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Friday, April 9, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Arts & Entertainment
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENEF
Tapestry patterns
A collection of Fabric Design International works at the Kansas Union Gallery displays a variety of textile printing and dyeing methods. The display, which consists
entirely of professional works, parallels a similar display of student tapestries at the Lawrce Public Library.
Beauty marks textiles
A combination of graphic design and artistic beauty marks the works of two textile exhibits on display in conjunction with the Surface Design Conference.
By MARY ANN HUDDLESTON
Fabric Design International, in the Kansas Union Gallery, comprises 36 works by professional designers and teachers from all over the country.
That combination has produced some visually stunning results.
THE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT Fabric Design Competition, at the Lawrence Public Library, exhibits 39 works by students from universities and art schools. The University of Kansas students have works exhibited there.
Each of the works reveals the artist's concern for aesthetics. He is well as design, with careful attention paid to color and
Displays such as these demonstrate beautifully that textile printing and dyeing belongs as much to the realm of fine arts as to the home economics department.
Several of the professional works in the Union Gallery are
quilted screenprints. The most beautiful of these are by Leonor Davis of Buffalo, N.Y., entitled "seeding" and "Angel Women."
BOTH WORKS, machine-quilted on cotton velveteteen, are among seven named to the Judges' Selection of Exception. Quality. *Angel* *Aesthetics* unusual depiction of angels in high-heeled shoes hovering on a lush green earth.
Another outstanding judges' selection is "Seasons: Fall," by Patricia Dreher, a professional from Moyan, Pa. Done by her husband, she application on unbleached cotton, it depicts the goddesses classically posed among the trees. Their bodies and the bases of the trees are floral in the rushes and golds of fall.
THE STUDENTS' exhibit equals, and perhaps surpasses, the caliber of work in the professional exhibit.
The works by KU students Barbie Douglass and Missy Crawford, the authors of *junions*; and Shigeko Spear, Lawrence senior, are of good quality but they lack some of concern in their intellectual inclusion.
Douglass" "Ship Wreck" is a sinking ship block-printed on
cotton with Speedball oil ink.
The muted blues, grays and greens make an effective, watery background.
"Competition with Wax and Dye" by Goodell demonstrates an unusual technique with an abstract batik print in the background of a brilliant red done in direct application.
"Melvaig," by Elizabeth Munro, student at Texas Christian University, resembles an abstracted Japanese floral design. She uses flower shapes on a striking flower shape on a striking black and white background.
Oriental themes are prevalent in both exhibits.
SPEAR'S SCREENPRINT technique in "Spring Ocean" lends itself to highly stylized fish and waves.
Chunghu Choo, professor of metalmasonting at the University of Iowa, said, "It was challenged when we moved from new in and unfamiliar ways."
Comments by the exhibits' two jurors summarize the impact of these exhibits on design as an art form.
Movie's many weaknesses trivial to children viewers
Janet Levin, associate professor of textile arts at the University of California, crafts in Oakland, said, "Siblings like the present one make it possible for art forms, such as sculpture, to be recognized and to grow."
By CHUCK SACK
Reviewer
Several years ago, film critic Andrew Sarris published a collection of his reviews titled "Confessions of my mistress" and honored of his writing, but Sarris' phrase has stuck with him. As an occasional opinion-giver myself, I've often wondered if I don't unwilly more about myself than do about my subjects in this column.
So let me confess a few things. In the two hours I allotted to compose my comments, I requested. Should I let it out that I think that Stanley Kubrick is a shallow-over-rated fraud? How can I deal with a new Nicholson film that has been out for three months already? And I dread that I have to review a new Bererman film.
The trouble is, none of my
So I am genuinely relieved when my editor assign me an assignment, and I'm in Bears. It's a guaranteed success, has no hallowed director, is fairly anonymous, my editor has my full critical abilities to bear.
The charm of the kids isn't exactly what makes "Bears" work, either. Tatum O'Neal of *Nickelodeon* and Alfred W. Lutter of "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" is the head benchwarmer, but the rest of the team is made of kid glasses, who been in a feature film before.
The fact that none of these kids shows any evidence of method acting is a minor pleasure, and adding Walter
finely honed tools can do the job. The directing is awkward, the acting too obvious, and the script is packed with schaltz and spur-of-the-moment moves, in matters, because "Bad News Bears" is a children's film that works.
The "Bad News Bears" are a group of improbable little league baseball players. In their first game they lose 26-0 when their coach forfeits after one hour and 45 minutes. The Bears haven't even had their first win by the championship they make it to the championship game at the end of the season.
Matthau as the coach helps too. But the key to "Bad News Bears" is that the kids really act like children. Undoubtedly this will cause some anxious moments for some parents. The kids are clearly not lightly profane the way youngsters of that age are.
That's why it is useless to go into great detail about the film's shortcomings. The people who will respond to it best could care less and more effectively understated camerawork. They'll be too wrapped up in the taxing problems of deciding who on the team needs supporters, and whether the player needs her first bra.
