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Grassroots Music Returns:
Union Grove Convention
By TIM CAREW
Special to The Daily Tar Heel
If you enjoy bluegrass and
old time country music, the
Old Time Fiddler's Convention
is a must.
Held annually on the Friday
and Saturday before Easter
since 1924, the Convention will
be once more at Union Grove,
N.C., for the benefit of the
Union Grove School.
This quaint little town, 45
miles west of Winston-Salem,
will host thousands of music
lovers from all over the coun
try. "The atmosphere is unique,"
said Hank VanHoy, UNC
freshman and grandson of the
program director J. Pierce
VanHoy. "You go back in time
with the old time music some
dating back to the
Mayflower."
The convention consists of
informal picking, square dan
cing, skydiving exhibitions, and
the World Championship Old
Time Tiddler's competition'. In
19G6, 127 bands representino
some thirty states played to
an audience of 8,500 during
the two day event.
Contestants range from 6
year-old banjo pickers to 80
year-old fiddlers.
The best part of all is the
friendly, festive atmosphere.
Visitors may enjoy the formal
competition or the informal
gatherings around the
campfires at night.
The Union Grove School
grounds are available for
campers. For those who wish
hotel accomodations,
Statesville is only 20 miles
to the north. College students
will be interested in the
"western" hotel in Love
Valley, 11 miles away, a
western town to be used by
20th Century Fox for a film
this summer.
The Convention awards
trophies and ribbons as -11
as cash prizes to the com
petition winners. Fifty percent
of the net gate receipts are
divide equally between the
musicians and the Union Grove
chool.
Additional information may
be obtained from J. Pierce
VanHoy, Program Director,
Union Grove, N.C., 28689.
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Oscars Presented Tonight
The Academy Awards will be televised tonight on channel
5 at 10 p.m.
The presentation was postponed from
of Mondav night due to the funeral of
King.
Gregory Peck, president of the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences, announced the two-day postponement at
the request of several Negro entertainers.
Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr. and Louis Armstrong
were to appear as presenters and performers of that Best
.Song nominees.,, They ...said they f would not appear if, .the .
. . presentation was held as scheduled on Monday night. . .
Reception Opens Artist's Show
A reception for Robert show of his recent work which
Barnard, Associate Professor will run through May 4th.
of Art at The University of A native of England, Mr.
North Carolina at Chapel Hill Barnard was educated at The
will be held on Wednesday Northampton School of Art,
afternoon, April 10 from 5-7 Leicester College of Art,
p.m. at The Art Gallery of Burderop College, Bristol
Chapel Hill, 113 W. Franklin University and The Universi-
St. This will open a one-man ty of North Carolina.
By JOE SANDERS
of The Daily Tar Heel StajJ
IN COLD BLOOD, oj
Truman Capote. Adapted &y
Richard Brooks. Starring
Robert Blake, Scott Wflson and
John Foystythe. Columbia Pic
tures. Carolina theater.
A bus pulls into the Kansas
City, Mo., bus station and a
short, stocky man climbs i on
carrying two boxes and a
guitar. His greasy black nan
grows down in back almost
lo the high collar of his black
He is Perry Smith, on parole develop,
after serving time in tne
Kansas penitentary. He is
about to jump parole and
murder a family of four in x:
Holcomb, Kansas. , x-
With him will be Richard
Hickock, a con-man who goes ::
on sprees of passing bad ::::
cheeks. Alone, neither man is ::x:::::v
capable of murdering the four
Clutters. Together, they form
a third personality that kills
In Cold Blood.
In Cold Blood is the title
of the movie taken from
Truman Capote's book by the
same title. It follows the book
to almost the last syllable of
its detailed description. Like
the real murder and trial in
Kansas eight years ago, the
movie leaves no final answers,
paints no true heroes and
villans, offers no sense of
perspective.
Sure, Perry Smith (Robert
Blake) and Richard Hickock;
(Scott Wilson) are a pair of
low-grade greasers. Sure, the
Clutters are the storybook :
American family, just as they
were in real life. Sure, the
two are guilty and they are
open to the death penalty.
But the events after the
murder show things to be more
complex than that.
Through skillful editing and
pacing,, the film develops in
pieces that fit together in the
end. Perry and Dick join up
in Kansas City and travel the
400 miles to Holcomb before
dark. They believe that Mr.
