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Summer Nebraskan
Sticking it out with McCarthy
By Lawrence Poston
NU Department of English
Senator Eugene McCarthy has
rSSTlmed the campaign trail, but there
i9 sombre air about his campaign. The
fJtSlism of the pre-New Hampshire weeks
hash once again infected many liberal
Democrats, who now see only a choice
between Nixon and Humphrey.
tZk. special irony lies in this for those
ofr-HS who, as liberals, once pinned our
fJJEJest hopes cn Humphrey, and who, as
undergraduates and graduate students,
sUt our five dollars in to the shoestring
Ikmiphrey campaign funds In 1960, hoping
that he could stop the efficient Kennedy
machine.
7 In those days, as now, Humphrey's
personality was something less man com
pelling. He has never been an effective
public speaker; his occasional long
windedness is as dispiriting as
Rockefeller's fuzziness. But In 1960,
Humphrey seemed to be a man of Impec
cable credentials, and John Kennedy a
Johsny-Come-Lately whose commitment
to remedying the ills of the poor appeared
anything but unequivocal.
Unlike some of my friends from the
Stevenson era, I have never felt that
Humphrey sold out under LBJ. His posi
tion on the subject of Vietnam is a logical
extension of the Cold War doctrines of
as a leader of the Free World against
monolithic Communism. Humphrey, who
won his political spurs fighting what now
seems to have been a somewhat
hypothetical Communist threat to the
Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in Min
nesota, has always maintained the
Truman-Acheson line.
No, it's not Humphrey who's changed;
it's me, and many other Democrats in
their late twenties and early thirties who
feel that, whatever menace Stalin may
have posed in 1950, the Truman doctrine
has served its time.
As a result of this, and also the tragic
assassination of Senator Kennedy, we are
moving toward convention-time with the
generation gap at its most serious.
Humphrey does not have it in the bag.
(Who dares make that sort of prediction
any more in this campaign?) But
McCarthy, who has been deprived of the
pivotal bargaining position he had hoped
to have in the event of a Kennedy
Humphrey deadlock, looks more and more
like a man battling a rearguard action.
American political life is not in any
better shape now than it was early last
fall. It Is in worse shape. It is in worse
shape because the nominations of Hubert
Humphrey and Richard Nixon, if they
come about, will merely deepen the sense
of alienation that some of our best young
people felt before McCarthy offered them
a hope in New Hampshire.
These young people have seen
assassination depriving them of two of
their most visionary leaders this year.
They see that the results of popular
primaries frequently have all too little
to do with convention realities. They see
the leading Democratic contender as a
non-runner, spreading a superficial
politics of joy, and making deals while
Kennedy and McCarthy took their case
to the people.
In addition to this, there is a serious
danger of allowing the Vietnam war to
become a non-issue. In fact, the war is
heating up. Probably neither side will
allow the talks to collapse, but nothing
that happens in Paris is going to bring
the draft calls down this summer; the
figures for August are already out. Beyond
Vietnam, there is evidence that even
McCarthy and Kennedy have failed to
think through the impasse in the Middle
East. How Humphrey and Nixon would
deal with it is almost too grim to guess.
One must respect the grief and shock
of those supporters of Senator Kennedy
who have been emotionally unable to rally
to Senator McCarthy's support. On the
other hand, those Kennedy delegates who
have already shifted to Humphrey have
betrayed what Robert Kennedy stood for.
To console the dissidents by asking
Edward Kennedy to take the Vive-Presidential
spot would be dubious political
insurance, in view of the limits of any
Vice-President's influence. Recent history
is instructive on this point; Mr. Humphrey
believes in teamwork. Promises made in
November don't always stick in January.
For that reason, I believe the only real
hope Democratic dissidents have today is
in the candidacy of Senator McCarthy. Of
the two contenders, it is McCarthy who
is free of the Administration's mistakes.
It is McCarthy who has questioned most
sharply the increasing penetration of mili
tary power into all aspects of American
life. It is also McCarthy who has called for
a reassessment of the office of the Presi
dency. In an age of overly-centralized decision-making,
his sort of quiet secpticism
is badly needed.
