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Friday, October 4, 1974
University Daily Kansan
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
THE NEW TV GEASON HAS OPENED
Reporter
By MIKE FITZCERALD
"Step inside! Hello! We've the most amazing show You'll enjoy it all we know
Rock stars uncreative, kinky
You'll enjoy it all we know Step inside! Step inside!"
The 1960s are over, and nowhere is the fact more evident than in the world of popular music.
The Beatles, Rolling Stones,
Cream, Bob Dylan, Jimi
Hendrix, and John Lennon
amplified the basic roots of
music and made the music their
medium of message. To a
generation turned off by war
and death, the Beatles and love, rock was the catalyst of a whole new life-style.
In the astonishing outburst of creativity that came from that period, pop turned to rock and dictated the thoughts and emotions of a "new" generation.
"We've got thrills and shocks, supernatural fighting cocks. Leave your hammers at the box.
Come inside! Come inside!"
Rock became a culture of its own. It had its heroes, who for the most part, were searching for elusive "something better."
That search, however, was laced with as many failures as it was to avoid them. Janis Joplin and Brian Jones' their search ended on an dead-end road of drug overdose. And their believers followed them.
For many of the 80s stars, the search ended in success: success marked with a dollar sign. Today, the minstrel heroes of the 1950s were streets and into the corporate headquarters of huge
Reason fails editors, never men
So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to him or he must be held-by-voice, by posted card, by letter, by or press. Reason has never failed men.
Now, what could be safer? I quoted a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial—a 50-year-old one at that. And, if that isn't enough, it was written by for whom the School of Journalism was named.
—William Allen White
But how do I keep from being controversial in
the workplace? If I am to be a responsible journalist, I don't.
I am to be a responsible journalist. I don't.
As one of the most respected of them, Clyde had been as has said, "You've got to have fire in your belly."
But, more and more, newspaper editors have been shying away from controversial ediators. No longer do some major newspapers endorse candidates for political office. No longer do all newspapers fight editorially for better municipal government.
Yet, a noncontroversial editorial just wouldn't be appropriate for Editors' Day—not when you think of the great controversial editorials the teachers are coming to KU this weekend for Editor's Day. They didn't become respected journalists by hedging, riding fences or avoiding issues.
With a big football weekend approaching and a special "replated" Kansan going to more than 200 professional newspaper editors who will be invited to speak at Day 4, a faculty adviser, whose judgment I deep respect told that a noncontroversial editorial would be most appropriate for today's paper.
When newspapers do talk about local affairs, they sugar-coat their words or talk about local weather, as the highly regarded professional learning Lawrence did in its Thursday editions.
If they say anything at all, they talk about amnesty or Watergate or Cyprus or any attert to circulation boundaries. Some newspapers even have the gall to eliminate editors altogether.
Newspapers should stop running scared. Had the Arkansas Gazette been afraid to speak out on discrimination in Little Rock, segregation might still prevail in America.
conglomerates. There, pop music is dying a slow death. "Come inside, the show's about to start."
Had Ida M. Tarbell been afraid to challenge the Rockefeller family and fortune, the Standard Oil Trust might still control most of the nation's vital oil supplies.
These weren't hedgers, fence riders or people who wrote about the weather. Nor were they editorial egotists who wanted only to cram their opinions down readers' throats.
They were dedicated people with both vision and courage.
Guaranteed to blow your head apart.
But if the free and independent spirit—the
editorial pages is lost, society will lose, too.
As White wrote, "... you can have no wise liaison to the people; there is free expression of the will of the people."
And the people's greatest—and perhaps only— articulator is the press.
-Eric Meyer Editor
Granted, some editorial writers have little vision. And, granted, public access to and control of editorial pages would be egalitarianly desirable.
Rest assured you'll get your money's worth.
You've got to see the show, it's rock and roll...”
You've got to see the show, it's a dynamo.
The greatest show in Heaven,
Hell or Earth.
You've got to see the show, it's a
The explosive charge of creativity that characterized the '80s has slowed to a crawl, and the quality of the music is increasingly bland. To keep some momentous changes in play, music continues to produce an excess of what they call "product."
