Friday, November 9, 1973
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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By TOM KIPPERT
Mellowly soaring, the Moody
Blues enchanted a most receptive
following at Crisler Arena last
night.
The five English musicians
took charge completely from the
first tune of the set and remained
exciting even until the final one,
"Ride My Seesaw."
The moodiness that this band
creates on their LPs was definite-
ly paralleled in this live per-
formance. The extra dimension
in the Moodies' music results
from the use of the particularly
British mellotron.
Playing this delicate instru-
ment machine, Mike Pinder
subtly adds new energy to the
rock being played. This element
was most notable in "If I Were
A Million" and the driving "I'm
Just A Singer In A Rock and
Roll Band."
The group puts down a base of
rock rhythm intertwined with
the beautiful colorings that Pin-
der and Justin Hayward (on lead
guitar) evoke. Hayward's lines
on "I'm Just A Singer . ..
and "Story In My Eyes" are par-
ticularly interesting as he in-
stinctively . took the emotions
higher with his biting guitar.
Looking at the material that the
Moodies covered is quite inspir-
ing. Most bands could not hope
to match the variety of music
that the Moody Blues play.
Rocking, they attack the senses
with a sneaky dive. Even mel-
lowing out, they put the audi-
ence in a trance that can't eas-
ily be forgtten.
Rounding out the quintet,
Graehrne Edge's drumming puts
a spark into the band's total ef-
fet. He is quite powerful, even n
though not as fast as other
pounders.
John Lodge takes his role in
the band seriously as bassist. He
joins with Mike Pinder and Ray
Thomas to render some of the
finest live vocal harmonies heard
in rock today.
Ray Thomas, playing flute,
saxophone and percussion, fur- J
thers the already chilling melo-
dies on some of the more melan-
choly pieces.
As writers, all five Moodies
have a good sense of how to
translate a wide range of emo-
tions into words. Their ability to
describe both happiness and des- If
pair so realistically has made thro
their lyrics such a success. with
The warm-up group, Nicky stor
James, had the ironic task of box
subduing the excited, expectant Uni
crowd with their mellowing out- expl
put of sound. The stinging lead pow
guitar which this ensemble uses feet
reminds one of Humble Pie in and
the days of Peter Frampton. imp
The fact that the concert fell T
on a mid-week "study" night aid
didn't spoll the explosion of pow
moodiness e r e a t e d by the twe
Moodies - five excellent bands- Aun
men. bod
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THE STRONGBOX
WED., NOVEMBER 7-SAT., NOVEMBER 10
8:00 P.M. MENDELSSOHN THEATRE
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By JIM KENTCH
you like Freud filtered
ugh Nietzche and expressed
the subtlety of a thunder-
rm Sternheim's The Strong-
is for you. This current
versity Players' production
ores the workings of money,
er and sex and how they af-
the human animal. Morality
sublime emotions are not
ortant; greed and lst are.
he drama, directed by Don-
Boros, traces the struggle for
er over Professor Krull be-
en his wife Fanny and his
t Elspeth. Fanny has her
y, Aunt Elspeth her strong-
Sul
Strongbox
i
lust in Freudiwar
box full of Bavarian bonds. Els-
peth wins; Krull sleeps with the
strongbox assured in his belief
that he is Elspeth's sole heir;
and Fanny gets horny.
But what Krull doesn't know is
that Elspeth wills all her for-
tune to the church. He is made
into an impotent fool as Elspeth
controls him with her puppet
strings of promised wealth.
The aesthete and cad Silken-
band, who seduces Krull's daugh-
ter out of lst and ends up wor-
shipping the almighty Deutsche
Mark, is the other major char-
acter. He is incapable of any
true feeling, but humorous be-
cause of his exaggerated quali-
ties.
Women dominate men and
m o n e y dominates everyone.
When Krull first sees the strong-
box, red, pulsating and full of vi-
brant sexuality, his reaction is
orgasmic. Above him stands Els-
peth, stagehands caressing her
legs. The beating drum, strobe
light and flashing red lights pre-
sent yet another orgasm, a sort
of perverse Paradiso. Sternheim
knew his Freud.