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Olivier's Hamlet Presented
In Sheldon's Film Series
One of the most popular and
most highly acclaimed film
adaptations of Shakespeare
will be presented at the
Sheldon Art Gallery
Auditorium tonight.
"Hamlet," winner of many
awards, will be shown at 7:30,
Shakespearean cinema
reached a zenith during
the 1940's. Olivier, and his
chief rival Orson Welles,
freely adapted the bard's
tforks to fit the screen .
. and they were often rapped
for doing so. ... ... .
But Olivier's "Hamlet"
struck like lightning.
UL has moments of rare
beauty and feeling, such as
tha cinema has seldom seen,"
said the London Evening
Standard. "Olivier leaves no
dobt that he is one of our
greatest living actors."
The Manchester Guardian
said that "Hamlet" is a film
"which is more closely knit
and, in deed, much more
dramatic than any stage
Hamlet."
Olivier directed and starred
in the film, which he also did
in his highly popular "Henry
V". He trimmed the running
time of the play to just over
two-and-a-half hours. The
stage play, in its entirity,
runs four hours and thirty
minutes.
He deleted characters, in
cluding Rosencrantz and
Guilderstern and the second
grave-digger. But overall
critical analysis resulted in
"Hamlet" becoming t h
classic, the movie to which
current filmed Shakespeare is
compared.
John Mason Brown for
Saturday Review said that the
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movie "has a bounce, an
urgency, a fascination, and an
emotional impact which is
hard to resist . . . The simple
and exciting truth is that no
player now alive can read
Shakespearean , verse a s
(Olivier) does. He is the
master of the pause, of
underscoring, 0 f illumina
tion."
The New Yorker wrote that
"Hamlet comprises fine ac
ting, remarkable sets, superb
music, and of course, a script
of which almost any line
would merit an Oscar the size
of Mount Rushmore."
Time magazine's review is
contained in a cover story on
Jean Simmons, featured as
Ophelia. Time said that this
movie affirmatively answers
the question, "Can the screen
cope with Shakespeare at his
best?"
"It contains no single un-
questionably great
performance, but a complete
role call of fine ones, the
review continued.
Time also commented on
the cutting of parts of the
original:
"Olivier's main concern has
been to keep the subtleties
in focus, to eliminate
everything that might detract
from the power and meaning
of the language.
"He has stripped his play
and his production to the
essentials. On the whole, this
is a sternly beautiful job,
densely and delicately work
ed."
The magazine continued:
"Roger Furse's set, as
nobly severe and useful as
Men's
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The body coaditioning and
weight lifting rooms at the
Coliseum are open for
recreational use to all
University men this summer.
The rooms will open daily
from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
For more information call
Mickey Snider at 472-2282
during these hours.
the inside of a giant cello,
is the steadfast beauty in the
film. Next best: the finely
calculated movemand and
disposal of the speakers
against his sounding boards.
"A man who can do what
Laurence Olivier is doing for
bnakespeare and for those
who treasure or will learn to
treasure Shakespeare is
certainly among the more
valuable men of his time. In
the strict sense, his films are
not creative works 0 f
cinematic art: the essential
art of moving pictures is an
overwhelming visual as the
essential art of his visually
charming picture is verbal.
But Olivier's film sets up an
equilateral triangle between
the screen, the stage, and
literature. They establish an
interplay, ashimmering
splendor of the disciplined
vitality which is art."
Also featured in the movie
are Basil Sydney as the King;
Felix Aylmer as Polonius;
Norman Woodland as Hora
tion; and Terence Morgan as
Laertes.
Price of admission is one
dollar for adults, 50 cents for
children, tax included.
Ronald Rogers will be
presenting his "Cavalcade of
Musical Comedy" for the first
time in Nebraska when he
appears at the Nebraska
Union, Monday, July 8 at 8.00
p.m.
Rogers was heard
throughout Nebraska two
seasons ago as a solist on
"Bandstand U.S.A." with
Paul Lavalle and The Band
of America. Since then he has
toured coast-to-coast with his
own program, at colleges and
universities and on com
munity Concert programs.
Following the early sum
mer concert season, Kogers
will appear in two summer
productions of Cole Porter's
"Kiss Me Kate". In one ot
the productions he will be
cast opposite the original
Broadway leading lady of the
show, Patricia Morison.
