'Youth and Age' • THIS POWTAIT of an old woman and a young girl is a photograph by Jan Kreicsbergs, a Latvian who has sent some of his work to a friend in the United Statk. The photographs are on display on the second floor of Car negie. Latvian's work displayed Carnegie Building Jan Kreicsbergs, a 35-year-old Latvian photographer, has 27 prints on exhibit in the second floor of Carnegie Building. The exhibit has .been assembled from prints the artist sent to Robert Jaskovskis, a photographer-friend. Kreicsbergs' work appears regularly in Latvian fashion magazines, periodicals and newspapers. This showing covers a number of years and diSplays a wide variety of styles. Pattee Library Mixed-media paintingg by Michael Allison using a wide range of materials are on display in the library's east corridor lobby. • Oil paintings and water colors by Dennis R. Hutchings, of Port Royal, Pa. will take the place of the Allison Show. Hutch ings' work is predominantly traditional landscapes. Rick Hoffman. a:graduate of the Tyler School of Art, will be showing acrilics in the library's circulation lobby. Manuscripts, fiistr editions and memorabilia by novelist John O'Hara_, a Pottstown na6e, will be on display in the Rare Books Room. The O'Hara exhibit opens tomorrow. Photographs by . Dennis Douvanis (graduate-philosophy) are being shown in the west lobby through Oct. 15. b 4.1 An exhibit i on the occult will be tea tired in the west side of the main lobby. The display has n set up to tie in with Colloquy's guest speakers on the Sa e subject. The east side of the main lobby has an exhibit called "Four Easy Pieces" of Penn State history. It's about.the Goodyear blimp, student publications, the names of Penn .State buildings, and traditional class rivalries and related hijinks. Senegalese group is Artists Series' dance replacement This has been a bad year for dance to 4 p.m. Tuesday at the thilversity companies and for the Artists Series' Auditorium. dealings with them. The Senegalese' National Dance When the Artists Series drew up its Company has perforrried t thioughout original 1974-75 schedule last spring, - Europe, South America ' r and the United the National Ballet Company was States. The group's dances portray the supposed to come to Penn State this fall: history, the aspirations and the preoc- The company folded this summer cupations of the Senegalese People. because of financial difficulties. "A superb African dance ' ensemble The Artists Series countered this with an exciting proram," Anna setback by signing thp. Agnes De Milleec Kisselgoff, dance critic for The New l'r! York Times, wrote of thel company. Heritage Dance Theatre for a per formance on Oct. 3i, with a special "(They) are not to be missed." performance Nov. 1. Financial deficits Maurice S. Sengher, the company's forced the group to cancel the remainder director, visited about 200,, villages, of its U.S. tour. covering 4,000 miles in Senegal to gather Now the Artists Series has scheduled information on the dances of his nation. With his collaborators 4 has watched the Senegalese National Dance Com- listened to 2,000 singers and dan pany. The group will appear in ,andcers, shot 250 yards of film and taped Uniersity Auditorium 8:30 p.m. Oct. 13. hours of songs from all parts of the Tickets for the Agnes De Mille Heritage , country. Dance Theatre will admit patrons to the All this information goes into making performance. r up the company's varied dances, which demonstrate the, tales arid rituals of Senegalese folklore in the fashion that Sengher witnessed in the villages. - A matinee performarice_at 3 p.m. Oct. 13 also has been scheduled. Tickets for this performance go on sale from 9 a.m. 'Seagull' to open University Theatre Anton Chekov's drama "The Seagull" µ•ill open the fall season for the University Theatre. Directed by Archie Smith, assistant professor of theatre arts, the play will open Thursday at the Pavilion. A student preview has been scheduled for Wed nesday. The box office for ."The Seagull" and University Th3atre's other fall productions, "Surrealism A Celebration with Two' Plays: 'The Wedding on the Eiffel Titiwer' and 'The Breasts of Tiresias' " and Lanford Wilson's "Lemon Oky," will open Monday. The box office, located with the playhouse in the Arts Building, will be open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. On performance days; it will be open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. University Theatre Works in two theaters on campus the playhouse, which has a conventional proscenium • Exhibits stage, and Pavilion, which has an arena or theater-in-the-round stage. The University's production of "The Seagull" will include several passages cut out of Chekhov's original script by Russian censors who seemed the passages dealing with sexual relationships too sensitive. Ushers are needed for all the University Theatre productions. Students signing up to usher must be at the th6ter half an hour before the house opens. They seat the patrons and hand out programs. Ushers are guaranteed