1 Arts & Entertainment THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, February 18, 1976 Page Five Now Hedy West rings out at the Ark By JOAN BORUS These same characteristics . Wn are reflected in Hedy's per- GRA\CE Hediwig West is not formances. Somehow the tradi- someone who fades into a tional ballads of Appalachia pleasant blur after her per- never will sound the same1 formance is finished. A strik- again. When Hedy sings a bal- ing strong-featured woman, she lad, or is merely sitting on the hard-edged, strung-out singing ly stuck with pins and needles. style that is one of Hedy's trade: marks. As she describes it, the i Interpreted by Hedy these vocal production hits the pitch- ballads come alive again and' es on a sharp edge, making serve as eloquent testimonialsj them vinegary and keenly of a particular region and its honed. lifestyle. Many of these songs has an equally striking rawbon- ed voice which rings with the same immediacy on Saturday morning as it did the night be- fore. Sitting with Hedy over a cup of coffee in the Ark's kitchen last weekend, I found how sel- dom my thoughts wandered. She chooses her words care- fully, making sure they mean what she wants them to mean. A native of northern Georgia, she speaks in a dialect with a unique sound, combining both a British clarity and the drawl associated with the rural south. Her words, carefully enunciat-; ed and unequally stressed, cre-' ate a distinctive pattern which focuses and holds your atten- tion. porch, a song is never far from her lips. BALLAD singing became a way to relieve the loneliness or "filling up the wilderness" as Hedy calls it, of these isolated,t rural communities. Singing was' a way of establishing contact with your neighbor; in fact, one of the primary criteria used to evaluate a singer's ability in Hedy's grandmother's time was how far a singer "carried," rather than beauty of sound. Of- ten she said she could hear a person five miles away, singing in order to announce his arriv- al. The isolated conditions of, these towns gave rise to the, Hedy performs these ballads! with a fierce pride and a devo- tion that comes only from know- ing and having grown up with them an an uncultivated part of daily life. You really listen; it's as if you hear the words forj were absorbed unconsciously by Hedy as a child, who heard her grandmother sing them constantly. Only when she was in high school did she begin to. record her grandmother and' try to trace their origins. the first time. The stark, pri- Singing and husic-making mitive and frequently gory were and still are integral fac- story lines come through with ets of rural Southern life. For an intensity often lost through Hedy's grandmother, singing stressing the ballad's melodic was almost second nature. Whe- flow at the expense of its con- Ither she washsewing, churning tent.; butter. For her the question of musical ammalgamation is a IN A SONG like "Bo Lam-' sensitive area. She is critical of kin," for example, which tells those performers who are into' the story of an unpaid mason "imitating the image;" that is, and his murderous revenge, you adapting pre-conceived ideas of really see the blood and hear what a certain musical idiom the wails of the baby merciless- is supposedly to entail, without; acknowledging their own roots Ieither musically or culturally. at OFTEN SHE finds that these same musicians are so in love gwiththe image that they be- come musically intolerant when ztage eS it alters in any way. For in- stance, when Hedy first came EDLANDER to New York, she often had trouble with people who refused trump to dummy and ruff an- to see that she was a serious other spade, bringing about this musician, interested and pro- ficient in idioms other than a folk tradition. "I was supposed to be the little Southern country girl who was neither educatable or chan- geable," she recalls. Actually, this is far from true. A music major in college, Hedy has always maintained an interest in songwriting and com- posing and has continued her studies in Germany, studying with a pupil of Arnold Schoen- berg. Yet she continues to re- turn to the music of her child- hood, a solid core than remains static 'as she continues to grow and change. VIETNAMESE SINGER WITH ADDISS & CROFUT NEW YORK P) - Folk singers Steve Addiss and Bill Crofut became acquainted with Pham Duy, known as "the Wo o d y Guthrie of Vietnam," on one of . their tours in Vietnam. Pham Duy and five members of his family left Vietnam the day before its fall but four of his children were left behind. In the words of Crofut, "to help him restore a sense of himself in these new and tragic circumstances," Addiss and Crofut are taking him and his 17-year-old daughter, T h a i Hien, on their current fall tour. AP Photo Three Academy Award nominees: Carol Kane, up for Best Actress for her performance in Hester Street, Al Pacino, upper right, for Dog Day Afternoon, and Maximilian Schell, lower right, for The Man In The Glass Booth. 