Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 7, 1979 Page: 3 of 6
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UNIVERSITY PRESS November 7, 1979*3
Win do m to perform in ‘Thurber I’
>• Veteran .character actor William Win-
jdom will re-crfeate his Emmy Award win-
ding role of James Thurber in the one-
' pnan, two-act “Thurber I," tonight at 8
j^’clock in the Setzer Student Center
^Ballroom.
;;»• Windom’s appearance is a presentation
■jjf the SSCC Performing Arts Committee.
JJ “Thurber I,” composed of selections
;Jaken from the compiled works of Thur-
;j>er’s reports, stories and fables, is a sam-
pling of the ironic humor of the man called
py many as the greatest American
humorist since Mark Twain.
Thurber was born and raised in Colum-
bus, Ohio, and although he found his ar-
tistic identity on The New Yorker and lived
most of his life in Connecticut, the taproot
of his imagination led back to his early
years in Ohio.
Among his many books, “Is Sex
Necessary?,” “The Owl in the Attic” and
“The Seal in the Bedroom” stand out as his
greatest works. In these, he illustrates our
public as well as private apprehensions,
satirizing human inadequacies.
In Thurber, the hero usually does not
triumph. His immortal “Walter Mitty”
character daydreams his life away at the
expense of real and lasting achievement.
The one thing about Thurber that most
people probably remember him for are his
drawings—strange, childlike scrawls. He
frowned upon being identified as “Thur-
ber, the bird who draws.” He preferred
being identified as a writer who “doodles
for relaxation.”
His “Thurber Carnival,” a selection of
his best prose and other works, has been
reproduced thousands of times on
American and European stages.
Windom first portrayed Thurber in “My
World and Welcome to It,” on NBC-TV in
the 1969-70 season. Other series in which
Windom has appeared include the male
lead in “The Farmer’s Daughter” and the
owner /president of. the college in
“Brothers and Sisters.”
Among his film credits are “The Man,”
“Escape from the Planet of the Apes,”
“Fool’s Parade,” “Brewster McCloud”
and “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
Windom’s Broadway credits span 15
years (1946-61), encompassing 18 Broad*
way and five off-Broadway shows. He
received his professional start in 1945 in
“Richard III.”
Besides “Thurber I,” Windom also does
another one-man show on the works of
Thurber, as well as two shows drawn from
the columns of Ernie Pyle.
Tickets for “Thurber I” are $1 for
Lamar students with ID, $2 for high school
students and 83 for the general public.
Overview
r_____
‘Thurber I’/Josh White
William Windom
White to play Perch show Friday
Versatile singer-guitarist from New York
Soviet radio
gp ;
Starts English
broadcasts
£ MOSCOW (UPI)—Moscpw Radio has
> '.scrapped its cold war rhetoric for a slick
English-language service that is quietly
winning listener worldwide.
.*> Gone are the political harangues and
.mind-numbing selections from the Soviet
Army choir. In fact, a listener idly tuning a
short-wave radio might easily think he’d
stumbled on the BBC.
. The new World Service went on the air
Oct. 3,1978, largely in response to a speech
by Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, who
chided the Soviet media for being boring.
* J The Soviet media is still dull, but
Moscow Radio is taking the first steps
toward a more refreshing format.
“Perhaps we’re being more
sophisticated," said Vladimir Posner, a
veteran Moscow Radio commentator who
speaks flawless American English.
I Moscow Radio hopes to attract a world-
wide audience to which it can present the
Soviet view of world events and an insight
1 ihto life in the Soviet Union. Ironically, it is
using Western rock music as one of the
ipagnets.
The service is actually a pleasant mix of
contemporary Soviet and East European
music and Western tunes, with some ad-
ditional features as a daily Russian
language lesson, stamp collecting and
ham radio.
Josh White, talented singer and
guitarist, will appear in the Perch
Friday at 9 p.m., in a solo performance.
White began his singing career at the
age of 4, under the direction of his
father, original adapter and performer
of the folk classic, “House of the Rising
Sun.”
