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University
schedules Ivy Day
The traditional University
Ivy Day will begin at a new
time when it is presented for
the 82nd time Saturday
morning on the lawn north of
Love Library.
Unlike past years when the
program was in . the morning
and afternoon, the 1971 event
will begin at 10 a.m. and is
expected to conclude at noon.
Joseph Soshnik will present
a speckl tribute to Mortar
Board and Innocents, senior
honoraries, during halftime at
the Cornhusker spring football
game Saturday afternoon in
Memorial Stadium. Present and
new members of the honoraries
will be presented at that time.
Dr. Russell Brown, dean of
student development, will give
the welcome and Ivy Day
tradition at 10 a.m. Saturday.
LOSE 20 POUNDS
IN TWO WEEKS!
Famous U.S. Women Ski Teem Diet
During the non-snow off season
the U.S. Women's Alpine Ski Team
members go on the "Ski Team" diet
to lose 20 pounds in two weeks.
That's right - 20 pounds in 14 days!
The basis of the diet is chemical lootl
action and was devised by a famous
Colorado physician especially for the
U.S. Ski Team. Normal energy is
maintained (very important!) while
reducine. You keep lull - no
starvation - because the diet is de
siened that Way! It s a diet that is
easy to follow whether you work
travel or stay at home.
This is, honestly, a fantastically
successful diet. If it weren't, the U.S
Women's Ski Team wouldn't be per
mitted to use it! Right'.' 5o, give
yourself the same break the U.S. Sk
Team gets. Lose weight the scientific
proven way. Even if you've tried all
the other diets, you owe it to your
self to try the U.S. Women s Ski
Team Diet. That is, if you really do
want to lose 20 pounds in two weeks
Order today. Tear this out as i
reminder.
Send only $1.00 ($1.25 for Rush
Service) - cash is O.K. - to: Sk
Team Diet, P.O.Box 15493. Dept
ST, San Diego, Calif. 92115
Don't order unless you expect to lose
20 oounds in two weeks! Because
that's what the Ski Team Diet will do!
The supernatural and a
voluptuous female ghost
are just two of the
ingredients in the NU
Howell Theatre
production of Iflithe
Spirit, opening Friday,
May 7, at 8 p.m.
Additional performances
will be Saturday, May 8,
and Monday through
Saturday, May 10-15.
'Little Murders' -well
executed
Review by
DANA MILLS
Little Murders at the Stuart
is probably worth the time,
maybe even the money.
It's not your ordinary,
everyday sort of movie. In the
first place it's by Jules Feiffer,
the cartoonist, and has as much
in common with the
conventions of the cartoon as
with the film.
Yet we accept his
improbable, behaving
improbably caricatured people
as perfectly believable when we
see them alongside capricious,
inescapable violence of the
kind we know happens
everyday in America. The
actual seems more improbable
than the invented.
ALAN ARKIN, in directing
the picture has made every
effort to make us believe the
realness of the filmed events,
to think that it could very
probably happen, if it's not
happening already. We leave
the theater wondering when
it's going to happen to us.
When are we going to have to
deal with these circumstances?
Union Board now taking applications for
Union office space , to be assigned for
71-72 school year. Student organization
with an ASlJN nnnrnveri rnnttitntirm mnv
apply. Deadline for applications in
Monday, May 10. If you have not received
an application, pick one up in Room 200,
or Student Activities, Nebraska Union.
For f1ofhcr's Day
Ruppert's Offer
Fresh Bauers
Bavarian f.lints
At Special Prices
(Throughout the school year Ruppert's
offers a 10 discount to students with
l-D cards on non-sale items.)
Ruppert
Rexall Pharmacy
Courses of action are carried
to their logical conclusions and
the logical conclusions are a
reducto ad absurdum.. The last
bit of violence perpetrated by
the family seems the thing to
do that will most effectively
heal the psychic wounds
inflicted by gratuitous
circumstance.
Unfortunately, some
elements we have come to
expect in "good movies" do
not appear. Let's check the
negatives: the lighting affords
no romantic warmth, the
scenery allows no aesthetic
involvement, the costumes are
not spectacular and the
dialogue is far from
mouth-watering.
One will not be interiorly
captured by this film as he
might be by Romeo and Juliet,
Love Story, Patton, The Fox
or even Virginia Woolf. The
filmic techniques aren't
impressive, nor will the film
win any awards. Great
spectacle just isn't presejit.
SOME OF THE
characterizations and scenes
don't come up to expectations,
don't completely capitalize on
the possibilities in the script.
The judge's speech falls short,
the explanation of Alfred's
justification as an "apathist" is
so underplayed that we could
almost sleep through it. Yet
the flat technical aspects
almost enhance the sterile
atmosphere.
But Alan Arkin as Lt.
Practice, Alfred's ride on the
subway. Reverend Dupas'
marriage ceremony and the
final familial joy in the picture
are images that will stay in our
memories a long time. They are
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the positive elements in the
picture.
You'll sec some good acting.
Donald Sutherland as
Reverend Dupas is great, Alan
Arkin is spectacular. The actors
who play Alfred's mother and
father are extremely effective.
The Newquist family is
delightful much of the time.
Elliott Gould manages to make
Alfred, an extremely difficult
role, believable.
In short, it's not a great
movie, but it's a good movie,
and whether you like it or not
you won't forget it overnight.
Apple Tree' good amateur production
13th at N
Review by
BILL WALLIS
The Apple Tree is a light,
funny American musical
comedy made up of three
one-act situation comedies
laced with pleasant, lilting
tunes and ranging in setting
from Eden (Garden of) to New
York. The Lincoln Community
Theater's present production
is, all things considered, a good
amateur production.
The acting and singing are
for the most part wholly
adequate and often quite good.
There is no dancing. Joe
Miller's costumes compliment
the production; Art Ruhr's sets
are minimal.
The two biggest bright spots
of the production are David
Landis' portrayals of Adam
and Flip, and the chorus
sound. Landis has good diction
and a pleasant singing voice,
and considerable vibrancy on
stage. The chorus just sings
well.
Virginia Duxbury and Bob
Jones handle their several roles
with ease and dispatch.
Duxbury's roles are especially
demanding. Her singing is fine;
her acting less fine. Her
portrayal of Eve is charming,
but after that it is all downhill
until the challenging
"Passionella" sequence
during which Ella (the
chimney-sweep) is transformed
into Passion-Ella, the movie
star. Ella is fine and funny;
Passionella is less fine and
funny.
The show is pleasant
entertainment, but minimally
so. The audience should not
have to work so hard to enjoy
a show; but the opening night
audience didn't seem to mind.
Many of the problems of the
production resulted from the
wretched conditions under
which the Community Theater
Productions are now produced.
Next year, the new facilities
will be available to director
John Wilson and his actors. All
involved, actor and audience,
should reap the benefits.
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1971
