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This Week’s Films
Thura. Feb. 3: Ermanno Qbni's D Poslo
2 & 8:00 p.m. 314 CSC *
Feb. 4: Charlie Chaplin's The Great Disaster
8 &-10 p.m., 314 CSC
Sat. Feb. S: The Wind and the Lion
8& 10 p.m.. 314 CSC
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To Be Presented By
The hilarious farce A COME
DY OF ERRORS will be
performed by The National
Shakespeare Company on Jan
uary 31 at.8:30 p.m. o'clock, in
Willingham Chapel. This romp
is brimful of improbable coinci
dence a. with mistaken identities
between a double set of twins
doubling the confusion — and
the fun.
The play, which Shakespeare
freely acknowledged he up
dated from the Latin "most
excellent witties Poet Plautus"
to his own time, lends itself
perfectly to the tany 1920s in
which this version is set. With
the language, characters and
action entact, this production
uses the familiarity and vitality
of a more contemporary Ameri
can era made mythical and
accessible by popular culture, to
increase the feeling of immedi
acy and let the audience just ait
back and enjoy the goings on.
This concept is the happy
creation of Sue Lawless, who
was nominated for the Drama
Desk. Award for Outstanding
Director and who also directed
the New York .Theatre Com
pany’s delightful musical
SPOON RIVEB ANTHOLOGY
and last season’s THE FANTA-
SHCKS. The costumes have
been designed by Sharon
Holiinger. Her versatility is
evident in the fact that she has
also designed costumes for the
Joffrey Ballet, the Santa Fe
Opera House, as well as a
range of Shakespearean plays
for The National Shakespeare
Company over the past five
years* The sets were designed
by Associated .Theatrical De
signers, Ltd., t whose most
recent projects were The Young
Vic from England and numer
ous Broadway and touring
shows.
The play, which served as the
model for the Broadway hit,
THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE,
proves that inducing hearty
laughter, far from being a trivial
endeavor, is indeed a gift of
Etc. Is Coming
You can be a Marin ETC., the
musical extravaganza spon
sored by the Mercer Players
tnd SUAB which will be
pesented on Feb. 26 and 26 in
Wilingfaam Chapel. If you have
I single or group act you and/or
tout friends would like to
lerform, come prepared to
UTOTION on TUBS. FEB. 1 &
WED. FEB 2 in the Chapel,
long, dance, magician, corne
lian, and unusu,l acts are
weded. You will be provided
with a first-class band tor
accompaniment and with any
coMumes, props and lighting
you may need. Also, singers
and dancers are needed to
perform in several chorus
numbers. Furthermore, techni
cians may be needed for
back Mage help and for con
traction of sets. If you would
like to perform in ETC or be
involved with the ahow in some
way come to auditions Feb. 1 &
2.
Toby and Tot Contest
This year’s Toby and Tot contest, being sponsored by the SUAB,
rill bo accepting nominations from 10:00 - 12:00, February 3 and 4
a the lobby of CSC. Any drganisation or person wishing to place a
lame in nomination is invited to do so.
Sadie Hawkins Dance
A Sadie Hawkins Dance will be held February 4 at 8:00 in the
■iris’ gym. There will be a live band and Marryin’ Sam will be on
uty. Admission will bet 1.00 per couple, or 1.60 stag.
Attend the dance dressed up as Daisy Mae andLil Abner.
The dance 1* sponsored by the Freshmen Women’s Dormitory
Movie Preview: Network
The provocation and highly
controversial theme of Metro-
Gold wyn-Mayer’s "Network,"
by Paddy Chajefsky challenges
nothing less than the basic fiber
of modern American life.
Using the vehicle of television
and the awesome power of the
medium to manipulate popular
tbrought, “Network," directed
by Sidney Lumet, tells its
outrageously-devastating story
in both comedic and human
terms, with an all-star cast
headed by Faye Dunaway,
William Holden, Peter Finch
and Robert Duvall.
Faye Dunaway as Diana
Christensen, the network’s vice
president in charge of program
ming, essays one of the
strongest roles of her career.
Challenging the .movie-star
adage of playing sympathetic
characters. Miss Dunsway in
fuses her callous role with a
bravado rarely seen on the
screen today. The talented star
runs the histtionic gamht:
J. pak—'
Diana is sensual, cruel,
skfcfete, ruthless, vulnerable,
tough and charming.
In the privotal role of Howard
Beale, the TV-News anchor
man, Peter Finch embraces a
character of complexity and
vision that challenges any
preconceived notions of Finch's
acting niche. Chayefsky has
written s modern day prophet, s
character filled with sound and
fury, and the dramatic demands
on the actor are extraordinary.
It is to Finch's credit that he
not only emanates '.he aura of
dignified authority of hia real
life counterparts on the major
networks — Walter Cron kite,
John Chancellor. Eric Sevareid
— t?ut is able to infuse even his
psychic disintegration with re
spectful admiration for the
r nsequences of insanity.
As Max Schumacher,
{president of network newft
»ewk
whose career depends upon his
adherence to the whims of the
corporation, William Holden
depicts a character of solid
strength and integrity whose
loyalty to. his friend. Howard
Beale, transcends his own
personal interests. In a profes
sionally destructive. * but per
sonally illuminating gesture.
Schumacher defies the net
work's corporation president.
Robert Duvall plays a hard-
nosed, high-powered senior
corporate executive-cum-
hatchet man with a strength and
menace that adds still another
portrait to hia variegated gallery
of roles -