Paul Malluk (graduate-theater), left, and Richard Hill for Godot." The University Theater production is playing
(graduate-theater) portray two hoboes who are "Waiting at the Pavilion Theater.
m m ,
Sarah Vaughan. But nowhere did she sound anything at range. Every time he twirled his sticks in the air, he
all like Tina Turner. , caught them without missing a beat. . i
On "What Are You Doing For The Rest Of Your James said he disdains the more' progressi've
Life?" her classic blues approach was a knockout. . drummers like Tony Williams, who is famous for his
Thomas and James collaborated for a memorable work with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock.
rendition of "I Had The Craziest Dream," blending with "All you gotta do is listen to the guys, who can c n 14 , ~
each other and the band for sensual effects. instead of the bullshitters," he said. .
,• ' I
Even on their weak presentation of "On A Clear The lasting appeal of his band, James explained, is
Day," James never let the crowd forget that he still has due to their danceable rhythms., ,C .
"chops" at age 62. Disco dancing, he noted, is nothing but a variation on
Actually, it would be hard to fault any section of the the jitterbug. While many couples were jitterbugging
band. They were very well-balanced, but it would have Wednesday night, the absence of disco dancing was a
'been nice to hear more of the piano, which was welcome relief. , . , .It
4 , 1
frequently buried by the warm sound of the trumpet, ', Discodroids will be happy to know that James said his
saxophone and trombone sections. band will soon be releasing a disco record. For the' est
Only once, for a powerful solo by drummer Sonny of us music-lovers, this may represent an opportunity
Payne, did the band stop playing and the action on the for quality music in this typically bland 'genre.
dance floor stop altogether.- ,
Whatever the outcome of his disco experim'ent,
Payne was breathtaking as he burst through clear, James and his band swept the audience ,a`t Gatsby 4
precise polyrhythms with varied attacks and dynamic its feet.,
~. ' 6
Big-band trumpeter Harry James appeared in Gatsby's Wednesday night and
his music kept the dance floor filled.
New Nicholson is in town
and 'Rocky' to fight again
By JOHN WARD
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Downtown
"Eyes of Laura Mars" Faye
Dunaway plays the title role in this
flashy murder mystery, as a
photographer who can "see" murders
happening in her mind; she's got a
telepathic link with the killer. The
Movies
"National Lampoon's Animal House"
Screwball comedy about fraternity
life in the bygone days of 1962. John
Belushi eats, clowns and togas his way
through the film, and he's great. Cinema
One .
"Goin' South" Jack Nicholson stars
as a lovable rogue who marries a
spinster (newcomer Mary Steenburgeh)
to save himself from the noose. John
Belushi (again) has a supporting role.
Cinema Two
"Up in Smoke" Cheech and Chong
are featured in this drug-minded
comedy. If you look close enough, you'll
see a lot of the duo's best comedy
material. The State
"A Night Full of Rain" A movie
about a crumbling marriage, with
Giancarlo Giannini and Candice Bergen
as the crumblers. It's Lina Wertmuller's
first English-language movie, and the
strain shows. The Flick
"Revenge of the Pink Panther"
Peter Sellers does his fifth turn as the
inept Inspector Clouseau, and his schtick
is wearing thin. The Garden
"The Rocky Horror Picture Show"
Don't forget the rice, toast, computer
cards, Bic lighters. . . . Friday and
Saturday midnight, The Movies
On campus
"Duel" Riveting made-for-TV film
directed by Steven Spielberg, who went
on to bigger things, such as "Jaws." The
plot follows Dennis Weaver as a motorist
being terrorized by a faceless trucker.
Friday only, 102 Forum
"Collisions" Gilda Radner and Dan
Ackroyd, of "Saturday Night Live"
fame, are featured in this off-the-wall
comedy. Lily Tomlin also stars. 121
Sparks
•
,• • 1
•
. ~
.
the
aily
d Collegian arts Friday, Oct. 6, 1978-6 . "
r
,T
"Maraschino Cherry" Once you get
past the interesting title, you're in for
more of the same basic porno routine. 10
Sparks
"Rocky" The Oscar-winning Cin
derella story' with Sylvester Stallone as
the has-been boxer who gets a shot at the
heavyweight crown. 111 Forum
"Bananas" A Woody Allen hodge
podge of satire and humor, mainly
dealing with South American
revolutions. Friday HUB Assembly
Room, Saturday and Sunday 11:30 111
Forum
"Casablanca" The classic film
starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid
Bergman. Penn State alumnus Julius
Epstein won an Oscar for his screenplay.
