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University Daily Kansan
Weekend Scene
Farces, Epics, Oldies Fill Movie Marquee
MOVIES
SOUNDER: Shows begin at 7:30 p.m. and
9:30 p.m. at the Granada Theater.
YOUNG WINSTON: Shows begin at 7:30 p.m. and 10:05 p.m. at Hillcrest 1 Theater.
YOUNG WINSTON: Shows begin at 7:30 p.m. and 10:08 p.m. at Hillcrest 1 Theater.
THE VALACH PAPERS: Shows begin at 7:30 p.m. and 9:50 p.m. at Hillcrest 2 Theater.
THE EMIGRATES: Shows begin at 7:10 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. at Hillcrest 3 Theater
WILD WEED: Uncut 1948 classic about teenage scandals and marriages. Shows begin at 12:15 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Hilcrest 3. Theater. Admission is $1.75.
TWO PEOPLE: Shows begin at 7:30 p.m.
and 9:30 p.m. at the Variety Theater.
THE GRASSHOPPER: Shows begin at 7:30 p.m.
at the Drive In Theater.
ANIMAL CRACKERS: Marx Brothers film never released on TV, featuring Groucho in his most famous role—Captain Jeffrey T. Spaalding, the african explorer. Dr. Farnsworth is Friday at the United Ministries Center, 1043 Oral. Admission price is $50 cents.
THE FRESHMEN: Harold Lloyd stars in a 1925 science on college life. Shows begin at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Saturday at the United States Institute of Medicine. 1204 Oread. Admission price is 50 cents.
BILLY JACK! Shows begin at 7 p.m. and
9 pm. in Woodruff Auditorium in the
Lakewood Theater.
DRAMA
ART
KABUKI THEATRE: Curtain time at 8 p.m. April 13 and 14, and 2:30 p.m. April 14 and 15 in the University of Kansas Theatre in Murphy.
MUSIC
Alicia COOPER: "Billion Dour-
bates" offer concert spitales at p.m.
April 15th.
MARILYN CONRAD; The 7 East 7th Street Gallery presents a display of encaustic paintings by Marilyn Conrad, April 10 through May 5.
OPERA WORKSHOP: The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts presents the Opera Workshop in a performance of "Trouble in Tahiti" by Leonard Bernstein and "The Medium" by Gian Carlo Menotti. 8 p.m. April 18 in the Experimental Theatre.
DONA NOBIS PACEM: The School of Fine Arts presents the combined University Choruses and choirs and the University Symphony Prothestra in "Dona Nobis Coronibus" on April 15th in Indiana and "The Lovers" by Samuel Barber. 3:30 p.m. April 15th in Auditorium.
Sound Effects
Marlo Thomas Debuts Breakthrough Kid Disk
Until now, children's albums have been relegated to a few dubious Disney disks and bokey storyteller records. Relief has come, surprisingly, in the person of Marion Thomas and an LP called FREET BE TO BE . . . YOU AND ME (BELL). The record is not just another spot on the rug, but a real milestone that has me wondering how just to handle it.
I could say that the words and music are simple, but not simplistic, and the melodies pleasant, but that's no reason to dash to your dealer with dollars in hand. No, this doesn't mean you can't make a successful stab at stultifying stereotypes in children and other folk.
Marlo and Ms. Magazine have drafted a whole shipload of stars to make each selection a celebration of the natural child and to poke fun with undisguised pleasure at attitudes that have been taken seriously for centuries.
Hearing football star Rosey Griers 's "It's All Right to Cry" made me want to cry for all the times I didn't and it is a delight to hear Carol Channing chanting the hordes of deliriously happy housewives in television commercials.
Danny's daughter, Dick Cavett does a short poem, and everyone from the New Seekers, Diana Ross, Shirell Jones and Jack Cassidy to Billy Deeley, Mel Brooks and Tom Smothers alternate between lightweight books and darker ones across a subtle-as-a-puddle point. "To help girls and boys feel free to be who they are and who they want to be."
