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Edwards' 6 Victor Victoria' disappointing
By JOHN MAASS
SUff Writer
In his Pink Panther series and later in 10, Blake Edwards
blended the innovative use of classic slapstick with clever comic
dialogue, leaving his escapist audiences as happy as clams. Vic
torVictoria, Edwards' most recent farce, lacks both of these
elements. Admirable performances by Julie Andrews, James
Garner, and Alex Karras (of Mongo fame) fail to compensate
for the flood of burned-out gags, the vacuous script, and the
absence of a truly funny figure.
Edwards' plot seems to have potential on paper. Victoria
(Andrews), an English soprano, finds herself down and out in
Paris in 1934, too cute to make it as a cabaret singer. She finds
succor in Toddy (Robert Preston), a middle-aged night club per
former who is also out of work.
Watching Victoria in men's clothing after her dress has been
soaked in a storm, Toddy comes up with an ingenious scheme.
He convinces Victoria that she could pass for a man, and could
become the most believable female impersonator ever.
Victoria poses as a foreign count who has become Toddy's
lover, and soon she's a sensation with her bogus drag act. King
Marchan (James Garner), a Chicago nightclub owner with
underworld ties, catches her show in his search for new acts. The
consummate tough guy gefs suspicious and exasperated when he
feels physically attracted to "Victor." Victor is just as frustrated
when she falls in love with King, but feels compelled to maintain
her facade because she values her career.
Andrews performance as the vivacious and sensitive Victoria,
and Garner's portrayal of the chauvinistic King Marchan are
both commendable, especially due to the low quality of the
script. Just as Louis Armstrong could not have won over an au
dience with a kazoo, Andrews cannot excel with lines like, "if I
have to strap down my bosom for the next twenty years, they're
going to end up looking like empty wallets."
Most of the slapstick is just as ineffectual as the trite dialogue,
especially the two almost identical nightclub rumble sequences.
One of the few exceptions is a scene in which a starving Victoria
swoons after watching a bald-headed palooka slowly eat a suc
culent eclair.
While Victor Victoria fails on a humoristic level, Edwards is
successful in slipping in some superficial criticism of society's in
tolerance of divergent sexual preferences. He makes light of
King's preoccupation with his machismo, and his unwillingness
to accept that he could be attracted to a man.
Victoria, Toddy, and King's bodyguard (Karras) gradually
nurture an understanding of homosexuality in King, the real
tough guy. But even after he accepts the alternative lifestyles he
must affirm his manliness by starting a brawl in a bawdy
working-class bar.
For anyone who is aware of Edward's achievements as a
directorwriter, VictorVictoria can be painful to watch. The
only solace to be found is the realization that this film does not
reflect the potential of the comic whiz.
PRC announces its season for next year
By MARC ROLTII
Assistant Arts Editor
Playmakers Repertory Company, the
professional resident theatre company
based on campus, has announced their
season for the coming year. Life on the
Mississippi, A Moon for the Misbegot
ten, and Pygmalion are included in the
PRC roster. In addition, the company
will present a two play series of The
Greeks, The Cursed and The Blessed.
"The desire of the audience to see
plays done on a daring scale and to attend
events of size, scope, and challenge has
been a source of inspiration to the cre
ative artists of this theatre," said David
Rotenberg, artistic director. "We believe
that we have designed a season to satisfy
such demands."
Life on the Mississippi will be the-professional
premiere of a new musical based
on the famous Mark Twain memoir.
Written by North Carolinians Bland
Simpson and Tommy Thompson, the
musical will feature the Chapel Hill-based
band, the Red Clay Ramblers.
A Moon for the Misbegotten marks the
return of Eugene O'Neill to the Play
makers stage, following successful pro
ductions of Long Day's Journey Into
Night and Ah, Wilderness! to complete
the Tyrone family saga.