Friday, 112 Kern
"Gone With the Wind" The well
known story features Clark Gable as
Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as
Scarlett O'Hara, both caught up in the
turmoil of the Civil War. FUB Lounge
"Between the Lines" Little-known
movie about the hassles involved in
running an underground newspaper. 105
Forum
"Fun with Dick and Jane" En
joyable comedy starring George Segal
and Jane Fonda. They play a well-off
couple who suddenly find themselves in
need of funds when the husband loses his
white-collar job. 108 Forum
"Silent Movie" Not one of Mel
Brooks' best efforts, but that doesn't
mean it's a bad film. There are several
bright spots,including Dom DeLuise's
battle with a Coke machine. Waring
Lounge
"I Never Promised You a Rose
Garden" The film's about a girl
(Kathleen Quinlan) who cracks up and
goes into a mental institution for
treatment. Some excellent acting, in
cluding Quinlan's and Bibi Andersson's.
119 Osmond
"Telefon" Standard espionage
movie with Charles Bronson (his usual
role) and Lee Remick (miscast) on the
trail of a mastermind who turns or
dinary people into killers via telephoned
signals. Pollock Rec Room
By DAN McKAY
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Harry James and his band brought the rich big band
sound to State College Wednesday night, prompting
many in the crowd to dance the night away.
In the process, the band proved to be much more
adept at old standards like "Satin Doll," "Don't Get
Around Much Any More" and "01' , Black Magic" than
they are at more contemporary numbers like "Rollin'
(On The River)" and the corny "Somebody Done
Somebody Wrong Song."
Although the choice of some newer tunes was
questionable, the oldies generally were played with
seemingly effortless precision and sensitivity. It was
apparent that most people in the crowd at Gatsby's
came to hear big band standards.
Vocalist Jeannie Thomas nearly stole the show with
her rich tone and fluid phrasing. She is the kind of
singer who makes one's ears fall in love.
At times, Thomas' voice resembled Ella Fit
zgerald's; on other songs, it seemed more in the style of
r Fro e
Sparks basement miISeUrTITOCUseg r tics;
By KATHY KIMBER
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
This fall a friend said there was finally
an anthropology museum at the
University. Having always had an in
terest in anthropology, I called the
museum to find out more about it.
However, I found that the museum has
been operating since Spring Term, 1976,
when James Hatch, currently an
assistant professor of anthropology,
opened the museum to the public.
Before that, there had been an an
thropology museum,.but it was open only
to anthropology or archaeology
students. However, Hatch said, he has
been trying to make the museum more
beneficial to students as well as the
general public.
For example, a .seven unit exhibit on
eastern United States archaeology is
scheduled to go on display either late
this term or early Winter Term. Hatch
said this exhibit will concentrate on
excavations from this area.
The exhibit will be useful for several
classes he is teaching, Hatch said. In
addition, it could also be useful to people
interested in local archaeology. The
display will continue through Spring
Term.
The next display, Hatch said, will
focus on the Yanamomo Indians of
Brazil, which should be ready sometime
next fall.
Since it takes from six to nine months
to prepare an exhibit, Hatch said there
will will probably be one major exhibit
per year.
Black Cultural Center:
"Encyclopedia Portraits" by Tom
McKinney will be on display Oct. 15-Nov.
10.
A square dance, sponsered by Equal
Action, will be held Oct. 14 from 7 to 11
p.m. at the Center.
Weavings, batiks, paintings and
drawings by the Central Pennsylvania
I 4‘ . • 0 11
VI
~.
Organis t ready to perform Bach Lonight , e
. PI
;41
By SAM LEVY a student of Robert Casadesus and Isidore Phillipe, tries to find out what the music is about; she looks r -
Daily Collegian Staff Writer and later with Vladimir Sokoloff. She studied organ for style, detail, and melodic, harmonic and k
Organist Joan Lippincott will give a performance with Alexander McCurdy and Robert Baker. rhythmic movements. This being done, she said she ,1
at 8:30 tonight in the Music Building Recital Hall as She received several music scholarships while in tries to communicate her understanding to the,
one of this season's Artist Series Special Events. school, and at age 13 was a finalist in a radio Young audience. 1,,. :,.
%,,
The program will consist of de Grigny's "Veni Artists Competition. Among past organists she admired, Lippincott
Creator," Bach's Chorale Prelude "Von Gott Will Lippincott is head of the Westminster Choir - noted the late E. Power Biggs as a "Giant in this
Ich Nicht Lassen," Toccata and Fugue in F major, College Organ Department, the largest such century in his devotion to see that good organs were [.'
Passacaglia in C minor, and Sonata in E flat major, department in the world. built" and by influencing art in this century.l,, ~
and Liszt's Prelude and Fugue on 8.A.C.H. 1. '
She has performed in such locations as Harvard In addition to her recital, Lippincott will conduct t...
This program was chosen, Lippincott said,
and Duke Universities; St. Marks Cathedral in a master workshop at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Music
because she wanted to play Bach on the organ at the
Seattle, Wash. at the 1978 American Guild of Building Recital Hall: The workshop is sponsored t 1;
University and she wanted to include music of the
Organists National Convention; and in the Martini- by the College of Arts and Architecture and is free t'
French classical period.