a seat for the performance. Anyone interested in ushering may call Helen Weston at 863- 0381 or come to the University Theatre office at 137 Arts Building. Reservations for "The Seagull" and other fall productions may be made by telephone by calling the box office, 865- 1884, during its regular .hours. Museum of Art "Manayunk and Other Places: A Francis Speight Retrospective" will continue in galleries A and C at the Museum through October. The Museum staff has collected about 60 oils, watercolors and drawings which illustrate Speight's work over a 50-year period. Gallery B currently houses an exhibit of pieces from the Museum's permanent collection. The Museum is open noon to 5 p.m Tuesday through Sun day. Museum tours are scheduled every Thursday at 1:30 p.m. Chambers Gallery Jeanne Steven-Sollman will be showing her drawings and paintings until Oct. 18. Kern Graduate Building Bob and Susan Duncan, residents l of Morril, Maine, are exhibiting their oil paintings in the Graduate Commons Gallery through next week, • Denis Faleski is showing' her ceramics in Kern's display cases through October. Zoller Gallery • Super Mud '74, the annual student invitational ceramics show sponsored by the Department of Art, opens Monday. Penn State ceramics students will be exhibiting their work along with those of studentsfrom the Universities of Chicago, Georgia, Delaware, and Montana and Ohio State University. Arts Building Bruce Horowitz, a Penn State graduate, will be Shomftng 20 OhologrAphs of children in Room 212 of the Arts through October. Horowitz is a youth worker with a 'tom munity association project in Rochester, N.Y,, where he works with elementary school-aged children. All of the photographs in his exhibit were made with inex pensive dime-store cameras which Horowitz uses for desired visual qualities. Polanski's 'Chinatown' engaging By TONY D'AUGELLI of the Collegian Staff Roman Polanski's decision to include John Huston in "Chinatown" was hardly accidental. Huston's "The Maltese Falcon" remains a classic of its genre, the highly entertaining literate detective story which was so well done that its basic emptiness is all but ignored. Set in stark dichotomies, especially good vs. evil, the often convoluted plot serves as a backdrop for a drama of human frailty. In this genre, deception is the rule. money the goal and simple greed the motivator. "Chinatwn" is Polanski's modernistic detective story, an updated version with a heavy dose of Polanski's dark humor. Compared to Altman's "The Long Goodbye," "Chinatwon" milks the genre, exploiting the audience's knowing con ceptions of what to expect. Whereas Altman threw out the old style and turned the genre on its head, Polanski uses the conventions of the detective story to full advantage, creating his best film in years. The film is unquestioningly engaging. Robert Towne's screenplay is a marvelous blend of humor, suspense and veiled social commentary. The greed nere is buried under maneuvering of real estate by high officials. -It is a subtle but fasoinating intrigue: illegally diverted water will be used to develop land deviously bought by Mali Cross, a local millionaire played by John Huston. When a water authority 'Bank Shot' enjoyable By PATRICK SOKAS of the Collegian Staff _ Scott is sprung from prison in order to master " Bank Shot" is a witty and basically enjoyable mind a 'bank shot" on the Mission Bell Bank, movie that suffers from the Chinese food syndrome: temporarily located in a mobil home. He formulates an hour after you leave the theater, you feel like you . a plan for the holdup. "It's very simple," Scott haven't seen a movie. 1 states, wincing visibly. "We don't rob the bank, we For a feature film, "Bank Shot" is unusually STEAL the bank." And so to goes. small caliber entertainment. At about 80 minutes in 1 length, it would fit quite well in a "movie of the ne of the major flaws, obviously, is in the week" slot. Aside from the involvement of George nds more or less stilted. Sometimes it is difficult screenplay by Wendell Mayes. Most of the dialogue C. Scott, the film is almost indistinguishable from a• sou . better-than-average made-for-television film. to figure "out just what the actors are trying to say. Scott is the only major talent involved. Most of the onsequently, some of the funniest sequences are thor in which ' nothing need be said. On its hest supporting cast is familiar from the television lev 1, "Bank Shot" is a satire of the affection guest-star circuit, although the co-star, Joanna Americans &general, and Southern Californians in Cassidy, is a newcomer. But it is an extremely particular. hold for vehicles.. likeable collection of odd characters. c. I ik Actually, it's the congeniality of the cast that The humor comes from counterpointing various keeps the movie going as long as it does. odd Vehicles. One of the best scenes in the film is an The plot, such as it is; comes from a novel by opening sequence in which Scott, escaping from czyCollegian arts By CHARLES MISREAD of the Collegian Staff