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RTS ARCADE ... a weekly roundup
inch here and in Munich. sweeping through the dress shop of de- which has an annual deficit of $400,000, after 23 years. try Singer;
Or at least, to duel "Chances for optimal restoration are signer Ralph Laurens, where she Princeton said. " The Fantasticks-Off-Broadway now . Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty
very good," said Hubertus Falkner von promptly bought out two whole shop After the performance, Gov. Brendan for almost 18 years. Will it never stop? Best Country Duo -
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tor Franco Zeffirelli says he may move
from Italy because of what he calls con-
tinuous attacks against him by leftist
"I represent dissent in Italy ... Some-
day I expect to be slapped in my face
and I will be obliged to go into exile"
Zeffirelli was quoted as saying in an in-
terview with a weekly magazine.
The 53-year-old director, who said
once he voted for the Roman Catholic
Church-backed ruling Christian Demo-
crats, blamed Italy's worsening situa-
tion on leftist parties.
Sonnenburg, nead of iMumns Dmerner
Institute. "A layman would scarcely be
able to spot the repairs."
Among the canvases expected to be
restored by next fall under von Sonnen-
burg's supervision is one of the most
prized art works in West Germany -
"Jacob's Blessing," completed by Dut-
ch master Rembrandt van Rijn in;1656.
It and about a dozen other paintings
in eight museums across West Ger-
many were damaged last year by Hans-
Joachim Bohlmann, 40.
"I must destroy what other men cher-
ish," he told police before being com-
Hot-mama-
on-camp us
Singer Pearl Bailey,'who has decided
to get 'the real thing" in addition to the
honorary degree she already has, en-
rolled as a fulltime freshman at
Georgetown University in Washington
D.C'. on Monday. Here, Miss Bailey, 59,
shows off her student identification
card.
Miasma in Moscow
MOSCOW - Sviatoslav Richter, of-
ten considered the Soviet Union's fore-
most concert pianist, has pneumonia
and has canceled all performances, a
spokesman for the state concert organi-
zation said Thursday.
The spokesman said the perform-
ances would be rescheduled when the
pianist recovers.
Richter, who also had pneumonia last
winter, canceled his appearances in the
Russian Winter Festival in Moscow last
mitted to a mental institution.
For seven months, police said, Bohl-
mann used a syringe to spray a solution
of 98 per cent sulfuric acid on priceless
paintings. His spree began after, his
wife was killed in a traffic accident,
police said. Bohlmann was arrested in
his Hamburg apartment hours after
being seen during his last attack Oct. 7
in Kassel.
Restorers were pleased to discover
that the paintings had not been
damaged as badly as originally thought
because the colors were protected by
layers of centuries-old varnish.
responsive.
What next?
'Samurai Strangler'?
LOS ANGELES - A new exploitation
film called The Surfside Strangler is be-
ing readied for release at a time Los
Angeles area police are still hunting the
Hillside Strangler.
A review released by the producer,
Somma Films, said it would send out
"shock waves." The film went into pro-
duction before the current wave of mur-
ders, but, like the real case, it in-
volves the strangulation of prostitutes
and innocent teen-agers.
In the movie the strangler is a mid-
dle-aged man who was abused as a
child by his mbther, an alcoholic pros-
titute, and her pimp.
Nazi-nabbed art fetches $
NEW YORK - A collection of Dutch
paintings, taken by Adolf Hitler as ran-
som to let a Jewish family flee Nazi-oc-
cupied Holland, is expected to bring
hundreds of thousands of dollars in an
art sale.
The heirs of the family, said a spokes-
man for Sotheby Parke Bernet gallery,
had no idea of the value of the paint-
ings, each of which bears a seal show-
ing it was in Hitler's private collection.
In January 1942, Hitler took seven
pictures from the Alfred Cohens. The
family owns department stores in Am-
sterdam and The Hague.
One bearing the Hitler collection
number 2172, expected to fetch about
$90,000, was recovered in 1946 from a
salt mine near Salzburg, Austria,
where Hitler had hidden it as he real-
ized his downfall was near. It was re-
turned to the Cohens.
The picture is Jan Steen's A Village
Wedding.
Its survival in New York had been un-
suspected until the Cohen family asked
Sotheby to examine some old pictures
which they thought might be valuable.
They were.
Also being sold is a collection, also
unknown until now, which was brought
to the United States during World War
II by Alfred Zweig, brother of Austrian
writer Stefan Zweig.
The gallery said discovery of the
collections show there may be other
forgotten collections and important
groups of.Old Masters brought to Amer-
ica by refugees during World War II.
The sale is expected to realize at least
$1.4 million.
