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Friday, January 30, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Arts & Entertainment
Staff Photo by DON PIERCE
Conpersonas rehearsal
Director Cook responds to a line well-read by Nancy Flagat at a late rehearsal for the repris of Conversos. The
play, written by Paul Stephen Lim, will open at 8 p.m. Sunday in the University Theatre.
Reviewer
By CHUCK SACK
Consider the plight of the student film chairman. Not only must he put together a program that delivers entertainment without sacrificing quality, but he must also manage to schedule films that will appeal to freshmen in engineering as
He needs to be responsive to suggestions from the faculty for specific departmental needs without neglecting his obligation to the University as a whole. His series must mesh with the other film series and yet remain distinctly in-
well as to graduate students in film.
Original play returns before ACT festival
The University Theatre's production of an original play, "Conspersonas," will return for one performance at 8 p.m. Sunday in the University Theatre.
"Conspirators," written by Paul Stephen Lim, Lawrence graduate student. was first a test run at 10 a.m. at johnsburg. run Oct.-28, Nov. 6.
At Emporia, the play will be presented twice before a panel of judges comprising outfits by Kate Reilly and playwrights and directors.
It is one of four original scripts chosen from 23 entries to compete in the regional American College Theatre Festival Feb. 4-7 at Emporia Kansas State College.
Ten original plays will be selected from 13 regional festivals to compete for national honors at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., next April.
Two University Theatre
productions, "Godspell" and "Pepsi Threnodies," were in regional competition last year.
"Compensators" set in New York City, dramatizes the pain of the victim and countered by a Jesuit priest who insists on learning the truth behind the suicide of his identity, an advertising comwriters.
Paul Hough, Phillipsburg graduate student, plays both twins. Hough will compete for the Irene Ryan Award in a special audition at the Emporia festival.
The award was founded by the late Irene Ryan, who played in the 1962 All-Star Hillbillies." Ten nominees will compete in the regionals for a $750 prize and a chance to add another finals in Washington, D.C.
Tickets are on sale at the University Theatre box office. Reservations can be made by calling 864-3844.
Goodbye 'Free State'; Hello 'Off-the-Wall Hall'
Staff Writer
Last weekend Lawrence greeted its newest dance-concert hall while it bid farewell a friend in live entertainment.
By BILL UYEKI
Off-the-Wall Hall, located next to McKinney-Mason Stringed Instruments, 737 New
Hampshire, opened Friday night with performances from local musicians Danny Cox and Cole Tucke on Rye. Lawrence fiddler Billy Spears was in town the next night, and he and his entertainer provided lively audiences of about 400 people.
Lawrence groups Tide and
dividual. Finally, the chairman is asked to show a mild profit at the end of the semester.
MacKenzie Lynch played at farewell dances Friday and Saturday night as the Free State Opera House, 7th and Massachusetts, closed operations.
The Opera House and its predecessor, the Red Dog Inn, had provided KU students and
local residents with dances and a variety of concerts since 1964.
in the Red Dog days, the scope of entertainment ranged from Arlo Gurrie, Ry Cooder
a variety of concerts since 1964. Recently, such nationally known artists as Buddy Rich, Marymarg Ferguson, Norman Blake and Dave Mason had performed at the Opera House.
THE FIVE SERIES sponsored by SUA this spring show five separate attempts to fulfill this demanding set of conditions, but chairman Steve Schmidt's Special Film Series is the most praiseworthy. Schmidt has booked six films to be shown in Lawrence before, and films he has ever been to Lawrence before, but each one would be the highlight of many other semesters.
Book arms against rape
As these few notes indicate, "Piper" is a very difficult film to watch, but however, strangely moving for all of this, and the casual, confident revelations of horror in the stories slowly grip the viewer. It is Wittingly or unwittingly, Schmidt has had the courage to introduce a complex film to this campus that would almost be set in a more commercial setting, and I salute him for it.
PASOLINI CROSSCUTS between these two stories with no apparent logic, but the stark contrast in the viewer to recognize thematic structures that intertwine and illuminate these otherwise unconnected pieces. The unconventional polygons overtones of the modern tale and the religious overtones of the more ancient story become inescapable by the time each reaches its separate climax.
