Page 8 University Daily Kansan, January 19, 1981 Potpourri scents classes at arts center The daily grind has started for most KU students, but enrollment has just begun for the students at the Lawrence Arts Center at Ninth and Vermont. "We're offering many new program this year," said Shamila Bhardwaj, educational coordinator. The Lawrence Arts Center offers four to eight children and adults interested in continued education. Nearly 30 classes are offered for adults in such subjects as bankshopping, quilting, aerobics, and more. CLASSES are offered for children two-and- david, and older in folk music, art, drama and playwriting. The cost of classes range from $12.50 to $7.50 used on the chalk. The cost of materials used in chalking are included. Bender said new programs have been added in creative writing, sculpture, bankery, quilting, art therapy. The arts center has also added instruction classes for recorders and tin penwhistles. "We're trying very hard to develop follow-up classes so students can continue to go through THE MOST FOPILAR classes are beginning photography yoga, life drawing, rhythmic dance the various stages of development with us," Bender said. Lawrence Arts Center The tap dancing class has been very popular with dancers major because it isn't offered at KU, The art center is also offering one day work, waxing, and felting. The quilting, wheat weaving, and feltting are among the skills offered. For children, workshops will include "Build Your Own Robot" and "What is Mime?" BENDER SAID she especially hoped the new classes for exceptional children and children with developmental disabilities went well. Art for development disabled children and body fitness for the exceptional child are among the classes designed for the exceptional child. Arts center classes are popular with Lawrence's senior citizens, but Bender encourage junior and senior high school students to enroll in adult classes. The arche center installed a ramp last fail to allow the elderly to be accessible to the elderly and handicapped, she said. "We really want to get these people involved in the program, Bender said. "They have so much to teach." The average class size is about 12. "We don't want to take the chance of over-crowding ourselves," she said, "so we keep them small, exalted in our class where we can fit in about 30 students." WITH FUNDING help from the City of Lawrence, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kansas Arts Commission, the Lawrence Arts Center acquired the former Carnegie Library building at Ninth and Vermont in 1973. Following extensive renovation the arts center opened to the public in April of 1975. In its six year history the center has been used extensively by the Seem-to-Be Players, Lawrence Community Theatre, Accredited Music Teachers Association and other performing groups. Enrollment for winter classes will continue until Jan. 26, the first day of classes. Advanced registration is required for all classes and workshops. Popeye loses his comic strip appeal when converted to the silver screen By MIKE GEBERT Kansan Reviewer ★★ "Poppey," a Paramount-Walt Disney release stars Robbie Williams and Shelley Duvall in a new production caron carious and comic strip in two plays at Hillcrest Theater, Ninth and Iown. It is rated PG. The musical is a form that has been in short supply over the last few years. Few have been produced and fewer have been successful; none have started a trend. The films of Robert Alman have started few trends and have not been especially successful, although films like “M*A*^$H” “Nasbille” and “Three Women” have ranked among the most distinguished American movies of the last decade. His iconoclastic, seemingly free-form style was responsible for such masterpieces, but has lately resulted in a string of flops ("Quintet," "A Perfect Couple," "Health"), making it one to get financial backing for his film. Review ADD TIGGE facts to the huge success of comic strip-inspired films like "Superman" and "Star Wars" and you know why Alkman agreed to direct producer Robert Evans' film of "Popeye," based on the old Eskie Segar comic strip and the Max Fleischer cartoons. The result is not sure-fire entertainment like "Star Wars" but an eccentric, weird little musical that, depending on how you react to Altman's unique style, will either delight you or leave you thinking it's the biggest waste of time you ever saw. On Campus OPERATION FRIENDSHIP will meet at 7 n.m. in "The Center." 1830 W. 19th TODAY DESIGN DEPARTMENT STUDENT CRAFT attends at the Kansas Union Exhibition Gallery TAU SIGMAL DANCE CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in 242 Robinson. VENICE OBSERVED exhibit continues in the Museum of Art. HARRY CALLAHAN: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE COLLECTION OF HALLMARK CARDS, continues in the Kress Gallery of the Spencer. MARANTAIR CRISTIAN MINISTRIES will meet at 7 p.m. at 1383 Tennessee St. STUDENTS ANTI-NUCLEAR ALLIANCE will meet at 7 p.m. in Pilar C of the Kansas Union. ECUMENICAL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES will hold a Biblecl seminar on Romans at 7 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center, 1204 Oread. The Kansan welcomes items for inclusion in "On Campus." Organizations should submit information on scheduled, free activities to the Entertainment editor at least three days in advance. The plot is not simple; it's an afterthought. Popeye (Robin Williams) comes into the port of Sweetheaven to look for his long-lost father; renting a room from the parents of Olive Owl (Shelley Duvall), he becomes side-tracked when she jilts Bluto (Paul L. Smith), her ferocious boyfriend, and finds a baby. Seeing Olive Owl, Popeye, and a baby together does not please Sweetheaven, but the help of the Communist sweetpea; but with the