Friday, October 5, 1973 I Mt MIC(HIUAN DAILY
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Arms and
the
Man'
"A JOY!ISTUNNING! BEAUTIFUL!"
-N Y TIMES 3ATUFOC.Y REVIEW -PLAY fOY
Paramount Pictures presents the return
of the greatest love story of all tilme.
glides along with wit
By ALVIN CHARLES KATZ
Despite a first act which pro-
phesied an evening of stuffy and
pretentious theatre, Ann Arbor
Civic Theatre's (AACT) produc-
tion of G. B. Shaw's Arms and
the Man got safely off the ground
early in the second act and glid-
ed smoothly to the end in fine
and entertaining fashion.
The production, which opened
Wednesday night at Mendels-
sohn Theatre, marks the opening
of AACT's new season.
The plot is of the typically com-
plex comedy-of-manners variety,
and deals with a level-headed
Serbian army captain who punc-
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tonight
6:00 2 4 7 News
9 Andy Griffith
50 Gilligan's Island
56 To Be Announced
6:30 2 CBS News
4 NBC News
7 ABC News
9 I Dream of Jeannie
50 Hogan's Heroes
56 Course of Our Times
7:00 2 Truth or Consequences
4 News
7 To Tell the Truth
9 Beverly Hillbillies
50 Mission:Impossible
56 Detroit Black Journal
7:38 2 What's My Line?
4 Hollywood Squares
7 Ozzie's Girls
9 Bewitched
56 Wall Street Week
8:00 2 Calucci's Dept.
4 Sanford and Son
7 Brady Bunch
9 Pig and Whistle
56 Washington Week
50 Night Gallery
8:30 2 Roll Out:-Comedy
Debut
4 Girl with Something Extra
7 Odd Couple
9 David Frost
50 Merv Griffin
56 Arthur Prysock
9:00 2 Movie
"The Wrecking Crew" (1969)
4 Needles and Pins
7 Room 222
9 News
56 Just Generation
9:30 4 Brian Keith
7 Adam's Rib
9 Sports Scene
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tures the pomposity of a bunch
of Bulgarian royalty,
Included, of course, is a lib-
eral dose of Shaw's misogynism;
all the women in the play are
painted as conniving, patroniz-
ing, lying creatures who scheme
to outwit the hapless males
around them and very nearly suc-
ceed. But timely inter-
vention of the Shavian hero
saves the day for the men and
keeps the world safe for male
chauvinisms.
Time has taken its toll on the
play in spots, and much of Shaw's
ascerbic satire of European roy-
alty is lost on modern Ameri-
56 Vince Lombardi Science and
Art of Football
10:00 4 Dean Martin
7 Love, American Style
9 Tommy Hunter
50 Perry Mason
56 High School Football
11:00 2 4 7 News
9 CBC News
50 One Step Beyond
11:30 2 Movie
"The Caper of the Golden
Bulls." (1967)
4 Johnny Carson
7 Dick Cavett
9 ews
50 Movie
"Along the Great Divide."
(1951)
12:00 9 Movie
"Dreams of Glass" (1970)
1:00 4 Midnight Special
7 Movie
"Ride, Vaquero." (1953)
1:30 2 Movie
"The Cat Creeps." (1946)
9 Wrestling
2:30 4 7 News
3:00 2 Divorce Court
3:30 2 News
can audiences. Shaw's arrows at
his principal theme, the idio-
cies of war, are still right on tar-
get, however.
Director Jan Stolarevsky is
clearly aware that the play was
written in 1894, and injects just
enough spoof and stillness to
keep the production from taking
itself too seriously.
The smai cast ,s a sordG one,
with good performances all
around. Diane Pomerance, Cathe
Wright, and Susan Morris are all
nicely despicable as the ladies
in the play, almost making
Shaw's hatred for women seem
like the only sensible viewpoint.
Ray Nieto is excellent as the
terribly sane Serbian soldier, and
Prof. Leo McNamara (of the
University's English department)
is good, if somewhat bland, as a
faithful servant.
.I particularly enjoyed E r i k
Hansen in his role as a bombas-
tic, grandiose Bulgarian major.
Best of all, though, is Prof.
Beverly Pooley (of the Law
School), who delivered yet ano-
ther excellent character p e r -
formance, this time as a won-
derf"lly crude Bulgarian noble-
Arms and the Man may not
sting quite as much as it did at
the turn of the century, nor eli-
cit as many hearty laughts. Yet
there is still plenty of evidence
in the current AACT production
of the skill, wit, and iconoclasm
tiat established Shaw as one
of the premiere playwrights of
the English language.
