Thursday, February 23, 1S74 Peter Hardy CT"Z3 Th Dg!y Tar Yi$V CP V.:rlr:n CrtT.TJ." Csrs"na Theatre. A r' r t: c" c tlii:,3:::ac! trsr.sssrsadscaclatso.lt't -":t;sd rscs!-!;!a end cf'an combe! I, but j slz.'.j Is esct"snt, end it has feen 3 v:.h a t2zu.::u! fsw fey th te!enttd rr? Luri s. Cvirrrtad. tuts.J vary good. 4 1 Z'AZ. S.w, 7tZ2 a 9. $2. Ers tay. Li i i ,;v.-: Fi :y end Saturday, Tha Other." C Z::V A'J thaws tt 11:1S. S1.S3. 5 .'.y V.3 Wsrs." Varsity Thtstr. C'2, 7, C:;:r,L"T tttsirt fit m c!d-friMcnsd I : . a i .:ry. Tibs tt;r cr.!y cccst!oRXl!y haw I ' . a r, : : t : 3 p-srscns'Iiy, end th cZseutslan of tr. I : : -j : s Is Intny ttupld. 1, 3, 5, 7 & 9. C ZzTuziCzy hlzvch S. Lsta show: "Catch LLn f end Csturt&yjit 11j1S. $1.50. ' "Th3 Ls.it American Karo." Plaza I. Story of rzz'.r.z driver Junior Johnson. Has lots of talk ct-sut InMinzl'.tm and such, but not much rail ccnv'.ct'on. Dtr.n'.ta'y a "D" picture. 3, 5, 7 & C. $2. Cn-a tsday. "Cummsr Run." Piaza II. Fi!m by a Ralslsh ruilvt wen ewerefs at various festivals. 3, 5, 7 & "Cr.a Russian Summer." Plaza III A- real terfcsy. 2:3, 4:S3, 7:C5 9:15. $2. Ends tc ry. Corr.lr.j soon: The Exorcist." Ch-psl irtS Film FrisniKTha Lady Ki'.Ser of Rome." (ttsly, 1S31). A ' philosophical corn frdy-mystsry directed fjy EISo Petri, maker of "Investigation of a Citizen Above C-:;!cicn." Ctsrring Hsrcello Mastroiannl. Cr!-:.-.-l ill's: "L'AsftassIno." English-dubbed. Friday ct 9:33. Saturday et 11:30 In Carroil i'i.'A. Amission $1-3. .. - A!srnstlvi arsema: "A King In New York. Chi-Hn's last starring feature. It's hot one of his great Cms, but there are enough funny and beautiful moments in It to remind one of his tafsnts. Certainly not as PauSine Kael calls it "en incomparable dog." Friday at 7. Saturday at 2, 4:33, 7 & 9:33 in Carroll Hall. $1X3. Thare vA'A be no Charlie Chaplin Film Series this Vrtk. Free Ricks: Friday, "Mutiny on the Bounty." The Clzrk Gable version. Pretty vulgarized for the mass audience, but Charles Laughton as is reslly terrific. Saturday, "Doctor Zh.ivs -3." David Lean's epic from the Russian -novel. Manages to be both cold and vulgar. 'Awfui. Sunday, "Cells ds Jour." Luis Bunuel's coc'sst, msst bczvtliul end greatest VAm. Not to ba r.lss3d. AS! Um et 6:33 & 9 In Great Hall. Latin American Rim Festival: The Green V.'tL" Today at 8 In Dey Hz'A. Admission free. "A W'z'A in Jerussiem." Today at 7:33 Special E n i a S e m e n t R i n g s Jt "a Hours: 10:00 to 5:30 NCNB Plaza Hzto ho is crjein. Still 1 23. Still heavy. Nov vibo thouoh. To whit: Dotty Lou is gstting it on today with Eggplant Tcmpura with Chcoca Sauca, Carrots & Onions. 01.39. 5:30-7:30 at tho DACCHAE. p.m. In CarroSI Ha!J. Admission free. Sponsored by International Student Center. "Steel Helmet" and "They Were Expendable," double feature. Today fit 7 and &45 p.m. In Great Ha!!. Admission free. Sponsored by the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense. "A Question of Torture," a documentary on the police and prison systems in South Vietnam. Tonight at 753 In room 233 Union. Sponsored by Lt Chaps! HI'.I Peace Center end Bread end Roses. A discussion on actions that can be taken on the Issue wt'l follow. The film Is open to a!l. Theatre Laboratory Theatre presents "What the Butier Saw," by Joe Orton. Directed by Sally Bates. Today at 4 and 8 In C3 Graham Memorial. Free tickets available et Lab Theatre Office, Graham Memorial. Auditions for 11 major outdoor drama companies are set for Saturday, March 23 at the Institute of Outdoor Drama, Chapel Hill. Registration deadline is Friday, March 8. For more Information, write Auditions Director, Institute of Outdoor Drama, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514. "South Pacific." VI! lags Dinner Theatre, Raleigh. Buffet et 7, curtain at 8:33. Call 787 7771 for reservations. Nightly -except Monday. The