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Friday, March 12, 1976
University Dally Kansan
Arts & Entertainment
Wit,style identify parody collection
By JACK FISCHER
"Guilty Pleasures." By Donald Barthelmine. New York Delta Publishing Co., Inc., 1978
This collection of 24 short essays and parodies reveals not a different Donald Barthelein than is perceived in his earlier work, the product of a different point of departure for the author.
Overmodestly, considering the accuracy of each literary jab and taunt, he goes on to say that "one always apologizes for writing parodies; it is a crime only a little higher on the scale of literary activity than plagiarism."
Not withstanding this self-
efacement, "Gullity Pleasures"
offers readers, who had
previously been baffled by
Barbellhe's work, an easy
conversion to the author's wi
and style.
In the foreword, Bartheleme indicates that the pieces are something less than a serious endeavor and says they "were made to be able to work in and in response to all sorts of stimuli and over-stimul."
In the piece "L'Lapse," subtitled *A Scenario for* Barbara deltoy and Barbeline deftly executes a parody within a parody by laumening not only Antonioni's cinematic style, but film
Marcello, a wealthy film critic, has been teaching Anna, his lover, the art of criticism.
MARCELLO (admiringly):
You got a future in the industry,
baby. What a gift for empty
amecote!
ANNA: Marcello, why do we communicate? Why you and me communicate with each other to each other. I couldn't bear it. Why can't we be like other people? Why can't we spend our time on儒论ism, like everybody else.
MARCELLO (hangs head): I don't know
ANNA: Last night when we were talking about pure cinema, and I called for a transvaiation of values, and you said that light was the absence of light—we weren't
communicating then, were we?
It was just jargon, wasn't it?
Just noise?
MARCELLO (facing the truth): No, Anna, I'm afraid we were communicating. On a rather low level.
A typical discussion in the quest for knowledge:
The awe and reverence accorded to the character Don Juan in the works of Carlos Castaneda are brought to a new level. "The Teachings of Don B: A Yankee Ward, of Knowledge."
"The four natural enemies of the man of knowledge." Don B. said to me, "are fear, sleep, sleep, internal Internal Revenge Service."
"Have you conquered the four enemies of the man of knowledge, Don B.?"
"All but the last," he said with a grimace. "Those sumbliches never give up."
I listened attentively.
"Before one can become a man of knowledge, one must conquer all these."
The book also contains six political satires, that, because of their focus on the Nixon Administration, have a time-locked quality that has caused them to impact with the passing of time.
The guilty pleasure to which Barthelme is specifically refering, the curvy vice glove is the curvy vice glove and pastting together of pictures.
"The Expedition," a visual 19th-century adventure, and "A Nation of Wheels," in which vulcanized rubber tires conquer the world; use his "vice" in everyday life, not entirely original ways.
Each topic in "Guildy Pleasures" presents a different problem for Barthelm. His talents prove elastic enough to accommodate each with a slightly different style.
The spectrum of style exhibited in even these six, though, far outlastances any feature of that administration.
If all this isn't sufficient impetus for getting the book, Bardheme has also included the first photographs ever taken of the human soul on its way to heaven.
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
"Kansas" a winner
Ann Evans, director of the Lawrence Arts Center, waits for visitors to the center in front of the $100 award-winning painting, "Kansas," by Richard Seaman, who also is the subject of the painting. The 30-painting exhibition will run through March 27 in the center's gallery at 9th and Vermont.
By KAREN LEONARD
Artist depicts land
If you want to get to know Raymond Eastwood, he recommends you look at his work.
He might be found in the sand dunes of one of his Cape Cod landscapes, or behind the barn in one of his farmyard scenes, sitting in the mountains of his southwestern desert paintings.
You might walk into the 7E Gallery, 7 East Seventh, where his one-man show is now in gallery. He's a young year-old Lawrence artist somewhere within the earth tones, simple content and straightforward depiction of Earth, which characterize Eastwood's style.
EASTWOOD HAS done portraits, murals, billboards, scenery, "everything you can paint with a brush," he said Tuesday. But he is best known or his landscapes.
