Thursday, February 8, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Thursday, February 8, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY I Jane Fonda in KLUTE' Stamp-intg out boredom: Philately as an art By BARBARA BIALICK It's the time of year again when students start to plan their first trips to Europe. A lot of them hope to find excitement there. But what about the travel- ler who finally must come back to the boring routine of "real" life? _ _t "emerges as the finest screen actress of her generation." -LIFE Friday-Saturday Feb. 9-10-7-8-9-10 p.m. MLB Auditoriums 3 & 4 $1.25 Cont. Friends of NR Local Poets- The Michigan Daily Arts Page is now accepting poetry for publication. Submit work to Arts Editor c/o The Daily. Some travellers discover a re- laxing way to keep alive the color and novelty of travelling, through collecting stamps. Phil- ately, besides being educational, requires a certain degree of art in finding the most attractive stamps for the lowest prices. How does one begin a stamp collection? For one approach, we can trace the adventures of a stamp-collecting student. He was bored with the old routine after his first trip abroad. How could he survive until the next great adventure? On discovering a small childhood stamp collection, inspiration hit as it often does to those lucky enough to travel: He could "travel" t h r o u g h stamps. His first step after purchasing a stamp book and a bag of hinges was to check the stamp page of the Sunday New York Times where he found many good bar- gains. For example, he sent away for 100 Italian stamps for 10 cents with a chance to look at some expensive ones on approval. He usually sent back the expen- sive ones, and kept the filler stamps. His raging ambition at this time was to filldup his book as fast as he could. He wanted to cover up every little picture; to get every stamp of the world. Stamp books come imprinted with black and white photographs of the more common stamps of the world. Arranged in chrono- THURS.-SUN. FEB. 8, 9, 10, & 11 ROCKETS brooklyn blues busters FEB. 12, 13, 14 21"7 SAS 11.A.M.-2 A.M. logical order, these pictures give the collector an idea of what to look for when acquiring stamps, and a logical place to display them. After a year of fanatically covering up pictures, our stamp- collector tried his hand at the Ann Arbor Stamp Club. The Club, led by president Willard Frey, meets at the International Center on the first and third Tuesday of every month. Con- sisting of beginners and experi- enced enthusiasts, the club also boasts some advanced collectors who have been sculpting their prized collections for 20 or 40 years! The club's main activity is trading off duplicates at a rate of one or two cents a stamp. With the $2.00 membership fee, Frey also works out deals for the club in which. members can purchase stamps at a fifth of Scott's annual catalogue price. The "real" value of a stamp is determined not by catalogue but by what people " will pay. Still, Scott's is considered the Bible of collectors in the U. S. But not all stamps come cheap. There is a story that once a little boy found a stamp from a British colony in a trash can and sold it for $100. The stamp, the only one made of its kind, is now valued at $50,000! How can a little stamp be worth so much? As our traveller soon 50 1Love ucy 56 The Mime of Marcel Marceau 7:30 2 What's My Line? 4 Circus! 7 Michigan Outdoors 9 Movie "Tarzan Finds a Son!" (39) 50 Hogan's Heroes 56 Behind the Lines 8:00 2 The Waltons 4 Flip Wilson 7 Mod Squad 56 Advocates 50 Dragnet 8:30 50 Merv Griffin 9:00 2 Movie "The Professionals" (66) 4 Bob Hope 7 Kung Fu 9 News 56 An American Family 9:30 Happy Though Married 10:00 4 NBC Follies 7 Streets of San Francisco 9 Money Test 11:00 4 7 News 9 CBC News 50 One Step Beyond 11c20 2 9 News 11:30 4 Johnny Carson 7 Jack Paar Tonite 50 Movie "TheBig Stampede" (32) 11:50 2 Movie "Something Evil" (72) 12:00 9 Movie ''The Young Americans,, (1967) 12:30 50 Movie "Haunted Gold" (32) 1:00 4 7 News 1:20 2 Movie "Red River" (1948) 2:50 News found out, stamps, like every- thing else, get their value from supply and demand. While all countries get revenue from commemorative i s s u e s, some countries design stamps strictly for the collectors' mar- ket. These