Lots of people have had hits with Ran dy Newman's songs. Three Dog Night made a smash out of "Mama Told Me Not To Come." Peggy Lee had a success with "Love Story." Harry Nilsson re corded a whole album's worth. It seems that just about the only one who hasn't had a hit with a Randy Newman song is Randy Newman, despite the fact that he plays better piano and has more hair than Elton John. Undaunted, Newman has come out with his fourth effort, "Good Old 80y5, , " It's basically about the redneck South. The opening song is called "Rednecks", as a matter of fact. "Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show With some smart-ass New York Jew. And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox, And the audience laughed at Lester Mad dox, too. Well, he may he a fool but he's our fool. If they think they're better than him they're wrong." Most of the songs that have been writ ten about the so-called "Southern crackers" wouldn't have gone beyond the fifth line. Newman, however, doesn't AWB new Scottish export The nation of Scotland is generally best known worldwide for exports such as wools, tweeds and several brands of exceptional Scotch. Unlike its neighbor to the south, England, it is not par ticularly noted for that high revenue producing commodity of the 60's and 70's rock and roll bands. The "Average White Band," af fectionately referred to as "AWB," is changing both the balance of trade and the listening habits of Scots, Britons and an evergrowing number of Americans. Initially signed to the MCA record label, AWB had but one release, "Show Your Hand," on that company's vinyl. "Show Your Hand" was a relatively minor success financially, although it did receive critical_ acclaim in the trade papers. If the first album did anything at all for AWB; it was in the reflection of incompatibility between artist and label. Fortunately, AWB has since changed affiliations to the Atlantic Records stable, a company long known for its R&B traditions, much in line with AWB's particlar musical style. In direct comparison to the treatment accorded rinromAn- Now ! n Play g twwaw o. 3144 M -4610° offical (who also happens to be Cross' son-in-law) refuses to go along with the plan, he is killed. J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson), a suave private detective, is hired by the widow (Faye Dunaway) to track down the murderer. Gittes quickly learns what happens when he sticks his nose into other people's business: he gets it sliced. Gittes is a man who doesn't learn. His cynical recognition of human dishonestly doesn't prevent him from deeper involvement with the Mrs. Mulwray. Working with others' desperation, he tries_to control his own. He can't see beyond the present far enough to see how he is reliving his disastrous past. Dealins4 with Mrs. Mulwray's weaknesses, he forgets his own. Mrs. Mulwray's past is also snaring her. Gittes becomes involved, first because of professional , ', interest, later for more personal reasons. Their relationship is inevitably doomed and is a replay of Gittes ;tragic relationship with another woman in Chinatown. Gittes must finally come to confro4t himself, Co recognize the guilt that led him to flee Chinatown. Mrs Mulwray brings him back Chinatown, where the film ends tragically. Polanski has inspired excellent performanc from his actors. The big surprise is Faye Dunaway, whose career has gone downhill since "Bonnie and Clyde." She brings humor and depth to her role, her impassive and coldly attractive face trying to uonald Westlake, The author of "The Hot Rock" which was a far more successful film. Record reviews A hit for Randy? take the traditional liberal "sophis ticated" attitude. Newman is aiming at anyone who thinks of Southerners as ignorant bigots with these lines:; "Down here we're too ignorant to realize That the North has set the nigger free. Yes, he's free to be put in a cage in Harlem in New York City." The inspirational figure for the album is Huey Long, ;governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1935 His photograph adorns the - back of the jacket Newman describes him and his like in "Kingfish": "I'm a cracker, And you are, too. But don't I take Ood care of you?" Newman sympathizes with the Huey Longs and their followers, but he sees the sadness and hypocrisy, too. Long's own words are sarcastically set to a sprightly piano accompaniment in "Every Man A King": "Evr- ry _ a king, ev'ry man For you can be a millionaire." - - But there aren't too many millionaires in Newman's Southland. More typical is the voice of "Birniingham": "Got a wife, got a family, Earn my livire with my hand the band at MCA, Atlantic is providing them with a full-blown promotional trip, definitely due an act of their stature. The package include§, the proper blend of direction, productibn and hype under the auspices of two 'of the masters of the contemporary music world Jerry Wexler and Arif Mardin. With financial and commercial sup port no longer a question, the logical inquiry is one of musical talent. The answer, in every possible conceivable aspect, is an unqualified yes, in abun dance. Vocally they are to with two of the finest singers to emerge from British or American shores in Hamish Stuart and Alan Gorrie. Their respective vocal ranges and use of their voices as ad ditional instruments is uncanny. One has to hear segments from the Atlantic debut album, entitled "AWB," to believe the phrasing and over-all excellence. The rhythm and horn sections are a complete delight as they seem to rejoice in laying down riffs that constantly stimulate and amaze. The band is ef fective in jointly showcasing the in The Daily Collegian Friday, October 4. 