Durham Theatre Guild presents "And , Miss Reardon Drinks a Little," by Paul Zindel. Today through Saturday, February 23, March 1 and 2 and March 7, 8 and 9 at the Aliied Arts Center in Durham. Admission $2. For reservations, cail 882-5519. Auditions for Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare.. Wednesday and Thursday, March 6 and 7 et 7:33 p.m. in Memorial Ha'l. Production dates: Thursday through Saturday, April 18 through 23 in the Pit. Produced by the Laboratory Theatre end the Carolina Union Activities Drama Committee. Parts available for five men end one woman. Circus talent including Jugglers, tumblers and fire swailowers urged to tryout. Nightlife Cat's Cradle. Tonight, Wooden Circus. Friday and Saturday, Red Clay Ramblers. Town Hail. Tonight, Steve Bail Band. Friday and Saturday, Rockfish. The Cave. Friday, Mike Cross. Saturday, Justice St. Band. Music at 9:30. 75 cents cover. Orders W e d d i jn g B a n d s 8 1 d N 4 iS y !S I i I "5 . I 6S simmriimniOE Summer Run manages the tricky feat of being gentle and easy going without becoming weak-kneed; it is never cheap or garish or snide but still never goes soft. This bodes well for its young writer-director, Leon Capetanos, as it is something many older and more experienced film makers have not achieved. For years thousands of American students have been going to Europe for the summer, but this is the first film 1 can think of to deal with that phenomenon. In Summer Run two young friends, Harry and Felix, spend the summer moving around Europe. Nothing much happens, except that Harry falls in love with a girl in Norway. The film could easily have stayed on the level of a travelogue, a series of picture postcards. But Capetanos wisely keeps the focus off traditional landmarks we get the 1. Y iriMisseao 'Wa It ons Be wary of shows about architects. Mr. Ed was about an architect; so is The Brady Bunch. Now there is a new one: Apple's Way, which is a sort of hour-long Brady Bunch, except that it is not supposed to be funny. Apple's Way is a stepchild of The Waltons, and the networks are promising more of the same. Now The Waltons is in most ways an awful show. (A recent New York Times article listed it as one of the shows we cool people do not watch. Others are All In The Family and Kung Fu. We cool people, according to the articles in The Times, do watch Maude, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.) The Waltons is oppressively sentimental. It has about as much to do with the reality of rural life as Amos 'n' Andy had to do with the reality of Negro life. Worst of all, it persistently lauds the talents of a hack .writer named John-Boy, who is a ninth grade English teacher's dream, but nobody else's. (He has a fine future as a porn writer, however; he could have invented the word "tumescence.") 1 Peace Corps ft q Vista ! Former volunteers are asked to leave their name and f o n 41 o I address" in Room 102 at the lj Y. We would like to have a get-together. UJALn)lnJ irtujtgi i , W . k rl thy,, wwmn iyjijKc (6. iiilitJt til! UfrjN r'l I original works of graphic art etchings, lithographs, by leading 20th century artists: Pablo Picasso Johnny Friedlaender Marc Chagall Salvador DalL Alexander Calder Joan Miro Georges Rouault Victor This Sunday, f.!arch HOLIDAY INN of US 15-501 ct Exhibition: 1:00-3:00 All Mew Show by Meridian feeling of the environment of Europe even though we are not left with any particularly striking images. Likewise, the film manages to convey the sense of an experience. We can see how the events of the film are special enough to remain in the characters minds for years afterwards. The free-flowing direction does a nice job of giving us the loose feeling of travel, of places slipping past. Since it is a first film, it is particularly impressive that Capetanos only lets his camera become overly lyrical for a