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Asbury Park Press. Sat. Jan. 13. 1979 A5 Panorama Saturday Night Ambiance Elegant at Homestead GOOD TIME CHARLIE'S Sweet Buns; Route 70, Lakehurst.

OLD WEST BAR AND RESTAURANT Equinox; 2187 Route 9, Howell Township. OSPREV HOTEL The Otherside; Manasquan Beachfront. SAIL MN Guiktersleeve; Ocean Ave Sea Bright. SUNSET LOUNGE Brothers and Sisters; 1409 Kingslev Ave Asbury Park. THE TOEAWAY Magnum Force; 46 Chelsea Ave Long Branch.

TRADE WMOS Sam the Bond; 1305 Ocean Ave Sea Bright. TUDOR SQUARE Thunder Mountain; 118 Norwood Ave Deal. VARIETY BOB DAVIS' BAR AND RESTAURANT HI Spirit; 601 Main Loch Arbor. JIMMY BYRNE'S SEA GIRT INN Winter Reunion with Jimmy Byrne and The Brothers and the Lynch Boys; Route 71, Sea Girt. MANASOUAN INN Freddy Kohl ond Company; 390 E.

Main Manasquan. MARY'S HUSBAND'S PUB Joe Finn; 415 18th South Belmar. THE STADIUM Jimmy Carroll; 504 Station Plaza, Sea Girt. DINNER AND DANCE KABUTO Jopanese Steak House; Holiday Inn, Route 36, West Long Branch. (EDITOR'S NOTE: To submit items for this column, call The Press at 774-7000, extension 264.

Deadline for this column is 4 p.m. Wednesday.) apie L. wiM Asbury Park Press Dorothy Johnson, Neptune, Harold Morrissey, Middlesex, Jane Petrano, and Julian Ippllipo, Hawthorne. The group is being entertained by membersof the Bill Starr group. Movies Notice to Readers i Movie schedules, lor today only, ore provided by theater owners.

Where there ore movis houses, but no listings here, the theater owners have not or would not pro-, vide the material, published at no cost as a public service, to The Press. Because movies are subject to change, it is sua-gested that you cal theater to confirm correct times. Aberdeen Township Cinema 34, Death on the Nile, PG, 2, 7:15, .:45 Twin Cinema Animal House, 7:15, I5 "Twin Cinema II, Every Which Way But PG, 7, 9 Asbury Pork 'Coronet, Little Me end AAarlo Strongelove, 7:30, 10, Lollipop Palace, 8:45 Xyric, Thank God It Friday, PG, 7:25, JJtfidnight Express, 9 Atlantic Highlands Atlantic, Midnight Express, 7, 9:05 Betmar Uelmar Cinema, Death on the Nile, PG, 8, Jocky Horror Picture Show, 12 midnight, a.m. Berkeley Township Qinemo 1, Heaven Can Wait, PG, 7:30, 9:35 'Cinema 2, Grease, PG, 7:30, 9:35 Bradley Beach jBeoch, Animal House, 2, 7:25, 9:30 Brick Township Brick Plaia 1, Death on the Nile, PG, 7, 9:30 Brick Pkna 2, Magic, 7:20, 9:30 Mai Cinema 1, Every Which Wav But Loose, PG, 2, 7:25, 9 40 MaN Cinema 2, California Suite, PG, 2, 7:30, 30 JnoH Cinema 3, Superman, PG, 2, 7:15, 9:45 Circle Twin 1, Paradise Allev, PG, 2, 7:30, 30 Circle Twin 2, Slow Dancing in Big City, PG, 2, 7:25, 9:30 East Brunswick Movie City 1, Wilderness Family II, 1:30, 4:05, 7, 9:30 Movie City 2, Boys from Brazil, 1:50, 4:15, 7:10, 9:40 Movie City 3, Pink Panther Strikes Again, PG, 2, Midnight Express, 4:20, 7:20, 9:45 Movie City 4, Animal House, 2:10, 4, 7:30, 9:50 Movie City 5, Up In Smoke, 2:20, 4:30, 7:45, 10 East Windsor Township East Windsor 1, Grease, PG, 7:30, 9 40 Eost Windsor 2, Great Chefs of Europe, PG, 7:20, 9:35 Eotontown Community 1, Every Which Wav But Loose, PG, 2, 7:30, 9:40 Community 2, Wilderness Family II, 2, 7, 9 Freehold Township MaN 1, Superman, PG, 2, 7:15, 9:45 MaN 2, Magic, 2, 7:30, 9:30 mall 3, Wilderness Family II, 2, Harper Valley PTA, PG, 7:30, 9:30 Park Avenue Cinema, California Suite, PG, 7:30, 9:25 Pond Rood Cinema, Death on the Nile, PG, 7:15, 9:40 Hailet Township Plaio, Wilderness Family II, 2, Harper I Valley PTA, PG, 7:30, 9:20 i UA Cinema Oliver Story, PG, 2, 6, 10, i The Way We Were, PG, 3:45, 7:45 i JA Cinema 2, California Suite, PG, 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 Howe Township i Country, Heaven Con Wait, PG, 7:35, 9:45 Town, Grease, PG, 7:30, 9:40 i Jackson Township i Director's Chair, Death on the Nile, PG, 2, 7:15, 9:45 i Jackson Cinema, Animal House, 2, 7:30, 9:30 Keansburg Colonial, Midnight Express, 7:30, 9:30 Kevport i Strand, Skin Flicks, 12, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25, in Sarah Eyes, 1:25, 4, 6:35, Enjoying weekend entertainment at The Homestead are, in front from left, Steve Renae, Pt. Pleasant Beach, and Marjori Fitzpatrick, Neptune, and in the rear from left, 4 THEATER Academy of Variety Arts Las Vegas Show "The Flame" and comedian Tony Stevens, featuring moglc show, 7:30 p.m.; Dorian Manor, Route 9 South, Old Bridge Township.

