4The Daily Tar HeelThursday, November 29, 1990
AGHrs amid FE
ffoliday shopping season gets underway as
By MARA LEE
Staff Writer
; The Christmas retail season, which
starts the day after Thanksgiving, ac
counts for 40 percent of the year's sales
for merchants. The day after Thanks
giving is traditionally the biggest
shopping day of the year. The DTH sent
a reporter to a mall to see the serious
shopping begin.
;The mall, born in the suburbs as a
phenomenon of the nation's new mo
bility, provides climate control, one
stop shopping, socializing, food and
acres of parking. Willow Lawn, the first
mall in Richmond, Va., was upscaled
recently, and outdoors, Woolworth's
and A & N have been overshadowed by
the food court. Limited Express and
Britches of Georgetowne.
' At a little past 10, the mall is crowded.
Many elderly people are arriving for
their daily routine sitting on the
benches watching shoppers go by. One
older man, with a dapper demeanor and
a suit, hat and cane, sits down and reads
Theatre Arts
By MONDY LAMB
Staff Writer
The lights in the Cabaret are low
except for the floor area, which is
brightly lit. An ensemble cast rehearses
for the production of Shakespeare's
comedy "Twelfth Night," the first pro
duction for the Union Activities Board's
Theatre Arts Committee. Director Tessa
Blake paces back and forth, occasion
Famous American poetry set to music in concert
By ANGELA BUFFUM
Staff Writer
In a performance entitled "An
Evening of Twentieth Century Vocal
Music," soprano Terry Rhodes will
perform the sentiments of Emily
Dickinson and Walt Whitman found
in their poems on death, love and na
ture. Accompanying her on the piano
is Dr. Thomas Warburton, professor
of music at UNC, who specializes in
20th-century music. The concert is in
the Hill Hall Auditorium at 8 p.m.
tonight, and admission is free.
The performance consists of four
song cycles of American poetry set to
the music of American composers.
The opening cycle is "Song of Ives,''
with the poetry of Longfellow, as well
as poetry and music by Charles Ives.
The second selection is "Twelve Po
ems of Emily Dickinson" set to music
by Aaron Copland.
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his Washington Post. He is a striking
contrast to the younger mall- hoppers in
pursuit of more material matters.
A pair of teenyboppers, with braces
and bubble-gum grins, see a photo
journalist with an elaborate camera.
They wave frantically and beam into
the eye of the camera.
"Noel, Noel" plays over the intercom,
and people with college sweatshirts
University of Virginia, UNC, Duke
mill around with bags in their hands.
Many bags are around already, but not
too many shoppers go into the shops in
the immediate area.
One well-heeled high school couple
and a dad do go into all the shops, as
does a middle-aged couple with match
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ally darting toward the stage to turn an
actor's face into the light.
The actors are clearly enjoying
themselves and the play. Every few
minutes the cast and crew erupt in wild
laughter at some new joke or sexual
innuendo.
Duncan Boothby, a sophomore drama
major who plays the character of
Malvolio, said the play was full of sur
"The simplistic, naive or familiar way
the poet treats poetry is brought together
by Copland's music, enriching it," said
Dr. Warburton. The music has a folklore
quality that accompanies the poems'
humorous and profound qualities.
The second half of the concert opens
with a song cycle and texts from
Thoreau's "Journals," set to music en
titled "From New Songs From Walden,"
by UNC's Roger Haney. The closing
selection features the electronically
amplified music of George Crumb set
to Walt Whitman's " Apparition," pieces
concerned with the significance of life.
"'Apparition is a nice companion to
Dickinson's song cycle," said
Warburton. "Be prepared for so much
more than you see on stage. The music
exploits the piano and voice to the ut
most. They become instruments of many
colors."
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ing rugbys and jeans. In contrast to all
the sauntering groups, a running mother
is dragging her toddler along, until he
suddenly kneels in a dead stop. She
exclaims, "That's where grandma is,"
and leaves him kneeling as she runs off.
Several young women in pairs delib
erate, "Should we go into Victoria's
Secret or Express?" A few groups are
less pleased over the many choices.
