PAGE TWO TIE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, OCTOBER G, 1966 :...:.* PAG TO HEMICIGN AIY TURDA, CTOER6_.6 THEATRE Student Laboratory Theatre Succeeds with 'The Creditors' FILMS CT A RTC li Earth'; Silent Celluloid Poem' A' '3 ui FRIDAY r STARTS FRIDAY By JOHN FRANCIS PERKIN The Student Laboratory Theatre opened its fall season yesterday with a production of Strindberg's, "The Creditors," a strongly auto- biographical one-act play. This presentation does great credit to the group of student volunteers who acted, directed and staged it. The laboratory theatre, an organization only loosely con- nected with the speech depart- ment, showed great professional- ism in this production. Peter Lembert, as Gustav, first husband of the faithless woman Tekla, injected great subtlety into his performance of a man seeking Black Panther Party Failing In Lowndes county Election HAYNESVILLE, Ala. UP) - Ap- peals for "black power" may go unheeded in the Nov. 8 election in Lowndes County, where Stokely Carmichael f i r s t experimented with organizing Negroes into a third political party. Even though Negroes have a sizable voting majority, none of the seven Negroes running for county office as candidates of the Black Panther party is given much chance of election. White officials predict, hopeful- ly, that many Negro voters, par- ticularly the older ones, will reject the Black Panther party, started A Across. Campuis WEDNESDAY, OCT. 5 4:15 p.m.-Bruce Carlson of the anatomy department will deliver a speech on the "Exchange Scient- ist's View of the USSR" in Room 201 of the East Medical Bldg. 8:00 p.m.-The APA Repertory Theatre Company will perform in "Three Mysteries With Two. Clowns" in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. THURSDAY, OCT. 6 - 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. - Cinema Guild will present Dovzhenko's "Earth" in the Architecture Aud. 7:30 p.m.--The Office of Reli- gious Affairs will present Edward Crowther, bishop of Kimberley and Kurman in South Africa speaking on "South Africa: The Church and Apartheid" in the Multipurpose Room of the UGLI. 8:00 p.m.-The APA Repertory Theatre Company will present "Three Mysteries With Two Clowns" in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. FRIDAY, OCT.7 7 and 9 p.m. - The Cinema Guild will present Dovzhenko's "Earth" in the Architecture Aud. 8:00 p.m.-The APA Repertory Theatre Company will present ."Three Mysteries W ith Two Clowns" in the Lydia Mendels- sohn Theatre. by Carmichael months before het became chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commit- tee, and made "black power" aj national issue. Atty. Gen. Richmond Flowers, who won the support of most Ne- groes in the Democratic primary9 for governor last May 3, said he has found little evidence that Ne- groes are williing to challenge the long-standing tradition of white supremacy. White Domination Flowers saw significance in the, failure of the two Negro-domi-I nated juries to vote against white' defendants accused of civil rights violence. The verdicts of those' juries reflect continuing domina- tion of the county by the white minority, said Flowers, who lost the gubernatorial race. All 'eight Negroes chosen to the jury to try Ku Klux Klansman Eugene Thomas of killing a civil rights worker decided on Sept. 27 that he was innocent; Two weeks earlier, a county grand jury of 11 Negroes and 7 white men voted unanimously against returning a more serious; charge against Thomas L. Cole- man, a onetime special deputy, sheriff charged with assault and battery in the shooting of a civil rights volunteer. The lesser charge subsequently was dismissed.. Verdicts Mean Trouble "This spells trouble for the Black Panther candidates," said Flowers. "I think the attitude re- flected in these jury verdicts will have a substantial effect on the election." If every eligible Negro in the county votes for the Negro can- didates next month, they will win. There are 2,800 Negro voters and 2;300 registered whites.. When the Back Panther party nominated candidates at a mass meeting in Haynesville last May 3, only 821 Negroes attended. Negro candidates are running for sheriff, tax assessor, tax col-, lector, coroner and three seats on the County School Board. Their opponents, all