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PlayBILL OF FARE by Emory Lewis
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IF you are properly garbed in the 1930's mode of the moment, then you must rush immediately to the right setting -- L'Etoile at 1 East 59th Street. With its high-ceilinged and multi-leveled rooms, gleaming chrome and glass, and silvery wallpaper, it's a scene from a Constance Bennett talking picture. There are several options at L'Etoile. You can stop by for a drink at the handsome new bar; you can dine leisurely; you can enjoy a casual after-theatre snack; you can dance madly into the night at the downstairs discotheque. The food is praiseworthy, and I can devoutly recommend the omelette with smoked salmon or the veal Orloff. The desserts, ice creams, and sherberts are made on the premises. Visit the provocatively sinful pastry display and select for yourself.

THERE'S a new start in the gastronomic firmament, and he is a young Swiss chef named Hans Egg. He is, I fervently believe, the most imaginative, witty, and inspired culinary discovery in several seasons. He is not afraid to combine fruit and nuts with veal, fowl, steak, and seafood in startling and delightful ways. His magic is practiced nightly at Martell's, 1469 Third Avenue (83rd Street). The breast of chicken (sauteed in apple jack sauce with dried raisins), the seafood curry (with pineapple), and the diced chicken and grapefruit (with raisins and honey sauce) are among my favorites. Martell's, now graced by bona fide members of Upper Bohemia in all their wondrous raiment, is an outgrowth of a venerable Yorkville neighborhood saloon. The handsomely paneled pub is casually decorated with paintings, cartoons, posters, and a reading rack of international journals.

TUCKED away in a corner of the garment district at 162 West 36th Street, Bon

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Vivant is amazingly little-known outside the trade. Actually, it's a superlative steak house. It is elegant in a slightly overdressed manner, and the very English maitre d', Cooper, is almost forbiddingly proper. The filet of prime beef en brochette, on a bed of rice with a crisp salad, is an extraordinary bargain for $6.75. Whenever I have been lingering too long over Gallic sauces, I invariably head here for the honest, hearty, and very special sandwich. It's $4.25, and it contains corned brisket of beef, fresh chopped chicken liver (chicken fat), lettuce, tomato, and a superb slaw. Closed Sundays.

AFTER bravos for Balanchine and Beverly Sills, I often add another round of cheers for the delicious baby spareribs, marinated and roasted, at Mrs. J's Sacred Cow, a few blocks away from Lincoln Center at 228 West 72nd Street. In the boom town known as the West Side, where culture and good food are now found in glorious profusion, Mrs. J's Sacred Cow is deservedly popular. Prime sirloin and seafood are spotlighted, along with a pianist who suavely interprets show tunes. Now and then a mini-skirted waitress with Broadway on her mind will sing a melody or two.

FOR those with suppressed desires to slink down a curving staircase in the best Bankhead tradition, the place to realize your dreams is the Girafe, a lovely duplex at 208 East 58th Street. A few discreetly placed potted palms, a photo mural of Kenya, and an armoire of ceramic animals are grace notes in this pleasingly understated inn. The food, too, is fine, and I recall a subtly seasoned seafood coquille and a properly tingly Andalusian gazpacho. The salads, notably a seasonal rugola and endive, are splendid. The Girafe is open for lunch and dinner, but never on Sunday.

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CHARLES GORDONE (Author and Director) was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1926 and raised in Elkhart, Indiana. Following two years in the U.S. Air Force, he attended California State College in Los Angeles. Upon graduation in 1952, he headed east to pursue an acting career and made his first Broadway appearance that year in Moss Hart's The Climate of Eden. In 1955, he was once again on Broadway in Mrs. Patterson. In 1960, he was in the original Off-Broadway production of Jean Genet's The Blacks. As an actor, his other Off-Broadway credits include the title role in Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero and Luther James' all black revival of Steinbecks's Of Mice and Men for which he won an award as Best Actor of the Year Off-Broadway. Among the many plays that he has directed, he staged the first production, Faust at the Judson Poet's Theatre. Mr. Gordone was founder and co-chairman, with Godfrey Cambridge, of the Committee for the Employment of Negro Performers and was the associate producer of the the film, Nothing But A Man. In addition to the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for drama, he received the Drama Desk Award for most promising playwright. He has recently received awards from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle and from the National Institute of Arts & Letters for distinguished playwriting.

ASTON SPRINGER was born in Harlem and grew up in the Bronx. He and Jeanne Warner first met as classmates at Ohio State University. He was a Youth Counsellor at the Juvenile Diagnostic Center in Columbus, Ohio. On his return to New York, he was director of a Bronx Youth Center, then retired as a social worker to go into a variety of businesses. Among these was the first coin-operated laundromat in New York. Mr. Springer was the co-producer with Jeanne Warner of Gordone Is A Muthah, a program of Mr. Gordone's monologues and poems which was performed at Carnagie Hall in 1969, and will come to Broadway later this season. He is busy along with Miss

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Warner preparing a new play, Moonlight File, for a Broadway production in November.

JEANNE WARNER graduated from Ohio State University's School of Nursing in her native Columbus, Ohio. For the past 12 years she has worked closely with her husband, Charles Gordone, in various productions. Jeanne Warner was the original producer of No Place To Be Somebody in two showcase performances at the Sheridan Square Playhouse in 1967: Unable to find funds or a co-producer after a year and half, the Gordones accepted Joseph Papp's invitation to present the play at the New York Shakespeare Festival's Public Theater. The Gordones have a seven-year-old daughter, Leah Carla.

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Staff for NO PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY
Company Manager ............. Clayton Coots
Press Representative ............ Howard Atlee
Associate Press Representative
David Roggensack
Press Assistants .. Irene Gandy, Joseph Allsopp
Production Stage Manager
Garland Lee Thompson
Stage Manager ............... Malcolm Hurd
Management Associate ............ John Corkill
Legal Counsel ............. Linden & Deutsch
Merchandising ...... On The Spot Productions
Public Relations Coordinator .... Sonya Hoover

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STAFF FOR MOROSCO THEATRE
Managing Director ... LESTER OSTERMAN
General Manager ...... RICHARD HORNER
Comptroller .................... Allan Francis
Manager ..........................Al Jones
Treasurer ................. Carmine Loiacono
Assistant Treasurers .......... Peter Attanasio
Joseph Scanapicco
Propertyman .................. Herman Gates
Carpenter ................... J.F. Maher, Jr.
Electrician ................. Joseph J. Maher

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CREDITS
Briefcases courtesy Apex Leather Mfg. Co. Anchor Hocking Glass Corp. products used. Cutty Sark Scotch Whiskey used. Pepsi-Cola Products used. Miller High Life Beer and Marlboro cigarettes used.

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House Physician .. Dr. Benjamin A Gilbert

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The taking of pictures or the operating of any recording device in this theatre is strictly forbidden.