Eastwood taught painting at
Eastwood University in
years, until he retired in
For about 30 of those years he
was chairman of the depart-
ment.
"You find nature in landscapes. It's much more interesting than anything else and is more important than people." be said,
Eastwood was born May 25, 1898, in Bridgeport, Conn. and began studying art at 18 at the Art Student's League in New York, where he spent years. Later he attended the Yale University School of Art. He stayed there for a year, but didn't study very seriously
because he was already working as a professional artist.
One of the outstanding characteristics of Eastwood's work, according to Judi Kella, co-owner of the 7E7 Gallery, is that it improves with every painting.
RESIDES APPEARING in KU's Lockwood collection, Eastwood's paintings appear in the collections of the Wichita Art Association, the Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa, Oklah., the University of Tulsa, Baker University, the University, the Achison Art Association and the Kalamazoo, Mich., Art Museum.
In addition to appearing in several group and one-artist exhibitions, the Allied Work has been displayed exhibitions of the National Academy of Design, the Allied America and Midwestern Artists.
"I'm a professional artist and professional artists don't lose their enthusiasm," Eastwood said. "It's those people who go inside and don't have any outside experience that poop out."
THE VALUE of formal university training in art depends on the student's ability to learn and the teacher's skill.
One of Eastwood's most successful pupils was voted a national academician by the University, one of the highest honors an
"Before, people went to be taught by somebody whose work impressed them," he said. "They had to get a degree so they can teach."
artist can receive in his field. The award is elected by fellow professionals.
Also among Eastwood's former pupils are four or five art gallery directors and an commercial artists, Eastwood said.
ONLY TWO of Eastwood's own works hang in the residential part of his home.
"Do you want me talking to myself?" Eastwood said.
Paintings are a means of communication, he said, and they can't communicate if no artist himself can see them.
Also, Eastwood said, he is afraid that if he keeps them, he will either destroy the paintings or redo them.
"Anybody who isn't a jackass will realize there are things he could have done better," he said. "That's why you keep on trying. You want to make a better painting."
THE TWO THINGS that make a better painting are conception and execution, Eastwood said, and he excels at hope-hope for better execution and hope for better conception.
Fads are part of the trouble with art magazines, he said, because artists see something someone else is doing, try to imitate it, and by the time they catch on to it, it's out-of-date.
One of the things helping Eastwood's art, he said, has been his avoidance of the many fads that have come and gone.
Sibling rivalry accents hilarious plot
"I'm sufficiently egocentric not to give a damn what other people are doing."
By CHUCK SACK
"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" Smarter Brother" could easily be retitled "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" Writer-director Gene Wilder has created a parody of the famous sleuth's exploits which seems to be inspired by classic literature from a child psychology text.
Nonetheless, the plot for "Smarter Brother" is much
The title refers to Sigerson Holmes (Wilder) whose life has been twisted in the shadow of his rivalry has never been more hilarious. Sigerson is so insanely jealous of Sherlock's successes that he snidely takes his brother "Sher Luck"
closer to one of Sherlock's cases than to Sigil's "cause of the Three Testicles." An official document of Queen Victoria's has been stolen from her Secret Secretary. If it isn't returned, she will be plunged into war, so Sherlock takes the case.
ACTUALLY, HE takes the case and just turns it over to Sigi, who is left to unravel the
Dedication Moeser's inspiration
By MARY ANN HUDDLESTON
Right after lunch isn't the best time to find James Moeser, dean of the School of Fine Arts, in the Fine Arts office. He's more likely to be found at Plymouth Congregational Church, practicing on the organ be designed.
Moeser, 36, been deamed of the School of Fine Arts July 1, after being chairman of the department of organ at the University of Kansas for nine years. Although his new job was difficult, he spent a practice time, he is still very much involved with his must
James Moeser
MOSER STILL has commitments to perform through next year. He is to give recitals this spring in Tulsa, Okla., and at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City.
"The only way I can practice is to set aside a regular time each day and not come back from lunch." Moose said.
