ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT REPORTS FROM THE TIMES, NEWS SERVICES AND THE NATION’S PRESS.

TELEVISION

Sabrina, the Prequel: ABC, No. 1 in the ratings among the broadcast networks on Saturday mornings, will largely stick with what’s working next season, adding only one new children’s series: an animated version of its prime-time hit “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.” The cartoon, called “Sabrina, the Animated Series,” is a prequel to the live-action show, featuring its heroine as a seventh-grader. She’ll be voiced by Emily Hart, younger sister of Melissa Joan Hart, who stars in the prime-time “Sabrina.” Melissa instead will provide the voices of Sabrina’s two aunts. Meantime, returning to the ABC Saturday lineup will be “Mickey MouseWorks,” “Squigglevision,” “The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh,” “The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show,” “Hercules” and “Disney’s One Saturday Morning,” consisting of “Doug,” “Recess” and “Pepper Ann.”

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Before There Were Soccer Moms: In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of congressional passage of the 19th Amendment--and in anticipation of a Ken Burns documentary airing on PBS on Nov. 7 and 8, “Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony”--a new poll shows that 74% of Americans do not know when women won the right to vote (1920). The poll--conducted by New York-based Global Strategy Group for General Motors, a major funder of Burns’ documentaries--also showed that 93% of those surveyed could not identify the two creators of the women’s rights movement, Stanton and Anthony. “Imagine not knowing who George Washington or Abraham Lincoln were,” Burns said. “[Cady and Stanton] not only won the right to vote for American women, though they didn’t live to see it, but they broke the social, economic and cultural shackles that forced second-class citizenship on half of the population.”

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Casting Call: The Nickelodeon cable network will hold an open casting call for the pilot filming of “Brothers Garcia” on Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. at Nick-on-Sunset, 6230 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood. Similar to the long-running series “The Wonder Years,” “Brothers Garcia” will feature a middle-class Latino family with three young boys and a girl.

LEGAL FILE

‘Book of Hours’ Dispute: The heirs of Alphonse Kann, a prominent Jewish art collector who lived near Paris during World War II, filed a $15 million lawsuit Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court against the renowned Wildenstein Gallery seeking return of rare illuminated manuscripts stolen by the Nazis and displayed for sale at the gallery in New York. The civil lawsuit alleges that eight manuscripts known as “Books of Hours” were part of the Kann collection looted by the Nazis in 1940. Claiming that the Kann heirs are mistaken, Wildenstein Gallery lawyer Richard Bernstein said the Wildensteins can prove they are the rightful owners of the manuscripts.

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Paying Up: Former “Diff’rent Strokes” star Gary Coleman unexpectedly showed up in court in Inglewood to pay a $400 fine for punching an autograph-seeker. Coleman, 30, paid the fine on Monday. He had been arrested 17 days earlier on a bench warrant issued after he failed to pay. Coleman, who played Arnold on the sitcom that ran from 1978 to 1986, pleaded no contest five months ago to disturbing the peace for a confrontation the diminutive former child actor had with Tracy Fields, who wanted an autograph.

PEOPLE

Lennon’s Coat: A cashmere coat worn by John Lennon didn’t fetch nearly as much as hoped at an auction in Bristol, England, on Tuesday. The navy blue coat with velvet-trimmed collar and cuffs sold for $5,760. It was thought the coat, which was worn by Lennon at the height of Beatlemania in 1964, could go for as much as $160,000. The buyer, Larry Castle, an antiques dealer from Hallatrow, England, said he plans to resell it in London.

MUSIC

Seeking a Few Good Women: The Washington Chamber Symphony is looking for female instrumentalists, 18 or younger, to play in its Viva Vivaldi concert at the Kennedy Center in May. The idea is to re-create the 18th century Italian composer’s All-Girl Orchestra, which he founded when he was music director at La Pieta, an orphanage for girls in Venice. The concert is scheduled for May 21; the previous event, in 1998, drew a standing-room-only crowd of 2,500 to the concert hall of the John F. Kennedy Center.

QUICK TAKES

Henry Winkler, John Ritter and Veanne Cox will be half of the cast of Neil Simon’s “The Dinner Party,” opening Dec. 2 at the Mark Taper Forum, with other names still to be announced . . . Rock legend Pete Townshend and Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder team up for a rare performance together on the “Late Show With David Letterman” on CBS at 11:35 tonight. The duo will perform the Townshend song “Heart to Hang On To” . . . In a tribute to Nickelodeon, the Museum of Television & Radio in Beverly Hills will present a family event at 1:30 p.m. Thursday featuring Josh Server from “All That,” Tommy from “Rugrats” and “one lucky sliming victim” from the audience. It’s free . . . Insane Clown Posse’s concert Tuesday night at the Shrine Exposition Hall was canceled because of a scheduling conflict with the Detroit-based rap group. A spokesman for Goldenvoice, the show’s promoter, said it was uncertain whether the show would be rescheduled. Refunds are available at point of purchase.