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April. As we know from poets, who seem to write of nothing else, it is cruel, has sweet showers and uncertain glory, wears pinks, laughs girlish laughter, shakes rain-drenched hair, and prepares green traffic lights and blue surprises. So much for Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. On to D Magazine’s monthly activities.



Saturday, 1



Woody Allen helps overthrow a Latin American dictator (with play-by-play commentary by Howard Cosell) in Bananas, playing at eight in Gooch Auditorium, UT Health Science Center. Abbott and Costello bring vaudeville patter to the silver screen at the Forest Green branch library. 9015 Forest Lane. Free at three o’clock.



Broadway composer Cy Coleman (Sweet Charity, I Love My Wife) joins the Fort Worth Symphony for an evening of show tunes, starting at 8:15 in the Tar-rant County Convention Center Theater. Call (817) 921-2676 for tickets. Eduardo Mata conducts the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in a program by Franck, Ravel, and Debussy, 8:15 in the Fair Park Music Hall. DSO box office in NorthPark: 692-0203.



The Great American Pastime may be baseball, but The Original American Pastime is lacrosse. The way the Iroquois used to play the sport, sometimes called “the fastest game on two feet,” a match between tribes might last for three days. But when the Dallas Lacrosse Club meets SMU this afternoon, they promise to keep it to a matter of hours. The match begins at 1 p.m. at the Village athletic fields on Southwestern. And admission is free – old Iroquois custom.

The Dallas Black Hawks approach the end of regular season play tonight when they take on the Tulsa Oilers, as the Central Hockey League begins gearing for the Adams Cup playoffs. Game time is 7:45 in Fair Park Coliseum, 823-6362.



The Dallas Tornado Soccer Club kicks off its home season tonight at Ownby Stadium against the Chicago Sting. Game time is 8 p.m. and will likely be accompanied by the Tornado’s usual brand of pomp and pageantry. Tickets from $3 to $8; call 750-0140.



Sunday, 2



Who’s the top jock in town? Find out at 2 when the athletes take the field at SMU’s Ownby Stadium for the Second Annual Dallas Decathlon. Competitors for a trip to Hawaii and a $1000 purse include Aerobics Center Director Ken Cooper, Roger Staubach, Tornado fullback Steve Pecher, tennis ace Ann Smith, and national racquetball champ Susie Dugan. The S3 admission charge ($1 for children) goes to the Dallas Symphony. Tickets at Burger King and Cullum & Boren; $15 gets you into the awards banquet this evening-call 233-4994 for reservations.



Free chamber music tonight at eight at Temple Emanu-el, 8500 Hillcrest. Members of the DSO and pianist Simon Sar-gon will perform Schubert’s “Trout Quintet” and Beethoven’s Trio #4. The Mu Phi Epsilon concert this afternoon features mezzo-soprano Susan Stiles and pianist William Cooper; 2 p.m. in the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts Auditorium.



Spend a quiet evening at the Windmill Dinner Theater – the Los Angeles Mime Company closes a two-week engagement tonight. Reservations: 363-4455.



Catch these gallery previews today: Rual Askew’s 2719 Gallery features circle-based paintings by Robert Game, South Texas scenes by Mary Lou Lewis, and metal sculptures by David Moore, 2719 Routh St. At D.W. Co-op, geometric figures in matte medium by Cyd Romeo are on display through the 27th. 3305 Mc-Kinney at Hall.



Monday, 3



The American Farm is a photographic history of agriculture in America, from the family farm to agribusiness. The California Historical Society collection of 173 photographs is on display at the Hall of State in Fair Park through April 30.



Adelle M. Fine Art, 3317 McKinney, shows brightly colored abstract landscapes by Lee Simpson and wood constructions by Benita Giller through the 22nd. Sculptures and drawings by David Bates are on display at the Eastfield College gallery through the 13th. At Phillips Galleries, see oils by Renee Theobald all month. An exhibition of watercolors by fifty artists can be seen at the Arlington Community Center March 27-April 12. At the Dallas Public Library, 1954 Commerce, there’s an exhibit of landscape photographs Monday through Friday in the Terrace Room.



Tuesday, 4



In Bedazzled, Mephistopheles (Peter Cook) helps a short order cook Faust (Dudley Moore) win his waitress Helen, with some assistance from the seven Mime’s the Word: The Los Angeles Mime Company appears at the Windmill Dinner Theater through April 2.



deadly sins (featuring Raquel Welch as Lust). Sharing the bill is Jules Feiffer’s Little Murders. 7:30 at the Edison. Nilsson’s The Fall, about a girl coming of age in Argentina, plays at 7:30 and 9:30 in Founders North Auditorium, UT Dallas.



