weekend preview
Well group, this is not the best weekend to be
snowed-under by a pile of books, but midterm is
here. For those of you who did your cramming
early or were lucky enough to escape with no
exams (and the rest of us hate you), there’s plenty
to do.
Don’t worry about the bread; if you have
access to a dollar-fifty, Eugene awaits without...
“Screen Gems”, a cinema group interested in
old flicks is born this Sunday. They’ll be showing
W.C. Fields’ “You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man”,
featuring such oldies as Charley McCarty, Edgar
Bergen and Mortimore Snerd; Laurel and Hardy’s
“Live Ghost”; and a Betty Boop cartoon “Betty in
Blunderiand” that’s a take-off mi “Alice”. Cost —
$1, “a me-ere pittance . . . ye-es,” as W.C. would
say. For the benefit of you old reel buffs, the
showings are scheduled in WOW Hall (8th and
Lincoln) at 6:30 and 9 p.m., so you can dash over
from 180 PLC and the Cultural Forum Sunday
classic, “The Crowd”, which is showing at 3 and 6
p.m., also one dollar.
P.S. If you like the films ring up Steve Bove
(343-6209), the dude who’s organizing this gig, and
tell him so. He says this is just a trial run, and if
initial response rates “good” to “outstanding”
there’ll be another showing in two weeks; and
maybe bi-weekly flicks at a new location in March.
Help him count the Bogart freaks running loose in
Eugene.
Has Eugene gone play happy?
This week there are five of them, but un
fortunately all are out of your dollar-fifty-or-less
range; however, if sit-down entertainment’s your
thing, try to scrape some coins together because
these are all pretty good. Very Little Theatre is
doing a fairytale, “Once Upon a Mattress” (you’v
e heard of the Princess and the Pea?) through
Saturday night. The Eugene Hotel’s Dinner
Theatre opens “The Gingerbread Lady”, a Neil
Simon play, and LCC continues “Where’s
Charley?”
On campus the University Theatre is doing a
musical extravaganza, “Oklahoma.” They say
the chorus is finally in tune and ready for
tomorrow night’s opening curtain at 8 p.m.
Finally, a national tour company (consisting
of two actors) will appear Tuesday only at South
Eugene High in “Sleuth”. It’s a real thriller,
cause yourenot allowed to go home and tell your
buddies how it ended.
There is one you can see for a dollar —
“Cabaret”; but there’s a catch. You have to go to
the Big City (Portland) to see it, at Lewis and
Clark, Tuesday.
Into a classical sound? Tonight the University
Symphonic Woodwind Ensemble is performing at
8 p.m. in the School of Music under the direction of
Robert Vagner; and John Hamilton will solo on
the organ, with music by 20th century Viennese
composers. Absolutely no admission cost.
Tuesday and Wednesday there are more
concerts in the recital hall. This time it’s the
Eugene Symphony featuring cellist Robert
Hladky. If you’ve never heard a rare 1712 Italian
cello, this is your chance for $1.50.
You really should try to get yourself a ride to
the City’s Civic Auditorium Monday or Tuesday
night to hear Ravi Shankar with the Oregon
Symphonic Orchestra. He’s the best si tar player
anywhere, and he’ll be playing a composition of
his own, along with a little Beethoven and Franck.
Just before the performance you can grab a
student ticket for $2.
Well, now the war is over (or so we’re told).
Thank God. It’s been too aid for protest marches
anyway, but the quest for real peace still goes on.
So, the coalition against the war is throwing a
‘peace dinner’ bash at 6 p.m. Saturday in the
Newman Center. It’s to celebrate a major victory
by the Vietnamese people, i.e. us getting out of
their country. For your last $1.50 you can partake
of international cuisine: shishkabob, soybean
vegetable casserole, rice and salad. Sound good?
Probably beats what you’ve been eating. And
there’s international flavor in the films and music
accompanying. If all this revelry doesn’t speak to
you, the coalition will make sure you share the
message in a presentation by the Guerrilla
Theater after dinner.