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Something old, sonmething new
The Ballet Repertory Company of the American Ballet Theatre opens the University Musical Society's
1973-74 dance season last night in Power Center. The twelve dancers from New York performed a
mixture of classical and contemporary ballet. Another performance is scheduled for tonight at 8.
WABX Air Waves: Stones,
The Who to tour together.
By The WABX AIR ACES
Joan Baez recently called civil
rights activist Andrei Sakharov
to urge him to continue his fight
against the repression of civil
liberties in the Soviet Union.
However, she can't speak Rus-
sian; and he can't speak Eng-
Uish, so she sang "We Shall Over-
come" . . . the message was un-
derstood . .
Johnny Carson has come out
against the Vietnam war. When
invited to participate in a star-
studded Las Vegas night of en-
tertainment for POWs, he r e -
fused and walked out. POWs he
overheard bragging about their
exploits in Vietnam made him an-
gry..
A group of film distributors
have put together The Rolling
Stones Film Festival. It includes
three Stones movies: Sympathy
for the Devil, Ned Kelly, and
Ginme Shelter with vintage foot-
age gathered from concerts, in-
terviews, and TV shows, most of
it never seen before. The films
will be shown around the U.S.
and Canada.
Peter Townsend and The Who
will be appearing in a movie ver-
sion of their rock opera Tommy
some time next year. It will be
shot in London, and the sound-
track will include new Town-
send material . .
And speaking of the Stones and
The Who, a joint tour for the
groups is in the works. They are
scheduled to get together later
this fall in Rome for the "Con-
cert of the Century." S o u r c e s
close to the Stones say that it
may be the kickoff for a joint
tour by the groups. It will have
to wait until after the Who's
current U.S. tour...
Several officials from the Sov-
iet Union watched the Rolling
Stones do a show in Vienna, and
decided to invite them to Rus-
sia. The Stones turned down the
invitation, saying it was too late
to add more dates to their Euro-
pean tour. Mick has often said
that he'd like to do some shows
behind the Iron Curtain...
The concert scene in Detroit
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has undergone some changes.
The Eastown had a brief open-
ing, and then was closed with
a court injunction. There is some
speculation it may re-open again,
but the possibility seems slight ...
The Michigan Palace is now
open -- this time as a concert
hall. The Palace's history goes
back to vaudeville days and all
the plush trappings are still there.
With seating for about 5,000 peo-
ple, decent acoustics, and no has-
sles from the security people, it
seems to be a good addition to
the concert scene .. .
Some of the best parts of the
Rolling Stones European t o u r
are being recorded, and will be
released on a new live album
around Christmas time . . .
Chris Jagger, Mick's brother,
has come out with his f i r s t
album, cut in the Stones' mobile
recording studio . . . Santana
will soon release an album en-
titled Welcome and are present-
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Elektra Record's
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ly touring South America . . .
The Fireside Theatre has come
out of retirement to do one
more album . . . Ike and T i n a
Turner have decided to explore
new ground - country and wes-
tern. Their business manager has
been advertising in trade maga-
zines for "hip country songs." ---
Ringo Starr's album is due out
in mid-October. George Harrison
co-authored part of the album
and sang back-up on it.
Marilyn Conroe
illusion and reality
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FESTIVAL WEEKEND
TONIGHT
MARILYN MONROE: a uniquely powerful
and uniquely ambivalent symbol, woman,
person of the American Fifties.
$he lived and worked through the early
Sixties, but died with a phase of our culture
in the early years of the Kennedy Adminis-
tration and the cultural-political insurgence.
To some, she is "the epitome, the perfect
symbol of the spoiled white pampered wo-
man rolling in the bucks" (the last phrase
is not clearly a reference to money) "living
the decadent life-style and taking sleeping
pills."
To Norman Mailer, in his "controversial"
and genuinely problematic fictional-biog-
raphy, she is "fatherless child" whom "many
literary men are bound to adore . . . She
came to us in all her mother's doubt, and
leaves us in mystery."~
To others, almost nothing about her is sim-
ple, nothing to be simplified or mystified by
men, categorized and neatly disposed.
This weekend, two mass-symbolic expres,
sions of the Fifties that no one is nostalgic
about: THE MISFITS. SOME LIKE IT HOT.
Marilyn Monroe. Illusion and reality. And
possibly for some, the dialectics of cultural
iberation.
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