—The Daily Collegian Friday, July 30,1976 Hollywood flops parodied Mel Brooks, eat your heart six lines ahead of time that a Nothing is sacred in "The out. A nobody named James joke is coming. He just throws Big Bus,” especially not even Frawley has just shown you them out and says, “Laugh, the jokes. “The Big Bus” ribs how to direct a parody that everybody!” And everybody “Airport,” “Airport 1975,” doesn’t take itself too does. . “Alive,” the “Hindenburg” seriously. and “The Big Bus." Not to “The Big Bus,” which just Stockard Channing looking mention “West Side Story,” opened at the Flick, has like a pear-shaped Liz Taylor, “The High and the Mighty,” dozens of gags parodying Joseph Bologna doing a Hes- John Wayne westerns and “A every disaster film Holly- ton-cum-Bogart, Ruth Gordon Night to Remember.” Only wood has ever seen fit to in- as a dirty old Helen Hayes and “That’s Entertainment, part —— Lynn Redgrave doing an I- II” has more movies in it than mnwia r/ai/ZcilA/ don’t-know-who are just a few “The Big Bus.” movie review Of the crazies who run away us „ with this film. The pace is so u- aK flict upon us, and most of them fast that the impossibility of b JF st ' are gems. Best of all, Frawley the premise an atomic- i"rpLf ® f ali doesn’t belabor the point, powered bus run amuck me Dig bus. telegraphing to the audience never catches up with you Kap/ow J exuberant ' in finale Watching Maurice Kaplow direct the evening’s best performance jubiliant and Pennsylvania Orchestra Wednesday night • exciting. made me sorry I had ever used the word Kaplow conducted the symphony from the “exuberant” before. I should have reserved * heart, his grin saying to his musicians and to the word exclusively for Kaplow to describe the audience, “Enjoy this with me, my his enjoyment of his art. At the Pennsylvania friends.” Orchestra’s third and final shirt-sleeve The orchestra’s fine performances nearly concert of this year’s residency, Kaplow overshadowed the light touch of the New conducted his own work,. “Return,” and York Renaissance Band brought to the Beethoven’s Third Symphony, the “Eroica.” evening’s start. Continuing their co A m ss!fr a e pto r? rn r ,u,ea " dla^! ha, Effin’SSSfHarfflSS nfK nwn wwk conduc music using a variety of antique instruments. Z°Ii ied ,i Corneto, rauschpfife and recorder were “Rf.hipn” h holnrfi.n erf ° rme^H- the u among the instruments played and Return beautifully, responding as much to described H J ✓ the conductor’s emotion as to his direction. Although Wednesday was the orchestra’s final performance, the New York The Eroica, the last work on the Renaissance Band will be performing once program and the last of this fine season, has more, at 8 p.m. next Thursday in the Recital a special significance for Kaplow. The third Hall of the Music Building symphony of Beethoven means the or- The next Penn State performance of the chestra s third year at Nittany Mountain Pennsylvania Orchestra will be at Nittany Summer, and Kaplow is already looking Mountain Summer, 1977. The audience which forward to Beethoven s Ninth. Kaplow called Maurice Kaplow back five times described the Eroica” as a “joyous ex- Wednesday night will be waiting, plosion, a “humbling work,” and it was the —Kathleen Pavelko GS^^SutSoo^oncer^" 1 t fislasza Get on Arbys Roost Beef Sandwich for 79* To help you brei the hamburg< habit, Arby's h cut the pric on their tendei i roasted beef sandwich tc It’s a big break on Ihe price and a big break From the burgee* ——-I ■ib i It*-, ! IW» 79 ' SPECIAL I ■ 79' SPECIAL I I WITH THIS COUPON | ■ WITH THIS COUPON | I GET AN ARBY’S | I GETANARBY’S S ■ ROAST BEEF SANDWICH • | ROAST BEEF SANDWICH ! 