To say more about the plot would ruin the total effect, but in "Plippen," Pasolini succeeds. The drama is both mystically poetic and carefully cinematic. The medieval section is told with only a single line of dialogue: "I wish you were my friend, flesh and I tremble with joy."
The first of the Special Film offerings is "Pipen," which will be shown Monday. Pier Paolo Pasolini, the Italian poet and novelist who was murdered in 1984, has this strange tale of decapery.
The remaining film series have their virtues, also. The Horror Film Series offers a series of seven films, two-thirds of these films have never been to the University of Kansas before. The Val Lewton duo, "The Leopard Man" and "Iris," were among the long-overdue classics, despite the latter's lurid title, and Nicholas Koeg's fine "Don't Look Now" indicates that horror is effective in a modern setting.
BY KELLY SCOTT Staff Writer
Actually, "Pig pen" is not one talet, but two. The first story is about the young Julian, a present day German boy who lives in a palace with his parents. The second story is about the bandit, played by Pierre Cleerman.
The traditional concept of aape has been that of an unspeakable horror perpetrated by a psycho病痛 suffering from fear and frustrated sex drives upon women who "asked for it."
THE CLASSICAL FILM Series is an uneven, unusually uninspired mix of over-exposed traditional bookings — "Jules" and "The Lady Vanishs" from SUA at least three other times; "The Lady Vanishs" twice; cult standby—not "The Wild One" again; and late-night TV imagination in "The Lady Vanishs" from Imagination is "From Here to Earth" a classic?
Still, there are some silk purses among the sows' ears. "Les Enfants Terribles," a French classic directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and Jean Cocteau, has been unavailable in this country until last year, but there is a video between "From Here to Eternity" and "Lust in the Dust" ("Duel in the Sun").
The only real attention it got was velled allusions in articles warning women against walking down dark streets at night. No one really discussed its history or its psychological roots until more extreme events of the movement adopted it as a political issue nearly six years ago.
In "Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape," Susan Brownmiller takes the lid off the self-imposed silence women have maintained about rape and makes some disturbing elements about the spec of rape; male-female relationships.
BROWN MILLER,
A WRITER associated with the
organization, underwent her
own mental evolution on the
The Film Society has chosen to go primarily with foreign films that have been here once before, but again there are welcome surprises. But the Czechoslovakian "Transport from Paradise" will be shown in Woodruff Auditorium in midsemester. Then, for some reason, he'll shift its emphasis to film noir the last month of the semester. "BRINGING UP THE rear is the Popular Film Series. Few students will be outraged by the weighted films, but weighted to light comedy, but this semester's Popular Films are frankly not up to snuff. In defense of SUA, it can be said that some of their preferences include "Mear, Streets," which would have upgraded the series considerably.
subject of rape. She wrote an article about it for Esquire magazine in 1968, but she admits to being voluntarily myopic in her research at that time,
"Although I conducted scores of interviews for that article," she writes in her introduction, "I was not given an attempt to speak with the victim. I felt no kinship with her, nor did I admit, publicly or privately, that what had hapened would aid on any level hannen to me."
Her work in the feminist movement brought her back to the subject again and again. Through her conversations with victims, her participation in the movement, and herferences, Brownmiller began to see rape as much more than a fast-frowing violent crime.
It was in this period of her life that the idea of rape as a phenomenon with meaning on several different planes occurred.
prevalence in modern culture,
she developed the 'the's that
brings the book. To Brown-
miller, rape is the "conscious
relation by which all men keep all
women in a state of fear."
In the beginning, Brown-miller says, rape was perceived as a crime against the victim's closest male relative, usually his son. This has been consistent with the common law attitude that a woman was the property of a man. Modern rape law descends from these common law roots, she says, and only recently has raape law been increased the intent of rape statutes to the protection of the victim.
At Off-the-Wall Hall, which has the same owners as the stringed instrument store, the musical activity is taking place.
