PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1966 PAGE SIX THE iWICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, APRIL 2,1968 TOMORROW, SUNDAY, APRIL 3 at 3:30 P.M. THE HILLEL PLAYERS ' Present THE IRON MAN of MICHIGAN" a ane-act play written and directed by Steven Coffman starring Stephen Wyman All Are Cordially Welcome 1429 Hill St. B'Nai B'rith Hillel Foundation Vertigo,' A Pleasant By ELIZABETH WISSMAN The presentation of "Vertigo" by Cinema II as the second of an Alfred Hitchock, triple-play is ample proof that the man is more than an interesting television pro- file. Mr. Hitchcock makes good movies. In an age when only the most roubling sort of greatness seems to prevail, there is some- thing rather comforting about a film which is no more and no less than good. "Vertigo" is a slick pro- duction, a professional organiza- tion of plot and performers; which is hardly likely to improve the Human Condition, but it may, at least, make one evening a bit more pleasant. There are some elements of the movie which make it appear "dat- ed" to a contemporary audience. "Vertigo" illustrates a layman fascination with psychiatry and psychiatric terms, which was com- mon over a decade ago: James Stuart suffers from Acraphobia; the word is rather prominently dropped by Barbara Bel Geddes as his patently understanding girl friend. Vertigo, itself, is the sen- sation of dizziness and physical weaknes which inflicts Stuart each time he dangles from a fifteen- story ledge-a quite credible fail- ing. As a result of this failing, policeman Stuart has been forced to resign his position. He simply can not clamber from building to building pursuing those goat- footed felons. We see no more investigation than this into the INTERNATIONAL CENTER PROGRAM COUNCIL MASS MEETING Tues., April 5 at 8:00 P.M. International Center ALL STUDENTS INVITED I .. IF nature of Stuart's psyche; the vertigo has been introduced mere- ly as a piece of plot mechanics. However, the fact that Hitchcock does not present a facile explana- tion of the disease-a flash-back for instance, to the time when little Jimmy Stuart was punished in a very high chair-saves the film from psychological cheapness. Once Stuart has been released from his policeman's lot, the real development of plot begins. He is hired by a wealthy, exschool chum to follow the man's wife. The woman proves to be Kim Novak, a lovely feline thing, whose only real problem is the fact that she believes she is a reincarnation. Undaunted, Stuart pursues her pell-mell from art museums to the great Redwood Forests of Cali- fornia. It is among these shelter- ing pines, in fact, that Hitchcock evokes one of his finest effects. Kim stands by the crosssection of a tree and points to a set of rings demarking time a century before. "Here I was born," she whispers, "and here I died." Director Alfred is at his best when delicately ex- ploring the occult of Reincarna- tion. The scene in which Stuart stumbles over Kim at a museum, garbed, coifed, and holding the identical nosegay as the portrait of her dead ancestor, is a small masterpiece. Stuart has been hired to prevent BIG BROTHER IS.WATCHING YOU A mobile that is time- ly, tantalizing, topical. Hang it in your den, office, living room. $2.00 postpaid T. Beaubien Healy 234 Tenth St. Toledo 2, Ohio DIAL 5-6290 SHOWS AT 1,3,5,7 &9 P.M. FUN! MUSIC DRAMA! An exciting story . to thrill m il'onsl- - " fi v i e TECIINICOLOR Fro th SorybyFELIX SALIEN 0Walt Disney Productions. nc: U.rIeased by BUENA VISTA DlstrIbutign Co, In. __NEXT "THE SINGING NUN Evening the married Miss Novak from the same suicide her great-great grandmother undertook. In the 1 course of the action, the Acra- phobia comes again to challenge him in the successful completion of his duty. The chore of protect- ing Miss Novak's life is further complicated by the fact that he has fallen in love with her. ButC no more need, or should, be said.s This combat of Man and char-s acter flaw is diverting; while thet resulting film is chock full of funr and technicolored suspense.C By PAUL SAWYER Rene Clement' s "Forbidden Games" is executed