I 'The Royal Family'
kicks off summer
of Festival Theatre
By ALAN KOLPON
Collegian Staff Writer
Theater-going promises to be enjoyable
this summer as the Pennsylvania Festival
Theatre swings into action again.
,' The Festival Theatre is celebrating its 20th
(Season with the opening of “The Royal
Family” on June 23, in the Pavilion Theater
‘ on campus.
' Festival Theatre began in the 19505, when
its plays ran at the Mateer Playhouse, a
renovated barn near. Stone Valley. One of the
eight plays in- the first season was “The
Royal Family,” shown in August of 1958.
Director Max Fischer arranged for a
"company of actors, New York professionals
•and university students, to play the roles
throughout the season.
In the, following years, the Mateer
Playhouse continually filled the house,
creating a kind of family relationship be
tween the acting company and the faithful
audience. The old barn began to show her age
1. and soon it was evident that it would even
tually be, impossible to safely present
productions there.
( ( Plans were made to move to the Pavilion
Theater, itself once a cattle judging arena.
The 1962 summer season was the last to be
performed in. the old Mateer Playhouse. Its
last play of the season, “Blood, Sweat and
Stanley Poole,” was held over an extra week.
Since then, the productions have been held on
-the University Park campus.
Now, in 1977, the Pennsylvania Festival
'Theatre celebrates its 20th season with the
following productions:
“The Royal Family,” orginally produced on
’Broadway in 1927 depicts the domestic in
timacies of a family of brilliant actors. The
-understanding, gentle theme of the story and
witty, satiric dialogue have maintained their
vigor and stature through the years.
The cast for “The Royal Family” includes
Jonathan Frid, best remembered for his role
(as the'vampire Barnabas on the horror soap
(Opera “Dark Shadows,” and Lydia Bruce of
"“The Doctors” series, who is also a veteran
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from the Mateer Playhouse days. It will run
from June 23rd to July 9th.
“A Little Night Music” runs at the
Playhouse Theater July 7th-10th, the 12th
17th, and the 19th-23rd, with a matinee on
July 16th.
The play involves a perpetual sunset which
illuminates the follies of love on a Swedish
country estate. Aristocracy and commoners
make this tender story one of the American.
theater’s most successful musicals. It
features "a beautiful score by Stephen Sond
heim.
On July 21st, “The Last Meeting of the
Knights of the White Magnolia” will open at
the Pavilion Theater. This will run from the
21st-24th, 26th-31st and August 2nd-6th, with a
matinee on August 6th. “The Last Meeting”
is a very funny play set in the town of
Bradleyville, Texas concerning an
organization which once had 2,000 members
and now has seven. The West Texas dialects
are superbly manipulated by Preston Jones,
who has been hailed as one of America’s
finest regional playwrights.
The last production of the season will be a
musical revue, “Gershwin Revisited.” The
greatest songs of composer and lyricist
George Gershwin were selected to create this
dynamic and moving revue. .
“Gershwin Revisited” is truly a tribute to
the musical genius and magic of the ac
claimed Gershwin sound. The production
opens at the Playhouse on July 29th and
continues through the 31st and August 2nd
6th, with a matinee on August 6th.
The box office for the Festival Theatre is
now open daily from 10:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m. The
box office telephone number is 865-1884.
Telephone reservations are accepted for all
performances except student previews.
All tickets reserved by telephone must be
picked up or paid for 48 hours in .advance of
the performance. Tickets not picked up by
that time will go on general sale. Special
purchase plans at discounted rates may be
arranged by calling the Festival Theatre box
office.
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Cursed with hackneyed plot, acting
Sci-fi, Antichrist don't mix
By TOM MARCINKO
Collegian Staff Writer
The ad for “Demon”
promises “scenes of violence
and intense horror.” Fifty
fifty isn’t' bad for a dumb
horror movie that ends with a
pitch for the ancient
astronauts cult.
The film opens with a young
Truth about Klaatu
now known, honest
Now it can be told. Contrary
to rumor, the rock band
Klaatu is not John, Paul,
George and Ringo. Klaatu is
really Chip, Cary, David and
Dino.
According to United Press
International, the man who
did the detective work found
this simply by digging around
the Copyright Office in the
Department of Commerce in
Washington, D.C. Dwight
Douglas, station manager of
WWDC, found over 50
references to Klattu’s music.