One of Brownmiller's that is rape is a more common crime than robbery, and even more common. Studies of local, state and federal crime statistics, Brownmiller asserts, prove that the common victim is not always sick or degenerate.
AFTER EXAMINING RAPE throughout history, the existence of rape in traditional feminine psychology and its
Off-the-Wall's owners emphasized that many local groups would play there, believing that a community's artists must have a place to perform if the community is to have a progressive and diverse music business.
However, many weekend shows at Off-the-Wall are sprinkled with some nationally known artists. Bluegrass fiddler Vassar Clements will play there Feb. 5. Nashville's Newgrass Revival on Feb. 19-21, and jazz bivest Gary Burton on Feb. 25.
Besides "Pipigen," the Special Film Series includes a recent Spanish film, "Viva La Muente" ("Live Long Dead"); Dusan Makavejej's jaunty novel, "The Organism"; and John Waters's campy, naughty flick, "Pink Flamingos." It remains to be seen what type of support this series will get, but Schmidt thanks and attention of every film baff on this campus.
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Nevertheless, one must look to the twin standards of quality and entertainment. These standards should distinguish a campus theater from the new school building, something shuck houses, and applying them to "The Groove Tube," "Magnum Force," and "Enter the Dragon" condemns these films as serious lapses of judgment. "Young Night," "Young Frankenstein" and "Shampoo" should satisfy the most discerning viewer. Take a look at SUA's full film calendar, and something will happen. Save your pity for the film chairman. Instead, pity your poor pocketbook.
The profile of the common rapist she has drawn is similar to that of other violent criminals: about 19 years-old, black and from a low socioeconomic background. Beverly Miller calls the "subculture of violence" will rape as easily as they will commit arrest robbery or assault.
and Brewer and Shipley, to Ike
and Tina Turner, the Flippers
and Sam the Sham and the
Pharaohs.
Three buildings have occupied the corner at 7th and Massachusetts—actually, KU students started flocking to that location in 1858, when they saw bands, operas and vaudeville plays at the Bowersock Opera House.
The book is admittedly grounded in Brownmiller's belief in the existist nature of society and in her need to expose it before women attain complete equality.
Dwindling profits forced the present owner of the building, 7th Spirit, to lease out the space to Bugsy's, a bar and club business from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
As Brownmiller describes them, the precautions men recommend to women driving at night or living alone become more important. To create an attitude of fear that subigulates women to men.
A spokesman for Bugsy's said local residents can expect a "nightclub type of atmosphere and completely new image" from the new business. Remodeling and major changes are possible in Bugsy's interior. He promised more surprises for students and local residents when Bugsy's opens in mid-March.
Brownmiller has armed women with a knowledge of rape and its place in a "civilized" world. The book ends with the promise that with this knowledge, rape will be denied a future.
THE PART OF THE BOOK that deals with rape in the world's wars is a 100-page horror story. As Brownmiller tells it, the unfeeling atmosphere of war breeds rape. History abounds with accounts of women being tortured by Brownmiller accuses historians of ignoring its presence because of sexist motives.
BUT BROWNMILLER'S occasional feminist commentary doesn't undermine the scholarship of the book. Some things she says are hard to comprehend, and reasoned, presented honestly and clearly indicated as personal comment.
IN HER MOST ENERGETIC plea, Brownmiller advocates active physical training for women in her age. Women have very real power to inflict physical damage if properly trained, Brownmiller says. She herself takes training in karate and judo.
Women are kept in fear, she says, by the belief that they are vulnerable to violence. A male companion, with a can of Mace or with barred windows on their homes. These are limits on what men can do, an action that men do not observe.
In the chapter "The Myth of the Heroic Rapist," Brown-miller condemns the popular culture that rolls Roman rapes. The novelist John Updike and filmmaker Paul Mazurky seem to think rage is rasy and recent books, songs and movies are so vividly as a device to attract and excite audiences, she says.
Brownmiller, after having drawn a picture of a modern rape-permeated society with an old man who is no easy way to eradicate rape. The most basic, she says, is a sweeping social awakening to women's equality that must include men's and women's minds.