White’s birthplace was an ideal one
for an aspiring entertainer. He was
born in the Broadway area of New
York, and attended Professional
Children’s School in the city. While at
the school, White met Marvin
Hamlisch, and became the first per-
former to record one of Hamlisch’s
songs, “See Saw.”
Concert credits include appearances
at Lincoln Center and Madison Square
Garden in New York, as well as top
clubs such as Main Point in
Philadelphia, Washington D.C.’s Cellar
Door, and the Playboy Club in Chicago.
White has performed on over 1500
college campuses, and on major
television shows including Mike
Douglas and the Today Show. He also
completed a European tour en-
compassing 11 nations last spring.
White still performs the traditional
songs that were a part of his father’s
repertoire, but he has also added his
own compositions and those of his frien-
ds to his act.
White recently made his recording
debut with his new record company
(Vanguard) using music by Raun
McKinnon, Mayon Weeks, Ed Vadas,
and David Pomeranz, as well as by the
song-writing duo of Larry Keen and
Richard Pollock.
The album, entitled simply “Josh
White Jr.,” was produced by Danny
Weiss, a former producer for jazzman
Larry Coryell, and featured such well
known sidemen as guitarists Jeff
Layton and Steve Kahn, and
saxophonist Harold Vic.
White’s songs vary in style from folk
and rock to gospel, and the explanation
for this variety of material can be found
in a remark that sums up White’s
musical philosophy; “Everyone can be
touched, if we just find the right song.”
White takes an opportunity to demon-
strate his musically inclined family on
the album, as his sisters Beverly, Fern,
and Judy were featured as background
vocalists.
“I sing because it is an expression of
my soul,” White says. “When I’m on
stage, I feel totally in control of the
situation, but when I come off the stage,
I’m vulnerable, like anyone else. I not
only sing for me, I sing for a lot of other
people who feel the same way I do,”
White explains.
White’s performance is presented by
the Setzer Student Center Council Cof-
feehouse and Performing Arts Com-
mittees, and an admission price of $1
will be charged at the door, according
to Bridget Kelly, Coffeehouse chair-
person.
Trifles, Inc.
sets benefit
production
Neil Simon’s comedy “Barefoot in the
Park” will be performed by Trifles, Inc, at
the Red Carpet Inn, Sunday and Monday;
Nov. 18-19, at 8 p.m.
The performance is a benefit for
Franklin House, a recovery center for
female alcoholics and drug abusers in
Beaumont.
The lead parts in the play are shared by
Nancy Martin and Ted Pool, as Cory and
Paul Bratter, two newlyweds who have
moved to the top floor of a New York aparr
tment.
Joedna Smith is cast in the part of Cory’s
mother, with Gene Wiggen playing th^
part of Victor Velasco, an upstairs neigh*
bor (he lives in the attic).
Rounding out the cast are Bob Houston,
who plays the telephone repairmen, and
Archie Land Jr., as the delivery man.
Director of the production is Mike Hayes.
“Barefoot in the Park” was one of
Simon’s earlier plays, and was-a great suc-
cess on Broadway in 1963. The Broadway
cast included Robert Redford and
Elizabeth Ashley in the principal roles.
The play was produced on film in 1967,
with Redford repeating his role, this time
opposite Jane Fonda.
Information concerning tickets can be
obtained by calling 835-4801 or 898-4986.
Josh White Jr. ,
t If audience response is a sign, Moscow
Radio must be using the right com-
bination. Editor-in-Chief Shakhov says the
station gets 1,000 letters a month from
such listening posts as New Delhi and
Torrance, Calif.
‘Sulphur River’ autograph
party planned for Nov. 14
Lamar University Press
Editor
Greg Hale
Managing Editor
Susan Marlow
Copy Editor
Ann Lavergne
News Editor
Frank Conde
Sport* Editor
Cynthia Shields
Sports Assistants
Larry Going Manuel Moreno Jr.
