rrpirmsnAY. MARCH 7, 1968
Sid Siegal
Exhibition
Now in Vardell
Works of artist Sidney Sie
gal, assistant professor of art
’st. Andrews College, are
being exhibited here in a one-
man show through March - 31.
Mr. Siegal will show sixty
drawings done in various media
which he painted between 1955
and 1962. During this period
he traveled in Venezuela and
the Caribbean, and in Europe,
Israel, and North Africa.
He has had one-man shows
in Florida, a number of New
York City galleries, and in
Caracas, Venezuela. He is re
presented in the permanent col
lection of the Museuo de Bellas
Artes in Caracas, in the Lowe
Gallery of the University of
Miami, and the Peabody College
Museum in Nashville, Tenn.
Graphic Exhibit
Original graphics in a variety
of media, accompanied by pla
tes, blocks, and other instru
ments employed in their pro
duction will be exhibited by the
Ferdinand Roten Galleries of
Baltimore, Maryland here at St.
Andrews from March 5 to March
25.
The exhibit includes a se
lection of outstanding wood
cuts, lithographs, etchings, and
serigraphs which are, displayed
in combinations with the tools
of their production.
Established in 1932, The
Ferdinand Roten Galleries has
one of the largest collections
of graphic art in the country.
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PAGE THREE
People Who Need People
A year or so ago a best
selling semi-fictional novel
about drug addiction among the
show business people in New
York and Hollywood made a
celebrity of and a fortune for
its author, Jacqueline Susann.
Now, in the form of a full-
scale two-hour soap opera in
DeLuxe Color, Panavision and
all those other cinematic
delights, a rough approximation
of the same story, “Valley of
the Dolls”, Is making a deep
impression upon the minds of
the nation’s moviegoers.
But the director, Mark Rob
son, has attempted to build his
picture on a screenplay by Helen
Deutsch and Dorothy Kingsley
that it is so trite and unrealis
tic as to be more pathetic than
its characters. His cast is
loaded with talent, the show
swings with more music than
Just about any other made during
the last year, and we are given
a fine display of originality
and genius from the art and
photography departments; still
the screenplay looms black and
inferior over the other pro-
cedings which make a noble at
tempt at seducing the audience
into believing that there is noth
ing wrong with the film.
With the exception of Sharon
Tate, who plays an art-fllm
star on the road to legitimate
acting and is at best mediocre,
the performers all demonstrate
a full frequency of emotion
and depth in their portrayals.
Patty Duke Is the young in
genue, Neely O’Hara, an up-
and-coming Broadway star who
becomes so hooked on “dolls”,
or dope capsules, that she must
be committed to a sanitarium.
Barbara Parkins is career girl
Anne Wells, from New England,
who looks for happiness in New
York and becomes deeply in
volved in a highly unplatonic
romance with a confirmed ba
chelor, played by Paul Burke.
The bachelor happens to be a
show-buslness lawyer, and as
such shatters Anne’s illusions
of the entertainment world as
he introduces her to a variety
of less savory personalities.
Helen Lawson (Susan Hayward)
happens to be one of these,
an aging musical comedy star
whose crass and celebrated ego
refuses to have anyone or any
thing cast a shadow on her
glory.
Two of the film’s biggest as
sets are Its photographic di
rector, William H. Daniels, who
knows better than most how to
take full advantage of a camera
and a few colored filters; and
five songs by Oscar-wlnner
Andre Previn and his wife Dory.
The problem with “Dolls”
is that, although it’s pleasing to
the eye, the film has little to
offer the mind. Unintellectual,
yes, but not too bad a way to
kill a few hours; still, if there
happens to be an;^hlng better to
do, do it.
One thing you could do, for
example, would be to continue
on up Main Street until you
reach the house where “You’re
a Big Boy Now” is playing,
and stop in and see the show.
For this one, you see, is far
more worthy of your attention:
it is a comedy, and as original,
off-beat, and downright funny
a comedy as one is apt to find
anywhere.
The big boy Is a nineteen-
year-old named Benard, who
has never smoked, had a drink,
taken dope, gone out with girls—
he’s simply a totally untainted
virgin; and, as we all know,
something must be done about
that. (Don’t argue; take my word
for It. Something’s got to be
done, and this flick knows how
to do it.)
So his understanding father
sends him to live alone in an
apartment. Mamma, of course,
is utterly against such a rash
and immoral act, but no one
listens to her. Well they might
have, though; for as soon as
Bernard is on his own he tries
them all — tobacco, drugs,
alcohol, and women in the form
of one Barbara Darling, a man-
hating actress on whom he de-
velopes a crush.
Amy, an assistant at the li
brary where our hero is em
ployed by his father, comes to
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the rescue, and she and Ber
nard end the picture with a
carefree romp through a pret
zel factory. (Mad the film is,
yes.)
Let us look for just a moment
to the cast, which only hap
pens to be made up of more
people completely out of their
minds than will ever again be
assembled together. Peter
Kastner, seen previously only
in ‘‘Nobody Waved Goodbye”,
is the naive and unsuspecting
Bernard, fascinated by the
world when he is finally con
fronted with its workings. He
is sincere, winning, and won
derfully protrayed as a boy-
next-door type who Is some
how unique from everyone else
you have ever seen.
Geraldine Page is the mildly
hysterical mother, a role for
which she won an Academy
Award nomination. Rip Torn is
the father, meek around his
wife, imposing and powerful
around his son, and in a panic
when caught between the two.
And the landlady In Bernard’s
apartment building. Miss Thing,
who keeps a rooster as bouncer
for the house, is one of the
most memorable roles Julie
Harris has yet filled.
The girls in the story are
played by Elizabeth Hartman
and Karen Black. The former
is the sensual go-go dancer
and actress Barbara, and is
frustratingly real as a super-
fickle weirdo that almost sounds
like a dear, protective female
when she says things to Ber
nard like: “You’re gonna stay
with me from now on!” The
latter is the good girl, a charm
ing brunette, who at times
makes one believe that there
are people in the world who
might be as wonderful as she.
And let us applaud Francis
Ford Coppola (director) and
Andy Laszlo (photographer) for
turning out such an endearing
piece of handiwork. Some of
their sequences — a mantage,
for instance, of Bernard’s
morning ablutions, and a kite
chase through Central Park --
are true high points of Twen
tieth Century cinema.
Thomas MacGlllivray Hum
phrey--New head of Economics
program.
New Economics
Prof to Head
Program Next Fall
Thomas MacGlllivray Hum
phrey will become assistant
professor and chairman of the
economics program at St. An
drews for the 1968-69 academic
year. His appointment was an
nounced this week by Dean
Robert F. Davidson.
Humphrey, a native of Louis
ville, Ky. currently is an In
structor at Tulane University
where he is a candidate for
the Ph. D. degree. He holds
both B.A, and M.A. degrees
from the University of Ten
nessee where he majored in
business administration and fi
nance. He also was a research
assistant for the Bureau of
Business and Economic Re
search at Tennessee. He is a
member of Beta Gamma Sigma,
honorary society for business
administration.
Previously he taught at Wof
ford College, Presbyterian Col
lege and Auburn University. His
fields of interest are inter
national economics, price
theory, macroeconomics, and
welfare economics.
A veteran of two years’ Army
service, Humphrey is married
and the father of three children.
He Is a Presbyterian.
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