In addition, Brownmiller calls for regulation of pornography. The image shows that women courages the image of women as faceless, nameless sexual prey and is a strong social force that condones rape at many levels.
Highlights
Concerts
CHAEMER MUSIC SERIES:
SOFIA SOLOISTS—13 string
extensively in Europe, the
U.S.S.R. and Japan will perform
a program that includes
Badiernei or Badiernei,
by Corellin, 'Sinfonietta' by Roussel and
Visions and Saracen for Saracen.
by Prokofye.
(8 p.m. Feb. 2 in Swarthout Recital Hall)
VASSAR CLEMENTS
Nationally known bluegrass
fiddler will appear with his
band.
(7 and 10 p.m., Feb. 5 at Off-
the Wall Hall)
This Week's
GRAND RIVER TOWN:
SHIP - A PROGRAM of bluegrass
winds in the impressive new band at the
Winfield Bluegrass Festival.
Exhibits
(8 tonight and tomorrow night at Off-the-Wall Hall)
PARIS: A COLLAGE—A portrai de Paris of the 19th and 20th centuries through the work of its artists. Artifacts are displayed and works by Degas, Matisse, Gauguin, Paul Gauguin and others are represented.
(Through Feb. 13 in the Kansas Union Gallery)
ROBERT DEMACHY:
PHOTO SECESSIONIST—
Photographs from the turn of the century that give the effect of impressionist oil paintings. *13* is in the Museum of Art. 1
DAVID MELBY AND DAVID GRAVES - Melby, a native New Yorker, is recognizable abstract landscapes, many of which are scenes from this area. Graves was the character of old photographs through his use of subdued and his economy of detail.
Theater
(Through Feb. 4 at 7 E. 7th)
SLOW DANCE ON THE KILLING GROUND—An intensive, tense study of inner- life tension and conflict
Lectures
(Opens Feb. 4 in Inge Theatre.)
(8 p.m. Sunday in University Theatre.)
CONPERSONAS—An encore performance of the literate and challenging original play by Sharon fall. It studies a priest's disintegration as he searches for his twin brother's suicide.
RECOLLECTIONS OF AN HERPETOLOGIST — Edward H. Taylor, professor emeritus
Recitals
(7:30 p.m. Feb. 4 in the Panorama Room, Dyche Hall)
and herpetologist, will relate his adventures as a snake and amphibian collector in the Southern Far East and Central America.
(8 p.m. Feb. 4 in Swartnow Recital Hall)
FACULTY RECITAL: John Boulton, assistant professor of music—fouleton's program will include "Concerto" by Handel; the orchestra will be accompanied by faculty members on the piano, harp, swordfish, bassoon and trumpet. 4 p.m., Feb. 4 in Swarthout
Films
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA—Remember Lon Chaney Jr., the guy who was Larry Talbor the "follower" Well this movie is about a young actor in a excellent actor in silent screen days. This "Phantom" was made in 1925 and is better than any other version—even better.
JULES AND JIM--Francois Truffaut directed this thrilling story of two people in love—that is, two men in love with a woman played by sensuous Jeanne Moreau. Moreau also star, it's a beautiful movie.
SWAMP WATER-French director Jean Renoir, who made "Grand Illusion" and "Rules of the Game" in Europe before coming to the United States in the '40s to make this and some other films, tries and almost fails to constructive in the Georgia swamps.
THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR-Sydney Pollack and Robert Tordt team up again to help the intrigue in 'the Intrigue' too captivating, but the combination of his skills is, at least, for most romance.
HEARTS OF THE WEST-
Jane Mackenzie of stumblebum hero of this delightful nostalgic look at the life and legacy of Blythe Danner, Alan Arkin, and Andy Griffith also contribute to the fun. Directed by Howard
DOG DAY AFTERNOON—
This is the kind of movie that isademy Awards. There are so many addictions that one can not help noticing the good ones. Director Sidney Levin and director Pierson do most of the mudding, and John Cazale and edito Dede Lehn contribute to this great performance of great performance of Al Pacino, who combines street-tough savvy with great sensation as a bank robber Sonny Wojck.
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