Wednesday, January 17, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Wednesday, January 17, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Marathon plans to } help center In an effort to raise money for organizations housed in the Wash- ington St. Community Center be- fore a fire there last December, WNRZ-FM, the Ann Arbor Tribal Council and the Community Cen- ter Coordinating Council have an- nounced plans for a WNRZ COM- MUNITY MARATHON. The Marathon, which will begin Monday, Jan. 22, and conclude 28 hours later, hopes to raise funds so that Ozone House, Drug Help, the Free People's Clinic and the Community Center Project can move from their current tempor- ary facilities at Canterbury House to more permanent space elsewhere in town, and so that the People's Ballroom can be rebuilt and officers constructed for the various Tribal Council Committees. During the Marathon, WNRZ's regular programming will be ex- panded to include live interviews with representatives from the af- fected organizations and o t h e r prominent members of the com- munity, live broadcasts f r o m three benefit-concerts which have been arranged to take place dur- ing the Marathon, and con- stant pleas to listeners to call in pledges of money, and/or equip- ment. The live broadcasts will orig- inate from: Mackinac J a c k s on Monday night with perform- ances by Lightnin' and Radio King and His Court of Rhythm; from the Blind Pig on Tuesday afternoon with the Mojo Boogie Band and Diesel-Smoke/Danger- ous Curves; and from the Odys- sey on Tuesday night with Loco- motion and Iron Horse Exchange. All bands are donating their serv- ices and the bars have agreed to donate the entire cover admis- sion charge to the Marathon fund. (WABX- Airwaves) - R i n g o Starr, Peter Townshend, Keith Moon, the Everly Brothers, Jack Bruce and Stevie Winwood all have parts in "That'll Be the Day," a film starring Ringo and currently being shot on the Isle of Wight. $. e Steeleye Span Folk from England incorporates change By TOM OLSON Our British brethren have at times suffered from an excess of scruples about the corruption of their noble heritage of folk mu- sic by the vile influence of god- less rock and roll. All too fre- quent are the moments in the albums of prominent English folkies when one wishes the mu- sicians had been less concerned with absolute faithfulness to the original, and more with making music to interest today's listen- ers. Restraint and good taste are es- sential to a successful piece of music, but they can only take it so far. What true believers cus- tomarily refer to as the "under- stated excitement" of unadorned folk music is often so understat- ed that it borders on the coma- tose. Even if such albums did not formally advise you that "THiS ALBUM SHOULD BE PLAYED SOFTLY," you probably got the idea anyway that it was unheal- thy for music to provoke any re- action greater than polite foot- tapping.. Which is all a shame, since the genius of vintage folk music will almost always survive the leav- ening influence of a bit of the pagan 20th century. It is just such a relaxing of purism that brings us two excellent new al- bums from mother England: San- dy by Sandy Denny (A&M SP 4371) and Below the Salt by Steeleye Span (Chrysalis 1008). While both albums make ob- vious their creators' affection for things natural and acoustic, they reveal as well that neither are afraid to employ occasional elec- tricity and amplification when it will improve a song. The gentle beauty of acoustic strumming and picking can be best savored when contrasted with the stab- bing, vicious noises that only electric instruments can make. And the throb of a pluged-in Fen- der is all the more exhilirating when it is used sparingly in an otherwise acoustic context. Since paying her folk dues sing- ing and writing clean-as-country- water music for Fairport Con- vention, Sandy Denny has record- ed both alone and with the Brit- ish group The Bunch. She is not, strictly speaking, unheard of in this country, but merely unheard, despite her powerhouse stature in Great Britain. Sandy, her lat- est, is as fine an album as we could ask of her. Although she wrote eight of the ten songs on it, the album as a whole is very much steeped in the English folk idiom. Her melo- dic gifts are consistently strong and her lyrics are uniformly plea- sant - mostly the stuff of olde English balladry, salty sea spray and maidens to be married. In- strumentation throughout the al- bum is full and imaginative, and even when it threatens to be- come slightly too moving, t h i s flaw is only a minor distriction from the overall excellence. Sandy Denny's fabled voice is, well, Sandy Denny's fabled voice, and it stands up well to the com- petition presented by her virt- uous sidemen. The production is altogether so confident and professional and the material so agreeable that this record will