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Arts & Leisure
Puzzling film schedule well worth unscrambling
By CHUCK SACK
Revlewer
Film buffs may wish to consult with jigsaw puzzle connaisseurs to discern the patterns and standards for this spring's Student Union Activities film calendar. The long-standing major series has been adapted for online介训, interacled 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 planning an engagement after canceling his original date next weekend.
Bakshi's animation studio produced "Fritz the Cat," "Heavy Traffic" and "Coon-Oh," before 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 his advance work his film was completed for "Lord of the Rings."
The other director is in independent film maker Peter Watkins, who will be on campus March 21-27. Watkins will visit some classes as a guest lecturer and will receive 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, "Murderous Times" and the internationally acclaimed "Edward Munch."
The shift in Bakshi's schedule has already laid one beneficial side-effect. To fill the space between the first weekend, SUA has booked "The Marquee of O," Eric Rohner's adaptation of the Kleist novel. The film was Germany's official year's Cannes Film Festival.
Along with "The Marquis of O," the popular Film Series features ingmar Bergman's "Face to Face" and two Lina
Wertmüller films, "The Seduction of Mimi" and "All Screwed Up" None of these films were released. Lawrence before and they help to balance the weekend series, dominated by "name" films such as "The Godfather," Part III ("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 movies with high production costs Bill and the Indians" points out the absence of any small gems
The Cinema
that deserve revival for the University audience.
Most perplexing is the choice of "Fellini Satiricum" to cap the Foreign Directors Week in mid-February. The attempt to unify festivals should be applauded, but the execution leaves much to be desired. Like May's Classic Films of the 40s week, the Foreign Directors Week comprises minor films by his peers or by minor directors and overworked selections on weekends.
the Comedy Films Week in mid-semester includes several surprises, including two Chaplin sound films which have never been to this campus and one Lloyd's thrilling "Safety Last"
The latter film will be shown on a Wednesday in the Classical Film Series. It is this series of films, which includes the jugling of concepts. Of the fourteen dates in the series, only four feature films were produced before 1980—a curious exception, as a supposedly "classic" list.
The oldest continuing film series on campus is further undermined by the packaging of a movie that remains remaining nights. One of these,
"Moses and Aaron," to be shown in April, will be of particular interest to moviegoers because it was directed by a writer whose work 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 were not regrettable that they weren't scheduled for another night.
You can draw up your own list of foreign films, classical films or whatever, and become your own chairman.
my serve in it, are bewildered by the handouts and want to give up on films on Grace and suesinger's offerings carefully and construct your own film series. One Sunday you can see Abel Gance's four-hour epic, *Blood Sweat and Resolution*. The Japanese film "The Crucified Lovers" plays on a Monday in March. There's even a collection of animated films, "The Eleventh Tournee
The Film Society, which is supposed to be the only series with a consciously hedge-judge format, is *The Heaven* and *Immoral Tales" among its most promising selections. But by this time most of us will have given up looking for any con-
Wednesday and Thursday nights are almost interchangeable, regardless of the title given to either solution. Some people will be a victim of a hardened man hopes to develop a steady audience.
For those of you who don't like puzzles, this may be a bit tedious but it is worth the effort.
Pieces of the puzzle
Highlights from this semester's SUA Films include, starting at far left and going clockwise, *Al Pacino in 'Godfather II,'* *Goldfinger III,'* *Wilder,"* *Charlie Chaplin
and Martha Raye in "Monsleur Verdoux," Holdley Lloyd in "Safety Last," and Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in "The Big Sleep."
Final art exhibit honors Thayer
The exhibition to be displayed in Spooner Museum of Art during the next four months will feature works of 49-year history of the museum.
Beginning in May, the art in Spooner will be moved to larger community buildings. The Spoerner Professor. Spencer Museum of Art, now under construction. Spooner will be closed until other plans are ready.
The conversion of Spooner
Opera slowly emerging
By SHERI BALDWIN
Entertainment Editor
Opera, no matter how famous or comical, long has been a foreign language to many—even when sung in English.
Frustrated by its limited availability, diamond-tiara image and theater box snowbier, 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, Lesynthe Price and Lesynthe Price made 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 rich," Louis senior, said yesterday.
Ginsberg, who has had leads in five University of Kansas operas, is one of many 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 Bernndt, acting program and music director for radio station KANU, that said listener response to three opera programs the station runs doesn't include consistent praise from callers who were removed once were 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 chance to make a movie with potential, not just play the 'belt' in musical comedies."
You don't find entire families at operas here as in Europe."
KANU offers a live broadcast of Metropolitan Opera; "Opera Is My Hobby," a program of opera comment and recordings by James Seaver, professor of history, and "The Vocal
"From my experience, opera is appealing to people who've had a background in music of some kind." Bardt said when he started with opera in the home or tried it on a kick and found out they enjoy it.
Opera for midwesterners: minus the elite
"Opera interest cuts across a lot of demographic sections.
also support a Lyric Theater opera Guild formed in Lawrence to support the Lyric Theater in Kansas City, Mt. Omaha. The theater benefits as private home concerts by Kansas City artists.
"Opera's a lot of that umpity tone," Saever said. "At the Lyric, people generally do not speak quite often in 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, the use of a cell phone, enrollment of twice as many auditors than those regularly enrolled in the class.
Much more opera is now in English instead of the traditional operatic languages.
Scene," a program that deals exclusively with operatic themes.
"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 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.
Seaver offered some tips for those wishing to give opera a trv:
"Second, try to follow the plot with the libretto in the program. It's good to have someone along with really know opera as a play."
The Lytic Theater includes about five operas in each season, one opera KU does one opera and a set of opera works.
"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."
Seaver said the lack of a quality auditorium is the main problem for the theater. In the meantime, the Lyric Theater, KU productions and University of Missouri at St. Louis have to suffice, he said.
