Daniel Berrigan, an American Jesuit active in political movements against the Vietnam War and nuclear armament, is making his acting debut in "The Mission" He plays one of the missionaries "This is not just history" Berrigan says. Highlights included O'Dette and Collard's exquisite playing of three lute duets by John Johnson, John Daniel and an anonymous composer of the period; O'Dette's two impressive lute solos "Lord Hay's Coronto" and Edward Collard's "As I Went to Walsingham) and the unaccompanied vocal trio, "Of all the birds" sung by Van Evera, O'Dette and Lyle Nordstrom. Having served as artistic director of the Central Ballet from 1977 to 1980, Dai now holds the title of artistic adviser. And how about her husband's black jive talk? "Girl, you crazy? Ain't no way you can mess with any of dem dudes and live to brag about it" Is he sure about that? "Sho, I'm sure" Parts Two and Three (9-11 p. m. while listening to "We Are the World" Months ago, more than 175 syndicated cartoonists pledged today's panels to USA for Africa and, as a result, every newspaper cartoon character from Mike Doonesbury to Hagar the Horrible is force-feeding readers thought balloons filled with anti-famine polemics instead of turkey humor.

Richman similarly brought out strong qualities in a more dramatic work for similar forces, Carlos Rodriguez's 18-minute "Night Songs" The remainder of the program was devoted to examples of recent, and promising, chamber music. In the summer of 1986, Vazzana will be in residence at the Montalvo Center for the Arts, where he plans to fulfill several commissions, including a setting for voice and chamber ensemble of poems by Jacob Zeitlin Benjamin Lees' Symphony No. Budgeted at $55,000, "Murder" is hardly as elaborate as the long-running Broadway "Dracula" that won Gorey a Tony Award in 1978. A disorderly debate about contract negotiating strategy is in progress. May 9, Room B210, 2 p. m: Closing Moments: Joji Yuasa's chamber music, Merce Cunningham's choreography, Nam June Paik's video art and Toru Takemitsu's piano music (pianist Cecil Lytle.

She plays "Ginger" a widowed grandmother who had once been half of a popular dance team that imitated Rogers and Astaire during World War II. Two new exhibitions at UCLA's Wight gallery: "The Artist and The Quilt" and "May Stevens: Ordinary/Extraordinary, A Summation 1977 -1984" The first show presents 20 quilts designed by prominent contemporary women artists such as Miram Shapiro and Betye Saar and executed by expert needleworkers. "Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour" (Warner Music, $29. 98, shot in Detroit last spring, is out this week. Not as far as performers are concerned-most of the BAM principals "seem to be available" in August The dilemma involves securing a theater for the production.

One afternoon, at his home in Bel-Air, White-as usual affable but somewhat reserved-set the record straight about EWF "The band is on hiatus" he said "We had worked together for over 12 years It's just time to do things on our own. "Larry could have been integrated into more dances" Mann allows. Recently he turned down opportunities to produce Eddie Murphy and the Rolling Stones because he couldn't find the time and they weren't willing to wait. Jack Reilly is usually known for his mixed-media wall reliefs, where overlapping, asymmetrical shapes in various metallic finishes are juxtaposed with rainbow-colored calligraphies. Nor does he take any inspiration from the legions of those Bay Area bastions, Bierce and Twain. Instead, we get a swift-paced Mack Sennett sketch, and Shawn Michaels' production does nothing to alter that.

A fund-raising office has been set up in Tokyo with a supporting committee that includes three former Japanese ambassadors to Britain. . "It's a music that's universal" Ives, however, hasn't abandoned the regular concert circuit, one of his mainstays since the 1940s. "Cunningham Dance Technique, Elementary Level" is expensive$200 for 35 minutes-but, like most of his tapes, it will find its way to libraries, dance departments and festivals. But that's a sentiment more easily voiced than accomplished, as witnessed by the hundreds of undistinguished bands churning out characterless three-chord blues riffs. John DiFusco's Vietnam drama seemed almost complacent at the Coronet, next to what it had been four years ago at the Odyssey-precisely in the way of a veteran who is starting to forget the horrors of war in his nostalgia for its camaraderie Nevertheless, the piece had made a proud journey. Today's Trier unfolds layer upon layer of a history that began 2,001 years ago when the Romans founded the city.

Part of the Fuegos' problem may have been the fact that they followed an unadvertised opening set by X, marking the group's first L. A. In 1976, retired Beverly Hills undercover officer Lynn Franklin and co-author Maury Green (former television journalist and educator) wrote a book called "Sawed-Off Justice" recounting Franklin's experiences on the force. Now, Revtrad is not a particularly euphonious word, but it does have the virtue of sounding both a bit like "retread" and like Newspeak, that Orwellian double-tracking language where everything is the opposite of the way it is described "War is Peace" and all that. Every once in a while, you're downwind of some tropical plant that eerily fills the air with an aroma like frying onions and bell peppers, the foundation of the local French-African-Caribbean cuisine. It's up 500 or more in the last half-dozen years, and the larger the base, the more democratic an election has to be, the less subject to voting blocks of young or old, left or right.

That's a hope" But it's the social aspect of a curator's job that spills most conspicuously into his private life. The narrative impulse is alive and well, thanks to Loyola Marymount University, which, for the third consecutive year, has sponsored a project called "Story Dancing in the 21st Century" In fact, local choreographers took so much creative stimulation from this nudge toward tale-telling that their collected works-seen Friday at the Westchester campus-made one regret a single, disproportionately long, ethnic extravaganza that hardly fit the program specifications. Have a nice creamy Ricci or a tangy Mielich, and if you wish to be astonished by understated greatness there is Quentin Massy's idealistic "Portrait of a Canon" If you have tears of delight prepare to shed them among the princely paintings. He said that although CBS doubtless will try to make the Sawyer-Shriver duo a success, they face tough competition. "My own personal choice is the modern violin, though the instrument I play was actually built before Bach wrote these sonatas and partitas. "We talked with television people, who said they would be interested in using this kind of information" LeeMaster said. If he is lucky, and it won't be easy, he may even survive the slings and arrows of that outrageous band that tortured him, and us, at the Academy Awards puff orgy Now it may be backlash time A few unlikely experts actually are devaluing old Wolfi.

Being able to help people is one reason she doesn't mind taking on a serious role. In the end, it was not even his final cut and you were left with a baffling story and some sequences that were manifestly the work of an old master. Working in a variety of media, Gorman has amassed enormous commercial and public success while being largely dismissed by most critics as someone who's in art for about the same reasons that Denny's is in food. Hepburn did read the script, a dark comedy about an elderly woman who becomes the adopted mother of the hit man (Nick Nolte) she hires to kill her, and she did agree to play the role written for her. After Mills College, the aspiring artist entered Yale University in 1963.

Ava Gardner, yet another of the Shaw wives, refused to be interviewed. If it looks good, they'll be more likely to stop and watch" Each of the "Jobs for You" shows features a guest, including Pilar (former Mrs. Matters such as news documentaries, TV critics and his October offer to buy CBS News, his employer since 1948. But it implies psychological insight and there isn't any, just an aura of cultivated gentleness. Put them all in an abandoned school for children with learning disabilities, and what do you have? The Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music-more commonly referred to by its friends as the Israeli College of Rock 'n' Roll. To the producers, it sometimes seems as if the censors are protecting people who don't need or want protection. This subdued demeanor would seem surprising to regular viewers of "After Hours" considering the program's crisp, energetic format that has a huge irreverent streak.