PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1967 PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1967 THEATRE 'Patience' Provides a Relevant View of Contemporary Society IFC To Ease Expansion; Plans No New Chapters By TOM SEGALL Wilde had his. Timothy Leary al- so has his. Though "Patience" is a spoof of For all its topicality, the opera the Art Nouveau of the 1880's, remains uneven. Gilbert original- this :show which opened at the ly intended to attack sanctimon- Lydia Mendelssohn last night has ious young clergymen who always long out-lived the aesthetes of that have an eye out for attractive decade. The drooping lilies of young maidens. But his unfailing Wilde, Whistler and Swinburne sense of propriety kept him from have long since wilted, but Gil- placing men of the cloth upon the bert and Sullivan's "aesthetic op- stage for public amusement. He era" still remains fresh and top- turned to the affectations of the ical. aesthetic cult, apparently without An artist, reacting against the re-writing the first act. Aesthetes conventions of his time, enunci- are not concerned with love; they ates new principles. Lesser artists are concerned with art. And yet all follow suit. A school is formed. of the songs in the first act save Even'lesser artists imitate the work one are on the theme of love. of the school, carrying it to ab- The talk of art is in the dialogue. surdextremes, and are acclaimed The Gilbert and Sullivan Socie- by all sorts of mindless hangers- ty's production is also uneven. Part on. What Gilbert hit so squarely of this may have been an open- was the attitude toward all of this ing night that came a few nights of the plain man (that is you and too early. One gets the impres- me, fellow theatre-goers). The plain man listens to these hangers- on and dismisses the whole move- ment as nonsense. It is for the foolish followers who echo and attitudinize that Gil- bert's barbs are really intended, and that is why the opera is stil topical. Every age has its Raptur- ous Maidens, and every new poet has some vulgar followers. Oscar sion that the show was slightly under - rehearsed. The correct blocking was remembered, a split- second too late, and executed too consciously. A few lines were stumbled over, even by the old reliables. The entrances on some songs were hesitant. These things will iron themselves out pretty quickly. This is John Allen's second try HOLDING OVER AGAIN FOR A FIFTH RECORD WEEK! "I CANNOT IMAGINE THAT ANYONE WHO TAKES MOVIES SERIOUSLY WILL WANT TO MISS 'BLOW- UP' "! -Jay Carr, Detroit News "There is a lot of 'LA DOLCE VITA' in 'BLOW-UP' "!-Louis Cook, Free Press A STUNNING PICTURE A FASCINATING PICTURE . . about the matter of personal in- volvement and emotional commit- ment in a jazzed-up, media-hook- ed world!" -Bosley Crowther, New York Times at directing. Last December hei mounted a smashing production of1 "H.M.S. Pinafore," but this time it seems the Muse was not as kindI to him, or at least not so consist-c ently. In the first act number "In a Doleful Train," it is very im- portant that we realize that Bunt-, horne's asides to the audience are overheard by the Dragoon GuardsI but not by the chorus of Raptur- ous Maidens. What we saw on the stage did not clarify this. Mr. Allen stretched the officers across the back of the stage in a wide1 semi-circle, with the women's chorus only slightly downstage on a concentric semi-circle. If the one, heard, why not the other? One wished for the clarity of blocking in the D'Oyly Carte production of "Pirates of Penzance," where the entire group of policemen were seated on one side of the stage, the pirates on the other. And yet there were flashes of the inventiveness that animated the "Pinafore" production. In the second act Grosvenor tosses off the line, "Of course, you all re- member the story .of the Magnet and the Churn," and exits. For a moment we really thought we were going to miss one of the most de- lightful songs in the show. Of course, he was called back. This is the way Mr. Allen likes to play with the audience. Perhaps these reservations should be considered as an after- thought, for they certainly did not dampen the audience's enthusiasm for some very sparkling perform- ances. William Moore as Reginald Bunthorne, fleshly poet, has not only an unerring sense of comic timing, he also has a deep under- standing of Gilbert's dialogue. The audience pays an actor the highest compliment for letting a playwright have his due, and this compliment was paid to Mr. Moore with spontaneous applause on his delivery of Gilbert's lines: "... the dust of an earthy today will be- come the earth of a dusty tomor- row." Kathleen Samra, as Lady Jane, would have stolen the show if it had not already been stolen by Moore. You'd swear it was Jona- than Winters under that powder- ed wig. Nancy Hall, in the title role of Patience, sang well but tended to go sharp. Charles Sutherland, as Archi- bald Grosvenor, Beauty's trustee, remains the most graceful and temperatehperformer in the So- ciety. His diction is bell-clear, his movements measured, his inflec- tions lilting. The orchestra, under the direc- tion of John Planer, was adequate. Try Daily Classifieds Something To Swap? (Continued from Page 1) one even knows we exist. We're not even listed in the student di- rectory." The problem of anony- mity seems to be a major one in these houses. Appel cites another difficulty his house encountered. "At first our trouble was with housing; when we didn't seem to be pro- gressing some people just walked out." Nevertheless the new houses ap- pear to be winning their struggle to form a niche for themselves in the system. Each of the new houses feel they have something to offer which cannot be found in the older established houses. Challenge Getzon calls them "more of a challenge." Pi Kappa Alpha says in its rush publicity "Being the youngest and most modern frater- nity at Michigan we have no an- tiquated traditions or outdated pledge programs." Appel asserts that the elimina- tion of hazing began in the newer houses long before the recent controversy. Tau Epsilon Phi, its members said, "is a fraternity with new ideas that stand out in the fra- ternity system here at Michigan." All three of the new houses claim that it is a great advantage to be able to formulate new tra- ditions and policies without the usual pre-existing prejudice which tend to retard change. However one former pledge at one of the new houses disagrees. 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