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Friday, February 25, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Student Lets Sleeping Dog Lie
Kansas Photo by PETE SANG
Dave Melfert, St. Louis senior, proves to be at least dog's best friend as he follows the adage, "let sleeping dogs lie." Both appear to be enjoying the warm sunshine thursday, a rarity in Lawrence in
February. The weather is predicted to follow a warm spell, and the heat could damage the dog. Russia seems well content to gaggle.
Anachronistic Travesty
'Devils' Crazily Bizarre
By RON PARKER
Yansan Reviewer
"The Devil's (Hillcrest 2) is an absolutely sicko movie, but it can be quite a lot of fun if you don't take it seriously.
Many people have been offended by the picture—in fact, when I saw it, it seemed that more people walked out than had
source materials: John Whiting's play "The Devils" and Aldous Huxley's book "The Devils of Loudon."
These works recounted a true story of religious and political violence in the Middle Ages, and their story dealt with an influential priest whose control of a French church was the basis for his career.
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come in. Indeed, there are a lot of things in the film that are potentially offensive: hideous tortures, horrific body sores and scars, much screaming and writing about on the floor. But I'm inclined to believe that the whole thing is meant as a put-on; and taken that way, all the ghastly things become perversely amusing.
IN "THE DEVILS," Russell has let his imagination go berserk. He began with two basic
Ken Russell, who is responsible for the picture, is something of a controversial figure in the film industry. He plays the genius and the madman. I don't think he's either one. I think he's the most interesting with an unpleasant imagination.
hierarchy. When a deranged, maniacous person possesses the devil, the political heads grabsbed the opportunity to persecute and kill them.
burlesque that sets the tone for the rest of the film. The king, in heavy make-up and a bejeweled G-string, rises out of a giant shell in a pardon of the birth of Venus. Berkley number G. Busy Berkley number
From this story, Russell has fashioned a screenplay that bears only a passing resemblance to the novels of his older sisters, some curious, non-period sets, and has popped them with a truly original script. The script abounds with anachronisms (the king shoots a peasant in a bird suit and says, "You're not a character") characters and settings are flagrantly inconsistent with the characters seem to be from a period we haven't yet reached.)
THE VERY opening scene is a
It is this brazen disregard for legitimacy that leads me to the question: Should we use us for us to take his work seriously. This belief is given further credence by the performances of the director, the shameless zeal, fluttering and going into hysteria at the drop of a hat. Nearly everyone seems to be making up reasons.
'Nation' Stereotyped With Heavy Sound
VANESSA REDGRAVE,
however, has a way of seeming
earnest in the midst of nonsense.
In "Camelot" she performed
with such passion and credibility
tune with the rest of the picture.
The same thing happens here.
the hunchbacked mother-
superior, Miss Redgrave seems to believe much of what she is doing. In the context of the rest
of little embarrassing to watch her.
By JOE ZANATTA Kansan Reviewer
The band, currently playing at the Red Baron, has intentionally stereotyped itself with this sound
Nation is a band with a case of the "heavies." All the symptoms are here: loud distorted guitars, screaming vocals and material courtesy of the big-name heavies, Sabbath, Mountain and the like.
The Kansas City group has been playing the Lawrence club fraternity circuit for about two years.
Nation is saved from the ranks of mediocrity by its final set of performances. He wore band shines and makes up for some of its previous poor performances on the performances of Johnny Winter's "Rock and Rocky Hoo Kooie" and Mountain's "The Let Sun be an easily forgotten evening."
Many good lead leads by the band, especially their guitarist, are lost because of the volume at which the music is played.
Most of Nation's material
choreography is
progressions progresses. This gives
them a sound identical to every
other group that chooses this type
of music.
Russell hasn't thrown out Huxley and Whiting's message, but he might as well have. He瞅 sight at a scene by scene book of Oliver Lever (a martyrned priest) expound for a while about the hypocrisy of the Church. But with the crowd mugging and making funny noses jiggle doors like kikers in Dragon's Lair like Kuxel, the message is kissed. Kuxl, the message is kissed.
This type of rock music provides an excellent dance beat, as shown by their popularity, but is also the group's musical talents.
Nation is a good dance band
that much credit is due them. If you want a little more from a band than a good beat, try to catch only their last set.
I am unable and unwilling to recommend "The Devil's" it's a crazy book. I can't accept on any level. But if you look at it as a travesty, it offers some demented pleasures. If you want it to be the best not to look at it at all.
By BARBARASCHMIDT Kansan Reviews Editor
ART
WOODRUFF AUDITORIUM:
International Film, "Ivan the Terrible, Part II." 7:30 p.m. Sun.
Part II of an uncompleted trilogy on the life of Russia's first Tsar Ivan Eisenstein, be known for showing Ivan as a tyrant. Received six years after Stalin's death and called it "worthless and the film has since been regarded in a cinema classic. Made in 1946.
SPOONER ART GALLERY: A twisted gallery of construction by Norman Geis and Michael Sims, instructors in painting and sculpture. Through
SEVEN EAST SEVENTH GALLEY: An exhibit of oil paintings and drawings by John Gary Brown, Lawrence resident and former KU student. Through March 6.
UNION GALLERY: The 18th Annual Kansas Designer Craftsman show. Through March 12. Handmade art, jewelery, metalwork, weaving and exile design. furniture, wood furnishings, kansas casas, and ammals are on display.
