6—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Nov. 7,1979 O cr u D> a Annette Torrcgrosa (graduate-music) concentrates on her cello at the recent concerto competition for a position as soloist with the Penn State Symphony Orchestra. , HOW DO YOU SPELL PENN STATE?? L—A—V—l—E ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY! Orders are being Cost is $15.00! ' taken in 206 HUB Order now before and during early the price increases to $17.00 registration at Shields! (effective January!) @ Trailways * NEW TICKET OFFICE LOCATION * 154 N. Atherton AT THE WEST END OF THE CENTRE REGIONAL BUS TERMINAL * NEW MANAGEMENT * 238-7362 OPEN DAILY 7:30 AM-6:00 PM Williamsport I Lewisburg j Bloomsburg | Hazleton I Scranton | Mansfield i Elmira, N.Y. J Ithaca, N.Y. J Syracuse, N.Y. | .Leave 11:35 a.m./4:30 p.m 11:35 a.m 11 ;35 a.m 11:35 a.m./4:30 p.m. ' 11:35 a.m./4:30 p.m. 11:35 a.m. 11:35 a.m./11:50 p.m. 11:35 a.m./11:50 p.m. 11:35 a.m./11:50 p.m. Arrive 1:20 p.m./6:00 p.m 2:30 p.m. 3:25 p.m. 4:40 p.m./7:45 p.m. 5:25 p.m./9:05 p.m. 2:45 p.m. 3:40 p.m./4:40 p.m. 5:52 p.m./7:30 p.m. 7:40 p.m./9:15 a.m. 'The Basement': an obsession with horror By JIM ZARROLI Daily Collegian Staff WrjUer “The Basement,” by Kate Millett, Simon and Schuster, 352 pages, $10.95. “I was Sylvia Likens. She was me,” writes Kate Millett in “The Basement.” Like millions of people, Millett first read about the torture-murder of 16-year-old Sylvia Likens when it was still fresh news, back in 1965. She was studying at Barnard College and stumbled upon the story in Time Magazine, and reading it. was instantly obsessed with the inex plicable horror of it all. Why, Millett wahted to know, did Indiana housewife Gertrude Baniszewski lead her children and as many as 15 neighborhood kids in the two month torture-murder of 16-year-oM Likens a girl who had done nothing to make anyone hate her while neigh bors, school officials, clergymen and even the Likens family sat back and let it happen? What led Gertrude and her band to put the pretty, friendly girl, who with her sister had been left to board in the Dinner theatre "Accommodations' to be “It’s very gay and funny and has just enough sex to be acceptable,” said Helen Hungerford of the dinner theatre production, “Accommodations,” which she is directing. The play, by Nick Hall, is being presented by the State College Community Theatre at Gatsby’s Nov. 15 through 18. It is the troupe’s first attempt at a dinner TRAILWAYS TERMBREAK SCHEDULES DIRECT EXPRESS ROUND TRIP ALL SEATS SOLD BY ADVANCE RESERVATIONS ON SALE IMMEDIATELY Leave State College 5:oo for Phil., 4:15 pm for Pitt. NOV. 14-15-16 Leave for State College 3:00 PM NOV 26 PHILADELPHIA $31.45 PITTSBURGH $27.55 Regular New York Express Trips Daily 4:30 PM and 11:50 PM round trip ss'lo I One Way j Round Trip | 7.50 I 14.25 j 9.15 j 17.40 I 12.15 j 23.10 | 13.60 I 25.85 | 19.30 j 36.50 I 12.30 j 23.40 | 18.35 I 34.40 , 20.30 j 38.60 I 24.75 j 47.05 ! i Baniszewski house by her traveling, parents, through the beatings, burnings, scaldings, brandings, sexual abuse in short, any degradation the killers could think of to break her spirit? “Coming altogether by chance upon this actual barbarism and reading in sick fascination mixed with horror and anger. And fear,” Millett writes. “The fear, especially, an enormous fear.” “The Basement" is the end result of Millett’s "fourteen year obsession” with the case, and with Sylvia herself, with whom, Millett explains, she has come to identify. It is an intensely personal book; the author is always struggling to comprehend, to test theories on us, to bemoan the crime’s stupidity and the moral inadequacies of those who let it happen. The energy she seems to spend in thinking the case through is enormous. The book is, in fact, a think-piece, not a factual study of a famous crime; there is none of the meticulous, dispassionate concern for detail one comes to expect from book-length accounts of famous crimes none of the detail that might theatre production, Hungerford said. Loosely based on the “Three’s Company” theme, this light three-act comedy follows the story of two women and one man living together in an old Greenwich Village apartment, complete with an ancient footed bathtub. “An interesting factor about this-production is that it I Leave Dußois j 8:05 a.m./4:04 p.m Clarion I 8:05 a.m. Oil City I 8:05 a.m. Erie J 8:05 a.m. Sharon I 8:05 a.m. Punxsutawney I 8:05 a.m./4:04 p.m. Indiana j 8:05 a.m./4:04 p.m. Ridgway I 8:05 a.m. St. Marys I 4:04 p.m. Bradford J 8:05 a.m./4:04 p.m. Salamanca, N.Y. | 8:05 a.m./4:04 p.m. Buffalo, N.Y. I 1 8:05 a.m./4:04 p.m. have allowed both reader and writer to stand back, to possibly even enjoy the crime’s luridness, to say "Look what crazy people are capable of!” “The