Entertainments Editor
I
Brett Thacker
Entertainments Assistants
Becky Moss Don Rollins
Campus Editor
Bonnie Doiron
Wire Editor
Renita Johnson
Business Manager
Beverly Hall
Advertising Manager
Jill Scoggins
Advertising Representative
* Linda Kirkpatrick
Advertising Assistant
Shiela Shields
Graphics Editor
Dave Campbell
Graphics Assistant
Sherrie Booker
Composition
Curley Randall
Cartoonist
Kelly Asbury
Photo Editor
Cindy Dowies
Photographers
Craig Fisch Cathy Massey
John Gibbons Jeff Milligan
Fernando Prado
Staff Writer.
Lillie Catanzaro
Kim Craft
Becky Gee
Debbie Hammond
David Harrington
Jill Hathaway
Mike Kirkpatrick
Debi Simar
Office Manager
Tim Meece
Typesetter.
Ingrid Faulk
Christy Post
Production Manager
Gloria Post
Director of
Student Publications
Howard Perkins
Publisher
Student Publications Board
George McLaughb-. -hairman
George W. de Schweintz
An autograph party is planned for Dr.
George W. de Schweinitz, Wednesday,
Nov. 14, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Eighth
Floor of Gray Library.
The party is scheduled to celebrate the
publication of “Sulphur River” (Vol. 1, No.
3).
The autograph party is sponsored by
Eleanor Pearlstein Weinbaum, patron of
“Pulse,” Lamar's literary publication and
a sponsor of Lamar Poetry Day. The
public is welcome.
Dr. de Schweinitz retired from the
Lamar faculty last summer. He was
professor of English and taught creative
writing.
Dr. de Schweinitz attended writer’s
workshops at the University of Colorado
and Aspen. In 1977, he spent three months
at Tufts University in Boston, Mass.,
studying with English-American poet,
Denise Levertov.
This entire issue of “Sulphur River” is
devoted to Dr. de Schweinitz’s poetry
because of its freshness, sensitivity and
consistent quality, the editors said in a
preface to this issue.
Proceeds from the sale of the magazine
will be used to publish future issues of
“Sulphur River.”
The introduction to Dr. de Schweinitz’s
work is written by Robert Gaskin of
Beaumont. The photography is by Robert
Troxell of Port Arthur.
NPR’s ‘Morning Edition
“Morning Edition,” a daily two-hour
news and current' affairs program,
premieres on National Public Radio this
week, according to NPR president Frank
Mankiewicz.
The program will be broadcast on
KVLU-FM at 6 a.m., Monday through
Friday, Mankiewicz said.
“Production of “Morning Edition” is a
major undertaking for us,” according to
Mankiewicz.
“It underlines our committment to
quality programming in news. Until now,"
he said, “except for our “All Things Con-
sidered” in the evening, there has not been
any news and information programming
of this caliber available nationally on a
daily basis.
“Morning Edition” will include in-depth
news coverage of national and world af-
fairs, economic and political analysis,
regular features on sports and the arts, as
well as interviews of people and places in
the news, according to executive producer
Ted Landphair.
The program will be divided into eight
segments each hour, including eight
minutes of news on the hour and four and a
half minutes of news on the half hour, Lan-
dphair said.
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I I 4 4 mill!!
Art
Beaumont Art Museum—“Pictures
of a Floating World: Japanese Ukiyo-
E Prints.” Through Nov. 25 at the
museum, 1111 Ninth Street.
Film-
Gateway— “Starting Over” and
“Time After Time.” Call 832-5926 for
times.4 Replacing "Time After Time”
Friday: “Life of Brian.”
Gaylynn—“Rust Never Sleeps” and
“Halloween.” Call 838-3320 for times.
Starting Friday: "Apocalypse Now,”
“White Buffalo,” and “Great Train
Robbery.”
Lamar —“Screams of a Winter
Night.” Call 835-1055 for times.
Parkdale Mall —“10,” “And
Justice For All,” and “Jesus.” Call
898-4440 for times.
SSCC Films —Thursday, “Billy
Jack.” Feature times: 12:30 p.m.,
6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Admission 50-
cents for 12:30 matinee; $1 for others.