Barn Theater "Threepenny Opera," 8:30 p.m.; Avenue of Two Rivers, Rumson. Dam Site Dinner Theatre "Catch Me If You Can," 8:30 p.m.; Sycamore Avenue, Tin-ton Falls. George Street Playhouse "Pettycoat Lane," 8 p.m.; George New Brunswick. Monmouth Arts Center "Tom Sawyer," 2 p.m.; 99 Monmouth Street, Red Bank. Zapert's Dinner Theatre "Ten Little Indians," 9 p.m.

today; Route 37 and Garfield Ave Toms River. CONCERTS Brookdale Community College The Gold Series: piano recital with Kavmo Iwama, 8:30 p.m.; Performing Arts Center, Middletown Township. Playboy Cabaret The "Ink Spots," 9 p.m. and midnight; Playboy Club, Great Gorge, McAfee. DANCE McCarter Theatre Dennis Wayne's "Dancers," In the world premiere of "Islas," and "Speakeasy," "Moments" and "Time Out of Mind," 8 p.m.

today; Princeton. Area Radio "Sunday Dinner-A Family Affair." The cost is $6.95, and $4.95 for children. The Homestead is open between 5 p.m. and 2 a.m. daily, and until 1 a.m.

Sundays. Dinners are served until 10 p.m. during the week, until 11 p.m. on Fridays, and midnight, Saturdays. Parking is provided in a lot across the street.

I.inda Wall Special to The Tress SPRING LAKE HEIGHTS -The old homestead was never like this. Venetian-glass chandeliers, mirror-paneled walls and dramatic color combinations contribute to an ambiance of elegance dominating the homestead at 1201 Allaire Cabaret Road. The Homestead at Spring Lake Heights, originally a farmhouse, transformed into a golf and country club in 1920, and operating as a restaurant and nightclub for the past 40 years, has apparently lost much of its rustic charm in the process of renovations and expansion. It has not lost its charm, however, for fans of a more romantic and genteel era. The New Orleans-style structure contains two spacious dining rooms, the Mardis Gras Room, currently being redecorated in white, pink and gold, with two new window walls reflecting the sparkle of two huge chandeliers, and the Coach Room, sporting an equestrian motif in red and black furnishings, under the amber glow of wrought iron lantern chandeliers.

And each room is equipped with a cocktail lounge and dance floor. The Mardis Gras room houses an oval bar. A horshoe bar creates continuity in the mood of the Jockey Lounge. Every weekend, the Homestead offers two evenings of dining and dancing in timeless style, to the strains of the Bill Starr Orchestra. The four-piece band, featuring Johnny Capplo, provides the dance music society, soft rock, and Lindy style between 9 p.m.

