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Show Mew 'Amahl' Debuts in Menotti is its 13th straight .year as a Christmas season feature . on By DOC QUIGG United Press International NEW YORK (UPI)-T- he boy just made it. A couple of shakes later and nature would have caught up with him. Now he's taped for posterity. His soprano pearshape notes can go ahead and change good, like a good ?oice should. His name is Kurt Yaghjian, and he's the fourth boy soprano to take the starring, role in the Menotti Christmastime opera "Amahl and the5 Night Visitors." The beautiful work is a perennial so hardy that this TV. This year's production is all new cast, sets, costumes and choreography. One thing that is anything but new, however, is the director, Kirk Browning. He directed the very first Amahl at Christmas, 1951. The program was taped in October and, of course, will now be available for showing for years. It will go on in color on Channel 2 Christmas night at 8 p. m. Kurt, a dark-brown- haired 10(Kpounder, is 12 and who suddenly is in company with three kings who stop at the hut for shelter on their way to Bethlehem to visit the years old. Kurt (he pronounces his last is the son of name Yah-jyaHaig Yaghjian, associate conductor of the Pittsburgh Symn) new-bor- Child? n "Well' said Browning,; "Menotti spotted him as a likely looking kid. The role requires . . . well . . . you can drag out the platitudes, like sincerity. But to dig into the special quality somebody asked me recently: " 'What has this particular Amahl got?' And I replied: 'That face.' phony. Kurt never had appeared in the role. And none of the other principals in this years' production ever has done it on television before. What is the special kind of "quality" needed for the role that of a crippled boy living in poverty with his mother in a rude hut among shepherds I Opera "But there's needed, a kind of wonder, a quality of sort of luminous thing. Purity might be the nearest word. TTie unspoiled wonder of a child beto ing able to see things see three kings. "If the opera comes off, it has to be seen through the boy's eyes. It's not a literal thing. Hie boy must communicate the wonder. Another tiling: he can't be too special. He's got, not a to be down to earth fey special thing." Ed ie Adams Function Of Guests Vie CISVTold On Video 5 Talent, Pie ;!! All stops are out when com- edians Rowan and Martin, joined by Andre Previn, are Edie Adams' guests in a funfest that includes pie throwing, on "The Edie Adams pianist-compos- How future international citizens of the world all aged SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1963 Gifts For ampetts From Banker Drysdale '" " wr" '" ""LW""'" The Jed Clampetts are wonder-stricken on Christmas Day when they awake to find a Christmas tree in the foyer and a shower of surprising gifts on "The Bever- snow-cover- get. Earlier Edie sings "Wives and Lovers" and joins Don Chastain and Peter Hanley in a vocal and visual comic number, "Triplets." Edie, petitioning Previn for a bit of "classical" music, vocalizes the venerable "Melanaccholy Baby" to his piano folcompaniment, and Andre lows with "Around the World in 80 Days." a In "The Baldersons," vaudee sketch spoofing to wants sign Edie ville, Rowan as a single and banish Martin because he has become a bum. skin-divin- Jt i nip t I r-- vessel. The wonderous gifts are all part of banker Milburn Drys-dale- 's strategy to keep the Clampetts in Beverly Hills. He hopes to get Jed hooked on sailing, Jethro and Elly May g on and Granny on deep-se- a fishing. The Clampetts, however, have more than a little trouble laun-- . ching their new boat, mainly because they can't find a river in Beverly Hills. Buddy Ebsen stars as Jed Clartfpett, "with Irene Ryan as Granny, Donna Douglas as Elly May and Max Baer as Jethro. skin-divin- Boxer Story Logged for "-d- rama Channel 2's "Rich- ard Boone Show," Tuesday, - h Robert Blake, Jeanette Nolan, June Harding and Bethel Leslie star in "Which Are The Nuts, Which Are the Bolts? about a former boxer who is discharged from a mental 9 p. m. on Channel 2. Joey Biggs (Blake), with guidance