A choice of theater openings: Bill Daily (Bob Newhart’s inept neighbor on TV) stars in the bedroom comedy Under the Yum-Yum Tree through the 29th at the Windmill Dinner Theater. Call 363-4455. 110 in the Shade, a musical version of The Rainmaker (remember Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn in the 1956 movie?) runs through the 9th at TCU. Call (817) 926-2461. ext. 245.



In their last home game of the regular season, the Dallas Black Hawks host the arch-rival Fort Worth Texans tonight at 7:45 at Fair Park Coliseum. And if you’d like one last taste of this season-long turnpike warfare, join the usual contingent of Dallas fans and make the 30-minute drive to Fort Worth tomorrow night, April 5, for the final clash: Will Rogers Coliseum at 7:30 p.m.



Wednesday, 5



The University Theater takes you to Graver’s Corners, New Hampshire – Our Town. Thornton Wilder’s drama plays in the University of Dallas’ Margaret Jonsson Theater at 8 p.m. April 5-8 and 12-15. For reservations call 438-1123, ext. 314.



Thursday, 6



Still heavy after all these years, Fats Domino is back in town. Find your thrill at Granny’s Dinner Playhouse Tuesday through Sunday. Call 239-0153.

Christian Norberg-Schulz, head of the Oslo School of Architecture, speaks on “The Spirit of Place” at 8 in the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts Auditorium.



Friday, 7



It’s baffling movie night – Fellini’s 8? plays in SMU’s McCord Auditorium through Sunday, 7 and 9:30. At UT Dallas, David Bowie and Rip Torn star in Nicolas Roeg’s bizarre The Man Who Fell to Earth. 7:30 and 9:30 in Founders North Auditorium.



Shirley Verrett, who has sung with the Metropolitan, San Francisco, and Paris Operas, La Scala, and the Vienna Staat-soper, appears with the Dallas Symphony for a program of Varese, Mozart, and Wagner. Tonight and tomorrow at 8:15 in the Music Hall at Fair Park. Box office: 692-0203. The Fort Worth Opera presents Die Fledermaus tonight at 8 and Sunday at 2:30 in the Convention Center. Call (817) 731-0833.



What’s the difference between Napa and Sonoma wines? Should you buy a ’72 or a ’74 Mondavi cabernet? How long should Gallo Hearty Burgundy stay in the decanter? Learn the answers to these and many more questions at the Second Annual Wine Tasting and Seminar on California Wine, sponsored by the Dallas Alumnae Chapter of Delta Zeta Sorority. Bob Morrissey, publisher of Wine Spectator, conducts the seminar. Two seatings: 6-8 and 9-11 p.m., at the De-Golyer estate overlooking White Rock : Lake. Call 690-3920 or 234-3320 by April 1 to reserve a seat for $10; tickets are $12.50 at the door. Proceeds will go to the Autistic Treatment Center of Richardson.



The Bill Evans Dance Company, in residence at Texas Women’s University, appears in the main auditorium at 8:15 tonight.



The Central Hockey League Playoffs are scheduled to begin tonight and both the Dallas Black Hawks and the Fort Worth Texans are likely to be in the thick of it. However, match-ups and game locations are unavailable at press time, so check the Hawks office (823-6362) or the Texans office (429-1790) for schedule and ticket information.



Saturday, 8



Three steps to a pleasant Saturday morning: (1) Drag the kids away from the TV. (2) Drop them at the Dallas Theater Center. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer plays at 10:30 Saturdays through May 20. Admission is $2; call 526-8920. (3) Go to brunch.



At long last, baseball season is here. And 1978 promises to open with one of the biggest bangs in the Texas Rangers’ history. The season opens at 3:05 this afternoon in Arlington Stadium with the first of a three-game series against the World Champion New York Yankees. And, to add a little more luster, the game is slated to be NBC-TV’s Saturday Game of the Week (though it will be blacked-out here). Tickets from $1.50 to $6 at 265-3331, but if you don’t have any yet, you may be out of luck.



Sunday, 9



It’s quips and cranks and wanton wiles, nods and becks and wreathed smiles in the Dallas Convention Center Theatre today. The final competition in the Sor-optimist Club baby beauty pageant begins at 7 p.m. Admission is 25¢.



At 8 hear a harpsichord recital by Rebecca Peel, with cellist Pierce Meisen-bach. St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, 8011 Douglas.



Game two of the Rangers vs. Yankees series begins this afternoon at 2:05 in Arlington Stadium.



Monday, 10



A calendar, a calendar! look in the almanack; find out moonshine.

