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Hippopotamus
by Karen Reehling
Let's face it the prospect of
returning to school (and the
work that entails) after Spring
break is a let down. Usually we
have all been able to get away to
some place we really wanted to
go, with the best folks doing
some of the best things. And no
matter how much one might
enjoy Guilford, there is a
moment or two of recognizable
depression to be expected
around April 9 & 10.
All is not lost however! On
the night of April 10 The
Greensboro Little Theatre is
sponsoring a Guilford College
night of their production of
"Hippopotamus in the Bath," a
sex comedy at Town Hall in the
Coliseum complex. Curtain time
is 8:15. Student tickets are a
dollar, adults Two.
Their reason for Guilford
College night is twofold. First,
the play was written by Dave
Owens of the Guilford College
News Bureau, and second, the
female ingenue lead will be
played by Susan Meeker, a
Guilford freshman from
Maryland.
The play, to say the least, has
a highly unusual name, but the
plot is one which is familiar and
excellent for dinner theatre
productions, which is what Dave
had in mind while writing it.
Owens had been
entertainment editor of the
Greensboro Daily News, leaving
that job to become a partner in
the Showboat Dinner Theatre in
its early days. "I saw so many
plays then, and so few were
really funny. I mean, just how
many Neil Simon plays can you
kiep putting on?" So with this
in mind, Dave set aside two
years to write a novel, a musical
(performed at the Showboat two
summers ago) and this play.
The plot centers around Sally
Stuart, (Susan Meeker) a young
girl from the South who goes to
New York to make her way in
acting. Once there, she meets and
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WQFS Programs
Despite frenzied reaction
from some members of its
hard-working staff, the radio
station management has boldly
decided to give away some
dormant portions of its album
collection. When WQFS was
established three years ago, some
friends of good music donated a
number of platters for the
station's use. With the
transformation this year of
WQFS into a "progressive rock"
radio station, many of these
became obsolete. So, in order to
prevent some of our announcers
from giving these albums airplay,
we shall now give them away.
is befriended by Bill Greene
(Flip Young) who makes it his
job for the young hopeful to
meet "The people who know the
people" who get them started on
the way up. Bill is a "young
lech" who uses sex as his
negotiating tender (bedroom
audition?). But, never fear, Sally
is under the tuteledge of her
cousin Scott Stuart (Larry
Morgan), but Scott's life is
almost as involved as the soap
opera he stars in. The fun really
starts when Scott's mother Aunt
Em (Doris Hansen) who reared
Sally, comes to New York and
exposes sub plots and new
horizons for all.
Others in the cast are Mary
Ramsey as Liz Lawson, and Jack
Catham as Michael Sludge.
Yes it's a simple, even tried
and true, plot, but one which by
its nature and the playwrites
talents almost guarantees a night
of good laughs. It is sex comedy,
designed to amuse.
Dave feels very lucky about
getting this show put together.
Owens is very grateful to
Maynard French, director of the
Little Theatre, for helping
"tighten up" the production.
The cast, Owens feels, is "simply
superb," especially for a
community theatre. "Susan
Meeker just fits the lead
perfectly she is Sally Stuart."
What happens next for Dave
if the play is a success? He'll put
it up to dinner theatre producer.
He has already received great
encouragement from people in
the theatre who should know
about such things.
The play will run April 6, 7,
and 8, with an 8:15 curtain, at
the Greensboro Town Hall. The
regular ticket price will be $1.50
for students and $2.50 for
adults. Guilford College night,
on the tenth, is a regular bargain
for a fun night out.
Tickets are available on
campus from Ted Edgerton, 226
Milner, 299-9883.
Come one, come ail, Sunday
afternoon from 1 to 5 p.m. (to
WQFS) and pick up a few free
discs.
Despite momentous effort
(on the part of the staff) to
build up its album collection,
there are still some records in
the modern rock genre that we
would like to obtain. If you have
any that you would either like
to donate to WQFS in
appreciation of the fine job it
has done this year, or sell to us,
come down to the station
anytime and talk to whoever is
there, or you could call,
294-0706.
THE GUILFORDIAN
Cream of the Crop
Steve Miller is Back
by Thom Rednour
Steve Miller Band /Recall The
Beginning ... A Journey From
Eden (Capitol SMAS-11022)
Savoy Brown /Hellhound Train
(Parrot XPAS 71052)
Jesse 'Ed' Davis /Ululu (Atco SD
33-382)
Live Cream Volume ///Atco SD
7005)
It's springtime and 'tis the
season for the older artists to
release their spring-summer
material that we've waited all
winter long for. Three of these
albums are by well-known
oldies, one by an unknown
oldie. Jesse Davis has been
playing with just about
everybody for the last year or
so, after splitting from Taj
Mahal, with whom he played
for three or so years, includ
ing Leon Russell. This is his
second solo album, the first
being a very hot little number
that people are finally picking
up on. He had lots of "friends"
help him out on that, and on
this he benefits from the services
of Leon, Dr. John, Merry
Clayton and a small host of
other studio musicians.
There is much more to offer
the listener on this than the first.
More slower numbers and some
arrangements of others songs.