'OSCARS': Aca demy nominations hold some s BRIDGE: Gambling theercei 31 MARK FRiI Itj North 4 A J 5 4 SQ 10 9 f*A63 4.542 West K 96 4 874 r 10 8 J10963 . From Wire Service Reports of Adele IH.), Ann-Margret HOLLYWOOD - Jack Nichol- (Tommy), Louise Fletcher son led a parade of nominations (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Glenda Jackson (Hedda), Nest, which captured nine in and Carol Kane (Hester Street). all. Other films to win multiple nominations are Barry Lyndon, B E S T S U P P O R T I N G with seven, and Nashville and ACTOR award noniinations in- Dog Day Afternoon with several elude: George Burns (Sunshine each. Boys), Brad Dourif (One Flew For Best Picture, the nomi- Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Bur- nations are: Jaws, Nashville, gess Meredith (Day of the Lo- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's cust), Chris Sarandon (Dog Day Nest, Dog Day Afternoon, and Afternoon), and Jack Warden Barry Lyndon. For Best Actor; (Shampoo). Jack Nicholson (Cuckoo's Nest), For Best Supporting Actress, Walter Matthau (Sunshine the nominees are: Ronee Blake- Boys), Al Pacino (Dog Day Af- ly and Lily Tomlin (Nashville), ternoon), Maximilian Schell Lee Grant (Shampoo), Sylvia (The Man In The Glass Booth), Miles (Farewell My Lovely), and James Whitmore (Give and Brenda Vaccaro (Jacque- 'Em Hell Harry). line Susann's Once Is Not Best Actress nominations in- Enough). elude Isabell Adjani (The Story Many people thought Burns Comedia' on tour-m for Ann Arbor t r i , r i _j l _$ l . k k 7 F. l ought to have been nominated for Best Actor; many others never thought that Miles or Vaccaro would make it on the Best Supporting Actress list.I For Best Director, Robert; Altman (Nashville), Stanley Kubrick (Barry Lyndon), Fed- erico Fellini (Amarcord), Sid- ney Lumet (Dog Day Afternoon) and Milos Forman (One Flew! Over the Cuckoo's Nest). An- other surprise here: manyj thought that Steven Spielberg would be nominated ,for his di- rection of Jaws. Nominations for Best Song are perhaps the least surprising element of this year's batch ofI nominees: "How Lucky Can You Get" from Funny Lady, "I'm Easy" from Nashville, "Now That We're In Love"? from Whiff, "Richard's Widow" from The Other Side Of The Mountain, and the "Theme" from Mahogany. Not includedI was the title song from Lucky Lady, which man thought a shoo-in. Best Original Screenplay: Fellini and Guerra for Amar- cord, Towne and Beatty for Shampoo, Pierson for Dog Day! Afternoon, Lelouch and Uytter- hoven for And Now My Love,, and Allan for Lies My Father Told Me. The major studios fared as follows: Columbia led the pack; with 16 nominations, followed by Warner Bros. and Para- mount with 10, United Artists with nine, Universal with Eight. MGM with six, while Allied Ar- tists and Twentieth Century-Fox' received four nominations each. All in all, a somewhat unus- ual year for Academy Awards. The presentation of the awards themselves will be aired on v 4 Soutl 11H 2D 4N' 61- h1 T t 1 East Q 10 8 7 3 52 J 9 7 4 A8 South 42 V A K J 6 3 f K Q 5 2 4 K Q 7 West North Pass 1S Pass 311 Pass 511 All pass East Pass Pass Pass can be ruffed in dummy, and if, all three rounds stand up, the' ruff isn't necessary because the suit has broken. Therefore it is a slight improvement on the above line to play two rounds of trumps, and then attempt to ruff a diamond, hoping that the: defender short in diamonds has' at most two trumps. This works just short of 50 per cent of the: time. But the best line of play is to pretend that North is declarer. After winning the club return, play a spade to the ace and ruff' a spade with the ace of trumps.: Then lead a small trump to dummy and ruff another spade, this time with the king. Another small trump to dummy is fol- lowed by a final spade ruff. The North hand is re-entered with the diamond ace to pull the last trump. All that is required is a 3-2 trump break (68 per cent), I and in the event of a 4-1 trump break, South can safely fall back on the 3-3 chance in dia- monds because the situation will be discovered in time. The total chance of success in this line is about 78 per cent. There is one other line of play that is inferior to the dummy reversal but interesting none- theless. After winning the club return, cash two, high trumps. Then lead a spade to the ace -and ruff a spade high. Lead a * 10 8 4 109 6 4 4 J f A 6 3 45 West position: A North V South East Q J 9 7 4 S- 4 K Q 5 2 Q? a i he ann arbor film cooperative TONIGHT-Wednesday, Feb. 18 STOLEN KISSES (FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT, 1968) AUD. A-7 only This may be Truffaut's best film, it is at least the film that most evokes all we love about him; his lyricism, warmth. tenderness and poetry. The story of Antoine Doinel is con- tinued here, from being booted out of the army, through countless jobs and his continuous search for the ultimate