The moon’s just a sliver tonight, but Richland College presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream through the 15th. Curtain at 8. Call 746-4550 in advance for free tickets.



This is Human Potential Week at Rich-land College. Psychologist Rollo May, author of Love and Will and The Courage to Create, speaks at 7:30 in the Performance Hall.



Find out why Marlon Brando is America’s highest paid actor. The Edison is showing A Streetcar Named Desire (with Vivien Leigh) and Last Tango in Paris (with Maria Schneider, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, score by Gato Bar-bieri) Sunday and Monday at 7.



ABC’s Monday Night Baseball, complete with Cosell and crew, will open its season right here, or rather right out there, in Arlington. There will be a substitute game on the local tube, but if you’ve got a ticket it will be the Rangers and the Yanks at Arlington Stadium at 7:35 p.m.



Tuesday, 11



More British comedy at the New Arts Theater Company. Following Design for Living, Arthur Wing Pinero’s Dandy Dick opens tonight at 8. Call 350-6979 for reservations. At Granny’s Dinner Playhouse, Lana Turner stars in Bell, Book, and Candle through the 30th. Call 239-0153.



A bazaar incident this morning at the Great Hall of the Church of the Incarnation, 3966 McKinney Avenue. One hundred artists and craftsmen will sell their work, and there will be a plant sale and gourmet luncheon, all to benefit the Young Lawyers’ Wives Charity Fund. Admission free, 9:30 to 2:30.



Uruguayan guitarist and composer Abel Carlevaro, Segovia’s oldest living student, plays at 8:15 in Caruth Auditorium, SMU. Call David Woolf at 522-1039 for information about Carlevaro’s master classes.



The Texas Rangers open a two-game series against the Detroit Tigers tonight at Arlington Stadium at 7:35. Tickets $1.50-$6. 265-3331.



Wednesday, 12



The University of Dallas is hosting a lecture series in anticipation of the Free Shakespeare Festival productions of The Tempest and The Comedy of Errors. The series starts tonight at 7:30 in Gorman Lecture Center A and will continue for the next three Wednesdays. 438-1123.



If you believe in Tinker Bell, clap your hands at the Walt Disney production of James Barrie’s Peter Pan, UT/D Founders North. 6 and 7:30. 690-2945.



Texas Rangers vs. Detroit, Arlington Stadium. 7:35 p.m.



Thursday, 13

Wild oats: Rio Pork, a violent farce set in West Texas in the 1890’s, plays at Manhattan Clearing House through the end of April. Author Frederick Bailey directs. Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:30, Sundays at 2:15. 3420 Main, 65I-II53.



Friday, 14



Grammy winner Jack Jones (“Lollipops and Roses,’” “Wives and Lovers”) was a big hit at Summertop I976. He’s back tonight for the DSO Eight O’clock Pops Concert at Fair Park. Call 692-0203 for reservations.



A collection of Republic of Texas currency, bonds, and notes will be sold today and tomorrow along with a half-million dollars’ worth of gold and silver coins. Investors and collectors from all over the country will be at the auction in the Fairmont Hotel.



Harry Langdon, one of the great silent film comics, stars in Frank Capra’s Strong Man. 7:30 and 9:30 in Founders North Auditorium. UT Dallas.



Saturday, 15

The Audelia Road Branch Library has something for everyone today. First a puppet show and then (for the practical) a demonstration of how to grow plants from food scraps: pineapple tops, avocado pits, sweet potatoes, carrot tops, etc.



The SMU Meadows School of the Arts presents the Jubal Trio in a chamber music recital at 8:15 in Caruth Auditorium. $2.50 for the public, SI for students.



The Dallas Tornado hosts the Minnesota Kicks in soccer action tonight at Own-by Stadium. Kickoff is 8 p.m.; tickets $3-$8, 750-0140.



Sunday, 16

Baritone Bruce Foote and mezzo-soprano Barbara Moore sing at 8:15 in Caruth Auditorium, SMU. $2.50. $1 for students. Hear the top music students in Dallas in a recital at 2:15; at 3:00, pianist Carol Mitchell. Mu Phi Epsilon Concert Series, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts Auditorium.

’’ Warming Vor Einer Heiligen Nutte . . . is as fascinating and dissonant as might be expected by anyone who admires this young German film maker as I do.” – Vincent Canby, The New York Times. “An entertainingly nasty work.” – SoHo Weekly News. Catch up with the New York film crowd by attending the Southwest premiere of Rainer Werner Fass-binder’s Beware of the Holy Whore, a movie about moviemaking in the tradition of 8V2 and Day for Night. Friday through Sunday at 7 and 9 in McCord Auditorium, SMU.



