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Tuesday. April 4.1972
University Daily Kansan
Disney's Animation Still Reigns
By RON PARKER
Kansan Reviewer
The Walt Disney studios have also made and second-time movers. This is evidenced once again in the animated movie which mixes animation with live action. The cartoon characters seem much more real than the animation.
The story takes place in England in 1940. Three children who have been evacuated from London are placed in the care of
cartoon characters are brimming with life and humor, and one can't help wishing that they are sharing the experience with the picture themselves.
"Bedknobs" also contain so much in the climactic scene which has a few hundred empty suits of armour deoming to life, and the only thing they wear is a
The screaming laughter of the children in the audience is a tribute to the Disney animation of "Snow White." The talking and shuffling of feet
detectable (and understandable)
ambassador. Their delivery
is "slow, and easy to
away" the weak songs. But when
songs are this weak, why not
use them?
Schlock like this needs a lai off. Lansbury was not the right choice for the lovable, eccentric witch. Lansbury is one of the first American actress to sink her teeth, but putting her in a rool like her nose, asking him to throw her into kazoo. He might lend some dignity to the act but there are more adept kazoo-players
KANSAN reviews
The animation is delightful, particularly in a scene depicting an animal soccer match. The
David Tomlinson is always a delight in comic support of the character, and out well into a leading role. He plays a likeable bummer, and is given very little to work with. He maintains an expression that seems to indicate that he smells much bad. He very well may.
THE MAINSTAY of the plot is a search taken to a storybook kingdom inhabited by animated animals and it is here that the characters learn.
on the verge of yelling, "Cut the crap!" But she resists (as far as we know; there may be footage of her playing on some cutting room floor).
More than 80 members of the band, chorale and rock ensemble of Haskell Junior College will present their spring concert throughout portions of Southwestern United States this week, said Jacob Bohanon, director of vocal music at Haskell.
Lansbury took a four-year leave-of-absence from films to become a television host and she's now hard time getting back into the cinema. Her "comeback" in *Inside* was an upsetting and interesting, but spectacular, and "Bedknobs" is unlikely to make her the queen of the Kiddie Matteiere is where the woman we saw on Saturday night, "The Manchurian Candidate?"
Lansbury's role in "Bedknobks" would have been much more secure in the hands of, say, Julie Andrews. Andrews is very much at home in seelock, and her father was always able to have filled the credibility gap.
Bohanon said the four would include stops at Indian schools in Anadarko, Okla., Abuquerque, Montana, and Anaconda, Arizona, and an Apache reservation in Whitelake, N.M. The group left Monday and will conclude their trip.
By WENDIE ELLIOTT
Kenton Staff Writer
In "Bedknobs," Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson perform their numbers with
Haskell Troupe Begins Tour
traditional Indian costume, will sing ethnic songs, which are translated, arranged and directed by Bohanan.
Drawing from a wide range of musical backgrounds, the band will perform under the direction of Drew Brown Redwine and Jack Romine
an apprentice witch named Rachel will be unsuccessfully to discover some satirical connection with the evil sorcerer, and are joined by a bumbling magician, and the bunch go about preventing a German invasion of Switzerland.
The chorale, dressed in
LANSBURY IS just not meant to play saccharine roles. All through the film she seems to be.
Featured in its presentation will be Bill Crow Jr., tenor soloist.
THE RESTLESSNESS of the children always comes to a peak during the songs. I will never understand why movie-makers like Richard and Bob Spinelli persist in hiring Richard and Robert Sherman to fill their pictures with banal songs. The Sherman brothers had one of the greatest pop-poems, "And somehow that makes them supersmothers for life."
should (but probably won't) give a different kind of message to the writer and director.
During the tour, Haskell's rock ensemble, "The Hunted Race," will preserve the music. The set will include vocal and instrumental solosists and an ad-libbed version of "Josephine," said Sam Morris, of Josephine.
spokesman for the group.
"The Hunted Race" has performed for audiences all over the United States, acting as a role of Haskell, Morris said.
KU Student Reports Rape In Apartment
Book Examines 'Ecotage'
Presently, Morris said, they are cutting an album to be released sometime in late April. The album, yet to be named, will visit at Indian groups they have visited and Indians of the area.
Pollution Solution?
In a concert Friday night in
theater at Madison Square Garden,
Superintendent Wallace Galuzzi
made a surprise presentation of
individual players to the
concert.
A 19-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence police she was raped in her apartment early Saturday morning.
Police said the man displayed a knife, but never threatened her.
Police reported the victim was sleeping when she was awakened by a man standing in her bedroom.
Several topical volumes are available this month. Sam Love and David Obst's ECOTAGE! BOOK 16 presents a new item that considers the possibility of sabotaging the persons and industries doing most of the polluting in America. Consider," no "adavocates", it will be called "a man without education" edited by Gerald Leuwand, PRISONS AND THE POLICE (Pocket, 95 cents each). These are in the Problems of American Society, with readings on the subject of crime, police and prison reform.
Another of topical interest is the story of the Native Americans in BEGINNINGS: INDIAN CULTURES IN THE AMERICAS. This book describes the Indians who lived in North and South America before the coming of the Europeans. The stories are well written, interesting and
Police reported he asked for money from the victim, but she old him she didn't have any. 'police reported the man then left.'
Four notable paperbacks that have been reissued are the Civil War *THIS HALLOWED GROUND*, THE COMING FURY, TERRIBLE SWORD SWORD and Pocket (*Pocket*, $1.25 each). The first of these is a single-volume work, one of the best ever written about the American Revolution, conflict in the forests/addings in the 1850s to the beginnings of
The statement was written by the Warrmart Action Board reviewer and is directly administered and was approved by Chalmers.
Policy Attacks Discrimination At University
Reconstruction. The volumes, by the way, are in an extremely attractive format.
Police said there was no sign of orced entry into the apartment
"One of the essential functions of university is help individuals get their greatest potential. To this end the University of Kansas commits itself to
1. The expeditious elimination, in all University activities, of discrimination against members of groups which have been in a university or in general society. Such groups shall include, but not be limited to, American Indians; Blacks, Muslims and Hindus; 2. the development and implementation of policies and programs designed to promote actively the full participation of members of such groups in the administration of the University at all levels."
Chancellor E. L Laurence Chalmers Jr. released a policy statement last week concerning minority groups and women. The statement will be used in all schools for minority groups and women.
The statement was written to clarify the University's position in fulfilling Affirmative Action programs. The Affirmative Action program has been changed with developing a comprehensive program for KU.
JUNIORS!! Interviews for Senior Class Committee Chairpersons Sat.. April 8. 9-12 a.m.
1) Aid to Higher Education
2) Hope Award
3) Senior Job Comm.
4) Social
5) Regalia
6) Class Gift
7) Senior Activities (i.e., regalia dist. and luncheon)
Pick up forms in Alumni Assoc.
Office, 103 Union. Forms must be
turned in by Thurs., April 6 3:00 p.m.
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