Thursday, July 21, 1977 The Tar Heel 9 Brock, Skaggs to play bluegrass SHOWS 2:00 5:15 8:30 SHOWS 2:30 4:15 6:00 7:45 9:30 SHOWS 12:40 3:00 5:20 7:40 10:00 cnisllcrcrpa tr:a center summer u compest courses I f " ; EDUCATIONAL CENTER call 489-8720 Suite 102. CROST BLDG. - 2634 Chapel Hill Blvd. fi ? Durham, N.C. v 1 You see it first in the Tar Heel J Hold Ovor 6th Week No Passes 1H Kt MNC t f'ssn" AN.f Vi v.W K The Other Sida of Midraht STARTS TOMORROW SHOWS . V a:oo Swing ICfiUT STEFAXIE FHJt hbse Fcr;.cKS siiiins Coi FELL SHU&E&r 03C A'JSCKE ARTHUR JULUL8 LARTY ROTH Gj Held Over 8th Big Week WOOD ALLEN DIANE KEATON TONY ROBERTS 'ANNIE HALL" NT .. Held Over 4th Big Week Sorry No Passes A long time ago II i u O1 avfpr vvoy... J- I - j CI - The Carolina Union will present Dan Brock and Ricky Staggs in concert on Monday, July 25, at 8:00 p.m. in the Pit. In addition, they will present a 30 minute program at noon in the Pit. Dan, a UNC graduate, now lives in Lexington, Kentucky. His early inspirations came from Lexington's John Jacob Niles, Dean of American Balladers. While at UNC he studied under Dr. A. P. Hudson and Dr. Wilton Mason and after returning to Kentucky he gained further background in folksongs and lore from Dr. William Jansen of the University of Kentucky. Dan played . regularly while at UNC during the early 60's and although he's now a practicing attorney in Lexington, he and his wife Louise perform regularly at folk festivals, college campuses, and night clubs Like many mountain musicians, Ricky Skaggs began his entertainment . career at an early age. At five he was playing the mandolin and had already been singing for a couple of years. The Skaggs family had a weekly radio show in the early 60's in Ashland, Kentucky, but moved to Nashville when Ricky was in the third grade so that he would have the opportunity to meet new people connected with music. The opportunity soon came when he was invited to appear on the syndicated Flatt and Scruggs show. In a program which will combine contemporary folk and traditional bluegrass music of eastern Kentucky, Dan will be featured on guitar and banjo with Ricky exhibiting his talent and versatility on the banjo, fiddle, mandolin and guitar. exam 'Knig his forete By MICHAEL McFEE Staff Writer About a year ago, things looked pretty good for Preston Jones and his suite of full length plays, A Texas Trilogy. He had enjoyed critical and popular success at his native Dallas Theatre Center, as well as at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and his soon-to-be Broadway debut was the most anticipated event ' of - the season according to the New York Times. With its lust for hyperbolic speculation, TIME asked: "Preston Jones: The New O'Neill? Had the South finally risen again? Afraid not. Within a few months, the fuss was forgotten, the plays had all but disappeared, and Mr. Jones was back in Texas with his Stetson, his boots, and a handful of clippings. But fortunately for us, The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia one-third of the Trilogy has reappeared as the last offering of the Summer Theater at Duke series for 1977, which gives us a chance to view this dramatic phenomenon first-hand. TONIGHT! THE CASTAWAYS Top 40 Live Free Beer 8 p.m.-9 p.m. Admission Just $1.50 Members; $2.00 Guests ALL ABC PERMITS Don't Forget Wednesday Night is Beach Night STUDENT MEMBERSHIP SPECIAL $2.50 If? iaturaav So3G!a (Good Saturday, July 23 Only) Buy any sandwich and you free - drink of your choice. Bring this coupon. I t1 get a j - Summer hours: Monday - Thursday 11 AM -8 PM Fri day and Saturday 11 AM -1 AM Closed Sundays (starting May 22) NCNB Plaza, E. Rosemary St A . A ST" - , 'A v - 1 5 A v ' j ;-:-::-;-. f The comedy trio Gotham will appear tonight through Saturday night at 9 and 11 at the Qafe Deja Vu in Raleigh. oom The Knights of the White Magnolia is a brotherhood somewhere (if you can believe it) to the right of the KKK, and we are at a meeting of the Bradleyville, Texas chapter in 1962. Usually the brothers come together to play dominoes and drink whiskey and bullshoot their bygone days of glory, but this meeting of the Magnolia is unusual: a potential member has been located, which would swell the total of their elect to eight and revive the disappearing brotherhood, of which Bradleyville is the sole survivor. The balance of the play's action involves V their frantic efforts to initiate Lonnie Roy McNeil, and their ultimate failure. But the interest of the play lies not so much in the outcome of this slight plot (which one could deduce from the title) as in the characters who have assembled upstairs at . the old cattlemen's hotel (nicely recreated by Scott Parker), and in the humor with which J ones presents their petty but very real assembly with despair and with nothing. L. D. Alexander, supermarket manager by day, is the group's Imperial Wizard and cohesive force; as imperially played by Bud DeWinter, he comes across as a sort of balding Jesse Helms with a moustache and a string tie. His biggest problem but also the owner of the hotel and the senior member of the present brotherhood is Colonel J. C. Kincaid, veteran of the Great War, now a senile old soldier in a wheelchair whose lively interjections constantly interrupt the proceedings and eventually the play. Despite Kevin Patterson's brave efforts to emerge from the shadow of Fred Gwynne, his old man's mannerisms never match the stature of the old bastard and his splendid lines. The rest of the cast fills out the profane atmosphere. Olin Potts and Rufe Phelps are the drawling pair earlier referred to, full of advice about fuel lines and genealogy; Rob Pinnell and Tim Elliott render them (perhaps properly) as slow and overstated. Please turn to page 1 2. cinema Ccmpus Night At The Opera The Marx Brothers are at their peak as they deliver their unique satire on the pomp and circumstances surrounding grand opera. At 8:30 . p.m. Friday in The Great Hall of the Carolina Union. Admission free with student ID. Zorba The Greek A proper Englishman comes to Crete where he meets, hires and befriends earthy, joyous, exuberant, extravagant Zorba, who cohabits with an old prostitute living on nostalgic memories of past admirers. Starring Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas. Sunday evening at 8:30 in The Great Hail of the Carolina Union. Admission free with student ID. Obsession A romantic suspense drama which begins with the mysterious kidnapping of a young business executive's wife and daughter. Fifteen years later, an astounding incident leads him to search back into the bizarre past and discover the terrifying truth about the crime. Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. in The Great Hall of the Carolina Union. Admission free with ID. Chapel Hill How Green Was My Valley Based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn. The story of the Morgans, a Welsh mining family, whose peaceful, dignified country lif e is being destroyed by the very mines that sustain them. ; : FANTASTIC PLANET GRAND PRIZE WINNER CANNES FILM FESTIVAL - PG- mmm MMiMWTTtTmTfTWWWW linn 37i. ..... t