OCTOBER EVENTS OPENERS

Chicago’s Second City Comes To The Arcadia



Since its inception in 1959, the Second City comedy theater in Chicago has been the springboard to comedy stardom for Alan Arkin, Valerie Harper, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, and countless others.

The basic concept of Second City has always been six or seven actors who enliven an empty stage with topical comedy sketches. The success of the Chicago Second City launched a Second City troupe in Toronto, which later began producing its own TV series, “SCTV.” The program launched the careers of John Candy, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, and Eugene Levy, to name only a few.

This month the Second City Touring Company comes to Dallas’s Arcadia Theater on Lower Greenville for two performances on Oct 25 at 8 pm & 10 pm. $10 advanced reserved seating available through Rainbow-Ticketmaster, 787-2000.

-Alan Peppard



Visions Of The West: American Art From Dallas Collections

Who would have predicted, a few years ago, that the Dallas Museum of Art would someday be exhibiting the best paintings and sculpture of Remington, Russell, Moran, Bierstadt. and other artists of the Old West from private Dallas collections-and that the show would be the hit of the museum’s season? But that was in the days before curator Patrick Stewart arrived to give American art, and especially regional American art, a new credibility and prestige.

Stewart has ransacked collections all over town to find the gems in “Visions of the West.” The result is a carefully considered, exceptionally handsome show. Stewart rounded up ten of Thomas Moran’s glowing landscapes and fourteen works (including ten bronzes) by Charles Russell, one “cowboy” artist who really was a cowboy. The show spans the history of the West from early explorer-artists such as George Catlin, Alfred Jacob Miller, and Seth Eastman to such pioneer modernists as Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Georgia O’Keeffe. The exhibit also pays overdue homage to the Taos School, the group of artists that included Joseph Henry Sharp, Bert Phillips, Ernest Blumenschein, Victor Higgins, Walter Ufer, and Oscar Berninghaus, all of whom settled in the area near Santa Fe and Taos around the turn of the century.

“Visions of the West” is supplemented by”Furniture on the Texas Frontier. 1830-1860;” an exhibit of prime examples of furniture made in Texas in the days before the Civil War, on loan from historic Round Top. Altogether, it is a refreshing departure for the Dallas Museum of Art.

“Visions of the West: American Art from Dallas Collections” will continue through Oct 26 at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N Harwood. Admission is $3 for adults, $2 for students and senior citizens. Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat 10-5; Thur 10-9; Sun noon-5. 922-0220.

-Ken Barrow



TEXAS-OU SHOWDOWN



If you still don’t have tickets to the Texas-OU game, good luck. For the last forty-two years the game has been sold out months in advance. The 75,000-plus who will somehow shoehorn themselves into the Cotton Bowl October 11 either planned way ahead or will pay steep prices to scalpers.



But the game is only one part of the game that weekend. The Dallas Texas-Ex association and the OU Club of Dallas have planned a weekend’s worth of festivities for everyone, with or without tickets. The Alumni Longhorn Band (the largest in the United States), the Longhorn singers, and the Texas cheerleaders will serve Texas spirits on Thursday, October 9, at a Texas-Ex Happy Hour from 5 pm-9 pm at El Torito in North-Park East at Park Lane and Central Expressway. For a mere $5, University of Texas fans can find their friends Friday at the Plaza of the Americas from 5 pm-9 pm for an evening of food, fight songs, and fun. And if you arrive between 11 a.m. and noon at Fair Park on Saturday, you can eat all the Mexican food you want ($10) or drink all the beer you can stand ($5) with Longhorn lovers on the grounds outside the Museum of Natural History. For more information call Kendall Hartley at 630-0000.

