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By Susan Edwards
Two weeks before filming of The Paper Chase
started in Canada, the supporting role of the
steely Professor Kingsfield was still uncast. John
Houseman stepped in for his first legitimate
acting job and won an Academy Award in 1972
for his efforts.
. In a New York Times interview last year, the
72-year-old Houseman said he had sensed that he
could act, but nobody had ever asked him.
He is being asked to act now and will be seen
in Roller Ball, scheduled for release in June. He
also just finished shooting Tliree Days of the
Condor with Robert Redford and Cliff
Robertson in New York.
In a telephone interview from Juilliard drama
department in New York, where he is dean,
Houseman said Roller Ball, filmed in Munich and
London, was a "very exciting, very
contemporary film.
"As usual," he said, "I play the distinguished,
elderly heavy a representative of the
establishment."
In addition to acting, directing and teaching,
Houseman is the artistic director and founder of
the New York City Center Acting Co., which will
be in residence here March 18 through 19, and
March 25 through 26 with four performances
and workshops.
Chekhov's The Three Sisters, William
Saroyan's The Time of Your Life, and Oliver
Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer will be
performed in Kimball Recital Hall.
Houseman, who founded the company with
the Juilliard School's first graduating drama class
in 1969, said the troop was "a theatrical
miracle."
Repertory theater, "the only living theater,"
provides the actors with the experience of
playing the same part over and doing different
plays before changing audiences, he said.
The actors must be constantly resourceful and
not just personalities, he said. Juilliard trains its
students to be flexible, to play musical comedies
as well as the classics.
Juilliard training is more thorough than most
theater schools, he said, and is similar to English
drama schools.
Through auditions, about 35 students a year
are accepted into the four-year program, he
added.
The young company has very little turnover,
Houseman said, although it continues to
incorporate new graduates from Juilliard in
addition to outside actors.
While in Lincoln, the company will give two
workshops -one in vocal techniques at the
Lincoln Community Playhouse March 17 at 8
p.m., and one is masks, in Temple 103 March 18
at 2:30 p.m.
"These demonstrations are a distillation of the
work the actors have done over the four years at
Juilliard. It has stimulated a great deal of interest
in the university drama schools, Houseman said.
While City Center was gathering outstanding
reviews in New York and on tour, Houseman was
directing the successful play, Clarence Darrow
starring Henry Fonda.
He said he had time for everything except a
sequel to his 1972 memoirs, Run-though, which
was nominated for the National Book Award.
Run-though covers the years when Houseman
organized, with Orson Welles, the Mercury
Theatre in 1937, collaborated On Citizen Kane
and the "War of the Worlds" radio show and
produced the stage version of Richard Wright's
Native Son.
It is a "time for a renaissance in radio
theater," Houseman said. Enough people are
interested, especially college students, but there
is not enough material.
CBS's efforts, with the Mystery Theater last
year, was inadequate to spark a revival, he said.
Innovative, experimental things are happening
in England on radio and television, Houseman
said, with radio being very active.
How does he find time to direct, act, write
and teach?
"I love the whole thing-the entire business of
acting," he said.
People who missed Houseman in The Paper
Chase will have another opportunity when it
shows at midnight Friday at the Stuart Theatre.
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John Houseman, 72-year-old actor who
won an Oscar for his supporting role in
The Paper Chase,
Death by Hanging crime study
This week's offering in the Foreign Films
Series is Nagisa Oshima's Death by Hanging, an
expressionistic study of nonexistent crime and its
punishment at the hands of official policy in
modem Japan.
Taking its inspiration from a 1958 news story,
the film deals with trie fate of a Korean who is
accused by Japanese police of having raped and
murdered a Japanese girl. Victimized by the
prejudice that relegates Koreans to the place of
second-class colonials, the young man is
subjected to a re-enactment of the alleged crime
by the police, which ends up in another rape and
death. Finally condemned in his innocence by a
bureaucracy who must trump up crimes in order
to provide self-justification, he is hanged twice.
Death By Hanging wiii be shown Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Thursday at 3, 7, and 9 p.m.,
with admission by membership card.
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