The law requires that all
names and pseudonyms be
listed. The four members of
Klaatu are unknown
Canadian session musicians.
Their names are John
Woloschuk (also known as
Chip Dale), Cary Draper,
David Long and Dino Tome.
The Klaatu-Beatles rumors
were sparked because the
members were not identified.
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man on top of a water tower
taking pot shots at
pedestrians. Policeman Peter
Nicholas (Tony Loßianco)
climbs to the tower and
strikes up a conversation with
him. “Where did you go to
school, Harold?” he asks, and
later, “A lot of people would
like to know why you did this.
Capitol was the Beatles’
former label, and some
listeners thought the album
sounded like the Beatles.
Even Capitol Records
denied knowing who was in
the band. Sales of the album
began to pick up rapidly.
“What.prompted me to do
it,” Davis told UPI, “was that
the big Top 40 stations were
playing this record and
passing along the rumor
and kids were buying it under
the impression that these
guys were really the Beatles.
And that just wasn’t right. ’ ’
Now we know. But does
anybody out. there really
know why Paul McCartney is
barefoot on the cover of
“Abbey Road,” or what John
Lennon meant when he sang,
“now here’s another clue for
you all the walrus was
Paul”?
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You mad at somebody? ”
Harold replies that God told
him to do it. Exit Harold from
ten stories up.
This happens a few more
times, but when a cop goes
crazy at the St. Patrick’s Day
parade, Nicholas decides it’s
the last straw. The trouble is,
as soon as the murderers
confess who gave them the
idea, they die.
From then on Nicholas gets
no rest. His superiors decide
he’s asking too many
questions and he’s suspended
from the force. Does that stop
him from digging at the
truth?
No, but he should have
known when to give up. While
tracking down the
Antichrist’s virgin mother he
gets stabbed on a staircase in
Local films offer chills, thrills
Off Campus
“House of Wax” The
classic 1953 horror film
returns, in 3-D splendor.
Vincent Price stars in one of
his best roles. Charles
Bronson, then known as
Charles Buchinsky, appears
in a supporting role. Cinema
One
movie reviews
“Last Tango in Paris”
The controversial sex drama
that caused quite a stir with
its release in 1973. Marlon
Tom Marcinko
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in 'Demon'
a scene ripped right out of
“Psycho.”
While tracking down his
own mother, Nicholas hears
her tell a strange story. The
rest of us don’t get off the
hook so easily. We have to
watch a flashback of Sylvia
Sydney getting raped by a
spaceship. (The special ef
fects are awful.)
movie review
As far as can be made out
from writer-director Larry
Cohen’s murky screenplay,
Nicholas is a botched ex
periment conducted by
creatures from another
planet.
“Demon” ends in an an-
Brando stars. The Movies
(Saturday afternoon only)
‘‘Marathon Man”
Rousing thriller about a New
York City graduate student
(Dustin Hoffman) who gets
involved in a web of dirty
doings revolving around a
sadistic ex-Nazi (Laurence
Olivier). Lots of action and
bloodshed. Temple Drive In
“Rocky” This year’s big
Oscar winner. Compassionate
little drama about a young
Philadelphia boxer (Sylvester
Stallone). The Movies
‘‘Slap Shot” Paul
ticlimax that would be
frustrating if anybody cared.
Loßianco’s marital problems
are supposed to give this
silliness a bit of human in
terest. As his wife and
mistress, Sandy Dennis and
Deborah Raffin turn in soap
operaish performances.
Loßianco himself stumbles
through the picture looking
slightly dazed. His studied
grimness probably stems
from a struggle to keep a
straight face.
Save your money. This will
be on the late show before you
know it, back-to-back with
comparable classics like
“Beast from 20,000 Fathoms”
or “Zombies of the
Stratosphere.” Even as
“Exorcist” ripoffs go, this is
strictly bottom-drawer.
Newman stars in this salty
film about a hockey team.
Garden
On Campus
"Bananas” Woody Allen,
crazy as ever, gets involved
with a South American
revolution. Louise “Mary
Hartman” Lasser co-stars.
121 Sparks
“Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid” The
memorable comedy-western
with the popular pair of Paul
Newman and Robert Redford.
Findlay Rec Room
Alan Kolpon