Frankly, I wish that he'd stick
with original material, as his
stuff has such a good feel about
it, lyrically as well as musically. He
pussy-foots through Leon's ode
to the Indians, (Jesse is an
American Indian) "Alcatraz"
and stumbles thru Merle
Haggard's "White Line Fever"
(We won't mention his stirring
version of "Strawberry Wine", a
stupid song to begin with). But
two non-originals fair much
better, one George Harrison
wrote for him at Bangla Desh
Benefit, "Sue Me, Sue You
Blues" (on which everything
Friday, March 17
All day: Pick up some garbage and help things be a little greener.
8:00 - LIVE LIKE PIGS produced by the Revelers - Dana
8:30 FILM ODYSSEY "Intimate Lighting"
Czechoslovakia, 1965. Ivan Passers gentle gem of the flowering
Czech cinema of the early '6o's tells the story of a musician from a
big city who returns to I his home town to give a concert. PBS-TV
90 minutes.
Saturday, March 18
8 :00 - LIVE LIKE PIGS - Dana
Monday, March 20
8:00 Keith McClelland, Wind Ensemble Union Lounge
Thursday, March 23
Last day for finishing up courses still incomplete from last
semester.
Saturday, March 25
8:00 IKE AND TINA TURNER with the Ikettes University
of Virginia tickets $3.50 advance, $4.00 at door.
clicks) and the old traditional
favorite, "Oh! Susannah." Of his
other songs, "Red Dirt Boogie,
Brother," "Ululu" and "My
Captain" are the best.
Incorporating a gravely voice
and stinging guitar and a fine
back-up band make this album a
nice progression from his last,
and I'll be awaiting his next
effort."
Why can't producers and
record execs leave sleeping dogs
lie? (This month sees the release
of two works by a defunct group
and an unfortunately dead
guitarist.) Live Cream Volume II
is trash. It was recorded at one
of the Cream's final concerts,
probably the one at Madison
Round Garden (It's such a
wonderful place for a concert!)
and it sounds like it. By that
time Clapton, Bruce and Baker
were getting a little tired of
playing the same old stuff, and
getting very tired of the group.
But they played anyway. The
last Cream album, Live Cream,
was excellent in the fact that it
was recorded somewhere in
between Fresh Cream and
Disraeli Gears, at a point when
they really were a hard-working
band. Everybody played with a
passion and the numbers they
did all excellent. They were
playing. This one they aren't.
They just get up and slop their
way thru "the standards, what
we all came down to hear."
Mediocre versions of "White
Room," "Sunshine Of Your
Love," a horrible ditty
"Politician" (worse than the
other live version of Goodbye),
etc. with the audience eating it
up. They were a great group, lets
leave them that way. (The other,
I'll only mention in passing:
There can't be much left of
Hendrix by now, as Hendrix In
The West shows. God, the poor
man's dead, why can't Reprise
or whoever is responsible for
JOB
female - telephone operator, no
cxper. nec.; 1.M.5., Freeman Bldg.,
near Wesley Long Hospital; full-time
and part-time positions, 5 days/week,
salaried position, to be announced.
Call Mr. Barrett at 299-7079.
FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1972
continually releasing "Another
Glorious Posthumous Work By
..leave Jimi alone? I'm sure
he doesn't want any more of this
shit released. Oh, shit that's
life (and death).
The last two bands being
mentioned today have both gone
thru numerous personnel
changes. Savoy Brown started
with Kim Simmonds, an
incredible English guitarist, who
is the last remaining original
member. For about three albums
they were great, when Chris
Youlden handled the vocals,
then he split and the others
continued, with Lonesome Dave
singing. All of a sudden, Street
Comer Talking appeared with a
completely new back-up and
lead vocalist. It took a while, but
that album, too turned out to be
tairly good. Now, we continue
with this new band (Andy
Silvester, bass; Dave Bidwell,
drums; Paul Raymond,
keyboards; Dave Walker, vocals;
and of course, Kim) in a new,
very good album, Hellhound
Train. The band has tightened
up even more, fusing rock, blues
and gospel into a form of boogie
that remains undefinable. A few
out-right rockers, "Doin' Fine,"
"I'll Make Everything Alright"
and "If 1 Could See An End," a
real gospelly number, "Troubled
By These Days and Nights," and
a nine minute conglomerate of
all styles in the title track,
"Hellhound Train." I must also
mention the simply outrageous
art work of David Anstey, who
has done magnificent cover work
for the last few SB albums, the
best being for Blue Matter.
Another great album by one of
England's oldest blues & boogie
bands.
The Steve Miller Band has
been thru many changes from its
original line-up, too. First Boz
Scaggs left, then Tim Davis and
finally Lonnie Turner. That
working combination (along
with Ben Sidran and Jim
Peterson) produced some of the
classics we have today, Sailor,
Children Of The Future, Brave
New World and Your Saving
Grace. Two completely wasted
efforts followed after those,
Number 5 and Rock Loves,
(both do have a coupla goodies
on them, but on the whole
nothing). Now Steve's back,
with yet a different line-up,
including the aforementioned
Jesse Davis (on "Heal Your
Heart"). The material, all
written by Miller (and the album
completed on the full eclipse of
the moon, Jan. 29, 1972) is
miles above the stuff on the last
two, it even comes close to being
damn great stuff. I haven't had a
chance to listen to it in its
entirity, so I won't pass any
concrete judgments on, except
that this album sounds worth
the price, and I'm listening to it
now and liking it more and
more. The age old question has
been answered, that being "Will
Steve Miller ever again be as
good as he was?" The answer, a
hesitant, but firm "YES."