Thursday January 17, 1374 Peter Hardy fl . . J 61 o A . - 5 o Tht Dally Tf tftel '2J -'.: Crr : "rsa Thsstia. Vtlt CSsnsy t ::' - t5 ru-.'s er.In-i'Jcn trr.ssks a tit of c. ' -, I :J il Is s t : Irr.r-lnr'.Iya work r 'J t: 3 f :r 3. 2:21, :ZX C:C3 & 6:43. $2. Ends t ' . Lr.3 t: ;v FricLy end Crturday: ". ' i. "7: . i 3 I "; r ::r cf a r.T-ls Chauvinist . z.7L,'f T j : 1f ;43, 4C3 Ei47, 7 & :,. S2. Cr.'j Cuny, Lata show Frlisyand C "' J Cxn." 11:15. $1.50. '; v . V :::';rr.::s.H FSsa I. Tht r " " :$ c! !s f i.rj try, "V.'j c!:n't havt any c;. si."::, en 3 ;t tfsnl rwssJ any." n'.i 4:::, 7 a C:15. $2. Ends HZ:.:rs::i3 Ac'Jcn." F'.sia 11. Czsr.l-fflction tt;r cf t.v i;hn F. Kennedy esssstlnatSon. ITs :i r::" trrdila tut tfc- wont eftsndtr Ss r vjII Its hssYy-hsnOd hindsight 1. 'c.r. ::o,- :3, 753 & C:15. $2 Ends I: Ferca." PUza 111. Tha sequel to "Z'.f j t'lTry," .t.!ch wss a mssttrpitc ef Ita c:r.r3. Thti fllni, hewevsr, li a pretentious rs s pUet Cf Junk. 2:23, 4:50, 7:10 & 9:33. Z2. Zr. 1 $ Wdnesdy, Jan. 23. "kin tha Territla, Part II." Chspst HSil Film Frisnds. Tha conclusion f tha Sergsl CUtntU!n iRsznlf.cent tplc. Music by Frc:x:s. Fr!f i C:CD, Etturdsy et 11:33 In Czrrc.S f-X.Sa aS3 "Cush a Ccrctcui Kldl Llka Ma." Alternative Cinema. Frencc'.s Truffaut's black comedy ctsut a fsm&!a iurCartr. Good rtvlews from t:a fliw Ycrk cf.Urs. Friday et 7, Ssturday at 2, 4:23, 7 a :S3. $1.53. Frta Flizks: Frldsy, "The Gold Rush." Fcrf.r-s tha crsstzst Chaplin f'.Sm set In tha :ys cf tha KSor,i:ka Csld Rush. Saturday, "Thi CIrla." This Cv.ad!sh Import dsala with St:;s2si cn a tour cf "LvsSstrsta" who Z?zZ:iz"y Czzsmr tht play working In thslr partcncl lives. Sunday, ' "Repulsion." Ccnfus-td by her faallnsa for man, a clrl Is C f. izn to tha brink cf Insanity by her fears and f:r.i.is:3s. All flicks ct 6:23 & 9 In the Great Ht'.l. Thostro Jshsnn Etrausa'a "Dia Fledarmaua." UNC Cpera Th.:-rs. CIractad by UNC music prefssssr, Or. V."."cn lessen. Friday and CztiTizy t 8 In rsmcHal HsII. Tickets, $2, era now cn es!a et tha music department In i;::i l';:i end will ba available at the door chsrt'y t store tha performance. Woody A"sn's "Flay It Again, Sam." New Thtre, Dufhsrn. Friday and Saturday at 8. Fcrrc::rr" zr. cell 223-341 4. Tickets, $1 .50, ers t'.io tvz'Azi'.i et tha door. Auditions for Laboratory Theatre's production of "Confsasiona cf a Femaia Disorder" by Susan teller will be held 13 Saturday In Graham .'amoiiai Loun;a. Scripl la from tha Eu;ne O'NsHI Foundation. Us. f.".:"3r w"I direct The tAusle Llan." VKaga Dinner Theatre, Ralalgh. Difet at 7, curtain et 8:33. Call 727 7771 for reservations. r,";ht!y except Monday. "Romeo and Ju'.Ist." Performed by the Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare Company. Today et 2 and 8 In Stewart Theatre, Rslalsh. Concerts Stafford Wing, tenor, accompanied by pianist Thomas Varburnton. The Durham Chamber Arts Society. Saturday at 8:15 In East Duke Music Room. SSngla admissions at the door. John Hammond, blues ertlsL Today -through Saturday at 7:20 & 10:33 at the Pier, popular listening room, Cameron Village Subway, Raleigh. Tha Earl Scrubs Revue. Friday at 8 in Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. Performance by tha H"!mi Garrard Dance Company Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 22 & 23, at 8 In Stewart Theatre, Raleigh. Features mixed media, pure dance movements and a computerized lighting system. Tickets available from the Stewart Theatre Box Office, 737-31 C5. nightlife Town Hall. Tonight, Rockfish. Friday & Saturday, Heather. Music at 9. Cat's Cradle. Tonight, Arrogance. Flrday & Saturday, Miles Ahead, a Jazz group. Radio WDBS, 107.1 FM stereo. 10 em. to 1 p.m.: "Daily Concert"; J olivet, lozart, Dellbes, Falla, Chopin, Pachelbsl. 6 p.m. "Crosswords"; The Greet Atlantic Radio Conspiracy," group marriage Is tonlghfa subject. 