As an Expressionist drama
The Strongbox focuses on the
high points of experience. Scenes
change so quickly the stage
hands have a major role. This
production is almost energy per-
sonified - the stagehands carry
the actors upside-down, and four
peonle rollerskate about on stage.
Yet the technicians are over-
zealous. Lights flash and change
so often as to be painful to the
eves. The overabundance of tech-
nic'l effects sometimes makes it
difficult to keep up with the ac-
tion. The taped dialogues and
empty stage prove confusing.
Sternheim did not intend The
Strongbox as a subtle play, but
enough razzle-dazzle is enough.
The set admirably fulfills the
plot's great demands. A balcony
serves for seduction scenes, slap-
stick chases, and a sort of Olym-
pian vantage point from which
Flspeth watches Krull writhing
terms
in her clutches. From a mirror-
shaped screen a man's eyes stare
at the action as his facial ex-
pression changes.
Rodney Hudson shines in the
role of Krill. He has complete
mastery of the mannerisms of
a henpecked husband of a man
possessed by greed. Ken Stein-
man performed Silkenband's
physical acrobatics as well as he
portrays his snaky mental ma-
neuvers. And Elspeth (Jennifer
Martin) is really a bitch.
But the most important actor
and the play's center of gravity
is the strong box. At the end it
hangs, ready to claim another
votary in the mass of lustful,
greedy hu-manity.
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"La Terra Trema is epic neo-realism, a major achievement.
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Friday, November 9, 7:00 & 9:30, Auditorium 4
LTUlrE CL-u-i-
t
FILM-UAC-Mediatrics presents Harold and Maude tonight
at 7 and 9:30 in Nat. Sci. Aud.; Cinema Guild features
Ford's My Darling Clementine in Arch. Aud. at 7 and
9:65; Cinema II presents Murphy's Emperor Jones in Aud.
A at 7 and 9; Cook Memorial Festival shows Nelson's
Requiem for a Heavyweight in, 100 Hutchins Hall, at 7,
9, and 11; Couzens Film CoOp features Ten Little In-
dians in Couzens Cafeteria at 8 and 10; The Hustler in
Union ballroom at 7 and 9.'
MUSIC-University Men's Glee Club and Morehouse College
Glee Club joint concert in Hill Aud. at 8; the Ark pre-
sents Hedy West at 8:30.
DRAMA-U Players present Sternhein's The Strongbox in
Mendelssohn at 8.
ART-Lantern Gallery opens exhibition by two Japanese
artists, Takeshi Kawashima and Nobu Fukui, tonight
with collectors' preview from 7 to 9.
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Thursday -Friday -SaturdayM
Nov 8-9-10
TURRENTINE
SATURDAY NIGHT, NOV. 10-9 P.M.
Bursley Hall Enterprises presents:
JOANNE WOODWARD
"THE EFFECTS OF GAMMA-RAYS
SENS
1954. Color, starring Alida Volli. Set in
Venice in 1866, during the Austrian
occupation, a romatic tragedy.
"Visconti's masterpiece and probably
the finest color film in the history of the
cinema."-Peter Cowie, Seventy Years
of Cinema
Saturday, November
Auditorium 4-7:00 &'
10
9:30
ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON
MARIGOLDS"
Admission $1.00
Bursley Hall West Cafeteria
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shall of Tombstone, Arizona and his fellowship with Doc Holliday. Starring Henry
Fonda, Walter Brennan, Linda Darnell and Victor Mature. The movie Brezhnev
insisted on taking back with him.
Sat.: THE SEARCHERS
Rocco and
His Brothers
1960. Black and White. WINNER
of 22 International Awards
"Justifies a'lmost any superlative; a co-
lossus among films . . . its scope and
power are virtually unique." - Derek
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Sunday, November 11
Auditorium 4--7:30 & 9:30
-and, ALL WEEKEND-Friday-Saturday-Sunday
THE
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"Viconti's saga of
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DUDLEY
MURPHY'S
EMPEROR JONES 1933
A closely woven and compelling intelligent cinematic adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's
play, the story of a black pullman porter's transitions through gambling, murder,
chainnnna and escape to an island where he rules as "Emperor" over the black
during the rise of
German fascism.
"A spectacle of such
greedy passion, such
uncompromising
sensation and such
obscene shock that
it makes you realize
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and ordinary most
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