and 1:30 a.m., Fridays and Saturdays. Only one lounge is open to the public during the evening, accord- Long Broncn Movies Magic, 7:30, 9:35 Movies 2, Slow Dancing in Big City, PG, 7:25, 9:30 Manasauan Algonquin, Message from Space, PG, 2, 7:30, 9:20 Middletown Township UA Middletown Superman, PG, 4, 7, 10 UA Middletown 2, Slow Dancing in Big City, PG, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 UA Middletown 3, Paradise Allev, PG, 1:30, 3:35, 5:40, 7:45, 9:50 Neptune City Neptune City, Grateful Dead Concert, PG, 7, 9:40, 12 midnight Ocean Township Middlebrook Harper Valley PTA, PG, 7:30, 9:20 Middlebrook 2, Parodise Alley, PG, 7:30, 9:30 Seaview Square Superman, PG, 2, 4:30, 7:30, 10 Seaview Square II, California Suite, PG, 2, 4:30, 7:30, 10 Old Bridge Township Soyre Woods, Sensual Encounters, 3, 7:30, 9:50, Painful Desires, 2, 4:15, 6:35, 1:50 tW Ml 11 w. 5 ing to owner-manager Joan Esposi-to, and the choice depends on which room is booked at the time for a party or banquet. The Mardis Gras Room, currently closed for renovations, is expected to re-open in two weeks, she said. The Homestead draws patrons from the local and outlying areas, attracted to "the combination of atmosphere, entertainment, dancing, good food and good service," Mrs.

Esposito stated. She said the Point Pleasant Beach Arnold, Grease, PG, 7, 9 Red Bank Mon. Arts, Midnight Express, 7:15, 9:15 Movies Poradise Allev, PG, 7:30, 9:30 Movies 2, Harper Valley PTA, PG, 7:30, 9:20 Savreville Cinema 9, Harper Valley PTA, PG, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9:40 Madison Cinema 1, Animal House, 2, 7:30, 9:35 Madison Cinema 2, Grease, PG, 2, 7:25, 9:30 Toms River Cinema Superman, PG, 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 10 Cinema California Suite, PG, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 Cinema HL Death on the Nile, PG, 2, 4:40, 7:30, 10 Dover Magic, 2, 7:25, 9:30 Dover 2, Every Which Way But Loose, PG, 2, 7:35, 9:40 Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Ratings: (G) General audiences; (PG) All ages admitted (parental guidance suggested); (R) Restricted, with persons under 17 not admitted unless accompanied by parent or adult guardian; (X) Adults only. Station AM TYPE FM TYPE WADB 95.9 BM WFPG 1450 MOP. 969 BM WHLW 1170 WHTG 1410 BM 106 3 BM WJLK 1310 CT 94.3 CT WJRZ 100 1 MOR WOBM 927 MOR WRLB 107 1 SR Sherlockians Preview New Holmes Film EASY LISTENING COLTS NECK INN Smooth Sailin'; Route 34, Colts Neck Township.

HOMESTEAD Bill Starr; Allaire Road, Spring Lake Heights. PETE AND ELDA'S Billy Morrow at the keyboards; Route 35, Neptune. WINKLEMAN'S Anne Carrol at the keyboards; Route 9, Lakewood. YE OLDE FRIGATE Steve Wavne and Susan Verdon; Boardwalk and Sumner Avenue, Seaside Heights. DISCO BANANA BOAT Disco; corner Hamilton ond the Boulevard, Seaside Heights.

CHARLEY 5's Disco shows and hustle lessons with Lee Cole; 130 Warren Spring Lake Heights. ROCK ALEXANDER'S SUNSET Night Hawks and Shakes; Route 70, Pemberton Township. BARBERSHOP Tim Gough and Danny Regan; 40 Broodwav, Point Pleasant Beach. BUTCH'S PLACE Adorn; Route 38, Pemberton Township. CLUB SPANKY Radio City, Charlie Roberts' Disco; 160 Ocean Long Branch.

Clark knows the films intimately and studied them and the Holmes literature before undertaking "Murder by Decree," an original story conceived by him and written by John Hopkins. "I didn't need a crash course in Holmes," he said, "but I saw the old movies again anyway and reread the stories. I wanted to be able to defend the changes in character I was going to make, why I rejected some things and put new elements in." WHAT CLARK AND actor Christopher Plummer have done is retain the detective's image of the cool, suave Victorian man but also made him less deductive, less intellectual. "This is more Holmes as hard-workirig detective," said Clark. "He is still brilliant but this depiction is Holmes as a humanist, compassionate, socially aware." Clark and James Mason also worked on evolving the traditional image of the Dr.

Watson demeanor. "Mason's Watson is not patronized by Holmes," said Clark. "He won't stand for it and gives back to Holmes what he gets. He's more perceptive and never befuddled. Mason wanted him to be wry and warm and clever.

Hof St.marjilebon? clientele is comprised of "a nice class of people," aged "35 years and up." Dinners at the restaurant feature a continental cuisine, and specialties include tableside rooking and flaming desserts. Prices for the entrees range from $6.95 to $12.50. On Thursdays a complete prime rib dinner, including Yorkshire pudding dessert, is available for $6.95. Another six-course dinner special is offered under the heading Night Life CABARET BAMBOO Rubber Rock Band; on the Boulevard, Seaside Heights. CABARET Trlx; Route 35, Eotontown.

