Oregon daily emerald., July 26, 1973, Page 7, Image 7

weekend preview
Highlighting activities in Eugene this weekend will
be the opening of the Lane County Auditorium
Association’s summer musical, “West Side Story.”
Exactly 115 musicians and performers will combine
their talents on the South Eugene Auditorium stage at 8
p.m. Friday, and again on Saturday.
A champagne ball follows the openingperformance •
in the King Cole Room of the Eugene Hotel. Authentic
Irish, Russian, Puerto Rican and Jewish cuisine, ac
companied by champagne, of course, will be served
amid decor of New York’s lower West Side. Ragtime
pianist Chuck Ruff and friends will provide music for the
ball. Six dollar tickets to the “classy block party” are
still available at the Eugene Hotel.
A few tickets to Friday’s performance of “West Side
Story” have not been purchased, though for greater
visibility you would be wiser to select from among later
performances. The musical is scheduled to run August 2,
3, 4, 8, 9, 10, and 11.
The University Carnival Theater presents three
productions this week. “Inferno,” the “rock opera”
based on Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” will be per
formed tonight at 8:30 p.m. on the Carnival Theater
Stage. Tickets are $2.50.
A new play for children made its debut Wednesday
on the Carnival stage, and will run again at 11 a.m. today
and Wednesday. Tickets to “The Clown Who Ran Away”
are 75 cents.
A farce by British playwright Joe Orton, “Loot,”
opens Friday at 8:30 p.m. on the Carnival Theater Stage.
Tickets ranging from $2 to $3 are available from the
Theater box office, x 4191, for Friday and Saturday night
performances.
Midway into the Oregon Shakespearean Festival at
Ashland tickets to 2 p.m. matinee performances and 8:45
p.m. stage productions are abundant, ranging from $3 to
$6. This weekend’s presentations, alternating as indoor
matinees on the Angus Bowerman stage and as open-air
evening performances are “Othello” and “As You Like
It,” tonight; “Dance of Death” and “The Merry Wives of
Windsor,” Friday; “Othello” and “Henry the Fifth,”
Saturday; and “The Alchemist” and “As You Like It,”
Sunday.
Campus film fare for the week includes two movies
slated for this evening. “Bedazzled,” directed by
Stanley Donen is the University Film Society’s offering
at 7 and 9 p.m. in 150 Science. “Pickpocket” at 8 p.m. in
180 PLC continues the Acme-Bijou Film Society’s series
of films directed by Robert Bresson.
On Tuesday, the Canterbury Center sponsors an
airing of “The Graduate” at 7 and 9 p.m. in 180 PLC.
Another Bresson film, “The Trail of Joan of Arc”
will be shown in 180 PLC at 8 p.m. Wednesday.
All campus films this week are $1 admission.
Drawings, charcoals and prints by Northwest artist
Jack McLarty remain in the EMU gallery through
August 3.
Gregory Hawkings “Landscapes, Monuments and
Dreams” in mixed media, and the non-objective
graphite drawings of Tom Guyot continue on display in
the University Art Museum. The museum is open to *
the public, free of charge, Tuesdays through Sundays, 12
a.m. to 5 p.m.
Many of the pieces exhibited in the Maude I. Kerns
Art Center’s stained glass show are for sale. The show,
Photo from Concerts West
Jethro Tull is slated to perform at the Portland Coliseum this Saturday night. Tickets for the concert,
which is sponsored by Concerts West and EJD Enterprises, are selling fast.
which runs through August 10, is open from 12 a.m. to 5
p.m. during the week, and 1 to 5 p.m. during the
weekend.
Free University poetry collective poets will read
their works tonight at 8 p.m. at Scarborough Faire (136
E. 11th). All 50 cent admissions and donations will be
given to the Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the
Winter Soldier Organization.
Hal Lindsey, author of the book “The Late Great
Planet Earth,” will appear at Woolworth’s on the
downtown mall Saturday from 12 a.m. to 2 p.m. At 7 p.m.
he will give a free lecture at Autzen Stadium.
The National Roller Hockey Championships will
conclude in Salem this weekend.
The Lincoln County Fair is in progress this weekend
at Newport, so those of you headed for the coast might
check it out tonight through Sunday.
Musical entertainment is strong this weekend.
Stan Fink’s jazz group will conclude its summer
series tonight at the Wesley Center. Encouraged by the
success of the summer concerts, the group plans to
resume weekly concerts in the fall. 50cents or a donation
is requested for tonight’s jam, which begins at 8 p.m.
Ron Gold delves into the music of the Byrds tonight
from 12 p.m. to 2p.m. onKWAXH81.lFM.
Karel Husa will guest conduct a special concert by
the summer session band tonight at 8 p.m. in the School
of Music Recital Hall. Husa is a Pulitzer Prize winning
composer who now conducts at Cornell University.
Tickets to the concert are free for students, but must be
procured at the School of Music office before the concert.
The Goodwill band performs tonight (and every
Wednesday and Thursday) in the lounge of the Feedmill
(259 E. 5th) from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. The band also plays
Sundays after 6 p.m. at Mama’s Homefried Truck stop.