colorful, unique stamps are called "labels" be- cause they have no catalogue value. But collectors still love to show off their stamps from Bur- undi, or an adhesive banana from the South Sea Island, Tonga. Bhutan, in the Tibetan Moun- tains, get revenue from big stamps printed on U.S. Steel foil. Philately, then, represents art, in many senses. First, there is the process of collection itself which involves hoarding certain stamps and thus designates them as art. Next is the collection book, which takes on the appearance of a montage of designs. From a distance, the patterns of color on the page merely speak to the viewers' visual sensibilities. Viewed closely, however, one can see represented some of the fin- est art works, statues, and his- torical institutions of a country, pictured in miniature. But perhaps the most bewilder- ing sense of artistry to the non- collector is the art of finding stamps. Our traveller related some of his experiences of his second European trip, when he had already been collecting for two years. Overcome with the desiretfor stamps, he would pick out letters from trash cans, ask people for their stamps in the American Express mail line, and attend stamp club meetings where he would bargain with the natives in his limited knowledge of their language. As if these weren't enough, he would send gorgeous stamps on the postcards to friends and family, only to soak these stamps off in lukewarm water when he returned and press them into his collection book. Those of us who have watched him are beginning to wonder if stamp collecting still fills in for travelling or if travelling has be- come a means of filling up his book with every stamp in the world. (WABX-Airwaves - According to Zodiac News, Black Sabbath has rejected an offer to do a South tAfrican tour because of a stipulation that they had to play for segregated audiences. Sababth singer Ossy Osborne re- ported: "They were going to have a line down the middle of the hall, with blacks on one side and whites on the other, and you weren't supposed to cross over. It was totally insane." The group may tour Japan next year. Folklore Society 0 0 Daily Photo by KAREN KASMAUSKI Magic fingers Carlos Montoya, renowned Flamenco guitarist, makes his Ann Arbor debut at Rackham Aud. Tues- day night. Revitalizing traditions tol toni ght 6:00 2 4 7 News 9 Courtship of Eddie's Father 50 Flintstones 56 Sewing Skills 6:30 2 CBS News 4 NBC News 7 ABC News 9 Gilligan's Island 56 Classroom Meetings 7:00 2 Truth or Consequences 4 News 7 To Tell the Truth 9 Beverly Hillbillies By JEFF SORENSEN The small but vigorous Uni- versity of Michigan Folklore So- ciety is trying to keep alive a folk tradition that waned on campuses after the folk boom of the early '60's. Currently the Society is mainly involved with music, although it has also expanded into other areas. "The gatherings where people simply get together to make music have been the most enjoyable times for me," says President Lorre Weidlich. Most of the members seem to have gotten interested in folklore by means of music first. In fact, the idea for reviving the Society came about one night in the Ark coffeehouse in April, 1971 be- cause of folk music. "I think this emphasis on folk music does reflect the interests of the peo- ple who are members," com- ments Judi Green. In the past 1 years, the So- ciety has put on several large concerts, including a financially successful Joan Baez concert last year and a John Hartford, Nor- man Blake concert last month. The Society hopes to make enough money on the "big- name" concerts in order to bring lesser - known traditional talent to campus at a financial loss. In addition to concerts, the So- ciety has in the past sponsored "mini - concerts" with such performers as Bobby Clancy of the well-known Clancy Brothers. The club has also held work- artistic writing? If you are interest.