6:30 p.m.: "Spotlight"; "Full House," by Fairport Convention. Midnight: Album track, "Cstta Midler," by Batta Midler. WDNC, 620 AUI and 1C5.1 FM. CCS Radio Mystery Theatre: "You Can Die Again," starring Richard Mulligan and Marian Seldas, with E.G. Marshall as host Successful, but unhappy, a man tries to relive his Ufa in a different way with tragic results. Tonight at 11:07. s a r o a o o r: 5 Art Early Ingres drawings on loan from the Baltimore Art Museum. Ackland Art Museum smell gallery. Claude Lorraln drawings on loan from Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art, main gallery. Through Sunday, Jan. 27. Preview showings of Paul A. Clifford Pre Columbian Art Collection. Duke University Museum of Art 9-5 Tuesday through Friday, 2-5 Saturday and Sunday. Through Thursday, Jan. 31. Paintings and sculptures by 7 .UNC graduate students on display through January at the Wesley Foundation, 214 Pittsboro St. .1 FOOD R U M SOG U ITAR SOB AND IN STRUM EN H Jcnmrv sslss rsmindsr: There will be the usual clearances, but don't expsct bargains to be as good as in previous years. With shortages a problem, merchants don't move fast to cut prices these days. If you do spot a good buy in something you'll be needing, better grab it. All signs point to higher price tags for just about everything by summer and fall. -Changing Times Thsrt is still a world left that cares: . Tl a Loom Press. SCO West Rossnmry Street, Chapel Hill. ' j All your communication and printing needs. o Q C 3 I'Jd'vo thrown caution out tho window! nnrxnnn ! r r- b il U 1 ill 11 J X. tut -mu P TO a 73 li. 7 (OUH ALREADY LOW PRICES) q-OYHD'S CHOP. CEfJTER-CAnOOOnq LIOfJOAY-FEllDAY 10-9 SATURDAY 10-6 PUBLIC WELCOME DOII'T MISS OU.1 f "? 1 A p " " "i f n STARTS THUKS.. JAN. 17 CU3 FSICES AtS ALREADY LOW CUT VS AES RZSUCING THEM 25-60 CN VAST CUANTIT1IS C? kZZCUMi2l$2 REMEMBER ... YC'J SAV3 FACTOO OUTLE"S I have seen few films in my life that have such an interesting effect on audiences as Executive Action. It connects with the half-buried memories of an entire national conciousness with frightening and disconcerting results. It is unfortunate that so remarkable a film could hot be a really good one; still, it is totally engrossing. The film's stated purpose is to show how the assassination of President Kennedy 10 years ago could have been the doings of a conspiracy instead of the work of a single crazed gunman. Already the makers of the film are on shaky ground is it possible to turn such a serious subject into a mere thriller? If they wanted to suggest an explanation for the many loose ends of the official investigation, why not make a documentary? But would that have done any good? Would very many movie-goers have been interested in a factual film full of ballistic reports and witnesses testimonies? . If Edward Lewis, the producer and Mark Lane, who provided the story, wanted to shock their audiences into thinking about a subject that they obviously don't care to think about, they made the right decision. People who have half-listened to conspiracy stories for years, but never bothered to look into the subject, may very well be forced to face the issue when they see this film. The movie uses a combination of old footage of Kennedy during the last month before his death, including his trip to Dallas, and newly filmed action dealing with the work of the conspirators. When people first come into the theater. I don't think they are expecting much after all, it's only a movie. But I had the feeling ths.t a kind of shock crept slowly over them as the film moved on. It's astonishing to see history rewritten, as it were, and by the time the title "November 22" came over the screen it seemed impossible that they were actually going to do it. The use of old footage of the assassination, employed masterfully here, envokes memories since most of us have seen the film before. The most stunning thing about the film is that it is so completely believable. In 1S63, most Americans would have