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By Chris Terka
The Malone Community Center, hosted its second
annual International Fair Sunday. The event fea
tured displays from various cultures, painting by
local artists and musical performances by Huel-mei
Shih and David Lewis Rice. Shih, a graduate music
major at UNL from Taiwan played beautifully on a
stringed Instrument called a zither. Rice, an inmate
at the State Penitentiary, performed on a guitar.
The Malaysian Students Association organized a
table with various Malaysian items including a Bafu
Kuring, an outfit made of silk material with geld
threading, and a Bafu-Kcbaya made of batik mate
rial (consisting of cotton), both worn by women at
formal occasions. There was a formal men's batik
shirt with an accompanying silk cloth belt, and a
dagger called a Kris which in earlier tlme3 was worn
with the outfit.
Other items of interest included a picture made of
paddy rice material, pewters, a model of a carriage
from southern Malaysia (distinguishable by Its con
cave roof) drawn by bulls called Kereta-lembu,
violet table mats, post cards of sights in Malaysia,
stamps featuring Malaysia's flower, the hibiscus,
colorful scarfs and fans. Fans play a big part in
Malaysian culture. They are used at weddings, for
cooling off and at the shadowed theaters. Shapes
are cut from the fans and light shone through them
to project the desired character on a screen.
The Chinese display, organized by the Chinese
Students Association, featured items like decorated
lamps, silk table cloths, books on Taiwan chop
sticks, decorative hangings for good luck, a statue of
a smiling Buddha, drawings and paintings, and the
popular games of Chinese Checkers and Mahjong.
Jia-Yu Wang, a PhD student in animal science at
UNL, and President of the Chinese Students Associ
ation pointed out two beautiful outfits for a man
and a woman, with accompanying slippers for both
and a head gear for the man. The outfits came from
the Han Dynasty and were worn by nobles. Also in
the display were bamboo flutes and a video instruc
tion on Chinese dance.
Lewis Rice, a poet, painter and sculpter had some
of his carvings on display. Prominent amongst his
display was a carving with a sea shell which he had
found in the yard at the penitentiary. In explaining
hfo work, Lewis Rice said a true artist is one who
paints or sculpts from the Imagination and not still
objects. He said an artist should strive to create
something for what he calls the "eye mind" in order
to provoke the spirit of imagination. Lewis Rice said
wood has life, so an artist who carvc3 wood should
net force their Idea on the wood. Rather, the artist
should seek the cooperation of the wood by feeling It
out with eyes closed so as to get an Idea on how the
wood should be carved. Although Lewis Rice spends
a lot of time thinking about what he wants to do he
usually spends an average of only three to, four
hours actually working on his carvings.
The Native American display featured items
made of beads like necklaces and earrings (made
also of cedar wood). Dolores Shangreaux, who runs
a gift shop at the Indian Center, explained that
quill3 were first used for making most of these items.
However, seed beads were later adopted and even
tually dropped for the type of beads we see today.
Lilly Shangreaux had on display a dress which she
said was made in the early 1900s and has been in her
family for a long time. The dress was made out of
animal hide, with decorative embroideries of beads
in front of two Indian chiefs, with a breast plate
made of bone with shells and coins attached to the
bottom part of the breast plate. The coins of Euro
pean origin are said by Shangreaux to have been
added on by the first owner of the dress, who is said
to have traveled over Europe. Also on display was a
pipe bag with a whirlwind design denoting the
direction of the wind.
David Waddel had his stand items from Mexico
which he had collected while on a visit there. These
included a basket made of twine material from
heneguen, a large crop grown in Yucatan area of
Mexico. Other items included pottery, paintings,
coins, peasant blouses and colorful sea shells of
various sizes which were collected by Waddel off the
Gulf Coast. There were also items like head gears,
slides and plates from Saudia Arabia, wood carvings
from Haiti and paintings of notable personalities by
local artists.
Fair organizer Fannie Thomas said the event was
part of the Malone Community Center's activities
aimed at enriching public awareness of other cul
tures. ;
Harley talks romance in Big Apple
In our last exciting episode, Harley Davidson met
with Ed Phillips, the king of talk show hosts, in New
York. Although Harley refused to wear a suit or
make up his face for television, the interview was a
success. Here, in recapsulated form, is the sub
stance of it.
Mary Louise ICnapp
PHILLIPS: Mr. Davidson, what made you decide to
start writing romance novels?
HARLEY: Well, mostly my slender wallet and
overdrawn bank account. (Polite titters from the
audience.) But seriously, after spending over ten
years in college without so much as a B. A. to show
for it, I began to feel the need to do some useful
work.
PHILLIPS: Most people would not regard rom
ance novel writing as 'useful work.' You, however,
have made a success of it with the first manuscript.
Can you tell our listeners why this is so?
HARLEY: Frankly, Ed, I'm as mystified as you are.
I have always lost money on purely commercial ven
tures, such as the National Intruder, which I
founded. (Groans from the audience.) Only when I
decided to start writing purely for pleasure did I get
anywhere.
