Saturday, February 17, 1973 I ; MIU IICjAN UAILY r uge t pree Saturday, February 17, 1973 I ;-~L M-~AIN LJAILY ruge inre~ Benefit exhibit helps rebuild Nicaraguan cultural center to 0 By JEFF SORENSEN The local exhibit for artist Alejandro Arostegui may not make the fortune that the Rolling Stones did in their Nicaraguan benefit, but it does offer Ann( Arbor residents a rare opportun- ity to view the works of a major international painter. On Dec. 23, 1972, when an earthquake devasted much of Managua, Nicaragua, "I was sleeping in my parents' home in- stead of being at my studio as I usually am at that time," Aros- tegui says. Unfortunately his studio, several of his paintings, and a nearby cultural center were badly damaged. The cultural center, GAleria Praxis, was nearly completely lost. "The center contained the paintings of myself as well as four other artist-friends, some of whom had their works damaged even more severely than mine," says Arostegui in a heavy accent. Because the center served as a focal point of intellectual and artistic activity in Nicaragua, Arostegui and his friends are starting an effort to rebuild it. The Forsythe Gallery is help- ing in this effort by displaying some of his works in a benefit that ends today. According to gallery director Daniel De Graaf, the influence of Arostegui's na- tive country on his work should be noted, "both in its subject matter-the Nicaraguan lakes and manifestations of local color -and in its spirit, a keen sense of drama being the dominant I L. *CANNEDNEAT * T. REX * JEI ES AU~ifI ~DA ,. ~ OR *18B~ JO D ® -Metrocolor not continuous with "The Valachi Papers" MIDNIGHT SHOW Friday and Saturday plus Chapter 3 of our continuing serial "FLASH GORDON" with Ming the Merciless and Dr. Zarkov starring Buster Crabbe Doors Open 11:45 Admission $2.00 Next Weekend Feb. 23 and 24 "ZACHARIAH" plus "FLASH GORDON" chapter four sr.T1- PorUn characteristics of his composi- tions." These works on exhibit have been assembled from the Pan- American Union in Washington, D.C., from Arostegui's sister's collection in Ann Arbor (She was instrumental in suggesting the benefit.), and also from painting in his collection in Ma- nagua which weren't destroyed. "Some of the paintings were lost in the disaster," explains Aros- tegui, "but some also escaped unharmed and some are saveable because they can be retouched." Arostegui, one of Nicaragua's foremost painters, now has a visa for a one-month stay in the U.S. and is in New York at present, although he was in town earlier during the exhibition. Many of the paintings will re- main here for several weeks but probably not be open for public viewing. The Gallery charges a one- dollar minimum donation toward the reconstruction project. Aros- tegui says that the benefit hasn't been particularly financially suc- cessful but that it is very help- ful and. appreciated nonetheless. Arostegui was born in Blue- fields, Nicaragua and first came to the U.S. when he was 19 to Tulane University. Therehe orig- inally studied architecture, "be- cause my parents wanted me to. I'd always been interested in drawing and painting, but I felt at the time that it wasn't a good way to make a living." Nevertheless, after one year, he made a final decision to take up painting as a career and attended the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida. After- ward he traveled to Europe to study for several years and then returned to Nicaragua about ten years ago. Since then he has com- pleted the works which are on exhibit. Ann Arbor may have to wait quite a while for another treat like Arostegui's display-a dis- play that isedesigned not only to entertain the viewer, but also to reconstruct a cultural part of Nicaragua that other relief ef- forts cannot cover. Have a flair for artistic writing?. If you are interest- ed in re view in g poetry, and music. drama, dance, film, or writing feature stories a b o u t the arts: Contact Arf Editorcy do Te Michigan Daily. Daily Photo by TOM GOTTLIEB Punch and pictures Photographer Gregory Campbell poses himself-for a change-at a punch-and-cookies reception yes- terday for his one-man show. The Union Gallery exhibit will run through March 2. Unfortunately the cookies will not. Pavlo Hummel: Exploiting anti-war sentiment tonight 6:00 2 4 News 7 Golf Tournament 9 TI Is Is Your Life 50 Star Trek 56 Thirty Minutes With 6:30 2 CBS News 4 NBC News 9 Fishin' Hole 56 Consumer Game 7:00 2 Truth or Consequences 4 George Plerrot 7 News 9 Untamed World 50 Hee Haw .56 U.S. Industrial Film Festival 7:30 2 Young Dr. Kildare 4 Adventurer 7 Town Meeting 9 Detroit Diesel 56 Eye to Eye 8:00 2 Al in the Family 4 Emergency! 