LEISURE LOUNGE The Other Half; Route 70, Lakewood. SALTY DOG Brass Affair; Route 9 and Third Street, Howell Township. COUNTRY CHARLIE'S BAR Charlie's Angels, Dor-lene Wild and the Wildwood; 2105 Route 35, Oakhurst, Ocean Township. NASHVILLE EAST Danny Newsome and Country Brew; Route 70, Haddonfield Road, Pennsauken Township. tive and his sleuthing assistant, Dr.

Watson. The event was the opening of a penthouse pub atop the Holiday Inn on Union Square, a watering hole christened as the S. Holmes Esq. Public House and Drinking Salon (an establishement formerly located at the Gros-venor Towers). On hand to celebrate were 125 members of the local Holmes society known as the Scowrers the name of a secret order of terrorists mentioned in the Holmes story, "The Valley of Fear." IT WAS ALSO the occasion of Holmes' 125th birthday (observed, by those who know such things, on Jan.

6). Avco Embassy decided to join in the festivities by offering the first screening of "Murder by Decree." The movie will be released generally next month. The pub was the notion of Don Werby, who happens to own the hotel and is also an avid Sherlockian, as the devoted call themselves. It is decorated in the Victorian style of the Holmes era the late 1800s with authentic furniture and knickknacks gathered from the period. A portion of it has been set aside as a museum-like model of the Holmes study.

Numerals on the study's door read 221B, Holmes' address in London. Seated for the moment amidst it all was Clark, a gregarious man enjoying himself mingling with the contingent of Holmes and Watson clones who were actually conducting a made-up investigation into the whereabouts of a stolen Holmes pipe. "You don't smoke, do you?" asked one Holmes-for-a-day impressionist. "Let me see those notes you're writing." CLARK, 36, CREW up a movie fan in Florida. One of his all-time favorites was "The Hound of the Baskervilles," the 1939 film in which Basil Rathbone played Holmes and Nigel Bruce was Dr.

Watson. For the record, Holmes has been portrayed in the movies more than 125 times, all the way back to one-reelers in 1903. Over the years, the films have included "Sherlock Holmes" (1922) with John Barrymore as Holmes; "The Speckled Band" (1931), Reginald Owen: a series of pictures that com prised, among others, "Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror" (1941), "Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) and "Terror by Night" (1946), all with Rathbone; "The Hound of the Baskervilles" again (1959), this time with Peter Cushing; "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" (1969), Robert Stephens; and "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" (1976), Nicol Williamson. 4 'Three Penny Opera? Most Stations offer a schedule1 of news and public affairs programming in addition to their regular format All format descriptions are as shown In Broadcasting Yearbook 1978 BM bmuMM Hume Commporw MOD MMMW Ot Road SR Son Rocs Also in the cast are Donald Sutherland, David Hemmings, Genevieve Bujold, Susan Clark and John Gielgud. The story concerns the tracking by Holmes and Watson with the aid of a psychic (Sutherland) of the infamous Jack the Ripper who was savagely butchering prostitutes in London's East End.

The clues lead Watergatelike to the English throne. THE SHERLOCK HOLMES adventures (Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories and four novels before his death in 1930) have maintained a consistent and enormous level of international popularity. Clark believes it's because "Holmes is an exemplary hero. He dared to say things were either plainly right or Tong. People respond these days to a standard of human conduct and Holmes had standards.

"I think, also, the public just loves murder mysteries and admires the way Holmes solves them. He was classy, if nothing else. One sees the puzzle and watches it unraveled. Doyle's stories are clever, as accessible to the intellectual as to the person who just wants to sit back and enjoy a mystery." three major commercial TV networks. They say they're confident that one will buy it.

The fictional story takes place around Christmas 1948, a decade before Rockwell actually moved to Stockbridge from Vermont. For three hours Sunday, the extras some of whom had once modeled for Rockwell's illustrations of an idealized rural Americana promenaded in 1940s costumes. Children frolicked in the snow and families smiled as they strolled by shop windows. The illustrator had featured scenes of Stockbridge and its residents in many of his most famous works, including some of the hundreds of Saturday Evening Post covers he produced. Beacco says the only way to preserve Stockbridge's bucolic flavor and pristine environment is to keep away filmmakers and others who seek to gain commercially at the expense of the town.