Their music is free with beverages or dinner.
Jim “Birdman” Rymeski’s East Coast Story on
KWAX featuring jazz and blues will take a change of
pace Friday night when he features “Portland,” a new
group from the city of the same name. Group members
Gary Ogan and Bill Lamb wrote the music and words to
all of their scngs on their first album “Portland.” The
album, acoustical in style, was released through Elektra
recording company in November. The album, a com
mentary on their overnight success with the recording
company, and a history of the group will be featured
during the two-hour show which runs from midnight to 2
a.m.
The University’s Summer Festival of Music
featuring the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach
will conclude this weekend.
Three acts split the bill for Scarborough Faire’s
Friday and Saturday night concerts this weekend.
Balladeer Kathy Smith, Rapid Creek, a new acoustic
folk trio, and Joshua Bowes will do the concerts
scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. each night. Admission is $1.
In Portland, the 10-night Moonlight Festival at
Washington Park begins Friday.
Harpsichord music will be featured tonight in
Portland State’s Summer Concert Series, while Mon
day’s performance will include pieces by Debussy,
Ravel and Schoenberg. Both concerts begin at 8 p.m.
Admission is $3 and $1.50.
No college musical preview is complete without
harbingering approach of a rock concert or two, though
this weekend’s offering by Concerts West perhaps needs
no advance notice. Jethro Tull with Robin Trower in the
number two slot will appear in concert at the Memorial
Coliseum at 8 p.m. Saturday. Led by the “deranged
flamingo,” Ian Anderson, the group should give an
exhibition as well as a concert making tickets worth the
$4,$5,$6 Concerts West is asking ... provided, of course,
that you’re into rock.
Terry Sotta
iiso tour
People
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pinball
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Japan
JULY 15,1973, TOKYO, JAPAN — Our USO tour made it safely and
soundly from Korea to Japan. Although it is only an hour’s jet ride, the
difference between *he two places is incredible. In contrast to the quiet
gentle beauty of Korea, Japan, at least Tokyo, is a huge sprawling
mass of people.
Tokyo has a population of 11 million and I would swear that half of
them are at the train stations. The Japanese have a complex and very
efficient train system. The trains pull into the stations for their
scheduled loading period, sometimes only 30 seconds, and if anyone
doesn’t get on in that amount of time, they are out of luck. During the
rush hours, they have “packers” who are hired to do nothing but shove
people into the trains.
Tokyo and the other large cities we’ve been to look much like any big
city in the U.S. In each place, I’ve found small shops, large dime stores
and huge department stores.
Movies have become quite popular in Japan. About half of the
movies are Japanese-made while the others are American movies
with subtitles. The Japanese are discovering a new form of en
tertainment called the porno movie. I met one young man, Wakamiya,
whose brother writes porno movies. He said that his brother would
rather write for a higher quality of movies but porno movies are so
popular that he can make more money in a much shorter time by
writing them.
Wakamiya took me to a tearoom. After being seated, the waitress,
dressed in a traditional kimono, brought us damp cloths to wash our
hands and faces with. Next, she brought two large cups which were
only one-fourth filled with green tea. She also brought us each a small
fig cookie. Wakamiya told me that traditionally one is to drink the tea
in three swallows with a bit of cookie between each drink.
Our group has had two dreams since we left Eugene: to tour a ship
and to ride a helicopter. Both dreams came true last week.
Thursday morning, we toured the U.S.S. Mars. The Mars is a rather
small ship which delivers supplies to larger ships that are out at sea.
Even though it was considered to be a fairly small ship, it seemed
large to us, with its eight “floors.”
On the way to our ship tour, we passed a ship that was under con
struction. It was on-fourth of a mile long! It takes only two months to
build a ship of this size. Factories build all the parts which can then be
assembled in a very short period of time.
Our helicopter ride lasted a very short half hour. The view from our
windows was like a giant post card. The miles of rice paddies that
cover so much of the land outside the cities created very unusual
pictures.
From what I have seen, I think that it’s safe to say that Pachinco is
the Japanese national pastime. Pachinco is much like a vertical
pinball machine except that it is one-third the size. If when you shoot
one of the balls it goes into one of the holes, you get 15 balls back. The
idea is to end up with more balls than when you started. The balls can
then be cashed in for prizes. Pachinco machines can be found by the
hundreds in the noisy and crowded Pachinco parlors which dot the
streets.
If Pachinco is the national pastime, bar-hopping comes in a close
second. Saturday night, I spent the evening in Shinjuko, the nightclub
district of Tokyo. While I was walking through the streets, I would
pass 10-story buildings that had a completely different nightclub on
each flow. At the other extreme were tiny bars with only three stools.
The prices in Japan are high by American standards and outrageous
by Korean. A simple golf shirt which cost $1.50 in Korea might cost $15
in Japan. Needless to say, our buying sprees have come to an abrupt
end.
For the next two weeks we have no scheduled shows and will be
doing a lot of sightseeing. Next: more about Japan and its people.
GienBashey