The Michigan Daily-Thursday, October 27 1977-page 5 AR S ARCADE. . . a weekly roundup Protected performance BIRMINGHAM, Mich. - The off- stage happenings of Oh, Calcutta, a musical revolving around sex jokes and nude, actors, turned out to be more dramatic than the opening night per- formance on Tuesday which went with- out incident. ' Local fire officials had ordered the Birmingham theatre closed before the musical's six-day run began last Tues- day after the theatre was cited for 11 violations of fire codes. Theatre owners claimed city officials were trying to force Oh, Calcutta off the stage because of the nude performers. However, U.S. District Judge Law- rence Gubow said the theatre owners were not given sufficient time to install Mrs. Canale regularly makes trips to New York for jazz, ethnic and Oriental dance classes. Although she's already made a name for herself here as a belly dancer, she said, "It takes years to learn how to vibrate and flutter without looking like you've giving birth." She'll get some of the recognition she cravds when the new Guinness Book of World Records goes on sale next year. She'll be listed in it twice for setting marathon belly dancing records of 66 hours and 44 minutes and 14hours, ac- cording to letters she produced from the Guinness people. "If I was'nt serious about this I wouldn't have humiliated myself doing, that by wearing Pampers," she says. -AP Photo Marilyn Faith Hickey, Patricia Alexander and Ragina Rodwell, (1 to r) members of the cast of Oh, Calcutta relax before their first performance Tuesday night. "We have no comment on the lawsuit at this time," the ABC spokesman said. " A rt for art 's sake NEW YORK - A Swiss art dealer paid $440,000 Wednesday for Henri Matisse's The Lute, the highest price ever paid for a painting by the French artist. Four other price records were set as Mr. and Mrs. Sidney F. Brody of Los Angeles sold a part of their collection at Sotheby Parke Bernet. The Matisse drew the highest price of the sale. The previous high for a painting by the master was $350,000 for Woman at a Window sold in July 1973. But the Brodys refused to accept $650,000 for Modigliani's Jeanne Me- buterne, which was the low esti- mate in the catalog and almost $300,000 more than anyone has ever paid for a painting by the artist. The previous record for a Modig- liani was $370,000, paid for A Boy in Short Pants, sold in December 1975. Brody is the former chairman of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where a large part of his huge collection is on display. " Totie recovering LOS ANGELES - Comedienne Totie Fields, whose left leg was amputated last year, underwent surgery Tuesday for removal of her right breast after doctors discovered a small malignant tumor, her agent said. Doctors said the 46-year-old com- edy star was doing well and was expected to be released from Los Angeles New Hospital in about five days. Her hospitalization was at first kept a secret because Miss Fields did not want the publicity and "was quite upset," said Susan Wait, public relations director at the hospital. Dirty old man DEWEY, Okla. - Walter Bell, 87, a small, wrinkled man of determina- tion, refuses to stop showing X-rated movies that gave the town its reputa- tion - that of "Dewey's Dirties." Bell contends he cannot make a living showing any other kind of movies because of Dewey's proxim- ity to Bartlesville, Okla., four miles south on U.S. 75. He said he is not allowed to show first-run productions by major movie studios until 30 to 45 days 'after the movies close at Bartlesville and Dewey residents go to Bartlesville to see movies. Bell, who had an apartment in the same building as his Capri Theatre, said he wanted to show European film art, but they just don't make too many of those any more. So he started showing the films he calls Reverend Kent Kellogg, pastor of the First Baptist Church and co- chairman of the Clean Dewey Com- mittee represents the con side of the issue. Kellogg said he does not consider the films shown at the town's only theatre to be art at all. He considers them obscene - especially the current fare, an X-rated version of Through the Looking Glass. "We had a high school art teacher view the film and he found no art in it," he said, "I consider the movie to be very vile, obscene and offensive,, the teacher said. Bell was arrested on an obscenity First Breeze of Summer Opens Marietta Baylis, Sheila Tanner Cain, and Ron "0J" Parson perform a scene from Leslie Lee's drama in the Trueblood Theatre. sprinkler systems and said the Broad- way production could go ahead as scheduled as long as fire officials were in attendance. Fire chief C. G. Nunnelly selected three-man volunteer teams for the show's run who would "pay attention to what they're supposed to." Rare viewing NEW YORK - Classical music in- strumentalists are as rare on-television as a Brahms concerto, but viewers will get a chance to watch Andre Watts per- form on two separate occasions next week. The 31-year-old pianist will be seen playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra Oct. 25 in honor of United Nations Day, and Oct. 29 he will join Eric Leinsdorf and the New York Philharmonic in a "Live from Lincoln Center" broadcast in which he will play Br'ahms Piano Concerto No. 2. Both will be on PBS. " Belly-a=go-go PHILADELPHIA - Stephen Canale, 11, takes guitar lessons and his 9-year- old sister, Regina, studies the violin. When their teacher mentions the "G string," they giggle - their mommy wears one. Mommy is Vikki Canale, 33, who go- go dances as "Nitro, the Snake Dan- cer," complete with pasties, 6-foot-long { boa constricter and G-string, to help pay for an