WHnait's gnnimg m Looking for something different to do this weekend? Here are a few suggestions, compiled by Park Record entertainment critic Rick Brough. r;nP. nf herwise noted, events listed below will take place in Salt Lake City. DANCE -Burch Mann's American Folk Ballet captures the feeling of early America in Capitol Theatre performances on Friday, March 23 (8 D.m.) and Saturday, March 24 (2 p.m. and 8 p.m.). Choreographer Mann recently moved from Los Angeles to Cedar City. Her company of 25 dancers, singers and instrumentalists will present a program called "The Prairie Years." Tickets are available at the Capitol Theatre (50 West Second South) and Datatix outlets. All proceeds go to benefit the Utah Special Olympics. MOVIES The Gable-Crawford Festival continues at the Salt Lake City Library with "Love on the Run," . as Clark Gable and Franchot Tone compete for Joan Crawford's hand and all get involved in-volved with Continental spies. The film plays Friday, March 23, at 2 p.m. (for 25 cents) and 7 p.m. (for 50 cents). The library is at 209 E. 500 South. At the Blue Mouse: "Not a Love Story" is a Canadian film that indicts the demeaning message of pornographic films. And "Ballad of Gregorio Cortez," a favorite at the 1983 Park City film festival, tells the true story of a Texas Hispanic (Edward James Olmos) accused of murder at the turn of the century. The Utah Media Center presents Woody Allen's "Manhattan" on Saturday, March 24 and Sunday, March 25. Allen uses city skylines and Gershwin music with his story of a stymied New Yorker torn between Diane Keaton and teenager Mariel Hemingway. With Meryl Streep as Allen's lesbian ex-wife, and Wallace Shawn as Keaton's ex-husband. It plays at 7 : 30 p.m. The second feature on the same two days is "The Blue Angel," Josef Von Steinberg's legendary story of a stuffy professor (Emil Jannings) seduced and corrupted corrupt-ed by a cabaret singer (Marlene Dietrich). It plays at 9:30p.m. Admission is $2.25 for each film, or $3 for the double feature. The Media Center is located at 20 South West Temple. -mr-fj' MUSIC Weather Report, an innovative in-novative jazz-rock group, performs per-forms at Kingsbury Hall at the University of Utah on Thursday, March 22. Reserved seats ($10, $11 and $12) are available at Cosmic Aeroplane, Smokey's Records, Datatix and Kingsbury. It is presented by Scott Arnold, who used to bring acts to the Cowboy Bar. Showtime is 8 p.m. The Utah Symphony appears this week with guest conductor Uri Segal and piano soloist Alexis Weisen-berg. Weisen-berg. The program will be given on Thursday at Ogden's Browning Fine Arts Center and Friday and Saturday at Salt Lake's Symphony Hall. Concert times are 8 p.m. The rock group The Association appear at their favorite restaurant, The Cherish, through Saturday. Reservations only for two dinner shows nightly. The Cherish is located at 139 East South Temple, in the Elks Building. He may be vacuous, or a Rocky Mountain high, but there's no ignoring John Denver, who plays BYU's Marriott Center on Saturday, March 24. Reserved seats are $12. Tickets at the Marriott Center, Datatix outlets, Special Events Center, Salt Palace and ZCMI stores. Presented by J.C. McNeil. THEATRE -"THIS is the Place" is Park City's centennial musical written by locals David Fleisher, Katherine Janka Reynolds and Michael Phillips. The play shows Park City through the eyes of a naive Mormon missionary. It will play Thursday through Saturday through March. Curtain is at 8 p.m. -Emily Mann's "Still Life" examines the effect of the Vietnam War on a vet, his wife and his lover. It plays nightly through March at 8 p.m. Matinees at 2 p.m. take place on March 24 and 31. An early evening performance is scheduled at 7 p.m. on March 25. Discussions will take place after the play on March 22, 24 (matinee) and 30. Presented by the Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 West Fifth North. -"Shenandoah," by Gary Geld and Peter Udell, is a musical about a family trying to avoid the violence of the American Civil War. It will be presented at the Promised Valley Playhouse, 132 South State, March 22-24, 22-24, then Wednesday-Saturday through April 14. Shows at 8 p.m. An April 7 matinee is at 2 p.m. The New Shakespeare Players present "Taming of the Shrew" at the Ladies Literary Club, 850 East South Temple. It plays Thursday-Saturday through April 7. Shows are at 8 p.m. "The Arkansaw Bear" looks at death from a child's point of view. The Young People's Theatre production is slated for the Pioneer Memorial Theatre main stage Wednesday-Friday at 4:15 p.m., Thursday and Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 10 a.m., 2 and 4:30 p.m. It's recommended for children over six years old. ETCETERA The Kimball Art Center in Park City hosts a four-artist show. Watercolorist Mike Atkinson Atkin-son and sculptor Vivian Falzetti are featured in the Main Gallery while the lower floor hosts paint- rt i! ...... HP 1 (tr er rdunne luiun-Majoli and ceramics artist Eric Christiansen. The show runs until March 28. -The Hansen Planetarium, at 15 S. State, presents a new show, "A Comet Called Halley." The show plays weekdays at 11 a.m., 2 p.m., 4:30 and 7, on Saturdays at 2 p.m., 4:30 and 7, and Sunday at 2 p.m. and 4:30. The best commercials in the world, the Clios, follow the 7 p.m. star shows at Hansen Monday-Saturday and the 4:30 p.m. star shows on Saturday and Sunday.