One father says despairingly, "In here?
Then, well, go in there. Then I want to
go..." A grandfather sighs exaggeratedly
and asks his teenage granddaughter,
"Where do you want to go?"
Children add to the shopping expe
rience. While a heavily made-up, stiffly
coiffured mom waits for her husband to
come out of Victoria's Secret, her tod
dler daughter prattles on.
"Are we going to wait here? I get to
sit up here. My teacher said stop hitting,
is that good?" she asks. The mother,
readjusting her Caroll Reed bag, nods
distractedly. "You should help some
one, not hurt anybody," the little girl
first production gives new twist to classic comedy
prises.
"Every rehearsal there is another joke,
everything is still so fresh," Boothby
said. "Every night it's different, and it
gets better and better."
Tom Quinn, a junior speech commu
nication and drama major, plays Orsino,
an arrogant man who is more in love
with the idea of love than with love
itself.
instrument. Strumming the piano's
strings in the interior, the music re
ceives the advantages of a stringed
instrument, while tapping its wooden
and metal parts gives it a drumming
effect. By plucking the strings the
music gets a delicate air.
Terry Rhodes is an assistant pro
fessor at UNC, teaching voice and
directing the opera program. From
North Carolina, she has been in Italy,
New York, Rochester and Dallas for a
number of years performing and
teaching. She has performed with the
North Carolina Symphony Chamber
Orchestra and the Udine "Stagione
Concertistica" in Italy. Her theatrical
appearances in 1989 included singing
the role of Zerlina in the Triangle
Music Theatre's production of "Don
Giovanni", and this past March, she
presented her debut recital at Carnegie
Recital Hall in New York City.
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think they 'd let us do that in preschool?"
Her mother says no, and the child turns
around and looks at the greenery above
the benches, saying, "Don't you like
these flowers?" Her mom makes a
noncommittal sound and the girl says,
"They need some water."
She jumps down and tries to put her
saddle-shoed feet on only the colored
blocks. "Know what? I've read sham
poo called 'Flex' all by myself," she
brags. Her dad, an older balding man,
comes out of the lingerie store and stuffs
some more bags in their collection.
Walkie-talkie sounds mingle with
"Joy to the World" coming over the
speakers as people alone and in pairs
mosey along. Parachute pants and
polyester pants mix with cashmere skirt
sweater outfits, suede walking shorts,
suspenders, paisley ties and striped
shirts, emphasizing the wide variety of
shoppers.
Santa Claus is already in the mall,
and the man with a real beard (tested
"The play is about the search for
love," Quinn said. "Everyone in the
play is trying to find love, but all for
different reasons."
Blake has added a new twist to this
classic Shakespearean play; she has set
it in the 1920s.
"She (Blake) has opened up the
script," Quinn said. "Since it is set in the
20s it is totally new, so different things
can be done with it."
Blake, who directed Lab Theatre's
"Savage Love" last semester, said she
set it in the 1920s because this was a
time period full of celebration and gen
der roles. It was a time when women's
liberation was taking hold.
"This play is conscientiously think
ing about how women are portrayed,"
Blake said. "Many plays are sexist by
TV networks want financial interest rules repealed
From Associated Press reports
NEW YORK The big television
networks are using the latest foreign
buyout of a Hollywood studio to bolster
their effort to trash federal rules they
say leave them at a disadvantage in the
global entertainment market.
CBS, ABC and NBC cited Monday's
announcement that Japan's Matsushita
Electric Industrial Co. agreed to buy
U.S. entertainment giant MCA Inc. in a
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many times by tugs) is waited on by
heavily made-up elves past their bloom
of youth. "Merry Christmas! Merry
Christmas!" they exclaim.
Parents ask their shy kids, "Are you
going to go see Santa?" The girl on his
lap, not suffering from shyness, hugs
him spontaneously.
Andrea, a preteen, goes sprawling on
his lap next. "Say, 'I believe, I believe,'"
the helpers say in a facetious tone. She
gets a candy cane after she pulls on his
beard. Her grandmother says, "She can't
believe it's real." Andrea hurries out of
the entrance, saying, "Omigod."
