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r . i ' Page? 4 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Tuesdav, January 10, 1967 1 ! 1 .nuL t Schoenberg Calls Actinj A Meanin: L,xp erience "V r if f " " ' - r. r r -l srral I Show Set For Grad An exhibition by V. . ite de signer and artist Frank Mars den London will be presented at The Contemporaries Art Gallery in New York City Jan uary 31 through February 18, in observation of the current re - evaluation of American Painting of the Twenties, Thirties and early Forties. Born in Pittsboro in 1876, a direct descendant of John London, secretary to the last Royal Governor of North ' Carolina, London attended the University here, from 1893 to 1895. He also attended Pratt Institute in New York (1895) and the William M. Chase School of Art (1900). After his death in 1945, " he was the recipient of a memo rial exhibition at Chapel Hill in 1959. London made a significant contribution to America! Still Life Painting during the per iod between the Wars. He was closely associated with the the Woodstock Artists (Speich er, Ludins, Fletcher, Martin, Tomlin, Kuniyosh and others) and original member of the Whitney Studio Club and the American Federation of Mod ern Painters and Sculptors. Until 1923, London was pri "marily occupied as a designer of stained glass windows the famous windows of The Bel ri mont Chapel at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York are one example of his ! work. In 1923 he went to Paris for 10 years and devoted his entire time to painting until his death in 1945. . Exhibitions of his work ap ' peared in Paris during the twenties and at the Montross Gallery in New York during 'the Twenties and Thirties. A memorial exhibition of his work was presented by The ' Woodstock Artists Association in 1948 (with an introduction ;1by Bradley Walker Tomlin) ' which toured a number of museums in the South. 'iE London was highly regarded - by the Critics of his time (Ed ward Alden Jewell,-Margaret Breuning, Royal Cortissoz, Henry McBrffleTand his fel low artists at; Woodstock His work is represented in the permanent rcplleqtions rof .The Metropolitan M u s e u m, The , r W?ltn H?S; UNC , and ''others v. ' x" -' NOT TOO YOUNG PARIS (UPDAi court here ruled that a '6-year-kld boy's ; morality was endangered when I "he appeared in a movie scene i "with a nude actress. Film maker Consuela Dominguez argued unsuccessfully that the ' boy was too young to care : .whether a woman was clothed or unclothed but the judge de- , cided otherwise and fined Do minguez $300. CHRISTY'S VICTIMS NEW YORK (UPI - The r-St. Louis Cardinals were vic tims of Christy Mathewson's pitching for the New York Gi ants 24 consecutive times :;from 1904 through 1908. THE FIRESIDE GIRL OF THE WEEK f It I i F i if -V I s A. X r-r-Jr jSr I, A ' f ) f - i ''-- ZJ"' - t ? - -i ANNETTE FAIRLESS, a resident of Spencer Dorm from Colerain, N. C, is ready for the snow in this Danish hand-knit ski sweater with stretch ski pants from THE FIRESIDE. A JOHN, GEORGE, PAUL AND RINGO The most popular on the group's performance at New York's Shea Stadium dur- of all of rock 'n' roll's moptop crooners will appear in a tele- nS their last American tour this past summer. The program vision special tonight at 7:30 over WRAL-TV, Channel 5. Ten s complete with the well-tuned vocal chords of 60,000 of the Beatles singing hits will be heard. The special is based Beatlemaniac fans who attended the Shea Stadium Concert. 'Municipal Housekeeping' Teams Of Experts ShoW Cities How To End Blighted Areas By MAGGIE BELLOWS WASHINGTON (UPI) Blight - battered cities can get diagnostic first - aid from a team of experts simply for the asking. The team, usually four men whose experiences in city-rebuilding match the specific needs of the questing city, come into town, prowl, consult and survey, then present a proposal for cure , to city of ficials a few weeks later. So far team members of "Build America Better" (BAB) have diagnosed the ills of 39 cities, from small towns like Clarvson, Mich., Belle ville, 111., Kent,, Ohio, to such areas as DeKalb County, Ga.,' West Philadelpha, Pa., and cit-" les with kmg - size prob lems like San Francisco, Pittsburgh, and Dallas. The volunteers, all members of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, have giv en months of their time help ing sick cities tailor action plans to renew slum - blighted areas since their formation al most 10 years ago. Among the "experts" are such men as Guy T. O. Holly day of Baltimore, former Com missioner of the Federal Hous ing Administration and past president of the Mortgage Ban kers Association, former di rector of the American Coun cil to Improve Our Neighbor hoods; Paul B. Guthery of Charlotte, N. C, pioneer in housing code enforcement pro grams, past president of t h e North Carolina Association of Real Estate Boards, and John A. Dodds, past president of the 4 - V Detroit City Plan Commision and the Detroit Real Estate Board. 