help of the Commissar secret ruler of Sweetheaven who turns out to be, of course, Popeye's father (Ray Walston), they all go to the rescue. The plot is pretty flimy, and Altman pays it little enough attention. His main consideration (as always) is characterization; but for once, Altman's method is at odds with the built-in comic characters and the humor that was in Jules Feiffer's original script. MUSICALS, ESPECIALLY幻想s, should be unrealistic in form while scrupulously real in appearance. Fieffer, the cerebral cartoonist of the Village Voice and sometimes screenwriter, clearly saw Popeye as a two-dimensional, funny character who would be expanded. Altman has attempted to draw the character the cost of much of the comedy. Their antics are too often merely that—antics, with even Popeye's memorable mutterings reduced to a bare minimum ("Watch out—you could catch a venerable disease," for instance). No matter how endearing, there's no way the separation of his mind from his hearttrading as "Kramer Vs. Kramer"—but that apparently Altman what Almighty it would like to be. TOMORROW And as a musical, "Popey" is unmusical. It doesn't dance, either. Altman reasoned that these kind of people couldn't dance like Freed Astaire, and that's nonsense. The songs (in Dolly声调, which sound like they were done in a cave by Vicrota) are mostly clunky and minus dancing, with only Olive Oyl's song about Bluto's virtues, hastily consisting of "he's large," really working. Harry Nilsson's score, apart from that, is unrememberable when compared to the bits of song in the old Fleischer brothers cartoons. THE TRUE virtue of "Popeye" is in its creation of a little world, the one place where everything comes together. Sweetheart is realistic and yet as imaginative as Disneyland, a place that could work, but probably wouldn't. And so it seems natural, even ordinary, for characters like the bellowing Bluto, the hamburger-addicted Wimpy (Paul Dooley), the fickle Olive Oyl and even a sailor with massive forearms and a soft heart to live there. The supporting cast, especially victims of Bluto's temper, is outstanding, with special help from grandson Wesley Ivan Hurt and Sweetee. Hurt is innest, and youngest child stars in movie history. "Popeye" is an ambitious project that fails as a musical and a comedy. However it is an en-sambling film, sometimes even a charming film. Everest is there, there there, Evelyn is a great place to visit. HILLCREST 12 EVE 7, 8 & 9:30 MAT. SAT. & SUN. 3:15 Chevy Chase Goldie Hawn Nell Simon's Pine SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES BUSCH BASH at THE HAWK DETAILS TOMORROW Attention $1.50 PITCHERS BUSID HAWK NATURAL LIGHT 2-6 PM DAILY at 'THE HAWK' Basketball Managers! The managers meetings are as follows: Trophy League-6:30 p.m All meetings take place in 201 Robinson Recreational A League-7:30 p.m. Recreational B League-8:30 p.m. THE ALL CAMPUS RECREATION TOURNAMENT More Info? Stop by 208 Robinson or call 864-3546 ACU-I Qualifying Events BACKGAMMON BILLIARDS CHESS DARTS FRISBEE TABLE SOCCER TABLE TENNIS & VIDEO GAMES Jan 26-31 Sign up at SUA Office before 5 PM, Jan 23 Winners in qualifying events go to regional tournament in Lincoln, NE.,— all expenses paid! ALSO "just for fun": Bridge, Dungeons & Dragons, Go, Scrabble & Bowling More Info: SUA office 864-3477 FEE: $5 per entry sponsored by SUA Indoor Recreation ACT ONE, Ltd. Theatrical Books & Suppl 925 iowa Street Lawrence, KS 86044 (913) 841-1045 Capezio Dancewear and Footwear Plays • Posters • Records Stage makeup Vocal Selections Technical & Dance Books Magazines Hours 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. abil's RESTAURANT 925 Iowa (Next to Hillcrest Theatre) 841.7226 841-7226 Join us every evening this week for deliciously prepared, specially priced dinner entrees. DINNER SPECIALS We're beginning 1981 with these 1978 prices . . . Mon.-Chicken Dijon___4.95 Three Season Course Real AOK Tues.-Sweet-Sour Beef ___ 4.95 Wed.-Sole Piccata___ 4.95 Thura.-Stuffed Trout ___ 4.9a Fri.-Coq au Vin___ 5.95 Sat.-Beef Choron ___ 6.95 Restaurant-open to the public Club memberships available All entrees include house salad, rice, and a vegetable. SVA FILMS Monday, Jan. 19 (1967) Two For The Road Albert Finney and Audrey Bubum star as a troubled couple sharing ups and downs in Stanley Dennis's perceptive story. (A very reminiscent of Annie Hall) features brilliant performances by the stars, and William Danielsen (112 color). M:30. Tuesday, Jan. 20 Double Indemnity Double Indemnity Bartarna Stanwick's greatest act, as the nymphee in "The Kid," a plot to kill her, husband, adapted by Raymond Chandler and directed by David Sassoon, sensuously directed by Billy Wilder. One of the greatest of Hollywood films Porter Heller (100 min). BEE 7:30. Wednesday, Jan. 21 Young Torless Voker Schlonfordt (The Tin Dummy) breaksthrough film, strongly German yet with a touch of Truffaut. A young German writer also experiments and begins questioning his world. "A beautiful movie,"—Vincent Canby, The New York Times; With Mattei Carriere, Barbara Streebli, Plus: "Les Caine" (8718 mfm). German suburbia BW.730. Thursday, Jan. 22 Serfs (1963) A free presentation of a film from the People's Republic of China. The story of conflicts in Tibet's caste system during the 1950s, a crisis that coexisted with the Chinese Communist Party, Cinematically, the best film to have come from China to that time. Presented by the East Asian Studies Department at Auditorium, 7:30. FREEDOM ADMISSION. (Unless otherwise noted; all films will be shown at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Weekday films are $1.50; Friday, Saturday, Popular and Sunday films are $1.50; Midnight films are $2.00. Audience Info: See page 84. National Union, 4th level. information 84347. No smoking or refreshments allowed.