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imc UNUNNATI ENQUIRER Monday, Stf t. mrr 1 Cheap Trick Breaks Promise 11 -i Fried Next At Wise Temple BY NANCY MALITZ This music had ali Ue charm of a dor.en ash alley. Robin Zander's mush. What lew stood weren't worth H'ot Nielsen's guitar solas affairs, lie would play his signature gesture, a ihri: lute, play a lick, shod up play a lick, then up would and well, you nvl the pit amusing once or twice. On it was getting old.

the ready to draw Social Kt-uni IAN HUNTKlt. the cono-rt act, was also in a mood. His new I. P. "Ytni'it' With A aU roads which were eio.vl to t-the Coliseum.

BY CLIFF RADEL Enquirer Pop Music Critic Cheap Trick used to be billed as a band with no past. That was a lie. Someone at the band's record company made it up and ran it up a flag pole. A few loonies saluted it and a promotional campaign was born. Such is the way with hype.

That bit of Madison Avenue buffoonery nearly backfired on Cheap Trick. For a time, it looked as if it would be a band with no future. The quartet suffered from the three big noes: no tours, no airplay and no record sales. Then came Cheap Trick At Budokan. The noes had had it.

Two million copies of the album and one million of its single, "I Want You To Want Me," later, Cheap Trick's future appears quite promising. The promise came forth in the band's new LP, Dream Police. This is an ambitious work. It departs from the slam-bang, can't-wait, on-to-the-next-song mentality of its predecessors, especially the live Budokan set. DREAM POLICE shows a distinct maturation in the songwriting talents of Rick Nielsen, the band's leader, lead guitarist, chief composer and on-stage zombie.

Nielsen has taken his gift for fashioning catchy melodies and coupled it with an unusual story idea on the title track. For "The House Is Rockin' (With Domestic Problems)" (co-written with Cheap Trick's bassist, Tom Petersson) and "Voices" he renews his infatuation with the vocal harmonies and meters of the Beatles and Rolling Stones. With such inviting material, Dream Police made Cheap Trick's Riverfront Coliseum concert Sunday evening an event filled with great portent. Alas, it was not to be. The promise was broken.

Cheap Trick was up to its old tricks for the 45 minutes this writer heard before leaving to rendezvous with a final-edition deadline. The rich arrangements and care taken on Dream Police were missing. What the estimated 9000 ticket-holders experienced can be heard by blasting Cheap Trick At Budokan through a set of badly battered speakers. studied with Arnold Schoenberg, Abby De Avirett and Edward Steuermann. He made his New York City debut in 1950 and his European debut in 1957 at the Darmstadt International Festival of New Music.

He recently performed all ten Beethoven violinpiano sonatas with Andor Toth in New York City's Alice Tully Hall. His program: Schumann's Op. 4 Intermezzi; Schuberts Posthumous A Major Sonata; Schoen-berg's Op. 11 Pieces; Faure's Sixth Nocturne; Ravel's "Valses Nobles et Sentimentales" and Debussy's Etudes. For information, call 529-6632.

Enquirer Music Critic Cincinnati's Isaac M. Wise Memorial Temple, with a little encouragement from music committee chairman Florence Kaufman, has introduced several first class artists in recital to the community. In 1974 they brought baritone Sherrill Milnes. In 1978 they brought violinist Pinchas Zuker-man and his wife Eugenia (a flutist) to appear in a joint recital at Emery Auditorium. This season their prize is violinist Miriam Fried, who will perform at 8 p.m.

Sunday, October 28, in Cincinnati's downtown Plum Street Temple. Fried performed with the Cincinnati Symphony during the 1972-73 season, and she will return to solo with the CSO next season, although that has not been officially announced. The prizes that won her international recog-nition include the Paganini International Competition and the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels. She will also give a solo recital at Carnegie Hall this season. Her Plum Street Temple program: A sonata by the 17th century composer Heinrich Biber; Stravinsky's Duo Concertante; Bach's First Sonata; Brahms' Second Sonata; three Paganini Caprices; and Smetana's "Aus der Heimat." Luis Batlle will play the piano.

For ticket information, call 793-2556. THE WHO is curcSim 'o The date is December Ti-event go on sale at. all Tick September 28. rr WHEN MICHAEL Gielen conducts the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra March 14-15, he will begin with the "Eroica" Symphony of Beethoven, followed by the complete music from Bartok's ballet "The Miraculous Mandarin." The choice of the Bartok work is recent; it is not mentioned in the CSO brochure. The original program for the November 2-3 subscription concerts is also on the way out.

Ka-zimierz Kord, the CSO's new principal guest conductor, has decided to conduct something other than Sibelius' Fifth Symphony. Barbecued i 4 i Mf AS! tX shop-1! MONTGOMERY RD. OPINS AI 7:15 STARTS AT 1:00 II nUMII, HutgA HL Baby Back Ribs Tonight 4 p.m. to Closing "ALIEN" (8) "DAMIEN" (R) BARGAIN MATINEE DAILY FIRST SHOW RT 4 IN FAIRFIELD Held Over 2nd Smoth Week The Motterpieco of Tarror "THE EXORCIST" (R) 7:50 C. Scott "HARDCORE" (R) 10:05 Coming 928 "ALIEN" WiNt)OWQARt)eN leSTAUKANT East Corner of F.dwards& Madison Kd Hvdp Park PIANIST WILLIAM Doppman has been appointed visiting professor of piano at the College-Conservatory of Music, beginning immediately.