Sooner fans gearing up for the football frenzy can hear the inspiring words of University of Oklahoma President Frank Hor-ton Thursday afternoon before the game at a luncheon at the Plaza of the Americas ($15). Many Oklahoma fans will bivouac at the Crown Plaza Hotel at Midway and LBJ, where Thursday night Happy Hour begins at 5:30. And on Friday, over 1,000 people will gather for the annual “Beat Texas Dance” at 8:30 (traditionally the biggest social event of the weekend). Appropriately, a band called The Ruckus will be playing, as well as the Pride of Oklahoma. (Tickets are $10 in advance; $15 at the door for standing room only.) Saturday, bus transportation to the game and back will be provided from the Crown Plaza for $10. And Sooners can gather at the Fair Park Band Shell before the game for all-you-can-eat barbecue. Tickets ($8) will be sold at the dance or at the barbecue. Call Jack Williams at 692-0000 for reservations and information.

For those brave enough to head downtown Friday night, the usual carousers, public intoxicants, and drifters-and the 375 extra policemen the DPD hires for the evening-will once again walk, stagger, and knee-walk up and down the rectangle from Houston, to Wood Street, to Central, and back to Elm. If you must come downtown, police advise that you park outside the area and walk on well-lighted streets and in groups to avoid the auto theft, car break-ins, and muggings that always mar the festivities. Those driving to the game on Saturday can avoid the perennially bottled-up R.L. Thornton Freeway and opt for the Haskell, Grand Avenue, Martin Luther King Blvd., or Pennsylvania Avenue entrances to the park grounds.

-Sara Mosle



Fort Worth International Airfest

The Right Stuff comes to the Metroplex this October when the first annual Fort Worth International Airfest debuts at Oak Grove Airport, celebrating Fort Worth’s aviation history and the Texas Sesqui-centennial. See heart-stopping aerobatic displays from pros like seven-time National Aerobatic Champion Leo Loudenslager in the Bud Light 200 and the Bud Light Micro Jet (the world’s smallest jet); Charlie Hillard and the Eagles Aerobatic Flight Team, a three-plane group whose tight flying patterns flirt with disaster; and legendary pilot Bob Hoover, who takes on the skies in a P-51 Mustang and a non-modified business plane, the Shrike Commander. Accompanying them will be numerous wingwalkers, balloonists, parachutists, and skywriters.

Those who like their action on the ground can enjoy a performance by the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, as well as the big band sounds of Bruce Lea & the Bruce Lea Dancers and Red & the Red Hots. Other attractions include aviation exhibits, children’s games, and refreshments.

Proceeds from the event will benefit the Fort Worth Ronald McDonald House. October 18 & 19 at Oak Grove Airport in Fort Worth, one mile east of I-35W on FM 1187 (exit 39). Tickets range from $6-$20 in advance and $8-$25 at the gate for adults; and $3 in advance and $4 at the gate for children and senior citizens. (817) 332-2497.

-John Yarbrough



Dallas Ballet Performs Entire Swan lake



Dallas Ballet opens the 1986-87 season by taking on the big one: Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, in a new full-length production. Choreographic tradition will mix with innovative design in this version of the perennial favorite, underlining the broad romanticism of Tchaikovsky’s vision. Flem-ming Flindt choreography is based on the version created by 19th-century greats Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanovich Ivanov for the Imperial Russian Ballet in St. Petersburg in 1895. But the sets and costumes by acclaimed designer Beni Montresor present a new view of Swan Lake, transferring the romantic fairy tale of a young prince’s love for the Swan Queen from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. Harry Parker, director of the Dallas Museum of Art, was so taken with Montresor’s work that he asked if the museum could display eight photographs of set designs, plus an elaborate set model displaying two different scenes. They are on display in the auditorium foyer at the DMA through October 26.

This is the second collaboration ever between the Dallas Ballet and the Dallas Museum of Art. The first was last month’s Dallas Dance Festival.

Performances of the Dallas Ballet’s new Swan Lake are Oct 15, 16, 17, 18, & 25 at 8 pm and Oct 19 at 2 pm at the Majestic Theatre, 1925 Elm. Tickets $60-$5. 744-4430.

-Wayne Lee Gay

Art



Henry Moore. Two new works by this modern master of sculpture, “Reclining Figure: Hand” and “Seated Woman,’ take their place among the other Moores on public display throughout the city, courtesy of the Gerald Peters Gallery, which owns them. On long-term display at Cedar Springs and Maple, and in the atrium of the Crescent, 2200 Cedar Springs Road.



