Thursday, September 13, 1 X73 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five N.Y. Dolls Raucous, v rock 'n roll... ulgar, beautiful By BRUCE MEYER UPI feature writer They are far from being gifted musicians. Their music is coarse, vulgar, simplistic and loud. They wear makeup, lipstick and six- inch heels. They are the New York Dolls, and you have to love rock 'n' roll to appreciate how beautiful they are. David Johansen, the Dolls' lead singer, says: "Rock 'n' roll is hard to de- fine. The function of a rock 'n' roll band is to relieve adoles- We're the third generation of rock . . ." The Dolls have attracted a tremendous amount of attention from New York media types, but except for a couple of ar- ticles in national rock publi- cations, they are little known outside the environs of Greater New York. Their first album, New York Dolls (Mercury SRM- 1675), should help change all that. The band has managed to put on record all the crude power of lating a band's music as accur- ately as possible into a record- without imposing his own ideas between the band and the lis- tener. I'm very tempted to jump on the Dolls' bandwagon, to say they will he to the 70's what =El- vis was to the 50's, and what the Stones and Beatles were to the 60's, to say their first single, "Trash," will be a big hit. But I'm just not sure whether the timing is right. Good as they are, the Dolls may be here a little too soon. It's been a con- sistent problem for New York bands in the past - being too far ahead of the rest of the country, and being so out of touch as to not recognize the problem. ARTS Daily Photo by KEN FINK And the beat goes on . . . Luther Allison helps carry on a bit of the Blues and Jazz Festival spirit last night at the Primo Showbar in Ann Arbor. He is sched- uled to make one more appearance there tonight. ' GUILD HOUSE 802 MONROE (across from Law School) FRIDAY NOON BUFFET LUNCH LUNCH: 40c (our 17th year of lunch-speakers) THE THEME FOR SEPT., OCT. WILL BE: "Moral and Ethical Leadership of the Nation" -THIS FRIDAY- "A RELIGIOUS APPRAISAL OF WATERGATE' DR. THEODORE KACHEL DIR., U.M. OFFICE OF ETHICS & RELIGION COMING SPEAKERS: PROF. PORTER, Journalism; Poet DONALD HALL; U.M. Presi- dent FLEMING; PROF. FISFEL, Economics;PROF. CHAMBERS, Low; U.M. Vice President JOHNSON. Friends Roa dshow sizes up local. audience for pantomime By BILL IRVINE Festival-goers intending to be submerged in blues and jazz last weekend may have caught a taste of another art: pantomime by the Friends' Roadshow. And it may not be the last we see of them. An English troupe which nor- mally performs with the London Mime Company, the Friends' Roadshow mimed between sets at the Blues and Jazz Festival and early this week at the Ark coffee- house. They have been sent to this country to size up American audiences and explore possibili- ties concerning an upcoming tour of the complete London company. So, according to Nola Rae, the Roadshow's only female member, the troupe plays wherever they find an audience-often a spon- taneous affair. Athough most of the mimes have had little or no formal training in their art, Rae, once a ballet student, trained with the famous Marcel Marceau. Member Jango Edwards taught himself mime while he worked for the Ringling Brothers Circus. A typical Roadshow perform- ance, such as the one Tuesday night at the Ark, consists of plenty of light humor. With painted faces and a makeshift stage; the Roadshow presented a series of skits on a wide range of subject matter. In one