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Carney’s Act Viewed "Terrific"
By DEBRA ROGERS
When Brian Carney sits down
with a guitar, links one long, lanky
leg around the microphone and be
gins to sing “Yesterday", you know
you're seeing something Some
thing good, something different,
something almost unique, and the
rest of the things Carney does bear
this out.
He’s unlike most performers one
expects to see on the college
coffeehouse circuit, maybe that is
why he is so popular, (Mercer is
the 43rd college he has played).
He's not a poor, fuzzy carbon copy
of other performers who have made
it big lie might do songs by other
performers, but he docs them really
well, like the Beatles’ "Rocky Rac
coon". Or he might do them his
own may, like taking a break in the
middle of "Gentle On My Mind” to
complain "this song has a lot: of
damn words". And you know he’s
good.
He can do things such as “My
Eggs Don’t Taste The Same With
out You" from an unknown group
(at least unknown at Mercer) and
he’s even better.
Then he can do straight folk
things all his own like "Adam
Round" - or a satire on a teenage
rock singer doing "Mary Jean,
(you re so keen)", and then you
know - Brian Carney is really great
and really different.
PREVIEWS
MOVIE
"Lolita"
By LYNDON MAYES
February first, the Student Union
will show the movie, Lolita, starr
ing James Mason, Shelley Winters
Peter Sellers, Marianna Stone,
Dianne Decker, and Sue Lyon, who
made her movie debut in this film.
Lolita, taken from a novel by
Vladimir Nabokov, is an elaborate
baroque vision of comic despair.
The screenplay veers from social
satire through sexual subtleries to
tragic force, presenting a rogues
gallery of middle class monsters
within the strange passion of Hum-
burt Humbert for his nymphet
Lolita.
Variety had this to say about the
movie; "There is much about the
film that is excellent. James Mason
has never been better . . Shelley
Winters plays the clumsy trustful
seal to bumptuous perfection.
Matching these two is Peter Sel
lers who gets a chance to run
through several hilarious changes
of character . . . Sue Lyons makes
an auspicious film debut."
"The Mouse
That Roared"
By JOHNNY TURNER
If you are one of those nuts who
digs Peter Sellers don’t miss THE
MOUSE THAT ROARED Friday
night at 8:00 p.m.
In this typical Sellers film the
Grand Duchy of Fenwick (which
just so happens to hold the dis
tinction of being the worlds small
est nation) declares war on the
United States to reap the benefits
of losing So a small band of chain
mailed warriors invade New York
City, whose streets, as luck would
have it, are deserted by an air raid
drill.
The Fenwickian army then pro
ceeds to capture an army general,
four slightly confused policemen,
and an atomic bomb. If you want
to know how this mess gets un
tangled you will have to go see the
movie.
Just in case anyone is interested,
Jean Seaberg co-stars and she
probably gets tangled up in there
somewhere too.
"Thin Man” Proves
Old Movies Are "Old”
By DEBRA ROGERS
It was obvious to anyone who
saw “The Thin Man”, Friday night
that movies have changed a lot
since 1934.
Example . . .
Slightly overplump platinum
blond secretary with waved hair
plastered to her head, looking
vaguely like Mae West in “She
Done Him Wrong", asking “What
are you going to do?" of her scien
tist boss whose marriage she once
broke up and whose 50 thousand
dollars she has embezzeled. He
sneers at her and says “What do
you think?" “No, not that" she
gasps with the back of her hand to
her mouth.
Well, in 1969, that just doesn’t
make it. In other words the sup
porting east was for the birds.
But William Powell is still cool
as "Tile Thin Man" and Mryni^
Loy as his wife is cool and witty,
but their dog Asia takes all hon
ors.
. . . Powell using pop gun to
shoot balloons off Christmas tree
as his wife reads of his exploits
in the newspapers
"I read where you were shot five
times in the Tabloids.”
"Not true," he says as he takes
careful aim, "he never even came
near my tabloids.”
. . . Newspaper men talking to
Mrv.ia Loy:
“Is your husband working on a
case""
“Of course."
"Really? Which ohe?’
“That case of Scotch in theTe in
the kitchen. Why don’t you go in
there and help him?”
In 1934 that was a new joke.
Play Within A Play Is Rated Best Moment
In National Players' "Midsummer Nights Dream"
By ANDREA FROST
"All I have to say is this lantern
‘s the moon, I am the man in the
moon, this bush is my bush and
this dog is my dog,” retorted the
exasperated Moonlight (Jim Bush)
to the facetious remarks of Theseus
(Michael Morris) and the other
members of the mock audience.
Judging from the audience res
ponse, this was one of the funniest
moments in the National Players
version of a MIDSUMMER NIGHT S
DREAM.
That the quality of the per
formance was not sustained
throughout is the major criticism
of the production. Except Puck's
(Frank Hooper) final speech to the
house, the exits fell flat. Helena's
(Dorothy Brandle) lower Brooklyn
accent was amusing, but at times,
incongruous with the Elizabethan
jargon. Oberon’s (Bernard Kreil-
kamp) introductory scene lacked
force; but his performance improv
ed as the play progressed, whereas
same of the others began to strain
on Inflection.
By far the most popular char
acters were Bottom (Joseph Za-
loom) and Flute (Raymond De-
Matts Is). As the principal acton
of Shakespeare’s play within a
play, “Pyrmmmus and Thisbee,"
Bottom played the overblow lover
to the paunchy Flute, his high
voiced sweetheart. Their scene con
cluded at “Ninny’s tomb" where
Thisbee floped in a death swoon
ucross the corpse of Pyrammus
Titannia ‘Deborah J Jones) was
a buxom, romping sprite, a piece of
casting which added to the ribal
dry of the play. She with Obcron
developi'd a satire on infidelity.
Of the four lovers, Lysandcr
(Alan Share' and Hetrnia (Kath
leen Klein', Demetrius (Michael E.
Evans i and Helena (Dorothy Bran-
dle', Helena was the most effective,
though the others gave smoother
performances, because she spoke
and gestured directly to the au
dience and included ihebi in her
confidence in her role as an under
dog To a Jeering Demetrius, she
declared with wide-eye innocence,
“Your virtue is my privilege;” at
which statement that young man
turned away with a nauseated ex
pression on his face.
And as tire three newly wedded
couples filed out, Helena on Deme
trius' arm indicated to the au
dience Lookey, I got him, I got him.
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