50 PROS Some 50 experts, headed by William H. Doblen Jr., of Boxton, are on call for con sultation. All have had experi ence in at least one cause of "city rot," such as poor zon ing laws, ineffective housing codes, financing, poor city planning, lack of leadership. "They've all cracked their knuckles on hard facts," says J. William Venable, staff di rector of Build America Bet ter in p Washington, D. C. "They come up with practical recommendations t no pie- in-f he-skv stuff " EmDhasis" is nn rphnhflifa- tion, not bulldozing. "All the gold in Fort Knox can't bulldoze the blight in America," says Venable. "But small miracles can happen when community leaders and city officials work together to pass and enforce sound hous ing, building and zoning codes, concentrate on 'municipal housekeeping' such as roads, sewers, street lights, curbs, and wake up the community spirit which often has fallen asleep in run - down neighbor hoods." Success stories are many. j ts I rf KickinS the garbage off your records could result in damaged surfaces and cause a $2000 stereo system to sound like a 2 transistor radio. one nf0rciLLa,ndblaing the best aPProach. We recommend,' instead, Cecil F w fJ disk clea"ers which are made in England by cttLM ' Vd, EaCh 'S specifically designed for a particular category, of record-playmg equipment, and each is effective. PARAat5 a'e,eiS investmen- Protect them with a PREENER, a PARASTAT, ora DUST BUG. Even a Motown appreciates a good cleaning. mo Y'S ST ' , - Bellflower, Calif., "diagnos ed" in 1962, adopted new zon ing and housing codes, estab-.; lished studies on parking andJ water, and embarked on a Ci ty Master Plan. Fort Myers, Fla., improved several blighted areas through rehabilitation work and beau tifications with trees, flowers and plants. In Tucson, Ariz., the planning commission set up a top - level council to coordinate city planning, laun ched neighborhood improve ment programs with volun teers. About 2,000 deteriorated homes were rehabilitated in Jersey City, N. J., following a team visit Jn I960. .Private, jn- . ? vestors -aref nowj carrying ,onr a brisk business "in home rebuild ing. Santa Clara County and the City of San Jose, in California, set up a joint planning com mission on recommendation of BAB. The Chamber of Com merce is now working with this commission in pilot proj ect neighborhoods. BLOCK' PLANS "Block" programs are in work by the "Rockford 1975 Committee" in that Illinois.; city. In Honlulu, the Mayor's ' Fifth Annual Conference on Urban Renewal spotlighted the! EREQ. CENTER v. f team's report. A top priority suggestion by the BAB team r in Seattle, Wash., resulted in a redevelopment plan for the Pike Place Market area. When urban renewal is indi cated, as in the beautifully situated but aging town of Barre in the granite country of Vermont, team members make personal "feasibility" studies, knocking on doors, block by block, talking with owners and tenants to discov er which buildings are sal vageable, which should be torn down. Their recommendation: Phase the bulldozing, to avoid .too much, vacant n land,, fitting around; involve community in ,. general improvement p t o - r-grams; ;-p sharpen municipal housekeeping. "Sometimes a group of ex perienced outsiders can take a clearer look when no one has an axe to grind. They can state the obvious, pinpoint a cause," notes Venable. "This sparks public debate, and when the public gets involv ed, things begin 'to happen." "The key to better cities is to get citizens and their gov ernment thinking together. ( Then pick out some one thing to do right away and do it," says Venable. 135 E. FRANKLIN ST. 929-6531 By BARRY SCHWARTZ Special To The DTH A serious drama should af fect the viewer's life or his way of looking at himself, says Mark Schoenberg, the director w ine inree Sisters," the Carolina Playmakers next pro duction. Schoenberg, a native New Yorker and a lecturer in the Dramatic Arts Department, says a play must convey a "meaningful human experi ence," a selected view of the spectator's life and times, -from which he might learn something about himself and the world he lives in. ; This experience can only come about, says Schoenberg, if the characters are brought alive by the actors, who must on stage merge their person alities with those of the char acters in the play. The actor creates a new and vital char acter by channeling the charac . ter he is playing through his emotions. He thus creates a , character which, is neither the one in the play or himself. . He must be careful not to lose his sense of identity, how ever. "It is impossible for an actor to transform himself into , another