"Product" is the 1950s nostalgia kick, which can be both very good and very bad.
Decadent rock is Alice Cooper, the queen of rock 'n' rouge, who chops off heads of dolls and sings with snakes. It is the New York Doll, in outrageous bisexual drag, who
"Product" is also the world of decadent rock, which is the appropriate descriptive term for it.
just stand on stage looking like visiting mutants from outer space.
Decadent rock is this decade's superstar in "jobriath," a self-proclaimed true fairy.
more time looking kinky than making music.
Pop music has always seemed to be the most spontaneous reflection of our lives and the things we encounter every thing is a blur.
His "music" is himself in an eight-foot lucite cube that becomes a 40-foot phallic symbol, which next turns into
the Empire State Building with the star, in King Kostume, on top. He then swats down a plane, tears off his gorilla head and strips down to a monkey-fur G-string.
That's act one.
"Next upon the bill in our House of Vaudeville
That's act one.
Music through the ages has described, portrayed, characterized, even painted in which time in which it was created.
And now we hear a scattered symphony of love, soul, sex and money, money. money.
"We would like it to be known the exhibits that were shown Were exclusively our own, All our own. All our own.
Come and see the show! Come and see the show!
See the show!
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
"Brain Salad Surgery"
We've a stripper in a till
What a thrill? What a thrill?
And our hands with that, with
our hands with backs.
We pull Jesus from his hammers.
Get into that! Get into that!
Kids today, who idolize these stars, don't accept the new movies and don't follow or idol the stars in them, as their preceding generations did. Rock stars have replaced them, then, and the rock stars know it. The rock stars know that movie stars of today, and that they should look and act the part. The trouble is, they spend
On stage
THE EMPEROR'S NEW
CLOTHES -Delightful chil-
lery Terry
Asia. At 10:30 a.m. Saturday
in the University Theatre.)
PEPSI THRENDIES—First experimental theatre play of the year. Written by Eric Anderson. Directed by Ronald Willis. (At 8 p.m., through Oct. 12 in the Wilma Ingen Theatre.)
RADIO, GNEEP AND FRIPIR
and THE ADVENTURES OF
NYFRM THE SPRITE
of Spook Special.
(A 1:30 p.m. on Friday)
at the Meade Hall Playhouse,
98½% Massachusetts St.)
On screen
Brother Son, Sister Moon—Beautiful, lush film about St. Francis. Starring Graham Faulkner and Judi Bower. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli. (At 7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. in Woodruff Auditorium.)
Flight of the Doves—
Children's film starring
Dorothy McGuire and Stanley
Holloway, Directed by Ralph
Nelson. (At 1:30 p.m., Sunday in
woodruff Auditorium.)
Imm of the Sixth Happiness—
this mediocre American in-
tervention has a great performance from Ingrid Bergman. Also with Curt Jurgens. Directed by Mark Anderson on Monday in Wooldruff Auditorium.
Diary of a Chambermid-
Excellent satire on social
values. Directed by the great
Luis Bunuel. Highly recommended.
(At 7:30 p.m. Week-
end.) In Woodff and
Audubrius.)
Neighbors, l'Affaire Est dans le Sac and The Red Balloon—The first is a nine minute short directed by Norman McLaren.
The Old Fashioned Way—Another wonderful comedy movie that was directed this one was made in 1934 when Fields was at his best. Highly recommended. (At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Woodruff Audito-
This Week's ENTERTAINMENT
The Day of the Dolphin—This is another big-budget epic that just doesn't make the grade. The movie takes a man who unwittingly trains a Dolphin to kill the President of the United States. With Trish Van Deerve, Directed by Mike Nichols. At (7:30 and 9:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Varsity Theatre).
Jeremiah Johnson-Robert
Redford continued to pack them
in, directed by Sydney Pollack.
He gave the tour on Tuesday at Hurlcott L.
Girls for Rent—Ugh!! (At 7:40 and 9:30 p.m. through Tuesday at Hillcrest II.)
Return of the Dragon- The best thing that can be said about this film is that it isn't the worst in town. With Bruce Lee. (At 7:15 and 9:15 p.m. through Tuesday at Hillcrest III.)
