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Thursday, April 18, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Entertainment
Kesey, Plays Highlight Weekend Activities
MOVIES
"THE GREAT GATSYB"-Robert Redford and Mina Farrow star in this version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's story about Jay the wolf who loves the lives. 7:30 and 10:am at the hilfestress.
"THE STING"—*Paul Newman and Robert Redford star as two con men who take a crime斗 for $500,000, and he never dies. He had 7.13 and 9.40 p.m. by the Hallcress II.
"THE THREE MUSKETEERS"
Alexandre Dumas' story about four of the king's musketeers and their involvement in the French Revolution is at 7:45 and 9:40 p.m. at the Hillcrest III.
"DAY OF THE DOLPHIN""-George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere star as marine biologists who teach a dolphin named Alpha to speak English. However, evil planers plot the use of Alpha as a torpedo aimed at the president of the United States. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. starting Friday at the Granada Theatre.
"ALL THE WAY BOYS"-Terence Hill and the rest of the Trinity gang star in another adventure. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at the Varsity Theatre.
"THAT DARN CAT" and "WHITE WILDENNERS"-"Two Walt Disney movies, the first about a cat which wreaks havoc on a family, and the second a true-life wilderness story about life in the Arctic Circle. Sunset Drive-in Theatre.
"TOO HOT TO HANDLE" and "SCARAMOUCHE"—Clark Gable and Mark Twain reporter who fakes her overseas news reels. Stewart Granger and Mel Ferrer star in the second show about an outlaw hiding in a Commandant's office. 7:30 in Woodruff Auditorium.
"NOSTALGIC RETROSPECTIVE OF CLASSIC 1956 TELEVISION"-Classic television of the 1956 era.
Groucho Marx, Ams, Andy, Superman
Friday in the Kapagana Union.
7:30 Friday in the Kapagana Union.
"MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN"
*Children's movie about a boy who leaves home to live in the wilderness in the early morning.* 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Woordraff Auditorium.
THE "SMEIL OF REASON"—Kenneth Clark's "Civilisation" series film about the late 18th century and the works of David Auditionor. 7 p.m. Sunday in Woodriff Auditionor.
"PORTRAIT OF JASON" 1868 movie that describes the life of a black male prostitute. 7:30 p.m. Monday in Woodruff Auditorium.
SPEAKER
"TRISTANA"-Spanish film about an "orphan who is seduced by her guardian and sucumbes to the perverse and corrupt life of a woman," written for p.m. Tuesday in Woodruff Auditorium.
KEN KESEY—Kesey, the author of "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Sometimes a Great Notion," and the subject of Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-Aid Test," will read new material and updates on hisAppeals. 8 tomgT in the Union Ballroom.
THEATER
"TALES OF HOFFMANN" - Offenbach opera bared on the French version of three loosely linked stories by an obscure German composer, and Saturday in the University Theatre.
"GUYS AND DOLLS"—Dannon Runyon's light, romantic story of life with the lower elements of New York City. 8 tonight, Saturday and Sunday in Oliver Hall.
"The LESSON"—lonesco drama about a girl who comes to an old man for a lesson, part of the theater of the absurd, 8 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday in Hassinger Hall.
'Tales of Hoffmann'Has A Professional Touch
Sung in French, Italian or German, opera is, for unilingual Americans, a thrilling display of vocal ability and memorable music;
Paul Huddleston, guest artist from the Munich Opera, sings the role of Hoffmann. His performance commands attention; his stage bearing is nothing but professional and his voice fills the theatre with skin-tingling strength and resonance.
Jacques Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffmann," the final University Theatre production of the season, is sung in translation by Jules Barbier and Michel Carre.
It is based on three stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, an 18th century German music critic, writer and frequent customer of student taveras. The stories tell of Hoffmann's fruitless search for perfect love through his encounters with three women.
Sung in English for us, opera is rich theatre. It combines all the standard elements of plot, characters, action, mood and rhythm in a beautifully unbroken, and dramatic, visual score.
However, his professionalism isn't overbearing. His portrayal of Hoffmann,
particularly in the prologue and epilogue set in a tavern, presents a sensitive and insecure artist who bolsters himself with drink and tales of love and passion.
By JANHYATI
Stage director Jack Broking, professor of speech and drama, has achieved a balanced stage and flowing action. He presents the duesel war between Hoffmann and Schleilm, bodyguard of one of Hoffmann's loves, in slow motion.
Molly Soward, Goodland senior, sings the part of Olympia, a beautiful wind-Up doll whom Hoffmann mistakes for a real woman. Soward's aria is a difficult piece, broken and jerky to match her mechanical movements. She sings it well, although the highest note is weak. Her doll-like movements are grotesque and funny.
Giulietta, a demoness who steals Hoffmann's mirror reflection, is sung by Susan Eigenbrodt. Glenview, ill., senior. Her sometimes difficult to understand are sometimes difficult to understand.