5 FOR 79* i I FOR 79* ■ I OFFER ROOD ONLY AT I ■ OFFER 0000 ONLY AT I I 111 SOWERS STREET I ■ 111 SOWERS STREET I ■ VALID FRIDAY, JULY 30, I ■ VALID FRIDAY, JULY 30, ■ JULY 31 & SUNDAY, AUGUST 1 SATURDAY, JULY3I & SUNDAY, AUGUST 1. R just 7* 8 COUPONS IN THIS ISSUE —K.P. c 1976 Arby's, Inc Shallow politics old drama theme “The Girls in 509” is a most apropos play for this election year, lest we forget how shallow politics can be. The old theme that promises are meant to be made and not kept never seems to change. play review The plot of “509,” now at the Boal Barn Playhouse, is cute. R’s a satire on the elephants and donkeys.. Two women, one in her sixties and the other in her mid-thirties, lock them selves in a hotel suite in 1932 and vow not to come out until a Republican is once again in the White House. 1932 to 1953 is a long time, but 26 years to these women is like a day to Astaire, Kelly display exuberance, class By JIM LOCKHART Collegian Arts Writer In one of the newly-filmed segments of “That’s Entertainment, Part II,” Fred Astaire, 77, and Gene Kelly, 64, do a soft-shoe dance reminiscent of the dozens of numbers they did in MGM musicals of the past. Completely out of any context,, with no props or specific set, the dance underscores the qualities these men brought to the' American Musical: exuberance and class. Astaire is the perfect gentleman'As the narration The movie devotes large segments to certain 1 points out, even when he dresses as a hobo in stars of themes. A section on Spencer Tracy and “Easter Parade," he is wearing a top hat and tails. Katherine Hepburn shows how much sexual tension He is to elegance what Harlow and Garbo are to two good actors could create without taking off their glamour. 'clothes. A salute to Paris seems like one of the inane travelogues satirized elsewhere in the film. The A movie showihg the past and present ac- [' na^e > an Esther Williams water skiing ex complishments of these two men would be enough to travaganza, is nearly as funny as the Marx guarantee a hit, but like its predecessor,. “That’s ■ rotherS „ „ ... ... .. . , , - Entertainment, Part II” goes much farther. 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AUGUST 1. ■ movie review v T -T T RENTS ‘SMmNRNm TRUCKS • 5% RENTAL DISCOUNT if you make your ONE-WAV RESERVATION on oi\before Aug. 13 (Present This Ad) Friday - Sunday, July 30 - Aug. 1 Friday, July 30 Tour of Museum of Art, 1 p.m. Interlandia Folk Dance Club, 7:30 p.m., HUB terrace and ballroom. Festival Theatre, “That Championship Season,” Playhouse Theatre. Behind-the- Scenes program 3 p.m.; performance 8 p.m. GSA Commonsplace Coffeehouse, Buddy Ungson & Friends, 8 p.m., Room 102 Kern. Pennsylvania Ballet, 8 p.m., University Auditorium. Festival Theatre, “Little Mary Sunshine,!’ 8 p.m'., Pavilion Theatre. ■. Catherine Havens, soprano vocal recital, 8:30 p.m., Music Bldg, recital hall. Shavers Creek Nature Center, “Ghoulies and Beasties and Things that go bum). - ■ ‘he night,” 8 p.m., Stone Valley! Saturday, July 31 Tour of Museum of Art, 1 p.m. At Ease with the Pennsylvania Ballet, 4 p.m., University Auditorium. Festival Theatre, “That Championship Season,” Playhouse Theatre. Matinee 2 p.m.; evening performance 8 p.m. Festival Theatre, “Little Mary Sunshine,” Pavilion Theatre. Matinee 2 p.m.; evening performance 8 p.m. Pennsylvania Ballet, 8 p.m., University Auditorium. - Shavers Creek Nature Center, evening program, 9 p.m., Stone Valley. Sunday, August 1 Festival Theatre, “Little Mary Sunshine,” 7:30 p.m., Pavilion Theatre. Festival Theatre, “That Championship Season,” 7:30 p.m., Playhouse Theatre. Shavers Creek Nature Center, nature-ecology walk, 3 p.m.; evening program, 9 p.m., Stone Valley. , Reception for Aliza Thomas, 8 p.m., Kern. ‘ Thursday, July 29-Sunday, August 1 ARHS film, “I Take the Money and Run,” 8 and 10 p.m., Pollock Rec Room. Friday, July 30 GSA film, “Lolita,” 7 and 9:30 p.m., Room 112 Kern. Saturday, July 31 GSA outdoor film, * ‘The General’ ’ (silent film with piano), 9 p.m., Fisher Plaza. Kern Gallery: Constantine Kermes, Multi-Media Amish Theme, through July 31. Ann 