Kirche in Bremen, Germany. to the public. It
She said she wanted to frame Bach's works with k,,t
,
de Grigny, who Bach admired, and that she in- Recently, she was initiated as an honorary Tickets for the recital are available through today [4
eluded Liszt from the Romantic period because that member of Sigma Alpha lota, the national music from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Artists Series HUB i
work is based on Bach's name. fraternity. Booth and the Eisenhower Auditorium Box Office, '-''
Lippincott studied piano with William Jancovius, When she studies a work, Lippincott said, she and starting at 7 p.m. tonight at the Recital Hall. ie
'Godot' opens at Pavilion Theater
Tragic and
By KAREN GOTTENBERG
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Sometimes we laugh so hard that we
end up crying, and it is in this kind of
frenzy that we see just how close tragedy
and comedy are linked. "Waiting For
Godot" is a successful play only if its
tragedy is the muscle behind the comic
punch. The production, directed by
Archie Smith, opened last night at the
Pavilion Theater and is successfully
based on just this premise.
Paul Malluk (graduate-theater),
playing Estragon, and Richard Hill
(graduate-theater), as Vladimir, are the
comedians, the tragic figures, the
human beings who wait for Godot. They
are joined in empathy, dependent or
each other as they should be. For only if
they are both focused on the objective
waiting for Godot will the audience be
brought with them in their prolonged
pain and their occasional exultation.
Estragon and Vladimir reached out to
all of us last night. They are funny,
sensitive and so human that they are
frightening. When Estragon throws his
Luci Murray (7th-speech communication) spends a few minute
where ancient and not-so-ancient relics are on display.
Chapter of the Pennsylvania Guild of
Craftsmen will be on exhibit through
Oct. 27.
A life-size muslin and balsa wood
airplane made by University art student
Trish Norton will be on display in the
north lounge through Oct. 20.
Kern Graduate Commons:
Wood carvings by the Central Penn
sylvania Chapter of the National Wood
Carvers Association will be on display,
through Oct. 14.
Museum of Art:
Continuing through Nov
comic succeed here
head back and, with a broad smile':
exclaims "nothing to be done," we are
all tempted to say "yes, yes" until a
second of thought gives us the meaning
of this dreary exclamation. .
Estragon and Vladimir wait and, hope
and at times enjoy the comic diversions
they create for themselves. Hill plays a
cerebral Vladimir. who seems ,to have
learned something about the world qt
sometime. Malluk's Estragon is a more
instinctive fellow who is so linked to
Vladimir that he seems to fill in un
spoken words and imcomplete phrases
and act on what he instinctively feels.
Near, the . center of each . act in
"Waiting For Godot',' is a scene in which
Pozzo, Neal A. Hemphill (sth-liberal
arts) and Lucky, David Garfield (10th
theater) come passing through the bleak
place where Estragon and Vladimir wait.
Pozzo and Lucky are master and servant
and in this relationship present another
view of humanity. , .
Hemphill fails dreadfully in his
characterization. His Pozzo struts an the
stage like an uncertain ringmaster. He
Museum is presenting a selection of
works from its European collection
including prints, drawings and
decorative arts.
Oriental works of art from the
Museum's permanent collection wilt be
on display through Nov. 20. A selection of
Japanese prints, ceramics, porcelains
and brush and pen drawings will be
shown.
In conjunction with "Roncevaux 178-
1978," a conference Oct: 5-7 organized by
the University French Department on
"The Song of Roland," the Museum will
parades, yet neither dominates , nod
evokes awe or sympathy even when we
witness his ironic fall near the end of the
play. ,
Lucky, however, is very well crafted
both by Garfield's characterization . a(id
Director Smith's conception of the role'
When asked to dance, Lucky becomes(,
a poor wretched soul trying to leave the '
ground. • And. when he speaks ,
monologue, he gives a performance with
all the pain of an intellectual no longer
able to verbalize coherently.
Jay Finnecy as the boy who tells
Vladimir that Godot will come tomorr,
is slight and innocent. We want, n
believe what he tells Vladimir, but it',s,no
secret that we cannot, because "Waiting
For Godot" is a trial of the spirit, not a
mystery. • •
The set, designed by Tom Berigin
( graduate-theater), serves the play well i i , ,
The lighting is ,particularly effectivp in
the evening scenes when a little ball,of, a
moon comes down to turn the set a cool
chalk blue and remind us that time
passes, even in the world of Godot. ~ 1
exhibit examples of Romanescicie
culture relating to the time of the oril
of the epic poem. The exhibit will co►
tinue through Nov. 12. 5..!4
Esther Sparks, associate .curator; 4f
prints and drawings at the Art Instituie
of Chicago, will speak on "The Artists
a Mirror of the American Society" oak.
lOatlo:3oa.m. (
:4's
Zoller Gallery:
Social journalism will be the them l e ir tilf
a graphic design display by James
McMullen beginning Oct. 6 and rtinni4
through Oct. 22. tr 4
-'';'l . ),