Cabaret—Excellent. By far the best musical in years, but it's also a great movie. Liza Minelli plays the unpredictable Sally Bowles. Joel Grey is the emcee. With Maya Hathaway and Fosse. Best movie in town. (At 7:30 and 9:40 p.m. Matinees at 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Granada Theatre.)
Man of the East and Billy Two Hats—The first is a western comedy starring Terrance Hill. Don't worry about the second. (A 17:45 p.m. through Saturday at the Sunrise Drive-In.)
The second is a 1932 French film directed by Pierre Prevert. The third is a delightful French TV film directed by Alberto Lamorise. (A1'P, m. Thursday in Woodruff Auditorium.)
In concert
QUITTIN' TIME—A rock band. At 8:30 p.m. Friday at the Free State Opera House. (The band's plays will play during half-time of the game on Saturday. Program: "I'm a Hawayk," "Across the Wide Missouri," "Boggie on Down," "One Tint Snow," and "Patriotic Finale." (A Saturday at the Stadium.)
TIDE—A rock band. (At 8:30
KU's play for children shows many adult flaws
There is nothing that can quite match the experience of sitting in front of a child watching children in their watchable play they enjoy.
The little boy to the right is on the edge of his seat and screaming to the actors what he thinks they should do. A little girl way over on the other side is wide-eyed, open-mouthed and grim reverence for what is happening up on the stage.
Two rollicking rogues, Zar and Zan, convince the emperor that they can weave a stuff that
The story is familiar to most people. The emperor cares for nothing but clothes. Han, the minister of the robes, plays on this weakness to rob the royal court and persecute the empress.
Zar and Zan, played by two
Drama Reviewer
The perennial hypocrisy of adults who would pretend to see what they don't see and be what they are, is the "Emperor" conveys. The foolishness of adults, as seen through the eyes of the eternal children, Zar and Zam, is as much as the eyes of Watergate, as it ever was.
This is especially true of the Charlotte B. Choppenning version of the classic, "The Imperator," performed this week by the University Theatre for Young People at Murphy Hall.
By MARGARET McMANN
The comedy situations that result enable the rogues to save the emPRESS and the weavers and expose the villainy of the minister. To find out exactly how much money you must bring your children to the public performance at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday.
Terry Asla, director of the show, has chosen to do the play in *Fairy-Tale* Chinese, which might could might confuse up in his imagination. The set designer, Brian Martin, has come up with a very imaginative idea using the characters to carry this motif to the audience.
A good children's play well done can hold the audience spellbound.
cannot be seen by anyone unfit for the position he holds. Everyone is afraid to confess that he cannot see the new clothes that the Emperor orders.
At the gallery
LITTLE SYMPHONY-
Thomas Gorton, director.
Solist: James Moeser,
organist. Works by Mozart,
Bach. Works at Swarah (At 8 p.m. Wednesday at Swarah Recital Hall).
The part of the emperor is convincingly played by a freshman woman, Michelle Ewert. She was an accomplished difficult job, but she succeeds with the help of a bulky padded costume. Janet Taylor plays the role of the empress delightfully, while Michael Kors stupid, but beautiful woman.
It is easy to empathize with the plight of the weavers, credibly played by Lynda Rosenstein in the role of Tsein; Keth Pickering as Ling, the old Malcolm Smith; and Mongol; Malcolm Smith as the tempered Fah; and the little child, played by Tierr Stewart.
STUDENT RECITAL—Diane Price, Meliodine Newcomb and Tom Montgomery. (At 2:30 in Swarorth at Swarorth Recital Hall.)
MUD CREek=Beneft for Dr. Bill Roy. (At 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday at the Free State
Opera House.)
tall, lanky and very agile actors, Doug Bell and Gerard Teichman, cavort all over the stage, getting themselves into body positions. It is as if Zar's bodies were made of rubber.
MEMORIAL CARILLON
RECTAL—Albert Gerkin. (At
7 p.m. Wednesday.)
The role of the general isn't one with many lines. But Gene O'Hara added a great deal of life to the role and the show by his consistent, convincing and funny characterization.