treasure of every Truffaut film-his goddess woman. Jean- Pierre Leaud, Delphine Seyrig, Claude Jade. BED AND BOARD (FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT. 1970) AUD. A-9 only The fluid ('and according to Truffaut, final) chapter of the Antoine Doinel story finds Jean-Pierre Leaud married to the woman of his dreams and disillusioned, as he finds that marriage can be .ust as big a trap as school or work. Truffaut holds Antoine up to a harsh but fair light in a film that has some of the funniest scenes in any of his films. Claude Jade steals the show in a smashing performance as Mrs. Doinel. French with subtitles. AUD. A, $1.25 single show ANGELL HALL $2.00 double show THURS.: THE 400 BLOWS Opening lead: J of clubs The traditional plan of a declarer in a suit contract is to ruff any losers from his hand in d u m m y before pulling trumps. Sometimes however de- clarer has problems that can- not be solved in this manner. In that case he must reorient his thinking and prepare to ruff dummy's losers in his own hand. This is called a "dummy re- versal" because declarer's hand assumes the role of dummy and vice versa. It is instructive to examine the alternative lines of play de- clarer has at his disposal after East wins the club and returns another. The simplest line is to pull trumps and bank every- thing on a 3-3 division of the adverse diamonds. This has about a 36 per cent chance of success. The fourth diamond in de- clarer's hand poses a tricky problem. Three rounds of the suit must be played before it When declarer cashes'his last club, East is squeezed. Any dis- card he makes will enable South to win the rest of the tricks. This requires, however, either a 3-3 diamond break, or the hand with the long diamonds to have the only spade guard after two ruffs, plus the bonus chance of dropping the KQ of spades doubleton or tripleton. Still this only amounts to a total of just over 50 per cent, and the hand should be played as a dummy reversal. By CAROLYN SMITH ACTORS IN Ann Arbor are now heading for the road. UAC's newest creation, Ars Co- media,,is making history as the: first student group to tour their: show, The Time Of Your Life,' 7/6 Of A Play, before opening. here jn town. The thought of touring quite often brings images of loneli- ness, physical exhaustion, and endless travel through non-de-; script towns. But the actors seem to enjoy being on the road.] Producer Norman LoPatin] says that "touring will hope- fully be effective in spreading the good word about UAC and the U of M." This week the troupe is playing high schools from Bay City to Southfield as a warm-up for their opening at Mendelssohn Theater on Feb. 19th. The concept of, The Time Of Your Life seems innovative. It consists of four one-act come- dies culled from such sources as Simon's Plaza Suite, Ander- son's You Know I Can't Hear u When The Water's Running, You When the Water's Run-! ning and Taylor's Lovers andI Other Strangers. As LoPatin ex- plained, "They aren't just four one-act plays; there is a coher- ent theme tracing through,' which is the institution of mar- riage." Satinder Sood, a painter and playwright, is the director of the production. Althea Wilson, HUNDREDS OF CALCULATORS 50'> OFF CENTICORE BOOKSHOP 336 MAYNARD ST. who plays "Bea," a fifty-two year old Jewish mother, said,! "It's a juicy part, but I don't have much in common with it. I'm not 52, I'm not Jewish, and I'm not a mother. But the part is put together from different people I know." In summing up, cast member John Lawrie said, "There are' certain drawbacks, but we've progressed a hell of a lot the past couple of weeks. Our per- formance in South Lyon went quite well. Everything's start-' ing to jell. It takes away from studies, but it's a good outlet." March 29. FRI .-SAT. OLA BELLI REED Country and old time bluegr 2.50 E PRICES THAT'LL KNOCK. YOUR BLOCG< BRUSHED DENIM JEANS Reg. 11.99 Now 595 BRUSHED CORDUROYS Reg. 9.00 Now 450 PILE-LINED FLANNEL JACKETS Reg. 19.00 Now 1150 BRITISH FLIGHT JACKETS Wool 950 Khaki 750 PLUS CHEAP FUR COATS & MORE Among Ola Belle's longstanding friendships and associations are Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Jimmy Martin, and Johnny Cash. You'll know why when you hear her. Thurs., Feb. 19th-DEEDE PALLAZOLA-$1.50 "BESTFILM OF THE YEAR" Z vo ,,iNCPIADORE W 1421 HILL 8:30 P.M. 761-1451 FOR EXAMPLE, the final, act, "I'm Herbert," involves -- - _ - -_- an old senile couple rermmisc- ing about the past. Terry Stom- GAY C PERin 1954 baugh plays Herbert, thte sev- nAR OOE b ub pas H ret th se-enty-year old oft-married ec- ! centric. "You can't do much as far as action is concerned." A sheriff learns that an outlaw who he put be- said St'mbaugh. te improvise hind bars is out of prison and looking for him. n veit sdoiver sntaeous.e He turns to the town for help but his girlfriend, twice. " GRACE KELLY, is a peaceful Quaker. 7:00 only. DCb#'L ~DelA A rLilt'105 W,> M~Mw