Stockbridge, a town 2,028 that has come under close scrutiny since Rockwell's death here last November at the age of 84, is trying to "de-emphasize" itself, he said. Stockbridge 'De-Emphasizes' By LEE GRANT The Los Angeles Times SAN FRANCISCO A man adorned in the image of Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, Inverness cape, curved-stem pipe approached Bob Clark on the 30th floor of a hotel here. "You are, sir," the figure said in broad British tones, "under suspicion." Clark's smile broke across his cherubic face. He was being put on and enjoying it immensely. The man was a member of the local chapter of the Sherlock Holmes society.

Clark is the director of a new motion picture called "Murder by Decree," the latest cinematic depiction of the famous literary detec- lent throughout, and is the lighting by Barry Bestle and Bill King. Matt's gang is amusing, with George Sherling, Clint Eckstein, Mark Kevin Weaver and David C. Gray, with Gray especially comical. The beggars, mostly young actors, do just fine, and they, and the rest of the cast, do wonders in changing scenery in the quickest and quietest fashion. Supporting players include Bill Brisley, who does well, Rosemary Pappa, who is good as Mrs.

Peachum, Ronald Andrews, a suitable minister, and William B. King, who despite a bit of scene-stealing, succeeds at making the character of the polititcal Tiger Brownboisterous, obsequious, obnoxious and Interesting. Others In the cast are Anne Toronto, Vickie Swan, Monica Fairfax, Carol Welsh, Bonnie Gaynor, and Debbi Rosenthal as the girls, and Kathy Jaeger, Robert Levine, Debbie Muise, Susan Orr, Sandy Rose, Dorothy Rounds, Carol Scherling and Susan Sil-vestci as the beggars. The play is scheduled tonight and next Friday and Saturday, curtain 8:30, at The Barn, which Is on Ridge Road opposite the Fromagerie Restaurant. Unfortunately, a photographer was allowed to continue shooting throughout the entire performance last night, a practice which is best limited to dress rehearsals.

TT; Voices Carry By ED KNOBLAUCH I Special to the Press I RUMSON "Three Penny Opera" is an undertaking for a community 'theatre, with good singers a must if Kurt Weil's beautiful 'music Is to be enjoy-ed. I The Barn Theat-jer's production, rwhich opened last Opinion night, has the voices, and the evening is enjoyable, despite some reservations about the acting. Kenneth J. Hart sings clearly, strongly ind with talent as Macheath, and Jean Toher )rings a captivating tenderness to her songs the role of Polly, Mack's bride. Among the vocal highlights are "What Keeps a Man Alive," by Hart and the entire company, "Mackie and a lovely duet jy Miss Toher and Jody Leitstein, who both perform well, and "Sorry" by Miss Leitstein.

Other standouts are the Street Singer's 'Mack the Knife," sung by Martin Crubman, Hiss Toher's "Pirate Jenny" (the black reighter) and "Useless" by Leonard Saxton. Saxton is especially good as Peachum, seldom raising his voice but commanding 'attention with shrewd insight into the siy character who operates the school for beggars and engineers Macheath's capture. i Hart, by contrast, plays Macheath with an excess of venom, the harshness of the tone of his voice detracting from what otherwise would be an altogether convincing performance. Hart looks the part, sinisterly handsome, and he is in command throughout. But director Calvin McClinton has failed to instill variety in the character, with Hart coming on so strong early on that by the time he rages for help from his cronies as he awaits the gallows, the thrust of Macheath's violence is lessened.

Hart consistently demonstrates the intelligence and ability necessary for the role, and taken into tow by the director, he could easily improve the interpretation before the end of the play's run. Similarly, some of the girls in the brothel in London's Soho district would be more believable if they acted less broadly. There's not much seduction in a brothel, and the girls try too hard to make it appear there is. Jenny, for instance, sung nicely by by Maura Minton, would be more realistic if Miss Minton emphasized her betraying nature more than her glamour. But that might be beyond her, for Miss Minton is undeniably glamorous, with her youth and her natural appeal perhaps working against her In this role.

Pianist Linda McCall's playing is excel STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) It's not every day that this quaint little town in the Berkshire Hills, known as the setting for many of the late Norman Rockwell's paintings, turns into an outdoor movie studio. And if one official has his way, it won't happen too often. "We are very proud to have people like New York City film producers come up here," says John Beacco chairman of the town's Board of Selectmen. "But it's the sort of thing we are exactly trying to discourage.

"If we don't, our beauty is going to fade away." Beacco made his comments this week a day after two New York filmmakers turned the town topsy-turvy by filling Main Street with film gear, antique cars, horse-drawn buggies and 15 townspeople hired as extras. Helped by a dusting of snow last weekend, Richard Barclay and Robert Deubel of New York, who run Concepts Unlimited began preliminary work at dawn Sunday on "A Christmas Story." It is a two-hour movie they plan to film here in March, then put up for bid among the.