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Puzzling film schedule well worth unscrambling
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By CHUCK SACK
film buffers may wish to consult with jigsaw puzzle connoisseurs to discern the patterns and standards for this spring's Student Union Activities film calendar. The longstanding major series has been adapted for interaculture interactions, interacused 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 direct a feature engagement after canceling his original date next weekend.
Bakshi's animation studio produced "Fritz the Cat," "Heavy Traffic" and "Coon-shevy Traffic" to attend a lecture to the Midwest premiere of his new film, "Wizards." In addition to the 3mm screening of "Wizards," Bakshi is expected to show some of the advance work his studio has completed for "Lard Studio."
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 answer session 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 Cap" and the international acclaimed "Edward Munch."
The shift in Baskali's schedule has already had one beneficial side-effect. To fill the space between two seasons, weekend, SUA has booked "The Marquee of O," Eric Rohner's adaptation of the Klest novel. The film was Germany's own production last 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
Wertmüller films, "Films,
'Seduction of Mimi" and "All
Screwed Up" None of these
films would be shown to
Lawrence before and they help
to balance the weekend series,
dominated by "name" films
such as "The Godfather, Part
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 mainstream films like *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 busy directors by minor directors and overworked selections on weekends
The latter film will be shown on a Wednesday in the Classical Film Series. It is this series and its sequel, the jugging of concepts. Of the fourteen dates in the series, only four feature films were produced before 1960—a curious number, a supposedly "lost" list.
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 thrill of the "Safety-Learn"事故.
The oldest continuing film series on campus is further undermined by the packaging of a movie set, or a remainning nights. One of these,
"Moses and Aaron," to be shown in April, will be of particular interest to moviemakers because it was directed by him, whose name has never been seen on this campus before.
Highlights from this semester's SUA Films include, starting at far left and going clockwise; Al Pacino in "Gofifher II," Ralph Baskin's "Wizards," Charlie Chaplin
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 regarded as regrettable that they weren't scheduled for another night.
The Film Society, which is supposed to be the only series with a consciously hodge-podge format has "The Working Class Tales" and "The Missing 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.
oy advice is this: Unless you are bewareled by the handouts and want to give up on films and want to take them as your semester's offerings carefully and construct your own film series. One Sunday you can see Abel Gance's four-hour epic, *The Revenant*, the French Revolution. "The Japanese film 'The Crucified Lovers' plays on a Monday in March. There even a collection of animated films on the seventh Tournée of Animation."
Wednesday and Thursday nights are almost interchangeable, regardless of the title given to either selection. Some people will vital it if a steady man hopes to develop a steady audience.
You can draw up your own list of foreign films, classical films or whatever, and become your own chairman.
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and Martha Raye in "Monsieur Verdoux," Harold 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 include a 49-year history of the museum.
The conversion of Spooner
Opera slowly emerging
Opera, no matter how famous or comical, has long been a foreign language to many—even when sung in English.
By SHERI BALDWIN Entertainment Editor
Frustrated by its limited availability, diamond-tiara image and theater box snowbirk, 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 Wagner and Beverly Sills have 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 room at Gusburg, B. Gusberg, S.Louis院士, 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 link it its exquisite," Ginsberg said, "But it's an acquired taste and a hard convention to accept because everything is sung.
You don't find entire families at operas here as in Europe."
"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 the chance to play in a vast, fullest potential, not just play the 'belter' in musical comedies."
Mike Berndt, acting program and music director for radio station KANU, that听 listener response to three opera programs the station runs does not include consistent praise from callers. But when the programs are not properly experimented, the number of calls received was so great that the station decided to include opera programming permanently, he said.
Bernardt kANU currently has a difficult time judging the size and type of opera audience it has. But he said a classical all listener requests invariably includes some type of opera.
"From my experience, opera is appealing to people who've had a background in music of some kind." Bernd said. "I love opera and I like opera in the home or tried it on a kick and found out they enjoy it."
"Opera interest cuts across a lot of demographic sections.
Opera for midwesterners: minus the elite
also support a Lyric Theater opera Guild formed in Lawrence to support the Lyric Theater in Kansas City, Mt. Oz. He built benefits as private home concerts by Kansas City artists.
"Opera's a lot of that umpit tone," Seaver said. "At the Lyric, people generally think it is quite quite an informal audience."
Much more opera is now in English instead of the traditional operatic languages,
Seaver and Henry Snider, professor of history, are offering an Introduction to Opera course this spring for the first time. The format of half lecture, half operatic time has allowed many auditors than those regularly enrolled in the class.
Scene," a program that deals exclusively with operatic themes.
Seaver, Snyder and others
Seaver said, "You lose all the point of comic opera such as the Barber of Seville if you don't bear all the jokes," he said. We offered some tip for those who wish to give opera for a try:
'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.
The Lyric Theater includes about five operas in each season. UMKC does one opera and a set of opera workshops.
"Second, try to follow the plot with the libretto in the program. It's good to have someone along and really knows opera as a play."
"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, but he'll provide it in the meantime, the Lyric Theater, KU productions and University of Missouri at Kansas will offer a gown, be said.
Lawrence Lyric Guild members are hoping that some spring the Metropolitan Opera tour can be persuaded to stop in Kansas City, rather than just pass through. The members of the group are including Memphis, Dallas and Minneapolis, just to see the Met.