from Dr. Ryder (Miss Nolan), feels he is ready to return to society and convinces a review board to discharge him from the mental institution. His first act is to take train ride to a cross-countgive him time to. think about his future. His thoughts turn to Connie Wyler, two women he loved, whom (Miss Leslie), but who ran out on him, and Emily Wayne (Miss Harding), a blind girl he meets on the ed ly Hillbillies" Wednesday, Dec. 25 at 7 p.m. on Channel 5. Included among the presents g are a television set, which sailboat and a big suits appears to have been skippered up their driveway overnight by a chimpanzee found aboard the old-tim- 'Boone Show' discover their alikeness despite different languages, color and national customs, at children's international summer villages is described in. "Too Young to Hate" on "The Twentieth Century" Sunday, Dec. 11 er Show," Sunday on Channel 4 at 10:30 p. m. The pastry pasting is the finale, done to "Control Yourself," a tune by Previn and his Rowan wife, Dory Langdon. (Dan) and Martin (Dick) hurl pies at Edie and Previn. with the TV camera as the final tar- ry i AND AMUSEMENTS .GUIDE 'Nazi7 Tab Mars fi WILL CELEBRATE Donna Douglas and Max as Baer, Elly May Clampett and Jethro Bodine, celebrate Christmas on "The Beverly Hillbillies" Wednesday, Dec. 25 on Channel 5 at 7 p.m. The American debut at Ghan-nin- g College of a famous German concert pianist is marred by accusations he was a Nazi during World War II, on "Chan-ning- ," Rodriguez, McClure In Bout Former welterweight champion Luis Rodriguez and Olympic middleweight champion Wilbert (Skeet-er- ) McClure engage in a return bout Friday, Dec. 27, at the Miami Beach Auditorium on "Fight of the Week" at 9 p.m. over Channel 4. McClure, from Toledo, Ohio, won the Olympic light middle-weigchampionship in 1960. He turned 1961 in won his first 14 bouts, six by kayoes. and pro Rodriguez has a record of 52 wins in 56 fights with 22 knockouts, and has already defeated McClure. Rodriguez won the" welterweight tite from Emile Griffith last March 21 in Ixs Atjgeles but in a return bout June 8 at Madison Square fiarden was defeated py the current, champion. 10-rou- nd ht l " r Wednesday, Dec. 25, 9 p. m., on Channel 4. In "A Hall Full of Strangers," everyone on campus is excited about Georg Linzer's pending' concerts The sole dissenter is music professor Johann Ihiel-ma- n who had been Linzer's teacher in Germany before the war. Perplexed by Thielman's attitude, Prof. Joseph Howe hears the professor's accusations of Linzer's wartime activities. When the professor declines to present concrete evidence of the pianist's Nazi transgressions, Howe has every reason to conclude the accusations are false. B m 29, 4 p. News Cronkite Since 48 such m., on TV-- 5. Correspondent Walter reports. 1951 there have been villages, in which youngsters from 44 countries have participated. Four children, picked for leadership, scholarship and sociability from each participating nation, meet at summer camps in various countries for four weeks. "The Twentieth Century" filmed vil-(S- ee FUNCTION OF Page 7) Utah Sisters Sing Again on Kaye Show Mary Tyler Moore, the four dinger Sisters and Nat "King" Cole are the guest stars on the Christmas Night broadcast of "The Danny Kaye Show" Wednesday, Dec. 25, Channel 5 at 8 p. m. In the initial comedy sketch Kaye and Miss Moore star as Binkie and Babs Worthington social lions of Southhampton, Long Island. Vienna is the setting of the second sketch, which concerns a princess (Miss Moore) and a student (Kaye) in a presentation of "The Student Dentist" by the Kinderspiel Light Opera Company. Danny Kaye and the dinger Sisters Melody, Patricia, Peggy and Deborah close the show with the song "Baby It's Cold Outside," and joined by the entire oast "Let There Be Peace on Earth." NOTICE schedules are established by the three TV outlets. Corrections on schedules are made by them each week. The Daily Herald cannot take the responsibility of inaccuracies when changes are not made by TV personnel. Changes that occur during the week will be noted in the daUy editions of this newspaper. Television |
