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University Daily Kansan
Monday. April 17; 1972
'Culpepper' Director Is Good Guy Saddled with Shoddy Story, Script
By BARBARASCHMIDT
Korean Reviews Editor
Livestock seems to have taken over the Varsity Theatre late night. First there was James Coburn riding Rahma bulls at the rodeo in Michigan, Wayne and his pint-sire worshippers in "The Cowbirds" escorted a herd of cattle through "400 miles of the meantest road." Charleston Chertion Hesion is "The Ten Commandments" had a run in with a certain golden calf. Well, you may have hung around Massachusetts Street hollering "head em' move em in rawhide!" because the current fare is "The Cowbirds," a real criminic stockyard.
"Cuppeper" is the story of a 18-year-old boy who joins a post-Civil War battle drive from Texas. He sets off to explore various trials and misfortunes.
make him a "man," i.e., he learns to how kill, die. lie learns to be unbelievable. Finally, in an unbelievable surprise ending, the boy has a religious experience and takes to living unbearableness beneath the blazing sun.
THE MAIN PROBLEM with "Culpepper" is the script. Perhaps it could be argued that it wasn't written for any but the children, and consider the discussions of naked Parisian whores living on the second floor of a glass-ceilinged apartment. It can be three-breasted women and language peppered with words chosen by the choosee by any standards, rank with the four-tetter vocabulary that most parents, even in 1972, frown on. No, "Culpepper" is just a phrase from the book, not a speak the simplest language of
Regional Ballet Festival To Be Annual KC Event
the gun. There are so many bloody confrontations with miscellaneous bad guys that the death-dealing becomes an indistinguishable blue, and in the end a grim conclusion which corpse belongs to.
"What you are going to see is not what you are trained to do," Yuriko said to the multitude at her feet who had been avidly awaiting her appearance here in Kansas City. Are Galleries in Kansas City?
By H. BERG Kansan Review
Yurko performed four short crowns of perpetual young dancers to finally begin the First Annual Mid-Site Regional Ballet
Yuriko, a former member of the Marko the Graham Company who now has her own company, and is documentary on each of her dances.
"The Cry" does not solve anything, but is a release as it follows the physical course of crying 'The Wind Blossom' suggests cherry blossoms fluttering around you. The Sea Is ugly, jagged and destructive, for anger comes at the moment and goes away, but
you never know when it is going to strike again. And in 'The Conversation' I use hands to save the less." she said.
She closed the evening saying to the assembled dancers, "I expect you to give 100 per cent, no money in each class tomorrow."
BUT THE WORST thing about the script is that silly religious ending. The cattlemens come upon a pacifist minister. The pacifist minister. The minister claims that God has led them there to build a town. The landowner rides up with his dog and rides back with the cattlemen to get off. Our 16-year-old hero changes in the blink of an eye from a wisely religious convert and announces that he will stay behind to help the pacifists "there are some things more important than immediately struck by such transcendent truth, backtrack to help the "kid." In the process, everyone except the squatter converts to convert and the cows are killed. The pacifist fires his mind, calls the land a "vale of death" who discards the violent life and leaves, presumably to seek truth and faith. And the cows—well, for all we know they may still be between Texas and Colorado.
Friday and Saturday master dance classes were conducted by Yuriko, David Howard of the New York Dance School (New York) and Tatiana Dokoudskova and Winifred Widener (both of Kansas City). The evenings were devoted to workshops in companies at the Music Hall.
Among the many striking dances presented, the Dianeman-Bennett Dance Theatre of the Hemispheres stood out with excerpts of "Swain Lake" perhaps classical dance idiom of India.
The Festival was hosted this past weekend at the Hotel Muehlebach.
ERIC BEROCVICI and Gregory Prentiss can be blamed for the script. But it is a shame to call his role culprit responsible for the basic story idea. It’s a sage because Richards also directed and across as an intelligent first-time director with a great deal of forensic expertise for Twentieth Century-Fox. Richards was a still photographer for several major companies that makes television commercials. Among his personal successes were the production of *Love...* commercial and the United California bank commercial that set Sandy van on the road to wealth and fame.
IT WOULD BE ridiculous to rank Richards with someone like the flowering Bogadovian ("The flowers are beautiful, we have that kind of flair, but he does do some nice things. Well-composed group shots, humorous skits and funny songs, pleasing landscape shots are all handled professionally. And without surrendering fully to the grippy realism we saw in the films, richness and glossy plasticity of a John Wayne vehicle, Richards maintains an aura of anti-romantic realism never intrudes on the story itself.
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Supposedly Richards and producer Pauh  Helmick audition 25 for the lead Grimes they settled on the grimes Grimes is the star of "Summer of 42," but it is hard to associate the boy in "Culpeper" with the girl in "Triumph" in "Summer." It is as if he spent the interim trading in his talent for that of a less able actor. He pursues his lips and move his eyes from side to side. As for his moment of religious change he pursues his life by purse
"The Culpepper Cattle Co" isn't a very good movie, but it does introduce to the screen Dick Grey watching for in the future. And, if only for that reason, cannot be totally condemned
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'La Boheme' Opens Tuesday, Is KU's First Italian Opera
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"La Bohème," an opera by Pucinci, will be presented in the University Theatre. The production will mark the first time an opera has been performed a foreign language campus.
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The opera will be presented at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. University Theatre. A matinee performance will be given at 2:30 p.m.
The opera will be produced
through the combined efforts of Pierre Laroche, a visiting lecturer in theatre this spring, the lawer, professor of orchestra.
Laroche, a native of Brussels,
is both an actor and a director.
She is also a guest lecturer
courses at the Université
Kansas, advanced acting
and advanced directing. This will be
his first theatre production at
Lawner is completing his sixth year as musical director of the
Kansas University Symphony Orchestra.
Included in the members of the production are two choruses. One will sing as the narrator and two students, the other will be a student in the production from a local elementary school.
"La Bohème," which
writes the play, is a love story set among the joys and problems of the Bohemian cultural center of the Paris Latin
Environmental Expert to Give Talk Thursday
William Garner, research and development specialist with the Environmental Protection Agency, Mo. will talk Thursday with persons interested in EPA's organization and general interests.
Garner will also talk about EPA's proposals and available funding.
The talk will be given at 9:30 a.m. in the Apollo Room located on the first floor of the Space Laboratories. Campus West
SUA presents in concert
The Chase Factor: a concept of brass, using slashing high notes, extroverted swing, tasteful dynamics and an indefinable pulsation. The hallmark of the Chase brass is a device used sparingly but tellingly; a literal waterfall of trumpet timbre and technique. Its heard in the janty "Get It On in the Mornin'" and on Chase's magnum opus, the "Invitation To A River" suite, which vacilates between the banks of jazz and rock. Chase's growing repertoire also includes an insinuating "Hello Groceries," "Celebrate," "Open Up Wide," and on the funky side "In the Years To Come."
Chase is more than nine people playing together. It's nine people becoming a part of each other. They created a new thing, in fact. Rather than any other label, it's creative rock.
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