FILMS: 1, 2, 3, . . Red Light!
By MIKE SHEARER
Seeing "Three in the Attic" does not necessarily have to be an evening wasted, if the informed viewer knows what the highlights of the evening will be before he nests into his theater seat.
Conscientious theater-goer, watch the redhead in the Lawrence Laundry and Dry Cleaning commercial. She's a real standout in this evening's cavalcade of talent.
Her only possible rival for fluent performance is Daffy Duck in Daffy's Diner. In fact, the scene with Daffy trying to catch Speedy Gonzales to make a mouseburger for an unruly customer makes every other scene of the evening anti-climatic.
Other notable performances during the evening featuring "Three in the Attic" are given by some hairy-legged Austrian dancers in a short preceding the film. This short ("Fish Are Where You Find Them") and the previews of coming attractions ("Riot" starring Jim Brown) are really too moving to be shown on the same bill with "Three in the Attic."
After an entertaining array of shorts, "Three in the Attic" is bound to cause a slump.
It's the story of three "butts," which is the way the star describes the three young ladies in the film, and a cutish fraternity boy in Vermont.
The movie is about the sex life of this cutiesie boy, played cutely enough by cute Christopher Jones.
The real star, however, is not Jones but his body, shot from at least 5,000 angles. And for effect, the movie-makers occasionally draped a female body over Jones' physique.
Not to be without social significance though, the film ends with the star in the hospital after two weeks of exhaustive sex in the attic with his three "butts," teaching the star that too much sex and not enough love is not a good thing, for either the star or the movie-goer.
The real social significance of the film however is in the fact that its popularity has held it over in Lawrence for the second unholy week.
The film's popularity, as with the popularity of last year's top money makers such as "The Green Berets," points directly to the mental dwarfism of the average American theater-goer. It is heartening to know that an academic community such as Lawrence is not intellectually out of tune with the rest of the nation.
Like I said before, there's a redhead in the Lawrence Laundry and Dry Cleaning commercial worth watching.
RECORDS: Pentangle
By WILL HARDESTY
Perhaps the best new group of the first semester has put out their second album—SWEET CHILD by The Pentangle on Reprise.
About the best word to describe the group is "unique." This two-record set has little or no chaff—all the material is good or better than that. The music is the same genre as on The Pentangle's first album—a tasteful combination of folk, jazz, classical and blues. The 22 tracks on the album give the group a chance to more fully show off their wide talents. Included is everything from a work based on a 14th Century Italian composition to a Scottish love song to an American Christmas song to an English folk ballad to Charles Mingus material.
A great album for fans of quiet jazzy good music.
Sudlow art exhibit at Kansas Union
An exhibit of 10 recent paintings by Robert Sudlow, associate professor of drawing and painting, is being shown in the Kansas Union, South Lounge.
Sudlow, a KU graduate, is exhibiting his paintings of Kansas landscapes through March 1.
Couple formed own rep company
By PEGGY LEHMAN Kansan Staff Reporter
Independently creating an acting company is never easy, but when one is formed and ready to put on a show in only six months it constitutes a sort of miracle.
Such is the case of John Bush Jones, assistant professor of English, and his wife, Sandra Carson Jones, the co-founders of KU's Gilbert and Sullivan Co., which will present its first production, "The Mikado," March 5-9 in Strong Hall Auditorium.
" 'The Mikado' is not a mindless spectacular as some Broadway musicals are," says Mrs. Jones. "My husband and I founded the company to give audiences an exciting evening of entertainment."
Before coming to KU, Jones, while working on his undergraduate degree in speech at Northwestern University, worked in theatrical productions and stock companies. At one time he was historical consultant for Gilbert and Sullivan musicals on Broadway.
Mrs. Jones majored in drama at Northwestern, acted in theater productions there and at the age of 18 started a summer theater group in her hometown, Springfield, Ill.
Last year the Jones started an organization identical to KU's Gilbert and Sullivan Co. at Northwestern. Mrs. Jones said the group there is doing exceedingly well and putting on two productions this year.
Because production plans were not initiated until last September, the only space open
Kansan Arts Calendar
7 & 9 p.m. - Special Film -
"I'm No Angel" - Dyche
Auditorium
Today
8 p.m. · Senior Recital · C.
Ann Rickert, soprano
Swarthout Recital Hall
7 & 9:30 p.m. - Popular Film
"Lolita" - Dyche Auditorium
7:30 p.m. - Folk Dance Club
173 Murphy
8:20 p.m. - "Destroy Rides Again" - Experimental Theatre Friday
7:30 p.m. - University Film Series - "Nazarin" - Hoch Auditorium
8:20 p.m. - "Destroy Rides Again" - Experimental Theatre Saturday
Greg Hill, Mission sophomore,
and Darrell Keister, Shawnee
sophomore, singlehandedly
constructed "The Mikado" set
under the football stadium.
Leeland Miller, professor occupational therapy, provided all the props for the musical. Just after World War II, Miller, a G.I. in Special Forces, acted in "The Mikado" in Japan.
The company consists of freshman through graduate students plus one or two professors.
7 & 9:30 p.m. - Popular Film -
"Lolita" - Dyche Auditorium
Tickets for performances of "The Mikado" are now on sale in the SUA office in the Kansas Union and at Bell's Music Co., downtown Lawrence.
for performances was Strong Hall Auditorium.
In setting up a unprecedented theatrical group, Mrs. Jones stated that no special problems occurred. After an introductory meeting, the co-directors picked staff members and backstage crews.
8:20 p.m. - "Destroy Rides Again" Experimental Theatre Sunday
7 & 9:30 p.m. - Popular Film
"Lolita" - Dyche Auditorium
8:20 p.m. "Destroy_Rides
"Do you ever get the feeling that as you watch a musical you should have brought your binoculars in order to see the characters on stage? Well, my husband and I feel that producing a musical in a small house gives a feeling of intimacy between audiences and actors."
Asked whether such a small auditorium caused many problems Mrs. Jones replied, "We are used to directing in smaller places than the auditorium. In fact, we are delighted with it.
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