Tuesday, “Milestones in Animation.”
Feature times: 12:30 p.m. and 6:30
p.m. Admission 50-cents. Both shows
in SSC Ballroom.
Videotape Series—Through Friday,
“Mr. Bill Show.” Next week, “Eric
Clapton and Cream.” Shown 9 a.m. to
4 p.m. daily. SSC Videotape Lounge.
Music
Josh White Jr.,—Performing in the
Perch. Friday, 9 p.m. Admission $1 at
the door.
Ashford & Simpson—In concert at
the Beaumont Civic Center. Thur-
sday, 8 p.m. Tickets available
through all Earth-Sea outlets:
Sunrise, Texas Bank and the Civic
Center box office, Beaumont;
Salmar's, Vidor; Sound Castle,
Orange; Hubbard Sound, Bridge
City; West Department Store, Port
Neches; and Winnie Com-
munications, Winnie.
Billy Joel — In concert at the
Houston Summit. Nov. 25, 8 p.m.
Tickets available through Top Ticket,
Warehouse Records and all Wards in
the Houston area.
Dan Fogelberg —In concert at
Houston’s Music Hall. Nov. 27, 8 p.m.
Tickets available through Top Ticket
and at the Music Hall box office.
Arlo Guthrie —In concert at the
Music Hall. Nov. 30, 8 p.m. Tickets
available through Top Ticket and at
the Music Hall box office.
Elton Johm—In concert at the
Hofheinz Pavilion. Sunday, 8 p.m.-
SOLD OUT.
Kansas —In concert at Houston
Coliseum. Det. 3, 8 p.m. Tickets
available through Joske’s Post Oak
and Disc Records.
KISS —In concert at the Lake
Charles Civic Center. Dec. 6, 8 p.m.
No ticket info as of yet.
Kenny Loggins/Steve Forbert—In
concert at the Summit. Dec. 7, 8 p.m.
Tickets available through Top Ticket,
Warehouse Records and all Wards in
the Houston area.
Blue Oyster Cult — In concert at the
Summit. Dec. 8, 8 p.m. Tickets
available through Top Ticket,
Warehouse Records and all Wards in
the Houston area.
Styx — In concert at the Summit.
Dec. 14-15, 8 p.m. Tickets available
through Top Ticket, Warehouse
Records and all Wards in the Houston
area.
Theatre
“Thurber I”—One-man show
starring William Windom. Tonight, 8
o’clock. SSC Ballroom.Tickets $1 with
LU ID; $2 high school; and $3 general
public. Available at the SSC check-
cashing booth.
“Barefoot in the Park”—a Trifles,
Inc. production, 'directed by Mike
Hayes. Nov. 18-19, 8 p.m. Ticket in-
formation available by calling 835-
4801 or 898-4186.
?premieres
The Lamar public radio station plans to
use portions of “Morning Edition” to sup-
plement its own morning music and news
programming, according to Darrell
Brogdon, KVLU program director. •
The other five segments, which will
range in length from four and one half to
nine minutes each, will contain a closer
look at the top news stories of the day;
national sports and weather coverage;
consumer and how-to segments; profiles
of people in the news; and features on the
popular arts, according to Landphair.
“Each segment will be self-contained to
allow member stations maximum
flexibility in using any or all portions of the
program,” Landphair said.
The second hour will follow the same for-
mat as the first, he said, with news updates
and wholly different features.
Jackie Judd, former weekend host of
“All Things Considered,” and Carl Kassel,
veteran NPR news anchorman, will be
newscasters, according to Landphair.
Robert Siegel, former senior editor at
NPR, now stationed in London, will
provide international news coverage on a
daily basis.
“Morning Edition” also expects to make
extensive use of materials produced at
NPR stations, Landphair said.
i:
SSCC Performing Arts Committee presents..,
William Windom
"Thurber"
Selections taken from
James Thurber's reports,
stories and fables
Tonight, 8 p.m.
Tickets, SSC Check Cashing Booth
LU ID, $1; High School, $2; General Public, $3
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