balked at the idea cf a conspiracy that sort of thing doesn't happen here and indeed the conspirators in the film say that they are counting on that. But now in 1973 we've seen some of the dark possibilities that American society is capable of allowing. With a government so entangled that nobody knows what anybody else is doing, it's easy to believe that such a thing could have happened. The content of the film is extremely didactic, to the point where some of the dialogue is obviously put in for the sole purpose of reeling off facts for the benefit of the audience. I for one was not bothered by this because I found the material fascinating. Incidentally, a little reading will show that most of the film is based upon recorded facts, such as the two men who identify themselves as Secret Service men to the police even though the Service later stated that they had no agents in the area. When things like this came .JmlR '.'l? rO Acrossfrom W o 5 oy'ua::i. StB0utfo iVdaUCDNIfinl OrWldOS1Vi.N3HOSOrNVGONOl! up nut ighty by Mark Dearmon Feature Writer May 10, 1929: Prohibition is still in full swing. The Depression is five months away. Hitler is still unknown to the world. And scandal hits the UNC campus. The source of the scandal is the Yellow Journal, a newspaper published three times a year by Sigma Upsilon, a campus literary fraternity. The first issue was published in 1924. In previous issues, the members of Sigma Upsilon were content to poke fun at some prominent members of the UNC community. Some comments as "Archie Patterson had his er-er-a adenoids removed week before last" and "Ikey Bellamy wishes to announce that he will spend next week end in Raleigh, uh, uh, as usual" filled the six page publication. Copies of the last Journal were sold on May 10, 1929, during the UNC-Virginia baseball game on campus. Members of Sigma Upsilon could be seen hawking the bright yellow, tabloid-sized papers in the stadium. - Little did the Journal staff realize the extent of their clairvoyant powers when they printed "Extinct After This Issue" as one of the headings. Headlines such as "Enraged Spouse Finds Local Poet in Love Nest" disturbed many University officials, putting the campus up in arms. Walter Spearman, 1929 Daily Tar Heel editor and well-known campus leader (now UNC journalism professor), was the target of some of the "Hayshaker" exaggerations: "Walter Spearman tried to thrust himself, unasked and unwelcomed (as usual) before the public eye. Spearman refused to write any more editorials until it was mmym... lUMMMJJJUW .IHHIXIIUJlMfcW ! Wck-Jl It MMJ.JtMfc-IMMUl 9 XgHSRPS WE VJHO KKCSfS . . . I'M CM UY WAY TO SEE WE LITTLE FiiQfsSSQil OPEN DAILY 9:30-6:00 University Square 1 43 West Franklin DOWNTOWN CHAPEL HILL FRIDAY Til 9:00 SUNDAY 1 1 :00-4:00 I Yaek Photographer will be here an. 9-5 MWF 9-9 TTh Appointment sheets available in Suite D Union up in the film, I would hear people turn to their companions and ask, "Did that really happen?" For the most part they did. 1 was particularly struck by the sudden breakdown of telephones in Washington at the time of the assassination, the incredible shoddiness of the Dallas department's investigation and the film showing Kennedy being thrown backwards by a bullet that supposedly hit him from behind. In fact, if there is anything unbelievable about the film it is that anyone could ever have been convinced of Oswald's guilt. Of course, it's easy to look back and say this now. Executive Ac tion should not be taken as the truth by anyone, though hopefully it might lead people to look into the evidence more closely and decide for themselves. The movie has lots of artistic problems. David Miller's direction of the new sequences is uninspired, as is the playing of many of the principles. The editors have done a fine job mixing old and new footage, but the effect they create is damaged by the poor, unrealistic photography used in the new