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Puzzling film schedule well worth unscrambling
By CHUCK SACK
Reviewer
Film buffs may wish to consult with jigsaw puzzle coonisseurs to discern the patterns and standards for this spring's Student Union Activities film calendar. The long-standing major series has been extended through special interlaced with special class requests and crosscut by some mini-series.
Two highlights immediately apparent are the appearances of two film directors on campus. Ralph Bakshi is tentatively set to lead a new engagement after canceling his original date next weekend.
Bakshi's animation studio produced "Fritz the Cat," "Heavy Traffic" and "Coon-Oo-oo." The film will Lawrence to attend the Midwest premiere of his new film, "Wizards." In addition to the 35mm screening of "Wizards," Bakshi is expected to show some of its advance work his film will be completed for "Lord of the Rings."
The other director is independent film maker Peter Watkins, who will be on campus March 21-27. Watkins will visit some classes as a guest lecturer and also answer sessions after showings of his films. He will bring three of the films he had with him during his stay at KU last year: The War Game, "The Great War," and the internationally acclaimed "Edward Munch."
The shift in Bakshi's schedule has already had one beneficial side-effect. To fill the space between the two shows, weekend, SUA has booked "The Marquee of O," Eric Rohmer's adaptation of the Kliewet novel. The film was Germany's oily star for years of the movie year's Games Film Festival.
along with "The Marquis of O," the Popular Film Series features Ingmar Bergman's "Face to Face" and two Lina
Wertmilner films, "The Seduction of Mimi" and "All Screwed Up." None of these movies are well-known, Lawrence before and they help to balance the weekend series, dominated by "name" films such as "The Godfather," Part I, "Three Days of the Condor."
There are deficiencies in the Popular Film Series, however. There is an over reliance on blockbusters, and the inclusion of films that are not part of Bill and the Indians$^{14}$ points out the absence of any small gems
The Cinema
that deserve revival for the University audience.
most prepping is the choice of "Pellini Satiriony" to cap the Foreign Directors Week in mid-February. The attempt to unify choices to form week-long classes, but the execution leaves much to be desired. Like Mays' Classic Films of the '40s Week, the foreign Directors Week comprises minor films by major directors, director films by minor directors, mediocre films by minor directors, weekend weeks
The Comedy Films Week in mid-semester includes several surprises, including two Chaplin sound films which have never been to this campus and Lloyd's drilling "Safety Last."
The oldest continuing film series on campus is further undermined by the packaging of a movie that has been remaining nights. One of these,
The latter film will be shown on a Wednesday in the Classical Film Series. It is this series that gives the audience the jugling of concepts. Of the fourteen dates in the series, only four feature films were produced before 1960—a curious collection. A supposedly "classic" list.
"Moses and Aaron," to be shown in April, will be of particular interest to moviegoers because it was directed by the man whose name has never been seen on this campus before.
But the point remains that SUA hasn't succeeded in organizing its program in a manner that delivers consistent choices and groupings within the individual series.
Scheduled to accommodate a class, the opera films are unquestionably valuable to the university community, but they don't work in a regrettable that they weren't scheduled for another night.
The Film Society, which is supposed to be the only series with a consciously hedge-jodpee director, has been given to Heaven" and "Immoral Tales" among its most promising selections. But by this time most of us will have given up looking for any con
For those of you who don't like puzzles, this may be a bit tedious but it is worth the effort.
Wednesday and Thursday nights are almost interchangeable, regardless of the title given to either selection. Some committees will itake a high school to develop a steady audience.
My advice is this: Unless you are bewareled by the handouts and want to give up on films and want to give up on movies, your semester's offerings carefully and construct your own film series. One Sunday you can see Abel Gance's four-hour epic, *The Invasion*, and Revolution: The Japanese Film "The Crucified Lovers" plays on a Monday in March. There's even a collection of animated films in the seventh Tournament of Animation."
Pieces of the puzzle
You can draw up your own list of foreign films, classical films or whatever, and become your own chairman.
and Martha Raye in "Monseur Verdoux," Harold Lloyd in "Safety Last," and Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in "The Big Sleep."
Final art exhibit honors Tbayer
The exhibition to be displayed in Spooner Museum of Art during the next four months will bring an 49-year-old display of the museum.
The conversion of Spooner
Opera slowly emerging
By SHERI BALDWIN
Entertainment Editor
Opera, no matter how famous or comical, has long been a foreign language to many—even when in song in England.
Frustured by its limited availability, diamond-tiars image and theater box snobers, midwesterners have often referred to opera as a has-been, or simply ignored it.
But the popularity of opera in the Lawrence area seems to be coming into its own. Television and radio names such as Robert Merrill, Leontyne Price and John Cage seem much about opera familiar.
Opera, deserving of a larger audience, is slowly getting it.
"Now opera's in the midwest as well as in New York; coming to the common people, not just the elite," Fran Ginsberg, St. Louis senior, said yesterday. Ginsberg, who has had leads in five University of Chicago students who have turned their interests to opera because of its growing possibilities and popularity.