Gallery president John Marion said
dealers are flying in from all over the
world.
"Because of the decline in the
dollar," he said, "holders of such hard
currency as German marks, Swiss
francs and Japanese yen can buy much
cheaper here than anywhere else."
New kind ofshow
for Grace?
PRINCETON, N.J. - Princess Grace
of Monaco will deliver a poetry reading
at Princeton University, McCarter
Theater in two months. Tickets for the
benefit affair will sell for$100 apiece.
At the March 6 performance, the
former movie star Grace Kelley, along
with the Royal Shakespeare Festival's
Richard Pasco, will give a series of
readings, titled Birds, Beasts and Flow-
ers, the theater said Friday.
The program has been scheduled to
raise funds for McCarter Theater,
D wyrne wiii ost a reception in Law-
renceville for the princess.
A mere thirty days
is no kind of record
NEW YORK - The New York Ballet
resumed its repertory season at the
State Theater at Lincoln Center Jan. 7
" Grease - Can it be'? Six years on
the Great White Way come April.
" Beach Blanket Babylon - The
pride of San Francisco.
A solid month isn't so long, is it now?
Best warblers
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - The
American Music Awards show held in
" Ela Ftzgerald - Distinguishod
Merit Award.
Best scribblers
NEW YORK - Toni Morrison's Song
of Solomon is the best work of fiction
published by an American writer in
1977, according to the National Book
Critics Circle.
The critics described Song of SOlo-
mon as "the black experience in Amer-
ica, from crawling to walking to run-
ning to flying --into poetry and myth -
jazzy and wondrous."
The Morrison book won over fdur
other fiction nominees -- John Cheev-
er's Falconer; Joan Didfton's A Book-of
Common Prayer; Philip Roth's The
Professor of Desire, and John Sayles
Union Dues.
The circle gave its poetry award to
Day by Day, the final work of the late
Hobert Lowell; the general nonfiction
award to Walter Jackson Bate's io-
graphy, Samuel .Johnson and the award
for a book of criticism to Susan Sontag's
On Photography.
Obituaries
" Arthur Sheekman - Comedy writer
Arthur Sheekman, 77, a longtime friend
of the late Groucho Marx and a found-
ing member of the Screen Writrs
Guild, died Thursday. Sheekman wrote
25 screenplays including three well-
known Marx Brothers comedies - Ani-
mal Crackers, Coconuts abd Monkey
Business.
" Dorris Warren - Dorris Paul Wfr-
ren, the blue grass fiddler who played
in the band, The Foggy Mountain Boys.
died Thursday at the age of 59. d-
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The Arts A rcade was coin-
posed through the wires of A P
and UPI, and by Arts staffers
Owen Gleiberman, Mark
Johanssen, Jeffrey Seibst, and
Ti/ Yagle.
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The return of the King
Benny Goodman, who with his "orchestra played thefirst janrolcert.
in Carnegie Hall in)%38, is shown in three views during the Eing $of ing s
return to Carnegie last Tuesday night for a 10th anniversary concert.
after a solid month of The Nutcracker.
The first night "back at work" saw
Chislaine Thesmer of the Paris Opera
Ballet as Odette in George Balanchine's
one-act Swan Lake. NYCB and the
Opera have a continuing artist ex-
change system, an excellent idea with
great possibilities.
But this has by no means been the
longest running production ever. It
would have to run longer than:
" The Mousetrap - Agatha Christie's
mystery play, still running in London
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Santa Monica, California gave top
honors to:
" Fleetwood Mac - Best Pop group
and Favorite Pop album, Rumours:
" Stevie Wonder - Top Make Soul
Singer and his Songs in the Key of Life
was Best Soul album;
" Loretta Lynn - Top Female Coun-
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Art for sail
This ordinary sail was recently transformed into a $10,000 work of art
by-Yugoslav artist Lazar Obican (standing on boat) for Vinton Sommerville,
vice president of Bayliner Marine Corp. and an exhibit af the New York Boat
Show.
month. He also called off a tour of
France in late January and early Feb-
ruary.
Restoration paintings?
DUESSELDORF, West Germany -
Priceless Rembrandt and Rubens pain-
tings that appeared irreparably dam-
aged by an acid-spraying vandal are
being painstakingly restored inch-by-
Apparently somebody
listens to him
Farrah Fawcett-Majors has picked
up a new set of laurels - sort of. Holly-
wood fashion designer Mr. Blackwell
Tuesday put her name at the top of his
list of the - world's worst-dressed
women, saying she has "enough splits
in her dress for an earthquake." Re-
portedly, Fawcett-Majors was seen
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