easiest thing to say is that (Gertrude) is crazy,” Millett writes. “And we say it. The comfort of that explanation. That we deal here merely with a madwoman.” What Millett is striving for is to un derstand what would have made she herself act as Gertrude did, or accept it so passively, as Sylvia seems to have done; In doing so, Millett even commits the ultimate violation of privacy by entering, the consciousness of Sylvia and her murderers, trying to bring their thinking in line with her own. until you wonder where Sylvia or Gertrude ends and Millett begins. Millett’s struggle to find that con nection gives the: book energy, and perhaps it doesn’t matter that Gertrude is never fully understood. (“I am a fraud. My Gertnide never the real one. For it was all a secret. And remains so. Nothing in the courtroom or .the light of the day, the tedious forms of respec tability, nothing there ever explains.”) Arrive 9:50 a.m./6:10 p.m. 11:50 a.m. 12:35 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 2:15 p.m. 10:45 a.m./7:05 p!m 11:35 a.m./7:50 p.m 10:45 a.m. 7:20 p.m.' j 12:10 p.m./8:49 p.m 12:40 p.m./9:19 p.m I 2:30 p.m./11:00 p.m There is a noble quality to the book; the author, you sense, truly is horrified by the crime and wants to get to the,bottom ofit. - / When she does settle upon an ex planation, it is one that is i somewhat hard to accept. Sylvia, she decides, was murdered for sex. She "would not have been subjected to her specific tortures if she were not a girl. . . How can We imagine a boy in analogous cir cumstances, based as they ;are. upon specific sexual guilt by; cultural definition female?” ■ ,> But there are numerous cases the Panzram killings, the recent Gacy murders, etc. in which sex was used as a weapon against a malei victim, too. To impose a feminist angle on the Likens case is cheap and artificial. Sexual abuse is, as-Millett understands, the ultimate degradation one can apply to a living person, but it is merely a symp tom of something deeper and more important something she fully grasps: “the urge and lust; the com pulsion and the relish so subterranean” of prolonged human cruelty. presented represents a cross-section of Hungerford said. Hungerford, a former member of many actor’s associations, has danced and acted professionally. She has taught at the University, and has appeared in several SCOT productions, including this summer’s “Dark of the Moon.” , • I One Way } Round Trip j 8.30 I 15.80 , | 12.70 j 24.15 I 15.50 , j 29.45- J 22.20 I 42.20 j 20.40 [ 38.80 I 10.30 19.60 | 10.90 | 20.75 I . 9.00 [ 17. TO I 8.75 j 16.65 | 14.55 I 27.65 I 19.55 j 37.15 I 25.35 48.20 the community,”, 'Le Petit Prince': of innocence and truth ByJOEMATTIVI For The Daily Collegian “Draw me a lamb, please! ” The simplest and the most com plicated of requests. The pilot could scarcely believe his ears. Forced down in the Sahara, he finds himself face-to face with; another traveller an ex traordinary little person, the per sonification of purity and innocence the wide-eyed, inquisitive and sometimes determinedly single-minded Little Prince. Although he renounced a “brilliant”' but misunderstood career as an artist when he was a child (his rendering of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant was continually mistaken for a hat), the pilot complies with the strange and wonderful request and his life is un wittingly changed forever. And happily, as a result, so are ours. The French-speaking community of State College had the opportunity to meet the Little Prince and share in his long joqrney through the galaxy thanks to the adaptation of Saint Euxpery’s book, “Le Petit Prince,” by the Bernard Uzan. Theatre Troupe, which visited Schwab Auditorium for a single per formance Thursday night. The fable is simply charming. Inhabiting an. asteroid not much bigger than a house which he shares with three pint-sized volcanoes (two active and one extinct) and his beloved, and incurably egotistical rose, . the Prince is totally loving'and “as ‘ ingenuous as a new born child,” said • Elaine Uzan, who performed the: title • role. : In the same style that Peter Pan has been played by Mary Martin and now Sandy Duncan, Uzan . played the role convincingly, regardless of gender. “We were working with two young boys in the role when, just a few weeks before the tour was scheduled to begin, both simultaneously started puberty and their voices changed! My husband *' screamed, ‘Elaine!’ and I came to the rescue.” - Uzan is a /competant, adaptable ac ' ' tress who enamoured the audience with ■ the sincerity and sweetness she : radiated. Bernard Uzan, however, as the •Pilot/Narrator, lacked the inner enthusiasm which his wife possessed. In Mpbite of his sense of humor and his ob vious talent as a director, he seemed remote and somewhat mechanical at Mimes. Virginia Rodarmor in her brief ap- ‘ .pearance as the Rose was coquettish, .vain and completely fetching. W\ Jean Sadowski’s pbrtrayal of the'Fox,' Mind the Serpent Wastsolid arfcl dijistidlly)' interesting (thanks j to j imaginative costuming and the : incorporation of , mime), but little more than adequate in the most important scene of the play. • Fortunately, such is the strength of the ' author’s message that the beauty of the foment shone through and the audience . was visibly touched. By far the most exciting performance , of the evening was given by Nicholas ’ Guy in his interpretation of the inhabitants of various planets visited by ■ the Prince en route to Earth. Ranging from pathetic to hilarious, his split-' ■ second changes in personality brought i about by the mere doffing of a new hat ’ are proof of a seasoned, first-rate actor. ; The stark stage and minimal props ; (understandable for a highly mobile j>travelling troupe) provided an excellent . launching pad f or the imagination. ! Lighting also played an important role in ! the dramatization, especially a well | placed green spotlight shining ‘ad ; nauseum’ on the drunkard’s planet. ' The weakest aspect of the production’s ■f&ibstructure was the badly recorded, Inappropriate music which interfered 1 with, rather than enhanced, the action of ! the story. ; In the end the Little Prince returns to I his planet, but not before learning the Second Chajice See classified page for details. MASTERS AND DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREES IN NUCLEAR ENGINEERING Financial aid la available for Engineering and Science Majors for graduate study In Nuclear Engineering, Fusion, and Health Physics. Grad uate Research and Teaching Asslstantshlp sti pends range from $5BOO to $10,200 per year plus out-of-state tuition waiver. President's Fellowships for outstanding applicants provide a stipend of $5OOO per year plus full tuition waiver. For information write: Director, School of Nuclear Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332. Louie, Happy Birsday! We love you! Bubby and Jibby Fox’s secret: “Only the heart sees clearly; what is essential is invisible to the eyes. ..” It is a message men seem to have forgotten a long time ago, one we shouldn’t forget. The play is a yearning for truth, simplicity and innocence, a search for times past and for the lost purity of youth. Let us laugh, comtemplate the stars and renew the forgotten hopes of childhood. Then one day, when we least expect it, we may come face-to-face with a golden-haired child with large round eyes who asks us to draw a lamb for him, and his secret will be ours forever. ANNIVERSARY SALE SAVE UP TO 50% ☆ STEREO ☆ CALCULATORS ☆ TAPES ☆ TV ’ s ☆ CAR-STEREO ☆ CB ’ s FREE —FINANCE UP TO 3 YRS. LIMIT ONE PER CUSTOMER. FREE FINANCING 90 DAYS. 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Any enjoyment Stern could possibly have squeezed from the film is lost during the in? terminable running sequences. The director could argue that he was trying to show how taxing and wearisome training can be, but it’s uncomfortably clear just how far one can take the marathon as fuel for excitement. After a while, dll the camera tracks of -Douglas pounding along in his Pumas become extra padding.\ Andropolis’ narrow scope of priorities has forced $99 B-l-C 20-Z/S FULLY AUTOMATIC RECORD CHANGER WITH CARTRIDGE SisoSALE $B9 TECHNICS D-2 SEMI-AUTOMATIC DIRECT-ADRIVE $l5O SALE $lO9 SPEAKERS SAVE 25% JENSEN 20 qai c. SENSATIONAL SOUND $BO EA.OMLC. BOSE 301 direct reflecting %ln 12-INCH, 2-WA CALCULATORS TRADE IN HP&TI 234-5888 The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Nov. 7, 1979—7 him to chuck his job and alienate his family. His divorce from wife Susan Anspach is treated with the most childish of kid gloves, and Anspach suffers'for With everything going against him, Andropolis tries out for the Olympics, and qualifies on a fluke. Only the top three finishers go to the Olympics, and Michael finishes fourth in the trials. Enter fate in the form of the third-place runner collapsing im mediately after the race. For Andropolis, the road to Montreal is clear. The audience is not so lucky. The movie ends in a cop-out freeze frame, and nothing is concretely resolved. Given time and a lot more care, “Run ning” could have been a good movie. But it’s ultimately left in the starting block. SAVE 40% TURNTABLES $125 ea. SALE: .1“ SALE:SI79 SAVE 37% Texas Instruments TI-30 TI-25 TI-58 HP-31 E HP-19C HP-33C HP-34C HP-41 C CALCULATORS RECORD-PLAYERS LIST $ 22 $l4 $ 33 $23 $125 $B9 HEWLETT PACKARD SALE $43 $ll9 $lO5 $135 $265 LIST $ 50 $225 $l2O $l5O $295 OLD SALE
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