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•H• Msu Exponent •h• Msu Exponent FRIDAY , APRIL 29, 1975 BOZEMAN, MONTANA VOL 66, NO. 38 photos by Wienke Hum, I wonder if a scholarship is really worth all this? H .S . weekers toured departments of interest to them Thursday evening. My feet aren't the only thing killing me. **.********** ************ ualified entertainBDllEment to the stupendously _rich&Ellli or a pick- played by Fay e Dunaway. Her Characterizations and plot are By Kathleen Lehnherr iilver screen. pocket. There_ 1s no respect for b ea uty can.not be reconciled sketch ier th an in The Three Moviegoers of late have been "history" , either. Royalty 1s w ith her actions as a ha rlot; she The two films originally were Musketeers and the viewer who overwhelmed with star-studded shown as the pompous self- learns too late that her inner self one. but it proved to be a too has not seen the first film must sequels to sophomoric films righteous class that 11 actually is too evil not to manifest itself lengthy and unwieldy to provide make do with the clumsy narra· such as Born Losers (Billy Jack. was. outwardly. M iss Dunaw ay for a great deal of box-office t 1ve device used at the beginning The Trial of Billy Jack and soon, seems almost to be typeca st in appeal and was cut in half. Most to enlighten him. But the film Billy Jack II). Airport (Airport In The Four Musketeers. the roles which pointedly show the of the filming was done in will still maintain it's sense of 1975) and according to the plot centers on Cardinal duplicity which is thought to be France and Spain and the cine­ moral indignation and the bitter trade papers. will be subjected to Richielieu 's (a rich performance inherent in w omen (Bonnie and matography plays this ad­ comical reality ofllfe under close even further abuse in a sequel of amazingly by Charlton Heston) Cly de. Chinatown and little vantage to the '1ilt (please scrutiny The Poseidon Adventure. The attempts to stop a romance Big Man). that they are either excuse the pun). A re-release of Serpico 1s quality of the original film has between the Queen of France, manifestations of the Virgin playing at the Rialto. This of1en been improved by a sequel British director Richard Lester played by a delicately beauuful Mary or of Eve offering the apple. pa ranoic vision of corruption in as in the case of The Godfather can best be described as anti­ Geraldine Chaplin, and the Duke Nonetheless, her pe rformance 1s the New Y ork Police Force 1s and Godfather. Part II. During romant1c as evidenced by his of Buckingham (Simon Ward). magnificent and her d isplay o f engrossing and fascinating in the thirties. when the country earlier films: The Beatles But the sub-plots are intricate this duality is superb it's development. The mle role 1s was in a similar economic plight vehicles such as Help! and A and just as exciting The young Each chara cter in the film is a played by Al Pa cino, who w as paralleling our own present Hard Day's Night and low-key dress-maker, who delivers the zealot, tota lly inhv olved in is or nominated for Best Actor for his crisis, this was a very popular comedies like A Funny Thing Queen 's letters. Co nsta nce her cause, ignoring what seems role and this year in Godfather. kind of film utilizing many stars Happened on the Way to the (Raq uel W elch is stunning a nd to the modern viewer to be the Part II. His versatility in playing for more universal box-office Forum and How I Won the War. shows she knows a semblance inhumanity exhibited by the on the other side of the law is a appeal w ith sequels guarantee­ He satirizes the sw as hbuck ler of a cting). is kidnapped t o forces all around them. In one good showcase for his great ing that people would come back epics of Errol Flynn and Douglas prevent her from doing so. It scene, the Musketeers and the talent. Go watch a star being to see their favorite c ha racters. Fairbanks by showing that the seems she is the " kept" woman Cardinal's men duel on ice and born I Th is type of thinki ng is no more baalree s w ere ally w on by a kick of the youngest of the keep on waving their swords The Mercenary is a retitled evident than in the recent pro­ to the groin or by the hero falling Musketeers, D'Artaganon even as they slip and fall into the version of a movie released ductio ns o f The Three down at the right time. The (M icheal York) who goes after ice. On the battlefield, the King several years ago called Burn. Musketeers. relea sed two years pestilential