Steve Bernstein, who has been around the University Theatre longer than most of the rest of the cast, has had many roles proving his versatility. He plays the role of Herman Heller convincingly, outwardly proud, yet afraid and insecure inside.
Following the general, Han,
the emperor and empress
everywhere they go, is Ching,
the gong bearer, played by
Lynn Fogleman, who vibrates
most of his time on stage.
MUSEUM OF ART—"The Stouse Collection: The Arts of Costa Rica" and "Basil King—Alnister Ginsberg." The Visions of the Great Remember." (From 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday at 4:45 p.m. Sunday through Oct. 6.)
the play, Judi Wendland, Mary Pursell and Kelly Peterson are the puppetists, without whom the show would be incomplete.
Last, but certainly not least,
are those people who work
behind the curtains of puppets,
and only see on stage at the end.
MEMORIAL CARILLON RECITAL—Albert Gerkin. (At 3 p.m. Sunday).
JOSE FELICIANO and DAVE LOGGINS—Weekend highlight. The first performer is an accomplished singer and musician; the other is a great drummer on Saturday in Hoch Auditorium.
The costumes, designed by Chez Haehl, are for the most part traditional. They are made out of such beautiful, rich, colorful fabrics that they add tremendously to the spectacle of the total show.
Charles Lown, professor of speech and drama and lighting designer of the play, together with Brian Martin set the tone for the screen's spectacular effects seen on the projection screens.
p. m. Saturday at the Free State Opera House.)
Jed H. Davis, director of the Theatre for Young People program, has consistently achieved a high level of excellence in the plays produced here at KU. This play, "The Emperor's New Clothes," isn't an exception.
MUSEUM OF ART—"The L. A. Flash." A multiple-projection slide show of the Los-Angeles look from high fashion to Superfly. (Flashed hourly 9:30 a.m. to noon through Saturday, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Sundays through Oct. 30.) E 7EAST 7—"Third Annual Printmakers' Show." Works by Asbury, Bangert, Brown, Hastings, Hiles, Kirkland, and Haines. (From noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday through Nov. 1.)
Too Few for Drums—Another of those epocalh R. F. Daelferldel novels, this one during the Napoleonic wars. A 19-year-old ensign is separated from the main part of the French army, trapped behind the French army (Pocket, $1.25)
KANSAS UNION
GALLERY—"Painting and
Sculpture Faculty." Works by
Jane Ashbury, Dwight Buryham
and Phillip Blackhurst. (From
through Friday, 10 a.m. to
5 p.m. Saturday and noon to
4 p.m. Sunday through Oct. 10.)
City Boy—Early-day Herrman Wouk, long before "The Caine Mutiny." This is about the life of Herbie Bookbinder, preocious 11-year old growing up in the Bronx. (Pocket, $1.25)
Great Jones Street—A book about the world of rock music. It is a celebration and head of a financial conglomerate. He abandons his exciting life to live in a squail cave on Manhattan. (Pocket, $1.25)
The Flowering — A soap story by Agnes Sligh Turbullburh (1924) whose thirty others who attempts to find happiness in a small suburb. Danger and mystery comedy for her former, naturally. (Great, 95 cents)
The Fortune Hunter—A historical romance by Ira Morris set in 19th Century Russia, dealing with an heirress and her marriage to an imam. The book defends both defiends and ballrooms carry the heroine, and the reader along. (Crest, $1.25)
Oh! Where Are Bloody Mary's Earrings? - A mystery story by Robert Player that moves from Tudor to Edwardian times. It's about the time when the princess marita that dates back to Mary Tudor and Philip of Spain. (Pocket, $1.25)
Off the shelf
Generation of Victors—Here is a massive story about five men and their return from World War II, their loves, their destinies. Author Burt Hirschfeld carries his people through the fifties and the stormy sixties. (Pocket, $1.75) Johnnie Death—a novel by John Schurm Schwarzenbach—the famous depression-era bandit, John Dillinger, most celebrated gangster of his time. The author describes an Indiana farm boy who becomes the leader of a social misfits. (Crest, $1.50)
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