FILMS: Detective tripe
By GENELLE RICHARDS Kansan Staff Writer
Although it won't win the Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year, Marlowe wasn't a bad movie.
The acting as typical with low budget movies fell short of great. James Garner gave the best performance which isn't exactly a compliment. The supporting cast, including Gayle Hunnicutt, gave a poor showing, displaying a lack of talent or at least a lack of good use of it.
The photography and quality of film left much to be desired. As did the sound which was so bad the voices even quivered during the middle of the movie.
Many mistakes were obviously in dialogue and action which in a higher grade movie would most certainly have been omitted.
The script was easy to recognize and classify as the usual low cost detective story. The scene is set: one suave detective who just manages to outwit the local police department and three beautiful girls—one a glamorous movie star, one a member of the downtown burlesque theater and the third a supposedly innocent girl from Kansas—of all places.
Now, all must wait for the plot which contains so many people, names, incidents, places and triangles that confusion develops for the audience which cannot understand anything—even after the final explanations—as to who did it and why.
It must be known that this theater-goer did enjoy the movie when it began and was willing to except some of it. But with the errors which should have been cut from the film, the poor performances and too many people being involved, it became too much to take. So if you've seen one detective flick you've seen them all.
Men beware! Women are taking over your world.
Kansan Staff Writer
By GENELLE RICHARDS
Tonight, Audrey Cohen, Overland Park sophomore, romps through "Die Fledermaus" by Johann Strauss portraying Prince Orlovsky. The operetta runs Nov. 1,2,6 and 7.
"I think it's a lot of fun," said Audrey, who is majoring in theatre education.
When Strauss wrote the operetta he made the Prince's part for a soprano and, therefore, in performances it is traditionally sung by a woman.
"I can't think of any other place but opera where a female gets to play the part of a male," said Audrey.
She's ready for man's role
This "trousser" role has forced Audrey to observe men differently, temporarily taking on many masculine characteristics herself.
A very interesting character, Prince Orlovsky presents a character image of more than just a man. He has seen the world and has done everything so he is completely bored, Audrey said.
ASSIGNMENT IN BRITTANY, by Helen MacInnes (Crest, 75 cents)—Reprinting of one of the earliest and best spy thrillers by Miss MacInnes. The story takes place in World War II and deals with an effort to impersonate another man in Nazi-held territory.
BOOKS
THE OPERATORS, by Allan Prior (Crest, 75 cents)—An exciting tale about three people and an elaborate crime, a scheme that one of the three sees as his way to wealth. Clearly in the tough school, and better written than much in that vein at the moment.
He wants people around to take him out of his boredom for a moment.
PREDICTIONS: FACT OR FALLACY, by Hans Holzer (Crest, 75 cents)—A little number attuned to current interest in such matters as whether California will fall into the ocean. Holzer is a parapsychologist and he tells about various predictions that have come true. One for the easily gulled.
RUN MAN RUN, by Chester Himes (Dell, 75 cents)—A crime tale by a Negro writer, dealing with a white plainclothesman who kills two Negro workers in a restaurant and then goes after a third who saw the murders take place. The thing gets cover-advertising to make it look very black-oriented, but it's basically an exciting tale of violence.
ANCIENT AND CLASSICAL ART, by P.P. Kahane, MEDIEVAL PAINTING, by P. Francastel, RENAISSANCE PAINTING, by G.C. Argan; 17TH AND 18TH CENTURY PAINTING, by Michael Levey; 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY PAINTING, by Hans L. C. Jaffe; FAR EASTERN ART, by H. Helt-Kuntze (Dell books, $1.45 each)—A beautiful group of paperback volumes, the paintings entirely in color, on rich, high-quality paper. It is a remarkable set of books, and the student of art history should find them of special value. Of particular interest is the volume on Far Eastern art, and area long neglected and often outside American interests. An examination of these suggests that most significant artists are represented.
RIDERS OF THE BUFFALO GRASS, by Bliss Lomax (Dell, 50 cents)—About a hired name仁润 Ripley who goes to work for the Denver and Pacific Railroad to remove a gang of hoods holding up the railroad's line. Summer excitement for those who enjoy western tales.
Oct. 31
1969 KANSAN 5
Although the operetta revolves around an evening at a masked ball, the Prince does not go
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through the play merely as a masked identity.
Audrey, who gets to wear a moustache in the performance, finds herself using broader gestures.
"The first few times on stage, I had to be careful when I sat down. Usually I would cross my legs, putting my knee over my knee. But sitting as a man I have to remember to put my heel on my knee.
Audrey finds that she must walk differently too—like a man with toes pointed out more.
In addition, her voice seems to lower naturally, although she
doesn't attempt to speak in an extremely low voice, she said.
"It would be ridiculous for me to speak in a terribly low voice when I sing in soprano," Audrey said.
The first times at rehearsal, she found it strange to react to females differently. "I had to enjoy them a lot like the Prince would and come up to them and put my arm around them," she said.
"At first the girls couldn't get use to my being a boy," she said.
Her costume for the operetta consists of pants and a jacket in the style of a military uniform with many medals.
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