1 Fisher, Paintings and Drawings of Central Pennsylvania Amish, through July 31. Aliza Thomas, Prints, opening August 1. Printmakers in Art, opening August 1. anyone else. Aunt Hattie and her niece Mimsy are fanatical, to be sure, but their charm, old fashioned morality, “damns” and “goddamns” make them easy to take The niece (Nona Uhler) is less poised and sophisticated than her aunt, but what she lacks in knowledge she makes up in charm. Helen/ Bechdel, Aunt Hettie, is superb. She is a dream to watch and without her the play would be mediocre. Uhler is funny as the man-starved innocent The set is simple, the acting is good, but aside from the leads, nobody stands out. UNIVERSITY CALENDAR SPECIAL EVENTS FILMS EXHIBITS Film's madness puzzling . Trelkovsky, (Roman Polanski), title character of Polanski’s “The Tenant,” is a stranger. Never mind that he, a French naturalized Pole, is the only person in Paris with a French accent. He is the but unlike Camus’ protagonist Meursatut, Trel kovsky is not a master of his own fate. His alienation is a product of French in tolerance and his own neuroses. Dogs snap at him, doors close on his head, and the coffee shop owner will sell him only Marlboro cigarettes because the woman who lived in' Trelkovsky’s apartment previously a suicide victim —smoked them. Trelkovsky meets the dead girl’s friends, the only people he can trust, by becoming a partner to their sorrow. But it is a grief he, having never known the dead girl, has no right to share and is a stranger even to them. Trelkovsky becomes convinced that the girl was forced to commit suicide by the other tenants in the building and that they are determined to make him jump out the window as well. B.C. that carries him beyond any obstacle he may find in Costello, John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Clark his way. Gable and many other non-musical stars. * ffnlimited If rent-alls 238-3037 140 N. Atherton St. ('A block N. of College Ave.) By RICHARD HEIDORN JR. ' Collegian Arts Writer movie revi People stare at him from the other side of the courtyard. He tries to stab a hand that reaches in through his fifth-floor window, and he cuts himself smashing his hand through the glass. In church the priest’s sermon >!■ becomes demonic, and he runs out of the chapel in a cold sweat. Finally, one night all of the tenants are out on their courtyard balconies applauding him as though they were in an opera house. They want him to jump, so dressed in the dead •girl’s clothes, he does. But for once lie is in control of the No,'he won’t give them the nice clean death they all want. - What is the meaning of ail this? Has Trelkovsky stumbled on to some Satanic cult or into the dark corners of his own psyche? ,We never find out. All the'clues are from different jigsaw puzzles and they never fit j, together. Perhaps that is Polanski’s point, but because there seems to be little method to the madness of Polanski the director, the images created by the madness of Polanski the, tenant are incomprehensible. In the end we are never sure whether Trelkovsky suffers from paranoia or the director from LSE)' flashbacks. Pennsylvania Ballet NiTTRNY MOUNTRN SUMMER University Auditorium 8 p.m. , Box Office.will Open at 7 p.m. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. We’ve got .what you want.—jgi ’ i ■ * ' • Your Ears Pierced Free With The Purchase Of Your First Pierced Earrings Earrings and & M Set" 9 ' *5.00 Our trained specialists will pierce your pretty ears at no charge with the purchase of your first pair of fashionable pierced earrings. No appointment is • necessary but girls under 18 must be - accompanied by parent or guardian, Hours 10:00 AM - 9:30 PM Jewel Box DIAMOND SPECIALISTS FOR OVER SO v£ARS 238-2367 RIDE THE X—BUS TO THE MALL HNittany Mall jagMjfc] t State College MW *< i h 1.1
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