Harry Belafonte is featured in a duet with
The album is in a monumental breakthrough, but it still has me floundering like a fog-bound duck, looking for the next moment of its importance to me and I hope to you.
There are a few problems. The record's graphics are annoyingly garish and the special 12-picture illustrated lyric booklet is visually very dull. Parts of the album are a little too wordy and there seems to be a dearth of the sing along material needed to please your everyday kid. Too, at what age do children sport to toy music?
It seems younger these days, and as a result, this record won't have near the impact of say, Helen Reddy's mawkish "Am Woman," though it is a hundredfold wider. I'm just sorry it wasn't pressed on clear yellow plastic. Look for it.
Local Folk Balladeer Cuts Exceptional First Album
By GLORIA SANCHEZ Kansan Reviewer
Dana Cooper, Dana Cooper—Elektra
A new release on Elektra records, Dana Cooper's first album is one of the finest collections of romantic ballads to come around in a long time. Cooper writes with a witty and poetic sense of emotion intensely, yet quietly. All ten songs on the album are well done, a fairly unique accomplishment for a first album.
If the name Dana Cooper sounds familiar, it may be because he is from the Kansas City area and has played in many of the band tours touring the eastern and central United States for a time, he went to California and tried to interest a recording company in his compositions. He succeeded in landing a television and began recording last summer.
The album is one of a folk balladier of the '60s whose style has blossomed into something fuller and more graceful. It is an expression of the more sophisticated musical styles which make up the '70's. The results of this evolution are pleasant ones.
Many fine musicians collaborated with Cooper on the album, giving contrast to the
sounds of the various cuts. This contrast helps to accentuate Cooper's lyrical changes in mood and subject matter. He sings about everything from Hollywood ("Jesse James") to his grandfather ("Grandpa") to love for a woman ("January Hurry"). This variety is certainly one of the strong points of the album.
Cooper has an exceptional, flexible voice that blends beautifully with both the lyrics and the instrumentation of the album. It is the voice of an actor and a poet, singing passion, cynicism and pure feeling in his compositions. His vocal range is comparable to Joni Mitchell whose influence shows somewhat in Cooper's style.
"Okahama Rodeo Queen," one of the very best songs on the album, gives Cooper a chance to show off his vocal ability, and the way he does so is commendable. In "The Singer," "January Hurry," and "Old K-10 Plus Two," several voice tracks are used.
The last cut on the album, "Home Again," is a beautiful, fully orchestrated piece which contains the essence of the record's mood. Dana Cooper deserves a listener's and, in return, he sends that listener drifting emotionally and poetically home again.
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creators weave a fairly credible and decidedly sore story of the boy's first encounter with black consciousness and the history of his race.
By ROBERT MILLER Kansan Reviewer
HOME OF AUTHENTICALLY PREPARED CHINESE FOOD
A year in the life of a Louisiana sharecropper's family makes for an effective and sentimental piece of drama in the Academy Award nominated picture, "Sounder." The people are black and poor, living their lives amidst the great depression of the 30's. Their poverty is the key to their survival from generation to generation, which can remain tied to the tired earth it works but can never own.
The family's eldest son, about 12, takes it quite hard when his dad is sent off to a chain gang for stealing food, so the boy and his sister go out to the park. Around this simple plot the film's
The picture's real strength lies not in its narrative but in its super characterization. Paul Winfield as the father becomes through his charismatical performance, every bit the wonderful, life-loving son he believes to be. Cicely Tyson, the mother possesses even in the smallest facial gesture or mance of voice, the overpowering smile that unbounded love needed to hold a family together. the father has gone away, Kevin Hooks the son, proved himself a child actor of potential greatness, in the CBS drama "J.T." Here he matures into a well-controlled and effective performer.
'Sounder' Sensitive, Saga of Suffering
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