He has also been invited to play in Dusseldorf, Germany, in September, where he is to give a recital of American organ music and to play in the United States. Moeser said he hoped he would be able to give the recital, which would be his first European performance since he was a Fulbright student in Berlin in 1961 and 1962.
BECAUSE OF the administrative burden he carries as dean, Moeser has no time for teaching now and he said he misses the personal contact with students
"I like to travel," he said. "I can actually get more practice and more rest while traveling."
church organist. But he gravitated toward teaching, he said, because the university milieu attracted him.
Moeser said he had once considered performing full-time professionally, perhaps as a
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Moeser said he demanded
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The accuracy he demands is both historical and stylistic, he said, and he tries to combine it with a sense of communication to the audience and a feeling for what is played.
"Second and almost equal to the "I demand faithfulness to a correctness and an ability to play in a-number of given styles easily."
PROJECTING an emotional response to the listener is important, Moeser said, and therefore, he tries to get his students to play emotionally rather than intellectually.
Moses said that, having done graduate study in both Berlin and Paris, he had found that the French language wasn't too different from what
he had experienced as an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin.
He was as well-trained here as his European counterparts, he said.
He started playing the piano at seven with the idea of going on to the organ. Moeser said, "We were learning to play the organ until the summer before he started high school. Moeser said he would advise anyone to get a piano to play the piano before starting the organ.
He then designed the specifications for the Swarthout organ, as well as the one at Plymouth Congregational Church. He initiated the organ at Swarthout with a reacl in 1700.
Moeser speaks German fluently, although he said his ability had atrophied somewhat recently. He can read French.
Moeser said he became interested in the organ when he was very young, in his hometown of Lubbock, Tex.
"ONE OF MY earliest memories, at the age of four or five, is sitting in church and being灌昏 with the organ," he said.
Moser came to KU in 1966 from the University of Michigan on the promise that a new organ was invented without Recital Hall, he said.
IT WAS FUN to design the organs, Mooser said. However, he said he had made it a point that he learned the mechanics of an organ.
"I'd rather play than tinker," he said. "Some people spend all their time tinkering and not practicing."
Moeser's main accomplishment while in the department of organ was the initiation of doctoral music at the university. He taught the direct doctoral student in music at KU.
As dean of the School of Fine Arts, Moeser said he saw the school involved in two missions
One is the training of professionals, he said, where 'excellence is the key.' The concern there is for raising the performance level of the individual student, he said, and, in order to maintain his skills, remains on a one-to-one basis, it can be very expensive.
THE SECOND goal, aimed at the entire university community, is just as important as and more far-reaching, be said.
To reach these goals, Moeser said, he is developing a broader range of fine arts courses for nonmasters and moving classes to the library to let the fine arts escape the confines of Murray Hall.
"Our mission is to raise the cultural standards of the whole environment," he said. "This requires a high quality of life in a community."
Moeser said he was trying to develop courses aimed at increasing people's appetites for serious music and art, while he provided proper background to understand what they see and hear.
ASIDE FROM his other activities, Moser has found time to play the radio program for KANU called "The Art of the Organs." He said he enjoyed both but found it more suitable to perform a microphone.
THE MOST critical problem facing the School of Fine Arts is a lack of space and far less than the biggest concern now is the fate of the new visual arts building, for which choice is more than or equal to a broad school.
"It's hard to put up for," he said. "I found I'd use tapes of live performances because they were more exciting."
Moese is also choirmaster at Plymouth Congregational Church. He said that although it was an extra task for him, it was very rewarding, playing and gave him important exposure to the community.
mystery. Sigi is aided by his companion in distress, Sgt. Orvile Sucker (Marty Feldman) has photographic hearing.
The suspects are a strange mix. Jenny Hill (Madeline Kahn) is governess for the children of the foreign monarch, who becomes as a music hall singer. Gambetti (Dom DeLuise) is a rascally Italian opera singer with a penchant for blackmail. Finally, Sherlock's most notorious foe, the insidious Nero Clerk (Leo McKenner) is also lurking in the background.
But this is not a film that is limited to children 12 or under.