It doesn't matter to this audience that director Michael Ritchie and screenwriter Bill Lancaster probably thought they were creating a story about a group of misfits instead of a portrait of average boys and girls. They will love it.
Meanwhile, I'm left worrying about the review for Ingmar Bergman's "The Magic Flute." I'll have to confess for that?
(8 p.m. Thursday at Off-the Wall Hall)
MILLIONAIRE AT MID NIGHT; Rock 'n' roll with theatrical touches by a local group made up of some former members.
DAYHILLS: A band from Ireland that plays riddle fiddle and string guitar with flute. Walk on amateurs will be allowed to perform between
(8:30 tonight in the Hawk's Nest)
Highlights
EUGENE FODOR: This 24-year-old violin virtuoso has been called the "Mick Jagger of the World" and won the winner, the first from the Western world, in the International Chalkovski Violin Competition.
CHAMBER CHOIR: James Ralston, professor of choral music, will conduct the chamber choir in Mozart's "Coronation Mass" and "Solem Vespers." They will be accompanied by the Lawrence Chamber Players. Players in the University Theatre)
(8 tonight and tomorrow night at Off-the-Wall Hall)
BILLY SPEARS BAND: A BAN-
dler, grass-grader Spears,
put together a band of
guitar and band and has been touring the country. He returns to
touring with the band.
barely resembles the original image he had pictured. Started more than a century ago, this is one medium which has snowballed in popularity to the point that it has become a picture-oriented society. The importance of photography can only increase in years to come.
(8 p.m. Wednesday in Hoch Auditorium)
Concerts
GLADIATORS AND
CULDEN: Two films by
director Peter Watkins. The
film explores the futurized
priorities, and centers on
televised combat games. The
second reconstructs the
destruction of the Scottish
and Clan China after the 1745
Jacobite Ursuline.
Films
(8 tonight, tomorrow night and Sunday night at Oliver Hall)
BELLS ARE RINGING: A musical comedy with a plot of romance and intrigue, produced almost entirely by Oliver Hall
The Ninth Annual University Photo Contest, sponsored by SUA and the photojournalism sequence in the School of Journalism, is an opportunity to show your skills and creativity.
FACULTY RECITAL:
MFA in Business
faculty member in the department of organ this semester,
will perform a program of
bioassays.
THE BIG HEAT: Glen Foro stars as an idealistic police
IT'S A SHAME the contest aren't being displayed in the press, but where they had been in the past. The bank offers quite adequate display facilities, but it's not always suitable for students as the Union.
COLONEL SELLERS: En-
tirely the name of a boy.
Age in the form of two plays:
"Colonel Sellers" is a study of a
character from Shakespeare's
*Graded. Age.*, "Slasher
and Crashor" consists of an old
time farce and a "surprise" for
a boy.
(8 tonight and tomorrow night in the Inge Theatre)
More than 150 photos were entered in seven categories in the University Terrace State Bank, selected as winners. They are being displayed at the University Terrace State Bank, until the first week in August.
Recitals
(8 p.m. Monday in Swarthout Recital Hall)
The seven categories are grand prize (overall), news-feature, picture stories, scenic, sports, portraits and abstract. The two contest judges were photographers from news wire agencies, resulting in the three most realistic, or people-oriented, pictures for the winning photographs.
WAR GAME and PRIVILEGE: Another Watkins double-bill, WAR GAME is a made-for TV movie that depicts the struggle of those who have on England. PRIVILEGE is a commercial film starring Paul Jones and Jean Shrimpin. In 1966 it shared one of the prizes at the Cannes Film Festival with Antonion's "Blow Joe."
Theater
photography as an art form. "You just get the light reading, take the picture, and get it processed and printed," they say. "What could be simpler?" As a multitude of variable lenses, even a video photographer, and the image one records on film sometimes
By BILL UYEKI Staff Writer
detective whose anticrise campaign turns into a personal vendetta after the murder of his wife
The exceptions were the photos in the scenic and abstract categories. In these groups, the subject of the pic-
Photo winners display variety of talents
9TH INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL: A top-choice selection of all types of animation from all over the world.
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S
MEN: Roberti Redford and
Hoffman Journalist
debted store, the White House, that is.
Alan Pakula directed, with
Jason Robards, Martina Balsamiel
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING: John Huston has finally realized his dream project, and he will have to share Sean Connery and Michael Caine's Tweedledum and Tweedleedum camaraderie is perfectly suited to this exotic, rugged moral, adventure story.
PHANTOM OF THE PHARASE Brian Farrington's manic park rock'n'grip features Paul Williams and William Finley as last years' star.
both magic and priceless moments in human emotion. The fleeting, spontaneous laughter of a child has been captured in these photos by the two Kansan staff photographers.