Bybee Furniture Collection At DMA



Ever since the Dallas Museum of Art acquired the Faith P. and Charles L. Bybee Collection of 18th- and 19th-century American furniture, one of the finest such collections to remain in private hands, the museum has been teasing us by putting one or two objects on display at a time. Now, after more than a year, the best of the Bybee goes on display, in the museum’s newly reinstalled gallery of early American art. The William and Mary, Queen Anne, and Chippendale go surprisingly well with the Hicks and Peale and the Gilbert Stuart. It has been worth the wait. Permanent display starting Oct 25 in the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N Harwood. Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat 10-5, Thur 10-9, Sun noon-5. 922-0220.



Peter Dean. Spirited, occasionally hectic, but always controlled. Dean’s thickly painted oils and works on paper have been in the vanguard of the movement toward a new figurative expressionism that began in the early Seventies, Oct 11-Nov 15 at William Campbell Contemporary Art, 4935 Byers Ave in Fort Worth. Tue-Fri 10-5, Sat 10-2. (817) 737-9566.

Mexican Masks. The more than one hundred examples of this enduring folk art depict devils and saints. Moors and Christians, |aguars and birds, and even old man death. Through Oct 5 at Fort Worth’s Museum of Science and History, 1501 Montgomery St. Mon-Thur ’ 9-5, Fri-Sat 9-8:30, Sun noon-5. 654-1356.

Joy Laville. An exhibit of the idyllic paintings and works on paper by this British-born artist who lives in Mexico marks the opening of this new gallery, owned by two veteran Dallas art dealers Through Oct at Moss/Chumley Gallery, Suite 390 at the Crescent, 2200 Cedar Springs. Mon-Sat 10-6, Thur 10-7. 742-1348.

William Pankey. Pankey’s beautiful platinum/palladium prints of the city and its neighborhoods are to Dallas what Atget’s famous photographs were to old Paris. Through Oct 9 at the Gallery of the Plaza of the Americas, Pearl and Bryan. Mon-Fri 10:30-5:30.

Damian Priour and Victoria Z. Rivers. Priour’s sculptures combine limestone and layered stacks of glass and Rivers intertwines neon tubes with twisted mixed media elements. Through Oct 22 at Conduit, 2814 Elm. Tue-Sat 10-5 or by appointment. 939-0064.

Larry Gray. Though abstract, the dozen paintings and large pastels by this California artist manage to capture the sweep and the luminosity of landscape. Through Oct 25 at Adelle M Gallery, 3317 McKinney. Mon-Fri 9-5, Sat by appointment. 526-0800.

Moon Show. Fifteen years ago The Afterimage opened its doors on an exhibit that included Ansel Adams’s “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico”; now it celebrates its anniversary with a lunar theme show. Through Oct 25 at The Afterimage, No. 250 in the Quadrangle, 2800 Routh. Mon-Sat 10-5:30. 871-9140.

Faculty Show. The art faculty of SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts struts its stuff, in ceramic clay, photography, printmaking, painting, and drawing. Through Oct 26 in the Meadows Gallery, Meadows School of the Arts, SMU. Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 1-5. 692-3510.

Stuart Davis. A pioneer American modernist, Davis’s cubist-inspired paintings capture the jazzy rhythms of American life Through Oct 26 at the Amon Carter Museum, 3501 Camp Bowie. Fort Worth. Tue-Sat 10-5, Sun 1-5:30. (817) 738-1933.

Berenice Abbott. This exhibit focuses on the portraits of Parisian notables- artists and writers-made by one of the greatest American photographers of this century, Through Oct 26 at the Amon Carter Museum, 3501 Camp Bowie, Fort Worth. Tue-Sat 10-5; Sun 1-5:30. (817)738-1933.



Kinetic Sculpture Parade



Harry Parker, director of the Dallas Museum of Art, will be grand marshal of the second annual Kinetic Sculpture Parade scheduled to showcase events celebrating the grand opening of the West End Marketplace. The freewheeling parade consisting of more than fifty people powered sculptures begins at the intersection of Wood and Market Streets and proceeds on Market to the West End Plaza. Oct 18 in the West End. For further information 821-1702.