"The music is absolutely beautiful. I think it's exquisite," Ginsberg said. "But it's an acquired taste and a hard convention to accept because everything is sung.
Mike Bernard, acting program and music director for radio station KANU, that listener response to three opera programs the station runs doesn't include consistent praise from caller. But an amateur was removed as an experiment, the number of calls received was so great that the station decided to include opera programming permanently, he said.
"I guess the reason I love opera so much is that it's such a form of theater—and I love theater. But it also gives me a sense of freedom to play in potential, not just play the 'belter' in musical comedies."
You don't find entire families at operas here as in Europe."
Bernardt knew KAUN currently has a difficult time judging the size and type of opera audience it has. But he said a classical composer can do it all listener invariably includes some type of opera.
"From my experience, opera is appealing to people who've had a background in music of some kind. Children are kinder and grow up with opera in the home or found it on a kick and found them they enjoy it."
Opera for midwesterners: minus the elite
also support a Lyric Theater opera Guild formed in Lawrence to support the Lyric Theater in Kansas City, Mo. Theater benefits as private home concerns benefits as private home concepts by Kansas City artists.
'Opera interest cuts across a lot of demographic sections.
"Opera's lost a lot of that umpity tone," said Saar. "At the Lyric, people generally say it is more often quite an informal audience."
Seaver and Henry Snyder, professor of history, are offering an Introduction to Opera course this spring for the first time. The format of half lecture, half operatic films has driven many auditors than those regularly enrolled in the class.
Scene," a program that deals exclusively with operatic themes.
Much more opera is now in English instead of the traditional operatic languages,
Seaver, Snyder and others
Seaver said, "You lose all the point of comic opera such as the Barber of Seville if you don't hear all the jokes." he said.
"First, get to a performance. Opera can never really be appreciated through records, radio or even television. You have to experience the excitement of opera at a theater.
Seaver offered some tips for those wishing to give opera a try:
"Second, try to follow the plot with the libretto in the program. It's good to have someone along with really knows opera as a help."
"Opera's don't always add up, just as ordinary plays or musicals don't," but when they do it's probably one of the most spectacular experiences in life."
The Lyric Theater includes about five operas in each season. UMKC does one opera and a set of opera workshops.
Lawrence Lyric Guild members are hoping that some spring the Metropolitan Opera tour can be pursued to stop in Kansas City, rather than just pass through. The members have already visited including Memphis, Dallas and Minneapolis, just to see the Met.
Seaver said the lack of a quality auditorium is the main reason for the failure in the meantime, the Lyric Theater, KU productions and University of Missouri at Kansas City, the productions will be out of surface, be scaled.
Lawner said that a comparison of KU opera with Kuplays would put opera attendance figures somewhere in the middle. Some operas do very well and sell out because they are well known. Others are not as popular, he said.
George Lawner, professor of music ensembles, said that there were no plans to increase oerera offerings at KU.
"Increases are rare everywhere," Lawner said. "Even the Met does just so much and no more."
"We prefer the well-known operas," Lawyer said. "But we are also a school and have the right if not the duty to do the not-so-well-known operas and take a box office chance."
Most KU operas are done in English. Opera workshops, however, are usually done in a Russian style, including Russian, he said.
This spring, Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tute" will play April 22, 23, and 29. The opera workshop will be May 3 and 6, and consist of two scenes, one from Mottelli's "Consult" and the first act from Johann Stras' "Fledermaus."
At the Gallery
into a museum in 1928 was supervised by Sallie Casey Meyer, who dedicated her extensive art collection to the University.
Spooner had been the main library before Watson Library was built.
To commemorate the last four months in the museum's history, the Thayer collection will be displayed once again.
AS A TRIBUTE to Thayer and her contributions to the exhibition of the exile attempt to escape the atmosphere of the museum nearly half a century ago, when the Thayer collection was sold
The exhibition, made possible by a $7,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, will be displayed in Spooner's main gallery from Jan. 30 to May 29.
The Thayer collection is extensive, featuring Oriental and Western art dating back to the second century.
European, American and Asian art.
THE THAYER collection also includes Japanese woodblock prints, jade, Indian Indian Koto pottery, Korean pottery, pottery ware and other
Carol Shankel, museum curator, said that Thayer was interested in fabrics and glass and wanted to design a design throughout the world.
One room in the museum contains only glass from the Thayer collection. The glass ranges from cobalt and black glass to campaign bottles with which candidates bought votes.
Perhaps the most priceless objects in the collection are three paintings by Winslow Homer, Shankel said.
The museum will also display five paintings on loan from the Thayer family, one of which is a portrait of Chief Justice John Marshall, one of Thayer's ancestors.
estimated worth of the more than 5,000 pieces was $150,000. The value of the collection, which has grown to nearly 9,900 pieces, will never be known, she said.
The collection is priceless,
Shankel said. When it was given to
the University in 1917, the
Shankel, who spent two years writing a biography of Thayer entitled "Sallie Casey Thayer and Her Collection" said Thayer's contribution made the University a center of art.
