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Thursday July 12
Crown Bag Lecture Lynn Shite, Asst.
Professor Bocialogy and Director Bureau
of Sociological Research. Speaking on!
The Future of the Great Plains: Popula
tion and Quality of Life."
"The Merry Widow" operetta begins
tonight. 8 p.m. at Kimball Hail. Showings
Friday and Saturday nights Matinee Sun
day at 3 p.m. ' i i
i "Who's Happy Now?'. 8 p.w. in the
Studio Theatre. Ticket are $4.50.
Sheldon Film Theatert Thieves Like Us
Directed by Robert Altman. Starring
Keith Carradine and Shelly Duvall.
Screenings at 7 and 0:16 p.m. Friday,
Saturday and Sunday matinees at 3 p.m.
Admission charged.
Friday July IS
Last day of First Summer Session.
ASUN meeting -6:30 p.m. Nebraska
Union.
Chinese vets tour Neb.
"Take Me Along 8 p.m. Howell
Theater. ? .
Saturday, July 14 '
"Kiss Me Kate' 8 p.m. in the Howell
Theater. , -
Tttesday July IT ,
Pibners of Modern Painting: Edouard
Manet .-".v-f '-J:
Wednesday July II . .
Great Plains Experience: The Heirs to
No Man's Land; Romeo and Juliet East
Street (1917, Charlie Chaplin)
Thursday, July 19
Brown Bag Lecturei Dr. John Janovy,
Jr., Professor of School of Life Sciences,
speaking on: Exceedingly wild ideas about
Teaching and Learning.
Sheldon Film Gallery: California Split.
Screenings at 7 and 9:16 p.m. Friday,
Saturday, and Sunday matinees at 3 p.m.
Admission charged.
Chinese veterinarians
text week will get a first
hind look at Nebraska
iwine operations while on a
nationwide agricultural
tour.
They are one of two
Chinese agrieultural
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delegations assisted by the
U.S. Department of
Agriculture who will begin
separate U.S. tours this
month, according to United
Press International.
The veterinarians, the
first Chinese visitors to
come under an American
Chinese science and
technology agreement,
beginning Wednesday will
visit commercial, govern
ment and university animal
and research complexes in
Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska,
Kansas, Texas, Indiana,
Georgia, Florida and
Maryland, UP1 said.
Dr. Alex Hogg, Universi
ty of Nebraska professor
and veterinarian will lead
the Nebraska tour July 12
and 13. He said the delega
tion main interest is
swine, because the Chinese
raise 230 million hogs an-
nually, compared to the 80
million raised in the United
States.
On July 12, the six
visitors will tour Norden
Laboratories in Lincoln and
the university's veterinary
science cmoplex. Among
stops the next day will be
Willard Waldo's DeWitt
swine operation and a
Nebraksa pork packing
plant.
The second group will
study seeds and plant
research at commercial,
University and government
centers in Maryland, Iowa,
Colorado, Utah, Idaho,
Washington, Oregon and
California; beginning July
fcUPIsaid.
An American delegation
will visit China early this
fall, but dates and par
ticipants have not been
decided.
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Lynn White, Asst. Professor
Sociology & Bureau of
Sociological Research Director
Speaking on: "The future of
The Great Plains: Population
And Quality pf life.
Thurs.. Tulv 11 12:00 Dm.
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Intricate novel 'Bloodline'
rednaced to 'who's on iwstf
By L. Kent Vt!taott
At sporting events it is often said you
tan't tell the players without a program.
In the movie BtoodUne, you can't even tell
the ballpark you are in, let alone trying to
figure who is playing.
Bloodline is the movie adaptation of the
Sidney Sheldon novel of the same title,
and as a novel the plot appears to have
great potential.
However, Laird Koenig't screenplay is
at best, confusing.
The audience gets a European tour as it
watches scenes tut from London to Paris
to Zurich to Sardinia to Rome with few
connections to be found.
Ptejpocj effect
And because of the pingpong ball effect
of the scene setting, it is nearly impossible
to sufficiently understand the miriad of
characters the movie presents.
Director Tern nee -Young does little to
dear the confusion, and the movie lacks
both drama and suspense, although it in
tends Co have them.
A retelling of the plot would take up
more space than is available in this
newspaper and would do the same damage
to Sheldon's original as the Koenig
screenplay. ' .
But, suffice it to say that the plot is as
confusing as the scenery. Subplot is pOed
upon subplot and none U clearly resolved
except for the melodramatic ending.
It is difficult to say much about the ac
ting in such a movie because it Is hard to
determine if the performances tail because
of the actor or because of the nature of the
CI fated project . : ' . 'r,.
Audrey Hepburn aa heiress Elizabeth
Hctfe is the subject of the movie's attemp
ted murders and can easily play a frighten
ed nearly helplcis woman, witness her
, performance la TTicit Until Dark
But the bouncing plot leaves her In this
situation infrequently, and the attempts
on her life fail to bring much reaction.
Ben Gamra as the mysterious Rhys
Williams, who becomes Elizabeth's hus
band, suffers much the same fate as his
mystery fades into confusion.
review
The cousins, Sir Alec played by James
Mason; Ivor, Omar Sharif and Helen,
Romy Schneider also languish in confu
sion. Appearing first here and then there,
they dont have a chance to develop their
characters.
"Snufr movie
Only Gert Frobe as the dischevled In
spector Max Hornung of the Swiss Police
survives the drift into obscurity and
. presents a good portrayal of an understan
dable character.
The movie earns its R rating from a
series of scenes showing the filming of a
pornographic "snuff movie. A "snuff"
movie has as its ending the killing of one of
the participants, usually a woman.
In this case, the women are strangled
after they have had a red ribbon tied
around their throats, (hence the ad for the
movie). ': ,
This lapse into sex for its own sake is
loosely tied onto the movie because the
family member who does the killing is the
producer of these movies. s
But one "snuff scene would have been
more than sufficient. .
. It was probably a grave error to even at
tempt to lift such a complex plot from the
printed page and onto the acreen. '
The plot, has great potential, but
Sheldon's book BloodUmi must be where
the potential is realized, for the movie
fails, miserably. '