The program is "a
nostaligic and affectionate
tribute to the American
Musical Theatre, from
Stephen Foster and the
minstrel shows, to "Mame,"
according to Rogers.
Christa Snyder will provide
piano accompaniment.
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Swimming
Women's
Each afternoon from 2:30
women faculty may
participate 1 n recreational
swimming in the Coliseum
Pool. There is a 10c fee.
Tofels and suits are provided
but each swimmer is asked
to bring her own swimming
cap.
A summer season of protest
opens tonight at Ho well t
Heatre with the initial
performance of "Eh?", a play
by Henry Livings.
"Eh?" concerns a young
man who wants to be alone
in the boiler room of a London
factory in order to grow fiant
mushrooms and save the
world.
The play is directed by Dr.
William Morgan.
Featured in the play are
William Szymanski as Valen
tine Brose, the mushroom
grower; Frank Vybiral as
Aly; Bill Lacey as Price;
Cheryl Hansen as Mrs. Mur
ray; Dana Millsa s Reverend
Mort; and Roni Meyer as
Betty.
The play will be repeated
on Wednesday. Curtain time
is 8:00 p.m. for both produc
tions. "Eh?" will be repeated
seven more times during the
repertory season.
On Friday, the second of
three protest plays will be
offered. "The Hostage," by
Brendan Behan, comments on
the Irish Revolution. The
author himself was a member
of the terrorist group which
is portrayed.
The final play is "Serjeant
Musgraves Dance," to be
presemiered on July 14. The
summer opera prodcution,
"La Boheme," presented by
the NU Music and Drama
departments, will run three
days, Aug. 18-20.
The casts of the three
repertory plasys include ac
tors well-known to patrons of
the NU theatre.
Andy Backer, Scottsbluff,
plays Serjeant Musgrave in
"Serjeant Musgrave' s
Dance." Backer's last Howell
performance was as King'
the Shakespearean
presented in the
Lear in
tragedy
spring.
Susan Nohr plays Meg
Dillon in "The Hostage," Miss
Nohr graduated from the
university and now teaches
drama in a Hempstead, N.Y.,
high school. She returned to
NU this summer to work with
the company. She played in
"Mother Courage" and a
number of Laboratory
Theatre shows.
"It is great to be back at
Nebraska to work with so
many people I have worked
with before," she said. "The
company has good actors,
good directors, good techni
cians. The people are just
great."
Dennis Calandra is also in
"The Hostage." He played
John-Paul Marat in the 1968
NU production of "Marat
Sade." Calandra calls "The
Hostage" a "potpourri of
song, dance, high comedy,
low comedy, farce and pan
tomine." Bill Symanski appeared in
"Lear" and "Marat-Sade"
last - semester and also was
a member of "The Misan
thrope" cast, presented in the
fall of 1967. He has spent a
summer in Greenwich Village
m New York City.
The repertory systme is
what the university theatre
really needed," said Barbara
Bowman, a member of the
"Hostage" cast. "Hopefully it
will be carried on after this
summer's productions."
Miss Bowman was in
"Marat-Sade" and has work
ed in summer stock. She also
is a member of the university
pantomine troupe,
Unimimes.
The "Eh?" cast includes
Dana Mills and Cheryl
Hansen.
Mills played in "Lear" and
' M I s a n thrope" at the
university after a number of
leading roles at Chadron State
College. He also appeared in
lead roles in summer stock
at South Yarmouth, Mass.
Miss Hansen played
Charlotte Corday in "Marat
Sade." She also had lead
parts in several Lincoln
Northeast High School pro
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ductions.
The Summer Repertory
Protest will give
performances, plus the three
nights of "La Boheme." Some
actors will appear in all three
plays, but their roles may
change: in one play an actor
could have a lead aprt, the
next play all he does is carry
on a prop.
The calendar for the three
plays and the opera:
EH? - July 2, 3, 7, 11,
13, 18, 21, 24.
THE HOSTAGE -July 5,
6, 10, 12, 19, 23, 28, 31.
SERJEANT MUSGRAVE'S
DANCE - July 14, 15, 17,
20, 25, 27. August 1, 3, 4.
LA BOHEME Aug. 18,
19, 20.
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