7 Here We Go Again 9 NHL Hockey 56 Movie "Ivan the Terrible," Part I, (1943) 50 That Good Ole Nashville Music 8:30 2 Bridget Loves Bernie 7 A Touch of Grace 50 Nitty Gritty 9:00 2 MaryTyler Moore 4 Movie "The Alamo" Part 1 7 Julie Andrews 50 Black Omnibus 9:30 2 Bob Newhart 10:00 2 Carol Burnett 7 Jigsaw 56 Cambridge Debate on Women's Lib 50 Lou Gordon 10:30 9 Document 11:00 2 4 7 9 News 56 Net Opera Theatre 11:15 7 ABC News 9 Provincial Affairs 11:20 9 News 11:30 2 Movie "Assault on a Queen" (1966) 4 Johnny Carson 7 Movie "All in A Night's Work" (1961) 9 Movie "The Rare Breed" (1966) 50Movie "Godzilla" (Japanese, 1956) 1:00 4 News 1:30 2 Movie "The Flesh Eaters" (1967) 7 Movie "The Uninhibited" (Spanish, 1965) 3:00 2 7 News wcbn listings 9:00-Maranatha Music 12:00-Radio Prison 2:00-Basketball: UM vs Northwestern 4:00-Jazz S:09-Progressive Rock 11 :00-The Potato Show A R T S r Lc= jlOO-P I, I -- I COMING SOON 1 By MITCHELL ROSS David Rabe's Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, presented this weekend as a Showcase Produc- tion of the University Players, exploits popular sentiments con- cerning the Indochina war. Now that the Wvar is concluded and 46,000 Americans are in their graves, this infantile rant should soon be buried too, though far from the soldiers whose loss is honestly mourned. Nevertheless, I recall the re- views hailing Pavlo as the first great drama to come out of Viet- nam, written by a veteran with a burning sense of guilt. The average New York drama critic, who knew less about the war than a Vietnamese mongoose, was nonetheless anxious to utilize Pavlo as a trumpet to call Amer- ica to a sense of moral outrage. The opening, at Joseph Papp's theatre in Greenwich Village, was so ballyhooed as to give one the feeling that, were we all to go down and look in on Pavlo's sad story, our souls might undergo a general resurrection, with Righteo'isness reigning once more in the Republic. Alas, dear friends, 'tis not so. Pavlo Hummel is petty and pal- try, a mere impertinence which exploits morality much less than it does language. One is not re- quired to have believed in "peace with honor" in order to deplore this play. Literacy alone will do. Rabe's favorite noun in Pavlo Hummel, is "shit." The same word is, in addition, Rabe's fav- orite adjective, verb, adverb, and past participle. Such chastity of diction strikes me as the only consistent aspect of the play. With almost military discipline, it shoots forth from the mouth of each soldier as the work pro- ceeds from incident to incident. While this bogus drama is so amorphous as to lack any sem- blance of climax, there is one speech, at the evening's close, which might be described as a summary of all that has occurred until thatmoment. It is delivered by Pavlo - from his coffin, strangely enough, and after he is dead, at that. It goes, simply, "Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit." Requiem aeternam! What to say about all this? Nothing if you ask me, unless we are to borrow from the author's rich vocabulary. If I have given very little in the way of a summary, that is because I do not feel it is my duty to clean up other people's messes. Suipposedly, the work accounts for the activities of a vague and uninteresting fellow named Pavlo Hummel, first in basic training camp in Georgia, and later in Vietnam itself. However, the whole matter is badly muddled by a series of crudely devised flash-backs, while the characters surrounding the central figure are so unsavory in outline that the author does not bother to color in any of the details-for fear, I suppose, that