily found standing on their heads but Michael Col grass finds the position useful Singing is effortless in this position he recently told skeptical group of young per formers at the Royal Con servatory of Music When youre upside down you open the larynx which makes for bigger vocal sound Colgrass 47 said he dis covered while working as freelance percussionist in New York that todays performing artist often is required to be part actor part singer part dancer and part musician He has also played in the New York production of West Side Story and on stage with the New York Philharmonic With the hpr of Rockefeller Foundation grant he hit the road in 1967 to see if he could open himself up further as creative musician The road took him from classes in fenc ing ballet and gymnastics to summer course in physical training for actors with Jerzy Grotowski director and founder of the Polish Theatre Laboratory IMBERIAl CINEMA 7233440 unnironivrm34372212 Parity Raids Short Sheets Food Fights AFTERLIGleS OUT ITS GRQSS OUT NOW MAY Witt IDIIIOX MAIOUII MAGAIINI not Avhlllll ounth III IAIGIIINV Hllllll MOONIM KER It was Grotowskis leading actor Ryszard Cieslak who put him on his head in series of headstands shoulder stands backbends and sommersaults in which the performer twists stretches and rolls his body like cat playing with hall of string When Colgrass stripped to his waist and performed The Cat in the Royal Conservatorys re cital hall recently some of the viewers couldnt resist ap plauding To me this is an ideal digest for actors he told the group It gives them everything they need to go out on the stage with the blood circulating and the muscles stretched This summer from July 16 to 21 Colgrass will be offering sixday physicaltraining workshop at the Royal Con setvatorys summer school He has done similar work shops in schools and univer sities as far afield as Calgary and Fort Wayne 1nd Its not something he has to do for living Colgrass is in demand with last years Pulit zer Prize on his trophy shelf and commissions extending intothe 19805 III WIll SCIIIII IMIIIII flow Thu in It NtllllADllS SNOW ADDID Hull AI DIIVI IN ONIV II 11 lil TIllz VI ll Ill28 IN ll WIT Jill II MilW lhbwuiuniuuuum Ara iltii mama healthy and right but it isnt one based on lock the doors and let no one else in We are bound by common language and what is more the British have been at this theatre game lot longer and there are things they know that we dont know yet Moss is the only Canadian ever to win the associate direc tors award from the Arts Coun cil of Great Britain for his work there in 197475 He said Canadian theatre should take freely the best of English and American theatre There is no crime in stealing take them and use them theyre free On this stage in Stratford we make Shakespeare Cana dian said Moss We speak him with Canadian accents and we use Canadian frame of mind when we deal with him We pretend he was Canadian That makes sense for Canadian theatre Mosss Festival stage produc tions about Henry IV carry the story of the House of Lancaster from Bolingbrokcs dethroch ment of King Richard II through his rein to his death and succession by Prince llal as Henry The two plays are great ad venture story said the 1972 Bowyer talks to coin club Daniel Bowyer president of the Toronto Join Club will be the guest speaker Thursday at the monthly meeting of the Huronia Numismatic Associa tion Blwycr will speak aout the designer Antonia Pisancllo and his medals during the Renaissance period He will also give out copy of the Sotheby catalogue as door prize The meeting will beheld at the Adult Rehabilitation Centre 175 Bayfield St The doors open at 15 pm and the business meeting starts at pm In ml 41mm 130 try Strada New Strada feels comfortably big liat engineers have added an inch here centimeter there to make it the rooniiest car in its class But bald figures cant com pare with getting into the car feemg the sense of elbow room room to stretch your legs Wave your QIIIIIS And Strada is soothingly 73 Yonge $1 Barrie 7284883 graduate of the National Theatre School in Montreal Its possible to come in and see only Part II and not tmI youve lost anything The lift two scenes which literally taki about seven minutes bring you right up to late with everything that has happened Most of the Falstaff scirim are in Part II and you need nothing to appreciate Falstaff Everybody has got little of that Lord of Misruli somewhere inside of him grownup sixrycar old kid Walter llaluak the well known Canadian conductor compnwr and VlUllnlhl Will com net thr llurmna District Youth llVfillrit May dl at Georgian College lbmtrv Italuak bar Just returned from Europe Wllf he was HP conductor wtth thr htiittgarl taller litW aim worked With the Vienna State Opera ltallvl the National allot of Canada the Strut ford National liealre and or chicAron in Toronto fintin Fill and Cleveland ll IIit rtntly the conductor of flu lariadian harnher chiaim The May 71 Iomert will feature member of tin lliironia youth oertra Worfolk new president of historical association James Worfolk of Midland was elected president of the Simcoe County Historical Association at the annual meeting held May Grace Leigh of Urillia becomes pastpresident of the association Other cxccutivr members include Bernice Ellis of Berton first Vicepresident John Smith of Harrie second vicepresident Jennifer Dukes of Lefroy secretary lsabel McBride of Harrie treasurer and Irene Perri of Barrie chairman of the program com mittee Guest speaker the meeting was Joan Jody member of the Orillia Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Com mittee Mrs lody described the roll of the Urillia advisory committee and the problerrr her group have encountertdl it getting budding IlciLnatId under lllfllltr10llflllblfAfi Also at the annual meeting Peter Scott was awarded an honorary lte mornberhip in the Slmtlflt County Historical Association in recognition of THE outstanding srrvtcl to the assmriation DEAN MARTIN 0N Slit Dean Martin Jerry Lewis Richard todgers and Oscar Hammerstein were the guests on the first lid Sullivan show or June 20 1948 GREGORY PICK LAURENCE OLMER if they su will we SHOWSAI7L9HOPM Impr UlllJtlntf Slim1 room wit13 similar can In 17 nJU lltlltiltl71 Strutti or In In it in Room comfort liat urges you to sit in 21 Rabbit quiet An acrodyiiainieallv any other stibconipact Then efficient body liyc speed shift sophisticated overhead c1111 1500 cc engine add up to fuel economy 79 km per gallon on the highway 77 vrirmrgv well as members of Toron to conservatory orchestra organized by Jack Montague we is the conductor of the youth orchestra and concert niaster for the Huronia Sym phony Thc program for the con cert includes lime Klein Nactitrnusik by Mozart the lacbelbdl canon the Winter segment of Vivaldi Four Seasonz and other works by Vivaldi and Handel lht lenlUf orrhlazra ll alao play three selection the rum ert lht convert hill begin pin llthll are $1 and are availabil dltir or by calling Kathirum Jarm at 71 Tbti Wellknown conductor leads youth orchestra HALTER BABIAK back from Europe SED BOOKS Strada ililt ltll liltl HWY museum momma IIWSIJ ml 1370860 llll tlt Iii tttltt lttt tl tlt ryiiig space illl til ltltl titmn tltt ltltk suits lzc ll Lithu that litttixnts imit tl ti Ill stilt llli ticlnistcn tnhil INN1liiltlitl sliii thittit lllllllllll ittll tlptiinis metallic filh lill ll BARRIE