sequences. It's as if the subject matter is so intrinsically interesting that nobody could botch it up. So, I can understand those people who call it a bad movie, even though I wouldn't go so far as to call it that. My reaction to it was subjective, as will be the reactions of most people who see it, I suspect. But whatever it is, Executive Action is well worth seeing and will probably be of greater interest to people than many better movies. no si a Igia officially recognized that he is the only man ever to be in line for three major campus offices." In spring 1928, Spearman had the choice of running for editor of the Tar Heel. president of the YMCA or editor of the Yackety Yack. Another article in the Journal that got much attention was "Fountain Pen Girls Filled With Gratitude," the tale of two enterprising young girls who sold fountain pens in front of a local store. The story implied that the girls were selling more than fountain pens. "Their success was little less than astounding! Many of their customers have since said that they received complete satisfaction." The Journal also made other sexual innuendos: "George E suddenly got his water cut off at the hen house after several of the girls found out that his intentions were purely physical." Then, on May 11, 19 students were called before the student council and suspended for their association with the Journal. During the next week, 1 1 of the accused were reinstated. The remaining eight were suspended for the rest of the semester. Among the suspended students were Glenn Holder, editor-elect of the Daily Tar Heel, and John Mebane, editor of the campus literary magazine. In the May 1 4 issue of the DTH, letters of apology appeared on the front page from Mebane, and Holder. J . ;M , Holder wrote: "To the Student Body of the University of North Carolina; "I have offended the students and faculty of the University in certain respects, and I accept full responsibility. "The Yellow Journal was assembled hastily and without consideration of the importance of several articles, which never should have been published under any conditions, even in a Yellow Journal. "I am heartily ashamed of my connection with it." Earlier in the year, members of Sigma Upsilon were warned not to print scandalous material in their Journal. The flagrant disobeying of this order made the consequences even worse. Spearman was asked to continue as DTH editor for the remainder of the semester as a result of Holder's suspension. In a 1929 editorial, Spearman addressed himself to the problem of the Yellow Journal: "When a serious mistake has been made such as the inclusion of certain stories in the Journal some attempt must be made to correct the mistake, to deal with its perpetrators, and to prevent the recurrence of the same blunder. We trust, however, that it will be remembered that college is, after all, a sort of laboratory in which students are experimenting before going out into the business of living and that 'mistakes even foolish and unpleasant mistakes are not capital crimes. "A mistake has been made. Now let it be remedied as quietly and effectively as possible." In a recent interview, Spearman, now a UNC journalism professor, recalled the Yellow Journal of 1929. He still condemned the Journal attack of some students and the printing of certain scandalous stories. But, he said, "A lot of it was just pure fun. A lot of people were asking for what they got." If a publication of this type were to appear on campus today, he said, it would hardly be noticed. Applications Are Now Available At The Union Desk For Carolina Union Presicien Interviews Will Be Held and Selection Made by the Board of Directors on Thursday, January 24. Special Orders E n S a S e 171 e n t R i n Hours: 10:00 to 5:30 NCN3 Plsza W e d d i n s D a n d 5 g . -' CYRD'S CHOP. CEfiTER-CAnnOORO r.'SOM.-FRI. 10-9 CAT. 10-0 P'x: i!S. i

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