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Wednesday, December 2. 1970
University Daily Kansan
'Indians' Reverses Roles Of Good Guys, Bad Guys
A confused, nightmarish attendant, the mairie, will manage time sensitive events in the University Theatre production "Indians" which opens Friday through July 14.
"It's a commentary on who we
great Indian tribes, lead by such chiefs as Sitting Bull and Chief Joseph.
The essence of herism is probed through the character of Buffalo Bill, who becomes a commentary on the American
KANSAN
William Kuhike, associate
Twenty one actors will double and triple in roles for the KU play, a production imposed because it is the KU play. The Theatre Festival competition.
are, where we came from and how we got," Jack Brooking, professor of "speech and drama and the director, said.
Action will revolve around the Wild West era, specifically around Buffalo Bill and his Wild Wide Show and the plight of the
personality past and present.
perhaps.
Although the play explicitly deals with the idea of manifest destiny in the 1860s there is an implied application to the present day idea that "The American way problems to the world's problems."
professor of speech and drama has the leading role of Buffalo State graduate student, whose father is chief of the Pooreta tribe, will play
Curtain time is at 8:20 p.m.
nightly, Dec. 4 to 6 and Dec. 10
and 11.
'Dingus Magee' a Sour Note Poorly Adapted from Ballad
By FRANK SLOVER Kapsan Staff Writer
Some movies should not be made, others should not be shown. The movie "Dirty Dinguslage," now showing at the Grand Renaissance, is among three categories. This is a film with no perceptible redeeming value.
The acting is terrible. Frank Sinatra as Dingus just does not like a foul-smelling, rotten-crusty dress, but makes him look not weather-beaten but tanned, like he just wore the corral from 18 holes of golf.
In theory, it is supposed to be an adaptation of the book, "The Ballad of Dingus Magee." The ballad tells how a man, westerns it how now Magee, through his own bumbling and the even greater inertitude of the man he came to have big money to the man lame enough to catch him. The movie may be trying to do a spoof on a real life story flattered by the adjective "silly."
Speaking of makeup, there is an Indian chief in the film whose makeup makes him look like a pirate. It's commercial for a quick-tan lotion.
George Kennedy put in a better performance as Hoke Birdsall, who, however, suffers the sameilia that plague all the characters: no characterization. Frank Sinatra is the only one playing a cowboy and that is not enough. The same goes for the rest of the cast of nobodies.
The novel made good use of a bunt-featured, intolerable swamp war he heard that Dingus ("Dean Hammer") was the "best damn bim-bam in the whole territory." She follows the story of a perfectly pawns her off on old Hoke.
In the movie, the squaw is a lithe, buxom, young thing who
stands around in a revealing buckskin jerkin which shows as much cleavage and thigh as the hips. The rest of the body spends most of her time striking Raquel Wesley poses and mutually marigulations about "him-bam."
The least forgivable part of the movie is the production. The camera techniques are so shoddy it hurts to watch.
For the twilight scenes, the shooting was done during the day and the developed strip screen. The sky is dark, the sky is a blue sky, the shadows are sharp and short and the faces, figures and buildings are so dark that they are obscured. You can still off the brass fittings on the saddles.
When Sinatra blows out a candle in a dark tent, the level of light does not change an iota.
An example of just poor leadership is the casey cannon saber drawn, leading his troops after the Indians. The soldiers stop at the rear door and take the sword alone. The last shot shows him following the Indians. The shot which tends to short distances, and he looks as if he is riding with them.
This failure in production is the most disconcerting aspect of the film's exploration. Hollywood can do better than this. This movie must have some money to make, what with its location and the excuse of a shoe-string budget is not a valid one. In a cheapie production, it usually compensated for by the original directing and creative team, but they are notably lacking in "Dinugus."
After watching the film, which
tells of a family's good
family entertainment,
begins to wonder whether it is
a comedy or a drama. The
dont, don't touch girls and hear
bleeped-out or obscured semi-obscensions, like son-of-a-bitch, or be exposed to the real thing, in a well-made movie.
The musical selections will consist of popular, religious and contemporary music from a vocal group will be accompanied by the Gray Jackson band and is composed of 19 performers.
Juliie Meade, St. Albans, N.Y.
senior and Jane Lambert,
Michigan artist and choreographer. Meade has lived in Panama, and Lambert has lived in Miami. Meade has incorporated some of the dances from these areas into her work.
"Right now it is pretty loosely structured, and one who can carry a tune can get in." Eddy has a number of 35 members.
The show is sponsored by Student Union Activities. It will be held at 8 p.m. Dec. 4 in
The troop is to present a variety show 4. The show includes four interiors, music, both vocal and instrumental, dancing; and instruments.
A Black Performing Arts Trust at the University of London is being recorded according to Edward Eddy, instructor in theatre and originator of the
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