•Vol. 7, no. li
the university of north Carolina at asheville
Wednesday, march 8, 1972
Satirist David Frye to Appear Here
Brooklyn-born David prye, “
who parlayed political imper- including political
sonations into a reputation as a u- \ ~ '
devastating satirist, will appear at frange from
8 p.m.. Thursday in the Lipinsky ™ President Lyndon Johnson
Student Center Auditorium of the 1“ colummst W.lliam
University of North Carolina at Lr'Tw^flace”
Asheville.
Open to the public, the pro
gram is sponsored by the UNC-A
Student Government Assn.
Advance tickets are on sale at
Gordon Jewelers, Downtown and
Tunnel Road Shopping Center
and the UNC-A Public Informa
tion Office. Adults-$2, Students
-$1.
Frye’s most recent success
has been his album, “Richard
Nixon Superstar,” described as
a superb piece of trenchant
comedy, but the former salesman
for his father’s office-cleaning
firm first scored in the show
business field with an imitation
of the late Sen. Robert Kennedy.
His previous efforts to interest
nightclub managers with a re
pertoire of show-folk imitations
His fans
is LBJ
incarnate as he peers over his
bifocals and drawls,.“I come here
as a simple barefoot boy from
Texas who has become your
king.”
Or as Buckley, “Mayor Daley
is the kind of guy I’d be proud
to call Daddy.”
say Frye
UNC-A Students who have paid an Activity Fee can pick
up their FREE ticket at the Public Inf. Office in The Gym.
Film Series to Show
Double - Feature
The UNC-A Film Society will
present a double-feature of films
by contemporary Black writers
on Wednesday, March 15 at 8:00
p.m. in the Humanities Lecture
Hall.
Melvin Van Peebles’ “Story of
a Three Day Pass” depicts a Black
G.I. on leave in Paris, who picks
up a white shopgirl and learns
the bitter consequences of his
brief romance. On the same bill
is the British film of “Dutchman”
by LeRoi Jones, now known as
Imamu Ameer Baraka. Shirley
Knight stars as a neurotic white
girl who taunts a Black man,
played by Al Freeman, Jr., with
violent results in a New York
subway.
Melvin Van Peebles made
“Story of a Three Day Pass” in
1967 in France because he could
not get financial backing in the
United States. The film is the first
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Carolina Repertory Company
To Make Western Debut
At UNC-A This Friday
The Carolina Repertory Com
pany, a new professional theatre
group based at the Research
Ridgeninner To Cease
Publication in April
The Ridgerunner will cease
operation sometime in April
according to the editor of the
newspaper, Fred Myers. This
may leave UNC-A without a
newspaper, unless there is im
mediate student interest in the
positions of editor, managing
editor and business manager for
the newspaper in the next month.
“Frankly, there simply is no in
terest in this newspaper and we
need students to step forward to
be trained for positions in the
coming year. At present, most of
the writers are seniors, and they’ll
be leaving next year,” Myers
said.
The history of the Ridgerunner
has been largely that of a one-man
operation, and its future is de
finitely in jeopardy if there is no
new blood to continue the opera
tion, according to Myers. “We’ve
spent a considerable amount of
time making arrangements with
the printers and the typesetters
which at this point are fairly
stable. The financial operations
of the paper are in fine shape due
to the hard work of Mike
Meagher, the present Business
Manager, but next year is looking
pretty grim,” he continued.
Mr. Robert Trullinger, the Ad
visor for the newspaper has said
that he wants to guage student
interest in the newspaper and he
is open to applications or stated
interest in the positions for next
year.
' Scholarship aid is paid to the
editor of the newspaper, as well as
a commission of IU% on all ad
sales. The scholarship amounts to
$300.00 a year. The managing
editor receives $200.00 out of the
paper fund for services rendered
and the Business Manager re
ceives a commission of 20% of,
all ad sales.
Policy statements for the paper
which include both the organiza
tional structure for the paper as
well as statements of duties and
responsibilities are available
through Mr. TrulUnger’s office in
the department of» History, or
contact Fred Myers.
Triangle Park, will present the
Western North Carolina premiere
of its first production, “The Won
derful O,” a new musical based on
a story by James Thurber, on
Friday, March 17, at 8:00 p.m. in
Lipinsky Student Center Audi
torium.
Additional performances will
be given Saturday and Sunday,
March 18-19, at 2:30 p.m.
Carolina Repertory Company is*
sponsored in Asheville by Theatre
UNC Asheville and Tanglewood
Children’s Theatre. The group is
directed by John L. Haber, an
Asheville native, who was the
founder of Tanglewood.
“The Wonderful O” is a family
musical about pirates in search
of buried treasure. The pirate
captain hates the letter O because
his mother was once wedged in a
porthole, and when he couldn’t
pull her in, he had to push her
out.
When the treasure is located
on the island of Ooroo, the pirate
captain begins to rob the letter O
from all the words until “cnfusin”
and “chase” reign. The islanders
must use their imaginations to
outwit the pirate and restore
order.
Music and lyrics for “The Won
derful O” are by Ann Sternberg, a
nadve of Asheville, who studied
theatre at Columbia University
and has written musicals for
Off-Broadway. Among her credits
are “Gertrude Stein’s First
Reader,” which was produced at
the Metropolitan Museum of
Modern Art in New York.
John L. Haber, the founding
director of the Carolina Repertory
Company, began his theatrical
career in Asheville with the
Asheville Community Theatre.
He originated the idea for a
children’s theatre group in Ashe
ville which grew into Tanglewood
Children’s Theatre, for which he
directed “Peter Pan,” “Jack and
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Mark Smith and Malcolm Groome are pirates in “The Wonderful O,” a family musical
based on a story by James Thurber, to be presented by the Carolina Repertory Company at
Lipinsky Auditorium, March 17-19. The performances are sponsored by Theatre UNC
Asheville and Tanglewood Children's Theatre of Asheville.