FILMS : Dustin and Mia
By RICHARD GEARY
Assistant Arts & Reviews Editor
One of Hollywood's time-honored traditions is the periodic production of star vehicles—deliberately small, light, unimportant pictures which perform the service of keeping a star's name and face before the public. Despite the obviousness of their function, many of these movies have been very enjoyable.
"John and Mary" follows in this tradition in almost every way; an inconsequential but entertaining little film which keeps Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow before our eyes every single minute of its running time. The story is absurdly simple—almost nonexistent: The boy and girl meet one night at a New York "singles" bar; he takes her to his fashionable apartment where they bed down for the night; they spend the next day talking, arguing, running away and coming back; by night, they're in love and in the sack again.
With hardly anything to work with, director Peter Yates keeps
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SLAVE, THE LONG TATTOO,
and SLAVE SHIP, three novels
by Eric Corder (Pocket, 95 cents
each)—By the time you get
through these you should have
had enough of one theme, with
much about slave auctions, lustful
white masters, and slave
vengeance.
Student arrested charged with grand larceny
Aubrey S. Nash, Washington, D.C., sophomore and a guard on the KU basketball team, was arrested Monday afternoon on a charge of grand larceny. He posed $1,500 bond and will appear in Douglas County Court next Monday at 10:30 a.m. for a preliminary hearing.
Nash, who was a starting guard for a large part of the past season, is charged with taking four tires, valued at more than $50, from Everett Buhler, operator of the Texaco Bulk Plant, 924 Delaware, on April 16. The alleged theft occurred during a week of disturbances at Lawrence High School, and Lawrence police continued their investigation until Nash's arrest.
The investigation stemmed from an officer on routine patrol who noticed a car in the storage area of the plant and got the license number of the car.
things going at a brisk clip, padding the action deftly with seemingly hundreds of flashbacks and thought sequences. And, of course, the two stars are fun to watch and do well with what little they have to work with.
The euphoric fairy-tale aura given off by "John and Mary" makes it seem very old fashioned, despite its bed scenes. Gayne Rescher's photography makes everything, including the streets of Manhattan, look sparkling clean, and the boys and girl are such perfect, immaculate individuals that they are almost dreamlike. This is just the kind of light romantic comedy-drama that Cary Grant or James Stewart and Katherine Hepburn or Claudette Colbert revealed in back in the Glorious Thirties.
The movie is so irritatingly lightweight that is it difficult to point out specific strengths and weaknesses; in fact, very little of it stays in the memory for any length of time at all. In this respect, the whole of "John and Mary" can be likened to the elaborate cheese souffle that Hoffman prepares for lunch: delicious while it lasts, but when you get up from the table, you're still hungry.
CABLE HOGUE says ..
"Never Lose Faith . . .
God Will Provide... " THE
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One-act productions include Harold Pinter's 'Collection'
By KAREN KLINKENBERG
Kansan Staff Writer
A double bill of one-act plays will be presented this Fri. and Sat. at the United Campus Christian Fellowship center. "The Collection" by Harold Pinter and "Circles in Circles," an original script by a graduate of the University of Kansas, Lawrence J. Maness, will start at 8:20 p.m. at the UCCF at 1204 Oread.
Mike Fisher, director of the two plays, said "Circles in Circles" is about the lack of communication. The characters, he said, can talk to each other but they do not listen. There is no understanding between them and they just tolerate each other's presence. Because of the lack of communication, the characters resort to physical violent reactions so they can be heard or noticed. There are only three characters in this original play. They are a husband and wife, Will and Mackey played by Richard Craycraft, Wichita junior, and Julie Howard, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore, and another
character named Sarah played by Barbara Berman, Prairie Village senior.
The Pinter play, "The Collection" is about two "married" couples whose lives are interwoven with a lack of trust and truth. One of the couples has been married for six years and still do not trust each other.
This Weekend
TOM JONES
Academy Award Winner: Best Picture of the Year
Albert Finney Hugh Griffith Diane Cilento Susannah York Joan Greenwood Dame Edith Evans
May 15-16 7-9:30 p.m. 50c
Woodruff Auditorium
"What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?"
What can you say?
NO ONE UNDER 18 ADMITTED. I.D.'S REQUIRED
A film by Allen Funt Music and lyrics by Steve Karmen
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"A FUNNY, TERRIFYING,
UNPRETENTIOUS AND
DEEPLY AFFECTING FILM!"
-JUDITH CRIST
May 14
1970 KANSAN 5
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Eve. 7:15 & 9:15
Mat. Sat. 2:15
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LaNotte
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From the director of "Blow Up" Antonioni's
One night in the life of a man, his wife, and his mistress.
Starring
Marcello Mastroianni
Jeanne Moreau
Monica Vitti
K. U. Film Society, Thurs, 14 May
One showing only at 7 p.m. Woodruff Aud.
Nonmembers $1.
NOT YOUR MOTHER'S LOVE STORY
JOHN AND MARY
Rated R NOW SHOWING Eve.7:15-9:15 Adults Only—1.50
"ONE OF THE YEAR'S 10 BEST!" N.Y.Times--Rex Reed, Holiday Judith Crist,NBC Today
"...an exquisitely detailed, impeccably acted, stunningly directed suspense story about adultery and passion...it's just about a perfect movie." The New Yorker
"★★★★★! IF YOU RELISH HITCHCOCK, YOU'LL BE DELIGHTED WITH 'LA FEMME INFIDELE'! MARVELOUS!" --Kathleen Carroll, New York Daily News
(FORMERLY "LA FEMME INFIDELE")
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Adults $1.50
STEPHANE ALOURAN · MICHEL BOUQUEI · MICHEL DUCHISSUNY · MAUREEN ROBINCE
· AND PRODUCES BY WRENES . Written and directed by CLAVIA CHARBOL
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