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THE THREE WINNERS in this group possessed the required qualities. Mike Campbell expresses the easygoing atmosphere in an old men's domino game, and Wally Bogar captures the emotions of a church revival service. Perhaps most stunning of the contest entries is Jay Bogar's third-place photo story on the delivery of a child—from start to finish. Contrasting Joy and gratitude—are all conveyed in this revealing story.
Dave Crenshaw's and Don Pierce's winning shots in the news feature category capture
Picture stories, used often in full-page spreads in magazines and newspapers, require a different approach from that of single photographs. The artist captures the certain nuance, intimacy, flow and dominant subject themes throughout the story.
THERE PROBABLY WILL continue to be critics of
Stan Pittman's second and third place scenic color pictures are examples of this. In one of them, he portrays the motion of a carnival ride with a skillful blur shot.
ture is not emphasized as much as how the photographer interprets the subject's meaning and how the subject's is conveyed to the viewer.
This picture, taken by Dave Crenshaw after a minor traffic accident on campus last fall, is the grand prize winner in the Ninth Annual Photography Contest, sponsored by SUA and the School of
Collision winner
Festival turnout is disappointing
By KELLY SCOTT
Staff Writer
It's going to be hard for me to sympatize with people who complain that they can't find a way to work with them after witnessing the attendance at the three events sponsored by SUA this week from the abor-
In the space of four days, Both Auditorium was the scene of a concert by the orchestra concert, a speech by a bestselling and well-respected author.
The poor showing was embarrassing to the people who did attend but it did not prevent us of excellent entertainment.
The chamber orchestra, directed by Dicker Kober, filled Hoch with as rich a sound as many full orchestras. The audience, which was evidently captivated, refrained from applause between movements of Mozart's "Serenade No. 10 in Bflat major," applauded between the first three. Director Kober was delighted, and prefaced the four remaining movements with whimsical discourse on what the audience was about to hear.
Yet perhaps 200 people attended the Chicago Chamber Conference over 100 heard George Plimpton Monday, and 450 watched the American Chamber Ballet on its seating capacity is 3.800.
The audience loved Kober's
commentary, and the titters and guffaws of some of the musicians indicated that the orchestra did also.
Four members of the orchestra teamed up for Charles Knox's "Solo for Trumpet and Winds," which was billed as a Bicentennial salute. The last selection was a sprightly "Serenade in D minor, by Danny Brown," film out into the spring evening, most of us felt we had spent a special evening.
One needn't have been a sports fan to enjoy George Plimpton the next night.
Plimpton charmed his small audience with his wit, his intelligent perceptions of sport and some terribly funny anecdotes of his work as a lawyer. "One—who lives" his stories.
The house lights were up for most of his talk, so Plimpton saw how few people were in the audience. He still spoke enthusiastically, and the meager audience responded. After his extemporaneous remarks and a slide show of his more ridiculous moments in sports, he talked for an hour or two minutes taking questions from the floor and giving each a thorough, thoughtful answer.
The American Ballet juxtaposed the classical with the modern for an interesting effect in their performance Wed-
It was a young, inventive group giving equal time to new
forms of ballet while paying homage to the masters.
Two of the classical dances were well-danced and polished. "Le Pas De Quatre," by Pugru, was a beautiful and fanciful opening dance. "Moonstone," an original dance choreographed to the music of Tchaikovsky by the troupe's band. Benoît featured the troupe's best dancer. Sally True-Oligiby in a romantic portrayal of youthful emotion.
Benjamin also choreographed the best of the modern ballet that was danced, "Portrait," in 1974. He was fascinated to watch as they presented first a classical number and then a brash, modern exercise. The last performance presented at KU was in 1974.
It's questionable whether KU
Certainly the Festival suffered this year when big name attractions Herbie Hanck and Catherine Schwarz contracts with SUA. It broke the spell of the planned week-long event, and it seemed it to three separate events.
People who bought festival coupons and who probably would have attended several of the attractions, didn't. Coupons for each ticket would give tickets to the events had to be purchased. Given a second chance to consider whether they really had time or could afford it, many people probably just $3 and headed for the Wheel.
Carol Poulson, director of this year's festival, isn't sure.
wants a Festival of the Arts, or deserves the hard work of the people who endeavor each year to put one on.
Part of the problem, Poulson said, may lie in the stigma that is now attached to the festival.
"People say sure, it's a good idea," but nobody shows up. Pooul said Wednesday. "KU players for not showing up to concerts."
“It's going to be hard to sell the idea again,” she said. “After the disappointment last year and now this year, people give up. In fact, they give up too easily.”
Poulson said the cancellation of Hancock and Hampton made the difference between a successful festival and what happened this week.
"If we could have kept the entertainment and kept the prices down, I think it would be better," she said. "Harcock would have sold out." It isn't just the students who have failed to support the various artists who come to KU. Students who are involved at the events they. Are, after all, part of the university community.
"When you're in a college town, things are relatively cheap to go and see. Poulson went out to City and tried to see any of those three, it would cost you much more. It's just disappointing that more people won't take vacations with jobs that do come to Lawrence."
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