few brief moments in the romantic sequences. The section where Harry and his girl camp by the sea in Greece serves to point out how false the opening scenes of Forty Carats were. Similarly, Capetanos manages to avoid any indulgences in empty visual tricks, Sometimes we have overlapping scenes to . indicate the characters' thoughts, but this is But The Waltons does have its good points. It overcomes the ridiculous idea that one ordinary, non-professional, out-of-the way family can carry a show: the family is so large that the different members can take turns being the guest-star, and anyway, famous actresses, ball-players, etc., are always stumbling upon the Walton farm. And there are a few attractive players, like the utterly implausible, but very good looking parents and the completely untalented, but oddly intriguing, Mary Ellen. (Good taste prevents my telling CBS what "it can do with Richard Thomas.) Apple's Way is set in a fairy tale present, as opposed to Thg Waltons"s fairytale thirties. The Waltons are dirt poor; the Apples I swear 1 am not making this up are ,., :" ,; -zzzn DeWit EUlaps From His Great Atlas of 1680 Nearly three centuries old. Hand colored Only 1 1 maps laft. Regularly $65.00 each While They Last $35.00 each THE OLD BOOK CORNER 137A East Rosemary Street Opposite NCNB Plaza Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514 i : - -irrr: i i i i f Vasarely and others.. 3rd ct 3:00 p.m. CHAPEL HILL E. Frcnklln p.m. F.!odarcte Prices Gsillsry Frea Admission JE: In j ii mm. .. T! used subtly and with discretion. One interesting device was that we never see the American couple which picks up Harry on the road from the front as with Harry, we only remember the backs of their heads. The acting is loose and unaffected, rarely very striking but seldom boring. Dennis Redfield is appropriately spaced out as Felix, and the various girls that appear seem realistic if not very well-founded. Andy Parks as Harry gives the film an engaging center. He has a sensitive, Richard Thomas- like face which might lose its appeal if he ever had to be angry or under stress. A particularly good bit is his phone call to his parents, in which he says little and listens for long periods of time, telling us through his face what he is hearing. Capetanos has a good feel for language and behaviour, and the improvised portions of the film never become as plodding or its s pin-off aw rul relatively wealthy, though they choose to live in an old mill. The Apples drive a big,, beautiful, expensive new car; and rather than a Waltons-style brood, they have a tasteful four children. If you have not seen this show, you probably cannot conceive of such blandness. Admittedly, Ozzie's Girls has a small edge, but I am assuming that nobody watches Ozzie's Girb. The two parents, Mr. and Mrs. Apple, are a pair of actors so unnoticeable that for all their probable exposure, I have jiever seen either one in my life, and I will bet that after Apple's Way runs its course soon, let us pray we will never see either one again. The Apple family used to live in California, see, but life was too phony and plastic there, see, so they move to Apple's Way, the patrilocal homestead in an Iowa lusher and greener than any Iowa I have ever heard about. On the first episode, having run out of cute things for his children to do, Mr. Apple took up the cause of saving a tree planted years ago by an ancestor. The tree YMCA cafe to opee Students who miss the coffee houses of the 1960's will find a bit of consolation at the Crossroads Cafe Friday night. The Cafe, a coffeehouse sponsored by the campus YM YWCA, will open in the lobby of the YMCA building from 8 p.m. until I a.m. I hope the coffeehouse will be a. place where people will feel a sense of community as they listen to the music," Ann Holton, coordinator of the Crossroads Cafe, said. "The bond