with such sparkle and verve and it contains so many moments of real beauty that its severe faults are especially regrettable. Because of an element of strident melodrama, it creates Men's Glee Club To Present New Spirit Song at Concert By LINNEA HENDRICKSON The Men's Glee Club presents its annual spring concert at 8:30 tonight in Hill Aud. The concert is planned to follow the traditional Glee Club pattern. It will include songs by classical composers such as Handel, Schubert, and Bach, plus moderns such as Holst and Cole Porter, and of course the Michigan songs. The most eagerly awaited song in this last section of the concert will be a song entitled "Go Blue," just recently composed by Director Philip Duey. Duey wasinspired to write the song by the "Let's go Blue!" chant which is so much of the spirit of varsity sports. "Go Blue" is styled as another fight song. Also included in the concert will be a Broadway medley, and "The Bugler's Holiday" trio which will feature three trumpet-playing members of the Glee Club. Under Philip Duey's leadership the Glee Club has gained nation- wide recognition, and has appear- ed in concerts from New York to ,Los Angeles. It has made three European tours, and in 1959and 1963 won the international male choir competition in Llangollen, Wales. Last fall the Glee Club was one of five American choral groups selected to represent the United States at the first International University Choral Festival. It was held at Lincoln Center in New York and at the National Cathed- ral in Washington D.C. The Glee Club is completely managed by students; and the stu- dent officers are responsible for all tours and other activities. From April 28 to May 9, the Glee Club will tour the eastern United States, appearing in New York, Boston and other cities. A European tour is being planned for next year. The adjudicator at the 1959 Llangollen competition described the Glee Club as "A thoroughly competent choir, young, engaging, and adventurous." Duey's arrange- ment of the varied songs in the Glee Club's repertoire gives them a fresh touch. this weekend.1 The script, which is an account of a war orphan's stay in a French peasant household during the Ger- man invasion, attempts to com- bine a flavor of ironic satire with{ moments of the keenest pathos. The bringing together of discor- dant elements is harsh, and in, lesser hands the film would have been a disaster. But Clement gives the satire the keen irony and un- derlying sense of sadness that isI so typical of the French. Brutal Understatement ' The characters are superbly de- lineated; and the melodrama is treated with that brutal under- statement that makes the films of, say, Truffaut so powerful. But it is Clement's very intensity that is responsible for the film's chief flaw. The satirical elements be- come on occasion too blatant and contrived, and the moments of pathos are so intense as to be, for, the most part, unsupportable., The most striking example of this emotional discord comes at the beginning, when the little girl's. parents are killed. In one incred- ible scene, the girl is shown be- side the body of her mother, her eyes wide and wondering, touching. her mother's face and trying to talk to her. This and other scenes are too shocking for the ultimate purpose of the film. When Clement is ready to accept the girl's mis- fortunes as a "fait accompli" and to proceed to other matters, the emotions of the audience are still somewhat numbed. Thus the film begins with a heavy disadvantage. Yet the rest of the film is more successful. The girl finds a friend in the young son of a peasant family, and the petty squabbles and little hypocrisies of the peo- ple around her are wryly elu- cidated., Private World The two children revert into a Clement Utilizes Film Methods To Portray Human Hypocrisies their elders for examples, they see nothing wrong in raiding the local cemetery for- crosses and decora- tions. By the time their schemes are discovered, to universal indig- nation, the film's moral-that the children's naive impleties are far less offensive than the hidden, un- admitted impiety