Affinities. What do the prints of the British artist Stanley William Hayter, the Frenchman Andre Masson, the Chilean Matta, and the American Jackson Pollock have in common? The automatic drawing and dream images of Surrealism. Through Oct 26 at the Fort Worth Art Museum, 1309 Montgomery St. Tue 10-9, Wed-Sat 10-5, Sun 1-5.(817) 738-9215.

Jorge Castillo. A sense of the poetic in the commonplace and the commonplace in the poetic runs through the paintings and sculpture by one of Spain’s most distinguished artists. Oct 11-Nov 8 at Adams-Middleton Gallery. 3000 Maple. Tue-Fri 10-6, Sat 11 -5. 871-7080.

Mark Rothko. An artist who could be both tragic and triumphant with oils on canvas turns out to have been equally sublime in watercolor and tempera on paper. Through Nov 9 at the Fort Worth Art Museum, 1309 Montgomery Tue 10-9. Wed-Sat 10-5, Sun 1-5.(817) 738-9215.

Giuseppe Maria Crespi. One of the most sophisti-cated painters of 18th-century Bologna, Crespi’s pro-loundly human paintings of his countrymen at work and play introduced fresh subject matter into art and helped prepare the way for the delights of the Rococo Age. Through Dec 7 at the Kimbell Art Museum, 3333 Camp Bowie. Tue-Sat 10-5. Sun 11 -5. (817) 332-8451.

Spanish Masterpieces. From Houston’s extraordinary museum without walls, the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, come these two works on long-term loan: “St. Michael the Archangel” by the 17th-centnry master Claudio Coello and “Portrait of Four Children” by the early 19th-century artist Augustin Esteve. Through summer 1987 at the Meadows Museum, Meadows School of the Arts, SMU. Mori-Sal 10-5, Sun 1-5. 692-3510.



Music



Cliburn Concerts. Pianist Joaquin Soriano performs three sonatas of Soler, Falla’s Fantasia Bética, and two Nocturnes and the Sonata in B minor of Chopin, Oct 7 at 8 pm at Ed Landreth Auditorium, University : at Cantey, Texas Christian University. Fort Worth. Tickets $20-$15. (817) 738-6533.

Dallas Bach Society. Oct 5 Paul Riedo conducts the Dallas Bach Choir and Orchestra in a concert including J,S, Bach’s Magnificat and Cantata No. 147 and Handel’s Coronation Anthem No 1. Tickets $10. Oct 30: Organist Friedemann Winklofer appears in recital, performing J.S. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Guillou’s Toccata, Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries.’ and other works. Tickets $6. Both concerts at 7:30 pm at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 6306 Kenwood at Abrams Rd. 827-8886.

Dallas Chamber Music Society. The Kodaly Quartet opens the 1986-87 season. Oct 27 at 8:15 pm at Caruth Auditorium, Owen Arts Center. SMU. Tickets $8. 526-7301.

Dallas Chamber Orchestra. Dallas’s resident string ensemble performs Mozart’s Eine Ki&ne Nachtmusik, Vivaldi’s Concerto in G minor for two cellos and strings. and Brahms’s Sextet in B flat, Op. 18, Oct 12 at 7 pm at Caruth Auditorium, Owen Arts Center, SMU. Tickets $10&$7. 826-6974.

Samuel Ramey Recital



The newest male superstar in the opera world is not a tenor and not from Italy or Spain. Bass-baritone Samuel Ramey hails from Kansas, and has, over the past decade, impressed audiences around the world with his versatility and charisma. This month, he’s in Dallas for a recital sponsored by the Dallas Opera. Pianist Warren Jones will accompany him. Oct 5 at 2 pm at the Majestic Theatre, 1925 Elm. Tickets $20-$4. 871-0090.



