FAGS TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1067 - ---_ - - -___-- . _ f AT LYDIA MENDELSSOHN:I Once Upon Soph Show:I Sparkling Bedtime Story' cinema Corman's 'Trip' Seeks New Directions in American Cinema 11 TONIGHT at THE ARK 8:30 P.M. 1421 Hill. Street THE LAURALEI singing English, Scottish, and Appalacion ballads SATURDAY THE WEST AFRICAN GROUP (with Fobi, Solomon, Horocio, Chief Koko, and others) doing typical African music-including the TALKING DRUMS, Xylophone, and Folk music. $1.00 Cover includes entertainment and refreshments! By LARRY GLOVER Soph Show's "Once Upon a Mat- tress" is a vibrant success of fun- filled delight. The production is a captivating blend of technical ex- pertise and joyful zest under the imaginative direction of Elliot Siegel. From the gracefully performed overture and beautiful opening ballet the play moves with an assurance and style of professional quality, The plot (a Sleeping Beauty reversal) comes from the charming genre of pre-pubescent comedy so characteristic of Amer- ica in the fifties. A rowdy princess must prove her authenticity by failure to fall asleep on a twenty story bed (a mattress makers answer to U. Towers) because her sensitivity will be upset by a pea at the bot- tently versatile as singer, dancer, and comedienne. The male chorus is surprisingly good, frequently outshining the female counterparts. One of the ladies in waiting Linda Dewey, comes on like Mae West and is a stand out even in the back- ground. The orchestra, under the direc- tion of Pace Sturdevant, demon- strated their skill by not being overly loud, while constantly pro- viding inventive accompaniement. Choreography, costumes and set all enhanced the production. Creative fluidity and dramatic vitality combine to make a Soph Show that will be a long remem- bered tribute to the class of '70. Such a throughly enjoyable evening makes one wish that there would be more class entertain- ments inorder to fully utilize the diversity and excellence of talent on campus. Bergman's Lighter Side Appreciated by Youth tom. Bonnie Buderus, as Princess Winnifred, exhibites the energy of a theatrical dynamo with a phe- nomenal vocal range and comic facility reminiscent of a pretty Martha Raye. In "Song of Love she fills an already physically full stage with an exuberance that makes the scene entirely her own despite her, fifty capable com- panions. The object of her frenzied court- ship, the Prince Dauntless (Kurt Lauer) is another amazing ex- ample of hyper-presence and ado- lescent awkwardness. The villain mother, Queen Ag- gravain (Lin Kaatz) is superb with perfect timing and complex- lity of rhythm. She looks like the Red Queen from Alice in Wonder- land. She can shift from a Lady Bracknell's elegant bitchiness to become a dancing locomotive in the lively Spanish Panic. Her husband, King Sextimus the Silent (David Tickton) is a lovably leach- erous cross between a super charades player and an ape. The lyrical lovers who comprise the subplot are also excellent. Sir Harry , (Herbert Karpicke) pro- vides perfection of understatement making the most of each situation. His pregnant girlfriend Lady Lar- ken (Cathy Cole) has a beautiful soprano voice and, when she warms up, performs with graceful humor. There are two minor disappoint- ments in suporting parts. The Minstrel (Paul Balaam) has the distracting habit of saccharine poising and random bobbing. Al- though he has the best male voice, his generally vacuous interpretion would be more in place on the Lawrence Welk Show. The other lack luster performance comes from the Jester (Eric Oppenheim) who manages to make the part even more silly and useless than the script does. The wily dragon of a wizard (Larry Chanen) is a marvelously exaggerated type in the best Gil- bert and Sullivan style. Bonnie Britton in a range of roles from Princess No. 12 to a spiteful nightingale (descending in a cage from the ceiling in a magic bra- vura of stage craft) was compe- cI By STEVE NEWMAN Although film director Ingmar Bergman's current critical acclaim rests on films such as "Through A Glass Darkly," "Wild Strawber- ries," "The Silence," and other supposedly "profound" works which appeal to the middle-aged minds of America's powerful movie crit- ics, these movies are increasingly being considered pretentious, arty, and often intentionally cryptic. If the growing movement of young moviegoers wins out, Berg- man may soon be largely appreci- ated for his lighter (and, I think, much more enjoyable) movies such as "Smiles of a Summer Night," showing this weekend at Cinema II. In Sweden Bergman is respected more for his work in the theatre than he is for his films. He spends most of his time in the theatre (making films only in the sum- mer). Bergman has directed over eighty stage productions and less than thirty films. He has been the head of some of the nation's most important municipal thea- tres and is currently one of the major producers for the National Theatre of Sweden. He turns to films as a natural by-product of his theatrical work, as Picasso turns to sculpture. Berg- man has repeatedly said