Clutter, a well-to-do farmer,
has $40,000 in a safe on his
farm ... They plan to leave no
witnesses when they head for
Mexico. V
Perry has trouble
distinguishing between reality
and fantasy. He imagines
himself a singer in Las Vegas
and a skin diver looking for
gold in Mexico. His violent
youth in a broken home has
stunted his emotional growth.
He murders all four Clutters,
but he doesn't know he has
until it' is' all' over 'and Ms
head clears;-
But when Perry and Dick's
car pulls up to the - Clutter
farm, the scene fades. The
murder itself is not shown until
the film is nearly over, when
Perry tells detective Alvin
Dewey (John Forsythe) about
it.
Instead, the film shows the
neighbors finding the bodies
of the Clutters the next morn
ing. The investigation begins
as the two murderers head
into Mexico.
They were smart. They left
only one clue at the scene
of the murder. No shotgun
shells, no finger prints, no
witnesses. Just one boot print
in blood testifies that ihe
murderer was a man. And
even then how many men?
Dick passes a bundle of bad
checks as he and Perry travel
toward Mexico. He is leaving
his children behind. He ana
Perry have established a
Platonic relationship but the
homosexual undercurrents of
a father-son relationshio
Las Vegas where they are
picked up. Perry's boot
matches the print left at the
Clutters and Dick confesses.
They are tried, found guilty,
and sentenced to death in
November. The next April they
hang.
But the senselessness of the
murder and the sentence re
main at the finish. "I thought
Mr. Clutter was a very nice
man," Perry tells a minister.
"I thought so right up to the
minute I cut his throat."
To be declared criminally
insane, Dick and Perry would
to
of
the
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Perry, whose father
olternafed 1 o v i ng with
beatings, whose mother died
drunk, sees Dick as a father.
He became enraged ' when,
back at the Clutter farm, Dick
had led them to no safe and
have to be unable to tell right
from wrong. Clearly, however,
they are mentally disturbed.
"If I had just told you I
wasn't ready for parole," Per
ry says, "I
could have gotten
I wasn't ready
help. I knew
no money. When he reanzed for parole."
that Dick had failed him, Per- "Why didn't
ry reiivod nis last moment minister asks.
with nis father, when his "Well, then I wouldn't have
father had pointed a shotsun gotten my parole, would I?"
you?" the
at him and tried to kill him
In a maniacal rage, Perty
took the gun and shot the
family. The murder was not
at all VIN COLD BLOOD."
But Dick and Perry's honey
moon ends and they hitchhike
back into the U.S. without a
dollar between them. They
steal and con their way to
Handcuffed and harnessed.
Perry faces the scaffold and
the noose. His - heartbeat is
speeding up as those around
him remain calm.
"I feel like I should
apoiogize; but to who?" He
drops through the trap door
and slowly dangles at. the end
of the rope.
A detective muses, "More
laws will be passed, more let
ters will be written. Everyone
will pass the buck. And next
week, next month. . ."
Despite this last com
mentnrj against capital
punishment, the movie does
not leave the path cf ob
jectify. The senselessness cf
capital punishment is pointed
out as a balance
senselessness
murders.
The result of this balence
is a confusion of emotion for
the iewer. Perry and D"ck
are psychopaths. They shew
all the baseness and
repugnance of overgrown
hooos. The Clutters were all
that American families saauld
be. What evaluation can the
viewer make when innocent
people are killed by two men
who are not accountable for
their actions?
Richard Brooks gives the
viewer no help in making up
his mind. Each actor plays
his role from his own point
of view. John Forsythe plays
an honest detective who is
neither hard-nosed nor a super
good guy. Robert Blake
perfectly portrays Perry as
an intelligent man who cannot
control his hostility toward his
father. Scott Wilson easily
makes the transitioi from
Dick's bravado to a scene
revealing his sexual in
security. The emotional impact cf the
film is greatest at the end,
when the viewer has no pat
answers for the questions pes-
ed ly the film. Two men who
killed "in cold blood" are ex
ecuted by society "in coid
blood."
But the viewer, sitting in
the safety cf his theater scat,
fttls that somehow he is clim
bing that last set of steps
with Perry. He feels that he,
tco, will be hanged.
He feels that Perry is
curable until the trap door
opens und the body falls and
the image fades into darkness
all around-
Calendar
SEARCH FOR ULYSSES, CBS
Special, to be shown by
Cosmopolitan Club in Chase
Cafeteria, following supper
at 6 p.m. Film traces
wanderings of the Odyssey.
All South Campus students
invited.
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by George Hitchcock, editor
of Kyack, Long Beach,
Calif.
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