Friday, November 30, 1973
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Problems Breed Problems
By DIANE YEAMANS
Kaman Reviews Editor
Sometimes problem breed only more problems. A person may have a fear or hate that keeps recurring and affects everything around him. When things start going wrong for such a person, nothing seems to be able to right them.
That's the theme of the Hashinger Theater production of "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon and Zuni Zuntel. The play opens at 8 p.m. tonight.
The story centers on a woman and her two high school age daughters. The mother, played by P. K. Harper, Charleston, Mo., junior, had a tough childhood. Her dreams of a good, decent life were destroyed when her father died, and she was forced to marry for security. Her disappointments gr 'int hates.
Her daughter's lives are complicated because they have their own reactions and defenses to their mother's hate and they have problems of their own.
Tille, played by Shannon Green,
Moberly's Fred Truhan, is an intelligent
singer.
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laughing. She recalls into science and any manifestations of her dreams are developed in her experiments. Tillie wins a science competition and the greatest reward is that nobody laughes at her.
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freshman, plays the other daughter, Ruth. She suffers from epilepsy, which is aggravated by a fear of death. But unlike her mother and sister, Ruth is a strong-minded girl who is able to carve her life into any form she wants. Sometimes she is purposely cruel—but without understanding how regretting the consequences
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The three women interact with each other and the outside world to produce a Pulitzer Prize winning play, bursting with flavor from the exceptional acting the Hashinger奖 won.
Harper gives an excellent performance, concentrating on the despair and hate that rule the mother's life. Her laugh lines become sarcastic, and she adds to her despair with liquor and a constant chain of cigarettes.
The two daughters are also well played, as is Janice Vickery, a smiffy flirt of a high school girl everyone has known sometime, as Nancy Norris, Nevada, Mo., freshman.
convincing and consistent in her portrayal of Nanny, an old woman who has suffered from a stroke and whom the mother has known is one of our characters. It shows an unusual maturity and strength
Carolyn Messer, Leawood freshman, is
The set, which is good in the audience, is helped by the small theater. The audience sits inside the room and can almost reach out and touch the characters. The set is also furnished with pop cans, books, dirty silverware and old boxes to give a good impression of a dum.
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The play itself is solid and the Hashinger Theater production is well done. Be sure to see the play, and be sure to go early since seating is limited.
Aaron Burr's Life Told in Novel
American history can be fascinating, although it tends to be boring in the way it's treated and taught. The most colorful men and events are often deleted from history books, leaving the reader with null, lifeless facts and banal prose. Some novelists attest to the beauty of historical art in a trip in the form of historical novels. One recent attempt is "Burry" by Gore Vidal.
By JOHN CRICHTON
Kansan Reviewer
"Burr" is about Aaron Burt, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, the vice president to Thomas Jefferson and the accused traitor of the Republic.
The novel is in the present tense and is told during the last four years of Burr's life by his young law clerk, Charles Schuyler. As the story begins, Schuyler has been asked by the editor of the New York Evening Post, William Leggett, to write
in the succeeding chapters, Schuyler follows Burr around, endlessly taking notes and dictation for the biography as well as her own, and in the past fascinated his fascination portrait of a man and his three
articles about Burr for the paper. Schuyler agrees, but he soon discovers Leggett's true motive. The editor wants the young law graduate to be Burr's Martin Van Buren is Burr's illegitimate son. Despite the new angle to his assignment, Shuyler continues with Leggett's request, unknown to Burr, who, in the case of his law clerk to be his biographer.
The portrait ranges from the Revolutionary War and its leaders to Burr's trial for treason in 1807. Reading it is like looking at early American history through the eyes of one of its participants. Burr's candid remarks on his colleagues attribute
motive and fault, and he spares none, save himself, in giving his version of our
Burr says that it was due to Washington's errie incompetence" that the Brit war lasted so long, and that the "Americas are as merciful as any Hessian. No money, no battle."