Democrats, are the incumbent office holders. vengeance upon the woman he has1 helped to create. Rudolf Berger in the role of Adolf gives a vivid in- terpretation of an artist sappedj of his intellectual vigor and his} manhood througn his marriage to the woman Tekla. Lembert as the1 inquisitor and Berger as his al- ready defeated victim provide a powerful dramatic force to Strind- berg's picture of man as he is de- stroyed by woman. Destroyer Leah Caper as Tekla, the de-; stroyer, succeeds in the difficult} task of portraying the voracious and faithless wife without making her an object of moral judge- j ments; she is what she is. Thus I the presentation is a moving and forceful statement of the play- wright's theme. The director, Beth Rankin, has1 so guided the performance as to avoid mitigation of its dramatic impact by making the play a per- lod piece. Without any attempt at} updating or wasted introduction of{ modernisms, she makes it striking- ly plain how timely is the work of the playwright himself. Deserves Attention The laboratory theatre has de- monstrated admirably that it de- serves the same attention given to3 other, better publicized produc- tions. The organization more thanI justifies its existence as a largely independent student group, with student stage managers, designers, and stage hands devoting their extracurricular time to then real- ization of the productions, which are performed at the Arena Theatre in the Frieze Building, with no admission charge. The only supervision given to these productions is indirect, in that the directors are members of a graduate class; however, control over this sphere of production is by private suggestion from the faculty. A great deal of intimacy is added by the fact that the Arena Theatre in which perform- ances are giver is in the form of a theatre in the round. Further presentation scheduled in this series are: "Imprompty," by Mosel; "The Outlaw," another Strindberg creation; "Herr Pun- tila Und Sein Knecht Matti" by Brecht; "The Vigilent" by Cer- vantes and two original one-act plays. Performances are on Wed- nesdays and Thursdays, at 4:10 p.m. By PAUL SAWYERt Alexander Dovzhenko's "Earth,"c long considered one of the su- preme masterpieces of the silent cinema, should be seen by every-f one this week-end. I say this not just because of its importance to the history of the film, nor be- cause of its great intrinsic merit,£ but because "Earth" represents at its best a mode of visual art that is radically different from most of1 what is seen on the screen today. When the contemporary film is compared to other art forms, the most common analogy is that ofy the novel. "Earth," more trulyt than anything else I have seen, is a celluloid poem, by virtue of its movement, its emotional effect,< and the extraordinary beauty of its images. Whatever plot it has consists essentially of only two incidents- the coming of a tractor to rural area in Russia, and the marty- rdom and burial of the youngj peasant who triumphantly leads the forces of collectivization. The{ film therefore does not have much dramatic force, but consists rather of a succession of moods, moving to several climaxes, which is more characteristic of poetry than of any stricly dramatic work of art. The various objects, characters, and events, moreover, form a group of motifs and archetypes;; their function as the elements of a narrative, or the facts about a specific time and place, is second- ary. One could say of this film what James Agee said of "Birth of a Nation"-that it is a sort of mythic embodiment of certain parts of a nation's collective ima- gination. This is most obvious in the ear- lier part, where the bearded old peasants, the massively plodding oxen, the ocean-like fields of grain beautifuly fit Russia's traditional idealization of her peasant life. But the collectivization of the farm is also treated in folklorical terms. Through an imaginative Use of cutting and composition, Dov- zhenko arranges his visual motifs -horse, tractor, old man, child, telegraph poles, apples-to drama- tize the conflict between old and new progress and eternity. His camera is extremely selective, his images for the most part austere; by means of a few well-chosen details, he is able to present the essence of a whole way of life. A