Carol McMaris, Hutchinson graduate student, takes the honors among the female leads for her performance of Antonia. She has a marvelous voice, and her aria draws the longest applause other than the ovations for Hudleston.
When Alexandre Dumas wrote "The Three Musketeers," he wrote a novel full of adventure and entertainment which is still enjoyed by readers today.
By KENN LOUDEN
Kansas Reviewer
Director Richard Lester in his film version of "The Three Musketeers" remains true to Dumas' concept of adventure and entertainment but adds some original comic touches.
"The Three Musketeers," showing at Hillcrest III, is full of laughs and it rivals another Lester film, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," in entertainment. The movie is a slick formula full of comedy, adventure and one-dimensional characters portrayed by a star-studded cast.
3 Musketeers' Is Strictly for Fun
Top honors go to Michael York as D'Artagan and (believe it or not) Raquel Welch as Mme. Bonanieux. The two are made for each other.
York at first glance is an Errol Flynn who didn't quite make the grade. He suffers through many frustrated attempts at heroism but finally is successful as a fighter. He gets the girl in the end. (In fact, he gets two girls in the end if one wishes to count the swift kick in the rear he gives Mildy.)
Welch portrays a bungling beauty and takes more spills that she did in "Kansas City Bomber." Everything she touches breaks, but she is easily forgiven for her clumsiness during a great fight scene with Faye Dunaway.
It is interesting to note that after showing some acting ability in her two previous films, "Kansas City Bomber" and "The Legend of Hannie Calden." Welch is at her stage to dye the beautiful, dumb bread—a stereotype she has desperately tried to avoid.
As Milady, Dunaway is perfectly cast. She has the cold beauty of a bigoted female politician. She is fascinating to watch and convincingly evil.
Charlton Heston plays Cardinal Richelieu. At times he is convincing. But often, he reminds one of a villain from the defunct "Batman" series. Geraldine Chapin as Anne of Austria looks like a queen but she can't make up her mind whether to imitate Katharine Hepburn or Goldie Hawn.
Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain and Frank Finlay are adequate as the members of the board.
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The supporting cast provides the audience some great slapstick comedy. Roy Klinnear plays tubby, chumy Planchet, and it looks like he could easily have been a Keystone Cow.
Spike Mianxieu is a dim-witted, cuckolded M. Bonnaixean, who is at least twice Welch's age and waits for the one day each week when she goes to bed with him. Apparently, he is amazed at his good fortune at having her for his wife—so is the audience
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The musical score by Michael Legrand is exciting and giddy. It's the type that makes people want to revert to childhood days and gobble popcorn.
Technically, the film is excellent. Lester moves his cast from scene to scene in a frantic, exaggerated manner as if he were afraid he might leave something out. "The Three Musketeers" is a book of epic dimensions, and Lester does it justice.
It is nice to be able to relax and not have
People looking for a psychologically indexh film should look elsewhere. This film is stricty for people looking for entertainment. It is especially significant in provoking the audience real heroes—something that is lacking in the current cinema.
"The Three Musketeers" is in two parts. The first part has a happy ending which entices the audience to see the second half. My only question is how Lester is going to both Welch and Dunaway and nuance his role in the film. Much skill is required to switch from the comic to the tragic, and in this case, it may require a miracle.
to worry that the hero is secretly a sexmaniac whose mother hated him when he was a little boy or whether he's a blood-killer who is tormented by self-hatred.
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KU YELL LEADER and BABY JAYHAWKER
TRYOUTS
1974-75 KU Yell Leaders
Tryouts for membership to the nationally famous KU Yell Leaders squad will be conducted Thursday, April 25, starting at 6:30 p.m. in Allen Field House. Eight positions will be chosen, six regulars and two alternates. Requirements for membership are the following: male student (either graduate or undergraduate) of the University of Kansas who is regularly enrolled and has a minimum 1.8 grade point average. He must demonstrate a sincere desire to further promote athletics at the University of Kansas.
1974-75 Baby Jayhawker
The KU Yell Leaders are governed and sponsored by the University of Kansas Athletic Department.
Clinics for yell leader tryouts will be conducted Wednesday (April 17) and Thursday (April 18) of this week on the front lawn of Allen Field House beginning at 7 p.m. Routines for tryouts will be taught and questions answered. A third clinic will be conducted Tuesday, April 23, also on the front lawn of Allen Field House beginning at 7 p.m.
Because of the overwhelming response of KU students desiring to become the Baby Jayhawker for the coming school year, the KU Athletic Department is asking you to serve as a mentor about the position come for interviews and tryouts.
Interviews and tryouts will be conducted in Allen Field House Wednesday, April 24, beginning at 7 p.m. Announcement of the Baby Jayhawker and alternate will be made the following day.
Both the Baby Jayhawker and Jayhawker are governed and sponsored by the University of Kansas Athletic Department. There will be no tryouts for the Jayhawker team, but both of students who occupied the position this year.