surely appeal to many outside the ranks of hard- core Sandy Denny fanatics. Par- ticularly worth listening for are the somewhat spectacular open- ing cut "It'll Take a Long Time" and the dramatic "It Suits Me Well". Steeleye Span is similarly ac- commodating to the interests of those who enjoy folk music but do not object to spiking it with a touch of electricity. Their songs, centuries old all, range from the sweetly acoustic to the nastily electric. Below the Salt is uni- form only in its remarkable lis- tenability, covering the thema- tic spectrum from the sacred (an unaccompanied Latin hymn "Gaudette") to the profane (the delicately bawdy "Royal Fores- ter"). The group sees nothing amiss in juxtaposing an electric bass with a chorus of wooden spoons, and the result is decided- ly refreshing. The individual cuts tend to float in and out of one's m i n d often enough that it is difficult to specify the best one or two, but "Saucy Sailor" and "Sheep Crook and Black Dog" seem to be two of the more enduring. By JEFF EPSTEIN Despite its billing as the ac- tion film of the season, The Poseidon Adventure is but a sog- gy story with a blend of excite- ment and depth possibly rivaled by an episode of Diver Dan. The movie hastily strings together a series of well time crises, every five minutes or so, that effective- ly numbs the audience to any tension or suspense the plot once had in Paul Gallico's novel. Add some of the most embarrassing performances ever by a collec- tion of distinguished Oscar win- ners, and the total is an amaz- ing lack of entertainment. It is New Year's Eve on board the S. S. Poseidon and, while the passengers are enjoying a toast to good health, the ship is about to be broached by a 90 foot tidal wave. After the catastrophe, and after all the lead characters find themselves in n e a r perfect health, the band of intrepid so- journers begins the arduous climb up through the innards of the ship, which is now upside down in the water. Film's fightingest father since Pat O'Brien, Gene Hackman, leads tov. tonight 6:00 2 4 7 News 9 Courtship of Eddie's Father 50 Flintstones 56 Maggie and the-Beautiful Machine 6:30 2 CBS News 4 NBC News 7 ABC News 9 1 Dream of Jeannie 50 Gilligan's Island 56Making Things Grow 7:00 2 Truth or Consequences 4 News 9 Beverly Hillbillies 7 To Tell The Truth 50 I Love Lucy 56 Zoom 7:30 2 What's My Line? 4 eFstival of Family Classics 7 Wild Kingdom 9 Irish Rovers 50 Hogan's Heroes 56 Consumer Game 8:00 2 National Geographic I. 1 I 'I rLocal '' Poets The Michigan Daily Arts Page is now accepting poetry for publication. submit work Sto Arts Editor k: c/o The Daily. the collection of personalities reminiscent of Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools. However in this instance, they really are a ship of fools. Shelly Winters and Jack Al- bertson are Manny and Belle Rosen, a sweet elderly Jewish couple. Mridst the calamity they insist on making with the jokes and testimonials like they were Mr. and Mrs. George Jessel. While on board they befriend a sweet middle age haberdasher, Red Buttons, who in turn be- friends a sweet young singer, Carol Lynley. Ernest Borgnine befriends no one, and Stella Ste- vens as his wife, the reformed lady of the evening (this pic- ture is PG) is exceptional look- ing, which might have saved the entire film. The director also realized this fact and constantly followed Stella during her peri- 4 Adam-12 7 Paul Lynde 9 It Takes a Thief 5ODragnet 56 How to Win the Nobel Prize 8:30 4 Bob Hope Christmas Show 7 Movie 50 Merv Griffin 9:00 2 Medical Center 9 News-Don West 56 Eye to Eye 9:30 9 Messe Pour Le Temps Present 56 The First Detroiter's 10:00 2 Cannon 4 Cole Porter in Paris 7 Owen Marshall 50 Perry Mason 56 Soul! 11:00 2 4 7 News 9 CBC News 50 One Step Beyond 11:20 9 News 11:30 2 Movie "Torpedo Run" (1958) 4 Johnny Carson 7 Movie "Frankenstein" 50 Movie "Montana" (1950) 12:00 9 Movie "King Rat" 1:00 4 7 News 1:30 2 Movie "Unfaithfully Yours" (1948 3:00 2 News Have a flair for artistic writing? If you are interest- ed in reviewing poetry, and music. or writing feature Editor, c/o The drama. dance, film, Michigan Daily. THURS. JAWUARY 18 FREE INSTRUCTION UNIION '7-9 P M odic tussles against indecent ex- posure. Reverend Scott (Gene Hack- man) is a brash member of the clergy's new breed and a hybrid of Brigham Young, Jesus Popeye Doyle. Acting, on his part, con- sisted mainly of yelling louder than Ernest Borgnine, who was yelling louder than Stella Stev- ens. Laughable, yet memorable were the religious allusions in the Stirling Silliphant and Wen- dell Mayes screenplay. Rev. Scott delivers a Sermon on the Mount to those disbelieving pas- sengers who will not follow him to engine room above. They, of course, perish as do all not will- ing to be guided by the saviour. A note of truth to the ridiculous events is that people tend to fol- low