realization that this film is essentially non-dramatic should solve part of the problem of its slowness of pace for the modern viewer. Most of "Earth" demands to be contemplated rather than followed and anticipated. One should go through it as one would an art museum, savoring each magnificently-composed shot as it comes. Some episodes seem to ex- ist timelessly, with little movement and some of the visual repeated. Other episodes are rapid montages, exhilarating and luxurious to be- hold. The problem "Earth" faces, as} does every work of arththat strives self-consciously f o r simplicity, "universality," and "lyricism," is the danger of artificiality. In this film, the borderline between a poetic compression of events and artificial contrivances is a slim one. "Earth" is also impersonal, in spite of its great beauty, the enthusiastically cheering women and energetic men-yes, even the hero, with his boyish, arrogant grin- are figures rather than characters, modeled to propaganda requirements. Yet all this is not to say that "Earth" deals in blacks and whites only. The woman in child- birth at the end indicates that changes will be painful for some, and for these, especially the'old, there is sympathy. In "Earth" Dozhenko constructed out of the exigencies of propaganda a cine- matic poem of great compassion and beauty. Program Information 2-6264 LAST 2 DAYS! The story of a man who had to re-live twelve years in one day with four women! 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NOW SHOWING GRANLEY COMPANY ', SAMANThA ECOAR M HUTTON8A Snown at 7:10-110 y ACOLUMBIA PICnJW RELfMS Plus- Shown 9:25 "i atOnly 11 I Panhellenic Association 11 Associated Students of Michigan State University POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT SERIES Proudly Presents: HENRY MANCINI and his FORTY-PIECE ORCHESTRA FRIDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 7 MSU's Jennison Field House Also Appearing THE FOUR PREPS, '. 7 announces I SORORITY USE OF THIS COLUMN FOR AN- NOUNCEMENTS is available to officially recognized and registered student or- ganizations only. Forms are available in Room 1011 SAB. * * * . Baptist Student Unio, Lecture: Dr. Thomas Gwaltney, "Christ as a Teach- er," Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m., Packard Road Baptist Church, 1131 Church St. * * * . Young Americans for Freedom, Gen- eral membership meeting, Oct. 6, 7:30 p.m., Third Floor, Michigan Union. A film strip on the Watts riots will be "The Decline and Fall of The Entire World As Seen Through The Eyes of COLE PORTER Revisited" FRIDAY,.October 7 8:00 P.M.' Pease Auditorium 5e stern.Michigan University "A contagiously joyous evening of theatre.. ." Saturday Review Tickets: Presale, McKenny Union, Eastern Michigan University, Performance, Pease. shown. All members and potential members urged to attend. * * Guild House, Friday noon luncheon, Lt. Cmdr. Herbert W. Kebschull: "The Role of the Military at the University," Oct. 7, 12-1 p.m., Guild House, 802 Monroe. * * * Guild House, Friday evening cost dinner and program,, Mrs.'Ann Shain and Mrs. Betty Powell: "Aftermath of Jones School Shut Down," Oct. 7, 6 p.m. dinner, 8:30-1:30 a.m., The Roost, a sort of coffee house, Guild House, 802 Monroe. INFORMAL RUSH In formation Meeting Oct. 6 7 P.M. Also. "LEAPING DANDIGS" IN COLOR 2 COLOR CARTOONS ROOM 3A, UNION Tickets: $2.50 Sold at the door I 38-22-36 GOOD AT FIGURES? Petition now for Women's Athletic Association treasurer. Please fill out a form at the Barbour gym office WANT TO TRIM YOUR FIGURE? Come take an envig- orating study break. Attend the organizational meetings of GYMNASTICS CLUB-Tuesdays 7:15, Barbour Gym ARCHERY CLUBR-Thursday Oct. 6, 7:15, WAB CO-ED Square Dance-Sat. Oct. 15, 8-11 P.M. WAB SECOND ANNUAL "Magnificent Virtuosity!"-Detroit News "Great Dramatic Excitement!"-Toledo Blade "Fite Bravura Style!"-Detroit Free Press )A HUMPHREY I CINEMA I[ BOGART I i'll presents FILM FESTIVAL 1I~ Cary Grant Leslie Caron ARK COFFEE HOUSE 1412 Hill Street in ANDREW LUGG three big-bi nights Friday, Saturday, AND Sunday CASABLANCA, THE BIG SLEEP, KEY LARGO, TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE, THE MALTESE FALCON, PETRIFIED FOREST FATHER GOOS E Will Lecture on the Topic "Eroticism and Mysticism I 1111 111 I