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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Page Five

THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five

Jllington 's music: Personality

By BOB SCHETTER

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Daily Photo by KAREN KASMAUSKI

Duke Ellington

Kate Hepburn Weekend
'Cinema Guild, Arch. Aud.
Fri., 7, 9
Philadelphia Story (1940), di-
rected by Hollywood veteran
George Cukor, is one of the fun-
niest and best-loved of all the
Hepburn comedies. Adapted for
the screen by the brilliant Don-
ald Ogden Stuart, it was taken
from the hit Broadway play by
Phillip Barry and also stars Cary
Grant, James Stewart, Ruth Hus-
sey and Roland Young. Hepburn

mer musician and shell-shocked
father who escapes from a men-
tal institution to the home he
left behind before the war. Di-
vorcement is the story of his
wife, who rejects him for an-
other man, and his daughter,
who loves him dearly. It also
features Billie Burke, David
Manners and Henry Stephenson.
Though rather short on running
time and plot development (Bar-
rymore somehow regains his
great musical gift for compos-

first-rate and extremely eccen-
tric tale of a girl who disguises
herself as a boy to help out her
beloved father, a con man and
a thief. Men as well as women
fall in love with her; Hepburn
spends most of the screen time
dressed in drag and it's hilarious-
ly effective. Directed by George
Cukor (his first flop), Scarlett
also features Cary Grant, Brian
Aherne, Edmund Gwenn and
Dennis Moore.
-MICHAEL WILSON

Those who came to see Duke
Ellington Wednesday at Power
Center expecting an evening of
good jazz were in for a surprise.
Ellington's music was not top
quality but nevertheless made
for an enjoyable evening.
After all, Ellington's music was
only a means of reaching the
inner workings of a truly spirit-
ed personality.
Ellington came onstage after
a rather shoddy warm-up num-
ber by his band. Ellington, too,
seemed not in the swing of
things as he stumbled through a
couple of lesser-known tunes be-
fore both he and the band woke
up with "Take the 'A' Train."
The most unusual aspects of
the performance were comedy
bits and high jinks integrated
into the musical framework. A
"drunk" musician would mean-
der up to the microphone, dis-
play discreetly located holes in
and an especially interesting one
to watch for a unique reason -
a great deal of it, funny when
produced just before World War
11, is almost macrabre now.
-DAVID BLOMQUIST
H* A*S*II
UAC-Mediatries, Nat. Sci. Audi-
torium. Fri., Sat., 7, 9:30
M*A*S*H, as one of the first
service comedies to realistically
portray the results of the war
while at the same time hilarious-
ly laying bare the absurdities of
the military, was one of the first
anti-war war comedies.
Hindered only by a week
script, director Robert Altman
(McCabe and Mrs. Miller) has
fashioned a clever and often hi-
larious film, documenting the ef-
forts of the doctors of the 4077th
Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
to retain their sanity in the face
of the Korean War and the U. S.
Army. Some of the scenes
achieve the status of classic com-
edy: tho -st Supper of the Pain-
less P Hawkeye and Trap-
per Jo 'rip to Tokyo, and the
funniest football game ever film-
ed. The excellent cast includes
Eliot Gould, Donald Sutherland,
Sally Kellerman, and Gary
Burghoff (TV's Radar O'Reilly).
-JAMES HYNES
The Deadly Trackers
State
Starring Richard Harris and
Rod Taylor, Trackers is the story
of a town sheriff whose wife and
child are brutally murdered by
a gang of bloodthirsty cutthroats
that would kill for a decent meal.

his pants to the audience, stagger
about, and then disappear again
into the orchestra to be heard
plucking a violin at inopportune
moments.
Or a solo musician would hold
a note on his instrument while
Ellington casually sipped a Coke
and told the musician to "Hold
it!" Indeed there was even a
Louis Armstrong impersonation,
complete with rolled eyes and
held white handkerchief.
And then there were Elling-
ton's introductions in which his
warmth prevailed. In these spots
he gave humorous accounts of
his travels, rolled off his catch
phrase "Love you madly" in the
language of each country he had
visited, introduced himself as
"that young apprentice piano
player" (He's 75), dedicated
songs to the most beautiful wo-
man in the audience "and I know
that he knows that we know who
that person it," and so on.
Harris plays the embittered,
revenge-bent family man who
trails the killers far into Mexico,
killing each one by one; Taylor
is the leader of the vicious mur-
derers and does little more than
support the theory that he hasn't
made a good film since Time
Machine. If you like action, ex-
citement and gutless thrills, stay
the hell away from Deadly
Trackers.
-MICHAEL WILSON
Also..."
Another week of The Way We
Were at Campus, Sleeper at
Michigan, Chariot of the Gods at
Fifth Forum and Papillon at Fox
Village. Cinema IItpresents Roh-
mer' s Chloe in the Afternoon
Fri., Sat., Sun. at 7, 9 in Aud. A;
Couzens Film Co-optshows Afri-
rican Queen Fri., Sat. at 8, 10 in
Couzens Cafeteria; New World
Media Int'l Films presents Revo-
lution Until Victory: 126 Fri., at
8 in E. Q.; BursleyeEnterprises
features A Warm December Sat.
at 9 in Bursley W. Cafeteria.
Tonight and Saturday
ANN ARBOR CIVIC THEATRE
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In short, he presented an aura
of goodwill to the audience and
invited them to share in his own
enjoyment of the performance.
The second set was particularly
good as Ellington presented songs
composed for his African tour
including "Satin. Doll" and other
standards. Improvisations and
ensemble playing seemed much
more energetic here. Solos by
Arnold Ashberry on tenor saxo-
phone, Marty Johnson on trum-
pet, and Russell Procope on clar-
inet and alto saxophone were
particularly outstanding.
To end the evening, it was El-
lington again, playing two up-
beat encores with his band and a
very beautiful piano solo. So rich
and controlled was this final
number that it highlighted the
concert and immediately brought
the crowd to its feet in apprecia-
tion.
In a short interview backstage,
Ellington came across more ac-
rimoniously than onstage. He
displayed an intense dislike for
"typical" questions and a deep
involvement with life and the
present. No longer did he want
to stand accountable for his past
fame. Instead, he chose to tell
of his Russian tour for the U. S.
State Dept., and of all things,

ing music is his way of helping
people, and it is something he
does constantly, no matter what
kind of audience.
"I'm not on tour," said Elling-
ton. "This is something that I do
52 weeks per year."
But along with his belief in
music as an aid to the beauty in
people, he also notes the dark
side of human conduct. Briefly
he told of friction he caused in
the White House by mentioning
freedoms all people should have.

Fin lly when informed that
pl ots will respond to music of
their owners, he refused to be-
lieve it. "Why should plants
trust humans?" he asked. "Noth-
ing is more fickle or violent than
man."
Truly a remarkable man. His
essence is captured in the com-
ment of one fan:
"I've listened to him for years.
I just like his music. (with a
smile) And he can still play them
can't he!?"

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the affect of music on plants. "One needs freedom from
Ellington seemed annoyed that fvar." he said. "Secondly, we
the State Dept. sent him on a need not be afraid that the next
political "goodwill" tour rather guy will come out better than
than~ as a simple musician. Play- you."

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By DIANE LEVICK
Hopefully you weren't turned
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chael Nesmith's less-than-poetic
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Ronstadt delivers the works of
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son Browne with usually pleas-
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of a slight natural vibrato occa-
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easy, gliding style.
Ronstadt's emotional control
over her voice is tight; she gives
Dylan's "I'll Be Your Baby To-
night" all the suggestiveness its
author could never communicate
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Along with Browne's "Rock
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