4Page 6-Thursday, March 23, 1978-The Michigan Daily AR ARCADE ... a weekly roundup Have paintbrush, will travel HONG KONG - She travels by jeep, boat, helicopter and on foot - her mission: to capture on canvas tribespeople in some of the most remote spots on earth before civilization cat- ches up with them. Her legal name now is Texana, and since 1963 she has been in 110 countries and completed two works on Hong Kong street life - not the modern, skyscraper-dotted business district, but colorful sidestreets where life has changed little over the decades. Texana, whom critics have said has a style reminiscent of Van Gogh, has painted Tibetans in a border village, nomadic tribesmen in the Persian desert, Lapps in the Arctic circle, Palestinian, refugees, faces of the Scasbahin Albiers and the Mandingos of West Africa. Most of her creations are destined for Jackie's back AP Photo "People of the World" museum, to be located in Geneva, Switzerland. Jackie Gleason is doing live theater for the first time since his 1959 Tony "After our environment and dreams Award-winning performance in "Take Me Along." Gleason, now 62, is making have vanished," she said, "the pain- his return in the San Diego production of "Sly Fox." tings of the people of the world to the spirit of man and art for people's sake." though no one had seen Barry Lyndon at the time, Malcolm Green paid $15,000 for the right to show it in his theater. Months later, when he finally was able to see the movie, Green's heart sank. "I knew it was a bomb, but I was stuck with it," he said. The film earned only $4,000 during the month-long run at his theater in Glens Falls, N.Y. Green and other theater owners want anger the commercial networks when permission is sought to let commercial TV stations, for a fee, share the use of PBS-bought satellite ground units at nearby public TV stations. The predictions come from Henry Loomis, president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which over- sees federal funding of non-commercial broadcasting in America. But by Dec. 31, he says, all 155 public TV licensees ... comes the time we have to say so long' "This is like graduation. It's a sad time and a happy time," said Carol Burnett at the taping of her final show. The last episode, a two-hour special, will be broadcast on Wednesday, March 29. Were they expecting Percy Faith? PITTSBURGH - "Booing is very good. That means they're listening," said Andre Previn, conductor of the Pit- tsburgh Symphony, recalling how some ticket buyers responded to a work they deemed too avante garde - or maybe just too long. Boos may be nothing special in Paris or Rome, but this is Pittsburgh, where gripes are usually raised in union halls - not concert halls. So it was most unusual in mid-February when some symphony goers took offense during a non-traditional work by Oliver Messiaen, a 69-year-old French com- poser. The work, written in 1948, has a tongue-twister title, Turangalila. It is 90 minutes long with hard; driving, com- plex rhythms and no intermission. Simulated bird calls are included in the work, but it was the boo birds that war- bled. Some of the 3,000 concert goers walked out. More booed. But most stayed, and many cheered in support. At later performances of Turangalila, Previn broke tradition and appealed from the stage for patience. Recent deaths " Kathryn Givney - A veteran stage and screen actress, Givney, who died to abolish the practice they say is responsible for many of their losses: blind bidding. Some theater owners testified Tuesday before a Massachusetts legislative committee considering a bill to outlaw the prac- tice. In blind bidding, theater owners are required to bid for the right to show a first-run film before they have an op- portunity to see it - often months before the movie is finished. Theater owners whose bids are accepted must pay guarantees - which often run into hundreds of thousands of dollars - as a down payment on the film. "It's like telling a housewife yhou can't look at the meat in the super- market, but you buy it and we'll send it to you," said Sumner Redstone, president of the Boston-based Redstone Theater chain, which has '150 screens nationwide. Blind bidding is a relatively recent development in the film industry, ac- cording to the Theater Owners of New England. A few years ago film com- panies distributed only a small percen- tage of their films through blind bid- ding, while last year bids were solicited on nearly all major films before they were available, the organization said. Telstar wars LOS ANGELES - It began on a limited basis this month, but in time the Public Broadcasting Service's new $39.5 million shows-by-satellite system will radically alter the face of broad- casting in America. And it'll probably operating 270 PBS stations will have units that receive programs beamed down from Western Union's Westar 1 satellite 22,300 miles overhead. . ........AP Photo Still dancing after all these years Ginger Rogers, best remembered as Fred Astaire's dance partner in 10 movies, is still at it. Rogers, now 65, is currently topping the bill of a "super-nostalgia" show at the London Palladium. I THE IK EAP ANP PUPPET THEATER TOÐER wom TH E WORD'OF MOUT H CHORUS PRESENTS AVE MAR{S S TELLA By 305QUIN DESPRES Mendelssohn Theatre/Sunday March 26, 2 & 8 p.m. But program diversity, Loomis said, not transmission cost, is the main reason for the new system: The old system sent one at a time. Non-PBS channels also are available on the satellite, he said, and PBS stations, if they've bought rights to outside shows, "can pick up other people's programs if they wish, "so it makes syndication very easy." last Thursday at the age of 81, appeared in such films as Guys and Dolls and Three Coins in a Fountain, and in the stage productins of This Too Shall Pass and Lost Horizon. The A rts Arcade was compiled by Arts staffers Owen Gleiberman, Mark Johansson, Peter Manis and Alan Rubenfeld from the AP and UPI wires. D~ea Antome ' 'All Weve been reading si nce189Os 21 (W elC CthattrailiId I r( dUlCti( ls POETRY READING with JONATHAN ELLIS, STEVE SCHWARTZ, STEVE COHEN, and PAUL HUBBELL readings from their works Thursday, March 23-7:30 p.m. at GUILD HOUSE Refreshments 802 MONROE (corner of Oakland) i 7'N Applications are now being accepted for CENTRAL STUDENT JUDICIARY .