Monday, 17



The Texas Fine Arts Association holds its fifth annual Open Exhibition in the Olla Podrida mall April 10-22. At East-field College, Brian Cobble’s paintings are on display through the 27th.



Tuesday, 18



The Collage Hamlet, premiering tonight at the Margo Jones Theater, is a black comedy that Charles Marowitz wrote by rearranging lines from the original. This story of a leader who does not lead begins at 8:15.


William Faulkner’s nephew, Jim Faulkner, presents a lecture on Faulkner family history with slides and excerpts from his uncle’s novels. 12:15 and 6:30 in room B142, Richland College. Free.



Wednesday, 19



The Passion of Anna is Bergman’s psychological drama about four people on an island and the self-deception they all come to realize. UT/D Founders North. 7:30 and 9:30. 690-2945.

Richard Helms, former director of the CIA and former ambassador to Iran, will speak at Temple Shalom tonight on “What Americans Want From Their Intelligence Service.” This is the final lecture in the Arts Forum series and you must be a series ticket holder to attend. 661-1810.



Timothy O’Sullivan quit his job as assistant to photographer Matthew Brady over a copyright dispute. In 1867 he joined the U.S. Geological Survey as an expedition photographer. His pictures of the American West are on display at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth through May 7.



Shawn Phillips, Fort Worth singer-songwriter, brings his own special style of folksinging to the Richland College Performance Hall at 8 tonight. 746-4430.



Thursday, 20



The best medicine: The lights go down and the laughs go up in Black Comedy, opening tonight at 8 at Theatre Onstage. Peter Shaffer’s play, which leaves all the characters in the dark, runs through May 13. 651-9766. A comedy in Spanish opens at the University of Dallas tonight: The Foreign Language Department produces La Sirena Varada by Alejandro Casona in the Haggar University Center. Free at 8 p.m.



Friday, 21



Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott give their best performances ever in Sam Peckinpah’s Ride the High Country. This story of two old lawmen escorting a shipment of gold to a bank was the last western that either Scott or McCrea made. UT/D Founders North. 7:30 and 9:30. 690-2945.

There’s action every Friday night at Ross Downs in Colleyville. Short track motorcycle races begin at 8 (practice laps at 7). The riders range from seven year olds on minibikes to professional racers in the 750-cc. open class.



Saturday, 22



The Molly Maguires, a film about a secret society of coal miners who terrorized Pennsylvania coal mining towns in their fight for better working conditions and pay. stars Richard Harris as a Pink-erton man who infiltrates the group. UT Health Science Center Gooch Auditorium at 8. 688-2168.



Attention mods and rockers: Richard Lester’s Hard Day’s Night and Help, made at the height of the Beatles’ popularity, showcase the fab four’s many talents. John, Paul. George and Ringo get chased by girls and sing a lot in these classic comedies. Today and tomorrow at 7 in SMU’s McFarlin Auditorium, 692-3090. Sit in the balcony and hold someone’s hand.



Edmund Baker, city planner of Philadelphia, will be the principal speaker in a seminar on “Planning the City ” at the University of Dallas Haggar University Center. 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. 438-1123.



It’s Dallas vs. Houston this afternoon as the two cities match enmities over a little game of lacrosse. The Dallas Lacrosse Club hosts the Houston Lacrosse Club in a 1 p.m. match at the Village athletic fields on Southwestern. Free.



Sunday, 23



Bill Ferris is a filmmaker at the Center for Southern Folklore in Memphis; his works include Ray Lum: Mule Trader and I Ain’t Lyint;: Folktales from Mississippi. Ferris will show and discuss some of his movies at 2:30 at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth. Call (817) 738-1933 for tickets.



The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and a large choir will perform Verdi’s Requiem today and Tuesday. Call (817) 921-2676.



At SMU. the Choral Union gives a free concert at 8:15 in Caruth Auditorium.



The Dallas Lacrosse Club takes on the University of Houston this afternoon at I at the Village athletic fields on Southwestern.

Monday, 24



Grab your deerstalker cap, polish up the ol magnifying glass and head out to the Edison for a night of sleuthing with Sherlock Holmes. Sigmund Freud cures Holmes of cocaine addiction in the Seven-Percent Solution; Holmes is defeated in one of his most important cases in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. 823-9610.



The reigning American League Western Division champions and old Ranger nemesis, the Kansas City Royals, roll into town tonight for the first of two games. At Arlington Stadium, 7:35, 265-3331.



Tuesday, 25



Did he witness a murder or not? He took a picture of it, or did he? David Hemmings plays the befuddled young photographer trying to get at the truth in Antonioni’s psychological thriller Blow-Up. UT/D Founders North. 7:30 and 9:30. 690-2945.