"She contributed ideas, dedication and persistence," Shankel said.
Shankel said it took months to select the pieces to be exhibited. Spooner has room to show only about one-eighth of the Thayer collection at a time. Shankel, who is also on an exhibition for two years, said, "We've been washing Chinese vases for months."
The exhibition will be shown during regular museum hours: Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m.
"The Marvelous Adventures of Tyl" is set as a one-ring circus, complete with German oom-pah-pah band and seven players outfitted as troubadours. Because "Tyl" is part of the theatre for growing people program, it will be shown to the public at 2 p.m. Feb. 5 in the University Theatre.
The Theater for 1977 at the University of Kansas will begin next weekend in the manner of two separate circuses—of sorts.
"Old Times," which will play Feb. 3-12 in the William Ingle concert "Circus." "Tyl," is, but soon becomes one as time shifts back and forth for its three characters as they glorify the
Circus air present in theater productions
One of Harold Pinter's best plays, "Old Times" depicts a
Paul Gaffney, associate instructor of the theatre, directs the play, his second at KU. Gafney first directed "Telemachus Clay" in the Inge Theatre last year.
wife and husband team that discusses the past as it was it spent with Anna, an old friend. When Anna arrives, it becomes a strange thing because of their own versions of their lives in London 20 years before.
The circus begins as the characters' pasts shape their present. And the present shapes suit each character's needs.
"Tyl" is a children's adventure series that flirts with adulthood by making subtle commentary about society.
Tyl is offered glasses in one of the adventures so that he sees the world as his cohorts see it.
When apprenticed to a butcher, he finds that he cannot kill living things. And in a magic mirror at a fair, be and a man who wishing to come to those wishing to catch a glimpse of their real selves.
Jonathan lemmy has adapted the legend frem one of hundreds in German folk history that tell of Tyl Eulenpelsiegel, a miscreant, naughty-boy character.
Because the play calls for more theatrical sophistication than is found in audiences of small children, "Ty!" will only be shown to fourth, fith and sixth graders.
After the Lawrence performances, the company will extensively tour the state. Jed presses attorney of speech and drama is director.
This Week's
Highlights
Nightclubs
COLE TUCKEN ON RYE plays tonight and tomorrow night, from 9 to midnight, at Off MOMERY BURN, GOMERY RISE, with Jim Stringer on guitar, plays from 9 to midnight at Paul Aitken on guitar, plays from midnight MIKE WHITE, Jackson County executive, plays with the GASLIGHT GAN DIXIE GUNS at midnight at Paul Gray's.
Folk singer and guitar-picker
MAX TENANT plays at the
Seventh Spirit tonight and
tomorrow night from 10 to 1
Films
Concerts
THE LAWRENCE SYMPHONY will present its Winter Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Central Junior High Auditorium. Howard Boylan is guest conductor for this will include Vivaldi, Mozart, Prokokie, Weber and Brahms.
A MATTER OF TIME-
Hardly more than a mediocre musical with Liza Minelli and Inerid Beremann.
CARRIE—This hair raising tuiler is not your typical prom story.
CORNUCOPIA RESTAURANT: Photography by Billy Higgins and watercolors by David Graves through January.
"THE MAN WHO FELT TO EARTH," directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring David Bowle, Rip Torn, Candy Clark and Buck Henry. Bowley plays a being from another planet, but he is curious about our lustless society searching for water for his dying planet.
THE ENFORCER—Dirt Harry Callahan. This time he's gunning down a nasty group of San Francisco suspects. PANTHER
A JAZZ FILM FESTIVAL will be presented by the Kansas City Friends of Rockhurst College and at 8 n.m. tomorrow at the Jewish Community Center in Oakland, featured include Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Billie Holiday and Bobby Goodman.
STRIKES AGAIN=Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau plays another humorous role in the Pink Pink series.
ELIZABETH M. WATKINS
COMMUNITY MUSEUM-
permanent collection and "The
1900 Flood in Lawrence."
Exhibits
A STAR 15 BORN—A rock star (Kris Kristofferson) mixes with a Hollywood singer and a ballet dancer, resulting blending is less than satisfactory for those outside the diehard Streisand fan club.
KANSAS UNION GALLERY:
A KU department of design faculty show features unusual
materials and techniques.
smithing. silk prints.
photography, pottery, wall hangings and appliances.
LAWRENCE ARTS CEN-
DER A Haskell indian Junior
College art group,
paintings, silversmithing,
sculpture, pottery shows
LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY,
MERCHANTS oil paintings by
Randy Spence, and watercolors
and acrylics by Richard Short
7E7GALLERY: Sculpture by Cyril Directo and hanging textiles by Shigeko Spear.
SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY: "Earth, Air, Fire, Water (Science in Spencer)" in the Main Gallery: "The Case of Ireland and New Zealand" The Story of the Lawrence Fire Department, 1859-1976 in the Kansas Collection; and "Student Organizations" in the Archives Gallery. ART: The Salle Calce Thayer Collection begins in the Main Gallery Sunday.