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Entertainment%u2019s the thing inPark Slope this fall as the GalleryPlayers, the Slope%u2019s residenttheatre company, opens itsthirteenth season with a threeweekend presentation ofHungarian playwrite FerencMolnar%u2019s %u201c The Play%u2019s The Thing,%u201dadapted by P.G. Wodehouse.The play is a light, fluffy andfarcil work which, beneath itsfrivolous, easy exterior ispossessed of a frivolous, easyinterior. The comedy has %u201c nothingon its mind but the lightest sort oflaughter,%u201d assures director MaryRuth Goodley. %u201c It never takesitself too seriously.%u201dThe Gallery Players present %u201c The Play%u2019s the Thing,%u201d Sept. 8, 14, 15, 21 and 22, at 8pm. Sept 9, 16, and 23 at 3pm, in the Old First Reformed Church, 126 Carroll St. Admission is S3 & $2 students and seniors. For information and reservations call 499- 8239.Playing The Play%u2019s The ThingSeaside Celebrations At The SeaportUrbanites need not flee New York for their final summersling! This Sunday, our waterside backyard will be transformedinto a cornucopia of old-fashioned treats as South Street Seaportpresents its %u201c Old New York%u201d Labor Day festival.The day-long celebration will take place along Fulton andJohn Streets as well as on East River%u2019s Pier 15. The Great SwampJazz Band will hail the back-to-work holiday on Fulton Street from1 to 5 p.m., providing background tunes for games, activities, andedible delights. The Cumeezi Bozo Ensemble will clown aroundwith the crowd from 3 to 5 p.m., while kids paint their faces tolook like them at a special booth.Festivities for children will abound -- a watermelon eatingcontest, pony-pulled buggy rides, a fish printing workshop, andmore. And hungry tots and parents will munch on foods fromMexico, Italy, Spain, the Middle East, Orient, and Southern U.S.A.While watching a performance of Aesop's Fables by the PokoPuppets at 3 p.m., audiences can savor knockwurst, knishes, andbits of traditional carnival treats, washed down with lemonade,beer, and egg creams.To get to the seaside celebration, take the IRT 2, 3, 4, 5, toFulton Street; J or M to Fulton Street; A to Broadway-Nassau; RRto Cortland Street. By bus, take the M15 to Fulton Street.Admission to the festival is free, but there will be small charge forsjome of the games and workshops. %u2014 D.B.--The streets will explode with colors, theAtmosphere will throb with calypso rhythms, WPand the air will be filled with the delectable:;,;,,aroma of shishkebab, spinach pies, meat 1^':atties and other goodies. Even the man on %u201cstilts will join the crowd in dancing to the beatof the steel drums.The occasion? This year%u2019s September 3rdt Indian American Day Festival will turnParkway into the site of a bigger thanfe parade and extravaganza featuring floats,music, colorful costumes, and exotic foods.West Indian Day Festivities: The parade w ill run Labor Day, Sept. 3rd from Utica Ave. to the Brooklyn Museum on Eastern Parkway, starting at 1:30pm. Aiso a Kiddies Carnevaie.Sept. 1-2, 1-4pm in the Museum Parking Lot, and concerts cr, the evenings of Sept. 1 end Sent tmSlJEasternf %u25a0 %u25a0.%u25a0Pk: ' ^%u25a0isssAug. 30,1979, The PHOENIX, Page 13