Earlier in the day go to the Central Library and check out the Marrakesh Dancers who perform all types of mid-Eastern dances including (ta-dah) the sword dance. 12:15, free.



Gustav Leonhardt gives a harpsichord recital tonight in Caruth Auditorium in the final concert in the American Guild of Organists’ concert series. $6.50; 824-8185, ext. 25.



Rangers vs. Kansas City, Arlington Stadium, 7:35.



Wednesday, 26



Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky is a rousing Russian propaganda film made just before the outbreak of World War II, based on the 13th-century defeat of German invaders by Russian peasants. Prokofiev’s score alone is worth the price of a ticket. UT/D Founders North at 7:30 and 9:30. 690-2945.



Remodel the front yard: Take a course on landscape basics given by the Dallas Civic Garden Center. The class meets today. May 2 and 9 for two hours each session. 428-7476.



The Texas Rangers host the Cleveland Indians tonight at 7:35 at Arlington Stadium. Tickets $1.50-$6, 265-3331.



Thursday, 27



Kurt Sanderling makes his U.S. debut with the Dallas Symphony tonight at 8:15. Sanderling, who was recently appointed music director of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, will conduct the DSO in selections from Bach and Bruckner, at the Music Hall.



The SMU Opera Theatre production of La Traviata opens tonight in the Bob Hope Theatre. This Michael Pollock production will be fully staged and features James Rives Jones as conductor. 8:15. S2.50 for students and $5 for the general public. Through the 30th.



Yee-hah! U.S. Tobacco is sponsoring the Rodeo Superstars Championship today through the 29th in Will Rogers Coliseum. In addition to the main events – bull riding, calf roping and barrel racing – the rodeo will feature country singers Ronnie Milsap, Johnny Rodriguez and Red Steagall. The rodeo will benefit the Fort Worth Children’s Hospital.



Rangers vs. Cleveland, Arlington Stadium, 7:35 p.m.



Friday, 28



Rasputin, a ballet in which historical figures dance their visions of Russia, premieres tonight” in the Tarrant County Convention Center Theatre. Rasputin features Erik Bruhn, premier danseur emeritus of the Royal Danish Ballet; the Fort Worth Ballet and St. Elmo’s Fire Band. 7:30. (817)731-0879.



Tonight and tomorrow, “Bore Wars: Media Encounters of the Worst Kind.” The Dallas Press Club Gridiron Show punctures local celebrity balloons. Preview show tonight at 8. Tomorrow’s big show starts with cocktails at 6. In the Great Hall of the Apparel Mart. Call the Press Club, 748-3329, to reserve tickets.

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion is a whodunit with a definite twist – the murderer is the police chief in charge of the investigation. 7:30 and 9:30 in UT/D Founders North. 690-2945.



The Boston Red Sox are in Arlington Stadium tonight in the first game of the big weekend series for the Rangers. Game time is 7:35; for tickets, call 265-3331 – and they’ll be scarce.



Saturday, 29



For something completely different try the Southern Oklahoma Border Adventure Tour sponsored by Richland College. This tour explores Oklahoma’s historical and recreational attractions, including stops at Lake Texoma State Park and Platt National Park. $16. 746-4494.



Charlie Chaplin and the Keystone Kops get the big yoks in Tillie’s Punctured Romance today at the Skyline branch library. Chaplin’s timeless comedy starts at 2:30; it’s free.



Clint Eastwood surprised many people with Play Misty For Me, his directorial debut. Eastwood stars as a disc jockey who gets tangled up with a psychotic woman who keeps calling in to request “Misty.” 8 tonight at the UT Health Science Center Gooch Auditorium. 688-2168.



Rangers vs. Boston, 7:35, Arlington Stadium.



If you can’t get a ticket for the Red Sox (or don’t want one), try Ownby Stadium – the Dallas Tornado Soccer Club hosts the Washington Diplomats tonight at 8. Tickets $3-$8, 750-0140.



Sunday, 30



Chet Atkins is pickin’ quick as ever at the Windmill Dinner Theatre. Today only: call 363-4455. The SMU Choir and Women’s Chorus sing at 8:15 in Caruth Auditorium. Free.



Perry Miller Adato, a producer for WNET-TV in New York, will show her film on Georgia O’Keeffe at the Amon Carter Museum. Call (817) 738-1933 for information on show times and tickets.



The Rangers and the Red Sox wind up their three-game series this afternoon at 3:05 in Arlington Stadium. This is the Rangers” last afternoon game until September, so if you’re looking for some baseball rays, today’s the day. 265-3331.

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