Pygmalion is one of Shaw's greatest
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The Greeks, which Rotenberg calls
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.Tar Heels to play in ACC tournament Friday
Golf team seeks victory
By STEPHANIE GRAHAM
Staff Writer
The UNC men's golf team heads into this weekend's ACC
tournament with consistent play and strong finishes to its credit,
but it still lacks one thing a tournament victory.
Last weekend in the Tar Heel Invitational at Finley Golf
Course, the Tar Heels carded their fourth second-place finish of
the season, losing to N.C. State by six strokes. Coach Devon
Brouse thought his team played well.
"But I'm never pleased with a second place finish," Brouse
said. "We have finished second a lot and shown a lot of consis
tency, but we are better than how we've played.
"It's time to quit saying that and start doing it."
The Tar Heels would like nothing better than to break
through with a victory in the ACC tourney, which starts Friday
at Rocky Mount's North Green Country Club. Last year UNC
won the league title on that same course behind the leadership of
John Spelman, who will be defending his 1982 individual ACC
medalist honors.
"The course can be very long depending on how they set it
up," Brouse said, "but it is a tough and fair test of golf the
best team will probably win."
The Tar Heels will take a lot of experience into the 54-hole,
par-72 event. Seniors Spelman, Billy Williford (third place in
last year's ACC tournament) and Todd McGrew will team up
with junior Bill Plyler and sophomore John Inman.
Brouse said that he hopes that this weekend's tournament
does not turn out like the Tar Heel Invitational, in which N.C.
State led from start to finish while carding its third victory of the
spring.- . .
"State has obviously been the best team in the conference so
far," he said. "I hope that on the last day in the tourney we are
in contention. I just hope they do not blow everybody else
away." ,
The Wolfpack also finished first to UNC's second in the
Palmetto Classic last month, but Spelman said his team was not
concerned with State's past success.
"The track record does not intimidate us," Spelman said.
"We feel that we have as good a team as we have ever had at
Carolina. We feel that we are the best team there is no reason
for us not to be able to win."
According to Brouse, four teams have realistic chances at
winning the title and the NCAA bid that goes along with it.
Besides UNC and State, Clemson and Wake Forest can also be
counted on to perform well.
"It's different this year," Brouse said. "For the past couple
of years only one or two teams really went in with a chance to
win it all. This year there are four that could do it."
The possible bid helps make this tournament, as Spelman put
it, "the biggest of the year for us except for the NCAA's."
UNC will host the NCAA's on the famed No. 2 course in Pine
hurst from May 2-?
Spring concert
to be presented
The Carolina Choir, under the di
rection of Dr. Larry Cook, will pre
sent its spring concert at 8:15 p.m.
Sunday in Hill Hall auditorium.
The program will feature, two
works, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's
Vesperae solennes de confessore, and
Joseph Haydn's Missq in angustiis,
more popularly known as the "Lord
Nelson" Mass.
Featured soloists will be Marajean
Marvin, soprano; Joyce Peck, mezzo
soprano; Stafford Wing, tenor; and
Frederic Moses, bass. The orchestra,
which will perform with the choir, will
be composed of UNC faculty mem
bers and members of the North Caro
lina Symphony.
Admission is free.
Basketball star Leake to attend UNC
By LEW PRICE
Staff Writer
Another highly recruited basketball
player recently announced plans to attend
UNC next year.
This time the recruit is a 5'8" guard
who averaged 19.9 points and 10 re
bounds per game this season while
shooting 53.5 percent from the floor.
But this is not another one of Dean
Smith's finds. The player is Chapel Hill
High's Pam Leake, -who UNCcoach Jen
nifer Alley, says .is one . of . the premier
guards in the country. Leake becomes the
first home-grown eager to play for the
Tar Heel women.
"I wanted to play for UNC all along,"
Leake said. "Even though I had to con
sider offers from other schools like Ten
nessee, LSU and Georgia, I was pretty
sure I'd be at Carolina."
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and softball. She said, however, that she
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one's hometown could burden some
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it will be a case of extra moral support.
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here, plus my parents will be able to see
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