1974- I'm a roller in a steel mill In downtown Birmingham." "I work all day in the factory," says Newman's protagonist, "and that's alright with me." But he has his gripes too, as is shown in "Mr. President (Have Pity On the Working Manl": "I know it may sound funny But people ev'rywhere are runnin' out of money." Newman's arrangements are a little more complex on this album. The heretofore rarely used strings and brass are heard with much greater frequency. Newman has even resorted to using background vocals, with Eagles' songwriters Don Henley and Glenn Frey doing the honors on several tracks. The album contains two love songs. One of them, "Marie," is worth the price of the record alone. Newman's piano playing is as in ventive and refreshing as ever. He even uses - the electric version of the in strument on a couple.of cuts. It's comforting to know, from listening to this album, that one of the very few true originals in American pop is as good as lie ever was. If only a few more people would listen to him! dividual and group efforts, a difficult task indeed in this era of "flash bands" which generally lose the concept of group in exhibiting self. From the opening notes of "You Got It" to the final wailing strains and scat singing of "There's Always Someone Waiting," AWB just grabs hold and refuses to let go. Each and every cut is a masterpiece fully capable of standing on its own unique merits. There is no filler on the AWB album; in fact, the cuts are so captivating you almost tend to forget that Scottish bands are not supposed to be that soulful, if in fact they exist at all: Do yourself a favor and pick up on AWB. They are going to be a monster act, so you might as well get in on the ground level and enjoy them from the beginning. If you get the opportunity to experience them live, don't pass it up, for they are truly a great stage, as well as studio, act. Perhaps the next time -you think of Scotland, visions of AWB will replace the Royal Scottish Bagpipers as title music of the land. They are a hell of a lot funkier. contain past hurts. She holds her own with Jack Nicholson, an actof with such impulsivity and strength that he automatically dominates. He, too, is fine. This is probably his best acting since "Five Easy Pieces," a remarkable portrayal of a man enjoying his facile flirtation with danger. As is typical of the detective story, Gittes' inner life is only hinted at, but Nicholson easily transcends the two-dimensionality of Bogart's detectives. PolAnski also has managed to fill his film with marveloits bit parts. Even the role of a snotty office boy is done to perfection. "Chinatown" is an excellent example of how collaboration in film can work. With a literate, intriguing script and excellent performances, Polanski can do wonders. He is aided by a great score by Jerry Goldsmith, an outstanding example of how a film score can be a "character." Alternate ly nostalgic and terrifying the music adds to the overall effect of the film in inestimable ways. "Chinatown" is not without flaws. The ending is really an anticlimax, the locale is not used well, and the violence is excessive. The romantic scenes between Dunaway and Nicholson are curiously flat, making their relationship hard to believe. Still, by his shrewd blending of humor and pain, by his demonstration of the desperation of closeness, Polanski has added maturity to the detective story. 'The lure of "Chinatown" is irresistible. non-movie prison in a gigantic earth mover, eludes the prison warden, following in his golf cart. In later scenes, an antique car is pursued by a jet airplane and a traffic jam is formed between a tractor trailer, an ice cream cart and assorted other vehicles. • Aside from these novel ideas, "Bank Shot" seems to have drawn most of its humor from the old jokes' , home. An film' produced in 1974 which tries to find humor in feeding prisoners saltpeter (so.th.ey won't think about-you-know-what) has got a dating problem. Such things were buried about 20 years ago. Even Scott's performance seems more than a little strained. Presumably upon order of the director, Scott lisps copiously throughout the film, as if someone had stolen his teeth. He never opens his mouth wide enough to let us see if that is indeed the problem, Despite these flaws, "Bank Shot" manages to be good clean fun if you're in an undemanding mood.
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