those who yell loudest, in this case the Reverend. Between Poseidon sinks into sea of banality the regular crises, Hackman in- stills faith and unity with an occasional pep talk, eulogy or sermonette. Poseidon Adventure wallows amidst unimaginative special ef- fects. The dead people in the film have an eery resemblance to the live actors, which does- n't say much for either; shock- ing death is denoted by eyes open while peaceful eternity al- lows the eyes to fall closed. The ship itself is all of eight feet long and is tossed by the storm- ing seas of an obvious Hollywood water tank. The interior of the vessel, upside down during the majority of the picture, is one redeeming feature and for the most believable. The best that can be said for The Poseidon Adventure is that it is equal to decent television fare . . . and that is exactly what the film reminds one of consider- ing the pasteboard sets, acting, and meaning. Do not offend, do not excite and at the same time do not entertain an audience that is waiting for what the publicity department boasts as "power- packed" film fare. UAC-DAYSTAR PRESENTS WITH WNRZ David Bromnlberg IN CONCERT, also, Terry Tate "The most exciting talent to emerge loge since Dylan." "An eclectic, rowdy, slightly lunatic from the Vil- -Rolling Stone genius. -Michigan Doily 4IF PMost of our patrons agree with Free Press critic Susan Stark who caled HAROLD AND MAUDE C A P Sthe most easy-to-take comedy of the year" and who picked it as Theatr e _ _ _ne _ _-4416 one of the year's 10 best films. They met at the funeral of a perfect stranger. From then on, things got perfectly stranger and stranger. Paramount Pictures Presents HAROLD and MAUDE Color by Technicolor* A Paramount Picture ""'.. GP t$ ,, EXTRA "THE DOVE" A satire on ingmar Bergman films. El Irene Connors and Walter Atanamah in the roles of Queen Elaanor and King Henry in scene from Ann Arbor Civic Theatre's product- ion of The Lion in Winter which opens tonight in Mendelssohn. FILM-The AA Film Coop shows Palmer's 200 Motels tonight in Aud. A, Angell at 7 and 9. Cinema Guild presents Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew tonight at 7 and 9:20 in the Arch. Aud. The Psych. 171 Film series shows Zuckercandl and Invention of the Adolescent this afternoon at 4 in the UGLI Multi-purpose Rm. New Morning Films presents Le Bbnheur and a Bessie Smith short tonight in the MLB. MUSIC-The Bartok String Quartet performs at 8:30 tonight in Rackham Aud. The Interlochen Arts Academy Clarinet Choir, Fred Ormand, conductor, performs at 8 tonight in the U-M School of Music Recital Hall. DRAMA-The Ann Arbor Civic Theatre presents The Lion in the Winter tonight in Mendellsohn Theatre at 8. ART-The Ann Arbor Art Assoc. opens a new show today of watercolors by well known local painters at City Half. Hours from 8 to 5. SIGN UP NOW! MUSIC LESSONS, ANN ARBOR MUSIC MART will soon be starting Class Lessons in Guitar, Flute, Banjo, & Drums. $12.00 for 6 weekly lessons RENTAL INSTRUMENTS AVAILABLE! Rent is applied toward purchase of the instrument CONTACT BILL ROBBINS Wed., Jan. 24, Power Center, $2.50 TICKETS: MICHIGAN UNION SALVATION RECORDS 11-5:30, Mon.-Sat. 10-7 p.m. Mon.-Sat. ONLY 1400 SEATS IN POWER CENTER! also on sale now: FREDDIE KING LUTHER ALLISON, MOJO BOOGIE, this SATURDAY NITE-HILL AUD. $4-3.50-3.0O HELL, UPSIDE DOWN TWO FILMS BY KEN RUSSELL, DIRECTOR OF "WOMEN IN LOVE" AND "THE DEVILS" "Best Movie Musical of 1971!" -N EWSDAY "ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST!" -National Board of Review,f -Newsweek, -L.A. Times, -Assoc. Press, -Cue, -L.A. Herald-Examiner, -Newsday, -Group W Radio "BEST DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR- KEN RUSSELL" -National Board of Review "Contains enough for 20 ordinary musicals. Twiggyi.o succeeds beyond all expectations. You'll say[M$ 'Busby Berkeley'!" *®'GM -Roaer Greensoun, N.Y. Times RUSSELL'S LATEST FIL "OUTRAGEOUSLY REFRESHING, DIFFERENT AND ENJOYABLE." -William Wolf, Cue "Ken Russell succeeds in communicating the white-hot energies of the creative act in its most desperate and inspired form." -Zimmerman, Newsweek "Another brilliant exercise by one of the more talented film stylists of today." Ken RussetI Film lava gO Who will survive-in one one of the greatest escape adventures evert DAN uyl"MDRBYljK ] ANN ARBOR MUSiC MART 336 S. STATE ]69-4980 Mon.-Sat. 9:30-9:00 F THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION, RINGO STARR, & THEODORE BIKEL in 200 OTELS Devised by FRANK ZAPPA. Directed by TONY PALMER "Touring with a rock band can ma ke you crazy."-So can this movie! A surreal diary, done on high-resolution videotape originally, with rock music that uses fantasies mixed with realities, loads of quick cuts and a lot of psychedelic colors. TONIGHT-JAN. 17th-ONLY 35mm COLOR-7 & 9 P.M. ,3..-. TA ..-In O-L -TMn vDJrIJ rFC NE-J ---Variety 1 1 _ M, M AV m I i