THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Thursday, Jahuary7, 19714

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records
Through a dark disc darkly


By FARGO BERMAN
It is not until the third listen-
ing that you can even begin to
appreciate the nuances of dou-
ble-nostril tremelo w e a v i n g
through the background of a
cornucopia of sound in the song
"Cocaine and the Downfall of
the Wobblies." The song is the
first track on a re-released al-
bum called Schlock Story. The
album was conceived as a sound-
track for the little knowji, first
talking film (released in Secau-
cus, N.J. in 1926) entitled Pro-
gressive Movements and Trite
Romance.
It is relevant to this review
of the album to know that the
movie featured Jean Rummy as
Alice O'Craw, the Cavalier, and
Brian Squeal as Jocko "Green"
Beret, Jr. the tutsi-frutsi ice
cream seller who is really po-
litical boss of Southwest Hack-
ensack. This is relevant infor-
mation because Rummy and
Beret, Jr. are the featured mu-
sicians on the album. It is ir-

relevant but interesting to note
that Fatty Carbunkle, a great
star of the 20's, played fifteen
years of American history, with
a sterling performance by his
pleasingly plump bellybutton as
the Teapot Dome Scandal.
The title of the movie re-
mained as originally planned,'
but the soundtrack was entitled
differently because it was con-
sidered to be such an original,
individualistic work. The film,
reviewed by the Secaucus Her-
ald-Eagle Tribune Daily Report-
er News reporter, was a banal,
syrupy affair and the use of
sound was considered "a cheap
gimmick which bades no good
for cinema esthetics, except per-
haps in augmenting the real-
istic perspective of soft core por-
nographic presentations." The
album, however, was an as-
tounding success, selling over
1500 copies a week over a span
of ten days and then dropping
off the market entirely. A com-
peting record company, Floogle
Records, Ltd., charged that the

Theatre season opens
with 'Zorba,' Moliere

-Daily-Torn Stanton

releasers of the Schlock Story
album had beefed up sales by
promising that a free hit of co-
caine was enclosed in every
tenth album: these charges
were never proven-an investi-
gation three months after the
release of the album found no
packets of cocaine in any album
examined though empty packets
were found in about ten percent
of the album covers-their pur-
pose is still a mystery today.
But the important factor, at
least today, is the quality of the
music, so let's get back to that
double-nostril solo I mentioned.
The nose flute in question was
a National Dobro Steel Nasal-
tuba, made partially out of
metal to amplify the sound. The
nose flute belonged to Beret,
Jr., but the innovative, exciting
factor of the music on this al-
bum is that the nostrils be-
- longed to both Beret, Jr. and
Jean Rummy.
The first side of the albumr
features the right nostril of Be-
ret, Jr. and the left nostril of
Rummy, with an exception on
the last cut of that side, "Pizza
Cato," an old Italian classic.
where Rummy performs a stun-
ning solo, utilizing both of her
nostrils in a sterling 5/3 Jazz
composition which is unques-
tionably the predecessor of the
Iron Butterfly's drum extrava-
ganza in "Ina-Gadda-da-Vida."
Side two, most of which is
slower in pace than the first
half of the platter, stars Jean
Rummy's right nostril and the
right nostril of Beret, Jr., though
it has never been discovered
how they pulled off this feat
using one nose flute. The sec-
ond and third tracks on this
side are identical, pulling off a
sort of Dadaesque Burlesque
though the cuts are entitled
"Kafkaesque Burlesque" and
"Mescalito Grotesque" respec-
tively. I enjoyed the second ver-
For the student body:
FLARES
by
A Levi
& Farah
" Wright

sikn quite a bit more than the
first, though the first version
seems to lead into and build up
to the repetition of itself.
Credit must also -be hung up-
on Jelly Bean Jameson for his
stellar lead solos on four-toe
autoharp. It really clicks. Some
record enthusiasts may remem-
ber Jameson from his electric
eclectic 86 key viola with wah-
wah pedal performance on the
Wott Records Jazz Classiks
series (see my review of "How I
B 1 e w With Everybody" by
Johnie Rutger, in the Dec. 6,
1970 Daily). Only four days af-
ter the Schlock album was re-
leased, Jameson committed sui-
cide when he blew his contract
for a world tour because of his
unfortunate habit of biting his
toenails. This album is also part
of the Wott Records Jazz
Classiks series and is available
for only $5.95 from people on
the corner.