Lawrence Lyric Guild members are hoping that some spring the Metropolitan Opera can be touched to stop in Kansas City, rather than just pass through. The troupe has placed places including Memphis, Dallas and Minneapolis, just to see the Met.
Lawyer said that a comparison of KU opera with KU dance figures somewhere in the middle. Some operas do very well and sell out because they 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 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, including Russian he said.
This spring, Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutee" will play April 22,
23 and 29 and 30. The opera workshop will be May 3 and 6,
and consist of two scenes, one from Meniotti's "Consul" and
the first act from Johann Straas' "Fledermaus."
into a museum in 1928 was supervised by Sallie Casey Thayer, who had written an extensive collection to the University.
At the Gallery
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 University, she exhibits the exhibition at the atmosphere of the museum nearly half a century ago, when the Thayer collection was
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.
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.
European, American and Asian art.
Shankel, who spent two years writing a biography of Thayer entitled "Salle Casey Thayer and Her Collection" said Thayer's contribution made the University a center of art.
Shankel 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 works on the exhibition for two years, said, "We've been washing Chinese vases for months."
Carol Shankel, museum curator, said that Thayer was intertwined in fabrics and glass as well as in the design throughout the world.
Perhaps the most priceless objects in the collection are three paintings by Winslow Homer, Shankel said.
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.
THE THAVER collection also includes Japanese woodblock prints, jade, Incense, Korean tomb pottery, potteryware and other
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.
The collection is priceless; Shankel said. When it was given to the University in 1917, the
The exhibition will be shown
during regular museum hours:
Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m., and Sunday from
1:30 to 4 p.m.
Theater for 1977 at the University of Kansas will begin next weekend in the manner of two separate circuses - of sorts.
Circus air present in theater productions
"The Marvelous Adventures of Tyl" is set as a one-ring circus, complete with German oom-pah-pah band and seven players outfitted as trouversers. Because "Tyl" is the trojuress of the KU Theatre for Young People program, it will be shown to the public at 2 p.m. Feb. 5 in the University Theatre.
"Old Times," which will play Feb. 3-12 in the William Inge Theatre, doesn't begin as an adventure, but once becomes a time shift back and forst for its three characters as they glorify the
One of Harold Pinter's best plays, "Old Times" depicts a
wife and husband team that discusses the past as it was spent with Anna, an old friend. When Anna arrives, it becomes clear that she is their eldest of their lives in London 20 years before.
Paul Gaffney, associate instructor of the theatre, directs the play, his second at KU. Gaffney first directed "Telemachus Clay" in the Inge Theatre last year.
The circus begins as the characters' pasts shape their present. And the present shapes suits 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 apprentice to a butcher he finds that he cannot kill living things. And in a magic mirror at a fair, be and a man who is not yet those wishing to catch a glimpse of their real selves.
Jonathan Levy has adapted the legend firm one of hundreds in German folk history that, tell of Tyl Eulenspiegel, 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 Bateson will confront apoch and drama is director.
This Week's
Highlights
Nightclubs
COLE TUCKEN ON RYE plays tonight and tomorrow night, from 9 to midnight, at Off The Green GOMERY RITH, with Jill Stringer on guitar, plays from 9 to midnight on at Paul White night at Paul White night MIKE WHITE, Jackson County executive, plays with the GASLIGHT GAND DIXIE COUNTY executive, plays from 9 to 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
A MATTER OF TIME-
Hardly more than a mediocre
musical with Liza Minelli and
Incrid Bergmann.
Concerts
CORNUCOPIA RESTAURANT: Photography by Billy Higgins and watercolors by David Graves through January.
Films
THE LAWRENCE SYMPHONY will present its Winter Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Central Junior High Auditorium. Howard Boylan is conductor and the III include Vivaldi, Mozart, Prokofiev, Weber and Brahms.
THE PINK PANTHER
CARRIE—This hair-raising thriller is not your typical prom story.
"THE MAN WHO FELT TO EARTH," directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring David Boyle, Rip Torn, Candy Clark and Buck Henry. Boyle plays a being from another planet was is destroyed by our ruthless villain for water for his dying planet.
THE ENFORCEER—Dirty Harry Callahan (Clink East Gunn) gunning down a nasty group of San Francisco subversives.
ELIZABETH M. WATKINS
COMMUNITY MUSEUM
permanent collection and "The
1930 Eldon in Lawrence."
STRIKES AGAIN=Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau plays another humorous role in the Pink Pinker series.
A JAZZ FILM FESTIVAL will be presented by the Kansas City Friends of Jazz at University College and at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Jewish Community Center in Cedar Rapids, which featured include Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and others.
Exhibits
A STAR 15 BORN—A rock star (Kris Kristofferson) mixes with a *Hollywood singer* team, creating result blending is less than satisfactory for those outside the diehard Streisand fan club.
KANSAS UNION GALLEY:
A KU department of design faculty show features in jewelry, silver-smithing, slim+ print*
photography, pottery, wall hangings and appliances.
LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER.
A saskatchewan Indian junior
artist, a sculptor and a painter,
paintings, silversmithing,
sculpture and pottery works.
LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY; oils by Marianne Spencer; paintings by Randy Spence, and watercolors and acrylics by Richard Short
7E7 GALLERY: Sculpture by Cyril Directo and hanging textiles by Shigeko Spear.
SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY: "Earth, Air, Fire. Water (Science in Space) in Ireland," the Case of Ireland" in the North Gallery; "Fire! The Story of the Lawrence Fire Department," the Information and, "Student Organizations" in the Archives Gallery.
SPONDER MUSEUM OF ART: The Sallie Cake Thayer Collection begins in the Main Gallery Sunday.