he could live without films (although they are more profitable for him) but not without the theatre. Despite these personal opinions, America knows him best for his films, and "Smiles of a Summer Night" will probably be one of the most durable of Bergman's works because it doesn't antagonize the anti-symbolists. It is a highly styl- ized, manneristic comedy dealing with the triumph of women over men. The-plot concerns a middle-aged doctor and his young, virgin wife who come to visit the home of a proud but stupid nobleman and his frustrated spose. Also in the action are the doctor's son, who is in love with his virgin step-mother, and a middle-aged actress who has designs on the middle-aged doctor. After changing the beds several times and some horsing around by the servants, the right women get matched with the right men. Bergman's camera technique is especially fine in this film, and the traditional members of his cast, (Ulla Jacobson, Eva Dahl- beck, Margrit Carlquist, Bibi An- dersson, Jarl Kuule, et al) give their usual brilliant performances. Unfortunately, this print excludes subtitles on some of the lustier dialogue, but fortunately, Cinema II has acquired Cinema Guild's supplementary tape which will be played during its proper scene. Even though it was made twelve years ago (1955), "Smiles of a Summer Night' is Bergman at his bawdiest, and it is considered by several authorities, (e.g., John Russel Taylor in "Cinema Eye, Cinena Ear"), to be his best film. By RICHARD AYERS When the word was out about six months ago that a film was being made about an LSD trip, there was a general groan of dis- approval from all film-lovers. All, that is, except those who are familiar with American Interna- tional films and Roger Corman productions. Roger Corman has directed, produced, or otherwise controlled almost all of the best films to make the drive-in circuit of American movies. Corman's goal, made most clear in 'The Trip", is to make beautiful pictures. Always focusing on the American thing, Corman puts on the screen picture after picture of beautiful people, beautiful colors, and beautiful worlds. He created and set the pace for motorcycle movies with "Wild Angels"; he broke the gangster movie out of the 1930 black-and- white-realism with "St. Valentine's Day Massacre." Turning out film after film at a rate faster than even Godard, Corman changes American movie history as fast as he makes it. There are so many things to talk about in reviewing "The Trip". First I would like to men- tion Peter Fonda. Fonda comes out with words like "wow" and "man" about fifty times in the movie; normally, this would put one off as Hollywood-imitating-a- distorted-idea-of-hippies. But he brings it off with convincing sin- cerity. Filled with brilliant affec- tations, Fonda's acting is itself a delicate element to be worked into the movie. Then there are Corman's allu- sions to other films. These are included as an entertaining fea- ture, but not an injoke, of the American neo-new wave. Fonda takes a picture of a murdered friend (from "Blow-up") or sees the theatrical death figures (from "Seventh Seal"). These are not just the director speaking to the audience, but Fonda's fantasies taken from his life, which ob- viously included going to a lot of movies. Corman has adapted the tech- niques of the American experimen- tal underground to Hollywood for Also from the American under- the first time, to my knowledge, ground are Corman's hand-held without corrupting their best as- camera sequences-some of the pects (as was done in such sappy best subjective camera scenes in efforts as "You're a Big Boy movies. Ed Emshwiller is the only Now") or using them for illegiti- other American to shoot this way mate ends (as in current "hip" with competence. advertising). Something must be said about Of course there are the psyche- the color. It is not the pastel con- delic affects (specially created by trolled image of Antonioni or the "Charlatan Productions"). Some- grotesque circus of Fellini (often times these are run-of-the-mill said to be the two camps color psychedelic images; which is to films gravitate towards). Rather say, only fantastic. Other times it is the strikingly straight- they are images projected on or- foreward color of Anger's "Scorpio ganic things, as in the brilliant Rising". "The Trip" is not "a sexual fantasies. Perhaps the best black-and-white film shot with use of the psychedelic images is in color stock"; it manipulates colors the "straight" scenes. For in- without seeming affected. stances, a single shot of Peter If you give yourself to the film Fonda walking across a room may and let it work on you, you will be interrupted by five flashes of find it to be one of the most these images, each one lasting exciting and significant American only a few frames. films. Low Funds Hinder Search For 'U' Faculty Members El AS 7 YS WARM, MOVING, AND HUMOROUS I" Wanda Hale, New York Daily News -Starts 11/17- "Taming of the Shrew" SIDNEY in JAMES CLAVELL'S 'To Sm, WITH Shows. at 1 3, 5, 7, 91:10 i 4' * I (Continued from Page 1) are needed in the college at all