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Jefferson, in Burr's veil, "was a beautiful human, so eminently vague, so entirely dishonest." And in looking back on his first meeting with Hamilton, Burr reflects that "we were like brothers (yes, Cain and Abel come to mind with the difference that we were part-Cain, part-Abel) . . . we would have been friends had we not been young heroes" . . . each aware that at the summit there is a place for only one."
Many of the obscure and forgotten scandals of our early history are brought to
light as Burr recounts his experiences. "Massa Tom" he as often refers to Jefferson, had illegitimate children by his slaves. Washington City, which lacks both city and capital," was built in Virginia as the result of a trade with Jefferson for votes in Congress. And there's Burr's own scandalous attempt to conquer Mexico.
While reading "Burr," it is easy to forget that Vidal, not Schuyler, is the author. Vidal has not only brilliantly recreated the memoirs of Aaron Burr, the conversations between Burr and his colleagues and the aura of the 18th-century writer who created a person to tell us the story.
Vidal's style is fluid and highly entertaining, using the language of the early Nineteenth Century in a precise and natural way. It simply doesn't let up. From the first line onwards, Vidal creates the finest elements of prose and historical intellect. It is, simply put, a splendid novel.
Crop Duster, Mafia's Encounter Drags in Movie of Money, Blood
Kansan Reviewer
Charley Varrick is a man with a lot of problems. First, he's the "Last of the In dependents" in crop dusting. This may not be the best way to do it, but Charley says "It doesn't pay too well."
By YAEL ABOUHALKAH
So Charley's first solution is to find a way to get a job that does pay—and wouldn't you know that robbing banks is Charley's first love? So, Charley portrayed by Walter Schreiber, his wife and two con men rob a small bank in a typically small New Mexico town.
"The fuzz will stop looking for us pretty soon," he says, but the Mdnn never stops looking.
Charley realizes that the solution to the money problem is a lot more complicated. When he and Harmon, the number two hit man, realize what they've got, it's Charley who recognizes the danger of their discovery.
Charley's second problem is that instead of picking up a typical $2,000 from the typical bank, Charley picks up $765,118 of the Matta's money from one of their drop off, his wife and one of the con men are killed in the holdup. Unluck Charley
So Charley goes about finding a way out of the country and into safe territory. In Ms.
New Carhay has a third problem. The man from whom he gets information about there to get fixesports is, an informer. So he's a spy. He smokes pipe-smoking, ten-gallon-t-wearing
Mafia investigator who has been sent to recover the money.
But he isn't in 'as much trouble as Harmon, who has the misfortune to be home when the Mafia comes calling. And that's what finds Harmon minus a few pints of blood.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the only two Mafia men who knew the money had been kept at the bank are discussing their futures.
"I wish I was a cow. I mean, what can happen to a cow?"
"The worst thing that can happen to them is to have a short circuit in their electric milker. I don't think we're going to be that lucky."
"How's that?"
One suicide and one murder late, the man seemed prophetic.
Charley has one more problem—how to get rid of the money and the Mafia curve at the same time. Which, he finds out, is more difficult to do than to plan.
But with a coolness that characterizes him throughout the movie, Charley finds a way to do it. First, some flowers for a pretty secretary. Next, some love-making with the secretary. Finally, a setup to get rid of the money on an abandoned airship.
And the stage is set for a well-filled, dusty and slightly humorous chase between Charley's plane and the Mafia hit man's car.
And the ending—well, see the movie. Which shouldn't be said lightly. A lot of things are wrong with "Charley Varrick." The camera work often leaves the audience
literally groping in the dark. The pace is the slowest of the movie, which extracts from the acting.
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The acting is the final drawback of the movie. Except for dependable Matthau, an actor stand out—mostly because they all seem to be the same against the Mafia.
It would be nice to say that the theme "Charley Varrick" concerns itself with warnings about the Mafia. But it wouldn't be true. The producers seem intent on action, but they also and blood that go into the Mafia that they have any social commentary, worth mentioning.
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With those thoughts in mind, one could say that "Charley Varrick" is interesting at times, avenge at times and aim at all times. Which probably only goes to prove the heroism of the Godfather aren't bombhells at the boxoffice. Many times they're just bombs.
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