4—The Daily Collegian Tuesday. No% ember 5. 1974
Hollow laughter resounds
in Bergman film comedy
808 QUARTERONI
of the Collegian Staff
After the failuri. both
popular and critical, of "The
Naked Night." Ingmar
Bergman was desperate.
E%eryone was saying,
'Bergman is finished."
Desperation's result was a
sudden shift to comedy.
resulting in "A Lesson, in
Love." "Dreams" and
'Smiles of a Summer Night "
originally released in 1955,
.ind starring Ulla JAcobbsoli
as Anne, F.:%a Dablbeck tas
Review
Desiree and Harriet An
dersson as Petra, - Smiles of
,1 summer Night•' is a
coined. but a resolutely
llrgman comedy If life is
wtCty and gay, it is only so for
.i,:Thew hours, for a mid
-4:inner's_ night it is not
it's lot People laugh, but
laughter is hollow.
-ISmiles, - a stylized social
clone& set at the turn ,of the
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— century. focuses on tour men
and four women who spend a
midsummer weekend at a
Swedish country house,
%%Kiting away the time
playing revolving partners.
and performing an elaborate
masque. It is "Mating:
Swedish Style," where. like its
American progeny. Men hand
women manipulate epch
other. albeit humorously.:
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Stylistically. Bergman
makes no attempt at 'creating
the past naturalistically as
lie did with circus life in 'lThe
Naked Night " Instead,l he
dresses modern characters in
period costume and views
them from a discrete camera
distance. relying on irony,
dialogue and humor to make
his points.
Wit fin the microcosm of
the guest house (with over
fotjes of "A Midsummer's
light Dream" and "Miss
Julie"). Bergman addresses
two themes: the customs of
,ociety. and the inevitable
compromise of passions to
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Hence, Bergman is dealing honest burgher's (and
with the same themes as Jean burghettes? ) who conceal
Renior's 1939 "Rules of the their passions are caught
Game" and Luis Bunel's up in self-pity and intrigues
recent "The Discrete Charm and try and maintain
of the Bourgeoisie." But, respectibility at any price.
where the irascible Bunuel Exemplifying this is
gleefully l dismembered Egerrinan, a lawyer who is the
everything middle-class, and apotheosis of civility.
Renior openly satirized Egerrnan, too hedged in , by
capitalism and the his pedantic dignity to indulge
bourgeoisie, , Bergman, the his fancies, suffers the fate of
50's Bergman anyhow, seems all Bergrrian heroes who
almost nostalgic for the cannot yield to instinct:
"good old ) days" of constant humiliation, hire
aristocracy and privilege. handled as pratfalls and
Bergman also questions verbal jibes.
eros .and the lusts All this occurs in an at
under the friack coats and mi.isphere that is hedonistic in
hooked dresses, across the tone;stand Rabelaisian in
social spectrum. dialogue",and incident "I will
At' one extreme, Bergman remain ialtNul to you for lat
shows Frid, la groom, and least seven eternities .of
Petra prancing in a park (to pleasure, 18 false smiles and
the sound of sitshinnying) and 57 enamored whisperings
rolling, literally, in the hay, without meaning. I will be
causing Frid to exclaim, faithful to you until the big
exultantly, "There isn't a yawn seperates u 5..."
better life than this." "Smiles" will be shown al
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'Lemon Sky' to preview tonight
Lanford Wilson, author of "The Hot'L
Baltimore," is one of America's fastest
rising playwrights. "Lemon Sky," a
more recent work, is being produced by
the UniverSity Theatre as its final show
of Fall Term.
`Lemon Sky" is the drama of a father
and his son, and their attempts to know
each other. A preview performance of
the play will be presented at 8 tonight in
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demonstration jump 3:30 of Marijuana Laws will nrYeet
p.m. today in the field be- 7 tonight in 265 Willard.
tween East Halls - and Beaver
Stadium. The club will hold a Thomas M. Hellman,
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361 Willard. the Allied Chemical Cor-
poration, will speak on
The State College Tenants "Industrial Odor: Its
Union will meet 7:30 tonight Measurement and Control"
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The show opens its regular in
tomorrow night and will continue
through Saturday and then from next
TUesday to next Friday.
Jerry James, an MFA candidate in
directing, is directing "Lemon Sky" as
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Irene O'Brien, Mia Dillion, Kathleen
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round out the cast.
Ticket reservations may be made by
calling 865-1884 between 1 and 6 p.m.
daily.
Luncheon 12:15 p.m. today in
the Presidential Room of the
Corner Room.
The Association of Student
Architectural - Committees
will meet 10 tonight in 318
Sackett.
The Orthodox Christian
Fellowship will sponsor
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Eastern Orthodox Vespers
7:41 tonight in the
Eianhower Chapel.
The Ukrainian Club will
meet 7 tonight in 173 Willard.
Officers will be elected. :
The PSU Society of Student
Social Workers will meet 7:30
tonight in 258 Willard.
Representatives from
Marywood and West Virginia
will speak on graduate school
prograMs.
The Undergraduate
Philosophy Club will hold an
organizational meeting today
in 13 Sparks.
Arnold Miller, dean of
admissions at the University
of Pennsylvania Law School,
will meet today with students
interested in the study of law.
For appointments,' call the
political science department,
865-7515.
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the Women's Center will meet
7:30 tonight in 151 Willard.
The Pinochle Club wilLmeet
8 tonight in the HUB' card
room.
The Penn State Veterans
Organization will meet 8 p.m.
Wednesday at the Vet House,
227 E. Nittany Ave.
Tickets for the Sunday
night performancb of
"Pleasure and Repentance"
by the Royal Shakespeare
Company will be sold at
tonight's showing of Ingmar
Bergman's film "Smiles of a
Summer Night" at the
University Auditorium.
Tickets will be sold starting at
7:30 p.m.
A few tickets may be
available for the company's
Saturday, performance of
4 '
-'The Hollow Crown." For
information, call the
University Auditorium box
office at 865-2242.
The Penn State Astronomy
Club will meet 7 p.m. Wed
nesday in 445 Davey Lab.
The Society of Professional
Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi,
will hold a formal initiation
Dec. 14. Anyone third term or
above intending to work in
any aspect of journalism may
joint See John Foltz, 117
Carnegie, by Dec. 6.