Tomorrow night is for rag and blues — a folk
concert in the EMU sponsored by the Cultural
Forum presents two localish bands at 8 p.m. The
Sawtooth Mountain Boys from Corvallis play
dymnamite blue grass. Whoooee — they play the
real thing, and they even sing it right. Willie and
the Egyptians, a group of accoustical players
(mandolin, guitar), giggle occasionally, break a
lot of strings and make genuine jug band music. If
you miss this (and it’s on your I-can-afford-it list
for $1) you’re not ‘folk’. Up the valley, Edgar
Winter is appearing Monday at the Paramount,
with Ball’n’Jack. You’ll have to decide yourself if
it’s worth a trip and $5 to see them; you must know
by now.
If dancing’s in your blood, there are two for
you for a dollar and two quarters. Tomorrow
night’s weekly 9 to 12 p.m. dance at WOW Hall
features the Big Sky boogie day. (You knew them
as Hot RRock.) Saturday, Da Hotz, a loud rock a
nd roll band, and Notary Sojac, an even louder
group are playing at the Valley Memorial Center.
If dancing to Chuck Berry is your style, help
yourself out by shelling out the money. You’ll also
be helping the Canterbury Cento; it’s a benefit for
them.
Oh people, Maude Kerns understands the ha
ssles you go through over bread, so they’re of
fering three free photography exhibits this week.
Graphs by Fromm, Featherefore, and Renfro
(University TA) are on display beginning today.
LCC is showing a lot of Kerns stuff in their display.
And the Portland Art Museum is doing one on
LaVem Krause from the Kerns Board of Direc
tors. Remember, especially you photography
freaks — no charge.
Looking ahead to next week, the Committee
for the Performing arts will present its third Oreg
on Chautauqua. (I just found the definition of that
in the library .) The first part of the Chautauqua is
free, in the Pioneer Museum on the Lane County
Fairgrounds. The second part costs $1.50, for
which you get a lot of people doing a lot of things
for you to watch — honky-tonk piano, jug band,
can-can, concluding in a feast of wine or
sasparilla-tasting. Fiddler Wayne Holmes will
play, so all you dancing freaks can try a little
square dancing.
Could be a nice switch from folkdancing in
Gerlinger.
More of the Chautauqua next week, including
the definition; for those of you who can’t wait, I
found it in section 437.6 of the University library.
Terry Sotta
Benefit for Nicaragua
The Renaissance Artists' and Writers’
Association (RAWA), a division of the Ananda
Marga Yoga Society, is sponsoring a concert
Saturday night, the proceeds to be used for relief
work in Nicaragua.
Featured as performers will be Diane Adams,
folksinger;-John Jarvie, classical guitarist; the
group Gossamer Steel, bluegrass guitar, violin,
and vocals; Kathy Smith, piano, guitar and
vocals; and John Workman, piano and vocals. All
are well known in Eugene from appearances at
Scarborough Faire and other sites. Kathy Smith,
in addition to her live performances, has recorded
two albums.
The concert will be held at the University’s
Recital Hall (18th and Harris) at 7:30 p.m. Tickets
are $1.25 in advance or $1.50 at the door. (Advance
tickets are available at Scarborough Faire, The
Sun Shop, and Chrystalship.)
Simultaneous benefit productions have been
scheduled throughout the U.S. by other chapters of
Ananda Marga.
Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, was
devastated by an earthquake on December 23,
1972. Refugees are living in camps throughout the
country, and the refugee influx into Leon and
Granada, Nicaragua’s other major cities, has
caused their populations to double. The quake
destroyed two-thirds of the nation’s hospitals,
inflicted large losses on the heavier industries,
and completely ruined many smaller “cottage
industries.”
In addition, rural Nicaragua has been suffering
its worst drought in modem times, and a resultant
food shortage.
The relief work which Ananda Marga has un
dertaken consists at present in the construction of
wood-frame dwellings. The basic house which will
be built costs $200, including the foundation.
Ananda Marga has also projected aid for cottage
industries and small farmers.
Ananda Marga sees the alleviation of material
suffering worldwide as a precondition to the
spiritual renaissance it is trying to help promote.
Donations may be sent to Ananda Marga
Universal Relief Team, c-o AMYS, 1230 W.
Broadway, Eugene, 97402. For further in
formation call 342-4383.
Alan Price
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