Dallas Classic Guitar Society. Guitarist Narciso Yepes appears in concert with the Camerata Bern chamber orchestra. Oct 20 at 8:15 pm at McFarlin Auditorium. Hillcrest at McFarlin, SMU, Ticke!s$12-$4. 855-5013.

Dallas Opera. Oct 5: Bass-baritone Samuel Ramey appears in recital with pianist Warren Jones at 2 pm at the Majestic Theatre. 1925 Elm. Tickets $20-$4. Oct 30 and Nov 2, 4, & 8: The fall subscription season opens with Giordano’s Andrea Chènier (in Italian, with English captions), directed by Flavio Trevisan, conducted by Nicola Resogno, and starring tenor Ermanno Mauro as Andrea Chènier, soprano Stefka Evstatieva as Mad-dalena, and baritone Benito di Bella as Gerard. 2 pm Nov 2; 8 pm all other dates at Fair Park Music Hall, Tickets $60-$4. 871-0090.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Oct 14: Pianist Rudolf Serkin joins the orchestra under guest conductor Sergiu Comissiona in a special non-subscription event featuring Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony and Fifth Piano Concerto at 8:15 pm at the Dallas Convention Center Theater, 650 S. Griffin, Tickets $35-$10, Oct 18: Ronald Shirey conducts a special concert featuring the Dallas Symphony Chorus performing Faure’s Requiem anc Haydn’s Mass in Time of War. at 8:15 pm at McFarlin Auditorium, Hillcrest at McFarlin. SMU. Tickets $2047. 692-0203.

Dave Brubeck and Murray Louis



One of the biggest names in modern dance gets together with one of the biggest names in modern jazz this month in Dallas when the Murray Louis Dance Company joins the Dave Brubeck Quartet in performances co-sponsored by the International Theatrical Arts Society and the Dallas Jazz Orchestra. The varied program will include Louis’s “Frail Demons” (music by Nick Loper) and two works by Louis set to music of Bru-beck (“Glances” and “Four Brubeck Pieces”) as well as a group of purely instrumental pieces. Oct 3 & 4 at 8 pm McFarlin Auditorium, SMU. Tickets S25-$5. 528-5576.

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. George Del Gob-bo conducts a concert featuring Penderecki’s Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, Rodrigo’s Fantasia Para Un Gentilhombre guitar and orchestra (with soloist Christoper Parkening), and Bruckner’s Symphony No 4 in E flat, Oct 25 at 8 pm and Oct 26 at 3 pm at Tarrant County Convention Center Theatre. 1101 Houston, Fort Worth. Tickets $16-$6 Oct 25; $12-$5 Oct 26. (817) 926-8831.

Lyric Opera of Dallas. The company joins the Mes-qurle Sesquicentennial Committee to present the world premiere of Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s opera The Ransom of Red Chief, based on 0. Henry’s short story. John Burrows will conduct the performance, Oct 10 at 8 pm at Mesquite High School Auditorium, I-20 at Belt Line, Mesquite. Tickets $50-$5. 288-6666.

Meadows School of the Arts. Oct 1; SMU Wind Ensemble. Oct 5: Dwight Shambley. double bass, in faculty recital. Oct 6: Perspectives New Music Ensemble. Oct 7: Soprano Linda Anderson Baer in faculty voice recital. Oct 8. Pianist Tedd Joselson joins the SMU Symphony under conductor Anshel Brusilow in a concert featuring Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphoses on a Theme by Weber, and Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture Oct 15: Violinist Erick Friedman and pianist Tony Han launch a series of performances of Beethoven sonatas for piano and violin. Oct 20: Composers’ Forum. Oct 23. Mustang Chorale and SMU Choir. Oct 29: The Friedman-Han Beethoven series continues. Oct 31: Classical, solo, and chamber music for Halloween. Admission charge 826-6974. All events at Caruth Auditorium, Owen Arts Center, SMU. All events free, except for Oct 31. 692-3510.

Richardson Symphony Orchestra. Chris Xeros conducts a “Sesquicentennial Gala” featuring the world premiere of Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s “Varmits,” Bill Bauer’s “A Texas Tribute,” Shostakovich’s Festival Overture, and Copland’s Rodeo. Oct 18 at 8 pm at Richardson High School Auditorium. 1250 W Belt Line, Richardson. Tickets $15-$8. 234-4195.

