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By Meg Greene
Take an old story a youpg married woman who meets'
an older married man. They fall in love and decide to
marry. In the meantime, the man has just made his fortune
in silver mining.
Set the story in the boisterous mining camps of
Colorado. Also include a few famous Midwesterners most
notably Wiiliam Jennings Bryan.
The finished product will be something dose to this
t semester UNL School of Music opera. The Ballad of Baby
Doe. The story is based on events that took place in the
late 1300s in and around Colorado.
Baby Doe did fall in love with Horace Tabor, who was
the silver king of Colorado. Tabor's wife Augusta refused to
grant a divorce at first, and their story proved to be one of
the biggest scandals of the time. But Baby Doe and Tabor
finally did marry in Washington D.C. Tabor was a very
important figure and a good friend of then President James
Garfield.
Because of the scandal, no Washington society woman
would attend the wedding. The only women present were
foreign dignitaries' wives.
The Tabors returned to Colorado, where for many years
they lived in high style. They made their Some in Denver,
where Tabor later built the Tabor Opera House.
Then came the silver panic. Tabor was wiped out and
died not long afterward. All this time, Baby Doe stayed
with him. She lived out the rest of her life near the mine
and was found frozen to death near it in 1927. .
So the story ends, but in 1956 writers Douglas Moore
and John LaTouche resurrected the Tabors and the towns
they made famous: Central City, Blackhawk, and Denver.
They've managed to capture it all in Baby Doe.
The opera will be of special interest to Nebraskans
because of the characterization of William Jennings Bryan.
The sets. Dean Tschetter's final UNL production, will not
be elaborate as in previous opera presentations. Instead,
there will be a revolving set off one side of the stage and a
considerable amount of furniture buiitby Tschetter.
Costumes, done by Tschetter's wife Jane, will be
detailed as in the case of Baby Doe's wedding dress.
Music will be provided by a 30-piece orchestra under the
direction of Richard Grace, who also directs the
production. The UNL Madrigals will make up the chorus,
but the opera will have opera workshop students in the
principal roles.
Baby Doe will be playjn?Cara Ganj .arjdf.Qarrie
Solomon; Augusta will be played by Lynelle Frankfurter
and Terri Miller; John Brandstetter and Kent Hall will play
Tabor. Other performers include Vaughn Fritts as William
Jennings Bryan and Manly Yanick as Mama McCourt.
The show will be Feb. 7, 8, 9 and 1 1 at 8 p.m. and Feb.
10 at 3 p.m. at Kimball Recital Hall. All seats are reserved;
student tickets are $2.50, adults $3.
New-breed directors
jolting mo vie industry
Martin Scorsese, John Milius and George Lucas- are hardly
household names, but in the world of movies and critics, few
filmmakers have been more talked about in recent months than
these three. They are part of a new group of young American
directors who acquired their film know-how at school. Armed
with knowledge and little experience, they jumped into the
industry and made a bigger splash than anyone expected.
Scorsese's Mean Streets and Lucas' American Graffiti made
nearly all of the 1973 10 best films lists. Milius, originally a
screenwriter whose directorial debut was Dillinger, is probably
the most sought after writer in Hollywood today.
These three have been the most successful, but they are not
the only new directors who have left their stamp on the film
industry. James Guercio was a successful record producer until
his first movie, Electra Glide in Blue, turned the critics' heads his
way. James Frawley's comic western Kid Blue, appeared on
several' 10 best film, lists. Bang the Drum Slowiy was a popular
first effort by John Hancock, and screenwriter Terry Malick
kicked off his career with Badlands, the story of a young couple
on a Midwestern killing spree.
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Lucas and Milius' were both 1967 graduates from the
University of Southern California film school; their interests lay,
not in European filmmakers, but in the tradition of such great
American directors as John Ford, Orson Welles, Howard Hawks
and Raoul Walsh. Lucas' fist film was the respectable, but a
little-circulated science fiction production called THX 1138. His
second, the nostalgic Graffiti, was probably the most popular
surprise of the year,
Milius is jasily the most controversial and dynamic writer in
Hollywood today. He has written scripts for Dirty Harry,
Jeremiah Johnson, Dillinger and Magnum Force, and his
$300,000 fee for Judge Roy Bean is probably a record.
To producers, a Milius film means money rvdJMiliui knows it.
He is a brash) confident individual whose violent macho films
prompted one critic to denounce his "ugly, right-wing habits. A
collector of rare antique guns, his contract for Jeremiah Johnson
gave him the right to shoot all the animals killed for the picture.
Scorsese is a New York counterpart to Lucas and Milius. Mean
Streets is his fifth fi'm, and like many of the new directors'
movies, it is a counter-culture reflection on mainstream American
lifestyles. He reaches into his past to create a mythic
autobiography of growing up in Manhattan's Little Italy.
It h a sign of the times, that many major studios are closing
down and others are taking risks on projects like Mean Streets.
Fragmented distribution and increased circulation make the
situation chaotic, but hopefully it will promote even more
breakthrough films from the growing ranks of potentially great
filmmakers.
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daily nebraskan
thursday, january 31, 1974