PHILLIPS: So all this talk about writers having to
work hard and expect lots of rejection slips is just a
crock?
HARLEY: That's right, Ed. Anyone with a basic
English vocabulary can produce a good romance
novel. But for a book to be really excellent, there has
to be lots of local color. And color of this nature isn't
lacking in "WHEN FRONTS COLLIDE."
PHILLIPS: So the stormy weather is sort of a met
aphor for the relationship that what's their names
Tom and Linda has?
HARLEY: Well, the love scenes are just to catch
people's attention. My real focus is, in fact, on the
weather.
PHILLIPS: How do you account for the popularity
of your novel outside of Nebraska?
HARLEY: People are fascinated with the violent
storms which rage within our outwardly placid
land. Also, I refrained from mentioning the football
team even once.
PHILLIPS: For those among us who have not read
. Mr. Davidson's book, let me quote a passage or two.
"At first, Linda, who had been at her post all
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night, failed to notice Tom s haggard figure. When
she finally saw him, she dismissed him with a wave
. of her hand. 'Go get some rest, Tom, ' she said.
'You 've slept a full ten hours. Vm sure you must be
worn out '
Tom, who had just emerged from a twenty-four
hour drinking and sleeping bout, nodded and
shambled toward the coffee machine. Linda took a
swallow of Canadian Mist and went on with her
work. 'Lightweight, ' she muttered, as Tom passed
out on the studio couch. "
HARLEY: I always liked that part myself.
PHILLIPS: This is certainly not the material that
normally makes up a romance novel, Mr. Davidson.
Where are the passionate scenes in moonlit gard
ens? Where is the dark, arrogant hero and the blond,
simpering heroine? All we have here are a pair of
drunken weather technicians who don't even seem
to like each other!
HARLEY: Ed, people are tired of the same old
stuff. We Americans can't relate to palaces and
moonlight! Tornadoes and television are what we
know. This is reality, man...
PHILLIPS: I'm sorry, our time is up.
HARLEY: (Bowing) Ed, it was a pleasure. May a
hurricane never total your transmitter.
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Iluei-mei Shih plays the zither at the RIalcne
Community Center's iRternatioiisl Fair Sunday.
By Sarah Sieler
Since most classical music events are scheduled
for fall and spring seasons, there have been very few
noteworthy classical concerts in Lincoln this sum
mer. A welcome exception is the appearance of
Anders Gron of the Royal Danish Orchestra, who
will give a cello workshop and public recitals this
week in Westbrook Music Building as part of an
American String Teachers Association cello" work
shop. Gron, who lives in Copenhagen, recently released
"Cello Variations," his third solo album for the cellos
and piano, on Danica Records.
Gron will give a free performance tonight at 7:30
with workshop director Tracy Sands.
Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Gron and UNL Piano Pro
fessor Audun Ravnan will perform works by Grieg,
Debussey, Cassado, Popper and two Danish com
posers. Admission is $2 for adults, free for children.
A free concert will be presented by workshop par
ticipants, including Gron, at 5 p.m. Friday.
Nebraska author and prize-winning poet, Marilyn
Coffey, will give a reading of her work tonight at 7:30
p.m. in the Heritage Room of Bennett Martin Public
Library, 14th and N streets.
"The 'Dear Madames' Respond: To violence in the
lives of women" will open Thursday at the Eleventh
Street Gallery.
The exhibit will feature the work of the 'Dear
Madames', a group of artists who have been meeting
regularly for the past two years as a result of a UNL
course on women artists.
Works by Jean Bena, Cecile Broz, Carol Hartman
Devall, Dika Eckersly, Jenni Dicke Fisher, Mary
Georly, Lucy Hermann, Susan Horn, Joy Livingston,
Becky Ross, Neena Shanks and Julie Vosoba will be
included in the exhibit.
The theme of the exhibit will be women's reac
tions to the violence they face in everyday life.
The show will hang through August 19. The
Gallery is open 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. to
10 p.m. Thursdays and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays
and Sundays.
The 19th annual Neihardt Day will be held in
honor of Nebraska's late poet laureate Sunday at
the Neihardt Center in Bancroft, Nebraska.
Nebraska folklorist Roger Welsch will be the mas
ter of ceremonies and Bobby Bridger of Austin,
Texas, balladeer in residence to the Neihardt Foun
dation, will be present. Bridger is the great-great
nephew of Jim Bridger, the mountain man immor
talized in Neihardt's poetic epic "Cycle of the West."
The Midsummer Night Filmfest, a benefit for the
Lincoln-Lancaster Commission on the Status of
Women, will be held at Sheldon Film Theatre at 7
p.m. Wednesday. Two films have been selected for
the festival: "Hester Street," by native Omahan Joan
Micklin Selver, and "They Are Our Own Gifts," a
documentary about three women artists.
"Susana," the first in a series of films by Luis
Bunuel, father of the surrealist cinema, will be
shown Thursday through Sunday at Sheldon Film
T..eatre at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. with weekend matinees
at 3 p.m.
- Continued on Pags 7
Tuesday, July 31, 1984
Dally Nebraskan