Schola Cantorum. Gary Ebensberger conducts the Fort Worth chorus in “Choral Favorites Through the Centuries,” Oct 20 at 7:30 pm at Irons Recital Hall at the University of Texas at Arlington and Oct 21 at 7:30 pm at the Kimbell Art Museum, 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth Tickets $10-$6. (817) 737-5788.

Texas Baroque Ensemble. Soprano Patti Spain joins authentic-instrument specialists to perform “Music of the French Court,” Oct 11 at 8:15 pm at St. Stephen United Methodist Church, 2520 Oates, Mesquite. Tickets $6-$4. 278-2458.

Texas Christian University. Oct 6: Faculty voice recital by Sheila Allen. Oct 13: TCU Symphony concert. Oct 20-21. TCU Organ Festival, featuring recitals by guest artists Johannes Geffert on Oct 20 and Olivier Latry on Oct 21, Oct 26: TCU Chapel Choir at Robert Carr Chapel at 7:30 pm. Oct 27. Cellist and gambist Harriet Woldt performs with the Brazos Baroque Ensemble at Robert Carr Chapel. Oct 31-Nov 1: TCU Opera Workshop at Brown-Lupton Student Center Ballroom. Performances are at 8 pm at Ed Landreth Auditorium, University at Cantey. TCU, unless otherwise noted. Free. 921-7810.

Fort Worth Ballet Season Premiere



The Fort Worth Ballet’s subscription season opens with a program including Lew Christensen’s “Con Amore” (music by Rossini), Balanchine’s “Scotch Symphony” (music by Mendelssohn), and Balanchine”s “Who Cares?” (music by Gershwin). Patricia McBride and Ib Anderson, principal dancers with the New York City Ballet, will perform the principal roles in “Scotch Symphony” at the season premiere Friday and Saturday October 10 & 11 at 8 pm at Tarrant County Convention Center, 1101 Houston, Fort Worth. Tickets $24-$3. (817) 738-6509, (817) 335-9000, metro 429-1181.

Theater



On The Twentieth Century. Starring Imogene Coca and Frank Gorshin, Cy Coleman’s classic songs coupled with Comden and Green’s laughs make this the merriest musical of the season. Oct 28-Nov 2 at the Majestic Theatre. 1925 Elm. Tickets available at Rainbow-Ticketmaster 787-1500.

Teen Angel. Who put the bop in the bop-she-bop-she-bop? Ken Lee shows us what rock ’n’ roll was really like in his musical spoof of the Fifties. Through Oct 12 at the New Arts Theatre. 702 Ross Ave. 761-9064.

Theater Center Opens Season



Dallas Theater Center Artistic Director Adrian Hall has crafted a vivid and rich play list for the Theater Center’s ’86- ’87 season, which opens October 7. Encompassing the passionate work of Sam Shepard and Robert Penn Warren, the comic brilliance of Michael Frayn and Tom Stoppard, the season will also offer audiences Shakespeare and Ibsen. The season opener this month is Michael Frayn’s fast and furious farce about life backstage, “Noises Off.” This humorous look at life in the theater is notorious for its non-stop pace and rapid fire wit. “Noises Off runs Oct 7-26. Powerful realism follows when Hall directs Robert Penn Warren’s compelling drama, ’All the King’s Men,” which is based on Warren’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel about the legendary and controversial Louisiana kingpin, Huey P. Long. Singer/composer Randy Newman has written the music for this production. Other highlights of the season include Stoppard’s “The Real Thing,” Ibsen’s searing social drama, “An Enemy of the People,” and Sam Shepard’s intense love story, ’A Lie of the Mind.” Performances at the Kalita Humphreys Theater, 3636 Turtle Creek Blvd at Blackburn. 526-8857.