Small wonder that Sherlock wanted out. These characters are hopelessly insecure, Jenny has to fall madly in love before she's capable of trusting him. Gambetti and Moriarty turns into a kindergarten squabble. Even the quick-witted Sigerson needs to constantly check to make sure his fly is zipped.
THE FILM IS full of dreamlike moments, which return the viewer to childhood. SIG stalts some chocolates in a waiting room, and then is discovered by his host with the evidence melted all over his face and hands.
brother to solve the mystery,
the master detective is depicted
as a superdual with almost
natural powers of deduction.
Not all of the dream-like moments are nightmares. The story climaxes with a duel set in the prolog room of an old theater, which successfully captures the atmosphere of enchantment felt by everyone who has swashed buckets at the oncation in a rainy afternoon.
Sherlock himself is always keeping a watchful eye on the proceedings. Pulling strings in the background to enable his
As might be expected, Wilder's humor is much more gentle here than in his collaborations with Mel Brooks. But it is no less infectious, and the actors have more freedom to improvise their formulas than they would have had with a zanier director.
THEISN'T to say that the film doesn't have its short-comings. Occasionally the innocence of the characters collides with the sophistication of the parody, notably in a scene (he)gil has to stimulate Jenny sexually in order to gain br. trust.
Otherwise, "Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother" is thoroughly entertaining. This is the best of the current crop of musicals and musicals. In fact, it's the only one worth the brother.
Highlights
Concerts
KANSAS BRASS EN
SEMBLE; Contemporary
selections for wind and percussion;
members and two assistants.
(8 p.m. March 24 In Swarthout Recital Hall)
HOTFOOT:A rock 'n' roll group from Kansas City, Mio. (8:30 tonight at Off-the-Wall Hall)
NO TV MOTEL: Original dance music by a group from
(8:30 March 19 at Off-the-Wall Hall)
TIDE: Rock 'n' roll from an old favorite order of Lawrence. 8:30 p.m. March 20 at Off. the Wall Hall
BETH SCALET: An origina-
blues singer from Lawrence.
(8:30 p.m. March 25 at Off-
the-Wall Hall)
Recitals
VISITING ARTIST SERIES Michael Seyfrit, assistant pro
(8 p.m. March 22 in the Museum of Art)
FACULTY RECITAL: Alar Hawkins, assistant professor of wind and percussion, will perform a collection of compositions on the bassoon.
(3:30 p.m. March 21 in the Museum of Art)
Theater
fessor of music theory at Wichita State University, and J. Bunker Clark, professor of music at the University of Oklahoma in a program of baroque music.
Exhibits
(8 tonight in the Inge theatre)
“JACQUES BREIL IS ALIVE
AND HAS A NEW PARIS!”
An off-Broadway
musical comprising 24 songs
written by the famous, controversial songwriter Jacques
(8 p.m. March 25 in the Hashinger Hall Theatre)
(Through March 26 in the Kansas Union Gallery)
"PIECES": Tenight is the last night of the 10-day run for this original play by J. L. McClure. Wichita graduate student. It compares eight sketches, thematically linked.
DESIGN STUDENTS: An interesting variety of works by students in the department of design. The works, done in media ranging from textiles to printed prints, are of excellent quality.
rums
THE HINDENBURG: Robert Wise directed this disaster epic, and it never gets off the ground. The tag line in the ads claims that of the eight persons aboard who had a motive for destroying the bridge, seven have died. He must have died before he could reveal it to the writers.
ONE FLEE OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST: This 1968 novel has a Kesey's novel has R. P. McMurphy challenging Nurse or domination of the metal mask Nicholson and Louise Fletcher head an outstanding cast under the realistic but comic direction
THE SUNSHINE BOYS:
George Burns and Walter
Steinbeck play Simon's
Simon's cantankerous couple
funny, but succeeds in only a few
wry moments when the aging
vaudville veterans are sub-
AGAINST A CROOKED SKY: This family frontier film is another high quality production from the producers of "The Growns." It firmly establishes films as a thinking family's alternative to the Disney Studio productions.
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