of insensitivity and hypocrisy - has been driven home. The incongruity of burying earthworms and chicks with great pomp turns into'tragic irony when it is reported in one scene that recent bombing victims are being thrown into holes "like dogs." The moral universe is in total upset; yet there are no real vil- lains in the film-only well-mean- ing people who, much like those who fight wars, often blunder dis- astrously when faced with situa - tions thathare too large for them. Stupidity and petty pride are, the only causes of the brutal disillu- sionment and alienation of the children at the end, Human Frailties The device of attacking human frailties by presenting t h e m through the eyes of those too young to understand, old, but here very effective, provide the film with its chief virtue. It is a pity that the emotional impact is so misplaced. The highly melodra- matic last scene serves wrongly to focus the audience's attention on pity for the little girl only and not on the broader social implica- tions. Caught between satire, anti-war protest, and a tear-jerker for mothers of small children, there is a disruption of unity that blurs the film's central statement. Yet it compels interest, for whatever reason, from beginning to end; and it contains moments of such compassion and perceptiveness that they are likely to remain in the memory for a long, long time. 0 it FILMS a strong impact upon first viewing private world by setting up an which does not hold up in the animal cemetery in an old mill. mind. Yet it is far and away the Having nothing else than the pet- best film showing in Ann Arbor tiness and superficial pieties of maybe, but we doubt it, since we also have "Mother's"-Student Nite Club presents MITCH RYDER and The Detroit Wheels "Little Latin, Lupe Lu" MONDAY-April 4 . .. 8:30-12.. . 223 E. Ann Presale Tickets: Discount Records, 300 S. State-$2.00 ORGANIZATION NOTICESh .:."". *": *er...r,..*"'." . ."?°":::.;.".".{. }:.};.. a;:.}...:""..sE":iii.?}r ^s; I PETER GRIFFITH -- ED REYNOLDS classical guitaris tfolk:gitarist and composer Daily Classified NEW YORK FRM RICS AWAD BEST FOREIGN FIL OF HE YEAR! Are The Great I DIAL 8-6416 MASERPIECE FEL 0LINIS HISFIRSTIN COLOR ANGELA RIZZOUI DERICOFELLINI GIULIEITIMASMINA SANDRA MILO SYLVAKOSCINA USE OF THIS COLUMN FOR AN- NOUNCEMENTS is available to officially recognized and registered student orga- nizations only. Forms are available in Room 1011 SAB. * * * Newman Student Association, Steer- ing committee meeting, April 2, 10 a.m., 331 Thompson. Also Sat., film, "Children of the Damned," 8 p.m., 331 Thompson. Folk Dance Club (WAA), Intermedi- ate folk dancing, every Mon., 8:30-10:30 p.m., Women's Athletic Bldg. * * * South Quad Quadrants, Meeting, Sun., April 3, 11 p.m., Council Room, SAB. * * * India Students Assoc., Spring Ban- quet, April 2, 6:30 p.m., Michigan Un- ion Ballroom. University Lutheran Chapel, 1511 Washtenaw, Sun. morning services, 9:45 & 11:15: Paul Sunday-"Don't !el Your Birthright!" Rev. Alfred T. Scheips, speaker. Bible class at 11:15. All wel- come. Gamma Delta, International Lutheran student org., 1511 Washtenaw, Sun., eve- ning supper at 6 p.m., followed by a program reviewing the years' activities at 6:45. Wayne State Gamma Deltans will be guests. All other interested per- sons most welcome. * * * Guild House, The Roost, refreshments. games, folksinging, etc. ,April 2, 7-1:30 a.m., Guild House, 802 Monroe. * * * Michigan Christian Fellowship, Sem- inar, Sun., April 3, 4 p.m., Campus Chapel. Speaker: Ward Wilson. Topic: "In what Sense is the Bible the 'Word of God'?" Lutheran Student Chapel, Palm Sun. services at 9:30 & 11 a.m., Sun., April 3, Hill at Forest. 4 CANT IERKlBUIKY H OUS.IE 8:30 P.m. 218 N. DIVISION one dollar per persona 'Ii v F C f. ' Read The Daily! TECH NICO 0R° .. THE UNIVERSITY CHOIR PRESENTS: 9NE TRuaEI pF CoeE t UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MAYNARD KLEIN 1 TONIGHT at 7and 9 I r REN ECLEMENT'S 1I R FORBIDDEN GAMES (France-1952) Two small children act out their elder's crimes and ceremonies. 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