The Big Knife. Set in the Hollywood of (he late Forties, a big-name movie star tries to break his contract in order to live a quiet, happy life But his shady past -involving a young actress and unscrupulous movie moguls-clashes with his ideals and reputation. At the Addison Community Theatre, corner of Mildred and Julian streets underneath the Addison water tower. 934-3913.

Old Tarzan. This collaborative work by playwright Johnny Simons and composer Douglas Balentine is playing at the Hip Pocket Theatre’s outdoor amphitheater stage at Oak Acres in Fort Worth Jimmy Joe Steenbergen will create the title role of Old Tarzan (Lord Greystoke), with Julie McMahon Ballew as Old Jane and Gary Cunningham as Old Boy, in this farcical took at the jungle family that finds itself occupying the last acreage of primitive forest left in the universe Through Oct 5. Hip Pocket Theatre’s performance space is located at 1620 Las Vegas Trail North and Loop 820 in Fort Worth Tickets available at Rainbow-Ticketmaster and all Sears stores Metro 787-1500.

Hansel and Gretel. The Dallas Theater Center’s Teen/Children’s Theater presents Glenn Allen Smith’s new version of this old story. The cast is composed of professional actors and outstanding TCT students. Through Oct 5 at the Arts District Theater. 2401 Flora For reservations or group arrangements call the Theater Center Box Office at 526-8857.



Recreation



Halloween at Old City Park



The Easter Seal Society for Children and the Dallas County Heritage society present the second annual “Victorian Halloween at Old City Park.” Each historic building in Old City Park is sponsored by a corporation or organization so costumed children can trick-or-treat “neighborhood style” from door to door, while sponsors provide tricks, treats, and trinkets. Tracy Rowlett of WFAA-TV (pictured above with two Easter Seal children) is again the honorary chairman of the event. Children are encouraged to enter the Costume Parade and Contest. Prizes will be awarded in two age groups for scariest, funniest, most creative, prettiest, and ugliest costumes. Winners in each category will receive pints of free ice cream from Baskin-Robbins and passes to United Artists theaters. Fri, Oct 3l. 6 pm-9 pm. Admission is $2 per child, and accompanying adults are admitted free. 358-5261.



Chi Omega Christmas. The ninth annual Chi Omega Christmas, sponsored by Dallas area alumnae of Chi Omega sorority, is a holiday market for Chrisimas shopping with more than one hundred merchants represented Tickets are available through Dallas area alumnae for $5, or at the door for $6. Thur, Oct 30. noon-8 pm, Fri. Oct 31, 10 am-6 pm; Sat, Nov 1, 10 am-4 pm in the West Ballroom of the Dallas Convention Center.



Film



Hollywood’s Visions of the West at the Dallas Museum of Art. The American West not only inspired artists such as Remington and Russell, but also the film makers of Hollywood The Sunday films in October focus on Hollywood’s visions of the West from the classic westerns to the more recent “realistic” movies about the West. Oct 5: Once Upon a Time in the West Oct 12: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Oct 19: Heartland. Oct 26: Heaven’s Gate. All films begin at 2 pm in the Museum Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N Harwood. $2 for DMA members, $3 for non-members. 922-0220.



Enlightenment



Pebbles to Computers. This Canadian photographic exhibit about man’s technological advances traces the evolution of contemporary technological achievements through the work of Canadian author and photographer Hans Blohm. Through Oct 26 at the Science Place I in Fair Park. 428-7200.

Dallas Public Library. Oct 9 Tacts and Fiction About Fashion and Makeup” is presented by Liz Hurst, a fashion wardrobe consultant. Her talk will be held at the Central Public Library auditorium. Oct 15: “Taming Your Tastes for Salt” is presented by Jo Curtis of the Texas A&M Extension Service at I pm in the Central Public Library auditorium. Oct 22 ’The Job Search Process” is a brown-bag lunch program presented by Sue Ann Hosier, counselor and career consultant for Career Dimensions, at noon at the Central Public Library. Oct 24-26: The downtown library plaza will be the site for the Dallas Public Library’s second book sale. More than 20.000 books including military, history, Texana, how-to, human behavior, crime and scandal, children’s books and fiction aplenty are available tor sale Oct 28 “Decorating: Expressing Your Personality and Style,” is presented by Felicia Myrick. an independent accessory designer who will show you how to express your personality in your surroundings a! 7:30 pm, in the Central Public Library auditorium. For more information 749-4100.