realities of the her in hot pursuit with the help of France (Jean Pierre Cassel) Marlon Brando was embarassed ago andThe Four Musketeers, a seventeenth century are shown of Athos (Oliver Reed), Porthos sits for his portrait listening to a by it and will barely claim to have new release. They are different in opposition to th~ romanticized (Frank Finlay) and _ Aramis portable calliope while men made this bloody, violent study from the usual run of films and historical spectacles which if (Richard Chamberlain). hang from trees nearby and the in how not to make a film. The their sequels in that they bring taken at face value we must Binding them all together are sounds of the battle thunder Great One's opinion speaks for beautiful craf1smanship and un- assume every one was either the nefarious deeds of M ilady, behind him. the film itself. 'Skin Of Our Teeth' called a very 'up' show By K. Roch In Thonon Wilder's comedy, THE seductress come to life in Pam TEETH is a considerable body of costume dP.signs prove to be pro­ Theatre begins in the fantasy SKIN OF OUR TEETH, we laugh! VanderVen, dresses the picture energetic and creative abilityk vocative and intriguing in the and wonderment, in the liveli­ at life as the hero at fire. show in the raiment of all the well-integrated and deserving course of the show. The light ness of man. Adam, 1n the The father is the bedrock. As gods and fools man has created. praise for this large-scale, multi- crew has done an outstanding beginning - the first. the father Mr. Antrobus. Greg Stompro The show is a parade of survival media production. THE SKIN OF job in effecting the light design who has engendered all ponrays a father we can believe - from ice age through sonic OUR TEETH is a debut of new by C. S. Hart. Credit is due to the fantasies. all those phantoms in. fantasy aside. His helpmate, boom - by THE SKIN OF OUR and exciting talent to the MSU production staff and their theatre. Especially notable were sustained efforts that contri­ performances by JoAnne buted to making THE SKIN OF Jacobsen as the daughter and by OUR TEETH a successful show Margaret Peterson as the Particularly to be commended fonune-teller, as '•ell as John are: Jerry Jay Schneider, DeSpain as the son. Under the Rhonda Smith. Steve Wing, and perceptive direction of Ben Tone Margiann Flanagan. besides the the SKIN'S skillful shapes that several others whose skills were so well take the form of our- the backbone of this show. selves have become lively on Pla yi ng nightly in the MSU stage. So live ly, they imitate Theatre through May 3. THE even tragedy ~ but in doing so, SKIN OF OUR TEETH is a very the fantasy-shapes can become entertaining. very " up" show. It but sketches of life. Signe is in life and fantasy. It is in fun. Anderson's innovative set and See ing is believ1.,g . AT THE GEORGE TUESDAY Dime Time WED. Boogie With the Buffs THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH. April 29-May3, Student Union Theatre "Remember. Maggie, we almost lost them once before 7 And we finally did collect a few copies that ran in everybodies head FRI. like a fever." (Photograph - Mark Hefty) AFTERNOON through his marriage with earth. Mrs. Antrobus - like some TEETH . And the survivors are the In THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH. the archetypal Mother Earth - indestructable - a judge, a CLUB father emerges as the hero, as becomes a woman of affirming professor. Homer. a bingo caller. George Antrobus. And the pan stature in Kim Bates. Theirs is the refugees. the conveeners - of the hero that laughs is the the family, theirs the will and all survivors out of sometime SAT. mortal pan, that crucible not yet imagination. The imagination, B.C.A.D. to sometime later in destroyed by the fire it contains. like Sabina, the w insome young sometime sometime. They are DISCO. fantasy selves. they are our daily NIGHT selves. Student nurses help during storm The cast of THE SKIN OF OUR Montana State University the limits of their experience and student nurses at the school's education, helped take care of extended campus in Great Falls patients until conditions gained a lot of practical experi­ returned to normal r==;:-~~ha;;k8r ence during one of the l numerous winter-spring snow­ Ardesson storms which have swept Montana in recent weeks. Shoe During one of the more severe storms which crippled the Great Repair Falls area, many of the ~ registered nurses working at the 1520 W.
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