A Cincinnati native, Doppman is the only musician ever to have won both the Naumburg and Michaels Awards in a single season. He has taught piano at the University of Iowa and the University of Texas. He left teaching in 1973 to devote more time to his concert schedule. He has commissioned new works for piano from distinguished composers such as Stravinsky, Barber and Crumb. uu ESQ DO Wesl 3077 Harrison Ave Westwood C3' mm CCM'S FREE Sunday afternoon recital series at the Cincinnati Historical Society will begin its second season at 3 p.m.

October 21 with a performance by violinist Mary Flndley, who obtained her doctorate at CCM as a student of Sigmund Effron. The Early Music Consort, now in its seventh season, will perform in costume on reproductions of Renaissance instruments, October 28. Members of the Consort are Ben Bechtel, Lewis Peterman, Paula Peterman, James Carrier and William Reynolds. Mezzo-soprano Dianne Iauco will perform November 11. Iauco was a national finalist in the 1979 Metropolitan Opera Auditions and a performer in CCM opera productions such as Monteverdi's "Coronation of Poppea" and Rossini's "Cinderella." There will also be recitals January 20 and 27, and February 3 and 10 artists to be announced.

For information, call 241-4622. IT fastest fun 1T. "TV 6211 HARRISON AVE. Tfcu movw wiN toU pbc 01 clonic. "AHEM" (R) 8:00 PM only "DAMIEN, OMEN Part 2" (R) 10:20 PMonlf in the west! 1 7 ra the PIANIST EMIL Danenberg, president and professor of piano at Oberlin College, will perform in free recital at 3 p.m.

Sunday in Miami University's new Art Museum. Danenberg was born in Hong Kong. He Vill 1-75 AT KYLES LANE OPENS AT 7: 1 5 STARTS AT :00 "THE EXORCIST" (R) "DOG DAY AFTERNOON" (R) 'Sammy' Bombs On All Fronts Erlanger 1:45: 8:00: 10:10 ll Adults $2.00 Bill Murro, I Child, 1. 00 "MEATBALLS" 9:15 1 j. In Outer Space.

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International Critics' Award, Can net International Film Feitivol "SEVEN BEAUTIES" (R 5:10 by Lina Wertmuller "HAROLD MAUDE" IPG) 1 1:40 Adult, (3.00 Children 1 .00 green-blue in tone as an surgical operating tnea-ter. Davis and Mercer both look depressingly haggard, worn and ancient throughout. But, that's only to speak of rotten filmmaking. The low-rent production on the stage the subject of the bad film-is worse. The single set Is not a representation of carnival tacky it looks to be quite genuinely tacky; they're not the same.

The single set of costumes are worse; they were ugly to begin with and look dirty. A blue, swaggy number designed for Mercer ranks among the worst ever designed. And, it's an especially bright idea to put Davis in a black shirt and then photograph him with insufficient light against black backgrounds. THE CLOWNISH role of Littlechap, which Anthony Newley created for himself in the 1961 musical hit, "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off," should be a natural vehicle for dynamic Sammy's special kind of brio. Littlechamp takes the stage and never leaves; he sings and dances his way through failure after failure, with "What Kind of Fool Am as a liet motif for his quantum disasters.

"Sammy Stops the World," adapted by whomever, reverses the play's thrust. Now, Little-chap is the bumble-through winner. He's been no sort of fool whatever, so when the score's big number boils out as the big finish, it's meaningless. The play, I surmise, and the "movie," certainly, are best and that's none too often or too good when all that goes out the window and Davis does what he does best command an audience with his powerful singing. They took an indifferent musical, transformed it into a sluggishly silly nightclub act and then, with lousy technical work, made a movie that denies the audience even the minor effect that it might have had.

BY TOM McELFRESH Enquirer Film Critic Within 10 minutes after the first dull, hard-to-hear note of the overture I was thinking, "Stop the movie. I want to get out." "This theater event," says an opening screen credit, "was filmed before a live audience at the Terrace Theater, Long Beach, Calif." Wrong! "Sammy Stops the World" was only barely theater and anything but an event. The audience may have been alive, but was hardly lively. But then, little enough happened on the stage at that performance to elicit response. THE 103 minutes of film (now at the Sky-walk, Valley and Princeton Cinemas) resulting from this ill-advised project are as boring, depressing and Irritating an exercise in how not to make a movie as has ever been exhibited for money.

What a waste of Sammy Davis dyamite It's as though 50 years of progress in filmmaking technique had never occurred. You're yanked out of 1979 and right back to the stilted, artificial days of Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky's "famous players In famous plays." Only Zukor and Lasky paid more attention to production values than did the makers of this disaster. "Sammy's" sound isn't as good as that you might remember from the earliest Vitaphone short subjects; when you can hear, which is far from all the time, the voices come hollowly from a great distance. It's just good enough to emphasize all the bad notes hit by leading lady Marian Mercer. It's a musical, folks.

You're supposed to be able to hear the music. THE CINEMATOGRAPHY (directed by David Meyer) and editing vary from make-do down to dreadful. The color is horrendous. When the skintones register with something resembling life, there's too little light to see expression and too soft a focus on whatever kind of film stock they used. (Recycled, maybe?) When there's enough light to see expression, it's as cruelly Adult, 12.00 Ch.ldren 11.00 "ALIEN" 7 4 9:15 Coming 928 "THE LEGACY' 1)70 COMPTON ROAD One Crazy For Movie Bill "Saturday Night live" Murray "MEATBALLS (PG) 7:50 Worren eeoHy Julia Chrittie "HEAVEN CAN WAIT" (PG) 9:40 Coming 928 "THE LEGACY" II! HIT" 1 i 'i ill I.

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