Lawyer said that a comparison of KU opera with KU plaques would put opera attendance figures somewhere in the middle. Both operas do very well and sell out because they are well known. Others are not as popular, be said.
George Lawner, professor of music ensembles, said that there were no plans to increase opera offerings at KU.
"Increases are rare everywhere," Lawner said. "Even the Met does just so much and no more."
Most KU operas are done in English. Opera workshops, however, are usually done in a Russian language, including Russian, he said.
"We prefer the well-known operas," Lawner 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."
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 Menott's "Corsal" and the first act from Johann Strass' "Fiedermaus."
into a museum in 1928 was supervised by Sallie Casey Hager who collected the extensive art 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 museum, she attempted to recreate the atmosphere of the museum nearly half a century ago, when the collection was dedicated.
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.
Carol Shankel, museum curator, said that Thayer was interested in fabrics and glass to help design a design throughout the world.
European, American and Asian art.
THE THAYER collection also includes Japanese woodblock prints, jade, Amor and bone carvings. Korean tomb pottery, lacquerware and other
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.
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 had worked in China for two years, said, "We've been washing Chinese vases for months."
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.
"She contributed ideas, dedication and persistence," Shankel said.
Perhaps the most priceless objects in the collection are three paintings by Winslow Homer, Shunkel said.
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 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.
Saturday 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 separatecircums of. sorts.
"Old Times," which will play Feb. 3-12 in the William Ingle Theatre. "Otis" is, but soon becomes one as time shifts back and forth for its three characters as they glorify the
"The Marvelous Adventures of Tyl" is set as a one-ring circus, complete with German oom-pah-pah band and seven players outfitted as trumpeters. Because "Tyl" is the troupe's UK Theatre for Young People program, it will be shown to the public at 2 p.m. Feb. 5 in the University Theatre.
Circus air present in theater productions
One of Harold Pinter's best plays, "Old Times" depicts a
wife and husband team that discusses the past as it was wited with Anna, an old friend. When Anna arrives, it becomes clear that all three have their own stories in the movies in London 20 years before.
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.
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 apprenticed to a butcher, he finds that he cannot kill living things. And in a magic mirror at a fair, he and a man with a spider go out where these wishing to catch a glimpse of their real selves.
Jonathan Levy has adapted the legend frm 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 travel the state. Jade and David speak of speech and drama is director.
This Week's
Highlights
Nightclubs
COLE TUCKEN ON RYE plays tonight and tomorrow night from 9 to midnight GOMERY TRIO, with JIM Stringer on guitar, plays from 9 to midnight on tonight GOMERY TRIO, pours tomorrow night MIKE WHITE, Jackson County executive, plays with the GASLIGH GANG DIXIE-HOUSE night at midnight at Paul Gray's.
Folk singer and guitar-picker
MAX TENANT plays at the
Seventh Spirit tonight and
narrow night from 10 to 1
am.
Concerts
Films
THE LAWRENCE SYMPHONY will present its Winter Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Central Junior High Auditorium. Howard Boyalin is an conductor. His full include Vivaldi, Mozart, Prokofie, Weber and Brahms.
CARRIE—This hair raising thriller is not your typical prom story.
THE PINK PANTHER
A MATTER OF TIME-
Hardly more than a mediocre musical with Liza Minelli and Inarid Beremann.
THE ENFORCER—DIRY
Harry Callahan (Clinn Eat-
ing) is the guy gunned down a nasty group of San Francisco subversives.
"THE MAN WHO FELT TO EARTH," directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark and Buck Henry. Bowie plays a being from another planet while his own懒 socially searching for water for his dying plant.
A JAZZ FILM FESTIVAL will be presented by the Kansas City Friends of Johnson University College and at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Jewish Community Center in Kansas City featured include Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Holiday Holliday, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie and more.
CORNUCOPIA RESTAURANT: Photography by Billy Huggins and watercolors by David Graves through January.
STRIKES AGAIN=Peter Siliers as Inspector Clouseau plays another humorous role in the Pink Pinker series.
Exhibits
EULIZABETH M. WATKINS
COMMUNITY MUSEUM:
permanent collection and "The
1903 Flood in Lawrence."
A STAR 15 BORN—A rock star (Kris Kristofferson) mixes with a Hollywood singer and a Grammy-winning result blending is less than satisfactory for those outside the diehard Strandi fan club.
KANSAS UNION GALLERY:
A KU department of design faculty feature images and artworks (see exhibit). silver smithing, skilt prints.
photography, pottery, wall hangings and appliances.
LAWRENCE ARTS CEN-
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Counselor, art paintings,
silversmithing,
sculpture, pottery shows
LAWRENCE PUBLIC
LAWRENCE
Embarks, oil paintings by
Randy Spence, and watercolors
and acrylics by Richard Short
7E7 GALLERY: Sculpture by Cyril Directo and hanging textiles by Shipeko Spear.
SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY: "Earth, Air, Fire, Water (Satellite) in Galactic History: the Case of Ireland" in the North Gallery; "Fire! The Story of the Lawrence Fire Department; Firefighters' Training; and "Student Organizations" in the Archives Gallery.
SPOONER MUSEUM OF ART: The Sallie Casey Thayer Collectors in the Main