skit the Great Xandu, played by Michael Lynch, climb- ed onto a chair and actually dived head first into a styrofoam cup filled with water. In another piece Eddie, por- trayed by Edwards, imitated, among other things, a blind po- tato (no eyes . . . get it?), a grasshopper with its legs cut off, and a talking palm tree. Rae shined in askit portraying the fable of the raven and the fox. Edwards and Rae collaborated with success in several skits: Ed- wards as a ventriloquist with Rae as his dummy, and Rae as a circus knife-thrower with Ed- wards as her "victim." Often accompanied by the piano playing of David Norkett, the skits were , written by the Roadshow players themselves. When not performing, the mimes in the Roadshow often teach their skills to others. They have taught, for instance, at tev. tonight 6:00 2 4 7 News 9 Andy Griffith 50 Gilligan's Island 56 Lilias, Yoga and You 6:30 2 CBS News 4 NBC News 7 ABC News 9 1IDream of Jeannie 50 Hogan's Heroes 56 Making Things Grove 7:00 2 Truth or Consequences 4 News 7 To Tell the Truth 9 Beverly Hillbillies 50 Mission Impossible 56 Course of Our Times 7:30 2 what's My Line? 4 You Asked For It6 7 Treasure Hunt 9 Bewitched 56 why You Smoke several youth centers in England. At present, the future of the Friends' Roadshow is unsettled. It's not easy to make a living miming, as you might well ex- pect. According to Rae, the im- mediate goal of the troupe is to become self-supporting. Continuing on their three-week U.S. tour, the Roadshow will ap- pear tomorrow night at the Uni- versity of Detroit before travel- ling east. 8:00 2 The Waltons 4 Rowan and Martin 7 Movie "Evel Knievel," 4 Ironside 9 News 9:30 9 Happy Though Married 56 Jazz Set 10:00 4 NBC Follies-Variety Debut 7 Streets of San Francisco 9 MS' 50 Perry Mason 56 Masterpiece Theatre 10:30 9 Singalong Jubilee 11:00 ? 4 7 News 9 CBC News 50 One Step Beyond 11:30 2 Movie "The Biggest Bundle of Them Aill." (1968) 4 Johnny Carson 7 Pro Football Preview 9 News 50 Movie "Behind the Iron Curtain." (1948) 1'.:00 9 Movie "Winchester for Hire" (Italian 1967) 1:00 4 7 News cents of their ills . . . and I think the Dolls fulfill it amply." There is only one clear com- parison to be made with the Dolls,frustrating as it is for a band that would like to estab- lish its own identity: They are like the early Rolling Stones. The Dolls have the same sort of raw street-brawler feel to their mu- sic, hard as a steel-toed patent leather boot and mean as a drunken roller derby queen. All but one of the five Dolls are native New Yorkers - guita- rist Sylvain Sylvain was born in Cairo, Egypt, and raised in Paris -and they come from the tough- er parts of the city. They've been together as a band for about a year and a half. "Right now I think we're con- sidered an underground group," Johansen says. "But I don't want to be in an underground group. I want to be in a popular group. 1:30 2 Movie "Fair wind to Java" (1953) 3:00 2 Mayberry R.F.D. 3:30 2 News 9 Telescope 56 Playhouse New York: The 1940s 50 Night Gallery 8:30 9 Beachcombers 50 Merv Griffin 9:00 2 Movie "The Hot Rock" (1972) wacbn their music, without reducing the studio to total anarchy. No vir- tuoso musicians are the Dolls, but they know what they want to say and how to say it. A heaping spoonful of credit for success of the album must go to producer Todd Rundgren. Rund- gren's progress as a producer over the past year or two has been incredible, And with New York Dolls he has achieved the- peak of the producer's art: trans- ROBERT JOHN GEORGE.0 India Drawings September 14-29-29 UNIOYN GffALLEURY 1st Floor, Michigan Union .... . ..