- ed in . reviewing poetry, and music. drama, dance, film, or writing feature stories abo 0 ut the arts: Contact Arts SEdi tor, c/o The Michigan Daily. shops in the Ark, including a recent one with Friends of Fid- dlers Green from Toronto. Despite this background in folk music, "The Society should get more into other aspects of folklore than music," says Lorre Weidlich. Some areas that have been or will be scheduled include folktale - telling, quilting bees, dulcimer - making and studies of old customs. The group considers that it has an educational role to fulfill as well as an entertainment role. Recently, the Society succeeded in reviving the University's on- ly folklore course, "American Folklore," taught by Yvonne Lockwood in the Humanities de- partment of the Engineering Col- lege. The monthly newsletter, edited by Bob and Judi Green, func- tions as a record of folklore ac- tivities and ideas and is widely acclaimed by regional folklore circles. The active club membership is about 25 or 30 at present. "We do, however, have the problem of keeping steady members, be- cause people tend to come and go," explains Judi Mason. Many of the members aren't University students, and the club is con- stantly looking for chances to expand more into the Ann Ar- bor community. "The club is an organization with a lot of unrealized poten- tial. I'm surprised that member- ship is only at 30 people, be- cause, for example, the number of people who wanted to take "American Folklore" indicates there is a lot of interest that hasn't been tapped yet," com- ments Bob Green. This Sunday, Feb. 11, the So- ciety will hold an open - house meeting which will feature some folklore workshops as well as afford a chance for the So- ciety to find out what sorts of in- terests people have 11 folklore. Needless to say, it also affords a chance for community people to examine the activities of local preserver of folk traditions. ENDS TONIGHT HELL, UPSIDE DOWN survive-in one of the greatest escape adventures ever! PANAVISION® COLOR BY DELUXE®§ Friday: "SOUNDER". For the moment, the Byrds led by Roger McGuinn, are de funct. So what better way tc squeeze some more money out o their music than to releasea greatest hits album? That's jus what has happened, so now we have The Best of the Byrds Greatest Hits, Volume II (Colum bia KC 31795). The album has fair representation of the music of the Byrds' later career. Ther is a good variety of country an western, folk-rock, and rock 'n roll, all performed with the typi cal Byrds flair and distinctiv vocals. Greatest Hits album usually don't have too much co hesiveness, and this one is n exception. Nevertheless, the s lections are a fair and good rep resentation of the Byrds, and a the songs have something of it terest to offer. 0 f a t e i- ,e d D- e0 e- P- ill n- FILM-Ann Arbor Film Coop presents LeLouch's The Crook tonight in Aud. A at 7 and 9. Cinema Guild shows Capra's You Can't Take It With You at 7 and 9:05 tonight in Arch. Aud. South Quad Films presents Rosemary's Baby in Dining Rm. Two tonight at 7 and 9:45. New World Film Co-op shows Mingus: A Well Spent Life and a Bes- sie Smith short tonight at 7 and 9:30 in Aud. 3, MLB. Ma- ternal and Child Health Film Series shows Story of Erie at 1170 SPH II at noon. DRAMA-Student Lab Theatre presents Terry's Comings and Goings and Bullins' A Son, Come Home at 4 this afternoon in Frieze Arena. UAC-Michmimers perform Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam tonight at 8 in Men- delssohn. FOOD-SPECIAL-International Night at League cafeteria tonight 5-7:15 featuring foods of Yugoslavia and Czecho- slavakia. MUSIC-Peter Bowen performs at the Ark tonight at 8:30. UPCOMING CONCERT TIP-Miles Davis performs Sat., Feb. 10 at EMU's Pease Aud. ARTS _.I Liv UI~1 NOW! Liv U11m Voted IA Cif VS "MASTERFUL ! OF A SECURE LISTS OF C I GREAT FILMS!' Wins "One of the best movies in years! A rare gem!" Family Circle A FILM WORTHY INTEGRIT PLACE ON AN ARTIS N E M A' S MENT AS THIS YEAI ton, N.Y. Post T Max von Sydow.Liv Ullmann The EnigrantsB man... Best Actress" N.Y. Film Critics OF IMMENSE Y, AS CERTAIN STIC ACHIEVE- I HAVE SEEN A!" he National Observer "A historical pageant .. . undeniably great." Vincent Canby, N.Y. Times Technicolor'From Warner Bros., AWorner Communications Company A Film by CLAUDE LE LOUCH (director of "A Man and a Woman") THE CROOK Le louch's tricky, slick Valentine to a clever crook, Simon the Swiss, so-named be- cause of his precision, with a dandy musical s c o r e by Francis Lai. (again, of A MAN AND A WOMAN). With Jean-Louis Trintignant and Daniele Delorme. TONIGHT!-February 8th-ONLY-COLOR-7 & 9 p.m.