Two janitors meet outside the Santa's
playground, and one complains, "They
open up at eight this morning instead of
nine. It ain't going to close until 10:30.
I get off at 3:30."
Seeing the other janitor seethe jeal
ously, he says, "Smile!"
A young couple comes up with a
picture-perfect five-month-old baby.
The helpers coo, "Aren't you some
default, simply because they don't think
much about it. This play is very much
about women."
Julia Smith, a freshmen English and
French major who plays Viola, agreed
with Blake.
"I think it's a good time because the
20s were a risqu6 period," Smith said.
"This is one of Shakespeare's few plays
where he emphasizes women's roles."
The play in itself is one of
Shakespeare's funnier comedies.
Chock-full of his usual sexual innuen
does, there are also many other surprise
elements.
"There's all these cross-dressing,
cross-sexual attractions going on,"
Smith said.
"It's like a hokey episode of 'Three's
Company,' with mistaken identity and
drunkenness," Boothby said.
companies have an advantage in mar
shaling resources for quality programs.
The deal comes only three weeks
before the Federal Communications
Commission's Dec. 14 hearing on fi
nancial interest and syndication rules.
The 20-year-old "fin-syn" rules
prohibit the three major TV networks
from having financial interests in shows
they don't own and from getting into
the business of selling network programs
in the $3 billion syndication market for
reruns on local TV stations, cable net
works and foreign markets.
The rules have barred the networks
from bidding for production companies,
even as foreign companies have bought
four of the seven biggest U.S. studios,
including three in the past 14 months.
Laurence Tisch, president and chief
executive at CBS Inc., said the MCA
deal "accelerates the dizzying pace of
consolidation in Hollywood.
"This has happened under the finan
cial interest rules that give foreign
owned studios competitive advantages
over the three American networks. There
is no more eloquent testimony for repeal
of these rules than these transactions
and the consolidation they have fos
tered," he said.
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thing? Aren't you precious? You are so
pleasant." Referring to Santa, they as
sure the father, "He's a nice old man."
Among themselves, they say, "Look at
that little baby!"
The pictures with Santa are expen
sive, but when one couple with match
ing Harley Davidson T-shirts brings
their daughter, the elves assure them
that they don't have to get a picture. The
helpers kneel down next to the child.
They ask, "You don't know what you
want for Christmas? You want a
Barbie?" She nods. Her mother asks,
"You want a Porsche?" When she sees
the shocked looks, she adds, "For the
Barbie, I mean."
I he little pin sits on anra s lan ana
nods as he talks to her. He pats her head,
and she' leaves with the most open,
happy smile.
In the background a familiar song
plays for the first time this morning:
"Although it's been said, many times,
many ways, Merry Christmas to you."
Blake emphasizes that the outstand
ing feature of this play is its beauty and
accessibility to the student. With each
character you see the beauty and humil
ity. There is something special about
each character, something that teaches
us. If you have ever read a play, you
know that seeing it brought to life
through acting adds a higher quality to
its meaning, Blake said. And that is why'
this production of "Twelfth Night"
promises to be rewarding for all those
who attend.
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" will
be performed at 8 p.m. on Nov. 29, 30
and Dec. 1, 2 and at 2 p.m. on Dec. 2 in
the Cabaret of the Student Union. Ad
mission is $3 for students and $5 for the
public. Tickets are available through
the Union Box Office.
tember 1989 and Italy's Pathe Commu
nications Corp. recently completed a
buyout of MGM-UA Communications
Inc. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.,.
based in Australia, has owned 20th
Century Fox Corp. since 1985.
There was some indication that policy
makers in Washington are hearing the
networks' complaints.
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the debate."
Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., chair
man of the House Energy and Commerce
Committee which oversees the FCC
and telecommunications policy, said his
committee would be interested in the
results of the FCC examination of the.
rules.
"Our regulatory system should not
protect foreign-owned companies at the
expense of American enterprise," he
said.
Hollywood studios and producers
support the rules because they fear the
networks as "gatekeepers of the air
waves" would have ton much nnwer if
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not," said Jerry Leider, chairman of a"J
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