*.,.... ...:.... . .... . ....:... . .;: .;:.;: ri;; ..::: .}f:J . :i. .....:".:.::. .. .':, v:":'.-.-.,..........J....., Reception for artist, Friday, Sept, 14-7-10.p.m., GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to S p.m. ./ . .... :: . .. .....> .>... , MUSIC-The Bach Club sponsors ;ts organizational meeting tonight at 8 in Greene Lounge, E. Quad. The club's tradi- tional snack, jelly donuts, will be served afterward; The Primo Showbar presents Luther Allison, fiesh from the blues and jazz festival. FILM-The Ann Arbor Film Cooperative presents its Twilight Zone Festival at 7 p.m. in Aud. A; The New World Film Co-op .shows Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five at 7:30 and 9:45 in MLB, Aud. 3 and presents Alice in Won- derland at 7:30 and 9:45 in MLB, Aud. 4; Cinema Guild screens LaCava's My Man Godfrey in Arch. Aud. at 7 and 9:05. 7 9 12 3 6 6:30 7:30 11 Morning Show Rock Progressive Folk/Rock/Progressive News Sports Latino America Jazz/Bi es Progressive IWO F ' J4 CAMPUS THEATRE 0 1214 S. University * Dial 668-6416 JOSEPH E LEVINE ACADEMY EN DS o>MKE NICHOLS z N WANRD LAWRENC TURMANWBNET THURS.! Y\ DIRECTOR NICHOLS MIKE DOU BLE JosephE Levine presents a FEATUREMike NichosFIm TlA Camal Knowledge GRADUATE STARTS FRIDAY ROSS HUNTER'S"Musical Production of Music by BURT BACHARACH'"Lyncsby HAL DAVID ARY KRAMERI"RSS HUNTER}i NHESJA RO1T I AUDITIONS FOUR SHOWS University Players Major Bill and showcase productions THE STRONGBOX-2518 Frieze Bldg. (PERFORMANCES NOV. 7-10) CYMBELINE-2528 Frieze Bldg. (PERFORMANCES DEC. 5-8) AND MISS REARDON DRINKS A LITTLE- 2508 Frieze Bldg. (PERFORMANCES NOV. 29, 30, AND DEC. 1) THE MARRIAGE OF MR. MISSISSIPPI- 2512 Frieze Bldg. (PERFORMANCES OCT. 25-27) TODAY: 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. COME AND MEET US ANN ARBOR CIVIC THEATRE MASS MEETINGS-SEPT. 10-14 201 MULHOLLAND (off W. Washington) Sculpted walls & ceilings will take you back to Old Bavaria. Those were the days when foaming steins of German draft were served by jolly Biermeisters and fun was had by all. Come, visit a new place teeming with all those Bavarian traditions. Come visit the NEW HEIDELBERG RATHSKELLER. SHOW TIMES 7 & 9:15 mas ~ri* eo 215 N. Main a 663-7758 a Plenty of Parking in Kear NEW WORLD FILM COOP-presents- I I TONIGHT Direct from Three Memorable Performances at the ANN ARBOR BLUES & JAZZ FESTIVAL the BROOKLYN BLUES EL UB SEPT. 10 SEPT. 11 SEPT. 12 7:30-10:00 P.M.-PUBLICITY, BOX OF- FICE, USHERS, MEMBERSHIP AND NON- SHOW ACTIVITIES 7:30-10:00 P.M.-SET CONSTRUCTION PAINTING AND DESIGN, LIGHTS AND SOUND 7:30-DOORS OPEN 8 :00-ACTING 8:30-DIRECTING 9:00-WORKSHOPS AND ONE ACT PRODUCTIONS 9:30-STAGE MANAGEMENT I This bizarre rendition of the Lewis Carroll classic, patterned after the Tenniel drawings, features such intriguing casting as Gary Cooper- as The white Knight. Cary Grant as the Mock Turtle, Edward Everett Horton as the Mad Hatter, and Jack Oakie and Rosco Karns as Tweedle- dum and Tweedledee. W.C. Fields plays Humpty-Dumpty, and delivers superb in-character readings of author's nonsense verse. * IN KURT VONNEGUT'S * SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE Winner 1972 Cannes Film Festival-Jury prize and award. "One of the most daring, origina ,and totaly fascinating pictures ever made. THUSDAY ONLY, Sept. 12 and 13 7:30 and 9:45 P.M. (Wed.-Natural Science Aud., Thurs.-Modern Languages Aud.)_ I 0 II