faculty levels."t Despite a policy of 'frozen',en- rollment for the college in the past few years, there is a pro- jected increase of 300 students for next year. Hays says, however, that it's hard to tell exactly how many students will show up. "It's difficult to project the exact student-to-teacher ratio neces- sary in determining precise staff needs," he comments. On the question of salary com- petition with other schools, Hays reports "we're holding our own." Vice-President Smith, also com- menting on faculty salaries, warns, "if another year like this goes by with little salary increase, losing relatively many faculty members throughout the Univer- sity would be a distinct possibil- ity." A problem that has a definite effect on recruiting of faculty members, even when sufficient funds are available, is the phy- sical space problem currently facing the University. There is a serious lack of labor- atory space and equipment, and faculty office space. According to Smith, this lack of space "con- stitutes a hazard in recruiting." "Professors will turn down sub- stantial salary increase offers if they have to give up their right to a private office to come to the Univesrity, Leveque says. He adds that a mathematician "needs peace and quiet to work. You can't concentrate with another person working in a cramped of- fice, with his students contin- ually trapising in and out of the office and through the halls be- tween classes." The psychology department is also feeling the space pinch. "We need more lab space," says Nor- man. "It's a very difficult prob- lem in recruiting and in matching offers made to our staff by other schools." FOX EASTERN TFORTWE. 375 No. MAPLE RD. '769.130 NOW SHOWING 2 BIG HITS Production LEE MARVIN "POINT BLANIC' ANGIE DICKINSON, In PanavlslenandMeMtrolor PLUS- l ll * NOW SHOWING DIAL 8-6416 SGC Lifts Auto Regulations (Continued from Page 1) lated from past student parking fees could be used to defray the cost of new spaces and structures such as the one proposed for Hill Street behind the business admin- istration school." Mogill complained that "the same administrators who have told me in private that they're willing to commit some of these spaces to students have been un- willing to make the same com- mitments before the Student Traffic Advisory Board." He said, "I anticipate that even now the University will only act because the city will try to pres- sure it to do so. Regarding park- ing and traffic, the city has al- ways been willing to do more than the University." UAC President Don Tucker, '68, said last night that the decision was "a joint one" made byKuen- zel and himself. "The decision was not at all political or bureau- cratic. It was purely practical." The original motion before Council called for a timetable that would have streched the effects of the elimination of driv- ing regulations over a three-year period. "THE MOST UNABASHED ART FILM EVER TO COME the lushest visual effects ever seen in an above-ground American movie. There hasn't been such textural richness Mon.-Fri.: "POINT" 7:00-10:25 "NAKED" 8:44 "POINT" :05-4' 35-8:05 SAT-StUN.:"NAKED" 2:40-6:15-9:45 STARTS WEDNESDAY .Glamnollr. Speed!.. Spectaclo.~ on the screen since the heyday of Sternberg." -L.A. TIMES i f i .:....;S.....s"-i HELD 3dWE YOVER 3rd WEEK! DIRECT FROM ITS ROADSHOW ENGAGEMENT! SPECIAL POPULAR PRICES - SPECIAL SCHEDULED PERFORMANCES 3 SHOWS DAILY e CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCES o NO SEATS RESERVED "That this picture will arouse controversy is implicit in its subject matter...The real impact and import of THE TRIP is that, for the first time, Hollywood has tuned into the vibrations - good and bad - humming hallucinogenically throughout the nation." -PLAYBOY MAGAZINE "Adroitly staged fantasy episodes." -N.Y. TIMES "...Extraordinary camera work in an exciting sound track, with the two forming a kaleidoscope view of life." HOLLYWOOD CITIZEN NEWS "The most sensational picture in Boston is 'The Trip.' Every kind of hue the mind can imagine and the eye can see." BOSTON GLOBE "ROGER CORMAN'S BEST PICTURE A quite remarkable film, striking and imaginative." -SATURDAY REVIEW "A sexy movie through a kaleidoscope." - KANSAS CITY STAR "It is ever groovy...THE TRIP is really a curious and wildly maan um imaginative work." #r EGOAAWVYNAMAYERPNMSETRCLRMG IN SUPER PANAVISION ANO METROCOLOR MGM aman - CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER How to Celebrate the Week AFTER Thanksgiving! ! See the University Players Department of Speech in IIA Wed.rat,.Nv. 9-Dc.u TruILEKS oeod Tee- . Enrsdfid$fr nme)r kt d kr We. NU N.v 29FiIc '3 ! A Roaring FRENCH Farce~ Wed.-Sat., Nov. 29-Dec. 2 Trueblood Theatre-S P.M. ! ! ! r ! ! ! Enclosed find $ for _(number)tickets for each date checked below at the price circled. r ! ! Wed., Nov. 29 Fri., Dec. 1 !____ r ! * Thur., Nov. 30 Sat., Dec. 2 r ! ! l___ enclosed a' self-addressed stamped envelope. Mail my * tickets to me. ! ! ! ! NAMF * ADDRESS___ 1 "'A camera happening. Imaginative effects that knock your eyes out." - N. Y. 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