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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.
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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!
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Admission Just $1.50 Members; $2.00 Guests
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tonight through Saturday night at 9 and
11 at the Qafe Deja Vu in Raleigh.
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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.
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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
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