is the music. All at the same time you're in tune with your friends, with strangers and the performers," she said. Tapestry hangings, candles, red-checked table cloths and ladder-back chairs will decorate the cafe, reminding students of the coffeehouses of their high school and junior high school days. Homemade breads and QOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQ o It CJLijJ li MI iT"X 9.J (1 oy A new kind of meal at Short. It comes to yo as they erve it in England . . . newspaper-wrapped. Big nuggets of golden fish Bin r filets. Crisp french fries. ! wmn bread. And tartar sauce and a lemon wedge to liven up that flavor from km r- J00000000000090CE)000000000000 000000000 iUliltons Winter Frogstraogier Ends Saturday. Last Call to Unrool Buys! Group Sport Costs to $25X0, Mow $25.00 Downtown Only. Croup Famous Mcma Suits to $2C0.C0, r.'av $50X0 -Doth i Cupboards Croup Suits to $125X3, Mow $5X0, Downtown Only Croup Drsss Pents to $20X0, Mow $3X3, Doth Cupbosrds. Downtovm (cili li l : i offensive as the worst moments of such I inprovisory films as John Cassavettes Husbands. However, it's never really as Jstrong as the best moments of Husbands either. It's rarely, or I should say never, extreme in any of its virtues or flaws. The gentleness continues right on through the film, rendering the ending uncertain. Capetanos was a student at UNC (Felix and Harry apparently come from Chapel Hill) and spoke here on campus last week. He said the film was made in Europe on a small budget, and considering the circumstances, he has produced an admirable first effort. If it brings him the kind of success it deserves, he should be able to go on and do something better. Until then. Summer Run remains a pleasant film which isn't likely to stay in your mind for long .unless of course you're one of those people ho left a lover or a friend behind in Europe. ;was to be replaced by a big jnotel, but Apple kept off the woodmen by sitting in the tree. We never really understood whether Apple (1) liked the tree because his ancestor jplanted it; (2) liked trees in general, on (3) hated motels. The motel, unfortunately.' rather simplified the issue: What if the tree was to have been replaced by a much needed hospital? What would Apple have done then? (Incidentally, the tree in question was not an apple tree, something the writers did spare us.) On the second show, Mr. Apple helped a crippled ex-athlete find new meaning through music. He had to overcome the objections of the boy's father, who wanted his son to be an athlete again and thought improbably, that it would do the boy nothing but harm to study music. The father did not know how to show his feelings, but by the end he was crying in front of an auditorium full of people. Such is the provenance of goodness and decency. Such is the provenance of bullshit. cakes, cheeses, bagles, Russian tea and cider will satisfy their more anatomical longings. The YM-YWCA has sponsored a Crossroads Cafe as part of their annual International Handicrafts Bazaar for the last 10 years. From 1968 through 1971, however, additional cafes were held at times other than during the winter bazaar. One purpose of this cafe is to provide an opportunity for local musicians to play publicly, Holton said. 44 At the bazaar, many of the performers seemed really good, but they said it was the first time they had ever played for a crowd," she said. They don't want to go knocking around on doors asking to play." All of the entertainers will be performing for free and there will be no cover charge. BRING THIS COUPON o o Good Thru March 3, 1974 o o o o o $1.14 i m III d There's something good forO everybody you love at O o '0 6 O O O O O o o o o o Grecian the sea. io4 vesi rranxun u tpel Kill, N.C. t t t rn ' a 'University t.'.z'A WAW,WW,W W.'.'.V.W.WTO

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