he might discover humanedimensions whichswould force him to depict something other than a race of foul-mouthed imbeciles. All of which brings us to the particular production at hand. Director David Kelley has botch- ed it badly, succeeding in some- thing I should have thought im- possible by darkening what is already obscure. The trouble is that Kelley can make no more senseofRabe than myself, and so allows confusion to degenerate into hysteria. We find actors screami"g at the tops of their voices for no particular reason, except, perhaps, to accentuate the rampant neuroses. What is worse, we find actors who do not even know their lines, and so mumble their way into unintel- ligibility. In the title role, John Coneland is simply incompetent. Rabe's writing, however awful, at least suggests several possibilities around which the character of Pavlo might take form. There are hints of roguishness, though none, to be sure, of humor. There is a trace of the restless young man, who might, perhaps, be driven towards action by all the holler over saving the world for democracy. As I say, in the end it is all very hopeless anyway, but Copeland might at least make an effort. Instead, we are forced to watch the maneuvers of a mere cipher with a taste for witless vulgarism and childish tantrum. The rest of the cast is not much better, norhareastage set- tings of John Oertling, which go the director one step further in losing all grasp of time and place. Indeed, in a charitable mood we would be inclined to regard Pavlo Hummel in much the same terms as many con- sider the late, lamented war it- self-as a virulent disease which infects each person whom it touches. Dona nobis pacem. I CUL TURE CALEIDR FILM-Cinema Guild presents Forman's Loves of a Blonde at 7 and 9:05 in Arch. Aud.; Cinema II shows the Marx brothers'. A Day at the Races in Aud. A, Angell at 7, 9;. New Morning Films presents Allen's Bananas at,7, 9 in Aud. 3, MLB; Couzens Film Co-op shows Vampire Lovers in the cafeteria at 7, 9; UAC-Mediatrics plays Nichols' Catch 22 at 7, 9:30 in Nat. Sci. Aud. DRAMA-South Quad Players present The Apple Tree, a musical comedy in Dining Rm. 4 at 7:30, 10; U Players offer Rabe's The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummuel at 8 in Trueblood. MUSIC-The Music Schgol features Ross Miller playing trum- pet at 8 in SM Recital Hall; The Musical Society brings Marcel Marceau, pantomimist to the Power Centerat 8; John Denver gives a concert at Hill at 8-sold out. ART-The Union Gallery presents photographs by Gregory Campbell from 12 to 5. WEEKEND BARS AND MUSIC-Ark, Paul Siebel (Fri., Sat., Sun.) admission; Blind Pig, Brooklyn Bluesbusters (Fri., Sat.) cover, String Trio (Sun.) no cover; Del Rio, Jazz (Sun.) no cover; 'Golden Falcon, Fifth Revelation (Fri., Sat.) cover; Mackinac Jack's, Lightin' (Fri., Sat., Sun.) cover; Mr. Flood's Party, Garfield Blues Band (Fri., Sat:) cover, Diesel Smoke and Dangerous Curves (Sun. at. 3 p.m.) cover; Bimbo's on the Hill, Full Force (Fri., Sat.) cover; Odyssey, Stone Front (Fri., Sat.) cover, Okra, (Sun.) cover. DETROIT HAPPENINGS-Charles Mingus gives a concert at the Strata Concert Gallery, 46 Selden at 9:30, 11:00, 12:30; Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks appear at the Ma- sonic Temple at 8 with special guest Bob Seger and group; Fisher Theatre presents Two Gentlemen of Ver- ona; yiolinist Zino Francescatti plays with -the Toledo Symphony Orchestra at the Museum Peristyle at 8:30; guitarist Gove appears at 10:30, 12:00 at the Raven Gallery. The Crackers . .. hold-up NEW WORLD FILM COOP 665-6734 UU j TUESDAY, FEB. 20, 1973 Ij IA 8TNIITAL IOZ S.FIRST STREET 63401 4O PRESENTS THE SLAVIC FOLK DANCERS 40 Dancers, Singers, Instrumentalists in Authentic Costumes PERFORMIN, DANCES OF RUSSIA An all-Slavic POLAND CROATIA tAUAnnDAIIWA IAiEnADI' rnena 9 +, Y ni 14 A DAY AT THE RACES SATURDAY 17 FEBRUARY ,', ^ ;: 1937 Sam Wood. THE MARX BROTHERS Take Over A Sanitarium AUDITORIUM A * 7 & 9:00 * ONE DOLLAR I 3 2 w _1 - Woody Allen's farce Been Screwed by a Charter Airline. SGC Wants To Know! 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