obsession - belly dancing. Mrs. Canale, who calls herself a typi- cal housewife and mother of three, also calls herself Sabra Starr when she's un- dulating in spangled belly dancer's garb. "Everybody says 'Sabra, you don't have to do this. You should be satisfied.' Ask any of the girls who work go-go places. They all know who Nitro is. But I'd like to be known as the top belly dancer in the country," she said. And go-going, which sometimes brings in $75 a night, is helping her reach that goal. Wallenda wallops SARASOTA, Fla. - High-wire aerialist Karl Wallenda, 72, has been hospitalized after falling 20 feet while rehearsing a stunt for a television movie about his daredevil life. "It was my fault," said Wallenda after the accident Thursday night. "I'll be more careful next time." Wallenda, a great-grandfather, is head of the Flying Wallendas circus family which has been stricken .by high-wire tragedy in past years. He was practicing what he once de- scribed as his most dangerous trick when he fell. Two members were on bicycles wupporting the ends of a bar while Wallenda sat perched on a chair on the bar between the cyclists. "My pole slipped forward," said Wallenda. "I was taking it a little easy." A dog, a bird and a Fawcett HOUSTON - The parents of actress Farrah Fawcett-Majors have filed a $7 million damage suit against the American Broadcasting Co. and Houston affiliate television station KTRK. James and Pauline Fawcett of Houston claim they were libeled in a skit on comedian Redd Foxx's show aired Sept. 22. They allege the program depicted them in a way that caused them damage, ridicule, em- barrassment and humiliation. Ken Johnson, general manager and vice president of the television station, said he had not seen the suit and could not comment on the allegations. An ABC spokesman in New York said the skit in question was a "funny comedy," which fictitiously depicted an interview with the actress' par- ents. The spokesman said Foxx played Fawcett, and wore a wig combed in his daughter's hair style. A dog and a bird wore similar wigs. charge last April for showing the film. A trial earlier this month in Bartlesville ended in acquittal. But the verdict has not stopped his opponents. Bell, who has been showing the films since 1964 said he doesn't consider them obscene. "Obscenity is what you or I make it," he said. "There is obscenity, but it is not a man and a woman making love. That is natural. It's something we all do. I'm getting a little old for it my- self, but I would give it a try. s $9, 000 fake BRENTWOOD, N.H. - The wife of a respected New England antiques To tie Fields dealer says a report that her husband unknowingly sold a fake 17th century chair to the Henry Ford Museum could ruin his reputation. Dealer Roger Bacon has avoided comment on reports of the alleged fake Great Brewster Chair, but his wife told a Dover, N.H., News- paper, Foster's Democrat, "This whole episode puts my husband in a rather uncomfortable position. All his life, he does everything honorable and is the most respected of dealers and then this hits the fan." Armand LaMontagne of North Scituate, R.I., claimed recently he made the chair during the winter of 1969-70 because of his feelings toward museums and some antiques dealers. "Those people think they're infal- lible, you know," he said. Mrs. Bacon said the description of the chair given by LaMontagne is different from that of the chair her husband sold to the museum in Dearborn, Mich. She declined to say what the differences were. Mrs. Bacon said her husband heard rumors several years ago that the chair, which he sold the museum for $9,000, was fake. She said he called the museum and offered to re-examine it. "But the museum people told us they already had re-examined it and were satisfied it was real," she said. The museum announced last week that it now considers 'the chair a reproduction. If the chair is real, it would be one of only a few of Great Brewster Chairs in existence. They were built during the Pilgrim era of the mid- and late-1600s for church elders, and few were made because most people sat on stools. Two known surviving chairs are in the Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art in New York. Recent Deaths The rock music world may have lost one of its hardest-driving, hard- est - working and hardest living groups with the deaths of three members of the band Lynyrd Skyn- yrd. Singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and his sister, backup singer Cassie, all 28, died in a Thurs- day night airplane crash in McComb, Miss., while traveling between con- cert dates to promote the band's new album, Street Survivors. The 'other six members of the band were injured in the crash. Van Zant, the group's outspoken leader, epitomized the band's image of rebellious, hard-drinking, hell- raising Southerners. He seemed equally at ease picking a fight and picking up a microphone to belt out bluesy rock numbers like T For Texas and Gimme Three Steps in his raspy voice. Van Zant was proud of the South, using a huge Confederate flag as a stage backdrop. He wrote the band's one' AM radio hit, Sweet Home Alabama as a rebuke to Neil Young, whom Van Zant felt unfairly put down his people in such songs as Southern Man and Alabama. NEW YORK - Chiang Yee, auth- or, poet, painter and professor emeri- tus of Chinese at Columbia Univer- sity, died Monday during a visit to China, a Columbia spokP'sman re- ported Friday. He was 74. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Howard Guyton; lead singer for an American group touring Argentina as the Platters, died Thursday at the age of 39. 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