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Regents apn
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By DAVE CHUDWIN
The Regents appointed a new
dean of the medical school, heard
a report on minority admissions,
and approved a new legal aid pro-
gram at their December meeting.
Dr. John Gronvall was named
dean of the University's medical
schol and director of the medical
center to succeed Dr. William
Hubbard who left last April to go
into private industry.
A 39-year-old pathologist, Gron-
vall served as acting dean when
Hubbard left and was previously
associate dean of the school. His
selection followed an eight-month
search by a student-faculty com-
mittee.
"Solutions to the complex prob-
lems of health care in our state
and in our nation require the
vigor, the skill and the scholar-
ship of young leaders like Dr.
,Gronvall, and his leadership as
acting dean was impressive ei
dence of these qualities," President
Robben Fleming said.
In other business at the month-
ly session, Vice President and
Dean of the Graduate School
Stephen Spurr reported the pre-
liminary results of a fall survey of
'minority enrollment.
Spurr said black enrollment on
the University's Ann Arbor cam-
pus is 1,546 or five per cent of the
student body. This is a one and
one-half per cent increase over
last year, he added.
He said there are also 618 Orien-
tal students, 71 American Indians,
165 chicanos and 2,465 people who
did not respond to the survey. The
total number of full-time students
on'the campus here is 32,940.
Spurr said the survey was not
completely accurate because of the
refusal of some to respond and
the possibility that students might
not have given an honest answer.
Thousands
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program
He explained that some of the 71
people who said they were Ameri-
can Indians have names and ad-
dresses indicating another ethnic
group.
Spurr said the Opportunity Pro-
gram for disadvantaged students
is "about on target" in Its effort
to raise black enrollment to 10
per cent by 1973-74 with 647 stu-
dents receiving aid compared with
a planned 650.
In other action, the Regents
approved spending $20,000 and
providing office space for a branch
of the County Legal Aid Society on
campus.
Vice President for Student Serv
ices Robert Knauss explained that
for the last two years the Wash-
tenaw County legal aid program
has not helped indigent students
because of an increased caseload.
only community indigents have
been served.
The program will provide stu-
dents with the services of attor-
neys for court cases and to co-)
ordinate the volunteer work of
University law students in the pro-
gram.
Legal aid will be available under!
the plan presented by Knauss for
indigent students and their de-
pendents and to student organi-,
zations with the provision that
the University is not a defendent
in lawsuits brought only by or-
ganizations.

As the semester opens, so does
Ann Arbor's theatre season with
the premiere of the Phoenix
Theatre and Richard Wilbur's
new adaptation of Moliere's
School for Wives and the play
of the month's presentation of
Zorba.
Sponsored by the PTP, the
musical Zorba, which features
Vivian Blaine (from the original
Guys and Dolls) and Michael
Kermoyan (The Arab Auda in
Lawrence of Arabia) will be pre-
sented in Hill Aud. Monday and
Tuesday evenings, Jan. 11-12. A
large cast of bouzouki singers
and dancers have been added to
the novel, Zorba, the Greek by
Nikos Kaazantzakis. Tickets are
on sale in the Mendellsohn lobby
week days: 10 a.m.-1 p.m., 2-
5 p.m.
Brian Bedford returns to Ann
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1: Prof. J. G. Young, "Engineering

Arbor for his third consecutive
season in Moliere's School for
Wives Jan. 26-Feb. 7. Bedford
appeared here last year in the
smash hit Private Lives with
Tammy Grimes and the year be-
fore in the lead of Moliere's
The Misanthrope, both of which
opened in Ann Arbor prior to
their Broadway scheduling.
Stephen Porter will direct the
premiere of School for Wives.
Porter has a string of successes
to his staging credit, all pre-
miered in Ann Arbor, including
last year's revival of Harvey,
Private Lives and the memor-
able Helen Hayes Show Off.
His new version of School for
Wives has a Woman's Libera-
tion satirical slant.
Mail orders are now being
accepted. For more information
call 764-0450.
Market and Placement Services", (cur-
rent salary andndemand conditions and
how to use Engin. Placement Serv.).
first of four meetings, Rm. 311, W.
Engineering. 4 and 7:30 p.m.
Astronomy and space films: Films on
the aurora ("northern, lights"), the
Sun, and the U.S. space program be-
fore Apollo 11. East Quad Aud., 9 p.m.,
free.
ie
General Notices
Usher sign up for Phoenix Theatre
production of "School for Wives": Sun.,
Jan. 10. 10 a.m.-2 p.m., in PTP offices,
Mich. League; ushers must be U-M
students and have I.D. with them;
cannot sign up for any other per-
son, except a spouse, provided you
have some I.D. of his or hers.
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