WOODRUFF AUDIOTURM:
"The Impressionsist," "Kinetic
Art in Paris," and "The Art
Conservation." 7:30 p.m.
Monday. Third of a fivepart USA film
"Museum Withoutalls."
WOODRUFF AUDITORIUM:
SUA Popular Film, "The Killing of Sister George" and 9 p.30 m.p. of it has been exploitation in the main approach taken by what was advertised as a rejected TV actress and her friend, a triangle involving three women." Originally a biting comedy about a rejected TV actress and her friend, a triangle involving three women which it was based because this 1969 film memorable mainly for its field, seriousness. Beryl Field, Sanhailah York and Carol Prowse star.
SWARTHOUT RECITAL
Boyd, bassoonist and instructor
n double reeds at Washburn University,
and Sylvia Boyd, flutist.
HOC AUDRITORIUM: Concert Course, Ballet Fokloreto of Mexico. 8:20 p.m. Monday. A dance lesson for singers and instrumentalists spreading the vibrant sound and vibrancy of native Mexican entertainment.
UNION BALLROOM: "A 1950's Concert & Sock Hop '8 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Lanny Fenne music for KU's latest greater revival, this one sponsored by the Governor for President Committee."
FILMS
Weekend Scene Offers Sock Hop
Play Shows College Life
By MARILYN K. KING
Who played opposite Joan Crawford in "Humoresque?" Doesn't matter. It's just a tool well used by Eric Anderson, McPherson graduate student, to play with the audience on original script, "Just Good Friends," the play, now showing at the Experimental Theatre, employs the eternal triangle with two twists—the two men are lovers.
Margaret, Matthew and Steven are college students who re-hash the meaninglessness of text finding meanings. The audience might miss some of this because it is usually convoluted with laughter at very funny lines. It is hard to get it right together and keeps it moving. The three actors provide creditable performances, blending in and out of scenes that jump from past to present.
Margaret (Sally Smith, Lawrence) and Chris (Claire White, Marvysilie sophomore), discover they have a love of old movies in their teenage years.
pounce, and Miss Smith is delightfully fluff-minded. Prizinger, who plays the straight man, delivers his lines heavily, but is most typical of a college student and afraid of his own emotions.
(Neel Piringer) have their homosexuality in common, though, as Steven comments, it is easy to explain the solution to the problem than the usual one of having one of the gays die or just go away. And we can also have Matthew in common. They try to become the best of friends, but find closeness can be frightening because it destroys delusions.
The play is smooth and flowing, thanks to able direction by the students. Ms. Grady graduate student. White executives has business with the controlled financial markets.
If you don't like dirty words, you should provide a light-hearted lesson in the pros and cons of wordiness that is really good, too.
Drummer Buddy Rich and his big band will perform at 2 p.m. Concert Hall at Washburn University in Topeka.
Blood & Sand,Death in the afternoon,Bullfighting Romance. Be a card carrying Bullfighter.
BULLFIGHTERS WANTED
WOODRUFF AUDIORIUM:
SUA Science Fiction Film, "Barbarie" 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Barbara Kovacs 10:30 p.m. Fonda fitts around the universe in director Roger Vadim's comic universe. Made in 1968 and sex sadism. Made in 1968
Watch this space.
WOODRUFF AUDITORIUM:
SUA Classical Film, "Titicac Polles." 7.30 and 9.15 p.m.
"Titicac Polles," thesman,
director; made in 1963.
UNION BALLROOM: SUA Science Fiction Film, "Village of the Damned." 7.30 p.m. Thursday. Simister children menace a peaceful town in this English movie. George Sanders. Made in 1980.
HILCREST 2: "The Devil's"
Ken Russell's film about witch
hunting and sexual hysteria in a
17th-century French convent
Redrieve as a hunch-backed love
love with a priest, Oliver Ed
HILCREST I: "Kdnapped." The new film version of Robert Levi StevenSON's "Kdnapped!" he no rip-roaring swackbuckle but it is a midly entertaining adventure. Caine as the swaggering Alan Breck and Lawrence Douglas as the boy-turned-man David Bal-
FRIDAY and SATURDAY NIGHTS
WOODRUFF AUDITORIUM:
Film Society "Tricia's Wedding, 1987" 30 p.m. Thursday; "Portrait of Jason" (1986), 9:30 p.m. Thursday "Tricia's Wedding, 1987" 30 p.m. Saturday and satiate and scutile by some third rate actors and actresses. "The Queen" is a semi-documentary film set in drag. "Portrait of Jaxon" monologue by a black male prosector who gives a frightening picnic performance in a private society can do to a mama.
GRANDA THEATRE: "Song of the South" a 1954 Walt Disney movie combining animation and live action.
HILCRESCT 3: "Harold and Maude." Lively Ruth Gordon, an 80-year-old swinger, and necrophilic Bud Cort, barely dry behind the ears, turn a funny, warm cup into a nausea-affecting love affair.
VARSITY THEATRE:
"Sunday Bloody Sunday." John Schlesinger ("Midnight Cow-
ween") Penelope Holt's complex series a disintegrating love triangle. Homesexual Peter Loves murray
معاونات المؤسسة العامة للتربية في الدول العربية
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THEATRE
EXPERIMENTAL THEA-
TRE: "Just Good Friends."
p.m. tonight through March 4.
An original play by Eric Anderson,
and son graduate student.
"Friendship" is a friendship
of three college students
during a year's period.
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