University Lecture Series. The Dedman College University Lecture Series at SMU sponsors lectures and tours featuring outstanding SMU faculty members. The series runs through October and November “Islam and the Middle East Crisis” looks at the principles of Islam and its impact on key countries with a view toward understanding the current Mideast crisis. “Southern Voices, Southern Visions: Four Women Writers of the 20th Century” examines the works of Katherine Anne Porter. Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welly, and Alice Walker. “Significant Issues of the Eighties” is a challenging and informative series given by six well-informed professors that will offer new perspectives on pressing problems of our day. “The Teaching of Poetry: Didacticism in Recent American Verse” will examine some varieties of recent poetry, exemplified by the work of three of America’s most important poets. “Professors Who Profess: Comini on Art History” features SMU’s well-known art history professor Alessandra Comini. candidly discussing her discipline from the inside out and from the outside in “Out of Africa and other Autobiographies’ looks not only at the autobiographical work of Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen). but also Isabella L Bird and Eudora Welty. “Conflict and Creativity in the 20th Century An Ironic View of our Times” discusses the terrifying dangers juxtaposed with the unprecedented opportunities in the 20th century. 692-2532.



Sports



Delias Cowboys. Texas Stadium, Irving. Reserved seat tickets available at the Rainbow-Ticketmaster or at Dallas Cowboy Ticket Office at Valley Ranch. Home games at noon unless otherwise indicated, 556-2500 Oct 12 Washington

26 St. Louis

Dallas Mavericks. Reunion Arena, Dallas. Home game tickets available at Rainbow-Ticketmaster or at Reunion Arena box office. 658-7068 Oct 31 vs Utah Jazz

SMU. All home games played at Texas Stadium, Irving, For ticket information, contact the SMU Athletic Ticket Office, Moody Coliseum. SMU 692-2902. Oct 4 at 7:30 pm vs Boston College

Texas Rangers. Arlington Stadium. Arlington Tickets S8 50-$5 for reserved seats, $3.75 for general admission, $2,25 for children thirteen and under, available at Rainbow-Ticketmaster outlets, Sears stores, and Arlington Stadium ticket office. Home games start at 7:35 pm unless otherwise noted Metro 273-5100.

Sept 29-30 Oakland

Oct 1 Oakland

2-4 California

5 California 2:05 pm



Battle For The Texas Cup

So you want to go to the America’s Cup yacht races, but you’re having trouble getting hotel reservations in Australia. Not to worry. This year, Dallas is hosting the first Texas Cup competition. Modeled after the America’s Cup race, the Texas Cup has a catch. The Texas Cup entrants are scaled-down, remote-controlled boats that will compete in the huge reflecting pool in front of City Hall. Rising to the challenge, South Australia is sending a team of intrepid sailors to compete in the event. The race will be the focal point of an all-day Australian fair to take place in front of City Hall. The victor of the race will become the proud possessor of the “Texas Cup,” a custom-designed Waterford crystal trophy. Both native Texan and Australian entertainment is scheduled throughout the day, as well as a fireworks display in the evening. Oct 25, 10 am-6 pm at Dallas City Hall. 670-4388.



Willow Bend Polo Matches. For those new to the game. Willow Bend Polo and Hunt Club offers a “Friends of Polo” orientation to the sport preceding every Sunday polo match A polo player is on hand at the No. 1 field to explain and demonstrate the basics of the game Admission is $6 for adults, children under twelve free Tickets available at Rainbow-Ticketmaster and at the field. Willow Bend Polo and Hunt Club. FM 544 between Preston Road and Dallas Parkway, Piano, 248-6298.

Oct 5 Willow Bend League Game 4 pm

12 Willow Bend League Game 3 pm

19 Willow Bend League Game 3 pm

26 Willow Bend League Game 3 pm