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monciay, sepicamtoef i, i75 daily nebraskan 'King $ eturns By Robert Trsarfeer - The 0 Hearts, a 1966 film starring Alan Bates, is making its second Lincoln run, this time for ody one week at the Hollywood and Vice Twin Theatres. It's a shame it will play only one week because the film is a timeless classic. Set in a small French village during World War I, the movie depicts the craziness of war and the saneness of insantjy. Alan Bates, who plays a Scottish com munications expert, is sent into a deserted village to disarm a bomb set by the German Army. While carrying out this maneuver; be inadvertently unlocks the gates of the town's insane asylum and all the inmates escape. The inmates assume the identities of their fantasies in the town and hail Bates as their king (hence the title); the long awaited Messiah who has finally set them free. What entails is full of comic symbolism showing the people of society as they real ly are: phony, greedy, tragic and sad, as seen through the eyes of supposed lunatics. Harpsichord classes C-trtasy of Amarkaa F3m Thaatra Alan Bates In the end of the movie, the Allied and German Armies march on the village and completely annihilate each other while the inmates sit on the sidelines and watch. Who is crazy? Who is sane? The answers become obvious! The King of Hearts is as moving as it is thought provoking, you can not help but become involved in the lives of its charac ters, AJan Bates provides a stunning per formance as the fli-fsted king who grows to love the people he once thought crazy. Unfortunately, the print of the film is badly worn, but if one can overlook this aspect they will enjoy the movie for what it is; one of the finest films of the last decade. on U N L campus What Harvey Hinshaw had hoped for is finally happening. The piano instructor at the University of Nebraska, who has had a "real interest in J oh arm Sebastian Bach for years, wanted harpsichord lessons taught at the university. This fall, Hinshaw began teaching harpsi chord to five students. He said it is possible that keyboard majors will soon be able to major on the instrument But he had to provide his own harpsi chord to do ii. Need donor This summer, Hinshaw campaigned for a donor for a $6,500 harpsichord that has been offered for sale to the School of Music. If a donor is not found soon, the instrument will be sold. Hinshaw ordered his harpsichord in 1972 from the B.W.M. Benn makers in Minneapolis. It was completed in 1973. Hinshaw said interest in. the 18th century instrument, forerunner of the piano, has increased 'Very, very much" the last five years. Some American makers have a four-year backlog of orders, he said. In Germany, where harpsichord carpentry often is as family art, some people must wait as long, as 15 years to get instruments from the best makers. Baroque Setup Hinshaw said the instrument in his studio is the standard setup for harpsi chords played during the N Baroque (18th century) period. The harpsichord has three sets of strings-two sets for. the two keyboards; " one for the upper one, another for the lower. Because there is not much dynamic variation in the harpsichord, different key boards are used to distinguish contrasting sections of a piece. . The other strings sound an octave higher , than the written notes and are played by themselves or in combination with the strings from the other two keyboards. Although the School of Music has not been able to purchase a concert harpsi chord, it did buy a smaller instrument for students to practice on. The instrument is almost completed and will be shipped to Lincoln soon, Hinshaw said. LD visit me urove Now appearing The Megatones Nickle Beer & 2-fers s III Koycli QjI)V st CcirlwsfeerlHwy : Poetry Rviewd ByRoySchedc To What Latent. By Wendell Berry; Best Cellar Press. This pamphlet of poems offers the reader who is unaware of Wendell Berry's work an excellent introduction to his previous four books of poetry and two novels. Berry, who many will remember as a contributor to the last Whole Earth Cztakntge, lives in Port Royal, Ky., farms there, and teaches English at the Uni versity of Kentucky. His poetry starts typically from a devout sense of place: Berry's love of, and respect for, the earth and his surroundings. There are 14 poems in the book and almost without exception they are worth close attention. I say almost because one of the poem, Stay Home, is an unsuc cessful pastiche of Robert Frost's The Pasture. In poems such as The Moving Anniversary Seventeen Years, or Goods, with its catalog of simple pleasures, one gets a feel for Berry's integrity of style and samples some of his ty pical themes. ' ' All the poems are at home in the countryside and familiar with its natural events and cycles. They are weighed and valued in the poet's mind and confer on him a sort of irreducible knowledge, as nothing else can: The following lines are from Berry's To What Listens, and point to another interesting facet of the book-his occasional return to the forms, which are poems with readily identifiable metrical shapes and rhyme. I com to if again and again. tha thought of tha wran opaning his song hara to no human tar no woman to look up, no man to turn his haad. Tha farm will sink than from ail wa havw dona and kt. . . But from tha haight wd distance of foresight, how wail I lika it as it 1st In Seventeen Years he speaks of rhymes as The returns of songthat mark time's losses. In Goods there is an interior rhyme in the opening lines and the poem concludes with the apt emphasis of "me. . .ancestry." up & cfft!it; On Campus v Art Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery - 12th and R reprints by William Hogarth; ceramic sculpture and pottery by Eric Abraham; English Satrical Prints by exhibition; photographs by Vincint Vallarino. i Music Kimball Recital Hall -1 1th and R- Cello re cital by Priscilla Parson - Tues, 8 pjn.; Judy Cole, mezzo soprano- Wed., 8 pjn. William Van Overeem, piano- Sun. 4 pjn. Cinema Sheldon Film Theater- 12th and R- New York School- Tues., 3 pjn.; Hearts end Minds- Tues.- Thurs., 7 pjn.; Hunch back of Notre Dame- Fri.-Sun., 3, 7, 9 pjn.Ameriam Art in the 60s- Sun., 4 pjn. Speaker Nebraska Union, Khigh Alx Dhiegh will speak on "acupuncture & Aspects of I Ching Thurs., 3:30 pan. Informal session also will be scheduled. Off Campus Haymarket Art Gallery-119 S. 9th- paint ings by Marie Christian through Sept. 29.; weavings by Helen McCowan through Sept. 29. Theater Lincoln Community Ptayhouse-2500 S. 56th- GodspeU- Fri-Sun., 8 pjn.; Sun matinee, 8 pjn. Cinema Stuart Theatre- 13th and P- Catch 22 Fri., midnight. Musk Pershing Auditorium- 15th and N.-Fleet-wood Mac & Sladerock concert, Tues. 8 pjn. "V li j w. tM A- Tuesday laWsdrtestfey '5pm Cpw 8-3, Monday -"Saturday Introducing Quarter Fladium , inexpensive ail precious mats rings SBC do CD nisi 1W5 n 402-0111