entity and give over his identity," says Schoenberg. "If he does, he is psychopath ic." A FRAMEWORK "My job as a director is primarily to provide a frame work within which the actor can create and to summon forth creation in the actors," says the director. "I only pre scribe a course or relationship when the actor's creativity is not sparked, though I con stantly suggest (new approach es)." Schoenberg calls himself a member of the "method school" of directing, which to him is the only way to cre ate meaningful characters with dpeth. The widespread idea that those actors who are part of the "method school" actually live the character off the stage is largely fiction, says Schoen berg, "but some of the Amer icans perverted the method." .-. r Schoenberg himself is a stocky 5'7" with a neatly f n f . a v.v,-. ;arQ.,.4--anu sparkling bown eyes. . He has great patience. When you talk The Dairy GLEN LENNOX SHOPPING CENTER Presents the "Hungry Man on Campus Special" for all of you HMOCs Tonight ALL YOU CAN EAT FRIED FISH Mashed Potatoes Cole Slaw Hot Rolls - Butter Tomorrow ALL THE Mashed Potatoes Cole Slaw Hot Rolls -Butter Thursday ALL THE You Con Hot Rolls Only at The from 5:00 - Closing to him, you know he is sincere and dedicated, the same quali ties he demands in actors. GOOD PLAY f Schoenberg loves Anton Chekhov's "The Three Sisters" because of the complex char acter development and the su perficial relationships among the main characters. "The au dience will find itself exposed to a frighteningly real human tragedy which they can relate to their lives," says Schoen berg. The main characters are members of the gentry in Czarist Russia that is being dispossessed by the middle class. The upper class is trained to do nothing and its members do nothing to prevent its fate. You pity them, but have little sympathy for them. Nothing really happens. The main characters (representa tives of the aristocracy) can only communicate superficial ly and are incapable of mean ingful action. They do not even talk to each other, but around each other. They achieve noth ing obvious and there are no complications. When training young actors, Schoenberg teaches them to use the theater for their bene fit. After an emotional scene, for example, the actor is up set, but the stage has been a place to release pent-up emo tions. The actors must never forget that a theatricaL reality separate from their life es ists. Schoenberg has much teach ing and directing experience. He received his B.F.A. from Carnegie and his M.F.A. from Tulane, where he only has to complete his dissertation for a Ph.D. While directing 5 off-Broad 'Porgy And Bess9 Slated For Duke DURHAM -Concert and stage star Joyce Bryant will be in the role of "Bess" when the national touring company . of George ,Gershwin'$ , o J k , opera, "Porgyrand Bess" per ? form's1 " W Duke ? University r:3a pjn. Wednesday rf ttcfls Miss Bryant's career has included succeses in supper of a y CHICKEN YOU a ITALIAN STYLE Efif (T & Butter bar, DAI HY BAR in Glen Lennox way plays during seven years in New York, he was on the faculty of the American Aca demy of Dramatic Arts and a member of the Actors Studio. At least two of his plays were artistic and critical succeses "All the King's Men" and "Here Come the Clowns." BROADWAY PLAYS .Schoenberg also worked on ten big Broadway plays, which were "absolute garbage with no artistic merit." He is not against entertainment in thea ter, but cuts and unfortunate mistakes should, be avoided. Furthermore, "as soon as an art, form becomes a multi million dollar business, it is no longer an art form," says Schoenberg. For example, Marlon Bran do, one of the famous "meth od actors" had the potential for greatness, but he was ruined by "the stifling atmo sphere of Hollywood," saya Schoenberg. He was forced to stick to a trademark and did not grow as an actor. Th? director carefully re searches the period and the playwright's ideas to get a greater understanding of t h e play. During rehearsal, he is constantly suggesting changes in movement, and the actors respond. The play evolves un der Schoenberg's gifted hand into a more meaningful exper ience for the actors and the audience. The atmosphere of the re hearsal is light, thanks large ly to the director's sharp sense of humor. But you know that the director and the cast real ize there is a job at hand and you are sure that they will produce an outstanding effort in the first week of March. 1 iKli clubs, -in r legitimate theater roles, and as a soprano soloist in oratorio and with sym phony orchestras. At Duke, .she will sing such favorites as "I Love You, Porgy," and the duet "Besg You Is Mv Wom an,' as highlights of the-opera. Her million - record selling torch song, "Love For Sale" CAN EAT! 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